"Hei Za Zas Na Na zas Zas Na Tsu za Zas Zas Na Naa Ee Zas za Zas-" The light immediately ceased, a small hiss before the floating seals dissolved as if a mist, their incantations coming to a halt.

She frowned, the show of dissatisfaction shown on her features gained the attention of the others waiting to hear of the disturbance that alerted one of them, their chants no longer being voice in unison.

"It seems they are causing more trouble than warranted." She spoke up.

"Relay." Another said.

The one bearing the 'N' on her chest looked up, "Apparently one of the Universal travelers has come into contact with their Universal counterpart of this one." She replied, obviously this had the effect that she assumed it would.

"Do they know of the other?" The one boring the 'A' on her chest asked.

Another, she bore a 'K' over her breasts answered, "As it would seem. Kitsuto Hazamaki intentionally seeks the audience of the Universal traveler. It's possible they have succumbed to the intertwine of their life forces within the same Universe, they are speaking amongst each other at this moment-"

The 'N' spoke from where she left off, their voices so similar and the timing made it seem as if she hadn't stopped talking, "Naruto Uzumaki has realized the identity of-"

"Kitsuto Hazamaki." The 'K' Lettered woman finished for her, for the ones bearing the letter were the only ones allowed to speak the name matched with it.

The leader of this bunch narrowed her eyes at this, "They are beginning to shift the events of the future due to their actions." She spoke clearly telling the others what they'd be forced to do if this continued.

Another suggested an option, "Should we direct him in the same manner we had with-"

"Hinata Hyuuga." An 'H' labeled woman finished.

The leader paused for a moment, "Taking in what we observed of them, it is likely that if we do, they-"

"Naruto Uzumaki-"

"Hinata Hyuuga-"

"-Will use that information to shift the balance of this world, only proving to be more of a nuisance to us." The leader finished.

"What shall we do?" One asked.

"Any more interference by a foreign counterpart will have to be dealt with." A 'Z' labeled woman spoke up.

"Indeed," They all replied, "Balance must be preserved amongst our Universe; no foreign cause will change any major fated event." They all spoke in unison, so far these Universal travelers had only caused small meaningless events to occur, but if they continued to change the events of fate and destiny then they will have no choice but to interfere.

"What of the other?" The leader asked.

The woman with an 'S' written on her chest looked up, "Only meaningless, but in the future there may be a problem." She answered.

"Understood." They all replied simultaneously.

They put their hands into some sort of sign, the light had returned as they continued to chant, each of the letter labeled women resumed the work of looking over the people with the names that matched the letter on the dark colored females chest's.

The leader smirked, "I can't help but compliment them on their progress." She had to admit, and even if no one else said anything, they each couldn't help but agree.

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Kitsuto grinned, in a way it almost declared him friendly, which at first that seemed to be his intention, if not a little impatient then things wouldn't be as they were now, "So, how do you want to do this kid?"

"Kid? You can't be five months older than me?" Naruto asked sourly, mainly for being called a kid, Kami knew Oji-san, Iruka, Kakashi and Ero-Sennin called him that way too many times.

Kitsuto ignored him, continuing with his question, "Just straight up hand-to-hand? Or maybe you'd like to include weapons, either way I want to make a little deal." Kitsuto opted.

Naruto paused, "A deal?"

"Say with every hit one of us lands on the other, they have to answer a question asked about them. Make no mistake if you reconsider and decide to just converse we wouldn't have to fight, but if your still pressed for a little roughing then I'd still like to get information out of you... the good kind." Kitsuto added as an afterthought, "Do you like pasta?"

Naruto stayed quiet for a while, "No deal." He replied.

Seeing Kitsuto's face falter Naruto made the first move and rushed forward, pulling his fist back he aimed for the side of the teen's face.

Kitsuto's eyes glowed blue for a mere moment, a grimace then crossed his face the next, shocked and surprised.

Naruto visibly flinched, something prodded at his head, trying to dig into his mind but was rejected, the pain that followed felt almost as if something incredibly hard was trying to crush his skull, soon it became too much for Naruto to ignore.

"Gguh..." Naruto's run came to a jog, nearly tripping over himself as a massive headache began to form from out of nowhere, "The hell?" he mumbled. The result left him stumbling with his head feeling like it was split, what the hell just happened, his senses dulled for a moment.

Kitsuto's stance faltered as he too nearly slumped to the ground, grabbing his head he grunted in pain, "Kk! W-what the..." he muttered, this shouldn't be happening, how could he have, 'W-what was that? Why couldn't I- Kk! Does he have a psychic barrier or something?' He grabbed at his head harder hoping that the pain would quickly reside, 'Looks like I won't be doing that again.'

Out of all the times he performed the technique on someone, never had it been utterly rejected. Quickly trying to shake away what happened, he side-stepped Naruto's lazed punch. Kitsuto pulled his fist back and unleashed it deep within the blonde's gut, it elicited a pain-filled grunt, "I won't hold back, and I expect you to do the same."

Kitsuto held out his other hand, a brief surge of peculiar energy arose before Naruto was blasted back, breaking through a tree and coming to a stop at the next one.

His back crashed into the bark knocking lose all the oxygen in his lungs upon contact, eyes wide in pain he quickly tried to assess what just happened, 'What- that energy... it- it didn't feel like chakra?'

Leaning forward onto his left hand he grabbed his head again, staring at the green-eyed teen, 'And what was with the headache? Did he do that?' struggling to find a solution, if that was indeed Kitsuto's doing then what did that mean?

Then again, Kitsuto implied that he knew more than just how to use chakra, so it should've come as no surprise that he could do other weird abilities.

"Don't hold back~" Kitsuto teased, "After all it wouldn't due for you to pass out." He taunted, a smirk came across his face as Naruto slowly crawled to his feet.

Wiping his mouth Naruto looked at him curiously, "What was that energy?" He asked.

Kitsuto paused before shaking his head ruefully, "You don't answer any of my questions, so why would I have a reason to answer yours. Although... If you reconsidered the deal." He offered leaving it out for him to grab.

Naruto stood back up, he hated not knowing anything! He still didn't know all of the abilities people could perform in this world, so it was likely Kitsuto would continue to surprise him.

But if he agreed it would most likely have Naruto answering all the questions then to be the one asking them, and the last thing he wanted was for Kitsuto to know more about him.

Kitsuto smiled as he put on a face of decision, "Although I guess I can be lenient, perhaps knowing more about me will help you open up huh?" He asked looking at him.

Naruto didn't reply, Kitsuto's smile faltered into a sigh, "I hope your not always so serious. To answer your question, it's a person's Life energy." He answered, watching as his face broke into a confusion.

"Life Energy? I've never heard of that." He muttered.

Kitsuto shrugged, "I'm not surprised. Using your life energy can be called using Ki, and it dwells within every living being, only most just don't know how to draw it out and it takes some serious training to do so. Martial Artists' know how to do this only a little whether they know it or not, something that requires great concentration and practice like Kung-fu or Tai Chi." He explained, Naruto hung onto every word.

'Dwells within everyone? So it's like chakra? Although there could be a chance that the energy's completely separated from chakra and the Shinobi world hasn't discovered it yet.' Naruto thought to himself, but was quick to stop, hearing Kitsuto go on.

"The Chinese call it 'Chi'. Anyway the main focus of drawing it out would have to be here," He said pointing to his abdomen in the pocket right below his chest, "At the center of a person's body, and by drawing it out your able to manipulate it and use it for performances outside the body, which can be a whole bunch of different techniques. The stronger you want the technique the more concentrated the masses have to be, which means the more time the user requires to draw it out, or if you want to dumb it down basically you'd have to "power up"." He explained by using his fingers as quotation marks.

"When a fighter gathers Ki, they gain enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and can increase the power of their attacks to inflict greater damage to opponents," He said before pausing, then grinning as he scratched the back of his head in a familiar way, "Although I'm still learning so I'm not as experienced." He finished.

Naruto was silent for a moment before finally coming to terms with it, "I see."

Oh well, even if he could do things he couldn't, he'd still take him down, and after that it'd be his turn to ask the questions. Naruto smirked challengingly at the older counterpart of himself, "Don't hold back huh?"

Kitsuto flexed his right arm and laid his left hand on it, "I'm a lot stronger than I look, I figured you would have grasped that. Don't tell me you're surprised?" He asked.

"Just... didn't expect it." Naruto muttered before rushing forward again, this time running faster than before.

"You're going to have to do better than rush at me." Kitsuto said before holding up his hand again charging up the energy Naruto felt before, he fired off a weird yellow blast as big as his head, widening his eyes Naruto dodged to the left, a second blast came again before Naruto jumped to the left before falling back to gain some more distance, at least the good thing was that they were slow enough to dodge.

"If you really concentrate on drawing the life energy out and focusing it, you can perform Ki attacks, mostly by drawing it to the palm of your hands. Like so." He laughed as he demonstrated by shooting even more Ki blasts at him for him to evade, Naruto made a dash around Kitsuto.

Naruto's eyes widened, 'Is he serious? If that's true and based on what he told me, if he wanted to make that blast stronger he'd have to concentrate more, and right now it hardly seems like he's concentrating at all!'

Yelping in surprise Naruto stopped running just in time for another one of those Ki blasts to pass inches from his face and blast a tree. Naruto's did an intake of breath as he looked over at the burning tree.

'Gotta admit though, that looks kinda cool.' Naruto thought before dodging another, 'Although, at the speed it's going it's not too hard to dodge, I can't exactly gauge how strong the blast would be if it hit me because it's a different type of energy, but that won't matter if he can't shoot faster than that.'

Almost as if reading his mind, suddenly he spurred off ten Ki blasts almost within a second; heading straight for the unsuspected blond three caught him in the chest as he was sent tumbling to the ground, parts of his vest being singed with smoke coming off it.

Kitsuto grinned, "My master has a Sayjin, so she helps me with the steps every now and then, but humans will never be able to surpass a Sayjin because they're just better at it." Kitsuto explained as he watched Naruto writhe on the ground.

Grabbing his chest Naruto grunted slowly trying to understand how much it hurt,'Owww... DAMN IT!' he cringed. He wasn't going to last long if he continued to get rained down with those things.

Even still, at that speed it couldn't prove any more than a mere inconvenience, he could still dodge most of them if he really tried, hopefully Kitsuto wasn't able to increase the speed of it further than that, he was just taken by surprise is all.

A plan wormed its way into Naruto's mind.

Kitsuto saw Naruto shooting straight at him.

Kitsuto sighed, "This is getting somewhat repetitive... How tame." He muttered before shooting off ten more blasts, Naruto made a break to the left as Kitsuto followed him, shooting off blasts all the while before he got him in the shoulder sending Naruto rolling.

"Gonna have to be faster than that." Kitsuto warned before firing off a barrage of yellow balls of energy.

Narrowing his eyes he smirked before he rolled to the left, getting to his feet he ran at the silver-haired teen, zigzagging all the way to avoid being hit he got at least two meters from him.

Kitsuto smirked before abandoning his weird technique, raising his forearm to block Naruto's roundhouse. Spinning around Naruto tried to punch him in the face as he landed back on his feet, Kitsuto dodged it as well, and Naruto began throwing punch after punch while Kitsuto evaded his assault.

"Ah so it's hand-to-hand you want huh?" He asked with a smirk.

Ducking under Naruto's kick aimed for his face Kitsuto spun around on one leg, and performed a leg sweep with the other.

With a surprise shout Naruto landed on his back, his feet swiped out from under him. Immediately after, Kitsuto rolled forward and brought his left leg down across the blonde's chest.

"Gah!" Naruto gasped. Kicking his legs upward Kitsuto jumped off his hands, landing a few yards away back on his feet. He quickly rushed forward intending to stomp on his chest.

Eyes wide Naruto did a backwards roll onto his feet.

Quickly Kitsuto's left forearm lashed out striking Naruto across the chest making him stagger back, he hit him again, again and again making Naruto take a few more steps back.

Naruto's eyes caught sight of the fifth time, reaching out he grabbed hold of his wrist, using his other hand to grab his elbow and overturned it to where Kitsuto's arm was behind his back.

Turning to his other side Kitsuto elbowed Naruto in the face, then again before Naruto let go. Turning to his opponent he brought a palm back then up into Naruto's chin causing Naruto's upper body to bend backwards. Quickly Kitsuto leaned forward and grabbed hold of his throat, jumping up above him his feet landing on his chest forcing Naruto's legs to buckle and fall to the ground.

Coughing from the lack of oxygen, Naruto swiped Kitsuto's feet to get him off his chest. Predictably he jumped away, landing safely a few yards away.

Putting a hand to his chest as he stood up Naruto glared at Kitsuto, his patronizing smile looking back at him.

'Damn it- He keeps on anticipating my moves-' breaking out of his thoughts he cringed at the striking pain in his chest, his eyes closed in pain, 'Kk!... This guy, this version of me is a better Taijutsu fighter than I am, and at this rate...' he didn't dare finish that thought. If he was having this much trouble and Pokégirls were at least ten times stronger than a normal human, and assuming they had been put through similar training as him, then how were Hinata, Tashira and Yue doing? And what of Kiya?

For a brief moment he considered the option of going back to talking with him. Now that he figured out that Kitsuto was him in this universe then it explained the weird spiritual connection between them, and if he was on the right thought path then Kitsuto's whole reason for tracking him down was to find out what Naruto had just realized, should he tell him he's from a different Dimension? Technically Kitsuto was him so he should be somewhat understanding, or at least feel the need to not turn in kin to the Government.

"Care to try your luck again?" Kitsuto asked.

Naruto narrowed his eyes, then again this version of him was a real jerk, and seeing that damn smirk come off his face sounded very fulfilling to him.

Growling Naruto charged at him.

Smirking Kitsuto waited until he was within striking range, in the next moment he overturned his body to where he was standing on his right leg and hand he kicked Naruto in the face making him stumble backwards. In the next moment he used his other leg to swipe Naruto's feet out from under him. Landing back on his other three limbs Kitsuto was left in a push-up position, pushing off his hands he came back up to his feet and re-attempted to stomp on Naruto's chest.

Rolling to the right to dodge the attack, Naruto got onto his hands and knees. Glaring daggers at the green-eyed teen Naruto lunged and tackled him causing them to tumble; obviously Kitsuto did not expect such a reckless attack.

When they stopped Naruto had Kitsuto straddled, fist cocked he brought it to the side of the teenager's face, then used his left, again his right and soon it turned into a flurry of unmerciful strikes across the older one's face.

Stunned halfway through Kitsuto brought his knee up into Naruto's back sending Naruto flying over him and rolling to his feet. Kitsuto slowly stood up, holding his jaw he glared at the younger boy, gauging the pain as he winced, 'Damn, that hurt! Only someone who trained in strength would be able to punch like that, if I keep getting hit like that... I might not last that long.' this guy punched like a damn Amachop, and undoubtedly, Kitsuto knew that no normal human could ever hope to be that strong.

Naruto didn't give Kitsuto the time to recover, rushing forward he extended his fist only for Kitsuto to intercept it.

Coming in close with a vengeance Kitsuto brought his knee up into Naruto's stomach. As he bent over Kitsuto brought his elbow down on his back with his knee still against Naruto's abdomen.

Naruto cried out in pain, he pushed the teen away.

Kitsuto stumbled back a bit as Naruto punched him across the face lifting him off the ground and flying up into the leaves of the tree's, Naruto quickly following after him, the fight carrying on away from the sight.

Trying to right his body, Kitsuto back flipped and landed against the side of a tree, jumping down he landed on a branch. Snapping his head up the green-eyed student looked around amongst the tree's, suddenly so very quiet with not a sound beside the ruffling of leaves, his heart beating rapidly at the adrenaline pumping through him.

"I commend you for your stealth." Kitsuto muttered knowing full well that he would hear him.

"Takes training." Naruto replied from above making Kitsuto's head snap upward.

He froze when he caught the sight of Naruto defying the laws of gravity, as far as it went with humans anyway, "Y-You can stand on..." He left off in shock.

"Oh don't tell me you're surprised!" He mocked before reaching down and gripping the cloth at his shoulders, he swung him into the side of the tree, denting it before he tossed him into the forest making him spin out of control and crash into another tree.

Bouncing off it he fell, his legs, shins more specifically, hit a branch roughly making him spin forward, it wasn't long before his upper torso crashed against another branch, desperately he tried to grab hold and failed as he slipped off and began to spin backwards, more branches breaking against his back before his hand finally gripped a strong enough branch.

His vision blurred as he tried to catch sight of the blond, looking for his red clothing for him to stand out, but even though he did wear red in a green and brown forest environment he was damn hard to locate.

Slowly he climbed up to his feet, panting from slight panic, looking around he couldn't spot him anywhere in sight.

'Sorta glad Jiroshi trained me for this sorta thing.' He thought before jumping off the branch, just as Naruto was about to land on him, his face erupting in surprise seeing as how he didn't even make a sound. Kitsuto used another tree to launch himself straight at Naruto, his fist making contact with Naruto's face sending him flying into the mass of tree's and leaves.

Landing back on the branch he smirked, "I bet you didn't know that if I concentrate I can sense energy signatures!" He yelled before going after him.

Naruto's eyes widened seeing Kitsuto appear above him, his heel coming down at him threateningly, but just as it made contact Kitsuto found himself attacking a log.

He didn't appear surprised as he landed on another tree branch, "Hm, substitution huh? Should've expected that." He muttered.

He tilted his head to the right just in time for Naruto's fist to come over his shoulder beside his head, "But that won't do you as much good here." He finished before spinning and kneeing Naruto in the gut, then bringing his fist up into Naruto's chin sending him straight upward into the mass of leaves, the sound of a small poof came later.

"Probably." Naruto replied from behind him, Kitsuto turned in surprise, "What?" Turning just in time to have Naruto's shin come right into the side of his head throwing him off his feet.

Quickly trying to recover he back flipped and landed on a rather large looking branch, his eyes immediately scanning for Naruto, his heart was beating fast and he was panting because of it.

"You've got the trainings of a Shinobi.*Pant* That much is clear." He said out of breath, leaning against the tree.

"So there are others that are trained to be Shinobi?" Naruto asked clearly not looking winded at all appearing in front of Kitsuto.

Kitsuto chuckled, "I've already given out my freebie." He replied before swinging at the blond.

It was obvious Naruto had more endurance than him, and the more the fight dragged on it'd only work in his favor.

Naruto easily dodged it, lifting his leg up he dug his foot into the older teen's throat, pinning him against the tree.

"You're out of shape." Naruto taunted.

"Kk!" He choked out, but on the inside he was going over how out of all his time training, sparing, and sometimes fighting with his Pokégirls, that this was the effect of it.

He appeared to be losing, then again he had never actually fought anyone with this level of skill, Jiroshi took it easy on him, and the sparing with Pokégirls was only training, not the real thing. Sure he'd protected his fair share of feral Pokégirl attacks, but them being feral, and they were usually below level twenty.

All things considered he supposed he was doing well for his first fight with someone who wasn't feral and could think, but still he couldn't be too sure.

Those energy blasts took more out of him than he'd like to admit, which was mostly the reason why he was so winded, his body hadn't had time to recover yet with Naruto coming at him without rest.

Slightly angered at the taunt he used his leg in an attempt to kick him before he again found himself attacking a log.

Coughing for a bit his eyes looked back up.

"I'm down here!" He yelled as he grabbed Kitsuto's ankles, Naruto was standing just underneath the branch he had been standing on.

With his footing lost he was Naruto's rag-doll as he was flung downward into a smaller tree causing an indent, spinning off the wood he landed on a branch three feet down.

His eyes widened seeing Naruto jump tree to tree on all fours like some sort monkey or some other animal.

Tightening his fist he stood back up, jumping off tree to tree he tried to roundhouse the fiery blonde.

Naruto's legs wrapped around a branch, his arms reaching out just in time to grab a hold of Kitsuto's extended leg.

"How do you like my terrain?" He yelled as he began to spin around the branch like some sort of gymnast or a monkey, continuing to spin around and round the branch he began to pick up speed before finally letting him go shooting him slant-wise at the ground he broke any branch in the way, at the speed he was going it caused him to ricochet off a tree and crash into the ground.

"Gah!" He yelled, digging his feet into the ground as he tried to come to a stop.

'T-this whole place is just like some sort of Jungle Jim to him!' he thought. If that was the case then he was definitely at a disadvantage like this.

Slowly he crawled to his feet, cradling his left rib-section he narrowed his eyes up at the trees around; his heart and adrenaline were too wild for him to concentrate on energy signatures.

"Hey!" Naruto yelled as he brought his leg back and gave another roundhouse kick.

With Kitsuto's thought's in a jumble and he hadn't yet recovered he had no choice but to take the attack head on, Naruto's foot coming straight across his face so hard it made Kitsuto turn his head, his body was next to follow before he was soon facing away from his opponent.

Landing soundly Naruto brought his elbow back almost immediately.

Straight into the center of his back, screaming ensued from Kitsuto at the unexpected pain sending him off straight into a tree before he gave a rough spin off it and hit the ground holding his stomach where he could feel where Naruto's elbow had been on the other side of him.

His nose was bleeding, courtesy of his face breaking into the bark of the tree.

Naruto's brows lifted in surprise.

He then narrowed his eyes.

"That's enough Kitsuto! Stop this before people are drawn here!" Naruto commanded, this fight was starting to get out of hand, and the last thing he needed was to accidentally expose himself to Tamer's that would come to see what was happening.

"Give up?" Kitsuto whispered, slowly crawling to his hands and knees he looked at the blond, "You haven't landed as many hits as I have!" He taunted with a grin, "Besides, this battles just getting started!"

"Yet who still stands?" Naruto asked, "While your attacks are fast, they're nothing I can't take, I make sure mine count!" He finished.

Kitsuto glared at him before going back to holding his stomach, focusing back on the pain in his back. He was in pain and that made him angry, but despite that he tried not to think about the pain, instead he closed his eyes and inhaled, trying not to let anger plant itself within his mind.

'Calm down, and remember what Jiroshi said 'The first one to let his emotions control him is the first to lose the fight'.' he relayed in his mind, slowly trying to get his emotions in check.

Face facts, and learn from them. He'd underestimated him because of his recklessness, which was his own fault. Now learn from how he let that happen.

Slowly getting back up he massaged the spot on his back where Naruto had hit.

He slowly opened his eyes and narrowed them; he grinned, "I gotta say your pretty strong, heck your hand-to-hand combat isn't that bad either. I suppose I need more training in that." He admitted as he looked at Naruto cautiously trying to gather what he'd seen so far.

Naruto was right; this fight was getting a little wild, and if they pressed on people would be attracted to the fight.

There was just one problem, Kitsuto grinned, 'This is just too much fun!' So much for stealth Master Jiroshi.

"Although you fight like a brawler, your punches are harder than they look, and the fact you just keep coming without letting your opponent recover is also pretty effective." He evaluated, "Still, that means that you're going to get a fair share of hits to the face."

Naruto narrowed his eyes, "I can deal with pain, just as long as when I hit my opponent it's twice as strong so they won't get back up." He replied.

"I see." Kitsuto replied with a thoughtful look.

"Why aren't you hurting?" Naruto asked.

Kitsuto blanched, "What?"

"Any normal human would have broken there face in after hitting that tree. I was already suspicious cause of your Ki and chakra energy, but why are you so tough?" He asked.

Kitsuto paused for a second before he chuckled, "Talking is becoming dull, I have a question for you. How do you fight someone if you can't reach them?" He asked.

"I find a way." Naruto replied.

Kitsuto chuckled as he nodded at the answer.

"Why bring that up?" Naruto asked.

Kitsuto smirked, "You know those Ki blasts I shot off earlier?" He questioned, "I was only going easy on you!" he declared, his hands lighting up with a familiar yellow glow, a smirk on his face.

"I'll eliminate this advantage you have!" He yelled before releasing blasts of energy all around him, immediately tree's began to tumble, smoke rising up from all of the blasts.

Naruto immediately headed for cover.

Kitsuto yelled as he did this before he stopped short, the yellow glow slowly giving off a stronger light and more intimidating energy pressure before extending his hands and firing yellow beams of energy out, he began to turn, blowing away the terrain.

"Whoa..." Naruto's eyes were wide in awe at the sheer amount of power and control he displayed, everything began to be covered in light suddenly exploding; there were only a few times he had ever felt pain like this.

"GYYAAAHH!"

"-Aaah!"

Yue's heart skipped a beat at Naruto's scream as it carried an echo, "What was that?"

Hinata looked at the yellow light rising up from the trees, explosions sounding off at least seventy yards away; she could even feel the ground begin to shake.

'What is that energy?' Hinata wondered, she looked away from the light and at the four Pokégirls blocking their way to Naruto, each of them looking as surprised as Yue; Hinata looked back to the light.

"Kitsuto must really be letting go." The Kunimitsu observed.

"You don't think that kid could actually stand up to him?" The Shrine Maiden asked incredulously.

The Kunimitsu in return shrugged her shoulders, "He's no longer just using Chakra."

Tashira tightened her fist as she bared her teeth, feeling tree's crash and the ground shaking.

Naruto was in trouble, Tashira took a step forward only for three Shuriken to bury into the ground inches from her feet.

"It's best to remain still." The Kunimitsu warned flashing three more Shuriken in her grip.

Tashira raised her arm only for Hinata to grab it, stopping her advance. Turning to her Tamer in confusion Hinata continued to look at the light completely concentrated and calm, growling in the bottom of her throat she stepped back and crossed her arms upon Hinata's release.

Glancing to Yue, Hinata let her know not to do anything either through eye contact and reluctantly Yue lowered her head.

Hinata's eyes glazed over the mysterious Tamer's harem, they didn't seem at all surprised that Naruto was fighting, only surprised that Kitsuto was being pushed to fight more fiercely, so they expected Naruto to fight? What's more, they seemed to expect that Kitsuto would win; did that mean he was a Martial Artist? Or perhaps a Tamer with blood gifts, it had to be someone beyond a regular civilian.

Nevertheless they didn't give any indication that they knew Hinata nor did they care, so that opened up the possibility that they thought she was a regular weak human, so there was a small advantage. She couldn't use her Byakugan right now, mainly because these Pokégirls would see that something was off about her.

She would attack when they least expected it. She berated herself for leaving her 'dex in her bag, but from what she could gather, if they were to fight, they wouldn't last against all of these girls, so she had to catch them by surprise. Tashira and Yue couldn't attack now, bide their time.

The only reason she knew what kind of Pokégirls they were was because they introduced themselves as such. Still, she didn't know what kind of abilities they had, the Kunimitsu trained in the ninja arts that was for sure.

Hinata looked to the Kunimitsu, so far she had been calling the shots here, 'And judging from her behavior she's either the Alpha or the Beta, if the Tamer is smart then he'd have his Alpha with him. If she's of either position that would mean that she was the strongest one here, so where do the others lie?' Hinata thought as she scanned the rest of them.

"Hinata what are you doing?" Tashira growled.

Hinata glanced at her for a moment before looking back to their babysitters; she needed to confirm what they thought of her.

"Do any of you know who we are?" Hinata asked curiously.

The Kunimitsu looked at her strangely, as if weighing her threat status, "Why do you ask?"

"None of you seem surprised that your Tamer is fighting, not to mention one of you cased an Illusion on us so you obviously wanted to catch us by surprise. You seem to have this all planned out." Hinata explained.

"Damn, that's pretty sharp." The Atelesia muttered.

Hinata looked at her, 'From the brash behavior, she's either the newest member, or the most known Harem sister. The Kunimitsu is the strongest here so that rules out the possibility of her being the leader; she's most likely the weakest one out of the group. That just leaves the Shrine Maiden and the Avariel.' Hinata finished.

None of these Pokégirls were the ones that had cast that Illusion on them so the Alpha was probably with their Tamer, so the Tamer would have around five Pokégirls. The strongest one wasn't here, the second was the Kunimitsu and the weakest was the Atelesia, so that left these two laying somewhere in between.

The Avariel merely turned up her blonde hair, the elven Pokégirl seemed cocky in behavior, so she could be the second to last, meaning the Shrine Maiden was the third.

"Nothing that happens between our Tamer and the one traveling with you is any of your concern." She talked down to her.

Disregarding her as a threat, the Atelesia didn't care and the Shrine Maiden was fairly oblivious to her status. The only one that appeared cautious of her was the Kunimitsu.

Hinata creased her brows, the Kunimitsu knew what Chakra was, was it possible she knew that Hinata was covering her appearance? The Kunimitsu just didn't know how skilled she was?

When it was time to attack, the safe bet would be to go after the Atelesia.

Tashira glared at the Pokegirls blocking their path, Yue observing each of them.

He walked around slightly struggling to calm his beating heart, using Ki began to take its toll on him, He wasn't ready for this with only five months of training on the Energy-type, it was sucking more out of him than it was supposed to. His eyes scanning the area and the new environment he created around him. For the first forty yard radius was nothing but dirt in a ten foot down crater, and outside of that were destroyed downed trees before slowly going out more to a steady forest.

Walking by the torn down tree's he couldn't help but wonder if perhaps he had outdone it and now he was left to find Naruto. He was still trying to calm his excitement and clear his head, Jiroshi always told him to work on his meditation, until then he couldn't sense Naruto's energy signature.

"Man, hope he isn't unconscious." He whispered, that would mean that Naruto couldn't answer any of his questions, also it'd be boring if he was out cold

Glancing over the tree he was hiding behind to see Kitsuto at least thirty yards away Naruto leaned against the tree and sighed.

Covering his mouth to lower the noise he coughed up blood, the left side of his blond hair was colored in blood, running down his left ear and dripping from his chin.

His clothes were ragged and burnt but not entirely, he was still covered, but as for his skin, that was a different story, considering he knew his left rib section was probably severely bruised and he was sure to feel that pain for a while, also not to mention his whole left arm was nearly covered in blood and had a sting to it which probably wasn't good either, it was at this time when Naruto thought he should try to rest a little before they had to go at it again.

He had his scroll of medicine in his supply pouch, even those regeneration shots. Hurriedly he reached behind his waist where his supply pouch was only for his hand to feel nothing but the fabric of his clothes.

'What? Damn it! Did I forget it again?' Naruto cursed his stupidity for forgetting, it was probably in the bag full of scrolls with Tashira, Damn it!

It seemed he had to make due, Kitsuto wasn't really trying to kill him from what he could tell, if he had been he could of taken him out with that beam technique from the start, so that reassured him somewhat.

But that power he showed... now that was amazing, the energy was unlike what he ever felt and what he did, shooting beams from his hands, which was so cool! Not to mention it was extremely powerful.

He looked around the area, 'Judging from the surroundings anyway.' he thought. He counted with his fingers, 'So far from what I've seen, he knows how to use Chakra and that Ki energy. So what else does he know?' He peeked his head over the tree.

'He's not as good as me or Hinata with chakra. I guess anyone who focuses on a wide range of different energies can't exactly master all of them... especially at his age. So it's most likely that his experience is only less than half than those who are true masters in their respective energy type.'

He coughed again, holding his left rib section, 'But still... that's pretty damn strong.'

The support he was leaning against suddenly became non-existent; the sound of the tree bark breaking before crumbling into splinters alerted him. Turning around he saw Kitsuto chopping his hand into the tree as it broke apart.

Naruto's eyes widened, quickly he got to his feet, but wasn't fast enough to get away as a punch to his face sent him soaring through the air and crashing into the dirt twenty yards away, his jaw feeling very much in pain as it did when Sakura punched him her hardest.

Cradling his face Naruto writhed on the ground at the screaming pain. Rolling onto his back he creaked open his right eye only for it to widen when he saw Kitsuto descending from the sky with his left foot extended.

Closing his eyes he let the attack come, in the next second an extreme weight was forced upon his chest, dirt rising up as if Kitsuto had jumped into water.

Naruto's scream was loud and filled with pain, sure that at least one of his ribs had snapped. Kitsuto waited for the dust to subside before he stepped off the blond, the blonde's body was twitching before he spat up blood.

"Bet you wish we could've just talked it over huh?" Kitsuto asked with a small smile, reaching down he grabbed hold of Naruto's vest, lifting him up off the ground and up off his feet.

Naruto gave a weak laugh, "That wasn't as strong as the punch earlier. What's wrong, were you not using your Ki for that?" He whispered.

Kitsuto shrugged, "I could've killed you."

Naruto grabbed Kitsuto's wrist and shook his head, "Heh- Yeah right, I think I know why." He replied.

"Oh?"

Throwing Naruto back to the ground he rolled backwards before skidding on his back to a stop.

"Why don't you tell me your theory?" Kitsuto asked genuinely curious.

Coughing a bit from the dust he inhaled Naruto struggled to sit up. Shaking his hair of the dust he stared at nothing for a second before he sneezed.

Slowly he climbed to his feet holding his broken rib, "You said- *Cough* that Ki can increase a person's strength. Although you just barely increased your strength for that one punch," Naruto explained.

"I didn't want to waste unneeded energy." Kitsuto shrugged off.

He began to stretch his limbs, hurriedly trying to get feeling back into his body, "Maybe... but then why would you allow me to beat you to a pulp if you could've used your enhanced strength and speed to get out of it. I seriously doubt it was to give me false confidence because your frustration and anger were real. So why you hadn't done so from the start? I figured that you weren't able to concentrate your Ki while being mobile for very long. After all you did say you weren't that experienced with Ki, and the times you did perform Ki based attacks you had been standing still." Naruto finished.

His voice was coming back, standing straight he ignored the pain as he smirked seeing Kitsuto raise his eyebrows at how much he had gathered from all that, "And you figured this out in the few seconds after I hit you?" Kitsuto asked quizzically not knowing whether he could believe that or not before he shrugged, "Oh well, that doesn't matter. Knowing that won't help you much."

Naruto grinned, "You're wrong, because now I know that physically, I am stronger than you." He said causing Kitsuto to pause.

He looked at Naruto dubiously, raising his hand a yellow light slowly faded into appearance, "Even if you are stronger, I am still faster than you when fighting. And again, how can you attack someone at a distance with only hand-to-hand combat? "He repeated.

Naruto lowered his stance, putting his hands together, his body ached, but if he concentrated his chakra he could dull the pain, "Sorry to break your confidence, but I'm faster."

Dropping his smirk Kitsuto fired off ten Ki blasts.

"Kai." he whispered before he blurred out of sight straight pass the energy blasts, his speed at least doubled in an instant.

"What?" Kitsuto yelled in surprise as Naruto appeared in front of him, Kitsuto was sent flying away from Naruto's fist in the next moment. Kitsuto's body disappeared in the Tree's piled on the ground, breaking through the first one and into a head of leaves at the next tree.

Naruto stood there in awe at the feeling, 'No matter how many times I do it, I'm still surprised by how light I feel. So this must be a fraction of what Lee feels like.'

The piles of tree's exploded, erupting in a yellow flash as debris fell from the sky. Kitsuto lying on the ground with his hand to the sky panting and holding his face with his other hand.

"Still have some tricks up your sleeves huh?" Kitsuto groaned, rubbing his jaw as he stood up.

Aiming at the blond he fired off a concentrated Beam.

Blurring to the left Kitsuto's beam followed after him as Naruto ran circles around Kitsuto, each rotation he got just a bit closer. Growling Kitsuto stopped the attack and began firing off blast after blast, and with the change of tactic, so did Naruto's as he ran straight at Kitsuto, zigzagging past the blasts as if they were nothing but a hindrance Naruto brought his leg up into Kitsuto's elbow of his outstretched arm, kicking it up past his head.

Putting his leg down he spun and brought his other leg up and kicked the green-eyed teen in the chest causing him to stagger backwards.

Kitsuto staggered back into Naruto's elbow as it broke his balance and forced him to lean forward, quickly he turned to see Naruto just in time for him to blur again, the red blur fell back twenty yards.

The blond grit his teeth in concentration. It was harder to control than he thought, how Lee could attack Gaara at the preliminaries the way he did with that speed wasn't as easy as it looked and he still wasn't half as fast as Lee.

His legs began to shake, he could only run at a straight line or curved, he'd have to keep changing his direction at this rate.

The way Lee attacked Gaara's shield at every location all within a second was insane when you thought about it.

A beam crashed into Naruto's chest, throwing him back and into a tree before he broke through that, then the next and the next, tree's falling down for the hundred meters as the beam continued to blast forward.

"Kk!... Haa- haa... Ignore me will ya-Gah~!" Kitsuto gasped holding his chest from where Naruto kicked it.

His control over Ki was beginning to dim the more he used it, if this kept up.

He fell to a knee.

~Sswwwsshh~

Kitsuto looked at the trail of dust rising as Naruto began running back at him. Bursting out of the forest he had his head out, his eyes closed and teeth bared as his head crashed into Kitsuto's chest sending him skidding across the ground, air knocked out of him he screamed in pain.

Kitsuto tumbled across the dirt like a stone skipping across a pond. Shaking his head from the pain and dizziness Naruto rushed at Kitsuto again, running past his skidding form he stopped behind him.

Squatting down he put out his left leg, Kitsuto's head ramming against his foot and forcing him up into a sitting position he leaned forward and coughed up blood.

Grabbing Kitsuto by the back of his vest he forced him to his feet.

Grunting Kitsuto swung back at the blonde only for him to blur out of sight, the next moment Naruto was on his right, his fist catching The Silver-Haired teen in the jaw, then an elbow to the back from a different location. Kitsuto's fell down into Naruto's knee coming up into his face lifting him off his feet Naruto reached up and caught Kitsuto's leg, bringing him back down he slammed him into the ground.

Kitsuto groaned, crawling up to his hands and knees, Naruto appeared beside him, reaching down he grabbed the clothing on his back and heaved him up into the air.

Kitsuto's head felt like it was ready to burst, dizzy and in pain with the vision of three blonde's standing on the ground Kitsuto tried his best to take aim. He fired Ki blasts at the ground aiming for the quick blond as he appeared here and there dodging the yellow balls of energy, parts of the ground exploded after Naruto was far away from the blast.

Kitsuto couldn't catch him with only Ki blasts.

'Kk!... Uugh' Kitsuto narrowed his eyes, and as two of the Naruto's dissolved Kitsuto began to feel his vision coming back to him, 'Is he still holding back... Should I?'

Jiroshi would kill him if he destroyed the entire area, but then again if he didn't, how was he to win? Maybe he should take out his Katana's, then again he didn't want to kill the blond by accident, and although with the way things were going he doubted he could even do that.

He shook his head, 'I shouldn't get carried away...'

*Whizzz* -Slice

Opening his eyes a small gray metallic object whizzed right by his face.

Kitsuto froze as he felt himself fall up through the air, it didn't take long before he felt something warm running down the side of his cheek.

His mind finally registered what happened, Kitsuto growled to himself feeling himself slowing down and beginning to fall back down to Earth, 'Wish Suya taught me how to fly with Ki.' He vented, concentrating his Ki and focusing on slowing himself down.

Kicking his legs backwards he leaned forward as he began to spin forward faster and faster, landing on the ground with his feet the land around him cracked under the pressure, using his Ki to reinforce his legs.

'Definitely not a regular human.' Naruto concluded seeing Kitsuto land back on his feet, with his stance weak Kitsuto fell to his knees in pain, hacking up a mouthful of blood and acid.

Naruto paused for a moment before putting the two extra shuriken back in his holster, 'He's a lot tougher than I thought. I'll have to end this soon.' Naruto thought, biting his lower lip he felt his knees starting to ache.

"Kk!" Closing his left eye he gripped the cloth at his right pants leg.

'My body is starting to feel the effect- Agh! Of the sudden speed. So this is what Hinata meant by my body wasn't accustomed to going this fast.' Staggering a bit Naruto pushed chakra into his legs to loosen his tightening muscles, it was starting to cramp up horribly, his legs shook ferociously as he struggled to just stand.

Fuck, the pain! 'After this... I'll have to start slowing down.' Appearing behind his opponent, Naruto kicked his stumbling counterpart in the back straight up into the sky again.

Naruto bent low before he too jumped up above Kitsuto.

Positioning himself and calculating the timing, he performed a sideways spin Naruto brought his heel down right into the right side of Kitsuto's chest knocking the breath out of him and shooting him straight back down to the ground spinning rapidly sideways, and with those tree's there to break his fall he was sure to suffer some sort of injury.

With his chest aching like hell, Kitsuto felt as if he lost the ability to breathe.

Pushing his hands out while spinning Kitsuto tried to time this right as he hurriedly gathered energy, "Bakudo #37: Tsuriboshi (Suspending Star)!" He cried out just as a weird blue light emitted from his hands before he shot it toward the ground in between a couple of trees.

Naruto watched curiously before his eyes widened, the blue light stretched out like some sort of goo attaching itself to four trees around it, acting like a cushion as Kitsuto fell into it, even though it helped, it didn't completely save him from harm.

Tearing through the odd technique Kitsuto crashed into the tree's that lay on the ground, breaking the tree below him in two he was buried underneath the leaves and wood.

'How did he do that?' Naruto thought.

Almost immediately a yellow light began to emit from underneath the tree's. A Yellow beam of energy suddenly shot up at him, Naruto's eyes widened.

With Naruto still in the air he was vulnerable, 'Ah Crap! Okay think- think- think damn it- Uh- um-I got it!'

"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" Creating at least thirty clones to act as a shield Naruto braced himself as the Beam hit them head on, "Ahh- Damn it!" His clones were swept away like dust leaving him to take the beam full-blast.

Naruto screamed, his body stung, his clothes burned. After the beam disappeared the blond was left steaming, smoke coming from him as he fell to the ground, bod twirling and smoke coming off him.

He smashed face first into hard earth, "Kuh!" He gasped his figure indented itself into the surface.

"Damn it..." Kitsuto grunted, forcing himself to stand up, the right half of his upper clothing had been torn away, luckily the two swords strapped to his back had managed to stay on. There were two gashes across his right rib section thanks to the sharp branches of those tree's, other than those two bleeding gashes, he had small but deep scratches over most of his body, parts of his clothing ripping out giving him a tiger look.

'I-I can't keep using Ki, or else my body will-' Kitsuto stumbled forward as he forced himself to walk, his sense of balance was beginning to mess up, walking as if he were drunk Kitsuto gasped as he felt himself falling backwards, his foot slipping he fell onto his back.

'I'll have to switch to-... -to using...'Grunting Kitsuto pushed himself to sit up, and lean against a tree, he supposed he put enough distance between him and that blond.

Focusing a different type of energy, his hands began to glow a light green. Holding it over himself he waited for the technique to do its job as best as possible before Naruto found him.

This was the type of energy he wanted to avoid using this fight.

"Kitsuto! Where are you!"

Kitsuto's heart skipped a beat, his eyes looking over to the right. He could see his red clothes far out in the mass of trees.

Grinding his teeth he waited, feeling his body begin to feel better with every second that passed by, if only he had a technique that healed his exhaustion. Naruto's voice sounded pretty far away so he still had a little time.

'My body can't take using Ki, and I can't revert to using Chakra cause that's his specialty, I'm outmatched physically, not to mention my abilities seem to somehow be useless against him... So that leaves two other's left, and I don't have the time for the other so... That one it is.' Kitsuto decided.

Naruto caught sight of Kitsuto, lying against a tree with a peculiar green light. Oh well, it didn't matter, what was important now was to make sure he could no longer fight aka knock him out, and then interrogate him.

"Gotcha'!" Naruto yelled running at him head on.

Opening his eyes Kitsuto froze, 'No, I'm not ready. I have to slow him down!'

Fully knowing the outcome Kitsuto's eyes glowed blue, using his psychic abilities to interfere with his mind, something struck back at Kitsuto's own subconscious making the both of them receive extreme headaches.

"GAah!" Coming to a stop Naruto gripped his head at the same pain he felt at the start of the fight, he staggered as he shook his head.

"Graah!" Kitsuto gasped, his head lolled back into the bark of the tree, but the green light continued to heal him, struggling not to lose concentration.

With neither of them moving and in extreme pain they both groaned.

"How are you-" Naruto grunted, slowly feeling the headache let up.

'H-How is he able to stop me from going into his mind?' Kitsuto thought, still reeling in pain, the green light flickered out of existence, 'It's done.'

Naruto growled, being the first to recover he stomped over to the downed Teen, grabbing him by the remaining part of his clothing he lifted him up.

"I'm tired of these tricks!" He growled kneeing Kitsuto in the gut he spit up a mouthful of blood over Naruto's shoulder.

Bringing his free fist back for a strike, Kitsuto lifted his hand, nearly pressing it into Naruto's chest.

"H-Hado #1: Shō (Thrust)." He whispered.

Naruto was confused at first before he felt himself being blown away from Kitsuto, up into the leaves of the tree's he broke through it and came up out into the open air. He froze in confusion as he soared through the air.

'W-what the... It isn't Chakra, and it doesn't feel like Ki either.'

Narrowing his eyes he kicked his legs up and back flipped, waiting for him to disappear back into the forest he landed on a branch of a tree, staggering for a moment he forced himself to remain standing.

Quickly he retreated back to the open area Kitsuto had created with those Ki attacks. He was dealing with yet another unknown type of energy, and with tree's covering everything it would only help Kitsuto, Naruto wouldn't know what would be happening, he had to get back to open ground.

Jumping off a tree he could came out back into the wasted area, landing on the dirt the muscles in his legs tightened, grunting Naruto's legs gave out and rolled.

His legs were cramping up, 'Kk! Fuck that hurts!'

Pushing himself up on his hands and knees Naruto panted, quickly thinking over all the options he had, his Jutsu was still limited so he only had three tricks left up his sleeve, one of them he wasn't fully in control, the other would probably kill Kitsuto, and the other he wanted to wait to catch Kitsuto off-guard.

He paused for a moment, and then he released a hoarse chuckle

If he was the Naruto that had barely arrived on this planet so many months ago he would've just started spamming his clones at Kitsuto... but now, now he found himself only really using his clones in battle when he needed them, or an opening showed itself.

"You look beat." Kitsuto noted.

Naruto's head snapped up and turned to the voice, Kitsuto stood before him holding his stomach from where Naruto kneed him, his white clothes now torn, dirtied with dirt and blood. Blood still ran from his half-healed gashes, he looked pretty beat up as well.

Naruto chuckled, "You-*Grunt* should talk." He replied as he proceeded to clear his throat.

"I never suspected that you would push me to use this type of energy." Kitsuto explained as he lifted his forefinger and pointed at Naruto as he stood up.

"Hado #6: Rendan (Barrage)."

Balls of fire shot from his fingers! Eyes wide Naruto was caught head on, doing his best to dodge, the technique reminded him of Sasuke's fire Jutsu. One caught his left shoulder, another his left leg as fire suddenly spread across his vest, his left pants leg caught fire.

"HOT!"

The burning began to immediately affect the skin underneath, with one hand he grabbed his vest, and the other went to his weapon Holster. Quickly he ripped off his vest, and with the other hand cut the fabric of his pants leg from his knee to his foot, ripping the clothing off and throwing it away, the wrapping around his hands doing their best to protect his hands.

His T-shirt underneath was singed and his left leg was red, blood quickly surfacing.

Looking up at Kitsuto Naruto jumped back to gain more distance before he untied the wrapping around his left hand and wrapped it around the wound on his leg.

'If he's going to be doing that more, then I'm in trouble. I can't keep dodging those with the way my legs are!'

Kitsuto looked confused, 'He didn't disappear.' he thought, he figured that Naruto would've blurred out of existence like before, bringing his pointed finger up over his head he opened his palm.

"Hado #9: Enban (Disk)." He muttered a blue ball of energy came into existence over his hand, quickly shaping itself into a flat disk, flicking his hand the technique rushed forward to the enemy.

Naruto gasped, making a dive at the ground he felt the disk go over him by mere inches. His head snapped up to watch the Disk as it proceeded to slice the tree in half.

All he could do was gap his mouth.

*Whizzz*

Naruto's ears twitched before he quickly got onto his hands and pushed off the ground up into the air, the second disk whizzing by under him.

With a shaky landing he looked at Kitsuto, his opponent's eyes looking at Naruto's legs as they trembled, struggling to stay up.

Lowering his hand Kitsuto closed his eyes, "I see, so that's what happened." He muttered.

Naruto bared his teeth, "What are you talking about!"

Kitsuto opened his eyes, "Your legs weren't able to handle the pressure of the intense speed you had earlier." He said making Naruto's breath hitch.

Glaring at the silver-haired boy he prepared himself, he needed to get close to him, and then he could do it. His cramped legs were slowly unwinding, but he needed time, which wasn't on his side, he couldn't keep dodging Kitsuto's attacks, but Kitsuto also couldn't afford to waste energy, so with this revelation Kitsuto would most likely revert to hand-to-hand again, so long as he believed he had the advantage.

As fast as possible he ran at Kitsuto, preparing to throw a punch at the teen.

He dodged so simply, catching Naruto off-guard by shoving his palm into Naruto's chin, then bringing his leg up and kicking him in the gut, then again in the chest Kitsuto's leg moved here and there as he kicked Naruto all over before he spun and lifted his other leg right into Naruto's jaw sending him tumbling back.

Spitting up blood Naruto quickly crawled to his feet and growled as he ran at Kitsuto again, this time running at a curve to position himself in front of the forest and bushes. Kitsuto's hands lashed out again he elbowed the blond in the gut, then bringing his forearm into Naruto's face.

Crying out in pain he staggered back before Kitsuto brought both of his palms forward and into Naruto's chest blowing him back and sending him to roll into a pair of bushes near the tree's.

"You're too slow." Kitsuto called out.

Naruto smirked, pushing as much chakra to his legs as his body would allow he burst forth out of the bushes with a smirk on his face, again coming at him at a curve to turn Kitsuto away from the forest.

Naruto attacked, throwing punches Kitsuto proceeded to dodge them, occasionally striking Naruto where he was open from time to time, but Naruto pressed on, his smirk not faltering.

Kitsuto raised a brow.

"Your pattern's starting to become predictable." He said as he attempted to dodge a punch to his gut.

Something grabbed him from behind, turning his head with his eyes wide he tried to see who interrupted them, only to find out it was a clone of Naruto, "Ack!" Losing his breath at the sudden contact from the Naruto in front of him burying his fist deep within the older teen's abdomen.

"How's this for predictable!" Naruto yelled before he raised his leg, bringing his foot up right into Kitsuto's jaw Kitsuto was taken off his feet and up into the air.

Frozen in pain he tried to analyze Naruto's strategy, 'I see, he had me turn my back away from the bush he was in... he can create Bunshin's. Just like a Kunoichi.' He evaluated, 'Only these ones are completely solid.'

"Get ready! Uzumaki Barrage: One Thousand Attack Combo!" He yelled before putting his fingers into a seal, "TAJUU KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" His limit, he forced himself to move, forced the energy through.

Hundreds of clones appeared though out the area, Naruto pointed at the air-born Tamer.

"Ugh! How does he-"

'How can he create so many? I thought he used all his energy!' Kitsuto thought.

"LET'S GO!" Naruto ordered before he jumped into the air, clones following after him as the one that had been holding Kitsuto jumped up and kicked the Silver-haired teen in the back, pushing him higher in the air. Clones were above and all around him.

Kitsuto stared in awe at the amount of clones the kid created, and soon one by one, clone's fists dug into his back ultimately pushing him higher and higher in the air.

"Guh!" Blood pushed its way out of his mouth as he continued to feel punches dig into his back over and over.

He grunted, He had to take control of the situation.

Using his left leg he spun himself around to face the Earth whilst swinging his fist into the face of the next clone about to attack him from below as it disappeared into smoke. Looking around he jumped off the nearest clone, dodging punches that came inches from his person.

"Not so fast!" Naruto, which he could only assume was the real one, yelled.

"Wha-"

Naruto's fist shot across Kitsuto's face sending him to the right, the nearest clones attacked him, punches came from here and there unmercifully to his face, head, body, legs, he couldn't block all of them, and he didn't have enough time to concentrate his energy.

He looked to the ground, eyes wide as he saw the trees and land grow farther and farther away, slowly the clones below covered his vision.

That's when he noticed something, he was in disbelief, 'Each clone is creating more clones to keep me in the air!' He realized.

He lost air as a foot dug into his back and another dig into his abdomen simultaneously.

Closing his eyes from the pain, he reached for his swords only for another clone to grab his feet, the amount of life he sensed in this one, 'He's the real one!'

"You're finished!" He yelled as he jumped off a clone and proceeded to spin, with his grip on his ankles Kitsuto unwillingly followed.

The green-eyed teen winced as he felt Naruto launch him back to solid ground. Kitsuto was fired back down to the ground spiraling out of control, crashing into the ground and creating a crater, land all around him caved in and dirt rose like water.

Coughing amongst the chaos Kitsuto groaned, 'Who would've thought-' He grunted as he creaked open one eye, it widened; hundreds upon hundreds of clones coming down at him, all of them having their fist pulled back.

"It's all over!" Every Naruto yelled.

"No choice!" Kitsuto yelled, forcefully he pushed out his hands.

"Bushido #18: Tengai (Dome)!" He yelled, summoning up as much energy as possible in the little time he was given.

Immediately a very large blue dome came to life protecting Kitsuto as the Clones attacked. This was bad, with such uncontrolled energy trying to stabilize the technique; his body wasn't prepared for this.

Some clones dispersed upon crashing into it, but then they began to land on top of it, still remaining in existence as the clones began to pile up.

Kitsuto grunted, sweat building up all over his body as he struggled to keep the dome up, but it continued to get heavier and heavier to the equivalent of hundreds of humans, blood began to leak from his mouth, running down his cheek, blood began to come from his nose.

"Arraahh! The Dome's fading!"

The dome broke away as hundreds of clones dispersed, leaving at least a hundred clones left still coming down from the sky, the Original Naruto at the top with his right leg extended, intending on landing a crippling blow after his clones attacked.

Kitsuto's heart skipped a beat.

*BOOoom!*

Kiya's ear twitched as she stared in awe seeing Naruto's up in the air taking a yellow beam head on from a faraway distance, screams of all kinds of pitches elicited from the blond and silver-haired tamers.

Watching for a while as the light from the beam painted the skies around them yellow, Kiya and Kyu sat quietly.

After the explosion they sat in silence for a small moment.

"So, who do you think will win?" Kyu asked

"Naruto." Kiya replied without a doubt as she crossed her arms and nodded her head, the view that they had on this grass hill gave them a little insight of the fight, but everything wasn't clear.

Kyu's eyes widened, flicking one of her tails at the thought of it, "Really?"

"Yep."

"Even after all I told you about Kitsuto?" She asked.

Kiya looked at her, "You don't think Naruto will win even after what I told you?" She replied with her own question.

Kyu shrugged her shoulders as she sat back watching as dust arise high in the sky from a distance, the ground rumbling and sounds of screaming and yelling came from far in the distance.

"Kitsuto's better when it comes hand-to-hand, from what you told me about Naruto he's just a juggernaut." She replied.

Kiya gave a toothy grin, "But it works for him, and if he releases those weight seals I told you about he'll be like a thousand times faster!" She demonstrated by waving her arms around, Kyu giggled for a moment.

"How exactly do those things work?" Kyu asked, intrigued by the description of these seals Kiya talked about.

Kiya shrugged her shoulders, "Naruto and Hinata know, all I know is it makes you feel heavier." She replied, she lifted up her shirt to expose her chest to Kyu, "Here it is."

The Kyuubi Pokégirl tilted her head in surprise, spying a white strip of paper placed between the Kitsune's breasts; she looked at the seal carefully before Kiya pulled her shirt back down, "Interesting."

Kyu's ear twitched as she thought this over, "Kitsuto would be at a disadvantage. Still he knows more than Naruto does." She evaluated.

Kiya pouted, "How so?"

Kyu smiled, "I admit this guy sounds good, but still he can only use chakra." She said.

Kiya pouted, "But even though Kitsuto has Chakra, Ki, Kido, Psychic abilities and... uh..." Kiya lost count of whatever else he had, "Anyway, you said that all of that is only half as strong as people who use each specific types of energies~" She whined.

She wasn't a Supe-Bra Genius or anything, but if someone who trained only with Ki faced against Kitsuto and his Ki then she was pretty sure the person trained in Ki would win because Kitsuto's Ki was only half as effective. There lay the problem with Kitsuto's abilities, he trained in all these different types of energies, but each of them was only half as strong than the real thing.

Kyu giggled at the youngling's behavior as Kiya watched Kyu's tails wave back and forth in the Kitsune's arms.

As it turned out she didn't even need to use her psychic abilities to get Kiya to tell her of these strangers that had Kitsuto so up-tight lately, Kyu opened up to Kiya by telling her of Kitsuto, sure Kitsuto probably wouldn't be happy about that, but Kiya was just soo cute~

Anyway, in return Kiya told her all about these... other people, after Kiya was convinced that there wasn't any threat of course.

Sure it was strange, but then there was always something strange going on, she supposed being with Kitsuto for as long as she had, just had her getting use to weird things. Dimensional travelers weren't completely unheard of, there was at least one other that she saw on the news last year, and she was pretty sure that there were even more that weren't documented, Kiya's story only helped her with that hypothesis.

"Yeah that's true." Kyu replied, her tails tingled as Kiya ran her fingers on them.

"Plus Naruto's also got his Jutsu." Kiya added.

"That clone technique?" Kyu asked seeing Kiya nod.

Both of their eyes caught of the sight of Naruto being blown out of the forest and out into the air before he back-flipped and disappeared back into the forest.

Kyu and Kiya both blinked.

"It's usually that boy that's always flying through the air." Kyu noted.

"Yeah." Kiya replied with a blush on her muzzled face, she looked back to Kyu.

"So, what's it like being able to go all furless to furry-like?" She asked excitedly seeing as how she could only remain furry, she wanted to know what it was like to switch to skin.

Kyu blushed at the quick change of topic, but nevertheless she decided to answer, pondering the question for a few seconds, "Well... It's useful at times, but sometimes I'd get confused." She laughed at herself for a bit.

"Confused?" Kiya asked.

Kyu nodded, "Yeah, like sometimes I'd spend hours trying to get into a pair of clothes with my fur and forget that I could switch to no fur. Or sometimes I'd find myself trying to scrub my fur and realize I've been scrubbing my skin for the past ten minutes." She explained with an embarrassed blush.

Kiya tilted her head, "How do you mistake that?" She asked.

"You'd be surprised." Kyu replied with a giggle.

"Ouugh~ Kyu-Sama's nice~" Kiya gushed licking one of Kyu's tails making her gasp, "Oh- Kiya."

Kiya gave a grin, "So does Kitsuto like furry you, or skin you?" She asked. Kyu blushed, "He's... unusual, he likes my furry form more." She replied.

Kiya smiled laying her head on the Kyubi's lap; Kyu scratched Kiya behind her left ear causing the Kitsune's tail to go frizzy.

"What's that other technique that boy has?" Kyu asked, deciding to go back to their original subject.

Kiya stared at nothing for a moment trying to remember the name of it, she had only seen the thing a few times, "I dunno, but it's a little blue sphere thingy." She answered.

Kyu raised her brows, "That doesn't sound as dangerous as you said it was."

"Trust me, if he brought it out, things would blow up." Kiya warned seriously.

"Really?" Kyu asked.

"Yep, it's amazing. He says he's going to try teaching us all sometime soon." She said.

The sound of puffs of smoke met their sensitive ears.

Both of their eyes looked out to the distance to see hundreds of clones come into existence, Kitsuto trapped in the middle of it.

Kyu's eyes widened at the sight, "Is that?"

Kiya grinned, "Yep, that's the Shadow clone technique I was telling you about."

"That's incredible." She replied, not at their power, but at the boy's ability to create so many. She had seen Mika do that but the amount of clones was... a lot less.

"I told you he had a lot of energy, and he's not gonna give up either. Ohh Kitsuto's in trouble~" Kiya yipped, occupying herself with suckling the tip of one of Kyu's tails.

Kyu's shock slowly settled as her eyes caught Kitsuto, "Kitsuto still has some fight left in him." She replied.

Kiya looked up at the Kyubi, "What? How do you know?"

"He still hasn't pulled out his swords, plus he still has other energies to use." Kyu replied.

In the need to defend her Tamer Kiya replied, "Well Naruto still has yet to pull out that sphere attack thingy."

Kyu giggled before leaned down to nip the Kitsune's ear.

They both proceeded to watch as Kitsuto crashed back to earth, the Clones attacked just when a large Dome sprang up, the clones crashing into it before it eventually broke, the whole area exploding with dirt and debris followed by screaming.

"Kinda looks like a stalemate." Kyu observed.

"Yeah." Kiya agreed, "You know, based on what's happening, shouldn't we be helping them?" Kiya asked, but she didn't want to fight Kyubi-sama.

Kyu waved it off, "Nah- This is just the first step to them building a bond with each other in their own way."

"Uuuooohh..."

Sitting against the nearest tree he grabbed his chest in pain, blood spurt from his mouth in what seemed like quarts, 'D-Doing that technique so recklessly... my body's screwed.'

He heard the sound of groaning, Kitsuto looked over to see Naruto holding his left rib-section, at least three of his severely bruised ribs had broken, his left burnt leg was bleeding even more profusely than before, and his tightening muscles in his legs would no longer loosen with chakra.

The both of them stared at the other gasping for breath.

Kitsuto spit the rest of the blood in his mouth to the side before gathering whatever energy that his body would allow him without shutting down.

Naruto glared at him, baring his teeth he rushed at him as fast as possible.

'Please body don't fail me now, I only needed to last a little while longer!' Naruto bared his teeth as he glared at the downed teen.

Kitsuto thrust his hands at the blond, "Bakudo #10: Baindo (Bind)!" He yelled. They were both exhausted, so even something such as this should be able to hold him, with their energy spent Naruto wouldn't have the strength to break it.

"Wha!" Yelping in surprise Naruto was thrown back and sent tumbling to the ground, his arms and legs sensing the feel of restraints as his rolling slowly came to a stop.

"Ggaah... Aaa-The hell is this." He grunted tiredly as he struggled, much like a worm trying to flee.

"Ka... haah... Haa." Clutching his chest Kitsuto gasped for air, 'Such a low-level technique sapped the rest of my strength.'

"W-What did you just do?" Naruto whispered as he continued to squirm in this weird restraining technique, flexing his arms and legs Naruto tried hard to break the restraints, but to his chagrin it had proved ineffective, his body ached and wouldn't allow him to summon the strength, this was it, "Grrgh! What is this?" he yelled.

Kitsuto's gasping for life slowly settled to pants of exhaustion, still clutching his chest from the pain the blond had brought upon it, "It's useless..." Kitsuto spoke in a hoarse tone, trying to regain the ability to breathe.

Naruto glared at Kitsuto, "What do you mean?" he asked.

Kitsuto looked at him, one eye closed from pain, "You won't be able to break from that binding spell." He explained, using the tree he was leaned against as support to get to his feet.

"And now... You're going to tell me everything." He said seriously, once he was sure he wasn't going to collapse the next second he began his walk toward the blond, a small smirk on his face, "If you hadn't let your guard down, it'd have been me on the ground and you still standing."

Treading over to the blond Naruto continued to glare at him like a child who had lost a game cause someone cheated, "Oh yeah, and what makes you think I'd just tell you?" Naruto challenged.

"Because..." Kitsuto left off as he stood before the downed fourteen year old, Kitsuto's face slowly breaking out into a grin as he squatted down to get a closer look at him, "I'll..." He said ominously, leaving Naruto in suspense.

Next thing Naruto knew he was in a headlock and Kitsuto's knuckles were running back and forth over his scalp, "I'll give you a noogie!" He warned.

"What the hell!" He yelled, laying there grunting as the spot Kitsuto was rubbing began to quickly burn from the friction, Naruto's eye twitched.

"Tell me!"

"Fuck off!" Naruto cursed before Kitsuto's fist rubbed faster making Naruto squirm even more and yell louder.

"I'll stop if you tell me!" Kitsuto offered again only to be turned down again, Kitusto's fist blurred and he was pretty sure he could see steam beginning to rise.

"Damn it that hurts you bastard!"

"Noogie-noogie-noogie-noogie." Kitsuto repeated over and over, Naruto's yells of pain growing louder.

It wasn't the most gruesome torture ever enacted, but still it was pretty effective if it had Jiroshi begging for mercy when he actually managed to get him pinned down. He'd just have to continue until Naruto was willing to cooperate, sooner or later he'd come around.

"What are you doing?" Hinata's voice broke in through Kitsuto and Naruto's quarrel.

Kitsuto paused as both he and Naruto looked up to see Hinata, Tashira and Yue standing there, accompanied by the four Pokégirls that had stayed behind with them, one of which Hinata had her arm around the neck of with her two forefingers near the girl's temple. The other three Pokégirls were standing around them, cautious not to move to warrant their Harem-sister's death, both Tashira and Yue on alert to make sure none of the three surrounding them tried anything.

Naruto recognized one of the Pokégirls there, the Kunimitsu Kitsuto had mentioned earlier.

The Pokégirl Hinata was strangling seemed familiar as well, she looked like a primate. He knew he saw a picture that looked similar to her in the pokedex.

Atelesia was her type! The girl herself blinked as she stared at Kitsuto who had Naruto in a headlock and was in the middle of giving him a knuckle sandwich. Said girl rolled her eyes, "Oh, not that again." The Atelesia muttered, acting as if her life wasn't in the fate of Hinata's fingers, the girl she had underestimated and assumed was as weak as any other human, so while Tashira and Yue stalled them, Hinata caught her off guard, which stopped the other three Pokégirls from advancing.

"Let him go." Hinata ordered.

Kitsuto stared at her, "Let him go?" He repeated as he raised his eyebrows, not understanding the threat she posed.

The Atelesia scratched her head, opposite side of where Hinata's fingers were poised to strike, "Well, it turns out she's not as weak as I thought." She said with a small blush of embarrassment.

Blinking once, then again for good measure he looked at Hinata and then down at Naruto, Naruto looking back up at him.

"She's about as strong as me." He filled him in.

Kitsuto's confusion was replaced with understanding, and then he looked back at the group of women in disbelief, "You let your guard down around an unknown opponent?" He asked.

The Atelesia pouted at him, "How was I supposed to know she wasn't a regular human?" She asked, it wasn't her fault as far as she knew.

Kitsuto shook his head ruefully, "~Sigh~ Leslia, Didn't I tell you to evaluate the situation and know all the risks before rushing in?" He asked, not that he hadn't just done the same thing by fighting without knowing his opponent, but she didn't know that, this was about her.

Naruto's eyes widened as he realized something.

"Hey... she's a primate Pokégirl... Why did you suck so much when we were fighting in the tree's? Shouldn't you have more experience with that when you have a monkey type in your harem?" He asked tiredly.

Kitsuto frowned, "I've only had her for two months."

Naruto snorted.

"Hey, doesn't he look younger to you? I could've sworn he was taller than Kitsuto when we last saw him." the Primate noted as she stared intently upon the smaller looking blond, her Harem-sisters also taking notice of Naruto's age change.

"Let Naruto go, and call off your Pokégirls as well." Hinata ordered.

Kitsuto thought it over for a good three seconds before sighing, "Alright... no business I have here is worth one of my Pokégirls being killed."

"Killed!" Leslia shrieked, "You didn't tell us there was a chance we'd be killed on this mission!" She yelled.

A tick-mark appeared on Kitsuto's forehead, "Haven't you learned anything from Jiroshi's lectures?" He asked.

"Bad communication." Naruto taunted before wincing from the wounds gathered his fight, still laying helpless in Kitsuto's headlock, his vision was getting hazy now that the adrenaline was beginning to fade, the tight hold Kitsuto had around his neck also contributed to his process of passing out.

"Shut up." Kitsuto snapped sourly, reluctantly he let go of the blond and slowly stood up, being careful not to break or injure himself more than he already was.

He turned to the Pokégirls surrounding the three girls, "Mika, Ariel, Leslia, Yuku stand down." He ordered.

"Idiot, why do you need to tell me to stand down?" Leslia ranted, seeing as how it was her being held in this arm hold. Her Harem sisters visibly relaxed, lowering their stances and guards cautiously.

"Does that mean Kitsuto won?" Kiya asked, the two of them walking out of the forest of tree's.

Kyu crossed her arms and tapped her forefinger against her cheek, "Well, Naruto's still conscious, and he hasn't given up... I don't know." Kyu replied honestly.

Kitsuto used that same weird energy, and soon Naruto found his limbs able to move freely.

With exhaustion and pain playing its role he laid there until Kitsuto helped the blond up to his feet.

The two stared at each other for a good while.

Kitsuto grinned awkwardly at him, "So uh..." He stuck out his hand, "No hard feelings?" He asked.

Naruto stared at him through half-lidded eyes, and he knew he'd only be able to do one last thing before he was out of it for a good few hours.

Kitsuto wasn't sure what happened next, the world spun around a few times and he could feel his body beginning to go numb for a moment. Stars were in his eyes and voices faded in and out; when he could see again he found himself seeing the Earth sideways and could clearly feel the side of his face stinging.

"Ughh!" Kitsuto moaned in pain, Naruto stood there for a moment, too tired to evade as he felt Kitsuto swipe his feet out from under him. Now Kitsuto was far too hurt and exhausted to do anything more but lay there as his Pokégirls rushed to his side, he couldn't catch anything else as his vision fell into darkness.

Skull met mother Earth soon before Naruto too fell into blissful unconsciousness.

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"And what was the boy's name?" He asked.

Timidly Kawaki stood before her summoner, one who she had only met twice, both of them when she was to be tamed, so she still didn't know what did and didn't piss him off yet so she didn't want to say the wrong thing.

"I don't know his name, but he looked similar to your pupil." Kawaki replied cautiously, she glanced to Kawana, Jiraiya's Alpha. Bringing the news to one of the most experienced and strongest of the Hotties seemed like the wisest decision, short to say, she brought the young Hottie before Jiroshi to explain the odd events.

He looked surprised, intrigued even.

"Like Kitsuto you say?" Jiroshi asked with a small smile.

Kawaki nodded carefully, "Yeah, except he had blond hair and only three whisker scars on each side. He also had blue eyes." She explained.

Both Kawana and Jiroshi did a double-take at hearing that the boy who summoned one of his Hottie's also sported whisker-like scars.

"Are you sure about this?" Jiroshi asked the young Hottie, receiving a nod at the question.

Pondering to himself Jiroshi looked outside his quarters, "Hm, that's strange."

"What?" Kawaki asked slightly panicked.

Staring a moment longer he turned away and shrugged, "Kitsuto left a few days ago claiming a lot of weird nonsense." Scratching his chin he thought it over.

"Not so much as nonsense anymore Jiroshi?" Kawana asked with a raised brow.

Jiroshi stroked his chin sagely, "He said he could feel a person's presence that felt similar to his." He relayed.

"Should we go and contact Kitsuto?" Kawana asked seriously. Jiroshi remained quiet for a while thinking this over in the most careful way possible, and then deciding on the best course of action.

Crossing his arms Jiroshi shook his head, "Eh the kid can deal with it." He replied before falling back down onto his bed.

Kawana and Kawaki paused for a moment, shocked at how he just shrugged off something like this.

"Aren't you going to investigate?" Kawana asked, slightly peeved at his casual behavior to this news.

"I don't wanna." Jiroshi mumbled before gaining a lecherous smile, "Neh Kawaki, is there anything else you-Gah!"

He was interrupted by Kawana hitting him over the head, falling off the bed the chair and desk near-by fell on top of him, his supplies littering themselves all over the room. Kawana sported a tick-mark on her amphibious forehead.

"Aaahh! Master Jiroshi!" Kawaki cried out in worry.

Kawana crossed her arms and huffed, "What if this blond kid is hostile? Kawaki said that their Pokégirls fought more like Shinobi." Kawana vented.

Jiroshi moaned, "But I taught Kitsuto a lot of things, he can take care of himself. And if he can't he doesn't deserve the title "Student of The Great Horned Fro-Ggnn!" Kawana's foot began digging into his back.

Kawaki stood there in disbelief as Kawana vented her anger at Jiroshi.

Two of Jiroshi's harem-sisters stopped by Jiroshi's door, looking at Kawana, "She's going off again." Anya observed as they proceeded to walk past his quarters and down the hall.

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"Never thought I'd be here again." Naruto muttered to himself marinated in sarcasm as he struggled to remember which way was going to lead him to the furball instead of another dead-end in the dungeon that was his sub consciousness, "Have much more important things to do than walk around this DAMN MAZE!" Naruto yelled down the corridor, echoes bouncing back at him as he began to get frustrated, feeling as if he'd been walking for hours.

"Stupid Kit-teme." He cursed his other worldly counterpart.

"The Third on your left you fool." The Bijuu's demonic tone rumbled through the hallways.

"Bout time." Naruto muttered as he trudged through the water swallowing his ankles, wondering when exactly water had managed to gather on the floors. Taking a left into another hallway he saw Kyuubi's cage a little ways.

As he came closer into the open room with the seal still stuck on the cage that contained the large fox, said fox laid there with his red eyes taking in Naruto's appearance and clothing, the usual grin on the Kyuubi's face was still there.

He 'Humphed', "Still small-minded aren't you brat." He noted with a mocking grin, Naruto unfortunately seeing the beasts face enough times that he could distinguish the different kinds of grins the fox used.

"And your still smiling? It's been seven months since I last saw you, you're always smiling when I see you." Naruto stated.

"Moments of your failures are to be celebrated." He retorted.

"Just tell me how do I get out of here? The less of you the better." Naruto grumbled as he crossed his arms, he still had so many questions to ask Kitsuto, also he wanted to make sure Hinata and everyone was okay.

"Fool, you'll only leave when your body is ready." He replied, "While you may be mentally ready, your body was forced to shut down because of the strain you so carelessly put upon it from underestimating your counterpart. Whenever your knocked unconscious your almost guaranteed to end up here."

"So... how long will it take for me to recover?" Naruto asked dubiously, seeing an oddity in Kyuubi's attitude immediately.

Kyuubi's grin faltered somewhat as he narrowed his eyes, "Brat you should enjoy this reunion while it lasts, you are after all in your ending days." He advised.

Naruto raised a brow, "Don't think I've heard that threat before, what gives furball, you're more talkative than before. Usually you're threatening me, offering me chakra, or wanting to be released, "I'm in my ending days?" I figured that I'd come in here to see you sleeping like usual?" Naruto asked, Kyuubi never talked this much in such little time, or if he did it would usually be something involving himself.

Kyuubi's grin came back up and, if possible, wider than usual, "I suppose you could say... that I've been feeling better, like I could taste freedom."

Naruto squinted, "From here it looks like you're still locked up. All that dreaming's gone to your head." Kyuubi was definitely much more, dare he say it, happier than usual in his own twisted way. Furball never said anything about him dying, which would mean that he'd die too so what was the occasion? And what did he mean 'Freedom'?

The strongest of the Bijuu paused as he collected himself, "Brat, do you honestly believe I spend all my time sleeping?"

Naruto paused, and then looked around the room, "Well... what would you be doing?"

Kyuubi let out a chuckle from the back of his throat, "Everything will be revealed in due time brat. So while you still have a chance, tell your ningen girlfriend I appreciate her curse."

"So you know about Hinata's Youki huh? I don't know what you're up to, but I'm telling you now it's not going to work." Naruto waved off before taking a seat in the shallow water, crossing his legs, "And since I'm gonna be here awhile, can you tell me what's up with that Kitsuto guy?" Naruto asked.

Kyuubi was an enigma, he could never figure out his stupid mysterious remarks or threats and there really wasn't any use in trying to figure it out, so he was going to let it go for now; He never liked coming here, if ever, it would usually involve arguments or some kind of trick into brainwashing him. He couldn't spare him the time, he needed to know as much about Kitsuto as possible before he woke up and another possible fight ensued.

Kyuubi slowly recoiled as his grin faltered a second time, his own furred brows rising in small interest, "Being here has smartened you so. What makes you assume I know Kitsuto, brat?"

"Cause you can see what I see." Naruto replied with a sweatdrop at Furball's lame attempt to dodge answering the question.

"Yet observe more than you do, while you matured, you're still a fool." He replied, not being able to help insulting the brat.

Ignoring the jab Naruto tilted his head, "Well duh. You're thousands of years old or whatever, obviously you'd be smarter than a fourteen year old, so you're not telling me anything new." Naruto replied, the furball paused at the reply.

The great Kyuubi slowly looked over at Naruto; when he would've been provoked and insulted him back, now he simply brushed it off as a waste of time... interesting development, "Be glad that I feel so great, because soon I'll achieve what I believed to be an impossibility when locked in this cage, now I may as well tell you that I was no smarter than an infant upon my imprisonment." He explained.

Naruto stared at him, "So why are you so smart if we both supposedly had the same I.Q when I was born, as a matter of fact, what does that even mean? What, did you get amnesia when Yondaime sealed you up or something furball?" He asked as he scratched his head.

The Kyuubi's eyes narrowed, "Upon the Bijuu's creation, we were merely quantities of demonic chakra taking the form of an animal that first came into our sight, some Bijuu even seeing two animals at once as the appearances of those animals fused making the Bijuu's body-"

"Oji-san told me one Bijuu had the form of an Ox and Octopus mixed together. You're telling me the Bijuu's took the form of the first animal's they saw, so how the hell did that Bijuu see an Ox and an Octopus at the same time, or are you just messing with me?" Naruto sweatdropped, interrupting Furball's great story, partially uninterested seeing as how he couldn't really use any of this information in the Pokégirl world.

"Be silent brat," The red-eyed fox snapped at interruption; however it happened Naruto doubted the Furball would tell him, "We had no brain, no knowledge, only the basic instincts of the animals of which we took form." The Kyuubi ground out.

"So why are you telling me this now?" Naruto asked.

The great Kyuubi looked at him with a smirk shy of a grin, "You'll need this information in your future I assure you, so you may want to listen you fleshbag. Because of our developments-"

Naruto perked up in slight interest, "So... what's so different now?" He asked, the beast glared at him, a low growl coming out from the back of its throat, Naruto paused, "Never mind."

"Then I had been sealed into you, and as you know I saw all that you went through. Listening as you learned about the world of Ninja, and as you grew smarter, I had as well. The difference is that while you dismissed most of that information as useless, I had thought over it continuously. Where you fought your opponents without plan, I analyzed all the possible tactics of which I had learned, and as my knowledge had grown I began to think for myself, thinking of possibilities that hadn't happened and analyzing your human and other human's Jutsu, carefully going over the seals I had seen through your eyes. This is why I am smarter than you." The fox quickly finished with a very cocky and superior smirk.

"So that's why your eyes are always closed when I come in here?"

"Yes."

Naruto stared at Kyuubi, taking in all the furball had said, "You just love to show off don't you?"

"I do what is amusing to me." He replied.

Naruto ignored him as he scratched his cheek, "So you're saying, that if I took things everyone told me more seriously I could've been just as or even smarter than you?" he asked.

"That option is too late, the gap has been decided and the smarter you get, the gap will not close. In time you may be as smart as I am now, but I will have ascended to a new level of knowledge." The Kyuubi gloated in his moment of grandeur, despite his being locked up in a teen's gut.

Naruto sighed, and then rolled his eyes, "Whatever furball. Okay, so you analyzed Kitsuto more than me, what can you tell me?" Naruto changed topic.

The fox was silent for a while, seemingly going over on whether he should agree to talk to the brat about the boy, soon coming to a decision, "Brat be grateful that I indeed have went over many possible explanations on your connection with your Universal counterpart." Kyuubi answered.

"Yeah yeah, just-... wait, what did you say?" Naruto asked as he picked up on something about Kyuubi's choice of words.

Furball just stared at him.

Getting to his feet Naruto looked away, turning around as he began to think before he continued, "You said Universal counterpart. I thought he was another me from a different dimension... if he's my Universal counterpart, then I'm way out of my own world. That would mean I'm in a different Universe?" Naruto croaked.

Watching his blond vessel piece together the puzzle the beast snorted, "Perhaps you aren't as smart as I had originally estimated."

He turned his attention back to the giant fox, his eyebrows narrowing as he glared into the fox's red eyes, "The Hell's that supposed to mean." Naruto growled.

Kyuubi's eyes widened slightly seeing the brat's short-temper of his old personality that he pertained months ago, "Did you actually think other humans lived in different dimensions from our Universe, you fool?" The semi-annoyed yet amused, nine-tailed Bijuu asked, narrowing his eyes back at his container.

Naruto crossed his arms with a 'matter-of-fact' look on his face, "What are you talking about, summons live in a different dimension right? Different planet and what not." He retorted.

"Summons originally lived on our planet before the discovery of different dimensions. In reality different dimensions are merely portals to another location in the Universe we reside in, I assume in this Universe on this planet there are Pokégirls who are able to be summoned from another location in the Universe as well. Brat even you should have at least considered such a possibility, seeing as how your village is notorious for sealing items in pocket dimensions in their dimensional seals." Kyuubi explained.

Slowly Naruto blinked, "So this is the multiverse theory those professors on TV were talking about." He whispered, blinking two more times for good measure, remembering the time he was in the hotel and he had flipped through the channels looking for something to watch. The theory of which any possible thought of how living organisms could exist lived in very many different Universal planes.

If this information was true then what did that mean on their chances of returning home?

Kyuubi continued to stare at the boy," Congratulations, further proving how my knowledge has surpassed you; and showing your inadequacy at being a Shinobi."

Naruto paused as he looked back at Kyuubi, "Hey, what did you mean by being free?" He asked, he didn't know how, but he had this deep feeling in his gut that made him think this 'Freedom' had to do with this Universal stuff.

Kyuubi grinned yet again, "As I have said, everything will be explained in due time."

Naruto stared at Kyuubi in all of its white sharp teeth and red eyes, "... Fuck you." Damn the giant rat to hell and back with him and his stupid secrets, it got annoying after the tenth thousandth time.

"Ow, my soul." Kyuubi replied, his eyes catching the sight of Naruto's fists tightening.

"I swear furball one of these days Imma kick your ass."

"My fur is standing on end." Kyuubi replied with sarcasm.

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"Check all their pockets" He ordered, foot forcing itself down on the downed thugs throat as he struggled to breathe, the other five guys all lay dead in the alley.

"Got it." His beta replied before each of his Pokégirls searched the failed-robbers pockets.

The teen pressed his foot harder on the thug's throat, "What's with the 'R' on your chest? Not many robbers with matching costumes, robbing Tamer's of their Pokégirls. Who are you?" He demanded.

"They're just team rocket remnants." Nova replied with little interest.

Turning to his alpha he took his foot off the man as he proceeded to cough furiously, struggling to get oxygen back into his lungs.

The teen looked at his alpha in confusion, "Team Rocket, what's that?"

"They're just robbers and thugs that pass by every now and then. They use to be an organization dedicated to gathering Pokégirls of every breed, mostly through theft. But then Team Trauma came up and crushed their dreams and their whole organization." Nova explained.

Her Tamer crossed his arms in interest, "Team Trauma?" He asked.

"Basically they crushed Team rocket and took over everything, Team Rocket members now are just low thugs and robbers. Team Trauma's a much more serious criminal organization, holding vast amounts of stolen and forbidden technology. Anyway Team Rocket members are nothing but pussified members of Team Trauma, Tamer's run into them every now and then with the chance of their Pokégirls being stolen." Nova finished.

"Team Rocket's no longer a threat?" He asked, seeing Nova nod her head. The teen crossed his arms, "A large criminal organization that revolves around forbidden technology and rare Pokégirls... Sounds promising." He replied deep in thought as he took in this new information.

"Possibly they have the technology you're looking for." Nova shrugged, "That is if we all don't die, Team Trauma doesn't like being fucked with."

"Don't tell me he's considering..." The beta left off.

"Looks like our journey just got a lot more troubling." Another Pokégirl muttered as she stashed the corpse's wallet she was holding in her pocket.

"Seriously master? There are plenty of other people with the technology you want, instead of messing with criminals, steal from the Government." Another optioned warily.

"Sure, why don't you go get it and tell me how it worked out being on the whole world's wanted list." He replied making the Pokégirl pout.

"Wait, I'm confused. Are we still headed to the White Lotus league or are we changing course to find Trauma people?" The Beta asked as she scratched her head.

"Yeah, we're still headed to the league, if that fails then we'll move onto this organization Nova's talking about." The teen replied. They still needed to travel across this Blood continent they were in.

"Alright, so we get to the white lotus league, then to the shrine people. Let's say you do get to the Espers, what then?" The Beta asked as she crossed her arms.

"Gurk!" *Crack*

Everyone turned to the sound, seeing the Draconic girl's foot on the guy Sasuke had been questioning's head, snapping his neck with her foot.

She looked up at them in confusion, "What?"

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Kitsuto never did have ill intentions, so attacking these girls while he was not conscious to give the order didn't sound like a very good plan of action. Mika didn't know, the last thing she needed was for Kitsuto to be even crankier than he had been for the past couple of weeks because she killed -Naruto's- comrades. So the Kunimitsu just decided that the smartest thing to do would be to stop or rather, postpone this hostility, and it seemed Kyu was with her on this, which was rare, they hardly ever agreed on something.

The main important thing was to tend to their master; they didn't need to be attacked while Kitsuto's body was off laying somewhere. As Kitsuto had said, there was nothing here that was worth one of them dying.

This Hinata girl seemed to understand such a concept, a momentary truce until their respective masters were conscious again, going from there they'd then know what to do. Until then...

"So why did you attack us?" Hinata asked the Kunimitsu as the two proceeded to sit there five meters away from each other, patching up the unconscious bodies of Kitsuto and Naruto.

"Well everything would have been fine if that blond agreed to just talk with Kitsuto, instead he had to be stubborn and causing all that chaos." The Atelesia interrupted, all of Kitsuto's Pokégirl's off to the right crowded around each other.

"Well if your master hadn't provoked us by having that nine-tails over there cast an illusion on us then maybe he wouldn't have attacked." Tashira argued, Yue by her side as they sat on the left side of the clearing.

Kyu and Kiya knew that there would be such tension, so instead of staying they opted to get firewood to keep them warm.

Mika shrugged her shoulders, it didn't matter now. What she needed to do was focus on healing his screwed up body Kyu wouldn't be able to help with anything anyway. Kyu never was good with medical stuff, and because of it Kitsuto's wounds got infected one time, he got sick and was moaning all throughout the night... and not the good kind of moaning either, so he never trusted her with healing him again, luckily her, the beta, was good with this stuff.

Mika glanced to Leslia, sending her a mental warning to not cause any more trouble before looking back at Hinata, "Things may have gotten out of hand, but we had no intentions of... well, killing anyone." Mika finished lamely as she looked at Kitsuto and Naruto's condition.

"Yeah we've gathered that, I think what Hinata wants to know is why us?" Yue asked, flicking her tail sorta impatiently, still not sure whether she could put her guard down around these Pokégirls, especially since they were attacking them only hours ago.

All of Kitsuto's harem paused, looking amongst each other thinking of a way to explain.

"It wasn't all of you, just him." Mika gestured to the unconscious blond in Hinata's care. Hinata blinked for a moment, just finishing up with applying the burn salve to his leg, sizzling and steam quickly arose from the wound, and in minutes his leg was healed, albeit with a red tint, the temperature of his skin was hot. While the wound was healed, it'd be a couple days before Naruto could run normally again.

"Only after Naruto? Tch, so why didn't you just leave the rest of us out of it?" Tashira growled.

"There's reason for caution, I myself am curious about why I sense the presence of chakra surrounding you." The Kunimitsu replied, looking intently at Hinata in her sixteen year old self, attending to a fourteen year old blond.

Hinata glanced at the Kunimitsu, then she sighed, it seemed she knew all along, so much for that, there wasn't any point in keeping up a facade that didn't work, and the Henge would only continue to use up her chakra anyway.

Releasing the Henge, her real form was showed, but that was the least of everyone's problems, Hinata still wanted to know why they did what they did.

"The hell? So that's why that blond looked smaller than when I first saw him!" Leslia concluded as she rested her hands on her hips.

Hinata and Mika locked gazes for a moment.

Pushing past the shock, the Shrine Maiden answered, "Forgive us, but under the assumption you were all comrades, it was expected that you guys would try to interfere." Yuku replied, "We were just taking extra precautions cause Master's been fairly stressed ever since he started feeling a spiritual connection with that child over there." The Shrine Maiden explained, garbed in the expected Shrine Maiden's clothes, wearing scarlet red hakama pants; a white kimono shirt with swinging sleeves; and white tabi socks finished with sandals.

Her weapon of choice looked to be with that bow on her back; arrows and sword were also strapped to her person.

"Spiritual connection?" Hinata perked up, "With Naruto? What do you mean?" She asked.

Yuku was quiet for a while, "Lately, for the past couple of weeks master's been so distracted by the connection that he hasn't been able to focus on any of his training or meditation. He said that he could feel someone that had a similar type of life force as him. Sorta like he was feeling himself..." Yuku went off, pausing at how wrong that sounded she blushed.

Mika pulled the blanket up over Kitsuto's shoulder's to keep him warm, "A few days ago Kitsuto decided to hunt him down, and speak with him. We arrived at the resting grounds in the afternoon and that was when Kitsuto spotted you guys, and so here we are." Mika finished for Yuku.

Tashira crossed her arms and huffed, "So you guys attacked when we were off guard? What you couldn't just have talked to us yesterday at the resting grounds?" Tashira asked, slightly peeved.

"Well it's kind of hard to talk when you guys were too busy fucking each other." Leslia argued, her monkey tail smacking the ground, her cheeks burning red.

"Each other..." Yuku whispered, her cheeks warming up even more.

"That was at ten in the night, get your head out of your ass, you had half the day! We got to the grounds at eleven in the morning; you got there in the afternoon!" Tashira barked.

"Then you should hav-" The primate Pokégirl stopping, seeing Mika's raised hand telling her to stop.

"We're not getting anywhere if we argue. Control yourself Leslia," She ordered, she looked at Hinata, "Please forgive her, she can be kind of... rash."

"R-rash!" Leslia screeched, Yuku putting a hand on her shoulder, "Leslia, please calm down."

Hinata waved it off, "It's okay, Tashira can get a little riled up at times as well."

"Tch." Tashira turned her head away, Naruto releasing a small painful groan before going silent again, Tashira growled quietly, "All their fault anyway." She muttered, Yue giving a quiet mew out of concern for her other master.

"It is because of your master and you girls that both he and Naruto are unconscious." Yue spoke with contained anger.

Kitsuto's harem paused, each of them looking at one or another, "We may have come on a little strong I admit." Ariel admitted as she crossed her arms.

After applying the Burn Salve, Hinata finished tying the gauze around the last wound, pulling a blanket over Naruto she sighed. She had let him keep his torn pants on, patching up any wounds on his legs.

No doubt that they already showed to these strangers that they were no ordinary Tamer's, but she didn't want to convey anything more by making a new pair of pants pop out from a scroll in front of them, nor did she particularly like the idea of Naruto butt naked in front of these strangers while she tended to him.

Naruto groaned again, trying to turn sideways but Hinata pushed his shoulders down, doing that would re-open the gash on his rib-section. She couldn't figure out why he was in so much pain, he had been groaning like that every now and then.

She berated herself at the unsolved mystery, "In any case we should wait until these two are conscious before discussing anything further." Hinata said.

"Agreed." Mika replied, not that she did agree completely, but she'd be a fool to say it wasn't the best thing to do at the moment.

Ariel sighed, the ruckus breaking her out of her reverie, "Kyu is coming back." The Avariel spoke up.

Tashira and Yue's head flicked to the right seeing Kiya not too far off into the forest with a stack of logs in her arms, that Kyubi not far behind either.

Now all they needed to do was waiting for the guys to wake up.

Almost as if on cue Naruto groaned again, hissing as he tried to lift his arm to reach at his leg.

Kiya dropped all the wood and dashed to her Tamer upon seeing him beginning to wake, Hinata acting accordingly, Tashira and Yue taking a step forward in worry.

"Naruto, don't move you'll reopen your wounds." She whispered softly, Naruto muttered something incoherent.

"M-...my." He gasped in pain.

"What?" Hinata asked as she brought her ear closer to his lips.

"What's wrong with him?" Yue asked worriedly.

All the other Pokégirls watched silently as Hinata tried to soothe Naruto as he continually struggled to do something. An eyelash creaked open showing a blue cerulean eye, wincing in pain.

"My ass." He grunted, Kiya blanched, her eyes looking to the lower half of his body.

Hinata stared as Naruto lifted his lower body up, his hand reaching under to retrieve something in his back pocket that had been digging into his ass, constantly giving him pain. Yanking the small box object out from under him he held it up to where he could see it, then his eyes widened.

His small black pokedex was basically shattered, wires coiling all around his hand, and the plastic casing hanging off to the sides.

Naruto stared at it in disbelief, "... Fuck."

He hadn't taken it too well...

"That bastard broke my pokedex!" He howled, as he tried to throw his broken 'dex at the unconscious silver-haired teen, failing as it hit the dirt three yards away from him.

Hinata was straddling his chest pushing down on his shoulders, Kiya grabbing his arms and Tashira and Yue holding down his legs as he tried to break free, Kitsuto's Pokégirl's standing there in shock that the 'Regular' human could move after being in a fight with Kitsuto, they had all fought their Tamer personally and while not as strong as them, was no pushover to any girl below the experience of a level twenty.

"Naruto calm down! Your bodies still recovering!" Hinata's attempts at settling down the blond were slowly getting through to him, but it was slow coming, he bucked his hips to try to get up only for him to wince at the pain in his injured leg running through his system.

"You idiot, your wounds are opening!" Tashira barked as she saw Naruto's leg begin bleeding through the gauze.

"Naruto-kun, your scaring me, please don't overexert yourself." Yue pleaded as she tried to stroke his 'Good' leg to try and calm him down.

Kiya sat there, slowly looking off to the other group, then back, "It's just an electronic box." she muttered.

"Kiya you're not helping!" Tashira growled at the fox as she jumped at the shout, then smiled nervously at the Dracass.

Making herself active, she held down Naruto's arms to keep from flailing.

Hinata pushed on Naruto's chest till his back met the ground, quickly leaning down she brought her lips to the struggling blonde's. The effect was almost immediate as he stopped struggling, eyes opening a little more, the feel of security and the small hinting feel of Hinata's Youki passing through her lips warmed him up with a feeling, his body slowly coming to a stop as he soon just laid there as Hinata swapped spit with him, not arguing he stared curiously at his best friend.

The adrenaline soon left his body, Hinata relinquishing his lips moments later as she opened her large lavender eyes to stare down at him, they both stared at each other silently before Hinata broke it, "Calm down." She said soothingly, "We can always get you another one."

Not wanting to let it go the boy pouted, "But I liked that one." He huffed.

"We'll get you a better one." She replied, leaning down she kissed his forehead, "It can be any color you want." She continued as she kissed down his cheek and to his jaw.

"You promise?" He asked.

Pecking him on his lips Hinata nodded indefinitely, "Yes. Now, since you made such a fuss I have to re-wrap the wounds you opened." Hinata lightly scolded as she tapped his nose with a finger.

Naruto looked to the side, "Whatever. Girls, can let me go now." Naruto called out, blushing as he felt Kiya grinding against the top of his head.

"Are you calm?" Yue asked.

"Yeah... *Exhale* I'm calm." Naruto ground out slowly through gritted teeth, "Now. Can you let me go?"

"That depends; can we get out of here as soon as you're fixed?" Tashira negotiated.

Naruto paused, then turning to look at his unconscious counterpart a few meters from his person. Thinking it over, he supposed the best thing to do was just get as much distance between them as possible.

He made a positive grunt saying okay to the question.

Naruto sweatdropped as his eyes looked up, "Uh Kiya... hey Kiya you can let- Kiya!" He called out making Kiya turn away from Kyu, her small fantasy of the pinnicle of her fox species and herself shattered.

"Huh... oh, right." She muttered with a blush on her muzzled face before she released him.

"Tch." Tashira grunted before releasing Naruto's bleeding leg.

As Hinata got off the blond, Naruto felt Yue hug him from the side, her cheek rubbing against his and her tail wrapping around his leg, "I'm so glad you're okay Naruto-sama." She gushed, her eyes wide and caring as she looked right at Naruto looking to be on the verge of tears.

Naruto blanched as he slowly brought up one of his hurting arms to pet Yue on the head, "Sorry that I worried you Yue." He apologized with a grin.

"I was scared." She whispered, hiding her head in the crook of his neck.

Naruto reached over and scratched behind her ear at her favorite spot, "You should really have more faith in me, I'm not that weak." He joked, laughing a little making Yue release a small giggle. Scratching behind her ear a moment longer a deep purr released from Yue's chest area.

Reluctantly she released him, standing up she wiped her nose as she sniffled a bit. Her other master was okay, he really was, and he didn't even seem that concerned with his injuries... he wasn't going to die.

A bunch of strange people these ones were, seeing many oddities in them within the span of mere minutes. He was okay; even more surprising he woke up before Kitsuto did. That blond, while a Tamer, kissed that female woman, also a Tamer even though they both had their own Pokégirls. Also the emotion the feline displayed for a Tamer that clearly wasn't her's was also surprising. Mika didn't know what to make of these ones, out of the ordinary people; it only heightened the thought of Kitsuto actually being right about wanting to find this guy for a reason.

She watched as the blond scratched his head and grinned at Kiya who was helping the female Tamer, Hinata, re-wrap her Tamer's wounds.

"Peculiar aren't they?" Kyu asked the Kunimitsu as she stroked the side of Kitsuto's unconscious face, "Kinda makes you want to think Kitsuto's onto something." She continued.

Leslia huffed, "Believe him? Pft, yeah right." She crossed her arms and crossed her legs upon sitting down, "Those guys over there are just crazy, don't know why Kitsuto searched them out." She judged as she nodded her head.

"It can't be helped; you haven't been around Kitsuto as long as we have." Mika replied, ignoring the harem-sister as said Pokégirl growled.

"What should we do? After that girl finishes fixing him up they're going to leave." The Shrine Maiden spoke up.

"The whole reason for Kitsuto's hunt will just be walking off, but I doubt he'd like it if we attacked to keep them." The Kunimitsu replied.

"We should bind them-"

"Just let them go." Kyu interrupted, much to the surprise of everyone else, "Kitsuto is tired and he needs rest, we can always catch up with them. If not the old fashion way, Kitsuto can just 'feel' him out and I can teleport us there as soon as he's conscious. There's no need for any more violence." She explained.

Reluctant to agree they kept silent, as for Leslia, nothing would make her happier right now than seeing that Dracass go away.

"I'd advise that Silver-haired teme not to follow us." Naruto warned, his body being supported by Hinata, "Your Tamer's beginning to get on my nerves." He finished.

Mika turned away from Kyu to look at the wounded male Tamer, "Don't count on it. Kitsuto's not the most understanding, you can guarantee you'll be seeing each other very soon."

"Joy. I'll hold my breath till the reunion." Tashira mocked, and with that with Yue's help they teleported.

"Bitch." Leslia muttered, "What did he call Kitsuto?" She asked.

"Teme," Kyu replied, "It means bastard."

The Atelesia blanched, "Why that little-"

Ignoring the Primate, Mika turned to the Alpha tending to Kitsuto, "How far do you think they went?"

"The Cheshire's level is nothing to be concerned about, being burdened to teleport four others, probably sixty yards if she tried." Kyu replied seemingly uninterested.

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His head turned up in slight notice, his red eyes scanned the skies for a moment or two before continuing. The blue luminescent clone raised a brow at that.

"What was that?" She asked.

He glanced at her in slight disinterest, "Naruto."

She stared at him, slowly starting to grin, "What about him? Something happen?" He never brought him up on his own, this was a first, something important must have happened!

He grunted, "I don't know."

"Eh?" She furrowed her brows, "What do you mean you don't know?" leaning close to him in growing disappointment.

He growled at her, "Shut up, I don't know what happened, that's it." He declared.

The sharp-toothed female huffed in agitation, "So you don't know where he is. You didn't get some kind of fucking sensing, you suck!" sticking her tongue out at him.

"Grrgh- We're not looking for them!" He argued.

"But I want to know where they are!" She whined, shoving him with her hand, "How am I suppose to be reunited with my one true... original, if I can't find her!" She complained, running her clawed nails along the bark of a passing tree.

He shooed her away, "Then go look for her." he didn't have time to deal with this.

She was silent the next moment, turning a suspicious eye at him, "You still have the mirror," She retorted, starting to grin again she leaned into him, "Besides, I could never separate from my Naru-kun!"

"Don't fucking call me that!" He snapped stepping away from her, he glanced at the scroll tucked at his side containing the mirror.

"But don'tcha know? I still have a crush on you!" She claimed, erupting into a laughing fit.

He didn't say anything, choosing to ignore her whenever she started to act like this.

"Oi~"

She knocked on his head, but he continued being silent.

Her eye twitched, "Tch, Oiii~ Narutoo~"... "Don't ignore me!"

*Boom!*

His red eyes snapped to her, "What." The nearest tree shattered and timbered onto the next.

Her pulsing blue eyes and angry glare/pout only annoyed him even more. Then she paused again, "Explain to me how you did that thing with the pokegirl."

She had been thinking about it ever since she'd seen it, how the mouse-type changed... at least before she died, because... she had very similar chakra.

Raising a hand, black chakra sparked into existence and swirled around her hand, her curiosity morphing into a large grin, her eyes pulsed even more, "I'd like to see it again."

He stared at her, then a single laugh echoed from his throat, shaking his head he just gestured to the forest, "Tch... I'll just show you."

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xX

There were no words, no goodbyes, no apologies or anything; honestly if Naruto stayed any longer he would've strangled the guy... even if he was him in this Universe. He couldn't believe the teme broke his pokedex! He even customized his background on the screen damn it!

All the girls carried the back-packs while Naruto limped along with them, despite their pleas he wanted to walk, trying to 'Limp off some steam'.

Although fortunately or unfortunately, Hinata brought logic into his mental anger at the silver-haired teen. Saying that had they never came to this world, and it was Kitsuto and his Pokégirls that came to their world, Naruto would've done the exact same thing she said.

"Hinata, even if I ha-"

"The exact same thing Naruto. If you were the same Naruto back then you would've charged head-first without knowing the threat, just like Kitsuto did." She explained.

Naruto paused to think about it, automatically flashbacking to when he attacked Kakashi during the Gennin exam without even knowing how strong he was... or like how he charged at Zabuza, or Orochimaru who was disguised, or Gaara on his rampage.

Naruto blushed, if he were to be a critic, he probably would've done much more damage than Kitsuto, at least the teme offered to talk before they fought.

Breaking down past the image of Kitsuto being a universal jerk, he tried to put himself in his shoes. When you got down to it, he was just a teenager trying to find out why Naruto and him had this weird connection... hell he didn't mean any actual harm at the start, even luring Kiya away so she wouldn't get hurt when he realized Naruto wasn't going to comply.

Crossing his arms Naruto turned away from Hinata's 'All-Seeing-Eyes' and huffed.

"Shouldn't we go back and talk about what just happened then?" Yue asked.

"Hell no." Tashira growled at the thought of the primate Pokégirl, if that monkey kept pushing it, she was going to Hyper Beam her ass.

Despite Naruto understanding Kitsuto's intentions, he didn't feel like seeing his face right now, besides he knew that; After Kitsuto spent all that time trying to find him that he wouldn't just let them go, "Don't worry about it, as soon as that Universal teme is up and walking, they'll come find us. Besides, we still have a Pokégirl to meet." Naruto replied.

Kiya's tail frizzed at the thought of another sparring partner, friend, and most importantly a playmate, a large grin sliding onto her face.

That's when Hinata picked up on something about what Naruto said, "Wait, what do you mean Universal?" She asked, all the other's perked up.

Oh yeah, he still had to update them on the whole universal ordeal, thanks to the furball explaining it to him, the blond scratched his cheek with his finger, "Yeah... After I was knocked unconscious I winded up meeting furball." Naruto started.

"Ooh! The Kyuubi-kun!" Kiya yipped, Naruto's talk about the Bijuu from his world, it had her feeling extremely... aroused that the strongest known Bijuu from Naruto and Hinata's world was in the form of a Kitsune and that Naruto contained it.

It made her love Naruto all that much more, it explained his whiskers as well as his foxlike personality from time to time, and it had her feeling closer to him than any Tamer she could ever hope to have. She had first been attracted to him by his scent, which had her seek him out and try to screw him senseless, then she got captured but that was good, she could always pick Naruto out of a crowd because hardly anyone had a Kitsune's scent on them.

Tashira, Yue and Kiya talked about it, and they agreed that Naruto did smell of a Kitsune, and Yue then said Hinata had a scent that she was first afraid of, which was also the reason she was reluctant to be in Hinata's harem before quickly getting use to her, Tashira commenting that Hinata did indeed somewhat began smelling like... evil, after they had ran into Team Trauma, but she didn't care, it didn't bother her... hell, it only increased her wants, and not long after, it no longer bothered Yue.

The scent wasn't strong, but the more Hinata and Naruto drew on their other chakra the stronger the scent smelled, but when they were normal like this... it was almost nonexistent unless you concentrated.

That reminded her... Kitsuto smelled like a Kitsune too.

"-That's basically all he told me before I woke up." Naruto finished, having walked for a couple hours, the sun was now no longer in sight. The blond figured that he got a couple of miles between them and Kitsuto's harem, and they'd be able to get more in before Kitsuto was able to walk again.

Naruto winced, pain shooting up his injured leg from putting too much pressure on it, he limped slower, much to the chagrin of Tashira who thought they weren't going fast enough, "Want me to carry you?" She asked.

"Only if you care about me." Naruto joked as he climbed onto the taller Pokégirl's back, really noticing how tall she was now that he wasn't in his Henge form.

"Jeez, so that Kitsuto guy's you in this Universe huh?" Kiya broke in with slight awe, another Naruto, not exactly the same person but similarities here and there.

"There's a good chance there's a Universal version of you too Hinata somewhere around here." Naruto spoke in thought.

Hinata was still taking all this in, shocked at the severity of their predicament.

"You'd think you two would get along." Yue sighed.

"They're both stubborn." Tashira muttered.

Naruto tapped Tashira on the shoulder, "Okay, here should be good. We'll make camp here, and also we should prepare dinner for six this time." Naruto spoke, Hinata already having a sleeping bag rolled out, Tashira proceeded to lay the blond on it.

"Kiya could you hand me the pokeball?" He asked, he didn't need to specify which pokeball he meant. Naruto didn't like keeping Pokégirls in their pokeballs for too long, also they needed to get the introductions and explanations out of the way before Kitsuto caught up to them and more chaos ensued.

"Hinata, did you get a reading on Kitsuto's Pokégirls?" He asked. Hopefully she had, he needed to know what their experience level was, and just searching for their data in the 'dex would indeed help know what they were going up against if they were to ever fight, but they wouldn't know how strong they'd be.

Hinata shook her head, "Sorry Naruto, I sorta... forgot." She finished lamely.

Naruto stared at her, "You forgot?" He repeated.

"I'd figure that healing your burned and bleeding carcass would be more important than looking at Pokégirl stats, we were too busy to check out Pokégirls." Tashira interrupted as she unpacked the food out of one of their Poképacts. Yue teleported in and out, every time she did the pile of logs would increase just a little higher.

Naruto blanched, "Yeah, I guess so." He muttered, scratching the back of his head with an embarrassed blush he grabbed the pokeball Kiya had in her hand held out to him. Taking it he muttered thanks, Hinata going over to help Tashira with preparing the food.

"Hey that reminds me, what are you three girls' levels?" Naruto asked quizzically, having completely forgotten and seeing as how he no longer had a pokedex he decided to ask. It had been months since they last scanned them, except Yue, being scanned about a few weeks ago, but he couldn't remember what level she was either.

Tashira blanched, "I don't know, I thought you were supposed to keep track of that? What happened to all that 'Planning ahead just in case' thing, you should've known just in case your dex broke." Tashira scolded.

Naruto blinked. Not wanting to be put on the spot for not knowing either, Hinata took out her own 'dex.

DRACASS, The Dragon Guardian Pokegirl- Lvl: 21

CHESHIRE, The Mischievous Cat Pokegirl- Lvl: 14

KITSUNE, The Mischievous Fox Pokegirl- Lvl: 16

Tashira and Kiya's levels had increased exponentially since the last time she saw them; In the beginning of January she remembered scanning Yue as well, although her level hadn't made that much of a change, if any.

She couldn't blame her really, now that she thought about it, the last time they did any actual training was just before the New Year. She didn't count the time on the air balloon because they had only done that one time, one day of training out of a whole month didn't seem necessary to count.

Hinata raised a brow at the numbers, "Ne Tashira? Exactly how high can a Pokégirl's level go anyway?" Hinata asked, this whole time they had just been thinking that if the number went up at all, it was a drastic increase, but now that she had the opportunity to ask, she wanted to know how high the numbers could go.

Tashira, as well as everyone else perked up, the Dracass taking a moment to put down the canned food in her hands, "Pokegirl Researchers designed that thing to read up to the maximum of one hundred." She replied without any real concern, Yue and Kiya following suit.

Naruto and Hinata blanched at the thought of it, Tashira was the strongest of the Pokégirls next to them, and yet it only read that she was basically at twenty percent compared to her absolute strongest.

"You're only a level twenty-one." Hinata whispered in disbelief.

"That Kitsuto's Kyubi was a level thirty-six." Naruto suddenly said, thinking about how strong that actually was, which meant that no one here could stand up to her if they actually fought.

Naruto's eyes widened, "Given how he's like my age, how are they so strong?" He muttered, immediately he looked to the pokeball in his hand.

"What if she's like a level eighty!" Naruto fantasized at the thought.

Tashira snorted, "Very unlikely, for any average tamer, they'd be lucky to get a Pokégirl to a level fifty by the time they retire, only the above-average would ever go beyond that; then the really experienced, the masters could ever reach as high as a level eighty. If Kiya was able to win in a battle for salvage at her current level, your challenger was below average." Tashira explained before continuing, "Also, your counterparts had his Pokégirls most likely for years, although he wasn't a Tamer then and they probably didn't directly belong to him, no doubt that he trained them up to now, while you two have only had us for half a year now."

"What's your status as a Tamer?" Kiya asked as she leaned on Naruto.

"Status?" Hinata asked, she had been so involved with using the 'dex to read data on the leagues, Pokégirls and history, she never really used it for anything else.

"You have your own profile data, it shows your Tamer status, also you could add things to it as well." Tashira explained.

Hinata stared at her pokedex after going to where Tashira explained. It showed the basic information first, her age, name, blood type, birth, but upon scrolling down she saw the information about herself.

Hinata Hyuuga Tamer Status

Residence: ?

Region: Orange League

Status: Active

Rank: Level 1 (Novice)

Security Clearance: Beta Level 1C

Licenses

Tamer: Y

Master Tamer: N

Researcher: N

Watcher: N

Breeder: N

Badges: Nil

Active Harem

Battles Won: 0

Battles Lost: 0

Pokegirls: 2

DRACASS: The Dragon Guardian Pokegirl - Lvl: 21

CHESHIRE: The Mischievous Cat Pokegirl - Lvl: 14

Hinata blanched, a thought popping into her head as she pointed it toward Naruto. Taking time to load it showed his status as a Tamer, pretty much all the same thing as her. The only difference was that for 'Battles won' it read seven, none for battles lost. For a brief moment she wondered how the battle records had been added to the status, how did the 'dex know he won seven matches?

She frowned at the fact that her information and Pokégirls were going to be displayed to anyone who scanned her with the 'dex.

"Kiya, could you start the fire?" Yue asked the Kitsune, the appropriate amount of wood in place. Kiya nodded, all this talk of power levels was beginning to bore her, using her Ember technique she got to work on getting a fire going.

Naruto stared at the pokeball in his hand as he digested all this new information, not being able to come to a decision he looked over to the girls, "Hey, do you think I should let her out now?" He asked.

"Now's as good a time as any." Tashira muttered, personally she didn't really care, to an extent. As long as she wasn't a total bitch and didn't cause any problems with the dynamics around here then she didn't care.

"But what if she attacks like you did? I'm in no condition to fight at all." Naruto thought out, cautiously eying the red and white ball, was this Pokégirl going to be awesome or complete chaos? He didn't know why, but he just had some feeling that he needed to be cautious around this Pokégirl.

"Then she needs Taming!" Kiya yipped from a ways off, her tail wagging with an extra 'Oomph' in it excitedly.

Naruto shrugged his shoulders, being feral was a possibility. He scratched his cheek, "I dunno, I'm just getting a weird vibe from her." He spoke.

"Perhaps it'd be best for the first person she laid eyes on is her Tamer, maybe us being around will make her frightened." Hinata threw out, the idea of the others leaving to give Naruto and her space to get acquainted sounded good, but Kiya... she really has been wanting a harem-sister for a while now and to exclude her from the meeting of a new Harem-member was pretty selfish.

Or maybe it was the fact that once he released her he was going to have to go on a monologue about who he and Hinata were as people, their Tamer morals and values, introduce her to the Pokégirls, and explain the way their Harem dynamics worked; Oh and there was also the explaining of them being Shinobi from another Universe, one who contained a great chakra demon in his gut, and the other developing dark chakra from his and another person's chakra mixing into her system.

Yeah, he was more worried about the second part.

He couldn't release her with everyone here, that'd cause too much tension. Although who should he include or exclude? Release her around her fellow Pokégirls to get relaxed; released in front of him and Hinata to explain the difficult things first; with him and Kiya to get the Tamer and Harem bond acquainted with...

What if this was a Pokégirl that wanted him to prove to her that he was a worthy tamer? Very hard to impress anyone when you could only limp around. What about when it came to Taming, that wouldn't go too well.

He briefly considered waiting until he was feeling better to release her, but it was also good to get this out of the way as soon as possible and she's been locked up in that ball for almost a whole day. Thinking over the options he decided to risk it, "Hinata, Tashira, Yue could you please let me and Kiya talk to her first?" Naruto asked with a face of a beggar.

"If this pork burns because of your lagging ass, I'll strangle you." Tashira threatened as they each got up and left, the Dracass making sure to lay the pork out on a small metal grill put over the fire beforehand.

"Here. If anything happens, just yell." Hinata said, placing her own pokedex in the blonde's hand before she too left to give them space.

Kiya squatted down next to her Tamer and looked at the pokeball, all she hoped was that she wasn't a water type... oh, even worse a domineering type.

Naruto let out a deep sigh as he closed his eyes before looking to Kiya, "You ready?"

She nodded her head, "Go for it."

Nodding, he readied Hinata's pokedex he pressed the button on the pokeball before it enlarged; tossing it into the air. As the Pokégirl began to materialize in front of him he pointed the 'dex at her. He needed to get a reading on her as soon as possible since he was a slow reader.

What appeared before him with the height of five feet and eleven inches, an average pair of wings springing forth from her back stretching seven feet in length total. Her breasts were the next to become visible to Naruto and Kiya's eyes, looking to be about a low C-cup.

From afar she looked to have normal skin, but upon seeing her body contain a golden tint to it, Naruto squinted and found that her skin was actually scales covering her body that gave the Pokégirl a golden tint, its hair shined violet and shortly Naruto saw that her eyes were also violet.

DRACONA, the Gliding Dragon Warrior Pokégirl

Lvl: 23

Type: Near Human
Element: Dragon/Flying
Frequency: Very Rare
Diet: Human like Diet
Role: Multi-Role Fighter, Ambusher
Libido: High (drops to Average if traded, or caught wild)
Strong Vs: Bug, Dragon, Fighting, Fire, Ground, Plant, Water
Weak Vs: Ice, Rock
Attacks: Gust, Whirlwind, Dragon Rage, Slash, Cut, Scratch
Enhancements: Wings, Enhanced Strength (x5), Enhanced Speed (x4), Enhanced Endurance (x4), Tough skin
Evolves: Dragoness (Shiny Stone)
Evolves From: Draco (orgasm or battle stress)

When a Draco evolves into the Dracona, there is very little change in the way of physical appearance appearing very human like, Dracona's can usually be identified by the presence of scale-like skin (which is detectable only by close inspection) which contains a slight tinting of color, accompanied by the new pair of wings that spring from the nubs on the Draco's back and average about 4 to 8 ft in span, generally of the same color scheme of the rest of their body. Although far too small to support her weight in flight, they are mainly used for low level Flying attacks, and gliding down from ambush positions above an enemy. They cannot ride thermal currents or attain any level of altitude and they must take a little time to prepare themselves to glide by stretching their wings, making impulsive attempts difficult and dangerous.

They have a head of courser-than-human hair, They range in height from about 5ft to 5'10" and their eyes run in the same range of color as their hair, though they are often different then the hair. slightly pointed ears, thick scratching claws for nails which appear black or ivory in color and a three-foot long reptilian tail stemming from the base of their spine. One point of interest is the color ranges their hair, eyes, and skin takes. Usually covering a metallic scale of color, a darker set of colors or even some gem like colors, their skin, hair and eyes can all be different (if generally from the same range, but a mixture is not uncommon). There is also an increase in their bust size generally they average a generous C cup.

During the War the Dracona served a purpose very similar to the Draco, often acting as heavier support to their ground based sisters. They also spent a great deal of time laying ambushes in cleared out bases and buildings, waiting for humans to return and try to reuse or salvage them.

The evolution to a Dracona also tends to mellow out the temperament of the Pokégirl towards her tamer, often making even more affection and loyal as he has proven himself by making her evolve. However if she is traded to another tamer at this point (or if by slim chance one is captured in the wild) she will backslide into her previous stand-offish attitude until the new Tamer manages to prove himself.

Due to their well-deserved reputations , these proud and noble Pokégirls tend to quite picky about their tamers, expecting them to be either physically powerful themselves, or possess a powerful Harem. If they feel neither is present, they will shun the Tamer, preferring to go Feral than to submit to him. This being said, they tend to be considered a troublesome breed and unsatisfied Dracos are either traded or released once its obvious that she won't respect the Tamer. On the other hand a Tamer who has suitably impressed a Draco will quickly find that she an extremely loyal dedicated (not to mention affectionate) member of his Harem. Due to this rather difficult personality, many Tamer prefer to evolve their Dracos up from Mynxs should they ever get a hold of a Dragon Scale.

When tame, Draconas are highly intelligent Pokégirls and are sometimes drawn to hobbies or pastimes that allow them to work that intelligence. Their feral state is similar to their Draco sisters, and more often than not the two breeds will be found mingling together in a pride like group of usually no more than 15 or 20 members, sometimes led by a Dragoness.

What were the odds of getting another dragon type?

Naruto's body ached already at the trouble this Pokégirl would cause, no wonder that bastard looked happy when he chose that pokeball after he won the salvage battle, not really having any need for her since, Naruto guessed, he was never going to earn her respect.

Kiya looking on in anticipation as she saw the Dracona slowly materialize into form, watching as she stood there for a moment, gathering her bearings on where she was and why she didn't see her previous Tamer anywhere.

She slowly came to realization when she set eyes on a fourteen year old kid with a Kitsune standing next to him.

A smiling Naruto waved his hand nervously, "Hiya."

Her face slowly morphed into disappointment and anger, "That bastard traded me didn't he?" She vented, not that she cared much about her old Tamer, it was about how her previous Tamer traded her to a stupid-looking new Tamer, and to add injury to insult he was only a little brat to.

Naruto opened his mouth to reply before she interrupted, "How are you even a Tamer? You're like, ten." She stated.

Naruto scratched the back of his head, stuttering as he tried to come up with a reply, "Fourteen actually."

Kiya sighed, her fantasies dashing away from her, "Well... she's gonna be a fun treat now isn't she?" She asked rhetorically and mixed with sarcasm.

It finally settled in the Dracona's mind that this was her supposedly "New" Tamer.

"Fuck! How could that bastard do this to me!" She raged on, her hands motioning as if she was strangling the person that previously owned her, "He couldn't at least find someone at the right age! Honestly, what kind of Pokéwoman raises such a useless shit!"

Naruto scratched his cheek as he watched the Dracona vent. He supposed that now that her previous Tamer could no longer punish her, she had taken to cursing him to hell and beyond, after all she no longer had to watch her language as far as she was concerned.

At the reminding of her new Tamer's age, her head snapped toward Naruto, "As a matter of fact how are you a Tamer?" She asked, her anger calming for the most part.

Kiya looked to Naruto with a plane face, "Yeah Naruto. Sounds like you have a lot of explaining to do." Kiya lightly scolded as she stood up.

Naruto's eyes widened as he looked to Kiya, "H-hey! Where are you going?"

"I'm gonna... leave." Kiya replied lamely, unable to think of a reason, "Besides, me leaving you with dragon breath is the least of your worries right now. Good luck!" She finished, making no attempt to hide her disappointment. And with that she took to the tree's, "Don't worry, I'll tell Hinata and them about the change." her voice carried through the tree's

Naruto's face turned red, "W-wait! I thought we were in this together?" He yelled, only for it to be in vain as she was already long gone.

The Dracona had a brow raised at the Kitsune's leave, "Was she yours? And who is Hina-" She stopped, her eyes fully taking in Naruto's bandaged up appearance,

"What the hell happened to you?"

Naruto turned his focus back on her, and at the Dracona's impatience he let out a nervous chuckle, "Could you take a seat?" He requested.

She stared at him, as if she was trying to figure him out in five seconds. With a snort she reluctantly sat down, her eyes scanning the area to catch her surroundings, her nose smelled something fairly delicious in the air.

She also caught the scent of something else, but it was faint. Like a fox's scent, she didn't dwell on it though; it was probably the remnants of that Kitsune's.

Turning hard eyes back to the teen she beckoned him to start, "Well?" She wasn't wearing much, a black long-sleeved shirt and pants.

Now he was alone. He'd have to be careful of what he told her or she could very well just hold it over his head to get him to do something for her, she seemed like the type to do so, threaten to expose his secret.

And it was as clear as the night sky that a peaceful approach wasn't going to do it, but he couldn't come off as a strict jerk.

Naruto cleared his throat, then narrowed his eyes at the Dracona as she raised a brow at the change in behavior, "So, do you already have a name?" He asked with a friendly smile.

She stared at him, "Even if I didn't, it'd be a long day with Jenova before I'd let a kid name me." She replied.

"It's not all that bad." Naruto replied calmly, "So I guess you already have a name. I'm Naruto... Naruto Uzumaki." He paused before telling her his full name. Should he have risked that? Oh well, it was too late now.

She stared at his outstretched hand, "Myrel." She muttered, refusing his offered hand-shake Naruto put it down. She looked him up and down, the way he was covered in bandages and had blood stains, wearing only a ripped up pair of pants.

She feared her reputation walking by a Tamer who was forever in a wheelchair, "You're not a cripple are you?" she asked suspiciously.

Naruto blinked, "Not since the last time I checked. Hours ago I ran into a... distraction is all." Naruto replied. He severely doubted he'd be able to impress her by lying to her, so he opted to keep the explanation's vague.

"A hell of a distraction." She replied unsurely as her eyes continued to look over his injuries.

He was really pathetic, and didn't really show any strong points, only that he was obviously good at masking his personality. She couldn't tell if he was a beginning Tamer, a cocky tamer, wimpy Tamer or anything.

He chuckled slowly, "Tell me about it."

"What kind of Tamer are you." Myrel cut to the point, her calculative expression showed all of her intentions.

Naruto stared at her for a moment, trying to think of what he was to say, "What do you want to know?" He asked cautiously.

"Are you a beginner?"

"Not necessarily." He muttered.

"Advanced?"

"Well no. I've been a Tamer for about seven months." He replied, he didn't know how long a person had to be a Tamer to get out of the "Beginner" rank, but still telling her that seemed like a good idea.

She seemed to have blanched, "You became a Tamer when you were thirteen?" She asked, not that she knew for certain, he could've just turned fourteen then, but she was assuming. At the nod, her eyes widened slightly, admittedly no kid his age could live as long as he did.

She narrowed her eyes in a small amount of disgust, "Are you an unofficial Tamer?" She asked. Woe to the person that was if she ever came across one.

He shook his head somewhat proudly, "Nope, got a license and everything... Except my pokedex got broken only a couple hours before this." Naruto muttered somewhat embarrassed.

That aroused suspicion, "Who's that you're holding then?"

"My friend's, although we'll get to that later. Now as for why I'm a Tamer... I'm a fully Licensed Tamer but with at a different age." He explained, not sure if he was right telling her that.

She looked at him questioningly, "How'd the hell you ever manage to pull off something like that."

Naruto chose his words carefully, "I can't tell you that right now."

She glared at him, "I don't like being lied to." She warned.

"I'm not lying, I'm keeping things vague." He replied honestly.

She growled, "Then stop with the bullshit and tell me." She hated not knowing anything about someone, and this kid was obviously toying with her by answering her questions without much information.

"That depends..." Naruto left out, "Does that mean we got ourselves a bond?" He asked, would she recognize him as her Tamer, or not.

She kept her glare strong, "No." she spat, "Not to someone who won't tell me anything about themselves, and definitely not to a little brat like you." She spat.

Naruto sighed; he should've expected this seeing as how he hadn't even earned her trust, much less her acknowledgment. But he couldn't prove himself to her while he was injured.

There was a small nagging at the back of his head that asked, 'So what if she knew everything? No one would believe her if she were to tell anyone.' it had said, it had been fairly tempting, but still he couldn't be too sure.

As a matter of fact even if he did tell her, he wasn't exactly in the condition to prove it true. If he had Hinata prove what he said true, there was the risk that she would acknowledge Hinata for whatever reason and end up despising him, which would definitely lead to bad dynamics of their whole group because there was no way Tashira was going to let another Dragon type, quote: "Fuck my Hinata."

On the other hand there was the possibility that she wouldn't believe anything he told her that was the truth, and end up despising him because of his attempt to impress her.

That left Naruto's only other option he had to consider, what about a postpone?

He looked at the Dracona before him, "Myrel, I can't exactly tell you everything about me because you don't accept me as your Tamer, so I can't really tell a Pokégirl that doesn't really trust me, about me." He explained carefully.

She growled at him.

He hurried to explain further, "But, also even if I did tell you, you probably wouldn't believe anything I said. And I am not exactly in the condition to prove what I'm telling you is true."

She seemed to consider it, "How so?" She asked.

"Like if I told you I was very good at holding my own against Pokégirls. I couldn't exactly show you physically ya know?" He used as an 'Example'. As predicted she snorted at the idea, but still knew what he was trying to say, he was a bandaged bleeding mess.

"Alright, so where are you getting at?" She muttered quizzically.

"What I'm saying is how about we just postpone this whole "Introductions" speech for the time being. At least until I'm healed!" Naruto proposed.

Things would get too confusing if he went about this without a plan, and Kitsuto and his Pokégirls were bound to find him in the next day or two. He supposed he could just let everything run its course, because she seemed to be heating up as the time continued to tick by.

He needed someone who was good at calming people down. Naruto did the only thing he could think of doing now that his plans went to shit.

... "Hinata!"