Hi guys i just riposted this chapter there was an error on naruto's age i wrote 15 but he's 16, sorry to those who have read this chapter for the error (i-i)
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The team was now ready; pack all the things they need, food, water, cloths, weapons and all of them were now wearing casual cloths so that they can be seen as civilians; they were now just waiting for their ouji-sama as they like to tease the young Uzumaki outside of the town. After waiting for another 10 minute; sakura had enough and asked neji if he could spot naruto weather his on his way or not. It was one thing if a certain silver haired one eye jounin was late but not a hyper energetic blond; as they were watching the pink haired kunoichi release her steam on a nearby tree. Their attention was taken when a ring resounded the area indicating that the young lad with white lavender eyes have activated their clans doujustu; and was very intrigue at his facial expression moments later, when they turn their heads to the direction the young hyuuga is facing; all froze at the sight of the towns path.
"Why do I feel that; that happened before?" asked the pink haired iryo-nin while holding a hand on her nose which was not gone unnoticed by the others.
"Well… munch…munch… It did" said the young akimichi munching at his chips at hand; while team kakashi deadpan looking at the bodies of townspeople left scattered by a very gorgeous blond.
"YEAH! IT'S THE EFFECT OF NARUTO-KUNS YOUTHFULL GLORY!" shout the mini-me version of gai.
"What a drag" muttered the shadow user; this time the other's deadpan.
"So much for not attracting attention" said kiba followed by akamaru's bark of agreement.
"Sorry I'm late, some girls chased me so I gotta ran from them; their so fast and their not even trained shinobi's!" exhaled the blond while catching for his breath.
"Is it him or the excuse really believable?" the one eyed jounin said.
"Well it's more believable that your lame excuses kakashi-san" told the black haired boy; with a sickly sweet smile fixed on his pale face.
Naruto tilted his head to the side looking at his companions "what are you guys talking about?" asked the dense blond.
"Doesn't he realize that it's about him?" were the same thought of the combined members of team kakashi and youth.
The man with spiky long white hair laughs out loud while a certain white lavender eyed jounin spoke "I guess something's not change"
"Troublesome…" muttered shikamaru though no heard "him looking like this in casual clothes will just attract him unwanted attentions! Whoever was it said that civilian clothes were a good idea were so wrong!" thought the dark haired shadow user.
"YOSH! NOW THAT WERE ALL HERE LET'S ADVANCE TO OUR YOUTHFULL JOURNEY!" team konoha just sigh at the gai's loud voice and thought that they wouldn't mind having the quiet version back.
It has been 3 hours since they left and with their phase; they haven't really gotten that far. The group travel with a phase a little faster than civilians and more like merchants; how they wish that the two spandex wearing would stop with their loud ranting about youth and beating their rivals. Many of them have expected that the one mostly noisy would be the blond but to their surprise he was not; each of them are occupied doing their own thing. Sakura is checking again her bag searching for her gloves, Sai is drawing whatever caught his attention on the way, Chouji is as usual just munching on his favored chips, as for Gai and Lee they're doing their usual thing, kakashi is being kakashi, shino's sending out his Kekaichu to scout the surrounding, ten-ten is contemplating if she should ask naruto to teach her fuinjutsu, neji's just his usual self same with kiba while akamaru walks beside the dog nin.
As for a certain pineapple head he kept stealing glances at his blond while the said person also kept glancing at certain long brown haired boy and at the toad sage. The shadow user had been asking silently why naruto kept looking at neji; a frown on his face at the many question came that he has no answer. One of his questions were why is the blond quiet; he knew that he might have grown being loudmouth but he wasn't sure, even with the time given to them to prepare before they left the town; he wasn't able to get to talk with naruto. Whenever he would try to approach him the females or males would get in the way; annoyingly that he was on the verge of using Kage Kubishibari no justu with them. While his lost on his thoughts he didn't realize that the blond was also stealing glances at him.
One of the reasons the golden haired boy was silent is because of what happened two days ago at the inn, about those eyes that tells him something; he also noticed that shikamaru would look his way from time to time. It's been 2 weeks After they left the town; another couple of hours and the sun will set, so they set up camp; they were given each task to do by pair, and kakashi coincidently assigned naruto and shikamaru at preparing their food; while shino and kiba set the tents which also be shared by two. Chouji and sakura search for fruits and wild vegetable or herbs, neji and sai check the area perimeter and ten-ten and lee went to get some firewood; as for kakashi, jiraiya and gai they are having a talk concerning the mission and making plans for precautious. You will never know when an enemy came to attack especially if it's from A-class missing nin, and some minor treat from bandits of thieves; if they were mistaken as merchants.
"That Cyclops! It's always me and shikamaru! D..did he knew? Was he nearby? No nobody was there, Maybe it just his whim and paired us randomly" thought the blond while cutting the vegetables and clumsily cuts himself; catching his partner's attention with a yelp.
The shadow user turn is head his head swift to his left and took a step closer to the blond "oy! What happen?" asked the pineapple head jounin.
"Ah! no it's… I just cut myself a little" he answered; turning away, trying to hide his bleeding hand knowing that it will heal instantly, but a sudden pull at his hand turn him around.
"It's bleeding, troublesome your clumsy as ever" the blond tried his best not to blush, as the shadow user clean his cut.
From the corner of his eye shikamaru watch as the blonds face turn slightly pinkish red "how cute!...there! try to be careful next time, it's a drag if you keep injuring yourself" he then slowly slid his hand off; lingering momentarily at the tip of his slender middle finger and giving the blond a short glance straight in his cerulean eyes.
"Oh! Th..thanks i..i'll be sure to be careful" looking away, hiding the that blush has appeared on his face "God! I stuttered! I didn't caught that disease hinata has did I? And I shouldn't be embarrassed! Why do I feel uncomfortable? Yes! It's because of those eyes! He's giving me that look again though I don't know what that look means urgh! I think I should talk to Ero-sennin" the blond thought.
"Damn! he's so adorable!" thought the shadow user; knowing now, that with his simple gestures and contact, he get a reaction from his adorable blond; that all he did and will do from now will not be futile at all.
After finishing their dinner; they were now cleaning up the plates on a nearby river, they could have clean it up easily with a water jutsu but the team was advice not to use any ninja skills, which was like a form of training too. But will do so if necessary; given the situation really dangerous. At the river, the blond was really nervous because they were alone; yes they have been alone before but that was different, everyone was close by. Different to the situation at the present, shikamaru can see that the blond were somewhat tense since they were alone not that far from the campsite; still the shadow user were happy that to some degree the blond boy next to him was aware of his being.
Albeit his nervousness he tried to work fast so they can return to the camp quickly, focusing only at the plates at hand, the blond stiffen when a hand came up to wipe the lathers that landed on his face. Blush crept to the blonds face at the shadow nin's gesture; it was awfully silent, only the sound of running river were heard and a small smile grace the shadow nin's face. the silence were broken when they heard Chouji calling for them to hurry back, which made naruto jolted up and slip by the river side; bracing for the cold waters impact he closed his eyes, but instead of the cold water warm arms welcome his fall. He didn't dare to look up to see who caught him and know that his face is tinted pink, but when those arms momentarily tighten before losing up again because of a presence a few steps away. Letting go of the blond whose beet red from embarrassment; the shadow nin once again grace his face a smile which was becoming more and more permanent lately, as he watch the adorable blond grab the dishes and hurriedly went back to their camp.
The shadow nin raised an eyebrow at his befriend "what is it?" he said lazily at the person walking toward him.
"What was that?" asked the big guy with shoulder length spikey brown hair.
"Nah! Naruto slip when he stood up and I just caught him, by the way nice timing and troublesome timing too" his friend stared at him long, reading the shadow user "what?"
"Shikamaru…your making a move on him are you?" there was no answer just silence "I know you like him for a long time but make it low profile you don't want to frighten him" said the big guy to his friend.
"Sigh… its troublesome how good you are observing people Chouji… I know, but I can't help wanting to tease him" his friend just smiled at him and motioned for them to get back camp.
Another week have past; he was coping with the fact that his tent mate is no other than shino, it was not bad and he kinda like his bugs, which by the way made shino very happy though it was not seen due to his high collar. The bugs were friendly and wasn't afraid of his chakra, he doesn't even have to worry they (the bugs) would tell shino about it since he already concluded that he might have known about the kyuubi since the academy days. And to his unspoken question the bug user answered him which startled him since he suddenly appeared out of nowhere, it was one of his flaws while deep in thought he would lost of his surroundings. Out of the rookie nine shino were the one close to understanding the blonds' situation and he was also glad that he didn't think of him as the kyuubi, the bug user's reason was there was a difference between the kunai scroll and the kunai inside.
One evening naruto finally decided that today he would talk to jiraiya, and thankfully the hermit was alone by the lake. For once the toad sage listen to him without interrupting his talk, he told him what happened on the onsen albeit the red tint on his face, the eye contact, the unknown emotion he saw on those brown eyes, small body contact like hands brushing accidentally, shoulder bumping and the new one was the blonds back on the shadow nin's chest when he tried to get his paper unstuck on a tree branch and so much more small gestures. There was also that smiles directed to him that made him uncomfortable like he can't breathe, beside him the toad sage were grinning ear to ear; knowing well what his godson situation is and about the shadow nin he already knew it was easy, he wasn't a renowned novelist for nothing. But before he could explain it to his adorable godson realization came to him concerning something he almost forgot.
"Gaki" the blond turned around, the toad sage calling him in that tone means it's something serious "because of the situation we almost forgot it that month" the hermit stated.
Eyes widening "I forgot! But it's no problem" but the hermit gave him a stern look.
"It's not naruto, this time it's different to our other travel" getting a look from the blond that said how different he sigh " because now we travel with animal characteristics, worst is their shinobi trained"
This surprise the blond, he hadn't thought about it "what do we do?" he stop to calculate "it starts today" dread came to him and starts to panic.
"You also can't call your summons, they will most likely be affected too" jiraiya added "try not to be alone or have contact with those two, we don't want and accidents to happen" he noted looking at his godson who has gone pale.
"By saying those two means it's kakashi and kiba right?" the blond just got a nod for an answer.
"be careful alright gaki… their both has territorial tendencies, I'm not that worried about kakashi but the other" he sigh "I'll work up a plan, but I advise you to tell them about that since we will be having a long mission together; also a week ago I sent tsunade a messenger also concerning that" the blond paled another level that can even win against sai's pale skin.
"Why me? It starts today and I have to look out for two territorial person, I have to tell the team about that so they can help me in the future then there's tsunade-neechan!...sigh…I'm lucky this mission will take a long time" not noticing the 2 pairs of eyes in the shadows.
It's been 3 days and the blond was starting to get edgy, Just yesterday unknowingly he was left alone, and his ex-teacher used that chance to attack him fortunately jiraiya get to him first and luckily no one saw what happen. he have been feeling that someone is watching him and he know he's right. Somehow the toad sage was able to get the silver haired jounin back in control and explained to him the situation, and was now doing all he can to detain his urge to pounce on the adorable little blond and still will be going for another 10 days.
After another 2 days the group notices the change of character of two of their teammates and somehow it has something to do with a certain blond, sakura wanting to end the tense atmosphere that has been going on for six days now; strode to the person who she thinks the center of the problem. The blond sigh; seeing that his pink haired friend will not stop without answers, he prepared himself for the coming revelation to his teammates. And without further ado called out to the team to gather, he also saw the knowing look shino and jiraiya gave to him even from kakashi who was beside the toad sage to restrain him in case he got out of control. Taking a deep breath the blond asked the present rookie nine and team gai if they know about the accident 16 years ago, upon mentioning this gai and shikamaru already knew where its coming and what the blond planned to do; receiving nods and confirmations he then resumed to his explanation on the subject.
The blond then told them that the yondaime hokage didn't exactly defeat the kyuubi since her existence where a mass of pure chakra, the group didn't miss how the blond called the kyuubi she instead of the natural calling it. The blond continues to tell them that the yondaime sealed the kyuubi in a new born baby who hasn't yet fully develop his chakra on that night, few of them already connected the dots while the rest where shock to hear that; that baby was none other than naruto himself, silence envelop them and the blond thought that if he didn't make it end quick he might break down. To their surprise the one who broke the silence where none other than the lazy shadow nin saying the exact same words shino told him, others then followed; tears that he was holding up now fell to his whickered cheeks at the relief of knowing that his friends these people who he call family accepts him. Arms wrapped around his shaking shoulders, arms who belong to his pink teammate her hands going up and down his back with a slightly teary eyes and a smile.
After calming down he took a deep breathe again, now that they knew the reason Akatsuki is after him it was now time to explain the real issue at hand and this time jiraiya step up to talk. To tell them about something which occurred a year and three to four months ago.
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20 months and few days after jiraiya and naruto left kohoha, they were on their way to a place called devils mountain in the snow country. What they didn't expect was to be welcomed by three Akatsuki members sasori missing nin from sand, deidara missing nin from rock and lastly kakusu missing nin from waterfall, the battle were fierce but jiraiya and naruto were on a disadvantage. Caught in a moments slipup naruto got sting with sasori's poison, jiraiya fought his way to help his godson but was unable to due to the two hindrances blocking him.
Jutsu's clash and cancel each other not missing a single momentum of the fight but when the enemy suddenly stop, facing him were no one; hearing a flap of wings he look up at the sky dread crawl to his body, eyes not black eyes not leaving the unconscious body of his blond godson. Just bas he was doing the sight to summon the toad boos his sight blurred, lost balance and fell to the ground wording a name before he pass out naruto; a cloak figure step out and stop a step away from the now unconscious toad sage and pick him up holding him like a sack of potatoes on his shoulders despite his smaller figure.
When the old hermit (he's still fifty here) woke up he was in an old hut, his injuries has been dress; he was out for a whole day on a nearby table he saw a letter with information on one of akastuki's hide out. The same location where the extraction is occurring at the moment, he didn't know who it was who help him or if the info was true of a trap but he doesn't care, he doesn't have any time to lose any information concerning his godson is useful.
It was so unreal that the hut was an hour away to one of Akatsuki lair, even in inside he haven't really seen anyone and he was starting to think that it might have really been a trap. Upon entering a suspicious area he almost lost his breath at the sight of his godson as the Akatsuki members extract the nine tailed beast out of his body. He threw all odds and attack head on the enemy knowing full well that he was out numbered, halting the ritual before it final extraction; at the back of his mind he can't get out the feeling that someone will be helping him on this battle of odds. And just like what he was thinking with a help from the kyuubi who he now called kurama, he was able to get close to naruto's body; and immediately reverse summon them to the toad mountain.
Upon arriving at the sacred toad mountain the toad boss was already by their side when he sense them coming, startled to see the kyuubi almost out of the young blond but focused on the more critical issue at hand naruto the jinchuuriki of the nine tailed beast is slowly losing to death. Kurama then spoke to jiraiya as the old hermit tried to fix the seal, saying that it was already beyond repair and that she know a way to save her vessel, with a bright flash of red orange light both naruto and kurama were envelop in the middle and when it subsided the kyuubi's chakra form were slowly disappearing telling the toad sage that his blond vessel were now safe, he was pulled back to like in exchange for hers. She also told him to take care of her little kit and that there might be some little side effects, before she completely disappeared; her fox snout nuzzled her kit's golden mane then vanished to thin air.
Since that day naruto was in a coma like state for two weeks, all in all it took him three months to fully recover and in those times even walking was hard on his body. The rest of the coming year were dedicated to train his new body some physical changes was he no longer has the whisker marks he had since he was technically given a new body made from his old, his features were more or less androgynous. He wasn't muscular or more exactly won't get muscular which was now the blond was stuck with a lean body structure, and one that won't ever get fat unlike his body before that would have an extra weight from time to time due to over eating ramen. He also has 14 days heat cycle every 3 months.
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A/N: Sorry if i didn't write a battle details i'm not good at that and by ended it here, i was getting tire and my eyes are getting droopy; that i might fall asleep while writing the story that happen like...almost every-time without me noticing. i will try to get the next one started after some rest. (=_=)
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