Hey all, sadly I've burned through all my stock on this one, so I'm uncertain when the next update will be. Yes, I know I'm late, but it's been a hectic day and night.
badkidoh: Glad you liked it.
narutohaloevolved: Heh, now I wouldn't exactly say that I'm against that pairing, but ya know... not my bag. But if he gets too close, Naruto will have to run from the super pervert himself.
JadeStoneTheYounger: Always glad to see a repeat reviewer. Been meaning to ask, is there a JadeStoneTheOlder? Anywho, glad you liked it, hope I can get another one out soon.
Icha Icha: Animal Magnetism
Chapter 4: The jounins
Last time in II:AM...
Tucking into a ball and literally bowling through Gai's students, Naruto used the distraction of Anko crashing into them to make good his escape into the forest. After ten minutes he slowed so that he could listen for signs of pursuit, but only the faint sounds of bugs buzzing, birds chirping, and someone breathing heavily in his sensitive ears filled the clearing.
. . .
Wait... someone else was breathing heavily. Turning his head slowly, he let out a whimper of terror as their before him stood something so awful, so unimaginably horrible, so completely and utterly wrong, that it shocked him to the core. For there, in all its glory stood...
And now, the continuation.
There before Naruto, stood Asuma-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, and Gai-sensei barely in speedos, and looking like they had been severely over oiled up. Just beyond them was Kurenai-sensei rising from a reclining chair beside what looked like a wrestling ring and a camera. Naruto didn't even bother asking questions, instead he turned and ran for his life, the mental scarring from the sight alone was more than enough for him, he didn't need an explanation. In short order the still slightly stunned jounins gave pursuit.
Naruto was glad that this form was thinner, and lacking the breast size of his Sexy no Jutsu form when Asuma-sensei tried to tackle him from behind and he was popped out due to the oil. True it sent him sprawling onto the ground, and left him oiled up, but it left him free. Scrambling back up, he barely dodged Kakashi-sensei's attempt to grab him, and nearly ran into Kurenai-sensei who had tried to snare him in a genjutsu.
Leaping over the startled female jounin, Naruto took to the trees bounding from branch to branch as fast as he could. He nearly wet himself when he saw Gai and Kakashi matching him bound for bound. Instead he sprang backwards off the tree and doubled back trying to lose them. He had boughten himself all of three seconds, but that was enough to summon up a swarm of clones, which spread out in random directions. This gave him a bit more time to get away with the senseis following some of the clones, but also this had a downside to it. Team Gai and Anko were standing right in front of him, ready to intercept the squad of eight clones and himself.
Gritting his teeth in annoyance, he decided it was time to use the one jutsu he had sworn to never use if possible. To him, it was a super perverts or cowards only jutsu. Forming the seals for horse, snake and dog, he turned transparent, and changed course in mid stride. Leaping away through the trees, he searched for chakra signatures, and let out a sigh when he felt them all heading away from him. It looked like he was in the clear from the senseis and Team Gai.
Looking around, he smirked as he realized where he was. Up ahead there was a deep lake with an underground passageway to a secret hideaway garden he hung out at occasionally. As far as he knew, he was the only one to know about it, and that was just what he needed. Searching out ahead of him, he smiled as he noticed that there were no chakra signatures in his path.
Taking a deep breath, Naruto sprang off the last branch and dove into the lake. Using his momentum to accelerate his descent, he felt the water pressure pulling him towards the tunnel. He never knew what fed the lake to keep it from draining out, but this was the part that he loved. Tucking his arms to his side he let the current pull him in, sending him shooting along the underground rapids. With the phosphorescent algea that lined the rocks along the top of the tunnel he had a nice view of the tunnels, and he enjoyed it to the fullest.
Just as he felt his lungs start burning with pain he washed out into a pool of water, riding the surface at a gentle pace. The willow branches brushed over his nose and caused him to smile as he realized, he was safe. This was the garden the old man had given him; it was his sanctuary. Inhaling the scent of the flowers he had planted around the pond, he savored the scent and sense of peace it gave him. The warm night air of the valley made the cooler water of the pond slightly less biting, and even a little enjoyable. Bumping against the shore he decided to finally pull himself out and shook off, sending water spraying everywhere. Noticing something about his form he looked down and let out a whoop of joy at the lack of breasts. He was back to normal, save for the tails and ears.
He had a few things to do, he had to summon one of the toads to get a message back to Tsunade to hopefully explain what had happened, he also had to get a fire going to dry off and warm up with. Even if it was warm now, he knew that if he didn't dry off soon it'd get very cold, very quickly. Walking a short distance from the pond, he entered a small clearing where a ring of stone waiting. This was one of the few comforts he afforded himself in his garden, a small stack of tarp-covered wood for quick and hot fires with little smoke. Making a small pile of dried grass from the tinderbox in the center of the pit, he pulled out a kunai and flung it at one of the stones to the side. The sparks off the rock hit the dried grass and began smoking nicely. Kneeling to retrieve the kunai he sighed as his backside was warmed by the building fire, aided by the light breeze blowing in.
After a few minutes of warming up, he stripped down to his boxers and laid his clothes out to dry. His tail curled around himself as he sighed heavily. This day just seemed to be completely weird and confusing. Whatever was causing the chases had to be based on him, and judging by how people reacted, it was carried on the wind. His thoughts were distracted when he pulled down the back of his boxers to let the tail out at a more natural angle. Stretching it out he let out a purr like sound of contentment as the knots in his lower back around the tail began working themselves out.
Biting his thumb, he summoned Gamakichi and smiled sheepishly as the toad just stared at him. "Hey 'Kichi... look, I need ya to do me a favor... Can you run to Tsunade and tell her that I'm in my garden valley please? I'll even buy you some chips after this whole things over with, okay?"
"Uh... sure thing boss..." Gamakichi answered remembering what had happened with Sakura earlier, the toads had just gotten back as Tsunade was hearing Sakura tell what had happened.. Taking off he sprang through the flora with ease, knowing the shortest route to the Hokage tower by heart.
Naruto sighed as his eyes closed, he felt safe, and he knew no one came out here and that nothing would bother him, so long as he stayed here. At least he thought he knew that. For not even ten miles away, two canine uses paused to sniff the air with their dogs, all of them taking on predatory grins as they began stalking towards the scent that had aroused them.
"Maybe you should go back Kiba... this is not for cubs..." the older female growled playfully at the younger male.
"No way Hana," Kiba barked back with a smirk, "This one is all mine."
