As the team done missions and trained, Naruto was seemingly ignored by the Jounin making Sasuke smirk as he got the most attention from the man. Sasuke became annoyed however with the missions that they were given, especially the Tora mission.

The cat had seemed to take a liking to Naruto as when the other two were scratched up beyond belief the cat simply walked up to Naruto and calmly sat in his grasp making the other two growl at it. Kakashi on the other hand had a surprised look on his face whenever he saw it since the cat had never taken a liking to anyone before.

Walking around the village one day, Naruto lost track of what he was doing as he looked around himself before he ran into someone. Hearing a light moan from in front of him, Naruto looked to see a voluptuous beauty sitting in front of him as she rubbed her but from the impact.

Looking at her, Naruto saw that she had short brown hair that framed her face perfectly, a light scar on her face that slanted across the bridge of her nose going up in a diagonal fashion. She wore a loose white v neck t shirt with a black line at the bottom of the v and a set of black wing outlines printed on the cloth, the shirt shown some of her bust as well. The shirt had come to a stop just below her sizable bust showing her midriff. She had a skirt on her hips that had a longer back that reached down to her ankles, and had three interconnecting belts that were held by a large lion head buckle that sat at the front of her skirt. Her high heeled boots reached to her knees and she had a pair of near elbow length gloves on her hands under her bomber jacket that had fur on the top as well as the skirt.

As she looked up from where she was, he could see her light blue eyes and slightly red lips looking at him with curiosity.

"Sorry about that miss, are you okay?" Naruto asked as he held out a hand to help her up.

"Yeah, thanks by the way." She said as she took his hand as he pulled her up. Looking to her left Naruto saw a large case with a griever symbol on it similar to the necklace she wore around her neck and the ring she wore on her gloved finger.

"What's your name by the way? Mine's Naruto." He told her with a smile on his face causing the woman smile softly as she shook her head. As she answered Naruto reached down and gripped the case before he pulled it up and handed it to her.

"I'm Seiko Leonheart, and thanks. I don't like people to handle the Lionhart for long, but thanks." She told him getting a confused look from the blond.

"Lionhart?" he asked curiously.

"My weapon, I call it the Lionhart." She told him as she opened the case to show him. The weapons appearance featured a stenciled image of Griever on both sides of the blade, as well as having a chained pendant of lion's head attached to the handle's base, though it looked like it had a larger mane and seemed to transfer into what would resemble wings as he looked closer. The closer he looked at the pendant and the insignia on it, the more he noted the resemblance to the creature that was a mix of a lion and eagle, called a griever that he read of when he found the book in the forgotten underground city below, only he knew of it. (Think the revolver gun blade from final fantasy 8.)

"Interesting weapon you have Miss Leonheart. It looks like it would have taken a while to master. Though one would question as they why you have that on the blade." Naruto said as he looked up from it to her face to see a light smile on her lips in an appreciative expression.

"Thank you, you're the first to not ask many questions about it. I got this from my school; they trained mercs in the most basic of terms. We were called Seed and were trained in a place called a garden. Sorry, it's just you seem like you wouldn't mind learning a bit more. It did take time to fully master though. The reason would mostly be that I feel a certain… kinship you could say, to it and it defines me with what I have been through and done." She told him before she noticed the large blade on his back. "May I know what yours is called?" she asked him.

Pulling the large weapon out from the holster he handed it to her so that she could get a good look at it. "This was a gift I guess you could say; the name of them is the fusion swords. I found them when I fell into a ravine four years ago. " Naruto told her with a smile.

"Swords? I only see the one here." she asked before she said.

"It is actually six different blades in one; the main blade is that in your hand. I usually carry the main blade around with me. I haven't actually needed to use the full version yet, then again I haven't actually tried to kill anyone." Naruto said as he took the blade back from her held out hand. "So mind telling me what brings you to this humble village my dear?" Naruto asked her causing her to roll her eyes at him.

"I was looking for a place to stay for a while when I ran into you. So happens that I have no clue why I am here other then maybe the reason being that I let my comrades escape but at the cost of me in their memories." She told him as she looked down in sadness before she regained her composure.

"That sucks. I wouldn't want to be forgotten, but if it would mean that my friends would be safe, I would endure it. How you holding up miss Leonheart?" Naruto commented before he asked her.

"Honestly I don't know. It all feels unreal to me at the moment. By the way just call me Seiko would you." She told him.

"Well then Miss Seiko, if you like I can let you stay at my place until you find a better one if you want. And I might be able to help you out with your problem by becoming your new friend." Naruto said to her getting a small smile from the beauty.

"I would like that. Lead the way, Naruto." She spoke as she looked at him and carried her case on her back with her right hand holding the strap that came from the back.

As he led her to his house, he and Seiko talked about the things that she had encountered in her journey across her original world. She asked things about him and how the village was and thing that she would need to know getting answers from the good looking blond, in her opinion at least. Seeing the building, Seiko looked like she was surprised that he lived there as it was a two story building that looked like the bottom was of a bar.

"Heh, yeah I rebuilt the place after I got the rights to it. Made it into a bar restaurant that I run. When I am not here I used to close it but then I learned of the shadow clones so I left some here to do the work for me. Steady income and it gives me a place to stay. There are two rooms upstairs and the basement, if you go down there be careful though. I don't like my bike getting damaged too badly. I use her to get supplies from other cities faster than others would." He told her getting a raised eyebrow from her as she heard this.

"Fenrir? Like the wolf?" she asked him as they walked inside the building.

Nodding to her, he led her to the room opposite of his on the second floor where she placed the case down before she followed him down into the basement. As they entered the basement she saw the bike and was surprised to see it sitting there before Naruto sat on it and opened its auxiliary units and she looked on wide eyed as the sides opened and five more swords could be seen being held inside it.

"This is where I hold my other swords. So if you do come down here to train or whatever please does be careful of her. She's precious, a gift that I found with the swords." Naruto said to her getting a light nod from her before they both went back to the bar floor.

Getting a better look around her, Seiko saw that there was a large amount of shinobi there as well as several children that drank some different kinds of juice. The bar had stools and a Naruto serving drinks while there was a small kitchen attached to it that had another cooking and then another that delivered the plates to the tables that were strewn about the large floor. She smiled upon seeing the children laughing and drinking their drinks as the Naruto that gave them the drinks done small tricks to amuse them.

"The people sought places like this. A place where they could be with friends while drinking, where you could get over the depression of reality, or maybe forget about reality and think of the future. The seventh heaven, that's my place." Naruto said with a light wink at her causing her to shake her head at his antics. "If you want, you can work here, I don't mind. The more the merrier." Naruto told her.

"I might take you up on that. I would need some help though." She told him.

"That goes without saying. Don't take it the wrong way, but you look more like a soldier than someone that would want to serve others in a bar. But if you would really like to I could teach you how to do something." Naruto told her getting a nod in return.

"thanks, and I know what you mean, I would normally want to fight but I think I should take things a bit slower, if I fight then It happens no harm done, If I don't then I have a place to work and get paid." She said to him getting a nod.

"True, I figure I could let you keep what you get from the some of the customers, but I would still need some to get supplies, shouldn't take much though. If you work one part while my clones work the others than I should have enough that I won't have to take any from you." Naruto told her getting a nod of understanding from her.

"I understand that Naruto, if you need the money for the bar, don't hesitate to ask, I don't mind helping, where I work." She told him getting a smile from the blond.

ZZ

Naruto was thankful that Seiko had decided to help out at seventh heaven lately. With Kakashi only giving them one mission a day and barely even training them at all, while being three hours late every day. He had more time to spend around the bar and left Seiko to work as the waitress, not minding that she worked in her usual clothes as he didn't have a dress code for the business, nor did he care about it. Some of his regular customers were slightly surprised to see a new girl working for him after knowing that only he worked there since no one would want to work with him, fearing that he was a demon and such.

Seiko on the other hand, didn't care even after learning about it, she just shrugged it off and told him that he was still a man that gave her a job and place to live, nothing would change that. She started to become rather fond of Fenrir as well, having placed Lionhart inside the holsters as well, seeing as Naruto kept the first blade with him at almost all times, as well as an odd looking device that looked like a set of keys.

Knowing full well that what he kept on his belt was not actually keys at all, as she knew of cars and other vehicles form her own world that she used to be in. she guessed that it was still linked to Fenrir in some way and form, though she just couldn't figure it out truth be told.

While he worked at the bar he let her have fun as long as it wasn't too busy, or when she wanted to work. Usually he let her go grab the things that were needed to stock the bar, since he felt that Fenrir was safe with the woman, knowing that she wouldn't be able to steal it or wouldn't try in the slightest to do so even if she could.

When the bar was closed or they both left the bar in the attendance of clones, the two went to the basement and had an actual fun time sparing against the other, as Seiko found out that she could as well do his flying thing that he kept pulling when he fought her. She found out by accident when she tried to keep up with him in the air as he used it to get away from her while teasing her about it until she hit him with her sword suddenly causing him to backflip in the air because of it.

ZZ

What most never noticed though, during the academy, when people gossiped about Sasuke taking a liking to the girls with longer hair, none actually knew that it was actually Naruto they were talking about since a girl had asked him one time about what type of girl he would like. He told her simply that he liked longer haired girls, as well as those that actually knew how to fight rather than spent all their time looking pretty. What he didn't tell the girl was that he liked darker hair color, ones that could be associated with dark red, or the color of the night more than bright colors, even though he was a blonde himself.

So when he saw Seiko, he actually admired that she actually looked cute to him with her long brown hair rather than looking like a manicured girl that didn't even know how to fight like most of the girls in his class. The only ones that he felt actually knew could fight more than slapping their opponents were the Hyuuga, and a girl called Ami, a girl that was a bully until Naruto helped her out from being ganged up on by her so called friends.

After he helped her out the two actually became fairly good friends, and he had offered her a job at the Seventh heaven when her team had failed the exam that was taken after the first one that allowed them to take the real test to test if they had what it truly takes to be a gennin. When Ami saw Seiko working at the bar with a smile on her face as she figured that it was best to work with a smile, Ami was slightly surprised, having never seen her before, though Naruto had told her that he hired someone to work there before she did.

The interesting part about the two though, was that they got along perfectly, neither actually trying to boss the other around and separated their work louds evenly between the two of them so that when Ami worked the stove Seiko was at the bar, and vice versa. Naruto had a light laugh as he saw this the first time, and some of the customers commented that he was building a women work bar causing him to shake his head while Ami blushed at that. Seiko rolled her eyes with a shake of her head as she heard it was well, not really bothered by it as she knew that it was not the case for him or her.

ZZ

Seiko and Naruto had grown rather close over the weeks that she worked and lived with him, not close enough to be considered more than friends but they liked to think of the other as their best friend that they could trust with anything. Seiko usually walked around when not working without her coat or boots on, leaving her in her skirt and white tank top, giving her the relaxed air that came from not worrying about things.

When Naruto was there, she usually sat with him in his room while reading some of the books that he had in there while he worked on the papers or other things that required his attention, otherwise he sat with her and let her lean on him or lay with her head in his lap not minding it really. He rather liked her using him as a pillow, while she read. She was rather happy on the inside that he never bothered to tell her to move when she started to lean on him.

When she accidently started to lean on him the first time, Naruto simply looked at her oddly before he went back to what he was doing before. When she fell the rest of the way and landed with the back of her head in his lap, she immediately shot up know noticing that she was leaning so caught up in her book that she didn't notice before.

When she started to apologize, Naruto smiled at her and chuckled telling her it was fine and not to worry about it since she didn't bother him with it. Indirectly saying that he didn't care if she did. Through this she never blushed or really changed her expression, only worried that he may have taken offence to it though she relaxed a bit when she heard him say he had no problem with her head on him.

She most likely would have read in her own room however, she didn't have a couch like Naruto did so she just read where she got the book, since he had a few that she wanted to read, never minding her in his room at all, when he was on mission he even invited her to sleep in his room if she wanted to since she enjoyed the books so much and spent more time on the couch rather than in her own room.

ZZ

When Seiko went to get the supplies, Ami was always wondering why she was tossed something from Naruto before walking into the basement and coming back with boxes of things after a little while. Not once had she ever gone to the basement herself, since it was usually locked and only Naruto and Seiko could unlock it, both having a key to it. When she knew she left she heard a strange sound to go with it and heard it once more when she came back, always confused by it, as she knew that nothing around the village could make that sound.

The customers were so used to it, that they barely even noticed it anymore. Aside from the ones that knew that he had something inside the basement and used it to get things faster than normal, they all guess it was something that helped out with the stove or water.

ZZ

As he sat on the couch with Seiko laying on him, Naruto heard a knocking before Ami got it and brought a message up to him causing him to sigh as he read it.

"Seiko, I have to go, got a mission. Take care of the place while I'm out for me." He told her getting a nod from the woman as she sat up letting him get up before she fell back down, not minding that he was no longer there as she kept reading the book.

"I didn't know you two were together." Ami commented to the woman that lay on Naruto's couch.

"We aren't, he just doesn't mind me laying on him like that. Besides, he lets me stay in here when he isn't here." she told the younger female without looking away from her book. "When I accidently fell on him he told me it was fine and that I didn't bother him at all with it, so I just let it happen, and when it does, instead of worrying about it anymore, I just keep reading."

"Well, you two seem to look like your together a lot, considering you live together, you have a key to the basement as well as Naruto, you spend most of your time in his room, even when he isn't here." Ami tried to tease her coworker.

"I guess some would see it that way." She spoke utterly unaffected by the teasing, not fully caring how others saw her relationship with Naruto. "We are best friends and he lets me grab the supplies so that's why I have a key to the basement, I am also a soldier like him, my sword is in the basement as well. If others see the fact that we like to spend time together as something more, I won't bother to correct them, since we both know what is actually going on and they don't." she told her simply not once looking away from her book.

"I can see your point. But don't you like him a bit more than a friend?"

"Don't know, haven't had much luck with any kind of relationship ever. When I was inducted into seed, the group I used to work for, one of my classmates gave me this scar. I gave him an opposite one to match, though." She told Ami as she shown her the slash scar on her face.

"Vengeful much?"

"Not really, they say payback is a bitch, well it just so happens, I am that bitch." Seiko said without a blink of her eyes or any hesitation in her voice when she said that.

ZZ

"Yo old man, what you need me for?" Naruto asked as he entered the office to see that the rest of his team had already been in there.

"You baka, show some respect." Sakura called out at him.

"Girly, you have nothing on my housemate. She can actually hit me, unlike you. When I call him the old man, it is the plain and simple truth, besides in case you didn't know, I told the fire lord, and even the wind lord, when he was here one time, quite plainly, to kiss my ass when they offered me something I didn't want."

"That's actually true, he did tell them both that, my advisers never have learned from that lesson though." The kage told them with a straight face.

"So what is the mission?" Naruto asked him.

"well, team 8 took a mission that was miss ranked and need back up, normally I would send a team of Jounin, or at least chunnin, but with a capable ninja on your team aside from Kakashi, I thought you might like this mission to help out." The kage told him getting a nod, while Sasuke looked smug.

"Heh, I told you I am better than you dobe."

"Oh sorry, I was talking about Naruto, he actually beat Kakashi while you couldn't. The mission, Naruto, was to spy on a group of bandits, however, they found that the camp is enslavement for women. You will be taking the mission and helping the team out." The kage told him getting nods from them before they were informed to gather at the gates in half an hour.