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Chapter IX: Return to Konoha Part IV: Naruto's Growth
Naruto peered out from behind the Hokage's desk, checking to see if the coast was clear of fangirls. The only thing that he saw was Tonton, the pig looking back at him with a curious expression on its face. He straightened up and dusted off his clothes, which were still dirty from the running that he had done.
Somewhat satisfied with the results, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a scroll, the one that he had gotten from Ayame yesterday. He unsealed it with another drop of blood and pulled out a set of metallic chopsticks and a steaming bowl of ramen.
Sitting down in the Hokage's chair, he quickly scooped down three bowls of ramen before wiping his mouth, stacking the three bowls back inside the scroll, and jumping out the window, racing at top speed to Training Ground 7.
He got there in fifteen minutes, first dropping off the three empty bowls to Ayame and placing an order for ramen that would keep him sated for the next month. Of course, that would have bankrupted half of the villagers, but thanks to Naruto's massive cash reserves, it only made a small dent.
Afterwards, he raced off toward the meeting place, carefully avoiding the comatose fangirls still strewn like leaves all over the central marketplace, and also the remnants of several store fronts that he had destroyed yesterday while on the run from the said fangirls.
Finally reaching the training ground, Naruto made six shadow clones for a quick warm-up spar before the rest of them got here. He would need it. Stripping off his weights and going at full speed around the dojo had really put a strain on his muscles. He didn't just wear those weights for training anymore. He had to wear them as a safety precaution, so as to not move too fast.
Ten minutes later, everyone, with the exception of Kakashi, of course, had arrived and were lounging against the stakes or paying their respects to the monument. Naruto was still sparring with his last clone, which had managed to land half a dozen good blows on Naruto. Everyone who had nothing else to do was just watching the two Narutos go back and forth, fists and blades clashing.
After two hours, thousands of murmured curses at Kakashi, two hundred shadow clones, and many stares from Hinata, Sakura, and Ino, who were all gazing at Naruto with his shirt off, breathing heavily, Kakashi finally arrived with a pop on top of the fence, grinning like always and one hand raised in greeting.
"Yo. Sorry I'm late. I got lost on the-"
"Yeah, Kakashi-sensei. You got lost on the path of life. Maybe I should write you a map next time." Naruto grumbled, dispelling the last clone and putting his shirt back on, much to the girls' dismay.
Naruto nodded at Tsunade, who cleared her throat. "Now, we are here to test Naruto. We all know that he is powerful. We all know that he has a fan club. But we don't know how powerful he is, or how large his fan club is. We will find the first one here today, and we will find the second one later."
Kakashi nodded and held up a single bell. "I'm sure that you remember this little contraption. It's the same one you failed to get all those years ago. You have three hours to get this bell from me, or you fail. Simple as that."
Naruto smirked. "Only three hours? Are you getting soft, Kakashi-sensei?"
Kakashi smirked and started to retract the bell back into his hand, when it realized that it wasn't there anymore. Naruto was still standing where he was, albeit that his hand was raised and the bell was dangling from it. "Well, did I pass, Kakashi-sensei?"
Kakashi looked like someone had just burned all of his books. "Wh-Wh-What just happened here?"
Neji was dumbfounded. Naruto wasn't even vaguely this fast yesterday. What is going on here?
Naruto scratched the back of his head, embarrassed. "Eh, I'm not wearing my weights. That might explain it. I usually never take them off, since my speed puts such a massive strain on my body."
Kakashi looked like he was talking to a five year old kid. "Then, put them back on. You pass, but we can't get a gauge of your skills if we can't see you, Naruto."
Naruto scratched the back of his head again. "Good point, Kakashi-sensei. Give me a second…"
He summoned ten small bolts of chakra, one for each finger, and started tapping seemingly random points on his body. But to Neji and Hinata, they could see that he was filling nearly invisible weights with chakra, increasing their density and weight by several factors of ten.
Naruto let the chakra fade from his fingers as the last weight was filled with energy. "Now, what kind of test do you want for me to do?"
Kurenai stepped forward, but Naruto shook his head. "Don't bother. I still can't do Genjutsu beyond genin level. But my chakra pulse will deactivate any Genjutsu in a ten-mile radius. I don't think that baa-chan would like her true self to be revealed to the rest of us."
Tsunade, upon hearing this, threw a punch at Naruto, which he countered with his own fist.
The two powerhouses of moving flesh met in a shockwave of sound and energy. Leaves were blown away, but neither Naruto nor Tsunade budged an inch, each struggling to overpower the other with their chakra. Of course, if this had been anyone else, their entire arm would have shattered from that sort of impact.
Tsunade backed off, amazed.
She wasn't the only one. Not even Jiriaya could withstand one of her punches, and he was one of the Three Sannin. Naruto had taken the punch, albeit with the fact that he was now hopping all over the place, shouting his pain for the world to hear.
"OWWWW!!! BAA-CHAN! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU HAVE TO PUNCH THAT HARD FOR?"
Tsunade's hand hurt as well, but she wasn't about to starting going on about it. "You baka! That was suicide! If you hadn't done whatever you did, you would have likely lost your right arm! Then you would never become Hokage!"
Naruto scowled and reached for an ice pack that was sitting in the med kit that Sakura had been thoughtful enough to bring with her. "Yeah, well, I just didn't think that you would punch so damn hard…"
He stopped waving his hand around and stuck it on the ice pack, letting out a string of expletives as he did so. Despite his increased healing factor, the pain still got to him, and the lazy fox wouldn't heal bruises unless he made it do so, which he had to do if he was to use any jutsu.
Naruto did just that, and in the span of fifteen seconds and some red glowing that he hid, his hand was back to normal. He stretched out each of the joints just to make sure, and got back into a fighting stance that looked like a cross between Lee's and the beginning of the Gentle Fist.
"Bring it on!" he yelled to the crowd, and they all charged.
Naruto smirked, made a series of rapid seals and shouted, "Phoenix Spark no Jutsu!"
At once, a minefield of sparks appeared in front of them. Kakashi, Tsunade, and the rest of the older crowd stopped, amazed at what Naruto had done. The younger crowd, however, not knowing what this jutsu was, kept on charging Naruto, when Tsunade yelled at them to stop.
Anko walked up to the border of the wall of sparks and prodded one with a shuriken, immediately jumping back. Her caution was well cautioned.
The moment the shuriken had touched the glowing red spark, it glowed white-hot, entered the ninja star, and blew it to pieces with the force of a small paper bomb.
Kurenai looked in at Naruto, who was calmly sitting on the ground, writing quickly into a piece of paper, scratching out occasional sentences, sticking the pen into his mouth every couple of seconds, and just generally acting like a writer.
However, Tsunade yelled through the minefield, "Naruto! Drop the Jutsu! We get it now!"
Naruto raised one hand without looking up from his paper and all of the sparks disappeared with a poof of smoke. They surrounded him, but he was still scribbling onto the paper up until they were just about to start reading it, where he stuffed it inside an inner pocket.
"Where did you learn that jutsu, Naruto?" Tsunade asked, curiosity piqued.
Naruto stood up, grinning. "Baa-chan, didn't you recognized that jutsu? I thought my mother might have at least shown it to you once before."
"Of course I recognized it, you baka! That's the Phoenix Spark Jutsu, a whirlpool country technique. How on earth did you-"
"My mother left me scrolls, as did my dad. I know all of the two clan's jutsus. Though I don't use them as much as I used to, since they drain a very large amount of my energy."
Kakashi looked astounded as well. "I've heard of intermixed ninja before, but… Naruto, just how many bloodline limits do you have?"
Naruto started counting on his fingers. "Let's see here. Umm… Independent Chakra, Final Flash, Haraishin, Jutsu Redirection, Soul Flare, and one that I don't like to mention in mixed company… Six in all, I think, but I can only use two at any given moment, and only five overall."
Everyone was gaping at him again. One Bloodline Limit meant that you were usually hard to defeat. Two meant that you were nearly impossible. They hadn't even heard of someone with three Bloodlines running within them, much less six!
While everyone was processing this information, fourteen of Naruto's shadow clones were creeping up on the group of massed ninja, unseen by all except Naruto, who maintained a link with each clone.
Naruto smirked and jumped behind Kakashi, making a modified tiger seal in the process. Kakashi realized what he was about to do a split second too late, as the other fourteen Narutos charged out of the underbrush, all of their hands in a modified tiger seal as well.
He charged forward, extending his hand. "Introducing Kakashi-sensei's Number one Jutsu!" He yelled. "Sacred Konoha Finger Taijutsu; A Thousand Years of Death!"
With that, fifteen sets of charged chakra fingers were forcibly forced up fifteen unlucky rectums, and fifteen people went flying, hands covering their asses in pain.
Naruto shouted after the airborne figure that was Kakashi. "HAH! THAT WAS PAYBACK, KAKASHI-SENSEI! I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN!"
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Kakashi flew through the air, his ass feeling like the time where he had landed on the stove at Ichiraku's Ramen. Naruto wasn't fooling around when he said that this was payback. Judging from the amount of burning, the amount of chakra was roughly equal to the amount used in a Rasengan.
He shook his head, tears of pain flying in the process. Why did I ever show him that technique? Kakashi thought as he landed in the river nearby, just as Naruto did, eight years ago.
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The Kunoichi, ranging from Tsunade to Hinata, were in different states of mind after the jutsu. They weren't nearly as affected by the jutsu as a guy was, since by nature's law, something bigger then that had to go in that… ahem, general… area anyway.
Tsunade, Kurenai, Anko, and Tenten were literally steaming in anger. How dare Naruto stick his fingers up their asses? He would burn for this!
However, Sakura and Ino were both in shock at the technique. Sakura had only seen it used once before, and that had been on Naruto. However, being Co-presidents of the Naruto Fangirl Association, they didn't really mind having their target stick his fingers up their asses.
Hinata was in a mind category of her own. Unknown to most people, all females have an 'Inner Self'. Thanks to Sakura's inability to express herself on the outside, her 'Inner Self' developed rather quickly and was now quite mature. Usually, the 'Inner Self' never appears, and dies with the girl. However, when enough emotions build up, or they are at a crossroads about something major and it is driving them crazy, the 'Inner Self' can emerge and start talking to the person proper.
That shove of the finger up the ass was just enough for Inner Hinata to emerge, fully fledged and ready to make Hinata blush to no end. This was the exact opposite of her, eager to confess and take on the world. However, unless Hinata allowed it, Inner Hinata would just remain that, inside. Forever whispering in her ear, but never getting a chance to make the decision.
Inner Hinata stretched, finally free. Taking a quick poke at Hinata's dreams, desires, and memory, she grinned. Oh, yeah! Naruto stuck his fingers up my-
Shikamaru, Choji, Lee, Neji, Kiba, Shino, and Gai were all flying upward, hands covering their asses; mouths open in a soundless howl of pain. There were two things on their minds. One was obviously the pain, and the other was, I am going to kill Naruto and Kakashi!
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Naruto sat back down, pulling out his pen and paper again. Jiriaya had left him in a very tricky spot. He was supposed to finish the Make-Out Paradise series, but he was missing, for the lack of a better term, research.
He now knew fully why Jiriaya needed to do his research while writing these books. For smut, they were surprisingly high quality. He needed to be able to generate these images in his mind before he could put them down on paper. Without that research, there was no way that he could finish the series on a timely fashion.
Naruto scratched out two more sentences as was about to replace them with slightly more developed ones when the fifteen people that he had hit with the 'Thousand Years of Death' landed around him with huge thumps and yells of pain.
He sighed, slipped the paper back into the inside pocket, and stood back up, brushing the dirt off his pants.
"Well, are you going to come at me or not? Isn't this a test, after all?"
Everyone, with the exception of Hinata, who was still arguing with her inner self, shouted curses at Naruto and charged him. Naruto just grinned and made three more seals, activating one of his personally created jutsu- his first ever.
"Sexy no Jutsu!" he shouted, and his body was enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
As it cleared, the now infamous figure of Naruto's Sexy no Jutsu form was revealed. The moment it did, Kakashi and the rest of the guys face vaulted, blood dripping from their noses as if someone had turned on a faucet. Everyone else just sweatdropped and Tsunade was stalking forward, one fist raised in the air like she was about to clobber Naruto.
Naruto started laughing the moment he transformed back, rolling around on the ground. Between the various attempts by Tsunade to smash his skull and Lee's new Morning Lotus, it was quite an achievement that he only got away with a handful of bruises from Choji's Human Boulder, which had hit him as Shikamaru had tried to hold him in place with his shadow possession.
Finally, Naruto got fed up and crossed his fingers, focusing a small chunk of his available chakra, and shouted, "Multi Shadow Clone no Jutsu!"
The clouds of smoke that covered the forest were enormous, easily covering the sun and sending the training ground into darkness. When they finally dissipated, they were completely surrounded by Naruto clones, some grinning, others making rude hand signs, and yet others catching a quick doze in the shade of a tree.
There were so many clones that even Kakashi lost count of how many there were. Thousands upon thousands of sets of blue eyes stared at the small group of the now-horribly outnumbered ninja. As one, every single one of the clones made their fingers into a modified tiger seal, and everyone else cringed and placed their hands over their asses to save them from the torture of the 'Thousand Years of Death' again.
The real Naruto grinned and lowered his own arms, causing the other clones to relax as well. A number of the more perverted ones started ogling the girls and were immediately dispersed by the more proper clones standing near them.
Naruto shook his head. Despite his best efforts, some of his clones took on his slightly perverted nature. He had been directly taught by two perverts, one of which wrote perverted literature, and which the other one read. He had also been indirectly and briefly taught by Ebisu, who was a closet pervert.
Even now, he still didn't have full control over his clones while not in combat. He had to admit it was interesting to watch thousands of versions of himself arguing about every which thing that he could think of, but the same thing happened with Kyuubi when he visited him every night.
Naruto decided to encircle a small group of clones and have the rest back off and stand still as targets. He was going to demonstrate one of his bloodlines and one of his new jutsu at the same time. Bullet Rasengan.
"All right, everyone, stand back. You're about to see one of the lost ninja bloodlines in action, along with a jutsu developed by the Fourth Hokage!" He shouted to the ninja standing nearby, and they immediately retreated. They knew what the jutsu was, and they all knew how much damage it could do.
Naruto and the small group of chosen clones stood in a line, rather like a firing squad would, and faced the other, much larger group of clones. At once, six of the clones got down on one knee and squinted, raising their hands with all five digits extended.
The real Naruto remained standing, along with three of his clones. They did the same thing as the other group did, eyes closed in concentration. After a few seconds, something happed with that group of ten Narutos that completely changed their image of him and his chakra control forever
Naruto was forming, along with his clones, fourteen Rasengan each. But they weren't full size Rasengan. In each hand, at the tips of each finger, was a fully formed Rasengan, spiraling just like the full sized ones. In his palm, however, were two Rasengan, slightly larger then the ones on his fingertips, but orbiting each other like two stars would in a binary system.
As soon as they were formed, Naruto's eyes snapped open and he shouted, along with the rest of the clones, "Bullet Rasengan!"
The moment that he shouted that, the Rasengan left the hands of the Narutos and pelted toward the clones at a blinding speed. As soon as one hit, it shrank slightly and the clone disappeared in a poof of smoke. However, that wasn't the most amazing thing.
All of the firing Narutos were regenerating Rasengan as fast as they fired them. Before lone, a new clearing had been generated from all of the Rasengan that had missed or had run out of targets. Needless to say, there were no more target clones.
The few clones left next to Naruto were all panting, but still able to stand. They each walked over and touched the real one of the forehead, poofing away when they did so. This seemed to recharge Naruto of some of his lost energy, but he still went down on one knee, panting heavily.
Tsunade and Sakura rushed over, being Medical Ninja, but Naruto waved them away.
"Hey, Kiba, could I borrow a solder pill or two? I left mine in my house this morning."
Kiba obliged, throwing over his bag of Solder Pills. Naruto selected five and tossed the rest back to Kiba, who caught them and dropped it back in his pouch. He crunched up one, gagging at the bitter taste. He had never like these things and only took them as a last resort.
But despite his strength, making three thousand shadow clones, then forming over two hundred Rasengan still took a lot out of him, especially in his current form. If he was to continue on, he had to have more energy, and unsealing certain parts was out of the question.
Naruto grimaced as the pill took effect, recharging his energy from his body's reserves. He stood up, stretched, and pulled out the hilt of his blade, activated it, and motioned for Tenten to come nearer. She obliged and summoned one of her own blades, and the kenjutsu fight began.
Despite his best efforts in training, he was still outclassed, though not by much. Tenten was a weapons specialist, so it was hardly surprising when one of her blows knocked past Naruto's guard and he suddenly found the hardened edge of her katana at his throat.
Naruto sighed and deactivated his blade. He still needed plenty of help in the area of weapons. Sparring against yourself only got you so far, and he really wasn't ever in the mood to summon Gamakichi and have him moan on about he would be cut to ribbons if they sparred with swords.
But the next test, a full-on spar with both Lee and Gai was going to be tricky. Despite the fact that he was faster then both of them, his lotus was a poor imitation of Lee's. He was still sloppy in most of his fighting, using only intermediate forms. After fifteen minutes of the inner eight gates opening and closing, Naruto won by creating two clones, which kept them busy as he used yet another 'Thousand Years of Death' to incapacitate them, and from there to knock them out.
Kurenai, still scowling from the first 'Thousand Years of Death' incident, walked forward to test him on Genjutsu. True to his word, his Genjutsu was barely beyond academy level, only able to produce simple images, and even then imperfectly. However, his ability to break Genjutsu had increased hundredfold. His chakra pulse could neutralize any Genjutsu, with the exception of Tsunade's, for ten miles around.
He was lucky to do so, as the Genjutsu of several revived fangirls, who were all jonin, was dispelled, and Naruto could then flee, shouting curses all the while. When he finally made it back to the training grounds, half an hour later, everyone had taken up Shikamaru's favorite pastime, watching clouds.
Naruto face vaulted and came up with a sweatdrop. "What?" he shouted to the assembled crowd. "THIS MORNING, IVE BEEN BUSY! WHAT WITH FUCKING FANGIRLS ALL MORNING SINCE I WOKE UP!"
Everyone turned over in slow motion to watch him with wide eyes. Naruto immediately tried to backtrack.
"Ooohh, that came out wrong. I mean, eh. I've been busy trying to get rid of the fucking fangirls."
Everyone just kept on staring at him like he was some kind of weirdo. All except for Hinata, who was redder then a tomato and looked like she was struggling just to stay conscious.
Naruto swore and raised his hands in the tiger seal again. The gather ninja stared at his hand for a second, then started talking amongst themselves. Nobody wanted a repeat of the 'Thousand Years of Death', well, maybe except for Sakura, Ino, and Inner Hinata, of course.
Naruto just smirked and swung on his jacket. "Hey, Baa-chan. I'll be home when you want to give me my new rank. Just push the intercom. It doesn't let any females in unless I personally escort them, and I'll be busy training. Gotta run!"
With that, he used the Haraishin and sped back to his house in a yellow flash.
The moment he left, Tsunade and Kakashi both gave great long whistles, Kakashi a low pitched church organ, Tsunade, a steam whistle. Both of them had expected Naruto to be powerful, judging from what he had shown the Konoha Eleven yesterday, but nowhere near this.
Kakashi whispered, "That boy… has matched Minato-sensei in not only looks, but in power as well. With some work, he'll do fine as your successor."
Neji stepped forward and added his bit to the conversation. "Not quite. While he was demonstrating some of his new techniques, my Byakugan detected five new sets seals on his body, in addition the two that were already there. If those first two seals are anything to go by, he wasn't even using a tenth of his true power."
All of the adults knew what Neji was talking about in the first two seals. They were the Four Symbols Seal and the Eight Trigrams Seal, both used to contain the Nine- Tailed fox within him. Without Jiriaya, however, there was no way for them to tell what could be hidden behind the new seals.
Kurenai nodded. "His Genjutsu skills have come a long way. Before he left, he had trouble doing more then a Henge. Now his mastery has come to equal some of the more experienced Genin in the village. I think that we can all agree that Naruto will never specialize in Genjutsu, but he has the basics down."
Anko stepped forward, hands in her pockets. "The brat's really grown since the land of waves. He's certainly surpassed me, though I might have an advantage if I ever decide to join the ranks of his fangirls. He hates them, but he won't kill them."
Gai gave his 'nice guy' pose and flashed his teeth, nearly blinding everyone else in the process. "HIS FLAMES OF YOUTH BURN MORE BRIGHTLY THEN EVER BEFORE! HE IS INDEED A SPLINDED NINJA!"
Tsunade scowled as she twiddled her thumb in her ear, trying to clear it out after Gai's deafening announcement. "Alright then. The only thing left is to figure out what rank to promote him to."
Kurenai and Anko both said 'Tokubetsu Jonin', or Special Jonin, one step down from a full Jonin. Gai recommended a full Jonin promotion, but Kakashi's answer came as a major surprise.
"Chunin." Kakashi said, and everyone else in the clearing stared at him with amazement.
Tsunade swallowed her amazement. "And why only a chunin?"
Kakashi raised one finger. "For several reasons. One, despite all he's grown, he remains as bumbling as ever. Jonin and Special Jonin often have to go on stealth missions, and I don't think that Naruto and stealth would mix too well. Two, if he becomes a jonin, he may decide to take up a Genin team. I don't think that anyone here would want him teaching the 'Thousand Years of Death' to three Genin who could… miss."
Everyone winced at this. The 'Thousand Years of Death' was painful enough if it hit properly. But if Naruto's aim dropped even a bit, there could be some unintended consequences. Inner Hinata was literally drooling at the prospect of a misplaced 'Thousand Years of Death' by Naruto.
Kakashi raised his hand again, calling attention back to himself. "And I have a third point. Jonin often take a very visible role in a village's image. If he becomes a Jonin, I think that might act as a signal flare for Akatsuki to come running again."
Tsunade nodded. "So you don't think that Naruto is responsible enough to be a Jonin yet, right?"
Kakashi nodded back. "Yeah. Besides, that jutsu of mine that he uses is really annoying at the rate of which he does it."
Tsunade sighed and leaned up against a tree. She was really at a loss for what to do. Kakashi made sense, but so did the other Jonin. After contemplating for a few minutes, she stood up.
"Kakashi, for once, and I know how this ridiculous this sounds, I'm going to take Gai's advice instead of yours. We need all the jonin we can get our hands on at the moment, and Naruto is perfect for the picking. Kakashi, I need you to go to the storage site and grab him a new headband. Kurenai, get him a jonin vest. We'll break the news to him tomorrow."
The jonin nodded and leapt from the newly minted clearing next to the monument. Anko was off to tell Naruto's fangirl corps of his new powers, Kakashi was off to read, Gai was off to train to match Naruto's 'Flames of Youth', and Kurenai was off to get the join vest. Tsunade just sat down where she was and rubbed her knuckles in her face.
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Meanwhile, with Naruto.
"FUCK! IS THERE NO END TO THE POWER OF THE FANGIRL?"
Naruto was running though the town again, being chased by more fangirls. Despite passing out cold only two hours before, they were all back and chasing Naruto again. He now wondered if Akatsuki had somehow possessed these girls to harass him. It was a remote possibility, but still possible.
He had swung by his house twice, only to see that workmen were still busy repairing the gate. Knowing that it would be futile to try to seek shelter there, on his third round, he dove over the wall and into the lion's den, figuratively.
Naruto had decided to seek refuge in the Hyuga Estate.
After poking his head over the wall to make sure that the rabid females were gone, he decided to hop back over the wall and hide inside his own house. Before he could make the jump, however, a familiar voice stopped him in his tracks.
"N-Naruto-kun?"
Naruto spun around to see Hinata standing there, poking two fingers and blushing. Even to this day, he still didn't know why she did that. She might be sick or something, he didn't really know, and he really didn't have time to think about it right now.
"Oh, hey, Hinata. Sorry about dropping in like this. Well, I have to go now, bye!" he whispered and tried to hop over the wall, but a small hand on his lower back stopped him halfway over.
Naruto turned around to look at Hinata, face scrunched up in confusion. "Wha-" he began, but paled at the sight of a dust cloud signaling another group of fangirls.
Hinata was redder then a lobster, and her inner self was cheering her on, filling her mind with certain things that she wanted to do, but would never get the chance to before passing out. Naruto quickly ducked back down and transformed into a rock as the fangirls stormed by, trying to find some trace of Naruto.
The ninja in question breathed a deep sigh of relief and transformed back into his normal self. "Thanks, Hinata. I owe you one."
Hinata nodded, still extremely red in the face. Inner Hinata took this information and stored it away in a vault, making sure to come back to it later.
Naruto nodded again and transformed into a small red fox, the preferred hunting form of Kyuubi when Naruto gave him his free time.
Both Hinata and her inner self immediately squealed, "Kawaii!" and tried to hug Naruto like a stuffed animal. He took it for a second, realizing that he need to pay Hinata back for saving him from the fangirls. Naruto would immediately regret this.
Despite the fact that he had transformed, Hinata still knew that what she was hugging was Naruto. So, instinct took over and she folded, almost in half, catching Naruto's fox form in between the ground and her… ehem. Well, you get the point.
Normally, he would have just set Hinata to the side and moved on. But it wasn't normal right now. If he transformed back, the force of the jutsu would send Hinata flying. With her unconscious, the results could be very nasty if she hit the ground before he could catch her.
So he tried squirming out. Not the best of ideas that he had come up with that day, and that was saying something. He only managed to get himself even further trapped in between her… ehem. So he sat there like a sack of potatoes until she stirred, which took a surprisingly short time.
When Hinata stirred, he flicked his tail in annoyance and tried to get out again. What he didn't realize was that his tail flicking had brushed her stomach, forcing her to squirm, realize where she was, and pass out again.
Naruto sighed internally and managed to cross his two paws and mutter, "Multi Shadow Clone no Jutsu."
Immediately, sixteen small foxes appeared and started rolling Hinata off of him. It was still quite a feat. Despite how strong Naruto was, he didn't want to wake Hinata up and have them in this position, so the foxes had to rely on their natural powers, which were not all that strong.
Finally, after five minutes of heaving and shoving, Hinata was rolled to the side and Naruto got up on all fours, shook his fur once, and then had one clone transform back to put Hinata next to a tree. That way, she would wake up in a sitting position, not sprawled in the cobblestones of the courtyard.
After the clone finished, it transformed back into a fox. At Naruto's command, all of the foxes hopped up to the ledge, and after making sure the coast was clear, sneaked across as a pack to the recently repaired gates of Naruto's house. He slashed his thumb, and they were in, the gates swinging soundlessly closed behind them.
This time, he didn't take any chances. He barred the gate by applying a thick steel bar across his side, locked it with some mid-level seals, and made the place look like just another patch of wall. That should hold until morning, he thought.
Exhausted, he let the clones dissipate and he transformed back into his normal self, climbing the stairs and opening the door with a drop of blood. His clones had managed to seal everything, and you needed Naruto's blood to use anything in the house, including the toilet. It was a safety precaution in the even that fangirls managed to make their way into the house.
Naruto climbed into bed, shucked his shirt and shoes, and dropped off to sleep. It had been a very, very, very long day, and tomorrow was bound to be just as long.
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Hinata woke up in the courtyard, propped up against a tree. She tried to remember how she had gotten here, but there was really no need. Her inner self remembered everything that had happened while she was out.
As she slowly opened her eyes, Neji and Hanabi slowly came into focus. They were both staring at her with some concern, but Hanabi's gaze was mostly jealousy. Neji looked bemused, and, as her eyes slowly focused, she saw that her father was standing behind the two, looking anything but.
Hinata gulped, not something she did very often. This was going to be a very long night…
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Author's Note.
Heyo!
Well, here's the next chapter. Thats going to be the last crack chapter for quite a while, as i begin a serious arc with the next chapter.
On another note, this piece has finally breached the 50K mark! W00T!
Anyway, so keep on reading. If you write a fanon, i encourge you to publish on a regular basis.
Also, review. Review. Review, Review, Review, REVIEW!
Well, thats my ranting done.
Catch you next time.
Xingster