Once docked, Naruto's group headed out. They were getting strange looks.
Shinji looked at Hinata who was petting the fox demon Naruto made which she named Kyū.
"No wonder we're getting the stink eye. Hinata is holding and petting a three-tailed kitsune like it was a cat."
Yamato looked over to see a young woman walking around in bandages. "Hinata use your Byakugan to check out what's under that woman's bandages."
Anko looked at him. "I'm with the clone. I smell something fishy."
Hinata activated her Byakugan and gasped. "She has Fish scales on her skin."
Everyone stopped, but Anko said, "Smelling something fishy is just an expression."
Naruto now had the staff he got from the temple strapped to his back and adjusted his sun glasses as he saw Jiraiya was gone.
The young lady in bandages was soon pulled into an alleyway, making the Leaf village team run in there to see Jiraiya holding down the mermaid.
Jiraiya yelled, "Naruto, read her mind now!"
Naruto quickly put his hand on the woman's forehead and after a second he said, "Her name is Isaribi. A man named Amachi used her as a test subject for a DNA alteration serum meant to create a bloodline that gives shinobi to power to breathe underwater, so she is a mermaid."
Anko growled at Amachi's name before she calmed down and looked at the shocked fish lady. "Ok, so let me guess, little mermaid. Amachi has you kidnapping people saying he'll turn you back."
Isaribi was shocked and nodded so Anko responded, "Trust me. I know him. He won't."
Yang Kurama then told Naruto through the mind link, "Kit. Use my chakra. It will rid her of the scales as those are implants."
Naruto placed a hand on Isaribi's head and said, "We're the good guys, and to prove it, here's a sign of good will. Yang release."
Isaribi glowed gold for a second making her bandages fall off and, to the mermaid's shock, the scales on her skin disappeared and she looked fully human again.
Naruto let go and looked over to Jiraiya and said, "Let the fish lady go, Pervy Sage. I know were the lab is and, Isaribi, I only removed the scales from your human form. You still have the bloodline, so, if I were you, I would use it to go join a ninja village and start a new life."
Isaribi stood up and yelled out, "AND JUST WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"
Naruto removed his sun glasses to show her his eyes. "Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze Senju, Jinchūriki of half of the Nine Tailed Fox, last prince of whirlpool, holder of the Rinnegan and the second coming of the Sage of the Six Paths."
The mermaid's eyes widened as she slowly backed away saying, "Thanks for the skin fix and I'll be going now."
The next thing anyone knew, only smoke cloud in her body shape was left.
Shinji looked at it and said, "With speed like that, she would make one hell of a good ninja."
Anko pulled Naruto along and said, "Less talk, more take me to mad scientist, Ring Eyes. I have a score to settle with the asshole."
Meanwhile, in NERV…
Rei and Misato had snuck into the Evangelion hanger.
Rei spoke up. "Captain, are you sure you want to do this?"
Misato looked at her. "Yes. I want to see my Shinji." Misato covered her mouth when she said 'my Shinji'.
Back with the Leaf ninja…
Shinji sneezed out of the blue and said, "I hope it's a girl thinking about me."
Jiraiya looked back at him and cried tears of joy. "Finally. A student I'm rubbing off on."
Shinji then stopped dead in his tracks as he was filled with complete terror at the idea of being the next Pervy Sage.
To be continued…
