This was inspired in part by my friend Gouken 2009 and modified from the version he's working up for a game. I think we both like this version too... I wanna play his game though.

Naruto sighed as he rounded the last corner before he'd reach his apartment. It had been a long and hard day of training, and all he wanted to do right now was take a shower and collapse into bed. It wasn't until he was ten feet from the door to the apartment building that he heard the voices talking softly. Brushing it aside as someone from one of the other buildings, he continued on, only to find himself confronting a wall of kunoichi looking at him with smiles that seemed a little too innocent to be good.

First his eyes glanced over Sakura who was smiling sweetly at him, signaling his brain that something was wrong. Compounding that was Ino's calculating gaze falling on him. Hinata managed to diffuse some of it as she was blushing and doing that poking fingers together thing she always did when talking to him. After her came Temari smirking and holding her fan in her hands as though she might need it as a club. Finally was Tenten, who quite frankly was scaring him with how she was twirling that kunai on her finger. Turning on his heel, he was about to use the better part of valor and run for it, when a hand landed on his shoulder.

"Naruto! Just the person we were looking for..." Tenten's overly cheerful voice said in his ear softly. It was at that moment that Naruto knew he was going to do whatever they asked of him, because he would be dead meat if he didn't.

Little did he suspect exactly what they were going to ask.

A half-hour later, he was nearly certain that either he or they were crazy. But he decided to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. And so he tried to repeat back what they had just asked in plain simple language. "Basically, you want me to join the girls against the guys in a board game... where you are playing these... hime was it? Against the guys, who are playing youma. Tsunade-baa-chan is going to act as the DM thing in order to make things fair. You've even gone ahead and rolled up a character for me, and are promising to buy me three meals of ramen if I play."

"H...hai N...naruto-kun..." Hinata answered shyly from the couch where she sat between Tenten and Temari.

"Tsunade-sama hasn't allowed us to look at the sheet she made for you... but she assures us it'd match you perfectly," Sakura answered while she and Ino flanked the poor, trapped, and confused blonde. "The guys said that it would be fine for you to play with us... as long as you were in your female form..."

Naruto gulped against the sudden lump in his throat, looking between all the expectant and hopeful eyes looking at him. Feeling some small part of him inside whimpering in fear, he nodded his agreement with a sigh of defeat. "Alright, let me go shower and I'll come with you..."

As the girls cheered, Naruto created a kage bunshin to go get some drinks for the girls while he showered. His first stop was his bedroom, where he pulled out a box from the deepest recesses of his closet, dusting it off and carrying it into his bathroom.

A cold shower later, he vowed to fix the water heater again, he got dressed in the feminine clothes from the box, picking out an orange blouse and a pair of black pants before transforming into his female form. He'd learned long ago that his henge didn't create an illusion like the others, but rather changed him physically, so he had picked up clothes, just in case he got stuck.

To be honest, she didn't think she looked half bad in the clothes, but this would be the first time she'd ever shown off to others. Letting out another sigh, she opened the door and walked out in a cloud of steam, to silence. Turning to look, she found the five girls staring at her blankly, causing her to shift nervously and rub the back of her head. "Uhh... hi girls... I... I don't look too bad do I?" she asked in her shy simpering voice, the one she had long since perfected to drive men wild with lust.

Tenten seemed to be the first to find her voice as she lowered her can of juice and hooked an arm around the shorter blonde's shoulders. "Not at all Narut... err Naru-chan... it's just... we expected you to be a bit more..." Tenten trailed off, looking for the best way to put it, she was spared when Temari spoke up.

"We were expecting you to be more of an exhibitionist," Temari stated flatly with a slight blush to her cheeks.

"Oh!" Naruto exclaimed while blushing, looking down she shifted her feet nervously in the long stained carpet. "Well, I... I usually use this form for shock... and it's over quickly... but I thought that you would not like a girl playing with you dressed like that..."

As she was looking down at the ground, she never noticed that more than one blush of the group seemed to grow deeper at the secondary meaning to the words Naruto had subconsciously chosen. However, this wasn't noticed, and they were running late, so they all left, making sure to lock up Naru-chan's apartment on their way out.

It was weird, but Naru-chan seemed to fit in easily with the group, giggling and laughing pleasantly as they walked to the Hokage tower.

Arriving at the tower, there was another awkward silence, all eyes focused on a nervous and sweat dropping Naru-chan. Apparently the guys had all thought she'd would arrive dancing around as naked as a sprite, while giggling and flirting left and right. Apparently the more normal version of a female Naruto was stunning them into silence.

Naru-chan waved to them quietly before slipping over next to Tsunade, smiling sweetly at her. "Hey Baa-chan... I heard you made a character for me... can I have it, please?"

Tsunade, stunned at the sugary sweetness of the girl before her, simply held up the sheet for Naruto to take. The girl took the sheet with a grin and looked it over curiously, before settling in one of the empty seats. Only one part really bugged her about the sheet, it mentioned a secret secondary rage power. She didn't like anything that might link her to the Kyuubi, but the small fox mascot she got would be fine. After all, foxes were cute so long they weren't massive chakra fueled beings of ultimate destruction.

As everyone settled in, no one noticed the subtle hum of energy filling the room. Even as Tsunade reached out and placed the Hime pieces, no one thought anything of it. It wasn't until darkness overcame them all, did they realize something was wrong.

Blinking her eyes, Naruko looked around the devastated landscape surrounding her. She paled in fear that she might have caused it when she blacked out, but a little furry body rubbing against her leg let her know that something was seriously wrong. Gulping nervously, she looked down at the little fox wagging its tail behind itself.

"Hey Kit, I thought I would make this game more interesting..." a familiar demonic voice squeaked out of the small fox, much to said foxes annoyance.

"Kyuubi?" Naruto asked cautiously. After getting a nod from the little fox, she snatched it up by the back of its neck and shouted in its face. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO NOW YOU LITTLE BASTARD!"

"I told you... I made the game more interesting... by sticking all of you and your friends into it..." Kyuubi replied with a smirk. "And I suspect that you are the lucky one to land on a hive square. Have fun Kit!"

Following Kyuubi's look over her shoulder, she paled as she saw the massive and ugly monster that seemed to be drawn forth from her darkest nightmares after that mission with Shino. She would guess that it was one of those youma things, but right now she had to run until she figured out how to fight.

Sadly, she didn't get that chance, as it let out a roar of challenge, and surged at the severely confused blonde girl. It would seem the battle had been joined, whether she wanted to or not.