Senran Kagura: Uzumaki Chronicles

by KingSora3

He ran away after the successful mission to save his old teammate. He lived on the run, trying to find to place to call home. Now he does, only this was in a different world filled with beautiful ninja girls with large breasts.

2. Scroll 2

Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and Senran Kagura belongs to Marvelous/Xseed

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Scroll 2: School Days

Chapter Cover: The cover art shows Team Hanzō with their new addition Naruto, all dressed in their school uniform. They were hanging out on a bridge while smiling at the viewers.

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Today is a beautiful morning. While the sun hasn't really gotten up yet, the red sky that was warm with great beauty and it had to be one of the greatest sights ever seen, with the birds singing in the background only made it better. Snoring softly in his bed was Naruto Uzumaki. He continued to sleep away peacefully in the quietness of his room.

Well, except for the hushed whispers. Despite the whispers, Naruto continued to sleep without a care in the world. But suddenly, he felt a hand nudging his shoulder gently.

"Naruto." A gentle voice spoke.

"Zzz…"

"Wake up, Naruto." A stern voice spoke this time.

"Zzz…"

"Naruto~!" A finger poked his whiskered cheek several times. "Please wake up, we're gonna be late~!"

Naruto still didn't bulge, even to the plea as he softly grabbed the hand and nuzzled it close to his cheek, a delighted look on his face. "Zzz…five…more minutes…let me…finish this ramen…" He then brought the hand to his lips and kissed it.

"Eep?!"

"..."

"Whoa! Drop the umbrella, Yagyū. Let Big Sis Katsu handle this."

"Then please hurry up, Katsuragi. Otherwise, we'll be late."

Katsuragi leaned towards the sleeping form of Naruto, while having one of her perverted looks on her face as her breasts hovered over his face. Seeing him sleep like this was so adorable, especially since he's dreaming about his ramen. He was like a cute little foxy sleeping peacefully by his lonesome. "Naru~" She sang. "If you don't wake up, I might do something naughty to you."

Ikaruga already had Hien ready just in case she tried anything with Naruto while the others were watching in anticipation. Seeing Naruto was still sleeping, Katsuragi leaned closer and closer till her lips were mere centimeters away from his. But suddenly, with a large mischievous smile, she pulled away from him and took out an air horn from her breasts.

Naruto woke up with a scream as the sound of a loud whistle made him jump…and clung to the ceiling, his hands and feet stuck on the surface, almost like a scared cat. "WHAT!? WHAT'S GOING ON!?"

"Rise and shine, sleeping cutie!"

He got his bearings after hearing the morning greeting. He looked down to see the Hanzō girls in their animal themed pajamas, looking up at him with surprise. Though his jaw dropped when he saw Ikaruga wasn't wearing animal theme pajamas like the rest. No, she was in a pink nightgown!

"Does she not realize what she's wearing!?" He asked himself. Hearing laughter made him look at Katsuragi, who was grinning at him in a cheeky manner as she spun the air horn in her hand. "You!?"

"Well, good morning to you as well! Took you long enough to wake up, didn't it?"

"Why!?" Naruto demanded with a comical glare on his face. "I was having a good dream where I won a lifetime supply of ramen!"

"Oh, poor baby. We're sorry to wake you from your delicious ramen dream." Katsuragi apologized with a big teasing grin. "I bet you had a lovely sexy girl there to hand you the gold ticket and you kissed her hand, didn't ya?"

Naruto continued to glare at her but got confused as he saw Hibari blushing up a storm as she looked away from him and was playing with her hands while Yagyū looked like she wanted to kill him which made him flinch and lose his grip on the ceiling as he fell on the bed in a comical tangled mess. "I am going to get you back for that Katsu. I promise you!" He swore while he laid for a couple of seconds before sitting up. "What time is it?"

"6:30 AM. I told you that you need to be awake bright and early." Ikaruga scolded.

"Sorry for not having an alarm clock." Naruto grumbled as he yawned and stretched his body out. He flinched however when Ikaruga glared at him.

"Then we'll get you one later. Hurry up and get ready so we can leave."

"Alright! Alright! I'm getting up!" Naruto said as he got up and took his shirt off, tossing it to the side. He was about to reach for his shorts before he froze in place as he realized he still had an audience. Slowly looking at them, they were blushing very brightly. Asuka and Ikaruga obviously turned away, a glaring Yagyū had to cover Hibari's eyes as she moved her arms in a comedic fashion and Katsuragi was enjoying the show.

"Oh yeah! Keep it going!"

"Do you mind!?" Naruto asked in embarrassment with his face burning hot. The girls immediately rushed out with Ikaruga having to drag the complaining Katsuragi with them. She bowed her head in apology at him and closed the door. He sighed but then smiled happily as he continued what he was doing.

Yesterday was fun for him. The girls went and showed him around all of Asakusa, allowing him to fully take in the sights of the district unlike when he first arrived. He already knew from Granny that Tokyo was a huge city but he didn't think the city would be so humongous to the point that it has several districts in it. It's no wonder it's Japan's capital city and it made him wonder what the other major cities throughout the world were like.

After Katsuragi took him to her favorite ramen joint, the girls took him to the various stores that sell different things such as clothes, sneakers/shoes, electronics and even food restaurants. They even showed him around the many places where they trained at. Of course, they garnered a lot of attention from the people around them, though they were more focused on him specifically. Some of them thought he was a foreigner (which is true), others thought he was a model or an actor (which he isn't), and the men were seething at him in jealousy because he was with the girls. Even all of the women were staring at him, including those who already had boyfriends or were married which only made more men glare at him even more.

Which of course, they ignored.

After putting on his uniform, Naruto looked at himself in the mirror, a flat expression appeared on his face. "I seriously look like a dork." He finally said. He really hated wearing proper uniforms like this. It made him feel weird. But hey, it was the rules around here, so he'll play by them.

For now.

"Yosh! Time to start the day!"

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After washing his face and brushing his teeth, the group started their journey to school. It was really bright and early as nobody was even out yet, which was perfect for them. As soon as they made it inside the ninja room, they went to the sushi counter and started to have breakfast. After they were finished eating, a smoke bomb came out of nowhere, causing the group to turn to the perp in question.

"Again!?" Naruto asked in annoyance. He even used extra smoke this time!

"Good morning, everyone!" Kiriya greeted his students.

"Good morning, sensei!" The girls returned the greeting as they stood and bowed their heads to their teacher, except for Naruto who waved his hand at him and offered his own form of greeting.

"Morning, Smoke Bomb sensei!" He said this in a good natured manner, which made some of the girls hide their giggles, though Ikaruga glanced his way with a glare.

"Naruto, show some respect to Kiriya-sensei!" She sternly told him as he looked at her with his eyebrows raised up.

"What? He's cool with it, right Smoke Bomb sensei?" The last Uzumaki asked with a smile.

"No. I'm not 'cool' with it. Please don't call me that." Kiriya said with a flat look on his face.

Naruto pouted and was about to say something, before he saw the dangerous glint in Ikaruga's eyes, causing him to flinch slightly and raise his hands up. "Okay. Okay." He stood up and bowed his head. "Good morning, Kiriya-sensei."

Kiriya continued to flatly stare at Naruto before nodding his head. Yup. This boy is going to cause him headaches in the future. "Alright, everyone! Class is in session!" The Hanzō ninjas all sat in seiza position with the teacher himself sitting in front of his students. "Today, we will be helping Naruto learn more about Secret Ninja Arts and help him find his guardian animal." He started his explanation. "Now as mentioned the other day, Secret Ninja Arts are secret shinobi techniques that exhibit a paranormal power by embodying a creature imagined within the mind. Yagyū, continue!"

"When summoning a creature, it can be anything you want. It doesn't matter if it's real or imaginary. However, the summoning is greatly affected by the person's innate characteristics or in other words 'compatibility'." Yagyū instantly responded.

Kiriya nodded. "This is also the reason why some shinobi can summon more than one creature. If you try to summon something at random, chances are the summoning will be a failure."

"Innate characteristics and compatibility." Naruto mumbled as he thought back to all the summoning animals he's seen.

Each of those animals that were summoned by their ninja were in great compatibility with their summoners. Kakashi with his dogs, Orochimaru with his damn snakes, Jiraiya with the toads and Tsunade with her slugs. For a while he had the toads too, but after he left the leaf village, he cut off his ties with them. But in this world, since talking ninja animals don't exist, each shinobi has a personal animal spirit that lies hidden inside them. And that animal spiritually represents who those ninja are in nature.

"So what if you're part of a family that already has a guardian animal?" Naruto asked curiously. "Do you also have the same animal as them or you get something different?"

"Sometimes, one's family line has a bearing on one's summoning beast, like Asuka's family." Kiriya answered.

"Really? So Asuka's whole family has the toad as their guardian?" Naruto asked, getting Asuka to laugh a little.

"Not everyone in my family." The second year student replied. "Grandma has the African Elephant as her guardian."

Naruto knows what an elephant is but he never heard of an African Elephant. Must be a native animal of this world.

"To use Secret Ninja Arts, you need a Secret Ninja Art scroll which allows you to initiate Shinobi Tenshin in order to use them and other shinobi abilities." Kiriya reminded him of yesterday's lesson. "As you've seen yesterday, Secret Ninja Arts can be used through the use of weapons or fighting styles, summoning animals, and many others. But it's not limited to only one thing, as one can attain the ability to combine the types, like an affinity imbued weapon. Speaking of elements, Hibari!"

Hibari jolted at being called out. "Yes!?"

"Recite the five fundamental elements!"

"Um, I think they were wood, fire, water, metal and earth!" Hibari answered.

"Correct!" Kiriya nodded to her on the correct response, getting her to cheer. "Those five elements are crucial in mastering shinobi techniques."

"Okay. I think I understand it." Naruto said with a nod as he recalled the spar the other day, seeing the girls use some kind of elemental attack.

"That reminds me." Katsuragi said, getting the attention as she looked at the only boy in class. "What was up with that technique thing that your clone did on me?"

Yesterday while they were touring, he told them more about the Shadow Clone Jutsu. It was already amazing to know that he can create solid clones of himself, but it was more amazing when they learned that when the clones get destroyed, whatever they learn, the original will know.

"Oh. That was one of my wind style techniques." Naruto replied.

"Wind style?" Asuka asked.

"Yeah. See, it's something called nature transformation. With it, I'm able to turn my chakra into an element and be able to do an elemental jutsu." Naruto explained, raising his hand up, getting everyone to watch in amazement as they saw blue energy on his before it turned green wind dancing softly around it. "As you can tell, my chakra nature is wind."

"That's sick!" Katsuragi commented, feeling happy that there's a fellow wind user like her.

"If your chakra is wind, does that mean your guardian might have a similar element?" Hibari asked curiously.

"It might." Naruto said, though truthfully he wasn't sure. While his chakra nature is wind, he's going to be using the powers of this world. Which means his guardian, whatever it might be, might have a different element.

Just like yesterday, morning class flew like a blur as Kiriya explained more about Secret Ninja Arts and its limitations. Afterwards, the group left the building as training would be held outside the academy. They made it off campus to a far off secluded area in the forest, where a small river flowed between a series of cliffs, connected to a small wooden bridge that amazed Naruto by the area's sight. The girls had just transformed into their Shinobi Form, while Naruto continued to observe their surroundings.

"I can see why this is your training spot. This place is beautiful." Naruto commented, a nostalgic look on his face. "So peaceful and quiet."

"You must really love nature, huh?" Asuka asked with a smile.

"You bet." Naruto replied. He never really had a time where he could just sit back and take a moment to enjoy the beauty of nature.

"As much as I love nature myself, we still have class going on." Kiriya told Naruto, getting him to pay full attention. "Your Shinobi Tenshin is vital for you in order to use your Secret Ninja Arts. That also includes summoning your guardian. Without your scroll to initiate your transformation, you would be in dire trouble. Though in your case, you would be stuck using your chakra."

"Don't want that to happen." Naruto mumbled, mostly to himself. After seeing the girls' Secret Ninja Arts in action, he decided that when he wants to use his jutsu, he'll only do it when he's in his Shinobi Form. He doesn't know if it'll work but it can't hurt to try.

"Exactly." Kiriya agreed with what he said. "That's why it's very important to keep the scroll hidden on your person and why you shouldn't lose it."

Even though Kiriya said that, what Naruto heard was "If you lose that scroll, then it's your ass.".

Still he kept his comical indifferent expression and nodded his head. He blinked when Kiriya held a white scroll for him to take, which he did. The scroll had the kanji for Yang written on it.

"Go ahead and say Shinobi Tenshin." Kiriya told him. "And remember, your transformation represents your inner self."

"It can even be other clothes too!" Katsuragi called out, getting everyone to turn to her. Blue sparkles appeared around her, changing her outfit into a sexy nurse's uniform, getting Naruto's eyes to widen into comical plates. "What do you think? Pretty hot, right?"

"Er…" He couldn't even respond as he stared at the white nurse uniform as it hugged her chest and waist wonderfully to the point that something down below was starting to react. It made him turn away to hide his blushing face as he stared at their teacher for an explanation

Kiriya sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose, ignoring the hushed scolding Ikaruga was giving to her fellow third year senior. "Yes, as Katsuragi said, there's no rule saying what type of shinobi outfit you can wear when you do the transformation. But it's highly recommended that you wear an outfit that allows for mobility."

Naruto nodded and looked at the scroll with a grin forming on his face. "All right!" He tossed the scroll up and caught it. "Shinobi Tenshin!"

The scroll glowed a bright orange-yellow color, getting everyone to close their eyes as it unraveled itself around him. Naruto felt his uniform disappear, leaving him completely naked and new clothes started to form. If he had to describe it, it would be that someone was forcefully putting clothes on him. Once the blinding light disappeared, everyone looked at Naruto and their eyes widened as they saw his transformation. He wore a form-fitting black long sleeve tight shirt that's tucked into black pants and black shinobi sandals. He wore orange fingerless ironclad gloves with black cuffs. Over his outfit was a stylish long short sleeve orange jacket that had nine sharp edges at the end and red trimmings. There was also a large red spiral design on the back of the jacket.

"Whoa!" Naruto looked down at his outfit, his eyes widening in amazement as he happily checked himself out. Being in this form, he could feel an incredible new kind of energy flowing through him. He knew it wasn't his chakra, which meant this must be the power of nature Kiriya was talking about.

"So cool!" Asuka and Hibari exclaimed, looking awestrucked at Naruto's outfit as they went to get a closer look.

"Awesome!" Katsuragi exclaimed, also running over to join them and check out Naruto's awesome look.

"Most impressive." Ikaruga said, looking very amazed at Naruto's Turnover.

"Not bad." Yagyū simply said.

"Very well done Naruto!" Kiriya complimented him with a proud smile. "Perfectly executed."

"Of course!" Naruto said happily, placing his fists on his hips. "I'm just that awesome, dattebayo!" He covered his mouth with his hands, a shock look on his face. Everyone was staring at him with various looks. Kiriya raised a single eyebrow, Asuka looked confused, Ikaruga blinked, Hibari was curious, Yagyū remained stoic and he didn't like the big grin that was on Katsuragi's face.

"Dattebayo?" Asuka asked, her head tilting to the side.

Naruto blushed in embarrassment as he removed his hands from his mouth, looking away from everyone. "It's…something that I often said whenever I got excited." He seriously thought he got rid of that habit!

"I get it! So it's like your trademark catchphrase." Asuka suggested which felt like a stab to Naruto's heart.

"Dattebayo…I like it!" Hibari cheerfully said, as she turned to her best friend. "It sounds really cute, dattebayo! Right, Yagyū?"

Yagyū offered a shrug in response.

"Wha-!?"

"I've never heard of a phrase like that before. What does it even mean?" Ikaruga asked.

"It doesn't…" Naruto started to explain himself before Katsuragi appeared behind him, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"I like it too! It fits ya!" Katsuragi said, looking at him with a half lidded gaze as she leaned close to his ear, getting him to tense up. "Dat-te-bayo~"

Naruto's whole face turned red in embarrassment as he covered his face to hide it. "Please stop!" He pleaded to the laughing Katsuragi.

"Hey! Katsu! Don't tease him like that!" Asuka exclaimed.

Kiriya had a flat look on his face as he watched his students interact. He let out a sigh and looked sternly at them. "Enough!"

All playing stopped as the three girls went back to their spots while Naruto looked at Kiriya

"Now that you've activated your Shinobi Form, it's time to summon your guardian." The teacher said before turning to address the girls. "To help him get a better understanding of how to summon his guardian, you girls will be summoning your animals as a demonstration. First is-"

"I'll go! I'll go!" Hibari happily said. She looked very excited too, Naruto noted, which told him that this must be her very part.

Kiriya sighed at the interruption before continuing. "Very well."

She clasped her hands together, her eyes were closed tight in concentration. A few seconds later a large puff of smoke appeared in front of Hibari, the smoke soon died down to reveal the same bunny as the other day. She picked him up and held him in front of the wide eyed Naruto.

"Ninto, this is our new friend, Naruto! Say hi!" Hibari introduced her rabbit to him, who continued to stare in amazement.

"A ninja rabbit." Naruto said before smiling at him. "This is the first time I've ever seen one! You were pretty awesome yesterday when you rode that cloud!"

Ninto made a sound and let a happy smirk appear on his face. He blinked when Naruto raised his fist up in front of him.

"Nice to meet you, Ninto." Naruto greeted the little guardian, who now understood the gesture and bumped fists. The rabbit guardian then vanished.

"Hooray!" Hibari cheered as she hugged the surprised Naruto. "I'm so happy you two became friends!"

"I…seem to have that effect on certain animals." Naruto smiled awkwardly as he patted Hibari's back. Hey, he eventually became friends with a giant nine tailed fox, so of course he could be friends with smaller animals.

"Now then, next person!" Kiriya called out.

Yagyū stepped forward, her face darkened slightly at seeing Naruto and Hibari hugging even as she released him. She closed her lone eye and unsurprisingly it didn't take her long to summon her guardian. A large puff of smoke engulfed the first year and when the smoke died down Yagyū was sitting on a large icy blue colored squid. The squid was much larger than any of them were and it radiated a cold aura.

"As you saw the other day, this is my guardian." Yagyū introduced her guardian as she narrowed her only eye on Naruto. "I'd be careful around him, he just loves to freeze his enemies."

"Y-Yeah. Noted!" Naruto said nervously while backing away from the giant ice squid before stopping as it vanished. He still remembered how the thing sent chucks of ice at him and they were so incredibly freaking cold.

"Guess it's my turn!" Katsuragi excitedly stepped forward and snapped her fingers. "Come on out, you sexy beast!" In a large puff of smoke, a large green roaring dragon came out, releasing a strong gust of wind that made the others cover their faces. The dragon was flying around the area for a couple of minutes before it flew back around Katsuragi, who stood quite proud and smug. She also seemed to enjoy the dumbfounded look on his face. "This is my guardian! Badass, huh?"

Naruto nodded dumbly, unable to respond due to the disbelief that he was seeing an actual dragon in front of him that wasn't a jutsu. It looked like Katsu really loved his reaction to seeing her guardian as her smugness seemed to have increased more. She snapped her fingers again and it disappeared. Ikaruga stepped up next, her eyes already closed before they snapped open and her guardian came out in an explosion of blue flames directly behind her. The blue fiery bird flew around her before flying behind her to stare at Naruto. It let loose a screech before vanishing.

"That was my guardian, the Phoenix." Ikaruga said. She blinked when Naruto stared at the empty space where her guardian once stood, his eyes widened in amazement. "Naruto?"

"...now that's what I call a bird with a fiery spirit." Naruto commented. He's traveled all over the Great Nations and seen various animals, but he never once saw or heard of a bird called a phoenix. Must be a native of this world like this African Elephant Asuka mentioned earlier.

Kiriya laughed at that while the others let out giggles. "Most true. Alright Asuka, you're the last one."

"Got it." Asuka was the last one to step up as she closed her eyes, her face turned into a mask of concentration as she held up her fingers in a tiger sign. She closed her eyes and concentrated as hard as she could. The spot where she was standing rumbled and the ground began cracking beneath her before a large toad broke through.

It was a large light green toad that had pink rosy cheeks, a white belly and red lips that was carrying a wooden pipe. It wore a red scarf around its neck like Asuka, only this one had white designs on it, and it carried a uchiwa fan. The design of the fan has a red circle with a white background.

"...huh." Naruto looked at the amphibian with interest as he was now being reminded of Gamakichi and Chief Toad. He never really summoned any toads outside of those two before he was banished. So when he was told that Asuka's guardian was a toad, he expected to see something that was like them. Instead of a sword, it had a fan, which he wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a weapon or not, but judging by the way it was fanning itself, it probably wasn't.

But seeing the pipe in its mouth made him sweat drop though. Were all toads smokers or something?

"Hey." Naruto greeted the toad with a hand wave.

The toad stopped its fanning and turned towards him. It looked him up and down before it let out a large croak in response as it continued to fan itself, getting him to sweat drop again. Okay, so guardians can't talk. Good to know.

"Hey! Why'd you come out from the ground? That scared me!" Asuka admonished her guardian. It let out another large croak before the blasted amphibian began jumping around wildly, getting her to scream.

Naruto's eyes widened at seeing this as Asuka held on tightly to her guardian. Not even the toads Jiraiya summoned acted like that. Hell, he had to fight Chief Toad just to get him to acknowledge him. If her toad was like this, then what about her mom and grandpa?

Asuka didn't last long and soon enough she was bucked off the toad like it was a mechanical bull. Lucky for her the toad launched her in the general direction of her friends and was caught by Naruto with the toad vanishing afterwards.

"Nice guardian." Naruto commented as he looked at the blushing girl in his arms before letting her stand, earning a silent bow of thanks.

"Okay, Naruto. Now that everyone has summoned their animals, it's your turn." Kiriya told him.

"Right! So, how does it work exactly?" Naruto asked, now getting excited.

"Just envision the animal you want to summon." Kiriya told him. "Remember, it can be real or imaginary but it has to be compatible with you."

Naruto nodded, his smile widening further. He walked forward until he was near the very edge of the cliff. Up there he could feel the wind blowing through his hair and the smell of nature permeated his senses. When was the last time he did something like this? Where would he just take a moment to appreciate the beauty of nature?

Now that he thought about it, a while ago, he learnt about natural energy, a form of energy that circulates all throughout the world and atmosphere. This energy existed in his old world long before the Sage of Six Paths spread his chakra. Ninjas who are able to harness natural energy within their bodies will be able to use senjutsu, showing their status as sages.

But this world was different. Chakra doesn't exist here. Ninjas of this world use the power of nature to use their abilities. The same power that he's currently using in his Turnover. So with that, he closed his eyes and began his concentration.

"Just envision it. The animal I want to summon." It has to be an animal that matches his innate characteristics and has a compatibility with him. But more than that, he wanted an animal to honor his former tailed beast companion. So, as he thought about Kurama, he started to feel something happening. Like a connection has been made.

Meanwhile, everyone was watching Naruto, all of them waiting in anticipation for his guardian to appear.

"Wow. Look at him go." Asuka said, her eyes wide with surprise.

"Yeah. He looks so serious." Hibari whispered so as to not distract Naruto.

"I wasn't expecting him to be so calm with this." Ikaruga admitted who was also surprised. She saw him as someone who was energetic and a troublemaker. So seeing how calm and serious he was earned him her respect.

"What sort of animal do you think he's going to summon?" Asuka asked.

"Hehe! Judging by those whisker marks on his face, it's obviously going to be a sexy foxy!" Katsuragi exclaimed with a confident smile.

"Well you please cut that out?" Ikaruga asked, looking slightly annoyed at Katsuragi.

"Hey, something's happening." Yagyū told everyone.

The girls turned to Naruto and noticed something odd was happening. An unnatural wind began blowing past around him. The wind picked up even more as birds started to fly over around him, landing on his head and shoulders. Soon enough more birds started flying over and landed in the grass.

"Wow! Look at the birdies!" Hibari said in awe as she looked at the different colored birds gathered around Naruto.

"Kiriya-sensei, what's going on?" Ikaruga asked. When she first summoned her phoenix, something like this had never happened to her. In fact, this hasn't happened to any of them.

"I don't know." Kiriya replied, eyes narrowing slightly. "This is…curious."

A few moments later, the birds flew away and the sudden wind disappeared. Naruto opened his eyes and looked around for a couple of seconds. He then turned to face the group with a look of bewilderment to see that they too shared his expression. It stayed for a few seconds before he sighed dejectedly. "Man, nothing happened." He walked back to join the group, hands in his pockets. "I thought I had it down."

"Don't worry, it's your first time doing this." Kiriya reassured Naruto. "We can try again later."

He sighed and nodded. He had the animal envisioned, he felt a connection had been made. So what exactly did he do wrong? Why wasn't it here? Suddenly, a burst of yellow, almost golden, like energy erupted from the spot where hestood, getting everyone to get in defensive stances while Hibari let out a surprised scream. They watched as the energy gathered together to form a silhouette of a large horse-sized creature with what looked to be like multiple tails.

Naruto's eyes widened, his earlier dejection all but disappeared as he recognized what this creature is. "No way…" He whispered as he got out of his stance. "Are you…?"

The creature then stepped forward, causing the energy to disappear and reveal its form to everyone. It was a Nine-Tailed Fox! The fox's fur is gold with an orange sun-like symbol on its forehead and markings on its body. It was wearing a red shimenawa that had a golden bell on it. Its eyes were a warm gentle red that reminded them of the rising sun.

Everyone stared in either shock or awe at the fox. Many of them have seen foxes before but they've never seen one as beautiful as this.

"Kon!" The fox barked as it leapt at the frozen Naruto, stunning everyone once they saw it shrink down to the size of a cub, causing him to fall on his back. It then started to lick his face, getting the blond haired shinobi to laugh loudly.

"Hehe! I did it! I summoned my guardian!" Naruto cheers at his accomplishment. "Hey! Stop! That tickles!"

"It's…it's…" Asuka stammered, pointing her finger at the now adorable fox.

"ADORABLE!" Hibari ran over and got on her knees to see the adorable fox up close, hearts popping out around her head. "OH MY GOSH! What a cute fox!"

The fox blinked at Hibari before it barked at her as it leapt on her face. She pulled it off and giggled when it started licking her cheek. She immediately got up and went to Yagyū, holding it close to her face. "Look Yagyū! Isn't he the sweetest?"

"..."

The fox barked at the non-responsive Yagyū as it reached over to lick her nose, getting her to flinch back slightly and blink at it. She didn't say anything, but as long as Hibari is happy she approves which she showed by nodding her head. Though she thought the fox was a good match for Naruto. Innocent-looking, yet full of surprises. But the extra tails definitely caught her off guard. The fox jumped out of Hibari's grasp, turning around to her as it let out a bark and ran around her in circles before running off.

"Incredible!" Ikaruga said with an awestruck expression as she watched Hibari happily chasing after the cub-sized kitsune. "A nine tailed fox! This is the first time I've ever seen one!"

"Indeed." Kiriya nodded, equally as stunned as she was, and started his lecture on the subject. "In some folklore, kitsune are known for being tricksters often disguising themselves to cleverly deceive others. But in others, they are portrayed as faithful guardians, friends and lovers. The more tails a kitsune has, which can be up to nine, the older, wiser, and more powerful it is. A foxtastic fit for a shinobi."

"Wow, I had no idea…wait, fox-what?" Naruto asked, looking at Kiriya in bewilderment at the bizarre word he used. Before he could ponder on that, he felt his guardian spirit standing next to him, returning back to its original height.

"Ha! I knew it was gonna be a fox!" Katsuragi cheered as Asuka walked up to the kitsune. "Score 1 for me!"

"This is so cool." The granddaughter of Hanzō said, reaching up to rub the fox's cheek, getting it to nuzzle her hand. "A kitsune. I've only read about them in storybooks, but it's the first time I've actually seen one. And its fur is so beautiful."

The fox barked in response and closed its eyes as it felt Naruto's hand rub its head. "Thanks for coming to meet me. I'll see you later, okay?"

The kitsune barked again and vanished in a puff of smoke. Soon as he returned to his regular outfit, he cheered happily. "I did it! I got my guardian!"

"A job well done, indeed. Congratulations." Kiriya smiled at him. "I think that's about it for today for class. We'll have the rest of the day off and have some dinner."

"Awesome! Another relaxing day!" Katsuragi cheered with victory finger poses. She then turned to the only boy in their class. "And it's all thanks to you Naru!" She hugged him, pressing her chest against his, getting him to stutter while red faced. With a devious grin, she grabbed his ass, getting him to let out a surprised girlish scream.

The girls and Naruto were shocked by the bold action. Katsuragi was more surprised than anything as she continued to rub his bottom. Blushing so incredibly hotly, he replaced himself with a log and backed away from her as he placed his hands behind his bottom, almost protectively.

"Katsuragi! What in the world do you think you're doing!?" Ikaruga demanded of her fellow senior with Asuka nodding in agreement.

"Yeah, Katsu! What's the big idea?"

Katsuragi didn't answer either of them as she dropped the log and looked at her hands, letting out a low whistle before turning to face the still shocked Naruto.

"Has anybody ever told you, you got a nice ass?" Naruto's blushes increased further and he shook his head, getting her to smirk in a pervy way that almost reminded him of Jiraiya. "Because you got one hell of an ass! Let me feel it again!"

"Run away!" Naruto quickly ran away from Katsuragi when she made grabbing motions with her hands, all the while keeping his backside covered. She chased after him with a perverted laugh.

"Katsuragi/Katsu!" Ikaruga and Asuka called out her name as they and the first years chased after them, leaving Kiriya by himself who was blanked face.

All the teacher did was sigh and rub the bridge of his nose, before following his students.

---

Later

"I'm very sorry for Katsuragi's actions towards you, Naruto. I will make sure she receives the right disciplinary action."

"Hey, relax. No need to take it that far. I'm good!"

Though he said that, the truth was he was trying to forget the sensation of a girl rubbing his ass like that. This was a first experience for him as girls in his old world were never that bold when it comes to sexually harassing someone, let alone a young man like him. Katsuragi was definitely the biggest pervert he ever met, even bigger than Jiraiya and the other perverts he knew combined!

Naruto and Ikaruga were both making their way to the shopping district in order to get food for everyone. Kiriya-sensei had already left to run some errands.

"Be that as it may, it is improper of her to do such a thing!" Ikaruga continued on, an annoyed look on her face. "It's bad enough that she constantly sexually harassed us but now she's doing it to you!"

"I'm guessing she's been like that, huh?" Naruto asked with a sheepish smile.

Ikaruga sighed and shook her head. "As far as I know, she's been that way the day we met during our first year together."

Katsuragi's been that way since their first year together? Wow. Talk about enduring such harassment for three years. He was impressed with Ikaruga.

"What about before you two met?"

"I'm…not sure." Ikaruga answered, looking away from him as she rubbed her arms gently. "We…we don't really talk about our past."

Naruto stared at her, already seeing that she was uncomfortable with the subject. He can already tell that all of those girls faced some form of hardship in their lives just like he had before they came to Hanzō Academy. He decided to change the subject as this was something he won't pry into. "Say, you still got the list of what the others want right?"

Ikaruga perked and sent a grateful smile his way for changing the subject. She reached behind her and took out a piece of paper. "Asuka wants futomaki rolls, you and Katsuragi want ramen, Hibari wants sweets, Yagyū wants dried squid."

"And you want your tea, right?" Naruto asked.

"Yes. That's right." Ikaruga replied. "There's plenty of stores that sell each of them."

Naruto was seriously thankful to Granny Sayuri for giving him the currency of this country. After he showed her the currency he used in his world (earning her teasing laughter when she saw his cutesy toad wallet Gama-chan) she realized that those coins he had were almost the same as the currency that was used during the feudal era, which means it could be worth a fortune. She took them and in exchange gave him money that she had after so many years of doing paid missions.

The two third years made it to their destination. The Kagurazaka Shopping District. This was where the girls took Naruto to the other day when they were showing him around Asakusa.

As they entered, they paused and looked around.

"Hm? All the stores seemed to be closed…" Ikaruga observed, now sounding a tad confused.

"But it's the middle of the day." Naruto said in confusion, remembring how packed it was yesterday. "They should be open right now. I wonder if something happened?"

His answer came in the form of crashing sounds and laughter right ahead of them. Looking in said direction, they saw teens their age dressed in their own school uniforms smashing windows, spray painting the wall and just destroying things. Some were females while the others were male. Some of them had masks on to cover their faces and others carried different weapons on them.

"What the hell is this?" Naruto asked with a frown. These guys acted like bandits.

"Of course." Ikaruga said with a narrowed expression. "Seems we have some delinquents causing trouble."

"Is this common around here?" The ex-genin of Konoha asked.

"Afraid so." The eldest member of the class replied.

"Got it." Naruto said. So there were punks all around the district and possibly the city causing nothing but trouble, huh? Not on his watch. He took a deep breath, getting Ikaruga to turn to him to see what he was about to do. He cupped his hands around his mouth. "HEEEEY! ASSHOLES!" His sudden yell made Ikaruga jump a little as she wasn't expecting him to do that. She will reprimand him for that later. Right now, all noises in the shopping district stopped as the delinquents all looked into their direction.

"Huh!? The fuck you called us gaijin!?" One of the delinquents questioned.

"Wait, I know those uniforms! They're from Hanzō Academy!" Another said.

"HAH!?" The biggest of the bunch, who Naruto had to do a double take at, stood up and looked their way. He honestly couldn't tell if she was their age or not, but she definitely looked like she shouldn't be in school anymore. If anything, she looked like an ugly gorilla girl.

You know what? That's what he'll call her.

"The fuck do you rich brats want?" Gorilla Girl demanded.

"You are interfering with this district's daily business." Ikaruga said calmly, carrying her sword Hien. "And that, I'm afraid, we can't overlook."

"You heard the lady!" Naruto told them, his arms crossed. "You and your friends got two choices, Gorilla Girl! Go home back to your parents and think about your future or wake up in a hospital with bruises on your faces! Easy way or the hard way! What's it gonna be?"

The delinquents looked at the two before looking at their leader, Gorilla Girl had angry veins on her face from the nickname Naruto gave her, as she pointed harshly and angrily at them. "GET THOSE BRATS AND TEACH THEM A LESSON!"

The delinquents charged at them, not knowing the terrible fate that will befall them.

It was only a couple of seconds, but every delinquent that was in the building were all on the ground, some of them groaning in pain while the others were knocked out. Even Gorilla Girl wasn't safe as Naruto and Ikaruga attacked her at the same time, sending her flying away. After that, all of the delinquents were left in a pile, with the two ninjas disappearing. The stores were opened again, with the people being shocked that the delinquents were taken care of after hearing so much fighting going on and they wanted to know who it was that took care of them. Right now, those heroes were hiding from view, watching as the police came and took the delinquents away.

"Whew! That was a good workout." Naruto said, rolling his arms in a circular rotation.

"Did you really have to provoke them like that?" Ikaruga asked, a stern look in her eyes as she stared at him

"Hey, I gave them a choice. They chose the hard way." Naruto shrugged, not seeing the problem with that.

Ikaruga sighed and shook her head. Second day he's here with them and she finds out that he's as reckless as Katsuragi. "Well anyway, we took care of the delinquents, now let's go get everyone's food."

"Yeah!"

After gathering everyone's food from the various food stores, the two left with bags in their hands. Ikaruga looked at Naruto with a smile. "Thank you for coming out with me to get everyone's stuff."

"It's no problem. I needed to familiarize myself with my surroundings anyway." Naruto smiled back. "Normally, I would've probably fallen asleep during class but this has been a pretty fun day!"

"I'm happy that you had fun today." Ikaruga smiles, before glaring at him slightly. "But you better not be falling asleep during class."

"Don't worry, Ika. I outgrew that years ago." Naruto reassured her.

"Good, because I hate to have to keep–" Ikaruga stopped and looked at Naruto, who stopped as well to look at her. "What did you call me?"

"Ika!" Naruto happily said her new nickname. "Ikaruga is too long of a name, so from now on I'm calling you Ika."

"Please don't just suddenly shorten my name like that." A blushing Ikaruga said as she continued walking, though it was much faster.

"Why?" Naruto asked, following after her.

"Because it sounds too affectionate and we barely know each other."

"So? We know each other now don't we? Besides, I like it and it sounds cuter."

"Naruto!" Ikaruga's reaction to her new nickname made Naruto laugh before he cried out in pain when she started pulling his ear and dragged him along with her.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! What's the problem? You know you like it, Ika! OW! Too hard! Too hard! You're pulling my ear too hard!"

Ikaruga's eyebrow twitched in annoyance as she continued to drag Naruto back to the classroom.

Did she care that they were getting a lot of attention? No.

Did she care about his protests? No, she did not.

What she did care for was the misunderstanding people were making as if they assumed the two of them were a couple.

---

"We're back!" Naruto called out as he and Ikaruga entered the ninja room. The girls were sitting at the table, waiting for them to show up.

"Now!" Ikaruga started to say as she held up a big basket with a blanket covering it up. "We've gathered everyone's food that they wanted."

"All right!" The girls cheered.

"In addition, as the class representative that I am, I had the chance to cook it all by myself in my own style." Ikaruga said happily, getting the girls to look at the basket with frozen expressions as she sat it on the table.

"Huh!?" Asuka cried out.

Naruto was rather curious with what she made. Soon as they made it to the hideout, she all but grabbed the bags of food and went into the kitchen. She didn't want him to see what she was making as she wanted it to be a surprise for all of them. But now, looking at the girls' reaction to Ika's announcement that she made something with their food, it made him feel nervous.

"I call it…" Ikaruga pulled the blanket off to show her creation. "Dried Squid Ramen: Futomaki Rolls Edition Plus Sweets!"

…

That's…

Now Naruto understood why the girls were nervous. No words could describe the monstrosity that was before them but if he had to describe it, it looked like Ika had stuffed their favorite foods together in the futomaki rolls, combining them to form this…new dish.

"As we are all friends, I thought we'd all want to eat the same thing." Ikaruga said proudly, seeing that they were all speechless at her work.

"Wow, Ika. This looks…pretty unique." Naruto said with a nervous smile on his face as it twitched.

Nobody paid attention to the nickname he gave her as they were more focused on the food.

"W-Well, Ikaruga went through all the trouble to make this…" Asuka said, shakingly reaching over to grab a roll. Despite her smiling face, she had crocodile tears rolling down her face.

"Y-Yeah, I mean what could happen?" Naruto asked as he grabbed a roll as well, making sure to not nearly barf at the sight. Ika worked her hardest to make this dish for them, there was no way he was going to let it go to waste…despite its potential to kill them.

"Bottoms up!"

Naruto and Asuka both took a big bite out of their rolls, ignoring how Katsu cried out their names. After chewing and swallowing it, their eyes widened in shock as they pulled away from their rolls to stare at them before looking at each other with stars in their eyes.

"THIS IS GOOD!"

Ika giggled as she watched the two chow down on their rolls. "Of course it is!"

The others grabbed their rolls and ate into it after hearing Asuka and Naruto's words and seeing them continue to eat theirs. They reacted positively to the food with Ika joining in.

Naruto had to admit, despite Ika's food looking scary as hell, it was surprisingly amazing. After having to be on his own after his banishment, he learned how to cook decent food for himself. Obviously, he had trouble at first, but he kept on improving and improving until he managed to get everything done even tasted some food that, appearance wise it looked good, but in actuality it tasted terrible.

Looks like the same thing applied to Ika, though it was reversed.

"Maybe I should teach her how to make her food more presentable." He thought to himself as he nodded. "Yeah, I think I'll do that."

"Say, Naruto." Naruto turned to Asuka after hearing she called him out. "I've been meaning to ask, is there anything else you can do with chakra other than your techniques?"

Now he got the others' attention as they looked his way which made him swallow and place his food down. They watched as he stood up taking several steps away from the table before jumping up to the ceiling and landed on his feet, looking down…or up, at them with a happy smile on his face.

Naturally, the girls were stunned to see this phenomenon as he just casually walked along the ceiling.

"Dude…" Katsuragi said in astonishment, never seeing something like this before.

"He's…walking on the ceiling!" Ikaruga exclaimed.

"Wow~!" Hibari watched with amazement, clapping her hands in delight as she watched Naruto was now walking on the wall before touching the floor and making his way back to the table.

"How did you do that?" Yagyū asked, curiosity coming out of her voice.

"Chakra control." Naruto simply answered. "I can control my chakra to certain parts of my body to do what you just saw."

"So does that mean you can walk any surface? Even water?" Asuka asked, looking very amazed that he was able to do something like that.

"Yeah."

"Sheesh, the clone thing, controlling the wind and now walking on ceilings? What else can you do?" Katsuragi asked, raising an eyebrow.

Naruto looked her way before placing his hands together. In a puff of smoke, he transformed into his female form. The girls were frozen in shock and disbelief as they stared at the mysterious girl. She had a much softer face than Naruto with rosy cheeks (still whiskered). Her eyes were the exact same shade as Naruto's. Her hair was the same shade of blonde though it wasn't spiky and was tied in pigtails. Her body was voluptuous with a pair of G cups breasts, a slim waist that led down to a rather round posterior. She was still dressed in the male Hanzō's uniform which was about a size too big on the girl, revealing a large amount of cleavage.

N-Naruto, is t-that you?" Ikagura asked her…wait, him(?)…er, Naruto with wide eyes.

The girl smiled slightly and nodded her head. She noted the reactions of her classmates and found them funny. "This is a Transformation Jutsu."

Even his voice sounded like a girl!

"With it, I can take on any appearance I want to." Naruto raised her arms and spun around. "As you can see, I created a modified version of it that turns me into a female version of me." She laughed sheepishly at that. She did not want to show these girls the Sexy Jutsu. Looking at Ikaruga, Asuka and Yagyū, she knew that she would either get scolded or punished by them, maybe both. Hibari would be surprised and nothing else since she was so sweet and innocent, and Katsuragi would obviously molest her.

Speaking of whom…

Naruto turned her attention to Katsuragi, seeing that she was slowly making her way to her, her face still filled with disbelief as she looked her up and down with blood dripping down her nose. A flat look appeared on her face after seeing that even as Katsuragi grabbed her chest. Her eyes widened in amazement before she gave an experimental squeeze making the female Naruto's eyebrow twitch slightly as she blushed. She was not going to react and give her the satisfaction.

"Holy cow they're real!" The blonde bombshell said before her lecherous smile returned. "This is awesome!" She continued her groping which made Naruto bite her lip to not moan. "I can't believe you've been hiding this sexy form from me! Shame on you!"

Having enough of that, Naruto undid the transformation and returned to his original form with Katsu's hands still on his chest. She immediately complained. "Aw man! Turn back!"

"Not happening, perv." Naruto chopped her head, getting her to release her hold on his chest as she pouted at him.

"So does that mean you can transform into anyone?" Hibari asked.

Naruto smiled and did another transformation, this time becoming an exact replica of Hibari which awed the girls, though Yagyū was shocked more than anything. The transformed Naruto placed a hand on her hips, a cocky smile on her face which was unfit for Hibari.

"Does this answer your question?" He even got Hibari's voice right, though the cheekiness was definitely his.

"So cool!" Hibari cheered as she got up and ran over to Hibari-Naruto. She was starry eyed as she looked at her other self. "It's another Hibari!"

"Hm-hm!" Hibari-Naruto nodded as she winked and gave her a thumbs up. "It's nice to meet you, real Hibari!"

"You too, other Hibari!" Hibari returned the greeting with a giggle.

"T…T…Two Hibaris." Yagyū said, her lone eye widened as a dinner plate as she stared at the two Hibaris, blood dripping down her nose as she glared at Hibari-Naruto who then transformed into Asuka.

"WAH!? You're me now!?" Asuka screamed as Asuka-Naruto gave a playful wink at her.

"You bet I am, dattebayo!" Asuka-Naruto said in her voice, showing everyone his trademark smile through Asuka's face causing the real Asuka to cry out in embarrassment.

"Don't do that! It's both weird and scary!"

"Oh yeah! Two Asukas for the price of one!" The two Asukas felt Katsuragi grab their chests and groped them, shocking them greatly while she looked to be in bliss. "I love this!"

"Katsu/Oi!"

While the chaos was going on inside the Ninja Room as Naruto transformed into each of the girls earning different reactions from them (With Yagyu threatening him by pulling her sword out of her umbrella when he turned into her), Kiriya was in hiding, watching all of this happen and felt a headache starting to appear. It only got worse as Naruto now transformed into him, and was imitating him in a goofy manner, earning laughter from everyone.

"The kitsune…a perfect representation of who Naruto is." As he thought this, Kiriya let a smile grace his features.

---

Next Day

Today was another day for school and shinobi training as the Hanzō shinobi were on the roof of the school building and just like yesterday, they were in their shinobi forms.

"Alright, Naruto. Now that you have your Shinobi Transformation and guardian…it is time to test it out." Kiriya made a hand sign and several wooden contraptions wearing light armor appeared.

Naruto was surprised to see these wooden constructs. He walked to one of them and poked it. "What are these things?"

"They are our training dummies." Kiriya replied. "Just as the name suggests, they are mainly used for combat training to help you improve your fighting styles. I was going to have you fight them on your first day though you said you wanted to fight the girls."

"Training dummies." Naruto said, moving back a little as he looked the dummy up and down.

They looked and sounded awfully a lot like the puppet weapons back in the Great Nations, except they don't have a puppet master controlling them. This had to be the coolest thing he's ever seen!

Looking at his hand, he clenched it into his fist and looked at the dummy. He took a stance and threw his right hand out in a jab.

*Fwoosh!*

The dummy got sent flying back until it impacted the roof's entrance wall, thereby destroying it. It's arm twitched slightly but then it disappeared in puffs of smoke.

Naruto watched with an open mouth as he looked at his fist. "W-What the hell!? I…I wasn't even using my chakra! Is this really the power of the Turnover?"

Looking around at everyone, instead of being surprised, they were more impressed by what he did. But unfortunately for Naruto, the training dummies weren't impressed as they all turned to comically glare at him in righteous fury, getting him to sweat drop. Kiriya silently prepared a shinobi barrier.

"Um…sorry." Naruto apologized in a sheepish manner.

The training dummies leap at Naruto and they end up getting jumbled up together in a dog pile. The girls were all blinking at the sight with Kiriya raising an eyebrow at that.

"Um…are you okay, Naruto?" Asuka asked, feeling a little worried for him. She looked like she was ready to jump and save him until…

"Of course I'm okay."

The girls jumped in shock at hearing Naruto's voice so close to them. They looked and saw that he was right next to them, smiling cheekily at the pile of dummies.

"Huh!? How did–? EH!?" Asuka looked back and forth between Naruto and the pile of dummies, a comical confused look on her face.

"Someone sure is quick on their feet." Katsuragi commented.

"It's a gift." Naruto smiled cheekily. He walked ahead and cracked his neck and knuckles, smirking in anticipation. Since this is his first time using this form, he better take it nice and slowly so he can get the hang of it. He let out a whistle, getting the dummies' attention. "All right, guys! Let's dance!" He vanished in a burst of speed that surprised the Hanzō shinobi. A second later, the dummies were sent flying away by a powerful force.

The whole class watched as Naruto was having the time of his life fighting against the training dummies. Just like when he spared with the girls the other day, he looked like he was having all kinds of fun with the dummies.

"Check him out!" Katsuragi exclaimed, now even more impressed with Naruto. He was already amazing after he managed to handle all five of them together, but now that he has his Shinobi Transformation and seeing it in action is even more impressive. He had to be incredibly strong and it made her want to fight him.

"I know! He's moving so fast I can barely see him!" Asuka could hardly keep up with Naruto's movement. One minute he was there, the next he was gone.

"I can't see him either." Hibari pouted. She, like the others, can see the dummies getting destroyed but she can't see him. "What about you Yagyū?"

Yagyū shook her head. "I'm more surprised that he's not using any of his jutsu or Ninja Arts."

Ikaruga hums slightly. "I believe Naruto is trying to get used to his Shinobi Transformation."

They could see that Naruto had slowed down and was now fighting against the dummies in hand to hand combat.

"Even without a Shinobi Turnover, Naruto managed to fight against all of us without breaking a sweat. But now that he has it, he's testing himself to see just how strong he currently is."

"Yes. That is exactly right, Ikaruga." Kiriya affirmed what she said. "Remember, all his life he's studied the ways of how to use his chakra, so things like this and Secret Ninja Arts are new to him.."

"Hm…" Asuka hums to herself, watching Naruto have fun with the dummies as he continues to beat them. She knew that out of all of them, Naruto is definitely stronger than them put together due to how experienced he was and this was before he had his guardian and transformation scroll. It only proved to show how still inexperienced she still is. She's nowhere near as strong as Katsu is. Ikaruga is much faster than her. Yagyū's technical mastery and Hibari's espionage skills are superior to hers.

But with all of that put together, Naruto beats them all in everything. This just motivated her to get stronger so she can catch up to them.

"Alright! Let's test it out!" Naruto said, placing his fingers in a cross. "Multi-Shadow Clone!" In large amounts of smoke the roof was filled with multiple Narutos, leaving everyone awestruck while Naruto was cheering happily.

"Awesome! It works!" The clones dispersed Since he was using the power of nature, he figured that maybe he could incorporate his jutsu into his Turnover and it worked! While in his regular form, his limit was only five clones due to his low chakra reserves. But now in his Turnover, when he does his jutsu, he won't have to worry about wasting chakra!

Naruto looked at the remaining wooden puppets as they charged at him. His eyes briefly turned red as he summoned the power of his Guardian. Nine light blue fireballs appeared around him in a circle. "Secret Ninja Art: Fox Fire!" The fireballs shot out towards the wooden puppets, causing them to get incinerated in blue flames. He looked down at his hands, an excited look on his face, not paying any mind to the dumbfounded looks everyone was giving him.

It was official. He loved this world!

---

After he was finished destroying the dummies, Kiriya decided to have them all compete with each other to see who would destroy the most dummies. With Naruto already gotten used to his new form, he managed to destroy his group of dummies first, with Ika, Katsu and Yagyū coming after him. Asuka and Hibari were the last ones to finish.

It was now lunchtime and the girls were taking showers in the ninja room. Naruto decided to relax, all the while thinking about what he learned in class.

Looks like even though they're still students they're still assigned to missions and they get paid for it if it's successful. Not only that, the way rankings work in this world are close yet also different than in the Great Nations.

Genin (Lesser Shinobi), Chūnin (Acolyte Shinobi), Jōnin (Greater Shinobi). Those were the three ranks he was more familiar with. But the others were completely new to him. Onmitsu (Anointed Shinobi, Assassin or Scout), Tokujōnin (Major Shinobi), Saijōnin (High Shinobi), Tenjōnin (Superior Shinobi) and finally Gokujōnin (Elite Shinobi). Of course there was no Kage (Shadow) rank in this world. Since there's no Kage, that also means no ANBU.

All shinobi start off as Shinobi Students when they first begin training at their Shinobi School of choice. They later have the chance to increase their Shinobi Rank during school by taking a Promotion Exam. He already figured these Promotion Exams weren't like the Chūnin Exam for obvious reasons. So of course these exams are more personal and private. He gotta admit though, he didn't really care much about ranks anymore after he got banished. Even though he just started out as a Shinobi Student in this world, he had years of experience of being a ninja back in his old one. He's been on missions before, some were light easy work and others were more challenging.

Naruto's thoughts went straight towards the yōma. Earlier, he made a few clones to do a sweep around the area just in case they ever popped out. He knows that the only way for them to appear is for when there's a shinobi barrier activated but Granny Sayuri told him that there are those, mainly evil shinobi, who would try and use the yōma for their own nefarious deed. Thankfully, after all of the clones dispersed, nothing weird seemed to be going on. For now at least. But he'll still be ready for them in case they show up.

And then there was something she and the sisters told him about. They had another secret rank that was to be kept hidden from the students until they graduated.

Kagura. The highest and most exalted Shinobi Rank. It's a rank given to those who fight against yōma in the front line. Kagura are highly revered within the shinobi world, seen as the peak of power and the ultimate pinnacle of success, almost as if they are gods. To him, it sounded like those who got the rank were as powerful as the Sage of Six Paths. The Mikagura sisters told him the title was named after someone named Kagura, the Slayer of Yōma, an extremely powerful shinobi from ancient times. He didn't know how powerful but if he had to guess it's probably on par with the Sage of Six Paths.

"The Slayer of Yōma." Naruto said as he tried to imagine her figure. "I wonder what type of person she was."

Hearing the door open made Naruto look to see the girls coming back from their mid-day shower, clean as a whistle. As they began to relax, they heard a joyful laughter as the door opened and in came the legendary shinobi himself, holding a basket in his hand. To the normal eye, he didn't really look that impressive, just your typical old geezer wearing a light brown kimono along with a dark jacket and sandals for footwear instead of shoes. His hair is gray, tied to a ponytail, a thick mustache and beard adorning his face. True to being an old man he had wrinkles as well but unlike most old men, this one stood tall and proud.

Naruto's eyes became wide with shock as he recognized this old man. He stood up and pointed at him. "PERVY GRAMPS!?" The girls jumped at hearing his shocked yell as they and the old man looked his way.

"Ah!" A wide smile formed on his face as he recognized him. "Well, if it isn't the young man from the other day!"

"You gotta be kidding me!" Naruto said, still shocked to see him. "You're a freaking ninja!?"

"I was, but now I'm just a retired old man running a restaurant." The old man laughed at his shocked expression.

Meanwhile, the girls continued to look back and forth between, surprise written on their faces. "You know grandpa, Naruto?" Asuka asked curiously.

Naruto went stiff as he slowly turned to Asuka. "Grandpa? You mean…this guy is…" He turned to the old man, who still had that wide smile on his face. "You're Hanzō!?"

"Yup! I heard my dear wife took care of you during your four month stay with her." Hanzō said. "Pleasure to properly meet you, Naruto."

Naruto was gobsmacked as he stared at the legendary shinobi master with his eyebrows twitching before he hung his head low and groans loudly in annoyance. The famous legend he heard so much about these past months since he woke up in this world, was in fact a no good damn pervert. What's more, he's Asuka's grandpa and Granny's HUSBAND!?

Why the hell was he a magnet to old perverts!?

"So…how do you two know each other?" Katsuragi asked curiously.

"We…met on the day I got here." Naruto answered, his eyebrow still twitching as he recalled the moment. "I got lost and he was the one who pointed in the right direction. Before I left…he tried to give me something…"

"What did he try to give you?" Asuka asked, brimming with curiosity. The Hanzō team were also waiting to hear what the legendary shinobi could have given him.

"...a dirty magazine." Naruto answered lamely.

"WHAT!?" Asuka shot up with a large blush.

"And when he asked if I prefer breasts or butts, I smacked him across the head with it and threw it away."

Ikaruga sighed loudly at the words while shaking her head, and Yagyū looked disinterested. Hibari watched with childlike confusion. Katsuragi was enjoying every second of this. Asuka now glared at her grandfather, shaking her fist at him. "GRANDPA!"

"Now Asuka, it was just a discussion between fellow men." Hanzō said. "Besides, I didn't mean to give the dirty magazine to him. I misplaced it with this other book I was reading."

Naruto gave him a doubtful expression. And whatever he was trying to give him was more than like one of those adult books Jiraiya created.

"And I only asked out of simple curiosity!" Hanzō continued passionately. "After all, boys his age prefer one over the other, and I made a chart to see which side would win! So I ask again, boy! What. Is. Your. Preference!?"

The Uzumaki heir looked ready to strangle the old man just to shut him up. He could feel everyone's eyes on him, with Katsuragi having an eager look on her face as she wanted to know as well. This damn pervert putting him on the spot like this! "Not answering." Was his answer.

"What!? Why not?!" Hanzō asked, a look of betrayal on his face.

"Cme on Naru! I wanna know too!" Katsuragi poked his chest repeatedly. "And you better not say both! That doesn't count!"

"...I should've left for ramen when I had the chance." Naruto moans in his hands. He really didn't expect to deal with two perverts today, especially since one of them is a literal old man.

"Can you please tell me why you're here, grandpa!?" Asuka yelled with a red face. She didn't want to hear about such lewd topics.

Thankfully, a smoke bomb erupted in the room, putting an end to the topic which Naruto, Asuka and Ikaruga were thankful for, though they wished he stopped using extra smoke.

"Master Hanzō. It's been a while." Kiriya said, bowing to the still coughing old man.

"I still see you haven't changed Kiriya." Hanzō coughed before stopping when the smoke cleared away. "Anyway, to answer your question my dear, I thought I'd make lunch for everyone."

At that, he unties a cloth wrapper with the smell of rice vinegar in the air. Naruto's mouth started drooling as soon as the smell reached his nose while Hibari let out a cheer. The students all gathered around the legendary shinobi to see big futomaki rolls.

"Here you go! Grandpa's special futomaki rolls!"

"Whoa…" Naruto said. He wasn't much of a sushi guy, but he won't lie, they looked really delicious. And hey, food is food. "You actually make this at your restaurant Pervy Gramps?"

"Grandpa's makes the best rolls!" Asuka said as she grabbed the sushi basket and went around passing it to everyone. Naruto instantly took a big bite out, his eyes shooting up as he felt fireworks shooting out of his head.

"This is awesome!" Naruto exclaimed, taking another bite out of the roll.

"These look delicious."

"It's thick, but I'll bet it's nothing I can't handle."

"Here goes!" *Chomp*

"Mmm. Delicious."

Naruto paused at what Katsuragi said. About how thick the sushi rolls were. He slowly turned around to face the girls only for his jaw to drop at how the girls ate the rolls. Matter of fact, futomaki rolls were meant to be sliced up in rounds. But looking at Hanzō's rolls, he still kept the roll in its long cylindrical roll and didn't slice it up. The sudden realization made his face turn dark red as he put the pieces together while he looked down at the roll in his hand. The long design, Katsuragi's earlier comment, the way the girls were holding them and putting them into their mouths. Call him crazy…call him stupid for even thinking about it, but did that old man intentionally leave the sushi rolls long because it was meant to represent–

"What's wrong, Naruto?" Asuka noticed he seemed frozen in place. "Oh! Is it about the size of the rolls? You see, this is the usual size because it's best to open really wide, take it all in and savor it all deeply!"

WHAT THE HELL!?

"But personally, I think it should be bigger and more thick. Ah! Some rice got out!"

Slowly turning to Asuka after hearing her explanation, and quickly noticing how nobody called out to her for that description, Naruto saw how the rice from the sushi roll made it look like she had something else around her mouth before she licked the rice off.

SLAM!

Everyone turned to Naruto as they saw he had fainted, his mouth opened in shock and his eyes turned into dinner plates.

"Wow! He fainted after tasting grandpa's rolls? He must've really loved it." Asuka was beaming with pride over her grandpa's cooking.

"I bet." Katsuragi said, swiftly grabbing his sushi roll as she moved next to him, slapping his whiskered cheek a little. "Naru~! It's considered rude not to finish the chef's cooking while he's right there~"

He opened his eyes and noticed Katsuragi on top of him as she opened his mouth and held the roll he was eating. "Wha…?"

"Here, I'll help you!" She shoved the roll in without hesitation.

Naruto's eyes snapped open in shock at the bold action as he sat up and almost choked on the roll. He glared comically at her as she gave him a sly look and licked her roll sensually, getting him to turn away and hide his blush, as he took a bite out of the tasty roll.

Okay, that's it. First the air horn thing the other day, and now shoving a long sushi roll in his mouth?

It's time for the payback! Congratulations Katsuragi, you just woke up the Prank King!

---

"So, you're from another world, huh?" Hanzō asked curiously.

"Yup. Been here for four months, though I was in a coma for a whole month when I first got here." Naruto answered.

The two were currently on the roof of the main building with Hanzō wanting to have a talk with Naruto after lunch was over.

"So how much Granny told you about me?" Naruto asked. There was no accusation or anything in his tone, just simple curiosity.

"She gave me a summary of your life and how different your world is compared to ours." Hanzō answered as he looked up at the sky. "Hard to believe…a whole world where ninjas rule the planet. Ninja counties, ninja villages, giant mythical beasts, and the one who started it all was a godlike shinobi." He let out a deep chuckle. "I won't lie, I was quite amazed at how different our two worlds were. But even I know that such a world would be full of nothing but wars and hatred." He finally turned to look at Naruto, his eyes showing sympathy. "You've certainly lived a life full of hardships."

Naruto scratched the back of his head and looked at the distance, leaning on the rails. "Yeah, well, those hardships helped shape me into who I am now. Did it suck? Yeah. It sucked a lot. But I'm not going to let it drag me down. I'll keep looking forward and put it behind me. Still, I'm glad I left it behind. That world was doomed to be destroyed anyway because of the Fourth Ninja War. Either that or Shin, if it made its way there."

Hanzō smiled at how matured Naruto was. Despite his past, he still remained true to himself just like Sayuri said. Were it any other shinobi who lived a life like Naruto had, they would've let the darkness of their past control their lives. "Speaking of whom, I suppose I don't have to tell you about keeping the yōma a secret to the girls, do I?" He asked, his expression serious.

Hearing this, made Naruto turn serious as well, though not without rolling his eyes. "Like I told Kiriya-sensei, I already promised Granny Sayuri not to tell anyone about the yōma." He reassured the old man before turning around to look his way. "But I didn't tell him this; Me and Granny made a deal. If Asuka or any of the girls run into the yōma, then I'm telling them the truth. The whole truth."

Hanzō narrowed his eyes slightly, getting Naruto to return it. "Don't give me that look. Those girls, along with the other shinobi students, have the right to know what's going on. They have the right to know this whole good vs evil thing is a load of shit!"

The Uzumaki grit his teeth as his anger over the situation started to surface. "There has to be other ways to draw out Shin that don't involve shinobi killing each other or at least going to its realm like how I did by accident. They even went so far as to split them between who's good and who's evil just to spark hatred between them! I can't believe they even allowed this system to happen!"

"And this displeases you?"

Naruto snapped his head to glare at the legendary shinobi after asking that stupid question. "It pisses me off! The entire shinobi system of my world thrives on conflict while this world's system is about whose good and evil and that's practically the same thing! Because of that, there are good and evil shinobi clans out there who are putting into their children's heads that it's their duty to do whatever it is their supposed to do! No one has the right to judge who's good and evil at birth! This type of thing…it pisses me off so bad, I want to hit something!"

He thought back to his childhood when the villagers automatically assumed he was evil or bad because of his burden. He thought about Gaara who was out in the same situation as him though his childhood was worse and it made him become who he was at the Chūnin Exam. He thought about the other people he met who did evil acts but were still good at heart. It was the situation that they were in that caused him He also thought about Kurama. Everyone automatically assumed him and the other tailed beasts were evil and destructive but that was a bunch of lies. People sought them out in order to acquire their power, and because they were only defending themselves, legends made them out to be mindless monsters.

Hanzō can clearly see that Naruto was angry and upset by it and he couldn't blame the lad. Unlike this world, there are no good or evil shinobi. Children were trained from a young age to be soldiers to defend and be eternally loyal to their village. But more than that, prepare them in case war were to break out between the other major villages. And Naruto officially became one at the age 12 before running away from his village. The retired legend knew the lad met a lot of shinobi and people from various backgrounds during his life as a missing ninja, which explained why his reaction about their shinobi world's laws.

"You're absolutely right, my boy." Hanzō said, surprising Naruto, who wasn't expecting him to say that. "Did you know that a long time ago, our world was exactly like yours? In that there was no distinction between shinobi and that we lived in times of war. But when our great ancestors discovered the yōma and then Shin, things had changed. And it was for the worst."

The retired shinobi looked out to the distance with eyes full of sadness as he continued. "I won't lie to you. When I was your age, I had the same mindset as the other shinobi. In that I believed that good was good and that evil was evil. But after so many years of experience in this life, I finally opened my eyes to see more than just the alignment."

Naruto didn't say anything as he continued to listen.

"I took the lives of some truly evil shinobi in the past, but I also met those who were in fact good at heart, yet they were still killed because of their alignment. I even took the lives of good shinobi, who were in fact pure evil. I wouldn't want my granddaughter nor her friends to go through such a thing."

Naruto looked a little sad at this. He could tell that the old man truly cares about his granddaughter and her friends. He can even tell that the shinobi master knows the system is corrupted as well and he hates it just as much.

"You must be worried about them, huh?" Naruto asked softly. "That one day...they're gonna have to kill someone. Or end up getting killed."

"Yes. I'm aware of the threat of the yōma and the only way for them to be drawn out is to spill enough blood. Injuries are sufficient enough but it's much more effective if a shinobi's life was taken."

Naruto stared at him for a few moments before looking back down. The life of a shinobi is always one of battle. He understands that quite well after what he's been through. But…it just made the former leaf ninja sick that these students who are being trained to become ninja are becoming sacrifices to summon a deadly threat. It's only worse with the fact that the higher-ups are hiding such info and they're not telling the shinobi students until they graduate from their schools.

Those students have the right to know what's going on so they can be prepared in case they run into the yōma and not end up getting killed by them or worse getting into trouble with them. Just like how he had the right to know that he was the holder of a tailed beast and who his parents were from the get-go. But things are going to be different. He decided that the moment he learned about this world from Granny Sayuri.

Naruto, looking very determined, turned to the retired legend. "Pervy Gramps. There's something I have to tell you."

Hanzō turned to him, a curious look on his face after seeing the otherworldly young shinobi's strong and determined gaze.

"It's about the cycle of hatred…and my dream for the future."

---

Later

The school day was officially over. While the others went home, Naruto and Katsuragi decided to get some ramen as they went to the Ichiran Asakusa shop. They had already ordered their ramen and were waiting for it.

"So, Naru. What do you think about Master Hanzō?" Katsuragi asked.

"He's a no good damn pervert." Naruto flatly said as Katsuragi laughed. After he was finished telling the old man about his dream, the pervert had the gall to ask him if he was planning on having a harem once he fullfilled his dream. The question was so unexpected, it made him want to smack the old man upside the head as he wasn't even thinking about stuff like that.

"Yup! You can imagine mine and Ikaruga's reaction when we first found out." The blond bombshell said. "Poor Ikaruga ended up being so shocked that she ran away from him."

Naruto laughed as he imagined that happening. "Yeah, I can imagine. I mean a legendary shinobi master who turned about to be a pervert? Of course her image of him would crack!"

"Right?" Katsuragi slapped his arm in a good natured fashion.

"Still…he's alright in my book." Naruto said, his voice turning soft as he smiled gently. "He kinda reminds me of someone I knew a long time ago."

Katsuragi saw the sadness in his eyes as he looked down at the table. Her face turned gentle as she placed her hand on top of his. "Your grandpa?"

"Nah. My biological grandpa died way before I was born." Naruto answered as memories of his time with Hiruzen flashed in his mind. "The person I'm talking about is this old man I knew back when I was a kid. He helped me out a lot when I was growing up and taught me a lot of things. He was strong, kind, stern but he was also a closet pervert unlike Hanzō who's more open. I guess in a way…he was like a grandpa to me."

"...you must really miss him a lot, huh?" Katsuragi asked, a gentle smile on her face as he nodded in response. It took her a second to blink as she replayed what he said in her head and she immediately got worried. "Wait…what about your–?"

Ring! Ring!

"Order up! Two miso pork ramen!" The Chef came out, holding both bowls of ramen as he handed them to the hidden shinobi.

"Sweet!" Naruto cheered, his mood brightened up as he grabbed his chopsticks and offered a prayer before digging in.

Katsuragi still wanted to ask him about his parents until she remembered Kiriya-sensei's words. She shook her head, not wanting to pry into something that might be sensitive to Naru. She offered her prayers, grabbed her chopsticks and dug into her bowl. The moment her mouth tasted the ramen, her eyes widened in comical shock as she felt her mouth and nose burning which caused her to stand up and scream as tears started to fall from her eyes. "WATER! WATER! I NEED WATER!" She ran out the restaurant, causing everyone to move out of her way and watched as she went inside a convenience store to get some ice cold water.

Naruto was laughing out loud, slamming his fist on the bar. "Now that was funny! Hey, old man! Thanks for putting the wasabi in her ramen." Earlier, he sent a clone to tell the old ramen chef that he and a friend were coming to order pork miso ramen and that he wanted him to pour wasabi in her ramen as a prank.

The Chef also joined in on the laughter, finding it quite amusing. "No problem, kid. You know your girlfriend is gonna be really mad when she finds out about this little prank of yours."

"Hey, she had it coming." Naruto told the ramen chef as he crossed his arms. He continued to talk, not knowing that his girlfriend stood behind him. "Just yesterday, she woke me up using an air horn and earlier she shoved a sushi roll in my mouth! So she has nobody to blame but herself for waking up the King of Pranks, dattebayo!"

"Oh~" His eyes widened at hearing Katsuragi's chipper voice. "So not only are you the so-called King of Ramen but also the King of Pranks? I see! I see!" He felt a hand grab the back of his head, getting him to tremble in fear. His head was pulled back, allowing him to glance to the side to see Katsuragi's lowered head. He couldn't see her eyes but he did see her big smile. "And you actually had the balls to prank me by messing with my favorite food?"

She gripped his head tighter, getting him to sweat rapidly as he felt her nails dig into his scalp. He looked at the ramen chef for help but saw he disappeared, leaving him by himself to deal with this problem. Glancing at Katsuragi again, tears gathered in his eyes as she looked at him with an angry look in her eyes despite the smile on her face as veins were seen. "You know what happens next. Right, Dear Naru ~?"

"Ah…ah…"

That day, Naruto swore to never prank Katsu using ramen.

---

Next Day

"HYAAA!"

Class was currently taking place in their usual training spot in the mountain region.

Everyone was watching as Katsuragi and Ikaruga were currently sparring with each other. But the difference is that they weren't sparring in their Turnover. They were in their bras and panties with intense color auras around them. Naruto had to keep focus on the match and not on the breasts that were currently jiggling, keeping themselves contained in the bras. Glancing over at Kiriya, he just had to ask him about this.

"So, what is this training again?"

"Life or Dash." Kiriya answered, arms crossed over his chest as he continued to watch the spar. "It is a training technique that requires shinobi to engage in combat without the protection of their uniforms. This allows them to focus on their speed and attack strength."

"...so in other words, this is that Frantic Mode thing you were talking about?" Naruto asked again

Today's lesson was teaching them about the Flower of Balance. By performing Shinobi Tenshin, they call upon the Yang Attribute. But by performing Frantic Mode, which is the Yin Attribute. These two modes exist in balance with each other. Whereas Turnover is where you wear armor, Frantic discards the clothing completely, leaving you completely exposed but in exchange increasing your strength and speed. In other words, it is a double edged sword.

"Yes, that's right." Kiriya answers, his eyes still focused on the spar. "During Life or Dash, your opponent's attacks could very well be a fatal blow. Strike them but do not be struck."

"Got it!" Katsuragi and Ikaruga said.

"Why don't you all give it a try?" Kiriya asked, turning to the others. Three of them nodded while one looked uncertain.

"Um…I really don't…" Naruto stopped and saw Asuka, Hibari and Yagyū's clothes explode, leaving them in their underwear as auras erupted from them. Now that he's looking, he noted their aura's color corresponds to the element that they wield. Ikaruga being a fiery blue, Katsuragi being a windy green, Asuka being an earthy green, Hibari being an electric yellow and Yagyū being an icy blue.

"Come on, Naruto." Asuka cheered him on. "You got this!"

"How the hell are they not being embarrassed?" Naruto asked himself. It's not like they were completely naked but it was still pretty embarrassing. He slapped his cheeks. No, this was no time to be embarrassed. This was training time! He closed his eyes and let out a yell as a very powerful yellow aura erupted from him, completely destroying his clothes. Unlike with Turnover, he felt stronger and faster while he was in Frantic. He snapped his eyes open, grinning in determination as he stared at Asuka. "Here I come… Asuka?"

Asuka's whole face turned dark red as she stared at him. It wasn't just her, but the others stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him, all of their faces dark red as well, including Hibari as Yagyū already covered her eyes, though she was too late. Because of that, a dark aura erupted from the silver haired girl as she glared at Naruto heavily. The boy just blinked and raised an eyebrow at them. He looked back to Kiriya and saw he too was shocked. "What? What is it?"

"...damn." Katsuragi muttered, blood dripping down her nose the longer she stared at him.

"N-Naruto…um…" Ikaruga turned away when he looked her way. Losing her voice, she pointed her finger downwards, getting him to blink and look down, now understanding why everyone was shocked.

It wasn't just his clothes that got destroyed, but it was his underwear as well. In other words, he was currently in his birthday suit…in front of girls. There was only one thing he could do in a situation like this.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Cover his shame and let out a very embarrassed scream that made every animal in the forest look into the direction of where the scream came from.

---

"S-Super Frantic Mode?" Asuka asked, her face still burning red after what happened earlier.

They all returned to the ninja room after that embarrassing situation with the Life or Dash training ending early.

"Yes. As the name suggests, it is a higher state of Frantic Mode that is achieved by removing all clothes, including underwear." Kiriya said, glancing to the side of the corner. "I never would've expected Naruto to be the first among you to actually achieve that state. Though if anything I would say that was an accident on his part."

The girls glanced to where their sensei was looking at, seeing Naruto sitting by the corner with his head hung low while they sat at the table. During their trek back to the ninja room, he didn't say not a word to them and actually put a lot of distance between. As soon as they got in, he made his way to the corner, looking completely dead inside.

"They saw me…" Naruto mumbled to himself. "They saw me naked."

"Please, Naruto. There's no need to be so depressed." Ikaruga said, though she did try her best to not remember what she saw. But judging by how she wasn't looking at him and was blushing up a storm, she was having trouble.

"Yeah, Naru! Come on, cheer up!" Katsuragi was already next to him, patting his shoulder. "You should be happy! You managed to enter Super Frantic Mode on your first try! That's pretty cool!"

"And like sensei said, it was an accident!" Asuka reassured him with a smile.

"They saw me naked. Girls saw me naked…" Naruto continued to mumble to himself, ignoring their words of reassurance. He stopped when he felt a pair of soft pillows on his head.

"How about this? Later on, Katsu will make her famous special ramen to help cheer you up. Would you like that?" Katsuragi asked gently.

"...Really?"

"Really, really!" Katsuragi chirps, happy to see Naruto perking up. She got up, allowing him to get up as well, watching as he clapped his cheeks and turned around, showing everyone his beaming expression.

"Okay, I'm better!"

The girls smiled with relief at that though Yagyū was still glaring at him. Accident or not, Hibari saw his naked body and she was too late to keep her eyes from staring at it. She swore that the next time that happens, she will make him regret it. Kiriya also smiled slightly at seeing Naruto's mood brightened up after the mention of ramen before he turned serious. "Later on, we'll help you learn to better control Frantic. But now it's time to get serious. I'm sending you all out on your first mission together as a group."

"A mission?" Naruto asked. Ikaruga and Yagyū got serious, Asuka and Hibari were curious and Katsuragi had an eager grin on her face.

"That's right. I've received a report about a large gang disrupting the peace in the residential area." Kiriya explained. "Nobody knows where they came from as they just recently appeared a few days ago. But in those days, this group has been terrorizing people, shattering their windows and even going so far as to break in to steal from them."

"It must be a new gang trying to make a name for themselves." Ikaruga theorized.

Naruto cracked his neck and knuckles, smirking slightly. "New gang or not, these guys are going to wake up in a hospital. Alrighty! Let's go get them!"

After getting their assignment, the group left the school and were on their way to the residential district. Katsuragi was more than happy to finally be on a mission. "Oh man! Our first mission together! This is gonna be so fun!" She said happily. "I mean I wish it was something other than beating up a bunch of punks but yeah, this is good too!"

It would be her chance to show off to Naru.

"Hey, at least it's better than walking someone's dog or fixing fences." Naruto said absentmindedly.

What he said made Katsuragi almost trip on her feet as she looked at him, disbelief written on her face and feeling somewhat offended. "Why would a ninja walk a dog or fix a fence?"

Naruto snorted, now feeling a little jealous that they didn't experience what he did. "Oh, nothing. Just some odd jobs I'm thinking about."

"Those are some really odd jobs." Katsuragi placed her hands behind her head.

"I don't mind walking someone's dog." Hibari said, raising her hand up before looking uncertain. "Though I don't know how to fix a fence."

"It's okay, Hibari. Just stick with what you love to do." Yagyū told her, getting her to happily nod in response.

"So what's the plan?" Asuka asked, wanting to keep focus on their mission.

"Since we don't know how large this gang is, it's possible that they've spreaded out around the area." Ikaruga answered, taking charge of this mission.

"I can use my clones to look around." Naruto suggested. He already told them the secret of his Shadow Clone Jutsu in that if one clone gets destroyed, whatever they learned will be transferred back to the original.

Ikaruga shook her head at the suggestion. "No. If you use your clones to run around, people will notice and start asking questions and we can't have that. Instead, we'll split up in groups to cover more ground. Hibari and Yagyū, you two will head west."

Yagyū nodded and walked off to the direction with Hibari looking a tad nervous before following after her best friend.

"Katsuragi, you will–"

"I'm with Naru!" Katsuragi cheered as she hugged one of his arms.

"No." Ikaruga quickly denied. "You're with me." Her fellow third year friend was shocked and got ready to open her mouth but she continued. "If you two are together, all you'll be doing is goofing around."

"No we won't!" Katsuragi still argued. The flat look Ikaruga gave her said otherwise. "We won't! Right, Naru!?"

Naruto looked at her before thinking it over. In the short days he spent with her, they would at times goof around during class whenever Kiriya-sensei turned his back to them and was going on with the lessons. But Ikaruga would always stop them and get them to cut it out. He sent an apologetic smile her way and shrugged his shoulders while making a sheepish noise. That was probably the wrong thing to do as Katsuragi was now glaring at him, making him sweat nervously.

Ikaruga kept going as she grabbed Katsuragi away from Naruto and walked off to a different direction. "Naruto and Asuka, you two will be going south."

"You got it." They said, watching as the two disappeared but not without Katsuragi pointing her finger at Naruto and sliding her thumb across her neck.

Asuka sweat dropped at that while Naruto looked genuinely frightened. After that event yesterday with the wasabi, he made sure to never get her angry. He still remembers the punishment she gave him, which was too scary for him to rememeber. Now after seeing the gesture she made, it made him fearful of what she might do this time. After making sure the two girls left, the pair began walking through the quiet streets of the residential district, keeping their eyes peeled for anyone harassing the public.

"So far so good." Naruto said.

"Yeah. I don't see anything so far." Asuka observed the older boy next to her nodding in agreement before turning to her.

"So, your grandpa, a legendary shinobi master of ninja arts, is in fact a pervert?" Naruto asked, hands in his pockets.

"Yes." Asuka answered, sounding a bit disappointed before perking up. "But I promise he isn't like that at all!"

"..." Naruto gave her a flat look.

"No, really. He isn't!" Asuka smiled nervously. He kept the flat look but raised an eyebrow, getting her to hang her head in defeat. "Okay, you got me. He's like that…a lot."

Naruto gave her a satisfied smile.

"I mean, it's amazing that he's a shinobi and I love and look up to him very much. I just wished he'd stop doing pervy stuff. Mama and I take care of him when we catch him doing something but it's grandma who he's scared of most."

"I bet." Naruto smiled in amusement.

Granny Sayuri didn't say much about her husband other than positive things about him. The only negative thing about him was that he was a pervert. Thinking the old guy was probably some closet pervert like Hiruzen was, he put the thought in the back of his mind. But then imagine his shock when he unknowingly met the old man in person, who after telling him where Hanzō Academy was, gave him a dirty magazine and even asked what his preference was in a woman. Then after meeting him again during lunch yesterday, he now understood that this guy was an even bigger open pervert like Jiraiya.

"Kyaa!"

Naruto blinked and looked towards Asuka and another girl who apparently bumped into her. Looking at the new addition, she's a pink-haired girl wearing a hiker's backpack, hot shorts, and strapless yellow blouse tied with a belt around her stomach. She wore some odd and interesting clothing.

"Sorry about running into you all of a sudden." The girl apologized.

"Don't worry I'm fine. What about you? You're not hurt are you?" Asuka asked.

"I'm fine, thanks for asking." The girl walked off with Naruto narrowing his eyes at her.

"Asuka, did you bring your wallet with you by any chance?" He asked, his eyes not leaving the girl's form.

"My wallet? Yeah, it's right…" Asuka reached inside her breasts to pull it out but froze in shock. Naruto stared wide eyed at her and couldn't believe she was hiding her wallet in her breasts of all places. "That girl took my wallet!"

"How the hell did you not feel it in the first place!?" Naruto silently asked himself with a comical look on his face.

They instantly turned and saw the girl in question was running away and looking back at them with a smirk. Since Naruto was faster than Asuka, he took off running after the criminal, his face hardened with Asuka following behind him as she called out the thief. The girl gasped at seeing this and took off running faster. As the thieving lady was about to turn a corner down an alleyway to escape the boy who was hot on her heels, someone stepped forward in front of her.

And threw a back rising axe kick to her face.

The thief managed to barely dodge it in time, but it was enough for her to throw the wallet into the air into the hand of her attacker. She clicked her tongue and booked it. No point in staying here anyway.

The attacker huffed at this, shaking her head at the thief and turned to face the surprised Naruto with Asuka close behind him. She is a really cute girl. She has tanned skin and her dark brown hair is tied in a long ponytail with a white ribbon, the ends of the ribbon standing straight up. She dons a school uniform which is a black sailor fuku with red trim. And of course, just like with the other girls he met in this world, she has big breasts.

"Oi, I think this belongs to you Big Boob Girl." The girl strolled up to them and tossed the wallet to Asuka, who caught it…with her breasts.

"Ah! Thank you very much…" The granddaughter of Hanzō paused as the nickname fully processed and she was quite offended. "HEY! My name isn't Big Boob Girl!"

Naruto covered his mouth to keep the chuckle from letting out but Asuka heard it and turned to glare at him with a pouty look on her face. "That was a pretty nice kick you did back there."

The girl shrugged her shoulders. "I did some classes. No big deal."

"Cool!" Asuka commented before she clapped her hands. "Oh yeah! Since you got my wallet back, please let me thank you in some way. Umm…"

"Homura." Homura introduced herself before waving her hand. "And no thanks. Since you're on a date with your boyfriend, don't spend your money on me."

"D…D…DATE!?" Asuka's face burned red in embarrassment as she shook her head back and forth. "No! No! We're not on a date and Naruto's not my boyfriend! He's just a friend!"

"Naruto?" Homura asked, turning towards him with a raised brow. He just smiled and nodded.

"Yup! I'm Naruto Uzumaki! Nice to meet ya, Homura."

Homura raised a brow before she smirked. "Nice to meet you too, fishcake."

Naruto felt the word stab right through his heart, making him stumble back before glaring at Homura. "Oi! My name doesn't mean 'fish cake'! It means maelstrom, dattebayo!"

"Pfft! Hahaha! Dattebayo? What the heck is that?" Homura laughed at him, getting him to growl at her with Asuka trying to calm him down. She turned and walked away, waving her hand at them. "Well, I better get going. See ya around, Whiskers and Asuka."

"Yeah! See you around, Homura!" Asuka waved goodbye to her new friend.

Naruto continued to glare at Homura with a pout but then blinked as he realized something. "Say, Asuka. Is this the first time you met that girl?"

"Of course."

"Then how does she know your name?"

Asuka froze on the spot as she looked at Naruto and then turned to where Homura left. "That's…a good question. How does she know me?"

Now Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked into the direction as well. That move Homura pulled with that thief told him that she wasn't just something an amateur can do. It was something he often saw back in the Great Nations. She waited for the right moment when the thief got close to her and she struck, knocking the wallet out of her hand.

It was something only a shinobi would do.

"Naruto!" Asuka shook Naruto to get his attention, which she did. "Look! The sky!"

The former jinchūriki looked up at the sky and saw a white smoke cloud that has the kanji that means 'Assemble'. "That's not good, right?" He asked, as this was the first time seeing this kind of smoke signal.

"No. Something must've happened!" Asuka said. "Let's hurry over!"

"Right!"

The two vanished in an instant, not knowing Homura was watching them from her hiding spot on a roof. She let out a smirk. "Well, now. Looks like the rumors are true. Hanzō Academy got a new student. Can't wait to see what he's made of."

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Asuka and Naruto made it to the location of the smoke signal. They were still in the residential district only it looks like they were at an old playground. Lo and behold, they found the gang and it looked to be like more than twenty of them. They could also see Yagyū and Hibari there in front of them, both of them looking ready to fight.

"What?" Naruto silently asked as he narrowed his eyes on the gang members. Unlike the other gang members he and Ika fought the other day, there was something off about these guys.

"Yagyū! Hibari!" Asuka called the two out, getting their attention.

Hibari looked very happy and relieved to see them. "Asuka! Naruto! You're here!" The pink haired first year said as they joined them.

"Hey! Don't forget us!" Katsuragi and Ikaruga also appeared. "Right on time as usual!"

"What's the situation?" Ikaruga asked.

"We found some members of the gang and followed them to their hangout." Yagyū answered, her only eye narrowed at the gang. "But when we did, we found all of them here, waiting for us."

"Not only that…" Hibari started to say, now looking very worried as she looked at the gang. "Those thugs. I don't think they have souls!"

"What? No souls?" Katsuragi asked, as she and the others tried to figure out what the junior meant by that. "What do you mean?"

Naruto immediately knew what that meant as his eyes widened in alarm. "Shit! It's a trap!"

It was too late, as the group soon found themselves in a new environment with the area darkened and the ground now a sinister dark purple.

"A shinobi kekkai!?" Asuka asked in disbelief.

"You gotta be kidding me!?" Katsuragi asked as she looked around before glaring at the thugs. "Are they shinobi?"

"No! If Hibari says they have no souls, then that means they aren't shinobi and they aren't thugs either!" Naruto told her, now glaring at the thugs in seriousness as they started to emit a dark aura around them. "Those things are puppets!" His response made the girls tense up as they now took stances with the emotionless thugs now getting ready to charge at them.

"Then that means whoever is controlling them is the one who activated the barrier!" Ikaruga stated.

"And that means we don't have to hold back!" Katsuragi smirked slightly. "Let's hurry and kick their punk asses and find out whoever trapped us here."

Everyone nodded and took out their scrolls, each of them performing the Shinobi Tensei and changing into their ninja forms.

Battle Music: Rising Dragon [Naruto: Shippuden OST]

Seeing this, the 'thugs' all yelled out as they charged at the Hanzō ninjas, getting them to charge as well with Naruto taking the lead while the others splitted up to take care of their own groups. He did a roundhouse kick to the closet thug, knocking its head clean off but no blood coming out, proving that Naruto was right and they were just puppets. He leapt backwards when one tried to smash him with a giant hammer. Once he landed, he dashed at the hammer wielding puppet thug and knees it in the face, before grabbing the hammer and using it to smash and hit the other thugs.

Ikaruga was currently using Hien to slash the puppets into pieces before moving onto the next. She was moving with such grace and speed that it was amazing that she was able to wield such a long sword as the puppet thugs she struck fell down while the others were pushed back due to the force of her swing. She closed her eyes as more puppets leapt at her from behind. She swiped her sword in a quick fashion before the puppets were burned to a crisp.

Asuka, using her quick feet, zig zags around the thugs that surrounded her, cutting them all to pieces. Seeing two of them was about to charge at her from her sides, she blocked them both before pushing them back and cut their heads off.

Yagyū used her umbrella to whack and smack the puppet thugs around. Without stopping, she glanced over at Hibari to see how she was doing, only to see her comically hitting them with her fists, which oddly enough seems to be working. She was about to go and help her until she saw him do it instead by using those gold chains of his to stab through them.

Hibari looked around at the defeated enemies and turned to Naruto, waving at him with both arms. "Thanks Naruto!" He gave her a thumbs up and went back to fighting a big ugly girl.

"Tch!" Seeing that caused Yagyū to lash out at more puppets.

Naruto takes down Gorilla Girl and is about to take down the next puppet, but abruptly stops. He didn't know why, but he felt someone's eyes were on him. Not at the girls, but just him. It was like his every movement was being watched. And whatever it was, it didn't feel human to him. He then notices something out of the corner of his vision. He turned his head to look at it and his eyes widened at what it was.

It was two glowing red dots just floating in the air.

But seeing how they were directly next to each other made him believe that they weren't just two dots. No, they were a pair of eyes as he could practically feel them staring back at him and it almost made him want to shiver as he could also feel the evil intent in them. Fully turning around to face them, he glared harshly at the 'eyes' and stood ready, almost as if he was daring them to come out of hiding and face him.

Instead, he heard a faint growl in the wind as the 'eyes' vanished.

"They're watching me…" Naruto thought as he clenched his fists tightly. He'll worry about them later. He turned and saw more of those puppets were charging at him. He was about to charge at them until someone else came and did it for him. Katsuragi leaps over his head and does a spinning kick, sending several puppet thugs flying. She landed on the ground, giving Naruto a good view of her blue and white striped panties which made him blush hotly. He wasn't even sure if she did that on purpose or not!

"Hey! I had that!" He exclaimed, elbowing a puppet that tried to sneak up behind him, instantly destroying it.

"I know!" Katsuragi said cheekily as she turned to look at Naruto before sweeping a puppet off its feet and kicking it into the others. "Don't think I forgot the crap earlier with Ikaruga!"

"Sorry Kat, but you gotta admit Ika was right." Naruto apologized before yelping as he ducked down to avoid a puppet that was kicked his way. "What was that for!?"

"W-What's up with that nickname?" A flustered Katsuragi asked. "I told you to just call me Katsu! Wait, Ika? You mean Ikaruga!?"

"Who else?" Naruto asked in a matter of fact tone, surprised at her reaction for her new nickname. He flinched when Kat got in his face, an outraged look on her face.

"Since when have you two been that close!?"

"What do you mean!?" Naruto asked, confused on why she was getting so heated. "I only shortened your names because they were too long and sounded cuter!"

Katsuragi stepped back away from and blushed greatly at what he said. "C-C-Cuter!?"

This guy…! Does he even know what the hell he was even saying!?

"What are you two even talking about!?" Ikaruga asked, annoyed by their bantar. "We have a fight going on in case you haven't noticed!"

"Of course we know!" The two replied at the same time.

They narrowed their eyes when they saw more puppet thugs charging at them from behind one another. They gave each other knowing smirks as they grabbed hands before Naruto spun her whole body around to the point that not only did her metal boots shattered all of the puppets, it also turned the two into a whirlwind that sucked the rest of the puppet thugs towards them, only for them to be kicked away.

Once they were gone, Naruto stopped what he was doing, holding Katsuragi up in the air, not knowing that their fingers were interlocked. She looked down at him and he looked up at her, playful green eyes meeting equally playful blue eyes, both wearing the same big smiles while blushing slightly once they noticed their interlocked fingers.

"I think that's all of them!" Asuka's voice ranged out in the barrier.

Music Ends

Katsuragi's eyes widened as she moved herself forward, landing on her feet, and released her hold on his hand just as the barrier around them disappeared. She turned away from him to hide her blushing face while also playing with her hair. Naruto scratched his neck in confusion at the bizarre behavior before he turned around to address the others.

"Is everyone alright?"

"I'm fine." Ikaruga answered.

"We're okay too!" Hibari also answered.

"Same here!" Asuka was the last to answer.

Naruto nodded at them and looked down at the puppets with narrowed eyes. But before he could ponder on it, the sound of people talking reached the group of Hanzō shinobi and they vanished into thin air.

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The sun was now setting as the Hanzō shinobi were making their way back to the school, all dressed in their school uniforms.

"I can't believe we were fighting against wooden dolls posing as punks." Katsuragi said, shaking her head after what just happened. "How is that even possible?"

"I don't know." Ikaruga answered. "All I know is that we were their targets."

"How'd you know that they were puppets, Naruto?" Asuka asked him curiously, glancing over her shoulder to look at him as he kept looking around.

"I fought against puppets before." Naruto answered, remembering Kankuro and that Sasori guy from the Akatsuki. He turned his eyes to look at the surprised Asuka. "So I already knew that something felt weird about those thugs the moment I saw them. Which means whoever it was that sent them might still be around."

"But who would attack us? We don't have any enemies." Yagyū questioned.

"That's hard to say." Naruto answered, though he did have an idea as Homura flashed in his mind but he wasn't sure just yet. "Hibari, since you're a sensor type, were you able to sense something from the puppets?"

"I'm a what?" Hibari asked with the others looking curiously at Naruto.

The former jinchūriki mentally face palmed himself. He has to remember that this is a different world, so things that exist over in the Great Nations might not exist here. Well, they do, just different.

"A sensor type. It means that you're a shinobi capable of detecting others." He wasn't even going to say chakra. After all, why bother saying it when it doesn't even exist here?

"Really!?" Hibari asked with an excited smile but then remembered his earlier question. "Well, I could only sense one presence from the dolls. It was like one person was controlling all of them."

Naruto nodded. "Good. Then that means we should keep–"

Suddenly, Hibari lost her footing when she slipped on a can sitting in the middle of the street. With a scream, she nearly fell backwards until she felt a pair of hands catch her.

"Are you okay dear?" An older looking girl with blonde hair with curled ends, a pink bow and green eyes asked, smiling while supporting her.

Hibari nodded. "I think so."

The girl inched her head closer, still smiling. "You're as cute as can be."

"Thank you…?"

The girl giggled before releasing Hibari and running off in the opposite direction. "See you!" The moment she went past Naruto, she glanced his way and sent him a seductive wink and smile, getting him to twitch as he gained a faint blush on his cheeks from the action and he watched as she disappeared around the corner.

Hibari couldn't help but watch the girl leave while smiling as well. "Wow, she's so friendly and pretty!"

"I don't trust her." Yagyū said.

Hibari giggled. "Well, I think she's sweet!"

The group continued on their trek to the ninja room, though Naruto had to glance back at where the older girl vanished, a look of confusion on his face.

"Was she wearing the same outfit as Homura?" He wasn't really paying attention because of her large…he shook his head. "What the hell is wrong with me!?"

"Hey, Naruto." Hibari called his name, looking a little shy when he turned to her. "Thanks again for saving me."

"Oh that? Don't worry about it." Naruto said with a smile. "You looked like you were in trouble, so I wanted to help out."

Hibari smiled happily and nodded her head. "Those gold chains are seriously cool! What are they?"

"That was the Adamantine Sealing Chains or Adamantine Chains for short." Naruto replied.

"Adamantine Chains…" Yagyū whispered, now looking interested.

"Yeah, it's a special technique that only members of my clan, the Uzumaki, can do." Naruto said, now seeing the girls perk up in interest.

"The Uzumaki clan…" Ikaruga said, sounding very interested in this new clan. "What were they like?

"They were masters in the arts of fūinjutsu or sealing techniques." Naruto answered. "They resided on a small island nation that was cut off from the rest of the world."

It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the full truth either.

The girls looked awestruck to hear this but Naruto wasn't finished.

"They weren't just known for their prowess in sealing jutsu either. They possessed powerful life forces that allowed them to live longer and age slower than regular people."

"Are you serious?" Katsuragi asked, completely in awe at this unknown clan she's now learning about. Powerful life forces that lets them live longer and age slower? Did that mean if they were over 90 years old, they would still look in their 50s or 60s?

"That's amazing Naruto!" Asuka said, amazed by the Uzumaki clan with Hibari nodding her head in agreement.

"Also fun fact: they're also known for their unique shade of red hair." Naruto added in.

"Red hair?" Hibari asked, looking at Naruto's hair. His hair was so bright and yellow like the sun. She began to imagine what he would look like with red hair and she let out a giggle. "I think you would look cool with red hair."

"Are ya kidding? I like the blond look better." Katsuragi smiled, reaching up to play with one of his bangs and found herself enjoying it. Despite its spikiness, it was incredibly soft. "I don't know. It just feels right for some reason."

"Thanks." Naruto smiled. Honestly, he wished he had his mom's hair color.

"This is the first time I've ever heard of them." Ikaruga said, her eyes widened in awe. "I had no idea such an incredible clan existed."

"Especially since they're masters in sealing arts." Yagyū added in, sounding a little surprised herself. With a clan that were masters of sealing arts, that would mean they would've been known in the shinobi world.

"How come we've never heard of them before?" Asuka asked curiously.

"...that's because they're extinct." Naruto answered in a slightly monotone voice as he stopped walking.

The girls could've sworn they felt the atmosphere grow heavy after he said that, causing them to stop as well. Asuka and Hibari looked shocked, Katsuragi dropped her hand and looked stunned to hear that, Yagyū and Ikaruga were wide eyed.

"They're…extinct?" Asuka asked, her peppy voice now gone soft.

Naruto nodded his head and looked down. "Because of their mastery over sealing techniques, their nation was invaded and destroyed by many shinobi who saw them as a threat. My mom…she was one of few who survived the attack, though she was a kid when it happened. The other few? I'm not sure, though if I have to guess they're probably gone too."

The girls remained quiet after hearing that. None of them didn't know what to say.

Katsuragi's eyes as she remembered what Naru told her the other day about some old man helping him out when he was growing up. She swore she wouldn't ask about them, but now after hearing that his clan was extinct and his mom being the only survivor, she had to know. "Is…is your mom still around?" She asked, her voice very soft and gentle but also full of concern. "And your dad?"

Naruto remained quiet for a couple of seconds before he shook his head. "They died on the day I was born." He heard the soft gasps and didn't bother to look up. Asuka and Hibari covered their mouths in horror with the pink haired girl looking like she was about to cry. Yagyū's face softened up greatly after hearing that and a sad look was seen in her only eye. Katsuragi remained silent as her hair covered her eyes. Ikaruga's cool exterior completely broke as regret formed on her face.

"I…I'm sorry, Naruto." Ikaruga apologized. "I…I didn't mean to…to…"

Naruto waved his hand, smiling softly at Ikaruga. "Hey, it's okay Ika. I'm fine."

"But…if I hadn't asked about your clan…!" She tried to argue but she stopped when Naruto placed his hand on her head to rub it softly. Looking up at him, she was confused as she saw him smiling a big smile.

"It's fine. Really! My parents sacrificed themselves to save my life. And for that, I'm forever thankful to them." Naruto continued to reassure her as he stopped rubbing her head. "So there's no need for you to apologize for being curious. Okay?"

Ikaruga, who still looked a little regretful, nodded her head. Naruto then clapped his hands to snap everyone out of their funk.

"Anyway, sorry for dragging the mood down everyone. Didn't mean for that to–"

GRUMBLE~

The girls stared at Naruto, who froze mid talking as he looked down at his stomach. It let out another grumble which made him place his hand on it. He looked back at them with a sheepish smirk. "Uh…how about some grub before we head back?"

Some of the girls giggled softly and were more than thankful that the earlier atmosphere had disappeared. But Katsuragi still gave a sad look towards Naruto as memories of her parents started flashing in her mind.

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Meanwhile

On the rooftop of another building, five other females were having a meeting of their own as well. The blonde girl from before smiled and giggled as she faced one of the other females, who's features were hidden by the glare of the setting sun.

"That was quite the amazing show they put on. Especially that cute boy with the gold chains. I can't wait to turn them into my lovely dolls." She giggles.

"We heard that the Hanzō shinobi had a new student in their class, I just can't believe it's a boy. A very strong one at that." A platinum blonde haired girl in a green maid's outfit said. "It's quite rare to see a boy in this day and age training to be a shinobi."

"Aside from him, the rest are pushovers. No threat at all." A green haired girl spoke in a monotonic voice. "Say Homura, what was his name again?"

"Naruto Uzumaki." Homura answered as she grinned, remembering those golden chains of his and his quick work on the dolls. "He looks like an idiot, but those eyes…" She saw it clear as day, the hidden darkness that was deep within him. "Unlike the legendary shinobi's granddaughter, that guy had the eyes of someone who fought in battles and survived. A true warrior! I can't wait to face him!"

Nearby, another girl who appeared slightly smaller than the other four snicked as she held an umbrella over her head. She has long black hair, red eyes and she wore an eyepatch on her left eye.

"We can ignore them for now. Let them stay blissfully ignorant just a little while longer. We'll strike when they least expect it."

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Author's Note: Back at it again with another chapter! Naruto has his brand new Shinobi Form and his guardian animal.

Now his Shinobi Form is meant to represent his former dream of wanting to be Hokage but it also represents his 'never give up' spirit and ideal. In a way, it reflects his deep desire of still wanting to be a Kage. Just what do you think he was talking about with Hanzō earlier in the chapter when he was talking about his dream for the shinobi world of Senran Kagura?

You guys already know I was going to let a nine tailed fox be Naruto's guardian, I mean come on, he's as sly as a fox. Which means his Secret Ninja Arts will be based on his guardian, also meaning that Naruto will be able to use stuff like Foxfire and all that. What's more, he'll definitely incorporate his jutsu into the Secret Ninja Arts.

I know I didn't show him doing much of Secret Ninja Arts, but right now I'm still thinking over what his Ninja Arts might be in regards to his guardian like the Fox Fire. I also have plans for him to get an Awakened Form just like Asuka and the other faction leaders.

This chapter was basically having Naruto learn more about the powers of Secret Ninja Arts and try to get used to his new Shinobi Form. He was supposed to learn and get used to Frantic Mode but instead he tapped into Super Frantic Mode by accident. For those who don't know, Super Frantic Mode is a real form as it was in the Senran Kagura: Estival Versus Festival Eve FullI of Swimsuits OVA near the ending.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. R&R, everybody!