The Ninth Maken!

by CrimsonTearsSharingan

Summary: As Naruto joins Tenbi Academy, questions arise. How long has he been here? How did he get here? Where did he come from? Who knows about him? And where is Kurama? Will these answers be solved? Guess you'll have to read and find out.

4. Ch04 Growing Troubles

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The Ninth Maken!

Ch04: Growing Troubles

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Oh, sweet Kami, everything hurt. Well, everything but his right arm. He couldn't feel that for some reason.

Forcing his eyes open and with a groan tilting his head to the side he found himself lying face down in a grassy field.

Where was he? This wasn't the valley of the end and where the hell was Sasuke? Shouldn't he be here too, wherever here was?

Well, wherever he was it was clearly night so that led to the question of how long had he been here?

Aside from his own thoughts the only other thing he could hear was the ringing in his own ears. Shouldn't Kurama have sorted that out, along with everything else?

Oh right, he was running on empty after his fight with Sasuke. That could be a problem.

A beam of light suddenly shone down on him, blinding him as he squinted his eyes to try and adjust to the new source of light. The hell was this and what was that whirling sound coming from the source of that light.

Even in his beaten form he could feel the slight vibrations in the ground as what looked like high-tech mechanical vehicles appeared on the outskirts of the field that seemed to be heading in his direction.

They soon stopped several yards away from him only for a large group of individuals to dismount from the vehicles, each dressed in green and black body armour.

He couldn't make out what they were saying in his state as they surrounded him while they were all pointing some sort of handheld devices at him in a threatening manner.

One of them continued forwards towards him still pointing the device at him before coming to a stop right before him causing him to weakly glare up at him from his still downed position.

The armoured individual suddenly brought his right hand away from the device he was carrying and moved it against where his ear should be.

"…oger th… ir." Was all he could make out before the individual brought his hand back down to his …weapon? It was a weapon, right?

Anyway, grabbing a hold of it again he glared down at him before spinning it around and forcefully slamming it down into his face.

Blue eyes snapped open in the darkness of his room as Naruto let out a groan from his place lying on the bed before turning his head towards the clock on his bedside table.

The green light of the clock red 4:29.

Letting out a tiered sigh he pulled back the blanket before sitting up and sliding his legs over the side of the bed while rubbing the bridge of his nose with his left hand as his right shot out and slammed down on top of the clock as it started to beep.

Dragging his hand down his face as he let out another groan Naruto stood up from his sitting position on the bed and stretched his arms above his head with a yawn getting a few pops to sound out from his joints in the darkness of the room.

A few minutes later, now dressed in his orange tracksuit top and black bottoms, he made his way out of the room while closing the door behind him and making his way down the corridor.

Entering the main living area, he flipped the light switch on as he passed it, illuminating the previously dark room and getting a groan from the seeping Takeru up in the loft before he rolled over and continued to sleep the early morning away.

Seeing this Naruto let out a slight sigh of relief, he really didn't want to deal with him at the moment; well truthfully, he didn't want to deal with any of his 'roommates' at the moment. Ever since the incident at the hot spring it was like they were walking on eggshells around him and honestly it was starting to piss him off.

Shaking his head of the thought he continued making his way into the kitchen area of the room before turning towards the cabinet and sending a heated glare at it. If Inaho had raided his stash again then the girl was going to die a very painful death.

Pulling open the door he let out a sigh as his glare disappeared from his face.

'Guess she gets to live another day.'

A small smile graced his lips as he reached into the open cabinet and pulled out a plastic cup container of Ramen, sometimes it was the simple things in life that gave you the greatest joys, before casting a small glare at the nearby kettle, and sometimes it was the smallest of annoyances that made the world a living hell.

With a sigh he filled the kettle and turned it on before taking a step back and glaring at it as he crossed his arms over his chest and started tapping his finger against his bicep. It was supposed to be instant Ramen damn it, what part of this was instant?

Continuing to glare at the current target of his ire he continued to furiously tap his finger until the door behind him, leading from the corridor, clicked open and he turned his head in the direction of the noise only to let out an annoyed sigh at the sight of a yawning Haruko stepping into the room, currently dressed in a grey pair of shorts and a white tank top, with her right hand currently under said tank top scratching at her stomach.

"You're up early." He couldn't help but say out loud getting Haruko to stop in her tracks with wide eyes and jump to attention.

"U-Uzumaki-san! W-What are you doing up so early on a Saturday morning?"

"Pretty sure I asked you first." He couldn't help muttering to himself before turning to face her fully with a shrug. "But if you must know I was just getting ready to head out for some morning training."

"Training? R-Right, of course." She said to herself getting a raised eyebrow from Naruto before he turned back to the kettle as the water inside finished boiling.

Haruko continued to stare at his back as he started pouring the water into the cup. No matter how hard she tried she just couldn't get a read on him. He always seemed so moody around them and then after the hot spring she just didn't know how to approach him, and then after yesterday. She let out a sigh just thinking about it.

-(Fashback)-

It was early morning the precious day and Azuki was currently in the schoolyard with Inaho. The two of them were both wearing the standard school gym uniform consisting of a white shirt with red bands around the sleeves and neck of Azuki's and green on Inaho's along with a pair of dark blue bloomers.

The two of them were in the middle of running laps, causing their breasts to bounce around wildly before a scowl appeared on Azuki's face as she cast a glance over her shoulder while yelling out "Hey, pick up the pace!"

A yew yards behind the pair were Takeru and Kengo, both also dressed in their gym uniforms consisting of white shirts both with green bands around the arms and necks along with white shorts that ended just above the knees.

As the two of them continued to lag behind the two girls Azuki continued to yell back at them "You call yourself a man?"

"Even if you say that" Takeru gasped out as both he and Kengo continued to struggle to keep up "why is the first club activity of the Maken-Ki to run fifty laps around the schoolyard?"

"Physical activity should be everyday business for the Maken-Ki." Azuki shot back in annoyance "Basic physical strength is necessary." She finished turning her attention back towards the path in front of her.

"Don't give up Takeru-sama." Inaho called back cheerfully while smiling towards Takeru.

"That may be true," he panted back in response "but this is not basic level anymore."

Before anything else could be said a large red metal shuriken suddenly flew past Takeru and Kengo, startling the two of them.

"Good, Takeru, Kengo." Came the voice of Chacha from behind the two of them also wearing the gym uniform while running laps with the others. The only difference being another large red metal shuriken she held up before taking aim with it "Hurry up or you'll get it." She finished launching the deadly shuriken towards them both.

Seeing the incoming shuriken heading towards them while carving up the ground along its path the two of them let out a yell before diving to the ground to avoid being hit by the passing weapon.

Coming to a stop behind them Chacha could only let out a sigh while shaking her head with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Good grief, this used to be nothing for you." Haruko called out appearing next to Chacha, again also wearing the gym uniform, while glaring down at Takeru "You became like this because you slacked off.

"No, I think I was the same before." Takeru said from his position on the ground with a groan before rolling over "Where's Uzumaki anyway, shouldn't he be part of this?"

"Uzumaki-san?" Haruko asked back with a thoughtful look before looking away towards the main building of the academy. "He's doing his own physical training with principal Rokujou."

"You're free to join them if you prefer." Azuki said with a scowl as both she and Inaho walked back over to the group "But…" She finished turning away to the same direction that Haruko was facing just as a large explosion could be heard from the other side of the building "you'd need to be able to keep up with principal Rokujou." She shot the two of them a menacing grin.

Takeru and Kengo shared a glance at each other before grimacing as another louder explosion could be heard. "We're good!" they both shot out together.

"That's the spirit, Takeru-sama." Inaho called out cheerfully getting a roll of the eyes from Azuki.

"Well, if that's the case, get a move on it!"

"Right!" Takeru and Kengo both yelled out in fear jumping back up to their feet.

Before they could continue with their run though, another explosion sounded out, this time sounding closer than the last ones, as Naruto suddenly appeared from around the corner of the building looking like he had just been launched back through the air.

Hurtling through the air towards the group, Naruto slammed his hand into the ground causing him to flip back onto his feet in a crouch within the middle of the group, resulting in Takeru and Kengo to jump a step back from him.

Dressed in his usual orange and black tracksuit Naruto took in a deep breath of air with his eyes closed, seemingly ignoring the group around him until Minori suddenly appeared mid jump a few feet in front of him with her right fist pulled back and a large grin on her face.

"Now I've got you!" Minori called out throwing her fist towards Naruto only for the palm of his left hand to fly up and slightly manoeuvre her fist off course while his right hand caught onto her forearm guiding it past him as he jumped up past her and planted his feet onto her back before using her as a springboard to launch himself into the air causing Minori to stumble forwards slightly before catching herself.

Flipping through the air Naruto landed in a crouch on the side of the wall of the main school building before forcefully launching himself back towards Minori.

Spinning around on her spot on the ground, causing her breasts to bounce from side to side, Minori slammed her left foot into the ground causing cracks to appear in the ground from the force of the impact as a green aura appeared around her before being focused into her pulled back right fist just as Naruto reappeared directly in front of her, above the ground, with his own hand pulled back with the glowing form of the Rasengan being held within it.

Both throwing their attacks towards each other, glowing green fist met spiralling blue orb, causing a shockwave to blast out around them, cratering the ground beneath them and forcing the others to stumble back while Takeru and Kengo fell to the ground as a dome of charged air formed around the two combatants.

The air pressure in the dome continued to fluctuate causing the wind around them to pick up as their hair and clothes were being blown around while green bolts of energy constantly flew off from their battling attacks destroying the forearm of Naruto's jacket, revealing the bandaged right arm underneath, and the zipper of Minori's causing it fly open revealing her breasts to the world bouncing around freely.

The bolts that would crash into the dome around them arced outwards carving up the ground in their path as Takeru and Kengo scurried back across the ground to avoid being hit while the rest of the girls brought up their arms to fend of the gusts of wind that seemed to be picking up in intensity.

Unaware of what was going on around them, savage grins formed on both Naruto and Minori's faces as they continued to push back against the other until the wind in the dome suddenly died down that was quickly followed by an explosion that forced the two of them away from each other, being blown back in opposite directions.

Landing in a crouch, Naruto planted his left hand into the ground slowing his momentum and leaving a trench in the ground until he came to a stop. His head then shot back up as the dust from the explosion slowly dissipated revealing Minori on the opposite side also in a crouched ready position.

Smirking across at each other the two of them launched themselves back towards each other with dual battle cries intent to continue their battle, however.

"Stop!"

Naruto and Minori quickly skidded to a halt before colliding with Haruko and Azuki respectably as the two of them jumped in between them with outstretched arms.

"What the hell?" Naruto questioned in slight annoyance as he stood back up to his full height.

"That's what we should be asking!" Azuki shot back glaring at him before poking him in the chest. "What the hell was all this?"

"What?" He pushed her hand away from himself before giving a shrug of his shoulders "It's just a sparring match."

"Just a sparring match?" She repeated with a deadpanned look before gesturing around them "This is more than just a simple sparring match!"

Looking around at the destroyed area of the schoolyard Naruto couldn't help but scratch at his cheek with a slightly sheepish look "Okay, so we got a little carried away."

"A little?" Azuki narrowed her eyes at him.

"What's the problem?" He asked with an annoyed sigh "It's not like it can't be filled in."

Before the 'argument' could continue Haruko spoke up "P-principal Rokujou…"

Hearing the stutter in her voice Naruto and Azuki turned their attention towards her and Minori only to find Minori raise an eyebrow at Haruko in confusion, resulting in Haruko gesturing towards Minori's tracksuit top.

Looking down at her ruined tracksuit top and revealed breasts Minori just gave Naruto a deadpanned pout "You know you're paying for a new one, right?"

"Me?!" Naruto cried out indignantly. "At least half of this was your fault, plus you've got, what, like a dozen more of them anyway."

"That's beside the point!" She shot back before leaning forwards slightly, causing her breasts to swing freely from side to side, while pointing accusingly at him "You're the one who powered up a freakin' Rasengan!"

"Oh, you are not pinning that on me!" He scowled as he marched past a shocked Azuki and sputtering Haruko "'cause I'm pretty sure that those bolts of lightning were caused by your element." He finished getting a scowl from Minori in return.

"That so is it." She said in an eerily calm manner before also walking up to him so that her exposed breast pressed up against his chest while narrowing her eyes "Ya sure about that?"

"Damn right I am." Narrowing his own eyes in response as sparks of lightning could practically be seen shooting between their eyes.

"Knock it off already!" Haruko suddenly shouted, appearing beside the two of them causing both to take a step back from the other in surprise "A-and would you please cover yourself up, principal Rokujou!" She finished with a blush aimed at Minori.

"Huh, ah don't worry about it." Minori stood back up to her full height causing her breasts to bounce while knocking Naruto's shoulder with the back of her hand. "It's not like it's the first time this idiot has seen them." She finished with a shrug causing her breasts to bounce again and getting an indignant "Hey" out of Naruto to her own amusement.

"W-Wha…" Haruko stuttered with wide eyes. "That's beside the point!" She finished spinning on the spot to glare at Takeru as both he and Kengo had their eyes on Minori or rather her breasts while blood slowly leaked out of their noses "Taki, stop staring!" She yelled out getting Takeru to flinch back while muttering out an apology.

"Oh right, those idiots are here." Minori said to herself with a sigh before grabbing the fronts of her top and tying them up together. The end result leaving her stomach exposed while the tied-up top hugged the bottom of her breasts, pushing them up while still leaving the majority of them visible. "You're still getting me a new one." She ended casting a side glance at Naruto.

"Yeah, yeah." He could only respond with a sigh while rubbing the back of his head before turning around and started walking back towards the school entrance.

"Hey come on!" Minori called out while catching up with him and throwing an arm around his neck "Don't take it like that."

"Kami, you can be so annoying." He said back with an irritated tone but made no attempt to remove Minori's arm.

"You know you love me." She laughed out while pulling his head down slightly.

"They're weird." Azuki could only state as they watched the two of them leave with wide eyes while nodding their heads in agreement. "They're weird together."

-(End Flashback)-

Thinking back on the previous day Haruko couldn't help but to think back to the grin and look of excitement Naruto had on his face as he faced off against Minori or the small smile he tried to hide as the two of them had left the area. He acted so differently around her then he did the rest of them. It almost had her wondering…

"You're staring."

"H-huh?" She was brought out of her thoughts at the sound of Naruto's voice before focusing back on him as he finished off the last of his ramen "W-wha…?"

"You've been staring at me for the last few minutes." Naruto stated while finishing his mouthful of noodles before throwing the cup into the trash. "Honestly it was starting to get creepy."

"S-sorry," she quickly apologised in embarrassment "I was lost in thought."

"Whatever." He let out a sigh before moving towards the main entrance door.

"Oh, you're going out for morning training?"

"Pretty sure that's what I said, so yeah." He rolled his eyes in annoyance while slipping on his trainers. "Don't wait up."

Did that mean he was going to be out for the rest of the day as well? "Do you need a training partner?"

"Na," Naruto waved his hand over his shoulder dismissively as he made his way over to the door "already got one, I'm meeting up with Minori."

Haruko's eyes widened slightly hearing this. He was spending the day with principal Rokujou, seriously? "Just what is your relationship with principal Rokujou?" She narrowed her eyes as she questioned him while planting her hands on her waist.

"My relationship?" he muttered to himself coming to a stop with his hand hovering above the door handle. Looking back over his shoulder he glanced curiously at Haruko "Minori's my friend, why" he narrowed his eyes at her "is that a problem?"

"N-no!" Haruko shook her head furiously "of course not."

Keeping his narrowed eyes on her for a second before turning around and opening the door "Then I don't see how it's any of your concern." Stepping out of the door he called back out "like I said don't wait up" before proceeding to quietly slam the door behind him.

Haruko flinched slightly at the force used on the door, that hadn't gone so well, had it?

On the other side of the door Naruto let out a low growl while glaring out at nothing, who the hell did Haruko think she was? Questioning who he should be friends with? He let out an annoyed huff while moving towards the banister, he was the only one who could decide who his friends were damn it!

Flipping over the banister he dropped down from the second floor of the dorms before landing on the dirt ground outside in a silent crouch.

"What took you so long?"

Standing back up to his full height he looked over towards the source of the voice.

Thanks to the first signs of light peeking out over the horizon of the early morning he was able to make out the form of Minori, still dressed in her standard orange tracksuit, leaning against the gate for the dormitory with her arms folded under her breast.

"Yeah, sorry about that." He muttered out with a sigh as he made his way over to her.

Pushing herself off the gate Minori could only give him a deadpan stare "Okay, what's wrong?"

"What?"

"You've got that 'someone annoyed me, and I'm pissed off' look." Placing her hands on her hips and leaning towards him, causing her breasts to bounce, she continued. "So, what happened?"

"Nothing." He said dismissively waving his hand only for Minori to narrow her eyes at him getting him to let out an annoyed groan "Fine, I had a run in with Haruko."

"What, she still walking on eggshells around you?" She asked, standing back up to her full height while tilting her head to the side.

"Not so much it seems." He muttered to himself while dropping down into a crouch and stretching out his leg.

"Meaning?" Minori asked with a raised eyebrow.

"She's just getting into my business is all." He grunted as he continued to stretch his legs. "I mean I know you're the principal and all, but she doesn't get to say who I can and can't hang out with. It's none of her business who I'm friends with."

"You sure you're not just reading into things too much?"

"Nope!" He shot back up before starting to stretch his back "Defiantly not," getting another raised eyebrow out of Minori "I don't know, maybe," he turned away from her with a pout "probably."

Letting out an annoyed sigh "Ah, what does it matter anyway?" Naruto took off out of the gate and started down the path in a quick jog.

Minori could only shake her head at this "Idiot" before taking off down the path and quickly catching up with him. "You know you really should give them a fighting chance."

"What?" He gave her a confused look without breaking stride. "It's not like I've left or anything. I'm still living with them, aren't I?"

"Physically maybe, but mentally I'm not so sure." She stated with a shake of her head.

"Huh?"

"I'm just saying," She said with a shrug as the two of them slowly increased their pace "when was the last time you tried to talk to them, you know really make an attempt to get to know them."

"It's not like I haven't tried." He stated with an annoyed pout. "They're just so… ugh." Groaning he trailed off not being able to come up with the right word while waving his right hand in circles.

"They're high school students." Minori answered with a sigh "They haven't had the same world experiences as you. Their priorities are different to yours."

"That's the problem!" He shouted increasing his pace further while Minori quickly matched it "All they worry about is grades and dates, ugh, it's just all so, so…"

"Mundane?" Minori offered.

"Exactly!" Naruto shouted again throwing his arms up into the air. "It's just everyday day to day stuff and it's so dull. Compared to other things out there it just feels pointless to worry about it."

"I wouldn't say it was pointless." Minori shot him a deadpan pout before letting out a sigh. "You're a trained warrior…"

"Ninja!"

"Whatever…" She rolled her eyes at his outburst. "The point is you've seen the other side of the coin, they haven't." She then shot him a knowing smirk "And I'm sure they find you just as odd, probably more knowing you."

"Whatever."

"Hey I'm serious." She said with a chuckle "You're almost hyper focused on training and overcoming your own limits to be ready for a potential threat. To them focusing so much on that and not your grades is what seems pointless."

"Ugh." Naruto groaned in annoyance "That just feels so wrong."

"Oh, come on." Minori said with a grin "You're telling me you were never in the same boat as them, when your main concern wasn't the next fight but just living your life up to the fullest. No worries about grades or romantic crushes and whether they like you back?"

An image of team seven suddenly appeared in his mind as they first introduced themselves to Kakashi on top of the academy roof. "Nope!" He shook his head furiously both to disagree with Minori and to shake the image away. "Never!"

"Really?" She asked with a teasing tone and grin stretched out over her face.

Turning his attention away from Minori his right eye started twitching slightly as he thought back to his old crush on Sakura and even hers on Sasuke, ugh had they really been like that back then "Ugh, how did Kakashi-sensei put up with us back then?" He finished muttering out to himself with a sigh.

Letting out a snort while trying to suppress her own laughter at hearing this while Naruto shot her a side glare "S-See, there was a time when even you…"

"I was twelve!" He shot out with a blush cutting her off.

"Twelve?" Minori asked with wide eyes. "That was the last time… wow, that's kind of sad actually."

"Is there a point to this?" He asked narrowing his eyes at her.

Letting out a sigh while keeping up her stride she shot him another deadpan expression "All I'm saying is that despite everything you've been through there was a time that you were in the position that they are. So don't you think that you could at least give them a chance?"

"This is weirdly important to you isn't it." He let out a snort only to get a glare from Minori in response causing him to let out a sigh. "Fine, fine, jeez, I'll play nice with the kids."

"That's all I ask."

"Yeah, sure it is." He muttered out to himself sarcastically only to get a glare in return from Minori.

"What was that?"

"Huh, uh nothing." He trailed off racking his brain for something before taking off in a full sprint "Race ya!"

Seeing him pull ahead of her a small grin appeared on her face "Idiot" before she also broke out into a full sprint to catch back up with him as her grin morphed into a full-blown smirk "Think you can beat me huh?"

"Think?" He asked as she quickly caught back up with him before the two of them continued to try to outpace the other "I don't think I can beat you; I know I can!"

"In your dreams maybe!" She shot back as the two of them continued their full sprint, Minori's breasts wildly bouncing up and down while twin dust clouds billowed out behind them.

A few minutes later a squirrel scurrying across the path from one tree to another suddenly stopped in its tracks as the ground started to sake beneath it and a large dust cloud appeared behind it increasing in size, causing it to jump off the path before getting flattened as Naruto and Minori continued charging passed it and towards the academy gates, still cheek to cheek.

"Just give it up, you know you can't win!"

"Try saying that when you're not eating my dust!"

The back and forth between them continued as they approached the gates, yet despite them being clearly closed the two of them only continued to increase the speed they were running at.

Arriving at the gates twin grins formed over their faces as they both took a running leap, easily clearing the gate, before both landing on the other side without slowing their pace.

A smug grin appeared on Naruto's face as he shot a quick glance at Minori out of the corner of his eye. "See ya at the top!"

Hearing this Minori's eyes widened before narrowing into a glare at the wall they were heading to as a bead of sweat appeared on the side of her face while muttering out a determined quiet "You're on."

Reaching the base of the wall they both planted a foot onto it before continuing on shooting up and side of it, a mischievous grin on Naruto's face and a nervous determination showing on Minori, before her eyes widened as half way up her foot slipped off leaving her to fall back down to the ground below and Naruto to continue up the building before finally launching himself up into the air before landing on top of the roof.

"Woooo…" Naruto called out shooting his arms up into the air "And we have a winner!"

Walking back over to the side of the roof he looked out over it only to find Minori lying sprawled out, face down in the ground "Ya doing alright, down there."

A groan and muffled "Hate you" being the only response.

"Sure, you do." He sarcastically answered back with a chuckle while turning back towards his place on the roof before letting out a sigh "Well time to get back to work."

Letting out a calming breath he slowly closed his eyes before extending his senses out, connecting with the natural energies of the environment as he slowly drew them in towards himself.

As the natural energies washed over him his image of the world became far clearer, from Minori still sprawled out on the ground to… wait, what was that? Focusing back on Minori he couldn't help but notice what seemed to be his own element mixed in with her own, but that shouldn't be happening. Her own element should have removed any lingering remnants of his from her system, so why was it still pooling around with her own. It didn't seem to be negatively affecting her and even felt like it was slowly being integrated with her own, but still, what could that mean? "Ah, whatever." He muttered to himself with a sigh while opening his now golden yellow eyes "I'm sure it's nothing."

Letting go of this train of thought he focused back on the task at hand and speaking of hand he brought up his right one as a Rasengan formed in it before placing his left palm over the top of it as he once again closed his eyes. Focusing on converting his element into wind the same way he would with his chakra he started pushing it out to wrap around and into his formed Rasengan. The colour slowly changed from its usual blue to an almost white as a small grin formed on his face before his eyes shot open as the Rasengan began to destabilize and warp out of shape before finally bursting in a gust of wind causing him to let out a grunt of annoyance "Ugh, this is so much harder without clones."

Letting out a sigh he brought his right hand back up to form another Rasengan to continue where he left off.

As he continued, hours passed and the sun slowly rose up into the sky as another failed Rasengan exploded in Naruto's face, knocking him off his feet. "Damn it!" He yelled out in frustration as he slammed his fist down on the roof with sweat running down his face.

"Hey!" He heard Minori call out from down below "Everything alright up there!?"

"Yeah!" He called back while getting back up "Everything's just… peachy." He muttered sarcastically to himself at the end.

Getting back into his ready stance he held his right hand back up as another Rasengan formed in it before placing his left back over the top of it and started to channel his wind element into it.

His eyes narrowed in annoyance as it started to destabilize again "No, nonono, not again." Before he forced more of his element into it, determined to make it work this time.

Watching as the sphere of energy slowly smoothed itself out again, he let out a sigh of relief "Yes…" before it started give off an ominous glow "Ah, crap."

The light continued to intensify before finally exploding outwards, releasing all the pressurised air from within and sending Naruto flying back off his feet and off the roof to the ground bellow with a thud.

"Ow." He let out a groan as the last of the natural energy left him after cushioning his fall.

Laying sprawled out on his back he took in deep lungful's of breath with his eyes closed before noticing a shadow looming over him causing him to peak open his right eye to find Minori leaning over him with a grin on her face, breathing heavily from her own workout and breasts hanging down, more freely than before as he couldn't help but notice that she had pulled the zipper further down during their training session causing more flesh to be revealed as they swung over his face.

He also couldn't help noticing, as he swallowed, that she was covered in her own layer of sweat as a bead ran down from her collarbone and along the inside of her left breast before stopping at her barely covered nipple.

As his eye remained focused on the sweat running down her breast a laugh broke him out of his staring.

"Enjoying the view there?" Minori asked with an ever-widening grin.

"Shut up…" he muttered out weakly while turning his face away from her with a fierce blush on his face, only causing Minori to start laughing harder which he couldn't help but notice, as he turned his eye back towards her with a pout on his face, caused her breasts to start bouncing wildly.

After a few moments Minori managed to calm herself down while letting out a sigh before offering a hand towards Naruto "Need a hand there?"

Letting out a groan he reached out and took a hold of her outstretched hand before being pulled back up to his feet.

With a grin on her face Minori looked up towards the sky before turning back towards Naruto "Well, looks like it will be noon soon. So, what do you say we hit the showers then head into town and grab some lunch, I know the perfect place." She finished folding her arms under her breasts and nodding her head with her eyes closed.

"Yeah, sounds good." He responded with a shrug before rubbing his stomach "I am getting kinda hungry."

"Great!" Minori called out while turning around and throwing an arm around Naruto's shoulders "Trust me, you're gonna love this place."

"Sounds good." He agreed with a nod.

"Hell yeah!" Minori called out thrusting her free hand into the air, causing her breasts to bounce before heading towards the main entrance of the building, dragging Naruto along with her "But first…" she trailed off giving him the side eye "someone needs a shower."

"Yeah, yeah…" He rolled his eyes at her not even bothering to point out that he wasn't the only one who need one before another thought entered his mind. "Speaking of the showers…"

"The plumbing's being sorted today." She answered before he could finish his question as a teasing grin appeared on her face. "So that means…"

"The girls shower again…" He trailed off with a sigh.

"Is that a problem?" She narrowed her eyes at him.

"No," he rolled his eyes at this before finishing sarcastically "what could possibly be a problem?"

"Great!" Which Minori conveniently chose to ignore while pulling Naruto in closer to herself "Then let's get going!" as she started marching the two of them along, causing her breast to constantly bounce off Naruto's face getting an exasperated groan out of him.

---

It didn't take them long to get to the changing rooms after stopping by Minori's office to grab the towels and a change of clothes. 'Seriously, first she kept a spare uniform for me in her office and now she's keeping a spare set of clothes, and where did she get my UNDERWARE FROM!' Naruto couldn't help but wonder to himself with a red face as he approached the shower.

Turning the handle, he let out a quiet hiss as he was hit by the cold before it quickly heated up and he let out a content sigh as the warm water rained down on him.

Closing his eyes at the warm sensation he let his mind wonder before reaching up to trace the scar running down his chest before shaking his head "No, no… don't focus on it. You don't need to go down that path right now." He whispered to himself before reaching out for the soap and lathering it up.

"Hey, pass the conditioner will ya."

"Yeah, yeah." He muttered out while reaching out for said conditioner before suddenly freezing in place with wide eyes as he slowly and mechanically turned his head in the direction of the voice.

There, two showers down from him, standing under the steaming water with nothing but a towel wrapped around her waist was Minori.

"Wha… wh, wh, wwwww…." He stammered out with a blazing red face as his hands suddenly shot down to cover his lower region before a wet towel hit him in the face.

Spinning around so that his back was facing her while pulling the towel down from his face "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" he yelled out while now wrapping said towel around his own waist.

"Taking a shower." She answered in a deadpan tone like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"T-Thant's not…!" He stammered out while spinning back around to point at her with wide eyes "You know what I mean!"

With a sigh she turned to face him while placing her hands on her hips before leaning towards him, causing her bare breasts to hang down slightly swaying from side to side as the water continued to run down them and… no, bad Naruto, focus, maintain eye contact.

"Considering the last time, you left me high and… not so dry." She stated with a deadpan stare before standing back up to her full hight while folding her arms under her breast, causing them to bounce on her arms "did you really think I'd just take the chance and let it happen again?"

"I-I don't have a clue what you're talking about." He said nervously turning his head away while rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yeah, sure you don't." She gave him a deadpan response while rolling her eyes.

"W-Whatever." He stuttered while turning his back to her again to hide the embarrassed look on his face while folding his arms.

"Yeah, yeah." Minori muttered out behind him with a sigh. "Sooo… can you pass the conditioner now?"

With a twitching eye he looked back over to said conditioner, hanging on the wall before letting out a sigh as he dropped his arms back down to his side with a slouch in his shoulders.

Before he could reach out for it however Minori placed her hands on his shoulders from directly behind him. "Or" whispering into his ear "if you prefer, I could always wash your back for you." She finished pushing herself up against his back, squeezing her breasts between them as she rubbed them up and down his back, causing Naruto to shoot up straight with wide startled eyes.

"WHA, Wha, wh, wwww…"

"Pft…" Minori chuckled as she slid her hands off his shoulders so that her arms where dangling down his front as she buried her face into the crook of his neck attempting to stifle her laughter "Y-you, haha, you are far, hehe, far too easy." Causing Naruto's eye to start violently twitching.

So, it was gonna be like that was it? Well then fine! Two could play at this game. Catching Minori off guard, Naruto ducked down from underneath her arms before spinning around so that he was now standing behind her back. Was this a good idea? Probably not. Was it the smart thing to do? Definitely not. Did he care? No, no he did not!

Reaching his arms around her he grabbed a hold of her breasts, getting a confused "Eh?" out of her before he started forcing his element into her and began rotating it within her breasts again, resulting in getting a shuddered breath out of her before she leaned forward, dragging Naruto with her movement, while letting out a loud, pleasurable moan.

Shooting back up with a quiet scream of pleasure, she accidently smacked the back of her head into Naruto's face, causing him to take a startled step back onto the previously forgotten bar of soap and slipping on, falling to the ground while dragging Minori down with him as she turned around in his arms.

"Ow,owowow…" he muttered out with eyes squeezed shut as he slammed his head into the ground.

"You, you… you okay there…?" Minori asked breathlessly from atop of him, head reasting on his chest as she caught her breath.

After getting her breath back under control, Minori pushed herself up slightly to get face to face with Naruto while dragging herself along him getting a shudder out of Naruto resulting in a grin spreading across her face "Well, gotta admit, didn't see that one coming." She said with a chuckle before tapping him on the nose "Good boy, you're learning."

Letting out a groan he slowly opened one eye "Oh, shut up…" he weakly groaned.

Chuckling at this Minori pushed herself up before turning slightly so that she was now sitting on his stomach with one leg crossed over the other "Well, I guess we'll call it there for now." She said before looking back down at Naruto, only to raise an eyebrow at his shocked wide eyes.

"What?" she asked in confusion, looking down at herself and then to her towel that had fallen off and was now lying discarded next to them before turning back down towards herself. A mischievous grin appeared on her face as she turned back towards Naruto while raising her arms up behind her head "Drink it all in." she told him while lifting the leg that she had crossed over the other and thrusting her chest out causing her breasts to bounce and jiggle around wildly.

His eyes only continued to get wider as his whole body turned a bright red before his eyes turned a pure white as he passed out with the last thing he heard being Minori's insane laughter.

---

It was a short while later, after Naruto had regained conciseness, that the two of them were now walking through Tenbi's special shopping district, both wearing a fresh set of their tracksuits.

"So, just where is this place you wanted to take me to?" Naruto muttered as he shot a glance out of the corner of his eye at Minori who let out a huff at this.

"Oh, come on, don't tell me you're still miffed." She said with her arms folded behind her head, as she walked beside Naruto, causing her breasts to bounce with each step she took which he was sure she was doing on purpose.

Shooting her a glare before letting out a sigh and dropping his head "No, I'm pretty much over it at this point." He admitted causing a grin to appear on Minori's face.

"Great!" She yelled, throwing her arm out around Naruto, bringing them both to a stop, before spinning them both around while pointing towards a store with a large sign printed onto the window reading 'Macaron' in yellow kanji "'Cause we're here!"

Dragging him along with her, Minori marched up to the store before slamming the door open with a shout of "Yo! Minori-sama is back!" getting a wide-eyed stare from Naruto only to be met by a "Welcome back, Mistress and Master."

Blinking a few times at what, or rather who, was standing before them. There were two girls that looked to be in their late teens, possibly students at the academy. The taller of the two had short light brown hair while the shorter had darker, longer brown hair tied up into two shoulder length tails along with a red rimmed pair of glasses. Though the thing that threw him off was the maid outfits the two were wearing, complete with pink aprons.

"A maid café." Naruto gave Minori a deadpan stare "Seriously."

"I know!" She called out with a large grin "Isn't it great!" she thrust her free hand into the air "They always treat you like you're a king!" getting a sweat drop from Naruto and the two 'maids' before she shot them a victory sign "Table for two!" Or maybe she was just gesturing for the two of them.

"R-Right this way, mistress." The taller of the two said with a clearly strained smile as she led the two of them to a spare table, or rather lead Minori as she continued to drag Naruto after her.

"Here you are, mistress." She said holding out a hand towards a long wooden table with cushioned benches either side of it "Please take a seat."

"Will do, thanks." Minori called out while releasing her hold on Naruto and slipping into the seat while Naruto just rubbed the back of his neck after it had been released.

"Yeah, thanks." He muttered out while taking the seat across from Minori while shooting her an annoyed glare.

"Of course, Master." She said with a sweat drop before clapping her hands together "Your maid today will be Kazakin-chan."

"Sounds good!" Minori called out with a laugh "Can't wait!"

"Of course, Mistress, goodbye." She turned around before rushing off getting a raised eyebrow out of Naruto before he let out a sigh.

"Way to freak her out."

"Huh, what are you talking about?" Minori asked in confusion "They love this, it's why they work here."

"Right…" He trailed off with a sigh "Whatever you say."

"Just read through your menu." She shot back tossing a menu at him.

"Yeah, yeah." He muttered as he caught it while flipping it open only for his eyebrow to shoot up as his eye started twitching "What's up with these names?"

"What?" She asked with a teasing grin "They're themed."

Looking over his menu, Naruto narrowed his eyes at Minori "You're planning something."

"Now you're just getting paranoid." She shot him a deadpan stare.

"Right…" he drew out suspiciously.

"Master, Mistress." A voice called out, interrupting them. "Welcome back to Mansion Macaron!"

Turning towards the direction of the voice they were met with another girl who appeared to be in her late teens also wearing the same maid uniform as the previous two but was currently doing a 'sexy' pose, showing off her curvy hips and figure, along with a bust that could have even rivalled Haruko's. But what really drew Naruto's attention was her bright red eyes and white hair with bluish and pinkish highlights pulled up into a sort of spikey ponytail, held up with… was that a red pinwheel? Interesting accessory choice.

"Today, I, the maid Kazakin, will clear up your fatigue from work with my delicious cooking!" She finished with a wink that honestly looked a little forced to Naruto.

"Uh, R-Right." Naruto answered with a sweat drop before looking back down at his menu causing 'Kazakin' to deflate slightly.

"R-right… so what can I get you two today, I mean" She shot back up from her deflated form "What would be Master and Mistress desire for today!"

"Fist day?" Naruto asked with a glance out of the corner of his eye.

"Second actually." She answered with a sigh.

"Ah, don't worry about it!" Minori called enthusiastically while patting her on the shoulder "You'll get the hang of it!"

"I certainly hope not." She muttered out quietly to herself.

"Huh, what was that?" Minori asked in confusion, having not heard her.

"Nothing!" She shot back up with wide eyes and a blush traveling up her face.

"Right…" Naruto trailed off looking back down at the menu. "Anyway, I'll have…" a blush appeared on his own face "the uh… 'Love Miso Senpai'." He then looked up over the menu at Minori "That's Ramen, right?"

"Yup…" Minori nodded while popping the 'p' as a grin appeared on her face "I'll have the same but make it a double."

"You tryin' to outdo me?" He asked with a menacing glare.

"Who, me?" She teasingly motioned to herself "Trying to? Of course not." And finishing with an ever-widening grin getting a glare out of Naruto.

"Alright, that's two orders of 'Love Miso Senpai', one a double." 'Kazakin' noted down before turning her attention back towards them. "And as for drinks, may I suggest the milk coffee." She leaned in closer to Naruto then Minori causing her large breasts to sway slightly "The milk is fresh in this morning."

"Na, I'll just have a water, thanks." Naruto answered not noticing her action or the pout that followed.

"Same, thanks…" Minori let out a sigh getting a raised eyebrow from Naruto.

"Alright then." 'Kazakin' stood back up collecting the menus. "I'll bring your food out immediately." She turned around and started heading off but not before throwing out a final "Please enjoy yourselves."

"Well, that wasn't as bad as I thought." Naruto muttered out to himself with a sigh before raising an eyebrow at Minori who was giving him a deadpan stare "What?"

"Idiot…" She said with a sigh.

"What did I do now?!" an annoyed edge could be heard in his voice only getting a shake of the head from Minori.

"You are such a Shonen protagonist."

"A what?" He raised an eyebrow in confusion "I don't know what that is!"

"Ugh…" Minori groaned, sinking into her seat, causing her breasts to rest on the table before waving her hand dismissively "I'll add it to the list."

"There's a list now?" he asked with his own groan.

"What are you two doing here?"

Turning in the direction of the voice while Minori pulled herself back up into a sitting position, Naruto let out a quiet groan while muttering a quick "Great."

Standing by their table was the group of Haruko, Inaho and Kengo and for some reason they were all dressed in …detective? Haruko's and Inaho's might be a bit too revealing to be but yeah, detective outfits, while Haruko was pointing at them accusingly because of course she was "Shouldn't that be our question?" Naruto muttered while swatting Haruko's hand away from him "And just what are you all wearing?"

"Oh, oh!" Inaho called out bouncing up and down "We were, stalk…" Was as far as she could get before Haruko clamped her hand down over Inaho's mouth.

"Nothing!" She shot out in a panic "It's not important why we're here!" before narrowing her eyes at Naruto and Minori "But what is important is what are you two doing?"

"We're not interrupting a spicey date," Kengo placed his hand on his chin with a large grin "are we?"

"N-No!" Naruto spluttered with a red face getting a laugh from Minori causing him to shoot her a glare before turning back towards the three of them. "Besides, I don't think this!" he pulled at his tracksuit top before gesturing to Minori who waved happily at the three of them "is what you would call date attire."

"So… what, you're just here for…"

"Lunch." Naruto said rolling his eyes "We're just here for lunch."

"At a maid café?" Haruko narrowed her eyes suspiciously.

"Yeah…" he turned to give Minori a deadpan stare "a maid café."

"I make no apologies!" She stated crossing her arms with a pout.

"Oh!" Inaho started after pulling Haruko's hand away "Can we join you then?!"

"Jeez, let me think about it." Naruto started while resting his head on the palm of his hand "How about…" He was cut off by a sharp pain in his leg as he shot a glare at Minori who was glaring back in turn before 'subtly' gesturing towards the group and then looking back at him with a deadpanned expression. Right, right, play nice with the kids, he gets it, he gets it. "You pull up a chair." He forced a smile onto his face.

"Oh, we couldn't possibly…" Haruko trailed off with a forced smile before glancing out over at another table with narrowed eyes "O-On second thoughts," she forced a laugh "we'd love to join you."

"That's great." Naruto said with a forced smile and closed eyes which was obviously twitching.

As Naruto and Minori moved over Inaho took a seat beside Naruto with Kengo on her other side while Haruko took a seat next to Minori.

Once the three of them had sat down they each grabbed a menu before using them to cover themselves while occasionally taking glances around or over them at a table on the other side of the café, causing Naruto to raise an eyebrow at them before looking over at Minori, only to receive a shrug in response resulting in him letting out a sigh while rolling him eyes.

"Hey!" He called out, getting their attention "What are you idiots doing?"

"Oh!" Inaho called out dropping her menu on the table with her usual smile plastered on her face. "We're stalking Takeru-sama and Himegami-senpai on their date."

"Inaho-san!"

Leaning over the table and around the group, Naruto looked over at the table they had been spying on only to find Takeru in a yellow T-shirt with black long-sleeved undershirt and Himegami in some sort of black gothic dress. Seeing this he turned back to give Haruko a deadpan stare "Really?"

"W-We're not stalking them!" She stammered out in embarrassment "We're just…"

"Stalking them." Naruto cut her off.

"W-We are not!" She shot back with a red face.

"Himegami's on a date?" Minori wondered out loud while looking over Haruko's head "Huh? That's a surprise."

"Can you not?" Naruto asked with a sigh.

"What?" She just shrugged at him "Just sayin' it's not like her is all." A grin suddenly appeared on her face as she looked back over at them "Oooh, looks like Azuki's gonna be their maid, this ought to be good."

"Azuki works here?" Naruto asked while looking back over at the table, only to see a shell shocked Azuki.

"Aw, she looks cute." Inaho stated.

Minori just sagely nodded her head "Yeah, I was hoping she would've been our server." She then shot a cocky grin at Naruto "Seeing her reaction to serving you would have been priceless."

"I knew you were planning something!" He yelled back, pointing at her, getting sweat drops out of the rest of the group at the table.

"Maybe." She said with a shrug before looking back over at Takeru, Himegami and Azuki with her grin back in place just as Azuki folded her tray in half while glaring at Takeru "But this works too."

"Seriously?" He asked with a twitching eye before letting out a sigh and dropping his head onto the table "I can't even be surprised."

"There, there." Minori said mockingly while patting his head getting a weak glare in return.

"Sorry to keep you waiting!" A voice called out, drawing all their attention towards the source.

'Kazakin' stood at the end of the table placing down two glasses of water with a tray of food held out in her other hand.

"She's so pretty." Inaho said only getting a nod out of Kengo while Haruko just narrowed her eyes at her breasts.

"Eh!" 'Kazakin' shot up at the compliment "Uh, thank you?" she said with a nervous chuckle before reaching over for the first bowl and regaining her composure "One 'Love Miso Senpai' large for Mistress."

Leaning over the table she placed the bowl in front of Minori "And one regular 'Love Miso Senpai' for Master." Before leaning over further towards Naruto to place his bowl in front of him causing her breasts to bounce and getting a twitching eyebrow from Haruko.

"Thanks, looks great." Naruto happily called out as 'Kazakin' stood back up to her full hight.

"Glad to hear it. Can I get anything ells for Master?" She finished with a wink towards Naruto.

"No, we're good thanks, right?" He finished looking towards Minori, not noticing 'Kazakin's' twitching eye.

"Yeah…" Minori agreed with a sigh while muttering out a quiet "idiot."

"Well if that's all." She forced a smile while bowing towards them "Please enjoy your meal with Mansion Macaron." Finishing she turned around before heading off.

"I'm so jealous." Kengo cried out, tears flowing down his face. "She was practically throwing herself at you, and you did nothing!" He comically yelled, pointing a finger at Naruto.

"You're imagining things." He replied in annoyance getting a deadpan stare out of both Minori and Haruko "Even IF she was, pretty sure that's part of the… TOUCH THOSE AND DIE!" He cut himself off, slamming his fist down on the table next to his chopsticks and stopping Inaho from reaching out for them while glaring at her.

"But…" She whimpered out while shooting Naruto teary puppy dog eyes "they look sooo good, and I'm hungry."

"The get your own." He narrowed his eyes at her. "Stop pilfering MY Ramen!"

"But I didn't bring any money!" comical tears where now pouring down her face.

"Not my problem." He continued to glare at her "You've already had enough of my Ramen this week."

"Oh, you stole the noodles." Minori shook her head at her "That's a Naruto nono." She finished digging into her own bowl with a happy grin on her face.

"I only had two cups." She said poking her fingers together.

"One was to many!" Naruto yelled pointing accusingly at her.

"I'm sorry!" She cried out "Forgive me!"

"NEVER!" He spun around with folded arms so that his back was to her before looking over his shoulder "Besides…" he nudged his head in Minori's direction "Minori's got more than enough."

The waterworks suddenly stopped as Inaho turned to face Minori with watery puppy dog eyes again, only for Minori to hug her bowl to herself and hiss at Inaho over it.

"Well, guess that's a no." Naruto chuckled as a sweat drop appeared on the backs of Haruko's and Kengo's heads.

"What did we just watch?"

"I don't think I want to know."

---

"Ah, that was good." Naruto let out a content sigh as he finished off his glass of water.

"Yeah." Minori agreed, stretching her arms over her head, causing her breasts to bounce "That definitely hit the spot."

"Don't you think that was a bit much though…" Haruko muttered to herself while giving Minori's empty bowl a deadpan stare.

"Huh…" Minori dug the nail on her pinkie finger into her teach "What do you mean?"

"J-Just that…" She stuttered, shooting up straight in her seat "Well, just that, that was a lot of food for just one sitting is all. I mean, aren't you worried that it will… you know…" she trailed off.

"Huh…" Minori narrowed her eyes at her before a large grin broke out across her face "Na, considering the workout me and this idiot…" she gestured to Naruto getting an indignant "Hey!" out of him "go through, this…" she pats her stomach "will be worked off in less than an hour."

"W-w-w-w-w…" Haruko just stared at her with wide eyes "Just what kind of 'workout' are you two doing?" She finished with a blush.

"The intensive kind!" Minori grinned shooting Haruko a thumbs up only causing her blush to intensive before she collapsed in her chair.

"Please, just stop." Naruto pleaded with his palm on his face before dragging it down "Anyway…" he planted his hands on the table before standing back up "we should be getting back to it." Only to get a groan from Haruko causing his own blush to appear "Not like that!"

"Aw, really?" Inaho pouted "Don't you want to help us stalk Takeru-sama, Naruto-senpai?"

"No!" He shot her down "Why would I ever… you know what, never mind." Letting out a sigh he rolled his hand in the air "Enjoy whatever 'this' is."

"We will!" Inaho nodded back.

"Right…" He said with a sigh as he moved passed them away from the table before looking back over "Minori, you comin'?"

"Yeah…" She called back, trying to wake Haruko "Just give me a minute."

Raising an eyebrow at scene in front of him he could only nod his head "Right…" before pointing his thumb over his shoulder towards the door "I'll just be outside."

"Sure, sure…" She trailed off, shooing him away with her left hand while lightly slapping Haruko's cheek with her right.

"Whatever…" rolling his eyes he turned around to head for the door, however, before he could reach for the handle…

"Wait!"

Turning around in confusion, he found their previous maid 'Kazakin' standing by the main desk. Seeing this he looked around at the mostly empty café before looking back at her and pointing at himself "Me?"

"Yes, you!" She called out with a grin while pointing her thumb at herself, "I, Kazamaki Matsuri, challenge you," before pointing at him with her other fist resting on the hip "Uzumaki Naruto!"

"Wait," He narrowed his eyes at her "your name's not Kazakin?" he finished in confusion.

"No! But… wait…" She instantly deflated "How could you… we're in the same class."

"We are?" He blinked in confusion.

"I sit directly in front of you!" She yelled out with an embarrassed blush.

"R-Really…" He rubbed the back of his head with a nervous laugh "Yeah, that's on me. My bad." Before turning his head to the side and quietly muttering out to himself "The hair should totally have stood out, how have I not noticed?"

Matsuri just stood there giving him a deadpan stare with narrowed eyes "I thought you were just pretending not to recognise me…" A dark cloud of depression suddenly appeared over her, "Turns out you never noticed me to begin with," before she let out a sigh "well no matter" and pointed at him again. "Do you accept my challenge!?"

"Your, ugh…" he scratched his cheek "You're not gonna be wearing that right?" He gestured towards her.

"What?" She asked before looking down at herself as a blush lit up her face "N-No, of course not!" As she held the skirt down getting a sigh of relief out of Naruto.

"Hold on a second there Matsuri-chan." A deep voice called out getting the attention of those around them as a tall, muscular blond-haired man in the same maid outfit as the reast of girls working there, complete with matching lipstick, walked up to them. "You can't go challenging this young man right now." He lightly chastised her while casting a lingering eye over Naruto, causing a shiver to shoot down his spine. "You still have a shift to finish." He shook his finger at her getting a nervous chuckle in return.

"Aw, come on Catherine-chan." Minori called out as she finally managed to pull herself away from the table. "You can let her off just this once, right?" She shot him a grin and a thumbs up.

"Oh, Minori-chan I didn't see you there." Cupping his chin in a thinking pose he let out a quiet sigh "Well seeing as it's you who's asking I suppose I can let it slide this time."

Quickly turning around to face Catherin, Matsuri quickly bowed towards him, "Thank you, Manager-san!" while accidently flashing Naruto her panties… It was an accident, right? It was happening to him so much around here it was getting hard to tell.

"Just don't let it happen again, alright."

"Hold on a second!" Naruto called out getting Matsuri to look over her shoulder at him before her eyes widened as she shot back up to a standing position while holding down the back of her skirt. "I still haven't agreed to this yet. So, tell me…" He narrowed his eyes at her. "Why do you want to fight me?"

"Why do I…" She trailed off before shooting him a determined look "To test myself."

"Test yourself?"

"Yeah." She nodded at him. "The way you hold yourself, you've been tempered by real world combat. You move around everyone with an air of absolute confidence, a confidence that some would see as arrogance, but I can see it. You're strong and even though I'm still training I want to test myself against you. To see how I measure up." She finished clenching her fist in front of her face before thrusting out towards Naruto. "That's why I want to challenge you."

"Huh, well… aren't you observant." He muttered to himself before a grin appeared on his face "You know what, yeah, sure, I'll accept your challenge!" before bringing his own clenched fist up. "But seriously…" he shot her a deadpan face "get changed first."

"R-Right…" she stuttered out while looking down at her maid outfit before running out back. "G-Give me just a minute."

"Aww, look at you…" Minori called out throwing her arm over his shoulders while using her free hand to poke at his cheek with a grin "making friends!"

"I accepted her challenge," he shot her an annoyed glance out of the corner of his eye "how is that making friends?"

"'Cause, you're you!" She shrugged while moving her head right next to his, so they were cheek to cheek as she shot him her own deadpan stare "Fighting someone is practically your default method of making friends."

Opening his mouth to argue before quickly closing it with a thoughtful look "Maybe?" causing a grin to reappear on Minori.

"See!"

"Yeah, yeah…" he sighed before his own grin broke out "So, what do you know about her anyway?"

"What?" She removed herself from him and turned around so that her back was to him with her arms folded under her breasts. "You want me to give you an advantage in this fight?"

"Hmmm… yes?" He shrugged.

"Weell…" she stretched out, shooting him a gin over her shoulder "okay!" before turning around to face him again with a finger on her chin in a thinking position "Kazamaki Matsuri, let's see, she's been living in a small rural town with her grandfather somewhere outside of Tokyo. She transferred in at the start of the school year, same as you, and is a part of class 3-A. As for her Maken…" A grin appeared on her face as she snapped her fingers at him "You'll just have to find that out for yourself."

"Yeah, yeah, that's fair… I guess" He sighed out.

"Sorry about that!" Matsuri called out as she reappeared from around the back now wearing a Jinbei top that was white on one side and black on the other with a red wave like pattern on the bottom with semi-detached sleeves, a white one on the white side and a red one on the black side along with a skintight short pair of purple bike shorts and sandals. "Hope I didn't keep you waiting for too long." She finished walking up to Naruto and Minori.

"It's fine." Naruto said dismissively before a grin appeared on his face "So, where do you wanna do this?"

"Ugh, good question…" she trailed off with a nervous laugh while scratching her cheek before Minori threw her arm around her.

"Don't worry about that, Minori-chan knows just the place!" She shouted throwing a victory sign at Naruto, getting a deadpan stare out of him.

"Did you just refer to yourself in the…"

"Onwards!" Minori cut him off while releasing her hold on Matsuri and marching out of the café, past Naruto.

"So, she's always like that?" Matsuri asked walking up to Naruto.

"Pretty much…" Naruto sighed getting a nervous chuckle out of Matsuri. "Well, anyway," turned around to face the café "anyone ells what to…" he trailed off seeing the now empty room.

"Guess they already left." Matsuri let out a nervous chuckle.

"Well, that's just rude." Naruto deadpanned.

"HEY, what's the hold up! You two coming or what!?" They heard Minori call from outside.

"Yeah, yeah." Naruto muttered out under his breath "Hold your horses." Moving out of the door with Matsuri following with another nervous laugh.

---

"And here we are!" Minori called out as the three of them entered a clearing of the wooded area. "Sooo… what do you think?" She spun around to face Naruto and Matsuri with arms folded under her breasts while nodding to herself. "It's great right!"

"It's fine." Naruto walked past her further into the clearing "As were the last three areas we passed."

"Ungrateful…" She muttered with a pout before facing Matsuri. "You'll agree with me, right Matsuri-chan? This place is great!"

"R-Right…" She nervously rubbed the back of her head. "It's a great spot."

"Right!" Minori cheered, glomping onto Matsuri, getting a startled yelp out of her before turned them around to face Naruto with Matsuri's head pulled onto her breast, getting a wide-eyed blush out of her. "See that!" She yelled at Naruto before gesturing to Matsuri. "New favourite!"

"Yipe…" He called sarcastically "I'm free."

"Mean! How could you say that to your Minori-chan!"

"M-My, Minori-chan…" He stuttered out with a red face, "This is why people are talking!" before pointing at Matsuri "And let her go already, you're gonna kill her!"

Blinking in surprise Minori looked down at Matsuri only to find her entire head was glowing red as her soul was leaving through her mouth. "Ah, no Matsuri-chan, don't go to the light." She started shaking her back and forth as Naruto just watched on with a twitching eye as he let out a sigh of defeat.

"From world saviour to whatever this is… yeah, that seems right."

Once Matsuri regained conciseness she and Naruto stood across from each other as they performed light stretches while Minori walked up between them getting both of their attentions "Alright!" She called out. "I'll be the one to watch over this match, soo… what's on the line?"

"Huh, what do ya mean 'what's on the line'?" Naruto asked in confusion getting a nod out of Matsuri.

"Seriously?" Minori pouted "If this is going to be an official match then there needs to be stakes!"

"Why?"

"'Cause!" She yelled out with her arms folded before turning to face Matsuri. "Well Matsuri-chan, what do you want as your prize?"

"What do I want?" She took a thinking position before snapping her fingers as an idea came to her, "If you lose then you have to take me out on a date!" only for her eyes to immediately widen as she slapped her hand over her face.

"D-Don't just say the first thing that comes to mind!" Naruto yelled at her.

"I-I didn't!" She pulled her hand down her blushing face. She did, she totally blurted out the first thing she thought of.

"Alright!" Minori nodded. "If Matsuri wins than Naruto has to take her out on a date!"

"N-No! That's not what…"

"And you Naruto!" Minori called out, cutting of Matsuri causing her to silently cry a river of tears "What do you want as your prize?"

"What do I want? What do I want?" He cupped his chin in a thinking pose. "If I win then…" His eyes widened "Then the next time I'm at Mansion Macaron you have to pay for my Ramen!"

"And you tell me not to blurt out the first thing I thought of!"

"Ramen transcends all! It's never the wrong decision." He finished with a sagely nod getting a deadpan stare out of Matsuri. Why did he suddenly remind her of someone?

"Alright!" Minori thrust her fist into the air causing her breasts to bounce. "Now that this is an official match, we can start the battle ritual!" She yelled with a grin. "The two flows opposing each other. The path of two crosses here. To open one's own path. To confirm one's true purpose. One's soul shall be sworn to live with Tenbi!"

"The path of the sun!" Matsuri called out dropping into a ready position.

"Hate you." Naruto mouthed to Minori only getting her to blow a kiss at him, causing him to let out a sigh. "Shall be imprinted in the sky."

Minori jumped back as Matsuri charged across the field towards Naruto, arms trailing back behind her.

With a battle yell she threw a right punch at Naruto just as he brought up his left to deflect it away from his face, quickly followed by a flurry of rapid strikes that were ether blocked or deflected.

Narrowing his eyes as he watched her relentless assault, he had to admit her strikes were fast and swift and packed a surprising amount of force behind them. If she had been facing anyone else, she would have been landing blows left right and centre, unfortunately for her he wasn't anyone else.

Without breaking stride Matsuri switched from her previous attack pattern to spinning on her left foot, launching a high right kick to the side of his head.

Again, the shear speed of the attack would have caught anyone else of guard, Naruto on the other hand leaned his head back, watching as her foot barely missed, passing in front of him.

Pulling back her fist as she finished her spin, preparing to launch into another flurry of attacks, Matsuri's eyes widened as she found Naruto's face inches from her own as he stepped into her guard before feeling the palm of his right-hand slam into her abdomen. The force of the blow knocking the wind out of her before she was sent flying across the open field.

As her back heavily slammed into a tree her Jinbei flew open, revealing… a log?

"Substitution?" Naruto questioned with wide eyes.

"What do you think of my Kawarimi no Jutsu?" Matsuri's voice called out from all around him, being carried on the wind.

"Kunoichi…" Naruto muttered to himself before spinning around while slipping a kunai out of his sleeve and into his bandaged hand. Bringing it up, he quickly deflected three, almost invisible projectiles. As they were deflected the wind surrounding them faded away, revealing three metal shuriken stars.

As soon as the shuriken had been deflected, he spun around again on his right foot to his left, launching his left foot out, seemingly kicking at nothing. However, as his foot contacted with something, like with the shuriken, the wind surrounding them dissipated revealing Matsuri, folded over his foot that was currently berried in her mid-section, which without her Jinbei top on revealed a tight purple sports bra. Her eyes widened in a silent scream as Naruto finished the rotation of his kick, sending Matsuri flying out over the field again.

Catching herself mid-flight, Matsuri managed to flip herself over, planting her feet into the ground, dragging them through the dirt to slow herself down. Coming to a stop she dropped down to the ground. "Y-You…" She coughed out trying to get air back into her lungs with wide eyes. "You can see through my wind?"

Shrugging his shoulders, Naruto brought his left hand up into a half ram seal. "Using my own affinity against me." He said as the wind around him picked up swirling around him. "Not a good plan."

"Y-You're a wind user?" She asked with wide eyes.

"Yeap!" He shot her a grin as the wind around him dissipated. "Of course, even without my wind I don't need to see you…" He tapped the side of his head "to know where you are."

"Great…" Matsuri sighed as she got her breathing back under control. "So basically, most of my Jutsu are completely useless here." Pushing herself into a low crouch she tightened her fists "Guess I don't have much of a choice." In a flash of light, a pair of ninja styled greaves appeared on her forearms. They were bronze in colour with golden highlights and the image of a serpentine dragon on them.

"Guessing that's your Maken?" Naruto asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah." Matsuri nodded "This is my Maken," she looked down at her greaves "Sōshōryū!"

"Twin Rising Dragons?"

"Right." She said with a sigh. "I don't like using it 'cause it doesn't really go with my overall style." She stood back up while reaching behind her. "But against you my usual style isn't gonna cut it!" Finishing as she charged towards Naruto, pulling out a short sword from behind her back from… somewhere.

Seeing her charge towards him, Naruto dropped into a ready stance, holding his kunai out before himself in a revers grip, while narrowing his eyes at the charging form of Matsuri.

Upon reaching him, Matsuri swung her sword out to be met by Naruto's kunai as sparks flew off from the collision, and with that their deadly dance began as the two kept moving and weaving around each other, blades colliding against each other again and again as the sparks began to fly.

As they continued trading blows, Naruto had to admit that she was clearly outclassing him in terms of sword play. It was only his own reaction speed that was letting him keep up with her skill.

Naruto's eyes suddenly widened as Matsuri found an opening and forced his arm back causing his kunai to fly out of his hand before stepping into his guard plunging her sword's blade though him only to find…

"Kawarimi no Jutsu?" Matsuri muttered in confusion as she blinked in confusion at the log stuck on her blade. "Huh?"

A sudden sizzling sound caught her attention as she focused back on the log, only to find a sizzling paper talisman on the other side of it. "Oh crap!" She called out before frantically swinging her sword around, trying to dislodge the log from it. "Come on, come on!" Finaly letting go of her blade to throw it away from herself, she brought her left arm up to defend herself from the explosion as the paper bomb exploded before staring at the ruined remains of her sword with wide eyes.

"What kind of…" Was as far as she could get before Naruto's foot shot up, kicking into the bottom of her jaw, slamming it shut with a clash of her teeth and sending her flying off her feet and up into the air.

Naruto then proceeded to flip over into a crouched position on both hands and feet before launching himself up into the air above Matsuri.

Letting out a groan of pain, Matsuri slowly managed to crack open an eye as a shadow passed over her only to find the heel of Naruto's foot rocketing down towards her.

"Uzumaki Rendan!"

As his foot connected with her bare stomach Matsuri's eyes widened from the shock of the force as spit flew from her mouth in a silent scream as she was sent rocketing down towards the ground below.

As she crashed down into the ground, the force of the impact sent up a dust cloud, completely covering Matsuri from view as Naruto landed back on the ground with his back towards the dust cloud.

"Well, that's tha…" He quickly cut himself off as he spun back towards the dust cloud, bring his hands up as another pair of hands shot out of it, interlocking with Naruto's own before he was slowly pushed back, sliding across the ground as Matsuri emerged from within the cloud. But this didn't make much sense as Naruto's eyes widened, when did she get strong enough to overpower him, he thought to himself as he stared up at Matsuri, wait… up? What?

Slackening his arms slightly and leaning back, causing Matsuri to stumble forwards slightly, he used her arms to swing down and between her legs before flipping through the air and landing a fair distance away from her as he stared at her in confusion, what the hell was this? Matsuri was a few inches shorter than him before so… why was she now standing at over seven feet tall!

"Okay, w-what the hell?" He stuttered out with wide eyes. "How the hell did you get so tall!?"

"Huh?" Matsuri muttered out as she turned around to face Naruto while looking down at herself before facing Naruto again while rubbing the back of her head with a nervous chuckle. "Well… that would be my Maken."

"Your Maken?" He asked back, shocked, getting a nod out of Matsuri "Your Maken, Sōshōryū, Twin… Rising… Dragon…" He trailed off before letting out a sigh. "Rising, yeah, I guess that makes sense… sort of."

"Right!" She called out, raising her right fist up and showing the metal greave on her forearm. "My Maken absorbs kinetic energy and causes me to grow while increasing my overall strength."

"Okay…" Naruto nodded at her while folding his arms. "So basically, the more damage you take the bigger you get and the bigger you get the stronger you get."

"Yeah, pretty much." She acknowledged while shrugging her shoulders.

"Soo…" He tilted his head to the side. "Just how strong can you get?"

"Ya know," Matsuri folded her arms under her breasts with a tilt of her own head in thought "I don't actually know."

"Well then, now I'm curious." Naruto grinned at her while dropping back into a ready stance. "How about we find out?"

Her own grin appeared on her face as Matsuri settled into her own stance. "If you think you can."

"Oh, I can." He pushed off from his spot, vanishing from Matsuri's view causing her eyes to widen before reappearing within her guard with his fist buried in her stomach from a heavy hit, causing her to gasp in pain. Pulling back his right fist he quickly launched hist left, burying it into her stomach again before continuing with a rapid onslaught of right and left punches until he had to jump to the side and roll away from Matsuri's back hand swinging down towards him.

As he came out of his roll, he launched himself into the air back towards Matsuri's rising figure. However, this time she manged to bring her left arm up to block before his right fist could connect, even though she could still feel the impact through her Maken. Flinging out her arm, her Maken slammed against Naruto before sending him flying away.

Skidding along the ground, Naruto came to a stop before shaking his left arm to get the feeling back into it. Okay, yeah, she was a lot stronger now. He stood up straight and closed his eyes. If he was gonna be able to keep up, he was gonna need to kick it up a notch.

Dropping down to one knee, Matsuri let out a gasp as she clutched her stomach, man, he hit hard! With a pained hiss she looked over the field to find Naruto just standing there, not doing anything. What was he doing, was he mocking her? With a grunt of effort, she pushed herself onto her feet, she'd show him! Standing up to her full hight she found she could just about see over the treetops now… okay yeah, she really was tall now. No, focus Matsuri.

Shooting a glare at Naruto, she charged towards him, which at her current hight didn't take long, while pulling her right fist back, focusing her wind element within it, keeping it contained within before throwing her punch at Naruto. "Don't take me lightly, Ranshin no Jutsu!"

Connecting with the attack, the ground around Naruto cracked and cratered as the wind from her fist was suddenly released, blowing all around them. Matsuri didn't take any notice of this though as her eyes widened in shock. While her fist had connected, it had connected with Naruto forearm which he had brought up to defend himself at the last second. But what really shocked her was the fact that he hadn't even moved from his spot. How? How was that possible? She'd put everything she had into that attack!

"Not bad, I actually felt that." Naruto said getting her attention as she felt him grab a hold of her fist before pulling her forward causing her eyes to widen as her feet left the ground and she was flipped up in the air over Naruto himself before she was slammed into the ground on the other side of him.

With a grunt of pain, she squeezed her eyes shut as she felt her body continue to expand, but that wasn't important right now. How, how was he strong enough to not only tank her attack but also flip her over onto her back? It didn't make any sense!

Feeling a weight land on top of herself, Matsuri forced open one of her eyes, only to find Naruto with his arms crossed, sitting on top of her now mountain of a left breast, causing a slight blush to appear before she forced it back down. "H-How…?" She groaned out. "How, did you do that?"

A grin appeared on his face as he opened his amber coloured eyes. Wait… what? Amber, didn't he have blue eyes and what was up with those horizontal pupils, they looked like they belonged on a sheep or goat or maybe a toad? Or that orange pigment around the eyes themselves. What was this? What did he do?

"Ah, that would be my Sennin Mōdo." He rubbed the back of his head.

"Sen…" Her eyes widened "S-Senjutsu!" She stuttered out while her head shot up as she continued to stare, wide-eyed at Naruto "B-But that's a myth, just a story. No one can actually use it… how can you… there's no way!"

"So, you know about Senjutsu here." Naruto took a thinking pose with his hand cupping his chin. "Huh, didn't see that coming."

"But that's not possible!" She shot out in disbelief. "You can't be using Senjutsu."

"Well, whether you believe me or not…" He said with a shrug "it doesn't change the fact that I am using it." Before shooting her a grin. "Sooo… are you gonna continue?" He asked as he pat the spot on her breast he was sat on "Or are you gonna call it quits?"

She shot a glare at him, give up? Like hell she was gonna give up.

Starting to push herself up Naruto shot up, jumping off her breast. "Like hell I'm giving up!" She yelled while spinning around from her position on the ground. "I don't care if you have some kind of legendary skill!" Mid-spin she shot out her leg in a 'low' kick. "I won't Quit!"

Seeing her incoming leg heading towards him, while still in midair, Naruto brought his arms up to defend against it.

As her leg connected with him, Naruto's eyes widened, surprised by the force behind the kick before he was launched through the air, shooting out over the treetops.

Finishing her spin in a low crouch, Matsuri glared at the spot Naruto had been in before her eyes suddenly widened as she turned her attention in the direction, she sent him flying. "Oh Crap!" She clutched at the sides of her head. "What did I do!?"

"Hey!"

Hearing the voice call out, Matsuri forced herself to calm down before looking down in the direction of Minori only to find her glaring up at her while tapping her foot.

"Well…" Minori called up to her "what are waiting for?"

"B-But…" She stammered out while gesturing in the direction Naruto had disappeared in.

"That won't be enough to keep him down."

"Ugh…"

"Go after him already!"

"R-Right!" Matsuri called out before taking off after him, causing the ground to shake slightly with each step as Minori watched her leave.

"Idiots… both of them." Minori shook her head with a sigh before a grin appeared on her face. "Still, don't want to miss this." And with that she took off into the woods, after Naruto and Matsuri.

Flying out over the trees, Naruto let out an annoyed groan before flipping himself over in midair as he slowly lowered towards the ground, only to find his feet contacting water, causing a spray of it fly up around him as he channelled his element into his feet to slow his momentum until coming to a stop, still atop the water.

Looking around himself with wide eyes he found himself in the middle of a lake, surrounded by woods on all sides. Shaking his head he let out a sigh, just how far was he from his starting point, damn, she really did pack a punch.

Still, what were the odds that he would be facing off against another ninja, from a maid café of all things… That Minori had dragged him to… just a coincidence he supposed, yeap, total a coincidence. "Coincidence, my ass…" He muttered to himself while his right eye started twitching "Not planning anything… yeah right."

"Huh…?" He was brought out of his mussing as he noticed ripples appearing over the water and they weren't coming from him. Raising an eyebrow, he looked back up towards the woods only to find dozens, upon dozens of birds escaping into the sky… Yeah that wasn't ominous at all.

A few seconds later Matsuri came into view, now towering over the tree's she passed, while her breasts bounced around wildly as she charged towards his location. Okay, when did she get that big!?

As she reached the edge of the lake instead of slowing down, she instead launched herself into the air with a 'giant' leap.

Watching her jump through the air, Naruto's eyes widened as her looming shadow cast itself over him as she started her descent… right on top of him.

"Oh, crap…" He jumped back out of the way just as Matsuri landed in the water, creating one hell of a splash.

Landing back on the Water with his arms stretched out as he tried to maintain his balance over the massive ripples spreading out from the point of Matsuri's impact. He let out a sigh as he was over the worst of it before Matsuri's enormous head burst out of the surface of the water sending further ripples out.

Once he got his balance back under control, he let out a sigh while refocusing on Matsuri, who was standing chest deep in the water at this point, leaning in towards him, staring with wide eyes.

"Ugh… what?" He asked blinking in confusion.

"Y-You…" She stuttered out, eyes continuing to widen as she slowly inched her head closer towards him. "You're standing on the water!"

"Yeeeaaah…"

"Is that a Senjutsu thing!?"

"Nooo…" He drew out in confusion. "It's a… a Ninja thing." Before raising an eyebrow at her. "I mean… can't… you do that?"

"NOOO!" She yelled out in response before leaning down so her face was right in front of him with wide sparkling eyes. "Can you teach me!?"

"How about we talk after the match." He placed his palm on the bridge of her nose before pushing her head back slightly.

"Right." She agreed while moving back from him. "Sorry, guess we should continue." While settling back into a ready stance as Naruto retook his own.

"Yeah…"

The two stared each other down, which looked a little ridiculous, as a giant Matsuri with only the top of her breasts and above being exposed out of the water faced off against a comparably tiny Naruto standing across from her on the surface of the water.

This continued for a few seconds until Matsuri shot a punch out towards Naruto, causing the water to spray out along either side of her fist as it tore through the surface.

Seeing the incoming attack Naruto jumped up to the side while shooting his palm out to connect with the side of her fist both pushing her fist and himself away from each other.

Landing back on the water his eyes widened again as his head shot in the direction of Matsuri only to find a wall of water heading right for him.

Jumping back again he threw a punch out towards it, channelling his sage energy into his fist and extending his reach to blast through the incoming water, before being forced to continue moving and jumping around as wall after wall of water was sent out after him, blocking his view of Matsuri, which normally wouldn't of been a problem, especially in Sage Mode, but with her shear size and her element that was constantly being releasing into the surrounding area, either purposely or just as a side effect of not being used to controlling it at her current hight he wasn't sure. But the result was making it increasingly difficult to determine her exact location and movements.

While continuing to jump and dodge around the waves, walls, splashes and whatever ells Matsuri sent out at him, to his growing annoyance, he quickly moved his head to the side as a blade of wind suddenly passed by him, nicking his cheek.

"Huh…?" He brought his left hand up to his cheek, without stopping his movements only to find a small line of blood. Okay so either she was using her Wind Jutsu to control the water, or she was using the water to hide her Jutsu from him. Either way was not a good…

He cut his train of thought off as a curved bulged in the surface of the water appeared off to his left and was heading right towards him before Matsuri's leg and foot burst out from it, continuing its path right for him.

Narrowing his eyes at the incoming attack, he jumped off the surface of the water into a flip, going over her leg before catching himself mid-way and landing in a crouch on her extended foot.

Launching himself off her foot and towards where he believed her to be, his eyes widened slightly as he found himself heading for an oncoming vortex of water before narrowing them as he held out his right hand out, forming a Rasengan within it.

Thrusting his own attack forwards and blasting through the centre of the vortex, he passed through it, only to find Matsuri's right fist barrelling towards him from behind it.

Thinking quickly while still on a collision course with her fist he thrust his still formed Rasengan down towards the water and forcefully destabilising it. The air pressure released from the detonated Rasengan forced him up into a flip over said fist before landing on her extended forearm and launching himself back off it, towards Matsuri's now revealed head.

Pulling back his right fist as Matsuri's eyes widened in surprise, he channelled the last of his sage energy into it before throwing out a devastating punch, connecting with Matsuri, right between her eyes, causing her head to snap back from the impact as she fell back into the water.

A satisfied grin appeared on Naruto's face as he watched her drop into the water before disappearing as a shadow appeared over him. Turning towards the source of the shadow, blue eyes widened as Matsuri's still expanding hand came flying down towards him, from the momentum of her fall.

Her hand slammed into Naruto, knocking the wind out of him and sending him shooting out of the air and down into the watery depths below.

Sinking down through the water, he let out a groan as he hit the bottom of the lake, before slamming his hand over his mouth as he almost instinctively tried to take a breath to refill his screaming lungs.

Shaking his head he quickly pushed himself off the floor and made a mad dash towards the surface of the water. However, with the air knocked out of his lungs it became increasingly hard to force himself to not try to refill them, sweet kami, his lungs were burning.

As he continued to frantically make his way through the water, he couldn't help but notices the corner of his vision was turning black, no wait, now the light from above was completely being blocked. Forcing his attention back to above him his eyes widened as he found Matsuri's sinking thigh heading towards him.

Forcing himself to the side he still ended up colliding with the side of her still expanding thigh, further disorientating him as he shook his head, which only caused his head to start pounding. The lack of oxygen was really starting to get to him now.

Continuing up towards the surface his vision started to blur as he narrowed his eyes, he could do this, there was no way he was giving up now. But as his vision continued to darken his arms became harder and harder to move before his lungs couldn't take it anymore and he was forced to open his mouth.

No! No, this couldn't be… It wasn't going to end like this. He had things he still needed to do damn it!

His vision continued to darken as he slowly began to sink back down.

"So, is that it than, Naruto?"

Kurama?

"Guess I can give you a hand this once…"

As his vision completely turned dark, he felt a force catch and push him up from beneath.

Breaking through the surface of the water his eyes snaped open as he took in a much need gulp of air before coughing and spluttering up the water in his lungs as he pulled himself out of the water onto its surface on his hands and knees.

As he coughed up the last of the water, he took in gasping breaths of air before looking around himself in confusion "Kurama…?"

Pushing himself up into a crouching position he continued looking around himself. "Are you there…" However, he couldn't find any trace of him or his chakra to indicate he had been there. Had he really just been saved by the fox or had he just imagined it in his oxygen deprived mental state?

Before he could finish processing his thoughts however, the water around him began to shake getting his attention as he stared at the spot in front of him before something burst out of the water. His eyes widened as Matsuri once again emerged from the water standing up to her full hight.

Standing up from his crouched position a blush lit up Naruto's face as he found himself now standing before Matsuri's crotch as the water now only came to just below her hips, okay so maybe the Senjutsu powered punch had been a bit much. Shaking his head while forcing his blush down he turned his head upwards to get a better look at her, however he couldn't see anything past the gigantic pair of breasts hovering high above him.

"Okay…" He muttered to himself, "This has gone on long enough…" while lowering his head and closing his eyes.

While that was going on, above him Matsuri clutched her hands to her face as her eyes watered, that had HURT! Letting out a hiss of pain she rubbed at the spot between her eyes, how did something so small… yeah, yeah, he wasn't actually small, she knew that, but comparatively to her he was tiny, so how… how did he pack such a powerful punch!? She was sure she had blacked out for a moment there! Was that the power of Senjutsu? If it was it was incredible, no wonder it was thought to be a myth.

Moving her hands away from her face she blinked the tears away before looking… around… for… him… HOLY CRAP! She was ENORMOUS! She, she could see the academy from up here… No, bad Matsuri, focus! Now if only she could find Naruto.

Looking down at the lake she couldn't spot him. Damn it, why did everything look so TINY!?

Twisting around on her spot trying to find any sight of him she finally noticed something out of the corner of her eye. Looking back down in front of herself she brought her left hand up to flatten her breast against herself while glancing down over it. There he was! He was just standing there, right in front of her… A blush lit up her face as she took a step back while bringing her right fist up. Well at least he had his eyes closed from what she could tell, admittedly it was a little hard to tell from this high up. Wait… his eyes were closed? Isn't that what he did the last time? Shit!

Her eyes widened in realisation. "I won't let you!" She yelled out as she leaned forwards launching her fist at him.

As her fist hurtled towards him, Naruto jumped up from his spot just as her fist connected with the lake, causing a large splash of water, almost like an explosion had gone off!

Narrowing her eyes, Matsuri raised her left hand up as she saw Naruto running along her forearm, arms trailing behind him, before slamming her hand down onto her forearm. Instead of hitting him though, Naruto had managed to jump up off her forearm and through the gap between her fingers.

Her eyes widened again as Naruto finished his leap by landing in a crouch on top of her right breast, sinking into it, as amber eyes glared up at her in defiance before using her breast as a springboard to launch himself up to her eye level.

Twisting in midair he landed in a crouch on the spot between her eyes causing Matsuri to release a hiss of pain as he forcefully launched himself off of her again and into the air. Her eyes watered again as she clutched at the spot on her face and took a step back. Damn it! Why did he have to target that spot again!?

Flipping in midair, now above Matsuri, Naruto reached his right arm behind himself as a Rasengan formed in the palm of his outstretched hand.

"Senpo!" He called out as Matsuri tried to look up at him through the gap in her fingers as she tried to blink away the tears to clear her vision as all she could see was a blurry bright light.

As Naruto glared down at Matsuri, and the force of gravity started to pull him back down towards her, the Rasengan in his hand started to grow to an enormous size.

"Chōchōōdama!"

Her eyes widened as she finally saw the GIANT BALL OF DEATH heading right towards her.

She tried to do something, anything, to stop this THING, but it was already too late as Naruto slammed it into her unprotected midriff.

"RASENGAN!"

As the giant Rasengan crashed into Matsuri it continued to expand as the air around it was swept up into a frenzy, swirling around them while the water around them churned violently as a result.

Matsuri's eyes continued to widen in shock as she let out a shout of pain as the Rasengan continued to drill away at her. Her shouts could barely be heard however, even at her current monstrous size, oven the frenzied howl of the winds swirling around them.

As the Rasengan continued to drive into her, cracks of light started forming outwards from the point of impact along Matsuri's form, slowly continuing further and further outwards.

Matsuri soon threw her head back in one final yell of pain as the same cracks started appearing over her face until with one final roar of exertion from Naruto a giant explosion rocked the area, covering the entire location in smoke as all of the built up pressure from within the Rasengan was released outwards, sending out a powerful torrent of wind in all directions and causing giant waves to be sent out from the centre of the lake before crashing down onto the banks, while the water also raining down all over the area.

After a short time passed the wind and water calmed while the smoke and dust settled as blue eyes opened. Naruto was floating on his back out in the middle of the lake as he stared up into the clear sky. The sleeve of his jacket had been shredded, revealing the bandaged arm underneath while the zipper in the middle of it had been destroyed, leaving it open and exposing the fishnet shirt underneath.

Raised his bandaged arm into the air, he clenched his fist before letting out a sigh "Hey…" and letting his arm drop back down into the water with a small splash. "You doin' alright?"

"Yeeaahh…" Came the groaned response as Naruto tilted his head back in the direction of the voice. Floating a few meters from him, also on her back was Matsuri. Like him, she was also just lying there looking up at the sky, her purple sports bra and short bicycle shorts were covered in nicks and small tears. "My… everything hurts…"

"Sorry." He turned his attention away from Matsuri and back towards the sky. "I shouldn't of messed around so much."

"No." She shook her head before turning it in his direction. "I was the one who challenged you, I've got no right to complain."

"You sure?"

"Yeah," She turned her attention back towards the sky "thanks for the match."

"Yeah."

"But…"

"Hm, what?"

"I can't move…"

Tilting his head back towards her again as she turned hers towards him, blue eyes met with red as twin grins slowly formed on their faces before they both let out a chuckle as it slowly evolved into full blown laughter.

Getting their laughter under control Naruto let out a sigh. "Good fight."

"Yeah…" Matsuri sighed out. "Good fight."

Sitting back up onto the surface of the water, Naruto pulled himself back up onto his feet before slowly walking over to the side of Matsuri.

Upon reaching her he crouched back down, getting her attention. "Sooo…"

"Yeah?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Still not able to move?" He grinned down at her.

"Define 'able'." She replied with a groan while closing her eyes, getting a quiet chuckle out of Naruto before her eyes shot open as she felt his arms under her back and legs as he lifted her out of the water. "H-Hey, what are you…" She started before instinctively wrapping an arm around his neck and hissing in pain at the movement.

"Just accept the help." He sighed as he finished standing back up with Matsuri now in his arms.

"Ugh…" She groaned as Naruto started heading towards the edge of the lake, carrying her in a princes hold of all things. "This is so embarrassing."

"Yeah, yeah…" He muttered out even if he couldn't hide the grin on his face getting another groan out of Matsuri before she looked back down at the water below them.

"So, about this walking on water thing?" She asked turning her attention back towards him before her eyes suddenly widened getting a confused raised eyebrow out of him. "I mean, unless it's like a secret clan thing!" She finished waving her free arm around frantically before wincing in pain again.

"Clan thing?" He asked, blinking in confusion before shaking his head. "Na, it's pretty much just something everyone learns eventually back home." He finished with slight shrug of his shoulders before raising an eyebrow at her. "Why would you think it was a clan Jutsu?"

"Well, you know…" She gestured her head towards him. "You're an Uzumaki, right? And you're walking on Water, so I just figured that, you know…" She finished with a light blush as she turned her head away.

"Is that why you were surprised I was a wind user?" He asked with a raised eyebrow before a mischievous grin broke out across his face getting an embarrassed blush out of Matsuri "'Cause you thought I'd be a Water user?"

"Kind of…" She muttered out in embarrassment getting a chuckle out of Naruto.

"So, I'm guessing that the Kazamaki specialize in wind Jutsu?"

"Yeah…" She confirmed trying to bury her head in his chest to hide her embarrassment "So then, the Uzumaki…"

"From what I know," He responded while looking up at the sky "they were a clan that specialised in the art of sealing."

"From what you know?" She asked in confusion while lifting her head back up.

"Yeah," He nodded, turning his head back towards the direction they were heading in "the clan was wiped out some time ago."

"Oh, sorry…" She trailed off looking down.

"Huh, oh no," He looked down at her with a grin on his face "that happened looong before I was even born. It's ancient history by this point, so don't even worry about it."

"Uh, right, sooo…" trailing off she racked her brain to come up with another topic to steer the conversation away from where it was going "the water walking thing!" She ended up blurting out before wincing internally, that didn't come off as insensitive at all.

"Water walking…" Naruto trailed off while grinning down at her, seemingly not caring about the change in topic. "You really want to learn that one, don't ya?"

"Well yeah…" she scratched the back of her head before sparkles appeared in her eyes "I mean walking on water, how cool is that!? How cool is this!?" Finishing, she gestured towards Naruto's feet to make her point getting a laugh out of Naruto.

"Well…" He looked up towards the sky getting Matsuri to stare up at him hopefully. "I mean I'm already teaching Minori some stuff, soo…" He turned back towards Matsuri with a grin back on his face. "Sure, why not."

"You mean it!?" She practically shot out at him in excitement.

"Yeah," he nodded his head. "I just said I would, didn't I?"

"All Right!" Matsuri cheered out, thrusting her free fist into the air before wincing in pain again, getting an amused chuckle out of Naruto before launching himself and Matsuri off the water's surface, getting a surprised "eep" out of Matsuri, jumping over the small fence around the lack.

Landing back down on the ground he let out a quiet chuckle at Matsuri's embarrassed expression before slowly lowering her back down onto her feet only to tighten his hold around her waist as she stumbled "Whoa there, you, okay?"

"Y-Yeah." She nodded in embarrassment with a quite hiss of pain while keeping her arm around his neck. "Just give me a sec to get my legs working again."

"Alright…" He responded with some concern being heard in his voice before their attention was taken away by a loud clapping.

Leaning against a nearby tree, Minori shot the both of them a large toothy grin as she stopped clapping. "Aw, look at you two," She started as she pushed herself away from the tree "getting along so well," before beginning to walk towards them while wiping a fake tear away from her eye "I'm so proud of you." As she reached them however, she placed her hands on Naruto's shoulders "There's just one little thing."

"Yeah?" Naruto asked nervously as Matsuri slowly edged away from them.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!" She yelled as she started frantically shaking him back and forth getting wide nervous eyes out of Matsuri before Minori suddenly stopped her shaking of him as his eyes were spinning before he shook his head.

"What?"

"Don't 'What' me!" She yelled shoving her face into his, causing her breasts to push up into his chest. "You've been holding out on me!"

"The hell you goin' on about!?" He yelled back, getting annoyed as he slammed his forehead against hers.

"You!" She continued to grind her forehead against his as she started jabbing her finger into his chest, above her breast. "You've got me running up the sides of buildings and here you are dancing around on top of the water like some sorta deity! What the hell!?"

"Okay first…" He narrowed his eyes at her. "I was not 'dancing around', secondly, I'm pretty sure a deity would just fly…" He deadpanned getting Minori to narrow her eyes further. "And finally, of course I haven't taught you to walk on water yet!"

"What do you mean 'of course you haven't'?" She asked continuing to glare daggers at him.

"Like my sensei's used to tell me… constantly…" He gave a defeated sigh. "You gotta learn to walk before you can run."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning…" He narrowed his eyes at her again. "If you can't do the wall walking exercise, then you sure as hell can't jump to walking on water!"

"Oh, so you're not planning to ditch your poor Minori-chan to teach Matsuri instead!?" She continued to push her forehead against his while squeezing her breasts up between them.

"What?" His eyes widened before narrowing at her again. "Of course not! You know me better than that!"

"Really!?" She yelled.

"Really!" He shouted back.

"Promise!"

"Yes!"

"And you'll teach me to walk on water!?"

"Obviously!"

"Good!"

"Great!"

"Weeell… okay than." Minori finished with a large grin on her face as she spun away from Naruto causing her breasts to bounce from side to side with her hands raised up behind her head as she slowly took a step away.

"I… wait… you… what…" Naruto stammered while dropping his head with a sigh. "You're messing with me, aren't you?"

"Maaybee…" She called out in an amused tone before turning around to face Matsuri who was standing a few feet away from her and Naruto staring at them with wide unblinking eyes with her right arm wrapped around her waist. "How you holding up?"

"Huh, me?" She asked pointing at herself. "I'm fine!"

"Yeah, sure." Minori deadpanned to her before appearing right next to her while lifting Matsuri's arm up and poking a finger into her side, causing her to wince. "You and I both know that this battle-hardened idiot," she gestured to Naruto getting an indignant "Hey" out of him, "doesn't know how to truly hold back." She finished saying appearing at different angles around her constantly poking and staring at different places on Matsuri, getting light hisses of pain in response. "So come on, fess up, how you doing?"

"A-A little sore I guess, but really I'm fine." She responded with a defeated sigh.

"A little, huh?" Minori stood back away from her with her arms folded under her breasts, a disbelieving expression on her face.

"Y-Yeah…" She stuttered turning her face away in embarrassment. "A little."

"Uh huh." Minori nodded sceptically before a large grin broke out on her face. "Well, no matter if its little or big," she threw her arm around Matsuri's shoulders getting a grunt out of her "Minori-chan knows just what you need."

"Really?" Matsuri asked glancing out of the corner of her eye at her.

"Yeap!" She nodded her head at her "All you need is a good long massage."

"Minori…" Naruto growled in warning at this which she just so happened to ignore.

"And wouldn't you know…" She moved herself and Matsuri around so that they were facing Naruto, who was currently glaring at her. "This idiot just so happens to be the best masseur in all of Tenbi."

"He is?" Matsuri blinked at Naruto before turning back towards Minori. "Seriously?"

"Hard to believe right?" She shot a grin at Naruto.

"Don't. You. Dare…"

"But he gives the best massages you will ever have." She nodded as her grin widened. "And that's not even mentioning his speciality."

"Specialty?"

"M-Minori…!" Naruto spluttered with wide shocked eyes.

"See, he does this thing where…" Minori leaned in and started whispering into Matsuri's ear, much to Naruto's shock and horror.

As Minori continued whispering away to her, Matsuri's eyes slowly grew wider and wider as a bright blush moved up along her face causing Naruto to bury his head in his hands.

"W-W-W-Wha…" She stuttered out, her face now an atomic red, "H-he really…" as she slowly looked down at her own breasts.

"Yeap!" Minori nodded with a large grin.

"And…" She slowly, mechanically turned her head towards Minori. "Y-You're okay with letting him…" She trailed off in embarrassment.

"Letting him?" Minori blinked in confusion before her grin broke back out again as she jabbed her free thumb into her chest "I'm the one who has to convince him."

"W-W-W-Wha…" She stuttered out again as her jaw dropped. "You have to…"

"Yeap!" Minori nodded at her again before her grin dropped into a pout. "He can be such a prude sometimes."

"Yeah, well…" Matsuri turned her head away from Minori, blush still in place. "I don't really think that's for me." She finished casting a subtle glance over at a still mortified Naruto.

"That so…" Minori let out a sigh. "Too bad." Her grin suddenly returned full force. "You really don't know what you're missing." She brought her free hand back up to cup her breast and lift it up slightly before pinching the nipple between her thumb and index finger through the fabric of her tracksuit. "I really do need to get him to finish where he left off earlier." She finished with a content sigh.

Matsuri's head shot back around, staring wide eyed at Minori in shock as her blush somehow seemed to intensify. "P-P-P-Principal Roku…"

"Nu ah ah." Minori cut her off while releasing her breast, causing it to bounce back into place, and shaking her finger at her. "None of that Principal Rokujou stuff." She said as her grin returned with full force. "We're all friends here, Minori's fine."

"R-Right." Matsuri turned her head away from her again with an embarrassed pout for a few second before muttering out "Is it…" catching Minori's attention as Matsuri looked at her out of the corner of her eye "Is it really… that good?"

"Like you wouldn't believe." Minori grinned back at her.

"Well then…" She muttered in embarrassment while taking a quick look down at her own breasts again. "I guess I could…"

"Absolutely Not!" Naruto cut her off finally breaking into the conversation, even if his face was just as red as Matsuri's. "I am not agreeing to this." He finished crossing his arms into an X formation in front of himself.

"Party pooper…" Minori pouted at him before grinning again. "Or are you saying those are just reserved for little ol' me." She finished grabbing her breast again.

"Y-You know that's not what I meant!" He pointed at her.

"Then what's the problem?" Minori shrugged. "Matsuri-chan's giving her consent." She gestured to her getting Matsuri's blush to intensive. "She wants to try it."

"T-That's not the problem here!"

"Then what is?" Minori raised an eyebrow at him. "I mean you've done it on me enough times at this point."

"Y-You're a groan woman!" He spluttered out, gesturing towards Minori before looking over at Matsuri "And she's…" He trailed off not knowing how to finish that.

"A third-year student." Minori shrugged before moving towards Naruto, dragging Matsuri along with her. "Besides," She grinned at him "this is Tenbi! You know the rules are different around here."

Naruto could only facepalm with a groan. "That… doesn't make it alright…" He muttered to himself.

"I-If he's not comfortable with it," Matsuri spoke up as Minori continued to drag her towards Naruto "then I don't want to force…"

"Besides!" Minori cut her off as she jabbed a finger into his chest while narrowing her eyes at him. "Poor, Matsuri-chan here is in pain after your match! You really want to leave her suffering like this!" She finished getting a groan out of Naruto as he dragged his hand down his face.

"Hey, I really am okay, owowow…" Matsuri called out in defiance only for Minori to poke her in the side causing her to hiss in pain before pouting at her "Mostly…" and getting deadpan stares out of both Minori and Naruto.

"Riiight…" Minori drew out. "Anyway," she threw her free arm out around Naruto's shoulders before pulling him in so that they were cheek to cheek "who was it who drew out the fight just so he could see how much of a fight Matsuri could put up?" She said with narrowed eyes, glancing at Naruto out of the corner of said narrowed eyes, causing him to look away in embarrassment, he had done that hadn't he?

"I was the one who challenged him!" Matsuri called out in defence of Naruto. "I can't blame him for wanting to get the most out of it."

Surprisingly that didn't make him feel better. Minori may be pushing this, for reasons he wasn't quite sure of, but she was right. He had pushed Matsuri too far in their match and she was paying for it. "Fine…" He muttered with a sigh before shooting a glare at Minori. "But just this once!"

"Good enough!" She called out with a grin as she started marching away, pulling both Naruto and Matsuri into headlocks as she started dragging them behind her causing their heads to bonce off the bottom of her breasts. "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship, hahaha!"

As Minori continued to drag them down the path, laughing away, Naruto and Matsuri's eyes made contact. "Well, welcome to the club." He said with a sigh.

"Y-Yeah," Matsuri answered back with a strained smile "thanks." She winced. "I think."

Unbeknownst to the three of them as they left the area a shadowed figure moved from behind a tree further back in woods before lighting a cigarette. "Interesting."

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To Be Continued

AN/ There we go Chapter 4 is FINALY up, after eleven months, sorry about that. Hopefully this chapter makes up for it.

Okay so first thing first I just want to say I'm sorry for not updating in so long but with the constant back-to-back 12-hour shifts at work and a lot of problems and issues that have been going on in my home and family life, that I will not be getting into. I have been constantly stressed out as well as mentally and physically exhausted and that hasn't really left me with much in the way of motivation to really wright anything. So yeah, not a great 2024. Fortunately, my hours have finally been cut back a little and MOST of the problems at home have been sorted, which is why I've managed to get this chapter out. But while most of them have been sorted not all of them have been. Now, hopefully the rest will be sorted out in the coming months, hopefully. But until then the updates are going to be a bit sporadic. I'm sorry if that annoys any of you but unfortunately it is what it is. Thank you for understanding and here's hoping for a better 2025.

Secondly after getting THAT out of the way, it's time to bring up results of the poll from last chapter. The overall result of it were a lot closer than I thought it would be but ultimately it went in favour of Minori's breasts getting larger with a winning vote of 58 percent. Now with the matter of Minori, it's not going to be an instant thing. Like she's not going to wake up one morning and BAM having her breasts double in size. It is going to be a gradual and slow thing, but that does beg the question of just how big you all want them to get. So, I have posted another poll on my home page where you can vote for just how large you want them to get.

And with that all said I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. What you liked, what you didn't like or anything ells you want to point out. Trust me it's the only way I'll learn. So, till next time.

See ya.