Naruko and Hina-chan were currently sparring. The white eyed girl had gotten a lot better in the past few months, but things weren't quite back to normal. Where before the Hyuuga would win about nine times for every one win of Naruko's now it was more like she would win seven for every five. Naruko didn't mind. The fact that Hina-chan was winning more than her again just meant she was slowly getting back to her old self. Today however is not one of those days where Hina-chan wins as Naruko quickly finds herself connecting a foot to the other girl's ribs. The white eyed girl winces and they stop there. They have different kinds of spars and today's was major contact. Essentially whoever could land a blow to a major part of the body (head, neck, ribs, etc.) first wins. It's mainly to focus on how to both dodge and properly target the opponent to maximize damage dealt.
"So you know we're being watched by some kid right?"
"Yeah he's been following me around for a few days now. I think he doesn't realize I can see through his disguises." Hinata nods in understanding, he was probably only eight or so and she wouldn't get mad at him following her around. She feels like she should recognize him but she can't put her finger on it.
"Any idea why?"
"Probably because I stopped him from falling over, oh and I didn't call him 'Honorable Grandson'." Ah, that explains why Hinata recognized him. He had been to a few of Hanabi's birthday parties because they were both in the same class and are clan kids. And of course he is the Sandaime's grandson. "I'm gonna call him out on it I guess, wanna come with or naw?" Hinata wasn't sure. Actually, no, Hinata wasn't going to go. She'd spy on her girlfriend, she wants to see how her future wife will handle kids. She had to tell herself it wasn't weird. But ultimately it didn't matter as Naru-chan wouldn't care anyways, she'd likely just wonder how it matters.
"No, I think I'll stay and get a bit more training in, see you at dinner?" The two had plans to have dinner at Naruko's place tonight. It was something they had started doing after the incident with Hinata ignoring the redhead. Once a week they would always have a meal alone together, typically at Naruko's apartment.
Naruko nods and gives her girlfriend a quick kiss. "See you around Hina-chan, maybe go have Sasuke heal those ribs before you continue training."
That's a good idea, she can drag Sasuke along too, it'll be fun. And she really could use his healing. He had gotten a lot better in the past few months at Medical Jutsu, he really did have a natural talent for it. If she had to guess he was on par with most high chunin level medics. She watches her girlfriend leave and quickly takes off to go find Sasuke.
Naruko approached the poorly concealed boy who was hiding up against a tree. "So why have you been stalking me, Kono?"
"Just as I expected, you saw through my masterful disguise with ease. Naruko-chan, please teach me!" Why did he call her chan? She barely knew him.
"Why do you want me to teach you? Don't you already have a jonin?"
"Yeah but you're a genin and have already taken on S-rank nin. If you teach me I'm sure I can find the shortcut to being Hokage."
"I think the shortcut is to be trained by previous kage, or previous kage's students." Every Hokage except the first (for obvious reasons) had been either taught by the first to some degree or taught by another kage or their student. "So I guess just get good luck when you become a genin."
The boy wasn't satisfied with that answer and whines, "But I want to be taught by you."
"I still don't get what's wrong with the other guy."
"All he does is prattle about how important the basics are."
"Well they are important, but I guess I can see where that gets frustrating."
"So will you teach me any cool Jutsu?"
"Well you probably don't have the chakra control for Genjutsu yet." She didn't see the problem in teaching an eight year old how to make others view hell. "And Fuinjutsu would take too long. My Taijutsu style probably won't fit you. So I guess a ninjutsu will do."
The boy's eyes were sparkling with excitement. The redhead continues. "I guess I'll teach you one of the Academy three." Teaching him elemental jutsu might be too intensive if he learns something he doesn't have the affinity for. "You'll learn this in a few years anyways, but it will put you ahead of your peers. How does the Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique) sound? You seem to like espionage and being able to become another person at will would be pretty cool." He was about to protest but hearing her say it like that made it seem so cool.
Naruko could swear she heard faint shifting from the bushes. She goes stock still for all of three seconds before her hair rises and she feels her teammates hiding in the bushes. So Hina-chan lied cause she wanted to watch? Well she didn't mind. She hadn't noticed before but it was now apparent that Kurenai was watching too. Though she was hiding from the others as well. Why is her whole team watching her interact with the kid? As quickly as her hair lifts it falls. "Alright I'll show you the hand sign and perform the Jutsu so you can get an idea. Then just try transforming into someone you know, or me cause I'm right in front of you." She does as explained and standing in the clearing now is a perfect copy of Hinata. Then with a puff of smoke she transforms back.
"Watch this!" He repeats her and uses the Jutsu, but when he's revealed it's only a morbidly obese redhead.
"Who's that supposed to be?"
"You."
Over in the bush Sasuke and Hinata had to resist laughing for fear of being caught. They knew Naruko wouldn't be insulted but it was still funny.
"I think you have the proportions a little too wide. You have the idea right but you need to make it thinner." The boy nodded and performed the Jutsu again, he managed to get it slightly thinner but all in all the success was minimal. "Hmm this isn't working, try becoming a man for me." He does so and actually does it with no issue. The kid had talent, he just seemed to be having trouble becoming female. "Alright I think you need to get a better idea of what women look like. Follow me." She starts walking off, not waiting to see if he did as told.
Hinata had a weird feeling Naruko was about to accidentally send the wrong message, but it was too amusing to stop. She and Sasuke quietly follow after them.
The two, and their followers, arrive at one of Konoha's many bath houses. "Naruko-chan, why are we here?"
"I figure if you see women with nothing obstructing them you'll get a better idea." The boy nodded, that made sense. Well he thinks it does. "Just walk in and tell them you're looking for your Kaa-chan. You're young enough to make it work."
"Why are you not going in?"
"Because if I went in and you saw me naked then you'd have to die." She wouldn't care, not truly, he's only a kid. But Hina-chan would probably kill him.
Over on the rooftop Hinata nods, no one gets to see her girlfriend naked but her.
With that Konohamaru walks into the women's side of the bathhouse. He walked out a few minutes later with a weird look on his face. "How'd it go?"
"They weren't mad at me but for some reason I got a lot of hugs and they made this weird squealing."
"Alright well now you should try the Henge again. Try becoming me again, you should have a better idea." The boy nods and performs the Jutsu. In his place is a tall and buxom redhead, she looked like Naruko. Except she was too tall and too buxom. Naruko was far more petite than that. Naruko wasn't phased.
Hinata was weirdly angry and pleased. What can she say, even if it's wrong it's still her naked girlfriend, and she enjoyed looking. But on the other hand the boy was putting her naked girlfriend on display and would have to suffer for his transgressions. She looked to her right and found Sasuke out cold with a nosebleed. She would probably have been the same if he made it really look like her. Though now that she knows what he's doing the surprise won't be able to get her.
"The transformation is much better, but still flawed. I'm much smaller than that. And my boobs aren't so big." She eyes the blood running down the side of the building. "Though I'd recommend saving that form, or at least something similar, for use against perverts. Now try again, and don't make the boobs so big." He nods and this time he produces a near perfect copy of Naruko, it's still naked for some reason. "Better, that is much closer to my actual proportions. Though I'd recommend putting some clothes on this transformation or you'll be in trouble." The boy didn't get it but performed it again. This time a perfect copy of Naruko, with clothes, appears. Any discrepancies are hidden under the clothes. "Congrats Kono, it seems to me like you have the Jutsu down. Though I'd recommend practicing it some more."
Sasuke had woken up and was having to restrain Hinata from going down and slaughtering the kid. He heard faint snickering and found Kurenai-sensei on another rooftop laughing at his plight. How long had she been there?
The jonin from earlier, Naruko hadn't learned his name, finally arrived. "Honorable Grandson, come with me we must get back to your training." He looks towards Naruko and wrinkles his nose. "Come, you have nothing to gain by spending time with that dead last." He didn't particularly hate her for the beast, though he certainly didn't like her. But she barely passed the academy and couldn't possibly help the Honorable Grandson.
Konohamaru didn't take kindly to this and called out," Oiroke no Jutsu (Sexy Technique)." Naruko was surprised he already named it. It was still just a Henge. Well whatever floats his boat. The jonin seemed nonplussed by it.
"What sort of vulgarities have you been teaching him?!"
"Hey that's all him, I was just teaching him the Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique). Kono, go ahead and show him." The boy nods and drops his previous transformation, this time becoming a copy of the jonin. The man had to admit, it was good. He wasn't happy about it but at least this didn't seem worthless.
"I see, well, come along then, we still have training to do." The girl hadn't taught him anything useless so he'd let it slide this time.
"No! I want Naruko-chan to teach me!"
Hinata had noticed but only now bothered to question why exactly the boy was calling her girlfriend by the "-chan" suffix.
"Sorry Kono but I don't have time to teach you all the time. I still gotta get strong so I can protect my loved ones." The boy looks down trodden at that but then perks up.
"Then you're my rival for the position of Hokage! Cause the Hokage protects everyone!"
Almost simultaneously the members of team 7 mutter under their breath bitterly, "Not everyone."
"Sorry Kono, but I have no interest in being Hokage."
"But you're so strong, why wouldn't you want to be Hokage?"
"Because that position requires a deep seeded love for the village. Not to mention the respect of the village at large. I have neither and as such don't want to be the Hokage. But if that's what you want you have my support. So that's one villager backing you already, now you just gotta work for everyone else."
"Fine then if you won't be my rival then when we're older you'll be my wife." He says with a small blush. He had a crush on the pretty girl, what could he say.
"No." Rejection was swift and ruthless. It also came from both Naruko and Hinata, who Sasuke couldn't stop from jumping down. The white eyed girl speaks.
"She's going to be my wife, and I don't appreciate you making moves on my girlfriend." She wasn't going to harm the kid, because he was still a kid and didn't know better.
"But girls can't like each other!" He didn't say it out of spite or malice, just from a childish misunderstanding of love.
"That's not true, I've been in love with her for years. One day you'll learn that love comes in many forms."
"Then you're my rival white eyes!" Naruko wasn't expecting this at all. She certainly hadn't been expecting Hina-chan to get another rival, not that any of them had a chance. Though Hina-chan for some reason seemed to think that just because Fuu kissed her that meant the green haired girl actually had a chance. The boy didn't get to finish his rant as the jonin grabbed him.
"Well, thank you for teaching him Naruko-san. Now come along Honorable Grandson, you have lessons to learn." The two are left alone and finally Naruko calls out.
"So are you two gonna come down and join us?" An instant later Kurenai and Sasuke were on the ground with the other two. The red eyed woman speaks up.
"You know I never thought you would be a teacher. It kind of suits you." Naruko shrugs, she only taught him because it seemed like fun. "Also you really didn't seem bothered by the fact that he turned into a naked version of you."
"Should I be? It's not like he was trying to be insulting about it. Though it is a little weird to me that the eight year old thinks I'm sexy." She didn't even start to notice other people's bodies until she was twelve, which she's still twelve, but maybe she's the weird one.
A new voice pops up, one Naruko and Kurenai recognize. "That's probably because all the men in his family are closet pervs, and he gets it from them."
"Oh Jiraiya, when did you get here?"
"Around the time he walked into the hot spring." He wasn't going to say he had been peeping. He was in no mood to have Kurenai attack him.
"Naru-chan, did you call him Jiraiya? As in the Sannin?"
Naruko nods and the white haired man continues. "I see my reputations precedes me. I take it you're the squirts girlfriend?" Hinata nods.
"Nice to meet you, Jiraiya-san."
Sasuke looks at Naruko and Hinata and then asks, "How do you know him?"
"He's my godfather." Kurenai isn't surprised she knows.
"So did he know your mother?" Last he heard Naruko still didn't know who her dad was.
"He knew both my parents. I'll tell you who Tou-chan is later, I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to say it in public." Sasuke nods, she probably wasn't even supposed to be admitting this.
"It's been a while Jiraiya."
"Look at you all grown up, last time I saw you, you were barely older than them." He says jerking a thumb to the kids. "How's about you and me go get dinner sometime?"
"As friends, sure." She says, smiling sweetly. She remembers how often he would hit on kunoichis when she was a kid. He had never asked her or Yugao, but she guessed that's because he's not a pedophile. Also probably because Kushina would have beat him half to death if he even tried.
The man doesn't deflate in the slightest. "Some women just have no taste. Oh well, you're not my type anyways." Not true, all women who were even a little attractive were his type. But he only ever loved one woman and that would always be unrequited. "I heard Gai's become even weirder."
Kurenai snorts, "You have no idea." They were still old friends and could use some catching up.
Naruko speaks up now, "So were you just here to ask Kurenai-sensei out? Not that I don't get it, she's pretty hot." Jiraiya laughs.
"I think we'll get along real well kid." He couldn't have asked for a better goddaughter. She truly understood the finer things in life! "But no, I'm here with the offer to train you. I should have been doing it years ago anyways."
"No thanks."
"What?" He was dumbfounded.
"Kurenai-sensei is doing a great job training me, and I respect her too much to just go to another sensei." Kurenai coos and scoops the other girl up into a hug. Naruko struggles in vain to try and break free. She'd probably have a better time if she released her seals.
"Aka-chan you're just too cute sometimes." Naruko stops struggling and looks at the woman confused.
"Aka-chan?"
"Oh, that's what I used to call you." Huh, she didn't know that. But she could barely remember those days. She's distracted by the sound of scribbling and giggling. Jiraiya is furiously taking notes.
"Jiraiya, why do you always take notes while giggling?"
"You're a creative gold mine kid. I'm a writer you see."
"Oh cool, can I read your book?"
"You really are the best!" Before Naruko can respond, the other two women do.
"No!" They look at each other and then Kurenai continues. "I don't want you corrupting her."
"You can't let her read that, it'll ruin my plans!" Everyone turns to look at the heiress. What? "Oh, um… never mind."
"Wait Hina-chan does he write those orange books I always see you reading when you think I'm not looking? I don't get it, isn't it just some romance book?" The name just meant flirt so she didn't really get it. "Also how would it ruin your plans."
Kurenai was about to tell her, but Hinata silenced them. "It's a secret, you'll find out when you're older."
"So it has something to do either with your plan to propose to me, or sex? Maybe both?" Those were the only things Hina-chan was putting off for when they're older so it's gotta be one of those. Team 7 collectively sighs, Naruko really didn't understand what not to say in public, or to people that aren't Hinata. Jiraiya was ecstatic, Kushina's daughter was fantastic! Though there is still the problem of Naruko not wanting him to teach her. He turns to Kurenai.
"Alright I'll ask you then, is it alright if I teach Naruko?"
"Hmm, no."
"What?! Why not?!"
"I don't want her to receive special treatment. So I'll let you teach her if you teach the other two." She was an elite jounin who saw an opportunity to have all of her students receive lessons from a Sannin, of course she was going to take it. Jiraiya looks like he's going to object so she casually says, "Oh well, I guess you won't get to see the two flirt all the time." They didn't actually flirt all the time, but she knew he'd take the bait.
"Dammit you win. You've gotten craftier over the years, Kurenai. I'll give lessons to all of your students." He didn't truly mind, Hiashi had been one of his students so teaching his daughter wasn't an issue. "We can talk more about it later, I still have other things to do now that I'm back in the village." He's only been to one hot spring so far. The beauties of Konoha were waiting for him!