5)Foxy Adventures: Ch.5

“So, where are we off to?” I asked Ebisu with a happy smile as I skipped besides the man, who looked depressed as he slowly shuffled his feet forward while searching the near-empty wallet in his grasp.

“Sixteen. Sixteen XX-Large Tonkotsu Ramen bowls with extra pork cutlets. Where does it all go?”

“To my belly. Where else? So, are you going to tell me why we had to go a hot spring town outside of the village instead of using one of the local ones inside of it?” I asked and he snapped out of his depressed state to give me a smug smirk and a nod.

“Of course! That was to test your stamina and because this town has some of the hottest hot springs in the country, though I suppose the stamina test was a bit of a stretch considering you don't even look tired.” He muttered to himself and I smirked as I simply shrugged.

He was telling the truth as I didn't feel a bit of tiredness in my body even after we've ran almost a dozen or so kilometers in almost ten minutes and that was while leaping from tree to tree constantly.

Honestly, I'm even surprised at how physically capable this body is and that's a surprise given the fact that I knew Naruto/ I was a stamina demon in the canon timeli-

“Naruto!” I nearly jumped out of my skin as I was knocked out of my mental monologuing by Ebisu, turning to look at the man only to blink at the disappointed look on his face.

“Now, while I do understand the thirst for knowing what the feminine body looks like, I cannot in good faith allow a young man such as yourself to peep at your age.”

'…He's Konohamaru's sensei, man. Konohamaru needs the guy to look after him.' I repeated to myself as I slowly turned around & walked back, but he must have seen my hand twitching near my kunai pouch as he gave a nervous chuckle & quickly turned to the hot river flowing besides us.

“A-Ahem! To answer your question, we shall be training here!”

“And what are we going to train? How to swim through hot water?” I asked, feigning ignorance and then shock as the man simply smirked before walking out onto the water before turning around with a smug chuckle.

Well, the shock wasn't completely fake as seeing a shinobi walk out onto a flowing river like it was pavement was still as surprising as it should be and the fact that Ebisu made it seem so effortless almost made him cool in my books.

…Almost.

“Cool~Wait, you're going to teach me to do that?”

“But of course! And like Kakashi said, if you manage to achieve a reasonable level at it, I shall be handing over the jutsu scroll that he gave me.”

“Okay, so is it like the Tree Walking Exercise?” I asked as I looked at him only to smirk at the surprised yet impressed look on his face.

“My, my. It appears I have underestimated your intellect.”

“…Are you calling me slow?”

“I'm saying I thought you were an idiot. As for the answer to your question, it's sort of like it. Like the Tree Climbing Exercise where you concentrated a fixed amount of chakra to your feet in order to walk up the tree, you'll have to constantly adjust & tweak the amount of chakra you're sending to your feet as the water is fluid & ever-changing unlike the solid & rigid surface that is the tree trunk.”

“Okay, so send chakra to my feet but keep adjusting & tweaking it according to the surface of the water and my body weight…” While I was repeating this to myself, my hands were already in the Ram Handsign.

Closing my eyes, I felt my chakra slowly circulating throughout my body before I took a deep breath and softly grasped it, pulling it along & towards my feet before opening my eyes with determination as I took my first step forward….

And hissed as I fell face first into steaming hot water.

“Hotatatatatatat!” I screeched as I leapt out & rolled around on the ground, ignoring Ebisu's chuckles as I slowly cooled myself down.

“Hah…hah…hah…”

“As you can see, this is going to take you a bit to figure out.”

'I knew I was forgetting something. Why didn't I go to the Old Man and get this damned mark removed?' I thought with a grumble as I slowly rolled over to face the guy, taking a few more deep breaths before shaking my head to get rid of the water clinging to my hair.

Reaching down, I stripped down to just my boxers in an instant before an idea came to mind and I scooted closer to the edge before placing my feet on the water's surface.

“What are you thinking?”

“Well, before you run, you have to walk and before you walk, you have to crawl, right?” I said with a victorious grin as I flowed chakra to my feet and ignored Ebisu's hum as I felt my feet sticking to its surface.

However, I didn't stand up just yet and slowly shuffled my feet around, smirking as I adjusted the chakra concentrated to my feet whenever I felt it either sticking too much or slipping & falling into the water.

'This…is going to take a while.'

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“Hmm, and here I thought it would take at least a few days to do so.” Ebisu muttered with a smirk as he watched Naruto slowly & shakily shuffling across the water with a shaky grin.

Even though Naruto was still standing ankle-deep in the water, it was still quite a fear for the blonde genin to be able to even stand on it for as long as he was able to especially when one considered how poor his chakra control is.

'Then again, he is known as the Number One Unpredictable Ninja so he is sure to excel beyond expectations. And to think that I thought of him as nothing more than the Demon Fox. Hah, I suppose one day I should apologize for tha-Huh?' Ebisu thought in confusion as he saw Naruto falling over & looking shocked while pointing at something behind him.

“Holy shithototototot!” Naruto exclaimed as he fell back into the hot water, Ebisu turning around to look before frowning at the sight of a rather well-built man with a long mane of spiky white hair squatting next to the fence to the woman's bath while giggling perversely to himself.

'Wait, is that…?' Ebisu thought as he looked at the man before shaking his head as the man let out another perverted giggle.

“I will not allow such indecency in public eye!” The jonin exclaimed heroically while rushing towards the white-haired man who simply glanced at him with a bored look.

The next moment was a blur to Naruto's eyes and he watched in awe as one of his favourite characters from the franchise created a toad & let it smack Ebisu face first into the ground with its tongue.

'Holy shit. That…that was fast.' Even when he had focused all of his attention on the fight, it had looked as if the toad had just appeared under Jiraiya from thin air even though he knew the man had made a handsign to summon it.

'I guess the Sannin do deserve their status even if they did lose to Hanzo. Then again, Hanzo was said to be a monster amongst monsters and they were not even in their prime so that might not be a fair comparison.' Naruto thought with a frown as he decided to walk around & over the small bridge to the area Jiraiya & Ebisu were instead of trying to walk over the water like one would expect.

He had enough of being boiled in hot water for the past few hours.

“Oi, Ebisu. Perv, you good?” Naruto asked while poking at Ebisu's face, watching as the man didn't even respond to it before the blonde looked up to see Jiraiya looking at him in boredom.

“What do you want, kid?”

“You knocked out my trainer. What do you think I want?” He fired back, Jiraiya simply raising an eyebrow before snorting as he crossed his arms and looked away with a huff.

“Beat it, kid. I've got too much research to do to worry about training a brat like you.”

“The hell?! Who you calling a brat?! Also, beating the perv isn't something to brag about when I can beat his ass too!” Naruto exclaimed while jumping to his feet, Jiraiya looking away as the blonde stomped over to him before being surprised as Naruto leapt up & pulled him down by the coat to face him.

“Now listen here, you decrepit old perverted bastard, I need training and I don't know when that idiot is going to wake up so you're going to train me or so help me gods I will rain prankster hell on you until you beg me to let you train me. Am I clear?!” Naruto growled and Jiraiya paled slightly as he saw the mischievous vengeance burning in Naruto's eyes, Naruto's glare turning into a bright grin as the man nodded rapidly.

“Good! The name's Naruto Uzumaki, Pervy Sage, and I'll see you bright & early tomorrow! Everyone in the village knows where I live so just ask one of them and they'll point you to my apartment! Now, let me get that pervert somewhere where they can treat the headache he's about to have.” Naruto said as he let Jiraiya go, who simply looked in shock as Naruto picked up Ebisu with a grunt before giving him a thumbs-up.

“Bye and see you tomorrow!” Naruto greeted before leaping away, Jiraiya watching the genin race away before slowly turning to the red toad still besides him.

“That had Kushina's rage all over it, didn't it?” Jiraiya spoke before shaking his head as the toad croaked as if laughing at him.

“Yeah, that's what I thought. Man, Saru-sensei did not prepare me at all for that.”

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'He was supposed to be my godfather, right? At least, I think that's what Minato asked him to do.' I thought with a frown as I laid on the floor of my apartment, looking up at the ceiling while my mind raced at lightspeed.

After the joy & elation at getting to meet the Pervy Sage was gone, the overthinking part of my mind had taken hold and left me with so many questions.

If Minato/ Dad did make him my godfather, then he should have been there to raise me. I mean, I understand that he's the Leaf's Spymaster and he was also spying on the Akatsuki so I can't blame him for not having time to raise a baby on top of that, but is it really that hard to just pop in once a year just to show you're still alive?

'Then again, I was raised by a single mom with a deadbeat sperm donor that only came to celebrate my achievements so I'm used to manning up & being on my own while Mom is at work.' I sighed at that thought while standing up, looking out the window of my apartment to see the stars shining brightly in the midnight sky as the moon's light shone down on the village.

Looking back at my bed off to the side, I watched as the one clone that I had made after I arrived home already halfway through with most of the scrolls, textbooks & pamphlets that I/ Naruto had gotten from the Academy.

“Okay, I guess that's enough reading for now.” I said, knocking him from his reading before rolling my eyes as he gave silent cheers.

“Really?”

“You know you hate theory more than you hate PE. What makes you think I'm any different?”

“Yeah, yeah. Anyway, it's time for our little plan.” That knocked him from his cheers as his face grew serious, the clone nodding as he made a Ram sign before being obscured in a cloud of smoke.

“Right. Where is it supposed to be again?” He asked as the smoke faded to reveal a tall & slightly chubby man with curly black hair, wearing a pair of black & green pants, a dark green shirt over a light grey tanktop and a light green flak jacket.

“Kikyo Castle, if I'm remembering it right. Even if it isn't tonight, we're going to continue patrolling that spot every night until we stop it or it doesn't happen.”

“Oh, so that's why you gave me most of the chakra. You just want to sleep here, you lazy bastard!” The clone exclaimed before reeling back as I pointed a finger at him.

“That is exactly right! As the original, I get to relax while you do the work! That way, my life isn't on the line and I get to rest my sore body for the night after the Water Walking Training from today! Now, get your ass out there and get your work done!”

“Oi, Naruto! Stop shouting up there! Some of us are trying to sleep!” An elderly voice shouted from outside and the clone quickly cleared out of the room as I gritted my teeth & stomped to the balcony.

“Oi, Old man Yiji! If I want to shout, I'll shout and there's nothing any of you decrepit old idiots can do about it!”

“Hey, Yiji! What's say you and me teach this brat some manners, eh?!”

“Oh, you wanna go too, Old Man Kiji?!”

“Yeah, I wanna go!”

“And don't forget about me!”

“And me!”

“And me! It's about damn time someone spanked your bottom!”

“Old hag! The only reason I haven't beaten your ass is because you're the land lady, but if you old bastards wanna fight, then let's fight! I'll beat the dust out of all of your bones and then! I'm pranking the shit out of every single one of you!” I shouted before grinning as everyone slammed their windows shut.

“Yeah! That's what I thou-argh!” I grunted as I felt something heavy slamming onto the back of my head, gritting my teeth as I watched the frying pot impact the ground with a loud ring.

“Take that, you stupid brat!”

“That's it, old hag! Let's go! You and me!”

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'So, an alliance between the Sand Village and the newly made Sound Village was created in order to destroy the Leaf. To think that our own allies would do such a thing?' Hayate thought with a frown as he knelt next to a pillar, keeping silent as Kabuto & Baki watched Gaara return to their inn.

“As the Kazekage has ordered, the Sand will stay hidden until the final moment.”

“Of course, this is the plan that the Sound has proposed.”

'I need to get out of here.' Hayate whispered as he went to take that first step away before freezing as he heard Kabuto's next words.

“Oh, and by the way…I'll take care of the clean-up.”

'They didn't…' His thought trailed off as he took a glance back before his eyes widened as Kabuto was giving an amused, sadistic look while Baki was glaring at him.

“No, I'll do it. As a member of the Hidden Sand, I must do what I can for my allies.”

'Run!' Hayate exclaimed in his mind as he leapt away, straining his body to faster despite the illness ailing him before cursing as he saw Baki easily keeping up at his side.

He tried his best to duck & weave in between the alleyways of the village, but a curse escaped his lips as he landed on a rooftop, taking a few deep breaths while Baki looked relaxed & refreshed.

“Well, well. If it isn't Mr. Proctor.” Baki spoke with a stoic look as he stared at Hayate, who frowned as his hand rested on the hilt of the sword on his back.

“Hello. I don't suppose you'll let me go?”

“We both know why I can't.” Baki spoke as he slightly lowered himself into a fighting stance, to which Hayate simply frowned while slowly unsheathing the sword on his back.

“Yo!” However, both men blinked as they heard a loud voice calling out, Hayate glancing to the side before his eyes widened in relief as he saw a black-haired man dressed in a flak jacket leaping down.

“Hey! You're…Hayate, right? And uh…a Sand Shinobi? How you doing, man?” The man exclaimed with a grin as he walked forward before his eyes widened as he felt pain in his chest, Hayate cursing as he watched the man fall over with a gaping hole in his upper abdomen.

“Fool. One does not lower your guard around an enemy shinobi.” Baki spat before turning back to face Hayate only to roll his eyes as he saw him running away once more.

“Now, that wasn't nice.” The Sand Jonin froze in his tracks as he heard the man besides him speak, spinning around to see the man flipped over to stare at him with a bloody grin.

“H-How?”

“How? Because art…” The man trailed off as he ripped open his flak jacket and Baki's eyes widened at the dozens of sparking explosive tags on the man's chest.

“…is an EXPLOSION!!” The man roared with glee as he activated the tags and Baki only had a moment to leap back before his vision went wide.

Soon, alarms rang out through the village and every able-bodied shinobi rushed to the blazing inferno on the edge of the village while Baki cursed as he raced back to the inn, his clothing only slightly singed as he had just barely managed to blast himself backwards to evade it.

'Damnit. Now, they know.'

A/N: Hehe~Surprise upload!! Yeah, I couldn't stop myself so I wrote a quick one.

Anyway, like I said last chapter, canon…is gone!! And next chapter…well, you'll have to wait and see.

As always, read, enjoy, review and until the next one…

Ba-Bye~!!