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Chapter 6 - Stalking Hinata

Shikamaru and Shino left to meet their teams to train, and Kiyoshi was on his way to training field 14 to have a nice conversation with Naruto.

"Hey Naruto!" Kiyoshi yelled running up to him "how's it going?"

"Hey Kiyoshi! Want to train together? I need a sparring partner,” asked Naruto

"Alright" answered Kiyoshi, but was slightly disturbed by that someone watching them again.

"Kage Bushin No-Jutsu!" screamed Naruto crossing his fingers on his chest, and creating 15 clones of himself.

"Naruto, I can't go against so many opponents without being serious. I'll use my Kodachis, but I don't want to hurt you, so only attack with your clones."

"You can't hurt me, but let's see what you're capable of." answered Naruto.

15 Narutos charged Kiyoshi, but the real one stayed back. Kiyoshi unsheathed his dual kodachis, and engaged the swarm using his airborne fighting. Kiyoshi was using the pack of Kage Bushin as his own playground, swinging off of one jumping off another slashing the third between the two motions. Eventually he jumped back away from the remaining three Bushin and was slightly surprised to only see the three of them, he only got rid of 11. Without warning, the ground under him erupted and out came a Naruto and made a blow to Kiyoshi's chin. Kiyoshi went with the blow, jumped up, and made a back flip in the air, and bounced off the tree into the Naruto to make him disintegrate into smoke.

Naruto summoned another 30 clones. Kiyoshi knew that he couldn't fight against so many in his current condition; although his technique allows him high evasion, it also brings him out into the open for many more attacks than normal taijutsu, and there are only so many enemies that his dual mind could concentrate on. He decided to activate his blood limit, three neon green stripes appeared in his eyes and started spinning leaving a tail of vanishing green; it looked somewhat like tri-sensor radar. The fight now advanced to the next level, punches came from all directions, and he knew the safe zones where he could move to next. He used every one of Naruto's flaws to his advantage, flipping in mid-air slashing through three Bushin at a time. There were four clones left, when Naruto summoned another hundred.

"Holy Crap! How much chakra do you have?!" Kiyoshi screamed at the original Naruto, after seeing countless Narutos surrounding him.

Naruto chuckled, and the clones attacked. "I'll tell you later, but right now you should concentrate on the task at hand."

Even Kiyoshi's split mind didn't give him enough to combat so many enemies. He was blocking and evading as well as slowly retreating from the Bushin’s attacks. He decided to change the battlefield to be in his favor, so he ran through the forest with an army of Narutos on his tail and his coat waving around behind him. He found a massive scar in the forest with rock formations all over the place; this should be able to suit him.

"Naruto are you here?!"

"Yeah, I'm watching!"

Kiyoshi Ran up on top of a rock and made several hand seals. Narutos surrounded the rock and all jumped at Kiyoshi at the same time. Kiyoshi jumped out of the way, and finished his seals. The rock that he used to stand on exploded into millions of shards, cutting up and piercing two thirds of the Kage Bushin and making them disappear in a huge cloud of smoke.

Naruto summoned more, but was running out of his own chakra. All of a sudden, Kiyoshi's right eye started stinging. He burst out screaming and fell to his knees. The clones were surrounding him and were about to suffocate him with their numbers. He was going to be unintentionally killed by Naruto. He ran through a series of hand seals and cast a Genjutsu on the original Naruto to stop the fight. All the clones disappeared and the real Naruto was left standing alone in the middle of the field, drooling.

"Argh!!!" screamed Kiyoshi holding his right eye with both hands. The pain double with each passing second. Ten seconds in the world of pain passed, and the hurt dispersed. Kiyoshi lay on the ground groaning. He looked at his reflection in a nearby puddle of water, and was shocked to see that his right eye now had spikes coming from the iris, outwards. He wondered what this meant, but couldn't figure it out. When he got up and looked at Naruto, he got startled by the trail of chakra stretching out towards the whiskered teen from the forest. He walked into the forest and snuck around to see what the source of that chakra was. He saw a Girl with long dark hair and pale eyes looking at Naruto, worried out of her mind. "So you're Naruto's stalker?"

She turned in shock and saw him standing there smiling. "N-no I-I-I was just walking by and..."

"I know you have a thing for Naruto, you follow him all the time, I sensed your affection from a mile away." said Kiyoshi

Hinata turned and blushed slightly. Then looked at Naruto and back at Kiyoshi "what did you do to him?"

"Just a simple Genjutsu, nothing to worry about." answered Kiyoshi "I'm Kiyoshi Inamotou, what's your name?"

"I'm Hyuga Hinata."

Kiyoshi remembered that name, "Hinata eh? Naruto spoke of you."

"He did?" Hinata asked slightly worried.

"Yes, but as you may have guessed, he's quite clueless about you." Kiyoshi remembered the name 'Hyuga' and groaned, "This might get a bit messy you know, with your family being strict and all."

Hinata was unsure how to reply, but she was definitely sure about her feelings towards Naruto. All she did in reply was turn away.

"Alright, but you'll need to do a lot more than stand behind a tree if you wish to get together with him." with that, he disappeared and reappeared beside Naruto who was still standing, drooling. Then ran through another combination of hand seals to dispel the genjutsu. "Sorry I had to do that, but I needed to stop you." said Kiyoshi to Naruto.

"Don't do that again! I hate genjutsu!!!" he carried on with his screaming

Kiyoshi had tuned Naruto out completely, and was looking at Hinata's trail of Chakra. "Let's walk ant talk Naruto, I have some questions for you." he cancelled his blood limit and the trail of Chakra vanished from his view. "I wonder what Hinata was doing," he thought to himself.

"Fine..." pouted Naruto still embarrassed by not being able to get out of the genjutsu.

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They started walking and Kiyoshi asked, "How can you make so many clones? It must take an enormous amount of chakra."

"It does, as a matter of fact, any longer and I would've run out, and then..." Naruto stopped and looked at his feet

"Then what would've happened?" asked Kiyoshi

"I got to tell you from the beginning, what do you know about the Kyubi?"

Kiyoshi's eyes widened, he's heard what was done to legendary creatures from Akane, and pieced the puzzle together. Naruto was about to continue, but Kiyoshi interrupted him. "Don't tell me you're the one that they sealed it inside."

Naruto was shocked at how quickly Kiyoshi realized Naruto's secret, and just from a simple question. "Yes... I have the Kyubi inside me."

"Is that why the villagers were looking at you in that way?"

"Yes, they hate me, a part of me is the monster that killed many of their loved ones."

"But why do they hate you? You know what, don't answer that, I get it. They're sick and prejudicial bastards."

"One day I'm going to be the Hokage of those prejudicial bastards so watch your mouth."

Kiyoshi looked at Naruto in surprise "Why do you defend them? They hate you for no reason what so ever."

"I don't hate them back, because I'm not like that. I want to prove myself to them, and show them that I'm worthy of their respect."

"Well until then you have mine." smiled Kiyoshi. "What about your family? What are their thoughts towards the Kyubi?"

Naruto lowered his head once again, and tightened his mouth. "I don't know who they were, I don't remember them; they died before I could."

This snapped something inside Kiyoshi, "What a guy, he's like me but with a twist. Everyone hates him. I'm the one that should be hated... I... Shouldn't be here..." Kiyoshi shook his thoughts off. "I'm sorry. I don't know my parents either, I don't know my family or where I was born at all, so I know how you feel."

Hinata was following them at a safe distance and eavesdropping on their conversation, but could only make out several words; parents, hate, respect. She wanted to run out and hug him but couldn't, he'd know that she was watching all this time, he wouldn't understand her love.

Kiyoshi was still aware of her presence so decided to try something. He put his hands around his back under the coat so that they were concealed. "This'll take some serious accuracy." he thought to himself and started forming seals, he said the technique under his breath and aimed it at Hinata, who was several dozen yards behind him, hidden from his aim. The first try failed, he missed, but he would keep trying until he got it right. After 7 blind tries, he eventually got her and relaxed himself, now to cancel his genjutsu at the right moment. "Naruto, I got to take a piss, wait for me here." Naruto nodded and Kiyoshi disappeared into the trees.

Hinata was following the two blond teens for a while, until she heard them say something about a race. They started running and she tried to keep up after them as quietly as possible.

Kiyoshi was looking from the side as Naruto was waiting. Hinata came running out into the opening, "Yes, it worked!" he said quietly to avoid detection. Then ran through a series of seals to cancel his genjutsu on Hinata.

Hinata found it hard to keep up with the two guys and was about to give up, when all of a sudden they disappeared and the real Naruto appeared in front of her, she didn't have enough time to stop. She closed her eyes preparing for impact, but Naruto caught her by the shoulders trying to soften the collision. Hinata swept him off his feet, and his hands slid off her shoulders. Their position was better than Kiyoshi could've imagined, Hinata was lying on top of Naruto with her cheek on his chest, and his arms were hugging her.

Hinata opened her eyes, and jumped up "I'm sorry Naruto-kun!" screamed the girl, flailing her head wildly out of embarrassment.

"It's alright Hinata. Say… what are you doing here?" Hinata's face reddened and turned away to look at him from the side. "Your face is kind of red, do you have a fever or something?" he felt her forehead, the girl reddened even more before she ran off.

Kiyoshi was sitting in the tree, petrified by what just happened, "You've got to be kidding me..." he sat there for a few moments, "This'll be harder than I thought." He jumped down from the tree, put on a satisfied face and walked out from the tree where he ran off earlier. "Ahh, that was good. Naruto you alright?"

Naruto was staring in the direction Hinata ran off, then turned to Kiyoshi and said "Yeah, I'm fine."

With Naruto's confusion and Kiyoshi's disappointment, they both went to Ichiraku Ramen.

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Chapter 7 - Wise Green Beasts

Next morning Kiyoshi woke up with a scream again, tossed Ino out, got dressed, and decided to go out to find Kakashi or anyone to socialize with.

"Man... How can anyone be so clueless?" he thought as he walked past the unconscious blonde girl in his front lawn. "It doesn't take a genius to figure it out, she must really be thick in the head. Naruto too, what's up with that kid?" he kept on walking insulting Naruto in his mind, and noticed that somebody was following him. He turned around not bothering to reach into his pouch, already being used to the peace in the Village. He saw Hinata running towards him.

"Hello Kiyoshi-sama" she said to get his attention

Kiyoshi originally thought of Hinata being a shy girl, but then again he only met her once before. "Uh... hi, want to go for a stroll?"

"Sure," they started walking

"So... you're really into him that much?" Hinata blushed slightly, "I understand his good qualities, and I understand why you like him." he said to show his alliance. "But are you sure you like the whole of him?"

Hinata looked up at him, shocked. "I've liked him for as long as I can remember, and learned to love him just by watching him, don't question my affection please." replied Hinata, going on the offensive.

"I'm sorry, but I have to make sure, a crush has a way of blinding people from the negative side of a person. I'm sure you don't know every secret he has, just as I'm sure that he keeps many feelings bottled up." Hinata was about to go on the offensive again, but he interrupted. "Don't try to contradict me, and don't take my words as insults. All I'm asking is that you consider them for your own sake."

"Alright" she said quietly and thought about it for a few minutes as they walked. "What did you talk about yesterday?" she said referring to Kiyoshi and Naruto's talk on the way back from training field 14

"I'm not going to tell you." she looked down, disappointed. "Not because it's much of a secret..." she looked up at him again "I just want you to join in on the conversation next time, and perhaps train with us."

Now Hinata became curious, "I-I'll try..."

"No" Kiyoshi instantly replied, "You won't try, you'll do. As a matter of fact, if you keep following us and not showing yourself to Naruto, I won't just use a genjutsu on you, I'll chase you, catch you, and force you to talk to him." He concluded smiling.

Hinata never heard anyone speak to her like he did; he spoke with threats of helping her. "I'm glad you came to Konoha." Kiyoshi looked over at her "what I mean is, it's easy to constantly tell yourself 'today, is definitely the day I'll confess', but when the moment comes, you choke up." Kiyoshi knew what she meant. "Please keep your word and drag me out next time, I won't be able to do it myself."

Kiyoshi smiled "So that's what you're getting at... Alright, I'll help you, but don't ask me for any guidance, I had a lot of experience with relationships, but they never turned out nicely."

"What do you mean?"

"Never mind that..." Kiyoshi suddenly remembered the previous day's training session on field fourteen. "Can you please tell me, what did you do yesterday back when I cast the genjutsu on Naruto? What was that jutsu?"

"I don't know what you mean."

Kiyoshi thought back to that moment, and remembered the trail of Chakra extending from her to Naruto. "You mean you didn't do anything or cast any jutsu?"

"No, I was just watching. As a matter of fact, what you did to him kind of scared me" Kiyoshi thought about it and decided to ask Kakashi about it later.

Something caught the blond teen's attention "Now tell me who they are." he pointed at two guys in green suits and bad haircuts training like there's a war planned for the next day. "Ah, never mind, I know." he remembered Kakashi speaking of a friend and his apprentice who were competitive and had bad sense of fashion. "Ok Hinata, I'm going to go say hi, but you better not stalk Naruto or I'll catch you and make you talk."

Hinata nodded "Bye Kiyoshi-kun" she said leaving him to meet Gai and Lee.

Kiyoshi walked over to the two having a race, doing one-handed pushups on the thumb. "Whoa..." stated the newcomer, catching their attention.

"Join us in the springtime of youth stranger!!!" screamed the two ninja simultaneously.

Kiyoshi was relieved by the fact that they didn't care about him being a stranger. "Alright!" he reached inside his coat under the armpits and pulled two long chains out. He used them to tie the ends of his long coat to his legs and made a handstand to see if it would fall. The coat didn't fall, so he walked on his hands over to the two people training as their eyes followed him.

As the two green beasts continued training, they started conversing with him "I've never seen you around before, tell me about yourself" said Gai.

"I'm new here, I just came a few days ago. My name's Kiyoshi" replied the teen breathing slightly off normal.

"I'm Gai and this is Lee, and we're Konoha's beautiful green beasts!!!" they got into what they considered a cool pose and then back to their thumb-stand.

"Nice to meet you, Kakashi mentioned you, I was wandering when I might get to talk to the two of you."

"Oh, did Kakashi refer to us because a task was too big for him to handle?" Gai said standing up Lee still doing his pushups listening to the conversation.

"He didn't seem to really care, but it's something that he said you would be able to help me with." explained Kiyoshi

"That Kakashi, always keeping his modern 'cool'... Anyways what did you need help with?" Asked Gai sensei

Kiyoshi got up, untied his chains, unraveled the rollups on his sleeves and pants, took off his weights and handed them to Gai who laid them on the ground. He undid the innards of his coat, some hidden compartments of his pants and various other hiding spots on his clothes, taking off more and more weights.

"I'm estimating about 950 pounds" said Lee "what's the problem?" he asked continuing his pushups looking at the pile of weights beside Gai Sensei.

"The problem is this,” said Kiyoshi, jumping at the tree, attempting to jump off it and accidentally breaking through the meter diameter trunk with his leg.

"I see, you have lack of balance and control of your strength without the weights." concluded Gai

"Yeah" replied Kiyoshi "can you help me train it? I got no idea where to begin."

Gai thought about it and said. "Simple... as a matter of fact, you don't really need our help to gain control. All you do is take them off for an hour a day, or break it up into four separate fifteen-minute sessions. Dedicate that time to practicing your control of simple jumping and free movements without the weights. Don't keep them off for any longer or you'll start getting weaker. Until you master your control with your current weight, don't add any more."

"It's ok, I haven’t added any for about three and a half years,” answered Kiyoshi

"When did you start?"

"About four years ago."

Gai's eyes widened mouth opened and he kneeled down pointing his index finger at Kiyoshi "You put on 950 pounds in half a year?!"

"Yeah, my metabolism allows it."

"I don't want to know, I know how graphical those conversations can get." said Gai waving his palm at Kiyoshi.

"Alright" said Kiyoshi reattaching his weights on "But tell me, why did Kakashi refer to you and Lee?"

"Because Lee uses weights himself, and with my help, he advances as he adds more on." answered Gai.

"Alright, I'm going to go back home to make myself some breakfast,” said Kiyoshi finishing attaching his weights and walking away waving goodbye.

"See you later!" Gai made a back flip and joined Lee to continue his upside down one-thumb pushups.

Kiyoshi walked back to his residence and saw Ino still lying from when he last tossed her out of his house, unconscious. "Ah crap, maybe I overdid it this time." he picked her up and carried her into his house.

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Chapter 8 - Double Dare

Kiyoshi walked into the house carrying Ino in his hands, looked around and thought to himself, "Damn it, I took the bed back." he put her on the couch, took a pillow and slid it under her head. "Well, this day is turning out to be a bother, I wonder what'll happen next." He boiled a pot of tea, put it on a table near Ino and sat down on a chair next to her. Drinking his tea, he went through all the possible scenarios how the day could go. Eventually got bored and started reading a book.

Ino started coming around about half an hour later. Saw Kiyoshi reading the book and drinking tea beside her, she just lay there quiet looking at the ceiling with her hands on her stomach and fingers intertwined. "What do you like in a girl?" she asked Kiyoshi who didn't turn around.

"It doesn't matter,” he answered with his primary mind focused on the book.

"Why?"

"Because I stopped dating a while back. Nothing ever works out for the better when I date." he explained without changing his expression

"What made you stop?"

Kiyoshi recalled the tears in his eyes as he left his sick ex-girlfriend, her father chasing him out of the house. "The fact that I'm simply not boyfriend material."

Ino didn't know what he meant, so asked "So do you find me attractive?"

Kiyoshi stopped reading his book, put a serious look on his face, turned to Ino looking very closely into her eyes and said "Ino, try to understand me. I'm not interested in dating."

"That's not the question."

Kiyoshi rolled his eyes and got back to his book "That's what the next question would be."

Ino thought about it, and found it to be true. "But why don't you answer the first question?"

"Because it doesn't matter if you're attractive or not. For example, you like me only for my looks..." he looked back at her "but you would learn in the end that you don't truly like me." turning back to his book

"That's not true, I would always like you."

Not taking his eyes of the book he replied, "look past the crush and you'll see what I mean. You don't know what I'm like; you didn't spend any time with me. You have to get together with someone who you find attractive in the mind, not the body."

"I didn't spend any time with you because you always toss me out!"

"Because it's become a morning routine. The first time I wasn't going to toss you out, but you decided to peek at me undressed."

She recalled the moment and smiled. "Yeah..."

"You killed your chance then. If you didn't, I would find you possible to converse with."

"You're pretty shy, aren't you," smirked Ino, "Besides, we're conversing now..."

"I decided to give you a second chance."

"Really?!!" she said with big sparkly eyes

"Not to get a date out of me, but so that we're able to socialize as friends."

She became disappointed "I see..."

"I'm going to make more tea." picked up the tray and went to the kitchen

"Alright" Ino lay on his couch, motionless with her hands on her stomach as if being in therapy. He came back seven minutes later with tea and set it up. "So… tell me about yourself." she asked

Kiyoshi was tired of telling everyone about himself, but it was necessary, if he didn't talk to her now, she would never stop being the first thing he sees when he wakes up. "Umm... I don't think that's something I can tell somebody." Ino became disappointed "I mean, the subject of 'what Kiyoshi is like' is something that has to be discussed with a stranger. And by stranger, I mean somebody who's not me."

"I see... do you want to go for a walk?"

Kiyoshi thought about it, not finding any harm in the idea he agreed. "Sure, let's go for a stroll."

Ino and Kiyoshi were walking down the street, in what she felt to be an awkward silence. Ino felt like grabbing Kiyoshi under the elbow to walk side by side like couples do. But couldn't, she would lose him. "Where are you from?" she asked in attempt to start up a conversation

"I don't know,” replied the blond, no longer caring about the answer. The topic had been stumbled upon so many times that there was no longer any emotion brought on.

"Goddamn it" she thought to herself, and then internally scolded herself for making things worse.

"I don't know where I was born, or who my parents were. As a matter of fact, the only thing that I remember from them is my name, which I remembered after nearly dying."

Ino wanted to change the topic to something more cheery. A notice on the fence caught her attention and she burst out laughing pointing at it. "Look at that!"

Kiyoshi looked at the fence and too started laughing after reading the title of it "Strange ghost screams in the morning. Anybody with information on the ghost, please report it to the ghost-hunters" accompanied by a picture of two fat guys in goggles, spandex suits and holding two funny looking tools that look like water guns.

"That's somewhat scary..." said Kiyoshi lightening his laugh.

"That made my day."

Sakura saw the two of them laughing in the distance and thought to herself "What is wrong with that girl? She's never been so… so... Gah! What the hell did he do to her?!" she screamed the last part out.

"Oi! Sakura-chan!!!" Naruto was running towards her waving his arm in a greeting fashion.

"Ah crap, looks like I can't do anything at the moment,” she thought to herself and disappeared to avoid Naruto's company.

"Aw, I was going to ask her out on a date." he looked down at the ground in disappointment then looked at the two people in the distance "I guess I'll hang out with those two." and started running towards them.

Ino saw Naruto running towards them "God damn it, I wanted some time alone with Kiyoshi..." thoughts were running through her head what she was going to do to Naruto after Kiyoshi wasn't around.

Naruto saw that he still wasn't spotted by Kiyoshi and decided to sneak up on him. Kiyoshi's primary mind was in relaxation thinking about the pretty clouds above him, but the secondary mind was on alert and in restless focus on the surroundings. Ino was wondering what would happen next, so she decided to not warn Kiyoshi of the sneaking up Naruto. When Naruto closed the distance to 5 meters, Kiyoshi disappeared from both Ino's and Naruto's view.

"Boo!" he scared the two of them hanging down from a lamppost above attached by his chains.

"Gah baka! Don't do that!" Naruto and Ino both screamed out at Kiyoshi.

"You both asked for it, Naruto for trying to sneak up and Ino for not telling me"

"Fair enough" said Ino

Naruto was still pissed off at how Kiyoshi made him look, "Fine..." he looked to the side pouting his heart out.

Kiyoshi noticed something and stepped into action right away. "Um, I got to go to the washroom, hand on I'll be right back." and ran off, around the corner.

"So..." said Naruto to Ino, who was about to tear him to shreds for interrupting her relaxing moments with Kiyoshi.

She grabbed him by the collar and said, "If you ever come in between me and Kiyoshi again, you won't survive to hear another rejection from Sakura."

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Naruto made an uneasy face, and was sorry to have gotten into this mess. Then saw Kiyoshi coming from a different direction than he left, also dragging someone along with him. "What the..."

Ino turned around and saw Kiyoshi dragging Hinata towards them so she let Naruto go out of sympathy for Hinata. "Hey Kiyoshi, come back so soon?"

"Uhh… yea, and I found someone on my way back" he said introducing Hinata

"Hey Hinata-chan!" yelled Naruto in his loudest voice

"H-Hi Naruto-kun" she answered blushing, making small fists and covering her mouth with them out of shyness.

"Oh god, she wasn't this shy before, what's he problem now?" Kiyoshi thought to himself. "Hey, how about we all walk together through a trail in the forest?" He pulled Ino to the side "Ino, we got to get those two together, It's something on my 'to do' list before I die." He looked back at Naruto measuring Hinata's head for temperature. He shook his head at the scene and said "They're not going to get anywhere with his A.D.D. and her shyness. We got to help them."

Ino saw that he was into them getting together and decided to accept his Invitation. "Alright, but we got to make up a game-plan."

Kiyoshi thought about it for a moment, and said, "First we got to examine the situation. Here's the summary; She's in love and shy, his main problems are being clueless, and that he's Sakura-crazed. If we get her to confess, it'll solve the ‘clueless’ problem, but he'll reject her because of Sakura."

Ino thought about this for a moment and asked, "So what are we supposed to do?"

"For now, we have to play safely, and just get him to know her more."

"That's not going to get them anywhere."

"We can't push it now, because if he rejects her, it'll get worse... I don't know how much worse it can be, but it will be worse. Once this walk is over, we got to brainwash him out of his Sakura-crush." and shuddered at the thought of Naruto liking Sakura. "If you can come up with anything better for the time being, I'll be eternally grateful."

Nothing came to Ino's mind so she decided to go along with his plan "Alright, you lead."

They turned back at Naruto still trying to convince Hinata that she has a fever. "Alright Naruto, that's enough, she doesn't have a fever, all that redness is blush." at which Hinata reddened even more. "Now... how about that walk?" asked Kiyoshi

Naruto turned around to look at Kiyoshi and Ino "What the hell were the two of you doing? Making out?" asked Naruto regarding their absence.

"I wish,” mumbled Ino

Naruto caught what she said and burst out laughing, "I feel sorry for you Kiyoshi!"

Ino burst into flames "Not as sorry as you will be when you're turned inside out!!!!"

"Ok, putting that aside, let's go." said Kiyoshi as they all started to walk.

Hinata was lost in a world of worry "What am I going to say? What if he mentions Sakura? What if he doesn't like me? Oh no, I have to run, get away from this place, I'll walk with them next time..." she turned around to run, and bumped into Kiyoshi, who was blocking her way.

"Oh no you're not!" he whispered to Hinata, turned her around, and with Ino's help pulled Hinata along for the walk.

"Please let me go, I'm not ready!" she whispered back in alarm.

"You're as ready as you're ever going to be." Replied the blonde girl to her right.

"What do you care Ino? You don't know what love is." Hinata whined for Ino to back off.

"So then teach me what love is" Ino replied still not looking at Hinata.

"Hinata, pull yourself together, calm down, he isn't that clueless..." Said Kiyoshi looking at the clueless Naruto walking ahead not paying attention to the epic battle behind him "Is he?"

Hinata pulled courage out of nowhere and started walking instead of being dragged along "Okay, I'll try" she whispered

"About time" said Ino.

"You don't have to confess, I think you'll pop an artery if you do something as drastic as that. All we're asking you to do is talk to him, get him to know your sensitive side." explained Kiyoshi.

"Osu" said Hinata running up to Naruto. "H-H-HI NARUTO-KUN!"

Naruto screamed and jumped clinging to a branch above him with all fours, and then remembered that he was walking with other people. "Oh, hi there Hinata, I forgot I wasn't alone." and started laughing.

Kiyoshi thought he could use this time to train, so he turned to the girl beside him "Ino, you keep an eye on them, if there's a single word of Sakura, I want you to make a scene or interfere with something that'll make them change the subject."

"Where are you going?" asked Ino

"I'll be right back" explained Kiyoshi, and ran behind a tree. He started taking his weights off and putting them in a stash under the tree. When he was done, he walked around and marked the tree off with an 'S' mark. Then he ran out and decided to catch up with the group. He ran so fast that he was barely able to change direction to avoid crashing into trees, tripped and flew past Ino landing 5 meters in front of her.

"What th... Kiyoshi? Are you alright?" asked Ino, coming to pick him up

"Ugh... Next time, I'll only take half of them off. Ino, stay away from me for now, I'm unstable and might accidentally hurt you." He said waving his hand to signal her not to come any closer.

"Why? What happened? Were you attacked?" Ino asked with a worried face.

"Don't mind me, I'm training something, I'll tell you once I get the hang of it." He started getting up slowly with his hands at his sides to keep balance. "You go catch up to them, I'll be right back." he ran off at an invisible speed.

"What the hell was that?" thought Ino in confusion.

"I got to get my weights back on, or someone will get hurt,” thought Kiyoshi as he was running past trees, looking for the 'S' mark. Once he found it, he realized that he passed this point twelve times. There were countless Kiyoshi-footprints stacked one over the other, as if a stampede of blond haired teens ran through there. Once he was done putting the weights on, he got back to the group.

"Are you alright?" asked Ino looking at the bruised up and bleeding Kiyoshi.

"I'll be fine, I just need practice." and they looked back at Naruto conversing with Hinata. "I think they're doing good"

Ino nodded "Hinata was worried but seems to be able to talk to him normally. It's true what they say, all she needed was confidence."

The two pairs walked down the trail, talking with the absence of awkward silences.

xxxkakashixxx

wow that was quick^^ *reads*
yay! finished i like the naruhina thing... and i feel sorry for kiyoshi... all thoughs cut and bruises coz of thoughs weights...

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Chapter 9 - "How old are you?"

Kiyoshi, Ino, Naruto and Hinata were walking down the street when they spotted Sakura and Kakashi coming their way.

Sakura pointed at Kiyoshi and screamed "That guy's clouding Ino's mind!"

"Calm down Sakura, Ino can do whatever she wants, don't get into her business." said Kakashi, then turned to the group. "Ah, the whole group's here, I won't have to go around collecting you all."

The group of hikers looked over eachother in confusion and Kiyoshi asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Tsunade called you, Naruto and Hinata for a mission briefing, and I'm going to be leading the mission,” explained Kakashi

Kiyoshi tried to add all of this up. Him being put to a mission so early after arrival, Naruto and Hinata being on the same team, and Kakashi being the master of 'make out tactics' being the leader of this mass confusion. He understood what's happening and smiled "Kakashi-sama, may I talk to you in private?"

"Sure thing Kiyoshi." agreed Kakashi walking off to the side with Kiyoshi

"So Tsunade wants them together as well?" asked Kiyoshi

Kakashi raised an eyebrow "Damn you're quick. You're right, she does, no matter how much conflict this'll stir up in the Hyuga family. Oh and another thing, I want this to happen just as much."

"Good, Ino and I have been getting Naruto to know Hinata better today. Here's the problem, we need to get rid of Naruto's crush on Sakura, and it's not going to be easy so we'll need as much time as we can get before we leave on whatever mission Tsunade assigned for us." explained Kiyoshi

"You certainly have this all planned out. Here's the deal, I'll go and talk to Tsunade later, right now leave Naruto to Me, Sakura and Ino. Take Hinata for the briefing." Said Kakashi.

"Thanks, we'll go now." Kiyoshi and Kakashi walked back to the group

"Don't leave me with all the girls next time!!!" screamed Naruto; "they were talking about girly stuff,” whimpered the blond kid.

Kiyoshi ignored Naruto's nonsense and carried on with the plan. "Hinata, you and I will go to the briefing alone, Naruto and Kakashi have some talking to do." He comes over to Ino and whispers, "You know what to do, Kakashi and Sakura will help you out. I'll take Hinata to Tsunade for briefing."

"Osu" answered Ino.

The group split into two, Kiyoshi and Hinata went to Tsunade, while Kakashi's group went in the opposite direction to the forest dragging Naruto along.

"Gah! Let me go baka!!!" screamed Naruto flailing all four of his limbs around, while the other three were trying to keep him still.

Kakashi remembered something he picked up whiles back from a group of ninja teens back in the Rice country. "Yeah, I think that should get the job done. Good thing we have Sakura here." she looked at him surprised

Once they were done tying Naruto down to a tree, Kakashi pulled the two girls of to the side. "What are we going to do?" asked Sakura

"I know a technique. Teens in Rice country use it to get rid of stalkers, what it does is it basically makes the person hate the one who cast it, makes the stalkers leave them alone or attack. Good for making the opponent give their position away, and gets the job done at any range. The one bad thing about it is a sonar traveling jutsu, and means that it affects everyone within earshot, so Ino and I are going to have to get to a safe distance before you use it, Sakura.

"How's this going to help? From what I understand, it's a temporary effect."

"Well, once you consider the psychology of the human brain, or even Naruto's brain; a crush is vulnerable to something like this. I'll tell you an example; when somebody starts dating their crush, the crush eventually wears off and leaves both people extremely annoyed with eachother, sometimes even hating eachother. What you're going to do is basically make him hate you without having to date you."

"Thank god" replied Sakura

"Now, this technique makes Naruto hate you, but since it's a crush he has on you, the effect should be permanent. He'll probably hate you for the rest of his life. Are you sure you want to go through with this?" asked Kakashi to see how she would react to his disclaimer.

"His proposals to dates are definitely something I could live without, so I'll do it,” agreed Sakura.

Kakashi started teaching the technique to Sakura while Ino observed the whole ordeal wishing that she could be of more help. After Sakura and Kakashi were both sure that she got the technique down, Ino and Kakashi started running off while Sakura came over to the struggling Naruto.

"Untie me Sakura!" yelled Naruto at the top of his voice. When in reply she started forming seals. He froze "Oh my god, what are you doing?"

When Sakura was sure that Kakashi and Ino at a safe distance, she formed the final seal and a high-pitched tone was released all over.

Naruto's face shriveled up and he closed his eyes shut "Aah! What the hell are you doing?!" The high-pitched tone ended. He opened his eyes and seemed to be rather annoyed. "God you're ugly Sakura."

Not hearing him add 'chan' to the end of her name was music to Sakura's ears. Without untying him, she ran off to tell Kakashi and Ino of the good news, once she got there she scremed "It worked!" with a bigger smile than Ino thought Sakura was capable of.

"Sure it would've worked, Naruto's brain isn't that hard to figure out... unlike Kiyoshi." added Ino in disappointment. "What is wrong with that guy? I can't understand him one bit, his personality is always changing."

Sakura and Kakashi were staring at Ino "I'm not sure I want to interfere with that business..." Kakashi thought to himself. "Ok... I'm not into that, so let's go see how Naruto's doing." he said walking into Naruto's direction.

They all walked over to Naruto who was staring at them, "Well are you going to untie me now?" he asked

Kakashi thought about it for a moment, and answered "Yeah, why not?"

When they untied him he fell over on all fours and threw up. "Urghh, that was unpleasant..."

Sakura started picking him up "Are you alright?"

"Yeah... I just threw up thinking that I actually liked someone as ugly as you."

She punched the back of his head making him fly into the puddle of his own filth. Watching the vomit covered Naruto get up, Sakura replied, "I'm not the ugly one here."

"I guess it worked,” said Kakashi out loud catching everyone's attention.

Ino and Sakura didn't seem to care about what Kakashi said so the three of them started walking back to the Village with Naruto following them. Naruto on the other hand, started asking sets of questions "What do you mean that worked? What worked? What happened? Who's ugly?" and kept asking his countless questions for the whole trip back without a single hint of anyone explaining anything to him.

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Kiyoshi and Hinata were walking to Tsunade's in silence. Hinata was thinking about what had happened earlier, and what this mission was going to be about.

"Kiyoshi-kun" she asked softly "Why aren't Kakashi and Naruto coming for the briefing?"

"The four back there have business to take care of." explained Kiyoshi

Hinata started to get worried about the though of Naruto and Sakura spending time together "What do you mean, what kind of business?"

"It's better if you didn't know."

Now she was getting really worried, Naruto and Sakura were doing something that she wasn't supposed to know. "Is it something bad? Is it something to do with me?"

Kiyoshi looked over at her, she was really worried and he understood why. "Don't worry, Naruto won't get Sakura. As a matter of fact, what they're doing is going to benefit you." Hinata was now in a mix of fear and confusion "Don't worry about it, think about the task at hand." Kiyoshi remembered something, something he wasn't used having to remember. "Stay here, I'll be right back." said the blond as he ran into a store nearby.

"Tsunade still makes newcomers get her chocolate?" Hinata though smiling and forgetting the fact that Sakura and Naruto were together.

Kiyoshi came out of the store, putting a box of chocolates into a compartment inside his long-coat. "Alright, let's go."

They kept walking until they reached Tsunade's building; they walked up the stairs, through hallways and were eventually at her door. When Kiyoshi was about to knock a voice came from the inside "Come in."

Kiyoshi and Hinata walking in without having to knock. "Ts-Tsunade-sama, how did you know we were coming?" asked Hinata.

"I saw you coming up to the building from my window" explained Tsunade staring at the two teens. "Where are Kakashi and Naruto?"

Kiyoshi quickly came up to her and whispered "They, Sakura and Ino are busy taking care of Naruto's Sakura-craze." then slightly turned his head to see if Hinata had somehow heard what he just said. Hinata's worried expression was still there, so he assumed she didn't hear anything, and turned back to Tsunade.

Tsunade put the pieces together and was surprised to see Kiyoshi already working on getting Hinata and Naruto together, and so shortly after arrival. "Amazing,” she thought to herself "He's very organized." Then corrected her shocked face back into one of seriousness. "Very well, you'll have to brief Naruto later, and Kakashi will come to me on his own." said the Hokage out loud, for Hinata to hear.

Hinata was starting to wonder what Kiyoshi had said to Tsunade to let something like half the team's absence slide by. She decided to forget that and get down to business. "So Tsunade-sama, what's our mission?" Kiyoshi went back to join Hinata's side, and stood there quietly.

"Very well, since you wish to get out of here so badly, we'll get down to business." She paused to see if either of the teens would contradict her, but they stood there quietly. "You're getting an A-class recovery mission in the wave country."

Kiyoshi started looking uneasy. "Um... Tsunade sama?" said the blond, gaining the woman's attention "Wave country... Will this include swimming?"

She looked at him and smiled "No" Kiyoshi sighed in relief "No swimming, but you're going to be required to walk on water during this mission, and probably diving."

Kiyoshi started sweating and pulling on his collar, "Is it hot in here or what? I think we need some fresh air." he speed-walked over to the window, opened it, hung himself out and started breathing heavily.

"Kiyoshi-kun are you alright?" asked Hinata.

"Depends... How long are the trips to the wave country from here?"

"About three or four days"

Kiyoshi lost conscience and nearly fell out the window. Tsunade had to use a considerable portion of her strength to pull him back in. "What the hell's wrong with him and why is he so heavy?"

Hinata squeaked and turned away as Tsunade started undressing Kiyoshi "What are you doing?!" she screamed at Tsunade.

"He's too heavy for a normal human being, I want to find out why." Tsunade answered explaining her actions.

Kiyoshi started coming to, and felt himself being undressed. "Gah! What on earth are you doing?!" he started crawling away from Tsunade buckling his pants and fixing his shirt.

"Will you please explain why you're so heavy? If not for my strength, you would've fallen out the window and ended up in a hospital."

Kiyoshi remembered the moment when he passed out, and then remembered the reason for passing out "Uhh" *thud*

"Oh for the love of... never mind" Tsunade gave up and turned to Hinata to continue explaining the mission. Once she was done, she added "Tell the details to Naruto and Kiyoshi once you get the chance. In the meanwhile, would you like some tea until Kiyoshi wakes up?"

"Yes please,” said Hinata with a smile.

Tsunade walked out on the unconscious Kiyoshi and the tempered Hinata, to get the tea. Hinata sat down and started wondering why Kiyoshi felt so uneasy about the Wave country, and what is so bad about the time it takes to get there? A few minutes later, Tsunade entered the room with a pot of tea and remembered something, "Oh damn, I forgot to bring something sweet to chew on."

Hinata remembered that Kiyoshi had bought chocolates for his visit to Tsunade's. "Hang on" she said getting up and running over to Kiyoshi. She tried to lift a part of his coat up and managed to do it with some difficulty. Tsunade sat down observing the scene. Hinata started searching through the coat and found a hidden inner pocket with the chocolates and something she had never seen before. "Tsunade-sama, come here, I think I found something."

Tsunade rushed over to Hinata and took a plate of high-density alloy out of the rather large pocket. "Wow, very nice... I wonder how strong he truly is..." then looked at his thin body and said, "How can this be?"

Hinata looked at Tsunade and asked, "What is it?"

Tsunade picked up Kiyoshi and estimated that he was about 1100 pounds. "Oh my god..." put him down and turned to Hinata "Hinata, how much do you think he weighs?"

"I'm guessing very light, about 100, maybe 115 pounds maximum... why?"

"He weighs 1100 pounds,” she explained as Hinata's eyes widened. "That means that his 100 pound body is able to hold ten times its weight..." she said in awe

"Can't be..."

"Actually about 9.5 times." corrected Kiyoshi getting up and giving the chocolates to Tsunade. "I got about 25 kilos more muscle than I look." got up walking over to the table, opening it taking a bottle of Sake out and drinking the whole thing.

"What are you doing?!" screamed Tsunade running up to him, snatching the bottle to find out that there's no longer anything left in it. She closes her eyes, turns red and a vain pops on her forehead.

Taking the opportunity of not being watched, Kiyoshi reaches into the desk and drinks another bottle of sake. "Ahh, that should get the job done." Hands the second empty bottle of sake to Tsunade and sits down.

Tsunade gets even more pissed off "You drank two bottles of my sake!!!"

"I would've drank only one if it was piping hot..." explained Kiyoshi

"That's not my problem! My problem is that you're underage!!!" she screamed at the fifteen-year-old kid.

"Oh that... I forgot that I'm fifteen."

"Grr, fine, but don't you drink again!"

Hinata was watching at the scene, not believing her eyes. "Kiyoshi-kun, why did you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Drink"

"Don't mind if I do,” he said reaching for another bottle inside Tsunade’s table.

To Tsunade's surprise, Hinata exclaimed "Oh no you don't!” and attempted to hit a pressure point on Kiyoshi's arm. Her attempt failed so she tried again, and failed again. "What's going on?" she asked.

"Poking me won't help,” explained Kiyoshi

"I'm hitting the pressure points, but my hits are ineffective,” explained Hinata to Tsunade.

Tsunade took the matter into her own hands and crushed Kiyoshi's hand with her own. "What do you mean it's not working?"

"She means that her attacks aren't getting through,” replied the crushed teen "I have a slightly different muscle structure than anyone else, and therefore all the original pressure points are useless. Furthermore, my muscles are so tightly formed, that nothing can get past them, not even a thin chakra needle."

"Should you be telling us this?" asked Tsunade

Kiyoshi thought about it for a second and answered, "No... not really. Are you going to eat that chocolate?"

"Yes, but since you are the one who brought it, you can have some." Tsunade offered him some forgetting the fact that he drank 2 bottles of her sake.

Hinata decided to also drop it, so she sat down and drank tea with them and ate chocolate. They forgot all about their troubles and worries, and discussed amusing events from their lives.

xxxkakashixxx

XD cool jutsu *rofl* even though it was kinda mean...
how come kiyoshi could drink 2 bottles of sake?? isnt that a bit too much?

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Chapter 10 - Missions, Books and Pirates

Kakashi, Sakura, Ino and Naruto were walking back to Village. The whiskered boy was still extremely confused as to why he was dragged into the forest, tied up, made listen to horrible sounds, and why he was constantly chasing the pink-haired girl for 5 years.

"Is this one of those things that I'm supposed to drop?" asked Naruto

"Yes!" the rest of the group answered at once.

"Fine, don't tell me, I don't want to know." everybody kept on walking in silence for a few minutes "Oh come on! Please tell me!!!"

Sakura turned around and put a pinecone in his mouth "Naruto, shut up"

"Ow ow ow" whined Naruto in a muffled voice, trying to take the pinecone out.

Kakashi looked at the annoyed girls, and then at the occupied Naruto. He leaned over to the girls and whispered "I don't know about you, but I think I've had enough of him for today, I'm going to leave now." he turned around and told Naruto "Naruto, go find Hinata and Kiyoshi, they'll brief you on the mission." with that he took off, jumping from house to house until he was no longer in sight.

"Uhh" Naruto was about to say something to the girls, but they also disappeared. "Aw what the hell!" he yelled in disappointment. He was confused, had horrible pain in his mouth from the pinecone, and he was now walking alone. "This day can't get any worse..." he said and got cut off by a sudden rainfall. "Frig... now I'm soaking wet as well."

Back at Tsunade's office, Hinata and Kiyoshi were till talking about random stuff with Tsunade.

"So what happened then?" asked Kiyoshi

"He tested by forehead for temperature..." answered Hinata, and they all laughed.

"Oh yeah, speaking of which, what's Naruto's count for mistaking your blush for a fever?" asked Tsunade

"507 and counting." Answered Hinata

Everyone usually found Naruto's clueless being, somewhat amusing, but this was just plain sad "You're kidding me right?" asked Kiyoshi

"No, I actually have them counted on my calendar,” answered Hinata, already discussing her affection with Kiyoshi without hesitation.

Everyone looked down, and Kiyoshi was starting to doubt that it was possible to get Naruto understand Hinata's feelings. "I wonder if they managed to do it." he thought to himself, as all of a sudden Ino knocked on the window from the outside.

Tsunade slid the window open for Ino to enter, and it started raining really hard as soon as she did. Tsunade commented on Ino's entrance said, "You know... that's why I have a door."

I'm sorry Tsunade-sama, but I got great news... It worked!!!" Ino exclaimed

Grins grew on Kiyoshi and Tsunade's faces. "Are you sure?" asked Kiyoshi

Ino brought the two of them closer and whispered "He threw up at how ugly he found Sakura to be."

This shocked Tsunade and Kiyoshi; never did they think that Kakashi would have such great of a success. "Amazing" said Tsunade in awe.

"Unfortunately Kakashi, Sakura and I ditched him because he was being too annoying." Ino signaled Hinata to come over to join the conversation "You two should go and find Naruto, he probably went home because of the rain, but you need to brief him today never the less." said Ino to the two teens, Tsunade's attention was faint, she was staring out the window.

"There's no need to do that,” said Tsunade looking at the gray picture outside her window. "He's coming here." Pointing down at the street below.

Everyone went to the window, and stared at the pissed off and soaked idiot heading towards the building. "Wow... you'd think he'd go home and fall asleep." said Ino looking at the scene below "He probably came to complain about what we did to him."

"Oh crap, Ino you better run or hide before he comes in here,” said Kiyoshi

"You're right, I'm off,” said Ino opening the window as soon as Naruto entered the building.

"Here, take this so you won't catch a cold,” said Kiyoshi taking a hooded cloak out of one of his inner pockets and hanging it to Ino.

"Thanks, I'll give it back tomorrow before you leave." said Ino putting the cloak on and jumping out the window. Although the scenery was lifeless and gray all around, Ino felt bliss in the rain as she was running down the wall to the street below.

Naruto came barging into Tsunade's office "Baa-chan!!!" Tsunade and the other two were sitting comfortably as if they were for half an hour without interruption. "Kakashi and the two ugly girls tied me up in the forest and were running some kind of weird experiment on me!"

"Calm down Naruto." said Tsunade, which angered him even more. "Did you lose a limb... or your virginity?"

Naruto looked uncomfortable at the mention of that word in this situation. "No… but"

"Then calm down, dry yourself off, and have some tea." Kiyoshi cut him off tossing him a towel that he got out of nowhere.

"Fine" Naruto dried himself off and sat down in between Hinata and Kiyoshi, and poured himself a cup of tea. When he started drinking it, he felt harmony from the aromatic taste, the warm and dry atmosphere, and the girl beside him "What the hell?" he thought to himself looking at the girl. "I've never felt this calm before..."

"N-N-Naruto-kun, you're staring..." said quietly looking at him from the corner of her eye, and blushing.

"Uhh, sorry..." Naruto shook his thoughts off and continue drinking his tea.

Everyone sat in silence, but not an awkward one. The silence was calm, without any tension or uneasy feelings. "I could get used to this..." Tsunade thought to herself examining the silence of the calm Naruto.

"So what about the mission?" asked Naruto.

"Crap, I thought I'd not have to repeat the details again,” complained Tsunade. "Alright, here's the deal, you're going to be sent on a retrieval mission to the wave country tomorrow. A ship was sunk somewhere in the south-western waters of the land, with many items of value, along with a chest full of fine-cut emeralds."

"You said that this is an A-Ranked mission,” said Kiyoshi looking at her inquisitively.

"Here's the twist on your mission; apparently there's a big demand on this chest, and consequentially the ship was sunk because of it, sunk by pirates."

"Pirates!!!" screamed Naruto standing up and nearly splashing his tea over everyone.

"Chill, Naruto" said Kiyoshi putting his hand on Naruto's shoulder and bringing him down.

"Yes, Pirates, seems bad enough as it is, but among those pirates are two former Mist Shinobi. Those guys aren't pushovers, so you'll have to be careful."

"I'm Mr. Careful!" exclaimed Naruto jumping up again and this time spilling his tea all over the table.

"Good job, Mr. Careful" said Kiyoshi in a teasing voice "now sit down, we aren't going anywhere until the rain stops, and we still don't know the complete details of the mission."

"Stop pulling me down" complained Naruto as he was once again pulled down by the shoulder.

"Actually, I don't know the whereabouts of the sunken ship, so you'll have to ask around if anyone's seen anything. As a matter of fact, this is more of a mission of resourcefulness, which Kiyoshi has. Hinata has her locating abilities, and Naruto has his..." Naruto leaned over to hear what she was going to say about him. Tsunade quickly came up with an excuse for the kid's presence, one that would not piss him off and splash his tea all over the office. "Naruto has numbers, so in case there's any conflict with the pirates you have less of a chance to be outnumbered."

Naruto seemed pleased by her excuse for including him, so he leaned back and said "Hell yes."

Kiyoshi thought about it and asked "May we have access to your library for today?"

"Sure thing, knock yourself out." answered Tsunade.

"We're going to read?!" Naruto jumped up.

"Naruto where did all the calmness go? The calmness you had a few minutes before you asked about the mission?" asked Tsunade

"I... don't... know..." answered the kid, scared by the thoughts coming into his head from the question.

"OK... we're going, may we have a note so that the guards will let us through?" asked Kiyoshi

Tsunade was already writing one. When she handed it to him she said "Kiyoshi, I hope you can do this with such lack of resources."

"I hope so too, we'll see." he answered

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With that said, the group of three walked out and headed towards the Hokage's private library, Tsunade screamed after them "Kiyoshi!" he turned around "Don't you touch the jutsu section, only the history and information sections are you allowed to see!"

"Alright!" Kiyoshi screamed back to Tsunade through the long hallway turning back to see where he's going.

"Kiyoshi-kun, where are we going to start?" asked Hinata looking at the vast and barely organized shelves of scrolls and books.

"We'll start with the geography of the wave country." answered Kiyoshi "You look over the island formations we have on record, look for anything interesting like caves or any possibilities of concealments for ships or bases." He turned to Naruto and said "Naruto, you're going to help Hinata, and don't touch anything without her approval." Hinata blushed as Naruto pouted "I'll be in that section over there in case you need me for anything."

"Hey why do you get to slack off while we do all the work?" complained Naruto.

"I'm not going to be slacking off, and unless you want to try and figure out the complexity of seabeds, I suggest that you Shut up." replied Kiyoshi, and it truly did shut Naruto up. Then a thought came through Kiyoshi's head and he asked "Say Naruto, can your clones act as information retrievals?"

Naruto tried to understand what he meant and remembered that when a clone's destroyed, the memories come back to the rest of them. "Yeah, do you think it'll be of help to us?"

"Well of course it will, Hinata and I will need you to draw some of the maps out. For that we'll need as many hands as possible." Naruto crossed his fingers over his chest and was about to summon one hundred clones when Kiyoshi cut him off "Not yet! Summon only one at a time, too many clones will become too hectic and unorganized." Naruto nodded and put his hands down.

Hinata was reading something while the two were talking and found something interesting "Kiyoshi, I found an Island surrounded by reefs, It looks like with enough navigation, it's possible to dock ships on the lake formed within the Island."

"That's going to be our first destination, tell me the coordinates."

"50.72 degrees east and 12.51 degrees south." answered Hinata

"Good, I'll try to find the waters for that place, Naruto, make a clone and draw that map out,” commanded Kiyoshi

The group got to work on the mission and was very productive in finding the terrains of the wave country. They managed to find more and more possibilities of good battlefields and ship-routes where the ship might have sunk, and found even more possibilities of hidden bases and pirate ships. Kiyoshi couldn't shake the thought of sinking to the bottom of the waters due to his mass, and the fact that he was unstable without it.

Kakashi came to Tsunade's office to tell her the news about Naruto, and for the mission briefing.

"Hey Kakashi" said Tsunade breaking away from her documents as Kakashi entered her office. He was about to speak, but she cut him off "Good job you did on Naruto, I couldn't have done better myself."

Kakashi was slightly surprised by the fact that Tsunade knew what was happening before he told her "Sure you could've, you are the famous medic-nin"

"You're right, I could've. But I don't have the time because of all these documents." she drew his attention to the countless papers scattered all over the desk.

"Uhh, can't help you there, but I need to know what the mission is, or I'll look like a slacker if they know something that I don't." said Kakashi in fear of losing face.

"Too late." said Tsunade giving the cool ninja a mocking eye "They're in the library researching information on the mission."

Kakashi's eyes widened "They're what?"

"Researching"

"Naruto too?"

"Yes, Kiyoshi dragged him into it as well."

"Wow"

"I know, Naruto never does anything productive other than training." Tsunade explained how unreal this is.

"Not only that, I've never seen any Shinobi of such low rank researching a mission."

"There's a first time for everything, I've only seen ANBU research their missions. But they're trained to do so, this Kiyoshi is really something else." said Tsunade slightly wandering off. Then she shook her thoughts off and said "Kakashi, here's the mission..."

Tsunade told Kakashi all the given information on the mission. After those three minutes were up, she told him about what happened on Hinata and Kiyoshi's briefing. Kakashi thought about it for a moment and said, "I'm going to go see how they're doing", walked out of the office and headed towards the library.

Kiyoshi was looking over a really complex rock bed, trying to find the best places to enter an island, when Kakashi entered. "Hey Kakashi-sama" said Kiyoshi not turning to look at the intruder. Hinata, Naruto and his clones were a little further inside the library and didn't notice anyone enter.

"I see you made Naruto work, good job, it may not look like it but you've made quite an accomplishment." said Kakashi and observed Kiyoshi's lack of care. His expression changed "Kiyoshi, what's up? I heard you passed out,” asked Kakashi

"Oh that, I have problem with water." answered Kiyoshi

"Haha, please don't tell me that you don't know how to swim." Kakashi joked

"No, I can swim just fine, I learned how to at age 4." said Kiyoshi. "It's about my weights,” explained Kiyoshi

Kakashi understood what's been bothering Kiyoshi "You're afraid of sinking?"

"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid of meaningless death." Kiyoshi corrected Kakashi's logic "If I take my weights off, I'm unstable. If I keep em on, I'll sink to the bottom."

"I see, so you feel that you're useless?" concluded Kakashi "What're you going to do? Back out?"

"Hell no, I don't back out, I've face life and death situations since I was born, so this should be nothing. But still..."

"I know what you mean." Kakashi thought about it for a second, "Did you talk to Gai and Lee?"

"Yeah, Gai gave me advice on training, but I can't complete it in the four day trip, not enough time." explained Kiyoshi

"Well let's see how much you can learn to control, I don't think we're in that much of a hurry, we can take the long road there."

Kiyoshi looked up at Kakashi and smiled "Thanks."

"I'll take over from here, you can go train for now. But tell me what you've learned so far so that I don't repeat your steps." said Kakashi relieving Kiyoshi from his duty.

"Sure thing, Hinata is searching for islands. I'm researching the seabeds around the areas where the ship might've sunk, as well as the islands that Hinata finds. And Naruto is drawing the maps for us so that we can take them with us." said Kiyoshi and then updated Kakashi on the multiple areas that are already studied and recorded. "I'm off to train, I'll be back in two hours."

"It's ok, take as much time as you can." said Kakashi picking up a book and sitting down.

"I can't I'm only allowed to practice an hour a day, and that hour I'll be splitting up into 15 minute sessions." explained Kiyoshi

In an instant, Kakashi understood what Kiyoshi was worried about, having four days to train is very little, but having a total of 5 hours of training is even worse. "I see... go gain control of yourself, we'll be waiting for you." said Kakashi

Kiyoshi went off to train, leaving Kakashi and the two teens to study. He walked outside to find that the rain had stopped and the clouds were disintegrating. Rays of light shone through, lighting up the colorful streets, and making the puddles shine and reflect the lit up houses.

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hope he doesnt sink...
i'd hate to drown...T.T...

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Chapter 11 - Incomplete Transformation

Kiyoshi was on his way to the forest to train his control, he was thinking about how he was going to make this work. When he got there, he started unloading his weights and piling them up under a tree, which he then marked with a carved in 'S'. He looked up at the branches and trees, looked to the sides with the complex terrain of tightly packed trees and old fallen dead ones lying all over the place.

"Osu, let's start this thing." He made a slight movement with his legs and jumped up 20 meters into the air "Whoa, control Kiyoshi, control yourself..." He tried to land on a fat tree branch. He bent his legs to soften his impact in order to avoid breaking the branch. It didn't work, he fell in too hard and accidentally kneed through the 40-centimeter branch, tumbling down towards the ground. He unsheathed his kodachi and tried to insert it into the trunk of the tree near him. But accidentally stabbed through the trunk and hung there. "Come one Kiyoshi... control." he focused and managed to push himself off the tree without breaking it, and landing safely on the ground. "Yes" he was happy about his small accomplishment, but still had to continue with his control training.

Back in the library Hinata had trouble finding any more islands that were possible to hide on, Kakashi was now running out of material to research, and the small Naruto army was asleep on a pile of books and drawings.

"Kakashi-sama?" asked Hinata surprised to see Kakashi sitting there instead of Kiyoshi.

"Kiyoshi needs training, so I'm filling in for him." Kakashi answered the upcoming question.

"I see" said Hinata and looked at Naruto to see how he was doing. She giggled when she saw him asleep in a strange pose on top of a pile of clones. She turned back to Kakashi and said "Kakashi-sama, I'm not having any more luck finding anything."

"Me neither, I think it's safe to say that we got most of the possibilities down. I think it's time to leave it alone,” he said with a yawn. Then he looked at Naruto and said, "I'll wake Naruto, and that might take a while. Why don't you start cleaning up, we'll join you in a second" he said picking Naruto up by the feet, and holding him upside down.

"Osu" said Hinata starting to pick up all of their data and putting it neatly into organized piles.

"Oi Naruto! Wake up!" Kakashi was screaming in Naruto's ear, only making him snore louder. "Hmm... Hinata, I'll be right back, I got a plan to wake Naruto up,” he said walking out of the library still holding Naruto up by the legs. He went to the washroom, and dunked Naruto headfirst into a toilet and flushed it.

Naruto woke up shivering from the cold water "Ugh... what's happening?"

"Oh good, since you're awake, you can help us clean up the library." said Kakashi innocently looking down at Naruto, still holding him up by the legs over the toilet.

"Since I'm awake? Don’t make it sound like I woke up by myself! You woke me up!!!" Naruto started flailing his arms in all directions, creating a storm of fists.

Kakashi let go of Naruto, making him fall to the floor face first, and walked out of the washroom heading towards the library "catch up once you've dried off!" he yelled back to Naruto.

Naruto got up groaning, taking his forehead protector off and squeezing the water out of it. Then walked over to the blow-drier, turned it off, and sat down under. "What's his problem?" Naruto thought to himself "Why is everyone so careless about me? Why is everyone so secretive around me?" Naruto finished drying his hair off, put his forehead protector back on and started walking back to the library.

In the meanwhile Kiyoshi was still trying to land softly on branches, but failing at every given attempt.

"Damn, I only have 4 minutes left in this session... Better make them count,” he decided to give up on branches for now, and work on jumping off trees without breaking them down.

Tsunade was taking a break in the office. She was standing up and looking outside through her window, when she noticed a tree fall down in the forest some distance away from the village, and raising a cloud of dust. She looked shocked for a second "Are we under attack?" She took a spying glass out of her desk and zoomed in on the source of the broken tree. "Kiyoshi... you gave me a scare there for a second." She picked up her jacket and decided to see what he was up to.

Kiyoshi was lying on the ground and breathing heavily, not from being tired, but from nearly being impaled by 50 tons of wood that he broke down moments ago. "I got to be careful" he thought to himself, then got up and continued his training. He jumped at a tree, softening his impact as much as he could, coming so close to the tree, that the bark nearly scratched his face, he lessened himself and started falling off the tree to put some distance in between them. When there was only a little bit distance for him to push himself off, he did so and still made a big indent on the tree's side. He flew at a ridiculous speed towards a different tree and braced himself for impact. He flew though the 1.5-meter trunk, breaking it in half, and covering himself in splinters. He pummeled down towards the ground. As he was falling, he looked around and no tree was close enough to insert his Kodachi into, so he reached inside his coat, pulled a chain out, attached one end of it to the handle of his right-hand kodachi, and flung it to the nearest tree. The Kodachi pierced the tree, he used the chain to swing around the tree and eventually land softly on the ground below. He yanked on the chain and the Kodachi came flying down at a dangerous speed. He caught it, untied the chain, and sheathed it. "Break time..." he thought to himself walking over to his stash and putting his weights back on. "Ahh, that's better,” he thought to himself feeling the control back in his body.

"Next time, train somewhere further away from the Village, This is the 'Leaf' village, not deadwood village." said Tsunade smirking.

"Tsunade-sama, what are you doing here?" asked Kiyoshi turning in her direction

Tsunade looked around at the messed up scenery and then back at Kiyoshi "I thought that there was a war happening here... but it's just you." she smiled at him "Tell me, why are you destroying my forest?" asked Tsunade

Kiyoshi looked around and realized that he was in fact destroying everything in sight. "I'm sorry, I'm training my control, I had no intent of becoming a lumberjack."

"Control?" Tsunade's smile disappeared "Are you trying to say that you weren't practicing your attacks?"

"Yes, I'm practicing to be able to use my true strength without destroying everything I touch." explained Kiyoshi. Then he looked around and said "Seems like I have a long way to go."

Tsunade looked around and couldn't believe that the destruction around her was unintentional "Wow, I'd hate to see what happens when you go on the offensive... or even defensive. It's amazing to see someone have such strength without mixing chakra in their attacks."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, whenever I attack, I mix a precise amount of chakra into my fists, and it makes them penetrate almost anything. But seeing you have that amount of strength without the use of chakra is extraordinary,” explained Tsunade. "Also the fact that you look like you're 100 pounds."

"I see, but I already told you why. My metabolism and muscle structure is different from any other human being..." explained Kiyoshi.

He was about to continue, but Tsunade cut him off "I know how the metabolism works, and I don't really feel like getting into those kinds of thoughts right now." there was a silence "I'm hungry, do you want to eat?"

"Sure."