Naruto grinned at her, "So you're not going to try and genjutsu me into a coma?"
Kurenai let a small smirk come on her face, "I thought about it, and nope, I'm not."
Naruto nodded, "Good, because it wouldn't have worked anyway. I keep my mental mind extra secure, nothing gets in."
The team started to walk towards the Hokage Tower, but Kiba got one more shot in before they got too far, "Oh, so that's why you were dead-last in the Academy?" Naruto jumped out of the booth and flipped him off, "Dead-last that Kiba. I'll be happy to show you how dead-last I am again if twice wasn't enough to get the point across."
After a moment of silence Naruto nodded, satisfied that his threat came across loud and clear before he turned to leave. However he was stopped in his tracks before he could even take a step, "Fuck you Naruto!"
Naruto whipped around to only see them as dots in the distance. He left grumbling to himself as Kotetsu and Izumo were seated in the booth snickering.
XxX
"Welcome home shithead." Tayuya chirped from her place on Naruto's couch.
Naruto had a dry look on his face as he walked inside his apartment, "You know when I asked you to watch my place I didn't really think you would be over here when I got back."
Tayuya shrugged, "You have a TV. Therefore, I consider your place better than mine. Hence the reason that I'm here. Where did you go anyway?"
Naruto looked through his refrigerator before giving up on finding something and heading over to the chairs, "Tsuki no Kuni. Fun fact, I can now split a waterfall into two with my chakra alone."
"Killer." Naruto grunted and plopped down next to her on the couch, garnering a confused look from her, "There are two other places to sit you know?"
Naruto gave her a tired look, "This is the best chair. This is also my house, you're lucky I didn't just flop face first on the couch like I usually do. You're sitting where my face would traditionally go by the way."
Tayuya blushed at Naruto's implication and was about to call him on it until his next move, "Ugh..." Naruto fell to the side and landed with his head in Tayuya's lap. Which ended up with the girl's cheeks becoming dangerously overcolored.
"Shithead what are you doing?" She squeaked out.
Naruto smirked up at her, "Huh, well I told you that you're sitting where I place my head on this couch, or would you like me to go full on traditional with how I lay on this chair and turn face down?"
Tayuya stammered before narrowing her eyes, still blushing, "You don't have the balls."
Naruto's smirk became a mischievous grin, "Oh really? You've obviously forgotten who you're talking to. Allow me to refresh your memory."
XxX
Team 10, alongside Sakura, were sitting in a park. Chouji and Shikamaru were laying on a hill watching clouds, while Ino and Sakura were sitting next to a lake, "So forehead, how's training with Tsunade-sama."
Sakura looked over at her rival and smiled, "It's definitely the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but I'm glad it's happening. I really owe Naruto one for setting the whole thing up." Sakura noticed Ino's discomfort at hearing Naruto's name, "You're not still sore at him for winning during that test he had to take are you?"
Ino shook her head, "It's not that. I just don't think everything is right with Naruto. I know I told you already, the things I saw in his head weren't normal. It's scary how different he became in almost no time at all."
Sakura rubbed the back of her neck, "Well honestly it was kind of unnerving at first, but he's still Naruto, just a faster, stronger, more powerful Naruto."
"SHITHEAD!" "I REGRET NOTHING!"
"GET BACK HERE SO I CAN RIP YOU APART!"
"YOU KNOW YOU LIKED IT TAYUYA-CHAN! WHY ELSE DID YOU LET ME STAY LIKE THAT FOR FIFTEEN SECONDS, I WAS COUNTING!"
"DIE YOU BASTARD!"
Sakura and Ino blinked as the clear-cut voice of the person the conversation was about rang out across a distance, followed closely by another irate female voice. Sakura palmed her face, "You see, same old knucklehead..."
XxX
Somewhere in Konoha where a large white-haired man picked himself out of a body sized hole a tear fell from his eye, "Way to go gaki. I knew I'd get you on my side eventually."