Chapter Six: Making Friends.

Two years after Naruto had revealed his Mokuton abilities, Tsunade, TonTon, Shizune and Naruto where now staying in a small village in Oni no Kuni (Demon Country). The village was a quiet and small village that was positioned in a small valley with a large forest north of it, a medium size river the flowed gently down out of the valley south of it and with crops and fields west of the village where the farmers grew their food for the village.

The place had been a perfect spot for the group, since it was quiet and out of the way of most places and the village had no real medic. Many of their old and young were suffering for a small disease that effected people with a low immune system, which resulted in them being bed ridden and unable to eat properly for several weeks. But thankfully when Tsunade arrived the problem was resolved in a matter of a few days.

As the people in the village were busy doing their daily activities they suddenly heard loud explosions and could see large dust clouds coming from the other edges of the forest north of the village.

Normally if the villagers saw this they would have been concerned about it and believe that they were under some kind of attack. But they had grown use to seeing such thing after the first few weeks of the arrival of Tsunade, TonTon, Shizune and Naruto, (although they did not know that it was Tsunade since she still had her Genjutsu henge over her and Shizune and they went by different names). Since this had come to be a common occurrence to outside the village at this time, they had learned that at this time Tsunade would train her son Naruto in her special training exercise at this time.

With Tsuande and Naruto

"DODGE" shouted Tsuande has she threw a massive dodge ball at Naruto who barely dodge it

Naruto had grown a good bit over the time, he was still quite skinny but despite that he was quite strong for his age (thanks to his training) and had lots of energy. Naruto wore and short sleeve green shirt, with black short pants and brown sandals.

This type of training had been a common thing to be seen going on between Naruto and Tsunade in the past few months. Since when she first saw that Naruto had inherited her natural flawless Chakra control she hoped that with this training Naruto would gain her super human strength.

Naturally when Jiraiya and Shizune first heard Tsunade saying that she was now going to have Naruto go through her "special training", they became very concern for Naruto's safety and well being. But fortunately Naruto had two things going for him, one was that thanks to his high stamina and all the running around that he did when he was younger had given him excellent reflex's and good speed (for a kid his age), so that he could dodge the balls quickly without getting hit and not get tired from doing it for several hours. The other was the only real side affect that he got from having the Kyuubi inside of him; the Kyuubi had given him a quick healing factor. Where Naruto could recover from Chakra exhaustion very quickly and most wounds he would have, would heal within minutes if not a few hours, (depending of how serious the wound was).

This had help Naruto greatly since it allowed him to survive Tsunade's training with little effect, especially when it came to Taijutsu training with his Mother. Since when Tsunade did Taijutsu training with Naruto she used her full power on Naruto. Where he mainly dodge and try and counterattack at the same time, while wearing specially designed gravity weights seals that Jiraiya given him to wear most of the time.

Needless to say Naruto usually returned home with broken bones of a lot of bruises, but regardless of them the training was working, since Naruto speed was increasing dramatically and his Taijutsu style was improve as well. Tsunade even stated at the way he was going Naruto would soon have a firm grasp of her super human strength, even though it would still be a couple of more years before he could ever be able to use it to the same level as she could.

For several hours Tsunade threw and threw hundred of dodge balls at her son, where the dodge balls would often explode by the sheer power of the thrown, when it hit the ground or a tree. After awhile of this Naruto was starting to get tired of always dodging and decided to strike back.

Soon after when Tsunade threw another dodge ball and shouted "Dodge", Naruto leapt into the air at the incoming dodge ball and channelled all the chakra he could gather. As the dodge ball was about to hit him Naruto did midair spin kick and hit the dodge ball with all the strength he could mustered with his Chakra enhanced kick.

When Naruto kicked the ball the power he put into the kick was so great that it overpowered Tsunade's throw. After which Naruto's kick blasted the ball right back at Tsunade with twice the velocity that she threw it with. She was so shocked by what Naruto had done that she had barley been able to dodge the ball, which exploded once it hit that spot that Tsunade had been a second ago.

After Tsunade had narrowly dodge the ball she turned to look at her at her son, who was somehow still standing after putting so much of his remaining chakra into the kick and was breathing heavily from exhaustion.

"Incredible! Even after constantly dodging all my throws non-stop for most of the morning, he still had enough strength and power to overpower one of my throws at full power. I KNEW! he was slowly getting better at being able to use my strength, but still…..I never thought he have enough control over it to be able to block it and hit it back at me with twice of much force as what I threw at him. Not to mention he's still able to stand up after putting so much power into that kick, after doing something like he should be dead on his feet and unconscious on the ground". thought Tsunade in shock but quickly got over itand a large smirked appeared on her face "But then again he is "MY" son after all".

"All right Naru-chan that enough for today" spoke Tsunade after which she then started to seal away the large bag that held the remaining dodge balls

"But….pant, pant…Ka-chan…pant, pant…I can sti…..pant….still kee….pant, pant…..keep going….pant" said Naruto tiredly

"That may be true Naru-chan but remember what I said about pushing yourself too far, now come over hear so I can heal you". said Tsunade, where her son was too tried to argue and went over to her to be healed.

After a little while, Naruto was fully healed and was itching to start training some more but his mother wouldn't allow it.

"But Ka-chan why can't I? Since you said the more I train the stronger I get and I want to get as strong as you, Ero-sannin and The Yondaime" said Naruto

Naruto knew a lot about The Yondaime thanks to all the stories that Jiraiya told him about, (although Tsunade didn't really like it, since she was still angry at Minato for turning their son into a jinchūriki). But Naruto was still unaware of the fact that The Yondaime was his father, since both Tsuande and Jiraiya had decided not to tell Naruto until he was ready, encase he accidently blurted it out to someone. Whenever Naruto asked about his father the subject was always changed. Naruto also didn't know about the Kyuubi being sealed into him either since like with the knowledge of his father it was decided to keep secret for the same reason.

"Yes Naru-chan that true, but if we kept training you be too tried to do your studies with Shizune", replied Tsunade.

"UUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHH! but I like training more" winned Naruto

"Now Naru-chan, you know that your studies with Shizune are just as important as your other training and if you what to be as good at healing as I' m then you have to study hard", said Tsunade which convinced her son to agree and start to head home.

During the last year Naruto had become very eager to learn about being a medic, which was a dramatic change from when Tsunade had first tired a few months after his sixth birthday. Since when Tsunade first tired to get Naruto to study to learn to be a medic Naruto was not interested, since he found all the studying boring and wanted to either play with TonTon or play other kids or train so that he "kick butt" (Naruto's words) like Jiraiya or Minato.

But that all changed when Naruto was seven when he found a wounded rabbit in the forest near one of their houses that they had stayed in. When Naruto found the rabbit it had been just attack by a wild eagle, which had been scared off when it saw Naruto come over. When Naruto saw that the rabbit had been badly hurt, he had become greatly distressed since he hated seeing animals hurt, where he went to his mother carrying the injured animal to her in hopes that she could do something. Thankfully despite not being a vet Tsunade knew what to do since she still knew enough about most living creature biology.

When Naruto saw how easily his mother had helped to heal the injured rabbit he had become interested, after that he decided to ask his mother if he could go with her when she went to heal people which she happily agreed to. During the trips Naruto became more and more interested in medical Jutsu, since he saw how his mother helped so many people with it and how happy she made the people she healed as well as their families. It was then after his mother had healed a young girl (whom Naruto had befriended earlier), who had been seriously injured in an accident when she was playing with other children. That Naruto told his mother he wanted to be trained as a medic (much too his mother's joy), since he told her that he wanted to be a "Butt Kicking Combat Medic" where he would kick load of "bad guys butt" and help heal people who are hurt at the same time.

After Tsunade heard Naruto little decree, she had agreed to train Naruto to be a medic, even though it wasn't exactly what she had wanted, Tsuande knew it was the best she could get.

After Naruto decided to train to be a medic Tsunade started to train Naruto in medical Ninjutsu and how to use his Chakra to help heal others. Shizune also helped by teaching Naruto about how each part of the body works and what to do if certain things happen like if a person had broken arm or if they were suffer a heart attack.

It had been difficult at first, since Naruto found it difficult to try and remember the names of the different organs or bones and what they do for the body. Even despite Naruto love of reading things and trying to learn from simple easy to read medical books for beginners he still had trouble focusing on what he was trying to learn.

But Shizune had found am unique way to help teach Naruto. For example putting different cartoon like faces, as well as imprinting thoughts and feelings onto the pictures of the each organ and body, so to help make it both fun and easier for Naruto to focus on them and remember them. She also made up different rhymes or little songs to help Naruto remember the names of the body parts and what they were connected to and do, as well as what to do if with certain injuries happened.

Tsunade had naturally been sceptical at first when Shizune had suggested it but when Shizune applied her idea to help teach Naruto, Tsunade soon saw that the teaching method was working perfectly, since Naruto improved greatly in his Medical-nin training. Tsunade herself praised Shizune for her teaching skills; she even stated that Shizune had a gift in helping to teach children and helping them learn. This of course caused the young women to blush bright red at her Sensei praise since it was not too often that Tsunade would praise someone.

But even despite Naruto growing progress in his medical training he was still along way from being able to be heal people properly even with just simple injuries or illnesses.

Also Naruto was now learning about Fūinjutsu (Sealing Techniques) from Jiraiya where he was teaching Naruto how to seal simple things into scrolls like a Kunai, after which when he returned Jiraiya would then start to teach him other slightly more advance sealing techniques.

After a little while Tsunade and Naruto reached their small house that they were staying in for now. When they were about to go in Shizune quickly came of the house with a slightly concerned look on her face.

"Tsunade-sensei I glad that you're here there is a man here looking for you to help heal someone", said Shizune.

"So, what is the problem with that, a lot of people have come here looking for me when they needed to be healed or someone-else to be healed", replied Tsunade, since it was common enough for it to happen with her as a healer.

"No he not looking for you, he looking for you, you", spoke Shizune.

At this Tsunade suddenly understood what Shizune meant and narrowed here eyes, since the only people that would know where "she" (meaning the real her, Tsunade the Slug Princess) was, where Jiraiya and The Sandaime.

"Naru-chan you and Shizune stay out here and practice throwing your Senbon needles, while I go inside and talk to the person inside, ok", said Tsunade as she turned around to Naruto with a smile on her face as if there was noting wrong.

"Ok Ka-chan, come on Nee-chan", said Naruto as he pulled the end of Shizune Kosode robe to get to come along with him. Since he didn't think anything was wrong, since a lot of people came back to ask his mother to heal them or some else.

After a quick nodded of understanding to Tsunade, Shizune then went with Naruto.

Inside Tsuande House

When Tsunade entered the room she saw a young man with brown hair and glasses wearing and official uniform of a guardsmen of Oni no Kuni, as well as carrying a pack of arrows and a bow on his back.

"Greetings Tsunade-sama it is an honour to met you in person", said the young man as he bowed down on the floor.

"I afraid your mistaken since I not her my name is Yakumo", replied Tsunade.

"There is no mistake Tsunade-sama so you can remove your disguise" replied the man. Tsunade narrowed her eyes after which she then changed her form, from a short red haired woman with blue eyes, to her usual form. "So who are you and how did you know where I was staying and that I was in disguise", asked Tsuande, as she was on guard encase the man was some sort of assassin or kidnapper.

"My name is Tatuho and I' am one of the personal Bodyguards of the High Priestess Lady Miroku, ruler and protector of Oni no Kuni", spoke the man named Tatuho.

"The High Priestess?" asked Tsunade in surprise.

"Hai and she is in great need of your help Tsunade-sama", said Tatuho and he bowed down to her again.

"Lady Miroku is gravely ill, due to an Assassination attempt on her life by an Assassin from a rival Country who had hoped to kill her to disrupt the leader of our Country. Fortunately Lady Miroku was able to foresee the attack and warn us about it. Where we were able to capture him but unfortunately the Assassin had a backup plan and had poisoned her food. The best doctors in our land have tired to help her, but all have failed, she had even recently went into a coma due to the poison, you are our only hope she has of surviving…..please Tsunade-sama, I beg you save Lady Miroku", said Tatuho still keeping his head on the ground.

"Before I say anything I want you to answer a question for me", spoke Tsunade without showing any emotion.

"How did you find out that I was here and that I was in disguise?" asked Tsunade since she needed to know who they knew she was here.

"Before Lady Miroku went into her coma she had one last vision, where she saw you in disguise in this village with your student and a young blond boy who she believed was your son", spoke Tatuho.

At this Tsuande frowned and went into deep thought and said nothing.

After several minutes of silence Tsunade spoke up again "Very well I will help heal the High Priestess, but on one condition".

"Name it Tsunade-sama and it will be done I swear it", spoke Tatuho as he stood up.

"Before I tell you I want to know other than yourself and the High Priestess dose anyone else know about the vision that she had about my son and me", asked Tsunade.

"No! Lady Miroku only told me of her vision about you and your son", replied Tatuho.

"Good, then my condition is simple, that both you and the High Priestess swear not to reveal the fact that I have a son to anyone until the day it is officially known to other Countries. Since I have many enemies out in the world that would come after my son just to get to me, and until the day he is either strong enough to defend himself or has enough protection no-one can know that he even exist is that clear", said Tsunade forcefully since she would allow no harm to come to her son.

"Of course Tsunade-sama I understand perfectly and I swear no-one will learn the existence of your son from me and I'm certain Lady Miroku will agree as well", replied Tatuho.

"Good, because should you or the High Priestess ever break your oath and leak the information about my son to others and it puts him in danger. I swear there will be no place on this earth that you can hide from me, is…that… clear," threatened Tsunade in a deadly tone as she flooded the room with her Killing Intent making Tatuho freeze in fear and cause a cold sweat to run down his back.

"H-H-H-H-Ha-Hai! Tsunade-sama I-I-I-I u-un-understand p-perfectly", said Tatuho fearfully as he had never been so scared in his entire life.

"Good, Then we will leave in one hour", spoke Tsuande as she stood up to go and talk to Shizune.

When Tsunade left Tatuho slouched down and let out a large sigh as the Killing Intent died out.

"Truly, there is noting more dangerous in this world that a mother protecting its child", though Tatuho as he shivered slightly in fear as the memory of Tsunade Killing Intent was still fresh in his mind.

Three Days Later

After about three days of travelling, Tsunade and the group soon arrived at the estate for the High Priestess of the Demon Country. When they arrived at the main gate Tsunade had her special Genjutsu activated on both her and Shizune so to make sure that no-one would know it was her. The excuse as to why she was here was based sort on the truth, where Tatuho had told the guards that she was a Healer from a far off village that was said to be highly skilled in poisons and could help the High Priestess.

When Tsunade entered the room she had Tatuho dismiss all the servants and other Healers in the room so that she could begin her work without being bothered. When all the servants and the other Healers were gone Tsunade cancelled the Henge over her and Shizune and began to diagnose the High Priestess. After a few minutes Tsunade finished her diagnoses on High Priestess and turned to Tatuho who remained in the room.

"I'm afraid that the Toxin that the High Priestess has been poisoned with was a highly toxic and highly dangerous one, that even some of the most skilled Healers would have difficulty treating", spoke Tsunade.

"What exactly is the poison Tsunade-sama and what does it do?" asked Tatuho.

"The poison came from a very rare and highly toxic mushroom called the Black Spotted Mushroom. It can be made into a powder, gas or liquid form, where it can be breathed in, injected or digested through food. Once the poison is in the body it destroys the cells causing the body and the organs to fail and slowly killing the person over time. The effects typically include a nagging cough and other undetectable but common symptoms. It is very hard to detect and even harder to cure", said Tsunade grimly.

"C-Can you treat it Tsunade-sama?" asked Tatuho worriedly.

"Yes I can, by extracting the poison from her body, but it will be difficult", replied Tsunade.

"Whatever you need Tsunade-sama please tell me and I shall get it", spoke Tatuho.

"I need you to get several large bowls of hot water and bring them here", ordered Tsunade as she was going into her Healer mode, where she got Shizune and Naruto to help her get everything needed to help the High Priestess.

Soon enough Tatuho had servants bring over two dozen bowls of hot water to the door where he then brought them into the room. Tsunade then had him and Shizune help restrain the High Priestess when she extracted the poison from the High Priestess body.

Once Shizune and Tatuho had restrained the High Priestess and were holding onto her (to make sure that she stayed still). Tsuande then used her Chakura no Mesu (Chakra Scalpel) to make an incision into the one of the affected parts of the High Priestess body, after which she used her Saikan Chūshutsu no Jutsu (Delicate Illness Extraction Technique). Where she extracted the Toxin from the High Priestess body, it was a slow process and was quiet painfully for the High Priestess, for even though she was unconscious her body struggles in pain.

Naruto also did his part to help by changing the Water each time for his mother as she slowly extracted the poison from the High Priestess body.

After about an hour or so of slow and painful extraction, Tsunade had finally extracted the last of the poison out of the High Priestess body.

"It's done, virtually all the poison is out of her body now", sigh Tsunade as she wiped the sweat off her brow.

"Then will Lady Miroku recover?" asked Tatuho hopefully.

"She should once I have used some of the extracted poison to help make a medicine that will take care of the remainder of the poison in her body and help her body recover more quickly. I will also stay for a while here to make sure that the High Priestess does not suffer any relapses or something else happens since she is in a fragile state right now".

"Thank you Tsunade-sama, I cannot thank you enough, we are forever in you debt", said Tatuho as he was kneeing on the floor with his head down in gratitude to Tsunade. To which Tsunade just nodded.

"Tatuho do you have a greenhouse area and a medial area I can use so to make the medicine for the High Priestess?" asked Tsunade.

"Yes we do, I shall have a servant lead you there immediately".

"Ka-chan, can I help too", asked Naruto who wanted to help as well.

"Thank you Naru-chan, but you can't because it very hard to do and your not ready yet, why don't you go with TonTon out to the garden and play", said Tsunade.

"UUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH", groaned Naruto since he wanted to help plus he didn't have anyone really to play with, sure he had TonTon and he liked playing with her. It was just that he would have liked to play with other kids his own age, since it was hard for him to make and keep friends since he was always moving from place to place with his Mother, Nee-chan and TonTon.

"Naruto-san, if you like, maybe you can play with Lady Miroku daughter Shion, since I was about to go to her and tell her that her mother will be ok, since she has been very worried about her. I'm sure that Shion would love to have someone her own age to play with since she does not have many friends to play with as well", said Tatuho kindly as he knelt down to Naruto.

Tatuho knew that Shion had been very worried for her mother when she started to fall ill, ever since then the poor young girl had been crying herself to sleep, since she had been so worried about her mother dying and leaving her alone. This was because her mother was all she had, since her father had died in a horse ridding accident when she was only a year old and she did not really have any friends. Since like her mother she had the power to see into the future, but since she was so young she could not control it and would often see people deaths.

This caused people to fear her especially other children since they thought that if they went near here they would die hence they would run away from her. He hoped that once he brought the good news about her mother and Naruto to play with her, it would brighten the girl up; he only hoped that Naruto would not be scared away from Shion, since the girl was desperately lonely and badly needed a friend.

When they left the room Tatuho had two guards placed inside the High Priestess room and two outside the room (to make sure no-more Assassins would try to get in). After which he then called a servant over and ordered him to show Tsunade and Shizune (Who had their henges back on) where the medical area and the greenhouse area was. After that Tatuho then lead Naruto and TonTon (who was following Naruto) to where Shion room was and tell her the good news about her mother.

Shion Bedroom

Currently in her bedroom the young daughter of the High Priestess Shion was in the corner of her bedroom, she was sitting down on the floor with her legs held tightly against her chest and her head against her legs. Her eyes were puffy red from crying for most of the time, since she was worried for her mother and was afraid that she would die and leave her all alone.

Shion was wearing a long yellow and gold robe like coat with red baggy pants and a plane white shirt. She also wore her long blond hair down and had a round glass like charm that would ring like a tiny bell hung on the left hand side of her head.

As she sat quietly in her little corner she heard a knock on her door.

"Go away, I told all of you to just leave me alone", cried Shion, since she did not want to talk to anyone.

"Shion-san, it is me Tatuho, I have news about your mother, may I please enter", spoke Tatuho

"Okasan?" said Shion after which she let Tatuho in.

"D-D-Di-Did O-Ok-Okasan d-di-" said Shion as she tried to say the words she dreaded but found she could not.

"No she did not Shion-san", said Tatuho since he knew what the girl was thinking,"She is actually much better now, I was able to make contact with a healer than lived in one of the outer villages and had her come here to heal your mother. Thanks to her she was able to heal your mother and is now working on a medicine that will help her mother get better".

"Y-Y-Yo-You mean Okasan isn't going to die?" asked Shion as she dared to hope.

Tatuho just nodded to her that it was true, where Shion then ran over to Tatuho and hugged him tightly and started to cry again, but this time with tears of joy.

After a few minutes Shion finally stop crying and looked up a Tatuho and spoke.

"C-Can I see Okasan?"

"I'm afraid not Shion-san, since your mother is still in a coma, but I sure she will awaken up very soon and once she does and has regain some of her strength you can see her, I promise", said Tauho to which Shion just nodded.

"Also Shion-san I have something else to tell you", said Tatuho which caused the girl to look at him curiously.

"The healer I brought has a son named Naruto, he is about your age and like you he doesn't really have that many friends, since he moves around a lot with his mother. Also since his mother is staying here for a while I thought you and him could meet and become friends since he doesn't really have anyone to play with either".

At this Shion began to get worried since she was afraid that like the other children she tired to play with he would run away and call her freak like all the others.

"B-B-But won't he just run away like all the others", said Shion. At this a sad look appeared over Tatuho, since he felt for the poor girl, since she was very lonely and just wanted a friend and he hoped that Naruto would be that friend for her.

"I do not think he will Shion-san, since he seems to be a very kind young boy and I'm sure he just wants to be your friend, if you let him".

After a bit of convincing Tatuho was finally able to get Shion to agree to at lest talk to Naruto, as long as Tauho was here with her. After which Tatuho then open the door and brought Naruto in who was accompanied by TonTon.

"Hi" greeted Naruto when he saw Shion who was hiding behind Tauho shyly. When Naruto greeted her Shion did not speak and she just hid behind Tatuho for fear of being rejected by Naruto like all the other children she had tired to befriend. Seeing at how nervous and shy Shion was Naruto decided to go over to her, where he went around Tatuho so that he could face her.

"Hello Shion my name is Naruto would you like to play with me, since there aren't really any other kids around and since my Ka-chan is going to be here for a little while, it be nice it I had someone else to play with", said Naruto.

At first Shion said noting, but after a few minutes Shion suddenly spoke.

"D-Do….y-yo-you… r-r-really…want to play with me?"

"Yea"

"Your not afraid of me?" asked Shion, where she began to hope that she might actually have a friend.

"Why would I be?" "It just that….other kids run away from me…a-an-and call me freak because I can see things that they can't".

"Then those kids are all idiots if they say that, my Ka-chan told me that no matter how different we are or what we can do, no-one should be treated unfairly and no-one should be alone".

"So you really want to be my friend?" asked Shion to which Naruto just nodded and held out his hand, which Shion nervously took hold of.

"Oink!" cried TonTon.

This caused Shion and Naruto to take notice of her.

"Oh sorry TonTon I forgot to introduce you, Shion this is TonTon my family pet big and my friend", introduced Naruto.

"Hello TonTon" said Shion, as she kneeled down and started to pet TonTon on the head and scratched behind her ear which the small big enjoyed very much.

"Hey do you want and go play tag with TonTon and me?" asked Naruto.

"Sure", said Shion after which Naruto then grabbed a hold of Shion where they and TonTon ran off outside.

As the two children and the pig ran off, Tatuho could not help but smile, since it was the first time that he saw Shion smile in a very long time. He was also happy to see that she finally had a friend that was not scared of her.

Outside in The Estate Garden

For the next hour or two Shion, Naruto and TonTon played together happily, where they played games like tag, hide and seek other such games.

After that Shion showed Naruto around the estate, she even brought Naruto to a hidden part of the garden where her mother and she would plant flowers.

"This is where Okasan and I go sometimes to plant flowers", said Shion to Naruto as the looked around the different flowers.

As Naruto looked around he saw a dying flower bush near the end of the flower patch.

"What wrong with that?" asked Naruto as he pointed to the dying flower bush.

When Shion saw what Naruto was pointing at she could not but blush and look down at shame.

"That was a Rose bush that I tried to grow by myself, since most of the flower her were grown by Okasan and the rest were grown by me with Okasan help. I told her I wanted to do one by myself but it was harder that I thought it would be with Okasan help. No matter what I tried it wouldn't grow right and started to die" said Shion sadly and embarrassed.

"If you like I can help" offered Naruto.

"What ca you do?" asked Shion.

"Well there is a special trick that I learned and could do that might help. But you have to promise that you won't tell anyone, not even your Ka-chan or Tatuho-san ok", said Naruto

"Ok! I promise".

"Pinkie swear", said Naruto holding out his pinkie finger.

"Pinkie swear", repeated Shion as she locked her pinkie finger with Naruto's

"Ok then", said Naruto as he went over to the dying bush where he grabbed hold of the main trunk part of the bush and started to channel Chakra into the Rose bush.

At first Shion was confused as to why Naruto was grabbing a hold of the Rose bush. But before she could ask him she saw the Rose bush beginning to grow bigger and bigger. It then started to sprout leafs and then Rose flowers and right before Shion the Rose bush became fully bloomed.

"How did you do that?" asked Shion in awe when Naruto had gotten up and dusted off his pants.

"It's a special power that I have, its called Mokuton (Wood Release) it's a Kekkei Genkai (Bloodline) its kind of like your powers (Shion told Naruto about her powers)", said Naruto.

"What exactly can you do with it?" asked Shion.

"Well like you saw, I and can make trees and plants grow, my Great Grandfather had the same ability although he could only grow tree's I can also help grow plants. My Great Grandfather could do loads of cool things with it where he could make trees or entire forests wherever he wanted. He could even make wooden mansions or houses out of nowhere, he also created my Ka-chan home village Konoha and the massive forest that surrounds it in a single day", said Naruto with a bit of pride for how powerful his Great Grandfather was, while Shion was just in awe.

"Also from what Ka-cahn told me he was also able to use his power in the same kind of way your power works", spoke Naruto which got a confused look Shion.

"My Great Grandfather was able to use Mokuton to help suppress and control demons and seal them away".

"Can you do that", asked Shion in surprise, which Naruto answered by shaking his head.

"No or at lest not yet, since I'm no-where near what my Great Grandfather can do since I can't grow big giant tree out of no-where like he could. The best I can do is being able to grow trees and flowers out of seeds that I buy and grown them in the different ways and shapes I want them to. According to Ka-chan I got along way to go before I ever get to my Great Grandfather's level, since I have to learn it by myself for now".

"Can't your Okasan help you to get better at being able to do it", asked Shion.

"She can't, since she can't do it, I'm the only one in my family that can do it, since my Great Grandfather was the only person who could do it in my Clan", said Naruto.

"What about you Otosan (father) couldn't he help", asked Shion but instantly regretted it when a sad look came across Naruto's face.

"I don't have a Tochan (another less formal way to say father) or at lest not now, he died just when I was born from what Ka-chan told me. She doesn't talk about it much since every time I ask she gets this angry look on her face and changes the subject", siad Naruto.

"Sorry", said Shion sadly.

"It's ok, I never knew him and I probably find out about him later on so their no problem", said Naruto as he put on a happy face.

"So are there any other things you can do", asked Shion so to change the subject.

"Yea there are some other things I can do but I can't say, since I could get in a lot of trouble with Ka-chan if I did, hell I get in a lot already if she found out I told you about me being able to do Mokuton".

"Why's that?" asked Shion.

"Ka-chan told me that there are a lot of bad people out there that would like to take me away because of me being able to do Mokuton. This is because I'm the first one to be able to do it since my Great Grandfather, if those people found out they come after me and take me away from my family. They would then make me use my powers to do a lot of bad things for them since thanks to my Great Grandfather power. He was able to become one of the strongest Ninja's around and since I have the same power, those bad people would think I could be just as powerful as he was, hence they would want me under their control. That is why I have to keep my powers secret from everyone until I'm strong enough".

"Can you really become as strong as your Great Grandfather?" asked Shion.

"One day maybe since Ka-chan and Shizune nee-chan are training me as well as Ero-sannin, my perverted Uncle".

The last comment got a confused look from Shion until Naruto explained how Jiraiya would peek on women when in the hot spring. This of course caused Shion to scowl finding what Jiraiya did disgusting.

"Besides it's my dream one to become stronger than my hero The Yondaime Hokage who defeated the Kyuubi by himself. It also my dream to become a great Healer like Ka-chan and become a Konoha Ninja like the rest of my family were, as well as become Hokage like my Great Grandfather, my Great, Great Uncle and like The Yondaime", spoke Naruto.

"Well I think you can do" said Shion which caused Naruto to smile and blush slightly.

After that the two continue to talk with one another about different things for a few hours, (although Naruto didn't mention or show any more of his abilities to Shion, since he didn't want to get into more trouble with his mother encase she found out he told Shion). This continued until they were called by Tatuho and a few of the other guards to come for dinner.

Three days after Tsunade had extracted the poison from the High Priestess body, the High Priestess awoke from her coma. When Shion found out she immediately went to her mother and cried in her arms, the High Priestess was equally happy at seeing her daughter and was even more so when she learned the Shion and Naruto had become friends. During her recovery period the High Priestess often watch the two children play, since it made her happy to see her daughter be a normal child and playing with another child.

During the following two weeks since Naruto and his family arrived at the estate both he and Shion spent everyday playing with one another along with TonTon. Often enough Shion would even watch Naruto train with is mother, when she first saw Tsunade type of training she was afraid that she might hurt Naruto. But Shizune assured her that he would be ok, which he was despite the bruises he would have (which would go away after a few minutes thanks to his quick healing), after training.

It was at this time that Naruto was running to the main gate of the estate to met Shion and five of her guards. Both he and Shion had asked both their mothers if it be ok for them to go to the small park outside the nearby village, so that they could go and play on the swing and slides, as well as the other things there since there where none of them in the estate.

Both the High Priestess and Tsunade had agreed as long as they had some guards with them and were always in sight of them.

When Naruto reached the gate he saw Shion, her mother (who came to say goodbye to Shion since she could not go with them as she was still recovering), along with the five guards, were waiting for him. When Shion greeted Naruto she saw that he had a necklace around his neck with a large green Chrystal on it. When she got a better look at it she recognised it as the same necklace he had seen his mother wear around her neck.

"Naruto-kun is that your Okasan necklace?" asked Shion.

"Hai, I found it in our bathroom where Ka-chan must have left it, I tried to find her to give it to her since its really valuable, but I couldn't find her so I keeping it around my neck so I won't lose it", answered Naruto.

"That very kind of you Naruto, now you and Shion have a nice time playing in the park and don't stray to far from the guards so that they can see you, ok", said Miroku.

"We will Okasan", replied Shion as she and Naruto walk out the gate with the guards.

At the Park

When the group arrived at the park the two young children ran off to play on the different play equipment like the slide, see-saw, jungle gym, merry-go-round, sandbox, spring rider, swing set and chin-up bars.

As the children played together the five guards watched them carefully and kept an eye out for any trouble, unfortunately trouble had already found them.

Hidden in the Tree-line Beside the Park

Unknown to the children and the guards three Chunin Ame-nin's (Rain Ninja's) hid in the tree-line watching them and waiting for the chance to strike.

"So how long do we wait Maku?" asked one of the Ame Nin's.

"We wait till the moment is right, Ken", answered the Ninja called Maku to the other Ame Ninja.

Maku was middle age man and was medium built with jet black hair, gray eyes and a round face and wore a standard Chunin out for a Ame nin. He wore a yellow shirt with a gray blue flack jacket over it, and black pants with a weapons pouch strapped to them.

The Ninja named Ken was a young man in his mid twenties he had long brown hair that he had tied up into a ponytail; he also had blue eyes and had a tin face. Also like Maku he wore a yellow shirt with a gray blue flack jacket over it, and black pants with a weapons pouch strapped to them.

"We wouldn't even have to do this if that fool the Sawa no Kuni (Swamp Country) Daimyo sent had done his job right or if he had just sent us instead to kill the High Priestess", said the third member of the Ame group. "I know Kame, but what done is done and as long as we get paid for the job I don't really care" replied Maku.

The man named Kame was the youngest of the group who was just in his twenties; he had red hair and green eyes and had a narrowing face. Also like the rest of his group he wore a yellow shirt with a gray blue flack jacket over it, and black pants with a weapons pouch strapped to them as well as a short Tanto sword strapped to his back.

"But why do we even have to kidnap the girl anyhow, can't we just go and kill the High Priestess ourselves?" asked Kame.

"We can't kill her because the High Priestess guards are on alert and will guard her constantly, not to mention the High Priestess may use her powers to see into the future like she did before and see our attack and have her guards be ready. So the best way for us to kill her is to kidnap her daughter and hold her for ransom, once the High Priestess comes to us with the Ransom we kill her", answered Maku.

"But isn't there a chance that the High Priestess might see that it's a trap and not come", spoke Ken.

"Doesn't matter if she does know it's a trap she still come since as long as there a chance that she might save her daughter she take it since a mother will do anything to protect or save its child. Beside's when we do lay the trap we will have more than one type of trap to kill her with, and even she won't be able to predict all of our traps and attacks", said Maku.

"But what do we do with the daughter once we killed her mother? Do we kill her as well or what?" asked Kame

"We take her back to Sawa Daimyo, since he told me if we can take the girl alive then he pays us double our fee. Since when the girl reach's the right age he will marry her, this would then allow him to gain control of Oni no Kuni legally. Not to mention a wife that can see into the future would be very useful to him, and any children he would have with her would most likely have her power making her more valuable to him", spoke Maku.

Both Kame and Ken nodded in understanding but could not help but be slightly disgusted with the fact that they be handing over a seven year old girl to the Sawa Daimyo. Since the Sawa Daimyo was a fifty year old man who was over weight and bald, and the fact that he was planning to make the young girl his wife made them all the more sick. But they quickly shook off their disgust, since they were paid to do a mission and as long as they got paid it was no concern to them what happened to the girl.

"Alright you two our man has just signalled us, get ready to move in a kill the guards on my command", order Maku, which the other men responded by nodding their heads in understanding.

During that time one of the guard's named Haru was happily watching Shion and Naruto play with one another on the swing. Like many of the guards in the High Priestess estate he saw how sad and lonely Shion was, but with Naruto she was happily playing and acting like a regular young girl.

Haru was a young man in his early twenties, he was about medium height and built, he had spike silver hair with a round face and purple eyes and unlike the rest of the guards he carried a large broadsword on his back. Haru also did not wear the traditional outfit of a guardsman of Oni no Kuni, Haru wore a black shirt and pants and wore crimson armoured shin guards and arm guards as well as a crimson breast plate and black cape. The reason as to why Haru was so different from the guards was because unlike the others he was not a normal guard, he was a Samurai and the High Priestess Champion, he was also the best swordsman in Oni no Kuni.

As Haru watch the Children one of the other guards named Shuda (who Haru was friendly with) came up to him. Shuda was a medium built man who was slightly taller than Haru, he was in his early thirties and had spiky red hair with brown eyes and muscular face. He also wore the tradition outfit of a guardsman of Oni no Kuni and carried a straight narrow sword in its sheath on his left hand side hip. "You certainly enjoy watching the children play", said Shuda

"Yes, I'm glad to see that Shion-san has someone her own age to be with, since she needed a friend for a very long time", replied Haru where Shuda just grunted.

The two of them continued to watch the children play until suddenly the three Ame-nins appeared out for the tree-line and quickly killed the other three guardsmen.

"Ninja's!" cried Haru as he quickly began to draw his sword out so to face the enemy Shinobi's, as he did he spoke to Shuda without taking his eyes off the Ame-nins. "Shuda! Get Shion-san and Naruto-san and head back to the estate where they be safe I try and hold the Shinobi's off until yo- Ahhhhhhhhhh!," said Haru but cried out in pain before he could finish as he felt his back his back being slashed by a sword.

As he fell down Haru turned his head slightly to see who had slashed and saw that it was his friend Shuda that had done it, who was smiling cruelly has he slashed Haru from behind.

"S-Shuda! B-b-but why?" asked Haru as he lay on the ground bleeding badly

"Simple to get rich, why else, the Daimyo of Sawa no Kuni his will pay me a small fortune to help kill the High Priestess, and once I help bring him the High Priestess spoilt brat he pay be double what I get for helping to kill the High Priestess".

"You traitor" growled Haru as he wanted noting more than to slice the man in two with is sword.

"Huh! Like I care what you think of me, you be long dead by that time", sneered Shuda as he was about finish Haru off, but before he could the Ame-nin named Kame came up to him. "The brats are gone".

"WHAT!" roared Shuda "They must of ran off into the forest as we were killing the other guards, we can't find them anywhere". "You idiots, can't you do anything right they're just kids, how hard can it be, we have to find the quickly before the High Priestess find outs that something wrong, and send out the whole guard after us", shouted Shuda as he started to he into the forest.

"What about him," asked Kame pointing a Haru who was still lying on the ground bleeding from his wound.

"Leave him with that wound he will be dead in a few minutes from the blood lose", answered Shuda as he continued into the forest. Unfortunately Shuda had underestimated Haru, since when he and the Ame-nins had gone off into the forest after Naruto and Shion. Haru lifted himself up (through sheer willpower) and started to walk back to the High Priestess estate as quickly as he could and get help. As he did he prayed that the children could keep themselves hidden from Shuda and the Ame-nins until help came.

Twenty minutes later at the High Priestess Estate

Currently sitting on the porch of her private room the High Priestess Miroku was sitting down on a chair and relaxing a little with Tatuho who was also standing next to her. The High Priestess was taking it easy, since even though she was out of the woods in terms of the poison, her body was still weak and needed to recover.

As the High Priestess was relaxing she suddenly two female heard voices loudly as if arguing and before she could have Tatuho investigate what was happening, Tsunade and Shizune (in the true form since the High Priestess knew who she was and agreed to Tsunade condition), along with TonTon burst into her room, where Tsunade started to look around while Shizune tried to calm her Senei down.

"I know I had it Shizune I just don't remember where I put it", said Tsunade angrily as she tore the room apart as she looked around.

After seeing this, the High Priestess spoke up to try to help solve whatever problem there was with Tsunade before she destroyed her room.

"Is there a problem Tsunade-sama perhaps I can help?" asked Miroku politely since she did owe the women her life after all. As Tsunade continued to look around Shizune decided to speak up, "Forgive our intrusion High Priestess it is just that my sensei has lost a very valuable heirloom belonging to her Grandfather and cannot remember where she put it".

"Would the item you are looking for perhaps be a necklace with a green Chrystal on it", asked the High Priestess. "You saw it" asked Tsunade in surprise as she stopped looking around the room.

"Yes I did I saw your son Naruto had it around his neck when he met Shion and the Guards when they were going to the park outside the estate. He had told me that the necklace was valuable and belong to your Grandfather, he had also told me that he found it in your bathroom and had looked for you to give it back, but couldn't find you so he decided to wear it around his neck to keep it safe."

When Tsunade heard this, the deep dark feeling she had been having in the pit in her stomach, ever since she realised she lost her necklace grew. Tsunade prayed that noting would happen to her son, but unfortunately her accursed bad luck followed true as always as a panic guard came rushing into the room.

"Lady Miroku! We have an emergency", cried the guard.

"What happened?"

"My Lady, we just found Haru-dono at the main gate and he was badly wounded, he told us before he passed out from his wounds, that one of the guards named Shuda attacked him right when he and the other guards were attacked by enemy Shinobi's. He also told us that all the other guards were killed by the enemy Shinobi's and also said that Shuda and the Shinobi's were hired by the Daimyo of Sawa to kill you and kidnapped your daughter. Also he told us that the Shinobi's and Shuda went after your daughter and her young friend who had ran-away into the forest when they were attacked".

The moment the guard had finish speaking Tsuande raced right pass the man (who saw noting but a yellow blur) with Shizune and TonTon hot on her heels. "Tatuho! I want you to gather as many men as you can and have them met me a the gate in five minutes" ordered the High Priestess

"But my Lady you have not yet fully recovered from the poison", spoke Tatuho. "I do not care this is my daughter's life and I will not lose her", rounded the High Priestess angrily.

"Of course my lady", said Tatuho as he and the other guard ran out the room to gather as many guards as they could. "Please be safe Shion", though Miroku as she left the room to met he guards at the main gate.

At the same time as the High Priestess was given orders out to her guards, Tsunade was racing out the gate with Shizune and TonTon to where Naruto and Shion were last. "Please be alright Naru-chan, Please be alright", though Tsunade worriedly while also thinking, "If any of those bastards have touched so much as a hair my baby boy, they will wish they had never been born".

"Hold on Naruto and Shion we're coming, just hold on", though Shizune as she did her best to keep up with her Sensei.

Naruto and Shion

As the mothers of the two children moved out to save their children, the said children were running for their lives deeper and deeper into the forest trying to keep one step ahead of their pursuers.

"Pant, Pant…. Did we lose them Naruto-kun?" asked Shion as they his behind a tree so that Shion could catch her breath.

"I don't think so, since the guys that are after us are Ninja's so I don't think we can lose them that easily", replied Naruto.

"But why are they us? What do they want?" asked Shion.

"I don't think their after us, I think they are after you," answered Naruto.

"But why?"

"Think about it Shion-chan, your Ka-chan is the ruler of this country your practically a princess. That means they want to kidnap you and hold you for ransom or someone hired them to kill you for some reason".

"Then what do we do?"

"We have to keep running and find some place to hide until my until our Ka-chan's realise that something has happen".

"But that still could be hours since we weren't due back till later on", replied Shion worriedly.

"I know but we have no choice", said Naruto angrily since he knew he stood no chance against the Ninja's, since they were all older and more experience than he was. Not only that but he also had to protect Shion as well which made it all the harder if he had to fight.

"I don't see them anywhere", cried one of the Ninja's nearby.

"Well keep looking, they have to be nearby", cried the leader of the Ninja group.

"Come on Shion we got to keep moving or they find us", said Naruto as he pulled along.

The two children quickly crawled through so bush's and moved as quickly and as quietly as possible away fro the Ame-nins. After a few minutes Naruto came to a stop and looked back to see if any of the Ame-nins were following them or were close by, but thankfully none of them were around.

"Shion-chan I have an idea, if you hide here in the bush's I can use a Jutsu to turn into you and then I can lead them away from you when they follow me".

"No!" cried Shion as tears started to spill from her eyes, "If you do that then they could hurt you or worse kill you for doing that".

"But Shion-chan they won't they are after you not me and they won't, I'm pretty good at keeping away and hiding from people so don't worry about me".

"No! There has to be another way, we can still keep running and hiding from them together, I won't let your get hurt because of me."

"But this is the best way I help protect Shion-chan," pleaded Naruto.

"I don't care and if you try and do that Naruto I will go out there and let them catch me I won't let you get hurt because of me", spoke Shion stubbornly.

"Fine then if that is the case then we just have t-", said Naruto before he quickly disappeared and reappeared behind Shion and gave her a chop at the back of the neck and knocking her out.

"Sorry Shion-chan but this is the best way I can protect you should be alright here", said Naruto as he caught Shion before she hit the ground and then gently put her on the ground behind some bushes.

After which Naruto then quickly henged into Shion and started to run off near where the Amen-nins were.

The Ame-nins

"Where the hell did those brats go?" asked Ken

"How the hell should I know" spoke Kame angrily

"The two of you shut up and keep looking, if we don't find them soon then the High Priestess will send her men here to look and find out what happen, in which case she will send her entire Royal Guard as well as her Samurai after us and we be finished", spoke Maku.

"Look there the girl," shouted Kame when she saw the disguised Naruto running through the forest.

"After her," shouted Maku as he and his teammates gave chase.

With Shion

"OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH," groan Shion as she woke up.

When she finally regained her bearings, she quickly remembered what had happened to her.

"Damn you Naruto, why did you have to do that and be a hero", grumbled Shion, "If anything happens to you I never forgive."

She then quickly got up and started to try and retrace her steps to try and get out of the forest to go and get help, but unfortunately as she tried to remember she soon realised that she was lost.

"What am I going to do I'm lost and if I don't get help soon those Ninja's may kill Naruto", thought Shion worriedly and she tried to find something familiar that would help her get out of the forest, but unfortunately all the trees looked the same and didn't know which way they had come from.

As Shion was trying to gain her bearings in the forest she did not notice the figure coming behind her until it was too late.

With Naruto and the Ame-nins

As the disguised Naruto ran through the forest he turned his head slightly to see if the Ame-nins were following him. When he turned he saw to two of them, and before he could wonder on the whereabouts of the third, he suddenly found himself being grabbed by the third Ame-nin Kame.

"Got you, you little brat", smirked Kame which ended quickly when he found himself holding a log with exploding notes on it, and before he could throw it away it exploded right in his face.

Fortunately for Kame the explosive notes that Naruto had used were low grad ones, so the explosion did not kill him, but it did give him a few burns on his face and parts of his body that hurt like hell.

"Kawarimi no Jutsu(Body Replacement Technique)!" thought the other two Ame Shinobi's in surprise.

"How the hell did that brat do that, she shouldn't have any Shinobi training", spoke Ken hotly.

"Well seemingly she dose", replied Maku angrily "Damn that fool Shuda, he never told us that the girl had Shinobi training, this makes things all the harder".

As the two Ame-nins were talking, they suddenly heard some movement in the bushes and turned to their right and saw "Shion" running quickly from them.

Maku quickly threw severally Kunai at the disguised Naruto, which he easily dodged, but unfortunately the Kunai where never met to hit him. Since the Kunai's had Ninja wire tided to them so that when the disguised Naruto dodged them, Maku pulled the Kunai back so that the Ninja wire would rap around him

But as soon as "Shion" was tided up in the Ninja wire "she" suddenly buffed out of existence.

"Kage Bunshin (Shadow Clone) (1)", though Maku in surprise before he had to move away to dodge a few dozen Kunai.

When the disguised Naruto saw that he had missed, he quickly moved out of his hiding spot since he had given his position away when he threw the Kunai's.

But just as he did he was suddenly grabbed by a strong pair of arms and found himself facing the Ame-nin Ken, who in turned believed he was looking a Shion.

"I have you now you annoying brat", said Ken

"You think?" smirked the disguised Naruto as he threw a pepper bomb into Ken eyes, blinding him.

"AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH, MY EYES…. YOU DAMN BRAT!", screamed Ken as he dropped hold of the disguised Naruto and roared in pain as he held his hands in pain.

After being let go by Ken, the disguised Naruto quickly tried to runaway again but was stop when several Shurrican's were thrown in front of him and caused him to stop. After which Maku appeared in front of Nartuo.

"Alright kid, that far enough, you caused us enough trouble as it is, so why don't do a smart thing and come quietly with us and you won't be hurt", said Maku.

"Lets not", smirked the disguised Naruto and throw a smoke bomb in front of himself, which covered both him and Maku and the area around them.

After a few seconds the disguised Naruto quickly ran out of the smoke filled area and ran as quickly as he could, but as he ran he quickly found his legs being kicked away from underneath him and causing him to fall forward. But luckily Naruto was able to keep his wit about him, and as he fell forward he threw his body forward which caused him to flip forward and land on his feet.

But as soon as he regained his footing Naruto found a Kunai blade against his throat with Maku standing behind him and holding the Kunai in a reverse grip.

"Nice try kid, but I'm a seasoned Chunin from Amegakure and a little kid like you doesn't stand a chance against someone like me. Although I give this, your pretty skilled for a kid your age and you put up a good fight, you might have made a pretty good Ninja one day.

"Thanks, but I'm not done just yet", replied the disguised Naruto and before Maku could even ask what Naruto was talking about, he suddenly felt several tiny explosions on his legs.

The tiny explosions on Maku legs were caused by Exploding Pouches that Naruto had secretly hooked onto Maku leg during the smoke screen and had activated them right when Maku had caught him.

Thankfully the Exploding Pouches had distracted Maku enough to make him move away from Naruto, which gave Naruto the chance to quickly turn around and channel his Chakra into his fist. Where he then punched Maku in the stomach, where thanks to his training with his mother, Naruto sent Maku twenty feet away and right through two trees.

"Impossible! How on earth did a mere child gain such incredible strenght? Who on earth has been training her?", though Maku as he lay on top of the ruined remains of the trees he went through, since he couldn't move as his whole body was in pain. He knew that he had broken at lest eight ribs from smashing through the trees as well as from Naruto's punch.

After punching Maku, Naruto began to pant slightly since he was still not use to using his mother's super human strength. After a minute or so after gaining his breath Naruto decided to start running again, and get a head start away from the Ame-nins before they could reorganize themselves and start chasing him again.

As Naruto was about to start to run a sixth sense that he had developed from and the training he had done with his mother told him to move away. Which he thankfully did since if he had not then he would have had his back slashed from Kame. Who looked furious beyond words and seemed to beyond all reason, which was most likely due to the burns on his face that disfigured his face slightly.

"DAMN YOU, YOU CURSED BRAT I KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU DONE TO ME!", roared Kame as he continued to slash at the disguised Naruto trying to kill him, completely forgetting the fact that his mission was to capture Shion and bring her in alive and unharmed.

"Damn that fool Kame he going to ruin everything", growled Maku as he lifted himself slowly up since he still was in a great deal of pain and saw Kame slashing a "Shion" with his sword who was dodging each slash.

Naruto continued to dodge the Kame sword slash's for a minute or so, during which he tried to make a counter attack that would give him a chance to get away from Kame, but could not since Kame did not give him one, since his sword slashes were relentless. It continued like this until Kame made a left hand diagonal slash at Naruto's head, which in turn he quickly made a counter-clockwise spin so avoid the sword slash. This then gave him the opening he needed to strike back at Kame, since as he spun back around Naruto was able to come upon Kame unprotected left side and hit him with a super charged spin kick.

But just as Naruto hit Kame with his super charged spin kicked, Kame turned into a wooden log which shattered once it made contact with Naruto's kick.

As soon as Kame turned into a wooden log Naruto quickly realised that Kame had used a Kawarimi no Jutsu and had replaced himself with a wooden log. But before Naruto could do anything he was blind sided by a kick to the head from Kame with caused Naruto to slam into a nearby tree.

Luckily despite being hit Naruto was still able to hold his henge so he still looked like Shion, but even still he was still slightly disoriented from being hit and then slamming against a tree. When he regained his bearings he looked around quickly for Kame, and quickly saw him standing right in front of him with his short sword above his head ready to cut Naruto head in two.

"Prepare to die you little bitch", snarled Kame angrily as he was about to swing his sword downward on the disguised Naruto.

As Kame swung his sword down Naruto could not help put try and put his hand up in front of himself to try and stop the blade (even though he knew they couldn't), and closed his eye tight as he saw the blade coming while shouting out "NO!".

And at the very moment that Naruto shouted out "no", a large wooden spike came out of the ground right in front of Naruto and impaled Kame right through the chest, lifting him in the air slightly so that he was slightly above Naruto.

When Naruto didn't feel the sword slicing through him he open his eyes to see what had happen. When he did he quickly regretted it, since right in front of him was the impaled Kame with blood coming out of his chest and dripping down that wooden spike. He also saw the dying Kame staring right at him with a look of complete shock and horror, at what had happened to him. Blood was even coming out of his mouth and landing on Naruto's face, but after a few second the life quickly left his eyes and he died.

When Naruto saw this he was completely frozen in horror at what had happen in front of him and did not understand what had happened.

"WW-W-Wh-What happened to him?…Where did that wooden spike come from?... D-D-DI-Did I do t-that with my Mokuton powers?... B-B-But how did I do it?... I d-didn't mean do summon it …and do that to him I just wanted to stop him",thought Naruto frighteningly sincehe did not what to kill the man, plus he did not know how he even did it.

Naruto was not the only person that was completely stunned what he had just done, both Ken and Maku were equally stunned.

"Impossible a mere child killed Kame! …And how the hell did that child summon that wooden spike", thought Ken in disbelief.

"Mokuton!" thought Maku as he quickly recognised the special ability of The Shodaime Hokage which he had read about. "How on earth can a child with no Shinobi blood or link to Konoha have the power of its founder?... It's not possible".

As the two Shinobi's continued to stare at the disguised Naruto (who was still frozen from the shocked at what he had done) in disbelief. Shuda appeared carrying a struggling Shion over his shoulder.

"What the hell is going on here", cried Shuda when he saw the scene in front of him. "Why the hell are you fools chasing after this imposter when I have High Priestess daughter here".

"What? But how can that be when we been fighting her here?" spoke Ken as he pointed to the disguised Naruto who was now getting over his shock at what he had done.

"Then she must be a fake", said Maku, as he suddenly realised that they had been fooled.

"Shion!" cried Naruto when he got over his shock and saw his friends being held by Shuda.

"Let her go!" cried Naruto as he stood and glared angrily at Shuda who just smirked.

"Who's going to make me, You? Ha! I'd like to see you try kid, you also might as well get rid of the disguise we know you're the fake", sneered Shuda as he looked down at him.

Realising that the charade was up Naruto realised his henge to reveal his true self. "Just as I thought you're the Shion little playmate, the Healers son". "Naruto-kun run away before they capture you!" cried Shion as she struggled against Shuda hold on her. "No I won't leave and abandon you Shion-chan", answered Naruto as he glared angrily at Shuda. "How sweet, you care about your little friend, but you should off listen to her boy or just run away earlier you might have lived then. But since you didn't and because you have caused us so much trouble you will have to die", sneered Shuda.

"Shuda! Don't underestimate the boy he more dangerous than he looks, look at what he did to Kame", warned Maku.

"All that shows me is that you Shinobi's are not as strong as you have everyone else believe, considering that you were defeated a mere eight year old. I finish him off so that we can finally get out of here, we wasted enough time as it is", said Shuda as he drew his sword with his one free arm.

Knowing that he did not have much time and could not make a direct attack against Shuda without risk hurting Shion, Naruto decided to try a Jutsu that he had been working on for the past few months. The Jutsu was one he had created himself but had no real luck at being able to use it, but he knew this was his only shot at saving Shion and stopping Shuda.

"Please let this work, please let this work", pleaded Naruto in his mind as he did three hand-signs and slammed both his hands on the ground and channelled his Chakra into the ground and cried out.

"Mokuton: Mōkushōku (Wood Release: Wooden Tentacles)"

After which dozens of wooden tentacles from the tree nearby came out of the ground started to rap around Shuda body, forcing him to let go of Shion and dropping his sword and then pulling him to one of the trees behind him.

"Mokuton! He did it again, he really can use the Mokuton power of The Shodaime Hokage", though a stunned Maku

"W-W-WH-WHAT THE HELL WHATS GOING ON!" shouted Shuda as struggled against the wooden tentacles that pulled his to the tree behind him, and rapped themselves around his body and month once he was against the tree.

Once Shuda was rapped up in the wooden tentacles, Naruto quickly went over to Shion to see if she was ok.

"Shion-chan are you ok", asked the worried Naruto as he helped her up.

"H-H-Hai I-I think so"

"Then come we have to run before those other two Ninja guys come after us", spoke Naruto has he pulled Shion with him and started to run.

But unfortunately they did not get far before Maku and Ken capture them by throwing theirSurujin's, which quickly rapped around their bodies and legs and stopping the children from running and further.

As the two children tired to struggle free the two Ame-nins came and walked up to them, once they got to them Ken turned to Maku.

"So what do we do with the boy?"

"We will take him with us back to Amegakure"

"What! But why, after all the trouble he caused us and after killing Kame, we should just kill here and now"

"Don't be a fool, you saw what the boy was able to do and how well he fought not to mention he has the Mokuton powers of The Shodaime Hokage. If we bring him back to Ame and present him to Hanzō-sama we will be heroes, since we would have brought him a child with the powers of Mokuton. Plus considering how strong he is now image how strong he would be once he was properly trained by Hanzō-sama and if we got him to be loyal to our village, he could help Ame become the sixth great Shinobi power. Not to mention he could start up a Clan full of Mokuton users in Ame helping it to become as great as Konoha just like the Senju Clan did for them", spoke Maku with earnest.

After hearing this Ken could not help but agree with Maku since the boy could be the key to Ame gaining untold about of power and glory. Not to mention if you combined his power with their leader Hanzō then Ame would become powerful enough to challenge even Konoha.

After that both the Ame Ninja's agreed that once they brought Shion to the Sawa Daimyothey would bring Naruto back to Ame with them.

But just when the two Ame-nin's were about to pick up the two struggle children, Maku saw something heading towards them at the corner of his eye and quickly shouted move to Ken, where they jumped away . As soon as they had moved they saw that the object that was about to hit them was a massive tree that was thrown at them. When the tree flew past them and the children if crashed into several more trees nearby and destroyed them completely.

"What hell" though both Ame–nins when they saw that the object was a tree.

Once the tree crashed into the other trees, the two Ame-nins started to look around as to who or what had thrown that tree at them.

When they started to look around they quickly saw who had thrown the tree, since the person had appeared right next to the two tied up children. When they saw who the person was their faces quickly went ghost white and both of them took several steps back in fear. For right before them was none other than Senju Tsuande, The Slug Princess and one of The Densetsu no Sannin (Legendary Three Ninja), but what scared the Ame-nins the most was that she look furious beyond words.

But if the Ame-nin thought they were in trouble before what Naruto said next made them wish they had never laid eyes on Naruto.

"Ka-chan!"

Once they heard Naruto utter those words the two Ninja's knew they were dead men.

"Tsuande of the Sannin had a child!" though Ken in surprise and in fear, since he knew what would most likely happen to him now.

"The boy is the son of Tsuande! ...No wonder the boy is so strong and has Mokuton powers of The Shodaime Hokage, he's his descendant. No matter what, we need to get back to Ame fast and report this to Hanzō-sama immediately", though Maku.

But just has he had finish thinking that he made eye contact with the vengeful looking Tsunade and nearly shitted himself from the murder look in her eyes, he then knew that the chances of them escaping let alone surviving were very, very slim.

As Tsunade glared at the two terrified Ame-nins, Shizune quickly appeared behind her with her Senbon needles out and ready, right next to her was also TonTon who looked ready to fight as well.

"Shizune! Take Naruto and Shion away from here they don't need to see what I about to do two these bastards", spoke Tsuande without taking her eyes off the two nins.

"Hai Tsuande-sensei", replied Shizune as she quickly picked up to two tied up children and ran off to somewhere safe with TonTon following behind her.

As Shizune ran off carrying the children to safety, Tsunade then focused her full attention of the two Ame-nins.

"You bastards made two mistakes today, the first was that you bastards took the job that the Daimyo of Sawa no Kuni hired for and the second was…YOU THREATED AND ATTACKED MY SON!", spoke Tsuande as he roared the last part and released a massive amount of Killing Intent that practically made the Ame-nins shit themselves.

After which Tsunade then leaped forward into to the air and quickly came falling down to the ground doing a falling axe kick while crying out "Tsūtenkyaku (Painful Sky Leg)", after which she landed right between the two Ame-nins and created a gigantic crater.

Both Ken and Maku barely jump out of the way of the massive attack, but had several large cuts from the debris of the attack.

"Her strength is monstrous! How can she even be human!... Its no wonder she and her former comrades were able to survive battling against Hanzō-sama with power like that", though Ken in both awe and fear of the sight of Tsunade super human strength.

"Shit we have to get out of here now and fast! We don't stand a chance against one of the Sannin especially one that is a mother", thought Maku as he knew that a mother protecting its offspring was dangerous enough. But the fact that Tsunade was both a mother and a Kage level Shinobi made her ten times more dangerous than she usually was, and the worst type of person anyone would want to face against.

"Ken! We have to get away from here now we're no match for her", shouted Maku to his comrade who nodded and was about to run, but before he could Tsunade appeared right of him and delivered a massive upper cut breaking his jaw and sending him flying into the air. After which before Ken could even registered what had happened to him, Tsunade appeared again over him in mid-air and delivered another massive falling axe kick, hurtling him down to the ground and creating a massive crater and killing him, as well as breaking every bone in his body at the same time.

Once Maku saw what happened to Ken he tried to run but was stopped by some Senbon needles hitting him in the back of both his legs and causing him to fall forward to the ground.

When he turned around to pull the needles out he was just able to see Tsunade falling towards him from the air with her fist smashing down into him.

Once her fist connected with Maku his body exploded from the sheer power of her strength, where Tsunade was then left in the middle of yet another massive crater but this time cover in the blood of one of the Ame-nins.

After dealing with the two remaining Ame-nins, Tsunade turned and looked over to the impaled Kame, once she saw that he was impaled with a wooden spear she quickly realised what must have happened. After which a new surge of rage came over her and she began to wish that she could bring the Ame-nins back to life just so that she could kill them again, but this time slower and more painful for what they forced her innocent son to do.

After she had disposed of the Ame-nins bodies and striped them of anything useful, Tsunade then turned again to the struggling Shuda who was trying (but failing) to get out of the wooden binds. As he struggled he saw the blood covered Tsunade heading towards him, as she slowly walked over to him, he could feel a potent Killer Intent coming from her, as well as see a dark menacing aura surrounding her.

This made her seem like she was some Goddess of Death, which was made more believable to Shuda due to the fact that she was cover in blood and he had seen her butcher Ken and Maku with frightening ease. As she came up to him, a pungent stench could be smelled coming from him and a large wet spot seen between his legs.

Once Tsunade reached Shuda she grabbed him by the neck and forcefully pulled him out of the wooden binds and held him up with a vice like grip around his neck.

"You should consider yourself very, very lucky that I'm not going to kill you, since if I was I would do it very slowly for trying to harm my son and Shion. But since I need you right now I'm going to let you live for now, since I what you to tell me what the Daimyo of Sawa wanted you to do and if you have better no lie to me. Because I know if you do, and if you try I will turn you inside out and thrown you into a vat of salt. Are we clear?" spoke Tsunade to which Shuda just nodded and started to spill his guts to Tsunade.

A Half hour later

After Shizune had taken the children with her, she ran off to a clearing a bit away from where she and Tsunade had found the children. She then untied them and after hugging Naruto tightly for still being safe, she began to check the children over for any injuries which thankfully were minor with small cuts and bruises.

When Shizune had finishing looking over the two children she asked Naruto to tell them what happened, but when she asked Naruto he refused to speak or even look at her as if he was ashamed of doing something.

Seeing this Shizune grew concerned and tried to get Naruto to speak but he wouldn't say a word, Shizune then asked Shion to tell her what had happened. At first Shion was unsure if she should tell what had happened, but when Shizune pleaded her and she saw the concerned look on her face, Shion decided to tell Shizune.

Shion then began to tell Shizune everything that happened about how the guards were ambushed and how they were chased by the Ame-nins. As well as when Naruto knocked her out and disguised himself as her, and then how she was captured and how she was brought to where Naruto was fighting the Ame-nins and how he defended her until Tsunade had arrived.

When Shizune heard Shion side of the story she could not help but feel a mixture of emotions after hearing the story. Although she was extreme proud of her Godson/little brother/nephew for protecting his friend and being so brave. She was even amazed that Naruto was able to hold off three fully trained Chunin's by himself and was able to create and use a Mokuton Jutsu that he himself created by himself without any help. But still she was extremely angry at him for putting himself in harms way, by acting as a decoy for the Ame-nins to following him where he could have been killed.

But Shizune held off her anger since she still did not have the whole picture as to what had happened, since she still did not yet know what fully happened in the fight between Naruto and the Ame-nins since Shion was not there to see it.

Shizune then went over to Naruto and gently put her hand on Naruto shoulder (who flinched slightly at her touch) and spoke to him gently.

"Naruto, I know you don't what to talk about it but please tell me, since I what to help you since I know something bad must of happened to you between those Ninja's and you".

"I would like to know what happened there as well", spoke a familiar female voice.

When the group heard the voice they all quickly turned around and saw Tsunade (not covered in blooded since she used a Water Jutsu to wash away the blood) dragging a unconscious Shuda behind her.

"Sensei are you alright? ...What happened to the Ame-nins?" asked Shizune

"I'm fine Shizune and those bastards have been dealt with", replied Tsunade simply, "Now as I was saying, I would also like to know what happen, although I have heard most of what happen from this bastard, (where Tsunade lift the unconscious Shuda and then dropped him on the ground), and I have a fair idea of what happened, I still like to hear it from you Naru-chan".

Even after his mother asked to hear what Naruto did not answer and continue to look ground and just when Tsunade was about to ask him again Naruto suddenly spoke up.

"If I tell you, you will hate me and think I'm a monster an-", said Naruto with tears in his eyes and before he could say any more he was suddenly enveloped into a strong hug by his mother.

"Sssssssshhhhhhhhh, Naru-chan I could never hate you and you have never done anything wrong in your life, we all just want to help you, that why you should tell us. Because if you bottle it all up it will hurt you later on, talking about things like this to people usually help".

For the next few minutes Naruto said noting and just cried in his mothers arms, but after a while he stopped. He then told them everything from how he lead the Ame-nins away and fought them, to how he killed the Ame-nin, Kame with his Mokuton powers and protected Shion.

When Naruto was finish he then looked to his mother with tear stained eyes "I sorry Ka-chan, I didn't mean to kill that man it was an accident, I swear please don't hate me", said the upset Naruto

The next thing Naruto knew he was enveloped is another strong hug by his mother who was now crying herself "You don't need to be sorry Naru-chan it wasn't your fault you didn't do anything wrong, if anyone to blame its them for forcing you to do it and me for not being there to protect you when you needed me".

As the mother and so cried in each others arms Shizune and Shion watch them, since neither of them wanted to interfere.

As Shion watched Tsuande and Naruto she herself started to cry, since she blamed herself for what happen, since it was her idea to go out here and it resulted in her guards being killed and her friend having to kill someone.

Shizune was also crying a little and when she saw Shion crying and blaming herself she went over to comfort the poor girl, since she believed it was all her fault at what happened.

Thankfully Shizune convinced her that it wasn't her fault but the girl continued to cry a little, as she did Shizune looked over Shuda and could not help but glare angrily at the unconscious man. Since if there was anyone to blame it was him, since he was the one you told the Ame-nins where to attack.

As he glared at the man she wished that she could get her hand on the man and perform surgery on the man, while he was awake and without any aesthetics' and remove his organs one by one for putting the children in harms way (since she hated when children were harmed), and for making her Godson/Nephew/Little Brother kill a man.

After a while when everyone had calm down a bit Tsunade, Shion, Shizune, Naruto, TonTon and the unconscious Shuda (who was being dragged by Tsuande by his left foot) walk out of the forest.

When they were out of the forest they were met by the High Priestess Miroku along with eighty Royal Guards and twenty Samurai.

"Oka-san!" cried Shion when she saw her mother with the Royal Guards and Samurai.

"Shion!" cried Miroku when she saw her daughter and quickly ran over to her and hugged her tightly.

"Thank the heavens that you safe" said Miroku after which she then turned to Tsunade (who was under her special Genjutsu henge again along with Shizune) "Thank you Hana-san (2), not only did you save my life, but also the life of my daughter I'm forever in your debt".

"Do not thank me High Priestess, thank my son Naruto, he was the one that protected her until I had arrived and had he not, it would be certain that she would be in the hand s of those Shinobi's and on her way to Sawa no Kuni now", replied Tsunade.

"What exactly did the Daimyo of Sawa no Kuni want with my daughter", asked the High Priestess slightly angrily, since she wanted answers.

"He wanted to take over your country and adsorb it into his own, since with you dead your country would be without a leader and be easy to take over. When the first attempted failed he had the Ame-nins and this Shuda bastard to kidnap your daughter and hold her from ransom. They would they have you go to a certain place with minimum guards and kill you, after that they would bring Shion to the Sawa Daimyo and when she reach marrying age he would marry her. So that when he took over your country it would be a legal take over since Shion is your daughter and rightful ruler of Oni no Kuni, not to mention he want your bloodline power to see into the future", finished Tsunade since she found the whole plan disgusting and when she first heard it she punched Shuda lights out.

"He will pay this", spoke the High Priestes furiously as want to make the man pay for what he done.

"Here! This will be very useful in handling him", said Tsuande as she tossed a rolled up scroll to the Miroku.

"What is it?" asked the Miroku as she caught the scroll.

"It's a letter from the Daimyo of Sawa to this bastard", said Tsunade pointing to Shuda again "Stating for him to help with the kidnapping of your daughter Shion and the Assassination on you, the idiot had it on him when I searched him. This will prove what the Daimyo of Sawa no Kuni tried to do, and if you release the news what happened here and this letter proving the Sawa Daimyo underhanded tactics, which will put him in a bad spot with the other nations. Especially with Konoha since you are our ally and I don't think he will what to mess with both Oni no Kuni, its allied Nations and Konoha all at once so it will have to sue for peace on your terms".

"Thank you Hana-san I owe you much", said Miroku to Tsunade after which she then kneeled do to Naruto to face him "And I owe you even more Naruto-san thank you for protecting Shion".

"Your welcome Miroku-san", said Naruto quietly with a sad and weak smile, which cause the High Priestess to asked Tsunade what happened since he was not himself, when she asked Tsunade told her that Naruto had accidently killed one of the Ninja's when he fought them.

At this the High Priestess gasp and unshed tear threatened to fall, as her heart went out to the poor boy, since no child should have to do what he had to do, this just made anger at the Daimyo of Sawa grow and swore she make the man pay heavily for what he had done.

"I'm truly sorry for what you had to do Naruto and I will not forget my debt to you, thank you", spoke the High Priestess, as she knelt down and hugged Naruto in gratitude for what he done for her and her daughter.

After she got up she had her guards take Shuda from Tsunade and place him in the dungeon under heavy guard when they reached the estate, and be kept there until he was fully interrogated and was tried for treason.

After the guards took Shuda away the group started to head back together to the estate.

Later on

A month after the event with the attempted kidnapping of Shion things started to settle down. News of the failed kidnapping attempt on Shion spread (although information on Naruto and Tsunade involvement was kept secret per Tsunade request). When the allied countries of Oni no Kuni (which included Konoha) learned of the Daimyo of Sawa attempt of kidnapping the High Priestess daughter (with the letter proving his involvement). They immediately started to put heavy politically pressure on both the Daimyo and his country. They threatened to palace an embargo on the country as well as threatening to declare war if he did not make heftily compensations for what he had done. Eventually the Daimyo of Sawa no Kuni complied and had to give a very large sum of money to High Priestess and give up rights to several territories and hand them over to the rule of Oni no Kuni.

During that time Naruto, Tsunade, Shizune and TonTon continued to stay in the estate to monitor the High Priestess health until she fully recovered, as well as to help Naruto deal with what had happened. It had took awhile but eventually Shizune and Tsunade with a little help from Shion helped Naruto come to terms with what he had done and deal with it.

Afterward Tsuande even let Naruto keep her necklace since she had a feeling that it would be usefully to Naruto later on in his life.

Once Naruto had come to terms with it Tsunade decided that it was time for them to start moving again.

"Must you leave, you are all more than welcome here and both Oni no Kuni and myself owes all of you much", spoke High Priestess Miroku.

"Indeed we can never thank you enough", spoke Haru who had recovered from his wounds.

"Yes considering what happen earlier if we stay we my draw attention on ourselves, which is something that we wish to avoid as we have told you, so I think it would best if we leave", replied Tsunade.

"Very well then, but know that you are all more than welcome to come back again, for you are all honoured heroes here and when the time is right everyone in Oni no Kuni will know of it", said the high Priestess.

"Thank you, will shall return one day", replied Shizune as she bowed slightly.

"We look forward to that day, since we can then honour both you Tsunade-sama and you Naruto-sama properly for saving both Shion-san and Lady Miroku", spoke Tatuho as he bowed respectfully to them.

"I going to miss you Naruto-kun, you were my best friend", said Shion sadly as tears began to fall down her eyes since she was losing her only real friend.

"What do you mean by were best friends, we are still best friends and noting going to change that", spoke Naruto as he went to Shion.

"Here this is for your Shion-chan", said Naruto has he handed Shion a small potted Satsuki Azalea bonsai tree that he had hidden behind his back "This is something for you so that you can remember me by, it's a Satsuki Azalea bonsai tree that are not that many, since they are hard and slow to grow but it was no problem for me".

The adults of the group of the two groups could not help but smile as they saw Naruto give the small bonsai tree to a blushing but smiling Shion, who took from it from him.

"It beautiful thank you Naruto-kun", said Shion as she then did something that surprised everyone especially Naruto, she gave him a soft but gentle kiss on his left cheek.

When Miroku saw this she was surprise at first like the rest but that turned quickly to a smile especially when Shion moved away and Naruto began to blush red from what she had done. The high Priestess even giggled like a schoolgirl when she saw that he daughter was now as red as a cherry from what she had done and had her head down trying to hide it.

"It seems that Shion has a little crush on Naruto", though Miroku as she giggled again and thought how cute the two would be if they got together.

Both Haru and Tatuho were equally surprise but then smiled.

When Shizune saw this she could not help but giggle as well.

"They look so cute!", thought Shizune, "Naruto going to get a lot of teasing about this from me later on".

Even TonTon cried "Oink" in laughter of what happen.

The only person that was not laughing or smiling was Tsunade

"Just great it already started; these little harpies are already trying to steal my innocent Naru-chan from me", though Tsunade as she started to grumble "But if she think she can sink her claws on him then she got another thing coming".

After that Tsunade and the other started to walk away as they did the High Priestess, Tatuho, Haru and Shion waved goodbye to them. After Tsunade, Naruto, Shizune and TonTon were out of site the High Priestess and the other head back into the estate. As they did the High Priestess suddenly turned her head slightly and spoke to her daughter, "Well Shion now that you have gotten yourself a little boyfriend when should I start planning the wedding".

"Oka-san!" cried an embarrass Shion as her mother along with Tatuho and Haru laughed at the young girl's bright red face.

"Well, Well, Well Naru-chan your growing up to be quite the little ladies man since you already got your first girlfriend, soon enough you have loads girls chasing after you", giggled Shizune.

"Oink" cried TonTon in agreement.

"Can it nee-chan, Shion not my girlfriend", cried a still red Naruto "I just hope that Shion-chan kiss doesn't have any cooties". (Authors Note: come on he only eight and all boys at that age think girls have cooties)

"Well didn't you say that she was your friend and she is a girl, so that means she is "your girlfriend doesn't it?" teased Shizune.

"She not my girlfriend…erm, I mean she is a girl…and erm, she is my friend…but that doesn't me that she my girlfriend…eh, I mean it does…..but that is….eeeehhhhhh….but she is…..aaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh", cried Naruto has he held his head in confusion at what he was trying to say. While Shizune just giggled at embarrassing the poor boy.

"Maybe we should give Naru-chan the "Talk"…eeeeeehhhhhhh! …..Tsaunade-sensei?" asked Shizune innocently although smirking at the reaction she knew Tsuande would have.

"Over my dead drunken body!" cried Tsunade "There no way I'm going to let any of those little harlots try and corrupt my sweet baby".

While at the same time thinking,"This wasn't happen so soon, things like this wasn't suppose to happen till puberty, I'm not ready, I'm too young to deal with this",

At this Shizune just laughed at Tsuande reaction and continued to tease and annoy both her and Naruto about Shion kiss for the rest of the day.