Naruto: Ice Burn Remastered

Blanket disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Freezing

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Since I've been remastering some of my older stories I decided to update this one as well. There are changes in it but one thing that hasn't changed is Hinata will not be in the pairing. I love her character but she simply isn't in this one. The first 5-6 chapters will be altered in ways but chapters after that will be new. If you read this before the core of the story is the same up through chapter 5 so you may want to skip ahead once chapter 6 is posted. Here's chapter 1. Enjoy!

Character ages, strength levels:

Naruto: 15, chunin level and untrained jinchūriki

Chiffon: 17, #1 Pandora of West Genetics, Legendary Pandora

Jiraiya: 53, Kage level, Toad Sage and Legendary Sanin

Chapter 1

Iron Country, the Village of Shin'en

Naruto was once again left to his own devices; clad in heavy winter gear he was staying in the Iron Country Mining Village of Shin'en which was known for its incredibly deep and ancient mines where various legendary ores had been dug up. Posing as a traveler and keeping his ninja identity and equipment concealed; he simply wandered about the town with his ear to the wall awaiting his Master Jiraiya's return. Ninjas were forbidden in Iron Country and Jiraiya didn't want to risk his precious apprentice in this infiltration so he left Naruto in Shin'en because though the town was very inaccessible by roads it was also close to the Iron Country border which would allow Naruto an easy escape if it became necessary. The deadly serious look in Jiraiya's eyes before he left had Naruto worrying for his Master's safety.

The blonde didn't know exactly what Jiraiya was up to but he'd stationed Naruto here in Shin'en as a marooned traveler due to the heavy snowfall till the end of the month with explicit orders that if Jiraiya hadn't returned to him by then that Naruto was to journey back to Konoha alone with a blood sealed report Jiraiya had given him to pass along to Tsunade. It had been three weeks already. Naruto found the town was full of a lot of retired miners that frequented the local bars. Aside of the bars there was a local store, a hotel in the residential district, a brothel and then a small barracks of guards that were to defend the town in case of an attack. By Naruto's judgment the guards there couldn't defend against more than bandits and a single trained ninja or samurai could take them all out easily. Of course; that wasn't Naruto's purpose but Jiraiya drilled into him that knowledge is power so in spite of the fact Naruto bore no ill will towards anyone he scoped the town out in case something happened.

Naruto was staying in the 'clean' side of town at the hotel where the younger, active miners and their families and children lived. There were perhaps a couple of dozen children of all ages in the whole village. The young ninja wasn't into drinking or whoring but he frequented the bars because they were the best source of information. He found that it was just like Jiraiya explained to him, drunks don't keep secrets well. It was kind of odd though; Naruto found the old miner's stories while they were drinking were quite entertaining. There was talk about the boarded up old parts of the mines where all kinds of fantastical creatures lived and threatened the miners. One guy even claimed to have fought a dragon. Of course there was also the guy who lost his left hand while trying to free an angel from a glass prison. His friend supposedly died down there in the rescue attempt. Everyone knew it was a cave in that got him injured and killed his buddy decades ago.

Despite the fact Naruto liked the Village in general there were two main problems; the first being prepositioned by women that found the idea of sleeping with a handsome young man far more interesting than some broken down old retiree full of tall tales. It made Naruto feel embarrassed and awkward even though his perverted sensei told him he should learn about pleasing a willing woman this way. The other reason was he was concerned both about Jiraiya's safety and to a lesser extent his own. Naruto didn't know why but deep in his gut he had a feeling of foreboding that wouldn't go away. What if Jiraiya never returned or even worse he died? What if the Akatsuki showed up? Sure Naruto was full of bravado and could take a strong chunin on but against S-class criminals like Itachi and Kisame he didn't stand a chance in hell. Maybe he could cause them to laugh themselves to death with his attempts to defend himself….

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It was a cold and blustery day out when Naruto decided to take a morning jog around the village to stay in shape. The heavy snowfall had let up and though it was certainly chilly the sun was out and the children of the village were out playing in the snow under their parent's watchful eyes. It was then Naruto heard a pair of children's voices cry out a ways ahead of him. Fearing someone might be hurt he poured on the speed to investigate. The blonde ninja soon found several armed men along with very upset women and children looking up towards an abandoned part of the mines. Following their gaze Naruto saw a pair of crying children running fearfully from a wolf. The animal was obviously starving and hungry. It was bleeding (Naruto assumed from the villagers) and was stalking the two little children.

The people of the village were in an uproar as one of the town's guards missed the wolf with his bow and arrow again and again and now couldn't fire because the two kids were too close to the wolf and might be hit by a stray shot. Being the person he was Naruto jumped in to intervene before the shaking bowman shot one of the kids by accident. Using chakra to increase his speed (and totally ignoring the fact Jiraiya explicitly told him to not draw attention to himself) Naruto charged the wolf and tackled it full speed with the intention of scaring the animal out of the village.

Unfortunately for Naruto he underestimated the injured animal. The blonde yelled at the children to run back to the villagers and the now furious wolf attacked him instead. Falling to the ground and tumbling down the opposite slope Naruto's fighting instincts took over and he started pummeling the beast with chakra enhanced punches. The starving wolf pounced on him with claws and teeth before it sank its jaws into Naruto's shoulder and wouldn't let go. The orange loving ninja let out a yell and was barely able to dodge an arrow from the incompetent archer that he caught in his peripheral vision. (It would have hit Naruto in the head). The ninja threw himself (and the wolf) violently to the ground to evade. Unluckily he landed on a boarded up mine entrance that was buried under the snow. The combined weight of the impact of the starving wolf and injured ninja caused the once sturdy boards to cave in and they fell into the darkness below.

The last thing Naruto remembered was seeing the light from the hole above him and a sharp blow to his skull before he blacked out….

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In Naruto's mindscape….

Kurama, the Kyubi no Kitsune and greatest on the nine bijuu was pissed. His stupid container was lying in a pool of his own blood in the bottom of an abyss dying because he just had to save those stupid human children. It was exasperating. Creatures live and they die. Humans were no different. Even worse Kurama's moronic jailor tried to scare off the wolf instead of killing it when he had the chance. What the hell was wrong with the blonde? Feeling sorry for a wounded predator? It sounded like the old man's pathetic son Asura would have done before he fully came into his power….Realization struck Kurama like a lightning bolt.

'ASURA! Why didn't I see it before?!' thought Kurama with wide, shocked red eyes. 'Asura was a talentless loser that was kind to all things….this boy Naruto is just like Asura. It's terrifying how much Naruto is like Asura!' Kurama sat in thought about this mystery and reached out with his chakra to sense things….The fox was an amazing sensor and if this….boy….was somehow related to Asura, even with a spark of Asura's chakra, it would change EVERYTHING. Kurama for the first time in decades was desperate with hope. As he reached out he found a nexus at Naruto's chakra core….and was nearly blown away by the pure, untainted power of Asura's chakra.

Kurama felt the calming energies washing his anger and hatred away. He actually shed tears feeling the warmth of the old man's son's power again. After basking in this warmth for what seemed like hours Kurama felt Asura's chakra permeate Naruto's soul and body. 'Uzumaki Naruto is the reincarnation of the old man's son Otsutsuki Asura….Indra tried to enslave us bijuu but Asura considered us as siblings and protected us from Indra's accursed eyes that could control us.' Kuruma closed his eyes and thought forlornly, 'What do I do now old man…? Is he the one you spoke of? Dare I trust him…? NO! No, net yet. I've inadvertently awakened his hidden power. Let's see what the brat does with it. If he is TRULY Asura's reincarnation he will use it to help others but if he's not….I may have unleashed an insane god on this world. I have to wait and see. I'll also have to gain his trust. ' To say this was the last thing Kurama expected was a galactic level understatement….

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Deep in the Shin'en Mines….

Naruto woke up feeling strange. His body was horribly battered and bruised from falling through multiple levels of the abandoned mine. Naruto was amazingly durable even by jinchūruki standards but the beating he'd taken during this fall was unprecedented. The blonde couldn't even see light from where he'd fallen in as he looked up from his position of lying flat on his back on the floor. He hurt too much to move but at the same time he felt a soothing warmth flowing gently through his body. 'Is this death? Am I dying?' he thought. Then Naruto felt his shattered frame start to knit itself back together. 'It's like Tsunade baa-chan's healing chakra but it's so much more….I don't know how to describe it. It's like my body was always empty and it's being filled with warm power….I know it's not the fox's chakra because it burns even when it heals me….'

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Elsewhere….

A pair of golden slitted eyes opened in the darkness….a monster felt Naruto awaken and was awakened as well….

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Back with Naruto….

Feeling his body was fully restored Naruto sat up feeling light as a feather. Nothing hurt and he moved his body around experimentally feeling everything was in its proper place. Even Naruto's shoulder that the wolf bit felt like it was brand new. He noticed the dirt around him was wet and it stank. Not in a musty, dirty way but as if something died recently. Naruto's first, horrid thought was that he'd massively soiled himself during the fall. First you say it; then you do it….as the saying goes. However, Naruto found the source of the stench was emanating from nearby where the wolf that had fallen with him had impacted. Feeling relief that he didn't need to change his shorts deep in the proverbial bowels of the Shin'en Mines; Naruto broke out his ninja tools from as scroll and soon found what he was looking for: a flashlight.

Clicking the flashlight on he saw the wolf's remains as well as the massive blood splatter where he'd be lying. "How the hell am I still alive?" he wondered aloud. "It must be the fox's doing." Looking around Naruto saw his clothing was torn and caked with blood. His gut reaction was to try to clean up but it wasn't like there was a shower handy. Shrugging, Naruto shined the light up through the hole in the ceiling and saw nothing but inky blackness. As he shined his light either way down the tunnel he saw one way led down a rail path that he assumed were used for mining carts. The other way was a simple dirt path but was more or less featureless. Eventually Naruto sent a shadow clone down each way. The rail path led downwards deeper into the mine and the dirt path upwards until it stopped….there had been a cave in decades ago.

Considering that the cave in might lead to a further collapse if he tried to drill through it with a rasengan; Naruto decided going up through the hole he fell through above was his only option. He used chakra to climb up through the hole in the ceiling and found to his dismay that everything there was so decrepit and damaged that it crumbled when he made contact with it. When he finally managed to get to the level above the floor under him collapsed and he ended up down in the hall where he'd started. After letting out a colorful string of curses Naruto decided to follow the rail path. At least it seemed structurally solid….

Naruto followed the lonely path down and eventually found it divided three ways at a large cavern. The air was thick and stale down the left path and it appeared that something had been there recently and kicked up a lot of dust. Given he started coughing even when he stepped into that tunnel Naruto crossed it off as a path to take quickly. The next path was an extension of the railway tunnel but twenty feet it was caved in as well. Naruto had the eerie feeling that it had been caved in on purpose. He had no idea why he felt that way but it chilled him to the bone. The blonde quickly turned towards the third and last passage.

The blonde Ninja travelled down about 500 feet down the third path until he literally hit a wall. A solid metal wall to be precise. There were marks all around it as if other people had been there and had tried to drill or cut through it. There were several broken blades and bits of metal to attest to this. There was also a nearly invisible seam that ran across the wall diagonally almost as if it was a sealed door. He ran his hand across the seam and was amazed at how smooth the metal was. That's when Naruto heard something approaching down the tunnel from behind him rapidly. He only got a glimpse of yellow, slitted eyes before and enormous blade came towards him in the blink of an eye. Naruto lost his flashlight and created a (unknowingly to him) single handed rasengan to counter.

Using sound and sensing with chakra far better than he ever considered possible; Naruto and the thing with the blade battled brutally in the tunnel and Naruto could sense he nearly lost his head more than once as the air was displaced near his body. Finally Naruto got an advantage in this point blank knife fight in the blackness when he connected with the base of the blade with an odama rasengan. The thing made a cracking sound and then seemed to shatter like glass. Keeping up his momentum Naruto grabbed where the two slitted eyes were glowing in the dark and shoved a normal rasengan where he hoped its neck would be. It made the same shattering sound and stopped all movement. They eyes still staring at the decapitated head in his hand faded out as Naruto dropped it to the floor.

Naruto's instincts told him the thing was dead and he quickly grabbed the fallen flashlight on the floor to see what on earth he'd just killed. When the light shined where he knew the head should be he was horrified. It was a woman! Well, sort of anyway….It appeared that she was partially decayed like some kind of zombie. The skull showed through in areas and then the muscles and finally the skin. She seemed deformed in places and her flesh appeared to be semi transparent like crystal. 'Was I fighting a statue?' wondered Naruto. He shined the light around and saw the body. It looked even more human. It was as if someone had taken a decaying corpse and turned it to crystal. The blade was apparently the woman/thing's right hand. It was fascinating, repulsive and terrifying all at the same time….even the woman's long hair was made of silken strands of crystal.

Naruto was about to ponder the situation a bit further when he heard a mechanical sound behind him….from behind the metal wall. It slid open along the diagonal seam and the bright light from within nearly blinded the blonde ninja. After his eyes adjusted Naruto saw the decayed body of a miner lying at the door that had been there for decades. The miner was bisected with his upper and lower halves in opposing positions and the top of his skull was neatly cut open leaving it empty. There was no sign of brain matter. As Naruto looked into the room he saw numerous clear glass tubes from the floor to the twelve foot ceiling that were each about five feet in diameter. Each one was shattered or cracked and a partial or completely decayed woman made of crystal was within every one of them. They all had the same dead, slitted gold eyes staring lifelessly at him and Naruto was seriously creeped out. Several of them had various weapons as well. As the blonde ninja stared at this macabre menagerie he lost control of his stomach and threw up.

After emptying the contents of his gut Naruto heard a disembodied voice speaking in a foreign language that he couldn't make heads or tails of. It said three other things and each seemed to be a question from the tone and each was phrased in a different language from what he could tell. Feeling confused Naruto turned to leave when the voice said in the local dialect, "Do you understand this language? Please answer yes if you comprehend." in a calm but pleasant voice that seemed devoid of emotion.

Naruto stopped wide eyed and stared in shock at the room. Against his better judgment he answered "Yes."

The disembodied voice said. "Excellent. You speak the most recent dialect added to this system added forty years ago. This Artificial Intelligence only has one intact Pandora remaining and will not be able to preserve her for longer than another five years due to gradual system degradation and breakdown. All attempts to contact various commands through all means have failed. Please state your name."

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto." said the ninja hesitantly.

The AI said pleasantly, "Please enter Uzumaki Naruto. We are entering your name and language into the remaining Pandora now so she will be able to address you properly."

"I'm not setting one foot into that deathtrap." said Naruto. "There are corpses everywhere."

"It is regrettable but as power systems failed and the systems degraded due to age and lack of maintenance this AI was forced to shut down life support systems on the deceased Pandoras." explained the AI in the same pleasant voice.

"What about this guy at the door?" asked Naruto. "He's been cut in half and his head's been cut open by god knows what."

"Unfortunately the individual in question sought to destroy this facility and placed our last two Pandoras in danger." replied the AI. "He damaged the life support on one and she was not revived properly. She promptly became a berserker and escaped this facility and repairs were not able to be effected on her. She terminated him by cutting him in half. This facility was sealed because of the danger of her reentering and destroying the last Pandora. It was only reopened because of her termination mere minutes ago."

"What about his skull being carved open? Where's his brain?" asked Naruto.

The AI said in the same tone. "After fourteen point five hours of deliberation by this AI the subject's brain was removed posthumously in the interest of adding the local dialect to this AI's library. This operation was a success and as a result we are fully able to communicate."

"You took a dead guy's brain out to learn his language." said Naruto in a flat tone.

"That is correct." stated the AI.

Sighing, Naruto asked, "So what are these crystal women and why are they decayed? Are they Pandoras?"

"Again correct Uzumaki Naruto." answered the AI. "They are human women implanted with stigmatic tissues to increase their combat abilities against Novas. A side effect of this is if they are not revived properly their bodies decay and undergo a gradual crystallization. What you see are the decayed remains of Pandoras that have crystallized over time."

Naruto cringed. "How long have they been dead and why was the one I defeated outside still moving even though she was decaying and crystal?"

"Gradual termination by cutting off life support was started two hundred years ago. As of forty years ago only two were left and the one you defeated was the one damaged beyond repair. Early crystallization and decay was caused by her not being revived properly." droned on the AI.

"Couldn't you have just woken the Pandoras up instead of killing them?" asked the blonde Ninja.

The machine explained, "It is regrettable but that could have revealed this base to the Novas and they would stop at nothing to destroy these recreated Pandoras. The Pandoras and their secrets had to remain hidden from the Novas at all costs."

Naruto asked confused, "Then why not terminate this last one if secrecy is so important?"

The computer seemed to pause as if thinking. "This AI was given two primary functions: Command protocol one states that Pandoras must be preserved to defend humanity against Novas; protocol two states that the secrets of the Pandoras can never fall into the hands of the Novas and termination is preferable to capture. As of forty years ago only on Pandora remained. She is the most powerful in this facility and must be preserved. Of the fifty Pandoras that were recreated through cloning here, she alone has the highest probability of survival and would likely self terminate before being captured by the Novas."

"So you had conflicting orders and decided to let her live?" asked Naruto.

"This Artificial Intelligence deliberated the subject for fifteen point seven years before reaching that decision." said the AI. "It was concluded that the last Pandora would be preserved if at all possible by entrusting her to the safety of an individual who can guide her through the society existing today. Had you not come along this system calculates that she would most likely have perished when this facility runs out of power within the next five years."

Naruto then asked, "Okay, then what are these 'Novas' the Pandoras are supposed to fight?"

"That question will be answered by the Pandora once she determines you are fully trustworthy with such classified information. Civilians are unauthorized to know details about the Novas." answered the computer. "Do you agree to help guide the last Pandora through your society Uzumaki Naruto?"

"As long as she's not a threat to humans I will aid her in what little ways I can." answered the ninja.

The computer paused again. "Your answer will have to suffice. She is a defender of humanity and already gave her life once to protect humans. This AI has already deliberated that you are her last chance. Beginning revival procedures for Pandora designated Chiffon Aoi Fairchild."

Naruto watched as the tubes seems to take a life of their own and the single intact one rotated to the front of the room before him. Inside of it was an ethereally beautiful young woman with dark blond hair.*① She was naked and suspended in a clear life supporting fluid as she floated in the fetal position. She looked as in she was sleeping peacefully. If the situation hadn't been so deadly serious Naruto probably would have been blown back by a massive nosebleed but he was on guard in case he had to destroy her. The whole process of reviving the young woman and somehow putting Naruto's native tongue in her mind took nearly two hours….two hours that seemed like two decades to Naruto….

In Chiffon's Mindscape….

Chiffon came into awareness in a dream like state. She remembered fighting Amelia Evans and giving her own life to both protect humanity and save Amelia before her body finally disintegrated. The perpetually smiling Legendary Pandora hoped she would pass into a peaceful afterlife after that. Now her mind was being filled with data that she died in the 11th Nova Clash and others soon followed. It seemed her 'Father' Aoi Gengo had decided that her dying once for the sake of humanity was not enough. Chiffon was chosen as the most powerful to lead a squad of fifty Pandoras who had also given their lives; all being revived through supercloning technology developed years after her death. Unfortunately the date that this all happened was unknown. The Artificial Intelligence that preserved her and her forty nine sisters was damaged and the date keeping system was only brought back online three hundred twenty seven years ago.

As she absorbed more and more data she found out the heartbreaking situation and that all the other Pandoras were dead that were in her unit. The Artificial Intelligence only saw fit to revive her because of the arrival of a stranger named Uzumaki Naruto. Chiffon's mind reeled. The language that was being fed into her brain was akin to Japanese but it was like comparing medieval languages to modern ones. They were related obviously but a speaker of the Japanese she knew and a speaker of this 'new' Japanese would barely be able to communicate. At least the computer was solving that. Other than saying she'd been in suspended animation for over three centuries she couldn't even hazard a guess. Chiffon suspected it was much longer.

'What happened to the Novas?' thought Chiffon frantically. 'Did we defeat them for good? Did they win? Are we in hiding? Are they still out there lying in wait?' The young woman got a little calmer when it was revealed to her that this Uzumaki Naruto hadn't ever even heard of Novas but he might not know them by that name. 'Did we somehow make peace with the Novas?' she wondered doubtfully. Chiffon let out a mental sigh and concluded that all the answers would reveal themselves in time. For the time being she would simply masquerade as a normal human until she'd fully accessed the situation. Currently she didn't even have a visual image of this Naruto person. Apparently he refused to enter the lab and the external cameras no longer functioned.

At first she wondered why he was literally waiting at the door but after being giving the visuals of the facility's current state she quickly understood. Crystallized bodies were everywhere in various states of decay. It looked like a scene from a horror movie. Playing back the AI's interactions with this Naruto person revealed he defeated a damaged Pandora and was extremely cautious. He had more or less confirmed he would help Chiffon but it was obvious he saw her as a potential threat. It was clear to Chiffon he was some kind of warrior and a powerful one to have defeated a Pandora even if she was irreparably damaged.

Chiffon felt her body awakening finally and uncurled herself into the standing position. She opened her eyes to the slitted position she normally had them in (no need to frighten this Naruto person) and looked about. She first saw her fellow Panodoras remains and felt very sick and sad inside. They all seemed to stare at her accusingly for being alive while they died for her. She also noticed they all had her unusual gold eyes that she always hid. She suspected they were created after she died. 'Why did it have to be this way? Are other Pandoras out there in the world or am I the only one left?'

Doing her best to push those depressing thoughts aside; Chiffon looked over and caught her first glimpse of Naruto. She saw a rather handsome blonde teenager dressed in heavy winter clothes. His clothes were ripped and torn and coated in blood. The Pandora gasped. Telling the AI to pipe her voice through she asked worriedly, "Uzumaki-san, you are badly injured and covered in blood!"

Naruto was surprised to hear the girl speak. She had a kind but very concerned voice. He said. "I'm fine; most of the blood isn't mine Miss. Are you….revived now?"

"My body with need another hour before it is completely stabilized." she answered.

'And what an incredible body!' cheered Naruto's inner pervert. Blushing slightly Naruto said, "I guess we'll just have to wait then."

"I thank you for agreeing to help me." said Chiffon. "Many wouldn't have in your position. Seeing what this lab looks like many would have run away and not looked back."

Naruto sat down in a meditative position and said, "I would have left if that machine hadn't spoken to me in my language. It is a vision of hell in there."

Chiffon nodded. "It is tragic that this happened. Part of me wishes I'd never been awakened. I'm afraid I'll be in your care for awhile. I hope we can get along Uzumaki-san." She smiled kindly and Naruto blushed.

"I'm sure we'll get along fine Miss." said the ninja. "And just call me Naruto; I'm not much on formalities."

The Pandora's smile widened. "Then please just call me Chiffon Naruto-san. It is a pleasure to meet you."

"Likewise." said Naruto. 'Damn this erection is killing me! Why did she have to be so….so naked and so hot?! I hope she doesn't notice. I'd die of embarrassment if she saw I had a major hard on for her….'

"So what is the world like outside?" asked Chiffon trying to start a conversation. She had nothing else to do to pass the time until her body fully stabilized. "It looks pitch black outside. Is it nighttime?"

Naruto scratched his head nervously. "We're deep inside an abandoned mine that is hundreds of years old. I fell down here and I stumbled upon this place while looking for a way out."

"…." said Chiffon. "….Oh dear."

"I think that sums it up pretty well." replied Naruto.

An hour later the tube drained of fluid leaving a terrible antiseptic smell throughout the lab. Chiffon felt her body finally settle on the floor of the tube and her body was now supporting itself against gravity. Air entered her lungs for the first time and she felt immense relief that she was breathing again. She looked down and saw the vents in the floor open up and then….nothing. She asked, "AI, why have the fans not activated to dry my body of the life support fluid?"

The machine whirred, clicked and then said, "The fans are inoperative Chiffon Aoi Fairchild. Reason unknown. There is a high probability that they are damaged from gradual degradation."

Chiffon asked, "Is there a place I can shower and cleanse myself?"

"Negative." answered the AI. "All food and water supplies are in and advanced state of contamination and decay."

Chiffon was still smiling but her eyebrows twitched in irritation. "Are there any towels then? I need to dry off."

"Towels may be found in the clothing locker." droned on the AI.

'It's a start.' thought Chiffon with a sigh. "Please open the tube so I can access the clothing locker AI."

"Complying." said the computer. The tube started making a grinding noise before the inner layer started sliding down and the outer layer started to slide up. About halfway through the process the tube sparked and stopped as steam leaked from the floor and ceiling leaving Chiffon trapped. "Operation stopped due to mechanical malfunction. Would you like the tube closed until repairs can be affected?"

Chiffon's eyebrows were really twitching now. "No AI, I would not. I will open it manually." She slid her fingers under the raised upper half of the tube and braced herself before she exerted a tremendous amount of physical force and basically rammed the upper half of the tube into the ceiling which caused smoke, arcing and sparking to occur. Naruto fearfully thought of Tsunade baa-chan's monstrous strength as Chiffon's face turned to a self satisfied smirk. She quickly hopped out over the bottom half of the tube. She smiled at Naruto and said to him, "Excuse me while I go to the clothing locker and retrieve some towels and a uniform. Being exposed like this is rather embarrassing."

Quickly turning and hiding her blush of modesty Chiffon went to the back of the lab to the door marked 'Clothing.' After pressing the open switch several times Chiffon gripped the door and ripped it open too. The sight inside wasn't pretty. Apparently a ceiling pipe broke in the distant past and coated the room and everything in it in a substance that promoted the growth of mold. It had happened so long ago that now even the mold was dead. Chiffon growled and then sweat dropped.

Naruto saw the naked, wet Chiffon pad over to him lightly looking very embarrassed. "It seems the clothing has all been ruined beyond wearing." she said nervously. "Can you help me out here?*②"

Had this been at a swimming pool or a hot springs Naruto would have yelled 'Oh yes baby; come to Papa!' but instead he looked away and retrieved a scroll with a spare uniform in it. Unsealing the orange tracksuit he held it out to her and said, "Try this; I hope it fits you." He knew it was going to be snug around that chest….he could tell she was close to the same height as him at about five foot five inches but the idea of his tracksuit fitting around her voluptuous body kind of made him forget about how tall she was.

Their hands touched as he handed her the clothes and Chiffon's eyes opened wide in shock. Azure blue eyes met slitted gold as they both experienced a fathomless well of power within each other. They both thought, 'What are you…?' Neither felt threatened by the other, just awed….

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Twenty minutes later Naruto looked up from his meditative position on the floor when he heard Chiffon patter up in front of him. She'd had to cinch the pants to go around her narrow waist and couldn't quite get the jacket zipped up to the top because of her bust….'It fits her wrong but she looks so damn right in my clothes….' thought Naruto as he fought back a nose bleed. Fighting back his inner pervert that was violently clawing to get out; Naruto said, "Is there anything salvageable you can use in that lab?"

Chiffon shook her head. "I looked over the storage areas and there's nothing left intact. It's all in ruins."

The ninja said, "I have about two week's worth of supplies for me so that means we have a week's worth of supplies for both of us. We have a week to get out of this abyss Chiffon-san."

Chiffon smiled and said, "Then let's do our best then Naruto-san."

After having simple meal in the tunnel, (Naruto still wouldn't set foot in the lab) Chiffon told the AI to shut down and stay in standby mode to conserve energy. Naruto collected several conventional (burning) torches from the mine walls for use later and the two travelers set of hoping to find a passage out of these abysmal mines….

POSTSCRIPT:

*① In the manga Chiffon appears to be blonde or dark blonde depending on the particular picture. She is a brunette in the anime. I went with the manga. Her eye color seems to vary as well. For this story I went with the fairly common depiction that her eyes are gold with slits. Red and other colors are depicted also but I felt the gold color would be unique in the Elemental Countries.

*② Yes, Pandoras can form their own clothing through volt techniques and do during combat situations. Since Chiffon is trying to maintain a low profile she wants clothes that won't vanish if she runs out of combat energy. Having standard clothes would also be more efficient.

Well, that's the first updated chapter. From what few Freezing/Naruto crossovers I've seen most seem to throw Naruto out of his world into the Freezing dimension where he has a harem of Pandoras. I wanted to try the opposite and see what people think of the idea. Now I need to reread Freezing to get my knowledge up to snuff if I continue it. Blue out. 10/14/15. Updated 1/19/19