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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Charming Assassin Charmer

-Chapter 1-

"Lala, what are you to the TV?" An orange haired teen boy asked both curiously and nervously as he watched a beautiful pink haired girl with a long devil's tail sticking out her rear and wearing an odd cosplay like outfit fiddle with around with the innards of a flat-screen. This was Rito, a clumsy accident-prone boy with a heart of gold, and Lala, a somewhat naive mechanical genius princess from another planet and Rito's self-proclaimed fiance.

"And when can we get back to our movie?" A young brown-haired girl asked from her seat next to a blonde girl with an emotionless face, and a pair of younger almost identical pinkettes, all four of which had various snacks and drinks in hand. These were Mikan, Rito's responsible younger sister, Yami, galactic renowned assassin, Momo and Nana, the little twin sisters of Lala.

All of four of them were seated on two different beds in a large bedroom that was split themed, one half being plant themed while the other was animal themed.

"Yeah, it was actually starting to be scary finally." Momo said with a frown while popping a few pieces of popcorn into her mouth.

"Hold on, I'm almost done!" Lala said as she made a few more tweaks to the circuits in her hands before rapidly reassembling the television in just a few seconds. Once she was done, she backed away with a wide grin. "Tada~! I give you View-View-Future-Kun!"

The previously normal looking flat-screen was now extremely futuristic looking with sleek curved edges and a fancy white frame with a spiral engraving on the top.

"Okay, I'm probably going to regret asking this, but what does it do?" Mikan asked curiously, getting the bubbly teen to bounce excitedly.

"It shows us the future!" Lala exclaimed while pulling out a remote from… somewhere and pointing it at the screen, causing a video of an older Lala and Rito snuggling under the shade of a tree to pop up on the screen.

"Now we can see how our lives are going to turn out! Look it even tells us how things came to be!" She said while gesturing to a pop up page on the side, which showed the 'current' history and brief information of her and the orange-haired boy in the image. "Aw look Rito-kun, this is our second anniversary date!"

"Uh… not that that doesn't sound very tempting and all, but isn't looking into the future kinda risky?" Nana asked with a tilted head.

"Yeah, something about altering the timeline or time paradox crud that scientists and sci-fi people always love to rant about." Momo said even as her eyes kept flickering towards the tv with a longing look.

"Oh relax, we're just taking a little peek," Lala said, waving off her sisters concerns while she fiddled with the remote, causing the screen to change several times. "What's the worst that could-*Bzzt* …uh-oh."

"Hit the deck!" Rito yelled, tackling Lala to the ground as her invention started to spark wildly. At the same time Nana and Momo dived behind the couch while Yami created a large metal wall with her hair to protect herself and Mikan.

…

…

"…Huh, it didn't explode." Mikan muttered as she slowly poked her head out from cover with a surprised yet cautious expression. Sure enough, the future viewing television was still in one piece and had even stopped sparking, though its screen was showing nothing but static.

"Guess there really is a first for everything." Momo said as her and everyone else calm down and left their cover.

"Aw man, it's not working anymore." Lala whined sadly as she clicked the remote several times to no effect.

"Don't feel bad Lala, I'm sure you'll get it-*Smack* What are you doing!?" Rito yelled in alarm when Lala suddenly smacked the side of the TV hard.

"Saibai-san said that smacking a television when it was broken would fix it." The pinkette said innocently while slapping the poor device again, this time leaving a large dent.

"Of course he did," Rito and Mikan groaned at the same time while face palming heavily, remembering when their father would do that rather than actually trying to fix the TV or getting a new one.

"Lala that doesn't actually-"

"You're a jerk Pervy Sage."

"…Work." Mikan finished quietly as the screen kicked back to life an an unknown male voice rang through the room.

"YAY! IT WORKED!" Lala cheered while pulling Rito into a hug, almost breaking the boy's ribs with her enhanced strength.

Naruto Uzumaki, a young man of 16 years old, standing at around 5'6" in height with good lengthed spiked, blond hair. He had a tannd peach skin color, and he had bright blue eyes that conveyed his emotions easily. His cheeks were each covered with three whisker marks, and he had a slightly rounded face.

He was lean muscled, though he had some bulk to his muscles, he just wasn't bulky either. He wore a black headband with a metal forehead plate, and an orange jacket with black shoulders and sleeves, with orange pants. Finally, he had on black, armored sandles on to complete his outfit, with a kunai pouch on his leg, and shuriken pouch on his back pocket.

"Well hello eye-candy." Momo said with a grin as she eyed the boy on the screen.

"I thought this device was supposed to show our future. Why is it showing him?" Yami asked bluntly as she read over Naruto's info popup, which luckily that function appeared to still be working. Said information, while intriguing, showed no connection to them at all.

"Probably just a hiccup in the programing, I'll fix it." Lala said while fiddling with the remote…

*Bzzboom* "…Ow."

…Only for it to blow up in her hand, leaving her covered in soot and coughing up smoke but thankfully unharmed thanks to her species's natural high durability.

"Oh well, looks like we're stuck with hottie mc hot hot." Momo said while continuing to undress the blonde with her gaze, ignoring the elbow jab she got from her annoyed twin.

He was sitting down on the ground, in a forest naturally, with a book in his hands.

He sat in front of a stone with the name 'Jiraiya' marked on the rock, with three kunai with strings attached to them in front of the grave marker. Naruto had a soft smile on his face, despite what his words were saying.

"Aaaaand now the mood is killed." The bustier twin said with a slight cringe, even she knew that admiring a guy's hotness while he was mourning was one big no-no.

"Aw, poor guy, hope he's okay." Lala said sympathetically as she read of Jiraiya's connection to Naruto and the events leading up to his demise.

"Ecchi." Yami said dully, focusing on the part where Jiraiya was a self-proclaimed 'super pervert'.

"I'm out of here, get me when the TV is back to normal." Nana said as she got up and headed for the doorway along with Yami. However, when she grabbed the knob and tried to turn it, she blinked it surprise when it wouldn't. "What the heck?"

A quick glance at the knob revealed the problem as she found a small smoking sliver of Lala's remote imbedded inside the doorknobs lock itself. Pulling it out, she tried to open it once again, yet was still end up unable to. "Uh, could someone give me a hand with this."

"Allow me." Yami said before punching the door with a giant fist of hair with the intent of taking the whole door down, only to end up tilting her head in confusion when the blow didn't even dent the door. She tried several more times to no avail before stopping and turning towards Lala with a bland accusatory look. "Explain."

"Well, Rito-kun kept talking about the house kept getting destroyed and how he was worried that someone would get hurt… so I may have reinforced all the walls and door to be capable of withstanding one of Daddy's attacks." Lala said with a sheepish smile.

"Wait, does that mean we're stuck in here?" Mikan asked in a worried tone.

"Don't worry, I can get us out, I just need to cut the door down with…" Lala started to say before trailing off as she dug around inside her pockets. "Uh, where's my D-dial?"

"Lala-sama, you left it your room because it was malfunctioning again, remember?" Lala's… clothing said in electronic feminine tone, making Lala freeze before blushing in embarrassment. That was Peke, an all costume robot and one of Lala's most successful creations.

"Oh right, thanks for reminding me." The pinkette said with an awkward giggle.

"So we are stuck in here," Mikan muttered while palming her face. "Wonderful."

"Don't worry Mikan, I just messaged Zastin and he's calling for some engineers to come get us out." Momo said as she read the message on her cellphone. "However, it'll take them almost a week to get here from Deviluke."

"Yaaaaaay." Mikan said dully.

"Hey, at least we have plenty of food and drinks to keep us going until then," Momo said while gesturing to a dresser on the side which was overflowing with various snacks, desserts, sodas, and beverages then at View-View-Future-Kun. "And we even have some entertainment."

"…might as well." Nana said as she and Yami sat back down.

"You know who my Pa was this entire time, and you didn't ever tell me... ass." Naruto spoke with a grin on his face.

His father was the Fourth Hokage, the Hokage that he looked up to the most, and that he also had the biggest connection to outside of blood. He never expected that he would have such an amazing father, and when he learned who she was, he could only imagine how amazing his mother was. His father was also his Sibling Apprentice, since both of them had the same Master, Jiraiya of the Sannin was both of their teachers.

"Wow, not knowing who your father was, then finding out someone you trusted that closely knew about it and didn't tell you. Talk about a dick move." Momo said with a frown.

"Well it does say it was for his own protection." Rito said, pointing to the popup box, which now had the overview of Naruto's father and his deeds.

"Why's that part blacked out?" Yami asked while pointing to the bottom of the page, which had all the words covered in bold lines.

"Probably another glitch, I'll see if I can-"

"Oh no you don't!" Momo exclaimed as she and Nana pulled their sister down onto the bed. "I am not risking you messing up the only entertainment we have for the next week with your meddling."

Hearing this, Lala pouted cutely before Rito quickly distracted her with a package of cookies.

The grave said nothing.

Of course it didn't.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that, sometimes it's the dead who speaks the loudest." Momo said wisely, earning herself several odd looks from everyone else. "What, I read that line in a book once, it sounded dramatic."

"I bet you know who my Ma was too, don't you? I was named after a character in your book, so of course you know who she was. Also, I'm stupid for not realizing who he was... I look just like my Pa. The only thing that's different are our faces." Naruto spoke as he rubbed his jawline. His father did have longer hair than he did, but the biggest different was the different faces that they had. He had a more heart-shaped face, while his father had a more narrow face, and their eyes were very different as well.

All that to the side, he really should have guessed it long before now, since it was really just that obvious.

"I can see what he means." Mikan said as a picture of a Minato appeared. "Take away the whisker marks and slim his face a little and you wouldn't be able to tell them apart."

Naruto grinned and leaned forward.

"Also, I'm a better Sage than you Pervy Sage. It took me less than a week to master Sage Mode, something you couldn't do in like 50 years of training, and my Sage Mode is stronger than yours is, so nyah." Naruto stuck his tongue out at the grave. He was just talking to the grave, telling Jiraiya everything that he had been doing, and that he had done. It was calming to him, helping him deal with the still recent death of his sensei.

"Ah, the good old 'I'm better than you are' routine," Mikan said with a quiet giggle, remembering how she would do the same thing with Rito when she was littler.

'Becoming one with nature, that sounds intriguing.' Nana thought with a grin as she read over the details of Sage Mode, before frowning as most it was bleeped out once again.

"... I met Nagato and Konan too... he was the strongest guy I've ever faced. Even more than strength though... I could understand him. He changed in the end... he brought back everyone who he killed, and sacrificed himself. I'm sure you're proud of him now." Naruto spoke with a wide smile.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, did he just say something about bringing back the dead?" Rito asked with wide eyes. "Is that possible?"

"I guess, I mean we technically did the same thing with Oshizu." Momo said with a shrug.

"…Fair enough."

He had a tear at the edge of his eye that he wiped away.

He was still sore from that battle with Nagato, who had been using the name Pain at the time. The fact that he was able to get Nagato to believe in him, and that they could form a strong bond that allowed them to trust each other, was worth all of the pain that he went through. He was sure that even though Nagato had killed their master, that Jiraiya was still very much proud of how Nagato changed in the end.

"…that is so screwed up yet so sweet." Nana muttered, with Momo, Mikan, and Rito nodding in agreement.

Jiraiya was that type of man after all.

Naruto paid no attention to the rustle of leaves behind him.

'Stupid move,' Yami thought with a frown. As an assassin she knew first hand how important it was to always pay attention to one's surroundings, no matter what.

'Duh, he was a prodigy student way better than you idiot.'

Naruto could imagine Jiraiya saying those words to him. Though, he doubted that his teacher would mean those words. Jiraiya was rarely honest with his spoken words, he was always better at expressing the words he wasn't saying out loud.

"Sounds kinda like a politician if you ask me." Momo said with a giggle.

"I also completed the Rasenshuriken. I can throw it now, and I can even use it without hurting myself if I slam it into somebody!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly, proud of his achievements. He was never able to brag to anyone about what he did, well he was, but he didn't really care about what they thought. He cared about those closest to him the most. Naruto frowned softly in thought. "... My Ninjutsu skills surpassed the Fourth Hokage, I created and mastered a technique that even Pa couldn't complete. I wish you two were alive to see it." Naruto's words were the most soft spoken yet.

"Wow, that definitely looks like it would hurt." Rito couldn't help but say when a picture of the Rasenshuriken popped up.

"Agreed, that does appear quite dangerous." Yami with a short nod, eyeing the attack with a critical eye.

He had met his father's chakra inside of his seal, but that chakra faded away. The S-Rank Forbidden Ninjutsu that he had created, by completing his father's creation the Rasengan, was something that he wanted to show off to both his father and his teacher.

"I didn't understand what even half of that meant." Mikan muttered with a frown, the info popup not helping much as it was flooded with several different waves of information.

"Chakra is a form of life energy that can be weaponized with careful focus, seals are special complex setups using certain symbols and chakra to cause a desired effect, and Forbidden Ninjutsu are highly dangerous techniques that usually result in the death of the user if not cautious." Yami summed up for her, her eyes flickering back and forth. An important skill of any assassin was the ability to take in and sort through large amounts of information at a high rate

"Much better, thanks Yami."

"You are welcome.".

He had surpassed his father and teacher, but neither of them were alive to see it, and that saddened him.

A footstep was heard in the grass behind him, softly growing closer to him.

"And this is the part where we start yelling 'turn around' pointlessly, right?" Momo asked Mikan with a teasing grin, making the girl lightly blush in embarrassment.

"That happened one time."

"I'm stronger than a Kage now, it's only a matter of time before I'm the Hokage... everyone looks up to me now." Naruto stated as he looked up at the sky. "They're calling me a hero." Naruto placed his hand on the grass next to him, and he shifted his legs a little.

"He knows." Yami stated, recognizing the signs of one readying themselves while trying to appear unaware.

...

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

In a second, Naruto jerked into a standing position, and while shifting positions he crossed his fingers together. A plum of smoke appeared next to him as a copy of himself came to be. In an instant, that clone of himself placed his hands together. He vanished in a puff of smoke, and a spinning shuriken the size of a small child, appeared in the air. Naruto grabbed his clone-turned-Fuma Shuriken and leaned forward, pointing it at the heart of the person standing behind him.

"Oooh, that was cool." Lala said with sparkles in her eyes. "I wonder if I-

"No Lala, you can't make a cloning machine." Everyone else said at the same time, making the bubbly girl pout once again.

He had a curved blade pointed at his chest by a surprised girl.

She was shorter than he was, but her hair was the same shade of gold as his. She had a slim body, not very muscled visibly, but she didn't have much fat either. She had moderately well sized breasts, and an hourglass figure, with good hips. She wore a black top without sleeves, and detached sleeves, with a a hole in her shirt shaped like a 4 pointed start, showing her cleavage. She had colder red eyes in contrast to his warm blue eyes, and she had light peach skin. It was her right hand that was transformed into a curved sword, and she was showing surprise that he had sensed her and reacted in time.

"Wait a second, that's you Yami?!" Mikan exclaimed in surprise.

"…It would appear so." Said blonde said after a brief hesitation, equally as surprised at seeing her other.

"So this is showing your future then?" The brunette asked, getting a shrug from the blonde assassin.

"I don't think so, look," Nana said while pointing to Yami's profile, more precisely the prior/current relationships part. "There's no mention of us anywhere."

"Then what are we watching?" Mikan asked.

"Well, since it's not the future maybe it's the past." Rito suggested, only for Yami to shake her head.

"No, I have never encountered him before."

"Ah, then that just leaves one option," Lala said with a grin as she grabbed several more snacks. "We're looking at an alternate reality."

"Oh, like with that super hero cartoon we were watching the other day where Superdude ended up in a world like his only slightly different?" Momo asked, getting a nod of from the technical genius. "Cool."

They stayed in position.

"You sensed me, you're skilled-" She spoke as she shifted her right leg.

"He certainly is, only seven of my prior targets have ever managed that feat." Yami stated with slight praise in her tone.

'Her skirt was really short, and also... are those bondage belts on her thighs... she has really nice thighs.' Naruto noticed as he looked her up and down. He noticed her getting ready to either attack, or react to an attack from him.

"Ecchi." And now it's gone.

Her arm turned back into a regular arm.

"-but that doesn't matter, Uzumaki Naruto, you are my target."

"Aw man, now eye-candy is gonna die." Momo said with a pout, once again ignoring the elbow to her ribs.

Her hair transformed into several blades, and all of the blades came at Naruto, aiming for several vital areas. Naruto spun his Fuma Shuriken, and knocked away the blades heading for his neck and heart, while he kicked away the blade that was heading for his liver. Kicking off the blade, he spun around and kicked away the second blade heading towards his waist, before fully spinning around and throwing the Fuma Shuriken. Her severed the connection between the weapons and her hair, her blades falling to the ground as she jumped back away from him.

"Or not." The busty twin said happily with a grin.

"Uh, you do know that if he wins then Yami will probably die right?" Nana pointed out.

"…Crap,"

Naruto drew a kunai from his pouch, and reached behind him for his shuriken, grabbing several of them.

"Yeah, I'm a lot of people's target, still don't know who you are, be more clear with me, kay?" Naruto asked as he rushed her. She didn't have even a second to react before he was swinging his kunai at her. It was pure instinct that allowed her to backflip, and jump several meters away from Naruto.

As she was in the air, her back towards Naruto, he released the kunai from his hand and it flung towards her, her eye catching the action.

"Wow, he has you on the run." Rito said in shock.

"He is really skilled." Yami said, a tiny amount of worry starting to fill her voice.

Her hair transformed into a large hand and grabbed a tree branch above her, yanking her body out of the way of the kunai. The kunai having nearly stabbed her in the back, but instead flying towards the Fuma Shuriken that Naruto threw earlier.

*Poof*

The Fuma Shuriken that turned back into a clone, and caught the kunai, before throwing it towards her once more. It got within inches of her face when she used her hair and transformed it into a blade and knocked away the kunai. Her feet touched the tree, and the fist her hair turned into turned back into hair, and she kicked off the tree and went back to the ground.

She felt two objects touch the back of her neck.

"And now I'm really starting to worry." Mikan said nervously as she scooched closer to the 'real' Yami protectively.

"You're not the only one." Yami admitted, not liking her other's self's current position one bit.

Naruto had made another clone, using the sound of the first clone transforming, to mask the sound of him creating a second clone. Both Naruto and his clone were holding kunai and touching her neck with the tip of them.

'He created a multi-step combat strategy in mere moments, and followed through with his plan flawlessly. He diverted my attention with a false attack made to lure me into position, and the clone's attack was to draw my attention to the clone while he prepared his real attack... he's more clever than he looks.' The assassin thought as she glanced back at Naruto. She looked for any weakness in his guard, and saw his eyes were trained on her.

"He did have that goofy idiot feel to him before the fight started." Nana said with Momo and Mikan nodding in agreement.

"Well the phrase 'don't judge a book by its cover' exists for a reason after all." Momo said wisely.

She even looked and saw another Naruto standing behind the... clones she would take it. This Naruto was holding a kunai back, preparing to throw it if it looked like she was going to try and escape. The clone that threw the kunai that got her into position drew it's own kunai, and held it with a reverse grip.

She was in the middle of a formation that made it hard for her to escape.

"Hard… but not impossible, right?" Mikan asked Yami.

"It would not be the first time I've gotten in such a situation."

"That both reassures and disturbs me."

"Who are you!?" Naruto, the one standing furthest away from her, who she assumed was the original, shouted as he looked into her sideways glancing eyes.

She was silent for a moment.

Her mind went into overdrive.

"Best option would be to stall out until you can either find or create an opening to exploit." Momo said as she took in the situation.

"Agreed."

"I am Golden Darkness. I came to this planet in order to capture you. I was instructed to go after you with intent to kill." Golden Darkness spoke as her red eyes glanced up, only briefly, before she shifted her hand downwards a little.

"Heh, classic Yami, incredibly blunt and straightforward." Mikan said, a brief smile crossing her lips before quickly returning to frowning in worry.

Naruto blinked.

"... to this planet... so you're an alien... that is so AWESOME!" Naruto gave an excited shout, not doubting her for even a single moment when she stated that. Naruto didn't drop his guard when he shouted, he just looked towards her with sparkles in his eyes.

"That's the part he focuses on? Not the part where she's there to kidnap and/or kill him?" Nana deadpanned as a sweatdrop rolled down the back of her head.

Sadly, his clones had no self-preservation instinct in them, since they were clones, and Yami turned her leg into a spiked ball and hit the two behind her in the chest. They vanished in puffs of smoke before they realized what happened. While the first clone was looking at what was happening with shock, he hair stretched and turned into a dagger that stabbed him. She turned on her heel and ran towards Naruto, her leg transforming back while running. She passed through the smoke of dead clones, and turned her arm into a sword.

"And here's Yami with the come-back." Momo said as the group visibly relaxed.

Naruto threw his kunai at her first, and she leaned her head to the right while running, letting it pass by her face.

She stabbed Naruto threw the stomach.

*Poof*

"Or not," Nana muttered with a wince as the tension shot right back up.

When she stabbed Naruto in the stomach, she heard two puffs of smoke. The first being the clone, who she had thought was the original, vanishing. The second came from behind her, and as she turned around, she saw that Naruto was standing in place of the kunai that the clone had thrown earlier. He had the shuriken he was holding earlier in his hand as well, cementing this as the original Naruto in her mind.

'... That entire plan was just a ruse! He created a multi-layered, multi-step plan, predicting my actions! He figured that I would assume that the Naruto standing furthest away from me was the original, and transformed himself into the kunai!' Golden Darkness thought with widened eyes. She was still in the same position of attacking as earlier, having stumbled forward because of her failed attempt on Naruto's life.

"That dastardly genius." Momo muttered with a look of awe. "He had you pegged from the very start."

'And now I'm wide open for a counter attack with no way to defend.' Yami thought, grimacing as she saw her other overextending from the failed strike.

She couldn't fully dodge when Naruto threw the shuriken at her, she didn't have enough time to transform her hair and escape, and none of her other transformations would allow her the speed to escape the quick moving shuriken.

She leaned out of the way of two of the shuriken, but the third one he threw gave her a not-to-shallow cut across her arm as she placed her hand against the grass to correct herself as quickly as possible. Naruto crossed his fingers, and another clone appeared, before he held his hand out. She watched as the clone helped Naruto create a spiralling yellow sphere of pure energy. Naruto vanished from site and appeared before her.

'Fast!" Everyone thought with wide eyes.

"I can't watch!" Mikan yelled while clapping her hands over her eyes.

"Rasengan!" Naruto shouted as he moved his armed hand towards her chest. His eyes widened for a moment, before he pulled his arm back, stopping himself from hitting her with his attack.

He stood in front of her, attack in hand.

"Eh? He stopped?" Rito muttered with a tilted head.

He clicked his teeth and the Rasengan faded away safely, while she rolled onto her feet, and hopped away from him.

"Why?" Momo asked, earning a sour look from Mikan. "Hey, it's not that I'm not happy that other Yami got a break, but he had her dead to rights."

"She's correct." Yami admitted, a frown marring her usually impassive face.

'... The grave, he stopped his attack because he didn't want to destroy the grave. He's been fighting to avoid damaging the grave.' Golden Darkness could see that she had been in front of the grave Naruto had been talking to earlier when he nearly attacked her.

"Oh, okay now I get it now." The busty twin said with a nod.

With a moment to breath, her hair lifted up and formed 12 curved blades, all pointed towards Naruto. "You're extremely skilled, and the way you incorporate transformation with strategy is something I'll take note of." Golden Darkness spoke with respect for abilities that deserved respect.

He was foolish not to attack her, and more than likely kill her, while he had the chance. Foolishness in not finishing her aside, she could respect the amount of skill that he had shown.

"No kidding, if it wasn't for that grave…" Nana trailed off, but her point was made as Mikan shivered, Momo and Rito frowned, and Lala pulled Yami into a hug that took the blonde several moments to struggle out of.

Her eyes scanned the area thoroughly.

"Looking for more clones?" Naruto asked her with a wide, cocky smirk on his face. He drew a new kunai from his pouch, before he looked towards Jiraiya's grave marker.

"Uh, isn't that a little pointless? It's shown that the clones could turn into anything and that you can't tell if something is a clone or not, so who's to say the whole forest floor isn't littered with hidden clones." Momo pointed out with a raised brow. "It would probably be better to retreat at this point."

"Unfortunately, my pride at never failing a mission is likely preventing me from leaving." Yami said as her frown deepened.

"So pretty much the same reason you stayed here after the whole Lacospo incident?" Mikan asked, getting Yami to nod in agreement.

'... I can't use any destructive techniques... I better stick to the basics, distractions and Taijutsu it is.' Naruto's eyes scanned over the area, looking for what he could use.

Taijutsu wasn't the smartest option, mostly because of the way she had a strange ability to transform and control her body parts, but it was still better than using destructive Ninjutsu.

Reading over the popup that described what Taijutsu was, Momo couldn't help but give a long low whistle. "Wow, he must've really cared for this Jiraiya guy to prefer fighting you fist to fist rather than risk damaging the grave."

"Agreed, his loyalty is admirable." Yami said.

"Do you have more hidden?" Golden Darkness honestly asked him.

He seemed the type to answer.

"Really?" Mikan asked Yami dully, getting a shrug in response.

"As you would say, doesn't hurt to ask."

"So you don't know then?" Naruto's answer came with a playful grin as he teased her with knowledge she wanted.

"You're very annoying."

"Says the one interrupting me when I was visiting my teacher." Naruto reminded her with a more serious look. She didn't look ashamed, she lowered her stance, and leaned forward. She pointed a few of the hair blades behind herself, just incase he had another clone in her blind spot.

He did have a point.

"Yeah, that was kinda a dick move on your part." Momo said bluntly.

Taking the comment in stride, Yami shrugged once again. "I am an assassin, making 'dick moves' as you put it is essentially in the job description."

"It's best to attack the target when their defenses are down, and they are alone. A basic rule of assassination." Golden Darkness stated to Naruto.

"A logical line of thought." Peke said, though her voice had an audible layer of distaste to it.

The battle resumed.

It was an unspoken que for them to fight. They ran towards each other, and Golden Darkness knew she had the edge in length over him. Her hair, while she was running, stretched towards Naruto with the blades getting prepared to stab him. He was several meters away from her, while her blades were only now inches away from his skin.

"Yes."

"Oh no." Yami muttered as that single word reached her ears.

Naruto's words were clear, and when her blades made contact with his skin, her eyes widened when he gained more speed. Her blades shattered against his body completely, and Naruto cleared the distance between them faster than she was capable of tracking with her eyes. Not even her trained instincts allowed her to react in time when she saw him inches away from her.

"Whoa, looks like somebody was holding back." Momo said with an arched brow.

"Indeed." Yami muttered while analyzing everything she could, just in case she ran into this blonde in this reality.

His eyes had transformed, changing color from blue to yellow, with bar shaped pupils, and he had orange rings over his eyes.

'They kinda look like toad eyes.' Nana thought, her natural affinity towards animals allowing her to easily make the comparison.

Naruto placed two fingers against her sternum.

Golden Darkness was knocked backwards by an unbelievable amount of raw physical force. The wind was ejected roughly from her lungs both when she felt his touch hit her, and when she was sent flying into a tree. Her body broke through the tree, before she continue her path and was stopped by another tree. Not without putting a large, cracked dent in the second tree. Spit came from her open mouth, and words escaped her as she collapsed onto her hands and knees, catching her breath the best that she could.

"Oooh…" Everyone but Yami hissed sympathetically at the blow.

"If that was just two fingers, I'd hate to imagine what would happen if he actually punched her." Rito said.

"Probably like that servant Daddy flicked across the kingdom when he was brought the wrong bottle of wine at his and mother's twelve anniversary dinner." Lala said, cringing a little at the memory.

"Poor Simon, he was such a nice guy too." Momo said with a sigh while bowing her head in respect.

"When I created my first strategy, I did create another clone. While you were distracted by figuring out a way to escape my clones, I had another clone nearby gathering natural energy. I taunted you into rushing towards me, because I knew you would use your longer reach to hit me first." Naruto explained to her as he appeared before her.

"He would make an excellent military advisor or general." Peke said, a mixture of worry and approval in her tone.

Even when she regained her breath, and looked up towards him, her torso hurting enough to keep her down, she saw that Naruto was holding the kunai her threw earlier at her face.

Despite having caught her breath, it was hard for her to breath, and talk to him normally. The blow to her body had caused damage throughout her entire body, not just her torso.

"Yikes, he must really pack a punch if he did that much damage with just one hit," Momo said to Yami with whistle. "Especially since you're almost as durable as a Devilukian."

Yami didn't say anything, but the worry on her face was clear.

'... I thought he was an idiot, but his battle strategy is so effective it couldn't belong to anyone but a genius. This entire battle, since he second I showed my ability to him, he picked apart how I fought and created a plan that took advantage of my abilities.' Golden Darkness looked at Naruto with admiration for his shown skills. Even though she was more than likely going to die, she was going to appreciate just how skilled the opponent who would be her killer, had turned out to be.

The entire battle, she had just been playing into his hands as he studied her abilities, and formulated a plan that turned her strength into a weakness.

Her opponent was amazing.

'He certainly is.' Yami thought with a bowed head, conceding to her other's fate while Mikan patted her shoulder comfortingly.

"We done now?" Naruto asked as he dodged the kunai from his hand and sat down on the ground in front of her. His eyes turned back to blue, and he grinned at her, completely relaxing in front of her.

What?

"What?" Everyone asked in shock.

"I'm sorry?" Golden Darkness didn't know what to make of this.

"Same here." Yami muttered with a raised brow.

"You're not the first person to try and kill me, and you won't be the last. You're clearly not with the Akatsuki, so who hired you, and why me?" Naruto asked Golden Darkness with laid back grin.

"…He said that way to casually." Mikan muttered with a shiver.

"A man... named Orochimaru... sent a message..."

"Uhg, what a creepy looking guy." Nana said, gagging as a picture of the snake sannin popped up.

"Orochimaru is dead, killed by my friend Sasuke." Naruto mentioned to Golden Darkness with a deadpan voice. His tone was serious, but also kind of playful if that were possible. She blinked and looked at him in surprise.

Golden Darkness frowned.

"So not only did you get your ass handed to you, you got it handed to you for no reason what-so-ever. Now that has got to suck." Momo summed up while Yami frowned heavily in annoyance.

She held her chest in pain as she sat backwards, and she winced even as she bowed forward and gave Naruto the apology he deserved.

"I apologize, with my contractor dead, it seems I have no reason to target you anymore. The information I was given about you was incorrect anyway. You were detailed as an idiotic, lucky, fool who couldn't do anything but throw around his power. You're clearly a skilled ninja, capable of stealth and cunning tactics, though the idiot part seems true at first glance." Golden Darkness didn't see as Naruto's face became more sour with each word that she spoke following her apology.

"You know, now that I think about it, you really tend to forget one of the biggest rules for being an assassin." Nana said, drawing a confused glance from Yami and curious looks from everyone else.

"What rule would that be exactly?" The transforming blonde asked with a raised brow.

"Always make sure the information provided to you by the employer is accurate before proceeding with the mission," Nana stated in a matter of fact tone. "Mea told me that many of the people hiring her would give her fake facts or exaggerated details in order to trick her into going on jobs that were much higher risk than what they were paying her for or some other excuse."

"Oh, like how Lacopso tricked Yami into attacking Rito-kun by saying he was a super perverted guy who was planning to use me as blackmail for the throne." Lala said, getting Nana to nod.

"Basically, so Mea apparently got in the habit of triple checking all the information for herself, including doing a background check on the employer before accepting a job."

As she mulled over the pinkette's words, Yami blushed in embarrassment. "…That does make sense."

Orochimaru, the asshole, couldn't have been a little nicer when hiring an assassin to kill him?

Seriously, super rude.

'Mikan was right, he is way to relaxed about all of this.' Momo thought with a frown. How often was this guy attacked by people trying to kill him if he was more worried about how someone insulted him while hiring people to kill him then the actual hiring itself.

'Seriously, that dude, even in death, is such a bastard. It's not surprise he was able to make contact with aliens though, bastard was a genius.' Naruto looked over Golden Darkness, before she tried to stand up.

"Why are the creepy guys always super smart?" Nana asked, only to not get a response.

She fell back down.

"Ah!"

"Careful, I might be broken your ribs Yami… I'm pretty sure I broke your ribs when I was fighting you. Here, I'll help you up. We'll get you fixed up, I know a few medic ninja who will heal you if I ask." Naruto promised her as he grabbed her by the hand. He wrapped her arm around his shoulder, before he assisted her in standing.

'Yami?' Golden Darkness thought to herself with raised eyebrow at Naruto.

"Heh, looks like you're stuck with that nickname no matter what." Momo said with a chuckle.

"I'm just glad that he's helping you instead of…" Mikan trailed off, unable to finish the sentence.

She leaned over in pain.

Everything hurt still.

"Heheheh, you noticed that... yeah, Golden Darkness is long, so I'm going to call you Yami (Darkness) for short." Naruto laughed with slightly red cheeks, having been caught in his nickname giving. He had a habit of giving people nicknames that he believed suited them.

"Meh, it can't be as bad as Lala's naming skills for her inventions." Momo said with a shrug while Nana nodded in agreement.

"Hey! There is nothing wrong with the names for my inventions." Lala said with an indignant huff.

"Super-suck-suck-kun, Grabby-grabby-hand-kun, Personal-pole-pole-kun, Soapy-soapy-kun, should I go on?" Momo asked rhetorically, making her older sister pout before snuggling next to Rito for comfort.

"I'm sorry about hurting you, by the way, I didn't mean to hit you this hard. Honestly, I just thought it would be best to end the fight quickly." Naruto explained when he saw the pained look on her face.

He gave her a thumbs-up with his free hand.

Sage Mode was his quickest way to end the fight without spilling blood, though he did leave her in poor condition. He held back when using his Frog Strike by only using two fingers, since a full hand would kill most opponents with a clean hit, but he knew that the attack would do a lot of internal damage.

"No kidding, I'm not a medical expert but from the way your other self is moving I can safely guess that at least five of your ribs are broken or fractured." Nana said, having a little medical knowledge thanks to her various animal friends she took care of.

'Uzumaki Naruto, you're very strange...' Yami thought to herself as she glanced up at Naruto. "Call me what you wish, it doesn't matter much to me." Yami spoke softly as she looked around. "I'm thankful you didn't kill me." Yami mentioned to Naruto as they started to walk towards the village crater.

'I am as well.' Mikan thought, glad that she didn't have to watch helplessly as her friend was killed.

From her spaceship, she had seen the sorry state that Naruto's home village was in, and she knew where they were headed.

"Uh, what do they mean by sorry state? How can a village be sad?" Lala asked with a tilted head, making the others sans Yami to palm their faces.

'I'll never understand how a girl capable of building a nuclear reactor out of a pile of toothpicks and some bubble gum doesn't know such simple expressions.' Rito thought with a sigh. "Lala, they mean that his village is in a state of disrepair or been badly damaged."

"Oooooh."

"I try to avoid killing if I think I can talk to my enemy. Though, I'm still going to give a beating to those who need one." Naruto raised his fist up with an irritated grin, thinking of a few people who could use a good beating.

"Ow."

People who would get those beatings after he got Yami healed.

"Hey! What's going on?" Mikan demanded when the screen suddenly turned black as a spiral symbol in the middle that slowly started to fill.

"Oh, Future-kun is just cooling down, it'll be back to normal in a minute or two." Lala explained calmly.

"It'd better, this is just starting to get good." Momo said while popping some popcorn into her mouth before pausing mid-chew. "…Huh, déjà vu."

-End Chapter-

AN: Hope you all enjoyed my first attempt at doing a reading, but please feel free to point out anything you feel like could be done better. Just so you all know though, this story will likely be updated more erratically than my other stories, and any updates I do will most commonly be done at the same time as chapters of my usual stories. Thank you for reading and please review.