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"Sakura-Chan says that you've seen Sasuke." Naruto said as soon as Sakura and Kakashi were out of earshot.
"That's what I've been told." Ryu answered with a sad look in his eyes.
"So it's true you don't remember..." Naruto said quietly looking down at the ground. "I'll just have to wait a month then." The pair walked in silence for a moment before Ryu spoke.
"I wouldn't worry too much…" Ryu said thoughtfully. "I think he'll come back. After all, I don't know what it would take to keep me from coming back to a girl like Sakura." As he said compulsively he reached up to the necklace around his neck. Naruto laughed but it didn't reach his eyes.
"Yeah it'd be nice to have someone who cared that much." Naruto said as they passed Hyuuga manor.
Hyuuga Hinata rarely woke during the night. In fact most times it was only something loud like a storm or something falling right outside her bedroom that could awaken her. She knew almost instinctively there had been no sound to awakened her.
Hinata's room was sparsely decorated. The walls were painted white and across from her bed was a closet that had a full length mirror set into the door. In the corner was a chest of drawers that held her clothes. Next to her bed was a small cabinet which had a lamp on it though at the moment the light was off.
She looked around the room and though she knew the shadows in the room well something seemed out of place. She was afraid and it took her a moment to think of using the Byakugan. When she finally did she did so slowly and hesitantly, for fear of what she would see.
As Naruto and Ryu passed the huge mansion they heard a scream come from within that was quickly cut short. It sounded female. Naruto and Ryu both without thinking about it jumped to the top of the wall that surrounded Hyuuga manor and sat there watching for any signs of movement. They were quickly rewarded as four figures jumped quickly over the wall and ran in the opposite direction, one of whom seemed to be carrying a person who wasn't struggling.
Both Naruto and Ryu chased after them, sprinting first along the topof thewall, and then through the streets. They gained quickly on the shinobi ahead though they didn't notice. Ryu was glad of this thinking that they mightbe able to use asurprise attack, but Naruto had other plans… less well thought out ones.
"HEY YOU BASTARDS LET HER GO!" Konoha's number one loudest ninja yelled, and succeeded defending his title most admirably.
All four stopped and turned. All of them were wearing black suits with their faces covered. Only the tallest really stood out, since he was carrying what looked like a human being on his back. He set his load down and all four prepared to fight.
"YOU FREAKING IDIOT! WHY'D YOU HAVE TO GO AND SCREAM LIKE THAT? WHAT KIND OF NINJA ARE YOU!" Ryu yelled smacking Naruto in the back of the head. Naruto was about to yell something back when all four enemyninja's charged.
Three of them attacked Ryu simultaneously, while the largest and apparently strongest attacked Naruto. Ryu was a fast person but against three opponents, while he was stillrecovering from hisfight againstLee,he could do nothing but block.
Naruto on the other had was having no problems attacking. The problem was making his attacks cause some damage. The single enormousninja was shrugging off all of Naruto's attacks. It was quickly looking as though the Rasengan was his only option.
As Ryu dodged in between attacks he began to notice a pattern in how the enemy ninjas were attacking. They always attacked in the same order, never quite the same attacks but always the same order. Ryu didn't have time to notice how simply odd this was but instead concentrated on predicting the attacks before they came.
"Kage Bushin no jutsu!" Four voices said in unison. Suddenly there were twenty Narutos surrounding their quite surprised enemy.
Unfortunately Ryu suddenlyfound himself in a similar situation.
"Shit." Two voices said at once. The unknown shinobi that Naruto was attacking found himself being held down by nineteen copies of the orange and black suited ninja. Naruto charged forward, adding his own momentum to the swirling ball of chakra in hand. He slammed the Rasengan into the mans chest and though all of his Bushin were destroyed, the shinobi was sent spinning in mid air before crashing into a tree.
Naruto started to turn to see if the girl on the ground was injured when the ninja stirred. Naruto watched in amazement as the seemingly invincible shinobi stood and began to walk towards Naruto. Naruto grinned and again summoned the clones of himself, though this time with a slightly different plan in mind.
Ryu was not doing as well. As a matter of fact… he was getting his ass handed to him. He couldn't attack back and was only barely managing to block a few of the attacks that were sent his way. A blow struck him in the back of the head, and he fell towards the ground. He lay there for a moment and was suddenly dog piled by the ninja's and their Bushin.
The world went dark for a moment, but not as it did when he had passed out earlier. Instead it felt as though in that moment some knowledge had been crammed into his head, and though it gave him a throbbing headache,he almost instinctively knew how to defeat his enemies. His hands formed seals and words came from his mouth, without any real effort on his part.
"Inabikari no Jutsu!" As the words left his mouth, beams of light shot out from his hands where the last seal had been formed. The twelve beams went straight up into the air and came down from the heavens like bolts of lightning, each striking a different target and while all the Bushin disappeared in puffs of smoke, the three real shinobi simple fell to the ground, though puffs of smoke also came from them. Ryu pushed himself to his feet, and watched Naruto knowing that if he attacked in the middle of the twenty Narutos, he'd only get in the way.
'Besides,' the badly bruised boy thought to himself 'it looks like Naruto's got it covered.'
Five of the Naruto's charged in and using the kicking technique that both Naruto and Sasuke had stolen from Rock Lee, sent the enemy ninja spinning into the air. One other Naruto, smashed his heel into the shinobi's face sending him tumbling back towards the ground. The remaining fourteen Naruto's each created a Rasengan in their palms and struck in unisonas the extremely unfortunate ninja was about to hit the ground. This time he did not get up.
With the amazingly durableshinobi taken care of Naruto ran over to the small bundle of dark hair and night clothes that had been set of the ground. He quickly brushed her hair away intending to see if the girl was injured and gasped. He hadn't expected such a beautiful girl.
The girl's blue hair was about shoulder length and incredibly soft to the touch. She was slender and seemed, to Naruto's eyes, fragile. Naruto tried not to look, he really did but being with Ero-Sennin as long ashe couldn't help but notice that the girl was… well endowed. The girls eyes fluttered open and Naruto stared back into those angelic pure white eyes.
"Naruto… kun?" She said quietly and she reached up and put her arms around his neck hugging him tightly around the neck. Naruto acted on instinct and put his arms underneath her and lifted the small form from the ground. This only caused her to hold him tighter which caused certain body parts to be crushed against Naruto's chest while simultaneously affording him a view of. Naruto swallowed and closed his eyes.
"I will not be like Ero-sennin, I will not be like Ero-sennin, I will not be like Ero-sennin…" He repeated over and over like a mantra, refusing to allow himself even a peek at... the girls rather voluptuous… well maybe a peek wouldn't… He had saved the girl's life after all…
"PUT DOWN HINATA-SAMA!" A voice rang out, piercing the silence.
"Hinata!" Naruto yelled. He looked down at Hinata's face and realized who he was holding… and who he had almost…
Naruto forced that thought out of his head, simply concentrating on not allowing himself to fall to his lewd sensei's influence, while he allowed Ryu to explain what had happened, after all Hinata's small body wasn't' heavy, and plus it was cold outside and she was only wearing a nightgown and...
"Damn you, Ero-sennin." Naruto cursed under his breath.
"… So then you guys showed up and here we are." Ryu finished and the guards who had been pursuing them turned to Naruto, who was looking straight up with his eyes shut tightly and seemed to be chanting something.
"I'll take Hinata-sama back to her house. She'll be informed of who saved her tomorrow morning." One guard said and he started to take Hinata away from Naruto, but the girl, though unconscious, refused to be parted from him. She tightened her grip around his neck until it was all Naruto could do to mumble.
"Maybe it would be easier for me to take her back." The entire way back, Ryu laughed at Naruto's chant.
"I will not be a pervert, I will not be a pervert, I will not be a pervert…"
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