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Epilogue

Naruto sighed.

It had been a week since he had fallen down the well and woken up in the strange outfit. The weird threads had appealed to him and he had started to walk around in this new attire. Ino and Sakura seemed to be ecstatic that there was less orange, but they still didn't like the color.

Naruto had gently laughed at their disapproval, and walked off each time it was brought up. He thought that he might have gotten a good deal out of his coma, because his injury seemed to be enough to spark the interest of the others from the rookie 9.

Because Choji and Shikamaru got along with him well enough in the academy, they had visited him after he woke up and forced Ino along too. On their arrival, Naruto's first thought was to make some comment about how they couldn't stay away, but he suddenly felt that it would be a bad idea to try to annoy them.

Instead, he welcomed them and they began a discussion on missions and normal life, all agreeing that Tora the cat was a "no" on the fun list. Unbeknownst to Naruto, Ino had made a bet with the other two boys that if Naruto's first reaction was to annoy them, then she would leave and the other two would follow. When he subconsciously avoided that approach, he had unknowingly stopped them from leaving him. When the three finally had their fun, they left, agreeing to meet up with the blonde later after he got better.

Next he was surprised to see Hinata come visit followed by a wary Kiba and an impassive Shino. Hinata had that same blush on her face, but for some reason, Naruto became uncomfortable and couldn't help but to look away and blush himself.

Hinata seemed to think that she had been in the wrong, so she began to stutter out an apology and she turned to leave. Kiba sot an icy glare at the blonde and Shino raised an eyebrow in disapproval. They also turned to leave, but they were stopped when Naruto called out frantically to the Hyūga girl, apologizing profusely for the reaction. He also noted, in uneasy curiosity, the light blush on his face.

When she turned around, Naruto did his best to turn his sore body to her and he apologize again, making up some crappy excuse about still being stiff since he just woke up. Hinata seemed accept the lie and she nodded and stuttered out an acceptance of his apology.

He then started over and began to converse with Hinata, Kiba, and to a lesser extent, Shino. After the misunderstanding was cleared up, the other two boys decided to give him a chance. When the three left, Naruto noticed the time and sadly noted that he was too tired to keep awake, so he drifted off into his dream word, wondering the reasons behind his strange reactions that he had instinctively made.

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Deep within his mind, the seal that had been placed began to fluctuate as it became unstable. It seemed that the chakra that Naruto had tried to use to stop the seal placement did nothing to cancel it, but would slowly cause it break away. As it did so, he would get more "suggestions" against his automatic reaction until he finally just dropped the actions all together.

During the following week, Uzumaki Naruto would have his world flipped around as the suggestions became his dominant reactions. It would not be until years later that the seal would break completely and he would remember his "trip to the future." By that time, of course, he would be kicking back at his desk, cursing the overwhelming piles of paperwork, and begging Tsunade to take her job back for a few hours so that he could go visit his fiancé, but that, of course, is a story for another day.

Jissai Owari

I received reviews stating that the last chapter was the last of the story. I lol'd

This one is the last chapter, though.

Burnzs out!