"You know, it still amazes me, seeing the ways you take a simple exercise and run with it."
Naruto and his clones all stopped and turned around. The original gave Temari a grin, "What can I say Mari-chan, I'm just awesome like that."
Temari smirked at her fellow blond before changing it into a pout, "You know you've been here for several hours. I think it's time you did something else."
Naruto's grin widened slightly, "You mean do something with you." At Temari's blush the whiskered blond chuckled.
He had not just trained during the month. He and Temari had gone out on many dates during his time here.
Flashback…
Naruto and Temari entered the expensive restaurant arm in arm as the pair followed the waitress, who was dressed as a traditional geisha, led them to one of the booths that lined the walls. The pair seated themselves and Naruto looked over at Temari.
"You know when you said to dress nicely; I still didn't expect to come to a place as…" Temari's male counterpart paused as he searched for the right word. "…extravagant as this."
Temari gave Naruto a smirk, "The benefits of being a child of the former Kazekage. My…the Kazekage used to own this place, and when he died those rights were transferred to me."
Naruto noticed how she refused to call the former leader of her village father, but knew where her bitterness came from and so he chose not to comment on it.
"So you own this place?" he asked instead, eyeing the beautifully crafted statues, the luxurious looking carpet and the professional musician that was playing over in one corner for background music. The place made every restaurant he had eaten in pale in comparison.
"Yep!" Temari chirped as she picked up a menu. The came over with two glasses and a bottle of wine, filling them as the pair gave their order.
Temari smiled to herself before looking over at the blond and couldn't keep the small giggle from escaping her throat as she saw him tugging at his shirt. Of course he noticed this right away and scowled at her, "It's not funny."
"It is too funny," Temari snickered at her fellow blond. "You can kick Gaara's ass even when he's in Tanuki form, you managed to cut a waterfall in just over two weeks, and you don't break a sweat even with the threats you're going to have to face in your life." She gave him a smirk, "Yet you can't even wear a set of nice formal clothing."
Naruto's scowl became more pronounced, "I've never had to wear anything like this. They feel so confining and stuffy."
"Well I think you look good in them," Temari complemented. She really did believe he looked good in the clothes he was wearing, a dark rust orange hakama with a dark blue kimono that almost looked black in the lighting. She gave him another smile and couldn't but add, "Besides, you should be lucky I let you add some orange into your ensemble."
"I suppose," Naruto sighed as his shoulders slumped. There was no use griping about it now. He perked up a second later and looked over at Temari, "You look like you're used to this kind of thing."
"Of course I am," Temari gestured to herself, "between my brothers and I, I was always the one they sent on any kind of diplomatic mission. You know that. Naturally a lot of the times I would eat at places like this, or in the palaces that Daimyos and other rich nobles lived."
"Ugh, that sounds so boring," Naruto grimaced. "I would hate having to deal with a bunch of rich snobs. I've only met a few Daimyos, and most of them are fat, greedy old farts." He remembered the Daimyos from Kiba and Ta No Kuni with a grimace.
Shaking the thought away he gave her a look of sympathy, "Being such a beautiful girl, I don't know how you would be able to deal with people like that."
Temari blushed at being called beautiful, "W-well, I usually just ignored the ones that tried to come onto me. If that didn't work I would just tell them off, though it wasn't always easy."
"I'm surprised you didn't just bash their heads off with your fan," Naruto gave her his foxy grin.
"I would have if doing that wouldn't have hurt Suna's reputation," Temari fired back.
"Then you must have far more restraint than others," Naruto said.
Conversation ceased for a while after that as the food came, and the two began to eat.
Afterwards Naruto had taken the girl for a walk around Suna and they had stayed up late to look at the stars before heading off to bed.
Flashback end…
That was not all he had done either, he and Temari had sparred quite often. Naruto had also got in some good spars with Gaara, though they had been forced to take their sparring outside of the village training grounds. He had to admit that had been a good idea as the first time the two had sparred they had not only destroyed an entire training ground, by burying it under sand and having that sand turned to glass, but the amount of noise and explosions had caused a mass panic from the citizens thinking they were under attack.
Speaking of Gaara, Jiraiya had managed to help him with his Bijuu problem. The process had been a pretty big hassle and Jiraiya had actually required Naruto's help in keeping the Shukaku from escaping.
Flashback…
"Okay, Naruto, as soon as I begin the process of replacing Gaara's seal, I need you to produce a suppression seal on him and keep the Shukaku from escaping," Jiraiya said as he stared at the seal that Gaara had on his the lower section of his back. He honestly could not believe that someone would actually place a mere two prong seal elemental seal and expect it to hold a being as powerful as a Bijuu, even if said Bijuu was the weakest of the bunch.
Naruto nodded his head. This was a standard procedure for re-sealing or fixing seals with powerful entities of any kind involved, or so Jiraiya had told him, "Got it Ero-sennin."
Jiraiya cracked his knuckles before producing his specialized ink and brush, "Alright Gaara, we're going to begin now. I warn you, this will hurt."
Gaara who was lying in the center of a large seal array that had been prepared beforehand to help contain the demonic youki, merely gave a small nod, "I am aware of that. However, pain is a small price to pay for being able to sleep after twelve years of going without."
"Right," Jiraiya dipped his brush in the ink before he began to write a complex looking seal over the one that held the Shukaku. Naruto watched as the white haired man deftly and quickly drew the seals along Gaara, starting around the original seal and spreading out from there as it increased in complexity. Naruto couldn't help but notice that compared to Jiraiya's work, the two prong seal placed on his friend looked like it had been done by a toddler in comparison.
It was here that Naruto saw just how talented his sensei really was. Oh sure, he knew the man was strong, the blond still had yet to land a single hit on Jiraiya even after all of their spars. But that was to be expected, having nearly forty years more experience than Naruto; however, seeing the man making a seal that he could not make heads or tails of really brought the fact that Jiraiya really was not just some perverted lecher.
When the seal was finally complete Jiraiya placed a hand in the center of it and began to channel some chakra into it. "Kirema Fuiin (Destabilization Seal)!"
All of the seals on and around Gaara soon began to move into the two pronged seal, writhing their way up the redhead as they glowed a light blue. The seal holding the Bijuu had soon began to hiss and steam as it started to dissolve. At that same time Gaara began to thrash and yell as agony ripped through his body, "AAAAHHHHHH!"
"Get started gaki!" Jiraiya shouted, knocking the blond from his fascination at watching the seal in action.
"Right!" Naruto created six kage bunshin, all which were reinforced by the blond consciously subverting more chakra to them. They all went up to Gaara and held him down while he thrashed in pain.
In the meantime Naruto's hand began to glow a light purple as he used a technique he had created called Chikara Chosaku (Chakra Writing), which was an ability he came up with to supplement his increasing skills in fuinjutsu. The technique allowed Naruto to use his youki to write on solid surfaces of any kind. Due to being half demon, Naruto's youki was more potent than the human equivalent and was what allowed him to use this ability, though the seals would only last for fifteen minutes until they would fade.
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