NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.-Chapter 172: CH

He turned away from the Kyuubi who had not taken his eyes off of him or interrupted him the entire time and began walking away, "And rest assured, when I finally think that I'm ready to do it, I'm going to open the seal and I'm going to kick your big fuzzy ass until you fully accept me as your partner."

"A partner?" Kyuubi scoffed as it lay its head back down on the ground, "You mean a slave..." It growled as lowly as it could.

"No." Naruto said as he started vanishing from his mindscape, "I meant partner. I'd rather be your friend and ally than your master."

Slowly shutting its eyes as Naruto fully disappeared from view, the Kyuubi adjusted itself to get back to sleep, "That heart you seem to have developed kit... It will either become perhaps your greatest weapon, or it will be the catalyst to the end of your life."

XxX The next morning he awoke to the sound of tapping on the window in his room. As he made to turn over and get up he felt a weight on his back. Looking over his shoulder he saw Hamako attached to his back, fast asleep.

'Damn it, she sleeps in my bed when I'm gone? I don't really know how to feel about that right now... sheets are clean though.' Naruto sighed as he thought of figuring his way out of this without waking her. Turning his head to his window he saw a male ANBU in a cat mask waiting and watching.

Naruto looked at the man with a twitching eyebrow as he made a Kage Bunshin and used Kawarimi to switch places with it before he walked sluggishly to the window, "You were just so amused watching that I'm sure Tenzo." He remarked before he reached the window, stopping his hand from opening it up as he realized something and pointed accusingly at the man, "Oh no. Oh hell no. It hasn't even been 12 hours yet and she's going to send me right back out?" He hissed out lowly to keep from waking Hamako.

The masked Tenzo shrugged and motioned for Naruto to open up. A sigh came from the boy as he did as instructed, "Hello taicho. I wish I could say that it was good to see you, but seeing you means I have to work."

Tenzo patted Naruto on the head, getting a frown from the boy that he was sure made the man smile behind the mask, "Same to you Naruto. Hokage-sama is here to inform you to keep yourself at the ready in case any missions open up for you soon. She said something about 'mission overflow duty' and that you would know what that meant."

Naruto held back a face-palm, 'I will never sleep through a meeting ever again no matter how boring it is.' He then spoke out loud, "Well it's better to at least keep me mobilized and let me rest than to send me right back out again. Thanks for the message taicho." Tenzo nodded, "See you later Naruto." He then jumped off to resume his usual duties.

Naruto ran a hand through his hair and turned back to where his Kage Bunshin was underneath Hamako with a deadpan look on his face, "So what are you going to do about this boss?"

Naruto shut the window and walked out of the bedroom, grabbing all of the things he had dropped the previous night off of the floor, "I'm going to go do something since I'm up. You're going to stay there until you can come up with a way to get away from her without waking her up." Naruto smirked as his Kage Bunshin glared at him darkly over his shoulder until he left the apartment and shut the door behind him.

Upon giving it a few seconds, the Kage Bunshin's glare turned into a grin as he gently rolled over and held Hamako in his arms, "Yeah I could do that. Or... I could just stay like this for as long as I last." His grin widened further when he felt Hamako snuggle her head further into his chest, "Yep, this option is definitely the best."

XxX

Naruto simply wandered around the village as many were out and about starting their day, and without even realizing it ended up in front of the Hokage Tower. He blinked in surprise as he shrugged and walked past without a second glance, "I guess this is what Kakashi-sensei meant by getting lost on the road of life. If this is the first place I go out of instinct then I really did need a break."

Before he got too far he heard a voice call out to him, "Naruto!"

The blonde turned around to see Sakura walking up to him with papers in her arms, "Hey Sakura. Long time no see. And by the way, way to go on getting promoted."

Sakura

gave

him

a

smile,

"Thanks.

Being Tsunade-sama's apprentice is working out for me huh?"

Naruto chuckled, "Yeah apparently. Just don't ever try to hit me the way she does... ever... no matter what." He said with the utmost seriousness, "I get enough of that already from her alone."

Sakura sweatdropped before perking back up, "No one's seen you around the village in a while. How are things going? Oh, I met the girl that lives in your apartment too." She said at the end with slight distaste.

Naruto frowned at her change in tone, "Hamako-chan's a good girl. She's just a friend that I wanted to help, it's a very long story, just know that everything that goes on in that apartment is completely platonic." Of course inwardly he was rolling his eyes, 'I'm just about fifteen years old and have killed more people than you can even reasonably estimate, and yet the prospect of me having sex is enough to upset you. How ass-backwards is our society?' "Well I'm kind of busy right now." Sakura gestured with the papers in her grasp, "I need to get these over to the hospital and then I have to work a shift today so I'll see you around."

Naruto nodded, "Yeah, unless our magnanimous Hokage decides to send me on a six month tilt between now and dinner time."

Sakura waved to him as she walked away, "Bye Naruto. I'll see you later."

"Tell Shizune-neechan I said hi. And tell baa-chan if nee-chan catches her drinking again and takes her stash I will not be speeding up my usual delivery just because she lost it all." Naruto said as he went off in the other direction, 'Well she certainly does seem way better these days than what I last remember about her.'

Naruto let out a yawn as he continued on his way, wandering through the village without much purpose to doing so, "Well isn't this an ironic little problem. I've been talking about how I need time off and when I get it I can't think of anything to do but train or work." After walking about for a little while longer he wound up in the forests near the residential area. If he was really this hard up for ideas he knew one thing that needed to be done when he got home.

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