Hinata looked around the clearing. It had obviously been used by a lot of people in the past for kunai target practice. There was even a set of kunai sitting out on an old tree stump. Or make that floating in the air.
Hinata stopped and stared as Naruto stood there with his hands out and fingers spread and the kunai floated up to form a ring in midair around his hands.
"Byakugan!" invoked Hinata, looking at chakra. She frowned as she didn't see what she expected, which would have been thin threads of chakra controlling the kunai knives. Instead they were supported by... whatever it was.
Naruto relaxed ever so slightly as he felt Hinata's reaction. Curiosity, wonder, excitement. She never felt fear or disgust or hate towards him, or if she ever had - she hadn't done so since he'd started picking up on what people were feeling.
Actually, realized Naruto, it was easier to pick up on someone's feelings than the voices he heard. He'd been coming here since it was distant enough that he wasn't getting that constant muttering of voices in the background. He'd always wanted to share this ability with someone though and it looked like he might have just chosen correctly.
Hinata reached out tentatively and tapped one of the knives with one finger, making it bob in the air. "How are you doing this, Naruto?"
"I figured out how to make things move accidently," said Naruto, closing his eyes. "Now I can hit the target nine times out of ten."
whishhhhhhhhhhhhhhh THUNK!
"The faster I make the blade go, the more often I miss," said Naruto after sending a blade at high speed into a target.
"Oh, I see," said Hinata, noting that the target HAD been hit but that the kunai was a hand's breadth from the center. "So, how can I help?"
"Actually, can you tell me how your Byakugan works? I think I might have an idea there," said Naruto.
The Demon Fox pondered its cage inside a boy who could use neither ninjitsu nor genjutsu. It looked around its cell again, and considered the raw power level of the jailor.
For one thing, the little black cat had apparently not found the idea of a jail cell in a sewer to be sufficiently amusing. In order to fulfill the conditions of being a seal, the containment had to be a containment but the overall effect was not quite the same.
This 'prison' was in the shape of a 'shinto' style shrine with an offering box and little jangly bells and such in the front. It was a cage still, apparently no getting around that, but one with satellite TV and books and other things.
The Demon Fox knew that it itself had been altered by the cat-being. For a few moments it had had an intelligence level that would have astounded any number of beings. Even now it retained an intelligence level that humans would have rated as about 200. Compared to its normal level of intelligence, which was far more animalistic, this was still extreme.
With a sigh, the Demon Fox considered the telephone over on a stand. Two speed dial buttons. One to its host. One to that Elder which had started the current mess.
With another sigh, the Demon Fox punched the second button.
"Hello? You know darn well who this is," said the Demon Fox into the phone. "Look. You did this. You altered things around. Now I'm here. Yes, I'm ready to make the best of the situation. Uh huh. I'll tell you what the bloody problem is. My host currently hasn't gotten any benefit out of having me here. It's like having a tanker full of jet fuel and the only thing around to fuel up is an old pickup truck. Anachronism? Look, YOU are the one who set me up with 347 channels including the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. I've also found a certain fascination with the Military Channel. Hmmm? No I don't see how they could build any of it, I just like things that go boom in a satisfactory manner. About Rock Lee though. All I'm saying is just fix a couple of tiny little things. Oh yes, as a matter of fact I DO have a few suggestions."
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