"There's currently two pages with information on it," said Iruka as Team 7 looked on (with the addition of Hinata's team who had successfully argued that one of their own was involved and that made it THEIR business as well) as he placed the book in front of them, spreading it open to the first page.
"'Social Links'?" asked Kurenai, able to read over everyone else's heads.
Social Links - Naruto Uzumaki
pactio strength/relationship
"The way it's worded suggests that the stronger the relationship, the more power out of the pactio," said Kurenai as she considered the blushing girl and the fidgeting boy.
"That's what I got out of it too," agreed Iruka. "He's only made one pactio, so there's only one entry here."
Priestess - Hinata Hyuga. level 1 *
"Sorry, Hinata," said Kurenai, interpreting the 'level' as the degree of connection involved.
"I'm not sure you want to move to the next page with everyone here looking," said Iruka. "I saw it. Maybe everyone except Hinata could look away for a moment?"
Hinata was quite nervous, understandably so, as she turned the page.
Priestess Arcana
Knight
Note: Hinata is some weird girl who won't look at me when she's talking to me and is always passing out.
There was more on the page, including a picture of her as Sailor Saturn, but Hinata found her vision blurring after she read the note. That's all I am to Naruto-kun? I'm just some 'weird girl'?
"Whoa, that's some costume," said Kiba, who had never realized that Hinata had a figure. "The other two are interesting too."
"Support and Dud forms?" asked Kurenai. Who rather fancied the costume in the Support illustration but wasn't going to say so in front of the gennin. Maybe in front of Asuma. Couldn't hurt to drop a few hints.
"Right," said Iruka, who HAD noticed that nobody except Naruto had stopped looking. "You see over here she has a defensive ability, offensive ability, and passive ability."
"One blank line for the Support costume," noted Kurenai. "Did I hear correctly earlier and she hasn't accessed that form yet?" At Iruka's nod, she continued. "That's probably it then. Once she does, that line will fill in."
Naruto-kun thinks I'm weird?! silently said Hinata as she continued to stare at the page.
"So what do you have to do in order to get this 'pactio' thing?" asked Kiba, thinking a new jutsu was a new jutsu.
"It's Naruto's kekkei genkai, his bloodline ability," said Iruka.
"I still don't know what all it does except give Hinata that weapon she can knock walls down with," pointed out Naruto.
Sasuke, who'd been brooding in the back of the classroom and otherwise trying to ignore the way Sakura was looking at him, raised an eyebrow at the idea of Naruto having a bloodline ability that empowered someone other than himself.
"So what do you do?" asked Kiba. "Not that we need one, but Akamaru's always bugging me about getting extra special moves and such down."
"He does?" asked Iruka as he and everyone else stared at the dog.
"Urf," said the dog in something that sounded like an affirmative. "Ruff."
"Yeah, but I don't play poker so I don't really understand those references," said Kiba with a shrug. "Something about 'ace in the hole' and stuff like that."
"Uhm," heavily fidgeted Hinata.
"Urrr," said a heavily fidgeting Naruto.
"Welllllll," said Iruka, looking embarassed himself.
"A kiss is just a kiss, unless it's a pactio," said Kurenai, glancing at Naruto's lips as if curious herself. Which she WAS even if Naruto WAS a wet-behind-the-ears kid.
"Kiss?" asked Kiba, who actually backpedalled and put his hands up to ward off any notion of getting a powerup.
"Wuff?" asked Akamaru, who was less picky about such things. After all, it wasn't like he was volunteering to sniff butts or something and even THAT was just being polite.
"We don't know that that was all that was involved," began Iruka.
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