SPLASH!
Itachi watched as Kisame flopped around briefly, then swam over and hauled himself onto the pavement of the courtyard.
"Do you realize that you're now a girl of about sixteen years age?" asked Itachi.
"What?" asked the girl, blinking yellow eyes. "What are you.... AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Hadn't noticed then," said Itachi.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!" asked Kisame. "I'm SHORT!"
"That isn't all of it," noted Itachi.
"I'm a girl?!" exclaimed Kisame. "Aghhh!"
"You also seem to be a bit more emotional," noted Itachi as Kisame ran around in circles.
Kisame finally calmed down enough to go to one of the mirrors they'd both noticed set up around the spring's outer perimeter. "I'm... cute."
"If you discount the pointy teeth, gills, yellow-tinted skin, green hair, and black eyes, I guess," said Itachi.
"So this is IT, the big power of the sacred spring of Jusenkyo?" asked Kisame. She took out her sword and gave it a few trial swings. "Not exactly something we can use."
"No, though I may have plans for it myself," said Itachi as he idly bent out of the way to avoid a few stray droplets of water sent sailing by Kisame's continued practice.
"Throws my balance off something fierce," said Kisame.
The old woman sent off a deep cloud of smoke from her pipe, looking down from atop one of the fountains. "You needn't worry about getting splashed. Once the water is removed from the pool, it loses all of its properties. Only those who have bathed in Jusenkyo are changed, and once you've been affected - no further effects are visible."
"There a cure?" asked Kisame.
"No," said the old woman. "If you mean in the sense that the effect can be reversed. There is a cure for any remaining gender-identity issues, and time will cure any awkwardness with moving or fighting."
"I think further experiments are mandated," said Itachi.
"Huh, how so?" asked Kisame, examining a slender arm. "This seems pretty useless to me."
Itachi noted how Kisame, whom he'd expected to fly into a rage, was actually pretty calm. Though there was a slight tremor in the limbs indicating some shock involved. Interesting. "Perhaps. I think a visit to Konoha before returning here is indicated."
"Ah," said Kisame, well acquainted with drives for vengeance and payback. THAT made sense.
Hinata stared. "Did you?"
"Yup," said Hanabi, glancing down at her chest. Which was respectable for a ten year old. "I wonder how much of that was true."
"You think he was telling Naruto that to discourage him?" asked Hinata.
"Yes, but whether it is true or not is something entirely different from motive," said Hanabi.
"Yes, that's true," agreed Hinata as they watched.
"He's got chakra to burn, doesn't he?" said Hinata, eyeing her sister's chosen and weighing what she saw. "He's not good enough."
"You don't see him like I do," said Hinata.
"I wonder if you're seeing clearly," responded Hanabi.
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