Then there was the tall redhaired woman who was sweeping the front steps. Since the days of Kushina Uzumaki there had been nobody within Konohagakure that had possessed hair of close to that shade.
Wearing the white and red traditional shrine priestess clothing, her hair tied back with a simple white ribbon, the young woman tended her shrine simply.
The Hokage and a few ANBU came by at one point to speak with the woman, but otherwise her first day was quiet.
The same could not be said for everywhere else in Konoha unfortunately.
Kurenai had gone back over the conversation with the Hokage and realized that the Hokage had implied that Naruto was the one with the dragon contract, but she also noted that he never outright stated that.
She was a jonin. Jonin were supposed to be able to pick up on things like that.
She had also observed that Naruto had spoken to Hinata, who had nodded and blushed and twiddled her fingers a lot. That had gone on until Kiba had gotten fed up with the situation and begun the self-appointed task of driving off the intruder.
Kurenai Yuhi had noted that, and had noted one other interesting little thing. Akamaru had been VERY reluctant to approach Naruto. What that meant - she was still puzzling out.
As today's D-Rank mission involved manning one of Konoha's gates and checking for contraband, she had lots of time to consider the various puzzles presented her on the previous day.
"So," said Kurenai when Kiba was talking to Shino across the street and there was a break in foot traffic, "you like this Uzumaki boy?"
Hinata eeped, turned red, and began playing with her fingers again as she stammered some indistinct reply.
Kurenai raised one eyebrow slightly, interpreting that as a 'yes' with the qualifier that she hadn't actually told the boy in question.
As the boy had approached Hinata, he either suspected or had just learned of it. It was all there for someone who knew how to look at body language.
Interesting.
"Juggle eggs?" asked Naruto, looking completely baffled.
"That's right," said Kakashi Hatake. "You mentioned that your bloodline just activated and you were obviously having trouble controlling your strength yesterday. So now you learn to control that strength."
"Oh, I get it," said Sakura. "He has to be able to control his strength and be precise, or he'll just break the eggs."
"Eggsactly," said Kakashi.
"Or the yolk would be on me?" asked Naruto.
"You'd better get cracking," advised Kakashi, holding up the carton of eggs.
Sasuke winced. Puns, why did it have to be puns?
"Oh, so what will we be doing?" asked Sakura.
"Stamina training," said Kakashi, producing two large backpacks. "After all, if Naruto spars with either of you now - you might die. Best to work on your stamina and avoidance skills."
"UGH!" said Sakura, barely managing to lift the heavy backpack and begin shrugging it into place. "What's in this?! It weighs a ton!"
"Only about 50kg actually," said Kakashi. "Now is when the bees should show up."
"Bees?" asked Sakura, looking around. Then one landed on her arm.
Sasuke looked to the side, turned pale, and began running with the backpack firmly in place.
"Why, what did you-" Sakura looked, paled, and began running.
The swarm of bees darted after the two genin.
"I'll have to thank Anko for this idea," mused Kakashi as the two other genin sped off into the distance.
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