Akamaru yipped and yowlfed and made other noises and was supportive of his partner but really didn't think this was a good idea.
The girls got ready for a fight. Tonfa, warfans, swords, pitchforks, kunai, mops, brooms, and assorted weapons were in evidence.
"WHAT exactly are you doing?" asked someone a bit older.
"Ayla!" said Marle, pointing at Kiba. "He said we smell!"
"So?" said Ayla. "He's an Inuzuka. Heightened sense of smell. EVERYONE smells to their noses."
"Oh," said several girls.
"Well, he said it kind of nastily," said one of the girls.
"Ain't my fault," protested Kiba.
There was grumbling from the various girls, but Kiba noticed that the weapons WERE being put away. Which was when Kiba decided to make one comment too many.
"It's not like any weak girl could beat me anyway."
Silence, punctuated only by Akamaru whining and beginning to dig a foxhole.
"What was that?" asked Ayla, not turning to face Kiba.
"I said that it's not like any weak little girl could manage to put a scratch on us. We're a whole lot better, right Akamaru?"
Head and shoulders now below ground level, Akamaru made a noise that MIGHT have been translated as "What's this 'we' kemo-sabe?"
"Oh come on, Akamaru," said Kiba. "What could they do?"
Akamaru stuck his head up out of his foxhole, oddly enough now wearing a helmet. He yapped something.
"They could tell your mother," translated Ayla, who understood the tongue of beasts. At least some of them.
Kiba stopped, turning several shades paler and beginning to sweat. "Th-they wouldn't do that. Would they?"
A collective "uh huh" went up from the group.
"I wouldn't," said one of the wolf-girls, not mentioning that SHE was personally frightened of Kiba's mother. What an Alpha female she was!
Kiba immediately looked at the one sane girl among the crowd and wondered if it was too late to be friends.
"Did it work?"
"No, Hinata fainted," said Terra Branford.
"Well, can't say you didn't try, Terra-chan." Yukie Mayuzumi consoled herself that at least she wasn't THAT bad.
"We got years before it matters," said a dark-elf from where she was lazily lying on a treebranch. "Maybe she'll come around by then."
A pixie fluttered to a stop in front of the group, carrying a bag roughly her own size. "I got them!"
"Right!" said Terra, picking one of the cards out of the bag. "Naruto has been shunned by the people of the village, so it's only fair!"
"Right!" said another dark-elf, this one wearing a maid outfit. (Mainly because she liked maid outfits and proclaimed them cute and capable of hiding vast amounts of weaponry.) "Operation: Support Naruto begins!"
"With card-carrying members," said a sylph as she selected her own card.
"If that Uchiha boy can have a fanclub, then certainly someone who saves girls from certain death deserves a fanclub," said an undine.
"Hokage-sama. Naruto Uzumaki has developed a new fuuinjutsu technique."
The Hokage's voice was completely flat. "So when he was forbidden from doing one sort of fuuinjutsu seal, he went about making a new one. I'm so shocked and surprised I can barely stand it."
"You don't look surprised, Hokage-sama," said the ANBU.
"Right," said the Hokage, deciding this particular ANBU was probably in desperate need of a vacation. "What does this one do?"
"He calls it the 'Five-Ton-Note' sir," said the ANBU, holding up a paper seal about the size of post-it note.
"What does it do?" asked the Hokage.
BA-RUMFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!
The Hokage knew earth-based techniques, so he quickly made a tunnel out one window. Then looked back at where several tons of dirt were still spilling out the other windows. "Okay. Well, I guess I'm going to have to take some time away from the office while it's being cleaned. Oh, and can someone dig the ANBU Weasel out of there?"
Another ANBU appeared, saluted, and then contemplated exactly how this was going to get cleaned up.
"So the 'Five-Ton-Note' causes several tons of loose dirt to appear at the location of the tag?" asked the Hokage as he sat on one of the stools.
"Yeah," said Naruto. "Well, basically a few tons of whatever you sealed. It has to be a simple material like dirt or water or something though. You have to have the material when you make the seal, then seal it, then it all gets released. Like an explosive tag but it produces something instead of going boom."
"What would you use it for?" asked the Hokage, thinking of several uses himself.
"Besides pranks?" asked Naruto.
"Yes," prompted the Hokage.
"Filling holes," said Naruto. "Mainly though, it was something I did while trying to do something else."
"What exactly were you trying to do?" asked the Hokage.
"You know how typical storage seals have limits on 'em?" asked Naruto. "You can't put something too big or too complicated in 'em normally. Then there's special scrolls for certain complicated things, but it's all kinda specific. You can only store a certain type of thing?"
"Yes, the Kanayama Threshold," said the Hokage.
"Well, I've been trying to find a way around that," said Naruto. "It's a pain."
"People have been trying to find a way around that limit since sealing techniques were first developed," noted the Hokage. "Maybe you ought to try something else and come back to it after a time."
"You think so?" asked Naruto.
"It's better than what happens if you try to force it," said the Hokage. "They call that a 'K-T Event' where the Kanayama Threshold is exceeded. It's not a good thing."
"Oh," said Naruto. "So what would you suggest I try?"
"Well, if it came to that," mused the Hokage aloud, trying to think of something SAFE. Which meant that 'improving explosive tags' wasn't anywhere near the consideration list. "What about "
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