Negative.
"Huh? I don't see anyone," said Naruto aloud, looking all around him. "You mean someone's watching?"
Three individuals.
"Where?" asked Naruto.
A section of the roof glowed and formed a blue map. Dots began blinking.
"Who the heck would be watching me?!" asked Naruto.
Ninja.
Naruto made a face. He really wanted to practice. On the other hand, Kakashi-sensei HAD given him an order.
Two remain.
"One of 'em left?" asked Naruto.
Affirmative.
"Can you tell who they are?" asked Naruto, still a little puzzled. And frustrated.
One has high chakra levels and is under a cloaking effect. The other is of considerably lower chakra development and is using mundane concealment and a special sensory ability to observe. The high chakra level one is at 731 meter range. The other is at 20 meter range. Analysis indicates the first is ANBU. Second is genin.
"ANBU is those guys with the masks, right? I think they keep tabs on everyone," said Naruto, puzzling that out. "Can you do a stealthy kinda thing?"
"Wha?" gasped Hinata. She had heard that Naruto had returned to the village. She'd just wanted to check up on him. Something odd had been going on though.
Now Naruto had just vanished right before her eyes. What did this mean? Had it been one of his shadow clones? Was it some new jutsu he'd learned on his mission?
"Oh, hey, Hinata isn't it?"
"EEEEEEEEEK!"
CLONK!
"Whoa," said Naruto as the girl in question leapt up, hit her head on a section of air conditioning vent, and went back down. "That looked like it hurt."
Blue light briefly played over the girl.
"Fainted?" asked Naruto. "Huh. Well, let's get her comfie."
Hinata slowly stretched, then rubbed her aching head.
There was a moment where she didn't know where she was, and then memories caught up with her.
She was able to identify where she was pretty quickly. She was in Naruto's apartment. On his bed.
The last thing she heard was Naruto's voice asking. "Did she just faint again?"
"She is so weird," said Naruto.
[Beginning full medical diagnostic.
Analyzing.]
As images began appearing and rotating in mid-air, all in soft pastel blue, Naruto summed things up. "I don't understand any of this. What's... this one?"
A pulse slightly increased the brightness of one particular rotating image.
[Limbic system.]
"...can you say that in terms I can understand?"
[Language: simple. These are the parts of the brain involved with emotions, basic motivations, survival instinct, sex, and memory access. The sections highlighted show signs of overstimulation. Which means basically those sections are getting overloaded. Similar to what occurs when you channel too much chakra into your feet while tree-climbing.]
"Oh!" said Naruto, remembering that training and now studying the image with a bit more understanding. "Not gonna blow up like those trees, is she?"
[No. Suggest overcoming difficulty by means similar to overcoming allergies. Analysis indicates that presence of Naruto behaving in a friendly manner is cause. Treatment would require continuing such behavior in order to overcome problem.]
Naruto scratched his head, thinking that maybe he needed to request the language go something easier than 'simple' because that was still a bit difficult to wrap his head around. "So... it's kinda like she's allergic to me?"
[This is not completely correct, yet not completely incorrect either.]
"And in order for her to get better, I got to hang around her and talk nice to her?" asked Naruto, still thinking this sounded really weird but then Hinata WAS weird so that made sense didn't it?
[Essentially correct.]
"Oh. Okay," said Naruto. Friendly came natural to him. He could do that much. "So I should go get her some ramen for when she wakes up!"
[Ramen is not the answer to everything.]
"Shadow clone jutsu!"
Hinata woke up, realized immediately she was STILL on Naruto's bed.
She also realized there were three Naruto in the apartment with her.
"Okay, so she's only out for about a minute when she's doing that eye-flicker thingie," said one of the Naruto.
Hinata wondered what THAT meant.
"I don't understand half of that," said the same Naruto, scratching his head.
Hinata slowly got up to a sitting position. There was Naruto, making cup ramen at the stove. There was Naruto, sitting against a wall and staring at a blue ring. There was Naruto, trying to clean his apartment by overstuffing a closet.
"Shadow clones?" asked Hinata.
"Yeah, shadow clones are awesome!" said the Naruto at the stove.
"I have to be returning home," said Hinata, getting off the bed and bowing in apology. "I'm so sorry for disturbing you."
"Come by anytime!" said the Naruto on the floor.
"Just give a little warning," said the trying-to-clean Naruto, putting his back against the closet door and then straining to get it closed.
"I'll tell you all about my awesome mission!" promised the Naruto at the stove.
"Hmph," said Hinata with a nod before hurrying off. She'd think about it later. Right now she had to hurry before anyone in her family missed her.
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