Fox In The Leaf

A simple gesture

It had been a week since the argument with Ino and three days since the shift had ended. Naruto had asked the hokage about a way to keep any noise from leaking out of his home and lucky for him the hokage had some privacy seal tags on hand, although they only could be used once. Naruto asked that he be taught how to do it with hand signs but he was told that it is a more advanced sealing skill to be able to use them through hand signs and would take too long to learn. Needless to say Naruto was grumpy hearing this.

The night he had to shift back, he used the tags on his room and got ready. He would have done it without guards this time because he didn't want to burden them with his cries of pain but the hokage would not hear of it since he was told of the mob that gathered the last time this happened. The Hokage had an small Anbu squad with both Yugao and Tenzo, Hana and Anko were also there for emotional comfort since the hokage thought that the sour mood he was his apprehension to changing back

Naruto had hoped that it wouldn't be as painful as before but when it started, he realized that he wouldn't even be able to tell which hurt worse because all that was on his mind was the burning, crushing and reshaping of his form

Now he was at his teams training ground sparing with Sasuke, dodging all of the Uchiha's attacks. During his time shifted into his human form, he had a hard time sparing with his male teammate and lost a lot of them causing Sasuke's ego to inflate, making him more arrogant and solidifying his superiority complex, but not back in his henge, he could fight like normal, beating the Uchiha without taking a hit

Sasuke was once again punched in the face forcing him to take a few steps back and spitting out a glob of blood "damn it Dobe hold still!" he said before throwing a right hook which Naruto dodged

Naruto ducked under the right hook and then blocked the left swing before he spoke "why should I even listen to that? If you want to hit something go fight with the post, that's more your level teme". Naruto was mad and it was showing with the scowl on his face and antagonizing Sasuke every chance he got. He wasn't even sure what he was mad at, was he mad at Ino for the argument, Sakura for telling Ino about what he said, Sasuke for being the reason for what he said to Sakura, the villagers for their hatred affecting him or himself for letting all of it get to him. He wasn't sure but he wanted to hurt something so he chose to use a the only new move he could get right

Naruto jumped back to get some distance and put his hands into his favorite hand sign "Kage Bunshin no jutsu", twenty clones popped up and made a circle around the Uchiha

Sasuke smirked, knowing he could handle them since they went down with one hit but his smirk dropped when every single clone and the original started to run in a circle counterclockwise around him "what the hell do you think your doing dobe?"

Sakura and Kakashi were watching the spar from the sidelines and Sakura was confused about what Naruto was doing but Kakashi looked up from his little orange book a looked in interest 'wonder what he's doing. He could be using it as a distraction but the original is in there as well so it can't be to give him a chance to attack, maybe to disorient Sasuke-kun? Would Naruto even be able to think of that?'. He got his answer when he saw Naruto act

Sasuke was looking at the running group turning around every other second to see what the dobe was going to do. He was suddenly hit in the back of his left shoulder hard enough to turn him around just to see nothing, as he was looking he got hit again in the back "argh, what the hell!". Sasuke kept turning around to see if he could see what hit him, he got his answer when he turned to his left just to feel Naruto's fist hit him hard making Sasuke fall to the ground. 'What the hell?!', he was then lifted up from a kick to his face and before he could even touch the ground he got hit again on the side, then in the stomach and then kicked in the arm and torso. This kept going for a few minutes until Sasuke hit the ground hard and stay there on the ground signifying his lose