Fox In The Leaf

Small tour and a housewarming gift

Naruto and the other rookies were no longer in the garden as Naruto decided to give them a tour of the new compound.

"How the heck did you get the funds to build this place?"

Naruto looked to Shikamaru who was the one that asked the question making sure that he didn't move too much since Hanabi was at the moment riding on his back while having one of his tails as a makeshift seatbelt. "Well, most of my missions pay from the missions I go on go unused since I was living in the forest of death since the Suna attack."

Karin sighed at hearing this "how can you even think about living in there? Most of us went through hell during the Chunin exams!"

Sakura nodded "yeah and even you were panicking when you were being chased by that giant snake."

Everyone looked at the fox in intrigue since none of them knew exactly what team 7 went through inside that forest.

Naruto continued forward, not looking at anyone as he spoke "Sakura, that snake wasn't part of the forest of death. That was a summon from the snake-teme. And as for how I could think about living there, I have spent a lot of my time there during our academy days. It was a good place to hunt without being overcharged for food."

Kiba chucked a bit "well that explains what you said to that crazy snake woman before we went in."

"You mean Anko-nee-chan. Yeah, she ran into me one time and thought she was the only one that used the forest as a playground. At one point we started to see who could steal the most food from the wildlife in there. She always won, until I started going as a fox."

Shikamaru noted this piece of info "so she knows about you?"

"Yep. she used to guard me when I shifted."

Everyone nodded as they really didn't want to hear more about his shifting since they grimaced at hearing it. They could only imagine how painful it was for him and they really didn't want to.

Naruto led them to a long hallway that had rooms that were finished "this is the area I made that is meant for anyone that wants to crash here for a bit."

Kiba poked his head inside one of the rooms and whistled in appreciation "damn this room is bigger than the one I have! Not fair!"

*ARF*

Everyone peaked into a room themselves and they couldn't help but be impressed. There wasn't much of a difference between them but they were furnished with a shelf, a desk, futon, and a large walk-in closet. Each room was a Japanese style, with tatami flooring and paper sliding doors.

Once they all went back to the hallway Tenten remembered something "hey you didn't tell us how you were able to pay for all this. You said that you use your mission money but I doubt you make enough for all this."

Naruto gained his foxy grin as he asked "any of you ever been to a casino before?"

Most of them shook their head as they didn't see a point.

Kiba was the only one who nodded "yeah. Went to the one close to my clan compound with my mom before. We went there for a bit of fun. Lost a lot of my money when I went."

"Have you seen it recently?"

Kiba thought about the lace before Akamaru barked at him *Aarf* "oh yeah. It was closed due to some incident."

Naruto nodded "yep! The reason it closed was because it no longer had any money to give anyone. They had to close for a bit because they needed to regain some of it so they could pay the people that won."

Shikamaru was beginning to put the pieces together but he wanted to get the most negative solution out of the way first "don't tell me you stole the money?"