Reaching For A Dream by Noodlehammer

Chapter 22

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Tenten awoke only a few moments after the foreign presence appeared inside her bedroom and she wasted no time in hurling the kunai she was gripping under her pillow at it.

"What a cruel, disrespectful apprentice I have, "Naruto's distinctive growling voice rang out, full of amusement and fake sorrow. "I come to visit and she throws a kunai at me. But if you want to play 'hide the kunai', then I'd be more than happy to oblige you."

"Naruto-shishou!" The weapons user exclaimed and threw herself at her Fuinjutsu master in a hug, ignoring the perverted banter.

Fortunately she tended to sleep in shorts and a T-shirt, so she wasn't exactly indecent

The blond was surprised at the flying tackle, but caught her without any problem. The way that she was clinging to him was a clear indication that the situation had been pretty hard on her.

Perhaps I'll get the chance to play with your body sooner than I expected. Xanna's voice rang through his head. The leer was clearly audible in her tone.

Ignoring the veiled suggestion to seduce his apprentice, Naruto spoke to Tenten instead. "How've you been Tenten?"

In response, the kunoichi slammed her fist on his chest, her exasperation getting the better of her. "Idiot! You nearly got yourself killed and I wasn't even able to come see you and then top it all off I hear that your girlfriend is the Kyuubi! There have been so many rumors going around that I don't even know what's true and what isn't and now you just show up in my bedroom in the middle of the night and ask me how I've been?! How did you get in my bedroom without trigerring any of my booby traps anyway?" She ranted.

"Well, Xanna is indeed the Kyuubi, but she really has no interest in leveling Konoha and I got into your bedroom by...doing something secret." Naruto explained teasingly.

Those Hiraishin seals he had placed on her clothes had been meant as an emergency measure in case she ever needed saving, but it had so far been unnecessary. At least the seals made it easier to say his goodbyes. Sneaking about the village while dodging ANBU would have sucked.

The weapons user huffed in irritation, but let it go in favor of asking something else. "Not that I'm not happy to see you, but is it safe for you to be here? The village seems pretty on edge over the big reveal of your girlfriend being the Kyuubi." Tenten asked with some nervousness, taking a quick look out the window to check if there was anyone there.

She had already deduced that the rumors were a load of crap, because according to what she knew, Xanna had been seen well over three years ago and had so far done nothing. She'd been shocked and a bit scared when she'd first heard, but after she'd calmed down and thought it over, the rumors lost any credence.

She didn't really know what was going on, but she was pretty sure that there was no plot to destroy Konoha going on.

"Quite sure. Nobody can sense my chakra after all, so nobody will even know that I've been here." Naruto answered with a grin.

He couldn't suppress his chakra worth shit, but Xanna could. It was much easier to keep his suppressed than her own since hers was so much stronger, which meant that she was keeping him effectively invisible to the sensors of the village.

"So...dating the Kyuubi huh? How did that even happen?" She asked curiously. She wasn't overly upset that he hadn't told her about this before. It was his own business who he told and he'd probably been trying to avoid this exact reaction from the village by hiding it.

"It's a long story, but suffice to say that she's a demon in the sack and we're getting married." Naruto answered, his face splitting into a huge grin all by itself. He never got tired of saying that.