Lies and truths

Chapter 3

With Naruto:

Naruto Uzumaki or should I say Nanami Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, named by both of her parents, though her mother won out since she was born a girl and used Naruto as the name; re-emerged in her apartment, quickly placing up the privacy and security seals in her home and walked on over to her room. Discarding her clothes along the way, stand room in her underwear. Glad that her seals tint the windows yet allow her see outside clearly and replaced her garments with clothes more suitable for training. Throwing on a dark blue sports bra and black training shorts, ending mid-thigh. Opening her closet to unseal a secret compartment to reveal her real clothes and grabbed a pair of sock and black runners putting them on and retracted to her full length mirror. Smiling happily and left her apartment, though not before henging her whisker marks away and lightening her skin tone light tan.

Nanami began running down the street, her hair flowing in the wind as she was heading over to her old training grounds. Needing to vent out her anger and unwanted emotions team Asuma up ahead.

Nanami grinned wickedly and sprinted over to the Nara heir and tackled him into a crushing embrace onto the dusty road. Ignoring the startled gasps of his teammates and pulled back to sit on his hips, smiling smugly.

The kage-user groaned seeing the beautiful woman above him, knowing better to call 'him' out considering she was hiding her birthmarks and natural tan. Sitting up and hugging her properly he grumbled out. "You troublesome woman. Couldn't you just hug me properly for once?"

Nanami giggled lightly and stood up, helping the deer up. "Nope. I wouldn't be me if I didn't, Shika."

Ino whacked Shikamaru on the shoulder and scolded him. "Shikamaru Nara, why haven't you introduced us to this beautiful girl before? Hmm?" Shikamaru rubbed his face in annoyance. Wondering how dense or oblivious his teammates are not to put one and one together and see that Nanami was the 'beautiful girl', especially since Nanami would always use her 'Oiroke no jutsu'.

Nanami decided to introduce herself and said. "Hiya, I'm Nanami. Shika talks about you guys all the time." Ino smiled brightly and shook the teen's hand, Nanami smiled softly offering her hand in greeting, seeing him blush slightly, trying his best to ignore the glare from the Yamanaka heiress next to him; and greeted the bearded Sarutobi. "Sorry to introductions, but I wanted to see Shika and tell him I was back from my mission; and I have training to catch up on." running down the street, waving over her shoulder.

Shikamaru smiled, seeing her happier than ever before. Remembering the times, she would come over to his compound, dropping her henge and crying into his mother's soothing embrace. His father fussing over her well-being, wanting to punish her team and make them go through several sessions with Anko & Ibiki. 'It's about time you started caring a yourself, Naruto.'

The other members of team Asuma saw his smile, with Ino immediately going into gossip-mode. "Shika? Not even Choji, Asuma-sensei or I call you that. When were you going introduce her? How long have you known her? How old is she? What rank? Is she dating anyone...?" Shikamaru walked away from the pestering blonde chunin, casually pretend the encounter never happened. Asuma and Choji knowing better that to pry into Shikamaru's life, unless he told them personally.

Nanami mentally high-fived herself, running around the people in the streets. Happy that she managed to kind-of tell Shikamaru that she was no longer going to goof around in form. 'I'll have to tell Hina-chan too. Hopefully my old partner is at the training grounds, I miss hanging out with her and the girls.'

Nanami too consumed in her thoughts and dancing around the populace to notice that she was about to collide with an equally consumed shinobi. "KYA!" she squeaked, feeling fall backwards. Closing her eyes, preparing to feel the impact of the hard ground...it never happened.