nαrukσ's αdvєnturєs

Chapter 53- Hidden Motive and the guy with Zero Motivation!

'Normal thought...'

"Kyuubi/ Bijuu speech..."

'Kyuubi communicating with Naruko inside her head...'

"Normal speech..."

Jutsu name...

-----------------------------------------------------------

Naruko waived cheerily at the crowd while running around.

Genma smiled at that in fondness. 'She still has the energy to run around, huh? Jeez, that's a lot of stamina she got there.'

'Naruko is getting stronger and stronger...' Sakura thought in surprise.

"That Naruko is pretty strong." A civilian boy, who sat behind Sakura said in amusement.

"Yes. And she's kind of cute, don't you think? Especially those fox ears she got in the fight." His companion raved about Naruko.

"Well, that's definitely true. Do you think she would go on a date with me?" The civilian asked with a blush on his face.

Sakura sighed at that and looked back to the arena, where Naruko was now smiling brightly at the crowd and winking at them. 'I'm a little envious of you. When I see you fight, it makes me think that I should try my best, too. That's an amazing thing.' She sighed a bit depressed.

Shikamaru shook his head in fondness as he looked at the girl he saw as a sister. "Great, now Naru's getting all those cheers. And I had hoped she would stay in the 'not-so-cool' group with me...Troublesome."

"Not-so-cool group?" Shino asked him in confusion.

"Because she's getting all those cheers now, she's a member of the cool-group. And to add onto that, I definitely can't beat her... Now, I wonder if I even should try to fight in these matches anymore..." Shikamaru sighed.

"She could extract the chakra of the Kyuubi without losing herself." Kurenai said surprised to Asuma, who sat next to her.

"Yeah..." Asuma said and shook his head. "Everyone from Konoha is surprised. Especially those who fought the Kyuubi 13 years ago..." He smiled. "But maybe this will help the little kitsune to finally be tolerated by the villagers."

Naruko stopped running and giggled amused. "Ah, I won... This was fun."

'Yeah, if you mean almost losing the fight without my help, listening to boring monologues and beating someone up is fun... You should really learn how to define the word 'fun'.' Kyuubi snorted inside her head.

'Well, really? It's definitely better than your definition of fun... I mean eating people and destroying villages doesn't seem very funny to me, big bad Kyuu.' Naruko deadpanned at him.

Kyuubi just sighed at that and wisely kept his mouth shut.

Naruko turned her head and looked at Neji, who was being transported away by medics. 'I really hope he's ready to change himself... It would be a pity if he wouldn't...' She smiled softly. 'But I have the feeling he somewhat let go of his hatred.' Naruko stretched herself and then began to walk up to the waiting room. "Let's go annoy Shika~" She giggled amused as she could hear Kyuubi sigh in her head.