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Unexpected Love	By : jupmod Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 28539 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 10
Disclaimer: The Naruto series and all Naruto characters are the copyright of Masashi Kishimoto. I’m just borrowing them to write up a story with no intention of making any money. This is for fun. :)

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Disclaimer: The Naruto series and all Naruto characters are the copyright of Masashi Kishimoto. I’m just borrowing them to write up a story with no intention of making any money. This is for fun. That’s all. :) No copying of my story is allowed. That's stealing if anyone copies my story into his/her own story. Write your own story without taking others' works! (angry glare)
Story rating: M (R)(for adult and sexual themes)

Written: February 2009 - July 2010
Summary: Love can pop up unexpectedly with someone you least imagine to fall for. NaruTen.
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Unexpected Love

Chapter 4 – Stronger Combined

By JuPMod (aka JPMod)
Walking down the busy market street, Tenten, known as The Weapons Mistress of Konoha, couldn’t help but feel like that world was going well for her. So well, that she was able to enjoy the sights, sounds, and good smells of Konoha’s business district with ease. Today felt like a good day with the skies bright and clear with a few puffy clouds, the temperature nice and tolerable, and the joy of seeing the villagers happily going about their everyday lives in peace.
For the bun-haired brunette, another reason for being in a good mood was the two katon jutsu scrolls attached to her waist belt. In little over a month since she had started her training in utilizing her nature chakra, Tenten had made progress in mastering katon jutsu. She has yet to reach A-rank level, but she had learned least one B-rank katon jutsu and several C-ranks, not to mention several handy D-rank ones for everyday use. Now with the two scrolls she had just received from Tsunade-sama, Tenten was going to aim to try to add an A-rank katon jutsu to her list.
“Tenten!” a voice called out, and turning her head to the source, the young woman realized it was Ino, standing in front of her family’s flower shop with a broom. Being so mentally focused on her recently required scrolls, Tenten was not even aware where she was going and would have passed the Yamanaka Flower Shop without noticing it, if it weren’t for her fellow kunoichi.
“Hi, Ino,” Tenten grinned in greeting, as she strolled up to the blonde. The weapons expert realized that Ino too was wearing her kunoichi outfit, just with the addition of the shop apron on top, and like everyone else in The Kunoichi Five, Ino’s work attire had changed over the years. Today, the perky, shapely Yamanaka wore a long-sleeved fishnet undershirt, crop-top short-sleeved purple v-neck shirt on top, black spandex pants with purple skirt, and a high-heeled kunoichi boots which ended above the ankles.
“So, what’s happening?” Ino chirped before her expression became devious. “Have nothing to do without your training partner around?”
Tenten smirked with narrowed eyes at her friend. “Will you ever stop pushing?” Ever since that night at the dance club last month, Ino had constantly teased her regarding the nature of her relationship with Naruto.
“Nope,” the blonde impishly answered. “You can’t hide the fact that you’re interested in Naruto.”
“We’re friends,” the brunette insisted, “best friends. Men and women can dance close as we did and still be friends.”
Ino smirked. “Not the way you two were dancing close. You two looked so much like a couple than friends, especially the way your heads were positioned.”
“You’re such a tease,” a grinning Tenten rolled her eyes, feeling her cheeks blushing at the memories of how wonderful it was to dance so close to the blond man.
“You’re blushing,” the blonde pointed out, eyes twinkling. “You’re thinking about him, right now.”
With one hand on her hip, the Weapons Mistress cockily grinned. “That’s because we are talking about him. It’s hard not to think about him, when we’re talking about him.” Her eyebrows rose upward. “What about you and Chouji? You guys are dating, right?”
“Trying to change the subject, aren’t you?” Ino mentally snickered to the ploy. “Fine. I’ll let this go for now, Tenten, just you can’t deny your interest in the handsome whisker-faced man. You’ll see.”
Grinning, Ino shrugged her shoulders and answered. “Of course, we’re dating. I have not denied that before. Chouji is a good and kind man. I like to explore to know whether we can be more than friends.” Light blue eyes became unfocused, as their owner was preoccupied with a memory. “Kami, he sure knows how to kiss.”
Brown eyes blinked at that. “You two kissed?” Tenten asked in surprise. After seeing Ino nodded, Team Gai’s kunoichi frowned. “Are you going too fast with him, Ino? You only had been dating him for less than a month.”
Ino chuckled good-naturedly. “You’re making it sound like we’re already bedding each other.” Tenten blushed upon hearing that, yet her frown remained, and upon seeing the frown still there, the blonde let a well-meaningful grin appeared on her face. “We’ve been friends for so long, that I felt comfortable in giving him a kiss. It was on his birthday a few weeks ago. It felt right, and I had no regrets. We both liked our first kiss that we’ve been kissing ever since in private whenever we’ve gotten the chance.” Her expression became gentle. “Tenten, it’s just a matter of whether you’re comfortable and trusting with a man to give him a kiss on the lips. If you’re not comfortable or trusting with him, you would not even want to dance very close to him.”
Tenten has to admit that Ino made a good point, yet was she also conveying something else? “Are you talking about Naruto with that reference to dancing closer? I do trust him, and I’m very comfortable with him, yet do I feel that way with him?” All in all, she was not sure she even has an answer to the question.
Feeling triumphant in planting that little seed, Ino noticed the two scrolls strapped to the weapons mistress’s belt. “What are those scrolls?” she asked while pointing them out.
Grateful for the change in subject, Tenten grinned and pulled one out to show it to the blonde. “I’d asked Tsunade-sama whether she knows of any katon jutsu scrolls I can borrow, and she gave me these two out of the village’s main vault in the Hokage Tower.”
Eying the scroll, Ino saw it was a katon scroll as indicated, but her eyes went wide upon seeing a familiar clan symbol at one end. “That symbol,” she pointed out. “These scrolls belong to—”
“The Uchiha Clan,” the brunette kunoichi finished with a dry look before attaching the scroll back. “Everyone in the village knows we took over their assets within a year or two after Sasuke left to join Orochimaru. All that land and stuff just sitting there going to waste.”
“I know,” Ino nodded, feeling somewhat sympathetic to the last Uchiha yet knowing it had been the right thing to do. Least the land and stuff were put to good use. “I was surprise Sasuke didn’t complain about the lost.”
Tenten gave her a ‘Are you crazy?’ expression. “Not with the money his clan stashed in banks outside the village. Tsunade-sama couldn’t touch those accounts no matter what, unless she has the authorization of the Fire Daimyo to seize any accounts within the country. If there were any, that is, given Sasuke is not saying anything if there were any within the country.”
Ino nodded again. It had been quite a revelation to most in the village that the Uchiha clan has kept money stocked in accounts in foreign banks outside the village as well as the Fire Country. Yet despite the shock, it did make sense, especially if your clan was quite wealthy and powerful. Why bother to keep everything in one basket? In case of emergencies, least a clan would have some money to fall back onto. It made most citizens wonder if other prominent clans, like the Hyuuga, had done the same thing. Overall, it may felt like a betrayal to not have all of one’s assets invested within the village, but from a financial standpoint, it made sense.
Seeing something out of the corner of her eyes that made her smirk, Ino focused again on her friend. “So, are you going to surprise Naruto with any katon jutsu from those scrolls, as well as your other surprise?”
“Yeah, I’m going to do that,” a confused Tenten grinned. “You know after he comes home from his mission I’m going to show him what my mother gave me. Why?”
A giggle came out of Ino’s mouth, before she pointed to something down the street. “Because you’ll be showing him sooner than you think.”
Swiveling her head in the direction the blonde pointed, Tenten was surprised and delighted to see Naruto and his team coming up the street. It was apparent Team 7 has just now returned from their mission, which meant for the weapons specialist that she would be indeed showing Naruto tomorrow what she has learned during his time away.
A happy smile graced the Jinchuuriki’s face upon spotting the two girls. “Tenten! Ino!” he waved as he, Sakura, and Yamato-taichou approached. “It’s great to see you two!”
“Hi, Naruto,” greeted Tenten warmly to him before giving him a hug, which he returned just as warmly. She hugged her pink-haired friend too in greetings, as well as welcomed Yamato with a verbal greeting. After Ino too greeted the team with a friendly hug to Naruto and Sakura, did the brunette kunoichi address Team 7 as a whole. “I take the mission went well?”
Sakura answered with a cocked grin. “Typical escort mission, nothing exciting happened. I am so looking forward to get home and relax.”
“And I’m looking forward to some ramen from Ichiraku’s,” Naruto grinned toothily, making Ino chuckle and Tenten and Sakura shaking their heads amusedly. Yamato simply grinned at the young man, knowing despite how far Naruto has grown as a person, he was still the same in some ways.
Cerulean orbs taking in his female friend and training partner, Naruto became aware of the two scrolls on her belt. “Are those katon scrolls?” he pointed out with a finger.
Tenten nodded. “Yeah, Tsunade-sama gave them to me awhile ago. I was on my way to the training grounds to work on them, when I stopped to speak to Ino. I’ll show them to you tomorrow.”
Naruto shrugged with a grin. “I can join you now. We don’t have to wait until tomorrow, if you want.”
A tiny chuckle indicated Tenten was amused and not surprise at what he said. “Naruto, you just came back from a mission, and you want to join me in training?” she mentioned with a raised eyebrow. “It is mid-afternoon, thus why don’t you go and relax after reporting in to Tsunade-sama. Go to Ichiraku’s as you planned. As I stated, I’ll show you the scrolls tomorrow.”
“Yeah, Naruto,” Ino joined in, teasingly ribbing him. “There’s more to life than just training and missions, you know.” Her blue eyes briefly locked with the sea-foam greens of her best friend, passing a message between their eyes.
The blond man chuckled and held up a hand. “Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m just eager to return to my training with Tenten. We have a lot to learn, if we’re going to get that jounin promotion.” He trained his sights on his bun-haired partner, placing a hand on her arm. “I’ll see you tomorrow then.”
“Sure thing,” Tenten reassured him, grinning warmly at him. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
With a wave of good-bye to both Ino and Tenten, Naruto began walking off toward the Hokage Tower with Yamato, who also said his farewells to the two kunoichi. Yet a few seconds later, both stopped and turned around upon noticing their female teammate was not following. “Come on, Sakura-chan,” the blond called out.
A grinning reassuring Sakura shook her head. “You two go ahead,” she explained, “I want to speak to Ino about some flowers to plant at Sasuke’s home. I’ll catch up.”
“Okay, Sakura-chan,” Naruto shrugged with an understanding smile. He then resumed the journey to the Hokage Tower, and Yamato followed suit, but not before tossing a grin and raised eyebrow at the pinkette, who knew the elite jounin knew what she was up to.
Once the two men were out of sight did Tsunade’s apprentice immediately pointed to her best friend. “Okay, Ino-pig, spill! What is it that you got to tell me?”
Ino giggled before eying the brown-haired kunoichi. “Tenten has a surprise in store for Naruto.”
Curious green-eyes turned to the older girl. “Really? This surprise has nothing to do with those jutsu scrolls, right?” she asked while indicating the scrolls on Tenten’s belt.
Tenten shook her head with a fleeting grin. “No, it’s nothing to do with these scrolls. My mother gave me something a few days after your team left weeks ago on your mission.” With that said, she explained everything to the captivated medic-nin, and when she was finished a few minutes later, Sakura was grinning wickedly.
“If you can master that, you will so get one over Naruto,” Sakura crowed. Ino nodded enthusiastically in agreement.
Once more, Team Gai’s only female member shook her head, but this time with a disbelieving chuckle. “Me? Get one over Naruto? Not in a department he is ahead of me.” As a thought came to her mind, she let a devilish grin slowly spread across her face. “But that doesn’t mean I can least try.”
“Yes!” both the other girls cried out, before they raised their hands in a high-five gesture to Tenten, who gave a high-five to each.
With her inner being full of confidence, Konoha’s Weapons Mistress waved merrily good-bye to her fellow kunoichi. “I’ll see you two later. I’m going now to see what I can learn from these scrolls.”
“Go for it!” Ino called after the brunette as she walked away toward the training grounds.
“I better get going too,” Sakura mentioned. “I don’t want to keep Tsunada-shishou waiting.” She waved as she began strolling away. “I’ll see you later, Ino-pig!”
“Yeah, I’ll catch you later, Forehead!” Ino replied back good-naturedly. With her friend gone, the blonde Yamanaka returned to sweeping the front of her family’s store, until a customer came up to her to ask about some flowers.
Following the customer inside to deal with an order, Ino mentally smirked. “I so wish for Tenten to get one over Naruto. It’s not possible given his skills, but oh, it would be so much fun if it was possible.”
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Blades slashed through the morning air, as their owner moved around the clearing, his body going through the stances of the kenjutsu form rapidly from one to another. A small trickle of sweat went down his cheek, but his stamina didn’t let up, his chakra giving him the energy needed to continue onward without stopping. For any average shinobi, he or she would think someone has to be crazy to even workout for an hour straight without stopping even once, but for Uzumaki Naruto, it was the norm due to his large chakra reserves and his personal beliefs of not ever giving up.
So thus began another training day for the Most Unpredictable Ninja of Konoha. During his time away from the village while on the mission, the blond man would keep up with his kenjutsu exercises whenever and wherever it was possible to do so. Yet now that he was home, he was looking forward to sparring and training with the woman who had helped him get this far with knowing kenjutsu, so he could use his father’s chakra kodachis – Tenten.
As he leaped into the air, his twin short swords slashing through the air in artistic form, Naruto couldn’t help but feel a small tug in his heart whenever he thought of the weapons-loving kunoichi.
In the past few months, since he had started his kenjutsu training, he has enjoyed spending time with Tenten, not just during training time, but also when they had hung out for dinner afterward, socializing with their friends, etc. She has become a very great friend to him, and as he had gotten to know more about her than he ever recalled before her offer to train him, Naruto realized that he admired her highly as a person. Tenten was strong and serious as a kunoichi, yet as a woman, she was kind, understanding, and has a great sense of humor. Unlike Sakura-chan, Tenten did not ever hit him if he said anything stupid, and furthermore, she had more patience to teach him things in ways he could understand, while Sakura-chan would sometimes become impatience. Overall, it came down simply that Naruto knew that he truly like Tenten and rather be with her than with anyone else in his group of close friends.
Feeling a familiar presence nearby, no doubt watching him, the whisker-faced blond let a small smile graced his lips. He didn’t mind her observation of him at all, especially since that night at the dance club. It felt nice that she wanted to watch him.
Leaning against tree, Tenten warmly smiled as her brown eyes took in his supple form doing the kenjutsu moves. She was no fool to not tell that he had noticed her, but he didn’t seem to mind, thus why she continued viewing him, giving her a heart a tug in knowing he trusted her.
Trust. It was something she knew all her friends and comrades have toward one another. Without trust, teamwork was not possible, and the close bond of friendship wouldn’t have existed among them. Yet, the brunette was feeling a different kind of trust toward Naruto, and oddly, she couldn’t place it properly to describe it. It was just a feeling that she could trust him with her life, her soul, her entire being. The blond has a big heart, gentle soul, and a determine drive to be the best shinobi he could be, and she found all these traits were very admirable. It was no wonder she looked forward to spend much time with Naruto as possible. He was overall a great guy to be with.
After several minutes of watching him practice, Tenten stepped away from the tree and approached her training partner, who stopped and faced her when she drew near. “You’re really getting the hang of the stances,” she spoke out with a grin, skipping greeting him since she knew he knew she was there anyway. “I say you’ll soon do not need any more instructions. Just work on the speed and you’ll be ready.”
“Thanks, Tenten,” Naruto proudly grinned. “Knowing the forms had helped a lot with my fuuton jutsu development.” She nodded once before unrolling her weapons storage scroll. “The usual spar?” he asked upon noticing her conjuring up the pair of kodachis she’d used before. .
“Yep,” Tenten confirmed, as she placed her scroll aside before starting her warm up. “I’ll start with testing you against the kodachi, before I’ll move on to using a katana.” His simple nod told her he understood.
After her warm up, the pair began their spar.
As steel clang against steel, both elegantly moved fluently across the clearing in front of the Memorial Stone, like two dancers moving in synch. Each used their skills and knowledge to attack, defend, and counterattack, and as the spar continued, Tenten and Naruto began to enjoy the thrill of the moments, taking pride and admiration in not only their own skills but also the skills of each other. It was a joy for both to know they each have similar feelings when it came to training with each other this way.
Many minutes later, after one last mid-air attack on one another, the brunette kunoichi lowered her swords, a sign that the duel was over, prompting the blond shinobi to follow her lead. A wide radiant smile graced her face. “You’ve improved greatly, Naruto,” she mentioned, her voice indicating her great approval. “After three months, your defenses barely have any holes for me to exploit.” Her lips curved upward on one side. “Although, I think your attacks could use some work,” she admitted humorously.
Naruto chuckled at her jab, rubbing the back of his neck. “Well, it’s not like we’re wielding blunt swords, Tenten. If we’re not careful, we can do serious harm when going full out. It’s one thing to not to worry about these things when fighting an enemy, but it’s another when training with friends.”
Tenten nodded once with an understanding grin. She certainly knew that feeling, whenever Gai-sensei had asked her to attack Lee or Neji with her weapons. During their first year as a team, she had not wanted to risk hurting her teammates, but as time went by, her confidence in her teammates grew enough to feel she did not need to worry about hurting them, even with blunt weapons.
Getting into a fighting stance and holding up his blades, Naruto gave his training partner a cocky grin. “So, ready to go another round?”
Matching his expression, Tenten strolled over to her scroll and sealed away her kodachis. “Sure, she said over her shoulder, “just this time, I’ll use the katana.” With that said, she unsealed the sword, and after the smoke clear, the katana was in her hands, before the young woman turned around to face her friend.
Blue eyes blinked in confusion at first, before they became lidded. “That’s not the katana you usually use,” the blond chuunin mentioned, as he examined the katana.
Unlike the average katana she had used before, this one definitely was no ordinary sword. The steel blade was sharp and gleaming much like his kodachis. The hilt was wrapped in intertwined red and white leather straps with a covered butt that has a red tassel. Yet the most interesting feature was the guard, which was made by taking a small Leaf symbol, smaller than the one seen on the hitai-ate, and mirrored it vertically and then the two were mirrored horizontally with all the points touching in the center.
That smug smile on her face went wider upon seeing his expression. “My mom used to wield this katana when she was a kunoichi during her younger days, before she and my dad settled down. A few days after you left on your mission last month, my mom gave me her sword, saying I was ready to wield it, now that I have begun training in nature manipulation.”
Understanding dawned to the young Jinchuuriki. “You mean…” He gestured to her sword. “That katana is…”
Tenten let actions speak for her, as she poured her nature chakra into the blade, shimmering up its length. The blue chakra covered the blade, flickering and wavering like a burning fire ravaging a piece of wood. Upon seeing this sight, Naruto knew he was right.
“It’s a chakra blade,” the brunette confirmed verbally, her expression still smug.
Two blond eyebrows lifted up at her. “How far along have in come in a month, Tenten? You could not have mastered nature manipulation in a month.”
Sweet laughter came forth from the kunoichi’s mouth, before she shook her head, letting a regular grin graced her face. “I have not mastered it. No average ninja can master nature manipulation in a month. You were able to do so, because of your unique training technique, Naruto, but for me, it’s just not possible.
“So far, I have several hand-seal katon jutsu under my belt, and I’m currently working on adding an A-rank jutsu to the list. The best I can do now with my mom’s sword is push chakra into it to create the chakra flames along its length. I just do not have the ability yet to create katon jutsu out of the katana, as you do with fuuton jutsu out of your kodachis.”
A challenging, wicked expression slowly appeared on her face, setting off her training partner’s internal warning alarms. “But this not mean I will not have fun in least trying to take you on, Naruto, after all, when it comes to elemental chakra, it is known that fire trumps wind.” With this said, the Weapons Mistress leaped into the air, her sword posed over her head to swing it down on the male shinobi below.
“Kuso!” Naruto shouted out upon seeing the quickly descending kunoichi, sword ready to strike. His hands swiftly brought up his chakra-enhanced short swords in the horizontal defense position just before the katana collided with the twin kodachis. With force behind his arms, he pushed away his opponent, who immediately attacked again.
So, as it was before, the pair dueled for many minutes of attacking and defending, giving everything they had to get one over the other. To the average civilian, they looked like they were really fighting each other, but to a shinobi, it was obvious, the two would not cross the line to truly hurt each other. Over time, small grins came to their faces, showing their excitement and delight, as their swords maintained their elemental chakra auroras.
“Kami!” Tenten mentally exclaimed, while dodging an attack by back flipping a few times before going on the offence. “It’s just so much fun fighting him like this!” He parried a few of her hits prior to side jumping out of the way. “Neither Lee or Neji have ever given me such a fun workout!” With gleaming eyes, the Weapons Mistress once more went on the attack.
“It has been a long time since I had this much fun training” admitted a grinning Naruto to himself, while blocking and evading the kunoichi’s assaults. He then began back pushing back his opponent with various counter strikes. “It’s quite a rush to train like this, not to mention the great company.”
After taking a small jump backwards to give some space between them, Tenten swung her katana overhead before commencing a hard downward stroke. Naruto, seeing the attack, quickly crossed his kodachis into an X, and once the katana met the kodachis, he clamped the short swords over the long sword in a scissor fashion, his fisted hands over hers, prior to swiftly forcing the katana and her arms to his left, which was her right. This final move compelled her body to lurch forward to go with the flow of her trapped hands and forearms, thus her body found itself close to his with legs spread as they looked into each other’s cocky faces.
“Well, it looks like I won, Weapons Girl,” the tall blond smirked slightly down at the woman before him.
“Ha!” grandly replied the brunette. She tried to pull her sword and hands free, but the man’s hold was firm despite they were fisted around his swords. “You know I’m better than you in kenjutsu, so how do you know whether I’m just playing?”
“True,” he nodded in agreement. “Then again, you’re the one in a compromising position now, eh?” he finished with his smirk widening.
Tenten’s expression radiate at the challenge. “We’ll see about that, Whisker Boy,” she grinned defiantly.
Once more she tried to pull free from his grip, giving all her strength behind the move, but her challenger stood firm, keeping his hands locked over hers. Being bigger and stronger than her, not to mention having more chakra than her, it was clear to Tenten that Naruto could keep her trap until she exhausted herself. With one last effort, the bun-haired kunoichi gave everything she got to pull herself free.
What happened next was totally unexpected. Naruto, wanting to keep his hands locked over hers, had his arms temporarily yanked to his right, their arms going upward on the momentum. Yet the next moment, he pushed their arms and hands back down toward his left, tugging her body forward once more, but this time, Tenten, with a yelp, came crashing into his body, chest to chest. Her head shot up at the same time his head looked down, and before they knew it, the pair found their faces were close together. Very close together.
All time stopped as the startled training partners stared into each other’s eyes. Each could feel the breath of the other as well as the quickening of their heartbeats and the slow blushing of their cheeks.
“Ten-chan?” Naruto whispered, unable to tear away from those expressive chocolate eyes drawing him in. Her scent was wonderful to his nose, and she looked so beautiful, especially those pink lip-glossed lips…
“Naruto-kun?” Tenten spoke back just as softly. She was drowning in those lovely sky-blues of his. His scent was intoxicating, and he was so handsome. And those lips…
Two pairs of eyes slowly became lidded as his lips drew closer to hers, both following some inner force to make contact and wanting it very much. Feeling each other’s breaths, as their eyes became mere slits, two lips were about to touch—
Suddenly, brown and blue eyes shot wide open, feeling something else that made two heads slowly turned together toward the source – the swords in their hands. The two separate chakras, around the katana and the kodachis, were mingling and some merging, and slowly, before their eyes, red-oranges flames began to appear, encircling the swords at the areas where the three blades touch.
“WHAT THE HELL?!” both ninjas shouted at the sight, before they jumped away from each other, and upon disconnection, the flames immediately died off at the same time both young adults stopped pouring their nature chakra into their swords.
“What was that?!” Naruto blinked in bewilderment at nothing in particular before eying an equal baffled Tenten.
She wondered at first which he was referring, the sight of their nature chakras merging or that they nearly kissed. Pushing her blush back at the thoughts of what it would have felt to have his lips pressed against her, the female weapons expert presumed he meant this latest incident. “Well, from the looks of it, our nature chakras merged when our swords touched. The question I have, is this possible?”
Naruto raised an eyebrow at the question before pondering on it. A few moments later, he nodded. “I know it is possible to combine jutsu to form one jutsu. Yamato-taichou and I did that when we saved Kakashi-sensei, Ino, and Chouji from Kakuzu. We combined my Fuuton: Rasengan (Wind Element: Spiraling Sphere) and his Suiton: Hahonryuu (Water Element: Crashing Rapids) to form the Gufuu Suika no Jutsu (Water Typhoon Vortex Technique). Not to mention that Yamato-taichou can combine two nature chakras through a bloodline to create his wood jutsu.”
Tenten couldn’t find any fault with that, except one thing. “True, but we’re talking about merging the nature chakras from two separate individuals, not from one person.”
A tiny grin formed on Naruto’s face prior to shrugging his shoulders. “Well, we did saw it was possible. Can’t argue with what we saw, eh?”
A chuckle bubbled out of Tenten’s mouth. He made a very good point there. One couldn’t dispute what one has witnessed with one’s eyes.
It was at this moment that an idea came to Naruto. Thinking it was a good plan, he sheathed his left kodachi in its scabbard behind his back, and with that done, he approached Tenten and stood just behind her.
“What are you doing?” the Weapons Mistress mentioned out of bafflement as her friend wrapped his left arm around her waist. She placed her left hand over his, feeling her cheeks flared again at his close proximity while her brown eyes locked onto his blue ones.
His comforting smile made her relax a bit. “We’re going to try to recreate what we saw. If we can combine my wind-natured chakra with your fire-natured chakra, it will open up a whole new door for us in creating jutsu. After all, by combining our strengths, we can become stronger. That’s how a team works, right?”
Tenten grinned softly at his explanation, her posture fully relaxed now she knew what he was planning. “You do know I stated that I have not mastered nature manipulation,” she pointed out the flaw in his idea.
Naruto’s smile didn’t deflate at her words. “I’m not suggesting for you to need to create any katon jutsu out of your sword. Just pump your nature chakra into your blade as you did before without pushing to the extreme, and I’ll do the same with mine. Let us see what happens when our chakras merge.”
One side of his mouth curved upward. “It’s true that fire trumps wind, but I do know that if wind aids fire, fire only gets stronger. Therefore, wind and fire are stronger together than they are apart.”
Mouth slightly apart in astonishment, Tenten truly could not find any fault at all at what he said. Naruto has shown great intelligence from his choice of words, thus she knew his plan has great merits and possibilities in the future… for both of them.
Letting a warm and confident smile slowly form on her face, the brunette squeezed his left hand and settled into his embrace, her back relaxing against his chest. “So how do we accomplish this?” she asked. She has a good hunch what they were going to do, but she wanted to hear it from him.
Cheeks becoming a bit rosy from her nearness, the blond shinobi began to enlighten the brown-haired kunoichi. “It’s simple. Extend out your katana, as it was before.” He watched her extend out her right arm with the long blade, pointing it outward. “Now, I place my kodachi over the katana like this.” His right arm reached out and placed the short sword next to the longer one just at the upper right of the its length. The tip of his blade touched the steel of hers with his fisted hand on top of hers just to the right. “Now we pour our nature chakras into the swords and see what develops. Trust me on this.”
Looking from their touching swords to his face, which was focused on the blades, Tenten felt an emotion inside to compel her to lean her head up enough to plant a warm kiss on his left cheek. A surprised Naruto spun his head around to look at his partner, who was supporting a trusting and warm expression at him. “I do, Naruto-kun, I do,” she grinned warmly.
At her words, Naruto felt a stirring in his heart, knowing she placed this high level of trust in him. He was determined to not let her down. “Thanks, Ten-chan,” he smiled back just as warmly.
After a minute of looking into each other’s eyes, the pair once more focused on their swords with warm determination etched on their faces.
With the Memorial Stone to their left and their right sides and swords pointed toward the river, Tenten and Naruto poured their nature chakras into their chakra blades. They watched as the two chakras didn’t do anything at first, but slowly and as expected, the two started to mingle and merge. The two chakras began to grow, one strengthening the other around the swords, proving the power that came what two could accomplish when they work… together.
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TBC (End of Chapter 4)
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