A massive boom echoed across Konoha, and startled the early morning crowd.

Naruto had stiffened in surprise when three nearby civilians had suddenly attacked Hanabi's guard Ko, who deflected three shuriken and a kunai before taking a kunai in the back of one shoulder and three shuriken to his chest, wavering and falling from what was probably a very potent poison.

The female dressed as a fishmonger slapped a seal on the Hyuga heiress' forehead, causing her to freeze in place, while the shorter male dressed as a street sweeper quickly used rope to tie her to the back of the larger man dressed as a blacksmith.

Naruto had barely taken a step forward before the three had leapt for the rooftops and he'd been forced to scramble up a wall to follow them. By the time he'd reached the rooftop, they were already a block away moving far faster than he could on foot, so Naruto henged into his modified Angel form and launched himself into the sky.

He flapped hard, quickly gaining altitude as he followed Hanabi's kidnappers and cursed the fact that he was a clone and lacked the massive amount of chakra that allowed the real Naruto to pull massive jutsu out of his ass.

Naruto kept right above them, wishing there was something he could do to help but coming up with nothing as he waited.

Several ANBU teams had been sent to check on the explosion on the outer wall while even more were sent on patrol of the village to make sure it wasn't a distraction.

Bear had easily spotted a worried looking Naruto flying over the village focusing on something and sent a signal to another team to the north to focus on what the village jinchuriki was worried about when he received a message that the Hyuga Heiress had been kidnapped by a snatch team heading... right below where Naruto was!

Signals were quickly sent out and a full dozen ANBU teams started to converge on the area below Naruto, continually adjusting their movements based on his own.

At the exact same time a small squad of what appeared to be Mist nin had attacked Ebisu and Team Seven, popping the Naruto clone with a spray of shuriken and wounding Sasuke as several sank into his right leg.

Ebisu instantly sent out several pulses of chakra as he flew across the training ground, dropping his remaining student next to his injured one and slammed a foot into the ground sending a ripple of chakra into the ground surrounding them. "First aid," he snapped out.

Sakura broke out of her shock and quickly scrambled for her medical supplies.

"Hidden Mist Jutsu!" one of the six nin closing in called out, taking a deep breath and exhaling a truly ludicrous amount of fog which quickly blanketed the area.

"Keep still," Ebisu ordered the two genin as he closed his eyes, slamming his right foot on the ground once more before throwing several kunai into the surrounding mist, muffled thumps showing they had struck their targets.

A whisper of sound saw him bending over at a ninety degree angle before lashing out, the blank of his palm bisecting the attacker's arm in a spray of water, causing the clone to disperse into its base element.

The two genin had no idea what was going on and were only kept from panicking by the training they'd received in the academy and their growing faith in their sensei.

An alarm sounded throughout the village and the attackers stiffened for a moment before continuing their attack, one creating half a dozen clones that surrounded the mist filled clearing and facing outward.

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"What's that?" Naruto asked, and cocked his head to the side.

"Intruder alarm," Ten-Ten replied, "lets everyone know to stay where they are while ANBU goes after the infiltrators."

"They probably mentioned it in a class I missed," Naruto said with a frown. "Ah well, I have two clones going through classes so I'm sure I'll catch everything I missed."

"Why do you have clones in the academy?" she asked.

"One is helping Konohamaru, Jiji's grandson, and the other is bugging Hanabi, Hinata's younger sister," Naruto replied.

"And why are you bugging her?" Tenten asked.

"She's way too uptight," Naruto replied with a shrug.

"She's a Hyuga," the bun haired nin said bluntly, "I'm pretty sure it's genetic."

"Hinata's not like that, she's just shy," he pointed out.

"True," Tenten agreed, having met the shy girl a time or two, since one of her teammates was a Hyuga.

"I still don't get how we keep the blood from rushing to our head when we do that," one of his clones said to another, looking up at the roof of the workshop where a naked Naruto and Tenten were standing upside down and talking.

"Ninja magic," another clone told him.

"That's probably more accurate than calling it chakra," the first said, before quenching the sword they're working on in a tub of sex lube, causing it to bubble and release a burst of coconut scented steam.

"You talk to yourself more than anyone I know," Tenten teased.

"Sometimes I need intelligent conversation," he fired back, poking her in the side with his tail and almost startling her enough to lose concentration.

"Hey, when Anko said we were supposed to poke each other to try and make them fall, I'm sure she meant with a finger!"

Naruto smirked. "We're talking about Anko here, while she wasn't thinking about my tail I'm pretty sure she was thinking of me poking you with something other than my finger."

Tenten's eyes glanced at his waist for a moment before she lost her grip on the ceiling and had to somersault down. "Dammit!"

"Point to me!" Naruto crowed and threw up his hands, making him lose focus and fall off the ceiling. "Crap!" he flipped over and landed on his feet.

"And we're even once more," Tenten said smugly before walking up a wall to stick to the ceiling.

He quickly rejoined her. "Is this speeding up or slowing down mastering surface walking?"

"How do you mean?" she asked.

"Are we learning faster or better because we're being distracted while doing this since this is a skill you haven't truly mastered until you can do it without thought?" he explained.

"That... is a good question," she decided. "The object is to be able to do it without thinking, which is also supposed to be our response to nudity, so..."

"Yes?" Naruto asked, leaning forward.

Tenten flicked the end of his erection with a finger and he fell off the ceiling... and so did she.

The pair easily landed on their feet.

"I have no idea," Tenten offered with a shrug, smirking as his eyes had darted to her chest, "but we're probably saving time doing two things at once."

"That was not a poke," Naruto said, "no point."

"A flick is a poke, just quickly from a single direction," she defended herself.

"Point," he agreed with an evil smirk and quickly scrambled back up to the ceiling.

Tenten shivered. "Why does that grin you're sporting make me nervous?" she asked as she slowly walked up the wall.

"Because you're a highly perceptive kunoichi... with nipples that stick out an impressive amount," Naruto said innocently.

"Crap," Tenten said with a wince, realizing the new front that had just opened in their little game.

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Naruto knew he wasn't skilled enough to take them out, he was only a clone and lacked the chakra the original had which allowed him to pull large scale jutsu out of his ass on a whim!

Unnoticed by the frustrated clone, several teams of ANBU sent coded messages to each other on his position above the snatcher squad and were using his highly visible, high altitude position to coordinate their movements to cut off the enemy nin.

The small squad of enemy nin found themselves quickly headed to the roof of a factory next to the river, having been completely unprepared for how effective Konoha ANBU had been in tracking them.

"The explosion on the wall should have drawn their attention," Rei growled out, sending a trio of kunai trailing explosive tags to encourage ANBU to slow their approach.

Her larger teammate just shrugged, the tiny Hyuga strapped to his back still frozen from the paralysis seal. "River?" he suggested.

"That's the stupidest idea you ever had," Kona offered with a sigh, "but also our only option at the moment. We'll go first, they shouldn't attack your back if they want the runt back alive."

"Hope she can hold her breath," Rei grumbled before he and Kona flung a brace of shuriken interspersed with exploding kunai to buy them a few seconds before diving off the building.

"I hate the water," Shinji growled out before turning to follow them a second later. He felt the ropes holding his captive on his back snap, throwing him to the side and causing him to slam back first into the water stunning him.

Naruto pulled out of his dive with Hanabi in his arms, straining his wings and praying he didn't pop. He relaxed a little as he gained some altitude and used his teeth to pull the tag off her forehead.

Hanabi shook a little, some of her terror fading as she realized she could move again and was no longer being kidnapped. The fact that a winged version of the boy her sister liked had saved her just added to her confusion.

"How good are you at swimming?" Naruto asked.

"I've taken lessons for several years, why?" Hanabi asked, wondering if she might be dreaming.

"Because while I can fly... I haven't quite figured out landing," he admitted with a wince.

"Birds do it all the time," she offered.

"Yeah, but they are really small and light," Naruto told her.

She tilted her head to the side and looked up at him. "We're going to crash, aren't we?"

"Yes, yes we are," he agreed, "and I think crashing into the water is going to be safer than hitting the ground."

"You need a lot more practice rescuing princesses," she decided.

"Because of the crashing?" he guessed.

"Yes, because of the crashing," she agreed.

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"Stop abusing my nipples!" Tenten complained.

"Never!" Naruto declared, before all the clones stiffened and his eyes opened wide and he fell off the ceiling, landing on his head.

"Naruto!" Tenten yelped and somersaulted to the floor, checking for damage as she carefully examined his head for blood.

He looked up at her, dazed from his fall and said something too low for her to hear so she leaned closer... and he flicked her nipple causing her to jump back and drop his head on the floor with a thunk.

"You little shit!"

"Ow," he muttered. "Huh, Hanabi was just kidnapped and rescued and…" he mumbled something indistinct.

"And what?" Tenten asked, rubbing a sore nipple.

"My clone dropped her into her family's koi pond… more belly flopped really," he admitted embarrassed.

"What?"

"Hanabi was kidnapped by some spies, my clone flew in and saved her, but we haven't mastered landing yet… so he basically pancaked her into her family's koi pond and popped, since she didn't want to be seen doing that in public," Naruto explained as he got to his feet.

"You can fly?"

Tenten asked doubtfully.

Naruto henged into his modified Angel form. "The wings are functional."

She just stared. "Why hasn't Anko been trying to learn that?" she asked.

"Because she can't use it to molest her friend," he replied.

"Yeah, that sounds about right," the kunoichi admitted after a moment's thought.

Naruto created another clone. "Go bug Hanabi."

"After I get some pants," the clone said pointedly.

Naruto looked over the clone and realized he'd created a naked clone. "Yeah… forgot that bit."

"Well, Anko's training is at least good at getting us over our own body shyness," Tenten said, before climbing up to the ceiling. "Where is she anyway?"

"Working with my team to increase their chakra levels," Naruto said, climbing up the wall while his clone went to find some clothes.

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Ebisu deflected another wave of kunai while straining his senses to catch any threats, trying to conserve his wavering strength as he stood guard over his genin. He knew he just had to wait long enough for the ANBU to arrive and they'd be safe.

Two long blares of a horn sounded out across Konoha, causing him to stiffen.

"That's the all clear," he muttered, "so this can't be an actual attack of enemy nin." He flared his chakra to shake off any possible genjutsu as he considered the matter. "Anko?" he guessed.

A blast of wind cleared away the fog and the clones vanished as the remaining 'Mist Nin', dropped its henge to reveal the Special Jounin. "Good call," she said with approval. "How did you figure it out?"

He signed and helped his students up who were just looking at her in confusion. "The all clear wouldn't have been sounded if a single enemy nin were still within the walls of Konoha and if you weren't an enemy then you had to be one of ours, so this was obviously a test. How did we do?"

Anko grinned. "And figuring out it was me?"

"The only student not present is Naruto and you are the single high level nin, baring the Hokage himself, who is associated with him," he replied.

She nodded. "Smart and with decent stamina," she complimented him. "Naruto told me you had potential."

"Is this part of the plan to increase my chakra?" he asked.

"You stabbed Sasuke for a test?!" Sakura screeched as she realized what was going on.

"Being stabbed builds character," Anko said, dismissing the pink haired girl from her mind as she turned back to Ebisu. "Now that you are worn down a bit… off to the Forest of Death!"

Ebisu sighed. "Let me police the area for weapons and arrange for training for my students."

Anko flicked through several hand seals and created a shadow clone. "Relax, I have it covered." She grabbed Ebisu's arm and the pair vanished in a swirl of leaves.

The shadow clone turned towards the two genin and smiled broadly. "Don't think Naruto forgot about you two. Auntie Anko is going to put you through chakra expansion exercises as well."

The two genin just stared at her cautiously.

"Now, the best way to expand your chakra is to be put in life threatening situations," she said cheerfully. "Being in fear for your life really helps increase your chakra."

"But since we know it's training, won't that make it less effective?" Sakura asked.

Anko's grin was filled with far more teeth than should be humanly possible. "I have a workaround for that."

Realizing she was waiting for them to ask, Sasuke spoke up, "And that is?"

Anko bit her thumb and flicked her hands through the seals, summoning a large number of large venomous snakes. "Why, by putting you in actual life threatening danger of course!"

Typing By: Abyssal Angel

Beta By: Abyssal Angel and Mist of Shadows