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"Oh. I've found ten or so practice spears too." Naruto said, "I'll bring them tomorrow. I guess since they were yours to begin with I should give you your money back."
"No." Kanae denied adamantly, "Consider the money we pay you as a finder's fee. The shipment was insured and we got paid for it. Bandit attack, of all the bad luck."
"What worries me is the fact that they turned up in TG 13 in the first place." Tenten put in, "That would imply there's a hole in the defences that non-chakra users can exploit in there."
"I'll have a look next time I'm in there." Naruto shrugged, "I'm planning on moving into Sub-Area 3 tomorrow. The first Sub-Area had chakra mutated squirrels and the second had chakra mutated moles, so I'm curious to see what this next are has in store for me."
"I see." Kanae nodded before turning to her daughter, "Ten-chan, what are you up to tomorrow?"
Tenten blinked at the apparent non sequitur, but replied, "Nothing, I think. Gai-sensei is off on a solo mission, Neji is off training with his clan and Lee is following some kind of ridiculous training schedule that Gai-sensei left behind for him to follow."
"Why don't you go with Naruto-kun on his training mission tomorrow?" Kanae suggested, "From everything you've said, Naruto-kun, you're more of a close range fighter, right? It would be an idea to see how a ranged fighter like Tenten operates. She's very, very good at Shurikenjutsu."
"Okaa-san!" the brunette flushed in embarrassment at her mother's effusive praise.
"Uh…sure." Naruto nodded, "If Tenten wants to come with me tomorrow, I'm fine with that. It'll be nice to work with an active duty shinobi."
"Sure." Tenten nodded shyly.
"OK then. Meet at my place at midday then." the Uzumaki said with a grin, "Looking forward to working with ya."
After a few more moments of conversation, Naruto headed back to his apartment and Tenten busied herself with polishing more of the swords, leaving Kanae to retreat to the back room and inform her husband of the plans for tomorrow.
"…what are you plotting, oh wife of mine?" Tatsuhiko suspiciously as he hammered the chakra metal before him into the right shape, "This has all the hallmarks of one of your little plots."
"I'm setting Ten-chan up with Naruto-kun." Kanae stated blandly, "If nothing else, they'll become better friends. At best, she might finally get over that Neji boy."
Both adult Higurashi scowled at the mention of one Hyūga Neji. Tenten had been crushing on the boy since the third year of the Academy and had been teamed up with him as she had been Top Kunoichi and he had been Rookie of the Year, with Rock Lee thrown in as the Dobe.
Neji had been breaking her heart ever since, constantly rebuffing any advances she made and generally treating her like an almost-competent lackey, albeit not a very smart one. Let's just say that Tatsuhiko and Kanae were not fond of the boy and leave it at that.
"Naruto-kun is a nice boy, but he is almost a year younger that Ten-chan." Tatsuhiko protested gruffly.
"And I'm five years younger than you." Kanae reminded him gently, "The only other difference between us and them is that Ten-chan is a ninja and Naruto-kun isn't one…yet."
Tatsuhiko, entering protective daddy mode for the first time, did not want his steel-eyed princess (as he called her in the recesses of his mind) to be taken away by a boy quite so soon. Granted, Naruto was a nice enough boy, who knew fine well how strong Tenten was from the couple of times she had almost choked him to death and seemed to respect her, rather than look down on her like more than a few civilian boys did…
..but still! His little girl!
Kanae sighed at seeing the conflict in his eyes. "Anata, she may fall for him, then again she may not. I think that, at the very least, they have the foundations of a solid friendship. Let's just see where it goes, shall we?"
"Yes dear." the blacksmith sighed.
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The Next Day
Amekage Apartments
When Tenten knocked on Naruto's door, she was surprised at the sight of his clones at work, churning out numerous storage scrolls.
"What the heck are those?" she asked him with wide eyes.
"Shadow Clones." Naruto replied, "It's a Kinjutsu that I can use only because I have bucket loads of chakra. Ordinarily, it can only be used by Jonin level ninja, at least."
"Why haven't you graduated if you can use those?" the Weapon's Mistress asked in bewilderment.
"I only learned the technique a month and a half ago." Naruto explained, "It was a special dispensation, I think Iruka-sensei called it, from Jiji, because I can't do the ordinary Bunshin no Jutsu to save my life."
"Seriously? You can't use the Bunshin?" Tenten was taken aback by that before shrugging, "Meh. No one uses that jutsu once they graduate from the Academy anyway. I haven't, not even on the C-Rank missions I've been on."
"Knew it." Naruto muttered.
"So why are they copying stuff out?" she continued.
"Mass production of Type-1 storage scrolls." the Uzumaki replied with a shrug, "Practice makes perfect, after all."
"But they're only clones." Tenten pointed out.
"Yeah, but when they dispel, I get the accumulated experience of their existence." the blond boy pointed out in return, "It's an ability unique to the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu that makes learning ninjutsu, Fūinjutsu and book learning a snap."
Higurashi Tenten wasn't a jealous person by nature, but the revelations regarding the usefulness of the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu did spark a slight amount of the emotion in her, but she brushed it away with some effort and turned her mind to the question of why he could do this. If he couldn't use the Bunshin, then being able to use a more powerful version must mean that…no, surely not…?
"You have too much chakra and too poor a control on it to use the Bunshin." she said flatly, "While a lack of control doesn't hinder you with the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. I'm right, aren't I?"
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