Naruto: Winds and Changes

"I doubt I could keep you here even if I tried," Sarutobi replied in an amused tone. "Go on, you're free to leave. Oh! Before I forget!" Naruto stopped to changing into the clothes that had been set out for him to look at Sarutobi, "You will be facing Hyuuga Neji in the first round of the finals."

Naruto looked at Sarutobi and grinned, "Well that's nice. I wanted to kick that fate loving prick's ass anyway. I'll need to get in some good training then. Do you know where Kakashi-sensei is?"

Sarutobi shook his head, "I believe he went off to train Sasuke for the finals. However he did tell me to give you this." The Hokage took out a scroll from his robe and tossed it to him.

Naruto caught the scroll and looked at it for a second, before pocketing it, "Is there anything else I should know?"

The Sandaime Hokage smiled at him, "Yes there is. You had several visitors come to see you."

"Really? Who?" Naruto asked as he put on a large white shirt several sizes too large for him.

"Higarashi Tenten was one of them," Sarutobi rubbed his chin. "Most of the rookies who fought in the Preliminaries came to see you, and surprisingly you had a visitor from Kumo, a blond kunoichi by the name of Nii Yugito who made it to the finals." The old Hokage frowned thoughtfully at that, he could not help but wonder what Kumo's Jinchuuriki would want with Naruto, given that village's attempted kidnapping of Hyuuga Hinata during the treaty signing he was feeling weary of letting that woman near the whiskered blond.

Naruto smiled at hearing all the people in his class had come to see him; however he was confused as to why Yugito had come.

Well she is a Jinchuuriki, so maybe she just wanted to talk, he shrugged the thought off for now. "Thanks for telling me Ojisan. Since I'm still kind of sore, I'll visit them today rather than start training."

"I think that's a good idea Naruto-kun." Sarutobi agreed, "Also you might want to check out the hot springs on one of your days off. I believe it would prove to be beneficial for you."

Naruto blinked for a moment as he sensed some kind of hidden meaning there, but shrugged it off quickly enough, "Thanks for the advice, maybe I will pay it a visit."

Sarutobi watched the blond go and shook his head, The things you get into Naruto-kun…I swear you're giving me more gray hairs than my grandson.

Walking into the Higarashi weapons store, Naruto plastered a grin on face. He looked around to see that Kaito was manning the shop today, meaning Tenten was probably out training. "Ohoyo Kaito-san!" he greeted.

Kaito looked up from the weapon designs his daughter had been making and smiled when he saw Naruto. "Ohoyo Naruto-san, I was wondering when you'd come into my shop," As the boy walked over he got a better look at him. "I guess Tenten wasn't exaggerating when she said you had quite the transformation, you look quite different."

"Yeah…" Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "As you can see I'm in need of some new clothes, my old ones no longer fit."

"So I noticed," Kaito said dryly as Naruto made a clone and had it start grabbing clothes. "You know, my daughter was awfully worried about you. She said you injured yourself pretty badly when you fought in the Preliminaries." Kaito watched the clone grab a bunch of clothes for Naruto to try on, "She's pretty mad at you too."

Naruto shivered a bit as his clone brought him some clothes, "I'll try to find some peace offering to appease her then. Maybe a really expensive kunai set."

Kaito laughed as Naruto made his way to the changing room, sighing the blond looked at the clothes he had set down and began to try on different kinds. Eventually he decided to go with a pair of black pants with white wrap around bandages, a black long sleeve shirt, a new pair black shinobi sandals and a black cloak like the one he had before, except this one had dark red flames lining the bottom. As he walked back out Naruto spotted something else he felt might be interesting to add to his attire and grabbed it as well.

He grabbed several more pairs of clothing before bringing them to the register, "Hey Kaito-san, I was wondering if you had any fingerless gloves in the color orange?"

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