It took a total of five days for the group of four people and one pig to reach Konoha. They could have gone faster of course, but both Jiraiya and Tsunade wanted to go slowly. Though they were for entirely different reasons; Tsunade seemed to want to just take her time and enjoy her 'freedom' before she became tied down to a desk, while Jiraiya simply wanted to hit on Tsunade before she became tied down to her desk.
Though at least one of their reasons were similar.
This desire to hit on Tsunade, which was less flirting and more of him just blatantly asking her to strip or flash her tits often endeared white haired man to said woman's fists, much to Naruto's amusement, Shizune's chagrin and Tsunade's annoyance. Of course, none of them had expected any less from the self-proclaimed super pervert of the Elemental Nations.
During that time Naruto had also taken to spending a lot of his time with Tsunade and Shizune, talking and getting to know the two better. He ended up getting along extremely well with both of them, much to Jiraiya's annoyance. When Jiraiya expressed his annoyance at Naruto getting along with all the women, Shizune simply stated that when the blond spoke with them he did not blatantly stare at their chests. Tsunade had simply hit him hard enough to send him flying several dozen feet in the air.
Aside from that Naruto had also begun to spend more time with Kyuubi and had learned several interesting facts about the vixen.
Flashback…
As night came Naruto found himself standing outside of the entrance to Kyuubi's home. He knocked on the door and waited for a few seconds as he heard shuffling on the other side. When it opened he saw Kyuubi standing there and blinking at him for a moment.
"Hey Kyuu…" Naruto said unsurely. After their last encounter Naruto felt confused about what his relationship with this woman was and thus, was not really sure how to talk to her.
Kyuubi seemed to notice this however and smirked as she opened the door wider to let him in, "Hello Naruto-kun, come on in."
Naruto walked into the house, listening to Kyuubi shut the door behind him before she moved over to the bed and sat on it. He raised an eyebrow when she patted the spot next to her, but relented and sat down in the indicated spot, "So what do you want to talk about?"
Kyuubi gave a shrug, "I'm not really sure to be honest; I've never actually taken the time to have an intelligent conversation with anyone. And I know everything there is to know about you so talking about yourself is kind of pointless."
Naruto frowned for a moment, "Then do you mind if I ask you about yourself?"
"About myself?" Kyuubi questioned as she looked at him, "What do you mean?"
"I mean…" Naruto paused for a moment before continuing, "…can I ask you about your past. You don't have to tell me everything," he added at seeing her look, "but I know very little about your history. Well, except from what I've heard from the history, but that doesn't really tell me about you."
"No I suppose it doesn't," Kyuubi's face scrunched up for a moment in a thoughtful expression that Naruto found surprisingly endearing. It relaxed a moment later, "Very well, ask your questions and I will tell you what I can…however I may not answer depending on the question."
"Fair enough," he started, only to stop as Kyuubi set her head in his lap, "W-what are you doing!"
"What?" asked Kyuubi as she looked up at him, "Do you have a problem with this?"
"Well…I-I suppose not, I just did not think you were into um…well this," Naruto gestured to the vixen. "You've always seemed to abhor physical contact of any kind."
"I don't hate it…" Kyuubi said before as she struggled to find a comfortable position, "it's just that I've never found anyone worthy of having physical contact with."
"And I am?" asked Naruto with an eyebrow raised in surprise.
"You're coming closer than anyone else has," Kyuubi replied as she finally got into a good position and snuggled deeper into the blonde's lap, eliciting a small squawk of embarrassment form Naruto.
"Awww, does Naruto-kun like that?" she teased as she moved her head, causing the blond to jump.
"Wh-What the hell are you doing Kyuubi!" Naruto shouted as he jumped out from under the red head.
Kyuubi frowned as she set herself on her elbow and looked at the blond who was now off of the bed and staring at her like she was some kind of diseased animal. "What? Did that bother you? I thought you would have liked being so close to such a beautiful woman."
She frowned as she wondered if she had done something wrong, according to those Icha Icha books Naruto had read this kind of thing was how members of the opposite sex acted around each other. And she had seen more than enough perverted men in her lifetime to know that they all loved girls who acted like this.
"It has nothing to do with me liking it," Naruto exclaimed, "I still don't really know you. You can't expect us to be that close…physically without even knowing each other."
Blinking a bit Kyuubi tilted her head in confusion, "Then how do we act around each other?"
Naruto gave her an exasperated look, "You've lived for at least two thousand years and you don't know how to act around people? I thought you would have known what to do considering you've always hid amongst humans."
Kyuubi bristled a bit when Naruto said she 'hid' but knew he was not saying she was being a coward and let it slide, "Naruto-kun, the humans I was around were nothing more than slaves. Most of the time I had their mind completely warped and they were able to do nothing more than follow my orders. The few humans who tried to talk to me when I did not want to were usually either charmed and became mindless drones, or I got rid of them when they became persistent."
Naruto felt a slight amount of disgust when he heard what Kyuubi did to people but let it slide since they were trying to…he paused. What were they trying to do? Start a friendship? Become comrades? Learn to accept each other? Or were they just trying to tolerate the other?
He shook his head and dispelled the thoughts for now since they were not relevant to the situation, "Since we're just starting out it would be best if physical contact was kept to a minimum. Once we get to know each other more and if we end up becoming more comfortable with each other then we can think about physical contact."
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