A/N: To those whom have reviewed and shared their feedback of the story, thank you and continue to keep up the reviews, they keep me inspired to continue the story.
That said, enjoy the humor of this chapter before the action stuff starts up in the next one.
Also, a VERY big thanks from me personally going out to "gamelover41592" for helping me brainstorm this chapter!
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Kurama Talking/Techniques"
(Translations and A.N. Numbers)
[Scene Shift]
Chapter 4: Rough Playtime, part 3
Hannah and her mother got into the car and Hannah set her backpack down in the backseat but forgot to buckle it and as the car took off, the bag fell forward and so did Naruto and Aqua, the car kept swerving and Aqua and Naruto bounced all around inside the backpack...and unfortunately, they weren't all that was in there...the school supplies of their captress were there to, and they did nothing to make the ride enjoyable for the two diminutive Key-bearers.
"Ow!" Naruto groaned as he slammed into a book.
"Ouch!" Aqua yelped as she landed butt-first on the sharpened end of a pencil.
This went on for a while and boy was it a nightmare.
"I HATE BEING TOY-SIZED!" shouted Naruto.
Then it finally stopped and both Naruto and Aqua stood up, relieved. But then, Hannah picked up her backpack and one of her school books hit Naruto on the back of the head and he fell forward, his head hitting something in front of him that was somehow both soft yet hard, and at the same time, he felt his lips touch something soft and warm.
He groaned, and opened his eyes to see he was on top of Aqua, and those soft, warm things were her lips!
Inadvertently or not, they were kissing!
Their eyes widened in shock they remained like that, frozen and shocked stupid, so much they did not even notice that Hannah had taken them out of the backpack until she pulled out some dresses and a suit
'Oh hell!' thought Naruto. His first instinct was to get up, grab Aqua, and bolt like light speed, but as much as he wanted to, he couldn't...that stupid freeze rule making it so he had to stay put or who could tell how Hannah's reaction would go.
Naruto and Aqua got a view of their surroundings as the girl got ready to play with them, Hannah was a girly-girl the way the stereotypes say. Everything in her room was pink, white, or lavender, and if it could have hearts, flowers, or butterflies carved into/stamped on it, it did.
Hannah smiled as she took off the pieces of armor the two were covered in, but frowned thoughtfully at seeing the two had ordinary-looking clothes on under it...although the boy doll's outfit was very battered up. What had this poor plaything gone through to get in this state?
Giving them each a light kiss on the head, Hannah set the girl down and then started removing the damaged attire from the boy doll until all that were left on him were a pair of dark green boxers, making Naruto blush so many shades of red he was sure he shouldn't have blood flowing to his brain or heart! Thankfully, those were left alone and Naruto soon found himself being stuffed into a grey undershirt then a men's white two button suit with a notch lapel, and side vents, as well as non-pleated white dress pants with slanted side pockets. After that came black dress shoes and a black bow tie, as well as a blue carnation in his lapel.
Hannah smiled, holding Naruto up and examining him before nodding in satisfaction and setting him down and taking up Aqua put her in a cyan gown that had long, powder-blue sleeves with wide openings at the bottom, which were topped with silver frills, along with a pearl necklace that a silver brooch was attached to. At least Aqua had been allowed to keep her usual clothes under the outfit she now wore, since, unlike Naruto's, hers hadn't been practically tatters that needed replacing.
Picking up Naruto again as she held Aqua in her other hand, Hannah smiled, happy with the results and hugged them both before setting them on her bed and wen over to her toy chest and pulled out some toy furniture. Namely a white round table and a few chairs and a plastic tea set.
Hannah then picked them up and sat them at the table with a pair of her dolls and started playing a game of tea party with them.
"Would like some tea, Mr. Whiskers?" asked Hannah, smiling as she pretended to fill Naruto's cup.
Naruto stayed perfectly still, but was really sweating and twitching at the humiliation of being played with like a toy...which he was right at the moment. Call him obsessive-compulsive and ADHD or just simply naturally hyper, but sitting still was NOT his strong suite!
"Oh, its so nice you and your wife decided to join us." said Hannah.
At that, Aqua felt her cheeks go from zero to atomic red instantly, recalling what happened in the girl's backpack and felt glad Hannah wasn't focused on her at the moment, while Naruto was now insanely close to breaking when Hannah's mom called her. Hannah left the room after polity excusing herself.
"FINALLY!" shouted Naruto as he stood up.
"I know, right!" said Aqua while getting her blush under control as she got up as well.
"We've got to get out of here!" said Naruto.
Aqua turned to Hannah's other toys, who were both for some reason, headless.
"Can you two please help us escape? We were actually in the middle of something really important before she snatched us up and brought us here."
At that the dolls stood and fumbled about, trying to see without eyes. They felt everything with their delicate hands, but they apparently knew the room by heart (did toys have hearts, or just batteries?) and started feeling around until one found a child's mini-radio cassette player while the other pulled out a tape and set it in before starting it and fast-forwarding until a part of whatever song was playing.
"-There's no escape but then, who would wanna leave? It's a fantasticle paradise. An-" after that, the dolls stopped the music.
How the dolls did all that without heads, the two Key-bearers didn't know, but chalked it up to practice.
More importantly, the answer to the question was obviously a "no", the two playthings couldn't help them get out.
" 'Fantastical paradise', my butt!...Okay you know what?" said Naruto "I'm just going to use the Keyblade to open the door and we're getting out of here!"
"But Kurama hasn't woken up yet! You might be able to still do things like cast spells on your own under your own power, Naruto, but any abilities pertaining to the Keyblades themselves like the opening and closing of doors and your Glider, you might not be able to do!" Aqua pointed out.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained...one way to see if that's true, Aqua-chan..." he said.
Just as Naruto aimed his keyblade at the door, it opened as Hannah came rushing in looking around angrily for some reason.
"Sid, I thought you...got...over...this?" She said as slowly as she looked down and saw Naruto and Aqua looking back at her and they looked back.
She had come in expecting her older brother to have returned to his old, toys-saw-as-the- devil ways, but now she could not believe what she was seeing.
Naruto rushed over to his ruined clothes and snatched up his ninja supplies before throwing a series of small spheres wrapped in paper with the kanji for 'light' on them as hard and high as he could towards the colossal girl's face and they erupted in blinding white flashes.
Hannah was suddenly rendered unable to see as the flash bombs went off, so she did what anyone else would do when unexpectedly blinded...she screamed, stumbling and rubbing her eyes as she tried to regain her sight.
"RUUUUNNN!" shouted Naruto.
Naruto and Aqua quickly ran past Hannah (Aqua having some trouble due to the dress), but she rubbed the last of the pain from her eyes and she turned around and ran after them. They ran for the stairs. Naruto took Aqua's hand and they jumped on the railing and rail grind down and when they reached the bottom they shot off and headed straight into the kitchen, where they saw another normal-sized kid talking on the phone.
"Thank you, Dr. Lasseter!" said Sid. "These sessions have really been helping me. Yes thanks don't worry, I'll call you if I ever suffer a relapse."
Sid hung up the phone and turned around just in time to see Naruto and Aqua zoom past him through the air and out the door. He heard footsteps on the stairs and turned to see Hannah come running down.
"Sid, did you see which direction my toys ran off to?" asked Hannah.
Sid pointed out the door and Hannah thanked him before she ran in that direction. Sid turned around and picked up the phone and called Dr. Lasseter...again.
"Uh...Doc John Lasseter...I don't know how, but it happened again!" said Sid, "also I think it's contiguous, Hannah saw the same thing! Can you see us both tomorrow at Two?"
Naruto and Aqua landed on the ground and started to dash for the fence.
"We have to hurry!" said Aqua.
"Don't worry," said Naruto. "Nothing short of a giant dog can stop us!"
Just as they were about to make it to the fence, a giant white dog with a black spot on one of its eyes lept in front of them and tried to bite them. Luckily with Naruto's ninja speed he was able to get them out of the way as the dog lunged, snapping at them.
"...Murphy's law, how I hate you so...!" Naruto hissed.
"You were saying?!" said Aqua with a deadpan as she kept running.
"Sorry!" Naruto cried as he pointed his Keyblade at the dog and used Stopga, an advanced-class magic spell that utilized the power of time and temporarily froze targets with it.
He was glad Aqua had taught him that, otherwise, he would've had to do something crazy like form an army with the Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Multiple Shadow Clone Technique) and go with a "hit-em-high-hit-em-low" strategy using the clones that struck from above preforming the Rasen Chō Tarengan (Ultra-Many Spiralling Serial Spheres) technique Naruto used against Kurama when he and the fox had fought one another in Kaminari no Kuni, while the clones on the ground used the light-element attack, Salvation, but using an Ultimate-class, light-element attack and a Rasengan mass bombardment like that was EASILY overkill, and the dog (the breed of which he recognized as a bull terrier thanks to all the times he hug out with Kiba, man...even for someone that loved running his mouth off as much as that guy did, he just both could not and would not know how to shut up if you got him started on the topic of dogs!) would be killed by something like that!
Naruto was a lot of thing, but cruel and abusive to animals wasn't one of them. Sure there was the fights with Kurama and the other bijū, but those guys, in spite of being called "beasts" were more than just animals. And in the fight with Kiba, not only had it been the Inuzuka who punched Akamaru, but before the fight had started, Naruto had told Kiba to keep Akamaru out of the fight, but he didn't listen.
"Ha!" said Naruto as the pair reached the fence and started trying to squuze through. "We're finally safe!"
Just then a pair of hands caught them with a shout of "Gotcha!"
Slapping a hand to his face in irritation as well as cursing himself for needing to learn to keep his mouth shut, Naruto opened his eyes to see that he and Aqua had been caught by Hannah and she was now running trying to keep Skud away from them as the spell Naruto had used wore off, she made it to the door and closed it and thud hit the door.
"Stupid dog!" said Hannah as she walked through the house, Naruto and Aqua in both of her hands.
"Now things will be even more fun," Hannah beamed as she held them up in front of her face.
"Well we tried," Aqua sighed.
"Aw, man." groaned Naruto.
Hannah carried them back up to her room, kicking it closed behind her, then went to her toy chest and removed doll's cradle. She laid the two of them down in it and pulled the blanket up to their chins, and tucked them in. Making sure it was taunt enough to where they couldn't move.
"You're both adorable—especially as a couple! Just lie back and relax, you'll both stay mine and I'm gonna hug you and kiss you and love you forever!"
"Ok...you caught us." Aqua sighed, feeling defeated and humiliated. Seriously? What kind of Keybade Master was she?! She could handle Heartless, Unversed, Vanitas, and even shattered the X-keyblade with her default one, Rainfell, but she couldn't escape a young girl that was using her as a plaything?! That was just completely embarrassing! "I'm Aqua, and this is Naruto. And...as you can see...we're alive." she said with a wince.
"And?" Hannah asked simply.
"Wait a minute—wait do you mean by "and"? It's like you're waiting for us to get to the point!" Naruto said.
Aqua's eyes widened and Hannah smiled, then shrugged. "My brother use to blown up, smash, or rip apart toys...like the ones you met, Marie Antoinette and her little sister, then there was this Buzz Lightyear that had it's arm removed, called him Mrs. Nesbit when I found and played with him. Long story short, the way Sid used to treat toys upset me, so they showed they were alive when they couldn't stand it any more and tried comforting me. Known since then and kept it a secret. Even tried helping them from time to time. Even tried rescuing some of Sid's toys when he wasn't around. He had to have four locks on the inside of his door as a way to keep me out of his room."
The two stared at Hannah. She...she knew?! She knew and kept it secret?! They both sighed relieved. Now it made sense why she wasn't shocked when she caught them at the movie theater. Not only that, but she kept and cared about the toys her brother mutilated rather than replace them the way anyone else would with broken toys.
It also made their job easier. But right now, they were too shocked to register that.
Hannah giggled at the duo's expressions, "Now then...time to play."
"We don't have time to play!" Naruto said.
Hannah's jaw dropped. "Wh...wh...what!? But...you're my toys now..."
"Sorry, sometimes he has no control over what he says. What Naruto means is that some obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, the owner of Al's Toy Barn, toy-napped a friend of ours and we need to get them back." Aqua clarified.
Hannah frowned at that. "Al's Toy Barn in the Tri-County Area, 1001 West Cutting Boulevard? Well...alright. Tell you what: play one quick game with me and I'll even take you two there on my bike so you can help your friend, ok?"
Naruto and Aqua shared a glance. That...actually wasn't a bad deal. And if they were going to help rescue Woody, they'd need to take it anyways.
"Oh! I know!" the young girl cried suddenly, then loomed over the two was a megawatt smile on her face, "How about a nice game of ..."wedding"...and guess who gets to be the bride and groom!"
Naruto and Aqua both flushed. Oh...they didn't even need to guess! Hannah carried them over to a play set and put them inside.
"Now...time to get you two married!" the girl said in delight.
The result to her saying that was Naruto and Aqua both sporting matching red blushes and faces filled with embarrassment.
"Wha...wha...I...and Aqua...we can't get married!" Naruto said.
Aqua looked to Naruto sharply. "What's THAT supposed to mean?!" she demanded, feeling offended.
"I… you…no I don't…I mean…I'm just saying…that IF..." Naruto sputtered at seeing Aqua's suddenly hostile look, trying to explain himself.
Hannah bit her bottom lip, trying not to crack up. These two new toys of hers were absolutely hilarious!
Now...how to deal with the "nervous kiss"?
Hannah thought about it and came to simple yet amusing idea as seeing how close the two were standing to one another.
'Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today in the presence of these witnesses, to join Naruto and Aqua in matrimony commended to be honorable among all; and therefore is not to be entered into lightly but reverently, passionately, lovingly and solemnly. Into this - these two persons present now come to be joined. If any person can show just cause why they may not be joined together - let them speak now or forever hold their peace.' Hannah thought with a growing smile. She moved the index fingers of each of her hands behind Naruto and Aqua's heads, feeling happy for the two and glad that they were too busy trying to explain things to one another while being so flustered.
"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss!" Hannah said aloud, startling the two.
"SAY WHAAA...HHHmmmmmhmmm!"
Their surprised shouts were cut short and led into muffled noise as Hannah gently pushed their heads closer and the two ended up kissing.
"I present to you the newly married couple, Naruto and Aqua!" Hannah cried gleefully. Then picked up her backpack and emptying it of it's contents so she could carry the two in it as she had an agreement to live up to..
As she did that, Naruto and Aqua backed away from one another and as the two "newlyweds" looked at one another and came to a silent agreement:
What happened in this world, would STAY in this world!