So in light of my failed attempt to make a comeback from my very long hiatus, I have decided to start a different story that will be a multi-crossover between a world I know very well, Naruto, a game I recently discovered by the name of Elsword and another anime that I have fallen in love with, Monster Musume. Most Naruto stories have the same start. A beaten and abused Naruto that is run from the village and he gains almost ridiculous, incredible Mary Sue powers. This will be progressed by the reviews and messages I receive. This is a second attempt to create a story by both myself and the readers. But these ideas will be seamlessly brought in, so long as it does not interfere with the fact that right off the bat, Naruto will not stand on the level of a Kage. He will gain power and will lose fights. People will die and there will be some who stand on equal ground with him.

With all that being said, I want everyone who reads to please leave an idea. Yes, I like people who praise the stories or leave criticisms, but for this story, I would like you to leave your preferences. I've read many stories that I believe could use something more and I do not want to leave you wanting. With that being said, I will begin the first chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Monster Musume or Elsword. Please enjoy!

Let's Start!

The Dead Can't Be Heard

Chapter One

Bury the Pain

The day began like any other. The sun was shining high in the sky and the people of Konoha were as happy as can be. Today was the thirteenth anniversary of the attack of the Kyuubi, a day that, while sad, did not leave the villagers in hate and disdain. On that day, while loved ones were lost, through the efforts of the previous Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and the current Four Hokage, Namikaze Minato, the village prevailed and sealed the great demon within a child. Through the use of the Shiki Fujin, Hiruzen sealed the monster within the son of Minato, all three being hailed as heroes for their efforts and saving the village from further destruction, though the young boy was not at first accepted.

As time went on, the attack was not forgotten, but most who lost did not dwell on the dead. At first, the village cursed the child for harboring the demon that ravaged their village and families. Some did not forget at all, but with the words of their beloved Fourth Hokage, those who would listen soon came to accept the young boy, accepting him as Namikaze Naruto, the son of the Fourth.

But, the boy, for all his good nature and kindheartedness, could not bring himself to forget the scornful faces of those who would not forgive. His heart opened to his family along with very few others. When he came of age, he threw himself into becoming a ninja to be strong like his mother and father, tired of being compared to them by the villagers. But, much to his chagrin, he couldn't excel the way they had. Due to having the Kyuubi resting dormant inside of him, he could not control his massive chakra reserves at the time. When Ninjutsu and Genjutsu found no hold with him he forced himself to get stronger in Taijutsu. With the help of a man known as Might Guy, he became stronger and faster, but even there he found problems he couldn't escape.

With the demon inside, he was already physically stronger, but with Guy's training, he unlocked his limits, bringing him to the point that his body was unable to handle the power. He ended up shattering his left arm to the point that even the Kyuubi's chakra and the greatest medic ninja alive could not fix him properly. Before he could even join the Ninja Academy, he was forbidden by his father from even applying.

That was a year before we would've been able to join. A year before he turned thirteen. At the time he harbored no ill will, believe his parents would relent when he showed restraint in his training, but when the time came to enroll, he was mistaken. Both of his parents denied him his request and he felt something greater than the pain of his body breaking. He felt betrayed.

Back to the present, Naruto found himself running through the trees of a training ground he frequented not too far from the acclaimed Forest of Death. It was closed down due to everything inside being considered far too dangerous. He, however, found no issue traversing the dangerous forest. Its creatures no longer attempted to hunt him and while he had lost most of the strength in his left arm, he did not lose his legs strength or their speed.

His eyes narrowed as he landed on a large tree branch, fifty feet from the forest floor. 'The animals are way too quiet today…' Normally, when he came through the forest, there were insects the size of people and monstrous beasts on the prowl for their meals. But today, he heard and saw nothing to indicate they were ever there. He sighed and continued to jump through the trees, reveling in the only freedom he felt he had. "The funny thing is I can't sense anything out of place, outside of the fact I can't sense the creatures."

Naruto didn't reply, but nodded to the voice. When his family had denied his request to join the Academy, he was distraught. He sought refuge and found it inside of himself in the form of a sewer housing a massive cage with a small piece of paper on it. Knowing what lied behind; he had become acquaintances and soon, friends, with the Kyuubi.

As he dashed through the trees, he soon stopped and sat down against the trunk, resting above the ground and taking in his surroundings. The sunlight couldn't reach through the trees completely, so his blonde hair had taken a slightly dull appearance. His bright blue eyes still held their childlike brightness, but they were lidded as if he were annoyed or tired. 'You think mom and dad will let me join the Academy next year?'

He heard the fox huff and stared into the darkness further into the forest. "Your dad is pretty assertive about you not becoming a ninja after the accident that shattered your arm. He probably believes if you don't get killed in the field then you'll kill yourself by training too much. You trained yourself to the point your body broke. Your left arm is practically useless outside basic tasks, even with what I and Tsunade could do for it."

Thinking about his family did not anger him; it simply made him wish they would give him another chance. When they forbade him from joining, he felt he had disappointed them. He felt they thought they had lost a legacy. "You cannot place that burden on your shoulders, child. They love you and simply don't wish to see you hurt."

Naruto scoffed and crossed his arms, speaking out loud. "I wish I could believe that, but I overheard them talking a few times. Dad wishes I hadn't pushed him to make me not join. Mom feels the same way. You were probably sleeping, Kurama." Kurama laughed. "Probably so, but this is just another hurdle. Dreams can be achieved so long as you keep trying harder. Look at that Guy character and his little mini-me. They can't use chakra and they're some tough people."

'Yea, but the difference between me and them is I have you. I'm too strong and I can't control my chakra right now.' Before Kurama could reply, Naruto heard something off to his right, rustling through the canopy. He jumped to his feet, ready to dash away if it was a threat, but when his eyes focused to the darkness, he saw something that he wasn't expecting.

On a tree branch, up higher than he was, he saw the body of a girl with short, light lavender hair peering out from behind the trunk of the tree. Thanks to Kurama and his enhanced vision, he saw on her young, cute face that she had not two eyes, but six, with four eyes above her normal human set. Her eyes were a flat red and she wore, from what he saw, a top that came down just above her waist, showing very little skin. Her forearms were covered by what looked like gloves and she looked to be as young as he was, a growing girl hitting her teens. He shouted out, hoping to get her to come closer. "Hey, who are you?!"

This, however, startled her and she disappeared behind the trunk, Naruto assuming she was running off. He took off after her, knowing that if anything was still in the forest then she could be in danger. When he got to where he saw her, he noticed a small trail of shiny thread. He touched it and pulled it up. "A spider web? Oh no…" He had seen the spiders in the forest before. They were large, mean arachnids that had been one of the few creatures to attack him on his first few trips into the forest. Once he realized they were territorial, he stopped going near their webs. Now, if this was an indication, they were around here too and she was encroaching on their property. He took off faster than before, his hearing picking up her breathing and he followed with speeds he forced beyond his limits, seeing her slowly come into view.

As he closed in, his foot caught on something and he tripped, falling from the tree and seeing the glimmer of the broken web flash in front of his face as he fell. His eyes widened as he fell. 'A trap?!' He saw the girl in the distance stop and he could only see her upper half, the rest too dark to make out without the sun. He saw a look of worry on her face and knew why she was terrified. He had a long fall ahead of him and he wasn't sure, even with the training he forced himself through, if he'd survive completely intact.

"Kid! This isn't to the floor! You're over the Pit!" Naruto's eyes widened even more. He had passed the Pit before and assumed that the hole went on forever. It was big and deep. This wasn't about getting out with his legs anymore. Now he was worried he was going to flat out die! The girl was running back and he couldn't watch. He assumed if she saw him disappear into the Pit she would blame herself and couldn't bear to make eye contact as he did.

With his eyes closed, he fell. He feared death, yes. He was a child that had a life to live, but he saw no way out. He had none of his tools with him and nothing was near to grab onto. He resided himself to his fate. But as he fell, he felt something snag his legs and he started to slow. His eyes opened and he looked down…up…to see his calves wrapped in webbing stretching up to the hands of…the girl? His eyes narrowed in comical confusion, but it was short lived as he immediately shot back up like a rubber band. He saw the girl reeling in the web, but he flew right up past her while she was doing so. As he did, he saw a glimpse of what he thought were spider legs.

Confusion hit once more as he went up, his good arm grabbing onto a branch and holding on for dear life as he looked not far down to the girl. He was right, he HAD seen spider legs. The girls entire body below her butt, which was covered by a loose, dark purple skirt, was a spiders abdomen and thorax, complete with all eight legs and two small pedipalps at her hips with a white line on her thorax. She said something, but Naruto couldn't here as he took her in. In his mind, her legs were beautiful. Each one, stretched out, could easily be longer than him, each also ending in a sharp point He noticed also the gloves she had looked to be the same as her spider body, being made of exoskeleton. The fingers had the beginnings of claw-like nails, but he attributed that to her being, what looked like, his age.

"Hey! Are you going to let go?!" He finally heard her and noticed the small bit of slack in the web, signifying that she had stopped pulling. He looked up and saw he had dug his fingers deep into the wood and relented, falling once more as she began to pull again. Bringing him up, she sat him on the branch as he steadied himself, using one of her legs to cut the web off of him. She expected him to run away now that he had seen her body, but he stood slowly and took her in up close.

As he stared at her, Kurama put in his thoughts. "This certainly is interesting. She's a human-spider crossbreed? This seems like something that snake would do, but I don't smell his scent upon her. A naturally occurring phenomenon? A demihuman?" Naruto wasn't listening as he held onto his bad arm and rubbed it, as he found he did when he got excited in any way. She was young, for sure. Her human half gave that away well. But her spider half was only slightly shorter than his height of four feet and seven inches. When she grew up, she was going to be beautiful, but her spider half would be massive!

As he stared at her, he began to notice she was blushing and looking away, doing so in kind. "I-I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to stare! It's just…you look so…cool!" Her blush fired up into full gear as she looked off as well. "I…uh…thank you…" Naruto stole another glance out of the corner of his eyes, seeing that she was embarrassed from his praise. Looking back fully, he took a step forward, which got her attention and she backed up, baring her claws-in-the-making and bringing up her pedipalps and two front legs. He stopped immediately, holding up his arms in defense. "No! I don't want to hurt you! I just…wanted to get a closer look. I've never seen someone like you!"

She didn't let her guard down, showing Naruto she wasn't about to trust him right off the bat. He nodded and sat down cross-legged, hoping she would do the same. Luck was with him as she let her spider legs lower her pedipalps to the ground, both bending under her like human legs as she rested her hands on them, her hair hanging lightly over her eyes.

Both were silent as she fiddled with her baby claws and stared at the branch. Naruto, however, could not take his eyes off of her. "You're incredible…" Her blush flared up again as she kept her eyes planted on the wood. "Thank you…" He wanted to talk. He needed learn about her as much as he could. It wasn't every day he found a girl with the lower body of a spider, after all. And he never expected someone as such to be as cute as she was. "M-my name is Namikaze Naruto. What's yours?"

She glanced at him, her blush from his former praise still fresh in her mind. "I'm Rachnera Arachnera. Um…what are you doing in this forest?" He chuckled, rubbing the back of his head. "Uh, I come out here every so often to get away from everything. I've been out a little more lately since I wasn't able to join the Ninja Academy this year. Today is…well I wanted to get away a little more than normal."

Rachnera looked back to him, engaging him in deeper conversation. "Why?" He dropped his hand with a sigh and sat both hands in his lap. "Well…today is my birthday. I didn't really want to be around people today, but if I go home then I know they'll try to smother me." She raised a small eyebrow as she leaned in. "I thought humans enjoyed their families like everyone else?" He waved his hands with a small smile. "Oh no! I love my family…it's just I feel like…"

She spread her spider legs a little to wrap them around the branch instead of bending them, something she often found more comfortable for her thorax. "If…if you don't want to talk about it then you don't have to." He smiled again and she found a small blush reaching her cheeks again. "Thank you, Nera-chan." She nodded as he spoke again.

"So…do you live here in the forest?" She nodded as she looked around her. "I've only recently started to live here, but I do. I used to live in a forest near a large river, but…before my mom was killed recently; she told me to run…so I kept running like she said and ran into this forest. There was a gate and a big fence, so I assumed I would be safer in here until she came and got me. But it's been a month and she hasn't come for me…"

Naruto saw all over her eyes begin to glisten, knowing that tears were coming. He tried to recover, but he couldn't think of anything. Acting on pure instinct, he moved faster than she could react and threw his arms around her in a tight, but comforting hug. Her body reacted, her legs digging into the wood a few inches and her baby claws ready to tear into him as he hugged her. Her eyes were wide and a tear fell as she thought about her mother. The pain of being alone was starting to surface from where she had buried it inside of her. The silence that now lived as a constant horror in her life was momentarily broken by this boy whom she happened upon and saved from a death she nearly caused.

As the last thought crossed her mind, she couldn't help but snicker a little, the funny thought mixed with his warm hug slowly killing her pain as it surfaced. As she began to laugh, Naruto pulled back with a smile, but his face paled nearly to her own human skin color when he saw the tears in her eyes. "Are you ok?"

She wiped the tears away with a small smile and sniffles of sadness. Rachnera nodded and sighed as she sat her hands back down on her pedipalps with a smile and looked at him. "I'm sorry; I just…it's been awhile since I've tried to remember life before she died. But, I don't really want to talk about that part of my life right now. I have to admit, you're far nicer than I expected." Naruto raised a brow and questioned. "What do you mean?"

Rachnera looked off to the side, at the glistening strand of her webbing that hung on the branch over the Pit as she spoke. "Growing up, my mother always told me how humans were terrible creatures. She said they hunted the Arachne race to near extinction…and that there weren't a lot of us left. Where we lived, she had set up warnings and walls made entirely of her webs infused with some sort of energy. They were supposed to keep us safe, but the ninja people got through anyway."

Naruto was starting to see tears again and was ready to tell her she could stop, but she held up her hand and sniffled. "No…it's fine. I haven't had anyone to talk to except for the animals but they can't understand me. I want someone else to hear…I can't hold this on my own…" The blonde teen sat back and nodded with his face softer with empathy of her sadness. She took a deep breath and continued, looking at her hands and burgeoning claws.

"When they broke through the web, they surrounded both of us with walls made of stone. I'm still young and I can't fight the way my mother could. She used the same energy that she used to make the webs and broke right through the stone walls. She started to…to kill them. I had seen her kill before, but she was teaching me to hunt for food. We only killed what we were going to eat and we ate animals…not…people. She was fast and she wasn't showing any mercy. They were surprised but right as she was telling me to run; she was hit with a knife tied to a piece of wire to hold her in place. I was scared and started to run faster than I had ever run before. I ran for hours! But then I came to the fence outside of the forest, and you know the story. I've been here…waiting for her. But I don't think she's coming."

Naruto dropped his face a little. "I'm so sorry, Nera-chan…I don't know what I would do without my family. Sure, we get into it and I'm mad they won't let me become a ninja, but I still love them." She smiled and laughed a little, despite her sadness from talking about her mother dying. "Well, I'm glad you aren't a ninja. I…like talking to you, but I don't know if I could handle being friends with someone like the ones who killed my mom…it'd be hard."

Naruto smiled lightly and looked at her eyes, still enraptured by how unique she was. "I understand, it's just been my dream and I can't say that I want to give up on getting stronger. Maybe I could go off and be my own mercenary?! And along he way…maybe I can find something else that I want just as much. Something like being your friend, perhaps?" He smiled as he finished and she blushed a deep shade that took over her entire face. Looking away, she brought her hands to cover her face and stuttered, trying to catch her voice before it slipped away. "I-I…I'd l-like that a lot…would you come and talk to me here?"

The blonde whirlwind smile and nodded. "But I was thinking something a little bit more…closer. There's a forest behind my house that's part of the land. If you want, you could move back behind there and we could hang out all the time! There are plenty of animals to hunt and space for you to make webs!" She smiled with her blush fading but not entirely leaving. "I'd love that a lot!" He stood up and held his hand out with a smile, letting her take it as she lifted herself up as well, towering over him by two feet due to her legs needing stretch. When she came back down she was barely under a foot taller.

He reveled in the feeling of the powerful exoskeleton in his hand, but marveled at how smooth it felt. He blushed as he wondered what her hands would feel like without it, but shook the thoughts away faster than his father moved as he led her to the end of the branch. He let go of her hand and poked his head forward with a smile that both he and Kurama knew he hadn't had for a long time. "Follow me and we'll leave the forest. I'm sure you don't want people to see you, so we'll be sneaky once we get close to home, ok?"

She smiled and nodded, crouching down and ready to follow her new friend. He put his left hand in his pocket, wanting to show off some speed, but knowing that at high speeds his arm would be a wet noodle, unable to gather the strength to move with the wind. With a smirk, he jumped, cracking the branch and blasting forward, making Rachnera smirk as well. "You wanna race, blondie? Let's go!" She did the same, using all eight of her legs to jump, but hers shattered the entire branch with a resounding boom. This caused Naruto to look back with wide eyes as she took off ahead of him and landed on a branch an easy three seconds before him.

He landed and kept his smirk, but in the back of his mind he knew she was loads faster than he was. 'I'm not backing down that easy!' He looked like he was going to talk, but right as he drew breath; he blew from the branch at a faster speed, his eyes watering from the pressure. 'I don't normally go this fast!'

Rachnera smiled lightly as she took off again. Their game continued until they exited the forest, tired and sweating for exerting themselves, only Rachnera wasn't nearly as tired, which made Naruto playfully pout. "I'm so out of shape if you can beat me so easily, Nera-chan!" She shrugged her shoulders with a smile and played with the dirt with her two front legs. "I've lived in the wild my entire life. Being fast is the key to surviving."

He nodded and turned, shaking his head to get her to follow and she caught up beside him. "We're far enough from the main part of the village that we can walk normally for a little bit, but once we get closer, we may have to worry about the training grounds for Genin and Chunin." She smiled and nodded to him. "I know we'll be fine, you'll protect me and if you're about to fall in another hole then I can save you!"

He pouted and felt like his pride was going to be destroyed. "I was trying to catch you but I tripped on your web!" She laughed and patted his head. "I may have almost killed you, but I did save you. So we're even!" He grumbled lightheartedly and straightened himself as he heard a voice that had been silent for most of the meeting with the Arachne. "It's nice to see you actually make a friend, child. I was beginning to wonder if you were going to be one of those loners through your childhood with a stunted social growth."

Naruto shrugged and muttered under his breath to the fox, but Rachnera, having enhanced hearing from her species' genes, heard him speak. "Huh?" Naruto jumped; startled she heard him and instantly waved it off. "Oh nothing, I was just talking to myself a little. I do it when I get nervous." She looked at him, clearly not believing him, but even she knew people had secrets they would rather keep. She had plenty of her own. Shrugging with a smile, she looked ahead. "I understand if you have something you want to keep hidden. I just hope someday you won't mind telling me. We're friends after all, aren't we?"

Naruto smiled and nodded, but inside he didn't feel as good. He had lied to her and they had only just become friends. "Way to start out a friendship with a lie. Come on, kid. She's half spider and half human. You really think she's going to care about me being inside of you? Even if a majority of the villagers deal with you because of the Fourth, some still don't mind you out of good heartedness. There's the Ichiraku's and that Iruka guy that comes over a lot! Besides, it's not like I killed her mother. She won't hate me or you. Just let her know."

Naruto sighed and stopped walking, causing her to do so as well, turning to look at him. "What is it?" He looked off to the side and placed a hand on his hip and rubbed the bridge of his nose with the other hand. "Look…I'm going to tell you something that may or may not make you hate me, so please just keep an open mind, ok?"

She raised a brow and crossed her arms. "Ok, what's up?" He sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, wincing as if telling her was killing him on the inside. "I…I may…or may not have a…a demon…sealed inside of me?" She stared at him and his awkward poses, ready to laugh from his stature, but she held it in. "Ok, is that it?"

Naruto's eyes widened in surprise and looked at her. "You're not…scared or anything?" She laughed and shook her head. "I'm an Arachne, possibly one of the scariest things humans could see besides a demon. Scarier even, now that there aren't a whole lot of us left and people would hardly ever see us. Why would I be worried about you having a demon inside of you?"

Naruto went back to being awkward and kicked the dirt in front of him. "I…wasn't sure how you would take it. Some people don't mind it too much, but others are really mean about it. Some chase me out of stores, but my dad never does anything about it when I tell him, saying some people need more time to get over what happened and we can't force them to accept me."

This got her attention as they began to walk again. "What happened, exactly?" He sighed as he walked alongside her, watching her legs move, fascinated by their beauty, but still attentive to the conversation. "Thirteen years ago today, on my birthday, my village was attacked by a demon made of pure chakra known as the Kyuubi. He tore down a lot of the village and killed a whole lot of people, but he assures me that he was being controlled, and I believe him."

She looked to him as they turned on a dirt road, both seeing the Hokage Monument way off in the distance now. "You talk to him?" Naruto nodded with a small smile. "His real name is Kurama. After my parents wouldn't let me join the academy, I met him on accident and we started to talk a lot. He was my only real friend, at least, until I met you." She blushed and he was oblivious to it as he continued to talk about the attack.

"Anyways, according to my mom, my dad was going to seal Kurama into me himself costing him his life. But he was talked out of it by the Third Hokage, volunteering to do it himself. When that happened, he died and I had a demon sitting inside of me. At first everyone but my family hated me. They didn't care that I was the Fourths son. They wanted justice for all the people they lost. But the older I got, people started to see I wasn't going to kill them I guess. But then…" His face got dark, not hate, but distaste, making Rachnera worry for him.

"Then they decided to start comparing me to them, saying that my dad was already studying his jutsu's at my age and my mother was learning Kenjutsu. I took it as a challenge. I wanted to be better than them. I had to be! I tried to study Ninjutsu and my chakra was too much for me to control at the time, which automatically dealt out Genjutsu. Then I tried Taijutsu with the help of one of my dad's friends. I was amazing at it! I got stronger! I got faster! But then I started to push it too hard and I shattered all of the bones in my left arm. Even Kurama and my godmother together couldn't fix it entirely. I lost almost all of the strength in it. I can barely lift a sword with it. But as a silver lining…had that not happened I might not have met you."

Rachnera felt his pain, but smiled as he said his last sentence. "I'm glad I met you today, Naruto-kun." He smiled back, burying his pain once more. "And I'm glad to have met you as well, Nera-chan!" They kept their smiling faces and walked in blissful silence until they got closer to the more populated portion of the village. Naruto stopped them and held a finger to his mouth, motioning for silence. She crouched down and got her human half low, her face getting close to his, causing him to blush.

He shook his head and closed his eyes, trying to reach out with his chakra to sense how many people there were. In his studies, he had retained basic things, like sensing miniscule chakra signatures to avoid large crowds. It wasn't hard for him because he learned he could just overcharge and blanket an area in his chakra, picking out to anomalies and counting them up and deter directions by trails. His father had said it was unconventional and a waste of chakra, but Naruto was happy having something that only someone like him could do with his massive chakra reserves.

As he did just that, he saw that most of the street was empty except for a few stands further down away from the alley they had worked their way into. He poked his head out and saw an alley just a little way down and looked to Rachnera. He knew she was fast and pointed to it silently. She smirked and readied herself, her leg joints creaking eerily in the silence as she shot herself to the alley, using her legs against the building to lessen the blow to the brick and wood. Naruto smirked with her as he dashed right over her head, handspringing off the wall to land in a crouch, hoping to look cool, but she only chuckled, making him groan as he stood and motioned for them to move.

This continued with him blanketing areas with chakra and moving along rooftops when they couldn't make it through the alleys. As they came closer to the Namikaze Estate, Naruto led her around the back and undid a seal in the barrier large enough for the two of them to pass. His father had put it there when he needed to get away from his mother Kushina's wrath for whatever reason and keyed Naruto to it for the very same reason. Using it allowed them to get through without tripping the barrier and alerting Kushina to their presence.

As they went through, they came to a small clearing that led to another tree line, allowing Rachnera and Naruto to see his families' massive home. He sped up and stopped in front of her with a smile, spreading his arms to show off the area. "This is the forest! It has plenty of animals if you like to hunt for yourself or if you want I can bring out breakfast, lunch or dinner sometime if you don't want to hunt all the time! The barrier reaches pretty far out into the woods, but given that it doesn't read animals as intruders, I'm not all too sure how it would react to you, being half human and all that, so just in case, there ARE tree markings that will tell where it ends. Just look for the yellow circles and don't go much further or you could trip the defenses and trust me, no one wants to deal with the toads…"

Rachnera looked around happily, so happy to now see the light from the sun like she did with her mother. As she looked to it, she saw that it was beginning to set, leaving a light red hue in the sky, captivating her attention and causing Naruto to smile with happiness. He turned to walk away, talking as he did. "Well I'm going to go on and make sure my parents haven't organized a search party. I've been gone most of the day so they might be worried. If you need me…" He pointed to the far left of the compound with a smile and his other hand in his pocket. "I'm at the very end down there away from my parents, just slide the window open, it's usually unlocked and if I'm not in there then I'll usually be around soon." He smiled and waved to her. "I'll be seeing you tomorrow, Nera-chan! You get comfortable and sleep well! Night!"

She smiled and held her hands to her small human body; all six of her eyes beginning to water as she looked back to the sun. "Goodnight…Naruto-kun."

"Thank you so much…"

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I hope this was better. I didn't want him gaining his strength off the bat, so I'm hindering him naturally and by his own hand. I hope everyone gets some good ideas to send me! I want everyone to contribute! Be seeing ya when I get the next chapter going from your ideas!

Elemental Shadow Out!