Naruto walked alongside his team reading his book. He found out that the 'game manual' could actually turn into another book if he needed it to. He found it easier to read and then have to deal with someone's questioning if he didn't have to try and come up with a believable lie.
Currently he was reading about a space mercenary and was on one of the steamier romance portions of the book. He giggled sometimes, quite like a white haired Sannin. It caught Sakura's attention unfortunately and she was hovering over his shoulders trying to read.
Again, unfortunately Sakura had a tendency to read aloud. "'After a time, the pain ebbed and was replaced by a new pleasure. She breathed heavily as he moved even faster and she met his strokes, driving him even deeper into her body.' What the hell are you reading?" Sakura asked sounding angry.
Kakashi picked up on what she had said and was suddenly over Naruto's shoulder reading the book himself, rather intently on that page. "Next page please Naruto."
"Did you two say something?" Naruto asked looking up from his book. He then went back to it and ducked his head down as Sakura took a swing, her punch missing him. "Kakashi-sensei, did a bird pass us or something?"
Sakura composed herself, barely. "What are you reading Naruto?" she asked deceptively sweet.
"Oh, just a book. It's about a mercenary in space protecting the princess of a planet. They end up falling in love, and thus romance ensues. The author was quite good, mixing humor with violence and sex." Naruto said and instinctively dodged under another punch.
"I didn't know you could read Dobe." Sasuke said trying to get a rise out of the blonde.
"You two don't know much about me." Naruto countered making his two teammates stop as they realized the truth of that statement. "I however enjoy reading very much. It allows me to escape from whatever hardships that day brought." Naruto said.
"So basically you're a bookworm. Great…another damned one." Sasuke said shaking his head as he pulled ahead a bit.
"Kakashi-sensei likes to read too." Naruto said and began to absently talk with Kakashi about their books. Naruto's was naturally better due to one simple thing. Plot.
When they got back, they went to debriefing with the Hokage. As soon as the door was open, Naruto shot forward and leapt into the Hokage's lap. "I want for Christmas a giant toad, I want a funny hat like yours, and I want a Jonin rank." Sarutobi rolled his eyes before shoving the blonde off of his lap, making it pop in a plume of smoke. Naruto walked in behind Team 7 grinning before adopting a serious thinking look. "Wait a second! I get the memories of my clones back!" Kakashi and Sarutobi both smacked their foreheads with their palms, but Naruto paid it no mind. "The possibilities are endless!"
"No." Sarutobi said flat. "You are not allowed to abuse the abilities of the Shadow Clones like that."
"Aw…" Naruto hung his head before snapping up. "So did you miss us Jiji?"
Sarutobi muttered something under his breath. "Report." He told Kakashi looking up.
They got debriefed from their mission which Naruto talked about animatedly. Once he got paid though, he almost tore out of the office. "RAAAAAMEEEEN!"
Kakashi shook his head. "I hope that he loses that quirk, but at the same time I hope he keeps it."
Naruto dashed, dived, flipped, spun, and danced around people getting to his favorite ramen shop. Three weeks in Wave without ramen nearly drove him insane. While Tsunami's cooking was delicious, and so were the 'treats' he got the last week or so, it was not ramen.
Naruto landed on the stool and bounced up and down. "Teuchi-jiji! Ayame-neechan! I'm back! I need a refill! I need ramen…" the last came out almost as a whimper as Teuchi and Ayame came out from the back chuckling with amusement at Naruto's actions. "My usual order Teuchi-jiji."
Teuchi nodded. "I'll get right on it." He said before heading into the back to make Naruto the ramen, leaving the blonde with Ayame
Ayame was torn. With Naruto coming back, it was like she had never seen him and as such she was now seeing him as a man and not her little brother figure. But she was also on the clock and her break would only give her a half hour. That wasn't long enough with Naruto. She also didn't want to upset her father and end up losing out on seeing Naruto around more.
Naruto saw the look Ayame was giving him and tilted his head. He knew that look; he had seen it on Tsunami. He wouldn't have figured Ayame to be hungry for a bit of fox. "Something wrong Ayame-neechan?" he asked innocently.
Ayame smiled and shook her head. "Say Naruto-kun, I'm closing late tonight and my dad is going to play poker with his friends. I'd feel a lot safer if you were around." She said leaning against the counter a bit, trying to display her breasts, even through the outfit she wore.
Naruto smiled. "Sure Nee-chan." He said and watched as Teuchi came back with one bowl of ramen, which Naruto enthusiastically began to dig into. It was his life sustaining food after all
After about twenty bowls of ramen, Naruto patted his stomach appreciatively giving a sigh of relief. "That hit the spot, thanks old man." Naruto said paying with the money he got from the Wave mission. He didn't use all of it, but twenty bowls of ramen would take a chunk of his paycheck.
"Naruto, could I talk to you for a moment?" Teuchi asked once Ayame entered the back to wash some dishes. He made sure she was out of earshot
Naruto looked to the old man and nodded. "What's up?"
"Now, I'm not blind Naruto. I'm not dumb either." Teuchi said. "Ayame wants you pretty badly and you seem to be going willingly with whatever plan she has."
Naruto chuckled. "You got me there old man."
Teuchi scratched his chin. "She's old enough to be making these types of decisions by herself I guess…just promise me you won't hurt her."
"You do realize what you're giving me permission to do right?" Naruto asked incredulously.
Teuchi chuckled. "She could do a lot worse than a good friend of our family Naruto. Don't forget to keep coming by for Ramen and we'll call it even."
Naruto grinned. "Alright Old man. You bet." Naruto then stood up and headed back home to get a few more looks at the book. After having sex with Tsunami, he had been expecting a bit more progress, yet he never got quite the same amount after that first time.