Naruto: Cautious Ninja

However, just as the three women were beginning to wonder how they were going to pluck the kid out from under the burning wreckage of the tree, there was suddenly a loud tap that echoed out from the woods behind them followed shortly by a holler that caught the attention of the only masked kunoichi left. She spun around with her sword swinging, only to be met with the unexpected sight of-

"CROTCH!" Naruto shouted, slamming into the woman's face and wrapping his legs around her. Twisting sharply and diving right, he tossed the startled woman over and straight into her partner, knocking both of them to the ground for the third time in a row. The leader was quick to respond when she looked over to see the boy crouched down on the ground, grinning up at them.

"Nuisance!" she shouted, throwing a barrage of shuriken at him and flipping through hand seals. "Gen'ei Tajū Shuriken!" The projectiles she tossed seemingly multiplied in mid-flight, filling the air with a cloud of metal stars that charged the crouched blonde down.

Naruto stood upright, being peppered by the first wave that caused his body to go up in a puff of smoke, which parted moments later to reveal a log. When the log fell to the ground the real one came darting out from behind it, zigzagging between the waves of projectiles at high speed while approaching the leader kunoichi, who continued tossing shuriken his way.

Using his fleeted movements the blonde managed to rush right into his opponent's reach and leapt at her with a kunai in hand. The woman responded immediately by slashing out at him with her sword, slicing him in half. For a second time his body burst into a puff of smoke and was replaced by a massive log, which was cleaved in two.

With the replacement blocking her view ahead of her, the woman immediately suspected attack from a blind spot. "Above!" she said while looking up in alarm. Seeing nothing, she looked left and right, before her eyes dropped straight down. "BELOW!" Before she could respond, the orange blur of her opponent suddenly slid right between her legs, his fist smacking her behind the knee and dropping her like a stone.

Yelping, the kunoichi hit the ground on all fours but she recovered shortly thereafter, throwing herself back onto her feet and spinning around to see her target perched on a boulder not too far from her position. He was looking at her rather strangely.

"You're quick for a runt," the leader complimented with a smirk, bringing her sword back up into an offensive stance. "But don't think I'll be sparing you because of that. In the grand scheme of things nothing you do has the least bit of significance. You're just worthless trash." Her companions had managed to pull themselves to their feet too, and after a few seconds of recovery were once again behind her and at her defense.

Blinking curiously, Naruto then held up his right hand, bringing forward a rather peculiar item which he dangled before his three-person audience. "That's quite a lot of weight to be carrying around with you… though you can't really tell through that vest you're wearing."

The three women scrutinized the article the boy was holding, which they quickly identified to be a light green bra with lace. The team leader's subordinates blinked in surprise, before the leader herself realized what must have happened and, with her face turning bright red and her arms snapping over her chest, she let out a shriek and dropped to her knees.

She wasn't wearing any panties either…

Which were being held in Naruto's other hand when he brought it into view too. He stretched the upper body garment between both and looked at it strangely. "Man… you have a really weird taste in fashion. This crummy color doesn't suit you at all."

"Y-YOU FUCKING PERVERT! GIVE ME BACK MY UNDERWEAR!" the leader screamed, her cheeks glowing at this point. How the hell did he manage to get his hands on her unmentionables without removing any of her clothing? That's what all three kunoichi wanted to know right now when they all glared back up at him.

Was it some kind of jutsu? What the hell kind of joke was this?

Naruto grinned and began twirling the items on his finger provocatively. "Wondering how I got em? Well… I ain't telling you ladies squat. Trade secret. Use your imagination."

"You punk!" the last masked kunoichi shouted while ripping off her face covering. Tossing it aside, she slapped her hands together to form a hand seal. "You'll burn for this! Katon-"

"THINK FAST!" Naruto interrupted, tossing his right hand across and firing off several more projectiles with a sleight-of-hand draw. He nailed all three of them in the bodies with pellets, but instead of using paintballs or anything of the sort, the supplementary weapons he threw turned out to be soft balls covered with some sort of powder very similar to flour.

The fabric-wrapped balls thudded against the three kunoichi continuously, with the boy ditching more and more at them with use of both hands. The women cried out in surprise as they were peppered mercilessly, the projectiles clouding the airspace around them in fine powder until the onslaught stopped. Coughing and waving away the fumes, the kunoichi quickly glared back up at the child to see him still perched on his rock, grinning wildly.

"Infantile pest!" The leader shouted, all three of them rising to their feet and forming hand seals in perfect sync with each other. "We didn't take you seriously enough; a mistake we won't be repeating twice. There's no way you can match three Chunin at once!"

"I beg to differ," Naruto exclaimed cheekily while still holding onto the leader's undergarments. "I outsmart and outrun the Chunin of my village on a daily basis. You guys are no different."

"We'll see about that!" the silver haired woman shouted, the trio finishing flipping through seals before all of them inhaled sharply. "Katon Renkeijutsu: Karura!" The team then exhaled at once, the flames of their jutsu spewing forth from their lips-

Before the powder around their faces suddenly ignited and, before their combination technique could even gain traction, their bodies caught fire simultaneously. All three kunoichi cried out in shock and then agony when their forms exploded into flames and they all started running circles around the clearing. In the midst of their panic they dropped to the ground and started to roll excessively in an attempt to put the fires out. They were miserably unsuccessful, yet kept on trying to put out the heat.

After watching them cook for a moment with a sense of satisfaction, Naruto then hopped off of his rock and rushed over to them. Grabbing clumps of dirt, he tossed it over them in heaps, covering them and patting over their bodies quickly to put the flames out. Within seconds he was able to extinguish all of them, leaving three very crisply burnt yet still attractive looking kunoichi smoldering on the ground in a daze.

Gasping from the pain and the shock at lighting up so unexpectedly, the wounded, silver haired kunoichi shakily looked up at the blonde haired boy leaning over her, where she met his curious gaze eye to eye. She trembled in all manner of the word, gaze widening and fear being reflected clearing in her irises at being confronted by the 'monster.'

She was completely at his mercy now.

"W-W-What the hell… did you do to us?"

Naruto smiled. "That wasn't ordinary powder I was pelting you three with… it was phosphorous. Highly flammable." He held up one of the soft balls in question and squeezed it several times. "After seeing your first attack I realized you guys used quite a lot of Fire Release techniques, so I gambled on you using one against me to try and put me out if I messed with you enough. Guess that means I win…"

The leader gritted her teeth in frustration, but upon realizing who she had lost to and not knowing a thing about him, she grinned. "Who… or what… are you?"

Naruto smiled proudly. "The resident prankster: Uzumaki Naruto. Nice to meet you."

He then clenched the fist he was holding the ball with and punched her in the face with full force, knocking her out…

OOO

Half an hour later…

A little while after the battle was over Konohagakure shinobi finally arrived at the scene, with all intent and purpose of stopping whatever it was that had been going on all the way out here. The squad of course sent to investigate the area was made up of Izumo, Kotetsu, team leader Kakashi, and surprisingly Iruka, who had volunteered onto the group in his search for Naruto, whom he'd learned was somewhere out here in the woods.

When they stumbled upon the ruined battlefield, the squad was quick to discover a much unexpected surprise.

Three kunoichi from an unknown village were tied up and propped up against a tree, all of them knocked unconscious and looking absolutely barbequed. Not so much that they were burned black or anything like that, but the damage they had received from whatever scuffle they had gotten into was still quite prominent. They had frazzled hair and everything.

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