"A little of both actually," Naruto grinned as he walked up to the register that Tenten was sitting at. "I'm leaving tomorrow for some kind of mission, Tsunade-baa-chan wouldn't tell me what it was. I think I pissed her off when I drank nearly five human sized containers of Mount Myoboku sake without her."
"You really shouldn't call Tsunade-sama by such rude names," Tenten frowned at the blond. She was on the fence of being mad at him for calling her idol such a name, and finding his use of such a derogatory name funny. "And you really shouldn't have drunken all that sake."
Naruto gave a half assed shrug as he grinned, "It's a term of endearment Ten-chan. I called the Sandaime Ojisan, I call Jiraiya Ero-sennin, therefore Tsunade is baa-chan."
Tenten just sighed, "Whatever."
"Yeah anyways. So I suppose first we should get to business," Naruto set the weights he had gotten when he first became a Genin on the desk. "I need to get new weights."
"Why? What's wrong with these ones," She frowned in thought. "These are some of the most durable equipment we have Naruto-kun. They're supposed to last for years."
Naruto scratched the back of his head as he gained a sheepish expression, "Well I kinda reached the maximum amount of weight these things possess. So…"
As the blond trailed of Tenten's eyes widened, "You've already reached the maximum weight limit! Naruto, the maximum amount of weights for these things are two hundred pounds! Each!" There is no way he could have reached that level of weight in just under six months, not even Lee had increased his weights that much in that short a time! It was simply wasn't possible, was it?
"Tenten. Are you forgetting?" Naruto placed a hand on his stomach causing her to flush with embarrassment. She had been told about the benefits of being Kyuubi's container, one of which was the regeneration of his muscles, causing them to be nearly twice as strong each time he ripped them.
"Right, I forgot," Tenten came out from behind the counter and went over to the sections with the weights. Looking at a few different sets she chose the one she felt would work best for Naruto, "This is the best selection of weights we have in stock."
Tenten handing Naruto the box before she opened it up and took one out; unlike his other weights, which actually looked like weights, these ones were dark red wrist and ankle bands with what Naruto recognized as weight seals on them.
"They use a seal to increase the weight," it was a statement.
"That's right," Tenten nodded. "Unlike our other weights that use a chakra conducive, lightweight metal, these ones use seals. Because of this there is no actual limit to the amount of weight you can put on them. At least we have never found a limit; people have to wear them in order to activate the weights so the most we have seen added was six hundred pounds to one of them."
Naruto nodded, "I'm guessing they're expensive?"
"10000 yen," Tenten confirmed.
Naruto had never been so thankful that he had started doing exclusively C and B-ranked missions. The amount of money he had gotten had nearly tripled, giving him a nice sum of cash that he had saved up. It also helped that his two Kage Bunshin Akira and Kian had also made quite a bit of money. He had even managed to get a bank account now where he put most of it away.
"That is pretty pricy, but thankfully I've got cash to spare," Naruto followed Tenten back to the register where she rang him up. After paying for the weights Naruto took a moment to put them on. When he got back up he gave the bun haired girl a smile. "And now that the business is out of the way, I was wondering if you wanted to go out to dinner with me?"
Tenten's face instantly became a nice shade of red. "L-like a date?" Naruto had never actually asked her out to dinner before. The thought brought a tingling warmth to it that traveled down her spine.
Naruto, noticing the increasing hue on her face tapped his chin, "Well it doesn't have to be if you don't want it to. But if you do I would be more than happy to take you on a date."
Tenten's face seemed to light up for a second before it fell. "…I don't…will it be like last time?" When Naruto turned a confused look on her the weapons mistress elaborated, "I don't want to go somewhere where people will be rude to you because of..."
"Ah," Naruto understood what she meant as he remembered their last date had not gone well due to the waitress. That Tenten was concerned about his happiness brought a small smile to Naruto's face, "I wouldn't worry about that. I've found a place that I know won't kick me out, so if you're still interested in dinner the offer's still open."
For dinner Naruto had taken Tenten to a small but nice restaurant called the Golden Leaf. It was a diner style restaurant located on the outer section of Konoha's market district. The place was not fancy or anything but it was nice.
When Naruto and Tenten walked into the front door and up to the desk where the hostess stood they both noticed her stiffen. However, as Tenten began to get worried the blond surprised her when he spoke, "I would like the reserved seat under the name Fuujin please."
The blond allowed himself a small smile as he saw the widening of the hostess's eyes, no doubt having been informed about the names meaning. He also noticed that the woman gave him a smile, though it was obviously forced, "Of course, right this way."
Naruto began walking forcing Tenten to walk with him and knocking her out of her slight shock. They were eventually led to a private booth where the pair sat on opposite sides of each other, "A waiter will be with you shortly to take your orders, have a nice stay."
When the hostess walked off Tenten turned to Naruto, confusion evident on her face, "What was that about?"
Naruto chuckled a bit before explaining, "On one of my recent missions, a B-rank one where the team I was on had to eradicate a small nest of bandits and missing ninja, I managed to find and rescue a woman by the name of Okawa Kikyo who had been captured while traveling. Turns out she's a citizen of Konoha and had been on a trip to find rare ingredients from other countries in order to spice up the menu of this restaurant."
Tenten blinked as the words registered in her mind, "So I take it she's the owner of this shop?"
"No, her husband is the owner, while she works the menu," Naruto smiled a bit. "When Kikyo-san told her husband about how I rescued her I guess he just had a change in heart, because the next thing I knew he had found me after I had been returning from a mission and told me that if I ever wanted a place to eat, I was welcome here."
"I see," Tenten smiled. "That's actually kind of cool. So what about the name Fuujin? What was up with that?"
"Oh that," Naruto gave a dismissive wave. "I didn't want them to lose customers because of me, so he created this private booth. Fuujin is the alias I came up with for when I want to dine here. Since my elemental chakra is wind natured I thought it would be a good idea since Fuujin means Wind God."
Tenten covered her mouth to hide a small laugh, "A little grandiose of a name, don't you think?"
Naruto gave a pout as he crossed his arms, "I wanted something cool, that and I couldn't think of anything else."
This time Tenten let out a rather loud laugh, causing Naruto to puff up her cheeks comically, "It's not funny!" However, this only seemed to make the girl laugh that much harder.
She managed to calm down in time to deliver her order when the waiter came, and after that the two made some more small talk. Most of their discussion was centered on various new weapon designs the two were trying to come up with.
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