'I'm no expert in medic and healing jutsus,' Minato added, 'However using and absorbing too much of my chakra at one time in your present physical condition might have some side effects though I'm not sure what they may be.'
That's a risk I'll have to take, Naruto retorted with his mind clearly made up. When he was done performing the necessary seals, his body started glowing with Minato's chakra pouring out of the seal on his stomach and into his chakra coils before completely engulfing his body, beginning the restoration. The seal containing Yondaime was hidden with a strong genjutsu Tsunade designed and made for Naruto and could be modified to blend in with him as he ages and grow.
During the healing process however, something unexpected suddenly happened: Naruto felt pain coursing throughout his entire body inside and out, from every bone, muscle, and organ and skin tissue, as though he was being pulled apart. It felt excruciating.
"…What's…happening…to me…," Naruto groaned in great pain before realizing that his body was undergoing a change as Minato's chakra grew stronger and continued reshaping and mending Naruto's body.
(Back In Konoha)
Tsunade had dispatched the ANBU after receiving word that Orochimaru was in the forest of death. She didn't know for what purpose he was there but with everything that's been happening and the invasion that's to happen, she wasn't taking any chances.
(Later Back In The Forest)
Naruto, fully healed and revived, swam his way towards to the shore with no clothes over his body. In spite being completely naked and soaked, he felt great and alive, as though he was reborn. Soon he eyes came to see that a large tiger was making its way towards him with bloodlust radiating in its eyes. Naruto grinned at the large cat before picking up his kunai that was washed ashore next to him. After doing that, the tiger jumped at him with the intentions of making a meal out of him. Naruto wrestled with the large predator before overpowering it and effectively slitting its neck with the kunai, killing the tiger.
"I'm happy you showed up when you did kitty," Naruto said with a voice that sound more grown and mature than his usual voice. Using the kunai, Naruto got to work skinning the dead tiger, wanting to make using of its fur and skin. He knew that what he had in mind was going to take a while.
(Later)
Ryota was down by the mouth of the other end of the chasm and Naruto's body still hasn't show up yet.
"Damn," Ryota muttered, "Where is he?"
She searched around all over looking for any traces that would lead to where Naruto was. Ryota continued this for some time and was unsuccessful in detecting anything that would pinpoint Naruto's location. At this point she started growing frustrated. She decided to retrace her steps back to where she last saw him.
Returning back to where the waterfall, she came across a dead tiger that was stripped and cleaved of most of its skin and fur. From the looks of it, she saw that it had to have been done by a sharp object. She also noted that the tiger's four fangs were pulled from out of its mouth and the rest of its body was left to be eaten by the maggots and worms.
"He was here all along," Ryota realized, "By from the looks of this, this tiger has been dead for a while so he moved on from here sometime ago, which he's-"
She stopped when she detected vibrations of feet movements through the ground. With a grin on her face, Ryota took to flight and followed in pursuit.
"I'm coming for you Naruto-kun," she said as she run in the direction from where she picked up the vibrations. Before long, she spots Naruto as she last saw him running through the woods.
"Gotcha," she said as she summoned a boulder and threw it into the blonde, only for it to puff out of existence.
"Damn," she growled, "A kage bushin."
A moment later she picked up movements elsewhere. Heading over to that direction, Ryota came to see Naruto again running away from her after seeing that he was found. He didn't get far when the ground open up under and closed shut over him, only to puff out of existence as the first one.
"Another kage bushin," Ryota said with a irritated tone. Soon she started picking up movement from various directions. She wasn't able to tell the real one from the fakes as she attacked and killed off every kage bushin she found one at a time or in pairs.
"Where the hell are you," Ryota yelled in frustration after taking out another clone. Just she thought she wasn't going get her answer…
"Looking for me," said a voice from above that sounded familiar to the girl, but more grown and confident. Ryota looked up into the trees to see Naruto looking down at her. What she was seeing however was anything but what she was expecting.
Standing on the tree branch was a newly structured Naruto who was taller than before. He no longer had any of the baby fat on his body or face. Rather, his body was now leaner and muscularly built and pronounced. Though he's still thirteen however, his face looked like that of a fifteen-year-old instead of a thirteen-year-old boy.
Also, Naruto was now wearing the tiger's skin and fur. He used some of skin as underwear while using the rest of the skin and fur as loincloth around his waist (A/N: think of Disney's Tarzan, only it's with tiger fur and skin). Some of the fur and skin was used as a belt to fasten the loincloth around his waist, with the tigers fangs used to help keep the belt in place. Naruto's two kunais were placed at his sides into the loincloth by his waist. His Konoha head protector was still tied around his head and he was still barefooted.
Caught off guard by Naruto's new appearance, Ryota had to focus her mind on her objective though some blood seeped down her nose which she had to immediately wipe away.
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