A Darker World

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“All right you two come here,” Jiraiya said, “it's time you learned a jutsu.”

Naruto and Konohamaru immediately stopped their morning exercises and ran over to Jiraiya. The blonde had completely forgotten that they were supposed to learn this last night after dinner until much later in the evening. Inari had invited them to play a board game in his room halfway through dinner and they both had immediately agreed. He had felt a little embarrassed when he had remembered, but Jiraiya didn't seem upset with their absentmindedness.

“The jutsu I'm going to teach you is the Transformation technique.”

“That's what you do when you make your clones, right? When they change into someone else?” Konohamaru questioned.

“You're correct. This is-”

“Can we learn something cooler?” Konohamaru interrupted.

The older man glared over at him and responded, “You have to crawl before you can walk. Once you learn how to do this jutsu, others will come a lot easier. It's basic, but trust me, there isn't a ninja around that doesn't use this technique.”

His younger friend shrugged that off and muttered, “Still not as cool as summoning.”

This time Jiraiya simply ignored the comment. “You know how to gather chakra to your center. Now, I want you to do that only this time I want you to picture something in your mind. Anything will do, but it has to be a single object. As you're thinking of that image, make the following signs.” His hands made the signs for Dog, Boar and finally Tiger. “Once you've done that force the chakra from your center and send it to your fingers and toes. Got it?”

Both boys muttered acknowledgments.

“All right then, Konohamaru you try first.”

“Piece of cake,” the boy said closing his eyes to concentrate. For a few seconds he just stood there motionless. Then, he started to make the hand signs slower than Jiraiya had, but with the same confidence. Suddenly, Konohamaru disappeared behind a puff of smoke. As the cloud slowly dissipated, Naruto smiled because Konohamaru had transformed into a doppelganger of him.

“That's excellent Konohamaru,” Jiraiya praised. “Naruto since he transformed into you are you able to see what he did wrong?”

Naruto frowned as he concentrated. Eyeing the transformed Konohamaru from head to toe, he spotted a small difference as he looked at his feet. Looking back and forth he said hesitantly, “Our toenails are different?” His feet suddenly became the object of intense interest as both of his companions stared at his feet.

“You're right,” Konohamaru said.

“Yes, I didn't pick up on that,” Jiraiya admitted.

“There’s more wrong?” Konohamaru said a bit upset.

“A few small things,” Jiraiya said pointing as he listed them. “Your T-shirt sleeves are a little too short as are your shorts Konohamaru. The hair is also a bit off.”

“Yeah, but that's not a big deal,” Naruto said feeling the need to come to Konohamaru's defense.

The man glanced at him with a slight smile. “You think so? One time when I was only a little older than you, I was on guard duty in the woods at night when I heard a rustling. It was a small squirrel. It looked like a squirrel and was acting like a squirrel, but I knew it was a ninja. Do you know why I knew that?”

Naruto thought for a second, but shrugged and said, “I don't know.”

“Because of all the different species of squirrel there is only one type that is active during the night and this was not that type,” he said with a knowing smile. “This jutsu is simple to learn and use, but virtually impossible to master. That's why I want you to pay attention to your surroundings. A little thing that's out of place might be your only clue that you're about to walk into an ambush. Of course, having said all of that, Konohamaru did pick the hardest thing to transform into. You see when you picture an image of a person you see every day it's hard to pick up on little things that change. So, you're up Naruto. You should pick something easier than a person for your first try.”

Yeah right Naruto thought as he closed his eyes and pictured Konohamaru, concentrating on the small things. He would not take the easy road. Gathering his chakra, he pushed it out like he had been instructed to do, but at the last second he tried to picture Konohamaru with his hair a little longer. Hearing the popping sound, he opened his eyes only to discover he couldn't see. A second later he heard Konohamaru’s laughter and he demanded, “What?”

Konohamaru continued to laugh and Jiraiya sounded just as amused. “Naruto, did you try to change the hair length at the last second?”

“What? Yeah,” he said wondering how Jiraiya would know that as he tried to bring his hands up to his eyes.

“Well Naruto,” Jiraiya said trying not to laugh himself, “you see if you make a change at the last second it tends to un… try to do both. Your hair is way too long and it's blocking your eyes and don't bother trying to move, it's an illusion.”

“Tell me how to undo this!?” Naruto demanded trying and failing to sound as if he was panicking.

“All right, all right,” Jiraiya said still sounding too amused in Naruto's opinion. “Just try to pull your chakra to your center again. It doesn't take much and usually a good blow will also knock someone out of their Transformation. Now try canceling it.” Doing as instructed, Naruto was able to cancel his Transformation as Konohamaru did the same.

“It's not that funny,” Naruto muttered at his friend who was still giggling.

“Yeah, it was,” Konohamaru replied. “You had my hair down here,” he made a line across his nose.

“Anyway,” Jiraiya said reminding them that he was still there, “I want you to practice this the whole day today. One of you Transform and I want the other to try to spot what's wrong with it. Try all different sorts of objects and when you're tired be sure to take a break because chakra exhaustion is not fun. Understand?” Both boys acknowledged his orders. The man nodded, and turning his head said into the woods. “You there behind that tree, if you're going to spy you might as well help out.”

For a moment, Naruto thought that Jiraiya was having a senior moment when Inari stepped out from behind a tree looking a bit sheepish. “I wasn't spying,” he protested in a quiet voice.

“Well, whatever,” Jiraiya said gesturing him to come closer, “Did you hear what I said to them?”

“Well, yeah.”

“Good, then you can help them spot their mistakes. I have to get going so train hard you two and Inari stay as long as you like.” With that, he started walking off without a backward glance.

For a moment, the three boys stood there staring at each other. Naruto wondered how Inari would be today. Last night he had been completely different than when they had first met. He had been happy and laughing as they played the board game. His change in personality could not have been just from Konohamaru's blow job because, after all, Konohamaru was good, but not that good. Now, though, he was quiet like when they had first met.

The silence was starting to become uncomfortable and he knew he had to do something. “Hey, Inari do I look like your hat?” He tried to do the jutsu quickly and judging by the two boy’s reactions, he had only partially succeeded.

Naruto’s little stunt broke the ice between them and they spent the morning practicing. After a while, he experimented a little and deliberately tried to mess up sometimes. It made the others laugh and it also helped cover up his real mistakes. Konohamaru seemed to catch on to what he was doing, most noticeably transforming into Jiraiya, but with a huge round nose.

They broke for lunch and this time Tsunami prepared them a hot meal. Konohamaru and Inari were doing the majority of the chatting, but once food was put in front of them they both shut up and stuffed their faces just like Naruto was. Tsunami’s cooking was a lot better than Jiraiya’s, and while not as good as some of the fancier meals served to clients at the House, it definitely had something that seemed to make it superior than those meals. At least that was Naruto's opinion as he wolfed it down.

“So Inari,” Tsunami spoke up, “it’s your birthday tomorrow, are you looking forward to it?”

“I guess,” Inari said pausing in his eating.

“Your birthday is tomorrow?” Naruto asked before adding, “Konohamaru’s is seven days away.”

“Six,” Konohamaru interjected with a mouth full of food.

“Really?” Tsunami said surprised, “well, it looks like we'll be having two birthday parties in a week then.”

“What's a birthday party like?” Konohamaru questioned.

“You don't know?” Inari asked disbelievingly.

“Naruto,” his friend’s tone pleaded for an answer.

The blonde had to think for a minute, wondering how to describe it. At the House they had been given the day off from working and some people would give presents like candy bars or transfer points during the day, if they liked you. Then, he remembered his own birthday only a few months ago with Jiraiya. “A birthday party is like when we went into that one town and only ate desserts on my birthday, but when there's a party there's usually presents and more people.”

“And games,” Inari chimed in “you two can come, right?”

“Yeah, it sounds like fun.” Naruto said before wondering if Jiraiya would let them. After all, they did have training to get too.

The conversation started to drift after that as Inari described his previous birthdays and explained why some were more important than others. Naruto listened and occasionally asked a question, but Tsunami didn't say anything unless Inari asked her a direct question.

He didn't notice this at first, but after a while it did dawn on him that she was looking at him and Konohamaru differently. It was subtle and he only picked up on it because reading adult’s emotions had been a valuable skill. Still, he wasn't exactly sure what was upsetting her. He had caught Jiraiya looking at them like this occasionally, but he had never been sure why, and since it wasn't a dangerous look, he dismissed it.

After lunch, the trio of boys went back outside to continue training. As they were walking through the woods, Konohamaru suddenly asked, “Hey Inari, are we supposed to give you a present tomorrow too?”

“Um, no you don't have too.”

“Oh,” Konohamaru said. “I wouldn't know what to get you unless you want another blow job?”

Inari's face reddened at the mention of yesterday's activity. “Well, that was nice, but I don't want my mom catching me doing a blow job.”

“Receiving,” Konohamaru corrected. “You received a blow job.”

“Oh, well, I don't think my mom would be to happy if she knew.”

Naruto thought for a second and then suggested, “Well, maybe we could camp out one night?” Both boys looked at him and he added, “You know Konohamaru like we do with Jiraiya. We could camp out here in the woods and we would be alone.” He wasn't sure why he had suggested that, but he had.

For a second, there was silence and then Konohamaru shouted, “That's a great idea! We could do it tomorrow or the day after and we could have all sorts of fun. You could even teach us one of those games you know Naruto.”

“Well, I guess I could,” Naruto said hesitantly. Back at the House, sometimes when a group of them had been rented, they would play games with a client. “That is if Inari wants too?”

They both looked at the other boy who remained silent for a minute. “I don't know, my mom might not let me and I've never slept anywhere else except my bed.”

“It will be fine. We'll ask her after dinner,” Konohamaru said jumping up and down in excitement.

Naruto smiled, getting caught up in the others excitement. This might be fun he thought just a little uneasily, but excited too.

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The next day was Inari's birthday and while Jiraiya didn't quite give them the day off from training, he limited it to the morning only. He had both of them show him the jutsu and was surprised at how well it was coming along which caused both of them to beam with pride. He then squashed their joy by giving a rather long lecture on how this particular jutsu should be used.

Apparently, there were times you should try very hard to copy an object exactly and other times you shouldn't since having two identical objects next to each other could be a dead giveaway. Naruto found the explanation very complicated and after a while just sort of tuned it out. When Jiraiya finished talking, he created two clones and said that once they destroyed them they could hang out with Inari for the rest of the day.

Both Naruto and Konohamaru attacked the clones with a particular viciousness, but even with that they weren't able to destroy them much faster than usual. Inari had come out to watch them for a while, but got bored with watching them fight and went back inside. When they had finally destroyed the clones, they went inside for lunch.

They may have had the afternoon off, but it was only after dinner that the party really started. Tsunami had baked a cake for the occasion which was served after dinner. Then, Inari was given several small presence by his mother and grandfather. After that they all, adults included played some party games.

The games here were significantly different than the ones that Naruto was familiar with, but also a great deal more fun. One required you to be blindfolded and attempt to pin a tail on a picture of a donkey. Jiraiya became so disoriented that he ended up wandering into the hallway almost, but never quite running into things as the entire group laughed at him. When the party started to wind down, Tsunami suggested that if they were going to camp out they might as well head out now. Jiraiya slipped out to set up the tent for them while Tsunami told Inari if he got scared during the night he could always come back home.

The three of them left going into the woods with flashlights leading the way. The tent itself was pretty large without an adult in it. Konohamaru could easily stand up in the center of the tent while Naruto would have to crouch a little. The fabric was heavy and dark. The light Konohamaru needed to sleep didn't show through the fabric which was something Jiraiya had checked.

Kicking off their sandals as they stepped inside, Naruto turned on the lamp as bright as he could to illuminate the inside of the tent. They had each brought a small backpack with them, although Naruto and Konohamaru’s was considerably lighter then their usual load. For a while they just talked, but it was Inari who reminded them why they wanted to camp in the first place. “So, how do we play this game?”

“Yeah,” Konohamaru seconded looking over at the blonde.

Naruto grinned, unexpectedly feeling butterflies flying around in his stomach. There was a part of him which didn't want to do this and another part that did. Still, everyone else wanted too, so he brought out a deck of cards which was one of the things that Jiraiya had bought them when they first started traveling together. He started to sort the cards, separating out all of the Spades as he explained the rules.

“Okay, this is a simple game. Basically we each draw a card and the lowest card is the loser. The loser has to do one thing that the winner says. All the cards are Spades, so you don't have to worry about suits, but I'm also throwing in two red cards,” he held up a seven and nine of Hearts before shuffling the deck. If you pull one of those two cards you automatically lose along with whoever has the lowest card.”

“How do you win?” Inari asked.

“Um,” Naruto began, “you don't. The purpose is to have fun. Is that okay?”

“Oh, okay.”

Naruto shuffled the cards while trying to show off a little with some fancy shuffling. Sakura had once claimed she could make the red cards appear where she wanted them to and had tried to teach him once, but the best he could ever do was make the red card appear on the bottom of the deck. Still, he didn't try any tricks like that this time.

Placing the cards in the center of the little triangle they had formed, he drew the first card, revealing it to be a four. He smiled to himself, knowing he probably lost the first-round. There were only two other cards he would be able to beat. Konohamaru pulled a seven which caused him to grin over at Naruto while Inari pulled a six.

Konohamaru took an exaggerated thinking pose and said slowly, “I think you should strip for us and stay that way.”

Inari erupted in a fit of giggles as Naruto stood up on his knees and started to sway his hips to music that wasn't there. Smiling to himself, he decided to give them a real show and turned around as he slipped off his shirt. Standing up, he bent at the waist and shook his butt at them which produced more laughter. Pulling his shorts down, he placed his hands on the tent’s floor and lifted his legs out of his shorts and kicked them to the side. With one hand, he reached back and pulled down his boxers in one motion and did the same thing to his shorts. Now naked, he twisted around keeping his hands on the ground and his back arched before collapsing back to his knees.

Both boys were staring at him and he smiled while drawing the next card which was a Jack. “Looks like I'm going to win.”

Konohamaru drew a card and once he glanced at it said, “No you're not.” He turned the card around to show that was the ace of spades. They both looked over at Inari who drew his own card and grinned sheepishly as he turned it around to show it was a two. “Strip,” Konohamaru called out.

The other boy’s face turned red. “I don't think I can do it like Naruto did.”

“You don't have to copy me, just strip,” Naruto said starting to feel a tingling in his penis.

Slowly, the other boy removed his hand and Naruto got a second look at Inari. The kid was small, but it was kind of nice to look at and it kind of made him feel excited to see. Konohamaru reached over and slowly touched the small organ. The other boy jumped again, but relaxed after a second. Konohamaru slowly brushed his fingertips along the testicles and slowly brought his fingers up to the shaft. He rubbed it between his fingers and Inari’s erection turned out to be two inches, if just. Konohamaru kept rubbing it and Naruto looked up at Inari whose face seemed to have gone slack as he experienced the new sensation. Eventually, Konohamaru said, “I think that's it.”

The boy laughed nervously and started to swing his arms from side to side. His little dance seem to relax him a little and he did a little spin before taking off his shirt and then with a quick motion dropped his boxers. Before anyone could really get a look at him, though, he collapsed back to his knees, covering himself and leaned forward laughing uncontrollably. His laughter was infectious and soon both Naruto and Konohamaru joined him even if none of them could really say what was so funny.

Once they had all recovered, Naruto took another card and this time it was the queen. Konohamaru went next and guffawed as he had drawn one of the red cards. Inari leaned forward and grabbed a card while keeping his other hand covering his privates. He flipped it over to reveal a three and complained, “I'm not having any luck!”

“The cards can be unfair,” Naruto consoled.

“Just tell us what you want us to do,” Konohamaru snapped, but with a smile.

Crossing his arms, he thought for a moment wondering what he could do. After a moment of thought he grinned and said, “All right you two, I want you two to kiss.”

“Kiss!? Boys can't kiss each other,” Inari protested.

“Sure they can,” Konohamaru spoke up. “Me and Naruto do it all the time.”

“But, you're not naked yet!”

“It doesn’t matter,” Konohamaru said with a grin. “Now come on let’s get this over with,” he added as he scooted closer to Inari.

The other boy's face turned a deeper shade of red. “But I’ve never kissed anyone before. Well, my mom, but she doesn‘t count.”

“It’s not hard,” Naruto reassured. “Just press your lips against his and relax.”

Inari made a face, but turned towards Konohamaru and the two leaned in towards each other. Naruto felt himself become fully hard as he received an unexpected vicarious thrill as the two boy's lips touched. For a second, it looked like Inari was just going to brush his lips against Konohamaru’s, but before Inari could pull back, he was pushed over and Konohamaru laid on top of him.

Naruto had to hold back a laugh as Inari pushed the other boy off of him and shouted in disbelief, “Did you just try to lick me?”

“No, I was trying to put my tongue in your mouth.” Konohamaru said as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

Inari made a face. “That’s even worse.”

Naruto chuckled at Inari’s expression, he drew another card. It was a nine. Konohamaru followed a second later and his card was five. Quickly checking his memory, Naruto concluded that it looked like Konohamaru would be losing this round. Inari drew the King and shouted, “Strip.”

Konohamaru didn’t show any hesitation as he stood and started to dance much like Inari had. Removing his shirt, he tried to swing it around his head, but the tent didn’t really allow for that and he just ended up tossing it in Inari's direction. Unbuttoning and then unzipping his pants, he swung his hips from side to side until they dropped off on their own accord. Then with a little spin, Konohamaru turned and bent over before dropping his boxers which he kicked over towards Naruto.

With all three of them now naked, they turned their attention back to the cards. There were only three left and one of them was a red card. Naruto smiled and thought of a way to add to the suspense. “How about we each take a card, but we turn them over on the count of three?”

Both boys nodded and each drew a card. Naruto started to count and when he said three they each turn their card over. Like the other two, his first reaction was to look at his card and he saw it was a ten which was the highest remaining card. A second later he heard Konohamaru groan because again he had pulled the red card while Inari had the remaining eight card.

“Well,” Naruto said as he quickly tried to think of something the two of them could do together. Absentmindedly, he noticed while Inari was staring at him he wasn't looking at his face and he smiled as an idea hit him. “I think you two should have to make each other hard.”

“How do we do that?” Inari asked.

“I'll show you,” Konohamaru said, quickly grabbing his arm and pulling his protective hand away. When his hand touched the other boy, though, Inari jumped back laughing nervously.

“Come on,” Konohamaru complained. “It's not like I'm going to hurt you.”

“You promise?” Inari asked slowly straightening.

“Of course not, we're friends.”

Slowly, the other boy removed his hand and Naruto got a second look at Inari. The kid was small, but it was kind of nice to look at and it kind of made him feel excited to see. Konohamaru reached over and slowly touched the small organ. The other boy jumped again, but relaxed after a second. Konohamaru slowly brushed his fingertips along the testicles and slowly brought his fingers up to the shaft. He rubbed it between his fingers and Inari’s erection turned out to be two inches, if just. Konohamaru kept rubbing it and Naruto looked up at Inari whose face seemed to have gone slack as he experienced the new sensation. Eventually, Konohamaru said, “I think that's it.”

“Okay, it's your turn now Inari.”

It took the other boy a second to come out of his days and glanced down at Konohamaru’s package nervously. It was already semi-hard and he slowly reached over to massage the semi erection. Konohamaru leaned back, clearly enjoying it a little more than Inari had and his growth was more visible too.

After a minute, Naruto could see Konohamaru wasn't going to call an end to it so he did. “That's enough.”

His friend let out a groan as the others hand left him and after a second, he scooted back to his original position, still hard.

“Can we play again?” Inari asked.

“Yeah, let's play again,” Konohamaru seconded.

Naruto smiled, “Yeah, sure , but Inari this time you get to shuffle the cards.” Everyone seemed to be having fun, but Inari had kinda come out on the losing end with the last game and he didn’t want to think they were picking on him.

Inari shuffled the cards for a few seconds before placing them in the center again and this time he drew the first card which was a seven. Naruto took the next card which turned out to be a three while Konohamaru drew a five.

“All right, what do you want me to do?”

Inari frowned as he really seemed to be having some difficulty coming up with something. After a few seconds, though, a smile crossed his face and he sat back on his butt and raised his left foot. “Lick my foot.”

Konohamaru made a gagging sound, while Naruto simply grimaced. Licking feet was not his idea of fun, but it also wasn’t the worst thing he had ever done either. Looking at Inari’s foot, he could see it was pretty clean and he knew the boy had taken a bath last night.

Deciding to have a little fun, he grabbed Inari’s ankle and
yanked it forward which caused the boy to yelp in surprise. As he bought the foot close to his face he didn’t notice much of a smell and he stuck out his tongue, licking from heel to toe as the other boy squealed. Deciding to have a little more fun, he sucked on the toe while Inari tried to push him away with his other leg and Konohamaru made more gagging sounds.

“That was disgusting,” Konohamaru said. “You’re not kissing me until you brush your teeth and drink a gallon of mouthwash.”

Naruto made a kissing motion in his friend’s direction which caused Inari to chuckle at Konohamaru’s expression even as he tried to wipe his foot with a discarded pair of his boxers.

After they had settled down a little, Inari drew another card and groaned when he saw it was one of the red ones. Naruto grinned as he drew his own card, but ended up staring at it in disbelief as he found the other red card. Konohamaru quickly drew his own card and he would’ve been the winner even if he had not drawn the King.

“Double red,” Konohamaru said with a grin, “I got to come up with something good for you two do.” He paused for a second and said, “Naruto,” he pointed at his erection and then pointed at Inari and said, “put it up his butt.”

The tent suddenly fell silent. Naruto stared at Konohamaru, not believing he would ask something like that. Wasn't that something special that only they did together?

Inari’s protest was much louder as he realized what was being asked. He had been sitting on his knees, but he backed away as far as the tent would allow and placed both of his hands under his butt as he pressed it against the ground. “No! I'm not doing that.”

“You have too,” the other boy protested. “It's the rules.”

“No,” Inari stated again.

Konohamaru was about to say something when Naruto cut him off, his tone unfamiliar even to his own ears. “He doesn't Konohamaru. No one ever forced you and you’re not going to force anyone.”

The grin that had been plastered across Konohamaru’s face fell at his words and he almost seemed to shrink into himself embarrassed.

“I don't want to play anymore,” Inari said quietly.

After a second, Naruto added while still staring at Konohamaru, “Yeah, let's go to bed.”

The three of them got dressed quietly. Inari normally wore pajamas, but because he was sleeping outside he just slipped into his boxers and shorts like Naruto and Konohamaru did. It was a warm night outside and the tent floor was well insulated. As a result they ended up using their sleeping bags as blankets.

Just as Naruto was about to throw his bag over himself, Konohamaru slipped in next to his and rested against his side like he usually did. That simple action dispersed much of his anger and he made sure that the other boy was covered when he threw the sleeping bag over himself. He looked down at the boy who smiled up at him which was enough for him to forgive the younger boy without saying a word.

The three of them lied there in an uncomfortable silence for several minutes. After a while, the silence almost became claustrophobic and Naruto felt that if he didn't say something, he might end up screaming. He tried to think of something to say, but came up blank. Then, suddenly he remembered Hanabi, or more precisely the stories she had liked to hear. He had listened to many of those stories too, and many of them were committed to memory by now. Mentally going through the stories he could remember, he settled on the story about wandering samurai who had the worst case of luck ever. “So you want to hear a story?”