(A/n): Naruto's story won. For those who wanted different... don't worry, those stories will be covered at some other time ^^ On to the story!

THIRD-PERSON POV:

"Keep training," Jiraya insisted.

"No fair! That's my money pervy sage! Where you off to now with that ah?" Naruto fought back but got easily countered.

"Keep your mouth shut, will ya!? Aren't I your master!?" Jiraya retorted, pushing Naruto away. "Just focus on your training, while I~... focus on my research~!" his face went pink and left, skipping, laughed out loud like a mad man in broad daylight.

"Hmph!" Naruto crossed arms, bitter.

Naruto trained until late at night.

"Where that Pervy Sage go!?"

Jiraya hasn't come back. Naruto roamed everywhere to find him since Jiraya went away with his money the moment they arrived at the town they're in, forgetting to rent a room beforehand. Sure, Jiraya provided Naruto pocket money, but it wasn't enough. He didn't expect Jiraya to be away so late.

Beat from training and wandering, Naruto tossed his back cozily on piled straws he stumbled upon inside a dark empty storehouse, with his hands as a pillow for his head.

He kept his eyelids up, waiting for Jiraya, but soon, his muscles relaxed, turned sleepy, gradually closed eyes, and fell deep in slumber.

...

A bright light flashed on Naruto's eyes, he squinted. Nature's sound entered his ears, it was calming and soothing, convinced his body to sleep more until a sudden bump crashed his back.

"Ow!" He sat up, ticked, and noticed- "Where am I!?" He shouted, finding himself on a moving wagon pulled by a donkey. Naruto jumped off and paced faster forward to ask, "Where's this headed to?" an old man drove the mammal, under a cloak wearing ragged clothes, facing Naruto wearily.

"The Leaf Village..." the old man replied with a sore voice.

"Say what!?!?!" Naruto gawked. "The Leaf!? That's a long trip and a long way back! How long was I asleep!?" Naruto exclaimed.

"I departed early before dawn, we're close to our destina-" the old man later paused.

"Arghgh!! My training with Pervy Sage!!" Naruto itched his hair, troubled.

"What? I was carrying you the whole time!?" The old man raged, "You freeloader- No wonder my load's so heavy, my animal gets tired quickly- how dare you-!!" taking out a whip, Naruto scarpered.

"Sheesh... that geezer!" He murmured about a lot of things. Naruto kept walking straight ahead, hoping to reach the nearest village, Konoha, for his tummy is killing him. By the grumble of his stomach, he knew time was way past lunch.

...

Stars began to bloom in the sky. Still, Naruto was treading, feet heavy. He dropped. Dirt speckled around his jacket. Naruto raised his chin and used his hand to drag himself forward. The Leaf Village's gate is visibly up-close, for real... "Ichiraku... ramen..." he gritted his teeth through the hunger.

The old man previously, subsequently arrived. Found Naruto lying seemingly half-dead. He approached Naruto, got down from his donkey, bent low, placed his hand on him.

Underneath the old man's dim cloak, his wrinkled face... grinned.

***

Droplets sprinkled on the front windscreen. Gradually grew to loud sounds of crashed chunks of rain against the glass, being wiped back and forth off the sides of his car. His car hazarded, rhythm repeating, cued after perfect sync, his phone vibrates. A few rings passed, he picked the call to his ear. Relaxing his head on his seat, with his other hand, he loosened his tie.

#: "Detective Naomasa, the rain erased all the scent."

"I know." Naomasa inserted. He paused, sighs, massaging his temple, his eyebrows linking together. "Cancel it, inform the others." with that he ended the call, disappointed.

He plopped his phone beside and leaned his forehead on his forearms as his hands held on the steering wheel.

"Having a weather-quirk would be nice," Naomasa mumbled under his breath.

*Lightning!*

Naomasa's eyes widened.

A moment of deafness. The immense force pushed him slightly, his whole windscreen cracked a second late. Sharp pain pinched to the ends of his nerves, he jolted, shocked.

"What..." he gasped faintly. Stunned.

Suddenly his bumper whomped. He flinched, caught off guard, his ears just recuperated. Something slammed hard against it, Naomasa cautiously peered down while in his car.

Outside, he saw smoke wallowed. A human's shadow was figured within the cloud of dust and misty darkness. The gauzy person motioned standing, facing him. And slapped the car.

"Who do you think you're messing with!!?!" A boy's voice. Naruto's voice.

Sonorous thunders blasted the sky.

"Wait till I become Hokage, you'll regret you pulled this naked prank on me!!! Got that!?!! Believe it!!!"

Not a thing turned out audible.

Naomasa removed his seatbelt and got out, dropped, and slipped in the process on the dewy ground. He staggered back on his feet and hastily checked his bumper. A huge dent was evident. He pondered in his head.

Naruto, unseen.

...

"*kkkkkkkkkk* it's soo cold...!!" Naruto whined, shivering naked in the rain, shamelessly walking around the dark isolated street. Feeling both grinding frigidness and starvation. He stopped in his tracks and crossed fingers, "Shadow clone Jutsu!!"

Numerous lousy Narutos popped. His clones complained, trembling, others dying out.

"I need clothes! now scatter!! help me find some!!" The original Naruto commanded, confidently grinning stupidly.

"Who cares..."
"I'll be searching clothes for myself."
"Me too."

His clones discussed, wandered each other's way to satisfy their survival.

Naruto gaped, "What!? H-Hey, wait-! don't take everything!!!" he ran along in contest with his clones.

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[The next day]

Car honks woke up Naruto. Standing upside down, his chakra kept his feet tacked onto a tree's thick branch where he spent the night. He's fully dressed, wearing a bit big green shirt and knee-lengthed denim beige shorts. His feet are tucked with nice casual white shoes, and he's got himself a zippered jacket. Got lucky with what his clones found, more likely stolen.

He slept on top of the tree that was by the city road. The road was busy and the sidewalks were hectic because of UA's opening.

"Huh? It was a dream?" Naruto thought out loud, "I thought I was in Konoha, this place is so... different." Thinking again, he mentally believed his conclusion: a normal dream, missing Konoha. "Another place for training huh Pervy Sage...weird." He landed on the ground.

"Waw!!" A random boy applauded Naruto's exhibition. Hovered to his mom, expressing his awe.

Naruto blushed, surprised. The mother caressed, smiling at him, and didn't push him away nor her son from him.

"This place is really something else... they're not afraid of me..." Naruto was overjoyed within his mind, giggling. "Hmmm... speaking of the Leaf, I miss ramen." he drooled.

***

"Thank you." Naomasa bowed politely, paying for a big bag of cup-noodles he bought.

He leaves the mini-store, returns his wallet in his pocket, walks toward his parked car across the road. (he used a spare car he had while his other car was in repair.)

As he strolled on the sidewalk, a sudden blaze of wind,

"AH!!"

Naomasa faced towards the scream, "A criminal-!?" - "s-sorry-" looked away, blushed. A woman's skirt flew.

But just then Naomasa glimpsed at his hand, gasped. Stepped back and swiftly slipped out his cuffs from his sleeve. Locked it to a kid's wrist.

"Nice distraction, boy." Naomasa cuffed the other side on his own wrist as the kid poised to run. He moved his shackled hand together with the boy's away from his other hand that was holding his newly bought food. "Picked the wrong guy to snatch," he chuckled, amazed by the kid's audacity when he was obviously wearing his police ID.

"Where are your parents, boy?" Naomasa asked nicely.

"Oh yeah? take this!" The boy chinned up suddenly pulled his hands together, "Sexy Jutsu!"

Naomasa, taken aback by the white smoke poofed.

Out of the blue, "Pwease, let go of me~" cooed a completely uncovered lady with yellow pigtails. Naruto pushed his hand deeper into the big boobs of his sexy-Jutsu form, the hand that was bonded along with the detective's wrist. "Hmph?" raised a brow and smugged.

Naomasa's face exploded red, his nose bled. "What the-" Magically uncuffed himself from Naruto. The surrounding male civilians were stunned.

"Ha! bye-bye!" Naruto chanted, popped back to his original form, freed. "Ahh... the smell of ramen, I knew it!" He victoriously skips, with the bag of cup noodles in hand, but suddenly choked. "Hkdkfhasinkjsdbfackj" mumbled, hustling. Naruto dropped the bag.

Aizawa came. His scarf caught Naruto. "Why did I witness that..." Aizawa whispered, facepalmed himself, blushing beet red too.

Naomasa picked up the bag of instant ramen. Awkward in his inner thoughts, he covered his heated cheeks.

Aizawa walked closer and tied Naruto tighter til he was just a full mummy. Naruto's noise volumed lesser.

"Oh- you're here, Eraser Head." Naomasa talked shyly, unable to make eye contact. "Get in the car, let's talk on the way." they hurriedly entered his car with Naruto captured. The people around started to gossip.

[Mini-Timeskip]

They arrived at Naomasa's private office.

"There's a teen girl who joined our exams but wasn't registered..." Aizawa handed out an envelope containing pictures of Hinata. "The Principal wants the girl in our school, but has no information about her identity."

"Understood. I'll call you when I have results." Naomasa received it.

Aizawa was to leave but paused. The view of piled empty cup-noodles in Naomasa's trashbin beside his desk, and now seeing Naomasa opening another cup fazed him. "You eat your lunch as late as 3?"

Naomasa chuckled, "I'm a busy man, and I don't have a lady to make me packed lunch..." he said, splitting his chopsticks. "Sad, right?"

The last phrase stiffened Aizawa's look, felt that pierce deep. Reminded he's single too. "I have students and a cat, d-don't include me... I'm not as lonely as I seem." Aizawa replied timidly, averting eyes.

"Come on... you're making me feel more miserable." Naomasa mumbled in response, slurping.

They both tittered at themselves.

"I'll be going then," Aizawa bid first, "Good luck with the kid." He left.

Naomasa accidentally dropped the noodles in his mouth. "Aghh... right, the kid..." He slaps his face as it reddens again, recalling Naruto's Sexy Jutsu.

***

"HEYY!!! LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!"

Naruto shouted, his hands cuffed separately, away from each other, attached to the cell bars of where he was detained momentarily in the police office.

"Can someone shut that brat's mouth!? He's getting on my nerves!" a police officer banged his desk. The detainment center was just right beside his desk, along with others in the public office, first floor. "No call yet from this kid's mommy?!?"

"HEYYY!!! TAKE THESE THINGS OFF ME!!!" Naruto persisted, kicking the bars, near to breaking it.

"Whoah whoah easy," a rookie came close, calming Naruto. "Sir, cuffing him like this is a bit too much. Let's just remove the cuffs, okay? He's gonna break this building if this keeps up."

"Detective Naomasa said to cuff him like that, he warned that the boy's quirk is quite messy to deal with when his hands get together." someone replied, standing up to stop the rookie, but-

"Multi shadow clone Jutsu!" Naruto yelled.

"You uncuffed him!?"

"-S-Sorry!!"

Smoke from Naruto's clones fumed the whole office. All of them were startled. Naruto's clones ransacked everything, to find the right key to get Naruto out. Things got tousled.

"Turn this place upside down if you have to!!" Naruto shouted at his clones, eagerly waiting, while also destroying the cell bars.

...

"Detective Naomasa, there's trouble downstairs!!" A policeman busted the door of Naomasa's office in a hurry.

Shocked, Naomasa accidentally spat his ramen again, choked a bit.

He cursed under his breath, reluctantly stopped his meal, glaring at the officer. "Trouble?" he said in a bitter tone, "What kind of trouble is it that I have to be informed of!? I'm in the middle of eating right now!"

The cop gulped. "I-It's the boy you brought, sir-"

Naomasa shot up from his seat.

...

Naomasa looked around the chaotic scene. Naruto had gone. Everything was misplaced everywhere, and the small cell where they kept Naruto was broken, the cement around it was damaged too.

Naomasa exhales heavily, "The boy... he probably returned to his family. Fine. But..." he pauses holding his temper. "Over one kid? This place is a mess." he ended up smiling with a menacing aura.

They all froze.

"Because he has a powerful quirk, what are we quirkless people against him." one dared to talk back.

Naruto's Sexy Jutsu flashed back in the detective's memory, speaking of his quirk, "That's why I instructed to cuff his hands separately," Naomasa replied, suppressed, frustrated, but also had his cheeks painted pink.

Everyone eyed the rookie who uncuffed Naruto, silently blaming him.

Naomasa sighed. "Get back to work. Don't disturb me." He walked away.

[Time Skip]

Nightfall came. Naomasa walks out of his office, off to head home but abruptly stopped. Now outside the building, he encounters Naruto at a distance.

Naruto backed a step, alarmed, "What're you doing here?" he spat, not thinking.

Naomasa went on, ignoring him, trodded down the stairs of the building.

"Hey, I'm asking you, the guy with the awkward striped tie!" From being defensive Naruto pointed a finger at him aggressively.

Naomasa paused, offended. His patience dying. "I work here. Shouldn't I be asking you that?" he replied, "Why're you back?" Naomasa went direct, closer to Naruto. "Your parents?" he added, "Where's your hometown...? I'll drive you there."

Naruto fazed speechlessly.

Guilt pierced suddenly. Naomasa perceived Naruto's reaction, that clenching of the hand, bridling his mouth from quivering.

"What's... drive?" Naruto cut the silence.

That surprised Naomasa.

"You know what, this village's been bugging me since morning. These noisy things with wheels are everywhere." Naruto continued.

"Excuse me, what?-"

"And what are these buildings? I haven't seen any of these ever from the villages I've traveled with Pervy Sage. What is this place!? Where is this? " Naruto wasn't done babbling. He exposed all his unfamiliarity, acting as if he came from another world, which is true anyway. He had his arms swinging while gesturing and describing his words.

Taking Naruto to the mental hospital crossed Naomasa's mind. His quirk, Lie Detector, assured Naruto isn't making up this stupid gibberish.

The nonstop talking finally stopped when Naruto's stomach growled loudly.

"Ah... it's your belly talking," Naomasa inferred after all the nonsense he heard. "Go back home, and don't cause any more trouble. Your parents-" his tongue held back. Gulped. "Just... go back to where you came from." With that, he passed by Naruto.

Naruto made a mocking face against Naomasa. "Hmph! It's not like anyone is waiting at home for me!" He turned his back on him, pissed, knew what Naomasa was to say.

Naruto narrowed his eyes, scanning the place, planning to stay in that cell again to sleep for the night.

Dust tickled Naruto's feet. A car drifted and stopped behind him. It made Naruto look back.

"Hey kid, get in," Naomasa came back. "Let's eat."

***

That was the start of their story. After learning that Naruto was a homeless orphan, Naomasa took charge of Naruto temporarily. Naomasa grew fond of Naruto's presence in his house, felt less lonely. Likewise, Naruto felt positive towards the detective; during Naomasa's work hours, Naruto would continue his training and often leave Naomasa's house in search of Pervy Sage, still thinking he's just in a different village, not in a different world. (slow, I know). Things were smooth.

However, the information of Hinata's existence due to Aizawa's request, evolved into a larger case when a day came Aizawa asked Naomasa if he had any clue about a place called Konoha. The word "Konoha" unintendedly caught Naruto's attention while Naomasa verbalized his thoughts in his room. Naruto excitedly shared stories, claimed he came from that village and was away from that village for about 3 years, reasoning his training with Jiraya.

The coincidence fascinated Naomasa's interest since he figured that village is not seen ever on the map. Nevertheless, Naomasa had other more relevant cases to handle. He forgot about it until it emerged back when UA's unexpected villain attack erupted; a case that involved Rock Lee's presence in the act, which was connected to Neji Hyuuga, that led back to Hinata Hyuuga.

To untangle Naomasa's puzzled brain, he decided...

***

"Hey Naruto, wake up. You're coming with me today." Naomasa opened the curtains, welcomed sunlight to bathe Naruto's bed; he's covered with his blanket, unresponsive.

"Come on, get ready." Naomasa walked to the bed. "I'd like you to meet someone, her name's Hinata Hyuuga. There's something I need to clarify." He squatted beside Naruto, placed his hand on him. "Get up." he removed the blanket gently and-

"Naruto!?" Naomasa's eyes widened.

Immediately, he carried Naruto into his car and drove to a hospital.

[Time Skip]

"What's his condition?" Naomasa queried, but the doctor in front of him kept persistently silent.

"What do you want me to do!? Guess your expression!?" Naomasa slammed the desk between them, standing up. His shout echoed in the doctor's private office.

"Detective Naomasa, forgive me, we were given orders not to speak of this." the doctor explained, "Though you are a detective, you have no right regarding this matter."

"Where are the authorities who said so!?" Naomasa raged, "Call them-"

They arrived on cue. Naomasa's impulsiveness made them open the door without knocking anymore.

Naomasa turned around. The men who came introduced themselves. Naomasa listened carefully to their justification.. and right after they finished,

"Exterminating!?" Naomasa exclaimed.

Naomasa ran from them and busted his way inside the room that held Naruto. Wrapped Naruto with the blanket he rested with, concealing his rotting state, and took him in his arms.

Naruto was unconscious, illness worsening. Naomasa jostled through, headed out of the Hospital, the nurses and doctors tried to stop him.

"Sir, you can't-"

"If he dies he dies, not killed!" Furious, Naomasa yelled. Those in the same hallway were forced to leave for confidentiality purposes.

Naomasa straight away regretted what he said. He can't afford Naruto's death.

The staff he shoved crashed on the ground, some female nurses got hurt because of his violence. His feet hooked on the floor unable to move, returned to his senses, "Sorry," He apologized, head low, ashamed.

The authorities caught up to him after ushering the civilians out. Naomasa's glare at them stood strong against their will of having Naruto killed, like how they did with the others who had the same situation.

"I will... respect the terms," Naomasa stated, composed. "I won't expose Naruto's condition... but he stays with me." at that, they let him be to avoid evoking outside attention.

***

Naomasa returned home safely, and as he laid Naruto back on his bed... he witnessed his wounds (from decaying) slowly healing.

"What..." the detective's eyes widened, seeing orange haze emitting from Naruto's skin.

...

"Detective Naomasa...?" a fellow cop with an imposing cat head knocked outside Naomasa's entrance door. Came to check, for his absence in the office hindered an important meeting he, Naomasa himself, initiated.

"Sir? Hello?" the lights were on, Naomasa's car is present, he may be home. He knocked again and

Naomasa opened the door, collapsed on his chest.

"Sir!?!" the cat-head cop dropped down, hands hovered close, worried. "Are you alri- I'll call the emergency-!"

"Don't." Naomasa weakly grabbed on the cop's arm.

Burns were all over Naomasa's arm, his torso severely bruised. Blood dripped from his lip. "Please..." he hoarsely begged, "do me a favor..."

But as Naomasa was pleading, the cop's eyes averted... looked up, seeing Naruto inside the house... in his human form underdeveloped beast mode.

"Don't..." with every ounce of energy left, Naomasa entreated,

"Don't make that call."