Shout out in this loooooooooooooooooong awaited chapter goes out to veve37, AlannaTheCreator, and isarosa41!

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Chapter 37 - The chapter that took forever!

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"Hey! Hey! Come on Pervy-Sage! Let's get started with the training!” Naruto said with lots of enthusiasm after we walked for a little bit in silence. After a while, I had decided that I was fine enough to walk myself, so I was a little bit behind them, but I could still hear them clearly.

"Don't get too fired up... We still need to gather information about Tsunade. There is no point in training before we do so." Ojisan told him.

"Gather information?" Naruto asked as they stopped by a fence. There must have been a tourist town because I could faintly hear chatter coming from the area below the fence.

"In this town."

"WOOW!” Naruto yelled before they started to walk away again.

"Hey! ... Wait up...! I'm still... back here...! Naruto!!!" I tried to yell out but it came out as a pathetic whine. Never in my life have I had ever been so exhausted just from walking.... Okay, maybe a few times during some missions in my past. *Cough little Zabuza cough* I sighed as I watched them walk away, not hearing my pitiful pleas. I walked up to the fence and leaned against it, taking a small break as I looked down at the scenery. I was right, it was a tourist town, and lucky for me, there were not many shinobis in the town, so it should be easy for me to find where Naruto and Ojisan go, or if that fails, just listen for Naruto’s yells when Ojisan does something to make him mad. I sighed again.

'I guess I am on my own for a little bit... Might as well make the most of it...' I pulled out my simple leather wallet and smiled softly on how heavy it felt. 'I guess without Obasan around and not really living in a house really saves you money.''

'Oooh!!! I say you go down there and spend till we can spend no more!!!' I sighed again (Lots of sighing) and put my wallet back into my pocket and closed the flap before I began my turtle pace to the town again, my hand never leaving the railing.

"Do you know how annoying you are Suteki? Could you once be quite for a little bit, I want to enjoy myself too ya’ know." I muttered under my breath as I walked down a semi-steep hill.

'Sorry, but as my name goes, I am madness, and Madness is never quiet.... Hahaha Hahahahahaha!!!" I placed a hand on my forehead as Suteki went thought what I think was her on hundred thousand laughing fit. To her, everything was funny, so she all ways laughed. As much as I hated it, but it seems that during the night is when she is strongest, so a few times, I catch myself softly laughing with her, welcoming the insanity and letting pervious reality slip thought my fingers for a few seconds. Nala was really my only saving grace at those times, snapping me to what is real and what is not, but now she is not here and my nights seem even longer than they ever have before. I shook my head, ridding those thoughts.

"Come on, let's go. I'm tired of listening to you." Suteki 'humph' ed when I told her this, but she kept quite as I finally reached the town. I stood there for a little bit to take it all in. I was wrong, this was no tourist town, it was the tourist town. There where people and little shops everywhere with masks, food, games, or... uurggg *shiver* ones for older man who like younger woman. 'My guess is that Ojisan is in one of those. Pervy old toad sage.'' I turned away and started walking through the thick crowd, but that was lucky for me because they were all moving slowly that I didn't push myself to keep up with everyone’s pace. Every now and again I would walk up to a food stand for game station and try it, but most of the time I just wandered, letting myself recover slowly, feeling better by the hour. I looked at the sky before trying to look thought the sea of people for a certain blonde. 'I should probably go find Naruto and Ojisan now; it is going to get late soon.'

'Shouldn't that be a 'we' as in WE should go look for them, don't act like I don't exist, Harmony.' Suteki surprised me by how.... Calm she sounded. It wasn't like the normal her. Okay, she still sounded pissed, but still she was different now.

'Hey, what's with the change of tone? You not feeling well?' I asked her as I tried to look for a certain blonde.

'Not really... My influence on you right now is weak because you are almost fully recovered, so your mind is also stronger right now.... Also, I can sense something that is pissing me off to much right now to care about taking over your body.' I almost lost my footing when she said this. Suteki was too pissed off to care about behind insane? This spark my curiosity.

'What do you sense? What is bad enough to make you take you mind off of you prison?' I asked her as I started walking again. In the distance there where people yelling as I walked closer.

'Them.' Suteki said in a very dangerous tone, and I could image her pointing forward at a group of boys, maybe 18-19 standing in a circle yelling at something. Maybe they were fighting? They were the source of all the yelling. It took me only a few seconds but I managed to get in front of all the bystanders to see what was going on. I realized that what I thought before was wrong in sorts. They weren't fighting each other as I thought they were no they were yelling and beating at something that was trapping in the circle. I heard the sound of a cry come from the circle and my anger exploded. They were beating on a child. I could feel Suteki's anger grow alongside my.

I could now tell why Suteki was so pissed, the same as I am right now. She may be a psychopath and insane, but she founded my clan, so she still has a heart, and seeing a child being beaten was enough make her snap out of her insanity for a little bit.

'Harmony.'

''Yeah?''

'Beat them up for me.' I quickly untied my headband from my waist and placed it in my pocket. Hey, I don't want these guys knowing where I am from after I beat them; they might try and find me. I then cracked a few of my knuckles.

'Gladly.' I told her before taking a few steps to the closest guy and tapped him on the shoulder, getting his attention. He gave whoever was on the ground a kick, making them cry out again before he noticed that I was there and turned around to see who was spoiling his and his friends’ fun.

"Who the hell are yo-" At that moment his face met my fist cutting him off. He landed on his back unconscious. The rest of the jerks, about five others had now stopped beating up the child and turned their full attention to me. I gave them all a merciless glare. They were going to pay, and dearly.

"Who the hell do you think you are bitch, slugging Tommy like that?! Don't you know who we are?!" One of the guys yelled at me before he tried to take a swing at me but I effortless dodged and kicked him in the gut before placing both my hands on the ground and used my other foot to kick him under the chin, sending him into the air. I quickly pushed myself back to my feet and while the guy was still in the air and kicked him once again, this time in the side and sent him flying, making him land on 'Tommy' unconscious now too. After he landed on his friend I righted myself.

"I think I am the one that is going to beat you all to a bloody pulp for beating on a child, and I don't care who the fuck you are. You beat a child, I beat you." I told the rest of them, making the rest all mad now that they got over the momentary shock that i had just beaten their second member with ease. Four of the guys looked back at one of them that was dressed all in black, almost asking for his approval, which they got, before they stared to advance towards me. I noticed that they all wore similar black vest, well all but the one that they turned to... They tried to take me on all at once, but I simple jumped into the air, evading them before I kicked on of the weaker guys in the head when I stared to descend. (Hey, he just looked rely weak with that snot dripping out his nose!) Okay, I might have put a tiny bitty bit of chakra in that kick because I too made him fly onto the pile I created. Three down, three to go.

The next two where pretty easy. All I did was punch the one that was looking at himself in a mirror in the face before at launched him into the pile and the next one that had a very cheeky grin on his face, which I am really starting to hate because it reminded me of a certain Sand shinobi that I absolutely despise, so I kicked him extra hard where the sun don't shine and then tossed him into the pile as well. I grinned as I wiped my chin and face the last guy. I only had two reasons to save him for last. He seemed like the leader because before any of the guys charged at me they looked to him. But my main reason to want to fight him last is because I noticed that he had a pair of brass knuckles on, and they were spotted with blood. I quickly looked around, but didn't see the child anywhere, so they must have gotten away safely. I sighed in relief before facing the leader again.

"Well isn't this interesting. Who would ever think that such a tiny girl like you could so easily beat up my men, not that they were strong or anything. But I must admit, you just like a cat, quick, agile, and dangerous." He said with a smirk as his rubbed his chin, showing me his brass knuckles. He had a really ugly face to go with his really ugly smirk. He looked like the typical gang leader, to many piercings, choppy black hair, cold eyes, and black baggy clothes, and he looked around late twenties, a good ten years older than all the rest. "Name is Kuro Akumu, leader of the Akumu gang, and think you would make a lovely addition to the gang, what do you say, Neko-chan?" He made that last part really long, making a tick mark appear on my forehead. So he isn't just a child beater, but his also a pervert as well.

"And I mean, you’re better off with me any way. You don't know what kind of creeps are around and one might scoop you up." 'I am pretty sure you are the only creep here...' Kuro started to walk towards me. "And don't get me started on the little thieves here. Just like the one we were just teaching a lesson to. That little foreigner actually thought she could take some of our food without us noticing. HA!" Kuro laughed as he stood beside me and slung an arm over my shoulder, making another tick mark appear. Ever since the chunin exam I have had a strict No Touchy rule, and this guy was defiantly breaking it right now. I know that if Nala was here she would be telling me to cool down and to not do anything stupid... But seeing as I no longer have my voice of reason with me, I can do whatever the fuck I want. And besides who names themself Black Nightmare anyway. I looked over at the hand that was dangled over my shoulder and saw that he was still wearing his brass knuckles. I smirked and grabbed his wrist.

"Well that is awfully kind of you offer me that...." I almost gagged as I told him this in a really sweet voice. Even though I couldn't see his face right now, I could tell he was smiling, thinking that he won. My grip on his wrist tightened. "But I going to have to refuse, you son of a bitch!!!" I yelled as I threw him over my shoulder. He landed a couple of meters away from me on his back, so he made a large dust cloud. "And besides, why would I want to join you if I already have enough nightmares on my own?" I placed a hand on my hip as i waited for the dust cloud to dissipate. No way was I done teaching him a lesson. When it finally did I saw that Kuro was just getting up. He wiped his mouth and glared at me.

"Why you little bitch!! You'll regret that!" He yelled after he wiped his mouth and then lifted up his knuckles and stacked towards me. I got into a better fighting stance.

"Now I doubt that." I taunted him as he came close and tried to swing at me, which I causally stepped away from, seeing that it was so sloppy. Kuro kept on swinging at me, but because I dodged them so easily, he kept on getting sloppier and sloppier.

"Stay... Still... You... Little... Cat.... Bitch!!!" He tried to hit me every time he said a single word. I simple took and few steps away from him and secretly did a few handsigns. Like I said, this guy was going to pay, dearly.

"Why? So you can hit me just like you did to that kid that was probably starving?" I provoked him. He took a step towards me and raised a fist high, making some light shine of his brass knuckles.

"EXACTLY!!! NOW STAY STILL!!!" He yelled and swung his fist down again, and this time, unlike all the other times I took a step forward and ducked below his fist, getting into a closer range. I held out my hand as a rapidly spinning sphere of water appeared in my hand. Kuro had just realized where I was but he was a few seconds to late.

"See yeah." The next second I rammed the spinning sphere of water into his gut. Nothing happened from a second before his shirt was ripped open when I had slammed into him and he was forcefully propelled away by a giant vortex of water that was shaped like a drill with the pointed side pointed at him, making him spin violently in the air. He flew a couple of feet before he crashed into what looked like a small water balloon stand. Well, i think he crashed into one.... I'm not sure; at around the same time Kuro slammed into it, another guy in a fancy suit did too.

'Suteki.... I wasn't the one that made the balloon stand fall apart.... right?' I asked as my anger disappeared and when i realized that if it was my fault I would have to pay for the damages.

'I dunno... It happened really fast, but it looked like the one in the suit was the one that hit the stand first.' I slowly walked up to the stand and examined the other guy as I took my headband back out and re-tied it to my waist. He was defiantly hit by a similar jutsu, but his damage was not a server as Kuro seeing as he had his shirt torn where I hit him and he had a spiral design on his skin at was bleeding slightly and was still coughing up blood and the other guy only had some minor damage at the point of contact. And only some blood coming out of the counter of his mouth

'I hope so...' I said back before I turned away... and ran right into a spiky haired blonde boy.

"Harmony!!! Where have you been?! I've been looking for you everywhere?!" Naruto said as he ran up to me. I gave him an apologetic smile before I saw Ojisan walk up to the owner of the balloon stand and gave him a handful of cash.

"This is a victory fee I'll be taking. Sorry about this... Looks like your cart's broken to bits..." Ohh.... so he snatched up the jacket guy’s wallet.... huh, oh well... 'Maybe I should have tooken Kuro's wallet too....'

"Ju... Just what did you do...?” J.M (Jacket Man) asked Ojisan as he layed on the ground.

"I just saved you... You guys are weak, you know... And I am guessing the guy beside you went up against my niece." Jiraiya Ojisan gave me a look, telling me to explain myself. I suddenly was back in a foul mood... Don't ask why, I just notice that Kuro had woken up and tried to stand up.

'You should have hit him harder. He hasn't been down for even five minutes. You showed him too much mercy Harmony.' I couldn't help but agree with her.

'Don't worry, that was just a warning, if I ever see him do anything ever again, He'll wish that he was dead, either that or before I am done with him I will make him grovel at the poor kids feet.' I replied before I turned my attention back to reality.

"He was an ass so he needed to be taught a lesson..." I grumbled and turned my head away and hid my right hand behind my back because it was still a little wet from the water I used. I could feel that people were staring at me when I said this, but I paid them no mind. I heard Ojisan sigh.

"Old man! Here's payment for the damages and for all the water balloons." Ojisan said as he handed the money to the stand owner. Before walking away from him and towards Naruto and I.

"Naruto! Let's get going. Time for training!" He told Naruto before walking off. He didn't have to say my name because I was already walking beside him as I ties my headband back around my waist.

'I've got a lovely bunch of cocanuts, du le du. There they are sitting in a row, dun dun dun. Big ones. Small ones. Some as big as your head!!'

'Your mood changes to quickly...'

*If you know where that was from and can sing it in the right tune, you will get a cookie...

--------Time skip until they get to the spot where they 'train'-------------------

"I can really feel the training tension!!!" Naruto yelled after Jiraiya-Ojisan and I had found a spot that would be good to leave... Ahem... I mean train Naruto. Right now Jiraiya and him where standing on the ground and I was laying on a tree branch right above their heads. I was using a small bag of water balloons as a pillow and Ojisan had the rest beside him. Suteki had gotten that stupid song stuck in my head so I couldn't help but hum softly, and silently curse her for getting it suck in my head. Hey, I can't really help it if I want to be lazy, I am tired and I wanted my own little version of a cat nap....

"I can really feel the training tension!!! Let’s start!!!!" Naruto yelled, breaking the peaceful silence that was around us. I reached behind my head and grabbed one of the water balloons out of the bag I was resting on and threw it at him without bothering to look at him.

"Shut up Naruto, you’re going to make me have a headache." I told him. Yes, I was still pissed off, but mostly right now it was at myself because I didn't go look for that child to see if they were all right, and if they were still safe. I didn't hear any water burst from the balloon, but I did hear Naruto struggle for a second, so I'm guessing her caught it before it could explode in his face.

"What was that for Harmony?! What is this anyway?!" He yelled when he got a hold on the water ball. I gave him a half shrug.

"Simple, I am helping you with you training. What I gave was a water balloon, and you’re going to train with it. How, Ojisan will explain." I told him before turning my body so my back was to them. I heard Naruto mutter that he knew what it was and saying that I really suck when I am in a bad mood, but I paid no attention. I guess Ojisan saw that I was in no mood to really help train Naruto today, so he went on expanding what the water balloon was for and how to do it. I could hear that Naruto was extremly excited, and I could also hear the water in his balloon whirl around, but that all it did move around in a circle and not force the balloon to burst. After an hour or two of hearing only this, and Naruto cries of frustration, I had enough. I sat up and threw my bag of water balloons at Ojisan's feet and jumped down from the tree.

"Heh? Harmony? What's wrong?" Ojisan asked me when he realized that I had left the tree.

"I'm going to go for a little walk. I'll see you guys later at the hotel." I told them before I walked away from them.