Chapter: 9

Thinking about it Naruto had another idea for it if it could conduct chakra, "Think you could draw a seal with it?"

"Well, I don't see why not?" Not seeing where he was going with this, Ino just shrugged while the boy turned to look at her. Were his eyes always so deeply blue?

"Uh well-" Coughing and taking the small bag of fertilizer and one of the medium sized aloe plants, Naruto stood and grinned, "I've got an idea then. Might not come to anything, but never hurts to try." Turning away from the pretty jade eyed girl, Naruto started walking to the counter.

Bouncing her way back to the counter Ino held a grin on her face, "Well as long as it doesn't lead to pranks, I'm all for it.

" Ringing him up quickly and handing him a receipt, Ino nodded, "Thanks for the business and make sure to tell forehead that just cause she's on his team doesn't mean I've given up yet!" Love was war after all.

"Sure thing Ino-chan, and thanks again!" Giving her a carefree smile and a wave, Naruto was out the door, missing the blushing girl give him a half wave in return before the glass door closed behind him.

Deciding that maybe the other blonde could be cute if he wanted, but still not close to her Sasuke-kun, she returned back to her magazine for the day.

Outside it was a carefree Naruto that was already on his way home. Sure he wasn't supposed to be training, but that didn't mean he couldn't experiment. Chakra conducting meant he could probably write seals with it and that meant more ways to make exploding notes! But, because the sap was only slightly sticky he needed a way to produce the seal fast and the same way every time. Maybe he could coat his hand with it? But then his hand would explode too, not a good idea. Thinking hard all the way home, he missed a lavender eyed Hyuuga eyeing him from around the corner. Having watched him leave the Yamanaka shop and observed the blushing Ino, there was a worrisome conclusion being made behind those eyes. Jumping as Naruto disappeared in a shunshin, she decided it would probably be best to think about things at home.

Plant in front of him on his kitchen table along with several scrolls and now 3 other clones besides himself, Naruto thought about his problem long and hard. "The sap itself is conductive, but so it sealing ink. It's not like we need it to make tags."

"True, plus the sap is sorta runny, it wouldn't hold the form for long or anything." One of the clones had made a slight incision on a leaf, allowing the sap to bubble out slightly.

"But you can only make a seal tag so big, sure wish we could pack more of em into a smaller space." Sure they could seal multiple tags or make a paper bomb with exploding tags, but that was obvious and avoidable.

"Wait!" Naruto himself snapped his fingers and pulled out one of his sealing training scrolls. "Wasn't it in this scroll that they described a way of making super massive seal matrices super small by packing the matrix within another chakra conductive paper scroll? Something about needing the chakra to stabilize the matrix for use?" Unrolling the scroll and sifting through it in order to find what he was looking for, it was another clone over his shoulder that pointed to the section they were looking for, written by one Kushina U.

"Well that's what it says. Oooooh I get it. Maybe we can seal the very exploding matrix inside the sap itself?"

"Yeah yeah, and then we could put the sap anywhere!"

Naruto himself had a wide grin on his face. "How about a mile long seal packed into a kunai or even inside a small pellet?" Yeah yeah, this was definitely going to be fun. It'd take him a long time to work on to be the size he wanted, but this was for explosions and explosions were always worth the extra work. Pulling out his tools and beginning to write, it was going to be a long night for him and a hard start early morning.