Chapter 9 - Bird Shark Cannonball

Izuku's training was going well.

Only a few months into the training, and Naruto was able to visibly see the massive amounts of improvements that had happened to the boy. His muscles had been ripped to shreds, and reborn into a new, slightly more macho, form than his starting point of... well having no muscles. Izuku had cleared away over half of the beach of the garbage at this point, and by the time that January rolled around, the first 9 months of the plan would be over, leaving Izuku ready for his training in One for All to start. It would take about a month before the boy learned how to not fire off all of his punches and kicks at 100% power, something that was bound to happen considering the boy was Quirkless and had no experience controlling a Quirk. It would be harder for the Quirkless to learn how to use something that those with Quirks naturally knew how to use.

Then again, his uncle was an exception to that rule.

"Seriously, you're just going to lay there... not even play in the water?" Mina asked Naruto as she stood over him, looking down at him with a disappointed look, wearing her white frilled bikini just for him now. Originally, she had just wanted to show it off, but she had been waiting for this chance since they started dating.

Honestly though, their dating life wasn't really different than what they did before, only they were a little more physically affectionate now.

"You enjoy the beach your way, and I'll do it my way. You're the one who wanted me to take a break from training more often, and that is what I'm doing. If I go into the water, I can promise you I'll start training." Naruto waved her off. She had her friends from her school here with them, so it wasn't like she was going to be lonely with him not playing around. She had two of her girlfriends, and the Kirishima guy that she had tried to introduce him to, and the guy seemed pretty cool for the most part.

He had decent muscle on him, but other than that he was a pretty average looking guy. He had light tan skin, with long black hair that covered a small part of his face, though all of his teeth were sharpened. The guy was a pretty friendly dude, and he was pretty enthusiastic about swimming in the ocean.

Mina pointed at him.

"Gush over how cute I am!"

"Oh Mina, you're so cute, so sėxy, I can't take my eyes off of you... my heart is all aflutter, and my stomach has buŧŧerflies... please, allow me to look away so that my weak heart won't explode." Naruto closed his eyes as he went back to laying back. Her cheeks puffed out, and she kicked some sand onto his legs. "See, I'm enjoying myself just fine, watching you have fun." Naruto cracked open one of his eyes and looked up at her. She stopped pouting and puffing at him, before she shrugged her shoulders with a smiling sigh.

Guess they had different ideas of what it was like to have fun on the beach.

...

"That bikini makes your ȧss look just as sėxy as it always is!" Naruto called out to her as he laid back down. What was he going to say, that her ȧss only looked nice in practically nothing. She was always sėxy, the bikini didn't really change how good looking she was in his eyes.

Mina pumped her fist in victory.

"I'll take it!" She would take that compliment in stride, not much he could really compliment her on when it came to her swimsuit without sounding like a pervert. Also, she had kind of goaded that out of him. She wasn't shy about her body, so no reason to get angry about a compliment. "Wait up guys, I want to play too! Kirishima, get a bucket, we're making a giant sand castle!"

Naruto smirked.

He then glanced back at Izuku, the boy was actually sending them all jealous looks. Like he wanted to join them, and Naruto was about to say something about it, before his fellow teen got back to work with a more determined expression than before.

'Okay, he's a pretty decent guy... he's got determination, and he can motivate himself.' Naruto wasn't just laying down to relax, he was also doing it so that he could keep an eye on Izuku's training. It was moving along well, if the boy kept it up at this pace, he would actually finish the first 9 month part of the plan in only 8 and a half months. That was, if he didn't push himself even harder than Naruto's plan was pushing him. "... Actually, in this heat, he should stay hydrated." Naruto opened up the cooler next to him, and grabbed a bottled water. Standing up, regretfully standing up, he walked towards Izuku with water in hand. The boy was pushing a broken fridge through the sand.

*Touch*

"Aaaaah, cold!"

"Really, like a hero! Thank you so much!" Izuku bowed repeatedly, thankfully taking the water and setting it down gently in the sand, before he waved to Naruto as he got back to clearing the beach.

Yep, the boy was hero obsessed, so comparing him to a hero was a great motivator.

'I'm going to take a break from everything.' Naruto fell face first into the towel he laid down. He would keep an eye on Izuku, but he would do it with his eyes closed. As long as he was listening to everything that was going on, he was sure everything would be okay. The sun just felt so good on his skin, and the warmth of the towel and sand was just divine right now.

"Shark, and it's got Kirishima!"

"... Seriously?" Naruto looked up and saw a shark in the water, with Kirishima in it's mouth. Okay, so Kirishima had a hardening Quirk, since his entire body looked more rugged and solid than before as the shark started to try and rip him apart. Naruto did a push up as he hopped up, walking across the beach and towards the water. "See, told you there wasn't going to be a villain." Naruto stepped into the shallow waters.

Mina's Quirk was worthless in the water, which would just dilute her acid to harmless levels. Kirishima didn't seem like he had taken his Quirk to a level where he could fight a shark while being caught in it's mouth, it was taking everything he had it would seem just to not get eaten.

"Is that what you're worried about!?"

"Oh don't be a baby, you're not dead yet!" Naruto shouted to Kirishima as he jumped towards the shark, landing on top of it's head with a grin. "Also, don't stop using your quirk, because this is going to hurt... the shark more than you." Naruto grabbed Kirishima by his outstretched hand, and ripped him out of the sharks mouth. A very decent amount of teeth coming with it as Kirishima was forced to join him on top of the shark. He held onto Naruto for dear life, the shark thrashing underneath them as Naruto held onto it's fin.

Okay, Kirishima felt mad respect for this man he was holding onto.

"This is so cool!" Kirishima shouted, the fear of the shark eating him alive gone, and replaced with excitement as he and Naruto held their own rodeo on a shark. The shark swimming around in the water to knock them off. The shark started to swim towards a bird that was sitting on the water, a seagull, before it jumped out of the water and swallowed the bird whole.

Then a change happened.

The shark grew wings.

Humans weren't the only species capable of manifesting Quirks, it was actually possible for regular animals to gain Quirks as well. It would seem that this shark was in possession of it's own Quirk. Considering the absolutely massive seagull wings it sprouted from it's body, it would seem that it's power was the power to imitate anything that it swallowed.

"... My boyfriend is riding a flying shark..." Mina watched the shark take off into the air, now having a seagulls ability to breath air and fly. The now winged shark, taking to the skies, carried off her friend and her boyfriend. "You're recording this, right?" Mina asked as she looked her female friends. There was no way her parents were going to believe her if she didn't have some kind of proof. Seeing her friend recording what was happening, she looked back to see the air rodeo that was going on in the sky above.

The shark's quirk was pretty damn cool too.

"Aaaaaaaah!"

'Okay, this isn't great... if it drops us from this height... and we're going higher.' Naruto thought as Kirishima held onto his torso with all of his might. The shark just flew higher and higher up. "Sorry shark, you were just doing shark things." Naruto apologized, since the shark was innocent in all of this. All it was doing was trying to eat, because it was a shark. Yet, here Naruto was, about to absolutely murder the shark for trying to sustain itself.

Naruto transformed into his 1 tailed state, Kirishima letting out a gasp of shock when it suddenly became a lot harder to hold onto Naruto, though since his eyes were closed he didn't see what was going on anymore.

He prepared for pain.

Hitting the water hurt when he flopped on his back the second he landed, and opening his mouth to release Kirishima, he transformed back to a human form. Swimming up as fast as he could, Naruto took a deep breath of air at the same time that his fellow man's head popped out of the water.

...

"Where's land?" Kirishima had the sense to ask when he noticed that they were very far away from the beach, far away enough that they didn't even see land as anything more than a small dot in the distance.

Naruto swore.

"Hold onto my back, I'll use my Quirk and swim us back." Naruto ġrȯȧnėd when he realized that he was going to have to grow pretty massive if he was going to swim them both back in a timely manner.

What a way to spend a beach trip.