Konohamaru smirked, his eyes still closed as he continued to lean against a side of the small crate. "Hehehe... Naruto'll never find me..." He whispered to himself, moving his back upwards against the crate as he felt the sole of his sandals touch the other side. He barely pondered the reason for this, and continued to relax, eagerly waiting for Naruto to give up. "Any second now..."

Konohamaru's excitement slowly turned to discomfort, his clothes for some reason feeling a bit tight. A bead of sweat fell from his forehead, the inside of the crate feeling really hot all of a sudden. The young ninja suddenly found his scarf becoming unbearably tight, the sudden heat his body was experiencing making it even worse. Konohamaru tugged on his scarf, slowly but surely pulling it off of his neck; he then sighed in relief, being able to breathe better. He held his scarf in his unknowingly larger hand, and wondered why, all of a sudden, it would be so tight... He may have been seeing things, but he swore that his scarf actually looked like it was a bit too small for him. And now that he thought about it... EVERYTHING he was wearing felt tight! Really tight! It was then when Konohamaru sat up straight and felt his head push the lid of the crate up a few inches. He could see outside! Luckily Naruto was nowhere to be found, so this gave Konohamaru time to ponder what was going on. He took off his goggles, the strap ripping slightly without him noticing, and threw them, along with the scarf, outside of the crate as he also pushed the lid off and threw it too.

The young, bewildered ninja looked over himself, and, everything else around him. “UGH! This isn’t right! I KNOW I had no problem fitting in this thing earlier!” Konohamaru crossed his arms, one of his eyes slightly twitching. He was reaaally annoyed at this point. “I swear! For some damn reason, everything just looks... smaller than before...”

Konohamaru scratched his back, the tightness of his t-shirt really annoying him at this point. He didn’t even notice that it looked comically small on him, when, it was usually a little oversized. His shorts were doing no better; the ends well past his knees at this point, and hugging his thighs really tightly. Konohamaru winced as he realized he was bending his legs a lot in the crate, and as he looked up, his eyes lit up with shock as he noticed his whole head was poking out of the now small hiding place! Even his boxers were being strained quite a bit; faint tearing noises audible as Konohamaru’s visibly growing bulge popped the zipper on his shorts open. His growing body was giving him no time to focus on one thing at a time, though, as he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his feet, heard a loud stretching sound; and, right after, an even louder RRRIIIIPPPPP!!!

“I don’t GET IT!” He muttered to himself, “What the hell’s goin’ on!?” Konohamaru was right to have no idea what to think when he looked down at his sandals; the straps had literally BURST off his feet!

Konohamaru wiggled his larger, squished toes in utter confusion and realized... all he could actually see of his sandals were the straps... on a hunch, he lifted his right foot and realized that his huge, bare feet were covering both his sandals entirely! He lifted both his feet up, picking up the ruined, flattened foot wear and out of curiosity; put one of his sandals against one of his larger appendages. Konohamaru’s eyes went wide as he stared at his foot; not only was it WAY to wide for the small sandal in his hand, but also, the ball of his foot and his toes were completely passing the end of the sandal! Were his feet that big?! His sandals had fit perfectly that exact same morning... And everything was in proportion, like usual! Plus, there was still the issue of his clothes, which were nearly suffocating him; they didn’t fit either! Konohamaru, now having forgotten about the hide and seek game, was now completely distracted by what was happening to him; or his body, anyways. After attempting to stretch his upper body, which, as if he saw it coming, caused the top part of the front and back of his shirt to rip almost half way down his torso, he KNEW what was happening…

“I couldn’t be... No WAY!” The young ninja smiled; this was crazy. But AWESOME! “I’m getting... Bigg – WOOAAAH!!”

Out of nowhere, Konohamaru, finally partially aware of what was going on, felt a weird, strong tingling sensation suddenly move through his body, from head to toe, as he quickly surged up a few more inches. At this point, Konohamaru had gotten way too big for the crate, and he finally let his longer, thicker legs push forward. The soles of his bigger, bare feet pushed over the part of the crate he was facing, and he also took his arms out and put them along the top edges, which ended up falling over with the rest of the pieces of the crate anyways. As the tingling faded away, his quick growth spurt did too… though; he was still undoubtingly growing. Konohamaru finally decided to get up, slowing adjusting his footing as he did so because he wasn’t used to his new size AT ALL. I the process, though, his t-shirt completely shredded off, the remains falling to the floor.

The young ninja couldn’t help but laugh. “WOW! I’ve heard of growth spurts... but I didn’t know they happened this fast~ !” He said, flexing his arm. Konohamaru wasn’t sure... but he could swear that his bicep seemed a bit thicker, too. He also had to be at least as tall as Naruto! Well, the usual Naruto, anyways.