Naruto rubbed and rubbed, pissed off at every inch of the foot that his hands were touching, the same thought running through his mind. "This should be ME! This should be ME! This should be ME!" The world really seemed to hate Naruto at this point in time since no matter how much he wished and hoped and WANTED to be huge he was stuck at a "mere" 15 feet tall. Why was Shikamaru growing so much more than him? What was causing it? Wasn't there some way to speed his growth along? He wanted so badly to just be able to smash Shikamaru between his feet and show him his place!

Unfortunately for Naruto the world seemed determined to make him burst a blood vessel since, as he rubbed, Naruto started noticing that he wasn't able to reach quite as high on the foot...He hadn't been able to reach the ball of the foot at any point when he started rubbing, but now he was having trouble even reaching halfway up the foot...He stepped back and could only come to one conclusion. Shikamaru was growing AGAIN!

"Oh COME ON!" Naruto shouted, stomping his foot. "This just isn't fair!"

Shikamaru sighed and cracked an eye open. "What are you...huh?"

He looked confused as he saw his chest slowly rising up out of the water, Kiba staring up in awe at him as his pecs swelled up and out, pushing the dog ninja back before they rose above him, water cascading down over Kiba, pushing him under the water. Shikamaru chuckled, his abs pushing out, feeling the tiny Kiba against his abs. He fished him out of the water and put him on top of his shoulder. "You're getting too small Kiba. I'm not going to be able to interact with you pretty soon. You'd better get growing."

Kiba smiled a little weakly and said, "I'll see what I can do."

They both laughed at that as Shikamaru put his attention down on Naruto. He put his foot down and smirked when he saw his toes were almost as tall as Naruto....and getting taller! Naruto, sitting on the ground after the ground shaking caused by Shikamaru's massive foot. Before he could move Shikamaru gently pressed his toe down on top of him. Naruto tried to hold back the gigantic toe but he was unable to stop it. It pressed hard against his chest, forcing him down into the dirt. Shikamaru chuckled and said, "You're a lot easier to deal with when I can just hold you down with one toe Naruto."

"Shut up! I'm not just some stupid bug you can step on whenever you want!' Naruto shouted back, losing his temper.

Shikamaru increased the pressure and said, "See, that's where you're wrong. A bug under my toe is exactly what you are."

Shikamaru kept growing, his body filling up the little lake. Within minutes he was wedged inside, his butt the only thing still in water. He manged to pull himself out of the hole after that, easily getting to his feet. He towered above the trees, Naruto only about half the size of his toe if not less, Kiba a tiny figure on his shoulder. Shikamaru cracked his knuckles and looked around.He could see the village from here...going over there at this size though MIGHT cause a commotion.

"Man...what a drag that would be..." Shikamaru muttered. He grabbed Naruto up in his fist and started walking in the opposite direction.