Oh, I wasn't at all meaning to suggest that Hinata would be the *only* one they'd be hitting on, or even the primary one - just that, say, one of the clones wanders off and decides for whatever reason that he's going to try flirting with her - and a few hours later when it pops, Naruto gets back a memory of flirting with Hinata with a surprising degree of success, and is kind of confused. I imagine you'd have at least a clone or two try their luck with almost anyone vaguely interesting and female (with, by and large, very little success). Certainly, having a decent number of the spirits decide that they're female and regularly performing the female shapeshift jutsu immediately on summoning whether he likes it or not seems entirely reasonable. I do rather like the "influence Naruto through clone wrangling" idea - though ost of those who might try to do that could already influence him just by talking with him for a while. More likely as a hostile act is going to be throwing genjutsu on the clones (who don't have nis natural defenses to such things) and sending them back with false memories. I'd buy the idea of a small group of the civilians that keep talking new clones into doing stuff for them.
I have the idea of the Fox eating them because... well, it's a spirit of hatred and destruction, and they are small and snacky. Sure, if you want to push this towards the crack, then it becomes more of a trickster, and throws influence into making the world more entertaining, but I rather like the pathos of having to decide between his living friends (who need him to channel fox in order to save them) and his little spirit friends (who will die in droves if he calls on that power).
I was actually imagining the spirits as being incorporeal, but if you want to write it as Naruto and the Pebble Golems, then go right ahead.
Oh - and the clones that go off and do their own thing are going to have lived life a lot more fully than the default "create/use cannon fodder" types - that's liable to put a bit of a strain on his own psyche - which will in turn make it easier for them to bend to their own personalities.
I'm being simplistic here because the things I mentioned were just the first things off the top of my head. You could go all sorts of places with this one.
I have the idea of the Fox eating them because... well, it's a spirit of hatred and destruction, and they are small and snacky. Sure, if you want to push this towards the crack, then it becomes more of a trickster, and throws influence into making the world more entertaining, but I rather like the pathos of having to decide between his living friends (who need him to channel fox in order to save them) and his little spirit friends (who will die in droves if he calls on that power).
I was actually imagining the spirits as being incorporeal, but if you want to write it as Naruto and the Pebble Golems, then go right ahead.
Oh - and the clones that go off and do their own thing are going to have lived life a lot more fully than the default "create/use cannon fodder" types - that's liable to put a bit of a strain on his own psyche - which will in turn make it easier for them to bend to their own personalities.
I'm being simplistic here because the things I mentioned were just the first things off the top of my head. You could go all sorts of places with this one.