It began after the C-Rank mission.
Naruto sighed. She wouldn't be able to attend the festival-she'd be busy elsewhere.
"How about we all celebrate the Festival together, my kawaii genin?" Kakashi eye-smiled as the other jounin and jounin-senseis watched with amusement at Kakashi's pathetic team.
Sakura squealed and nodded emphatically.
Sasuke just 'hn'-ed.
Naruto gave a sweet, yet chilled smile.
"Sorry, Kakashi-sensei. I'm busy. Plus, isn't the Festival for humans only?"
Naruto gave a beaming smile. The other teams watched curiously as Kakashi's eye widened.
"Naruto-"
"I said no, jounin-san." Naruto walked away. "I'm busy."
Naruto hopped onto the water and darted off, making the other genin stare.
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"Ah, Anko-nee-chan!"
"Tenshi-chan! How are you?"
"Good. The jounin-san asked me to the Festival." To outsiders, it would look like Anko was conversing rather seriously with a beautiful black-haired babe of a civilian. To anyone in the know (which was four altogether), they knew differently. "I told him I was busy." The babe leaned closer and delivered a long, visible lick to the snake mistress' face, making men nosebleed and women stare jealously.
Then Anko licked her cheek rather lewdly, causing some men to faint.
"Of course," Anko said after licking the cheek. "Tell Neri-chan, Aya-chan, and Bun-chan, 'kay?"
"Ah, Anko-nee-chan, Bun-chan already said she'll be there. I must get ready; Kaa-san will not be pleased if we're late."
"Kaa-san still hates your family's greetings!"
"Licking someone's cheek is a perfectly viable way of saying 'hello'!" called the blackette as she walked off, her hips swaying almost sensually.
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"Aya-chan." Ichiraku Ayame whirled around to look at Tenshi. "Did I scare you? I apologize."
"What are you doing here?" Ayame questioned.
Tenshi licked her lips, and Ayame tilted her face, and Tenshi gave her a slow, yet moderately fast lick.
Ayame did the same to Tenshi's other cheek.
"Are you going to the Festival? I'm working tonight. Anko-nee was wondering if you were coming too." An innuendo was hidden in those words, one Ayame quickly caught on.
Ayame glanced to her father, who gave a small nod.
"Go ahead, Ayame, if that's what you want." Her father's voice held no judgement. Ramen didn't always pay the bills. At least this way, Teuchi didn't have to work too much.
Ayame nodded. "I will not come," she said, blinking a little too much on 'will' and 'come', then rubbing her left eye. "Do mind asking some of your sisters to help me and Father?"
Teuchi turned around to hide his smile.
"Hai," Tenshi said with a smile. "See you soon."
"Wait! Did anyone else lick your face?"
Tenshi smiled, looking a bit puzzled. "Only Anko-nee."
Ayame turned green.
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Nerissa was finishing one of her sticks of dango when Tenshi entered the dining room. Her bell-and-chopsticks hairstyle caught attention, however, Nerissa knew that the bells gave off a genjutsu that the demon fox itself put out in order to make her unmemorable. No matter what happened, the girl's bells were soundless to all but Nerissa, Anko, Bun-chan, and Ayame; and of course Teuchi and Bun-chan's father.
They did the customary 'lick each other's cheek' thing that had people staring. Then they spoke quietly, and the blackette left, the only memory of her as a big-chested blackette who looked pretty, but they could not remember what any one of them spoke of.
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Tenten sighed. She was a proud kunoichi, but with the only missions Gai-sensei picking were missions that utilized Lee's fighting style, she knew why Neji was like he was. Why he acted like there was a stick up his butt.
Tenten had an idea.
"Oi, Neji!"
Neji turned, his face expressionless. "What?" he asked, looking like he had zero interest in what Tenten was going to offer.
"If you can do a jutsu," Tenten began, recalling Tenshi's voice: The Sexy Jutsu literally changes the organs of a person. Lee could do it; but he'd probably be stuck in it-it only costs a little bit of chakra for women, about as much as a d-rank jutsu if used continually for days if used by men. It's underhanded, but it'll get most perverts. "You can learn something not many have the patience to do so."
Interest flamed in Neji's eyes. Tenten internally smiled. She had Neji hooked.
Tenshi said in underdeveloped kunoichis, the 'female' Sexy Jutsu enhanced those things to an extreme degree. In her 'male' Sexy Jutsu, Tenshi could pick between 'underdeveloped', 'developing', and a true sexy male form.
"And," she added, "you can get much more pick of missions. It's just a small blow to your Hyuuga pride if you do what I do and are found out, but if not, then you can get much more money. And probably leave the Hyuuga Compound."
Tenten's hesitant offer made the Hyuuga stare at her in shock.
Then the Hyuuga looked reluctant, but nodded.
"Please teach me," he asked her.
Tenten smiled.
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"And that's it," Bun-chan giggled as she placed a card down, a very demure-looking lady next to her. "He agreed to it."
"Ah, it's nice to see someone actually starting to take training seriously. I would advise asking someone to teach you some kunoichi tricks," Tenshi smiled gently. "Oh. And whenever you meet me, you lick my cheek after I lick yours."
There was no emotion on the girl's face.
"Oh, and you might want to stop acting like a Hyuuga; some other Hyuuga here don't act like that. It's a very discreet service here; all kunoichi/Sexy-Jutsu'd/henge'd chakra-users are served by civilians and very discreet shinobi who might just want to talk. Speaking of one, how are you today, Ibiki-san?" Tenshi stood up. "Talk or-?"
"It doesn't matter," the scarred jounin said, passing through, tossing a glance at Neji. "And relax or the kaa-san might kick ya out."
Ibiki grasped Tenshi's hand on the way past, and Tenshi nodded at Neji.
They didn't see Tenshi for the rest of the night, though Ibiki and several other ninja came to see the 'angel' of the brothel.
None of them thought that their night off doing discreet things coincided with Uzumaki Naruto's vehement 'no' and her claim that she was 'busy'.
No. Well, not until the next morning.