Hello again! I've come up with yet another story idea and for once it's not a crossover! Basically the general idea is to make a harem using only characters you rarely ever see as love interests such as Hokuto, Toki, Fuka, and Yakumo. With that said I'm sorry to all Hinata and/or Sakura fans who read my stories. Their pairings are to popular to qualify them for the harem.
I hope you all enjoy the story!
(Marshalanime does not own Naruto)
Konoha was the shinobi center of the Land of Fire. It was a village that could lay claim to many things, its Hokage who have watched over the village since its beginning, lively and happy citizens, and it's academy that trained the future generation of shinobi.
Walking out of the convenience story closest to her home was one of the many shinobi hopefuls who attended the academy, a plastic bag holding her purchases hanging in her right hand. It wasn't anything to write home about her parents spent a lot of time working so usually it was just her for super so she usually just pigged out on snacks or heated up the occasional premade meal.
She was a rather attractive girl for her age, sporting purple hair that was cut off at chin length save for the bangs on the left side of her face that stretched down to the slight bulges of her B-cup breasts. Her attire consisted of a darl blue blouse that had a yellow and pink vertically stripped cloth covering the front that she had tied around her neck and waist. To cover her long legs she wore a red skirt that nearly reached her knees and dark blue shinobi sandles that came up to her mid-shin.
As the sun lowered and the blue sky began to change to a vibrant orange she shut her brain off and let her legs carry her along the same path home she'd been using for years. She didn't quite know what it was but live had become so, so boring. Everyday it was the same thing, she got up in the morning, got ready for school, tried to stay awake through class, hung out with her friends, and then headed home to repeat it all again the next day.
Coming to an intersection this girl who found herself trapped in a rut encountered something to push her out of it. With a thud the girl was on her back, staring up at the clear sky above as the contents of her bag rolled across the ground.
"Ow" the girl hissed out as she pushed herself into a sitting position with her right arm while rubbing the back of her head with her other arm. Glancing around the fist thing she noticed was the food around of her, half of which had fallen out of their containers and spilled all over the ground. "Shit!" the girl cussed as she scrambled to salvage what she could.
Hearing someone moving behind her she spun around to grab who ever it was and pulled them to eye level as she stood on her knees. "Hey jackass, that was my super! how are you going to make up for it, huh?" she shouted as she got in the guy's face, only for her eyes to widen as she stared into blue eyes. Those blue eyes, that blond hair and whisker marks, she knew who this was. Hell, everyone knew who he was. He's the kid everyone talked about with hushed words.
As the blond started to apologize the girl et out a quiet sigh as she pushed him back to the ground. "Forget it" she breathed out as she got to her feet. Nothing good would come of this if she stayed any longer. She'll just head back to the shop and get some more food.
Pushing himself up the blond was ready to yell at the girl for pushing him when he saw her walking away. Is she really going to make that big of a fuss and then just walk away, like nothing had happened? "Why don't you come to my house?" the words flowed out f his mouth before he even thought about them. At first he was sure that saying that was a mistake, that she's just laugh at him for asking, but she simply stopped walking away.
After a pause the girl looked over her shoulder, "And why would I do that?". The tone in her voice, it didn't come off as mocking or have any anger behind it but rather, she was curious.
With a bit of surprise and hope a wide grin formed on the blond's face as he folded his arms behind his head. "My mom's a really good cook. I'm sure you'll love it!" the blond told her.
Thinking back on it, it was probably a stupid reason but the prospect of having a home cooked meal after so long was simply irresistible to. She'd told herself that one visit wouldn't hurt and now, well over a year later she was in the blond's room watching him pack for a protection mission his team had been assigned.
With a sigh Naruto paused in placing the supplies he had laid out on his bed into his backpack. "Ami, it's kind of hard to pack like this" the blond told the girl who's arms were wrapped around his neck.
"Don't care" Ami told him as she pressed herself into his back further. He was going to be gone for weeks guarding some bridge builder, she wasn't going to miss out on the few hours she had before he left.
"Doesn't your team have any missions today?" Naruto asked as he started filling his bag again.
Nuzzling her chin into the top of his head Ami noted that holding him like this was getting difficult. She'd always been taller than him but latly he was closing the distance, a few more months and he'll probably be taller than her. "Ishiko-sensei gave us the day off because her love life sucks" Ami told him. After having a woman like Ishiko for a sensei for nearly a year now her, Kasumi, and Fuki came to expect seeing her show up with tear stained cheeks every month or so and telling them about how she was stood up, or she was dumped, or the guy was married the whole time. Usually they sat around and comforted her for an hour or two before they got the day off whenever it happened.
"Ah" Naruto responded. It must be tough, but still, better than having a sensei that's always late.
"Hey, Naruto..." Ami began as she took her head off of his and rested it on his shoulder. When the blond turned his head o look at her she quickly leaned in to place a quick kiss on his lips. Leaning her head back she grinned as the faint blush on his cheeks, "Consider that a good luck charm!".
After getting everything packed Naruto was seen off by Ami and his mother as he went to meet up with the others at the mains gate and then ultimately heading out for the Land of Waves. As the day dragged on the four shinobi plus bridge builder spent a good portion of the walk in silence. That is until Naruto's pink haired teammate wanted to ask their charge something.
"Say... mister Tazuna" Sakura spoke up in order to get the man's attention. Next to her was the third and final genin of their squad, Sasuke Uchiha, next to him was their sensei, Kakashi Hatake with the bridge builder next to him leaving Naruto walking a few steps in front of the group.
"What is it?" Tazuna asked, sounding almost irritated.
"Your country is the Land of Waves, right?" the pinket asked.
"Yeah, what of it?" Tazuna questioned.
Turning to her sensei, "Kakashi-sensei, there are shinobi in that country as well, aren't there?" the girl asked.
"No, there are no shinobi in the Land of Waves" Kakashi told her. "But in other countries, there are hidden villages each with their own customs and cultures where shinobi reside. To the people of this continent the existence of shinobi villages means strength, military strength. In other words that's how they protect themselves and maintain the balance with neighboring countries. The shinobi villages are not controlled by any government, they're independent and have equal status. Now a small island like the Land of Waves has natural protection from the sea, so there's no need for a shinobi village" Kakashi was explaining when Naruto interjected.
"What about Uzushiogakure?" the blond asked as he looked over his shoulder, getting odd looks from Sakura and Tazuna.
"Uzushiogakure was one of the first shinobi villages to be founded. They used the surrounding whirlpools that gave their nation its name to train and develop ninjutsu safely away from the outside world. Uzushiogakure was the only major settlement to be established there, but unfortunately Uzushiogakure no longer exists" Kakashi said, leaving it at that, he was sure that Kushina would've already told him about the village she was born in and didn't want to risk opening up old wounds by going on longer than needed.
"What do you mean it doesn't exist? What happened?" Sakura asked unsurprisingly curious about this new information, even if Kakashi wanted to avoid the topic.
"Well, you see-" Kakashi was begins, trying to figure out the best way to tactfully explain it when Sasuke answered for him.
"It was wiped out in the last great war" the young Uchiha said. Not what Kakashi was hoping for but at least he didn't have to say it.
"What? Wiped out!" Sakura exclaimed as her attention darted to the raven haired teen next to her.
"The Uzumaki clan that first founded the village had strong ties to Konoha. Even though Uzushio hadn't taken part in the conflict the other nations feared what would happen if they sided with our village and entered the war, so they took action before that could happen and leaving the village in ruin" Sasuke explained.
"Uzumaki?" the pinket repeated before her eyes widened. "You don't mean..." Sakura went one as her head turned to stare at her blond teammates back.
Feeling her gaze on him Naruto said "My mom was born there". Hearing that made the pinket feel like shit for pushing the topic. When she tried to apologize Naruto just shook his head before looking over his shoulder. "You don't have to apologize, it happened a long time ago" the blond told her with a grin. She still felt bad about it but for now Sakura listened to the blond.
After that the group returned to traveling in silence, albeit with a slightly uncomfortable atmosphere around them.
As they moved further away from the village they past by a small puddle, surely a common sight, though it did catch Kakashi's attention. They passed by without any problem but after their backs were turned the small pool of water warped and rose until two figures clad in gas masks and sporting two large clawed gauntlets between them, one having it on his right hand while the other wore it on his left.
With trained speed the first shinobi threw his companion at the group as a long spiked chain shot out to connect their gauntlets. Before a normal human could react they had the chain wrapped tightly around Kakashi's body and with a swift tug from both of them the chain tore through the man like tissue paper. As Kakashi's remained fell to the ground, kicking up a bloody cloud Sakura let out a startled cry as she stumbled back and Naruto let out a cry for his fallen sensei.
Just as the blond was going to rush over in some vain hope that Kakashi was alright the two assassins popped up behind him, chuckling as they narrowed their eyes. "Now it's your turn" one of them said as they moved to entangle Naruto like they had Kakashi. Reaching for his weapons pouch the blond moved to jump back, hoping he'd get out of their range before it was too late when Sasuke jumped into the action, unleashing a shiriken that pinned the chain to a nearby tree before following it with a kunai to pin his first thrown weapon into the trunk as well.
As Naruto brought his kunai out he watched as Sasuke landed on the gauntlets that were now keeping their owners at bay. Placing his hands on the gauntlets the Uchiha kicked out with his feet, using the trapped chain to his advantage to add even more of an impact as his feet slammed into the pair's faces. With their chain hindering them now they opted to detach themselves from it and split up, on of them rushing for Tazuna while the other went for Naruto.
"Honoka! Honokaaaa!" Kushina called out as she wandered around the residence. Coming to a stop at the garden at the back of her home she placed her hands on her hips and let out a huff. Where could that girl be?
Seeing Ami tossing kunai as a target pinned to the large cherry tree the red haired woman called her over. Halting her arm before the next blade left her hand the teen looked over to see the woman waving her over Ami flicked it in the tree's general direction before running over to the woman. "What do you need?" Ami asked before she came to a stop in front of the woman.
"Honoka, I haven't seen her since this morning. You haven't seen her have you?" Kushina asked.
"Oh, she went with Naruto" Ami easily answered, getting a surprised look from Naruto's mother.
"Wh-What the" the shinobi who had targeted Tazuna grunted out, his body being restrained by golden chains just before he was about to pierce through the genin standing between him and the old man with his metal claws. His partner wasn't fairing much better as he stared down the person responsible for stopping them.
Between him and Naruto was a woman with dark eyes and long, straight red hair tied into a thick braid which she wore with a white band. Her clothes consisted of a purple, sleeveless kimono blouse with yellow trimmings held close by a traditional obi with a long, streaming bow tied to it, having mesh armor underneath, and wearing a short white skirt with nothing covering her legs or feet.
"H-Honoka?" Naruto questioned as he found himself staring at the woman's back. Since when and how was she here? Looking over her shoulder the teen gave him a warm smile and a quick nod.
"I suppose I should thank you for that" Kakashi said, directing everyone's attention up to the tree branch he was kneeling on.
"Kakashi-sensei!? But" Sakura was surprised as she from the man to where his remains should be only to see a pile of sliced wood. "A substitution" the pinket commented with a few blinks as she put two and two together.
Jumping down the silver haired shinobi began to casually walk over to the group, noticing the scowl Honoka was giving him. "I would've stepped in if they needed me, promise" Kakashi told the girl wit a smile, even if it wasn't obvious through his cloth mask. However, his response didn't seem to change her mood as she jerked her head to the side, her scowl still in place.
Oh well, turning his attention to the bridge builder. "Tazuna..." Kakashi said, getting a startled reaction from the man as Tazuna began sweating bluets. "We need to talk" Kakashi told him.
"How did you know about our ambush?" one of the enemy shinobi asked after the pair was tied to a tree.
"...A puddle, on a clear day when it hasn't rained in weeks?" Kakashi answered with a question of his own.
"In that case why'd you leave it to the genin to do the fighting?" Tazuna asked the jounin.
"I could have taken them out quickly, but then I'd have learned nothing. I had to know who their target was, and what they were after" Kakashi said as he stared at the bridge builder from the corner of his eye.
"Hm, what are you getting at?" Tazuna questioned.
"This," Kakashi said as he turned to face the man "I wanted to know if they were after us, shinobi attacking shinobi. Or, if they were attacking you, the master bridge builder. When you put in your request you asked for standard protection, from robbers and highway men. You didn't say there were shinobi looking for you, hunting you down. If we knew this it would be a B-rank mission or higher. Our task was to simply get you to your destination and protect you while you completed your bridge. If we knew we'd be fielding attacks from enemy shinobi we would've staffed differently and charged for the price of a B-mission. Apparently you have your reasons, but lying to us is unacceptable. We are now beyond the scope of this mission" Kakashi told the man.
As Kakashi spoke Tazuna's head lowered, hiding his face behind the wide straw hat he wore. He knew that he had lied to them, but what choice did he have? "If we just leave him like this he'll be killed! We can't let that happen!" Tazuna heard the blond kid say.
With determination in his eyes like that Kakashi found it hard to out right refuse to continue the mission. With a sigh the jounin told the group "We'll deliver Tazuna to his home as per the mission and then determine from their if we'll continue". As the blond cheered that the mission wasn't over yet Kakashi redirected a hard look at Tazuna "I'll expect an explanation by the time we arrive". Despite the chill that ran down his spin Tazuna was still grateful that they weren't simply leaving him for dead.