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Entwined Tails
By MountainWind
Summary
Long ago there was a little girl who dreamt of a little boy. Both were so lonely because of things they could not control. The little girl was the daughter of a demon and the female Mizukage. The little boy was Naruto. Their last shared dream was over eleven years ago.
But Naruto didn't know she began to dream of him again. Now Noumaki Yui has come to fulfill the promise she made to Naruto. Combined with her mother's doctrine of serving only the strong she has ordained she will serve the strongest, Naruto. So when Yui and her pervy Master Joya, a captured Konoha Nin return Tsunade, in a drunken rage, orders Yui to serve Naruto as his live-in maid, tutor, and servant.
Will it end in disaster as Naruto's kunoichi friends believe, or will she and Naruto share more thn a dream?
M for language, sensual/exual moments, and implied homosexuality (both boy and girl)
Pairings: JirayaxOCxTsunade, NarutoxHarem, KibaxHina
Parts and Storylines
Part 1: Whipping Around: Chapters 1-13
A girl named Noumaki Yui and her Ex-Konoha-ANBU sensei and surrogate mother Nobonachi Joya enter Konoha. The reason? Naruto. They saw each other in their dreams, and made the promise to see each other in real life, if for no other purpose than to have someone. Now, eleven years later, after forgetting the dreams and her Naruto is faced with not only Yui being his servant, but by Tsunade's order to make him let her serve him.
This part details Naruto and Yui's growing relationship and how she turns everything people take for normal on its ear. She's the catalyst in here and she's caused somethings to change for the better, and some to get just plain fuck-nuts. Read to this to understand what's going on in Part 2 and how it all ties together.
Part 2: Wrapping Around: Chapters 14-?
Chapter 1
Similar Pelts
She looked at the five faces over looking the peaceful village. She knew he was in there. She had felt it long before she had reached the small hill over looking it. He lived there. She looked around from area to area and tried to divine where he may reside. Thinking it was better to not dwell on it.
Looking for something you didn't know about made your hopeful.
She herself knew what he looked like. When she had drawn a picture for her master, who was standing beside her and making sure their papers were in order, she had nearly choked on her sake. She watched as her master went over hundreds of old scrolls from when she had still been a Konoha Ninja.
"So…you really want to do this? I mean you're giving up a whole lot of freedom," her master said. The girl looked at the much older Kunoichi. She wore a veil over her face, in contrast to her revealing outfit, which showed off her shoulders and thighs. No one who saw her body would realize she was close to sixty. Her golden eyes sparkled.
"Yes…" as they were about to head for the main gates the girl added, "I don't deserve freedom anyway."
Her master sighed and motioned for her to follow.
Tsunade looked at her paperwork. She groaned when Shizune and Kotetsu brought in two more massive stacks. Why me…? she asked. Shizune smiled with sympathy and took a good portion of the stack to do herself. Kotetsu nodded seeing he wasn't needed as he left. He also thanked his lucky stars he didn't have the skill to be even considered to be Hokage.
"Tsunade-sama!" a voice called. A young jounin recently assigned to be one of her ANBU guards barged into her office. She looked up, already annoyed.
"What is it?" she snarled. He let out a weak and muffled 'eep' at her blood lust.
"Well…there's a disturbance at the gate. It appears two Mist shinobi are claiming to be Konoha ninja! When we tried to apprehend them one of them ran off and we have yet to find her!"
Tsunade sighed and smacked her forehead. "What happened to the other one?" she asked, exasperated.
"She got felt up by the most annoying little shits since a certain porn author," a strong female voice croaked. Tsunade's eyes opened and she looked up. The woman, veil and revealing gi and all, stood with her hands on her hips behind the ANBU. He made a horrible squeak and got as far away from her as he could.
"Nobonachi Joya?" Tsunade asked quietly.
"I'm glad you remember me Mune-hime (1)!" Joya walked in, but was stopped by two ANBU guards.
"Hokage-sama has not allowed you to enter," they said.
"Well…maybe…" the strikes that hit the two ANBU dead in the face cracked their masks in half. They fell back and she smiled. "You should make sure I'm weaker than you. Ugh these are your guards? Hell your little brother was better than them," she kicked one's head.
"Joya…you're supposed to be dead!"
The kunoichi looked from her kill to Tsunade and laughed. "Yeah well…it's a kind of a long story! But first I have to ask…" she rubbed the back of her head. "where exactly is the boy named, Uzumaki Naruto?"
Tsunade, who was still in slight shock, finally collected her marbles in her bag, "Why? And why did you claim to be a Mist Nin?" she asked.
She put up her hands to show she had no weapons or hard feelings, "Hey! Mune-hime! All in good time! Just answer my question first please."
"He's probably chasing my apprentice. Haruno Sakura a girl with pink hair. Now will you answer my questions? And let me remind you Joya, your answers will determine if I have to kill you."
Joya smiled to so wide her veil rose up to show her chin. "That's the Tsunade-hime I know!"
The blond in question was strolling, as Tsunade had guessed, after his long time crush. She was chatting happily to Ino while he and Chouji walked behind. Naruto had met Chouji at Ichiraku and the two had had a speed-eating contest, Ichiraku closed early that day. The girls had decided to watch to see if either exploded.
Naruto was walking with his hands behind his head and was telling Chouji a joke he had heard on a show the other night. The bigger ninja laughed and held his stomach.
"Oi, would you two keep it down?" Ino asked, pouting and scowling at the same time.
"Sure thing Ino-chan!" Naruto said happily.
"When did I give you permission to call me that again foxy?" she asked angrily.
He only smiled wider.
Ino sighed, threw up her hands, and returned to her conversation with Sakura. The two were discussing possible sales they had read about. As Ino was going to suggest a shopping trip an ANBU crashed into the ground at their feet. He leapt up and looked around before jumping back into the sky.
A young woman who was standing on a four-story building knocked him back. Naruto looked at her with a furrowed brow. He didn't attack her because he saw she was standing in a taijutsu defense stance. If he or Chouji tried to attack her they'd end up like the ANBU.
He saw that she was either from the Mist or related to them. Her mask was Mist ANBU issue. However the symbol was absent. Her gi was like her master's, however it was far less revealing, showing the smallest portion of both thigh and shoulder it could. She had thin arm and shin guards on, which matched a breastplate.
Naruto couldn't help but notice she was beautiful. A lock of platinum blonde hair drifted from under her mask, the rest covered by a special hood. Her arms and legs were lean, denoting intense strength or training. From her shoulders and thighs he saw tan skin. Her form was as lean as her arms, but he chocked that up to armor and clothing.
Sakura and Ino, who had gone to check the ANBU for injuries, knocked him out of his trance. "Hey! Naruto attack her with Bunshin or something!"
The ANBU groaned and waved his hand to get attention. "Are you okay? What's happening?" Sakura asked.
"Intruder…mist nin…" he groaned pointing at a very bad bird sculpture. When he saw Naruto he pointed to him. "Don't hurt her. She has papers…authorized…"
Naruto, now very confused, put his hands back on his head, "So why are you attacking her idiot?"
"They wanted to take me to the Hokage's office with my master." Naruto narrowed his eyes at her.
So there are two…She continued, "I did not wish to meet Tsunade-sama. I am not here to bow my head to her. I have come for one reason and one reason alone." She bent down and leapt into the air. She landed in a crouch in front of Naruto and then fell to her knees, bowing her head.
Naruto took a step back and raised his eyebrow while looking at her. "Uh…can I help you nee-chan (2)?" Naruto asked.
"No. I am here to help you. Uzumaki Naruto-sama, I have traveled for so long to finally meet you," she said, not lifting her head. "I have come to serve you for the rest of my life."
Naruto blinked. Slowly his face went squint. "Huh?"
Sakura and Ino, equally confused looked from her to each other to her again, "Could you repeat that?" they asked.
"I, Noumaki Yui, have come to serve Uzumaki-sama until the day I die or am no longer of use," she explained. She bowed low again.
Naruto, far too confused to understand fully what she said, merely looked at her. "Uh Naruto," Chouji spoke up, "Why not ask her to get up? The road is kind dirty?" he said nudging his blonde friend.
"Oh yeah…Yui-was it? You can stand now…" Naruto watched as she stood. She held herself with a silent confidence. He looked at Sakura for help. She motioned to her face. "Oh yeah…Yui take off your mask!"
She nodded, "Yes Uzumaki-sama." She took hold of the hood and the mask, which Naruto saw were attached, "Please understand, this is my real face. I have not performed any transformation or alteration technique."
"Fine! Just take it off!" he said, growing impatient, except now he was more interested in what was wrong with her face so that she had to hide it from him.
Or make sure he believed it was hers.
She pulled the hood off and Naruto saw long platinum blonde hair, spikey and unruly. When she took it completely off Naruto noticed it gathered around her face in two long spikes. She blushed and looked up at him. Naruto took a step back. Sakura pointed and started making 'wha, wha, wha' sounds. Chouji fainted.
Ino laughed her ass off.
Noumaki Yui, Mist ANBU, had four whiskers on each cheek. Her skin, while paler than Naruto's, was as unblemished as his own. Her sea blue eyes reflected him like water and matched his own. She looked exactly like him.
"This…ain't…right…" Naruto grunted.
"And that's what happened," Joya said with a smirk under her veil. Tsunade, who had the damndest look on her face, had removed her hidden sake bottle and her drinking saucer.
"So…you came here to find Naruto?" she asked. The story was hard to believe, but she saw a picture of the girl. It was hard to believe how much alike they looked as children and were not related at all. Because Joya didn't have a picture of her now Tsunade could only hope she didn't look exactly like Naruto.
That would be far too disturbing.
"Well no…I came here to see my old friends, those still alive, anyway. Yui came for the brat. You see-"
"TSUNADE-BACHAN!" came from the hall along with the sound of stomping feet.
Tsunade slapped her face and pulled out another, larger, sake bottle. "Oh goddammit…"
"TSUNADE-BACHAN!" Naruto exploded the doors outward and flew through the doorway. He landed in a crumbled heap in front of her desk with his rear in the air.
Joya took a moment of her time to examine it with great delicacy. Tsunade did not miss that act. She took the time to drink another saucer of Sake.
Almost immediately Yui appeared and helped Naruto up, she began to brush him off and he pushed her away blushing brightly. "That's enough! I can do it myself!" he said.
"Naruto," Tsunade asked. He looked at her, flinching and expecting an attack. "What is it?" her eyebrow was twitching badly.
"Uh…" he looked around, going squint again. When he saw Yui, smiling with her eyes downcast from him, his face grew into one of surprise. "THAT'S RIGHT! Tsunade-bachan! Why is this Mist-Nin sis that looks like me in a really creepy way saying she's my eternal servant and stuff? This is kinda extreme for a practical joke!"
Tsunade, who threw her saucer over her shoulder, took a large gulp from the bottle directly. "It's no joke Naruto. These two women are from the Mist. That girl does naturally look like you, here," she showed him the picture of Yui, as a preteen. Naruto looked the picture over.
Hell she was even wearing orange.
And we all know a love of that color ain't a coincidence.
"And if she says she wants to be your servant…well this," Tsunade said holding up a letter, "says you have to let her."
Naruto snatched it from her hand and opened it. "Dear Uzumaki-san, this letter is to inform you my daughter Yui is coming of age soon…blah, blah…not liked within village…blah, blah…has visions of you in sleep…wait?" Naruto looked those few lines over again.
He looked up from the paper to Tsunade who nodded and then to Joya, who smiled and waved, and then to Yui.
I don't have any friends. Mama says I can't have any.
"You…you're that girl…the one from my dreams," he said softly. Yui smiled even more.
Tsunade looked at him. She had only seen his look that way a few times in her life. One of them had been at his imprisonment. It wasn't a look of sadness, a look of something deeper.
Yui looked him in the eyes for the first time since she arrived at the office. Her face lit up. The similarity between them seemed to grow exponentially.
"You remember!" she coughed into her hand and resumed her composure. "Yes Uzumaki-sama. I am. I know it has been a very long time since we shared a dream, but I have seen you even if you haven't seen me! I know all about what you have done. After my mother died…" Joya, who had stood put her hand on her student's shoulder.
"Allow me to explain Naruto. She turned and saw that Sakura, Ino and Chouji had followed. "You three scram. This has nothing to do with you."
Ino bristled, but Sakura kept her calm, "I'm the Hokage's apprentice and Naruto's teammate. If something has to do with him and is of an importance to the village then I can at least listen."
Joya walked up to her and looked the younger ninja over, "Riiiight…" she leaned in closer and sniffed. She straightened up and sniffed around Naruto. "Sorry girl, if you were his main squeeze then maybe I'd let you listen. But you're obviously nothing more than baggage. So," she gave them a dismissive 'shoo' gesture, "Git…"
Sakura became furious. First a little hussy bows to Naruto and starts calling him Uzumaki–sama of all things! Then she finds out she is a literal 'dream girl!' and now this old bitch was telling her to fu-
"Sakura! Ino! Chouji! Go. If anything is important Naruto will tell you. So go," Tsunade ordered. They all hesitantly left, Sakura only after Naruto gave her a reassuring smile.
"So yeah…" Joya closed the doors as hard as she could after they left and made a sound barrier seal on them. "Heh he…incase any of them are determined."
"You are still so paranoid…" Tsunade sighed shaking her head.
"After living in a place where the only things keeping you alive was a kid no one liked…sorry Yui-chan…I learned a few new tricks. So where should I begin the little tale that returned the exotic beauty Joya to Konoha with an even more exotic beauty Yui-chan?"
Naruto watched Yui blush. Tsunade, who was already pulling out a new bottle, spoke up, "Begin with why you're alive. The records still count you as Killed in Action. It will give Naruto some background on you."
She clapped her hands and nodded, "Well I wasn't killed obviously. You see Naruto I used to be a special ANBU Medical Class. That means my skills were only surpassed by one of the Sannin…and only because Sensei liked her big titties," Tsunade spurted like a geyser.
"You're still angry about that?" she asked wiping her mouth with her arm.
"What? You two had the same sensei?" Naruto asked. Joya and Tsunade may have nodded, but they nodded very differently. He raised an eyebrow. "But you…look so…"
"Well Naruto…let me show you why I wear this mask." Joya flipped it up.
Naruto screamed like a little girl. He ran under Tsunade's desk and cringed around her legs. Tsunade glared down at him. "She's like a mummy…or, or a zombie…but her body…so…many wrinkles…"
Joya huffed, "Well I just turned fifty-eight…you don't have to be so whiney about it."
Looks more like she just turned ninety-eight. Naruto thought.
"Naruto…that is a private area, emphasis on private, I might add," Tsunade said. Naruto quickly scrambled far away from Tsunade's legs, but he stood slightly behind Yui as if she would shield him from her sensei.
"So…what was I saying?" she looked at Tsunade, then eyed her chest, "OH! Yeah. I went on ANBU missions that may need more than basic medical care. Well on one mission a Mist Raiding party hit my squad. We were wiped out in minutes. I was hit hard and went down first. When they were putting the bodies up my mask fell of and someone recognized me. They took me in as a captive. At first I thought they were going to use me as a hostage or use me to study Konoha Jutsu.
"But in truth they needed a medical ninja of my expertise. You see the Mizukage of that time, Sandaime Mizukage, was pregnant. Because of conditions stemming from the baby's father there was a good chance one or the other would die in the delivery. The Mizukage wanted the baby and the village wanted her. So they gave me a choice, save both and live, or die straight out and have my body cut up like a fresh fish for study.
"Considering Yui-chan and I are here today…you see what I chose."
"And you've been missing for the last twenty-one years," added the inebriated Sannin.
"They didn't let me go out on missions Mune-hime! They made me watch over Yui-chan night and day!" she said throwing a thumb in Yui's direction.
"Why? Do you have a medical condition Yui-chan?" Naruto asked.
The young female Nin blushed at the honorific, "No…Uzumaki-sama it is related to the connection we had when we were younger…the reason was my…father…was…is…might be…"
Joya's golden eyes sparkled brightly, "Yui is a Youma Naruto. Do you know what that is?"
"No…what?" he asked.
"Yui is a half demon. Her 'father' was a demon that took human form. He came to the Mist as a freelance ninja and got close to the Mizukage. He slept with her and waited until it was confirmed she was pregnant then showed his true form and left."
Naruto, who had grown very solemn looking, put his hand to his stomach. Joya watched his eyes grow dark. "It isn't him Naruto," Joya added in. He looked at her. "The fourth didn't imprison the demon on its first attack on us Naruto. I fought it once or twice before, the last time was only after it had reached the peak of its power. And if there's one thing I know about him…he hated humans. Never would he go through the trouble of becoming a man and staying in a village so long.
"Believe you me…"
"Okay…if I do…why do you want to be my servant Yui?" Naruto asked turning to her.
She looked at the ground and raised a hand to her chest. "When we were young…and we would share dreams…I felt fulfilled. I felt whole. When I went to sleep one night and did not see you…I felt. I felt so lonely." He watched her eyes and saw she was telling the truth. "Then…four years ago, I dreamt of you again. I was sleeping in a meadow after a training session with mother and I saw you.
"You were standing in front of a waterfall and you cut it…" Naruto blushed, because she saw him. And if he remembered right he was drenched in water and topless when it happened. "Then only a week or so later, I saw you unleash an amazing power. Like a great explosion of energy. In a swirling dome of destruction.
"My mother told me to only bow my head to the strongest. No matter if he was man or woman, if I was stronger than them I was to stand before them. And I am so much weaker than you are Uzumaki-sama."
"After Yai, Yui's mother, died three years ago the village took no time in kicking the two of us out. Yai had made a deathbed request that we be kept alive and let free. So they sent us away. We didn't have anywhere to go, so Yui suggested we search you out.
"We didn't know you were a Konoha-Nin, so we just looked around…and low and behold I hear about Jiraya sneaking about so I drop by his hideout and say hello. He then fills us in about you and what happened. We found him about five months ago, it took us that long to get an authorized document allowing for inter country travel from those damn Mist. Better at paperwork than Suiton Jutsu they are…" she scoffed.
"Uzumaki-sama…I want to serve you because in our dreams I made a promise. And I told myself if you remembered it I would hold up to it…so Uzumaki-sama do you remember?" she asked. He looked into her eyes. They were pleading. He knew she was so lonely. Like he had been with Jiraya.
Their masters were family to them.
But they were both, ultimately, alone.
You're all alone?
Yep.
No mama or daddy?
Yep…they're dead. Or that's what Sandaime-Jiisan said.
I'm sorry…doesn't it make you sad?
Yeah…but I stopped crying a long time ago. I don't need anyone.
…That's so sad…I don't know what I would do if I didn't have mommy…I promise you!
Eh? Promise me what?
If we ever meet for real…even if it takes a hundred years…
He smiled.
"Even if it takes a hundred years…I promise to be there for you. To do whatever it takes to make you happy. And when I asked you why…" he said looking into her eyes which were a match for his own.
"I said…'because you of all people deserve it…'" she said.
Tsunade and Joya looked at each other and smiled then back to the younger ninja. "It's so beautiful isn't it Muni-hime!" Joya said crying in a very exaggerated and fake manner.
"Yui-chan. Thank you. I would be glad to be your friend. But that's all I want. I don't need a servant or even a maid…"
"Yes you do…" Tsunade spoke up. Naruto swung his head to her with a warning glare. "Boy I have been to your house! You have more trash on your damn floor than Konoha has in its dump! Yui…these documents Joya gave me say if I agree you will be transferred to Konoha correct?"
"Uh…Yes Hokage-sama…"
"Well from this day forward you are Konoha-Ninja! And you are now the official escort of Uzumaki Naruto!"
Naruto gaped at her. "What?" he asked, aghast. "You can't do that! I'm not a mission!"
"Oh really?" Tsunade asked. Her eyebrow twitched. The anger left her voice and she smiled. Naruto felt like death stood over him. "Then how does this suit you Naruto?" she took out a mission scroll. By the color, an S-Rank. His belly filled with so much fear he wouldn't eat for days. She scribbled on it before holding it up. "SHIZUNE!"
The young medic Nin ran inside, as she had also been asked to wait for entrance orders, and took it. Tsunade saw Ino and Sakura poke their heads in, but at this point she didn't really care. "READ WOMAN!"
"AI YES!" she cleared her throat, "Noumaki Yui, to prove your loyalty to Konoha you must complete this mission. Form this moment on you shall live with Uzumaki Naruto." Ino and Sakura looked as bad as Naruto, who was slowly sinking, "You are to, as per the parameters of the mission, help him clean, cook meals that do not consist entirely of anything from a Styrofoam cup or Ichiraku ramen bar. You will also be his training partner and instructor."
"OKAY! Wait! Hold up! PAUSE FILM!" Naruto groaned crossing his arms in front of his chest. "What can she instruct me on?"
"Besides manners?" Tsunade asked raising her twitching eyebrow. "She can also teach you much needed control of your chakra," Tsunade said hinting at something other than his normal energy, "and Suiton Jutsu so you aren't bugging Kakashi all the time. Her letters of recommendation state she has control skills on par if not surpassing her master.
"And that is what she can teach you brat…now…BE QUIET!" Tsunade screamed. Naruto whimpered and hid behind Yui.
"To pay for all the above mentioned actions a monthly stipend increase of 5,000 ryou a month." Naruto's head looked up. "Yes Naruto your normal stipend will now be 12,000 ryou. And finally the two of you shall occupy a larger apartment. Naruto you've been approved for better housing."
Naruto's eye twitched. He glared at Tsunade. Damn you…if this wasn't awkward enough…old bat. The second I have your hat you're going into a retirement home/AA meeting in the Land of Really Fucking Far Away. Naruto snarled mentally.
"You can't be serious Tsunade-sama?" Sakura said walking in. Naruto teared up as Sakura came to his aid. "Naruto can barely take care of himself and you expect him to watch out for a live-in servant as well?"
Okay…maybe not aiding so much…
"Why not?" Tsunade asked. "The Hyuuga have live-in servants. They even have the gall to call them family. I'm just fulfilling what this girl wants and showing Naruto he has to take responsibility for his past." She threw her hands up in a 'there you are' gesture.
"She made the promise!" he hissed at her, leaning over her desk.
"If it does not please Uzumaki-sama I shall not live with him," Yui said at once. Naruto on all fours on Tsunade's desk, and Tsunade, now on the sober end of being very drunk blinked at her.
"You're refusing a mission order?" asked the drunk Kunoichi. Naruto decided he should get out of punch and drop kick range.
Yui shook her head, "No Hokage-sama. That mission's parameters are what I had wished to do, and the money and apartment would be helpful to him, but you said to prove my loyalty to Konoha. Forgive me for this, but I am loyal to Uzumaki-sama alone. If he tells me to be loyal to you then I will. If he tells me to kill you,
"I will."
"You little…"
"Wait a minute here Tsunade…" Joya spoke up calming her friend. "Naruto, why not have Yui-chan live with you for a few days and see if having her around would be that bad. If it isn't, and she actually helps you out, let her take the mission. If it is that bad then she can just be a teacher and training partner."
"Would that be better Uzumaki-sama?" Yui asked.
The sound of breaking porcelain alerted them to Tsunade, who had just crushed what had to be her third or fourth bottle of the conversation. "Well…why doesn't anyone…ASK THE GOD DAMNED HOKAGE'S OPINION?!" she screamed as she shattered one of the bottles on her desk.
"Uh yeah…let's do that thing with the time and the trial and the…stuff…so then let's get settled!" Naruto grabbed Yui's arm and ran away as fast as he could. As Tsunade threw a large, and empty, sake jug after him Joya stood up and followed. Her laughing was kin to a witch's cackle.
"Good to see you again Mune-hime!" she said waving before walking out.
Tsunade panted as she watched the two most irksome things in her life, at the moment anyway, leave. Her gaze went to Ino and Sakura. The two froze up. "Scram…" she rumbled.
Ninja masters wished they could disappear like that.
Naruto panted as he stopped a few meters away from the village border wall. Yui was breathing heavily, but not as bad as he was. "Uzumaki-sama you need better stamina…"
Naruto grunted at her, "I have great stamina…it's just…when Tsunade-bachan is like that…she scares it and the shit out of me," he whispered as if hearing her name would bring her around.
"Yui-chan!" they heard. Joya jogged up, two large bags over her shoulders. "Here I got your things. also…" she smiled slyly as she held up a very ratty looking doll. Naruto looked at it. Yui squeaked and yanked it out of her master's hands and cradled it to her front.
"What…is that old thing?" he asked.
Yui blushed, but Joya was more than happy to speak up, "That 'old thing' is Ko-chan (3). It was a gift from Yui's mother. She got it after you two stopped dreaming about each other. Yui needs it to sleep." Yui gave her master an embarrassed glare.
Naruto smiled. "That's good," he said as he picked up Yui's bags.
"Why good Naru-chan?" Joya asked.
Naruto winced at the nickname, but let it slide. It was better than 'Muni-hime' in any case. "Because it makes you human." He turned from them and motioned to follow.
Yui, her face crimson, followed with Joya taking up the rear. They entered Naruto's apartment building and made their way up to the top floor. When they got there he set her bag down and opened the door. By this time the sun had begun to set and he had to turn the lights on.
"This is my home…" he said, a hint of sadness and maybe embarrassment in his voice.
Yui looked around saw pictures on the walls of Ninja she had seen in the village. She walked in, Ko-chan tight in her arms, and looked on awe filled at the apartment. Joya put her student's other bag down next to the one Naruto had carried and patted the young shinobi on the shoulder.
"Well, I'll be staying with Tsunade," she leaned in and whispered in Naruto's ear. He shuddered when she ran her fingers over his whiskers. "She likes it when you touch her there too." Naruto stood still as a statue until he felt her chakra presence was too far out of his range.
"Forgive her. She is a bit eccentric," Yui said, Ko-chan still in her arms.
"I know a few women like her so I'm used to it," he rubbed his cheek where Anko had cut it and licked it years ago. He shook again. She was looking at him he realized. He closed the door, without turning his back to her, and gulped.
"So…" he said rubbing the back of his head. "Are you hungry?"
"Yes Uzumaki-sama," she replied.
Naruto sighed, "You don't have to call me that. If you have to call me anything call me Naruto-kun. I don't mind that. I'm really not used to someone calling me lord…"
"But don't you wish to be Hokage?" she asked.
"Well yeah…"
"Then you should get used to it. Uzumaki-sa…Naruto-kun, I can see now that you are a good enough ninja to be Hokage."
He looked at her and smiled. Naruto couldn't remember the last time he had smiled so much. "Well…uh I only have instant ramen so…what flavor do you prefer?" he asked moving past her.
"Naruto-kun," she called. He stopped at the entrance to his kitchen, turned, and looked at her. He put a hand on the lintel of the door-less entrance.
"Yes Yui-chan?" he asked. Her eyes were downcast again. She wasn't even looking at his feet, but moving her eyes so he was always out of her view.
"Why haven't you asked me about being a Youma?"
Naruto lowered his eyes. He gripped the lintel tightly. "Because…this is hard to say…I mean I barely know you…but…it's the same with me," She raised her eyes as he did and they locked onto each other. "When I felt I was able to trust my friends enough I told them about…him…" he said rubbing his stomach, "if you feel you can trust me I'll listen. But I want to know you first Yui…not some label people have put on you.
"Because Youma sounds as bad as Jinchuuriki." She blushed again. He laughed and turned from her. "If you keep blushing like that you'll make me think I can't talk around you! So what flavor do you want Yui-chan?" he asked as he walked to his cupboard.
"Miso if you have it. It's my favorite," she called as she sat down on his couch. Naruto stopped as he reached for his own Miso cup. He looked at it and smiled a little.
"Coming right up!" he called back.
Within three minutes he handed her a tray with a bowl and two clean metal chopsticks. He sat down next to her and smiled at her. The tense and awkward scene Naruto had predicted wasn't there. For some reason it didn't seem weird or odd that she was sitting next to him slurping noodles away with him.
Even her ratty doll seemed to belong.
When they had finished both were tired. Naruto more from running away from Tsunade and Yui was tired because she had knocked out four or five ANBU. Naruto took her things into his room and when she saw him taking a few things out she gasped.
"Uzumaki-sama are you-"
"Naruto-kun…and yes I'm letting you sleep in my bed. Why?"
She blushed, "Well I don't want to impose on you. I can sleep on your couch. It was comfortable-ooh!" she gasped as he scooped her up and deposited her very unceremoniously onto his bed.
"Here! Take it! Sleep well. I'm going to head to bed. Er couch, now. The bathroom is right across the hall if you want to shower. G'night Yui-chan." And he was gone.
She blinked. Yui waited until she heard the strained sound of springs before she took a good look around the room with all her senses. Part of her warned her about it, but she had dreamed of this day most of her life.
She close her eyes and sat on her knees. She arched her back and let her ears and nose take over.
The most notable smell was Ramen. Miso. Chicken. Beef. Pork. It made her stomach swell with the enjoyment of it. But then she smelled the wood. It was so old. It smelled bad with age, some with rot, the smell was old, and it had been treated. She smelled new metal nails, blood from cuts and splinters, and sweat from hard work to repair.
She put her hands on the bed spread under her. Grey-blue blankets to match the bedroom's coloring. They felt soft. Numerous washings had contributed to it.
Finally she saw the dresser with many, many pictures. She saw his team. The pink haired girl. "Sakura," she whispered. She saw a raven-haired boy. She did not like how he looked. And finally behind them, smiling, was Copy-Ninja Hatake Kakashi. Yui felt a slight twinge.
Our greatest Konoha enemy. He knows more of our jutsu than the average senior ninja. His power is not to be underestimated.
She had left the world of the Mist behind her. No more lust for battle and blood to the deranged extent they desired. She was so happy for it. She wondered if Naruto liked battle as much as she did.
And yet at the same time, detested the blood.
She moved past the picture. She saw the same ninja repeated over and over. A man with a high ponytail, scars on his face, and his obvious son were watching Naruto grimace at a Shougi board against a massive white dog. A wild looking boy was laughing so hard he had fallen over.
In another picture Naruto had his arms around the waists of two girls who were hanging off of him smiling. One a lavender haired princess with silver eyes, who looked about to faint, the other was a deeply oriental looking young woman with a bun hairstyle smiling evilly. The girls were wearing slit dresses both exposing one long leg while Naruto wore a silk dress shirt and pants.
The picture, obviously a pose, also possessed a young man with a bowl haircut in a taijutsu stance, it was a fake, horrible to even look at. He was on the side with the bun girl. On the side with princess was a young man, her brother or relative, in the same stance. Yui giggled when she saw how embarrassed the young man was.
A final picture showed Naruto and the young woman who Yui knew to be called 'Ino' jumping up around the bulky young man, who was holding a big trophy. She saw a banner that read, "noha Gourmet Cook-O." The dish in front of them was a beautiful cake decorated with edible flowers.
The very last picture was of the same people in the first. Naruto was holding up a mug of beer while the raven haired boy did the same, both had their backs to the camera and were looking back with equally smug looks on their faces. Sakura was between them and clinking hers to theirs. Kakashi was off to the side with a young man in a coat whose face was covered up.
Yui heard snoring and realized she had been gazing at the pictures for what had to be thirty minutes. She took her eyes away from the pictures, of which she had none similar, and sat on the bed. She was afraid to pull the covers back, almost too scared to even sleep on the mattress itself. But when she saw the pictures again, Naruto smiling in them, she realized her fear was foolish.
She got back up and pulled the covers back and slid in. Before she turned out the light she pulled Ko-chan to her and snuggled up to sleep.
Even after what had to be at least a day of him out of it…
His bed was so warm.
"Damn brats…" Tsunade sighed as she opened her medicine cabinet and took out her special 'night before' pills. She knew something akin to a hurricane and earthquake combined was going to be in her head in the morning if she didn't take these. She dry swallowed them and went to her bedroom. She went to flip the light on and then headed to her walk in closet.
The only good thing about having the house after an old man was there was lots of closet space for clothes. She stripped down to her underwear, looked at the frilly lace, and decided to strip entirely. As she bent over to pull down her panties she heard a whistle.
"Now that is a view to kill for," Joya's voice chimed.
Tsunade stood there, one foot up, her rear and her private area exposed for the world's biggest female pervert to see. "I hate my life…"
"I love your ass," Joya retorted.
That did it.
Tsunade whirled around, grabbed Joya's collar, and slammed her up against the far wall making the lamp she had just turned on clatter to the floor. "Why the fuck are you in my house?!" she roared.
Joya decided the 'staring at your beautiful body' would not be the best answer in this situation. "I needed a place to sleep and I couldn't get a hotel room! So I," she sniffed pathetically, "thought my old rival would allow me the privilege of staying in her home for a few nights…but if you hate me so much I'll…I'll go."
Tsunade grunted and let her go. She walked back to her closet and closed the doors firmly. "FINE! Why the hell not! Let the shit storm from two decades ago start up again! Just don't do anything!"
"What would I do?" Joya called innocently.
Tsunade's head appeared from her closet, "You know what you do…" she hissed and closed it again. Tsunade sighed.
Joya smiled widely and threw her gi off. she reached into her bags, which she had hidden under Tsunade's very large canopy bed, and pulled out a wife beater. She normally wore nothing to bed but she would spare Tsunade that horror for one night.
One night.
Tsunade came out, and saw not only bags under her bed, but also Joya under her covers. "Joya…what the hell are you doing?"
Joya looked up from where she was obviously very comfortable. "Trying to got to sleep. And you call Naruto-chan rude…waking someone up honestly…" she turned over and snuggled back into her half of the bed.
Tsunade made a sound of pure frustration. She ripped the covers back and forced herself under. "GOOD NIGHT!" she screamed before turning the lights off.
"Good night…mmmm these pillows are soft…" Joya whispered. "and warm…and smell nice…and are powdered…"
"Joya…stop it…"
"Fine. You take all the fun out of sleepovers you know? Just like when we were kids." Tsunade felt the weight leave her chest. Joya moved away from her. Tsunade rolled onto her side and tried to sleep. Then a question popped into her mind. She turned her head to look at the form of Joya behind her.
"Does…she. Does Yui have one too?"
"Yep. Just like him. Same place I'd imagine." Joya said. Tsunade nodded and drifted off. when Joya was sure she was asleep she turned over and cuddled up to her, her hands on Tsunade's back. "Sleep well Tsunade-hime."
A/N: So yes...the stroy will be...odd. For those of you who are...peverted, you'll enjoy this one.
2/21/07: changed because I got a word wrong. It was Mune not Muni. Thanks to shiranai.
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Dictionary:
1 (Mune-Hime): literally translated it means Breast Princess
2 (nee-chan): when Naruto uses it in this context it means the same as 'chick'
3 (Ko-chan): Ko is the Kanji for fox, it's a little fox doll.