Naruto: Eros and Psyche

Chapter 1: Kurenai's wrath

Kurenai hurled a lamp across the room in anger, as she kept replaying the events in her head. While she was venting her anger on her room, let us review what exactly happened, shall we/ dodging a glass figurine at the same time/

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A week back … (Winter chan: I hate flashbacks)

"Eh, what happened to my worshippers?" Kurenai walked around the empty and decimated shrine dedicated only to her, wondering whether it was due to Jiraya's recent release of icha icha seasons that caused every hot blooded male to create riots and landed themselves in the hospital for that. Man of all these, a woman needs to be pampered and idol worshipped by her followers, not to be left wondering what happened to them and the temple. 'Maybe, I have to get Naruto to teach him another well deserved lesson again.' She noted before she called her priestess to her.

"Koyuki, what happened to our patrons?" Kurenai asked her.

"Kurenai sama, they have decided to worship another." Her priestess informed her.

"Oh, so who is this person, whom they have decided to dedicate their lives to?"

"A mortal princess of Fire Country, by the name of Hinata, Kurenai sama…" Koyuki replied.

"But how does this princess able to sway them and destroy this place?" she asked, sweeping her arm to the fallen beam on the ground, unable to comprehend the destruction of her shrine got to do with a simple princess.

"Well, Kurenai sama, they claimed that she is more beautiful than you and decided to worship her as the new goddess of love." She replied.

"Ah, this hero worshipping, but it still didn't explain anything at all." The goddess of love replied frowning at the same time.

"Well, Hinata hime came here and pleaded on the behalf of those patrons for your forgiveness, and they barged in trying to see her and causing her brother to protect her and enraged them further that they fought here and resulting in this."

Kurenai just blinked stupidly at her priestess, Koyuki gulped and took the plunge.

"Prince Neji told the worshippers to remember that they are in your shrine, but they said 'We will worship Hinata sama forever, and Kurenai can rot. For we care, as she is an old hag and a whore.'"

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Back to the present...

"An old hag and a whore!" she roared as she hurled a crystal orb to the ground. Just then Asuma popped into her room, only to be hit by a hurling pillow flung by a raging Kurenai. With the great impact of pillow causing him to fall down in a thud and a loud ground causing her to pause in her throwing and noticed that she was not alone

"Asuma, are you alright? Kurenai cried as she rushed towards her fallen lover's side.

"Maa, Kurenai, next time you want to hurl stuff around, please let me know an advance." Asuma groaned as he removed the said object from his face and lighted up a cigarette.

"I'm sorry, Asuma, but can I ask you a question?" Kurenai asked, causing him to wince and nod slowly.

'Man, I hope it's not the 'do I look fat in this dress?' question, there are many wars that I have to start in my name and cigarettes haven't even smoked yet.' The god of war thought as he sweated nonstop as he mentally prepared a will, in case of contingencies. Especially Kurenai decided to kill him on the spot at his wrong blunt answer for that very delicate question.

"Asuma, am I beautiful?" she asked, posing in front of him, causing him to open his mouth in surprise, dropping his cigarette in the process. Even though that was not the question that he was not anticipating but he was glad that it was not that trick question. He quickly gave her his answer.

"Why, Kurenai, you are very beautiful that no words could ever describe you. What makes you think like that?" Asuma replied, blinking stupidly when he heard her question. He could seem not understand recently why she was bothered about her own beauty. She then hugged him and gripping his shirt tightly.

"Asuma, my worshippers had decided to worship that wretched princess by the name of Hinata, and called me an old hag and a slut!" she wailed as she buried her face in her lover's chest, sobbing at the same time.

"Those patrons, keh, they are just not worth your time, Kurenai. You are still beautiful and no one would ever rival your beauty." Asuma replied, mentally taking note to take a revenge on those idiotic worshippers of hers for slandering his beautiful goddess.

"Well, since you say that, what kind of punishment shall we bestow on that princess who claimed that she is more beautiful than me?" Kurenai asked sweetly to her lover that caused him to have a bad vibe over it. But Asuma decided to ignore that gut feeling as he proceeded to answer her question

"Hmm … since every male is treating her like she is an untouchable, she must be very lonely. Maybe you could marry her off to someone, and the problem will be solved." Asuma replied, not giving a second thought that his answer might lead to something terribly disastrous.

"Why, Asuma, you are really brilliant." Kurenai replied, hugging him tightly and a peck on his cheek that chilled him to the bone. She then left the room with a skip and went searching for Naruto to appoint some task for him.

"Man, she is very scary when she is in that mood." He muttered as he quickly left the room to have a good and strong smoke.

t.b.c.

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