So here comes the first story of my Project26. The title has got nothing to do with the story (or does it?), but is like a keepsake to let the readers know that no matter if my writing presents a cocktailed English with battered grammatical errors, the words will always be spelt in Her Majesty's English. So if you find any spelling ridiculous, please note that it is considered orthographic here.

And for the record, these words by Toni Morrison "I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it," really inspired me to try my hand in writing. Because I've realised that if you can't find something you wanna read, just write it yourself.

WARNING

Warning for rape, HinaHarem and mild gory scenes.


(26th January, 2018)

Project26

Mission No. 26

Zed or Zee

CHAPTER ONE

Chilly room. Dim lights.

An eerie apprehension crept up on the man sitting alone in the room. Hayate tried easing off his tension by rubbing his hands together. His ears could make out some faint noises coming from the adjacent room which was veiled by an extensive purple tapestry. He had tried reasoning with Tsunade claiming he wasn't the right man to go negotiating with a deranged man like Kurama. He surmised if he would ever come out of this den alive and suddenly his neck-tie seemed a bit too tight.

Speaking of the devil, he came strutting in majestically wearing his trademark purple leather coat over a burnt orange shirt and a black pair of trousers. But what was more intimidating was his unusual face: bleached chalk white skin, sleek blonde hair combed backward, piercing ocean blue eyes, maroon painted lips and the infamous tattoos of straight lines- three on his right cheek and two on the other. Rumour was such that each line represented the number of immediate kin he had killed so far. If he had the nerve to gaze a tad longer, he would have made out a screaming HA! HA! HA! tattooed just above his left eyebrow.

"Hellooo," greeted the madman in a sing-song voice. "Welcome to my humble place. I bet you know who I am," Naruto winked, "and this is my right hand man, Shikamaru. Very pleased to meet you, Mr…?"

Hayate could have kicked himself for spacing out, so in his abruptness to get up and greet back the man, he almost toppled the glossy black table which he believed was undoubtedly japanned as it was the only thing that shone brightly in the room.

"H-Hayate. Hayate Gekko at your service, sir." Hayate got cold feet. "Tsunade sent me over the Uchiha case."

"Pffffffffft! No sir-ring me, please," Naruto made double quotation marks with his hands, "You see, I am a very humble man. My mother once told me 'Son, formalities build walls between men' so let's get easy peasy and just call me anything but sir. Okay, Hayate? And please mind the table. That's my wife's favourite."

Hayate could only nod dumbly and it seemed as if Naruto sniffed out his discomfort.

"Tch! Tch! Why so serious? It's no fun doing business when your mind and soul ain't trapped in your body, eh? So let's play a game! Yes? Yes."

Poor Hayate was already shaking in his boots and now the man was proposing him a game.

"Aww fret not, buddy. It's very simple. I will ask you a question and you will answer it. If your answer is correct, then I will let you in on a show. We good?"

"S-Sure." Hayate knew it would be wiser to play along with his antics so he gave his consent, though he wanted to know if there would be any penalty for wrong answers but chose to zip his mouth.

Naruto bounced like a jolly kid excited for his first day at school. "Yes! Now the question."

He cleared his throat and gave such a serious look that Hayate wouldn't have believed he was the same man who acted buffoonish just moments ago if he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes.

"Who would you call if you saw a band of robbers in your living room? Mind you, they are armed to the teeth."

Like, seriously?

Well, he had better humour the man sitting across him.

"G-Ghostbusters." He could only hope Naruto found his answer apropos so that he could be in his good graces.

Waiting for him to say something, anything seemed like an eternity to Hayate. He promised to feed the rabbits his mother loved so much if the gods above would just make the nutcase like what he said.

"Shikamaru, I like this man," Naruto at last spoke. "Why my man, I really approve of your response so let's get on to the show. You see, I am a very sincere man and I always keep enough stones to guard my words." He laughed at his own joke.

Naruto clapped his hands twice and off fell the purple tapestry. What Hayate saw made him feel uneasy.

A young woman was giving oral to a man. The woman had indigo waist-length hair dyed purple from midway. She was very naked too but kept her fishnet stockings and black high heels on. The man with his red hair looked familiar to him but he cannot pinpoint who. She was pumping the man's shaft with her mouth and hands, and the man had both his hands in her hair probably guiding her movements. So this man wanted him to watch a live porn. No sir, he would rather go home and sip a cup of tea.

"Ain't this scenic?" Naruto said assessing the view like a movie director. "But that's my wife for you," he continued with a pride that could have rivalled a peacock's. "Behold my beautiful waifu Hinata Uzumaki!"

If he had been drinking anything liquid, Hayate would have choked and spurted all over the place. Which man on earth allowed his woman to sleep with other men? Not to mention making it sound like an accolade to his array of achievements. And what's with the girl? A harlequin?

"And just so you know, that's Gaara from Suna." Naruto added as an afterthought.

Aah, so that's why he thought he knew him. He was one of the most successful businessmen that the world has ever seen.

"Helped me in robbing Suna's national bank so that's a bonus reward for him."

Who would have thought the business tycoon would be behind the robbery that had become the talk of the town? Not to mention screwing his accomplice's girl. His apprehension increased by the minute the longer he stayed there. If only he could find a way to get away from this mess.

He couldn't keep off his eyes from the erotic spectacle nonetheless. The redhead was now on top kissing the woman passionately while plummeting her entrance with his member like he didn't have a care in this world. Hayate could feel his pants getting tighter at how the woman was writhing and moaning in blissful ecstasy.

"Like what you see, eh?" Naruto teased him clearly amused by the bulge in his pants.

"I-I…" Hayate was thankfully cut off when a shrill cry from the woman resonated in the room. They had undoubtedly reached their climax.

Naruto walked towards the woman and scooped her up in his arms carrying her back to where he was seated before.

"Had fun?" Naruto planted a chaste kiss on her lips draping his coat over her. The woman nodded shyly.

"I'm so happy to know that, my cinnabun," Naruto teased her by pinching her round butts.

"S-Stop it." Hinata swatted off his hand mocking an aerated look.

The couple was now making out in front of the two spectators, the knocked-out man on the other side being excluded. "If you're still up for it, will you give this man one of your yummy treats? Please?" Naruto pointed at Hayate.

Hinata finally turned her head towards him making Hayate instantly mesmerised by the most beautiful set of eyes he had ever laid his eyes upon. Beautiful white eyes typical of a certain clan but this one with a rare lavender tint- a Hyuga no doubt. But the Hyugas were known for their draconian rules and regulations and to find a Hyuga with this crackpot was too nerve-wracking.

"Ugh fine," Hinata rolled her eyes, "but first, you gotta answer some questions."

Seriously? Now her too?

"You see, I-I like my men intelligent," she was blushing scarlet as she stuttered, "umm… men who know t-their nursery rhymes are more worth t-than cursory dimes." And she gave him a very shy smile.

That smile lightened Hayate's petrified mood and though he couldn't make head or tail of what she meant, off he went, "Sure!"

Clapping her hands like a four year old, she cleared her throat, "Ahem! Let's see… ummm… Aah! What time did the clock strike when the mouse ran down?"

What the- oh wait wait! Nursery rhyme. Clock. Mouse. Hickory? Dickory dock? The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck…

"One?"

Hinata and Naruto gasped, the former impressed but the latter… a wee peeved. Even Shikamaru nodded his head appreciatively.

"Baby, that was way too easy. Throw him a rapid fire round." Naruto tried to feign nonchalance.

"Right! So how many men were there in the tub?"

"Three!"

Huh! That was easy, Naruto smirked at the man. He began squirming uncomfortably in his seat though.

"How many fiddlers did Old King Cole have?"

"Three again!"

Naruto didn't like how the man had gained mettle. And why did every answer have to be three?

"How many blind mice got their tails cut off by the farmer's wife?"

"Three!"

Now that's it! Naruto slammed his fist on the table. "You think you're smart, eh? See if you can answer this! How-how ho…w…" Think, Naruto, think. This is a matter of your ego.

And then a light bulb lit above his head. He gave the shell-shocked Hinata a don't-worry gesture and turned confidently at Hayate.

"How many blackbirds were baked in a pie?"

Hayate seemed lost.

He knew it. He knew that this goody-goody two-shoes will have a hard time answering it. He could hear the fanfare of numerous trumpets and bugles in the background at his regal victory.

"Twenty-four."

Another collective gasps. Before Naruto could even snap out of his stupor, Hinata had galloped towards Hayate and settled herself between his legs. Naruto chuckled. Hinata was happy, and that was all that mattered.

"Gotta give it to you, man! Well played!," Naruto flashed a toothy grin making Hayate feel at ease.

Hayate tried to say something but Hinata shut him up by slamming her mouth against his and kissing the hell out of him. Hayate responded against his will and soon found his hands fondling her ample bosom. He felt his right hand directed southwards; two fingers soon entering a wet and hot cavern. He began pumping his fingers back and forth imitating what his tongue was doing inside her upper lips.

"God, this is fuckin' hot." Those words of the man sitting across them made Hayate think twice for a split second. He still wasn't sure if this was an act to test his integrity or a scam to kill him off or just plain pleasure for the couple, but he was in bliss. That he was certain of.

Hayate dragged his mouth to her rosy nipples soon engulfing one in his blazing opening. Hinata threw her head back at the sensation and wanting to go further, her choice hands roved at his shirt fussing with the buttons. He helped her in unbuttoning, baring his sexy upper body to her hungry hands.

Like a thunderbolt, Hinata sprinted away from him!

"GAH!Gross!"Hinata bellowed out running towards Naruto.

Naruto got up headlong to encase his wife in his arms. "What's wrong, baby?"

Making a distorted harrowing face, Hinata pointed a shaky finger at the other man's bosom.

And then Naruto saw it too.

"Chest grass?"

Bewildered, Hayate followed the line of Hinata's hand which landed on his chest. Oh. Chest hair. Well, what's the fuss in that?

"You oughta have known better to shave, Gotham monkey," Naruto spoke in a menacingly threatening voice.

Now that was a teeny-weeny puzzling for Hayate as he always thought having chest hair was a harbinger of youthful masculinity. And surely Hinata loved that too. Right?

Wrong. Dear Hinata had this humongous aversion towards this singular growth of hair and such occurrences in the past had left her in the blue with bouts of gags and kleenexes by her bedside.

"Whatever," Hinata shrugged nonchalantly, "I'm going to Mei chan's." She detached herself from his hold heading for the door but before she walked out, she swerved towards Hayate cocking a snook at him with her tongue stuck out.

Hayate was too appalled to even utter a word throughout the whole ordeal.

"Kurama I-"

Naruto held up his pointer finger beckoning him to shut up, his eyes still fixated on the door. Shikamaru sighed knowing where this will lead to so he sent a message to his subordinates to clean up the mess which was bound to come about in just a few minutes.

All the colours from his face flushed down the drain when Hayate saw the look on Naruto's face. He could have handled it if the expressions were of anger, displeasure, hatred, annoyance or anything but the unreadable look etched on his clownish face sent a chill down his spine.

Before he could even say knife, his temple was thwacked by something sharp and down he fell on the glossy table now stained red with his blood. If he had enough time to register what happened, Hayate would have congratulated himself on being able to prophesy his death earlier.

"Serves you right for upsetting my wife, you menial vermin!" Naruto was beyond livid as he kept on kicking the dead man's stomach and spitting all over his face.

"What're we gonna tell Tsunade?" Shikamaru just wanted to wrap up this mess and get ready for the dinner date lest Temari, his troublesome wife, started to yell at him.

Naruto simply shrugged.

"This is troublesome. And the Uchiha case?"

With a Hippocratic smile, Naruto said, "I have a plan."

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Mei Terumi was the most celebrated botanist of Gotham City often dubbed as Poison Ivy, her magical way with herbs and plants known far and wide. She used to be in the employment of a wealthy man from Kumo, Yagura Karatsuchi. An expedition to the Amazon forest brought about a drastic turnover in her life when her employer raped and left her to rot in the vast forest deeming her to be dead after delivering numerous fatal blows to her body. Her faithful assistant, Chojuro who was only twelve then, had been beaten up black and blue and Yagura fled from the crime scene.

Her open wounds worsened, with maggots starting to hatch in them the longer she laid on the ground as an invalid. Mei had no choice but to watch helplessly as she was being eaten alive.

When all hopes of survival got shattered to pieces, divine help came in the avatar of a Naruto Uzumaki who just happened to be at the right time in the forest with his men. After reconstructing her thoughts much later, she calculated it was five horrifying days living the nightmare. After being treated, she was given the choice to leave but Mei beseeched to remain in his service.

She learned that Naruto was a paradoxical being. His underhanded schemes might have led to the wreckage and liquidation of legions of sunshine families. But he worshipped and carried out villainy with such reverence and piety that whoever came in contact with him couldn't help but marvelled at his devoutness. And she became such an ardent follower of Naruto that she was ready to give up her life at the drop of a hat.

Naruto was like his counterfeit name- Kurama. A legend with supernatural significance.

And then came Hinata.

Hinata was the only doctor Naruto allowed to treat him during his incarceration at Arkham Asylum after he was captured by the so-called silent guardian, Batman. Mei knew her boss had fallen deep for the girl when he rejected all their attempts to break him loose from the loony hatch. Hinata was already married to Toneri Otsutsuki, but it didn't deter Naruto from making moves to her as he knew she too felt the same attraction towards him. His close friends rejoiced at the fact that he was finally harbouring affections for a girl. They were cocksure that Hinata will be the cataclysmic change in his life, which came true but not in the way they had contemplated.

Consumed by the thirst to make Hinata his, Naruto gave her electroconvulsive shocks which ultimately resulted in her catatonic behaviour. Thankfully, it only brought forth behavioural abnormalities in her and no motor immobility, though Naruto would not have minded as long as Hinata was with him. He even took care of Toneri by offering him money and women, but threatened to kill him if he ever interfered.

Naruto thought everything will be running smoothly until her prick of a husband filed a case against him for kidnapping and assault charges the very next day. Naruto was a very eleemosynary man who helped anyone who came to him for help, but never gave in nor gave up once provoked and Toneri had the galls to challenge him. He knew exactly how to scourge this insolent man.

He sent back Hinata to her husband to give him the false impression that the great Kurama got scared. Toneri was overjoyed to see Hinata walked in the door. He ran to her pulling her tight to his chest and smothering her with kisses. He was in for a surprise that night though when Hinata engirdled his torso from behind and insinuated lovemaking. As far as he could remember, his wife was too shy to even kiss him first. But he couldn't dwell on it for long as he got deeply embroiled in lust once his wife started to kiss him feverishly.

It wasn't much later when Toneri was stark naked on his back with his hands and legs tied to the bedposts with Hinata straddling him while kissing and running her hands all over his body. Never did he know in their three years of marriage that this kinky side of Hinata existed, and it was driving him mad to just make love to her. He was soon put out of his misery as Hinata started to rock his shaft like a cowgirl riding a wild horse.

Toneri, even in his state of fuzziness, saw Naruto coming out from the corner of their bedroom near the window. He didn't even get to panic as Hinata and her paramour started stabbing his chest with knives over and over again all the while laughing like maniacs. Naruto smeared the blood on both their bodies and made rigorous love to Hinata on top of her ex-husband's corpse. Toneri Otsutsuki disappeared in thin air, and so did the case.

Hinata was betrothed to Naruto a month later and they soon came to be known as the King and Queen of Gotham.

Coming back to Mei, she was years older than both Naruto and Hinata but she was the other unofficial spouse of Hinata. Long story short, the two girls had become more than friends when cupid struck and since Hinata was inevitably in love with the older woman, Naruto had granted them to be together on the condition that they didn't do the deed in front of him.

"Mei chan?"

Hinata tapped the door twice. Receiving no reply, she invited herself in walking towards the cabinet where she knew was the thing she wanted right now. Sure enough, she found the ointment and was about to leave when she was suddenly overcome by the desire to take a bath, and because she was crazy, she decided to do so in Mei's bathroom.

After freshening up, she realised she had no new clothes to don so she just picked a blue shirt that was lying on the bed. It was a tight fitting shirt that stopped just a few inches above her knees.

Her eyes caught the sight of a pretty yellowish heart-shaped container lying on the table. Curiosity led her to pick it up and sniffed it which she found wasn't really aromatic.

"Yuckuty yuck!"

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All of a sudden she felt nauseous making her head to spin round. Luckily for her the bed was near so she climbed up and slumped there.

Chojuro was experimenting on some herbal tonic when he realised he was short on certain ingredients which led him to enter his teacher's room.

He saw the retiring figure on the bed instantly recognising her to be his teacher's lover or to be precise, his once-upon-a-time lover. Boss had this silly rule of permitting any man to sleep with her for one day- nothing less, nothing more. His privilege had come too and he treasured it with fond memories, but that was two years ago and he still had the hots for this woman.

Remembering the endless bliss he had that day made his cock twitch with excitement. He had tried reliving that excitement with several women only to perceive that he felt more unsatisfied and the need to be with Hinata became more potent than ever. Time to get out, he warned himself.

Chojuro walked towards the bed to have an eyeful of the woman before he left. As he neared the bed, he saw the beatific face of Hinata snoring lightly, his eyes drinking in the sight of her curvaceous figure. Her right hand was holding onto a container which he recognized as the balm Mei prepared for her to lighten the bruises and blemishes she received during her sexual encounters. He then saw the heart-shaped container. He had made an anaesthetic concoction with Mei which was still underdeveloped as they had only mixed lobelia, skullcap, kava kava and St. John's wort with some doses of venom from stingrays. He figured Hinata must have inhaled some and was now numb as the side effects showed up. He shook her lightly to make sure: she was dead as a log.

The sight of her scrunched up shirt revealing her rotund butts gave him flashbacks of how he had squeezed them while thrusting inside her. He could almost hear the erotic sounds she elicited during their coupling. He knew it would be wise if he just walked away like he was supposed to, but extreme desire for Hinata made him think otherwise.

He hurriedly made his way to the door opening it to see if there was any person lingering around who might sabotage his intention.

With leaden footsteps and a discordant mixture of wild noises inside his head, Chojuro plodded back towards her. He kept chastising himself even when he got on the bed and parted her legs, but every bit of sanity got defenestrated when he got a view of her glabrous lower regions. He inhaled a generous amount of her addicting scent. As much as he had wanted to take his time with Hinata, he knew the consequences if he was ever caught red-handed not just by the boss but also by his wife and even Mei herself.

Deciding it best to take action, Chojuro unbuckled his belt and discarded it along with his pants and boxers. Without wasting a second, he slammed hard into her rendering him to bite his tongue for he wanted to shout out loud at the immense pleasure he was experiencing. He stayed still for a while as he thought he heard some footsteps outside. When he was sure the coast was clear, he began penetrating her in a slow pace relearning her walls. He soon picked up momentum and started probing in and out of her frantically. He rolled up her shirt and grabbed her voluptuous pair of bristols as he continued thrusting.

Chojuro couldn't think straight at this point. Even if Hinata jolted awake, he knew he won't have the strength to command his body to stop. He saw a blinding white as his back arched finally squirting his juices inside her. His cock was having a mind of its own thrusting unrhythmically and Chojuro had to pull up Hinata's hips to ascertain not a single drop of his seed got spilled onto the bed sheet.

He knew he could go rounds after rounds but pulled out reluctantly nonetheless. It was better to stay alive and look out for such fortuities in future than to be killed for screwing the Queen without permission. He put back on his clothes patting himself on the shoulder at his successful yet risky venture.

"I'll be back." Chojuro sealed the promise with a lingering kiss on her lips. With a large smile etched on his face, the four-eyed assistant of Mei Terumi walked out of the room humming a happy tune.

Half an hour later, Mei walked into her room who was not surprised to see Hinata on her bed.

Must be tired, she smiled, might as well make her favourite chamomile tea.

Just when she was done, Hinata stirred awake. "How you feelin' dear?" Mei asked in her tender tone.

"Groggy," Hinata replied with a pout.

"Now, now, my dear, why don't you sit up and tell me about your day? Here, a hot cup of tea for my beautiful angel."

Hinata gave a jejune giggle and got up taking the cup in both hands.

"Careful."

Hinata stuck out her tongue at her and began sipping her tea. Mei saw some wayward hair flipping around so she gathered and tucked them back behind her ears.

Mei kept looking at the other woman, enchanted by the childlike manner in which she was talking though not a word got recorded in her brain. She was brought out of her stupor when she felt something hit her chest repeatedly.

"… -chan you spaced out. Hmph!"

Finally registering the words, Mei sent Hinata an apologetic smile; "Dear, I am so sorry," trailing her slender fingers on the underside of her thighs which Mei knew drove Hinata berserk with want, "Please forgive me."

"Hmmm… let me think… NO!" Hinata pushed her hand away giving such a cute pout that it almost tempted Mei to devour her with kisses. "I hate you," Hinata declared.

They broke into a playful scuffle where one was trying to dominate the other. Mei tackled Hinata on the bed taking hold of her hands pinning them down above her head.

"Too bad I love you a lot," Mei whispered huskily, her mouth just a breath away from kissing those plump lips.

"Then show me," Hinata challenged her.

No further words were needed as Mei gave the indigo-haired woman a hearty smack. Both of them parted their lips in eager anticipation as their tongues got entwined in an intimate dance.

They soon found themselves disrobing one another with their hands meandering in every nook and corner of their warm bodies. Hinata was pixilated with extreme rapture when Mei enclosed her hot mouth in one of her nipples. She was given double service for her tight hole was also invaded by Mei's lecherous digits.

Mei had to push back Hinata on the bed as she knew she was trying to pay back some ministering, "No. Let me." Mei was determined to show how much she loved the woman.

Hinata grunted but soon found herself face-to-face with Mei's glistening womanhood. Her tongue forged its way into her opening relishing the way it almost snapped in half with the way her vagina was sucking her tongue. Like a novice, Mei couldn't hold back the ecstatic delight she felt and came prematurely. Hinata was only happy to bevvy the juices secreted from her sacred chamber.

After composing their breaths, Mei got up from where she was stationed bent on making her lover to orgasm too. She put some pillows underneath her belly to make her hips prop up and repositioned her body perpendicularly to Hinata's with one knee landing near her stomach and the other between her legs.

Mei slowly descended her hips to align with Hinata's sweet cleft. She rolled her hips in a circular clockwise motion making sensual sloshy noises as their lower lips got engaged in a lip lock.

The gelatinous palpation exuding from their heated cores overrode them to such a vehemence that they were firmed to be jellified any moment. Mei, wanting to speed up, brought a hand towards Hinata's clit and the other on herself as she pinched and tugged both their clits until they came hard. Her lustrous auburn hair cascaded on Hinata's flat stomach as she tried to climb down to earth from the heavenly rhapsody.

Mei planted a kiss on Hinata's forehead before lazily making her way to recline by her side.

They were on the brink of falling into a fitful slumber when Mei was suddenly enraptured by something disturbing her mind, "Hina, I heard there's an Uchiha case again."

"Don't worry, Mei chan, "Hinata gave her an assertive half smile, "I'm sure Naruto kun has a plan."