Seeing Red
Chapter 2: Team Seven
Wow, three chapters done this week, one on Siren's Song and two here. I will try to make sure I update both stories once a week as I'm going to have a bit more free time for awhile, though not as much as I originally expected. Just don't expect three or more updates a week like this lol, that is something very hard to do. Anyways I hope you like the story, please let me know what you think of it.
Oh yeah, just to let you know this will be a female Naruto story with a Naru and Cherry (OC) yuri pairing as well as an undercurrent of Kakashi and Naru until he finds out that she is Poppy. After that it's a toss up of what happens and if anything, maybe he will end of with the Kyubi just so she can torment him. Or maybe she can chase after him when she's summoned, who knows lol.
Nothing was more wonderful than waking up in the arms of your soulmate, and as usual Naru was able to. And to make it even better it wasn't as someone who wasn't her, it was as Naru Uzumaki and not Rune nor Poppy and definitely not as Naruto. The only time she could be herself was late at night after closing when she retired to bed with a certain redhead to snuggle with. Yet as good as it felt to be herself, it still didn't compare to feeling the soft mounds of flesh against her back, an arm draped about her pulling her close as the two spooned, hot breath tickling her neck sending a shiver of pure pleasure throughout the currently blonde body.
"Good morning sleepy head." Cherry's soft voice came, the redhead's breath against Naru's ear as the older girl whispered. "I was just about to wake you. If you don't get going you won't have time to have breakfast and make it to your team meeting."
"I have plenty of time, Kakashi-sensei won't be there on time and will actually be lucky to be there within two hours of the time he set himself." Naru sighed, both of the girls knowing it was true. The man, as far as they both have earned from the village and from the Hokage when the blonde asked about him, was never on time for anything except for one thing...his appointments with Poppy.
"You know, you two will be seeing a lot more of each other now, should I be worried?" Cherry asked teasingly, though a hint of worry tinged her voice. Turning around in the slightly older girl's arms Naru kissed Cherry deeply, their warm breath intermingling for several moments until they had to pull back to catch their breath.
"You are my soulmate Cherry, I love you and only you." Naru said with a smile as she put as much love and assurance in her words as she could. "If you want I could quit. I actually thought about it, but I don't want to disappoint Mama and the others after all of the work they put into tutoring me. If you want me to I'll quit for you, I'd do anything for you."
"Then go out there and kick some ass and show them that someone from the red-light can be just as good as those pompous assholes." Cherry said smirking, her tone growing mischievous and playful. "But I do have to wonder, do you have it in you? Just what can you do?"
It didn't take a moment for the blonde to push the redhead on her back and straddle her, pinning her arms above her head as she leaned over her, their faces mere inches apart as a blanket of blonde fell and intermixed with a sea of red. An impish grin spread across the blonde's lips as she leant down and kissed the redhead, sucking on her bottom lip as she enjoyed teasing Cherry like this. They both enjoyed toying with the other like this when they had time to themselves and were alone, sadly Naru really didn't have time.
"Mmm...I can do this? And now that I have you under my power, just what should I do with you?" Naru asked as she laid down on top of the girl, their fingers interlocking, weaving together as they started into each others eyes.
"As much as I'm loving this foxy girl, if you don't get ready I doubt either of us will be leaving this room for the next few hours." Cherry said, her words creating a splash of cold water as Naru cursed. If she was going to follow through with her plans for the morning she really would have to get up now despite the urge to say screw it and lose herself in her girlfriend's arms.
"I hate to admit it, but your right." Naru sighed sadly.
"Don't worry about it love, we both have tonight off." Cherry said cupping the blonde's cheeks and leaning up for one last kiss before gently pushing the blonde back so the redhead could sit up in bed.
"Well, at least we could take a nice shower together since I don't have time for a good bath." Naru said wishing she did have more time.
"I'll wash your back, but no getting frisky foxy." Cherry said with a knowing smirk.
"You wound me." Naru said in mock pain as she held a hand over her heart and the other against her forehead as if she was going to swoon. "As if I would do that."
"Foxy, I know you and I know your close to your cycle." Cherry said giving an encouraging smile. "I know how you get because of your tenant."
"Okay, I promise no funny business...for now." Naru agreed, realizing that Cherry was right. It was good having a girlfriend who knew everything about her including the good and the bad. While Lina provided many benefits, she also created some problems as well. Nothing too major really, but one of the drawbacks was that she only had her cycle once every six months for an entire week. While that sounded better than once a month, it was different for her. She had to mate during that time or she would go insane with lust and thankfully Cherry was there for her to help out as well as being with her clients. While Lina couldn't do anything about going into heat, the demoness could at least keep her from getting pregnant where normal anti-pregnancy jutsus just would not work. Of course there was also a good side, or maybe bad depending on how she was feeling or who was asked, she could only get pregnant twice a year during her week.
As promised, Naru didn't do too much in the shower besides a little kissing and touching so they were done and out of Naru's personal bathroom in record time while Cherry threw on a robe and helped bind Naru's chest and helped the blonde get dressed in the horrendous orange jumpsuit that both hated. Naru used her shapeshifting skill to shorten her hair while once again refusing to change her gender. She would not let anyone now she could do that except for her family her in the Lotus so she couldn't change too much and she just did not want to cut her hair from her true form. She knew that it wouldn't be too much longer when the time came that she wouldn't be able to hide her gender behind bindings and baggy clothes and a part of her was looking forward to that day. Of course she was also a little fearful of that day to as there were many Jonin and Chunin who hated her and would possibly use her gender to hurt her in ways she didn't even want to contemplate and she knew she just wasn't strong enough yet to fight off the stronger ones.
"Let's go get some breakfast." Cherry said, kissing the blonde drawing her from her thoughts.
"I want to, I want to spend every minute of today with you, but I can't if I really do want to pass. As it is we have no way in hell of passing." Naru sighed.
"I can see it in your eyes, you have a plan." Cherry said with a smirk, "Need help setting it up? Planning to pull some kickass pranks again?"
"No pranks, but you can help me make a picnic breakfast for three." Naru said with a smile making Cherry arch an eyebrow in curiosity.
Fifteen minutes later than the time Team Seven was scheduled to meet, Naru came walking up to the field carrying a large picnic basket while ignoring her two teammates as they started at her as if she was stupid. Carefully the blonde spread out a blanket and placed the basket near her as she kneeled down at the edge of the blanket and started to unpack what could be called a feast. Plates of egg salad sandwiches, bacon, sausage, pancakes that were somehow still steaming hot, salads topped with thick luscious slices of tomato that drew Sasuke's attention, and fruit salad that Sakura looked at as her own mouth began watering.
"Good morning Uchiha, Haruno." Naru greeted respectfully while both Lina and herself gagged mentally. "Please, dig in."
"What are you up to?" Sakura asked suspiciously as she watched the blonde set three glasses out and poured fresh orange juice from a thermos.
"Sit and eat and I will explain." Naru said with a sweet smile though she was starting to get pissed. She could be patient at times, but not when dealing with assholes and idiots.
'Maybe knock them out and replace them with henged shadow clones.' Lina suggested which for a moment Naru actually considered. It wouldn't work though since the shadow clones would poof out in one hit plus there henge would be an actual henge since they don't have Kyubi in them, just whatever chakra they were created with.
"Idiot, didn't you hear what sensei said? He said we shouldn't eat before the test." Sasuke snorted in disdain at the blonde as Sakura was inching slowly toward the blanket before stopping at Sasuke's words.
"No, he phrased it as a suggestion. Both of you should know better than to just blindly follow orders. Remember, ninja need to look underneath the underneath. We are having a test this morning and if we don't eat then we are going to be distracted during it making it..." Naru explained slowly, and quietly while avoiding putting any irritation in her voice.
"Harder to pass. Kakashi set us up to make the test harder." Sakura said slowly, realization dawning on both of them what the blonde was saying and shocked that Naru was right.
"I guess even idiots can be right at time, Naruto." Sasuke sneered as he sat down and took a plate dishing out some salad and taking several of the sandwiches with a little bacon. Sakura too some fruit salad while Naru took a little of everything. After all, all Jinchūriki had a ridiculously high metabolism that required large amounts of food while never gaining much weight from it as it was next to impossible. Of course they wouldn't starve very easily either as most of the Jinchūriki's tenants provided some accelerated healing which kept their host's from dying though they couldn't keep up a very healthy body without the nutrition gained from food.
"This is really nice of you, Naruto." Sakura said with a little surprise, "Did you make all this?"
"Actually, my girlfriend helped me make most of this." Naruto said as she finished off a link of sausage. The blonde mentally smirked when the pink haired girl looked a little shocked and didn't reply to it. Leaning forward, she whispered quietly, "I need to tell you two something and I need you to keep an open mind while keeping it quiet so Kakashi-sensei doesn't hear us if he comes up."
"What is it idiot?" Sasuke asked, though it was obviously he was paying close attention.
"Do not ask how, but I found out what this test is and if we don't work together then we will fail. It's a test to see if we can work together or not as a Genin squad and if we can't then we will be sent back to the academy." Naru whispered as Sasuke scoffed.
"Teamwork, it's about teamwork. It makes sense since that is what Konoha is known for." Sakura said slowly earning a glare from Sasuke, though he didn't say anything else as he appeared to listen.
"I don't know how long we have so we need to work up a plan." Naru sighed, "I can tell you that he will bring two bells and tell us that we need to get one to pass and the one who doesn't will fail. It's a lie, as long as we show that we can work together and show the proper maturity that a Genin team should have, we will all pass."
"How do you know all of this?" Sasuke asked with suspicion.
"I have my ways and I already know what you are going to say Sakura. If you two are worried about still needing the bells then if we do manage to get them you two can have them." Naru said, "We need a plan though, and it should be simple. I suggest that when he tells us to start you two rush off to hide while I distract him. Sasuke can circle around and attack from behind and while we are distracting him, Sakura can snag the bells."
"Well, you three look pretty cozy." Kakashi said making the three jump and look up to see the one eyes man coming toward them over the small bridge and onto the field belonging to training ground seven. "I thought I told you three not to eat."
"No, you suggested we not eat. You didn't make it an order, and even if you did, frankly that would be bullshit. We are going into an unknown situation and if we do so with empty stomachs then we could get distracted by our hunger and potentially die." Naru explained earning an eye smile from the cycloptic Jonin.
"Good job, Naruto." Kakashi said as the blonde took a swig of juice. "It looks like you three are having a good start this morning. Following orders blindly can and possibly will get you killed. Remember that you three have minds of your own, use them."
"Are you saying we shouldn't obey our superiors?" Sakura asked, paling at the thought of getting in trouble if they followed that advice.
"No, you should follow orders while ready to adapt to them as the situation is often different than reported. Also, you shouldn't blindly follow orders that don't make sense or doesn't sit right with you. No one will hurt you for asking questions, your Genin and that is how you learn." Kakashi lectured as he put three bento boxed lunches down on a stump while holding up and alarm clock.
"You three have five minutes to finish breakfast, then you have until noon to finish your test." Kakashi said motioning to two bells hanging from his belt making Sakura and Sasuke go wide eyed and whip there heads around to a sweatdropping blonde earning a glare from Kakashi. "Your test is to get a bell from me, the two that manages it get to stay and become my new cute lil Genin. The one who fails gets tied to a post while we eat in front of you. Oh, you will have to come at me with intent to kill or you will never succeed."
"What if we hurt you?" Sakura asked as her eyes whipped back around in shock to stare at their sensei.
"He's a Jonin, Sakura, he won't be hurt by mere Genin." Naru said earning looks of surprise from her teammates and appraisal from Kakashi.
'Not that your normal.' Lina giggled in Naru's mind earning a mental smirk from the blonde. If she called up the fox's power she could maybe go all out, but it was hard to do. She was still learning just to call up one tail and could only to when really, really pissed off. Fear, calm, excitement wouldn't give her the adrenaline needed. Of course, it could be a bad thing to use it because it was too easy to give into the rage it created within her. Lina was nice and loving, but she was a demon still and her demonic chakra wasn't exactly easy to control without losing oneself in the negative emotions it evoked.
"And blondie has earned a cookie." Kakashi said with growing suspicion in his voice as Sasuke and Sakura finished and stood up. The three stared in horror at the blonde as she finished the large amount of food that was left in a blur, not even taking thirty seconds.
"What? I was hungry!" Naru whined as Sakura looked on in disgust.
"That was so gross." Sakura said making Naru send the girl a glare but kept her mouth shut despite the visions of a chibi Naru jumping up and down on a bloody and battered pink haired girl.
"Well let's get this over with." Naru said as she folded up the blanket and stuffed it in the basket and sitting it out of the way so it didn't get damaged.
"Okay, remember you have until noon as of right now." Kakashi said setting the clock and putting it on the stump as he walked out into the middle of the field followed by the blonde while the other two jumped off into the trees.
"Aren't you going to follow your friends?" Kakashi asked making Naru sneer mentally. Friends? As if, they were just a means for her to become what was needed to better protect herself when she could no longer hide her true gender from the populace as well and protect her soulmate.
"Why do you want me to leave, Kakashi-sensei?" Naru pouted, batting her eyes at Kakashi who pulled out a familiar book from it's pouch. "Don't you want me to become one of your cute Genin. And why are you reading that thing again in public?"
"Because I want to finish it so I can pick up the new volume on the way home and read it tonight." Kakashi said with a lecherous grin.
"No...no I don't think that's it Kakashi-sensei." Naru said with a teasing smile as she circled around Kakashi several times while looking him up and down. "I think you are reading it, imagining that you are the hero in the book while I am the helpless heroine rewarding you for your help. Is that it sensei? Are you thinking of doing all kinds of little things to me in that dirty dirty mind of yours?"
Choking as he paled, staring at the blonde girl disguised as a boy stopped in front of him, hands held behind her back as she leaned forward a little. A little dark spot forming in his mask where his nose was that was barely noticeable, but enough to make Naru grow a little shocked. Was that really what he was thinking? That pervert!
'Again, you might want to rethink that.' Lina giggled as she pointed out that it was the blonde who just stuck those ideas in her sensei's head.
"Shush." Naru mentally hushed the demoness from distracting her while giggling a bit herself.
"Okay, I think it might be best to stop reading for now." Kakashi said a little shakily while putting the book into his pouch. "You know, for a brat, you have a really dirty mind."
"Thank you, I'll take that as a compliment." Naru chirped happily while Kakashi narrowed his eye at her.
"That wasn't a compliment!" Kakashi spluttered indignantly, barely dodging the punch aimed at his head form the blonde as she started to attack him using a taijutsu style that he recognized as one of the more abstract forms that he had seen Guy use from time to time. It was fast, agile and a very good match for the blonde's lithe body.
"Funny, it sounded like one." Naru quipped as she ducked and weaved around Kakashi's defenses while striking out though only managing to land a few hits that the man allowed through his defenses.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!" Sasuke's voice cried from behind Kakashi just before a wave of heat washed over the dueling pair, the blonde's eyes going wide at seeing over the Jonin's shoulder in shock at the huge fireball streaking towards them.
"Oh shit!" Naru cried out as she jumped away followed by Kakashi just before the fireball hit the ground, tearing into it before dying out leaving a smoking, smoldering crater behind. "I said attack with a jutsu, not try and fucking cook us!"
"What...the...hell!" Kakashi said, eye wide staring between the blonde and Sasuke before snatching a hand that was snaking for his belt from behind as questions flew through his mind. They were talking about something before he came, could they have actually been planning this from the start? And if so how the hell did they know that the test would be a fight and how did they plan enough to have Sakura go for the bells.
"Hn. You said come at you with intent to kill." Sasuke grunted.
"I'm not talking about that!" Kakashi said shaking his head, letting go of Sakura'a hand as he jumped a few feet away from all three of his students. Even if he felt something was up with just how well they seemed to have things planned out, he was proud that they were working together as a team. "Forget it, just continue with the test."
"Break up and meet back up in the forest!" Naru called out making Kakashi narrow his eyes as the pink haired girl and emo boy jump off while he blocked the blonde's path. Naru was the ring leader behind everything and he wanted answers.
"So tell me blondie, did you know exactly what was going to happen today?" Kakashi probed as he went on the offensive, pulling out a kunai to block the pair that Naru pulled out, the girl using both blades to strike at him n a beautiful dance of violence.
"Maybe I did and maybe I didn't." Naru giggled as she slashed and parried with her kunai though she wasn't gaining much ground. "Does it matter?"
"No, I have already made my decision about you three. I do want to keep testing you though and just see how each of you do on your own." Kakashi said with an eyesmile before vanishing in a puff of smoke making the blonde choke on it a little while looking around for him, too late to do anything once she found him crouched behind her holding a tiger seal before shoving his finger...in...her...ASS! That BASTARD! "Konoha secret technique, One Thousand Years of Death!"
A seething Naru landed hard on the ground, her eyes a little watery from the embarrassment and anger that the man would dare do that to her. She may have been a working girl, but no one, NO ONE, touched her without her permission in such an intimate way. Forcing herself to calm down just a little while her fox cloak tried to flicker around her, she accepted her claws, red slitted eyes and darker whiskers the first state brought, the second state being the one tailed fox cloak.
"YOU BASTARD!" Naru shrieked rocketing across the clearing at a shocked Jonin, to Sasuke and Sakura it looking like she was crouching one moment and the next she was holding her fist out as the Jonin skipped across the ground, his body leaving a small trench. "You DARE touch me LIKE that! I should really KILL you for THAT!"
"N-Naru, calm down." Kakashi said as Naru seemingly vanished again to reappear with her leg extended into the air as Kakashi rocked into the sky from her kick before she jumped, vanishing and reappearing above him to do an axe kick rocketing him into the ground creating another crater from the impact. She landed on top of him, her claws wrapped around his throat while he looked up pleading her to calm down with his eye. "Please calm down, don't let...it...take over."
"As if, Lina isn't controlling me!" Naru snarled as she leaned down, yanking his mask down and kissing him deeply before jumping back as she let the effects of the first state fade. She was a little pissed at herself because she could feel herself losing control from using Lina's chakra that eroded her self control as she was so close to heat as it was, her body already feeling the effects of it.
"What the hell was that?" Sakura asked in shock while Sasuke gave the disguised blonde a disgusted look while Kakashi stumbled to his feet. Naru knew that Kakashi could have put up a much better fight, even subdue her, but he was trying to give her a chance to fight off what he believed was the fox taking over.
"Here." Naru said handing each of her teammates a bell making them gawk at her. "What, I was just distracting him with the most shocking thing I could think of while I grabbed the bells. Call it...payback."
"Whatever you call it," Kakashi said with an eyesmile, his mask back in place before his other two students got a good look at his face. "You three pass."
"YES! True love conquers all!" Sakura cheered while Sasuke grunted and Kakashi and Naru looked at each other, almost in a challenging way.
"Come over here." Kakashi sighed breaking the staring contest making the blonde mentally smirk at winning it.
'Think he's going to show us the stone?' Lina asked, a little sorrow broadcasting to Naru. The demon knew what was on the stone, many of the names her fault from when that bastard Uchiha cast the genjutsu over her taking over her mind with hate and rage and sicking her on the village while all rational though was locked away.
"It wasn't your fault so don't worry about it." Naru replied, thinking about who had stopped the demon fox while at the same time sealing Lina away inside of her by the blonde's own father. Thinking about that she couldn't help thinking that her father did both Lina and her a favor as the demon fox enjoyed much more freedom that either of her previous hosts while they became best of friends. In fact, when the fox wasn't teasing her, Lina could be almost motherly at times.
Taking a deep sigh as she listened to the explanation, stepping forward almost automatically as she found a name she was searching for. Slowly she reached up and ran a finger over the name of Minato Namikaze earning a strange look from Kakashi. As the man cleared his throat Naru yanked her hand back as if it was burned.
"I have one last thing to tell you three before you are dismissed for the day. It is a very important piece of advice that I learned the hard way and I want you to take it to heart. Those who abandon a mission may be trash, but those who abandon their friends and teammates are worse than trash. Think about that tonight and meet back here at the same time tomorrow for our first official mission as team seven." Kakashi said as he stared at the blonde. "Sasuke, Sakura, you are both dismissed. Naruto, I need to talk to you again. I want to know how you found out about the test."
"Later loser...and...thank you." Sasuke said, whispering the last as he almost didn't even want to say it.
"Sasuke, wait up!" Sakura called after she gave the blonde a strange, almost thankful look before hurrying off.
"Actually I have a lot of questions for you." Kakashi said leading Naru over to a post and told her to sit which she did...on top of it as she sat cross-legged with her elbows propped on her knees and resting her chin in her hands.
"Look, I won't tell you who told me, but I will say that you should change your methods between years. really, you failed how many teams with the same exact test?" Naru asked, a look of relief flooding Kakashi's lone visible eye.
"Okay, well why was your looking at that one particular name?" Kakashi asked, looking deep into Naru's eyes as she thought for a moment about how to answer since she was sure he would be able to tell if she was lying at. He may not catch all of the lie, but surely he would notice a little.
"Well, have you ever looked at a picture of us side by side? We look so much alike making me think, especially after what he did the night of the Kyūbi attack as I doubt he would have sealed her in just any baby, that he may be my father. I might be wrong, but I'd rather hope that I'm right...I want to believe that I came from somewhere." Naru sighed, all of it true.
"You called the fox her? And you said Lina earlier?" Kakashi said making Naru groan as she really wished he hadn't caught onto that. How the hell was she supposed to tell him about Lina?
'Want to have some fun?' Lina asked, a demented gleam in her mental eyes making Naru smirk already knowing what Lina wanted to do. Jumping down from the stump she did the handseals for a summoning jutsu. While Lina was trapped in Naru, she could be summoned outside of the seal just as any summoning could be summoned from their realm. After all she was a demon just like any summons, though she was much more powerful than those minor demons that the humans deluded themselves into believing they weren't. Seriously, they were talking animals, how could they not be demons? Seriously, a contract signed in blood, hello people they're demons. 'Of course they are, silly little things humans are.'
"Hey, I'm human!" Naru protested mentally.
'Of course you are and I love you for it.' Lina said lovingly as Naru pulled the chakra needed as Lina prepared for the slight wave of dizziness this would cause. Unlike being summoned from the other realms, being summoned through the seal was annoying and a part of Lina would always stay behind inside of the blonde. In a way, this could be seen as a shadow clone in a way though she couldn't be dispelled so easily and she could die outside of the seal and lose what power that body had. If she was dispelled by Naru though, even when hurt, she would quickly heal inside of the blonde's body as there she didn't have a physical manifestation anyways.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naru cried slamming her palm into the ground making lines spread out around her in a summoning array. A large poof of smoke appeared leaving a very voluptuous red haired woman with red slitted eyes wearing a very tight, very revealing black mini dress with a single fox tail and fox ears standing next to Naru as Kakashi's jaw drop at the vision of beauty before him before his mind rebooted realizing this was the Kyūbi no Kitsune itself...herself.
"N-Naru! What the hell did you do?" Kakashi gasped as he drew a kunai moving to attack though Lina easily batted the blade from his hand knocking him to the ground making Naru realize just what the hell she did do. She wasn't the only one going into heat, so was Lina since the demon was the one who cause Naru's own not to mention all of the other biological changes. The blonde wasn't sure what to think as Kakashi was knocked to the ground, the woman straddling him and pinning his arms down.
"Naru, run! Alert the ANBU!" Kakashi called out struggling under the intense strength of the woman who pouted out him. Both teacher and student sweatdropped at the demoness's reaction though.
"Oh Kakashi don't be like that!" Lina mock cried, leaning down and rubbing her body against his, rubbing her cheek against Kakashi's masked face. "You look so much better in person! I just want to ravish you right here and now!"
"Ahem!" A familiar sound of a throat clearing from behind them to find a blushing Hokage looking on, decked out in his battle armor and surrounded by his personal ANBU.
"Umm, hi gramps." Naru said as she swallowed nervously, looking like she was caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
"Care to explain what your tenant is doing molesting your teacher?" Hiruzen asked, chuckling at the scene of Lina sitting onto of Kakashi rubbing up against him almost in a loving animalistic action, like a cat seeking attention though the attention she wanted was so much more than innocent.
"Well you see...its like this..." Naru said sending the command to Lina who poofed away leaving behind a small one tailed fox that Naru grabbed and bolted from the clearing.
"Catch her and bring her back to my office, unharmed. If a single hair is out of place you all will be visiting Ibiki. Is that clear?" Hiruzen ordered getting a "Yes, Lord Hokage!" from the entire group before they jumped away.
"What...the...hell?" Kakashi asked sitting up, his face as red as a tomato as a small trickle of blood leaked from his nose as he tried to cross his arms over his lap to hide his discomfort there.
"Let's head back to my office and we can hear what young Naru has to say when she's brought back." Hiruzen said, a smirk on his face as he brushed a little blood from his own nose.
