The morning sun was just beginning to light the room. Lying beside him Tsukiumi was wide awake staring at Naruto's sleeping face. He looked so peaceful. One finger gently brushed his lips. His kisses. Every time he kissed her, every single time, her body would fill with energy and heat and her heart would race. That was when the connection between them was the strongest, when she could sense his heart. In those moments her whole being just seemed to melt into him.
She look at Akistu who grabbed his left hand with the force want not he want to let it go. She felt angry at her " How dare she touch my husband like that !" But suddenly blinked she remind his ashikabi were trust her. As wife she has also trust his Husband words.
Homura had been right, this connection, this bond they shared now. It was like nothing else, she really did feel like a part of him. He filled an empty place inside her she had never even known had been there. Just being with him made her happy.
Her hand slowly caressed his face. I love you so much Naruto. The thought of ever losing you scares me more than death. She had always wanted to be the strongest. Originally it had been because of her pride and her desire to prove a sekirei did not need an ashikabi to be strong. Now though she aimed to be the strongest to make sure they were never separated. She wanted to stay by Naruto's side forever.
As she watched his as well Akistu eyes slowly opened.
"Ah, good morning," he said.
"Good morning."
Hesitantly he leaned over and placed a soft kiss on her lips.
"Good Morning , Akistu-chan"
"Good Morning , Ashikabi-sama" Akistu gave him passionate Moring kiss.
"Well Akistu please called me Naruto as My Name and you're kiss very uhn Veniila type flavour" Naruto comment. Slight blushed appear on Akistu face but she smiled " And both of you please keep this secret about who am I. and"
Tsukumi put his finger over his lips " I know Naruto , We're promised that we keep this secret" Akistu gave he nobbed.
"Tsukumi and Akistu, I will always love you and protect you" Naruto though.
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Following a delicious breakfast they headed down to the hotel lobby. Tsukiumi was back to her usual charming personality and Akistu was back to her cute personality. "Naruto, go back to that pig sty you call home and pack your things. Since we cannot stay permanently in a hotel I will find us somewhere to live. Here," she handed him a thick wad of cash. "Use this to pay for a cab and anything else you may need." Naruto and Akistu glance at each other , wonder the Tsukiumi doing right and wrong.
Naruto's eyes bulged as he saw the bills were all 10,000 yen notes. She was just casually giving him more money than he had ever seen in one amount before. "Tsu-chan, where did this come from?"
Tsukiumi frowned. "The front desk was nice enough to provide a cash advance against my V.I.P. card. Is it not enough? They tell me they can advance me up to two million yen, I only took out half that."
He gawked at her and then at the money he was holding. "Are you saying you just gave me a million yen?!"
"Is that a lot?" She asked. "You seem rather excited about it."
"Well of course it's a lot! Don't you know how much a million yen is worth?"
"Not really," she said dismissively. "Up until now I have just been living at hotels and paying for everything with my card. I don't bother to ask about prices. But since I am now a married woman I want to settle down with my husband in a proper house."
Taking a deep sigh he held the money back out to her. "I can't accept this."
She gave him an annoyed look. "Are you going to tell me about how you can't ask others for help again?"
"Well….. "
She reached out and carefully wrapped his fingers around the money. "A wife's proper duty is to take care of her husband! As both my husband and as my ashikabi I will always take care of you Naruto and Akistu. Akistu glared at her. " You do not need to feel embarrassed by accepting my help!" Apparently convinced the discussion was settled she turned and began striding out of the hotel lobby. "Have everything packed and ready to move by 5, I will have a new home ready for us by then." Akistu grabbed Naruto right arms not want leave him couple of seconds.
"It's hard to find good places in Tokyo, you might need more than one day." He called after her.
Looking back over her shoulder she flashed him a smile. "Have faith in me Naruto! I will definitely have a place for us ready by five o'clock!"
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Packing up and cleaning really didn't take that long as he didn't have that much stuff. He had decided to skip cram school and call into work. He didn't know what sort of new place Tsukiumi could possibly find for them so quickly.
At a quarter to five a moving van pulled up to his apartment complex and there was a knock on his door.
"Is everything packed Naruto?"
"Uh, yeah, did you really find us a place. But wait minute I can seal all of this scroll" Akistu and Tsukiumi look at Blonde as he opened the scrolled on above the Bags then puff smoke appeared both sekirei eyes widened.
" What did you do just right now ?" Akistu asked. " All the stuff were gone suddenly"
"Well, I just seal all the bags and clothes into this scrool" Naruto grinned. Both sekirei stared at Blonde Ninja. Naruto blink look at girls eyes something spark was glowing in her eyes.
" Naruto-kun , would you teach me that" Both girls approach at the same time. Naruto sweet dropped at girls request but he can't denied it.
" Sure , girls anything for you" Naruto said " any thing for my himes"
Both of sekirei slipped one of his arms around his back and pulled him close to her. "The moving company can bring your things. I want to show you our new home myself. Akistu grabbed tightly okay" Akistu nobbed. Without any sort of warning she leaped into the air.
"Yaaaaaah!" Naruto screamed in terror.
"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?! We're flying through the air!"
"This is how sekirei normally travel when we are in a hurry. You need to get used to it. And why are you holding your power"
"Well, I can used my power but as you know I'm shinobi and you're sekirei. And most important thing no one knew my identity. Just though if some one saw me jumping one building to another as face anyone saw me with you guys. It would be trouble some for me you know what I mean!" Naruto grinned he rubbed his back.
Both sekirei understood"I thought that would be more convenient since we weren't in a hurry. But this way is much faster." She thought nothing of jumping over streets hundreds of feet below as she leapt from roof top to roof top. While Akistu as no arguing about him , she just want to stayed with his ashikabi.
She took them into the northern part of the city and into a historic district where the buildings were all older and sparser. She eventually leapt over an eight foot wall and into a wide yard with trees, bushes, and a pond with some ducks floating on it.
"Here we are," Tsukiumi announced. "Our new home."
Naruto stared.
Over the pond was an old wooden bridge that led to a walkway that led to some steps that led to a two story building made of grey stone with wide curving roofs made of red tiles. Judging just by the number of windows he had to guess there were at least fifty rooms.
"You… you actually bought a palace?"
Tsukiumi frowned. "No, this is only a castle. Did you want a palace?"
"How much did this cost you?"
"Four hundred million yen," she replied.
He just stared at her unable to form any words.
"Is that a lot?"
It was just too much and Akistu grabbed him before he passed out there.
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When he came to he was lying on a large sofa in a room with oak paneling and very old looking furnishings. Tsukiumi was sitting at his side.
"Are you all right Naruto?" Akistu asked.
"Heh, fine, sorry about that. I guess I was just a little but shocked that you would spend that kind of money on a place for just the three of us."
She shrugged. "Money doesn't matter to me."
Obviously, Naruto thought.
"I saw this place was available for sale and I liked it. In any case as both my husband and as my ashikabi you should get used to living a better lifestyle. Living here will be a part of that."
"Oh, that reminds me," he sat up. "Tsukiumi there's something I want to ask you about."
"What is it?"
"Well, I know that I'm your ashikabi, but what exactly is an ashikabi? I mean what am I supposed to do?"
"Hmmm, I'm afraid I can't really explain what an ashikabi is. My adjuster at M.B.I. was a bit scatterbrained and never really explained much."
"Wait, what's an adjuster?"
"As each sekirei matured and came of age we received genetic adjustments to enhance our abilities and prepare us for the Sekirei Plan."
Naruto shook his head. "Came of age, genetic adjustments, I don't understand."
Holding out her open hand she created a ball of water. "I am sekirei number 9 and just same as Akistu the sekirei No 7. I've also known water sekirei and she called herself broken sekirei But it was cut of by Naruto " Rectified that she is Ice sekire and don't you dare to say that word again". Naruto said with smile. Tsukiumi feared and Akistu surprised at Blonde sudden reaction then small smile appeared on Akistu lips. She was tried to hugged his ashikabi but Tsukiumi continue her speech " I have the ability to draw water and shape it to my will. There are a total of 108 different sekirei, each with their own abilities. We were discovered on an alien ship that crash landed on an uncharted island. The ship was discovered by Manaka and so we became property of the M.B.I. and have spent our lives being prepared for the Sekirei Plan."
"Wait! You're saying you're an alien?"
Both nodded. "That's right. My DNA is similar to a human's but there are several key differences. For one I am far stronger and physically sturdier than a human. Also I, and all other sekirei, was born with the potential for extraordinary abilities no human would ever have."
" If we're aliens then you would be ran away from us" Akistu asked.
He flinched a bit nervously. Reaching out he put his both hands over Akistu and Tsukuimi breast. Both sekirei face blushed at Blonde touch I felt your and Tsu-chan Heart bit and I don't what you're human or not. I love you and that not change.
Hearing the answer of his voice Tsukuimi placed her hand over his cheeks. "I will always want you Naruto-kun; after all, you are our Husband right?" she glance at Akistu who gave her smiled that she accepted him.
He nodded. "Yes I am.I love you." He kissed Tsukuimi. She fervently kissed him back. "I love you!"
" Naruto-kun" Akistu said. " Don't forget about me. "
" I never forget you, Akistu-chan." He kissed her at same time.
Trio didn't know that on the top of building the shadow figure were keep in eye on them. " you did very well , My brother" She smiled at him and vanished.
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Why are you still shinobi that damn village what would be done to you ? and why are you still working?" Tsukiumi demanded.
"Well, even though I'm married I still Shinobi in Konaha village . if I ran away from my village it would be more troublesome for me. But there is some people who precious to me and try and do something with my life."
"and who they are ?," Tsukiumi said. she and Akistu as well know about them.
"Well first there is Iruks sensai is former teacher since age of 13. And their Uzuki and Anko they are love me like my brother"
" Uzuki and Anko didn;t they fall in love with you?" Akistu asked.
Naruto raised his eyebrow at Akistu unexcept question " Well , For Uzuki she lost the person who she love and I think she would not easily forget about him and for Anko um well I didn't fell any type of love feeling for her, well short I don't thing I had that type of feeling for her"
He had already agreed to accept money from her. Trying to argue with her about it was a losing proposition. (It had allowed him the singular joy of calling up his mom and telling her he no longer needed an allowance. That had been fun.) "I think that even though you're supporting me that it's important that I at least try and provide for myself."
"Is this about that, 'being a man' nonsense?" She asked dryly.
"Pretty much," he admitted.
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"Good morning Sakura-san," Shizune said cheerfully to the pink haired young lady as she entered the Hokage's office early in the morning. Haruno Sakura smiled back and continued on her way to the small side office where she normally spent most of her day attending to her duties, whether they be training or assisting with Tsunade's medical programs.
Before she disappeared through the door she glanced over at where Tsunade was standing, in front of the large widows overlooking the village. Her stomach twisted slightly, uncomfortable at the way her sensei had been acting for the last few days. It had all started late one afternoon when a frog had appeared bearing a large scroll, presumably from Jiraiya. Sakura had tried to get her to explain about what was going on, but beyond saying that everything was fine Tsunade hadn't elaborated further. She had also quickly hidden the scroll.
Sakura didn't like unsolved puzzles, but no matter how she considered it she couldn't unravel what significance the scroll could possibly have. It was far too large to be a communication and it looked a bit like a contract scroll for a summoning. Unfortunately, she didn't see how that was possible either since it seemed unlikely that a summoning scroll would cause Tsunade so much disconcertment. Not that the undiscerning eye would have noticed it, but Sakura had spent a great deal of time with Tsunade over the years. Ever since she got that scroll the Hokage's smile had seemed false and her posture tense whenever she was near her apprentice.
With a sigh Sakura shut the door behind her and started moving papers off of her small desk so that she would have some room to work with. Before she had even managed to sit down the door burst open and Tsunade bustled in holding a small tray with tea and cakes.
"I'm sorry I didn't notice you a minute ago Sakura-san," Tsunade said cheerfully, "I brought you something to make up for it."
Now Sakura's suspicions flared off the charts. Tsunade was routinely harsh, loud, and lazy. She had never, ever, played serving girl just to make up for a social slight before. Sending Shizune would have been believable, but coming personally was just out of the question. Then there was the fact that her mentor seemed to be in some kind of barely perceptible inner turmoil too.
"How unexpected Tsunade-sama," Sakura said hesitantly, "Thank you so much."
"Well, don't just stand there, I can be nice too you know," Tsunade replied loftily.
"Right, right," Sakura replied politely. She picked up the tea and turned herself away from Tsunade slightly. Her mentor had given her 'pop quizzes' in the past, though never by trying to poison her directly, but it was possible that this was something like that. No sooner than Sakura had begun molding her chakra in an attempt to detect any tampering with the drink than she felt a sharp pain in her side. Her head wrenched around sharply to take in an unfathomable scene. The pain intensified, followed by the warm wet feeling of gushing blood, as Sakura looked at the knife Tsunade had plunged to the hilt in her side.
"So careless," Tsunade said.
"Sakura-chan, Tsunade-sama, what is this?" Shizune yelled from the door, having heard the commotion she had come running and now dumbfounded at what was going on.
"Stay back Shizune-chan, this doesn't concern you," Tsunade said coldly. "I won't let you get away with your plot Sakura."
"Wha-?" Sakura tried to speak, but before she could finish one of Tsunade's chakra charged blows sent her crashing through the wall of the Hokage tower, propelling her all away across the street where she crashed through the wall of another building.
"Tsunade-sama, stop this madness," Shizune yelled as the older lady took a running jump through the hole Sakura's exit had made. Still, she could only stand rooted to the spot as the blonde rushed toward the damage caused by the pink haired girl's landing.
Sakura moaned as she tried to stand up and realized that her legs had been pinned down from some falling support beams that had once held up the structure her impact had just annihilated. Chakra rushed into her limbs as she kicked the debris off and stood unsteadily to her feet. To make matters worse the fall had pushed the dagger, which was still lodged in her side, even deeper into her guts. With a squelching noise she pulled the weapon free and then applied liberal amounts of healing chakra to repair the damage. For now she would just be satisfied with repairing the tissue damage and halting the bleeding, but as soon as possible she knew that she would have to treat herself for septic poisoning, among other infectious possibilities. Tsunade had known precisely where to stab her for the most injurious effects possible based on how they had been standing relative to each other at the time.
There was a thunderous crash and the rubble around Sakura seemed to vaporize itself in a flash of brilliant heat. Sakura channeled chakra throughout her body to enable her to survive the intense pressure that the destructive wave caused as it carved out an enormous crater around her position.
"Tsunade-sama, this is some kind of mistake," Sakura protested as her sensei plowed through the smoke that was choking off visibility almost entirely and proceeded to deliver a barrage of powerful blows. I take this mistake for you and Uchiha what you did with Naruto my god son life, you pay for it"
"Did you think you could get away with it?" Tsunade asked, oblivious to Sakura's protests. "I've known about your designs since the beginning, but I had hoped you could be useful to Konoha anyway."
"Tsunade," Sakura pleaded as she slipped a punch through that sent the elderly blonde staggering back a few steps, "I don't know what you're talking about!"
"But now," Tsunade continued as if Sakura hadn't even spoken, "I see that my experiment has come to naught. As Hokage I will now make sure that none of the medical secrets I pioneered will ever fall into Orochimaru's hands."
"That's crazy," Sakura protested angrily. "I would never betray Konoha to that snake."
"You're not fooling anyone," Tsunade retorted. "I know all about your past, remember? You already offered to betray Konoha before and now you're just waiting for an opportunity to defect for that Uchiha brat."
"You're wrong," Sakura said tersely. "I want to save Sasuke, not defect to Orochimaru."
Tsunade stomped down abruptly causing the earth to shiver and her foot to disappear into the ground thigh deep. With a massive surge of chakra enhanced muscles Sakura found a giant chunk of earth being dug out of the ground and kicked toward her with one sweeping move of Tsunade's leg. She realized with a start that if they stayed where they were the center of Konoha would swiftly be reduced to a wreck.
Please stopped Tsunade-sama," Sakura yelled. She flickered away, appearing on top of a nearby building. Without waiting to see Tsunade leaping after her she ran as swiftly as she could toward the nearest training ground.
"Are you done yet?" Tsunade asked once they had arrived after an uneventful pursuit. "You gonna pay for this?"
Sakura turned around slowly, her face an unreadable mask of scowling hard lines. She squelched ruthlessly the hurt feelings caused by her mentor's harsh words.
"You've grown considerably since the last attempt," Tsunade said.."
"I told you already, I want to save Sasuke, not join him," Sakura replied. "Just like Naruto-kun. Sakura stopped at mid movement she felt the dark chakra coming from Tsuande "how dare she take my son name after that betrayal"
Tsunade suppressed what would have been a proud smile and charged, her heels gouging out holes in the turf so heavy were her steps. Sakura went into a slight crouch to lower her center of balance and winced in pain from the incompletely healed wound in her side. Chakra swirled around Tsunade's arm as she attempted to punch Sakura's midriff, but instead of yielding flesh her fist collided with another chakra reinforced blow. For a split second master and apprentice were connected, fist squarely against fist, until the energies of their attacks sent them careening away from each other.
Tsunade picked herself out of a shallow trench that she had created by skidding along the ground and noticed that Sakura was doing the same. Her hand dipped down to her right thigh for a quick healing technique to repair the muscles that Sakura had unexpectedly severed in the midst of Tsunade's last attack. Likewise, Sakura was healing the surgical cut that Tsunade had inflicted on her left arm.
Without waiting for Sakura to finish Tsunade slammed her hands down into the ground and pulled out a large chunk of rock, which she threw at the pink haired girl. Sakura responded by punching her way through the projectile, but that proved to be a mistake as the ground beneath her ruptured on each side. Twin slabs of bedrock, under the combined influence of Tsunade's chakra and monstrous strength, slammed together sandwiching the girl between them. The aging Hokage leaped high into the air intending to bring down her leg with a decisive drop kick technique when the stones obscuring Sakura split into dozens of tiny chunks and fell away.
Tsunade noticed the straight edges of the gravel remaining from Sakura's escape and clapped her hands together in a difficult wind technique to escape her prior trajectory. It was well that she did so, for as soon as she touched down Sakura set upon her with invisibly thin scalpel-like blades of chakra emanating from her fingers. From a pace of over ten meters the two women faced off with the ultimate weapons of supreme chakra control. Sparks erupted in midair as their 'claws' met and scrapped over each other as both tried to skewer the other.
Sakura moved her fingers rapidly up and down with her hand held horizontally at chest height. The tips of her long chakra claws exploded against the ground and ripped up gouges repeatedly as Tsunade expertly dodged the nimble attacks. Sakura felt pain lance through her shoulder and realized that Tsunade had changed tactics again. Now the legendary medic was rapidly varying the length of her chakra appendages and using that effect for a flurry of invisible jabbing attacks. Doing the only thing she could think of in such a situation Sakura somersaulted backwards, out of her teacher's reach.
No time was given for Sakura to recover though. Tsunade shortened the reach of her chakra scalpels and charged at Sakura, waiting until the last instant to send all ten razor sharp edges rocketing toward her position at the same time. Sakura smirked and leaped straight into the air just as Tsunade's attack plowed into the ground, kicking up a lot of dust. Before the Hokage could retract her tendrils of chakra Sakura landedon top of them and used chakra pooled in her feet to race back up along the tiny, but strong strands to deliver a devastating kick to Tsunade's head.
"Did that jar some sense back into you?" Sakura asked smugly as she landed lightly on her feet. With an angry roar Tsunade bounced back off the ground, chest heaving, and punched the ground rapidly. Each blow churned up thick clouds of dirt and caused the earth to quake enough that Sakura's balance wobbled. With unexpected speed Tsunade emerged from the dust and started raining down hammer blows on the relatively tiny pink haired girl.
"Fine," Sakura said to herself as she dug her feet in. "If you want to go at this like a couple of drunken brawlers then so be it."
Shizune and Tonton arrived just in time to see two figures in the midst of a giant cloud of dust and debris begin pounding on each other. Most of the blows being exchanged between the two women were landing on each other, fist against fist, each time with a dull thunderous concussion as excess chakra was dispersed into the surrounding atmosphere. However, some of the blows were getting through and despite almost inhuman levels of chakra enhanced durability both women were becoming increasingly bloodied. Tsunade's hair, normally in lazy pigtails, had come free and was swishing around with each swing of her fists. One of Sakura's eyes was swollen shut and even though she was still delivering full powered punches Shizune was almost certain her right wrist had shattered. At last they broke apart, as if they both realized at the same time that if they didn't pause to heal their ability to sustain combat would soon be lost.
"She's really trying to kill me," Sakura thought to herself as she tried to will her limbs to cease shaking from fatigue. Her chakra levels were rapidly depleting thanks to the healing she was having to do, usually on the same injuries as Tsunade was directing her attacks to reopen old wounds repeatedly. Each healing of a old wound was less complete than the last and Sakura knew that the worst injuries, her side and her wrist, would soon becoming inoperable at this rate.
One glance at Tsunade and Sakura's plight seemed even more desperate to Shizune. She was alarmed at how the Medical Princess of Konoha, so dubbed by Jiraiya, was acting, though she still had faith that it was a just cause. Tsunade had tricked her before, after all, into thinking that she might actually help Orochimaru. At least Shizune had convinced herself that Tsunade had been tricking her all along and had never considered aiding the evil Sannin.
Freshly healed again Tsunade looked as formidable as ever, her chakra reserves were still so high that it was impossible to tell how much power was left in her aging body. Sakura on the other hand had taken a stiff beating, not to mention having to overcome such a grievous wound being inflicted on her by surprise before the real battle had even started. The pink haired girl had swallowed several pills to replenish chakra, blood, and boost her strength.
With a deep breath of relief thanks to the warm soothing effects of her medicines Sakura cleared her mind and concentrated on her next move. Tsunade was walking slowly toward her, hands flashing in rapid execution of seals as her trademark jacket billowed out behind her.
Sakura tried to move, but found herself rooted in place. She channeled vast quantities of chakra into her muscles as she vainly struggled against some unseen force. The world around her went black and still except for the sound of running water all around her. The inky black water started to creep up her legs and panic began to set in, despite her attempts to squelch it.
" You passed Sakura" Tsuande said with smile. Sakura and shizune blinked at Tsuande sudden reaction.
"Well this battle is proven that you worthy for my appreciant" Tsuande said with smile " You worthy has a will of fire in your heart and you handle the situation very clearly. First you check the place to fight me without anybody can harm. This is the most important task for medical ninja to not take any harmness"
Sakura and Shizune smile. Shizune take Sakura to hospital before she passed out. After that Tsuande stand there Tsunade smiled turned into frowned " Damn it , if shizune is not appear i am able to kill her. She sighed " You should be feel great sakura because of Shizune presence other wise I can kill her"
" hum I wonder where is Hinata I never seen her after Naruto was gone on sekirei mission." She smirked " If I was her place I do the same what she did to Naruto but I weren;t gone that far. She lost her mother as she was everything for her. There Naruto she has first crush. I guarantee that Hinata and Naruto both hurt deeply to loose each other. If their love is true then she would be….. Nahn just my imagination" then she walk back to Hokage office.
" Naruto , you would never hurt your friends because they were accepted you as a friend" Tsuande as clench his fist " but as your god mother I know how to make the things the strainght line don't worry sochi You're god mother able take revenge what they did with you"