Chapter 3

"Human talking"

'Human Thinking'

[Lemon, Flashbacks, A/N]

Jutsu/technique

"Non-human talking"

'Non-human thinking'

Beta Reader: KitsuneDragon

Disclaimer: I don't own Anything in the story just my own Idea's.

His breathing was laboured as he began to experience the feeling fatigue after using such a powerful jutsu on that large of a scale. Slowly, he was able to calm himself down and tried to recall what happened. He remembered awakening to a new power, then he remembered using said power to destroy and escape his former mother's and sisters' chakra chains. Seeing as there was no one around, Naruto sat in a meditating position and went in his mindscape.

Arriving in his mindscape, he saw Saeko, Senbonzakura and another woman who he assumed was Tense Zangetsu.

"I believe introductions are to made. My name is Tensa Zangetsu, a sentient sword spirit." She said in a calm voice while adjusting her glasses.

"Interesting, a sentient spirit awakened from the depths of your soul, Naruto." Saeko said, much to the confusion of Naruto.

Seeing his confusion, Senbonzakura decided to enlighten him. "Naruto, sentient swords are either made or born. Take the sword of Kirigakure, Samehada, for instance. Like the two of us, it is also a sentient sword that was made by a blacksmith from Kiri. Making such weapons is unknown since each are made differently. Now sentient swords that are born are considered special since they represent a part of you. I myself was born the same from my original master before he died." She explained.

Naruto nodded, somehow managing to understand. "If it's true then what part of me were you born from? Along with your name." Naruto asked his new partner.

"I was born from your determination and undying will. As for my name, it represents your infatuation with the moon." Naruto was a surprised that this woman was the manifestation of both his will and determination.

And her name was from how much he loved staring at the moon?! To him, the moon was the single light in the darkness during the night. It was always a constant presence, even when he had Saeko. The moon, back then, was a comforting sight to him. He didn't know why, but he never once questioned it. He just basked in its glow.

Even now when he had Saeko, he would always find time to stare at the moon and marvel at its beauty. "I see. Well how about I give you an actual name then. How's Yuzuki sound to you? It means 'gentle moon'." Naruto said fully accepting and recognizing her as his partner. A small smile crept onto Tensa Zangetsu beautiful face.

"Yes, that's a fine name. Thank you Naruto." She said with a nod of approval.

Saeko smiled as she felt Naruto's emotion of happiness. She didn't mind sharing if they decided to pursue a romantic relationship with him. So long as they didn't hurt him then it was fine with her. But now they needed to address the predicament they were in now. She knew Naruto's action would spread across the entire Elemental Nations. She knew people would want him at their side for his power or to eliminate him so he wouldn't fall to their enemy's hands. She knew that the road ahead of them would be difficult, but a road that they must walk. It was the price for freedom, something they both didn't regret.

"Naruto-kun I suggest we continue your training." She said, bringing their attention to her.

"Hmm, you're correct Saeko-chan. I will need to master both your powers and I also need to master Overture." He gestured to Tensa Zangetsu, Senbonzakura and his Gun-blade.

Naruto already had a name in mind. It was from one of the books he loved to read about a traveling swordsman, who went on adventure on faraway lands called YS "my name will be Adol Christin." Naruto said much to the amusement of women. "Okay, now that that's settled, we'll be heading to Nami no Kuni for transportation to Uzushio." Were Naruto's last words before leaving his mindscape.

Naruto dropped his second layer henge. He now stood at a height of five feet and six inches, his hair reached his shoulders and his appearance became more toned and refined.

"So you decided to drop the final henge, eh Naru-kun? Good. I always did prefer you like this." Saeko purred seductively. Naruto chuckled. Without his henge he looked around sixteen, but his mentality was already similar to an adult's.

'You would since you changed my body to handle your youkai and to make my own youkai after you fused a part of yours with my chakra.' Naruto thought to his silver haired lover with a wince. It was one of the most painful experiences of his life.

He didn't even need to see it as he could tell Saeko's smug look was present on her face. "Well I like what I did especially around you package." She said in a husky tone making Naruto blush at what she was indicating. The other two women weren't fairing any better since Saeko decided to show the two of them their session with excruciating details making both woman go crimson. "It's safe to say that both Claire-chan and Yuzuki-chan agree with me." She said making Naruto shake his head in amusement.

Naruto arrived at a small town and decided to take in the sites for a while before turning in for the night. A particular shop caught his interest. It was an origami shop. To the naked eye it would seem like a normal everyday origami shop, but for Naruto he could sense chakra coming from each of the origami creations, including a very well suppressed chakra signature.

Naruto went in the small origami shop and was quickly impressed by each one. There were many varieties of origami creations ranging from flower designs, to animals, humans, odd three dimensional shapes and even ninja tools. Just by looking, he could tell who ever made them was a master or mistress. His thoughts were cut off by an angelic voice.

"Hello there, and welcome to my origami shop. Is there any you like?" Naruto turned around to see a beautiful woman with blue hair, amber eyes with lavender eye shadow and a DD size bust. Her complexion was a bit pale, but she made it work. The woman was wearing a beautiful blue kimono that had a white flower decoration and a light blue origami flower attached to her hair.

Naruto could only stare at her beauty and that was saying something considering he had three beautiful woman who live inside of him. "I was just umm admiring these pieces of art. Each of them is well made and beautiful. I assume you are the one that made them. I'm Naruto by the way." He said a little embarrassed that he stuttered and not noticing he just told her his real name. The bluenette giggled causing Naruto to be further embarrassed since he made himself into a slight fool.

"I'm Konan and thank you for the compliment, Naruto-san. It's not every day I get complimented from my works." Konan said.

"I'm surprised they wouldn't compliment your work, Konan-san. I mean each one of them looks like a fine piece of work. Why wouldn't they?" Naruto asked in honest surprise. A small smile crept its way to Konan's beautiful face.

"Well the men here would always look at my body and the women here would always glare at me for taking away their boyfriend's or husband's attention. It is rare that I would get a compliment for my works. Well, I mean, I would get compliments for my works, but it is usually an excuse to ask me out or try to get into my pants." She said. From her tone alone Naruto could tell she was irritated.

"Well I will admit Konan-san that you are indeed beautiful. Just from your amber eyes to your exotic blue hair and your well maintained figure, even though you have retired from a kunoichi lifestyle." Naruto said in a very sincere tone and admiration. Konan blushed heavily since this was the first time she was ever complimented the way Naruto did to her. Sure she had her old friends, but they didn't go beyond any romantic ties. She looked at Naruto's eye and they didn't hold any perverted stare, no it was more like he was admiring her. It was like he had seen beauty before and could compare it, given that she doesn't know about the three women who were living in his mindscape. She got her blush down and then smiled at the blonde.

"Thank you, Naruto-san. You are the first sincere person to have complimented me without having any sort of ulterior motive, but I must ask...how did you know I was a retired kunoichi?"

"I could sense how well you keep your chakra suppressed to a point that you would seem like a normal civilian. That takes years of mastery, Konan-san. That and you just confirmed it yourself." Naruto simply said. And yet again she was caught surprise by the red and blonde haired man in front of her. "Don't worry I won't tell anyone. You can trust me since I can tell you no longer wish to be part of the ninja life. But if I may ask, what is the reason?"

Naruto saw a flash of pain in her eyes before it quickly went away "It's a long story Naruto-san, but the short version is I lost two people whom I saw as my brothers, the latter going insane." She said in a sad tone that made Naruto kick himself.

"I'm so sorry Konan-san, letting you relive those memories." He said in an apologetic tone.

"No, don't worry. It's fine, Naruto-san. I do feel somewhat relived that I was able to tell someone." Konan said making Naruto smile a little.

"Well I'm honoured you told me, but it's only fair I tell you something about myself. You see Konan-san I actually left my village since both the villagers didn't want me and my former family basically didn't know a single thing about me only concentrated with my two twin sisters." Naruto said in painful and sad tone.

Konan was surprise by his emotional change. Sadness, anger, pain and loneliness. She could tell he had suffered a lot to have such emotion in his eyes yet she could still see kindness, joy and love in them. Something she hadn't seen in a while given the people she worked with and the person who she stood by with was nothing more than a hollow shell of his former self.

"I see. Thank you for telling me, Naruto-san. I could tell it's a sore subject, but let's do away with that now. How about I show you some of my other makings?" Konan suggested with a small smile. Naruto nodded feeling his mood lighten already.

"Alright, well lead the way, Konan-san." Naruto said with a soft smile.

Konan gave Naruto a tour of her shop. Showing him every origami designs she made. She even taught him how to make origami, which he'll admit, was not easy. But after a few tries, along with some minor paper cut which he'll never know how he got, he was able to make a small origami flower.

"As much fun as it is Konan-san, it is getting rather late. Not that I don't want to stay with you since I find your presence relaxing, but we all need our rest. I could come back tomorrow if you would like." Naruto said. Honestly, this was the first time he had this much fun with someone, since he never had much interaction with anyone in a long time. It was refreshing and it felt good to be able to have some normalcy. Konan saw the time and indeed it was getting late. She couldn't help, but admit that she too also had fun with him even in a short time. It felt good to her.

"You're right, Naruto-san. It is getting late and I too find your presence relaxing. So I'll see you tomorrow then?"

Naruto smiled a bit and nodded. "Sure, I'll see you tomorrow, Konan-san. Well, goodnight Konan-san." He said before leaving.

"Goodnight, Naruto...kun."Konan surprised herself when she added the -kun suffix and gained a little blush from it. She didn't know why she did, but honestly she didn't find it strange. She wouldn't admit it out loud but she did find him rather handsome and attractive along with his positive attitude. She chuckled to herself before heading to bed.

Naruto was able to hear the -kun suffix and this made him blush, his cheeks dyed a small tint of red.

"How cute. My little Naru-kun is thinking about the pretty blue head. They grow up so fast." Saeko said in a teasing manner. Ifhe could see her now, he could see her fake tears.

'I don't have a crush on her!' Naruto exclaimed defensively.

Saeko giggled at his defensiveness. It proved that he does indeed have a crush on Konan.

"Naru-kun I never said anything about a crush did I?" She said with a smirk on her face at seeing Naruto's redness having been caught or tricked into admitting it.

'Damn it so what if I do? I do find her attractive next to you three. She's nice, she has a great sense of humor, and she has talent.' Naruto said with an admiring tone. Inside his mindscape, Saeko laughed at her other two companions' crimson blushes. Naruto basically said he likes them. She didn't mind at all, the idea of sharing it made things more interesting in her opinion and she knew for a fact that he could easily love each one of them equally and passionately. After all she knew him better than anyone else.

The next day Naruto was making his way towards Konan's shop when he heard a sort of disturbance."For the last time no means no! Now can you leave!" Konan said in an irritated voice.

"Oh come on. What's wrong with one date? It's not like you're seeing someone." The guy said. He was about to reach for her hand until Naruto grabbed it and gave it a sharp twist.

"Hey honey, sorry I'm late" Naruto said giving her a 'go along with it' look. That she quickly recognized.

"Ah no need darling. So how was your trip?" She asked while ignoring the wailing of the guy whose arm was being twisted by Naruto.

"Well it was rather boring and uneventful, but most of all I do miss my fiancé." Naruto said shocking the people around.

"Wait, gah...you're her...itai...fiancé?" The guy asked.

Naruto looked at the man and gave him a dark grin. "Why yes I am. Now this is what you and every other guy will do..." Naruto stopped and gave another sharp twist almost making him yell out in pain. "You are not going to bother her again and if I even see you or any of you looking at her like a piece of meat I'll do more than just twist an arm." He said before letting the guy go.

"You okay?" Naruto asked the blue haired beauty. Konan nodded with a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Naruto, but you do know I could have handled that easily." She said with a mock glare. Naruto grinned slightly.

"I know you could have, but I wanted to help out. So how about a little breakfast? My treat...I mean...if you would like to go." Naruto said with a little nervousness in his tone.

Konan thought of it for a moment. She could tell he was nervous in asking her judging from his tone of voice he was. It could have been be from their talk last night that he might be thinking that she would think that he was just acting nice so as to get in her pants. But she knew he wasn't like that and besides...it could be fun. "Alright Naruto. I would like to come with you." She said. She saw him smile like he just won the lottery.

"Great, let's go then!" He shouted.

In a short time both sat down in a local cafè. After ordering their individual meals and drinkNaruto decided for some small talk. "So tell me a little more about yourself, Konan. You know; likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, that kind of stuff." Naruto said since he wanted to learn more about this woman. Konan nodded and proceeded to reply.

"Well my likes are origami, making origami and sweets. My dislikes are perverts and arrogant people. My dreams...well for my dreams I haven't yet thought of it really. Now your turn." She gestured to him.

"Well my likes are training, my swords and making new jutsu. My dislikes are perverts, arrogant people, people who ignore or neglect someone for reasons that are stupid and people who don't know the different between a weapon scroll and an empty scroll, and as for my dream...well I haven't yet thought of it as well." Naruto said.

Konan raised a single eyebrow at his dislikes as it hinted to her of what happen to him at his old village. "So tell me Naruto what are your plans?" She asked as their food arrived.

"Well I plan to master my three swords and see the world. How about you?" Naruto asked.

Konan took a sip of her hot tea before answering. "Well I used to, along with my friends I told you about before. It was actually a dream of one of my friends, but I'm sure you wouldn't be interested in it." She said making Naruto shake his head.

"No, I'm interested Konan."

"Okay, well I used to be a part of a group that my friend founded. It's goal was peace, but after he died that goal slowly fade away with my second friend. Seeing there was nothing left for me I left and set up shop here." She said. Naruto could detect the sadness in her voice. Those two must have meant the world to her.

"I see. Well I admire your friends wanting to find peace in our world." Naruto said.

"Tell me this Naruto...what your view of peace?" Konan asked curious on his own view on the subject.

"Well for me, peace is where your heart feels more at ease. It could be with someone or someplace it doesn't matter as long as your heart feels at peace." Naruto said.

Konan smiled at his answer at his view of peace. "But tell me this. Is it possible for peace in our world?" She asked.

"Well I don't really know how to answer that question, Konan, since I really don't know if it's possible to obtain peace in our world. But then again if there is such a thing as peace then I will hold on to it and never let it go. I will fight to make sure that peace last as long as it can and if this world can't find peace then I'll make my own. I will make a place where people can live in peace without the fear of discrimination of who they are." Naruto said in a very serious tone.

Konan's eye widen at his words. Thous words were the exact same words that her two friends said and for a split second she could have sworn she saw her two friends' images beside Naruto. 'I've only knew you for a day Naruto, but already you have interested me greatly. Perhaps you're the one that would finally find peace in this world.' She thought to herself.

"An excellent answer Naruto and who knows, maybe you might just make such a place." Konan said making Naruto smile a bit.

"Yeah." Was all Naruto said.

[Time skip- Two Weeks]

It had been two weeks since Naruto arrived at the small town and Konan couldn't help but smile. She enjoyed being around Naruto, finding his presence to be a great comfort. He would help in her shop or when dealing with people. Sure, she could handle it, but it felt good to be protected now and then.

She found that she was slowly liking Naruto more than just a friend and she suspected that he too liked her, but was too shy to admit it. She would sometimes tease him, which was a first for her and she would admit, she found it fun getting him to blush. It made him cute. It was a long time since she ever had fun and be normal, the last being when she was trained by her sensei.

Konan was currently making her way towards his training spot along with a small basket of sandwiches she made. She blushed a bit since this was the first time she ever made food for someone and she hoped he would like it.

She herself didn't know how or when she started to like Naruto. It could have been his positive attitude, his humor (which she always found entertaining), the fact he was a great person to be with or how he easily grew on you. Honestly, she couldn't understand why his old village treated him negatively. Oh well, their loss.

Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by large explosions and several chakra signatures that weren't Naruto's own chakra. 'That's coming from Naruto's location. Several chakra signature around low Jonin.' She thought as she quickly made her way towards Naruto's location. "Please be okay, Naruto-kun" She said to herself.

Naruto ripped away the torn remains of his shirt as he stood, surrounded by eight Konoha jonin. Naruto held out Overture with Zangetsu and Senbonzakura by his sides.

"I half expected them to send someone after me, but low jonin? I must have done more damage than I thought." Naruto said in a monotone voice. Naruto started stretching, twirling Overture in his hands. "I do wonder did my old man survive along with my mother and my sisters after I use that jutsu to level the whole of Konoha?" He asked nonchalantly. Naruto smirked as he saw one of them charge at him with blind rage. But before he or Naruto could strike, the Konoha shinobi was force to dodge a barrage of paper shuriken.

Konan appeared behind Naruto stranding back to back with him. "I'll let you explain later, Naruto-kun. For now, let's take care of them." She said in a serious tone that left no room for argument. Naruto nodded behind her.

"Agreed. Let's take them down quickly and then I promise I will tell you, Konan" Naruto said. Konan nodded before engaging Shikigami no Mai, the Dance of the Shikigami. Konan's body split into thousands of pieces of paper, engulfing the surrounding area.

Seeing this, the enemy shinobi jump out of the way to avoid whatever attack she might do. Naruto flashed through handseals before clapping his hands together.

"Raiton: Hachi Kaminari no Bakemono/Lightning Release: Eight Lightning Beasts!" Naruto manipulated his lightning element into his hands to control eight wolf-like lighting beasts to charge at the eight shinobi.

Naruto's jutsu quickly caught four of them, electrocuting them and leaving them smoking on the ground. As for the other four, they quickly did their own ninjutsu to counter the blonde's. Two of them formed the Snake seal while the other two performed the Tiger seal.

"Doton: Doryuudan no Jutsu/Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique!"

"Katon: Karyuuendan no Jutsu/Fire Release: Fire Dragon Blast Technique!"

Slamming their hands on the ground, the two earth dragons roared as they burst out of the earth. The other two Konoha shinobi then exhaled and sent forth a pair of fire dragons that engulfed the earth dragons. The blazing earthen reptiles then charged towards Naruto and Konan. Konan manipulated her paper to form a shield in front of the dragons, but the fire surrounding them burned through it. A massive explosion occurred as the two leaped out of the way when the two burning earth beasts slammed into the ground.

The blast wave from the attack knocked them back through the air, but they managed to right themselves and land on their feet. Naruto then used the Byakugan based aspects of his Shin no Mei to see through the large smokescreen that had formed from the explosion. Once he got a hold of their locations, he looked to Konan who was already preparing her chakra for another attack.

"Two of them are straight in front of you, the third is twenty degrees to the right and the fourth is forty degrees to the left." Naruto informed her. Konan nodded and with a wave of her hands, spears made entirely out of paper materialzed before her. With a flick of her wrist, she sent the spears at her opponents, piercing through the smoke. The Konoha shinobi saw the attack coming, but just as they were about to move, they found they couldn't as they suddenly felt their legs being held down and there was a literal sinking feeling affecting them.

"What the...?!"

"Doton: Yomi Numa/Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld!" With Naruto's jutsu holding them down, they were quickly impaled by the paper spears. It was instantaneous as they were speared through their chests and heads. Blood splattered everywhere, but immediately mixed with the dark muck that made the earth jutsu that trapped them.

"Well that easy." Naruto commented. "I'll dispose of the bodies, Konan. Wait for me at my camp that I set up." Naruto said. Konan didn't say anything as she only nodded. Naruto sighed as he made a handseal and his Yomi Numa expanded outwards to completely engulf the other four shinobi he had electrocuted earlier. The bodies of the eight attackers quickly sank beneath the earth making them fertilizer for the plants to use.

'I can only hope she doesn't hate me after this.' Naruto thought to himself as he sighed heavily.

Once Naruto arrive at the camp he set up he saw Konan sitting on a wood stump while keeping a calm face. Naruto sighed as he stood in front of Konan.

"Alright, what do want to know?" Naruto asked.

"Everything."

Naruto then placed his right hand on Konan's forehead then made a hand seal. "Ninpou: Memori Kanran no Jutsu/Ninja Art: Memory Viewing Technique." Konan's amber eyes widened and her pupils dilated as a rapid influx of information entered her mind. It wasn't exactly everything, but Naruto fed her enough images for her to get the gist of what he experienced, from his being ignored to his leaving Konoha.

When it was over, Konan blinked rapidly to steady the nausea she felt. She then looked at Naruto with disbelief. "H-How...you...and the...how are you still...wow." She couldn't even get a complete grasp of her own use of language as she was still trying to wrap her around the kind of life the blonde had lived. "By Kami-sama, I didn't know you had lived such a life and still managed to remain sane." She said in both awe and sadness. Awe that he was able to push true what happen to him, and sad that he had lost his childhood and wasn't able to experience parental love.

"So what are you going to do now, Naruto-kun?" She asked.

"Well I'll be leaving for Nami since I need to catch a ride to Uzushiogakure to master my three swords." Naruto said as he already started packing, sealing everything into a storage scroll.

"I see." Konan muttered. Her amber eyes blazed with determination as she hopped off her tree stump and stood directly in front of Naruto. "Then I'm coming along." She said getting a shock put of him.

Naruto sighed. "Konan, I like you. Hell, give it time and I will eventually come to love you, but, that's why I can't let you..." Naruto wasn't able to finish since he was interrupted by a barrage of sharp paper shuriken lace with explosive tags. Landing on a tree nearby he was about to tell her to stop when the tree suddenly turned to paper forcing him to jump away as they turned into sharp spikes.

"Naruto-kun, I can handle myself just fine. Besides, you haven't seen what I can do and I too came to like you as well I understand the danger of coming along with you and I'm telling you that I'm not afraid to go with you." She said sternly before forming a large paper dragon which was laced with explosive tags. Naruto stretched out his hand to counter with Shinra Tensei, pushing back the paper dragon just as it exploded covering the whole area in black smoke.

Naruto then felt a sharp object near his neck. "And I know how the Rinne'gan works, Naruto-kun since my former friend, Nagato, also has it." Konan's voice spoke from behind.

"Fine. I can see you can handle yourself just great and I'm sorry for thinking that you couldn't. Also how do you feel about sharing?" Naruto asked.

"Apology accepted and I don't mind sharing so long as you promise to love us equally." Konan said before removing the paper sword from his neck. She then undid her technique. Naruto gawked as paper started to peel off what he thought was his camp site, but apparently while he was busy burying the corpses, Konan changed the whole landscape. It like she anticipated what he was going to say.

How, he'll never know since he made sure to show her the events leading up to him arriving at the small town. "Okay I am impressed, Konan-chan." Naruto said. IF he turned around, he would have seen a rare smirk come across Konan's face.

"I'll meet you at the village exit, Naruto-kun. Wait for me, okay?" She said before vanishing in a swirl of paper.

A minute later Naruto was standing at the town's exit waiting for Konan. He didn't have to wait long. He saw Konan who was wearing a black cloak, a revealing navy blue robe with a large hemline on the front and exposed her arms, her back, the lateral part of her breasts, and her belly. She wore a pair of blue pants with white high heels.

"Shall we go then Naruto-kun?" She asked, smirking inside as she saw Naruto's blushing face.

"Ummm sure. Let's go Konan-chan." He said, a bit embarrassed that she caught him staring.

End

Another chapter done again with the thanks of my Beta reader. Also Soon I will publish a second version but after the final exam hehe got to study now hehe