Hello everybody! People from the world. From all sizes and shapes (I don't intend to offend anyone with this last comment). And to anyone that may concern! Welcome to the newest chapter from SOABU… hahah that acronym looks so weird. Well anyways. Here we are we this story that after all the feedback I know you all love. Before starting the chapter I want you know that the poll is up and the pairing will be a harem one being: NaruxYugixKarui and maybe, I am not sure, I will probably include Samui in the mix. If you read this chapter you will notice she is kinda left open and on black regarding her relationship with Naruko. Anyways, let us commence.
Disclaimer: Yes we are still doing these. I do not own Naruto unfortunately.
Yugito entered her room to the sight of Naruko being curled up on a side of her bed facing against the wall. Her face was turned into a frown and every once is a while she mumbled something that Yugito couldn't understand. Yugito stood there, motionlessly watching the disturbed face of her new companion. Eventually she sighed and a small bitter smile appeared on her face.
'This must be really hard for her.' She thought sadly. 'Getting kicked out of your viallge, being denied any form of civilized self-defense and left to her own devises without nothing on her other than her clothes, only to become a virtual prisoner at another village. Yugito walked to the dresser where she discharged her more heavy clothing leaving herself only on a white blouse and panties. Turning off the lights she walked over to Naruko's bed at seated on it, the bed creaking a bit under her weight, then she lied down next to Naruko as slowly passed one of her arms over her; she felt Naruko tense but continued moving softly, she then passed her other arm under her and hugged her from behind.
"Shhh, it's okay." Yugito whispered into her ear soothingly. Eventually Naruko's muscles started to lighten up and eventually she cuddled against Yugito's arms and body making her smile. Yugito didn't know why she was doing this. Taking in a stranger and trying to ease her up. But one thing that she knew for sure was that she didn't regret her first decision of helping the blond man turned woman."Sleep well Naruko." She whispered one more time before drifting herself off to sleep.
./ Samui's
"Huh? So Yugito got herself a living partner?" A man's voice was heard exclaiming loudly. "Now that is a flaming notice."
"Atsui lower your voice, is not cool for the neighbors trying to sleep." Samui answered. "And yes Yugito-sempai has a living partner. I already knew but I didn't want to say anything until it went public. The girl she is now living with is the girl I told you we found on Uzu. Uzumaki Naruko. A girl who has more than what the eye meets."
"More than what the eye meets huh? Now that sounds flaming. So what's your take on it?"
"I'm cool with it. I may not understand sempai's reasons to do it. Heh, not even she understands why she did it but, I'm cool. She is a cool person from what I reckon."
"I see." The man named Atsui thought about the news that he had just received before looking up to his sister and smiling. "Well I will have to trust your judgment until I meet her then, ne, imouto?." He said causing Samui to sigh. "Night." Atsui said turning around and walking off not really waiting for a response.
"Night." Once Atsui was out of the room Samui started to move towards her room; full intent on going to sleep as well. But a knock on her door caused stop her on her tracks. Quickly she paced across the room and opened the old wooden door; what she saw made her narrow her eyes. Standing there were two ANBU.
"Chuunin Samui." One of the ANBU said. She did not respond knowing full well it was not a question. "Your presence has been requested by Raikage-sama."
./ Morning
Naruko could not help but marvel at how well she felt. She had finally gotten some nice and tranquil sleep, ever since her return from the retrieval mission she hadn't been able to have a single good night of sleep being constantly on edge. But for some reason unknown to her she had managed to sleep well that night. Something she had not thought would happen seeing it was her first night sleeping on this new house on a foreign nation in which she was a virtual prisoner. She thought her shinobi training and instincts would keep her alert and ready at anything that would come at her, but no she had the gall of going and get herself asleep almost instantly. She squirmed a little to adjust the weight that was above her when she froze. Looking down she saw a arm draped over her; hearing light snoring she slowly turned her face only to see her guardian's sleeping face right next to her. Her eyes widened while a crimson blush made its way over to her cheeks. She stayed unmoving for a few seconds her still groggy mind processing what was going on before reacting.
"Whaaa!" She exclaimed as she tried to jump away from the other blonde's light embrace and closeness, only to fail miserably as she had failed to notice that she also had a leg wrapped around her lower body causing her to fall with a louth thud to the floor.
"Huh! Ee! What?" Grunted Yugito as she jumped to a sitting position on the bed, a kunai on her hand.
"You, y-you, you... What are you doing in my bed!" Naruko said as she pointed to Yugito who hummed in response as she rubbed her eyes trying to understand what was happening.
"Hmm? Naruko? What are you doing on the floor?" She said finally becoming aware of her surroundings.
"What am I doing on the floor? More like what are you doing on my bed! And why are you dressed like that!" She said as she blushed even deeper after noticing Yugito's current clothing selection and turned her face. Yugito was only wearing panties and a light blouse and was sitting on the bed with her legs to the side giving her a good view of her long, not overly toned, white legs and blue panties as she leaned on her arm causing the blouse strap to fall off her shoulder a little. Yugito looked down to look over her appearance before shrugging and fixing her blouse.
"I don't really see the problem with me being dressed like this. I mean we are both women." Yugito said purposely ignoring her first question. She didn't really have a good answer.
"We m-may be of the same sex now but try to be considerate of me being a man until recently." Naruko said as she looked down.
'Yep, she is definitely cute when she blushes.' Yugito thought smirking before getting up from the bed. "Well seeing that we both are already awake I guess I'll go make some breakfast." She said as she stretched making Naruko who was now looking at her blush again. Yugito then proceeded to grab some sport short shorts and walked out the room. "Come down in a few minutes or when you are ready, I'll have breakfast ready by then." She said without looking back, disappearing from her view as she doubled the door frame, eventually her footsteps were heard on the stairs and Naruko sighed.
She slowly picked herself up from the floor and looked around the room. Slowly walking she reached for the restroom handle which she proceeded to open. Entering the room she advanced towards the water key, leaning against the wall she looked at herself on the mirror.
'Why am I feeling like this?' The statement crossed her mind as the face from her guardian flashed on her mind. 'We have only known each other for a couple of days, and even thought after what happened I thought that I wouldn't ever mix with anyone. But... but she... She makes me feel like looking towards the next day. She seems to be to able to connect with me so easily.' She placed her hand on the top part of her shirt. 'The way she makes me feel... Is frustrating... but refreshing.' She let a sigh escape her lips as she turned the faucet on and rubbed her face, the cool water purging any grogginess out of her. She then silently walked down the stairs and creeping her face around the wall she saw Yugito standing there, preparing the food as she hummed a tune. Without noticing a small smile made its way up her face. 'Yes refreshed. She makes me feel refreshed.'
./ Border of Kaminari no Kuni and Hi no Kuni
Samui dashed across grass fields at the base of the towering mountains of the landscape of Kaminari no Kuni as she became closer and closer to the now within eye-range forest of Hi no Kuni. Behind her were three other shinobies. Two males and one female, all of them of chuunin rank like her. Right now they were moving west, with the objective of reaching Kusagakure, preferentially before the sun went down. Being on Konoha territory during the night was never good. You had to submit to the ANBU you encountered and had to go through several tests to make sure you meant no ill to them. Any other action meant hostility and ANBU never hesitated to attack. Turning to the rising sun she sighed, this was going to be a long day.
./ Elsewhere in Hi no Kuni
Two figures could be seen walking through the dense forest of Hi no Kuni. They were traveling slowly as they tried their best not to get in the path of any Konoha shinobi or ANBU passing through. The shadows cast by the surrounding foliage made them disappear almost completely, almost as if melting with the environment, however if one was to see hard enough he would be able to see that one figure was taller than the other. About a head or so.
"Say... Are we really going to do this?" The taller figure asked laziness clear on his voice.
"Yes we are." The other figure responded curtly making the larger one groan. "We need to verify if the rumor Zetsu caught was true." He explained after his partner made silence.
"Then why doesn't Zetsu go and check it?"
"Because he is helping with acquiring the layout of Kumo. Leader-sama said if that the odds were favorable we would be making our move against her sooner."
"Hmph whatever. Let's just get this done with... Itachi."
./ Kumo
The village of Kumogakure despite being one of the most, if not the most militaristic village out from the five great villages had its peaceful and relaxed times. Such was the moment that was happening at the moment on the departed mountainous village. The sun was rising painting the streets and buildings with a light orange, the air was cool, a few birds could be heard singing, a random shinobi passing silently through the roofs preparing for duty, and...
"What do you mean she is not here!" Came a loud voice disrupting the morning peace which was followed by a groan.
"As I told you Karui she is not here." Atsui replied to the hot head. Seeing her glare he continued before she opened her mouth again. "An ANBU came last night and took her, I guess she got a mission." The redheaded girl glared a little bit before sighing in defeat.
"Come on Karui is not like the world is going to end. Samui-taicho has been called to a mission without us other times too." Came the calm voice of Omoi from behind her making Atsui silently thank Kami that there was someone who reasoned. "However I do fear. What if on their way back Samui-taicho is ambushed by enemy shinobies and is taken as a prisoner or killed?" He asked panicking a little. Atsui's prayer was cut short. A thud was heard short after Omoi said those words, turning to the scene Atsui watched something that no matter how manny times he had seen before always made him sweat drop. Lying on the ground rubbing his head was Omoi as Karui stood over him with her fist rose, a vein popping symbol on her forehead.
"Omoi stop being so delusional for Kami's sake. Nothing is going to happen to Samui-taicho." Omoi slowly stood up after that.
"Hey guys!" A shout was heard across the street, turning to it everyone saw Yugito along with Naruko walking towards them.
"Hey Yugito-taicho! Naruko!" Shouted the red headed as she saw the duo of blondes. Omoi grunted a hello.
"What is wrong with him?" Yugito asked pointing towards the white haired boy.
"Oh nothing, he was just being delusional again." She responded as she slammed her fist against her palm repeatedly making everyone present sweat drop comically.
"So you are Naruko huh?" Came Atsui's voice effectively grabbing everyone's attention to him. "That's a nice partner you got there Yugito, she is flaming." Atsui said making Yugito's eyebrow twitch.
"Atsui." She said dangerously.
"Yeah, yeah. Sorry." He said while rising his hands up. "Anyways, good to finally meet you Naruko-chan my name is Atsui, I am Samui-chan's onii-chan." He said while extending his hand with a cheeky grin.
"Uzumaki Naruko." The blonde said grabbing the hand slowly.
"So what are you guys up to?" Yugito asked.
"Well we came here in hope of finding Samui-taicho but apparently she got called to some mission last night so we are alone. Say you guys want to join us to train?" Karui said.
"Umm thank you but I can't. I have to report my flaming ass to Raikage-sama. So see ya' around." Atsui said as he waved his hand and walked away.
"Hmm, too bad. What about you guys?" Karui said turning to the blondes.
"Well we aren't exactly busy and I do not have to present myself for duty for the next few days so... What do you say Naruko?" This catched Naruko off guard not really expecting her opinion to be asked about anything, especially a shinobi matter at that.
"Uuu, umm." She said as conflict came to her voice, she started to sweat. "Umm yeah, why not?" She said making Yugito smile. "But I think I won't train, I'll watch." Karui frowned at that but ultimately nodded.
"Well have it your way, let's go!"
./ Konoha
Hatake Kakashi was not having a good day, or week at that. First one of his students, Uchiha Sasuke had defected the village going away with the rouge sannin Orochimaru, then, after trying to get him back and failing his other student male student, Uzumaki Naruto had been wrongly judged and had been expelled from the village, the loss of both males of team seven had left Sakura her sole female and remaining student devastated and him feeling like shit. Because of that his attitude of arriving late had worsened and that got him in trouble with the new Hokage, who was being quite grumpy herself not being able to forgive herself for vanishing the person she saw as a grandson and her sole remaining family. So he had tried to go out and relax and chill with some of his jounin friends but something had happened which was-
"Where is the jinchuriki?" Came the same question from the same man in front of him.
"I have already told Itachi I won't tell you." Said person strengthened his grip on Kakashi's neck before throwing him away, then he turned his neck to look at his partner. Hoshisame Kisame. A big blue man with shark-like features. "Kisame anything?" Said man turned from the two enemies he was currently battling, Sarutobi Asuma and Maito Guy.
"Nah they know nothing." He responded turning his head to the raven haired Uchiha.
"Don't turn your attention away from your enemy!" Came a roar. Kisame lifted his sword Hamehada and blocked and incoming kick courtesy of the man who he had come to know in the past as the green beast of Konoha, Guy.
"Tch, you are good but not that good!" He roared as he swung he sword violently making Guy jump back to avoid being shred to pieces by the chakra eating sword.
"Asuma take Kurenai away from here, I and Gai will hold them at bay until reinforces arrive!"
"But-!"
"Nothing! Go!" Asuma looked conflicted for a moment but nodded, picking up Kurenai he leaped away.
"Kisame, let's go." Came Itachi's stoic voice.
"What? But I am having fun." The shark looking man pleaded.
"Nothing, leader-sama instructed not to make anything big, and we already confirmed Zetsu's Intel about Konoha no longer having a jinchuriki, let's go before ANBU arrive."
"Hmm, well I guess there is no going against the leader." Kisame said with the shrug.
"You will not escape again!" Gai said appearing behind Kisame with his leg lifted surprising the ex-Kiri nin. With surprising speed Gai moved his leg down only to see that is was grabbed by a hand which proceeded to throw him away.
"I am sorry for the interruption but we must go." Itachi who was now standing besides Kisame said as he grabbed the taller man's elbow. Slowly they began to submerge under the river they were standing on.
"Wait!" Kakashi said as he began to run towards them but suddenly fell to the ground panting. 'Shit this is bad. Hokage-sama must be informed about this.'
./ Kumo with Naruko and Co.
Huffing was heard as Naruko watch the trio of Kumo shinobi spar. Sitting on a slope of a hill she observed how the duo of chunnins teamed up to fight against Yugito. Their bodies clashing with each other, the sound of metal meeting metal. It all brought back memories to Naruko, painful memories of her time back in Konoha, memories that while watching these three seemed to dull away.
"Karui Leg!" Yugito shouted as she launched a punch towards Omoi, in the subconscious confusion caused by the words Omoi was grounded courtesy of Yugito's fist, is the shock of what had happened Yugito sweep Karui's legs with her own causing her to fall face first to the ground. "Ha! Gotcha! I swear, that trick always works." The blonde woman exclaimed dancing in joy at her victory.
"Aww taicho that hurt!" Karui said as she stood up rubbing her head. "I am sure that's considered cheating."
"Karui there is no cheating on a ninja fight."
"But there is fighting dirty." Omoi said he too standing up.
"Hmm, maybe." Yugito said as the trio walked towards Naruko. "Whew, I needed some exercise." She said as she dropped besides her with a huff.
"Yeah, it has been a while since you last sparred with us Yugito-taicho." Karui said. "So what do to want to do after this guys?"
"Actually I have something to do Karui so I have to go now."
"Huh? Really Omoi? That sucks. Well it's okay I guess. See you tomorrow then."
"Yeah, see you later Karui, taicho, Naruko-san." Omoi said parting ways from the trio of women.
"Hmm, what now?" Karui asked again with little less enthusiasm but just as Yugito was going to speak a shadow landed a few meters from them, turning to it they all saw the figure of an ANBU standing there.
"Yugito-san I have been instructed to inform you that your presence has been required on the Raikage office."
"I understand." With that the ANBU bowed to her, something that confused Naruko and disappeared with a light shunshin. "Well guys, looks like the boss needs me so... have fun I guess." She said with an apologetic smile.
"Ugh, everyones leaving."
"I'm sorry Karui, I promise I'll make it up for you latter. Oh by the way, you think could you drop Naruko by my house latter?"
"Sure thing taicho."
"Good. Have fun then, bye Naruko." She said flashing a smile before she too disappeared in a shunshin.
"Well looks like is just the two of us now." Karui said turning to Naruko. "Have anything in mind to do?" Naruko stayed silent for a moment making Karui almost sigh before she spoke.
"Say." Naruko said surprising Karui a little. "Is there a ramen shop here?" She said making Karui smirk.
'She may be weird but I like her already.' "Oh yeah, and I know just the best."
./ Akatsuki Base (AN: we all know it is the akatsuki if I say 'someplace in the middle if somewhere' so I am gonna skip it)
Various figures could be seen in a cave, all of them standing on what seemed to be the fingers of hands structure made of rock. All except two of the figures were being projected through what seemed to be an hologram.
"Report." Came a loud voice from one if the thumbs.
"Yes leader-sama." Replied one of the two non-holographic figure. "We have successfully infiltrated Konoha once again and found out that Zetsu's Intel was indeed correct. The Kyuubi jinchuriki is no longer on the village. However the whereabouts of the individual is unknown, it would seem that he was vanished."
"I see. Good work Itachi."
"Ha, that is no reason to praise. I bet that with my explosive abilities I could have obtained that information on a boom!" One of the figures said. Like everyone, he was wearing a black robe with red clouds on it. He had long blond hair, which was tied on a ponytail.
"Deidara shut up." A figure next to the person now identified as Deidara said. The figure was hunched and had a mask covering his face.
"No you shut up Sasori. You are unable to understand true art so you don't understand. You see; art is an explosion!"
"You fool. True art is something that last forever." Sasori rebuted.
"Silence!" The central figure shouted successfully bringing order to the room. "Sasori how are your preparations going?"
"As planned leader-sama. My spies on Suna have been able to give me the layout of the whole village and its defenses. I guess we will be able to advance in a few months."
"Good, but we will not get the Ichibi yet, not until we have the Nibi, Nanabi and Sanbi. Talking of which where are you positioned Kakuzu?"
"We are a few days from Kumo. We had to stop to get a bounty, but we will get the job done." A tall man responded.
"Ha, this job sucks. I will not be able to sacrifice the jinchuriki to Jashin-sama." Another man, this one with white hair and a scythe said.
"Forget about your stupid religion Hidan."
"Look who is stupid, Jashin-sama is simply too great for you comprehend."
"I will kill you if you say another word about Jashin." Kakuzu said menacingly.
"Try if you want idiot. You can't kill me!" The comment was followed with maniacal laugher.
"Silence!" The central figure roared again. "Kakuzu inform us when you make progress. Until then this meeting is over." With that the figures started to fade away one by one until there was no one left other than the ones physically present.
"Let's go Kisame. We need to track the Kyuubi jinchuriki." Itachi said as both S-Ranked shinobi started to walk away.
./ Raikage Office
"You called for me boss?" Yugito said as she entered the Raikage's office making A turn up.
"Ah Yugito yes. I need you for two matters. First of all, I know it has only been a couple of days, but how do you see things with our guest of honor?"
"Naruko? Well I think things are going great. Surprisingly she has, I don't know if consciously or not, opened up. She is very hurt inside, but not broken. And I thinks that I can help her. She is a good girl." She said making the Raikage smirk. "What is it?"
"Well it would seem that she is not the only one that has started to open up." A said making Yugito to look down.
"Well, is just that, is like-" she fiddled.
"Oh save it. I don't need to hear it. Anyways the other thing is that I have a quick mission for you." Yugito quickly stepped out from her fiddling turning serious at the mention of a mission.
"What is it?"
"Nothing big. I need you to go down the mountain to to a town where you will recieve some intel, the specifics are in here." He said as he let a folder drop to the desk. "After this I will leave you alone to be with Naruko."
"The way you worded that makes me feel uneasy, but yeah, I'll see it done."
./ Yugito's House
"Man that sure was a meal eh Naruko?" Karui said as she dropped down a couch while rubbing her belly. "Never knew there would be anyone else that loved ramen like me, even less someone who could eat it as fast as me." A smile appearing on her face.
"Same here." Naruko said as she leaned at the wall, a ghost smile appearing on her face without her noticing. "I have always loved ramen." She said making Karui raise an eyebrow.
'Looks like she is starting to show her true colors.' She mused. The sound of the front door opening disturbed the comfortable silence that had settled.
"Oh you guys are already here?" Yugito said from the entrance of the house.
"Oh hey taicho. Yeah we went to have some lunch and returned here." Karui greeted as Naruko sent a soft hello.
"That's nice. Well I just wanted to drop by and see if you were here to tell you Naruko that I have been given some quick mission and will be back tomorrow so."
"I see. I understand." Yugito saw it for a second, a brief sad look on Naruko's face.
'I must be imagining things.'
"Un taicho." Karui said softly. Something that was very strange in her. "If Naruko doesn't mind, I could stay the night here with her." Yugito didn't said anything as she just turned to Naruko who nodded a few seconds later shyly.
"I wouldn't mind it, if you stayed here... Karui." Naruko said, a smile almost broke on Karui's face but she refrained.
"Good, see you both tomorrow then I guess." Yugito said.
"Yeah."
"Good luck... Yugito." Naruko said almost in a whisper but a Yugito heard it.
"Thanks."
./ Outside
'What in the actual heck!' Yugito screamed inwardly as she pushed herself into the wall. 'That was the first time that she said my name, and why the hell is my face hot?' Taking a deep breath Yugito stayed still until she calmed herself down. 'Well let's get this mission done with.'
./ With Naruko
"So you want to do anything at all Naruko? Or do you want to knock it off for the day?" Karui asked once Yugito was gone. The sight of Naruko yawning gave her response. 'Cute.' Karui thought as she saw Naruko in her dazed state.
"I want to go to sleep if that is okay?"
"Sure, I'll just borrow some of Yugito's sleepwere." Karui said as both of them went upstairs and into Yugito's room. As Karui roamed through Yugito's drawers she noticed Naruto who already had her sleeping clothes out was looking at them as if they were something strange.
"Naruko?" She called but received no answer. "Naruko? Oi Naruko!" She said finally breaking her from whatever was going through her mind. Upon seeing that she had her attention she continued. "You 'kay? You were dazing off just now."
"Huh, is just that the clo-" 'Thats right she doesn't know that I was a man.'
"The clothes? What with the clothes?"
"No no-nothing. Sorry, I'm just tired I guess."
"I see, well it has been a long day so..." Karui said as she started to undress.
"W-w-wait! Wh-what are you doing!" Naruko exclaimed as she took a step back and flailed her arms in front of her.
"Well I am taking my clothes off so that I can change?"
"B-b-but w-why here? There is the bathroom so you that you can do that. I am in here."
"So? I mean we are both girls. I have no problem at all with you seeing my body." She said as Naruko physically settled but gave another step back. "Or do women in Konoha dress do not change together?"
"Huh?" 'No escape.' "N-no." She said as she blushed and looked down. "You just caught my by surprise."
"Oh, I get it. Well I think that if someone just starts undressing you are bound to get startled. I'll make sure to give a heads up next time." Karui said with a smile.
"Yeah do that." Naruko said lowly so that Karui didn't heard her. 'No other option then.' Turning around Naruko started to remove her clothes all the while blushing like a tomato. She stopped when she reached her pants to drag them down. She turned around to make sure Karui wasn't watching but what she saw both surprised and enticed her. Standing there with nothing more than a pair of white lingerie was Karui. Naruko couldn't help but watch her dark, flawless skin, her defined yet not over worked muscles flexing as she moved, her eyes traveled from her legs up to her torso to the small lumps that made her chest. So different than her but yet so similar. Widening her eyes at what she was doing she quickly turned her head as she blushed even harder.
'What the hell was I doing?' Naruko said as she held her clothes close to her chest trying to calm her pounding heart. 'I have to get dressed fast.' Without thinking twice she pulled down her pants and removed them as she squirmed little not used at all to having underwear that covered so little of her lower body. She grabbed her lower body piece of clothing and slipped it in. 'What the hell is this thing? Is almost no different than being on my underwear.' Naruko thought as she examined herself. The clothes that Yugito had gotten her for sleeping consisted of some sport red short shorts and a white t-shirt that hugged her figure. 'Crap.' Resigning herself to her fate she grabbed her shirt and placed it on.
"Ready." Came Karui's voice from behind. Turning around, legs squirming because of the over skin exposure she looked at how Karui was dressed. Similar to her she had some blue short shorts and a loose black shirt. She stared a few seconds to long admiring her legs but quickly got a hold of herself.
"Ready." She said following her example as she let herself fall into the bed, Karui following suit on Yugito's bed.
"What?" Karui asked when she noticed the blonde staring blankly at her.
"You are not going to get in my bed with me too to right?" Naruko asked confusing Karui.
"No. Why?" Naruko blushed a little before answering.
"Yugito kind of did that last night."
"What! Yugito did what? Why?"
"I-I don't know." Naruko lied. "Anyway, good night." She said as she lied down on the bed.
"Night." Karui said as she turned she lights off. Naruto quickly grabbed her legs in an effort to cover skin. "Rest secure, I won't go over with you. Okay?" Karui said playfully.
'No, please come.' The thought flashed on Naruko's mind, but as soon as it came it went as both women nodded off to sleep.
./ With Samui
"Lord Kusakage." Samui said as she bowed in respect to the kage along with the ther chuunin.
"You may stand. Really here, Kumo shinobi have no real need to be over-formal while in Kusa territory." The Kusakage said with a light smile. Samui narrowed her eyes at the ground not liking the kage attitude but stood up nonetheless.
"Kasekage-dono." Samui said in order to ask permission to speak. Seeing the kage nod she continued. "The Raikage would like to request that person out." The kasekage narrowed his eyes at Samui and crossed his leg.
"Why didn't he sent a message?"
"I am here in order to see the matter personally; Raikage-sama wanted you to understand his seriousness if the situation."
"This will arise suspicion from the other four big nations if they hear there was an inmate that was let out." He said in response. "And I am sure Taki will not react kindly if they are to hear that we let their most important prisoner go." The kusakage said with a cautious voice.
"I undetstand. The Raikage is willing to take any blames and intercept and neutralize any hostility towards Kusa or Kumo. And we already know the way to deal with Taki."
"What about Konoha?" The Kusakage asked. It was; it was not a pointless question. Konoha had been known to be the allies and protectors of Kusa throughout the years and by extension the greatest prison in the continent, Hōzukijō. Hōzukijō is a giant prison within a castle that serves as large capacity, high security level containment building meant to hold the worst prisoners from all the nations. While the prison was under Kusa's jurisdiction it functioned completely alone. Kusa was a country that excelled at diplomacy, thus they knew what they were risking by working with Kumo while being Konoha allies. Even if that alliance was only on voice now at days, it was what had allowed Kusa to grow strong once again without any other nation attacking out of fear of being attacked back by Konoha.
"Konoha is no longer a liability." But Kusa didn't liked that. They wished for their former power. The one that they had before being cowardly attacked by Iwa during the last war and having the village torn apart by conflicts between Iwa and Konoha. Hearing those words the kusakage smiled.
./
And cut! I am done with this chapter. I intended to make it longer but that just seemed like a very good place to end it. Any rate I already have a good amount of words of the next one done so… Anyways, I hope you liked it and feel free to review. Tell me what you liked, what you didn't or just tell me anything, hell, tell me if you like train for all I care. Se you in the next chapter and later.