Hello, my faithful readers, there you go, 6th chapter of the story!
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* jutsu list:
Unnamed yoki-burst shield - (unranked) - only Alicia and Beth can perform it. the technique itself is simply deflecting enemy's attack with a powerful burst of yoki
Unnamed yoki-amplified punch attack - (unranked) - only Alicia and Beth can perform it. the technique is based in amplifying the damage of attack with directed yoki-burst.
Morphing - (unranked) - Only Alicia and Beth can perform it. using their yoki they can grow certain types of weapons made from demonic flesh from their bodies.
Fuuton: daitoppa - (C-rank) Wind style: great breakthrough - This jutsu creates a large blast of wind capable of leveling almost anything in its way.
Fuuton: Reppushou - (C-rank) Wind style: gale wind palm - strong gust of wind sent towards his target. When acting in conjunction with another thrown weapon, the wind can increase its power and deadliness.
Katon: housenka - (C-rank) Fire style: mythical fire phoenix - this fire jutsu creates series of small fireballs. The ninja can also hurl a projectile which is covered in these same flames.
Gogyou fuuin - (A-rank) Five elements seal - This is a fuuinjutsu technique. User forms an elemental seal on each of his fingers, one for each of the following five "elements": water, metal, earth, fire and wood. This seal disrupts chakra control of its target and makes jinchuuriki unable to communicate with his/her bijuu.
Katon: Goukakyuu - (C-rank) Fire style: great fireball - user exhales fire from his mouth.
(Raiton) Chidori senbon - (A-rank) (Lightning style) Thousand birds needles - chidori in a form of needles. is used for ranged attacks.
Naruto's unnamed wind-chakra shield - (unranked) - Naruto uses his wind element to form a shield against lightning-based attacks.
"speaking"
'thinking'
"jutsus / speaking of the higher beings / Naruto while using Kyuubi's powers / Juugo in CS second level mode"
'thinking of the higher beings / Kyuubi talking to Naruto through mental link'
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own anything from Naruto or Claymore in any shape or form.
AN: this is the pre-last chapter of the story and it is finally M for a reason. Lemon warnings will be in the text, worry not, those who don't want to read that.
Great thanks to anime-death-angel for beta-reading this chapter!
Chapter 6: Lovers' bond
For the next three days Naruto had Alicia adapting to her modified body, before finally bringing the girl to Tsunade for the physical... Naruto and twin ex-warriors entered the hospital room where fifth Hokage was already waiting for them.
"Good morning." She said as trio sat down.
"Good morning, Tsunade-sama." The girls replied. Naruto just bowed slightly.
"Let's begin. How are you feeling, Alicia-chan?" The fifth asked. For about twenty seconds former number one was silent, before she began answering:
"I feel... different. I'm both complete and not... It's... hard... impossible to explain with words... I need more sleep and food now, too. And my strength dropped." Tsunade nodded.
"OK, let me check you now." She made Alicia remove her T-shirt, and then checked the girl. The Hokage seemed both pleased with the new appearance of the ex-warrior's stomach and with the results she got from various scans: they were now closer to what human being should have... Also, Naruto too now couldn't help but ogle the topless girl in front of him. "Well... I can't see any problems with your health." Tsunade said as she finished the scans she ran on Alicia. "As your human and demonic halves merged, they no longer need to fight between each other: you no longer need to be afraid to lose yourself to your other side. But for some reason, the merging made your aging process restart, though you still will live longer than normal humans. Your body is still seventeen, while your life expectation is about century and half... You will still live about fourteen decades from today. I think, this was what you meant by being both complete and not." Alicia thought about it. Finally, almost minute later she nodded.
"It seems to be that." She said. "What about the change in my sleep pattern and my need for more food?" Tsunade looked through the results of her scans.
"You came closer to being human, so your needs for sleep and food too became closer to ones normal humans have... Change in your physical strength has the same reasons. Also, I noticed that your regeneration system changed; it'd be possible to heal your reproductive system now. Preparing the operation will take some time, but once it's done, you'll be able to have children." Alicia nodded as did Beth, who was next to having her seal applied.
"Thank you for your time, Tsunade-sama." Former number one said, putting her T-shirt back on.
"If that's all, you can go..." Godaime Hokage said. She did a small pause before adding: "Oh, Naruto, in seven days another Sasuke-searching mission will be organized. If you are still interested, come to my office at noon that day." Blond shinobi nodded.
"Hai, Tsunade-obaa-chan!" Tsunade sighed: this brat was insufferable.
"Then you're dismissed." She said.
"Actually, Tsunade-sama, we do have a question." Beth said. Then she turned to Naruto. "Naruto-sama, can you let us speak to Tsunade-sama in private, please." Kyuubi Jinchuuriki nodded hesitantly.
"Ah... Well... If you want." He said, before leaving the room, not forgetting to close the door behind him.
"So... What is your question that our blond boy can't hear?" The Hokage asked.
"Um..." Alicia couldn't phrase it, so Beth took the turn in speaking.
"Well... You see, from what we understand, our feelings towards Naruto-sama are love..." At this point ex-number two let whatever was left from her emotionless facade slip and blushed, rather deep shade of red too. "How... can we... show him?" Tsunade nodded in understanding. It was not like it wasn't obvious to everyone, but Naruto, how much the girls cared about him...
"It's not an easy question to answer." Fifth Hokage said sagely. "You may be there for him. Or you can... tell it to him, or kiss him too..." She continued uneasily.
"We have already done those... It still isn't showing the depth... of our love... towards Naruto-sama." Beth said, still blushing. Hokage sighed.
"Am... Even if the brat-... Naruto is such a prude, you can try to change your relationship into more physical one, eventually having sex with him. Don't force yourselves on him though, or it will have the opposite effect from what you want." Former number two nodded before asking her next question.
"What is sex?" Tsunade sighed... She never expected to give the talk to someone who actually was older than she was. Especially since she was well over fifty now... But given how the girls were raised – to be the perfect weapon – she couldn't fault them for not knowing anything about sex life and gender relations... The talk was quite long and embarrassing for both the girls and Tsunade; for the Hokage because of the questions she had to answer... Finally, about forty five minutes into their private talking, Tsunade decided that Naruto waited enough for his 'Alicia-chan' and 'Beth-chan'.
"I think that's enough for today. You shouldn't make Naruto wait any longer... If you will have more questions, feel free to ask me." She said and the girls nodded.
"Thank you, Tsunade-sama." And bowing a little, they exited the room...
***
As Alicia and Beth answered Naruto's questions without revealing the real reason for their talk with Tsunade, the trio moved to the one of currently free training grounds... Alicia first was tested on her swordsmanship and hand-to-hand fighting skills. Even if her physical strength dropped almost by forty percent, she still was much stronger than any normal human, and with her now-perfect yoki control, she could easily increase her strength and speed even past what was possible for her before the seal was applied. So, now she was even more formidable fighter with her claymore, than before. Her yoki-burst protection and yoki-amplified hits – now she could do those not only with her hands – became more powerful, again, because of her perfect control of yoki. Next Naruto had her test soul-link with Beth, whether she could control her twin, when she was in her awakened form. Or not... With difficulties, Alicia could do this. So next was the final part of their "training".
"Alicia-chan, I don't know what became of your abilities, that came from your demonic side, with the seal applied, so we'll have to try it." Former number one nodded.
"I agree. Though, releasing yoki now doesn't bring me closer to ...my other side. I have no idea how to call my... demonic abilities forth." Alicia said. Naruto had to agree with her, and began searching for the way around this problem. Finally, several minutes later, one possible solution came to his mind.
"When we had just met, Beth-chan told me that a warrior's regeneration is largely based on memory and visualization of the desired result. So, what you know or think affects your bodies in some way." The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki said. "Your awakened form had blades as its main weapons. Maybe if you imagine one, you would be able to grow them; some yoki applied, of course." Alicia nodded in understanding while her sister spoke.
"This seems to be a logical idea, you need to try it, onee-sama." Former number one closed her eyes and concentrated on making a curvy scythe-like blade grow out of her left hand... Sending her yoki there, she felt the flesh of her hand morph and looked there, unintentionally breaking her concentration. All she had grown was a small, almost rectangular, part of a purplish-gray demonic-flesh blade on the back of her hand, still not bad for the first time – if she could revert it. The girl concentrated again, this time willing the blade to disappear. For a second or two nothing happened, but then it slowly sank into her hand, leaving no signs that it even was there... As Alicia continued experimenting with the ability of her new body, Beth pulled Naruto aside. "T-There is... one thing I wanted... to ask, Naruto-sama." She said, looking down.
"Yes?" Kyuubi jinchuuriki asked her, not knowing what was on her mind.
"C-Can you apply the s-seal to me tomorrow?" Ex-number two asked after several moments of silence. Naruto looked at her questioningly. "It's only a week before your mission and we want to go with you, Naruto-sama. And it will take me some time to adapt to having the seal... So, it will be better to apply the seal to me as soon as possible." Blond jinchuuriki sighed: what should he do with the girls? But one look into silver eyes of the former number two gave him the answer.
"All right, I'll do it." He said finally. Beth nodded and they both turned to see how much progress Alicia did... It turned out that while they were speaking, ex-warrior of the rank one learned how to make the blades not unlike those she had in her awakened form appear on her hands, and now was trying to learn to fight with them too, with some significant success there – despite everything she went through in the past, she was number one for a reason even without her and her sister special ability.
***
Things went easier with Beth when she got the seal, as it was already known what to expect from it. And her being defensive type warrior helped too. So, just two days after former number two got the seal, she was cleared by Tsunade, as she had no health problems... In the afternoon of that day, Beth tried to find all her new abilities. First, she still could have her hands turned clawed, making them dangerous short-ranged weapons. Also, her 'biological crossbow' was there to, though the 'arrows' were no longer homing and regenerated a bit slower. And finally, her last ability, which caused some embarrassment that day, as it had her T-shirt torn, her blade-like wings, though no longer wings... now she could have three pairs of five-feet long blades able to prevent her back from being defenseless. All in all, she seemed to be even better equipped than her sister, even if they were still equal in the spars.
In the evening after the 'wing incident', Alicia and Beth had their clothes changed, finally no longer looking the same. Former number one picked a rather tight long button-up top, though it showed a good deal of her now-perfect stomach, same color mini-skirt that stopped three inches from her knees and went with a black leather belt and dark-gray boots. Her claymore was still on her back, secured there by a strap – she felt ...more secure this way, but the idea of always having it with her, just sealed on her body was worming its way into her mind – and both of her daggers were now in their sheathes and attached to the belt. Also, Naruto persuaded her to carry kunai, a pair of which were now strapped to each of her arms near her shoulders, and some wire in a small pouch, too, secured on the belt.
Beth, unlike her twin sister, picked a gray short-sleeved blouse which had the upper half of her back uncovered, dark-gray pants that went not much down her knees, and sandals with small heels. She too still preferred caring the claymore on her back, but the other weapons on her were arranged differently: former number two had her daggers crosswise on her lower back, the kunai she carried were in pouches and arranged on her legs, like most shinobi did, instead of wire, she picked much stronger rope, having it in the pouch on her left hip... All in all, both girls were happy with their new wardrobes. And judging from the looks Naruto was sending them from time to time, he liked them this way more.
Speaking of the blond Jinchuuriki. He now had two hot girls who were not only interested in him as their guardian, but were also quite in love with him. And with them curling into him during nights, the amount of physical contact they had and, of course, their kissing sessions that progressively grew hotter, he couldn't be oblivious to what was going on... But Naruto himself liked the girls, especially now that they became their own persons, so their hidden advances didn't bother him.
The week passed quickly and Naruto found himself in the Hokage's office, receiving briefing for another Sasuke-searching mission. Tsunade included Kakashi, Sakura, Sai and Tenzou in the mission but was hesitant to allow Alicia and Beth go too – they just had their seals applied and all.
"But, baa-chan! They will be a great help: they can sense chakra pretty well – it will be hard for Sasuke to hide from them." Naruto argued.
"The girls just got the seals. They can't possibly be back to their top forms by now, and we know nothing about what powers Sasuke has and how strong he is now." Tsunade responded. "If you value them even a little, you shouldn't even think about them going on this mission."
"I carry about them. Hell, I like them! But they are as strong now as they were before. I saw them spar many times this week: even most Jonins would have a problem with one of them. Together they can take on a kage!" Kyuubi jinchuuriki said. "And speaking of shinobi. I think it will be better to include Alicia-chan and Beth-chan into the forces." This made Hokage stop and think. Right now the girls had no protection from whatever the council could think of. As ninjas they will be out of the reach of at least half of those fools. Then she thought about the first part of Naruto's statement: she secretly watched them from time to time with Sarutobi's telescope ball, and she saw those spars. While she still thought that it was too early for the girls to go on missions again, she couldn't argue that they were still strong now; she herself would have a lot of problems if she had to fight them.
"Fine. They can go." The Hokage said with a sigh.
"Thank you." Naruto said. "But before the mission starts, I'd like to request a meeting with Mitarashi Anko. Just a meeting." He added. Tsunade raised her eyebrow, wanting to know what the blond teen had in his mind.
"And why is that?" She asked.
"What I'm going to say is confidential, so other, who may not already know it, should be removed from the office." Kyuubi jinchuuriki stated.
"Fine." The Fifth said with a sigh. The other four shinobi nodded and left her office. "So, what is this confidential information, brat?"
"Anko-san has the cursed seal." Naruto said calmly. Tsunade's reaction wasn't as calm.
"How?!"
"I was given enough clues." Kyuubi jinchuuriki said. "First, Jiraya once told me that there was someone, beside Sasuke, in the village with the cursed seal. Second, during chuunin exams preliminaries, when teme's seal tried to take control over him, I saw an afraid look in Anko's eyes, as well as how she unconsciously placed her hand on her left shoulder – cursed seals are often placed there. And, finally, I myself am a minor sensor. I can sense auras in radius of about seven-eight feet. Anko-san has the same feeling as Sasuke had after he got the seal." Naruto explained.
"OK, OK..." Hokage said, rubbing her temples. "Why do you want to meet with her?"
"Actually, I want the girls to meet her." The blond teen answered Tsunade's question. "They can sense chakra and yoki very well, and if they know how the cursed seal feels, it will be much easier to find Sasuke: I doubt that he got rid of his." Tsunade sighed again.
"Fine. I'll organize the meeting with Anko-san for you." Naruto nodded. "You can go now. Dismissed." After the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki left the room, the Hokage reached for one of her secret sake bottles: dealing with him more often left her tired as hell and alcohol seemed to give her some strength to carry on with Hokage duties for some time.
***
The meeting with Anko went well. Especially since the special Jonin didn't even know the main reason for it. Naruto asked her about finding someone with master-level kenjutsu skills to properly test the girls' abilities in this field – if they were to join the shinobi forces, like he wanted them, they had to submit results of their skills testing within one month since then. Anko said that she knew of the kenjutsu mistresses of Konoha and could organize the meeting with her if and when Naruto asked for it. For a price of month supply of dango of course.
In the next morning seven people left the village to go on another search for one Uchiha Sasuke. All seven of them were shinobi now: Tsunade gave Alicia and Beth their hitae-ates just before the mission started. Former number one had it attached to the belt of her mini-skirt, while her onee-chan tied it around her right arm.
An hour after the searching party left the village, three politicians entered Tsunade's office. Danzo stopped in the center of the room while Homura and Koharu were at each of his sides.
"It was brought to our attention that two strong female warriors, that weren't a part of the shinobi forces of any hidden village or country, took a permanent residence within the walls of Konohagakure no Sato. The honorable council of Konohagakure no Sato passed the decree that they are to be given to Uchiha Sasuke for clan restoration in case he returns to the village." The old war-hawk Danzo said, passing the scroll with the copy of voting record to Tsunade. The Hokage looked through it. Most of the shinobi council was against it, while every civilian council voted for it, along with the trio in front of her.
'You have a gift of precognition, Naruto, don't you?' She thought. "This is all well, but the decree is not valid." The fifth said, glaring at Danzo. "First, the council can only pass the decree without the Hokage's approval only if he or she is unable to perform the duties for more than a month or is out of the village for the same amount of time. Or dead. As you can see, I'm here, alive, and doing my job." The trio growled simultaneously. "Second, the civilian council cannot vote, when the decree or law affects only shinobi, except for the case when said shinobi are a danger to the safety of the village or the people living in it. Said 'strong female warriors' are a part of our shinobi forces as of yesterday afternoon and have a temporary rank of special Chunin. And without a question, these females were yet to give any signs of being a danger." Tsunade smirked, deciding to drop the heaviest bomb on the three wheeler dealers. "And just for your information, the girls in question can't have children due to their reproductive system being damaged." The Hokage said, before adding mentally: 'Not that I can't repair it...' She smirked as the trio of politicians growled angrily.
"Fine." Danzo said. " But it will be our way in the end." He added in a whisper, before leaving the room with Homura and Koharu following close behind him.
***
The seven Konoha shinobi were running through the forest near the north-west border of Fire country, when Beth suddenly stopped and looked almost straight to the north.
"What happened, Beth-chan?" Naruto asked, looking at her.
"There are two signatures that are close to the one of the cursed seal. One of the signatures is quite balanced and controlled, while the other one seems to be wild and barely held in check. There are two more normal shinobi signatures with those two, both are rather weak." The girls said.
"In that direction there is a valley between two cliffs. If you enter it, you'll have to either return or use the other exit to leave it. Even shinobi will have problems trying to climb up those cliffs. Are those four there?" Kakashi asked.
"They are moving towards the east at a normal shinobi pace. Currently they are at seven minutes past twelve o'clock from us in about three and a half miles." Ex-warrior told everyone. Tenzou nodded.
"Those four are indeed in the valley. If we split in two groups, we can block both entrances there and then it will be easy to find out who those four are." Everybody agreed with him.
"I will go with Alicia-chan and Beth-chan." Naruto said. Smiling twins were immediately by his side... Kakashi shook his head.
"Fine. The rest of us will be the second group. Now, let's go."
***
Team Hebi was running through the valley between two cliffs, Sasuke was in the lead. He just recovered from the fight with Akatsuki member called Deidara. The fight was long and exhausting and in the end both parties were left injured, but alive. Now he needed to find and kill Itachi before that Deidara tells the man about his coming death. Itachi must not be prepared to fight him!
"Sa-asuke-kun!" Karin, the only girl on his team called. Damn, she was annoying, but useful: she was a sensor and had some advanced medical skills. "We have a problem." Sasuke looked at her, raising an eyebrow in silent question. Karin understood him. "There are four unknown signatures in front of us in about a mile. One of the signatures has chakra reserves that are at least kage-level. The other three have no chakra, but a lot of demonic energy. One of those overlap with chakra signature." The girl turned her sensor abilities to the max, trying to sense more. "And there are four shinobi, all at least chuunin, behind us."
"Whom will we fight, eh, Sasuke?" Suigetsu asked touching the handle of his Kubikiri Houchou.
"We will never turn back. We will continue going forward and fight that mysterious four if they cause any trouble for us." The Uchiha teen said.
In about ten minutes Sasuke and his small group approached the exit from the valley where those strange signatures were waiting... Under the small group of trees there were three blonds. The only male among them – spiky-haired teen in black and orange clothes – was sitting against one of the trees and was braiding a wreath from field flowers. The other two were twin girls that looked like they were in their late teens. One of them was leaning against the same tree and had her arms folded on her chest. She had a claymore on her back. The other girl was sitting by the boy's side with her arms lying on her legs. Her head, with a wreath on it, was on his shoulder. Another claymore was lying on the ground within her reach... When team Hebi got close enough to the trio, she whispered something to the boy, before picking her sword and standing up. The boy put the half-made wreath aside and stood up, making a small show by dusting himself off.
"Hello, teme." The boy said, looking straight into Sasuke's eyes with his own, sky-blue ones. The Uchiha growled when he heard this ...nobody use this nickname on him, but then he spotted whisker-like marks on boy's cheeks. This was Naruto.
"Karin, why did you lead me to believe that there was something dangerous? It's just the dobe and his whor..." The wave of killing intent Naruto released was enough to shut Sasuke up. "Oh? You learned something new, deadlast?" Instead of the dobe charging at him, he got only a cold glare from the said 'dobe'.
"Girls with big swords! I'm so gonna fight them!!!" Suigetsu shouted, removing his head-cleaver from his back and dashing forward to attack Beth.
"You don't keep you associates in line." Naruto commented, stepping aside to let former number two some space for the sword fight.
"I have no use of saving losers." Sasuke said, activating his Sharingan. "Karin, do not interfere." He barked the order before a lightning started cracking in his hand. "Chidori Senbon!" Several needles made from lightning flew towards Naruto who lazily moved his hand, releasing some wind-natured chakra to block Sasuke's attack. "Not bad, dobe. But you were never good enough to be my equal." The Uchiha said, charging at his ex-teammate, drawing his katana.
Despite the Kubikiri Houchou's size, it was an easy thing to block for an experienced warrior like Beth. Seeing the way the girl stopped his attack with her claymore, holding it in just one hand, Suigetsu started adding pressure, but to no effect – his zanbatso wasn't moving closer to the blond ex-warrior at all. Then he gave a feral toothy grin, pushing as much chakra into his arms as possible, increasing his muscle strength to the body's limit. This finally had some effect, though definitely not the one he hoped for: he saw the girl in front of him just strain her arm's muscles.
"What are you?" Suigetsu asked, bringing his zanbatso back a little to do a horizontal swing. Beth moved her claymore to block this attack like it wasn't a heavy sword but a dry stuck in her hand... Two weapons met with a loud 'clang' and Suigetsu felt like he hit a stone wall – how strong this girl was? - her claymore didn't move from position she put it in even a centimeter.
"Dark seraph Beth, former number two of the organization, currently warrior of Konoha." The girl answered, quite easily pushing his zanbatso away before trying to do a vertical slash. Suigetsu barely had time to bloke her attack, and still, she was breaking his defense with just one hand on the handle of her claymore. Suddenly she broke eye contact with him and twirled aside. Moments later a giant gray fist flew through the space she'd just occupied. Beth ducked under Suigetsu's swing and moved in front of Juugo, kneeing him in the gut. A powerful release of yoki sent large man flying. Suigetsu decided to use his chance as she currently had her back towards him, but the blond ex-warrior blocked his slash aimed at her head without even looking. She twirled again, trying to punch him with her free hand, but had it just go through his body that turned into water.
"Sorry." Suigetsu gave a toothy grin. "But hitting me is useless." Beth just raised her eyebrow.
"Is this so?" Yoki exploded from her hand, tearing her opponent in two. Of course, Suigetsu wasn't wounded at all by this, but it would take him some time to rebuild his body. She then jumped back, avoiding another punch from Juugo. "You are strange. You feel much like the cursed seal, yet you are natural." The girl commented. The man stopped in his tracks, surprised by her words. Then he suddenly let out a feral growl and the skin all over his body turned gray and a good dozen of strange open-end tubes formed, pointing at her. Beth felt a lot of energy – mixture between yoki and chakra – building in Juugo's body and moving towards these tubes.
"Die!" He roared, releasing the energy at his target. Former number two immediately brought her yoki-burst protection up, but kept pushing her yoki in it, redirecting the energy blast from herself. By the time Juugo's attack finished, she was winded from the constant release of yoki she had just performed. And immediately she had to block both a punch from Juugo and a swing of Suigetsu's zanbatso. Thankfully, her claymore was enough to protect her from both attacks.
"Dealing with you two at the same time is quite troublesome." The blond ex-warrior said as she again moved in front of Juugo and punched him, sending him crushing into a tree. Blocking another zanbatso swing from Suigetsu, she grew three 'arrows' on her free hand. She released them and moments later Juugo was nailed to the unfortunate tree through both his shoulders and his right hip. "This should keep you away from the fight for some time." Beth added, returning her full attention to Suigetsu. She attacked him with her claymore, making him block it. Then she shot forward with blinding speed, grabbing his right arm with her free left and throwing him to the side. He was so surprised by this turn of events that he forgot to turn his body into water, letting the hilt of Beth's sword connect with the back of his head. He fell on the ground unconscious then.
"I will kill you, woman!" Juugo roared as he finally freed himself. He again tried to punch the blond ex-warrior with his turned by cursed seal virus arm, but his fist again connected with just the flat side of her sword. "What..?!" The giant exclaimed when the girl grabbed his extended arm and yanked, sending him flying towards her like he weighted nothing... Beth delivered a perfect uppercut to Juugo, knocking a breath out of him and sending him up into the air. She sidestepped, allowing him to crash onto the ground, and then hit a point on his neck, knocking him unconscious. As this happened, his body reverted back to looking like a normal human.
"Huh?" Deciding that Naruto-sama might know what's wrong with this man, former number two made sure that her wreath was alright and proceeded to bind the duo she fought.
Naruto blocked Sasuke's katana with his kunai. For several seconds they struggled to overpower each other, but then the Uchiha jumped back and flashed through handseals.
"Katon: Housenka!" He breathed out several small fireballs at his former teammate, but the dobe dodged them. As they both tried to think of a strategy against each other, Alicia asked her "master".
"What's with his eyes, Naruto-sama?" The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki broke out of his thoughts and looked at her.
"They are a part of bloodline of Uchiha clan and are called Sharingan. They allow the user to see through most illusions, memorize almost any tai-, nin- and genjutsu seen. And these eyes can also be precognitive about movements and real masters are said to be able to cast illusions with just the eyes." Naruto explained.
"I see... You've done your homework for once, deadlast." With these words, Sasuke charged at his ex-teammate again, doing a swing towards his head. The young Jinchuuriki ducked under the blade and punched the Uchiha in the gut, only to hit air as the dark-haired teen already kawarimi'ed behind Alicia. Former number one felt Sasuke appear behind her and tried to evade his katana, aimed to kill her. She was partially successful as the blade just severed her right arm instead of cutting her in two – something that would surely kill her. Naruto threw kunai at Uchiha, but he again used kawarimi to get away. "Katon: Goukakyuu!" Sasuke announced after he completed the sequence of handseals.
"Fuuton: Daitoppa!" Naruto performed his own jutsu. Wind collided with fire, increasing its power, but also redirecting it away from Alicia, thus saving her. "Fuuton: Reppushou!" This wind jutsu was sent towards Sasuke, forcing him on defensive.
"Rgh..." Alicia growled at herself as she picked her severed arm and, hoping beyond hope that it will still work, brought it to where it should be. Concentrating on her yoki she attempted to reattach her limb. For several seconds nothing happened, but then she felt familiar sensation of becoming physically complete again – during her days as an organization warrior she was once unlucky enough to have to reattach her leg and thus knew what it felt like reattachment was slower than she remembered it to be, but it was there and she was thankful for this. Almost three minutes later only a faint scar that will fade to nothing in an hour or so was the sole reminder that the limb was severed. Alicia made sure that her reattached arm worked properly before picking up her claymore. While she was reattaching her arm, the situation in the fight changed: Naruto-sama now was in his single-tailed state trading punches and jutsu with the now gray-skinned and winged Sasuke. And both of them were too much concentrated on fighting each other to notice that she was back. So Alicia used this to her advantage and sneaked behind Sasuke. She did a horizontal swing at him. To her surprise the Uchiha managed to block her claymore, but even with his cursed seal active he was overpowered by the ex-warrior and pushed against a big rock. Seeing as his opponent was temporary immobilized by Alicia, who was back into the fight, Naruto suppressed the Kyuubi's yoki and activated his jutsu.
"Gogyou Fuuin!" The young Jinchuuriki called, slamming his hand into Sasuke's abdomen. Five purple flames around his fingers changed into the seal on dark-haired teen's body. The Uchiha screamed as the seal took its place, destroying his chakra control and forcing the curse seal away to hide into its mark. Then he lost consciousness. Alicia looked at her "master".
"I'm sorry, Naruto-sama, I wasn't careful." She fully expected him to be angry at her, so she was surprised when she was hugged lightly.
"But you are fine and that's more important." Naruto whispered to her... Suddenly ex-number one turned around. The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki followed her example, moments later they saw Beth approach them. She had her claymore secured on her back and the Kubikiri Houchou was in her right hand and resting on her right shoulder as she was caring her bound and unconscious opponents over her left shoulder.
"What shall we do with them, Naruto-sama?" She asked. Naruto shrugged.
"Kakashi-sensei is the leader, he will decide what to do with these two. But the sword definitely should be returned to where it was taken from." He said, before turning to Karin who was trying to blend into the environment and slip away. "Hey, redhead." Karin immediately froze. "If you come with us willingly and behave, we won't have to bind you or knock you unconscious." She sighed and slowly walked towards Naruto.
"Oh, you've already finished? Good work." Said Kakashi as he entered the clearing with the rest of the team. "Now, let's return to Konoha."
***
During their short return to the Hidden Leaf Naruto completed the final part of the paperwork needed to make Alicia and Beth into ninja. Both girls showed a level of swordsmanship that even the best of the ANBU couldn't overcome. Their strength and stamina too were past what was usual for shinobi. The girls weren't stupid, even if not having too much knowledgeable, and, despite having no chakra at all, their yoki reserves were close chakra reserves of kage-level ninja. Their taijutsu was at high-Chunin level as were their tool usage skills. Neither Alicia nor Beth could perform any ninjutsu or genjutsu, but they were immune against most illusions as they had no chakra for enemy to manipulate.
Naruto also asked the Hokage what will happen to the four they captured. Tsunade assured him that Sasuke will get all the punishment he deserved. She wasn't sure what to do with Suigetsu, though. Juugo was to be examined and, if possible, healed from his problem. Karin, if she completed her trial period without problems with the Hidden Leaf, will be given a position in the hospital.
After the paperwork and other businesses in Konoha were done, Naruto managed to talk Tsunade into letting him and the girls to visit Wave country to return Kubikiri Houchou to Zabuza's grave. The trip to the Wave was rather short and event-less, except for Naruto finding out that the bridge he helped to protect and build three years ago was now named after him. The trio walked to the where Zabuza's and Haku's graves were and the Kyuubi jinchuuriki immediately started working: he drew a sequence of enforcing seals on the stone, before returning his zanbatso to its place as a gravestone for one of the seven swordsmen of the Mist and activating the array. Now anyone who tried would need at least the powers of a Biju to remove the sword. As it was an early evening, Naruto decided to stay for the night on the nearby hill – despite everything, he thought that he wasn't ready to go down to the town and meet the people there. After a light dinner the young Jinchuuriki sat outside the tent, leaning against a tree and got ready to write a report for this "mission" - Tsunade said she wanted it – but his plans went to waste as soon as a familiar weight of a blond ex-warrior settled on his legs.
"Naruto-sama?" Setting the still empty scroll aside, Naruto looked up to see Alicia looking at him with barely concealed love and lust in her lively brown eyes. Beth was sitting on her knees on the grass on the left to her sister with the same look in her own eyes. He sighed.
"What shall I do with you?" He said with a smile. The girls needed no invitations and as soon as these words flew from his lips, Alicia was giving him a heated kiss, sneaking her tongue into his mouth. Moments later Beth joined them in a three-way kiss.
Naruto didn't know how much time passed till he was 'sobered' again. He was still sitting against the tree, but his jacket was unzipped and half-removed from him and his T-shirt was pulled up to the level of his ribs. He now had Alicia on his left side snuggling into him with her right arm around his shoulders. Her top was unbuttoned, revealing her bosom to the world. Her left hand was on top of his and both were resting on her naked left breast. Beth was lying on top of him, hugging him around his torso and resting her head on his right shoulder. And she didn't mind his hand on her asscheek. Alicia gave him another kiss, coupled with making him squeeze her breast, before removing her arm from around his shoulders. Then she tried to remove her top, but Naruto stopped her.
"Why, Naruto-sama?" Former number one asked with a pout. Beth rose up and pecked her sister on her lips. The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki rose too and gave Alicia a heated kiss.
"We're outdoors, Alicia-chan." The girl was just looking at him. "We can't do it here." He added. He wasn't self-conscious enough back then when ex-number one unbuttoned her top, so he let it slip. But he will have it only in private. Alicia pouted again. Naruto and Beth, who understood her "master", both gave her another kiss. Finally, she gave in.
"OK." Alicia said and rolled away a bit from Naruto, before sitting up. She thought about buttoning her top up, but as they were going to bed soon, decided against it. She stood up, giving a perfect eyeful of her breasts to the young Jinchuuriki, before disappearing into the tent. Beth stood up on all fours over Naruto. She gave him a quick kiss, before leaning forward more and whispering into his ear.
"Onee-sama really wanted to do it. I really want it too." She looked down, spotting his erection. "And you also. But I understand, this is not the place." Beth paused for a moment. "But, please, when we are back home, make us happy." She gave him one more, much longer, kiss, before following her sister into the tent, leaving Naruto alone to think about what had just happened.
***
Lemon warning. If you don't want to read the lemon, skip to the 'End of lemon warning' message.
The trio of blonds entered Naruto's... their flat after returning from the Wave, not forgetting to make a quick stop at Hokage's office to give Tsunade the "mission" report. Just as soon as the door was closed and the backpacks and weapons were put down onto the floor, the girls practically dragged Naruto into the bedroom, not that he resisted, of course. The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki found himself on their giant bed with an eager Alicia and Beth on top of him. Without any more delay the girls started making out with him and each other. Kissing slowly at first as it went to groping and then into petting as their clothes were shed. The now naked trio paused their activities for a moment and the girls looked into each other's eyes. Then Beth rolled aside and sat up. Alicia took position in Naruto's lap. She leaned forward, lying on top of him, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and giving him a longing kiss. Then she rolled them over, so that he was on top of her, and wrapped her legs around his waist. She let his lips go and let out a soft whisper.
"Take me, I'm yours." Naruto removed her arms from around himself, placing them on the bed, and locked his hands with hers, then he looked into her chocolate-colored eyes filled with lust, reading the answer to the question he had yet to ask. He entered her, moaning from the feeling of her hot tightness surrounding him. Alicia on the other hand let out strange meowing sound and for several seconds just lay there with a silly grin on her face. "Feels so good..." The girl whispered, returning to her senses. She started moving her hips and Naruto, catching her signal, began sliding in and out of her. He raised his body up to do it easier and Beth immediately claimed her sister's lips. The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki was surprised when just a little more than two minutes into rather slow and gentle love-making Alicia's inner walls tightened around him as she came, moaning into her twin's mouth. Naruto paused the movements, but not half a minute later did ex-number one started moving her hips again, prompting him to continue.
"Aah..." Naruto moaned as he finally came, bringing Alicia over the edge for the seventh time by this – she was quite insatiable, which made for her very low pleasure threshold very well. Beth let her sister's lips go and turned to the blond Jinchuuriki, pushing him gently on his back, leaving a flushed and sprawled on the bed Alicia returning to the living world from the cloud nine where she was right now.
"I'm yours too, Naruto-sama." Former number two said, lying on top of him and giving him a passionate kiss, all the time rubbing their sexes together. By the time his erection became rock-hard again, she was well near the edge. "Let's make me yours." She rose up and then sat down, sheathing his member in her tight pussy. "Mmm..." She moaned as the waves of orgasm rippled through her entire being, added with the pleasure of feeling Naruto's hands hold her hips softly. Naruto waited for her to return from the orgasmic high and started making love to her. By the time of Beth's third orgasm came – like her sister she too had really low pleasure threshold and too was insatiable – Alicia was again with them. Former number one crawled to the pair and sat on her knees next to them, bringing Beth into a kiss. Together they brought ex-number two to a climax four more times before Naruto unloaded into her. Beth fell on top of him and started kissing him, soon joined by her sister, who curled into his side. They broke the three-way kiss and the girls rose a bit, looking into his eyes.
"We love you, Naruto-sama." They said together barely above the whisper. Naruto snaked his arms around girls' waists and brought them back down, close to him.
"I..." Did he really have those feelings for them? The Kyuubi jinchuuriki decided that, yes, he had. "I love you too, Alicia-chan, Beth-chan." He told them, giving each a kiss. The girls wrapped their arms around him and each other, bringing the three of them even closer to each other, and simultaneously kissed their "master". As the kiss came to an end, the girls kissed each other and then snuggled into Naruto, slowly drifting into the world of dreams.
***
Naruto woke up as the girls moved. It was still dark in the room and when looked at the clock, it showed that it was a little past five in the morning. Too early to start a day for his likes, but as Alicia and Beth just woke up, it meant that they slept for about what, seven hours. Naruto felt a sting of pride: he wore them down like this yesterday. He sat up and the girls, who were giving each other a morning kiss, noticed that he too was awake. They broke the kiss and pushed him back onto the bed, kissing him longingly.
"Naruto-sama." The girls whispered happily. Beth then moved aside while Alicia positioned herself on top of him, guiding his already erect member to her pussy. She let out a quiet moan as her entered her. Naruto's own moan was cut off by Beth pressing her lips to his and invading his mouth with her tongue. Former number one placed her hands on her lover's shoulders while his hands took their places on her firm posterior. They started moving, faster than yesterday, bringing the act to be closer to fucking than love making. Beth broke their making out session to let out a long-suppressed moan. The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki looked at her, noticing her left hand going between her legs with a slim finger sheathed in her folds; he saw her glistening juices in a pale light of this early hour on the upper parts of her inner thighs – the girl must have brought herself over the edge several times while they were kissing.
"Oh... Alicia-cha-a-an!" Naruto himself moaned as he came, taking Alicia to orgasmic high with him. The girl fell on all fours on top of him and Beth immediately claimed her lips for a hot kiss, moving her hand away from her snatch. The Jinchuuriki slid from underneath Alicia and moved behind her twin. Beth shivered with anticipation when she felt him pressing against her from behind. She shivered again, enjoying his hot breath at her neck, and the way his hands cupped, and folded her breasts ,and then, as he entered her, she let out a moan into her onee-sama's mouth, and let herself be drowned in pleasure.
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In was almost eight in the morning when the trio was finally dressed and ready for the day. Naruto, as well as the girls, needed to see Tsunade today – yesterday they were kinda in a hurry to stay and ask her about the progress she made in researching the method to restore girls' reproductive systems. Then they needed to train. And of course, have some time for themselves.
The trio entered Tsunade's office after a short walk through still mostly empty streets of Konoha. Much to Naruto's surprise the Hokage was awake and working. She looked at them from behind the stack of papers, for several seconds trying to recall the reason why they were here.
"Um..." Then here eyes fell on the opened scrolls with her recent research. "Oh, right. I'm almost done with researching the operations'. It will take me several more days to go over the details for the final time so meet me at the hospital in one week." The Hokage said.
"Thank you, Tsunade-sama." The girls said in chorus as the Godaime noticed the satisfied look they all and grinned.
"I take it that you were successful in your quest?" She asked Alicia and Beth.
"Indeed." Former number one replied.
"Lucky girls." Tsunade said. "Anyway if there are no more questions, I'd like to return into this hell of a paperwork – Shizune will have me if I'm done with it today." The trio nodded.
"OK, we will go then, Tsunade-baa-chan." Naruto said, and they left the office.
***
During the following week the three of them continued their trainings, Alicia and Beth in a form of sparring between each other and the former number one was now losing more fights to her sister, than winning. Naruto and the girls also did quite a lot of exploring into the territory of sex, trying new positions and new ways. The girls enjoyed it in almost any way, and their superior muscle control that came from their demonic sides provided them an escape from the ...pain in anal sex. Though "classic" love-making was still their favorite one.
Finally, the time for the operations came. Tsunade had insisted that the girls would stay the next three days after the operations in the hospital, so that she could observe them. Just in case. It was a really long three days for Naruto, as he grew more than just quite attached to Alicia and Beth. Whether he really loved them or just liked a lot, he still wasn't sure, but the girls were a major part of his life, and a good part at that, so having them as mates or family was an idea Naruto was for with both his hands.
The Kyuubi jinchuuriki knew that nothing bad will happen with them in the hospital, but he still didn't want them to be there all alone without him. Even for just three days. But he finally let them go. After giving both Alicia and Beth a long kiss.
Just as the sun rose next morning, Naruto went straight to Hokage to get the update on his girls' conditions.
"They're fine. Operations went well." The Godaime said with a proud smile. She had her rights for it: it's not easy to research an operation this complex for a hanyou from scratch after all. "But I still want them to stay at the hospital for today and tomorrow: I suspect that while their reproductive systems are restored, they might not work in exactly the same way normal humans do." Naruto, no matter how much he wanted the girls be back with him, had to agree with Tsunade.
"Fine." He said.
"Also, there's another important matter." Hokage waited for Naruto to become dead serious. "There have already been two attempts to marry the girls off to the Uchiha. The second one was done about an hour ago." Ignoring his indignation as well as the KI he was leaking, Tsunade continued. "I was able to veto them up to now, but something cardinal must be done." She paused for a moment. "Under normal circumstances polygamy is allowed only with invoking the CRA in Konoha, but I can use an excuse about their inseparability due to soul link. As the marriage will be registered by me, the acting Hokage personally, the council won't be able to break it."
"You want me to marry Alicia-chan and Beth-chan?" Naruto asked. He saw Tsunade's face change. "No, no, no, it's just so sudden. You need to ask them first, of course, but I'll be happy." The Hokage nodded.
"Of course." Shee said "But I think I already know their answer."
***
The ceremony, if one could call it that, was quick and quiet, all done in well under five minutes. And only the official papers, Tsunade, and those who saw the simple rings on the newlyweds' fingers knew about what happened. Although their official status changed, the relationship the trio was in didn't. Why, if it was perfect for them for now.
Lemon warning. If you don't want to read this lemon - skip to the end of the chapter.
Their relatively short walk back home from the Hokage tower finally ended and the trio entered the warm nest their flat became to them. Removing their shoes, they proceeded to the bedroom, already sharing progressively growing hotter kisses with each other. As often, Naruto found himself under two hot and wanting girls in a three-way make out. Their hands were wandering around and, like it often happened, the girls were just hugging him closer. The young Jinchuuriki's hands found their way into the girls' private areas and he was now driving Alicia and Beth to the pleasure heights with his fingers.
"Mmph." Former number one moaned as Naruto made her come. Well, during the week before the operation the trio had a lot of sex and the girls' stamina grew a lot, but still they were reaching their orgasms trice as often as – like Tsunade said – normal women do. And Alicia had a little lower stamina than her onee-chan, offensive warrior's nature still present somewhat in her might be the reason. Alicia rolled a bit away and began removing her clothes. Her sister soon followed her onto orgasm, but instead of fighting her own clothes, Beth chose to rid Naruto of his. Starting with the lower half.
"Oh." Naruto let out unintelligibly as his manhood was attacked by the tongues of Beth and, now topless, Alicia. The girls were slow and thorough in licking his member from the head down and then back up as the precum oozed from the tip of his cock, the girls changed tactics and were now taking him in their mouths in short turns, sometimes ending kissing each other for a few moments before returning to their "main task". It didn't take much time for Naruto to come close to the release. "Ah... I'm... going to... Oh... cum... soon..." He tried to warn them. Alicia and Beth stopped for a moment to look into each other's eyes. Then, former number two took him back into her mouth and began sucking, soon rewarded with a seed he unloaded into her mouth. Just as she let him out, Alicia captured her mouth for a long kiss, tasting Naruto's cum from her sister's mouth. Watching them kiss this way made his erection return in an instant. The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki rolled Alicia, who somehow didn't even break the kiss during this, onto her back, and moved between her legs. The girl still had her mini on, but was already missing her panties, so there was nothing in his way and he entered her wanting pussy, immediately feeling it surround his member with a hot wet tightness.
"Mmm... Naruto-sama." Ex-number one moaned, wrapping her legs around him. Naruto waited for several moments, before he started moving in and out of her, slowly at first, but building a rhythm with time. He made her come three times, before reaching the release himself. Beth, who all the time was making out with her onee-sama, let her sister's lips go and pulled her pants and panties down. Now naked from the waist down, she made him lie on his back before taking the position on top of him. She rubbed her wet slit against his cock till it became as hard as rock again, and then guided it into her cunt. She rode Naruto slowly, enjoying every moment of it. Alicia, not wanting to be left aside, chose this time to start another kissing session with her "master". Beth just came for the second time when their love-making pushed Naruto over the edge. He released his seed into her and, somehow, made her come for the third time. Beth rolled to the side, letting his member exit her with a wet pop. Her sister at the same time crawled towards the wall, getting down on her knees and placing her hands on the wall. "Take me, Naruto-sama." She cooed. "Take me... in my ass." Beth, who somehow already caught her breath and found her way into sitting in front and under her sister, looked at Naruto.
"Master?" She asked, lifting Alicia's mini-skirt up and spreading her ass-cheeks, showing the eager hole to the young Jinchuuriki. Naruto moved behind Alicia and entered the girl's hot and very tight bum in one go. Her rather loud moan of intense pleasure was drowned in a kiss Beth gave her. Naruto moved his hand to fold former number one's breasts, all while he was shagging her out of her mind and her sister was making out with her and giving her hips a gentle massage. By the time of her third orgasm Alicia was a moaning mess lying on top of Beth, whom she was still making out with her sister, with her juices covering her inner thighs as well as leaking onto her sisters crotch and bed sheets. Naruto continued fucking her ass, feeling his climax approach. Finally he came into her and pulled her away from Beth and against his body, gently nibbling her ear. His softening member was still inside her and soon he felt Alicia using her muscles to bring him back into hardness. Having his erection back, The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki slid out of her and, after giving her a heated kiss, shifted his attention to Beth. Alicia stepped aside, allowing him to sit in front of her sister. Naruto kissed former number two while simultaneously trying to remove her blouse she still had on. Succeeding in this, he picked up the now naked Beth and carried her to the edge of bed. Sitting down, he settled the girl in his lap, facing away from him, with her legs spread wide and his member completely sheathed in her rear passage. She moaned loudly in pleasure, feeling him stretch her ass. Then more waves of pleasure assaulted her senses as Naruto started moving in and out of her. Suddenly she let out a much louder moan, as Alicia kneeling between her legs dragged her tongue along her slit.
"Payback, 'nee-chan." Former number one said, before returning back between her sister's legs. Together they gave Beth five most intense orgasms by the time Naruto reached his climax, sending his seed into her. After he removed himself from her, The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki laid Beth down on her back on the edge of the bed. Alicia gave him a long deep kiss before lying down next to her sister and engaging her into another kissing session. The sight in front of him made Naruto's erection return and he, having her legs together and up, entered Beth's pussy, making the girl moan into Alicia's mouth. Naruto suddenly noticed a playfully-evil smirk on ex-number one's face, just as her hand made its way between her twin's legs. Beth came intensely just as Alicia's finger found a way into her asshole, just as she returned a little from the height of her orgasm, former number two decided to return the favor and started fingering her sister's bum, making her too moan into their kiss. Naruto came, filling Beth's pussy with his cum, and stepped back. The girls, though, didn't stop working on each other with their fingers until Alicia had reached her second climax. Former number one rose from the bed and came up to him, pressing her body into his and giving him a long kiss. While they were kissing, Naruto pulled her skirt down, making it slide down along her legs and fall on the floor. He then started rubbing girl's lower back, making her purr contently into the kiss. Alicia lifted her left leg and wrapped it around his right. "Take me." She whispered, before kissing him again, all while grinding their crotches together. How could he resist her? - Naruto entered her wanting pussy, earning a moan of pleasure from her into the kiss. Just as they started, Beth joined them, making the kiss into three-way kiss-fest. Her right arm went around Naruto's shoulders while her left one went to cup Alicia bum, before having a finger reenter the girl's ass. Former number one moaned loudly from being pleasured in both holes, before sending her right hand to return the favor, only going for her sister's cunt this time. The sex they had was exciting and pleasurable, but it had to end sometime and after Naruto came into Alicia's pussy, he picked the girl up, and carried her to the bed, where they lied down together. Beth joined them moments later and the girls took their usual positions, cuddling into his sides.
"We love you, Naruto-sama." They whispered. The Kyuubi Jinchuuriki gave each of them a kiss.
"I love you too." Alicia and Beth laid their heads on his chest and snuggled closer to him, closing their eyes and going into the land of dreams. Feeling their breath become slower and deeper, Naruto hugged them closer, before going to sleep.
For now, that's all, folks. R&R!!! Next chapter is "Something to fight for" will be the last. If I don't find any ideas for the epilogue.