Reforging The Past

by Paladeus

Naruto and Hinata go back in time with Kyuubi's help when she realizes she's about to die, which would also kill Naruto. In the process, they become Hanyou and they begin building up their comrades to fight the horrors to come.Naru/Hina/Ino/FemHaku/FemKyu

10. The Safety Word is Banana

Title: Reforging The Past

Chapter10 – The Safety Word is Banana

Ship: Naruto/Hina, Naru/Harem, Naru/Hina/Ino/FemHaku/FemKyuu, Anko/Kurenai

Warnings: Nudity, Oral Sex, Masturbation, Torture, Mild Yuri

Author: Paladeus

Key: "Speech", "Demonic Speech", 'Thought', 'Demonic Thought'

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[A/N:] Here's the rest of the last chapter, plus what I had planned for this one except for one arc. I had to cut this in half again because it was nearing 40K words and I've been told, repeatedly, that's too long. Remember: If you want to skip the naughty stuff, search for "[Lemon End]" without the quotes. This story is MEANT to have lots of sex and naughty innuendo. It's a little heavy in this chapter because of some of the darker stuff in it as well.

Naruto's girls, no matter what is hinted at, will never sleep with someone other than him! Parts of this story will hint at that, and I want it cleared up early.

WARNING! This chapter has a scene of torture in it! Like my lemons, this will be labeled. Search for "[Torture Start]" and "[Torture End]" if you do not want to read it. This DOES have a reason for existing. Torture is known to not work reliably in the real world. This explains why it works in the Naruto universe and how it was used in the past. It isn't horrible, but they do inflict pain. It's no worse than a fight, except that the target can't fight back. Plus, I would recommend reading it, anyway.

Recommended Story of the Chapter: "N" by VFSNAKE (Naru/Hina)

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"Do you really want this?" Naruto asked his mate, not sure how to continue. "I've always kind of figured it was you and me. I won't lie and say the idea of both of you isn't interesting, especially with how comfortable this is," he said, squeezing both Hinata's and kissing them on the foreheads, "but I have no problems with keeping Ino-chan a good friend and keeping you."

Both Hinata's smiled warmly and sighed in contentment. There was just something so comforting in knowing your man was literally being offered two women and was offering to have nothing to do with the concept. "I want this, Naruto-kun. I know you care for her and I know how great of a friend she can become. Hell, she's nearly as close to us as she was in the future. I want to share you with her because I know you care for both of us and I wouldn't have had you if she hadn't wanted me to have the chance. I want to repay that kindness, Naruto-kun."

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Ino still felt extremely warm, flustered and excited as she left Naruto's apartment and ran to the market section of Konoha. She began to wander while taking time to cool down and think. What she had just witnessed Naruto and Hinata doing, while not completely surprising in content, had just shocked her into stopping as she watched Hinata begin to please Naruto with her mouth.

Never in her life had Ino felt so turned on by something! And it wasn't just the stuff they were doing, but how they looked while doing it that affected her so much. They truly cared for and loved one another. That was as obvious as it was that they were strong people. But they were earnest in that love, which wasn't something she thought could really exist in someone that was as young as herself, even if only in body, it seemed.

Ino saw that kind of emotion reflected in the eyes of people like the parents of Chouji, Shikamaru and herself sometimes, and it was ... profound, really.

Not that she wasn't imagining herself in Hinata's place for a moment there, which was when she realized where her thoughts were leading and she bolted. Imagining herself sitting on the couch with Naruto's grinning face descending upon her most intimate of areas just to please her was not exactly the horrifying concept it may have once been, but the idea of wanting it to happen spooked her. In that brief moment, Ino had wanted Naruto to look at her the way he looked at Hinata; to have someone want her so thoroughly that you could feel it from just a look. She wanted to make him as happy as Hinata had done.

And it scared her a little that she was okay with that idea. They were all only thirteen! She had only truly known them and been on their team for a month! Hell, she was pursuing Sasuke's love only two months ago! Now, her thoughts and dreams had a tendency to centering on blonde hair and blue eyes, and it wasn't just her own.

And then there was all of this information on Naruto having the demon fox, Kyuubi, stuffed behind his bellybutton. And using that fox to go back in time! Even before joining his team, she figured something that abnormal would only ever be able to happen to Naruto, but come on! Time travel!

'I guess that means they're more like adults in kids' bodies,' she mused, thinking of how Hinata's ass swayed while working Naruto's erection in her mouth and the moans the bluenette girl was emitting. There was a pleasant warmth that centered around Ino's core and caused her breathing to come a little faster as she remembered it all. 'But damn me if it isn't a little intimidating to know what they do and that we have some kind of history with each other and not know any of it.'

Ino shivered in memory of the pleasure Naruto's hands gave her during her chakra training. 'I wonder if they did that before,' she thought, wondering at how well he knew how to touch her. What she didn't consider, as she had no way of comparing it, was that Naruto really didn't know what he was doing, nor did he attempt anything special. She just had so little experience in such matters that his touch was as electrifying as it was hypnotic and addictive. 'Maybe I should ask Hinata-chan later.'

Interestingly enough, she was so dead-set on protecting their secrets so their faith in her, unlike certain Jounin sensei who didn't appear all that trusting, would not be ruined that she did not even have to wonder about Naruto's being a Jinchuuriki and how she felt about that. Her decision was set and Ino would be firm in that. She knew who Naruto was and she would not show herself to be any less than they obviously thought of her as. She would live up to their expectations because they were the first to have high ones of her. She wanted to be worthy of their faith and trust in her so deeply, that it was amazingly simple to accept and dismiss Naruto's demon-container status.

She wanted Naruto and Hinata to be proud of her.

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"Are you sure we should be doing this!" Ino hissed, crouching next to the rest of Team Eight in the trees above the training ground two days after the revelations her teammates had given her. She had gone home and thought long and hard about what she had heard, after thinking even longer on what she had seen after leaving, and decided she was right the first time; her teammates were the same as they had been before she learned their secrets.

Actually, she felt all the closer to them knowing that they trusted her where even her sensei didn't.

It hadn't taken her much time of talking with her mother about various things with leading questions to find out that she knew about Naruto's sealed friend. That was enough to make a believer out of her for everything else when everything was taken together.

And now, Team Eight was together for what Anko called 'Sink or Swim Training'.

"Get used to it, girly," Anko grunted quietly. "This is a major part of our job and you're going to have to learn to do it more often. Practice makes perfect and all that bullshit. Now claim your targets."

"Hinata, Kiba," the soft-voiced girl said immediately.

"Naruto, Sasuke," the male blonde said right after his mate.

"Damnit," Ino muttered. "Ino, Sakura."

"Good. We'll keep the pervert off your backs. Goal is knock-out, tap-out or submission hold until we call it. Move," Anko ordered, turning to wink at Kurenai who had given Anko lead on this mission since it was her idea and following her Genin into the fray.

Hinata moved with the others to stay down wind of their targets, but shot forward a second before the others to make an assault on the lone Inuzuka of Team Seven. He would know she was coming in advance, but she could also watch his actions with her Byakugan as she leapt over several bushes and launched several shuriken, forcing the boy to hop away and to the side while Naruto rushed through the same bushes below and darted forward to launch a kick at Sasuke, separating him from Sakura and Kakashi.

Anko popped out of the ground with a maniacal laugh as she launched a dozen shuriken at Kakashi, making him use a quick replacement technique, and then ran out to where she felt his signature to watch the havoc and make bets on their teams.

Ino was last, shooting out from around the trees and rushing Sakura, who was watching everything through wide eyes and trying to figure out what was happening with what she had thought were allies. The blonde girl launched a punch that Sakura just barely managed to throw up a guard for and knocked the pink-haired girl back several paces since she forgot to set her stance.

"Ino! What the hell!" The Pinkette screeched.

"Practice setting up and defending against ambushes," Ino said quickly, rushing her friend. She leaned backwards at a near ninety-degree angle and lifted her leg for balance and to feint a kick to the head that Sakura attempted a futile block against as she spun like a top and rotated to leg sweep Sakura, dropping the girl roughly to the ground and continuing her rotation to bring herself up and drop her heel into Sakura's solar plexus, knocking the wind out of her. As Sakura bent her head forward from the hit, Ino swept around her and wrapped her arm around her neck and right arm in a sleeper hold.

"I-Ino," Sakura stuttered, losing precious awareness, "st-sto-stop! G-g-g-" Sakura's pleading tapered off slowly as she succumbed to darkness. The blood on either side of her windpipe had been blocked off too long and she fell to the blonde.

Ino waited for several long seconds to ensure Sakura was really out before letting go with a frown. "How in the hell did you beat me during the Academy?" She asked the unconscious girl, truly shocked. "Has training for a month actually made it that easy?" Shaking her head, Ino quickly tied her friend to a tree and bound her hands to keep her from using any jutsu she may have learned to help get out of this situation and checked for the standard rope knife hidden at the waist of most shinobi, sighing when she realized it wasn't there. 'You and I are going to have to have a long talk, Sakura-chan,' Ino thought sadly. Once the girl was tied up, Ino drew back and smacked the pink-haired girl, bringing her back with a screech of protest.

Up in the trees, watching over the whole thing, Kakashi turned to Anko, who was laughing darkly. "Best two out of three," he said sadly. He had actually thought Sakura would defeat her opponent easily and had made his bet for all of his students winning once he saw the match-ups. Sakura had managed to not only get taken out without throwing a single punch, but had also only managed to block one attack, which she had seen coming from about ten yards away.

"Fine, but that means that not only do you have to teach them each a jutsu they don't know, but you have to run through Konoha's market district naked for changing the deal in the middle of the game," Anko offered.

"I can't even if I wanted to," Kakashi said with a wince. "I've ... er, got Gai helping me with things, hence my new attire. Part of a deal we had means I can't do anything like that."

Kurenai nodded approvingly. "Then no changes. You'll teach them each a jutsu they don't know, two jutsu if all of ours win. That's what you get for thinking not a single one of yours would lose." The red-eyed woman neglected to call Anko on betting the same for their own team. There would be plenty of time for it later if need be.

"... Damn it."

"So, Hinata-chan," Kiba began with a grin. "Decided you wanted to see if I can be better than the dobe?"

Smirking, Hinata rushed and launched a roundhouse kick at the dog-user's head, getting blocked with his forearm before rotating and kicking again with her other leg for his weakened guard. It wasn't a strong kick since most of the power was lost with the first, but it was enough to pull back and kick him backwards with both feet at once. She landed on the ground and kicked up at the same time as Kiba rose. "I'm all Naruto-kun's, Kiba. But the others have scores to settle."

Kiba rubbed his chest and glared at the Hyuuga heiress. "He's the weakest in our class! How can you possibly like him more?"

"It helps that his cock is more than twice as big as yours and he lets me play with it any time I want," Hinata said simply, watching Kiba's eyes widen and go glassy as his mind began thinking of something other than fighting. That was her cue to flash through several seals and smack her hands to the ground. 'Kiba always did think with the wrong head.'

"Mud Rush!" Hinata yelled, more for Kiba's sake since performing jutsu silently had become second-nature during the war, sending a three-person wide shot of mud from the ground in front of her into the Inuzuka and hitting his shoulder. He had come back to the fight with just enough time to keep himself from getting hit in the chest and face when he heard her yell.

"Are you trying to kill me!" Kiba shrieked, dodging several more similar attacks.

"The worst this attack will do is put you into the hospital for a few days," Hinata chided with a frown. "I suppose I can try something different if it's too much for such a big, strong male like you to handle," she offered.

"Arf!" Akamaru was stuck up to his chest in a mud puddle that had been turned sticky so the dog couldn't get out and wasn't pleased with it.

"I won't forget about you, Akamaru!" Kiba promised. "Just give me a second to put this one in her place!"

Lavender eyes narrowed at Kiba's audacity. No one got to dominate her other than Naruto! "Castration!" Hinata yelled, sending spikes of earth to Kiba's groin.

"You stupid idiot! I'm the heir of the Inuzuka! I need those!" Kiba yelled, hopping from place to place and slowly making his way towards Akamaru as the ground lanced up repeatedly, aimed towards his groin.

"Divination Field – 64 Strikes!"

"What!" Kiba looked behind him to find another Hinata just in time to receive a chakra-infused strike to his shoulder, knocking him off balance. Then he began to receive several others as the pain continued.

"Two down and only one to go!" Anko cackled, dancing a jig on the tree branch in a surprisingly decent Riverdance rendition. Kakashi's shoulders slumped, but he was sure of this last one. There was no way this one would be able to best Sasuke.

Sasuke picked himself up off the ground and swiped at his mouth to clear it of first blood. Naruto had just landed a lucky mule kick that sent the Uchiha up and over his opponent and it hurt like a bitch. "You'll have to do better than that, dobe."

"Don't worry, Sasuke," Naruto said with a smirk. "I won't ruin your pretty face. You can go and cry after I'm done toying with you." In truth, Naruto was somewhat impressed with the other boy's taijutsu. He didn't remember some of these moves being in Sasuke's arsenal. But then, he had gone several years with only occasionally fighting him, so it was possible he had forgotten, which he assumed.

Sasuke growled and launched himself at Naruto behind a couple kunai, tricking Naruto into bounding up into the air. "Hn! Katon: Grand Fireball!" Sasuke breathed in and blew out a massive fireball as Hinata and Ino moved back to watch the fight under orders to not intervene.

Sasuke smirked until the fire dissipated, showing charred remains falling to the ground. "Not so tough now, are y-OOPH!" He was thrown forward from a kick to his head where Naruto dropped from the trees above him.

"Substitution! Gotta love the simple things in life," Naruto said with a smile. "Time to get up, Uchiha! You've got a fight to finish!"

The last Uchiha stayed on his knees and acted like he was hurting worse than he was, getting Naruto to step closer out of confusion before he spun and pushed off of the ground and kicked at Naruto's face. The blonde's eyes widened as he instinctively leaned backwards and away from the foot until Sasuke realized the most perfect opening had been created. He hadn't been deaf when the Hyuuga had been speaking.

Sasuke quickly set his feet and threw his foot into Naruto's groin, kicking him hard enough to make him raise into the air nearly two feet with a metallic ting, his eyes wide in shock. Then Sasuke grabbed his foot and began hopping around. "Ow! What the hell! Have you got brass balls or something!"

At the sidelines, Ino blushed and leaned over to Hinata. "Okay. I understand why you got him that protective plate, now."

"Definitely worth more to me in working condition than not," Hinata agreed right before giggling perversely.

Growling at his failure and confused as hell as to how Naruto's balls hurt him more than his armored sandal hurt Naruto, Sasuke hopped up and threw several shuriken around the dazed Naruto to keep him from moving away and then four kunai in the middle in an attempt to impale him. As soon as he saw Naruto signing for a jutsu, he smirked and quickly rolled an explosive note into his next shuriken and launched it with a kunai right after. It was a technique he had seen his older brother perform and Sasuke had practiced it mercilessly to hit things from behind somewhere else, using the kunai to deflect the shuriken. Seeing Naruto using a jutsu to block his weapons, he assumed it would be something like a wall defense after seeing the Hyuuga's attack on the dog boy.

Naruto heard the clang just in time to look up and see the shiny weapon coming at him with wide eyes. He had only just enough time to kawarimi with Sasuke before the explosion hit, leaving Sasuke groaning on the ground with part of his shuriken in his side and with mild burns on his face and hands. Naruto had been low enough that the explosion itself hadn't actually hit Sasuke, but the impact of the explosive wave caused all of his joints to hurt. Badly.

"The hell, Uchiha!" Naruto yelled out. "We're obviously not fighting for blood here!"

"Blood yes, killing no," Anko corrected as she and the other two Jounin showed up, radiating anger. "What the hell is wrong with your Genin, Kakashi! Even an idiot could tell this was just an exercise!"

"In his defense, these things are meant to be done with as close to real conditions as possible," Kakashi said with a sigh. "It was extreme, but not wrong. It's worthless if they go easy on each other all the time."

"Shouldn't we get him to a hospital!" Sakura shrieked, trying to help Sasuke and having no idea what to do. 'Why don't they teach medical jutsu!' She wondered, glaring at Naruto for causing all of this even though it wasn't his doing.

'I should have known better than to release her yet,' Ino thought.

"Eh, probably," Kakashi shrugged. "Why don't you start walking him there. I've got to-"

"Like hell, Sensei!" Sakura shouted, getting into the man's face. "You're the fastest of us! You need to get Sasuke-kun to the hospital!"

"Alright, alright!" The silver-haired man agreed, wanting the screaming to stop. "Fine. Go untie Kiba and meet me there."

"You really let your Genin order you around like that?" Kurenai and Anko asked as one.

"I should have left her bound and gagged," Ino muttered to Hinata.

"She's a disgrace," Hinata added, nodding to Ino. "And she really needs to be reminded of her station. She isn't in school anymore and she can't order people around without expecting to be shown her place." Somehow, she couldn't help but think it was something very long overdue.

"She's a kunoichi. They're always moody," Kakashi shrugged, hopping off with Sasuke just in time to avoid a Jyuuken strike to his lower back and a kunai swipe from Anko.

"Naruto-kun," Hinata said sweetly, too sweetly for the murderous expression on her face.

"Yes?"

"When we go see the Hokage, remind me to request a mission for Team Seven."

"Want any ideas?" Anko asked with a big grin.

"I've already got it figured out," Hinata said calmly.

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Sakura sighed as she walked home after Sasuke was admitted to the hospital. She was pretty miserable and on the verge of tears. Ino had not just simply beaten her. She had defeated her. Ino had not even had to try to win! The girl had made it seem easy!

'It was easy,' Sakura admitted to herself. 'I was absolutely pathetic! Maybe I should see if Ino would train with me.' She rubbed her neck where it was a little sore from Ino's assault. She also had a killer headache that Kakashi-sensei assured her was normal after a sleeper hold.

That she would 'get used to it' was not consolation to the girl. Nor was she appeased when he told her people don't normally return to consciousness so quickly. If she got into a situation like that in the field, there was no telling what her enemy could do with her body!

"Hey Sakura!"

Sakura looked up and saw Ino with the rest of Team Eight walking towards her. "Hey Ino! Where are you going?"

"Hokage Tower," Ino explained. "You okay?"

The pink-haired girl scowled. "You actually knocked me out with that sleeper hold!"

"Then the next time you are in that situation, try to gouge out your opponent's eyes or pierce the soft parts of their neck with your thumb," Ino commanded in a scolding fashion, not slowing as she continued with her team. "Tell Kakashi to teach you guys how to get out of that shit! There's no telling what may happen to you otherwise! Gotta go to the tower, so see ya!"

"Eye gouging?" Sakura repeated absently before she shuddered. "Ewww! I could never do that! I'd get gushed eyeball all over my hands!" She would eventually find holding someone's eyes she had ripped from their sockets was much better than being violently raped or tortured, but until then, the supposed 'lady' in her found it repulsive.

Needing something else to think about, Sakura continued her path home as she considered Naruto. 'I heard that ting when Sasuke-kun tried to kick him between his legs. I wonder how that happened. Did he have them replaced or something? No, that can't be it. Not if what Hinata said to Ino-chan was for real.' She blushed as she remembered what she heard and resolved to try and not think of that.

Frowning, Sakura considered how she could try and get more training in. Kakashi was apparently opposed to training outside of full team meetings and even then, it usually required all three Genin asking, or just Sasuke. But it was never jutsu, just taijutsu. 'I need to ask another ninja for advice and help,' she realized. At least to supplement what Kakashi would teach. Her own family were mostly civilians and, as such, they had no ideas in regards to how to help the girl train. That was one reason she was book smart and not well-trained otherwise. Her parents constantly had her come in for 'breaks' when she started and it had become habit. So, a real ninja had to be her source of inspiration.

That resolved, she waited until she saw the first Jounin and then approached. He was obviously a bit more battle-hardened, so he had to know a bunch of good things. He was actually a little scary, too, but this was Konoha! The ninja were good people! "Excuse me, Jounin-san. Could you give me some advice on training?"

Six feet of stocky, muscular and scarred Jounin looked down at the waif of a girl with bright pink hair and was about to tell her to 'fuck off' until he saw she actually had a hitai-ate. Apparently, they lowered the requirements for Genin. Drastically. "Nobody trains newbies for free," he said, looking over the girl's body. "If you want training, it'll cost you."

"Oh," Sakura asked, surprised. "Erm, how much?"

"I get enough money from missions," the Jounin grunted with narrowed eyes. "If you want training, I want a bed partner for the night."

"What!" Sakura shrieked, her pink hair standing on end. "You can forget it, pervert!"

Before Sakura knew what had happened, the man was suddenly in her face, so close the tips of their noses touched. If she hadn't just wee'd herself in fear, she may have been willing to pull back. But for the moment, her entire body was locked straight up. "You asked, you little cum bucket." Sakura's anus squeezed shut out of reflex, but in reaction to what, she really didn't want to consider. "Most ninja won't hesitate to take you somewhere secluded and use you until you split in half. I'm nice. Either accept my offer, or leave. Choose," he commanded in a low, growling voice.

The Jounin had seen the eyes the pink-haired bint sported many times in his past. The girl was too scared to respond to anything. He could probably have taken her away without her uttering a sound, but he wasn't evil. He was just horny and had just come back from a long mission out of Fire Country and didn't want to deal with a greenhorn Genin who obviously didn't take her current training seriously, much less what he would teach her.

Shaking his head, he hoped he either got her to quit being a ninja, since she was obviously flaky, or would be more mature about who she asked for help. Family, the sensei she should have who should be teaching her or even a request as a mission.

He reached out and smacked the girl's cheek just hard enough to snap her out of her fear-induced shock as he stood up, rolling his eyes as she cowered. "That is your first lesson. Don't trust just anyone because they're from Konoha or somewhere you trust.. We aren't all good samaritans and willing to help young girls the way they hope we will. Now leave."

Sakura nodded quickly and took off like a bat out of Hell. She didn't stop until she was not only at home, but in her room and under her bed where she could remember hiding when she was much, much younger. Somehow, it didn't help nearly as much this time around. Not when the thing she was currently scared of was used to residing in shadows.

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Late that night found Team Eight in their communal tent at Training Ground Seventeen. It was one of the training grounds furthest from any clan compounds or the general public on the Northern sector of Konoha a mere half mile away from the Forest of Death. They were once again doing nighttime shift drills and taking turns keeping watch for enemies.

"Why do we have to do this crap again?" Ino complained as they set up their tents, thankfully only once this time instead of repeatedly like their return from Kensei. They managed to keep their speed up, so their sensei were pleased.

"Because you need practice," Kurenai explained.

"But we did this before," Naruto whined, helping Ino keep the tent steady while he used his foot to drive in the securing spikes for it.

"Well, this time, we're not going to be here with you," Anko said happily. "You're keeping an eye out because we're going to ambush you randomly throughout the next week or so. It could be five times tonight or it could be three days before we show up again! And being this close to the Forest of Death, you have to worry about possible monsters coming out from the walls and looking for easy prey, so it won't just be us. So keep your guards up!"

"During the days, we'll still come by and train you, but you get to work out a rotating watch and have to successfully alert the others when we're attacking before we manage to take you out," Kurenai explained as all her Genin finished and came up to them.

"We'll use these training tags and practice weapons," Anko explained, holding up exploding paint bombs and various other items that would function almost like the real deal, but not actually harm, "so you know when you've been hit. Fail, and you get a crash course in poisons."

All three Genin shuddered. They knew she was serious.

"Hey, aren't those my prank things?" Naruto asked, recognizing the paint bombs. They were close to exploding tags, but more like explosive pouches of orange paint. They functioned with simple firecrackers he had obtained at a festival as a kid and learned to make. He almost hadn't recognized them because they were such an older model compared to what he used now. "How'd you get them?"

"Eh? The ANBU training department uses them for mock battles and raids," Anko said, suddenly wondering where they got the idea. Thinking back, they were only about four years old.

"That's one of my Toilet Busters, too," Naruto said with a frown, handling the U-bend explosive. It was filled with another mild explosive and, instead of paint, had been filled with viscous farm animal droppings and tar. "I guess that explains what that ANBU meant by 'confiscate' when he took my design materials."

Anko and Kurenai looked at one another. They really doubted Naruto would really lie to them and the timeline for their designs certainly fit. "Well, the ANBU use various explosives and timers in their official versions," Anko continued.

"Like this?" Naruto asked, summoning similar items from his personal scroll. The devices were much smaller and much more tastefully created than what the ANBU had in their possession. "I know we're supposed to be sneaky, but explosives work just as well as a kunai to the back. Or poison or sleeping gas for neater jobs," Naruto explained.

Anko whistled as Kurenai wondered where the boy had time for these things, or how he came up with the concepts. Seasoned ninja, maybe, but these things were made up before the point he returned back in time! "Wow kid," Anko said appreciatively. "This stuff is much sleeker than that ANBU stock."

"Toilet Buster?" Ino asked, plainly horrified.

"Yea," Naruto chuckled nervously. "I went to a restaurant once and they tried to kick me out and throw a bunch of hot soups and knives and things at me, so I set them up to go off in their bathrooms when someone tried to use them. The suction causes everything ... er ... in the plumbing to spray out..."

Ino dry-heaved and shuddered, looking away as if it would help keep the mental images out of her head. It didn't.

"Alright, we can figure this stuff out later. The point is we are going to attack you guys with harmless stuff. You have your usual equipment, though, in case it isn't us that comes to get you, understand?" Kurenai asked, getting three bobbing heads. With that, the two Jounin left, taking Naruto's devices with them and heading first for the Hokage Tower. If what Naruto said was true, then he had a whole lot of money coming his way and an ANBU would be spending time with Ibiki for claiming the work of what had been a nine-year old boy at the time.

"I'll take first watch," Naruto said, giving Hinata a kiss goodnight and hugging Ino with an arm around her shoulder. "You did really great against Sakura today. You're already a great deal better than you were even a year from this point in the original," he told her, making the blonde girl blush.

"Thanks."

"Don't thank me. You worked your ass off," Naruto said with a grin. "You've earned my respect, many times over."

"Mine too," Hinata said, hugging Ino. "I'll take second watch."

"Alright you two. G'night and sleep well," Naruto said.

"Night," Ino replied, going into the tent, pausing only enough to watch Hinata and Naruto share another kiss, this one far, far more passionate than the one Naruto had given her moments ago. She was inside by the time it ended and Hinata turned to follow her in, leaving Naruto with a very awkward problem and no way of dealing with it.

"So you and Naruto have been pretty close recently," Ino said innocently to Hinata as they both began to disrobe for bed as Naruto took the first patrol outside.

Hinata quirked an eyebrow for only a moment, spotting the lead-in question from a mile away. "We've always been close since we began seeing each other," she admitted, watching as Ino frowned in obvious disappointment that she didn't talk about the friskier side of their relationship. "But, if you mean our physical relationship, yes. We're taking it pretty slow compared to what we both want to do. It's difficult sometimes to stop ourselves when we get frisky, but we all have needs that we want fulfilled occasionally, don't we?"

Ino blushed and looked away, slightly envious of her female teammate before eventually nodding. "You ... Were you serious when you said I could talk to you about ... those things?"

"We've spoken about them on occasion, haven't we?" Hinata asked in response, pulling off her shirt.

"Yes, but only in basic terms," Ino began. "We talked about how it's natural to think and feel things and how we advance more quickly than civilians and training with Naruto-kun. But, I mean ... talking in more detail."

Hinata stripped her pants, remaining in her panties and a kunoichi chest wrapping that was easier to deal with than wrappings like Ino's since they were a pain to put on and take off and because wrapping one's chest simply hurt when you had to apply them tightly enough to be of any use. At least when you already had a high B-Cup chest. There was a reason almost every kunoichi was known to have a good figure, and it was their training and early physical development. That was even why people were impressed that she and her sister developed so early. The major exception to those rules were the kunoichi who worked in the red light districts. But having that excellent figure was still a pain in the ass when you couldn't wrap your chest enough that breasts became a liability, hence an alternate wrapping that went on tight and could be tightened further without crushing her.

She looked to Ino as she sat on Naruto's sleeping bag, noticing Ino's blush and the speed at which a vein on her neck was pulsing, showing the blonde girl to be quite nervous or excited. She was obviously looking for someone she could confide in and who would also keep her own secrets or just simply someone to talk to.

Hinata mentally sighed as she realized Ino still held several reservations about various topics that were out of the norm in civilian social strata whereas ninja talked about anything and everything that wasn't classified. To Hinata, this was as much a clinical discussion as it was girl talk. She had been training under Godaime Tsunade for two and a half, nearly three years when they came back and talking about sex and other various things that used to make her nervous had just simply died out as she aged and dealt with more serious things, especially with a war raging the majority of her shinobi career at four of the seven years.

"Ino-chan, I'm going to be very blunt because I think it will make things easier for the both of us," Hinata said in a strong voice, trying to project a calm and soothing demeanor. "You can talk about anything with me. Anything from techniques, to food recipes. Sex, killing, boys except the Uchiha, girls, clothes even if I don't know much regarding common styles and anything else is all acceptable. Even if you wanted to talk about Naruto and myself, since you already know and promised not to say anything, you can ask and I will tell. If there's something I don't want to talk about, I'll say as much, but I will never get upset or angry about things. Whatever you'd like to talk about, I'm okay with doing so. It's nice to just talk, isn't it?"

Ino smiled guiltily. "That's ... kind of what I'm hoping for. Sakura was really the only close friend I had and I haven't really been friends with her for a long while and she doesn't really know much except how to get off. I just thought it may be a little strange since we've only been teammates for a few weeks, well ... a month, and didn't really talk before that at all. And I don't really have the history with you guys that you remember with me."

Hinata smiled indulgently and shrugged. "Well, we're teammates now, and that requires trusting each other with our lives. If we can't talk, then we have no hope of surviving later. So what would you like to talk about? My physical relationship with Naruto-kun?" She asked, thinking that was where Ino had been trying to lead it.

Ino blushed. "Yes and no. I ... took your advice ...," she said, trailing off in embarrassment.

It only took Hinata a second to connect the dots. "Oh! You mean about masturbating?"

Ino choked as Hinata's cavalier attitude and waved her arms trying to shush the girl. "Shh! I don't want Naruto to hear!" Hinata pretended to zip her lips and throw away the zipper and waited for Ino to continue, which she did with a sigh. "Yes, with ... that. But, even though it didn't hurt this time, it didn't feel as good as ... well-"

"When Naruto-kun does it?" Hinata finished helpfully, repressing a triumphant smirk. But only just barely.

"Yes," Ino admitted. "I can't figure it out. I even spoke with Sakura about this before our last mission because she's been doing it for a long time now and she was just too nervous to talk about it and just said she rubbed herself and it was okay. Am I doing it wrong?" Ino asked, now getting past being nervous and being just upset at her lack of ability to do something that was supposed to be so basic.

"Well, does it at least feel good when you do it?" Hinata asked speculatively.

Ino hummed in thought for a moment before nodding. "Yes, it does. Not as good as Naruto, again, but it doesn't hurt and it feels good. I just don't ... get along. It's like it'll get a little into it and I'll get ... wet, but I don't get any closer."

"What do you normally think about?" Hinata asked. "That plays a big part of it. If you aren't mentally into it, then you won't be physically either. Arousal is more than just getting wet and touching yourself. It's as much mental as physical, usually even more so for a girl. Guys could get hard staring at linoleum. We need our minds stimulated, too."

Ino hemmed and hawed for a few seconds before Hinata thought she understood. If Ino didn't have a tendency to masturbate before recent activities, then it was probably their 'training' that started her down that path, which meant she'd use whatever experience she had. "Ah, you think of Naruto-kun? I do too, don't worry about it."

"What?" Ino spluttered. "You ... You don't care if I ... er, think about him?"

"Why would I?" Hinata asked, honestly confused. "He's handsome, has beautiful blue eyes, a wonderful body, an absolutely fascinating penis and hands that practically turn me to goo." She was also hoping to get Ino thinking about him as well, but didn't want the blonde girl to know that yet. "I'd be surprised if you didn't unless you were still focusing on the Uchiha, but you seemed to have been thinking about that and realizing who and what he is. I'm perfectly okay with it if you want to think about Naruto-kun. I've said it before, but I'll say it again; as teammates, we may have to pretend to be romantically involved sometimes for the sake of our missions and that could be anything from pretending to be in a relationship to kissing, touching or sharing a room. Hell, sometimes, you even have to go through the motions of sex so someone who may be listening in on what is happening in your room at an inn will hear it. Feel free to think about him doing all sorts of naughty things to you; I do. It's about the only way I can get off. And real memories are much better than fake ones. So think about what Naruto-kun does to you any time you want."

Ino stared into Hinata's eyes, reading the girl's sincerity and had to admit, if the Hyuuga maiden was a liar, she was a damned good one. "But, he's your boyfriend."

"True," Hinata said with a nod of her head with a lecherous smile. "But he's also hunky."

Ino giggled, feeling very at ease. "Er, well yes, I think about Naruto and the things he's done to me, but that's about it. I don't really have any other, um, experiences or anything to go by. I've never really touched myself or been in any situation other than imagining things happening until our chakra control training."

"Ah. I was like that for a while," Hinata admitted, sharing a similar time with the other girl to make her feel more comfortable. "When I first started, I could get extremely turned on by thinking about him, and usually did, but I had only the sight of Naruto that we saw every day at school until I got the courage to use my eyes. That was the first time I was actually able to finish myself off. Hell, I almost came the moment I saw it if I'm going to be honest."

Ino's blush was quite strong, but Hinata's calm discussion and the ease in which they were talking was making her more comfortable, much like their last discussion about this topic. "Well, er, I've seen him ... from when I found you two, that is, but it doesn't seem to help when I think about that. At least not much."

"How do you do it," Hinata asked, causing Ino to shift on top her sleeping bag.

"Erm, I just kind of, rub around?" Ino suggested, making a little circle motion with her hand in the air for Hinata to see, making her frown in thought. It was apparent that Ino didn't focus on the locations that did what she wanted and didn't seem to take the time to explore, but how to fix that? It should have been mostly obvious if the blonde girl took the time to feel, but she was apparently unable to determine that. Or she was just one of those girls who had trouble with self-gratification. Hinata had come across some of those while making rounds along Tsunade and Shizune in the future in the hospital. It wasn't that they didn't know what to do, but more that they just couldn't get into doing something for themselves and needed some form of stimuli to carry them along. Ino had never cared for sex that she could remember, so they had never talked about it, leaving Hinata unable to explain the odd situation.

Suddenly, Hinata had a wonderful idea. When you were training a ninja or a pet, you didn't just start ordering them to do what needed to be done and then punish them for not obeying properly right away. You showed them what to do, got them to learn the rules and then held them to not regressing from something they've learned. And this could be just like that very same thing.

And it got her to a point where she could bring Ino in a little faster if she was right, which she planned to ensure.

"Strip," Hinata commanded of Ino, making the blonde go wide-eyed.

"What?" Ino asked, sure she had heard wrong.

"Take your clothes off," Hinata said again as she got up, removing her wrappings and panties so she was just as naked as the blonde was about to become.

"Er, Hinata-chan, I-"

"You want to know how to do this properly, and we'll have to see each other naked eventually anyway, and it isn't like you have something I don't or that I do that you don't. Naruto-kun's method of patrolling means he walks around the camp with a few clones, so they won't know what we're doing. Now strip and I'll show you how to do it properly."

Ino couldn't believe herself when she realized she was already fingering her night shirt as she began to lift it up and over her head. Hinata's voice was firm, commanding and for some reason, Ino knew that Hinata was not going to accept 'no' for an answer from her. And if she were honest, she just wanted to learn. She liked the feeling that happened when Naruto did it to her, and she would like to experience it more often without having to ask for 'training'. So off came her silky blouse, revealing no bra or wrappings around her chest since she didn't quite need them yet and letting Hinata see her small, but developing breasts. They were merely a small A-cup that didn't really require any form of support yet, but still obviously in existence and her light tan nipples were hard and erect from the cool air. Or arousal. Hinata wasn't sure which, but either worked for her purposes.

Hinata watched as Ino shifted to remove her black panties; nothing elaborate or frilly, but simple black cloth that was obviously function and not appearance. Save for the smiling cat on the rear end, Hinata would have said there was nothing special about them. But once removed, Hinata could tell the blonde girl had only the lightest covering of pubic hair yet and was apparently already finding the discussion, or the situation, arousing as she noted the tiny shimmer of the bald lips of Ino's aroused sex.

Ino put her legs together slightly in embarrassment and looked to Hinata before the latter nodded once and stepped behind the blonde, sitting so Ino was between her legs giving both girls a small sense of déjà vu. "Um, w-what now?" Ino asked as she felt Hinata's warm arms slowly encircle her waist, running her palms over her thighs and making her shiver.

[Lemon Start]

The blonde swallowed thickly as she felt Hinata's nipples rub her back gently as the bluenette shifted about and realized she felt the other girl's sex firmly planted against her ass. It was ... not as wrong as she felt it should be.

Hinata leaned over Ino's left shoulder and trailed her right hand up the other girl's stomach and chest, circling the hardened nipple. "Show me what you do," she breathed quietly.

Ino shuddered and hesitantly moved her hand to her pussy and began to stroke the outside lips with one finger. "I- I j-just do this and after a little bit, I'll g-go inside to the first knuckle. I don't really want to risk going further until I know what I'm doing."

Hinata brought her left hand over to Ino's and grasped it, pulling it to her chest and put her right hand over Ino's. "With this hand," she said, squeezing the left, causing Ino to pinch her own nipple, "I want you to play with your tits and with this one," she used her own middle finger to gently push Ino's middle finger slightly into her own slick folds, "I want you to use and follow my hand. Stroke as I stroke. Do you understand?" Hinata asked, speaking quietly as she noticed Ino close her eyes and gulp, breathing more heavily.

"Y-yes," Ino stuttered, doing as she was told. She began by covering her left breast with her hand and squeezing the whole thing before pulling outwards until she was pulling only on her nipple and pinching it and used her right hand to circle her nether lips, pressing harder at the top, right above her slit and stroking downwards.

"Tell me what you're thinking about," Hinata ordered of the blonde.

"N-nothing," Ino said quietly. "I'm just f-feeling what's happening."

"That will never do, Ino-chan," Hinata lightly scolded, keeping her voice light, quiet and her hot breath as close to Ino's ear as she could manage. This was a first for her, too, but she would do what she could to both help her friend and teammate, and to ensure she would be able to do anything she wanted with her Naruto-kun. "Picture my hands as Naruto-kun's. Imagine him behind you and controlling your hands."

Ino let out a shuddering breath, but did as she was told as she felt lips gently kiss her shoulder at the collar bone.

"What are you picturing now?" Hinata demanded.

"N-Naruto-kun," Ino muttered. "He's running his hands up and down my front, teasing me."

"Do it," Hinata ordered, controlling Ino's left hand under her own to tweak the nipple before sliding slowly down to her belly button, exploring the skin and soft edges of her stomach while the right began to slowly dip into her wet pussy lips, testing how easily the finger would penetrate.

"He- he's licking my neck," she said, swearing in her aroused state that she could feel a warm, wet tongue snake up her neck and then suck gently before pulling away. Ino tilted her head to the right to give the questing tongue more access. "He's pinching my nipples hard," she could feel her left hand being raised to her right nipple and her fingers automatically clamped down, causing her to squeak and her face to contort into one of pleasured pain for a brief second as her nipple was rolled aggressively between a thumb and forefinger.

Her right hand was drawn to the center of her pussy where she felt the heat radiating from her and the juices from within her running down the crack to her ass and cover the palm of her hand as a finger slowly eased its way into her. "He's rubbing me," she gasped, jerking forward as her finger hit her most sensitive spot.

"Where's Naruto-kun rubbing you?" Hinata breathed out, nipping Ino's neck and then licking the flesh to soothe the ache she had caused.

"M-my, my-"

"Your pussy?" Hinata asked. "Is he rubbing your clit?"

"Kami yes," Ino gasped.

"Gently roll your clit between your fingers, but not hard," Hinata cooed into Ino's ear, feeling the girl's entire body jerk between her legs as she obeyed and let out a mewl of pleasure.

"Nuh," Ino squeaked as she gently assaulted her clit and began to thrust her hips forward repeatedly and mindlessly out of pure instinct, "Nah, Naruto," she mumbled, causing Hinata to smirk darkly behind her where Ino couldn't see. The blonde girl was now almost totally lost and didn't notice Hinata taking her hands off of hers and bring one up to massage and tease Ino's left breast, crossing her arm over Ino's, and took her left hand to Ino's dripping sex.

"Would you like me to help you?" Hinata asked, slowly inserting her own finger into Ino's slit, taking the blonde's place. "Would you like me to finger your pussy?"

Ino gasped as Hinata spoke dirty and nodded, barely stuttering out a yes. "Ye-ye-yuh-huh!"

Hinata began to slowly slide her middle finger up and down Ino's swollen pussy lips and hugged Ino's naked body to her front, rocking them both back and forth as she began to stroke up, down and ever so slowly, beginning to enter into Ino as she began to finger fuck her.

Ino's mind was lost in ecstasy as she felt Hinata's lithe and experienced digits slide into her sopping pussy. Her tormentor's thumb kept rubbing her clit and her middle finger was pumping in and out of her and stroking the upper layers of her heated core, assaulting the nerve endings that she had never even realized existed before that moment.

"Ah-almost there!" Ino breathed out desperately, tilting her head back and feeling teeth nip at her neck and collar bone. "Ah-Ah! About to cum! Pl-please! F-faster!" Ino began to pant and moan louder and louder, causing Hinata to realize that Naruto would hear if she didn't think of a way to stop her from crying out in only another few seconds. She had his permission to work to bring Ino into the relationship, but he would still question the sounds if he heard them.

"Kiss me," Hinata ordered taking her hand from Ino's tits and turning her to face Hinata. Her eyes were half-closed and heavy-lidded, her face flushed and her mouth open as she panted, but she frowned in lovely confusion as if she couldn't understand what was being demanded of her.

"Wh-what?" Ino asked, barely able to make out that there was even anyone else with her.

"Kiss me," Hinata said more forcefully, getting Ino to let her head fall forward and kiss the other person on the cheek, causing the dark-haired girl to growl. "Kiss me, bitch, or you can finish yourself off!"

"O-Okay!" Ino agreed, willing to agree to anything right at that point. She was so close and right on the edge!

Hinata grabbed Ino by her ponytail and tilted her head back, claiming the blonde's lips forcefully and almost painfully as Ino came violently, screaming into Hinata's mouth and gushed all over her hand, still stroking her. The blonde's hands found themselves behind Hinata's head and pulled her in for an even more heated kiss as she thrust her hips rapidly, trying to fuck the still-pumping finger for more.

After several seconds, and even more spasms, Hinata lifted her hand and grabbed Ino by the chin with her other. "Look," she demanded. "I've got your cum juices all over my hand."

Ino opened her eyes, panting heavily, and did look. Hinata's fingers were covered in an almost totally clear liquid and glistening even in the low light of the tent. "S-sorry," she panted, trying to catch her breath.

"Open your mouth," Hinata demanded, making Ino's eyes widen.

"What?"

"Open your mouth and taste yourself."

Ino felt she should protest, but she was still feeling the high from her orgasm and Hinata was the more experienced of the two, so she obeyed, watching as Hinata put her finger in.

"Suck it clean," Hinata demanded, pinching Ino's nipple to give a rush of pleasure to hopefully cloud her judgment just a little as Ino let out a slight whimper as her nipple was tweaked and a rush of heat flooded her. But the blonde did as she was told and closed her lips around the small digit and sucked it gently. "Bob you head and lick it. Pretend it's Naruto-kun's dick," Hinata said with her dark grin in full force. This would be a wonderful mate for Naruto-kun if she could get them both to accept it.

Ino silently did as she was told, too relaxed and tired to fight the order and enjoying what she tasted, slowly moving her head forward and back as Hinata let her taste her own fluids, taking both of her hands to hold Hinata's as if they were a valuable and delicate object to worship. Even the blonde's moan of enjoyment, while unexpected, made Hinata sure that Naruto would appreciate this.

Hinata pulled her hand away from Ino's mouth, who was still sucking the digit clean even though she had done that several seconds ago, and brought her hand to her own mouth, curious despite herself. She raised a soaked digit to her own lips, noting Ino's wide-eyed expression as she turned to watch Hinata clean the rest of her hand of the blonde's juices with a pale pink tongue.

Yes, Naruto-kun would be quite happy indeed.

[Lemon End]

"Hi-Hinata-chan," Ino asked, looking suddenly very nervous. "What does this mean? I mean ... you and Naruto-kun, but we just...?"

"Naruto-kun and I belong to each other, but while this was a little more advanced than what he would expect, he will not be upset by it. He's the sort who will understand that I was teaching you and why I did it this way. It's far more reliable than simply explaining what to touch and much nicer, wouldn't you say?"

Ino blushed and frowned. "Do ... do you have to tell him?"

Hinata realized what she meant. She would be embarrassed to have him know what she had done and that she needed help. "I cannot lie to him, Ino-chan. You can't have a relationship based on lies and secrets," she told her. The fact that she had already discussed the possibility of these situations with Naruto didn't need to be explained for the moment.

"But ... I don't really want him to know," Ino pled. "It's embarrassing to know that he'll know that I didn't know how to do this."

Hinata blinked at the large use of the word 'know', but shook her head. "Perhaps I can keep it secret for a little while, but tell him I showed you my method and I learned yours. He'll think it's just an extension of normal girl talk and, due to the complexity, as we're quite more difficult than boys to finish, we showed our techniques to one another?"

Ino didn't look convinced. "He'll still know, though."

"What if I ask him if I could explain or show you whatever you ask regarding sexual and physical information since I've got some medical training?" Hinata asked. "This covers the actions we take, the information we share and the like."

Ino pondered for a moment before shrugging slowly. It was the best option she could see outside of keeping the whole thing secret but, as Hinata had said, you couldn't keep a good relationship going that way. And Ino didn't think she could ask Hinata to do anything that could possibly jeopardize her relationship with Naruto. Especially since, in a way, Hinata just cheated on Naruto with her, or so Ino thought. The blonde girl didn't realize that there were a rare few exceptions. At least depending on the situation. Gaining permission to teach someone how to do something, particularly when a relationship like Naruto and Hinata's was as ironclad and solid as it was, was certainly one of those exceptions. Naruto had been perfectly okay with the idea when Hinata had brought it up to him several days prior since it was something that Hinata wanted.

Ino just didn't know that.

"I suppose that works," Ino admitted. "I just don't want you to get in trouble with him for this."

"It will be fine, Ino-chan. I will never touch another man, and Naruto-kun knows that, but as teammates, and both being girls, he's okay with this."

Somehow, that admission felt a little off to Ino, but she nodded with a blush. "Th-thank you. For ... er, helping me," the blonde demurred with her eyes downcast.

Something within Hinata loved that expression. She fully believed Ino would be a wonderful secondary mate for Naruto-kun, but at the same time, the blue-eyed girl was in a submissive state that appealed to the Alpha within the Hyuuga heiress. So she chose to claim that Alpha status.

She leaned forward and tilted Ino's face up to look her in the eyes, and then leaned forward and kissed the surprised girl squarely on the lips, pulling away with Ino's lower lip caught gently between her teeth.

"My reward for helping you," Hinata said lowly, staring into the wide eyes that were looking back at her in shock with the presence only the Alpha could provide.

"O-o-okay," Ino stuttered, shuddering as she realized this didn't bother her as much as she thought it should. She had kissed back. "Um... are we, er ... do this again?"

"If you want to," Hinata said as she watched Ino put her night clothes back on and curl into her sleeping bag.

"Um..." Ino blushed and tried not looking at Hinata as she focused more on getting into bed. "I guess I'll try it on my own first next time..."

"Well, if you can't or just don't want to," Hinata said with a smirk showing just so Ino could see it, "then I'll see if Naruto-kun would help us."

Ino squeaked and hid in her covers.

"That wasn't a 'no', you know," Hinata said, before chirruping brightly, "G'night!" And laying her head down to make a point of not giving Ino the chance to respond.

'That's because it wasn't,' Ino thought as she stared at the tent wall, gently running a fingertip over her nipples as the thought had her ready for another round of 'learning'.

xXxXxXx

"Danzo-sama," the ROOT agent began, bowing low in front of his superior. "We have received a communique from Orochimaru."

Danzo didn't speak, but held out his hand and found the scroll in it without barely a shift in his subordinate's posture to suggest he had even moved.

Oracle,

Our recipe is showing to be even more well-received by the people than we had expected. You can expect a delivery of one hundred and twenty orders in time for your festivities in a few months. Payment will be expected afterwards as agreed upon.

Chef Sly

Danzo chuckled. Somehow, the idea of Orochimaru as a baker amused him to no end. Still, he had originally expected a half dozen of these cursed seal shinobi. A hundred and twenty of them would be an incredible asset. He had obviously chosen well in aligning himself with the Snake Sannin.

Orochimaru wanted Konoha burned to the ground, but Danzo had always been an ally and had silently authorized any experiments the sly ninja could possibly come up with that didn't damage Konoha's infrastructure. Orochimaru, therefore, had always been somewhat fond of the man and was willing to gut the village of those who had once upset him, primarily Sarutobi, and allow Danzo the ability to lead the remains and rebuild with a strong alliance. Contrary to popular belief, Orochimaru had been both a patriot, and loyal to Konoha. At least until he had been overshadowed by a man who had only two powerful techniques to his name and virtually nothing else. Namikaze Minato wasn't even a Sannin and had been selected over him?

No, Orochimaru felt betrayed, and rightfully so in his eyes. And afterwards, when he was still loyal and had still been defending his nation, they turned on him. Never mind that those his experiments had been performed on what had been criminals scheduled for execution or enemy shinobi whose usefulness had been outlived or civilians who had been caught breaking the law and meant for execution anyway. Sure, Orochimaru had bypassed the legal system, but they were all guaranteed cases anyway.

Danzo had been aware and passed judgement on those people and that had been enough for Orochimaru. The Hokage couldn't be bothered by every little thing in the village. That was the point of that stupid Council, anyway. And the Snake Sannin had gotten caught and, as their agreement stipulated, he took full blame and went away until Danzo could bring him back with full status and allow him to become their new Hokage. Now that Orochimaru was kage of his own village, though, he didn't care for coming back. Not after all these years.

Danzo was okay with that. Sound and Konoha would be separate to all those on the outside, but they would work together on all fronts so their power was actually spread further. They worked for the same goals, so their ends and means met and they had no problems working together.

Though neither believed the other was fully honest and told the other everything. That wouldn't be how a ninja was meant to act and they would lose even more respect for each other if they tried.

"Danzo-sama, there are also rumors spreading through the Academy about Uzumaki Naruto and the camping trip the children were taken on. What was meant to be something akin to a murder mystery with Hyuuga Hinata pretending to be dead and having kidnapped her sister turned into the boy going into a rage and rushing into the forest. Supposedly, he accessed so much chakra it was visible around him and he was capable of throwing off both Jounin sensei who were attempting to subdue him from running into the forest after those responsible."

"Hm. How accurate can we assume this information?"

"Of two classes who went, half of the total students claim to have seen it directly while the other half claim to have at least seen the fallen Hyuuga's body. Mission reports show a sustained illusion was used."

"Interesting. Keep watch over such events."

"Hai, Danzo-sama."

xXxXxXx

"These came from Naruto?" Hiruzen asked, looking over the Toilet Buster the two Jounin had acquired from their lead Genin and the similar device obtained from the ANBU stores that Anko had, somehow, liberated before their arrival. Naruto's was simpler, but from what he could tell, far more impressive and less obvious. It also had many more options available. 'Most impressive.'

"Yes. And he said that an ANBU had taken his inventions some time ago. Now, I know kids like to take credit where it isn't due, but Naruto has never once seemed like someone to do that and I've never heard of it except by someone who already hates him," Kurenai said.

"What he gave us uses seals to replace a lot of the mechanical aspects, but we've learned that was a ... recent alteration," Anko said. "The mechanical parts are definitely something Naruto could have come up with, and I'm pretty sure I remember him using them in the past when I saw him on his pranking runs. I could be wrong, of course, but I'm not."

'So sure of herself, as always,' Sarutobi thought. "I will look into this and ask Inoichi to discuss the situation with the ANBU once I look into the situation and find out who it was. I'm afraid it was too long ago to remember."

Anko was about to suggest their team does the research, but decided it was pointless. And she didn't feel like wading through a bunch of documents to find the patents. "I'd also like your permission to get the team some interrogation practice in with Ibiki and myself."

"Likely as not, I would use Ibiki for this ANBU," the Hokage explained. "You may teach them as you wish so long as you ensure that your target is not of high priority or has information regarding something important. I will notify Ibiki to have someone prepared for you. When will you be doing this?"

"I suppose we could do it tomorrow," Kurenai offered, looking to Anko.

"Maybe three," Anko suggested. "It'll give ol' Ibiki time to find us a good one."

"It bothers me when you smile like that," Kurenai said.

"It works out for me, as well," Sarutobi explained. "I've got a mission on behalf of the Akimichi clan that Naruto, especially, is particularly suited to. They will be shopping for the month and will need numerous teams, though yours can assist singularly, getting the pay for the ten requested."

"I like the way you think," Anko said with an infectious grin. "Maybe that means we should wait a couple of days to attack them, too."

"Let me guess," Kurenai sighed. "You want them to expect it to happen and wonder when it is going to come."

"Indeedy do!" Anko chirruped.

"The mission is tomorrow, starting at eight. I expect you all here on time. Understood?" The Hokage asked, getting them back on track.

"Yes sir," both women said, being dismissed and leaving.

The next day found a quieter Team Eight than normal, as Ino was hesitant to look Hinata in the eye or speak to Naruto after her experience with the bluenette girl who was his girlfriend. Hinata had also managed to share an explosive morning with Naruto and was still content to remain quiet and let the memories run over her body as his hands and mouth had. He had not allowed her freedom until she had climaxed three times and she loved him for it!

Naruto's mouth was just simply too damn tired to say much of anything, but he did let out the occasional happy noise.

"We're going shopping?" Ino asked happily. This was something she was good at! This was her moment to shine!

"Yes. You will be assisting the Akimichi with their food purchases for the month," Sarutobi explained, puffing away on his pipe.

"You know, you shouldn't smoke, Hokage-sama," Hinata gently scolded. "Your lungs become less effective and that will slow you down if you ever have to get into a fight."

Sarutobi glowered. There were some things he felt he was entitled, and smoking at will was certainly one of them. "You may go now," he said, waiting until they were gone to take a long drag of the tobacco. 'I am working out and training again. Even with smoking, I am better off than they remember, so I don't see myself dying of it any time soon.'

"Grocery shopping?" Ino asked herself, wondering how their mission had turned into this.

"Better than weeding or picking up trash," Naruto said slowly, making sure to enunciate clearly since his tongue was still a little numb. Neither Jounin elected to ask about it. Don't ask and don't tell.

"I guess," Ino said with a pout before looking over to Hinata who still had a soft smile on her face. "Hey Hinata-chan, if we finish before lunch, are we going to cook or eat out?"

"Oh, eat out, definitely," Hinata purred, looking at Naruto through lidded eyes. Ino shivered and promised herself to watch how she phrased her questions in the future.

"Where we eatin'?" Akimichi Chouji asked as he hopped over to Team Eight.

Hinata was looking over to the rotund boy and answering before she could stop herself. "Between my-"

"-Barbecue!" Ino rushed out, answering with the first thing that went through her head other than Hinata's naughty bits.

"Hm?" Hinata wondered, blinking curiously at Ino before she realized what was going on and that she should probably stop thinking of that morning. "Oh, yes. We'll probably be eating barbecue for lunch."

"Great!" Chouji exclaimed.

"Why aren't you with your team?" Kurenai asked while Anko was waiting for something juicy to fly from Hinata's mouth again. Or anywhere, actually. It would just be less awkward from there.

"Today's our day off," Chouji explained as he led them to the shopping district. "Shikamaru is sleeping until about noon and I think Shino is using the day to train with his insects."

Three and a half hours later found forty Naruto's carrying two bags each marching into the Akimichi complex in single file with the real Naruto and the other members of his team at the head. There had been a brief kerfuffle at the grocer when they thought he was buying everything, but a quick threat from the blonde and Chouji's mom cussing the clerks out for keeping her from making lunch had made quick work of the idiotic cashiers.

Oddly, the cashiers weren't upset because of Naruto's furry problem, but because they truly expected he was using all that food for some kind of prank, each of them having found themselves victims of them in the past. Naruto had honestly been offended by that perception. He had never had much food, and he would certainly never waste it! Well, maybe the vegetables. He always hated those and that was more pronounced after coming back in time.

The many Naruto's stopped talking amongst each other as they entered the main building so as not to make anyone there feel like he was crazy. Much like the Hyuuga, there was one primary building with numerous living quarters attached. The difference, however, was that they were one large family in one large home whereas the Hyuuga divided themselves however they could. The only building separate was their storage facility for everything except food, which was stored underneath their home, considering how quickly they went through it.

Numerous clones marched one by one into the kitchen and down through to the cellar, unaffected by the frigid air caused by seals to regulate the temperatures inside and began putting things away. All except for one. Three from the end, a Naruto clone stopped and stared at the curious artwork adorning the extremely large fireplace mantle where two whole pigs were roasting and turning on a spit.

In the picture were depictions of the Akimichi Family food pills, their trump card that was the ultimate reason behind their girth. Each was like a concentrated soldier pill that caused the body to burn through fat reserves to create immediate and ready-to-use chakra.

"Hey, Hinata-chan?" The clone called out, getting the girl to approach moments later.

"Yes?"

"Soldier pills work by burning through fat reserves for an immediate energy boost, right?"

"Yes," Hinata confirmed, confused. "Why do you ask?"

"And if there's no fat, it eats away at the muscle and bone, right? That's why overdosing is so dangerous?" The clone asked, ignoring her question for the moment.

"Yes," Hinata responded slowly, looking to where the clone was looking. "They're too dangerous," she scolded, erroneously believing she knew what he was talking about. "You will not try to recreate their food pills!"

"No, no," the clone responded, not taking his eyes off of the portrait. "Remind me to look into my thoughts at this point later," he finally said looking to Hinata before kissing her on the lips and then pulling back to create another clone to take the packages and the clone then bounded out the window to think on his idea before poofing away. There really was no point in making the real Naruto go through all the planning when he could do much of it and then save them time.

"Do I even want to know?" Chouji's mom asked with a raised eyebrow. She had witnessed the entire conversation, being naturally curious about what the boy could want with the girl in her home while staring at her clan's most prized possessions in art form.

"I'm not even sure I want to know," Hinata admitted with a shrug. "Oh well. He'll tell me later, I'm sure."

The original Naruto and the rest of Team Eight went to lunch and then to hire Team Seven for a mission in which they would find themselves forced to take pictures of various ninja ninja without as much clothing as they would normally be found wearing. If nothing else, it would show up as a failure. If it worked out as they hoped, Sasuke and Kakashi would refuse a black mark on their records like that, and they would get those pictures.

While that team was finding potentially lethal targets, the clone that had run off had gone to the forests around Konoha and climbed to the top of the trees and meditated in the branches, surrounded by the greenery. It was far, far quieter here than almost anywhere within the village proper and he was less likely to be found than a training area would provide.

He had never really carried around soldier pills. He could never afford them in the past, and when he went on a training trip with Jiraiya, the old man had forbidden him from using them because he feared how they would affect Naruto. He never had the fatty tissue to convert into chakra and the one time he had tried them, they found the Kyuubi burned it out of his system rapidly, making him very uncomfortable for a minute and then nothing.

Well, that wouldn't help him in the future! Even now, he had a whole group of S-Rank missing nin after him. And even with the Kyuubi giving him truly massive chakra stores, he ran out faster than those same missing nin because most of his jutsu arsenal was filled by chakra-intensive techniques. That, and his most efficient fighting modifier was the shadow clone technique, which effectively cut his reserves exponentially.

Naruto had a brilliant idea. The answer had been in front of him the entire time. The Kyuubi's seal.

The furry critter had actually said he used her chakra like a battery. And seeing the Akimichi food pills had reminded him not only of his lack of ability to use the standard form, but had given him an idea of how to get around that.

The Naruto clone would spend the next two days sitting in those trees and thinking over the logistics of his new idea that would revolutionize his fighting style.

Hopefully.

xXxXxXx

"Run Kiba! Run!" Kakashi leapt into air and rotated as he deflected the most dangerous of the kunai from hitting him. He had long-since revealed his Sharingan as several of the women and kunoichi from the hot spring chased Team Seven down, hell bent on removing the perverts from their midst. Good for dodging and for memorizing bouncing bits.

The civilians had cornered Sasuke and had attempted to rape him, thinking he was simply playing hard to get and had come for that very thing. Sakura had just barely helped him escape, grabbing him by the only piece of clothing he had left, his underwear, and running as fast as she could and dragging the last Uchiha away.

Kiba had not been so lucky. Sakura was concerned mostly with Sasuke and was not helping the dog-user out, so when said dog-user tried to take off with the massive amount of underwear. He had been pinned to a wall by kunai that the naked kunoichi had gotten from Kami knows where and Kakashi had almost not been able to free him before he was hit with a water bullet.

The team all had cameras and were enlisted to take risqué images of kunoichi and make a calendar out of it, one image for each day. The day after their severe failure at evading an ambush, their first stop had been Kiba's sister, Hana. She had nearly neutered the men in the team and would have succeeded if they hadn't knocked Kiba down and ran, hoping she would fear her mother's wrath more than the satisfaction of revenge she would get. It had worked, but only barely.

Kakashi was lamenting the loss of his trove of smut. He had more than enough in there to support this mission multiple times over, but whoever stole it had not returned it. "Sakura! Jump!"

The pink-haired girl leapt to the roof top, accidentally giving Sasuke an atomic wedgie as she took him with her, and just barely escaped several civilians attempting to do something serious to her backside. They were not pleased that she had pilfered their newest toy.

"Why the hell would the Hokage assign us something like this!" Sakura screeched, kicking back the women who tried to climb their way up and shoved them back into the water with large splashes.

Kiba squealed like a piggy as a kunoichi introduced him to the blunt end of a kunai in an exit-only location and Akamaru wouldn't come out of a cubby hole where the pilfered panties had been taken from.

"Whatever it was, we really pissed him off!" Kakashi yelled, taking a picture of the newest woman to step into the madness. Then all of the fighting stopped. The women smiled. The men whimpered pitifully.

Reinforcements had arrived. Five clothed, female ANBU radiating killing intent and hefting large, shiny weapons.

Kakashi was not a fool. "Retreat! Retreat!"

xXxXxXx

Ino hummed gently to herself in a soft moan as she woke up on the third day of their camping excursion slowly, smacking her lips as she realized she had drooled a tiny amount onto what she found was Naruto's chest.

She still had the unconscious desire to cuddle in her sleep, and since Naruto had second shift and she had first, when it came time to sleep, Naruto was the only warm body to snuggle into that night. He was actually very comfortable and the slow, steady beat of his heart had been a surprisingly comforting aspect, which she hoped was the reason she was laying half on top of him and drooling into his chest.

Well, it was better than laying on Hinata's chest. The Hyuuga maiden had made too many jokes about enjoying it better without clothes for Ino's comfort bubble. Especially since she was still unsure about how to handle what the two had done.

"Oh good, you're up," Hinata said, peeking through the flap into the tent.

"Sorry," Ino mumbled with a blush, getting of of the other girl's boyfriend.

Hinata simply smiled. While Ino wasn't as obvious as Hinata was, the Yamanaka was advancing very quickly in how much and of what she was willing to do and be around with her teammates. The fact that she was cuddly was just a very helpful bonus. "Don't worry about it. Just wake up Naruto-kun, please. Anko and Kurenai-sensei will be here soon. The sun is almost up."

Hinata left the tent and watched with her Byakugan as Ino's chakra rushed to her face and smiled gently as Ino watched Naruto sleep for several seconds before shaking him awake. Not before getting off of him and falling to his side, of course.

"Mm? What's goin' on?" Naruto asked, waking slowly since there was no obvious emergency in his shaker's actions.

"Hinata-chan says it's time to wake up," Ino told him.

"Meh. Five more minutes," he said, wrapping the surprised girl into a hug and snuggling into her and ignoring her squawk of surprise.

"Naruto!" Ino laughed, pushing him away. "She said they'll be here soon! We've gotta get up! Up and at 'em, lazybones!"

"Neh!" Naruto groaned, swiping at the girl's pushing hands. He was the sort who, once up, was up for good, but at the same time, he was always playful. And messing with Ino took him back to times when she was a very good friend who had a fun natural banter with him.

Sadly, this Ino wasn't familiar with that banter, but actually did have training under Anko. "Damn it, Naruto! Get up or I'll put my kunai up your-"

"Yes Ma'am!" Naruto belted out, hopping out of his sleeping bag and saluting before grabbing his clothes and rushing out of the tent before Ino could even finish her sentence. He wasn't sure if she would really do what she threatened. The Ino he remembered would if it was anyone other than him, but he was scared this Ino didn't care as much for teasing with him.

Being out of the tent, he missed Ino's amused smiled that only Hinata was able to see.

xXxXxXx

"Do you know what this place is?" Anko asked her minions as they all sat in the uncomfortable metal chairs. They were in a concrete room with one light bulb on the ceiling and only one heavy door, also made of heavy-duty metal and had one drain in the center of the room which the floor gently sloped to. The floor and much of the walls were stained with a rusty red color that had obviously once been blood.

"One of the interrogation rooms," Ino answered, looking around nervously. "My dad brought me here once when I asked what kinds of stuff he did. This is one of the low-risk rooms, right?"

"That's right," Anko said happily. "This is a purely an interrogation room. If we expect them to break easy or without a fight, or if we can't use heavy-handed methods, this is one of the rooms we'll use."

"Then why all the blood?" Naruto asked, rubbing his nose in an attempt to get the stench to clear his nostrils. It was somewhat annoying. He had a new respect for Kiba and the rest of his family.

"I said if we expect the person won't give us trouble," Anko grunted. "That isn't to say that they don't. Some look weak, but are surprisingly strong-willed. When they come in here, they tend to be wearing some chakra-blocking cuffs and we can ... persuade them to talk."

"What we're doing here today is to experience this side of the shinobi world and to give you three a lesson on getting answers out of your prisoners or enemies as quickly as possible."

"Is that why Kurenai-sensei isn't here?" Ino asked. "She doesn't like this stuff?"

"She knows how to do it and has other things she is doing," Anko explained quickly. "She's not as talented as I am, since this was my primary job for the past couple of years, but she knows the drill. She's looking up some information for later."

"What you need to understand about interrogation, especially when used with torture, is that your victim may tell you what they think you want to hear or just simply lie. The point of interrogation is to get answers. And the point of torture is to break the person so they give those answers and don't try to lie to you."

"What if they don't know an answer?" Ino asked.

"That may happen sometimes," Anko agreed. "Also, if you don't break a person, then they may try to give you false information or just tell you whatever you want to hear just so you will stop the torture."

"Then how do we even get accurate information to begin with?" Naruto asked, having never been a part of this aspect of the shinobi world. He was always a fighter and went on information he was told. Either from his superiors, or from over-confident enemies who had no reason to lie and found it amusing to toy with him. 'In retrospect, maybe believing whatever they said was not always a good idea,' he thought.

"That's where skill comes in, brat," Anko said with a grin. "Some people, like Ino's dad, are known as human lie detectors because they learned to sift through the shit and drivel and pick out what is real and what isn't. Sometimes we get it wrong. Sometimes you don't just have to ask a question, but you have to ask the right question. And more often than not, it is all about how everything fits together to learn what is good information and what is crap."

"So, it's like a game. Two Truths and a Lie," Hinata mused aloud, intrigued despite herself. She occasionally healed torture victims and had been present when information was needed not only quickly, but as quickly as possible and they tortured to near death before healing them up to ask questions to give them the chance to stop it by answering a few simple and easy questions. She was used to the violence, but not the answers they gave.

"More like 'Two Lies and a Truth'," Anko corrected. "Most of what you hear is actually false. Or if not out-right wrong, then somehow misleading on its own. You'll eventually learn just by talking to people in general and interrogations in the field with captured enemies how to pick out the small details of truth and how to read if a person is lying entirely. A person looks to their left and they're likely accessing the creative centers of the brain, to the right are memories that are real, that sort of stuff. That's to say nothing of ramblings of those who snap and go crazy and speak gibberish and you have to assume everything both at face value, and as some sort of weird code in Crazy-ese. Torture will cause your victims to let out a lot of mad ramblings when their minds shut down and the pain is all they know, which is also when you may get your best information."

"Crazy-ese?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You know crazies," Anko said while waving her hand dismissively. "They practically have their own language. They could say they passed a waterfall, but it's actually a gutter on a house or something. Or 'liquid gold' was someone's piss or who knows what."

Ino made a face of disgust.

"So, what are we doing here?" Hinata asked. "This isn't a sneaky way of getting us to talk about ... our experiences, is it?"

Naruto perked up, not having considered that until Hinata mentioned it. Anko simply snorted. "Nah. We asked Hokage-sama about that and we aren't allowed to do that." The three Genin sweat dropped. "We're going to introduce you into how to perform an interrogation and get the information you want or need. We may give you an example of what you can experience and give you to Ibiki to suffer his tender mercies for a week later, but for now, you'll be on the other side of things."

"We're going to torture someone?" Ino asked with wide eyes.

Anko stared into Ino's eyes hard, all hints of her joking or playful persona gone as if with the flick of a switch. "Yes," she said firmly. "You need to know this information and you need to experience it. The sooner the better. It won't be the hardcore stuff like skinning them alive, but you will be inflicting pain to get information."

They were quiet for several long seconds, contemplating what they would soon be doing. Naruto and Hinata had killed hundreds of enemies in their previous lives. Many were quick and sudden, killed and passed by without even a second glance as they went on to their next victims. Others, however, had been slow and torturous. Not generally on purpose, but the nature of war or random skirmishes. They just couldn't afford to waste time to ensure immediate kills. It didn't take them long to learn to confirm their kills since a living enemy sometimes had sacrificial techniques for emergencies like that.

Ino, however, had sparred against Academy students and the most recent Genin from Team Seven. She stepped on bugs without remorse, but she had never intentionally tortured anything. She had never even killed anything other than insects and the like.

This was actually going to be asking a lot from the girl.

"Who?" Ino asked simply, not sure what to feel.

"Does it really matter?" Anko asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I may have to do this, but for training, I should at least be allowed to know what made him deserve becoming a test subject," Ino said firmly, not willing to become what she felt would basically amount to being a monster for doing this to someone innocent.

Anko and the female blonde stared at one another before Anko nodded once, slowly. "I can respect that. But in the field, if I ever tell you to do something, you do it without hesitation," the purple-haired kunoichi said with hard eyes. "I don't care if I want you to go into the middle of a field and fuck yourself with your kunai or dance naked as bait. Do you understand?"

All three Genin were wide-eyed as their minds played visuals in their heads. "Would you really make me do that?" Ino asked quietly.

Anko snorted. "Probably not. There's no point in risking your life for something so blatant and obvious as a trap, but it's possible I could order you to fuck the enemy for some reason. It's a common tactic used by kunoichi. Same with little Hinata here." Anko noted, but didn't pay attention to Naruto or Hinata's growls or heavy intent to kill. It would appear neither would approve of such a tactic. A pity, really. "Face it. Sex works, and it's a kunoichi's best weapon. We don't generally make our Genin do that sort of stuff, but it does happen because Genin tend to be younger and many men enjoy them better that way."

"If you ever order them to do that, I'll stop them, kill you, and then kill the enemy," Naruto ground out, his eyes red and not blue.

"Assuming I don't get to you first," Hinata continued. "I belong to Naruto-kun and Ino-chan is our friend and we will not allow her to do that."

Anko couldn't understand it. The brats were deathly serious, obviously, but there was something else behind their actions. And she didn't like it. "Failure to obey your leader is insubordination. While I don't expect, plan or even want to order anyone to do something like that, understand it is possible and if I or Kurenai order you to, you will do so."

Anko spent a minute in a stare-off against the time-traveling Genin, happy that at least Ino wasn't sure enough of her actions that she would at least not be an insubordinate little brat like the others. But after a minute and a half, she snorted, giving up. For now. "We'll face that path if we come to it."

"Erm, so who is it?" Ino asked again, wanting to get the idea of being forced to have sex with a stranger out of her head.

"A murdering rapist of the women in the red light district," Anko explained. "Your mission is to find out how he murdered, why he chose those women, why he did it and if possible, how many. You'll also learn the usual goodies like his name, where he's from, trade, and other crap."

"Wouldn't putting him with women be counter-productive?" Hinata asked.

"At the end of the lesson, you tell me," Anko told them with a smirk. "We're going to meet him in a few minutes. Ibiki will actually be watching, along with Inoichi, yes your father, Ino, and a couple of our usual guards, just in case things get out of hand. He'll be bound, though, so I don't expect it. Any last questions?"

"Uh, yea," Naruto said as he raised his hand to be noticed. "Any particular steps we should take?"

Dozens of possibilities ran through Anko's head, but she decided this would be more interesting if she let them figure it out. "Assume the murdered women were kunoichi and you suspect it may be for an enemy nation to get rid of our spies who hear ninja talk and he wasn't working alone. Let that guide you to how to begin."

'That didn't explain anything,' the female Genin thought to themselves while Naruto nodded slowly. He had a very good idea of what Anko was saying.

xXxXxXx

Twitch. Twitch.

"I have the circle marked down," explained a large, muscular man who was dressed in only faded and ratty hospital pants. The man had incurred the wrath of so many electro-shock therapy sessions that he didn't have a single hair on his body and his head constantly twitched as though he still had a constant stream of electricity running through him. His dark brown eyes were constantly shifting, looking for anything that could possibly be a threat to his partner and himself.

"Good job, Kanochi-kun. With the perfect containment circle etched into the ground, we can inscribe our summoning seals inside. We're almost complete," the other man rasped. This man was, quite simply, ancient. He was in his late nineties, though no one knew exactly how old for sure. His pure white hair hung to his waist in a stringy and ratty fashion and his frame was was thin and nearly all of his muscles had atrophied from constantly being stuck in a small cell-like room. But he was also six and a half feet tall with eyes that glinted with the madness within his mind.

While his body was old and frail, his mind was sharp and cunning, if quite twisted. He was a seal master of the highest calibre, one that even the fabled Yondaime Hokage paled when compared to.

"We probably," twitch, "only have a few days, Yogin-sama," Kanochi warned, twitching again. "The seal's huge," twitch. "Do we have enough sacrifices," twitch, "to fill the seal with their blood?"

"No," Yogin wheezed. "We will have to acquire approximately twenty humans to drain into the seal. Maybe get a few more just to be sure."

"Women?" Kanochi asked, licking his lips, twitching and squeezing his hands in anticipation.

"If you desire it, my friend. Their blood is naturally predisposed to give life, after all. You have elected to assist me in my endeavor, so it is only right that I repay your kindness. Perhaps we shall gather two dozen and you may have the extras for your own pursuits."

"Thank you," twitch, "Yogin-sama," Kanochi said, bowing his head.

"Yes. It is not a problem, Kanochi-kun. Your cycle of life and death will be complete again, I assure you. Now, please carve this seal into the ground and inside of the containment circle as I mark it out for you. Remember to be perfectly smooth with the lines, child! If there is even the slightest bit out of alignment, there could be dire consequences!"

xXxXxXx

"Will you just take a break already!" Kiba yelled, annoyed beyond all reason with the incessant pounding where Sasuke was beating a tree mercilessly. The fact that he had used a kunai to carve Naruto's face into the bark, very deeply to ensure it would last, proved he was not doing it just for the training. "I'm pissed about losing too, but if you break your knuckles, you'll be useless!"

As if to answer the other male, the thumping increased in tempo and became louder. 'I will not lose to the village idiot! To that stupid, low-class, no-name, worthless dobe!' Sasuke growled as one eye below his scarred brow flashed red for a brief instant. His entire body shook with barely repressed rage. 'How! How did the fucking idiot do it! I'm an Uchiha! I train constantly! I was the top of our class! He failed repeatedly! Why, why, why!'

"Sasuke-kun," Sakura tried, placing her hand on her love's shoulder, feeling him shaking as his right arm cocked back and stayed there, listening to her. She knew him enough to know it wasn't fear and that he really wanted to inflict pain somewhere. "Please calm down. Whatever trick that idiot used won't work on you again. You're too good to be tricked a second time. You've been training your ass off and if you don't take a break, your body won't have time to heal to give you the benefits of all the training you're doing."

This was the third day since Team Eight completely defeated Team Seven, and Sasuke had been in a rage ever since. He refused to say a single word. He refused to look any of them in the eye and he spent every single moment he had training and making himself stronger. Sakura knew this beyond a shadow of a doubt. She had been watching him ever since after he got out of the hospital. It just wasn't healthy for him to do that. Iruka-sensei had told them all that the body had to rest in order to heal, and since getting stronger was the result of breaking down the body and it healing up, stronger than before, that meant he was weaker now than when he got out of the hospital. That certainly wouldn't do!

"Remember how the body gets stronger," Sakura explained gently, trying to get him to see reason. "If you don't rest to let it rebuild, you'll be weaker than when you started since all you've done is train the last two days."

Sasuke bit back his first response, which would have destroyed the girl completely. He needed her to form his strongest bond, even if he hadn't been paying attention to it recently. She was his best bet at gaining the power to beat his older brother. And as much as he hated it, she was right. His body needed a rest. He was shaking in rage, that they all knew. But it was also because all of his muscles were strained and screaming for relief.

'Why not kill two birds with one stone,' he considered, dropping his arms to his side. "Fine. My shoulders are killing me anyway."

"Well, you've got about two hours to rest before Kakashi-sensei gets here," Kiba snorted. "It probably won't help with the pain, but you'll get some of your strength back if you just sit the hell down and relax. You really need to find something to do that will give you some relief, man. Constant exercise will just screw your body up. My mom tells me that all the time."

"I didn't ask you," Sasuke bit out through a half-growl.

"I was just helping," Kiba snarled back with Akamaru yipping in loyalty to his master.

"Nn, whatever," Sasuke grunted, looking away. He began walking to the trees, passing Sakura on the way. "You coming?" He asked without looking or stopping. "I need to cool off."

"Of course, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura chirruped brightly, practically floating in place next to him with a huge grin and staring at him as they walked into the woods. However, the silence got to her after only a couple of minutes, so she got chatty. "Don't worry about Kiba, Sasuke-kun. He's just upset because you're so much better than he is. He was never better than you and he's angry he couldn't pull the same trick on you that Naruto-baka did and..."

Sasuke ground his teeth in annoyance, wondering why the shrew next to him just couldn't keep her mouth shut for even five minutes. She constantly went on and on about how great he was and how the dobe won due to some trick she couldn't detect or figure out. And that was what really pissed him off. He knew that Naruto hadn't done anything underhanded. He beat him, Sasuke, the last Uchiha, fair and square.

"-And Ino-pig just couldn't stand to see me on the same team as you, so she probably helped him..."

Sasuke squeezed his hand, desperately wanting to throttle the pink-haired harpy until she could no longer speak or annoy him with her useless diatribes. Why couldn't she be like his mystery sparring partner? Now that was a kunoichi! She knew when to keep silent, she knew how to kick ass and she didn't automatically want to kiss his ass just because of who he was, even though she probably should have.

He was an Uchiha, after all.

"-just think that because he's got a puppy that will fight with him that he's better, but you don't need help! You're better than everyone else combined! I bet you could..."

Sasuke wasn't sure why he did it. He only knew that his plan was to get alone with Sakura so he could work on forming some kind of strong bond to the girl, but her incessant ramblings pissed him off even more than the dead last did. He was a trained ninja. He was trained to take out his enemies. But since he needed her alive, he would later assume it was his skill working for him making him choose his path rather than killing her as he had been envisioning at the time of the event.

Sasuke growled in annoyance, which Sakura would later claim was love and lust, shoved her hard against a tree trunk, incidentally knocking the wind out of her, and kissed her hard on the mouth, pushing his lips so hard against hers that her head was pushed into the trunk of the tree.

For Sakura, she suddenly heard the growl, knew her Sasuke-kun was holding her against him, pinned against a tree and kissing her so soundly that she could swear her lungs were trying to tell her to suck the air out of his lungs and she saw stars, which she would not realize was from her head hitting the tree until a much later date.

She had her arms wrapped around Sasuke's neck and her mouth open to accept his tongue as deep into her mouth and throat as he desired her to take it and then she was suddenly flat on her ass, her legs splayed apart and her breathing coming in ragged gasps, feeling extremely lightheaded.

"S-S-Sasuke-kun?" She asked, still breathing heavily.

"Do you want to be mine, Sakura?" Sasuke asked, staring down imperiously at her, watching her pink face darken as she looked up at him in adoration, love, respect and even worship. "Will you be my girlfriend? Do your duties as my girlfriend and help me practice to become an eventual head of my clan and father to my future children?"

He carefully made sure that he didn't specify those children would be with her. How could he? He expected her to be dead long before then. It wouldn't do to sire children before he gained the ultimate power of his clan! What if that made them weaker? It wouldn't be the right thing to do as the last Uchiha.

"You want me to be your girlfriend!" Sakura asked loudly, grinning widely. "Of course! I'll be the best girlfriend you could possibly ever want!"

"I know you will, Sakura," Sasuke said with the first smile he had shown in a long time. It wasn't pretty or even real, but it served the purpose of making the girl swoon from where she sat, though that could possibly be because she hit her head rather hard against the tree. But at the same time, he believed her. She would be his only girlfriend. He would train in all aspects of a relationship with her, and then afterwards, any women he had would be wives or simply exist to bear his children. He needed many children to bring his clan back to life quickly.

"Stand up, Sakura."

Like a happy puppy, Sakura stood a little shakingly, still finding herself lightheaded from what she thought was from the kiss. Any possibility of feeling pain was gone with the elation of finally becoming Sasuke's girlfriend! 'Take that, Ino-pig!'

"Do you understand what being my girlfriend means, Sakura?" Sasuke asked, wanting to be sure. He doubted he would get in trouble for what he would do with the girl. They were legally considered adults and only alcohol was off-limits to them because of the mind-inhibiting effects. But he was a genius and knew to be safe. "You will be my girlfriend in every since of the word. You will experience all aspects of a relationship to simulate marriage. I don't play House. All of those fangirls who dream of a happy family free of danger are never going to have me because I am a ninja, and we have to live our lives every day like it could be our last, because it can be. That means I expect you to behave just as if we were together as fully as husband and wife. If you cannot do that, then you have no chance of truly becoming my wife and it would be over. Do you understand that?"

"I do, Sasuke-kun," Sakura said firmly. Her mind was clear and she understood exactly what he was telling her, or so it seemed. "You want us to basically live like a couple because if we can't, then we won't be able to in the future."

"Yes," Sasuke grunted out, crossing his arms. If she became a proper wife in essence, then he would certainly be willing to hold off on gaining the ultimate power for a little longer. It could only help, after all. And it may very well be much like husband and wife if she succeeded. He highly doubted it, but he was fair, if nothing else. She would have a chance.

"I understand, Sasuke-kun. I'll be just like your wife," Sakura demurred, looking down at her feet with a delicate blush on her cheeks. In a round-a-bout way, he had just said he was going to marry her in the future! All she had to do was be a proper wife to him! 'Shannaro! Sasuke's mine and Ino-pig was all wrong about him! He is a good guy!'

"Are you sure, Sakura-chan?" Sasuke asked lowly, making the pink-haired girl's eyes shoot up to stare at him incredulously. He had never used such an honorific with any girl! There was proof he was serious! "When I say I want us to be just like a married couple to see if we can do it, I mean it. I expect you to serve me as a wife serves her husband. Are you able to do that, or are you not the right girl for me?"

Sakura's head was shaking in denial before he was done speaking. She knew what he was asking for and it was her dream! It was the very thing she couldn't bring herself to say so bluntly in front of the others during their orientation! And anything she couldn't do, she would quickly learn. He was her everything and she would not lose him now! "I am the right girl for you, Sasuke-kun! I can do anything you need me to! I swear I'll be the best you could possibly imagine! You'll never have seen a better wife! I'll be just like your wife! My life will be to serve you as yours, no matter what it takes!"

Mentally, Sasuke smirked. 'Bingo!' Outwardly, the raven-haired boy nodded slowly as if being convinced. "Are you willing to prove you have what it takes? That you can be my wife in every essence?"

"I'll do anything for you, Sasuke-kun," Sakura told him earnestly. "You mean everything to me. This is what I want in my future; to be your wife and give you strong babies."

Sasuke forced himself to reach out and run his fingertips down Sakura's delicate jawline, actually impressed at the softness of her skin and truly surprised when she brought her hands up to cup his and hold his palm to her face. Her hands were ... warm. Gentle. It had been a long time since he had felt the hands of a woman who truly loved him. Not since his mother when she sent him to school the morning his whole clan-

Sasuke's eyes hardened for a brief moment as his reasons for living were forcibly put back on track in his mind. "Then right now, I want you to prove to me that I mean that much to you and you'll do anything. And we'll see if you have what it takes to be my wife and be an Uchiha."

"Whatever you want, Sasuke-kun," Sakura said gently, smiling at the boy and expecting a hell of a lot of kissing to be coming her way.

"Strip." He commanded, making her eyes widen comically.

"What?" She choked out, not sure she heard him right.

"I want to see what you have to offer me. Strip. Show off your ... lovely body."

Sakura blushed and looked at her feet as she shuffled them. 'Sasuke-kun thinks I'm lovely! Score!' She nodded jerkily. "A-Alright, Sasuke-kun."

Slowly, Sakura removed her red top, revealing no form of chest wrappings or a bra as she had no need of them, and pink nipples that were already rock hard. Her face was red and her neck and part of her chest flush from the blood rushing to her head. Then she slid down her spandex shorts, revealing herself to be wearing black panties that were soaking wet.

Sasuke reached forward, getting a squawk of surprise form Sakura that turned into a moan and his hand squeezed her right breast, wondering if anything was supposed to pop out or if that was all there was and then playing with her nipple out of sheer curiousity. 'None of the girls in the hot spring were missing theirs,' he thought to himself. 'It can't be an age thing. Naruto's bitch has quite the hand full and his other teammate has enough bulge to show she had something. Maybe it pops up like a timer on a turkey?'

"The rest," Sasuke demanded, deciding he had plenty of time to find out later.

Sakura moaned out her displeasure at her love's hand leaving her, gently rubbing her nipple from the pain his twisting had caused and then shoved down her panties, showing Sasuke his first glimpse of her soaked sex even as dribbles of moisture ran down her inner thighs.

The curious boy once again reached out and squeezed Sakura's wet vagina, making her gasp and jerk in both surprise and pleasure. No one had ever touched her there before in such a manner. And it felt good! Even as he shoved a finger in and moved it about, as it was something she did constantly, all she was able to feel were shockwaves of enjoyment running throughout her body before he pulled back his hand with an unreadable expression on his face as he observed the wetness on his fingers and hand.

"Hn," he grunted, realizing it wasn't the girl peeing on herself. "On your knees," he commanded, watching Sakura blush and very slowly lower herself so her knees were on her clothes and look up at him curiously and obviously having a good idea of what she was going to do next.

She was right.

Barely thinking about it, he sat on the ground in front of her, resting his back against a tree and unzipping his pants, pulling out his three-inch erection, watching Sakura gaze at it with wide eyes and feeling no small amount of pride swell within his chest. "Show me how much I mean to you. Make me believe you."

Sakura shuffled closer, gazing at the object of many of her desires. She and Ino had never actually gotten around to taking over his body and neither had really seen it before. But apparently, while it was thicker, Hinata had been telling the truth about its length when she told Ino.

The pink-haired girl took it gently in her hand and lowered herself, showing Sasuke-kun just what he meant to her, but still somewhat glad this happened before they went through physical training. But for Sasuke-kun, she would be willing even if he was covered in dirt and sweat. He meant that much to her.

Sasuke leaned his head back and enjoyed the sensation of his first blowjob. Had he known fangirls would do this for him, and actually serve a purpose in doing it, he would have been doing it for some time now. If one bond could give him the ultimate power, what about several? What he was now feeling was beyond anything else in his life that he had felt for many years. The hot, wet and eager mouth of his most avid fangirl was even better than defeating those weaklings in spars during the Academy. 'This is nice. No wonder the dobe has that bitch play with his. I wonder if he's gotten her to suck it yet. I doubt it. Hn. Loser.'

"Sakura-chan," Sasuke sighed, looking down at the girl who looked up at him without stopping her wonderful work. "I do believe you. Now swallow this and we can go wait for Kakashi-sensei. You've really relaxed me."

Just as Sakura smiled at him, he erupted with a jerk, making her eyes widen as it shot down her throat and choked her.

'Yes,' he thought as he watched her cough, naked on the forest floor and promising him anything. 'I believe we will do this quite often, my pet.'

xXxXxXx

Ino grabbed Naruto's hand and squeezed as their practice dummy was led in and chained in the new room they were in. 'Kami... He looks so normal!' She swallowed thickly as shackles were latched to the man's ankles, which had a long chain led through very heavy metal circles bolted to the ground, and then the chains came back up and were clasped around the man's wrists, then those metal rings were sunk into the ground to pull them taught and keep the man's arms stretched out.

Then another shackle was clasped around the man's neck from another ring on the ceiling that was clasped to another shackled around his waist to ensure he couldn't fall to the ground or hang himself if the interrogation, or interrogation techniques, became too much for him.

Naruto squeezed Ino's hand and smiled warmly at her, feeling her fear and hesitation to go through with this. Then he released her hand and walked in front of the man bound to the room with Hinata and Anko to stare the man down, followed a moment later by Ino after a readying breath.

"Hello scumbag!" Anko said brightly to the man who was glaring at the women in the room, looking their bodies up and down. "These three minions of mine are my Genin team. Today, we're practicing torture and interrogation, so they're going to question you-"

"Fuck off, bitch!" The man screamed. "I won't tell you cunts anything! Bow before me and suck my cock!"

Hinata giggled lightly, smiling at the man who glared at her in response. "Oh, I think you'll tell us everything we want you to. It isn't a matter of 'if', just 'when'." Hinata turned slightly to Naruto and pressed her body up against his, smiling at him and nibbling on his ear. "What do you think, Naruto-kun? Can I break him? Pretty please?"

Naruto had no idea what Hinata was on about, but knew to play along with whatever it was while Anko quirked an eyebrow at the display and Ino stared wide-eyed. Since she was in Morning Hinata mode, which was suitably playful in a kinky way anyway, he would just do as he would in the morning anyway. "I don't know," he mused thoughtfully. "We're all supposed to try at least a little."

"I'll do that thing with my mouth you like each night for a month," Hinata purred, running her hand over Naruto's chest and dipping it to his bellybutton before bringing it back up. "We can even let Anko-sensei watch. I've always wanted to be watched."

"Fucking whore!" The man spat out. "Spreading your legs for that demon!"

"Not yet," Hinata purred, licking Naruto's neck as she looked at the bound man, ensuring he saw it. "I want to try all sorts of dirty things before we work our way up to that. I'm rather fond of his penis and it's rather fond of my mouth, you know. It's my favorite toy." Ino blushed and Anko grinned widely, mentally laughing her ass off as Hinata used Anko's famous torture persona against the criminal. And she was finally hearing some juicy gossip!

Pardoning the pun...

"You fucking whore!" The man spat. "The acts of-BLUGH!"

Naruto, Hinata and even Anko blinked in surprise as Ino's fist connected with the man's face, her own contorted into a furious rage as she shook her hand to ease the pain. "Enough with the whore talk," she grumbled, then grinned as the man spat at her, dodging the blood and spittle as she moved over to the still-hugging pair.

"I say we give Hinata-chan first shot, at least," Ino said, nuzzling Naruto's neck as she looked at Hinata, getting a wink at her actions to tell her she had full permission to play along and her support. "If she fails, then she has to do that thing you like to both of us."

"Jackpot," Naruto muttered before his mind went elsewhere, only to be whacked by a blushing Ino before his mind reenacted Hinata's persuasive argument with both correct girls instead of two Hinata's.

"Work first, play later," Ino scolded, her blush brighter. 'I can't believe I thought playing along with this would be a good idea! Sure it seems to be pissing him off, but damn me if it isn't embarrassing!' She spun around to hold onto Naruto's other side as Anko's grinning form moved to the side, just to ensure they didn't go overboard or in case things went wrong some how. Taking up position next to Naruto also allowed him the chance to hug her in the appearance of being affectionate, which really gave her the feeling of safety and security she really, really needed right then. The fact that she enjoyed it was ... meaningless. 'He's just safe and feels peaceful, that's all this is. Feeling safe, peaceful and muscular. That's it. Nothing naughty. Well, not for real. I may tell him I'll do a bunch of stuff, but we aren't going to do that tonight, no matter what we say. He's just got nice arms, that's all!'

Not aware of Ino's thoughts being about as firm as water, Hinata sauntered up to the prone form of their victim. "Let's start off easy, shall we? You're here and that means you probably did something naughty to deserve torture. But, here we are and we don't know anything about each other! I'm Hinata, this is Naruto-kun and Ino-chan. You may call us Mistress, Master and Mistress for the duration of your stay-"

[Torture Start]

"Fuck you, bitch! I won't-AH!" The man shook in his shackles as Hinata ran a finger down his stretched arm, firing a steady stream of chakra into his arm, causing a massive amount of pain. "Now don't be childish! Next time, it's 'fuck you, Mistress' when you're yelling in obscene rage."

Anko barely refrained herself from snorting in laughter, but was finding it harder as the pressure in her lungs from withheld guffaws grew. 'Holy dango on a stick! I love this team! We've got kinky kunoichi out for Naruto's balls everywhere! Wait until Kurenai-chan hears this! No! I can't tell her... She may stop it and then I'll never get to catch them in the act! Hm... how can I set them up to lose their virginities and capture the moment on film for proper blackmail purposes?'

"Now, let's start with the easy stuff," Hinata continued once she took her finger from the man's arm. There was a reddening rash-like trail where her dainty digit had touched him. "Now, what is your name?"

"Whore! You fu-AHH!"

Hinata followed the same path as before, watching the now dark red line begin to bleed through the unharmed skin. She saw similar bleeding when a woman waxed to remove hair. "I told you to call me Mistress!" Hinata warned as she switched to pure rage instead of playful sadist. "Who am I?"

"M-Mistress," the man said carefully, his left arm, the one with the red line, shaking as pain flared with his heartbeat.

"Good. Now what's your name?"

"Fuh. Fujin," he answered, gulping air as he tried to ignore the pain. "Yumino Fujin."

"Good boy!" Hinata cooed as she clasped her hands together under her chin. She looked far too innocent and happy for what was happening.

"Next," Anko called out, frighteningly pleased with Hinata's style and performance. She couldn't believe the tiny waif of a girl, albeit with a wonderful rack, had taken to using Anko's own unique persona for torture to be the playful, sexual sadist. It was an excellent persona against men. They were generally so ruled by their hormones that they paid as much attention to their bodies or the suggested sexual activities, as they did the questions asked of them, sometimes even more, making them answer because they enjoyed the show. That was one reason Anko showed off so much of her body. In a fight, all men were at least somewhat affected by watching her body or trying to catch glimpses when they could. That was why Anko only wore a fishnet shirt, even if her trenchcoat always, or almost always anyway, covered her breasts.

'I wonder if I could get them to dress up like me, too,' Anko mused to herself. 'Ah, probably not. Kurenai-chan would get angry with me and won't use Big Bob with me.'

Ino stepped forward when she heard Anko say the next one should step up. She wasn't looking forward to this, but she felt it would be best to get it out of the way now before she watched him get tortured by the others even more first. Right now, she was nervous and feeling sick to her stomach, but it wasn't as bad as it would be if she saw what Naruto would do to the man first.

"I should warn you," Ino said as she paused in front of the glaring man. "I can't do what Hinata-chan did. She has unique abilities that I don't have, so what I have to do to get answers is messier. But, since I'd rather not get your blood in my hair, it's a pain in the ass to wash out you see, I'm going to ask a question before I start to give you a chance to escape the pain. You know why you're here, but I want to hear you say it. So tell me. What did you do to deserve torture?"

The man grinned darkly, looking Ino's body up and down and enjoying the obvious nervousness she displayed, crossing her arms under her chest and leaning back. "I killed whores, demon slut," the man said happily. "I fucked them to cleanse their bodies of the filth from their previous uses so they had a real man and then I choked them to death while I was inside of them so they could die like real women."

As the man's eyes continued to roam over her body, Ino repressed the urge to cover herself and did the first thing that came to mind. She formed a blade of chakra in the air in front of her without so much as a twitch and shot it forward to slash at the man's crotch, keeping it blunt enough to be nothing more than a hard kick to his balls. A hard kick that was all focused on the blunt edge of the blade making it quite painful. "I believe Hinata-chan told you to call us real women 'Mistress'. I suggest not forgetting again or you will lose your oh-so-manly tackle in an explosion of blood and testicle. Understand?" She asked sweetly, fluttering her eyelashes.

The man glared at Ino for a moment before grinding out between clinched teeth, "Yes, Mistress."

"Good. Now, any man who would kill women with such pride probably kept count. How many did you kill?" Ino asked, staring into the man's eyes. It was the best way to know what he was leering at.

"Twenty-three whores," Fujin said with a fond smile. He was proud of his work. "I only wish I was still able to continue."

"Why did you kill them?" Ino asked, readying another blob of chakra. This man was really pissing her off and she was ready to just blast his balls into oblivion on principle alone. Well, principle and because he wouldn't stop staring at her body.

Fujin smiled at Ino, letting out a wheezing laugh as he strained against his shackles to reach the blonde girl. "I'll never tell," he answered in a sing-song voice.

The blob of chakra Ino had been maintaining by her shoulder shot forward to impact into the man's left shoulder, making him cry out in pain as his limbs were spread out and he rocked back and forth, unable to actually fall down. "Why did you kill those women?" Ino asked with more force.

'Careful girlie,' Anko thought to herself. 'Don't lose your cool or you lose control and give power back to them.'

"I'll never tell why," the man sing-songed again, letting his head roll and laughing.

"Next," Anko called out, giving Ino a chance to growl and step beside Hinata while Naruto came forward.

"Ah yes. Our resident ... demon," Fujin sneered, glaring at Naruto. "I bet you've just been waiting for a reason to torture us humans." He glanced at the girls and grinned before turning back to Naruto. "Do your whores know what you really are?"

Hinata, who could hear everything just as the others could since noise was amplified by the concrete walls and floor, couldn't help but giggle. "You mean that he's got the Kyuubi sealed inside of him? Oh, we know. But he's also got an absolutely huge cock that I love to suck on," she purred, overacting getting aroused and clutching to Ino's arm as she breathed deeply. "Sweet Kami... that stamina and an inability to wear him out... they should seal demons inside of every man."

As Fujin opened his mouth to yell at Hinata, Naruto's hand swiped out and backhanded the bound victim. "I don't play games," Naruto grunted. "You will not look or address them. You will answer my questions. You will not fuck about. Why did you kill those women?"

"Fuck you, demo-AH!" Fujin screamed in unholy agony as Naruto's hand found its way to his stomach and simply rested there. But what the others couldn't see, even Hinata as she didn't have her Byakugan active, was that Naruto was using the very first stage of his Rasengan training to spin his chakra inside the man's gut, twisting and pressing on his organs and intestines lightly, which was excruciatingly painful.

Five long seconds of constant screaming later, Naruto removed his hand. Dripping down Fujin's pant legs was a tepid yellow liquid and based on the strong scent of feces now in the air, he had been unable to control his bowels. "I'll ask one more time before I get upset and losing your pride by shitting and pissing yourself will be the least of your worries. Why did you kill those women?"

"Fuh-fuck you, d-AH!"

Naruto placed his hand gently onto Fujin's stomach and once again caused excruciating pain to the man, this time for ten seconds. By the eight second mark, Ino had rushed behind the screaming Fujin and thrown up the contents of her stomach. Having a very slight understanding of the psychology of torture and interrogation, he knew not to show concern for her at the moment. Fujin couldn't see her and she was no longer making noises he would be concerned with. "I am now giving you your last chance. Why?"

[Torture End]

"Th-they reminded me of my sister," Fujin admitted, coughing up blood and not wanting the devil's hands on him again. "She r-raised me after our parents died. She always brought m-men to our home and s-spread her legs for them like any other whore," he explained, his rage rebuilding as he lost himself to his own story.

"It wasn't long before she started selling me to them to make more money. Letting them do things to me ... vile, unspeakable things. 'If I can do it, you can do it too,' she told me. 'I can take two in that hole at once! Take it like a man and stop bitching!' she screamed. Always telling me to be a real man."

"Where are you from?" Naruto asked, keeping his voice firm even though he sympathized for the man's past. It was a shitty one, but not unheard of. Sometimes, people didn't care what they fucked, so long as they got off while doing it.

"I moved here when I was fourteen," Fujin grumbled. "The town didn't have a name. Just a permanent trading post. We had a lot of travelers," he finished evilly.

Anko was pleased with her charges' actions. They played off of each other well in the beginning and maintained their own unique styles for interrogating their prisoner. Granted, Hinata's was similar to her own, which was interesting since they admitted to having never done this in the past or worked with her for it. Well, their past, her future. Still, she was impressed with them. Even Ino handled things well despite tossing up her breakfast. Few people, especially decent ones, held back enough to do that where their prisoner couldn't see them. The evil bastards usually enjoyed this kind of work.

Surprisingly, Naruto was like a blonde little Ibiki, which made her feel all warm and fuzzy inside. She was sure the scarred Jounin had watched this whole thing, not usually getting an opportunity to look for future interrogators or seeing them in action. From her own experience, all three had a possible future in the field. Despite not being able to stomach the man's screaming, Ino was still able to get information and without really having to do anything serious.

"Alright minions," Anko called out. "We've got the information we want. Congratulations. Now let's get out of here."

xXxXxXx

"You may enter now, Mitarashi-san," the secretary told Anko, letting the purple-haired woman into the Hokage's office. She had led her minions to the Hokage Tower and told them they could rest easy that night because neither she or Kurenai would attack them because of their recently-finished training, having to promise three times she wasn't trying to lull them into a false sense of security. She was actually kind of proud that they knew her well enough to realize that could have been a trick while being a little upset that she had become that predictable. Still, their training for that day was all canceled, giving them the rest of the day off for their own devices. Partly because they were still young, at least Ino was, and second, so she could take care of this little problem.

"Ah, Anko. How can I help you?" Hiruzen asked. "Was there something wrong with the their training today?" Sarutobi had been a little reluctant to allow Anko to take her kids to receive their first opportunity to torture, but he had to have faith and trust in his Jounin to lead their Genin properly and know what they could handle. Even if two of them were seven years older, mentally.

"No sir, nothing wrong. They all actually did really well with it. Things didn't even have to get messy," Anko answered with a grin. What could she say? She was proud of them.

"Excellent to hear. So what can I assist you with?"

"First, have you found anything out about that ANBU?"

"No, I'm afraid I haven't," Sarutobi sighed. "I've got Kurenai looking the information up since I chose to not allow anyone else to get close enough to find out what may have happened. She tried to get out of it, but conceded the point that we didn't want anything about this getting out for now."

"I was wondering why she seemed so depressed," Anko pondered aloud before getting back on track. "Anyway, I had a little dissension among the ranks I wanted to take care of."

"What happened?" Sarutobi asked solemnly, his face falling into one of long-suffering.

"I was just making an example of things, but I explained that if I ever had to order them to sleep with the enemy or something to that effect, they would do it, and Naruto and Hinata threatened to kill me if I tried. They also promised to do the same for Ino, but she was too spooked to make her own response, I think. But that kind of insubordination could be deadly out in the field and I wanted to know what you thought of it before I chose to take corrective action."

"Anko, we do not force our Genin to do that," Sarutobi said with a slight frown.

"Yes we do," Anko snorted as she rolled her eyes. "You just do it to girls who have no family or who were willing to be used for that in order to get the money it brings if they survive it if they didn't have the capability to become real kunoichi."

Sarutobi sighed. While it was true, it was also something that was taboo to discuss in any setting save the ANBU mission hall where those particular missions were assigned. He activated several security seals on his desk that put up a silencing seal around the office and that set up an electrical field to stop all currently-known forms of spy tech before continuing. "Anko, with both Naruto and Hinata absorbing some of the Kyuubi and merging as they have, it is very possible that attempting to force any woman Naruto claims as his could very well result in death. I know Hinata-san is willing to allow other women based on your reports, but that is only with Naruto himself. If I am honest, I think it is safe to say that attempting to force what could effectively be 'his' women into sleeping with the enemy could prove to be disastrous."

"They threatened to kill me," Anko said simply. "That doesn't say 'possible danger' to you?"

"Has it happened any time other than when you basically said you may tell them to sleep with the enemy?" Hiruzen asked curiously. To be honest, he was somewhat curious about their development.

Anko thought about it before answering and had to admit, they really weren't likely to run around threatening to kill people. "Nothing more than playful banter," she finally admitted.

"Are you worried about it in any way?" The aged Hokage asked. "Have they done anything, anything at all, that we have to worry about or that hints that they are a threat to anyone who isn't labeled an enemy?"

"No," Anko sighed immediately. "I'm not here because I am worried that they are going to attack or kill me, but because there is a point as ninja and kunoichi where we have to do things we don't like or despise ourselves for doing. As kunoichi, our bodies are very often used for our missions' end goals, oftentimes by spreading our legs. But if they start fighting mine or Kurenai's authority, how far will it go? And what if that comes up at a time where we can't have it happening?"

Anko leaned back into a chair as she slumped down into it. "I'm here because of their unique circumstances and punishment must be given, but I wanted your opinion, first, since you know about those circumstances and how far we should be willing to take it."

"I understand," the old man said. "They must realize they cannot fight your authority, but at the same time, you must realize that they are not the usual shinobi and that they cannot be treated just like any others. If you feel they should be reminded of their station, I will approve under the knowledge that you are their Jounin sensei and know them as well as anyone else, if not better. And probably the latter. So what would you like to do?"

Anko sighed, hating what she had to admit. She was so looking forward to a good butt-whooping. "They haven't actually done anything, yet. But, considering the girls are clan heiresses, and better safe than sorry, I'll at least make sure we never do that to them. But I still need to do something that shows they have to obey me and Kurenai."

Ever so slowly, a grin that most of Konoha was familiar with and many even ran away from grew on Anko's face. This was the same smile Naruto had seen several weeks ago and had compared to the same one she wore as she used a suicide technique just to take one of Orochimaru's arm.

"I'm hiring Team Eight for a mission," she began. "In four days when our camping is over, I want to get sent to Kiyoko Pass."

"The hot spring resort?" Sarutobi asked in confusion.

"Yea. I'm also hiring two female ANBU to go out ASAP to plant false information for my team to find. But instead of the whole team, it'll be a ... team project."

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"I think you should talk to her," Hinata told Naruto quietly. The two had been outside of the tent and working on the leaf exercise for their secondary elemental affinities, but Ino had begged off working on hers and had stayed in the tent after she brushed her teeth to get rid of the taste of vomit.

"Me? Why not you? You're both girls. Wouldn't she feel more comfortable with you?" Naruto asked.

"She's uncomfortable because of what we did and I think mostly about what you did," Hinata explained. "Even though this is a different time, you know how to talk to her much better than I do. We've talked, but it's not the same. How about we both go?"

"I can live with that," he responded. "I mean, I know we're friends like before, but it isn't really like before. We're friends, but not as close yet."

"Give it time. Also, to help out with that, I'd like you to begin taking a more proactive role in trying to get her to join us," she said before opening the tent and finding Ino with her knees pulled up and resting her chin on them. "Are you okay Ino-chan?"

"I'm fine," Ino said quietly.

Naruto and Hinata sat next to her and wrapped their arms around her shoulders and waist, feeling her shaking. It surprised them a little when Ino pulled away from Naruto slightly.

"Are you scared of me, Ino-chan?" Naruto asked, feeling vulnerable, despite his years of experience and the things he's been up against.

Ino didn't respond immediately, but after a few seconds, she shook her head. "You just ... put your hand on him and he screamed. He screamed like his soul was being tortured," she answered quietly.

Hinata grabbed Naruto's hand and placed it on Ino's belly gently, letting his palm rest flat against her. "Does Naruto-kun's touch hurt you, Ino-chan?"

"No."

Hinata moved her eyes to look at Naruto, sending a silent message. Some part of him seemed to know exactly what she wanted without her having to say it. Like an impression of action trying to tell him what to do. 'Not too far, but make her feel safe again.'

Slowly, Naruto moved his hand up, lifting just enough to let his fingers trail over her chest between her breasts to lightly stroke her neck. "Does my touch cause you pain, Ino-chan?" He asked, lightly smirking as he saw goosebumps raise on her neck were his finger touched her.

"N-no," she responded, closing her eyes even as Hinata's hands rose to gently tilt Ino's head towards her and move her hair off of her shoulder.

Naruto leaned in and kissed Ino's neck gently and slowly, letting his tongue touch before his lips. "Do my lips hurt you?"

Ino sighed heavily in a shaky breath, tilting her head further to give him better access. "No," she whispered quietly.

Naruto gently turned Ino's head to face him, looking into her eyes that stared at him, questioning him. "Do you trust me, Ino-chan?"

"I do," she breathed out, not even aware she was speaking.

Naruto leaned in and kissed her gently on the mouth, moving his hand to her neck to hold her gently and savoring her lips as she kissed him back, mewling lightly as she let him steal her first true kiss with a man.

Hinata smiled as Ino's arms wrapped around Naruto's neck and leaned into the other blonde.

Naruto pulled back and smiled at Ino. She looked to Hinata, worried that she had just kissed her boyfriend, but only received a warm smile and a hug in return, making her feel at ease. "I will never hurt you, Ino-chan. Well, other than when we spar," he said, smiling sheepishly. "If I ever cause you to feel something, I hope to only make it pleasure and happiness."

Ino blushed, releasing Naruto from her arms and putting them in her lap as she looked down. "I ... I wasn't scared of you. I'm just ... overwhelmed. I mean, you have this history with me that I never experienced. And you're so friendly with me because you were friendly with that Ino, but what if I don't turn out like her?"

"I hope not," Naruto said with a soft snort, making Ino look at him in shock. "Er, I mean she was strong and powerful, but you have the potential to get a lot stronger. You're not physically as strong or fast, but you're almost as good as you were three years from now in our history."

"Really?" Ino asked, not sure how to take that. "Was I really that weak before?"

"Please don't mistake what we're telling you," Hinata said, keeping her arms wrapped around Ino and resting her chin on the blonde's shoulder. "You were a part of a team that worked well together, but individually, you weren't strong because you didn't train much and the whole team enjoyed lazing about. You're training your ass off now and you're getting damn good. We're proud to have you with us."

Ino smiled, putting an arm around their waists with a smile. "I guess I'm just a part of a better team this time."

"We like to think so," Naruto said, grinning widely.

"So, did you guys learn how to do that in the future? The torture stuff?" She asked.

"No," Hinata answered. "We didn't learn anything about it then. This was our first time."

"Oh," Ino said. "I'm sorry I ... reacted like I did."

"Don't worry about it," Naruto dismissed easily. "We've seen far worse, so we're used to it. Not causing that kind of stuff, but you know what I mean," he trailed off, annoyed to have disrupted the healing atmosphere by talk of the darker side of a shinobi's life.

"Do you want to train your elemental affinity with us?" Hinata asked.

"Can we go to the lake instead?" Ino suggested. "It's about lunch time, but I'm not really hungry after our morning. I figure we can work up an appetite and then go."

"Sure," Naruto agreed. "But we may not be able to stick around. The ANBU have begun using it again for some reason."

"Maybe we shouldn't risk it for now, then," Ino said, changing her mind. Really, all she wanted was to spend time with her team alone, but they could stay there and get that, most likely. "Let's go ahead and do our elemental training. I'd like to learn that anyway."

"Are you sure you still feel comfortable around me?" Naruto asked, again, really wanting to be sure he hadn't scared her.

Ino turned to look at Naruto and smiled warmly. She leaned in and kissed him gently on the lips, feeling like it would answer him better than saying anything would. Especially since he kissed her earlier. "What do you think?" She then got up and exited the tent, wondering what was getting into her. She had never been one for gestures of affection like that. But constantly receiving them from her teammates like this, especially being on the receiving end of more than simple kisses, had made her actually ... desire that affection. And, while she didn't want them to know, Naruto having just taken her lips and kissing her did more to turn her on than any singular thing in quite some time. She could feel her panties were already thoroughly soaked.

Hinata giggled. "Yes, my conversion of her is nearly complete," she said quietly, knocking Naruto over and kissing him hard, taking his hand and squashing it against her chest. "I don't want to force her to make a decision, but I don't want her to regress. Let's keep up the kissing and work on trying to get her to accept more training like before and we'll see where it goes, okay?"

"You're awfully frisky for coming straight from interrogation," Naruto said with a grin and a raised eyebrow.

"I am looking forward to being together, all three of us," Hinata explained, kissing him quickly and getting up while straightening her clothes. "I'm just looking forward to it because it seems to be happening. Now let's go teach her how to put a spark in her step!"

"Hey! Only I'm allowed to make bad jokes around here!"

"Then catch me and stop me," Hinata said, waggling her bottom quickly and darting out of the tent.

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[A/N:] - Next Chapter! "It Puts the Lotion on Its Skin..."

Hokage: "We've been receiving reports of masticated human remains. We are assigning you to find out what is happening."

Anko: "We're investigating a bunch of wild animal attacks? Wolves? Bears? What?"

Hokage: "No. All evidence suggests all victims were eaten by other humans."