Ch. 10.
1 Fem Kyuubi- (Kyoshi)
2 Anko
3 Kurenai
4 Yuugao
5 Hana
6 Tsunami
7 Tsume
8 Tsunade
9 Shizune
10 Samui
11 Mei. T
12 Yugito and Nibi
13 Temari
14 Tayuya
15 Hinata
16 Karui
17 Mikoto
18 Fem-Haku
"Kyuubi talking"
'Kyuubi Thinking'
"Regular Talking"
'Regular Thinking'
I'm gonna put Nibi in the harem too now, just because I like that pairing and I can make it work fairly easily I think and Yugito is staying in the harem too.
I Do Not Own Naruto
When both, Tsunami and Naruto entered the kitchen the whole table just lit up.
"Naruto-kun!" Anko yells and glomps him but remembers that others are around and blushes, while shes doing that she misses the slight glare she gets from Tsunami.
"Whoa, what's going on between you two huh, sensei?" Kiba asks while snickering.
"Shut up mutt, none of your business." Anko says still hugging Naruto.
"Heh" is Kiba's awkward laugh in reply not wanting to make Anko angry.
Seeing this, Anko smirks, 'that's right mutt,' "anyway we should all start some training today so lets go into the woods for it after dinner."
When dinner is over Anko says, "Naruto, leave some clones behind at the house to protect the others."
"Got it" is his reply as he does just that and follows them out the door, waving at Tsunami as she blushes a bit and waves back at him. 'He's so handsome, but am I too old, I don't know what to do...' She thinks to herself.
As the team gets out into the woods a bit Anko stops and turns to them.
"Alright guys, this is a chakra control exercise that focus completely on pure control. Take out a kunai and hold it in your hand, you must use your chakra to make the kunai stand up in your hand. Keep it perfectly still," She says while taking out a kunai and showing them what to do. "ANBU are taught how to do this training to prevent any accidents. If you use too much chakra, the kunai will shake violently and shoot upwards. Using to little the kunai would wobble a bit before falling back down. Understand?" She says while the others look at her and nod.
"This is tricky and I have already taught you how to tree climb and water walk, so if you get this you will have your control down good. If you combine the training with this too you will get even better, like tree climbing and the kunai balancing at the same time. We will also be working on sticking to the trees and sparing for an hour to master the exercise completely."
"An hour of sparing on a tree, are you crazy or something?" Kiba yells out.
"Want to make it two hours?" She shoots back with a evil grin on her face shutting him up really quick and get to work.
"Good, and Naruto, I want to talk to you after training today." Anko says a little nervously which Naruto picks up on.
"Alright Anko-sensei, I'll see you then." He says with a smile. 'I guess this is the time I should confess to her, I think that's what she is going to ask about after the whole needle incident.'
"Yea, see you then."
Each member of the team took out a kunai and immediately got to work. All of the boys had about even control due to having used all the chakra control exercises.
"Alright guys, let's see who can do this the fastest, losers have to buy the winner all the food he can eat when we get back home." Naruto challenges them.
"What!? You could out eat the entire village if you wanted too." Kiba complained loudly.
"What? Don't think you can beat me or something?" Naruto shots back with a cocky smirk making Kiba snort and start his training.
"Whatever, deal. I'll definitely beat you though so get ready to buy me some food you guys.
"Actually I think you meant that I was gonna win this little challenge and both of you will buy me food." Sai said back to the two guys.
"No way, I'm gonna win this one, just like I won the other ones. It was fricken hilarious when I had you two idiots run into the woman's hot springs when you lost. Compared to that buying me all I can eat is nothing." Naruto says with a laugh while his friends glare at him like he is the most horrible thing on the planet making him laugh even more.
"Bastard, we could have died doing that!" Kiba yelled mock angrily while suppressing a shiver.
"Yea, yea let's just get to work already." Naruto says as they all start to concentrate on the ANBU control exercise they were doing.
Hours later we see the boys in the woods all leaning on their own tree barley standing and panting like crazy.
"Alright, I'm out of chakra, how are you guys doing?" Sai asks.
"Me too, let's head back to the house; I think is dinner time anyway." Kiba replies while heading off.
"Fine, but I'm not that tired. I guess I'll give you guys a fair chance, let's go." Naruto says.
As they enter the house they all practically fall into their seats across from their sensei making her smirk.
"Out of chakra already, how far are you guys?" Anko asks them.
"I held the kunai up for a minute almost." Naruto says.
"I barley got my to stop wobbling for like ten seconds." Kiba says groaning that he might lose another challenge.
"I got mine to stay still for about 20 seconds." Sai says also not happy with the thought of losing the challenge? 'at least me and Kiba will be splitting it.'
"Wow, not bad guys, try to have that done in five days with holding it up for a half hour and then fighting on the tree for an hour for the rest of the time, or maybe we could do the fighting on the water if your done early." Anko says with her trademark grin on her face. "Naruto, let's head outside real quick before dinner."
"Alright, let's go."
As they get outside Anko leads him out to the back to the dock behind the house and turns to him. 'How do I say this?'she thinks nervously. "I'm really glad that you saved me from taking that hit by those senbon." She says with a nervous but still grateful smile, not really looking into his eyes.
"Your welcome, but I'm thinking that you have something else to say with the look your giving me." Naruto says with a smile and hope in his eyes. 'I hope she's going to say she likes me.'
"Well, I was just wondering why you would go that at for me? I like that you did and it makes me happy but I was really worried about you." She says softly with a little blush.
'Well she didn't say it directly but I can tell,' Naruto thinks happily. "I... I really like you Anko, and I don't want to see you get hurt. I know you can handle pain but I just didn't want you to get hurt."
Anko freezes while her heartbeat quickens, 'he said he likes me' "wait... did you say you liked me?" She questions thinking its too good to be true.
"Yes, I would really like to date you, but I already have Hinata and she already agreed to it because she knows as the last of my clan I need to marry like 15 women. Are you okay with that?" Naruto asks nervously.
'He likes me... wow, this is great. But he does have to have a lot of other girls to marry but as long as I'm one of them along with Kurenai, Hana, and Yuugao I'm ok with it, he will definitely treat us all equally.' "I really like you too Naruto, I have for a long time. You have always been an inspiration to me with all you've been through yet you still stay strong and protect people, I really admire you for that. I also will be with you even knowing about the other women you will have to have. I know you will treat us equally." She ends with a huge smile, that Naruto loves to see, its her genuine smile.
'Wow, she agreed, this day can't get any better,' "I will treat you all equally, I promise. I would love to take you out to dinner some time when we get back to the village, sometime when your free if you want." Naruto asks.
"I would love too, just come through the forest of death to my little hut anytime."
"I will. Now let's go get some dinner." And with that they head inside with huge smiles on their faces.
Back in the hidden leaf village Sakura is still out and about spouting lies about Naruto being a demon and still being ignored.
"Hey, we should burn down his apartment, he's too dangerous too live here anyway, who's with me." She shouts into a crowd of people with an evil smirk on her face, waiting for an answer. 'Come on people, this is gonna be great, he's dangerous and is only trying to be cool to steal me away from Sasuke-kun.'
"Will you give it up already you stupid little girl." Yelled some random civillian women. "If he was a demon then he would have slaughtered us all after we almost beat him to death. He's a good boy, with nothing but good intentions in his heart and I am glad that he is here in the village protecting us."
"What? He is just using his demon powers to confuse you." Screamed the pink haired girl. 'Come on, he's just messing with you, if you don't believe me then I'll just leave.'
"Your the one whose confused, give it up we will never harm him again." Yelled another random civilian, this time a man in his late thirties.
"Fine, then I'll just leave the village, and I'll show you all that he is a true demon in human disguise." She screeched back at them and then just storms off.
"Yea, yea girl, whatever." A young teenage girls says as the crowd dispersed."
'I will get you for this Naruto-baka, I'm gonna find someone to help me get you, then the village will love me and I will get Sasuke-kun all to myself.' She thinks as she is packing her things to leave, not even caring for her own parents. She only cares about ruining Naruto's reputation and getting Sasuke.
Back with the team at the dinner table they are all having a nice conversation not knowing of the new traitor and possible threat to the village leaving. They are all having a good time until the young boy on the other side of the table from them screams at them.
"Why are you even hear, you are all acting so happy and having fun, while we suffer by that evil man Gato!" Inari screams, silencing them.
"Inari, don't yell at them, they are protecting us when they didn't need to." Scolded Tsunami.
"Come on, you don't have to be afraid, were gonna help you." Naruto says calmly.
"Shut up, you don't know anything about us, you don't know what suffering is. You probably have a nice big house with food and a family waiting for you. But Gato killed my dad and I have to go hungry sometimes. You wouldn't know what its like at all." Inari shouts again making Anko so angry that she wants to pummel the little kid into next year.
The whole team is angry at him, having heard a little about his life and seeing some of it for themselves. They all knew that he didn't have a good life at all and they all wanted to pummel the little kid. Too bad Anko beat them to the punch.
"How dare you say that to him you little brat he knows more suffering than all of us in this room combined and that's saying a lot since I've had one messed up life." Anko yells back with a red face from anger as she reaches for the kid only to be stopped by Naruto's hand gripping hers.
She looks to see Naruto with his head down with his hair covering his eyes. He then pulls her hand down to his side and looks up making all the people gasp at the sadness in his eyes.
'A boy like him shouldn't have eyes like that at that age. What happened to him?' Tsunami wonders as tears come to her eyes.
'Wo, his eyes...' Inari thinks while regretting what he said as he can practically feel the pain from his eyes.
'It must have been hard to live like he did.' The others in the room think, while waiting for their blond captain to speak.
"Have you ever been dragged so far into the darkness that you were afraid you would never see the light again? Have you ever felt so helplessly weak knowing that you just might not be strong enough to pull yourself back to the light? Have you ever been soaked in your own blood waiting for death, just wanting it all to end." He says softly making the girls in the room burst into more tears. Inari also starts to cry and the other guys have water in their eyes.
"Have you been beaten, stabbed, used for target practice, burned? Have you ever went without food for weeks on end eating only garbage and some small animals? Have you ever been glared by almost your entire village and not know why? Have you been called names by those same people all the time when you walk by? Have you been refused service to most places in the village and when they actually let you in, were you triple charged for broken things or rotten food?" He speaks with a slightly more forceful tone.
"I have felt all of these things, I know what pain and suffering is, much more than you do. I have grown up a hated orphan so I don't know what it's like to lose a parent. I am sorry for your loss, but you have your older sister here, and your dad while I had nothing."
Tsunami, despite the situation blushes as the comment about being Inari's older sister. 'Well, I guess I'm not too old then.'
"We are here to help you whether you want us to or not." He continues as he head towards the door only to stop and turn is head behind him with a small sad smile on his face. "No one will suffer like I did," is the last thing he says to the family and team of ninja as he leaves them to sit in silence.
"Is, that all true?" Tazuna asks after wiping his eyes.
"Yes, but that was mostly the watered down version of his life." Anko says sadly, "He has so many hidden scars on his body you couldn't count them all. He hides them under a genjutsu so no one can see them, I think he is ashamed by them." She says sadly while wiping her tears and leaving the room with all the horrified people in the dining room.
"O my god, it was worse than what he said, how could they do that to him?" Tsunami asks while sobbing uncontrollably.
"I- I never knew." Inari says while running to his room to think about what he did.
"I knew it was bad but never that bad, he gave us an even more watered down version before but it was nothing compared to this one." Kiba says sadly while Sai just remains silent.
Naruto is now walking around outside where they were training earlier, 'I don't think I should have told him that and made all the others cry, do you Kyoshi-chan?' He thinks to Kyoshi who had heard what he said.
'He had to learn that some people always have it worse than others, if you didn't tell him he would always have acted that way to anybody. I think you did the right thing, so just do some training to take your mind off of the argument.' Kyoshi says back softly.
'Good idea, I always feel better after some training, let's get this kunai balancing thing down already.'
'Yea, just focus and you should be able to hold if for a couple minutes, I heard about your bet and I think you did a good job of motivating them. You could out eat the entire village and still be hungry, so no one would want to pay that much.' She giggles at that trying to lighten the mood.
'I don't eat that much, just a little more than the average family of three.' He says back jokingly.
'Haha, alright whatever you say, just get to work already.' Kyoshi says to him.
The next morning after Naruto's training there is a small building in the middle of the woods.
"I'm heading out to get you some herbs to heal up, I'll be back Zabuza-sama." The young girl who saved Zabuza says to him as he is in bed.
"Fine, just hurry back and don't do anything stupid while your gone Haku." Zabuza says to her, wanting to sound caring but he just couldn't do it due to the years of running and fighting it just isn't in his nature anymore.
"I will, don't worry." Haku says with a smile on her face.
Walking through the woods, Haku goes to the spot where the herbs would be, dressed in a pink kimono while carrying a basket for the herbs, with her hair is down and she is smiling. Suddenly she sees someone laying in the grass nearby the herbs she needs.
'It looks like that handsome boy who fought and beat Zabuza-sama somehow, I really wish I had brought my senbon with me.' Haku thinks to herself. She walks over slowly trying not to wake the boy up, but she didn't know that he knew who she was and exactly when she got there.
'This is interesting, I wonder what she'll do?' Naruto questions while keeping his eyes closed tensing his muscles to move at any second just in case.
She stops next to him and is reaching towards his neck, 'I don't think I can do this,' she panics slightly and then shakes his shoulder. "Hey, get up you'll catch a cold if you sleep here." She says kindly with a smile on her face.
Slightly stirring from his sleep, Naruto stretches and rubs the sleep from his eyes. "O, hello tenshi-chan." Naruto says with a smile making her blush like crazy from his complement and more from his smile. 'God he is so handsome with that smile and he called me an angel, how sweet.' She thinks to herself.
Trying to control her blush she stutters out, "my name is Haku, what is yours?"
"Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki, nice to meet you Haku-chan, what are you doing here so early?" Naruto questions innocently.
"I'm picking herbs for my friend, he has been injured recently and is healing up. But I think I should be asking you that question." Haku asks with a light giggle.
"I was training, I must have fallen asleep before I went back to my clients house." Naruto says back to the girl.
"Training? Are you a ninja then?" The girl asks him back.
"Yep, I'm a ninja alright, so do you want some help picking your herbs?"
"Sure, thank you but why were you training you seem pretty strong already." Haku asks and blushes some more when she remembers his body shirtless.
"I'm pretty strong I guess, but I want to be even stronger." Naruto says to her.
"Why? Do you have some precious people to protect?" Haku asks, "I think when someone has precious people to protect that makes them truly strong."
Naruto then goes into his patented thinking pose making the girl giggle to herself while holding herself to the ground so she doesn't glomp him. "I do have precious people and I would give my life in an instant to protect them. I wouldn't be half as strong as I am now without them." He says confidently making Haku's smile widen.
"Good, then you'll be very strong in the future." She says as she starts walking away.
"Well it was nice meeting a pretty girl like you Haku-chan. Can you give Zabuza this message for me?" He asks while taking out a scroll and making the girl freeze.
'How did he know I talk to Zabuza-sama.' She tenses her muscles to run as fast as she can. "How did you know I work with Zabuza-sama?"
"I'm not going to hurt you Haku-chan, I just want you to give this message to Zabuza, and I was flying around scouting the area when I saw you talking to Zabuza without your mask on. I also have better senses than a normal person. So, can you give this to Zabuza, I would rather have you and him as allies rather than enemies." He says calmly.
'I don't sense any lies from him and it would be nice to get to know him better.' Haku thought with a blush while reaching for the scroll. "Alright, I'll give this to him and I will see you later if he agrees." She says calmly. "It was nice meeting you Naruto-kun." She says and starts moving and then she remembers what she says and freezes again hoping he didn't catch the kun suffix.
"Kun?" Questions with a grin, "I could get used to that" and he walks off leaving a blushing girl behind.
'Well that was fun, I can't wait to see him again, I just hope we don't have to fight.
Chapter end
Well let me know what you think about Naruto's speech to Inari, I think I did pretty good so let me know.
I will try really hard to get the next chapter up by tomorrow but I'm not giving any guarantees.
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