Chapter 10

Naruto sat in the giant snakes stomach, he had been soaked by first its saliva then weak stomach acids that half stung his eyes and made his skin tingle. he had been trying to stab at the stomach lining with a kunai, but it didn't do anything, finally he just said, "If i'm gonna die... i'm going to give this guy the biggest stomach ache he has ever had!" he crossed his fingers in the shadow clone sign and said, "Multi-shadow clone jutsu!" first a hundred clones formed, and they all did multi shadow clone jutsu, they thousand clones didn't have enough chakra for a multi-shadow clone, so they just did a regular shadow clone, they felt the snake starting to move in pain. naruto clenched his teeth, and managed another shadow clone jutsu from all the clones, and then the snake burst, naruto's flying everywhere.

sakura saw thousands of naruto's fly into the air with large amounts of blood and snake parts, the naruto's all poofed away except for one, sakura said, "Naruto!" sasuke jumped through the tree's and caught naruto before he had fallen more than a few feet, they landed and sasuke said, "you ok?" naruto smiled and said, "but of course" sasuke got him to his feet and then sakura came up and said, try walking and moving all of your muscles" naruto did and found he was not as hurt as he had first thought he would be, his back and neck were sore, but other than that he was perfectly fine. sakura said, "have you seen nekku" naruto said, "he went to help sasuke with orochimaru?" sakura said, "yeah, but we don't know where he went" sasuke activated his sharingan but couldn't find him with it, they started walking, looking for anything that could lead them to nekku.

nekku felt gaara push his full length in, nekku squeezed against him, gaara smiled and pulled out half way, getting a slight whimper from nekku, gaara started to go back in and nekku kissed him. gaara kissed back and started to pull out again. every time gaara pushed in, nekku felt him press firmly against his prostate, and nekku would moan at the slightest touch, gaara took full advantage of that. he started rubbing and twitching his cock inside nekku, getting a long and uneven moan that sent shivers of ecstasy through him. gaara pulled out and slammed in quickly, getting whimpered moan from nekku, they looked into each others eyes and gaara saw a pleading need in nekku's eyes. gaara started slamming in fast, nekku grabbed at the sand on the floor and felt gaara starting to go even faster. gaara started panting as nekku gasped for breath, nekku came on gaara's stomach, his hole tightening around gaara's cock as he went in, gaara slammed in one last time, he got as deep as he could and came inside of nekku. they laid there a moment, gaara let himself fall lightly on top of nekku and he brought his lips to nekku's, they kissed and cuddled for a few minutes before they both fell asleep in the soft sand.

About two hours later sasuke saw the sand and told everyone that he thought he could see nekku's face inside. they all started running and all stopped at the entrance, inside they saw nekku cuddled into gaara, both naked, cum on gaara's stomach and leaking from nekku's ass. sakura went bright red and took a mental picture, naruto frowned and sasuke got in there in a white haze of rage. he pushed gaara aside, waking them both up, and he grabbed nekku by the arm, "Why the hell are you with him?" nekku stood there frozen, he looked down at gaara and then at sasuke, sakura and naruto. he tried to pull his arm away but sasuke just tightened his grip, nekku tried again and was punched in his face. gaara sent his sand up and pushed sasuke away. sasuke looked at nekku and said, "you need to choose, who do you want, me, naruto or gaara" nekku looked from one boy to the other, he closed his eyes and the chakra orb floated over to him. he said, "can i have some time..." sasuke said, "no" nekku grabbed his clothes and the air shook, he vanished along with the large chakra orb. sasuke slammed his fist into the wood and said, "this is your fault. you made him confused." gaara sat there a moment then started putting his clothes on, he left and took his sand with him. naruto sat against the tree and looked up, hoping to find the answer somewhere in the sky.

nekku sat in the small hole of the tree trunk a mile away and cried. he started to think about sasuke, about how forceful he was. he remembered when sasuke used to be rude, about how he had tried to force nekku to suck him off in the hot springs, and then he thought on what had happened just back there. nekku realized how little naruto reacted, naruto and him had done something in their room, andbefore that they would masterbate in the same room, usually facing each other, but naruto hadn't said anything back at the tree, just frowned. but in what way did he frown was what nekku didn't know. was it a frown of shame, disapproval, or that he felt the same way sasuke did but didn't get violent about it? nekku shook his head and thought of gaara. oddly enough he didn't really have anything negative to say about gaara, he had been a little rough around the edges when they met, but gaara had got him somewhere safe when he fainted, made sure he was comfortable, and then they had said something that made nekku smile. they had said, "i love you" nekku took out his half of the heart they made, its smooth sandstone skin feeling warm and loving. nekku thought about how he had just given himself to gaara, in his religion, doing that was almost like getting married, but he knew that wasn't true here, many people had sex here and they would never see each other again most the time. the thought that it could happen like that with him and gaara made him sick.

Nekku had had enough. he jumped to the ground and in a small clearing he took some of the chakra and had it make four circled, a large one, and three small ones outside it, evenly spaced. he stepped into one of the smaller circles and split the chakra in three, having two of them float into the other two small circles. he turned the third solid chakra ball into chakra mist and he said, "Chakra clone" the two chakra orbs turned into copies of him and they all said, "Call of faith" the chakra mist started moving. the nekku's said, "Guidance of the heart." the mist spun rapidly inside the large circle, as it slowed it formed a face, the face of his great aunt joan. she looked down at nekku and said, "Hello nekku, i haven't seen you since i died" nekku said, "yes, and i'm sorry i haven't called" she laughed and said, "it is perfectly fine my dear, because you have called now." she smiled down at him and asked, "now what is the problem my dear? is it about which of those three you truly love?" nekku nodded and explained what he had been thinking about and then told her what him and sasuke had talked about at the training field about how it could save both their people. she listened to everything he had to say and then said at the end, "sounds to me you have quite the issue my poor fox." nekku asked, "and what do you think i should do?" she thought for a moment and said, "well, as it is, it seems naruto is too shy to be outwardly affectionate, sasuke is violent but means well, and gaara is non violent to you and has taken you. though what you and naruto did was considered a proposal... honestly though? i think you would be happiest with gaara." nekku looked up at her with happiness, she said, "but remember my fox, the seeress of our people could almost never peg you, if i am right, then let you be forever happy, but if i am wrong, try not to let it stop you from living your life." nekku nodded and said, "also, could you tell mum i found dad, and as soon as i'm sure he will be proud i will be telling him?" she laughed and said, "my poor fox, she already knew" with that the mist deformed and created a chakra sphere again.

nekku had the two clones reform to chakra. the three chakra balls floated around his head and he saw in the reflection that sasuke, sakura, naruto and gaara had all been standing behind him, possibly for the whole time. he turned and sasuke jumped down and said, "i am so sorry, i didn't realize i was being that violent to you..." naruto said, "if you need time thats fine, but ... i didn't realize you felt so strongly about either me or sasuke..." gaara said, "... i leave the choice to you... but um... did she say we were married?" nekku giggled and said, "in my religion, yes, but with me being the last of my people, the traditions will likely die with them." sasuke stood forward and said, "but, you don't have to be the last..."naruto and gaara looked at sasuke confused and nekku explained, "If i can manage to hold myself as a girl with naruto's sex no jutsu, i can become pregnant, then, when i'm ready to give birth, i can use it again and have a baby, allowing my people to live on." gaara and naruto exchanged glances and gaara asked, "so... what does this all mean then?" nekku said, "i'm not sure, not yet anyways... but for now, and possibly forever, i'm with gaara." everyone froze and then gaara walked down slowly and gave nekku a hug.

sasuke started walking and said, "we still need a scroll-" paper bombs were thrown down by his feet and he jumped away, avoiding the explosion. there stood three ninja dressed in the same outfit as the one who had pretended to be naruto. nekku brought the chakra around and formed a chakra iron half sword, the rest reforming to create a belt. naruto jumped over nekku and kicked one of them in the face, knocking him out instantly. sasuke watched and saw naruto fly at a second, he managed to hit both with his fists right in the throats. he grabbed the scroll and said, "why couldn't it have been that easy from the start?" sasuke smiled and said, "because then we wouldn't have gone through all this, and we wouldn't have known nekku's choice." nekku flinched at the coldness there and he took a closer stance to gaara. naruto jumped and held his hands out, they looked up and saw a half dead snake pouncing at them from a tree, nekku said, "damn, i thought he was dead"sasuke jumped passed naruto and and was struck by the snakes tail, hardly slowing the snake at all. he landed on a tree limb and the snake followed behind, naruto summoned up some of the nine tailed chakra and filled his two kunai with them, he hit the snake with them and it went flying, its neck ripped near clean off. sasuke looked at naruto and then stood up. he looked at naruto and said, "and how the hell did you do that?" naruto turned and fell off the tree.

sasuke caught him and put him on the ground, nekku giggled and asked, "why did you want me when i'm sure you want him more?" sasuke turned sharply and said, "what did you just say to me..." Nekku put his hands up and turned away slowly, sasuke looked down at naruto's face, naruto opened his eyes and they stared for a moment. sasuke was about to say something when kankuro landed besides gaara and nekku, temari landing a moment later, "We got a scroll, lets head to the center building." nekku kissed gaara and said, "meet you there!" he formed wings and grabbed both the scrolls his team had gathered, he flew off at tremendous speeds. gaara smiled, leading to an even more surprised expression than when nekku kissed him. he grabbed both of his own teams scrolls and lifted himself into the air with his sand, flying through the air to catch up. sakura watched as they go and said, "Kinda ironic..." naruto sat up in sasuke's arms and asked, "what?" she turned and said, "Well when me and via swam under the rock walled cave in the springs, we say you three... i honestly thought sasuke and nekku would be a more likely match than anything." naruto looked at sasuke with confusion. sasuke smiled lightly and said, "I'll tell you later..." he ran off through the trees to try and catch up with nekku before this got ugly, naruto ran off after him.

Kankuro walked up to sakura and asked, "So... what was all that?" she said, "They're gay." kankuro nodded and said, "we should probably catch up before they get too far ahead..." temari opened her fan and fly off, sakura started jumping through the trees, and kankuro, instead of hitching a ride on temari's fan, went with sakura. sakura smiled and kept going, knowing both her and kankuro would be left behind at this pace. kankuro said, "ya know, we could try going faster if you don't mind me using a puppet" sakura laughed and said, "why would i be afraid of puppets?" he smiled and opened a scroll, out popped a large spider-like puppet, the exact same as the one nekku had used to carry sakura back at the village hidden in the mist. she thought for a moment and realized, 'nekku is a copycat, so that means he was in the sand village at some point...'

nekku flew higher as he saw gaara catching up, he wouldn't be faster in a straight line, but if he went into a dive there would be no way gaara would be as fast, so he climbed. gaara flew just above the tree line, going at an even speed, he noticed what nekku was doing and realized his plans. gaara went faster, trying to be sure he got their first. nekku suddenly changed to a downward angle and spun with his dive, wings half folded in. gaara watched him streak across the sky, blue feathers falling off in the dozens. gaara realized with horror that nekku's whole set of wings were falling off. he went as fast as his sand would let him, when he got to the building he found nekku waiting by the doors, smiling wide as he saw gaara's scared expression. nekku ran in as he saw gaara running after him, inside they found Iruka sensei who asked, "Where is everyone else from your teams?" nekku said, they would all catch up soon, and after a few moments of waiting, temari showed up, followed by sasuke and naruto. they all waited for sakura and kankuro and after a few minutes, they showed up, talking and laughing on the large spider puppet.

Iruka said, "congratulations on making it this far, all the other winners have already made it here, and they took the tunnels back, feel free to do so as well." he walked off, heading up a fleet of spiral stairs. nekku walked down to an opening in the floor and found it was a ramp that led to the tunnel system they could use to get stepped in first and found it had very little light, he took a sphere of chakra and made it glow. he held it just above his head and started walking, gaara standing close behind. temari stayed with kankuro and sakura, and behind them was naruto and sasuke, both whispering to each other. nekku said, "i wonder if what the next exam is?" kankuro said, "its the one that is most dangerous, the exam where we simply fight." nekku said with confusion, "how is that dangerous?" gaara said, "we will need to use our full strength in the fights, and the winner is decided on if they can fight, if you faint or die, you lose." naruto said from behind, "that seems a bit dramatic..." nekku laughed and said, "yeah, but doesn't it sound like fun?"

Nekku walked out of the tunnel to see they were at the very center of the village, everyone there to cheer the winners on. an ambu black ops member directed them while saying, "move along, there could be more people in the tunnels trying to get out." they all moved along and down the road, the farther they went the less people were there, until they finally came to a spot where the crowd for the winners had ended. naruto stretched and said, "that was exhausting, i could really use a warm bed and some good food right about now." sakura saw where he was going with this and stretched too, "yeah, shame we don't have an awesome place that could fit all of us..." sasuke said, "hey nekku, do you think that castle you have could be summoned even without the no tails?" both naruto and sakura facepalmed at how blunt sasuke had been, but nekku had just laughed and said, "if i can borrow some chakra from all of you." gaara looked at them and asked, "Castle?" nekku pulled out a scroll and said, "yep, inside is my masterpiece, but it requires massive amounts of chakra to summon."

Nekku had them all hold out their hands and focus their chakra to them. he pulled on the chakra and they all felt their their chakra being taken away. soon they started to feel really drained, but nekku told them he needed just a little bit more. at this point the chakra had formed over his head in a mist and was the size of a house, he added the chakra he had taken in the forest and it more than tripled in size. he sent it all into the scroll and in a massive shake and enough smoke to alarm the whole village, the castle formed. it finished forming just as the smoke cleared enough to show the people of the village what it was, everyone started at the huge floating building in the sky. gaara looked down and said, "Nekku this is amaz-" nekku had fallen to the ground soundlessly while everyone had been looking up. gaara ran forward lifted nekku up, now everyone was looking and sakura said, "the castle heals you if you're inside, we need to get him up there" naruto said quickly, "but only nekku can lower the platform!" sasuke said, "then we can try jumping up?" gaara used his sand and lifted both himself and nekku into the air, temari opened her fan and followed as sasuke naruto and sakura jumped on the buildings to get higher. kankuro sent his chakra strings up and grabbed hold oh temari's fan, and then sakura.

sakura gave a small yelp then was in kankuro's arms and smiled, they rode happily up with temari. gaara attacked the chakra shield with his sand, doing little more than getting the ground below dirty, nekku held up his hand shakily and the shield opened slightly, gaara took the chance and dived through. they landed with a thud as the shield closed again. nekku flt the chakra of the castle slowly giving him strength, after a few moments, two servants walked up, one was the fully formed servant that belonged to nekku, and the other a plain new servant who had a big red heart on its forehead area. gaara stood up and his sand made a circle around him and nekku. sakura yelled through the shield, "They're servants, they won't hurt you" gaara looked back as nekku sat up and vomited on the ground. gaara kneeled down and asked, "what happened?" nekku said between pants, "i exhausted myself with all that chakra, i'm not as skilled as i need to be to use that much." he opened his hand at the shield and it opened enough for temari to get in, then the shield moved down so naruto and sasuke could land on it and get in.

naruto's, sasuke's and sakura's servants all walked out, and when sakura's came out she ran to sakura and gave her a hug. via said, "that didn't take long at all!" sakura laughed and said, "only a few seconds" another two new servants walked out, one a female, the other male. the male formed paint on his featureless face while the female pulled out a small fan from her dress. sakura and via explained to gaara kankuro and temari about the castle and the servants as they all walked into the check in room, via pointing out the floating orbs of chakra in the boxes. kankuro finally asked, "so how do you do all of this?" nekku leaned against the counter and started, "well its in my bloodline really." sasuke said questioningly, "we heard a little about your people the other day, but we don't really know much. how about an explanation?" Nekku sighed and said, "well it was only a matter of time before someone truly asked..." he looked up with an odd expression and said, "lets talk about it in the library." he walked down the hall and naruto realized why he looked odd just then, "He looked so stoney..." sasuke continued, "like he didn't have emotion..." sakura finished as everyone started following nekku, "I've never seen him without a silly or excited expression..."