Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends... well... it will eventually, but sorry, internet cookie to whoever can tell me song and artist. You all will be subject to my first lemon in this chapter. It is not a full lemon chapter, I will put a warning up front, and at the end, so if you don't want to read it, skip to the end, also, this takes place during team 7's return and entrance into the village.

NOW onto the disclaimer and the chapter~

I do not own Naruto, Kishimoto does, but what he does not own is Darious, he's mine.

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Chapter 10: Of Dreams and Diplomacy

"Hello Naruto, I trust you did well on your mission?" Hiruzen smiled at them both as Kakashi gave a firm nod in testament to Naruto's performance during the mission. "Now, I know that you're probably wondering why I wanted to see you after the mission, and you're probably also wondering why Darious and Jiraiya are both here as well." This earned a nod from Naruto. Seeing this Jiraiya spoke up.

"Now, you know your true heritage, and that Sarutobi-sensei asked you to keep it between you, Tsume, and everyone currently in this room. There is something that you did not know, and we wanted you here to learn about it. Darious went over the history of Uzushiogakure with you and how it was destroyed, we've come to find out that there were survivors." Naruto's eyes widened as he heard that. "The few survivors spread out around the elemental nations. Naruto... we found one." Naruto's jaw hung open as he took in the information. While he was stuck in his own disbelief, a young woman with long red hair, partly hidden below a cloth watch cap, wearing a coral tunic bound by a thick purple rope and a pair of black spandex style shorts stepped out from behind Jiraiya, her red hair clear as day to her cousin, a look of hope and disbelief of her own adorning her face as she took in Naruto.

"Naruto Uzumaki, may I introduce you to your cousin, Tayuya, Tayuya Uzumaki."

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(Warning ~ LEMON ~ Warning)

Hana let out a gasp as her bare back was pressed up against the cold wall with her hands pinned above her head. Her gasp turned into a soft moan as pair of lips crashed into hers in a searing kiss. The lips belonged to the young man she had come to love over the years, her pseudo-brother Naruto. Naruto's tongue licked softly at her lips before being granted admission and instantly entering into a duel for dominance that lasted for only a minute before they broke for breath.

They stared into each others eyes for a moment before he leaned in and started to plant kisses on her neck. She leaned her head to the side and whimpered out his name as he started to work his way down her bare skin. "N-Naruto-kun!" He let go of her hands as he proceeded to work his way down her body at a slow, torturous pace, stopping at her sensitive nipples to pay them close attention before working his way lower. He kissed his way down further before lifting one of her legs to his shoulder and started kissing at her inner thigh. Her breathing was getting ragged as he finally kissed, then started to lick at her core, eliciting a shuddering gasp, then a moan as he continued on with his intimate ministrations.

After what seemed an eternity of pleasure, she shuddered again before softly pushing Naruto back away from her, at which point she noticed their shared nudity, and Naruto's erect manhood. "Naruto... Naruto-kun I need more. I need you... now." Naruto silently smiled and took her hand, leading her to the bed and laying her back on it before positioning himself over her. He smiled down at her before reaching down and guiding his shaft into her quivering folds to be rewarded with an unrestrained moan of pleasure. She reached up and pulled his face down to hers and placed a searing kiss on his lips as he thrust into her at an increasing pace, every thrust fueling a small, building fire in her core. She recognized this feeling from the night she had discovered self pleasure.

She continued moaning into his lips as she took him within herself. As the intensity of his thrusting rose, so did Hana's voice, her moans and squeals of pleasure filling the room along with the sound of skin slapping. The fire in her core built till she felt she would explode. She wrapped her legs around Naruto's waist and her arms around his neck as her body tensed and she felt her release, then a moment later, felt Naruto's release join her, filling her as well.

(Lemon end)

She lay there panting with Naruto in her arms, staring up into his eyes as they bore into hers. "I love you Naruto-kun." He smiled back down at her, and her heart leaped for joy with the first four words, but the last two shocked her to no end.

"I love you too... Sakura-chan." Her eyes went wide in shock before turning her head and seeing her reflection in the mirror on the wall, but what she saw wasn't herself and Naruto, instead she saw that she was now Sakura.

A moment later, Hana shot bolt upright in her bed covered in a cold sweat and panting heavily as her hand shot to her chest. She sat there for a few long moments trying to bring her breathing under control before moving her legs to get out of bed. As her legs moved, she noticed that her panties were more than just a little damp from what started out as an amazing fantasy come true. Shaking the thoughts from her head, she quickly got up and padded her way across the hall to the bathroom. She closed and locked the door before moving to the sink to look at herself in the mirror. Her hair was hers, her eyes were hers, and she still had her clan tattoos on her cheeks, everything was as it should be. She splashed water on her face before looking again in the mirror. "Good... still myself." Breathing out a sigh before stripping her clothes before stepping into the shower and running it fully cold as she cleaned herself of sweat, and other dampness from the night.

(on the streets of Konoha)

Now fully dressed and fed, Hana followed her habit for the couple weeks as she made her way to the main gates, almost on auto pilot, not really paying attention to anything or anyone around her as she ran through her dream again, and again. Thinking back to the start of the dream, she felt that little fire ignite again... until she heard Naruto speak HER name again. 'It was only a dream, it was only a dream. It's just my insecurities getting the better of me. He wouldn't have got that far with her already... but he might have started dating him though. Oh Kami, what if he's already moved on because of my stupidity?!' Hana was so absorbed in her own thoughts that she had failed to notice one of her closer friends fall into step beside her until she spoke up.

"Hey, Hana, a Yamanaka take you over or something?" Hana hopped and stopped in her sudden shock.

"Tenten! Don't do that!" her hand gripping her chest as if to stop her now pounding heart from flying out of her chest.

Tenten giggled softly before apologizing, "Sorry Hana, didn't mean to startle you, you just seemed so out of it this morning. What's wrong? Wanna talk about it?" They both started walking again as the question was posed.

"Yeah... may as well, I can't tell Mom about this... too awkward... though she'd probably be able to give me a better answer... no offense."

"None taken, she's older, so probably has better experience with what ever your problem may be." Tenten lead Hana to a small, private booth in the back of their favorite tea shops since Hana had told her about how they had been overheard last time when they sat out on the deck and what it had lead to after her talk with Tsume. "Now, spill, what's wrong?" Tenten felt so awkward saying that, having never been a girly girl, but Hana was her friend and needed it.

Hana let out a sigh of frustration before wiping her hand down her face to collect her thoughts. "I... had a dream last night."

"Okay, that's nothing odd, you tell me about half your dreams. What, did Kiba become Alpha in this one? That what's got your panties in a twist this morning?"

"They're not twisted... they're... well." Hana blushed as she looked sheepishly up at Tenten, her head tilted forward as she looked up, almost in shame.

"OHH... you had one of 'those' dreams, didn't you?" Tenten started to smirk. "Those are perfectly normal Hana, Mom sat down and talked to me about it a while back when I had one of those about Neji." Tenten started to blush now as she talked about it, softly rubbing her thighs together under the table as she recalled the dream.

"That wasn't the problem Ten... it's how it ended." Tenten snapped out of her little trance and looked over at her friend.

"Oh, did he treat you badly? Did he end up hurting you in the dream?" her face covered in concern for her Hana.

"No... and yes...he..." Tenten saw Hana's eyes starting to get a little red as tears threatened to fall. "He... said he loved his pink haired team mate Sakura... then I looked in the mirror... and I was her... I was in her place. He had made such tender, passionate love... to her." This time tears did start to fall as Tenten moved to the chair beside Hana and hugged her.

"It was just a dream Hana, I know that that blonde girl messed things up when she heard us talking about Neji, but I'm sure he still loves you as much as you've always loved him. You'll see." Hana's tears slowly ceased before smiling weakly at Tenten before their tea was quietly placed on their table with a small piece of cake by an understanding waitress with a note that said the cake was on her. The girls smiled appreciatively before they started enjoying their tea and free cake.

(Konoha main gate)

Hana had spent a good hour or so with Tenten, talking about the dream, and a little about Tenten's and her luck in getting Neji to notice her. She was nearing the gate when she caught sight of Team 7 standing at the gate signing in. A smile graced her face as she got ready to go talk to Naruto... until she saw Kakashi dismiss the team, and Sakura give Naruto a hug, then stopped in her tracks when she saw said rosette give his cheek a soft kiss. She stood there watching Naruto blush, then head off as her worst nightmare started to rampage through her thoughts. 'I'm too late... they're together. She really does like him and he didn't even stop her. Mom was right, I was too late.'

Her thoughts and emotions went from near despair to near hatred as she saw Sakura giggling a little as she stood by a corner and watched Naruto leave. The rosette was brought out of her near giddy thoughts when she heard a throat clearing behind her. She spun around and jumped back when she saw Hana standing behind her with her face mere inches from hers. Sakura wondered if she was going to get the protective big sister speech/threat from Hana since she probably saw the kiss she gave Naruto and wants to protect him.

"Oh... hi Hana-san, I didn't notice you there. What can I do for you?" She sounded almost intimidated by the slightly older girl standing before her, this suited Hana quite happily.

"What are your intentions with Naruto-kun?" Hana's voice was firm, like the future alpha that she had been groomed to become, enjoying the way that the girl before her had started to squirm at her tone and the question.

"Well... I... I think I like him."

"You think? What happened to your precious "Sasuke-kun"? You give up on him, or are you just making sure that you have options open in case he brushes you off like the rest of his fan club?"

Hearing this started to anger the young genin. She narrowed her eyes and looked right into Hana's eyes, "You mean just like that Neji Hyuga that you've been fawning over?!"

A low, angry growl emitted from the back of Hana's throat, making Sakura take a step back from her. "I never liked that arrogant prick, and you can thank your big mouthed blonde friend for eavesdropping on a private conversation and spreading rumors about things she has NO idea about! I was talking to my friend about HER crush, not mine! Tenten is the one that has a thing for her teammate Neji, and I was trying to help her build her confidence to ask his stuck up ass out!" This entire time, Sakura was starting to cower away as Hana's verbal intensity built as she went on. She was slowly back into a wall, where Hana leaned in over her before she delivered the bomb shell of her line of dialogue. "For your information, the boy that I like... no, the boy that I LOVE is Naruto-kun! Your idiot friend nearly ruined things for me when she went off and said those things she had no right to repeat, and drove him into your arms!"

Sakura stood there shocked for a good minute as things filed themselves away in her head until she finally put her own thoughts together, regaining what spine she had left after the verbal lashing she had just received from the girl before her and standing up. "You're telling me, that you love your brother? You're also telling me that you never told the boy you love, who lives in the same house as you, that you love him, and NOT the Hyuga as he thought you did? He was in tears after Ino told us what was said, he was so depressed for WEEKS, and you didn't say a thing to counter what he thought?!"

"I saw him in your arms as you held him!" Taking a breath to calm down a little, then continued in a lower, softer voice, "I was going to confess to him that morning at breakfast, but I slept in since I hadn't been sleeping well, so when I got to the kitchen to talk to him, he was already gone. I went to your training field to try and talk when your sensei gave you a break, but when I saw you holding him... I couldn't take seeing it and ran home." Her eyes took on a hard glint as her determination took hold again, "But no more running! I'm going to tell Naruto-kun the truth, I'm going to confess, and hope he still loves me as much as I've always loved him!"

Sakura was torn, her inner romantic was squealing at the show, but her inner self was trying to beat the romantic part of her mind into oblivion as she screamed, 'He's ours now, that bitch had her go and failed! CHA!' 'But this whole thing WAS started by Ino-pig's big mouth and her need to be the gossip queen. We should at least let her confess and leave it up to Naruto-kun. We do want Naruto-kun to be happy after all, right?' Inner let out a frustrated, but defeated sigh. 'yes...' "Hana-san?"

"What?"

"Might I suggest something?" Sakura seemed a bit unsure of herself as she asked his.

"Let's hear it."

"Well, we both want Naruto-kun to be happy, right?" This earned a nod from Hana, which encouraged Sakura to continue, "well, what I'm suggesting is that you go ahead and confess to him, and let him decide what he wants to do. As much as I want to find out what it would be like with him now that I've seen what kind of a caring, happy, smart and loving guy he is, I want him to be happy more."

Hana stood there, thinking that she should just find somewhere for the Triplets to bury what was left of the rosette after she was done with her, but she had to admit, she did feel the same way. "Okay, but ONLY because I want Naruto-kun to be happy!" Sakura reached out her hand tentatively before Hana took it and shook, then turned and left for home, having lost track of Naruto, and not having heard that he was heading for the Hokage's office. 'Please Kami, let him still love me.'

(Hokage's Office)

"Naruto Uzumaki, may I introduce you to your cousin, Tayuya, Tayuya Uzumaki."

Naruto stood there for a moment before softly asking. "My... cousin?"

"That's right Naruto, she's your cousin, but that doesn't mean that one of her parents was your mother's brother or sister. She's at best a third cousin, but she is still family by blood." Darious spoke as he moved to kneel beside Naruto. "I know it's a bit to take in at once, but she is your family, one of the last remaining of your blood. Your father was an orphan and to the best of any of our knowledge, no one knows your father's parents."

Naruto collected his thoughts before looking from Tayuya, who seemed shy at the moment, which would set him up for a BIG surprise a little later. "What about Mom? Did she know her parents?"

"Yes Naruto-kun," This time the old Sarutobi spoke up, "I knew her father quite well myself. He was the Uzukage. Unlike the Kage system of other villages, the Uzukage was more like royalty, you were born into the title. Your grand father was effectively a king, and your mother was more or less a princess." Naruto stood there confused as he took in this information, only to be interrupted as the voice of his cousin entered his ears for the first time.

"What the fuck?! You mean that blond shit-stain is a fucking prince?!" Naruto's eyes widened, not at her volume, or interruption, but at the simple fact that he hadn't even heard Jonin talking like that.

Darious spoke again, this time to Tayuya, "Yes Tayuya-chan," a tick mark formed on her head but kept her mouth shut, "Naruto is technically royalty, even here, but the villagers have no idea, nor will they until Naruto is at least a Chunin in rank." Tayuya let the name and her anger go before curiosity caught up.

"Wait, you said in rank, are you implying that he's already fucking Chunin level in skills?"

Jiraiya placed a hand on her shoulder, causing her to look up at him as he simply nodded his head. "If he wanted to, and went all out, the gaki could take on a standing Chunin in a "fair" fight."

Tayuya huffed as she crossed her arms under her developing bust, which made Naruto blush a little before looking over to Darious. "I'll believe that when I fucking see it. So where do I get to stay? It's not going to be some piece of shit tenement is it?" Naruto flinched at that, remembering his housing arrangement before Tsume took him in.

"No, we will find you a suitable apartment, it will likely be a small one bed room, or even one room apartment till we can get you through your rank testing, probationary period, and get you into the active ninja forces. Does that sound acceptable?"

"I guess, but I better not be near any fucking perverts! If I get stuck living next to one I will fucking castrate them before I feed them their tiny little balls!" Kakashi, Jiraiya, and lastly Hiruzen all let off a small shudder before Hiruzen spoke up.

"I'll make sure to have the area checked before you move in. For now, I'm sure that we can get you a room at the Inuzuka compound where Naruto stays."

Tayuya raised her brow at that. "Why's the shithead staying at another fucking clan's compound? If he's a damn prince, where the fuck is HIS estate?"

"Tayuya-san, that is a very complicated problem, and that problem requires Naruto-kun's approval before I will inform you about it." Hiruzen looked over to Naruto, who thought about it for a moment before speaking up.

"Jiji, she's family, and you don't keep secrets from family." Hiruzen smiled and nodded.

"First I need to ask, do you know what a jinchuriki is?" Tayuya cautiously nodded, having heard Orochimaru speak about them every now and then. "Do you hold any hatred towards them?" This time she shook her head.

"He is one, isn't he?" The other occupants in the room were all suitably shocked at her lack of vulgarity or volume, Naruto came to his senses and spoke before any of the others could.

"Tayuya-chan, I'm the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. On the night of my birth, the biju some how escaped my mother's seal and attacked the village. My father gathered me up and proceeded to seal the Kyuubi inside me. He and my mother both died that night. Jiji also lost his wife that night." Naruto looked over to the elderly Sarutobi with an apologetic look, receiving a nod before continuing. "The villagers decided that I was the Kyuubi itself reduced to human form and took out their rage and sadness on me for the first few years of my life until Tsume-kaa-chan took me in. The civilian council managed to pass a law without Jiji getting the chance to stop it that prohibited my adoption. Tsume-kaa-chan got around that by simply having me do chores and giving me a place to live. By definition, I'm a servant in the eyes of the civilian council, so they let me be."

Naruto looked up to see that Tayuya had been watching him closely, taking everything in as he spoke. Jiraiya took the chance to speak up. "The thing is, the villagers only know him as Uzumaki, they so easily forgot his mother, but if they knew his full name, and who his father was... You see, Naruto is really Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, the son of Kushina Uzumaki, The Red-hot Habanera, and Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage himself."

Tayuyua's eyes widened at that, 'The son of a Hokage and a princess. He really is a prince in the guise of a pauper!'

Sarutobi spoke up, catching their attention. "Naruto, you should get home, Tsume will likely be anxious to see you after being out so long." He smiled as Naruto nodded, then stepped up and gave a shocked Tayuya a hug.

"Talk to you later Tayuya-chan, I'll get your new address from Jiji, or you can come see me at home." He smiled and waved to the others and headed out of the office and closed the door.

"Now, let's get you set up with a place to stay shall we?" Hiruzen clapped his hands together.

(Inuzuka home)

Naruto walked into the house, hanging his jacket by the door and taking off his sandals before moving to the kitchen to get a drink. As he was finishing off a glass of water, he heard a voice behind him. "Naruto-kun?"

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And there we have it, chapter 10. I know it's mostly dialogue... and some lemon, and a little short, but I figured that this is what was needed right now. So, please Read and Review. Give me your thoughts, opinions, likes or dislikes, but if you're going for the latter, please be kind about it, no flames if you don't mind.