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A Broken Man

Chapter 11

The Shell Cracks a Little

"I GAVE NO SUCH ORDER!" Kotal Kahn yelled out as he stood from his throne in his encampment. He yelled out, "WHO GAVE THAT ORDER TO ATTACK?! GUARDS!"

Four guards came running inside the encampment and stood at attention as Kotal Kahn said to them, "I want you four to go to the dispatch hall and find out who ordered those extermination squads to attack, report to me immediately when you find out who approved the order!"

"Yes sir!" The four guards said at once right before they left in a hurry.

"D'Vorah," Kotal Kahn said, turning to her, "I want you to go with them. if you find the culprit, bring him to me, alive. And while you're at it, you might as well transport the amulet to the Forbidden Chambers, across the sea."

"As you wish, my emperor," D'Vorah said right before she left, smiling.

"I will find you," Kotal Kahn said to no one. "And your head will decorate my wall."

Erron Black walked in and said nonchalantly to Kahn, "Heard the news. Want me to take a look?"

"How did you discover it?" he asked his employee.

"How can I not," Erron said back to him, "With your voice going al across Outworld like that, you could wake the dead. You want me to take a look?"

"Yes," Kotal Kahn said. "I don't care who finds this person, I just want him in front of me on his knees!"

"I'll get started then," Erron Black said as he turned around and exited the tent.

…

D'Vorah was walking along the dock towards the ship, the two guards following behind her carrying the chest that contained Shinnok's Amulet. She was planning on exactly how to get to her destination when she realized she wasn't alone.

Stopping suddenly, she turned around to face her escorts.

"Is there a problem?" the guard on the left asked her.

"Two problems," D'Vorah said, looking between the two men in Oshtek gear. Without warning, she thrust her hands up right in front of their faces as acid was sprayed onto the men's faces, melting them and killing them quickly. They fell to the ground, dead.

D'Vorah knelt on the dock and unlocked the chest. Opening the lid, she basked in the light that the amulet seemed to give off. She carefully lifted it from its confinement and admired its beauty, smiling. She tucked it away in her cloak and walked off back towards the way they came from, having a very different destination than the Forbidden Chambers that they needed to take a boat to get to. Soon, Shinnok, the Fallen Elder God, would be free once again.

…

Naruto sat in his wooden house in front of the fire, basking in its warmth. Although he had no trouble dealing with any kind of threat at any given time, right now, he would much rather just stare into the fire's majestic flames and possibly fall asleep and allow his worn-out body to rest. Mileena was a little worried about him. Ermac was not too far from either of them, seemingly staring off into space. However, if one looked closely, they would be able to see that Ermac was keeping a close eye on not only Naruto, but also Mileena as well. Just because Naruto had shown him that Mileena had the benefit of Outworld at heart didn't mean that she could revert to her old self. So far, no such signs were clearly visible, but he would be there to finish her off if she tended to slip off the deep end again.

Naruto knew they were coming. He could sense them from a mile away, literally. It was only a few minutes or so before they would get here. Why couldn't people just leave him the hell alone? No one had any trouble at all doing that just a few short years ago. Now that Naruto really thought about it, he had only been a shinobi for about a quarter of his life. Everything else before that change of pace was pure hell for him. Torture, starvation, dehydration, being ignored, being glared at, terrible housing, terrible clothing options…everything he had or had to deal with was shit for him. While everyone else was jolly and happy, he was depressed and sad. While everyone else had a family and slept warmed up in their comfortable beds, he was an orphan and slept pretty much on the ground, the so called 'bed' he had was just a lumpy old sack of worn-out springs. While everyone else was happy and had friends, he was depressed and alone. While everyone else had someone to comfort them when in pain or was down in the dumps, Naruto was always alone and suffered in despair.

And people question why he was the way he is now. Now real human would be able to live through all of that and come out unscathed.

He felt the chakra signatures of many familiar people right outside of his wooden house. Getting a little agitated now that he couldn't just be left alone, he quickly got to his feet and went to the door and forcefully opened it and said, "What?!"

Tsunade, in the middle of all of the Konoha group, was shocked at Narutos demeanor.

"Hello Naruto," Tsunade greeted. "How are you?"

"I'm fucking pissed off, Tsunade!" Naruto exclaimed. "Too many damn things have happened lately, and I just need a damn break! Yet everyone is either hounding on me, I have to rescue someone, have to fight a shitload of bastards off, or whatever! Cant you people just leave me the fuck alone?! You all never had a problem of doing that before!"

SLAM!

Naruto slammed the door so hard that the frame cracked and splintered a little bit. Tsunade was shocked, her Naruto had never displayed this type of behavior before. She turned to Ino and asked her quietly, "Ino, do you recognize whats going on with Naruto? He is clearly not himself in any way."

Ino slightly nodded her head and explained, "Yes, Lady Tsunade. Sometimes the human mind can block a lot of traumatic events, especially in childhood. However, in some cases, those memories or feelings that have been suppressed over time eventually start to show themselves, whether or not the victim actually realizes it. It looks like as if that's whats happening to Naruto now."

Tsunade nodded her head, accepting the explanation saying, "That actually makes sense. He was always so full of joy and vigor before. Now though, he just seems like a being full of hate and malice with only a trace of his former self."

"We need to go in there," Sasuke said to Tsunade. "He never gave up one me when I was lost. I wont give up on him."

"None of us will," Tsunade told him, looking at everyone. "Ne never gave up on any of us, especially whenever it was even harder for him. We wont let him hang out to dry."

Then, the door opened and Mileena stepped out and stopped in front of the group and announced, "I am Mileena, Kahnum of Outworld. Naruto is my partner and lover." She withdrew her sais and held them out threatingly. "I will not allow you to come closer if you intend to hurt Naruto in any way!"

Kiba was about to say something brash when Tsunade held up her hand, signaling him to stay quiet. "We are not going to hurt him at all," Tsunade told Mileena. "I am Tsunade Senju, the Fifth Hokage, and Naruto is like the son I never had. I love him with all of my heart, and I just want to help him. Naruto has helped everyone us here and more on a personal level and beyond, and we are determined to help him get out of this rut he seems to be stuck in. We are here to help, Mileena."

Mileena narrowed her eyes and said, "Then why did he just tell me to not let any of you in?"

Tsunade had a hard time hiding the hurt in her voice as she said, "He'll come around, he knows that he can count on me at the very least."

Naruto stepped out of the wooden house, no expression in his eyes. Ermac followed right behind him. When they were both outside and far enough, Naruto turned around and looked at the house as he clapped his hands and said, "Kai!"

The wooden house collapsed in on itself, crumbling into several hundred pieces of wood and splinters. After the dust settled, Naruto performed a fire jutsu, burning the wood, creating a large bonfire.

Lowering his hands from casting the jutsu, he turned around to look at the Konoha group and walked up to Tsunade and asked her, "Can I really count on you?"

"Of course you can," Tsunade said to him affectionately. She grabbed him and wrapped him in a tight hug. "I'm always here for you, Naruto. Don't you ever forget that."

Naruto hugged her back, although careful with his clawed gauntlets. Mileena, along with everyone else, were a little shocked as to how easily Tsunade had just calmed the storm that was within the blonde jinchurriki.

"What the hell?" Kiba said incredulously. "How the hell is this going on right now? Why are we wasting our time trying to cheer this hopeless guy up when we could have just sent Tsunade to bring him back?"

"Kiba!" Hinata scolded her husband. "You apologize right now!"

"Why?!" Kiba argued back. "You were here with us, all that time we've been wasting! Come on Naruto! Let's go home, right now!"

Hinata, now angry at her idiot of a husband, activated her byakugan and yelled out, "HYA!"

She struck Kiba directly in the center of his torso, shutting down his chakra core and knocking him out cold. She looked up ate everyone, especially Naruto, and said to them all, "Sorry for my husband's rash behavior. We will definitely have a talk about it once we get home. It's ok Naruto, don't let anything he said get you ok?"

Naruto could only stare ahead. Tsunade could tell that Naruto had just reverted back into his little shell due to Kiba's words. Aggravated, Tsunade turned to Hinata and told her sternly, "When he wakes up, you bring him straight to me, understand?"

"Hai, Lady Tsunade," Hinata nodded.

"Everyone, listen up," Kakashi spoke up, "I want you all to scout everywhere for potential threats as we are in an area that is likely very hostile. I want one byakugan on at all times. Hanabi, you take the first watch with yours, Hinata will be after you have used yours after an hour. Understood?"

"Hai, Rokudaime," Hanabi responded. (Correct if I'm wrong, but 'Rokudaime' is 'Lord Sixth', right?)

"Shino," Kakashi continued, "I want you to spread out your bugs in a mile wide radius. Understood?"

"Hai, Rokudaime."

"Shikamaru, I want you to go out and set those traps of yours, the trap lines set with exploding tags."

"Got it."

"Sasuke, I want you to cast a large genjutsu around the entire area. Make it seem like this area doesn't exist."

"Understood."

"Everyone else, you are on guard detail. Lets set down here and make camp, its late. Ino, you have first watch."

"Ok Hokage sama."

"Any questions?" Kakashi asked. Getting silence in return, he said, "Go!"

Everyone shushinned away to complete their various tasks. Hanabi ran up high in the tree nearest them to activate her bloodline. Shino lifted his sleeves as hundreds of thousands of his chakra bugs littered the air, seeming to make the already night sky become even darker, if that were even possible. The bugs spread out all over the forest in the mountains they were currently in. Shikamaru, with surprising zeal and energy, went around the entire area around their camp and set trap after trap after trap after trap. He left no area uncovered. If someone was coming for any reason whatsoever, they would know about it. Sasuke, closing his eyes and gathering chakra, opened his eyes and activated his sharingan and cast a genjutsu around the area. The entire mile radius of forest they were in seemed to shimmer out of existence.

Tsunade took one of her two scrolls inside of her jacket and opened it. The specific scroll she had retrieved turned out to be a large tent capable of fitting thirty people in it. As she unsealed it, the tent was already set up with cots for everyone. It was just the standard tent, so they were still standing on dirt and forest floor. The tent's main purpose was to provide a temporary shelter from the cold light air.

Kakashi walked inside and started a larger than normal sized fire to warm the place up.

Naruto said emotionlessly to Tsunade, "I could have made another wood house."

"I'm sure you could have," Tsunade said to him with a warm smile, rolling up the scroll and putting it back in her jacket and told him, "But I'm tired of having you do stuff for us. Its our turn to help you out, Naruto. You just sit back and relax."

Naruto only slightly nodded and sat down in front of the fire. Tsunade could only watch on sadly as he did so.

"I'm trying, Naruto," she said to herself quietly. "I'm trying."

Although didn't know, but Naruto heard her. What she said put a small smile on his face.

…..

"Fuck you mom!" Cassie yelled at her mother back in Earthrealm at their base camp.

"You will address me by my proper rank and-" Sonya began before her daughter cut her off.

"No!" Cassie said defiantly. "Fuck you, 'general'! is that better?!"

"You are acting like such a teenager you kn-"

"What, like a teenager?! How the fuck would you know mom? Oh yeah, that's right, you weren't there! So once again, fuck you! You left me and my team out there to fucking rot you stupid bitch! How the hell did you even get your rank anyway, by sucking everyone's dick or what?!"

"How DARE you! I worked my entire life for this-"

"Yeah, you worked and ditched your own husband and child, 'Mom'!" Cassie said loudly. "We had to have a complete stranger help us out! Oh, and uh, by the way, he's fucking hot too! Jacqui and I both wanted bigger tits to impress him, but oh fucking well. Point is, we had to rely on someone who we didn't know at all to help us out, instead of relying on MY MOTHER!" Cassie yelled. She grit her teeth and relaxed a little as her father came into the tent. Cassie went to him and hugged him tightly. Cassie may have been a grown woman now, but every woman, whether they want to admit it or not, always craves for their man to protect them, be it father or lover. Just because they can become or already are taking care of themselves doesn't mean they don't want that sense of security and warmth.

Johnny hugged his daughter close as he whispered to her softly. Cassie was on the verge of tears. Not from anger or pain, but from disappointment. She knew that her mother was cold hearted, but leaving her and her daughter out there alone to fend for themselves completely out of anger was a whole new low even for her.

"Go outside and grab some chow," Johnny told his daughter. "I'll be out in a bit and you can tell me what happened."

Cassie nodded in her dad's shirt and gave him one last squeeze before straightening herself out before leaving the tent. Once he was sure Cassie was gone from their sights, Johnny turned around and stomped up to his wife and punched her in her jaw as hard as he possibly could. Sonya was shocked beyond belief. Her ex-husband had just socked her in her jaw, fucking HARD too!

Turning to face him she said slowly, "I will have you arrested Ca-"

"You!" Johnny whispered furiously, pointed a finger an inch from her nose, "Shut the fuck up! You shut up right FUCKING now!"

Sonya was more than a little surprised at his attitude. Johnny was always the comic of every situation given. This was completely unlike him in every way there was.

"You, general, left my daughter out there, in a hostile environment, with nothing but the skin on their backs," he told her, eyes showing her how very pissed off he was at the moment. "How dare you, Sonya! You know what, fuck you and your 'responsibilities' bullshit. You know what? Fine, have it your way. Cassie is MY daughter, Sonya, not yours!"

"Cassie is my daughter too Cage!" Sonya exclaimed.

"Then why the hell did you leave her?!" Johnny said to his ex-wife. "You left her for your 'responsibilities'! Cassie was…IS…your most important responsibility! Apparently you have forgotten that or just didn't give a damn, I don't care. All I know is this-"

Johnny began to hit Sonya in her stomach with each word as he said forcefully, "if-you-EVER-endanger-my-daughter-again-I-WILL-KILL-YOU!"

On the last word, he uppercutted her, causing her to fall on a desk and breaking it.

"That was for Cassie, General," Johnny said before he walked out of the tent.

Sonya didn't move for a while. Sonya wasn't really hurt, she had taken several blows much harder and more times than she cared to count, so her body had been conditioned to take a few blows here and there. However, her pride and heart were hurt very badly. Still laying on the broken desk, she brought her hands up to her face to muffle her crying.

…

Naruto walked outside of the tent Tsunade had unsealed earlier and walked about fifty yards away and created a smaller wooden house. He walked in the front door and made another little fire in the center and sat down in front of it once again. This was his comfort zone. In a house that he made, in front of a fire he made, a place where he knew no one could hide before he got there to ambush him or anything. His own personal little safe haven that he could create at any time he wanted.

He heard the front door open and could already tell that it was Mileena. He could tell because even though she was a ferocious woman, she walked and carried herself like a queen he knew she was meant to be. She closed the door behind her and sat next to him, basking in the warmth from the fire and him. She placed a hand on his knee and told him, "Naruto."

Naruto just simply said, "Hm."

Mileena scooted closer to him and moved her hand from his knee and up his arm underneath the red cloth and armored shoulder pad. Her hand then went across his chest and she said to him, "I want to be with you my love. Lets forget about everyone and everything. Let it just be you and I."

Naruto looked at her as she tried to get even closer. She said to him, "I can sense your pain, Naruto. Let me heal you darling. Tsunade may be like a mother figure to you, but I can be your lover my love."

Her hand lowered his mask slowly. When it was finally down and exposing his entire face, she stroked his cheek and felt that he was severely cold.

"You are freezing Naruto," she told him. Taking off her own mask and undoing her top, she said to him, "Come, let me warm you."

They both leaned towards each other and kissed gently but passionately. It soon reached a deeper kiss and more frantic as Mileena and Naruto both scrambled to get out of their clothes and armor. Finally fully nude, they came close together when Mileena sat in his lap. They were still kissing passionately as they tried to express their feelings for each other with their caresses and kissing. She felt his crotch rub against her lower lips, earning a moan into his mouth while they kissed. Tired of waiting, Mileena broke the kiss and said to him, "Fill me my love."

She sat up a little to allow him free room to move. She reached down and grabbed his member as she guided it into her slowly. Forgetting how large he had been, Mileena gasped as he entered her once again. Fully inside, Naruto felt Mileena wrap her legs around his lower back and began to slowly rock her hips back and forth. Mileena just looked into her lover's eyes and saw life in them again. She smiled as he groaned in pleasure. She in return moaned loudly as his tip kissed her womb's entrance and almost came on the spot. Her legs slightly shook, not expecting that brief but huge wave of pleasure that had just went through her body. She saw Naruto have a mischievous smirk and wondered what he had planned.

She wasn't prepared when Naruto stood up with her still on him with her legs wrapped around him. He grabbed her ass with both hands and brought her into a passionate kiss. She closed her eyes enjoying the kiss, but then opened wide and began to moan loudly in his mouth as began to unmercifully pound into her, his tip just prodding against her womb every time he went in. her arms clutched tightly around his beck as she rode the Naruto train as he went to town on her. She couldn't help but throw her head back and let out a throaty moan that seemed to fill the house as he filled her and emptied her and repeated the process continuously. She felt his balls slap against her ass every time he thrust inside of her and his abs hit her clit, providing maximum stimulation. In no time at all, Mileena was already nearing her climax. Her eyes rolled in the back her of her head and her entire body shook with a huge orgasm, felling wave after wave after wave. Her inner muscles clamped down on Narutos dick, milking him of his seed and with a loud grunt and one last huge thrust, he penetrated her womb a little and filled her up as much as he could, not letting a single drop of his essence go to waste.

Mileena's stomach bulged slightly from being filled up by her lover. She loved how good he could make her feel. He pulled out of her and a large puddle of his seed fell from her and pooled onto the ground. They moved closer to the fire and laid down next to each other. Mileena caressed his cheek as his eyes drooped heavily, quickly sending him into sleep. Mileena smile at herself for a job well done. She wanted to please her man, make him feel warm and wanted, and help him relax so he could rest. She got all three done in one shot. She smiled at herself as she realized something that she never thought herself to be capable of.

I love you, Naruto," Mileena said right before she dozed off with her lover.

A/N: Here you go guys, I hope this chapter was a good one. The beginning was kind of hard to get going, I had some writer's block going on. I wanted to start this chapter yesterday but just couldn't seem to do it. Anyone have any tips as to how to get rid of writers block? Anyways, once I did start writing though, it all just kind of came along so its ok I guess. Anyway, you all know the drill! Read, review, comment! As usual, all comments are appreciated, I cant approve id I don't know the good and the bad of my writing. Until next time, Roku out.