Gundread Kitsune
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Naruto x Harem
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''Normal Speech''
Inner Thoughts, Dialogue, or reading passages from books and scrolls
(Quick Notes and Messages or Echoes.)
(Dark over lapping echoes)
''Boss Summons, Demons, Dark beings speaking, Demonic/Angry characters speaking as well as extremely Dark spells and Magic.''
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Story Start
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''Don't worry about Barnette. We had a little squabble but honestly what couple doesn't? Now about you and me combining.''
Naruto shook his head as he recalled Jura's statement. Despite her attempts to play it off, his ears picked up something more than a 'little squabble' so to speak. Jura's rather one track mind was beginning to wear the blond down. She wasn't the only one as Dita was also doubling her efforts to spend as much time as she could with him. ''You have no idea how good it feels to get that off my chest.'' one of the female pirates told him. Apparently she had held in all these insecurities and she figured that he, a man, wouldn't judge her if she confessed her insecurities. She was so blissfully unaware.
'Not as good as it would be for me to get off on your chest.' the blond thought. It was safe to say the last few weeks were hell on his hormones. When he received a call to the bridge he let out a sigh of relief. That relief didn't last when it turns out another mission was about to start.
One revolving around a rather old space station this one appeared abandoned and that meant salvage operation. The usual crew was sent on-board the mission.
Meia was busy working as she removed components from a computer console in the station's main memory storage system. Floating nearby was Pyoro. Like always he was being a smart-ass little nuisance, bringing up the fact that Meia was looting, even though she insisted she was just salvaging.
The sound of something moving above caught Naruto's attention. His pliers in hand he stopped what he was doing as his eyes went up to the rafters above. ''Naruto?'' Dita asked with a quizzical look. ''What's wrong?''
''Wait right here. I'll be back,'' he said as he placed the tool in Dita's hand. He began walking around the hallway when his ears picked up something. Movement. ''There!'' he said as his hand quickly shot into his kunai pouch, drew back and let the kunai fly. Leaping up to the support beam he went to where the kunai bounce off. He ran his fingers over the area and picked up something. ''A hair.'' he mumbled as he picked it up and inhaled its scent. ''A living creature, it's rather familiar. I can't quite make it out though.'' he said as he dropped down again. Something in the shadows moved again, this time definitely catching his attention.
''Right there!" he decided as he shot towards where the shadow was. The noise and havoc, mainly Pyoro screaming which gained the pirate's attention. "ACK! HELP! NARUTO! HELP ME!"
Naruto would have helped, but he was far too busy laughing his ass off. An orangutan. A freaking orangutan wearing something resembling a white dress along with cloth boots and gloves as grabbed Pyoro and began licking him affectionately like he was her baby. He supposed he should that a random fucking orangutan had appearing should have been alarming, but then again shit like that didn't surprise him. His laughter was cut off as he sensed another presence. He turned, his hand curved out and facing upwards in preparation for a Rasengan and that's when he saw him.
The man was tall, noticeably taller than Naruto and was well-built in a matter efficient to a normal human being. He wore a kind of technological eye-patch over his right eye and there were two green stripes of face paint on his left cheek. He had dark brown hair slicked back with one long tress out in front, just above a green jewel on his forehead. He wore a set of clothes that were similar to the shamans of some of the worlds he visited. The man quickly drew his weapon and trained it on Naruto.
''Naruto! What's going on? Who's that with you!'' Dita cried out as she ran down the hallway.
Naruto noticed the man's eyes narrow. The man moved quickly, but Naruto was quicker. He was at Dita's side in the instant, throwing himself between the two before the girl could be used as a hostage.
''Freeze!'' Meia commanded as she pointed her weapon at the man's bag.
The man craned his head. ''Another woman?''
''Yeah and?'' she challenged as the man chuckled.
''It's my policy to never kill women! Though that does allow me to do this!'' he said, firing his weapon at Naruto forcing the blond to move him and Dita out-of-the-way. The man moved to the side, narrowly avoiding a fire from Meia's ring weapon and was about to counter when his weapon was knocked off target by Jura's saber.
''So our troublemaker is a man?'' Jura prompted.
''Seems like it!'' Barnette added as she took the gun from the man.
''Are you thugs or something?'' the man prompted.
''We prefer to be called Pirates.'' Jura corrected.
''Oh,'' he answered with a hint of amusement.
''We really don't have time for this.'' Naruto brought up. He was just able to avoid a Javelin as it skinned his face, drawing blood.
''Naruto!'' Dita cried out. This momentary distraction gave the man all the time he needed to break away. Taking Pyoro from the Orangutan's hands he let it fly. It nailed Meia in the arm causing her to stumble back and fall from the force of the blow.
"Leader!" Dita cried as she checked on Meia.
The Orangutan tackled Barnette, causing her to drop her gun. Jura pressed the attack, slashing with her saber she missed as the man dodged the strike by bending back under the strike. Jura was about to press her attack when another javelin came flying.
''Look out,'' Naruto said as he pushed Jura out-of-the-way and against the wall. A humanoid image soon appeared from the shadows. It had demonic inverted teeth with black eyes and ashen skin. It didn't bear any clothing or indication of sex with its warped features, but in each of its four arms it bore a sphere.
''By Grand-ma what on earth is that hideous thing?'' Jura exclaimed. She backed away, fear evident on her face.
A massive explosion rocked the creature let out a growl as it faded back into the shadows.
''No time to worry. Back to the ship!'' Meia ordered. On the outside of the Mission parts of a brown shell cracked, revealing Cube fighters. The mission began to come to life and arm itself for battle. With the supplies they managed to gather the group back to their ships. Whoever that mysterious man was or why he was there would have to wait until the enemy had been taken care of. Naruto flew forward, slashing Cube after cube with his beam saber while Meia covered him from laser fire with her Dread.
''Something's not right. Where's the enemy's squad leader? Why are they just using the cubes?'' Naruto wondered as several of the enemy units turned from the Dreads and began converging on to his position. He continued, slashing more and more of them.
It was then that Jura's Dread came beside him and the young man groaned as he saw the seductive blonde giving him another hungry look.
"Well? Are you ready to combine now?" Jura asked, still smiling as she jetted forward to him and Virtue.
''For heaven's sake. Really? Really? I swear you and Dita put most teenage boys pestering their girlfriends to give them some to shame. "
Suddenly Dita ran into him, resulting in them combining.
''Dita you'll pay for that!'' Jura raged as the two began their bickering.
At this point the rivalry between Dita and Jura was getting out of hand. They seemed more focus on outdoing each other and combining with him then worrying about the damn enemies trying to harvest their organs. With nothing but basic cubes the enemies were quickly made short work of.
Rabat's jaw dropped to the flat of his console after what he had seen. The entire time he and his Orangutan Utan were witnessing the battle, hoping to salvage what was left over. He grinned, greedy ambitions filling his mind at the thought of getting his hand on such a machine. ''Go for it Utan!'' he indulged the pleading creature who happily got into the seat of the mounted gun weapon to retaliate against the surviving cubes that began attacking them.
The mecha unleashed a murderous barrage of missiles, bullets, cannon, and laser shots at the remaining swarms of alien fighters. The simian carelessly blasted away at their formations, shooting anything in sight and turning the enemy fighters to junk. Utan gave a happy and content sigh as the mecha's arms lowered after finishing destroying the cubes.
A few minutes later, Magno watched as the bridge crew got into contact with the new ship as she came face to face with Rabat on the monitor. Beside her was the salvage team. ''It's a shame all that good salvage went to waste.'' the man said, indicating the mission was a failure as a result of the battle. ''I showed a bit of pity and my engines get damaged a little compensation for my troubles.'' the man who introduced himself as Rabat stated.
That tone didn't suit well to Magno. "Who do you think you're talking to?" She asked. ''We're pirates!''
''Oh, I see.'' Rabat answered in a-matter-of-fact tone. Rabat smirked while shrugging then held up something. "Then you don't mind leaving this behind?''
''Shit,'' Naruto swore and turned to the captain. ''Obaa-chan, I know that little bot can be annoying, but it's absolutely apparent I get him back. I...I stored irreplaceable data in him when I was pressed for time weeks ago. Under any other situation I wouldn't settle for such a deal, but the information stored cannot be replaced.''
Magno sighed a bit as she nodded. "I guess we have no choice." She then addressed Rabat. "Come aboard.'' she said and the feed was cut.
''Is this wise captain?'' B.C. wondered.
''Pyoro is a part of this crew as well.'' a smirk formed on Magno's face. ''And if he does anything we'll just strip him of everything.''
In the cargo crew nearly everyone had gathered. Most of the crew had their weapons ready. Naruto watched as the man was rather shameless with his charm. He apparently rubs Jura the wrong wave who loved and craved attention. Naruto kept a close eye on the man, watching as Meia escorted the man to where the Captain was. It didn't take long for the man began working the trade. Between selling cheap, glittery jewelry and more than hinting at being aware of the relationship between men and women.
''Being passive isn't like you.'' Duero noted. Naruto had taken to hanging out with Duero seeing as he was the only other man on the ship (Bart didn't count as far as Naruto was concerned). While the doctor was rather passive and quiet for the most part he was pretty sensible.
''I'm not sure how to approach the situation. On one hand I suppose this proves the pirates are starting to trust that not all men are the evil monsters of Mejarein Fairy tales, although they trust someone who is obviously no good. Until he does something I can't act without them assuming I'm being petty or jealous.''
''Hhm...'' Duero said as he took a sip of his coffee. ''In other words unless Miss Dita, Miss Jura, or Miss Meia get involved you plan to stay on the sidelines.''
''H-Hey. What are you going on about?'' Naruto angrily asked, his face turning red at the doctor's insinuations.
''Nothing, just an observation.'' the doctor said. ''But you're right, until that man commits a crime against us its best not to trouble the captain with such matters.''
Naruto snorted, ''Oh...and I suppose you don't care that even Parfet seems taken by him? He offered her some sort of power coupling and she offered to use free samples of make-up?''
An unamused look formed on Duero's face. ''If you excuse me I have to go talk to the captain about...certain concerns. Our guest's companion, could have some sort of germs which could have passed on to him meaning the only way to assure the safety of the crew is to lock a...quarantine them.'' the doctor said as he excused himself.
''Or was it Paiway who was doing the sample packs?'' Naruto wondered. He wouldn't be left to his thoughts for long as Meia entered. ''Meia-san,'' he greeted her.
''Naruto...'' a frown formed on her face. ''I don't trust him.'' she simply said.
''Me neither.'' he replied. ''For someone we just happened to run into he's been rather calm about this whole thing. IHe's definitely hiding something.''
She nodded. ''I can't believe the others are fawning over him. At the very least they should show some pride.''
''For now we should keep our eyes and ears open.''
Rabat shook himself a bit as he arrived into the hangar where the three Dreads, Gundam, and Vanguards were housed. He had just met BC as he went to check the place where his ship was. Though the first officer was very attractive, there seemed to be something about her that was…off. He was hoping his bluff of being able to fix his ship faster than expected work. Either way, the smell of gunpowder on her indicated that she was a woman who knew her way around a weapon and wouldn't fall so easily to her charms.
''Wow, it's looking great!'' Parfait said as the Paeksis seem to flicker to life. The Tech just smiled as she went back to helping out in adjusting wavelengths.
"Looks like things are going well." Rabat chirped, walking into the engineering room. The women gave him an odd expression that he couldn't read, but he didn't really care either way. "My Merchandise does exactly what I said, right?" He asked, he said as he turned to the object. 'This Paeksis...is...could...'
"Oh, Mr. Storekeeper!" Dita sang happily.
Rabat grinned as he walked over to the teen. "Hey, you've gotten all dressy.'' he said, noticing that Dita like most of the others was using his products. ''You look loads better now?''
''You think so?'' she bashfully replied, thinking about Naruto's reaction to her appearance.
''So, what do you want now? I can take additional orders.''
''I want to hear stories about space and men and women living together.''
In Mango's private quarters she and B.C. were discussing what to do with the man, the former using Tarot cards. There were many thoughts flowing back and forth, the one being heavily weighed was the one about him being an enemy spy. While they were close it was no cigar.
''No way!'' Dita fiercely argued, shaking her head. ''Naruto's valuable partner. I won't let you get any closer.'' she said, barring his path outstretched arms.
"I just want a small peak." Rabat said in his smoothest tone.
Dita knew how valuable that Virtue was to Naruto. He didn't allow anyone else to work on or even touch it. He treated it like it was a living thing and that awed Dita. That kindness of his was the reason she liked Naruto so much.
Rabat's patience was wearing thin. ''Move.'' he simply ordered, pushing her to the side. He didn't have time to waste around. The more he fooled around the more his chances lessened. ''Move girl,'' he threw his arm out, shaking off the persistent red-head that grabbed his arm. He had put too much force in the gesture sending her flying back over the edge. ''Shit!'' he swore as he rushed over to the side but it was too late.
Dita closed her eyes and waited for the impact that never came. She suddenly came to a stop when a pair of strong arms caught her. She opened her eyes and looked at her savor. ''I swear Dita this ship doesn't need two danger magnets.''
''Naruto, you came!'' she threw her arms around his neck and held her tight.
Naruto though, was far too furious to be affected by the hug. That damn con artist could have hurt or even killed Dita because of his carelessness. ''I knew you were up to no good. This just proves it. One way or another you're going to leave this ship.''
''I wouldn't do that if I were you kid. You'll lose your only chance to find out information on the enemy you've been fighting.'' he bartered. Whoever the blond was he had super human abilities that much was obvious from what Rabat could tell so he needed to play it smart.
Naruto merely smirked. ''Only one problem that only works when the person isn't capable of ripping the information from your mind.'' the blond said as he set Dita down. ''Get out of here Dita. I don't want you to see this.''
''But Naruto.'' she began arguing.
''Just go! I'll be okay.'' he said as Dita was about to argue but she ran off in the opposite direction to go get the others. ''Now to take care of you.'' the blond said as Rabat made the first move. Naruto merely cocked his head to the side as the fist met with air. He followed by shifting his weight to the left and launched out with a right knee strike, fully expecting it to collide into Naruto's chest but it was stopped by the blond's hand.
Naruto countered using his hard head to head-butt Rabat, causing the man to stumble back and clutched his face in pain. ''Utan!'' he called for the creature. The large female Orangutan jumped down from above only to be met with an elbow right between the eyes. The force of the blow rendered the creature unconscious.
Like clockwork Rabat would swing his fist, but Naruto would just move away. The blond was like the second hand, always moving while Rabat was the minute hand slowly moving to catch up. ''Stop running and fight like a man. Or is spending all this time around nothing but women has made you a coward who can only dodge?'
''Trying to piss me off with insults so I'll be sloppy. Its a foolish tactic if the person you're trying the tactic on doesn't fall for things like that. I won't allow someone like you to continue to do as he pleases. Trying to take advantage the members of the crew. Disgusting, I was hoping they wised up to your cons but one can't have everything. No matter what happens I'll protect everyone on this crew with my life. That's what it means to be a man.'' Naruto said as he appeared behind the man. Rabat than let out a scream as his arm and legs sleeve exploded and it felt like his limbs were on fire. He collapsed onto an unconscious heap. By this time several crew members of the Nirvana arrived on the scene, including Meia, Jura, Barnette, Duero, Bart and several other pirates. They were all surprised by how effortlessly Naruto defeated the man who looked more physically intimidating than him. It was one thing for someone to boast their fighting ability and another to see it in action.
''Was it really wise to let that man go?'' Meia approached Naruto who watching the stars from the bench in the bio park.
''I couldn't discover any information in his mind. There was some sort of block. Something strong enough to block my techniques and that more than troubles me. So I decided to imprint a seal. If he was supposed to be a spy from the enemy then they failed and now he's going to be a spy for us. I altered his memories quite a bit. I approached the captain with this idea earlier and this is why we didn't pursue that man. That and on the side of caution Parfait was ordered to check Rabat's so called hardware. Further study proves the power coupling is defective.'' he explained, not once looking away from the stars. ''Do the others, are they...''
''No...'' Meia answered him with a head shake. ''They will always view 'men' as the enemy to a certain extent. You on the other hand are an ally and friend. You saved Dita from harm and the conviction behind your words showed just what kind of person you are. Get some sleep Uzumaki. We're going to have to prepare for another salvaging mission considering the disaster that was today's mission.'' she said and walked away.
Naruto nodded, thoughts feeling his head. What the hell was that strange creature? What was that block? Either way he was going to have to deal with his problems one at a time. First thing first was finding time to talk with Dita and Jura and get his and their feelings out in the open. Only once that was settled could the other things be focused on.
