*October 11th*
Rin was taking a break from packing, while going through the newly developed photos from Naruto's birthday. Ugh, what a fucked up day.
Oh, it started out alright. The first photo showed as much, as they were all bunched up for a shot. Rin being the shutterbug she was.
*Flashback*
Naruto caught up with Tenten as they all waited at the gates for the last of their party.
" Ugh! Where is she? I swear I should keep her on a leash!"
All talking stopped as Asuma and the two kids stared at Rin.
"..Metaphorically speaking!"
"Ooh", was the general consensus...
" It would be hot though-OOF!", Asuma mumbled before getting elbowed by Rin.
" Wait for meee!", a voice called out as it got closer. Rin looked for it until she found Taiga barreling towards them.
" It's about...why are you still wearing that?¿", Rin griped. Taiga was still wearing the bunnygirl outfit after all.
" I forgot to do my wash. It's all I had to wear", Taiga whined as she caught her breath. Tenten had to wonder what she was looking at. While it was an embarrassing thing to wear in public, the costume and the woman in it looked very pretty.
"*Sigh* I told you to do it last night!...Whatever, it's your butt you're displaying-"
"-But you always said it was your-"
"-SO...let's get going...ah...let's take a picture first"
*Flashback end*
Everything in the picture was normal, well except for Taiga...no...it was normal. The walk there was a good time to talk to each other and get caught up. For Rin, it was a three way split between talking to Asuma, watching the little couple converse conspiratorially about something...and stare at Taiga's swaying ass.
Asuma put an end to that by pinching Rin's," Unless you want to delve into polygamy, I suggest you kick the habit".
Rin pouted, " But it's hard! And the side effects aren't helping".
Asuma looked at her strangely, " Side effects of what?"
"...erm"
His eyes bored a hole into her head until she finally caved.
" Umm, a recent study by a few research groups has found that Amaterasu, prepared in the pill form...does have a side effect of...permanent..large increases in the libido".
"...nymphomania"
" Oh...eheh...is that what it's called?", Rin feigned ignorance.
Asuma narrowed his eyes at the implications, " You only took a few pills...you gave Kurenai two bottles".
" Yeah...she nailed me in the stomach when I told her...two years ago...when we last spoke", Rin mumbled.
Asuma sighed, " Was it worth it?".
" Well, I heard she's made a name for herself as the Fiery Princess of Konoha-"
"-Rin-"
"-obviously not Asuma, but I can't fix it. I'm overly horny, and she's probably insane by now."
The silence between them stretched for a good few minutes until Asuma broke it.
" I guess I can thank it for one thing though."
Rin looked at him in confusion.
" You don't expect me to believe it had no hand in you pouncing on me in that hotel room"
Rin's eyes widened in surprise until she contemplated it herself.
" It...actually might have. But then if it was about nothing but sex, I wouldn't have poked a hole in your condom"
" True, but it still got it going didn't it?", Asuma said as he lit up.
Rin stared at him, " Yes it did...now give me that".
" Oh no you don't, you're quitting that just like you're quitting that ass".
" Quitting's for losers and I'm not doing it all at once, now gimme!"
" Nope"
" Grrrr. GIMME THAT"
" It's bad for the baby!"
" Just another Sarutobi starting off early, now gimme nicotine!"
The other three watched the most ridiculous game of keepaway ever...until Asuma sucked in the cigarette and swallowed it.
" So that's the nicotine withdrawal he was dreading so much", Naruto mumbled as he watched Asuma try to shake Rin off of him, who had clamped on like a tick.
"GIVE ME THE PRECIOUS!"
The other two mumbled their acknowledgment as Rin had found his cigarettes and ran off towards the town, Asuma right behind her.
*end flashback*
So, she had to give up on Taiga...but at least Naruto took a picture of Taiga's ass for her...how kind of him. Such a round, soft, yet pliable ass... *single tear*
She quickly hid the picture under the stack, " Ugh..I should just couple her with someone else and be done with it..."
Moving along. She looked down...ack.
*3rd picture: Rin holding her hands over her ears and her mouth open*
Rin looked at a jewelry stand. While she didn't wear much, it was still nice to look at. Her peripheral vision picked up a familiar mop of hair. She turned to see Naruto staggering through the street.
She would have assumed he was drunk, if it wasn't for the grin on his face.
" Oi. Naruto. Why do you look like you won the lottery?"
Naruto tuned to her with the same grin, " Tenten tastes like cinnamon"
" Nani?¡ Which part-ohshi*slap*"
Naruto looked at Rin in confusion, who had her hands clamped over her mouth, " Uh, she kissed me...are there other parts that taste like things?"
" I didn't say that! In fack, I said nothing!"
" But you asked, which-"
"-I did not lalala! I'm not listening lalala *flash*"
" I don't know what you're doing but it will make a funny-assed picture!", Asuma proclaimed as he walked up with Tenten, who was holding a giant stuffed monkey.
Rin was just glad for the distraction, " Hey! We're all back together. Now what should we do?"
Naruto and Tenten seemed to look at each other before Naruto piped up again.
" I know! Why don't we do a boys and girls thing for an hour or so. Kaa-chan goes with Tenten and I show Taichou something I found the last time we were here"
Both the adults looked confused at the suggestion, but decided to go with it.
Rin watched Naruto drag Asuma somewhere before looking down to Tenten, " Alright, I guess it's just us girls...minus Taiga, wherever she is...so what do you feel like doing?"
Tenten fidgeted, " Well, I am kinda hungry"
Rin was waiting for that answer, " To the food stalls!", she proclaimed as she marched in their general direction.
Over the course of the subsequent gorging, Rin studied the little girl in tow in-depth for the first time. Her first observation...she could really put down the food. Were they feeding her enough or was she another human stomach like Naruto?
Her second observation was that she could also talk your ear off. Though, Rin felt that was because she was living in an orphanage, and the only adult contact she got was from the Matron, which probably wasn't much on a personal level. So Rin let her talk as they ventured between the food stalls. How long she's been at the orphanage, her friendship with Naruto, how things were running at the orphanage...the Hokage was letting Anbu take care of kids? Then there were the adoptions, the potential parents picking through the kids and the like. Like a damned job interview except heavier. They accept you, you get a family. They don't, you stay alone and hope the next ones do, or the next, or the next. There was a small voice in the back of Rin's mind wondering how it felt for Tenten when she took Naruto in and left her at the orphanage.
" ~Aahhhhhh~", was the joint comment on the food as they held their settling stomachs. Rin would have to work it off later...ah...what was the point?
*crash*
Their ears perked up when they heard the sound of heavy metal objects falling. The sound came from a "milk bottle" game.
" Ooh! Can we play that?", Tenten begged with hopeful eyes. Naruto never used such tactics so her defenses towards them were weak.
" Alright, alright", she caved before Tenten lit up and dashed off towards the game. Rin could only chuckle.
Rin looked down at the ball in her hand. It was her last one. She looked towards those irritatingly inert metal bottles,mocking her very existence. She had hit them twice. TWICE! Yet the fuckers failed to all fall down to her whim. She could chalk it up to a few things. Her stomach was full. She was newly pregnant. It wasn't a kunai. But inevitably, she came to the conclusion that her aim sucked because she hadn't thrown anything more strenuous than a wadded up piece of paper in a few years. She really needed to work on her throw aim again.
Sighing in defeat. She handed her last ball to Tenten, who was looking at her in confusion.
" Here. You can have my last ball and then your turn. I think I softened them up enough for you". She shot a glare at the barker, who stifled a snort.
" Oook", Tenten replied unsurely. She took the ball and seemed to change right in front of Rin's eyes. With a fluid, yet, vicious, motion, Tenten let the ball fly dead on towards the middle of the bottles.
" Crash*
They all fell down.
Rin would cry if she wasn't completely shocked by the girl's aim and strength.
As Tenten walked away from the stand with her new stuffed panda, Rin regarded the girl.
" How did you get such good aim?", Rin asked.
Tenten smiled proudly, " Heehee, I've been practicing so I can join the Academy next spring...but they locked up all the kitchen knives so I've been getting rusty", the girl pouted.
" Ah, so you want to be a ninja. Don't they give you any preparation at the orphanage?".
Tenten shook her head in the negative, " Nuh-uh. They teach us other things, like sewing, and cooking, and...*crinkle* um, yard work, and carpentry, and I clean my own room".
Curiosity got the better of Rin as she looked over the girl's shoulder to see what she was reading...and choked when she read the first line.
*Tell her you can do these things so, maybe, she adopts you*
"-and I can heard livestock-"
So that's why the head caretaker was so carefree about letting her take Tenten out of the village for a day. Considering they were Anbu, it made more sense. The woman she talked to had to be one of them, and an infiltration type to boot. Hidden strength and sneaky ploys like getting kids to grow on people. GRRR.
"-and I can file your taxes-"
...and it worked. It wouldn't be the first time she thought about it that night. She was 7 afterall, not 2. Hell the Academy would be just next year, so it would really be like another guardianship...but then inevitable reality hit her that Naruto would be going in the year after that and she would be taking care of a baby next year as well, not even thinking about what Asuma would say.
" He would kill me, that's what"
Tenten stopped reading off the list to stare at Rin in confusion.
" Umm, Tenten. You weren't hoping I'd adopt you...were you?"
"...", her silence and downtrodden face was proof enough.
Stupid Anbu must have hyped her up on the idea.
" I'm sorry sweetie, but I already have Naruto and another coming"
" But I really wanted a family"
The sadness hit Rin like an anvil had been tied to her heart. She wasn't used to this. Usually she just found herself stuck with kids, not one trying to get stuck with her.
" Uh, I'm sure you'll be adopted soon. Who wouldn't want a girl like you for a daughter?"
" But I'm too old. All the adults go for the younger kids"
They did too. Adopt them young so they fit better into a mold the parents wanted. Kids above six tended to be less easy to sway, so they were less desirable no matter how they looked or acted. So, most older orphans stayed orphans until they brought up their own families...if they brought up their own families. Most went with the shinobi career, and came out undertrained and underequipped with no family backing them.
It wasn't hard to imagine where most of them ended up...maybe Rin could do something for the girl.
" You know...", Rin started, gaining the girls attention, "..I've already started teaching Naruto...I could teach you a few thing at the same time, if I can get the anbu to let me".
Tenten's eyes lit up, " Really?"
" Yeah. I can even let you practice with real weapons"
" Really?¡",..that seemed to excite her even more, but at least it got her off of the adoption topic. Didn't mean Rin felt any better about it.
Why was she so tied to orphans?...well, if it wasn't for the Inuzukas, she would have been one. A heavy thought, and one that probably influenced her to help out any she found, but this was one that she had to say no to.
" Anyways, let's go find something else to do while we're here, and boy free". Speaking of which, what were they doing right now?
*With Asuma and Naruto*
" Oh yeah, right there", Asuma groaned as the masseuse,,,dressed in a skimpy maid outfit, ground at another knot with elbow gloved hands of magic.
" And you could have gotten one last time if you weren't drinking yourself unconscious", Naruto chided, getting the same service from one with half braided silver hair. Lucky him. He was thinking of getting the Thai massage...but the two younger girls that did that looked creepily mishievous.o
" Yes yes, I get it. We have to rejoin up with the other three soon though"
"...speaking of three, I haven't seen Taiga since we got here-"
"-Oh! They're starting the main ceremony!", Naruto's masseuse piped up after looking out into he street. The small parlor was empty the next moment except for the two confused males, who got redressed and looked to see what was going on.
They saw Taiga in that weird Miku dress, standing on a stage.
*Back with Rin and Tenten*
They hand found a Tokiyaki stand and were currently dining on the delights.
" Umm, do you really want your daughter around here? The main even is about to start up"
Rin looked at the vendor in confusion," Oh! Nono, she's not my daughter, just a family friend, but what-"
"-hey! there's Taiga-san!", Tenten shouted, pointing at a stage. Rin looked in confusion as they announced-
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*With Taiga*
Wow! There were so many people watching. She wasn't sure whether she should volunteer when they begged her, but with all the attention she was geting, her doubts went out the window. She really didn't have to do much either, just kneel as the announcer proclaimed the event.
"Welcome ladies and gentlemen!-"
That was her cue!
"-to the 381st annual Harvest and Fertility Festival!"
Harvest and Fertility Festival?¿
"As you know, every year we give an offering to celebrate this year's harvest, and ensure good crops and prosperity next year, and this year we haven't failed to deliver! Please give it up for Taiga-chan!
"Ano, offering?", Her question was drowned out in the cheers as three men in strange masks surrounded her...just masks...and boy, were they excited.
" What the fu-ghm!", Ah...there was something in her mouth.
"What the fuck?¡", Rin shouted in shock as the crowd whooped the three men into action. They still did this kinda shit?¡
" W-what are they doing to Taiga-san?¡", Tenten asked in shock and confusion at seeing the strange event in front of her. A quick poke to the head and Tenten was out like a light. Rin grabbed her up...and her stuffed animals..and made her way to start searching for the other two idiots. She could only hope Asuma was still with Naruto to shield him from it as well.
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*With Asuma and Naruto*
Asuma gawked at the display...then started taking pictures, " So that's why Rin went after her", Asuma mumbled in awe when they pulled off her clothes.
"Whoa, they're gonna "spit roast" her!", Naruto commented. where did he get a camcorder?¿ " Bought it off someone", Naruto answered Asuma's look.
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*With Rin and cargo*
Where the hell were they?¡ As soon as she found them, she was dragging their asses out of there. Even the crowd was starting to get swept up in the "celebration". Luckily, her having a kid with her repelled any attempts to get her to join in.
*With Asuma and Naruto*
"T'ped! T'ped! T'ped! Woooo!", the two chanted with the crowd until it finally happened.
"Is it a bad thing we're enjoying watching Taiga get gangbanged?", Naruto asked.
"Not from this angle", Asuma replied as he kept snapping pictures.
"Maybe you'd like a close-up?"
" I wi...", both felt a shiver go up their spines. Neither of them said that. They both turned to see Rin glaring at them with a bunch of stuff under arm.
" Heyy Kaa-chan. They're doing some really weird things to Tai-chan. I'm confused and have no idea what they're doing"
Rin kept glaring, then looked up at it, " Ah, Paizuri"
Naruto rounded faster than Rin could blink, " REALLY?¡..."
He just incriminated himself.
" Uh...eheh..Taichou, you can help out anytime now..."
They both looked to see Asuma replaced with a wooden bear holding a fishing pole.
"...Sad when I'm more of the man out of the two of us!", Naruto yelled into the crowd. *BONK* " Owww!"
" Why the hell didn't you tell me about this?¡"
" We didn't know! It looked like a regular festival when we were her last time!", Naruto admitted as he rubbed the lump on his head.
" And why aren't you shocked by any of this?¡ You haven't even gone through puberty yet!"
"...What the heck's puberty?".
Rin palmed her face. She had no one to blame but herself...and the company she kept...but they wouldn't take responsibility so she had to...that made her a scapegoat...or the most mature one out of the group.
" We are getting out of here and into the next town. Then I'm going to explain EVERYTHING. You are going to know EVERYTHING."
Rin's face was dark, " ...Um...Hai. Shouldn't we wait for Tai-chan?"
" In! In! In! In!", the crowd chanted until it happened, then deafening cheers.
Both gawked,"...Well, I think she's done"
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*End flashback*
Rin rifled through a stack of pictures with an angry blush. Asuma took so many, she could make an animation out of them. They scooped up Taiga right afterward, rolled her out in a wheelbarrel, chased down Asuma, and left the clusterfuck and into the next town. The last picture was of the two kids looking at Rin, wideeyed and green faced as she explained..EVERYTHING.
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*Flash-*
She had raided the town hospital for visual material. They even had videos.
" Behold, the grand miracle of child birth!"
"...You mean in 9 months you gotta push a baby out like that?¡", Naruto shrieked in a high pitched voice as he pointed at the TV.
"...Yup...", Rin replied with dread.
Tenten was a little more shocked, " I always thought babies came from the stork, or cabbage patches! This looks like that alien movie!", Tenten sobbed out.
"...What a morbidly true comparison", Asuma groaned as he winced at the screen as the baby started crying.
" Is it even worth it?"
" None of us would be alive if it wasn't. We were all born that way", Rin retorted at Naruto.
Silence fell upon them as they thought about that.
Then the video showed the doctors pulling on the cord.
" Ah, they're pulling out the placenta", Rin commented.
A few seconds later, the two kids went green. It was worse than the venereal disease video!
Asuma's face froze in openmouthed disgust, " GOOD GOD!"
" I think I'm gonna be sick again!", Naruto groaned as Tenten covered her mouth.
" Use the bucket!"
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*-back*
She found that trying to thwart a child's curiosity only made them more curious, so they were also given the proper talk...with Taiga as a visual reference...who was practically glowing after her gangbang. She had little choice in the matter, after all, it was either she did it, or Rin let that batch cook.
Well...looking back on it, it was pretty fun...until the last part anyways...okay, maybe if she hadn't been trying to shield children, she could have enjoyed the show more.
Now, she was Naruto's problem, as he would soon find out. Afterall, Taiga didn't like living by herself, and Rin was moving in with Asuma. So Taiga had to go somewhere, and she'd probably kill herself before trying to get back in with her clan...if they even let her. Poor girl.
Speaking of girls, she'd promised Naruto and Tenten that training would resume tomorrow. She better stop reminiscing and get back to work. Asuma was busy moving his own stuff in and finding a shiny new job so he could become a jounin, having not met the "criteria" yet.
Becoming a jounin wasn't as easy as some genin might think. You didn't just sign up for some " Jounin Exam" or something. There were tiers. First off, you hat to be at a certain strength level, show you had some level of proficiency in all areas of the shinobi arts, and be able to employ leadership and tactical thinking in a combat situation.
Then you had to have the time in a branch separate from the regular forces, or, serve 20 years in the regular forces, or, finish 50 A-rank missions.
For Rin, she went into Anbu, which gave her the needed check as soon as she signed up when also mixed with her time in the hospital. Asuma was trying to do it through the Guardians...and would now have to find something else to rack up his last three years thanks to her.
The next step is the one ninja had the most trouble with. You needed a clan to sponsor you. Sure, there were other sponsors, like the civilian sponsorship program or even the Hokage himself, but each entity, except for the Hokage, could only sponsor one shinobi a year, and the civilians and Hokage were booked for years to come. Thus, the clans were the best bet, since they didn't always have a clan member to sponsor every year.
Sometimes, even that proved to be a challenge. Sponsoring a ninja was putting your vouch in that the ninja was trustworthy and could handle secrets that could rock the foundations of the village. No clan just sponsored anyone that asked. A bad ninja could grind their reputation into the dirt. Usually, you had to be a trusted team member of someone from a clan, or do a clan a service that they would pay with sponsorship.
Rin didn't need to do that, she had the Inuzukas, who were actually waiting for Rin to ask. There was a little hesitance in sponsoring a former drug addict, but considering the small number of actual jounins in their clan...and Tsume listing off a few of the eccentricities of some of their current jounin...they sponsored her.
Then came the last step, which was an old tradition. They didn't pit you against other jounin or even elite jounin. The last test was to last five minutes against the Hokage.
He doesn't pull his punches either.
Rin made it past the five-minute mark by the skin of her teeth, and multiple injuries to show for it, along with the promotion.
There was also field promotion during wartime...which is what her idiot sensei bestowed upon that fuckup Kakashi during the war. Let's put it this way, if he hadn't promoted him, Kakashi wouldn't have "led" them on a damn fucking thing...very old wounds, so she wasn't going to think of that anymore.
Asuma was lucky, since he was from the Sarutobi clan, The Hokage could sponsor 2 ninja, being the leader of the village and the head of the clan, but he could only sponsor one non-clan and one clan, never two of either, and with the Sarutobis in such small population, Asuma would get sponsored as soon as he was ready. Then he would just have to fight his old man, which, Rin was sure, he was itching for, if not both of them.
Naruto would have it easy as well, since he was so well tied into the Sarutobis and Inuzukas, who basically raised him, in one form or another, or Tsume's increasingly...disturbing...affections for him...
She could probably do the same for Tenten.
Before yesterday, Rin only had fleeting contact with the girl, the Hokage bringing her over to see Naruto during the day, when she was either still working or sleeping, her only opinion being that she looked like a little panda plodding around. Yesterday, she actually got to know the girl. Sort of tomboyish, yet in a cute way. Intelligent enough for her age. A damn good aim and enough strength behind it to knock over heavy metal bottles at the game they played at the horny fest.
Wanted a family to adopt her...Guh. That look still ate at Rin. She looked back down at the last picture, the shook her head, 'I can't. I already have two kids to worry about...but it's not like a seven-year old needs that much supervision, and she would be joining the Academy next spring-no!'
" Grrr! I can't keep guilting myself over everything. She's fine where she is", Rin convinced herself. She put the pictures back into the sleeve and found her dusty old box of pictures. As she opened it up and set it inside, she spied a small wallet poking out. In confusion, she pulled it out and opened it up, which did likewise to old wounds as soon as she saw the first picture.
"...Miyuki". It was one of Rin's biggest fuck-ups, even though everybody, including herself at the time, told her there was nothing else she could had done, given the situation she was in. Rin disagreed wholeheartedly, after the guilt set in on the trek back to Konoha. The thoughts of what she could have done reeled through her mind every now and again through the years. She flipped through the pictures as she pondered another route she could have taken, until she got to the fifth picture and stopped dead in her tracks.
A minute later, she pulled out the new stack of photos and looked at the group photo again, then back at the other.
...It was her. Dammit, it was her.
Of all the orphans Naruto befriends...that wasn't fair...*sigh*
" My husband was an orphan. I was an orphan. My daughter...well, who knows what tomorrow will bring!", Miyuki's words played through Rin's head.
She sat there for close to a half an hour.
" I can't do it...", she mumbled to herself. It was another ten before she got up and popped a few clones to do the rest of the packing. She needed to talk to Naruto...who was probably being annoyed by his birthday present right now.
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*Orphanage, a few hours later*
Tenten looked through her small assortment of clothes, looking for something to wear tomorrow. She was going to be training with Naruto!
By his Kaa-chan no less, who was a jounin level kunoichi!
There weren't many females that made it past chunin in the ninja world, most finally settling down to have a family, or finding a comfortable position and not wanting to advance any further. She hoped Naruto's mom could teach her alot of things...and let her play with alot of weapons, heheheh!
Her thoughts were interrupted as one of the matr...patrons poofed into the room.
" Tenten. Pack all your things and meet in the waiting area with them. You've been adopted. *poof*", the ma-patron poofed back out.
Tenten was torn between excited about finally being adopted, and being worried about who was adopting her.
What if they didn't let her go to the Academy?
What if they didn't let her train with Naruto...or even hated him like the previous matron.
She found herself with butterflies in her stomach as she packed all her stuff, which didn't take long. She took timid footsteps alongside one of the maskless anbu 10 minutes later. She had to ask the people when she got in there. Naruto had been her friend for years, she wasn't going to stop that just cause they hated him.
She'd make sure they hated her too if they did.
As soon as she got into the waiting room, shock played across her face before she burst out in joy and excitement and ran up to her new mom.
She had nothing to worry about.
* Later that night*
Asuma sighed in relief as he trudged back to their new house. It became obvious, pretty quickly, that the Sarutobi compound was the "perfect place".
To Rin anyways. It was only three blocks away from Naruto's apartment, instead of the six that Rin's place was. It was also cheaper since they were practically given the house, being a member and future member...members, respectively.
The cons? It was right next to his father's house AND his brother's house. That was a double whammy. Sure, his brother wasn't as bad as his father, but they did have "differences". Luckily, his brother's pregnant wife took up most of his time, being ready to pop anytime and all.
Moving along...he really needed to take a nice, hot, shower. After moving all of his crap into the house that morning, he then had to go over to the Academy and sit through some boring workshops and get a pile of paper that would be his itinerary for the spring class.
Yes, he was finishing out his last three years as an academy teacher.
Well, five years. He had to see them graduated through, after all, but he could take the last step in three, and be stuck there for two more. Oh well.
This played through his mind as he walked into the house. The clinks and clanks of cooking could be heard coming from the kitchen. Asuma looked around. Rin had moved them in already. While it was sparse, it already had a homey feel to it.
" I'm back Rin-chan! You definitely have a knack for home decorating!"
Instead of an answer, everything went quiet in the kitchen.
" Err, Rin?", What the hell. Was she already going through mood swings. There was a lack of killer intent if it was.
Oh, no, she was in the dining area...humming?
Asuma made his way there. Looking around the corner at the table, he found someone setting china down...but it wasn't Rin.
" Uh, Tenten, what are you doing?"
The little girl looked up, " Okaa-san asked me to set the table", she said cheerfully.
" Okaa-san did?", Asuma asked, gaining a nod.
Ahhh, he couldn't say he didn't see this coming.
" Does that mean you're my Otou-san?"
Asuma airfully turned around to see Rin looking at him behind the door frame of the kitchen.
" I don't know. What do you say...Okaa-san?"
Rin couldn't tell what Asuma's mood was. She would have taken pissed any day.
" Uh...n-not until we're married", Rin muttered as she came out.
Ah, single parent status. It was allowable in Konoha, so long as the person had the means and a credible history with kids, and Rin's was a mile long.
As soon as she told him what Naruto and Tenten concocted during that trip, he knew it was going to happen. He had watched her express it on her face a dozen times since then, and in reality...it wasn't that bad. She was seven after all, and would be in the spring class next year...funny how that worked...and they had already corrupted the poor girl, so it was a given Rin was going to adopt her.
That and she attracted orphans like bugs to a zapper.
He wasn't mad, but she didn't need to know that yet. Afterall, he WANTED to see her in that outfit.
" Ah, I just remembered. I need to go buy something"
"Uhh...what's that?"
" That other outfit"
Rin turned blue, " Uh, can't we talk about this?"
Asuma turned back to her, " Sure! We can talk about it on our way there", he said as he continued walking out the front door.
"...Tenten, could you make sure the food stays warm? We'll be right back".
Tenten nodded in confusion, having watched the whole scene. Rin quickly followed Asuma out the door.
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Tenten kicked her legs as she sat at the table, waiting for the two to get back. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
She tensed. Should she open it? The knock came again.
She got up closer to the door.
...Okay, whoever it was was knocking in annoying patterns now. Spying a mail slot, she peaked throug, only to see another pair of eyes staring back.
She jumped back, then realized she knew those eyes. Opening the door, she found Naruto on the other side.
" Welcome to the family Tenten!", Naruto proclaimed as he hugged the, now, blushing girl.
" T-thanks...but why aren't you living here too? She's your mom too you know"
Naruto nodded, " True. She even thought about it. But in the end, she said living in my own place with her teaching me was making me more self reliant...but I think it has more to do with Tai-chan moving in/invading my apartment...plus, now that she lives closer, I can come over whenever I want!".
Tenten nodded at that logic, then thought of something else, " Since we're under the same mother, does that make us brother and sister?"
"..."
"..."
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*10 minutes later*
Asuma walked back into the house, Rin following behind with a deep blush and a grumble about something. It wasn't two seconds later they were jumped by two kids.
" Kaa-chan, are Tenten and I brother and sister?"
She was only mildly surprised Naruto was there, it was the question that threw her.
" ...o-only in a technical sense. I only took guardianship of you Naruto. Tenten I took a full adoption. Not to mention the obvious genetic differences. So, in a way, you're just foster siblings"
Rin was kind of confused as to why they looked relieved.
" You guys act like you don't want to be brother and sister...oooohh, because you want to be boyfriend and girlfriend".
" No we don't!" they both replied quickly in unison.
" Sure, sure. Anyways, let's go eat dinner before it turns into jerky."
" Haaai"
" Oi, Naruto, where's Taiga? I was sure she would follow you here", Rin questioned.
" Err, she's a little tied up with something"
*Naruto's apartment*
" Come back!...I didn't mean to overwrite you save data!...at least give me back my clothes!...my boobs are hanging down and they're cold!...shake my hips and twist my shoulders and tada!...shake my feet and flex my stomach and tada!...shake my stomach and flex my thighsgghckkkHAAAAA¡!
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This is where the chapter would end, if I didn't add omakes, that I came up with while typing the chapter, off the top of my brain and almost never on paper. The speed of my chapters won't increase or decrease if I write them or not. So if you don't like omakes, don't look past this paragraph. Simple, no?
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Rin scurried up to Asuma before walking along side him in silence.
" So!-", she jumped at the word. Here it came, " -what took you so long?"
Utter confusion played across her face, " I was only a couple seconds behind you".
" No, I mean what took you so long to adopt Tenten?"
Now she was utterly confused, " How the hell..."
" ...Did I know you would? It's been written on your face since yesterday. So...what finally brought you to it?", he looked at her.
Rin sighed. Figured he'd read her like a book. It wasn't hard. " She's Miyuki's daughter".
Asuma's tracks stopped cold as he stared hard at Rin, " And, what, you adopted her out of guilt?", he asked shortly.
" W-what? Of course not!...well...a little..."
"Oh, just a little", he mocked sarcastically.
" It's the least I can do after what happened dammit!"
" How many times are you going to beat yourself up over that...There-was-nothing-you-could-do!"
" There was plenty I could have done!"
"Like what?"
"I could have knocked her out completely-"
" As that girl bled out, or even worse, try to heal that girl with a crazed jounin in the room knocked out for who knows how long!"
-I..could have made a shadow clone to-"
"-do what with a fraction of your chakra?¡ Heal that girl? Go after a jounin?"
" I..I", she started suttering as she tried to come up with something with more logic to it.
" Rin. You chose to stay and heal that girl instead of risking your life, and hers, for a suicidal/homicidal jouin, and that's after everything else you did for that whole clusterfuck. You did your best, and you did everything right. Let-it-go."
"...Alright"
Asuma sighed. She sounded less than convinced. Hmm.
" Why did you adopt Naruto?"
Her head shot up and stared at Asuma in confusion.
"That's obvious!"
" Oh? What? Guilt?"
"No. I adopted him because he's mine". Whew, there was no doubt in her voice there.
" Oh? I could have sworn Naruto's mother was laying in a bed"
" The hell she is! She never changed his diapers, never fed him, never taught him. She's laying in a bed trapped in her own head for the past seven years. So much for her stubbornness. I don't even care if she wakes up, he's still mine.", the edge in her voice stunned Asuma, along with the harsh words. They were talking about a comatose woman afterall...but if it put things into perspective..
" Oh? So what makes Miyuki any different?"
Rin looked confused before she really thought about Miyuki's actions...then her face darkened.
" What Miyuki did was worse...she knew her daughter...and yet she couldn't hold herself together for her. Why, because she had a lot of students die? Maybe she should have trained them instead of watching over them like a stuffed hawk. And instead of owning up to her breakdown, she commits suicide! What a great...Asuma..."
"N-nani?", came his startled response.
" I lied. She's not Miyuki's daughter"
"...O..Kaay. Then who's-"
"Mine"
" ...So her name's gonna be Inuzuka Tenten?"
"...Ours"
" Ah"
" Can we just go back already and forget the damn outfit? I'm hungry and I still need to do the rest of my wash...ah...speaking of which, I tried washing that old bear of yours, but it fell apart"
"..."
" Whew. It got so cold so sudden, I can even see my breath"
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* 5 minutes later*
The store clerk thumbed through her magazine, having already swept the damn place twice. Usually the crowds didn't show up until much later in the night.
*jingle*
Oh? The clerk looked up as the bell warned of a customer. Her curiosity turned to shock as a very familiar face came through the door.
She was missing her jacket though...and her tubetop...well, she was just wearing the fishnet.
It didn't look like it was her idea either with the way she was trying to cover it up...ah, there's another familiar face.
"I'm gonna frickin kill you for this", Rin growled in embarrassment. You could see them right through the fishnet!
" Payback for killing Smoky, now go buy it", Asuma grumbled back before smacking Rin on the ass, causing her to jump, bounce, and get even redder.
Dammit, this was SO not her thing. And of course Asuma would make her walk up to the damn clerk like this while he watched from an aisle.
...but then, the clerk was in an outfit worse than hers. It was a latex maid outfit with openings so EVERYTHING hung out.
" Rin-sensei!"
Oh crap! The clerk knew her...wait...sensei? It wasn't one of hers for sure-
Before Rin could contemplate any further, the clerk walked out from behind the counter and hugged her. Eeek, those piercings were cold against her breasts!
" I never got to thank you properly considering what happened. Thank you so much for saving me"
" Saving..." A scar across the woman's neck caught her attention. " Yukari!"
The woman let go of Rin. " You even remembered my actual name. Unlike...her", there was a bitterness in her voice. She had every right to be. Crazed or not, if it wasn't for Rin, she would have been dead.
" Y-your welcome... I just wish I could have done something more".
Yukari looked at her incredulously, " More? We all saw how much you were doing. I'd think a novice performer juggling chainsaws is under less tension. You were basically trying to run the whole show by the end. I'm surprised the Hokage isn't trying to get you to take his position"
Rin scratched her cheek in embarassement, " N-nah. I'm not that good. Sooo...I take it you left the forces"
Yukari nodded. " Alot of the..."genin" did...I don't think I was ever supposed to graduate. So I quit, did some...stuff, and then opened this store", she replied timidly. So she became the owner of an..adult novelty store. " So what about you? I'm sure you've been busier than hell considering what I've seen so far"
Rin blushed. Such a strange conversation considering the atmoshpere and their attire...or lack thereof. She had to wonder just what the "stuff" entailed.
" N-not much...went back to Anbu, took guardianship over my son, got command of my own dettachement of anbu...sabotaged a condom and got pregnant, got a fiancé, and just adopted Miyuki's daughter"
Yukari stared wideeyed at Rin, "...Wow...no one can call you an underachiever. Three kids and a whole command at, what, 26?"
" Heh, 24"
A cleared throat pulled them out of their conversation as they looked at one of the aisles to see a mop of hair sticking out.
Rin sighed. What? Wasn't seeing two hardly dressed women enough to keep him occupied?
" Your fiancé I'm guessing? Can't say I didn't see that coming.", Yukari poked, " So, what can I get you?"
A while later found Yukari pointing out the features of the different outfits Rin was "looking" for, a pair of eyes poking out from the aisle behind them.
" Unlike the other ones, this set comes with boots instead of the more common sandals"
Another hearty cleared throat said Asuma approved.
" *Sigh*. Alright, that one", Rin conceded.
"Heeheehee",
Rin glared at the mop of hair until another mop of hair poked up right by it.
" What are we all doing?", a voice asked loudly, causing Asuma to jump and Rin to go blue.
" Tsume, what the hell are you doing here?¡"
She popped up the rest of the way, " I came to my favorite store and what do I find but my sister and her boy toy picking out naughty outfits...I'm so proud!"
Yukari looked to Rin, " You're Tsume's sister? Now it makes sense", there was some sort of conclusion in that sentence that Rin didn't want to think about, " You should have told me. Inuzukas get our prefered customer discount"
" Eh?¡", Just how many...she didn't want to think about it.
As Tsume heckled Rin, Yukari remembered-" Oh, Tsume-san! Your order is ready", she said running back to the back room and coming back with something that looked like it should have blurring pixels attached to it.
" It took alot of damned work. That farmer looked at me funny when he asked if I could use one of his horses for a reference."
Tsume was turning blue, " Uh, wai-"
"-and the amount of rubber I had to use was nuts, especially trying to integrate the vibrating bullets into the whole thing"
"-you don't have to-"
"-and making the channel all the way through it for the injector was a challenge as well, but in the end, it's finished. I even put the reservoir on the belt so all you have to do is strap it on, put in whatever fluid you're gonna use, and have at it until you want to push the button. One of my best pieces yet!"
She was met with silence as Tsume was trying to shrink into herself as Rin gawked at her. Even Asuma came out of hiding to stare at the thing. That couldn't fit in a person...could it?
"...Let's check out and pretend this never happened", Rin proclaimed, agreements following closely by.
* Later that night*
Rin looked at herself in the mirror. For-the-love-of-god.
This was worse than the cat costume. Afterall, this one went right at her pride.
A fricking latex nurse uniform.
The whole thing enveloped her from her crotch to the top of her neck. Any decency in that thought was taken away by the piece that ran over her breasts that could be unbuttoned off to let her breasts show, or the piece that did the same for the crotch. Then there were the lace up elbow gloves, the thighhighs with matching garterbelt, the nurses hat, and the ankle high, high-heel platform boots.
All white, all latex, all had red crosses on them.
This was humiliating...she would never admit more.
The house they had moved into had one feature that was very defining in the next moment, the bathroom was not attached to the Master bedroom, so when Rin stepped out, imagine her surprise, and many other things, when Tenten was looking at her.
" Gh! Tenten! What are you doing up?", Rin asked lamely.
The girl fidgeted as she squeezed onto the slug she was holding, " I couldn't sleep"
Rin sighed. Of course she couldn't. It was her first day with a family afterall...as screwed up a family as it was.
Rin crouched down to Tenten's height. A sizable feat considering the boots she was wearing.
" You're still excited from everything that happened today, but if you don't get any sleep, how are you going to train with us tomorrow?".
This seemed to cause the girl to panic slightly before, looking back at Rin with hope, " C-could you read me a story? That usually helps".
She wanted her to read her a story? In this? She didn't seem to be reacting in any way to how Rin was dressed so she figured the girl didn't know or care.
" ...Alright, one story", she got back up and led the girl to her room.
15 minutes later, Rin walked back out. That little girl could snore.
Walking back into her bedroom, she found Asuma still waiting for her.
" Did you get lost or something?", he asked jokingly as he eyed her up in appreciation.
" No. I had to get Tenten to sleep"
"...In that?"
" She didn't seem to mind"
Asuma pondered that, " Considering how long she was staring at Taiga in that bunnygirl dress...whatever..", his attention was on something else.
"...Nurse I think I'm sick. Can you give me a checkup?", Asuma asked huskily.
Rin twitched and then smiled coyly before strutting up to him. " Oh I don't think my patient needs a checkup. I already found the problem", she stated grabbing something important.
" Heehee, please do what you can nurse"
" Oh I will. But before the operation-", she pulled out a can of shaving cream and a razor with a mischievous smirk, "-we need to prep"
" Eh?¡"
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Tenten woke to the sound of loud voices.
" Get that thing away from me!"
" You already have a patch missing. Let me shave the rest off!"
" Evil nurse! Evil nurse!"
" Be a good patient before I restrain you to the bed!"
Tenten went red before picking up her pillow and covering her head between them. It sounded like something out of the Icha Icha book Naruto shared with her.
Asuma sulked as he looked down. It looked like a shaved weasle.
" Ahh. So nice and smooth", Rin cooed as she rubbed it with her cheek while looking at Asuma with a victorious smirk.
" You're still evil"
" Awww. My patient is so grumpy. If I was so evil, I wouldn't do this"
Asuma looked at her in confusion as her tongue actually glowed green and she took it into her mouth.
" Wha-...whooooooooaaaa"
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Naruto sighed as he walked up to his apartment. That was a good workout. While going over to the PX to get some powdered milk, some drunks had ganged up on him.
Six against him. What an unfair fight...for them. He had seen academy students put up a better fight. He didn't even know much about Taijutsu. He was just using what Kaa-chan had shown him so far. How to channel your chakra into your arms and legs. How to evade. And more importantly, the weak spots on the body.
From there he just weaved through their drunken attacks and struck them down.
In the last year, he had put the whoop ass on at least a hundred people. Some threw rocks. Thanks to his training, he caught them and threw them back. Some tried to beat him. He showed them why it wasn't a good idea. Some formed mobs. That was a little out of his league as of yet, especially when they got into more than a half-dozen.
Luckily, with Kaa-chan's merry little band patrolling most of Konoha, he had backup if things became overwhelming, which also helped when the random shinobi wanted a crack at him.
Sure, they tried to complain. Usually to the KPF. But the KPF didn't seem to care about the "wellfare" of the village lately, even looking like they enjoyed seeing the civilians distraught. Considering some of the things he heard whispered about the clan from various people, he couldn't really blame them. They didn't have alot of fans in the village for some reason. Naruto wasn't quick to judge though, having never really met a member of the Uchiha clan except for passing glances. He'd wait until he met a few in person.
With that, he grabbed the knob of his front door...or at least tried to before it pushed open. Uhoh.
Naruto was immediately on alert. No civilian could get into his impenetrable fortress after all.
Maybe he should back out and get help? Maybe he should see if it was Kaa-chan by checking the sandals next to the door. Maybe...was that a puppy barking?
Realizing that, yes, it was a puppy barking, his alert level went down. Either it was an Inuzuka or one of Kaa-chan's lazier subordinates watching his damn TV. Maybe it was Hana with her triplet puppies...was it too early to run and call for backup? He didn't want to play truth or dare with her again.
His curiosity got the better of him and he made his way into the apartment and it didn't take him too long to find something very wrong.
There were female..things..everywhere. It looked like someone moved in and set off an explosive note in their pile. There were hair care products on the floor, shirts in the window, bras hanging off his ceiling fan...he felt he knew this cup size.
Ah, the barking was coming from a game on his screen, that apparently involved a puppy, who was barking and doing tricks right now since no one was playing. He looked closer at the console and choked. His save card for Necro Space 2 was in there! They didn't!
He checked. They did! They overwrote the save file! 9 hours of hard work, gone!
He shut off the game with evil thoughts in his head. This flushed out the perpetrator from the kitchen, who was eating his ice cream.
" Ara? There you are Naru-chan! I was wondering where you went"
"...what are you doing here Tai-chan?", He asked with an eerie calmness.
" Rin moved in with Asuma, so now I'm your roommate! Won't that be fun?", she asked cheerfully.
Naruto could think of other things to call it, most of them antonyms. Kaa-chan had most likely sent her over here, there was no other explanation.
As she went back to eating his damned ice cream, he plotted evil comeback for her. He knew her sleeping cycle like the back of his hand.
*KnockKnock*
Oh? And who could that be he could possibly shove her onto?
He opened the door to find Kaa-chan.
" Dammit"
Rin came out of her thoughts when she heard Naruto curse in what sounded like disappointment. She looked behind him to see Hurricane Taiga went through.
" What? I thought you'd enjoy your birthday present", she poked fun.
" Take it back"
" Nope. You keep it"
" I don't want it! It blew up it's clothes all over my apartment, overwrote my game, and eating my ice cream!", he complained.
Rin nodded in a mock sagely way, " Indeed. Such is the nature of the beast. Now you know what I went through for over a year"
" Except you at least got "something" out of it!"
" Who are you talking to Naru-kun?"
Crap! He said it too loud. She spent a friggin hour trying to get the buxom bubblehead off her leg. With a quick move, she grabbed up Naruto, stuffed him underarm, and ran out the door and around to the other side of the apartment building before setting him down.
" Listen, I'll teach you how to handle her later, but right now I have something important to tell you"
Naruto was confused. More important than a twenty year old bubbleheaded anbu invading his apartment? It must be important.
" Okaaay..."
" I'm going to adopt Tenten"
"...Whoa. You mean it actually worked?"
Rin looked utterly confused until she thought back on what happened at the festival, " You two planned on splitting me up with her didn't you?"
Naruto scratched the back of his head, " It was mostly her idea, but I went along with it"
" Why?"
" Well.." Naruto thought about that, " It was sad to see her in there still. I mean, I was seeing less and less of her lately, and she'd tell me about what would happen in the orphanage, being displayed and dismissed for other orphans. So when she told me about trying to get you to adopt her, I thought, perfect! One of the best moms out there. She deserves it, and now I get to see her every day!"
...Figures. " But what about you?"
Naruto looked at her with confusion, " What about me?"
Rin elaborated, " If I adopt her, she's going to be living with me"
" So? I see you as much as if I was living with you anyways", Naruto replied with a shrug.
"...True..but don't you want to live together as more of an actual family?"
Naruto looked out at the village as he thought about that before turning back, " I don't mind where I am. My family is alot bigger than just the people in that house after all. You wouldn't believe how many times your minions dive into my apartment to take a break or a nap-"
' Ah! So that's where they're hiding out!'
"- I even learned to spit hidden weapons out of my mouth from Carp. How to garden from Ox. I'm even making a garden on the roof!"
"...I guess it is making you more self reliant as well. Plus, now you have Taiga to worry about"
" Bleh! You owe me for this!"
" Hai hai. I'll get you something else for a present"
" I know! How about a jutsu?"
" Who says you've earned a jutsu?", she argued with arms crossed.
" The twenty-something year old ex-girlfriend of my mom living with me, that's what"
" You make it sound so taudry. Think of it like living with your older sister"
"...more like a bad scene from a shota doujin", Naruto grumbled.
" I have no idea what that is and am shocked that you do", she replied none too convincingly, " Alright, a jutsu for letting her live with you until I find someone to hook her up with. But I get to choose it"
" As long as it isn't one of those lame ones I'll learn in the Academy, we have a deal!", He grinned as he held out his hand and they shook on it. Some parent/son relationship they had going on. Oh well.
" Well, I have to go pick her up then. Come by later tonight, cause I'm making dinner once I get everything situated."
" Can do Kaa-chan. Meanwhile I have...something...to do", he replied cryptically as he marched back to his apartment.
Rin shook it off and jumped towards the orphanage. She had a daughter to adopt!