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Lesson Twenty-One
Sex
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Bobcat was the last of her squad left standing.
Her teammates had fallen victim to the first moments of the ambush. She held the chain wind staff upon her shoulders and targeted any small movements from the five ninja that had her surrounded.
Rule #14 of the ANBU handbook went through her head: If mortally wounded in battle, you must destroy your body at all cost to prevent enemy ninja from capturing your corpse.
Bobcat couldn't believe her first mission as squad leader was going to end like this. She couldn't believe everything was going to end like this.
Bobcat allowed her staff to drop to the ground and held her hands up in surrender.
Then she suddenly snapped her hands together into a seal to perform a jutsu that will destroy her body, her unconscious teammates, and her enemies. She was ready to give everything to Konoha.
But they were just a little bit faster. A mass of rock locked her hands together and prevented her from performing the final seal that would have coated her entire surroundings in a brilliant flame.
Hinata wiped the sweat from her brow and retightened the sleeves gathered around her shoulders. She glided the cleaning rag up and down the wooden floors. A stream of sunlight entered through the small cracks in the wooden window and revealed the dust dancing in the air.
Suddenly, the wooden floors were painted golden as the door slid open. The brief exposure to sun was warm on her skin before the light was once again drowned in darkness.
Hinata could see soft expensive slippers in her periphery vision. She paused in her work and folded her hands in her lap. She kept her head craned to the floor while waiting to be addressed.
"Take your shirt off."
There was a splash of ice cold water in her veins when she heard the command. The voice had a natural cruelty tinged to the falsetto and she knew it was Iyashi. His presence had been absent for the past several weeks as he was called away on a mission. He was certainly not missed by the majority of the Hyūga clan.
"Now."
Hinata respectfully kept her eyes diverted as she straightened in her sitting position. She slid the coat from her shoulders and it fell down around her waist to reveal the undergarments that she wore.
"All of it."
Her hands moved with grace, unflinching and unhesitant. She shed her undergarments and kept her eyes sideways to the floor as was expected of her. Her breasts were on display at his pleasure.
"It's a miracle you're still a virgin. I guess the main family still had some shred of respect for your Father. I plan to remedy that." Iyashi untied his silk belt and his robe slackened.
"On your back."
There were no secrets in the Hyūga compound and Hinata had always known that the branch was called upon to service their main counterparts. It was only a matter of time when her duty to please was tested. And yet there was some small part of her, a small childish part that did not want to believe in the reality Anko had been trying to teach her.
Her innocence wanted to believe this could not be her only choice. Perhaps it was that last shred of innocence she unconsciously tried so hard to hold on to, caused her body to become uncooperative and resisting. An emotion of fear swept across her face as she tried to mentally remind her body of its duty.
It was the first time she couldn't force herself.
"What the fuck are you waiting for?"
Hinata raised her chin in the proud haughtiness of the Hyūga and looked at Iyashi with eyes full of fury.
"Do you hate me?" Iyashi asked with a cruel smirk spiraled onto his lips. "The stoic Hinata finally shows emotion." Iyashi pulled his dick from his pants. "I want to hear you beg for it."
The cracks were increasing in Hinata's calm exterior. The anger was seeping through like lava. The words erupted from her lips.
"I am not your whore."
Iyashi irked an annoyed eyebrow. He wasn't often denied what he wanted. "No, you are not. A whore gets paid," he said as he placed his hands together to form a hand sign.
Hinata buckled under the pain of the caged bird seal. Her arms shook as she attempted to support her weight and deny him the image he wanted: Hinata on her back writhing in pain.
Iyashi intensified the jutsu to a level he knew was deadly.
The Hyuuga working in the yard activated their byakugan when they heard the scream. They hunched their backs and kept working in silence.
Iyashi ended the jutsu before he took it too far and accidently killed her.
Hinata had collapsed under the blinding pain that felt as if her brain had exploded inside of her head. Her eyes were pulsing behind her eyelids. He kicked her in the stomach and she rolled over like a broken little bird unable to fly. Blood poured down from the top of her forehead and underneath her eyelids. He stood over her and watched her breasts fall and rise with a desperate heaving of her chest.
Hinata's eyes crawled open and watched numbly as he masturbated over her. Then he coated her face and body in semen.
"You will be the one who comes to me," Iyashi promised, "and you will beg for it."
Hinata lay on the floor as the door slid close with a slam. The dust fell on her body. Tears slid from her eyes. She picked herself up and used the sleeve from her coat to wipe her face.
Hinata winced when the sun entered the room once again and someone stood at the door.
Auntie began cleaning Hinata with a towel. Then she placed a healing hand to Hinata's forehead. Auntie was always the one to clean up the mess.
"You are lucky you were not punished more severely."
Hinata knew she had skimmed severe repercussions. She took a quivering breath. Hinata had found the line she would not cross. There was still a part of herself she would not sacrifice.
"What are you doing?" Hinata asked as she was pushed to the ground against her will.
Her Aunt didn't answer as she retrieved a tool from a scroll and then shoved it between Hinata's legs. Hinata attempted to escape as her hymen was forcefully stretched open in order to relieve the pain of her first time.
"Hinata, you are no longer the heiress. You are a branch member. Next time, just shut up and open your legs."
Pink cherry blossoms fell in her hair as she dipped her feet in the sparkling blue koi pond. Neji sat down beside her on the bench. He placed a hand over hers, and they sat together, like two timid lovers.
"Ko approached me today. He has agreed to be our inside source."
Ko was a main family member and had devoted his ninja career to being Hinata's caretaker. He had kept his distance from her since she was sealed but Neji knew he was the only main family member they could trust.
The information they sought, the blackmail for the Hokage and members on the council, were locked deep within the forbidden Hyūga library underneath the main compound. All they needed to do was figure out a way in without getting caught in order to steal the information, but in a house where people could see through walls, it was easier said than done.
"Ko doesn't want to get too involved but he agreed to feed us information on the elders' schedule." Neji paused. "Something happened today that changed his mind."
Neji wasn't one to involve himself in the latest gossip. Hinata watched the koi fish as they flowed through the pond.
"Iyashi has targeted me as his next conquest."
Neji's expression was cold and distant.
"It's just like killing someone. It's distasteful but you get it over with," Neji said as he stood up without comfort or sympathy. The cherry blossoms fell as Neji walked away.
The sun began to set and marked the time Hinata had to return to her chores. Hinata got to her feet, but she soon felt as if she was walking through water. She couldn't bear this place any longer.
Hinata's eyes flashed with a spark and began to walk faster the more she made up her mind. She disappeared behind a tree. One Hinata continued through the compound and another had crawled upwards into the branches. She leaned backwards against a bough and flipped downwards until she landed on her feet outside of the Hyuuga compound.
Hinata henged herself into a fox. She crawled through the sprawling compound and hoped the sentries didn't notice her. When she made it to the crossroads in the road, she knew she had safely snuck away and collapsed on the wooden bench to catch her breath.
"Hello, Hinata-sama."
Hinata jumped as her cousin, Tashiko appeared out of a cloud of smoke. "Are you sneaking out too? I thought they always assigned you both nighttime and daytime chores."
"Shadow clone," Hinata explained softly as the two Hyuuga henged themselves and walked down the road.
"What are you planning to do?" Tashiko asked.
Hinata fiddled with her fingers nervously. "I'm simply out for a stroll."
Tashiko noticed how Hinata's calm demeanor had turned into a bag of nerves. "Sure you are." Tashiko winked. "I won't tell as long as you don't."
"What are your plans?" Hinata asked.
Tashiko smirked. "I'm one of the finalists in the underground cock-fighting tournament."
"Cock-fighting?"
"It's so thrilling and invigorating." Tashiko proudly defended her obsession. Tashiko stopped as their path deviated. "If you need to get back in, Tokuma is a sentry from dusk to midnight on the eastern side. He won't tell anyone."
Hinata knew Tashiko's curiosity compelled her to spy on Hinata even though their paths separated. Hinata attempted to walk down winding streets until she hoped she was out of Tashiko's visual range. Hinata walked into a clothing store and changed out of her work uniform in the dressing room. She replaced it with a casual top and pants.
Hinata's was surprised she didn't feel any regret about sneaking out of the Hyūga compound for the first time.
Naruto barely missed the projectile that flew over his head.
"This is what we're going to have to do," Naruto described the battle plan, "I'll flank them but I need you to cover me."
Ichigo blinked, and then nodded slowly.
"Alright," Naruto looked over the flipped couch and strands of noodles suddenly struck him in his face.
"Got him!" Kusuro exclaimed from the other side of the room behind the kitchen table flipped on its side.
Ame yelled as she did a suicide run to the center of the room with her bowl of what was supposed to be dinner.
Naruto smirked as he pounced on her to find he had attacked a substitution jutsu. Naruto dramatically reenacted a fake attempt at dying as Kusuro and Ame slammed noodles into his hair and clothes.
"AH, that tickles," Naruto squirmed as they poured it down the back of his shirt.
Ame stood atop him triumphantly. "We have finally defeated the great Naruto Uzumaki with my great noodly jutsu!" She declared. Kusuro collapsed in a fit of laughter just as Ichigo ran and pushed Ame off and attempted a valiant rescue of Naruto.
Naruto laughed as he grabbed them all in a giant hug.
"I wish I could tell you this isn't normal, but…" Tomu looked at the pretty woman at his side, "this is a normal night in the Uzumaki household."
Naruto blinked as he looked up. "Hinata?"
Naruto quickly tried to scramble to his feet and smiled awkwardly when noodles slid out of his shirt and down his pants.
"Who is the lady?" Ame tried to look intimidating but it was a difficult task with strings of noodle hanging out of her hair.
"This is Hinata. We work together. Introduce yourselves," Naruto encouraged. The kids quickly gave their names, except for Ichigo who hid behind Naruto's leg.
"Ichigo is a little shy around strangers," Naruto explained as leaned down and patted Ichigo encouragingly on the back. "She's not going to hurt you. We Uzumaki men should always greet a lady."
Ichigo fidgeted and said through the thumb in his mouth, "You're pretty."
"Thank you," Hinata replied with a soft smile but as soon as she spoke Ichigo scrambled back into Naruto's arms.
Naruto chuckled but beamed proudly. "Girls are scary, aren't they?" he whispered into Ichigo's ear.
Hinata certainly knew a lot about Naruto's children. Sometimes Naruto would talk about them after breaks between sparring matches but this was the first time she had met them in person. Hinata looked around the house with an amused smile. "Did I miss dinner?"
"I don't think we really got started," Naruto admitted. Somehow ramen noodles were plastered even to the ceiling. "How about I call in dinner?" Naruto suggested.
"Pizza!" Ame exclaimed. Naruto chuckled as he created several clones and sent them to work. Hinata watched as clone recorder the pizza order and left, threw Ame and Ichigo into the bathtub, and several Naruto rushed around to clean up, all at once.
Tomu sat with Hinata at the kitchen table. "You're that lady that was here that night?" Tomu asked. "The one with the hangover?"
A blush crossed Hinata's cheeks as she remembered the embarrassing predicament. She had woken up the morning of the Konoha 11 reunion with a massive hangover. When she finally had the courage to crawl out of Naruto's bed and stepped into his living room, she found Sakura arguing with Naruto over the boy that sat beside her. Except then, he was covered in bandages. She hardly had time to question what was going on when the seal on her forehead began to burn and she had to immediately return home.
Hinata nodded. "You were hurt?"
Tomu wrung his hands. "I don't like to talk about it."
By the time the pizza arrived, everyone and everything was clean. Since there were more people than chairs, Naruto had pushed the couch to the wall and they had a picnic on the floor of the living room.
Naruto's eyes flicked to Hinata constantly as if afraid she could disappear at any moment. "I hope pizza is okay."
"I enjoy it," Hinata replied. The first time Hinata ever had pizza was after a sparring practice with team 8. Pizza wasn't served in the Hyūga household.
Ame was attempting to subtly place as much distance from Hinata and her father as possible while Ichigo was picking off all the toppings on his pizza.
"Naruto, I want to move up a grade in the academy," Kusuro said after he quickly attacked a piece of pizza.
"But you just entered," Naruto complained. After Kusuro's meeting with the Hokage, Kusuro was enrolled in the Academy in exchange for staying in Naruto's custody. There was nothing Naruto could do because it was Kusuro's choice.
"I'm stronger and better than they are. I've heard others have graduated from your academy at even younger ages than I am. I want to move up several grades. I want to graduate. I want to become a ninja now."
"Our agreement still stands. I'm not letting you out of the village until you beat me… without noodles." Naruto replied.
"You don't understand!" Kusuro yelled. He stormed out the living room and slammed the door to his room.
"Daddy I want to-"
Naruto turned around with a resounding, "no" before following Kusuro into his room.
Ame hung her head as she picked at her food. "He's never going to let me go to the Academy."
Naruto cracked open the door and found Kusuro crying under the covers. Naruto sat down on the bed and waited for Kusuro to emerge.
"It's not fair," Kusuro said and wiped the tears from his eyes. "I'm here having fun and being happy while my country has been invaded. I wish I had died with everyone else. I wish I had given my life bravely to the village instead of running away like a coward."
Naruto eye's softened. "Kusuro, dying isn't what your grandfather wanted for you, dying isn't going to please the dead, and dying isn't going to save your village. The only chance you have of accomplishing anything is to stay alive."
"But the more I stay here the more I forget what home smells like, the more I forget my mother and grandfather's face. I can't stay Naruto. I'm going to lose myself here."
"A person can't lose themselves, you're right here," Naruto said as he pointed at Kusuro. "Get some sleep. We've got lots of training to do tomorrow."
"Naruto," Kusuro called. Naruto paused with his hand on the doorknob. "Anyone could have found me, I'm glad it was you."
Naruto hoped time was enough to heal Kusuro's volatile stages of grief and anger.
Naruto walked back into the living room. Tomu and Hinata were washing the dishes while Ame was standing upside-down atop the ceiling and teasing Ichigo to follow her. Ichigo jumped and Naruto was there to catch him.
"Bed time," he called above him.
Ame released her chakra. She fell into Naruto's arms. "Can we read the story about the gutsy ninja again?"
"We read that one last night," Naruto complained as he carried Ichigo and Ame into his bedroom.
Hinata watched as she handed a plate for Tomu to dry. "He's really sweet with them. I'm sorry if I'm intruding on your family time."
Tomu shrugged his shoulders as they washed dishes. "There are always people coming in and out. Some of the street kids will stop by and grab something to eat. Sakura or Iruka would come over sometimes. Lee is the worse. Something always breaks when he visits." Tomu paused. "I take that back. Kiba and his dog is the worse. It takes me days to clean out all the fur from the carpet."
Hinata wouldn't know. When team 8 had still been close, Akamaru's hair had always gotten all over her clothes, but she hadn't been the one to clean them. Now, Hinata cleaned every hour of the day but it felt freeing to clean Naruto's dishes of her own volition.
"Since Naruto said you work with him you must be a ninja too?"
Hinata nodded. "Aren't you?" She asked curiously. "Your chakra is chuunin level."
"I am not a ninja," Tomu said angrily and began scrubbing the plate harder than before. "Why would I want to become a ninja and die to leave all the people that love me waiting until someone comes knocking at the door to tell me 'how bravely he died for his country and how bravely he did his duty'. What about his duty to his son and his wife? What about his duty to be there when we needed him the most?"
Hinata gasped as his eyes snapped red in his anger.
Tomu went rigid and curse. "I did it again didn't I?"
"What's going on?" Naruto asked as he walked into the room. He paused when he saw Tomu's red eyes. "You still don't have control over it. You've got to be careful." Naruto insisted.
Tomu put his hands together in a seal and used the seal to concentrate his chakra towards his eyes. After a few moments, he deactivated the sharingan.
"Things would be easier if I could just poke my eyes out," Tomu grumbled as he left the plate in the sink.
"You shouldn't say things like that around other ninja," Naruto warned. "They tend to take things like that literally."
Tomu looked at Naruto. "Perhaps I meant it," he whispered and dragged a blanket over him on the couch.
Hinata was connecting the dots. "He is why you and the Hokage are fighting?"
"We're not fighting," Naruto said slowly, "Just not talking to one another."
Naruto reached for his cloak and told Tomu. "If you need me, Hinata and I are going to be on the roof."
Naruto slipped his hand through his cloak and then held the door open for Hinata. Naruto awkwardly asked, "How did the last mission go?"
Hinata wondered what was going on when she and Boar performed the last mission with a different member. Naruto hasn't been on a mission for the last two months. "It wasn't the same," Hinata admitted. "Naruto, you've got to resolve this issue with the Hokage. What are you planning to do?
Naruto frowned. "Keep it secret."
"That's not something that can be kept secret," Hinata said softly. "The last Uchiha is living in your house."
"Why can't the Uchiha rest in peace?" Naruto asked. "I'm not going to make Tomu do something he doesn't want to do."
"Naruto, he's not going to survive if he doesn't know how to defend himself. That's simply the world we live in."
"I know," Naruto said frustrated, "but it's too much for him right now. Tomu hasn't left the house since the incident and he still has a lot of animosity toward ninja that he hasn't realize is unresolved issues with his dad. Tomu hasn't forgiven his Father and I understand because I'm not sure I've forgiven mine."
"My father sacrificed his son for the survival of the village. The village wants Tomu because he has one of the last sharingan. Kusuro wants to give his life for his village. Ame wants to enroll in the Academy. As ninjas, we sacrifice everything for the village, why do we have to sacrifice our children as well?"
Hinata and Naruto's hands were bumping against one another, and Hinata finally wrapped her hand in his. "You're just being a parent."
"Being a parent is hard," Naruto responded and glanced at their held hands. Now that he had a hold of her, he was afraid to let go even as they lay atop the roof. Naruto's eyes followed how the moonlight outlined her figure as she looked up at the night sky.
Naruto knew Hinata never did anything on a whim. "You're not going to tell me what's going on, are you?"
"No."
"I don't miss the missions at all," Naruto replied honestly. "But I miss you, Hinata. I can go visit Boar and his family when I want but I can't do the same with you. I've even tracked down some of your cousins over the past month and whenever I ask a little information about you, suddenly it's as if I'm asking them to betray their family."
Hinata frowned. "You've been asking about me?"
"Of course. How else am I supposed to know you're alright?"
"Naruto," Hinata slipped her hand out of his hand and left Naruto with nothing but air and a fading warmth. "You've got to stop."
Naruto pouted. "Maybe if you came over more often I wouldn't have to."
"Maybe if you weren't fighting with the Hokage you could see me on a mission."
"It's not enough," Naruto said in frustration as he sat up and looked over at her. "I care about you. I'm glad you came over today but it's hard knowing you don't break easily. I know you wouldn't sneak out of the compound unless something is going on. You won't tell me, fine, but I'm here. I'm always here if you need me."
Naruto closed his eyes and concentrated on the feeling of her hand on his skin as she reached up to touch him. Her hands were delicate and were as graceful with the way she touched along his cheeks as when they were delivering death.
The kiss was unlike times before which had been drowned by unresolved lust, but was slower, like a calm tide coming to shore. Hinata danced across his lips with her tongue. Naruto sucked into her mouth. Both lingered and savored the taste. Like the moon calling the tide, they both pulled one another.
Hinata's hands combed her fingers through his scalp and Naruto suddenly purred into her mouth. Hinata couldn't help but to break the kiss with a smile.
"I didn't mean to," Naruto said quickly, but Hinata assuaged his fears as she skipped her lips over the scars he was born with.
She whispered in his ear, "Naruto, it's alright if you touch me."
Naruto's hands were rooted solidly to the roof of the house as he leaned over her. Naruto hadn't known what to do with his hands and certainly didn't want to mess things up by putting them places they didn't belong.
"It's alright," Hinata spoke in between kisses placed along his jaw. She was amused by the fact that the strongest ninja in the world was as awkward and clumsy as a teenage boy.
Naruto placed a shy hand on her hip and they continued their kiss.
After every couple of minutes, Hinata would suddenly speed up as her hands clutched harder into his hair and bring her legs around Naruto's waist as she attempted to close the distance Naruto maintained between them. Naruto would pull across her jaw and tug at her neck while Hinata caught her breath and slowed down. Then they would renew, like the rise and fall of a tide.
Hinata slid her hands downwards. Naruto's breath hitched in her mouth as she slipped her bare hands underneath his shirt.
Hinata pulled away with sudden concern. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to overstep boundaries."
"No," Naruto said and marveled at the way her hands slipped across his skin and explored the crevices of his abs. "You just surprised me, no one has ever-" Naruto paused when Hinata tugged on his shirt, asking. Naruto was reluctant. He was finally perfecting this kissing thing without the Fox's interference and feared to go any further.
"I understand," Hinata in disappointment as she slipped her hands from his shirt. She needed to find another way to push Naruto further. "I could close your chakra nodes," Hinata suggested. Then Hinata saw something in Naruto's eyes she had never considered before. The Fox was just an excuse. "Naruto, what's wrong?"
"I don't know." Naruto straightened and wrung his hands together nervously. Naruto couldn't put into words the looming feeling in his gut. It whispered the irrational fear that everything was going to go wrong, like the others. To Naruto, Hinata was too important to allow things to go wrong.
Hinata and Naruto sat atop the roof in an awkward silence.
Naruto gave her furtive glances out of the corner of his eyes. The cool wind reminded him of the sudden increase in distance between them. Naruto attempted to subtly stretch and then inch his arm down to wrap around her shoulders. Instead, he accidently hit her in the head.
"I'm so sorry," Naruto apologized profusely.
"It's alright," Hinata replied as she rubbed her forehead.
Hinata lay down and Naruto willingly followed. She positioned his arm until it was wrapped against her waist. "Is this better?"
Naruto couldn't believe how tiny she felt in his arm, and Hinata certainly hadn't grown into a tiny woman. She had curves, from the breasts that pressed against Naruto's side, to the hips that led to strong thighs and long legs. Naruto was aware of all these things as he held her.
Hinata couldn't believe how much the tiny half-starved boy she had stalked in her childhood had grown. Somehow a diet of ramen noodles had produced the arm of muscle that held her and the hardened chest that was her pillow. His body reflected the strength of Naruto's stubbornness and headstrong pursuits.
Hinata looked up at the stars. "When I was little my father told me that stars were dreams floating in the sky waiting for us to reach them. Then my mother died and they became nothing more than spheres of hydrogen and helium."
Nothing had ever been the same after her mother died.
"Until I was six, I thought they were trapped fireflies. I could never figure out how they got up there." Naruto admitted. "One day I decided I was going to save them so I climbed atop the Hokage Mountain and jumped."
Hinata looked at him in disbelief.
"The Sandaime said I was lucky to have survived and then told me the truth about them." Naruto smiled. "He told me that the fireflies weren't trapped but they stayed in the sky to light our way and help us see." Naruto pressed his lips against the top of Hinata's head. "You're like a firefly. You choose to stay trapped and no matter how far I jump I can't seem to save you." Naruto paused. "Or you're like a star. I think I've confused myself."
Hinata couldn't help but to smile.
Suddenly Naruto's mouth went dry. "Hinata," Naruto took in a deep breath and he hoped he gulped down a little courage. "There's something I want to tell you."
"I-"
And what if she rejects you?
"-like how your hair smells," Naruto said quickly, then hit his head back against the roof.
I love watching you screw up.
"Thanks, Naruto." Hinata sniffed a strand of her hair and wondered what brand of shampoo she had used.
"Wait, no Hinata, I want you to know that-"
"Fuck," Naruto's angry curse bounced off the rooftops. Both Hinata and Naruto scrambled to their feet as the tattoos burned on their shoulder.
Granny had to interrupt probably the most important confession of Naruto's life but Naruto knew Granny wouldn't resort to calling him if it wasn't important, especially with the current tension between them.
Naruto left a clone and the two raced towards ANBU headquarters.
When Hound didn't see any alcohol bottles he knew this was serious. The Hokage crossed her arms as she looked at the three ANBU agents. "A few weeks ago we received a report of missing persons in the countryside. I sent a chuunin team to investigate and they disappeared. I sent an ANBU team to investigate and they have disappeared." The Hokage leaned forward with dangerous eyes. "I have lost seven ninja and I am not happy."
"Here are the folders that contain the identities of the ninja you are looking for and the mission details."
Hound retrieved the paperwork. He flipped through the photographs of the missing ninja. He recognized faces from various people he saw around the village. Hound took a sharp intake of breath when he came to the last picture.
"Your number one priority is to find my ninja. Since these incidents have been occurring on the border I suspect Mountain is involved. I want to avoid a war so I trust you will handle the mission with as much discretion as possible."
"You are dismissed."
Fox and Boar quickly disappeared but Hound stayed behind. The Hound and the Hokage looked at each for several hard moments.
"I will not fail, Hokage-sama."
The Hokage nodded and said softly, "Be careful."
Hound surveyed the small village at a distance. He wasn't about to charge in head first when both a chuunin and ANBU team had previously gone missing. Suddenly the memories of the shadow clone he had sent to scout disappeared.
"My clone didn't sense any ninja in the village," Hound reported.
"I don't see any ninja either," Fox replied in turn.
"I'm going to look for a camp in the surrounding area that our ninja might have left." Hound created a few shadow clones and sent them off into the countryside to find the camp site. Perhaps he could find a scent.
Hound looked in thought upon the seemingly idyllic village. "First we need to investigate the client, the village's mayor, who sent the original mission. According to the report detail he hired Konoha to help find his missing wife."
"He isn't the only one. There is a startling absence of women and children from the population," Fox noted.
Hound nodded. "It's a small village but it'll be easy to sneak in with the number of refugees present. Boar and I will infiltrate the village as Sound refugees and investigate the client. Fox, I want you to stay close but do not enter the village. Keep your byakugan activated and let us know of any suspicious activities."
At night, Hound and Boar entered the village as brothers. Hound only had to walk a few steps before he smelled the fear in the air. Several of the refugees had begun building small shack houses and crowded inside of them like ants in and out of an ant hill. When Hound attempted to enter one of the taverns, he was quickly kicked out and was pointed to the sign nailed to the front that declared the tavern did not serve refugees.
"Perhaps we need another disguise," Boar suggested. "This one isn't going to get much access."
Hound had been through plenty of small villages like this with Jiraiya. "No, in a small village everyone knows each other. This disguise is our safest bet at remaining discreet." Hound replied.
The client lived outside of the village atop a hill that overlooked acres of wheat and barley.
Hound looked through the window of the dark house and activated sage chakra. "Three people." Hound replied. "Fox, any more details?"
"Our client is asleep on the second floor in his bedroom. The second person looks to be a servant. The third is a ninken."
"Seems suspicious how an average-sized landowner can afford to have a ninken dog," Boar replied.
"We'll need to quiet the dog," Hound said as he shoved the window open.
"Permanently?"
And Hound thought he and Boar were finally coming to an understanding. "No, just keep the dog asleep." Hound shook his head as he placed silent feet onto the floorboards. Hound pointed Boar toward the kitchen. "And do the servant while you're at it, just in case."
Boar crept toward the dog and placed a genjutsu that kept the canine asleep. Then, Boar went in search of the servant.
"Hound," Fox said suddenly. "Look in the dining room dresser to your right."
Hound was about to go up the staircase to greet their client but turned on Fox's instructions. He opened the dresser and found a small locked box. Still in sage mode, he forced the lock to give. Golden coins were tied in several neat bags. Hound inspected them. "What currency is this?" he questioned. He had never seen it before.
Boar came up behind him and gave the coins a quick once over. "I believe," Boar showed the face side, "This is the Mountain Daimyo. Our client is working with the enemy. This mission was a trap."
"Without a byakugan I doubt the other ANBU agents caught this," Hound said as he bounded up the stairs. "It looks like our client will be waking up rougher than I expected."
"Torture and Interrogation is my expertise," Boar replied.
"No."
"Are you really going to ask nicely?"
"That's the plan," Hound replied. "Always ask first."
Hound didn't make an attempt to be quiet as he slammed the door open. The landowner jumped in his bed startled as he was surrounded by two Leaf ANBU. The landowner did not understand why these people always had to wake him up in the middle of the night.
Hound sat down on the divan that decorated the bedroom with a imported touch. Hound's mask gleamed in the moonlight that filtered through the window. With his arms crossed, Hound asked, "We're looking for our friends. Where are they?"
The man shook his head. "I don't know. They were supposed to search for my wife but they never came back."
"He's a good liar," Boar said offhandedly. "Most rich men are."
"We want to know where are friends are, who you're working for, and what they are doing with the missing villagers." Hound added as an after thought, "Please."
"If you're going to kill me, you might as well get it over with." The man gulped to realize his lies weren't going to work with this group.
"You tell us what we want to know and we'll let you go," Hound promised.
The landowner knew he was a dead man. He jumped for the window but Boar caught him by his shirt.
"Wrong move." Boar looked at Hound, waiting.
Hound look at the man's quivering and frightened expression. Then he remembered the photograph and the reason why he was here, and who he had to rescue. "Alright."
Boar cracked his knuckles as he looked at his victim. "You are a dead man, but which do you prefer? A quick and painless death or a death that never ends?"
The man began sweating as Boar placed his hands on the man's forehead. Then the landowner's rotund gut flopped as he fell unconscious on the bed. Hound's stomach began to churn as Boar took out a scroll and began spreading his tools out on the bed.
"What are the tools for?"
"I use them to apply pain. The more real the genjutsu, the more effective it is."
"I don't know about this anymore."
Boar looked at Hound as if he wanted to drill a hole through Hound's head.
"I'm going to see what information I can get from the refugees. Get me when you're finished," Hound said softly and fled the room. The door closed with a click and Hound leaned against the door as the screams began. The cries of suffering were like a knife through his ears.
Is that regret? You've heard plenty of people die before.
Hound's breath hitched and realized the Hokage was right. He had no problem ignoring and refusing the Kyuubi when he was off-duty, but now it was as if the Kyuubi was licking his ear.
"Hound," Fox's voice came over the radio. Hound breathed a sigh of relief. "Should I accompany you into the village?"
"Please," Hound said as he left the house and the screams behind him.
Fox met him at the crossroads. "Hound, are you alright? Your heart rate and blood pressure has-" She was suddenly swept up in Hound's arms. He kissed the only exposed part of her skin, along the upper part of her neck, and moved on.
"We have to figure out what happened to the villagers," Hound replied as he bounded toward the village with a determined stride. Fox gave him a concerned look but quickly adopted the henge Boar had used and followed after.
Hound stopped the first Sound refugee he saw. "I'm looking for my sister. Have you seen her?" Hound asked. "I was supposed to meet her in this village but I can't find her anywhere."
The man shook his head. "Your sister? Probably disappeared with the others."
"What do you mean the others?"
The refugee invited Hound and Fox into the small shanty house where he lived and lit a candle. "Ever since we got here people have been disappearing at night. I lost my wife and son. We just came here looking for work but no matter where we go our sorrows seem to follow."
"Do you know how we might find them or where they've gone?"
"It's those blasted ninja over the border. But what can I do? I can't fight ninja and I don't have money to buy one. Look, if you want more information ask the Grass refugees. I'm getting out of here by morning."
Hound winded his way through the refugee camp asking about his missing sister until he was finally directed to a man named, Daichi, of the Grass refugees.
"I'm sorry to disturb you so late," Hound apologized. "But I'm looking for my lost sister."
"None of us sleep at night anymore. Come in," Daichi replied. Hound entered his small lean-to. Daichi looked like a tired old man with a tired old knee that constantly bothered him.
"I have to find my sister," Hound insisted.
"You should just forget about her and save yourself. Even a few Konoha ANBU came looking for the missing and they've disappeared."
"You have to know something or they would not have sent me to you," Hound insisted.
Daichi sighed. "I used to be the mayor in a small village just like this one in Grass until Mountain invaded. Our Hidden Village was decimated and we were left at Mountain's mercy. They killed our young men and kidnapped our women and children. The story is the same from other Grass refugees. It's the nature of war but they've followed us and won't let us be."
"Do you know what happens to those they kidnap?"
Daichi pounded against his sore knee and didn't know which he was angry at. "What do you think fucking happens to them? They're prisoners of war." Daichi spat on the ground as his old feeble bones broke down and cried. "My grandchildren are gone."
Hound left the man to his tears and went in search of Fox who had attempted to find someone else who was willing to talk. He met her outside of the refugee camp.
"This is my fault," Hound replied. "The war with Mountain has spilled across the border. They're taking the villagers."
"Hound, this is not your fault."
You left all those poor helpless little humans to die. What a cruel thing to do.
"I abandoned Grass," Hound said angrily. "I allowed this to happen."
"We can do nothing to change the past or our choices. You can't save everyone."
But the idiot will try.
"I can try," Hound promised.
Fox reasoned, "It seems that Mountain has begun to target our ninja in order to provoke Konoha into action. It's dangerous to do what they want. We need to put an end this quietly."
"Hound," Boar voice came on the radio, "we need to meet back at camp. I've got some information to tell you."
"Understood," Hound replied. Without asking, he scooped Fox into his arms and had returned to camp in seconds. Boar appeared just as quick with the hiraishin technique. All three members held a sealed kunai on them at all times.
"He didn't know much. He was hired by Mountain to commission Konoha in order to lure Leaf ninja here to capture. He doesn't know what they wanted with the ninja. But what is interesting is that he was using the dog to send messages to a drop off. We can follow the dog straight to the people who instrumented this plan."
"Aren't you glad we didn't kill the dog?"
"Don't get too smug."
Hound tilted his head as the memory of a shadow clone popped into his head. "A clone just found a camp. There were four scents so it was probably the four-member chuunin squad. I'll go with Fox and we'll track down the missing chuunin. Boar and I will follow the dog to the drop-off. Hopefully, both leads will take us to the same place. Move out."
Fox and Hound followed the scent to an inn.
"We're looking for our friends," Hound asked the innkeeper. "Four leaf ninja. They were staying here."
"They did come by a few weeks ago looking into this disappearing mess, until they disappeared themselves." The innkeeper shrugged. "But ninja do that all the time… without paying."
The innkeeper smiled. "Since you're friends, surely you wouldn't mind paying for the room fee?"
Hound reached in his pocket and paid the fee. "Can you please show us the room?"
"Sure, it's empty right now." The innkeeper led them up the stairs.
"Did you find it like this?" Fox asked as they entered the neat room. Nothing looked amiss.
"Yep, the beds weren't made but that's it. They and all there stuff was gone."
"No signs of a struggle?"
"Not from I can tell."
"I smell several new scents in here," Hound said as he looked around.
"Thank you," Fox told the innkeeper politely. "They must have been taken in their sleep but what jutsu could possibly do this?"
"What about a genjutsu like Boar does?" Hound suggested.
"Perhaps," Fox agreed, "Or a kekkai genkai."
"They went out the window," Hound said as he jumped out and continued to follow the scent to the border of the village. "The scent is headed toward Grass."
"It's Mountain now." Fox said softly, "and enemy territory."
Fox and Hound crossed the border.
Boar and Hound followed the genjutsu drugged dog across the border and watched as he placed a fake letter underneath a rock and automatically ran back home.
"There's no cover here," Boar noted the wide expanse of land. "I could use an earth jutsu."
Hound nodded in agreement. "Take us underground."
Boar created a sizable crater that suddenly covered them and took them under. Small pockets of holes leaked sunlight to allow air to reach them. Boar rested his head against the cool ground.
Hound waited in sage mode. "So, how are the kids?"
"The last thing I want to do is to be stuck in a hole with you for several hours. Spare me."
Hound chuckled as they quieted in the earth. "I have a serious question this time."
"They're going to hear us talking."
"I can sense them way before then. Come on."
"You're not going to shut up are you? What do you want?"
Hound hoped a male perspective would confirm his feelings. "How did you know when you were in love with your wife?"
"I decided I loved her when the Nara kunoichi told me she was pregnant." Boar could visualize Hound's perplexed expression. "The woman tricked me into marrying her and I've loved her ever since."
"But, I don't understand, how do you know that's what love is?"
Boar scoffed. "There's no such thing as love at first sight or none of that stupid civilian shit. Love is staying with the bitch during the times you can't stand her. Love is coming home from a mission and fucking. Love is the woman who won't let you forget that she carried every single one of your children for nine months. Love is making it work and finding it wherever you can."
"We've got to stop," Naruto said in a panic. "It's harder to control the Kyuubi."
Hound and Fox reached the border that had divided Mountain and Grass before the invasion and it was heavily guarded. They decided to wait until nightfall to slip through the lines but the waiting led to a little more than just waiting.
"Let me close your chakra nodes." Hinata suggested as she placed a flutter of kisses along his cheeks.
"Hinata," Naruto grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled the surprisingly persistent Hinata away, "We really shouldn't be doing this in the first place. We're on a mission."
Hinata knew she didn't have much time left. "You have clones watching for the enemy."
"I don't think that's what the clones are watching," Naruto admitted.
Hinata rested her forehead against his. Naruto was keenly aware of her finger drawing circles on his shirt. "Are you going to let the Kyuubi control your life?"
"No," Naruto said immediately. It was drizzling and the rain drummed just outside of the outcropping they used for shelter, drumming in tandem with Naruto's rising heartbeat. "Alright," Naruto surrendered.
Naruto's eyes followed the movements of Hinata's body as she led him to the rocky ground. She stood above him and entered her tenketsu stance. "Don't move," she warned.
Naruto always loved watching her clan's signature jutsu, it was as if her body moved in a dance. Her palms were steady as they struck at his chakra nodes. It was over in seconds but her movement was enough for Naruto's pants to get uncomfortably tight.
Hinata gave him a hopeful look as she straddled his stomach. She leaned down and they were careful in their kisses, before testily increasing their tempo. Hinata decided to see how far she could push and hoped it didn't kill her.
Hinata tightened her hands in his hair and began to kiss him with increased vigor as she pulled on his lips with her teeth. She stretched out and began grinding her body against his erection.
Naruto growled in her mouth as a number of sensations hit him at all once. Every second the Kyuubi didn't interfere, the more confidence Naruto gained. He began to match every one of her rough kisses with one of his. His hands finally wandered away from her hips and explored down her thighs.
He hadn't noticed when clothing items began coming off. The flak jackets were torn off and his shirt had been the first to disappear.
"Wait," Hinata's forceful command startled him. It wasn't until then he realized his hands were slyly attempting to push the black ANBU undershirt she wore up.
Hinata slid her hands off of him. "I'm a little shy about my breasts," Hinata lied. She couldn't risk Naruto seeing the scars. Hinata knew Naruto was the type of person to leave in the middle of a mission if he thought something else was more important, like beating up all her family members.
"I'm sorry," Naruto apologized. Naruto admitted to himself he got a little too excited without the Kyuubi to hold him back. Naruto gave a dopey smile. "It worked."
"We don't know for sure," Hinata said. "We need to test it before we go any further."
"Further?" he asked thickly.
"Sex," Hinata said it plainly for Naruto. "Are you okay with that?"
Naruto nodded dumbly.
"Just stay still, Naruto," Hinata told him as she situated herself between his legs. Naruto watched mesmerized as her hands glided over the black seal on his stomach and followed the chasm at his hips toward the lining of his pants.
"Hinata?" Naruto's voice went dry. Her eyes flickered up to hold his attention as she slid his pants down from his hips. He watched Hinata look at his hardening erection with none of the squeamishness he assumed girls would have. Her delicate and graceful fingers touch it in reverence.
Naruto twitched at the slight touch.
Aren't we about to get lucky? My last vessels had vaginas. This is a change of pace.
Shut up and mind your own business.
"Is this alright?" Hinata asked as she looked at Naruto with her hand wrapped around his cock. There were no words Naruto's could produce for the image. Hinata took his dumbstruck stare as a yes and continued.
Her hair fell around her shoulders and began to pool on his legs as she descended. For a brief moment of his life, Naruto couldn't speak, as if he had never known words existed. His breath was held as long as the eye contact that was finally broken right before Hinata licked along the head of his penis and then applied soft pressure to the tip.
Naruto's eyes closed as he quivered at the sensation of her wet mouth descending on him.
I've changed my mind. I won't kill her first. I'll save her for last.
For a moment, Naruto was unsettled by the thought that the Kyuubi was enjoying this as much as he was but it quickly fled. Naruto never felt this good in his life.
Hinata never wanted to please anyone as she did in this moment. All the lessons and techniques Anko drilled in her were finally helpful. Hinata came up for air and coordinated her efforts with her hand, easily creating friction from her saliva. She continued to stroke his shaft and peppered soft kisses on his balls until she took one in her mouth.
"Fuck." Fuck
Hinata took him in her mouth as he reached orgasm and swallowed to prevent a mess.
When Naruto finally opened his eyes after a few shaky breaths, he gave Hinata a perturbed look. "You swallowed that?"
"It doesn't taste that bad," Hinata answered, surprised by the warmth of it. Hinata was never fazed by what usually repulsed others. She grew up around bugs and Kiba. "Honestly, I think the taste of squid is more abhorrent."
Naruto had no idea what abhorrent meant but hoped it was a good thing as he gave a breathless laugh before pulling her into a long and sincere kiss. Afterwards Naruto gave her a serious look and said, "Hinata, I want to make you feel that good."
Hinata blinked in confusion for a moment and then gave him an amused smile.
It took much longer for Hinata to reach an orgasm. It took her some time to teach Naruto's clumsy fingers the ways how to navigate a vagina, which she would not have been able to teach him how to do if Anko hadn't taught her first.
"It'd be so much easier if we had the same thing, then at least I'd know what to do with it," Naruto said exasperated as he attempted to do what Hinata just performed but the expression on her face was evident he was failing.
"Not too hard," Hinata warned and Naruto let off some pressure as he stroked her clitoris. "You know, Naruto, there was this time everyone thought you and Sasuke-"
"I didn't mean it like that," Naruto said in a panic. "I just meant I would get it faster. I prefer you."
"Naruto, you're going to have to work on your sex talk."
"My what?" Naruto questioned.
"Right there," Hinata said suddenly when Naruto had curled two fingers inside of her. Naruto repeated the motion and watched as Hinata's chest heaved. He smiled mischievously as he added a third finger and hastened the motion. The black tattoo along Hinata's hip swayed as she began to hump his fingers and Naruto watched her thoughtfully.
I say go for it kid.
Naruto leaned down and sucked her clitoris into his mouth.
Hinata bit down on her lip to prevent the scream she was aching to release but denied it because she knew they were in enemy territory. Her body shivered as the orgasm swept through her body. Hinata focused her eyes as the blinding light faded. Naruto leaned above her with a smug grin.
"It doesn't taste that bad," Naruto agreed.
Hinata kissed him playfully. They held each other and talked of small nothings, of memories they wanted to share just to her each other's voice. Naruto cuddled her against him and had never been so close to another person.
Naruto frowned when he was rudely interrupted.
"Play time is over. You've got to go." Hound said as he shadowed over the two half naked couple.
Hinata sat up and was slightly perplexed as Hound retrieved her flak jacket, pants, and underwear and presented it to her with a shyness Naruto no longer possessed.
Naruto fumbled around the shelter for his clothes. The two agents quickly got dressed. Naruto looked over with jealous eyes as Hound handed Hinata her tool belt. Without thought, Naruto dismissed his clone.
When Fox and Hound put on their masks, it was back to business.
Tenten couldn't believe this. She always wanted to prove how a kunoichi was just as good as a shinobi but when she had finally been given a squad of her own to lead, she screwed up.
Tenten didn't bother testing and pulling at her chains. She could feel the cool metal on her skin and knew it was strong enough to hold her. Her hip-length hair flowed ragged and dirty over her shoulders. Dried blood caked into her skin. She looked through half-lidded eyes when the door of her cell screeched open.
Her captors unlocked the chains that had held her ankles and shoved her up with the tip of a kunai. Her hands were trapped in metal casings behind her back. The moment she left her cell the coolness of the dark tunnels caused her naked skin to shiver.
"Come on, Leaf bitch."
"Do you hate me because I'm a Leaf ninja or because I'm a girl who can beat your ass if you free me?"
Tenten was shoved against the wall. "You wouldn't be so talkative with my dick in your mouth."
Tenten snapped her teeth. "Try me."
The tip of a kunai kissed her throat and her knees were shoved down onto the stone. "I'll show you."
Her second captor shoved the first away from her. "What is wrong with you? We're not allowed to touch her yet," He said as he lifted Tenten back to her feet and threatened her down the hall.
Tenten walked down the row of metal cell doors. Attached to each door was information that detailed the gender, the clan, the kekkai genkai, and the natural element of the occupant.
"Please, no, I don't want to do this anymore," A young girl screamed as she was dragged down the hall by another ninja. Tenten watched the scene as the ninja slapped the screaming girl.
"Even the civilians have to do their part for the village," he demanded of her as he forced her inside one of the cells. Tenten passed the open door and the scene made her stomach churn. The ninja forced sexual stimulants into the prisoner's mouth. Like breeding together a pair of pigs, the ninja forced the young woman atop the male prisoner.
Tenten looked away and concentrated on the sound of water dripping against the stone. She was forced through more tunnels and finally to a brightly lit room she assumed was their destination. Tenten was greeted two other ninja in white robes. She was shoved atop a table. Her wrist and ankles were snapped in metal claspings. Her escorts left the room once she was secured.
Tenten struggled with her chains as the white robed ninja loomed over her and traced the seal on her hip.
"The seal is intricate, I don't know if we can crack it," The Mountain fuuinjutsu expert replied. "Rumor has it that the seal was created by the Fourth Hokage."
"I don't care who the fuck it was created by, Gantetsu. We have three candidates that we can't use because of this seal." The ninja picked up a clipboard. "This one doesn't have a kekkai genkai, nor does she come from a clan, or have any noteworthy abilities. She's disposable. Use her as your test subject and figure it out." The man demanded as he slammed the door behind him.
"I would take loan sharks over him any day," Gantetsu sighed as he began to trace the patterns of the seal. He looked at Tenten, "I assume you wouldn't know how to crack this seal?"
"Fuck you."
"I'm afraid that's what they want to do to you," he answered. "I assume only Konoha's top medic-nin are the only ones that know how to get this off. The seal is ingenious really. Konoha sure know how to protect their kunoichi."
Gantetsu leaned over and drew a test counter seal over the one on Tenten's hip. He put his fingers together. "Here goes nothing."
Tenten screamed as if someone had melted hot iron into her skin.
"Guess that didn't work." Gantetsu collapsed in his chair and looked at the naked woman that had been given to him to experiment on. "I used to live in Fire Country. Beautiful place, it has its rough spots of course but all countries do."
He had once been known as the legendary dark Shinobi of Iwagakure, before he ran away. Then Gantetsu had been forcibly taken away from the Tanzuku Quarters in order to serve Mountain. It was either that or die. He didn't like this business of forcibly breeding ninja to strengthen the country. "I always say it's better to be a ninja in a wealthy country than a ninja in a poor one."
Hound's limbs cracked as he stretched them. The wait before an ambush certainly wasn't the most exciting part of his job.
Hound stiffened when he felt an approaching chakra signature. He signaled to Boar and got his attention. When the chakra signature was right above Hound's head, he pounced from the ground and slipped a kunai under the neck of the ninja in front of him.
"Where are the leaf ninja and the missing villagers?"
The Mountain ninja felt the kiss of metal on his neck and looked at the Leaf ANBU who held a katana in front of him. "I'd take a shit on your mother."
Hound shoved the ninja toward Boar. "He's all yours."
"Twice in one mission? I must be lucky," Boar said as he slapped his hand against the guy's head. Then the man slumped unconscious.
"I'll go scout and make sure he didn't bring friends," Hound decided as he left Boar at his work. Hound knew it was something he would never be entirely comfortable with, but at times, necessary.
"No! I don't want to be eaten!"
Hound moved further away from the screams and scouted the surroundings but found no other notable chakra signatures.
Boar radioed Hound when he was finished. Hound returned in seconds and stared down at the wide-eyed dead ninja at his feet. It was as if he had seen hell before he had gone there. Hound leaned down and closed the ninja's eyes out of courtesy.
"We have a problem. The targets we're looking for are in two different directions. The villagers are at their base of operations in Grass, at least the ones who haven't died or been sold off, and our ninja are at the Village Hidden by Mountains as a part of their breeding program but they are having difficulty breaking the seal."
"Seal?"
"I forget you don't see many naked kunoichi. When a kunoichi graduates the Academy they get a seal placed on their left hip. The seal uses their chakra to keep them from getting pregnant and since the seal leeches on their life force, as long as they're not dead it works."
"I suspect you and Fox are following the trail to their Hidden Village, which is invaluable because Konoha hasn't been able to locate their hidden village as of yet. The villagers are in the other direction and are closest to us. What do you want to do?"
Hound said as if it was obvious, "We're going to save both of them. We'll save the villagers at their base camp and once they are rescued, we will infiltrate the hidden village and save our ninja."
"Hound, they probably have those ninja in confinement chambers similar to what we have in ANBU. To infiltrate an enemy Hidden Village's ANBU underground is a Captain level mission."
"I've made my decision." Hound said stoutly.
"Listen to me for once. Imagine trying to infiltrate Konoha's ANBU. You can't do that with just a day of planning and some hair-brained idea. We have nothing on this country and information is a ninja's best weapon."
"I'm going to relay the information to Fox," Hound said as the shadow clone dismissed himself.
Boar cursed. The real one always went with the girl.
Fox and Hound snuck into Mountain country. With Fox's byakugan and Hound's sage mode they twisted and weaved through the rocks as they continued to follow the trail. Fox slapped her hand against Hound's chest as a group of ninja suddenly jumped in between the crevice just below them and disappeared inside a cave.
"There are sentries everywhere," Hound whispered. "I think we're close to their Hidden Village."
"No, we're on top of it," Fox said in awe as she crouched down and touched the rock. "There's an entire village underneath this mountain. The caves must be the entrance. It's amazing. It's literally a self-sufficient underground village."
"We need to find a way inside," Hound said. "Do you see any holes?"
"All the entrances are guarded."
"Do you think you can find our ninja?"
Fox shook her head. "I could probably look for a lifetime and never find them. It's like looking for a kunai in a forest."
Hound thought about the option of simply disguising himself and trying to sneak through the entrance but knew most Hidden Villages kept records of those who went in and out of the village, like Konoha.
"The earth element could get us in quietly?"
"Don't think so. This mountain is embedded with chakra. It acts like the barrier around Konoha."
"Didn't they think of everything," Hound began to pace and hoped for that brilliant spark that produced good ideas somewhere in his head. Hidden Villages were built to specifically resist infiltration.
Suddenly, the memories from his clone funneled through his thoughts. Hound crossed his arms and explained the current situation to Fox. "Boar and I are going to free the villagers. I want you to stay here and see if you can find a way in." Hound shuffled through his belt.
"The Grass base is rather far so refrain from using the hiraishin technique to get to me, I'll come to you." The farther the jump, the more chakra needed to be used. Hound embedded a kunai in the dirt so he could get back a few seconds faster in case of an emergency.
"Hound, I think this mission is larger than originally presumed, perhaps we need more time to plan?" Fox suggested.
"You too?" Hound asked in disbelief. "They have our people in there. They have Tenten. I do not leave my friends behind. We are going to save them."
Fox knew Hound could not see what she saw and stared at the immense structure underneath him. But Fox knew she would follow Hound anywhere. "I understand."
Hound created a shadow clone and teleported to the kunai Boar carried.
"It's my lucky day," Hound said as he observed the Houzuki Castle of Grass Country, the prison that held the worst international criminals in the world. Mountain had turned the prison into their base of operations.
"A ninja that relies on luck is a dead ninja," Boar replied.
Hound explained, "I've actually been imprisoned here before. I spent most of my time trying to escape so I know the castle blind spots."
"I have no doubt. It's easy to get into a prison than out of it," Boar replied. "Something is wrong. Under threat of war or an invasion, it is protocol to blow the prison and completely destroy the inhabitants. The Hokage needs to be warned that the place is still intact and that the worst international criminals are possibly running loose or working with Mountain."
"That does sound like a problem." Hound withdrew a scroll and allowed Boar to write the letter for the sake of penmanship. Boar summoned and tied the letter to a falcon and sent it off into the sky.
Then they crawled toward the prison like silent predators. They pasted their chakra against the cliff side and navigated the rocks with whirling rapids below their feet.
Boar looked down and asked, "Did I ever tell you I can't swim?"
"You're a ninja," Hound said in disbelief. "I thought you weren't afraid of anything?"
"I'm afraid of everything, that's how I've survived," Boar said as they climbed upwards. Hound could feel the sweat coating his skin at the physical demands of climbing an entire cliff with nothing but his hands, feet, and chakra. They climbed over the ledge, evaded the light from the guard tower, and slapped themselves against the prison wall.
"Wait," Boar breathed heavily. "I'm not as young as I used to be."
They took a moment to catch their breaths and then began the laborious climb up the smooth prison walls. They stopped beneath the window of a watch tower.
Hound held up two fingers. He peaked inside and found two Mountain ninja playing cards. He motioned for Boar to attack but to leave them alive.
Boar activated his genjutsu. Hound's understanding of genjutsu changed when he met Boar. Boar didn't need to look into someone's eyes but used a person's senses to fool their perception.
Hound watched as the two ninja began to yawn and rub their eyes. Before long both dropped their heads to the table.
Hound and Boar entered through the window.
"Is there a way you can find out where the villagers are, quietly?" Hound asked.
Boar sighed, grabbed one of the ninja roughly and stuck him out the window. Boar shook the ninja awake and the scream was hidden by the roaring rapids below. "Where have you taken the people you have stolen?" Boar asked.
The ninja stared at the ANBU mask in fear. "In- In- the comfort quarters. Eastern jail cells of the castle."
"Who's in charge? Who leads this place?"
"I don't know. I just used to be a prisoner here." Boar sighed, and then let go.
Hound shoved Boar to the side and couldn't reach the ninja in time as he fell hundreds of feet to his death.
"You didn't have to kill him," Hound growled as he turned on Boar.
"He saw us," Boar replied. "We're shadows. We get in and we get out without any the wiser. That's ANBU."
Boar henged himself into the exact likeness of the man he just killed.
Hound turned away from Boar before he snapped. He henged himself into the man still asleep.
Boar and Hound walked through the hallways, unimpeded by the ninja that passed them by as if sent on an important errand. Other ninja were lounging around the base, some playing cards and smoking.
When they arrived at the eastern wing, the ninja at the desk looked up bored. "Any preferences?"
Hound didn't have a chance to speak as Boar stepped up and killed the man with a stroke of his katana. Without any direction, Boar began to set a genjutsu trap along the hallway and turned it into an illusion of a dead end. "I doubt this will fool many for very long."
"After you're done, tunnel underground and we'll sneak the villagers out that way," Hound replied and created a multitude of clones and sent his pack of Hounds to raid the cells down the hallway.
Hound opened a cell door and was met with the bare crack of a man's behind. Hound's breath hitched. The scent was overwhelming. Hound stepped in a puddle of semen as he withdrew his katana. With a powerful swipe of his blade, Hound beheaded the man in one strike. His head rolled one way and his body another. Hound kicked the corpse to the other side of the room.
She was only a child. With dead eyes she curled into herself and shed empty tears. One side of her face was swollen shut. Blood, semen, and dirt covered her legs. Hound cut the chains and scooped the little girl into his arms.
Hound dropped down the tunnel Boar had created in the center of the hallway and brought forty-two broken women and children out of the base.
Fox examined the Village Hidden in the Mountain. Hound leaned against the rocks and observed the ninja coming in and out of the tunnels.
Fox was so focused on the village she didn't notice the bees that began to flutter around her. Hound slapped his ear as they began to buzz around his person.
Suddenly, a bee stung Hound's arm and Fox's shoulder at the same time. Hound went up in smoke and Fox collapsed immediately to the ground.
"I told you my bees found someone snooping around," A Mountain ANBU peeled herself out of the rock.
"Good job." Another ANBU followed and deactivated the genjutsu that kept him and his comrades' chakra hidden.
"The other one was a shadow clone so the real one can't be far. Spread your bees out and search for him."
"Already on it," the woman replied. "Let's see what we've got here," The Mountain ANBU leaned over her prey and pulled away the mask. "We've just hit gold. A Hyūga."
"It doesn't mean shit if she's got one of those head seals. Konoha is so despicable, who would rather kill their ninja? Can't we have a little fun with her before we turn her in?"
"Do you always think with your dick? I don't give a shit. She's the enemy," the female Mountain ANBU replied as she reached down to search the Hyūga's belongings. The Mountain ANBU screamed as she jerked her hand back. The snake that slid out of Hinata's flack jacket hissed. Poison dripped from its fangs.
The Mountain ANBU collapsed and looked to her comrade for help.
He never made it. His screams were silent as a rasengan was thrust through his throat. The head forcefully flew like a projectile and smattered against a rock formation.
Hound loomed over the ANBU dying of poison. A torrent of bees attempted to rain down upon him but a flurry of wind hacked them to pieces.
"Tell me what's wrong with her," Hound demanded.
"Over my dead body," the ANBU spat as she forced her shaky hands together.
Hound reacted. The blade of his katana sliced cleanly across her wrists. The ANBU stared in shock as she watched her severed wrists spit up blood.
"There's most likely an antidote on her belt." Hound shivered for a moment as Hinata's summon slithered up his leg, out of his pants, and around his arm. Hound followed the snake's advice and searched through the Mountain ANBU's items.
The snake wrapped a tail around a small labeled bottle and slid toward Hinata. Hound immediately went to help as the snake administered the antidote and Hinata began to move. Hound picked her up in his arms. "Are you alright?"
He watched uncomfortably as the snake wrapped around her neck and then disappeared inside of her flak jacket to rest between her breasts. "I'll be fine," Hinata replied as she tested her limbs. "The bee sting only induced paralysis."
Hound turned toward the Mountain ANBU and saw it was too late. The poison of Hinata's summon had run its course.
"I'm going to take the bodies back to Konoha. We should be able to get some information from them," Hound responded as he knelt down and spread a scroll across the ground.
Hinata picked up her mask and replaced it against her face. Fox helped him gather the body parts to store them. "It's going to take a while to retrieve the information from the corpses but I believe we've found our way in. I could act as bait."
"No." Hound wouldn't hear of it. "We're not going to infiltrate Mountain. Not today."
Hound turned to look at the Hidden Village. He decided he wasn't going to rush into things and endanger his teammates in the process. But he'll be back. He never leaves anyone behind.
Tenten winced as Gantetsu injected a food supplement into her arm. "On the bright side, the higher-ups have come up with a plan, so we won't have to do this much longer."
"And I'm supposed to look forward to what happens next?" Tenten asked bitterly.
"I suppose not, but they don't have a real specific interest in you. They want the Yamanaka and Inuzuka they captured. I'd imagine you'd be more of a pleasure item."
Tenten had yet another reason why she hated clans. They always got special treatment, even as prisoners.
"If their plan succeeds they certainly won't have a use for me either. If I fail…" Gantetsu paused, "they're not going to take me alive. I had the unfortunate curse of being born with a kekkai genkai and I certainly don't want to be on the other end of this breeding program."
"It would serve you right."
"Perhaps," Gantetsu said softly. "After all, all you need is one bull for a herd. I don't have much time left to crack this seal."
"What's this new plan?" Tenten asked for the sake of conversation. She knew she should primarily be concerned with gathering information in case of the small chance she escaped but lying naked atop a lab table like a science experiment for days had a crippling effect on her dignity.
Gantetsu sat at his desk and began to draw bored scribbles on a sheet of paper. "I believe they are going to attempt to kidnap a medic-nin that would have clearance high enough to know how to de-activate the seal during the Jounin exams. It sounds like something I would rather not be involved in."
"I was supposed to participate in the exams."
"What for? You're more likely to end up dead. A title and a higher pay-grade isn't worth it."
"It's only recently that kunoichi have had the same equality that a shinobi does. The Hokage, the Mizukage, and this seal have been huge stepping stones but even now, there are more women in the hospital and the gender ratio on ninja teams haven't substantially decreased. There needs to be more women who are Jounin. I want prove that a kunoichi is just as a good as a shinobi."
"You don't have to prove anything," Gantetsu replied. "Ninjas deliver death everywhere they go. Anyone can have sex and make a child but only the woman carries them. Women are the only ones who can bring life into this world, and if that's not the greatest ninja technique I've ever seen, I don't know what it is."
"I'm more than just an animal to be bred for making babies," Tenten argued.
"We're all just animals, sweetheart. Cruel, bitter animals."
"We're going to have to request a medical team," Fox reported. They had forcefully taken over a small inn to house the kidnapped villagers. Some of the patients couldn't stop crying, others never said a word.
"Most are suffering from infection, incontinence, or obstetric fistula. I can't even begin to measure the psychological trauma," Fox said as she began to treat the external wounds. Fox couldn't help but to shiver as she looked at the women. They had been taken against their will and she didn't want that to happen to her.
"Hound, you don't have to be here." Fox said. Hound cleaned a cut on a little boy's cheek.
"I can help you with the small stuff until the medic team gets here," Hound said as he lifted the blanket and revealed the little boy's mutilated penis. Hound could feel his anger and his disgust ready to boil but maintained his calm. "How do you fix this?"
"Small things," Fox reminded him.
"Perhaps I should start learning medical ninjutsu," Hound replied as he carried water to the various patients.
Fox watched as Hound bent down and faced a little girl who held the covers close to her. It had been the little girl Hound had first saved. The hardest part had been when his clones dissipated one by one, and the memories of what these people had to endure almost crippled him. The little girl looked at him with wide terrified eyes.
"Is the mask a little scary?" He asked.
"Hound, you shouldn't-"
Hound took off the mask and Naruto gave a wide smile. "I have a little girl just like you, and you're just as cute and adorable."
"Really?" the little girl asked.
Naruto didn't need medical ninjutsu. His aura was a healing force all its own.
"Hound," Fox said quickly, "Boar is about to kill someone."
Naruto quickly replaced his mask and raced outside. Hound had to force Boar's hand away from the neck of a villager.
"What is wrong with you?" Hound demanded.
"You deal with them," Boar said angrily as he walked away.
"I want compensation," The villager demanded.
"What compensation?" Hound asked.
"For my daughters. It's Konoha's fault they were abducted. I can't sell them for a bride price now. They're ruined."
Hound forgot how traditional small villages were. They were far from the more progressive ninja villages.
Another villager mobbed him. "I want retribution for this. I want Konoha to invade Mountain and I want Konoha to rape them like they have raped us."
A Grass refugee asked, "What about the other women they took when they invaded? When are you going to rescue them?"
"The bitch is useless to me now."
"My daughter never came back. Where is she? Where did they take her? What have they done?"
"I will not tolerate this shame on my family honor, if you don't kill her I will."
Hound took a deep breath. This mission was far from over. He still had to deal with the aftermath.
Humans. You'd think they'd be grateful.
"You're more short-tempered than normal." Hound observed as he joined Boar who sat atop the roof of a house. Boar's henge was smoking a cigar.
Hound stared down while his clones as they attempted to sort through all of the villager's complaints.
"Want a smoke?" Boar reached into his flak jacket, pulled out a humidor, and offered Hound a cigar.
"No, I don't-"
"It's one of my favorites, a Grass cigar. These have gotten very hard to find nowadays. This," Boar weighed the cigar between his fingers. "This was all I knew about Grass before we were given the mission to assist them. Grass cigars are famous for their earthiness and the unique smell of fresh cut grass. I'm only offering once."
Hound accepted it and held it curiously in his hands.
Boar blew smoke through his nose into Hound's face. "I'm thinking about the girls. Asami is graduating the Academy this year and it scares me." Boar nodded to the inn that housed the victims. "That could be her. I look at those girls faces and I see my daughter."
Hound thought of Ame and how some of those girls were no older. He almost had a heart attack when Ame first told him she wanted to enroll in the Academy. He couldn't send a clone on every one of her missions. He couldn't be everywhere at once.
"I don't understand how people could be so cruel and heartless."
"Rape is a weapon of war," Boar replied.
"That doesn't excuse it."
"The moment you wear that hitai-ite you give everything to your village. Your dreams, your children, even your morals. War is chaos. Society breaks down, rules no longer matter, and you're just a tool to be wielded for your village." Boar took a moment to taste the cigar, "It's never about the sex. It's about that feeling of being powerless. You want to have power over something, anything, because you realize as a ninja just how much you don't have control over your own life."
Hound's jaw slackened at Boar's haunting words.
"Karma is a fickle bitch. I don't want my daughter paying for my past."
The ANBU returned to Konoha in the early hours of the morning.
"I'll report to the Hokage." Hound dismissed his team. He turned away from the Hokage Tower where he knew there would only be a shadow clone at this hour. Hound landed in front of the Senju residence and knocked on the door.
Then an ANBU agent, Raccoon mask, stepped out of the shadows casted by the gate. "What is your business here?"
"I need to speak with the Hokage," Hound said impatiently.
"Report to the Hokage Tower. You're intruding on the Hokage's personal time. You're not-"
The door of the Senju residence opened with a yawning Hokage. She gave Hound an exasperated expression. "What do you want?"
Hound raised two bottles of very expensive sake. "I've brought a peace offering."
"Hokage-sama, I don't think this is according to protocol," Raccoon said flustered, never in his years of service has he seen an ANBU personally report to the Hokage's home.
"It's alright Raccoon." Tsunade opened the door and invited Hound inside.
Hound walked into the kitchen and found the cabinets where Tsunade kept her drinking glasses. Tsunade watched him in amusement as he prepared her a cup and handed it to her.
"Did you receive the letter?" Hound asked as he pulled the mask off. Now that he was back in Konoha he could finally breathe.
"I did," Tsunade replied with a note of seriousness. "I've notified the Hidden Villages about the incident. Thousands of escaped international prisoners are going to be a problem. Konoha's hunter-nin are going to get very busy in the next few months."
Naruto leaned back in one of the kitchen chairs until his blond hair fell backwards and he was looking up at the ceiling. "It was a long mission."
Tsunade drummed her fingers against the porcelain cup. She could see the lines of weariness that began to trace his face. She could see how distant his eyes were. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"No."
Naruto didn't have words for what he had witnessed. What words were sufficient enough to describe the series of abortions Fox had to perform? Or the stories of horror some of the patients needed to tell to mentally free themselves? Or having to look into their eyes before that moment you returned home and know that somehow they had to continue their lives? There were no words to describe the fatal attraction between the depth of human cruelty and the human resiliency of those who bore it.
Naruto reached into his belt and produced the mission report he had completed while waiting for the medic team to arrive. He placed the scroll onto the table.
Tsunade raised an eyebrow and poured herself some extra sake. Sunlight floated through the windows and the morning was heavy with the chirping of birds. Tsunade read the reports.
"I'm going back," Naruto said as he watched the empty expression Tsunade used as she dissected the words before her. "And I won't let you stop me."
Tsunade placed the report back on the table and looked at Naruto's determined blue eyes. "You were right to initially walk away. You did not have sufficient information. But your mission isn't finished yet. This is Konoha and we don't leave anyone behind. You are still going to bring my ninja back home, do you understand?"
Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. "I understand. I left one of my kunai so I could go back and map out the entire area. The corpses I collected were delivered to the intelligence unit."
"Excellent forethought," Tsunade approved. She tapped her fingers in thought and then a smirk touched her lips. "The Jounin exams are going to be next month."
Naruto gave her a confused expression. "What does this have to do with the Jounin exams?"
"Mountain is going to participate, which means most of their high-level ninja will be away from the village, leaving it vulnerable." Tsunade leaned forward. "That will be the ideal opportunity to rescue our ninja right under their noses. I'll assign Owl to assist you with the planning. Do you think you'll be ready in a month's time?"
For a moment, Naruto's eyes flickered red and resolve turned to steel. "I'll be ready."
Tsunade and Naruto sat in the warm silence of each other's company. The sun was rising and her kitchen gradually grew brighter as the light cascaded through the windows.
Tsunade analyzed the alcohol bottle she held. "I'm impressed. This is an expensive brew from Sound. I didn't have time to personally splurge last time I was in the country. It's a nice gesture but this still doesn't change my mind about Tomu."
"What about a compromise?" Naruto suggested. "Tomu needs time. When I think he is ready, I will train him, but enough so he can protect himself if he is attacked and to keep the sharingan from falling into enemy hands. Tomu never graduated the academy, he never placed a hitai-ite on his forehead, and therefore he doesn't have an obligation to die for this village. If he wants to become a ninja, fine, but I'm not going to force him into it. He deserves a choice. That is as far as I'm budging."
Tsunade leaned forward thoughtfully. "When he begins his training I would like reports updating me on his progress, and in the mean time, we'll keep this secret between you and I."
Tsunade and Naruto finally came to some sort of agreement.
Tsunade gave a small chuckle in her sake cup that foretold she was walking on the edge of tipsy. "Now that we're not fighting I should really get you that seat on the council."
"You haven't done that yet?"
"You were being a brat."
"You were the one being a brat, old lady. I'm the one who finally decided to be reasonable."
"I don't have to be reasonable. I'm the Hokage." Tsunade threw back a shot of sake. "Sometimes I have to do things that I don't necessarily agree with. The sharingan has always been a cornerstone of strength for Konoha and as Kage I have to think about the good of the village."
"Sometime it goes too far," Naruto argued. "Sometimes you end up sacrificing exactly what you're trying to protect. Kids like Tomu are the village."
Tsunade smiled in her sake cup and could almost feel retirement in her hands. Naruto was beginning to sound like a Kage every day.
"Do you think they're going to rescue you?" Gantetsu asked as he sat back in a chair and leaned his feet against the operating table. He twisted the seal of paper.
Tenten blinked in a haze of pain. The flesh along her hip was burned but the seal remained.
"Villages usually only take the trouble of rescuing a ninja that's not replaceable. Btu everyone else, their just cogs in the machines and are replaced when they're broken."
"Konoha isn't like that," Tenten argued. If no one else, Lee and Neji will try, if they didn't think she was dead.
"Like that boy who ran away and became an international criminal? Konoha only chased him around because he was a Uchiha, one of the last Uchiha. I doubt you're that important." Gantetsu grumbled as he crumpled the paper in his hands and threw it on the other side of the room. "On the other hand, Konoha won't be too happy if I break this seal."
"I don't think Konoha has anything to worry about. You don't seem very good at your job," Tenten scoffed.
"If I want to keep my head... I hope they kill me." Gantetsu paused. "I'm going to have to study the seal when it's activated."
"Don't sound too enthusiastic."
"I would if I knew you wouldn't try to kill me." Gantetsu replied as he prepared a tonic to knock her out. "A year ago I was neatly hidden away within the Tanzuku headquarters and I gambled, fucked, and drank when I wanted. I had run away from this ninja shit for a reason."
"Couldn't handle it?" Tenten asked mockingly.
Gantetsu paused for a moment as the past swelled over him in a haunting memory. "Have you ever been in love?" He asked.
Tenten remembered Neji rejecting every touch. She was done getting her heart broken. A kunoichi didn't need love anyways. "Never again."
"A shame, that's what I ran away to find."
"Did you find it?" Tenten asked the man that was about to rape her.
"There was this geisha," Gantetsu said as he injected the serum into Tenten's neck. "But I don't think she loved me back."
Hound walked through the halls of the ANBU underground to change and shower before he went home. He stopped in front of his new room, emboldened with the symbol of a dog. Hound reached for the key in his belt and found it missing.
"I can't believe I lost it," Hound grumbled.
If that's what you call lost.
"If you're not going to tell me where I left it, then be quiet," Hound replied as he broke the lock. He stepped aside the large explosion that triggered when someone forcibly open his door. It wouldn't deter an intruder but it would wake him up if Snake was trying to sneak into his room, and that was enough for Hound.
Hound's room was crowded by paperwork. Books and scrolls on seals littered the floor and in certain areas created small hills. Hound yawned. He didn't bother turning the light on and headed straight for the shower.
Naruto took a quick shower and exited the bathroom as he was drying his hair.
His nostrils were suddenly overwhelmed with a scent that had not been in his room previously. Naruto looked up and Hinata was sitting on his bed – with nothing but a black lace thong and a black bustier with purple highlights.
Naruto blushed red as he snatched the towel from his hair to cover his groin, only to remember that Hinata has seen and tasted it all.
"I hope you don't mind that I borrowed this," Hinata said as the key to his room danced along her fingers before she slipped it in between her upraised bosom.
"I'm dreaming," Naruto said finally. Naruto was certain things like this only happened in Jiraiya's smutty books.
Hinata beckoned him forward with a curl of her finger. Naruto didn't need to be asked twice as he tossed the towel over his shoulder.
Naruto wanted to sweep her up in a passionate kiss but when he had her in his arms, he couldn't find the strength. Instead, he dug his face into her hair and the blanket of her scent. Hinata wiped the tears that slipped unbidden from his eyes.
"We don't have to if it's too much," Hinata told him and brushed his wet hair away from his face.
"No," Naruto said softly. "I don't know what's wrong with me."
Hinata grasped his quaking hand and brought it to her face. "You're tired," she whispered. Now that she thought about it, she didn't think Naruto got any sleep during the mission. "You don't have-"
Her words were interrupted by Naruto's lips. His hands reached down and wrapped her legs around his waist. Naruto wanted nothing but Hinata. They breathed into each other's mouth with need.
Naruto's breath hitched and Hinata began to kiss along his chest with reverence before sucking his nipple between her teeth. In return, he reached down and slipped the piece of cloth to the side to gain access to her vagina. Hinata whined and Naruto caught the sound with his mouth.
They rolled sweaty in the bed as Naruto pumped whimpers from Hinata's lips.
Naruto sucked on the skin of her neck as Hinata stuttered, "N-Now."
"Now what?" Naruto asked perplexed
"In- In- Inside me," Hinata begged in frustrated tears that she couldn't get her voice to work.
"Oh that now." Naruto pulled his hands away from the soaked chasm between her legs. "Are you sure now?" Naruto asked as the sudden nerves began to grow.
Hinata grabbed a hold of his cock and guided him to harbor. It stretched her but it was hardly as painful as she originally assumed. After the initial encouragement, Naruto didn't have any qualms slipping himself further inside until he was completely sheathed.
Naruto and Hinata stared at each other in muted shock.
"You- you," Hinata frowned as she attempted to get her words together, "feel so good."
Naruto didn't want to move. He closed his eyes and savored the maddening sensation of being inside of her.
Hinata began to move her hips. "In and out," Hinata reminded him gently. Naruto nodded against her neck and enacted the suggested motion. Naruto couldn't believe it could feel any better but it did as the friction increased with every thrust.
Hinata was already on edge and sensitive when he penetrated her. Naruto was the fulcrum to push her over. Unbecoming of a Hyuuga, Hinata screamed as the orgasm ripped through her body. Naruto hitched in surprise as he experienced the waves quaking through her and the building tension in Naruto's own body finally erupted. Naruto collapsed at Hinata's side after he had drained himself.
It had only lasted five minutes.
"Wow," Naruto breathed. He had never felt so relaxed and content. His eyelids grew heavy. Naruto turn and placed a testing arm around Hinata's hip. Hinata encouraged him and cuddled closer until her back rested against his chest.
Hinata's eyes snapped open. "Naruto, I forgot to close your chakra nodes."
Naruto's moment of bliss was suddenly frozen for a terrified moment. It could have easily gone terribly wrong. When Naruto attempted to question the Kyuubi, the Demon Fox didn't answer, but instead received a wave of contentment. Naruto's chest constricted as he held Hinata tighter.
But the motion stimulated his cock again and an embarrassed blush crossed Naruto's face when the obvious erection poking against Hinata's back demanded more. The Fox's chakra that normally healed his wounds had instinctively regulated his blood flow and eliminated the wait most men are forced to contend with.
Hinata looked at him with hungry eyes. She began to climb astride him.
"But the Kyuubi-" Naruto warned as he was pushed back and Naruto re-entered that world of bliss as Hinata descended on him.
Hinata held his face with her hands. "Let's enjoy this while we can. It's only you and me Naruto, you and me."
Naruto realized she was right. The only person that mattered, the only person that existed, was her.
Naruto had developed a habit of never sleeping for more than a few hours but was surprised by the time on the clock when he peeked his eyes open. He had been asleep for more than half a day. He rubbed his face and stared at the empty space beside him.
"Hinata?" Naruto called for her as he pulled himself up in bed. He heard no other sound but his own heartbeat. Like a shadow, Hinata was gone.
Naruto almost believed the long hours of constant sex had been a dream but the scent lingered strongly in the air. It had lasted as long as Hinata did, when she admitted she was just too sore, and they both settled in for sleep.
"When did she leave?" Naruto asked as he pulled on a shirt. A dopey grin crossed his face as he wondered what she was doing.
Soon after you fell asleep. She seemed to really enjoy ripping paper.
"What are you…" the questioned hung off Naruto's lips. He scrambled over to his writing desk where he had been developing a counter for the caged bird seal. The high Naruto had awoken with took a sudden plummet.
"Shit." Naruto threw papers above his shoulders but all of the hard work that took him two months to complete was gone. All the small components to the seal were torn out of his books and scrolls. He had lost everything.
You got played.
"Shut the fuck up," Naruto growled. He activated sage mode and searched for her unique chakra signature in Konoha. He pushed off from the desk and quickly got dressed. "I'm such an idiot. I should not have left this stuff out. I have to explain."
The wind flowed through her hair as Hinata Hyūga stood at the crossroads that separated Konoha from the Hyūga compound. The setting sun danced colors on the horizon behind her. When Naruto landed before her in sage mode, she raised her arm and didn't flinch from the soreness as she entered her Jyūken stance.
"Move any closer and I will kill you."
"I was just trying to help," Naruto attempted to explain immediately.
"You're a fool," Hinata said with an icy stare. "If you were caught with such evidence the Hyūga will destroy you. If you think that they don't know about Tomu then you are an idiot. I am protecting you and the kids."
"I wasn't going to get caught. I was being careful," Naruto argued.
"And then what?" Hinata snapped. "The problem isn't that the caged bird seal needs to be abolished but that every Hyūga needs to wear one. If what you were trying to accomplish fell in the wrong hands it would endanger my entire family. You rush into other people's problems without ever thinking things through."
Naruto was suddenly caught off-guard by the strength of her argument. "I just wanted to help."
"I've submitted the paperwork to the Hokage for a transfer."
Naruto snapped his head up, and the cold fear of losing Hinata from his team and from his life gripped him. "Why? I never meant to hurt you. I never meant- I was just trying- Please, Hinata."
"You've become too involved Naruto. I miscalculated. I should have never had sex with you." Hinata continued in a voice that sounded accusing, "You've developed feelings for me."
"Of course I have!" Naruto's hands were shaking in anger. "You're my teammate. You're one of my best friends and," Naruto's chest heaved as the two stared at each other defiantly, "I'm in love with you."
Hinata had been waiting to hear those words her entire life but she didn't feel as elated as she thought she would. "Naruto, you didn't really think that it was more than just sex did you? That's all it was. I knew from the beginning that it would be our first and last time. I knew from the beginning that I was going to leave you afterwards. Naruto, I'm a Hyūga."
It was possibly the first time Naruto had truly heard those last three words.
"Walk away Naruto."
Naruto just didn't let people go. Sasuke had become a missing-nin, international criminal, and attempted to kill him on multiple occasions, and Naruto still hasn't let him go.
Naruto stepped forward.
"Don't come any further," Hinata demanded.
Naruto took another step forward, and another, until her palm was resting against his heart. "I'm never going to let you go."
"But I have."
"You don't mean that," Naruto said as he reached to touch her. Lights sparked in front of his eyes as Naruto collapsed backwards from a direct hit. His body twitched with the current of lightning running through his body.
"If you ever take one foot on the Hyūga compound, next time I'll have no choice but to kill you." Hinata took a testing step backwards.
You're not going to just let her go like that? She's ours.
A blaze of red chakra. A clawed hand snatched Hinata by the arm and twisted her before two furious red eyes. "You belong to us!"
"Naruto, please," Hinata begged as she winced under the burning of Naruto's hand. Naruto gasped as he was engulfed by the fear in her eyes. Naruto took a stumbling step backwards and all the shaking anger crumbled into shame and grief.
"I'm so sorry," Naruto's throat ached as he apologized for his actions. "I won't- I won't ever bother you again."
Hinata couldn't bear to witness the breakdown that was crossing Naruto's face. "Goodbye Naruto Uzumaki."
Hinata turned her back to him and walked away, like Sasuke when he left the village, like Jiraiya when he left to go die. Naruto's closest people always walked away. It felt as if he had jumped from the Hokage Mountain all over again and he was crashing face-first to the ground.
Hinata didn't recognize the person she saw in the mirror. Her eyes were cruel and her face seemed to be frozen in an icy mask. On her left arm was a burn that did not heal.
"Have you ever been in love?" Hinata asked Auntie as she brushed through her hair.
"A ninja cannot afford love," Auntie replied. "Look what happened to your father. All his softness died with his wife. He became cruel to his children, ashamed of the women he called to his bed, and died a lonely man."
Hinata didn't flinch as a puff of perfume was blown into her face. Then Auntie applied the rouge to Hinata's lips.
Aunti stepped back to admire her work but frowned. Looking at Hinata was like watching a flower wither. Hinata had been a sweet little girl once, but along the way, her petals began to fall and there was no sun to help her grow. Like her father, her softness had finally withered away.
Hinata stood up with a sense of duty as she tightened the robe about her waist. Her bare feet walked the main complex until she arrived at her destination.
Hinata forced the bedroom door open.
Iyashi was cradled in the darkness of the room in tears. His pale blue eyes were tinged red with grief. He look up at her and snarled. "Get out of here stupid bitch. I didn't fucking call you."
"The elders have sent me to please you," Hinata reported as she slipped off her robe and revealed the naked body she did not own.
Iyashi couldn't care less and didn't venture from the corner of his room. His teammate had been inducted into the hospital after his last mission and only a few hours ago, Iyashi had received word his best friend had passed away.
Hinata gently grabbed his hands and led Iyashi towards the bed. Iyashi fell backwards onto the pillow as Hinata straddled him.
"It should have been me," Iyashi said to the darkness.
Hinata Hyuuga let go of her innocence, let go of her pride, let go of Naruto, and did her job.
When you become a ninja and wear that hitai-ite you give everything to Konoha. Your body, your life, your dreams - everything that you are. They throw themselves into the fire to keep Konoha burning.
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We're all just animals, sweetheart. Cruel, bitter animals
Updated: 06/22/14