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Chapter 34
(Inuzuka Compound)
Hana snickered as she looked at the scene before her.
"I didn't know Anko and Haku were adopting." Naruto said as he looked at Temari who was bound and wearing a dog collar. Anko was holding the leash.
Hana shook her head. Anko grinned. "Naruto-kun, you need to see the Hokage, he's got something to talk with you about. Ibiki was looking for you."
Naruto nodded and kissed each of them and looked at Temari.
"Go ahead, we're debating." Anko said.
The whisker marked blond kissed the gagged Temari's cheek. "Be nice." He told the other three and hurried away. Tsume stuck her head out the door and looked at her daughter. "Shagged you six ways till Sunday, I'm surprised your upright."
Hana nodded. "Tender as hell. But he took good care of me this morning." She looked at Anko and Haku. "Now why is she bound and gagged?"
"Um, Haku's nerve thingy wore off and she said I couldn't use any of my snakes." Anko said with a mock pout.
Hana sighed. I knew being the alpha female was going to be a headache. She could hear her mother chuckle. "Bring Temari inside and unbind her."
"Party pooper." Anko muttered as she carried Temari inside followed by Haku and removed the bindings and the gag, leaving the collar on.
The Suna kunoichi glared at Anko and held up her hands. The fuzzy handcuffs still around her wrists.
"Those too Anko." Hana said as she sat down with a wince. Haku moved over. "He really rode you."
Hana chuckled. "I rode him, he went along for the ride." She sighed as Haku used several healing jutsu's. "I remember him entering and attacking him." Hana said. "I became more lucid after the third hour."
Tsume chuckled. "Kid's not only hung like a horse, but the stamina of a pure bred champion."
Temari's eyes glazed over while the other three shared stories, then something clicked in her mind.
"YOUR MOM SLEPT WITH NARUTO-KUN?"
XX
(Hokage's Office)
He looked from the sheet of paper before incinerating it. "Is that all?"
Hiruzen winced. "No." his ribs were still hurting from his "talk" with Eboshi. "Ibiki is keeping Kabuto under watch. He left the village last night heading for the border. We know he'll be back, but there is several things we're still missing."
Naruto nodded. "I've had Ed keeping an eye on the snake. He says that there isn't anything of the Uchiha left."
Hiruzen nodded. "I wouldn't do this Naruto, but Orochimaru is an S-class threat, probably Double S, but with the holes in our security and with all the visiting dignitaries, we need to be careful."
"I've already spoken with Ibiki sir." Naruto said. "We agreed that putting lower ranked Chunin on guard duty to the records room would be a better draw than pulling an Anbu with a fake meeting."
Hiruzen nodded. "I'd also like to suggest having squads check the whole wall. I heard Hayate was found murdered."
Hiruzen nodded. Naruto and the sickly Jonin had become friends and sparred, Hayate with his sword and Naruto either with his blade arm or any number of weapons he created.
"Oto, Grass and Iwa can't be trusted." The Hokage said. "Suna…"
"Is on our side. Gaara and Temari are loyal friends." Naruto said.
The Hokage sighed remembering the talk with Gaara and the transfer of him and his siblings to Konoha as reparations for his actions during his preliminary match against Rock Lee.
"You and your team are going to be doing a Hands mission."
Naruto nodded. It meant that the council wasn't going to be aware and no aid would be given. "We're used to that sir. Hana wants the snake for the murder of her cousin during the forest. Anko hime still has issues. Haku feels it right to help them and Temari…"
"Wait you added another one?" The Hokage blinked and Naruto scratched the back of his head with his auto-mail hand. "Um, its to be determined, but I don't argue with them."
The Hokage shook his head. "After the exam, I want you to speak with Jiraiya. He's here in the village, but right now I need him doing spy work."
Naruto nodded. "Anything else?"
Hiruzen winced. "Could you speak with Eboshi, please? She's not happy with me and what I plan on you doing."
Naruto smirked. "Sure thing Ojii-san." Naruto turned to leave. "Oh, next time I deal with the snake there might be some property damage." Naruto shook his head. "I can't believe that he thinks we don't know about his antics."
The Hokage watched the blond go. You'll be fine my boy.
XX
(Nighttime)
Naruto sat in the shadows with a two tailed fox perched on his shoulder. "He's been talking to himself all afternoon. He's working himself up something fierce." Ed whispered.
"What about the four Oto-nin?" Naruto asked.
"They headed back to a group a mile outside the village. All four of them have that stupid curse mark."
Naruto was glad he knew how to deal with it. "So we need to remove them before we kill him so there isn't a repeat of him jumping bodies."
Ed nodded his head. "There might be more, but from what I could tell they have to be a certain distance for him to utilize the seal."
The two watched the house, the Anbu were further back under camouflage jutsu's. "I keep hoping he'll be dumb enough to try and by-pass the seals and walk out."
Ed snickered. "Squish."
They fell quiet and it was nearing midnight when two cloaked figures came down the street. Ed sniffed. "Its Kabuto…and…"
"What?" Naruto asked the fox. He saw the nose going a mile a minute and the look on Ed's face was one he'd never seen on the fox's face since learning of him. It was a look of fear.
Kabuto and the other cloaked figure entered the house and Naruto slipped from the roof and moved closer, masking his chakra he got close enough to peer into a window.
"About damn time you got here." Orochi-Sasuke snarled.
"Don't take that tone with me boy." The cloaked figure said, obviously a woman. Naruto saw a slender pale hand come up. He noticed it looked somewhat rotted on parts. "My coming here was foolish even for you."
"I don't care, there is no one alive that knows about you mother. I need your help. I need to transfer to a body and I'm trapped."
The woman laughed. "Always impetuous Orochi." The hood covered head turned. "Leave us." She ordered Kabuto who looked at Orochi-Sasuke. "Go." He said with a dismissive wave.
Kabuto left the room and Naruto waited. Ed joined him on his shoulder.
"Mother, I know you know more of this ability. Can I transfer before three years?"
The hooded figure sighed. "You can, however it is damaging and it will be painful and you won't be able to jump again for six years then."
Orochi-Sasuke snarled. "What good is this ability if I can't gain the power I want?"
"I told you there was consequences of the Body Possession Soul Stealer. You think I like staying like this?" the woman asked holding up a right hand that was rotted. "I have been alive for over a millennium Orochi. But each body I steal is weak and becomes unstable. It can't contain my power."
"What about the body of a Jinchuriki? You mentioned their bodies being usable." Orochi-Sasuke asked.
"They are, but I need the demon removed before I can take over the body. Its why I have convinced Madara to collect the nine heavenly beasts. He thinks it will give him a weapon."
Orochi-sasuke snorted. "Madara is a fool. That eternal youth jutsu you gave him was a waste."
"Perhaps. But he's formed Akatsuki and they hunt the Bijuu for me. I'll use alchemy to seal the demons into the new homunculi and then I can start my quest for a new stone."
"You never told me what the stone does mother?" the snake sannin said, questions in his voice.
"You do not need to know that Orochi."
"There is something you need to know." Orochi-Sasuke said, he took on a smug look. "Konoha has an alchemist, a skilled one that doesn't even need an array."
The woman who had been facing the fire turned and snarled. "WHO?"
"The Jinchuriki to the nine tailed fox, they call him Uzumaki, the Hokage's Hand." Orochi-Sasuke said. "He's the one who trapped this shell and removed its abilities. Kabuto has also learned Uzumaki is responsible for making Konoha's Sharingan Hatake into a statue."
Orochi-Saskue paused. "He's also been using the last name of Elric…"
The hood flew off as the woman spun to face Orochi-Sasuke once more.
"ELRIC?!?"
Outside the window Ed cursed. "Dante." He said. While it was true that Gluttony had eaten her, the woman had managed to possess a rat and scurry away. He looked at the face, older, age lined but he knew the face. It was the face of Elicia Hughes. The baby of his friend Maes who he and Al had helped deliver all those years ago. Oh, Eli…I am so sorry. Ed thought. The hair was gray and the face had age lines, and like the last time he'd met Dante the neck area was showing decay leading down the chest.
Naruto saw enough and slipped away before he'd been seen. He got several blocks away. "Ed?"
There was no response and he pulled the two-tailed fox from his shoulder and held him up. "Ed? Brother?" he asked.
No response.
Naruto was getting worried. The moment Ed smelled the woman he started to act strange, but seeing the woman had seemed to throw the fox into a trance.
Looking around he clapped and slammed his hands to the ground.
Alphonse came into existence. The armored golem looked around. "What's the matter?" the red eyes had landed on Ed.
"I don't know. We were spying on the snake when Kabuto returned with some woman. Ed got a sniff and started acting weird. I went for a closer look and Orochimaru called her mother and when he told her about me using the name Elric she spun so fast her hood came off and Ed went catatonic."
Al's armored hands gently picked up the fox. "Edward?"
"It's Dante. She possessed Elicia."
"No." Al's voice was shocked. "Shit has hit the fan." Ed said his gold eyes landing on Naruto. "Dante changes everything."
Naruto sighed. I've got three, potentially four women after me, an over protective doctor with a fascination with needles, a tired old man, and now a blast from Ed's past. Can this get any worse?
Naruto palmed his face. Al and Ed looked at him.
"I just jinxed us." He muttered and both had anime style teardrops from their heads.
"Bonehead." Ed muttered.
AN: Dante's Inferno. Next time on Fullmetal Fox episode 35.