Tayuya was less than pleased with her current predicament. She was currently naked from the waist up and completely incapable of moving even the slightest bit. On top of that, some bastard was painting something on her as she lay unresponsive on a smooth floor completely covered in what looked like little black squiggles.
She knew, of course, what they were. The lines and connections for some kind of sealing array and, based on her presence and positioning, something that was going to be applied to her. Every part of her wanted to scream and curse, to claw and punch and kick and bite them all, while cursing them out until their ears melted off their damned heads.
But she couldn't. The woman, Tsunade if she was to be believed, had given her… something. A poison, a drug, she wasn't sure which, all she knew was that it completely shut down her body's ability to listen to what she wanted it to do beyond breathing and blinking, even then it only went so far. Conscious control of her body seemed beyond her; she couldn't even halt her breathing or really close her eyes.
It was terrifying.
Then she heard the voices.
"So, this is her, huh?" the voice was male, older, but not elderly. "Wonder if he even knew what he had?"
"With him, who knows? He's a genius, but…" Tsunade's voice stated simply. "You've taken the drugs into account?"
"Please, princess, who do you think you're talking to?" he said, obviously affronted.
"An old pervert I've known entirely too long," she shot back. "Now get on with it. We need to be ready for the brat."
"I love you too, princess," was shot back before Tayuya could feel the brush tickling up her arm, over onto her shoulder. "Even if you're a scary old witch."
"… what did you call me?" Tsunade demanded.
"Careful, careful, wouldn't want me to do a misstroke and completely destroy everyone in a horribly twisted and excruciatingly painful death, would you?" the man chided with amusement.
"… You do remember that I have all the time in the world to slowly remind you of my displeasure after all this is over, yes?" Tsunade stated acidically.
"Yes, yes," the man responded dismissively. "Why don't you go get the brat while I finish this up, hmmm?"
"And leave you alone with a young girl?"
"I have some restraint," he responded, more than slightly offended.
"Fine, but you better not try anything," she warned him.
"I like women, princess, not little girls," he shot back.
If she could, Tayuya would've turned crimson at his comment and broken into a blistering attack on him in any way she could. Instead she was here, helpless. She couldn't move, she couldn't say anything, she couldn't do anything. She was trapped in her own body.
She heard soft steps and the sound of a door shutting and locking. Then she could feel the soft, cold, wet touch slowly, almost delicately, going to work on her back.
"You'll have to excuse Tsunade-chan. She means well, but she's rather…" he paused, as if searching for the words while the sensation on her back continued to work in a steady, flowing pace over her skin. "Well, Tsunade is Tsunade is Tsunade."
Tayuya wished she could do something, even if it was just send the man a glare. Instead she just lay there, forced to listen to him prattling on. Who the hell did this guy think he was?
"Oh, that's right, I didn't introduce myself did I?" he stated with a pleasant quality to his voice. "We can't do the proper ones, of course. You're a little… unable to introduce yourself at the moment. Perfectly understandable, really, as Tsunade-hime is rather good at what she does and when it comes to poisons and drugs, she knows more about them than anyone."
She would reluctantly agree with his assessment. Extremely reluctantly. But the woman was one of the sannin for a reason.
"Well, Tayuya-chan, of the North Gate of Orochimaru's four sounds…" he let his voice trail off, still smirking as he continued to work the seal onto her skin, "you have now officially met all three sannin."
If she could move, she would've frozen as suddenly she realized just how deep down the shit hole she was. One sannin, she had the slimmest of chances of getting away from. If she hadn't been drugged nearly comatose and in the middle of the enemy territory.
Ok, so she was already screwed. This was just the cherry on the top of the well and truly fucked sundae.
"In case you're a bit confused, I am the gallant sage Jiraiya," he continued and again she wished she could glare at him at the condescending manner in which he spoke. "And I thought I'd give you some ideas of just what's this seal I'm putting on you is going to do.
"First off it should wipe away that pesky little curse seal of 'Rochi's. Second, from what I understand, you already got a taste of some of the enhancements from our little bitch, Kin. What I haven't exactly gone into great detail in telling them is that if Naruto dies? You'll be eaten alive by the demonic chakra that's going to be mixing with your system. Without him and the seal to filter it, you'll all just end up having a nice big rush… then you'll start screaming as it devours you from your chakra system out.
"Nasty, isn't it?" he noted and she found it so easy to imagine him behind her, smirking down at her. "Of course, running away? Well, then you end up on the other side of the equation, the chakra just gets sucked out of your body. You get weaker and weaker the farther you run. Eventually, after you've collapsed, where your body is even more helpless than this, you just end up not even having the energy to breath."
Oh, how she wanted to glare at him now more than ever.
"But, you'll have more chakra potential than you know what to do with," Jiraiya stated calmly. "Potential that won't require you to reach into something that'll leave you helpless after you use it. And, unless you really do something stupid, training on how to use it."
She hated them oh so very much.
She hated the way they talked to her. She hated the way they treated her. She hated the way that right now, somehow, they scared her more than Orochimaru did.
She hated it all.
-o-o-o-
Temari sighed a bit as she watched her Gaara sit comfortably, calmly, and more importantly peacefully in the seat across from her as they sat at the restaurant, her fan slowly, moving around her wrist and hand. Next to him, Kankuro nervously twitched his fingers, causing his chopsticks to move about above his hand on his chakra strings. At her side, Kin was flipping through a book on sealing, glancing up on occasion to see what the others were doing and saying.
So far, it hadn't been much.
"So, you appear to be adjusting well," Gaara said far more diplomatically than she was used to him being.
"Found out things, here and there," Temari said simply as she settled back into her seat. "Found out where Hikaze was."
Kankuro froze and stared back at Temari wide eyed, before narrowing his gaze, "Then who's the bastard who….?"
She took a drink of water, before shaking her head ruefully, "From what I told you before, she was in a relationship with a Leaf nin. She was ambushed by a bunch of Mist nin as retaliation for what we'd done looking for the third Kazekage. He came upon her just in time to avenge her."
Kankuro frowned slightly, "They could've been lying to you."
"Well, personally I wouldn't really call him that to his face," Shizune's voice said cheerfully as she appeared next to their table. "So, Sunshine-chan, these are your little brothers?"
Temari blinked for a moment and then sighed as she slumped back in her seat, "So, are the rest of you going to come out?"
"Aw, she's growing up!" Anko appeared behind her, draping herself over Temari as her breasts settled atop her head, "She actually noticed us!"
"… Or she just figured that we would be here because we found it too amusing to not be," Yuugao commented as she appeared at the table next to them, sitting across from the referee of the preliminary matches of the third round, Hayate, who appeared from a melting distortion .
"Well, you two found it too amusing," Hayate noted with a slight smile on his lips. "You just dragged me along for the ride."
Temari did not groan, no matter how much she wanted to, as she reached up and lightly palmed her face, stifling the sigh that threatened to escape her mouth.
"Did you really expect anything else from them?" Kin asked as she arched a brow towards Temari.
"I don't know why I didn't think they'd do it," Temari stated simply as she sighed softly. "I guess I figured they were more likely to wait until Naruto-sama showed back up."
"Ah." Kin made a sound of agreement, before noting, "You just forgot how short their patience is when they're bored."
"Yes," Temari agreed.
Gaara took a moment to look at the three women and the man before looking back Temari, his brows furrowing, "I was not aware you were this… popular."
"Temari…" Kankuro was pinching his nose as he tried to look anywhere but at his sister and the woman who was using her breasts as Temari's hat. "Can you please get her to stop that?"
"No," Temari stated flatly, "I can't."
"She's such a quick study, isn't she, Zune-chan?" Anko said cheerfully.
"Hello, you must be Gaara-san and Kankuro-san," Shizune bowed politely and smiled cheerfully at the two. "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Tsunade-sama's apprentice, Shizune. I do hope that you find our hospitality acceptable and please excuse us for the assassination squads we have following you while you're in Konoha."
Kankuro attention was torn forcibly to Shizune as his mouth hung open.
Gaara nodded his head as he gave her a polite bow and responded, "Understandable, Shizune-san. We thank you for the hospitality. We shall be much more gracious guests than we were previously."
"I'm glad. Sunshine-chan would be upset if we had to send you to meet Yuyake-san," Shizune said with that same calm smile on her face. "So we appreciate your gracious manners."
"Yes, she's evil," Temari stated as she looked at Kankuro. "They all are. And they know it."
"… Why am I included in that?" Hayate asked curiously as she sipped at a steaming glass of tea. "I haven't done anything to you."
"She's sleeping with you," Temari pointed to a blank faced Yuugao. "No way she'd do that if you weren't."
"She just likes the way I handle my sword," Hayate stated completely seriously.
Yuugao nodded her head, "He's not wrong."
Temari stared for a moment and then let her head fall forward, bowing. Next to her, Kin pursed her lips thoughtfully. She took a moment to glance from Hayate's sword to Yuugao's.
"His does look bigger," Kin noted before looking back at her book.
"Now, now, Kin-chan," Shizune chided lightly. "It's not the size but the skill of the one wielding it that matters."
"… What… the..." Kankuro struggled to get out as he looked at the various individuals around him then to Gaara. "… I think you were right about the communicable insanity."
"Really? I was starting think they were all just perverts," Gaara observed calmly.
Anko smirked at the red haired boy, "That too."
"Once you get used to it, it's not really that bad of a place to be." Temari noted with a slight shrug of his shoulders.
"Temari, you're a spoil," Kankuro stated with a sullen glare. "How does that make this any kind of place to be?"
"How much more willing to actually behave are you and Suna now?" Temari countered back and then sighed a bit. "What did you expect to happen, Kankuro? That somehow we'd be offered a chance to just go back to business as usual with Konoha just bending over backwards to make things better for us when we were the ones to betray them?"
"I understand why it happened," he responded back as he gave her a slight glare. "I will probably even eventually accept it. But what I can't understand is why you seem ok with it!"
"She wasn't," Kin stated casually. "She sulked and pouted and complained and whined. It was annoying."
"Like you're one to comment about annoying," Termari snapped back.
"Really, do we really need to get into such… vivid details of what actions you've both made?" Shizune asked calmly as she arched a brow and smiled pleasantly at them both. "We can, of course, and really, there is so much to cover, I'll need to know if I should make time in my schedule for you both."
"… I think I'll pass. You?" Temari asked as she glanced to Kin.
"I'm good," Kin agreed quickly with a nod of her head.
"Oh? Such a pity, I was looking forward to the break," Shizune noted with a slight sigh of disappointment. "Oh well. But, to settle things, no, Sunshine did not just accept it. And Kin was also quite sulky for some time. Things happened, they accepted it."
"By the way, Gaara?" Temari spoke up as she warily looked at her youngest brother, "… you need to start training."
"I do?" Gaara repeated, confusion on his face.
"Yeah," Temari agreed as she recalled the fight between Naruto and Kisame and the information she'd looked up on the members of Akatsuki they knew about. "Father… Orochimaru killed father. There are people after the bijuu that scare Orochimaru. I saw how one of them just played with Naruto-sama. Naruto-sama was fighting on borderline jounin level, Kisame Hoshigaki laughed."
"Truly?" Gaara frowned a bit at the statement. He already knew he needed to train, he already knew he needed to get stronger. What his sister said, though…
"They're going to be coming for you, and coming for Naruto-sama," Temari stated seriously as he stared into her brother's eyes unflinchingly. "Naruto-sama has Jiraiya-san and others. You need to step up your training. You too, Kankuro. Get old lady Chiyo involved."
"That crazy old bat?!" Kankuro demanded as he stared back at her. "Are you insane?!"
"Chiyo-dono is the foremost expert in puppetry still loyal to Suna," Gaara pointed out quietly, his lips pursing softly before he looked at Temari warily. "… Do you believe this Akatsuki will include…?"
It took Temari a moment to realize exactly who Gaara was hinting at and she grimaced in response, "It might. I wouldn't rule it out. He is S-class."
Shizune arched a brow slightly, before frowning as she listened to their conversation, "Ah, would you be talking about Sasori?"
"Yes," Gaara stated with a slight nod of his head and a frown. "Which would imply that this organization is likely fully briefed on the typical abilities of my… predecessors."
"Then pick up new ones," Kin stated simply as she flipped through her book. "It's what Naruto-sama is doing and what I'm going to be doing. And, hell, even what Sunshine is doing."
"You don't seem very big on training," Kankuro noted with a slight frown.
Kin looked up from her book and gave the boy a look that implied a great number of different things, "It's called shadow clones. And you think I'm reading up on seals for pure pleasure reading?"
"Oooooh," Anko perked up immediately. "You're on shadow clone training now?! Why didn't anyone tell me?"
"Because they're on control and manipulation practice," Kin stated flatly as she gave the woman a look. "I have basics I need to get down first."
"Fu!" Anko pouted as she glared sullenly at the girl. "That's no fun."
"You already have an apprentice to look after, remember, Anko-chan?" Shizune pointed out helpfully. "You do want to make sure that Naruto-kun's little girlfriend passes her review, don't you?"
"… Curses," Anko stated sullenly, refusing to acknowledge the point.
"Just means all the more fun for me," Yuugao noted as she smiled serenely at Kin.
"… Dammit," Kin cursed lightly as she focused more heavily on her book.
"And now it's at the point where we can include Sunshine," Yuugao agreed with a nod of her head. "Hayate, won't you help me… instruct these poor little students that have fallen into my hands?"
"… Sure, I need something to do while I wait to be cleared for active duty again after Tsunade-sama's procedure," Hayate agreed before coughing quietly into his hand. "Ah, apologies."
"… Double dammit," Temari agreed.
-o-o-o-
Naruto glanced nervously over at Ino, who was looking at him with an incredibly neutral look on her face. "Um…"
"I already told you I believed you, Naruto," Ino stated simply as she walked with him. "I know this isn't your choice."
"… Ok…?" he asked looking at her still nervously.
"I don't like it," she stated flatly, crossing her arms about her chest. "At all. It's bad enough I already had to share you with the bitch and Sunshine. Now two more? When does it stop?"
Naruto slumped slightly and sighed, "Um… when I become Hokage and say no more?"
Ino twitched slightly and growled lightly as she leaned in and grabbed hold of him. Pinning her body against his, she leaned in and then bit firmly against the side of his neck, "I am not good at sharing, Naruto."
"Eh, heheh…" Naruto chuckled nervously as he suppressed a shiver that ran down his spine, "Ah, Ino-chan…"
"Mine," she stated simply as she gave him a glare, "and I really don't like having to share you with Sasuke of all people."
Naruto shuddered at that reminder, "Oh, man, that's… ewwwwww! I mean, I thought she was a he! I still think of Sasuke as a he! Not a she! And that's just… eugh!"
"You're lucky I'm not Sakura," Ino noted with a slight smirk on her lips. "Though you might be too butch for her fantasies."
"… Huh?" Naruto looked at her in confusion.
"I keep forgetting how dense you are sometimes," she noted before firmly threading her arm around his and holding close to him as they walked.
As Naruto grumbled softly, Ino leaned into him and frowned slightly as she caught sight of the various civilians sending cold looks of disgust. It… irritated her. The way that they looked at them, the way they could look at Naruto and see anything but Naruto.
And to judge him on something that was trapped inside of him, that he was keeping prisoner…
She wondered how he managed to still see the bright side of Konoha.
"So, you think we have time to stop for a bowl of ramen before we go there?" Naruto asked hopefully.
"Weren't you telling me you already had a bowl before you came to see me?" she pointed out, shifting slightly to crane her neck up to look at him, still resting it against his shoulder.
"Well, yeah, but then we had all that talking and we had to talk about this stupid Sasuke situation and…"
"You're a glutton," she finished for him with a roll of her eyes.
"Hey! I burn through energy really quickly! And I can't make a bunch of shadow clones like I normally would, and…" he paused, blushing brightly. "I'd really like to eat a meal with you?"
"Fine," she said with a slight huff of feigned indignation. He saw it, he embodied it. Maybe somehow the Fourth Hokage had been able to see that when he chose Naruto because she couldn't really imagine anyone else managing to simply… endure like he had. Not like he had. Other people got worn down, they seemed to crack, or break or…
But not Naruto.
"Awesome!" he declared cheerfully and then almost bashfully leaned down and kissed her cheek.
And she was going to do her best to make sure that he never did.
-o-o-o-
It had been easy enough to ignore what was coming when he'd been with Ino at Ichiraku's getting a bowl of ramen and simply just enjoying being with her. He wasn't sure how he was really supposed to react to that. On one hand, he did like it, quite a lot, especially when she pressed up against him, rubbing along him, kissing him. On the other… he didn't want to end up a pervert like Kakashi and Jiraiya.
And Kin. And Temari. And Ino. And Sakura. And…
It was a dawning realization that he had built up his life in a way that left him completely and totally surrounded by perverts.
"Dammit."
"Something wrong?" Ino asked next to him, frowning slightly as she looked at him worriedly.
He froze for a moment, then grinned sheepishly at her, "Oh, nothing! Just… realized with my luck I'm going to be stuck with even more perverts."
"Well, Sasuke wasn't a pervert, right?" she reminded him.
"Temari wasn't a pervert before, either," Naruto reminded her with a grunt.
"Well, hopefully that won't change with Sasuke," Ino stated simply.
"Naruto," a new voice spoke up solemnly as Kakashi appeared in front of them in a swirl of leaves, "… I understand there was an… incident."
Naruto stared at him for a moment while Ino snorted softly, "That's one way of putting it."
"And from what I was told, you both handled yourselves… admirably." Kakashi was apparently struggling for the right words as he looked over the both of them, "I'm sorry about Sasuke."
"She made her choice," Naruto said with a frown on his lips. "We did what we had to."
Kakashi nodded his head quietly, "I know. Tsunade-sama said you're to get Sasuke and one of the other prisoners as…?"
The frown turned into a scowl as Naruto looked away with a glare, "I told her I didn't want to do it. She ordered me to."
"I understand," Kakashi said seriously as he put his hand on Naruto's shoulder. "It can't be easy. And now they're going to consume your life with horrible things like shopping and gossip and…"
He twisted in an almost inhuman way out of the path of Ino's stab with a senbon and pouted at her, "Now, that wasn't very nice."
"I'm now Anko-sensei's apprentice," Ino stated flatly as she glared at the man.
"Ah, right, that," Kakashi reluctantly nodded his head in understanding. "I suppose so. Though what will the review board say about you attacking a jounin?"
"I'll mention it's you and they'll understand," Ino growled.
Kakashi's shoulders immediately slumped, "True."
"Was there something you wanted to talk about, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked with only a slight hint of irritation. "I kind of have to get to ANBU headquarters to start the procedure."
"What luck! I was heading there myself," Kakashi said cheerfully. "Let me help you both get there!"
"You don't need to…" Naruto started to protest.
"I insist!" And with that he grabbed hold of both of their shoulders and vanished in a swirl of leaves.
-o-o-o-
"You're late," Tsunade stated simply as she gave Naruto a look.
"Ah, sorry, you I had to…" Kakashi started to respond, before blinking as her glare turned to him. "Oh, you meant Naruto."
"You didn't really tell me when I was supposed to be here," Naruto countered back. "You just sent a messenger for me to come."
"Are you trying to argue with me, brat?" Tsunade asked as she glared back at the boy.
"Telling the truth, granny," he snapped back without missing a beat.
"Brat," she stated with a sour twist of her lips and a shake of her head. "Come on, we're waiting on you and the drugs won't last too much longer."
"Drugs?" Naruto repeated with a blink.
"She tends to be… rebellious," Tsunade stated flatly. "And I'm not going to risk her screwing something up and hurting you."
"Ah, right," Naruto slowly nodded his head as Tsunade turned and walked deeper into the complex.
As he followed after her, he glanced, nervously around before feeling the reassuring squeeze on his hand from Ino. Uncertain at first, he then squeezed her hand in turn and offered her a sheepish smile. That earned him a roll of her eyes and a nudge in his shoulder.
"If you're both finished flirting?" Tsunade asked with a hint of exasperation.
"I don't know, it's rather cute," Kakashi noted with a bright smile.
"Ah, such wonderful research you give your sensei!" Jiraiya's voice added, cackling softly as he began to scribble away in his book. "Such wonders, such delights, such plot twists!"
"… I'm pretty sure that anything you're writing 'based on this' will not resemble what happened in the least," Ino stated flatly as she shook her head and gave the man a glare. "You old pervert."
"Bah, artistic license," Jiraiya said dismissively before gesturing into the room. "Ready?"
Naruto sighed and shrugged his shoulders, "I don't suppose reminding you that I really don't want to do this is going to do any good?"
"Not in the least," Tsunade agreed with a nod of her head. "You're going to do this."
"Had to try," Naruto stated with a frown.
"Right," Tsunade stated skeptically.
"You know the drill by now, brat," Jiraiya stated.
Sighing, Naruto took off his coat and handed it to Ino before carefully walking through the seal to the unmoving girl at the center. "So, just like before?"
"Just like before," Jiraiya agreed. "We already have Shizune with your other girls so we can make sure to watch what happens.
"Right," Naruto said warily and nodded his head just a bit before holding out his hand to Jiraiya. "You need more of my blood, right?"
"Yup," Jiraiya agreed, taking the boy's hand, only to have Tsunade interject.
"Let's leave that to the trained medical professionals, shall we?" she stated blandly before using a scalpel to carefully open up the boy's hand without doing any major damage.
"Works for me," Jiraiya agreed before nodding his head after a moment. "That's enough."
Tsunade nodded her head and carefully sealed up the wound as Jiraiya went to work mixing the blood into the ink. A short time later, he placed Naruto's hand between the girl's shoulder blades and went to work completing the seal. As he worked, Naruto frowned as he noticed a difference.
"Hey, what's with that stuff on the back of her neck?"
"Cursed Seal," Jiraiya stated simply. "We're going to see if we really can wipe it away."
"… Oh," Naruto stated slowly before carefully nodding his head. "Ok…"
"Done. Just like before… but you might have to… well, this time things might be fighting you."
Frowning, Naruto nodded his headand began to push out his chakra like before. Just like before he could feel his awareness of her body beginning to slowly expand. He could feel the pulsing of her coils, the echoing sensation rippling back into him.
Then he could feel the first sign that there was something different.
There was a… he wasn't sure how to describe it. It was like some kind of foul oil sticking to her coils, infecting it, polluting it.
It was utterly and completely foreign and, unlike his own chakra, there was something… forcing it to remain. Her chakra wasn't really harmonized to it. It was more forced into her body.
And then he could feel the way it tried to spread back into him. With a frown, he continued to feed his chakra into her, harmonizing her coils into his. But he could feel it, the way the closer their coils got to one another, the more that… taint tried to push into him.
'You're playing a dangerous game.'
He recognized the voice immediately, almost breaking his concentration, before he quickly recovered and continued to work on the seal. 'It's not a game.'
'Perhaps. Do you truly want to let that thing in?'
'Hell no! I want that… that filth out of her!'
'So she can be another one of your little… pets?' There was amusement in the bijuu's voice as he spoke, 'I must admit… you've been far more entertaining than my previous hosts.'
'… You're not going to try and convince me to let you out so you can finish destroying Konoha again, are you?'
'Brat,' the kyuubi responded before pausing. 'Do you want the girl to live?'
'Why are you asking?'
'Boredom, curiosity, the desire to avoid you wallowing in foolish pity,' was the response. 'Take your pick. Of course, I'm just a monster, so what do I know?'
'I won't help you destroy Konoha,' he responded stubbornly.
'I never wanted to attack your little village to begin with. While I prefer this seal over my previous one, it was not my doing that lead to the attack on your village,' the kyuubi responded. 'I wasn't the one that responsible for your parent's deaths. That was the same person who bound my mind and ripped me out of your mother's body.'
"What?!" Naruto voiced the question aloud, causing the people around him to look at him worriedly as he continued to focus on his task.
'I have been a prisoner since the battle that carved out what you know as the Valley of The End. Your mother was my jailor before you. The act of removing me from her was fatal. It is a testament to the strength of her life force that she survived long enough to aid in my sealing into you.'
'Then what do you want? And why should I believe you?' he demanded as he could feel the chakra inside of Tayuya stir more angrily, trying to seep into him at every chance it got.
'You… are different. My previous hosts tried to ignore me. When we did speak… they spoke to me as if I was nothing but a mindless thing, a beast. They did not use my power, they suppressed it entirely. You, though…'
'I told you, we're stuck together and you're living in my body. And we're in this together.'
'Yes, now we are,' there was a pause in the answer before the kyuubi continued, irritation now evident. 'Thanks to your pets' ability to channel my chakra when you do, I no longer have the ability to simply overwhelm you. You can balance the chakra between you. And even if I could get away from you… that man is still out there.'
'Who?'
'The bastard with those accursed eyes that turn me into a prisoner in my own body. The one that wants to use me as his puppet, his tool. I am not some nameless, pathetic little spirit! I will not be a slave!'
'What's your name then?' Naruto asked as he could feel his chakra starting to ebb in power as he continued to feed the brightly glowing seal.
'What?'
'You just said you weren't nameless, so what's your name?'
There was a pause before the voice spoke, '…Kurama. My name is Kurama.'
'Well, Kurama, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, will you help me out, so we can kick the asses of the jackasses that want to fuck up our lives even more?'
There was silence, before slowly a chuckle began to echo to Naruto's ears, 'You have guts, Naruto Uzumaki. And you're going to be making one of those bastard Uchiha with their accursed eyes into your pet if you succeed with this one, yes?'
'That's what they're planning.'
'I find that idea… appealing. So, for this… and only for this, I will allow you to have a taste of what it means to truly use my chakra.'
'Whaaaaa….?' Confusion rippled through Naruto before suddenly he could feel an enormous rush of pour flowing through him.
Those watching him could only stare in shock as Naruto seemed to transform into a being of pure, radiant yellow energy.
Instantly Naruto could feel the tainted chakra of the seal recoiling, pulling away from him, trying to hide. As this new chakra flowed into Tayuya's coils, the polluting chakra of the cursed seal withdrew further and further back into its origin. And then, when it had retreated fully back into the seal, it wrapped up that last bastion in a great swell of power.
In that moment a molted, dark form tried to erupt out of the seal, a gurgling, half-heard scream filled the air as a half-formed face and hand could be seen for a brief moment. Then they melted back, the burning spread of the power flowing through Naruto covered Tayuya. When it finished, it burned the blemish of the cursed seal away.
Then, when the last of the cursed seal was wiped away, Naruto collapsed back onto Tayuya's thighs, "What the hell was that?!"
"I don't fucking know but could you get the fuck off of me and let me have some damned clothes?!" Tayuya demanded with snarl as she suddenly found herself back completely in control of her body.
'Heh… there might be hope for you yet, Naruto Uzumaki.'
-o-o-o-
Somewhere, hidden in the Land of Rice, Orochimaru screamed in agony.