Shikamaru's face appeared over Naruto's wrist with an incredulous expression. "I'm sorry, my auditory routine must have glitched. I thought you said you're going to conquer the Oto."
"No, no, you heard right," Tenten assured her creation.
"And you're going to attempt this insanity because…?" Shikamaru asked leadingly.
Naruto sighed. "Look, I know it's a crazy plan. But I need energy if I'm going to combat this rival Uzu, and I'll need substantial allies. Enthralling Karin and her mother just makes good sense. And from there, I can enthrall all the Oto under their command. And every female Oto I enthrall, that's more energy for us. More importantly, I'll be able to fix the genetic tampering Orochimaru did to them. I could fix the birth ratio, give the Oto a chance to repopulate. And once I have House Guren under my command, might as well go for the other Noble Houses. In short, I pull an Orochimaru, but with good intentions."
Shikamaru turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke, I agree with your sentiments of mutiny."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "I wasn't really being serious. I just can't really wrap my head around the Marine I used to know ending up King of the Oto by face-fucking thousands of women."
"It does sound more ridiculous than crazy when you put it like that," Hinata mused, sipping on her vodka rocks.
"Have you considered how long this could take? It could take years, even with Fu's tentacles, to get a significant portion of the population as Thralls," Sakura pointed out. "You promised to help me with my mom's killers and to pick up Lee on our way to Iwa space. I didn't realize that would take months rather than weeks."
Naruto grinned at his Medical Officer. "Remember how I had a 'feeling' we'd get a hot hacker? Well, I have a feeling that this deal with Anko will involve us going towards Iwa anyway. Besides, I never said I would enact my plan immediately. For now, let's just focus on Karin and Anko. The rest of House Guren can take its sweet time. This is a long-term plan, not our prioritized goal."
Shikamaru sighed. "Well, I'm the Ship Assistant. I'll assist. But I find this to be very troublesome. By the way, there's an Oto approaching the airlock."
Naruto tilted his head and set down his drink. He took the anti-grav tube down to Deck 9 and heard it when the 'doorbell' was rung on the airlock. Naruto hit the DNA scanner and the outer airlock opened, revealing an agitated Kakashi, looking fervently around the Docking Bay.
Naruto smiled at the man, and said, "Hey Kakashi, It's good to see you. Come on in."
The Oto nodded, and stepped through the airlock. He seemed so unsettled, that he didn't even have any witty or cheerful greeting for Naruto as he did. Naruto closed the airlock door after him, and Kakashi turned and watched it spiral shut in silence. The moment it was sealed tight, he turned to Naruto and spoke animatedly.
"You can't trust anything Karin says!" he blurted out, sounding deeply worried.
Naruto smiled at the troubled Oto and reached out, placing his hand on the smaller man's shoulder reassuringly. "Let's go and have a drink, then we can talk about it," he suggested amiably, trying to put his friend at ease.
Kakashi nodded vigorously, and followed Naruto over to the grav-tubes. Naruto gave him a brief explanation of how they worked, and then stepped inside to demonstrate, rising smoothly in the soft blue glow. The Oto followed his lead, and they eventually stepped out onto Deck 2.
"That's a marvellous replacement for elevators," Kakashi said, sounding impressed, and momentarily distracted from his concerns. "All that waiting is so tiresome!"
Naruto chuckled. "Tenten's idea. Just one of her many genius inventions," he said, leading Kakashi to the Officer's Lounge. Kakashi waved distractedly at the rest of the crew. Naruto poured him a glass of gin as he knew the smaller man preferred. He handed it to Kakashi and led him to an open chair that wasn't occupied by the Pack. Kakashi reached for a straw-like attachment for his helmet before pausing.
"Oh, fuck it," he growled, before reaching up and removing it like Karin had. The Oto merchant shared the same slightly angular eyes as Karin, but his were a rich black instead. He also had short, dark hair, and Naruto could clearly see the tips of the man's pointed ears. Kakshi smiled at him, watching the crew as they studied him intently.
"Now I've committed treason. If any Oto finds out I did this, I'll be flayed publically before being put to death," Kakashi said resolutely.
Hana wrinkled her nose, having been raised with K-Fed disciplinary measures that strictly prohibited corporal punishment. "That's barbaric."
"That's Oto society, at least the women. Sadistic, poisonous snakes, the lot of them. And there's none worse than House Guren. It's how they've maintained their crown as the largest Noble House," Kakashi explained. "Which is why you must not trust a word that came out Karin's mouth!"
Naruto laid a hand on his friend's. "What do you know about what she came to talk to us about?"
"She came back and demanded I reveal what business I had with you. She wound up rambling about the Uzu and how you were nothing like she expected. She even mentioned she revealed herself to you and you didn't blink. What did you do to rattle her like that?" Kakashi asked, confused and amazed in equal measure.
"She tried to bluff us with a pair of twos and we showed her our royal flush, in poker terms," Naruto told Kakashi. "She thought she could tempt us with Oto Laser tech and knowledge about the Uzu, not realizing we knew far more than she did and we already have better weapons than the Oto."
Kakashi blinked. "I find that hard to believe. I've witnessed a Nova Lance being fired."
"What I forgot to mention before lunch was the Uzu have vastly superior technology to the Galactic League encoded in our DNA. Tenten's reverse-engineered the best we can get with the materials we have, which is slightly better than Oto equivalents. And we're expecting a shipment of necessary components for even better tech from the Suna to arrive in the next couple days," Naruto explained. "Besides, even if it came to a fight, our armor is 100% reflective. Lasers bounce right off the Invictus. Unless Oto have kinetics as a back-up, we have nothing to fear from the Oto."
Kakashi gaped and took a big swig of his gin. "Every word out your mouth today strains credulity, my friend," he said. "But even if your ship is immune to laser fire, you certainly are not!"
Naruto coated himself in Psychic Shields and summoned Psychic Fire to his hand. "You sure about that?" he asked casually.
Kakashi's jaw dropped. "I… I… I might have worried for no reason. Karin seems no threat to you."
Naruto dispelled the psychic powers and grinned. "You know, if you join us, we'll be following her to a meeting with her mother. What can you tell me about Anko?"
Kakashi shivered. "I can tell you there is literally nothing you could offer me that would get me in a room with that woman. She is queen of the harshest nest of vipers to be found in the Oto Regency. She can lie so well she can have you believing the sun is a different color. And she's rumored to be from one of the Eldritch Bloodlines," Kakashi said with reverent fear.
"She is. The nobility of House Guren are direct descendents of Orochimaru and his Matriarch Guren, whom he gifted psychic powers. A skill that has stayed strong through their bloodline. Karin's grandmother was pyrokinetic, while her mother is a Telekinetic of moderate ability," Gaara spoke up.
Kakashi gaped at the Grey. "From what I've heard of her powers, I'm not sure 'moderate' is the right word."
"Compared to us, she is," Naruto said before lifting all the furniture with them still on it.
Kakashi gulped, looking down at the floor. "Okay, you've proved your point. Please let me down," he begged.
"Sure," Naruto said. "I hope you've given our offer some consideration."
Kakashi gulped. "I've thought of little else all day. And after the revelations tonight, I'm heavily leaning towards joining you. Just answer me this: why go with Karin to meet Anko if you don't need Oto Lasers?"
Naruto sighed and explained his plans to conquer the Oto for their own good, to fix the birth ratio and end the power games, the backstabbing, the endless political infighting. And, at the same time, getting an army out of the deal. Kakashi looked at him like he'd grown a third eye before gulping down the rest of his gin. "You, sir, are mad. Brilliant, but mad all the same."
"It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide," Naruto said lightly, quoting an old pirate movie. "Phase 1 is just following Karin to meet up with Anko and see how things develop."
"... Okay. I'm convinced. You're immortal, psychic, and have superior tech. And you all are the happiest people I've ever met. I want to join you," Kakashi said after a long silence.
Naruto perked up. "Really? You're sure?"
"Yes, I am. At least I think I am. Just start the process before I can change my mind," Kakashi said, his face somehow both anxious and resigned.
Naruto winced. "Yeah, about that… there's one detail I left out when I was explaining things to you. The way for me to adopt a person as an Uzu is to… drink my cum."
Kakashi looked at him flatly, before turning to the rest of the Pack. "Is he serious?" he asked them as if he already expected the answer.
"It's true. Uzu semen is a psychic catalyst that causes DNA modification. We all spent about a week getting three or more doses a day," Sakura said with a helpless shrug.
"Like you, I was straight when I started out. To compromise, he let me suck a creampie out of Hinata," Sasuke said, mellowed out after a few tequila shots.
Kakashi's eyes widened, and he looked at the girls speculatively. "That sounds like a wonderful alternative. But with nothing but men on Geniya, we Oto have learned to… adapt. Like in Konoha prisons, according to your pop culture."
Naruto finished his drink. "It's up to you, Kakashi. I don't care how you get your first dose, it's your choice. Pick one of the girls to eat out and I'll fill her up, or I can drop trou and you can blow me right here. In either case, you should know there's a narcotic in my precum that'll knock you out for the next 14 hours. So you might want to clear your schedule tomorrow before we start."
Kakashi nodded and activated a computer in the left vambrace of his armor. He made a few commands before nodding, his face resolute. "There. I'm free for the whole day tomorrow. Karin might come looking for me, but you seem capable of handling her. So, Naruto, after 9 years in business we finally get to third base," he said, too nervous to come across as a joke.
Naruto grinned reassuringly. "You might want to get out of your armor first. I cum in pints, it's a quirk of my species. Your belly is going to round out, and that breastplate doesn't seem to have much give."
Kakashi nodded hesitantly, and then stood up. He hit a few more buttons on his armor and the pieces detached, for him to carefully place on the floor. He was wearing a skintight bodysuit underneath much like Naruto had loaned to Hinata back on the Fool's Gold. It highlighted the cat-like leanness of his build, with decidedly less muscle than the Beta build, and a respectable shower or a very respectable grower cock. Kakashi reached behind his back with impressive flexibility and pulled down the zipper, stepping out of the suit and revealing acres upon acres of sky-blue flesh. He still had pink fingernails and toenails like a Konoha or Uzu, and he either shaved or was naturally hairless as a Thrall.
The crew all clapped appreciatively, causing Kakashi to blush indigo. "Time for me to join the family?" he asked.
Naruto stood up and took the smaller man into his arms. He nuzzled into Kakashi's neck before seeking out his lips for a kiss. Kakashi responded with good technique if little enthusiasm. He truly was straight and just had sex with men out of lack of options. Naruto pulled back and gently led Kakashi back to his seat. Naruto sat down first, and then guided the Oto merchant down to his knees.
"I warn you, I'm big. Like, surprisingly big. Just remember, you won't remember the first two times," Naruto cautioned.
Kakashi set his shoulders. "You promised me a family. This is the way to get it. Let's get this show on the road."
Naruto nodded, and then pulled down his shorts.
Kakashi blinked. "Huh. You're even bigger than Jirobo, the most popular stud on this station." With no more than that comment, Kakashi leaned forward and, before he could second-guess himself, wrapped his mouth around the head. His eyes went glassy as Naruto's precum went to work.
The crew watched as Kakashi mindlessly suckled, eventually making down to the root and Naruto's quad. Sakura was fascinated. "So that's what we look like under the influence. Gaara, how did it even fit in you? Naruto practically reached down your esophagus to your stomach if you were the dimensions of your average Suna."
"Doesn't matter, the point is it did. And I got bigger," Gaara said nonchalantly.
"I'll be the only one immune to these effects the first time I blow Naruto. Androids are immune to drugs!" Shikamaru inserted.
Naruto grinned. "So you 'want' to blow me? That's a boost for my ego. I'm so sexy even an AI lusts after me," he said around the pleasurable feeling of Kakashi deepthroating him.
"Well, if Tenten is my mother, you're good as my father, so it's an incestuous desire. That turn you off?" Shikamaru asked.
"I'm the one planning to enthrall a mother-daughter pair, and I love when Fu and Hinata act out twins. Plus, with the control I have over DNA and my cum, I could probably knock up my own sister and there'd be no genetic risk. So incest is allowed, I suppose, on this crew," Naruto said before groaning. He soon unloaded down Kakashi's throat, making his stomach round out like he was a pregnant woman.
Naruto lifted Kakashi easily and led him and the Pack back to the Commodore's Quarters. They placed him gently in the center of the bed, then grabbed a quick shower. Even after Psychic Healing to restore himself and cure his buzz, Naruto simply wasn't in the mood and neither was the Pack. They all piled around Kakashi and settled in a mass of warm bodies on the extra-large bed.
Wolves of Uzu
Karin paced around her room. She had been sure that Naruto was going to turn her down, especially after that comment about having superior technology. She'd think he was bluffing, if he hadn't plucked the name of her idiot twin sister out of her mind. She took a deep breath and composed herself, before quickly opening up the comm interface to inform her mother of the good news.
The channel connected and the familiar icon of House Guren filled the screen. A few seconds later the stern face of Matriarch Guren Anko appeared, staring at her impassively.
"I did it mother! The Uzu has agreed to journey with me to meet with you!" she told her mother eagerly.
Anko's cold eyes studied her daughter for a long moment, before she said, "This had better not be a waste of my time Karin. The limits to my tolerance for incompetence are well known."
"I promise you I'm right, mother," Karin insisted urgently.
Anko's eyes narrowed, and she asked, "Have you tested him? Verified you're correct?"
Karin shuddered as she remembered the piercing eyes of that crew as their Commodore casually tore her bluff to shreds. "Yes, I'm very sure. If you require proof, I can take him to the killing grounds and-"
"No," Anko cut her off sharply. "If he is who you say he is, then have him eliminate the Zetsu."
Karin looked shocked, and blurted out, "But, I don't think tha-"
"Leave the thinking to me," Anko interrupted her, with a malignant, twisted smile. "That world is ripe for colonization, but I can't afford to waste the resources necessary to take it. Have your Orochimaru do it for me."
Karin was about to protest again, perhaps point out that Orochimaru was a name and not a title apparently, but thought better of it, so she bowed her head and nodded obediently. When she looked up at the viewscreen again, it crackled with static, the comm channel closed. She let out a troubled sigh as she slumped in her chair, and stared off into the distance.
Wolves of Uzu
Naruto woke up around 1000, exhausted by a long day yesterday. "Shikamaru, any calls or anything interesting?"
"Repeated calls from Karin, one every fifteen minutes since 0800," the AI replied faithfully.
Naruto frowned and turned to his wrist communicator. "Patch me through to her," he requested.
A holo-image of Karin's armored face appeared above Narutos' wrist. "Ah, Commodore Uzumaki. I beg your pardon, but have you seen Kakashi? He's been missing since last night, and I was wondering if you had seen him?" she asked in her most polite tone, either still cowed from last night or wanting something out of him.
"Kakashi came to visit us about our proposal. He wound up getting drunk and we put him in a room. He's safe and sound," Naruto said, technically not lying.
Karin nodded, but seemed just as tense. "I'm afraid there's been a change in plan."
Naruto raised a brow. "How so? And please be honest, I'll know if you lie to me."
Naruto could have sworn he heard her gulp. "My mother, as a good faith gesture on your part, requests that you aid in the extermination of a hostile species on one of the worlds under our command."
"You mean she wants proof that I'm a mighty Uzu like the legends make us out to be. And from what I hear of Anko, she's more the type to demand than request," Naruto noted astutely. He shrugged. "What's the species and world?"
"The Zetsu, on Quanthos. They're a hive-mind funganoid species that have killed every Oto that attempted to colonize the planet over the centuries," Karin reported honestly, as Naruto could sense.
"What's the plan? Shoot every single one? Because that could take a while," Naruto said humorously.
Karin shook her head. "The Zetsu are based in a cave system under a mountain chain that is rich in magnesium and other flammable elements. If I can get an incendiary device to the right spot, we can blow them all sky high."
"So we're to be your bodyguards while you escort this bomb to the weak point… sounds simple enough. Thank you for your honesty. If you'd have led me by the nose with something fake, I'd be much less inclined to help you," Naruto told her.
She seemed to shiver. "I believe you when you say you would have known. And I am not tempted to test your mercy. The pirates, Nuke, and Kusa all learned the hard way that you have none."
Naruto let that statement go because it was an opinion and not a fact. "Our business here at Geniya should be concluded within two days. Let's make plans to set out by 1200 Konoha Standard Time three days from now. Is that acceptable to you?"
"Yes, it'll take me a couple days to acquire the incendiary device anyway. Thank you for your agreement to my mother's terms, Naruto!" Karin said happily.
Naruto shrugged. "Well, I figured if I said no, you'd suffer the consequences. And I hate to see pretty girls in pain."
Karin stood still before ending the call.
Naruto shrugged and turned to his crew, who'd been following the conversation in both sound and thought. "So, we're exterminators now," he said lightly.
"You're sure she didn't lie to you? Not once?" Sasuke pressed.
"I didn't get that mental alarm like with Koeman. She was being truthful," Naruto stated confidently.
"I remember the Zetsu from the deep dive. As she said, they're hostile fungoids on a very ripe planet for colonization," Gaara revealed, showing what you get when you review a lifetime of memories with your own photographic memory.
"Depending on how fast we get there, we might get a field test of Quantum Rifles!" Tenten said excitedly.
Naruto grinned at his industrious lover before turning to the rest. "What's everyone's plans for the next couple days? I'll be busy with Lee and Kakashi."
"Speaking of, you notice his new hairdo?" Hinata asked, looking down at the slumbering trader. His short hair, even his eyebrows and eyelashes, had turned the snow-white of Invictium.
Naruto reviewed the Astral Bond he'd gotten from the moment Kakashi swallowed the first spurt. "Sakura can figure it out by looking at his DNA. I think it looks good on him."
"A phenotype change to mark Thralldom? But why bother unless you programmed in certain responses to it? I'll need to check against a normal Oto male and female to be sure, but I think Orochimaru made it so the Oto were naturally more obedient to Thralls," Sakura postulated, her beyond genius IQ crunching the situation.
"Makes sense. That way they'd be less likely to revolt when Thralls came to kidnap the next batch of women," Hana mused.
Fu had a look of eager experimentation on her face. "I'm going to the Cargo Bay to practice my shapeshifting, Naruto! I'll try to turn into the really big and the really small, just for variety's sake. My ultimate goal is a Triceratops or Tyrannosaurus Rex!"
Sasuke blinked. "Since when can you turn into dinosaurs? Anyway, I finished up the report on your mom yesterday. We can review it whenever. After lunch? You've got a spar in 15 minutes, we'll have to rush breakfast."
"Still teaching my students how to throw a punch and kick," Hana reported dutifully, while Gaara and Sakura groaned.
"Again, powers training in the Gym," Hinata said simply.
"And I'll be putting together the components for an Uzu Tactical Chair and Pilot Chair with the help of Shikamaru and my handy-dandy robots," Tenten chirped.
"And I'll do what I normally do, watch digital clouds and devote a fraction of my processing to helping you guys out," Shikamaru snarked.
"Well, we're all agreed. Kakashi should wake up around 1400, since he blew me at midnight. We'll have the meeting about my mom at 1300 and then I'll come back to talk to him and give him the second dose. Ready, run out!"
For once, they had nothing but toast and eggs for breakfast, Naruto actually using Psychic Speed to cook everything while dressed in his training gear. Once he'd scarfed down his breakfast, he made for Deck 3 and the simulation room. Where he spent the next 90 minutes in a single spar that Lee managed to win by luck more than anything. The smug smile on his face told how vital that victory was to his confidence after his loss yesterday.
"Good match," Naruto bowed.
"Indeed," Lee said, soaked with sweat after over an hour of continuous heavy exertion. "You were right, I'm just that good a teacher. But you are the best student I ever trained."
"I'm the only student you ever trained," Naruto pointed out.
"Semantics." Lee walked over to the button on his end to cancel the simulation. "Same time tomorrow?"
"You're on!" Naruto said enthusiastically. That had been the greatest workout of his life.
To make up for the subpar breakfast, Naruto made handmade meatballs and spaghetti in his grandma's famous pasta sauce. Everyone raved about the juiciness of the meat and the richness of the tomato in the sauce. Then everyone filed up to the Briefing Room to hear the news about Uzumaki Kushina.
"Uzumaki Kushina was a Second Lieutenant assigned to the research vessel Cora in 2737," Sasuke began, pulling up Kushina's dossier and an image of the ship. "They set out into the area past Karron towards the rim. This was before the Nuke expanded into that territory and they didn't know the risk. Inside of three months, they found a Eden-class planet in a dense nebula that they named Arcadia."
Sasuke clicked the remote and an image of a beautiful green world full of forests and mountains and lakes. "The Cora landed on the equator and the researchers began to make brief sorties away from the landing site. A couple months in, Kushina went out one day and disappeared. The crew looked for her, but eventually declared her missing-in-action. Over a year later, they went further afield and found Kushina sitting by a lake, heavily pregnant with you. She resisted capture heavily, screaming about how she had to return to her 'master'. And a few clicks away, they found this," Sasuke said before hitting the remote again.
Naruto and the Pack stared at the image of a crashed Uzu vessel set in a plain between two mountains. Naruto gulped as he looked upon his father's ship. "Well, it's in better shape than the Legacy, but that ain't flying anytime soon."
"It's been forty years, though. And if he isn't dead, your father's got nothing but time to repair it," Hinata pointed out.
"You know the rest of the story, Naruto. They heavily sedated your mother and dragged her back to Olympus Shipyard. She had you, and then as soon as she recovered, sooner than a typical Konoha woman I might add, she caused the explosion that killed the Cora's crew and stole a ship to return to Arcadia," Sasuke said solemnly.
Naruto worked his jaw muscles for a moment. "Well, now we know where to find them when we have the time to deal with them," he said before standing up. "I need a drink, and then I'm going to talk to Kakashi. Everyone return to your normal tasks," he ordered faintly before leaving the Briefing Room.
Naruto went straight for the rum, and didn't even bother trying to cut it with ginger ale. He took two big burning gulps and then stopped, feeling the alcohol race down his throat to his stomach and then spread to his bloodstream. He took a final third gulp and then set the bottle back behind the bar, noticeably lower in contents.
He felt more than heard Hinata walk up behind him and hug him. Naruto sighed and let himself sink into the comfort of his Matriarch's embrace. "Why have a son? That's what I keep wondering. If he'd wanted more Thralls, I would have been a girl. Instead he 'chose' to have an Uzu son with her. Why? Was her getting captured part of a plan? Did he plan for me to be born in Konoha space and, what, eventually find and rescue him when I formed my empire? Did he love her like Orochimaru loved Guren or was she just the first female to come along? So many questions," Naruto sighed, going to a chair and pulling Hinata into his lap like a teddy bear.
"I can't give you the answers. Only they can. And we're a bit busy and under-equipped to go charging into the heart of Nuke space," Hinata told him. "But once Tenten has the Invictus kicked out with Quantum weapons or we build our own Uzu vessel, we'll go to Arcadia and ask them ourselves. And if your dad turns out to be a typical Uzu, I'll pull the trigger myself so you won't have to," Hinata vowed.
Naruto grinned and gave her a kiss. "What would I do without you?"
"You'll never have to find out," she promised before returning his kiss.
They made out for a few minutes, before Shikamaru coughed. "Kakashi is beginning to stir. Time to get up and get him some water," the AI pointed out.
"Thanks, Shikamaru," Naruto said before letting Hinata lift off him and then standing himself. Well, at least he had an erection in case Kakashi wanted his second dose right away. They grabbed a glass and filled it with water before walking down the corridor to the Commodore's Quarters. They found Kakashi sitting up, the blankets and comforter gathered in his lap. Kakashi saw the glass of water and eagerly reached out his hand.
"Yeah, you're dehydrated. Your body's been doing some hard work, changing DNA, healing damage. Plus you had some alcohol before you went under," Naruto explained as he handed over the H20.
Kakashi drained the whole glass in three big gulps. He wiped his mouth and Hinata helpfully took the glass from him. "I feel 40 years younger. What did your seed do to me?"
"Like I said, you're going to get taller and stronger, and all your old injuries will just go away. You'll eventually end up looking like Gaara or Sasuke. That's my 'template' for my male lovers."
Kakashi nodded. "The stories of Orochimaru never mentioned him taking the men too."
"I'm the first bisexual Uzu that we know of. Lucky mutation, my dad deciding to experiment with my genes, who knows? The point is that I swing both ways, and have Thralls of both sexes."
Kakashi looked around the room. "These are very nice quarters, Naruto. I didn't expect this kind of luxury on an ex-Navy vessel."
"A gift from Sasuke when it was being retrofitted when I first bought it. We all enjoy it very much," Naruto said with a grin.
Kakashi looked at the chronometer and gaped. "It really was 14 hours!"
"Every word I told you was the truth," Naruto vowed. "And for the record, you might want to look in the mirror."
Hinata helpfully guided a Kakashi embarrassed about his nudity to the closet and the full-length mirror. He blinked and pulled a strand of his white hair down to his eyes. "This is different. Is this some way to distinguish me from normal Oto?"
"Sakura seems to think it will have an effect on Oto who see you. Perhaps make them more subservient and malleable. Of course, if you wear your armor, it won't work," Naruto explained.
Kakashi blinked. "I'll keep that in mind. So, what now? Do I get a second dose and wake up tomorrow? Because I'll need at least 24 hours to sell off all my assets and cut ties to Geniya."
"The second dose only knocks you out for 4 hours. You could have it now, wake up in time for dinner, and stay the night and return to your offices tomorrow. I mean, think about it, are you really looking forward to Karin confronting you on what you were doing on our ship?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi paled to cyan. "On second thought, I could just liquify what I can, transfer it all to your account, and just vanish never to be seen again. I can do all that from the computer in my armor."
Hinata chuckled. "You're really scared of her, aren't you?"
"She has eyes and ears everywhere. Anything that can be accessed digitally is hers to play with. She could be watching us right now," Kakashi said solemnly.
Naruto grinned. "Not with our firewalls. They're alive, for one thing. Shikamaru?"
"Introducing me to the new kid?" the AI asked as Kakashi looked up curious.
"Very impressive Virtual Intelligence," Kakashi complimented. "But it won't keep out Karin."
"I'm an ACTUAL intelligence, blue boy. I think, therefore I am. Name's Shikamaru, and I bet I could handle money better than you could," Shikamaru challenged.
Kakashi whipped his head to Naruto. "You made an AI?! Are you insane?"
"Possibly," Naruto admitted. "He's perfectly friendly so far, and it's been almost a month since we turned him on."
Kakashi hung his head. "Superior tech, I know. Well, I guess I'll just have to get used to it."
"Him, not it," Naruto corrected.
Kakashi sighed and kneeled before Naruto. "Let's just knock me out until dinner, shall we?"
Naruto complied and whipped out his cock. Kakashi's eyes lit up with genuine interest, the change to his Kinsey score already done, and he eagerly sucked on the head. His eyes went blank and he mindlessly worked his mouth on Naruto's knob until the Uzu's quad unleashed their contents. Naruto and Hinata tucked Kakashi back into bed and then went down to the Gym for a psychic spar.
Wolves of Uzu
"So, you were sloppy enough to give the game away," Pein snorted, shaking his head in disbelief.
The disused processing plant was gloomy and unlit, with only a few shards of light from the holes in the ceiling overhead providing any illumination. The assassin had finished carefully cleaning his tools, and they were spotless, gleaming brightly once more. As he examined each razor sharp, or wickedly barbed implement in turn, he slotted them back into the slots in the black velvet roll of cloth, which was spread out on the grubby table. When they were all back in their place, he flipped over the velvet top, and then carefully rolled up the cloth, before tucking it under his arm.
"Your story is so absurd, I'm inclined to believe you, Mr Koeman," he said, addressing the man in restraints, who was slumped in a chair.
Koeman Peter remained silent, as a dark red pool began to spread out across the dusty floor beneath his feet.
The man in black turned to look at him one last time, and shook his head. "If you hadn't tried to run, it might not have taken you so long to convince me you were telling me the truth," he lamented, before his mouth twisted up in an evil grin. "Still, you'll be a valuable lesson to the others," he added with satisfaction.
The brooding figure strode away purposefully, without a second glance in Mr Koeman's direction, a new course of action already in mind. After his many years in this line of business, he had learned that you just needed to prepare a trap with the right kind of bait.
