Chapter 25 : Little Devil

Naruto's Apartment. 6 AM.

It was early in the morning and Sai was standing in front of Naruto's old apartment. The sun had just shone and Sai was followed with two of his subordinates. He picked the junior ones. He thought that perhaps it would just some trolls who couldn't keep their hands off of people's business. Like those aunties who called him names such as male gold-digger and such for marrying Ino. But, he also knew that this case was perhaps bigger than his own case, he wasn't a Hokage. While, Sarada on the other hand, married a married man and made Naruto became the first Hokage with two wives. She was also his mistress before they got married, women certainly hate this young fresh meat Sarada Uchiha for "snatching" Naruto from his beautiful perfect royalty first wife.

Sai sighed.

What kind of drama does Naruto want to involve him in?

He heard all the drama Shikamaru had to take care of due to the whole Naruto polygamy drama from Ino. He founded them something that would induce discomfort in a whole new level. He heard every single detail of it, and he was also amazed at how thorough Shikamaru was in going through the Hokage's trash. Shikamaru told Sai that he had found used condoms in the trash, also tickets to snow village named Naruto Uzumaki and Sarada Uchiha. Well, it certainly was exciting to fuck at the Hokage's office. The adrenaline would be insane. But, it was completely wrong, especially when you're doing it with someone who's not your spouse. Sai thought.

Shikamaru also told him about how he had to handle the whole press drama, including how at first Hinata agreed on going public how she agreed on Naruto's marriage, continued with Sarada disappearing and suddenly making an announcement that Naruto had raped her. The press drama was insane. He also had to deal with the Gonchato protest. Sai shivered just by imagining what he would do if he were in Shikamaru's shoes.

"Sir, we found something interesting," a young girl with black hair and grey ribbon on her hair showed something in a plastic bag to Sai. She was one of his subordinates. The girl was Hako Kuroi, a part of team 25.

Sai's eyes peered to the plastic zipper bag. "Is it a necklace?" Sai kept on looking at the bag. "Yes sir, it's a necklace with a white dragon pendant," the girl said. Sai was completely shocked when he saw the pendant.

"Gonchato involvement again?" Sai rolled his eyes. "I think so, sir," the girl said to her leader. "Who would have thought we have to deal with the crazies again, " He sighed.

Nara Residence. 9 PM.

Shikamaru's house was designed in classic Japanese style. The house was quite big and it was dominated with woods in light colours. They also prefer to use warm white lamps instead of white lamps, which made the house felt homey. They had a room especially to greet guests, it was located near the entrance. It was a medium-sized room with some decorations on the walls, they were photos of the patriarch of Nara family in every generation. The room also had a wooden desk in dark color with a bonsai on top of it, beside the bonsai there was a deer made of green colored crystal, the symbol of the family. In the middle of the room, there was a short table with tatami chairs for the house owners and the guests to sit down. On top of the table, there was a glass ashtray. After Temari moved inside Nara residence, she also added a big painting of Nara's forest with deer in the middle of it on the other side of the wall, it was oil painting that's dominated in moss green and blood red color, a symbolism of the power in Nara's forest.

After taking off his shoes, Sai entered the guest's living room. Sai's eyes were wandering around the room, he was fixated to the painting in the room, studying at how nice the painting was. He was going to touch it but Shikamaru entered the room. He entered the room with his hair down and he was wearing his dark green loungewear in cotton consisting of a long sleeve cotton top and matching loose pants. There was a cigarette between his fingers and his other hand hold a tray with a ceramic pot and two ceramic glasses.

"It's a beautiful painting, who painted it?" Sai smiled at the dark haired man. "Ah ... it's Temari's gift for my mother, i think she asked her artist friend from Sunagakure," Shikamaru said lazily, he immediately sat down, crossing his legs immediately. Sai then followed him by sitting modestly with his calves under his thighs.

"What is it that brings you here, Sai?" Shikamaru put the cigarette between his lips then poured the tea to the glasses, he then gave one of the glass to Sai. He then lit his cigarette on.

"I found this in front of Naruto's apartment, it was under the tree," Sai put out a zipped plastic bag on the table. It had a necklace with white dragon pendant in it.

Shikamaru sighed. What a drag. "Here i thought we were done with Gonchato shit," Shikamaru said. "Isn't Sarada also a Gonchato follower?" Sai was looking at the necklace seriously with finger on his chin. "Well, yes, she is," Shikamaru answered. He was confused why Sai asked that but in a minute he realized what Sai was thinking.

"So, how many suspects do you have for this case so far?" Shikamaru's gaze met the Yamanaka man's eyes. "I suspect it is either Sarada or Yukie or any of their Gonchatos associates," Sai said. "Wow, you know Yukie?" Shikamaru blew the smoke out of his lips. "Before Sarada got married to Naruto, we actually tracked her and we found that she was in contact to this woman named Yukie Fujikaze, whose husband is still a big figure in Gonchato movement until now," Sai replied, he drank a sip of the tea. "But, at this moment, Yukie is not in Konoha, she's a permanent residence of Yukigakure, and i had asked a friend there to make sure where she was and he was sure that she's in Yukigakure for the past one week at least," Sai said. "But, it's still possible for her to ask her subordinate here to do it," Sai added. "What is your analysis about this, Shikamaru?" Sai asked.

"Well, perhaps Sarada didn't give her something she wanted ... perhaps they made a deal that if Sarada could be the Hokage's wife, Sarada would help her with something but turned out that Sarada couldn't help her, that's why she started attacking Sarada?" Shikamaru put the cigarette in between his lips again. "What would Yukie want?" Sai asked the Nara patriarch. "Perhaps for Sarada to influence Naruto so Gonchato laws would somewhat be included in the constitution?" Nara answered. "Well, that's possible," Sai drank another sip of the green tea. "Why did you suspect Sarada? She's the victim here, she and her child," Shikamaru asked the short haired man. "Perhaps she wanted something new? Like a new house? Naruto's old apartment isn't exactly good though, it's an old apartment, and there's nothing luxe about that," Sai commented. "I can't believe you're thinking that way," Shikamaru snorted. "Well, she is a millennial ... most of them care a lot in living lavishly," Sai defended his suspicion. "Well, it is not impossible," Shikamaru drank a sip of his green tea. "Well, she did crazy things before, like accusing Naruto of raping her for example, it is not impossible for her to use clone jutsu to perform such action," Shikamaru added. "Will Naruto get angry though if we bring Sarada for another questioning?" Sai asked. "Perhaps," Shikamaru said. "Well, Naruto told me that he's going to renovate the apartment for better security, Sarada will stay there again , if she is attacked again, then we can actually catch the culprit right away actually," Shikamaru said.

Uchiha Residence. 8 AM.

The situation was tense in between the Uchihas in the house. It was the most stressful breakfast Sarada had in her life, second to the breakfast she had at the Uzumaki household.

"So, did you do it?" Sasuke glared at his daughter. His glare induced goosebumps for both women.

Sarada's mouth was wide agape. She was in state of shock. "Why would she do it?" Sakura asked Sasuke. She certainly sided with her daughter. "Maybe Naruto will buy her a house or something if she lives in dangerous neighbourhood," Sasuke said. "Why would i want to endanger Karuto's life? And i was in the apartment the whole time," Sarada glared back at her father. "You could have asked your shitty Gonchato friend or you can use some kind of clone jutsu!" Sasuke stood up and slammed the table. He was all worked up when he saw his daughter glaring at him, with her red eyes. "Sasuke, calm down," Sakura said, the woman massaged her temple with her fingers. The whole thing caused her migraine to come back. "Sarada, go back to your room and just feed Karuto in your room," Sakura commanded her daughter. She was left alone with her husband.

"Did Sai really say that?" Sakura touched her husband's hand to calm him down. "He found a Gonchato necklace in front of Naruto's apartment," Sasuke sat down and calmed down. Sakura was shook. Both of them knew that their daughter was involved in the whole Gonchato movement. "Oh, Sasuke! I can't live like this!" Sakura couldn't even think anymore, she suddenly bursted into tears. "Sakura ... Perhaps it wasn't Sarada ... perhaps it's just another part of Gonchato who hates her," Sasuke pulled his chair closer to Sakura and rubbed his wife's back. "Some of the women of Gonchato certainly disagree with the whole polygamous thing and perhaps they blamed Sarada for it," Sasuke tried to calm his wife. "But, what if it was Sarada who's doing it? You know what she's capable of," Sakura sobbed, she was reminded on how a good kunoichi Sarada was and how crazy she was to lie on public television of the Hokage raping her. "I'll try joining Sai in the investigation, maybe i can find something else," Sasuke replied while pulling his wife closer so he could hug her.

Konoha Coffee Shop. 3 PM.

It was a modern coffee shop with cute feminine design with a lot of cats decoration on it. It was the most popular coffee shop in Konoha, younger generation like Sarada herself loved being there. They played the most calming music and the coffee tasted awesome. Sarada came there with Karuto in the stroller, it was impossible for her to leave Karuto alone in the house.

Sarada had just entered the coffee shop when she saw Karui, Chocho's mother glaring at a young man and her daughter while slamming the table. Luckily for them, the coffee shop was not crowded, there were only the staffs there. Sarada was frightened when she saw Karui got angry at the young man in front of her.

"Who do you think you are? You think i can allow Chocho marrying a man like you?!" Karui yelled at the young man in black hoodie, Sarada immediately knew who that man was when his silver hair was peeking out of his hoodie. "She doesn't deserve an actor! She's Chocho of clan Akamichi! She deserves someone more than you!A shinobi at least!" Karui slammed the table once more with her index finger was pointing at Yue's face. Yue's expression was unchanged. "I love Chocho, Mrs. Akamichi Karui ... and no one can change that," Yue's cold blue eyes were gazing at Karui's face sternly. He was dead serious about making Chocho his fiancee. Under the table, his hand was grabbing Chocho's hand even tighter.

"And i will never like you or give permission for my daughter to marry you," Karui picked her red leather bag and pointed her finger to Yue's face before storming outside the cafe.

Yue sighed. It was the most intense moment of his life, asking for his girlfriend's parental permission.

He then turned his head to look at his girlfriend's face. Chocho looked stressed, he also could see that she almost cried listening to her mother screaming in the middle of the public, shaming her boyfriend.

"We'll figure it out, okay?" Yue gazed at her with his calming blue eyes. He rubbed the girl's back.

Sarada was torn in between coming to greet Chocho and Yue or just leave. But, apparently she didn't have to think for long because Chocho was the one who called her name first.

"Sarada!" She called Sarada, the girl had to choice but to come and sit with Chocho and Yue.

"Hello, Mrs. Sarada Uzumaki, i'm Yue, Chocho's boyfriend, i'm an actor," The silver haired gentleman shook Sarada's hand. The way he called her as an Uzumaki gave her tingle that pleased her. "Yes, i saw you during my wedding with Nanadaime," Sarada smiled at him. "So, yeah, babe, Sarada here is my best friend," Chocho explained to Yue.

"I'm sorry about my mom ... screaming," Chocho said to Sarada while rolling her eyes. Chocho didn't even look at Sarada. She is trying to hide that her eyes were teary.

"It's okay, i understand," Sarada said, she reached her hand on the table and softly rubbed her hand on Chocho's.

Of course she understood. She knew exactly how it felt having people attacking her for her romantic choices.

"My mom always said something like getting a shinobi husband because it would boost my career, that it would give my future child easier life bla bla bla," Chocho sneered. Sarada knew such thing, about how life would be easier for a child with both shinobi parents to become jounin rather than just one or no shinobi parents. She was lucky herself that her parents were both shinobi, just like Chocho. She could imagine that she could never be jounin without the recommendation letter from her medic-nin mother and her shinobi father.

"And there is this old saying about career as a shinobi ... when you have both ninja parents, you have seventy five percent in becoming a jounin, when you have one ninja parent, you have fifty percent and when you're not a child of a shinobi you have like ... ten percent ... maybe ... just don't be a shinobi if you're not a child of a shinobi!" Chocho explained. Yue was bewildered by Chocho's saying. Sarada nodded, she knew that saying and she admitted that it was true to the core. Iwabe's parents weren't ninja and he certainly had a hard time in his career.

"Well, it's not untrue, all of us can see that both Denki and Iwabe aren't jounin and Iwabe's loaded yet he's still not a jonin," Sarada commented. "Well yeah, blood over money when it comes to our world," Chocho sighed.

Naruto's old apartment. 11 PM.

It didn't take long for Naruto's apartment to be renovated after the whole rock-throwing issue. After a month staying at her parents' house, she could come back living at Naruto's apartment again. The security was so much better, the new windows were certainly bullet-proof (or rock-proof, she should say), and every night, there's a ninja being hired by Naruto to stay in front of the apartment. She was completely safe. No one could touch her and Karuto.

"Sarada-chan, i'm home," Naruto had just came home from office. He took off his sandals and took off his jacket and put them on the hanger. He also took off his orange pants and put it on the laundry box. He was walking inside the apartment with his orange boxer and his white t-shirt on.

Sarada didn't reply anything. When Naruto was walking to their bedroom, he saw his little wife holding a black colored bra with lace design. She was crying. The girl was wearing a soft pink t-shirt and shorts with the same color.

Naruto immediately walked closer to Sarada and sat beside her. "85 DD," Sarada muttered. "That's the size of the breasts of the woman you fucked on our bedroom," Sarada hung the strap on her finger. "Does it feel good fucking a woman with big breasts in our bedroom?" Sarada cried. She rose up from her bed, her eyes turned as red as blood, her sharingan was activated. "Who is she?!" Sarada yelled at Naruto.

"There is no other woman!" Naruto said. "You're a fucking liar!" Sarada screamed. "You did that when i was staying in Mama's house!" She cried, she hit Naruto's chest with her fist, with the bra hanging on her fingers. It was chaotic moves, it didn't hurt Naruto at all. Naruto grabbed the girl's wrists and pulled her unto him. She leaned on his chest and cried.

"I just want to be loved, truly be loved by my husband!Not only to be used for sex like a whore!" Sarada cried on his chest, wetting his white t-shirt. "Do you love me?" She then averted her gaze to his blue eyes. "Or do you marry me out of pity?" Sarada asked, her red eyes gazing to his blue eyes. "Sarada ...," Naruto was stuttering. "I love you," he said, his blue eyes were looking at him, they didn't budge.

He knew he didn't love her as much as he loved Hinata, or else he would have divorced Hinata already. He knew that he married her only because he loved their child, Karuto. But, he couldn't break her heart. Especially when he saw her small face, her small shapely lips, tears rolling out of her doe eyes that were filled with loneliness and the need of being loved, truly beloved.

So, he embraced that young girl again that night. He thought that maybe he could make her feel beloved that way.

"Sarada, i love you, i love you very much," hoping that words could alleviate her loneliness, her pain, her desire to feel beloved. Naruto let go of her wrists and took off the bra from her fingers and throw it to the floor. He carried the young girl bridal style and put her to bed. He then snugged into the bed and let her head rest on his chest.

"I'm sorry if i can't see you very often," he kissed her head. Sarada leaned on his chest until she fell asleep. Naruto then rose up from the bed, letting her fall asleep so he could clean himself and then slept on the same bed with Sarada.

In the middle of night, when Naruto was still asleep. Sarada was awaken. She then stood up and walked to the bathroom. When she was walking to the bathroom, her foot touched the bra. Suddenly, she realized whose bra it was. She remembered the raven colored lace bra she saw at the laundry place at Naruto's residence with the Hyuga woman. It was the same bra.

She could feel her heart suddenly beat faster, as if it's hammering out her chest, she could feel something tightening in her chest, she felt suffocated. Naruto was sleeping with none other than Hinata Hyuga in their bedroom, perhaps when she was away at her parents' house. Hot tears rolled out of her eyes.

After she was done crying in the bathroom. The young woman came back to bed, Naruto's back was in front of her face. She kept on gazing at his broad shoulder and that blonde hair and wondering "But, why did he lie about it?"

Few days before. Konoha Underground Bar. 10 PM.

The bar was a special bar. It could only be entered by the VIP members of the bar. A membership that could only be attained by special friends of the owner, the membership that could only be owned by someone who's extremely good at lobbying the owner. It was located underground, it was designed like a regular bar. But, since the owner's a very rich boy, he could invite popular singers all across the country to sing there. But, at that time and that day, the bar was still very quiet, not many people were there. The bartenders were all female and they were wearing sexy bunny outfits. There was a pink-haired bartender with very soft long straight hair serving a glass of whiskey to the blonde boy and a pint of beer to the raven-haired boy. The blonde boy was wearing a set of sporty tracksuit with magenta lining on it, while the raven-haired boy was wearing a dark red hoodie and a grey pants. The pink-haired bartender winked to the blonde boy and slipped a small piece of paper with her phone number written on it below the whiskey's glass. The blonde boy only smiled sheepishly at the pink-haired bartender.

"What is it now?" The raven-haired boy asked the blonde one. He sounded very enthusiastic. "I want you to put this inside the apartment's main bedroom," The blonde boy took out something out of his pocket and slipped it into the raven-haired boy's pocket. The raven-haired boy blushed when he touched and peeked at what the blonde boy had given him. A bra, a big one, a lacy black bra. "A necklace and now a bra?" The boy whispered, almost giggling. "Is there a problem?" The blonde one eyed the raven-haired boy. "Not really, you were right for me to drop that necklace, no one is going after me until right now," the raven-haired boy said. "Then, it's no problem, right?" the blonde one made sure. The raven-haired boy nodded. The raven-haired boy giggled. He understood why the blonde boy asked him to do it.

"As long you really pay me the correct amount of money after i'm done, like you were, the last time you had asked me," The raven-haired boy said. "You don't have to worry about that, i am a man of my own words," the blonde boy said.

"You really are a little devil, Boruto," The raven-haired boy snorted.

Author's Note :

Maybe some of you Gonchato-haters already felt angry at first why there's that name included again in the fic. But, rest assured, it has nothing to do with the Gonchato. It was completely done not by someone belonged to the cult.

Thank you for the comments, guests, yamzie, CokiYa, RealMphoza, anoyak111, propofol, and bruhvelocity!

And yeah, Naruto sucks here. Really sucks. I really wish i could write his good side though. I still haven't found a way how to write his admirable side here, i'll have to brainstorm some more.

And for Hinata, she's a pitiable character. She's the only one who never does anything wrong here. I would certainly divorce Naruto though if i were Hinata in this story. But, Hinata's not me. I don't think divorce is easy for her after so many years of loving Naruto, and then marrying him for so many years, giving him children, and of course they also had time when their marriage was a very happy one, despite Naruto being super busy. This Hinata still clung to the image of the old Naruto, the kind loving righteous Naruto. She still hoped that one day he would come back into being that kind of Naruto again. She's not a gold-digger for sure since she came from a rich family, when she asked Naruto to give all of his assets to her, she only wanted to see whether he still saw her as someone important for him or not. A little part of her heart also felt like she had to just accept it, just like her parents told her to. Just like how her mother told her to, to suck it up if her husband's cheating on her. Despite all the things Naruto had done to her, she still somehow loved him(which is stupid, but, some people are stuck in toxic relationships also because how they clung into the old ideas of their partners! I wanted to explore about it, since i know real women who stayed with their husbands despite being treated badly, including being cheated and verbally/physically abused). Hiashi also saw Hinata's worth only because she's the Hokage's wife. Plus, Hinata first and foremost IS a conservative woman, that is why she can't easily divorce Naruto, she has to think it very thoroughly if she really wants to divorce him.

However, i wish that you enjoyed the fic! Please comment/review some more!