Difficult Engagements

Chapter 26

Retribution

Minato POV

Once I drop this knife I lose all my power. He will never let me have this over him again, I will be closely monitored. I will have no freedom. Maybe I should just do it.

Blood drips down my neck.

Naruto's face flashes before my eyes.

I drop the knife.

In a flash, before I can know what's going on, Kurama is holding me. Pure fear dripped from each one of his words, "Don't ever do that again."

Submitting to the command, "I won't."

"I'll make sure of that."

He brought his lips to my neck and began to lick the skin that bears his mark of ownership of me. I know what's next, the owner of my body brings his mouth down and bites deeply, embedding his teeth into the flesh. A fresh searing pain of new familiar. When he's done with that, he licks the area almost apologetically. I can't tell if it's blood or saliva running down my chest… probably both.

I didn't want to make a sound.

Even if it hurts.

Even if I bleed.

I can't give him that satisfaction.

It wasn't the first time and he wouldn't be the last time. He pours some of his chakra into my seal. In this state I became perfectly immobilized to his touch. Receptive to anything he wants to do to me.

Kyuubi's hands began to ravage his territory of my body under the white night dress I was made to wear as a uniform. I hold my breath. Rough hands rubbed up against my stomach, all the way up to my chest, where he played with my nipples. As they hardened, I tried to control my panting. I want to ignore the pleasure that starts to build in my body. I try to detach from my body.

Focusing only on the unintentional design patterns in the ceiling.

I am too afraid to close my eyes.

Afraid if I did, I would be brought back to the real world.

14 Years Ago

Bonding

Naruto.

My little boy is focusing harder than I've ever seen him before. His tiny face is so adorable scrunched up like that as he focuses on his chakra. Before I know it I see the faintest amount of red chakra escape his body before all at once it surrounds my kit's tiny little body.

"Good job, Naruto." Kyuubi says to our son ruffling the blond mop of hair at the top of his head not affected by the small flames.

The Flamed Chakra Coat is one of Kyuubi's specialties, and one of the first things he teaches our son.

"This technique has been passed down through our family by the great Kitsune himself. It's important that you respect its origins."

"Uh-huh." Naruto seems to marvel at the small flames in his hand, before bouncing up and down in excitement, "Do you think Gaara will think it's cool!?"

We're supposed to go to Suna to see their family again in a few weeks. Naruto has been so excited to show off to his new friend. As soon as he loses the concentration he once held, the flames burn away.

"Don't mind your thoughts trying to impress someone like that."

"But he's my friend." my little boy pouts while crossing his arms.

"He's not your friend." Kyuubi lectures, "The sooner you realize you have no friends, the sooner you can actualize your true purpose in life."

"He's my friend," Naruto doesn't back down.

"You have no time for people like him… In your veins flows the blood of a God."

"So? His family comes from the First Protector… He told me that himself."

His red eyebrow arches in interest, "What did he tell you about that beast?"

Our child gets unusually quiet for a second.

"Well?" Kyuubi is getting inpatient.

"It's a secret..." Naruto mutters out, "I can't tell a best friend's secret."

"You owe him no loyalty. I told you not to waste your time thinking of him as your friend. You're better than-"

"Oh Kyuubi, let him have friends, Gaara is a nice boy." I say getting closer to the man who imprisoned me.

It feels a little less like a prison each day. At least imagining this to be a normal family is nice. Wrapping my arms around the redhead's waist, laying my head on his shoulder, as we watch over our son.

A normal family.

We can be that.

My husband sighed and compromised with me, "You can't have friends, but you can have allies."

"What's the difference?" our boy asks, arms still folded, a little too serious for my liking.

"Allies are just friends with paperwork involved." I joke.

"That sounds boring."

"It is," I snuggle closer to Kyuubi trying to keep him relaxed while I let him know I accept his compromise, "but it's necessary when you run a kingdom like this."

Kyuubi wrapped his arms around me, as he let me take the lead. Naruto doesn't know anything about our past… and he doesn't need to. He just needs to be my happy little boy.

"So when I grow up I have to do dumb paperwork to have friends?" Naruto asked.

"Allies. Yes. It's an important job though... It's to keep everyone safe, you want to do that right?" I use the words my husband did.

He huffs again, "Yeah."

"You can delegate that task to those more suitable for it. You just need to make sure you can fight, it's what really keeps the peace. Paper isn't going to help when someone can take you down." My husband reminds us of his harsh reality.

"Then I'll get super strong and keep everyone safe! Gaara is going to be my best ally, cause he's super strong too!" New found excitement and determination is in my son's little voice.

"He's not that strong." Kyuubi says.

"Yeah he is! He's, like, super strong! And he wants to keep everyone safe, too. So we'll be best allys and keep everyone safe together!"

"You're much stronger than that boy."

As if Naruto could not hear the words his father said, or more honestly selectively heard the words his father said, "Then I'll keep him safe, while he keeps other people safe. Done."

Kyuubi is teetering on the edge of frustration and true rage not being listened to.

"You're not going to change his mind, he's stubborn, just like his father. Naruto's made up his mind, he's not going to change it for anyone." I pull the redhead away, "Come on, let's let him train alone for a while. He can work on his chakra control for a few minutes without your supervision."

Two unstoppable forces should never be pitted against each other.

Even if one is only a five year old.

I compliment Kyuubi, "You're a really good father to Naruto."

"Of course I am." He might be horrible to me, but our son is his pride and joy.

"He's of age to start training with an instructor soon right?" I ask.

Naruto should start his proper training soon, he's definitely at the skill set to do so. Already mastering, well almost mastering, one of Kyuubi's techniques at such a young age. He'll do great things in life.

I hope.

"Yes I'm sending out feelers to find the best one."

"Shouldn't we get him an Uchiha to train him soon? I hear they have a new prodigy in their ranks, he'd be perfect as a teacher." I try to be helpful.

"No. I'll find other instructors for him."

"But it's tradition." I remind him, "Didn't you have an Uchiha teacher?"

"I don't care for tradition." my warden tells me.

Present Day

Kyuubi's hand reached up to my neck, restricting my air, "I'm not going to let you get away that easily."

I'm back in the real world.

He plans to get me pregnant again, he knows I won't do anything against him if I have a child in the house... The choice he gave me earlier was taken away. I should have drank the tea tonight. I shouldn't have waited. I will bring another life in this cruel world because of my selfishness.

"You will constantly have guards on you. There won't be a single second you are out of anyone's sight." the alpha growled this into my ears.

The primal sound of protection in his voice triggered my body to produce more slick. I squirmed as I felt it trickle out of me, coating my inner thighs. It's been so long since my body reacted this way. So honest to its carnal desires I have long tried to forget that I had.

"You will never drink that tea again. You lost that privilege. I will get my entire litter out of you now." It was hard to keep fighting against him as Kyuubi's voice rumbling in my ear.

My body can feel this Alpha's intent to fill me with his children. Memories of our first time jumped into my mind: the excruciating pain, then flooding waves of pleasure that betrayed my body.

My Omegan body wants to make it easier for him, it is almost fully relaxed. I just nod into his words, accepting my fate. I'm tired of fighting him. Have I just fought it for too long? Would things be easier if I just listened to him?

My body says yes.

My mind knows the truth.

"You will mark me tonight, Minato." He's commanded me this many times before…

Each time I've been able to deny the request. I've managed to do it for almost 20 years… I can manage to not do it tonight. My only goal tonight is to not mark him. It's the only thing I know I can succeed at.

I don't say anything. I stay quiet. Hoping he brings up another topic. He's been fixated on this ever since I first refused this command. I can't mark him as mine. I refuse to see him as my mate.

He's not going to. I spread my legs and opened my bleeding neck up to him. Hoping the smell of my body can distract him from this. He looks down at my body with disgust.

"You really are just a slut." This hurt more than usual. "You would do anything to avoid completing the bond between us."

"How far would you go?" Kyuubi wants to test my resolve in this issue. I will do anything in my power to avoid that fate.

I don't say anything.

"If I told one of my guards to take you right now… would you let them? You probably would love it, you are an unbonded Omega." he shoved his fingers inside me with no warning.

I hold my breath.

Not making a single noise. I try my best to ignore that he's even there. I ignore the scraping of his nails on my insides. Focusing only on my anger and his red eyes.

"What if I let all the guards have their way with you… let each one of them have a turn with your body in this heat. Let them all fill you with their cum. So you don't know who's child is in you. You'd have a real whores baby." he grins at his power over me.

I listen to each word… each threat. Focusing on that instead of his increasing rough treatment of my body.

"Of course after all of that, I couldn't have you as my wife. I'd get a new Omega to take your space. I'm sure they would be more obedient."

It would mean my freedom from him...I could only dream.

"Don't worry, you'd still be mine. You still hold my seal. You'd just be a little concubine, tied up and ready to take me whenever I want."

He paused, waiting for me to say anything.

"I might even let the other heads of nations use your body, I see how they look at you at parties. They see that I am unmarked, you make me a joke to them."

"Do it." I threatened him.

"What?" he's so shocked at my acceptance of this threat. He wants me to beg him not to let that be my fate.

I am not giving him that.

"Do whatever you want to me. If you want my fate to be what you described, do it." I command him.

He yanks his fingers outside of me in a huf, knowing he can't control me that way.

"I am your Omega to do with what you please." I exposed my marked neck to him, "If you want me to take every guard in this place and have a whores child, I will. I will pleasure any and every one you put in front of me at your command. My second child will not bear your name, but that of this country."

I make sure to add, "You are not my Alpha, but I can not stop you."

He slapped me at this, commanding me "Don't ever talk like that."

"I am just doing as you want." I taunt with the little power I have.

"I want you to never talk like that. You're getting hysterical. Let me fix that." he sheathed himself fully inside of me, my slick and his fingers from before make it so easy for him.

My world is a blur.

Any moment of trying to focus on anything but the action inside of me was impossible. My awareness is reduced to my Alpha thrusting hard against me. The wet sound of my opening accepting Kyuubi eagerly, over and over again. His large hands tightly dug into my hips to keep the pace steady. I had been filled with contempt before, but now my mind is consumed with nothing but this momentary pleasure.

It's almost comical how quickly my body could betray my mind in heat.

I feel his knot slowly forming inside of me. It expands my walls as he pushes in and out of me. My body constricts against the constantly moving bulge at the base, trying its best to not let it escape. His Alpha Cock won't be allowed to leave me until he releases everything inside of me. My body aches for that release.

He shoves my face into his neck, "Bite."

"nn…no…ooo. " I whimper out of my confused state. I can't let my heat take over my brain right now, but he's hitting me in all the right spots. The feeling of his movements inside me are taking over my mind.

His hand grasped both sides of my cheeks forcing my mouth open. I try my hardest to keep my jaw closed. The action of trying to keep my teeth together tears apart the inside of my cheeks. I can taste my own blood.

My now opened mouth is firmly placed on the gland on his neck, "Bite."

I can't speak in fear of doing what he wants. I just shake my head no, I can feel my teeth graze over the scent gland on his neck. Whimpering as he still thrust inside of me, my body shaking at every movement. Fear he might hit the right spot at the wrong time and I will bite down. I try to push my mouth away with my tongue.

That action forced to take in his scent of burning forest. Earth. Heat. Ashes. Anger. Fear. I am forced to taste the full experience that is the Kyuubi at this moment.

The slobber of my mouth falls all over his chest. My jaw is so sore being forced open like this for so long. I'm reminded of my first night of him using my throat.

How sore everything was.

Kushina.

Kyuubi is not My Alpha.

That becomes my mantra as he continues inside of me. He's fully expanded inside of me, making it impossible to escape his embrace until he fills me. My mind gets lost in this feeling. My body craves this more than anything.

I don't bite down.

Kyuubi is not My Alpha.

I think he knows he's not going to get what he wants. He flips me over in front of a mirror. He wants me to watch him dominate my body. If he can't have my mind he can have my body.

Chaotic red eyes look down on me, "Watch."

This command I follow.

I watch as he slowly pushes back into me, seeing how egar my body is to be filled by him. I can feel his cock pulsate as every inch slides back into my warmth. My body responds early to convulsing in response to the feeling.

Kyuubi's fingers dig into my hair forcing my head to remain at eye level of this mirror giving me no chance to look away from his actions. Watching like this I feel outside of my body again. I can imagine this is happening to someone else. It's comforting.

I relax into the comfort of it. Letting this man use my body as he wills it. My back curves down, legs spreading, allowing my desperate hole to take all of him. I moan as he's fully inside.

This takes him over the edge. He ignored the power play, he gave into carnal desire. He starts bucking in me wildly, no pattern to his thrust. Just desire for pleasure. I give him that.

With one loud grunt, he came inside. With every pulse of his member, glob after glob of his seed fills my body. His still engorged knot keeps me in place, not letting me escape from this position.

I am forced to look into Kyuubi's eyes through this mirror. My body still spread wide open for him. Him still in between my legs plugging me with his cock. His fingers still tangled in my hair, not letting me look away from the sight.

We stay like this in complete silence. His red eyes pierced into mine to display the dominance he has over my body, as if I haven't known this for years. He just smirks down at me.

Kyuubi's hand goes from my hair to the mark he placed on my neck years ago. I know what he is going to do, it doesn't prepare me for the feeling. He uses his chakra against the mark on my neck. The action makes me moan in pleasure causing me to convulse against his slowly softening member inside of me. Whimpering as it softens, no longer giving me the pleasure it did seconds ago.

Finally he is fully deflated inside me. He stays there for a little while longer, nothing forcing him to but his desire to control me. He can feel my body begging for more. I try my best not to thrust my hips back, giving in again. My whole body shakes as I protest against following its orders. I whimper fighting back against it. He looks into my eyes waiting for me to give back in. Give into my natural Omega desire for Alpha cock.

I try to steady my breathing as his hands lace around my neck, never breaking eye contact. He won't stop until I do this. I do it, I thrust my hips back once as if begging for more.

I give in.

"Come to bed. I can't stand to look at you like this any more." he says as he forces himself out of my body. My body continued shaking as I tried to steady it, Kyuubi's seed spilling out of my hole.

I am doing my best in this condition to use my hands to get me off of this dirty floor. Slowly I am able to lift my weak body up. My legs feel like jello as I am trailing far behind my husband as he leads me to our bed chambers. I repeat my mantra in my head.

Once we get to our bed chamber he doesn't leave my side this entire week. As soon as my body is ready for more, he takes me. After the first night he doesn't bring up me marking him again. He knows I will do anything to avoid completing the bond between us.

There is no way I'm not pregnant at this point. Inside of me will grow Kyuubi's next heir. Just another life forced to live this miserable existence. I gently hold my stomach.

I hope it's an Alpha.

Itachi POV

Shit.

I have made a grave mistake.

I can not go straight back to my hideout in case I am being followed. The last thing I want to do is lead anyone to Sasuke in his current condition. The group knows if I do not return tonight to take my brother to the facility and keep him safe until my return. I was not planning on it going this south. My return might not be for another month at least.

I am still not entirely sure if I can place my trust in them. However, I have been given no other choice at this point. My own stupidity and desire to reconnect with Naruto made sure of that.

Risking the known danger of The Kyuubi's wrath is not on my to-do list. Sasuke is a pregnant Omega in The Sound, the law of the land and his new biology puts him in such risk. He would take the last Uchiha and…

kill him…

make him a brooding mare…

I don't know.

I don't want to know.

I always knew The Kyuubi was powerful, however I never quite realized how powerful he was before tonight. I thought I might be able to have the upper hand, at least a little bit in my illusion, but he broke that in mere seconds.

Was that hubris?

Thinking I actually had a chance against The Great and Powerful Kyuubi. I went in with no plan for facing him. I just had Naruto on my mind.

Blood is still dripping from my eyes.

I shouldn't have done that. My eyes can't keep handling the strain of using that technique. I needed to find my way out of the Kyuubi's territory. There is a second location I can go to. It is closer to Suna, so it is closer to Naruto's current location. More importantly, it is far away from my brother.

Maybe I could see how Naruto is.

No.

That will put everything more at risk. I do not have any Intel to know if the Kazekage knows that I am alive too. The Kyuubi could keep that knowledge from him, knowing the fox he might be. I can not keep doing risky things like that. I already fucked up so much tonight just trying to see Naruto.

I just need to stay low for now.

"Itachi." it's Kisame, my friend, "You're alive?"

Shit. I'm not strong enough to fight him off in my current condition. His sword will rip my body of all it's chakra in one swipe. I have to avoid that.

Kisame is blocking my path to leave, meaning the other Akatsuki will be here soon. The shark is just going to keep me here long enough for everyone to catch up. Once they are here I won't be able to take them all on.

Not at once.

Not in this state.

I wonder if he has another partner yet.

Probably. If he does they are probably around, as a backup. Meaning I have to keep my guard up.

"I thought I could follow The Kyuubi's orders… but when I saw your body. I knew I had made a mistake." he sounds so remorseful.

"You are not the one that killed me." I reminded him.

"Naw, but I was a part of the strike… They didn't trust me to kill you. I don't know if they didn't think I was strong enough or… if they knew I couldn't."

"Are the other Akatsuki on their way?" I break him from his 'sorry I murdered your family' pity party. I've had enough of those lately.

"No it's just me… I knew you'd go this way." Kisame has been my partner for years, of course he would know where I was going.

"So am I free to go here?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry… "

"Stop."

"I need to stay with the Akatsuki," I knew he had his own reasons for this.

The shark could not leave as long as The Kyuubi was alive. He saw what the fox did to me, first hand. He knows he is not immune to it as well. No one is immune to his wrath.

"I know." he had his own to protect.

"But, I am on your side. As long as it does not jeopardize my position. Please see me as your ally." I understand that's the best he can do.

"Can you tell them I am going to my hideout near Sunagakure?" I ask.

If he does that I can go straight to my brother. The Kyuubi would not doubt it, he thinks I would go straight to Naruto. He would almost expect me to do this. I can use his demented thoguht process against him.

"I can. I might be able to give you a half day head start to wherever you are going. Give me your shirt." I take it off, he's going to spread my scent in the other direction.

He's doing me a big favor with this.

"It needs your blood."

I wipe my bloody tears with it.

"More." he demands.

I cut myself near the scent gland on my wrist with a kunai. It needs to smell like me. It needs to be unmistakably mine. He takes the garment from me when it is fully saturated with my scent and blood.

Then water covers my entire body in a whirlwind effect, I can't breath. This is Kisame's doing. Was that all a distraction...for me to let my guard down, to make me easier to kill.

Shit.

"Now go." the water prison leaves my body.

He was just to get my scent off of me… maybe I should have more trust in people.

"Thank you." I go off into the opposite direction as the shark.

Sasuke's POV

I'm finally getting the attention I wanted from my brother and he leaves. He left me alone with these people for Naruto.

I'm pregnant and he leaves me for Naruto.

I am vulnerable, and he leaves me for Naruto.

"I hate him." I grumble.

"Hate who?" Karin asked me.

"None of your fucking bussness!" I shout at her, I hate her too. It was just me and Itachi before they showed up.

They just stare at me like I'm a zoo animal behind the glass. I just stay on the bed not wanting to make too much movement. I don't want their attention. I want to be left alone.

Why would he leave me with them?

Itachi doesn't know them well enough to trust them. I know them well enough not to trust them.

They are too eager to have a new leader. They could be free of everything and start over on their own without anyone telling them what to do. The group went out of their way to find servitude.

Pathetic.

Itachi came back!

Why isn't he wearing a shirt?

I guess he did visit Naruto after all…

"We have to leave for the facility tonight." he commands the whole cabin

"Yes!" Karin answered eggarly, "Everything is set up for our leave shortly. I'm glad we didn't have to do the trip alone."

Gaara POV

You know if you were going to go on a murdering spree, you could have woke me up...

I didn't need you.

If I didn't feel left out, I would be proud my little boy is all grown up.

Naruto stirs a bit while reading the report, his eyes scan over each line furring down at parts. I forgot I said I'd let him read it in the first place. There shouldn't be any evidence of Itachi's miracle rebirth in there… but I wouldn't know what to remove to be sure of that.

"Sasuke," the fox's voice is so small when he says this, "we have to go save him."

"Who?"

"Sasuke. He's… it's his brother. If this fire was found there… it means he's still alive. We have to make sure he's safe!" Naruto seems to have his old vigor return to his voice. When he sounds like that I want to give him anything he could ever want in this world.

"How do you know it's him?"

At least he doesn't suspect it's the other Uchiha.

Well… the good thing is he still thinks The Wolf is dead.

"This fire, The Unburing Flame, it's an Uchiha technique. I saw it only a few times, when Sasuke was training. He's the only one that could have survived the terrorist attack, there were no reports of anyone finding his body. Orochimaru must have kidnapped him… or maybe even the young wolf hunted him down. Either way we need to make sure he's safe."

"If he's the one who did this I'm sure he's fine. I don't think we need to worry about this."

"Itachi loved his younger brother more than anything. He's dead now… So there's no one looking after his younger brother. He's all alone." the same old Uzamaki Naruto determination, that I could never stop, not that I have ever wanted to before, "I have to do this for him."

"I need to make sure you're safe in Suna… but if this really means a lot t-"

He cuts me off, "It does."

"Then I'll have some of my people still in Konoha look for him. Do you know any places he might be hiding out?"

I hate tricking him.

Yeah, and you'll hate it more if he leaves you for the dead man… so pick a struggle.

"I don't really know Sasuke that well, honestly, so I don't know where he might go." he rubs the back of his head sheepishly.

"What about your old suitor? He must have some places Sasuke might know about."

"Uhhh… well Itachi had this cabin he liked to go to when things were getting bad, his younger brother might know about it."

"Anywhere else?"

"I'm not too sure, he never really kept me in the loop of a lot of the things he did. He didn't want to bother me with it." He sounds disappointed in this knowledge.

"It's okay. I'm sure we can find his brother."

"Thank you." Naruto buries himself into my body with a hug.

"Huh?"

"I know this must be hard for you. Itachi is my old betrothed… and this is his family. It's gotta be hard for you to help me with it." the fox nuzzles deeper into my neck, "So, thank you."

"Naruto, I would do anything for you."

"You're really nice, you know that?"

"I'm really not." I can't lie to him.

"I think you are… so you are." He says just as confidently as before.

If I stay here any longer I'm going to confess everything to him.

"I'm glad." I say, "I'm going to let the parts of my army that stayed behind know of some plans so they can deal with the logistics of all of this. I'll be right back, okay?"

"I'll be waiting." He just smiles.

Fuck.

You want to lose him?

No.

Then leave now before the fox makes his way into your mind. You're weak to him, you always have been.

I know.

I quickly make my escape from this room to inform my men about the new development. It's not much but that cabin might be what we need.

I get stopped in the lobby of the hotel.

"I have something I think you might want," Naruto's guard said to me, "but first I want something in return."

"What do you have?" he has my curiosity.

With his position and abilities it could be anything.

"First you must promise me you'll give me what I want." he's holding back on it.

"Haku." his Alpha commands him to stop.

"Let him continue," I command. If it's something he wants kept secret, it must be valuable.

"What do you want?" He knows I'm not promising him his request.

I can tell it's not his first negotiation. The two infront of me, even with their secondary sex, are equal partners. Despite the attempted use of an Alpha command.

"I want Zabuza and I to remain Naruto's guards and to be given asylum in Sunagakure after your wedding."

That's very agreeable no matter what he has to offer. Naruto doesn't seem to mind their company, he even seems to like the younger one. Enough to stay with him and be taken care of by him in heat. He doesn't leave his nest for just anybody.

It's true, I don't really care for them. I was starting to like Zabuza. I'm sure he was lying to me about the Uchiha, but it was nice. He's not afraid of me, and I do need more people who aren't afraid of me around.

I was considering it either way.

Why does he want something so simple?

If his information had any value, he would be asking for more.

"Why?"

They are probably spying for Kyuubi.

I'm not too sure about that. They are mercenaries first, it's whatever is in their best interests at the moment.

"We want to start a family and can only do that if I continue being Naruto's Personal Guard."

"You're risking everything right now, so you can get pregnant?"

"Yes. Zabuza and I have made a lot of enemies during our career. If I give this to you I'm adding The Kyuubi to our list. I'm tired of fighting. I am so tired. I want to settle down and start my family." Zabuza puts his hand on the younger's shoulder for comfort. I think he's telling the truth.

"That's an easy request to give, if the information is worth it."

"Naruto has seals on his stomach, I can tell you were looking at them the other day." if has information on the seals, he should be asking for more.

"What about them?" I try to keep my composure.

He has you by the balls, he could ask for anything.

"Do we get asylum? You will keep us safe from our enemies?" he's not going to let that go, he's smart to get his first.

"Yes." I admit the value of this information to me.

Haku looks up at his partner, to make sure he's doing the right thing before telling me this. Zabuza nods.

"They are complex seals meant to keep his Chakra subdued and… keep him in an Omega Fog State." Haku said the last part in fear. I think because he knows what they are like or even the possibility of something like this being used on him one day.

True Omega States are hard to trigger in someone if you don't know what you're doing. They are only ever supposed to be temporary, a few minutes at most. It's usually only possible for the bonded Alpha to do. It's only ever supposed to be used for safety, but a lot of people abuse it. It usually only happens at prolonged use of Alpha Commands.

Naruto told me when he was younger his father would press down on the gland in his neck until it triggered. He said it was supposed to be for training purposes, so no one else could do it to him. He let me know how it felt. He said he could fight it for the most part, but it wears you out eventually. So he'd just end up complying.

Naruto.

"It might have long term effects on his memories." Zabuza adds this, as if he knew Haku's plans this whole time.

"Can you remove them?"

Please say yes.

"No." he looks ashamed, like if he could take Naruto out of it he would have a long time ago, "but I have the next best thing."

Knowing Naruto is in that head space is killing me, "Which is?"

"I have scrolls that show you how to fortify them and make them stronger."

The opposite of what you need.

"The main structure seems to be from your home country. They are old so I doubt anyone would know about them. There's also a lot of combinations with other Konoha Clan's techniques, it's a highly complicated seal with multiple parts. I wouldn't be able to undo all of it on my own." Haku explained, "I know you must have access to experts. With these scrolls it would be much easier for you to reverse it."

What's up demons? It's ya' boi.

I had to do the save Sasuke lines… I thought it was funny.

I probably should have kept the Gaara POV part in the last chapter with him, because it was hard to find a place it would flow right in this chapter. I might move it back to that chapter later. But whatever.

The next chapter is going to focus on Itachi with a two week time jump.

Tigrezz Tail. Oh I'm sure if Gaara didn't get better at dealing with emotions, it would be a train wreck. He's doing okay, but he definitely made some mistakes. Some are just because he doesn't know some things.

I'm glad you like the fluff, I did add a bit more childhood fluff in this chapter because of how heavy it is… I don't think it helped.

Yeah, I think I mentioned it in the early Itachi chapter with his flashbacks, that Kyuubi went on a rampage because of a difficult child birth. But it was def one of those blink and you miss it lines. There's a lot of self references in this, so I try to reiterate some things that are more important to the plot so it's not missed. I am going to flash back to it in one of the final chapters that is going to be almost all of Kyuubi's POV.

I don't blame anyone for missing anything from the pre-Gaara Chapters, because without a hot redhead what's the point of paying attention to anything. Also I need to clean up those chapters a bit more and stream line them a bit better and I'll probably do that when I'm completely done with this series.

Oh, Naruto would have gone insane at Itachi's death if he still had his abilities. Later chapters will show Naruto dealing with death in flashbacks… and it's not pretty. I am going to be honest, I'm not too sure how I would write him and Itachi if he had his memories this whole time.