With the 4th of July coming up and me being a married man here in America, I felt that releasing this chapter early would be wise... just in case. While I'm far from a social creature, I don't particularly mind being dragged along while my wife parties with her friends, lol.
There's also the prerelease for Magic 2020 soon after and I'm eyeballing a few cards in that set for my old Kaalia deck. Vilis is looking like the draw engine she's been needing for ages! That new Kaalia is also looking mighty fine as a little gas can on legs, lol.
Also, my job-hunt continues... That all said, the next chapter might be a teensy bit delayed.
Enough of that, though... I hope you enjoy this new chapter!
Chapter Ten: In the Wooded Hills of Lautrec, Loli Protecc YOU! (1)
Just as Cassandra had predicted, it would have taken them about three weeks to get to Hanel. They did have to stop occasionally and rest, eat and shit like everyone else, after all—albeit far less often.
Unfortunately for them, they had no idea that Neideen was still alive. And thus, Naruto was made aware of their presence by the perverted woman and went to confront them several days before they arrived. Peering down at them from a rocky outcropping well above, he made it known that these women were not alone.
"Y'know…" the women came to a dead stop when they heard Naruto throwing his voice out around them. "...it's not every day that a group of 'claymores' are seen together. What's the occasion, I wonder?"
The women all formed a defensive circle and tried to locate the voice. Since they were in Riful's territory they were not going to take any chances. Though the voice was distinctly male, they knew that warriors and awakened beings alike could alter their pitch through manipulating their vocal cords.
"No answer?" Naruto asked them.
"Who wants to know?" Uranus shouted.
There was a brief, tense silence before it was broken by the hidden blond. "Hmm… let's see… it's someone called… Naruto?"
The women all stiffened at that.
"What the hell have you done with our comrade?!" Cassandra demanded.
"What haven't I done with her?" Try as he might, Naruto simply could not resist. Grown-up though he may be, he was a prankster at heart. " Or Neideen for that matter? They're completely fine. Safe and far away from the harsh life you ladies have to suffer through. Living comfortably, y'know?"
"LIAR!" Cassandra shouted indignantly. "There's no way Sylvia would throw away the bright future she had as a warrior of the Organization! And Neideen is practically loyal to a fault! There's no way she'd abandon her station like that!"
"Oh, really?" Naruto said with fake enthusiasm, "So you're saying that wandering around, killing youma and Awakened Beings like a machine until she either dies in a ditch somewhere or Awakens herself is a 'bright future'? And don't get me started on that dumbass rule you have to follow. No hurting regular people, even in self-defense? What if the girl's being raped or something? Are you seriously suggesting that she just lay there and take it?"
"That's pretty laughable coming from you," Roxanne chimed in. "Do you honestly expect us to believe she willingly married her abductor?"
"'What is truth to one can be a lie to another'" Naruto countered, nonchalantly. "I mean, I could've brought her here so you could ask her for yourselves, but she's… in no condition for me to risk her safety like that. And I know you people have a tendency to kill first and ask questions never… like how you all came here with the intent to kill me, without even giving me the time of day, and abduct my wife."
That was another reason why he was hiding. Naruto knew the moment he reveals his position they would attack him en masse.
"True, that," Uranus admitted uncaringly. "Well, since we all know why you're here, how's about you stop hidin' like a little bitch and give us a good and proper fight?"
"Girly, fighting you all head on like that would be stupid..."
Then, before they even knew what was going on, the women saw a small platoon of identical blonds with blue eyes and whisker marks upon their cheeks seemingly drop from the sky and surround them. The clones weren't here to kill the women, though; they'd have been dead by now if that weren't the case. No, Naruto wanted to subdue this little hunting party and bring them back for questioning.
"So, I think you'll understand if I feel the need to fight dirty."
"W-what the fuck?" Uranus squawked at the sight.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," one replied, only raising even more questions.
"You ladies are coming with us," another declared, cracking his knuckles.
"Yeah, we'll beat you black and blue," said another with enthusiasm.
That got all the clones to stop what they were doing and look at him with various looks of shock. "Dude! Not cool!"
"What?" the clone in question blinked as he looked at the other shadow clones in bewilderment.
"We're not gonna kill 'em!"
"I didn't say that!"
"You implied it!"
"No, I never!"
"He's right; he didn't," one of the more level-headed clones said as he came to the defence of his fellow clone.
"You stay out of this idiot!"
The level-headed one sent an unamused look his way. "I'm you, idiot!" Then he gestured to the assembled women who were currently watching on in utter bemusement. "Now, stop fucking around! We need to subdue 'em before they cause any more trouble!"
Though befuddled by the exchange, the women were all on edge.
"Bring it!" Uranus shouted. "We'll kill you first, and then rescue Sylvia!"
"Even if you succeeded at that, you'd be dead," the original Naruto chuckled, his voice still coming from all around them.
Before the women could reply, though, the clones were upon them. So, they busied themselves with that. Three of the clones were immediately taken out by Cassandra alone, as she sliced through them like butter in one swing. Uranus was remarkably brutal, herself, slicing through one and kicking another in the gonads. Naruto had to physically keep himself from whimpering at the memories of the latter when he went up in smoke. Those family jewels were literally crushed like grapes on impact.
He did not envy that clone in the slightest. That phantom pain would haunt his dreams for years! The clones were obviously holding back because they didn't want to hurt these ladies too badly. Not to mention he, as the original got their memories and could see what they were capable of from a safe distance.
Those swords of theirs had a frightening reach, he had to admit, and these women were obviously quite skilled in using them. Despite being outnumbered, they took out his clones rather nicely. All of them were dispelled within a single stroke… or in the case of Uranus, driving her armored foot into the groin of several clones that tried to get her. The little nutcracker also proved to be an impressive grappler and was not afraid to crack a skull or two with the hilt of her sword.
All-in-all, she was a very dirty fighter. He liked that. In fact, he was thoroughly impressed by the lot of them.
"Looks like I'll have to take this up a notch," Naruto commented… and so, he did just that. From the brief exchange, he could tell the pigtailed one was the weakest link. Her skills weren't as sharp as the rest, her youki was less potent, and she was much more hesitant than the others. The poor thing clearly didn't feel comfortable about trying to hurt him for some reason. He didn't know why, but that was inconsequential. Naruto knew precisely whom to focus on.
A team is, after all, only as strong as its weakest link… but first, he had to break up their formation.
Several-dozen more clones dropped from the trees around them. Then, the one who landed closest took in a deep breath and spat a motherfucking fireball at them. Thoroughly caught off-guard by this turn of events, the women all panicked and scattered, just as Naruto knew they would, and the other clones tried to dogpile them. (2)
"SINCE WHEN DOES AN AWAKENED BEING SPIT FIRE?!" Uranus shouted out in dismay, just before she was dogpiled by several of the clones.
"SINCE WHEN DOES AN AWAKENED BEING HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE COPIES OF THEMSELF?!" Roxanne shouted in retort, before letting out a cry of her own when she too was dogpiled by several clones.
"Who ever said I was an Awakened Being? Or a youma?" Naruto rolled his eyes at their reactions. Needless to say, his little display gave them reason to doubt that he was, But, they were here to eliminate him and rescue Sylvia, not to worry about such matters as what he was and the origin of his powers.
But, unfortunately for them, these clones were much more careful and harder to handle. Despite being armed with little more than glorified shivs, they held their own against the women rather well and even got a few shots in. Also, to make matters worse, they seemed to be focusing on the weaker girls, Miranda, Roxanne, and Uranus. While Cassandra was one clone to contend with, the rest were dealing with three clones each and were visibly struggling.
"And then there were three," Naruto called out ominously. Just as he did, one of his clones got a hold of Miranda and the both of them disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"MIRANDA!" Cassandra screamed out with genuine fear showing on her face when she saw her friend being taken away. That quickly turned into pure, unbridled rage when the woman's thoughts on her friend's safety turned dark and Cassandra turned and glared viciously at the clones.
"IF YOU HURT HER! I SWEAR TO THE GODS ABOVE I WILL KILL YOU!"
"You were planning on doing that anyway, lady," one of the clones told the pissed off woman.
Cassandra's response was to give said clone a savage backhand, sending him through one, tree bouncing off another, off a cliff, and careening to the jagged rocks below, all before he even had the chance to go up in smoke. Then, yet another clone was sent flying and dispelled when he tried and spectacularly failed to restrain her.
"Note to self: isolate that one," Naruto thought, a concerned frown forming on his face. Ten poofs later, a small unit of clones dropped down to focus on her, just before another clone snatched up Roxanne and disappeared with her as well. "And then, there were two."
Meanwhile, back in Zakol Castle, Miranda reappeared, dispelling the clone who brought her here with a swing of her sword. Then, she paused and blinked in confusion, realizing that she'd found herself in the great hall of a castle…? An instant later, Roxanne also appeared right next to her. The following poof made it clear that her respective clone met the same fate as the previous one.
"Glad you two could make it," a young-sounding, female voice chirped. Miranda and Roxanne turned to face her and were unable to believe what they saw.
There, in three matching chairs next to the throne, sat a concerned and grumpy Sylvia, an indifferent-looking Neideen, and a brunette they couldn't recognize. The girl looked to be about 13 or so. What baffled Miranda and Roxanne, however, was that the three of them were visibly pregnant! In the throne sat yet another Naruto, eyeballing them carefully.
"...Ten bera says they'll start screaming about you and Neideen being pregnant." Naruto wagered.
"Sucker's bet," Neideen snickered.
"H-HOW IN THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?!" Roxanne shrieked.
"Blame him," Sylvia said, jerking a thumb towards the clone of her husband with an amused grin. "He's able to heal our stigmas and restore our fertility as a side-effect."
"We found that second part out the fun way," Neideen chirped. "It's the reason why she ran away."
"I… I see," Roxanne said in a subdued tone. What the hell was she supposed to do in this situation?!
"Oh! And he's not a youma or Awakened One," Neideen added with a raised finger. "Believe me, out of everyone here, I'd know. So all this time we've been trying to kill a human. A human capable of feats we can only dream of, but a human nonetheless."
"Wait… he's human? But he has youki!" Roxanne said with a pointed finger at Naruto.
"That's Kurako," Sylvia chimed in. "Think of her as an Awakened Being that's… somehow trapped inside of a human. Like water in a jug. That's the best way I can explain it."
"Basically, Naruto is very much like us in some ways," Neideen added. "He is just an ordinary human, with some extraordinary abilities. And you know what happens if you harm a human, don't you?"
"I still think that rule is the dumbest thing ever," the Naruto clone huffed. Seriously, not allowing people to defend defend from people that want to harm them? It was just... dumb. Very dumb.
"It is," Riful chimed in, "but only because it has no exceptions. Were it to allow for self-defense, it would've been perfectly reasonable."
"Ehhh…. Yeah, I agree," the clone muttered. The rule was still dumb though. Not killing he can understand... so long as it's within reason, but they should at least be allowed to defend themselves from ordinary people. Like breaking a few bones, punching them, stuff like that. Nothing lethal.
"I… I don't understand," Miranda said, finally speaking up. The poor thing was trying so, so hard to make sense of what was going on. She could clearly see what was happening in front of her with her very own eyes, but the poor woman had no idea if they were playing tricks on her.
She rubbed her eyes, just to make sure, and sure enough the sight of Sylvia and Neideen being pregnant was still there in front of her. Then, the former got up and slowly approached the woman in question.
Of course, Naruto's clone followed her to make sure these women didn't try anything as Riful eyeballed them warily, prepared to strike if they proved to be so foolish. Then, Sylvia grabbed Miranda's free hand once she was in arm's reach and placed it on her swollen belly.
There was a clang as the Number 36 dropped her sword in utter shock. Miranda still couldn't believe it, even as she felt the baby shifting about. "Holy shit, this is actually real…"
Back with the others, Uranus was fighting back tooth and nail. Upon seeing the others disappear, she assumed the worst and immediately thought Naruto had killed them. The young woman was making damn sure if Naruto was going to take her then he was going to have to work for it. And she was doing a hell of a job at it.
"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, YOU PROLIFIC SONOFABITCH!" Uranus cried out with defiance, kicking another shadow clone between the legs and dispelling him, before she brought her sword up, turned around and sliced off the heads of three clones behind her. They dispelled and the puffs of smoke left behind in their wake concealed the approach of the other clones. She didn't know they were coming until she felt a pair of hands clasp onto her chausses, prompting Uranus to snap her head down with a squawk and distracting her from the rest of them who proceeded to dogpile her.
She went down screaming threats and profanities that would make a sailor blush, before disappearing in another swirl of leaves.
"And then there was one," Naruto stated with finality. Then, the young man jumped in startelement as he saw no less than two thirds of his remaining clones go up in smoke.
Cassandra roared in outrage, seeing only red at this point. That was things started getting really trippy for Naruto. Her head began bobbing left and right rapidly, like a metronome. The woman then anchored her feet as a pivot, before-
The original Naruto was nearly bouncing with glee at the sight. Holy shit, was she attacking his clones from ground level?! His clones were being dispelled en masse as they had their arms and legs chopped off from unpredictable angles. She was almost touching the ground as she moved! It was unnatural! It was unexpected!
It was awesome!
Naruto would be gushing at seeing such an effective, and awesome technique in action. But it was being used against him… therefore, there wasn't many gushings to be had. Not yet, at least.
Still, despite that, he saw first hand just how effective it was. By the time Naruto hopped down to meet his opponent, his clones were all gone. "Looks like I'll have to settle this, myself," he said. And then, his youki spiked. Unfortunately, he knew Three-Tails wouldn't be enough to deal with this girl… and going full-beast was out of the question. Despite how much he hated using this form, despite how much it hurt like a bitch, despite Octo-Pops repeatedly warning him never to do it again, he had to go Four-Tails at the fucking least or this chick would kill him!
Cassandra stood upright and glared daggers at Naruto when she felt his youki spike. It was so thick she could practically taste it… this young man was most certainly powerful.
"Don't hold back, Naruto," Kurako warned. "This woman is more dangerous than all the others and Riful, combined!"
Naruto's eyes were closed as a bubbling, red cloak formed around him. It had a pair of long, rabbit-like ears became part of it, and three tails. The whiskers on his cheeks were more pronounced, and jagged; and his canine teeth were more noticeable, as they were poking out of his upper lip. His teeth had also grown in length and ended with sharpened tips.
"I know." he mentally replied to the fox girl. Still, going a full on Nine-Tails this close to his new village would cause an utter mess. There was also the very real risk of killing her or causing a landslide and killing someone else. He couldn't take that risk. His eyes snapped open, revealing the vibrant blue irises were replaced by crimson red eyes with slit pupils.
"I'll give you one more chance, lady," Naruto told the woman growlingly, "just stop now, and we can pretend this didn't happen," he pleaded with her.
"I'LL KILL YOU FOR KILLING MY BEST FRIEND!" Cassandra raged, her eyes glowing a demonic gold.
"Alright… you asked for it." As he spoke Naruto's skin started peeling off to reveal black and red, viscous blood-like energy beneath and seconds after, he was engulfed by a massive sphere of youki as the Earth itself seemed to tremble in fear. The air was thick, every animal for miles fled in all directions, and then, an ungodly shriek pierced the air as a black and red silhouette of demonic energies with white, glowing eyes replaced the boy. It was similar to him in stature, but had fox-like ears atop its head, four tails sprouting from its ears and a jagged line for a mouth, resembling that of a piranha.
Within the seal, Kurako frowned, feeling it weaken around her. It felt so… fragile, now, as if merely touching it would cause the whole thing to crumble into dust, but she resisted the urge to try.
"I don't like using this form..." Naruto said, sounding as if he were trying to hold back from crying out in agonizing pain. "It hurts like a bitch. But right now, I just want to get this over and done with." The glowing, pure white eyes narrowed dangerously at Cassandra as he got down on all fours with his tails writhing languidly behind him.
Cassandra was not here to play games either, thought. She was going to make him pay for what she thought he did! Undeterred by the Naruto's transformation, she responded by spiking her own youki, releasing every last bit she could get away with. Veins started popping out of her face and her body started to warp, all within the blink of an eye, and then, she was upon him.
"Naruto, go Full-Beast, now!" Kurako could feel the amount of energy this woman was outputting right now and it was alarmingly big! There was no way he could stand up to this woman in his current state!
The young man in question hopped up and narrowly avoided getting all fur of his limbs lopped off The sheer force behind the strike felled every tree within twenty feet, thoroughly startling him. "Even going this far is a risk," he mentally replied. "This Organization she's with is probably watching our fight, somehow and don't get me started on the village!"
"If you don't then she will kill you!"
Naruto cried out in shock and pain as he felt several blows on his body, the moment he landed on the ground, several of them even cutting through the Demon Cloak! The cuts were shallow, but the fact that they even existed spoke volumes of this woman's strength...
"Tch… There has to be another way; I don't want to kill her!" He let out more pained cries as his body was dealt more and more blows as he tried and failed to fight back. Then he leapt up to avoid her and landed on a nearby tree… only for said tree to be felled by a single strike that cleaved right through it.
As soon as he landed, Cassandra was on his ass like white on rice. He howled as pain shot all over his body, with most of it centering around his limbs. Her sword managed to cut through his cloak again, this time leaving behind deeper gashes. If this kept up she'll end up lopping something off!
"FUCK IT!"
Cassandra choked and squirmed as a surprisingly human hand shot forth from Naruto's side and grabbed her throat. The dainty, small limb then started to move forth and a face and torso soon followed. Eventually, a small, orange-haired girl in strange robes seemed to walk out of Naruto's body and as she did, the monstrous form he'd taken on lifted off of him like a blanket.
Cassandra tried to take a swing at the newcomer, but then she was chucked aside a child's plaything!
A red skinned Naruto slumped down flat on his face, doing a great impression of a dead dog. "Owwww…"
"You'll likely feel rather drained for some time, but I left one tail's worth of my youki inside you for good measure."
True to her words, Kurako only had eight as they fanned out behind her.
Naruto slowly raised his head to give his… not so trapped tenant a flat look. "I didn't even know you would do that… or even could!" then he let his head fall back to the ground again, "Everything hurts…"
"I know," Kurako said apologetically. "But, if I hadn't, she would have killed you."
"You and I are gonna have a long talk about this, later…"
Kurako shrugged indifferently. "Can't be helped.."
Cassandra grunted, pushing herself back up from where she had landed. "Wh-what the hell are you?"
"The source of Naruto's more… demonic powers," Kurako chirped turning her attention to the woman in question. "And his mate!" With that last word, one of her tails stretched outwards and blinding speeds and swatted the woman across the clearing and away from Naruto before reverting back to its original size.
The young man in question didn't say anything as he heard Cassandra letting out an undignified squawk on impact. Then, he raised his head and pointed at Cassandra with a flat look on his face, "TOLD YOU I WAS HUMAN!"
Cassandra growled at him, not believing a single word and charged again, but she was swatted back once again by one of Kurako's tails.
"Go…" the vulpine loli said. "I'll… calm her down and meet you back in the castle."
"Nah… if you're gonna bring her, you'd might as well bring me back with her…"
"She's literally trying to kill you," Kurako countered. Already, Cassandra was pushing herself back up, staggering from several blows to the head, and the demon fox's gaze never left the warrior as she continued to speak. "I know you can get up, now, and I won't hurt her too much. I just want to make sure you're safe."
Oh, he can get up now. But he was literally recovering from having his skin burnt off! Everything hurts like shit!
"Kurako… you know what going Four Tails does to me. Are you seriously telling me to get up, while it hurts to breathe, let alone move?"
"I'm telling you to use Shunshin no Jutsu and get to a safe distance so you can heal up while I keep her from killing the man I love, you dense motherfucker!"
Naruto's eye twitched at that. Then he did as she asked, forming a hand gesture seal and body flickering away to safety.
"FUUUCK!"
...And a fair distance away, Naruto's agonized screams echoed throughout the wooded mountain range as he reappeared a mile or so away.
Taking a deep, calming breath and cracking her knuckles as she approached the still-recovering woman, Kurako let a haunting, bloodthirsty grin spread across her face. "Sorry to keep you waiting."
"I'm... gonna kill you… you both," Cassandra growled, stumbling into a proper fighting stance. After being ragdolled three times and hitting her head a dozen more, she was feeling rather punch-drunk at the moment. "I'm… gonna kill you…"
"Riveting…" Kurako replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes. "Unfortunately for you, I'm very protective of Naruto… and now, it's time to pay the piper~!"
Cassandra was not at all familiar with that saying, but she knew damn well, even in her state, that it spelled trouble.
Several hours of enjoying herself a bit more than she should have later, Kurako turned many a head as the villagers caught sight of a seemingly 12 or 13-year-old girl in strange robes carrying Cassandra's claymore in one hand, dragging the unconscious, black and blue woman with the other. She hummed a merry tune as she sauntered on up to Riful's castle. Fortunately… for the guards, that is, no one tried to stop her as Naruto had informed them that a strange ginger child would likely be popping up on his way back and that she... had an appointment with him.
It helped that her vulpine features had been retracted for the most part. She still had her fangs, claw-like nails, and whisker-like markings, but they only resulted in the villagers assuming she was Naruto's sister or something.
It didn't take the demon long to reach her destination and when she did…
"CASSANDRA!"
"She'll live," Kurako grunted, plopping the woman down for her friend to tend to. Then, she walked away and addressed a fully-healed Naruto sitting on his throne with his three pregnant women by his side. "Sorry that took so long."
Riful frowned in concern. This girl truly was the source of Naruto's immense youki, wasn't she? It was almost overwhelming, even for her!
Naruto sighed. "It's fine, I guess," he grumbled. "So… what now?"
"For now, I'd advise we wait for this 'Cassandra' woman to wake up so Sylvia can sort things out with her," Riful chimed in.
"Good idea," said girl agreed, "I don't know much about Cassandra, but I have heard that she's very protective of her friend Miranda. Now that everyone is here and alive, it'll be easier for us to calm her down."
"In the meantime," Riful began as she looked at Kurako and simply had to ask. "What will become of Naruto's power, now that you're no longer inside of him?"
"I left some of it in there," said demon replied. "Even without me inside the seal, it should continue to grow, using his chakra over time to replenish itself." As it stood, she could tell that it was doing precisely that, albeit at a slow pace. Most would find it hard to detect, though Neideen did also notice it. "I'd say a few months, given its current pace, and he should be back to his old self? We shall see. It won't gain a consciousness of its own, though, so you're stuck with only one of me." That last part was added teasingly with a cute, little giggle.
"Right," Naruto said flatly. "While we're on the subject, how the hell did you pop out and why didn't you do it sooner if you could?!"
"The seal weakens greatly when you use that cloak," Kurako explained. "It always has, because you're releasing copious amounts of my youki coating yourself in it—hence the name Bijuu Cloak. I wasn't able to do it last time you went Four-Tails, mind you, because that was before Kiraa Bii had the seal altered. It's also why he warned you not to go beyond Three-Tails. The changes he made are what allowed me to escape if you did."
"I… can't help but fail to see how," Naruto muttered.
"The adjustments he made weakened the seal so you could draw upon my youki more easily." Kurako replied. "Simply put, the more severe the cloak, the easier it is for me to escape. Had you gone Full Beast like I told you, I wouldn't have been able to escape, because that form is achieved through blending my youki with your chakra to create a transformation, similar to Henge no Jutsu." (3)
"That... actually explains a lot," Naruto said, raising an eyebrow. He thought Octo-Pops was warning him not to use the Four-Tails and higher Cloaks, because they hurt like a bitch. Now that he had the mechanics explained to him, though, he finally understood why the man in question was so vocal about how dangerous it was for him to go Four-Tails.
"What's chakra?" Uranus chose then to interrupt them, legitimately curious. She'd never heard that word before. "And what's a hen-gay no… whatever?"
"Chakra's like youki, but more… versatile," Kurako told the woman. "It's a mixture of physical and spiritual energies unique to humans and animals from Naruto's world. It's also what allows him to spit fire and make copies of himself… and Henge no Jutsu is a transformation technique used to disguise one's appearance."
Well, that answered her questions… but it raised so many others! (4)
"Pretty much," Naruto confirmed with a satisfied nod. Then, he addressed his former tenant once more. "So… since you're out, what are you gonna do now?" He couldn't help but ask, genuinely curious.
"Plop another chair right next to Riful's," Kurako chirped. Then, a massive, lewd, vulpine grin spread across her face. "Right after claiming my place in your harem once and for all, of course~!"
Then, her foxy traits came out and she dropped down onto all fours, sexily crawling on up to her man. Once she was close enough, Naruto put up no resistance as she spread his legs and undid his trousers.
"Oh, please, don't," Roxanne groaned in discomfort.
"Oh, please, do~!" Neideen moaned with a lewd grin.
They both knew where this was heading… as did everyone else, a mixture of discomfort, exasperation, amusement, and even interest showing on the many faces within the great hall of Zakol Castle.
Kurako only giggled at their reactions. Then, she fished out Naruto's cock and stroked the little guy to life. "You can consider this my apology for going against your wishes back there," she whispered huskily, right before taking his lower head into her mouth with a 'nom' and started sucking away at it like she was a professional whore.
Yeah, Naruto was in for a looong night… Not that he minded too much, of course.
1: That was an utterly lame-ass joke on my part. I am not sorry.
2: I always found it odd how Naruto had a wind affinity in canon when considering how fox demons are generally associated with fire. You'd think Kurama's presence would at least influence his elemental affinity. In either case, Naruto can use fire techniques in this fanfic as well as wind… and his knowledge of the latter is far deeper, because he fucked off from Konoha for two-and-a-half years to be tutored by the man who trained the motherfucking Yondaime Hokage! Seriously, how the hell did Naruto learn so little in that amount of time in canon?! Kishimoto-San is a bad writer, that's how!
3: If I remember right, Kiraa Bii was able to shift into his Tailed Beast form freely and without burning off his skin. I felt this needed an explanation and what I have here is the best one I could think of, lol. It also gave me a good opportunity to present the distinction between youki and chakra, though, so I'm certainly not complaining.
4: Anyone among my readers grow up on the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy? I fucking loved that silly show, lol. This was a bit of an obscure reference, but when I was writing this scene, the moment where Billy flew over Grim and Mandy in an elf costume came to mind and I just had to add this line, lol.
And that is all for now. Hope y'all liked it and have a good one, eh?