Well, then! This is going up earlier than intended, but that's definitely not a bad thing, lol. I lost track of time and now it's 8:30 am, holy shit, lmfao! XD

I hope y'all enjoy!

Chapter Thirteen: Flirting and Frustration

It had been half a year since the disappearance of Cassandra and her team, and the Organization didn't like it one bit. After a month of hearing nothing back, they sent in their Eye to check, and when she came back, her report did not bode well for them.

Whatever was in that newly formed city in Lautrec seemed to be responsible for not just Neideen going rogue, but also the Hunting Party sent to eliminate it. To make matters worse, Riful of the West was apparently allied with it as well! The women had all gone rogue on them and whatever this being was, it apparently had a talent for swaying other people to its side.

But, they had no idea what the hell it was! According to the reports, it was apparently a male being by the name of Naruto. Given that was also the name of the lord now in charge of this new city called 'Neo Konoha', among other factors, they assumed it was the same man. But that was all they knew!

As such, the elders decided on an… unconventional course of action. Though they had eyes and ears all over the continent, this situation seemed to call for something with a bit more 'oomph'. So in another facility, hidden from their soldiers, they started training a large batch of normal girls as spies with skills in seduction and assassination. These girls were not to be converted, however, for fear that their warriors' youki was somehow what allowed this Naruto to manipulate even the former Number One into deserting.

The Elder laced his fingers before his face and addressed Simon, a Handler placed in charge of this initiative. "So, how goes the training?" (1)

"The older ones are progressing well and should be ready soon," he replied. "They'll make for a good initial trial if nothing else. We've also started raising up the ones age 10 and younger on a strict diet and education program. They'll take longer to train up for obvious reasons, but when they're complete, we should have quite the harvest on our hands."

"Good. I want the initial batch deployed in this new city of Konoha the moment they are complete." The Elder commanded with a dispassionate look on his face. They should be able to get close and deal the killing blow... or at least obtain some useful information they can use against him later on. They now needed to train more soldiers to replace the ones they had lost as well. The current Number 3, Nutcracker Neo would serve as a suitable replacement for Cassandra, at least for the time being, but Uranus and Roxanne were quite the loss despite their low rank.

"It will be done," Simon said with a slight incline of his head.

Meanwhile, back in the city of Neo Konoha, the wailing of a baby girl filled Sylvia's bedchamber.

"Oh, damn it…" Sylvia groaned yawning and rolling out of bed. The poor thing hasn't been sleeping very well, to say the least. That damn kid of hers kept waking her up every two hours for food!

"Do you want me to make a clone for you so he can take care of our girl?" Naruto asked, looking at his wife with one eye open. Sylvia may not need to sleep as often as he does, but she does need to sleep.

"She's hungry," Sylvia pointed out. Though even she had no idea how she was able to tell, the tomboy just... knew that was the case. "You don't have tits." With that, she shambled on up to the crib. "But, thank you for the offer."

"True," Naruto yawned, then he chuckled and put the covers back on top of him, before adding tiredly, "and you're welcome."

After seeing his baby girl for the first time, Naruto simply couldn't bring himself to leave Sylvia's side until little Kushina was at least old enough to walk. Naruto also couldn't help but blush when his wife insisted on naming their daughter after his late mother, but he didn't mind at all.

It didn't take long for the baby to stop crying once Sylvia scooped her up. The little girl got to sucking Sylvia's nub right away. It was damn adorable, if not a little exasperating. She even started purring! The first time she had, soon after popping out, Sylvia immediately demanded to know why that was, fearing that something might be wrong with her baby. But, as it turned out, Kurako's influence was to blame. Not only was Naruto her vessel, but he was born to her previous one; as such he purred like that, too, as a baby.

It was rather cute, if a bit odd...

Kushina had also ended up with whisker marks on her cheeks, just like her daddy, for the same reason. As for the pink hair… Naruto was noted to have had a few people with that trait in his family tree. It was apparently rather common in Hi no Kuni. So, Kurako chalked it up to Sylvia's mother being a redhead, though it was ultimately anyone's guess as to what caused this trait to resurface in baby Kushina.

Needless to say, Naruto's world was strange by Sylvia's standards.

Later on that same day, Naruto was walking around, minding his own business when he came across most of Cassandra's group in the dining hall. Cassandra, Miranda, and Uranus were chatting amongst themselves with nary a care in the world. They had empty plates on the table in front of them, showing they had finished eating.

Figuring it couldn't hurt in getting to know them a little more, Naruto went over and joined them.

"Oh, hello!" Miranda greeted him with a wave upon seeing the man of the castle. "How's fatherhood?"

"It could be a lot worse," the blond admitted with a chuckle as he took a seat beside her. "Little Kushina keeps waking us every two hours. But it's not all bad. So, how's your stay here been so far?"

"It's been great!" Miranda chirped happily. The woman had warmed up to Naruto significantly during their stay here. "It beats roaming about from place to place like a lone wanderer, that's for sure! It's nice to finally be able to call a place home!"

"Actually having a bed will take some getting used to, admittedly," Cassandra added shyly; her fingers fidgeting as she looked down at the table and anywhere that was not Naruto, "But it is certainly nice."

"Good to hear!" Naruto smiled. Then he added, directly to Cassandra, "Y'know, you're pretty damn adorable, I gotta say." She's sexy too, with those pointed ears giving her that alluring exoticism. "It makes me wanna see the baby you'd make if, you catch my drift~!"

There was a loud thump as the poor thing fainted instantly. She knew damn well what he meant!

"Will you please stop tormenting her?" Miranda asked with amused exasperation. "You're gonna give her a concussion."

"But, it's so haaard," Naruto whined childishly. "Her reactions are just too damn cute!"

"No wonder Neideen's already pregnant again," Uranus sighed with a dull look on her face. It was pretty easy to see how this boy made the former Number Nine fall for him.

Naruto couldn't help but let out a sheepish chuckle at that. "To be fair, this is Neideen we're talking about. I don't think she cares if I knock her up, as long as I'm fucking her bowlegged. It's safe to assume she's never returning to being a warrior at this rate, though." He shrugged before adding with admittance, "I kinda wanna do the same thing to you girls, to be honest."

Uranus and Miranda both exchanged surprised looks at that, before they looked back to him, "You don't say?" Uranus asked, intrigued.

"I do," Naruto replied with a warm chuckle, "You four are all just so damn cute in your own ways, and very pretty. The only reason I haven't really come onto you yet is because neither of you showed interest." He let out a dejected sigh before getting up and walking to Cassandra's unconscious form. "Well, time to wake her up I guess."

Naruto got beside Cassandra, put his hand on her upper back and channeled his chakra into her body. The rush of energy flowing inside her body shocked the woman awake.

"WAH!" Cassandra yelped in surprise, jolting up and nearly headbutting Naruto. She thankfully missed… this time.

"Welcome back to the land of the living, cutie," Naruto teased. Then he decided to be brave and gave the woman a quick peck on the cheek. That made the woman stare at him with her eyes dilating out of surprise. "If you're gonna keep fainting, then maybe you should sit on my lap just so I can catch you when it happens, eh~?"

And, just like that, Cassandra was out like a light once more. Thankfully, Naruto caught her, before she could bang her head, this time.

The blond couldn't help but chuckle at that. "She reminds me so much of a girl I knew." Then he went and did the exact same thing… though this time, before waking her up, Naruto pulled Cassandra's unconscious body up and sat her on his lap. Then he woke her up. She let out another yelp and looked around frantically.

That was when she realized the position she was in. Her cheeks blazed and she started to wobble, but then…

SMACK!

"GAHH!" The former Number One cried out as she felt Naruto give her a hard swat on the rear.

"None of that, now," Naruto chuckled, rubbing said hand along the area he smacked her. "I just woke you up twice, already." He had to admit, though: this woman had a nice ass. It was round and curvaceous and was just big enough that the palm of his hand couldn't cover each cheek fully. It made her sitting on his crotch rather, enjoyable. "If you want, you can get up off of me and take a seat?"

Cassandra sputtered helplessly but conspicuously made no effort at all to move. That suited Naruto just fine.

"I gotta say, you two would make a cute couple," Uranus observed after giving them a thoughtful look; the woman meant it, too.

"Why thank you," Naruto grinned at the compliment. Then he looked to Cassandra, "So, Cassie, do you want me to… explore your body?"

"I… I… I d-don't mind," she whispered timidly and her rear began to slowly grind against the bulge the woman could feel poking against her buttocks..

"Brave lady," he teased, nibbling the pointed tip of her left ear. He was honestly impressed. Then Naruto moved his hands from her waist upwards until his hands palmed her breasts. "You can tell me to stop at any time if you're getting uncomfortable," the blond told his new playmate as his hands started to knead and squeeze her bosom through her top.

Cassandra gasped and shuddered on contact, her cheeks blazing like never before. Then, she let loose an outright whorish moan when he actually started rubbing at them. His hands molding and kneading her bosom like clay.

"I always wanted to do this to your breasts when I first saw 'em, y'know," Naruto whispered into her ear, before licking at the lobe. "I bet you wanted me to do this, too."

"Well, well," Uranus cleared her throat, her face showing amusement and arousal from the display as she turned towards Miranda. "It seems your best friend is much naughtier than she lets on."

Miranda didn't reply. In truth, she didn't know which one to be more jealous of. She liked her friend—like likedher. But, she liked Naruto that way too... and often found herself imagining being in the place of Sylvia, Riful, or Neideen. She didn't let anyone know, but her jealousy was clear as day, even if she didn't admit to it. Still, though, she was happy for her friend… and if Naruto was doing that to Cassandra then there is a good chance he'll do the same thing to everyone else, eventually—herself included.

Uranus leered at Miranda, who was too busy staring at the spectacle to notice anything else, much to the Number 31's amusement. Then, before the pigtailed blonde realized it, she was being scooped up in a bridal carry. Miranda's squawk drew Naruto and Cassandra's attention as they both saw Uranus vacating the area.

"Just thought I should give you two some privacy," the Number 31 chirped.

"Uh… y-yeah," Miranda muttered shyly. "H-have fun, you… y-you two."

Then, with that, Uranus scampered on out with the flustered Number 36 still in her arms.

"Well," Naruto commented, "If I'm not mistaken, I think your friend just gave me her blessing~!" Then, he ripped a squeak from Cassandra by shoving a hand between her legs and caressing her folds through the woman's leggings.

Though the other girls had taken to wearing more civilian-style garb by now, Uranus and Cassandra seemed to prefer their old uniforms. He certainly didn't mind; it just meant he had a different type of 'eye-candy' since their shirts and leggings did absolutely nothing to hide their curves and left little to the imagination.

One hand figuratively mauling a tit and the other rubbing her folds, Naruto had the woman squirming with pleasure on his lap. And he rather enjoyed feeling her ass rubbing and grinding against his dick.

Cassandra gasped when she felt his dick harden against her butt and her cheeks practically invented a new shade of red at the thought of enticing this strapping young lad with such… naughty movements. She bit her lip and started consciously grinding against it a little harder, a little rougher.

"Oh! My, my! You're quite the naughty woman… Me likey~!" Naruto growled huskily into her ear. It really was always the quiet ones, wasn't it? "I'm tempted to bend you over this table and start breeding you, right here and now."

Cassandra yelped and shuddered, her leggings becoming conspicuously drenched in sexual juices as she writhed in his lap. That mental image literally just made her cum!

"Oh! Someone likes that idea… maybe I should take you to your bedroom and give you a nice, deep pounding~!"

"R-right here," she whispered longingly, her mind was too foggy from the lust for her to be embarrassed anymore, though she was still just as timid. "P-please… I can't wait."

Naruto shuddered, unable to contain himself any longer. He pushed Cassandra off of his lap, the chair clattering behind him as he stood behind the shy, pointy-eared hottie. She yelped and bent over the table from the force and then her eyes went wide as Naruto pulled down her leggings.

One hand caressed her folds while the other undid his trousers. Then, Cassandra shuddered at the feel of something rubbing up against her lower lips. Was this it? Was he about to claim her from behind like a dog in his dining hall, where anyone could just walk in on them?! Her unasked question was answered beyond any doubt when Naruto's lower head poked into her entrance and the blond started sinking into her.

"I'm going to breed you," Naruto groaned as inch after inch of his cock slid inside of her tight snatch. "And I won't stop until you're filled to the brim! You'll be walking funny for weeks by the time I'm done with you!"

Cassandra shuddered blissfully at his words, nearly cumming once again. Then, her whole body convulsed when she felt his balls press up against her clit. Then she felt Naruto's hands on her hips before he pulled out of her snatch until the final inch was left inside of her still. And then the blond slammed into her.

Whap!

The second his waist slapped against her bubble butt, Naruto immediately pulled out and slammed into her again and again with rapid, unrelenting, merciless thrusts.

The woman didn't stand a chance…

Cassandra's eyes rolled back and she wailed in pleasure, cumming almost immediately. She writhed helplessly, moaning like a whore, and mounted no resistance against Naruto's assault.

The young man in question powered through it like a champ and hissed in pleasure at the pleasant sensation of her walls clamping around his thrusting cock. He bared down onto her prone form, pulling Cassandra to his chest as he just kept going. Despite his best efforts, though, the thought of knocking this cutie up made his balls churn; he was dangerously close to blowing his load.

Naruto groaned in pleasure, leaning forward and nipping at the crook of Cassandra's neck, marking the woman as his while fondling her chest. Said blonde, meanwhile, was clawing at the table, moaning and growling like a rabid beast. Never in her long life had the woman thought she could feel so good, that it was even possible to feel this much pleasure at once.

She wailed one last time as a massive wave of euphoria washed over her. Cassandra's whole body twitched and her juices splashed all over Naruto's balls as her inner walls practically tried to suck the seed out of him.

"FUCK!" Naruto roared. The feel of her tight-ass, freshly deflowered pussy clamping down on him once more and squeezing the life out of his cock sent him over the edge. With one last thrust, he pushed as deep as he could into her baby-maker and emptied his balls right inside Cassandra's eager, hungry womb.

The woman's eyes rolled back into her head, and with but a pathetic whimper, she was out cold.

Unbeknownst to the two of them, they had an audience. Just around the corner, hiding behind it, Roxanne shook with rage and jealousy at the spectacle. Damn it! She was just about to try and steal that stud away, only for that bitch to waltz in and fuck him like the lowly dog she was! The agitated blonde took a deep, calming breath and kept observing the mating couple. This was just a setback.

Still… just how much semen was Naruto packing in that nutsack of his?! He was still pumping that dog full of his seed! Wasn't it just supposed to be a few shots?!

"Damn, that felt good," Naruto groaned. Though he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched, the blond sensed no one else nearby and figured it was just his imagination. So, he just stood there and enjoyed his sexual high. To this day, no one in the castle knew of Roxanne's stealth technique but Kurako. And the fox girl thought it would 'fun' idea to let the others find that out for themselves.

She also liked to keep secrets if no one bothers to ask her. And even then there was no guarantee that she would tell the whole truth anyway, such was her nature as a fox demon.

While life improved immensely for Naruto in his new home, someone else found that hers was becoming far, far more troublesome. Ootsutsuki Kaguya, Demonic God-Empress of a Thousand Realms, was apparently in need of a new title. Though some of her 'collection' still remained under the woman's sway, most of said worlds were… a work in progress. It would take centuries, possibly even millennia to reclaim them all! (2)

She sighed, regaining her composure. Then, she perked up upon seeing someone enter. It was the man who went by Pein. As a reward for his efforts in unsealing her and aiding with the war effort, he had been blessed with the position of a lord's title. Now, he was here for his bi-annual update. Was it that time already? How time flew… Then again, the fact that she even still had a sense of time was a wonder, given how long the ageless woman had lived.

"Report," Kaguya barked.

"We've quelled the last remnants of the rebellion," Pein declared. "The example we made of Itachi and the assassins had more than the desired effect."

Kaguya was not at all surprised. Such a spectacular execution after personally impaling the other three carcasses of her would-be assassins upon the foremost spires of Soragakure and writing a warning to all in their blood would have quite the chilling effect, after all...

The man averted his gaze looking incredibly sheepish. "Again, I apologize profusely for not realizing that man was…"

"Enough," Kaguya grunted, dismissing his words with a wave of her hand. "You've redeemed yourself. Put it behind you, but make sure it doesn't happen again." Then, after noting the relieved and grateful look on Pein's face, she decided that a change of subject was in order. "What of Kumogakure and this Coalition?"

"The Raikage still shows signs of animosity towards the Empire, but remains loyal… if only out of self-preservation," Pein replied. "His forces were instrumental in finding Itachi's hideout and remaining allies, milady."

Kaguya nodded in satisfaction. That wasn't surprising. As it turned out, those twins had been dumped into a rain forest and managed to survive by putting their training to good use. That said, the Raikage's brother was not as hard to pacify as she had feared.

"As for the Coalition…"

Kaguya frowned once again. "Still troublesome, I take it?" That is what his tone implied.

"They bear the most substantial grudge against us out of anyone," Pein confirmed. "Though they still retain their stance of absolute neutrality and refuse to open negotiations with us or any other party until the fate of this 'Naruto' character is confirmed."

Kaguya frowned even deeper. Clearly, they caught wind of how she got Kumo to cooperate. She let out a huff and gave the man in front of her a firm look. "Have they at least shown the courtesy of telling us why he's so important to them? I have my doubts that the boy-Kage is this influential."

Pain nodded with a respectful bow, "Though the Kazekage was very close friends with him, that's not all by a long shot," he replied. "Princess Koyuki's heirs are apparently his… as is the future Priestess of Oni no Kuni… in fact the children of a few other daimyou also bear a suspicious…"

"I get it," Kaguya sighed. That wasn't even mentioning the two survivors of Konoha with suspicious offspring of their own. Seriously, what the absolute fuck?! "I assume this Naruto was confirmed to be the previous Nine-Tails' vessel I had cast through one of my portals?"

"He was," Pein confirmed. "The boy they refer to is Uzumaki Naruto, Demon Vessel of Kurako. He was renowned as a hero in many a nation throughout the continent."

How troublesome, indeed… Kaguya took a deep, calming breath as she massaged her temples to quell the headache threatening to creep up on her. The empire was still recovering, even with the help of a new Godstone. They simply didn't have the manpower and resources to subjugate so many countries by force—not in this realm of existence, at least. She'd have to pull from other realms to achieve this, but that would do more harm than good in the long run. No empire survived long on fear alone, and pulling resources from other realms could yield two very big problems to her.

First, it would make her look weak; not only would her ego not allow it, but if she let news spread that she lost control of an entire realm and that they had managed to seal her away, it could encourage even more rebellions to pop up.

The second problem was that of any interplanar threats. She was not at all the only thing that could hop across realms of existence, after all. That was unlikely to be an issue, but something for her to bear in mind, nonetheless.

She had dealt with a few threats of that scale in the past, after all; killed many of them too, when they refused to bend to her will, but that didn't mean others were not out there… lurking in the shadows and waiting for news on any perceived weaknesses of her mighty Gelel Empire. Or, rather, her once mighty Gelel Empire. The remnants of her thousand-realm empire was a shadow of its former self, though she could at least take comfort in the fact that it was absurdly huge in comparison to anything a mortal could ever dream of achieving.

"It would seem that my best option is to at least try and locate this brat," Kaguya muttered with an irritated scowl. "More flies with honey, as the old saying goes…" It did seem like the best course of action at the moment. (3)

Pushing her irritation aside, Kaguya met Pain's gaze with all three of her eyes, her stare making him feel like she was looking right through him as the God-Empress addressed one of her most loyal servants. "Have Lady Amaru inform the Coalition that I will require as much information on this boy as possible if I am to locate him: personality, height, weight, likes, dislikes, even his shoe size, if possible. In the heat of battle, I wasn't aiming him in towards any realm in particular and there is literally an infinite number of them in the multiverse; I will never be able to find him, otherwise."

"Consider it done, milady," Pein replied with a bow of his head.

As he left Kaguya leaned against the backrest of her throne with an exhausted sigh. She sincerely hoped the Coalition learned their lesson from before.

Fortunately for the Kazekage, the Priestess of Oni no Kuni had somehow managed to smooth things over between them and the Empire. As it turned out, those would-be assassins had not been acting under the orders of the Kazekage.

But, this boy, Naruto… finding should be the easy part when it came to resolving this issue once and for all—the glue she needed to fix this delicate situation. Yes… He was undoubtedly homesick, by now… assuming he was still alive.

If it turns out that he had died because she unknowingly chucked him into a pool of lava or something of the like... The god-empress felt her cheeks growing hot at how embarrassing that would be. Killing a hero of many nations, all because she didn't bother to check where she tossed his sorry ass... Well, if it did turn out like that, then she will erect a monument to respect those eleven great warriors who stood against her and proved to be such worthy adversaries that she had to deal with them, herself. Hell, she'll do that, regardless… It ought to win her empire some good will points, if nothing else.

1: His name is a reference to Simon Says, though I'm sure many of you would have guessed that, lol. I'm old, though, so it's entirely possible that some of you never heard of that game for all I know.

2: Fun fact: this scene was originally going to be the point where we first revisited Naruto's homeworld. I had that changed in what was essentially the third draft of this story after seeing that there was not enough show and too much tell. This resulted in me inserting a whole damn chapter... that being Chapter Twelve, obviously, lol.

3: Fun Fact Number Two: this iteration of Kaguya is heavily inspired by Ob Nixilis, the black-aligned planeswalker of Magic: the Gathering who has taken over a collection of planes (basically entire realms of existence). She is very much the same in that regard, in fact, but is different in her methodology.

Whereas Obby goes about it by way of brute force and an iron fist, she is a terrifyingly savvy politician - preferring to conquer and rule with more finesse. Basically, she goes about it by convincing the populace that they want to be ruled by her over long periods of time and using violence only when needed.

And that is that for now. Next update will be in a couple of weeks.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to take a snooze. Have a good one, eh? :)