"Come on, team! Just another few miles and we'll be back home," Anko chirped, her good cheer smeared with a malicious and sadistic streak that ran through it.
The three prisoners were pushed to the front of the group, the three girls obediently walking ahead of the Jonin who practically skipped behind them. While bringing up the rear were the three Genin, walking on their hands.
Which they had been doing for the entire journey.
"This suuucks!" Ino whined, her voice coming in a desperate wheeze. "Anko-sensei, please! Let us rest!"
"Take your punishment like a woman, Ino!" her teacher responded without missing a beat. "Consider it stamina training!"
"Come on!" she whined again, "It wasn't-" she stopped as her balance faltered slightly, "It wasn't that big a deal was it?"
"Alright," Anko nodded, "You've been doing this for long enough. Who wants to tell me why I'm mad? Hm? Anyone?"
"Hah, hah..." Naruto panted, "We weren't guarding but, we were still on the mission," he spoke through breaths of exertion. "We needed to be ready in case, in case something went wrong."
"Well done!" the Snake Mistress praised him. "If I went in for that kind of shit I'd give you a gold star for most improved, Naruto!"
"Does that mean I can stop?" he asked hopefully.
"No!" she announced with unbridled joy.
"Anko-sensei," Sakura gasped, "Doesn't this punishment mean that we're not ready in case something goes wrong? You know, the same thing you're punishing us for?"
"And the fact you're thinking about that now is proof that the punishment is working! Come on, hop to! Just a little further!"
"Ugh..."
The three were overjoyed to finally see the gates of the Hidden Leaf, to finally let their arms drop. They didn't even return to their feet for a while, just basked in their relief. They were allowed to return inside the village with their dignity intact, sweat-soaked as they might have been. Anko quickly informed the gate guard about the prisoners they were escorting. The guard signalled some ANBU to take the prisoners to T&I.
"They'll be okay, right?" Naruto had to ask.
"Nothing'll happen to 'em until tomorrow," Anko answered. An answer that was not a yes. "They'll be processed, searched and then left in cells overnight to stew before anyone even comes to talk to 'em. That's how it works for non-priority intakes." She shrugged. "We've got other things to worry about. Come on, kids. Debrief time."
She led her team through the familiar streets in no particular rush. The Hokage would have been informed already of their return but he was a busy man. He wouldn't be ready to see them for a while. Sure enough, when they reached the Hokage Tower, his assistant Kabuto informed them they'd be waiting for a little while. A time the Genin used to properly get their breath back, but also a time for Naruto to stew in knowing what might happen to the girls they had brought back.
"Anko-senpai?" Kabuto spoke. "Sensei will see you now."
"Heh!" his fellow apprentice grinned at the form of address. She always got a kick out of being someone's senpai. "Thanks, kid!"
"Hm."
Even if he was kind of insincere about everything. Really Kabuto was the most ideal apprentice Orochimaru could've gotten. They were two peas in a pod, she thought to herself as she led her team into the Hokage's office. "Sensei!" she exclaimed in a recriminating tone as she saw him gleefully incinerating a stack of papers with a fire jutsu.
"What?" one of the most deadly ninja in the world asked, face full of confusion as he scattered the ashes out of the open window.
"What were those?!" Anko demanded.
"A formal request for more ninja to be put on gate guard rotation?"
The answer instantly mollified his former student. "Oh. Never mind then." The policy was to let the Hokage burn all the pointless, timewasting shit people sent to him so it was perfectly fair. As though the gate guards thought anyone gave a shit. They weren't even actually guards, just warm bodies to take note of comings and goings. She bet it was Kotatsu who wrote it. Dumbass needed to stop bitching about his cushy gig.
"Hm!" Orochimaru straightened in his seat, his pride returning with his student being satisfied he hadn't done anything wrong. She was a good litmus test about that kind of thing. "So, Team Ten back from your mission to the Grass border. Report."
As far as the details of carrying out the mission were concerned, it was a particularly short report. Travelled to Rokugai, quickly found a suspicious individual, tailed her to her hideout, Anko fought her while the students fought her underlings. A little attention was paid to the woman's ability to regenerate and her ability to steal souls or something akin to it. Orochimaru was very interested in that part, but without first-hand experience (which would have been deadly), few details could be gleaned no matter how he asked. And then there was the matter of the prisoners.
"Kukuku! Well that is wonderful news!" Orochimaru gushed. "Another Uzumaki! To think the village would be so lucky! Though Hidden Grass now have some important questions to answer." It was said as if it were a conversation to happen, but the Genin suspected and Anko knew the questions would be presented far less politely than that. "In any case, we will have T&I test her blood to confirm it. And the other redhead too, just in case. You never know."
"Wait," Sakura spoke up with sudden concern, "If there are more Uzumaki in the village, wouldn't that mean the Uzumaki aren't in danger anymore?"
"Kuku! Genin Haruno, a single breeding pair in no way makes the Uzumaki safe. Though Karin and the other one if the tests confirm their lineage will be subject to the same law."
"Not quite," Anko interjected as she looked at her male student. "As the head of the Uzumaki, you'd have a lot of say in Karin's relationships. I don't know specifically how the Uzumaki handle that sort of thing, but it's common for the clan head to be final arbiter."
"Ahhh, Anko," the Hokage sighed wistfully, "I missed having you around to remember all of this pointless clannish nonsense for me."
If he were paying more attention to what they were saying, Naruto may have somewhat resented being referred to as part of a 'breeding pair', like his clan were livestock. But none of that was what was on Naruto's mind. "What will happen to them?"
"Oh, Karin will go through a soft interrogation and be returned to you more or less unharmed," the Snake Sannin waved his question off. "As Anko said, she's under your authority."
"And the others?"
"... What about them?"
"What will happen to them?"
Orochimaru blinked at the strange and pointless question. Though perhaps it wasn't strange for a Genin to be inquisitive. He was still learning, after all. "They'll be thoroughly interrogated. Through them we will gather information on everything they did for Fuka. It will benefit our strategic planning if we can determine what activity they were responsible for."
"Thoroughly interrogated," Naruto repeated, swallowing thickly. "Like... Torture?"
And suddenly the Hokage was back to being confused. "Yes." Wasn't that in the name? Torture and Interrogation? That should have been obvious.
"Lord Hokage," the blond began, wanting to be as respectful as possible for his next question. Or request. "Is there a way that could... Not happen?" Orochimaru just stared at him. "They were just kids when Fuka picked them up, ya know? She didn't give them a choice!"
"So they said," the Hokage countered, "To you, who held their lives in your hands. Their word should be trusted in such a situation?"
"Yes!"
Anko struggled with herself as she watched the dumb kid trying to save people he really didn't know all that well. People he just decided got a raw deal out of life and he wanted to help. It was stupid of him. He didn't owe them anything, definitely not enough to annoy someone like Orochimaru over it. And yet...
Damn it all. "Lord Hokage," she interrupted before the situation could devolve. He looked at her, reacting to her suddenly addressing him so formally. "I'm experienced in T&I. I know when someone's will is broken. That Kin girl couldn't have lied to us if she wanted to. She's desperate to save herself."
She didn't like how her sensei's lip curled into a smirk. "You would stake your reputation on it?"
She bristled, her expression turning to a frown at the insult even if he hadn't meant it as one. She would never give such an assessment without her reputation on the line. It was her job and she took pride in it. "Yes."
The Hokage gave the impression of thinking it over for the express purpose of making them squirm. "Well then. Lord Uzumaki," he addressed Naruto formally, "If this is so important to you, it will be you who suffers the consequences. These are dangerous criminals. If the Uzumaki wish to take them in, they may do so. However, they will not be ninja of the Leaf, nor will they have the rights of civilians. You are saving their lives and so those lives will belong to the Uzumaki. You will be given time to get the relevant information from them and then they will be released into your custody. From then on, their actions will reflect on you. Is that acceptable?"
The Genin clan head swallowed. "Yes." If that was what it took. "Thank you, Lord Hokage."
Orochimaru nodded. "Genin dismissed." The three teenagers quickly filed out of the room at the command in his tone. Only once they were gone did he smile in that unsettling way of his at his former student. "You've gone soft."
She didn't deny it. Nor was she ashamed. "Most Jonin Sensei do for their first team."
"I didn't."
"Believe me, I know."
"You know," her sensei quickly penned a message and handed it off to an ANBU who appeared out of nowhere and disappeared just as quickly to deliver it, "I'm surprised how eager your student is to get himself some new breeding slaves. Kukuku, my plan is going far better than I could have anticipated!"
"You think he lied to you about why he wanted to spare them?"
"... He didn't?"
Anko couldn't help but sigh. "Sensei, he's just a good-hearted kid."
"Oh." One could never expect what might surprise one of the most famous ninja in the world. "Huh. Well, that's mildly disappointing. Oh well."
-(-)-
Naruto's visit to the T&I department could have been worse. He knew that going in, no matter what else happened with Tayuya and Kin. Before he was allowed inside he was told specifically where he shouldn't go if he wanted to avoid seeing some unpleasant things. Despite his rough and scarred appearance, Morino Ibiki was a super nice guy. He even gave the blond a few pointers for getting information from people. Something he sorely needed. If this went poorly, his efforts to save the two girls would end up being for nothing.
The cell door squeaked on its hinges as he entered, shutting again with a clang as another ninja from T&I watched from the other side. Tayuya was chained to a chair wearing only a heavy burlap dress. "So it's you again," she noted, watching him through her long, untamed hair that hung in front of her face. "The hell are you here for?"
"How are you doing?"
"How the fuck you think I'm doing?" she snapped back, shifting awkwardly in her seat. "Ghh! I fucking hate this thing! It itches like a motherfucker!"
She was irritated, so Naruto did his best to not take that personally. He didn't itch.
"Hey," the redhead spoke again, her leg twitching, "Could you just, scratch my thigh real quick? Just, the right thigh on the outside? Please?" She watched with hope as he approached, his fingers scratching at the outside of her leg where the dress ended. "Ahhh, yeah, that's the stuff. Fuck, that's been bothering me for an hour. Hey, you wanna tell me why they took my blood? Some weird Leaf ninja shit like they can track me with it or something?"
"They want to check whether you're an Uzumaki like Karin."
"What, just 'cos I got red hair?" she scoffed. "That's stupid. I'm from Hot Water, born and raised."
"And Karin's from Grass. There weren't supposed to be Uzumaki there either."
"Hmph." She clearly still didn't believe there was a possibility of it. But dismissing it only brought her other concerns to the fore all the faster. "So... What happens now?"
"Now I give you a choice for what happens next."
"Oh, shit," she uttered, "Didn't think they'd send a Genin in to be my interrogator. They start you early in the Leaf, huh?"
"They don't," he corrected her gently, "I asked for this. I asked the Hokage to give you and Kin a chance. You tell me everything you, Kin, Karin and Fuka did since you joined up with her. Do that, and you can get out of here."
"You expect me to believe you'd just let me go, knowing all the heinous shit Fuka got up to, just because I tell you all about it?" She snorted out a laugh. "Yeah, okay. They really shouldn't put you up to this. You're really bad at it."
"I didn't say we'd let you go," he corrected her again a little firmer. "But you'll get out of here. You won't go through a full interrogation. You won't go to the correctional facility, you won't be executed. Instead, you'd be taken as a servant of my clan. Your life as a ninja would be over, but you'd live, ya know?"
She stayed silent for a long while. "Servant. So I'd be your slave."
He looked away. Even though Ibiki had warned him not to, to not show weakness, he felt compelled to. "It was the option the Hokage gave me. You get the choice of whatever the real interrogators would do and then whatever punishment comes after, or I get you out tomorrow."
"Why are you doing this? What do you even care?"
"You're criminals but..." he forced himself to look her in the eye. "I saw what you did when you ran away. You stopped to save your friend. I don't think you're a bad person. You did what you had to to survive. You didn't deserve to be put in that position in the first place. So I'm doing what I can."
"So you're one of those dumbass ninja who think they can be a hired killer and a hero at the same time?"
"I guess," he smiled helplessly. "For a ninja, compassion probably seems stupid until you're on the receiving end, ya know?"
She almost scoffed again, but instead she looked away. She knew she was screwed no matter what happened. Even if the offer was a lie it wouldn't matter. The Leaf would get the information out of them the easy way or the hard way and she had to be honest, if the blond gave the same offer to Kin she'd accept in a heartbeat. Honestly, she felt almost like she was in Kin's position from way back then. She had no reason to ask Fuka to spare the girl from Rock either. She just... Hadn't wanted that scared girl to suffer for dumb bad luck.
She couldn't help as her chest huffed out a weak laugh. He was just like her. "Whaddya wanna know?"
-(-)-
Naruto sighed as he finally arrived home. So much had happened, was still happening that he needed to sort through. All he wanted was to just eat and then go to bed. Once that was done, he could finally rest. "Mom? Are you home?"
"In here, sweetie!" he heard her shout from the kitchen.
He must have been exhausted. He hadn't even smelled whatever she was cooking until he heard her voice. It smelled delicious. "Hey, Mom, I'm baaaa... ck."
Kushina stood at the stove, humming to herself as she watched over dinner. Her head turned to look over her shoulder and offer him a warm, welcoming smile. "Welcome home, son!" Her smile was radiant. Relieved. But it was difficult to appreciate it with the rest of the view she was giving him. Her long red hair cascaded down her naked back, stopping just short of the strings tying her apron together. Those strings perfectly framing the curves of her naked backside to his eyes. She was there, waiting for him wearing only an apron as she prepared a meal for him.
"I love you," he felt compelled to say. How could he not say it in response to one of the most joyously erotic moments of domesticity he may ever experience? Coming home from work to a lover ready to serve him, whether that be with food or sex.
She giggled at his reaction. "Of course you do, sweetie. I love you too." She bent over, presented herself for him supposedly to taste at the broth but her wiggle told him definitively otherwise.
Alright. Perhaps he could add another item on the agenda before he could finally sleep. He needed to get a taste of her. He had to! It would be rude not to when she went to all this trouble! Just once! Just once would be fine!
He hadn't even convinced himself before he was moving toward her. Only as his pants dropped to his ankles and he slipped his cock between her thighs did he decide this would be perfectly fine. He had to greet his mother properly after being gone for so long.
"Ooh!" Kushina gasped as she felt his shaft glide between her thighs and along her slit. "I guess you missed me too!" she giggled as he sawed himself between her legs with a firm grip on her hips. A grip that moved right on up to cup her breasts under her apron once he was situated.
"How could I not?" he asked, squeezing and groping her bountiful chest as his hips bounced against hers. "This perfect woman, with her beautiful hair and sexy body who welcomes me home with a loving smile and a meal? I never want to live without you."
"Aww, you flatterer!" she teased, leaning into his touch, doing her best to keep an eye on her cooking as her son fondled her and stimulated her pussy. "Ooh..." Though it was a losing battle.
Naruto needed more. He couldn't hold himself back if he wanted to. He needed to be inside her. But with that perfect frame of Kushina's apron he knew exactly what he had to do. He took a bottle of oil and poured a little onto the small of her back, then some onto his hand as he pulled his cock from between his mother's thighs. That hand rubbed the oil onto his cock before joining the other to massage it into her soft and pliant ass.
"N-Naruto," Kushina stammered, groaning as she felt his finger slide into her asshole. "Ooh, you want to fuck Mommy's ass again? Stick your fat cock into her dirty hole?"
"That apron showed it off so perfectly," he answered as he pressed his crown against her tight button, "You left me no choice, ya know!"
"Nnnnn!" she bit her lip as she felt his meat slide into her tightest hole inch by inch, "Ungh, you're right! Mommy is such a dirty slut for teasing you like this! Inflaming your manly urges!" she said as she pressed herself back against him, stuffing herself with more of his cock. "Fuck me, Naruto! Mommy is your filthy anal whore!"
She must have been pent up to go that far with her dirty talk. But if that was what she wanted. He palm slapped against her ass sending a satisfying ripple across the oil-slick cheek. "Take it, Mom! You wanted this, waiting for me wearing only an apron! You missed my cock! I bet as soon as you heard I was back in the village you stripped down to wait for me, didn't you?"
"Ah! Yes!" she moaned, meeting his deeply penetrating thrusts as she held onto the counter. Each slap of their hips driving him so deep inside her, his balls slapping her aching pussy. Unable to leave it be, her hand gained a mind of its own as it eagerly reached down to shove three fingers into her weeping cunt. "I missed you! I missed your cock! After so long going without, I never want to be without it again!" She felt his hand wrap around her hair, pulling it like a set of reins. "Yes! Fuck me Naruto! Use me! Mommy's your slut! You can fuck her ass, her pussy or mouth whenever you want, ya know! Mommy is all yours!"
"That's right you are!" he agreed, his pace increasing as he slammed himself into her and she slammed herself right back onto him with equal relish. "I'm gonna use you whenever I want! Fill whatever hole I want with my cum! One of these days I'm gonna put my babies in you, ya know! Your own son's gonna make you a mom all over again!"
"Baby!" she squealed, her pussy convulsing from the rough pounding and intense dirty talk, her son treating her to the good hard fucking she always loved. "I'm cumming, son!" she wailed. "I'm cumming! Getting my ass fucked by my son is making me cum! Ah!" she squealed as Naruto started spanking her again.
"Cum then!" he ordered. "Spray it all over the floor like the slut you are!"
"Narutoooo!" she squealed as she did just that, her juices squirting onto the floor. Her legs betrayed her, her hands slipped off the counter and she fell. Only for Naruto to go down with her. His cock barely slipped out of her ass before he was ramming it back in, pounding down into her as he held her ass in place. "Fuck! Fuck! Son! I–!"
"Take it, Mom!" the blond demanded as he buried himself balls deep into his mother's clutching asshole. A deluge of sticky white cum pouring into her guts.
"Ha... Haha...!" Kushina giggled, a little delirious. "I needed that, ya know?"
Yes, he had gotten that impression. Carefully, he extracted his cock from her, taking a little pride in her gaping hole and his deposit inside it. Sniffing, he noticed the food that had been left unattended for probably too long. Looking at the stove he moved the pan off of the heat. It was a little burned but definitely still edible.
A fun thought occurred to him out of nowhere. "Stay right there," he ordered his mother.
"Wha– Naruto!" she called after him as he disappeared into the house, soon returning with an object she recognised. "Really?"
"Mm-hm!" he grinned as he kneeled down, pressing the bulbous black object into her asshole until it popped inside to form a seal. "I like the idea of us eating together while you're filled with my cum."
Kushina sighed fondly. "How did I raise such a naughty boy?"
-(-)-
A decent night's sleep. Naruto had no words to describe how much of a relief it was. All the better from sleeping in his mother's bed with her on one side and Ino on the other. Kushina still wearing the plug in her ass until she went through her morning ablutions.
The blond had been excused from the team meeting for the morning. There were things he needed to deal with at home. Most predominantly was the reception of the three new people who would be part of the clan, even if two wouldn't truly be members of it. Tayuya was subdued. The test of her lineage had come back negative for any Uzumaki ancestry, let alone a more direct familial link. Kin was accepting. She made an attempt at subservient politeness. And Karin... Karin Uzumaki was not quite sure what to make of the turn her life had taken. She was no better able to handle the hug that Kushina had swept her into as soon as she saw her.
Unfortunately, much as the clan matriarch would have liked an extended getting to know you session with a lost member of the clan, there were other priorities that needed to be satisfied before anything else. Karin was an Uzumaki and so under their protection. Tayuya and Kin were clan property and thus likewise under their protection. But that didn't change the fact that the three were criminals. In order to satisfy the village, they needed to be monitored. As with many things involving the Uzumaki, seals were the answer.
Karin's was simple. A basic tracking seal that would contain a specific chakra signature. Any sensor would be able to pick it up easily, a distinct beacon to locate her should the need arise. The seal was engraved on a wide bracelet that she would wear until she had earned the trust of the village.
As for Kin and Tayuya... The marker for them was significantly more invasive. Which was why the morning was spent with the two girls laying on their stomachs topless, Kushina painstakingly tattooing their backs. The seal tattoo itself held two purposes. First, the same tracking marker that Karin wore. Second, a permanent chakra disruption seal. They would never be able to perform ninjutsu of any kind again. Even the basics such as tree walking or flaring of chakra would be an ordeal. For the rest of their lives, they would be little better than civilians.
Orochimaru had suggested and pushed for a third aspect. A punishment seal like the Hyuga's Caged Bird seal. Even lacking the authority of a clan head, as the one drawing the seal Kushina refused outright. Before the Uzumaki massacre she had been petitioning the Hyuga to let her redesign the seal applied to all branch Hyuga and had been stubbornly and in some cases angrily rebuffed. She hated it then and she hated it now. There was no way she would go back on her principles on the matter now, even for criminals. Even as low as their status might be, Kin and Tayuya were to be part of the clan and so she would treat them as such.
That would probably have been easier were it not for the first words Kin spoke of her own volition as she sighed at the relief of her tattoo being completed. "Would it be possible for me to have a collar?" she asked, the channelling of Kushina's chakra into the seal stuttering in surprise.
Kushina looked at Kin, then at Tayuya who only looked resigned at her friend's words. "W-Why would you want a collar?"
"I'm a terrible ninja," the dark-haired girl admitted with only mild disappointment. As though she had long since accepted as much. "Three times I only avoided death because people decided to spare me. First Tayuya, then that purple-haired ninja, then Lord Naruto."
"Kin..." said Tayuya, not wanting her friend to feel that way but not really having an argument otherwise.
"I don't want to die. After everything that happened I should be dead. But if I'm going to live, I just want to live a quiet life." Baffling both women, she smiled to herself. "If serving the Uzumaki can give me that then I'll be the best slave I can be!"
"Honey," Kushina sighed, "You don't need a collar. If you want a simple life we'll look after you."
The girl hummed to herself. "Okay... How about a tattoo on my ass that says 'Property of Uzumaki'? Maybe with the little swirly thing you guys have."
Tayuya snorted, unable to hold in her laughter. Both at the absurdity and the tragedy of it. Her life depended on others so much she had decided the only choice she had was to offer complete subservience.
"I don't think so," Kushina smiled softly. The girl had been through so much. Both of them had. If Kin wanted a quiet life, that was fine. The Uzumaki would give her that much. They would give both of them that much.
