Chapter 02
|Namigakuré, Tazuna's House; a little later|
The non-ninja village and its populace have been in utter despair ever since Gatō showed up a few years prior. The people were either living in poverty, lost loved ones, and/or lost the will to live the life it once was. Gatō has taxed the heart and soul out of the village and if they couldn't pay up, the women and children were being taken as slaves while the men either forced and coerced to work for him or get killed on the spot.
"That's what we have learned so far, Naruto-sama," Zakuro and her fellow Clone Soldiers reported.
"You took the words right on my mouth, missy," Tazuna said as he guzzled a bottle of clean water, "That thieving scoundrel has been poisoning the community through his illegitimate means. We're planning to build a bridge to stop his monopolizing and get our people back on the right path, but I keep losing more and more workers because of Gatō's threats."
Sakura Haruno (the kidnapped Konoha Genin kunoichi) is starting to realize the seriousness of the situation after she learned that her potential has been hindered under a seal and Genjutsu. The inhibitors and the illusion were removed by Naruto, showing her true self, looking a lot like her mother Mebuki, showing that she has some curvatures (and still growing) and her Yankee-style strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes like Naruto's blue eyes. She also learned from him and his technology that she is biologically related - half-siblings with the same father, but he's not saying who just yet. It was a bitter pill for her to take after she was told by Naruto not to be dieting her already replenished body, but was promised to have enough proper foods to burn off in her exercises.
Kaguya (with Miu) is helping Tsunami (Tazuna's daughter, 25) with cooking, and she was having thoughts about gaining the heart of a boyfriend and Tsunami explained about marriage, being faithful, working with feelings, and the real importance of working together as husband and wife, even though she lost 2 husbands due to terrible circumstances beyond her control and raising her son all on her own. Kaguya is learning to understand about more than just having a sex life with Naruto, her Clone Soldiers, and her fellow Lunarium subordinates.
Naruto (the original) ordered his small army of doubles to scout Gatō's estate and slave camps before raiding them of everything that he has and find the connections to prove that Gatō isn't the only man responsible for this modern mess. In the meantime, he sets up a few more doubles to train Junjiro the Doberman puppy with his training, and prepare a garden for the poor people after leaching the salt out from the ground, using the right kind of fertilizers, and then plant a few crops, secured with a barrier system to keep unnecessary people out and let nature in.
As for the original Naruto, he released Momo Zabuza from her prison and changed her wardrobe a bit (changed her baggy pants and into a skimpy bikini bottom, removing her gear) and laid her next to a tree. When Zabuza woke up, she found herself at the mercy of her jailer half her age checking her body for her old wounds and scars, with a little help of his x-ray visor and, somehow, fixed her torn and healed muscles with his medical expertise.
"Why?" she questioned him, "Why did you spare me after you got me where it hurts? Are you and those amazons going to sell me to that wretched place, Konohagakuré, for my bounty?"
"Does it matter if we're friends or enemies?" Naruto replied with a question, "Actually, I've got matters in Konohagakuré that need to be cleared up. But let's change the subject. Do you have friends that are precious to you?"
"Why should it matter?" Zabuza looked away, not caring about herself, "I once had friends, but that was when that cursed 4th Mizukagé Yagura declared war on people with bloodline abilities. He appeared to be out of his mind as he ordered his top men to eliminate those with bloodline powers. We tried a coup d'etat to stop him, but we failed and we were placed on the wanted list on the Bingo Book as my comrades and I had to separate and go into hiding. And that's when…" She recalled a certain person who she rescued a few years ago from a desolate village. It was a child who looked as if hope was lost, so out of what's left of her kindness, Zabuza took the homeless child under her care.
"So you do have someone who is precious to you," Naruto said, making Zabuza look away with a blush, "Your personality and your habits said so. If I were to suppose, I say that your 「friend 」has a peculiar affinity for Water, if not beyond the element, and is well-trained in the ninja arts, perhaps also a specialist in the art of medicine and anatomy. And lastly, your 「friend 」is perhaps a boy?"
"?! How… How did you know?" Zabuza questioned.
Naruto quickly catches a thrown senbon needle that was being aimed at him, as a masked Ninja appeared, protecting Zabuza from anyone harming her.
"Step away from Momo-sama!" a tenor-voiced masked person wearing a pink battle kimono appeared with senbon needles in hand, "I won't let you get away after what you did to her!"
"Haku! Stand down at once!" Zabuza ordered, "This kid is more than you can handle right now and he's an important connection! Stand. Down. This. Instant!"
The masked person puts away the weapons and reveals to be the appearance of a bishōjo man (the kind with a pretty face) slightly older than Naruto (16) as he introduces himself, "Stranger, I am called Haku, a tool for milady Momo-sama."
"Haku, stop calling yourself that," Zabuza scolded her subordinate, "You are more than just a tool. Just get out of that way of thinking." And she kisses him to make him behave.
Naruto sweatdropped at the sight as Zabuza confessed, "Yes, Haku and I have been in love for a while. Is it wrong for us to be together like this?"
He gave it some thought and then he said, "You say that you and Haku have been together for almost 10 years, right? And you treat him more than just a little brother?" Zabuza and Haku nodded in agreement. "Then there's nothing wrong with being together, as long as he takes responsibility." He turns to Haku and asks, "Do you have any family that can support you?"
"No," Haku sadly said, "I used to live in a lonely village in Water Country with my family when I was very young. I've had wonderful times, that is until I discovered how I can manipulate water and ice just for fun and that's when things went downhill as my father abused me and my mother just because she and I have the Kekkei Genkai ability. But then, that was the last straw when my father did the most terrible thing in front of me… He… he killed my mother and raped her already dead body, so I…"
Naruto guessed the rest of what happened to Haku's story and it wasn't very pleasant at all as he used his Ice abilities to kill his deranged father. That explains why Haku was living in the streets, practically starving to death, until Zabuza showed up and the rest is history. They, unfortunately, had to work for Gatō to make some money because nobody else would want vagabonds and Wanted-Nin to work for them.
Then Haku asks a particular question, "Do you have people that are precious to you?"
Naruto replied honestly, "I have people that care for me back in my home very far away, as well as some in Stellar Lux and those right here with me. And here they are now."
Kaguya, Junjiro, Zakuro and the Clone Soldiers arrived, looking for Naruto and they soon found him with Haku and Zabuza, thinking that he was talking to 2 women. But Naruto makes a correction that he is talking to Zabuza (the woman) and Haku (a man) who are very dear to each other. The Piece Moon Soldiers didn't know about any bishōjo variety of men and neither did Kaguya. Junjiro's nose proved that Haku is a bonafide male, despite covering himself with anti-scent soaps.
"As you can see, I have those that I care for and they would do the same for me," Naruto explained, "However, I have my share of troubles because if you think you're sad, then I'm probably sadder."
He tells about how he was born in the Lunarium Kingdom by his mother (a high-ranked general, suffering through depression), and his father (the current Hokagé who doesn't even know he existed) and how he lives with a lot of Amazon-like women who use men like cattle and breeding stock, (everyone except Naruto), and he also learned that he has some half-siblings, including Sakura who is training with his doubles, who are children of the 4th Hokagé and that could mean that they could be targets for assassination from other villages, likely out of revenge.
Naruto then gets the information from his doubles' memories about the situation near Gatō's compound. They have proof that the man is not being honest with his businesses, including using contraband and drug pushing, having prisoners being used as human toilets as women and girls as young as infants were being raped. (Fortunately, the doubles silently knocked them and dragged them away, so that the victims won't see the violence as they'll later be killed elsewhere where nobody would find them in plain sight.) There were also stolen property, including money that wasn't either circulated or prepared to be laundered as they confiscate them and secretly take the prisoners out of the compound, leaving one last, nasty surprise the moment any of Gatō's grunts enter and find the missing people and property.
(Gatō's prisoners (most of which were women and bastardized children) were transported to the Moon Kingdom Medical facility for examinations, in case of STDs and other diseases before being scheduled to return to Namigakuré.)
"No fair, Naruto-kun!" Kaguya pouted as she appeared with a poof, next to him, "You glory hog! Let me have a piece of the action!"
"Kaguya-chan, you mustn't lose your head," Naruto chided, "We wouldn't want that. Anyway, all I did was to cripple our opposition a bit, send them in a panic, and stall for time. You'll understand when the time is right." Kaguya calms herself a little, but is still a little mad. "Anyway, we have to keep watch as we help that souse stay sober as the bridge is being rebuilt. We'll take turns keeping watch and make sure that Gatō or any of his men don't catch onto us."
"I understand, Naruto-kun," she said, "But promise me one thing. I want to know about... *whispers*"
"Is that all you care about?" Naruto exclaimed not too loudly, "Sometimes I don't understand about you wanting something from me that is best kept private, y'know." He turned to Zabuza and Haku who were still kissing each other, "Get a room, you two."
So, Naruto sets up the Lunarium Hyperbolic Chambers² to facilitate the training where time flows differently inside the rooms and when they exit, hardly little time happens outside. The chambers have different varieties of rooms that almost look like the inside of a house and a dojo rolled into an ever-expanding subspace so they don't have to worry about starving or cleaning up. Naruto then gives Zabuza a special vial of Lunarium formula to help facilitate bearing children without missing much of a beat, but warns her and Haku that parenthood is a big responsibility and that they would have to be officially married later on.
…
Sakura is fit and hale from the improvement, but is currently tired from her exercises and her newfound diet fit for kunoichi as she sits down on the seat near the table where Tsunami and the Clone Soldiers prepare a feast from what they gathered. However, Inari makes a huge fuss about insisting on making them leave, all because he thinks that they, the glorious and glamorous ninja, are going to get killed by the greedy Gatō and his ruthless henchmen.
"So you think that we're glamorous, are we?" Naruto questioned the argument, "Kid, you don't know the meaning of this. We, the soldiers from the Lunarium Kingdom, were trained the moment we learned how to walk as we work ourselves to the bone. Kaguya-chan and I are but lowly servants to our Princess and her Queen Mother while the other girls with us are cloned soldiers, modified to be already grown up, so they never understand about childhood like we do, but that doesn't mean we treat them any less. And Sakura-san? All of her life, she has been living a lie set up by the leader of her village, but that doesn't mean that she didn't stop trying to be a better kunoichi. But you! Look at yourself. You have a mother and a grandfather to raise you, a house to keep the rain away and a bed to lay your head in, while there are dozens of people out there in this village who lost their homes not only to bad decisions, but also drugs, allowing malaria coming from mosquitoes, and to people like Gatō enforcing those bad decisions just so that he would have the island nation all to himself with corpses of his victims under his feet. So I'll ask you this: show me what a comforting life is and I'll show you what a sad, stupid, ignorant little cuss you really are, you big crybaby."
Inari ran into his bedroom, crying for himself after the way he treated his guests. Tsunami explains to them that she lost her first husband when Inari was younger and later, a man named Kaiza (Tazuna's apprentice and fellow builder) redeemed the widow, married her, and took care of her son like he was his own. It was a grand time, that is, until Gatō the ruthless businessman showed up and everything went south and Kaiza ended up getting crucified as well as his arms bashed off before he died of his wounds.
That's when Kaguya and Naruto come to a very important decision. They are to make sure that Gatō is the last man standing so that he would suffer nice and slow. And if his family objects or are involved with his schemes, then they have sealed their doom. So they gathered the Piece Moon Soldiers to strategize a plan of attack and stop Gatō, but then there's another problem, more Konoha soldiers are heading their way, likely to interfere with the raid.
That's when Zabuza and Haku (staying at Naruto's portable cottage) came by and had a plan to stall the amateurs. But Naruto warned that the Konoha Jonin are not to be taken lightly. However, he plans to take them down alive because he has to reveal the truth about Sakura and maybe a few other people tied to the Hokagé. So they revised the way to the target without any unnecessary interruptions…
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|Nightfall, nearly the quarter of dawn|
Zabuza and Haku pretend to take over the bridge with Tazuna, Sakura, and Junjiro present with Kagomé and Rini hiding their presences as they prepare body-binding seals. Miu and Hikari were waiting at the residence to make sure that no crook is using Tsunami and Inari as hostages.
|Naruto's Party|
In the meantime, Naruto, Kaguya, and Zakuro make their move to raid Gatō's main compound, using Hissatsu techniques to take out the grunts by surprise while Zakuro cleans up by disintegrating the corpses with her Lunarium Ray Gun that leaves only the atomic elements and dust, not even a rotting smell of remains is left behind. But after a few dead bodies hit the floor without making much of a sound, they found not Gatō (whom they learned that he left the place and missed him by a few minutes), but his family: his elderly mother (in her 70's, his sister (mid 40's), his wife (late 30's), and his daughter (not close off to 20). They raised their hands in surrender as they confessed that Gatō were using them as a last-ditch effort being used as leverage, in case he dies, and they have no involvement whatsoever. So with the Lunarium technology, Naruto carefully uses his X-ray goggles to find any source outside of their bodies for any cancer, tumors, or any deadly means and maladies in their bodies and found some sources that the Kingdom can fix and then some as they contacted Diana to prepare transportation of the prisoners for examinations.
After that, Naruto and Kaguya used their Shadow Doubles to search every crook and nanny for anything that is out of place and found several deeds to lands within and without Namigakuré, including the Daimyo's stolen treasures and money.
They and Zakuro used their portable storage systems to move the goods without weighing them down from carrying them all.
…
|Miu and Hikari|
The two Piece Moon Soldiers were helping Tsunami cook breakfast for her dad and Inari when 2 unusually dressed samurai (Waraji and Zōri) break into the house to take Tsunami and Inari as hostages, not knowing that they were about to get ambushed by Miu's grappling techniques, followed by Hikari's [Cat's Eye Hypnosis] and they were bound in rope and their weapons removed. They were ordered by Naruto to capture them alive as they are to bear witness what happens next, as they resumed their watch as they took turns taking care of a crying baby inside the bedroom in a crib.
…
|Unfinished Bridge, under fog|
Zabuza and Haku are redressed into their battle gear, while Sakura escorts Tazuna and, just as Naruto predicted, 3 Konoha Teams arrived: Team Kurenai Yuhi with Kiba Inuzuka plus Akamaru, Shino Aburamé, and Hinata Hyuga; Team Asuma Sarutobi with Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, and Ino Yamanaka. And with them is the disgraced Team Kakashi Hataké (wearing an eyepatch over his new eye) with Sasuké Uchiha (his vision corrected, but no Sharingan) and Hibachi Daimon.
The Konoha Teams were trying to see through this Chakra-powered fog and Asuma's Wind Jutsu doesn't seem to cut this fog and Kurenai thought it was a Genjutsu when she sees Sakura with a different look, but then she says, "This is no Genjutsu, Kurenai-sensei. I am who I am after some friends I've come across trained with me."
"Forehead?" Ino exclaimed, "Why are you dressed like a Yankee in a qibao? And what do you mean, friends?"
"You're lying!" Hibachi yelled, "You're not that ugly pink-haired bitch that fawns over Sasuke like a fangirl!"
"Hn! If I had my Sharingan, I'd whittle that man and his amazons down to size!" Sasuke grumbled, "Instead, that 「demon」 swapped my eyes with a regular person's!"
"She isn't lying," Hinata said with her Byakugan, focusing her attention on Sakura, "Her mannerisms tell me that she is telling the truth. She appears to have gotten stronger since her kidnapping.
"What a drag," Shikamaru complained, "You mean we came all the way from Konoha to rescue you and this is it?"
Shino said nothing while Choji was stuffing his girth with potato chips in his fist.
"You better listen and you listen good," Zabuza explained, "You call yourselves ninja the moment you become Genin with those headbands? Well, I've got news for you. Unless you have survived many brushes with death, done some killing and sabotage, and gained notoriety in the Bingo Book, then you can call yourselves ninja. Unfortunately, the way you are now…" Zabuza's Water Doubles suddenly appear and ambush the parties. Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma tried to stop Zabuza's attacks, but they were trapped in barrier seals in makeshift prisons, preventing them from assisting their student Genin.
"Not again…," Kakashi grumbled as he, Kurenai, and Asuma are helpless as Zabuza finishes, "...you are nothing more than spoiled, little brats. However, if you manage to survive long enough, then we'll see if you really have what it takes."
And she (putting away her Giant Blade) and Haku were taking on the 8 Genin (except Sakura) on the unfinished bridge, not knowing that this is a losing game despite the odds.
Kakashi noticed Sakura talking to 2 strange women - one in a priestess' garb (Kagomé) and the other in a pink and white one-piece sailor suit and a frilly skirt (Rini), and petting a Doberman Pinscher (Junjiro). He recognizes them to be part of the mysterious "Moon People" that he warned his allies about. He yelled at Sakura through the barrier, "Why are you conversing with the enemy? You're supposed to be fighting them!"
"I already did, Kakashi-sensei," she replied, "While I was training with them, Naruto-niisan and Kaguya-chan. They gave me something that you haven't. Proper training, the reason I should be working, and why the Hokagé and my mother lied to me, shannaro!"
"Who's Naruto?" Asuma questioned.
"Search me," Kurenai said, without any knowledge about this person, "Wait a minute… did she say, "nii-san"?
The jonin trio didn't know that Sakura had any siblings. They still think that she's an only child. But right now, they look at their Genin students and they are utterly beaten and are pinned with senbon needles, disabling them, some were in a death-like trance, but are still alive. The only ones still active were Ino and Hinata as they were in shock, seeing their friends practically half-dead by experienced ninja.
Sakura yells out, "Enough! Please, stop!" She ran out towards the injured Ino and Hinata who suddenly felt a strange change in their bodies - Ino's hair became a darker shade of blonde and her periwinkle pupil-less eyes are now blue with visible pupils while Hinata's slate-black hair turned blonde and her face is slightly different, her pearly white eyes have turned blue, but she still has the Byakugan, and her skin tone is slightly tanner than her usual color. In other words, the genjutsu on both girls has worn off, revealing their true identities as they look at each other as they share some of their characteristics almost as if they're sisters.
"It can be," Hinata gasped at her fellow kunoichis' new looks and then to herself, "It's impossible!"
"Forehead, what's going on here?" Ino exclaimed as takes a mirror from her pouch. Their looks are somewhat similar to their mothers but the mystery question is starting to unravel: are their dads not really their dads?
However, that thought was interrupted when Naruto (in his "Black Manta" ninja battle gear), Kaguya (in her battle gear), and Zakuro arrived and used their doubles to take the injured away from the bridge. He then says to the helpless Jonin, "You lack discipline in training your Genin the way they are now. I thought that you ninja are much stronger than this, but it seems that this is very much to the contrary. I'm very disgusted with all of you. Tell me the truth, has your academy's standards made you stoop this low just to let students go unprepared like that, only to get killed on the spot?"
"We didn't have much time," Asuma explained.
"No, Asuma! You mustn't!" Kakashi begged, "Those foreigners do not know about our village!"
"Kakashi, shut up!" Kurenai yelled, "We got ourselves in a mess, thanks to the Councilmen's orders to drop wartime standards, wasting our young children's potential and resources before they become proper soldiers."
She and Asuma explained that because the Hokagé allowed the standards to drop, they are losing more potential soldiers to make up for the losses from the 3rd War. Kakashi was the 4th Hokagé's former student who had been falling into hard times after losing Obito and Rin and he never even appreciates what a Jonin soldier really means.
"Yeah?" Kakashi argued, "Well, Kurenai, you were always being too motherly towards your Genin, and Asuma, you'll never get out of your father's shadow and you're too lazy for your own good!"
"You've said your peace and you've already used your coffee ration, Kakashi-san," Naruto has heard enough of the childish Jonin, "However, it seems that we've got company. Kagomé, Rini, release the prisoners and to arms."
The soldiers obeyed and released the barriers just as the businessman Gatō and what's left of his hired samurai arrived, not knowing of what had transpired earlier.
"Look at yourself," Gatō smugly says to Zabuza, "You call yourself the 「Demoness of the Mist」when all I can see is that you, a crying little she-devil and your partner are going to be killed right here. I never plan on giving you any money and hiring village ninja is expensive and liable to betray me. Getting rogue-nins are easy to take care of and I have them kill each other, so I don't have to pay a single ryo."
"And those villagers," Zabuza questioned, "What do you make of them in your business entirely?"
"Them?" Gatō replied, "They are nothing more than expendable. Just footstools on my way to progress."
"Then what makes your family?" Naruto asked the shorter man, that is Gatō, "Are you willing to sacrifice your own mother, your sister, wife, and only daughter to raise an enterprise on a sandy foundation like that? Suppose I tell you that they're through doing your dirty work and your tyrannical ways."
"You can't prove it! They're supposed to be staying at home, minding their own business!"
"You might want to reconsider," Naruto said, "Have a look."
He shows 4 women wearing different clothes, yet Gatō can't tell them apart because they look like his daughter's age. The Konoha Nin thought that they were seeing a genjutsu, but it turns out it isn't.
"Anata (Darling)," Gatō's wife said, "Is it true that your business in Namigakuré is to kill these poor people? If so, then consider this a divorce. I don't love you anymore."
"Son!" Gatō's mother with her voice restored from having her youth back, "It takes a monster for somebody to do this to those people and the monster had to be you! Your father and I raised you better than that, rest his soul, but all you care about is money! You are just no good."
"Aniki, obaka (you stupid idiot)!" Gatō's sister said, despising him for his deeds, "I've tried to be the best sister even after your shortcomings and this is the thanks I get? You didn't even let me go back home to my children!"
"Daddy! Please say it isn't so!" Gatō's daughter begged, "Some of my friends were among your prisoners and you… you…" She couldn't stop crying after learning that her friends were being raped, abused, and killed.
"You! All of you!" Gatō exclaimed, "You're not my family! This must be a trick! Men, don't stand here! Kiru (kill them)!"
Some of Gatō's soldiers drop their weapons as they leave towards the other side of the bridge, silently telling the little man that they're through with him and his coercion. They know that they are preparing to take the consequences.
However, the rest of the hired Samurai are willing to cut the deserters down when an arrow from a crossbow was fired and landed in front of them. It was fired by none other than Inari, and he and the rest of the villagers were armed and were preparing to make a final stand against Gatō.
Then Naruto (armed with his customized handgun, his mother's "Crimson" blade - both in hand, and a secondary combat knife by his side), Kaguya (with her twin kodachi), Zakuro (with her twin laser pistols and an extra [Sonic Rifle]), and Junjiro take the front lines while Kagomé (with her [Bow of Grace] and Arrows) and Rini (with [Moon Wand] and [Crystal Twinkle Bell]) bringing up the rear as they prepare for a fight. Zabuza and Haku also joined in the fray to better the odds.
Naruto sees that some of the samurai are turning chicken from the intense battle aura as he loosened up and said, "Gatō, you better surrender or you'll lose more than just your soldiers and we'll be the last people you meet."
"Never!" Gatō refused, "Men, make sure you leave their heads intact and I'll pay you handsomely. Kiru!"
And the samurai (numbered 100 of the non-deserters) charged at them, but one by one, they were either slashed, shot, blasted, flayed, and by other different means of Hissatsu until a snivelling Gatō was left.
Naruto flung the blood away from his weapons and said, "You are under arrest for multiple charges, including fraud, robbery, kidnapping, forcible rape, sodomy, desertion of a family… and murder."
Gato wanted to stab at Naruto with a hidden blade in his cane, only for the weapon to get broken by Naruto's blade as he withdraws his weapons and grabs and tosses the little stinker into the air and uses his fists and fingers on the little man's Tsubo points with an eclectic technique, leaving Gato with more than just a busted nose.
[Hokuto: Burden of Regret Walk Fist]²
"I have struck the Shitsugen point," Naruto said as he wiped his hands, "You'll start walking backwards unconsciously as you will lose control of your legs. Now start walking!"
Just as Naruto said, Gato slowly walks backwards without his own control, knowing that he is going to fall into the deep waters from the unfinished bridge.
"S-stop it, please!" Gatō begged, "Make it stop! Stop my legs!"
"You're a genius in enslaving the country," Kaguya coldly said, "Why don't you press your Tsubo (key points) to stop them. Oh, that's right. You don't have the knowledge for it."
And she's right. Gatō doesn't know which point on his body stops the effect. So he begged one more time, "If you kill me, you won't know what will happen to your village's future when Kirigakuré hears of this!"
"Don't worry about us," Naruto replied, "We'll take care of ourselves. You have your own problems as you'll take your last steps… and perish."
Gatō kept on walking backwards until he fell off the bridge but then was split in half from the fist's effect and exploded before he could hit the water as what's left of him became fish food.
"May God have mercy on your pitiful souls. Amen," Naruto prayed and Kaguya, Kagomé and Rini followed with a silent prayer.
The crowds of the village cheered for the riddance of Gato, but also their freedom from his tyranny while Gatō's family mourn for their former man's pitiful loss and possible berating of being related to the him and his cruel dynasty, but Tazuna and Tsunami (who saw the aftermath) forgave the women and decidedly give them a new place to start, although they look as if they have already had, thanks to the Lunarium technology.
And Haku and Momo Zabuza, they are glad that this mess has finally cleared up as their main worry is how their baby (a girl named Momohimé; after her mother with her father's looks) is holding up at the house.
But Kakashi isn't satisfied with what just happened, rushed at Naruto, only grabbing his cowl and wrappings from his person, revealing his true face to the witnesses.
"Yondaimé-sama?" Kurenai gasped.
"He looks a lot like him!" Asuma exclaimed.
Naruto looked Kakashi straight in the eye and grabbed him by his vest collar and said, "You ungrateful guttersnipe for a Jonin! I was born with his looks as well as finding my sisters who were born with his stigma! Do you know how hard it is for my mother to live in utter depression? She let me live a life as a hard worker before I have to start a journey with my dearest friends."
"Arf!" Junjiro barked.
"You too, boy," Naruto petted his partner, before turning back to Kakashi, "And you call yourself a disciple of the 4th Hokagé with your attitude and way of teaching?
"You fake! You fraud! You'll be sent to Konoha for this, you… you… you m*****-******g demon! Wait until the Council hears of this! I'll break you if it's the last thing I'll ever do!" Kakashi warns as he draws out some of his kunai, only to be bitten in the butt by Junjiro, yelping in pain.
"You don't make this decision because I never worked for Konoha in the first place," Naruto refuted as he retrieved his cowl, "I serve the Lunarium Kingdom with her Majesty, the Queen Lunarverse XIII. If you don't like the way it's going to be, then you and your leader will have to settle the matter with her. Right now, we have some unfinished business with this village for they haven't mediated the matters with Gatō as the women, children, and the spoils have yet to be sorted out to their rightful people. That and we have to finish the bridge. As for you, you should have never insulted my mother like I would do that to her. If she gets her hands on you, she'll show you how sorry you'll be."
So he ordered a transport of the re-hogtied Kakashi, Sasuke, and Hibachi (with a writ), along with Waraji and Zōri (for the bounty) back to Konoha, with a notice warning the Hokagé that the Lunarium Kingdom will come after them, through fair means or foul.
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After appropriating the goods and letting Tazuna have the deed to Gatō's place, he realizes that he sees his long-lost wife, that is Gatō's sister, which Tsunami hasn't seen her mother in a long time. (Yes, Gatō is his greedy brother-in-law.) She has become younger, but that doesn't mean that she and her kinfolk wouldn't ill-treat the well-respected architect and vice-versa as Inari has to get along with his long-lost relatives.
The hostages were examined by the Lunarium Kingdom's machines and people for any diseases and some of the raped women and young girls were re-virginized as if nothing had happened.
Teams Kurenai and Asuma agreed to help the builders complete the bridge in a few days time while Sakura, Ino, and Hinata learned some cold, hard facts that (proven with unbiased DNA tests and exclusions) they are, in fact, sisters to Naruto by the same father. It took a while for them to accept that Naruto isn't going to be lonesome as an only boy in his family. Kurenai and Asuma also learned the facts from Naruto that he is indeed related to the 4th Hokagé, but they feared that people like Kumogakuré and Iwagakuré have sworn to get even with the Hokagé by killing everyone around him.
"You don't have to worry," Naruto explained, "Because our Kingdom put them and Konoha in their places years ago since they were the conspirators that raided my family's former homeland of Uzushiogakuré, the same land that your village was supposed to be in partnership over 100 years ago with the First Hokagé and his wife Mito-sama."
However, Naruto has another problem. Konoha is sporting the Uzushio spiral in their symbols while still making sacrilege and dishonor to it. Apparently, that symbol was supposed to be revoked after the 2nd War (the time Uzushio got destroyed) and Konoha hasn't made good on their promises. So he makes another writ to remove the spirals from their Jonin uniforms and the Leaf symbol or else there will be consequences worse than the frying pan and the wrath of Kumo and Iwa put together. Naruto puts the typed dispute in a scroll to be sent to the Hokagé later on as an important document.
The Jonin learned from unaltered visual data that certain people in Konoha have sealed their fate the moment they betrayed Uzushio.
Naruto then says, "Keep in mind that in time, your village will be taken alive as part of our empire and we'll deal with whatever your people's loyalties lie. As of right now, as we speak, Namigakuré is now part of our empire, as well as a few other countries as our vassals and we'll make sure that they will be dealt with fairly. We'd rather settle things in a diplomatic matter before we think about conquering lands with violence for we were already judged as evil villains."
It's a fact that Naruto's hometown in the Lunarium Kingdom was judged as the bad guys by the Hero Associations who called themselves the good guys. All he wanted is to explore the world and learn as much as possible to live an ordinary life that his mother hadn't before, that is, raising a family and starting a life as a Neutral-sided soldier of fortune.
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(Citrus Warning)
Later that night, inside Naruto's portable cottage, Naruto was washing his bloodied garments and taking a much-needed shower when Kaguya entered the room, carrying a towel to roughly hide her modesty from the front. She whispered to him, "A promise is a promise. After all, I've missed the times we used to spend together when we were kids."
They have been friends since before nursery school, along with the other up-and-coming Executive girls.
Naruto promised to wash with Kaguya while exploring her naked body. It turned out that she is a secret masochist only when she has her privacy and she wishes that Naruto be the sadist.
In the Lunarium Kingdom, women as young as 14 (considered as adults) would find a man (of active age) who is deemed worthy before taking his seed either for pleasure or to bear his children or both. Cloned soldiers are exceptional to this law since they're already grown-up from the start.
Since Kaguya recently turned 14, she started kissing his lips and caressing his body until she moved lower until she got to his phallus and started kissing the pole before reaching the glans. Naruto tries hard to resist the rush as he sees Kaguya sucking and bobbing her head back and forth, until he grabs her face and releases his seed in her mouth, almost letting it out through her nose. And she swallows the cum as her Crescent Moon symbol in her eye starts to glow and that's when Naruto quietly said, "Forgive me. [Emblem Steal!]"
And Kaguya's power is transferred to Naruto as he unlocks more of his abilities as he did his Shadow Doubles who were in a separate area as they managed to 「steal」the Piece Moon symbols from the ecstatic soldiers and augment them before returning them.
The original Naruto is caressing Kaguya's body and sensitive areas, making sure that she is relieved of her unneeded stress from her sporty breasts, to her ribs, her arms, then to her hips before getting to his lips of her vulva and started touching it from the outside before she started to feel wet as she came in front of his face.
After that, they promised not to have sex until a much later time because they aren't quite ready for any children just yet since she and the other future executives haven't underdone the 「Pact 」 Ritual³ in the Lunarium Kingdom to fully bring out their potential and continue their training. Until then, they and the Piece Moon Soldiers decided to enjoy themselves in safer sex and perhaps invite a few more women to join in on the fun.
Meanwhile, Naruto's doubles were in separate areas in the room, one double was all over Kagome in a missionary style, another double is carrying Hikari from behind and kissing her neck as she mews like a cat, the 3rd double is spooning with Miu as she is in the same position as the second double is, the 4th double is letting Rini lay on top of him as they embrace, and the last double is fingering Zakuro as she wanted to be punished for not doing enough, she says.
None of them were in a coitus manner, thanks to their underwear making the barrier, but he loves Kaguya and the Piece Moons more than just soldiers in the army and sisters as they practiced different maneuvers and techniques, thanks to a Kama Sutra book and getting wild in bed.
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A few days have passed and the bridge is finally completed and well-built according to specifics and the combined mathematics of Tazuna and Naruto's team. The villagers await the ribbon cutting and dedicate the bridge as Naruto Pass, officially linking the island nation to the mainland over the whirlpools, hence the name.
Coincidentally, an entourage from the Water Country was passing through, looking for the leader of the village, that is Tazuna. It was a woman wearing a Mizukagé hat named Mei Terumi escorted by a few ninja, including Ao (with a Byakugan eye hidden in his eyepatch) and a Genin named Chōjurō who is training to be one of the new 7 Swordmasters of the Mist. When they arrived, they didn't expect a celebration happening in the town for not only the recent completion of the bridge, but also life celebrations of the people who died giving the rights back to them. Things are slowly returning back to normalcy in the Wave Village. Zabuza and Haku with their baby girl in her mother's arms as they explained what happened in the recent events.
Mei decided to take the couple back after the previous Mizukagé died during their absence and find them a new home to raise their children while making a living.
Naruto and Kaguya are glad that things have turned out well for them as they said to everyone that they have to leave towards the [Island of the Moon]. He asks them why go to the dangerous location amd Naruto explains, "The Island has a special connection to our kingdom and lately some fools are trying to make it gain independence without just cause. We only want to investigate the strange uprising."
Tazuna recalled that the [Island of the Moon] was taken over by a greedy, former minister named Shabadaba and his peculiar assistant who betrayed his lordship, the vassal who lets his henchmen kill him, his loyal subjects, and drove his entire family away, all for the sake of money.
"One more reason why we have to leave," Naruto said, but not before he contacted the Kingdom before he and his entourage are ready to be transferred, via teleportation, to the destination, while Konoha's teams have to return home after completing their intended mission.
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|Konohagakuré, Hokagé's office|
"Did my ears deceive me, Kakashi?" Minato the Hokagé questioned his former student, "Are you saying that not only the Lunarium Kingdom is invading the countries, they already took over Namigakuré, and you've said that I have a son who is with those savage amazons?"
"That's just what I'm trying to tell you, Yondaimé-sama!" Kakashi begged, "It's as if Kushina's ghost is trying to haunt us after all we have done to her and she's an inconsiderable woman, no doubt. That brat may have your looks, but he is not your son! He is a barbarian with unusual technology after he took out Sasuké's and my eyes and replace them!" He removes his eyepatch to show his other eye that is restored to its original setting.
"Kakashi, you mustn't underestimate the Moon People," Minato warned about the Lunarium Kingdom, "And just for your failure: you and your Genin receive no pay and you'll be doing extra duty with the D-Rank missions for a month until you are fit for duty again."
"But what about Sakura?" Kakashi questioned, "She, Ino, and Hinata now know the truth about Naruto and your heritage. They will likely be targeted by Iwa and Kumo because of the「sins of the father」, namely you!"
"That's their problem. But if I found out that those girls were intentionally harmed outside of their jurisdiction, then it's war. Now get out of my office!"
Kakashi left at a moment's notice.
Minato looked at the picture of Kushina and morosely said to the image, "Oh, what have I done? My God, what have I done…"
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¹ - Dragon Ball elements, minus the aging after-effect; as for being used as a nursery for bearing and raising children, there's a different mode for that.
² - A technique referenced from Hokuto no Ken
³ - Idea based on Heavy Metal - Taaran
