answers to reviewers questions or statements:
dopeenight: What kinds of subtle differences have you liked so far? Yes, Pītā's relationship with this story's Robuki will improve as it goes on. It's already pretty decent compared to most other jinchūriki like Naruto and Gaara where it's downright antagonistic or manipulative. We'll see some of Kushina's reasoning for not going back for her son this chapter. Yes Yagura and Pītā will meet one another again, as for reconciling, I'm still deciding. I thought it'd be interesting for their relationship to always be strained instead of going through the cliché 'they talked it out, came to an understanding and learned to love and forget' crap a lot of these anime stories seem to go for. But like I said, still deciding.
Guest: It's possible for him to acquire one of them at some point.
chimera629: Have you read chapter 6? Pītā offered up a plausible reason for their alliance with him and even if he didn't, it's not like Orochimaru has a way of having you thinking being on his side would be a good thing. Let's see, he's an elite Jōnin that served in ANBU as a captain, I'm assuming that people realize his 'studies' had taken him pretty far.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or Naruto characters seen, mentioned or used.
It was a little over two days after Anko dragged Pītā into the tower for medical attention when the famed snake summoner made her move.
It was approaching midnight and most of the tower's staff and participating Genin had retired for the night, allowing Anko to slip down the dark halls without interruption. She was only dressed in her mesh fitted body suit, having left her orange skirt and jacket behind in her own room.
'I wonder if lover boy is still up or not' Anko thought with a maniacal grin as she rubbed her hands together at the thought.
She finally arrived at his room and after checking to make sure no one would see her, not that she cared if they did or not, she silently opened the door. She was a bit annoyed that Pītā had left it unlocked, especially since he was in a building with foreign shinobi and a crazed nuke-nin running around somewhere.
"Honestly, it's like your begging for an ass kicking" Anko said with a shake of her head as she entered the room and quickly closed the door behind her and locked it.
She than turned her attention to the man that brought her here and smirked at what she saw. Pītā was asleep, his shirt discarded on the floor and the covers pulled up to his chest. Even in the dim light she could see the rise and fall of his muscular chest and licked her lips as she reached down to slip her sandals off and proceeded to approach his bed on her bare feet. Once she was close enough to his bed, she slipped her mesh suit off until she was standing before Pītā nude and slipped on tot he small bed very carefully as to not awaken him. She reached up and grabbed the covers and began to slowly peel them back before stopping in surprise.
"What the hell..." Anko said in a quiet voice.
The purple haired beauty's eyes narrowed as she stared at a series of intricate black markings that covered half of Pītā's chest. While she was no expert at Fūinjutsu, even she could tell that the seal she was looking at was pretty top notch. She leaned down a little closer to see if she could make out what kind of seal it was when Pītā began to stir before settling down again, still asleep. The purple haired woman gave the man a pout before she grinned and slowly moved the blanket back further until it was past his waist to reveal a pair of boxers between her and her prize. She licked her lips as she slowly reached out and very carefully pulled the boxers down to reveal Pītā's flaccid cock. It was a little hard but it wasn't what she'd call morning wood, if anything it'd be more of morning twig.
'Easily remedied with a bit of... water' Anko giggled at her own joke before leaning down to run her tongue across the appendage 'Lots and lots of water applied via mouth and tongue, kukukuku!'
Pītā let out a low grown but otherwise seemed to remain in that state between awake and deep sleep.
Sadly, he was far from asleep in any shape or form.
...
"So, any reason why you decided to say screw me in my fight with Orochimaru?"
Pītā stood silently in what could only be described as a mass of darkness with thousands of strands of webbing around him. Pooled around his ankles was an odd warm clear liquid that seemed like water but in actuarily was supposed to represent the chakra of the Rokubi spreading throughout his very being. Why it took the form of water Pītā didn't know nor has he ever find a reason to care, all he wanted at the moment was some answers.
"Why do you care little spider...?" a dark feminine voice echoed around Pītā, causing him to look and see if he could find the owner.
"Gee, I don't know, maybe because I almost bleed out?" Pītā said in a sarcastic tone before he noticed multiple web lines shaking followed by what felt like a gust of air hitting him from behind.
Pītā turned and was greeted to the sight of a massive spider limb slowly lowering itself out of the dark and on to the ankle deep watered ground. The limb barely made a ripple as it connected with the ground before another followed it, and than another until eight limbs were touching the ground. Next a large dark mass lowered itself and let out a dark hiss that caused Pītā to take an involuntary step back as he looked up to see six glowing eyes staring down at him. The eyes glared down at Pītā with a deep ancient hate as it's body lowered itself even more until it's face was mere meters from Pītā's small form.
"I was under the impression, that aside from facing another jinchūriki, you didn't need my help" the Rokubi cooed as behind it, six massive scorpion tails sailed aimlessly through the air, connecting with numerous strands of webbing.
Pītā's eyes narrowed at this "I said, unless I'm getting my ass handed to me, which I was, I don't need your help"
"Details" the Rokubi giggled, which combined with the dark edge to its tone and nightmarish look made the giggle seem even more sinister than it should.
Pītā sighed as he folded his arms across his chest and gave the massive bijū an annoyed look "Well than why did you slow down my healing? You've never done that before!"
The upper joints of the Rokubi shifted in a way that Pītā learned a long time ago was it's equivalent of a shrug "I thought it was obvious why I did that"
"Well I'm pretty thick headed, maybe you could explain it to me" Pītā said with annoyance.
It was than the Rokubi hissed and brought it's face close to Pītā's causing him to yelp and take a few steps back in surprise.
"You helped the Kyūbi jinchūriki! Despite the fact I told you not to"
Pītā stared at the Rokubi for several seconds in shocked silence before it quickly gave way to annoyance and anger "Are you freakin kidding me!? You nearly let me bleed out because I decided to help that little brat with one small thing?"
"Yessss…" The Rokubi growled as it pulled away and looked down at Pītā with narrowed eyes, her tails shaking with aggravation.
Pītā opened his mouth to offer up a series of less than child friendly words to the bijū before they died at the tip of his tongue and his shoulders slumped and sighed "I can't believe this... actually, I can because it's you"
The multi tailed spider hissed before it let out a hum and seemed to look off into the distance before her mandibles clicked and she began to climb back up into the darkness above her and Pītā.
"It seems you have a guest in your room. See to their needs, it's about all your good for now a days" she hissed.
"Huh, who? Also, the fuck does that mean?" Pītā asked but received no reply as the bijū vanished into the depths of the mindscape mere seconds before the jinchūriki felt himself forcibly ejected from the mindscape.
...
Pītā let out a groan at the headache he was feeling from his rapid expulsion from the inner confines of his seal before it turned to a moan as he felt a hard suck on his groin. He opened his eyes and looked down to see a mop of purple hair before shivering as a all so familiar tongue trailed up the side of his cock and to the tip.
"Morning sleeping beauty" Anko teased as she looked up at Pītā while a thin rope of salvia connected her lips to Pītā's drenched dick.
"Anko?" Pītā said with surprise.
"That's me, get ready to moan it out" Anko giggled as she took Pītā into her mouth fully, causing the man to groan and clench the sheets of his bed as she let out a low throaty moan.
Pītā wished he could say he was surprised by Anko's boldness, but that'd be a lie. When they still seriously dated this was a common occurrence, him waking up from one of her blowjobs. Even after they broke up and only hooked up on occasion she'd do the same and more often than not Pītā half expected to wake up to his ex blowing him off like this.
Anko released his cock with an audible 'pop' sound and used her hands to pump him as she looked up at the man with a grin before she nodded towards the fading markings on his chest.
"So Pītā, mind telling me what that is?"
Pītā looked down just in time to see the last of the seal that held the Rokubi fade away before looking back up at Anko "What's it to you?"
"I don't remember you having that before" Anko shrugged before she leaned down and gave Pītā a few licks around the tip of his dick before "Wanted to know if it was recent and if so, what is it?"
"It's... complicated" Pītā forced out in a strained tone as Anko took his cock into her mouth again.
It really was a miracle that Anko hasn't noticed the seal before, than again it's usually covered up and it only appears when he's either actively using the chakra of the bijū or he's retreated to within his mindscape to converse with it. The latter he rarely does as it leaves him uncomfortably vulnerable.
"Define complicated" Anko said as she released Pītā to take in a gulp of breath and resumed her sucking, causing the man's eyes to close in bliss.
"I-I-I'd rather not s-say now..." he breathed out, it was getting hard to focus on anything but Anko's actions.
Anko hummed at this before she released his prick and licked her lips as she stood up on her knees and give him amused look "Fine, but after we're done, I expect and explanation"
"I'll t-think about it" Pītā said as Anko grinned and turned around so that she was facing away from him and slowly shook her rear at him.
"Hurry up and get to it" Anko teased as she looked over her shoulder at Pītā with a faint blush on her face "Too horny for any more foreplay"
"You always are" Pītā growled as he sat up and climbed to his knees too before he pushed Anko down on to all fours and ran his hands over her ass.
Anko moaned at the feeling of Pītā's tip brushing against her pussy's lips before he tapped it against her clit, casuing her to giggle as a shiver ran through her body.
"Just stick it in and fuck me already... Pītā-kun" Anko teased as she grinded her rear against her lover's cock before he gripped himself and slowly inserted his length into her warm depths.
"Fuck Anko…" Pītā gasped at the vice he was entering.
Anko moaned at the sensation of her vaginal walls stretching to accommodate his size and felt herself grow even more wet as he kept going and going until he bottomed out inside of her. The two sat there, marveling at the feeling of connection they shared before Anko grew impatient and pushed herself back into her lover, causing a ripple of pleasure to be sent through them.
"Dammit Pītā, fuck me!" Anko demanded in a lustful growl.
"All right, all right..." Pītā growled out in annoyance as he adjusted his grip on Anko's hips "Excuse me for enjoying being inside you again"
"Less enjoy, more fu-" Anko began before her breath was knocked out of her by a hard thrust from Pītā.
Before she could form a response, Pītā gave her another thrust that caused her to let out a throaty moan as he hit her sweet spot. Seeing this, Pītā began to aim his thrusts at this particular spot, causing Anko's moans to become louder and louder as her arms gave out and she fell face first into the bed and began to pant like a bitch in heat. Pītā growled as he raised a hand and slapped it across Anko's rear, causing her ass to shake while he continued to relentlessly fuck her into his bed.
"F-Fuck baby, that's it... oh fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck my little twat Pītā-kun! Oh fuck, mess up my insides with that beast" Anko moaned as she had her walls clench Pītā's member as tight as she could.
'Still as foul mothered as ever' Pītā thought with a laugh as he thrusted into the purple haired woman as hard as he could without risk breaking something, nothing killed the mood faster than a shattered pelvis.
Though knowing Anko, that might get her off even more.
...
As the day ticked by two more teams of Genin, one being from Taki and the other Uzu, had arrived at the tower, beaten and battered but in possession of both scrolls needed to advance. A few teams have already tried to peak at the scrolls and were promptly disqualified and far as Pītā knew, one team had been killed off entirely by the Suna Genin that were the Kazekage's children.
Fū, once she learned that Pītā was in the tower had made it her mission to not only find the man, but to spend every waking second possible talking to him. At first he was willing to humor the girl, annoying as she could be it wasn't all bad having her around. But after the first six hours of listening to her go on and on about the various places she wanted to visit, what her dream wedding would be like and whether or not she could forcibly gain control of the Aburame clans insects through means that she's remained quiet on, it started to finally eat away at his reserves of patience.
'Why me?' Pītā thought with a dejected sigh as he made his way towards the tower's main cafeteria for lunch, all the while Fū literally ran circles around him.
It sorta reminded him of when Itachi was assigned to his squad after he made Captain and Pītā was tasked with teaching the young prodigy how to lead a squad of ANBU, but the responsibilities it entailed before given command of his own team.
'He definitely wasn't expecting there to be so much paperwork, that's for sure. To think that the great Itachi Uchiha was actually considering backing down from being a ANBU Captain if it meant getting out of doing so much bureaucratic nonsense' Pītā thought with a hidden grin before he nearly tripped over Fū as she seemed to almost fly past him.
"So I was thinking that at some point I'd try to visit Tsuki no Kun because I heard that they have this really pretty butterflies that can make these really beautiful bioluminescent lights with their wings at night and-" Fū would have kept going had Pītā not suddenly stop and turn towards her with a strained smile on his face, not that she'd see it since it was covered by his face mask, hood and goggles.
"That sounds really nice Fū, really it does. How about you go see if your teammates might wanna go with you. I'm sure they'd love to spend some time at a tropical kingdom with you" Pītā said, hoping that the girl would run off to pester her teammates 'It's probably the reason why they don't like her. Girl never stops talking it seems'
At this, Fū's wide excited grip died and was slowly replaced with a saddened expression "I asked them once, but they said they didn't wanna go with me..."
"What?" Pītā snorted "Two boys don't wanna go with a cute mint haired girl to one of the wealthiest, most desirable countries in the known world?"
Fū shook her head at this "They said me being there would ruin it"
Pītā's eyes narrowed at this "Really? Why's that?"
"Because I'm a ji-..." Fū stopped cold, her eyes wide as she begun to sound out the next word before she took several steps back, the color fading from her face "N-Never mind..."
Pītā stared at the young girl for what felt like hours as that last little slip up added to the final piece of the puzzle that was Fū. She was a jinchūriki and if his history was right, the jinchūriki for the Nanabi. It made sense he supposed, it explained the girl's raw strength and her interest in insects, though the latter could just be a coincidence. And according to a rumor he heard a few years ago, the Nanabi's previous jinchūriki died a little over thirteen years ago and the little mint haired girl before him fit the age range. After a few moments of silence, Pītā sighed and rubbed the back of his neck as the barest smidges of sympathy settled in.
"Look, I'm heading down to the cafeteria to get some lunch. Would you like to come with me?" Pītā asked.
Fū's eyes seemed to sparkle at this and her entire demeanor changed almost instantly "Is there Ramen there too?!"
'Thank every higher being in existence, no' Pītā thought while aloud he responded with "Who knows, we're gonna have to go check"
"Okay!" Fū jumped in joy and quickly grabbed Pītā's wrist and dragged him towards the cafeteria.
"W-Whoa, hey!" Pītā yelped as he tried to free his poor wrist from the iron grip the young jinchūriki had on him.
Fū didn't seem to hear his cries of protest as she sped down the hall like a blur to any that saw her. She was a girl on a mission, along with her new friend!
'He's much nicer than anyone back at the village' Fū thought with a smile 'He's been super nice even! Maybe I can convince him to visit me in Taki after the Exams?'
She didn't see why he wouldn't be able to, their villages were allies after all and allies were allowed to visit one another, at least she thought so. Pītā meanwhile had resigned himself to being this little girl's rag doll as she raced down the halls with him all but flaying about behind her like a scrap of fabric in the wind. He hoped that Anko didn't see this, she'd never let him live it down, if anything she'll carve on to his headstone that he was dragged around by a girl half his age wo seemed to be even stronger than him.
"Yay, we're here!" Fū said as she slid to a stop at the entrance to the cafeteria and released Pītā
"Thank Kami" Pītā gasped as he stood up and rubbed his sore wrist 'Damn, she dislocate this thing or something?'
Once Pītā was certain that his wrist wasn't indeed dislocated or broken, he gestured for Fū to follow him inside. The space wasn't very large, just big enough for a kitchen area and ten tables big enough to fit eight people comfortably. Already several seats were occupied by a few of the Genin that had managed to arrive already. At one table sat Kurenai's team, whose Sensei was with them eating a meal consisting of a few sandwiches and glasses of water. At another table sat the Genin team made up of the Kazekage's children and own resident jinchūriki of the Ichibi, and the final team being the Genin from Uzu whose red headed Sensei was sitting with them watching while they ate and chatted amongst themselves.
At least, the girls were, the lone male of the group, the super pale boy, seemed content to just sit there and listen to his teammates talk.
'"Huh, when did they get here?" Fū pointed towards the Uzu team.
"A few hours ago. Not long after your team did" Pītā revealed as he made his way to where the food was being served by a bored looking Chūnin.
Pītā grabbed a tray for himself and Fū and had the Chūnin place several small plates of fruit and bread on them, though Fū requested a few glasses of sugar water to go with her food.
"Uh, how many of those do you usually go through?" Pītā asked as the Chūnin placed five large cups of sugar water on Fū's tray.
"Sometimes ten a day if I can" Fū said with a wide grin.
"Well that would explain why your so hyper" Pītā said as he and Fū made their way to a table to sit down at.
Fū giggled at this "My mom used to say the same thing too"
"Well let her know that someone agrees with her" Pītā said with a chuckle as he pulled his goggles up to rest on his head while he pulled down his face mask.
"I will" Fū nodded before she turned her attention to her food and with a animalistic fury that took Pītā back, attacked her food.
"Uhhh…" Pītā said as he watched the young girl scarf down the food with an intensity to rival the one she showed at Ichiraku's.
Fū paused for a moment before blushing and gave Pītā a sheepish smile "Hehehe... s-sorry. Haven't eaten since yesterday"
"Couldn't find anything to eat in the forest?" Pītā said with a snort.
"Nothing that wasn't poisonous or will try to eat me first" Fū sighed sadly before her demeanor brightened more "Plus, I'm not good at cooking and neither are my teammates soooo..."
"Fair enough" Pītā shrugged before he noticed the red headed sensei from Uzu approaching their table.
Pītā regarded her with a slightly suspicious look as she smiled down at him and gestured to the seat in front of him "Is this taken?"
Just as Pītā was about to answer with a 'Yes', Fū beat him to the punch by saying 'No' and scooted over a little to allow the older woman some space to sit down.
"Thank you" she said with a nod towards Fū as she slid into the seat and gave Pītā an amused look as she held her hand out for him to take "Fūka"
"...Pītā " he responded after a few seconds and cautiously reached out to shake her hand.
"No last name?" Fūka asked with a grin.
Pītā shook his head a little as he turned his attention to his food "None I care to take for myself"
"Family drama?" Fūka teased.
"Something like that" Pītā answered with a slightly curt tone before he looked towards Fū and saw she was looking back and forth between the two with a confused expression "Hey Fū, how'd you like to meet the nicest person in the whole wide world and will become your instant best friend, like ever?"
Fū's eyes were practically sparkling at his and nodded eagerly as Pītā raised an arm and pointed towards Kurenai's table, or more specifically, the young Hyūga girl siting there. The young Taki Genin followed Pītā's outstretched arm and looked to see who he was pointing to before she blushed a little at the girl she saw.
"H-Her?" she said with a nervous tone.
Fūka looked too and couldn't help but chuckle as she placed a hand on Fū's shoulder as she leaned forward a little towards the girl's ear "Yes, her"
Fū's blush deepened a little more as she looked back towards Pītā "I... I don't know. I mean she's-"
"Trust me, you wont regret it" Pītā assured the girl before he gave her a shooing motion with his hand "Go on. I'll be over in a few when I'm done speaking to Fūka-san here"
Fū still looked nervous as she stood up "I-If your sure"
"Positive" Pītā grinned "Now run along and go make some new friends"
Fū nodded and took a deep breath before turning on her heel and walked towards Kurenai's team's table. The red eyed Jōnin seemed to notice the mint haired girl's approach before she noticed Pītā giving her a quick thumbs up. The raven haired woman smiled and shook her head in amusement before she stood to greet a nervous Fū as the rest of her team took notice of her appearance.
"So..." Fūka said as she turned towards Pītā once they saw Fū sit down at Kurenai's table and introduce herself "There a reason you sent the kid away when I git here?"
"What, can't a guy just talk to a pretty lady without having to worry about a impressionable kid being around?" Pītā said with a grin.
Fūka hummed at this and brushed her foot against Pītā's and gave the man a flirtatious grin "And what would you like to talk about... handsome?"
"Uzu" Pītā stated, causing the red head's grin to falter a bit.
"Oh..." she said with a blink "Not really what I was expecting"
"Call me curious. It's not everyday you meet someone from a village that was wiped out by a Demon and his army" Pītā said as he pushed his tray to the side and rested his elbows on the table.
"No, I suppose not" Fūka nodded before she shrugged "What's there to tell? After our village was all but razed to the ground and Kiri moved in to finish us off, the survivors scattered to the wind"
"Were you there when it happened?" Pītā questioned.
"For what?" Fūka asked with a raised brow "The demon or Kiri?"
Pītā shrugged "Both, either one"
"Both I'm afraid" Fūka shook her head "I was just a Genin than. Barely been one for a week when it happened"
"That had to suck"
"Very" Fūka giggled as she gave Pītā a wink "Though I'm quite good at situations that... suck"
"I'm sure you are" Pītā said with a nervous grin as he felt Fūka's foot rise higher and higher up his leg before he reached down and grabbed her ankle "Down girl"
"Or what?" Fūka asked in a challenging tone as she pushed her foot more and rested it in between Pītā's legs.
Pītā stared at the red head with surprise as she quickly slid her sandal off and began to rub her barefoot against his groin. Her grin grew as she felt him begin to slowly harden under her actions and licked her lips. Pītā tried to move her foot again but Fūka responded by pressing down hard on his member, causing him to groan and her eyes to brighten as her breath hitched.
"You know... we could head back to my room" Fūka said in a low husky tone as she continued to rub her foot against his covered dick "I heard that Konoha produces some fine Shinobi. Maybe you can show me just how fine, hmm?"
"H-How about no?" Pītā said as he steeled himself against the seductive woman's actions and scooted his chair back and out of her foot's reach.
Fūka gave him a pout that almost made him regret pushing himself away before a sly grin replaced it as she reached down to slide her sandal back on "Fine, I suppose we can wait until after this portion of the exams are over. Don't want to give others the wrong idea now do we?"
"Yeah, that's the reason" Pītā nodded as he thought up a series of horrid images in his mind to kill his arousal.
The memory of Gai's very, very brief stint with the ANBU worked perfectly.
'It's always the brightest and happiest that fall the farthest' Pītā thought with a shiver as he adjusted himself in his chair while Fūka reached over to his tray and plucked some grapes off it to eat.
She noticed the look he was giving him and winked as she popped one into her mouth "Oh hush, it's not like we're on a date"
"That's what makes you stealing some of my food even worse" Pītā said in a deadpanned voice, causing Fūka to giggle.
"Well, the offer to head back to my room and end it like a date is still open" she teased with a hungry look in her eye.
The red head couldn't quite place it, but there was something about Orochimaru's former student's chakra that... excited her. His reserves were massive, easily on par with the Sannin's but much denser in comparison. It in a way reminded her of the Kazekage's son Gaara but she couldn't see how that was possible since he himself was a jinchūriki and the only other one in the village, in the whole exam was Kushina's son, Naruto.
'Maybe he's one of those pseudo-jinchūriki I've heard about' Fūka thought before another thing occurred to her 'But if that's the case, wouldn't his chakra be somewhat similar in feel to Naruto's since they'd both be hosts for the Kyūbi's chakra?'
She made a mental note to question Orochimaru later when they were alone, and away from Kushina. She had no idea what the elder Uzumaki would do if it turns out that Pītā is a pseudo-jinchūriki. She may decide to eliminate him and for the time being, the last thing that Fūka wanted to do with the man. At least let her have a taste of his chakra and maybe have a go with the limb he was packing in between his legs before offing the man.
'I'm sure I can convince Orochimaru-sama to agree with me. With how much he talked about him when we saw him at the lounge yesterday, I doubt he wants him dead anytime soon' Fūka thought before she noticed the time on the wall and paled slightly 'Ah shit... my meeting with Orochimaru-sama and Ksuhina-sama is about to start soon'
As Fūka began to panic over the fact that she was now running late for her meeting with her superiors, Pītā was taking this brief time to cast a quick glance at Kurenai's team to see how Fū was doing. Considering there was no yelling, crying or demands to leave from Shino, Kiba or Hinata or even Kurenai, he assumed things were going good. He caught Kurenai's eye who gave him a sly wink before her attention shifted back to the bundle of energy that was Fū who seemed to be asking her a question of some kind.
But what really caught Pītā's attention was the interactions of Shino, Kiba, Akamaru and Hinata with Fū.
Shino seemed to be both unnerved and perplexed by Fū's presence, likely his insects telling him that she's similar yet differ at the same time and seemed to hold enough power in her currently to give chūnin a run for their money. Kiba and Akamaru seemed friendly enough to the mint haired girl though Kiba seemed to see this as an opportunity to brag to a new person about how great and skilled he was while his partner settled for letting Fū hold him in her lap. Hinata to his complete lack of surprise seemed nervous and shy around the new girl but still spoke with her when questioned and even seemed to be asking her fellow Genin a few of her own.
'Wonder if I can convince Sarutobi if he could talk Taki into letting Fū visit more. Could be good for her, so long as her status remains unknown' Pītā thought.
He was fully aware that he was giving this girl more time than he's ever given Naruto, another fellow jinchūriki that resides in the same village no less. But so far the Rokubi has yet to comment on his interactions with the young girl so he supposed it was okay with her. Plus, she's been m ore respectful than Naruto has been. She hasn't acted all cynical and suspicious of his motives, she just wanted a friend, something she likely has little of back in her own village.
'Why do I get the feeling that preferring her over Uzumaki's gonna bite me in the ass one day?' The Rokubi jinchūriki thought with a frown before he shrugged and turned his attention back to the woman in front of him as she suddenly stood up.
"Well, as much as I'd love top continue our banter, I need to get going" Fūka said as she turned to leave.
"Got somewhere to be?" Pītā asked with a raised brow.
"I'm meeting someone and I'm running a little late" she responded with a grin "Don't worry, it's not that kind of meting. I just need to talk with them about a few things is all"
Pītā quirked his head at this before he slowly nodded "Well... don't let me keep you. Something tells me this person isn't a fan of tardiness"
Orochimaru detested when someone was late, a bit of a small pet peeve of his that Pītā doubted the man never got over even after he left the village. Ironic considering the man's experiments in the past half the time wouldn't bare any tangible results until a much later time than he originally hypothesized.
"Heh, you have no idea. See you around?" Fūka winked, seemingly unaware that Pītā and Konoha in general may or may not be aware of her village's questionable choice in allies.
Pītā simply stared at the red headed beauty for a moment before he nodded slowly "Count on it"
If things went south fast and Uzu tries something, Pītā made a note to take her out first.
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"Your late, Orochimaru!"
The infamous Sannin frowned at the tone directed at him as he slipped into the darkened room near the top of the tower before dropping the henge he's been using to masquerade as an Jōnin for the Genin team from Otogakure. It wasn't easy, using such a basic technique to hide from such capable sensors that Konoha had a annoying habit of producing, but so far no one has suspected his true identity. It also helped he's placed a few seals on himself to help further alter the feeling of his chakra to help better disguise himself.
'Though it greatly limits my arsenal of Jutsu… oh well, can't be helped I suppose' Orochimaru thought as he dropped the henge but kept the chakra masking seals in place.
"Kushina-chan, is that anyway to greet a friend?" he asked with a chuckle 'Especially since your asking to meet not even a hundred feet from Sarutobi?'
Across from the infamous nuke-nin, a red headed beauty stepped out of the shadows dressed in a black full body suit with a red flak jacket designed similarly to Konoha's with actual sleeves to cover the arms. Two Kunai holsters were strapped to her thighs and a katana was strapped to her back while her red hair was tied into a tight bun. Even after almost thirteen years, Kushina still looked as young and as beautiful as ever, causing Orochimaru's envy for the Uzumaki's longevity to increase ever so slightly.
"What took you so long getting here?" Kushina demanded with a scowl at the Sannin.
"Believe it or not Kushina-chan, I'm not as skilled at stealth as Jiraiya is" Orochimaru grinned.
The wife to the late Minato Namikaze frowned at this before she shook her head "It doesn't matter, what matters is that your here so we can discuss your actions"
"My actions?" Orochimaru said with feigned innocence "Whatever could you mean my dear?"
"You placed your curse mark to one of my son's teammates, Sasuke Uchiha" Kushina said with a frown.
"I have..." Orochimaru said, not bothering to deny her claims.
"And..." Kushina said, her voice darkening as she took a step forward "You attacked my son!"
At this, Orochimaru's smirk fell "I did no such thing Kushina-chan. I merely defended myself when he attacked me. And the most I did was apply a simple Five pronged seal to him, nothing life threatening"
"You put a odd numbered seal or an even numbered?!" Kushina said with wide eyes.
"He'll be fine" Orochimaru said with a shrug "Assuming he gets it removed within the next week, which I have no doubt he will"
Though if not... well he'll cross that bridge when he gets to it.
"Assuming he survives the Forest!" Kushina snapped with a dark glare aimed at the Sannin while Killing Intent flooded the room.
Orochimaru stared at Kushina with an unimpressed look on his face, completely unaffected by the presence the red head was exhibiting "Is this supposed to intimidate me?"
Two World Wars, countless battlefields littered with hundreds and even thousands of mutilated bodies, Hanzō the Salamander, the various members of the Akatsuki... after all that, it was gonna take a lot more than some lover of a dead Kage to terrify him into submission. Kushina gritted her teeth at the lack of reaction from the Sannin before she huffed and adverted her gaze from the man.
"You obsession with the Sharingan better not cost me my boy" Kushina threatened.
"It will not" Orochimaru said with grin "So long as your little meeting with Naruto after I separated him from his team doesn't cost us this invasion"
"I just wanted to see him... to actually speak with him" she muttered in a quiet voice "To actually hear his voice for the first time in real life"
"And how did this go?" Orochimaru asked.
"He was.. upset" Kushna sighed sadly as what looked like tears began to build at the corners of her eyes "He... he wanted to know why I wasn't there for him growing up. Why I couldn't keep him safe... why I couldn't stop his bastard of a father from condemning him to a life of hell"
Orochimaru had to resist the urge to roll his eyes at the woman before him. If he didn't know any better, she could've fooled him into thinking her beloved son had suffered the worse childhood imaginable. Naruto's wasn't the best from what he observed when he still lived in the village and heard of over the years after he left, but it was hardly the worse for a jinchūriki. The first host for the Nibi, now that was a tragedy heart breaking enough to have even the likes of himself feel something in his cold blackened heart.
"Did you tell him or opted to wait until later?" Orochimaru questioned.
"I told him that once he passes this portion of the Exam, we'd meet during the month long break before the Finals and I'd explain everything than" Kushina explained.
"How much?" the Sannin pressed "Your not actually considering bringing little Naruto into the fold are you?"
"Why shouldn't I?" Kushina demanded with a glare "He has every right to punish this village as you and I do! All his life this pathetic excuse of a village has done nothing but inflect pain and suffering upon my son since they day he was born"
Orochimaru closed his eyes and mentally counted back from five before he opened his eyes and stared hard at the red headed woman "Kushina, we cannot afford to bring in a unknown like your son at a time like this"
"Why, because you believe he's weak? That he still holds some sort of attachment to this hell hole?" Kushina pressed as she stepped right up to Orochimaru and actually poked him in the chest with her finger "He doesn't, I've checked. He has as much love for this place as you do"
Years upon years of self control were brought to bear as Orochimaru stood there, unmoving, unflinching as Kushina poked him again and again, as if he were some lowly shinobi and not one of the deadliest men alive currently. It was something he's been doing with great reluctance since this alliance was first formed. As much as he'd love to snap her neck, he needed Uzushiogakure for the invasion, or at the very least access to their Fūinjutsu. While most of it was lost during the demon lord Mōryō's assault on the village just before the start of the Third Shinobi World War, there was still a great deal of powerful and useful forbidden seals and techniques in the remnants possession that could advance a number of experiments he was conducting by years, decades even.
So for the sake of gaining access to such a trove of hidden knowledge, he was willing to bite his tongue and restrain himself... for now at least.
'Good things come to those that wait' Orochimaru thought as Kushina continued to go on and on about how her son will want nothing more than to level Konoha and kill every person that's ever hurt him in it 'Hmm, I wonder if she and her boy realize that she should be included in the list as well. After all, she did leave him here'
Yet again, he resisted the urge to point that out.
"And to think that no woman in this village would want my beloved little Naru-koi. Much as I hate his bastard of a father, I can't deny how handsome he is, one good thing that man did right by my son" Kushina sighed with a somewhat dreamy expression on her face, causing Orochimaru to quirk a brow.
"Yes... I'm sure" Orochimaru said slowly, well that was a bit... random.
As Kushina went on and on about her attractive her boy was, something that was beginning to rub even him the wrong way, Orochimaru noticed Fūka had entered the room. The red head gave Orochimaru a sly wink that caused the Sannin to chuckle as she stood by and waited for her 'leader' to notice her presence. It was long ago decided that Fūka was wasted under Kushina's command in Orochimaru's opinion. Her skills as a sensei to Kushina's adopted daughters Karin and Tayuya were a great misuse of her unique abilities. He's mentioned it before, several times to the Uzumaki, but Kushina remained adamant that Fūka would be the one to lead her 'children's' team, especially after Naruto joined them and replaced Shin, Orochimaru's 'placeholder'.
'I wonder if she realizes that Fūka's taste are for men that are legally old enough to drink and have some actual skill and experience under their belts... pun intended' Orochimaru thought as he noticed Kushina finally notice Fūka.
"Ah, Fūka-chan, I'm happy to see that you've made it" Kushina said towards her fellow red head and she secretly hoped future daughter in law.
"Kushina-sama" Fūka gave the other woman a small bow before she did the same to Orochimaru "I apologize for being late, I was... side tracked"
"Oh?" Kushina said with some confusion "By what?"
"Better yet, by whom?" Orochimaru questioned, already having an idea of just who exactly distracted the red head.
Fūka smirked a bit at this a she held the Sannin's eyes "Your student"
Kushina frowned at this while Orochimaru simply chuckled at the red head's words.
'Of course it's Pītā' he thought while Kushina glanced at him in confusion for a moment before returning her gaze to Fūka.
"How did Orochimaru's student waylay you?" Kushina asked with a frown "I was under the impression you were stronger than Anko is"
"She's referring to another one of my students" Orochimaru revealed as his amusement died down a bit "And he's far more powerful than young Fūka, with all due respect to her skill. He's in the same league ass Kakashi and Kabuto"
Fūka grinned at this "I could tell. He has enough chakra to rival you at least"
"Well, if you didn't fight him, how did he waylay you?" Kushina asked with impatience "Did he try to follow you?"
"No, we just talked and lost track of time" Fūka revealed.
Kushina stared at her fellow red head with an unreadable expression on her face "You... talked?"
"Yes, we did" Fūka said, her ever present grin slowly vanishing as a much harder expression replaced it and her eyes narrowed slightly "Is that a problem?"
Kushina's eyes narrowed at the tone she detected in the other Uzumaki's voice "Yes, as a matter of fact, it is a problem. He's a Konoha nin!"
"Your point?" Fūka said with a perfectly raised eyebrow.
"He could've hurt my son at some point in the past like the rest of the bastards in this cesspool of a village!" Kushina hissed in anger.
"Really, how?" Fūka demanded as she folded her arms under her bust "By abandoning him, like you did?"
Kushina's eyes widened at this before they narrowed and a powerful spike of Killing Intent radiated off of her. She took a step towards her fellow Uzumaki, her hand drifting to the handle of her Katana when Orochimaru suddenly seized her by the wrist, stopping her move dead cold. Her head snapped towards Orochimaru and glare3d at him with unrivaled cold fury while the Sannin stared back with a blank expression on his face.
"Let go of me" the former jinchūriki snarled.
"Only if you promise not to attack Fūka-san" Orochimaru stated as he gave the other red head a brief glance "While her words were poorly chosen, she does raise a valid point. What proof do you have that my former student had attacked your boy in the past? And if he did, unlikely as that is, how is it any worse than what you did?"
"I was lied to!" Kushina said as she ripped her hand free of Orochimaru's grip, though they both knew he allowed it "Your bastard of a sensei told me that my boy was dead. That the seal Minato placed on him was unable to properly channel the Kyūbi's chakra in a child so young. He showed me the body even!"
That... didn't sound like Hiruzen, Orochimaru thought with a frown. As much as the Sannin hated his former teacher, he couldn't deny that the man was first and foremost a family man and would never, even for the good of the village, do such a thing to a mother. It also didn't make much sense either in Orochimaru's opinion.
'No, I'm missing something. Sensei wouldn't do something liek this for no reason, if he ever had the gull t do it in the first place' the Sanke Sannin thought with a frown before another thought crossed his mind, one that's been nagging at him ever since Kushina approached him barely six months ago.
'Has Kushina… has she actually started to go insane after all these years?' Orochimaru thought to himself while the woman kept rambling on about her son being kept from her by a corrupt power hungry village.
It's something that crossed the Sannin's mind from time to time, that the combination of losing her husband, the trauma of her bijū being forcibly extracted, than forced to turn her own son into a jinchūriki all in the span of an hour had very likely shattered Kushina's mind. Her behavior he noted seemed more erratic, prone to bouts of depression and even aggression. Orochimaru had even considered that Kushina's mental state and belief that Konoha had treated her son so harshly, which it had, was the result of some complex plan orchestrated by Danzō of all people to once again attempt to seize power and become Hokage. Or it was simply a serious case of Post modem depression of some sort and the woman had simply never gotten the proper help to treat it.
For all the Sannin knew, it was a combination of all those things that's led her to what she is now.
Orochimaru couldn't help but frown at the red headed woman as she made a vow to kill the wealthy merchants that either cheated Naruto or hired people to attack him in the past.
'Hmm, I'm starting to think that this alliance may have been a mistake. No secret and rare Fūinjutsu is worth... whatever this is starting to become' Orochimaru thought as he and Fūka were forced to listen to Kushina's rant on the injustices of her son... again.
Perhaps he should have headed Kabuto's advice and simply killed the woman when she first approached him all those months ago.
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And done.
Next chapter, Preliminary round spectacles, a welcomed quickie and unexpected surprises...