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Two Years Later, Uzushiogakure no Sato
'This is where mum was born and had lived before she moved to Konoha…' Naruto slowly walked through the ruins of Uzushio.
He was pondering over how sad his mother must have been when her home village was overrun and destroyed, and everyone here she knew of and loved were dead. Kurama described Kushina's distraught and sorrow when she saw the photos that described its destruction, and the blond couldn't help but shed a few tears as he could feel his mother's grief and pain.
Over the two years as a Kumo ANBU, he gained more information and befriended several people who secretly held deep grudges against the Raikage and his Ten Year Plan, because they all lost wives, sisters, or daughters due to that stupid breeding project.
Naruto's old genin team leader G's wife was one of the victims.
With all the hormones and drugs and unknown ingredients found from the medical knowledge stolen from those wandering medical-nins. The project and the pills forced women to conceive and to carry babies. Birth complications became very common in Kumo. Yet every professional and the leadership in Kumo insisted they were simple difficult births and had absolutely no connection to the forced project used on the mothers.
Bullshit. Birth fatality increased at least threefold since the project's introduction, the Kumo leadership truly didn't give a fuck about the risks and people's life.
All Naruto's secret friends, including a grieving widower G, were deeply worried for their daughters when they hit puberty and had secretly planned to leave Kumo with their families. Through G's introduction, the blond became acquainted and befriended someone called Seikan whose family had created a secret tunnel from a used mine, to evacuate from the Cloud village in the last war due to fear of a possible enemy invasion. The Namikaze and his friends decided to use the tunnel to escape the hidden Cloud village.
Yesterday Naruto secretly came to observe the Fire Country eastern coast and decided it would be their best landing place for their escape from Kumo to Konoha; it was the fastest way to reach Leaf. The coast was also conveniently close to Uzushio and he decided to come to visit here for several reasons.
Before the blond carried out his secret mission and was visiting his mother's birthplace, he created a high-level shadow clone to do his current ANBU mission in his stead. A high-level shadow clone was the strongest type of Kage Bunshin Jutsu. It had intelligence and could take heavy punishments and would not dispel easily. It was unlike the original low-level one which dispelled in one or two hits.
When a high-level shadow clone realized he was about to dispel, he would immediately find somewhere secret and safe to dispel and notify the original Naruto to continue the mission, hence his clandestine operations would not be exposed.
All Uzushio collapsed buildings were worn out and covered in vines, and it was so quiet and so peaceful. The village was a ghost town and had become a wildlife habitat. The place was still beautiful though even Kurama was awed.
"This place is very nice. Probably one day I will seclude here." Kurama commented and Naruto smiled to his fox friend.
It was the first time Kurama came to Uzushio. His previous host, Kushina, had tried to return to visit her birth village, only to be thwarted by ambushes by who were after the Whirlpool Princess and the last Uzumaki. Then, she was embroiled in the bloody Third War and fought fiercely and gained the moniker Red Death, while her husband gained the moniker Yellow Flash. When the war was finally over and was pregnant with Naruto, Kushina had planned to visit Uzushio after Naruto's birth. But she tragically never returned and saw her birth village again alive.
'Maybe one day I will bring your ashes to let you rest in peace here, mum.'
The Uzumaki clan was a very large clan due to their longevity, but it was almost extinct just because of fear and greed. Naruto could sort of understand those architects wanted to prevent a sixth superpower rising and a stronger alliance with Konoha, but it was the hunger for more power he couldn't forgive them for.
The Uzumakis used their longevity to their advantage to research and develop their techniques in various areas, and they were immensely powerful. According to the files hidden in the Kumo archive, the Combine's attack only met the objective to destroy Uzushio but failed to obtain the Uzumaki's techniques.
'I strongly suspect the Raikage will one day send me here when I have children and I am no longer the last Uzumaki. He will send me with a group of his loyal ANBU under the pretext of escort protection, then they will stab me in the back when I open the Uzumaki secrets for them.'
The blond Uzumaki finally reached his destination: The Holy Garden of the Uzumaki Clan. The garden was still very beautiful despite it had not been tended since Uzushio's destruction. The Combine ninjas did not come all the way here for botany and tourism, they were after the secrets hidden in this garden. Naruto found a palm-sized spiral seal hidden in red roses based on the Cloud files.
He put his hand on the seal then felt pain as his hand was cut.
"Shit!" He swore in knee-jerk reaction as he was surprised that the seal was razor sharp. "It cuts my hand to identify if I am an Uzumaki by blood. Well, never mind, I heal fast."
A corner in the garden rumbled and opened a secret door which revealed a tunnel, and the tunnel was littered with skeletal human remains and shuriken and kunai, and other booby traps. These booby traps activated when a non-Uzumaki entered here. At the end of the tunnel there was another door with another seal, and there was an Uzumaki's remains lying next to it. This Uzumaki's face was smashed.
"This poor Uzumaki was dragged here and the Combine ninjas smashed his face on the seal to open the gate, fucking barbarians." Naruto said angrily. He touched the seal and didn't mind being cut again. The second door opened, and it revealed a large hall which showed signs of brutal fighting.
There were 23 skeletal human remains. Naruto identified twenty of them were Kumo ninjas, namely the Golden Horn Force, based on their headbands and the insignia on their uniform. The other three remains had the Uzushio headbands and they killed and stopped the infamous Golden Horn Force at the cost of their own lives.
"If I am correct these three Uzumakis closed the second gate to trap the Golden Horn Force from escaping back to the garden. Without its elite force, and suffering heavy casualty and the incoming Konoha reinforcement, they had to give up this objective and left. The Leaf reinforcement just came to recover the bodies and gave them proper burial. That was the only thing they could do."
The blond deeply bowed to those three Uzumakis' remains with respect. "Your sacrifice was not in vain, for you protecting the third and the final gate." He gave them another deep bow. "Thank you."
Touching the seal on the third gate, it revealed another hall, which safeguarded all the Uzumaki's treasures. At a corner of the gate laid a scroll with a swirl seal, Naruto bit his thumb and put his bloodied thumb on the seal which revealed a letter.
My dearest daughter Kushina-chan,
The promised Konoha reinforcement won't make it in time, our inner defence seal systems were finally breached by the Combine's brutal attacks. They have deployed the investment tactic, even Konoha reinforcement arrived in time… We are doomed to fall.
This is our Uzushiogakure no Sato's Last Stand. I am so glad I had evacuated as many non-combatants as possible beforehand in foresight. I entrust you the Uzumaki heirloom sword which is passed down from our clan founder: the Arashi.
I have created and entrust you a special ruby, which would help you to find those scattered Uzumakis and their descendants, may you one day revive the Uzumaki clan. The ruby was put next to the Arashi.
Now I can hear the enemy flooding the village gate with war cries and chanting for our blood. Our last defence is going to fall very soon. I am going to give them HELL and take as many as them with me.
Farewell. Your family and I always love you, my cute little daughter.
Your father, Kenshin Uzumaki
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"Haha…" Naruto chuckled lightly with a tear, which he wasn't sure it was amusing or sadness, and but he did find it coincident that the treasured Uzumaki sword and his fake surname shared the same name. Finishing reading the letter, Naruto began to explore the hall, which did not only hold the two treasures Naruto's maternal grandfather mentioned. The hall was also a library, a treasury, and an armoury that could provision an army.
The center of the hall displayed a katana- the Arashi. Naruto picked it up and swung it around to examine the sword in awe. He looked closely at the katana. It was made by a chakra metal alloy fused with strong but some unknown type of metal. It was indeed a very sharp katana and it certainly was one of the most powerful blades in the world. It surely surpassed the swords used by the Seven Swordsman of the Mist.
The blond decided not to use it, not until he, Hinata and the other slaves escaped lest it was discovered and "confiscated" and he and Hinata would suffer worse fate. He picked up some standard katanas, some other weapons and armours and training equipment from the armoury.
"The bows and arrows will be a perfect present for Hinata-chan."
Closely examining the Uzumaki katanas Naruto found that they were better than his Kumo ones in quality, now he didn't need to bother replacing his broken blades. He would just replace the Uzumaki crests on the swords with his fake Arashi clan crests when he got back to the continent. He took most of the Uzumaki clan things: scrolls, the sacred Arashi sword, the ruby, and lastly all the gold bars in the treasury. He put them all in different storage scrolls. The gold bars would be useful for helping to fund the escape. Once he reached back the continent, he would use them to buy safe houses and a large ship.
Naruto gave a proper burial for his four fellow Uzumaki clansmen and gave them a final bow with respect, while he simply dumped those Combine's corpses in a mass grave. He made the ruby as a necklace and wore it under his shirt.
He gave one last sad look at his mother's birth village, Uzushio, before he left for the continent and rendezvous with his shadow clone.
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A Week Later, Kumogakure
Hinata, Kurotsuchi, Sayuri and Asuka were chatting and doing grocery shopping and they were waiting for their "master" Naruto to come home tonight. They all wore kimonos with the Arashi crests, so no one would come to bother them. However, it didn't spare them from the glares from people. They were actually jealous glares at the last Arashi's "harem."
The last three girls were kidnapped at older ages and had memory suppression seals until Naruto removed them and helped them to regain their identities. The girls had bloodline limits with Lava, Explosion, and Boil respectively.
One night Naruto snuck into the Slave and Breeding Program Facility to gather the slave information, because Naruto and Kurama suspected A could place a few moles among the slaves to let Naruto pick up. And they found something shocking instead: Kurotsuchi, the granddaughter of Sandaime Tsuchikage was there.
Sayuri was also from a noble clan in Iwagakure and her father was the commander of the Iwa's elite Explosion Corps.
Asuka was from the Water Country and fled the bloodline purge at the urging of her older cousin who had recently started a rebellion there. She was however smuggled to the Cloud village by a shipping company instead to a safe haven. Well, Naruto's protection became her safe haven in Kumo. The blond would one day like to meet Asuka's cousin who had the courage to rebel against this inhumane genocide and the powerful Fourth Mizukage.
The Namikaze was shocked and furious when he learned the Sandaime Tsuchikage's granddaughter was kidnapped as well and put into the Slave and Breeding Program as well. Sayuri's father was the third in command of Iwagakure, after Kitsuchi, Kurotsuchi's father. Hinata could still remember Naruto's angry rant at the Raikage when he learnt Kurotsuchi was also in the slave facility.
"Are that asshole Raikage and the Kumo council not afraid to become molecules by the Fence-Sitter's Dust Release?"
The Cloud village would not fear reprisal from the Yondaime Hokage because his father was long dead, but Onoki the Third Tsuchikage was still alive and healthy and so were Kurotsuchi's and Sayuri's fathers, who were also formidable opponents. Many of the slaves here were refugees from Water Country and Kumo exploited it. The Namikaze concluded Kumo had gone too far and was completely unforgivable.
The blond used his harem pretext to save and protect as many girls as possible. Hinata remembered that Naruto once confided to her and deeply regretted he could not get all of them out of that facility until the day came. He had taken too many risks and he believed he was watched.
"Hey, Naruto's slaves," Samui and Karui greeted them with little respect. Hinata, Kurotsuchi, Sayuri and Asuka turned around to see them and immediately bowed.
"Hello, Samui-sama and Karui-sama," the girls knew these two Kumo kunoichis were observing them.
"Today Naruto will return home from his ANBU mission, won't he?" Samui asked. She and Karui were trying to ask some questions from his slaves when he was away. "I bet Naruto can't wait to come home to have time with you?"
"Yes. Before he left, he mentioned he will do something on page sixty-nine on the book," Hinata answered with respect. The Hyuuga was told by Naruto to answer that before he was away on his current mission. Samui and Karui both blushed heavily.
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Two Years Ago
It had been three days since Naruto and Omoi had their slaves. B, Samui and Karui were watching their fellow male teammates having kenjutsu spar, wind against lightning. Naruto and Omoi clashed their swords one last time which ended that Omoi's blade broken in half.
Naruto looked at a dent on his katana and sighed. 'Great, even I have to get another sword too, again.'
Despite being able to stop the lightning chakra which vibrated on his opponent's sword with his wind ability, it still came at a cost: his own sword was slightly damaged. The blond had to find a way to solve this problem otherwise he couldn't fight a group of shinobi with lightning release without changing swords in the midst.
"All right, today training is over. Dismiss. We will meet at nine tomorrow morning." B got up and left for home.
As the four students were walking towards a dango shop for some snacks and tea, Naruto produced a book from his pocket and began reading it. Even while walking in the street Naruto's eyes never left his book, and to their amazement he didn't bump into anyone, much like a certain grey-haired Konoha elite jonin.
"What are you reading, Naruto?" A curious Samui asked.
Without a word Naruto gave her his book. She and Karui began to read and soon blushed at the raunchy passages.
"Why the hell are you reading this smut?" Karui shouted and violently threw the book back to the owner who easily caught it and resumed reading. Had Naruto been annoying to them like Omoi, they would have given him a proper beating.
"I've got a slave. This book provides a lot of good ideas how I should do with my slave, I will follow the book to have my time with my slave." Naruto flipped to a certain page with a perverted giggle. "Tonight, I am going to do this with her based on this page."
Omoi read the page then burst out laughing and whistled excitedly. "Erotic massage? WOW. It's not bad. Well, tell you what, tonight I am going to have a…" He didn't finish his words because Samui and Karui punched him and sent him flying to a nearby wall.
"Don't ever talk about it again, neither do you, Naruto." The girls glared at him and they now thought that what Naruto would do with his slave every night based on smut.
'Kami, Naruto has become a pervert pretty much like B-sensei and Omoi.'
"Whatever," Naruto inwardly smiled that he misdirected the Raikage's spies.
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Naruto had asked the girls to just say page numbers in his absence when they were asked by his former teammates. Samui and Karui would get the answers and the hidden meaning, much to their embarrassment and annoyance, and they would not question any further. His slaves wouldn't blush because sex was their job for their master.
Another advantage was that the girls didn't know about the book Naruto and his teammates were talking about: sex. It would slowly remove them from the sex subject and let them focus on the ordinary girl stuff.
The Namikaze cracked their slave identity by giving them normal girl life in his house, while outside they pretended to be slaves. Inside his house, they were given free reins to act and decorate their own respective rooms and were always given normal presents, such as dolls and flowers, every time he returned home from a mission.
However, Naruto stopped to pick up any more slave for a few reasons. More slaves meant more chance of slip of tongue and a possibility the Raikage might place a mole as a slave to spy on him. Kurama totally agreed on both points. When the Kumo leader and H asked Naruto why he did not want to have his fifth slave, the blond answered that he was too busy with ANBU missions and the training to control Kyuubi.
But he would pick up new slaves next time, all of them.
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Midnight, Raikage Tower
Naruto deliberately picked up this time to return to the Cloud village because the Raikage and most of the tower staff were at home and were asleep, except three security ninja guards.
"Fox-san, it is extremely late now," one of the guards said to the blond in his ANBU mask. "The Raikage is asleep, you can meet him in the morning."
"I have an urgent message for Raikage-sama," Naruto spoke in his ANBU tone. "I have to meet him now."
"All right, I will go and get the Raikage. For your health's sake this better be good, Fox-san." The guard was reluctant and fearful of the Raikage's wrath. "You can go to the Raikage Office waiting area."
Good, only two guards left, and ANBU Fox walked into the building and hurried to the waiting area outside of Raikage Office. He would arrive here within three minutes, but the Namikaze had a plan.
The blond created a high-level shadow clone. "I'll stay here as a lookout. You know what to do."
The clone nodded and immediately dashed into the Raikage Office. Once inside the room, the kage bunshin immediately made several hand signs to cast the secret Namikaze space-time technique, which made the time flow inside being twenty times slower than the outside. The Raikage and the original Naruto would come into this office an hour later instead of three minutes.
The Namikaze space-time technique was taught by Kurama to Naruto. Through Kushina he saw Minato demonstrated his Namikaze space-time abilities before. Once the space-time technique was deployed, the clone created 99 extra clones and instructed them to find and read all the classified documents, even secretary Mabui's files. After finishing reading the files and put them back, clones would dispel one by one.
The original Naruto was anxiously waiting outside, nervous at the big risk he was taking now. He stiffened as memories returned to him one by one, firstly the names of culprits in Konoha responsible for the Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident.
'Those stuck-up Hyuuga elders and those civilian councillors…'
'There are extra copies of the classified documents, including top secret intelligence reports on foreign countries, are hidden in the secret basement safe in the archive library. Good, now I know the security seal access code.'
Another memory returned to him. 'Samui and Karui always report nothing unusual on me with my slaves and we all behave accordingly, except I am a hopeless pervert with horny thoughts. They blame this on B-sensei and Omoi. Hehe, good. Let them think it that way.'
Another memory was sent back to him. 'The Raikage's memo written by Mabui... WHAT? The doctors have reported that me, Hinata-chan, Kurotsuchi-chan, Asuka-chan, and Sayuri-chan will complete puberty in exact twelve months. He wishes their pregnancies this year to gain the combined powers of theirs and mine, what an impatient asshole… but fortunately they do not want to risk their pregnancy at 11 years old at half-puberty, because their bloodline limits are the most invaluable. It is also based on the advice from B-sensei, Yugito-sensei and the doctors. The Raikage suspected B's and Yugito's inputs were to protect me from being heartbroken if I lose them at child births. He reluctantly accepted it because I might release Kurama, because even the Hachibi and the Nibi couldn't hold Kurama. But they expect their pregnancies when we complete our puberty, as there are lesser risks in full puberty, otherwise he will give them to other bastards and replace them with new slaves to 'comfort' me. BULLSHIT! FUCK YOU! Anyway, they will give us one month as an ultimatum when the doctors confirm we are ready…'
Memories returned to the original Naruto one by one, and the information he gained became more disturbing.
'This year marks the eighth years of the Raikage's Ten Year Plan… At the start of the tenth year I will have to learn the Flying Thunder God technique and he estimates it will take me one year to master it. Once I do Kumo will-'
"THIS BETTER BE GOOD NARUTO!" The Raikage roared in his Lightning Release Armour as he stormed to the waiting area after breaking the entrance door.
The whiskered blond jumped and immediately snapped to attention. The Cloud leader arrived in his Raiton Armour sooner than expected. The blond ANBU dropped his right knee to salute A.
"Raikage-sama, I have tracked down the target and recovered the object," Naruto was buying time for his clones to return all the files and dispel before they entered the office.
A's scowl turned into a big smile and he turned off his armour. "Oh? Good! Come into my office."
Naruto was extremely reluctant to give this power-hungry bastard another powerful weapon, but he had to in order to gain information and trust. On the Raikage's table lied the head of one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist Raiga Kurosuki and his Kiba swords.
"Excellent! Naruto, you did another great service to the village!" The Kumo leader's foul mood turned 180 degrees, his village had become more powerful with this legendary weapon. "In the morning I will get Mabui to forward Raiga's bounty and a high A-rank mission payment to your account."
ANBU Fox bowed. "Thank you, Raikage-sama."
The Raikage yawned. "Well, we should go home and hit the sack. I will get a guard to store the swords."
The Kumo leader had used and examined the swords to authenticate them before he left them to the guard, but he didn't bother to check the swords' sheaths. Inside the sheaths Naruto hided a small tracker seal and a high explosive seal, the latter which could be remotely detonated at his command.
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Naruto was walking quickly towards his home. "We can't afford to fail our escape, Kurama."
His fox friend agreed. The last information Naruto learnt in the office was that once Naruto mastered the Flying Thunder God technique and he gave the Cloud village babies with Hinata and the other girls… as they were the final phases of the Ten Year Plan, Kumogakure would start a global war.
The Fourth Shinobi World War.
It all made sense to Naruto now, he now knew the purposes of every large-scale military training drill he partook, each which involved at least five thousand shinobi in forest, desert, or beach environment. Kumo had been training her ninjas for wars. And the blond would be made a field general with the Flying Thunder God technique.
The superpower targets on the war plan were Leaf first, then Mist, and lastly Suna. The minor hidden villages would be attacked too, of course. Cloud would use the strategy of Conquer and Assimilate, which forcibly enlisted vanquished villages to its ranks and two to three years later they would march towards Iwagakure, the last and the strongest superpower left, which had the best natural mountain defences. The world would be united under the Kumo's banners.
All would hail A the Raikage. The Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident created the Ten Year Plan, which paved the way to this potential Fourth Great War.
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Naruto's House
Hinata was reading a medical scroll and was waiting for Naruto despite it was very late now. All the girls except her were already in their rooms and asleep.
"The Last Arashi" bought a bigger house when he got his fourth slave, the old house was too small to fit many people.
The house had a basement room, which was the entrance to a secret training ground. Naruto used his secret Namikaze space-time technique to create a dimension and built this training ground for the girls, who had keys to access the dimension. He once said that had they not been kidnapped they would be at Konoha training to be ninjas.
Naruto asked whether Hinata was able to activate her Byakugan which she found she could, and then he asked her what she could see. She answered that she could see through objects and individual's chakra system and some distance. Then he came out with an idea. He provided his shadow clones, which had their own respective chakra system and were used as training dummies before he could acquire actual ones. Hinata started to train with senbons, followed by shuriken and kunai.
She fondly remembered the first weapon throwing training using senbons. He was holding her right forearm and their faces were very close to each other to help her correct her aim and pose to launch senbons properly. The Byakugan girl blushed and found out his hands were very warm, and her heart was beating fast, but the boy didn't notice because he was focused on helping her to become a kunoichi.
Naruto was very patient, and never berated her for any mistake despite his was a powerful high-ranked ninja, unlike in that slave facility and the Hyuuga compound. He would encourage her to do better and to improve with experience. When every time she succeeded, he would congratulate her heartily.
He saved and protected her and the other girls from Kumo and helped them to regain their true identities but who protected Naruto from Kumo? With those gruesome trainings at the age of three, and brutal missions and the tremendous mental stress for the risks he took to protect them, he always persevered and endured. Even during their time in Konoha, he had the courage to challenge and fought her elders. She felt admiration for him, and she wondered if she began to fall for him…
There was a soft sound from the door as not to disturb the sleeping residents, Naruto had came home.
"Welcome home, Naruto-kun," Hinata came to greet him.
"Hinata-chan? Thanks." Naruto was surprised but appreciated her for waiting for him to come home, which warmed his heart. "But why did you stay up so late?"
"I am waiting for you, although you arrived home later than expected, but I killed time by studying up on my medical knowledge."
"Sorry, Hinata-chan, the situation demanded it." Naruto sheepishly apologised while rubbing the back of his head. "I have brought presents for you girls. I will give the presents to Kurotsuchi-chan, Sayuri-chan and Asuka-chan in the morning, but I can give you your present now."
Five minutes later, Naruto displayed his Uzumaki clan's bows and arrows on the dining table. "Hinata-chan, every time we have checked we find that your Byakugan visual range increases as you grow, right? With these and your dojutsu, I will teach you the arts of archery. I am sure you will become one of the most powerful kunoichi in the world. You will one day surpass the legendary Tsunade."
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Next Year, Konoha Academy
Sasuke Uchiha wore his Konoha headband proudly. To him it was considered a step closer to killing his brother and avenging his father and his dead clansmen. To his annoyance, however, he was surrounded and pestered by his fan girls asking for dates, including Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka, the two top kunoichis in his class. The Uchiha just simply ignored them and walked off with an "hn" and his hands in his pockets.
"So cool!" The girls squealed.
Sasuke looked at his other fellow classmates who were from major clans. Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi were chatting while the latter was munching chips. Kiba Inuzuka was playing with his ninken Akamaru. And lastly Shino Aburame was also talking with the mysterious girl Fu. To his relief, the teal-haired girl was the only female classmate who was not a member of the Sasuke Fan Club.
Anyway it's good, one less girl who would distract him from gaining more power. However, he noted Fu had some sort of a "secret admirer," another classmate Sai who was always looking at her.
This pale Sai was another mystery, who always gave people creepy smiles and annoying nicknames. To his annoyance he was always called "dickless" by Sai before the angry fan girls unleashed their fury on him, much to his male classmates' amusement. Ino, on the other hand, was torn between because she was called "gorgeous" while her crush was given an unfavourable nickname.
He walked out of the academy building and saw his mother holding a crutch and waiting for him just like other parents for their children. The crutch was a bitter reminder of that night, which left many of his clansmen dead including his father, and his mother's crippled mobility.
Sasuke Uchiha would one day make his brother pay for this with his life.
"Mum, I am the Rookie of the Year," Sasuke claimed proudly and happily to his mother who smiled proudly for her son's achievement.
"I'm very proud of you, Sasuke-kun!" Mikoto dropped her crutch and kneeled to hug her younger son. "I will cook your favourite meal tonight, Sasuke-kun, let's go home."
As they began to leave, Mikoto turned her head and looked at the academy building one more time, sadly. She dearly wished Hitomi could be too as picking up her daughter and Kushina's son had the abduction not happened.
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Late Evening, Naruto's House
CRASH!
A violent sound just came from Naruto's study room. All the girls rushed to the source of the sound. After the dinner and clean up, the blond went to his study room one hour ago while all the four girls watched television or reading girl magazines and happily enjoyed time together.
Hinata, Kurotsuchi, Sayuri and Asuka were stunned to see the study room: it was a complete mess. A bookshelf in the corner was broken and fell on the floor. All books and scrolls were scattered across the room.
Naruto was sitting in a corner holding his knees and was trembling violently. He was biting his lower lip deeply and it was bleeding. His right hand was clenching tightly on his left chest and was breathing irregularly. He looked like he was desperately trying to prevent something flowing into his heart.
"What happened, Naruto-kun? We are very worried," Hinata was deeply concerned and she walked towards him. He still kept his head down and was silent.
"Naruto-kun…" the Hyuuga's two hands gently lifted his head up, and she gasped when she looked at his eyes. There was no determination, spirit and strength what she admired him for. What used to be in the Namikaze's eyes were replaced with sorrow and grief.
Pain. Hinata realized that he was desperately trying to stop more pain flowing into his heart.
"Kurotsuchi-chan, Sayuri-chan, Asuka-chan, let me talk to Naruto-kun alone," Hinata asked the girls who nodded and left.
"What happened? You can tell me."
He was still silent.
"Please… Naruto-kun."
He was still silent.
"Please… Naruto-kun. I am here with you."
Then Naruto Namikaze broke down and cried in front of her, and she gently wrapped her arms around his body to comfort him. In front of Hinata Hyuuga this man was not a powerful and tough ninja, but a boy in despair and he certainly needed helps. The blond could not stop the tears flowing from his eyes.
"Naruto-kun, please tell me what happened," Hinata said.
Suddenly she was embraced by Naruto. She was surprised and was nearly frozen, but she embraced him in return and he began to explain with tears.
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Thirty Minutes Ago, Naruto's Mindscape
Naruto was discussing the checklist on the escape plan with Kurama. "We will take action on the night of the Kumo's Foundation Day, which is two months later. The Raikage's ultimatum will come in two months too, but we don't need to worry about. We will be long gone by then, and he can go fuck himself then. There will be fireworks, and we can use them as distraction to cover our escape and most of the Kumo ninjas will be relaxing and low on guard. We can take them by surprise. There are many tasks we need to do. I will deploy Mass Shadow Clone Technique."
"Go on," Kurama said.
"The targets to be destroyed: the power plants to cause panic and confusion, the pill plants, the Raikage Tower which serves as a command and communication center, the sperm and eggs storage facility, the Research & Development center, and the Kumo armouries, especially the ones which store explosives and can cause more panic and confusion. The targets to be neutralized, there are several groups of people needed to be neutralized: the Golden Horn Force, the ANBU, the elite jonins, the Raikage, and the Kumo jinchuurikis: B-sensei and Yugito-sensei. The former three always congregate at their respective places on the Foundation Day evening which make it easier to neutralize them altogether. My ANBU status will catch them off guard. The Raikage, B-sensei and Yugito-sensei always stay at their homes… but I'll neutralize them too."
The mention of his two teachers whom he looked up to as big brother and big sister made him feel sad but it had to be done.
"We will need to take the Kumo's confidential documents, especially about the abductions, and the powerful weapons they put in the safe, including the Mist Kiba swords and my father's Hiraishin kunai. Most importantly liberate the slaves, and our friends will gather their families. After leaving the evacuation tunnel, we will rendezvous with Honoka-chan and Tayuya-chan at the Lightning Country's southern port with the ship. I will go and check up with them one month later under the guise of a mission."
Three months after going to Uzushio, Naruto ran into them respectively during missions while the ruby radiated and heated as it detected an Uzumaki. The common trait of Uzumaki was their red hairs. The boy rejoiced to find his fellow Uzumaki survivors and had asked them to dye their red hair to hide their Uzumaki identities, and then entrusted them the safe houses and a big ship he bought.
"Lastly, yesterday I dumped the water supply with certain ingredients, it was harmless, but not with the ingredients in the male and female fertility pills. Combining the ingredients from two sources would turn takers sterile. I have told the girls and our friends prior to stop taking the fertility pills; otherwise they will be sterile too. They are the first priority targets. That's pretty much all." Naruto concluded, while Kurama just yawned and was impressed what the boy would do.
"Kid, what you are going to do will make us Tailed Beast look good." The fox grinned.
"Those motherfuckers have it coming. Besides, I only destroy their infrastructures and minimize the casualty."
"Too bad I can't see that the Raikage's face when he realizes you put those stuff in his exclusive vitamin supply." Kurama laughed and Naruto smiled mischievously.
"Talking about the growth pills, you and the girls have reached complete puberty."
"Yeah."
Naruto and Hinata and the other girls Kurotsuchi, Sayuri and Asuka all had recently completed puberty. Now Naruto was 166 centimeters tall, and Hinata was 160 centimeters and she had grown a long hair to her waist. All the other girls were over 160 centimeters tall too.
"Don't you wanna spend some time with her now? Hinata has a feeling for you in case you haven't realized it yet. Just look at how much she cares for you and every time she blushes when you are close. I can see you have begun to have the same feeling for her, I understand, since you two have been together and very close very long. Well, I can teach you a technique not to impregnate your girlfriend. I will close my sense connection with you. You can have your own little privacy." The fox was grinning.
"Ero-Kurama," Naruto muttered with red face. "She is not even my girlfriend."
"Well, you can ask her to be, I am sure she will agree. You want a family, don't you?"
Naruto blushed again, yes, he did want a family… but that's too embarrassing and he wanted to change the topic, then there was an idea came into Naruto's mind.
"Kurama, there was one question I kept forgetting to ask you."
"Oh? What is it?"
"I know my parents died sealing you into me, did they have some last words to me?"
Kurama's eyes widened. The fox always dreaded this that Naruto would bring up this question, and it finally came.
"Yes." He answered vaguely and honestly for that Naruto could detect lies. "Minato and Kushina said they loved you very much."
"Is that all? Well, I wanted to see their final words to me in visual! Can I access this part of your memories to know what they told me, please?"
"NO!" Kurama rejected fervently. "There is no need."
"Kurama, I want to see it and why there is no need?" Naruto wondered at his fox friend. "I know my parents died sealing you into me, and I don't blame you. So what are you afraid of?"
Naruto only knew the vague detail that his parents died sealing the Kyuubi no Kitsune into him, but he didn't know the specific detail. The fox didn't want the boy to see his parents' bloody dying moment, because he had a hand, no, a claw, on his parents' death. He feared he would lose Naruto's friendship and he would turn to hate him.
"Fine, when we get back I will ask the Hokage if there was any other witness there, and I'll get a Yamanaka's help to provide me a visual." Naruto pouted about his alternative way and Kurama's eyes widened again.
'There is no way to hide the fact,' the fox sighed. It couldn't be helped and it's better sooner than later to know it. He had to be honest to the boy, otherwise he would lose his trust and friendship.
"Well, touch my left hand and I will let you see it…" The fox reluctantly offered his left hand. He was about to show Naruto the cruellest fact in his life.
"Thank you very much Kurama!" The blond smiled and extended his hand to the fox.
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"I am so sorry for your loss, Naruto-kun," Hinata offered her condolence.
The jinchuuriki heard Kurama kept apologizing for his actions that caused his parents' death. "I am so sorry, Naruto. I'm very sorry that I killed your parents…"
"No, Kurama, you don't need to apologize, you were not responsible for my parents' death." Naruto spoke, and both Hinata and Kurama could listen, and he looked at the ceiling while tears were still flowing down his whiskered cheeks.
"Your claw attack didn't kill my parents because they were already dead. Mum was dying when you were ripped out of her by that bastard Madara Uchiha, and dad was already dead using the Dead Reaper Seal which took his soul. They just used their dying bodies to shield me." Naruto sniffled. "And I can understand why you wanted to kill me, for freedom. If I were you, I'd do the same thing. I don't blame you Kurama, for real. I blame Madara Uchiha for all the miseries he caused to me and the Konoha villagers. If he didn't do this, my parents wouldn't be taken away from me and many families won't be broken… The villagers wouldn't blame you and me."
Kurama remained silent, but he lowered his head apologetically and thankfully for Naruto's forgiveness. Naruto took Hinata's right hand and place it on his face as it could calm him down. She used her right hand to stroke his face and comforted him and she wiped away his tears with her left hand.
"I finally know my parents' last words to me, Hinata-chan. They also talked about girl, a girlfriend…" Naruto smiled sadly. "I am so glad to have you by my side, Hinata-chan. You saved me from loneliness and filled the hole in my heart..."
"Me too. You changed me, and you saved me from that horrible fate and you saved my soul, Naruto-kun." Hinata smiled and he lavender eyes became glassy.
"I know I will have to ask your parents, especially your father, but will you be my girlfriend when we get back to Konoha?"
"Yes, I am very happy to be your girlfriend, Naruto-kun."
"I love you." Both said the three little words. The sky-blue eyes met the pale-lavender eyes, and they kissed passionately.
Naruto was emotionally exhausted. Hinata helped him walked back to his bedroom, and put him on his bed, and put a sleeping seal on him to let him have a long peaceful sleep. She kissed his lips and left his bedroom and went back to talk to the other girls before went to clean the study room.
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Two Months Later, Late Night (Eve of the Kumogakure's Foundation Day), Naruto's Bedroom
It's very late now, all the residents in the house were supposed to be asleep, because tomorrow was going to be their big day. Except Naruto who was finalizing the plan with Kurama.
"Tomorrow there will be fireworks for the Kumo's Foundation Day and we will provide extra fireworks, in our way and for free." Naruto smirked. Kurama smiled and laughed.
For all the victims Kumo made suffer, Naruto Namikaze would unleash his Wind of Justice and liberate the Kumo slaves tomorrow evening.
"Nervous?" Kurama could see his host's uneasiness.
"Kind of, yes. Some of the plans are not always carried out perfectly in their intended ways, you know." The whiskered blond replied in deep thought, based on his past mission experience.
"Relax, kid, everything will be fine. We have planned this for years."
"Kurama, I have a favour to ask from you."
"What is it?" The nine-tailed fox raised an eyebrow at the seriousness at his host's tone.
"In case the escape somehow fails, and we are surrounded and are about to be recaptured by the Kumo forces, I will release you. Promise me you will protect and help the people and take them to safety, especially Hinata-chan. I really want Madara Uchiha to answer for his crimes too, but the people are more important. Also, please incinerate my body lest any Namikaze-Uzumaki serves this despicable village."
Kurama was shocked and stood up in disbelief. "You gotta be joking, Naruto! We will definitely succeed!"
Naruto looked at the fox with a very solemn expression. "No, I'm not joking. There is no guarantee this plan will 100% succeed, especially it was against the most powerful village with its kage and two powerful jinchuurikis: B-sensei and Yugito-sensei in case I fail to neutralize them. If I am recaptured, I will be tortured and executed eventually, and you will be extracted from me and put into another host. I will die slowly in the extraction process like mum, but they will then immediately execute me and will definitely desecrate my body. Releasing you at least guarantees most of the people freedom and safety, and you will be free too. It's a better way and I consider it a contingency plan and a failsafe."
"NO!" Kurama refused. "What about Hinata?"
"I know she will be heartbroken, but at least she will be safe. We do have a very high chance to succeed this escape plan, but something might go wrong, because we carry out this plan quite prematurely, you know. This is the last resort to save the people. When the plan fails, I am dead either way, but at least this last resort is better. So, promise me… I already have many chances to escape here by myself, and I can even do it only with Hinata-chan, but I can't leave these innocent people behind to suffer while Kumo hides them then denies these horrible crimes. Please, Kurama, I ask you this as a friend."
"Fine…" Kurama reluctantly agreed and muttered. "But I am sure the escape will succeed…"
"Thank you."
Since his father the Rikudo Sennin, Kurama had never seen someone who cared so much about other people and their well-beings, even people whom he did not know.
'What!?' The fox was surprised to see his father's silhouette flashed behind the blond. He blinked again, and it's gone.
There was a soft knock on Naruto's room and the jinchuuriki left his mindscape to greet the guest at the door.
"Hinata-chan?" Naruto was surprised when he opened the door and the Hyuuga was wearing a nightdress. "Aren't you supposed to be sleeping now? You know what tomorrow we will be doing."
"Yes, I know, Naruto-kun," Hinata gently closed the room door and hugged Naruto tightly and got up on her toes as she kissed him. "I want to stay with you here tonight."
"What?"
"I am very nervous about tomorrow… If the escape fails and we are to be recaptured, promise me Naruto-kun, you will use your Katon to destroy me to spare me the fate and prevent Kumo from gaining the Byakugan. And… I want to spend tonight with you, Naruto-kun." There were little red shades on her cheeks.
"Everything will be fine, Hinata-chan. Don't worry!" Inwardly Naruto was surprised. Hinata was also anxious about tomorrow and wanted to escape the horrible fate if the escape went wrong.
"I love you," Hinata kissed Naruto on the lips again. "And I don't want to have any regret in my life."
She took a step back and revealed that she was not wearing anything underneath her nightdress and let it fall to the floor, revealing her naked beautiful womanly body.
Naruto stared at Hinata's smooth white skin and her perfectly curved body. With his hormones and lust overwhelmed him, he hugged her lovingly and one of his hands began to gently stroke her long dark blue hair.
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Naruto Namikaze and Hinata Hyuuga were making love. Had Naruto not activated his privacy seal in his room, other girls in the house would certainly wake up by their sounds.
Kurama kept his promise by shutting down his sense connection as not to infringe his host's privacy. Naruto used the pregnancy prevention technique that was taught by the fox.
On the bed and under the sheet, Naruto's strong body was on top of Hinata's, and his chest rubbed against her breasts. The sky-blue eyes were meeting the pale lavender eyes, then their lips connected as Naruto and Hinata kissed lovely and passionately. They caressed each other's body gently, feeling every curve and muscle of each other's body. As they continued their embarrassment and nerviness gradually vanished to be replaced with desire and trust.
When Hinata was ready, Naruto pushed through inside her and she let out a moan in pain and a few tears came out of her eyes. Their bodies became one and they fit each other perfectly. The Namikaze continued thrusting inside the Hyuuga's body as they consumed each other's emotions and loves allowing themselves to forget their fear of what tomorrow might bring. When they both hit their peak, they were both drenched with sweat and were panting heavily. Their eyes met again.
"I love you Hinata-chan."
"I love you Naruto-kun."
Holding each other close; they both fell asleep on the bed. This was a night for Naruto Namikaze and Hinata Hyuuga to remember, and no matter what happened tomorrow they would have no regret.
Tomorrow they would be free, in one way or another.
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Author Notes:
*The Third Kumo Jinchuuriki Arc ends here, and it begins another Arc. In the next chapter Naruto would unleash his Wind of Justice on Kumo for their crimes after the "fireworks", to make it bigger.
*Minato's and Kushina's chakra were a failsafe when Naruto almost broke the seal in canon. Here they were redundant.
*Due to the growth acceleration drug they took, Naruto and Hinata now had bodies similar in Shippuden.
*Hinata would not be pregnant, or she would not be able to play important role in the future chapters. Canon Kurenai was pregnant and became unavailable to lead Team Eight.