HunterX097: Okay, this is the new chapter of Naruto: Ashikabi no Monogatari. After chapter 2 was published, I received your comments and I'm glad that you guys like my story and ideas about Sekirei for our cute blond hero. I saw some reviews that told me about making Karasuba one of Naruto's Sekirei, but I'm sorry to inform you I have to dismiss it because I have my plan for Karasuba and she will be the villain. I'm thinking if I should let Kuu-chan be his Sekirei because I honestly say that I like her and her deadly adorability very much! xD

In this story, Naruto wasn't godlike. Yeah, he's surely stronger than most of all Sekireis but it's been a little rough for him to confront Miya or a Sekirei group including Miya or Karasuba or Yume because Kurama's not with him anymore, but he won't lose them. You know it requires more than only raw power to get our unpredictable ninja xD

Anyways, have fun with reading and don't forget to leave your reviews if you have any ideas

Disclaimer: I own nothing. All rights go to Masashi Kishimoto and Sakurako Gokurakuin.

Yume was so confused as she was watching the scene in front of her. The reason for that was that Naruto got on a stool and pull and rip then shred what looked like a piece of paper off of each corner of the room. Sekirei No.08 really wanted to ask him, but she hesitated to disturb him while he was busy.

"Alright, I think I got all the seals off." Naruto said to himself as he looked around just to make sure. When he saw there were none left, he nodded his head in satisfaction as if agreeing with his work. The blond then turned around, he was greeted with the sight of his Sekirei staring at him intently, "Oh hey, you're done packing already?" He asked as he looked over to see that the whole apartment seemed spotless and their things were put in an extremely large bag causing his eye to go as wide as dinner plates, 'Is she going to travel with that kind of bag?' He thought with a sweatdrop.

Looking back to Yume who seemed to be still waiting for an explanation, Naruto had to fight the urge to facepalm. Great. He nearly forgot that she was also in the room while he was so focused on cleaning his seals up.

"Well, It's a hobby." He stated with a sheepish grin.

It was obvious that Yume didn't believe at all, but at this point, she wasn't going to push him for answers if he had a secret. After all, everyone has things that they kept private from the others, and Sekirei No.08 didn't want to upset her Ashikabi.

As for Naruto, it wasn't like the former shinobi wanted to hide her, he just wasn't sure how to explain it, "Okay I know you're itching to get an answer for this, but please promise me you won't tell anyone of what you see and I promise I will tell you later okay." After getting the nod from the girl, he walked over to the extremely large luggage and pulled out a storage scroll.

Placing it on the floor near the bags, the blond man held up a weird hand sigh and whispered quietly, "Fũin." The bag immediately disappeared in smoke as it went into the scroll that Naruto was now rolling up.

Yume gawked at what just happened in front of her. Was that a magic trick? No, didn't seem like it. Then what was that? Looks like her Ashikabi wasn't really a normal human as he appeared, and she doubted there were still many things he hid under his sleeves on purpose, but because Naruto promised he would explain it later so the Sekirei asked nothing more.

After they finished cleaning the apartment, Naruto and Yume got changed their clothes. The blond got for himself dark blue pants and shirt with a flak jacket over it, there was a distinctive short white sleeve which had red edges and a red vortex symbol on it on his left arm. Looking over at Yume, Naruto saw her changing back into her original outfit: tight black leather top, black gloves, black mini skirt, and stockings, with a set of sandals and a pair of fighting gloves that had the numbers '08' on it to finish the look.

Man, Yume really looked very hot and cool in those clothes, as a beautiful lady warrior though she was really a one.

"Shall we go, Naruto-sama?" Naruto nodded his head before picking up the black and orange backpack, "Ah, let me take it for you." The Sekirei offered, but he waved his hand dismissively.

"Nah, it's okay, just some personal items. By the way..." He then grabbed her hand, "I would prefer your hand to take this more." He stated with a playful wink.

Yume's cheeks turned pink, "Naruto-sama..." She smiled slightly, holding his hand in her one tightly. She was very happy now.

Maison Izumo

"So Uzume, where have you been the last two days?" Miya asked as she placed two cups of tea on the table for herself and a beautiful young woman with long brown hair in a ponytail on her left side, she was wearing a form-fitting pink and violet shirt with a golden star on the front and Capri jeans that hugged her hips.

Uzume just sighed to herself as she laid her head tiredly on the table, then took a glance at her tea and decided it would be better to not waste it, so she picked it up and brought it towards her mouth.

"I've been looking for my Ashikabi." She answered as she gulped down a bit of tea before continuing. "Also Mikogami has been getting much bolder lately since he winged No.05." She stated with a scowl as she placed the cup back on the table

"Mikogami? You mean Hayato Mikogami?" Uzume nodded her head, "I don't know Mutsu is the Ashikabi of the South's Sekirei."

"You wouldn't believe it, but he was one of the two Sekirei that actually reacted to him." Uzume replied with a huff as she laid her head back on the table to relax, "The others, of course, were winged against their wills from what I learned about and saw in my own eyes."

Miya slightly frowned at what she just heard. It was one of the things she had been worried about since the bastard Minaka had launched his sick game. Some Ashikabis that got for themselves powerful Sekireis started hunting unwinged Sekireis down and forcibly took them. Two examples of this were Hayato Mikogami aka the Ashikabi of the South, and Izumi Higa aka the Ashikabi of the East.

"How long has Mutsu been with him?" The landlady of Maison Izumo asked, then thought of something else, "And how do you even know about this?" She added on to her question.

Uzume just kept her head looking down at the table, "He tried to capture me, but I got away with Homura. He also let slip that he was doing this for Mikogami and that he was winged only a few weeks ago."

Miya nodded her head in understanding, then her eyes softened as she looked towards the brunette who had yet to move her head.

"Why couldn't you come home at night? I've been worried about you Uzume I thought something might have happened." Uzume just kept her head on the table as she just barely moved her head so Miya could see the disdain dancing through her eyes.

"Miya, I've been out of MBI for almost a year now and I still have yet to find my Ashikabi and some of the others have found theirs when they have only been out for a couple of months." She said as she put her head back down on the table so the purple-haired woman couldn't see her tears. "It just seems like my Ashikabi doesn't want me or maybe he's not even here." She sobbed out as she cried for a few minutes she didn't even notice that Miya had come to her side of the table and was hugging her.

"It's okay I'm sure you'll find him eventually just look at Homura, Kazehana, and Matsu. They've been out for two years and they still have yet to find their Ashikabi." Miya consoled softly as she continued to hug Uzume in order to calm her down.

They stayed like this for a few minutes till Uzume pushed Miya back a bit, "I'm going to go take a nap." She stated quietly as she pushed herself off the ground and slowly walked up the stairs to her room, leaving Miya behind.

The landlady watched Uzume leaving, then breathed out a sigh before going to prepare the room for her new tenants today.

After several minutes, once Miya just finished cleaning up the room, she heard someone knocking on the door. She quickly went downstairs and opened the door, just to see a smiling Naruto and his companion, Yume. Once again, the bright smile of the blond young man caused Miya to blush a bit but quickly hid it as she smiled at both of them.

"Yo, we're back!" Naruto announced cheerfully as he greeted her.

Miya giggled into her hand as she nodded her head, "I've been expecting you two, Naruto-san, Yume-san" She said while waving slightly the hataki she was holding towards the inside of the house, "Come in. I'll show you to your rooms now." She allowed her new tenants to walk into her Inn.

Once Naruto and Yume were all inside, the landlady closed the door, "Your room is on the 2nd floor." She led them up the stairs to the rooms she had available, "This is where you will be staying, Naruto-san, Yume-san. I cleaned it before you came." She stated, showing them a room labeled '202', "Breakfast is at seven in the morning, sharp, lunch is served at twelve noon, and dinner is at six in the evening. All are included in your rent."

The blond set the bags on the floor and looked around. The room wasn't really all that dirty, just a little dust that accumulated for the day. It was a fairly plain room, with a green tatami floor, white paper walls, a closet with a wooden door, and two windows. It was simple but nice.

"Thank you," He said, turning to Miya with a smile, "I appreciate all you've done for Yume-chan and me."

Miya giggled behind her hand. "There's no need to thank me. I was more than happy to set you up, and it will be nice to have more company around here." She then blinked, "Is that all your stuff?" She asked as she looked at his backpack

"Yup, we don't have much," Naruto said with a sheepish grin, "Most of the apartments I rented have furniture along with household items, so everything in that backpack is all of our valuables. Man, I suppose I and Yume-chan will have to go shopping later." He added as he shyly scratched the back of his head.

Next to him, Yume just silently observed her Ashikabi and No.01 without saying anything. Of course, Naruto would want to keep whatever he had already done to their stuff a secret, and he didn't really lie. That backpack indeed contained their stuff, or rather, it was full of weird scrolls, and one of them held all their possessions. She wondered what the others were for exactly. Were all of them using for storing everything? Or were they some kind of tricks of Naruto? The more she thought about it, the more mystery she got from him.

Miya was a bit doubtful at Naruto's reason as both of them had only a backpack, though it was quite large. However, she decided to let it pass as she once again giggled behind her hand, "Anyways, I'll leave you two alone while you get settled in. Once the dinner is ready, I will call you two" After a short bow, she left the room.

When the door closed behind the landlady, Naruto waited until he heard her footsteps disappear, then started opening his backpack and taking out the scroll that stored the bag containing all of their belongings. Yume just sighed as she watched her Ashikabi hold his hands in the weird hand sign, and the scroll emitted a puff of smoke before the large bag appeared in front of them. It didn't stop there as the blond man continued to walk up to each corner of the room and slapped a piece of paper on each of them.

"Okay, Naruto-sama I won't ask much, but can you at least tell me what those papers are?" She questioned while unpacking their things from the bag.

Naruto turned to her Sekirei with a grin, "Would you believe me if I tell you that they keep all sound from exiting this room and they keep anyone from entering besides the people I allow at the time?" Yume, of course, shook her head negatively. She had never seen or heard of papers doing what he said, "Alright, they're just a hobby of mine."

"Mou, and you promised you would explain to me." Yume said with a pout.

"And they really do exactly as I say." His joky expression now shifted into seriousness, which completely got her attention, "Same with the scroll I used for storing our belongings, all of them were collectively known as Fuinjutsu (Sealing Techniques)."

"Fuinjutsu?" Yume said, tilting her head in confusion.

Naruto breathed out a sigh, he would just have to keep his explanation simple and brief, "You can understand it's a set of techniques that seal objects, living beings, etc... along with a wide variety of other things within another object." Yume widened her eyes in surprise as he kept on telling, "That's not all. Fuuinjutsu can also be used to restrict movement, sound, living creature, or unseal objects either from within something or someone. That's what I can say or you will find it hard to understand much more if I continue."

"So...there's more to it?" Naruto mentally chuckled at her dumb expression. He should have expected it.

"Yup, but they're very complicated, and there are very many things about Fuinjutsu that I don't know. However, they're very useful in my daily life at least." He then gave her a firm look as he gently grabbed her shoulders, "Yume, what I just talked to you is something I haven't tell anyone. You're my Sekirei, my partner, so you have the right to know everything about me. Yes, everything I mean. However, it will take some time to explain all of them, so please be patient and I will tell you little by little, and I also need you to keep these under wraps. You know what we will risk if someone knows. Do you understand?"

Yume saw how serious her Ashikabi was about this, and she fully knew it would cause a big commotion if someone saw or heard about whatever he had done. However, it also demonstrated that Namikaze Naruto indeed wasn't a normal human, and there was still much that was unknown about his abilities, but that didn't matter, he was still her Ashikabi, her destined one. It was this man who was gentle with, accepted, cared for, put faith in her. Yume would never betray his trust.

"I see, Naruto-sama, I will never reveal your secret to anyone." She promised with determination.

Naruto pleasingly beamed at her, "I know you will, my cute little Sekirei." He stated as he patted her head gently, "Alright, I think we quickly get settled everything in the room and then take a rest until Miya-san calls us for the dinner."

"Hai, Naruto-sama." Yume replied as she helped Naruto to organize their room. While unpacking their stuff, she caught he was staring into space, "Is something wrong?" Naruto shook his head.

"Nothing." He answered merely, "I'm just thinking the room is cleaned up perfectly. In my previous places, I mostly had to tidy up a bit because landlords didn't really care for cleaning for rooms or apartments for new residents."

Yume nodded her head without an ounce of doubt before going on setting up everything. Unknown to her, Naruto soon found out something interesting in their room they shared together: no less than ten small hidden cameras and fifteen small listening devices. He then went back to when he had gone upstairs and got an odd feeling from the wall near the way down. Now he was sure there was a secret room there.

'Luckily, I secretly put a basic genjutsu as a failsafe, or someone in that room could have seen what I did via their devices. Well, trying to spy on a man trained by perhaps the greatest spymaster of all time? Not necessarily the best of choices.' Naruto mentally smirked with a smug before becoming thoughtful, 'This is Miya-san's inn, there's no chance she doesn't know about that secret room and its tenant, but she doesn't say anything. Maybe I should keep it quiet for a while, at least until that person came out in person' He thought as he rubbed his chin, 'Now what should I do to solve those toys? Destroying them seems to be too easy. Well, maybe I just remove listening devices at first...' He then silently glanced at Yume, '...when there's only me here.'

A few hours later, dinner time

'Why do I forget this?' Naruto groaned in thought while he was facepalming in embarrassment as he witnessed the scene in front of him.

His Sekirei, Yume, was enjoying the dinner...at an amazingly, disturbingly fast pace without even caring that there were others around her as if she had been starved for years and years.

"This is so good!" The Sekirei exclaimed with anime tears streaming down her eyes.

Miya hid her smiling mouth gracefully behind her kimono sleeve and giggled while the white-haired man who was the other tenant just raised an eyebrow, only sparing the girl a brief moment of his attention before beginning to eat his food.

"It's so delicious! This is one of the best meals ever!" Yume absently spoke up while still chewing the food.

"Don't speak with your mouth full." Miya chided the girl as she used her chopsticks to take some food into her own mouth.

Yume looked abashed but she didn't slow down the pace of her eating. She did stop once, however, just enough to say, "sorry," before she went back to her food.

"This is so embarrassing." Naruto muttered with a sigh while still hiding his face in his palm, before turning around to the landlady, "Sorry about my companion, Miya-san. She is just a little...so starving..."

"Ara, it's okay. I'm glad my new tenant likes my cooking. I'm worried it doesn't suit the taste." Miya replied with a sweet smile.

Naruto nodded his head with a forced smile as his eyes caught sight of the other occupant sitting with them. A young man that he felt was perfectly matched the description of a Bishonen pretty boy. He had messy white hair, brown eyes, and that really lithe body type that most pretty boys had.

"Can I help you?" The man asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I don't think we were introduced yet." Naruto said, before putting on a smile and making to introduce himself. "I'm Namikaze Naruto! It's a pleasure to meet you!" He said cheerfully.

The white-haired man chuckled a little, "I'm Kagari, nice to meet you, Naruto-san..."

"I'm Yume. Nice to meet you too, Kagari-san." Yume replied with a smile.

Just then the sound of footsteps came from down the hall, "Ah, I'm so hungry." A voice whined, making Naruto look up. His eyes widened comically while his face was slowly turning red. The cause was due to a girl standing at the entrance to the room, wearing only white panties and leaving her large breasts on display.

That was none other than Uzume.

"Oh, we have visitors." Uzume said with a sleepy tone.

"Uzume, how many times have I told you not to come out of your room dressed like that?" Kagari spoke out with a sigh

"At least I'm in panties now." Uzume countered in a way that said she really didn't care if anyone saw her naked as she looked over at visitors before her eyes stopped at the figure of Yume, "Yu-onee-sama!" She yelled in surprise.

Yume smiled slightly at her, "Long time no see, Uzu-chan. I'm glad you still recognize me as you were only 7 in the last time we met." She stated.

"You two know each other?" Naruto asked his Sekirei.

"Hai, she's my junior, Naruto-sama. Her name is..." The brown-haired girl interrupted Yume.

"Uzume. Pleased to meet you." She introduced as she looked straight into the blond man's eyes until she averted her eyes with a blush forming, 'No way...' She thought to herself

Naruto simply raised an eyebrow at the girl's strange reaction but he let it pass, "I'm Namikaze Naruto. Very pleased to meet you, Uzume-san." He introduced with a smile, "By the way, Yume-chan and I aren't visitors. We're your new housemates."

"Really? Awesome!" Uzume exclaimed as the blush quickly disappeared on her face, "You'll find that this is a pretty nice place. The only problem is that this place is kind of beat up and worn down, which means only crazies and weirdos live here, so we're always looking for more normal tenants." She gave the two new tenants a playful wink.

"Oh really?" A certain beautiful landlady asked as an odd sense of dread and death filled the air with a Hannya-looking mask creeping up behind her, which scared the hell out of the other except Naruto who only looked amused at it.

'Is that a Genjustsu...Kai...no it's not. How is she doing that?' He then looked over at his Sekirei who now was scared to death while holding his arm and burying her face into it, 'Even Yume-chan eh?' He thought with a sweatdrop before glancing at Miya, 'However, to be honest, that's more than enough to put a good scare in anyone, even the ones with the steel that their souls have. As evidence of that, every Sekirei in here turns pale at that...' An idea suddenly popped into his head, 'I wonder what she will think if the only human doesn't get any on her illustration...good idea for a new prank!' A mischievous smirk slowly spread out on his face.

Although Naruto now was pretty calmer, wiser, and more mature in his thoughts and actions, it didn't mean he got rid of the side of an infamous prankster from him. He then picked up his chopsticks and casually enjoyed the delicious meal, totally ignoring the deadly aura filling up the room.

"Uzume-san~" Miya called again with a sickly sweet smile as she didn't receive any reply

"Uwah! I mean...because this place has so much character we need a variety of types." Uzume corrected herself hastily.

"That's what I think."

With that, the feeling of dread and the demonic visage vanished from the air, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief...before diverting their attention to the former shinobi who was currently eating his food impartially.

"Yes?" He asked between his chewing, pretending not to know anything, he was having a blast inside though.

"How the hell could you eat in such a situation, bro?" Uzume asked in disbelief.

Naruto tilted his head in a (fake) confusion, "Did something funny just happen?" He asked innocently.

The rest of the people in the room looked at the blond like he had grown a second head. Was he really serious he didn't know what just happened!? Didn't he really sense Miya's fearsome aura or the terrifying demon just appearing!?

Miya blinked at Naruto, surprised that he seemed completely unaffected by her Hannya mask and malicious aura before she slightly twitched as she heard his pretty innocent question. Funny? Was that ponytail man implying her mask funny!? Was he not afraid of her visage or aura!?

Naruto, meanwhile, was mentally laughing his ass off when he saw the reaction of the people in the room, especially the purple-haired landlady. Of course, he wasn't going to stop his prank as he had a lot of incredible ideas for messing with the tenants of Maison Izumo and the landlady in his mind.

'It will be very interesting in these latter days.' He thought with a slight grin.