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Chapter 47: Do Unto Others

"Thanks." Chun-Li muttered to Cammy as the latter assisted her walking up the hill to the main mansion of the Kanzuki property, "Damn it, she loves destroying places doesn't she?" She had a fairly significant limp in her step and seemed to be covered in one way or another by the dust of building debris, "How many buildings is this now?"

"Four." Cammy replied weakly, "…Four that we know of anyway."

"That is one dangerous bitch."

"She would be more so if she actually checked her work after she was done."

Really, bringing down the whole security building onto their heads just to prove a point? Was she thinking that by itself would kill them? Granted, it came awfully close, but even with the chunks of the entire building coming down to crush them, Cammy could dodge a gunshot from point-blank range and had the best natural reflexes in the world more than likely.

Even if it had buried them, would that really have killed them? Maybe, but there was a better chance that they would have just been horribly injured instead. It wasn't like they were just average women walking around town. They might as well have been made of iron.

As they reached the entrance nearest to where they could have gotten into the house from, they already saw Sakura out front, sitting down on the stairs with her face in her hands until she noticed them coming and popped up to run over to them.

"Oh thank goodness you two are okay." The beleaguered teenager said in relief as she looked them over and noted their rather rough condition, "You didn't run into Seth too did you?"

"No. It was Juri again." Chun-Li said as she now had Sakura's help as well to get her somewhere to sit down, on the grand steps in front of the Kanzuki mansion, "Cammy and I made her angry enough to release all of her ki and she tore down the building we were in."

"She killed all of the mercenaries contracted as bodyguards for the family that we saw inside of the command post." Cammy reported as Chun-Li started rubbing her leg and seeing how far she could straighten it out to gauge how much damage she'd taken, "I can't stand that woman."

Chun-Li sharply inhaled through her teeth after finding the limit that she could hold her injured leg out to before looking to Sakura. She remembered that they'd all split up to handle different portions of the threat, "Where's Batsu? What happened here?"

"All of the bodyguards here aren't dead, but the ones that aren't are all in pretty bad shape." Sakura said with a deep frown, "Batsu got banged up pretty bad, between the car crash and trying to take on Seth..." She didn't know what Seth was, but he couldn't have been human.

He might have been the scariest bad guy she'd run across so far, not just in terms of what he was capable of, but more than that. Every person she'd ever been pitted against happened to be scary for their own reasons.

Bison was scary because of the sheer power and ingenuity he possessed to enhance it further. Between his Psycho Power, the Psycho Drive that magnified it, and the satellite he'd possessed that he could have used to snipe out any town in the world that he saw fit that would have been enough by itself.

Not only that, but he had been the quintessential psychopath. He was scary because of how brutal he was. It was simple, primal, barbaric fear that he inspired in her.

Rolento of Mad Gear was scary because he was a man with vision and with a legitimate plan that came dangerously close to coming to fruition. If they had never chosen to use Aohura City as a training ground and if Naruto had never woken up from his coma when he did, he truly might have taken over Japan.

What made him dangerous was that he was a zealot for his own cause. He drank his own kool-aid and he truly believed the things that he told his followers. That kind of belief in one's own cause was inherently charismatic, and attracted thousands to fight for him until he was killed and Mad Gear fell apart. He was emotional. Explosively emotional and let his impulses fuel his planning, which made them effective until the monkey wrench of a group of teenage powerhouses happened to be thrown into his machine.

But Seth was scary in his own way. He was more powerful than Rolento and Mad Gear with S.I.N. at his back, more powerful himself than Bison in theory if he could honestly copy so many things with nothing but the assimilation of the ki of others. Even without doing so, he had the raw power to destroy them to begin with.

And perhaps the most terrifying thing was that unlike the others he was driven by… nothing. No purpose inspired by something he wanted. He didn't seem to have any opinion emotionally to what he was doing. He was like an android or something, but he was alive. Sakura couldn't understand his energy either.

There was nothing there for her to feel, but not like Gouken's energy. With Seth she couldn't even sense a void. It was like trying to feel ki from a car. She didn't know what to feel for in order to gauge his power.

Speaking of sensing things, Sakura tried to extend her senses outward and smiled brightly when she felt three more familiar signatures coming their way. Thank goodness the others were okay. But the smile faded when she didn't pick out Karin's with them, 'Oh no.'

And coming over the crest of the hill she could see the irritable gnashing of Naruto's teeth as he stomped his way up to them and plopped down on the stairs, tearing off his gloves and even undoing his leaf headband.

He was covered in the black gunk again, and seemed overtly pissed off, probably for any one of several reasons. The most glaring of which would probably be the fact that he looked like he'd rolled around in charcoal-colored paint, the most severe of which would probably be the fact that Karin was gone.

"Did we lose again?" Cammy bluntly asked, ignoring or not picking up on the heaviness of the situation.

"Yes Cam, we lost again." Naruto droned, rubbing his hair wildly with his hands. Technically this was his first loss to these people, but right now he didn't care enough to be a smartass and correct her for his ego's sake. His ego was already pretty busted already, "…Gonna shove a Rasengan up that shiny bastard's ass and get Rin-Rin back."

He just had to figure out how first. When Guile had pulled him out of the crater he'd smashed into the ground out of anger, he first started to calm him by saying that he had connections that were going to track the aircraft that had escaped as far as it could.

That wasn't enough though. Guile had told him that to get him to chill out, this Naruto knew, and that meant that there had to be something that they could actively do to find out where to go to tear a piece out of Seth as soon as possible.

Heavy footsteps got everyone attention to the top of the stairs where a slightly wounded Batsu was being assisted down the stairs by Karin's attendants Ishizaki and Shibazaki, "Easy now Ichimonji-san." The bespectacled steward said as the wild-haired boy cringed with every step he took.

"Burning Vigor mode didn't do jack against him." Batsu muttered once he got low enough on the staircase for them to sit him down to rest, "Ah… he walked through my attacks and didn't even let me bust out the bigger ones."

"Same." Naruto said sadly, getting and giving a fist bump from his old friend for their shared misfortune in fighting Seth, "At least you had attacks. I had one attack. Then he chewed me up and spat me out."

"It couldn't have been that bad. You're covered in black stuff but you don't look that beat-up."

"No, he literally sucked me up, swirled me around in his stomach and then spat me half a mile away."

"-Through a wall." Ibuki added, getting a hard rap on her arm from Sakura, "Ow! He did!"

Shibazaki adjusted the glasses on his face and cleared his throat before standing in front of the downtrodden party of fighters. None of them seemed to be in high spirits or in particularly pristine condition, but what he had to say needed to be said.

"I would like to thank all of you." He said, much to the surprise of everyone there.

It wasn't a secret that he had never been the biggest fan of the people that Karin chose to interact with, and here he was thanking them? For what? They had failed.

"I don't know how you found out about what was happening or arrived her so quickly..." The astute servant to the Kanzuki Estate said earnestly, "...But you were unprepared for the challenges that you faced for Karin-ojousama, and you fought anyway. Thank you for trying."

Like them or not, they were the only ones he knew of that could have stopped what S.I.N. had tried to do. They had done it for free, without even being prompted or asked to.

"Don't say that like this is over Shibazaki." Naruto said, standing up and pacing around at the foot of the stairs, "I'm gonna find out where they took her and if anybody gets in the way they're gonna wish they weren't."

"So you have a plan of action?"

Not quite. But that didn't stop Naruto from having the sentiment that this was going to get done somehow. This was his mission from that point forward. No pay necessary. The only compensation he required for the work he was about to put in was Karin safe and sound at home.

They hadn't left any soldiers behind on the airstrip. The ones that hadn't been hurt in Naruto, Ibuki, and Guile's initial attack piled their comrades that didn't get killed in the short battle onto the escape Osprey after Naruto had been launched away by Seth. There wouldn't be any down and dirty interrogation to pull info out of any survivors.

Wait, what about the other one? The first Osprey that had gotten damaged. It was still there.

A lightbulb lit up as far as Guile was concerned and he dragged Batsu back up to his feet, limp be damned, so that they could make their way back to the airstrip, "Come on. Someone else come with me. We're going to check out the Osprey they left behind. Go catch your rich girl's parents up on what's happening!" He threw a pained Batsu up over his shoulder and grabbed the next nearest person in Sakura before taking off in a run.

"Wait!" Naruto shouted as Guile rushed past him with his two closest friends in tow, "What the hell's happening now?"

"We ain't done yet kid! Not by a long shot!"

No one really knew what that meant, or what the point of Guile going to check on the leftover Osprey was except for Chun-Li who had a big, beaming smile on her face, "That's great! If they really left one behind that means we can use its computer to pick up some clues."

Shibazaki's face lit up with hope while she merely got blank stares from the remaining fighters in Naruto and Cammy. Right, they weren't really techno-savvy.

Still, she shouldn't have had to explain that to them. Cammy she could kind of understand because of the amnesia jumbling up a lot of her practical knowledge, but Naruto had to know more about technology than that even if he had originally come from another world. He'd been there for long enough by now.

"The on-board computer probably has travel coordinates." Chun-Li said sardonically, leveling a dry look at Naruto and Cammy in particular, "Not only where they've been but maybe where they were supposed to go after this."

Naruto couldn't have run away any faster to go and find Karin's parents and tell them that they could, and they would, go and get her back.

XxX

To Naruto's complete surprise, even after the trying ordeal that he had sat down and had a front row seat to bear witness to, Kanzuki Daikenjuro didn't seem to be as frantic as he was to do whatever was necessary to get Karin back.

"I cannot lend you any resources boy!" The frazzled business mogul said, pacing around his ruined conference room. He stopped and stared at the car that Batsu had crashed through two walls and then thrown back at Seth before continuing on his frenzied tirade, "I have to find some way to get control of the zaibatsu back from Karin before it is brought to ruin."

"Karin won't do anything that Seth wants her to do, no matter what he tries on her." Naruto assured him, "Look, all we have to do is find her and go get her. Everything'll be fine with the company after we do that."

"She would still be leading it." He didn't even know why he was telling this boy any of this. Some filthy teenager covered in black residue that just came sprinting in tell him that Karin was going to be alright. It scared the hell out of him, but then they actually started speaking, which led to now.

Naruto just tilted his head in confusion, "…Yeah? And? She was going to anyway. That's what she's been trying to do this whole time. She was just sick of waiting for you to actually realize she could do it and declare her the heir, so she just took it."

Daikenjuro turned a wild-eyed look Naruto's way at the nonchalant way that he brought up plans of his daughter that he himself hadn't been the slightest bit privy to, "You mean you knew? You of all people?" Shibazaki and Ishizaki didn't even know, "You look familiar. Who are you?"

"I'm her friend. Her really close friend." Naruto said, pointing at his own chest, "'Close' as in, 'I'm gonna go get her back myself since it looks like I care about her more than her own dad does.' What's your problem anyway? She's in trouble! That guy's not gonna ransom her or something!"

The kind of thing that Seth was (no one knew what to refer to him as), money didn't mean anything to him. He already ran S.I.N., he had no shortage of money to do whatever he needed it for.

No, he wanted Karin for some sort of resource that she had as the new head of the Kanzuki Zaibatsu, otherwise Daikenjuro would be in her place.

"Even if Karin had not been the one taken…" Daikenjuro said, towering over Naruto, "…The fate of the company is more important, and left in that hands of that girl it would not last until the end of my life. She is not worthy."

"What?" Naruto replied in befuddlement, "What do you mean she isn't worthy? She did everything you ever told her to do. She's never screwed up anything. I've never seen her do any sort of deal that didn't end up with you making hundreds of millions. She even got the company from you right in front of your face. I watched her do some of it. Karin was amazing."

"Amazing enough to steal my company from underneath my nose, and after all I have given that girl!"

"You never told her she was going to inherit it. That was all you had to say and she wouldn't have taken it." She didn't even want to keep it yet. That was the thing. Karin just wanted to take it and then show her father her work to prove that she could do it before handing it back to him.

"She never was going to inherit it."

So that was what this was all about. He just never wanted to give up the reins to begin with. All the hoops he made Karin jump through just to keep he spot as the heir and he never had any plans of passing things on to her to begin with.

Naruto didn't know why, or how an actual parent would have acted in regards to rearing their child, but something about what the man was saying was wearing on his already stressed out nerves.

"I don't know why she respects you or cares enough about what you think to even give you the company back." Naruto said under his breath before he started speaking up, "You never thought anything of her. Even when I was with her at some of those rich people parties that you made her go to or at the plays and stuff, you treated her more like decoration than someone you wanted to inherit anything."

It was true. Whenever she was around during events that her father made her attend she was just meant to stand around with Daikenjuro's wife to look cultured and pretty to give him some kind of background business support. She'd paste a smile on her face, laugh at jokes from other wealthy people that Naruto didn't understand and doubted Karin thought were really funny, and basically take up space until it was time to go home.

When he was around for meetings with her father or for phone calls she took from him Naruto never actually remembered seeing or hearing him give her any advice or teach her anything. He just gave her a task to do and told her to do it, and that was as far as their interaction went.

He never remembered seeing the slightest amount of care or concern for her or her wellbeing. Never once was there a, 'How are you doing Karin?' or a, 'Is there something you need out there away from home Karin?' or anything that someone would figure a father to ask their daughter when they were living hundreds of miles away from home.

"She loves you. Do you know that?" Naruto asked rhetorically, not giving Daikenjuro a chance to try and deflect some of Naruto's emphatic words off of him, "Everything she's ever done, she did it because you told her to, or she thought you would have wanted her to. And you don't believe in her. You never thought she could do any of the impossible stuff you made her do, and I've never even seen her fail at anything. I don't think you can point out one thing she's ever even failed at."

Now Naruto really knew for certain why he liked Karin so much despite her superior attitude grating on him at first. She wasn't some rich girl that set herself before others, she simply wanted to be around the best to prove that she could be and was better.

When he really got to know her, he saw that she was someone that just wanted attention, and unlike him when he was younger in Konoha she didn't take the easy way out and make a negative spectacle out of herself to get it. She got her acknowledgement by being the absolute best at everything she set out to do.

Best grades, best in raw business acumen, best fighter that she could be (which was why it really stuck in her craw years ago when Sakura defeated her in the only loss she'd ever had except to Naruto), best EVERYTHING. Because failure and defeat meant that she wasn't worth the attention that she so desperately sought from the one person that it mattered from the most; the one person that she also could never get it from.

Daikenjurou wasn't a weak man. He wasn't a world-class fighter, but he was a well-trained martial artist which was where Karin originally got it from, and he wasn't going to stand a child a third of his age speaking to him in such a manner. He wouldn't stand for anyone speaking to him in such a manner actually.

And he was a head and a half taller and twice as big as Naruto, which was emphasized when he went chest-to-chest with Naruto and looked down at him when the crown of the blond's spiky head didn't even reach his chin, "Are you finished boy?"

"No." Naruto said, eyes hardened as he stared up at the non-flinching older man, "I'm gonna say this and you're gonna listen. You can try to ruin my credit or whatever guys like you do to people afterwards, but I'm gonna say what I have to say first because somebody should have. Raising a kid is more than just giving them money. You didn't raise her, you paid other people to raise her. Shibazaki and Ishizaki are more like real parents to her than you are. You didn't teach her. Other people taught her and she picked everything else up herself."

The point of the smaller ninja was about to be rebut by Daikenjuro, but he stopped when he realized that he couldn't think of one, "I have a world-reaching corporation to see to. Karin was fine just the way I left her. She did not need me to give her everything. She took control from me without me ever giving her an inch to."

"She didn't need you to give her anything." Naruto agreed with that, "You're right."

Karin didn't need him to approve of her for her to excel. She did it every day all on her own. But still, that wasn't the point.

"Do you have any idea what you could have done for her if you'd have just taken enough time to tell her that you were proud of her?" The smaller, whisker-faced ninja said, "Even just once? Just one time?" The intensity of his stare softened to something melancholy, "One time in her life if you had just believed in her, and let her know that you did… I don't know man, but take it from someone that knows. I can tell you that there wouldn't have been anything more special to her in the world."

Whether he knew it or not, Naruto had already stabbed him in the chest, and what he said to finish his point was just a matter of twisting the knife in the wound.

"Karin doesn't even think you love her. So way to go." Naruto said, turning around to walk away, "You were so afraid of losing your spot at the top that you kept your own daughter away, and you still wound up losing it to her of all people anyway." He didn't even turn back to see if what he said registered with the calculated man. He had more important things to do than worry about something that was too late to fix, "Now I'm gonna go get my goddamn boss lady back."

Ibuki, Cammy, and Chun-Li just stood back the whole time that Naruto had been talking, letting him be the one to talk to Daikenjuro to tell him that they were going to be going after Karin and not to worry, but that devolved into perhaps the most scathing tirade that Naruto had ever gone on.

Usually when he was upset he would rant loudly and longly, making just enough of a point to offset the yelling and cursing. But this was visceral and to the point by comparison to how he usually flipped out. It was completely cerebral and utterly surprising.

As he walked past them back out into the hallway to leave, Ibuki's mouth was slightly agape with her chest heaving up and down slightly, "…So gonna be my boyfriend…" She mumbled to herself. The busty kunoichi had to touch around on her own face to make sure that she wasn't blushing before she aimlessly followed him out, "If he's half that passionate when we…"

She trailed off, sparing Cammy a slight glance before continuing on. She'd ask her some more in-depth questions about the actual sex when there was a more appropriate time for it.

Chun-Li just looked after her strangely before looking at Cammy with a raised eyebrow, "Did she get turned on by that?"

"Did what get turned on?" Cammy asked, turning innocent blue eyes the Chinese woman's way.

Oh, right. This was Cammy she was talking to, so certain slang terms, figures of speech, and expressions were lost on her without them being explained first. Huh… she would have figured that Naruto would have dropped that term around her enough times by now that it wouldn't go over her head.

The two of them headed off as well, leaving Daikenjuro alone in the ruined conference room. He looked around at the destruction of the recent battle and let out a sigh; a sign of weakness that he could never let another person see, "…You had better save my daughter boy."

XxX

(With Guile – Kanzuki Estate Airstrip)

"Man." Batsu said as he was helped through the back of the remaining Osprey that had been ruined by Seth's attack against Guile that had knocked him out of battle before it had really begun, "That Seth guy did this with one attack? How'd you get up again?"

"I don't know." Guile said, sitting at the cockpit as he tried to fire up the battery to run the computer, "…Come on, I don't need the damn engines to start, just give me the computer systems. Come on."

Sakura leaned against a wall and wrapped her arms around herself, "I don't like this you guys. Are things always going to be this way? It seems like every problem we fix just starts another one."

"Welcome to the wonderful world stage." Guile said, continuing to try and start up the computer, "When you're dealing with international stuff, everybody everywhere is trying to fuck you over. And it's even worse when you're really strong." He explained with a cavalier attitude, "Naruto: possible world champion, target. Kanzuki girl: Now runs the company apparently, target. Chun-Li: Interpol, target. I could go on."

He sometimes figured that Ryu had the right idea always travelling around in order to train to perfect his art. That way he made himself a much harder target. Still, it was child's play to sucker him into a trap. All you had to do was dangle a tournament with enough interesting matches in front of him and he'd be there with bells on. This would be a lot easier if they could actually find that son of a bitch to help. Even Ken didn't know where to find him most of the time.

Heh, maybe if Seth had S.I.N. sponsor a gigantic tournament or something they could get Ryu to show up without having to search high and low for him. Yeah right, that could really only happen once, and not within the span of a few months most definitely.

Batsu just let that roll around in his brain for several seconds after taking a seat down in a chair next to Guile's position, "How many freaks and jerks can there possibly be in the world that think it's a good idea to fuck with us? I mean at what point do they just say, 'Yeah, let's not bother fighting with them?'"

"Well since we just lost I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't really have the right to ask that question." Guile said almost sagely, even though he was totally annoyed by the facts behind it, "You can bother to fight with someone when you're sure that you're going to kick their ass, and we got our asses kicked so yeah."

The wild-haired senior student just mumbled to himself before shooting out a foot to kick the dash. He shivered in a bit of fright when he felt Guile glare at him for possibly damaging sensitive controls more than a gigantic explosion did.

"Yo!"

Sakura and Batsu left Guile alone inside to work things out while they stepped out to find that Naruto had returned with the girls, still just as grumpy as he was when he had been sitting out on the stairs originally.

Hopping off of the side of the back ramp, Sakura went over to Naruto and gave him a hug despite his being covered in that strange black material, "We'll get her. I know we will." She whispered to him consolingly.

"I'm gonna kill him Sakura-chan." Naruto said plainly, without a touch of argument behind it as he returned the gesture, "When we find Seth I'm gonna kill him. I really am."

He didn't feel clean enough to hold her, to hold a girl that pure after saying such a thing. It was like he was tainting her just by touching her and it wasn't just because he was totally filthy. He felt unclean just saying that he was going to flat out murder someone, anyone. Killing in the heat of battle was fine.

But if he felt like he'd be put in the same situation of executing Seth the way he'd had Bison in Thailand, he wouldn't hesitate for a heartbeat to stab Seth straight through the heart. If he even had one.

"Naruto…" Sakura said as he let go of her and walked away, pacing irritably, "I'm not going to tell you to calm down. I know better. But don't start to snap. Kanzuki-san wouldn't want you to run headfirst into a fight you can't win. Let's find where she is, and make a real plan."

"I know, I know." Naruto said, running his hands through his messy hair, "It just pisses me off! Rin-Rin got kidnapped by some guy that looks like a big chrome vibrator! What the fuck?" Instead of getting any kind of response from Sakura or from anyone, everyone seemed to be frozen except for Cammy who seemed to be confused again. Sakura's face was red and absolutely mortified, "What's wrong with you guys?"

Sakura looked absolutely mortified that he would say something that vulgar, so he really must have been upset, "You don't say stuff like that out loud to other people Naruto." If he absolutely had to say it he should have saved it for when he saw Seth again and started fighting him.

Luckily, something happened to sidetrack everyone's train of thought before it could devolve further.

"YES! Who doesn't know how electronics work?! Fuck the future!"

Everyone piled back inside to see Guile sitting victoriously at the cockpit of the aircraft with apparently all of the electronics in the vessel on. How he managed to do so when he looked to be the modern equivalent of the caveman trying to figure out how the wheel worked moments before was beyond the rest of them.

He answered the unasked question without even being prompted, "I kicked it about three times after trying to turn it on after I finally got mad."

"There." Batsu said, trying to justify his own earlier actions, "I knew it. I told you all it needed was a good asswhuppin'."

Everything was clearly password protected, and nobody knew the first thing about hacking to do anything about it. It looked like Guile was about to punch it again to make it work somehow, but Chun-Li wasted no time in shoving him right out of his seat with a roll of her eyes. She should have been the one to head down to the Osprey but Guile did it because it was his idea and he'd already been there. If have she'd gone instead this would have been long done by now.

A smile slowly spread across her face when she was finally able to pull up encrypted hard drive files that would undoubtedly contain the coordinates.

They were in encoded in a manner beyond basic computer make that she couldn't even begin to understand. It was what they needed though, "Alright. This is good. This is what we're looking for. We have to send this program to some Interpol hackers to work it out, but we're definitely on to something here."

Once again though, she realized who she was talking to for the most part.

Batsu's idea of firing up a computer was hitting it, and Guile's wasn't too much more advanced. Cammy and Naruto didn't really have any care for computers at all. Ibuki's electronic experience didn't get too much more advanced than operating a desktop or a laptop. The only person that kind of knew what she was referring to in the slightest was Sakura.

Right… most people didn't have to deal with cyber trails to bust criminals back when they were teenagers the way that she had to.

"Just…" Chun-Li didn't know what to say to get things across for them, "…Just… just go home or something and I'll get this to someone in Tokyo who can crack it since we're right here." She then remembered just what had occurred with Naruto's home, "Oh, that's right."

Well maybe they could just find a place to wait around for her to get things done information-wise. They were close to Tokyo, so she was about to put in a call to E. Honda to see if he could have some people over.

XxX

(Hours Later – Somewhere Overseas – S.I.N. Osprey)

Sitting in a hold set aside for prisoners, Karin couldn't figure that they could have put her under any more significant armed guard than what they had for her.

Despite being incredibly injured she was shackled with metal handcuffs holding arms behind her back and her legs together as she was stuck on the floor of a room that she figured was the hold. There were about five armed guards standing in the doorway with automatic weapons trained on her.

All that for little old her, who couldn't stand up on her own let alone fight. It was kind of funny if she weren't so upset with her current circumstances to begin with.

It was a stare-off between her and the guards that they were losing despite her being shackled and lying on her side on the ground.

How a constrained 5'3, 120 pound seventeen year-old girl could make five adult men with guns pointed at her shake in their boots despite not being able to even freely move around would be a conundrum that would plague the minds of the S.I.N.-contracted guards in the aftermath of this trip.

They originally tried to zip-tie her since that was the easiest thing, but even when she was injured she was still easily physically capable of snapping them like plastic bracelets with her arms and her legs, just to prove a point.

The icy intolerant stare of Karin turned into a red-hot sneer when the guards were shoved out of the way for Juri to look into the room and gloat over her, "Oh you look much more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed now that we're out over the open ocean. Sorry about crashing your little home visit with your family, but Seth needed you."

"So I have heard." Karin snapped as she painfully shifted her body up into some kind of sitting position to maintain some kind of dignity despite her status as a captive, "What pray tell does he need me for that would be worth invoking the wrath of my allies?"

"You'll have to ask him since you're his new pet for the time being." Juri said as she walked in and pressed Karin down onto the floor with her nearly bare foot, "He doesn't like telling people about his plans other than what he wants them to do as a part of them."

None of that sounded good in particular, but she'd taken enough proverbial body blows today that she didn't let it show on her face.

Juri just rolled her eyes though even when Karin didn't say anything and used the foot she was using to kick one of Karin's arms out from behind her back, revealing that she'd managed to somehow free herself from the binding of the handcuffs while she'd been having watch kept over her.

"Rule number one." Juri said to the guards who were watching in shock and fright, "Don't ever tie or cuff somebody's hands behind their back. If you tie someone's hands behind their back you can't see what they're doing and you'll give more creative people a chance to hide how they're escaping." She then noticed that the actual chain had been broken, "…Or in her case when people are as strong as an ox, they can just break them. I'm guessing that's why you didn't mind when we had them cuff you?"

Karin smirked from the ground despite being caught before she could make her move and nodded, "My beloved bodyguard never figured I would be in this kind of predicament, but in case I was he taught me certain things. If I weren't hurt and if you had never come along…" She trailed off leaving things up to Juri's imagination.

The kick-centric fighter looked back at the stunned guards and let out an annoyed sigh. If she had never come by to check on Karin or if she'd been just a little later to show up, Karin would have formulated some way to get an edge on them and break free because they would have figured she was still bound. Probably by feigning the need for a bathroom break.

Great, that meant that she'd have to sit there and keep watch on her to make sure she didn't try anything else funny from now on, "Get me the fucking manacles instead of these weak little wussy cuffs!" Juri demanded of some of the frightened soldiers, "This isn't just some cute little ojou-sama, she'll take your own gun and shove the stock up your ass the first chance she gets. She isn't afraid of Seth, what makes you think that just having a gun would make her afraid of you?"

"Of course I am not afraid of Seth." Karin said, still smirking underneath Juri's heel, "For all of his power he still has the appearance of an oversized, battery-powered sort of special personal object that I would keep in my nightstand."

The reference flew over Juri's head for several seconds before she finally caught up with the remark in more common speak and let out a bark of laughter, "Ha! I like that." One of the guards hustled back into the room with the hard iron manacles that would bind Karin's arms tighter and closer together with much less give and less room to move in them, "Alright, present those lovely little manicured hands or I'll stomp down until you give 'em to me."

Karin couldn't fight back and presented her hands only to have the heavy irons slapped on around her wrists. Instead of leaving her alone from that point forward though, Juri sat down on the floor right next to her with a grunt before gesturing with her hands for the guards to buzz off.

The brand new Kanzuki Zaibatsu head would have much rather preferred being left alone with just the guards again that she could scare into shaking in their boots with nothing more than a prolonged stare. But no, Juri Han merely took a load off right next to her as if they were both getting shipped off to prison in the back of a paddy-wagon or something along those lines.

Looking down at the very tight metal bindings around her hands, Karin experimentally pulled her arms away from each other to see if there was any give to them the way that the handcuffs hand, but no, they had no give to them. They looked like two solid metal cylinders around her wrists and forearms.

Juri put a hand on her shoulder and pulled her back against the wall with a metal thud of her body hitting it, "You're not going anywhere, so let's chit-chat. Long flight and everything, and now I have to watch you to make sure the idiot brigade doesn't screw up again and give you a shot at getting away somehow."

"We're at sea. Where would I possibly go even if I managed to get off of the aircraft?"

"Would that question really have stopped you from trying it anyway?"

"Touché."

"So…" Juri said with a grin, "Your 'beloved' bodyguard? From what we know, Uzumaki Naruto is your bodyguard. I have to say, you probably could have done infinitely better status-wise, but when it comes to the actual man himself, mmm." She shut her eyes and licked her lips as she forced her body to shiver, "If I wasn't sure that he or Uchiha would kill me on-sight… ooh, one of those two. But I thought he was nailing Bison's little Doll. Killer Bee."

"Well." Karin said, wincing slightly at her pain-wracked body that had just been slammed into something moments before, "I know not how she honestly feels about him, or how he feels about her… or me for that matter. That is my fault for not knowing how to express myself in a romantic manner very well. But even if this does so happen to be an issue, he has this ability that I find very interesting."

"Uh huh."

"He refers to it as Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Everyone that has witnessed him in battle has seen it, including you, I know it. I am quite certain that it has real world applications to it aside from mere combat."

"Oh." Dead silence until Juri took the time to translate in her head to Korean what that technique meant, "…Oh. You're a bad one at heart aren't you?"

"Naruto-san does refer to me as a she-devil in human form from time to time."

XxX

(With Naruto – Tokyo, Japan)

The Kanzuki Estate had been in the Tokyo area, and since they didn't have a flight home any longer and Chun-Li needed to get the info they'd pulled off of the Osprey computer to some Interpol folks that could get everything explained for them they remained in Tokyo.

The only person they could really go to was someone that they hadn't seen since the tournament in E. Honda.

The jovial sumo was happy to see them, but was extremely confused as to why he was seeing all of them at once, as usually Naruto visited but it was by himself or with one or two of his school-aged friends.

Upon hearing the whole situation about their ongoing struggle with S.I.N.'s seedy underbelly, their hardships in facing them, Naruto's house getting annihilated one night prior, and Karin's status as being abducted, he was quick to let them all in without delay for as long as they needed to stay around for.

Of course he first had to clear out his bathhouse business attached to the place where he made his home. Naruto was covered in weird black gunk and needed to get rid of it. He didn't need the kid freaking out patrons while he was trying to scrub that crud off.

Everyone else was taking the time to rest, heal, prepare, work, get some short training in, or whatever they felt they needed to do in the meantime for Chun-Li to get their coordinates together to use in order to find Karin.

Having finished with the hard work of removing the black taint that had been on his body, Naruto stepped out of the shower section of the bathhouse. Every inch of the skin on his body was red from how intensely he'd had to scrub with high-grade cleaning materials to get it all off, but it was steadily healing itself all.

Besides, as uncomfortable as it was it he felt like it was appropriate that he'd have to scrub off the stain of his failure. He'd failed with protecting the people that had counted on him once before with Charlie. The same thing could not be allowed to happen with Karin. Not with her, and not with anyone else he loved.

He was going to get her back and he was going to bring everyone home together this time, no matter what he had to do in the process.

Exiting the showers and deciding that he needed to talk to the Kyuubi, Naruto figured that there wasn't any better place to sit and begin getting in touch with his demonic tenant than right there in the baths. Walking around to pick out one in particular, Naruto stopped when he could see a very close friend already situated in one.

Ibuki was submerged up past her chest in the water and almost seemed to be meditating… or sleeping, at least until she opened her eyes upon realizing that Naruto was looking at her. Her lips turned upward in a smile at the sight of him as she reached up and took her hair out of its adornments, letting her brunette locks spill free behind her back.

"Well don't you look all clean and such?" She commented, taking an appreciative look at the lean, toned muscles of her fellow ninja. Who knew dragging cars around junkyards and playing around in the woods would get you a cut-looking upper body like that?

Naruto kept a tighter grip on the towel around his waist as he walked over to her, "Sorry about getting you dragged into all of this. I know you've got you own problems with all of your ninja stuff. You don't need to be fighting my battles too."

"Karin is a friend of mine. It's all of our battle to fight together." Ibuki said, waving off Naruto's concern before noticing how tense he was, "You need to relax for now. I know you fight by using your emotions like a weapon, but get yourself all worked up about it when you can actually do some good with all of that energy. That isn't now."

He understood and he knew that from Japan there wasn't anything that stomping around coiled like a spring was going to do to help anyone get him the knowledge that he needed to go crack some skulls. But just because he was aware of that fact didn't mean that he could do anything to stop it.

"I know, I know." Naruto said, repeating himself from back at the airstrip as he sat down at the edge of the bath with his back to the water, "I don't know what to do. Right now I'm just standing around with my dick in my hand just waiting for other people to do something for me. I'm not used to this. I'm used to finding my own problems and solving 'em. I'm hyped, and I don't know what to do about it."

Lemon Start

Ibuki climbed out of the bath, completely uncaring about her nudity as she walked in front of Naruto and saw his eyes sunken to the floor, "Naruto look at me." The first thing his eyes focused on were her feet before slowly trailing up her dripping wet body, taking in every curve and physical proof of her womanhood. She just stood there before him, completely unembarrassed at her state of undress, "Relax. You've been firing on all cylinders since 8 this morning. That was fifteen hours ago. Your hands are shaking."

Naruto looked down at his hands to see that they were. It was a good thing that he didn't try to rely on chains of hand-seals to fight or else that could have been a problem all day today. His hands weren't the most interesting thing in the room however, and his gaze panned back up to Ibuki who was smiling lovingly at him before slowly straddling his lap.

He placed his hands on her hips and held her close as she ran her hands through his hair, "Ibuki… you-."

"Shh…" She shushed him in return, rubbing herself against his towel-clad pelvis, "You're such a passionate person. It's so easy to get you worked up about people that you care for." She tilted his head up from her chest and gave him a deep kiss that much to her surprise and pleasure stole her breath away until she pulled back, "I want to see that out of you again. Use me and work that passion out. Come on."

"You don't have to do this with me." Naruto said, internally kicking himself. Why? Why would he even say that? Who would offer an out from this situation?

"Duh I don't have to." Ibuki said with a giggle as her cheeks started to heat up at the thought of going through with her adult intentions for real, "I want to though. It'll help both of us, and it's not like letting you do me is something that I didn't want to begin with. Now… you'd better give me what you gave Cammy but better."

Yes, he could try to do that. Most definitely.

Ibuki arched her back when felt him latch his mouth onto her nipple, licking and suckling at it ravenously as if he didn't even need the prior prompting for anything other than to push him over the edge. She let out a pleased moan and started grinding herself against Naruto's ultra-hard member upon realizing that they definitely weren't playing around any longer.

If anything she had to thank Cammy, because at least she didn't have to go through the motions of coaxing him out of making it awkward. He knew what he was doing to a degree, which was only going to be good for her. From how small Cammy was in comparison to him it had clearly taught him how to be gentle with a woman.

One arm was wrapped around her waist, holding her close while he got his fill of her breasts while his other was planted firmly on her butt, pushing her tighter against him for their foreplay.

Ibuki couldn't wait around any longer just rubbing herself against something. She'd had Naruto play with her in the past and while that was fine then, this was now. The stars had aligned. They were alone, she was amorous enough to go for it, and there wasn't anything that was going to stop her from getting what she needed from him.

And he was more than willing to give it from the way one of his hands trailed down her side to right between her legs at the sweet spot, "That's right Naruto. Make me feel good." She cooed as she buried her face into the blond crown of his head when Naruto slowly slid his index and middle digits in and out of her in rhythm.

Yes, her past interactions with him to wear him down did this little relationship good.

The hot spring rendezvous from after Naruto had woken up and started to recover from the Akuma defeat took away the shyness he had toward both of their bodies, and the petting session they'd had in her room before teleporting to India definitely let her know that he'd learned from his experience with Cammy how to touch girls the right way.

Still, she didn't want him to touch her the right way. She wanted a lot more than that.

She let out a little moan before swatting his arm down when she felt him begin to finger her. It was good, just like it had been when he had snuck into her room before the mission at the dam, but that was not going to be enough, "Towel off. Towel off. Take the towel off right now!" The busty kunoichi more or less demanded.

Naruto affixed his mouth from her tit with an audible pop, "Are you asking me or telling me?" He asked with a challenging grit to his voice at being told to do something. He then found himself the subject of a rare glare from Ibuki, who simply reached down and yanked the towel off of him, "I guess you-."

"No more guessing, now fuck me." This time it was definitely a demand from how she pressed her forehead against his to stare down in his eyes, "Right now."

Roughly turning them around to the side to lay Ibuki's back down onto the elevated sill by the bath he looked down at the lovely girl to take in every bit of the figure that he was going to take advantage of. Man, that body of hers… '32-22-32. Wait, that was over a year ago. She grew some.'

Ibuki just grinned up at him, posing and spreading her legs for his benefit. The look on his face let her know that he was thoroughly seduced, as if she hadn't already known.

Almost hypnotized by the pretty pink folds of flesh, Naruto drew himself ever closer, "…Wanted to do this for a while." He said half to himself and half to Ibuki, "I didn't think Cam would be a fan of trying this if she didn't even want to kiss, but for you-." He finished before burying his face into her appealing cunt.

There wasn't any time for Ibuki to demand him to get his head up and give her what she really wanted as that complaint died in her throat when she felt Naruto's strong, soft tongue coating her core. He had never done this before? With every brush of the tongue she was doubting that more and more. Her breathy pants heaved her chest up and down, head turning from side to side as she held tight to the back of Naruto's neck as if she could pull him deeper.

Anything more she could coax from him, anything she could make him do to send her spiraling further into ecstasy, she wanted him to do it. That damnably roving tongue eventually flicked her clit and nearly drove her insane, pulling a loud cry from her that echoed through the empty bathhouse, "God! Why would you think Cammy wouldn't have wanted this?"

The poor thing wouldn't know how much better her first sex with Naruto could have been until he took it upon himself to spike his resident Doll once again.

The heat pooling inside of Ibuki was growing too fast for her tastes though. She needed things to calm down. She didn't want to cum that soon. Not like this. She didn't want to expend her first orgasm with Naruto on oral sex, even if it was more incredible than she'd been expecting.

For the benefit of prolonged enjoyment from her new lover, Ibuki had to push him away with her foot on his shoulder, and it nearly killed her to do so, especially when she got a look at his face and found him to be rather displeased. He'd clearly not been finished yet from how he'd licked at his own lips while glaring at her. The taste of his kunoichi apparently wasn't something that he appreciated having taken away from him.

Ibuki sat up, flushed and red-faced and idly wondered how the hell the dominance had switched from her to him.

To hell with it, she didn't care. Licking her own lips with a half-lidded gaze obscured slightly by fallen locks of her long hair, she looked down at his erect cock and Naruto got the message without her having to say it.

From here it was definitely his show. Ibuki might have been more forward than him in her approach to force him to take her, but she had still never had sex before. Even if he'd only done it once, she was still deferring to him on how to proceed and if the lovely lass was willing to put that kind of faith in him how could he let her down?

Naruto grabbed her legs, moving them off of the ledge and turning Ibuki over onto her stomach much to her confusion. She was standing and bent, not exactly what she'd been expecting to have happen until her eyes nearly lit up upon feeling the head of Naruto's dick prod against her entrance, "Never did it like this before either." She heard his cheeky little tone. Cocky fucker, no pun intended.

"Well you're the one with experience here love. I'm here to learn." Ibuki said, getting some of her seductress back as she wiggled her bottom for him with a sly look over her shoulder, "Teach me what you want me to know senpai." Butterflies danced in her stomach, but she wasn't going to lose her nerve.

Naruto grabbed on tight to Ibuki's ample, curvy thighs and gradually gave the girl her first penetration, going slow as he gradually spread her apart and savoring the throaty moan from her that was somewhat muffled from her face being buried in her arms on the ledge. He managed to make it all the way inside with no real resistance to him other than how tight she was.

Still though, ever thoughtful he gave her a few seconds to adjust to the foreign feeling of having the full length of a man in her pussy, but Ibuki wasn't having any of that. There was an unexplained feeling of completeness inside of her and she wanted more, "I'm not some fragile little civvie girl you've got to coddle. Stop taking it so slow and bang me already!"

A tick mark rose on Naruto's head and he began to thrust in and out at his own previously established pace. Screw being nice about it, if she wanted him to wear her out that was what she was going to get. Hearing her whimper and cry out as he steadily pounded her pussy from behind only spurred him on further.

"Atta girl Ibuki." Naruto said to her as she started rocking back toward him to impale herself deeper on his stick. She was definitely not shy about it.

Pushing herself up on her elbows, Ibuki looked back lustily over her shoulder as her sounds of desire grew in volume and echoed out freely, "That's it! Ooh, I hate you for making me wait so long when I needed it like this!" Thinking about it simply wasn't the equivalent to getting her walls stretched so delightfully.

Snaking one arm under her stomach and bosom to pull her up against his chest, Naruto laid into her, shoving his forehead into the crook of her neck as he focused on lavishing love into his favorite kunoichi.

Under Naruto's breath Ibuki could hear the quiet and focused chanting of 'sorry' repeatedly and rapidly from him with every pump of the hips he was giving her. He could hear and understand her but he was so lust-driven he couldn't put a decent sentence together to apologize. That was okay, he was apologizing to her just fine right then and there.

She wanted to giggle at his expense but a particularly sharp series of strokes from her virile lover almost caused her legs to give out and made her slump forward, "Oh my God! This totally can't be the second time you've done this!" She shouted in disbelief before screaming uninhibitedly.

"Grr… I found your spot." Naruto grunted out over Ibuki's now constant shrieking of passion and the wet sound of their respective sexes coming together. It was the second time he'd been with a woman, but he felt like he was getting addicted to this.

From where her hands were on the tiled surface he could see her fingers tightening and shaking from the tiny fists she had them balled up into. He had to be in heaven or something. Who or what did he have to pray to out of gratitude for the beautiful girl eager to wrap her wet, slick core around his cock?

Ibuki's mind was in a dizzy haze, the girl barely able to stand as Naruto pulled out of her and turned her around, 'Eighteen months. I've been waiting for this from him for eighteen months.' "…We're done?"

The out-of-it girl hadn't noticed that he'd sat her up on the tiled ledge only to plunge back in her again. His own moan upon the recompleted connection was lost underneath the sound of her own howl of pleasure.

She wrapped her legs around his waist tightly and took that rollercoaster as high as it would let her go, "Fuck!" Wrapping her arms tightly around his head and neck as Naruto's manhood pierced her as far in as it could go, Ibuki shook violently as she shuddered out her orgasm, and yet Naruto didn't stop. He didn't slow, because he wasn't done, 'Oh what did I start?' She thought to herself, pulling her face back far enough to shove her tongue into a very receptive Naruto's mouth.

Ibuki did tell him to use her to work all of his passions out after all. She'd let him ride her out as long as he was hard enough to do so.

XxX

E. Honda's bathhouse was connected to his house so that he could run the business that he was able to purchase with his sizeable sumo winnings from home, and on his way to head over into the bathhouse to give Naruto some clothes to wear until he had to leave he stopped at the door to the main floor of the bathhouse when he heard sounds from within.

"Don't stop! Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop! OH MY GOOOOOD!"

The face-painted sumo just squinted his eyes at the obvious sound of a woman being taken to paradise and didn't even bother opening the door at that point. He'd bust Naruto's chops about it later, but he doubted he would even care from the way he was making Ibuki cry out, "Makes me wish I was seventeen again."

He felt kind of bad for his employees who would have to clean the place where the teenagers made love after they were done, but hey… at least it wasn't him that had to clean it.

XxX

(Naruto's Mindscape)

The last thing Naruto remembered doing in the real world before dozing off was cuddling up with an exhausted and sexually satisfied Ibuki in one of the tubs to relax after their little workout. She was so sexy, purring against his chest with her eyes closed in slumber.

But hey, hey, that had nothing to do with this, because he wasn't in a bath with her in his mind. He now stood in front of a titanic cage with the Kyuubi behind it.

"What's going on Kyuubi?" Naruto asked, standing before the great beast. Like the Kyuubi or hate it, it had good enough timing to leave him alone while he was getting his fill of sexy kunoichi. Some gratitude had to be given for that, "You wanted to talk?"

"Well first of all well done, I just wanted to say that." The massive fox said with a shadowy grin behind the bars of his cage, "True, complimenting the appearance of a human would be akin to you complementing a mouse, but I am aware of the fact that the girl you just mated with is seen by your species as extremely beautiful. I wasn't healed enough to applaud you the first time this happened."

As odd as it was to get a verbal pat on the back from the fox inside of his body for getting laid, Naruto still wanted to be cordial at least after how things between them had changed, "…Thank you?"

"Now down to business. Do you remember what I told you?"

"About making a deal with you to get your help for more chakra."

"Yes."

Naruto clenched his knuckles until they were red from the pressure. Whatever he had to do, as long as it wouldn't hurt anyone that didn't deserve it, it would be fine with him. Karin came before his comfort in dealing with the Kyuubi, "What do you want me to do?"

"First let's talk about something else." Kyuubi said casually, "There's no rush. The passage of time when we're both here moves very differently in case you haven't noticed." He waited for any refusal from Naruto but received none, prompting him to continue, "I want to ask you a question we've spoken of before. What is your opinion of returning to the Elemental Nations now? The last time we spoke of this was around one year ago."

"I don't know." Naruto remarked with a shrug, "There's more important stuff going on than me ever going back. If I ever do that's cool I guess, but right now I want something more important." His desire to return to Konoha had waned heavily over the last year with everything that had happened to him and his loved ones here.

The Kyuubi stared long and hard at Naruto. That answer wasn't what it had been looking for. It still sounded like he had been hedging his bets like a politician with that response. 'Make a hard choice Naruto. Show me the kind of human that I know you are.' "I'm going to give you two options, and I will only do one for you. I can give you a way to control at least double the amount of power that you can wield as of now, or… I can let you in on the method that you used to come to this world to begin with."

"Wow! You can give me that much control just like that?" Naruto responded spiritedly without missing a beat, "There's got to be a catch Kyuubi. Using three tails feels like my brain's in a sauna but you can let me get at least six?"

Okay, the second part of that offer just went straight over his head. He'd be surprised if Naruto even heard it… and that was exactly what Kyuubi had been hoping for as far as an answer went.

An empty promise that had become obsolete years ago was not more important than the people that he loved here and now. At this point he had been amongst his allies in this world longer than he had been a registered Konoha ninja. Other than that, the chakra creature was not a fan of returning to a place such as that anyway.

"Very well. I will show you what you need to do to gain more control of my chakra. No tricks." The Kyuubi said, getting a fist pump from the heavens from Naruto, "But first, our arrangement. I need you to do something." As Naruto stood at the ready for the terms of their agreement, Kyuubi gestured underneath its chin for something to move forward.

Interested, Naruto squinted into the darkness until it was no longer necessary. When he was able to see what had come from the Kyuubi's half of the cage, Naruto glared at the fact that he was staring at himself, only with dark and warped eyes, "…You." Naruto said.

Dark Naruto wasn't smirking and didn't seem to be spoiling for a battle or for control this time, "You didn't think it would be that easy to get rid of me did you?"

"I kind of did."

"It wouldn't have gotten rid of you so why would you think it would get rid of me? I am you after all."

Naruto and his darker half shared a chuckle at that. Good point. All Naruto did was make his darker half's logic falter in the face of what was going on around him. Even so, he was ready for a fight. He could only imagine what the Kyuubi's request would entail. Win a final battle of wills to the finish for his body against his dark half seemed like it was leading the way.

"I need-, no, you need to accept this half as a part of you." The Kyuubi said, "The two of you can control the same amount of my power even though your dark half can do so easier. Working together in tandem you can control more than you could separately."

"Why?"

"Both of you use different methods to establish a measure of control over my power. The Naruto that is usually in control utilizes sheer will power to force his body to access my chakra, imposing his will is a good way to describe it as he does so with a mantra that he will not let it control him. The dark Naruto easily accepts the more malevolent portions of my power without a thought to the possible outside consequences of doing such, to freely embrace the aspect that destroys. Both of those things can only take you so far without the other."

So what the hell was it saying then?

"I'm proposing that the two of you share control when accessing my power past what only one of you could control otherwise. It's a fundamental difference between how the two of you operate, wired in the two of you that cannot be remedied with mere training." The Kyuubi looked at the light Naruto, "So do you want to struggle for two years to obtain control over one or two extra tails at best, or are you willing to accept that other half of you that drives your darker thoughts."

"I want to kill Seth." Dark Naruto said with an angry, emphatic sneer on his face, "I want to kill him more than you. He took Rin-Rin away to do Kami knows what to her… and the way he held her under his arm and threw her away to deal with us… like she was nothing." He let out a bit of a dark chuckle, "Heh, whenever you were so pissed you couldn't even think of anything else, where did you think you were getting it from?"

Every dark thought of seeing just how attached that stupid yin-yang thing was to the rest of Seth's body the hard way was Dark Naruto. Every thought of holding Seth down and using Rasengan on his head until he could see what the inside of his head was made of was Dark Naruto.

When he got out of this conversation with himself and his inner chakra monster, Naruto figured that he needed to give Ibuki a good long kiss or something that meant a massive thank you for giving him an incentive to break his dark train of thought with her body. He figured his thoughts had been getting blacker and blacker in regards to revenge, and now he knew why.

It was as if the Kyuubi could see that Naruto was thinking about just how legitimate this could be, even though it had already given him its word, "This is the only quick way I can personally give you without you learning how the seal that binds me truly works." There was still skepticism there, and with good reason. It had tried to take control of his body once with the use of four tails and only Akuma tearing him a new one stopped that potential hellstorm, "I owe you. Now do you want to learn the hand-seals or not?"

Naruto looked up at the Kyuubi and then over to his dark side before speaking to Dark Naruto intently, "If I trust you with this, give you half of the influence over this body when the time comes, Karin comes first. If you don't accept that, I'm pulling the plug, I'm fighting you with everything that I've got, even if it gets us killed. I'm not getting my body taken over again, even by myself."

"I want her back too." Dark Naruto said, glaring at Naruto for even insinuating that he'd put anything before getting his captive boss lady back, "Anything that gets in my way, even you... well I'm pretty sure you know how that's gonna end."

Yes, he had been obsessive to the extent that he felt killing everything that they loved was the only option for them, but the events of the Second World Warrior Tournament put the kibosh on that mindset.

The two sides of the same coin just stared each other down, neither backing down until both of them extended their hands at the same time and shook on it. If the dark side was going to hang out in his soul no matter what… he might as well put it to use even if it was dangerous to do so.

XxX

(Real World – E. Honda's Trophy Room)

Being a highly successful sumo, E. Honda's office had a ton of the accolades he had obtained over his career lining the walls and his desk, but more importantly it was a quiet place for Chun-Li to get her much needed intelligence from the people she'd sent off encrypted files from the onboard Osprey computer to.

It must have been a slow day, or there were Interpol hackers trying to get on her good side because they'd worked double-time to get the job done. While they hadn't gotten into even one percent of what had been on that hard drive, they'd managed to get what was most important for Chun-Li first and foremost.

"Those coordinates are where?" She asked with an incredulous look on her face, phone to her ear as she listened to what her hacker contact was telling her, "That doesn't make any damn sense. There's no stop-offs in a hidden place to refuel or anything? There's no way that an Osprey can go that far in one straight shot."

"I'm telling you what we found. One final set coordinates straight through, across the Pacific. You said they were experimenting with new self-sustaining engines didn't you? This could be how powerful those things are. Anyway, I'm telling you what we found. That's all."

"…Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States though?"

"Read the coordinates baby. Now about that payment on this rush job you had me get my people to run…"

She rolled her eyes but acquiesced regardless, "Yeah, I'll go on one date with you. But it has to be after I finish with the investigation. We're kind of on the clock here. And if your guys are still working, tell them to start on anything with BLECE in the title. I don't know if that's an acronym or what."

"Got it. Just don't die out there, and make sure you get something sexy to wear on the date. Being seen in pictures with a girl like you on Facebook afterwards would get me so much-."

"Later." Chun-Li said before hanging up the phone. So… they were going to Vegas now. Why Vegas? What the hell would S.I.N. have a base in Vegas for? It wasn't on the books otherwise they would have known about it after starting the investigation, so it was strictly for something like the dam in India more than likely.

Stepping out of the office, she cleared her throat before cupping her hands to her mouth and calling out for the others.

"Assemble!"

Sakura was front and center from the room E. Honda used to train at home as were Guile and Cammy while Batsu slogged into the hall from a room where he'd been getting some sleep.

It took a bit longer, but E. Honda ambled into the hallway after a loud knocking noise came from elsewhere in the house. And then roughly a minute or so later, Naruto and Ibuki sprinted into the hallway much to the sumo's apparent amusement.

"Guile." Chun-Li said first, saving any questions she had about why the last two to arrive did so at the exact same time looking so flustered for later, "We need transport on the double to the U.S. Las Vegas."

"On it." Guile said, waving over his shoulder as he walked away to go and handle that while everyone else seemed surprised about the name-drop of their destination.

"The rest of you, how's your English?"

Cammy: "Fluent."

Sakura: "Fluent."

Ibuki: "Ah… good enough I guess."

Naruto: "I've been to America already. My English is pretty good. We're really going to Las Vegas though? Ken told me all about that place."

Batsu: "My English is way better than my Chinese or my Thai, but I can't go."

That got everyone to look at him in amazement. He didn't want to go? He always wanted to go and mix it up with the bad guys, "What?" Sakura asked out of curiosity, "What's the matter? Why don't you want to go?"

"I want to go." Batsu replied before pointing to his hastily bandaged wounds, "But I'm hobbling around already here. The last time this sort of happened in Thailand I was a liability. Unless you think knocking on their front door and asking for your rich girl back is gonna get her, I'm pretty much only gonna be good for distance support, and I suck at that."

They were all fairly beaten up to varying degrees, but Batsu's actually might have required a hospital visit. Instead of doing that though, he tried to sleep it off and apparently it hadn't worked to fix much of anything.

"But it's Vegas B." Naruto said, "Vegas. Think about what we can do after we get Karin back."

"I know." Batsu sounded almost forlorn at missing out on this one, "I don't know if it'll be better than Bangkok or Hong Kong was, but I can't do it." Damn it, Batsu was their heavy. That was going to be a pretty big blow to take to their manpower, "I can't walk off the same injuries people get in head-on car crashes like you can." It had only been a few hours since Seth had picked him apart, "Get a replacement."

"Like who?" As soon as Naruto asked that question his eyes widened as if a light bulb had gone off and he placed his hand out for someone to give him something, "I need a phone. Mine is kind of broken and covered in black stuff."

Sakura shrugged and handed over hers only to watch Naruto easily punch in a number without taking a moment to say anything else, "Naruto, where are you calling? It's midnight. Nobody's going to be awake."

Naruto just waited through the tone, tapping his foot impatiently on the ground until someone finally picked up, "Who is this? What do you want? And how did you get this number? Answer quick or you can talk to Frenchy here." What a mean and cordial way to refer to Abel.

"You awake Sasuke?" Naruto asked, leaving no doubt on the table that it was him calling.

"…Fuck, I'm hanging up now."

"Come on! You said call you if I had Juri Han."

"You have Juri?"

"No."

"So I'm hanging up."

"She's gonna be in Vegas! If you don't get her there you're not getting a better chance to pin her down anytime soon!"

"Like 'America' Vegas?"

"Like 'The Hangover' Vegas."

"I didn't see that movie dobe. I have better things to do than go out of my way to watch American movies."

"You didn't-? Are you out of your-? Nevermind, that's not important. Yes. Las Vegas. So are you in or are you out?"

"Tch. I don't need you to go to America. But you're actually gonna chase after somebody to fight? You must really want revenge for that crappy apartment of yours that they took out don't you?"

"They took Karin."

And without prompting, the mood swung in the opposite direction with no more playing around or taking jabs at one another between the two of them. Sasuke might not have been the biggest fan of the people that Naruto kept around him, but he wasn't heartless, and he could understand just how high the stakes were right then and there.

"…"

"…"

"…Call me when you're on the way. I'll get ready. Frenchy's coming too."

"Tomorrow." Naruto hung up the phone and lobbed it back over to Sakura before walking off past the others to go get in touch with the Kyuubi again. He had some hand-seals he needed to spend the rest of the night memorizing.

Okay, now that the fanservice portion of this story arc is finished for now it's time to get to the travellin' and the stompin' and the other stuff. Now I've got to do some entrepreneur stuff for one of the last two classes I need to make... and I don't have any ideas at all yet to make some money without spending more than $50, but I have a month to do it or I don't graduate, so game on.

Who has two thumbs and is six weeks away from the real world tapping him on the shoulder and slapping him across the face?

Hopefully this guy.

Kenchi out.