The Reason Why Naruto…
…Went to Prison, and was henceforth banned from taking undercover missions by her husband.
"I don't think this is a good idea." Naruto scowled at Aquarius, who smiled in her usual unflappable way.
"No," Aquarius agreed, "but you didn't want to send someone expendable. Plus, you know. Seal mistress."
"But – labeling yourself as a criminal is not a good idea! I won't be able to use your unique water-skills – oh my gods you're related to the Nidaime Hokage!" Naruto's revelation made Aquarius sweatdrop.
"It took you fifteen years to figure that out?!"
"Ugh, I'm sorry I just had another kid!"
"Then stop having so many children, they're killing your brain cells!"
"My brain cells have nothing to do with this!" Naruto turned her eyes to Neji, who blinked at her pleading face. "Neji-koi, tell her she's batshit crazy!"
The stoic Hyuuga-Uzumaki gave her a deadpan look.
"Everyone on this island is crazy," he said serenely, then going back to his book.
Naruto screamed and pulled at her hair.
"I'm certain you could pull of Aquarius' image. I heard that the person in charge used a seal that doesn't allow for chakra being used, anyway."
He turned the page, blinking as he looked up to his demonic-looking wife and said in that airy, unphased voice of his, "Oh? You didn't know?"
Nobody in Uzushio bat an eyelash as a roar was heard, unless they were foreigners.
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"Sayan Aquarius." Mui stared down his nose at the woman who looked rather grumpy and not declaring her innocence. Charges of treason had been filed by the Kage and Queen of Uzushio. "Strip."
He found no satisfaction in strip-searching the woman; once he decided that she had no weapons, he touched her heart-point, and the seal burned itself onto her skin.
She said nothing, only stared at him in a dead-ish way.
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Naruto walked through the prison yard, stopping at a pillar. Her informant was on the other side of that pillar.
"Aquarius… So the queen did send someone."
"No," Naruto denied. "I could not ignore a threat when I hear about it."
Her ears picked up a familiar voice, but she ignored it for the sake of the woman behind her.
"Your majesty?!" choked the woman.
Naruto hissed. "Oh, sure, announce to the entire world I'm here, why don't you?"
"Gomen!" Her informant swallowed. "They haven't gotten any further."
Naruto hummed. "You neglected to mention why it was so urgent. It's why I came to you in person."
Her informant swallowed again.
"Have you ever heard of the Box of Paradise?"
Something cold slithered down the queen's body.
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The queen closed her eyes, connecting with one of her other selves.
Tell Neji that I'm dealing with the Box of Paradise.
Her eyes opened when guards approached her cell.
"So… You apparently had the Queen of Uzushio's ear. Was she good in bed?" leered one of the guards.
Aquarius disliked people talking about her Queen in such a way… Plus, they'd arranged it with the current Hokage, Konohamaru, that apparently Aquarius had tried to kill him, not Naruto.
The guards were on their knees, gasping.
"Nobody speaks of my Queen as such." She leaned back.
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Another day, no new information.
So she settled against a pillar and feigned sleep – and then she heard a voice.
"- and Mui-sama said I'd be allowed out if I stayed on good behavior –"
Her entire laconic posture stiffened as she jolted and stared at the man walking by her, unaware of who she really was.
Naruto stared at him with a mask of utter, burning hatred on her face, a mask that made even the guards pause in terror.
Everyone who noticed stayed away.
Her face changed to one similar to one hunting prey.
"Oh?" she asked, darting in front of the older, frailer Mizuki. "Mui-sama said that? Really?"
Mizuki's gaze turned hungry. "Oh, yes, pretty one," he said.
Naruto forced herself to blush a bit, ducking her head.
"Maybe… I could speed things along?" she asked tentatively.
Even if this was going to hurt her, she'll be damned if she would let him exist after her stay here.
Mizuki opened his mouth, but then the whistle blowed.
He smirked, bowed, and turned away.
His companions were the only ones to notice the intense hatred on the woman's face as she glared at Mizuki.
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"So that's what the fuss is all about?" Naruto wondered aloud, her voice disappointed as the weird creature exploded from the Box of Paradise after nearly killing Mui. She withdrew her sword, her blood canceling out the seal.
Her people all assembled, showing no fear to the monster as it was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer might of the Uzumaki.
Unneeded, Naruto walked into the prison itself.
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Mizuki heard fearful mutters as dust from falling bricks obscured his vision.
When it cleared, his cell was wide open.
There was no way in hell he was staying here!
He ran out, running towards the entrance – before stopping.
A woman stood there, her sword on fire. Some of the corrupt guards and his allies were running out the door, the dead bodies behind her indicating she'd let the others go for some reason.
An uneasy feeling began to settle in his blood.
She turned.
He gaped.
"You!"
Uzumaki Naruto stared at him, her aquamarine eyes hard.
"I imagined this meeting for a while." Her voice was silky. "I never planned on letting you live, Mizuki."
A wave of her hand and the bodies were sealed into the ground. She could easily seal him – but he understood. She wanted to make him suffer.
Fact was, Mizuki was an idiot, and he though he could take advantage of that.
"So…" She started to walk, her sword turning to ordinary metal. "Let's end this, once and for all."
He screamed and ran, thinking she would take the civilian way.
She didn't run after him.
He turned a corner, and she was there, smirking.
He ran more.
He turned, and ran straight into her sword.
"You're an idiot."
Dead.
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Nobody mentioned the body she brought back.
"Konoha traitor, died trying to escape." Her shadowed eyes spoke another story.
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"I henceforth forbid you from taking undercover missions!" Neji proclaimed. "You suck at them! Most people know it's you even when you play the part of someone else!"
"Neji, you should know I don't take orders from anyone." Neji scowled. "But I promise to be more careful, sweetie."
She kissed her husband.
"EW!" Kanna, their youngest, covered her eyes.
"Oh, right." Naruto picked her youngest up. "How's Daddy's favorite girl?"
Kanna, an exact copy of her father, with one mark across each of her cheeks to indicate her lineage, grinned with happiness.
"Good!"
Naruto smiled. "Good." She pulled a scroll towards her, and asked her daughter a simple question. "So what do you think of this seal?"
(Little Kanna would one day be the best seal-mistress apart from her eldest sister and her mother.)