A/N: Well... this is embarrassing.

Sorry for the HUGE delay guys. I've moved to a new area and had to get myself all set with work, a job, new home and car, etc. And it's just been a hectic year for me. And I've been working on my stories here and there, just haven't had time to get on a laptop and update them, until now. Hope you guys forgive me.

*Gets empty soda can thrown at my head by an angry reader*

Anyway, here's a new chapter. Next one is pretty much done as well, so you should expect another update much sooner than the last.

Thanks for your patience and I hope you all enjoy the chapter!

"You're so gross."

"How?!"

"You'd rather watch the Sannin engage in a gangbang, rather than get your dick chopped off?"

"Well, yeah! I'd rather be mentally scarred for the rest of my life, than have my penis separated from my body."

"Okay, okay, what if you had to get it chopped off, but could get it reattached and have it back to normal again?"

Naruto tapped his chin, "Then I guess I'd go with that."

Anko snickered, "That cock of yours must really mean a lot to you."

"It does."

"I can see why." Anko smirked slyly, giving it a small squeeze, "Okay, your turn."

Naruto rubbed his chin, "Hm... would you rather... go a whole month without dango, or be flat-chested for the rest of your life?"

Anko rolled her eyes, "Is this really even a question? I'd cut my tits off and eat 'em before I go an extended period of time without Kami's finest creation. C'mon, gimme a challenge, Naruto."

"Geez, I figured you loved your breasts too much to get rid of them like that."

"Men, including you, love them more than I do. They're great and all, but I wouldn't care if I was flat-chested. All they do is distract pervs and make them easy to manipulate."

"A lot of girls would kill for a chest like yours."

"And I'd kill for a free dango stick. We all have different interests, Naruto-kun."

"Fair enou- HEY!" Naruto screeched as he felt some unexpected 'prodding' from between his legs, "Anko, stop!"

The Jounin smiled innocently, "My bad. Guess my fingers have a mind of their own."

"That was the third time, though! I'll have to ask you to get your hands from out of my boxers if you keep doing that."

"Yeah, right. You know you love having your cute little grapes held." She replied naughtily, giving his two testicles a light squeeze. Her grin doubled in size when she heard a light moan, following by a soft object becoming hard and firm against her wrist.

"So, can we...?"

"No, Naruto. Not until I get my condition checked out by Jiraiya."

Naruto whimpered, "This is torture! It's like you being on your period all over again!"

"You'll live." Anko dismissed, "Besides, I don't think you want me to fuck you while I look like some kind of demon. I could have teeth in my vagina or something."

Naruto paused, "... Do you?"

"Dunno. Haven't really checked down there all that much since the incident."

Naruto smirked and rubbed Anko's abdomen, snaking his hand further down her naked body, "Well, can I check? I'll take the risk in potentially losing a finger..."

Anko slapped his hand away just as he reached a small patch of red pubes, "Get away from her. I told you not until we get this thing fixed."

Naruto groaned, "You are such a tease! Why torture your man like this?!"

"I'm just playing it safe, baby. Besides, I don't want our first time to happen while I look like this."

"But you still look amazing, though. Especially when you're naked."

"I appreciate the flattery, but my point still stands." Naruto groaned loudly yet again, and immaturely rolled over away from her in the bed. She rolled her eyes with a smile and sat up, her mahogany colored breasts being kissed by the moonlight shining through the window.

"Fine, you wanna check if she has teeth or not?"

Naruto immediately turned over and sat up as well, "Sure!"

"Hmph, fine." Anko declared before removing the sheets off her bare body. She spread her legs open, and shot him a sexy look, gesturing for him to get in between her legs with a nod of her head. Naruto wasted no time in following her gesture and kneels on the bed in between her legs. Naruto and Anko were now face-to-face, shooting each other dirty smirks.

"What're ya waiting for?" Anko asked before she grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him in for a lecherous kiss. Naruto eventually ended up fondling her insanely soft breast and tweaking her dark brown nipple with one hand, while he used the other for support. Anko elicited light moans into her lovers mouth while she gripped at his hair and gluttonously tasted the inside of his mouth.

Seconds later, the Curse Seal victim shows her lover that she's been wanting more relief than he thought by taking the hand that was caressing her breasts and dragging it down her body, until it reached a warm and wet slit right between her thighs. Naruto gave a short laugh into the kiss at this action, where Anko gave one as well in return. Naruto's fingertips ran up and down her doused lips, rewarding him with lusty chuckles and sighs. He then found her hardened clit and started rubbing it, playing with it delicately. She twisted in ecstasy under him and clawed at his shoulder.

"O-Oh shit..." She whispered hotly in his ear once he attacked her neck and collarbone with his lips and tongue. Soon, he slowly prodded a finger between the pink folds, remarking at how wet and tight she was. However, to her, he was entering her so slow, she began to wonder if he was really afraid he might lose a finger in there. He eventually got to fit the whole finger inside her, loving how her vaginal muscles squeezed against it as he wiggled it around.

Naruto pulled back and grinned at her, "Hm, no teeth in here..."

Anko hollowed her back some, not realizing she had it arched so much, "Mmm, well now you know... now take it out and go to bed."

"Is that really what you want me to do?"

Anko smirked, "Hell no."

As if that were his cue, Naruto slowly slid a second finger inside her, kissing under her jaw as her back arched the deeper he pushed his fingers into her.

"Ooh yeah, that's it..." She whispered, moaning as he slowly pushed them in and out of her. Naruto's middle finger and ring finger was coated in Anko's slick juices all the way up to the third digit. He loved feeling her squirm and twist under him. But he loved how Anko's pussy felt around his fingers even more, and couldn't wait to see how it would feel around his cock.

He then wrapped his lips around her hard nipples, nibbling and licking the tender flesh with passion. He quickened the pace of his two fingers, and he could hear the gelatinous sound of his fingers pushing in and out her drenched womanhood. Anko bit her lip as he did this, shocked that simple foreplay was making her feel this good.

"Mmm... Ooh... Yes, just like that..." She encouraged hotly. Naruto looked up at her with her nipple gently tugged between his teeth, loving how sexy she looked when thrown into ecstasy. He licked and sucked the little brown nub lewdly as he continued to penetrate the pink folds known as Anko's pussy.

However, a grumpy grunt was heard from her as Naruto extracted his fingers out of her. She opened her eyes, only to grin when she saw her lover licking her juices off of them. She tasted sweet, Naruto discovered, with an ever so slightly tangy aftertaste. It wasn't exactly like anything he's tasted before, but he would gladly be willing to taste it some more.

She then snatched his hand away from his mouth by the wrist and put it in front of her own. Naruto was enticed by the sight of her black lips wrapping around his two fingers, feeling her fangs graze against them as she sucked the remaining juices off of them. Her golden eyes glowed in the dimly lit room as she looked lustily at her boyfriend with his fingers in her mouth. He could feel her slimy tongue washing over them, and was shocked to see that she was able to wrap her tongue around them.

She then pulled his fingers out of her mouth and smirked, "At least this transformation doesn't affect how my pussy tastes."

"It's the first time I'm tasting it." Naruto replied.

"And?" She inquired him to continue with an expectant grin.

He grinned as well, "Let's just say that I see why you snatched my fingers from me."

He then leaned forward for another round of tongue-play. Anko could just barely taste herself in his mouth, and that only excited her that much more.

Naruto didn't stick to her lips for long, however, and began kissing under her jaw and on the side of her neck. This made Anko emit a mixture of a giggle and a sigh. His lips continued south, trailing down to her collarbone, down to the space between her breasts, to her stomach, and finally down until he reached the small patch of hairs between her legs that matched Anko's new red hair. He gave her bush a small kiss before looking up at her, seeing those glowing golden eyes staring back at him with nothing but pure lust.

"What're ya waiting for...?" Anko asked, her breathing becoming rapid from the anticipation. Naruto replied with a wet kiss to the inside of Anko's left thigh, licking the small amount of juices that stuck to them. This made Anko sigh heavily with annoyance and excitement.

"Just getting you back for all the teasing you've been doing to me these past couple of days." He gloated, giving Anko's other thigh the same treatment. He had to admit, the smell of Anko's arousal was making him insatiable. He was secretly teasing himself just by refusing to dive mouth first into Anko's drenched pussy like he really wanted to.

After Naruto kissed Anko's right thigh, he felt a clawed hand palm his skull immediately after.

"Yeah right." Was all he heard before said hand pushed his face into Anko's waiting womanhood. Anko moaned as soon as his mouth made contact, pushing her hips forward into his face as if she was forcefully kissing him with her second set of lips. This sudden action surprised Naruto to say the least. He felt a pair of thighs wrapping around his head, preventing his escape. Escaping was not his intention, however, as his tongue buried itself between the sweet honeypot between Anko's legs. Her taste immediately overrode his desire to want to revengefully tease her, and made him vigorously lap over and between her lips.

"Mmnaahh... Oh God... That's what I'm talkin' about..." Anko moaned while she hung her head backward in ecstasy. To Anko, it's been well over an eternity since she's ever had someone's mouth caressing her nether region. And she had to admit, she couldn't remember her past experience feeling as good as it was feeling now. She had to release Naruto's head from her grasp, as to not pierce his cranium with her sharp claws due to the ecstasy. She instead gripped the sheets below her, and knew she was going to end up ripping holes in them. She had no obligation to care, however, as she was just solely set on getting the relief she so desperately needed.

Rips in the sheets below her were finally heard when Naruto's lips and tongue found the small but hard nub known as Anko's clit. Her back arched like a rainbow, and her mouth gaped in a quiet, yet strained moan. Naruto took her body language as a sign that he was doing the right thing. Being creative, he decided to draw circles around it and flick it with his tongue while sucking on it. His efforts were rewarded with heavy moans and fervent grunts of bliss. Anko lost most of the control over her body while the burning lust boiling in her core made her addicted and desperate for more.

"Ooh... A-Ah, shit...! Ooh my God, Naruto-kun, right there...!" She wailed out encouragingly, twisting and thrashing around on the bed as if becoming possessed. Naruto's drenched lips curled into a triumphant grin, seeing how much he had Anko in the palm of his hand. Her clit was very sensitive, he discovered, especially when pampered by a wet tongue and a pair of lips. It felt good knowing he could manipulate her like this. She always seemed so dominant and tough, and now he had her whining and writhing like an upset child.

Hungry for even more of her moans, he slowly pushed two fingers back inside of her, while his mouth remained focused on her clit. This gave him the desired result, as Anko's moans increased in pitch and volume. She could only growl at him while her strong thighs squeezed around his head, as if she wanted to curse him out or hurt him for putting her through a nearly unbearable rapture. His fingers slowly pushed themselves in and out of her immersed pussy, and sped up with each few passing seconds.

"...I'm gonna cum..." Anko huffed, now completely lost in the sea of pleasure. Her house could be torn apart by a tornado and she wouldn't care, as long as Naruto kept working his magic with his mouth and fingers, "I-I'm gonna cum... Shit, I'm gonna cum...!"

At this point, Naruto's index and middle fingers were rapidly pistoning themselves in and out of Anko while he rapidly flicked her clit with his tongue. Nearly all seven hundred of Anko's muscles were tense and tightened as she neared orgasm, cursing as her toes painfully curled up.

Anko's orgasm soon crept up on her like a skilled assassin, possessing and controlling every inch of her body. She had absolute lack of control of the volume of her moans and grunts escaping her mouth, not giving a single hoot if her neighbors or anyone walking past the apartment could hear her. Naruto felt her tighten so much around his fingers, he couldn't move them as fast as he had been doing prior. This shocked him, but not nearly as much as the vaginal fluids that ended up squirting onto the bottom half of Naruto's face did. It wasn't excessive, but it was enough to leave his chin and nose dripping with fluids, as if he had gotten shot in the face with a small squirt gun.

Even after she squirted, her orgasm continued around ten to fifteen more seconds. She collapsed in a sweaty mess, with messy hair and a heaving chest. Her eyes were shut, and her heart blazed at two or three beats per second.

"Holy shit..." Was all she was able to mumble after such a powerful climax. Her mind was dazed, and she found it hard to form comprehensible sentences, even in her own head. Her legs became like noodles, giving Naruto the freedom to remove himself from his position and look at the aftermath of his actions.

He grinned with a drenched and slightly sticky pair of lips, "Sounds like I did a good job."

Anko turned her exhausted eyes to him, "Screw off..." she grunted before grinning at seeing him lick the juices off of his mouth, "Hope I didn't drown ya."

"Almost. But I kinda enjoyed it."
Anko let out a tired laugh in response, "You really know your way around a vagina, Uzumaki. Makes me wonder exactly how experienced you really are."

"Beginner's luck." Naruto replied. He then sat up on his knees and brought down his boxers, showing her that he was at full mast, "Now, maybe I can get a turn?"

Anko scoffed and turned over, closing her eyes and wrapping the covers over her body, "You wish. I'm tired."

"EHH?!" Naruto shouted, "YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!"

Naruto's only response from his currently dark-skinned girlfriend was some light snoring.

Naruto groaned and stood off the bed, ready to head to the bathroom to finish himself off. But a hand reaching from the bed to grab his wrist prevented further movement.

"Just kidding." Anko winked at him, "I'm not that heartless." She then yanked him back onto the bed and swapped positions with him.

Naruto was now on his back, while Anko laid on her stomach between his legs. She grasped his hardened tool at the base, waging it around and analyzing it.

"You're so hard." She teased, "Did you really get off on licking my pussy that much?"

Naruto propped himself on his elbows and looked at her, "Honestly, I did."

"You're so cute." She chuckled before giving the underside of his shaft a long slow lick. After nearly a week of painful teasing, Naruto was able to feel what he's been craving since they've been together, "And this cock is cute too... the way it's twitching and pulsing in my hand. But I guess it's a bit too big to call it 'cute'."

It was starting to get difficult for him not to tell her to just suck it already, but he knew that probably wouldn't be a wise decision.

She then began to slowly stroke it with her lips less than two inches away from it. Each time her hand reached the top of his dick, she rubbed the underside of his head with her thumb momentarily before stroking it again. Anko loved how this made it twitch every time.

Soon, she gripped the base again and gave him another slow lick, this time at the underside of the top of his dick. She teased the head by tickling it with the tip of her tongue, something that was chipping away at poor Naruto's sanity.

"I guess this transformation does come with a few perks. I've never been able to do this before." As Naruto wondered what she was talking about, his eyes almost fell out of their sockets when Anko extended her tongue more than seven inches out her mouth. She loved his reaction as she flailed it up and around exotically. He was then able to see exactly how long and thin her tongue was when he saw her wrap it around the girth of his dick almost twice around, as if tying a small rope around it. He then realized he wasn't imagining things when he thought he felt her tongue wrapping around his fingers earlier. This was something Naruto never would have imagined seeing in all of his days of living.

His shock and disbelief was replaced by bliss and satisfaction when Anko started stroking his cock with her tongue. It felt incredible, like having a soft wet ring massaging up and down his dick.

"Whoa..." Naruto sighed, "That's... that's d-different..."

Anko simply huffed and grinned as she continued her 'tongue-job'. She rested her chin in her palm and simply started observing the groaning Naruto, while her tongue did all the work. Every now and then, she'd either wrap her tongue around the head and caress it or let it trail up and around his length, leaving no part of it dry.

"This is fun and all, but God I want it in my mouth now..." Anko said to herself before going through with her urges. With her tongue still wrapped around her lover's cock, she positioned herself over it and enveloped it into her mouth. The gasp from Naruto's mouth and the twitch from his dick was a clear indication that she was driving him up the wall. And Anko thoroughly enjoyed knowing this.

"K-Kami, Anko-chan..." He grunted with a scrunched up face, gripping at his hair, "This... this is just, aah..." Naruto couldn't even finish his sentence once Anko started sucking on the tip using just her lips. Her tongue crawled all over the mushroom-shaped head, manipulating his most sensitive spot. His feet curled and he gripped the ripped sheets below him, just as Anko had a few minutes ago. She then accumulated a bit of saliva and let it seep past her lips while she continued sucking on the head, watching as a few droplets of spit raced down the shaft, to the base. Her head then descended forward, taking more than half of the shaft in her mouth as well. She was disappointed that her gag reflex hadn't been somehow altered by the transformation like she'd hoped, but any disappointment on the matter vanished when she heard these words:

"Sh-Shit... I'm gonna cum...!"

Anko ejected the long object out of her mouth and gripped it, stroking it, using the saliva it was coated in as lubrication. Her strokes mainly focused around the head, using rapid and short repetitions while she looked at him with the most unholiest of grins.

"Mmm, you gonna cum for me, Naruto-kun? You gonna shoot that hot cum all over my face?"

Naruto couldn't even muster the mental strength to reply. His orgasm was coming, it was gonna come hard. His muscles became achingly tense, and his teeth grit as hard as his jaw would let them.

"Cum for me, Naruto... I can't wait to taste it..." She almost begged, stroking the tip of his cock faster. She lightly palmed his balls as she did this, and apparently that was all Naruto could take.

"F-Fuck...!"

Like a burst rifle, Naruto's dick shot out warm and thick threads of semen, landing right on Anko's waiting face. The first shot landed right on her lips, and she wasted no time lapping it up. The next few consecutive shots landed either on her forehead, in her hair, her chin, on her cheeks, and right below her right eye. Both Naruto and Anko couldn't count exactly how much shots of cum came from him, but Anko was sure it was enough to overflow a tea cup.

Once Naruto's orgasm ended, which lasted for a good fifteen whole seconds, he collapsed in a very defeated pose. Anko's face was almost completely covered in thick white cum, overriding her sense of smell. She couldn't say that she didn't love it though. She took advantage of her long tongue and licked up as much of it as she could off her face. But as thick and sticky as his semen was, this wasn't the easiest of tasks, especially not for the semen that was stuck in her hair.

"...Wow." Though calm, she was truly shocked, "My God, Naruto-kun... we oughta sell you off to some kind of glue factory. There's so much of it."

It took a few seconds for Naruto to gather the strength to reply, "...Haven't... masturbated... in a while..."

"Clearly." She hummed, still trying to get as much semen as she could in her mouth, "And considering how much I've teased you over the past week or so, I can imagine how backed up you were. We're gonna change your diet though, 'cause you taste kinda bitter. Not bad, but bitter."

"'Kay." Was all Naruto huffed out.
Anko laughed, and licked up the remaining semen off of her mahogany skin, "Get up and get in the shower with me. You're gonna help me wash this cum out of my hair." Naruto groaned.

"Alright, just... gimme a minute."

Naruto and Anko washed each other up, changed the torn and stained sheets from Anko's bed, and went back to bed cuddled up and naked like they were prior to getting intimate.

"That tongue thing you did was pretty kinky." Naruto mumbled, forever having the image of her tongue wrapped around his penis burned in his memory.

Anko scoffed, gently scribbling her name in his chest with a sharp claw, "You think that was kinky? Oh hun, we haven't even broken the barrier of kinky yet. I have much more planned for us." She then raised her head off his chest to look at him, "... Just so we're clear, you're not really into penetration, are you?"

"You mean like... on my end?"

"Yeah."

"Err, can't say that I am..." He answered awkwardly.

"Ever tried it?"

"N-No."

"Some guys like it, I've heard, even if they're straight. You shouldn't knock it 'till you try it."

Naruto sweatdropped, "I'd rather not..."

Anko shrugged, "Fine with me, I was just letting you know that there's things out there you may like. But if I'm the only one getting things inserted into them in this relationship, I have no problem with that either." She laid her head back down onto his chest and sighed, "I just didn't want to have to throw away my strap-on..."

"HUH?!"

"It was a gift from this lesbian I used to be friends with when I was a Chuunin. She had the hots for me."

Naruto was still stuck on the whole strap-on subject, "...So did you both...?"

Anko smirked, "Did I get to use it on her? No. Anko doesn't really swing that way. I just kept the gift, but never got a chance to use it." Naruto stayed silent. He had to admit that he was trying to get the mental image in his head.

Anko then tapped a finger on her chin, "Actually... there was this one time when I was a little older than you where me and a close friend got drunk and..." She then shook her head, "Nah, you probably don't wanna know."

"Yes I do!" Naruto almost shouted, dangerously close to a nosebleed.

Anko chuckled, "No, it's embarrassing."

"Wait, what friend was it?! Was it that Yugao lady?! Or Kurenai-sensei?!"

"I'm not telling you!"

"Please?!"

Anko smiled and turned over, "Goodnight, Naruto-kun."

For the next hour, Naruto tried to pry the info from her, while she simply pretended to be asleep until Naruto ran out of gas.

*The next day*

"Wow." Tsunade hummed, looking wide-eyed at the appearance of the new Anko Mitarashi, "Good thing you were smart enough to have a genjutsu casted on you when you arrived from the mission."

"Aww, what's the matter, Fifth? You trying to say I look ugly now?" Anko said with a grin.

"Not exactly the word I'd use. I'll need you to take off your coat and lay on your stomach and I'll run a diagnosis over your chakra network." Tsunade instructed.

Anko nodded and began stripping herself of her trench coat, "I thought most chakra diagnosis had to be done while the patient was on their back, not their stomach."

"Normally, that's how it's supposed to be done." Said Tsunade, "But your breasts are just a bit too big for me to easily scan your whole upper body from the front."

"Hah!" Anko laughed, "You're one to talk."

"On the bed. Now." Tsunade commanded, slightly annoyed. Anko smiled, but did as she was told and laid face-down on the bed, her face resting against the back of her hands as if waiting for a massage. Tsunade's hands began to glow with light blue chakra before hovering them over Anko's back. She moved them back and forth over her whole body, and came to a conclusion within seconds.

"Well..." The Hokage sighed, "Your chakra network seems fine, but it's circulating your chakra faster than what it should. And there seems to be a lot of tension and blockage by that area where your Curse Mark was, so my assumption is that the suppression The Third put on it broke or got corrupted somehow. Since there's so much blockage in that spot in particular, that's why you can't revert back to normal. It's kind of like breaking a key off in a lock."

Anko gave a small sarcastic laugh, "That's just dandy. So am I going to be stuck like this forever?"

Tsunade shrugged, "It's hard to say. But I'm no seal master like Jiraiya, so maybe he knows whether or not this can be reversible. All I know is that you can't stay like this for too long. It can do a number on your body."

"Really? I've been like this for a good twenty-four hours now, and I feel as great as ever, better even." Anko replied, sitting up.

"Yeah, for now. But since your chakra is constantly rushing in your system, even as you may not feel it, it can slowly start to wear down and overwork your body. And if it goes on too long, your body could shut down on you, or worse, you could go to sleep one day and not wake up."

"I gotta say, living as a Jounin kunoichi who gets sent on life-risking and dangerous missions on a regular basis, where I can very likely be killed, captured, tortured, or worse, that sounds like the most desirable way to die out of all others." Mitarashi scoffed with a short laugh, always finding some kind of humor or irony in bad news.

Tsunade shook her head, "But I'm sure you don't want to die so early. Especially now that you have Naruto in your life."

"'Tis true." Anko hummed, putting her trench coat back on, "So where is Jiraiya? Not only do I need him, but Naruto needs to get his seal checked out, too."

"Jiraiya should be back from the mission I've sent him on, so I'm sure you know what he's most likely doing around this time of day."

"Pervert." Anko spat, knowing what Tsunade was insinuating. If it wasn't for the fact that he was a powerful and talented shinobi, Anko was sure she'd have no type of respect for him and his creepy ways, "I'll grab Naruto up now and we'll go pay him a visit."

Tsunade nodded, and Anko exited the room. Tsunade sighed once the door closed.

"I was going to get on her case about leaving the village without my permission, but... something tells me I shouldn't." She thought, "I just hope she remembers to reapply the genju-"

A series of screams and yelps of horror were heard out beyond the door she was in, followed by a faint 'Oops'.

Tsunade face-palmed.

Ino hummed a tune as she catered to and watered the plants in her store. Fall would be arriving soon, and a new shipment of flowers had been brought to her. She needed to hurry and sell the remaining flowers she had in her possession from the summer, before the climate started to change and nobody would really want flowers anymore. The amount of business she was getting had begun to slow down as well, which was why she was currently the only person in the building at the moment.

That is, until the bell to her door rung as someone stepped inside. She turned her head and smiled at her most valuable customer, "Hey, Kurenai-sensei!"

Kurenai graced her with a sweet greeting smile and waved, "Hello, Ino. I feel like we haven't seen each other in ages."

"Yeah, well... With all that's been happening, I guess we've just been preoccupied." Ino said, trying to keep a smile. Kurenai saw the drop in her happiness and walked over to her.

"Yeah... I'm glad you came back from your mission okay."

"How did you...?"

"Shikamaru told me." Kurenai answered. Ino responded with an 'Oh...' and things were quiet between them for a second.

Then, the blonde kunoichi jumped when Kurenai suddenly wrapped her in a tight hug. The action had definitely caught her off guard. She and Kurenai were good friends, but she wouldn't have expected her to break the space barrier so suddenly like this.

"...I just wanted to thank you." Kurenai mumbled, still holding the blonde tightly. Kurenai pulled back and held Ino's shoulders, looking her in the eyes. Ino saw that Kurenai's eyes were starting to get watery, "He told me everything. He told me how you didn't want to go, but you decided to anyway. He told me if it wasn't for you, you guys wouldn't have been able to defeat the bastard who took Asuma away from me... Excuse my language."

Ino wasn't sure what to say for a while before she gave Kurenai a small smile, "It was nothing... I didn't really contribute too much in the fight, honestly."

Kurenai smiled back, "Don't be so modest. I was told you helped execute Shikamaru's plans, made a huge impact on one of the enemies, and even delivered the finishing blow to the guy who killed Asuma. I'm proud of you because I know you didn't want to fight, especially considering your loss with Sakura on top of everything... But you did, and it takes a lot of heart and courage to still decide to go out and fight like that."

Ino blushed, "I guess... I just couldn't let those two knuckleheads get themselves into trouble without me. And if anyone is to thank, it'd be Anko-sensei. She saved my life, and-"

"Anko?" Kurenai politely interrupted, "As in Anko Mitarashi? She was there?"

"Yeah, Shikamaru didn't tell you? Anko just came out of nowhere and kicked the our enemy's ass! She saved me from getting my eyes gouged out, and swept the floor with that guy! If it wasn't for her coming along, I don't know what would have happened."

Kurenai was wide-eyed, silently taking in Ino's words and processing them.

"I have to talk to her." Kurenai stated before turning around to head for the exit. She stopped mid-stride, however, and turned back around with a blush. She walked over to Ino again and gave her one last hug, one that Ino returned this time, "Thank you again, Ino. We'll talk more later. I just really have some things I need to discuss with Anko."

Ino smiled and nodded, "I understand." With that, she watched as Kurenai speed-walked out of the store. She smiled and was about to turn back to her plants, until she heard the bell to her door ring again.

In it this time, walked in Naruto. She was about to greet him, before she was cut off from doing so by being enveloped in a pair of arms again. Naruto hugged her tight, and Ino hesitantly returned the favor.

"Man, what's going on today?" Ino wondered.

Naruto pulled away and coyly chuckled at Ino's confused expression, "I never got a chance to really thank you for not quitting."

Ino smiled as well, "Well, you did hug me when you saw my Hitai-ate two days ago."

"Ah, yeah, but we were interrupted..." Naruto mumbled with a blush, scratching the back of his head.

Ino giggled a bit and nodded. She then remembered the events that occurred yesterday and analyzed him carefully, "So, how are you feeling...?"

Naruto looked at her and saw her careful look, and immediately knew the reason behind it, "I'm fine... I'm sorry you had to see me like that."

Ino knew Naruto wasn't some mind of monster, but she still had her guard up for obvious reasons, "I-It's fine... I'm glad you came along and helped with the mission..."
Naruto may be oblivious at times, but even he could tell that Ino currently wasn't comfortable in his presence after what she saw on yesterday's mission. That was probably the first time she saw him under the Kyuubi's influence, and given how she knows that's the cause behind Sakura's death, he couldn't blame her for being like this.

He was about to confess that his original intent was not to aid them in their mission, but decided against it. After all, she did see him fighting Yugito instead of fighting the Akatsuki, so she probably already knew that, "It was nothing... I'm just glad everyone turned out okay."

The air between them suddenly got awkward, as neither one knew what to say at this point. They avoided eye contact, and fidgeted in their spots.

"...Naruto, may I ask you a serious question?" She finally asked. The Uzumaki hesitantly nodded, pretty sure he knew what her question was already, "Why did you attack that woman from Kumo on the mission yesterday?"

Naruto couldn't reply right away, "... It's kind of a long story."

"I'm sure... It's just that our enemy, the Akatsuki, was right there and you attacked her instead. I don't mean to intrude, but what did she do for you to want to harm her over the Akatsuki...?"

"She... she made Anko break up with me." He saw Ino's eyes grow wide, but he put a hand up reassuringly, "It's alright, we got back together and everything got sorted out. But Yugito forced herself on me knowing Anko would see, and made it seem like I was cheating on her. And when that happened, I saw Anko look at me with this look of betrayal... this look of pain and disappointment. After that, I just... lost it."

Ino frowned, "Sounds like Anko really means a lot to you."

"She does." Naruto nodded, "Despite her weird ways, she really makes me happy. I haven't felt this way about anyone before."

Even though she and Naruto agreed to keep things platonic after their 'rendezvous' together, Ino couldn't deny the small amount of jealousy that struck her.

"Well, I'm glad things are resolved now, Naruto-kun."

Naruto nodded, "Me too. Hey." he made sure Ino was looking him in the eyes, "Listen... I know the way I seemed when you saw me on the battlefield yesterday was scary. And I never really wanted anyone, let alone you, to see me like that. But I just want you to know that everything is alright. I'm getting my seal checked out as soon as I see Ero-Sennin, and he'll fix it and you or I won't have to worry about losing control like that again... alright?"

Ino slowly nodded, "I understand, Naruto-kun. I know you'll do what's right."

Naruto could still see the slight uncertainty in her eyes, but decided to leave it alone for now.

Anko strolled down a narrow, slightly isolated path to the local hot springs in her attempt to find Jiraiya. It wasn't until she spotted her best friend Kurenai walking up to her that broke her out of her thoughts as she wandered down the detour.

"Nai-chan, what's up?" Anko greeted. Her eyebrow rose when she saw Kurenai giving her an expectant look.

"Talk. You have some explaining to do." Kurenai started, but then something confused her, "...Why are you under a genjutsu?"

Anko smiled sheepishly, "Yeah... that's a long story."

"Hm, I have time." Kurenai narrowed her eyes and cancelled Anko's genjutsu the next second.

What she saw once Anko's genjutsu wore off shocked her so much, she found herself with her butt in the ground. Her eyes were so wide to the point where it almost looked as if she had no eyelids.
"A-Anko...?! What in the heavens...?!"

Anko rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, "This is why I had a genjutsu put on me, genius." She extended a hand to help Kurenai back on her feet, and expected the hesitation for her to take it.

Kurenai grabbed Anko's clawed hand and stood back onto her feet. She dusted herself off, still wide-eyed at the altered appearance of her best friend, "How did you end up like this?!"

Anko grew tired of explaining the story multiple times, "Long story short, my curse seal seemed to have activated and is malfunctioning in a sense. That's why I was on my way to Jiraiya to see if he can help me out."

"Your curse seal? I thought the Third had suppressed it years ago?"

Anko sighed, "Listen Kure-chan, I love ya to pieces, but now isn't exactly the time to chit-chat. I really need to see Jiraiya so I can get this over and done with, especially if this thing has the potential to get worse over time. If you want to know the full story, talk to Yugao."

Kurenai was going to protest but figured Anko was right, "Well... alright. I guess I won't hold you up, then."

Anko nodded, "Thanks. I'll swing by your place later and fill you in on everything." She then placed a hand on her hip, "But before I go, I think you're forgetting something."

The leader of Squad 8 was momentarily confused by that, "What are you... Oh! Sorry!"

Kurenai quickly restored Anko's genjutsu so that she was able to make everyone think she looked like her normal, violet-haired self.

"Thanks, Dollface." Anko said before walking past Kurenai to her original destination. But before Anko walked away too far. Kurenai remembered the initial reason she went looking for her.

"Wait! Why did Ino say that you assisted them on their mission yesterday?"

"I said I'll fill you in later!" Anko waved her off, never breaking her stride. She then turned a corner, leaving a more confused Kurenai to herself.

"What in the world is going on here?" Kurenai wondered. She just sighed and decided to see Yugao to obtain the news that she so desperately needed to be updated with.

Soon, Anko arrived at the front entrance to the hot springs located on the other side of town. Just as she raised her arm to go through the entrance, she spotted the white-haired man walking the opposite way, towards her direction.

"Ah, just the man I was looking for." Anko said.

Jiraiya looked at her with mild surprise, "Well well, if it isn't Anko." he gave her a small smug smirk, "What is it I can do for you, Ms. Mitarashi?"

Anko rolled her eyes and barely managed to stop herself from groaning out loud, "I can't stand talking to this guy, I swear."

"Listen, I need your help. My curse seal is broken and I need to know if there's any way to fix it."

"Hm, your curse seal, huh? Is that why you're currently under a reverse genjutsu?"

"Yes, it is."

"Right. So I'm assuming that when you say broken, you mean that you're stuck in your transformation and you can't revert back to your normal state."

"Hit the nail right on the head." Anko nodded.

"So exactly what happened that caused you to transform? Must have taken a lot for the Third's suppression seal to fail."

"To put it simply, I was really emotionally distraught by something and one thing lead to another and I ended up lik-" Anko's jaw muscles clenched up and a vein protruded out of her forehead, "I swear if you continue looking at my tits for just another second, I'll kick your balls straight into your throat and pull 'em out your mouth."

Jiraiya's eyes immediately returned back to the face of the woman before her, as the threat alone made his testicles hurt for a few seconds, "R-Right, sorry... So it was due to emotional distress. That makes sense, I guess."

Anko rolled her eyes again, "So are you going to take a look at it or not?"

The Toad Sennin looked off into space and rubbed his chin in a pondering thought, "Well... what's in it for me?"

"I'll keep from giving your backdoor virginity to one of my anacondas that's about five times my size."

"...You really know what to say to a man, don't you...?" he sweatdropped.

Anko crossed her arms, "Jiraiya, I'm annoyed and you're working on your third strike. Be serious for just a few minutes and help me out here."

Jiraiya never did learn when to stop pushing the envelope when it came to women, "Maybe if I got a 'please', I'd feel more inclined to-"

Anko reached in her back pouch and laid a scroll on the ground.

She then bit her thumb and wiped the blood onto it.

"Kuchiyose no ju-"

"ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, I WAS KIDDING!" Jiraiya panicked, kicking the scroll away before she could place her hand on it, "A-Alright so here's the thing... I would in all seriousness help you out with your problem, but I was just on my way out for an important mission. I don't think I'd have time to look into it, seeing as it seems like it'd be a bit time consuming to take care of."

"Are you serious?" Anko grunted, folding her arms.

"Afraid so. Maybe when I come back, I can-"

"Oi! Ero-Sennin!" A distinguishable voice was heard before a blur of orange and blonde made its way down next to Anko.

"Gaki, what's up?"

"I've been looking for you for days! Listen, something is wrong with my seal holding the Kyuubi, and I really need you to try and fix it."

Jiraiya was about to ask why Naruto was so open about talking about the Kyuubi in front of Anko, but he figured he must have told her somewhere down the line, "Geez, you too?"

Naruto looked at Anko, "Oh, so you told him about-?"

"Yeah."

"Listen guys, I know that I'm known for knowing how to work my way around a seal, but I have important matters I have to tend to."

"But this is important!" the couple replied simultaneously. Naruto looked around and made sure he wasn't within earshot of anyone nearby, "Ero-Sennin... Jiraiya-sama. Look, it's really urgent that you look at our seals. It's getting more and more easier for the Kyuubi's influence to take me over and it's scaring me and those I care about... I know you heard about what happened to Sakura."

Jiraiya sighed and put his hands in his pockets, "I understand where you're coming from, Naruto, trust me. But the intel I have for this mission is time-sensitive and crucial, especially since it deals with the Akatsuki. BUT, I may be able to make time for your seal, Naruto, seeing as that's very crucial, too."

"The time you used to give me excuses should've been the time that you could have used to actually fix this seal." Anko chided in.

"I have no need to give you excuses Anko, I just need you to know why I can't put in time to fix both of your seals today. Besides, I told you, it may take me a while to figure out how to undo the seal and restore you back to normal."

Naruto was about to sigh and just tell Anko to give up, until a very bright idea came to him.

"Hey, Ero-Sennin, can I talk to you in private for a second?"

Anko sent Naruto a inquiring look, to which Naruto made a gesture for her to relax.

"Alright Gaki, make it quick. It's like I've been saying for the past five minutes, I'm kind of in a hurry."

Naruto then pulled Jiraiya a couple dozen meters away from Anko, heading down the alley on the side of the hot springs entrance.

"Okay, so here's the thing... And you're not going to believe me when I say this but... Anko and I are dating." Naruto informed him.

"...PPFFFTTTT. HAHAHAHAHA!" Jiraiya burst out into hysterical laughter, "Oh, you are so full of shit."

"It's the truth! Why do you think I'm so comfortable with talking about the Kyuubi in front of her?"

Jiraiya stopped laughing a bit, seeing as how he DID have a point, "Ah, okay, that would explain that. But, no offense, how do you expect me to believe that a woman like that would show a gaki like you the time of day?"

"You can ask her when we walk back over to her if you want." Naruto said seriously, crossing his arms.

Jiraiya's smirk slowly died down, "So... you're serious? You're actually hittin' that?!"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Yes and no. See, the thing is, Anko and I haven't really had sex yet. And the reason she doesn't want to go all the way yet is because she doesn't want our first time to happen while she's transformed like that. Sooooo, it would be a BIG favor to me if you could fix her seal as soon as possible, if you catch my drift."

"Gaki, I swear you better not be bullshitting me."

"I'm not!"

Jiraiya stood there in deep thought for quite a while, "... Alright gaki, I'll do it. For a fee."

Naruto groaned, "How much do I have to pay you?"

"Nuh-uh." He shook his head, "Not money. In exchange for holding off my mission to fix both of your seals, I want one of Anko's bras. Not only for my enjoyment, but to prove that you're not pulling one over on me."

Naruto had to hold back the urge to 'rasengan' his godfather into the brick wall behind him, "... You goddamn perv."

"That is my fee, kid. Take it or leave it."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "I don't even think she wears bras that often. I've only seen her wear one once."

It crept the Jinchuuriki out how the well-known nin was starting to salivate off of Naruto's words, "... O-Okay, if not a bra, then what about a pair of panties?" Jiraiya then started to emit his signature perverted giggle, "Unless she doesn't wear those often, too...?"

Naruto was at the brink of saying 'screw it' and punching the Super Pervert right in the stomach, "... You're sick. Extremely sick. Alright, I'll bring a pair of Anko's panties to you if you agree to fix my seal and her seal right this second. Deal?"

Jiraiya gleefully shook Naruto's hand, "Deal. I expect those panties to be in my hand as soon as I come back from my mission."

"Whatever."

Naruto and Jiraiya then walked back over to Anko, who was starting to get impatient, "Okay, I'll fix your seal too, Anko. Follow me, you two."

Anko blinked, and whispered over to Naruto, "What did you two talk about over there? And what's with that creepy smile of his all of a sudden?"

Naruto sighed, "I managed to work something out with him." He then gulped, "Hey, quick question... Is there, like, a pair of panties you have that you don't really want anymore...?"