Heheh… sorry about the… erm… 'late' update…
I've been working on another two projects… TBH and UE. (Abbreviations, of course…) If you like my work, check out my other shit. I should be posting chapter 1 of UE soon after this one, so don't bother asking what it stands for, just go look for yourself.
That, and I've been playing video games all month… Heheh…
The next week passed rather blandly… or at least Naruto thought so. Ino was still getting used to the whole 'being a captive' thing, Sasuke was let out of his restraints and when asked if he wanted to stay or leave, chose to stay, and Tayuya and Kin were never bored when it came to taking care of their prisoner…
Naruto was walking towards Ino's room, a handful of wildflowers in hand. This would be the fourth time he's brought her fresh flowers. "Naruto…" Kin said. "I think you may need to talk to her for a bit…"
"Why?" Naruto asked.
"Last time I was in there was right after Tayuya brought her lunch…" Kin started, stalling slightly as her eyes met her feet. "She seemed to be trying to chew through her wrist to get out…"
Naruto sighed. "I'll see what I can do." Surely enough, when he stepped inside, Ino's head shot up from its place next to the shackle on her arm, a red and bloody mark encircling her wrist. He could tell she'd been crying. Chewing through your own arm hurt like hell after all… "Ino." He said strongly in a commanding tone.
"Y-yes?" She asked.
Naruto walked over to her side, pulling a roll of cloth from his back pocket. He always kept some gauze on hand for those big wounds he wound up with every so often… "Please stop this…" He said, wrapping her bloody wrist in the medical fabric.
"Naru…to…" Ino said, tears welling up in her eyes. "I don't want to be here anymore!!!" She yelled, nearly tackling him as she wrapped him in a weak embrace, a testament to her weakened state.
"You haven't been eating, have you?" Naruto asked as he placed his arms firmly around her waist and back, comforting her. "You know… if you're trying to chew a limb off, refusing to eat is the worst thing you could do…" She looked at him, confounded. "You'd need all the nutrients you could get to stay alive with the blood loss, possible infection, and then you'd have to go about the bones, too… A messy business chewing your own bits to pieces…"
"Naruto… can you get me out of here?" She asked meekly. "If you don't… I swear I won't stop with this."
Naruto sighed reluctantly, but before he could react, Ino's mouth latched onto Naruto's, her tongue eagerly attacking his. After a few moments of playful fondling and foreplay, Naruto stood up to walk away. "You know, Stockholm syndrome isn't a very healthy thing…"
When Naruto was out of the door, Ino immediately took out a small ring of keys. Idiot… a man will let a woman do ANYTHING if it means he'll get laid… and thus did Ino begin to try key after key on the stolen ring in the locks holding her shackles on her arm place. After a good five minutes and three times through all of the keys, Ino simply screamed. "Why won't these damned things WORK!?"
"You don't have the right key…" Naruto said, answering the obviously rhetorical question from his place in the doorway, a single key on a much smaller ring dangling from his outstretched index finger. "Honestly, you don't think I'd be stupid enough to bring the very key that would let you out into the room with me, do you?" at a sharp glare from Ino, Naruto sighed. "On that key ring is little more than storage room and barracks keys, of which this room is included."
"Why would you…" Ino started, before her captor threw the key he held to her.
"Now, I'm letting you out on two conditions; one, you be a good girl and don't try to run away. If you do, the guards will kill you. Two, you are to have someone I trust with you at all times. This isn't so you won't escape, but rather so none of the men I don't trust get it in their heads that there's a new whore in town." Naruto spoke with the certainty and command well befitting the tone of a leader. Ino was confused, but this meant she could leave her room now, which meant she was one step closer to getting home. "On that ring is one of four keys that will open or lock this door." Naruto added, pointing behind him. "Of which the other three are in possession of myself, Kin and Tayuya. Essentially, you have your own room now. You are safe here and only here so long as you lock that door. Oto is a harsh place, missy, and you'd best learn to live with it…"
As Naruto left, Ino hastily undid her bindings, and spent the next few hours contemplating her captor's reasoning while rubbing the red ring where the shackle used to be.
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Later that evening, for the first time in more than a week, Ino genuinely smiled. Sasuke walked into the room. "Sasuke-kun, you came to rescue me!" Ino yelled as she nearly tackled the boy.
"What? Wait…" Sasuke started. "I'm not here to 'rescue' anyone… Naruto asked me to bring you food." He indicated the tray and bowls now laying on the floor, bits of stew covering his pants. "Which you made me spill… No dinner for you…" He added coldly.
"Wait… Sasuke-kun, you want to stay here?" Ino asked.
"I thought that was obvious…" Sasuke said as he left the room.
"That… would mean…"
"That boya's a missing-nin? Yup." A voice said from the doorway. "I just thought I'd bring down a little extra something, but now I see that it's a good thing I did…" The blonde figure held another tray of food similar to the one Sasuke held.
"Naruto…" Ino muttered as he set the tray down on the table. "I… uhm… was wondering something…"
"Yeah?" The boy asked.
"Where's the bathroom?" Naruto couldn't help but chuckle. And soon that chuckle erupted into laughter. Ino however, didn't think her question was funny in the least. "God DAMMIT Naruto! I want a shower, or a bath, because I fucking STINK! I need to pee, and I am damn well tired of that GODDAMNED CHAMBER POT!!!"
Naruto cringed as the girl slowly backed him into a corner as she screamed. "Okay, okay! We'll go to the bathroom!" He said as he held his arms out in front of himself defensively. "And you kinda have to admit, having the chamber pot under the bed was better than not having it, right?"
This earned him a firm slap along his cheek. Naruto groaned as he rubbed the red mark and led Ino out into the hallway. "Ohoho, you two have your first little spat?" Tayuya scoffed.
"Just…. Shut up." Naruto muttered. Several minutes later, Naruto was standing outside the women's bathroom. With the small number of women actually present in Oto, Orochimaru only saw a need for one public bath/restroom for women. But they kept it pretty tidy, Naruto had to admit. He could barely stand some of the men's bathrooms… Then again, Naruto had his own bathroom… or rather, Tayuya had her own, and he used hers.
Kin, however, was forced to use this bath. Naruto had even gone to get her to help Ino acclimate herself to the new way of life she'd been forced into. "So… umm… Kin…" Ino started.
"Yes, Ino?"
"Why are you in the shower with me?" The showers weren't particularly small, but in Ino's state of mind, it would have been highly appreciated to get some space to herself…
"Well, someone has to help you scrub all this grime off your back…" Kin chuckled. Ino simply sat herself down and let the girl do as she wanted. Frankly, there wasn't anything she could do about her situation, and she wasn't too happy about that… but at least it was a girl in here with her…
In fact, when she thought about it, Naruto had said things like rape weren't too rare here, so she was actually quite lucky she wasn't in a worse state than she already was… But then that got her thinking… "Kin…"
"Yes, Ino?" Kin asked, smiling.
"Have you ever… that is, has a man ever… I mean, from what I heard from Naruto…" Ino took a deep breath to try and focus herself. "Have you ever been raped?"
Kin was taken aback for a moment, honestly having no idea what to say. "Well… yeah, once…" Ino turned to her new friend with a worried expression. "Oh, well, I try not to worry about it too often… I mean, I did go off on my own when I was told not to, so in a way, it was my own fault…"
"How can you say that!?" Ino yelled, rising to her feet off the wooden stool she'd been sitting on.
"Well… I don't know, but I can." Kin said, smiling. One of the worst things that could happen to a girl, and she was simply shrugging it off? "That was before I was with Naruto, of course… He was the one who found me after, you know… anyway, after I told Naruto what happened and what the man looked like, he just… disappeared the next day."
Ino looked a little confused, but she got most of it. Naruto killed the man that had his way with Kin… "So then, that's how you two met?"
"Oh no… I was supposed to stay with Naruto until they could find someone better suited to take care of me at that age… I think he felt it was his responsibility to keep me safe." Kin said as she went back to scrubbing.
"What about Tayuya?" Ino asked.
"Oh, well… her and Naruto were already a 'thing' when I showed up… just a fleeting childhood romance, every kind of innocent you can find here…" Kin stated. "Then one day, he asked her if he could have me too, and after a while, she said yes."
"So he needs to get her permission?" Ino asked, chuckling slightly.
"Well, he'd never admit it, but he's always been a little closer to Tayuya than me…" Kin answered, sighing slightly, drooping into a depressing stance. "He's just known her longer, that's all. That and she's always been the 'dominant' in their relationship as far as 'couples' decisions go… She's actually quite submissive in bed, though…"
Ino blushed. "Umm… I'll take your word for it… I mean, you only know what Naruto tells you, right?"
"Oh no, often enough Naruto asks both of us to…"
"OKAY! That's enough… I don't need to hear any more…" Kin smiled maniacally as she grabbed Ino from behind under her arm, the other hand shooting to the blonde's crotch. Ino squeaked in shock, not far off from a full-blown scream.
"My, you're awfully shy…" Kin giggled, reaching two fingers up into Ino. The blonde was an untold shade of red, and Kin simply continued to giggle as she felt her way around the inside of Ino's womanhood. "Oh, I see… you're a virgin, huh? You see, I can tell these things…" Kin removed her fingers, now wet with Ino's juices, and grabbed one of the towels along the wall. "I'll be out here if you need me to help you finish up…" Kin added, again giggling at her double entendre.
Ino simply stared at the floor as she switched the water from hot to cold.
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Once Ino was through with her shower, she was immediately grabbed by the wrist and dragged down a hall. "GRAH! Where are you taking me!?" Ino yelled.
"You'll see…" Kin answered, and a moment later added; "We're here!"
Ino looked at the small room in distraught awe. "You… have an onsen?" She asked.
"Yup, me and Tayuya asked Naruto for one. He couldn't say no!" Kin said, walking up to the edge of the bubbling pool. There were already a handful of girls here, including a certain red-head.
"I hear my name?" Tayuya asked.
"Yup." Kin answered, lowering herself into the water next to Tayuya. "Come on, Ino!"
"Uhm… okay…" Ino muttered, walking down into the pool via the stairs, which Kin hadn't used.
"Hey, is that the new girl?" One of the unnamed women asked, wading over to Ino, who was sitting next to Kin.
"I think it is, I've never seen her before…" Another girl stated.
Kin chuckled as Ino was bombarded with questions from the girls, the most suspicious of which being about her sexual orientation, at which Kin outright laughed. It was a good twenty minutes before the strangers were satisfied, and Ino was left to soak alongside Kin and Tayuya.
"So… umm… Tayuya…" Ino started, shyly. "How did you meet Naruto?"
Tayuya was slightly confused by the question, but shrugged it off. "Ehh… he was here when I showed up, and we've been together ever since, in one way or another…"
"Didn't he ask you to be his girlfriend when he was like… seven?" Kin asked.
Tayuya chuckled. "Yeah, he did, the little idiot…"
"So… how long have you been sleeping together?" Ino asked. Seven-year-olds do NOT have sex in the happy little world in her head.
"Oh, about two years ago… He started 'dating' Kin about a year ago, and as far as I know, they've been sleeping together about half a year now…" Tayuya answered, Kin nodding in confirmation at the bits about her.
"Kekeke… hello girls…" A calm, masculine voice said. "Message fr-"
"KABUTO YOU FUCKING PERVERT!!! GET THE FUCK OUT BEFORE I RIP YOUR FUCKING BALLS OFF!!!" Tayuya screamed, before she began throwing kunai at him from a small pouch Ino assumed was hidden under the water for just such an occasion, and the other girls followed suit, throwing anything they could get their hands on at the young man. Ino just realized the rarity that in all the prior conversation with Tayuya, she hadn't said 'fuck' once… Either she was in a good mood, or she just hit her period.
"Ne, stop hitting me!" Kabuto yelled. Every girl except Ino was now throwing things at him. One was even tearing chunks of rock out of the floor… "Message from Orochimaru!"
At this, the barrage stopped. "What the fuck did you say?" Tayuya asked. It was obvious the red-head was the 'alpha' female around Oto…
"Ne, ladies… Orochimaru wanted someone to tell everyone that we're moving the majority of our personnel and supplies to alpha site…" He said, pushing his miraculously undamaged glasses further up the bridge of his nose. "Naturally, I volunteered to do so…"
"Naturally…" Kin scoffed.
"Uhhm… Alpha site?" Ino asked.
"Ohhh, hello my pretty, so they're letting you have your run of the facility now?" Kabuto asked. When he received no reply, he continued. "Well, Otogakure is not one village, you see… It is split up into three large sites; alpha, beta, and gamma, as well as more than a dozen smaller sites." Ino looked confused, so he sighed and tried to clarify. "We are currently at beta site."
"I… think so." Ino said.
"Orochimaru runs alpha site, Naruto runs beta, and gamma switches between this fucking pervert and a few of the other higher-ups." Tayuya said.
"So don't worry, no one can do anything to you as long as you're here." Kin said, smiling. "I still think it's best if you stay with one of us girls at all times, though…"
"Aww, group hug!" Kabuto said from the doorway.
"KABUTO YOU FUCKING BASTARD, GET THE FUCK OUT YOU FUCKING FUCK!" Tayuya screamed as the pelting resumed. "FUCKING LETCH!!!"
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Naruto faced an interesting conundrum. What to do with Ino? He had little authority in Oto-alpha, and next to no authority in Oto-gamma. Plain and simple; she had to stay here. Reports say Konoha nin are closing in on their current location, so they have to move. Orochimaru would take the Uchiha, Kabuto, and most of the people and supplies with him, and then disperse them evenly between the other two.
It always helped Naruto to think when he was laying down in that field… the smells and sights as he looked up at the sky tend to clear his head. That's exactly why he jumped at the position to run this place… it'd give him an excuse to live here full-time. Sure, Orochimaru could directly order him to do things, but unless there's an order, or Orochimaru's around, he runs the place.
"Dammit… this is just not my day…" Naruto groaned. He'd heard about the last few matches from Zaku and Dosu, and Orochimaru informed him he wanted Naruto there, in the finals for the operation. That was in just under two weeks. Gaara had beaten the Hyuuga boy to a bloody pulp, the Nara boy beat the undercover ANBU, and the Hyuuga heiress was beaten by, in Zaku's words, 'The freak in the green suit'.
Only one thing was certain… this was not going to be a good month for Naruto.
Okay, I think this would be just hilarious, but I'm going to ask you what you think… Kin; straight or bi?
EDIT: Vote be closed now, people...
And yes, I made a few more references to things like Stockholm syndrome (Growing emotionally attached to your captors in a kidnapping/hostage situation) and chamber pots (As the name implies, it's a pot. Usually kept under the bed, it's sort of an 'auxiliary' or 'temporary' toilet, often used so you don't have to go all the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Most commonly used by old people) and for the record, Naruto emptied it every night while she was asleep… gross, but it had to be done.
That, and I don't know why, but I use rape and other things of that sort in my stories and fics far too often… I don't know why. (PK says I have a bad habit of "Fucking over my characters")
I wanted to put up a summary of the prelims, but no matter how I tried, I couldn't get it to look good... The only thing you really need to know is that Sai lost to Shikamaru because he gave up after the wounds Orochimaru gave him re-opened, and he couldn't continue the fight.