Ch. 2
The journey home to Konoha took, when they didn't have to travel at civilian speed, only two days. Zabuza and Haku must have traveled at a much higher speed, because even with them leaving a day before them, they shouldn't have been able to reach them when they did.
As it was; they joined them about an hour before they reached the gates of Konoha. They had had contact with one of Zabuza's informants, and while they had planned on joining, and giving all the money they had taken from Gato's estate to, the revolution in Kirigakure; they had been informed that Zabuza was seen as an enemy by both side in the conflict. Not willing to go to his death, he decided to join his little lover, and future child.
As they came to the gate, and the check in for entering the village, there didn't go many seconds before they were surrounded by ANBU. The gate guard, a chunin by the name of Kamizuki Izumo, came forward, seemingly a little pensive at the sight of Zabuza.
"What…" he then cleared his throat; Zabuza's reputation was apparently much scarier than Naruto had thought.
"What are your reasons for wishing to enter Konoha?" now Sakura looked a little confused. She knew that when someone came to a village gate; the first thing they would have to do was to identify themselves and show their passport. They were thought so in the academy; even though most have learned it by their parents by then.
Zabuza seemed to agree with her, and followed the normal procedure.
"My name is Momochi Zabuza, and this is my student Yuki Haku. We come to Konoha to join the forces, and so that I can marry the mother of my child." The last sentence made Kakashi startle slightly, not enough for his students, or even the gate guard to notice, but both Zabuza, Haku and the ANBU noticed, the last ones filling it for later; apparently Kakashi was aware of whom The Demon of the Hidden Mist was speaking of.
Naruto didn't react at all. She had expected that to be the case, and had already made a mental list of what would needed to be taken care of, and what she would need to speak about with the Old Man.
Izumo took the passports Zabuza was holding toward him, but after a short cursory scan, he held them back. It wasn't like he didn't know about Zabuza, although the look at Haku's passport was slightly longer.
"Yes… well… you will need to present yourself to the Sandaime Hokage. He will decide whether you will be allowed to live in the village. The ANBU guard will show you the way."
When they just stood, apparently waiting for Kakashi's team, he hurriedly got the papers cleared for his team too, so as not to have the scary guy from Mist hanging around for too long. Kakashi and his team would need to go to the Hokage anyway, and when they had left the gate; it wouldn't be his problem anymore.
As Kakashi gathered his genins, and apparently The Demon of the Hidden Mist and his student, and started the journey to the Hokage's tower, he let out a relieved breath, and turned toward his partner Hagane Kotetsu, to berate him for hiding, leaving him with the dangerous ninja.
…o0O0o…
When the group, upon Kakashi's insistence of them being allowed to enter together, entered the Hokage's office, Kakashi was hit by an enraged stare. At first he feared for his life; the Hokage must have somehow figured out what had happened on the mission, but then he realized that leaving the demon brothers, and catching a passing hunter-nin's attention, to get them to Konaha, clearly stating, within the hearing range of the hunter-nin, that the mission had gone up from a C-rank, and deciding to take his rookie genins with him, continuing the mission, might not have been the smartest idea; especially not when he had the Hokage's unofficial nephew on his team. He might just be a little over his head.
His fear of actually getting a little time with Ibiki upon the reveal on what furthermore had been going on, on the mission, might become a reality.
While he was caught in his fearful musings, the rest of the group had come to a standstill. Zabuza was standing with one hand on the shoulder of Naruto, caressing him softly with his thumb.
Kakashi made a gulping sound, and started talking to the now red faced Hokage; he looked like he was ready to explode any minute.
"Hokage-sama I ask for the allowance of only explaining part of the mission details while my whole team are present, as some of it involve S-rank village secrets." At Sarutobi's strained nod he continued on.
"We were given the C-rank mission of protecting the bridge builder of wave; Tazuna, on his travel to wave, and while he finished building his bridge. Two days into the mission we encountered the c-class missing nins Gozu and Meizu from Kirigakure, also called the demon brothers. I let my unaware team spring a trap of theirs, both to see who they wanted to attack, but also to find out what my team was capable of. I pretended to be killed due to the surprise of the attack, and watched the proceedings from a nearby tree, ready to jump in, should my team be in any real danger.
Sakura guarded the client, while Sasuke and Naruto each took out one of the brothers. Naruto got scratched by the poisoned weapon of one of the brothers, but released the poison, by way of bleeding it out, after the fight.
The brothers was clearly bend on getting to the client, and after having bound the demon brothers, and signaling the nearby hunter-nin, I interrogated the client on the false ranking of the mission, and he told us that the reason for this was; that wave was almost bleed dry by a criminal shipping magnate by the name of Gato. He had the country in a tight monopoly of the sailing, and Tazuna's bridge was supposed to be the release of the country.
I decided, for the good of the village relations, and with the wishes of my team, to continue the mission.
Upon entering wave we encountered Momochi Zabuza, also called The Demon of the Hidden Mist, and I engaged in battle while my team protected the client.
During the fight I got caught in a water prison, and ordered my team to retreat, as he was way out of their league. My team dismissed my orders, and continued to attack Zabuza with a sneak attack, thereby forcing him to release me from my prison. The fight concluded in me hitting Zabuza, rendering him unconscious. Upon closer look he was discovered to have been hit in the neck by senbon, which was cast by a hidden Kiri hunternin. Later we discovered that he wasn't in fact a hunter-nin, but an accomplice of Zabuza's.
I fainted due to chakra exhaustion, and my team transported me, while guarding the client, to the client's home.
Upon my awakening I informed my team of my suspicion; that Zabuza wasn't dead, and merely in a near death state, rendering him unable to fight for at least a week. Giving me a week to recover, and my team to prepare, before the fight would commence.
Hokage-sama, I would like to tell this part of the debriefing without genin Uchiha and genin Haruno being present, due to the fact that village secrets are a part of the explanation." At the Hokage's slight nod, he was very interested in what had happened, but wasn't willing to let Naruto's secrets become common knowledge for his team. It would be up to Naruto, when he would want them to know. And while they could apparently work well together, by the sound of Kakashi's mission report, he could see that there was still distrust form Naruto toward his teammates.
He even seemed like he didn't trust Kakashi fully; something that could turn out to become a problem, as a genin was supposed to be able to fully trust his sensei. But considering Naruto's history with Mizuki, and his early academy teachers; who it had turned out had sabotaged his schooling, it was quite understandable.
"7 days after the fight with Zabuza; Zabuza and his student Yuki Haku, who is not a missing nin, and have never gotten standardized tutoring or schooling in the ninja arts, attacked the bridge. Sakura was guarding the client, and Sasuke engaged Haku, while I engaged Zabuza. Naruto had been left at the clients home, due to having come back late, and was awoken, and warned of the conflict, by two of Gato's thugs attacking the clients daughter and grandson. Naruto killed the two guards, and after sending the clients family to safety at the neighbor, he joined us at the bridge.
The attacks from Zabuza and Haku were non-lethal, and as such; I defended with non-lethal means. Upon Sasuke and Naruto's fight against Haku being conclude, with Sasuke being in a near-death state, and Naruto using his inner well of chakra, and me having caught Zabuza with my summons, Gato entered the bridge, with what we later found out was his full gathering of thugs; I will estimate that there was about 200 men, and apparently that was what Zabuza and Haku had been waiting for.
Naruto signaled me to release my prisoner, and upon doing so, the two enemy nins attacked, and killed, Gato and all of his men.
The rest of the week it took to build the bridge, which was named the Great Naruto bridge, in honor of Naruto inspiring hope and a will to fight into the clients grandson, was quiet and problem free. Upon them leaving wave, Naruto invited Momochi Zabuza and Yuki Haku to become a part of Konoha's forces. They joined us about an hour before we reached the gate.
This is my debriefing, and I recommend that anyone, who is not Uzumaki Naruto, Momochi Zabuza, Yuki Haku, myself, or you Hokage-sama, leave the office, as some of the missing information are rather personal, and I doubt you will want even your ANBU guards to know the whole truth.
Of course the decision is yours Hokage-sama, this is just my recommendation.
When he ended his debriefing he stood in a seemingly relaxed, yet ready for action, position, looking straight forward. There was no way he dared to read his Icha Icha book, when he feared for actually getting a time out in the T & I division, upon revealing the classified part of his mission.
Sarutobi looked surprised upon the inclusion of the missing nin and his student for the classified part of the debriefing, but he figured that they had been involved in the whole affair.
It surprised him some; that the wandering and free-spirited missing nin that Zabuza was, was willing to bind himself to another village, but he figured he would come to the reason why that was, when he had finished the debriefing.
He turned toward the two, soon to be excluded, members of the team, and asked them;
"Do you have anything to add to the mission rapport?" at the reluctant shake of the head from Sasuke, and the awed same from Sakura, he sent them on their way.
He sat; looking at Zabuza, for a little while, and then he gave an order;
"Everyone but boar are to leave, I will tell him when to call you back." Then to Naruto.
"Boar has been the leader of you security detail until you reached genin, and is my most trusted ANBU. He knows all the secrets concerning you, even many you yourself don't know yet." Upon Naruto's look around the office, he made a waving motion, and a boar masked ANBU jumped down from a corner, where he shouldn't have been able to hide, as there were no shadows.
He gave a nod to Naruto, but ignored the rest, and took his place, about a steps distance behind the Hokage.
"Now what part of the mission, exactly, are relevant for the classifying? And what happened in the week between fights?" when Kakashi looked ready to continue the debriefing, Sarutobi held up a hand, never moving his gaze from Naruto.
Naruto took a fortifying breath, and started to explain.
"You know my Sexy no Jutsu… it isn't a henge." At this point the Hokage looked truly surprised, both at the thought of what relevance this could have to the mission, and at the fact of the Jutsu itself.
"A henge is an illusion, a genjutsu… my Sexy no Jutsu is a transformation. I don't use it only for catching perverts you know… I also use it to transform into a wolf when I am hunting, or someone else when I need to shop groceries… if I only used a henge, someone would have discovered it by now… there are after all a lot of ways to see through the henge, and you only have to have the slightest suspicion of someone being under a henge, before you are legally allowed to disable it… it was a law that was supposed to work against spies, but I have been the subject of it many times, always to see if I was me." As old man Hokage cleared his throat, he returned to the subject he was supposed to explain.
"As I told you, it is a true transformation… when I discovered that Zabuza-sama and Haku-kun were working for Gato, I became suspicious… I met Haku in the woods, and we started talking, I don't think he knew that I knew that he was him, but I learned a lot about Zabuza and Haku through those meetings." At Naruto's confusing description about what exactly Haku knew, Haku and Kakashi became a rather confused. The Hokage was used to Naruto talking like that, and Zabuza seemed to understand everything Naruto meant, also when it was nowhere near what was coming out of his mouth.
"I went to Gato's hideout, without Kakashi-senseis knowledge, to figure out why there wasn't any more ninja around… I mean if you make a business out of threatening people, and do all the illegal stuff he was doing, you have got to have contact with missing ninjas more than a couple of times. And I was right in my suspicion… Gato hired missing nins, gave them a mission, and when they were weary and exhausted upon the conclusion of the mission, he killed them, and gathered the bounty on their head.
I thought of contacting Haku-kun and tell him what I had figured out, but I knew that he would do whatever Zabuza-sama wanted him to do, and as I had no report with Zabuza-sama, I had no way of convincing him that I was right… plus I was afraid that he would kill me if he knew that I knew where he was.
So I put a plan together.
I transformed, with my Sexy no Jutsu, to a girl a couple of years older than I really am, went to Zabuza and Haku's hideout, and told them that I was a present form Gato…
I will not go into the details, as I very much doubt that you wanna hear them, but I had sex with Zabuza-sama, and then I drugged him. I wrote a letter, so they wouldn't be caught up in Gato's net a second time, and left. I forgot that Haku-kun is very knowledgeable about herbs and medicine, and he woke Zabuza-sama up, long before I had planned.
Luckily they choose to listen to my warning, and faked the whole fight on the bridge… now I want you to put down your pipe old man…" and he did wait until the Hokage had put his pipe down before continuing.
"Apparently I can get pregnant while in female form, if this is normal, or if the reason is because of Kyuubi, I don't know. I thought the jutsu to Konohamaru, so you could check it that way, but he would need a shitload of chakra, to keep the jutsu up, for all 9 month of the pregnancy. If he was to ever lose the transformation, he would lose the child. And…" he was interrupted by a despairing moan from the Hokage, who until now had been frozen in shear shock. Minato's beloved son had gotten pregnant during a mission, at the age of ten… and he hadn't missed the way that Naruto called his follow parent '–sama'; this could become a big problem.
Then Zabuza's rough voice was heard.
"I thought you told me that you had a seal placed upon you at birth, that made you look like a male, rather than the female you were born as… and don't think I have forgotten the part about the Kyuubi… you are a Jinchuriki, are you not?"
Naruto swallowed what he had in his almost bone dry mouth, he had forgotten that it was supposed to be a secret… he had always felt so secure while in the old man's office, so he hadn't even thought about who, apart from the old man, would be hearing his story… now he had told it to both Zabuza-sama; who would never want to be part of his family now, and Kakashi-sensei; who normally wouldn't care about him at all… maybe he would even tell Sasuke and Sakura about what had happened… the teamwork was already strained… it would only become unbearable upon them hearing what was really going on.
When those thoughts started to swirl around in his head, he hunched over, trying to become as small a target as possible, and started whimpering.
Zabuza stopped the next words in his throat… what had happened to the fun-loving and free-spirited child- girl- boy- ninja… yes the fun-loving and free-spirited ninja? He looked like he was ready to accept an attack… like he would attack him… he was a little affronted that his lover would think that of him, but he was even more worried for what he had gone through, to have such an extreme natural response to being questioned.
He didn't hesitate when confronted by his lovers fear, and took him in his arms, planting himself on the ground with his lover in his lap, before the Hokage had even thought of a reaction. The Hokage's startled look made him feel a little better about the situation.
"What is wrong Naruko? What makes you think that I would ever harm you? Haven't I told you that you are mine?... I look after my stuff; you know that, don't you my little future wife?"
At the last word left Zabuza's mouth; Kakashi and the Hokage froze up. Kakashi in fear of what would happen to him; as he was responsible for Naruto, when this started. Hiruzen was frozen in shock, both in delight that someone would actually want Naruto, but also quite upset; that it would be a violent shinobi who didn't belong to the village, and who thought of Naruto as a possession.
"You are aware, that even though he is a she right now, she won't always be a female, and when the pregnancy is over, she will revert to being male. And no matter what you may think, Naruto belongs to no one but Konoha, as one of its ninja."
Zabuza just shrugged.
"A good fuck is a good fuck, and I don't care all that much for gender. She will be the mother of my child, and I have always been willing to marry whoever ended up pregnant with my child… not that it is in any way a burden; I actually like her personality, and can see enjoying being married to her… him… whatever.
But I will have to ask if being the Jinchuriki of Kyuubi is the reason for the villagers hating him… it show a concerning lack of knowledge about sealing… I wouldn't be scared of a sealing scroll, even if it contained a dangerous jutsu, as it is still only a sealing scroll. Because if what she said is true; that being a girl would make his life dangerous in many unpleasant ways, I will have to say that unless I am by her side all of the time; being a pregnant girl is no less dangerous than if she wasn't pregnant. In fact it is even more dangerous, as she, at some point in her pregnancy, won't be able to defend herself properly. I don't like the thought of her going on missions either… especially not on a team with someone as incompetent as her female teammate… it would just be asking for the death of our child, and worst case scenario, Naruto's death."
The hokage almost lost a lunge, when he inhaled from his pipe, as Zabuza started talking. When he got back his breath, he started to listen; and he had to admit, the situation Zabuza was talking about, made him rather nervous.
"What do you suggest then, and please be aware that Naruto haven't agreed to your proposal yet… in fact he might never do so."
But even as he was talking, he looked at Naruto, sitting in Zabuza's lap. He seemed rather content, and sends his old man a rather scathing look upon his words. Apparently it was a forgone conclusion that they would get married.
Zabuza chuckled likewise in disgust upon his words, but then he got a thoughtful look upon his face. The Hokage let him sit and think for a little while, and was rewarded with a brilliant plan, which would also take care of another one of his problems.
During all of this he had not even once thought of asking Naruto whether he wanted to keep the child. He knew his unclaimed grandson well, he had always wished for a family, and this might be his only chance at getting it.
"I think Naruto will need to get taken off of his team… whether he carries one female form through the pregnancy or another doesn't matter, so if he was to look a little more age appropriate for being pregnant, it would probably be for the best. Next we will need to make it look like 'she' have been on a long term infiltration mission, as; according to what Naruto have told me about what her strong sides are, it is the only specialization she would be able to fake being good enough at, to get send on a mission by herself at. This will be needed as the ninja force will become suspicious if an uncounted for ninja suddenly show up. We will need Kakashi-san's help with this, as it would look suspicious if no one knew her.
Then I will take care of training Naruto while she is pregnant, so that she won't lose her edge, and will actually have a chance of survival at future missions. We can easily tell everyone that the child is a mission baby and that I am the father, it is the truth, and we have data to prove it.
Don't worry about the monetary aspect of the situation; I will be taking care of it."
At the end of voicing his idea he looked beseechingly at the Hokage, unless he had an even better idea, he was pretty sure that would be what they would be doing.
"What about Naruto himself?" Kakashi interrupted the talk between the two men, he didn't like the thought of losing his sensei's son, but at least he would be able to stay in contact; he was after all going to pretend to be a close acquaintance. The thought made him almost happy at the situation. There was after all only so much interest you could show one of your students, before someone yelled fowl.
At Zabuza and the Hokage's asking look, he elaborated.
"If Naruto suddenly disappear, people will get suspicious… he isn't well liked, but he is well known!"
For the first time in the conversation; Haku started speaking.
"Why don't we say that the poison from Gozu and Meizu's weapons was more serious than we thought, and that Naruto had to be taken out of the ninja corps for an undetermined length of time? It will be unknown whether he will return, and if he should wish to go back to his old face, he will be able to. Likewise; should he want to live the rest of his life as the wife of Zabuza-sama, he is able to do so."
The Hokage, Kakashi and Zabuza were nodding along, and when they started to discuss his future identity; Boar went into the Hokage's safe, and took out a stack of documents.
Upon showing them to the waiting Hokage, the Hokage nodded a little more, and turned toward Naruto.
"I was only supposed to tell you about your parents upon you either becoming a chunin, or getting married, whatever came first. You are not yet married, but this is close enough. You were supposed to have a cousin, upon your birth, but an hour into the siege of the Kyuubi, your 4 year old cousin died, due to chakra poisoning. Before you ask; her parents died fighting in the third shinobi war, and she was being raised by your parents. It is not as old as I would have preferred you, but that identity ensures that you will be able to accept and receive your inheritance from your parents.
Your mother's name was…" here Naruto interrupted the old man. As he was finally willing to tell the truth, she was willing to show that she had known for a while.
"Uzumaki Kushina, she was the last of the mainline of the Uzumaki clan, and thereby default leader of the destroyed Uzushirogakure, and my father was Namikaze Minato, better known as the yellow flash or the Yondaime Hokage of Konoha."
At Naruto's quiet words everyone adopted the look of a stranded fish, except for the masked ANBU, although he could have had that look, but as his face was hidden, it would be his secret.
Kakashi and the Hokage were surprised that Naruto knew of his heritage, and hadn't informed anyone, while Haku and Zabuza were amazed at the linage of Zabuza's future wife.
As the Hokage got his wits together, he showed Naruto the information he had on Naruto's cousin, and what exactly he would inherit.
Two hours later; Naruto was in the guise of a 14 year old girl, with blond hair, no whisker marks and his own blue eyes. She looked rather like her Sexy no Jutsu, except for the fact that she was wearing clothing, and wasn't quite as voluminous. Primarily due to it not being probable for a 14 year old, to look like a porn-star.
She had been told where her parent's house were located, and the Hokage told her that he would be going with her to the bank in the morrow, to open her account again, it had after all been 10 years since anyone had touched it.
While she had been reading the information given to her by the Hokage, he had been busy with checking whether her future husband would be a problem to the village. And in the end, just before she was ready to leave, he was handed a forehead protector. He was now a productive member of the village.
Kakashi had been tasked with emptying out Naruto's old apartment, and put everything in sealing scrolls, and he returned just as they started to leave the room. He decided to follow the pair to their new home, as he told them he 'was pretty knowledgably about all things Minato', as he had been his sensei, from he was 5 years old.
…o0O0o…
That evening they got married by the Hokage. The only ones who had been in attendance were Haku and Kakashi. Naruto, who by now had been renamed Namikaze Akemi, soon to be Momochi Akemi, legally, was quite satisfied with the turnout, as she didn't want people who would destroy her new life to be present. And even though she liked Iruka, she was sure that he would never accept her sudden change in gender and her plans for the future, not to mention that she was getting married and expecting a child at 10 years of age. To Iruka that would be quite unacceptable.
With the wedding came a gift from her husband, in the form of a live in bodyguard; Yuki Haku. He would be living with them and, according to an agreement with the Hokage, would be staying in the village, whenever Zabuza would leave it, at least until the baby was borne.
The day leading up to the wedding had involved the redecoration of the new Momochi, former Namikaze, clan house, and the thereby resulting shopping trip. Of course Zabuza took the chance the shopping trip afforded and fully outfitted his future wife, both with civilian and ninja clothing (including an upgrade of the weapons Naruto had, as they were few and of bad quality).
The shopping trip had been quite a bit more tolerable than Zabuza had expected. Maybe because he had imagined something like when he had went shopping with Mei, the leader of the revolution in Mist. He should have thought of the fact, that Naruto was born male, and had never had the female friends, that made the whole shopping experience so tantalizing.
He was quite happy, when upon entering the clothing shop, the one for civilians, Naruto immediately set upon the Kimonos. Zabuza had always preferred that form of female dressing, something Haku had picked up on, and which was the reason for him wearing them, when not in his hunter-nin costume.
When Naruto came out from the dressing room, Zabuza almost pushed her back in, wanting to take care of a sudden and insistent problem that had 'arisen' due to how delectable she looked in her quite fancy kimono.
When Naruto saw Zabuza's smoldering eyes, running up and down her form, she immediately decided that this was what she was going to wear. She had only went for the kimonos because, having never been allowed to wear one by the villagers, she wanted to try one on. But she was truly convinced that if the clothing was capable of making her future husband desire her so; it would be worth both the money and the restriction of wearing such close clothing.
She shouldn't have been worried as, shortly after she left the dressing room, Haku showed up with the store attendants. The attendant was told that the kimono, and any other chosen, would need to be altered for Kunoichi use.
Naruto was told that even if she would be capable of fighting in those kimonos after the altering, they weren't supposed to be used as ninja wear. The cloth and stitching were not strong to withstand the work being a ninja demanded.
As such, after outfitting Naruto with enough clothing to last her for 3 weeks without laundering (should she wish to use her formal attire too), they left the store with a delivering address, to go to a ninja store so they could take care of her workout and mission outfits. They wouldn't need all that much of the later, as she would soon be too large to safely go on missions.
They ended up letting her wear Kimonos while on mission and for workout clothing as well. Haku hadn't expected there to be all that much of that in ninja clothing, as he was used to having to make do with using civilian quality kimonos. But he had apparently not taken the higher number of clan members, who wanted to wear kimono, into account.
While Zabuza and Haku had feared that they would need to censor Naruto's choices for outfitting the house, due to her apparent love for orange; why else would she wear a whole jumpsuit of that color for missions, they were happily surprised at her choices. While it was colorful, it was tasteful, and combined with the brown and beige walls it would become a rather pretty and comfortable house.
Upon their entrance to their new home they had discovered a large library filled with jutsu scrolls and books about sealing; most of which was from Naruto's mother's home village, making her want to learn it. It was after all her inheritance.
They decided that they would need paper and sealing ink and that was what they did. They went to the weapon store to buy weapons and ink, meanwhile teaching Naruto about the different qualities of weapons, and what use those of lower quality would have.
The culmination of all that Zabuza had done for her during the day, made her realize that Zabuza was willing to take care of her, even before figuring out who exactly she was, and protect her from everything that could harm her. And Naruto became rather submissive, this time not only in bed. Of course this submissiveness only concerned Zabuza; toward everyone else she was still the little hell monster on crack, taking her revenge at the attitude and beatings she had been given throughout her life, out on the population of the village through pranks.
While the Hokage was happy, upon discovering it, that she was still ultimately herself, even as a she, he wasn't happy at her total submission toward 'her Zabuza-sama', but there was nothing he could do, and at least he was sure that should anything happen, she would come to him. He had been able to wrangle at least that promise out of her.
…o0O0o…
Upon them entering their new home after the simple wedding, Zabuza barked out one thing;
"Haku go to your room, and stay there." Before lifting his new bride up in his arms, carrying her directly to their bed.
That night Akemi discovered what it meant to be Zabuza's woman, and be marked as 'his'.
The next morning she tiredly, but happily got out of the bed, carefully so as to not wake up her husband, and went downstairs to make breakfast.
Sakura would have been amazed at her abilities in the kitchen; as she had everyone believing that the only thing she could cook was ramen. That wasn't true at all. She had learned what to do in a kitchen, the same place where she had learned everything else worth of note, including her taijutsu and weapon handling; among the thieves, murderers and whores in the red light district of Konoha. Most of her old classmates believed that that sort of thing didn't exist in Konoha, due to it being a ninja village. But all that that meant was; that the thieves and murderers were better in Konoha than they were other places, like the capital. And that the whores held knowledge in how to satisfy deeply paranoid shinobis alongside normal civilians.
Just because she had seemingly moved up in the world, didn't mean that she was going to forget about or ignore her true friends in the red light district. No she was going to continue hanging out with Aimi, Hanako and Kaida in the breakroom of the best brothel in town, not to mention going down to 'the broken cup' where she could find Isamu and Jigme from the thieves' guild and Makoto who was a hustler. She didn't really hang out with any of the killers, she felt that if you lived in a ninja village and wanted to kill people; become a ninja. That didn't mean that she didn't talk to them when they talked to her. They had after all had a part in raising her, along with the rest of the red light district.
After she found out about the Kyuubi, she started to think that the reason the people in the red light district was so good to her was that unlike most of the village they had common sense. Most of them most likely held the same belief as the rest of the villagers; that she was somehow the Kyuubi. But unlike the rest of the villagers they didn't want her to hate them. That would just be stupid. No if she liked them, she would be more probable to keep them safe, and not kill them when she went on the murdering rampage the rest of the villagers seemed to want her to go on.
A couple of days before the trip to wave, she had asked Hanako whether she believed that she, at that time in the guise of Naruko, was the demon fox Kyuubi. Hanako had looked at her for a long time, and then denied it.
"After all" she said "why would a demon fox want to know about how to seduce a man. If it didn't know it by now, it is because of disinterest."
As her coking was almost finished, a freshly showered Zabuza entered the kitchen. She had apparently not been as quiet, getting up, as she had wished.
"The breakfast will soon be finished Anata, would you like to inform Haku-kun, or should I?"