Chapter 13: Return of the baka. Er, kitsune empress!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to the Narutoverse and I never will. I also don't own Naruko's hairstyle, which I 'borrowed' from the Prisma Illya manga. It is Archer Illya/Kuro Illya's hairstyle. Also, excuse Naruko's flirting, it is for a funny scene later on.
Tap. Tap.
"Hmm, hasn't changed all that much," Naruko mused to herself. As she scanned around, she saw the monument now had Tsunade's face on it. "Worst tourist trap ever!" the single tailed kitsune declared. Then again, how did they do that? Naruko remembered that it was almost smooth cliff face where Tsunade's likeness was, so how? Maybe ninjutsu was involved. Now, what was earth based ninjutsu called again?
"Nn? Naruko...is that you?"
Naruko looked down to see a wide eyed Kakashi staring up at her, his favorite book in hand. "Kakashi-sensei!" she cheered as she took a running leap off the tower she was on.
Kakashi quickly saw what was going to happen and rolled aside.
WHAM! CRUNCH!
The talented jōnin looked down at his former(?) student. She had jumped down, probably to hug Kakashi or crush him as revenge for one of the various times he used her as an example of an idiot ninja. Either way, she had fallen so she landed flat on her face, the shingles under her cracked from the impact.
"Are you okay?" he asked, worried that she had finally broken her thick skull. 'That's going to leave a mark... On the roof I mean.'
Naruko's arms, which had shot straight out the moment of impact, fell to the cracked panels and she levered herself up. "I dink I bwok by nobe," the girl warbled. She gripped her nose, shifted it a bit and a click was heard as she healed. "Kakashi-sensei~ That was so mean! I just wanted to give my favorite sensei a hug!" she pouted as tears formed in the corners of her eyes.
Kakashi felt quite bad now. Had he known it was a hug, he'd have braced her fall and accepted it. He knew that the girl was practically starved for attention and affection, and he did sort of view her as a little sister or daughter or niece. Kakashi nervously opened his arms a bit. "Alright, come here," he said as he blushed a bit. Openly reading smut in public: easier than pretending to ignore Guy. Public affection: as impossible as understanding said man.
"Let's go! I have to meet everyone else!" Naruko cheered as she hopped over the edge of the building to land between Hiruzen and Jiraiya. "Sensei! Put your arms down and let's go hit up Ichiraku Ramen!"
Kakashi dropped over the side of the building, landing on the street stiffly. He suddenly felt drained in every way.
"Get used to it," Jiraiya whispered, "she found the joys of toying with people and the pleasure it brings her."
"So her potential is 'S' rank?" Kakashi asked in code.
"Naruko is a kitsune through and through now," Hiruzen stated with a weak nod.
"Sounds like someone is talking from experience," Kakashi said with a bit of a smirk.
The two men sighed. "Naruko keeps pretending to be my poor granddaughter," Jiraiya sadly muttered, remembering all the girls who had been suckered in with her shining eyes and the tears she could make fall at will. He'd been lectured by so many of the women he'd tried to pick up that he almost knew what it would have been like to be married. Naruko could get sympathy from the heartless Orochimaru if she tried.
Hiruzen was happy that Naruko didn't bother with purses and fashion, because he was one hundred percent certain that she could have turned to him with a pleading look and he'd happily drain his bank accounts to appease her, just like his deceased daughter. She was terrifying in that sense!
Naruko stopped dead as her mouth opened wide. "S-S-S-Sakura-chan!" she squeaked.
The girl in question turned and saw a tall, beautiful redhead standing behind her. If it weren't for the eyes and the blush on the young woman's face, Sakura wouldn't have known it was her teammate. "Naruko! You're back!" she cried out as she hugged her best friend, aside from Ino.
Two of the three men smirked at Naruko's sudden stiffening, extremely dark blush and rapidly wagging tail. 'Now I know why she likes to tease people. We're never letting you live this down! This is our (petty) revenge!' the two older men thought as Naruko felt a shiver shooting up her spine at the same time her heart threatened to burst out of her chest and into Sakura's arms. That was not how Naruko wanted to give Sakura her heart.
Sakura released Naruko and stepped back to look her over. Naruko had a new hairstyle that took her long hair and held it up with three black clips so it was limply pointed skyward, which resulted in a bit of her hair sticking up to peek over the top of her head from behind it. She had grown it out so it went a bit past her shoulders at the side to frame her face and her bangs were now swept slightly to the right so they didn't fall into her eyes, giving her an adult charm. Her face was also just right, enough femininity to tell you Naruko was a woman, but not too much to ruin her masculine mannerism. It was like looking at the perfect young adult tomboy's face.
Naruko had traded out her dresses for something more her style. She now wore a pair of red khaki shorts that reached to knee level, nearly covering them when she stood up straight, with the hem being silver. Naruko's black shirt had to be short sleeved or no sleeved turtleneck shirt, mainly because Naruko wore a short sleeved jacket with a raised collar. The shirt had a dull red 'IX-III' on the left side of her collar, the bottom hem not quite reaching her khaki shorts and revealing some of Naruko's skin. The jacket was black with a thick red streak up the sides and silver around on the collar. It was open (more like it was too small to be closed! CHA!) and allowed Sakura to see that Naruko was slightly larger than Ino, therefor making her bigger than Sakura too. To finish it off, Naruko had a pair of strange sandals on her feet, they went up half way up to her knee was her just straps holding the footwear to her legs. Now that Sakura had a good look at her, Naruko's skin was soft looking and pale in an attractive way.
"You look better than when I last saw you, what have you been eating?" Sakura asked, some malice showing through. While Sakura had been taking care of herself due to her increased knowledge of health and medicine, resulting in her being able to call herself attractive, Naruko looked like a goddess descended compared to the pinkette.
"Uh, mostly ramen," Naruko admitted. "Well, I also like spicy food and different types of chocolate, I love pocky the most! Want one?" Naruko asked as she pulled out the box, showing she had three left.
"No thanks," Sakura said. She loved chocolate, but she'd already exceeded the monthly limit she had set on herself. She then noticed something. "You're taller than me?" she asked, realizing she had to tilt her head back a bit to look at Naruko's eyes.
Naruko actually seemed surprised. "Ah, you're right," the kitsune said as she wondered who else was shorter than her. Hopefully Kiba was shorter than her, Hana mentioned that he didn't like it when girls were taller than him, made him feel like less of a man. Naruko flipped a pocky out of the box, catching it with her teeth as it came down, then asked Sakura what she had been doing for almost three years.
As the two girls talked, the elder ninja kept back a little. Truthfully, the two deserved some time alone, but there would be matters to discuss soon enough.
"Hime, I was wondering if we could do something important," Jiraiya whispered.
Tsunade blushed hard. "I told you I was drunk and not thinking straight! We are never doing that again!" she hissed.
Now Jiraiya was blushing. "As much as I wish I was talking about that, I have something far more important to ask."
"What?" Tsunade asked. As far as she knew, very few things beat out what the two had done a few months after Dan's death. One of them was getting back at Orochimaru for all he had done to Konoha, to Tsunade. It was widely believed by many that both Dan and Nawaki were killed by Orochimaru, though many figured he sold out their positions rather than doing the deed himself. Well, maybe he did kill Nawaki with his own hands, but not Dan. The snake had been with his teammates at the time, so he couldn't have done it.
Jiraiya put his hands together. "Can we trade students?" he begged.
"Eh?" Tsunade gasped, then jumped when Hiruzen joined in Jiraiya's begging.
Kakashi sweat dropped. "Why? I thought you two wanted to train her yourselves..."
"We did, but something happened soon after we left the village, something I don't need to live through again," Hiruzen said.
Tsunade was worried. Did Naruko assume the form of the Kyūbi? Did she accidentally kill someone? "What did she do?"
Both men looked at each other, then looked at Tsunade with a look of absolute terror. "She hit puberty and had her first period! Practically right out of the gates!" they said at the same time.
"EH!" Tsunade and Kakashi timed it perfectly, just like the perverted old men they were talking with.
"It was so horrible," Jiraiya wailed, remembering all the money he spent on ice cream. He explained of the time his poor bank account hit four digits.
Hiruzen shivered, remembering the time she fired a katon off in pure irritation. "That was a nice and extremely expensive landmark. And the park around it, Kami," he said, shaking his head.
Tsunade and Kakashi looked to the two girls, remembering Sakura's moody times. She had, at one point, been restrained and pulled out of the hospital when Shikamaru directed his favorite word at Sakura one too many times. Ever since that day, he kept his mouth shut when being examined, and he refused to be looked over by Sakura. The pink haired girl had also, at one point, opened a rather large hole in a store's front wall when a visiting merchant mistook her for a 'nice, if a bit effeminate young man.'
'How terrible can she be compared to that?' Tsunade wondered. Suddenly, a cold chill hit her and she wished she never let that thought go through her head. Sometime in the near future, all of Konoha would probably find out how terrible a pissed off kitsune could be.
"It wasn't all bad," Jiraiya said with a smug grin.
"Pervert!" Tsunade snapped as she raised her fist, reducing Jiraiya to a quivering mess on the ground without even touching him.
"Tsunade, stand down," Hiruzen warned as he stood between the two Sannin. When Tsunade lowered her fist, he spoke, "what Jiraiya meant was that he recovered from, and even profited on Naruko's voracious appetite and her ability to consume several dozen pounds of ice cream when she is... irritable."
"How? He buy stock in ice cream or something?" Tsunade asked. She also wondered if 'several dozen pounds of ice cream' was an accurate statement.
"No, I outright bought the company that makes Naruko's favorite brand," Jiraiya said. The kitsune empress literally ate it out of business, so it was quite cheap.
'He'll turn any bit of misfortune into profit, won't he?' Tsunade thought as she remembered his past novels, easily recognizing the main characters being very similar to Tsunade and Jiraiya in their younger days. Beatings included. At least it deviated from reality, since she and the old perv weren't in a relationship.
"Hey nee-chan!"
The five ninja turned to see a brown haired girl with wisps of smoke covering parts of her nude body. Tsunade and Sakura's jaws dropped in horror. Hiruzen blushed slightly, but wondered why he felt some déjà vu from this girl. Jiraiya was happy that someone else knew the jutsu. Naruko needed to become a teacher and spread that jutsu around more.
The girl was engulfed in smoke and replaced with a young boy, one Naruko recognized. "How was that, nee-chan?" Konohamaru asked.
"Konohamaru, you need to stop doing that," Naruko said.
Sakura felt happy, figuring the girl was maturing and had put such a childish jutsu away for good, preferring to actually focus on learning real ninjutsu. How many jutsu could she have learned? She had been gone almost three years, so it had to be a lot of powerful ones.
"Ero-sennin over there forced me to upgrade the jutsu so he could keep writing his pervy books after some civilian police caught him peeping and blacklisted him," Naruko said as she jerked her thumb in the man's direction.
"He did what?" Sakura shouted. He was over fifty years old and he still acted like that? Tsunade had told her that since he was ten years old, he'd been a hardcore pervert. At least Naruko didn't pick up his habits. Sakura turned to give the man a piece of her mind, but...
"You perverted idiot!" Tsunade roared as she uppercut the man, sending him so high into the air that he became a mere sparkle of light. She huffed a few times, then growled. "Dammit, now I'm going to have to fix him again," Sakura swore she heard the woman mention the word 'neuter' under her breath, "Kakashi, get started with them." And she left to go find Jiraiya's landing location. Hiruzen followed, mainly to make sure she really didn't neuter the man.
The silver haired man made it a point to keep his perversion levels to their current low levels. "Alright, the three of us are a team again and we will be going on missions together, but it's different this time. Before, we were teacher and students in Team 7, now, we are equals in Team Kakashi. Of course," Kakashi pulled out a familiar set of bells, "I'll need to see how much you two have improved. Remember, if you don't come at me with the intent to kill, then I don't have to worry about you getting these bells. Ever."
[Training Ground 3, a few minutes later]
"Same rules as before. Get the bells from me, no matter what it takes, aside from sacrificing a teammate of course. You have until sun up tomorrow," Kakashi stated.
Naruko looked around at her first real training field. "It feels like... I'm home now," she said with a faint smile.
"Ah, I remember training you kids here, well, training Sakura and Sasuke. You never were one to sit down and listen to a lesson, weren't you Naruko?" he asked as he turned his gaze to his former students, only to get hit by a massive wave of depression. Were they...crying? 'Memo to self: Sasuke is the path to crying women.'
Snap!
"Eh?" Naruko gasped, seeing her sensei had closed his new book.
Kakashi put the book away. "Time for us to start, though I'll keep reading if you ladies are willing to wait."
"Oh? The beauties before you better than the book?" Naruko asked in a sultry tone.
Sakura turned to Naruko quickly. "B-beauties?" she squeaked. She knew Naruko was talking about herself and Sakura, but was the pink haired girl really a beauty? And that tone, could she have a thing for Kakashi-sensei? "Naruko, do you..."
The redhead smirked, then flung some shuriken and kunai at the shocked man before her. Kakashi recovered, ducked the kunai and lifted his gaze to try and track Naruko so he could retaliate, only to find her gone.
Thud.
Kakashi forcibly dropped onto his stomach, a weight on his back. He peeked over his shoulder to see Naruko sitting on his back, grinning at him wickedly. "You really need to pay attention, s-e-n-s-e-i," the girl teased as she poked at his cheek, "this could have been a kunai."
Kakashi rolled, making Naruko catch herself before she could fall. "Seduction... I really need to be careful since you're a tricky one," Kakashi said as he got up.
"Keep on your toes or I'll make you trip over them," Naruko warned with a predatory grin.
"Actually, I think I'll just keep an eye on you two," Kakashi stated as he uncovered his sharingan, "I'd probably need this anyway, considering who Naruko is as well as who trained you two."
Naruko's grin widened, then she burst into smoke.
"What?" Kakashi started, only to stop when he felt the tip of a kunai to the base of his skull.
"Familiar, ne?" Naruko asked, remembering that Kakashi had done this to her during their original test.
"You got me, sort of. Start!" Kakashi declared, bursting into smoke himself.
Sakura looked around quickly, then remembered who she was dealing with. "Come out!" she shouted as she punched the ground, creating a massive crater filled with rubble.
'Ts-Ts-Tsunade-sama?! Why'd you teach her that too? She's too much like you now!' Kakashi thought as his ambush plan literally blew up in his face.
'If I screw up... Sakura-chan will kill me,' Naruko thought as she imagined herself being hit by that punch, and flying away in pieces. No amount of regeneration could save her from that.
"Well, time to recover my pride," Kakashi said as he started defending and attacking.
[Five hours later]
"Haa! Haa! Haa!" Naruko panted as she leaned against Sakura's back, "I just got back, but he's already back to steam rolling us, though he's using jutsu this time."
"You were the only one getting steam rolled before, but I know what you mean," Sakura groaned as she shifted her shoulder painfully, "it's no fair. He's smarter than Shikamaru, tracks better than Kiba, has better eyes than Neji, is faster than Lee-san and hits harder than Choji. He's got to have a weakness."
"Sakura-chan, I think Hinata's eyes are better than Neji's, remember? And Sensei's eyes aren't as good as Neji's," the kitsune said.
"Oh, yeah..." Sakura muttered. Neji's eyes were good, but Hinata had some godly range with her byakugan when she focused them.
"Eyes..." Naruko mused, then realized what she could do, "Sakura-chan! I've got something to teach you!"
[Fifteen minutes later]
'It's quiet... Too quiet for that girl,' Kakashi thought, remembering how ten minutes of silence from the kitsune was only possible when she was unconscious, sad or plotting a prank that bordered on Evil, like switching his novel out for Icha Icha Wild, a yaoi parody of Kakashi's usually preferred reading material. He was going to try to take it easy with the sharingan, but he couldn't do that against Naruko. She had grown extremely fast since she left. If she had the ability to use raiton, she'd have the deadliest chidori ever. Well, maybe she could still learn it. He wasn't particularly skilled with suiton, but he could still use them.
Kakashi moved to a new location, wary of Naruko. He didn't know how good her senses were, but he was pretty sure she could smell his sweat at a good distance. He was actually tempted to remove his gloves, forehead protector or vest to leave as a decoy to catch her off guard, but he wouldn't do that.
Naruko and a beet red Sakura caught him before he could finish changing locations. The two girls came straight at him like fresh genin.
"You two are sort of like bulls, always charging from the front," Kakashi stated as he readied himself for any attack.
"We need to be in front of you for this," Naruko said as the two stopped, then she looked at Sakura, "right, Sakura-chan?"
The pink haired girl was now varying shades of crimson, clothes, blush and hair included. "I... Do I have to?"
"I'll help you, Sakura-chan," Naruko said as she clapped a hand on Sakura's shoulder.
Sakura was still blushing hard as her hands came together. "I'm never going to do this again..."
"Do what?" Kakashi asked, wondering what she could do with a basic seal.
"Henge!" both girls shouted as they were engulfed in smoke.
Kakashi shielded his eyes, thinking they were using the smoke of a transformation to confuse him due to it being pure chakra, effectively blinding him while using his sharingan. "That won't work on m-ehhh!"
Standing before him was an attractive pink haired woman being hugged and gently groped from behind by a smoking hot redhead with a fox tail, both almost naked since their clothes had been moved aside and opened just enough that they were barely covering what needed covering, though the pink haired girl's 'parts' were covered by the redhead's tail, which went between both girls' legs to curl over the pink haired girl's groin. He kept watching as the redhead poked and tickled the pink haired woman, who was leaning back against her the whole time. His mind, while perverted, nearly overloaded when the redhead nipped the pink haired woman's ear, then kissed her neck, sucking hard.
"Wha-wha-what are you two doing?!" Kakashi cried out as he turned away, covering his ears and closing his eyes. Even Kakashi had his limits and that scene was it. He'd need to wash his mask to get rid of the smell of his nosebleed after this.
Someone leaned against his back, resting all their weight on it. He didn't bite, not until something tiny, hard and cold hit the tip of his nose. He opened his eyes, seeing the little bell that had been attached to his belt.
"We win, sensei," Naruko said with a smirk that looked like it was borrowed from Anko. A few moments after that, she was plowed down by Sakura. "Sakura-chan? Why?" Naruko asked as she staggered onto her feet.
Sakura shook hard as she blushed from the top of her head down to the tips of her toes. "Y-y-y-y-you pervert! You were just supposed to hold me up, not touch me like that or k-k-k-k-kiss me!" Sakura shrieked as she held a hand over the kiss mark on her neck. As she said, that was NOT a part of the plan! How would she explain this to her mother? Oh no, her father would turn Naruko into a training log if he found out! Why couldn't medical jutsu heal a hickey?
Naruko plopped down onto her butt. "Sorry, spur of the moment. It came from reading the book, especially in chapter 15 when..." the Kitsune went on, oblivious to Kakashi's horror at having the story spoiled for him. He quickly covered his eyes and ears again, begging Kami to make her stop!
Sakura grew redder and redder as Naruko explained, in great detail, one of Jiraiya's books.
[Next morning]
"I don't know about strength, but you definitely became much craftier than before," Kakashi praised. He didn't realize it until later, but Naruko had been talking about the previous book in the series. Seems she got lost in the moment and mixed things up.
"Heh. I'm stronger than you now," Naruko challenged.
Kakashi smirked under his mask. "Don't be so full of yourself. I'm still young and I recently mastered a powerful jutsu."
GROOOOOWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLL!
"Ah, I'm hungry," Naruko said as she touched her stomach.
Kakashi and Sakura stared at the girl, wondering if that was her stomach or a lion she had accidentally eaten at some point.
"Hey! How about some ramen?" Naruko asked. She would later be forced to look up the word 'some.'
"I am a bit hungry, especially since I skipped dinner last night," Sakura said.
'When they were fresh genin, mentioning jutsu to them gave me their undivided attention. They used to be cute,' Kakashi thought as he felt like a fifth wheel. 'Hmm, I wonder if this is how Guy feels when I don't acknowledge his ramblings? Not too bad, so why does he always go off like a fireworks storage house during a blaze?'
"Let's get Sensei to pay for us," Naruko suggested.
"Good idea," Sakura said.
"I just remembered that I have something to do, important jōnin work. Ja ne!" Kakashi hastily said and retreated even faster. His funds wouldn't ever survive Naruko's eating habits, especially if she almost landed Jiraiya in the poor house.
"Coward! Cheapskate!" Naruko shouted, hoping the man heard.
"I agree, saying something stupid like that to run away," Sakura said.
Naruko realized that it was just her and Sakura, alone. "Hey, how about-"
"You treat us to a meal for our victory? Gladly," Sakura said in a firm tone.
Naruko whined as she pulled out Yui-chan, wondering if the cute fox wallet would suffer from this. If it was a date, it wouldn't be that bad.
Sakura noticed two people who would be happy to see the returnee. "Shikamaru! Temari-san! Guess who it is?" she called as she pointed at Naruko.
"Uh, who?" Shikamaru asked, wondering if he knew a woman like this. She was tall, taller than he was, and a little pretty. He felt like he should know her... mainly due to his 'troublesome senses' going wild.
"That's so mean, Shikamaru! It's me, Naruko!" said girl whined as she teared up.
Temari was shocked. The change was incredible, going from a runty tomboy to a tall knockout of a tomboy. Gaara would be shocked enough that he may actually blink!
"Unbelievable how time changes people. Did you just get back?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yesterday, but I had some stuff to do," Naruko said with a real grin. She loved being around her friends and had missed them all while she was gone.
"So, is the change complete or only skin deep?" Shikamaru asked.
"She's still an idiot," Sakura stated, remembering the hickey. She had a bandage on it, claiming a tree branch smacked her neck.
Naruko quickly got over the comment and got closer to Shikamaru. "How's the hot date?" she asked in a teasing tone.
"Pure business," the Nara stated in a bored tone.
"I'll date anyone else before this lazy boy," Temari said with a smug grin.
"Oh? Is that an offer?" Naruko asked as she brought her face less than an inch from Temari's. She licked her lips slightly, wanting to see if she could fluster a girl.
Temari shot back, a light blush on her face. "N-no!" She composed herself, though a hint of the blush remained and she wouldn't look straight at Naruko. "There's going to be a chūnin exam soon, I just happened to be chosen as Suna's representative for all the meetings."
"Ah, the exams... Good memories, some bad ones too," Naruko said, remembering her brief moment as a giant snake's lunch.
"So does this news change your plans?" Shikamaru asked.
Naruko looked confused. "Huh? Why would it?"
"It's a chūnin exam. You are the only one out of our class that hasn't become a chūnin yet," Shikamaru said.
Naruko was silent for a moment or two, clearly confused. "What?"
Sakura had a sheepish smile on her face. "Sorry Naruko, I'm one too, but that doesn't cha-"
"Baa-chan didn't tell anyone?" Naruko wailed.
Now everyone other than Naruko was confused.
[Before Naruko's training trip, Hokage Tower]
"Baa-chan, I need to go say goodbye to everyone before I get going. What's more important than my training?" Naruko asked, feeling almost naked in Anko wear. Who, other than Anko, wore form fitting clothes that were little more than mesh and thin, dark fabric? Oh wait, Naruko did too, against her will.
Tsunade placed something on the desk. "This," she stated.
Naruko picked it up. It was a flak jacket. "What is this for? A disguise?"
Wham!
"Not that, it's befitting of your new rank," Tsunade said.
Naruko took her hands off her lightly smoking head. "New rank?"
Tsunade got into a more authoritative position, meaning she had no paper work yet and could rest her elbows on her desk. "Naruko, as Hokage, I hereby appoint you to the rank of chūnin for your actions during the Uchiha Sasuke retrieval mission. Even though you violated my command by participating in the mission, you did almost bring Uchiha Sasuke back and you enabled the capture an agent of Otogakure. That more than qualifies you to be chūnin, though you'll have to work on your leadership skills if you ever want to be Hokage," the blonde finished with a smirk.
"Just you wait! I'll be taking this job from you sooner than you think!" Naruko declared as she picked up the jacket, put it into her backpack and took off, wanting to get stronger.
[Now]
"So you're already..." Shikamaru started, shocked.
"A chūnin?" Temari finished, in awe.
"Since a bit before I left!" Naruko said, pulling open her jacket to show that it had some of the pouches that normally adorned the front of of Konoha flak jacket on the inside of her jacket. "I didn't like the style, so I had this one made instead. Has all the same features, including the swirl on the back, but this looks good on me."
Temari recovered from her earlier embarrassment. "Well, that's nothing. Me and my brother, Kankuro, we're are already jōnin," she boasted. Nobody noticed that Shikamaru had slipped away.
"No way!" Naruko growled, then remembered the third sibling, "what about Gaara?"
Temari had a happy smile on her face. "My little brother is the Sand's Kazekage."
[Forty minutes later]
"Ugh, Sakura-chan ditched me," Naruko muttered, feeling sad for herself. Even if it wasn't a date, it would have been awesome to hang around the girl she loved.
"She forgot that she had to go to the hospital one last time today, you'll get your chance," Iruka said, hoping that would raise the girl's spirits.
"And why didn't Baa-chan tell everyone I was a chūnin?" Naruko asked.
"Don't worry about it. She had a lot of adjusting to do, so she probably accidentally forgot," Iruka said, "by the way, did you lose your forehead protector or something?"
"Eh? Oh, that," Naruko said as she reached into her pocket, pulling out the metal plate. Iruka was startled when he saw the deep scar cutting through the leaf symbol.
"What happened to it?" he asked.
Naruko got a solemn look on her face as she traced her hand on the Akatsuki-like slash on the metal. "When me and Sasuke clashed for the final time, my forehead protector got damaged. At first, I thought it was Sasuke's, but his had fallen off long before that," Naruko said, then put it away, "I used it for a while, but the band kept wearing out no matter how much I replaced it, and a slashed forehead protector isn't something just anyone wears, so I just pocketed it. I've got the Leaf symbol on every article of clothing I own, so you can still tell what village I'm from." As if to prove her point, she showed the mark on her jacket's sleeve, the hip sides of her shorts and on the treads of her sandals.
"Sounds like you went through some tough training, but I bet you're strong because of it," Iruka said.
"Yeah, I'm way stronger than you now," the redhead said.
"Don't count me out yet, you brat," Iruka shot back with a light grin.
"But I've got some serious catching up to do, since Gaara's already the Kazekage," Naruko mused.
Iruka sweat dropped. "Yeah, but he's special."
[After Naruko's meal, an all too familiar bridge]
"Late!" Naruko shouted, making sure to put a tiny bit of chakra into the shout.
Kakashi remained silent, shocked that her voice alone made his hair blow back slightly instead of throwing him into a wall. "You've... become very good with that since you left. Anyway, I was very busy with some paperwork, so I was late for a good reason this time," Kakashi said. 'Paperwork' equated to flipping pages of his new book, finishing it so Naruko couldn't spoil it for him.
"We're a team again and we need a mission! I haven't had one in almost three years, so pretend to be excited!" Naruko growled.
"Just drop it. The only thing he's interested in is reading his smut, and he doesn't even get all riled up for that either," Sakura stated.
'Why do I want to go to a corner and disappear now?' Kakashi thought for a few moments, then noticed a fast moving bird bee lining for the tower. 'isn't that Suna's Takamaru? This might not be good,' he mused as he turned to the tower. "Come on, I think we got a big mission on our hands," Kakashi stated as he got moving.
[Missions office]
"Big mission? More like big letdowns!" Naruko shouted at her sensei. It was all genin junk missions.
"Still talking big, ne? Maybe I need to flick your head a few more times," Tsunade grumbled. It was day ten without alcohol and day 1000 something with paperwork. Hokage and chunin exams sucked for the alcohol and gambling loving Hokage, who now called herself the legendary sucker for taking this job.
"No mental development at all, huh?" Iruka sighed, wondering if Tsunade would explode today.
Kakashi just hoped that if Tsunade got angry, it wouldn't be directed at him.
Sakura stomped on Naruko's foot, making the girl drop to the floor. "I'll make sure to control her bad mouth, so think nothing of it," Sakura hastily said. 'You idiot! Tsunade got all the stone needed for her face to be put on the monument...after Konohamaru mouthed off to her! It doesn't matter if you're the Kyūbi, she'll end you!'
"Hiruzen-sensei would be much better," Naruko muttered.
"...Did you just say something?" Tsunade asked, the room getting much colder.
"She said nothing at all!" Sakura spat out as she put Naruko in a sleeper hold, hoping to the choke the girl out before she incurred the woman's wrath.
"Tsunade-sama! It's terrible!" a woman shouted as she stormed into the room.
"So noisy today, is it Naruko's fault?" Tsunade mused to herself, "what is it?"
"Missing-nin calling themselves 'Akatsuki' have taken the Kazekage!" the woman quickly said.
Everyone felt the change in the room change as Naruko's anger rose, quickly beating out Tsunade's earlier wrath. Her eye color flattened out as black markings, almost like some sort of written language, appeared to form a ring around her pupils. "Akatsuki..." she said, that one word followed by a far too deep growl emanating from deep in her throat. It wasn't annoyance or a playful growl, it was the growl of an animal ready to slaughter.
Tsunade remembered wondering how bad a pissed off Naruko would be and had a feeling that, if she denied the girl this chance to confront Akatsuki, she'd find out how bad it could get. She took a piece of paper and quickly wrote down the details. "Team Kakashi, your new mission is as follows: get to Suna as quickly as possible and send back a report on the situation there. Once that is finished, assist Suna in any way you can. Do you understand?"
"Hai," the three answered.
"Then get going," Tsunade said as she handed the paper over to Kakashi.
The three were gone before she pulled her arm back.
[Konoha main gate]
Jiraiya showed up just as Team Kakashi was going to leave. Luckily for him, Tsunade only badly bruised his jaw and cricked his neck, fixing an old ache. He was lucky enough to land in a large tree on his way down. He saw Naruko's slight changes. "Hey, I told you not to do that until you master it!" he sternly said.
Naruko's eyes widened, then the strange script on her irides faded away. "Sorry, Ero-sennin."
"You're stronger now, but Akatsuki is still a serious threat to you. If you feel angry, just cool off as best as you can. We want them captured alive, not crushed out of existence," Jiraiya said.
"I know," Naruko muttered, looking slightly angry at something she was remembering.
"Make sure she doesn't do anything stupider than normal, Kakashi," the sage said.
"You can count on it," Kakashi assured the man.
"Let's get going and save Gaara!" Naruko shouted as she started to run.
"Naruko! Wait up!" Sakura called as she started to run as well.
[A few hours later]
"Temari-san!" Sakura called out when she spotted the slightly older girl.
A few minutes later, Temari believed a lot of the old traditions held in many villages due to her premonition after her tea cup cracked. Her little brother, Gaara, had been attacked and captured by some missing-nin.
"It'll take us three days to get to Suna," Kakashi stated.
"Not with me and Temari around," Naruko said.
"What are you talking ab- Hey! What are you doing?!" Sakura shouted as Naruko crouched down in front of her.
"Ride on my back, it'll be faster. Temari, do you think you can carry Kakashi-sensei on your fan?" Naruko asked. It would be easier if Sakura rode with Temari, but Kakashi would probably never live down being carried by a smaller girl.
"Yeah," Temari said as she opened her fan.
Sakura looked worried. "Are you sure about this?"
Naruko looked forward, determination in her eyes. "Yeah, we'll be there in less than two days if we hurry."
Sakura nervously got onto the girl's back, wrapping her arms around Naruko's neck while she got a firm grip with her legs. "Don't get any wrong ideas," Sakura said, unintentionally breathing into Naruko's ear.
Naruko didn't respond, didn't even notice how close her and Sakura were. All that was on her mind was helping her friend. With Sakura holding on, Kakashi and Temari on the giant fan, Naruko tore forward under the trees while the jōnin flew over top of them.
Kakashi was able to track Naruko's progress through the trees, mainly due to her speeding by and making the leaves actually sway as she passed. "Naruko! I think Temari is having trouble keeping up!" he shouted. It was true too.
"I can't stand those bastards, unable to see Gaara, only seeing the beast within. It's like he's just a cheap container, a box for what they really want, not a human being!" Naruko growled, "Temari, I hope you don't hate me for this, but I'm not human. Your brother has the Ichibi sealed inside of him, but I'm not sealed in anybody."
"What?" Temari quietly asked, not understanding what this girl was saying. Not sealed in anyone? What was she talking about?
"I'm the Kyūbi no Yoko, the third one. I'm a Bijū," Naruko admitted, getting ready for rejection and hatred.
'She's like that...thing inside my brother?' Temari wondered. That didn't make sense. The monster inside her brother was mindless murdering intent and power, Naruko was the exact opposite. Naruko was a guardian, one who took up arms for others, much like Gaara had become, and was caring and compassionate enough to try and save someone who clearly didn't want it. There was no way she was the same as the Shukaku.
"Spending years being seen as the creature he is protecting the people from, suffering in silence as he is tormented from the inside and outside. I hate people like that," Naruko said, growling as she barred her teeth in anger, "I'm a monster, but I'm not evil. Gaara has a monster inside of him, but he's human. Both of us suffered, but he got it far worse because nobody ever came to his side. I didn't save him during the exams, I just showed him that he wasn't alone. In a way, he saved me when I truly started to think I couldn't be around humans. It's time I return the favor. Because he became their Kazekage, because he gave his all to protect the people of the sand, I'll forgive them, because he's forgiven them already."
For a few moments there, Temari had been worried about letting Naruko into Suna. Some people still saw Gaara as a monster, so how would Naruko react to them? Hearing Naruko talk of Gaara's suffering let her know that her brother had made a great friend. Hearing Naruko forgive the people of Suna for their past mistakes told Temari that Gaara's first friend was the best he'll have ever made. She only hoped they would be friends for many years to come, not hours or days.
"But Akatsuki, I'll never forgive them," Naruko said as she kicked off a tree root, dooming half the tree to death by forcing her Kyūbi chakra into it. Just thinking about those cloaks made her want to reduce those guys to dust. But she couldn't use that jutsu, so she took a deep breath and forced her anger back.
"Naruko, I'm sorry."
Naruko looked back in shock, seeing Sakura's face extremely close to her own. Was her teammate crying? Why would she cry? And why was she so close?!
"I never noticed how things were for you, and I even made them worse. I'm sorry about all that," Sakura muttered as she hid her face in the back of Naruko's head, hiding her face in the girl's hair.
"It's alright, I forgive you," Naruko said with a smile.
'You shouldn't though, I was one of the worst ones,' a part of Sakura said. "Uchiha Itachi."
Naruko felt a shock of fear and hatred spike through her.
"He's targeting you, isn't he," Sakura said, not really asking, "I went through Tsunade-sama's notes and whatever I could find on him. He's Sasuke-kun's brother, he's also the Akatsuki member that is trying to capture you. Because of that man, Sasuke-kun went to... O-Or... to that man to gain power. All that snake wants him for is a new body, but we still have time to stop him, right?"
"...Yeah," Naruko said, hoping her chakra corrupted Sasuke enough to prevent Orochimaru from taking him over. She didn't want to tell Sakura about what else could happen to Sasuke if they fought again. She wanted Sakura to be happy, even if it was Naruko herself would bring her sadness later.
"If we keep encountering Akatsuki, which that man belonged to, we can get information to save Sasuke-kun and keep you safe," Sakura stated. She wouldn't let anyone harm either of them again.
Naruko nodded, feeling a coldness spread through her from her heart.
[Suna, day two]
Temari landed softly on the ground, allowing Kakashi to step off her fan before she closed it up. Naruko crashed onto the ground, having been going too fast. Sakura had seen the imminent impact and released her grip on Naruko early, landing on her feet.
"I told you to slow down," Kakashi stated as the dust cleared.
A Suna kunoichi came out to greet them, showing surprise at Temari's presence as well as the mini-crater with a redhead in it. "Temari and I assume the team from Konoha. Follow me," she said as she turned and led the way. As they walked, Temari was informed of her brother's capture and Kankuro's attempted chase, utter defeat and poisoning. Sakura stepped up within a heartbeat and demanded, not asked, demanded to be brought to him so she could examine him.
They entered the room as someone mentioned that 'relying on other villages is a sign of weakness, a sign that you didn't try to become strong enough to stand on your own.' It was an old woman by the sound of it.
Temari and Sakura were lucky, since they ran in and went straight for Kankuro, saving themselves from the sudden onslaught of the cranky old woman.
"WHITE FANG!" she screamed as she flew at Kakashi, eyes filled with a murderous flame.
Kakashi couldn't react to the sudden attack, but Naruko did because she felt the sudden killing intent. She quickly caught one fist in her hand, taking the second punch to her ribs, using a thin layer of chakra to cushion the blow.
"What are you doing, ancient hag?" Naruko shouted, even as her ribs hurt a bit. Hell, even her hand hurt.
"The White Fang of Konoha... My son's killer... I'll never forgive you," the woman muttered in a low, threatening tone. If looks could kill, Kakashi would be ash in the wind and all memories of the man would die with him.
"Uh, that wasn't me, it was my fa-" he started.
"I know who you are, so stop with the lies!" she roared.
An equally old man stood beside the woman, holding an arm up to halt her. "He does bear a strong resemblance, but he isn't quite him. Look closely," he stated.
The woman made a confused noise as she stared at Kakashi hard, then burst out laughing. "I was just acting senile to keep these Konoha brats on their toes!" she shouted as she laughed.
Everyone except Baki was staring at the woman oddly. While he wouldn't ever admit it with Konoha's ninja in the room, he had been thinking the same thing as her. 'Alliances' were just superficial ties, things meant to be there for show. The previous Kazekage thought the same way, viewing his village's 'connection' to Konoha as nothing more than a deterrent that would make other villages think twice before invading Suna's borders. In the end, if it benefited Suna's people, he would even make a deal with a devil like that rogue Sannin and betray his own friend, the Sandaime Hokage.
'I figured we'd get a bunch of useless chūnin, but we get the son of Konoha's White Fang as well as their demon weapon. I don't know about the pink haired girl, but I'll keep an eye on that demon child,' Baki thought as he examined the team Konoha sent.
Sakura went to treating Kankuro, actually using chakra to pull the poison out of his body. While she was talking with Chiyo, the old bat who tried to attack Kakashi, Naruko looked at her own hands, realizing her ability to manipulate chakra was completely different from Sakura's. She didn't know which was higher end, but Sakura was able to save lives directly with her medical jutsu while Naruko could only destroy with her power, which had the benefit of protecting those who were being attacked by the one Naruko killed. 'Almost three years of training made me deadlier than ever, but Sakura-chan became good at causing and healing injuries...' the kitsune thought as she closed her hands tightly, her nails coming close to piercing her palms. Was this the difference between humans and demons? It made her feel less in tune with normal people, with Sakura than ever before. Maybe...maybe she really should give up on the pink haired girl. They couldn't be any more different! Sakura deserved someone she could relate to, not someone like Naruko...
Sakura left to go to a greenhouse so she could put together an antidote to make sure the poison was completely purged, in addition to a way of taking care of future infections by said poison. Naruko... Well, she couldn't settle down and she didn't want to slip into depression, so she was stretching and such, trying to keep the tension in her body so she didn't get too relaxed. "As soon as she's done, we're going!" Naruko declared.
"Naruko, learn to be patient," Kakashi lectured, then turned to Baki, "did the pursuit of Akatsuki bear fruit?"
Baki shook his head. "Only Kankuro followed them. We lost their trail as soon as we found Kankuro..." He truly felt shame in this. To fail two Kazekage in a row, he must be the worst ninja in history.
"Well, if you direct me to where Kankuro was found, I may be able to find their trail and pursue. I'm one of Konoha's more successfully trackers," Kakashi said.
"Don't bother."
The two men turned to see Kankuro forcing himself into a sitting position.
"There are two enemies, the one who got Gaara and another. While I fought the second one, I made Karasu rip his clothes and grab a piece, so there is your trail. Follow that bastard's scent and bring my brother back!" Kankuro spat the last part out, his strength failing him a little.
"As expected of Suna's shinobi, finding a way to make those who follow succeed to finish what you started," Kakashi praised. He had always admired that.
"Kankuro... are you okay?" Temari asked.
"I'm fine. I feel a lot better now," he half lied. It took almost all his strength to stay in a slouched, seated position. He then noticed the red head. "Uzumaki...Naruko?" he asked, hardly believing his eyes.
"Yeah," the girl said.
"Kankuro, are you sure it was Sasori?" Chiyo asked.
He nodded. "Yeah, it was Sasori of the Red Sand."
A/N~
And here it is, chapter 13, AKA Part I's first chapter. I realized that what I was saying earlier is completely wrong. Kyubi's Kit is the one I can read and write at the same time, not Two Demons. The reason for this is Kyubi's Kit lacks any added arcs and such, so it would be faster to focus on this one.
Anyway, expect more yuri.
Omake~
Others' secrets!
"Naruko, I was wondering something," Sakura said as she, Naruko and Temari walked towards Temari's temporary apartment.
"What?" Naruko asked, happy that she had a new box of pocky.
"When you left, you mentioned other people's secrets. I was wondering if I could hear a few?" Sakura asked, feeling a little mischievous. She owed the Pig for that stunt from before, so maybe Naruko had the ammo! Nothing got under Ino's skin like her being the LAST person to hear juicy gossip.
Naruko thought for a few moments. "Hmm. Well, there's Kiba's secret, Shikamaru's secret and Kakashi-sensei's secret."
Sakura grinned because Kiba had complained about her bedside manner, Shikamaru's defenses were so high up that everything anyone tried just rolled off him and Kakashi needed a weakness for her and Naruko to have some leverage against him. "What's Kiba's secret?"
"Oh, that's easy: he's got a thing for redheads," Naruko said.
"Ho-how did you figure that out?" Sakura asked, feeling worried for the kitsune now. Didn't Naruko realize that she fit Kiba's tastes?
Naruko grinned in a way that would send the Ibiki running to the other side of the world. "After I beat him up, his sister found him in a... certain situation. She told me about it a few months ago when we crossed paths, like how he had a album with a picture of a redheaded shinobi from Kusa and a photo of me during the chūnin exams, all dusty and scruffy from the forest and fighting in the prelims."
Sakura decided that, from now on, someone else could take care of Kiba after he got battered. Technically, Sakura was considered a redhead amongst many men. The fact that he was doing that to a picture of Naruko was just disgusting. And when did Naruko and Kiba's sister become friendly? "What about Kakashi-sensei? What's his secret?"
"You know his books?" Naruko asked, receiving a flat look from Sakura, "well, he isn't reading them sometimes. He hides a smaller book inside them. That book is titled 'how to be a well liked teacher.' Sad thing is, he's too embarrassed to do most of what's in the book."
Sakura felt a little sorry for the man now. He could walk around in broad daylight with a smut novel in his hand, but couldn't bring himself to pat his students on the head or offer some words of encouragement? "Well, let's hear super genius' weakness."
Naruko sighed. "A little before we graduated the academy, I went to his house to pick at his brain before the test. Shikamaru and his mom were out of the house and that left his dad behind. In order to make me stop asking questions, Shikamaru's dad told me where Shikamaru hid his collection of magazines."
Sakura was stunned. "Shikamaru actually does that?"
Naruko shook her head. "Nope, just looks at the pictures. Kind of strange, but who do we know that's normal, other than Ayame-chan and the old man from Ramen Ichiraku?"
Sakura nodded. "Point taken. What was in the books?"
"Well, mostly older women. I read the titles and it was 'naughty onee-chan spoil her brother' and other things like that. Seems that Shikamaru has an older sister complex in spite of not having one," Naruko said.
The two had forgotten that Temari was there, but she heard everything they said as her spirits rose to levels unheard of.
Qualifications of an onee-san.
'Shikamaru likes older sisters! Shikamaru likes older sisters! Shikamaru likes older sisters!' the Desert Rose frantically thought as she remained completely calm on the outside as the two Konoha girls started talking about random things.
She was an older sister and now she had a foothold. She would just display those sisterly traits that Shikamaru was attracted to!
Sisterly traits like kindness.
Temari remembered that, as a kid, she taunted Kankuro for wetting the bed, even telling the whole class about it. She also picked on other, plainer girls when they started to try and pick a fight. She also teased Shikamaru about his lack of drive, unwillingness to go up a rank and harped about his laziness.
'Okay, kindness is out...' Temari thought as she moved to the next trait: loving.
Temari had, for the longest time, avoided Gaara out of fear of him, going so far as to only show her love for her little brother in a half-hearted fashion. And then there was Kankuro, who was often insulted and such by Temari for his temper and lack of self-control. Shikamaru was also subject to her pathetic attempts at love. It wasn't a small coincidence that the two of them were working together for the chūnin exams, she had also chosen the post as Suna's representative in Konoha because she wanted to get closer to Shikamaru. Gaara, her clueless-to-love little brother, even warned her not to do anything like getting pregnant with 'the Nara's kid,' as he said. He often wondered how Shikamaru couldn't tell Temari loved him, since even the lazy Nara had to know what a tsundere was. As if Gaara could talk, what with Matsuri ogling him all the time and him thinking she's just spacing out or wondering about the dark marks around his eyes.
Temari held back a sigh. 'Okay, so my skills at loving someone are at the same level as a porcupine's, but at least I'm dependable!'
Temari was practically assaulted by her INABILITY to be dependable, most prominent of them was her not being there for Gaara until after Naruko beat some sense into him and let him know that he wasn't alone in the world.
"Eh, what's wrong Temari-san? Why are you crying?" Sakura asked.
Temari wiped away the tears. "Nothing, just that I'm old..."
The two Konoha girls didn't know what Temari was going on about.
Triple the fun, none of the jackass
"Sasuke, you... GAH!" Sakura shouted as she drove her fist into the bar top, cracking it, "you fucking asshole! I swear that if I see you again tonight, I'll... CHA!"
Naruko carefully sat in a seat out of Sakura's reach. "What happened?"
Sakura looked over to her friend, the one who brought Sasuke back two months ago. In the end, Sakura had chosen to continue pursuing Sasuke, eventually getting the boy to date her, allowing Ino to snare the kitsune empress for herself. She and Sasuke had seen the two female lovers on the dance floors of a few clubs, looking more like they were about to make love right there in the crowd. Truth be told, Sakura sometimes wondered if she had made a mistake choosing Sasuke.
"Sasuke cheated on me," Sakura growled.
Naruko was stunned. She had seen how he acted when around Sakura and figured that he had finally found something to live for, something other than revenge.
Sakura saw the look and took another shot. "Go ahead and laugh. I should have forgotten about the bastard and gone after you, then maybe Ino would be getting wasted while that duck ass was with someone else," she warbled.
Naruko moved to the stool next to Sakura, then started blushing. "S-Sakura-chan! I think you're too drunk..."
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
Naruko's blush went up a few notches. "You're rubbing my thigh."
Sakura caught herself, taking her hand off the redhead's leg. "S-sorry! It's just...seeing you and Ino 'dancing' is kinda..."
"Um, weird?" Naruko asked. More often than not, they wound up at Ino or Naruko's place soon after that, trying to 'mix' red and blonde. When Inoichi found them one night, he chased a naked Naruko with a kunai while his equally nude princess kept yelling at him to not kill her girlfriend. In the end, Ino's mother threatened to tell all the housewives that Inoichi was more of a pervert than Kakashi since he had all of Jiraiya's works, the books, movies, posters and even a lifetime membership to the Icha Icha fan club. That and she swung a frying pan at him, then threatened not to miss next time if he kept chasing her "cute, future daughter-in-law" around while she was naked.
Sakura blushed, the alcohol removing a few more restraints. "Actually, seeing you two grinding and kissing each other is so fucking hot! I can see why the guys have to go sit down when you two strut into the club!"
Naruko sweat dropped. "Now I know you need to stop drinking..."
Sakura sighed hard, making Naruko wince at the heavy scent of alcohol hitting her nose. "Why should I stop? I'm not fondling you."
Naruko blushed a bit, hoping Ino wasn't around. "Because you, a straight girl, think me and Ino-chan are hot. Straight girls don't think like that."
Sakura chuckled, lust thickening her voice. "I'm starting to think I'm not straight..." Her eyes started undressing her teammate.
Naruko flushed as she backed off slightly. She still liked Sakura, but had respected her wish to be with Sasuke and found happiness with Ino. The blonde heiress wasn't a second prize, Naruko loved Ino just as much as she loved Sakura. The pink haired girl's come on was a little strong, making Naruko feel her heart race.
"Hey there lover," Ino cooed as she looped her arms around Naruko's neck, then leaned in for a kiss. It started out as a normal peck on the lips, but Ino deepened it and both girls were soon moaning quietly into the others mouth as nearby patrons could hear the suction break whenever one of them moved too much, also allowing them to see the two girls' tongue duel. Ino's hands also started moving down from Naruko's shoulders as said kitsune's right hand went to Ino's throat, stroking a sensitive area near her pulse point, nails lightly grazing it.
Sakura had been around her master and Shizune enough to know about different drunk types. Shizune, oddly enough, got feisty and a little aggressive when enough alcohol was in her, resulting in her having full blown arguments with inanimate objects or even her own reflection. Tsunade was a weird mix of an affectionate drunk, a raging drunk and a sad drunk. Mention Orochimaru and she'd be growling and spitting curses. Mention Naruko and you'd have to stop her from hunting the ginger down so she could hug her, admit that she saw the kitsune as a daughter and probably drag the girl off to live in her home. Mention Jiraiya and she'd get depressed, filling her bottle with tears.
Sakura was a much simpler type of drunk. When she hit the alcohol, it all went to her libido.
"Kami, that's... Damn!" Sakura groaned as she watched the two girls in their passionate lip lock. She actually suppressed a moan when the two girls stopped kissing, a string of saliva linking their tongues.
"Ino-chan! Let's try to stay here for longer than ten minutes!" Naruko whined. Ino always wound her up with those kisses.
Ino smirked at her lover. "Why leave? I'm pretty sure the savior of the world can get us in that private VIP room."
Naruko growled deep in her throat, imagining the two of them there while barely any (sound proofed) wall separated them from a whole crowd of people. Damn, Naruko needed to restrain herself!
"Mind if I join in?" Sakura asked.
Ino wrapped her arms around Naruko's neck. "What's this, thinking of trying to hop onto our side of the fence, Sakura?"
"Haven't you heard? All the original members of Team Kakashi, aside from Kakashi-sensei, are all homosexual," Sakura said.
Naruko and Ino gaped at her. "Sasuke was screwing a man?!" they yelped, successfully dooming Sasuke's chances of getting with any other women.
Sakura snickered. "More like letting the guy do him."
Ino paled, though she was not entirely shocked at that. In her experience, prideful people who had others constantly working for them enjoyed being dominated in the bed, much like Ino herself. She absolutely loved it when Naruko held her down and went to town on her responsive, restrained body. "You sure you're a lesbian?"
To answer her, Sakura leaned forward and gave the kitsune a heated kiss, actually making the kitsune a bit tipsy from sensory overload and the sake still on the medic's lips.
Ino couldn't believe that Sakura, the girl who decided her feelings for Naruko had been sisterly, was currently making out with that very same 'sister.' And people thought the vixen and heiress were a hot item, there was borderline incest going on here!
Sakura broke the kiss, smiling slightly. "So, think you can wait ten minutes?"
Naruko's deep, lust filled growl escaped her throat as she grabbed both girls' waists and escorted them out of the club, leaving a trail of men being forced to sit down.
[Three very fun hours later]
Sasuke stumbled into Sakura's apartment, completely plastered. He knew Sakura hated it when he was drunk, since he was easily depressed and, embarrassingly enough, couldn't perform at all. They were total opposites when drunk.
But he wasn't here for fun, he was going to apologize to his girlfriend for his moment of indiscretion and hope to repair their relationship. He kinda got charmed by the man, who seemed to realize that Sasuke wanted to be out of control sometimes, to have someone force their will upon him. Now that he knew of that side of himself, maybe Sakura could 'take charge' every once in a while.
Sasuke pushed open the door to her room. "Listen Saku-" He stopped dead when he saw her bed.
Naruko, his and the world's savior as well as the next Hokage. Ino, the up and coming Hokage's official girlfriend. Sakura, Sasuke's girlfriend and one of the most proficient medics in the world. All of them, naked, in bed together, twisted up in sweaty, torn sheets and each other.
For the first time ever, Sasuke felt a perverted thought well up in his mind as his performance issue solved itself.
"Nnn. Sasuke? Is that you?" Sakura asked as she got up off Naruko's stomach, rubbing her eyes.
"Sakura... I'm sorry about what happened earlier, I was wrong," Sasuke managed.
Sakura sighed. "It's alright, I kinda figured it wouldn't last too long anyway," she said.
Sasuke realized he was going to be single soon, so he went for broke. "Um, how about one last time? For the road?" he asked as he dropped his pants, "maybe with Naruko and Ino too?"
[Hospital, next day]
"What happened to Sasuke?" Kakashi asked. He had been told that Sasuke had been rendered unable to go on missions for the next while due to an injury. Well, that just meant more time with Naruko, another avid reader of Icha Icha. Sasuke was boring because he hardly ever made mistakes, and he snored like a fog horn sometimes.
"Oh, Sakura smashed it," the nurse stated.
"It?" Kakashi asked.
The woman pointed to Kakashi's groin. "It."
Every man in the room winced and held their genitals. "Why?" Kakashi asked.
The nurse giggled a bit. "She dumped him and hooked up with Yamanaka-san and Uzumaki-san. Sasuke caught them in bed and attempted to join in."
Kakashi lasted about half a minute, then he fell back as a nosebleed downed him, his head filled with images of his female students and the Yamanaka girl with each other.
The nurse sighed. "We got another acute blood loss patient here! Don't touch the mask!" she called.
Responses-
Anyone who reviewed, but I didn't respond to: I'm sorry, but there are so many reviews that I just kinda went: "okay, I responded to all these, so I'll just stop answering the reviews and post the damn chapter!" I figure I've been gone long enough for a few more "he's dead" thoughts. Though my e-mail account is temporarily dead. (Damn Microsoft and their BS, over the top captcha which rarely, if ever, works properly. Why do they have to make their own, barely functional versions of things that already exist?)
Wolfone10: I know you aren't here yet, but allow me to clear up lots of confusion for you. The nine-tails is NOT immortal, is NOT all powerful, does NOT have limitless chakra and is FAR from the strongest. The nine-tails could barely destroy the Hokage mountain, while the ten-tails could create continents or erase them with ease. While Naruko is the nine-tails, she has absolutely no idea how to use her powers, making her little more than a 'human' with incredible chakra reserves and a high healing rate.
As to why he could mark Naruko, her demonic chakra was very weak at the time, only making him use more chakra than normal to mark her. If she had her tail active, he would have died from trying to mark her. As for why he's so 'OP,' that's how he was in Part I, before Kishi chopped his power in half so Assuke could easily defeat him. And if that 'ningen' is unbelievable, do know that even the nine-tails is wary of Madara, a bloody Uchiha whose mental maturity stopped around four years old, just like all Uchiha.
NaruHina fan: The story this one was spawned from involved a Naruto/Kyūbi-chan fusion and I only wished to unlock the yuri harem potential that the EroSlacker's girlfriend suppressed. I admire the man, in spite of him being a little bit whipped, so I came up with my own method of doing things. Overall, my Naruko is less story breaking, such as not summoning up a monsoon to render Gaara as harmless as a newborn kitten. Someone who is or was fused with the Kyūbi would be far more violent, more likely to combat rather than disabling an opponent.
As for the pairing, I'm still in doubt. I can make it much larger, mainly due to adding a few more girls due to what I call the 'Excele Narutoverse basics' which are things I make present in all my fics. One of them is Sakura's parents, another being Tenten as an orphan as well as losing interest in Neji. These are things I always put into my story, the first concept being Naruto's graduation age being 13 while everyone else is 12, which makes all things fit properly. (Naruto failing three times while Sasuke never failed in spite of always being in Naruto's class = FAIL) The concepts are to make canon make more sense by filling in those city sized plot holes Kishimoto never filled in.
As I was saying before, I can add more girls to it. I was thinking of Hinata, mainly because I want the girl to get a little loving from a canine ninja who knows what a bath is, Tenten, since Neji is a bit of an ass. Ayame is a good choice as well. Shizune would be good, but not for this fic. Hana would never be considered for this fic, though it would be funny for Kiba to learn that his fantasy girl (Naruko) is hooking up with his nightmare inducing sister (Hana).
I'll toss up a poll or something. I still need to read forward, so there is still time to bury Naruko under lots of girls.
arawn tsumaki: Continuing, though I took a bit of time off due to various events and illnesses. I am working on beating Borderlands as the hunter (I'm a CQC sniper), I've been watching MarbleHornets and related Slender man ARGs, and I've also been on the hunt for good, ongoing harem stories, which can only be found on AFF and YourFanfiction (which is closing down soon) so I know I'm not alone, which I am. FF seems to be filling up with more NaruHina and SasuSaku writers now that all the greats appear to have vacated the site. I see no hope in 'Naruto the Gilgamesh' going on anymore, since it is quite violent and gory with a nice threesome of Naruto/Sakura/Ino, which sucks because it is so damn good! If this keeps up, I'll become the best harem writer because I'll be the only one left! (I have a story similar to Naruto the Gilgamesh, though it is currently a NaruFOCSakuIno fic)
KTlovesmoney: I'm not done with that friendship yet. As you read in the omake, Naruko is still talking with Hana and learning of Kiba's 'activities' when he's off duty.
Yuri-Hime-Chan: I forgot where I got that line from, but I find myself wanting to use it all the time for upbeat characters like Ino.
I also see that you like YoruichiXSuì-Fēng. I personally don't see it, since they seem more like an older sister and her little sister, but to each their own. BTW, am I the only one who sees that a bit of Hiyori's appearance seems to have have crawled into Suì-Fēng's post time skip appearance?
Dragonsatan: Thanks.
Harlequin320: Things are hard, especially when you completely alter one character. Finally got it worked out, hope it doesn't seem too over the top.
CloudMage23: I'm guessing you like the 'weakness' omake. I was thinking of using that for a fic, but I wanted to see if people found Gynaphobe Sasuke funny.
Ladygoddess8: Yeah, that was part of the intent with that tail. That tail is only one piece of what lures Sakura to Naruko. Part of it is jealousy.
Irish Shift: And here it is.
Raito671: First of all, any time is the time to voice your opinion. Those who hesitate tend to regret it later on in life. That nagging feeling that you should keep your mouth shut is something you should ignore sometimes. Trust me, there are lots of things I should have said, but never did.
My style never really got me tremendous marks in school. I write how I see it in my head, which results in grammar errors due to how chaotic my mind is. I've never been one for set rules, since it just seems to slow me down and restrict me. As for spelling errors, I'm thinking I'll go over the chapters later, fix them up a bit, then post the fixed chapters at a later date. My writing style is constantly evolving and some of the older chapters are in an outdated style I don't really use anymore.
As I wrote in a response last chapter, they are confused over liking a girl now and, as far as we can see, the Narutoverse has a stigma to same sex couples. Also, do remember that Sakura has been all happy and proud of Naruto one minutes, then beating him half to death the next. For Sakura, mood swings are canon, as is her punch strength.
I've read stories where Naruto and the Kyūbi, normally female, have a family bond. Hell, I have an idea for one myself. I decided to completely shatter how the Kyūbi was and made it so he had a kid, which later gave birth to our ramen snarfing ninja/kitsune. As for his 'evil' being noble, far from it. You'll see later, his reasons weren't good at all.
MangaObsession: Updated, but it was slow.
DarkLordK: Yeah, I'm still alive.
I decided, since I threatened Jiraiya's manhood and such, he'd get a nice treat at the end. Here's a good question for you though: who was Tama's first love?
Nidaime Otokage: As you can see, she is still the same old steel headed moron we all know and love, just with female parts and a tail.
ShadowCub: Hmm, not right away. I am going to kill him, but it won't be till later on.
WolfDragonGod: Originally, I was going to have Ino jump off the gate to get to Naruko, but Shikamaru just happened to be nearby and doing nothing at all, so I made him do some work.
Shikamaru: ...Troublesome dirty blond...
Hey! Don't go telling people my hair color! Besides, I only got streaks of pale blond left now! Go back to necking with Temari or I'll make her hook up with Naruko!
Shikamaru: ...I'm staying, so hook them up.
SuperNeos2: I kind of stole the concept of a perv HDD from a manga with unrelated siblings who love each other, but I figured that Jiraiya already had one. As for Sakura, she's still stuck in 'Sasuke-baka mode,' so she's just going to stand there like an idiot until it clicks, then the fur and buttons will go flying, maybe some mesh and chest wrappings too...
BrilliantTeazer: And my writing is still evolving. I always take my time when it comes to writing, its just my own version of 'my own time.' (look up the term: S.O.O.N) Trust me, the rough chapters look very scary, then I beta my own work and it looks less like a war zone, more like no man's land, then it gets cleaned up a bit more and you get decent chapters.
Gaara king of sand: Thanks for the tip on AFC stories, but it doesn't seem to work with Firefox and I'm unwilling to use Chrome, because it is craptacular, and IE, since it might as well be a virus. I'm actually thinking of .
I don't know about other people, but the originals of every chapter are stored on my computer. I do that so I don't have to pop open a browser every time I want to work on or fix my stories and such.
Ddcj1990: Ino has the qualities to be a chūnin, since she knows the best way to use her teammate's jutsu to achieve her mission... of making out with Naruko. XD
Chm01: Hmm, figured that tail would rub some people the wrong way. Well- (shoved aside)
Pre-time skip Naruko: How do you think I feel!? It's part of me! Hyaa! It tickles when it rubs my legs!
Sky Zephyrus: (Excele is currently dressed like Kakashi) Well, I got lost on the road of life...
Team 7 + Sky Zephyrus: LATE!
...Anyway, I'm happy this is your favorite yuri story. And yes, this chapter is post time-skip.
Hmm, let me check out this girl and her outfit. I haven't actually watched anime in about 2 years (shame on me, a Canadian Otaku-ish person!) so I've never heard of Aquarion Evol.
(googles it. Switches to images)
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News caster: And in other news, fanfic writer Excele Kurokami, dressed as Hatake Kakashi of Naruto for some odd reason, was found dead at his keyboard today. Cause of death was explosive loss of blood through the nose. He left a dying message, which was revealed after the blood had been wiped off his monitor. It said: "totally worth it!"