Now here comes the third chapter to A Loving Heart, A Body of Steel! Damn this chap came fast by my standards! An early warning though, there is a lemon in this chapter, and it's my first lemon too, so please don't flame me too much for it. So, go ahead and read this chap!
EDIT 14/1/2013: Fixed Naruto's chakra nature training mistakes. Thanks Veloran-Darkfyre for mentioning this!
EDIT 23/02/2013: Replaced my original crappy lemon with a reader who wrote one for me! Thans Omega Kyubi Crusader! You're fucking awesome!
CHAPTER 3: FIRST TRAVEL YEAR!
-CHAPTER START-
Naruto is walking away from Konoha for the last 30 minutes while planning his travel path. "Let's see... I don't think I can travel to Iwa without the people there immediately trying to kill me, because I looked too similar to father, which is good sometimes, but sucks most of the time. I think I'll go to Suna first, passing through River Country, then I'll head north to Earth Country, but won't go to Iwa, instead, went around it, and then enter Taki. Then I'll think further. Now, onwards!"
So, plans made up, Naruto went on the direction of River Country to the west of Fire Country. But then, Kurumi piped up from his mind.
"Naruto, travelling to see the world is good and all, but you must remember that one of the main reasons for this trip is to train you. So, we'll break camp every evening, and you must place chakra suppression seals and anti detection seals over the perimeter of the camp so that we can train in peace. But make sure the area is large enough, we don't want your clones to end up in a tight place."
"Sure thing Kurumi-chan. Now I'll continue walking." With his bloodline's capabilities, he didn't so much as walked, as ran full speed towards River Country, with nothing but everything that he has on him in his seals. Not to mention, to further train both his speed and muscles, he had auto adjusting resistance and gravity seals placed on him. The seals auto adjusts in that once they detected that the user has already exceeded the seals' resistance, they will increase themselves automatically without requiring any physical adjustments from the outside. So, his journeys also help improve his speed and strength.
Naruto was running around the path to a nearby town, when he heard a scream coming from the path ahead. He immediately disabled the resistance and gravity seals and dashed forward towards the source of the screams. What he saw made his blood ran cold. A trade caravan, with all the caravan members tied up, with some of them dead, their decapitated heads mounted on pikes along the roads. Naruto's eyes saw that there are around fifty highwaymen, three heads on pikes with their bodies not far away, ten tied people, screaming and crying, and what angered both him and Kurumi the most: a girl, not older than fifteen, about to be raped by three bandits.
"NARUTO-KUN! KILL THEM ALL! DO NOT LET THEM SURVIVE! THEY TRIED TO FORCE THEMSELVES ON THE GIRL! DO NOT LET THEM! KILL THEM ALL!" The change of honorific went unrealised by both of them, with Naruto, focusing only on saving the girl and Kurumi, focusing on preventing said heinous act from happening. Naruto immediately dashed forward at blinding speed, faster than what most people can see, and faster than even some jounins and reached directly in the middle of the three would-be rapists, who was in the process of tearing off the girl's clothes. Naruto suddenly became calmer in his extreme rage, with the only thought running in his mind is to save the girl and annihilate the bandits.
Without even thinking, Naruto immediately grabbed the bandit that was tearing the girl's clothes, pulled him away and punched him right on the chest, with a punch so powerful that the man's chest was instantly pulverized with some of his rib bones protruding from his back. He then grabbed the other bandit and ripped his hand off of his body, blood spraying on his and Naruto's body, before Naruto using that arm to beat the third bandit with one swing that was so hard that the bandit flew away, and getting knocked out on a tree, head bleeding, while the arm was smashed to pieces. All this occurred in ten seconds, such is Naruto's speed.
The rest of the bandits, who previously was busy cheering their compatriots who are about to rape the girl, deicided that they have numbers on their side, and immediately charged Naruto, bellowing war cries and shouts of vengeance. Naruto, still in his rage-empowered 'Battle Mode', disappeared from their sights and appeared in their midst, and the carnage starts. Using his bare hands, Naruto ripped the head off from a bandit nearby, throwing both the body and the head onto a different bandit, blood showering from the body. Another bandit had his chest pierced by Naruto's empty hand, his heart immediately destroyed, another took a literal ball-crushing kick, a roundhouse kick from Naruto snapped the neck of another, sending him flying into another bandit. One bandit's spear got shoved into his own head through the bottom of the head, sending brain matter everywhere. Another's sword was used by Naruto to decapitate three bandits before the sword itself broke due to low maintenance. Naruto was death incarnate, whirling in the midst of the bandits like a tornado, killing, dismembering, decapitating, all with his bare hands.
By the end of the very short, three minute battle, all the bandits are dead in extremely gruesome ways, with Naruto himself showered in blood, though the self cleaning seals within his clothes will take care of it later. Then Naruto broke out of his trance, and saw the carnage that he caused. He immediately puked, and fainted, and ended up in his mindscape, right in front of Kurumi's cage. Wanting some comfort, he ran, tears flowing from his face, into the awaiting arm of Kurumi.
"Kurumi-chan! *sniff* I killed them all! In brutal ways! *sniff* I feel bad, yet I can't help but think that that's good! Why am I feeling this?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?" Naruto cried, his tears didn't stop flowing.
"Naru-kun, don't worry. What you did, as bad as it is, are for a good cause. They are going to rape the girl, then either kill them or force them to become their sex slaves, not being able to escape, unless they died. They might also kill the rest of the people or use them as hostages, or just torture them for fun. In my long life, humans are a very chaotic creature, in that their nature themselves are chaotic. Don't worry Naruto-kun. Cry not for them, but cry instead for your lost innocence, one that you won't gain again. Hug me, and cry on me. I'm here, and not planning on leaving any time soon. I will always be with you, don't forget that. You are mine, and I am yours, as it is so."
Naruto kept crying, and crying, and crying, his Astartes bloodline not allowing him the reprieve of dreamless sleep. After a pretty long while in his mindscape, he stopped crying, and asked Kurumi. "Kurumi-chan, am I a bad person? I didn't feel anything when I killed them. I regretted doing so, but during the battle, I didn't feel anything, only that I must save the girl and kill all the bandits. Does that make me bad?"
"No Naruto-kun, in fact, if you didn't regret killing them, then you are a bad person. The reason why you didn't feel anything is that you managed to enter your 'Battle Mode', though the only reason you can do so is due to extreme anger. We must train you some more so that you can use it without any external stimulations. No Naruto. If you didn't regret killing them, but instead find enjoyment in doing so, then you are a bad person. In the work of a ninja, killing is not just unavoidable, but necessary. Sometimes you will be ordered to poison someone, sometimes just killing them by any means, sometimes you even need to frame someone else for a kill that you did, but know that it is necessary. But learn to deal with them, and never let go of the regret and the feeling that it gives, for if you do, then you are no longer a proper human. No matter what, a life is precious, and any kills is a bad thing. But the act is necessary, it's just that whether you regret doing it or not that will determine your humanity."
"Thanks Kurumi-chan. I needed that. I think that was my first kill. And that hits hard. Anyway, I promise that I will visit you here more often. For now, I need to wake up and check the conditions of the rest of the people. See ya!" And with that, he was gone from the mindscape, which caused Kurumi to think about what she said to him before, and blushed horribly.
"I called him Naruto-kun! And I said that he is mine! And I am his! Did he even realise that? I doubt that, he is too busy wallowing in his first kill to recognize or remember what I just said. But what I said is true, and I will still consider it true, and even if he remembers and asked me about it, then I will say it to him: I am falling in love with him, and I hope that he does to me as well."
-BREAK-
Waking up from his fainting spell, he found out that he was cleaned by the people of the caravan, before he heard a shout of "He's awake!" from his right. He stood up and saw that all of the people, the surviving ones, all came at him. A guy with short hair and a round, chubby face in a pretty expensive kimono greeted him.
"Greetings, sir...?"
"...Arashi." Naruto decided to not tell him his real name, in case it might cause him to become known later on. He wished to keep a low profile, after all.
"Ah, Arashi-san. We are extremely grateful for you for saving us from the bandit attack just now. You fainted in the pool of your own vomit with your body covered with blood, so we cleaned you up, though for some reason your clothes clean themselves up suddenly."
"...Thanks. May I have your name? And what about the girl just now?"
"My name is Kanda, and the girl you just saved is my daughter, Kanade-chan. No words can express my thanks to you."
"You don't need to. Any decent human would do something about them."
"Naru-kun, ask them where the bodies of the bandits are." Kurumi quipped.
"What for?"
"For you to eat their brains. Before you started screaming at me about eating someone's brains, remember that the Omophagea organ allows you to gain their knowledge and their memories, thus allowing you to find the location of their main camp, and either rescue any captives that they have, or eliminate them all, or both. For them to attack such a caravan, there must be more of them around, and a bandit camp of that size must've been there for a while, and there must be lots of people that they have captured. So it's better to clear off all of them, these scum."
Naruto, although disgusted, agreed with Kurumi, and asked Kanda where the bodies of the bandits are. After locating the bodies and identifying the one that seems like the leader, Naruto took out one of his Hiraishin kunai, and carved the bandit's head, which luckily survived, because he only got his heart destroyed with a powerful punch, or at least that's what the damage to the bandit leader's body seems to say. After removing the skull and picking up the guy's brain, with extreme disgust Naruto chews the brain of the leader and swallows it. After a couple of minutes, Naruto was assaulted with a headache so powerful it makes him fall to his knees, and grabs his head, before a bunch of memories from the bandit appeared in his mind (AN: Think of how Alex Mercer and James Heller after they consumed a Web of Intrigue target. This will keep happening throughout the story, and the comparison seemed most apt.). He didn't just found out the location of the bandit camp, but also their leader, who is a missing nin from Kiri, and the unspeakably heinous and inhumane acts that they did to their prisoners, with selling them to the highest bidder being one of the most humane thing that they did.
Naruto, now pissed off beyond all reason, went back to Kanda, and told him to stay put and break camp on their current location, before making a couple of Kage Bunshins and sent them to various parts of the camp so that they will be covered while he's gone. Then, he dashed immediately to the bandit camp, which was located about 2 days' journey from the survivor's camp on a civilian pace, 12 hour's journey by genins, and about an hour by Naruto at max speed, which he did.
-BREAK-
As he reached the outskirts of the camp, he uses his superior eyesight to see what is going on within the camp. His ears picked up the sound of people screaming and begging for mercy, his eyes saw a huge bonfire, surrounded by the bandits, and his nose picked up the smell of death, fire, ruins and flesh.
"So, how shall we do this? Chakra or no chakra?"
"Chakra. The easiest way is to use the Hiraishin Rain kunai and flash to all of them, killing them while doing so. Easy, less collateral damage, and pretty silent, though not exactly hidden. The flash will be visible, but as long as you went fast enough, I doubt that they can even stop you."
Agreeing with the strategy, Naruto sent a mental nod to her and took out one of his most special kunai, the Hiraishin Rain (HR) kunai. This kunai did not just have a Hiraishin seal on it. It also contains a force seal, a seal that sends a wave of force to everything around it, which is essentially a reuseable, low powered exploding tag, and a storage seal, which contains hundreds, or tens of Hiraishin kunai, depending on what condition that it needs to be used for, anti army or just anti camp. They also have recall seals that can recall all the Hiraishin kunai into their respective HR kunai storage seal, making retrieval easy. By throwing a HR kunai on top of an enemy camp or an army formation, the tens or hundreds of kunai can be rained down on the enemy, hence the name, and Naruto can Hiraishin to every single one of them, thus making him capable of taking down an entire army or enemy camp alone, without any help. At least theoretically. This is going to be the first combat test for the HR kunai.
Naruto prepares the HR kunai while dropping a single Hiraishin kunai at his current location as a fallback point, and launches the HR kunai high up over the bandit camp. The wave of force and the kunai are immediately scattered in the camp, some outright hitting some of the bandit. They never knew what hit them. One moment they're all chatting and talking merrily, the next a bunch of weird looking kunai was flying around the base, injuring, even killing some of them. And the next, the only thing they saw was a yellow flash that appeared almost everywhere, and then they knew no more.
Naruto stopped flashing right outside a couple of tents, right after he finished Rasengan-ing the bandits outside, almost three hundred of them. Guess the spirit of Spartans does not live in them, despite their numbers. He opened the flap of a tent, and what he saw there sickens him. A man was busy plunging his dick into a child, probably no more than twelve years old whose lifeless eyes show that she has lost all the will to live, the scent of blood and sex permeates the air in the tent like a cloud of thick, dopey smoke. The man, not realising that Naruto was looking at him, continued with his business, while Naruto, in all his rage and anger, following the orders of Kurumi, came at the guy with deliberate slowness, before stabbing his kunai into the man's crotch.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGHHH!" The man screamed, before Naruto picked him up by the neck, and ripped off his fingers, one digit at a time with him watching it all the time. After all his fingers are torn off, he ripped the man's dick off before shoving it into his mouth, prematurely silencing the man, literally sucking off his own dick. Naruto then proceeds to tear off the man's jaw off his head, before using his inhuman strength to entirely crush his neck, decapitating him in the most brutal manner. Shivering due to the brutality of his BM kills, he started asking Kurumi on what the man was doing when he came in. The only thing that he understands is that it is bad, he understood it in his soul.
"Naruto-kun... I guess you are in need of 'The Talk', but we'll do that later. For now, know that what that person does is horrible and evil, and you must stop anyone you encounter in the future that will do such things. But now, we have a bandit camp to clear."
Accepting the dismissal, Naruto created a couple shadow clones to free the women in the tent, exited the tent, and went to search for the leader, but he didn't have to. The leader, a missing nin from Kiri, is already waiting among the dead bandits, and is looking towards Naruto.
"So... You're the ones who killed all my men... You will p-"
His words was cut short when Naruto, still in a rage, charged forward at a blinding speed, and smashed his fist into the missing nin's face, breaking his nose and his entire front row teeth. While the nin was flying due to the strength of Naruto's fist-to-the-face, he caught the nin's leg and swung him, head first, to the ground. Multiple times. Then. Naruto tossed him upwards like so much a ragdoll, and grabbed his leg again, pulling him downwards before using a Rasengan on his upper torso, turning his chest into so much man puree. After the man has finished his impromptu Rasengan powered flight, Naruto, with the urgings of Kurumi, ate the nin's brain. After enduring another massive headache, he gained the memories of the nin. Turns out that he was a chuunin level missing nin from Kiri, and ran away from Kiri due to the fact that he was disappointed with the power that he gained while at Kiri. He also gained the knowledge of the terrain within Kiri, the condition of Kiri, his jutsus and some other unrelated stuff. Naruto looked back at the carnage that he did within the camp, and sees the girls and women that was freed.
"Hello everyone. For now we will hold first with the introductions. Me and my clones will bring all of you to a caravan nearby which I also saved. So come closer."
Naruto then created some clones that lifted all the people that they rescued onto their shoulders, some which looted the camp, and sprinted straight back to the location of the caravan from before, carrying both people and loot. All in all, the destruction of the camp takes only 12 minutes.
-BREAK-
At the caravan's camp, once the people that Naruto has rescued from the camp, which amounts to around 45 people, has been taken care of by both the people from the caravan and the prisoners that can still perform simple tasks, Kanda went to meet Naruto, who was lying down on a thick branch, seemingly sleeping.
"Arashi-san, all the people that you brought have been properly tended to. But what should we do now? We didn't have much resource to cater for all these people for long."
"Then I guess we'll just take them to the village that you're about to travel to before the bandits attacked. How about that?"
"Then I guess that we have a plan of action now. Notify everyone that we'll move tomorrow. I'll create more clones to carry everyone and seal your items inside scrolls. Now I will be training, so don't bother me unless it's really important," Naruto said to Kanda, who then went to relay the information to everyone, and Naruto, who created more clones to watch the camp, which had an air of happiness around it, and went to create his training grounds with many seals as its borders.
"Alright Naruto-kun. From what we know about your elemental nature that we tested before we left, you have Wind, Fire and Water nature. So, you need to make about three thousand clones, a thousand for each type of elemental training, around five hundred more for taijutsu training, around five hundred more for seals studies, while you yourself will sit somewhere, and listen to me."
Shrugging, Naruto made the required number of clones and told them to do what their Kurumi-clones told them to do, while Naruto decides to get comfortable and sat down in a lotus position and went into his mindscape to talk to his Kurumi-chan.
-BREAK-
Naruto's mindscape, which was a sewer before, is now a lush meadow as far as the eye can see, with a single huge tree in the middle, which acts like a home for Kurumi to stay. Kurumi, who is now lying down on the grass, and has a collar with a cracked ruby that has the kanji for seal written inside of it, calls Naruto to come towards her, which he did so and starts to climb her back and lied on her soft, furry back.
"Naruto... Do you know what the person just now is doing?"
"Yes, he is using his penis and puts inside that girl's... parts, but what? Or why? And that girl... why did she looks like that? It pains me to see her like that..."
"Naruto-kun, it's time you learned The Talk. After that, then you will understand why the act you just saw is extremely vile, and must not be done, no matter what. Naruto-kun, when a man loves a woman,..."
And among the extremely emotionally depressed Naruto and the thousands of year old bijuu occurs an event known by most only as The Talk, where Naruto learns of sex, sexuality and its effects... which will change Naruto into one of the world's most powerful anti-rapist. Two hours later, and The Talk, as awkward a condition as it is ever given in, is finally over. Blushing heavily, Naruto started to ask Kurumi about the man just now.
"So that means, what the man was doing, is that he forced himself on that girl, and that that girl is already too depressed and has lost the will to live...?"
"Essentially, yeah. But I can't say that for sure, though that seems about right."
"Then here and now I will make an oath, witnessed by you, Kurumi-chan. I will kill, without mercy, any rapist that I encounter, especially if they are currently within the act, and I will torture them first, and make them pay. They will pay, I promise. Any rapist had better beware, because Uzumaki Naruto is here, and he tolerates no rapist! NO ONE!"
"Then here I, Kurumi, daughter of the Sage of Six Paths, the Nine-Tailed Bijuu, bear witness to the oath of one Uzumaki Naruto, my future mate, to not give any quarter to any rapist. So shall the oath be, and so shall it stay, until the end of time."
After calming himself down, Naruto asks "So what am I supposed to train in now?"
"You must train further in trying to unlock the BM. Currently, the BM is only unlocked in moments of extreme rage and anger. By being able to utilise this skill to its maximum at any time, you can battle anyone and anything at your maximum capability, without any blocks, both mental and physical. Now, you must try meditating during battle for this mode to happen. Also, once your clones managed to properly perform their respective elemental exercises, then I will start to teach you jutsu."
Nodding, Naruto continued his training under the guidance of Kurumi, while his clones are busy doing elemental chakra composition training. After a couple of hours, daybreak came without any incidents, and Naruto dispelled all his clones, and learned that some of them have finished their respective exercises. To test this, he grabbed a leaf from a nearby tree, and managed to cut it using nothing but wind chakra, grabbing two other leaf, he tried flowing fire chakra and water chakra to each leaf, and one burned while the other became wet, signalling the complete success of the exercises last night. Then, Naruto went to Kanba's location, and told him to rally everyone and gather all their belongings, where he will seal them in scrolls while he'll create massive amount of clones to carry everyone to the town nearby. After around half an hour, all the people, about sixty of them and all the items are gathered in one location. Naruto immediately took out an empty scroll and created a mass storage scroll, designed to carry multiple items of multiple types all in just one scroll. Then, as he said earlier, Naruto created clones, one for each person so they can carry them to a nearby town, though the kid, which he saved while she's being raped, is still lifeless, and doing everything robotically. Her dull eyes, her actions and even her very chakra, to Naruto, screams 'suicidal'.
"Kanda-san, where is the closest town to our current location? A map is not something that I have, thus I will need you to tell me the location of the closest town. I am unable to do much to all of you, and can only carry all of you to that town, then you all will have to decide what should you do."
"Nonsense, Arashi-san. You have done enough for all of us, and I am glad that we found someone like you that helped us. Now let's see... The closest town to our current location is the town of Shizuka, still within the borders of Fire Country, so most probably we'll be safe there. It's around a day's journey to the town, and it's around north north east of our current position."
"Alright Kanda-san. Everyone! Hold on to your clones tight! I will be running very fast to get us there in no time!"
And run they did. Clones of Naruto ran faster than anything the people had ever known, through the beaten path, through the forest, and even on a river that crosses their path, the people he carried all screaming in excitement and some in fear, they even forgotten their capture and subsequent torture and life at the hands of those bandits, except for the kid, who was hanging on to the real Naruto lifelessly, not making any sounds, and not even so much as looked elsewhere. Looking at this, Naruto frowned, though there is not much that he could do, not at this time.
-BREAK-
In just 4 hours of non-stop running and/or tree-hopping, they have reached the town of Shizuka, which was a small, peaceful town, though there are not many people there. He places all the people that he carried on the ground close to the town and told them to walk back to the town, some of them falling down due to lack of use for their legs. Some of them are even hugging him in happiness, saying that Shizuka is the town where they came from, while the rest will have to look for some other method of transportation to get back to where they're from. The girl didn't make a sound, none at all. Naruto frowned, but before he could say anything, Kurumi said within his mind.
"Naruto, some people are just too late to be saved. In life, that is one of the facts, that as hard as it is for us to accept, is still a fact of life. You can also never save everyone, either from anyone else, or from themselves. No matter how much you fought against this fact, the truth is, sometimes, it is better not saving some people that didn't want to be saved and focus on saving those that want to rather than trying to save everyone at the same time. It is a morbid thought, but an undeniable one nonetheless."
Naruto tried to accept this fact, oh he tried, but he just cannot accept this one simple fact of life. Due to that, he tried everything he can to cheer up the girl, but nothing worked. But then, when he was taking the girl to the centre of the town, a pair of husband and wife ran at him, screaming.
"Hana! Oh, my Hana! You're safe! Oh Hana!" cried the woman, who hugged the girl tightly, tears of joy falling out of her eyes like a waterfall. After a while, the husband joins in, together crying, but the girl, now known as Hana, still didn't make a sound. Until she somehow moved her head, looked at her family, and cried, the tears held back for who knows how long finally pouring out of her eyes without restraint and without any signs of stopping, while hugging her mother as tight as possible. Naruto, watching this scene, turns back and tried to walk away, before he heard someone calling him.
"Sir, are you the one who saved my daughter?" asked the man.
"...Yes, though I won't count her as saved, not as of yet. She will be in a very hard life, and you'd better remember that she's been in a lot of pain, probably more pain than any other person her age should go through. She is very badly broken, and I fear for her mind. Please love her until her end, and hope that you can heal her of her mental scars."
"...I may not want to know this, but what was happening to her when you found her that made you speak of such things?"
"...When I met her, she was being raped by a bandit in a camp." At this, the father's face paled. "I know not how long has that been continuing, but I immediately killed the man, in a most brutal and horrifying manner, and so do I cleared the whole camp. Consider that as a minor form of revenge that I can give out for your child."
"Thank you so much for saving her, mister...?"
"Arashi. Call me Arashi, from Konoha."
"Arashi-san from Konoha. No words can express how much is my feelings of gratitude towards you for saving my daughter. She is my only daughter, the sun of our lives."
"Do not thank me for what a decent man should do. Instead, you can thank me by taking good care of your daughter, and make sure something like that never happens again."
"I will take your advice, Arashi-san. Please stay in my house for a day before you continue on your trip. From your clothes, I'd say that you are a traveller."
"Thanks, but I do not think so. I will continue on through my journey, and will leave you. Do not feel as you owed me anything, for an act a good man would do. Anyway, I will take leave now, and may many blessings fall on your family after this catastrophic disaster. Farewell." With that, Naruto turned away and walked from the family, thankful that the girl has managed to cry out her pains on the shoulders of her family. The wife then asked the husband.
"Dear, who is that man? Did you get his name?" while still rubbing the back of their crying daughter.
"His name is arashi, from Konoha. And he didn't want anything from us. He just saved our daughter from a fate worse than death, and he asked for nothing. I have, and probably never will, meet any person more honourable than him."
They both then sat in silence, one hugging their still crying daughter, and one watching the back of the man that saved their beloved daughter. Unknown to all four of them, the girl gets pregnant later on due to the raping that she endured, and gave birth to a baby boy that she named after her saviour, Arashi, who was cared for by the whole family and made sure that the boy is loved, and not hated.
-BREAK-
Naruto then walked back to where he left the rest of the caravan and the people that he rescued, and talked to Kanba about his caravan.
"Kanba-san, so what happens now? You have safely reached the town, and doesn't seem to be able to leave for a while. So, any plans?"
"None for now Arashi-san. I would like to sell my wares here, and have the carpenters here build me a new caravan, and then continue on my journey to sell my wares. Your kindness will forever be noted Arashi-san, and for that, I thank you."
"About that, can you help me with something? I'm on a journey, yet when I started, I did not think of having a map for me to use. Can you sell me a map? The loot that I gained during my raid on the camp didn't get me a map, though I did get a copy of Kiri's bingo book." He added the last part in his mind.
"Of course! I will gladly give it away to you, as thanks for saving us! Though it is not much-"
"Don't worry. That is enough. I don't think I need anymore. Now I will take my leave from this town, and continue on my journey."
Truning around, Naruto then walked away from the caravan, and walked away from the town, and out of everyone's sight, before tree hopping to another destination, one that no one knows.
-BREAK-
After his stop in Shizuka, Naruto continued his training journey,travelling for 12 hours and training for another 12, and resting only on the weekend in an 8-hour sleep, with which he continued to visit Kurumi, to talk, to chat, and even just to sleep on her. Along his journey, he trained himself in various elemental jutsu, completed all his elemental training, and even improved his Shadow clones so much so that he didn't even need handsigns for them. Massive number of clones trained everyday in taijutsu, elemental recomposition and seals, even trained in elements that are not his main (lightning, earth), while he himself tried to achieve the elusive BM. Days upon days upon days passed without any further troubles, and one day, he found out that towns, cities and certain places had bounty boards, where people places various missions and bounty hunting missions. On the urgings of Kurumi, he decided to pick up some of the missions, mainly bandit exterminations, finding missing person, or even missing nin hunting.
During the bandit extermination missions, Naruto shows that he really intends to keep his promise. BM or not, he killed the bandits, especially those that he caught raping with extreme brutality. Limbs are torn, bodies mutilated beyond reason, entire camps annihilated. For some of the camps, the prisoners have been sex slaves for so long that it's all they knew, and they've lost hope, so much so that they are not even alive for the most part. In the end, he's forced to mercy-kill these people to end them of their misery. During these moments, Naruto usually gets so angry that not just he started drawing on Kurumi's evil chakra, he absolutely crushes the bandits without any restraints, destroying them utterly, and sometimes not even bodies are left. During these moments, he usually ended up on Kurumi's fur, crying not for his own sake, but for the innocent lives that he was forced to take, due to them being so broken and hopeless.
Also, another thing that he found different was his feelings towards Kurumi. She is always there, to comfort him, to teach him, to just give him a (massive) hug, to be his friend in need, and to be his greatest confidant. During times when he was sad, like after a mercy kill, Kurumi hugged him in her massive tails, whispering words of comfort and calming him down. During happy times, she celebrates with her, like if he learned a new jutsu. During times of great rage, like when he saw someone trying to kill an innocent or trying to raid an unassuming caravan, she rages together with him. During times of extreme boredom, she is there, telling him stories of her adventure, or just even being someone to chat with. After a certain amount of pondering, he realised something: she is the best life partner that he can have, and would want her to be at his side, until he dies, or until the end of time, and would be at her side as well, come world's end.
Also, due to Naruto's BM training, he somehow becomes bipolar, for no reason. Most of the time, he is a very happy, very relaxed guy that can make everyone around him laugh, but in battle, he became a ruthless, extremely brutal, cold blooded warrior, whose enemy's blood became his drink, and their flesh his food, sometimes literally. Due to his own constitution, he is able to digest everything that the enemy once was, and which terrifies the remaining enemies to no end. So much so that he is placed within the Bingo Book as Arashi the Blood Drinker, a B-ranked freelance mercenary, whose face was never seen, because he wears a hood, covered with voice changing seals face distortion seals, which helps him keep his identity nickname made him sick with himself at first, until Kurumi reminded him that what he does is for the good of everyone around, depending on the target, which was usually bandits.
-BREAK-
Ten months had passed, and right now Naruto is fighting a Konoha missing nin named Rokushou Aoi, who was wielding the Sword of the Thunder God, once owned by Senju Tobirama, against Naruto. His genin team was already wiped out by Naruto earlier, getting their brain matter falling on the ground after a series of vicious right hooks from Naruto killed all of them, with Naruto not even affected by Aoi's Senbon Shower technique with his Chakra Armour activated.
"Dammit! What are you?! You're not human! No human can punch that hard!"
Naruto, currently in BM, which he just achieved two weeks ago, rushed to his position immediately and grabbed his wrist, before snapping his entire arm like a twig. Before Aoi could even start screaming, Naruto punched his face hard enough to cave his entire face in and turn it into a huge pile of mush, silencing him immediately, while the Sword of the Thunder God fell to the ground. Wordlessly, he picked it up, sealed it in a scroll, and destroyed the man and his teams' body with a massive Katon jutsu. Then he started to tree hop his way away from Rain Country, and going back to Fire Country.
"Kurumi-chan, I think I've done most of the bounties available, and I can retrieve his when we get back to Konoha later."
"Yes Naruto-kun. I think you have cleared everything that you can here in Rain Country, and you have the Raijin with you, though I'm no swordswoman, so I can't teach you anything about it. So what about if we continue our journey around the Elemental Nations?"
"That is a very good idea, but I think I need to get us somewhere isolated first, maybe back to Fire Country for now, before we continue our journey. But first, I have something to say to you. Please listen to me first before you say anything." Said Naruto, with a huge blush on his face, while he stopped at a cave close by, and started preparing his usual compliment of seals to hide his location.
Kurumi, feeling weird about this one particular thing that Naruto was about to say and why they broke camp much earlier than expected, just sent Naruto a mental nod and lied down on the grassy plains of the mindscape. Feeling the nod, Naruto immediately sat in the lotus position, and immediately appeared in front of Kurumi's snout.
"Kurumi-chan, I can't help my feelings on this. You have been my most faithful companion, one who has been at my side for either good, or bad. You have been my teacher, teaching me all the things that I did not know, or improved on the things that I do know, and has been my partner ever since I found out about you. You have also been my best friend, sticking with me through thick or thin, I... I don't know what else to say. I... I love you, Kurumi-chan!" Naruto cried, and then grabbed her muzzle, before kissing her gigantic snout.
Kurumi was shocked. No, she was beyond shocked. There was no way she would have predicted this. She didn't expect him to fell in love with her this early!
"Naruto-kun... I loved you too. For a long time. Not just because your parents arranged you as my future mate due to your ancestor's promise, but also due to the qualities that you have shown to me about you. You did not kept your innocence, though you still cried for both your enemies and the ones you need to deal a mercy kill to. You also showed that you still retain some manner of chivalry, in that you didn't take assassination missions, which you know that you can handle it without any problems. I loved you, Naruto-kun, not just because of what you are, but also because you are one of the most honourable person that I have ever met, and with my long life, that's saying something. I do not regret taking you as my mate, Naruto-kun, though I still wonder, what made you confess to me, and what made you think you love me?"
"Um... I realised, nowadays, that when I was doing anything, the only thing I can think of is your face, your gentle voice, your fur's soft caress, and... everything about you. So, after pondering about it for a while, I figured out that I must've loved you, since you are the only thing that I can think of in my mind."
"Naruto-kun..." she cooed, and licked his face, which due to her size, causes him to get flung away from her, and fell somewhere on the lush meadows of his mind.
"Hey! What's that for?" Naruto shouted, his whole body covered in Kurumi's saliva.
"Well, you kissed my snout, so I think that the only way to repay that is to lick your face, though I miscalculated the strength of my lick*giggles*."
Naruto just sighed, and went back to her body. "You know, Kurumi-chan, I can never stay mad at you for long. You have done so much for me, and if you want to lick me some more, then go ahead. I won't stop you."
Kurumi giggled again, a sound that Naruto thought heavenly, and started to chase Naruto to lick his face again. This cute game of cat and mouse between a chakra creature the size of a small mountain and a human continues for a while, before she just said "Fuck this" and whisked Naruto with her tails to her head, and places him there. "Naruto, you should bring us to a location that is somewhere hidden from both friend and enemy. I have accepted you as my mate, and there are just two more things to do before you are considered my true mate."
Naruto nodded, and took out a map, the same map that he got from Kanba, now extremely worn, but containing notes and sketches about locations, new settlements, bandit attacks, and many others. He finally decided on a place, a huge clearing with a cave that he uses once in between Grass Country and Fire Country.
-BREAK-
Taking 3 days to get there, Naruto set up the seals, though Kurumi asks that the usual anti detection and repelling seals be enforced with multiple chakra suppression seals that can stop bijuu level chakra from escaping, and that the area for the seal defences must be much larger than the ones he usually places. Confused, but willing to follow the orders of his love, he did just that, made some clones to settle out the area around the cave before entering the cave himself, removed all his clothes, sat in the lotus position and immediately met Kurumi.
"Kurumi-chan, what do you mean when you said that there are two more things to do before I am considered your true mate?"
"Father said that for someone to become us bijuu's true mate, you must accept all my power and clear it of its hatred with your love, and become a hanyou (half demon). Only then will the world will be rid of the Juubi completely. The reason why I need the chakra seals placed all around the campsite is so that no one outside would feel the release of chakra, and so that the process can be completed without anybody bothering us."
"I see. So what should I do now to cleanse your power?"
"Just look into my eyes, and I will send the power into you, with which if your love to me is false, then you will probably die in agony, due to the upsurge of hatred and anger that will come with my powers."
"Then I will do so! I will show you that my love is not fake, and that I will take all your hatred, and cleanses it with my love!" Naruto, ever the hotheaded, headstrong person that he is, looked straight into Kurumi's eyes, not even blinking.
"*chuckles* Very well Naruto-kun, I will start the power transfer now. Do not stray away from my eyes."
Suddenly, a thick miasma of crimson chakra from Kurumi bubbled around her, and rushed towards Naruto, and suddenly, Naruto felt that he was pulled into another plane of existence, his body felt like it's being crushed and pulled like a piece of freshly made ramen, before he blacked out.
-BREAK-
Naruto woke up with a gasp, and saw that he is in a world of pure white. A blinding white as far as the eye can see, which made him felt like he was walking on the ground while watching the sky at the same he suddenly felt a pair of eyes on him, and immediately turned and tried taking out his kunai from the seal on his sleeve, only to realise that he is only wearing a regular white shirt with a pair of pure white pants. As he was puzzling the mysterious disappearance of his clothes, the eyes that he felt on him just now immediately became a body, one with weird horn-shaped hair at his head, purple rippled eyes, a shakujo in hand, and a cloak with black shirt. Turning around, naruto saw this person and gasped, "The Sage of Six Paths!"
"Correct young one. It seems that many aeons have passed since my time. Tell me, what has happened to the world that I saved, and the teachings that I passed down onto the people?"
"Great Sage, it is with huge regret that I must tell you of the happenings. The world now uses your teachings, known as ninjutsu, not to help each other, but to kill each other. They have also forgotten your teachings, and barbaric people still exists at this moment, and as sad as it is, I fear that I am one of those barbaric person. My hands are stained with blood, both the innocent and the guilty, and no amount of washing can clear my mind of both the guilt and the sin of killing these people, some whom I consider deserves it, while some other which is innocent, but just happened to lost hope on living, causing them to be better off dead. I wished for peace and the end of hatred, and yet what I cause is bloodshed and turmoil."
The Sage, to Naruto's surprise, chuckled. "You are still young, child. But even so, I can see that your heart is in the right place. Now let us go to the real reason why I am here." Feeling curious about that as well, Naruto listened well to what the Great Sage was about to say. "I actually tore off a part of my soul when I created the bijuu to act as their consciousness, and their part of the soul. That part will later grew to be their own soul each, and will not be able to revive me, not by any means. But, the soul shards has one final function, which is to judge the person that each bijuu chooses to be their mate, and to check whether or not that person is capable of cleaning the hatred of the Juubi from the bijuu's powers, by which if I deem them unworthy, they will immediately die, and their soul be consumed by my soul shard, to empower me to readminister this test to the next person that each bijuu considers their mate. Now, I will test you, your determination, your will and your love towards Kurumi. You don't need to prepare yourself. Just stay there."
Before Naruto can even ask what does the Sage meant by 'just stay there', he is already in front of Naruto, with his hand directly through his chest. Surprisingly, for someone who has their heart punched through by a spectral spirit, he didn't feel any pain, just a feeling of calmness and serenity coursing through him, and as suddenly as the hand went through his chest, the feeling disappeared and the Sage is back in front of him.
"Your heart is of pure gold child. With what you have been through, you should not even survive the first two years of your life, yet what it only does is that it strengthens your resolution to achieve peace, and to love what can be loved, and hate what can be hated. Your love for Kurumi is also as pure as spring water, and I detect no falsehood coming from your soul itself. And for that, I approve of you as Kurumi's mate. Take care of my daughter well, and pass this to her: I will always love her, whether or not she was being controlled by my descendants. May my words bring peace to her heart."
The sage then appeared in front of Naruto, whispering "Creation of All Things", and Naruto then suddenly felt that his sheer essence was struck with blinding agony, and then he knew no more.
-BREAK-
At the real world, Naruto's body, which was naked and in the lotus position, suddenly pours with thick, blood red chakra covering his whole body, and burning his skin, and everything around it. The sheer power would've killed any lesser person, but Naruto is no lesser person. The power grows even more, with one ethereal tail made out of said chakra appeared at Naruto's behind, right above his tailbone, before another, then another, then another appeared, and before long, all nine tails of Kurumi's chakra appeared behind him, while he is still being covered with the same chakra. Suddenly, slowly but surely, the blood red chakra changes colour into gold from one tail to another. Each tail takes one whole day to turn from blood red to a blinding gold, taking nine days entirely. Another day was taken to change the chakra cloak's colour from blood red to gold, and now, instead of the damaging and vile chakra that covers him, a golden hue, bright as the sun, covered his body with ten chakra tails lazily swaying behind him that brings a feeling of life and joy. And as suddenly as it started, the gold chakra suddenly recedes into Naruto's 6' 1" naked body, which as suddenly, grew a pair of fox ears on his head, and ten 1.5 metre long white tipped golden fox tails grew from behind his tailbone, while a strange golden fox like mark appeared at his chest, right above his heart. And suddenly, the gold chakra flared again, before it moved away from Naruto's unmoving body, and slowly shaped itself into a slim, feminine body, before coalescing completely into a naked women, 5' 5" tall with long, bright red hair, round face and blue eyes, with a medium sized breasts, not too big, yet not too small, long, slender legs and a toned stomach, but what is the most surprising is the pair of foxlike ears on her head, and the nine 1 meter long white tipped golden tails that appeared at her back, and the golden fox mark that appeared on her on the same place Naruto has his mark. She woke up first, and looked at her body, and shouted "Why am I outside? And naked? Where's Naruto?" (AN: from now on, Kurumi and Naruto, unless they went into their full demon form, will talk like regular person)
She turned around, and saw a naked Naruto with the same extra appendages as she did, still sitting in the lotus position before a breeze came in, and she shivered, and scooted closer to Naruto and hugged him, enjoying the warmth his enhanced body provides her. She remained in this position for a while, until Naruto slowly opened his eyes, watching everything around him in deliberate slowness, tears falling unbidden, before realising that someone is hugging him, and the two globes of flesh at his back. He turned his head around, and what he saw made him shocked, and asked just one question : "Mom?"
"Mom? What do you mean by mom?"
"You're not mom? Then are you Kurumi-chan? Because you looked just like mom. Here. Take a look."
Naruto unsealed a pocket mirror and showed it to Kurumi, who looked at her reflection within the mirror and gasped. "What the hell, father?! I look just like Kushina-chan! You old man! Are you trolling me here?!" somewhere in the Pure World, an old sage was rolling on the floor laughing his ass out due to the final prank his soul shard played on his daughter.
"Damn that old man. Even during his death he still wants to prank us. Dammit. But at least I have a human form now. And Naruto, how do you know I looked like your mother?"
"Well, it goes like this..."
-FLASHBACK A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO WITHIN NARUTO'S MINDSCAPE-
Naruto woke up, and saw that once again, he was in the white space. Watching the white borders again, Naruto screamed. "So is there anything else you wanted to talk to me? I thought you are done testing my heart?"
"Not quite, Naruto." Naruto whirled around, knowing that there are no enemies within this space, but what he saw blows his breath away.
There, standing with all the might and pride that they have, stood Namikaze Minato and his wife, Uzumaki-Namikaze Kushina, Naruto's parents. Minato's spiky blonde hair, as spiky as ever, and Kushina's long bright red flowing hair, these are the features that Naruto remembers the most from their parents. Looking at them, Naruto said, "Mom, dad..." and ran at them, hugging them like his life depends on them, even with his 6' 2" height, which makes hugging difficult.
"Naruto, my son... you have grown well... I didn't ex-"
"Actually dad," Naruto interrupted, "I'm only six years old."
"WHAT?! How are you so tall?! You're six!? What has Kurumi been doing with you!?" Kushina screamed. Then Naruto started to explain what happened since he first met Kurumi, what she has been teaching him, his new bloodline, his training, his journeys, and what he did during those times. Needless to say, both Kushina and Minato are stupefied at what their child went through in his extremely young age. Then he was hugged by both Minato and Kushina at once.
"Oh Naruto... know that I didn't meant to place such a burden on you... but I know that you will be the one to remove the world of hatred, and bring peace. Make sure that you do that, okay? This will be the last wish that I will place on your shoulders." said Minato, before he starts to disappear in flecks of light, still smiling to his son.
"Dad?! DAD!" Naruto, who was in tears by now, is hurriedly trying to pick up the pieces of his father, to no avail. He then slumped in tears on the white room, with his mom hugging him immediately.
"Naruto, the only reason why we're here to see you is that we sealed part of us, Minato his chakra, and me my soul, within the seal, so that we can appear to either guide you or stop you when you tried to pry open the seal completely, especially during times of extreme anger. We hoped that time never came, and it never did. The reason why you are seeing us here right now is because the seal was broken completely, and my spirit and your father's safety measures kicked in, though not for the reason that we envisioned, which is good. We can sense that we are no longer needed, and our time here is up."
"NO, MOM! DON'T GO! NO, PLEASE!" Naruto screamed, as he cried his heart out while grabbing Kushina with no intent of letting go, but alas, Kushina still disappeared, still, at a slower rate.
"Naruto, my son... always remember that we will always watch you from the Pure World, always looking at you, supporting you in everything from afar. Do not cry for out deaths, for death comes to everyone. Naruto, always remember to treat your elders nicely, remember to eat your vegetables and not left anything, don't forget to train hard, remember to treat Kurumi-chan well, she's your life's mate anyway. We will not be there to see you, so always remember us in your heart, and don't forget to give me cute grandchildrens! Goodbye Naruto, and always remember us in your heart... I love you, my son..." Kushina said to Naruto, all while disappearing within the hug of her son, who was still bawling his heart out to her. She disappeared completely afterwards, leaving nothing behind, but memories and advices.
Naruto, now still crying while lying on the white floor, but has accepted the disappearance of both of his parents' avatar, stood up, and with his face still full of tears and his eyes still wet and pouring with tears of both joy and sadness, balled his hand in a fist and places it on his heart, closed his eyes, looked downwards, before making an oath to himself.
"I, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, will do my absolute best to create peace in this world, and to rid the world of hatred, so that no one will have to suffer anymore, and so that no wars will start anymore, and upon the souls of my parents, I swore that I will achieve this goal I set to myself, and will spread teachings of love throughout the whole world, and so will my descendants, while keeping myself strong to go against any who wishes to remove this peace. May the gods themselves tremble, for I will take the world by storm!" Naruto shouted. He then let his hands fall down, and his surroundings turned black, with him blacking out.
-FLASHBACK ENDS, ALSO, LEMON SCENE COMETH-
"...And then I woke up, and felt you (here, he blushed) on my back, and saw that you look like my mom."
"What do you mean Naruto koi?" Kurumi questioned expectantly.
After a pause, "From the magnificent auburn hair that cradles your heart shaped face to your fiery eyes filled with malfeasance (at this Kurumi chuckles) to your tiny perfect nose and your luscious ruby lips….." Naruto serenaded her with lust-filled eyes. "'What's happening to me…..It's like there's a fire raging in my tummy and she looks so perfect…..Kami I'm so fucking lucky…..' Naruto thought through a lust induced dazed.
At this point, Kurumi was as red as a tomato all the way to her ears resembling a certain shy Hyuga princess. "I-Is t-tha-at a-al-l…?" Kurumi asked innocently. 'I'm a hundred year old fucking DEMON but I'm behaving like a common schoolgirl!' Kurumi thought frantically as her arousal ran down her delicious thighs, not going unnoticed by Naruto.
'Almost there…'Naruto thought with a victoriously seductive smirk, "You'd soon wish it was…."
"Your graceful neck that leads to your strong yet feminine shoulders entrance me so…..not to mention the focus of nearly all my attention, your deliciously large teardrop globes of flesh with succulent pink tipped nipples that will feed our future kits…..They will need to be prepared and shaped to their liking….May I?.." Naruto all but growled at her questioningly.
At the mention of the future children, Kurumi's ears might as well be emitting steam. 'Kami I'm so fucked…' Kurumi thought with eyes lidded, not knowing how right she was.
Unable to fully trust her mouth she simply nodded and after a while, averting her eyes entirely, she finally said meekly, "Yes please…." oblivious to her absolute seduction and eminent possession.
"My my…." Naruto smirked knowing her to be completely vulnerable to his advances, "So much manners ku ku ku…" . Finally obliging to her unspoken demands, he attached his mouth to her right nipple and begun his heavenly feast of her body.
"Ahhhhhhhnnn so hot….." Kurumi exclaimed, her eyes filled with desire.
Guided by some unnatural force telling him how to please her, Naruto's left hand firmly grasped left unattended breast and begun to massage it in rough circles as Kurumi's back begun arch reaching up to Naruto's awaiting body.
Naruto bit her nipple just enough to break skin causing a jolt of pleasure to shoot through her body, helpless to Naruto's ministrations. 'So forceful…..ha…I love it!' Kurumi squealed in her mind.
Naruto's other hand crept down to her womanhood where he began to gently massage her clit being careful to retract his claws. Her thighs instantly trapping his hands, Kurumi released a long throaty moan as her body euphorically tightened around his hand unintentionally slipping one of his digits in to her slippery and tight cavern.
His eyes widened as he felt a barrier and whispered softly, "Y-your hymen…won't it hurt?"
"Of course it will koi….but I am yours to take anyway," she spoke breathlessly as her orgasm subsided. "Why don't you take it...?"
"Never dare an Uzumaki, tenshi (angel)…." he smirked mischievously, "But first….."
His hand left her breast and dragged her thighs towards him as he positioned his head at her entrance. "I've had my appetizers…time for my wine….." he smiled seductively as he ran his tongue all the way up to her clit in one PAINFULLY long lick.
"Noooooo….ahhhhhnnnn…Oh Kami…..mmmmmmmmmmercy!" Kurumi innocently begged. 'I don't think I can take this much longer…' Kurumi thought, her mind starting to go blank as Naruto furiously assaulted her clit. 'Yea…..she's had enough…' he thought with a small smirk. Then, without warning, he stopped.
She whimpered softly to which Naruto found simply adorable. "Amazing…..you actually taste like red wine….so sweet!" Naruto said loudly giving her his megawatt smile which melted her heart.
He dragged her thighs towards his as she finally caught a glimpse of his 9" shaft of pure hanyou man. 'He's…SO FUCKING HUGE!' Kurumi thought fearfully with bulging eyes as he positioned himself at her entrance and pushed in softly.
'…..No entry?' he thought inquisitively. "Try a LITTLE harder, okay?" she said with her eyes filled with love.
Nodding, he underestimated his strength and shoved 4 inches into her as she screamed in pain and pleasure though mostly pain. "KURUMI! Oh tenshi!I I-I'm s-so sorry…. I didn't mean to!" he blurted out in apology as he saw tiny rivulets of blood leaking out around his manhood.
"Don't worry koi…" she said through the pain, "you can move now…"
As he tried to push the remaining 5 inches into her, she relaxed to further accepting as she was nearly split in half. He massaged he clit while slowly feeling slightly ashamed at the powerful pleasure coursing through his body. After a while, one of her tails nudged his chin, lifting his face to hers for a searing kiss while another two tails guided his hands to her breasts. Quickly getting the message, he increased his pace while still messaging her clit while her body arched and squirmed against his begging for satisfaction.
Reaching his fastest pace and pounding her without mercy, their body found perfect sync. Her pussy now stretching almost to ripping was glistening in full submission to its enormous intruder. "I ugh Na Naruto…kyah…hah….love…you..Oh…so much!" Kurumi moaned in sweet agony. "My sweet tenshi hah…..Grrrrrr!" Naruto growled as he slammed into her using his tails to hold her hands. "Wait! I'll get pregnant! I'll-Ugh CUMMMIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG!" Kurumi screamed as she came in surprise.
Their guttural moans echoed through the clearing as Naruto slid out of her as large globs of his sperm leaked out of her and they fell into their post-orgasmic bliss. Kurumi was the first to speak, "Hah You baka I could get pregnant!" as she smack him on his head but his Astartes constitution made it ineffective. Naruto smiled and said wistfully "Then I'll finally have my own family….I-I'm sorry…." Her eyes softened sympathetically before narrowing mischievously. "Then let's keep trying then!" she spoke, eyes determined as she glomped him with her generous assets. 'I couldn't give him a perfect childhood but I'll give one to our children instead!'
"Remember Naruto, we are now lovers, and you are my mate. This is actually the second thing that you should do to be my mate. So, my husband, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, will you accept me, Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi as your mate and wife, forever will be at my side?"
"I, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, accepts you, Uzumaki-Namikaze Kurumi, as my mate, my wife, and the future bearer of my kids, and will forever stood by you, in health or in sickness and in pain or in glory, may nothing do us part."
.""Then so it shall be." And she kissed Naruto again, who is already preparing for a round two. For the entire day, the clearing was filled with the sound of moanings of pleasure among the two lovers, where nobody disturbs them, the border seals doing their job perfectly.
-END LEMON-
The next day, Kurumi woke up after a long night of marathon sex which causes her pussy felt sore, so sore that she is sure that she won't be walking right, or even be walking after such a passion filled night. But then, Naruto asked something to her while he was packing to leave.
"Kurumi-koi, how are you so good at that? Sex, I mean."
"Well, being sealed for a long time with women that are in good relations with me, allowing me to see and feel through them, combined with the fact that they both are almost perpetually horny and had sex nearly every night has its perks you know. Do you know that both Mito's and your mom's sex drive increases exponentially when they're pregnant? Maybe it's an Uzumaki women's thing. Your dad almost had a heart attack due to the sheer sex drive and horniness that Kushina-chan felt during her pregnancy, not that he hates it."
"I'm sure I didn't need to hear that last part. Anyway, we're packing and leaving this area later."
"Wait. Naruto, do you felt anything strange after the absorption of my powers? I'm very sure that the tails aren't just the only thing that changes when I moved my powers to you."
"Yeah, you're right. Let's see. I'll try to meditate and see what's in my mindscape, now that you're gone." Immediately, Naruto sat in the lotus position again, and went into his mindscape. And what he found there astonished him. The tree, which before became somewhat of a house for Kurumi, now has its leaves turned into vines, wrapping a huge ball of... something, that was even bigger than the sun in his mindscape. Feeling curious, Naruto reached his hands towards the ball, and tried ordering it to move to him. Incredibly, to him, a part of the ball extended and touched his arms, and a feeling of power and life flowed through him, more power than he can ever think of flowed through him and kept flowing.
Outside, kurumi was watching the body of Naruto, still remembering their activities last night, which causes her to blush, when suddenly, a huge spike of chakra, larger than any other that even she had felt, which makes her power felt minuscule in comparison, came from Naruto, and suddenly, his body was wreathed in pure golden flames. Kurumi, feeling shocked and curious at the same time, touched the golden flames, which didn't burn, and yet didn't felt evil like her chakra. More like it was filled with life, and then, a bit of the chakra flowed into her body, and instantly she felt revitalized! Any pain she felt from last night was gone, and her body felt amazing! She was so awed by thwis that she didn't realize that Naruto's eyes are open, and he immediately jumped in shock.
"Holy shit! What's this?! It felt like that weird ball of something within the mindscape, but it's different! This is awesome!" Naruto exclaimed, until he saw Kurumi, who was still standing in awe at his appearance.
"Love, I think this is actually the purified power of the Juubi, and somehow it felt much more powerful than what it once was. It is extremely weird, but it is totally great, and it might be useful as a trump card of sorts."
Naruto then concentrated, and turned off the Chakra Cloak, and starts to pack, before he remembered something. "Kurumi-koi, I must leave for a while. Since you gained a human form, I need to look for clothes for you to wear during our journeys. I'll go to a nearby town to look for clothes for you, okay. Just stay there." And with that, Naruto left, leaving Kurumi to get used to her human body. During the time Naruto goes to look for her clothes, she found out that she has lost all her powers except for some, and is slowly gaining them back. She predicted that by a year, she would manage to recover her whole powers back. She also found out that with some concentration, she can turn into a human form, back to her hanyou form, and to a fox demon form, which is a golden fox with nine red tipped tails, with its size pretty much adjustable. She then practiced all her movements in this form while waiting for Naruto.
Sometime later, Naruto managed to come back with a sealing scroll filled entirely with her clothes. Picking her clothes, she opted for a black, loose fitting shirt (she didn't want anybody except for Naruto to see her body), with a pair of loose fitting trousers and covered ninja sandals with a grey cloak covering her back with a piece of string tying it at the front. Naruto took some time because he was busy placing seals on the clothes after buying them. Sometime later, after they had finished packing their stuff, and Kurumi explained to Naruto about their capability to transform (which makes Naruto facepalm, because he just hid his tails within his cloak and his ears with his hoodie) , they left the clearing, not forgetting to use a special chakra absorption seal to absorb any of their ambient chakra in the area to prevent them from being tracked.
-BREAK-
Naruto, now travelling with Kurumi, did the same thing that he did before, which was travelling around, watching the sights, while training himself to his breaking point, which was long and far in between, but with another added activity, which was having sex with Kurumi in the night. Life was going well for them, Naruto was extremely powerful and well trained, Kurumi herself can go toe to toe with Naruto due to experience, and any wounds that they both gained are healed nearly instantly by the purified chakra, which Kurumi also gained, and which has recovered by about a tail's worth.
About two months later, the lovers are just waking up from their sleep (AN: Remember that Naruto still needs sleep, at about 8 hours per week or around an hour per day, though he can extend his no sleeping time by forcing the Catalepsean Node to work overtime, but allowing him to fight or work for weeks.) when suddenly, a wave of nausea hit Kurumi, and she immediately ran towards the edges of their campsite and pukes her dinner from last night there. Naruto, ever vigilant, immediately woke up and rushed towards Kurumi and rubbed her back, asking her if there are any problems. She just brushed him off, and said that it will get better in a short time.
While travelling to their next destination, a small town by the name of Hinamizawa near the border of Earth Country, he saw that she did not get better, in fact, it seems that she got worse, kept throwing up at any moment, and suddenly getting nauseous. He immediately picked her up despite her protests, and immediately ran towards Hinamizawa, and took her towards the clinic, ran by a doctor named Irie, and his assistant, a nurse named Takano. Looking at Kurumi, they immediately took her to the diagnostic room, where Naruto was not allowed to enter.
Sitting on a special chair (AN: He's too heavy for regular chairs) that he brought himself with his chin stood up by his fists, with his elbows on his knee, thoughts running at kilometres per second in his head. What happened to Kurumi? Why is she suddenly like that? Did she ate something wrong? But she never got sick before!
While Naruto had all this thoughts running through his mind, Irie came out from the examination room, and Naruto immediately rushed the doctor, and start showering him with questions, which was stopped by him lifting up a hand.
"Naruto-san, I have news to you about your wife. She's pregnant, and you're gonna be a father!"
Naruto, stupefied, can only say one thing to the doctor: "...huh?"
"Your wife is two months pregnant, Arashi-san, and you are going to be a father!" having a new life born into the world is always an exciting prospect for Irie. But then he sees that Naruto is just standing with a blank look on his face. "Arashi-san? Arashi-san?" he waved his hands in his face, no response. But when he touched him, he immediately fell on the floor, cracking it with his weight. "NARUTO –SAN! Takano, go get me a stretcher! He's a new father!" Takano, hearing this, rolled her eyes, and went to get a stretcher for Naruto.
And thus ends the first year of Naruto's journey across the elemental nations, yet there will be more to come...
-CHAPTER ENDS-
Whew! This is my longest chapter ever, at 12k something words! So how do you like this chapter and the accompanying lemon? It's okay? It's not? This chap is meant to show more of Naruto's brutal side which he shows towards his enemies, of which he will have no mercy against. Also, this chapter is meant to show his loving side to his loved ones. I hope I got it right. Please review, and tell me what you think of the story. Also, there will be no accompanying Higurashi plot in this fanfic! I cannot think of a town's name, thus I decided to borrow one! Till next time, Happy reading!