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Hinata sighed as she knelt next to her two slaves smiling at them warmly. Hanabi had been her first, but only because she didn't want to be a mistress herself. The other, a bun-haired girl that she had rescued from the 'tender mercies' of her cousin Neji. She knew she wasn't the mistress that either of them deserved, but she found she couldn't release them either. If she did, they would most likely be captured by Neji who didn't believe in Slave Rights.
Countless were the fines that had been paid to the Guild due to dubious actions, but she knew their actions only too well. She'd heard the whispers in the halls during the darkest hours of the night, and had reported more than a few actions herself. If it wasn't for her and others of similar mind to herself, Konoha would sever itself from the Guild, and she could only dread what would happen if the rebels gained control.
She wasn't supposed to know about the secret faction of the rebels, but her surveillance activities uncovered much of what was being done to undermine the Guild's control. And what she'd learned had her tossing and turning late into the night, only to be quieted by Tenten's arms holding her, or Hanabi's quiet whimpers. She had to be strong, she had to carry the burden that the intelligence branch of the Guild had tasked her with.
But even still, the nightmare of what she uncovered terrified her to her core. Her own cousin was to collar her, so as to remove the Hyuuga's resistance to the rebels. Her father had long fought against the anti-Guild factions, and gained many enemies. But sadly the worst enemies were the ones in the Hyuuga's own clan. The branch family had many members that were members of the rebellion, and there was little any of the main family could do to counter that. Their chief member was none other her cousin, and the boy she had once called nii-san, Neji Hyuuga.
She could understand their reasons for joining, as the branch family had always been little more than slaves to the main family, but she was working hard with her father to change that. If only they could give her a little more time to convince the elders, then the rebellion wouldn't have taken such a firm hold on the branch family. But now that it was entrenched in their numbers, she didn't know what she could do. Each passing day seemed to draw her ever farther from her goal as being a working slave under the man she loved.
She knew that the clan members were not acting on their own, since she'd intercepted many messages and radio signals giving them orders. Somehow she felt that the main master behind the rebellion was the elder Danzo, but she lacked any proof to support her claims. That meant she couldn't go to her superiors, except to pass on intercepts as she gathered them. The Guild seemed particularly interested in ones regarding 'the Namikaze heir' and anything in regards to keeping him from being discovered.
Again she had her suspicions about who this heir might be, but she only mentioned them once to her Guild-intelligence controller, who suggested she not bring it up again. She knew that the last Namikaze was the previous Supreme Master of Konoha, but none of the history books mentioned anything of an heir. But from the photographic records she found, there was only one person she could imagine possibly being the heir. It was one and the same man that she loved, but she couldn't state that to anyone else, least of all the person himself.
"Mistress..." Tenten purred softly in her ear, gaining her attention to look back at the older brunette curiously. "It is time for your report to the Guild..."
Letting out a heavy sigh, Hinata pushed herself up and strode over to the video-transceiver that had been installed shortly after she was recruited by the Guild-intelligence branch. Even if this was her private dungeon, separated by nearly half the city from the compound, she still did a quick check of all her intrusion detection systems. Finding no causes for worry she punched in a code she'd long ago dedicated to heart. Five seconds later, she found herself looking at the familiar white mask with a single red eye staring back at her. "Hello Judgenatrix, this one is reporting as ordered..."
"Hinata, has there been any developments?" the woman asked calmly while the camera whirred quietly, scanning the room.
"N...no ma'am... I have not seen anything, and the only message intercepted has been forwarded to you already..." Hinata answered, lowering her eyes. "M...ma'am... h... has there been any news of him?"
"Hmm? Him who Hinata-chan?" the Judgenatrix asked, and Hinata knew full well that she knew, despite playing like she didn't. This was a game that she played with Hinata, trying to encourage her to be bolder.
"N...Naruto-kun..." Hinata squeaked out softly, while fidgeting with her fingers. "I... I worry about him ma'am..."
Strangely a feeling of understanding and warmth flowed from the digital representation of the Judgenatrix, and Hinata could almost swear she felt a hand patting her gently on the top of her head. "Lord Master Hatake, and Master Uzumaki are both on their way back to Konoha as we speak. As you know he is no longer under the free-hunt, having gotten his first collar. But I think he is finding out that being in the Guild is a lot more work than the teachers prepare their students for. It is true that his ascension is a rapid one, otherwise he would have more time to get used to the increases in work. But we are not pushing him for more than we feel he is ready for."
Hinata smiled warmly at that, until a beeping noise caught her attention. Turning slightly she saw an incoming radio transmission being transcribed before her eyes. As it progressed, her smile turned into a worried frown and her eyes began widening in surprise. "Ma'am... a... a new report is coming in... It is about the heir again... and the thirteenth clan..."
"Send it to me as soon as it is finished Hinata," the Judgenatrix ordered sternly, causing the shy mistress to jump slightly. Hinata nodded her agreement even as she read the message.
Blind-one,
The Namikaze heir is returning home with a slave in tow, it is expected that he shall claim the thirteenth clan's chair. This is unfortunate to our cause, unless we can persuade him to our side. We are going to avoid contact until we find a way to persuade him.
Please note that the fools of the Guild seem to believe we know nothing of their tricks. It seems that there is an intelligence operative acting out of the Hyuuga clan, we would like you to capture or eliminate the threat to our righteous reformation as soon as possible.
We suspect it is Hinata Hyuuga of the main house. I want you to collar her immediately, and if we are right, we will control the Guild's activities where she is concerned.
Do not fail us.
All-seeing future.
Her face took on an ashen hue as she realized just what was happening. She'd been made, and with Naruto out of the village, she couldn't just beg for his collar as protection. Punching in the transmit coordinates, she sighed as she turned back to the Judgenatrix. "Ma'am... it... it seems that I have been compromised..."
The Judgenatrix nodded as she read over the captured transmission that had been sent to her. There was a strange pause as she looked aside to someone off-screen before nodding and turning back to Hinata. "Yes, it would seem so Hinata, go ahead and activate omega protocols. I want you to meet me on the top of the Stone Monolith with your slaves in their scrolls. The code phrase is 'I saw a rabbit in the park today...' and response will be 'There is a fox hunting rabbit tonight.' Do you understand?"
"Yes ma'am..." Hinata answered with a bow to the Judgenatrix. "I will send the scrolls via the mail... If... If I'm captured, I refuse to have them be captured with me."
A nod from the Judgenatrix was Hinata's answer, before she was left staring at a blank screen again. Hinata pushed a final set of codes on the device, before walking away as the device exploded by itself. Getting to the private room, she found her two slaves holding their scrolls out for her in anticipation of their sealing. The rest of the dungeon had already been stripped and sealed away.
A couple days later, Naruto finally arrived back at the gates he and Kakashi exited out of only about a month ago. The debriefing was to be a simple matter since most of the reports had been filled out on the road when they camped for the night. So when they met up with Master Umino at the mission desk, it was a simple matter of getting them verified. Well almost...
"Congratulations Master Uzumaki," Master Umino stated with a pleased smile on his face as he hugged the younger boy. "I'm very proud of you, and have a feeling that I will be saying that a lot more in the future. Lord Master Hatake... do you need a reminder about the guild standards of neatness again?"
As Kakashi was chewed out, Naruto was handed an envelope and told to go to the elevator at the end of the hall, and meet up with the Supreme Master on floor thirteen. While he missed out on the most epic of beat-downs on a Lord Master ever recorded, he went to the elevator and caught a ride up to level thirteen. Thankfully this ride wasn't as long as the one he was used to.
Getting to the level, he followed the sound of a crackling fire towards the room he was meeting the Supreme Master in. What surprised him though was that the Hinata girl from his Dominance classes was there along with the Supreme Master, the latter sat in one of his seemingly favorite busty chairs.
"Ah, Master Uzumaki... glad you made it home safely, please sit down and join us... I was just about to inform Mistress Hyuuga about some details that she had been made aware of," Sarutobi explained calmly while waving towards a seat next to Hinata's, the poor girl herself was blushing deeply and studying the blond quietly.
"Before I continue, I wish to congratulate you on achieving Master status, and a level 1 master at that," Sarutobi continued with a pleased smile on his careworn face. Stroking his beard in thought, he chuckled softly. "Also, allow me to be the first to welcome you to your new dungeon Master Uzumaki."
The look of shock on the young pair's faces was almost the most entertaining sight that the old man had seen in several years of serving as the Supreme Master. There was just something about the bugging out of the eyes, and the loose hanging of their jaws that had him chuckling softly. "We have much to talk about Master Uzumaki... Mistress Hyuuga... Please choose somewhere to store your slaves nearby, and then we'll begin the discussion. There is some of it that they will need to hear as well."
Naruto and Hinata nodded before leaving the room, finding an empty cell which Naruto released Haku into. "Haku, I want you to stay here. Please take care of cleaning our new home..."
Hinata waited while Naruto gave the strange girl orders, feeling her heart crush as she bowed to him, knowing that she'd lost her chance to be his main slave. She found that the girl's outfit was a most curious short kimono, as opposed to the standard slave dress. That meant that the girl either came with clothing, or she was something special to Naruto. "I...if you don't mind Master Uzumaki... may I release my slaves as well? They can aid your slave... Haku was it?"
"Sure thing Hinata, I mean Mistress Hyuuga," Naruto answered with a wide, bright smile. "The more the merrier."
Hinata unfurled her two scrolls silently as a deep blush burned on her cheeks. As her sister and Tenten appeared before her, she smiled warmly and hugged them both. "Slaves, this is Master Uzumaki, and we will be staying as his guests in his dungeons, please follow the commands of Slave Haku in my stead."
Sarutobi watched as the two young dominants arrived back in the room that had been his unofficial office for the past few years. In all honesty though, Naruto had never seen the inside of the Supreme Master's office. That was down at level zero, just above the Judgenatrix corps' regional headquarters. In fact, the entire level they were on was actually Naruto's birthright once he became a Master.
Once the students had settled into their respective chairs, he sighed heavily and leaned back against the large, plush pillows on the chair that Kushina had created for her and her husband. "Now then... Master Uzumaki, as I told you, this level is now your dungeon, and all the gear is stored into scrolls in one of the rooms somewhere. These are part of your inheritance from your parents."
"Part? This is more than I ever thought I could possibly had, and you tell me there's more? Pardon me Supreme Master, but that's a little much, don't you think?" Naruto asked sharply while indicating the door back to the hallway behind them.
"Indeed... I am told this might interest you in particular Master Uzumaki..." Sarutobi answered with a quiet chuckle as he pulled out a couple scrolls from a storage 'pouch' that was placed right between the front legs of the chair, and handed them over casually. "I believe that these will aid you in the power that you have recently awakened..."
"Power? What power is that?" Hinata chimed in curiously, looking at the man that had captured her heart, even if he didn't know it yet. Her answer came when Naruto, without moving a muscle summoned forth a chain that appeared from his back and casually looped around the scrolls, pulling them back to the blonde with a simple clink of metal. "O...oh..."
Hinata couldn't help herself as her mind drifted away to how it would feel to have him bind her arms and legs into a spread open position, before leaning in and kissing her body tenderly, trailing up her stomach, over her chests, and finally capturing her lips in a tender, passionate embrace. Oh he would be so wonderful, binding her tight and controlling her every motion.
As the mistress of the trio delved into her imagination, Naruto and Sarutobi ignored her, instead focusing on other matters at hand. "Now, your paperwork will likely arrive here tomorrow morning, unless you have elsewhere you would like to place the office, Master Uzumaki, and I should inform you that one of the slaves gained from Wave has been approved of by the guild, and will be entering formal training... is there any particular field you wish her train in? Like office work, maid work, office work, cooking, office work, or even... office work?"
"Uh... I guess if she has a talent for it, maybe office work?" Naruto asked a little unsure at just what the Supreme Master was hinting at. "Don't they usually do a test or something to see what field they'd work out best in?"
"Normally they do, but she is a trained slave coming in from an illegal market, there are a host of skills she offers, but her best by far are her office management skills. She however isn't too confident in herself and asked that the master that she was going to decide her future," Sarutobi explained while pulling out another scroll from the 'pouch' of the chair. "This is her dossier, please read through it at your leisure."
Naruto paused a moment to look over the file that he'd been given curiously, pulling it open enough that he could read the name of the office slave he was going to get. "Yuki Nagato... she sounds like an interesting person..."
"According to her trainers, she is a brilliant and gifted woman, if a bit serious... she is also rather emotionally distant from her ordeal, but I believe she will serve you well," the wizened old man relayed with a warm smile as he stroked his beard again. "Now... I believe Mistress Hyuuga wishes to speak with you..."
"M...me? Y...yes Supreme Master..." Hinata stuttered softly as she lowered her gaze. "M...Master Uzumaki, fr...fr... since I... we... we graduated I... have been working with the intelligence branch of the guild..."
Naruto smiled brightly at Hinata with a hearty laugh to his voice. "Congratulations Hinata! They are really picky about who they... okay, what'd they say I did, and how much trouble am I in?"
At Hinata's confused look, Sarutobi decided to clarify a little bit with a slight chuckle to his voice. "Master Uzumaki has a history of people reporting him, falsely as well as truthfully to Guild-Intelligence... He's not used to the intelligence being on his side..."
"I say what now?" Naruto asked in actual surprise at the very mention of someone being on his side. It was well-known that he was a prankster, and had managed to escape some of the best hunters in the guild. But when he did get caught, he usually either fessed up right away and loudly, or he had verifiable proof of his whereabouts during the incident. Hey, he was a prankster, but at least he was honest. But never once had the intelligence branch of the guild offered him good news like this before. It was a big surprise to say the least.
"Y... you are not in trouble Master Uzumaki... r...rather..." Hinata continued before breaking off and poking her fingers together nervously. "That is... recently there has been a lot of talk about an heir to the Namikaze legacy c...coming into his own..."
"I don't see... what..." Naruto paused as he looked around the room silently. The pieces starting to fall into place. The previous holder of the thirteenth clan's seat had been the previous Supreme Master of Konoha, Minato Namikaze. Which meant that the person getting the thirteenth clan seat was the Namikaze heir, and each of the clan seats had a private dungeon in the Stone Monolith for their day-to-day use.
Naruto's eyes widened as he realized he could actually name the other twelve clan heads, and just where his dungeon was. Floor thirteen, the floor reserved for the Namikaze clan. The very same floor he'd just been given.
"Oh..."