Spending more time around the bar over the course of the next couple of weeks, Naruto found that the women that he had hired now, made the bar even more lively than it was before as they all loved the children and the fact that they were not actually expected to stick with only one aspect of the job as they kept switching around.
One day however, Naruto was with Seiko as she wanted to see what he did for training with the others. Oddly enough, the other teams had decided to show up and train with them as well, each sensei knowing that he was most likely the most skilled gennin in Konoha at all.
Looking around at them, Naruto felt his eye twitching as he noticed that Ino and Sakura were arguing over Sasuke, Lee was going on and on about training, something that he actually didn't mind that much, Kiba and Sasuke trying to hit on Seiko who looked impassive not caring about anything that they said to her, Shino was one of the only three that were silent, the others were Shikamaru and Neji. Neji looked like he was nearing his fate speech, while Shikamaru was looking at the skies as Choji ate.
"Naruto, allow me." Seiko chimed in getting a slight nod from Naruto, who actually wanted to see what she would do to them. Having felt her strength first hand Naruto knew for a fact that she could whip anyone into shape had she wanted to.
"ALRIGHT YOU MAGGOTS, GET IN LINE AND SHUT THE FUCK UP." She yelled out causing nearly everyone there to scramble into a line, oddly enough even the Jounin as they were all scared that woman could actually yell that loud, seriously it even scared Gai, and he was the loudest there, though some would now argue that Naruto's girlfriend, even if it wasn't that far, was louder by far.
"Interesting Seiko." Naruto commented, the only one unaffected by her shout.
"Thanks, Naruto." she said as she looked back at him, being directly in front of Naruto when she yelled. "LISTEN UP, YOU ARE SOLDIERS, NOT TRUE SOLDIERS BUT STILL SOLDIERS, YOU'RE 10 AND 1 TO THE NEXT VILLAGE. YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN PASS THE TRIALS OF THIS VILLAGE WITH YOUR LACK SHIT ATTITUDE, I DON'T THINK SO. GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR, DROP AND WORK OUT, CLIMB THE FUCKING TREE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT, BECAUSE WHEN WE ARE DONE, IT WILL HAVE CERTAIN FUKCING-LY FELT LIKE IT DID. WHEN A NINJA INFILTRATES TIS VILLAGE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO, INVITE THEM TO TEA AND CRUMPETS, HELL NO YOU LAZY SACKS OF BONES, YOU KILL THEM, CAPTURE THEM, MAKE THEM RUN AND REDESIGN THE SECURITY. WHAT I SEE NOW IS NOT WORTH THE SHIT THAT I HAVE SEEN, WHAT SOME OF THE PAST NINJA HERE HAVE DONE, WHAT WOULD YOUR FOURTH Hokage SAY IF HE SAW THE WAY YOU ARE ACTING, WHAT WOULD THE FIRST OR SECOND SAY HAD THEY STILL BEEN ALIVE TO THIS DAY AND SAW YOUR LACK OF SHIT TO HELP THIS VILLAGE. THEY WOULD BE DEVASTATED AND BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU. NO ONE CARES IF YOU HAVE A CRUSH; NOONE CARES IF YOU'RE LAZY, HUNGRY, ARROGANT, STUBBORN, PICKY, AND BOSSY. NO ONE GIVES A DAMN, YOU ARE NINJA, ACT LIKE THEM, BE LIKE THEM, BE MYSTERIOUS LIKE NINJA BE DANGEROUS, BE TRUE TO THE LEADER OF YOUR ORDER. SURE YOU MAY HAVE SOME SKILLS, YOU MAY HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO BE AN IMPORTANT PERSONS GUARD, ONCE YOU STEP FOOT INSIDE THIS VILLAGE ALL THAT IS WORTH SHIT NOW. WHAT MATTERS NOW, GETTING STRONGER SO THAT YOU CAN PROTECT THOSE THAT YOU CARE FOR, THIS VILLAGE, YOUR LEADER? HELL, WHEN THE KYUUBI ATTACKED THIS VILLAGE, WHAT DID YOU FUCKERS DO TO SAVE THE POPULATION? NOTHING, YOU INSTEAD MADE A FUCKING MISTAKE AND ATTACKED THE BEAST, A CREATURE MADE OF CHAKRA, THE ENERGY YOU ALL HAVE, SOMETHING THAT YOU USED TO ATTACK IT, ONLY MAKING IT STRONGER AS IT ABSORBED IT. YOU WERE BEING CRUSHED UNDER IT UNTIL THE Hokage SAVED YOUR ASSES AND BEAT IT FOR YOU. WHAT YOU DUMB SHITS SOULD HAVE DONE, PROTECT THE CITIZENS, GET THEM OUT OF THE VILLAGE, YOU VAN REBUILD THE VILLAGE BUT YOU CANT REBUILD THE CITIZEN THAT GETS CRUSHED BY A FUCKING FOX." She yelled out, behind her Naruto Was holding back from laughing as he saw their faces.
"WHY ISNT Naruto BAKA OVER HERE TOO?" Sakura screamed at her.
"HE KNOWS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, YOUR SENSIE ASKED HIM TO TEACH YOU, TO GET YOU IN SHAPE. UNLIKE YOU LAZY FUCKS, HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING, HE IS ABLE TO SLAP AROUND A JOUNIN WITH EASE AS HE DID TO THE ONE EYED PERVERT FUCKER THERE, oh and Kakashi, put the book away, or I will destroy every last one that is in this village and nations." She finished with a sickly sweet tone of voice as a giant lion head appeared behind her to their shock and utter horror as they each saw something different in its mouth. Kakashi just happened to look up from the book when she spoke that, causing him to bear full witness as it ate his precious books. Gai and Lee saw it chewing on their spandex and a large tablet with the teachings of YOUTH on it. Kurenai wasn't so badly affected by it; in fact she was only partially affected as she saw the things that she hated inside its mouth with only one thing that she actually liked there as well.
"You know, she is actually right on that part, aside from the fact that I only was able to since he didn't think a gennin straight from the academy could hold this thing and swat people as if they were flies." Naruto spoke as he moved and stood next to Seiko.
"Yeah right dobe, you can't do anything." Ino Sakura and Sasuke all spoke at the same time.
"Seiko, would you be a dear and help them learn the ways that they are missing." Naruto spoke calmly, way too calmly for them as it started to scare the shit out of them all, knowing that he would normally blow when people tried to degrade him at all.
"Of course, love to Hun." She added the last part slightly as a joke going off of being called dear by him. She had somehow kept the case that she had brought with her hidden until now as she suddenly shot off at them and started slamming it against them.
"When you can stop her attack, you will have enough skill to actually take me on. I am the only one that has seen her fight, has fought her, and has beaten her here. Otherwise, you are worthless as a ninja, only good to this village as fodder for war. This village may promote teamwork; I promote working to better yourself and others so that you never get killed by a weak attack like the ones she is using right now." Naruto spoke to them all as Seiko continued to slap them all around at high speeds.
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After several hours of slapping the gennin around with the case of Lionhart, Naruto and Seiko decided to head back to the bar and relax. Seiko laying on him once again and nearly falling asleep as she was actually very comfortable compared to when he wasn't there with her. She didn't care that his hand was lightly going through her hair or that she started to doze off after a while, placing the book that she had on her chest as she closed her eyes.
"Say, Seiko, how exactly did you get here anyway, that you can remember I mean?" Naruto asked suddenly causing her to wake slightly, not enough for her to actually open her eyes or move though.
"Well, I guess you could say that I beat the witch that was controlling my world and was sent here." she told him vaguely, though she got the feeling that he was wanting for than just that. Sighing to herself lightly, Seiko started to recount the things that she had done during the time she was a seed, while she herself seemed to go into a trance of remembrance slightly.
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It all started when I was an orphan, though I never remembered after I left, it seemed that myself and the others had found what one would call a GF or guardian force. They have a side effect of their power, while they will aide you the side effect causes one to start to lose their memory, its gradual and can be reversed if you stop using one. The more you use them and the more you have, the faster and stronger the loss.
I had several companions to go with me on this journey that I was forced to go on. Five of the six were from the orphanage that I grew up in, two went to a different garden, a base and school for the seed candidates, it was later that we found these gardens were actually mobile housing for a long since dead nations called the Centra. The two that went to two different gardens, one transferred to mine while we met up with and got the other because of a mission that we were embarked on.
First there was Quistis, a teacher and friend, she was a seed and teacher before I became a seed myself, but she was demoted on her own free will to join me and Zell another friend that was with us. She used a single whip, to great extent I might add. While many thought that whips were unable to be used in close combat quarters, she actually proved them wrong with how well she controlled that thing. We started to nickname her the Dom queen, as a joke.
Next up, Zell, the first to actually be part of my team and under my command, a friendly guy in truth. He was a fist fighter that was actually very energetic, he had a tattoo on the left side of his face, like a dragon slightly if one looked close enough. Some thought that when going against soldiers with guns he would be dead weight. Heh, they learned the hard way to never underestimate anyone from my group. He was more popularly termed as the king of boxing.
Selphie, a strange girl that used a tri nunchuk as her weapon of choice, instead of only having a chain link in between two pieces it was three with a chain link on both ends of the middle part, giving her a rather long range to slap people with it. She was like the comedy of the group, always looking for a fun time and trying to get everyone to laugh and smile at the things that she did. I remember the one time that she set up a band for me and a girl that became like a sister to me, just so that we could relax and get our minds off the things that were happening around us for a moment. The rocking diva, as our sharpshooter called her.
Next up, a girl that was not truly part of the group until she tried to help us kill the witch, Rinoa heartily, a girl that was actually the daughter of a general of the Galbadian army, a land that was somewhat opposed to mine. She was almost never seen without her faithful companion, her dog Angelo. He was a rather loveable Saint Bernard, always ready to help when he could. Rinoa was a very emotional girl that loved me like a big sister, wanting to copy my ring so that she could match me slightly. She had times that she was only following her gut; these times saved us or even got us into all kinds of trouble, though we usually had fun while doing it to our surprise. The sassy princess, a fun little title that we gave her after some time, she liked it better than the emotional witch, that's for sure.
The last to join us, Irvine, a sharpshooter that was very much in love with Selphie, Heh, he was so dedicated to her that he never even thought of looking at anyone or touching anyone that was not her, hell the guy was so into her that he tried to get her to stop using the power of the GF, something that he personally never used himself. He may have been a sharpshooter, but when we were tasked to kill the sorceress using him as the shooter, he froze, never having actually killed anyone before or trying to before that day. While he loved Selphie, he respected her choices and supported her no matter what, even when she wanted to be left alone, he was like a brother to the rest of the girls in the group. The love shooter, a term coined by Selphie after she accepted him.
And finally, myself, a young woman only in my 17th year of life. I was the only gun blade expert in the garden, a profession that Cid, the headmaster, had wanted so badly for a while now. The scar that I have across my nose, which was given to me by my rival, one Seifer Almasy. During one of our training spars we got a bit carried away and, seeing as when he asked me out I always refused, he was quite upset over it and slashed me across the face, though I gave a matching on in return. In truth I let him down fairly easy, well easy considering what I normally did to them, I simply told him that he wasn't my type and I wasn't interested in dating right now. Something that he didn't take kindly to, though in retrospect I probably should have kicked him like I normally would. Hmm, maybe then he wouldn't have ran off and joined Edea the sorceress. Well that aside, I was one of the 'normal' members of the group, we were all a bit odd in a way, mine was just less notable. Personally I don't see how everyone could have missed it actually, I mean seriously how often you see a woman that is so professional that she could run for being president at the age of 15, and I never saw that many including myself to be honest. Hell I didn't even care that many saw me as a cold jerk, at the time I was actually that, the caring part of me buried so deep that I had nearly forgotten what it was until it resurfaced when I had to save Rinoa several times. The death diva, a name given to me by many of my enemies as well as several allies. I was so skilled with the gun blade that I used that there was nearly no one that could stand against me without dying, especially my enemies. The monsters that we fought were sourly outclassed by myself and my friends.
We ventured all around the world, meeting different types of people, gaining far more powerful GF's along the way. After Irvine shot at the witch, we eventually found out that she was actually Edea, the headmaster's wife that was possessed by the time witch Ultemecia. This shocked us all as we started to remember the times that we spent at 'her' orphanage and thus making us remember who and where we came from. She was a gentle soul that cared for life, all life in fact. She started to orphanage after she found out that she couldn't have any children of her own, so she thought of all of us as her children, it made her so happy that we thought of her as either our mother or elder sister, a couple of us termed her as our aunt though, she never minded about it, being an only child and losing her parents before she met Cid made her happy that she had a family now.
The next witch, while still Ultemecia, was actually Rinoa, who was possessed by her when we went to the lunar base, a prison for the once ruler of the Esthar nation, Adel. When she freed her, Ultemecia took her body over as well before stopping the time flow and going back to the past.
Now Ultemecia was a sorceress from the future, and had come back in time to increase her own power. Her power increased with each possession as she took the sorceress's power as well that she possessed. It was not a pretty sight; she forced her victims to awaken their power, even when others thought that they didn't have any, causing them to be seen as a threat by the Esthar nation. When Rinoa and myself came back down to the planet after finding the legendary, lost spaceship Ragnarok, the Esthar emissaries forced her to go with them by telling her a crock that she was a danger to the world and needed to be sealed. Naturally that did not sit well with me, so I stormed the place and crashed the party to an extent. Cutting the machine in half that was being used to seal her would be termed as crashing the party… right?
Well either way, we saved her, went back to the ship, found out that Selphie was flying the damn thing, causing us to slightly panic when we noted that Irvine was behind her and egging her on. It was actually rather funny when the panic wore away to tell the truth. The clouds racing by as we sped around the world, Irvine cheering her on while she whooped in joy. She was the one that normally piloted us around, when she was with us, it was Irvine, when both were in the team, it was Quistis. I shudder to think of who actually droved when she was with us as well.
After a while, we came across, by chance and learning later, my father, Laguna. He was a bit of a quack to be honest. Terrible with girls, great with guns. He went to a specific bar hotel place that had a singer that played the piano, he loved her but was way too nervous to actually talk to her, sadly I am related to this goof. This woman actually caused his damn leg to cramp when he even thought of talking to her, hell it wasn't until his friends forced him and her to talk that it never reacted.
I sure hope I got more of my attitude from my mother than him, personally I don't know who she was, I do know for sure that she Is dead though, I think that my mother was actually rain, a woman that he met when he was in a small town called Winhill, though I can't be too sure on that point. His two friends, Kiros and Ward, a pair that were very good friends with Laguna. Kiros was a black man with dreads, he used a set of katar as his weapons of choice while Laguna had a machine gun, ward was a large heavy set guy that held a harpoon for fights, he was rather good with it as well.
After several months, we were forced to break into a place called lunatic Pandora, a place that I recall Laguna travelling inside when my sister sent our minds to the past so that we could experience what Laguna had done and grow. The place in Laguna's time was actually on its side compared to how we went around in it. It was used as a focal point for something that we called the lunar cry.
The lunar cry, now that was a sad thing for our world. This event, it happened only once before. Had this event never occurred in the first place, the world would have been a bit more peaceful, with the lunar cry it brought monsters, devastation and ruin to the world. Before lunar cry was used, the world actually had no monsters to speak of, the lunar cry was an event that, like tears, monsters fell from the moon giving it the appearance of the moon being an eye and that it was crying. Now the moon itself was harmless when this happened, however, when it let the monsters drop, it gained the look of an eyeball, the pupil a pitch black as the area that has the color on your eye that was actually blood red from the massive amount of monsters congregating in one area and breaking from the moons gravitational pull.
This event had now happened only twice, once by the Esthar to wipe a nation clean, and once by the sorceress Ultemecia in Adel's body. She used it to wipe Esthar away or at least try to if it weren't for us. We managed to kill nearly every single monster and defeat the lunar cry by wrecking the lunatic Pandora. This in itself was not easy, we had to fight Seifer, who had wanted to become a seed so badly but due to his personality and the fact that he hated working as a team, he never could achieve. When we came across him, Odin, a GF of extraordinary power, able to kill anything in one strike was killed by him. It shocked us all, but we had managed to defeat him for our plan to go further.
After the fight, we found that once Odin was killed by him, a new GF, stronger than Odin and not set under the same restrictions, had shown itself. This GF called himself Gilgamesh, unlike Odin, this one could come at any time in a fight, whereas Odin was forced to only come randomly at the start of the fight.
We eventually defeated Adel, sent Ultemecia back to her time, though we had to follow her to defeat her. When we did this, she actually managed to go back in time to before Edea was made the witch, something that I was forced to watch myself. After I had defeated her, Rinoa waited for me at the gardens that Edea had made at the orphanage, the place that we made a promise to reunite if ever separated. At first, I could not even focus on her face, a way that we had thought of as to let me come back, however, after realizing that I no longer remembered her face, I resigned myself to the fate that was sitting and waiting for me, to fade away into the past. Rinoa on the other hand seemed to have a different plan for me; she used some of her sorceress power to get me back.
Edea and Rinoa both confronted me, still having their power from being awakened as sorceresses themselves, asking me what happened and if I had ended it. Sadly I could not say that I did, since I saw Ultemecia die, yes but she did not perish and stay dead, instead she transferred her power to Edea, who was still young at the time. They both, with the help of the power of Adel, gave me a choice, what would I give to fully defeat Ultemecia for good? I was unsure at first until I started to think of my friends and all that they have given for helping me on this journey, I chose to give the only thing that I actually could give, my place in their memories, something that I would cherish and hold dear. After telling them this, Rinoa and Edea both looked sad but understood my choice, they both didn't want to lose me in their memories, I knew it but I did not see any other option at the time. They told me that if I did go through with this, then I would no longer be able to stay in this world, and that they would have to send me to another, I would still live, just not on that world.
I told them I knew what I was doing and that I wished that everyone could live a happy life now that Ultemecia was gone. Smiling sadly to me, the two started to cast their magic, when Gaea the spirit of the world below us started to gather energy as well, as if to give a final farewell to me I thought to myself with a small smile. When I got to this new world, I found that my clothes had been repaired and that Lionhart was with me, as well as instructions on how to make my bullets. Not long after, only around ten or twenty minutes, I ran into you, Naruto.
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"That's pretty much all that I actually went through to get here. A bit sad at times, fun at others, but I wouldn't change it for the world." Seiko spoke calmly eyes still closed.
"Why? If you could change it then you would have your friends still." Naruto spoke as he stopped moving his hand momentarily.
"Then I would never have met you, and become your friend. Never have known what a mostly normal life was like. While I did enjoy being a seed, I always did want to know what it would be like to be a…" she paused and blushed lightly, hidden as she brought the book to her face now, fully covering the blush on her face. "A real girl and house wife." She finished quietly to herself as she noticed that was actually how she acted with Naruto. Maybe not fully a house wife as she still trained and he did most of the cooking for her, she could do simple things but he was a better cook by far at the moment, she swore to get better than him someday a thing that made Naruto actually laugh at her before he full heartedly agreed with her, seeing no reason that she couldn't be better. While she never actually cleaned anything around the house either, seeing as there was never anything to really clean as well, or actually do now that she thought of it, she at times had, in the back of her mind, thought of herself as his housewife, rather than his housemate and best friends. The thought of it now made her blush up a storm, for the first time in ever she actually had real feelings for some boy that was a couple years younger than her, genuine feelings that she wanted more of to be precise, not that she would actually tell him yet, keeping them hidden until she was sure if he liked her as well in the same way.
hope i cleared some things up with this, be mindful that i dont actually know what happens at the end of the game, have it never finished it though. personally know up to the lunatic pandora entrance. i may have changed up the ending a bit, i dont know for sure. this is how i thought that the female version of squall would react in those cases.