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This chapter is yet to be beta-read.

Chapter 14: White queen

It took the team five almost two weeks to complete their 'special' training in ballroom dancing, and now it was the time for them to depart towards the Gatsuchi city, where the ball would be held. The team would be traveling there light, as the Daimyo's vassal was also supplying them with the costumes, or, in Sachiko's case, dresses, they would need.

The team was leaving sometime after breakfast, so everyone was allowed to sleep in a little that morning, and Naruto and Sachiko were most glad for that, and spent this extra hour together in their bed – they were yet to go past sleeping together half-naked, but they loved doing so very much and did so whenever they could... But the duty was calling, and the two left their house and headed to the village eastern gates, where their team was assembling. As they were running towards the gates through the forest that surrounded their house, a pair of rabbits ran across their route, but the duo ignored the critters and continued on their way, never recognizing the event as a bad omen...

Naruto and Sachiko were second to arrive to the meeting point – their sensei was already there – but they didn't have to wait for long, as their third team member, Sai, joined them mere five minutes later. As soon as everyone was there, Iruka once again instructed them about what their mission was – protect the guests of the ball from a possible bandit attack, while pretending to be guests themselves – and what they were to do in different cases. Once the briefing was over, the team left Konohagakure no Sato.

Gatsuchi city they were heading to was located in south-east part of the Fire country, near the border with the River country, and it was surrounded by forest that were home for more than one group of bandits – local samurai forces weren't exactly strong and couldn't deal with the thugs... That was why the vassal asked for a shinobi team to protect his guests at the ball.

It took team five three days of traveling at chuunin pace to reach their destination, and they still had a couple of days in reserve. The city was built mostly in wood and looked like it had seen better days, but otherwise looked good.

At the city gates the team was met by group, consisting of the local lord - Daimyo's vassal - several of his grandees and a platoon of samurai. The Daimyo's vassal, Kawaru – pudgy man with small sly eyes and practically no hair on his face other than his mustaches – welcomed them and, after a short tour through the city, had them housed into the best hotel out there.

The next morning one of the vassal's servants, accompanied by four samurai, came to the hotel to take the team five to the atelier – even though it was located not two blocks away from the hotel. Iruka insisted that all three males of the team wear western style black suits with white shirts: suits were good for both dancing and having concealed weapons on them, plus those looked rather good on them. Sachiko, on the other hand, wasn't limited like that with what she could choose to were at the ball, and her choice fell onto a white silk dress that hugged her curves nicely. The said dress had a cut on the left side going up to the waistline, making it clear that the white-haired girl would have to go commando to the ball – the fact that she used to tease her boyfriend mercilessly in the evening...

The day before the ball the team spent getting acquainted with the layout of the part of the vassal's palace, where the guests would be allowed, and with the layout of the staff rooms. Not a fun way to spend entire day, but this was needed for the mission, so neither of Iruka's students complained... The next day, just after five in the afternoon, the team was to arrive to the palace to begin their 'undercover' mission.

And they arrived, males in their suits, all looking like men from the higher society, while Sachiko, in her white dress, was simply stunning, like a fairy tail princess, making (almost) all males envy the blond shinobi whom she had as her chosen partner... Once inside the palace, the team broke apart and started playing their roles of the vassal's guests, waiting for the real guests to arrive. Surprisingly enough, it took only an hour for everyone to arrive, and as soon as the final guest was there, Kawaru made a speech, which, most likely, no one was listening to, opening the ball.

As soon as the first song started playing, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki, acting like a gentleman he was, invited his white-haired girlfriend for a dance. And Sachiko, of course, accepted his invitation, barely restraining herself from dropping this 'noble act' and dragging her blond onto the dancing floor. Next to them there was Iruka-sensei with some noble lady of about his age, while Sai chose to entertain guests with talents of an artist and, thus, didn't dance... Neither member of the team five noticed two pairs of the eyes watching Sachiko intently. One pair of this eyes belonged to Kawaru, while the other to his younger, and not prettier, 'clone'.

Soon, couple of dances later, the people started switching their partners, and vassal's son, much to her displeasure, tried to have a dance with Sachiko. Thankfully for the girl, her sensei saw the thing and asked her for a dance, protecting her from an unpleasant man for the time being. Though, the expression on vassal's son's face was saying that he wasn't done trying with whatever he wanted to do with the white-haired kunoichi...

For the next hour or so, Naruto and Iruka-sensei were making sure that their female teammate was safe from the leering noble, much to his (and his father's) annoyance. At about seven fifteen in the things took turn for the worse: much like the mission description said it could happen, a fairly large group of bandits attacked the palace.

"Team!" Iruka shouted over women screaming and samurai guard telling the guests to move to the safe locations, while summoning kunai into his hands from hidden holsters on his forearms. "Battle code 'Serpens'!" A short way to tell that the thugs were attacking from the gardens of the palace. The team knew what they were to do in this case, so there was no need for any more words. Upon hearing their sensei, Naruto hardened his skin with a doton: domu ninjutsu and started attacking the bandits unfortunate enough to be close to him with his powerful taijutsu moves, while Sachiko drew her stilettos from the genjutsu-masked holsters on her thighs and used them to fight a trio of sword-wielding thugs away from old noble ladies... Sai had things much easier than his teammates, as all he had to do was to animate the many drawings he did today and leave everything to them, only paying attention that no bandit sneaked up on those he was protecting...

There was quite a lot of bandits, and even if none of them came even close to samurai's or shinobi's level of power, their numbers made sure that both palace guards and the team five were occupied by them in the foreseeable future... And having to protect the guests of the ball, the four ninja had to spread out in the hall. Exactly what the 'dark forces' of the day needed. Kawaru with his son – they remained in hall as if overseeing their guests being evacuated to the safe places – approached Sachiko.

"Kunoichi-san, with most my guards gone to keep my guests safe, I need someone to escort me and my son to my bunker in the basement of the palace – I know that us staying there will make your task of fighting bandits much harder." The older noble said, while the younger one kept leering at the white-haired girl... Sachiko knew that something was fishy there, but since the request was within mission parameters, she couldn't deny it.

"Very well." She said with a small sigh. "Show me the way." ...A few corridors and some stairs later, they stopped in front of heavy metal doors that obviously were the bunker the vassal was talking about. Opening the said doors, the white-haired kunoichi gestured for the nobles she was escorting to enter. She just wasn't expecting to be pulled into the bunker as well, before the doors closed... "What is the meaning of this?" Sachiko demanded, eying the vassal angrily, while watching the four samurai guarding the door from the corner of her eyes.

"Shut up and accept your fate, girl: you're mine now." Vassal's son said, trying to grab kunoichi's hand. He, of course, failed as the white-haired girl jumped back.

"You will not leave this room until you marry my Sakato-kun. Be honored that you are chosen to be his wife." Kawaru added. Sachiko crossed her arms – and she still had her stilettos in her hands – on her chest.

"As an active-duty shinobi I'm forbidden to marry without Hokage's approval." She said in a serious tone, before adding, while looking at Sakato. "Not that I would marry you even if I could." The words seemed to almost bring the 'boy' to tears.

"Surely, you don't mean that." The vassal replied. "Sakato-kun is a very handsome young man..." The white-haired kunoichi snored there. "...With a lot of money, who will become the next lord of this province... How can you not want to be his wife, girl?"

"I will not marry someone I don't love and that is final." Sachiko said, her arms still crossed. "And just so that you know, you can't stop me from leaving this room..."

"You are very full of yourself, girl." Kawaru said, trying to grab the girl, but failing miserably at that. "These doors can withstand your explosive tags without even a scratch: nothing enter or leave this room without my permission." The Konoha kunoichi glared at the men in front her: surely they didn't think that brick walls could stop a dust elementalist? "So, marry my Sakato-kun, or else we will see, how long can you last there before you change your mind." Sachiko sighed.

"I will tell you this only once more: I will not marry someone I don't love... Also, like I said, if I wanted to escape, you wouldn't be able to stop me... But since my cavalier is already on the other side of these doors, I will play the princess who needs to be saved. Just hope you didn't make him angry: demons tend to appear when he is." Almost as soon as the white-haired kunoichi finished, as obscured sound of metal hitting metal could be heard through the doors, followed by several more

"See, these doors won't let anybody in." The vassal said arrogantly, as the sounds continued for several more seconds, before ceasing. There were several moments during nothing happened, before a wave of fearsome chakra passed through the bunker, almost making the nobles to wet themselves.

"You have woken the beast up." Sachiko commented, absolutely not affected by Kyuubi's yoki.

"What you talking about, girl?" The vassal demanded, trying to look fearless, even though he was scared to death. "Nothing can break through these doors. No matter what is on the other side, it won't help you, girl." The white-haired kunoichi shook her head.

"I wouldn't be so sure." At that very moment something hit the door, causing five claw-shaped bulges appear, much to nobles' horror. Another hit later, five gigantic fiery claws made of nine-tails' yoki broke through the door, before gripping and, then, yanking it... True to vassal's words, the door was truly of the highest quality – it wasn't ripped off its hinges... It was ripped with them, as the wall wasn't nearly as strong and broke under the titanic strength of the 'Kyuubi's arm'... As soon as the door was out of the way, Naruto in his jinchuuriki mode appeared in the aperture.

"Give me my Sachiko-chan back." He growled at the nobles. Samurai jumped to protect their bosses, but a single glare from the semi-demonic blond was enough to have them running for their lives. Another glare, and the nobles were rooted to the place they were standing at, with their pants clearly showing that the two had wet themselves. Now, with everyone standing between him and his girlfriend gone, Naruto approached Sachiko and gave her his un-Kyuubified hand, which she gladly accepted. The pair gracefully left the bunker then – with the blond shinobi still keeping his jinchuuriki mode running, just in case... As they were returning to the team's meeting point, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki was thinking of the ways to make those awful nobles pay for trying to lay their dirty hands on his white queen.

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For the next several days, even after they returned back to Konoha, Sachiko was not herself, and even the old man Hokage assuring her that her attempted kidnappers would be punished most severely by the Lord of the Fire country didn't help her much... Yes, the whole mission was the plot of the vassal to get his son married to a pretty and strong kunoichi Sachiko was - or so it seemed from the results of Iruka's interrogation of the bandits' leader.

Hokage had even sent Sachiko to Inochi for some psychological help, but that didn't much, other than revealing that what was tormenting the whitehead wasn't the attempted kidnapping, even if it was 'uncovered' by it. And the girl was quite adamant at keeping what exactly that was to herself...

Naruto was sitting on the edge of his bed, reading one of his jutsu scrolls as he waited for his girlfriend to finish showering and join him for the night. Somehow, still, he managed to get too absorbed in his reading to notice the white-haired girl enter the bedroom... So her pushing him onto the bed and and kissing him fiercely and passionately came as a bit of surprise to him, but once he got over his surprise, he eagerly responded to his girlfriend's kiss. For the next several minutes the two were snogging like there was no tomorrow, but then Sachiko suddenly broke their kisses and moved her topless form south so that she was on her knees in front of the bed and between her boyfriend's legs, her face just a couple of inches away from his – hidden by his boxers – erection.

"Sachiko-chan, wh... ?" Naruto was about to ask what she was doing... Well, no 'what', but more likely 'why now', but the white-haired kunoichi didn't give him a chance to finish.

"Hush you, Naru-kun." She said, as she pulled his boxers down, a bit too fast maybe, baring her boyfriend's member. He wasn't that big, about six inches long a little less than one thick, but then again, they both were still growing, and had several years before their bodies would be completely mature... Here, Sachiko paused for a moment, collecting her will to continue: she was afraid a bit of what she was about to do. And the though of having an intercourse now was scaring her even more so, but, especially after what almost happened on the last mission, her desire to be 'marked' as Naruto's was stronger than ever, and giving him a blowjob was a good temporary compromise between this desire and her fear of giving her virginity up...

The white-haired kunoichi cautiously ran her fingers along Naruto's hard length from its base towards the tip, making him breath out loudly from the pleasant sensation. More confident in what she was doing, Sachiko ran her fingers along her boyfriend's cock again, but this time she also leaned forward and ran her tongue on the opposite side of his dick, getting her first 'taste' of the physical love. And judging by the sounds the Kyuubi jinchuuriki was making, she was doing a good job in making him feel good... Once she reached the tip of his cock, Sachiko swirled her tongue around the tip, causing the blond under her moan in pleasure, while she absentmindedly noted that the act so far wasn't repulsive to her at all...

Abandoning whatever fears she had left, the white-haired girl took the head of Naruto's cock into her mouth, where she continued working on it with her tongue, but also adding some slight sucking now. And the sounds her beloved was making were assuring her she was doing alright... Taking more of him into her mouth, Sachiko continued sucking her boyfriend's cock, still not finding anything repulsive about what she was doing...

"S-Sachiko-chan... I'm... a-ah! I'm going to... cum." She was sucking for about four minutes by the time Naruto gave her the warning. Not sure what to expect now – no she had read about sex in the books, but the life tended to differ from the fiction – Sachiko took most of his length out of her mouth, leaving only the head inside, and continued sucking and running her tongue around it. "A-a-ah!" The Kyuubi jinchuuriki let out a loud moan that sounded a bit like a roar, and exploded into his girlfriend's mouth, giving her a mouthful of his seed... Sachiko sat there, motionless till she was sure he finished cumming. When he had finished, she, carefully not to spill any of his cum, took his cock out of her mouth and tasted his 'gift'. It was a bit salty to her, and would have been much tastier, were it more sweet, but all in all the white-haired girl liked the taste... They will be doing this again!.. Swallowing the cum, Sachiko licked her boyfriend's cock clean, before rolling Naruto onto his left side. She than lay behind him, her arms around his chest, her chin on his shoulder and her naked breasts with hard nipples – the whole thing had her turned on very much – pressed into his back.

"Good night, my Naru-kun." She whispered into his ear, before kissing him on his cheek and, after snuggling even closer to him, falling asleep, leaving Naruto to think about what had just transpired.

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