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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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The Engagement Party part two –
Inside her privet office Queen Carline sat behind her desk looking over reports and signing paperwork that have been building up as Cammy gave her report on her grandson. She frowns as she hears what Naruto thinks that the only reason why everyone is treating him as a person is because of him being the sole heir to the throne. The scars of his time in the Leaf are deeper then she had thought as he couldn't see any kindness without asking why.
"I see my grandson still thinks that the only reason people are nice to him is when they need him for something out of him," Carline said letting out a puff of air. "I see that we're going to have a very long uphill battle to get my grandson to see that I don't just want him because he's the only thing stopping a civil war to break out once I'm gone."
"My Queen I was wondering about something," Cammy spoke up. "Who's going to be fighting over the throne that would cause a civil war?"
"The Barego and the Rokake factions," Carline answers making Cammy's eyes widen when she heard those names. "Those two families have been the two most powerful factions in this country even before my great-grandmother married the prince of the land. Despite Metal being ruled by a monarchy, the Senate and its nobles grew quite powerful over the years. Before the Delmo bloodline became a common in the families of Metal, the one's who married the future heir of the throne were either from the Barego faction or the Rokake faction. But ever since my great-grandmother made it a law that only her daughter would be able to choose who she marries, none from the Barego or the Rokake families have ever married into the royal family. And over the years they're one of the few noble houses who still have male children since they always marry women from outside the country ever since more and more of the Delmo bloodline spread throughout Metal. Before I found out about Naruto I learned that both the Barego and Rokake clan have been stock piling weapons and gaining supporters from the smaller houses. Since my daughter Kikko was missing and many thought she would not return both of the families were planning on taking the throne once I was gone."
"My Queen do you have you any poof of this?" Cammy ask.
"No not enough to prove of any wrong doing just that they're gathering up as much raw gold as they can. And groups of mercenaries have been seen near the two factions houses, mercenaries prefer to be paid with raw gold then minted coins. All I can prove is that they have been planning to claim the throne for themselves once I was gone but since neither side were going to make any move until I am gone from this world. They have all the right to make their own claims to the throne as they only had to wait a couple of more years for time to do its job," Carline explain to her. "The Barego's and the Rokake's clans both believe that the only way to have a successful country is to have unrivaled military strength, rigid order, and centralized government. For either to have one of their clan on the throne would spell disasters for Metal. Not since my mother's time of her reign that the people of Metal would be ruled under an iron fist."
"My queen what do you want me to do?" Cammy ask her queen.
"I want you and the rest of the Killer Bees to get close to Naruto and let him see that he does have people who care for him. The Barego and the Rokake girls will do whatever it takes to get close to Naruto even making him believe that everyone besides them wants him as a tool. With his mind set now it makes him very easy to trick. I don't want him to marry into a loveless marriage," Carline said.
"I understand," Cammy said as she bows to her.
"Also you and the others will have to be on guard as Farah the princess of The Land of Gems is going to be engage to Naruto as well."
"The Wei Queendom is making their move again," Cammy said as she has read the history books about the war with Gems and Metal that took place just sixty-six years ago.
"Yes the current queen Tabitha wants to expand her Queendom and with her daughter around the same age as Naruto she has the prefect opportunity to do it. If her daughter manages to seduce Naruto into falling for her our two Queendoms will join to become one. And in the shadows Tabitha and her daughter will be pulling all of the strings," Carline said. "You and the others will have to be watchful of Farah and the other girl from Gems when they get here. The people from the Land of Gems are well known for their trickery."
"I'll keep that in mind," Cammy said as she waited for her Queen to dismiss her. Carline nodded dismissing her and she left the room to inform the others about the news.
"Setsuna you can come out now," Carline said as the woman appeared in front of her.
"Yes my Queen?" she asked.
"I'm going to be calling a meeting with all of the heads of the White Delmos and the Generals that are in the city. I want you to be there as well. The meeting with start in two hours in the East wing meeting hall."
"As you will our queen," she said as she left the room.
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High above the Land of Gems –
Farah stood next to a window as she watches it take off on its course to the Land of Metal. An older woman stood next to her guardian while she stayed in Metal. She stood about five foot five and looked to be about a hundred and twenty pounds. Her flame red hair was shoulder length. She had high cheekbones, soft full red lips, and her eyes a bright gleaming green. They highlighted her deeply tanned skinned. Her outfit could not hide her full, firm breast and lean muscular legs under the skirt she wore. She walked with the confidence of a pro and most of the men in her immediate area would turn to stare at her.
"Monka are the rest of the girls ready?" Farah asked her guardian.
"Yes they are," Monka said as she points to the assemble group of women in the room with them.
The leader of the group is Tarifa, and she was among the tallest of her clan she came from at five foot eight. Her flowing, shiny black hair fell almost to the top of her buttocks, framing an absolutely perfect face with high cheekbones and soft pouty full lips. Her face was oval in shape, and her flawless skin was evenly tanned from years of living in the sun and it gave her a distinctly exotic look. She and her team of four were the best team chosen by their queen to protect her daughter while she's in Metal.
Her teammates all have a similar built as their leader Tarifa and had the same hair style as well. Her team is made up of Sagiri a woman with purple hair who's always smiling, Sharmista a green haired woman who has eyes sharp as a hawk's, Urda a blonde who bloodlust scares even her teammates, and Chisato a woman with brown hair who can mimic any voice she hears. Their skills in combat are in the same level as those of the Gold Delmos.
Each of them wore tight, coal black jumpsuit like uniforms that allowed them to blend seamlessly into the night. The jumpsuits were of a design that added flexible body armor to their uniforms in critical areas, but did not hinder physical movement in the least. The uniforms fastened around their slim necks but split open in a "V" shape, and as you looked further down their enticing torsos, the tanned skin of their cleavages and abdomens was exposed for all to see as the uniforms strained against their high full breasts. The "V" ended just below their navels, and became normal again. The fabric that encased their legs was also very much skin tight, almost as if painted on, and all of them wore elaborate combat boots that extended up almost to their knees. The uniforms had no sleeves, and their tanned arms were exposed to the elements, but all of them wore fingerless black gloves and armored gauntlets that covered their skin, the gauntlets ending just below the elbows with wicked looking edges to them that could slice flesh as easily as butter.
They're all skilled in different types of weapons that they all know how to use. Tarifa is armed with wristblades that's strap on both of her arms. They're jutsu-forged twin blades of extended length and exceptional resilience. The wounds left by these blades are exceptionally deadly.
Sharmista uses a throwing disc that's ring shaped, with her sharp eyes make her aim very deadly. The razor disc has blades which vibrate at subsonic frequencies, giving it unmatched cutting power.
Sagiri uses a bladed tonfu that is called a Maul in Gems. Jutsu-forged for unbreakable strength, barbed and honed to a razor-edge, the Maul is the most vicious melee weapon in her arsenal.
Chisato uses a telescopic quarterstaff, is supremely tough and has extendable blades which combine to deliver devastating attacks. Few people can get close to her once she starts swinging her quarterstaff around.
Urda is a master of a twin-headed polearm she calls the Glaive. The glaive's rapid spinning moves slice through enemies with ease. The massive jutsu-forges blades of Gem the glaive has been specialize barbed to inflict terrible tearing injuries.
"Princess Farah, I hope that they meet your expectation," Tarifa said to her.
"Yes you and your unit does," Farah answers. "Tell me where is Zera? I haven't seen her since we got on board."
"She's been in her cabin with that book of hers," Monka answers.
"She still thinks she'll be able to use those magic spells in that book?" Farah asked. As long as she has known Zera she always walks around with that large leather bond book of hers, it's always in front of her face and come to think about it she never seen her face. The only part she has seem clearly is her left eye peeking from the top of the book as one of her bangs of long blonde hair covers her right eye all the time. She still doesn't get how she can move around without tripping or bumping into something with that book in her face all the time.
"I still don't understand why the queen chose her out of the other girls to be engage to Prince Naruto?" Urda ask out loud.
"Because she's is the most powerful chakra users our academy has come out yet," Farah said. "And that her family is one of the most powerful supporters of my mother's faction helps in getting her into the engagement. She's strange but her power in chakra isn't something to take lightly even for someone like me with the Delmo blooding flowing their veins."
"Once we arrive to Ironmount what will be the plan with Prince Naruto?" Sagiri ask.
"Me and Zera are going to have to enroll into the Metal's academy after the engagement party. It seems that Queen Carline wants the wife of her grandson to be strong in both body and in the mind, since she doesn't want someone to become her daughter in law who doesn't know a thing about governing a Queendom or should I say Kingdom now that there's a male on the throne.(1) Anyways I want all of you to keep me inform of what's going on in the capital and about my rivals for the heart of Prince Naruto," Farah explains in the same cold manner of her mother.
"And if you don't win?" Sharmista ask.
"I leave that for later," Farah smiled cruelly that made even Urda shiver.
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In a compound in one of the countries West of Metal –
A woman dress in a dark business suit stood next to a man dress in a black suit overlooking a training room. The floor of the training room was alive with actively as five men are showing their skills off to the man watching above them. The woman held a folder reading the files in it to the man of each of the men down below them.
A man dress in a gray-green suit cut his way through a wooden target with ease with his blade he's carrying. The blade sparks as the blade electrified as it struck its target. "Agent Alpha, he's one of Wisdom's general-purpose agents. He usually works within a group, but his individual fighting skills far surpass most of the Eastern Jonin ninjas. Armed with a hatchet-like weapon that channels electricity with it hits something solid made from a special alloy, he specializes in close contact battles."
Dress in the same style suit as Alpha but he's much taller than he is, he's also armed with a much longer blade also. He easily cuts clean through a stone block with his blade. "Agent Beta, armed with a long-range metal-shear weapon made from a special alloy, his overall battle ability surpasses Agent Alpha's. With his longer limbs he can stay out of the strike range of his opponents while he strikes."
A large man with tan skin wearing metal gloves punch a hole into the reinforce stonewall in the middle of the room. "Agent Gamma, he is equipped with a pair of gloves made from a special alloy which protects his hands from almost any kind of damage, while remaining flexible enough for his hands to move and he has enormous stamina. He takes advantage of his large frame and strong arms and hands to clamp enemies. Not just anyone can escape from his grasp once he has a hold on them."
A man armed with a small rapid-firer crossbow fired five bolts at five targets a hundred meters away from him, hitting all of them in the center without effort. "Agent Delta, armed with a small rapid-firer crossbow built for accuracy, his skills shine in long-range attacks. Since his battle abilities are not refined as those of the other agents are, he specializes in providing support fire."
The last man is dress in the same suit as the other four but his jacket is wide open and undershirt untucked. He's armed with two blades and showed he knows how to handle them as he summersaults through the air cutting the hanging targets into ribbons in his wake. "Daredevil, he serves as the unofficial leader during combat in operations areas. His battle abilities are far superior to those of regular agents, and he fights with his metal-shear weapon also made from a special alloy in both hands. He follows no discernable pattern during a battle using his speed and agility he specializes in attacking while confusing the enemy with his fast movement."
"All of them are the production of the training that's been done here in Wisdom. They all have been taking various kinds of drugs and compounds to increase their effectiveness in battle. They don't bleed as much when they're wounded and they don't feel pain because their bodies are already half-dead," the woman said to the person hidden by shadows. "They'll be able to handle the mission you want to be done."
"Good I'm paying you good money for these men and I want to be sure that my money wasn't wasted," the man said to the woman. "If they fail I might have to go to the Akatsuki to get this done."
The woman let out a chuckle, "The Akatsuki might be the strongest of the East of Metal but they're the only strongest of the East. Here in the West we of Wisdom are the most feared group here."
"Just remember that I want this job handle like I ask I have an unmark airship ready for transport," the man said as he left the woman's side and made his way out of the room.
The woman looks down at the agents who have finish displaying their skills to their newest client. "Alright all of you get all you gear ready to go. In three hours all of you will be going to be on your way to Ironmount."
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In Ironmount –
Setsuna walked into the East Wing of the castle, walking by the castle guards as she enters the hallway into the meeting hall. Passing through the doors she enters the meeting hall, the meeting hall has a school room design as the tables are on seven levels on a slanted room at the front of the tables is a table like that of a teacher's so they can speak to all of their students while maintaining eye contact with everyone there. The room is already filled with White Delmos and the Generals station in the city.
"Looks like I'm not the only one late," Setsuna said to herself as she saw two people coming through the door she just came from.
Lulu and Stephanie made their way to their seats. Lulu was loaded down with food, a large jug of wine, three meat buns and a handful of chocolate bars, the big ones with the nuts in them that she loved. Lulu was a large good looking dark skin woman. The operative word was large. Lulu had been a field soldier at one time before giving up the profession taking the promotion to the rank of General and she was a very solid woman though no one in their right mind would call her fat if they wanted to keep all their teeth. Lulu still dressed like her field soldier days wearing the same uniform as the common foot soldiers but with costume made armor to fit her body frame. The uniform is a pair of gray a long sleeve shirt and pants underneath a heavy chest plate. Her large breast stood out wonderfully in contrast as they bulged over the top of her chest plate and threatened to spill into view with each jiggling step on her six inch black heels.
Stephanie was almost dwarfed by her companion. She was a brown haired, dusty skin woman who wearing the same kind of uniform as her large friend. Stephanie fought a never ending war with her desires for junk food and her preference for tight fitting outfits. Stephanie considered herself more in control than Lulu since she had only one meat bun with her. The box of chocolate balls in her pocket didn't count in her opinion.
"Lulu, Stephanie how many times do I have to tell you two that you can't eat in the meeting hall," Setsuna said as she grabs the two peanut bags from them. "Besides the ants will be attracted by all of the crumbs you two will make."
"Hey give that back," Lulu said as she makes a grab for her buns.
"No just wait till after the meeting is over," Setsuna said as she sat down with the buns in front of her.
"She's right you know," Xun Yu said as she waves her two fellow generals over to where she and Diao Chan are sitting at.
"You two are always eating whenever we see you two," Diao Chan said.
"Well unlike you we learn on the field that you have to eat as much as you can as you can. You don't know when you're going to have a good meal," Stephanie said.
"Too bad no one ever told you two that only applies for the battlefield not elsewhere," Deanna Spencer of the noble Spencer clan spoke up causing the two to glare at her. She is dressed in a green tailcoat and knickerbockers. She's also wearing white stockings and brown shoes with gold buckles. She had long, bright red hair underneath a green bowler decorated with a shamrock. She had design her own clothes as she doesn't like the style of clothes that other designers came up with. Her fiery red hair was in great contrast to her fair white skin. Her cute nose was covered with tiny brown freckles. She has full, ruby lips, striking emerald eyes, large, round breasts and long, slender legs.
"Deanna Spencer the Fortune General," Setsuna greeted the younger woman. "I haven't seen you since you went off to the boarder skirmish with the Frass Confederation a month ago."
"I did and thanks to my special talents I didn't loss a single soldier from my unit of eight-hundred," Deanna smirks.
"One of these days that luck of yours is going to run out," Lulu growls but just makes Deanna smile.
"Everyone to your seats the Queen is on her way," one of the White Delmo's said. Everyone quickly got to their seats as the waited for their queen to come in.
As she waited Setsuna looked around the room to see who she knew where in the room. She spotted Talima head of section A of the White Delmos. She's a delicious little thing, her elfin face framed by flaxen hair which tumbled down her slender back to her pert, peachy buttocks. Her breasts were far too large for her petite frame, a delectable disparity which Setsuna knew would drive the denizens of the city wild with desire. As she has many girlfriends who got to know her really well, far as she knows that Talima hasn't been with any guy yet saying she's saving herself for her husband.
Sitting next to her is her friend Toni who works with Talima in section A. She's extremely beautiful, with a heart shaped face framed by long length black hair, full lips, and green eyes, made even more exotic by her mother's ancestry. Toni's 5'5" body was lean and fit from long hours of sword training by her mother, a former sword dueling champion and sensei. Her body is very slim with an ample figure that she always binds up under warp saying it's easier for her to swing her sword without her chest jumping around.
Behind the pair is Octavia the head of the soldiers of the city who is the tallest and biggest person in the room. She stands over ten feet tall, she's wearing a black blouse and a tattered red skirt as she can't really find clothes that can fit her frame. She has a lovely face with bright red hair, which hung down below her shoulders. Setsuna when she first met her was startled by her bright red eyes. Her body was statuesque, shapely and her skin was coal-black. Setsuna guessed that, if she were human, her measurements would be about 46-26-38. Setsuna shook her head and rethought it to 92-52-76.
Somebody cleared their throat getting everyone's attention turning to the source Setsuna saw that it's Mrs. Wan the head of the White Delmo's. She is short, not quite five foot tall, with long, silken black hair, a narrow waist above flaring hips and a pair of shapely breast that would have still looked bountiful on a woman a foot taller. Her legs were firm, a bit broad in the thigh area as many short women tend, but her feet were small and beautiful. She wore a perfectly white pant suit that showed off her perfectly formed butt globes perfectly, with just the right shadow hint of the deep, mysterious ass crack that she sported between them. Setsuna knows her body well since she has more than once slept in the same bed as her.
"Everyone please quit down," Mrs. Wan said and waited for everyone to quite down. "Alright they're ready for you my queen."
"Thank you," Carline said as she took the seat in front of the assembly. "This meeting will begin now. I want everyone's reports on the stasis of the security on the engagement party. I don't want anyone that isn't on the guest list or any guards there that aren't apart of the Delmo or is married to one. As for the staff members who are going to be serving the party must all have a record of working in the castle for a number of years I don't want any new faces showing up at the party. There must be no security leaks on our end."
"I already had everything and everyone attending on our end have their backgrounds check over and making sure that all of the people are on staff for the engagement party and none will have to change plans. All those who might have something that would keep them from attending have already been replace and replacements from them are already in place," Xun Yu reported.
"I had the guards look around the city looking for anything that seems off or anyone that seem to be hiding something. We already arrested a couple of people who has ties to underworld organizations who had arrived into the city," Octavia added.
"I had my section investigate all of the people attending. None of them are likely to try anything at the party since they know what that will do for their village's name if they do. We haven't managed to find any of them with anything ties to any kind of organization that would cause any trouble," Talima reported.
"What we really need to do is keep an eye on the people coming from the Eastern lands. Most of them don't know what it's like in the Western land's since Eastern part of the land is divided with the mountain range and our country that acts like a buffer zone," Toni adds in. (2) "They'll have no idea what customs some of the guest have or the laws and rules we live by. It would be a simple matter for one of them to do something that they're not supposed to do and… well wars have been cause by such misunderstandings before."
"Then there's the reaction that people will get once they see the side effects that the sealing of the fox demon did to Naruto," Setsuna spoke up.
"Who would have thought sending the fox demon back to the demon world would change Naruto into a half-demon," one of the White Delmos said.
"Yes but all of the younger women have been looking at him more ever since he has fox ears now," an older Delmo said as she seen the women around the castle whenever they get the chance to would take a feel of the Princes new ears. She also wonders what other canine like abilities or body parts he has now.
"Actually he isn't a half-demon," Doctor Mizuno a White Delmo who is the head of the medical staff.
"What do you mean?" Carline ask everyone in the room turn to the castles head doctor.
"I have been testing the prince's body since his transformation and as far as I can tell he doesn't have any demonic blood in him and I can't sense any demonic aura around him either," Mizuno explains.
"Then what has happen to him?" Carline ask as she trusted the word from Mizuno on detecting no demonic aura around her grandson. Mizuno family was the one who had sealed the 'Ancient Demon Hardstone' the mountain size demon tortoise who had once roamed the Land of Metal.
The demon Hardstone was also the reason why the fields of Metal are full of metal. The raw material that has made Metal so powerful and where the country got it name from. Since the earliest days of their country, the people of Metal have always had access to a rich supply of iron ore and so have been able to produce large amounts of steel, well as other metals such as precise metals. Hardstone was the one who created all of the deep pockets of metal ores. The demon was more of a walking volcano then a tortoise. From the pictures that were drawn at that time, Hardstone resembles a red tortoise. It exhales an always present cloud of smoke through its nostrils and through holes in its body and has a dark grey stone shell. The volcano-shape hump on top of its shell constantly poured out thick smoke wherever it goes. Within Hardstone's body is the violent activity of a volcano, containing molten metal of up to 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit that occasionally erupts from his volcanic mountain-shaped hump on his massive shell. Hardstone created raw forms of metals inside of its body as it eats the forest that once dominated the landscape. The land use to be nothing but thick forest that made the Land of Fire's forest looks like the trees of a small park. Before Hardstone came out of the World of the Demons he would wonder around eating up the forest until he had his fill then would bury himself into the earth to sleep it off for a couple of years, letting the forest to grow back so he can repeat the cycle all over again. Hardstone before he went to sleep would erupt all of the metals in his body out in one burst. This would cause building size molten raw metal to fall into the country side burying themselves deep into the earth.
No one knows how long this has been going on as the first people to settle in Metal didn't happen until nine-hundred years ago give or take. Whenever he woke up every hundred years he would destroy any village that stood in his way of his food. This went on for years as the people living in Metal at the time couldn't do anything to stop the mountain size demon until Mizuno's great-grandfather discover a way to open a gateway to the demon world. He gathered the few Kanegakure Nin at that time and using their chakra sealed Hardstone into the body of the leader of the Kanegakure Nin who was the great-grandmother of Carline forming the first and only contract with the demon tortoise. Then after the contract was formed they sent Hardstone back to the demon world where it had came from.
"From what I can tell the only thing the sealing did to him is given him the appearance of a half-demon but with none of the powers. He's has become stronger but none has to do with anything demonic in nature," Mizuno explains. "He's more of a werefox then demon."
"A werefox?" Carline said to herself. "What about children will Naruto pass those traits down to his children?"
"It looks very likely," the doctor said.
"I see no problems then," Carline said. "At the party make sure that everyone is informs about what Naruto has become. I don't want people to go flying off about him becoming the demon fox."
"Right ma," all the women in the room responded.
"Now to get down to the real reason why I called for this meeting…" Queen Carline began to explain to them about what she wants to be done with the guest from the other counties once they start arriving into the city.
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"The people of the country of Frass are descendants of people who had refused to make contact with the early inhabitants of Metal when the first people began to setting in the land. Instead they remained in the Northwest of Metal West from the Land of Gems, establishing a successful confederation of many tribes. The country of Frass is a giant grass plain and much of their life style revolves around the vast herds of bison's that migrate from one feeding ground to the next. They are a proud people, with a strong hierarchy and caste system that clearly distinguished between the warriors and the servants and workers who looked after them. They are a warlike people; the strong tribes subjugated the weaker ones, often capturing men and women as slaves as far afield as the counties of Rhocanion and Khand. Outwardly, the people of Frass are similar in appearance to us, apart from their sallow skin, but inwardly they are cruel and loyal to their customs. Many merchants who travel near their lands have been raided by them. Metal has been trying to get a treaty with them for years but they're steadfast in continuing on with their customs. Our Northwestern border is right at their Southwestern border which has caused skirmishes with the Frass tribes trying to get a foothold in our fertile fields and the mines located there. They do have ninjas in their ranks but they are few in number, they rely heavily on their warriors for battles. They are very skilled in warfare that are on the same level as the Blue Delmos who are the bulk of Metal's army."
"The tribes of Frass have two principal weapons, the polearm and the scimitar. The polearm, fitted with a serrated blade and tipped with a spike, was made in two sizes: the nine-foot polearm are used to defend against enemy charges, particularly from cavalry, while the shorter, five-foot one, featuring spikes at both ends, are used in close combat. Each are backed with a curved spike sharpened on the outer edge: on the long polearm this are used to trip or hamstring enemy houses; on the shorter one it was for piercing armor and deflecting enemy blades. It is a truly versatile weapon that could be used defensively and offensively, offering the Frass tribes immediate retaliation with a choice of four points of attack. The three-foot-long steel scimitars are a recent addition to their arsenal. The curved blade is use in a downward swing, diagonal slashing attack and for thrusting. They carry a curved rectangular shield have a concave top and bottom edges and are held by means of an iron hand-grip behind a circular boss that are surrounded by a diamond shape. They wear plate armor which was made to deliberately intend to intimidate their opponents, it would be easy to picture them as a swarm of dragons as they descended on their foe. Their bronze armor consisted of a chest plate made out of thick steel, a collar, pauldrons, vambraces, cuisses and greaves that makes them very well protected at all fronts. Under the armor they wear loose-fitting fabrics dyed red and indigo and black, colors that contrasted with the color of their armor. They wore an undercut helmet was worn under over a headscarf and featured cheek and eye-guards that hid their face. Three angular crests on their helmets struck a distinctive and aggressive silhouette that could be recognized from a long way off."
"In the South of Metal is the Great Konto Desert that lay's between our country and Nanman. While we have a friendly relationship with the Kingdom of Nanman, the nomads who make their home in the desert have remains hostile towards any travelers who crosses their desert. The primitive and somewhat savage people of Harad lived in one of the harshest environments that not even the Land of Winds can compare to. In the land south of Metal the sun beats down unrelentingly, cooking much of Konto's great plain's into desert. The tribes of Konto live a nomadic existence, walking from one oasis to another in search of precious water and food, and here they would gather kine and other beasts. They never stay in one spot for long before they pull up their tents and leave for the next watering hole. Any caravans that travel through the desert that doesn't have a large force guarding it have to pay with barrels of water which all of the tribes of Konto value more then gold if not they will strip the caravan of everything they have, taking everything even the wood that makes up the wagons. That's why the merchants that travel through the desert always have plenty of water wagons with them when they cross the desert. Father south is Nanman dense jungles, in which they would gather up bamboo they use for material that they used for weapons, armor, utensils and construction. The desert lands of Konto yielded few trees, so bamboo are use in place of wood. Their metal-working technology is almost nonexistent due to the lack of natural resources; they rely heavily on organic materials, using tusk, bone and obsidian in place of steel."
"The weaponry employed by the Harad is dictated by factors such as lack of natural resources, the heat of the daytime and the cold nights of the desert. Ore is so precious that it would not be possible to manufacture swords or other heavy blades, any steel weapons they had are gotten in trade with the few traders who venture into their lands to trade with them, as with bronze armor found among some of the wealthier tribes. Instead the Harad's favors bows and spears, which could be used to hunt with. Although the sixty-inch bows are made from precious supplies of wood, reinforced with wicker, the arrow and the spear shafts, even the quiver, are made from bamboo. Tusk, bone and obsidian are used for arrowheads and spear tips and coarse black feathers gather from crows and vulture for the arrows' flights. These roughly made arrows have only a limited range and accuracy, perhaps being effective only within a distance of one hundred yards or so. The Harad also carries a sword those who are lucky enough to get one and a cruder version of a spear, which are a pitchfork formed by cutting two spikes into a length of bamboo. The intense heat rules out the use of heavy armor, it seems that the level of protection differed among the tribes, with warriors wearing a combination of breastplate, back-plate, and collar. These are composite of wicker, bamboo, stone, bone and tusk, all interwoven to form a light yet tough shell. They usually wear long flowing robes, cloths to cover the head from the hellish heat."
Naruto listened with interest as his tutor explains the people who lived in the surrounding counties. Using the blackboard in the room to write down the main points she's trying to get across to her future King. He would need to know these things of what kind of people they are and what history they have with Metal. He's been studying under the best tutors that his grandparents could get, as many of the teachers of Metal wanted to be able to teach the future King of Metal. The Killer Bees were also in the room as they sat in chairs in one of the study rooms of the castle. They have all been trying to get him to open himself up to them as they said they only want to be his friends, but he already knows the real reason why they're doing it. Everyone wants him for one thing or another without caring about what he wanted out of his life.
His current teacher is teaching him is the history teacher of the biggest academy in Ironmount. His teacher Ms. Carin has her long brown hair was put up by hairpins, and her eyeglasses were heavy upon her button nose. Still, the young woman was totally hot as Naruto have seen how many people would stare at her. Her floral dress matched her wallflower personality, but the body that strained beneath it was a different story. The huge bust that threatened to burst Ms. Carin's conservative bra preceded her by about eight inches everywhere she went. The melons so sizable that when Ms. Carin's back was towards you, even with her arms hanging at her sides, the outside of her breasts could be seen bulging from both sides. The utterly 'grandma' style dress reached down to Ms. Carin's ankles. The young, strong legs swished the dress side to side, so that it caressed her hard tight hips and belly. The clogs on her feet did provide a couple inches of lift, but her muscled calves and thighs remained hidden from their eyes behind the thin fabric. There are many staff members in the castle that have been hitting on her and the ones who are married are trying to invite her over for some fun with their husband, which he found out is quite common around here. Naruto is still getting use to the fact that the people of Metal are open to their sexuality.
"Do you understand?" Ms. Carin ask as she always stops to see if Naruto understood what she had just spoke about.
"Yes both the Frass confederation and the Harad nomads are dangerous as they only follow their own cultures. They attack merchants whenever they get a chance to and disrupt the trade routes going near their lands. The Frass are more dangerous as they just attack any unguarded caravan that comes their way. While the Harad nomads on the other hand can be brought off with water that they need to survive in their desert home," Naruto answers.
"Good I see that you understand my lesson," Ms. Carin said as she turns back to the blackboard.
"Are there any girls from either of those tribes coming to the engagement?" Naruto ask.
"Only from the Harad's are coming," März answers him. "The two are from the most powerful tribe of the Harad. They are the daughters of the chief who hope to gain from this engagement. Their tribe has become the most powerful and wealthiest of the tribes since they trade heavily with all merchant guilds that travel through their desert. As well being their guide through the desert and keeping the other tribes from attacking the caravan. They have already established a good relationship with Metal's trade guilds."
"I see," Naruto said he waved to Ms. Carin getting her attention. "What about the people of Nanman? What are they like?"
"The Nanman's are a strong proud people who have lived in the dense jungles of Nanman even before Metal became a country. They are a race of fierce warriors they have been harden by the jungle that they make their home. Living in the jungle has made all of the people of Nanman quite fit and robust male and female alike, they the best fighters in heavily wooded areas and all but impossible to beat in their jungle home. The soldiers wear armor made of rattan that can deflect swords and arrows alike. When a band of S-class ninjas from the Kingdom of Eundor were sent to kidnap the newborn prince in your grandmothers, grandmother's time none of them made it to the capital. All of them were cut down before they knew what hit them and the ninjas of Eundor are one of the strongest ninja clans of the West. All invading armies that have tried to subjugate the people of Nanman have always been destroyed. With their knowledge of their jungle home they can move through jungle trails that no one outside of Nanman can know. They have tame many of the wild animals of the jungle like the tigers which have become pets and war animals. Their most powerful war beast is the mumakil a creature of legend in the Eastern half of the continent. They're over one-hundred feet tall, with four huge tusks and two smaller ones to each side of its mouth. When charging into battle, they bellowed and screeched at great volume, and the advent of their coming was preceded by a thunderous din that shakes the very earth," Ms. Carin explains.
"And the Nanmans ride on their backs on great bamboo and canvas war harness," Decapre said her voice muffled under her mask. She's standing by the window that looks down the main road of the city as the castle is built on a hill.
"How did you know that?" Aprile ask knowing that Decapre has always been more interested in learning now fighting styles than studying back in school.
"Because there's a caravan of them outside the city limits," she said causing everyone to look out the window. In the distance they could make out huge animals walking outside the limits of the city. They must be mumakil as those animals look just like what Ms. Carin had described them as. (3)
"Looks like the Nanman party have arrived," Février said using her sharp eyes to make out people climbing down rope ladders.
"Which means the rest of the guest are going to get here soon," Juni said.
"Just in two days the engagement party will begin," Naruto spoke up.
"The airship carrying the Leaf ninjas should be landing by dusk," Juli said.
"Do you want us to make sure that they don't attend?" Xiayu ask him.
"Don't bother," Naruto said. "Leave them to me."
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Onboard the airship carrying the passengers from the Eastern Land –
Tsunade stood on the outside deck of the airship as it slowed down as it hovers over the city of Ironmount the capital of Metal. From her vantage point she could see everything part of the city and marvel how big it is compare to Konoha and all of the other cities she has been to in her aimless journey in the ninja lands of the East. She has never been to Metal before she had only met a couple of people from Metal before. And she was surprised when she saw how well built all of them are and that she with her figure wouldn't be uncommon in Metal.
"This is you're first time here?" Suraya Unata asked as she appears next to the taller woman her cape flapping in the wind.
"Yes it is," Tsunade responded. "What do you want?"
"Just been wondering about something that's all," Suraya said. "Tell me did Arashi defeat princess Kikko when she rips off all of his clothes?"
"Yes he made quite the impression on all of the women of the village when he flashed everyone who was watching his match against Kikko. After he knocked her out he realized that he was naked and giving everyone an eyeful. I must say that I had no idea how well equip he was," Tsunade giggles.
"Good to hear," Suraya said. "At least she married someone who didn't lack anything downstairs."
"You knew Kikko?" Tsunade ask.
"No but Setsuna my units leader knew her well. She was supposed to be Kikko's body double when she became queen. The two were very close as Setsuna had to know everything about Kikko's down to the very last detail. She has been watching over Naruto since we took him to his mother's homeland," Suraya said.
"Yes everyone in the village are now tripping over themselves as they learn who Naruto's mother family is," Tsunade said.
"Too bad that none of you of the Leaf Village lived up to what Naruto's father wish for you guys to treat his son," Suraya said.
"I wanted to take him away from the village but the 3rd Hokage wouldn't here anything about it. He wanted Naruto to grow up in the village that his father gave up his life for and that Kikko died to bring their son into the world for," Tsunade said.
"I see," Suraya said. "You might be telling the truth but the hate he has for you and for your people has run too deep. He won't be stratified until he has his revenge on the Leaf."
Tsunade held her tongue as she knows if she fights the engagement with Naruto for Hinata and Ayame would be called off, "Tell me one thing, that's been bothering me for awhile now. Why is it that Naruto's grandparents don't just decal war with the Leaf? With the village weaken state thanks to your two raids leaving most of the village ninjas in bad shape wouldn't it be easy to destroy now?" Tsunade has been wondering about that ever since she learned that Kikko was the lost princess of Metal.
"It's quite simple really," Suraya said smiling that was anything but warm. "When the village of the Leaf is burning to the ground the one that should lead the army that does it should be Prince Naruto. Once he reaches his eighteen birthday he will become the first King of Metal since the Delmo bloodline been introduce into the royal family. And on that day you and the rest of the Leaf ninjas as well as the villagers will all die by his hands…" (4)
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Author's Notes
1 – Does a Queendom change to a Kingdom once a male rule and vice-verse?
2 – Remember that I'm using the One Piece power range in how people can tell how strong someone is by where they live. With the East Blue being the weakest and the West or is that the North Blue the strongest. In the ninja world it works the same with the land with the ninja villages where the Naruto storyline takes place being the weakest and the lands to the West being stronger.
3 – Yes the mumakil's from the Lord of The Rings are the elephants of Nanman.
4 – That should answer those who been wondering about that.
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