Reviewers;

BlazingTorch: Oh...you make it sound a little dirty...keep that for the bedroom experience. I won't write those things here. And come on! I had to. I think most people can Infer what they did.

St3rfire: But can good magic defeat bad, or is it instead the passion and dedication behind using ones magic as a tool to accomplish one's goals, hmm?

Czar Joseph: Yes...Yes it does.

AN: Hey everyone, sorry for the delay, but school is about to start so it might be a little hectic where I am on posting but I will do my best to post as on time as I can.

Fire & Ice

Arc 3:Trust

Chapter 41: Welcome to the Haruno Isles

The deep salty taste in the sea air billowed around the inside of the captain's cabin, and inside that cabin was an ornate desk, sea charts, a nice sword rack full of weapons, and a nice small queen sized bed made of gentle furs on the ground. And within these furs lay a woman of twenty years old, her rosy colored hair billowed around the white animal skin that covered her nude form from her toes to her neck.

Sakura's eyes slowly opened and her emerald orbs looked around the small area set out as a bed, and grimaced at the lack of another nude body next to hers. Her lover knew how much she liked to snuggle as they fell asleep and knew how she loved to wake up and stare at his sleeping face. Maybe he just wanted to let her rest and recuperate her magic some more. Even after the last few days, she was still not quite at one hundred percent...maybe she never would be.

Sakura sat up, holding the warm white tiger fur close to her chest as she looked around and felt her magic that was attached to Naruto's body above her and figured that he was steering the ship. She smiled at the fact that she felt better than she had in months, and after three days at sea, she knew that it was thanks to Naruto being at her side.

Sakura pulled the furs off, loving how warm the room was when it was probably rather cold for Naruto. She really had to add some warmer magic to him so that he got used to the atmosphere around her, and she smirked at his trying to hide his shivering from her. Sakura looked out the back windows of the captain's view and was glad that they were the last ship in the line, because if not, then sailors might see her body and she would feel exposed and terrible for betraying Naruto in such a way.

It was weird, Sakura thought as she moved towards the desk, pulling her clothes off of the chair and back onto her body before moving the armband or maybe a gauntlet back onto her hand. The fabric for the gauntlet could physically be taken off, but the seal still worked in its original way. And yet, after these past days, Naruto had cleared up the heavy waves of 'arousal' Sakura felt and the constant permissions to leave his side were much smaller now. But with even those, Sakura felt like her powers were once again, under control.

As Sakura put on her fur boots and walked out of the cabin, she thought back to the last year. In fighting with Sasuke's new powers, she had used her powers heavily every part of every day, and her arm had suffered for it, but she had to increase her soldier's numbers greatly to keep up with the constant attacks, but now, after three days, she felt the same as when she was with Naruto a year ago, and her frozen fingers were much nimbler and much more bearable than they had been a week ago.

Sakura took in a breath of fresh sea air as she looked ahead to see the Haruno Isles approaching them fast, and looked around to see that her soldiers were resting in the cargo hold below deck, and the wolves were lounging on the wood of the deck itself. Then Sakura turned the corner and walked up the wooden stairs and saw her lover, standing there proudly guiding them forward, following the line of ships perfectly.

"I thought you had left me last night after our lovemaking." Sakura chided as she hugged Naruto had took a chance to hug her back before caressing her cheek and kissed her briefly on the lips as one hand remained on the wheel, trying to guide Sakura closer to him while he tried to guide two things at once.

"You were out like a candlelight after our night's activities." Naruto joked as Sakura smiled. Of course she was tired beyond reproach. Naruto just kept pleasing her below and her breasts and ass and maidenhood were sore all over as well as her cheekbones from smiling so much. "Anyways, I figured that your men could use a night off to rest. They need to keep you safe, and they need to be prepared for that."

"Agreed, but any sign of the fireships?" Sakura asked as Naruto pointed behind him and Sakura turned her head to see five or six plumes of smoke in a soft arc behind them. "They are keeping their distance, but we'll be safe after we get through this reef. You are sure that this is the way?"

"Yes, I came here as a child with my parents when I was six, and the reef is like a zigzag of a spiral around the Isle itself, and then we just have to go through the Cavern Gates, which are only opened if you are a friend."

"Well, then let's hope they find us friendly."

"Agreed. We are almost through anyways." Sakura spoke before an aftershock of wind pulsed from behind them and one plume of smoke began to fizzle and die. "Looks like they started to make their way through."

"Good luck to them." Naruto smiled as they continued their present course. As they sailed around the Isle itself, there was no beachhead for refuge at all along the coastline of the small island, but Sakura explained how the Haruno family, when they were once sea-faring Lords and Ladies, had used these isles as their home before they moved on to Port Haruno indefinitely leaving the Isle in the hands of a family member.

Naruto smiled and commented on how Sakura's ancestors favored places which were highly defensible, and Sakura smiled back, reminding him that her powers were best at defensive things. Naruto chuckled and made Sakura remember the ice swords when she had fought Kakashi and Sakura shrugged at that snide comment. But as they turned another corner of the island, two more explosions pulsed behind them and they figured that the fire ships wouldn't worry about chasing them anymore.

And that was when they both saw it…the Cavern Gates themselves, huge metallic and bulky doors hidden somewhat and sunken into the entrance of a huge cave entrance filled with water. As the four ships curled their sails up and wrapped them tight, they all settled in a soft line before the gates, and soon the huge gates shuttered and the sounds of huge metallic bolts slid out of their sockets.

After a few minutes of these sounds, the gates were pulled into the huge cave, but the ships saw only blackness, as darkness inside the cavern surrounded the entrance and only a small yellow light at the end of the watery tunnel served to guide the way.

"Sakura…" Naruto motioned and Sakura smiled as she sent her fire into a small golden ball and cast it ahead of them, before the ships followed, the tide bringing them inside the cavern. The cavern was even bigger after the doors it seemed as the ball of light went higher and higher, until it showed the ceiling almost a hundred feet up and there was enough space across for ten ships.

The men and Naruto felt small and enlightened that such a place existed as they had never been here besides Sakura, the sailors of the first ship, and Kakashi himself when he came with Itachi to the meetings of the great nobles once every ten years. And as the ships pulled forward, the men felt more humbled at the sight. And then the light at the end of the tunnel began to expand, and began to fill the vision of everyone before the light shined into the cavern brightly, casting a sudden sheen into everyone but Sakura's magic coated eyes and they blinked out this sudden brightness before looking past the light and saw what lay before them.

"It's good to be back. It's more than I remembered." Sakura whispered to her lover as before them was a massive harbor as big as Port Haruno itself, and all along the edges were beaches and buildings and further inland the land rose up slowly, as if there was an interior land mass and the cliffs hid everything from view. Sakura and Naruto looked ahead though, at the sight of the city before them, in which half of it was standing on the water itself, as the castle and majestic walls stood out proudly along the gentle slope of the far hill.(Imagine World's End Partially for the beginning of the city) Against its back was a sheer cliff face, and their sides fell away to show retractable bridges leading to what seemed to be dirt roads from the grasslands that moved along the far cliff side.

"Sakura, is there a village here?" Naruto asked as surely people had to live here to maintain everything.

"Yes, and everything that one could ever need. Animals, wood, mining, and fresh water as well. My parents supposed that this used to be one giant volcano, but that once the tunnel sent the hot liquid fire out, that it created an isolated paradise. Those two roads go into the center of the Isle itself, and only through the castle can you really leave these beaches."

"So this harbor is yet another defense in a way?"

"Precisely, though if you decide to stay here, that's where you live. All of these buildings on the water serve as docks for if there was ever an invasion for the various fleets of the Grand Alliance. There's enough grain stored here for ten years, and that's before you take in the natural farmlands of the Haruno Isles. And so, unless you attack this place for probably fifteen years, ten perhaps you might win."

"I can see why the Alliance set up their meetings here." Naruto smiled. "You can control everyone who enters the city."

"Indeed, but there is someone who rules here." Sakura spoke before she smiled gently. "A very nice someone who was always like a grandmother to me. Senju Tsunade."

"Tsunade? You mean the last of her royalty line?"

"Yes…she always took care of me when I was really little and when you went off to train. She is someone that you can never be mad at for long."

"Hmm…sounds like you." Naruto spoke and Sakura blushed, deciding to not mention that she had inherited Tsunade's short temper and anger. It was as Sakura looked back that the ships arrived at one of the wooden docks that were closer to the land than the others and sailors threw their lines of rope to the dock hands below them, who secured them to the wooden and stone pillars that led deep into the harbor.

Soon, gangplanks were rushed up to the top deck and then lowered at a nice angle to the docks below, and Naruto took a step forward, before Sakura wrapped her hand through his looped arm and they moved down their ship, followed by the five guards who moved behind them. It was pretty normal, Naruto thought, as they moved through the dock hands. Sakura's creations looked so similar to real people that no one was regarding them with suspicion. Sakura really could do anything, couldn't she?

The other white wooded ships had docked ahead of them on the docks and so Naruto and Sakura with their vanguard walked forward, the other three soldiers moving into line, as the packs of wolves stayed on the last ship as the eagles soared overhead. The group arrived with Kakashi and they began to walk towards the last ship itself, the sailors locking the ships down and began to restock them as needed, as some bragged about their new ships and sails to the workers around them.

The group moved onto the land, but were soon walking along a thin road that was surrounded by small rivers on either side, and then they moved up the winding paths to arrive at the main gatehouse of the castle itself. Naruto watched as metallic chains were released in a controlled manner and the wooden bridge was lowered so that they could cross. And before long, they were inside the courtyard of the Isle, the name for the castle itself.

The grand doors began to open from the other side of the enormous courtyard, easily able to stand 10,000 soldiers with spacing for more, but as the person began to walk out of the castle, surrounded by guards in deep green and black female armor, her bust bulging out of it generously, Sakura's eyes widened at the smile on the old woman's face.

"S-Shisou?" Sakura uttered as tears raced into her eyes.

The old woman smiled, though Naruto would swear that the woman looked to be only thirty five or so until he caught the subtle purple diamond mark on her forehead. It was an aging seal, and Naruto would want to remember that seal for Sakura when he that she eventually asked for it and maybe for himself as well, but not in such an obvious place. The woman continued to walk forward, and Sakura's eyes teamed with tears.

"Sakura, I am glad to see you unharmed."

"I-It's really you?"

"Come and hug your godmother, Sakura." The woman opened her arms, and before the guards could even blink, Sakura had left Naruto's side and had run forward, before she locked her arms tightly around the upper back of her mentor and godmother.

"Oh Shisou! I missed you!" Sakura cried like a child as Tsunade held the blubbering captive in her arms, as her royal guards looked uneasy. Tsunade though frowned at them and glared.

"She's fine all of you! Stop being so weary of my goddaughter! If she wanted you all dead, she would have already destroyed you and your families!"

"S-Shishou, I wanted to see you again, I did! Honestly! But then everything happened and I-"

"Hush, child. You're here with me now. That's all that matters."

"But I-"

"Hush, I said. I'm just glad to see you have put your powers to good use. Your mother always worried about you hurting yourself emotionally while your father worried physically. Geez, and you could heal yourself too and he still worried."

"W-Wait!" Sakura paused in her wallows of pity, Naruto and Kakashi moving closer to them as she looked up through the huge valley of the royal's breasts. "Y-You knew about my magic?!"

"Of course I knew, my dear! Who did you think your magical books came from?"

"...You sent them? My mother said that they were gifts- oh…"

"I knew you would do something truly extraordinary, and you have. I assume you are here because you want to be."

"H-hai. Oh! N-Naru~!" Sakura called out and reached back to pull Naruto forward, before she latched onto his arm once more. "Naruto, this is my Godmother, and Lady Regent of the Haruno Isles, Tsunade Senju. Shisou, this is Naruto Namikaze, my lover-um, love interest."

"Oh Sakura," Tsunade shook her head dismissively. "Did you think that I wouldn't recognize his name from all the letters your mother sent me?"

"Well…"

"Or how you talk so much about him the last time you were here?"

"Um-weellll…"

Naruto coughed as the older woman snorted a bit and whispered to Sakura. "You talked about me when you were ten?"

"Hey! I fell hard for you, okay?" Sakura blushed before Naruto leaned in and kissed Sakura's cheek.

"I know, as did I." Naruto spoke and Sakura grew flustered with a smile before her eyes widened in alarm towards her godmother who smiled at her.

"Sakura, you don't have to worry about the royal marriage laws here, or anywhere. You were declared dead after all. I shed a great many tears from that letter. I am still saddened that I was too sick to come for your coronation."

"It wasn't much fun for a coronation." Sakura grimaced but smiled still.

"Now then, shall we head to the Alliance grand hall? Everyone has been gathered just now as your ships came into the harbor."

Sakura nodded and they all began to move forward into the castle itself. Sakura sniffled at the fond memories that she had completely forgotten about from her childhood. Naruto looked around as well, but had a quick question to ask. "How did you know we were coming today?"

"Oh, Naruto-San, when one must travel within the reef, the people here have adequate time to prepare. We saw you arriving this morning and so while this meeting is to decide Sakura's ultimate fate, I'm sure Sakura, that you can bring up your own points on the matters at hand."

"I just want to help, Shisou and for that I need the Alliance."

"Ah…" Tsunade smiled and stopped in a hall as they reached the entryway to the grand hall for trial and big decisions. "My Sakura always wanted to help, didn't you, Sakura-Chan? My little helper."

"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked, looking at Sakura who blushed bright red before she gasped as Tsunade pulled out a picture on paper from her bust.

"S-Shisou not-"

"This is what I mean." Tsunade spoke fondly as Naruto held the photo as he and Kakashi shared a laugh. In the picture was the princess, age six, her pink hair short and wavy, and in her hands was a bowl as big as herself, and she smiled at the seal camera as huge splotches of cookie dough was layered all over her arms, face and hair.

"T-This is…soo cute, Saku!" Naruto exploded and cracked up, before he held his head as Sakura's fist crashed down on top of him. "OWWW!"

"Hmmp…"

"Still have my anger I see…"

"S-Shisou…I'm so glad you're here for me."

"I am too." The royal female regent spoke as the council doors opened and a soldier beckoned to Tsunade. Tsunade nodded and motioned for the two to sit on the bench while she talked with the council of the alliance. But as Tsunade reached the doors, she turned back to Sakura and smiled. "You know Sakura, I am glad that you have mastered your magic…your creations are flawless…"

Tsunade smiled and bent her head slightly to Sakura's soldiers before ducking inside, as Naruto took Sakura's gaping mouth and moved it with her head to his shoulder, to rest before the hard part began.

AN1: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was the Inspiration for the Unique City water Structure.