Part 28

I'm not sorry about the delay

This'll be a long one

Few notes: Yes the plants mentioned exists,

Yes the animals mentioned exist

Yes they are poisonous/ venomous

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Part 28

When Naruto returned, Rue was out and about. So she was able to run and hug him. With him were a rather elderly looking man, and two women that looked relatively young.

"So Naruto, who's your lady friend?" The man asked looking at Rue in a creepy way. Naruto turned and gave him a scary look.

"My sister, Rue. Keep your filthy mitts away from her." Naruto told him fiercely. Rue looked between Naruto and the man. Then it clicked and she gasped loudly.

"Ah! So you're the Pervy Sage Naruto mentioned!" She declared, making Naruto and the women laugh.

"Aw, not you too! I'm the Legendary Toad Sage and one of Konohagakure's Sannin, Jiraiya!" He declared. Rue made a face at him.

"That's a serious mouthful though. No one will pick that over something simple like Pervy Sage. Also total side note, when did I become you're sister Naruto?" Rue said. Jiraya looked at her stunned. Naruto ignored her question and turned her to face the two women.

"And ignoring the pervert. This is Granny Tsunade and her, well I'm not sure about their relationship, but this is Miss Shizune." Naruto introduced, pointing to as angry looking blond and a black hair'd woman that appeared slightly older than Rue.

Rue scowled and smacked Naruto lightly. Then she bowed slightly to Tsunade and smiled.

"I'm sorry about him. I thought my parents taught him manners." She said.

"Oh I like her." Tsunade chuckled.

Rue smiled

"Well it was nice to meet you." Rue told them and she left them to do something else.

After walking around a little, Rue stopped. She realized she had no idea what she'd wanted to do. So she went to the apartment she shared with Naruto and sat at the table.

While Naruto was gone, Rue'd really added her own personal touch to the place. In front of her on the table was a mortar and pestle.

A couple days ago she'd begun to make poisonous mixtures again. Her mother's recipe book sat open by the mortar and pestle. Placed around the book were vials and pouches of plant parts and natural venoms. As well as a couple empty vials.

Rue currently had water hemlock root and doll's eye berries crushed together in the device. She was thinking it needed something to give it a real kick. Rue was experimenting on making one of her mother recipes much more deadly.

Looking at what she had at her disposal she nodded thoughtfully and smiled. Grabbing a pouch, Rue added a couple moonseed berries. Putting the pouch down she picked up the device and ground it all together. It looked like a disgusting ointment.

Putting her mortar and pestle down, Rue eyed it. It still needed something. She looked at the vials of venoms. Snakes, scorpions, spiders, lizards and aquatic animals produced venom. Katya had collected it to use for adding to their poisonous substances. Rue examined the vials and picked up death adder snake venom as well as yellow scorpion venom.

Death Adder snake venom contains potent neurotoxins which causes paralysis. It also keeps blood from clotting. As well as it possibly causing muscle damage.

Yellow Scorpion or the Death Stalker scorpion venom also contains neurotoxins. It's also got some cardiotoxicity which leads to circulatory and respiratory failure.

Rue added six drops of each into the mixture and put the vials down, resealing them. Then she slowly combined the venoms and the substance she'd made.

When it was thoroughly combined she moved the mixture into a thin cloth. Fastening it she set it in a bowl and set it aside. Now that her poison was nearly done, Rue closed her mother's book and put everything away. Well except the mortar and pestle. That she took to the sink and washed thoroughly.

Rue kept her poison making supplies in a wooden box that Katya had engraved with strange symbols. When Rue was younger the symbols captivated her. As she aged it became a mild fascination.

Swirls with stars and triangles. Wings with circles. Crescents with snowflakes and flowers. It was intricately done. Which brought a smile to Rue's face.

"Now that's what I like to see!"

Rue turned and looked at Naruto. He was smiling cheerfully while putting his bag down.

"Don't touch that bowl. Its contents will kill you." She told him sternly.

"You got it." He nodded.

"So, what's up with Tsunade?"

"She's the fifth hokage."

"Oh... interesting."

She nodded slowly. It certainly was interesting. She kind of reminded Rue of her granny Kin. Though that thought agitated Rue a little. Kin was not Rue's favorite relative. Not that she'd actually met many of her family.

"Is that a bad thing?" Naruto asked chuckling.

"No. I'm just confused. You don't seem bothered about it."

"She's proven to me that she's good for the job." He said shrugging.

As he spoke, someone came to the door and stared at Naruto with a glare. Rue looked past him and smiled.

"Hello. Miss Shizune. What brings you here?" She asked.

Naruto turned and one look at her glare had him cowering in fear.

"You! You need to get examined by a medical professional! You were seriously injured!" She snarled at him.

"Naruto! Go get checked out!" Rue shouted sternly.

Naruto slumped over and Shizune dragged him away. Rue waved and tucked her box of poison supplies back into a bag of her belongings.

Looking out the window, Rue noted the location of the sun in the sky. It'd be night soon and then she could do what she'd been waiting nearly a month to do. Tonight would be a full moon and she had an idea.

Pulling at coat on, she went outside. She looked around smiling. See one of the people she wanted to talk too, she marched up to him.

"Hey! Wanna do something tonight." She asked Neji cheerfully.

"What's going on tonight?" He asked skeptically.

"You'll have to come to find out." Rue winked playfully as she told him.

"Okay then." He nodded. Rue smiled and turned away from him.

"I'll be at the lake, when the moon is in the middle of the sky." She informed him, before taking off.

She did the exact same thing to a few other people. Then she went back to Naruto's apartment and got several white candles and small wooden bowls out of one of her bags.

Looking out the window again she grinned. The moon was beginning to rise.

Going to her bowl, she looked into it. Liquids gathered under the thin pouched mixture. Smiling, Rue ran to her things and got out a vial with a blank label and a cork as well as a funnel. Carefully she returned to the bowl.

Uncorking the vial, Rue placed the funnel in the opening and poured the liquids into the vial, sealed it and labeled it 'Bunny Kisses' before disposing of the gunky pouch. Then she placed the vial into the bag of her weapons.

After washing the funnel and bowl she gathered her candles, bowls and matches.

Tucking the items into a small back pack, she ran to the lake. The moon made its ascent slowly.

She placed the candles into the bowls and lit them. Then she places the bowls into the water and nudged them to go further out.

Naruto was the first to arrive.

"Hey!"

"Hey… So what are we doing?"

"Relaxing. Why?"

"Just seems like some kind of weird ritual."

Rue laughed and shrugged. She'd invited Naruto, Neji, Hinata, Shikamaru, Kiba and Akamaru, Ino, Sakura and Choji. Only Naruto, Neji, Hinata, Neji, Kiba and Akamaru actually came though. Not that it bothered her.

They sat, watched the candles and talked. Naruto and Kiba wanted to spar. But Rue told them no quite sternly.