Author's Note

Holy shit, Happy New Year. Where the hell have I been? Mainly sleeping. Need to get on a better sleep schedule as mine is beginning to fuck up. But not only that, I've had to rewrite this chapter several times. Like, one a day since my last chapter. Some parts just didn't seem good when I re-read them, and others just seemed forced in. But now, it's finished, and I'm very pleased with the result compared to all the other versions I had written for sure.

Gui Hawk: I have to thank you for letting me know that. I was worried for a bit, but after you sent that, I've turned this little threat into me simply expanding my audience. Kudos to you!

TheLastNanaya: I may have overreacted a bit on what happened, those extra author's notes just my own way of damage control, or something. I know people find it a bit annoying but I'll try to do things in a more civil and subtle matter.

Kurogano Yokaze: It was a weird and possibly a horrible decision to purposely make things so anti-climactic, but I wanted to get back to smut after, what, four chapters of nothing? Well, two or three, but who finds sex in a prison sexy? Not that there's anything inherently wrong with it, I just don't find it sexy. Too many horror games that take place in prisons I bet.

Warning! This story will contain language, sexual situations, and possibly fetishes that some people may feel uncomfortable with. If you are easily offended or disturbed, don't complain, you've been warned.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Chapter 49: Homecoming, Take Two

Two days later would find Yoichi waking up in a very similar way to the same way he had just a week prior. In the Konoha hospital. Biggest differences were how he was alone and the sun was out. Sitting up and rubbing his head, trying to nurse the aching, he pushed the blankets off of him and moved his body to sit on the edge.

"I wonder if I can get some sort of punch card for a free visit here…" He muttered as he felt his body start working once again. "Now that I think of it, isn't every visit free as a ninja? Do I have some sort of life insurance that covers it? I don't think I've paid a penny for any treatment." He continued to himself, just as the door open.

"You're awake. Don't try to get up, your body is really weak right now. You need to rest some more." Sakura said as she saw him from taking a moment to check on him, walking over to him after closing the door.

"Make me." He said, trying to force himself up onto his feet but not finding the strength to. His challenge was answered as she simply pushed him back down onto the cot, making him groan in annoyance.

"I'll be right back, I need to write down that you're awake. Lady Tsunade got onto me last time when I didn't." She said before leaving, Yoichi sighing as he just climbed underneath the covers and sat up, looking out the window over the village. A few moments later, the door opened once again, Yoichi turning his head just in time to be tackled by an orange and blonde blur.

"Yoichi! You're okay!" A tearful Naruko said as she held tightly onto him. He was caught off guard for a second before he wrapped his arms back around her.

"Sorry about all that. I kinda lost myself for a bit. But don't worry, I'm back." He said, Naruko letting out a few tears of joy just as Sakura returned with Jiraiya right behind her.

"She told me she was going to visit you after training today, so I followed along behind her. When we ran into Sakura less than a minute ago, she sped off as soon as she was told you were awake." The sage said, Sakura lightly hitting her on the head.

"I know you missed him, but he needs rest right now." Sakura scolded, making Naruko whimper and pull back, wiping her cheeks, Yoichi not being able to help but let out a laugh.

"Alright, let go ahead and get this out of the way. What'd I miss?" He asked, mainly to Jiraiya and Sakura to tell him what happened after he passed out.

"To start off, you've been asleep for the past two days. Whatever you did turned your chakra into senjutsu chakra by rapidly absorbing natural energy around you. However, the strain seemed to force you to burn through your reserves quickly. As impressive as it was, it was also stupid to attempt something new right then." Yoichi shrugged.

"Hey, it worked, didn't it? Besides, I didn't know what was going to happen."

"After you passed out, we had to do a bit of damage control in the prison by rounding up the prisoners who attempted to escape and take out Mui to get rid of the seals on them while also patching up a few areas of the castle that was destroyed. Thankfully we were able to keep things to a minimum while we were on the defensive. We couldn't do anything to the box, so it was sealed away from now with Mui now watching over it. He buried his son outside the castle walls that Ryuzetsu girl tying his old scarf to his grave." Yoichi nodded, letting out a small sigh. Wish he could have said goodbye to her at least.

"Speaking of her, she came with us to make sure you were alright, and she might be thinking of becoming a shinobi here." Yoichi blinked.

"Wait, what? Why?" He asked, just as someone walked in.

"Even though I was in the prison to infiltrate it, I'm still technically a criminal officially. Can't just return without other shinobi attempting to kill me since they don't know the full story. So, I'm hiding out here until things get sorted." Ryuzetsu said as she walked over.

"But Lady Tsunade was the one to offer for her to stay. Not only is she a prodigy, but her clan's Life Transference technique makes her naturally gifted in medical ninjutsu. So, she's being offered to be taught in exchange for becoming a shinobi here." Sakura followed up with, making the white-haired girl sigh.

"As honored as I am for the offer, I still have my own village to think about. I'll have to think things over a bit." She finished, Yoichi nodding.

"I completely understand. I'm just glad I get to see you a bit longer." He said, making her blush and turned away, just as an explosion went off, making the ground rumble. The way the others weren't phased at all gave him an idea of what it was.

"Let me guess, Akatsuki still here?" They all nodded, even Ryuzetsu who had been told about them earlier. He sighed, swinging his legs over to stand up. "I think it might be good to check on how things are going. And see the others, of course." He said, standing up with a bit of difficulty.

"I told you, you need to rest. The senjutsu chakra really wore out your body." Sakura said, trying to get him back into the bed, but he shook his head.

"I'll be fine, I just need to take it easy. Besides, resting in the hospital is a pain. I'd rather rest at home." He said, Sakura about to argue but a glance at Naruko's pleading face to let him head back home made her relent. With a bit of help from Sakura and Naruko, he made his way out and was taken back home, Ryuzetsu joining them as Jiraiya left to report to Tsunade.

The first stop was to check on how things were going with the construction. Whatever Yoichi expected, it certainly wasn't what he saw.

"Why hasn't there been any progress?" He asked as he stared at a fairly large crater in the place of what was supposed to be the building meant for the summit. Ino and Konan soon appeared when they saw him, having been helping keeping an eye on the Akatsuki.

"Don't worry, this is progress! The house was finished after just four days, and now we've been taking time to get options of how we think it should look like on the outside." Ino said, giving him a hug. "Glad to have you back, Yoichi." She added, kissing his cheek. As she spoke, the crater rose up to level the ground, before people began to start building again.

"It's very nice to see you again." Konan said with a smile before motioning to the area. "Doing thing this way gives Deidara things to blow up as well." Yoichi smiled back at them before his expression became a bit worried.

"But, what about the shockwaves from the explosions? What about the wasted materials? Why build an entire structure instead of just making, like, a paper model or something?" That's when another voice decided to speak up.

"No need to worry about that. Everything's under control." A male with red hair said, Yoichi looking to him. He almost looked like he woke up, his crimson robe and sandals able to pass off easily as someone just out to get the newspaper. But the tell-tale sign of who he was came from his visible left eye that wasn't hidden behind his hair.

"You must be Nagato. A pleasure to meet you in person, though I apologize I wasn't here when you arrived. I've had a lot of unexpected business occur." He said with an apologetic smile.

"It's a pleasure to meet you as well. The renovations you requested on your home were finished a few days ago. While I was a bit suspicious on how specific and detailed some parts were, Konan assured me that this was for the enjoyment of the others over your own. You are very considerate for your age. I hope you find things to your liking." Yoichi blinked, opening his mouth to tell him he hadn't had any requests of his own, Ino made a subtle motion to Sakura, cause her to step on his foot hard, making him cry out in pain.

"I told you, you needed your rest!" The pinkette scolded before giving the rinnegan-wielder an apologetic smile. "He still needs to recover from the other day. We'll show him what you've done and get him off his feet for a while." She said sweetly, Nagato pausing before nodding.

"I see. We can talk more once you've recovered." He responded, Yoichi not getting a chance to reply before Sakura and Naruko led him away, Ryuzetsu as well as Ino now following close behind. As they walked off, Nagato glanced to Konan.

"None of those renovations were his request, were they?" He asked, Konan shrugging.

"He did want a study. But I guess you can't call yourself an omnipotent god anymore for sure, right?" She said as she turned back to keep an eye on the construction, Nagato letting out a heavy sigh.

As for the renovations themselves, there wasn't too many. Instead of fourteen rooms on one floor, two had been removed to make way for a stair case that led to an additional sixteen rooms, bringing the total to 28. Not that it was expected to have them all used, but one would never know when they might have guests such as Ryuzetsu who had been invited to stay there since she didn't really have any money for a hotel, coming straight from a prison after all, who also excused herself to take care of something.

Where there once was a simple exit to the outside, there was now a study similar in appearance to the one in Yoichi's old house, albeit larger. The girls had also taken the time to organize it as well into three sections: Historical information and political documents, jutsu and techniques, and the last and by far the largest section, porn.

"I'm… not so sure most of these are mine. Better yet, how would anyone find so many of these books?" He asked as he looked over the section that spanned across several book shelves.

"You and Temari aren't the only ones who read, you know. While you were gone, we had to have something a bit more than just our imaginations." Ino replied. He couldn't really argue with that, but… this many? Before he could ask any more questions, he was dragged off to the last, and biggest, change to the house.

The small hallway that once led to their indoor bathhouse instead led to their new bathhouse/ personal hot springs. It was in total about twice the size of the previous bathhouse. There was a dry area for clothes and towels, a bigger enclosed sauna, a large pool of hot water, and to the far left after entering were about five open shower areas. But the most questioning thing was the sliding glass door between the dry area and showers. Until he got a closer look, that is.

"Why is there a door that leads directly to my room?" He questioned, his stomach growling afterwards. He hadn't eaten in the past few days after all.

"For all the reasons you can think of. The others should be back from shopping soon for lunch." Ino said, leading the way back to the main room, the others following behind her, Yoichi letting out a sigh at the word 'shopping' while also feeling glad that he would be able to see the others again.

As Ino predicted, not long after they began to wait in the main room, Ryuzetsu meeting them as they were walking back, the others returned, including Konan so she could eat as well. The reactions were mainly as Yoichi would have expected. Hinata, Kin, and Temari each gave him and hug and a kiss, Satsuki gave him a smile and a nod which was the closest thing she was willing to do on her own in front of others, and Tayuya yelled at him. It was like things were back to normal already.

"Alright, now, I've missed a good amount thanks to previous events, but I'm back and not planning on leaving any time soon. So, mind catching me up on how things are going and what I might need to do?" He asked as they finished p lunch, looking around, sat on his usual couch with Tayuya on one side of him, Ino on the other, Naruko at his feet. Sakura had left as soon as she finished, having been gone long enough from the hospital.

"Temari, Konan, and I are still making adjustments to the final design of the building which should take about four days. Kin said she's got food handled, and Ino is waiting to hear back on her clothes. Tayuya was out on the mission with you, o she hasn't done much, but she joined Naruko and Satsuki in watching over the Akatsuki yesterday." Hinata replied, summarizing things up fairly quickly.

"What she means to say is we watched while the bimbo slept the whole time." Satsuki added, much to Naruko's annoyance who puffed up her cheeks as she glared at her. Before she could retort, Hinata would quickly speak up again to continue things on.

"We've already planned out parts for the interior as according to the 'recommendations' list, and in total everything should be mostly finished in about seventeen days, on the 28th. Since most of it is just waiting at this point, there's not much you can help with now." She finished, Yoichi nodding as he sat back, running one hand gently up and down Ino's back, much to her delight.

"Business as usual for me, then. At least I've got you all to help keep me company." He said, immediately noticing how they all have him a blank look.

"Not so much anymore. We've got jobs and other duties to take care of. I've taken more hours to work at the flower shop so I wasn't sitting around all day." Temari said, the others going one by one to voice their own reasons. Naruko and Satsuki were going to be training more with Sakura and Kakashi as a team, with Tayuya almost being forced to be part of a new team and they needed to find ways to work together.

Kin's part-time job at the ramen stand had become more of a full time job after it picked up enough money that it was being turned into a restaurant that was to be opened after the summit, but she had to put in extra time to make up for the owner not being there as he worked on the restaurant. While Konan had visited that origami shop Yoichi had mentioned, getting a job to help out as the woman who ran it was having a bit of trouble by herself. Hinata and Ino were going to do their own bit of training since all of them were now allowed to leave Konoha, Yoichi almost having forgotten that even though he was told that before he was sent to Hozuki Castle.

"Oh, speaking of which," Ino piped up as she sat up to move away from his hand before she got too comfortable, "Kurenai-sensei and Anko need to see how you've improved themselves. You'd probably have a good chance if you saw them tomorrow to let them know you were free." Yoichi sighed and nodded as he slumped back a bit.

"I see… So, what's the plan for the rest of the day?" He asked, most of the girls looking for the time.

"We should get back outside for the construction." Konan said as she stood up. Ino, Temari, Naruko, Satsuki, and Tayuya all nodded and got up as well.

"I need to double check everything to make sure I've got everything I need for the next few weeks." Kin added, getting up as well and heading to the kitchen. Yoichi stood up to go with them, but was immediately pushed back onto the couch.

"Oh no, you're staying the fuck in here. You've still got to make sure you've recovered, and we're not taking any chance of you ending up in the hospital a third fucking time in two weeks." Tayuya said, Yoichi groaning in annoyance.

"But I feel fine now! Besides, if you're all leaving, who's going to make sure I stay put anyways?" He asks, completely forgetting about the use of Shadow Clones. As chance would have it, another answer would be given.

"I'll keep an eye on him." Ryuzetsu said, appearing almost out of nowhere. Yoichi had almost forgotten she was there from how quiet she had been.

"See? Everything's fine." Ino said before she and the others left, leaving Yoichi and Ryuzetsu alone. There was a brief moment of silence before he finally spoke up.

"So, want to do anyth-" He was cut off suddenly by the white haired girl cupping his cheeks and leaning down, pressing her lips against his. The suddenness took him off guard for a moment before his body seemed to move instinctively, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her into his lap, his eyes closing as he kissed her back until she broke the kiss.

"Not that I'm complaining, but where did that come from?" He asked, making her shrug.

"Consider this your reward from me for everything you did at Hozuki Castle." She stated, making him blink.

"But, all I really did was open the box that I wasn't supposed to do, then punch the demon out of your best friend after kicked my cousin back to Kiri." He said, Ryuzetsu rolling her eyes and standing up.

"Would you rather talk, or would you rather fuck?" She asked, placing her hands on her hips. He blinked again.

"Well, I would rather do the latter, but I'm just confused on why you're acting like this." He explained. Letting out an exasperated sigh, she grabbed him by the arm and yanked him up onto his feet before almost dragging him to his room.

"Does that really matter? Is it so wrong that I want to figure out what about you keeps those girls happy without worrying about competing for you or something?" She asked, finishing just as they got into his room. Walking over to the sliding door, she pulled a privacy curtain over it after locking it in case any of the others came back, her hands beginning to undress herself, but Yoichi's hands on top of hers as he embraced her from behind stopped her.

"It matters because this isn't like the Ryuzetsu I met. Just take a moment and breathe, and then tell me what's on your mind?" He felt her emotions were a bit out of control the moment her lips met his earlier. She tensed up for a moment as if about to fight him off, but she quickly relaxed and let out a small sigh.

"My mission is over. The mission I've spent ten years of my life working for is done, and now I feel… empty. I'm glad I got to help Muku move on, but what about me? I don't have any friends or family waiting for me back home. I don't need a pardon to return to Kusa, but I'm not expected to return either. This was a suicide mission. I was to do whatever it took to destroy the box. Since it's still there, I can't return at all. I lied so that I could have an excuse to come to Konoha with you." She said, hanging her head. Yoichi gently let go of her hands and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her back against him.

"Why with me specifically?" He asked softly. She didn't want to just spill everything out to him, but she couldn't help herself as she answered.

"You're the only one I feel I can trust for sure after what you've done to help me and what you've told me. I no longer have a goal or a purpose. I didn't know what to do, I felt so lost. But now… now… now it all feels so… right…" She said as she calmed down, feeling a warm, soothing feeling wash over her, her eyes closing as she leaned back against Yoichi.

"It's alright, everything will be fine. I just wanted to know what was bothering you. Just take a moment to relax and breathe." He said softly into her ear, guiding her over to the bed, laying down and positioning her beside him, both on their sides and facing each other, Yoichi gently stroking her hair.

"You're not mad at me for lying, are you?" She asked after a few moments, looking at him as if pleading to forgive her.

"Not at all. I understand what it's like to be lost. Besides, you helped me find my way, so it's only natural I try and do the same." She gave him a confused look that showed her question a bit too obviously. "Remember that night in the cave, and you told me to listen to my heart? I did just as you suggested. While I still want to help the others be happy, I realized that I had a few desires of my own that I feel would balance things out." He said as he cupped her cheek, leaning in and kissing her.

Out of the kisses between them so far, this one was certainly the longest and deepest, Ryuzetsu closing her eyes as she wrapped her arms around his neck to deepen it further. Feeling his hands on her rear, she couldn't help pressing back into his touch, not even noticing as he began to slowly remove her clothes. Even if she did notice, she wouldn't have minded either. It wasn't until he rolled on top of her, moving her onto her back beneath him, making her gasp and break the kiss as she felt his bare body on top of hers, something thick and hard pressing against her thigh.

Yoichi couldn't help but admire her body for a moment, feeling her smooth yet tough skin against his, one of the few signs of a kunoichi. Her barely C-cup chest pressing against him, her nipples quickly growing fully erect from her own arousal. It must have been a pain to have those bound in the prison since a good look at her before had shown hints of a chest just barely sticking out. She probably had some sort of help when going through the body-search to make sure she wasn't discovered immediately. Or did she sneak into the prison? He hadn't really asked, but both seemed plausible.

"Just for an example, if being with me makes you happy, then to also tend to my own happiness, I'll take things a bit further… and make you mine." He said, the last four words a low, hot, seductive growl in her ear. Moments later her eyes went wide as she cried out, her back arching as she felt him enter her roughly, but just gentle enough that made her immediately crave more, which he quickly provided as he began to move his hips, thrusting inside her deeper and harder each time.

Her fingers dug into his back as her back stayed arched and her eyes wide, soon feeling why the other girls loved him. At this moment, it was as if they truly were one, Ryuzetsu able to experience his own feelings towards her. She could feel genuine love for her, but also to the other girls, all equal and as much as he could possibly give them all. If she stayed, she would have plenty of friends who cared for her, as well as someone she knew would love her as long as he could. Those thoughts alone were enough to fill her with joy and warmth, before she was brought out of her thoughts by her first quickly building orgasm.

"Yes! Make me yours! I'll do anything for you!" She exclaimed just as the strongest orgasm of her life ripped through her, stretched out by Yoichi not even slowing down. The world around her seemed to melt away, as the only thing that was important to her in this moment was the two of them together.

Author's Note

I know this smut scene is incredibly short since it's been a while since the last one, but there's more to come! As long as there are readers who want smut, I shall give it to them! The writing is all for you guys after all. If it wasn't, I'd just write things up and not upload them.

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