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Arc: Catching up with Konoha

Chapter 10: Connections

Konoha

Sakura sighed as she rubbed at her tired eyes. She still hadn't really recovered from the last mission with her team. The borders became more tumultuous every day and things on their last operation had quickly turned from a basic seek and destroy of some remaining sound shinobi into a three month long investigation of a string of disappearances and the eventual destruction of one of the few remaining bases Orochimaru had abandoned in the area around Rice Country.

She couldn't lie and say she wasn't pleased with herself and team seven for having eliminated another one of those hell holes. It was a bit dampened by the fact that Orochimaru likely wasn't even aware if it had been operating still or not. The snake was in the wind and it was unlikely anyone from Konoha would have a chance to take a shot at him for some time still.

That aside a bit of dread still seeped into her as she realized that soon, Orochimaru would be taking Sasuke as his host. She bit her lip and groaned in frustration. She didn't want to think about the traitor. It had been years but she still found her mind wandering to him from time to time. At least it was never like it had been in the past.

When her mind did wander to the Uchiha it typically included her team hauling him back to the village in chains. Never killing him though. She didn't want to think of him or Naruto as dead.

Groaning yet again she forced herself to climb to her feet and get around for the day. It had been two days since she had gotten back from her mission and she still had another three until the team was set to meet up again. Even after two days of rest though she could feel the exhaustion hanging on her heavily and her temper was shorter than normal. Not that she was known as being a patient and calm girl in the first place.

After taking a shower and enjoying the relaxing water as it helped soothe the still aching muscles she had she quickly dressed in her usual shinobi attire and headed downstairs to greet her mother and father.

Both were happy to have her home after such a long time on mission, and she was happy to see them too, but there remained a bit of an awkward air between them. Sakura's mother was a civilian through and through and her father had retired from the corps before she had been born. He had been an office ninja as well and only seen combat a single time.

There was a gap between them about things they couldn't talk about. Along with that were the topics that were exploding tags waiting to go off if they were brought up. Specifically her old teammates or anything regarding dating prospects. That of course meant that once they had gotten their greetings and a smattering of idle chat out of the way, breakfast became an extremely quiet affair.

Once she was finished Sakura had cleaned her items and set out. She needed more rest, but two days cooped up in bed trying to get as much as she could had her wanting to at least walk around. It was a good call too. The weather was beautiful this morning, and despite the ever present tensions around the country the people of Konoha carried on as normal.

While she strolled through the village she watched as the shops began to open up and people were just getting started with their day. It was kind of refreshing to see the friendly and warm way people greeted one another. Just peaceful.

"I wonder if Konoha is just able to ignore the threat of war like this all the time? Did I just not see the threats outside the village walls when I was young?" She asked herself idly.

"Probably." A voice said from beside her, causing her to yelp and nearly punch the figure beside her until she realized it was Sai who had silently appeared beside her at some point.

"Sai! Don't sneak up on me like that!" She barked calming herself back down.

"I wasn't trying to. Are you alright? You're usually far more aware of your surroundings." Sai replied as he stared blankly back at her.

Sakura huffed as she regained her composure while glaring at her teammate. "I'm out of it I guess. What are you doing? I know we got a few days off from Lady Tsunade, but you typically have something to do for your…other boss."

"Lord Danzo allows Root operatives reprieve at times. Usually after an unexpectedly long mission like our most recent one as team seven. Still I am not enjoying time off right now as you and Fu might be." Sai said.

"What do you mean?"

"Sakura, the village elders have begun to notice something and are growing increasingly wary of it. Lord Danzo has tasked me with recruiting you-" Sai began before noticing Sakura tense.

"Not to Root. Lord Danzo and I both know that would go poorly." Sai said as he lifted his hands up in a placating gesture.

"Then for what?" She asked the pale boy.

"I was about to get to that. You are close with the Yamanaka heiress, correct?" Sai asked, getting Sakura's eyes to narrow in suspicion even as she nodded.

"Good. Now, you are aware that several influential shinobi of our generation have begun to meet more and more regularly and seem to be working on some sort of project, correct?" Sai asked.

"You mean the rest of my graduating class? Yeah, they have been meeting at Ichirakus for a while now. Danzo doesn't need to worry about that though. If anything they are just catching up or something." Sakura replied, not willing to believe that her classmates could draw the ire of the higher ups.

"Perhaps, however Lord Danzo has noticed a peculiarity. Until recently the only members of the so called Rookies that haven't been present are Ino Yamanaka, and the members of Team Seven. Even the sensei for Teams Eight, Nine, and Ten have been present." Sai pointed out.

"So?" Sakura asked, a bit bitterly as he reminded her that she seemed to have been pushed from her group of friends and colleagues over the last couple of years. That hurt more than she wanted to admit.

"Ino Yamanaka, having recently joined them, means that you are the only one among the original rookie group that is not present. You and Kakashi. However we both know that there are reasons why I could not approach Kakashi." Sai said.

"Okay, that still doesn't mean anything. Lets cut to the chase, you want me to get back in close with my friends just to spy on them for the elders and circumvent Lady Tsunade, my master, all because they meet in a restaurant once a month?" Sakura asked in disbelief.

"Twice a week." He replied.

"What?" She asked.

"They meet in Ichiraku twice a week, everyday after the Hyuga clan has a meeting. On Tuesday the main branch, and on Friday the side branch." Sai supplied cooly.

"So this has something to do with the Hyugas?" Sakura asked even more confused.

"Undoubtedly…if there is a conspiracy. I…Sakura truly I don't think there is. Lord Danzo and the other elders have begun to jump at shadows. They have started becoming more paranoid lately and have been sending out Root more and more. That's part of why things along the border are getting worse I think. Root operations have been conducted almost weekly now." Sai explained.

"Why are you telling me?" She asked.

Sai was silent for a moment as he thought.

"Because you are my teammate and I trust you." Sakura blinked in shock at his words.

"When I was placed on Team Seven Lady Hokage and Lord Jiraiya made a stipulation that I had to be cleaned of all curse marks. Lord Danzo chose me to join your team because he felt I was trustworthy enough not to share his secrets and the secrets of Root without the seal. I am loyal to him, and to Konoha, but I can't help but think things have begun to deteriorate among the elders and upper levels of command." The Root nin said with a barely noticeable hint of a sad expression on his face.

"Sai, that is a lot to take in." Sakura said as she settled onto a bench with her teammate taking the spot beside her.

"You're different now. At least a little." She said getting a confused stare in return. "I mean compared to when you first joined the team. You're happier, I can tell. "

Sai smiled, it was far more faint than his usual false grin that he believed he had perfected. Perhaps it was a true, honest to god smile. It was still impossible for Sakura to really tell though.

"I am happier now. With you and the rest of the team. Without the curse mark from Lord Danzo, or the endless Root missions." He replied.

Sakura stared at her teammate and friend. He really had become one by this point. After all technically she had been his teammate longer than she had been on a team with Naruto and Sasuke. She just couldn't stop the quiet little worry in the back of her head that this was all an extremely elaborate ploy by Sai, or more precisely his master Lord Danzo.

To what end though? To recruit her to worm her way into some meals with her friends again after so long. It all seemed to overdramatic and silly. Like making mountains out of molehills.

"I'm not exactly invited to those meals, Sai. Even if I was, if you are really wanting me to look at the Hyuga, neither Neji or Hinata are my biggest fans." Sakura pointed out, very much understating Hinata's opinion of her.

"Perhaps, but you are still occasionally friendly with Ino, would it not only take a request to reconnect with your friends to get her to drag you into their group once more? Sai asked.

Sakura bit her lower lip as a conflicted expression slipped onto her face. She had plenty of issues with the situation not the least of which was that Sai was asking her to effectively spy on her friends. Friends that she already had a somewhat estranged relationship with. Then again, Sai had easily become one of her closest friends and he didn't even believe the elder's worries were founded on anything substantial.

It wouldn't hurt to just see what they were up to, would it? Plus this was a great chance to reunite with her friends once again. She just had to confirm they were not plotting something insane or nefarious and then she could forget all about the spying tripe.

"I'll do it." Sakura said quietly.

"Really?" Sai asked, a bit surprised.

"Don't get confused by my intentions, Sai. I'm doing this to easily prove they aren't planning anything." Sakura said.

"Of course. I wish you luck Sakura. I'm going to go see if Fu is doing anything." Sai said as he got up to leave.

Sakura smiled slightly at that. Sai wasn't necessarily romantically interested in Fu, but her bubbly and friendly demeanor seemed to attract the boy to her like a moth to a flame. The Root agent was starting to feel and express emotions again after interacting with the jinchuriki and Sakura couldn't help but think that simply being friends with Fu would eventually help Sai reclaim the person that he was.

"I guess I'm going to the Yamanakas." She said to herself as she stood up and headed toward the village's most popular flower shop.

Ino hummed a quiet tune as she made her rounds to water all the display flowers in the family shop. She used to complain so much about this task, but lately she had come to love it. A few moments of peace just with the flowers. She could understand why her parents had opened the shop by this point and was more than happy that they had. Nothing brightened her mood during these tense days more than caring for the plants her family grew.

Lately she wanted it even more after Shikamaru had drug her into the little meetings that the rest of the 'rookies' had begun holding in Ichiraku's private room. Usually it was just the group of them sharing a meal and enjoying the company of their friends and remembering those they had lost.

That was fine. She needed that, they all needed that. Which was why she had initially planned to start bringing Sakura as well. Initially.

In their latest meeting Ino had found herself exposed to the more clandestine purpose of their little get togethers. There was a lot of planning going on in the village of Konoha and the Hyuga clan was about to experience a very rapid power shift. If no one in the village was aware, as most of her friends seemed to believe, then they were putting in the foundation of one of the most dramatic political moves since Lord Third had Chosen Naruto's father as his successor over his own students.

Ino was a bit less sure of their successful subterfuge though. She'd been working with more and more upper echelon in the village since she was brought into the Information department. While she wasn't torturing and interrogating people yet, she was being exposed to a lot more of the underhanded type of thing that Konoha was always up to.

She didn't really think for a second that her little group of friends, even as skilled as they were, could slip plans like theirs under the noses of the village elders. She just hoped they slipped it past Lord Hyuga and his own clansmen though.

"Ino?" Her mother's voice caught her attention drawing her back to the present.

"Hmm? Oh, did you need something mom?" Ino asked as she stopped watering the plant she had nearly drowned.

"You seemed a bit lost there sweetheart. Are you alright?" Her mother asked, ever the sweet and kind lady.

"Huh? Oh just thoughtful. Sometimes I miss the old days. Simpler back then and all that." The blonde replied good naturedly.

"Pfft, oh please darling, you are hardly old enough to have 'old days'. Are you trying to make me feel ancient?" Her mother asked with a smile, causing Ino to giggle.

"I couldn't if I tried. You age as well as Lady Tsunade." Ino said with a grin.

The older Yamanaka woman rolled her eyes but smiled at her daughter's flattery. She hadn't woken the girl from a daydream to chat and exchange compliments though.

"Ino, Sakura is here to see you. Why don't you call it a half day and head out with her. You two rarely get to spend time together these days with your promotions and all the trouble at the borders."

Ino smiled faintly before hugging her mother.

"Thanks mom, you're right, I hardly get to see her anymore." Ino quickly left and dropped her apron off at the counter before heading for the shop front itself.

She found Sakura waiting for her and took a second to take in the changes her childhood friend had undergone over the last few years. She saw the Haruno girl rarely enough that sometimes she still half expected to encounter that little girl entering the chunin exams just because she didn't want to let her teammates down.

"Sakura." Ino said happily as she leaned in for a hug.

"Ino, sorry to steal you from the flowers." Sakura replied cheerily before wrapping Ino into her own tight hug.

"Ah, it's fine. I'm happy to see you though. I heard your last mission was pretty rough." Ino said as they pulled apart.

"It wasn't so bad. Mostly just a lot longer than we had planned for. We knocked out an old Sound base though. Not much but grunts left. Most of them didn't even have any real training." Sakura said with a shrug but Ino quickly caught on that Sakura didn't want to talk about missions at the moment.

"That's good, hey let's go get some tea at that shop in the river district." Ino said, changing the subject.

"Oh I love that one, it's been a while since I've gone too." Sakura quickly agreed.

The pair of Kunoichi meandered toward the tea shop while catching up. Both were embarrassed they had let a boy come between them as girls but by now they were both just happy to have someone to spend time with and forget their stresses for a while.

"-and Kakashi has been pretty good I think. He still has a lot of trouble opening up I think, but he's better than he was a few years ago." Sakura said as they came to the shop.

"I'm glad to hear it. I know it's a bit invasive to ask like that, but with all the extra mind-healer training Lady Tsunade and my dad have had me doing I can't help but worry about everyone now." Ino said with an embarrassed flush.

"Someone has to. Kami knows half the Shinobi of Konoha could lose a limb and call it a flesh wound. Stubborn bastards." Sakura grumbled causing Ino to giggle and dragging Sakura into laughter with her.

"You're right. Even Shikamaru and Choji do that whole hiding their troubles bullshit with me sometimes. Like they aren't practically my idiot brothers by this point. Really!" Ino huffed getting an agreeing snort from Sakura.

"Men." She commented with rolling eyes as they found a table to sit at.

"Oh it's not just them, plenty of Kunoichi are just as bad. Tenten and Hinata especially." Ino said sternly before turning her eyes to Sakura, causing the other girl to eye her back warily.

"They aren't the only ones that can be stubborn about things troubling them." Ino said, causing Sakura to briefly pause before blowing out a sigh.

"It figures I can't slip it by you." Sakura said with a small smile.

Ino simply nodded as if to say that was obvious before she turned her attention to the waitress coming to their table and handing them a pair of small menus. The shop offered a huge selection of teas but also several things to go with it.

Both of the Kunoichi ordered before turning their attention back to one another. Ino smiled as she watched Sakura habitually bite her lip as she thought of how best to say what she wanted to say.

Ino had a few ideas of exactly what it could be that was on the other girl's mind but she waited for her to open up herself. Hours spent with her father training in how to read others or get information from them as well as how best to counsel them had led to her eventually learning that sometimes the best course of action was simply lending a friendly ear.

Finally Sakura nodded and opened her mouth to reply. Unfortunately it was at the same moment as their server returned with their order. Ino internally sighed as Sakura distracted herself with the tea and snacks that they had ordered.

Eventually though Ino's staring across the table had managed to make Sakura submit.

"I know you all meet together at Ichiraku's." Sakura said quietly.

Ino barely concealed the wince at that. She hadn't really thought about it but the fact that Sakura and the rest of her group had been excluded from their group was something that definitely seemed deliberate in hindsight.

After all, things between Sakura and the two Hyuga members of their group was…tenuous.

"I know Hinata and Neji probably want nothing to do with my presence there but I can't start fixing things with us until I can be with the group again." Sakura said softly as she played with the handle of her teacup.

"As far as I know not inviting you wasn't really a decision. More like, like an oversight, yeah. Hinata isn't really in a good headspace ever since… well neither of you are. Maybe if you two got a chance to talk it would be better." Ino thought out loud.

Sakura smiled and nodded her head. Silently she couldn't help wondering how easy it was. Obviously nothing weird was going on, otherwise Ino would have been a bit more guarded. She couldn't fight her smile growing into a toothy grin as she realized she was probably right, her friends weren't up to any kind of power plays. They were just trying to stay caught up with one another between work.

"So that's a yes? You'll take me to eat with the others?" Sakura asked hopefully.

"Pfft, of course I will. Besides with just Kurenai, Hinata, and myself there we need more girl power for sure." Ino said with a smirk.

"Wait, what about Tenten?" Sakura asked.

"Oh please that girl is into all the same stuff as the guys, you try to talk to her about hair or any other sort of stuff and she just looks at you like you're the odd one out. Shame too, I saw her with her hair down once and she could really turn some heads, or if she showed a bit more of her figure." Ino began to ramble causing Sakura to smile as things felt so natural with her old friend.

"She really could catch eyes if she just changed a couple of things, couldn't she." Sakura joined in.

The pair of girls quickly devolved into joint jealousy of their friend's complexion which just seemed naturally attractive while they worked rather hard to keep their appearances before going into an hour-long conversation about skin care products.

Just as Sakura seemed to mention that Fuu, her teammate, always had flawless skin without any focus put into it, she noticed the girl as well as Sai walking into the tea shop.

"Oh! That timing." Ino said with a grin before encouraging Sakura to wave them over.

She did as Ino wanted and ran quick introductions, Ino was happy to include the bubbly Fuu into their group. Sai was a bit more difficult. She knew he was one of Danzo's men, though Sakura seemed rather friendly with him and the handful of Root she had encountered all seemed far less human than this boy did. She didn't trust the pasty bastard any further than she could throw him but she could tell Sakura genuinely considered him her friend so she was willing to play nice as long as he did.

"Oh, Sai told me you too were really old friends and you were going to ask her to help you get back in with the rest of your old friends. Did that work out? Did you ask yet?" Fuu asked happily to Sakura, causing the pinkette to sigh and Sai to look close to slapping his own forehead at the girl's antics.

Ino for her part couldn't help but giggle. Fuu was a bit simple but she loved how cheerful she was. Ever since Naruto was gone sadly their generation had lacked that boisterous personality. Kiba really didn't cut it, not that he was as wild as he used to be. The Uchiha Retrieval Mission had deeply affected all of the boys on it and they weren't the same anymore.

"She did ask me." Ino cut in before Sakura could answer. "And I was very happy to invite her to come."

Fuu openly cheered while Sai played up his fake smile for all it was worth. Ino eyed them both for a moment before making her decision.

"I'm being a bit rude. Did you two want to come along? We really do need to get to know your team better. All of us." Ino offered.

"Really? You want me, er Sai and I to come too?" Fuu asked with obvious surprise.

"Definitely. A friend of Sakura's is a friend of mine and everyone else's." Ino reassured the green haired girl, though mentally she excluded Sai from that list. At least for now.

Sakura shared a minute glance with Sai but it was only a brief locking of their eyes. She happily returned the overexcited Fuu's hug while chuckling before steering the conversation into some small talk.

Ino internally winced at the awkward atmosphere she had helped to engineer. Maybe bringing all three members of Team Seven had been a bit too much too fast. She should have known that including Sakura was going to be enough of a problem for some of the group that they'd have some sort of argument about it.

An argument would have been preferable to the silent meal being shared by fifteen people. Even Lee and his beastly sensei were subdued. Ino enjoyed the peace and quiet of her family gardens, but this was nothing close to relaxing like that was.

As she expected, the moment people began to depart, Sakura and her teammates seemed to jump at the chance to leave as well. Ino felt her heart ache at the hollow smile her childhood friend had as she left. The smallest scrunching of the skin around her eyes telling Ino that Sakura had forced back emotion that wanted to burst out. The pinkette wasn't a reserved person naturally and the fact that she was so…blank at the moment told Ino all she needed to know.

Soon most of the room cleared out. Both Kurenai and Asuma seemed less bothered than the rest, almost relieved, while Gai bounced back from the tense meal quickly enough to already be hollering and working his protégé into a frenzy to train. The blonde felt pity for Tenten and Neji as their old teammates drug them off to some training field for a no doubt insane workout session.

The last to leave was Hinata as she was escorted home by the silently chivalrous Shino. The pair had grown very close over the last few years but Ino had come to learn it was more like siblings and they were actually just as close with their last teammate Kiba.

Speaking of Kiba, or more honestly Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji, Ino found all three confronting her after the others had gone.

"Ino, why do you think we have these meals together?" Shikamaru asked first causing the blonde to roll her eyes in annoyance.

"If there was something to pass on we could have simply waited for Team Seven to leave if you are worried about letting them know about the Hyuga issue." Ino snapped back, already defensive.

"You aren't thinking woman. Obviously the elders know some shit is going down by now. Pretty sure their little dogs are watching us at all times, and then you bring Sakura who is apprentice to the Hokage, and that weasel Sai in here. Not to mention that Fuu girl would probably just tell anybody anything if you get her talking long enough." Kiba growled out.

"Somehow it's like you ignored everything I just said, Inuzuka. If we all had something to talk about today we could have just done it after they left. Besides wouldn't it be a good idea to include Sakura. She's the apprentice to the Hokage after all. If we don't have an in with the central office we might step on toes and end up on the chopping block." Ino said back.

The group was quiet as Shikamaru shook his head in exasperation. He knew eventually this would happen. Their dinners together were too big and obvious for them not to be noticed. The whole keeping caught up with one another ruse worked for a while, but he knew by now Danzo was feeling them out. Making sure what they were planning wasn't about to upset the balance of power in Konoha. At least as long as he wasn't personally benefiting from it.

If Shikamaru and the others reached out, they possibly could work out a partnership of some sort with the old war hawk. However the Nara heir knew better than to make a deal with Konoha's private devil.

"We need these get togethers Shikamaru. Really we do, and that's coming from the mind healer, not just your friend." Ino said seriously, causing both Choji and Kiba to turn and face the shadow user.

Shikamaru grumbled faintly. He wanted a cigarette pretty badly at the moment. That aside though, he hated when Ino was right about something. She got this insufferable older sister talking down to her little brother kind of vibe when she had one over on him. Then again he did the same from time to time.

"Fine, we'll figure something else out for the meetings. We were too obvious anyway. I believed we would have had enough to act already." Shikamaru said with finality.

"My dad says politics is slow going, at least until the very last moment then you can't blink or you'll miss it." Choji chimed in.

"Yeah, that sounds about right." Shikamaru agreed.

"I still can't figure out what the hell you were doing bringing Fuu and Sai though Ino. What was the plan there?" Kiba asked, causing the two men from Ino's team to sigh as the conversation began to circle back around.

"Well, mostly it was because they were there when I ended up inviting Sakura. Well kinda. Anyway it was mostly because it would look a bit suspicious if I didn't, but also for the same reason I said earlier. We all need to be meeting together. That Sai isn't like the rest of the Drones I see poking around the Hokage tower these days. He's more emotional. Which could mean all sorts of things, but could also mean he is more of a comrade and less of a threat. Fuu…well she's just so damn cute and open I couldn't help but bring her in." Ino explained.

"Yeah? Well they just look like cheap knock off replacements to me. Nobody thought Uchiha was a threat either and look what happened." Kiba growled.

"Not really, pretty sure every Jonin and higher considered Uchiha a bad egg. At least from the Chunin exams and afterward. They just hoped they were wrong." Choji replied.

"Just proves my point." Kiba said.

"What point?" Ino asked.

"Sai and Fuu are imitations of Sasuke and Naruto. That's all I see with them. Seriously a cold pale pretty boy and a loud happy go lucky brat." Kiba replied.

"They're plenty different, you're only applying their similarities because that's all you can see." Ino snapped.

"Besides, I don't think you can really replace Naruto. I didn't play with him as a kid like you three. I didn't have a crush on him like Hinata, or fight him tooth and nail to find some kind of understanding like Neji. I wasn't on the same team through life and death as him, like Sakura. Honestly Naruto and I weren't close at all. I still can't help but wonder if he is okay though. I barely knew him and I think of him like he was a close friend. I just don't get it." Ino admitted to the boys.

The three of them remained silent. They were much the same way. Especially Shikamaru who still partially blamed himself for the failed Uchiha Retrieval mission and Naruto's kidnapping.

"I wonder if Naruto, wherever he is, thinks about us too." Choji pondered aloud.

The small group had no answer of course but they all hoped that that was the case.

Gremory Territory

Underworld

The only thing on Naruto's mind for the last two days had been Rias. She was still the only thing on his mind as he began to wake up and felt the older girl's body still laying across his own from where she had curled up with him after the night before.

Rias had shocked him with her stamina. She beat out even Akeno at sheer durability. Not by too much, and it wasn't exactly fair to compare the situations as Rias had effectively locked down a section of the Gremory estate and then locked herself and Naruto into a room with no clothing and just enough water and food to last a week.

If he didn't know better he would have guessed she'd had this planned for when things went as they hoped they would. Actually she probably did with the whole thing being her way of encouraging her own hope that things would work out.

It was endearing.

Not as endearing as the pair of teal eyes staring up lovingly at his own blue orbs from where her head rested on his chest.

"Good morning." She said with a sultry smile.

Naruto couldn't help but grin at the appearance of his lover smiling up at him. Her red hair was wild and framed her beautiful face perfectly. Like she was a living work of art.

"Pretty sure it's around five in the evening actually, but at this point I can't be sure." He joked back getting a giggle from her before she leaned forward and ran her pillowy soft lips up his chest.

Naruto hummed in pleasure at the butterfly kisses she was peppering his body with. He could feel her nipples already hardening against his lower abdomen and the dampness from her pussy sliding against his left thigh.

"By the Maou Rias, you're a damn Succubus." He groaned faintly as her hands began to wrap around his hardening cock.

"Of course I am. That and I have to make my mark. I'm not your first but I am your King. I am going to be your best and you are never going to forget it." She growled out in a near whisper before returning to her actions of planting tiny kisses along his body. Only now she was slowly making her way down his body toward his rapidly growing erection.

"That's fine with me. You don't have to get all competitive. I'm not about to try and step out on you. I can keep going for a few more days." Naruto replied, smirking at the slight paling and shiver that ran through his woman.

"I think I've made my point. Three full days. I'm pretty sore actually." She began to say.

"Oh, no. No, no, no. You do not get to leave a job half finished, Rias." Naruto replied with a laugh but some steel in his tone.

"Do remember I am the King here, sweetie." She teased.

"So, you are. But Rias, I'm running this show." He said with a wicked gleam in his eyes that ran a shiver down her spine and made her body hunger for his.

"Oh are you?" She tried to tease again.

"I think we've bantered enough." Naruto said as he twisted his hips slightly.

The redhead agreed as she finally reached his cock with her mouth and planted a dainty little kiss at the very top of his member. It was soon followed by another, and then a swift little lick, before she began running her mouth up and down his length, kissing and licking the shaft and head as if she was worshipping a delicious treat.

Naruto would have laid back and enjoyed the feeling while relaxing, but he couldn't get enough of the show of Rias slobbering all over his prick. She acted like a starved beast that had found a feast waiting for it, even though he had been rather roughly skull fucking her a few short hours ago.

Nothing she hadn't literally been begging for of course.

By now, gone was any sliver of the proper noble lady Rias Gremory, and in her place was Rias Gremory, his girlfriend and dirty little slut. She moaned like a whore as she opened up her mouth to take in the entire head of his dick and begin sucking.

It was short lived as she plunged her head forward to take his length as deeply into her throat as she could. He devil's blood helped a bit. They were creatures built on such debauchery after all, but the true key to being able to take his cock so deeply down her throat without her gag reflex forcing him back out have been the last few days of practical experience doing it again and again…that and while she would admit it to no one she'd taken it upon herself to train her body for this very experience.

The pressure of Rias' throat and her hot spit splattering all over his prick nearly sent Naruto's eyes rolling into the back of his head. The typical line in hentai of it feeling like his cock was melting from the pleasure made sense to him. It was all too much and when combined with the gurgling and gagging sounds Rias made as she face fucked herself down onto his dick, he didn't last long.

Rias knew the drill by now. When his hands clamped down onto her head and knotted up her hair to hold her in place, she simply opened up her throat as wide as possible to allow for a clear shot. She felt ever strand of his thick ropes of cum stream down her roughed up throat and down into her stomach.

His body twitched as he kept her head in place. Naturally bucking slightly to push his seed deeper into whatever receptacle he was using. Slowly his dick ceased firing and just as slowly he began to slide back out of her throat.

A thick sticky mix of cum and spit created strings of fluids connecting her lips to his prick as he freed himself from her mouth. Rias took a brief moment to swallow down the thick goo left in her throat and mouth as well as to catch a breath before she went to work once more.

Now she hungrily sucked up and licked up the mixture off of his cock and balls. Greedily drinking it down like ambrosia.

"Fuck me…." Naruto mumbled at the sight and sensation as his slutty redhead shot a hungry look up at him.

They weren't done yet after all. Already he was back to full mast, he hadn't been joking that he could keep going for days, even if she couldn't keep up.

"I want control, lay back and enjoy, baby." Rias said as she gently pushed him back down into the bed.

He didn't fight her. They run through practically every position either of them knew by this point, and after that wakeup blonde job he was fine with her setting the pace for their actual fucking.

"You nearly drained my balls down your throat already Rias, gonna have to work hard to get that but." Naruto teased, his girl had a stupidly big competitive streak. She was about to ride him raw now.

"You'll give it to me or I'll take it from you." She sensually growled as she climbed over him, exposing the entirety of her nude form for him to see and quickly mounting herself onto him.

"Ugh, perfect fit every time!" She moaned with a laugh as she felt him fill her up to her maximum.

"Not quite, you can take two more inches though, come on." He egged her on as she grunted.

Just as he said, she took those two more inches as well as she could and gasped and moaned as her body sent waves of pleasure running through her mind. As if telling her she had found her perfect other half.

The moment felt long in her mind but a split second passed before she started bouncing and twisting on top of his cock. Her pussy juices had already covered her ass cheeks and thighs with a thin layer of fluid that added to the sound of slapping flesh as she bounced her thick ass against her boyfriend's pelvis.

Not one to sit by idly, Naruto leaned forward to catch Rias' tots in his hands and with a bit of maneuvering snagged her lips in a deep kiss as she began roughly grinding down and rotating with his cock deep inside her.

"I'm coming!" She screamed as she broke the kiss throwing her head back and shaking from the pleasure.

Naruto joined her and dumped whatever he had left in the tank this early in his morning directly into her waiting body. Were she a human and not a devil, it was no doubt she would have been knocked up. It was too much for her not to. Still they were not mere mortals and instead both simply rode out their orgasms before passionately kissing once again and letting the excess of their love making run out and stain the bed.

Sore as Rias was, she couldn't stop at one round and Naruto was far from finished with her for the day. Their friends would have to wait another day it seemed…or two.

After all, the only thing on either's mind at the moment was one another and their list for the other's body.

That is the chapter I hoped you liked it. I had planned on saving the lemon for next chapter but here it is. I know it is short, so don't worry you'll get more debauchery, now that he has started it ain't going to stop any time soon.

Anyway, next chapter starts the next arc of this story and we get a bit more interaction with some of the more side characters like Sona and her people. Something big is happening this arc and it is mainly non-canon material so look forward to that as well.

Till Next Time