Hey all, sorry this one took a bit longer to come out, book 1 of this story is approaching its end and I may be slowing down a bit with posts afterward. Much of my time will be taken proofreading and sending query letters for a couple of novels. On lighter news, commissions will likely be coming soon!

Tsunade needed a lot of love to get back to her good mood.

Or, more likely, she just enjoyed having her tenant shower her with compliments and thanks and repeat bouts of oral worship for half the night. The pouts did seem more playful than genuine by the second orgasm, as even Naruto realized. Either way, the homecoming was about as perfect as he could have hoped. Even the last batch of kebabs had been delicious! Though admittedly less so without any fruit to sweeten them.

There was plenty of wine to satisfy those taste buds. Before night's end, they'd emptied a bottle and then some, tasting the delicious berry beverage on and in each other's mouths until nearly midnight. She even let him lick some off of her breasts!

That had been one hell of a drinking game, the best one he ever played, no doubt. Between all of this, it was no surprise that Tsunde was an imovable lump under the sheets now, too tired to even sit up in bed for breakfast. At least that was Naruto's takeaway when he offered to bring her some, and she only groaned a negative noise and burrowed further from the light.

The sun had been up for hours and Naruto felt ready to fight a bear! Energized and awakened by the night of furious fucking, grinning wide and struggling to reign that in when Sasuki made eye contact with him. The moment he came strolling out of that bedroom. Her hair was wet, revealing she'd just finished a bath, meaning much of her damp, subtle skin was visible in the tanktop and breeches that she wore under her real clothes.

It made him nearly miss her words.

"With almost 600 gold, it might be time for us to buy our own home, don't you think?" her tone was calm, almost apathetic, but sitting at the table with nothing in her hands or so much as drink on the table put the young man on edge.

"Is that really necessary, though? I mean, that's expensive, and living here is…convenient,"

"Convenient, is that the word?" she scoffed, looking away only long enough to steal a glance at the bedroom he'd just exited. "I'd like to have an actual room to sleep in someday,"

Naruto decided not to point out that this current setup was definitely more comfortable than the bunkhouse back at the mine she'd endured for a decade. It had to be magnitudes worse than her childhood accommodations, to be fair, not that those could be afforded. Maybe he could change the subject.

"I've always been surprised you don't sleep out in that huge tent with Sakura. You'd have more privacy and uh… you know, some company when you wanted," he mentioned contradictorily. Sasuki scowled, but also blushed! Still, she ignored the suggestion. "You really want to buy a house or something?"

"We have to eventually. Owning land would make me a freeholder, technically nobility, that opens a whole slew of benefits and opportunities,"

"Don't we own this land now? As far as mayor knows anyway,"

"Once we own an estate we will be nobility," she clarified exasperatedly. "That means at least an acre and something on it that brings in coin, maybe a lumber mill or some goats; I don't know yet,"

"Ah," the young man, not particularly well versed in the details of the royal legal system, hadn't thought of that. "I guess that would be sort of a big thing for you, and we can probably afford it," he acknowledged miserably. Tsunade wouldn't like this, and that just meant another crappy, uncomfortable conversation with a woman he dearly loved on the docket.

"I'll ask your friend in town what our options are when we go to turn in those ears,"

"Temari?"

"The sheriff's wife, whatever her name was. She's got to be relatively connected here,"

"Yeah…" he agreed, trailing off as he racked his brain, trying to think of a reason to reject this idea. "Want me to just handle that for you?"

"Do you have any notion of how much an acre of land does or should cost?" she asked sarcastically.

"Well, no, but Temari wouldn't try to screw me over or anythi-"

"-you also don't know a damn thing about haggling. I'm going. Is there a reason we can't go right now?"

Naruto tensed, but his brain failed him.

"No, let me just grab a peach or apple or something," he eventually admitted, performing the miniscule chore as Sasuki got her cloak on. At least he'd have an excuse to stay quiet, shoving the sweet fruit into his mouth. His raven had to have noticed the nerves but didn't comment on it.

The woods were as beautiful as ever at least. Even if the cold stung, it was hard to argue that the coating of pristine white added something to the landscape, plus the sight of little birds or bunnies were more common with so much of the foliage withered away! It was a damn shame that the changing of the leaves came upon them during the journey; that was truly breathtaking, but they'd all been too miserable to enjoy it.

Though this pleasant distraction only meant that the ominous walk passed quickly.

Temari about jumped out of her seat when he came through the door of her little shack, her eyes going from ecstatic to strained fury and frustration as Sasuki followed him in. Still, she kept the enthusiastic smile locked. Her first words even went to the black-haired beauty, who looked at her pointedly.

"Well, I don't see you often," was her simple opening.

"I suppose not. We need to discuss what land around the hamlet costs and what our options are for building an estate,"

"You don't have to buy anything; you can just build wherever if you clear the land,"

"So I'm free to clear five acres and start raising hundreds of stinking hogs right at the treeline? A hundred paces from the inn?" Sasuki asked skeptically, earning an uncertain blink in the olive eyes of the clerk. "You really don't know what the laws for land development are around here? I thought your husband was the lawman,"

"My husband probably doesn't even know that, and he sure as hell isn't chatty with me," she bit back, immediately irate. "Go ask the damn mayor or his 'aid' if you really need to know,"

"I suppose I'll have to," Sasuki said with a haughty air. "First though, I believe you owe us some money for a successful delivery contract? I also believe we get the full five hundred for not requiring the down payment?"

Temari stared for a moment as her smile fell.

"That's right. Naruto, you don't mind helping me carry all that gold up the stairs, do you?" she asked, expression flipped, even batting her eyes while Sasuki rolled hers. Naruto could think of no good reason to decline. Five hundred coins wasn't light, he knew from experience. At least as heavy as a large bucket of water, and he wouldn't bet on this dainty princess carrying those often either.

Besides, it was nearly three flights of stairs down! A security measure she'd told him once, although there was never any elaboration, the only way to rob this place that he could fathom was by threatening Temari for the combination. The safe was fucking huge. The metal must have been at least a couple fingers thick, nothing that could be breached without a lot of noise, time, or magic.

He was broken from these thoughts by the grinding of metal on metal. That was his cue to turn around; the damn thing got stuck often, and it was never easy to open. The only reason he wasn't hovering over her shoulder was that combination, which he, of course, couldn't be shown. Temari wasn't exactly a stickler for the rules, but losing that much coin could mean her head highborn or not.

Besides, Naruto had assured her that he didn't mind turning around for two seconds.

The blondy was sweet like that; gods, she'd missed him. What was she thinking, sending him on such a long trip like this!? She'd expected some kind of reward, and still did honestly, but it wasn't worth it! The spice of their exciting little romps had made her life almost pleasant for a short, beautiful season, and abruptly being without them made things worse than they ever were before.

Why did that black-haired bitch have to come?!

Then again…. It would take some time to count out all the coins, and blondy was already working on that chore…

"W-woah Temari, I don't-"

"Hush!" she commanded, cutting him off with an evil grin. "Keep counting, if you can," she tacked on in a sing-song voice, pulling down his breeches and freeing his rabidly hardening cock. The heat of the head in her mouth was pleasant, but the way he spasmed and gurgled and locked up was delicious. Stunning a man twice her weight and infinitely more experienced in worldly matters with such a small, simple action carried such a feeling of power! The fact that his little girlfriend was upstairs only furthered this.

She wasn't some court mistress who had to shut up and stand back whenever the wife opened her mouth! This happened on her terms! If she wanted his cock, he'd get it out for her, no matter how close that other girl was! The excitement was as sweet as the power rush, even if she was denied any actual direct sexual pleasure, this was exquisite. Fuck, she was wet though.

It was the clinking of coins that reminded her of their time limit. The dumby was taking his time with the counting, but it still couldn't take more than a few minutes. With that in mind, she buried her fingers in her snatch, rubbing up and down along the outer lips until the digits were just as soaked as her insides.

Then she shoved them in deep and groaned gutterally against his shaft.

Naruto was torn as the pleasure spiked.

He did what he was told because he sure as fuck didn't know what else to do. Sasuki probably wouldn't follow them downstairs, and the ceiling had to be thick, but she was moaning so loudly on him and besides that he was already up to a hundred coins! On the other hand, Temari had only just stuck her fingers in; she'd need at least a couple more minutes to cum herself. He hadn't helped her cum in so long.

It would probably be fine.

The way her full lips slid further up to encompass his shaft was far more than fine. She only rocked back and forth an inch at a time, two at the most, but good gods, the way she sucked and groaned had him gasping. The sight of her on the dim dirt floor was only icing. He saw a good deal of her bare breasts looking down her dress plus the site of three fingers spearing into her quivering snatch.

He came before the count was half done.

Temari groaned in frustration, but it was hard to tell the difference even for her, drunk as she was on pleasure. The salty taste of his cum wasn't unpleasant, and milking the last few drops from his softening pipe wasn't a bad way to stay worked up as her fingering continued. Getting so close!

"Fuuuck Temari, you're incredible; I missed you so much. I missed your soft lips!" he admitted, earning a heavy pur that drolled on long enough to broadcast her orgasm. Or maybe it was the way she petered off and went still. In any case, not ten breaths later, she slid him out of her mouth.

In the dim light, it was hard to see the soft smile on her face.

That would be why Naruto made a quick mental note before setting the bag aside and kneeling down to bring his face to hers. He saw the smile only then, and gave one in turn, running a hand through her hair as he kissed her. Temari chuckled as she broke it, looking away from him with the most adorable, faint-red blush.

"Thank you so much Temari, I'll try to come by for a proper visit real soon, I promise," he offered, taking a cheek in one palm.

"I'm just glad you're back," she reluctantly admitted.

"…Oh FUCK what number was I on?" Naruto loudly asked nobody, standing up in his sudden remorse.

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