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Humans were mostly all the same in looks to her.

Black, white, yellow, red, brown, to Makima they were all the same color. Humans were all the same, no matter what physical traits they had. Handsome, pretty, ugly, average, they were all the same to her. When she looked at a human, none of those features mattered to her at all because humans were just a lesser species, and that was all that mattered.

Devils were much more varied in appearance to look at.

Dogs were much more fun as well, though they looked more like each other than even humans, but at least they were unique. Dogs loved their master unconditionally without taking power or species into account. A dog didn't love their master because they were stronger or weaker, they loved them because they were the dog's master.

Yet, humans were not unconditional.

It was almost like humans lacked the ability to love somebody the same way a dog could love somebody, not that Makima understood much about love. She only had people who were inferior to her or superior to her, that was it. She felt affection towards her dogs, and she felt annoyance and anger towards devils and humans as a general rule, but it was usually only minor annoyance. She looked up to those she respected, which were limited to a number of people she could count on her hands.

Still, everyone had their own scent, which made them easy to understand.

Makima memorized the scents of those around her, and she only bothered to remember the looks of very few people. Typically she only memorized the looks of devils who were strong enough to pose a problem to her, or a few humans who at least served an important purpose in the grand scheme of her plans.

Makima smiled though.

'His hair is such a cheerful yellow... and this is quite the sleeping face.' Makima smiled as she looked at Naruto sleeping on her couch in her apartment. He was just staying the night, but her dogs had sure taken a liking to him. His sleeping posture was horrible, but her dogs might be the cause of that since they were dog piled on him in his sleep.

Whisker marks, fox-like, three on each cheek and the very definition of facial symmetry. Naruto had a face that would make for good art overall, and could most likely translate to abstract well. His eyes were rounded but sharp near the edges, and his jawline was most masculine and slightly feminine. He was a man who had inheritted the face of a beautiful woman, and his cheekbones with his chin allowed his face to become more heart-shaped and pleasant.

Makima ran her thumb across his face.

She didn't sleep the night before, because she learned he was a deep sleeper.

He was her superior in every way, but he treated her like an equal. She was going to actually look at this man, and use all of her senses to memorize everything about him. He was such an interesting humanoid man, and she could only call him humanoid because his scent was unlike that of a human in a way. It was so very close to human, but at the same time he smelled biologically different than human.

He weighed less than his size would suggest it should.

Makima had her thumb on his face, and his body was just slightly warmer than a normal human should be as well. She could feel his veins, but while his blood was warm, she could feel another energy flowing through something next to his veins. It was like he had more than just veins, but had a second circulatory system completely. The way it gave off a constant warmth with a vibrant life energy, and it seemed to come off of his skin.

361.

On Naruto's body, Makima could count 361 points no bigger than the tip of a needle. Each of these points released that energy outside of his body in small amounts, and she could feel with her flesh the very smell release of that energy. There was a strangling of the energy in his body as well, like walls that purposely held back his energy and weakened it.

From what Makima could smell, what she could feel, there were 8 of them.

2 in his head, 4 going down his torso all the way down to 1 in behind his crotch, before it finally went up to a single point in his heart.

'... He's so strong, but there are 8 limiters on his body... and not to mention most of his body's energy seem to be focused on supplying the thing on his stomach with energy. His biology is so different than human... he has organs humans don't have... and his body produces energy and scents humans don't have.' Makima leaned closer to Naruto and took a big smell of his shoulder. The scent of the warm, sunshine-like energy leaking from his body was just so wonderful to her.

His raw power was such a mystery to her.

How could somebody who was so strong, get as strong as he was with 8 limiters on his body that reduced him to a mere fraction of his true potential. Then, even after his strength was limited, most of his strength went towards powering a thing in his stomach.

She liked how interesting that was too.

'His canines are slightly longer than a humans as well... when he's awake, he breaths through his nose, but he goes full mouth in his sleep.' Makima made notes of everything about him. She held his ear between her fingers, and she used her sense of touch to get every fine detail of even his ears.

Some parts of his body didn't feel right as well.

Some parts of his body smelled younger than the rest of his body, as if he had regenerated entire parts of his body from practically nothing. The age of a human could be taken from their smell as well, and some parts of Naruto's body just didn't match the rest. The right side of his chest was younger than other parts of his body, which implied that his chest had been destroyed at some point, and he regenerated it, growing new organs inside of his body. It was a large enough portion of his chest that the smell was noticable to her.

His body was a treasure trove of mystery.

Makima traced her fingers down his arm, his right arm, and she could feel the wrongness of it. His arm didn't so much as twitchi when she touched it, but his left hand actually did twitch slightly when she touched it. The secondary circulatory system she could feel and smell inside of him was very damaged in his right hand, up to his elbow actually. His bicep would twitch, but he seemed to have less feeling in his right hand.

So he had a whole tore through the right side of his chest, and he also had severe nerve damage in his right hand and forearm, to the point his right arm was numb to touch to some degree.

"How are you even alive... actually... you had to get strong to stay alive... didn't you?" Makima might as well be talking to a corpse with how deep of a sleeper this boy was. She could imagine that with how damaged his body had become over the years, growing stronger had been his only method of staying alive at all.

Makima leaned over his face, her chest was pressing up against one of her dogs that was sleeping on Naruto, and her lips were barely an inch away from his.

Every inch of skin on his face was something she would burn into her memory.

The way her hair covered part of his face when she leaned, she enjoyed the way the red mixed with the blond. It was almost like Naruto had red hair, and she liked the way that looked as well.

Makima smiled.

"... The power surpassing that of a god, and a heart full of a god's love and forgiveness... but the humility of man... the passion... even in your sleep, you are a dreamer. You're dreaming it, you're dreaming of a future for you. Your eyes see through lies, to the future... naive, but full of wisdom..." Makima sucked in her breath and backed off of Naruto.

That felt wrong to say.

Not naive, but an optimist. That seemed more like the right choice of word for him. He was somebody who had seen the darkest parts of the world, so he was not naive or ignorant, but he was instead a person who choose light over darkness. She knew that from looking in those interesting blue eyes.

Blue eyes.

"... You are insanely close right now."

"Good morning." Makima didn't even treat her actions as anything but normal when Naruto showed he was awake now. They were so close to kissing that it would be a shame if she just leaned slightly more forward. "... So, I have a question. How much feeling do you have in your right hand... if you were to touch my face, how much could you feel?" Makima asked her question with her face awkwardly close to his.

Naruto's face slid from a slight blush, to a deadpan when she asked that question.

"... How much of my body did you touch when I was asleep?"

"I memorized quite a bit, but my question." Makima wanted that answered, since he was right handed and that meant he would use his dominant hand for most things. "... and what is with these strange dots in your body, on your second circulatory system... and why do you weigh less than somebody your size should weigh?" Makima asked so many questions about his more inhuman biological features.

His strange 2nd Circulatory System, with 361 energy releasing points, and 8 Limiters on it.
His body not putting as much pressure or weight on her couch as it should.

The way his body worked was a complete mystery to her.

"... What... second... what... are you talking... what... OH..." Naruto realized what she was talking about. She was talking about his biology. Naruto reached up with his right hand and pushed her forehead off of him. He sat up and the dogs on him fell to the floor, wide awake and scurrying to see why they had been tossed off of their comfy human sleeping spot. "... that is my chakra network... it's the part of my body that lets me control my chakra." Naruto released chakra from his body, just enough that it would be visible.

He stopped right away though and showed his hand.

"... I would say I've lost maybe... a third of the feeling in my hand, it's just numb overall. I've honestly just gotten used to it being numb, so it doesn't bother me much anymore. Now... you mentioned breakfast." Naruto stated to Makima.

She looked a little confused.

"Did I?"

"No, but lets pretend you mentioned breakfast anyway. I'm hungry, and it's... wait... it's barely passed 2 in the morning. Welp, back to sleep." Naruto grabbed a dog and hugged it, before he rolled over on the couch while holding the happy dog.

"Not angry I touched you anymore?"

"Just don't molest me or shove anything in my ass, otherwise I don't really care if you examine me or whatever. Well, good night then... and I repeat, no anal." Naruto had to repeat that to her, since he wanted nothing to do with a complete examination of his body. He had gotten surprise anal once in his life, and that was more than enough for him to never want to be surprised with that ever again.

"No anal, got it."

"Or molestation, but you seem like the type that would rather I put my hands on you... good night." Naruto closed his eyes and was out like a light again. He was back to not caring about what was going on.

Well, it wasn't like Makima knew that he was only half sleeping.

He was also training in his mind while he was asleep, since his mind was the only place he could train without causing mass destruction at the moment. He could train in his mind and soul with Kurama and the other Tailed Beasts, and since he Kurama in his complete form, he had some training to do to get a handle on the increase in Kurama's power... though at that point that would barely take any training to get a hold on.

Either way.

At this point, he could only really train while he was asleep, so he wanted to spend each night training in his sleep, and as many times as possible.

Sleep meant getting stronger for the moment.

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