Another update!
A small changes here and there and an addition of a new Side Story.
Enjoy!
"Master, you're too rough!" Naruto moaned as Jingliu's stroke stopped and her grip tightened around the appendage.
"Silence!"
He did as ordered, quietly mewling in disappointment feeling his master stopped stroking him.
"Oh?" The woman felt a small smile of satisfaction crept to her beautiful face. "Does little Naru want me to continue?" Jingliu leaned forward and bit his ear gently.
Her warm and slick tongue began to slither around the boy's earlobe and entered it, coating the inside with her saliva.
"Y-Yes...master...it feels...good..."
Her heart beat harder and louder as she heard her pupil admit it.
Her face became flushed with scarlet as her hand moved up and down on the appendage once more.
Jingliu spooned him from behind and proceeded to stroke the appendage faster as Naruto's little moans became music to her ears.
It was late at night, and it had been their typical activity in their bed for the past few months.
Jingliu was obsessed with the boy.
Never once did this happen to her even with her previous students.
"Hmm~" She released the appendage, earning her another mewl of disappointment from the red-haired boy. "This won't do."
"Master...?" Naruto moaned out.
"I should be punishing you, not rewarding you, for marking the Helm Master and Amicassador."
The tiniest smile on his master's face made him shudder.
"B-but…I'm not a Foxian…and I didn't know about–"
"No matter. They thought of you as a Foxian, a lord for them to follow and worship. They do not care whether you are a human. You, whom they refer as their deity, marked the two Foxians as yours and people of the Luofu know about it." Jingliu bit his ear gently. "And I bet the whole of Xianzhou will also know about it."
Naruto whined as he felt his master's tongue touching his ear.
Jingliu stopped abruptly though.
The woman suddenly stood up from the bed and fixed her appearance, confusing Naruto as he too fixed his attire.
It was right then and there some kind of a portal opened and a woman with almost similar appearance to his master but shorter came out of it.
"Skirk."
"Jingliu."
Naruto looked at the two in confusion seeing there was a clone of his master.
"I didn't know you could use shadow clone, Master..."
"It's because I don't, Naru. This is Skirk, she's one of those who rivaled me in swordsmanship and excelled in arms."
"O-Oh..." The boy quickly bowed at the woman whose eyes widened briefly seeing Naruto.
She crouched in front of him and placed a hand on his chest.
Jingliu looked at the woman suspiciously, wondering what she was thinking touching her Naruto as she fancied.
Skirk spoke for the first time to the redhead. "A descendant of one of the Celestial Beings, the Otsutsuki Gods…and you have a fragment of the God Tree inside you…"
Jingliu's breath hitched slightly upon hearing that.
Behind their door, a little girl who was eavesdropping on the three took note of the information.
Kurama, also awakened from his slumber, eyes narrowing at Skirk from inside his host.
Naruto tilted his head to the side, not understanding any of them.
"The Otsutsuki Gods…" Jingliu began with an anxious tone. "I've heard legends of them. They conquered worlds, dimensions and universes to enact Otsutsuki Will. They're very resilient that even death couldn't claim their soul as they continued to exist as long as there is a trace of their powers lingering in the universe...to think that my apprentice would be one of their descendants and had a fragment of God Tree inside him..."
Skirk nodded at Jingliu's explanation, her eyes never leaving the redhead's blue ones.
"I don't understand...how did he arrive here? Surely there wasn't someone mad enough to take him away from his home world?"
Naruto frowned at the woman before batted her hand away.
"Don't call Kafka mad, I don't like it if you say something bad about Kafka."
Skirk blinked.
It seemed that the child had some bite in him.
"Would you like me to train you?" She offered, surprising both him and Jingliu.
"I'm afraid he's under my tutelage, Skirk." Jingliu interrupted before Naruto could answer. "Besides, I have to make sure little Naru here won't turn against us, isn't that right, Naru?"
The redhead turned to her master's blindfolded eyes and nodded slowly.
"Oh? And how are you going to ensure that wouldn't happen?"
Jingliu then whispered into Skirk's ear, causing the aloof woman to blush lightly despite her face remaining expressionless.
"Interesting...and, yes, it's a very alluring idea to have an Otsutsuki as an obedient pet."
The two pale beauties turned to Naruto before slowly approaching him.
Let's just say that from tonight, Naruto was disciplined by the two women.
Denying him pleasure and demanding him to beg for it if he wanted his tails to be rubbed.
"Whoa, Naruto, what's wrong with you?!" Bailu gasped seeing Naruto's disheveled and tired look early in the next morning.
It had been a daily routine for the Vidyadhara to come to bring breakfast for Naruto and spend their time before she was caught again by her Preceptors.
"Two masters...there are two masters...two evil masters..." the redhead muttered hollowly.
The purplette sweatdropped and couldn't help but feel sorry for the boy.
Both Kafka and Jingliu were extremely angry, not at Naruto, but at the two Foxian women because of the incident yesterday.
They were banned from seeing Naruto for a whole month because of that matter and now that Naruto somehow marked the two of them as their future wives, the situation became even more tense.
Tingyun would definitely try to gain Naruto's attention, doing all possible things that you could imagine while Yukong would be more subtle since the latter had a daughter, Qingni, despite being adopted and she still needed to explain the matter to her.
This, of course, didn't bode well with Jingliu.
She had to restrain herself greatly from killing the two women.
That was why she became much more intense in teasing the boy at night and in training the boy in the daytime. Kafka meanwhile promised a punishment for Naruto when she returned to the Luofu.
In what form? They didn't know.
The Vidyadhara tilted her head to the side before snapping her fingers.
"Hey, do you have anything to do today?"
Naruto shook his head slowly.
"No, Master told me to get some rest since she has a gue–"
"THERE YOU ARE!"
Both Naruto and Bailu jumped in surprise at the voice and turned to see Stelle running toward them.
"Ah, there she is. I was wondering where she was."
"I...forget that Kafka left her here yesterday before leaving…wait, where did she sleep then?"
The silverette then tackled him but he was unfazed and only looked down at the slightly shorter-and-pouting Stelle.
"You should have fallen on your butt and let me straddle you like in Bronie's book!"
Naruto tilted his head to the side, not understanding Stelle at all.
Bailu, meanwhile, was turning red from the reference.
Oh, she knew what Stelle was talking about since she had seen those books many times before.
The girl's stomach rumbled right after.
"Ughh…I'm hungry…"
Bailu blinked.
"Here, I brought you two breakfasts, shall we eat before I bring you two somewhere?" the Healer Lady offered.
Both Naruto and Stelle didn't hesitate and agreed to her immediately.
"Speaking of, what did you say about Jingliu?" Bailu asked since they were interrupted earlier.
"Master has a guest and they left just now…that's why I don't need to train today…"
Bailu nodded.
She had an inkling who the guest was since today was the day for them to meet up.
Naruto, Stelle, and Bailu were facing a pink-haired girl with golden eyes around their height as she blocked their way.
She wore four golden hairpins, two with pink tassels and crescent moon ornaments pinned into her ponytails. Her clothing consisted of a dark brown and white dress with golden constellation designs, along with white tights that have cloud patterns. She also wore a frilled choker connected to a purple and gold tasseled-ornament.
"Lady Bailu, where art thou taking these children–"
"...Why is there a loli here?" Stelle interrupted, causing Naruto and Bailu to comically widen their eyes as they turned to the silverette.
The pinkette's lips and eyebrow twitched at the girl but calmed herself rather quickly.
"Please refrain from calling me that…I'm yet growing."
"Oh? And how old are you?" Stelle asked curiously.
"...I need not answer that, do I?"
The silverette grinned mischievously as she pointed at the pinkette.
"A real-life loli then!"
The girl's brow twitched rapidly.
Seeing the look, Bailu decided to step in.
"Now, now, Stelle, even if Master Diviner here looks…really young, she is actually really old–"
"Thou art not helping…"
"Ehehe, sorry, little Fu. It's just that I need to explain it that way to Stelle."
The girl, little Fu, exhaled tiredly before turning to Naruto.
"Greetings, Foxian Lord, though this be our first meeting, I have long foreseen thy coming."
"H-huh?" Naruto scratched the back of his head, startled by how she spoke.
"Fu Xuan, can't you just speak normally?" Bailu shook her head exasperatedly. "They're just kids, how are they supposed to understand you?"
"...Fine. I believe this is to your liking?"
"Better and please keep talking like that! I heard complaints from your subordinates that your way of talking is too hard to understand sometimes."
"Huh…do they?" Her eyes narrowed. "You heard it from Qingque, did you not?"
Bailu flinched and looked away.
"No matter. She will be dealt with later."
Little Fu turned to Naruto again.
"Well, let us start over again, shall we?" Naruto nodded before the woman began once more. "My name is Fu Xuan, they call me Master Diviner–"
"She's cocky, isn't she, Naru?" Stelle whispered a bit too loud. "Calling herself a master diviner–"
The Uzumaki quickly silenced the silverette seeing the look on Fu Xuan's face.
Luckily for them, the woman ignored her and continued.
"I have actually foreseen your coming to the Luofu for a long time, Foxian Lord…and your arrival prevented many tragedies which is a good thing…yet it also clouded my divination since I can no longer see past your arrival here."
Naruto was silent for a few seconds before his lips parted.
"...isn't that good then?"
"...pardon?"
"I mean…I don't know how it is for you guys…but I definitely don't want to know the future since it'll be boring! The surprises are what make life exciting!"
Fu Xuan took in what Naruto said before shaking her head.
"You're still too naive, as expected of a child–" "Hey!" "While what you said has some truth in it, as a Master Diviner, I foresee the future for the safety and prosperity of the Xianzhou Alliance and its people. It isn't about myself any longer and I think losing the surprises that the future might have for me and some people is worth it."
The young-looking woman paused, gauging Naruto's reaction and by the look of it, he was faltering.
"But still…won't that stop us from trying our best if we know the future's set?"
"Another truth in your words…that's why I don't tell everyone what I see. I use my knowledge to guide and protect while letting the people live their lives freely…"
Naruto nodded his head slowly.
"I guess…I can agree to that since you're basically giving people a choice to know the future or not…"
Bailu decided to interrupt seeing this was getting too much.
"Little Fu…you do realize you're talking with a child, do you not?" Bailu chided with an exasperated sigh.
Fu Xuan closed her eyes.
"I understand, I apologize." She opened her eyes again and offered a hand to Naruto. "It is nice to exchange pleasantries with you, I hope you don't mind if I come to see and teach you several things about Divination, Foxian Lord."
'Pleasantries?' Bailu and Naruto sweatdropped. 'That was a philosopher's discussion!'
"Not Foxian Lord…I'm a human and my name is Uzumaki Naruto." He took Fu Xuan's offered hand and shook it only for the woman to wince, feeling something sticky in her hand.
"...If I may ask, Naruto?"
"Yup?"
His hand squeezed hers slowly as the sticky liquid was spread evenly.
"What is this sticky thing I'm feeling in my hand?"
Naruto grinned.
"Oh, that's Stelle's drool when I covered her mouth."
The girl made a peace sign beside Naruto.
"That's what you get for bullying Naru."
Seeing Fu Xuan's look, Bailu quickly grabbed Naruto and Stelle's wrists, carefully avoiding her saliva and pulled them into the starskiff, leaving the Exalting Sanctum and a fuming Master Diviner.
"Okay...why are we in this...what garden is it again?" Naruto asked as they trailed the only path available after getting off of the starskiff.
He looked around the eerie area since it was dark and only the moon and a few lanterns served as their light.
"Fyxestroll Garden..." Bailu informed him. "Ugh... this place wasn't this creepy before..." The Vidyadhara looked around the terrace.
"Look! There's a floating green flame here!" Stelle called out to them.
Bailu and Naruto turned at the girl before the former turned as white as a sheet.
"O-oi-oi-oi! Stelle! Get away from it! That's a heliobus! They're–"
The green flame launched itself toward Stelle and was about to possess her until a bubbly red claw came out of Naruto and seized the heliobus before pulling it inside him.
Bailu and Stelle looked at him with wide eyes until he burped.
"Sorry about that...it's just, Kurama was hungry." Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"Whoaaaaaaaa...Is Kurama the nine-tailed fox the Foxian people revere to?" Bailu asked as this was the first time she had seen it in action.
"Yup." Naruto's ears and tails popped out before he shook them. "What's a heliobus by the way?" He questioned the dragon lady.
"Well...Heliobus...Heliobi in short are parasitizing demons made of pure energy like what you just saw…they parasitize physical bodies in order to experience emotions and feed on them."
"Like a ghost then?"
Bailu nodded.
"They're also ancient enemies of the Xianzhou Alliance…but the last they were seen was on a different fleet, the Xianzhou Zhuming…why is there a heliobus in the Luofu?"
"Hey, Naruto?" Stelle called out to the redhead, causing him and Bailu to look at the silverette. "Both you and Bailu have ears and tails. Can I cut some of yours and–"
"Oh, hell no!" He ran deeper into the garden.
Stelle turned to Bailu.
"Not me! I only have one tail!" The Vidyadhara grabbed her tail protectively.
"How about a horn then?" Stelle bargained.
The purplette turned pale.
"You're insaneeeeeeee!" Bailu chased after the redhead with Stelle on their trail laughing maniacally.
"Oh goodness, your tails are so fluffy~!" Bailu commented as she rubbed her cheeks with them.
"Aaahh~ If only I knew where you sleep at night, I'd jump you in the bed with these furs wrapping me all night~" Stelle followed up.
"Ugh...Bailu, we've been walking for half an hour, and I'm getting full because Kurama kept eating every Heliobi we encountered...Why don't you try calling your friend? Everything is starting to look the same for me..."
Bailu's eyes widened, forgetting that she could have called her friend from the beginning.
"I forgot that I brought my phone with me...tehe?" She rubbed her head sheepishly with a tongue sticking out.
His disappointed gaze befell upon the Vidyadhara.
"Please don't look at me like that...I promise I'll try to remember things earlier next time..."
Naruto shook his head, allowing Bailu to call for her friend.
The three then waited for the girl called Huohuo to come as they sat, watching the sprouts of bamboo and thickets of flora surrounding the courtyard.
They were also accompanied by the shrill screeches of the Heliobi captured by Kurama's hand each time he felt there were some coming closer.
It didn't take long until a Foxian girl with green hair and a tall woman with zenith blue hair and a pale visage arrived and saw what was happening.
"Lady Bailu?" The taller woman called out. "May I ask what you're doing here? And who are these children?"
"L-L-Lord N-N-Naruto!?" The Foxian girl addressed the redhead who was sprawled under Bailu and Stelle who were enjoying his tails.
It was then the two newcomers saw a claw coming out of his body and tried to reach for Huohuo's tail.
"Eeekk!" The girl jumped in surprise and began to run.
"Wait! What are you doing?! She's not a Heliobus!" Bailu asked but she received no answer from the fox inside Naruto.
Instead it was the redhead who answered her.
"Kurama said he sensed a Heliobus in her tail and it looked more delicious than the others that he ate..." Naruto explained before stopping Kurama from doing so.
"Ah, that must be Tail that Kurama sensed." The woman supplied the information for Naruto. "Huohuo here found Tail by accident hundreds of years ago and ever since that time, he was sealed inside her tail, thus why the shape and look of her appendage look different from other Foxian people."
He pushed himself up and sat on the ground.
"I see...sorry about that..." Naruto said to the Foxian girl who hid herself behind the taller woman. "It's been years since Kurama had treats, that's why he had been eating non stop when we got here..."
"I-it's fine, L-Lord Naruto! Y-you and K-Kurama-sama didn't know about it, but please don't do that again...T-Tail is freaking out right now..."
The redhead nodded.
"I see..." The taller woman murmured. "And you must be Naruto, the one who the Foxian people revered?"
"It's actually Kurama who they revered and he's sealed inside me,.." The boy corrected.
The woman nodded and she continued to inquire about Naruto regarding Kurama eating the Heliobi and whether he felt nauseous or something.
Such a thing was incredibly rare, after all.
Meanwhile with Bailu and her friend.
"Hey, Huohuo! Let's go and play? Didn't you say that you have the whole day off today?"
"Uuh...I'm sorry, Lady Bailu, but there's an urgent situation going on in the garden right now..." The Foxian girl replied as she peeked at the Vidyadhara.
"Is it related to these Heliobi?"
Huohuo nodded timidly.
"Then–"
"Huohuo." The woman addressed the Foxian girl. "You can take the day off, Naruto and I can handle the rest."
"Wait, what?" The redhead squeaked in surprise.
"Waaaaait! We're supposed to have fun today Hanya! If Naruto isn't there, what's the purpose then!?" Bailu harrumphed with folded arms.
"Collecting the Heliobi takes priority, Lady Bailu." The woman now known as Hanya replied.
"Uuuhhhhh..."
"Tsk."
They immediately turned to Naruto and saw a silhouette of a fox's head made of bubbly red energy hovering above the redhead.
"I have an easier solution if you don't mind." The Biju said. "I'll cover all of the garden with my chakra, forming a small dome and kill these Heliobi in one go."
"Wait, if you can kill them then why did you have to eat them?!" Naruto asked.
"I told you this is the first time I can actually eat something not human! And if I eat all of them at once, you'll explode from the inside!"
Naruto shuddered at the idea.
"Nope! You're not allowed to kill Naruto, you big mean fox!" Stelle threw a rock at the mass of energy which went through it.
Kurama deadpanned at the silverette. "Feisty one, she is..." He turned to Hanya. "How about it? Do you agree with my idea?"
The woman pondered about it before eventually nodding.
"Wait!" Huohuo called out. "W-What about Tail? Will he be affected?"
The Biju turned to the Foxian girl.
"Hm... I don't know, this is the first time I'm trying it, but for your friend's safety, I suggest you leave the garden with everyone else." Kurama informed her. "That includes all of you since I don't know what will happen to people without chakra in their body if they stayed inside the dome."
"What will happen to Naruto then?" Bailu asked, worried for his friend.
"The worst that will happen is my corrosive chakra will burn his skin but it won't be a life-threatening one."
"That doesn't sound good..." Naruto muttered.
"When the time comes where you can purify my chakra, that will be the time you'll be able to let everyone use it without corroding their bodies."
Naruto nodded and before long, Hanya ordered everyone stationed in the garden to leave since they would conduct a mass purification instead of sealing and she didn't know what effect it would have on their bodies.
It didn't take long until Hanya and the rest saw a bubbling red dome of energy covering the whole Fyxestroll Garden and loud screeches from the Heliobi rang loudly around the place as they were killed by the red energy.
"Okay, this is a new level of horror even for me..." A voice came out from Huohuo's tail before a green canine's head without limbs formed beside the Foxian girl.
"W-What do you mean, Tail?" The greenette asked timidly.
"W-well...as I am a Heliobus, I can hear their pleas for help and mercy but Kurama...didn't spare any of them..." Tail explained as Hanya and the rest looked at him. "Please don't tell him I said anything..." Tail got back inside Huohuo's tail.
It was then they saw the dome of red energy slowly focused themselves into one point as if being absorbed before it was finally gone.
Hanya and the group went back to the garden and when they arrived, they found Naruto standing on all four limbs like a fox with bubbly dark red energy coating his whole body from head to toes including his tails and ears.
There were also skeletal structures resembling a fox attached to the energy as they saw him.
"Run, you idiots!" Tail manifested once more and warned the group.
Naruto heard the Heliobus and turned to the group.
They could see white spots where his eyes and mouth were before he roared to the night sky, creating a massive crater from where he stood.
"...yup, we're dead…" Tail followed up before the dark red energy slowly receded into Naruto's body. "...or not."
When the dark red energy was gone, Naruto dropped to the ground into the pool of his own blood and Bailu quickly ran to his side.
"Oh, dear..." The Vidyadhara murmured as she checked on his condition. The redhead's whole skin was burnt and she could see his skin tissue. Weirdly, the hair and his fur wasn't burnt along with the skin.
Bailu quickly poured the medicine she brought in her gourd for cases like these to ease his pain, but due to her panicking, she poured a gourd of alcohol instead.
"FUUUUUCCCCCKKKK!"
Profanities shot out of the redhead's mouth when Bailu showered his burnt skin with alcohol. They watched it bubbling and could smell the scent of burnt meat after a few seconds.
Huohuo threw up in the corner smelling it, Hanya covered her nose at the smell while Stelle just poked him with a branch as if checking he was cooked well-done.
Bailu quickly poured the correct medicine this time and Naruto felt his pain going away though he needed to be fully bandaged like a mummy from the dragon lady's observation until his skin fully restored itself.
"While I'm grateful for what you did..." Naruto glared at the dragon girl. "I'll always remember the moment you poured alcohol over my wound..."
"I-I'm sorry, okay!? I panicked!"
"You'll be fine, I'm healing your skin as fast as I could right now." Kurama chimed in his mind.
Naruto grumbled before he saw Hanya and Huohuo approaching him. They thanked him for his assistance over this matter and the Ten-Lords commission would definitely repay him.
Naruto shrugged them off saying that he was only helping and they didn't need to do that.
Stelle meanwhile was still poking at him with a branch.
"Stop that, will you!? That hurts like hell!"
"Eeeh, you're not soft enough, we need to cook you a bit longer..." the silverette responded.
"...You're nuts..."
Stelle stuck her tongue out at him and the three decided to end the day to let Naruto rest.
Or that's what they thought.
"We're leaving to see our friend that will help us train you, Naru."
The redhead deadpanned at his master.
By this time, Bailu was already found by her Preceptors and returned to her work.
"And what's with your appearance?" His master's look-a-like asked with folded arms.
"...never mind. Is Stelle coming with us?" the boy asked his masters.
"Well, I don't see why not." Jingliu answered before Skirk opened up a portal and picked Stelle by the scruff of her neck and threw her inside it.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeee!"
Naruto sweatdropped at the easygoing girl before he too entered the portal with Jingliu and Skirk on his side. They tried to hold his hands but Naruto refused, saying that he was hurting all over his body.
Stelle landed on her feet at the new place as she looked around her surroundings. The place was beautiful and she was on top of a mountain with ranches.
"Are those...chickens?" the girl murmured seeing huge white chickens.
"Oi!" Stelle heard a call, then turned to see a woman whose hair color matched hers. "What are you doing here!? This is a private–"
The two stared at each other for a while.
"Mom?/Daughter?"
The woman picked Stelle up and left the area.
Not so long after that, Naruto, Skirk and Jingliu arrived.
"We're...in a ranch?" Naruto asked, dumbfounded at the numbers of huge ass chickens eating worms. "And are those...chickens?"
"Not really, this is Senti's hobby...and they are Phoenixes, not chickens." Jingliu explained.
"By the way..." Naruto looked around and he couldn't find Stelle anywhere. "Where's Stelle? She didn't get eaten by these...phoenixes, did she?"
His master chuckled lightly.
"No, I don't think so. These Phoenixes are smarter than they look and if my hunch is correct-"
"AAAAAAAAAAGGGGG!HHHH! I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T SLEEP WITH ANYONE!"
"AND HOW ARE YOU GOING TO EXPLAIN THIS CHILD THEN!? SHE DEFINITELY HAS YOUR PERSONALITY AND LOOKS!"
They heard two voices screaming at each other.
"...never mind, I guess we find her..." Naruto deadpanned before he followed his masters climbing up the stone stairs.
That's it for the main story!
Before we continue to the Side Story;
Review corner
DragonOfChocolateness: Weell, just wait and see how it will happens~
Dragonkeeper10: Yeah, chapter 8 is already good as it is IMO, but I'll probably add some things...maybe.
AhegaoDoublePeace: As mentioned that his parents chakra merged with him along with their memories. that means yes, naruto will have shadow clones and rasengan while SPSM will be much later in the 4th Ninja War. And no, Naruto doesn't know what happens in Elementia, he was only asked to help to fulfill the prophecy.
Karasuna Yachi: Let's see how it goes, shall we?
InfiniteNexusofChaos: lol, that thing will get more difficult when they get older.
Tera12: thanks!
kaellucio4: thanks!
Now that we're done with the review corner, let's proceed with the side story.
It happens after Bailu splits up with Naruto and Stelle.
Enjoy!
Side Story 1
With Bailu who was forced to go back to her workplace, she sat behind her desk with a sigh.
"And here I am again…I miss flying...I am so jealous of Yingxing and Jingliu…" Her eyes glanced at the photo frames on her desk.
The first one was from her old times when the High-Cloud Quintet still existed and she was still a Foxian. Jing Yuan, Dan Feng, Jingliu, Yingxing or Blade as he went by these days and herself.
Good days, those times.
Her gaze shifted to the right frame and this time it was her as Bailu with Jingliu and Jing Yuan, only three of the High-Cloud Quintet members remained in the Luofu.
"...they look like my parents if I'm standing in the middle…" Bailu sweatdropped before giggling. "Nah, the dork general prefers fighting to death than being married to Jingliu."
She turned to another photo frame of hers as Baiheng and a Foxian woman who was now also known as the Great General adored by civilians and soldiers of Xianzhou, Feixiao.
"...Definitely can't have her meet Naruto, nope." Bailu deadpanned. "We're lucky she's on a different flagship, not Luofu…"
She knew Feixiao as a straightforward, unrestrained and a frank person.
While she wondered what would happen if Feixiao meets Naruto, she didn't want to know how Jingliu would react to that, especially with how the Foxians worship Naruto/Kurama greatly.
Hell, the woman would definitely steal the whiskered boy just like that and bring him to Yaoqing.
"Naruto in Yaoqing..."
She shuddered. Since Foxians were the dominant race in that fleet, they would definitely treated the boy as their deity.
Bailu wouldn't be surprised if they built his monument.
Shaking her head, her attention returned to Feixiao.
"Is she still hunting the Borisin, I wonder? I wouldn't be surprised if she does since they enslaved many Foxians…" Bailu murmured to herself.
She sighed, remembering her mother telling her stories about their home planet, Planet of Verdant, that existed many thousands of years ago.
The Foxian and the Borisin came from the same planet and the former saw the latter as savages while the latter saw the former as deceptive merchants.
They worshiped Yaoshi until their planet experienced population explosion and ecological collapse and THEY didn't respond to their plea for help.
The two races then left for the stars until the Borisin decided to enslave the Foxian, turning them as their livestocks, servants and currency. That didn't stay long though since the Xianzhou Alliance heard about it and rescued many Foxians years ago.
Now, the Foxians became one of the main races of the Alliance and the dominant culture in Xianzhou Yaoqing.
"Haaaaah…" Bailu turned to the recently added photo frames on her table and beamed at them.
It was of her, Naruto and Jingliu.
Just in a short amount of time, they had made lots of memories and probably a lot more in the future.
She clapped her cheeks.
"Okay!" She jumped out of her seat, preparing to go do her work. "Let's get this over with and go to Jingliu's place again!"
The Dragon Lady opened the door only to bump into someone.
"Ouch! Watch where you're going, will you!?"
She looked up to the person, a Vidyadhara, she bumped into.
"You look familiar…" Bailu murmured and the person smiled.
"Lady Bailu, it has been a while. Do you still remember who I am?"
The Healer Lady squinted her eyes with a hand under her chin.
Her eyes widened.
"Dan Zhu! Is that you!?"
The Vidyadhara now known as Dan Zhu nodded her head.
"I no longer use that name, Lady Bailu. My current one is Lingsha."
"Uh-huh…" She looked up in awe. "Wow, you're…taller than me now…"
"Well…apparently what you said about a child running around was spot on, thus my current look."
Bailu deadpanned before murmuring to herself.
"I actually just made that up…anyway! Are you still learning Healing Arts under your master? I mean you followed her years ago when she was exiled."
Lingsha nodded her head.
"I do, but I'm here to tell you that now I'm the new Cauldron Master of the Luofu's Alchemy Commission."
Bailu froze on her spot.
Did she hear it correctly?
Her once-used-to-be junior was now her boss?
"I hope you treat me well, Lady Bailu."
"...WHAAAAAAAAAATTT!?"
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