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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Charming Assassin Charmer
-Chapter 2-
"Alright, Future-kun should be done cooling down now." Lala said as the spiral symbol on the screen finished filling up and flashed pink a few times before being replaced with an image of Yami.
To think there existed ways beyond simple medical equipment and medicine to speed up the recovery process, Yami had to admit, that she was appreciating the unique way that the people of this world healed others.
"Oh good, it works still." Momo said with a sigh of relief, making Lala pout slightly at the lack of faith for her invention.
She didn't need some advanced surgery to heal her broken bones, and she had broken bones, and she wasn't being forced to take some strange medicine or shot to fix herself up. The doctor that was fixing her was a woman who had glowing green hands, and was placing them against her sternum.
Like magic though, her bodies pain was vanishing, and her bones were being reset and restored by the mystical touch of the woman healing her.
"Okay, that is pretty cool." Mikan said as she and the others watched wide eyed as the other Yami's wounds rapidly healed, the bruising fading away like it was never even there.
"Too bad Mikado-sensei isn't here, she'd love to see something like that." Rito said as the info page described the basics of healing jutsu.
"I've got that covered," The assassin girl said as she used her hair to grab a pen and paper before quickly writing down the details.
"Oh crap, she's babysitting Celine today. I need to tell her what happened." Mikan said while pulling out her cellphone and sending a quick text.
She was surprised more about the fact that she was in the same tent as a woman who was in a coma, while she was being healed by a slightly depressed looking woman. The woman in the bed had a dull blond hair, and tanned wrinkled skin. She was sleeping on her back, and she wasn't moving much at all. It was clear that some sort of exhaustion had caused her coma, and Naruto was looking at the old woman (in her 60s?) with slightly saddened eyes as well.
"Uh Lala, I think the TV is malfunctioning again," Nana said when a picture of a 'young' Tsunade popped up on screen.
"No it's not," Yami cut in before Lala had a chance to respond, pointing at a small side-note in Tsunade's profile with a hair hand. "She hides her true age with an illusion that makes her appear young."
"Handy trick and all but I have a more important question, are those real?" Momo asked while pointing towards Tsunade's rack with an envious look along with Mikan and Nana. She wasn't one to get bothered by other women with large breasts, but those lobes of flesh made even her puppies look small.
"…it doesn't say." Yami answered blandly, she never understood people's obsession with large boobs. She tried having larger breasts for a week with her trans-ability, all that weight on her chest was just way too impractical if you asked her.
The woman healing her, much younger, a woman in her possible late 20s with short black hair, and a slender body with a normal figure. She had trained her body to perfection, but her kind black eyes seemed to train in on Naruto.
"Whoa! She looks like an older version of Yui-chan!" Lala exclaimed in surprise as Shizune was finally fully visible on screen.
"No kidding, the only real difference is the eye color." Momo said, looking the woman over approvingly. "Well that and this woman doesn't have a six foot pole up her- ow!"
Rubbing the side of her chest, Momo sent Nana a dirty look as the petite twin whistled innocently.
"You really gave this girl a beating Naruto, you shouldn't treat girls this way."
"Unless they're into that sort of thing." Momo said while wiggling her eyebrows suggestively, causing Nana, Mikan, Rito, and even Yami to blush in embarrassment while Lala simply tilted her head in confusion.
"Assassin." Naruto pointed at Yami, the finger of blame pointed. Even that didn't stop her medical treatment like she assumed that it would. "Assassin Shizune, this girl tried to kill me. Sage Mode was the quickest way to end the fight." Naruto explained to the woman, Shizune, who gave him a soft smile.
What?
"Did she seriously just smile after he explained that you tried to kill him?" Mikan asked as a sweatdrop rolled down the side of her head.
"Indeed, though I do not see why you are so surprised. If I remember correctly you had a similar reaction when we were first introduced after I tried to kill your brother." Yami said with a tilted head.
"That's because Lala told me about you the day before we met, so I had some time to get used to it." Mikan said with a shrug.
"Oh please, the first thing you did was laugh and ask me if I still had my bits." Rito grumbled, unconsciously cupping his groin protectively while Mikan coughed awkwardly.
Naruto explains that an assassin tried to kill him, and he was now asking for her to be healed, and the woman smiled at him? Naruto must make it a habit of saving the lives of the people who tried to kill him if this was people's reaction to that statement.
"Which again is very lucky for your other, because he kicked you ass six ways to Sunday" Momo said with a giggle, earning a dry look from Yami.
"Please stop reminding me of that."
"-and now she has had a change of heart. I swear Naruto, it's like your voice has the magic ability to bring out the best traits in others." Shizune gave a sigh, having seen it several times before. She had seen the victims of Naruto's heart-changing speeches, she was only alive after having her own soul ripped out and sent to hell, because of Naruto's way of talking with others and changing them.
Yami furrowed her brow.
That trait sounded... familiar to her, as if she had heard of a species of people whose attractive looks, and voices, could bring out the best in others, and inspire love. She looked at Naruto with a furrowed brow for a moment.
"Hey… that kinda sounds like what mother can do." Lala said with a thoughtful expression before beaming brightly. "OOH! Maybe he's a Charmian like her! That means we're related!"
"Possibly, momma did tell us that her kind is nomadic. But if that was true then shouldn't the girls be going all gaga on him like boys do with her?" Momo asked with a raised brow.
"Not if he's only part Charmian like us, and even if he was that doesn't make us related Onee-chan. That would be like saying Zastin's related to us just because he's Devilukean." Nana pointed out. "Besides, it's probably just a coincidence."
"We'll just have to keep watching to find out." Mikan said, getting everyone to turn back to the TV… and thus missing when Momo pulled her phone out and sent a quick text.
"So Yami, who hired you?" Shizune asked the girl.
"I wasn't truly hired. I, and many other assassins, received a transmission from a man named Orochimaru. We were all given a mission to capture or kill Uzu... Naruto." Yami changed the way she addressed Naruto. She saw him send her a look when she tried to speak of him formally.
"So casual already? Who knew you worked so fast Yami-chan." Momo said with another wiggle of her brows, not even when the assassin fixed her with a stoic glare that was ruined thanks to the blush on the blonde's cheeks.
Shizune sighed.
"That man is just a cause of so much trouble. To think he could even contact aliens." Shizune didn't even need to be told the girl in front of her was an alien.
Her internal organs were slightly different, he body was filled with some kind of strange metalic feeling thing that slightly interfered with her jutsu, and with Naruto's luck a cute female assassin from outer space was about right.
"They must deal with a lot of strange stuff if she's able to skip straight past possible genetic issues and settle with 'she's an alien'." Mikan said while glancing at her friend. "No offence but with how human you look, I sometimes forget that you're an alien."
"None taken." Yami said with a shrug.
Naruto also didn't seem to be too worried about how she was taking it, and instead of taking the girl to Sakura he took her to her, which meant he wanted this kept secret.
She knew Naruto well.
"Perhaps a little too-OW!" Momo yelped mid entendre from Nana AND Mikan elbowed the girl in the ribs.
"He was a sneaky snake... more assassins?" Naruto asked Yami with a deadpan tone.
That sounded annoying.
"You should know all about that, huh Rito?" Mikan asked rhetorically as her brother slumped over.
"No kidding, it's a miracle that I can sleep at night. Though it doesn't help that certain people keep sneaking into my room." The boy said, mumbling the last part while eyeing both Lala and Momo dubiously.
"The ones who could get you were promised rewards beyond their wildest imagination." Yami explained the base of it. The actual cash to credit amount wasn't stated or anything, but it was hard to turn down the offer of a reward so great that it couldn't be put into words.
"There's no reward." Mikan and Rito said dully at the same time, causing everyone else to look at them in surprise.
"What makes you say that?" Yami asked curiously.
"Because that's the exact kind of phrasing scammers use in spam mail." Mikan explained, pulling out her own cellphone and showing them her junk mail box. "They promise great rewards or big prizes, but they always conveniently need either money and/or personal information first."
"In order to prevent you from thinking of it too deeply they bedazzle you with fancy catchphrases or misleading images." Rito continued as the girls looked through the E-mails curiously. "Then before you realize that something is amiss, *poof* your identity is stolen, your credit cards are maxed out, and all your money is gone."
"Ah, I get it now, like how a salesman will overdramatize how wonderful a product is to lure in buyers, even if said product is a piece of crap." Momo said with an understanding nod.
"What's Viagra?" Lala asked curiously as she scrolled the screen down over several messages for the blue pills, causing the human siblings to choke on air.
"Let's get back to the show!" "Yes lets!" Rito and Mikan respectively said in panicked tones as the latter snatched her phone back.
...
"Experimentation." Shizune and Naruto spoke in unison.
No doubt, any assassin that actually managed to get him would prove themselves as a worthy test subject to Orochimaru. He wanted to find a strong alien to experiment on, and what better way to find a strong alien, than to have them fight a strong ninja? The man's reward was little more than the 'honor' of being a test subject. Both Shizune and Naruto knew this from personal experience with Orochimaru, and both of them having knowledge of his past deeds.
On que, several hundred grotesque images of people that had been dismembered, dissected, mutated, and all sorts of other horrible things done to them along with just as many files.
"Oh… my… god." Mikan muttered as she gazed at the various images in horror.
"What horror is this?" Peke asked quietly as Lala's clothes fritz slightly from the robot's shock.
"I think I'm gonna be sick." Momo said, her face rapidly turning green.
"Me too," Rito groaned before cupping his mouth as his cheeks bulged out.
*Bleugh* Nana and Lala were way ahead of them as they promptly emptied their stomachs all over one of Momo's favorite potted plants, the ylteinevnoc decalp bush.
'This is monstrous.' Yami thought with a frown, the only real evidence at how disturbed she felt as she read over the horrifically detailed reports. It was only thanks to her many years as an assassin that she wasn't as openly sickened like everyone else, but she with each word she read the compulsion to puke grew that much stronger.
Thankfully those images vanished just as quickly as they came, however those few seconds were more than enough to mentally scar the group for a long time.
Walking up to the screen slightly wobbly, Lala wiped the trails of vomit off her lips while pushing a disguised button on the side that caused the video to pause. "I'm so glad I made that button… I think a quick minute break is in order."
Nobody argued with the normally bubbly pinkette as they took the time to let their stomachs settle.
"…Don't take this the wrong way Yami, but I am very happy now that Naruto beat you." Mikan said quietly.
"Trust me, I understand completely." Yami said with a shiver. If Naruto hadn't beaten her then she would have tried to turn in the bounty, and even with Orochimaru dead he apparently had many underlings that would have most likely overwhelmed her in her weakened state and then god only knows what would have become of her.
Thankfully she didn't have long to linger on these thoughts as everyone else recovered enough from the disturbing surprise and Lala pushed another button causing the video to resume playing.
'So there was no reward, and everyone was given bad information...' Yami thought, her expression quickly souring upon realizing that she had nothing to gain from this entire endeavor. All she earned herself were broken ribs, and damaged pride, which honestly wasn't worth the trip or the gas that she used getting to this forbidden planet in the first place.
'From now on, I will always triple… no, quadruple check the intel on any mission I take.' Yami thought, never wanting to possibly end up in a situation like her other ever.
Naruto looked at Tsunade.
"Has Granny shown any signs of waking up?" Naruto asked Shizune on a different note.
Shizune frowned and shook her head.
"Severe chakra exhaustion isn't something a woman her age can handle lightly. She used nearly all of her chakra to save as many villagers as she could. She's lucky to be alive at all." Shizune spoke with strong emotion welling up. She looked at Tsunade, in her elderly appearance, with sad eyes.
Neither Naruto nor Shizune thought any less of Tsunade when she looked so old, neither of them bothered by her actual appearance.
"Awww, that's so sweet." Lala gushed at the duo's concern for the elderly woman.
Yami glanced at Tsunade.
"There is a medic who might be able to wake her.
"That would be Mikado you're talking about, right?" Mikan asked, getting a shrug from the blonde assassin.
"Most likely."
As a show of gratitude for healing me-"
"Don't sweat it, Granny will recover from this in time. She just needs rest is all. I'm the one who hurt you, so you don't need to be grateful or anything." Naruto interrupted her.
"Ah, how humble of him, most people would've at least held the whole 'you tried to murder me' over your head." Nana muttered in surprise.
"Really? But Rito-kun didn't do that either." Lala said while sending said boy a curious look.
"That's because Rito couldn't hold a grudge to save his life." 'Not to mention Yami scares the hell out of him.' Momo thought with chuckle.
They didn't need a special doctor or anything. Tsunade would recover naturally in time, sad as they were that she was in a coma they still believed she would recover. The old woman was a trooper through and through, something like this wouldn't keep her down forever.
Yami frowned for a second, and then kept that frown on her face.
That was odd, and it caused a strange feeling inside of her stomach.
"Hoi? What's this? Is Yami upset that the cute boy turned down her help?" Momo asked suggestively as Yami blushed lightly.
*Growl*
No, that was hunger, she was just hungry. Her face turned a little pink, and she looked away from a grinning Naruto. Shizune even let out a light giggle at Yami's reaction to her hunger.
"Ah, what a copout." Momo grumbled, sticking out her tongue in disappointment.
"Lets go get some ramen Yami, on me. Want to come Shizune?" Naruto asked his elder ninja. She shook her head, and looked towards the stacks of unfinished work that she needed to get done.
"No, but thank you. Rebuilding a village takes a lot of work, and I'm having to do the Hokage paperwork while Tsunade is in this condition. I understand why she drinks." Shizune hated to admit it, but she wanted to go get a drink. She was dealing with so much paperwork involved with the village being rebuilt that it was insane.
"Yikes, I can feel my hands cramping just looking at all that paperwork." Mikan muttered with a grimace.
"Yeah, reminds me when mama took us to her office on take your daughter to work day." Nana said as she, Momo, and Lala shuddered.
"She had us do her entire morning workload to 'give us a taste of what to expect'." Momo groaned.
"So much signing, so much stamping." The oldest pinkette whimpered while hugging Rito tightly.
Naruto snorted.
"She drank before becoming Hokage. Come on Yami, lets go get some ramen. Ichiraku Ramen had their store rebuilt not long ago, and I'm craving ramen ya know!" Naruto's words were excited like a puppy.
"Meh, I'd say he's more foxy or kitty than puppy, especially with those whiskers." Nana said while stroking her chin thoughtfully.
Yami looked towards him silently, judging him, and trying to figure out if there were any underlying reasons for his offer.
She just assumed, safely, that he was just that friendly of a guy.
"And right back to the assuming. Did the total beatdown just twenty minutes ago teach you nothing?" Momo asked jokingly, before yelping when a hair hand slapped her.
"I told you to stop bringing that up." Yami said darkly as several more hands formed from her golden locks threateningly.
"Okay, okay, understood." The busty twin said, holding her hands up in surrender.
So she nodded her head.
She got back onto her feet, and she gave Naruto her extra nod to show that she was ready to go and eat. After being healed, her body felt slightly drained of energy, the fight she used a bit of energy fighting Naruto also having something to do with her hunger.
"Want some Taiyaki?" Mikan offered while holding out a small snack box.
"Yes, thank you." Yami said with a nod, a soft smile on her lips as she grabbed a few of the fish-shaped treats.
She had the itch to stab Naruto in the back when he turned his back towards her, walking out of the tent, but she pushed down the urge.
He was no longer a target, she was never truly under contract to get him, since the information was not only misleading, but the one contracting her was dead.
'Definitely quadruple check.' Yami thought while idly chewing on her Taiyaki.
'Ya know?' Yami thought when she noticed the strange way Naruto ended his sentence. She simply raised her eyebrow at him, before she looked around. She could see civilians and ninja working together to rebuild the village. With the village inside of a giant crater, she could only hazard a guess that something huge happened. The village was massive, and the fact that the crater was just as massive to the point it stretched all the way to the outer walls of the village showed that some grand battle occured.
"Whoa, looks like somebody popped off an Ion bomb." Momo said with a low whistle as a picture of the partly reconstructed village flashed on screen. "Or daddy got drunk and crashed the royal flagship… again."
Oddly enough, nobody was giving her strange looks for her clothes, even though they weren't much like the clothes around her. Her red eyes weren't being talked about, and nobody was shrinking away from her.
It wasn't bad.
"Well other than attacking the hottie blonde, which so far only you, he, and the hot nurse know about, you haven't really done anything to earn these people's ire or fear," Momo pointed out.
"And it definitely helps that you are absolutely adorable looking." Lala chipped in as she hugged Yami.
Frowning as a blush spread across her cheeks once again, Yami pulled the princess off with her hair and set her back down next to Rito. "I am not adorable."
"-and Granny is the current Hokage, though right now... Yami?" Naruto questioned her as he explained the recent history of the Hidden Leaf Village. He noticed that she was just looking around, taking in many of the freshly built buildings, and the people building them. "Yeah, the village is really awesome. You should have seen it before it was destroyed. I've travelled all over, but nothing beats home for me. No matter how trashed this place becomes, it'll always be beautiful to me." Naruto furthered his statement, and Yami nodded her head at his enthusiasm at least.
"You know, I just realized something," Mikan said as everyone turned their attention towards her. "We've known each-other for almost a year now but me and Rito have never visited your guy's home even once."
…
"Huh, you're right." Lala said with a surprised look before shaking her head and smiling as she hugged Rito again. "We'll have to fix that after we get out of here. Oh, just thinking about it is getting me all excited!"
"…Choking …not breathing …choking …not breathing!"
Naruto gave an awkward smile.
She wasn't one for small talk, was she?
"Who are they?" Yami asked as she pointed a finger towards the mountain nearby, the mountain with 5 faces carved into it. It was the only huge, recognizable landmark that she could see, besides the village being in a crater. The faces on the mountain were actually the only reason she knew that Naruto would be here. That landmark had been included in the briefing message for the job, but no details about it.
It was odd, but the face covered mountain commanded respect, and looking upon the noble faces on the mountain, she felt like she was looking upon greatness itself.
"It's just like that one monument in the United States, Hushmore I think it was." Rito said with an amazed look.
"Rushmore Rito, you're thinking of Mt Rushmore." Mikan corrected with a bemused look.
"That's the Hokage Monument. When somebody becomes the Hokage, the leader of this village, their face is placed on that mountain out of respect. One day, my face is going to be up there to." Naruto stared into the eyes of each of the stone faces with pride, his eyes almost sparkling with admiration for each person on the mountain. It breathed in a deep breath filled with his emotion, and exhaled in a way that showed so much self-confidence that Yami didn't doubt his words.
Naruto just looked at the stone face of the Fourth Hokage.
His father, and with those words, more pride filled him.
"Man, talk about some big shoes to fill." Nana muttered with the others nodding in agreement.
"I love the way he talks," Momo said with a saucy grin. "So much self-confidence yet not a trace of arrogance."
"Oh for the love of… could you keep your head out of the gutter for more than five seconds at a time?" Nana asked irritably.
"Nope." Momo said with a smirk as her twin sighed in exasperation.
"Senju Tsunade, the woman in the coma, is the Fifth on the mountain?" Yami asked as she stepped closer to Naruto to talk on more even terms with him. Walking side by side towards there destination, she was able to see people smiling and waving towards Naruto.
So many people seemed to hold Naruto in high value, and the amazing in their gazes, the sheer way they seemed to regard him as somebody to be held up with respect, was visible to even her.
Naruto was the hero of these people, that much was obvious, even if Yami didn't know why he was considered such.
"Oooh, that means he must have some good experience in the-OW! Stop that!" Momo yelled as she was once again jabbed in the ribs.
"Stop being such a crude beast then!" Nana yelled back before yelping as Momo jabbed her back.
"How about you stop being such a prude!"
"Why I outa…"
"Alright you two, behave." Mikan cut in as she sat herself between the twins and pushed them apart.
"She started it," Both muttered under their breath.
"She must be a great woman." Yami noted with a respectful nod.
"Granny Tsunade is pretty awesome, though she has a nasty temper... She once punted a guy through a door for mocking her age." Naruto laughed when he remembered that.
It was hilarious.
A clip of said scene popped up briefly, causing the group to sans Yami to laugh at the hilarity of the scene.
"You call her Granny."
"Well, me and Granny Tsunade are like family. Doesn't stop us from arguing a lot though, but I always win!" Naruto bragged as he puffed his chest out. Whenever he bet with Tsunade, whenever he had an argument with her, whenever they had a disagreement, it would always end with him winning.
"Maybe you should ask him for some tips Rito, then maybe you'll actually win an argument with Mikan for once." Nana teased, causing the orange haired boy to pout while his sister smirked.
"So what about you, what is your family like?" Naruto asked Yami, and she didn't respond right away.
"I don't have one."
"Ooooh, stepped on a landmine with that one." Momo hissed as everyone, sans Yami once again, winced.
Yami looked at Naruto after she said that, and she noticed that he was making a sad face, a comically sad face with tears in his eyes. He clapped his hands around one of her own, and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"That's so horrible, I know just how that feels. I never had a family growing up either. Don't worry Yami, I'm sure you'll find the people you'll consider your family one day ya know!"
"Daww, that's so sad yet sweet!" Lala gushed while Momo, Nana, and Mikan nodded approvingly of the whiskered blonde's words.
Naruto's words of sympathy and hope didn't really mean much to her. Though she did take note of the fact that Naruto didn't have a family growing up.
Assassins had to take note of all small details that could be useful later one, it was part of the job.
"Says the assassin who forgets to *Shnk* …and I'm shutting up now." Momo said nervously as Yami made several knives with her hair and pointed them threateningly at the pinkette.
"It's fine, weapons don't need family."
"Bad Yami-chan! No thinking like that!" Lala scolded while pulling Yami into a hug against the shapeshifting blonde's will. She tried to struggle out of it like last time but gave up after a minute or so as this time Lala was using all of her Devilukian strength to hold her in place.
'... She kind of reminds me of Haku.' Naruto thought with a softer look appearing deep in his eyes. He stood up straighter and let go of Yami's hand. He started to walk again, before he blinked a few times. "You're a girl... right? Not some kind of tranny?" Naruto asked Yami with a shiver going down his spine.
…
"Heh… heh… BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Momo burst out into laughter as the blonde's question finally registered in her brain. She wasn't the only one as Nana and Mikan were giggling while Rito struggled to stifle his own laughter.
Yami had a look of pure annoyance on her face as her glare flickered from the screen towards the laughing teens and back again, only idly noting the profile of this Haku person that popped on screen.
Sometimes, he just had horrible luck when dealing with boys who looked like girls, or girls who dressed like boys.
He had trouble identifying crossdressing.
"So… so he's always …falling for traps?! Oh my god that's hilarious!" Momo barely managed to get out between fits of giggles as she clutched her stomach.
"I am female." Yami deadpanned at him. She didn't know why she was asked that, but she was a little annoyed at her obvious gender being called into question. She looked at Naruto with some confusion when she saw his sigh of relief, shoulders relaxing as his hand went to his heart.
Strange.
Naruto was a strange guy, she was learning.
"He really is, but not in a bad way at least." Nana said with a shrug. "If anything it makes me more curious about him."
"Oooooh really?" Momo asked with a devious grin, "So you're finally showing interest in boys?"
"That is not what I meant and you know it!" Nana growled out while trying to reach around Mikan so she could get at Momo.
"Come on, lets hurry, I'm getting hungrier just thinking about that ramen waiting for me. I know you're going to love it! You can order anything on the menu, my treat!" Naruto walked in front of Yami, turning around and walking backwards with closed eyes, a smile on his face. The carefree way his arms were behind his head, and his voice was filled with the pure meaning of what it meant to be friendly reassuring her.
"He really does seem like a friendly guy once you get to know him." Lala said happily, albeit slightly breathlessly thanks to her recent laughing fit.
She could feel herself relaxing, that alone putting her on edge when she realized that she had almost relaxed her guard completely.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on." Mikan said with a stunned look. "He got YOU to relax already? Seriously?"
"…It would appear so." Yami muttered, equal amounts of shock and confusion on her face.
"HOW!? It took months of you living with us before you got even relax a little bit!" Mikan exclaimed in disbelief.
"I am just as confused as you are Mikan."
It was strange, and frightening, how in only a few hours this boy had managed to become so friendly with her, and how he was able to get her to relax around him.
Uzumaki Naruto.
She had never met somebody as strange as this man.
'I agree,' Yami thought with a frown while everyone else groaned as the screen went back into cooldown mode.
-End Chapter-
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