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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Charming Assassin Charmer

-Chapter 9-

After several minutes of tense and contemplative silence passed, the group were snapped out of their thoughts as the TV's buffering sequence finished.

"Why am I the one carrying the dead body!?"

Yamato, suffice to say, wasn't pleased about the current predicament that he was somehow in once more. First they stuck him on guard duty, which was mostly just sitting around and killing the rare few ninja that would enter the base. It was boring work, and most of the enemies didn't even put up a fight that would have at least made the effort a work out. Now though, he was being tasked with carrying Kabuto's dead body so that his memories could be looked at later on.

"Eh, somebody's gotta be stuck doing the grunt work." Momo said with a casual shrug.

Nobody really heard what she said though as they were too busy thinking, 'Thank the heavens they covered the corpse.' Said body was slung over Yamato's shoulder, wrapped up in plain white cloth that was stained red in various places.

"Well, I'm going to go to my apartment. I'm starved after that mission." Naruto ignored Yamato as the guy complained.

He had ramen at his apartment calling his name, and it was almost morning.

"Jeez, this guy really has a one-track mind." Mikan said with a roll of her eyes, even as a small giggle slipped past her lips.

"Is ramen really that tasty?" Lala asked Mikan curiously, since the young brunette was the one who did most of the cooking.

"Depends on how it's made and who's making it, though the instant stuff is usually alright." Mikan said while making a 'so-so' motion with her hand.

Soon Guy and Lee would be up, and starting their morning work out. It would be best to avoid any uncomfortable questions, like why were his clothes damaged, why did he had blood on him, and why he smelled like snake guts. The guts might have been washed off, but it wasn't like the smell wasn't in his clothes.

"Oh right, I forgot about that," Momo muttered with a shiver that everyone but Yami shared. "That gotta be one nasty stink."

"Yeah, I'm really glad that I'm not there to… Lala, what is that?" Nana cut herself off when she noticed a green light started to blink.

"Oh that, that just means the super sensory detection replicator is activated," Lala said with a cheery smile… that suddenly turned to a look of horror. "Uh-oh."

"Uh-oh? What's with the uh-oh Lala?" Rito asked nervously as he and everyone else turned towards the inventor, only to blink when they saw her face suddenly covered by a gas mask.

"Nothing, nothing at all, no need to worry, none what-so-ever." The pinkette said in a faux cheery tone, her voice distorted by the air filtering face cover she was wearing.

…

Rubbing her forehead in exasperation at her daughter's antics, Sephie was about to say something to the masked girl…

*Sniff* *Sniff* "OH DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT SMELL!?"

…Only to end up clapping her hands over her nose as an absolutely foul stench suddenly flooded her nostrils. She wasn't the only one either as everyone else aside from Lala (for obvious reasons) and Yami (Who'd dealt with far worse) started gagging and coughing.

Thankfully though, the smell only lasted a few moments before dissipating, allowing the group to breath easily once more.

"Lala," Nana started once she got her breathing under control, sending the older pinkette an irritated glare. "Why would you make a function like that?"

"…because I'd thought it'd be cool." Lala mumbled, her gas mask vanishing in a brief flash of light as she spoke. "Thanks Peke."

"Of course Lala-san."

"Don't worry, I'll go with you. Naruto, if anything important comes up, I'll let you know. Later." Kakashi vanished in a burst of speed, with Yamato huffing as he followed him. The two senior ninja leaving the younger man behind, with Yami standing behind Naruto with a neutral look on her face.

She looked at the back of Naruto's head, and he felt her piercing stare.

"She's so undressing him with her eyes." Momo mock-whispered to Nana, making the animal lover elbow her again while Yami sent the busty twin an annoyed glance.

"Yo." Naruto turned his head and looked at her. "You did great out there, too bad you're not a leaf ninja. I would have loved to go on more missions with you." Naruto complimented her on their success. She didn't play a small part, because of her radar they not only tracked down her ship, but they even found the base that Kabuto had been hiding in.

Yami nodded her head slowly.

"... Thank you." Yami stated as she turned her head away from him.

It was always so embarrassing to thank people for her, though she rarely had to actually do that anyway. She would have actually been stuck on Naruto's planet if he hadn't helped her. She wouldn't have been able to get to her ship, or made it passed all of those ninja (The Cursed Seal ones) were it not for him and Kakashi.

"Awwww, that's so sweet and adorable!" Lala gushed while pulling Yami into a hug, making the transforming assassin roll her eyes in exasperation even as she blushed ever so lightly once more but nothing else, having given up on escaping the princess's excessive innocent affection.

She wasn't stupid though, and knew that Kakashi only helped because of Naruto as well.

Naruto's reaction was expected when he gave it.

"No problem Yami-chan. I was happy to help." Spoken with a bright smile she was coming to know him for, she nodded her head, and gave a very slight smile of her own.

She was capable of smiling too.

"Yeah, but you're more likely to see Lala acting like a mean snob then Yami crack a grin." Momo stated with a shrug, to which Mikan, Nana, and Rito nodded in agreement. Meanwhile Lala redoubled her gushing at the sight much to Yami's chagrin and Sephie giggled into her hand at both the sight on screen and her children's antics.

"Is there a place I can take a bath?" Yami changed the topic, gesturing to her body. She winced when she did so, and she looked at her bandaged ribs. "... I might need healing again too." Yami examined herself. Her injury had stopped bleeding, and while it was not life threatening, getting it healed would prevent any possible infections from happening. It would also bring her battle strength back up to 100% if she did, and she wanted to always be at her best.

"Hey, now that I think about it, shouldn't your nanites be able to patch up wounds like that?" Mikan asked Yami with a raised brow. "I mean, they let you turn your body into metal and various weapons, grow wings and even become a mermaid with functional gills, so wouldn't fixing broken bones and cuts be a snap?"

"Normally yes, but my nanites having been programed against doing so unless specific conditions are met, as both a security measure for if I went rouge and to prevent uncontrolled cellular replication." Yami explained, getting her friend to nod in understanding.

Naruto looked at her.

"Yeah, I know a place. Konoha has always had a few good hot springs in the village, though some were destroyed, we've rebuilt them. They'll even wash your clothes if you pay a little extra." Naruto mentioned to her, he looked down at himself, and his own dirty clothes. He could use a good wash himself, before he ate, and the hot springs did serve dango. It wouldn't hurt for them to go there.

It was pretty early still, so there shouldn't be too many people there, other than some of the early risers.

"Ooooh, that sounds nice. Now I wanna go to a hotspring." Lala said while finally letting go of Yami, who promptly moved over so that Mikan and Rito were between her and the bubbly princess.

"Well it'll have to wait till after we get out of here sis." Nana said bluntly, making Lala pout cutely at having to wait.

"... Can I borrow some money?" Yami asked Naruto with her cheeks more red than before.

Pure embarrassment for her to have to rely so much on Naruto, and it was showing on her face. She couldn't quite look him in the eye when she asked for his help once more. Seeing as she didn't have any of the local currency, she had no way to pay for anything.

"The main downside of traveling from planet to planet, many have their own form of currency that is useless anywhere else." Yami said, frowning as she remembered the times her clients had paid her with local money, forcing her to spend it all on that planet rather then save it for later.

Until she looked at her ship, and washed the snake guts off of it, it would be best for her to stay in the village. She wanted to make sure that everything was okay with her ship before she took it back into space.

"Wise choice, god only knows what damage the thieves could have done to it while in their possession." Sephie said with an approving nod. Being an intergalactic diplomat, she'd seen many cases of ships discovered by lesser developed planets, with most ending up being torn to useless bits by overenthusiastic scientists that had no idea what they were tampering with.

Naruto nodded.

"Sure, we can go together."

"Oh, so bold~." Momo said with a saucy grin.

"Ecchi." Yami covered her chest as she looked at the screen with narrowed eyes.

"Ecchi." Yami covered her chest as she looked at him with narrowed eyes.

Mikan, Momo, and Sephie couldn't help but giggle softly upon seeing both Yami's move in near perfect sync once again.

"It's not mixed bathing damnit!" Naruto shouted at her with red cheeks. He wasn't his sensei, who would go to every mixed bathing place that existed. He might be the inventor of the Sexy Jutsu and the Harem Jutsu, but most of the time he wasn't really a pervert. He enjoyed his perverted moments like any guy, but he would rather spend his time training than peeping on women.

"Oh, well those are certainly… interesting techniques." Sephie said with a light blush as pop-ups for the Oroike no Jutsu, Hāremu no Jutsu, Oiroke Gyaku Hāremu no Jutsu, Onnanoko Dōshi no Jutsu, and Otokonoko Dōshi no Jutsu appeared with demonstration videos.

"Ecchi." Yami repeated with a roll of her eyes and a mild blush of her own.

"You can say that again." Mikan said, her face bright glowing red.

"I don't get it." Lala said with a tilted head, completely unaffected by the sight while Rito was passed out with steam coming from his head.

"Uh, mom," Nana said, getting Sephie's attention as she pointed to her twin, who was staring at the screen with a goofy grin as she frothed from the mouth. "I think Momo broke."

'Jackpot! Jackpot! JAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKPOT!' Said girl thought as the pop-ups vanished and she stared straight at Naruto with desire burning in her eyes. 'Must have him! Must have him! All mine! All mine! Mine! Mine! MINE!'

"Oh my, poor girl's overexcited," Sephie said with a giggle as she pulled her daughter onto her lap and started stroking her head in a soothing manner. "I haven't seen one of you like this since Lala snuck into the R&D department when she was ten."

Yami uncovered her chest and nodded her head at him, believing him when he spoke those words. He had yet to lie to her, or make himself out to be a pervert, so he would have the benefit of the doubt.

For now.

"He does seem like the kind of person you could trust not to peek." Mikan said with a smile as her face slowly returning back to its natural shade of color.

Yami didn't respond to her friend's comment verbally, opting t just give a small nod in agreement as she kept her eyes locked on the screen.

-At the Hot Springs (8:39 AM)-

"This place is... nice." Yami noted as she walked with Naruto towards the building. It looked like it was still in the process of opening for the morning, and the walk they had to make to get to the hot springs had been lengthy. They weren't in too much of a hurry though, since getting to the place before it opened wouldn't have done them any good.

The building was all wood, and the back part of the building was surrounded by a tall wooden fence with a visible split down the middle. The steam coming out of the fenced off, unviewable area, was enough to let her know that was where the bath was.

She would be on the lookout for perverts.

"I almost pity anyone who might try, almost." Nana said, flashes of the brutal beatings Yami had given to any pervert she'd encountered. She was still trying to figure out how the principal hadn't died yet, given that he was the assassin's numero uno punching bag since the fool just didn't know the meaning of give up.

"Yeah, anyway, lets get in." Naruto walked through the clothe door without a care, Yami following behind him when she realized they were actually doing this. "How much for two people, and to have our clothes fixed up?" Naruto asked the front counter woman, the woman stocking the towels behind the counter.

She yelped in surprise.

"Ah! Naruto-san... I mean Uzumaki-sama!" The young woman became nervous when she saw Naruto, before she looked at him and the one he was with. "... For you, consider it on the house! After everything you've done for everyone, you deserve thanks!" She bowed to him with a thankful smile.

"Am I missing something here?" Sephie asked, surprised by the woman's reaction.

"Oh, Naruto's some big hero or something like that. I don't think it ever gave a full explanation, right Yami?" Nana asked Yami, honestly not remembering if that had been explained or not.

"No, only that someone destroyed his village and he did something that made that person bring back those they killed before dying themselves." The blonde stated, quickly recalling what little she'd picked up from the show.

Naruto pumped his fist.

"Yeah, thanks! See Yami-chan, no problems here. We can go get something to eat after we're done." Naruto walked off towards the men's side, taking a towel with him. Yami could only nod silently as she walked towards the girl's side. She took a towel with her as well, and he trained hearing picked something up that caused her to blink.

"Lucky girl, dating the Hero of the Leaf." The counter girl whispered under her breath as Yami walked by with her towel.

Frowning at that comment as she blushed once more, Yami's gaze flickered over to Momo and felt a small surge of relief upon seeigng her still out of it, thus unable to make her constant teasing remarks.

She gave the woman a confused look for a moment, before she put it to the back of her mind. She could think about it later, but right now she would be better off relaxing with a hot soak. She walked through the pink clothe barrier that led into the female changing room, and saw wooden boxes where she could place her clothing. She even saw that they had bath robes stocked in case she finished her bath early, but wanted to keep walking around.

'Me, date Naruto? I'm not suited for such things.' Yami thought on the girl's earlier words while she started to undress herself.

"What's wrong with you dating Naruto-kun? I think you two would make an adorable couple." Lala said innocently with a tilted head.

"Don't think about it too much." Yami stated simply, not too bothered by the question since she knew Lala was asking just out of curiosity and confusion.

As her top came off, showing her lack of bra, she looked down at the bandages that Naruto used his clothes to make for her.

"Uhhh, what happened? …And why am I blindfolded?" Rito asked as he woke up from his fainting spell and found himself unable to see thanks to Yami's hair wrapped around his head.

"Don't worry Rito, there's just something on the screen that Yami doesn't want you to see." Mikan told the boy before he could freak out while giving her friend a thumbs-up for thinking ahead, especially given Rito's tendency for bad timing.

Her wound underneath it, and she untied the bandages and looked at the blood-stained orange cloth. '... He better not peek though.' Yami thought as she put her top, and the cloth bandage, into the wood box.

She wrapped her towel around her upper body, before she removed her skirt and panties from underneath it and tossed them inside.

Then came the troublesome part of taking off all the straps she had on her arms and legs, with her sleeves and shoes.

"They may be time consuming to put on and take off, but I have to admit they do look pretty cool." Nana said as she glanced at Yami, or more specifically her outfit.

No, Naruto said he wasn't going to peek, so she would have some faith in him not to. Yami shook her head, before she walked towards the other side of the room, and saw the hot springs for the first time.

It was rather beautiful.

"Yeah, that's definitely a ten point view in my books," Yami would deny it for the rest of her life, but the transforming assassin jumped ever-so-slightly in surprise when Momo suddenly popped up beside her with a cheeky, magically recovered from her earlier freak out. "The hot spring isn't bad either."

"…Ecchi baka." The assassin said with a dull look upon getting what the pinkette was saying.

"Oh you know you love me." Momo said with a wave of her hand as she settled back into her seat.

"... I'm not alone." Yami noted under her breath when she saw several other girls were already in the hot springs. Either way, she made her way towards the water, and gently placed her foot in. She walked over towards the side of the hot springs, and she took her towel off, and used the body soap provided and scrubbed herself down, before rinsing herself off.

She had been to a hot springs before on another world, and knew that it was pretty common for people to wash their bodies before getting in the water.

"Yeah, don't want the water getting full of dirt and grime after all." Mikan said, getting a round of agreements from everyone else.

"Aaaaaaah, I deserve this after putting up with Lee and Guy-sensei, I really do."

"Way to sound like an old man Tenten. This is a nice break though. After this, I'm going to be spending all day healing Yamato-sensei's chakra exhaustion. His Wood Style is making restoring the village so much easier."

"I'm sorry Ino-san couldn't join us."

Yami glanced towards the three women that were talking to each other, while getting into the water herself now. The first who spoke, Tenten, was a girl with medium length brown hair, with a toned-up body. She had a rather moderately developed body, more developed than the next of the three. All three of the girls were a noticeable amount taller than Yami herself was though.

"Hmm, eight and a half, she's badass with a great ass." Momo punned with a chuckle.

Then there was the pink haired girl, also medium length... but pink, with green eyes and a pale skinned body. She wasn't too sexually developed, Yami noticed, having rather small breasts, the smallest of the trio of girls. Actually, her body was even more lean muscled than the first girl, showing that she had a rather powerful strength in her lithe body.

"Seven, girl clearly dieted or something when she was younger."

"…How could you possibly know that?" Nana asked her twin, her brow cocked in curiosity.

"Because she's at least seventeen yet flatter then you are," Momo said with a cheeky grin before hiding behind Rito when the petite pinkette tried to punch her face. "Hey, I'm just speaking the truth."

Then there was a girl who made Yami look down at her own chest in jealousy, a long blue haired girl with white eyes. Her breasts were large enough that they were floating on the water, with the girl in question actually having to push them back down under the water. While Yami was rather well developed, though she wasn't really that big either, this girl's measurements would have blown her out of the water.

Both twins stopped fighting as the last girl appeared on screen, both their jaws dropping upon seeing the blunette's assets.

"Damn, she as big as Kaa-san." Momo muttered with an impressed whistle as her gaze switched from the girl's to Sephie's chest and back.

Meanwhile, Nana crossed her arms over her own chest and bowed her head with an air of depression around her, mumbling about unfairness and some girls getting all the luck.

"She's working with her dad, apparently, Kakashi-sensei brought a guy in early this morning. She's working to try and get important information." Sakura, Yami actually knew her name after seeing a picture of her in Naruto's apartment, and she had been mentioned in passing while on their way back to the village.

Who was the white eyed girl though?

"Yes, who is she and better question, what does she eat to grow those-OW!" Momo yelped as she felt a sharp pain in her butt-cheek. "Who did that!?"

'Ecchi baka.' Yami thought with a mental smirk as a single strand of her hair carefully slinked out of sight in the bunched up blankets where the busty twin was seated,

"Well Hinata-"

Ah, so her name was Hinata.

"That's a pretty name." Sephie said with a smile, with Lala, Nana, and Mikan nodding in agreement.

"-you confessed your love to Naruto when Pain attacked, has he answered you yet?" Tenten asked Hinata, and Sakura turned towards her, with her full attention on the girl. The blushing girl's whole body was covered by her blush.

Yami glanced over with more interest.

'She confessed... to Naruto. He never mentioned having a girlfriend.' Yami thought, and unknown clenching feeling in her chest.

…

"…Oh …my …god," Momo muttered slowly, her smile growing as wide as physically possibly while Mikan and Nana gained dumbfounded looks, Lala and Rito looked confused (former being too innocent to understand and latter still blinded), Sephie giggled into her hand, and Yami refused to look at anyone. "Yami's actually jealo-YEOUCH!"

"Do not say such stupid things Ecchi Baka." Yami said with a glare as Momo hopped around the room holding her injured rear-end, not even bothering to hide the hair needle she'd jabbed the busty twin with.

'Somebody's in denial.' Sephie thought with a giggle.

Her eyes trained on Hinata, and would have bore into her if she didn't decide to look away before she was noticed.

"... I don't think he remembers. Right after I confessed..." Hinata winced and put her hand on her chest, remembering when she was nearly killed. How she could have been killed were it not for Sakura healing her. Then again, since everyone who died was brought back to life, even if she were killed she would have just come back. "It doesn't matter, I'm just happy I finally said it. Right now, I'm not strong enough to stand by his side. I'll confess again when I'm stronger." Hinata spoke with a little more confidence in her shaken voice.

"Awwwww, that's so sad but sweet." Lala gushed over Hinata's words.

"I know right." Sephie said, gushing as well.

Tenten smiled widely.

"Good for you, tell you the truth, Naruto's thick headed. I've spent enough time with him to know this about him. That idiot doesn't really know the difference between love and love." Sakura spoke the first love with a little extra in her voice. Yami didn't know what she was talking about, since she herself didn't really know anything about love.

*Cough* "Bullshit." *Cough* *Cough* Momo 'coughed' into her hand while sending Yami a knowing smirk, making the assassin look back at her with a 'you wanna start something?' look on her face as several hair needles formed around her.

In response, the busty twin reached behind herself and pulled out a pair of hair clippers from… somewhere and then pretended to sleep for a few seconds. Understanding what she was implying, Yami reluctantly let her hair settle back down.

Expert assassin she may be, but Momo had proven she could somehow manage to sneak up on even her when she set her mind to it. Plus there were those baldness plants she'd mentioned earlier and Yami really liked her hair.

"I mean, he loves me like a sister, and he used to mistake that for romantic love. He's like a brother to me... honestly Hinata, I think you've got a good chance." Sakura gave the girl a thumbs up, standing up when she did so.

"Well she probably did until Yami showed up." Momo said with a shrug, earning yet another annoyed look from the assassin.

Yami noted that pink was indeed her natural hair color, or she decided to also dye her pubes the same pink as well.

"Speaking of the Hero of the Leaf, he's getting stronger and stronger so quickly. Just a week before Pain attacked, he just finished mastering Wind Chakra... and now he's a Sage, and one of the strongest ninja in the village. Neji and Lee have really been pushing themselves to try and catch up, and it's killing me." Tenten complained about Naruto's growth in strength, for no other reason than her teammates not wanting to get left behind by the blond. She and her team had been out of the village when Pain attacked, and they all felt pretty bad they couldn't defend their home.

"Okay, seriously, we could really use some context here. Where's the stupid explanation thing already?" Nana ranted, tired of not knowing what happened.

As if on que, a pop-up appeared with the picture of a extremely scrawny redheaded man surrounded by several orange haired people with dozens of body piercings and a short summary of Nagato, his abilities, and his attack on Konoha.

"Finally." Nana grunted as she and the rest of the group read over the information, before rapidly paling at what was there.

"Holy… this guy sounds like he would have been unstoppable," Mikan muttered with a shiver. "I mean, how do you fight a guy who can be in seven places at once, level a city just by waving his hand, and rip out your soul with just a touch?"

"Very carefully." Sephie stated with a deep frown, an edge of bitterness in her voice that caused everyone to look at her at her in surprise, but seeing the barely suppressed anger and sadness on her face decided to not say anything… for now.

Neji had taken it pretty harshly that he had failed to protect Hinata, but he had been so proud that she had stood up to Pain, despite not having a chance of victory.

"All his hard work is paying off, and we need to work harder too. He's just going to keep getting stronger. We can't afford to hold him back." Hinata smiled, and Yami looked at her once more as she listened in on their conversation. "... but his smile's still the same." Hinata whispered under her breath, a bright smile on her own face.

This girl... she loved Naruto.

"Too bad the one she loves prefers lemonade rather then blueberry pie." Momo said, earning herself odd looks from Nana, Yami, and Mikan while Lala started to daydream about pie and Sephie giggled, having calmed down from her earlier outburst.

Rito meanwhile had gone to sleep, having gotten bored of not knowing what was going on and deciding to take a nap.

"What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Nana asked her twin incredulously after a minute.

"Well duh, this Hinata girl is sweet with a subdued attitude like blueberry pie and Yami is lemonade, the perfect mixture of sweet sugariness and sour afterbite." Momo said with a roll of her eyes, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

'I have no idea if that's supposed to be a compliment or insult.' Yami thought as a sweatdrop ran down the back of her head.

That dazzling smile made the clenching in her chest grow tighter when Yami saw her, the soft spoken words made an unknown emotion swell in her chest.

'... This is... jealousy?' Yami tried to define her emotion. Was she feeling jealous of this girl, and her ability to voice her emotions so well?

"HA! See, even your other admits it!" Momo exclaimed with a wide grin while Yami blushed profusely, not even noticing the princess's gloating due to being frozen in sheer embarrassment.

"They're weapons... killers, but they're still so... human." Yami whispered to herself.

That was it.

She, Yami, was a weapon, who wasn't suppose to feel emotion. Yet these people were also raised from a young age to be emotionless killers, but here they were being normal people with real emotions. They felt all the emotions that Yami had once believed she herself threw away, and they found that balance in their lives that allowed them to do it.

"Well to be fair, the idea of being a truly living weapon is a technical impossibility no matter how hard you try." Sephie said, snapping Yami out of her embarrassed trance and getting her full attention.

"What do you mean by that Deviluke-san?" The assassin asked curiously.

"It's rather simple dear. A weapon by definition is a tool that is only capable of harming or killing a person or people. Yes, you can make a 'living' weapon like mindless clones or monster, but the moment you were given true sentience, and I mean the ability to actually think for yourself like you do, then you were no longer a weapon." The queen said calmly while scooching closer to the blonde.

This only confused Yami though, who didn't hesitate to voice said confusion. "I don't understand. How does sentience stop me from being a weapon?"

"Because you have a choice now," Sephie said with a smile as she gently rubbed the transforming girl's head who looked up at her with a baffled look. "By being able to make your own decisions, you are now capable of doing so much more than what you were made for because you can choose to do so. Just like you chose to stay here rather than leave after the Lascapo incident, or how you decided not to go with this Nemesis girl I've been told of."

"I… still do not understand."

Sighing, Sephie shook her head with a soft smile as she pulled Yami onto her lap while continuing to pet her head, not getting any resistance from the confused blonde. "We'll talk about it more later dear, for now we have a show to watch."

More than happy to let the headache inducing conversation go for now, Yami simply nodded and settled in the woman's grasp. What? The queen's lap was surprisingly comfortable and her ministrations were much gentler then Lala's.

"Meh! At the end of the day, he's going to be injured, and I'll be healing him! Speaking of healing, that's a pretty nasty cut you have." Sakura looked towards Yami as she started to walk towards her in the water. Sakura sat down next to Yami, and looked under the water at her wound. "Seems rather fresh, here, I'll take care of it so it doesn't scar. Us girls need to always look our best, even after a hard fight." Sakura told the girl with a smile.

Her hands glowed green, and Yami felt the same sensation as when Shizune was healing her. Her wound practically vanishing before her eyes as the healer went about doing what she did best.

"That was nice of her." Lala said with a bright smile, happy to see her friend no longer being injured.

"Wow, she's really pretty. She looks a little like a girl Naruto, don't you think Hinata?" Tenten pointed at Hinata with a smile.

Hinata nodded.

'Same hair color, about the same skin color, and more rounded cheeks, with rounded odd eyes.' Hinata observed the girl, unknowing that she had also been observed by said girl earlier.

"Hmm," Mikan hummed under her breath as she looked at Yami closely. "You know, she does make a point, add in some whiskers and you could probably pass as his sister."

"Yami-chan with whiskers? Oh, that would be so cute!" Lala exclaimed excitedly before turning towards said assassin with a begging expression. "Could you-"

"No." Yami cut her off before Lala could finish, making the princess pout adorably.

"Please?"

"No."

"Pretty please?"

"No."

"Pretty, pretty, pretty please?"

"…You're not gonna stop till I say yes, are you?"

"Nope."

Rolling her eyes at Lala's response, Yami gained a mild look of concentration for a few moments as whisker marks identical to Naruto's appeared on her cheeks, causing the eldest princess to squeal in delight.

"Now that is one foxy lady." Momo said with a giggle which Mikan couldn't help but share.

"They do look rather cute on you, maybe you should keep them." Sephie said while playfully rubbing one of the blonde's cheeks while Lala petted the other.

"I'd rather not." Yami muttered before the markings vanished, making Lala pout once more as she meandered back to her spot.

"I'm sorry you had to listen to us. You must have been annoyed by us when you were trying to relax." Hinata apologized to Yami.

She was apologizing?

"It's... fine." Yami didn't ask the questions she wanted to ask about Naruto, since these people were his friends. She wanted to ask the questions that she was curious about, but didn't think it would be wise. Like what was the Kyuubi that Naruto mentioned, and more about his past.

"Yeah, not good things to bring up in casual conversation." Nana said while shaking her head.

"There, all healed! You should rest for a few days, just to be safe. I don't recognize you, what rank are you?" Sakura asked the alien girl.

Yami shook her head.

"I'm not a ninja, I'm..." Yami stopped herself from introducing herself as an assassin, since Naruto wasn't with her, she was pretty sure that her words wouldn't be taken too well. She was pretty sure that the only reason Kakashi, Yamato, and Shizune earlier, treated her so well was because it was Naruto who introduced all of them. "... I tripped while holding a knife." Yami corrected herself.

"Pffft! Bwahahaha!" Momo, who'd just been taking drink from a can of soda, sprayed the sugary liquid all over her twin as she burst out in laughter.

"Really Momo?" Nana asked dully while wiping soda off her face.

"Oh admit it, the idea of Yami accidentally hurting herself by tripping with a knife is absolutely ridiculous." The busty twin said once she managed to get her laughter under control.

Not wanting to give her the satisfaction of admitting she was right, Nana just turned away with a huff before accepting the paper towels Mikan passed to her.

"Hey Yami-chan, I'm done over here. While our clothes get washed, I'm going to go and get some dango. Join me when you feel like it, it'll be a good way to celebrate the fun night we have last night!"

...

"Was that... Naruto?" Sakura asked as she looked towards the wall separating them from the men's side.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Momo fell to the floor as she laughed her ass off, unable to help herself after hearing what Naruto yelled out.

Meanwhile, Yami and Mikan blushed pure red as they quickly realized exactly why Momo was laughing so hard, Nana palmed her face, Lala looked confused, and Sephie giggled.

Hinata blushed red, and Tenten blinked, and all of them looked towards where Yami was.

"Where did she go?"

What Yami did was not run away.

It was a tactical retreat.

'Well, that was certainly better the last few… episodes.' Sephie thought happily as the TV went back into buffering mode. 'Let's hope it stays that way… at least for a little bit.'

-End Chapter-

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