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Himari sat.
With a dagger at her side, she sat on her knees in a white kimono.
"For my failure in protecting the Young Master, this is truly the only way I can atone for my crimes-ow." Himari was whacked on the head as Naruto left his bedroom, his arm that got stabbed was bandaged up, but his face was perfectly healed after the incident where he was attacked. "Ow... ow... OW!" Himari covered her head when Naruto started, and then continued, to beat her over the head with his knuckles.
"Idiot."
"OW! Young Master, suicide is the only OW!" Himari stopped when Naruto beat her over the head harder than any of the other times. She had intended to commit a ritual suicide in order to atone for her mistake. She had failed as his closest bodyguard, and this was the right thing for her to do. She would kill herself, and allow Ginko to take over her role as his bodyguard in full. "Young Master, stop hitting me."
"I order you to not kill yourself."
"Tch... fine." Himari clicked her teeth when she was given an order. She would just have to live with the shame of her failure, and redouble her efforts in the future. She stood up, and looked at his bandaged up arm. "... where is the yokai that did this to you?" Himari asked him. She had been so upset with the fact he got captured, that she forgot to search for the yokai who did the crime and kill them.
"The yokai who did this is no more." Naruto stated his half-truth.
"I see! So Young Master, you have killed your first yokai! This is cause for celebration, you may take me to your bed if you desire." Himari went from angry and depressed, to excited and horny in a second. The news that her master had slaughtered a yokai, and fulfilled his role as a demon slayer was truly news to celebrate.
Naruto whacked her on the head, before he walked into the kitchen.
"I didn't kill anyone. The yokai who attacked me had a change of heart, so she isn't the same person as she was before. I'm ordering you to not try and... where is Ginko?" Naruto looked around with a raised eyebrow.
"She went home, to inform Nagato that you are growing as a demon slayer. Since you refuse to go home, she is plans to ask Nagato if she borrow some supplies." Himari didn't really discuss the matter with Ginko, but the wolf woman had the goal to attain the lessons that Naruto would need if he wanted to complete his healing training. At the moment, he could heal others properly, but when it came to healing himself he was sorely lacking. "... and Asia is currently out shopping." Himari pointed out.
Naruto sighed.
"You sent the girl who can't speak Japanese... out shopping... how did you even communicate with her?" Naruto asked, and Himari picked up a crude drawing of Asia shopping, that she had used to communicate the message to the girl. "I'm going to take a bath... do not kill yourself. If you try and kill yourself, I will heal you back to full health."
"I shall not disobey a direct order." Himari promised him.
He threatened her death with life, that was a unique experience.
-In the Bath-
"A nice hot bath..." Naruto leaned back and stared at the ceiling. He looked at his bandaged up arm, before he lowered his arm and just sighed to himself. He settled for picking his phone up from next to the tub.
I'm sorry for you getting attacked, I should have been with you.
"How do I even respond to this?" Naruto had a message from Akeno, but he didn't really know how to respond, nor if he wanted to. He planned on running away from Kuoh the first chance he got, but during the entire beach trip he kept forgetting that his goal had been to escape. The others had so much fun with him around, and their smiles had actually made him forget about his goal to escape.
He felt guilty.
Some of the others genuinely cared about him.
Naruto closed his eyes.
-Flashback-
"This is to be your future wife Naruto. She will join our clan, and her bloodline will be added to our own."
He was just a tool to revive the Uzumaki clan, from even his future love life would only be filled with people who wanted to use him. Naruto looked up at his cousin, a much taller man with his eyes hidden by his graying red hair. His body was skinny, very skinny, due to how sickly he was.
"Naruto, introduce yourself to your future wife."
"... Uzumaki Naruto."
"Good, now get back to your training. I'll have Ginko watch over you, so you are to catch your own dinner, or you won't be eating tonight. You must become much stronger if you want to revive our clan."
-End Flashback-
The only times he had been happy, even as a child, had been when he was alone with his bodyguards, or even when he was with Akeno. The rest of his childhood had been a terror on his memories.
Flashback after flashback played in his mind.
'Only my bodyguards and my fiance ever treated me like a person, but back then, it was so hard to be happy.' Naruto was out of his old home, and now the genuine affection he was recieving was just so much easier to recognize for what it was. It made him feel so guilty that he wanted to run away from the people who meant a lot to him.
He was even more upset that he didn't know how to return their affection.
He couldn't become the Demon Slayer that his bodyguards wanted him to be, because he absolutely hated the thought of killing. Slaying demons just wasn't something he wanted to do, not that he minded if they enjoyed it since yokai killed each other all the time. For that matter, humans killed each other too, but he hated the thought of taking a life with his own hands. Naruto was taken from his thoughts as a new message came to his phone.
Rias wants to say sorry you didn't enjoy the beach trip. She says none of us should have allowed an enemy to invade her territory without anyone noticing. Look at what she did to my butt.
"Pffffft." Naruto spat out the bath water that had gotten in his mouth as he soaked when he looked and saw a picture of a bare bottom.
Akeno had taken a picture of her own butt, and he saw a hand print right on the left ass cheek. She had gotten spanked hard or long enough to actually get a hand shaped mark on her large ass, and she sent the picture to him. He could tell that Akeno was teasing him, since she had put whipped cream on her ass and topped it with a cherry.
"That idiot..." Naruto stated with a twitching face.
...
Naruto saved the picture onto his phone.
"Young Master... as-" Himari, wrapped in a towel, entered the bathroom and got down on her knees. "-atonement for my failure, please allow this foolish kitty to wash your back for you." Himari yelped when Naruto tossed a bar of soap at her. She caught it, the yelp was just a reaction to the throw. "Is this you accepting my offer?" Himari asked.
Naruto was about to yell at her, before he stopped himself.
Naruto stood up and left the bath, before he sat on the stool in front of the shower.
"Fine, you can wash my back." Naruto did accept her off. His cheeks were bright red. Thinking about how he didn't know how to return affection was starting to bother him. It did not help him at all that Himari was so openly affectionate towards him, and he really did feel guilty. She scooted up on her knees with a very pleased expression.
"We haven't bathed together in so long!"
'Yeah, last time you hadn't learned how to take a human form.' Naruto mentally deadpanned when he felt a hand towel on his back. It was a lot less embarassing for him to take a bath with a cat, then a beautiful woman. The only girls he took baths with as a kid were Akeno and her mother when he got the rare chance to not train, and play with Akeno. He had been so young though that he doubted it was embarassing for either of those people, because he and Akeno had been very small children.
He did remember staring at Akeno's mother's boobs, but back then he stared at them with a different kind of look than he might stare with today. Back then, he saw boobs as something mothers were suppose to have. When he looked at boobs, he would think about his mother and what she might look like. He was jealous of Akeno, because he never got to take a bath with his own mother.
"Young Master... are you truly okay with the yokai who did this to you not being hunted down... she injured you and put your life as risk?" Himari asked softly as she scrubbed him.
Naruto didn't really have to think about it.
"Her grudge against Demon Slayers wasn't wrong... as wrong as it was for her to act on that grudge, I can't bring myself to hate her for it. She doesn't hate humans, she just hates demon slayers. She even gave me a chance to defend myself... I saw in her somebody that could find a better path... killing her would be wrong." Naruto couldn't find the hate in himself for her.
"So your words at the beach weren't just for show, you truly did believe them you know."
The second Shizuku lifted her head out of the bath.
"Mizuchi!" Himari reached into her cleavage and pulled out a dagger that she had been hiding there. She might not have her sword, but after the disaster where she left Naruto alone, she would never go anywhere without a weapon again. Himari rushed towards Shizuku and swung the dagger right at her.
Shizuku turned into water, and while her head got cut off, her body reformed almost instantly, but she reformed herself so that she was on the other side of Naruto. She sat between his legs with her hands on his chest.
"Now Cat, I come in peace... Uzumaki Naruto... you interest me. I wish to observe you, to see if the words you spoke to me are just pretty words or not... what do you say, you know?" Shizuku asked Naruto with snake-like smirk.
Naruto sighed.
"Himari, stand down-"
"Kagetsuki is cashing in that favor you owe him. The favor is allowing me to live with you, you know." Shizuku stated.
"Who is Kagetsuki?" Himari deadpanned.
"He's a yokai who ships me and Naruto together. He believes if Naruto and I become mates, then Naruto will abandon Demon Slayers and join yokai instead you know." Shizuku didn't hid anyones intentions. She was an open book filled with honesty about her plans.
"The Young Lord is a Demon Slayer, his fate is to wipe filthy yokai out!"
"That remains to be seen you know."
"HEY! That is my penis you're grabbing!"
"Get your hand's off that! That's mine!"
"My penis is mine, not yours!"
An extra element of chaos had been added to the Uzumaki household.
Chapter End!
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