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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Charming Assassin Charmer

-Chapter 26-

-Last Time-

"…Alright, you've got a deal," She conceded while leaning back, twisting around on the boy's lap so she was facing the TV once more as she laid her back against the blonde's chest. "How about sometime tomorrow? Assuming you can wait that long without unveiling my-SHIT! Her veil!"

"Huh?" Naruto blinked in confusion when Momo suddenly went stiff as a board with all the color draining from her face, which was locked in an expression of horrified realization. Before he could ask what was wrong though, the plant user all but launched herself off his lap and towards the front door, literally knocking the poor thing off its hinges in her rush.

…

"Huh?" The blonde repeated, question marks blinking above his head.

-And Now-

"Well… that was more eventful than I expected." Kushina said as she wiped blood off her hands with a rag as she, Sephie, Ringo, Momo, Mikan, and Yami all sat around a table at a nice little local restaurant. The reason for the redhead's red knuckles would be the large groaning pile of males, human and nonhuman alike, covered in bruises and broken bones as EMTs loaded them up into ambulances.

"I'm so sorry, I completely forgot that I wasn't wearing this," Sephie mumbled out awkwardly while Ringo helped her put on a translucent pink veil that covered her face. Once it was secured the queen sighed in relief before rubbing the back of her neck with a wince as she watched another ambulance going by. "And all those poor people had to pay for my carelessness."

"Oh don't give yourself such a hard time ma'am, it was an honest mistake," Mikan said while patting the pinkette's side supportively. "We've all had moments like that."

"Plus we got to see Kushina kick all kinds of ass because of it," Momo added with a giggle, before turning to said redhead as she finished washing her fists. "Seriously, you were a total beast back there. Where and why did you learn to fight like that?"

"Mostly self-taught with a few boxing and self-defense classes sprinkled in here and there," Kushina said with a shrug, tossing the bloody rag in the trash just before a pair of waiters came by with trays laden with food. Smiling kindly as they served everyone, the model thanked them both as she was given a plate of sushi that she eagerly dug into. "As for the why? I'm the nineth most popular super model on Earth with sixty million online followers and over a thousand active restraining orders."

"…Right, duh," The youngest pinkette muttered with an awkward cough as she poked at her own food. "That should've been obvious, how did I miss that?"

"Perhaps Lala's device failed to properly copy the original Momo's mind when it made you." Yami suggested between bites of her Taiyaki, earning a few giggles all around and an annoyed glare from Momo.

"Shut it Yami, I am NOT a clone."

"Nah, that's totally something a clone would say." Ringo chipped in jokingly, causing the youngest pinkette to glower at her instead.

"And so would someone who isn't a clone, which I am not." The princess said dryly while trying, and failing, to focus on her food.

"How can you be so sure though? The other you was quite certain she wasn't the clone either after all," Mikan pointed out, causing the plant lover's cheeks to puff out as several veins started to bulge on her forehead and her face turned red with rage.

"Actually, speaking of the original, I wonder why this other Momo hasn't turned up yet," Kushina said as she scratched her cheek thoughtfully. "You think she's okay? I know she's a super powered alien and all but she should have at least called or something, right?"

"I'm sure she's fine, she's a tough and smart girl." Sephie said confidently while patting Momo on the back comfortingly as the girl huffed and stabbed her food.

"Knowing her, she's waiting to pull off some kind of mischief as we speak." Yami added in a dull tone, with Mikan nodding in agreement as they both recalled the various plots the bustier twin had tried to pull in the past, usually involving the latter's brother in some pervy situation.

….

"Huh, you now, it's weird but I feel like something was supposed to happen just now." The brunette muttered with a raised brow as she idly looked around.

"Like what?" Ringo asked her daughter, who shrugged as her frown deepened.

"I don't know, maybe a sneeze or something that gave away the real Momo hiding nearby or a message telling us that she jumped Naruto, something like that?"

"…You've been reading too many of your father's manga sweetie."

"Or maybe this really is the real Momo." Kushina suggested as she jabbed a thumb at said girl, making her perk up a little…

""Nah, she's the clone."" Only to immediately scowl when Yami and Mikan said that at the same time, her eyebrow twitching as those nearest her could swear they heard a faint shattering sound.

"For the last time! I am one hundred percent not some stupid ass clone! End! Of! STORY!" Momo shouted, punctuating the last three words by jabbing her chopsticks against the table. The last one being so forceful that the little wooden sticks shattered in her grasp, sending tiny splinters all over the table.

…

"…As a fellow clone I take offense to that." Yami stated bluntly, causing the pinkette to groan before slamming her face into the table.

"Alright girls, that's enough." Thankfully Sephie came to her youngest's rescue as she patted the girl on the back while giving the rest of the group a warning look. While she was alright with some friendly teasing the queen could see that the girls were getting dangerously close to pushing things too far.

Mikan pouted, still having a few more witty quips she wanted to use, but conceded with a sigh when Sephie and Ringo gave her stern looks. Meanwhile Yami just nodded and went back to eating her food with her usual stoic expression.

"Going back to that whole 'face makes boys go crazy' thing, if that's the case then why didn't Ringo's boy or my Naru go all horn dog?" Kushina asked Sephie curiously, "They both got a good long look at you without any protection after all, and between you and me, you're totally my son's type."

That last part was spoken in a mock whisper as the redhead playfully elbowed the queen's side while wiggling her eyebrows, getting her and most of the table's occupants to laugh.

"I'm flattered but very married," Sephie said between giggles, flashing her wedding ring for added emphasis despite knowing Kushina was just teasing. Although she didn't continue until she managed to get her laughter under control, idly wiping a tear from her eye. "As for why, I can only assume that they both are simply too strong willed for my kind's natural charms to affect them."

"Ah, that sort of makes sense I guess."

"I just assumed Rito had developed an immunity to sex appeal considering his usual… accidents." Mikan said with an eyeroll as she recalled the many, many, MANY times her brother had somehow gotten into some kind of unintentionally sexual mishap. It wasn't even funny at this point, just an honest to God miracle that he hadn't been slapped with some kind of sexual harassment lawsuit.

"Now that I could see." Kushina had to agree as another giggle slipped from her lips. "You know he was just as bad as a little squirt too, I could go on for hours about all the little incidents he had. Like this one time when he was three and walked in on…"

-Later, Rito Residence-

"…And to this day I still can't figure out how he got into my-what the hell is going on here?" Kushina cut herself off mid story as she and the girls all walked into the living room relaxed and with full bellies, only to find a rather peculiar sight.

Naruto was on the couch with what could only be described as an oversized hi-tech pacifier in his mouth as his cheeks literally glowed red from lights flashed inside. All the while Lala was fiddling with a hologram displaced by the handle of the 'pacifier', looking over a three-dimensional image of a jaw as she input commands.

"Oh Hi Naru's Mama," The energetic pinkette said with a wave upon noticing the redhead. "Hang on a sec, I'm almost…" There was a soft ping before the 'pacifier' went abruptly dark and Lala gently pulled it out of Naruto's mouth. "Aha! Done! What'cha think?"

"Huh, well I'll be damned," The scarred blonde mumbled as he felt around inside his mouth, holding up a small mirror with his free hand. "It's like it was never even gone."

"Told you so! Jaw-Jaw-Fixy-Kun will brighten any smile right up!"

"Okay, seriously, what were you two doing?" Mikan asked in both curiosity and concern, mostly the latter considering the usual mayhem that ensued from the bubbly pinkette's creations. The last thing they needed was Naruto suddenly growing giant fangs or his mouth having a magnetic pull towards lady parts.

"Oh, I noticed he was missing one of his back teeth while we were enjoying some sundaes, so I fixed it up for him. I also fixed up our D-Dials and did a few tweaks on the Viewer while I was waiting for this to finish." Lala said like it was the most obvious thing in the world while she stuffed the pacifier like invention into her D-Dial, a fancy cell phone like gadget, before tossing another of them to Momo.

"You mean the one you lost when you got hit by a car?" Ringo asked Naruto, earning a few shocked looks while the blonde just nodded without looking away from his reflection. "I thought we got him an implant to replace it."

"We were gonna but it must've slipped our minds," Kushina said with a shrug before kneeling beside her son and grabbing his jaw, turning him to face her so she could see for herself. Pulling his lips back, she gently prodded at and around the regrown tooth with a soft hum. "Not bad, you could make a fortune as a dentist."

"Uh…" peering over the redhead's shoulder, Momo's brow rose a little seeing just how far back she was checking before turning to Lala. "How exactly did you see that tooth was missing again?"

"Well, we were having sundaes like I said and Naruto was curious about the dark matter on mine, so I offered him a spoonful and-"

"You were feeding him? That's so cute!" Kushina cut in as she let Naruto go and grabbed Lala instead. "Did you get pictures? Please tell me you got pictures."

"Well of course! See!" Whipping her D-Dial back out, Lala held it up for Kushina to see a few selfies of the princess holding a spoon with a… dubious looking substance up to Naruto's lips. The best way to describe it was pure darkness in solid form with little particles of dark wafting off of it.

Just the sight of it caused Kushina to snap out of her excitement as she grimaced a little. "Oh… that uh… looks tasty?"

"It actually was, a bit of a rich flavor wise but other than that pretty good," Naruto said with a nod, making Lala beam in pride. "Anyway, I doubt anyone wants to keep talking about teeth and desserts all day, don't we have a show to get back to?"

"Oh right!"

Faster than the blonde could blink everyone rushed to find a seat with Kushina, Ringo, and Sephie squeezing onto one couch together while Mikan and Yami sat together on another. And of course Momo hopped right onto Naruto's lap with a playful wiggle of her rear, winking at him as his cheeks gained a soft red hue.

"Now I can test out the new remote I made." Lala said, scooching in beside Naruto while pulling out said remote, which looked just like the old one aside from being orange and black this time.

…

"You picked the color scheme, didn't you?" Kushina asked her son with a raised brow, to which he just smiled and shrugged noncommittedly.

'Please don't let it be anything embarrassing.' Yami thought as the Viewer booted up and started playing…

"Oh my GOD Yami, I can't wait to tell you..."

Yami turned bright red and quickly tightened the towel that she had wrapped around her body when Naruto burst into their shared Inn room loudly. She glared at Naruto with deadly eyes and adjusted her towel, since her clothes were currently being dried of the sweat on them, once more to make sure that it wasn't going to fall off of her.

And immediately deadpanned when her counterpart's almost naked form popped on screen the instant it started. 'Of course.'

"Not looking." Naruto said quickly as he went to cover his eyes with his hand, only to blink in surprise when he was stopped by familiar locks of golden hair wrapping around his wrist.

"Don't bother, I'm covered." Yami stated as she retracted her hair-

WHAM* "OW!" And promptly punched Momo in the face with a hair fist, nearly knocking the youngest pinkette off Naruto's lap. "Hey! What was that for!?"

"You were about to make an ecchi joke."

"…Alright yeah, you got me there."

"Knock from now on." Yami muttered to him as she sat down with her back to him on the bed. She didn't like him walking in on her like that, but it was a little her fault for being mostly naked in the middle of the room. She just expected that he would have taken longer to rescue a princess the small amount of time that he was away. "... Punishment." Yami formed fist with her hair and made it cross the room, punching Naruto in the forehead for not having the manners to knock.

He was to blame too after all.

"Yeah, Naruto has a bad habit of that, been trying to pound that lesson into his skull for years." Kushina said as she playfully bonked her Naruto on the head, not enough to actually hurt just to get his attention.

"I'm not that bad mom…" Said blonde grumbled with his arms crossed.

"Oh don't feel bad young man, all three of my daughters have the same habit, especially those two." Sephie stated as she pointed towards Lala and Momo, causing the former to tilt her head in confusion and the latter smirked.

"I apologize for nothing." The younger pinkette said without an ounce of shame, crossing her arms as she puffed her chest out in pride.

"... Ow... Yeah, deserve that." Naruto rubbed his forehead with a bent neck, straightening himself out with pink cheeks of his own. "Anyway, I actually looked COOL when I rescued the princess this time." Naruto jumped onto the bed from across the room, landing on his back with the biggest grin on his face.

It never went as peacefully as it did this time, usually he was on a mission with people and the missions always spiraled out of control. This time, he had no partners, and nobody keeping him from trying to do things his way.

It was almost too easy.

"So basically, he finally didn't have anyone holding him back from giving his all, makes sense." Yami said, nodding to herself as she thought it over. While he could be goofy, playful, and occasionally very stupid at times, Naruto was also very skilled and far above most peers. So, it made sense to her that his main hold back was literally holding back so as to not to harm or overtake his allies.

"... The princess is safe?" Yami didn't see a princess anywhere with him.

He nodded.

"I took her to a guard in town, and he returned her home. She was so scared, she refused to let go of me the entire run back. Ulps are really ugly by the by. So why are you naked?" Naruto asked Yami as he glanced over at her. Her body was covered by the towel, but it was strange to see her out of her usual black outfit. It was the only outfit type that he had ever seen her year, other than the yukata that she wore at the hot springs.

"Yeah, you really do tend to wear the same thing all the time, have you considered possibly changing it up a bit?" Ringo asked the former assassin, who quickly shook her head.

"No need too."

"Aw, but what if you wanna dress up nice for a date or something?"

"…I do not think that will be an issue," Yami muttered softly with a faint but noticeable blush on her cheeks as she pointedly stared at the floor. "Besides, you do not have the proper materials to make outfits suited for myself."

The transforming blonde emphasized her point by turning her arm into a long blade before turning it back again.

"No worries, I got that covered Yami-chan! I'll just order the fabric we need on the Intergalactic Delivery Service!" Lala was already typing away on her D-Dial as she spoke, causing Yami to frown but otherwise not say anything.

She knew a losing battle when she saw one.

"Oh, you think you could get me some other off world fabric to work with while you're at it? I could use some new stuff to fiddle with." Ringo asked as she and Kushina peaked over the bubbly pinkette's shoulders.

"Sure!" Pushing a button, the screen on Lala's phone like invention glowed before she was holding an alien tablet that had dozens of ads and products flickering across the screen which she handed to the pair. "Here's the newest catalog, see if you can find anything you like."

"Don't mind if I do." The orangette said, swiping the gadget and eagerly flipping through the various things, highlighting several she liked right away.

'Oh dear, looks like Gid is gonna have another large bill on his account.' Sephie thought with a soft giggle, already imagining the look on her husband's face at the no doubt expensive charge he was going to be getting soon.

Yami, thankfully, had a good reason.

"I was sweaty, so I showered. I didn't want to put back on my wet clothes. Aren't you going to run to the other end of the planet to go and fight it?" Yami didn't so much mind being in the same room with him now. Her modesty was being covered by the towel she was wearing, and Naruto didn't seem to have wandering eyes either. She just couldn't exactly move around freely without accidentally showing Naruto something a little more private than her nude legs.

"Do it. Do it. Do-OW!"

'She really does not take a hint.' Mikan thought while Momo jumped from Naruto's lap holding her ass and swearing, curtesy of Yami and a blade of sharpened hair.

"Oh yeah, he was about to go fight the big fluffball in his gut, I almost forgot about that," Naruto muttered, chuckling to himself as Momo sat back down on him. "Still hard to imagine fighting something that big, don't know if it'd be comical or badass."

"Probably both." Kushina said, causing her son to nod with another laugh.

"Fair."

In response, she got a waved hand from Naruto as he stripped his shirt off of himself, tossed it on the floor next to the bed, and laid back down.

"Oh yeah, now drop your pants you hot-OW!?" This time it was Kushina who hit Momo, bopping her on the top of the head. Hard.

"While it's cute you got the hots for my boy, I am still his mother and you will watch your tongue when you talk about him like that around me. Got it?"

"Yes ma'am…" The princess said quietly as she shrunk in on herself.

"I'm going to wait and rest up, I want to be at my best when I fight Kurama... You're not coming with me when I do. You're staying here." Naruto told her. Yami was surprised utterly by the stern tone his voice took. Surprised or not though, she shook her head and glared at him.

He needed her support.

"I can help." Yami's statement was short, since she didn't know how she would be able to help him, but she knew he needed it.

"No offense Yami but no, no you can't." Mikan stated bluntly, causing her friend to nod in agreement with a sigh.

"I know."

Naruto sighed in disappointment, which honestly, Yami would have rathered he shouted at her in anger.

"No, you can't... I'm going to be fighting Kurama inside of my soul. I don't know what will happen with my body, but I don't want you getting hurt. The best thing you can do to help me, is give me peace of mind knowing you're safe." Naruto reached out to her and placed his hand on top of the hand she had on the bed. She opened her mouth, before she shut it and nodded silently.

The difference in their power.

It reminded her of their first fight, when Naruto held back to avoid killing her. He barely flicked her with his power in Sage Mode, and she had been utterly destroyed. He pulled his punches in his normal form, and he didn't use any of his strong techniques. If she were to fight an out-of-control Naruto, who was actually trying to kill her, then she was sure that she would be killed.

"It wouldn't even be a fight," Sephie's gaze grew distant and a haunted look spread across her face as she spoke, her voice dropping to just barely above a whisper. "Just a one-sided massacre…"

"Hey," The otherworldly queen snapped out of her thoughts when she felt a hand rest on her shoulder and giver her a quick shake. Looking to the one responsible, she saw Kushina staring back at her in concern. "You okay?"

"…Yeah… I'm fine, just… bad memories."

"We're partners now... but I don't feel like I'm strong enough to be with you." Yami's words were not meant to be spoken out loud.

Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"You're plenty strong Yami-chan, anyway, friendship isn't about being strong. I honestly don't care how strong, weak, or normal you are. We're partners, we need to be there for each other. Honestly... When Sakura was killed, you living with me, being there for me... you were a really big source of strength for me. You helped me be strong when I was weak." Naruto sat up and wrapped his arms around Yami from behind. She froze at the unexpected contact, his warm body, even in this unbearable heat... feeling honestly comfortable to her.

She didn't know what to say, so she processed his words.

She was having trouble with that.

'...I wasn't able to do a single thing for him when he was depressed... I don't understand him at all.' She could only try and understand him, but so far, she didn't know what truly made Naruto tick. She understood his patterns, his thoughts, and many of his behaviors, but she still lacked the base understanding behind those actions and thoughts. "How did I help with your depression?" Yami finally decided to ask.

Yami was wondering the same thing as her counterpart, not recalling anything she'd done that actually helped the boy. In fact as far as she could recall she hadn't done anything at all aside from staying by his side as he struggled through it all by himself.

Naruto let go of her and smiled.

"You didn't help me with my depression... you stopped me from feeling alone. I'm strong... but I'm always afraid. I know I smile a lot, and I'm super confident because of how awesome I am-" Naruto put on a grin as he bragged, before the frown appeared on his face once more. His moment of bragging over. "-... but I'm terrified of being alone. I'm not afraid of pain, and I'm not afraid of dying... but I'm terrified of being alone. I would rather die, than go back to that hell again. You helped save me from that pain. You're one of my precious loved ones." Naruto moved so that he was sitting next to her.

You're one of my precious loved ones.

Loved ones.

'... I love you too...' Yami thought, having come to terms with her love for him. "... I love you." Yami spoke the words in her heart.

""AWWWWWWWWWWWW~"" Almost everyone in the room gushed at once at the cute little moment of affection between the two blondes. The only exceptions were Yami, who tried to remain stoic but just couldn't stop the massive blush from blooming across her cheeks, and Naruto, due to being glomped by a cheerful Lala yet again.

"You two are sooooo cute together~! We should totally set up a date for you guys! OH! A double date, then Rito and I could join in! That'd be perfect!"

"I think my spine just snapped…" The whiskered blonde groaned as he was crushed in the inventive girl's powerful grip.

Meanwhile, Yami was struggling, and failing, to fight down her blush as she turned to Mikan. "I… still don't understand, I helped by just being there?"

"Yes, like he said, he hates being alone so you staying by his side made him know that he wasn't," The brunette said, subtly scooching closer to her friend and leaning against her as she spoke. "Sometimes that's all a person needs."

"I see…"

Time to go for broke, the mood seemed right.

"Thanks! I'm happy to know I'm precious to you. To think a few months ago, you tried to kill me... and now we're friends." Naruto took a moment to reflect on how they started out. Yami looked down at her lap, moved her hands to her legs, and gripped her fists.

He didn't understand.

And like that all the ladies, including Yami this time, facepalmed at once.

"Oh come on!" Kushina exclaimed, grabbing her son (and Lala who was still clinging to him) and shaking the boy furiously. "I know you dense sometimes but how did you misunderstand that?!"

"It… wasn't… me… different… me!" The whiskered teen cried out between shakes.

"But you're just as dense you-"

"Easy now, calm down Kushina," Fortunately for Naruto (and Lala) Ringo was quick to intervene, grabbing Kushina by the ear and giving it a quick tug that made her stop shaking and let go. "We can drill your boy for being a dummy later, just take a deep breath and relax. Deep breaths."

"Alright, alright, I'm calm," The redhead said, shaking out of her friend's grasp and crossing her arms with a pout. "Still can't believe he missed that."

"I know dear, I know."

"But it wasn't me…" Naruto grumbled out dizzily as he pulled himself back into his seat.

She confessed her love to him, but he didn't take her love as romantic. He just assumed that she had been talking to him like a friend. She took a small breath, before she looked at Naruto and saw him getting ready to lay down to take a nap. She opened her mouth to let him know where he was wrong, before she closed her mouth.

'I need to do more research on love... there have to be books getting boys to notice your romantic love.' The blonde assassin didn't bother correcting Naruto. She was sure that he was just going to take her the wrong way, and with how serious he was about things like love, if she forced him to understand it might cause him problems with he tried to fight the Kyuubi.

"Normally I'd say you're just being a pussy about it but that's actually a valid point." Momo admitted with a shrug, unable to refute Yami's counterpart on her decision to wait on clarifying.

For Naruto, the silence was comfortable, but the silence could not have been anymore awkward for Yami as she looked down at Naruto.

*Knock Knock*

"I'll get it." Yami tightened the towel around herself, embarrassed sure, but it was better than letting Naruto get it while she was stuck in silence. She opened the door, and she blinked in confusion when she saw Princess Run herself standing at the door with two of her guards. She had a letter in her hands, and she looked towards Naruto laying down on the bed. She smiled towards him, before she looked at Yami... with a glare.

Yami sighed.

Great, competition, just what she needed.

"Called it~" Ringo said in a sing-song tone, earning a few giggles while Kushina rolled her eyes.

"Please, even a blind person would've seen that one coming from a mile away."

"Still called it."

"Hello, I'm here to personally give MY Hero his invitation to a ball in his honor. Of course, I guess you can come if you want."

Yami knew this was going to be trouble, she knew it. Something was going to go wrong, horribly wrong, at the ball. She glanced at Naruto and saw that he was already asleep, he fell asleep damn fast when he wanted to.

"I smell a catfight in the future," Momo said with a giggle, before smiling mischievously when an idea popped in her head and she pulled out her recently repaired D-Dial. "You know, speaking of invitations, maybe we should invite Run and Rin over to see this, since they're involved now."

"OH! Great idea Momo! They should totally see this." Lala said, bouncing in her seat excitedly at the thought and completely missing the looks her sister was getting from everyone else.

"You really love stirring the pot, don't you?" Naruto asked the youngest pinkette sarcastically as she started typing with a smirk.

"Maybe~."

Yami gave a short bow to Run, respect towards royal bloodlines was a given.

"I understand Princess Run... I'll let Naruto know." Yami then proceeded to shut the door in Run's face as she opened the letter up.

"Oof, are we sure you're on a Desert planet and not a snow one because that was just Ice Cold." Ringo said with a giggle.

It was a handwritten letter, with a picture that looked like it had been drawn by a child on it, possibly by Run herself. She tossed it towards Naruto, who caught it and opened up and eye, glancing with annoyance at what was thrown at him.

"... What's this?" Naruto didn't understand the written language.

Yami decided to inform him.

"We're invited to a party in a few hours, to honor the hero who saved this planet's crowned princess." Yami informed him with as much deadpan as she could manage. Naruto glanced at the picture that was drawn, before he snorted. He rolled back on the bed and waved a hand at her.

"Wake me when it's time then."

Sounded like fun to him.

"Oh come on, it's buffering already? It was just getting to the good stuff," Momo pouted as the dreadfully familiar loading screen took up the television once more. "I thought you two fixed that problem."

"We did, I actually set it to be a short video this time." Lala admitted, earning herself several confused looks from everyone aside from Naruto, who just nodded.

"…Why?" Yami asked what everyone else was thinking out loud.

"I suggested that we do a short one," The whiskered blonde explained this time as he laid back in his seat. "It was so we could make sure the adjustments Lala made while all of you were out didn't mess anything up before going full scale."

"Oh, fair point."

-End of Chapter-