"Naruto, do you wanna marry me?"

The question caused the young man to drop the washrag in his hands as it locked up, as his entire body locked up. It took a minute just to look down at her, and judging by the look on her face, she wasn't pleased by this. Disappointment and embarrassment galore showed in her frown as she looked away sharply.

"I don't- it was just a thought," she defended weakly. "I mean, my folks always said I could… 'YOU KNOW' who ever I wanted, and mom definitely wouldn't complain about you,"

Somehow, Naruto doubted that for reasons he dared not utter.

"I-I know I'm not real royalty or anything, but, I mean, the iron mine brings in plenty of money. You grew up in a mine, right? You could help with running the business if you wanted; dad basically set it all up to run itself so… E-either way though, it would provide a very comfortable life for you or…us…any children we might have," she muttered out her last few words, no longer looking at him.

Gods the blush on her face at that! She wanted children; even he was able to pick up, and sweet fuck, her body was sculpted for brewing babies. Babies that would grow up full and happy, that he could raise without struggle; it was just about everything he ever wanted out of life. Far more than he ever realistically expected to have growing up. Moreover, it was all close enough to the forest for him to see his bastards there with ease, not to mention Tsunade and Temari.

Hell, maybe Karui wouldn't mind. She might even let him knock her up too, she'd let him cum inside her plenty although he had assumed that was just for enjoyment. It's not as if a silver for some special tea would even be noticed by her budget.

It might even be useful to Sasuki, having someone she could trust back here, in the far-off colony where her journey started. Someone to watch the estate and try to maximize her land for her. Not that he expected her to ever like this idea, just that perhaps she might tolerate it. She'd promised that she wouldn't hurt him or anything if he left some months ago. Had he ever followed her because he was afraid of her, though? No, no of course that wasn't the reason.

"Chocho, you're going to make someone very, very happy by taking them as your husband some day," he began. Judging by the frown, she knew how he was ending it. "I know Sasuki can be… well, I know she's not perfect, but I truly love her, and I think she needs me,"

She wiped her eyes as she sniffled, but said nothing else. There were no words of protest as he finished washing and straightening out his clothes; she just sat on the bed without looking at him. Though at the same time, she looked hopeful when he lifted her chin and placed a long, lingering kiss on her mouth.

"I'm sorry,"

"I- don't be. I'm the one being stupid; of course you don't want to just…. stop your entire life and marry me just because a sucked your penis,"

"Chocho, you have no idea how much your offer tempts me, how much I do want to in a very real way; we just can't," he explained, as best he could, happy to see her eyes dry as she hummed her agreement. He pecked her again. "And seriously, you might be the sexiest woman I've ever touched; don't ever think you're ugly,"

That earned a soft smile, and that seemed like the best note he could possibly leave with. Quickly, he slipped out the door, sighing a deep breath of relief, then immediately retensing at the soft sound of a certain princesses voice down the hall.

"-soon, I don't know what's taking that idiot so long," as if dominated by the sound of her voice, he quickly hurried the remaining five yards into the kitchen, earning an annoyed stare as he looked over the table, now empty save two tin cups. "There you are! Do you have the deed? What happened?"

"Yeah, yeah I do," he assured first, handing the parchment from his satchel over and thanking whatever gods listened that she seemed to find it more interesting than him. Even so, she only skimmed it, only reading for about thirty seconds before turning that stare back on him. His heart fell into his stomach even before the words.

"So what took so damn long, aren't you eager to go check out our new home too?"

"I um… pumped into- BUMPED into Chocho, you know uh, the mayor's daughter?" he began, having no idea how he was going to end that thought.

"Oh, right, she mentioned wanting to thank you," Sasuki recalled, casually forgetting that she specifically told her that he deserved the credit and thanks for their actions today. "So you were comforting her?"

"Y-yeah she uh… she cried," he offered, twisting the truth so far beyond the reality of his words.

Thankfully, Sasuki bought his bullshit.

Also fortuitously, there was an excuse to be quiet for the long walk home, with Hanabi quickly falling asleep in his arms. Well, Sasuki's technically, but his raven wasted no time pawning that duty off after the kid was out. It didn't make the hike home less exhausting, you might imagine. So tired they both were, they didn't look for Sakura, they didn't talk to any of the servants, they didn't even look through the whole house.

They searched until they found a bed big enough for the two of them and fell straight on it.

The sun was half way up the sky before either of them thought of leaving it. Even then, they didn't leave the actual house; first, they sought food. Surprised to find a couple members of the branch family already inside the haunted mansion, apparently summoned by the hungry Hanabi, who was already happily munching on her bread and bacon. It felt awkward asking them to cook for them too, but sure as hell not for Sasuki.

She ordered an omelet, coffee, two cut pieces of fruit, a serving of bacon and a bath to be warmed for her by the time she was done eating. She ordered him food too. His raven looked so natural, reading over the deed in detail while she ate the lavish meal prepared for her.

"Feels good to be back in the lap of luxury?" he asked her after having a bite of his own breakfast. She nearly choked on her fruit, coughing turning to laughter. A smile he seldom saw on her spread across her face. Although she said nothing at first. "What?"

"It's just… You think this is the lap of luxury? This isn't even a grand steward's vacation estate! King luckbern would think this place a hovel; merchants and commoners can live better than this!" she continued, almost falling into laughter but looking up at him with nothing but love when it was done. "Come back to the bedroom after you wash,"

With that, she left him to go enjoy her bath. Naruto was content enough to just use a basin and some of the various soap-esc things he found in one of the thousands of new rooms he had yet to explore. The toothpaste had a faint but pleasant taste to it, yet another luxury he'd never known. After that was done, he waited patiently back on the massive bed they'd shared.

He was rewarded beyond his wildest dreams when his beautiful, raven princess came in wearing nothing but a pleased grin and a damp lace bathrobe the same color as her inky hair. It briefly matched her eyes too, until she blinked. Her blood-red eyes remained in place, with that loving look turning predatory as she oh so slowly strolled across the room to his side of the bed. It was odd that she remained on her feet.

Although lying on his back in bed while a gorgeous woman leaned overtop to kiss him repeatedly, and with a chorus of adorable content hums was quite enjoyable. Alas, it was not long before she abandoned this to climb on top of him. They held each other as they kissed, opening their mouths and relishing in the taste of each other as they continued the tender makeout.

Brushing his hands along her body was incredible; the clothes were almost as soft as her skin!

"What are you doing?"

Both of them spasmed and separated.

"Ah why- what the fuck are you doing here?" Sasuki hissed, even despite her fear of the specter that seemed to have invited itself into their room. Her voice was soft, and her form unthreatening. Even so, her presence rattled the warrior to hell and back; it was some small comfort that she at least wasn't naked yet!

"You're wearing my bathrobe," Hinata simply replied, staring at her.

"I—what do you want it back?" Sasuki asked in disbelief, her face red and her eyes black once more. It didn't help that the ghost didn't respond. She only turned her gaze to the other startled youth in the room.

"What are you doing?" she asked, head tilted.

"I um… we were just getting intimate, you know. Is that a problem?" he asked, far less frightened but still quite unnerved. Even letting a bit of his irritation seep in.

"W-what is… getting intimate?"

"You know, sex," he mumbled.

"Ohhhh, sex, making children, of course. You will begin your family here, now that you have land,"

"NEII!" Sasuki gargled out, not even trying to form a word he noted with bemusement. "W-We're just having fun right now. No children, not any time soon," she clarified.

"Fun? Just…. touching each other for fun?"

"By all gods right and good, that's confusing to you?" Naruto asked, voice thick with sympathy. "Haven't you eve- didn't you ever, you know, touch your parts after puberty, just for fun?"

Now Hinata blushed; however the fuck that worked. He didn't care. The faint pink that grew over her face was adorable and made her look yet more alive. Naruto smiled at the site, in spite of everything.

"It feels a lot better when it's someone else's hand, and even better when you actually have a cock inside,"

"A rooster? What?"

"N-no, like a man's private? This," he offered awkwardly, lifting himself enough to show the large hardon he was carrying. Still covered by the pants, of course. Apparently Hinata saw this as a problem; in a flash, as if yanked off by someone stronger than Sakura, the breeches flew off his legs and into the wall!

Sasuki sucked in a frightened breath.

Hinata just tilted her head innocently again.

"That?" she asked, casually pointing to the bobbing penis on the bed as she came closer, seeming to glide across the floor in that way she did. The movement stopped at the edge of the bed, on his side, thankfully for Sasuki who still looked unnerved. Naruto was starting to catch up to her as an ethereal hand came up to brush his most vulnerable part lightly. "This is what would shoot the baby into me?"

"B-baby juice, semen, at least," he explained, desperately not trying to display any of the pleasure he was feeling.

"It's warm," she noted, staring a moment longer. "How does it work?"

"Uh… a guy puts it into a woman's... womanhood, and uh, moves it back and forth, the friction makes it shoot out the stuff and sometimes that makes the woman pregnant,"

"Friction?" she asked before startling him with a sudden jerk back. "Oh my goodness, I'm sorry, that must be… unpleasant," she mumbled, clutching the hand she'd rubbed him with as her face went yet darker. Turning a red almost as crimson as his lover's special eyes.

"Kind of the opposite," he rebutted, scratching his head as her eyes fell back on him. "But yeah, a little uncomfortable with my lover right next to me,"

"I don't mind!" Sasuki belted out in a breath, her eyes still locked on the ghost, more than a little afraid she'd be thrown off into some other room or dimension at the idiot's words. Again. Hinata only looked at her. Naruto gave his raven a quizzical look as his slow handjob resumed.

The fact that his girlfriend was okay with this was nothing short of shocking. Not that he was complaining, although he did lay a hand on her thigh, just under the thin fabric of her evily sexy outfit. He crawled it up slowly as he looked at her, not smiling until she made that pouty, restrained face as he poked at her core.

She finally seemed to relax as he came closer to kiss her cheek down to her neck, sucking in a euphoric gasp.

"It feels good for you too?" with the words, Sasuki was upright and stiff as wood again, about too clenched for him to even get a knuckle into her. He pecked her cheek one more time, then turned to Hinata. Fuck that headtilt was adorable.

"Yeah, didn't I already explain that?" he asked, immediately regretting his words, and not just because it brought the hand stroking him up to hide her mouth behind a soft little fist. "Y-yes sex er- sexual acts feel good for women too, if you're doing them right at least,"

"I was told not to expect pleasure from coupling. Only that my husband would likely enjoy it and would want to more often than was strictly necessary," she explained, twisting a knife in his gut. A sympathy pain for both the beautiful highborn ladies in the room with him; he even spared a moment to share his sympathetic look with Sasuki but she was still too stiff to read well.

"That's horrible. Trust me, we'd see Hanabi married to a commoner who worships her like a queen before some royal dickbag like that!"

"Ha… it's funny you say that. For all his faults, I really thought my father loved us until I met my fiancé. He always said it was what everything was for. The discipline, the lessons, all to make sure we were ready and capable for marriage. Marriage to a good man who would take care of us and help further the Hyuuga name. I realize now that our happiness had no worth in the equation, no value towards what would make a marriage good," she trembled lightly by the end of her speech, those big, lavender eyes watering as the room seemed to grow darker. Was that just their imagination? Just to be safe, Naruto laid a hand on hers, stroking the back of it with his thumb.

"Well, her happiness will be our only concern when that sort of decision comes up; I can promise that," he offered, relieved to see her smile and, moreso, to see her shaking still as she smiled up at him.

"Thank you, thank you both so much for everything," she began, earning a smile from even Sasuki, albeit a nervous one. "Can I ask you for one thing more?"

"Of course, I mean, we kind of stole your house," he half joked, earning a giggle.

"Will you make me feel good, like her?"

"I…" he trailed off as he looked back at his girlfriend, but she waved this off.

"I don't mind," she said again and just as quickly, somehow even stiffer than before.

"I… could I kiss you then?" Hinata asked, drawing his eyes like a strong magnet. All gods above him, how did he possibly end up in this situation? How did he have not one but two gorgeous princesses in bed with him? Granted Hinata was only a minor noble, and not alive or anything he could admit in public, but still! Not only did he have two, he had the two extremes of alure! The fierce, determined warrior princess on his left; the true heiress, the true monarch; and on his right, the soft, shy, blushing bride-to-be!

To say nothing of either's outright physical beauty.

He was the luckiest man alive.

Hell, maybe the luckiest FEY!

It surprised him when Hinata leaned in. Granted, he was taking his sweet time with her request. The feel of her lips was so soft, just a ghost of a touch. It made his hands fly to her sides to feel her. Was she always this soft, was that just her body? Naruto couldn't help but wonder if it was some aspect of her passing that made it feel like this, so utterly soft and malleable, like a living cloud or some other air elemental!

She made no protest as he pulled her against him and felt that divine softness right on his own torso. She only hummed nervously as they fell downward onto the bed together, slowly. Naruto was careful not to rest even an ounce of weight on the delicate woman. When her eyes creaked just a smidge open, he dipped his head to kiss her again.

One hand made it's journey down her body, stroking her hair a time, then stroking a thumb on her neck a little longer, then taking just the gentlest of squeezes on her full, perfect breast. Hinata squeaked! Despite this, she made no protest as he gently rubbed the mound of flesh, continuing to peck and press at her lips with his as he reveled in the soft, squishy flesh.

Naruto rolled onto his side before venturing the hand to her most sacred place. Rubbing it slowly, wondering idly about how the warmth, let alone the 'getting wet' possibly worked on the spectre, but so utterly glad that it did. His precious new princess was just taking short breaths with her eyes closed tight.

"Is this okay?"

"Y-you can do whatever you want to me," she assured, though her tone was breathless and shakey. Naruto thought it prudent to lean down and lay some slow, sensual kisses on her neck as he worked her snatch. He waited until the breathing was a little lower before he actually penetrated her to the knuckle.

That earned another delicious squeak!

He stayed in position, and they continued going slowly, but it wasn't long until she clenched and tightened and came with a long, drawn-out cry that spilled past her lips. Lifting his head, he saw Sasuki upright, looking at her with eyes more quizzical than afraid now. He reached out, just to stroke his raven's hair, but she batted the hand away sharply.

"N-naruto… make love to me? Please?" she huffed out, leading him to look back at the beautiful, now quite red woman under him. Seeing no reason to refuse her, he repositioned. Again, it was slow; he buried to the hilt in her with surprising ease, tight around her lips but so warm and welcoming inside.

So utterly soft.

It was a trial to last. The young man had to burry his head in the dark purple locks where he was safely blind. He had to bite his tongue and focus like hell and she was doing practically nothing! Just gently scratching at his back, just humming and hawing in time with his thrusts. She was just incredible.

It would have been embarrassing how quick he finished were it not her release that triggered it. That long, lingering squeal, that gentle squeeze she gave his torso with both arms as her womanhood milked him so wonderfully! Being filled felt no less spectacular for her.

So warm, so deep inside her.

So content.

Gods, what a way to begin the day! Although the tremendous comfort of finishing and lying on top of this cloud of a woman actually had him slipping back to sleep. The sun was past its peak in the sky when he woke, finding himself alone and quickly making himself presentable. Hinata didn't appear again on his way out the door, but Sakura had.

She'd even moved her yurt here from Tsunade's house; still doing the finishing parts of the setup. Naruto made his way to Sasuki first. Something had been off about her, and she seemed to be between sets of her katas anyway; sweating faintly even in the cold air.

"Hey Sasuki," he greeted casually.

"Oh fuck you," she replied, with little emotion.

"W-what?" he asked, genuinely curious. "Are you upset about that whole…situation with Hinata?" he asked, taking a good guess from the glare she silently answered with. "You said you didn't mind!"

"Yes. That was a lie, a cunning ruse born of my selfish desire to NOT piss off the volatile spirit! You fucking idiot!" she sneered, her voice just below a shout. Loud enough to draw attention with the last bit.

"Why is he an idiot? What did he do now, warleader?" Sakura asked, crossing her arms as she came to stand not a meter away.

"I… nothing, not really," she brushed off, instantly raising his spirits with her return to normal. Squashing the chance he'd be squashed like a bug was quite a relief on top of that. Sakura only hummed skeptically as Naruto smiled at his raven. Eager to change the subject, he asked her a question.

"So… You're nobility again; that was the first step in your master plan, right? What now?"

The grin that split her face might have been the most joyous he'd ever seen her, the look of utter satisfaction and accomplishment in her eyes as she smiled.

"Now? Now we can go back to real civilization and make real money. We're going tourney-hunting!"

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