Chapter Five: We failed,

Orochimaru stood in his lab, over yet another dead test subject, 'Another failure' he thought as he looked over the corpse, it's limbs severed from one another in a crude imitation of a certain devil fruit he'd been trying to recreate the effects of, 'On it's own the devil fruit is nothing spectacular but in the hands of an entire army it would be perfect for the destruction of Konoha, and any other land based villages,'

Orochimaru frowned as he leaned over the corpse, "Perhaps this time I can figure out where I went wrong?"

Suddenly the doors of his lab burst open, and quickly the interloper was surrounded by snakes which came from their master's sleeve, each snake seemed to glare at him, each of their eyes were a perfect replica of his masters, the interloper noticed that one of the snakes were drooling, and that it's saliva dripped onto the floor and with the small droplets small hole were burned into the floor,

"I thought I was not to be disturbed?" Orochimaru asked taking up a scalpel as he started to cut open the corpse,

"I was told to bring this to you my lord," one of his servants said holding a newspaper,

"Really?" Orochimaru asked, one of his snakes giving the newspaper a curious glance, while he himself continued to work on the corpse, "And why would I want to see that?"

"The cover story sir," the slave stated,

One of the snakes took the paper and brought it to their lord, who took it and looked it over, "...?" Orochimaru's eyes widened as he looked upon the cover story, "...Who told you to bring this to me?" he asked,

"Kabuto, my lord,"

Orochimaru nodded before he laid the paper on a clean desk so he could study the picture, it showed a familiar young blonde haired teenager, surrounded by many people, but the most intriguing thing in the picture to Orochimaru were the additions to the centre figure, four more arms, sharp teeth, claws, purple eyes that had seemed to start forming slits out of it's of pupils,

He still carried himself with that same nobility that he'd had when they'd last met, if Orochimaru hadn't already known his new sound five had failed this would've been a good indication that they had,

"You've done well," Orochimaru stated his snakes returning to his sleeves,

"Thank you my lord," The servant breathed a sigh of relief,

"Now I have a new job for you, take a team and take any pictures of any surgeries Naruto performs in the leaf," Orochimaru ordered,

"My lord?"

"You may leave now," The Slave turned, "Oh and... lock the door,"

They nodded, "Y-yes my lord,"

After they were gone Orochimaru stared at the picture, "My..." he said as he looked at the picture, "That was good work... Naruto," his eyes turned to the headline, 'Naruto Uzumaki practices surgery on himself says trusted source on the Council, is the populace safe?'

OCTOPUS-Elsewhere-OCTOPUS

Naruto awoke, his new body was strange to get used to, even something as simple as waking up became complex with the addition of more arms, take now for instance, two of his arms had ended up underneath his back as he slept, while one had managed to get under his pillow,

And then was the fact that everything else had been pushed onto the floor,

He looked around, and was both glad and sad to see, he was alone,

None of the girls had decided to join him in bed, usually he'd be happy about that, but none of them were really happy with how the last mission ended, and he was worried they were distancing themselves from him,

As Naruto pushed himself out of bed he saw the new dresser and caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror on it, he saw his eyes, still purple yet they glimmered in the dark, he still had no idea how that happened, along with his teeth and finger nails both becoming sharper, vaguely he recalled a dream he'd had after the surgery, but whatever happened he could not remember,

He popped his neck, and rubbed his arms trying to ease the pins and needles in his joints, then he grabbed his forehead protector and left the room, as he walked down the halls he couldn't hear anything inside the manors halls,

But not too far away he could hear Syo grunting as she tried to hit something, Yakumo's tails brushing softly against something, steam rising in the kitchen, and something being sharpened in a room downstairs,

'So Syo is outside, Yakumo is in the attic, Patchwork and likely Isaribi are in the kitchen, and that leaves Pakura in the weapon room,' he thought as he entered the shower,

He noticed his clothes were in there, as were two others, the baggy shirt and trousers must've been for Yakumo, and next were clothes so big they'd only fit Syo, 'They must've not showered yet,' he sighed,

He stripped himself off and entered the shower, the hot water easing his aches as he washed himself,

After drying himself off and dressing himself he walked downstairs, deciding he'd eat breakfast before he tracked the girls ready to talk to each of them,

'I just hope I can get through to them,' he thought, he looked down at his arms, 'what happened must've messed with them,' he thought,

As he entered the dining room he saw Isaribi and Patchwork in the kitchen, "Here," Patchwork said quietly, "Take this to him,"

Isaribi nodded slightly,

Naruto simply pulled out his chair and sat down as the girl entered the room, "Morning uh dad?" she asked uncertainly as she entered the room carrying a large tray, she turned glaring slightly at the shadow of his that was on the wall ready to help her with the tray,

"I can carry it myself," she stated, bringing it to the table, she stiffly set it down in front of him before she sat across from him, she sighed gently as she sat down,

She looked much better without the bandages covering her, yet she wouldn't meet his eyes, instead she busied herself by both creasing and smoothing out the creases she'd just made to the maid outfit that she was wearing,

"We should get more clothes for you all," he said,

"Y-you don't like it?" she asked nervously, "Everyone else wore one so I assumed that you had a maid fetish or something,"

"By the way," Patchwork said entering the room in a similar, yet much skimpier outfit, "The ones we ordered actually arrived recently, so you'll likely be seeing some girls sporting those soon," then she turned and went back to the kitchen,

"Not me," Isaribi stated with a blush, "It was embarrassing enough putting this one on," she gripped the pieces of fabric tightly, "Like how the hell can anyone wear those willingly?"

"I've no idea why they wanted them in the first place," Naruto said, "though it likely has something to do with Patchwork and Pakura working to have the people who live here trying to seduce me,"

"I uh noticed that," Isaribi said, "Patchwork insisted I feed you everything with my mouth," she picked up a piece of toast and held it with her mouth, "Ike ishh," she said, before she held it again and started to chew it,

"I'm sorry to hear that," Naruto stated, "Are you at least enjoying your new home?"

She nodded with a smile, "Yeah, it's everything you and the other promised, except..." she looked sad, "This is the first time I've eaten breakfast with someone else,"

"I know," he said, "You expected it to be louder, and more enjoyable then the ones you had in the land of sea," she nodded and Naruto smiled brightly at her, "I'll have the others all ready and hungry by dinnertime," he said, "I swear you didn't make the wrong choice Isarib-,"

"That's... another question I had for you," she said, "I've heard a lot about you from people, mostly Pakura, and I wonder if you were ever actually going to give me a choice?"

"Of course I was," he said with a smile,

She nodded, "You see, if I had said I wanted to leave, I think that's what you would've let me think," she said, "But what if I said I wanted to stay?"

Naruto turned to meet her eyes again, only this time she met his, staring into his eyes for an answer, "Isaribi... forgive me for saying so, but..." he held back his true dark thoughts, but his mind still thought them, 'I'd have burned the land of sea to the ground before I left you there' he thought, "There was no chance I'd have left you there, even if you despised me for doing so, I'd have done everything in my power to have brought you here regardless of what you said,"

"That's what I figured," she said with nod, "so uh..." she looked at the food on the plate, "What do families do while eating?"

Naruto half tried to eat, and half explain to Isaribi how families operate from his limited knowledge, after breakfast he left the table and thought where he should go,

'I should tackle this in order,' he thought, and went to find Pakura, it wasn't hard tracking her since she was the loudest and closest to him,

He found the room she was in and knocked, "Come in," she said, he opened the door and entered the weapon room for the first time,

There were many weapon holders in the room, but so few weapons the family actually had, 'That reminds me, I'd better see Tenten today,' he thought, It had seemed that Pakura had busied herself by sharpening his sickle and a large pile of Kunai,

"Hey brat," she said without even looking up at him, "How's your arms?"

"I... hadn't considered that I'd have to learn how to move them all, I still feel as though I have toast stuck to my face from earlier," he said wiping his cheek,

She cracked a ghost of a smile from the image of that, "So you tried to charm our little snapping turtle with food on your face?"

"I was not trying to charm anyone," Naruto defended himself, "We simply conversed as we ate,"

She turned to him, "Do you actually expect anyone to believe that?" she raised her hand, "Yakumo, the bun haired girl, Syo, the ponytailed girl, Isaribi, me," she said, "I'd be surprised if anyone on this list doesn't have a crush on you,"

Naruto sat next to her, "You were on that list,"

"I have a crush on you," she stated then snorted, "just thinking about it makes me feel like a schoolgirl again," she said leaning her head on the wall,

"When did you?"

"About three years after we met," she said, "I realised how you'd saved me, and then despite how wary I was with you, how patient you were with me, yet never once did you want anything off me, slowly as I watched you I started to... develop this crush," she chuckled, "I'm old enough to be your mother, yet I've got these feelings for you," she said, "I ignored them, cause I figured it was nothing, just me getting my wires crossed, but after you were brought back to the village, I knew then and there exactly what I felt, and when you woke up and sent me out for some body parts" she smiled as she turned to him, "In your eyes I saw the same person that went of to the land of sea, but stronger, and I knew that me and Patchwork had worried for nothing," she said, "Everyone else had fallen and couldn't get back up, but you already had,"

Then she looked down, "And now I have to accept that... not only do I have these feelings, not only am I one of the two closest people you have to a mother, not only do all of my girls have the same crush on you I do, but, that I could lose you," she said, "These feelings all go against each other and they're trying to make me feel guilty cause of how I feel," she turned back to him, "For the kid who saved me, took me into his home, kept me safe, kept me fed, and became my son,"

She shook her head, "And you wanna hear the worse thing?"

"What?" he asked,

"I... really don't care," she said, "cause my girls will have to share anyway, why can't they share with me?"

Naruto's face turned red, "I uh... you-,"

"Man," she stretched, "It feels great to get that all off my chest," she said, "You should go find the others, try talking some sense into them, eh master?" she asked,

"I-," Naruto was quickly cut off as Pakura grabbed another weapon, "We'll I've still got things to Sharpen and polish," she said grabbing his shoulder, "see ya blondie," and then Pakura quickly pushed him out of the room and locked herself inside,

As Naruto recovered from his stupor he could hear her on the other side of the door, breathing heavily, he heard her slump against the wall and let out a loud sigh,

He wanted time to think about what he'd been told, but he wanted everyone at dinner, He shook his head, 'I am the Patriarch of The Uzumaki Family,' he reminded himself, 'Family comes first' and thus he walked back up the stairs,

Locating Yakumo was the simple part of his task, navigating the manor's halls to find the entrance to the attic was what made his search difficult, eventually he found the entrance and then entered the old room filled with dusty boxes,

He pulled the door close, and then was about to leap onto the rafters when he stopped and looked around again,

The room was well used, filled with things over the years, boxes upon boxes lined up to the ceiling each covered in a thick layer of dust and cobwebs,

"I'm glad to see your Genjutsu is still very convincing Yakumo," he said, "But you've created an inconsistency," he said, "The manor was built recently, and we haven't had reason to put anything up here,"

Yakumo sighed, and the boxes, dust and cobwebs vanished, "I almost tricked you," she said as she sat in a corner of the room, Her sunken eyes had dark circles around them and were filled with a mix of tired and and alert as she hugged her maul for dear life and shivered or trembled,

Naruto walked over to her and sat across from her, she just stared at him as she tried to stay awake,

"You haven't been in the shower today," he said,

"I know,"

"Or to breakfast,"

"I know,"

He nodded, and just sat across from her, they sat in silence for a while before either of them spoke,

"I..." Yakumo started looking away from him, "I think... I died," she stated,

Naruto leaned closer, "What do you mean?"

Yakumo frowned, she placed her hammer down and with a quick puff of pink smoke she returned to her gaunt self, and to Naruto's shock her clothes were sweat stained and filthy, as if she'd been wearing the same thing for the past few days,

She pulled the front part of her baggy top down showing off her chest, but before he could blush his eyes were brought to a black mark on her body, likely where Ameyuri had pressed her sword against Yakumo's chest,

"I remember, after she touched me... I saw my life all over again," she said hugging her knees, "and I saw mum and dad," she leaned into her legs, "They held me so softly, so tenderly, I just... I never wanted to leave,"

"Yakumo... are you-"

"But when I woke up..." she continued, "I saw mum again," she said looking behind him, "And I still do,"

Naruto turned, and to him nobody was there,

But Yakumo did see her, the bones of Shizuku Kurama floated just behind Naruto, he turned back to Yakumo, she knew he thought she was crazy, "I see," he said,

She frowned, 'Next he'll say we should go see a Yamanaka, so they can set me right,'

"So where is she exactly?" he asked,

"Behind you, right behind you," she responded,

"Well It could be trauma," he reasoned, as he started to stand, "or your subconscious, like she's a mark of death?" he rubbed his chin, "Or worse," he turned around to where Yakumo had said that her mother was, he raised his arm putting it right through the ghost of her mother, "For one reason or another she could actually be there,"

She looked at him, "You... believe me?"

"I have no reason not to," Naruto said glaring at her mother, "Am I looking at her?" he asked,

"Y-yeah," she said,

"Miss Kurama," he spoke calmly, "GET OUT OF MY HOME!" he roared, his voice dripping with disgust and anger, "YOU'VE CAUSED ENOUGH PAIN FOR YOUR POOR DAUGHTER, LEAVE HER BE!" he spat, "LOOK AT HER," he gestured to Yakumo, "SHE'S SHAKING IN FEAR FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" Slowly Naruto's shadow rose from the ground forming a large multi armed figure as Naruto himself growled at the spectre, "I AM NARUTO UZUMAKI! AND UNTIL I SAY OTHERWISE YOU, KURENAI, AND ANY OTHERS WHO'VE HARMED YAKUMO ARE NOT WELCOME IN MY HOUSE!"

Yakumo watched as slowly the bones started fading, "AND DON'T MAKE ME CALL THE OTHERS! PAKRURA, PATCHWORK, SYO, AND ISARIBI WOULD ALL ENJOY TAKING THE WOMAN WHO'S FILLING THEIR BELOVED DAUGHTER/SISTER WITH FEAR AND TOSSING HER IN A WOOD CHIPPER!"

After Naruto finished the bones had vanished,

Naruto took a few breathes as his shadow returned underneath him, "See?" he asked brightly as he faced her again, the anger in his voice had vanished entirely, "No trouble for us,"

She wiped her eyes, "How'd you know she vanished?" she sniffed, "You can't see her,"

Naruto sat across from her again, "I know she's gone, because she knows that I won't let her terrorise you," he held out his hand for her, "She knows none of us will,"

Yakumo's eyes started watering, "I-it was so easy?" she asked, "I've been seeing her for days, and getting rid of her was so easy?"

"It wasn't easy Yakumo," he said, "It seemed easy because the hard part has already been done,"

"Wh-what hard part?" she sniffled,

"You've worked so hard to trust people after everything you've been through, and that's why she knows not to come back, because you've got a family who won't let her back in," Naruto explained, "She'll come back of course, but we'll chase her off as many times as we have to, and never be afraid to ask us to, what bothers one of us, will be dealt with by all of us,"

Slowly Yakumo took his hand, and the young man quickly lifted her up before she collapsed into his shoulder, "There we go," he said, holding her like one would a sleeping baby, "You've fought so long haven't you?" he asked her gently, "But there's no reason to anymore, you're not alone,"

He grasped the handle of her weapon with one hand and tried to walk his young friend to the closest room,

He turned back in confusion,

His arm easily lifted the maul, it was almost weightless in his one hand,

He turned back to the sleeping girl, she seemed to weigh more then the weapon did, and she was very thin, Naruto sook his head, he'd investigate the weightless hammer later,

Since it was closer to the attic's entrance Naruto took Yakumo into his own bedroom, he gently laid her down, stripped her free of the clothes she'd been wearing for so long, giving a glance at the black mark on her chest, it had healed better then he expected, maybe soon she'd be rid of it entirely, then he tucked her in and kissed her forehead,

His shadow split from him, waiting here in case she woke up, that way he'd be ready to chase away anything that she could see that scared her,

As he quietly shut the door he glared out of the window, he walked over to it, there he could just see the Kurama clan's forest, 'Whether what Yakumo saw was real or not I will protect her,' he took a breath and looked around, "I don't know if you're listening Shizuku, but if you are I promise you that if you are a ghost scaring Yakumo, that I'll find some way to be rid of you for good, so return to your home or else," he stated,

Then he turned, "Just Syo left," he said, he passed a clock in the hallway, "and with time to spare too, though Yakumo might miss dinner I'm sure Isaribi will understand,"

As he came to the exit of the manor he removed a cane from a nearby stand and made sure to lean on it, his family knew his leg was fine, but Konoha did not, after the illusion of his broken leg was complete he pulled the door open and was stopped again, "Oh my," he said, on the other side of the door were Hinata, Ino, and Sakura, with Ino looking like she was about to knock, "Morning ladies," he bowed,

Each girl seemed shocked by his appearance, he noticed a newspaper behind Sakura's back,

"Something wrong?" he asked,

The two other girls just stared at his added appendages, but Hinata actually pointed at them, Naruto moved his arms about, "Yes they're real," he said hobbling out on his cane, "I'd invite you in but I was just leaving," he said pulling the door shut, "My family was torn up by the mission," he said, "As I'm sure all of yours were," he sighed, "Pakura was afraid I'd be a corpse, Yakumo's been seeing things, I'm not even sure what Syo's going through yet," he figured it was best not to go through their actual issues,

Soon he felt fingers on one of his arms, he turned and Ino seemed to just hold and examine the arm she had in her grasp,

"Perhaps we all should have a chat?" he offered opening his door again, "You all seem as though you've each seen ghosts,"

Quickly he ushered them inside, "Let's go to the dining room, perhaps some tea will calm your nerves,"

When they were all at the table they looked to their drinks, the room around them, anywhere but him,

Well Ino and Sakura did, Hinata refused to look anywhere but him, it was... concerning, this continued for several minutes, "Well, how've you all been since the mission?"

Their answers were all lukewarm, Ino mumbled something about flowers, Sakura stated something about hanging out with her family mostly, and Hinata... just stared,

"And you Hinata?" he asked, but she just kept those lavender orbs entirely focused on him,

Slowly Naruto moved, trying to figure out where she was looking, though it quickly became obvious that she was looking at his eyes,

"Ah," he said, "Perplexed by the change?" he asked drawing all eyes to him, "honestly so am I," he moved his arms around, "The arms are the work of surgery, performed by me," he said before sipping his drink, but after surgery was complete I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and it boggled my mind, but somehow... despite only attaching more arms, somehow my eyes had changed colour and gained slits,"

"S-so you weren't... trying to... change them?" Sakura asked,

"To what? a Sharingan?" Naruto asked with a chuckle, though it seemed that she and Ino had been somewhat worried about that, thus his attempt at a joke made them shiver, he sighed and placed his drink down, "I am a capable surgeon, but that type of surgery is beyond what I know, and I am mostly self taught, though it would be very handy to learn as with all surgeries, I would never think of willingly taking out a perfectly working organ simply to replace it with another,"

"So you're not after Sasuke's eyes?" Ino asked,

Naruto shut his eyes and shook his head, "Where did that come from?"

"The villagers," Sakura said, "They said you're mad, crazy mad, and that you want to kill Lord third and take Saskue-kun's eyes and rule over the leaf,"

Naruto snorted, "It's true," Hinata said, "th-that they said it at least,"

"Well you've all nothing to fear," Naruto said, "I am indebted to Sarutobi-san for everything he's done for me, and Sasuke-san is my teammate, I'd never want to hurt either if I didn't have too, I wished I had a better retort for them calling me mad but I did surgery on myself so I suppose I could be at least somewhat insane,"

"But your arms," Ino said pointing at him,

"...Now I see," he said, "Sorry I thought it silly that you all came here simply because of a rumour, but now I get it," he smiled, He turned to look out the window, "You see, when Ameyuri descended upon us I was frightened, no, petrified," he said, "As she and the butchered corpses of the dead Kaima rose on that platform behind that crazed Doctor it quickly occurred to me, that she could kill us all there," he explained,

Each girl's face paled considerably as he spoke, "That I could do nothing to protect my family," he leaned back in his chair, "And in that brief moment everyone leaf and sound were united against her," then he frowned, "and still we failed,"

"What happened back there robbed me of months, time I'll never get back, but I could make sure I'd never lose it again," he said, "Thus I decided to... do this to myself," he said, "so that hopefully, the next time I face her the outcome will be different,"

"Because I never wanted to feel so weak and helpless ever again," he studied their faces, each of them looked ashamed, like they'd been thinking something else entirely,

"But... couldn't you just... train harder?" Ino asked, "Why something so drastic?"

"Because Ameyuri is a monster, even aged and hobbled by a disease that both took away much of her strength she was still far beyond... anything I'd imagined, and now she's obtained the power to regain her youth, and in her youth she never showed any signs of illness," he stated, "for a while she'll be content to strike terror as she is, but eventually she'll be in her prime again, and I'm not sure any sort of training will prepare us for what she'll be able to do," he said looking at his arms, "Orochimaru, Ameyuri, maybe more," he said, "So many strong people out there want to disrupt the peace we enjoy daily, and eventually they'll come to destroy it, personally,"

He took a breath, "There are no shortcuts to being a ninja, yet now it seems we need one more then ever," he said, he looked at the three girls sat across him as equals, "Ladies if I may speak honestly," he raised his cup to his lips again, this time it quivered slightly, but just enough so they all caught it, he drank and set the cup down again and stated, "I'm scared, very, very, very scared of what's coming, we need to make use of the peace we have now and train ourselves as hard as we can, because I fear in the future we won't have such a luxury,"

"B-but what about Lord Third?" Sakura asked as she started shaking, "He's strong he'd never let anyone-,"

Naruto shut his eyes tightly, "Yes Sakura-san, My... grandfather is powerful, but he's old, through medical Ninjutsu he may be able to prolong his life, but eventually he will..." Naruto stopped, again he froze in terror, the very thought of his grandfather figure dying still hurt to simply imagine, "Besides, it's not as if only Ameyuri and Orochimaru want us gone, the other nations must be suspected as well, we cannot trust that in a weakened state that they would not go for the throat, besides Sarutobi cannot be the only strong piece we have,"

"He isn't," Ino insisted, "Asuma-Sensei, your sensei-,"

"Kurenai-nii" Hinata added,

"I'm thinking beyond that," Naruto admitted, "What I'm considering is what if Orochimaru as cunning as he is, waited for Ameyuri to start approaching the leaf? and used the opportunity to capture or simply exterminate our forces," he said, "Slowly weakening us with every Jonin, chunin, genin that were sent out on missions simply gone,"

He noticed his words struck cords in each of them, 'They just need a little more, then quick reassurance,' he thought, 'or reassurance followed by more pressure?' he shook his head, "Of course this is all the work of my mind, battles who knows how far off?" he asked, and they visibly calmed, "But... then I thought, we are so much weaker then the last generation was at our age, and not anyone specific... actually I should say specifically everyone," he said, "Sakura you were great at memorisation, what was Tsume capable of in her day?"

Sakura thought, she did remember a class they had about the current clan heads when they were all still in the academy, "I think..." then she paled, "She... killed fifteen chunin on her first mission,"

Naruto nodded, "Could you imagine Kiba... or anyone from our class capable of that?" he asked, "I'm certainly not, even after my surgery, well..." he looked down to his knee, "when I'm completely healed that is, and I have a devil fruit and multiple arms,"

They each had a crestfallen look on their faces, "If you can't take care of it... who can?" Hinata asked,

Naruto leaned forward, "You all want to know a secret? the secret of how people like me and Sasuke are so strong?" he asked making them all look to him with a vested interest he'd never elicited in them before, "We have to be strong," he stated, "I'm putting so much into gathering my family together, so I have to be strong so they can feel safe in my care, and Sasuke wants to avenge his family, every time he closes his eyes he sees their killer's face, taunting him," he explained, "So when we train, we don't set a limit of what will do, we do everything we can, and then we do it again, and again and again, until our bodies refuse to carry us any longer, which... isn't healthy either, it's pure willpower that gets us back on our feet in the morning, and our dreams that make us drop and do it all again,"

"Do... do any of you have a dream?" he asked, "Someone you like? something you want to do? someone you want to be like?" he asked, "close your eyes for a moment," he instructed, as they did he spoke again, "Imagine the world where your dream is reality, where exactly what you want, whatever it is is yours," he said, "That world is possible, and you can achieve it,"

"But-," Ino started,

"And that Ino-san, is why you can't achieve it," Naruto said, "It's not too hard is it Sakura? to be next to the man you love?" he asked seeing the redness on her cheeks, "I'll be honest I don't know what Ino-san or Hinata-chan want, but if you train hard, I'm certain it'll be within your grasp, throw away any doubts, buts, and cannot, they're stopping your potential, you three each have so much it's staggering," he said noting the redness now shared by all of them, "but your problem is you talk yourselves out of it, If Sasuke and I can build ourselves on hard work because we dream of a better tomorrow then think of what it can do for you,"

They each opened their eyes, now each had a fire lit within them, "There it is," he smiled, "You three haven't yet trained, but you've grown fierce," he nodded, "Now come enjoy your tea," he said as they each had tea together and made small talk,

As they were gone Patchwork appeared out of the Kitchen, "Staggering eh?" Naruto waved to them as they vanished beyond his sight and frowned, "My prince? is something wrong?"

"Pakura was right," he said leaning against the wall, "I think they each have feelings for me, or at least Hinata and Ino do,"

"And you just encouraged them to chase you?" Patchwork asked,

Naruto frowned, "Hinata's always been following me around, so I knew she had them already, but I've bolstered them,"

"Isn't that a good thing?" Patchwork asked,

"With how obsessed she is? could go either way," Naruto stated, "she barely looked at my arms, mostly she stared at my eyes,"

"Because to her your appearance does not matter, she knew you were the same underneath, it was likely more that she was trying to figure out which she liked more, your blue eyes or your purple ones," Patchwork stated, "Or at least it's a possibility,"

Naruto nodded and opened the door again, "How long do we have until dinner?"

"I'm starting after you leave," Patchwork said, "Be quick my prince,"

He nodded and stumbled out keeping himself up on his cane, or at least that's what he appeared to do, as he slowly followed the sound of Syo's grunts,

He took himself around the manor, far past all of the presumably unused playground stuff Yakumo had requested, 'Though knowing her she's likely been playing with it,' he thought,

And far near the recently rebuilt wall was where he found Syo, her weapons in her hands as she wildly swung them at imaginary targets,

The scraps of cloth of what was very likely once her maid outfit hugged her sweaty body, the white parts were entirely see through, except it wouldn't have mattered considering most of her underwear was already on show just from how torn the once dress was, quickly she turned to see him,

"Master?" she asked breathing heavily, "Is something wrong?" she asked,

"Depends... how long have you been out here?"

"Syo needed to train," she stated, "She needed her flab gone so her master didn't think she wasn't pretty,"

He shook his head, "What? Syo I don't care what your body type is,"

Syo nodded, "You will, she's ugly when she's fat, so she trains to keep herself fit,"

"Syo whoever told you that you're not attractive when you've put on weight was wrong," he said, "Anyway back to the question, how long have you been out here?"

"Few hours," she said, "She came out after she woke up,"

"Okay well I've heard you all day, so I don't think you've been here for a few hours," Naruto stated,

Syo pouted, "She came out after we all slept together this morning, Mommy watched her leave,"

Naruto paled, "S-Syo we all slept together yesterday, don't tell me you've been out here since?"

Syo yawned, "That makes sense why Syo's so tired," her stomach rumbled, "And hungry,"

She walked over to Naruto but he stopped her from going past, "This isn't for training... is it Syo?" he asked, "You wouldn't be out here for an entire day swinging your cleavers around because you think you aren't attractive when slightly larger then usual,"

Syo pouted, "Syo..." she crossed her arms and looked away, "Syo doesn't like this game," she said,

Naruto shook his head, "This is impor-," then she leaned on him, her added weight almost made him fall over, but he caught himself on his cane,

"Syo was thinking about her brother," she said, "And you, and her sister, and her mums, and her other sister," she said, "It was all so much she came out here to try and sort it out, but she's not good at thinking so she still didn't think of anything,"

Naruto took her hand gently, "Then tell me I'm good at thinking," he said holding her,

"While you were in the hospital, Syo was so angry at herself, she thought her master was gonna die and she'd lose another reason to stay here, then she thought about her brother, the one she left, was he sad that Syo left him? and then she wondered if she should go back and see him again? but then she thought about her sisters and mums, was Syo supposed to care for them? or would she have to leave without the master?" she said,

"Then Syo thought about the bat whore that hurt you and Yakumo," she said, "And she really wants to hurt her, more then she's ever wanted to hurt anyone before," Syo stepped away from him, "Syo wants to take her and pull her teeth out one by one, and then turn them around and stab them back into their holes, she wants to take her eyes out, pull her face off, skin her, mash her! TEAR HER, PULL HER HAIR OUT OF HER HEAD AND STRANGLE HER WITH IT, RIP OUT HER HEART AND FEED HER WITH IT! CHOP HER LIMBS OFF AND LAUGH AS SHE HOBBLES AROUND! GET HER RAPED BY ONE HUNDRED DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND LAUGH AS SHE SCREAMS FOR HELP!" Syo screamed before she started to breathe heavily,

"I-," Quickly she covered his mouth and put him against a nearby tree wall,

"She... Syo... also..." she took a few breaths, "Syo... also really wants to fuck you," she stated, "Like she's been so concerned with keeping her anger in she hadn't thought about her other... Cravings, and right now, you here with her," she ran her other hand down his face, "She really wants you,"

After a few seconds she let him go, "She's sorry she's like this," she said, "In her head she means, she knows you don't care she's all sweaty,"

"Syo your head is-,"

"Not fine," she stressed, "And if you say otherwise... then she thinks that all her effort of resisting her darker urges for her master will have gone to waste,"

"Are you saying that if I try to reassure you,"

"Syo would hold down her master and fuck him right here," she said pointing at the ground, "In Syo's best case that is, otherwise she supposes it'd be rape,"

"Are you saying you're one complement away from sexually assaulting me?"

Syo nodded, "She really is messed up,"

Naruto frowned, "And if I told you, the fact you think that terrifies me?"

Syo frowned, "Syo can do better then that," she stated, "her master's fear, makes her more excited," she said, "Her body actually feels really good thinking of having her scared master under her,"

"I think you're trying to scare me," he said,

"Sh-she's not!" she declared, "She's so fucked up she'll do it!"

Part of Naruto... loathe as he did to even think it, did believe Syo, but he pushed his fears away,

"Syo," he said, "You are a lovely, kind, and cute young lady, I'm glad to have met you and you'd never do anything wrong to-,"

Syo grabbed him and forced him on his back as she straddled him, "Master's so sure of Syo's good nature," she stated her face beet red, "But Syo's not normal! she's not like every other girl, she's used to taking what she wants!" she pinned his arms down, "Is master so sure Syo's not going to take what she wants from him now?"

"More sure then ever," he stated looking right into her eyes,

Syo gritted her teeth, she grabbed his head so her hand covered his eyes, "Then she'll do what she wants!" she declared,

Slightly he could feel her shifting her weight over him,

And then she placed her lips gently onto his forehead, before she leaned back up and uncovered his eyes,

Naruto looked at the pink haired psycho who smiled with a blush as she looked down at him, "Why does master trust Syo so much?" she asked, "She's not well,"

"Syo... do you think evil is born or made?" he asked,

"Syo doesn't... get what master means,"

Naruto sighed, "Well, Syo... those people you killed, why'd you do that?"

"Cause they hurt Syo, or wanted to take advantage of Syo," she said,

He nodded, "You killed them because they were bad people, well I don't believe that most bad people are born bad, as they live they face choices that over time makes them bad," he stated, "Maybe they made the choices for good reasons, or because they had to, but at the end of their lives they're bad people,"

Syo stared down at him for a second, "She... thinks she gets it," she said, "But why does that mean master trusts Syo?"

"I'm going to ask you a hard question Syo, are you a virgin?"

"..." she closed her eyes, "W-," she swallowed nervously, "Would master not want her if she wasn't?"

He raised an arm up to cup her cheek, "Silly girl, I'd love you regardless," he asked,

"They were bandits," she said, "They captured Syo and wanted to kill her," she explained, "they were two but one," she said, "one said they wanted to find Syo and kill her, but since they were tired they'd do it tomorrow, and then the day after, and the day after," Syo said, "After a while Syo asked why not kill her then and there?"

"They took Syo into their tent, they told her they wanted to keep her cause they thought she was really pretty," she explained, "Really really pretty," She played with her hair, "They wanted to keep her forever, but they gave Syo a choice, she could stay or leave," she said,

"They said they'd let her go if she watched them masturbate and tell them how good they were," Syo blushed, "B-but after a while, Syo felt hot too, so she stopped watching, and... started... eating both of them out,"

"It... went from there, afterwards they let her go," she said, "She's not a virgin anymore,"

"Is that it?" he asked,

She smiled, "You want to know Syo wasn't hurt like that?" she leaned down and kissed his head again, "Reward for being Syo's kind master," then she shook her head, "No, Syo hasn't been forced to have sex,"

Naruto let out a breath, "I'm glad, you've been alone for so long I'm glad to know nobody hurt you,"

"Syo was always careful, that's... actually why she's on top of master... she wanted to know master wasn't just after her body,"

"Which begs the question, what if I was?" Syo smiled at the question and leaned down to his ear,

"She'd feel sad" she whispered, "Then she'd tear out your throat with her teeth," Then she stood up and pulled him back onto his feet, "Master never answered Syo's question," she said, "Why does people becoming bad over time mean he trusts Syo?"

"Because those people made the choices themselves, you reacted to others," He said, "As far as I can tell you're a sweet girl who was born psychotic, you're not a monster for being born Syo,"

"Master... Syo can't tell if that's really smart or dumb," she said, "Cause she's still psychotic, and psychotics do what they want through force," she put her hands on his shoulders, "She could hurt you,"

"I doubt it," he pointed at her chest, "there's a heart in here after all Syo, It won't let you hurt me without a reason,"

Syo giggled, "Master's pointing at Syo's breast," quickly Naruto removed his hand and Syo laughed harder,

Soon they went back to the manor Syo went off to the shower while Naruto went off to treat Haku,

He found the manor's hospital, again he wanted to open the door and see her turn to him, to see her smile and greet him, but as he opened the door Haku remained in her coma, he walked over to her bed, now one of many, Ox had apparently set up the room for him, and made sure she was on the newer equipment rather then what he'd been scrounging together,

"Morning Haku," he said, "Sorry it's been so long," he said trying to change her empty I.V. bag but when he lifted it up, he realised it wasn't attached to anything, "What the?" he looked down at her arm, there was nothing in it, "What?" he asked, not even a mark for her I.V. then a finger raised and was placed against his lips,

Naruto looked down, her eyes were open as she looked at him, "Why?" she asked,

Naruto smiled "Y- you're..."

"I have been for a while," she said as she sat up and hugged her knees,

"You should've come found me and said something," he said,

"Why?" she asked, "I'm a tool without a Ninja to use me," she said, "that's why I slit my own throat in the first place," she glared at him, "so why save me?"

"You're my friend," Naruto said,

She considered his words, "Then... thanks friend," she smiled,

But he was faster, and grabbed the arm that had stolen his kunai before she could make another attempt,

"Not this time!" he said grabbing both of her arms, she struggled against him,

"Stop!" she demanded, "Just let me go!"

"I can't" he hissed,

"Get OVER ME!" she screamed, "I'm nothing without him"

"It's what he wanted!" Naruto insisted, "I tried to help him but he stopped me,"

"You're lying!" she cried wrapping her legs around him and throwing him into the floor, "I was his tool!" she said hitting him, "even less then a pet, I meant nothing to him!"

"That's what he thought," Naruto said just blocking her hits, "But when he realised what you'd do he said he wanted you to live,"

"No." she looked around and found the kunai again and lifted it high, "No he didn't!" before she could bring it down ice cold fingers gripped Haku's arm from behind,

Haku turned to see people behind her, One was a half asleep fox girl dragging a maul behind her, another she swore was Pakura of the sand, a purple haired and scaled girl wearing a maid outfit, and the one who held her arms was a stitched up mess of a woman,

The stitched woman kneeled down, and two of her fingers gently took hold of haku's pointer finger, "It's fine miss," she said as she softly pried the finger off the handle off the Kunai, "I know it's bad right now," she said as she continued prying the rest of the fingers off the knife, "But remember," as she took the kunai from out of Haku's hands, then she patted Ice ninja's head as she said, "Tomorrow's a better day,"

Haku shook, trembled, and then as she glared down at Naruto, she finally broke, and just started sobbing,

When Syo poked her head into the room she saw everyone trying to comfort a sobbing girl, she walked turned around and walked to the bathroom, she wasn't done with her shower and she was still wet,

OCTOPUS-In Oto-OCTOPUS

In the room that the sound five were given, was a large space they could just do whatever in, and five separate rooms for themselves, It had stairs that led in and out of the room, the entire room and subsequent rooms were pretty barren and dimly lit, but it was their space,

"FUCKING SHITASS MOTHERFUCKING CUNTBASTARDS!" Tayuya screamed as fire engulphed her entire body,

"FOR FUCK SAKE SHUT UP ALREADY," Ukon growled,

"YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY LIZARD?! I'LL FUCKING ROAST YOU!" Tayuya roared her flames throttled as her anger grew,

"IF THOSE FLAMES COULDN'T TORCH UZUMAKI WHAT CHANCE HAVE THEY GOT BURNING ME?" Ukon spat back,

"I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TURN THAT BITCH TO ASH WHEN ONE OF THE DOCS FREAKS GOT IN THE WAY!" Tayuya stated,

Suddenly the door to the stairs opened and Guren walked in, "Indoor voices" she ordered as she walked down the stairs,

"Thank you Guren," Sakon said, as Tayuya and Ukon glared at each other but quickly separated and waited for the bad news to come,

"Quick reminder for everyone here," Guren started, "We are Orochimaru's best and brightest," she stated, "given valuable devil fruits to help our lord achieve his goals, superiority over the Ninja villages, and the complete and utter destruction of Konoha," she said, "We simply do not fail, because more is expected of us," she said, "Despite that, we did fail."

Suddenly the room got very cold, Guren looked up and repeated herself, "We failed" she stated, "Normally that would mean we have outlived our usefulness, and at best we were to disband and work our way up the ranks from Genin, at worse this room would fill with poison gas,"

"But," she said, "Not only did we retrieve the information about the Kaima, but four devil fruits Karin managed to find before everything went to shit," she said, "Suffice to say our master is not at all pleased to hear Ameyuri has gained the Batto-Batto No Mi, Model: Vampire, but she won't be bothering us for a while so he has time to plan to kill her,"

"D-does that mean-" Karin started,

"We get to live?" Ukon finished,

Guren stared down at them, but smiled and nodded, "We live, so long as Orochimaru finds use for us,"

Tayuya crossed her arms, "So there's a new mission all lined up for us already?"

"Not exactly," Guren stated, she tossed a newspaper onto a table, "Rather we're given a second chance at our old mission,"

Sakon who was closest picked up the paper, "Oh, Oh my" he frowned,

The others crowded around him, "Shit he's up already?" Tayuya asked,

"I didn't really get a good look at him but the arms are new right?" Karin asked,

"The eyes too," Ukon growled,

"He'll be a fun piece to take off the board," Kidomaru said,

"Our mission is to follow and kill Naruto Uzumaki, pack your bags for a long trip," Guren instructed,

"Guren," Sakon said, "You already know his next mission?"

"We know soon he'll be traveling to the land of snow, so that's where we're going," Guren stated, "We'll lie in wait for him there, afterwards Uzumaki is ours,"

"Out of curiosity" Karin asked, "What if we fail again?"

"According to Lord Orochimaru, we haven't failed this mission until the last of us dies," she informed happily, "She's so merciful," she smiled, then she turned to her team, "Did any of you hear something?"

"I heard he," Karin stated quickly,

Guren smiled at her, "Good, and the rest of you?"

"He," they stated,

"That's good, if certain rumours got out I'd have to skin you all and leave you as warnings for anyone else spreading rumours," Guren stated,

"Why does he care so damn much?" Tayuya asked, "Doesn't seem like he'd really care,"

Guren giggled, it sounded wrong, like the giggle itself sounded wrong, "Silly Tayuya, we're ordered to keep that from getting out, and that's simply how it is,"

"I still think it's got something to do with Sarutobi," Kidomaru stated, "Ukon didn't you say you saw Lord Orochimaru show the old bastard?"

"Saw something, not sure if it was that or he was just mocking him," Ukon stated,

"R-really?!" Guren asked, "You saw?" Ukon suddenly felt very scared, quickly he was grabbed by Guren, "What exactly did you see Ukon?"

"Saw him pull his face off, Sarutobi looked scared for some reason," Ukon said,

"Who gives a shit about that? what did she look like?!" Guren demanded shaking him, "Scale of one to ten!"

"Perfect ten," Ukon said,

"A P-perfect t-t-ten?!" she asked, her eyes widened and her face turned red, "I knew our lady was a goddess given human form trapped inside a man but a perfect ten?" she closed her eyes, "It's beyond what I imagined," she tossed Ukon away and held herself, "Perhaps when we kill Uzumaki she'll let me have a glimpse?" she asked,

"You really need to get those fantasies in check Guren," Kabuto stated, "Tell me everyone what gender is our Lord?"

"Male," they all droned,

"Don't like the tone, but I'll take it," he said,

"Why are you here Kabuto?" Guren asked, "Shouldn't you be assisting our Lord's genius?"

"Actually I'm where I need to be," Kabuto said, "Or rather want to be," he dropped off the stairs and landed between them all, "Since your all so loyal and whatever Our Lady, has decided to give you a little information,"

"S-she? has?" Karin asked,

"Gather round kiddies this is the reason we all have to call Her he until further notice," he said, "Y'see our lady was just another member of Konoha's ninja force, but over time she began to feel... different then others, not just taking babies and experimenting on them, but rather before that she genuinely wanted to help people, through her experiments she wanted to help Konoha-," he said,

OCTOPUS-Hokage Tower-OCTOPUS

"That's how it started Sarutobi," Koharu stated, "Orochimaru just wanted to make us stronger, you saw through it then!" she hissed, "Why can't you now?"

"Orochimaru is why I'm not concerned, I fought her with everything I had to get her-"

"Her?" Hotaru asked, "Sarutobi, Orochimaru is male not female, and anything else will hurt the ninja and civilians who come out as trans," he stated, "what would happen if we give crazy people an out?" he asked, "You said that,"

"It's only a matter of time until they know anyway," Sarutobi said, "She's finished it, entirely," he snapped his fingers, "Just like that, male to female, in that box she had me trapped in she showed it to me,"

"Then we're running out of time," Koharu stated, "if people knew that the madman Orochimaru was trans before she left Konoha there'll be a blood bath,"

"The real question is will it be suicides or murder?"

"And how many will we be able to prove were one or the other?" Danzo asked, "But we've lost the point of conversation,"

Koharu nodded, "Yes," she said, "Uzumaki has already experimented on himself, just like Orochimaru,"

"He's building an army," Hotaru stated, "That family he's gathering is growing, A Ninetailed girl who was tortured by one of our best Ninja, a Psychopath, two dead women with equal skill, and a girl with scales,"

Koharu slammed her hands on Sarutobi's desk, "Young, reckless, experimented on themselves, intelligent, charming, wildly unpredictable, shrouded in darkness," she listed off, "Can you tell who I'm talking about? cause I sure don't know,"

"Not to mention they both murdered clan heads while they were here," Hotaru injected,

"I believe we've not yet been able to identify if Shizuku Kurama's demise was suicide or murder as of yet," Danzo stated,

The three in the room turned to him, "Danzo... you're not on Sarutobi's side?" Koharu asked,

"...Do you know why Orochimaru despises the leaf?" He asked, "Precisely what you two are doing," Danzo stated, "Early on Orochimaru asked for willing volunteers to experiment on, many agreed to do so even knowing the risks, but we shut it down because we were afraid, and time and time again Orochimaru would ask and we would reject, eventually she must've figured to just do her experiments without our approval," he said,

"T-that's-,"

"The truth," Sarutobi stated suspiciously,

Danzo nodded, "Without a board to run her experiments by they got less and less ethical because it was the only way she could do what she thought necessary,"

"Now see here!" Hotaru demanded, "Those experiments were ghastly and monstrous, what kind of human being could do such-,"

"A Sanin" Danzo stated, "How old was she when she was sent to war?" he asked, "knee deep in bodies, some even people she knew, the peace we enjoy today has made us forget that not so long ago we were at war," he sated, "it is exactly that environment that began to twist her into the unredeemable monster that she is today, one that hungers for Konoha's death,"

"Because of everything she's seen and done, she's beyond redemption," Danzo stated, "But he is not, because as far as we know he hasn't done anything yet," he turned to Hotaru, "You want to save the trans people like your son? then we tell the people first, that way there's no build up just us pulling the rug out, and when you tell them, you have to tell them the entire truth, because they'll think it was being trans cut them off and tell them what really drove her mad," then he looked at Koharu, "You want to save Konoha from a second Orochimaru? then stop before you create him," and Finally to Sarutobi, "But you'll need to stop giving into him, you tested him and he's passed, great, now the real work begins," he pulled an newspaper out of his coat and slapped it on the table, "Page 47 ad section, row two on the left side, read," he said,

Sarutobi opened the paper and frowned, "Need surgery for cheap? how about no cost at all? and not just plain old face lifting or organ surgery, but anything at all, want extra legs? hands? ears? Come to the rebuilt manor in the destroyed district, our surgeon needs practice and you'll do, patients will require a recommendation form a psychologist, a list of any medication they take(if they take any) and finally they will be required to fill out a form in our waiting room,"

Sarutobi rubbed his head, "How many?" he asked, "You've been keeping an eye on him, how many have seen him?"

"...There's been chatter, but nothing so far, but I have a feeling that will change soon," Danzo said,

OCTOPUS-The end-OCTOPUS

Review corner: VVV

Gamelover41592: How do I decide on who get's devil fruit? typically I look at the characters and ask myself, does it make sense for these guys to get a devil fruit? and if yes, I then look at what would be a cool power to give them, not just a power they would take over the world with, but something that suits them yet not make them too op, but what's actually funny is the only one that stuck in the last chapter was Tayuya's and Sakon's, Originally I had no idea what to do with Karin and figured I'd just do hers later,

Next was Ukon, who originally had Ulti's/Guren's fruit, while Guren had a mythical Zoan type, Hito-Hito No Mi, Model: Dryad, which I thought would look cool with her second stage form, then I decided to give Ulti's to Guren, but I still wanted the dinosaur bird hybrid form between Sakon and Ukon so I looked for other dinosaurs, found the spikey shell dinosaur and seeing that it wasn't much bigger I went with that,

Then Karin got the Dryad fruit and... then I realised what Dryads did would just kinda be a repeat of the nature logia fruit, so I just decided to give her my favourite logia type, which makes her technically the second member of sound who got one of my favourite fruits, (Since Ulti's devil fruit is another favourite of mine just because the dinosaur that headbutts everything is so freaking metal,)

Now Tayuya's is actually something I do often, a recycled Idea, in The Grinning Ninja Tayuya was going to have one of two fruits The Horo-Horo No Mi(Perona's) or The Mera-Mera no Mi(Ace/Sabo's), after much debating about it I gave her the ghost fruit, (Though seeing as how we never saw her I don't think it mattered)

Funny enough originally I planned for Anko to be a Devil Fruit user too, she'd have Baby five's I liked the idea of Anko using shadow striking snakes and having a ton of guns popping out of each of the snakes mouths, when I looked up Grandline Review's Devil fruit list he posited a theory that the only reason Baby Five had weaponry like that was because she had studied weapons due to her being a member of the Dolfamingo's family, who of course being weapon traffickers had ample access to weapons, and that while not a deal breaker for the fruit certainly put my dampers on it, I'm actually still considering her for the fruit since I still think it'd be really cool,

Other devil Fruits I've considered/are considering and their users are, Gomu-Gomu no Mi: Jugo(Whether it's the Nika-Nika No Mi or not we'd never learn because of how Jugo would use it,) Hobi-Hobi No Mi/Doru-Doru No Mi: Fu, and deep breaths for these next ones lads,

Inu-Inu No mi, Model: Jackal/Ryu-Ryu No Mi, Model: Pachycephalosaurus/Neko-Neko No Mi, Model: Leopard/Yami-Yami No Mi/Ryu-Ryu No Mi, Model: Allosaurus, Hana-Hana No Mi/Bari-Bari No Mi/Jiki-Jiki No Mi/Noro-Noro No Mi/Toge-Toge No Mi, Sasuke Uchiha (He'd only get one of course, I also briefly considered giving him the time fruit, but then I realised it'd be useless for what I wanted for it and abandoned that one,)

So yeah, not really much of a system, also thanks for enjoying the chapter dude,

HyperA2019: Yeah bro chapter 6 is gonna be hype,

Guest (Manners): Now bud I'm assuming this is a story request about a Naruto who's already stopped the shinobi war, is the reincarnation of Ashura, has all the powers of the sage of six paths and all that, but what's the most surprising of all is Yamato's inclusion(I assume we're talking about One Piece's Yamato, Kaido's child and not the Ark Vander Decken throws at Fishman island,) because we'll he's trans,

Like I know most people still somehow treat the absolute manly man Yamato as a girl despite his obvious manliness,

Like I get it, as A lover of girls and guys I too wanna smooch that handsome boi and make sweet gay love to him/him to me,

But Naruto and Yamato bro-ing out and then they both go home to the same bed with their shared lover Boa Hancock, seems weird to me, like I can see the appeal of A Naruto X Yamoto X Haku story, (as that would be a three man gay butt love story) Or a Naruto X Boa Hancock X Konan(First Naruto girl that came to mind) story as it's one guy two girls,

And as I'm writing this I just now realise that what you likely meant was for me to make Yamato female not a three way Bi story,

And now I'm just gonna say that I... can't do that, y'see there are people out there in the world, and all of these people have ideas about characters, and when certain characters get treated in a certain way these people don't think they'd be they try to rip the authors to write that apart,

And with Yamato being a trans character that is likely (cause I never actually checked) beloved by the trans community(likely along with Bon-Chan and Iva-chan and the whole of Kamabaka kingdom of course) I'm certain that they'd kill me if I made him anything less then Kuwabara levels of manly,

Also I'm not a big fan of Boa Hancock, no idea why, I'm just not,

Good now, that I've reminded one side that hates progressive politics in media they enjoy and respectively told anime fans I'm not of fan of one of many big boobed anime characters I'm certain to bring death to myself now,

However for you I despite my soon to be demise by anti-politics people and Anime fans I unfortunately have a rule about excepting story requests, £3 on for a one shot is the best I can do pal, but don't worry bud, I know what'll make you feel better,

Ahem, Zootopia sucks and Judy Hopps isn't hot,

There now Furries will also be there to kill me, I'd piss off right wing, left wing, antifa, feminists, incels, discord mods, sports fans, and reddit users but I'm afraid that would just start world war...3-78, and I just don't have the time to 1vhowever many people that is,

I hope that makes you feel better, because I'll likely be dead soon, but eh respawn's not that long,

Omake: The Doctor is in, Part one: Kikomi

Naruto had just finished up some work in his office, well, he called it work, but really without any Uzumaki Clan members but himself trained and documented as actual Ninja yet it was mostly just him getting paperwork ready for expanding his home, some requests for more wood, building permits, some wavers for a side job he'd payed some advertisement for,

Things he didn't need now, but would be needed much later, he was interrupted by a knock on his door,

"Yes?" he asked schooling his expression, secretly he hoped someone was here to tear him away from his work since he'd finished five papers and already grew bored with nothing else to do,

The door opened and Patchwork stuck her head in, "My prince, it seems as though your, side job has attracted a ''customer''," she stated,

Naruto nodded, "Send them in," he stacked his papers, made sure they were aligned and put them into his top drawer as Patchwork opened the door letting someone into his office for the interview,

Who walked in was obviously a member of the Akimichi clan, you could tell by her features, reddish/brown hair hers landed somewhere in between brown and red looking more ginger, her ebony skin with a stout frame packed with muscle that would've been imposing if not for how jittery she was as she walked over to his desk, her eyes seemed almost feral, they were somewhat reminiscent of the Inuzuka clans eyes,

Naruto leaned his arms on the desk as they crossed the room, "..." they said nothing as they stared him down, but from the shaky way they held the papers he'd requested he was certain they were nervous,

Thus he offered them a gentle smile and warmly yet softly greeted them, "Hello," he said, then held a hand out for their papers, "Would you like me to take those?"

They looked at him for a few seconds, then nodded and slid their papers across the desk, not taking their eyes off him as he picked up the papers and began to study them, ". . ."

Naruto gestured to a chair, "Please, have a seat,"

They nodded and sat down,

"Why don't you tell me about yourself Akimichi-san?" he asked, not that he needed them to, the paper already gave him her name Kikomi Akimichi, age 21, ninja rank Genin, blood type B, ect, but he felt that it was appropriate to know the woman he soon might have on a table if her papers were in order,

"K-," she stuttered, "Kikomi," she said nervously, "I... I'm a...Genin," she said ashamed,

"A Genin?" he asked acting surprised, after she nodded with shame in her stance he smiled, "Well the chunin exams are rather difficu-"

"I..." she spoke, "N-never t-took them,"

"Really?" he laid the papers down, "And why is that?"

She frowned, "M-my mum..." she started, "My mother's an Akimichi, my dad's an Inuzuka,"

Naruto laid his papers down, "Interesting," he said, "So you're Kikomi Akimichi-Inuzuka?"

"Technically?" she asked, "Y-yes, b-but no," she frowned, "Y-you know Kiba Inuzuka?" she asked, to which Naruto nodded,

"I'm... his... half s-sister," she admitted, then immediately stood up, "B-but my momma didn't know, she had no idea he was married she's not a slut she was just-"

"Easy," Naruto said raising two of his hands, "No one is judging you here Kikomi-chan,"

Kikomi nodded shamefully and sat down again, pulling her legs close to her chest, "S-sorry, I just... I always get looks, Momma too," she said,

"I... see" he stated,

"Momma only found out about dad being married after he was K.I.A." she said, "I was five," Naruto nodded as she spoke, "and because of dad being a cheater the Inuzuka head was pissed, she. . . took it out on us in part," she twiddled her thumbs, "I-in the Inuzuka I...I'm called the Pack...," she frowned,

"P-pack whore," she said sadly, "C-cause the on-only thing a f-fat bitch like me is-,"

Naruto stopped her, "It's fine," he smiled at her, too afraid she'd take a distasteful frown as if it were aimed at her, "I see where their comments are going,"

She nodded, "S-so the Akimichi took me and momma in but..." she opened her mouth showing fang like teeth, and now that Naruto looked at her hands he noticed her nails had been filed down, "I'm still part... Inuzuka," she frowned, "Bad enough I'm a fat girl, but no one would-,"

"Kikomi," Naruto said suddenly,

She looked up, Naruto was standing up now, he walked around his desk and kneeled in front of her, still keeping that gentle smile on his face, "No," he said,

"N-no?" she asked,

"For one, you were supposed to bring a note from a psychiatrist whom you've consulted," he said,

"I-," she panicked, "I'll get one just-," Naruto shook his head,

"What you need is a good night's rest," he said pulling her up, "A chat with your mother, maybe talk with a psychiatrist, but any surgery I could do wouldn't help,"

"But I-,"

Naruto smiled at her, "Mad'am you're gorgeous," he stated, "just the way you are,"

She pulled him back, "Y-your lying!" she stated, her grip on his arm increased, "Y-you just can't help," she stated, "No one thinks I'm pretty, I'm a fre-,"

Naruto leaned close kissing her on her forehead, then planting another on her lips,

She blinked, then her eyes widened and her cheeks flushed, "Y-you..."

He nodded, "Forgive the lack of warning, but yes,"

She blushed, "Wh-why?"

He raised a hand to her face, "Madam, you're a lovely looking young lady, and better yet, one of a kind, never take that from yourself due to insecurity,"

"One of a kind?" she asked, "Me?"

He nodded, "That's right, one should never be ashamed of who they are," he said as he approached the door, "Besides, it's not as if you're the only fr- Oddity in Konoha," As he opened it as he walked out a fox girl walked down the corridor, her tails wagging happily,

He smiled at Kikomi, "Come on," he said and led her after the fox girl, they passed a room where a purple haired girl started replacing the bandages on her arm, showing purple scales on her arm,

Kikomi's jaw dropped but Naruto pulled her by the room,

As they came to the staircase they saw Pakura walking into the dining room, "Was that...?"

Naruto brought her down the stairs and into the dinning room,

The kimono wearing fox girl was sat on the back of a sharp-toothed pink haired girl in a skimpy maid's dress, a pale skinned girl with deep ebony locks was sat across from them,

The purple haired bandaged girl slid by Kikomi and went over to a chair where she sat down, Naruto walked over to the table as a woman entered from the kitchen, her body was messed up, two elbows on both arms, she looked like three different bodies were stitched together,

Naruto pulled out a chair and turned to Kikomi, "Would you like to join us for dinner?" he asked,

Kikomi raised her hands, "I... can't just... my mum's probably-,"

The front door opened, "We're here," Pakura called, ushering a woman into the dining room, The woman bared a striking resemblence to Kikomi, except she was taller,

"That was fast Pakura," Naruto noted,

"That's cause she was sure knew where she was going," Pakura said, as the woman ran over to Kikomi, wrapping her arms around the younger girl,

"Are you alright?" she asked before she aimed a glare at Naruto, "Whatever you took out of her you put right back young man!" She ordered,

"Her body is as it was before she entered my home Madam," Naruto stated,

"It- I mean she is?" The older woman asked, Naruto nodded gently, "But you... you're-,"

"I" Naruto started raising four of his arms as he leaned on the cane, "am the way I am the way I am by choice, I had a long time to think of what I wanted to become before I started my operation," he said, "I would not take a emotionally compromised young lady and remove anything from her," he said, "People make bad decisions when under distress,"

"Regardless," he said with a smile, "Will you two be joining us for dinner?" he asked,

The two women looked at each other, "I. . ." Kikomi started,

"Th-thank you Uzumaki-san," Kikomi's mother bowed, "But no thank you," She said, "I need to talk to my daughter about what she very nearly did," she said, "And... I think that's be best done at home,"

"Very well," The six armed young man said, "Then I wish you both well,"

He watched the guests leave before he joined the others at the table, "So who'd like t-," he stopped as he realised Syo was already stuffing her mouth, Yakumo had switched from her shoulders to Haku's and was struggling to eat her food as the black haired lady tried to balance the plate on her head whenever Yakumo got distracted by another item of food she wanted on her plate, Pakura and Patchwork had started duelling with spoons, and Isaribi was sat staring in wonder at everyone gathered around the table,

Realising he'd spoken everyone turned to him, but Naruto just smiled, leaned on his arm and turned to Isaribi, "Told you it's loud," he said.

The end.