Eroninja

Maki felt a spike of fear and confusion as they continued to near Konoha. From her position in the moving group of shinobi she could just make out the Kazekage as he leapt from tree to tree. She just didn’t understand what had brought on this march towards Suna’s allies. But there were plenty of rumors among the Suna-nin which in part was being fueled by the Kage’s silence. Directing her attention to Joseki, she knew what he hoped this march was and that was a sneak attack on the Leaf.

It was a sentiment that appeared to be in a majority among the older more experienced shinobi present. Truthfully she may have been among that number due in part to the councilor’s influence if not for the dinner several months ago that she had attended. She still had a hard time getting Temari’s date’s words out of her head. It wasn’t just what he said but the way his blue eyes had looked as he said them. She supposed it was in fact his eyes that had held the greatest amount of weight since her time among the councilors had shown her that even though they spoke prettily that they often didn’t mean any of it. The young man’s eyes had told her that not only had he meant what he said. But he had experienced many reasons to hate those around him, and yet still strove to find a higher path.

As she looked over the many shinobi that wanted this to be an attack on Konoha, Maki found herself thinking about how it would only insure that another generation of Leaf-nin would come to hate Suna. In turn this would mean that when given a chance to exact some vengeance against her home that they would jump at the chance. Maki wanted to speak out against attacking the Leaf but much as when Joseki ranted against them found she lacked the courage to speak up.

Gaara stopped and held his arm up giving the sign for his forces to do so as well. Joseki motioned to her and with several other councilors approached the Kage to ask, “Alright Gaara, we’ve waited long enough what is this about?”

Gaara ignored the rude tone of the elder councilor saying, “You’re about to find out.” Directing his gaze forward, he said, “Greetings Lady Hokage.”

“Lord Kazekage,” Tsunade said appearing on a branch in front of the Kazekage as did a force as large as Gaara’s behind her. Many of the Suna-nin went for their weapons causing the Leaf to do so as well, but both sides stopped as the Hokage continued her greeting, “I’m glad you could make it.”

Joseki confused and angry his dream of retaliation towards the Leaf appeared to be just that, rudely said, “What the hell is going on here?”

Gaara in a rare showing of emotion said dangerously, “Elder Councilor Joseki, I may be willing to ignore your lack of decorum when taking to me in the council chamber. However, it would be prudent to remember your place when outside of it less you give our allies or shinobi the wrong idea of who is in charge.”

Joseki glared at Gaara but inclined his head as he bit his tongue about what he thought of his Leaf loving Kage. Gaara turned away feeling that in time Joseki may become as big a thorn in his side as Danzou was to Tsunade. Nodding to his fellow Kage, he said, “I’ll let you explain why we’ve gathered here.”

“Thank you.” Tsunade aware her next few words could either bring Konoha and Suna closer or drive them apart said, “For years now we’ve been allies in name only. A fact highlighted by Orochimaru’s invasion of Konoha.” Tsunade paused as some of the Suna-nin shifted uncomfortably before continuing, “Still we were able to overcome that to forge a stronger alliance due in part to the close ties of our newest generation. However, again our alliance will face a challenge one that goes by the name Akatsuki. Therefore, the Kazekage and I believe it prudent we begin to form a force so that when the time to fight such a threat is upon us this alliance will be able to lead the way and fight efficiently with each other. With that in mind both Leaf and Suna will be conducting battle exercises to better foster friendship between our two villages.”

“Like hell I will work with you Leaf bastards,” a voice called out from the back of the Suna contingent.

Gaara spun looking for the man who had spoken while Joseki looked on smugly seeing it was a sentiment that was on many of the Suna-nin present. Maki knew it was one not shared by the last few graduating classes of the Academy. But she guessed Gaara was hoping that by bringing a large contingent of the age group responsible for the Sound-Sand invasion to work with Konoha it would help ease the hatred they felt.

Unable to find the man, Gaara turned to Tsunade and said, “Please forgive the outburst Lady Tsunade.”

“Apologies aren’t necessary Lord Gaara, it’s a sentiment that I found I shared for quite some time when working with you Suna bastards.” Needless to say all the shinobi present where shocked by her words so she added while addressing the gathered Suna forces, “Surprised, let’s not forget that I’ve fought in the Second Shinobi War and was responsible for countering a great deal of Lady Chiyo’s attempts at poisoning my fellow Leaf-nin. I’ve battled against many Suna-nin over my career and it was Suna-nin that were responsible for taking from me my precious younger brother. However, this is a world made by the living and while my brother’s death still hurts me it no longer has sway over me. That is why I will work towards an alliance where Suna and Konoha can work together despite our turbulent pasts.”

Maki was shocked by the admission and could see it was a sentiment shared by many of the Suna shinobi present as she doubted many ever considered the pain their own actions had caused to their Leaf counterparts. Gaara inclined his head towards the Hokage in a show of respect before saying, “Temari.”

“Yes,” the kunoichi said appearing next to her brother.

“The Hokage and I have selected a campsite seven kilometers east of here for the two forces to set up. Lead them there as I talk with my counterpart in private.”

Temari nodded, waving her hand to get the Suna forces moving. Maki saw it was a gesture repeated by a man with a cigarette hanging from his mouth on the Konoha side. She also noticed that Joseki wanted to remain behind but a pointed look from Gaara let the man know that would not be happening. As both leaders dropped to the ground to talk and with Joseki’s angry rant filling her ears as they were led away, Maki wondered why she had thought of Temari’s date as Tsunade had spoken of leaving her own pain behind.

*****

Approaching her Kage counterpart, Tsunade said, “In the long run it may have been a bad idea to not tell our forces what we were up to.”

“True,” Gaara admitted, “But it was worth the tension to see who among our shinobi still wish that Leaf and Suna remain enemies and in turn may work against our goals.”

Tsunade nodded having made sure to commit to memory shinobi she thought may work against the plan to bring the two villages closer. Commenting on the second reason for Suna’s entering into the Land of Fire she said, “Plus with a large number of Leaf and Sun-nin camping only a few miles from the prison it’ll force Danzou to put whatever plans he has on hold.”

“It was rather brilliant of Naruto to suggest our two villages work together in these joint exercises to help achieve both his ambition and placing us in a position capable of stopping an invasion force sent from the prison.”

Tsunade smiled saying, “Why so surprised? He is the shinobi that helped you get started on your path to becoming Kazekage. All this plan is doing is putting faith in his bond with you and that it is something that can be shared among all of Suna and Konoha.”

******

There were times when Naruto feared that he was already dead, that the past half a year was nothing more than a fevered dream of a badly wounded shinobi on the battlefield. It was sights like the one he was currently watching that made him have to stop and pinch himself just to make sure it was really happening. What currently had him questioning his still being among the living, was Koyuki and her new bodyguard facing each other as they sat on the bed in the nude their pussies pressed against each other and rubbing them together.

Add to that the fact that while the two women gyrated against one another pulling heavenly sounding moans of pleasure in between the heavy kissing they engaged in, he was also receiving a blowjob from Anko as he watched from the throne like chair in Koyuki’s room and it was easy to understand why at times he feared waking up.

The door to the room opened, but none of the principal players stopped in their pleasure seeking as they knew only one person would be allowed past the clones Naruto had left in the hall. Hana stepped in pouting slightly as she said, “Hey, you started without me.”

“Sorry,” Naruto said holding back a groan, “But you have to admit you are a little late.”

“Blame the ticket counter,” Hana said pulling the zipper of her chunin vest and shucked it off before pulling her shirt over her head. Topless she approached the chair and leaning over to kiss him added, “But we’re all set to leave tomorrow.”

Naruto nodded and sticking his hand between her legs began rubbing Hana’s pussy over her thin shorts. Finding her soaking he said, “It must have been torture waiting in line.”

Placing her hand over his as he rubbed her cunt getting her even wetter she moaned, “Mmhmmm, but you’ll make it up to me right Naruto.”

Anko allowed his dick to slip from her lips saying, “He’s all ready for you.”

Hana was obviously surprised at the generosity saying, “You don’t mind?”

“Nah, I’ve got something else planned for this,” she said giving his cock a few strokes.

Standing she moved to the bed to watch as Hana quickly removed her shorts and facing Naruto climbed into his lap. With her feet resting on his knees she reached down and grabbed his cock to line it up with her drooling lower lips before sliding down it. “Oh fuck,” Hana moaned as she bottomed out. Raising just her hips, she slowly allowed him to slip out of her cunt until only the tip remained before just as slowly feeding It back in. As Naruto’s dick became coated in Hana’s love juices, Anko who was sitting on the edge of the bed raised one of her legs to give Naruto a grand view as she slowly rubbed her pussy.

Hana though soon demanded his full attention as she began to dangle her breasts in front of him. Reaching up he grabbed one and squeezing it directed into his mouth where he sucked her nipple while rolling his tongue around it. “Yes…oh….suck my tit,” Hana panted as she began to increase the speed of her hips.

Naruto let her tit pop from his mouth and grabbing ahold of her legs stood from the chair. As he walked he continued to slide the moaning Inuzuka up and down on his cock until his knees came in contact with the bed. Planting her down on it next to Anko, he let go of her legs for her to quickly lock them behind his back. Now able to set the pace Naruto mercilessly began drilling his cock in and out of her cunt causing the Inuzuka to begin howling her pleasure at the top of her lungs. “Yes….oh yes… fuck your bitch’s pussy. Oh Goddamn….it’s so fucking good. I’m…I’m…I’M Cummmiiinnnnggggg.”

Her body stiffening, Hana’s howl of pleasure accompanied her pussies milking him of his seed. Although tempted to give it what it wanted, he knew he was in for a long night of pleasure so resisted and continued to pound her snatch in order to prolong it. When she relaxed, he pulled out of her cunt causing her to whimper slightly at the loss.

Turning his attention to Koyuki and Fubuki he noticed that apparently the two had reached their own climaxes while he was focused on Hana. Currently they were lying on their backs across the large bed near the headboard catching their breaths as they stared at each other and the junction where they were still touching. Guessing they would keep for the moment he turned towards the foot of the bed to see Anko smiling at him. Without saying a word she rolled over onto her stomach pulling her knees beneath her. Then looking over her shoulder with the side of her face buried in the bed she reached behind her with both hands and pulled her asscheeks apart.

Receiving the invitation and with his dick slippery and lathered by Hana’s juices he kneeled over her angling his dick with her anus and slowly pushed inside. “Fuck…fuck it hurts. How can Koharu like this so much?”

“Shh, bear with it baby. I promise it’ll feel better soon.” Taking it slow Naruto worked his length into Anko’s backdoor. When he finally was completely engulfed in her clenching ass, he just as slowly pulled himself back out. Repeating several times, it was once he was back inside her and stopped that he felt her relax and let out a delicate moan. Licking the back of her ear he whispered, “Are you beginning to relax my hot babe?”

Anko nodded her head so getting to his feet; he stood on the mattress and began to work up to a faster pace. Grabbing her hips, Naruto really began to pound her ass turning the soft moans into loud shouts of pleasure. “Fuck….now I see why…fuck it feels like so fucking good…”

“For me too…shit I love the way you’re gripping my cock,” Naruto said looking down and enjoying the way Anko’s tight ass fought against his pulling out only to relent slightly as he pushed it back in. Still Naruto soon found himself fighting against the urge to cum in part to his earlier efforts with Hana.

Wanting Anko’s first experience with anal sex to end on a high note he was about to reach down to begin stimulating her pussy to get her off, when she surprised him by saying, “Fuck…I…I’m going to cum. Just from your big fuck stick in my ass…Fuck I’m CCcummmmiiiinnnnggggg!!!!”

Anko began pounding her fist into the mattress as her ass tightened up around his cock and he could feel the muscles of her cunt through the thin wall responding to her orgasm. Letting go himself he flooded her passage causing Anko to raise her head from the mattress as she shouted, “Shit, it’s so fucking good. That’s it lover fill my ass with your hot man spunk.” Naruto was sure her words encouraged several more spurts from his cock as his hips kept jerking while he deposited his load.

Coming down from her orgasm Anko sagged down into the bed as Naruto stepped down to the floor as his dick returned to its flaccid state. Looking over the satisfied women on the bed he noticed Koyuki was missing. He heard her almost silent and bare footprints over the floorboards approaching from behind. Turning to face her, she pouted saying, “I wanted to sneak up on you.”

Naruto smiled saying, “Sorry, it’s hard to sneak up on the greatest ninja in the world.”

“If I didn’t know better I would think you had a swelled head,” Koyuki teased and then kissed him lightly on the cheek. Grabbing his hand, she pulled him along to the bathroom where Naruto could see she had drawn a bath in her massive tub. Koyuki stepped into the water pulling Naruto in with her and after he sunk into the warm water she sat in his lap resting against his chest as he wrapped his arms around her. As she relaxed with her lover she said, “You know I would think I’d feel jealous watching you with other women. But strangely all I feel is a slight annoyance that it isn’t me.”

“Well Tsunade feels a side-effect of the jutsu is that it loosens a woman’s inhibitions,” Naruto said and despite his just coming having Koyuki’s ass in his lap soon had his solider standing at attention and ready for duty. However he knew that Koyuki for the moment just wanted to relax in his arms and talk so tried to will his boner away.

“It isn’t just that thought,” Koyuki said turning slightly to look back at him, “Take Fubuki for example, while its true maybe our inhibitions are lower you found the good inside her and nurtured it, when others would have written her off as a traitor not to be trusted. She responded to that and that’s why she was willing to join with you in your ambition. Plus you care for each of us, and are willing to do the little things that matter most in a relationship.”

“What do you mean?”

Koyuki smiled grinding her ass into Naruto’s erection as she said, “Well take the fact your dick seems to want to play again.” Turning to face him, she placed her thighs on the outside of his as she reached into the water to grab his cock and line it up with her pussy as she said, “Yet instead of demanding that I take care of it. You were willing to put up with some discomfort to just snuggle and talk.” Lowering herself on it she moaned, “Mmmm, remind me to find this Kanji fellow and to give him a medal.”

Despite his pleasure at sinking into a wet heat that wasn’t of the water Naruto grimaced due to his doubts about the man in question. Catching it, Koyuki asked, “What’s wrong?”

“I guess, I sometimes wonder why he gave that scroll to me. Now as I look back on it he said that I reminded him of himself. But…well truthfully Koyuki while I had put on a smiling front there were times when I wanted to lash out at the world.”

Cupping his face, Koyuki said, “Naruto everyone feels that way from time to time.”

“I guess, but trust me Koyuki for me it was different. If I had given in who knows what I could have become. To be honest that is what worries me. That Kanji saw that in me and felt I would abuse the jutsu. Already some of what he said has proven to be deceptive.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well when he gave the scroll to me. He made it sound like it contained several jutsu and it did but only the Temptation Touch was listed. The real jutsu was hidden among the instructions, which was to change my chakra so that sleeping with a woman would bind her to me. Not to mention he completely underplayed just how much I could influence yours and my other lovers’ actions.

Koyuki could see her lover’s point, but realizing she still had his large dick inside of her began to slowly rock her hips causing both to moan. Getting an idea she said, “Mmmm… you said he came from Hotspring Village correct.”

Naruto leaned his head back against the tubs edge as he groaned, “Yeah…why? We can’t go poking around since they have a list of both Konoha and Suna’s active shinobi. I couldn’t even send Koharu since her disappearing for a period of time would be noticed.”

Naruto finished his sentence by clamping his mouth to her collarbone before moving on to kiss along her jaw. Enjoying the light kisses she leaned her own head back to stare at the ceiling as she said, “True, but what if I go.”

Naruto pulled away to stare at her and Koyuki stopped her hips to meet his eyes as he said, “Koyuki, they might have a jutsu of their own similar to the Temptation’s Touch as that might be how they get their information from their important guests.”

“Are you saying you’re afraid they’ll seduce me into betraying you?” she asked her eyes showing how hurt she was.

“No, but they may be able to get you to reveal things you normally wouldn’t want to. That’s how they learned about Konoha’s active shinobi roster. The Fire Daimyo let it slip.”

“True, but he doesn’t have the two things I do.”

“And that would be?”

“A lover who can use his influence over me to make sure I can’t talk about Spring’s secrets or his own.”

Naruto smiled nodding at her point and although he had an idea asked, “And the second?”

“A bodyguard that can watch over me at ALL times,” Koyuki said clenching her pussy as she said all pulling a groan from his throat.

She began her languid riding of his cock again and despite the temptation to give into the pleasure he said, “Still they’ll know Fubuki is a kunoichi and will watch her like a hawk. She probably won’t be able to learn anything of value.”

“True,” Koyuki said pulling herself close as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Picking up her pace she whispered throatily in his ear, “But didn’t you have a spy scouting out kunoichi for you to seduce who is currently sitting around doing nothing.” Sucking on his earlobe she asked, “How do you think she’d like getting a job in show business?” Koyuki could feel Naruto stiffen as he got what she was suggesting, however wanting to change the subject she said, “But enough about business, unless that business is to make me scream your name.”

Knowing a challenge when he heard it, Naruto was more than willing to meet it so grabbing ahold of his lover stood up in the tub and began forcibly sliding her up and down his cock and once she began screaming in pleasure didn’t stop until she was hoarse.

*****

Shizune was walking through the tunnels that lead to where Tsunade had been conducting her autopsy of the Snow-nin Naruto had killed. Freshly returned from the mission that had failed to banish the Sanbi, she had entered the Hokage’s mansion to find a coded message left for her on what Tsunade wanted her to do while she meet with Suna’s forces. Feeling dejected about her failure in part since the team had recovered the body of the young boy named Yukimaru who had given his all to protect the Sound-nin Guren during the beast’s final rampage. She could still hear the screams of the woman as she had cradled his body claiming she hadn’t been worth it. During a battle that had broken out between her and another of her Sound-nin who had turned out to be a disguised Kabuto, Captain Yamato had found himself in possession of the boy’s body and knowing that Konoha would want to learn more about his ability to control the Sanbi had secured it to bring back with him.

That autopsy would be left to Sakura and Ino, while Shizune attended to Nadare’s. She wondered briefly if Guren would return to Sound or if seeing a person she had come to care for so easily discarded for Orochimaru’s ambition would awaken to the truth about the man she served. In any case, she supposed it didn’t matter at the moment as she stepped up to the room Tsunade’s note had directed her to.

Shizune entered the underground lab and was surprised at how different it seemed now as it no longer had the oppressive and dark atmosphere she associated with Orochimaru. Instead it was brightly lit and surgically clean with many of the walls repaired and painted making the room almost look like it had been transplanted from Konoha hospital. She guessed that Tsunade felt that if they were going to use it for their secret activities that it should reflect its new owners and could easily picture Tsunade and the other women fixing it up. She also guessed that with Naruto in Spring Country it also gave the women something to do with the energy they usually used to drain the jinchuriki of his. Curious as to what some of the other rooms now looked like she decided to wait till after her task was done before giving herself a tour.

Sitting at a desk pushed against a wall she found two folders. Opening one that was marked Patient X she was surprised to see that Tsunade had finished the analyst of the sperm sample she had thought she needed for Naruto’s exam. Reading it, she felt her eyes widening in surprise at seeing despite having a high sperm count they all seemed to be in a dormant state. They weren’t deformed in anyway, but simply didn’t fulfill the task that nature intended for them. Although the reason written down was coded, so that if anyone ever stumbled upon the tunnels again they wouldn’t be able to trace anything back to them, Shizune was able to read between the lines to realize that Tsunade suspected Kyuubi was behind it. No doubt the Bijuu realized that an unplanned pregnancy could derail Naruto’s plans faster than even the most ardent of enemy ninja and while the Anti-pregnancy jutsu available to kunoichi was effective even they had a slight chance of failure, as a certain kunoichi with red eyes recently found out.

Closing the folder, Shizune smiled remembering how she had collected the sample with her teacher. They hadn’t sent it to the lab in part since she had never filed the actual examination needing to falsify all the information about Naruto’s recent sexual activity. The reason they tested men after they became sexually active was to know which ones to send on missions that sometimes required them to sleep with their targets. After all, bloodline abilities were closely guarded secrets and if a mission required a Hyuuga to sleep with a Kumo kunoichi to get her to drop her guard while she tried to steal the Byakugan using her reproductive cycle then it would be best if that Hyuuga was firing blanks. Still the last thing anyone wanted was for Naruto to be a candidate for such a mission at least officially. Plus it had been a good thing since after she had filed the fake one that morning, she had noticed Sakura hanging around the medical file office. If she had to guess it was so she could take a look and perhaps learn just how close Naruto had gotten to some of her fellow kunoichi.

Opening the second file, she could see that Tsunade had completed most of the grunt work with only a few specialty tests needing to be performed. The most important was to determine which country or shinobi had been responsible for Nadare’s healed spine. Looking over the report of the injuries he had sustained at Kakashi’s hand three years earlier she stood making her way to the freezers Orochimaru had installed for his test subjects years earlier. Pulling it open, she pulled out the table revealing the man’s corpse. Transferring it to a gurney, she flipped it onto a dissecting table face down. Making an incision at the top of his neck using chakra. She dragged her hand down revealing the man’s spine. Separating the section Kakashi had broken when he fought the man from his body; she took a small cross-section of the healed bone and moved it to a microscope.

Before looking at it she moved to a cabinet filled with medical books that Tsunade no doubt knew would be needed for what the room was to be used for. Finding the book she sought, she began rifling through it familiarizing herself with it due to how long it had been since she needed it. Listed inside were the various known techniques of medical ninjutsu that Konoha had encountered. Although medical ninjutsu wasn’t an entirely new art each country had arrived to its own mastery of that art through their own means which meant it left a signature behind that could be traced to the villages it had originated from. Not only that, but Tsunade had during the Second Great War developed a technique to read the chakra signatures of the medic-nin that had healed an injury. Naturally it relied on the patient being healed by only a signal shinobi as if multiple doctors had a part in the healing the results would show up as garbage. The technique had resulted in Konoha’s ability to effectively track which medic-nin had traveled with which groups allowing for Konoha to target and remove them, thereby eliminating the quality of medical care its enemies could receive.

Looking in the microscope, Shizune could see almost from the very get go that the medic in question had been trained by Konoha due to the quality of the work and techniques used. She guessed that it may have been Kabuto so prepared to use Tsunade’s test to determine who it was to make sure. Since all Konoha medic-nin needed to register their chakra signature using the test there was an extensive library of which Kabuto was a part of so she didn’t doubt that soon she’d be able to confirm her guess.

Needing a larger sample of bone to work with she moved back to the table she had left the spinal section on and flashing through handsigns, she created a small containment field of chakra. Moving it till it engulfed the bone, she charged the field to extract as large of a sample of the residual chakra that had remained from the healing as she could. Able to sense it as the chakra was forced out of the bone, she waited until if felt like all that could be collected was, before coalescing the field into a ball that she was able to control one handed.

Grabbing a piece of paper with her free hand, she placed it in a bin and poured a special water that was mixed with the sap from the trees used to test elemental affinity on it. Moving the field that contained the chakra over the bin until it rested in the midst of the medic-nin’s captured chakra. She watched as green concentric rings began to form on the sheet of paper almost resembling a large finger print. Some of the rings weren’t complete instead appearing as dots and lines but those as well as how far apart they were would help in determining just who the medic-nin was.

Guessing the person may also be a hidden Root-nin working for Danzou as there weren’t many if any Konoha medical missing-nin outside of Kabuto that she could think of, she decided to run the print against the entire database. Moving to a computer that Tsunade had scrounged from somewhere as they were ungodly expensive, she entered the print in and waited as it would probably take hours for the device to find a match.

When the device finally found a match having taken even longer then she expected. She looked over the results and shocked could only say, “It can’t be!”

*****

Naruto stepped out of the Kurama clan home after visiting with Yakumo. He made it about half a block away before he let his mood drop having stayed in high spirits around the sickly looking young woman. He had asked Kyuubi if she could help heal her and although the Bijuu was confident she could the problem were the ever present members of her clan. This was evident as he had talked with her about all that had happened in the several months since his return but with a focus on the past month more so due to two major events that had happened while drinking tea as her uncle and several retainers had watched on. When she had a small coughing fit and spilled her tea he had moved to help but had been blocked by the retainers while her uncle attended to her. As her uncle helped her the other shinobi had asked him to leave and although he had agreed reluctantly, he had promised his next visit wouldn’t take so long.

Sticking his hands in his pocket, he walked aimlessly as he thought about the events that had transpired since his return from Spring Country. The first had been the attempted resurrection of a demon named Moryou. He smiled as he thought of the priestess of Demon country, who although started out as a royal pain soon warmed up to him. It still made him laugh when after killing the demon and in front of many of his colleagues, she had asked him to help her pass on her powers to her offspring. Although knowing perfectly well what she meant he had used his old clueless persona to quickly agree. The looks on most of their faces had been priceless. He frowned though as he remembered Sakura’s which had looked almost pained as she quickly spun away and left. Later that night as they escorted her back, he had approached Shion and told her that he couldn’t fulfill her request. Although she claimed she had merely been flirting with him. He felt that she was a little disappointed. Still she asked if he would visit her sometime and he quickly agreed before again apologizing for going along with her so called flirting.

After that, things had settled down for all of a week when Sky Country had attempted to attack the village. Unfortunately for them, they had flown right over the camping Suna and Leaf-nin in the midst of a mock battle. Although the two forces were unable to completely stop the attack force. They did damage it and also managed to get a message to Konoha so the village was prepared. Konoha had then met them away from the village, and forced them to turn before even a single flyer could make it to the village. Still, Naruto had found himself part of a relief mission alongside Sakura and Hinata to a doctor named Shinno and his apprentice’s village as it had apparently been one of Sky Country’s first victims. When Shinno had revealed himself to be a scumbag and to be manipulating his apprentice’s feelings to empower a creature called the Zero-tails, which Kyuubi said was in no way a true Bijuu, to levitate their floating fortress. Naruto had juts managed to begin kicking the man’s ass, as he was powered up with something called Dark Chakra, when Sasuke showed up. Seeing his friend after so long caused hundreds of emotions to swell inside him. But when he saw Sasuke’s cold eyes, he feared the boy he once thought of as a friend and brother no longer existed. Still after defeating a combined Shinno and Zero-tail, Naruto felt a small pang of hope when as Amaru refused to leave him behind. Sasuke threw the young woman into the last escape ship which looked like a flying boat.

Naruto chuckled remembering Sasuke’s surprised face when he blew up the ramp the Uchiha had been standing on to get him away from the fortress as well. Naruto had also told Sasuke as he fell that he still intended to return him to Konoha. But even as he said it, a part of him truly doubted he could coming to understand that Sasuke’s reliance on his hatred would make that impossible if he learned the truth about the Uchiha Massacre.

Thinking of Amaru brought a smile to his lips due to after he destroyed the fortress the girl had thrown herself out of the lifeboat in order so that the falling jinchuriki wouldn’t be alone. He was about to Hiraishin him and the reckless girl somewhere safe, which would have raised all sorts of questions, but luckily Jiraiya had showed up and summoned Gamabunta to act as a cushion to their fall.

Jiraiya had teased him about all manner of things including the fact that he was charming girls to the point that they were willing to follow him into death. Naruto was tempted to tell Jiraiya all that he had been up to, but stopped since he didn’t want his exploits ending up in one of his books. Not to mention the Toad Sage had left quickly after saying he was following some leads about Akatsuki’s leaders.

Although tempted to seduce Amaru, in the end he had refrained since she had decided to return to her village with the freed villagers, many of whom had suffered roughly at Sky Country’s hands. He didn’t want to distract her from her self appointed goal of helping them recover so chose to simply wish her the best. When they had gone their separate ways though she had kissed him on the lips chastely, and said she would see him again. Hinata had smiled at him having a good idea of what would happen then, however again he noticed that Sakura looked depressed at the expressed affection for him.

During the past month, he tried to recapture some of the closeness he and Sakura had shared. However it was proving difficult as it almost felt like a wall had sprung up between them. Truthfully one had and it saddened him to know he was the one who built it. But he just didn’t know how to talk to her since such a large part of his life he was keeping secret from her. Of course she helped contribute to it since she never brought up any of his dates with Ino, Hinata, or the others, but he guessed she was just too embarrassed to talk about them.

After all, he knew she and Ino used to be rivals and it may have bothered her that technically her friend had been on a date before her. Naruto had considered asking Sakura out on an actual pretend date, however since all his other dates had in fact been real ones; he doubted he’d be able to keep up the charade. Not to mention he still cared deeply for her, and still believed she saw herself as Sasuke’s to claim when he returned. Although he had begun to question it recently due to her reactions to Shion and Amaru’s closeness at the end of their adventures, he believed in the end it was simply related to the fact he seemed to be finding a love-life, while she clung to a hope that seemed to be getting further and further away.

Rubbing his head, he winced remembering the beating his head had taken from Tsunade’s fists first, but whose was by no means last after his lovers had learned from Hinata that he had almost splattered during his fall from Sky’s fortress after he caused it to blow up, even Ayame had joined in. Remembering that caused him to forget his previous line of thought as he remembered he needed to meet the Ramen waitress to help her restock the restaurant as she had truly come to appreciate what having a lover who could create a small army when it came to fill the pantry. Taking off down the road, he spared a moment to wonder how Koyuki’s entering Hotsprings village was going since if she was sticking to the schedule she gave him upon his last visit she should just be arriving with the next day or so.

*****

“Greetings Lady Koyuki,” The Daimyo of Hotspring Country and former Head-Shinobi of his village said bowing to her, but only enough to be considered polite, as he greeted her and her party at the entrance to his village. “You do us great honor by choosing our humble village to relax at after such turbulent events back home.”

“Thank You,” she replied bowing just as much, “I’ve heard such wonderful things about your village and had to see it for myself.”

The Daimyo inclined his head at the compliment before stepping to the side and waving to the village, “Well you’ve chosen the perfect place to relax. Please follow me as I escort you to your villa.” The Daimyo began walking down a stone path pointing out the various attractions of his village. Passing near a large pool surrounded by a several single story apartment buildings whose decks looked out on it and were filled with people lounging around he said, “Are you sure I can’t convince you to allow your bodyguard to stay here. Although we are no longer active shinobi, I assure you we are quite sufficient to protect our guests. We feel that in order to truly relax our VIP’s should leave behind many of the trappings of their stressful lives.”

Before Koyuki could politely refuses her new manager said, “Look. I’ve already fucking been over this with the cocksucker who I booked her vacation with. Who I might mention fucking brought this topic up several times. The studio has invested considerable money into the Princess Gale franchise. Add to that the matter her last movie set several records and I don’t think I need to go into all the reasons the studio wants someone they trust watching over her. Fubuki is that person, so fucking drop it.”

Koyuki gave a small nod of apology for her manager’s blunt way of speaking, but had to fight down the smile she was feeling. Mainly due to the fact that ever since Tayuya had taken over as her manager, Koyuki had found that people tended to cave to the red-head rather quickly, whether they be the annoying producers on her next film or the Daimyo in front of her, who was obviously surprised that the woman wasn’t giving him the respect he felt he deserved.

Still Koyuki was a guest the man obviously wanted happy so bit his tongue in order to refrain from snapping at Tayuya, whose long hair was up in a bun and was wearing dark red business suit that gave her the image of a woman not to be trifled with. “Right, forgive me,” the Daimyo said calmly despite the anger his eyes held. “Please follow me.”

*****

Konan looked over her sunglasses at the new VIP to arrive in the village from the lounge chair she was sitting on. Her arms were folded behind her head as she watched the Daimyo pause for a moment no doubt to convince the Spring Country Princess to let her bodyguard stay at the small apartment building that Konan was currently checked into. Standing, she pulled her glasses off and she allowed her towel to slip from her body to pool on the floor near her chair to reveal her dark blue bikini. Moving to the edge of the pool she dived into the water, sinking beneath the surface as she swam to about the middle of it before floating to the surface on her back.

Staring up at the sky, she watched the group out of the corner of her eye as the red-head laid into the daimyo. As they began moving towards the VIP villas again, Konan wondered if the red-head suspected why the leader of Hotsprings wanted to separate the princess from her protection. Namely, so that they could either get the princess to reveal some secrets of her home or engineer a situation where they could blackmail her. Konan suspected the Daimyo was hoping for the latter since if he could force Koyuki to listen to him. He could in effect pick which of the many countries that were vying for the resources her country held would end up the winner.

Konan let them get out of her sight not truly interested in whether the princess was trapped or not. Rolling over, she began swimming to the edge of the pool to get out since despite her appearance she was there to spy on the village. Pulling herself out of the water she began to walk to her lounge to collect her things when a voice said, “Hey beautiful, you look cold. Want to use me as a blanket?”

Konan didn’t let the sigh she felt escape merely picking up her things and ignored the man, who was staying in the apartment next to hers, as she had since her arrival a week earlier. Despite Nagato having given her the task of learning if Hotspring was betraying them more than a month ago, Deidara and Madara’s, she refused to call him Tobi, success in capturing the Three-Tails had delayed her since she needed to help seal it away. Once that task was done a rumor that the Six-tailed jinchuriki had surfaced had also stalled her journey. But after the trail grew cold Nagato had decided to send her.

Entering her apartment through the sliding glass door, she closed it behind her just as the man said, “Hey, come on and live a little.”

Closing the blinds, she stripped to shower in order to wash away the chlorine from her skin. Turning on the warm water, she stepped under its spray trying to not let the man get to her. Since most of her life had been defined by loss and bloodshed the idea of “living a little” as the man put it was very tempting. However, she felt guilty already for enjoying her morning swims so found the idea impossible. Dressing in a pair of dark blue pants and a halter top that tied around the back of her neck, she then exited the room through the front door heading to a café along the main street. She had eaten there for lunch every day as a low ranking member of Akatsuki was due to enter the village and confront the Daimyo over the recent ser backs they had experienced. Now that Konan had explored much of the village in order to scout out its defenses. She’d be able to spy on the meeting and if the Daimyo was double dealing the information that Akatsuki had purchased he’d no doubt attempt to cover his tracks and reveal a trail for her to follow. A trail that would hopefully lead to the person or persons responsible for attempting to derail Nagato’s plans for world peace.

*****

Naruto waved as he approached the waiting brunette. Dressed as she was in a pair of jeans with a white camisole as a top and her hair down, Naruto had a hard time not grabbing her up in his arms and teleporting her to his apartment for a afternoon quickie. However, since he was there to help her he guessed that could wait till after they completed their tasks and enjoyed a date at the movies. Walking in front of her with his hands in his pockets, he stopped and held the arm closest to her out a little. Wordlessly she hooked her own around it moving in close to him as she said, “Thanks again Naruto.”

“You don’t need to thank me Ayame,” Naruto said with a shake of his head, “I should be thanking you. The way you organized all the merchants to show their appreciation to Suna for helping ward off Sky Country has really made things between the two camps rather relaxed lately.”

Ayame smiled at the praise to her small contribution to Naruto’s goal. After the threat of Sky Country had been dealt with she came up with the idea of feeding all the gathered shinobi, but it quickly grew into a much larger affair. She had gotten a fellow young merchant and tailor Emi to agree to offer free patchwork to the Suna shinobi’s clothes that had been damaged. Not to mention, another small Sushi stand run by the family of an old friend of hers named, Kohada, had also contributed. In the end it had been a rather large success as more and more people of Konoha arrived to show their appreciation of the shinobi who helped defend their homes.

Changing the subject, Ayame said, “Are you sure you don’t mind taking me to see the new Princess Gale movie tonight? I believe it would be the seventh time you’ve seen it.”

Naruto nodded saying, “If it’s what you want to do I’m fine with it.”

“Good,” Ayame replied, “Ino told me that the new masked shinobi was based off of you. I really want to see if it’s true.”

Naruto scratched his cheek in embarrassment saying, “Well that’s what Koyuki claims at least. She said the producers after they decided to kill her two remaining original vassals wanted Princess Gale to fall into a deep depression. Having experienced it in real life she came up with the masked shinobi character to pull her out of it.”

“Really,” Ayame said her eyes twinkling, “So who’s behind the mask?”

Naruto shrugged saying, “No one really. Right now the part is played by several stuntmen. They’ll probably cast someone when it comes time to unmask him.”

Ayame giggled at Naruto's naiveté since she had a pretty good idea of who the princess wanted to cast for the role. She shook her head as Naruto arched an eyebrow at her before saying, “It’s nothing. There’s the first store can you create some clones to come in with me.”

Naruto nodded creating the familiar handsign and then waited as Ayame took them inside to gather the stuff her shop needed. After she had paid for everything the clones took the items back to the stand while Ayame and Naruto moved on to the next store. It was a pattern they repeated several times until reaching the last one. As Naruto waited a voice called for him saying, “Hey Naruto!”

Turning he put on a smile that said although he was pleased to see the pink-haired girl. He wished it had been any time but now. “What’s up Sakura?”

“Well the new Princess Gale movie came out and I have the day off from hospital duties so I was wondering if you would like to go. I know you saw it with Koyuki but I heard it was really good and…”

“All finished Naruto, now we can go see…” Ayame paused after seeing Sakura her vision of the girl having been blocked by the jinchuriki’s back. “Hello Sakura,” she said smiling as she stepped closer to the blond.

“Ayame, um hello…I thought you’d be running your shop,” Sakura said her stare shifting between the two.

“I closed it after lunch today to restock all the supplies I went through feeding the camping Suna and Leaf shinobi. We were about to go see the new Princess Gale movie. You’re more than welcome to join us.”

Ayame could see Sakura was tempted to accept. But with a shake of her head the pink-haired medic said, “I wouldn’t want to intrude.”

“Suit yourself,” Ayame said linking her arm with Naruto’s again and began leading him towards the theater.

“I’ll see you tomorrow at training, Sakura,” Naruto said over his shoulder as he walked alongside Ayame.

“Sure,” Sakura said sadly knowing that with Fu there that she’d again feel like a third wheel.

*****

Arriving at the expensive villa, Koyuki was rather pleased with the decorum as the two story building had many windows that looked out onto the beautiful scenery that was Hotsprings Country. However, standing in the back of the room with his hands folded in front of him and wearing only a pair of shorts showing off his muscled and toned body was something she knew her manager wasn’t too pleased with.

Giving voice to that displeasure Tayuya walked to within several feet of him and after eyeing him appraisingly turned to the daimyo. Jerking her thumb back towards the man she asked angrily, “What the fuck is this?”

“That would be your client’s attendant for the week. He’ll be around to satisfy all the princess’s requests.”

Bowing his head the man said, “It’ll be my pleasure to serve you your highness. I’m skilled in several forms of massage therapy as well as…”

Rubbing her hand down her face in exasperation Tayuya said, “Shut the fuck up.” Focusing on the daimyo she continued, “Can I ask you a question?” She waited until he nodded before saying, “Is this the first time you’ve handled a guest of my client’s stature. I mean fucking really, she’s the goddamn star of the Princess Gale movies. A character that is sold based on the perceived purity of its main star and if rumors of her being shacked up with some lothario for the entire time of her vacation reached the public, her image would be shot. Not to mention I doubt the people of her homeland want to see rumors of such things popping up in the gossip rags. Are we on the same page now?”

Visibly holding back his anger the Daimyo nodded saying, “Yes, I’ll send an attendant more suitable to your tastes. Now if you’ll excuse me.” He motioned towards the man who looked disappointed but quickly schooled his face.

Just as they were about to leave Tayuya said, “I trust you cleared me access to your hawk tower so I can keep in touch with the studio.”

“It’s been taken care of as you requested. Just show up at the Village Hall and you’ll be escorted to the tower.”

“Thanks,” Tayuya said politely as if she hadn’t been cussing him out the entire time.

After the two men left and the two kunoichi made sure no listening devices were in place, Fubuki said, “Rather hostile weren’t you.”

Tayuya shrugged before responding, “Fuck him, I mean his attempt to separate you from the princess was so transparent it was almost insulting. Still, even though he’s probably sending a woman attendant now it’ll be best not to drop our guard.”

Fubuki smiled saying, “Especially since a woman might have more success than a man.”

Koyuki blushed at the comment but Tayuya said, “Well make sure to keep your hands to yourself as well,” causing the roles between bodyguard and princess to be reversed. Continuing she added, “In any case, with their attention focused on you, Fubuki. It should clear the way for me to get a little recon of their headquarters done, especially since over the next few days I plan to be a permanent fixture there.”

****

Konan waited patiently in the Daimyo’s office not that he would ever know she was there unless she wanted him to. The office was rather large with a large desk and even larger painting of him behind it. Placed all along the walls were various filing cabinets several of which were almost as difficult to open as a safe. If Konan had to guess that was where the many secrets that Hotspring Village had stolen from its clients in the past resided. To Konan’s surprise and disgust the files on the village’s own shinobi weren’t that closely guarded. She was currently residing in one of the many cabinets disguised as sheets of paper and was waiting for the Akatsuki member she spotted to be let in to meet the village leader.

The door to the room suddenly flew open as the Daimyo stormed in venting, “Who the hell does that bitch think she is talking to me like that. Damn whore in five minutes she ruined weeks of planning.”

The person with him said, “Sir, you need to calm down. Hell I was looking forward to seducing the princess but we’ll just have to adapt.”

“Oh shut up,” the Daimyo said but nevertheless began to calm. “Who’s available to attend to Koyuki?”

“Mai…”

“Mai!” the Daimyo said, “She’s the first one you come up with she’s as much a pain in the ass as Chun-Li.”

“True, but unlike Chun-Li, she isn’t as adverse to the new way of things and is willing to use the Enticement Touch to pull secrets from our guests.”

“Yeah, but she won’t sleep with them and the only reason she’s willing to do anything at all is because we play on her patriotism.”

“Yes sir, but her unwillingness to sleep with a target is actually why I’d send her. It’s obviously what Koyuki’s manager feared about me being around.”

“Fine, fine go tell her. Kami sometimes I wish I could go back in time and strangle her grandfather again for all the hassle those two bitches put me through.”

The man left to complete his task and moments later the Daimyo’s secretary entered saying, “Sir, a member of the Akatsuki is here to see you.”

“Akatsuki,” he said worriedly, “Um…send him in.”

She heard the man move to sit behind his desk and a moment later the Akatsuki member stepped in causing him to say, “Welcome, welcome…I’m afraid if you are here for more information on jinchuriki we’ve provided you the location of all the ones we knew of.”

The man stepped in and Konan could smell the smoke of his cigar. Taking a chair in front of the desk and sounding far more important then she knew him to be the man said, “The name’s Ginji and you can cut the crap. We know you’ve been selling the “exclusive information” to someone else. Tell me who and I’ll tell the higher ups you cooperated. Maybe just maybe then they won’t descend on this shit stain village and wipe it off the face of the planet.”

Apparently the Daimyo knew the man in front of him wasn’t capable of doing anything one way or the other as he calmed considerably before saying, “Perhaps you’ll take a moment to remember your place. Your bosses are important and dangerous people true, you however are easily replaceable. Let me remind you that you also stand at the center of my village and it’s a long way to the edge of it. Need I go on.”

“N-no,” Ginji said his earlier bluster fading.

“Good, now I’m afraid I have no idea of what you are talking about.”

“Someone interfered with two of our captures. It was the same person both times so the bosses believe you’ve been selling your information to that person or a group she represents.”

“A reasonable deduction, I suppose. Tell your masters I understand their concerns, but that I haven’t risen to this rank by accident and double-crossing clients of Akatsuki’s reputation is something that I’m aware would be a fatal mistake.”

“Well what am I going to tell them then, to take you at your word?”

“Truthfully I don’t care. The only reason they would send a man of your low rank is because they believe they can learn who I’m dealing with due to my panicked trying to cover my tracks. Since, I am in fact innocent there is nothing for me to cover up so they won’t be seeing what they expect and the matter will be dropped. You’ve served your purpose and can leave.”

Konan had to admit the Daimyo impressed her with his analyst of the situation. But she knew that despite his apparent calmness inside he could be panicking so decided to remain in place for a few days. After all she may learn something of value to use against the man the next time they needed information and could get a discount. At the very least it would stop Kakuzu’s complaining about the money it cost the organization.

******

Tsunade looked over the file of the kunoichi that Shizune’s test results said was alive despite her long being considered dead. Despite having the information of Shizune’s test for a month, she was no closer to coming to a decision on what to do with it so drumming her fingers over her desk she asked her first apprentice, “What do you think I should do?”

“I wouldn’t presume to know, Lady Tsunade”

“It isn’t presuming if I ask Shizune,” Tsunade said her tone amused, “And I thought I told you to drop the Lady Tsunade crap.”

“Sorry, Lady Tsunade,” Shizune said a hint of a smile on her lips. But turning serious she answered Tsunade saying “I would suppress the information we believe her to be alive since we don’t know all the facts. If she is working with Danzou, our coming forward with the information may cause her to disappear again. But even if that isn’t the case coming forward causes us to lose more than we gain.”

Looking at the file of the young Leaf kunoichi with two purple marks on her face Tsunade said, “I’ve been leaning towards that myself, but…”

“I know Lady Tsunade. But if revealing Rin to be alive to the village and Kakashi causes her to go underground again, we’ll miss whatever chance we have to learn what happened to her.”

Tsunade nodded before closing the file and handed it to Shizune saying, “Alright we’ll bury it for now.”

“What about Naruto?”

“I’ll tell him. I just got done worrying over keeping secrets from him. I’m not about to start a new round of that.”

“But what if he wants to tell Kakashi?”

“I’ll explain why that isn’t a good idea. I’m sure he’ll come around to our way of thinking. If not, well I’m sure I can think of ways to keep him occupied.”

*****

Tayuya was reading a letter from Koyuki’s studio to the princess who was currently clad in only a towel as her attendant massaged her back. “So anyway the studio says its thinking of casting the lead from Icha, Icha to star with you after they unmask the shinobi and wanted to get your thoughts.”

“What why?” Koyuki said looking up from the massage table.

“They haven’t come out and said it but I think they want to cast him as a romantic lead with you. They probably feel you have good chemistry with each other.”

“Ugh, kindly tell them that acting is what I do and if I have to kiss that toad one more time I’ll quit.”

“Really,” Fubuki said from where she sat watching the beautiful woman massage her country’s leader, “I thought you two got alone rather well on the screen.”

“It’s what you didn’t see that’s the problem. I enjoyed making that movie but when it came to kissing him, let’s just say he took the opportunity to get a little grabby.”

“Any suggests,” Tayuya asked although she had a good idea.

Not playing exactly into her game Koyuki said, “Tell the studio that if they want to unmask the character they should hire a real ninja.”

“Right,” Tayuya said sharing a look with Fubuki, “Any particular one in mind.”

Smiling as she looked down Koyuki said, “I have an idea or two. Mmmm, right there Mai. Your hands are divine.”

“Thank you,” the masseuse said kindly, “So if you don’t mind me asking who’s this shinobi you want them to hire.”

Despite the innocent question, Koyuki felt a small compulsion to answer it. Nothing as strong as when Naruto used his control over her, but she would have responded without realizing it if she hadn’t known what to expect. “Oh no one special,” she said her tone light and amused, “In any case, is there any other business I need to attend to.”

“No, but I’ll be leaving the village today after I send your reply’s out. I need to scout the locations the studio provided to see if they are suitable. I probably won’t be back by the time you leave.”

“Alright, have a safe trip,” Koyuki said before groaning in approval of the job Mai was doing.

Tayuya nodded before making her way to the door. Leaving she smiled at how pathetically easy it had been to scout the village’s defenses. Tonight after being seen leaving the village she would return to hit the Daimyo’s office for Kanji ‘s file. If not for the fact that she wanted to appear to be just a simple manager she probably would have made her move the first night. It was obvious that although a few of the kunoichi and shinobi kept up with their skills,the village relied on its outer defense and the fact that they had a working roster for almost every shinobi village. But once someone was able to infiltrate unannounced like she had well then all their defenses were as useful as a boat in a desert.

Entering the Village Hall she spared a moment to look at the Daimyo’s office door and resisted shaking her head at the fact that the place all their secrets were kept was so accessible. Still if the rumors that the current Daimyo had blackmailed the old one into stepping down and naming him as a successor then she guessed he simply believed nobody dared to want to get on his bad side. Reaching the Hawk tower, she handed her letter over and informed them that she would be leaving so not to expect a response. From the tower she made straight for the gate and signed out.

As she left she could feel several shinobi tail her partly to protect her from trouble, but also to insure she was actually leaving. She smiled internally as they eventually left her to her own devices since making sure she was leaving wasn’t the trick. But insuring that she didn’t return was.

*****

Konan relied on years of training to remain alert despite the week of boredom. Listening to the Daimyo berate one of his kunoichi for her lack of ability in learning anything of value from Princess Koyuki other than some tidbits about her next movie quickly grew stale. Still it hadn’t been a complete waste as she did learn that the Daimyo had murdered the girl’s grandfather when he attempted to stop him from blackmailing his predecessor. It was unlikely but that bit of information may come in handy one day. She was about to let her consciousness fade to get some sleep as the Daimyo had gone home for the night when a thief silently entered the room.

*****

Tayuya spent the several hours waiting for nightfall filling out her bingo book or more accurately adding an entry. Apparently Tsunade either didn’t know of or didn’t consider kunoichi from Hotspring Village to be viable targets as there had been no entries for them. But having seen Mai Shiranui, Tayuya was sure it was a possibility Naruto would one day target her, if only to have a spy in a village that seemed hellbent on gathering as much information on other countries and villages as possible.

Thinking of the busty brunette kunoichi who kept her long hair up in a ponytail and wore a red kimono that was very revealing, Tayuya could easily see that while her other kunoichi fell into the lazy art of simply seducing guests, she actually kept up with the hard training being a shinobi required. However she doubted it would be any time soon that Naruto’s attention would shift to the small village so put it out of her mind as she reached the wall surrounding it. Having timed the guards over the week inside she knew this section of wall generally was without its guard since the man was having an illicit affair with his superior’s wife. Since the superior was a drunkard that couldn’t be bothered to leave the guardhouse she knew there was virtually no chance anyone would be checking that the men were doing their duty.

Quickly scaling the ten foot wall, she didn’t even pause before leaping back down. Dressed similarly to how Koharu had been when she investigated the Leaf Prison, she hoped that if word reached Danzou somehow that it would confirm another village was on the move. Easily reaching the Village Hall and slipping past the sleeping guards, she picked the lock of the Daimyo’s office door and entered the room. After soundlessly closing the door behind her, Tayuya made her way to the filing cabinets filled with the Village’s personnel.

Hoping that Kanji wasn’t an assumed name or that he didn’t have a last one she began searching through the appropriate cabinet. Easily finding it, she flipped it open and almost thought she had grabbed the wrong folder as the young man whose picture looked back at her was almost nothing like the description she had been given. The only thing that did match the geeky acne ridden teen was the tuff of white hair that he had. Quickly scanning the file, she learned that he was a member of the Village’s Cryptanalysis Division and had gone rogue shortly before the village changed into the pleasure resort it now was. Getting curious, she delved deeper and learned that just before abandoning the village an archeology team of genin he had been leading, unearthed some old ruins and that he had become fascinated with an old scroll that had been hidden behind a powerful barrier.

The old village leader had banned the team from trying to decode it confident that the only reason someone had for hiding such an artifact was to make sure it never saw the light of day again. Still apparently Kanji had been unwilling to let the matter drop and had secretly attempted to decode it. Eventually his attempts had been learned of and they tried to arrest him. Kanji had escaped but a few of his early notes had been captured as had the original scroll.

If Tayuya had to guess, Kanji had been able to escape with enough of his research that he had been able to create the Temptation’s Touch as well as changing the caster’s chakra to bind the women the jutsu was used on. She also believed that those early notes had ended up in the current Daimyo’s hands and that once he realized what it was had created a weaker jutsu of his own from the unfinished notes. Naturally the previous Daimyo and his Village Leader who had been loyal to him, tried to oppose the takeover by the current one but were nullified or eliminated.

She also realized that if the Daimyo had possession of the original scroll and still had the weakest jutsu, it meant he had not been able to decode it in the ten years it had been in his grasp. Looking around the room, she wondered where the man would keep it. Her eyes immediately settled on the black filing cabinets that had heavy duty safe looks on the drawers and appeared to be made of cast iron. Rejecting them as too obvious she moved to his desk and began searching through the drawers. Making sure to check them for false bottoms, she was on the verge of giving up when she noticed several notches on the underside of the desk. Touching one, she felt that it could be slid so pulled it out slowly. After the seventh notch appeared her excellent hearing picked up a faint click. Realizing she was dealing with a disguised lock, she did the same for the other two slides. When the third clicked in place a panel opened on top of the desk. Feeling the thrill of discovery, she opened the disguised panel and saw an ancient green scroll wrapped with a red cord.

Pulling it out, she examined it not recognizing any of the characters on the outside so stuffed it into her pouch. Closing the panel, she was tempted to leave a thank you note but decided against it. Making the room look exactly like it had before her arrival she grabbed Kanji’s file as well and began heading for the door. Just as she was about to reach it one of the filing cabinets doors opened by itself and from it sheets of paper began flying from it. For a moment Tayuya feared she had upset a ghost, but when the paper began to take the form of a woman wearing a black cloak with red clouds, she would have preferred the specter.

Throwing the door open she threw caution to the wind as she sprinted out of the building. On her way, she flew by the sleeping guards who snapped awake. Luckily for Tayuya they focused on the woman just emerging from the Daimyo’s office.

“Halt,” the lead guard said reaching for his pouch but slumped over dead as a sheet of paper folded itself into a shuriken and embedded itself in his throat. His partner ran for a small button and although several paper shuriken buried themselves in his back, his corpse slammed into it raising the alarm in the village.

Tayuya cursed, but kept running confident that she could reach the wall before the guard who had abandoned his post could or the Akatsuki member she had apparently had the misfortune to stumble on caught up.

*****

Koyuki sat up in bed as an alarm began sounding throughout the village. Throwing a robe on, she raced downstairs to see Fubuki staring out a window that looked out onto the village. She was about to ask if the women thought Tayuya was in trouble, but the Spring-nin had the presence of mind to say, “I’m not sure what’s going on princess. Perhaps Mai can explain.”

Remembering that the attendant was still in the villa she was about to go get her when the young woman’s voice cut in saying, “That’s the intruder alarm. If I had to guess it’s probably a thief. Sadly with all the rich guests that we have we tend to make a tempting target. I doubt whoever it is will get away.”

However, a large explosion went off near the center of the village causing the kunoichi’s eyes to go wide in shock. It was obvious she wanted to go and see what was wrong but her duty to protect the guest under her care prevented it. Fubuki said, “If you wish to go you can. I can see to the princess.”

The young woman nodded quickly darting out of the villa and towards the center of the disturbance. As soon as she was gone Koyuki asked, “What should we do?”

“Nothing, if Tayuya needs help she’ll summon Naruto. We need to make sure we maintain we had nothing to do with this.” Although she didn’t like it the actress knew her bodyguard was right so went back to bed although sleep was hard to come by.

*****

After detonating the paper clone she had made with an exploding tag she spent a moment to make sure the various shinobi were only stunned as she didn’t want to turn things into an Akatsuki bloodbath. Confident they were, she shifted her attention in the direction the thief had ran and created a pair of paper wings to take flight. She caught up to the retreating woman just as she jumped from the wall into the forest. Diving down Konan flew through the trees and could hear the woman cursing as she attempted to stay ahead of her.

Pulling back, Konan flapped her wings and two large paper shuriken flew from them. One hit the branch of the tree that the masked kunoichi had just landed on and sliced through it causing her to fall to the ground below. Konan could see the woman was skilled as she rolled along the ground and barely broke her stride as she got back to her feet.

The kunoichi kept running coming up to the second shuriken that had missed and buried itself in the ground. She stopped and began to reverse course as the shuriken began unfolding into hundreds of sheets of paper that began to take Konan’s form. “Surrender,” she said calmly, “and explain what it is you took from the Daimyo’s office.”

“Fuck you bitch,” the woman snapped pulling a flute from her pouch.

As soon as she began playing Konan was countering the genjutsu the woman attempted to place on her. Her speed at doing so obviously surprised the woman as she went in with a kick that Konan easily blocked. She reached out to grab the woman but only caught her mask which she pulled away to reveal long red hair. Guessing the red-head kunoichi in front of her may have been the one meddling in Akatsuki’s attempts to capture the jinchuriki she said, “It seems this trip may have not been the waste I thought it was. Are you the one responsible for aiding the jinchuriki in escaping us?”

Although the kunoichi didn’t respond in words the smile she sported seemed to support Konan’s theory. The kunoichi quickly reached into her pouch again and pulling a flashbomb before throwing it on the ground. Konan covered her eyes as it exploded and once her eyes recovered found she was alone. A small smile appeared on her face before she broke into sheets of paper that began folding into small butterflies.

*****

Tayuya looked behind her hoping she gave the woman the slip. Although tempted to call Naruto, she didn’t want to see him injure himself again especially if she could get away on her own. Focusing forward again, she was in mid-leap when a horde of white butterflies surrounded her. As they began unfolding themselves into sheets of paper, she cursed but realized she was caught as the paper began sticking to her body wrapping around her tightly. Hitting the ground hard, she began to panic as a piece of paper covered her mouth preventing her from breathing. Activating her Level Two form, her body began to grow and shift but the paper simply expanded with her.

“It’s pointless, you can’t escape. Tell me who you work for.”

The paper over her mouth pulled back and she took a deep breath before screaming. Using a new jutsu she had worked during her time training with Tsunade and the others in Konoha, the scream quickly went subsonic and began to blow the paper away from her body. A piece tried to muffle her but her jutsu easily blew it away. Getting to her feet, Tayuya could see her opponent had been stunned by the close range sonic barrage, but doubting it would delay her for long and not liking her odds alone called for Naruto using her Kyuubi mark.

*****

Naruto was enjoying the grinding actions of the blonde in his lap. Sitting in his chair with Ino rubbing her ass against his cock was quickly getting Naruto to the point where he’d stand her up and bend her over in order to bury his cock in her. From the wetness that was beginning to soak into his jeans he could tell she was too.

However he stiffened as he felt Tayuya call for him which Ino noticed saying, “What’s wrong?”

“Tayuya’s in trouble.”

“What!? Again fuck…well at least we’re still fully clothed although I could use some new pan…” The rest of what Ino said was lost to time and space as he teleported them to Tayuya.

“…ties.” Ino finished. Taking in the situation she didn’t need to know what to do as she quickly focused on the woman in red and black. Seeing she was stunned and trusting in Naruto to watch her body she created her family’s handsign to transport her spirit into the Akatsuki member. She was just getting her bearings in the new body when she heard Naruto shout, “Tayuya wait no.”

Turning, she only had enough time to say, “Fuck,” before the fist collided with her jaw.

*****

Konan came too suspended by her tied together wrists in the air and realized that although she was still wearing her cloak the clothes beneath it had been removed. Also from the fact she couldn’t feel her chakra she realized that she had been taken prisoner, no doubt by the people the kunoichi worked for. Opening her eyes, she found that she had been blindfolded but could still sense several people in the room.

Although in all honesty they weren’t attempting to keep their presences hidden from her especially as she heard another kunoichi say, “Ouch, you didn’t have to punch me you know.”

“I didn’t, I punched her,” the voice of the kunoichi she had given chase to cut in.

“When I was in her body,” the first fired back. “Don’t you know how my jutsu works?”

“I told you I didn’t fucking see you guys. Excuse me for focusing on the fucking S-class bitch.”

“Tayuya, Ino, it seems our guest has awoken,” a distinctly male voice said cutting the argument off.

Konan heard one of the women get off from what sounded like a bed and was surprised it sounded like bare feet walking over wooden boards. A rough yank of the blindfold filled Konan’s eyes with light causing her to blink several times till her vision adjusted.

Once it did so though she focused on the red-head before her gaze moved onto a blonde woman sitting on the bed she had heard. Next it moved to a man sitting in a sturdy and decorative oak chair, and from her research she recognized as the nine-tailed jinchuriki. Looking around the room she found herself in a expensive looking apartment and for a moment believed she was in Konoha. However a glance out a window dispelled that notion as it appeared that the village that lay outside was nearing winter not the spring Konoha would be experiencing.

However the jinchuriki’s presence all but confirmed the village that captured her causing her to say, “I should have guessed the kunoichi worked for Konoha. You have been the village causing us the most grief.”

Konan was confused though when the red-head laughed saying, “I don’t work for the Leaf, you cunt.” Her confusion cleared though as Tayuya went and sat in Naruto’s lap kissing him deeply causing the two to forget about her for a moment. When they came up for air Konan asked Naruto, “Have you gone rogue?”

The blonde kunoichi moved from the bed stopping in front of her saying, “You know for our prisoner you ask an awful lot of questions.”

Calmly Konan replied, “Perhaps because you have asked none yourself.”

Ino turned from the Akatsuki member to ask, “So, how are you going to handle this?”

“I don’t know,” Naruto admitted.

“Perhaps, I can suggest something,” a voice in his head said.

“Kyuubi,” Naruto thought, “How are you talking to me?”

“I’ve been working on a way that doesn’t require you to be angry. After what we shared it is surprisingly easy to do now.”

“Maybe not so surprising,” Naruto thought amused and could picture her own smile as well, “So what do you have in mind, using the Super Temptation’s Touch.”

“No, although it was effective against Koharu, I think this one requires a little more insight into what she could experience at your hands.”

“Tell me more.”

Meanwhile Ino and Tayuya looked at each other in confusion as Naruto spaced out with the red-head asking, “What the fuck is he doing?”

“I think he’s talking to Kyuubi,” Ino replied.

A moment later Naruto focused on Ino saying, “How would you like to participate in an experiment?”

“What sort of experiment?” Ino asked with a small amount of trepidation.

“One that has us picking up where we left off in my apartment.”

“Sounds fun,” Ino said trusting Naruto who began raising his hand towards her from the chair. To her surprise a red claw shot out and hit her in the chest but nothing seemed to happen. Till she felt a small charge on her back and looking over her shoulder saw it emerge holding a blue aura that matched her physique. The claw then hit Konan before pulling out an aura that matched the Akatsuki member’s which was pulled into her as the claw returned to Naruto.

“What was that?” Tayuya asked from Naruto’s lap.

Getting to his feet, Naruto carried Tayuya to the bed to set her down before moving to Ino saying, “Something Kyuubi has been working on.” Reaching the blonde Naruto tilted her head up saying, “Thanks for agreeing,” before descending for a kiss. Ino responded immediately and moaned when Naruto groped her breast over her purple shirt.

To all the kunoichi’s surprise it was mirrored by the tied up Akatsuki member. Konan quickly calmed herself, still wondering just what had happened. When the two shinobi began kissing she had been too shocked at their bold behavior to notice feeling as if her mouth was being explored. However when the jinchuriki had grouped the blonde kunoichi she had immediately become aware as it felt like a hand had been placed on her own breast.

Ino looked back at her with a devious smile saying, “I see.” Facing the blond man she began kissing him again and this time Konan was very aware of the sensations she was feeling as her body began to respond. Feeling her pussy growing wet she tried to will her body to resist, however upon feeling the experienced hands playing over Ino’s body she knew her chances of succeeding were near zero. But she took a small amount of satisfaction in holding back a moan as Ino let hers out when the jinchuriki began sucking her tit through her shirt.

Konan wanted to look away but couldn’t, as she wanted to know where next she could begin to expect the phantom hands playing over her body. Her breath hitched as she noticed the kunoichi fall back on the bed and spread her legs wide to show her dampened panties. When the jinchuriki pushed them aside to bury two fingers in her, Konan had to bite down on her lip to keep from moaning. Soon though even that wasn’t enough and she was moaning right along with the blond and to her surprise red-head who had moved to the chair to watch and was rubbing her pussy as well.

Although never having taken a lover Konan, knew the young man was skilled as the feeling in her pussy was quickly intensifying in the way her own self-explorations told her was going to be a large orgasm. But to her surprise the feelings began to dim just as Ino cried out, “Yes…right there… Cumming!”

Konan’s eyes went wide in shock, but it was due more to herself as she had been hoping to enjoy the feeling welling up in her. Not having been allowed to experience it she felt cheated almost. But she soon found herself fighting back a moan as Naruto removed Ino’s panties and replaced his fingers with his tongue. Again she felt her body building up to something amazing but this time she was denied it as Ino stopped his pussy eating to pull him up into a kiss. With her hand she freed his cock before saying, “I think it’s time for the main event.”

Konan almost shouted no, but instead moaned as Naruto buried his dick inside Ino who squealed in delight. Naruto pounded her senseless in every position Konan had ever bothered to learn about and to the blonde kunoichi’s delight brought her to orgasm more times than Konan could keep track of. Her inability to count was due to her quickly losing her mind under the assault that brought her to the edge countless times, but never pushed her over. When Ino collapsed backwards onto Naruto’s chest fully sated having been facing away as she rode his dick, only Konan’s pride had kept her from screaming out to do her next. A pride that took a small beating as Tayuya joined the two on the bed saying, “You should see the fucking puddle under this bitch. She’s leaking like a spigot.”

Konan looked away as the nude jinchuriki got up from the bed and headed to the shower. As he paused Konan almost reached out to him with a foot to get his attention but fought the impulse. Several minutes later he was dressed and to her surprise cut her down from the ceiling. Helping her stand he said, “Clean yourself up. Your clothes are in the bathroom. Don’t try to run, with no chakra you won’t get very far.”

Konan nodded weakly and made her way to the bathroom. Pulling her cloak over her head she could make out the sound of Tayuya arguing with Naruto. Although not exactly clear as to what she was saying Konan understood the jist of it to be that they had her right where they wanted her so why were they letting her off the hook. Naruto’s reply was calm and quiet so she had no idea as to what he said, but Tayuya apparently understood as she stopped yelling. However, Konan felt a phantom pang in her pussy as the red-head instead began moaning. Hoping a shower would calm her body she wanted to remain in the water until she was sure the two had stopped their lovemaking. But having already seen his amazing stamina instead gave up when the water turned to ice.

After toweling off and dressing, she stepped out of the bathroom to see a nude and satisfied Tayuya had joined Ino on the bed. Naruto for the most part appeared none the worse for wear. Tossing her a coat as the clothes she wore under her cloak had consisted of a halter top and skin tight pants, he said, “Bundle up its getting cold outside.”

Following his own advice he put on a heavy coat and wrapped a scarf around his face. Stepping out into the cold air, Konan was glad it was helping to keep her body calm. Following beside the blond she asked, “If your purpose was to get me to sleep with you. It seems foolish to give me time to recover.”

“Unless I’m giving you the time to recover only to do it all over again in order to break you,” Naruto said as he stopped on a bridge that passed through Spring Country’s capital.

Konan was willing to admit she was already near that point so said, “We both know that isn’t what this is about.”

Naruto nodded saying, “True, I guess in the end I couldn’t hate you enough to take you in such a state.”

“What do you mean?”

“You’ve attacked and killed my fellow jinchuriki, not to mention you would have probably done the same to Tayuya. But despite that…I guess I just want to know, why? Or, what makes you so determined to kill us jinchuriki?”

“A pointless exercise,” Konan said feeling more and more like her stoic self, “Your death will lead to peace that is all you need to understand.”

When Naruto’s blue eyes saddened at her response, Konan had to look away suddenly feeling as if Yahiko was looking at her. What was worse was the sensation that if it had been Yahiko he would be looking at her in disappointment. Konan had long wrestled with the fact that the current incarnation of Akatsuki was nothing like the original. Instead of a group of ideological rebels it was made up of thugs like Ginji or complete sadists like Hidan had been. In many ways she felt that Yahiko had been the guiding light that had kept the group pure and with his death that light had been swallowed up by the darkness Madara represented. Still Nagato had willing followed the ancient Uchiha’s lead and while hesitant to do so herself, in order to support her remaining friend and orphan had soon followed suit.

But Naruto’s clear blue eyes began to make her question if she should have if only a little. Lost in thought she was surprised when he placed a hand on her shoulder to ask, “Are you alright?”

Pushing it away she said, “Fine, were you saying something?”

“I asked, how?”

Confused she replied, “Pardon?”

“How does my death help bring about peace? I mean if you do kill me you know of at least two women that aren’t going to be pleased with you, seems to me that would only perpetuate the cycle of violence. Besides I have it on good authority that the only reason to collect all the Bijuu in one place would be to unite them into the Ten-tailed beast.”

“What is that?”

Hearing her honest confusion Naruto said, “I suppose it’s possible you aren’t aware of what it is. However, it just shows the fire you are playing with. But you still haven’t answered my question, how does my death lead to peace?”

“Do you honestly think I will simply divulge our plan for peace to the enemy?”

“Well considering we seem to want the same goal I was sort of hoping yeah you would,” Naruto said smiling beneath the scarf.

Konan scoffed saying, “Do you honestly believe sleeping with various kunoichi will lead to world peace?”

Sounding just as disbelieving Naruto countered, “Do you really believe my death will lead to world peace?”

Konan glared at him but she found it wilting under the amused blue eyes that reminded her of Yahiko. “If you must know I bear you no animosity, but I am set on my path.”

“Well as long as you don’t hate me, I’m cool with you killing me then,” Naruto replied amused before starting to walk again.

Konan was surprised that he didn’t seem to be waiting for her. For a moment she considered disappearing into the crowd, but surprising herself as she soon began following alongside him. Seeing the ruined Crystal Hall and the Sandayu Theater, Konan was surprised that she was in Spring Country. “How long have I been unconscious?”

“Any particular reason you need to know?” Naruto responded cryptically.

Guessing she wouldn’t get a straight answer she changed the subject saying, “I thought Spring Country no longer experienced winter.”

“They’ve been ramping down the heat generators slowly giving the impression of fall. I expect by tonight or tomorrow the snow will fall again. I suppose they realize that if they don’t let the snow fall every few months the soil that is rich with nutrients now will eventually dry up. I guess maybe that’s what the cycle of peace and war is sort of like.”

“Your cycle merely perpetuates the violence against the smaller countries,” Konan said bitterly. “That’s why it’s easy for you to speak of peace.” Naruto didn’t respond so she asked rather surprised, “You don’t deny it?”

“Can’t really,” Naruto admitted, “I’m not saying you don’t have a reason to believe what you believe. Only I think any peace you can achieve using the methods you have will result in nothing but misery.”

“You don’t know misery,” Konan shot at him angrily.

She was taken aback by the way the young man’s blue eyes hardened and the way his voice to on a steely edge as he said, “I spent most of my life alone and without am idea of why till I turned thirteen. I watched all the other kids play and have grand times all the while wondering, why not me? So I have a good idea of what being miserable is like and even though you may think your misery is better and more traumatic, and they may even be. I at least understand that peace brought about through intimidation and violence isn’t peace.”

Konan was surprised when after he took a deep breath and released it, his anger seemed to disappear. Not understanding the man’s motives at all, she asked, “I take it that you gained something if I submitted to the lust your jutsu brought about? Why not simply take me by force and be done with it?”

Naruto shrugged saying, “It would prove you were right and that the ends justify the means. I want to bring about the peace we both seek by changing the minds of people. To that end, I’ve been working at putting people in place that can change the policies’ of my and the other villages.”

“The women you’ve seduced up to now I imagine.”

“Yes,” Naruto admitted.

“So you gain some sort of control over them then.”

“True, but I have only needed to use it in one case and that wasn’t related to my ambition. You see Konan; it would be meaningless if they only agreed to help me because I forced them to. Just like any peace brought about through conquest would be. I know it won’t be easy, and I know there will be battles and bloodshed. However, when I achieve my goal it will be because the villages will understand that we aren’t so different after all and that working together we can achieve anything.”

Konan stared at the blond who she could tell was smiling at her from the way his eyes lit up. She looked away unable to think of anything to counter what he said as the only thing that came to mind was, “If we get our way, you’ll be dead.” It was a thought that actually made her sick to her stomach as she felt she would be no different than Hanzo or Danzou, the two men that had robbed the world of the light Yahiko had been.

*****

The rest of the walk through Spring Country’s Capital was done in silence. Konan kept sending glances the jinchuriki’s way and realized the reason he was covering his face was so that the citizens wouldn’t recognize their princess’s savior. And if what Konan suspected was true, her lover. If she was right it seemed to back up what Naruto was saying as all the Elemental Countries were vying for the new resources of Spring Country. If Naruto had already charmed Koyuki then wouldn’t Konoha be the one to reap the benefits. But if the rumors she had heard were true, before taking her vacation Koyuki had put the trade talks on hold in order to make sure Nadare hadn’t already begun swaying them.

Although there was a chance that she would come back and award Konoha with a deal. Konan suspected it would be a broader one that allowed many of the nations to benefit. The fact that Naruto hadn’t forced her to submit to him was perhaps proof that she was right. Still, she realized that she was now in a rather precarious position, as Naruto couldn’t just let her go without gaining some means to control her, which meant she may be spending the rest of her life in prison. It wasn’t exactly a heartwarming idea, especially since she was finding herself questioning her ideals now that another path seemed to have opened before her.

Reaching the apartment she guessed belonged to Tayuya in her role as Koyuki’s manager, Naruto held the door open for her a small gesture she believed had been ingrained in him due to his many suspected relationships. As he followed in behind her, he noticed the red-head was missing so asked Ino, “Where’s Tayuya?”

“She had to catch a boat to the mainland,” Ino said looking up from a medical journal she was reading. “She still has to scout out some locations for Koyuki’s next movie. She said to fucking lock up when we leave.” Naruto chuckled, as he began to take his jacket and scarf off as he hung them up as Ino asked hesitantly. “Um, so what are we going to do with her?”

“A good question, but one I don’t have an answer to right this moment.”

“Naruto, if she…”

“I know Ino,” he said taking Konan’s coat from her and also hanging it up. Moving to the blonde kunoichi he kissed her lightly saying, “But for right now, let’s give her some time to think over what I’ve discussed with her.”

“We wouldn’t have this problem if you had just fucked her senseless when she was wet and ready.”

Konan was surprised the girl seemed to have no problem with Naruto taking her when she had been on the verge of giving up earlier. Noticing the glare she received from Ino as Naruto moved away she supposed it was due to the fact that as far as the kunoichi was concerned she was the enemy. Thinking along that line Konan was surprised that she no longer thought of herself as such. Knowing there was only one way to truly prove to both that she wished to bring about Naruto and Nagato’s goal but using the jinchuriki’s philosophy, she reached up behind her neck unfastening the straps that held her halter top up.

Both blonds’ eyes went wide as she lowered it down to reveal her breasts to the pair. Naruto got over his first asking, “Konan what are you doing?”

Walking down a hall to the bedroom where she had experienced the phantom pleasure of being made love to she said unemotionally, “I find that I wish to help you in your endeavors. As the only other alternative seems to be a lifetime in prison, this is the quickest way to convince you of my sincerity.”

Naruto and Ino followed her down the hall and as she stopped at the foot of the bed she said, “Naruto, I will submit to you but don’t wish my first time to be a spectacle.”

Understanding Naruto looked over his shoulder saying, “Sorry Ino.”

“Hey wai…” Ino tried to say but was cut off as the door closed in front of her. Naruto chuckled as he heard her griping outside. Moving to Konan who was standing with her back towards him with her arms now covering her breast he hugged her from behind saying, “Thank you.”

“Naruto, you could slaughter the rest of Akatsuki and I wouldn’t mourn the loss but please help me save its leader Nagato. He used to be just as idealistic as you.”

Naruto hugged her tighter and she could feel that he had removed his shirt as well. Surprised at how warm he felt she imagined it was because of the light she believed he emanated. He placed a kiss along her neck before whispering in her ear, “I promise to do everything in my power to do so.”

Hearing his honest sincerity she turned her head to see it in his eyes before closing them as he kissed her gently. Once it ended she said, “That was my first kiss.”

Surprised, he asked, “Are you sure you wish to continue?”

Konan was shocked to say the least, but nodded saying, “If I’m going to return to Akatsuki without raising suspicion I need to return immediately. I may be able to explain my absence as me tracking the thief to Spring… but it will be pushing things.”

“I can have you back tomorrow. But you didn’t answer my question.”

Naruto began tweaking her nipple pulling a small moan from the kunoichi who replied, “I’m sure. It’s the only way you can trust me not to betray you on such a short timetable.”

Beginning to kiss where her neck meet her shoulder Naruto stated, “You’re being rather evasive. Maybe I should ask another pair of lips for the answer.”

Confused at first she watched as the hand that been playing with her nipple slowly moved down her stomach stopping for a moment to play with the piercing in her belly button. Once it resumed its journey he stopped at the button of her pants. He paused there and she assumed it was to give her a chance to tell him to stop. However instead she moaned pleasantly as he began to kiss her neck again. Taking that as permission he opened that snap of her pants but surprised her when he stuck his other hand in the back of her jeans pushing them down in the process. He bent her forward until she was forced to support herself with her hands on the bed. Then with her jeans around her knees he began to slowly rub her slit making her moan in arousal.

Hearing the woman that except for during her few outbursts of anger seemed to be rather stoic moan had Naruto’s cock ready to be deployed. However, he refrained instead burying a finger insider her as he used the palm of his hand to rub her ass. Finding her to be completely drenched he said, “You might be trying to sound calm and logical about it. But your pussy is saying it wants me to bury my cock inside it and to make you scream like Ino was earlier. Is that true?”

Blushing and moaning she said, “N-no…I-I just want…mmmm…” Her sentence ended in a moan as Naruto added another finger and began working them furiously inside her cunt.

Naruto chuckled as he replied, “Tsk, tsk, tsk, Konan you say you want me to trust you, but here you are lying to me.” Working his fingers faster she could hear the wet sounds her pussy was making and felt her body turn red as he said, “Can’t you hear how wet you are?” She groaned in loss as he removed them but dropped her head into the mattress to hide her face as he said, “Damn, you’re pussy juices are leaving a saliva trail on my fingers.”

He pressed his crotch up against her ass and she could feel his hardness through his jeans as he gently grabbed her chin to raise her head. To her embarrassment she realized it was the hand that he had just been fingering her with from the wetness she felt. He then moved one of the fingers that had been in her liquid heat over her lips and to her surprise before she realized what she was doing she had opened her mouth to allow him to put it inside. However, despite realizing it she nonetheless didn’t stop her tongue from seeking the finger out and tasting her essence that coated it.

Naruto smiled as Konan’s lips wrapped around his finger and he felt her tongue begin to slide around it. Grinding his crotch into her mound she whimpered causing him to pull the finger from her mouth and step back. He smiled as she looked over her shoulder her eyes no longer half-hooded in her calm and stoic matter but now alive with lust. Reaching for the button of his own jeans he opened it and pulled his jeans and boxers down revealing his hard cock. Stepping back up to Konan, he rubbed it against her drooling lower lips as he said, “I know what I have to do. I’m going to have to fill your hot snatch with my cock and cum until it becomes second nature to admit how much you want it.”

Lining himself up and with her pants still only partially pulled down he slowly pushed his cock into her. Konan stiffened in both pleasure and discomfort at the intrusion so Naruto allowed her cunt to grow use to being wrapped around his cock. He remained perfectly still for several moment and waited until she began to slowly move her hips despite the handicap her pants present. Grabbing her hips, he pulled almost completely out causing her to sigh at the loss but moan as he slowly pushed back in. He repeated the pattern for several minutes waiting until she grew used to it to surprise her.

After pulling all the way out to the tip, he shocked her by slamming forward pushing up against her womb in the process. Konan arched her head back screaming, “Oh God…” But found that any further attempt to put what she felt into words failed her as Naruto continued to pound her snatch with a relentless pace and fury.

Experiencing bliss, she found her arms could no longer support her and she fell forward onto the mattress. The sudden move caused Naruto to slip from her cunt causing a moaned whine to escape her. But he quickly found her slippery hole again burying his length in her. The brief respite allowed her to find her voice again and as he continued his assault she began moaning, “Oh…god….oh Kami….it’s it’s nothing like I imagined. D-don’t stop…”

Leaning down to her ear, Naruto said, “O-oh you don’t have to worry about that Konan. I told you…you’re body’s going to become intimately familiar with the sensation of my cock pounding away at your pussy.”

“Yes…yes…” Konan moaned, while trying to look back at the man who awakened her to the world of pleasure. However, she tensed suddenly as her orgasm washed over her causing her to shout, “Oh FFFFuuuuuccccckkkkk!!!!!!!”

Upon feeling her cunt milking him for his seed Naruto groaned as he released several large bursts of cum into his newest Harem member. Konan began panting as she realized the earlier phantom feelings she had experienced paled in comparison to what she just had felt. She felt Naruto pull her pants the rest of the way off and was about to thank him when he flipped her onto her back. Putting her legs on his shoulders, he lined himself up again and plunged his still rock hard cock into her causing her to say as he picked up right where he left off, “N-no Naruto….it’s too much…”

Naruto leaned down to kiss her which despite her words she greedily returned and after coming up for air he teased, “Come now Konan…surely an S-class-nin isn’t ready to throw in the towel after only a single orgasm.”

With the gauntlet thrown down, Konan indeed did try to keep up with the energetic man rutting away inside her. But after several more orgasms of her own plus the multiple times he came inside her resulting in a pressure inside her womb that made her feel like she was on the verge of losing her mind she soon gave up simply allowing him to move her about as he willed. After almost an hour she came partially to in order to find herself on top and facing away as she fucked herself on his cock, and if she could look outside herself she would be embarrassed to see her tongue hanging out as she moaned incoherently in pleasure. Nearing another orgasm she pulled it together enough to say, “N-n-no more….I’ll break…my pussy’s going to break….”

Naruto nearing the edge as well and although still capable of more decided this would be the last for the night said, “It’s not breaking Konan. It’s simply not used to being so satisfied…don’t worry…it soon will.” With that said he thrust his hips up just as she was coming down pushing both into another shared orgasm. Konan shuddered as her womb seemed to expand to make room for the new flood of warmth and with a fully sated sigh collapsed onto her side asleep before she hit the mattress.

He pulled her up into his body and smiled down at her as the woman clenched his chest in a hug. He watched her sleep for a moment before his attention shifted to the cracked bedroom door. Waving the blonde in, he wasn’t surprised to see she was naked, nor that it appeared she had been pleasuring herself as she watched.

Ino climbed into the bed from the foot of it and crawled towards him. Stopping at his crotch, she bent down and licked his dick clean of Konan and his cum. He was about to tell her to stop but apparently she had the same idea and completed her journey to wrap herself on his other side. Surrounded in warmth Naruto allowed sleep to claim him as well feeling that with Konan at his side Akatsuki’s days were numbered.

*****

Ino awoke surprised to find herself in Naruto’s apartment. Yet Ino’s belief that she was back in Konoha quickly faded, upon seeing the large metal cage where Naruto’s door should be. She came to the conclusion of being inside Naruto’s seal just as a voice said, “Hello Yamanaka, we need to talk.”

Next Target: Shiho