53 Assemble the Remaining Warrior Part 1(18+)

It took a few minutes but Galatea managed to find Anastasia, Dietrich, Tesla, Letitia and Renee. This was mainly due to them watching the spar between Naruto, Alicia and Beth from a respectable distance. As they were gathered together and brought to Naruto, Galatea brought them up to speed. Anastasia was all for it and she was especially eager to see her friends again. Tesla was eager to get out on the field and bring her comrades back to Morris in preparation for the attack on the Organization, and she knew many of them were eager to get their stigmas healed for good. Dietrich and Renee were willing to come along, more out of curiosity, than anything. It also allowed them to spend some more quality time with their studly boyfriend. Naruto chuckled at the enthusiasm of his little team. They were all eager to help for one reason or another. "Alright, ladies, are you all ready to go?"

"Of course," Anastasia answered. The woman, no longer in the uniform the Organization provided her, was now wearing a similar outfit to Naruto's wives and girlfriends. She wore a long-sleeved top, a leotard and thigh-high tights. Over them, she wore a mixture of padded leather and plate armour from her old uniform, like the vambraces, spaulders and sabatons.

Naruto looked Anastasia up and down and voiced his approval. "I have to admit, you look good in that."

Anastasia giggled and gave him a beautiful smile, "Why thank you!"

Chuckling, Naruto looked to Dietrich, Tesla, Letitia and Renee. "What about you four? Are you ready to go?"

Tesla nodded with enthusiasm and with a hint of bloodthirst. "Of course! It's about time we got Dominique and the others here! The sooner we get them, the faster we can finally put down the Organization for good!" Dietrich, Letitia and Renee nodded concurringly; they were behind Tesla's words all the way. The Organization had this a long time coming.

"Alright," Naruto chuckled. "Let's get going then!" Almost immediately Glissa took his hand into hers. Followed by Galatea. Then Tesla, Letitia, Dietrich, Anastasia and finally Renee grabbed hold of him afterwards. Once he was sure they were firmly secure Naruto closed his eyes and focused on the seals that were outside of Morris, on this very continent and mobile. Then he and his group of seven women teleported out of there in a yellow flash. The first thing that the group of seven realised when they took in their new surroundings, was them being amongst hills and grassland that stretched on for miles. The six women let go of Naruto and surveyed their surroundings. The blond recognised this area as Mucha, Luciela's territory.

"Naruto? I thought you were bringing us to one of our comrades." Anastasia stated.

"I did. There's a secret formula I put into the seals that are inked onto your bodies: I can teleport next to that person, or I can teleport in the general vicinity." Naruto gave the curly-haired woman a cheeky grin, "It's how I showed up in Sandy Crotch without being anywhere near you."

"How come I never heard of this secret formula?" Galatea asked, putting her hands on her hips while giving her husband a disappointed glare.

Naruto gave his wife one of those smug smiles she loves to give other people. "It's called a secret formula for a reason. It wouldn't be much of a secret if I told everyone about it. But I based it off of my dad's technique. Though the way he used it was combat-oriented." The Hiraishin — Ni no Dan was a technique his father developed and used in battle. Naruto improved on it, so instead of being directly teleported to the object or person with the seal, he increased the range. So now, he can teleport himself and other people a mile away from the target and plan accordingly. "Seeing as we don't know if the person we're here for is by herself or not, I believed not teleporting in front of her would be the wisest course of action."

It was how he was able to get the drop on the Crimson Guard the first time around. And it was how he was able to surprise Anastasia, Dominique and those women Keria and Phina while they were scouting around Sandy Crotch. He never used it for anything else though… until now that is. "Very nice," Dietrich chirped, thoroughly impressed. "To think you'd have so many techniques that prove this versatile… No wonder you were able to stare down a goddess and win!"

"I didn't have many of the techniques I have now," Naruto pointed out modestly. "I didn't even have the Hiraishin when I fought Kaguya. I learned it when I was on my way here… and as for me staring down a goddess, I had help. I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi-sensei or Obito."

"The fact that you knew less tricks then than now only makes the feat more impressive," Galatea rebutted with a giggle. "You should give yourself more credit. The fact that you faced off against such inconceivable threats, even with help, is nothing short of amazing~!"

"I would have you all go against her in the simulation so you could see what it was like, but that would be just mean," Naruto chuckled. "Thanks, though. It means a lot to me. Now, does anyone sense any nearby warriors? I'd like to get this done quickly so we can snatch up as many as we can."

Being the best ones at censoring Galatea and Renee both closed their eyes and used their wide range yoki sensing to find any hybrids in the vicinity. While they did that Anastasia looked at Naruto and said, "If you want, I can use my winged technique to look around."

"Not necessary," Galatea giggled. "There's a party of four in that direction." She pointed to Naruto's left. One's particularly weak; I'd assume she's Number 47 or close to it. I'm sure they were sent to hunt the awakened being about a hundred yards away 0 a former Single-Digit, from the feel of it."

"I sense them too," Renee added, opening her eyes once more and peered off in the direction the warriors and awakened being were at. "They don't seem to be in trouble. A little stressed from what I can sense but nothing more than that."

"I see…" Naruto exhaled and rolled his shoulders and neck in anticipation. "Then let's make sure they don't get in over their heads. Galatea, Renee, let me know if it takes a turn for the worst, okay?"

"Will do," the replied in unison.

"Alright, ladies, let's move."

With that, the group of seven set off with Galatea and Renee being the ones leading them. Of course, a few of the women with him couldn't resist teasing him to pass the time as they all caught up with the still-active warriors. Naruto, of course, valiantly kept his urges to bend those teasing women over and fuck them into oblivion at bay; there was the possibility that the warrior they're here for would need help at a moment's notice and he needed to be ready just in case things took a turn for the worse. Of course, that didn't mean he told them to stop… he was enjoying their attention after all. And he was receptive to their flirting and more than gladly reciprocated their affections, much to the envy and mild embarrassment of Anastasia, Tesla, and Letitia; they kept it to themselves, though. Naruto could feel their envy though and he let out a silent, but knowing chuckle. With Galatea and Renee guiding them the group of seven were able to reach the area the team of warriors were at. And like the two 'Eyes' claimed, they were fighting an awakened being. A male one; and due to Chronos confirming that his generation is almost killed off, Naruto knew the one before them was an artificial one. While he hadn't seen her in a long time, he recognised Minerva straight away. He found Dominique there too, along with two others he didn't recognise. One of them had to be the new Number 47; the first woman after Dominique was a young woman with long, straight pale blonde hair with short bangs, and due to him knowing hybrids and awakened beings stop ageing after a certain point the woman forever would look like she is in her early twenties. Anastasia, Renee, Letitia, Glissa, and even Dietrich all recognised this woman as Red Wall Violet.

That last woman was much younger; if he had to guess Naruto would say she was seventeen, or eighteen years old. She had short, wild and wavy platinum blonde hair that was tied back in a ponytail with several locks hung forward in front of her face. She was fairly toned as well, with well-rounded hips, a sizeable bust and athletic physique. She drew her sword immediately, warily eyeballing Naruto and his entourage. Anastasia recognized her as the new Number 47, Charlotte. As one would expect, the disappearances of Nina and Miata - among other factors taking place over time - had since caused a few fluctuations in the ranks, resulting in the former Number 8 Violet to be bumped up two ranks. And with Clarice now part of Naruto's faction had Charlotte taking her place. Both Violet and Charlotte were on edge. Understandable seeing as they were fighting an awakened being… who wasn't around, anymore. The environment around the two groups told him why: there was a large borrow in the ground. It probably escaped underground… Naruto ignored the look Charlotte was giving him and closed his eyes as he actively searched for the awakened being. It should be fairly close. "Galatea," he called, causing the woman to perk up. "Where is he?"

"About thirty feet underground," she answered pointing a spot yen feet to the left of the massive hole with a frown. "Right about there, licking his wounds. He's pissed, too. I can sense some… nasty intentions practically radiating from him."

"I can crush him right now, if you want," Glissa offered. With the techniques she'd learned, the elf-like awakened being could think of a good three ways to do just that if prompted.

"Let's… wait on that for now," Naruto said, giving her a grin. "If he's bad news, it'll serve as a wonderful demonstration of what you can do, now."

Glissa giggled and nodded. "Alright, honey~!"

Violette frowned, swearing she'd seen the brunette's face before, but couldn't quite remember. As for Naruto himself, he opened his eyes again and gave Dominique and Minerva a friendly smile and wave, "Hey, you two!" he called to them with an enthusiastic grin, "It's been a while since the last time we saw each other, hasn't it?"

To the surprise of Charlotte and Violet the two women were relieved and glad to see him, "It has," Minerva chuckled. "so what brings you all the way out here, Naruto?"

"Oh, just some stuff." the blond answered evasively, "But, let's get rid of the awakened being first. I'd rather we talk without the threat of that thing popping up when he's not wanted." He turned to the brunette with him and asked, "hey, Glissa, you mind showing your old colleagues what you're capable of?"

The dark-haired awakened grinned deviously, "Gladly~!"

"Glissa?!" a shocked violet shouted, recognizing the name. She'd seen her in passing once or twice, back when the brunette was still a trainee. "Oh, gods…" The realization dawned upon her that the cute, little girl from before had awakened.

Ignoring the horrified look she was being given, the former Number 45 blazed through a few hand seals and shouted, "Doton: Doryuu Katsu!"

Upon her command, the earth started to split, before Glissa, Naruto and the present hybrids, startling the holy hell out of several of them and still-recovering awakened being that had previously been hiding. "What the fuck?!" yelled a demonic, masculine voice as the creature was revealed to the world. The creature resembled a multiarmed, spike-shelled tortoise with six crab-like claws and a massive, razor-sharp beak. "How the hell did you do that?!"

"Family secret," Glissa giggled. "Now, are you going to behave or be used as a demonstration?" She got her answer when the awakened being retreated into his shell and tore through the earth as he rolled towards her. Chunks of dirt and rock were thrown in every direction, as he made his intent clear. He was going to fucking kill that bitch! No. More than that! He was going to beat her, have his way with her, and then he'll kill her!

"Demonstration it is~!" she chirped, her yoki flaring as the former Number 45 shifted to her awakened form. Then, she blazed through several more hand seals and cast her next technique. "Doton: Doryuusou!" Dozens of earthen spears jutted up from the ground beneath him, sending the crab-turtle-like awakened being airborne. Of course, due to his shell protecting him, and his hide being harder than steel, the spears shattered against the underbelly. However, while it had failed to impale him outright, they still managed to stop his charge and disorientate him. The awakened being emerged from the protection of his shell and started to unsteadily sway around, all googly eyed-like.

"Glisa, it looks like his hide is too thick for your earth spears to get through. Try using lightning on him while he's still vulnerable." Naruto suggested to her.

Glissa giggled, drawing her sword and sheathing it in electricity. "Way ahead of you, my love~!" she then dashed forth, a blur to the eyes of the team of warriors, before coming to a stop behind the crab-like awakened, the smell of searing flesh rising from the man-made valley before he literally fell apart into a pile of smouldering chunks. The brunette groaned rolling her shoulder. Irene wasn't joking: that technique of hers was not at all easy to use.

"Well, that was certainly quick. Good job, Glissa!" Naruto looked at the other warriors and smiled at the stunned look on the faces of Minerva, Dominique, Violet and Charlotte.

"W-wha-what!?" a wide-eyed Violet hissed in disbelief, Glissa was a low ranked warrior! A former Number 45! She shouldn't have been able to kill an awakened being, at all - let alone one in the single digits! Not by herself, at least! Not to mention, her being able to manipulate the earth? Use fucking lightning of all things?! And what was more when she used those elements, the Number 8 didn't feel yoki in any of them! What was she? There was no way she is an ordinary awakened being! It was inconceivable! So, she turned to the only person who possibly has all the answers: the Ladykiller. She simply had to know… With that in mind, Violet marched on up to Naruto and simply asked, "how?!" That one word said it all; she needed no say anything more as is, and her delivery told Naruto all he needed to know.

Said blond shrugged and replied, "I trained her. Everyone who's with me in Morris is capable of doing what Glissa has done. And more."

The poor Numbers 6 and 45 turned ghostly pale at that, knowing damn well that this man was at odds with the Organization. Then, the latter of the two promptly did a one-eighty and chirped, "well, hello, friend~!" Charlotte was many things: lazy, stubborn, just a bit anti-social... but, she was not stupid! She was going to end up on the winning side of this conflict, one way or the other. "You wouldn't happen to be taking on new students, would you?"

Naruto looked at her with amusement on his face. "Sure I am. I can even heal your stigma if you want. Just ask the ladies with me."

"I've heard whispers of you having children with several hybrids," Dominique pointed out, a glimmer of hopefulness in her eye. "Is that true?"

"Yeah, it's true," Naruto said with a nod, "It turns out making hybrids able to have children again is a side effect of healing the stigma… not quite sure as to how, though a… healer we have at Morris has been cooking up a few theories. It's all guesswork at the moment, though."

"I see…" Charlotte regarded him for a moment; then she looked at Violet.

The Number 7 in question dampened her bottom lip nervously. "I've… heard that the Organization is purposely setting up warriors to die. Are they true?"

"Sadly, yes," Naruto sighed. "This whole conflict started with the fiasco in Pieta. Two of my lovers were sent to die there, and not long after that, they sent Dietrich and Renee here, along with Alicia and Beth, to kill Galatea. They failed, obviously. But to make a long story short, the Organization are not who they portray themselves to be. And they have a tendency to kill anyone under their employ that asks to many questions or has outlived their usefulness. Anastasia here has lead a few teams that ended up with them facing multiple awakened beings when they should have been yoma."

Feeling she'd heard enough, Charlotte immediately dashed on over to Naruto's side hugged his arm and asked, "just so we're clear, do I have to make a baby with you to join or no? Not that I mind, I just want to know what's expected of me from the start."

"No, you don't. Despite what my reputation says," Naruto chuckled awkwardly. "I don't go for anyone who doesn't show any interest."

"Oh, believe me, I'm interested," Charlotte giggled. "You're cute, and I've wanted to have a baby since I was ten. So, how do I join your little group, then? Are there any duties that are expected of newcomers? Can you teach me how to weaponize the ground like that?"

"You can join my 'little group' by defecting. As for duties, there isn't much. You just have to get along with the others and contribute, either by wiping out bandit camps that form on the countryside, killing any yomas you come across or just helping out around the castle in some way. And as for me teaching you how to weaponize the ground? I can teach you, but it honestly depends on your affinity. Anastasia can weaponise wind, Galatea can weaponise water, Letitia can weapon both wind and water, Renee can weaponise fire and lightning, and Dietrich can weaponise wind and fire. But with enough training, you will eventually be able to use all of them."

"Ooh~! Let me know when we can start then! I can't wait~!"

"Elemental attacks are advanced techniques," Glissa informed the young woman, "you'd have to start with the basics, and even those throw logic completely out of the window - teleportation, transformation into animals and other people walking on walls and water... It's some pretty crazy shit." Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at Charlotte's enthusiasm, thoroughly reminded of his unofficial students, Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon.

"...you can walk on water?" Violet was giving Naruto an odd look, but more than that it was one that showed interest. Don't get her wrong, she's heard rumours that were spreading through the ranks of the Organization; that the blond before her was capable of transforming into a giant nine-tailed fox, that he could appear anywhere, that he has bedded many warriors. But for her, that was all that was: rumours. Granted, Violet knew every rumour is based on a truth, but that begged the question of just how true to the fact those origins are. So she did a little digging; nothing too deep, seeing as she didn't want her superiors to breathe down her neck. She is aware that Naruto is not from this island, and that the Organization has made up a new task force consisting of some of the strongest Number Ones - and then some - to fight him. She knows that he bedded Riful of the West, Luciela of the South, the One-Horned Monster, and many other female awakened beings and that they are living with him in the fortress of Morris.

"Yeah, I can walk on water. I can even do this," to the surprise of Violet and Charlotte, Naruto made a half cross seal, and a single Kage Bunshin appeared beside him in a puff of smoke. The clone and original looked at each other, grinned, and high-fived one another. Showing the women that they were not seeing things. The clone dispelled and Naruto looked at Violet and added, "I can even teach you that technique. Everyone in Morris is capable of using it, even awakened beings like Glissa."

"Sooo…" she blushed. "How many women have you bedded?"

Naruto rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Hmmm… Honestly? I lost count after 20. I can make copies of myself to take care of everyone's needs, and training as well. If you include the women from my homeland, though, it's well above sixty. Why do you want to know?"

Violet cleared her throat and shyly averted her gaze. "J-just curious," she assured, mentally noting that he wouldn't be nearly that popular with the ladies if he didn't know damn well how to please them.

"Want to know something surprising?" Galatea asked, "He was the equivalent to Number 47 of his generation in his homeland. And he grew up ignored and hated. He was sabotaged as well since no one, except for one man, tried to teach him. It was only after he became a warrior that he started to improve."

"The first opponent I fought was comparable to a single digit. Granted, I had my ass handed to me on a silver platter, but I lived… then things got worse from there. And I had to really train my ass off to fight a shady organization that was bent on dominating the world. Each member was a force to be reckoned with - on par with the Abyssal Ones, at least, with a leader that could control gravity, itself, another who could make himself intangible, and another, who could summon meteors bigger around than Rabona. And they almost succeeded in it too. The organization you're working for reminds me of them, to be honest. Though compared to the Akatsuki, the Organization are a bunch of amateurs."

While most of what he said went right over her head, Violet got the gist of it. However, she stared at him in disbelief; there was no way that could be true, but she couldn't detect any indications of falsehood, whatsoever… and that scared her! "They're… dead now, right?" she asked, giving him a nervous look. "They are dead now, right? Right?!"

"...The ones that matter are. Three former members are still alive… well, technically two; one now works in an orphanage, but he wasn't really a part of Akatsuki; another was my friend, and the third is probably busy performing a twisted experiment, somewhere, that would make Dae green with envy. Not quite sure how he's still alive, right now..." Violet and her group all turned a bit pale at that. "But don't worry about it, compared to the others I fought and put down, they're harmless. Well… unless you get on their bad side."

"Honey, you make it sound like you've fought and put down gods," Galatea giggled, "Harmless in comparison to that is not saying much."

"I did fight a god… well, goddess, but, yeah. Nearly got killed by her. Plenty of times. Her powers were such overpowered bullshit! But I couldn't put her down, so I… locked her away." he worded it in a way they could understand. How was he going to explain that he and Sasuke locked Kaguya away in a Chibaku Tensei, that suppressed her chakra until she couldn't even use it, and that said Chibaku Tensei was in another dimension altogether?

"Kinda proving her point, dear," Glissa pointed out with an amused grin.

"....ehhh." he had no idea what to say to refute that. So, he sighed, "Fine. I'll stop. I don't want to make you all feel insecure about your prowess."

"Too late," a pouting Dominique said. She then yelped and giggled when Naruto pulled her into a one-armed hug. The intent was clearly innocent enough, though she couldn't help but notice the heat coming off her cheeks.

"Glissa was Number 45, before awakening," Naruto pointed out. "Now, thanks to the training she's undergone, she's able to take out awakened Single Digits, single-handedly. It's only a matter of time before she's on par with a Number One. Hell, give her enough time and she'll be able to take on an Abyssal. Some of my stronger lovers are actually catching up to Riful, already. Clarice, the 'mud-head' of your generation, can take on the higher-tier double digits and is close to fighting single digits now, and she's one of the more recent additions."

Charlotte's eyes especially lit up at that and Dominique was certainly intrigued. "You didn't use yoki for either of those techniques," Violet said, looking at Glissa and referring to her lightning and earth techniques. "What exactly did you use, then? As an awakened being, you should only be able to use yoki."

"It's an energy called 'chakra', and it's more versatile than yoki though not as… thick?" Glissa answered. "Naruto gave me the ability to use it. By jump-starting something called a chakra system. Apparently, all living creatures have one, we just hadn't discovered it, while the people of Naruto's homeland had.

"I think you mean it's not violent and corrupt, for the first part." Naruto corrected.

"Well, that too," Glissa said with a shrug. "Yoki's thicker, as far as I can tell, making it less malleable. It has its uses, but chakra's far more flexible and easier to use."

"Not to mention there's no risk of awakening, granted Glissa's already awakened, so that's not an issue for her, but still.," Anastasia added, "There is still a risk, though: you can die if you use too much because it's comprised of physical and spiritual energies. So if you run out, then you die. That's not an issue if you keep training, though. The more physical exercise you do, the bigger your chakra pool becomes, and the longer you can use it."

Well if what was said before didn't capture Charlotte's attention what was said now certainly did. "So, when can we start?"

"Once we get back to Morris and I heal your stigma," Naruto replied.

"What about you?" Minerva asked.

"I got some more stops to make. I'll make a clone to take you, girls, back and heal your stigmas while catching you up on the latest events." the blond answered. He looked at Violet and asked, "Do you want to join the rebellion?"

"You didn't have to ask." the woman replied with a nod.

"Alright," Naruto nodded back. "Let get cracking, then!" With that, he formed a familiar single-handed seal and produced a shadow clone as promised. "Grab hold of my clone, and he'll bring you all to Morris." Dominique and Charlotte grabbed hold of the clone. Both taking an arm for themselves. Violet and Minerva put a hand on the clone's shoulder and waited. When they all had a firm grip on him, the shadow clone teleported them all back to Morris in a yellow flash. "Alright, that's two down. Three to go."

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Meanwhile, up in the North, Soleil groaned as she limped on up to the front gate. She was in the nude, as they didn't have an infinite amount of clothes for her and she was going to be transforming to transport her friends, soon. So she didn't want to destroy the set of clothes she was wearing this morning. "Something wrong?" Robin asked as she and several others looked to their leader in concern.

"Nothing major," the former Number 3 chuckled. "I'm just sore from last night. It won't impede my ability to fly or anything, but sitting down is definitely out of the question."

"How was he?" her lieutenant, Lillie asked, out of morbid curiosity.

"Addictive~!" Soleil replied dreamily. "Well hung, too; it's easy to see how he's so popular with the ladies. I didn't know they could get that big!"

"Too much information," one of the men in her mercenary company grunted with a hearty laugh as he chugged down a pint of ale. He was a short, stout, bald man with an impressive, chestnut beard - a relatively recruit by the name of Cervantes.

Soleil playfully stuck her tongue out at him, before readdressing Lillie. "So, how's packing up going along? Everything is done?"

"Yes. We got everything packed up and ready to go. All that's left is... " Lillie jerked a thumb over her shoulder at Northrend castle, where Isley is. "Him. But seeing as you know full well who he is, I think you wouldn't want to piss him off."

"Wouldn't dream of it," Soleil cheerfully assured. "Just came down from talking to him, actually. He wants us to go ahead without him. He's rather quick in his awakened form. By the time we land a ways off from Icecrown, he'll be waiting for us."

"Alright," Jimbo grunted, then he looked at his boss with concern, "are you sure you're willing to transform? You haven't eaten in a while." while he may not know much about awakened beings, Soleil did tell them that her cravings for innards are increased when she's in her monster form.

"I'll be fine for now," she replied with a warm smile, patting the large man's shoulder. "I should be good for a day or two and even if it gets annoying, I can just raid the prison when we get there. Now, then…" she sighed, moving on up to the centre of her group and the belongings they'd packed. "We're heading out. Get ready to tie everything down, I wanna get there as soon as possible." With that, her yoki flared and Soleil's form swiftly changed into the massive, white skeletal dragon her group had been so acquainted with.

"No matter how many times I see that, I'll never get used to it," Jimbo chuckled.

"C'mon you lot," Soleil said, her the joints of her limbs cracking as she stretched them out. Then she laid down on her front and looked at her company, "Let's get everything tied on to me. Then we can finally head out to icecrown."

"Right!" her men cheered, eager to get going.

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A few minutes later, the clone Naruto had sent back with Violet and her group reappeared in the citadel of Morris. Miria was anxiously waiting for them alongside Riful and Tabitha. The clone smiled at his wife and surprised the hell out of her when he teleported beside her in a yellow flash, "Hi, honey!" he cheerfully greeted, before planting his lips on her cheek. "The boss is still out there bringing back the others, so he'll be busy for a bit."

"Shall I fetch someone to get them settled in?" Tabitha asked.

"Please do that," the clone replied with a thankful nod. Then he looked at Miria and added, "The boss wanted me to get their stigmas healed as soon as possible. One of them is particularly eager to start training."

"Alright!" Tabitha chirped, scampering off to get Cynthia.

Naruto chuckled and turned to Miria. "So, how're you doing, this morning?"

"You left without bringing me with you," she replied with a pout.

"You were busy and the Boss wanted to get this done as soon as possible, just in case some of the 'trouble' warriors got themselves into a sticky situation," the clone replied with a chuckle. "Besides, you and little Hilda were having so much fun, it would've been a shame to interrupt."

"...you really did have kids?" a genuinely surprised Violet asked.

"Of course," the clone replied, turning to look at Violet from over the shoulder. "I don't lie about things like that."

"You're not very good at it, anyway," Miria chuckled, " and I suppose I can forgive you for not bringing me with. That was a sweet gesture, after all."

"I get the feeling you want extra snuggles?"

Miria smiled at him. "Maybe…" she then gave him a peck on the cheek. "But I can see that you're busy; I'll leave you alone. So, how many are we expecting?"

"It depends on how many people are with the secret defectors." the clone turned and gestured to Charlotte and Violet, "Those two were with Dominique and Minerva, so they came with. Not to mention with Anastasia and the others spreading the truth to their fellow warriors we can expect a whole lot more." and then the clone addressed Violet and Charlotte directly, "If you're still having doubts about our claims, then I can show you the truth. We have proof that the Organization are the ones making yomas and more."

"It wouldn't hurt," Charlotte replied with a shrug. "I have been having doubts about the Organization… something about the handlers, Dae especially, just rubs me the wrong way… I haven't found any real reason to distrust them, though… not yet, at least."

Violet frowned thoughtfully, "I've heard talk that the Organization has made a new task force. Some believe it's an attempt to regain the trust of the populace since they are to wipe out any yomas and awakened beings they come across without the towns. Some believe it's an attempt to kill you. But, I'm the type that believes what she sees. Not what other people say. But I have been having doubts with the Organization, and I've been doing a little snooping around. So I know that the task force I mentioned before is mostly made up of former Number Ones that surpass the Abyssal Ones. I also know that any towns who refuse to pay the Organization their services after killing the yoma, mysteriously end up being overrun with yoma and awakened beings not long after. I even know you're not from, this 'continent'. But if you have proof, then I would like to see it."

"I can get those files you stole from Staff for them to read," Cynthia chimed in, having overheard them as she walked in, Tabitha in tow. "That has all the proof they will need if they're still having doubts."

"Nice to see you joining us." the clone said, as he gave the two blondes a polite smile. "Doing that would be much appreciated, Cynthia."

The pigtailed blonde smiled cutely, before making a Kage Bunshin who proceeded to go and do just that. Then she turned her attention to the newly arrived women and put her hands on her hips as she gave the four of them a curious look, "And who would these four be?"

"Charlotte, Number 47." the platinum-haired blonde introduced herself.

"Violet, Number 7.," the long, straight-haired woman said next as she gave Cynthia a respectful nod.

"Dominique, Number 18." the Flora look-alike introduced herself next.

"Minerva, Number 24." the straight sandy-blonde haired woman replied with a polite nod of her own.

"I am Cynthia, formerly the Number 14." the pigtailed blonde politely introduced herself with a respectful bow and a smile. Then her smile became… threatening. "If you hurt him, I will hurt you. Understand?"

While the new arrivals. began sweat nervously, the clone beside Miria and Riful gave the two-piece leotard garbed woman a flat look. Then he went over and gave her a swat on the ass, drawing a startled squawk from her. "Bad girl,"

"B-but Naruto-ah!" Cynthia's attempt to defend herself was interrupted by the clone giving her another swat on the butt.

"No. I don't want there to be any threats. We want them to join our site, not the opposite."

Dominique instantly turned beet red when she heard the first swat and was now fidgeting at the sight of this clone 'disciplining' the former Number 14. Miria gave her a flat look, knowing damn well what was going through her mind. The Number 18 apparently had herself a spanking fetish… either that or a domination fetish? Maybe one for being disciplined? It was hard to tell, just yet, but Dominique's body language spoke volumes.

"Okay! No threats!" Cynthia quickly said just as the clone brought his hand up for another swat. He brought it back down, but instead of another spanking like Cynthia was expecting, he instead grabbed a handful of her ass-flesh and started to knead it.

"Good girl," the clone said soothingly. Cynthia blushed and leaned against him, nuzzling the clone as she wrapped her arms around his waist. Naruto chuckled and hugged her close.

With that display of affection… and dominance out of the way, a blushing Violet looked at Dominique and Minerva. "So you were a part of this faction? Since when?"

"Since he inadvertently saved us from having to fight over ten awakened beings that were in the Dragonspine mountains. After that, he showed us proof of what the organization was doing for centuries. That happened around a year and a few months ago, we've been trying and succeeding to spread the word what the Organization has been doing ever since."

"It's only a matter of time before the Organization does another purge. Apart from trying to stop the awakened beings from flooding into the other regions, that is what Pieta was: a purge." the clone added. "They deliberately populated the entire task force with troublemakers and women who asked too many awkward questions, and since they were fighting the Abyssal One of the North they weren't expecting anyone to survive. Let alone having me show up there."

"I got the proof!" the clone of Cynthia announced, hugging a few books and documents to her chest. She then handed them to the clone of Naruto, and after giving him a peck on the cheek, dispelled herself.

"The most important stuff you may want to know is in here," Naruto said, handing Violet and Charlotte the books and documents. He then turned to Cynthia and said, "find them a room so they can read those without any distractions, okay, dear?"

You got it," the former Number 14 chirped. "Come along you two," she beckoned Violet and Charlotte to follow her.

----

While Dominique, Minerva, Violet and Charlotte were in Morris, the real Naruto was in the middle of another search with his group. Of course, the one they were looking for was in the South and what was more, bandits and yomas were running rampant there. After a while of tracking the woman they were after, Naruto's group came across a large group of yoma - all of whom were grotesquely cut to pieces and had arrow butts sticking out of various points of their bodies. There was a lot of human bodies among them though. Bandits, from the looks of it. The blood from the humans was brown, while the blood from the yoma was a darkish purple. It seems they were here for a few days.

Naruto got down on one knee and looked at the ground closely. "What are you doing?" Anastasia asked.

"Looking for footprints," he answered; then he spotted a pair that was unique only to hybrids: sabatons. He went crouched walked over and took a closer look. "And it looks like one of your fellow hybrids was here. The tracks are a few hours old too."

Interested, Galatea leaned over and looked at the footprints he found, "That is a footprint from the sabatons we use to wear when we were a part of the Organization, but what makes you think it's a few hours old?"

"The grass." he answered, "take a look at the grass inside the footprint," Frowning but nonetheless intrigued, Galatea did as he asked. After a moment she exhaled and shook her head. She couldn't see anything different about it.

"I don't see anything different," she admitted.

Naruto chuckled, "I'm not surprised. Tracking humans are different from animals, but it's basically the same thing. The grass blades in this footprint is a different colour where it's bent; that happens when the tracks are a few hours old. And thanks to the woman we're here for wearing plated boots, it's a fairly deep footprint, so it's more noticeable."

"I didn't know you can track down animals," Dietrich said in surprise. Though the art came naturally to her, she was still impressed.

"I was taught on my training trip with Jiraiya-Sensei. He was a travelling hermit after all, and a lot of the times we had to live off of the land. It comes in handy once in a while. Again, tracking humans is a lot different from tracking animals but it's basically the same thing."

The petite hybrid nodded thoughtfully. It made sense. "So, where to from here? Are we heading northeast?"

"The tracks are heading in that direction, so yes… unless you two want to say otherwise?" Naruto said, looking to Galatea and Renee at the last part. They could track the woman better than anyone here thanks to their wide-range yoki sensing after all.

"There seems to be another warrior about 200 meters to the west," Renee pointed out. "There's about three to the northeast, as well. The closest is around 150 meters away, close to that waterfall over there… probably taking a bath."

"So… that's five in the vicinity of us," Naruto said aloud. "In that case, give me a moment, I'll see who of those five has the seal."

"How?" Tesla asked.

Naruto let out an exasperated sigh, "As I mentioned before: the seals act as a beacon for me. Give me a moment and I'll be able to tell which of the five has the seal."

"...why don't you go for the one that's closest to us?" Dietrich suggested.

Her suggestion got everyone to look at her with curiosity. "I'm not being rude or anything, but why should we?" Tesla asked.

"If the closest one is bathing," Galatea giggled impishly. "That means we can get the drop on her. If she's the one that has the seal Naruto has on all of us, then all the better. If it's not, then maybe - hopefully - she is one of the people Anastasia has spread the rumours to."

"You should totally boink her," Glissa giggled as well, a lewd grin on her face. "It would be so hot - going at it from behind, naked it the woods, like nature intended~!" She shuddered pleasantly at the mental image. Then, the brunette let out a yelp and another giggle when Naruto spanked her.

"Naughty!" he scolded playfully.

"Would you have me any other way~?"

There was another smack and yelp. "Please don't do that here… not around these corpses." Letitia pleaded.

"Ah, right, forgot about those for a moment," Glissa replied sheepishly.

A sheepish Naruto bashfully rubbed the back of his head. He forgot about them too. Though the metallic smell of blood was pungent. "Right, let's go and see if the one bathing is part of our faction. If not, then we can hopefully sneak away."

The others nodded in agreement and they were off. It hadn't taken them long to get to the waterfall - using a combination of Shunshin and tree-hopping, as Anastasia's flight technique required setup time. When they got to the waterfall Dietrich pointed out, they discovered that it was indeed occupied. And that the person was indeed bathing. The person in question is a young woman with chin-length, near platinum-blonde hair with short bangs swept to the left and two fringes that frame her face. She was naked as well. Thankfully, the woman didn't know they were there as she had her back to them. And they were also hiding behind some trees and shrubbery. It helped the group was suppressing their yoki as well, so that made them even more challenging to find sensory-wise. "...She's not one of ours." Naruto murmured to the others. "Does anyone know who she is?"

"That's Dust Cloud Abigail," Anastasia pointed out. "She was the current Number 8, last I heard. My disappearance may have changed that, depending on whether or not the Organization's been made aware of it."

"Why 'Dust Cloud' Abigail?" Naruto asked. "Does her attacks usually revolve around being in sand storms, or something?"

"She tends to bring a bag of sand or dirt with her and likes using it to blind people," the former Number 7 explained.

"...that's less flashy than I thought it would be." an underwhelmed Naruto said. He thought her attacks would destroy the ground, and Abigail would use the dust cloud as cover to attack from multiple angles. Or, she would turn anything around her into dust and use it to blind her opponents, before going in for the kill. Well, he wasn't going to judge someone on their methods. He was trained to fight dirty so he can respect Abigail's tactics if nothing else. Then he beckoned the others to follow him, "We should go before she notices she's being watched,"

"I think she already does," Galatea muttered. "She's blushing and trying to hide her amusement."

Stopping himself from moving before it actually happened, Naruto looked at his wife, blinked twice, then looked at Abigail cautiously. "...we're not talking that loud are we?"

"Not at all," Anastasia replied. "One does not become a single-digit by fighting dirty, alone. I think she sensed our approach."

Dietrich and Glissa looked a bit sheepish at that. Of all the ladies here, they were the worst at hiding their yoki and they knew it - the latter, especially. If it was because she sensed them and somehow connected the dots, then they were the most likely to be to blame. Then again, Naruto had a lot of yoki in him too; even if he suppressed it, he was still emitting a ton of the stuff. Any hybrid or awakened beings would have been able to sense him if they focused enough. Riful explained it to him six years ago, back in Pieta. Or she explained it in a more detailed way, but, it's been a near-decade ago that he majorly forgot what it was about but the gist was the same. Abigail could have sensed him out of everyone else.

"Spying on an innocent maiden while she's bathing," the woman in question called out. "How naughty of you, Ladykiller~!" She turned, towards the direction he was hiding in and grinned. "Then again, judging by your reputation, it would seem that I won't be 'innocent' for long."

Naruto blinked owlishly and looked at the others for instructions. All of them shrugged, except for Glissa. The awakened being in question giggled impishly and said, "go on; we all know you want to~!"

"Uh…" Naruto blinked again, before shrugging and addressing Abigail. "T-to be fair there was a large pile of bodies, both human and yoma, not that far from here. I just came here to see if you knew who was behind that because you are the closest warrior to it."

Abigail giggled in amusement, not buying a word of it. "You do know those corpses are several days old, no? Why would you think I'd know?"

He was tempted to shrug, then again, she couldn't see him. "I do know they're several days old. And footprints are belonging to a claymore that's at least a few hours old. Maybe you were here for the past few days? Or were there recently? I dunno. Asking you what happened back there was worth a shot."

"All I know is that the two groups killed each other off," Abigail answered with an uncaring shrug. "I don't know, nor care if there are any survivors. If there were, then they are probably dead by now. The yoma would have been taken out by any warriors in the vicinity, and the humans would have bled out long before they got to any towns."

"That's pretty heartless," Naruto pointed out.

Abigail shrugged again. "I'm told to not to harm humans. The Organization never said I had to save them, and I have no empathy for bandits."

While some would call her attitude harsh, Naruto couldn't say he blamed her. The bitterness she tried to hide spoke volumes. Though he wasn't sure exactly as to why she felt that way, there were several possibilities - all of which were bound to be tender subjects, to he decided it best not to pry. Hell, if she had found any survivors on either side, it seemed like she'd kill them off herself and get away with it. "Fair enough," the blond relented with a shrug. "I take it you're not going to try and, uh, y'know… attack me or anything right? I know that the Organization has painted me in a bad light."

"If I was, I'd be ready for a fight, would I not?" she asked, before giving him an unsettling grin, lewdly presenting herself and teasingly adding, "unless, of course, I was intending to seduce you into taking my innocence and impregnating me, as you are rumoured to be capable of, before snapping your neck."

Chuckling, Naruto put an arm out to stop the others from murdering the woman. Then he winked at them before stepping out of the foliage and into the open. "If you did that, then you would have a bigger problem on your hands."

Abigail smiled at him. "Oh, I know," she chirped. "Your awakened lover would likely flay the skin off my back. I could probably take her from the feel of it, but it the rumours that you teach your little… collection how to use magic from a faraway land are true, that may not be the case."

"Well, that… and the mountain-sized, demonic nine-tailed fox that would be released upon my death. But mostly the latter." he told her with a shrug; then he came to a stop a foot away from the small lake and said, "And you wouldn't get pregnant, anyway. Not with your stigma still on you."

"Oh! So you really can heal it then?" Her eyes lit up, having heard the rumours, but didn't believe them. This was her chance to see if those rumours were true! "I heard the rumours from Keria, and Phina who heard about it from Anastasia and Dominique; but I thought those were just rumours!"

"Those rumours are true," Naruto told her with a sheepish chuckle. "Hybrids are fertile again after I heal their 'unhealable' scar. Why? Are you going to ask me to heal it? Because if you are, then you would have to defect from the Organization. I wouldn't want you to get cut open by that Dae guy once he finds out you're healed, and dissected try to find a way to replicate it."

"I would have been fine with just keeping it a secret until you destroyed the Organization," she pointed out. "But that's a nice alternative - being whisked away by a strapping, young man and bearing him no less than three sons after he has his way with me in the woods, right in front of the other women he's claimed~!" Abigail sighed dreamily at the thought, her cheeks going bright and she squirmed about and giggled like a horny teen.

"Well… you're certainly an attractive gal. I'll give you that." Naruto chuckled, reaching back to rub at the back of his head with a sheepish grin. "Adorable, too… But, if you want, I can have my way with you, right after I take care of that stigma of yours. That is if you want… not sure how long it'll take to get three sons, but I'm certainly willing to try."

Abigail grinned and turned to face him completely. With her crudely stitched shut stigma on full display before him, Naruto could see her stitching was a little more… recent. He guessed that she must have been in a recent scuffle or something and it got her stitching damaged enough for her to manually close it back up. She saw him looking at her stitching, but didn't care and walked out of the lake with swaying hips. "Well, What're you waiting for?" She cooed eagerly, spreading her arms as if inviting him to hug her. "Come here, so we can get started~!"

"FUCK HER ALREADY!" an eagerly awaiting Glissa yelled from the bushes.

Abigail blinked and leaned to the side to look past him. "...was that Glissa?" Hadn't she disappeared in the North, with Pyrrha and Megan following shortly after? The soon-to-be-former Number 8 had thought she was dead. But, if Glissa was alive did that mean Pyrrha and Megan were alive as well?

Naruto exhaled as he pinched the bridge of his nose. Though he had a fond smile on his face as he said, "Yep. That's Glissa." then he brought the pinching hand in front of him, and Abigail stared as his yoki spiked. A bubbling, crimson aura enveloped his hand. "Remind me to give her a spanking, later."

"Why later? Give it to her now~!"

"Tempting, but I'd rather heal you, first," he said, then Naruto gestured to Abigail to raise her head. "I need to start at the base of your neck, and work my way down."

"What about the stitches? Won't they be grafted onto my skin?"

Naruto shook his head. "Nope. They will be burned off; my friend's yoki is very potent and corrosive, but it won't hurt you. The way this works is that I am going to be pumping his yoki into you and kicking off a kind of forced regeneration using your own abilities in combination with his. Everyone I used it on felt good. One or two of them even orgasmed from it." He chuckled at the memories and could practically feel poor Dietrich blushing from here. Abigail eyeballed his hand in contemplation for a moment, before nodding and raising her head to let him heal her up. Naruto went to press his fingers against the start of her scar, only to pause momentarily to say, "Don't move," The near-platinum blonde gasped in surprise and pleasure as she felt a pleasant, warm tingling right where her stigma started. And as he began to drag his hand down along her body, Abigail couldn't help but look down, and then she couldn't believe her eyes! Her stigma, her scar, and the stitches that were holding it close was vanishing before her very eyes! When he was halfway down, the woman couldn't help but curiously feel the area he already covered. Her skin was soft and flawless… and also wet. The only proof that her stigma had ever existed was the faint, fading tingle left in Naruto's wake. Naruto didn't get to say a word when he was finally done before he felt the woman's hands on his trousers. She grinned at him and gave the blond a peck on the forehead, before saying, "now, where were we…?" Her eyes lit up as she looked over to the tree line and her smile widened. "Ah, yes, you were going to give a certain, naughty woman a little spanking~!"

Naruto nervously sucked in his bottom lip. She didn't know that Glissa, Megan or Pyrrha had awakened yet. He'll have to tell her that now, "Remember that awakened being you detected?" Abigail looked at him in confusion at first, then her eyes widened in realization. "That is Glissa. She, along with two others from your generation by the names of Pyrrha and Megan, had awakened, soon after being sent into the field. They joined up with the former Number 2 of Roxanne's generation, Evianna, before I met them."

"Ah, I see…" Abigail sighed. "We were in the same training group, back in Staff, though we didn't know each other much. But, seeing as how you took Riful of the fucking West as one of your first lovers, I'm not surprised that you'd add a few more awakened beings to that list. It would explain why all those bandit camps keep disappearing."

"Well on the bright side of things, they don't have to go around and kill innocent people anymore. We also found a way to grow some artificial innards for all the awakened beings in Morris to eat, using that 'magic from a faraway land', as you called it." then Naruto grinned and looked over his shoulder and called, "Girls! Get down here!"

A few of them giggled as the little team of seven revealed themselves and hopped down into the clearing. Abigail grew wide-eyed, recognising many that were there. "Dietrich! Renee! I thought you two were dead!" She turned to Galatea, Tesla, Anastasia and Letitia; the last three she recognised. The first, she heard about. "Oh, my, someone's been busy! I take it Alicia and Beth were also claimed?"

"Not immediately, but yeah," Naruto chuckled. "You'd be surprised by how cute those two can be when they want to. Their cluelessness when it came to showing affection was so damn adorable~!"

"Alicia can transform into an awakened being thanks to the Soul Link experiment, the Organization was - and probably still is - working on. And Naruto fucked her while she was an awakened being." Galatea added impishly.

"What can I say? Alicia is damn sexy like that." Naruto chuckled. "So is Glissa, actually. She and I have gone at it more times with her in her awakened form than not, I think."

"Only one or two times more, but yeah," the former Number 45 giggled with a heavy blush. "You fucking my ass into the mattress in my awakened form just feels so good~!"

"Noted…" Abigail muttered, unsure how to react to that reveal. It struck her as being odd as all hell but to each their own. She then turned to Naruto, her expression morphing into a naughty grin. "In either case, I don't mind the audience~!"

"A certain someone does still need a spanking though~." Naruto reminded her with a sly grin of his own. "...as well as a few others, now that I think about it." he could remember Anastasia, Letitia and Tesla feeling envious when he didn't show them any affection before they found those bodies. And he can feel their envy even now. Especially from Dominique! "I think it's high time to give a few ladies some much-needed attention~! Strip down if you want to as well."

"I'd prefer doing it clothed," Glissa said with a grin lewd "Makes it feel more like you're dominating me - like you're making me your bitch against my will and giving me an unwanted bastard like Shiro did to all those women in that story you wrote~!"

"Icha Icha: Conquest?" he grinned knowingly. Dietrich began to shuffle in place as she remembered how Karui got her into that book. That character, the stable girl Reiko, looked so damn much like her! They shared much of the same personalities and even the same hairstyle, too; seriously, the resemblance was almost creepy!

"Yup~!"

Naruto chuckled again, taking mental notes. "Well, I certainly wouldn't mind having my way with the freelance mercenary who was sent to kill me and showing the bitch her place~!" Glissa shuddered in lustful approval at that. Meanwhile, Galatea rolled her eyes in amusement and giggled as Naruto ripped a yelp from the awakened brunette with a swat on the rear. Said brunette giggled and gave her booty a little shake for him.

"I take it you write books then?" Abigail asked Naruto with a quirked eyebrow.

"Yep. I'm writing a new one actually, loosely based on the legend St. Nymphetamina," he said, much to the surprise of everyone. "It takes place shortly after she fucked the 'One-Eyed Beast of a Thousand Writhing Dicks' to death. It features Sistina the Divine Oracle, who is a prominent figure in the book the same as St. Nympetamina, as well as Cassandra the Dust Eater, Roxanne of Love and Hate, and Miranda all of whom are claymores like yourselves."

: I've actually heard many a rumour that St. Nymphetamina was brought back from the dead to seduce and kill you," Abigail pointed out. "She's a member of this so-called 'Crimson Guard', is she not?"

"Her real name is actually Neideen," Naruto pointed out. "She was Number 9, back in Cassandra's generation. It turns out the 'monster' in the legend was just an awakened being with a fuck ton of tentacles. Her nickname is Neideen the Naughty… because she's so damn perverted. And as for the Crimson Guard? There's 15 warriors in the task force, excluding their captain - the former Number 10 of this generation, Raftela - and the majority of them are former Number Ones. I met them all and after a lengthy discussion, I got them on my side."

"Oh my~! You really are a Ladykiller~!" Abigail giggled.

To the amusement of Galatea, Renee, Dietrich, Glissa, Tesla and Letitia, the blond buried his face into his hands and groaned in dismay. "I really don't like that nickname."

"I kinda like it," Abigail pointed out. "It makes you sound like a stud~!"

"A lot of people seem to think I'm a womanizer because of it." he dragged his hands down his face and exhaled exasperatedly, "As much as I hate the nickname, though, I have to admit that it brought me some good things… like several of my wives."

"Oh, don't let them get to you, dear," Galatea cooed. "We know you're a sweet, loving man; that's what matters."

"Yeah, that's true," Naruto relented with a warm smile. Then he gave the former Number 3 a leering grin, "You certainly love my 'loving', don't you honey~?" he teased.

"We all do~!" Galatea giggled.

"I'm surprised though," Glissa said.

"About what?" Naruto asked her.

The dark-haired elf-eared awakened tapped the corner of her mouth. "Abigail is there in front of you. Stark naked. Her hands-on the waistline of your trousers. And you're ignoring her."

"Indeed," the woman in question sighed in mock disappointment, "I even offered to bear your children. Oh, whatever will I do?"

"To be fair, we got distracted." Naruto pointed out, though he gave the naked woman in front of him a swat on the buttocks. "And we're in a hurry… but…" then he looked at the others and asked them, "if you want, we can 'take a little break' here."

"You still owe me a spanking," Glissa giggled. "Also, my peers want a piece of you~!"

"We can even use this to give you some… tasteful ideas for a new book." Galatea added with a lustful lick of her lips. "Why the idea of you having your way with a freelance mercenary sounds like a riveting idea!"

"Let's spice things up a little," Naruto suggested since Glissa liked the idea of her being a part of a mercenary group he wanted to add to it. "you're all part a mercenary group, you find a young man spying on you all bathing, and after capturing him you all decide to have your way with him. How does that sound?"

"I for one like that idea~!" Galatea purred.

"I was hoping you'd have your way with me," Glissa mock wined, before letting out a little giggle.

"That is what improvising is for~." Naruto teased her. "Who's to say I won't get the upper hand and start having my way with you?"

"Looks like I'm on 'guard duty', then," Glissa chirped. She looked at Abigail and added, "The best thing about our man is that he likes to spice things up~!" then she pecked him on the cheek and separated from the others. "I'll go on 'guard duty'... I hope a certain stud won't attack me from behind~." she chirped suggestively with an extra sway to her hips.

"If you ladies want, you can 'bathe' with Abigail." said woman shuddered as she felt his wandering hands exploring her body without restriction.

"I'm certainly not opposed to that," Anastasia chirped with a grin, Tesla and Letitia showing interest, as well.

Abigail whined when he stopped exploring her body; Naruto chuckled and ruffled her hair much like a parent would do to a child, which caused her to blush. Then the blond looked to Anastasia, Tesla, and Letitia and surprised Anastasia and Letitia by cupping their groins, Then he pressed his lips against Tesla's and overpowered her mouth with his in a dominant kiss. All the while drawing pathetic mewls from Anastasia and Letitia as he rubbed at their crotches. Then he withdrew from the three women, and as he walked off in the direction Glissa went Naruto gave Renee a harsh swat on the buttocks. "Get naked you lot and get to bathing with Abi! Or, if you want, find yourselves a role you'd like to take in this roleplay."

Galatea, Renee and Dietrich, meanwhile, looked eager to join in as well. The petite tracker stood on the other side of the lake, opting to take on a guarding position while the other two stripped down. Meanwhile, with Naruto and Glissa, they were watching the others from the shrubbery. Galatea, Renee and Anastasia were stripping down and joined Abigail in the lake. Tesla and Letitia joined the petite tracker in guard duty.

"Well, it looks like you have three others who are joining in guard duty," Naruto said.

"It seems so." the dark-haired woman replied. Then she let out a perverted giggle, "if we play our cards right, we could have three more guards coming out here to investigate… and fall to your wiles~!"

Naruto chuckled warmly and gave his girl a peck on the cheek. "Let's get this roleplay started. I'll be sneaking up behind you. So act naturally, okay?"

"Alright~!" Once everybody was ready and in position, the role play commenced.

----

Naruto leaned out from behind the tree he was hiding behind. He saw Glissa leaning against the tree in front of him, keeping watch on the clearing in front of her. Thankfully she had her back to him. Grinning evilly, Naruto snuck up behind her and pounced. Though she could hear and smell her mate nearby, he still managed to catch her by surprise as he put a hand over her mouth and forcibly pulled her back into the treeline, drawing a muffled yelp from the brunette.

"Did you hear that?" Dietrich asked, standing up and looking around.

"It's probably some kind of animal," Tesla said dismissively. "Squirrels and several types of birds are common around here."

"Well, hello, there, cutie~!" Naruto whispered into Glissa's ear. He drew a frightful shudder from his captive as she felt his free hand tracing circles around her abdomen. "I must ask: what is such a delicious, little collection of beauties doing in a place like this, so far away from civilization?"

Her answer was muffled, but Naruto could distinctly hear her say, "Go fuck yourself!"

Moving the hand holding her to him on down, the blond caressed Glissa's folds through her leotard and drew a shudder from the brunette. "I think I'd rather fuck you~!" he said. Upon hearing her squirm and mewl, he licked her earlobe and asked, "you like that idea, don't you~?"

It took every ounce of the brunette's self-control not to say yes. "Eat shit and die, you creep," was her muffled, growling response. She gasped at the feel of something poking her rear.

"You can deny it all you want; I know your dirty, little cunt wants it~!" he growled lustfully into her ear. He drew a startled squawk from her as his fingers began to dig into her folds through the fabric of her leotard. The blond chuckled mockingly as he felt her juices seeping through the fabric, "See? You're dripping wet down here!"

Glissa whimpered again, trying to force herself out of his grip. "L-let go of me or I… I will f-fucking eat you~!" The brunette growled as best she could, giving him the best glare she was able to muster, her eyes turning gold with black sclera. Naruto recoiled in surprise. His grip on her had loosened from the sudden change of her eyes and her declaration. That was what Glissa was waiting for and she shoved against him. Intending to knock him down on his ass and get out of there. Confident in her abilities she maybe, but there was safety in numbers. Unfortunately for her, while her shove did knock him down on his ass, his grasp on her was still firm and she ended up going down with him.

Flat on his back with Glissa atop him, Naruto grunted as she began to struggle. Her yoki made her thrashing stronger. But at the same time, feeling his erection, wiggling against her butt while she moved, made her thrashing weaker than she intended to be. Getting annoyed at her constant thrashing, the blond did something that made her squawk indignantly and stop her annoying squirming. He spanked her. Hard. When she froze in surprise, Naruto used that opportunity to throw himself around and put Glissa underneath him. Pinning her down with his body atop hers, he made sure the brunette could feel every single inch of his erection being pressed between her buttcheeks. She shuddered, her golden with black sclera eyes widening in shock at the sheer size of the damn thing!

"If you surrender… I'll make sure you enjoy your 'first time'." Being the mother of his daughter, Lyesse, Glissa was far from innocent, but that was neither here nor there; besides, Naruto imagined Glissa would enjoy the fantasy. He wasn't wrong, either. He subtly undid his trousers and fished his out his erection from its confinements. "What do you say?" Of course, if she happened to refuse… well, he can easily move her leotard out of the way and fuck her right there.

The brunette growled, taking a deep breath and attempting to yell for help, only for Naruto to see it coming a mile away and muffle her scream. With her decision made, the blond reached down and pulled her leotard to the side. Then he impaled her upon his mighty bitch-breaker. Glissa wailed into his palm, her black and gold eyes rolling back into her skull, as she came right then and there. Naruto grunted at the feel of her hot, sopping inner walls clamping down upon him. Then he started thrusting into the pointy-eared brunette, claiming her cootch like a dog would a bitch.

"Once I'm done with you, I'm going to move on to those other bitches." he growled huskily, leaning down to lick and nibble at her ear, "I'm going to fuck them all, one by one and there's nothing you can do to stop it~!"

Glissa's inner walls clamped down on his thrusting dick at that declaration. "Y-you bastard," she mewled. She then squawked at the swat Naruto delivered to her rear, before doubling his pace as he pulled the brunette's nice ass towards his crotch with every thrust.

"Yes, I am a bastard," he growled, giving her nice ass another swat that made her inner walls clench around his thrusting cock even tighter. "And you're a little slut. Your outfit is practically saying you're one!" he swatted her again, and groaned as her vaginal walls clenched around his shaft once more. "You enjoy having me dominate you, just like a slut would!"

"Y-you're w-wrong~!" she mewled pathetically.

Naruto uncovered her mouth and pressed his lips to hers, overwhelming the brunette's defences as he shoved his tongue into her mouth. After what felt like several minutes, the blond withdrew, drawing a trail of saliva from both their tongues. "If I'm wrong, t-then how come you're not fighting b-back?" Glissa's inner walls clamped down on him once more, nearly sending him over the edge, though he resisted. "Fuck, your cunt is practically milking me! You want me to blow my load inside you, don't you?"

"N-no!" she growled, trying and succeeding to give him her best, vicious snarl as she tried to fight back. "I-I don't want your filthy seed tainting me! D-don't you f-fucking dare!"

"What are you going to do about it?" he taunted, attempting to give Glissa an idea or two for her to fight back. He did want to keep the roleplay interesting after all and allow his girl a chance to fight back. "Force me on my back and try to put me in my place? Use more of this strange power of yours on me? I would love to see you try."

Taking that as a suggestion to transform, Glissa roared in exertion as her dark, luscious mane twisted and morphed into a writhing, pitch-black mass of cord-like tentacles, her skin turned green and her limbs were coated in otherworldly, somehow-fleshy golden plates with razor-sharp claws on her hands and feet. With her new-found strength in this form, Glissa growled viciously and pushed herself off the ground and on top of Naruto. Now straddling him, the awakened Glissa looked down at the blond from over the shoulder, before she turned around - without taking his dick out of her snatch - and pinned him beneath her like a vengeful goddess. If he thought she looked damn sexy in her clothes before, the way her outfit hugged her body now looked so damn beautiful!

Glissa was expecting Naruto to be shaking in his boots at her transformation. To be afraid, and pleading for her to not kill him. Instead, she got… "I thought you were cute before, but now? Now you look gorgeous!" ...complemented.

Glissa's golden eyes glowed with outrage, "Shut the fuck up, you son of a bitch! By the time I'm done with you, you'll be nothing more than a pile of sh-ah!!" her monologue fueled rant was cut short when Naruto gave her nice ass one of the harshest spanks she ever had so far. In reflex her snatch clamped down on his dick so fucking tight, it was like he was having the life squeezed out of him!

"Glissa? Was that you?" Dietrich called out.

Said brunette looked up upon hearing her colleague's voice, only for Naruto to grin evilly and take advantage of the distraction. He placed his hands on her hips and flipped them over so that he was on top, hugged her close to pin her arms to her sides and then started ploughing the brunette within an inch of her life.

"Oh, would you look at that," Naruto whispered into her ear. "You've gone and got the attention of the others. Looks like I'll have to finish up quickly by giving you a reason to scream~!" Again, her pussy squeezed him, milking the young man for his seed as Glissa shuddered lustfully.

She tried to keep her voice in. She didn't want to give this fucking bastard the satisfaction of hearing her scream! She also wanted to prevent the others from becoming victims of this scumbag! Unfortunately, the deep pussy-pounding she was being given was too much for her to handle and she sang like a canary.

"OH FUCK!" She howled, throwing her head and surrendering herself to this young man's wiles. "OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK!" She wailed as a mind-numbing orgasm hit her like a ton of bricks, wracking her awakened body as her toes curled at its sheer force. It had been too long since the last time they were able to cut loose like this!

Naruto grunted at the feel of her fluttering cootch practically sucking his dick. He simply couldn't take it anymore! "F-Fuck, I'm gonna cum!" Naruto shouted, "I'm gonna blow my load right inside you~!"

Glissa frantically shook her head, squeezing her eyes shut and biting her lip.

"HERE IT COMES!"

"NO! IT'S NOT SAFE! P-PLEEEASE~!"

Glissa wailed that last word in orgasmic bliss as Naruto slammed as deep as he could reach within her, poking his dick past her cervix and blasting a massive torrent of his hot jizz directly into her little baby box. The former Number 45 gasped and mewled with every spurt as he bucked his hips to ensure that his seed was planted as deep within his awakened bitch as possible.

"GLISSA?!" an alarmed Dietrich cried out. "ARE YOU OKAY?! HANG ON I'M COMING!!" Footsteps could be heard approaching their vicinity.

"Wait!" Tesla cried, prompting the petite tracker to stop, " We'll come with you!"

"No!" Dietrich growled. "We can't risk the others getting caught unawares! I'll go alone!"

Grinning Naruto looked down at the heavily blushing Glissa and grinned menacingly, "Looks like I got another bitch to tame…" then he withdrew from her snatch and made to hide. He paused momentarily before giving his awakened wife a quick kiss on the lips, "Nice acting by the way," he whispered as he withdrew; then he went and hid from Dietrich.

Glissa giggled and gave him a peck on the cheek as he got off her. Then, she plopped back down, curled up into a ball and pretended to cry as she reverted back to her human form. Now that he was hidden away Naruto waited for the petite tracker to make her appearance. And barely a minute later, the woman in question leapt into the treeline and gasped appallingly at the state she found Glissa in.

"Glissa!" she cried out, darting over to her. She knelt down beside the sobbing woman and tried to get her attention. "Glissa, what happened? Who did this to you?!" she demanded while looking around her for anyone that may be hiding.

"Th-the son of a bitch…" Glissa sobbed. "He snuck up on me like a fucking coward and… and h-had his way with me!"

"What?!" Dietrich growled viciously and looked around again, "Where did he go? I'll track his ass down and drag him here!"

"I-I don't know… h-he just left a minute ago, over there." Glissa sobbed and pointed in the direction Naruto left.

The petite tracker looked in the direction the awakened woman pointed at and nodded. "Alright, I'll be back before you know it," she told her, then she got up and stalked on over there. She has a bitch to kill.

Unknown to her, at least at first, Naruto was hiding a few trees away. She paused and looked around her surroundings suspiciously when the sound of a twig snapping reached her ears. And she knew where it came from. Clenching her fist with righteous fury, the tracker carefully snuck her way over to the tree the sound came from… and stepped past the edge with a raised fist! Only… there was no one there.

"What the…?" rightfully confused, Dietrich lowered her arm and looked to her left and right. She never noticed Naruto sneaking up behind her until it was too late.

"Gotcha!" he grinned viciously. The blond covered her mouth to keep her from crying out, and held her to him with his other arm. He leaned towards her ear and broke character for a moment to ask, "Dietrich, since you're pretty similar to Reiko from Conquest, do you want me to take you similarly? Or do something else?" he uncovered her mouth to let her answer. Her only reply was a lustful shudder as a hot shiver ran up her spine. Naruto chuckled, going right back into character as he licked her earlobe. "Well, well, what do we have here? A cute, little oppai-loli~?"

Dietrich shuddered once more but expertly disguised it as a fierce growl, "I'm not little, nor am I a loli!" she looked up at him with a snarled and added, "You're going to pay for what you did to Glissa!"

"Oh, I think I'm about to be rewarded for it~!" he shot back with an infuriatingly smug grin, "I have you here, after all…" he began to explore her body with his hand that held her to him, "Such an adorable, little catch, too, I must say~!" Dietrich mewled and whimpered as she tried to get herself free of his clutches. But, his roaming hand proved too stimulating as her knees nearly buckled the instant he grabbed and pinched her left nipple. "Oh? Where's your fire from earlier? Don't quit my adorable, little oppai-loli; I want to see you squirm against the inevitable~!"

Dietrich blushed heavily and shuddered at his words, so tempted to just give herself to him right there. But her man wanted to see her squirm, so she did her damnedest to do just that. After all, if this was the real thing, she would do her damned best to get out of the perverted bastard's slimy hands. Giving the best snarl and most valiant attempt she could muster without her yoki, Dietrich fought back against his grip, squirming and thrashing with all her might.

Naruto smiled in approval, hiding it behind an evil grin. "That's it, struggle against the inevitable; but if this is all you can do, I'd might as well fuck your brains out right here and now. That pointy-eared bitch transformed into some kinda demon, and I still had my way with her." her struggles became more ferocious at that; prompting Naruto to try and restrain her arms to her sides when she tried to drive her elbow into his side.

She was trembling with rage at this point. "You! You motherfucker!" she spat with as much hatred she could put into her voice. "I'll kill you!" he took hold of her bicep and restrained the arm, she pulled against his grip with a low, dog-like growl. "I'll fucking rip your dick off and leave you to bleed out in a fucking ditch!" when he took hold of her other bicep, she suddenly leaned forward pulling her arms down with her and pushed her rear against his groin. She was trying to make him go off balance. To bend down with her that way she could try and trip him up. "I fucking swear it!"

While he was disturbed at the graphical description on what she would do, Naruto hid it behind an arrogant grin. "Ooh! Feisty~!" he leaned down and licked her ear, before trailing his tongue down to her earlobe and nibbled it playfully. "I like it when my girls are feisty. It makes them so… satisfying to break!"

Naruto shouted that last word as he tossed the petite tracker to the ground. She quickly braced herself on her hands and knees and made to get up. Only for her to be shoved back down; Dietrich grunted as her arms buckled under the force of his push. Ultimately, she ended up having the side of her face pressed against the ground with her butt raised in the air. Almost as if she were presenting herself to be taken like a dog. While she wore a black leather jerkin with greaves and bracers, with some padded leather for some extra protection, the petite tracker wore a reasonably long skirt, with a slit on the side. It gave her added mobility but was reasonable enough to keep her decent. It was a surprisingly modest outfit for such a wild young woman… Now that Naruto thought about it, he'd rarely seen her in anything particularly naughty, despite how she was in bed. He knew she was one of the naughtier women in his family, a closet pervert too, who likes to be dominated and treated like a sex toy… a bit like Riful if he had to admit.

Reaching down with his other hand, as he was pressing down on her back to keep her from getting up, Naruto slipped a hand under her skirt and chuckled menacingly when he felt her bare, sopping lower lips underneath. Dietrich yelped on contact. "My, my, my, what do we have here? Wearing nothing underneath your skirt… were you secretly wanting someone to do this? I wonder; I really do..." he trailed off in a mocking, thoughtful tone.

"F-fuck you!" she growled.

Naruto leaned down and growled sexily into her ear. "Gladly~!"

Luckily for him, he had the foresight to simply tuck his dick away when he was done with Glissa. All the blond had to do was pull down his trousers and his dick would spring free from its confinements once more. Which was what he did. Followed by flipping up her skirt to expose her nice ass. Dietrich gasped, her eyes going wide before rolling back as she let lose a pathetic gurgle before falling in a boneless heap as Naruto slammed right on into her without warning. The blond groaned and stayed put for a moment to relish in the feel of her soaking, tight cunt milking him for his seed.

"I was right…" he groaned, shuddering from the feel of her vaginal walls squeezing around his prick like a firm glove. "you were waiting for someone to do this!" then he grinned as a deliciously devilish idea came to him. "I wonder how your friend back there would take to seeing you become a mere cocksleeve for me… wanna find out?"

Dietrich did her best to fake crying as she shook her head. She let out a sobbing gasp when she felt his hands slip under her and grab hold of her bosom. Then she was pulled up and pressed flat against his broad chest. She immediately tried to struggle again and looked up at him with fake tears running down her cheeks. 'You won't get away with this,' her eyes seemed to say. In response to that, the blond pressed his mouth against hers and shoved his tongue past her lips, and ruthlessly beat hers into submission before exploring her gob to his heart's content. She reflexively stopped her struggling and let out a pathetic whimper as her eyes closed in an attempt to ignore what was happening. Then his hands moved from her bosom to her pigtails, and her eyes snapped open in shock when he abruptly withdrew from her mouth and started pummeling her pussy into submission, with his thrusting cock! The poor girl didn't stand a chance; her eyes rolled back and her tongue lolled out of her mouth as she gurgled pathetically; a mind-numbing orgasm wracked her small frame upon the third damn thrust. The thought of being fucked in such a demeaning fashion, of being dominated in the woods, where anyone could just happen upon them, combined with Naruto expertly manhandling her and the roleplay all proved too much for the petite tracker.

Keeping in character Naruto scoffed dismissively at how fast she came. "Hmph, too easy. Well nothing is stopping me from showing this to your friend, is there?" with that the blond stopped his rapid thrusting for a moment, moved his hands behind her thighs and in an impressive display of strength he stood up pulling the fucked silly Dietrich up along with him. In reflex, she moved her hands behind his neck to keep herself from falling forward. Now Dietrich was being held up, off her feet and legs spread. With a cruel chuckle, he started up again and railed her like a fucktoy. Dietrich was simply not able to make a sound, her face contorted in a silent scream of pleasure as she enjoyed the ride. Once she was perfectly subdued or cowed as the correct term would be, Naruto turned and walked to Glissa. He made sure to bounce Dietrich up and down on his dick with every step.

After a near minute, a 'recovered' Glissa was sitting up, with a 'worried' Tesla and Letitia kneeling beside her, tending to her and making sure that the awakened being was alright. Tesla was actively keeping watch, while she had her hand on the brunette's shoulder.

"Who did this to you?" Letitia asked in concern.

"A piece of shit with spiky, gold hair and three whisker-like markings on either cheek," Glissa hissed spitefully, shifting about as she still felt his seed leaking out. Just… How much did he put in her?! It was also much thicker than she remembered, more… pungent, too, though not in an unpleasant way. "He came at me from behind and…and had his way with me. I couldn't call for help because my mouth was covered. And Dietrich went after him nearly ten minutes ago." She could smell from here that they had started going at it not even a minute after Naruto had 'raped' her. "There is only one person though… so he should be easy to take care of in numbers," she added.

"We should tell Galatea and the others. If a rapist is lurking around we need to be prepared for him." Tesla growled with righteous fury.

"They can take care of themselves," Letitia told the sandy-brunette with a shake of her head. "If we stay together, we will be able to outnumber him and take the piece of shit down. Besides, Dietrich is out there somewhere. By herself. If Glissa was taken by surprise then chances are he got her through the same way."

Unfortunately for Tesla, Letitia and Glissa, they didn't see or hear Naruto sneaking upon them as he put his stealth training into full effect. Though the blond had to admit, he was having fun with the roleplay.

Dietrich certainly enjoyed it, the perverted little minx...

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While Naruto and his little group were getting their jollies in at the waterfall, the Crimson Guard were preoccupied with the grim task of putting down yet another group of yoma who were hiding out a couple miles southeast of Nash.

"Strange…" Hilda muttered as she cleaned the purple blood off her claymore. She looked towards their resident oracle and hoping to the Twins that she would have an answer, the short-haired blonde asked, "Sistina, do you know why there are so many yomas in the West? This was, what… the tenth group we came across?"

"Yeah, what the hell is going on here?" a rather irritated Chloe exclaimed demandingly. "Those travellers said the West was clear of yoma! Were they lying to us? If they were, I'll give those fuckers a piece of my mind, if I ever see them again!"

"The Organization has been trying to flood Naruto's territories with yoma and awakened beings for years," Sistina answered with a sigh. "The groups we've killed were a fraction of what had been sent - survivors who've added up over the years and grouped up in the few places they were able to hide."

"They're willing to ruin innocent lives just to get rid of one man?!" a shocked Miranda gasped, there was still a part of her, a tiny part, that still saw the Organization in a good light. They were, after all, forced into a corner.

"They're willing to ruin innocent lives when they don't get paid," Sistina pointed out spitefully. "They're willing to sit idly by and let innocent lives be ruined by bandits, just to keep us from harming humans, as well. They're willing to sit idly by while we aren't allowed to defend ourselves from attackers or potential rapists. There was a moto Naruto's first mentor had: 'those who break the rules are trash, that's true, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash'. And he took that motto to heart. It is why he believes the rule that says we are not allowed to harm humans, under any circumstances, is both heartless and idiotic. He wants to dismantle and replace the organization for several reasons. Don't forget that."

"Honestly, I was tempted to kill a few humans in my first life," Roxanne revealed nonchalantly. "A lot of them deserved it. Fucking rapists. Some didn't, I'll admit; they just got on my nerves, but any man who would force himself on a defenceless child should be butchered."

"Roxanne has a heart?!" Elizabeth, Uranus and Miranda all shouted in both surprise and shock.

"Of course not," she replied with a roll of her eyes. "I'm a bitch of the highest order and proud of it; my reputation and track record show that. But even I draw the line when it comes to children. Well, most children anyway. I just don't like it when someone else is a bigger asshole…"

"Naruto would say otherwise." Sistina said, "You may think you're a 'bitch of the highest order', but you pale in comparison to the foes he has faced, both in cruelty and track record."

"...okay, I'll admit that Naruto has fought against some real assholes in his homeland, but they couldn't have been as bad as me." Roxanne stubbornly denied.

"He fought against a man who thought himself a god. Said man proceeded to utterly stomp the military force of his home that had tens of thousands with only six bodies, and then proceeded to flatten his home, killing thousands in a matter of seconds." Raftela said in a flat, emotionless tone as she sheathed her claymore. "He fought against a man who could not be touched. Every attack went right through him. Like a ghost. That man was also responsible for getting his parents killed, having the demon sealed in him, and for causing the deaths of many thousands. And-"

"Okay! Okay!" Roxanne shouted as she threw her arms up. "Naruto faced worse, big fucking whoop! That doesn't mean he's awesome or anything!"

The other ladies in their group shared a good chuckle at that.

"His track record speaks for itself," Sophia chuckled with a flirty smile. "Inspired the populace of a small country to rise up against a tyrant. Fought a demon container who was basically a worse version of you, and became friends with him. Rescued a princess and overthrew her tyrannical uncle. Saved a priestess and defied fate, and defeated a demon in the process. Defeated another demon that could sense fear. Defeated a madman that thought he was a god. Defeated another who might as well have been a god. Stopped a man who wanted to hypnotize the world and turned him over to their side so they could defeat a goddess. He. Is. Awesome." she punctuated the last three words with a dramatic flair, which prompted a snicker from Noel.

"Can't argue with those facts." the short, razor cut haired woman said with a shrug. "I gotta admit he was also a damn good fuck. No wonder he's so popular with the ladies."

"I'll say…" a blushing Cassandra concurred. "I find it hard to believe he was unpopular for so long back on his continent. He knew how to give the most pleasure. It's a lot better than yoki, that's for sure."

"Gee, lucky you." a cranky, and still horny Neideen growled with annoyance. "At least you lot got fucked by him. Twice!" with another growl the eye-patch wearing blonde looked to Sistina, "Oi! Do we have another pack of yoma around? Or some awakened beings? I still need to vent!"

Sistina closed her eyes and tilt her head. "If we change our route from our current direction to the Northeast we will eventually come across a band of yoma and awakened beings."

"How long is the journey?"

"Morris is about a week away at the pace we're going,"

"I meant the awakened beings and the yomas." Neideen said, with a flat stare; then she added on to show she wasn't entirely ungrateful, "But the way to Morris is good to know. Well, I dunno about you lot, but I'm going to head for the yomas and awakened beings. To make sure they're not going to terrorise the populace." she said conclusively.

"There are three awakened beings in Nash, which is on the way," Sistina replied. "They are not affiliated with Naruto, and all three are male. The yoma party is hiding in a cave, just a bit out of our way, but you should be able to sense them soon."

"We should deal with the awakened beings first." Raftela dully said, ever the expressionless one. "They are a more prominent threat."

"I'm not arguing with that," Rosemary said with a shrug. As long as she got something to fight then she was happy.

"Alright, then let's kill ourselves some awakened beings!" Lutecia said in declaration then she marched on ahead of the others without waiting for them to catch up.

Neideen growled under her breath. If there was anyone that was going to kill those awakened beings it was her! She needed something to vent her frustrations on and these yoma they cleared out died too easily. Hopefully, the awakened beings were durable enough to withstand her… at least for a little while.

"Which ones are we going for though?" Miranda asked aloud while she and the others followed after Lutecia. "The ones in Nash, or the ones to the Northeast?"

No one answered her. Though from the abrupt turn Lutecia made it seem like she was heading to the Northeast… so they're heading to the awakened beings and yomas instead of the ones in Nash. Good to know.

"We may want to make it to Morris with all due haste." Sistina added, "something is happening there. What it is, I do not know; my visions are not telling me. But what I do know is that it is very important."

"Then, in that case, we'll pick up the pace," Neideen said, "We run to those awakened beings and yoma, kill them and then we run to Nash, kill the awakened beings there, and then we finally run for Morris. Everyone in agreement?"

Everyone voiced their agreement to that; as one they all brought out ten percent of their yoki and sprint to their first destination: the yomas and awakened beings to the Northeast. If they maintained their current pace then the party of 16 women would reach the yomas and awakened beings at an estimated two hours. Maybe one if they don't stop for breaks.