Chapter 15:

Sui-Feng however was the most surprising, and had taken to sitting in his lap as she drank her tea, her much smaller form fitting in the dip in his crossed legs near perfectly, the crown of her head barely reaching his collar. She had been right when she'd teased Sui-Feng about her crush, because the girl hadn't stopped blushing since he'd pulled her there.

She knew Naruto found it difficult not to tease the girl, but he seemed to genuinely like her, perhaps he even saw her as a second daughter, like the one he'd never had the chance to spoil before he'd died.

After dinner was finished, Naruto offered them a place to stay for the night since it had gotten late, and had offered to lug his new drinking buddy to a room to sleep it off, since Omaeda was currently an unconscious drooling mess on the floor.

Accepting the offer Yoruichi watched as Naruto hefted the large man onto his shoulder and led the two women to a room, since Yoruichi had told him they were fine with sharing. He then left down the hall with Marenoshin slung over his shoulder as Sui-Feng and Yoruichi got themselves settled in for the night.

"Yoruichi-sama, you seem much happier now. " Sui-Feng stated calmly as she got herself settled in her futon.

"I'm glad you got to see him again, you were so sad before. "

Yoruichi smirked and looked Sui-Feng dead in the eye, intentionally making the girl quite nervous. "I am happier, I finally got to see someone I care about after fifty years not knowing how he was living or where; but it seems someone else got to indulge in her fantasies tonight as well, ne Sui-Feng.

I think you looked so cute together. "

Sui-Feng blushed scarlet and buried her head under the blankets, hiding herself from view. With a smirk Yoruichi tossed her kimono into the corner of the room, not all that fond of formal wear, but the Clan Elders had insisted since she was literally handing over the title of Nobility to a man who had slain a god in his lifetime.

Thus, she needed to make a good first impression. Now bereft of the stifling kimono, Yoruichi was left in her Onmitsukidou Uniform; consisting of a black kimono that left her shoulders and back exposed, along with a good portion of her sides and the sides of her breasts, and a pair of black leggings that bared her thighs and a pair of simple sandals.

The Namikaze Lesser Noble House was already being called the House of the god-slayer; and he'd only been a noble for a few hours; the elders of her clan were obviously planning something if they were trying to spread word of a new Noble so quickly. She wouldn't worry about it for now, since she already had an idea of just what their plans were.

Honestly she wasn't bothered by it for once, but it would ultimately be up to Naruto.

An hour later, when she was certain that Sui-Feng had drifted off to sleep, she left their room and silently made her way back to the sitting room where she was certain she would find the person she was looking for. Sure enough, he was there on the deck overlooking the yard, smoking his pipe with the folder detailing the lives of his children and grandchildren open in his lap.

Looking over the photographs with something akin to reverence.

Sitting down next to him, Yoruichi almost burst out laughing when he glanced over at her and his eyes immediately gravitated to the exposed sides of her breasts and an atomic blush lit up his face before he turned back to the photos, trying to play off the event as if nothing had happened.

"Mind if I join you, Naruto? I haven't had much of a chance to go over these in anything but an official setting. " Yoruichi asked quietly, seeing him nod and feeling a little devious, Yoruichi plucked the folder from his lap being careful not to send any of the loose pictures flying, before she rose to her feet and deposited herself in its' place.

Naruto blinked, this was the second time in one day he'd had a beautiful woman sitting in his lap, her legs crossed and her toned yet soft backside pressing almost painfully into his groin, but it wasn't overly uncomfortable, to be totally honest with himself it actually felt nice to have her pressed against him as she was. To have someone in his arms after so long.

For a few hours, as the moon rose overhead and offered them a pleasant view of the lake's waters bathed in it's silvery luminescence, the two sat there on the deck; Naruto had by this point put his pipe away for the time being and wrapped his arms about her waist so he could get at the photographs and articles in her lap. They spoke quietly with small smiles, going over the different information within the small folder and then looking at the pictures attached to a particular paragraph; laughing at particularly funny instances in the lives documented there, and crying at the sad times, like when their first family pet had died after having stuck it out with them for close to forty years.

Eventually the two had put the file to the side and simply sat there, Naruto's arms wrapped around Yoruichi's waist as they looked out over the crystal clear waters of the lake. Yoruichi frowned when a thought struck her.

"Isn't there a wall around this compound?" Leaning her head back against his shoulder and tilting it back so she could see his face, she started running her hands up and down his forearm. Not in an attempt to get a reaction, she just felt an all encompassing need to touch him, to feel his skin beneath her hands.

Naruto grunted. "There are several seals laid into those walls, one particular set of seals is designed to make the walls transparent from the inside.

That way I wouldn't rob myself of the view. "