15. Target: Koyuki and a Bonus Part 1

Koharu was sweating heavily, but it wasn't for the reason she had gotten used to lately. That reason generally being her on the receiving end of a good hard fucking from her lover. No, the reason Koharu was sweating now was due to her hanging around a lava pit at whose center sat the Leaf Maximum Security Prison. She was dressed in a skin tight bodysuit which was separated around the midsection. Covering her head was a shinobi mask that also kept her hair in check and covered.

It had taken her most of the day slowly moving along the rock face that surrounded the prison. Her hopes were to get inside of it, but to do that had required her reaching her current position undetected by nightfall. That being right underneath the portion of the drawbridge that hung over the rim of the crater and was the only way in and out of the prison. Having achieved her goal, she was simply waiting for them to lower the bridge to let out the civilian administrators for the night. Above her, the elder and deaged member of Naruto's harem could hear the sound of the chunin guards as they walked the edge of the crater.

Although the actual guards were all shinobi, many of whom were stationed in the prison for months at a time. It was civilians that handled many of the lesser and often bureaucratic tasks such as the office work. As such it provided a small window of opportunity to gain access to the prison. One she had been aware of for years and had even tried to shut down demanding the civilians stay on the site like the shinobi. However, now she was glad Sarutobi had told her no while claiming there was no need to subject civilians to such a harsh working environment for such extended periods. Still she took a perverse sense of pleasure from knowing she was right.

Hearing the sound of gears beginning to turn as the bridge began to lower down towards the prison, she amended her thoughts to admit that she wasn't in the prison yet. Once lowered into place, she sprung from her hiding spot running along beneath the drawbridge upside down as the outgoing civilians left the facility. She reached the end and waited for the much slower civilians to complete their own journeys. While she waited she heard the front gate of the prison slam shut and then the drawbridge began to rise into place once more. Riding it up she waited until she could see the top of the wall that surrounded the prison before leaping from the bridge to it. Landing smoothly on the walkway, she ducked into a nearby shadow cast by a guard tower to plan her next moves.

Due to the time there were plenty of shadows for her to make her way closer to the central building where the prisoners were kept. From her vantage point she could see the prisoners assigned to hard labor entering the facility that housed their cells.

Off to the side of the prison sat a large mansion that was where the warden as well as many of the off duty shinobi guards stayed. Directing her gaze back to the building that was her target she found the square looking building to be quite imposing. It was also located almost at the exact center away from the wall that surrounded it and from where she was currently staring at it from.

She ran a quick sweep along the wall to make sure none of the guards pacing the top of it were a threat. From the lazy way they walked, she knew it would be a while before they made their way towards her. She also reasoned it was near a shift change for them and contemplated waiting until then to make her move. However, she couldn't be sure how long that would be since the warden didn't send such information to the village. Partly as a security measure, but Koharu also had a sense that some other reason was behind it.

The warden, a man named Iwana Akame, had taken over the prison sometime after the breakout engineered by Mizuki. He had been recommended by Danzou to which both she and Homura had quickly supported. Tsunade had been against the man's appointment. At the time Koharu had suspected it was due to his well documented dislike of Naruto, as he had been one of the men assigned to track the boy down when he had been tricked into taking the scroll of sealing. If she had to guess, he had also been one of the men that Sarutobi had felt the need to mention that the boy was to be brought back unharmed.

Despite her hesitance to give the man the position, Tsunade had been forced to admit he took to the job quite well. Upon accepting the position he had instituted many procedural changes to the prison. One of which had been to stop sending shift reports back to Konoha since he felt that the prison should be its own self-contained little world. So that enemy spies couldn't analyze the reports for weaknesses in its defenses. It was as she was planning her little operation that Koharu began to think something else may be going on in the prison. Her concerns stemmed from her noticing that most of the chunin who were assigned as guards had been serving for almost the entire three years. That in itself was odd as before most chunin only did prison duty for the single required term, despite it paying slightly higher. Still since chunin were only required to do the tasks that there rank entailed only once before being allowed to fall into their own niches, such as teachers, it could have just been a number of chunin found themselves attracted to guard duty.

However, what threw up a red flag for her was that only certain chunin were allowed to stay on past the first term. Although some had reapplied to the position, no doubt for the hazard pay, they found themselves blocked by poor performance reviews written by Akame. Most of the chunin who were rejected in such a manner had exceptional records in the other tasks they had performed. While it could just mean that they had butted heads with Akame. She had a less innocent theory on the matter. That being that Akame wanted to surround himself with people that would answer to him over the Hokage or he could intimidate into obeying him. In either case it meant that something of note was happening in the prison.

She was distracted from her thoughts and found herself falling back deeper into the shadows. The reason for her sudden being startled was the Anbu mask that suddenly appeared to peak over the edge of the roof of the prison complex. Koharu, frowned since Anbu were not assigned to the prison as guards. That meant the man was there on someone else's orders and she had a pretty good idea of whose. Koharu's frown deepened as she realized that if Danzou was involved in some of the personnel selection that meant the chunin and even the warden may be answering to him. And whatever Danzou's interest in the prison was she didn't doubt it was to get him a step closer to being the Hokage.

Koharu waited until the Anbu ducked back down after completing his scan to make her move. Although an Anbu presence made her mission more dangerous, the answers she wanted may lie with the woman she was there to see.

Dropping down from her hiding spot at the top of the wall she landed quietly and quickly moved along the ground using the few spots of available cover. Reaching the base of the prison she breathed a little easier as no alarms went off. Looking up, she guessed she was right near where the Anbu had poked his head out. She silently scaled the wall and although the Anbu was well trained she could hear the movements of a guard sitting in one position to long. Reaching into her pouch and pulled several senbon. She waited until the Anbu's movements became those of someone shifting to once more glance over the courtyard to make her move. Leaping the final section of wall she grabbed the Anbu by the mask and allowed gravity to pull them down. As they fell she jammed a senbon into the man's neck rendering him unconscious.

As she expected there was an Anbu at the opposite end of the roof, who was just beginning to react to her presence. Throwing another senbon it hit the Anbu in the neck as well causing the masked figure to slump to the floor. Staring down at the one closest to her, she frowned recognizing the mask as one of the two Anbu who had been with Danzou in her home. Suspecting the other one was the kunoichi she made her way to the prone figure and as expected found Komachi there. Kneeling next to the woman she placed her hand on her shoulder and channeled chakra to the spot. A moment later an X surrounded by a circle appeared before disappearing.

Having marked the woman with the seal that Tayuya had asked Kyuubi to design for her, Koharu moved to the roof access hatch. Opening it, she spared a moment to look at the two unconscious Anbu. Although leaving them alive was a risk, primarily since even with the senbon forcing a death like paralysis on them, the effects would fade with time. However, she wasn't willing to kill Leaf Shinobi in order to complete her mission, nor did she suspect Naruto would allow it. Realizing she was wasting time she dropped into the prison.

Moving silently, to the lower levels of the prison she hoped that was where they were keeping her target. Unfortunately since Mikoto was listed as dead, she didn't turn up in the registry. All she was known by was a number, but even that wasn't listed. However, she suspected that the woman would be kept in the same area as some of the most dangerous, mainly since it would limit the number of Konoha personnel she'd run into. Plus all the guards there were permanently assigned to the task by Akame.

As she moved she tried to figure out why Danzou was assigning Anbu to the prison and she had little doubt that they worked for Danzou now. Although, Komachi and Towa answered to Yuugao, who had assigned them as one of the rotating teams guarding the elder. It was readily apparent that Danzou had turned them at some point. If they hadn't always been his that was.

Reaching the first floor with prisoners, Koharu stuck to the shadows, but frowned since due to the time the occupants of the cells should have been locked up. Instead she found all the cell doors wide open. Despite that, most of the prisoners were sleeping but there were a few moving about still. Confused, she considered grabbing one of the wandering prisoners to extract some answers but could almost feel the clock running out.

She reached the hall that would lead her to her destination wondering where all the guards were. Focusing on the mission, she marked the camera and was waiting for it to turn to create the small blind spot she would exploit. The camera reached the point and she was about to run the length of the hall but stopped and flipped back as the camera panned towards her. Frowning she wondered why her instincts had screamed at her not to run. Scanning the hallway even closer she didn't spot anything amiss until her third time. Narrowing her eyes at the small fire alarm at the center of the hall she realized that in all her run down of the blueprints of the prison there was no mention of one. Koharu knew that even if the warden had decided to update the fire system that it should have generated some sort of paper trail. For example the money to pay for such things as fire alarms. Since it wasn't the cheap kind that usually hung on a screw or nail but was hardwired into the building she knew it had cost considerable money to install. But Koharu was also willing to bet that it wasn't a fire alarm at all, but a disguised camera.

Coming to that conclusion Koharu began to back-up since it was possible that she had been on camera ever since entering the prison. That an alarm hadn't been raised simply meant Akame wasn't stupid and had allowed her to make it this far to learn who she was there to meet. Not willing to chance contacting Mikoto under such circumstances, she began heading back noting several more disguised cameras. Apparently Akame realized she was onto his extra security as suddenly the alarm began blaring.

Many prisoners sprang out of their cells much the way she expected guards to respond to a threat. Akame's voice came over the speaker suddenly saying, "We have an intruder. Whoever brings her to me alive will be well rewarded."

"What the hell is he playing at," Koharu thought as she raced through a cell block. But before she made it completely out of it a large man landed in front of her from the platform above. He attempted to hit her with a punch to the stomach but Koharu managed to avoid it easily. Her counter attack was a kick that connected with the man's ribs sending him smashing into the metal bars to her right. But with her forward momentum effectively killed more and more prisoners were able to crowd around her.

Reaching into her pouch she pulled a handful of shuriken and threw them at the men in front of her. To her surprise many of them were batted away by kunai that the prisoners held. The prisoners then prepared to throw said kunai in retaliation. She contemplated using several jutsu to protect herself but feeling a hand grab for her from behind, grabbed it and pulled the man in front of her using him as a shield. The kunai buried themselves in the man's body. Koharu was forced to leap up then as several prisoners behind her threw some as well.

Leaping to the catwalk above her, she made it several feet before a prisoner almost tackled her from his cell. She stopped suddenly though to avoid him and used his momentum to throw him over the railing. She slapped an exploding tag to him and after he smashed into the ground it exploded taking several of his fellows with him.

Reaching the end of the catwalk she leapt down, landing in front of the exit. However blocking her path was a prisoner that filled her with a vague sense of recognition. The young man had silver hair and dark eyes. His prisoner shirt had its sleeves removed to reveal heavily muscled arms, the way the man smirked at her filled Koharu with anger as if he was dismissing the threat she posed.

"Hm," the man said eyeing her body," Maybe Akame will reward me with a new plaything."

Koharu merely narrowed her eyes not rising to the bait since she didn't know if she was being recorded and although her voice was different now due to her younger age, not so much that she might not be recognized if she was careless.

Her opponent didn't seem to care merely saying, "Feisty, I'm sure we'll have loads of fun."

The man took a step towards her and as he did so black strips appeared on his body and his chest seemed to broaden. Next his face began to take on animal characteristics as fur grew from his body. When his transformation finished the prisoner looked like a combination between a tiger and a man. Understanding she was facing off against Mizuki, Koharu wondered just what the hell was going on. As although Tsunade had been able to reverse the aging side-effect the Animal Cursed Seal had inflicted on the former chunin instructor. She had been sure to remove his ability to change.

Guessing that Akame and probably Danzou were behind it she charged hoping to get by him quickly. She attempted to kick him in the side of the head but Mizuki caught the kick easily and then tossed her into the metal bars of a cell. Landing on the floor, she had to roll out of his way as he racked his claws across the ground. Leaping to her feet she flashed through several hand signs and fired a giant fireball at him that enveloped most of the narrow cell block. It hit the back end of the block melting the bars of it and leaving an exit for her. She attempted to run for it but was forced to flip backwards as Mizuki smashed into the ground from the ceiling.

Almost immediately he leapt at her even before she had hit the ground so she spit out a giant mud wall that he slammed into. Landing, she was about to leap to a catwalk when suddenly a clawed hand burst through the wall and grabbed her by the neck. Mizuki then pulled her through the mud wall tossing her down the block near the exit she had made.

Koharu struggled to get back to her feet so Mizuki took his sweet time closing with her saying, "I'll admit you are making me work for it more than I thought you'd be capable of. Have somebody sweet back home that you want to get back too. Don't worry I won't be too rough on you, but I doubt you'll want to leave by the time I'm finished with you."

"Mizuki stop playing around," Akame's voice said angrily.

"Hey, Akame go fuck yourself," Mizuki said looking up to a disguised camera, "Just because I agreed to be a soldier in your rebellion doesn't mean I'm your bitch. I'll send this whore to you when I'm damn good and ready."

Koharu hearing that felt a sudden rage and anguish. Not that Mizuki was threatening to rape her, but that Akame was planning to use the prisoners as soldiers to attack Konoha. Since, she was sure Akame wasn't the brains behind the scheme she believed that there could only be one man who was. A man that if people had asked her about as short a time ago as several months her response would have been filled with praise.

Although her pride wanted to do nothing more than school Mizuki in how foolish he was to give her time to recover. She could hear more prisoners heading her way and knew her primary mission was to warn Naruto and Tsunade now. She waited until Mizuki was right above her and when he reached down to grab her rolled to her side. She then grabbed ahold of his arm with her legs and bent his wrist with her hand. Rolling again she pulled the man off his feet and pulled dislocating his arm. Getting back to her feet she leapt through the exit as the man screamed in anger and pain.

Now out of the cell block, the hallway opened up and she came across a small broom closet. Dashing into it she locked the door hearing several impacts as prisoners, that had been watching Mizuki and her fight and had given chase as soon as she made it out of the cell block, threw weapons the impacted the door. Making a quick sweep of the room she made sure there were no hidden cameras and then channeled chakra into the fox mark located on the back of her left thigh just below her butt. A moment later Naruto appeared wearing only a pair of pants. Shaking her head at his recklessness she clamped a hand over his mouth before he could talk and said, "Flash me to my safe house." Nodding as the door began to give way the two disappeared in a red flash.

Appearing in her living room, Koharu broke away and began venting after pulling her mask off, "God damn him, that stupid selfish bastard."

"Koharu," Naruto said worriedly reaching out for her, "What's wrong?"

Koharu closed her eyes to calm herself saying, "What's wrong is a man I once thought highly of is plotting treason." She explained what she had learned that night and could see Naruto was already thinking of ways to stop it. However, she knew that if they suddenly confronted Danzou with their knowledge or attempted to shut down the prison, which could now be thought of as an enemy fort mere hours from the village, it was likely that soon the village would be facing a civil war.

She was about to caution him against rash action when he surprised her saying, "We have to be careful not to alert him that we know. At the moment he might just think that it was an enemy shinobi attempting to break out a prisoner."

Koharu nodded and knew that even though Mizuki had let the cat out of the bag. That Danzou knew the enemy villages she could have been aligned with would be sure not to move too obviously in part to let the rebellion happen and to not point out which village it had been behind the incursion. She also knew that Danzou would know this and although it would delay him a little once he was sure he had planned for it. He would continue on with his scheme.

Feeling like a fool for ignoring all the times that Sarutobi had warned her of Danzou's extreme methods for what he saw as protecting Konoha, she said, "I don't see how we can stop him without going to war. The prison might be the bulk of his forces, but he may have sleeper agents among Konoha's forces. He certainly does among the Anbu."

Naruto nodded and walked to Koharu before wrapping her in a hug from behind. Pulling her tight he said, "Right now the goal is to get him to lay low so that we can ferret out whatever agents he has."

"I know, but how do we do that without alerting him to the fact it's us that is aware of his impending rebellion and not one of the other villages."

She could hear the smile in Naruto's response when he said, "By turning to our friends." Confused as to how he could make it sound so simple but at the same time sound so positive she turned in his arms to stare into his eyes and simply gave him a questioning look.

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Although learning of Danzou's impending rebellion had certainly added a tension to the morning. Naruto was determined not to let the fear of things to come interfere too much with his life. It did though give him a taste of what it must have been like to be Hokage and had only increased his respect of the men and woman that had held the title. Just how many threats had the previous Hokage known about while the rest of the village got to go on about their business blissfully unaware of the threats that the village leaders knew of. Still it proved that luck was on his and his harem's side.

Naruto nodded as he walked past Anko and a team of chunin from the Interrogation Department as they left from performing a surprise listening device sweep in the Hokage's Mansion. Naturally, the first place they had just so happened to check had been Tsunade's office. Although everyone had doubted there would be any there it never hurt to be too cautious. To that effect Anko had given Naruto's apartment a private sweep as well.

As he made his way up to Tsunade's office, Naruto allowed his mind to wander briefly to Shizune. He felt bad that her entrance to the Harem had been marred by Danzou's scheming. However, she took it as the selfless woman he knew her to be. She had then thrown herself right into helping think of ways to blunt Danzou's plan after he had returned from setting his own in motion. Of course the fact she and Tsunade hadn't bothered to dress had a distracting effect on Naruto, but the situation had prevented him from giving into his libido.

However, as the day wore on and with their plans to at least force the elder to hold off on attacking the village in place, things had relaxed somewhat. So much so that as Naruto finished his last day of light duty, both he and Shizune had indulged in a little sex play. Mainly just quick gropes or kisses as they passed each other while fulfilling their tasks. Therefore, Naruto was at the moment sporting a huge boner as he walked through the Hokage Mansion's halls. Adjusting himself, he saw the reason for it approaching with a stack of folders held to her chest. She smiled at him as they passed each other no doubt noticing his bulge despite his attempting to hide it. His attention was pulled from her smile when he noticed something drop to the ground. Shizune kept going so he stopped to pick it up. Snatching it up, he quickly realized the bunched up item were in fact Shizune's panties. Her very damp panties.

Looking up he noticed she had stopped in front of the door to Tsunade's office and was looking over her shoulder giving him a sultry look. Pushing the door open she walked in and shut it behind her. Knowing an invitation when he saw one he followed sticking her underwear in his pocket. He entered the office aware that Tsunade wasn't inside, but handing out missions to the genin and chunin of the village.

His eyes settled on Shizune who was standing in front of Tsunade's desk with her back towards him. She placed the folders she was carrying down and then began pulling up the hem of her kimono. Naruto watched transfixed as first Shizune's legs appeared followed quickly by her shapely rear. Shizune then bunched her kimono around her waist before leaning over, placing her hands on the desk, and spreading her legs wider. Able to see just how wet and turned on she was Naruto closed the distance between them pulling his fly down to free his cock. Grabbing her hips, he buried his dick in her and closed his eyes enjoying the feeling of her tight, wet cunt.

"Mmmm," Shizune moaned as she was filled once more. Looking over her shoulder she said, "I've wanted this all morning."

Naruto leaned forward kissing her hungrily and after ending it said, "Me too. Sorry I wasn't there this morning but well you know."

Shizune nodded and had to fight back a moan as he began moving. Facing forward again, she could see her reflection in the window behind Tsunade's desk. For a moment she had a hard time recognizing herself due to the lust and contentment clearly visible on her face. Her attention was pulled away by Naruto's rough grasps as he pulled the top of her kimono open exposing her tits. Naruto grabbed one of them roughly, pinching her nipple causing the moaning woman to arch her back and to moan louder. Naruto silenced it by turning her head with his other hand and kissed her hungrily. Shizune met Naruto's tongue swirling it around and against his, but broke the kiss when a particularly hard thrust of his dick poked at her cervix.

Her arms collapsed which her head fell on as she moaned, "Kami....your dick is hitting my womb. Oh shit...Naruto...more...harder...fuck." Naruto stopped causing his newest lover to whimper. But before she could give voice to her desire for him to continue, he had grabbed her left ankle and began lifting it up and over his head. Shizune got the hint allowing Naruto to spin her till she was on her back and then putting her legs on his shoulders picked up where he had left off. Shizune's moans quickly returned to their previous volume which he attempted to mute by kissing her. As their tongues once more rolled against each other his right hand was busy groping her tit.

Several stacks of papers that both he and Shizune had brought into the office as Tsunade handed out missions on the floor below, wobbled on the desk due to Naruto's assault on Shizune's quim. He broke the kiss to run his tongue from her jaw to her breast where he licked then sucked her nipple into his mouth. Shizune's hands which had been rubbing along his back moved to his hair where she pulled him deeper into her chest.

However instead of continuing his nipple play, Naruto stopped feeling Ino and Tsunade's presence approaching so pulled back looking over his shoulder. He could practically feel Tsunade's disapproval not because of what they were doing but the timing of it. Naruto realized that the mission briefing that both he and Shizune were supposed to attend was due to start and start in the office they were currently fucking in, so he attempted to pull out.

Shizune had other ideas though and moving her legs from his shoulders clamped them around his waist, locking her ankles. "Shizune," Naruto said feeling a slight panic, "We have to stop. Tsunade's on her way here with Ino and some of my friends to explain the mission."

"I... don't care," Shizune said trying to pull him deeper inside of her, "I...I can't just stop without cumming...please....I need to feel your hot sticky cum coating my womb...hurry."

Knowing Shizune was close and wanting to get off as well, he redoubled his efforts to satisfy his lover before Tsunade arrived.

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Tsunade kept the scowl from her face as she walked with the shinobi she planned to send out to back up Kakashi. Practically able to sense the activity happening in her office she had attempted to walk as slowly as possible after leaving the room where she handed out the missions that helped fund the village when Ino, Sakura, Fu, Rock Lee and Tenten had met her there. The pace was currently driving a certain Rock Lee mad.

"Let us hurry with the fires of youth," the mini Guy said for the hundredth time.

Luckily Ino guessed as to why they weren't rushing and said, "There's no hurry, Lee. For all we know this mission is going to be nothing but trouble."

Unfortunately that was exactly the wrong thing to say as the green wearing boy said, "Yosh, which is why I can't wait. I'll be the first one there or I'll run five hundred laps around the village."

Tsunade was about to tell him to settle down when a familiar scream of, "Aaaiiiiieeeeee," filled the air.

Rock Lee's eyes went wide as did Tsunade's except for different reasons. "Do not fear Shizune. I'll save you." Before Tsunade could stop him the boy was already down the hall and with a leaping kick knocked one of her doors off its hinges.

Fearing the scandal about to unfold, Tsunade took off running as well expecting to see Lee gaping at a naked Naruto and Shizune. Instead she found the genin apologizing for startling the pair as they picked up papers from the floor. "What the hell is going on here?" Tsunade barked feeling as if she had just aged fifty years.

"Sorry," Shizune said blushing in embarrassment or possibly from what Tsunade was sure had been going on before their entry into the office, "I opened the window and a gust of wind blew over all the papers on your desk."

As if to prove what Shizune said was true another gust blew through the office disturbing the papers strewn about the room. Tsunade nodded, moving around to sit behind her desk as the other chunin entered the office. "Leave them be for now," Tsunade said as the others were about to help pick them up, which proved unnecessary as Naruto created several clones to handle the mess. "Why I've called several of you all here is to assign you a mission to help back up Team Kurenai which is being headed up by Kakashi at the moment."

As Tsunade expected Naruto's eyes lit up at the idea of a real mission again. Stomping down on it she said, "Naruto, I'm afraid you will not be going. Instead Team Kakashi was assigned a mission to attend a movie premier in the Land of Spring."

Tsunade fought back a wince as Sakura shot a look to Naruto that screamed to her the kunoichi's hopes that if they were on a mission together she'd be able to close some of the distance Naruto had opened between them. It was a look not wasted on Naruto as he picked up some of the desperation her eyes held. Knowing there was no way to be gentle about it Tsunade said, "Sakura, I'm afraid you won't be going."

Sakura's head whipped around and she looked like she had suffered a punch from Tsunade. Before she could ask why, Naruto said, "Maybe it would be best if I didn't go to Spring right now and helped with the other mission."

Tsunade folded her hands in front of her face resting her elbows on the desk. She studied Naruto for a moment before saying, "I've considered that. However the nature of what Kakashi has discovered makes that impossible. It's also why Fu will be staying in Konoha."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked confused.

"What started as a mission to locate Orochimaru's base has uncovered the Three-Tailed turtle. As we speak Kakashi's group is engaged in a battle with several Sound Shinobi who seem to be interested in it as well." Focusing on Sakura, Tsunade said sympathetically, "That's why I can't send you to Spring." Sakura nodded although still sad so Tsunade continued saying, "My plan is to exile the Three-tails to another dimension using the Four-Corner Sealing Barrier. I need those with excellent chakra control in order to use it. That's why Shizune will be leading a team composed of Sakura, Ino, and Hinata, who is already in the field. Tenten and Lee you'll be assisting Kakashi in whatever way he decides. I've also assigned Yamato to the team; he'll meet you at the gates."

Naruto wasn't sure how Kyuubi would react to the plan but not willing to take it easy while his friends were in danger said, "Still why not allow Fu and me to go."

Fu nodded her head, so Tsunade said, "Naruto, Fu, I know you want to help. However your presence on the mission may make it several times harder." She could see Naruto about to disagree so she cut him off saying, "Naruto, you're both jinchuriki and what we have already on this mission is a Bijuu..."

"Which is why we should be there..."

"Wrong, it's exactly why you shouldn't. For all we know Akatsuki will target the creature once word reaches them of its appearance. If they don't know of its location already. Now if I send you and Fu that's three targets they want in one place."

"We can take them though," Naruto said.

"Maybe, or maybe not," Tsunade said but held up her hand to stop his reply, "While we know they attack in pairs. With three of the Bijuu in one place they may break from that pattern. But even if they don't and send a pair for each Bijuu that will be six S-class shinobi in one place. I know you want to be there for your friends, but your presence may in fact put them in more danger."

Naruto gritted his teeth, but nodded saying, "Okay, I understand."

"Good," Tsunade said before focusing on Fu adding, "Fu, I'll be assigning you to act as my assistant for the time being. We'll also spend some time training as well." After Fu nodded, Tsunade once again focused on Naruto saying, "I've also assigned you a team to escort you to and from Spring Country. They'll meet you at the gate tonight."

Naruto nodded, but didn't ask figuring whoever was assigned was probably a part of his harem. Upset at missing out on the mission but understanding Tsunade's reasons Naruto left to complete a little training with Kyuubi and to make sure she was alright with the Hokage's plan for her fellow Bijuu.

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Yugito sat in the back of a bar watching her fellow Kumo-nin engaging in the ancient art of getting sloshed. Nursing her own drink, she had to admit it was a little hard getting back into the mix of normal activity after enjoying a week of marathon like sex. Still she supposed it just gave her more incentive to tear down the walls that separated Kumo and Konoha. Naruto had visited her once explaining he was on a boat heading to Spring Country at the moment.

Yugito looked at a poster of the movie actress and princess hanging against one of the walls advertising her new movie. The two-tailed jinchuriki still couldn't believe all that she had heard about Naruto's first visit to the country back when it had been known as Snow Country. Although she knew that he hadn't been boasting as she remembered seeing the Documentary slash Adventure film about Koyuki's regaining her thrown. Taking a sip of her drink she felt a little foolish for not immediately recognizing the genin that had defeated Koyuki's uncle. She admitted hearing the young Naruto spouting stuff similar to the grown one did fill Yugito with a sense that he wouldn't suddenly change. A good thing considering that she was bound to him.

Looking up from her drink she looked around the room to see which of her fellow kunoichi could benefit from a little Naruto time. Her eyes immediately landed on the voluptuous blonde sitting by herself at the bar. Although Samui's teammates of Karui, a hot-tempered woman who probably could use a good fucking, and Omoi were also present arguing over some stupid thing or another. She preferred to sit alone. Using some of the skills Tayuya had taught her about watching potential targets, Yugito could see why she possessed such a cold personality.

As Samui looked up to scan the room probably sensing Yugito's stare, the jinchuriki returned her gaze to her drink. She knew many men considered Samui, a frigid woman, but she doubted that many considered their own contribution to the reason behind it. Mainly, their fascination with her amazing bust. If she had a ryo for every time a man had tried talking to her only for their eyes to drift downwards today alone she'd probably be able to pay for everyone's drinks. From what Yugito could see it left Samui with a distinct loathing of her breasts. Yugito smiled to herself as she knew that a night with Naruto would probably change her mind on the matter forever.

Still she was getting ahead of herself, since first Naruto would need to seduce Mabui. Sighing at her inability to help in the matter still not entirely comfortable with betraying her village, despite her sizing up potential targets, she decided to head home. Heading to her small single room apartment she entered and frowned at the small unmade bed. Stripping to just her bra and panties she climbed into it in order to get some sleep and dreamed of the night when she could walk through the streets of her village or Konoha hand in hand with her lover.

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Nibi waited until she felt her host go to sleep. Leaping from the cat tower it concentrated and the room changed into a large dirt filled room surrounded by large rock walls covered with cave openings. Changing shape from the small cat into its true form, the Bijuu made its way to one of the caverns were it had been sealed originally before coming to terms with Yugito. Walking to the back a body sat slumped against the wall. Nibi smiled as it stared at the vessel it was creating for itself. It had done so secretly ever since Kyuubi had put the idea in its head. Not wanting to tell Yugito just yet so that its host wouldn't be able to critique and influence Nibi's sense of what its human body should look like.

Nibi had thought long and hard on what traits its human body should incorporate. It had decided to use the dark skin that was a trademark of many Kumo-nin. The long purple hair was done up in a pony-tail and when Nibi transferred its consciousness into it and opened its eyes would look on the world with golden irises. Happy with its new form Nibi concentrated and allowed its will to move into the human body.

Opening her golden eyes, Nibi stood shakily and nude made her way from the cavern. Running her hands along her body she felt similar sensations to what she had when Yugito had made love to Naruto. Pulling her hands away she concentrated and a black sleeveless shirt with no back appeared. After putting it on she made herself some black pants. Deciding on a little color and one she knew the man she was hoping to introduce her to a world of pleasure liked, she created an orange long sleeve shirt she wore over the other one. Confident she appeared quite stunning; Nibi began stretching since if she was going to learn to make love like a human decided she would also learn how to fight as one.

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Naruto sat cross-legged on his bed in the recreation of his apartment the seal had become. He was practicing in calling on Kyuubi's chakra to strengthen his normal jutsu much as he did when he fought Sasuke at the Valley of the End. Which was where he had created the Vermillion Rasengan although it had been a by-product of being in his one-tailed state. Still he figured that if he could use Kyuubi's chakra to strengthen the Rasengan then he could for other jutsu as well. The trick was finding the right mix between his and Kyuubi's. Sadly, since in the real world they were on a boat heading to Spring Country at the moment it was all just theory. He doubted the captain would be too happy if one of his jutsu got away from him and damaged the ship. Still, he believed that he could feel when he was getting the right mixtures so that when it came time to put his theory to the test, he'd be pleased with the results.

Uncrossing his legs he put his feet on the floor and stood guessing the reason he didn't feel the usual stiffness sitting in one position generally brought about was because he was in the seal. He focused on Kyuubi, who was sitting at his kitchen table drawing on a piece of paper. He knew better than to approach as Kyuubi would quickly hide it from him. Commenting on her behavior he asked, "If you don't want me to see what you're working on, why do it in front of me?"

Kyuubi flipped the sheet of paper over before responding, "So you wouldn't think I'm working on something dastardly behind your back."

Naruto nodded before joking, "Are you saying it is, but you're playing mind games with me."

Despite his light tone, Kyuubi frowned before looking away. Afraid he offended her, he moved towards her asking, "What's wrong? I was only joking."

"I know," Kyuubi said still unable to meet his eyes.

Naruto knelt next to her and gently turned her face towards his before asking, "Then what's wrong?"

"D-do you think I've changed?"

Confused, Naruto asked, "What do you mean?"

Sighing Kyuubi said, "I met with Nibi on the last day we spent in Spring Country. I attempted to blackmail Nibi into telling me about any weaknesses in Kumo that could be exploited. Nibi refused, and when I threatened to return the seal to normal, asked if I'd so easily betray you because all I care about is my own pleasure."

Nodding in understanding Naruto said, "And you weren't sure of your answer."

"I..." Kyuubi began to say worriedly but was quieted by Naruto.

"Don't worry I'm not angry. Although, I'll need to tell Yugito about what happened. Since she's made no mention of it, Nibi probably hasn't said anything but its best to be honest."

"I'm sorry," Kyuubi said feeling like she disappointed her host.

"Its fine," Naruto said standing. "You're still new to certain emotions so your confusion is understandable. After all, people usually learn about emotions as they grow from children to adults. Trust me though, you're going to find that the confusion you feel about your emotions is something that persists even when you believe you got it all sorted out. All it will take is learning something new to make you reevaluate everything you believed up until that point."

Kyuubi nodded, so seeing that she appeared to feel better he leaned down and kissed her about to take his leave of the seal. "Now are you sure you're okay with Tsunade's plan?" Naruto asked although he was quite sure she was by this point.

"Yes, we Bijuu aren't friends Naruto. While Nibi was easy to convince and Nanabi I'm sure will come around it's because they are tied to people. If Sanbi is free then I doubt it will listen to reason. Plus if Madara's goal is to reunite us into one being it's for the best."

"Okay, as long as you're sure," Naruto said before disappearing from her sight.

Awakening naked from his cross-legged position on the bed of his cabin, Naruto stood and stretched feeling the familiar aches his sitting like that usually left after remaining in it for so long. Hearing the shower running, Naruto smiled knowing one of his escorts to Spring was cleaning themselves from their activities before he had entered the seal. Guessing it to be Anko since Hana would probably be in the other cabin attending to her nin-dogs. Naruto had found it strange when he learned she had booked a second room, but was glad for her foresight since the idea of having sex in front of the intelligent animals didn't exactly put him in the mood.

Looking out the small circular window of the cabin, he could see the shore approaching so decided a shower was an excellent idea. Opening the bathroom door, he could make out Anko behind the glass. Sliding it to the side he stepped in behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Aw," Anko whined, "Here I was hoping to wake you from the seal with a blowjob."

Naruto chuckled saying, "I doubt it'd stop there though."

Anko turned in his arms saying, "True, but then I'd need to get clean again. Obviously you would to and..."

"We'd simply move to the shower to get clean, no sex right."

Anko looked horrified at such a possibility saying, "You're talking crazy. You'd be naked with a hot babe of course we'd end up fucking." As she spoke, her hand grabbed his cock and she began stroking it. Once fully erect Anko stepped back and raised her leg placing her foot on the lip of the shower where her cleaning products rested saying, "Of course if you just want to clean up I won't stop you."

With a grand view of her pussy whose wetness wasn't entirely attributed to the shower, Naruto closed the distance between them pressing her up against the shower. With a violent thrust he buried himself inside her. Anko wrapped her arms around his neck saying, "See, the idea of you and me in a shower and not fucking was pure crazy talk." Naruto chuckled and was forced to admit she had a point.

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Koyuki was dressed in some of her finest regalia, but to be honest she would had preferred to be wearing something simple as she waited at the dock for Naruto's ship. Looking around she could see the many attendants, bodyguards and even a band that seemed to follow her everywhere now and days. The only time they weren't present when she was out was when she was on a movie set acting or in her palace, although the guards were always around. As she listened to the band warming up a part of her feared that Naruto upon seeing the huge fuss her simply wanting to meet him here had brought about. That he'd immediately turn tail and jump back on the ship telling it to set course for the Land of Fire.

"This is a waste of time," her head of security Tessai Kutsuzawa said from behind her. "You should make him meet you at the palace."

Koyuki hid her scowl before looking over her shoulder at the tall man whose right eye was covered by a black bandage like cloth. "Mr. Kutsuzawa, I know you aren't pleased by my coming here to welcome Naruto. However, you were the one that insisted on all this. I would have been happy to show up by myself."

"Yes, as you've made perfectly clear. But do try to remember you are the ruler of Spring Country. You have an image to uphold, certain movies notwithstanding."

Koyuki smiled to herself as she watched the ship close with the dock amused at Kutsuzawa's bringing up the Icha Icha movie that she had stared in. "I used a body double for the risqué scenes," she said not bothering to hid the amusement her voice held.

"I'm sure that really matters to the many perverts who flocked to theaters."

Koyuki shrugged sighing at how difficult it was due to the heavy robes she wore. Truth be told, she was rather pleased with her involvement in the project and was even considering signing on for the sequel. Although she'd have a double film her nude scenes, she didn't doubt her many fans would flock to it thereby paying for another year of the heat generators use which were proving to be so beneficial to her country. Still there were several projects she was already committed to and was even considering producing her own movie if she could find the right script.

The band firing up pulled Koyuki from her thoughts and her eyes went to the top of the ramp where Naruto was descending from the ship. She was about to run to him waving, despite Kutsuzawa's insisting that she act the part of the regal princess she was supposed to be, however she froze upon noticing the two women following him down. Allowing Naruto, whose face showed the surprise at the fanfare he was receiving, to close the distance with her instead, Koyuki tried not to scowl at the two women, who almost seemed aware of the effect their being with Naruto was having on the princess.

Upon reaching her, Naruto stopped saying embarrassedly, "Um, I'm not sure if there's some sort of formal greeting I should give you."

"How about, it's good to see you," Koyuki supplied giving him a dazzling smile that had enchanted the hearts of millions.

"That goes without saying," Naruto said and was surprised when Koyuki hugged him.

As Koyuki hugged her hero, she shot a look to the two women to see if they had responded to it. However, she was surprised when it appeared that their smiles had grown even larger. Kutsuzawa coughing into his hand made Koyuki break the hug remembering that there were plenty of gossip rags out there looking for a juicy story on her. Although she wouldn't mind it if one of the headlines read, "Spring Country Princess caught in scandalous affair with future Hokage."

Stepping back she introduced her party with Naruto quickly following suit and was about to inform the Konoha-nin of the arrangements she had made. Although she made a mental note to make sure the women's room was as far from Naruto's as possible. It proved unnecessary when Anko said, "Well we've completed our mission. We'll catch up with you when it's time to go back Naruto. Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

"What exactly is that supposed to exclude," Naruto teased causing Hana to laugh as Anko glared at the young man before breaking out into a smile.

Koyuki half-heartedly told the women they could stay at her palace but was glad when the two insisted they were fine taking in the sights themselves. Linking her arm with Naruto's, she said, "I can't wait to tell you all that's happened over the years. I suspect you have a few tales for me as well."

Naruto smiled saying, "Oh yeah, I've got a lot to share with you."

"I can't wait."

"Me neither." Naruto said, but looking around at the retinue of guards wondered how he could arrange a little alone time with the princess without drawing attention to it.

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