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Chapter 14: First Meetings

Naruto was completely flagblastered. As it turns out, Yakushi Nono was in fact a woman that once worked as a ROOT operative, but was off duties and taking care of kids in an orphanage were she met a child Yakushi Kabuto. It was then that she gave him her glasses (when she noticed he needed it) and he adopted her last name. Once he was recruited and working for ROOT for some time, Danzo seeked to… Get rid of him, who knew too much and got Orochimaru's attention, and sent his mother figure, Yakushi Nono, to kill the young up and coming shinobi.

It didn't work, however. Kabuto ended up actually killing the woman on reflex (or so he thought) and running away from the undercover mission he was undergoing in Iwa. She was later retrieved and used in an experiment of 'reeducation' for shinobi, killing her own individuality completely in the process, transforming her into a mindless puppet. Until now, that is.

"Naruto-sama, is there anything else you'd like to know?" Nono, now properly dressed and looking up at her savior, couldn't help the curiosity behind her eyes.

"No, no… I don't think so, at least for now." Naruto answered, deep in thought as he digested all the information he received.

Unfortunately, on Danzo, he had precious little to work with. Even his own normal information gathering skills had given him much more on the old dangerous man then both his previous operatives. But Nono gave him some much needed insight into his old dealings with Orochimaru, not that he hadn't especulated as much before, but this was a confirmation of many things.

' To think he'd sent his mother figure to kill Kabuto… No wonder he attached himself to Orochimaru like the man's his last anchor. ' Thinking back on what Nono told them about her relationship with Kabuto and herself, as well as what transpired, Naruto felt his disgust for the shadow of Konoha rise even more.

"Naruto-sama?" Sai's smooth, concerned voice woke the blonde from his thoughts.

"Oh, right. I'm okay Sai, don't worry." Smiling to reassure his new friends: A tentative title as far as he was concerned. Even if he couldn't find any duplicity at their words and feelings they demonstrated, one could never be too confident in it's own skills. Some measure of caution was always the way to go.

"Anyway, i have to find a place for you all to stay, and we'll have to keep your identities a secret for now, until we figure out our next step." Naruto lifted his eye to the sky, checking the time. It was pretty late. "I think for now you'll have to be camping here. It's perfect too, since i'll need someone to help protect the altar. Don't want anyone snooping around this parts."

Naruto didn't really need anyone to do that, though. He just wanted to give them something to do, a task to carry, so they wouldn't be idle. He was perfectly capable of keeping his entire property safe with the use of Sennin Clones, and indeed he planned on doing that. They could both keep an eye on the two, as well as on the altar and the entire compound.

Right now the outer wall of the compound was being built at a fast pace, the rocky wall he spawned out of a Doton jutsu being replaced with a proper, white wall with large rectangular and robust stones as a foundation. At an interval of some few meters, an additional fuinjutsu system would be added within the walls that would connect with a bigger fuinjutsu seal. Unfortunately, it wasn't yet activated as the wall hadn't been completed, so Naruto couldn't let his guard down inside his own compound, which was why he always did leave some clones behind. It wouldn't change much for him to do so today as well.

After making some plans with the two people, he left for his own house, were Fuu and Shizune might be waiting for his arrival. Looking back at the altar once more, he though how he should pick up on his genjutsu training, even if it was his weakest subject of the big three. If he had a better handle on large scale genjutsus and prolonged ones too, he could layer one across the entire field where signes of his Pure Soul Reincarnation were left behind. He wasn't going to dismantle the entire thing if he could, it was really hard to build and work it out perfectly, if he still wanted to use it, he should find a way to hide it effectively.

"So he did went after you. And that whole mess with Kabuto was his fault too, huh." Tsunade's frown never subtracted from her beauty, but it did made her shinobi tremble in fear of a possible outburst from the powerful and emotional Sannin. "That guy has a finger at every rotten pie Konoha finds."

"Yeah, he's a problem alright." Naruto nodded, his feelings for the old man clear for the blonde Village leader to see. "But he's a problem that i can deal with, in time. But we need to strip his influence over the village, if we want to rid Konoha of the menace."

"Oh? Already playing Hokage, Naruto? I haven't really planned on retiring the hat this early, you know?" The woman smiled at her shinobi teasingly. Getting up from her place behind the table, she went for the Sofa, ignoring Naruto for a moment. Then she sat down and motioned him to sit near her. "Aren't you a bold one."

"Haha, that's not it Tsunade-sama. Every Konoha Shinobi is responsible for it's well being and that of it's people." Acquiescing to the Godaime's order, he went and sat himself besides her. "I'm just doing my job."

"Sure you are." Lifting an eyebrow, she let it go at that.

Once Naruto was sat beside her, she had a hand on his thigh, beginning to caress it. Naruto didn't mind. The Hokage had, when he arrived for this talk, activated the seals (ones he had worked on and updated before already), so their conversation was completely private. As well as whatever they did, too. There was, however, one person that stayed inside at all times, one of her personal guards and also one that Naruto was somewhat 'acquainted' with.

As she distractedly caressed his thigh, Naruto thought on how his relationship with the woman had changed since he came back. True, they hadn't had time to get together much, but since that day they had 'deepened' their relationship, she was often very affectionate when they were alone. They hadn't had sex again since that last time, but it wasn't for a lack of wanting it. A Hokage was just simply too busy most of the time.

"So, Naruto, how is it going with your Clan's business?" A hand going up his thigh until long fingers with red fingernails clasped at the waistband of his shinobi pants and pulled down, showing the black underwear with the still soft bulge below. "I'm hearing your compound's construction has been going quite fast, but what about everything else?"

"Well, you know, i actually wanted to talk with you about it." As if nothing was happening at all, he turned to Tsunade with an easygoing face, hugging Tsunade's body closer to his with an arm around her shoulders. "Before coming here, i did a lot of investigating. On my clan, any possible descendents and lines that might've derived from any Uzumaki, and it turns out i found some traces of them."

"Oh?" The Senju princess seemed interested now, though her hands never stopped fondling the rapidly growing member.

"Yeah…" With the arm around Tsunade's shoulders, Naruto reached down and slipped his hand inside the neckline of her clothes and grabbed a tit, squeezing the massive breast and distractedly playing with it. "As it happens, there's one person in Konoha right now who might be a part of my Clans line."

"Who- Who is it, then?" Shuddering from a small flick of Naruto finger at her hardening nipple, Tsunade slipped her own hand inside his underpants and grabbed a hold of the meaty pole. "and why do you need to talk with me about it before doing something… A-about it?"

"Well, it turns out, this person is in jail right now, so i need your permission to reach her." Smirking down at the powerful woman who was now quickly growing excited, her creamy skin turning somewhat rosy as they played around. "So i was thinking of asking pretty please if you'd allow me to talk to her and then, maybe negotiate with you her release under my custody…"

"That's some pretty big favors for a criminal of Konoha…" Tsunade's lips quivered when Naruto's mouth came near her neck, sniffing her scent and then kissing her juglar, giving it a little suck. "Who is it?"

"Tayuya"

"WHA-Ahhhhhnnnn" Right as Tsunade was prepared to pull out of his embrace, Naruto gripped her breast and bit her neck, licking her sensitive skin and sending a small jolt of chakra through his fingers on her chest, hitting her pleasure points.

"Ho-how do you even kn-know she's alive? That's a village sec-ret." Tsunade tried to get back at their discussion, but she was feeling it too much on her chest and her legs were rubbing together, her pussy getting wetter by the second.

"Oh, i know plenty of stuff, Tsunade…" His husky voice reached her ear and suddenly she felt like she was a vulnerable little girl in the hands of a predator-like man .

Naruto left his seat and went in front of the busty blond, kneeling. As he was going down, he took a hold of her pants and pulled it down with him. Tsunade didn nothing to stop him, just watching the young man with heavy breathing. Her underwear went with her pants and the small trimmed round patch of hair over the wet slit were finally at the young man's sight again.

He pulled her legs over his shoulder and her body down, making the woman slid down on her seat. Her pussy was right in front of his eye, and Naruto couldn't wait to get a taste of it. But instead of directly going for it, he began kissing the inside of her thighs, getting increasingly close to her crotch, but also being deliberately slow to reach it.

"It doesn't matter how i know it, though… What matters is… That i want to negotiate for her pardon... If she is willing to join me and the Clan… This will help me…" At each pause, another kiss was placed and with each of them, he neared her glistening slit. "In growing my Clan and maintaining… Our heritage and… Our bloodline…"

Although he was now in possession of an amazing tool for the purpose of rebuilding his clan in the Pure Soul Reincarnation technique, it required him to find and get a general understanding of the person he was to call back from the other world. He couldn't just begin spamming Uzumakis in the real world. He'd had to know each of them specifically. But records on them were very hard to find, especially since they mostly stayed on their on village, which was now completely destroyed. Records simply didn't exist anymore, he'd have to go on based on very old records that Konoha might have, maybe .

So he still had to tightly secure any advantage he could find with a strong grip and never let go. Tayuya was one of the Otogakure's shinobi, part of their small squad that helped seal away the Third when Orochimaru tried to assassinate him. She was also involved in Sasuke's extraction from the village and fought against Konoha Shinobi then, Shikamaru to be more precise. Of course, he could never forget her.

But he had matured quite a bit, and had acquired a lot of information on Orochimaru and his movements, both recent and old. He knew that, out of every Oto shinobi he ever met, only a few of them were willingly working with the snake man. He was known to kill his own people after all, anyone sane wouldn't willingly follow such a man.

Tayuya was such a case, as was some of her colleagues. But she was the only one of the four that survived, and even that was at a price. She had had her lower body completely destroyed by the fall of several trunks over her, and was at death's bed, if not for Tsunade saving her for the sake of interrogating and trying to take her summoning contract from her to Konoha.

To this day she remained hidden and any information about her survival was confidential to a very small select few. Tsunade never thought Naruto would know about it. Even Jiraiya didn't know that, not because she didn't trust him, but because it wasn't something important enough for her to tell him. But Naruto was researching his Clan's bloodline and any hint of people around the Continent that were still alive and had any connection with the Uzumakis. So of course he'd find out everything about the girl he had gotten to actually know personally once he found a connection there.

"I don't know Naru- Oooooh!" Finally, Naruto reached her cunt.

He licked her slit from the bottom up to her hooded clit very slowly, his tongue tip sliding inside an inch and teasing her, while he kept his wet licker wide enough to tease her labia as well. The expectation behind his oral skills was built so much with his teasing kisses, once he finally liked her cunt Tsunade felt a shock of pleasure stop her right on her tracks.

"I know what you might think but…" Stopping for another lick, Naruto stopped his mouth over her clith and sucked a bit, noisily, before retreating to talk. "She's not that bad. It was either working for him or being killed…"

"No, i… Know that already…" Squirming on her seat, Tsunade's hand went to his head, caressing his soft mane of golden locks as she tried to make sense with his tongue warming her core. "But she's not supposed to exist.."

"It's fine… I have a plan for that…" Naruto smirked as he felt Tsunade's thighs tighten around his neck.

His hand went beneath her ass and quickly his finger found her asshole, which he then promptly began to tease. Circling the entrance as his tongue deeply entered her pussy, turning and licking her insides. Tsunade went silent aside from the moans, her back arching with the strong stimulus. He then pressed his thumb's digit on her backhole and provocately pushed just a bit before retreating.

"Ohhhhhhh. Mhmmmmm, Naruto…" Her voice was low and dangerously sexy. The pleading was just enough to sent shivers down the young man's back, but he needed Tsunade to agree with his request.

Stopping his teasing of her ass for a moment, Naruto began to recede to small kisses over her pussy, licking here and there. Tsunade regained some measure of her mind, and breathed hard. Inside she was screaming for more, but she was aware he wanted to finish the conversation before going further. And she didn't even had much time in her hands right now too.

"The problem is… What if she… Turns on the village? She should have a lot of STRONG!... Feelings about the village that almost killed her, crippled her and…" Naruto never stopped his caresses, he pushed then a digit inside her ass and began to tease her from inside, as he kissed her slit looking up at her, trying to make sense. "Kept her locked away all this years."

"She sure do… But i can turn that all into loyalty. I have a special way to deal with it…" Naruto smiled, thinking of his recent plan. "If you let me, and trust me, i can make her loyal to Konoha and bolster my Clan's strength at the same time, as well as getting rid of Orochimaru's mark, all in one go."

"How?"

"For one, i have a way to give her… What she lost, so" With a strong suction, Naruto began to quickly finger Tsunade's ass while lashing his tongue against her clit to bring her over the climax.

Tsunade stiffened, closing her eyes tightly as she gripped his hair and pulled violently. The stimulus was just too strong too suddenly, she couldn't do anything as of that moment, not until he brought her to her orgasm. Naruto was noisily sucking and licking her off. Her ass was partially lifted to allow his fingers to pump inside her ass at the same time.

"Oh, oh! My- Oh! Pluuese…" Her mind was going blank, the hairs over her entire body were raising in a massive pleasure streak she felt. "I'm! I'm cuuuuuUMing!"

With both hands on Naruto's head, she pulled him in strongly, nearly suffocating the young man with her pussy juices as she wasn't willing to give up even a hint of contact with his warm face and skillful tongue. She also 'hugged' him with her legs, crossing them behind him and having her thighs press around him tightly, her muscles tensing as her toes curled.

After a long minute of orgamisc bliss, the pleasure streaking up and down her back several times before letting up, she finally loosened her grip on the younger man, her body flaked out loosely on the couch. Naruto got up and dressed himself, knowing they wouldn't have time for a good fuck like he wanted to give the Hokage, and he knew he wouldn't be able to stop at just a quickie, so he made peace with himself.

"So, what do you think?" Naruto asked, his back turned towards her as he tried not to get too enticed by the older woman's charms. And she was specially sexy right after cumming. "Can you give me this vote of confidence?"

"I…" Tsunade went silent for a moment. After coming down from her high, she truly stopped to think on his request.

It wasn't an easy thing for her to do. Not bureaucratically speaking, but as in a hard decision to make, when taking Konoha's welfare in consideration. So far, Naruto's actions had shown more than enough loyalty and, with his last conquist to his Clan, there was little to no doubt he planned for his future to be Konoha's future also.

Not that she herself had ever had any doubt about the young man when he was the whole reason she even came back to take on the Hat, but this was her trying to place her own feelings and preconceptions aside for a more critical, impersonal view on the matter. From that point of view, though, even if Naruto had given her every reason to trust him, giving up an asset and also freeing a grudge bearing Kunoichi like Tayuya wasn't logical. Naruto might need her, but Konoha had no reason to give something like that up and risk it's future just for one Clan Head, when it wasn't extremely vital.

On the other hand, since trust was never an issue with her, she couldn't completely leave her feelings behind and say no without a better reason then 'We don't need to do this for you'. She also had a feeling that, no matter what, whatever she left in Naruto's hands would end up in some way, a good thing. A Konoha enemy kunoichi and criminal, that beared the village great grudge and used to work for one of the worst of Konoha's missing nin's of history, and she felt like Naruto could turn that around.

"...Fine." Tsunade scratched the space between her brows nervously. She didn't feel like she would regret this, but it wasn't something she was supposed to be doing anyway.

But since this was a secret maintained by only a very few number of people that were under her own command only , it wasn't like it could be used against her in the council if it was found out. As far as she was concerned, Tayuya wasn't even a thing, the red haired kunoichi that worked for Oto never had a name and died just like that. The woman jailed didn't exist.

"Ha, nice! I knew i liked you for a reason, Tsu-hime!" Naruto felt like jumping in happiness, but contained his feelings and only smiled widely at the other blond.

"Fine, fine, whatever. But keep in mind…" She suddenly adopted a much more serious expression, which was completely ruined by the fact she still wasn't wearing anything but hells from the waist down and her puffy pussy was still glistening in the light. "She'll be your responsibility. If she harms Konoha in any way…"

"I know." Naruto's smile receded to a more neutral one and he nodded. Then he approached the leader and leaned down, giving her a long but chaste kiss, before pulling a way. "Thank you, Tsunade. I'll take care of everything.

"Hm... You better."

Making his way to where Tayuya was detained, Naruto planned ahead of him what he'd be doing during the night today. As far as he was concerned, after making a quick visit to his compound, both Sai and Nono had been completely honest and didn't show any signs of going back on their plan. Of course, they could be there for the long run, but again Naruto was pretty confident on his means to identify lies and deceit, that went beyond his already very sharp instincts honed in his childhood years. So he wasn't too afraid.

Also, they've proven to him his technique indeed worked, albeit with a small addendum of their seemingly unwavering loyalty, which wasn't a bad thing at all and kiiiiiiiiind of made sense. God was an entity that gave people life and a way to support that life after all. If they wanted to feel somewhat similarly to him as people would to gods after he revived them, then… Well, he doesn't mind. He isn't letting that go up his head, but their love and admiration of him wasn't bad for the future in any way.

With this in mind, he felt it might be time to try his hand at the technique once more. He had to be careful and only bring people every other day, once or twice per day, but he was feeling really anxious to actually meet his mother, so he might as well get it over with now that he has tried and proven the technique actually works as intended.

He also knew just who else to bring back too, but that would have to wait until the Clone he sent had what he needed in hands. The Pure Soul Reincarnation had requirements to be met after all, and they weren't bypassable.

He left his thoughts alone for the moment as he had finally arrived at the address he was supposed to go. It was a fairly nondescript building, like many on this same street, except inside there was a secret installation only Hokage's trusted people worked at. Walking directly to the door, he knocked twice and waited. Naruto had taken the careful measure of concealing his real identity with a henge, so right now he was looking like a gray haired middle aged man with a neatly trimmed goatee and wearing some good quality, yet inexpensive clothes.

"Yes?" An old woman came to the door. Although this old woman had no trace of Chakra, Naruto knew for a fact she wasn't simple. As it stood, this woman was an specialist in poison. "How may i help you?"

"Hello, Ashino-san. My name is Buko, i'm here to inspect the patient?" Searching his pockets for a moment, he pulled a small card. It was a simple white card with an herbalist's insignia and some words written down.

However, the written part wasn't important at all. The moment the woman touched the card, she felt small dots raised from the paper and forming a pattern she knew all too well. This was handed to him by Tsunade, of course, and it meant he was here on Hokage's orders and they didn't need to question it.

"Oh, right. I'm sorry, i'm just so forgetful these days…" She smiled kindly at the younger man (or rather, younger disguised-as-older man), rushing him in and closing the door behind her, and feigning frailty.

As if she wasn't able to kill several people even if her chakra system had never developed. All people inside this house were like this, people Tsunade taught, or helped, or owed their lives to the Senju family that were outstanding in certain areas, but had never had the opportunity to training as shinobi (for whatever reason), or didn't want to.

"She is right this way…" although they had already entered the house and left the public's eye, she maintained her facade just in case.

She lead Naruto to one of the small bedrooms, were a woman was laying down on the bed with covers over her waist and looking absent minded towards an empty wall. She had around twenty years, was all bones and skin and had sunken eyes and thinning hairline.

"Kino-chan? Kino-chan…" The older woman patted the sickly looking younger lady on her covered leg. "He has come to see you."

"Hm, i would like you to open the door for me." Unlike what was expected, Naruto addressed the woman in the bed with a completely unexpected request.

However, that's only if someone that wasn't in the know was present. The two woman looked over at the middle aged man and nodded. The girl in the bed wasn't Tayuya, obviously. She was a decoy, and was here to confirm the second part of the two part validation of his identity as a man of Tsunade's. Which she had, by means of her secret ability of smelling chakra.

To put it shortly, the second part of validating his identity was one that even the old women didn't know about. He simply had to use the base form of his chakra and imbue the right wall full of it. Once done, the woman would be able to feel the 'scent' coming from the right direction. Then he had to do it to another wall, and to another, all in a certain order. Once she confirmed that, he was free to go. The first, older woman could never do that. Not only she wasn't a sensor of any type, she didn't even had chakra training, and her chakra system was blocked. So it was impossible for her.

"Through here." the sickly looking lady, that really was a sickly looking lady Tsunade had cured from a terrible disease (that obviously left behind several sequelae), left the bed and together with the older woman did something at the bottom of the bed that lifted the thing up.

"Thank you."

None of them followed him inside. Either he was who he was or he'd die here, is what they were thinking. No matter what, they wouldn't be seeing him again, as the two followed protocol to go warn their contacts, who would in turn warn the Hokage so the proper measures would be taken, if she hadn't sent anyone.

Naruto walked down a gray looking tunnel towards a door at the end of that corridor. Once he did, he placed the hand on the wall beside him and activated the right seals with his chakra and unlocked the door, walking right in a second later.

The inside showed an ample room, with a table, some paintings, a bed, a bedside lamp and a dresser. At the far end from the bed, was a small patch of grass, unlike the rest of the room which was covered in gray tiles. On the ceiling, there was a small glass panel that let natural light in, as well as lamps on the sides. Naruto was thinking which creative way they used to hide the glass panel on the ceiling from shinobi's eyes without use of chakra, when her voice reached him.

"Who the fuck are you?"

"Well, aren't you lovely." Naruto rolled his eyes, then dropped his henge. He neared the bed, where she was sitting back against the headboard and right beside a wheelchair.

Just like the woman upstairs, Tayuya was also sitting in a bed looking a bit sick. She had much more 'meat' on her, and had more color to her skin, but still nothing like the kunoichi she was, even if at the time she was pretty young still. Her hair was longer and more brittle, and a less vivid red. Her eyes also were a bit sunken and much less alive then her words made her sound.

"You… Who are you?" She frowned at the changed man. Her eyes were confused, but they didn't had the spark of curiosity. To her, it wasn't like him being someone different would mean something different in her current life. She was just a bit confused and wanted to clear that. "I think i know you from somewhere…"

"Well, you do." Naruto nodded to himself, walking up to her bed and lowering himself until he was eye to eye with the woman. She should be around 19, 20 years old, just a bit older than him. "I was a part of the team that faced you when you were trying to run away from Konoha with my teammate, Sasuke."

Her eyes widened. Not because she actually remembered him, even after he told her from where she might remember him, she couldn't connect the face in front of him with those vague shadows in her memories. But because this was a man that wasn't actually just here for the usual things. If a man with a connection with her, somehow, was here then this monotony would certainly either end or have a short break, because he had some different purpose for sure.

"What-" She gulped saliva into her suddenly dry throat. "What are you here for?"

"I'm here to talk with you, of course." Some life seemed to return to the red haired woman for the moment, so Naruto felt their talk was going well so far. He then sat on the bed right beside her, torking his waist so his upper body was faced her. "I came to offer you something, in exchange for something."

Her lips were tight together. She didn't feel she had anything else to offer anyone . Her body was worseless (less then so actually, she was incurring debt to whoever took care of her), her techniques, the ones that could be passed down, were already taken from her, any information was already surrendered. She was essentially just a body that still breathed, drank and ate at this point, nothing of worth.

So she didn't believe at first, even if it didn't made sense for the men to lie to her, that he needed something from her. And she didn't want him to go away and go back to watching a wall or shadows or hearing to her mind replaying all of her mistakes in life. She had enough fortitude to keep herself from going crazy, and never once contemplated killing herself, but she still couldn't help but want something, anything , to change.

"I know you've been here for a long time, and that you've nothing else to offer anyone. But that's just what you think. You have, in fact, something that i really need and want." Naruto knew that, for the sake of a negotiation, you never should let the other side know how much in need of whatever you were negotiating you were. But at this point, looking down at the pitfull state this former kunoichi was, he thought ' What's the point? It'd just drag things longer then they have to… '

"What is it?" Feeling some warm for once inside her, she couldn't put her finger at what she was feeling, but it seemed vaguely like some kind of hope . "That you want?"

"Well, to cut things short, what i want is you."

She didn't quite understood his meaning. If she was still a healthy woman, she'd think he wanted her body for sexual relief, which she was all too happy to give in exchange to getting out of this place at the moment, but that couldn't possibly be it. She didn't have any valuable kekkei genkai either ' Otherwise she'd be dead a long time ago by Orochimaru's hands so he could study her body or use it for himself, the fucker. ' she thought grimmly. Just WHAT does this blonde man want from her. ' Tell me already so i can give it to you! just take me out of this maddening place! ' But she never said anything.

"I think i know what you're thinking. But i assure you, i really do want you . Not because of your body, obviously, nor techniques nor any of that shit." Naruto pulled a small white paperboard the size of his palm from his pocket.

On one side there was nothing, on the other were two big circles made entirely out of small symbols and words. They were both a seal, not too hard and also pretty common in the Continent, if only for those that could buy such things.

"First i need a drop of your blood."

Tayuya didn't know what that was for, but she recognized the seals for what they were, even if not for their purpose. But she still slowly lifted her hand and showed her palm to the young man, looking at the piece of paper wearily. It felt like it was a ticket out of this suffocating room, even if it didn't mean much to her. She had grown up in the dirt of the streets before being picked up by the snake bitchy man. She didn't know much of the world, but the fact it was cruel .

"Thank you."

Naruto lifted her hand over the cardboard and using his own chakra to momentarily create a small pointy construct of wind chakra on the tip of his finger, prickled hers and dripped blood inside one of the circles on paper. He then did the same with his own and watched the circular seal expectantly.

There was a drip of blood in the approximate center of each circle. Naruto was applying a sliver of chakra at the cardbox and watching intently. The two circles made out of strange writing that was part of the fuinjutsu schematics began to rotate in their place, a small glow of blue chakra emanating from them. They picked up speed and then, after barely two seconds, began to slow down.

The blood at the center was drying into a stain on the paper surface, but as soon as the rotation of the fuinjutsu stopped, an influx of the glowing chakra overtook those stains and the glow shifted from the fuinjutsu seals to the blood itself. It glowed blue, then white, then green, then stopped.

"Haha." Naruto smiled contently. What kind of color the chakra glowed was of no importance to him whatsoever. The importance was the matching of the two. They changed consistently at the same time, to the same color at the same intensity and with the same tone. This only meant one thing, Tayuya and him were actually pretty closely related, as far as Clans went.

Perhaps they wouldn't be considered even distant cousins if one were to think of them as civilian family, but it was undeniable that they shared a bloodline. Not only that, but neither of them seemed to be 'tainted' by other bloodlines. This didn't mean that both their parents were or had Uzumaki descent. Rather, it meant that between them and their first true, full Uzumaki ancestor, no other strong bloodline got into the mix.

Like for example, there were no Uchihas, no Akimichi, no Aburames or any Clan's bloodline, which was mutated by chakra overtime to become actual bloodlines as the shinobi world saw it, that were part of theirs, messing with their Uzumaki heritage. Either that, or they had the exact same 'impurity' of other clans in their bloodline, which was harder to find than a good hearted saint politician.

"I knew you were the one i was looking for!" Naruto turned to her, his facade melting into a big happy smile.

He was so happy and so assured of his findings that Tayuya couldn't help but be taken aback. She wasn't used to this level of emotional showing. She also still didn't understand what was happening, except that he confirmed her identity in some way… But there was nothing much to her identity, is what she thought. She knew her parents, she remembered them before they died of poverty, which meant they died of hunger, health issues and other things that only the poor would suffer from.

"What do you mean?" Her throat was completely parched once more, her voice seeming half a century older than her actual age. But Naruto gave that no mind.

"This, Tayuya, means that you're descended from the same Clan as me. This means that, what i came here to ask of you, is actually something that you can give me," He began, lifting his arm and gesturing animatedly with happy gleam in his eyes. "which means I can offer you something in return."

"So you want my body, is that it? You want me to be a birthing machine to this clan?" She understood how even the unappealing woman in front of him would be of some value if Clans and bloodlines were involved.

"What?" That brought his celebration to a quick stop, his thoughts not following hers until several seconds later. "What?! Thats n-!"

"Because i'll do it for you. Anything… Just take me out of this room, i need to breath …" She said the last word almost whimpering, her arms opening as if to show how tight the room felt on her, even though the room wasn't small at all.

Naruto once again was brought short on his thoughts. She was feeling constricted in this small room. ' She probably never left this place since she was trapped here, and for years… Only knowing this walls and nothing else, having nothing to do ever, no company… '

"I'll do more than that." Ignoring her misunderstanding, Naruto turned to her and his smile wasn't as wide, but was just as honest and warm as before. "I'll give you back what you lost."

When he said that, he nodded his head towards the legs under the covers. But he actually meant more than that. He could bring her back younger than she was right now, give her back the three years she lost. And it was even easy for him, ' Provided i find a suitable dead body. ', he thought grimly. But in this day and age, people were dying every each way.

Performing a quick Clone with the only objective of dispelling and sending new information as well as orders to the clone he had previously already sent to search for a body, with new instructions to find a younger female body for Tayuya just to reward her for his happiness, Naruto sat beside her on the bed again.

"I'll give you back your legs, i'll give you back your freedom, and i'll even give you back time . But only…" His face turned grave and his eyes sharp and deep. "If you swear yourself to me, and to my Clan."

This wasn't actually needed, though. He knew that by now.

"I do. Whatever. I do. I just want to leave and actually live ." A few tears gathered at the corner of her eyes.

She was Tayuya, she never cried. Kami knew she was made of harder stuff than that. But she wasn't the same kid that survived the streets, survived the pits Orochimaru throwed her in, survived the missions, the crazy outbursts of the snake sannin, and the cruelty of other shinobi in his forces, including her closer 'teammates'. After all that, she was hard and unmovable.

But that was before she felt what it was to be forgotten, ignored and lack an existence. Konoha was never cruel with her again after she gave them what they wanted. But being forgotten in a place, so close yet so far from anyone's reach. Being a part of nothing, being nothing at all, it was maddening. Cruelty be damn, she craved some cruelty to the emptiness of her current life.

Every man and woman had a different thing that'd break them, everyone. Some were simply pain, mental torment, some were the threat to loved ones. Hers, apparently, was being forgotten and isolated, becoming a part of 'nothing' forever. So the redhead didn't even try to hide or clean the tears gathering at the corner of her eyes. She just stared deeply into Naruto's soul and properly, imploringly asked.

"Take me away from here, please ."

Right now, Naruto('s Sennin Clone) was scurrying over houses and stores and other buildings on a mission . The original had entrusted him to look for a new body. A body actually younger than the early twenties he had previously prepared. And even though it was a chore, to put it mildly, to actually have to hunt for corpses , he still felt as elated as the original to know his/their plan was going to work .

With the help of the Pure Soul Reincarnation, he'd not only bring Tayuya's health (with legs included) back, but also make her younger and fresher, as if she never lost a day in her life. And that would also ensure she'd stay loyal to him, which pretty much guaranteed she'd never be a problem for Konoha (unless he wanted to become a problem for the village. But he'd rather kill every single problem inside the village than do that).

With that, he didn't even mind going around in search of a body. He wasn't actually whitin Konoha right now, couldn't quite allow Konoha to get on high alert because someone was stealing dead bodies, even if they'd never find out it was him. No, he was out on a small town, near the border between Fire and Hot Water countries.

The reason being, there was some conflict around the area between gangs of this and another close town over control of the area. This meant a lot of crime and death. This kind of conflicts always bleed out to the commoners trying to live peacefully, unfortunately, and that's why Naruto thought he might find a young girls body, as unfortunate as it is, amongst the victims.

If he didn't find one, that would be ok too, for he was ready to dispatch both gangs to the other world as soon as possible, after all this was Fire Country's border, he had all the rights in his favor to do so. Despite not being as big as Konoha, this town was still quite lively, a town that prospered with the constant merchants passing by on route to the capital and other profitable cities.

"What the hell is that…?"

In the middle of an alley, a scorching mark on a wall caught Naruto's attention. Not only was it recent, but the scorching was in the form of claws, big and wide enough that he could fit his head through the largest one. In total, there were four big rips on the wall, and for some reason there was the faint smell of burnt wood and resin too. Looking a bit farther ahead, a manhole to the sewer had it's lid to the side, spewing stinky smoke up for some reason.

Naruto walked closer to the manhole, when suddenly he felt a pulse of chakra that he couldn't not recognize. His eyes went wide in an instant, and he quickly shot through the hole at his top speed. He knew what was happening, even if he hadn't had confirmation just yet. This was just like with Fuu. Why was a Jinchuuriki in the middle of Fire Country and Hot Water Country, he didn't know. He was supposedly the only Jinchuuriki (aside from Fuu now) from Fire Country and Hot Water Country had never had one. But whatever was happening, that forced a Jinchuuriki to resort to using their Bijuu's chakra, could only mean two things, and one of them was called Akatsuki.

Runnin down the dark pathways of the sewer, Naruto couldn't help but think of how his life and destiny was intricately connected with Akatsuki. No matter if he was going to find them at end of this run, he'd at the very least meet another Jinchuuriki, which was one of it's targets anyway, so it still held importance for both of them. The chakra he was feeling right now was definitely of a tail, and he couldn't help but grow nervous.

Although he himself was strong enough to face any, or at least most of the Akatsuki he had gathered info about even if they came in pairs (that's how confident he was in his long training), as he was right now he was just a Clone. A Sennin Clone, sure, with a lot of chakra, a body that was no lesser than the Original's, and all the techniques and skills he gathered all this years. But he wasn't the original, he didn't have Kurama on his side and he was more limited in various ways.

Was he strong enough to face Akatsuki? Absolutely. But he didn't have the confidence to say he would triumph in every aspect he'd need to. The original could come and guarantee saving whoever needed saving, apprehending and/or killing his enemies without risking any of them getting away, all while not causing as much of a disturbance to not be found out.

He? Well, maybe he could do all those things, but just maybe . And therein lies the problem. But nonetheless, he wouldn't be fighting alone. Last time, with Fuu, he took care of everything by himself. This time, though, he might need the Jinchuuriki to hold his/her own.

Feeling the heat increase around him, Naruto made a turn just as he began to hear some particularly strange noise to hear inside a sewer. He was hearing the flap of wings. Instantly thinking back to the Akatsuki pair Sakura and Kakashi faced when they went to Suna, Naruto gritted his teeth in annoyance. If it was that annoying guy, there was no way this would go silently. And judging by the smell of burnt wood and resin, chances were...

Making yet another turn, he finally found his 'target'. There was a lithe, tall woman of blond hair tied in a ponytail with a shroud of chakra around her. She was certainly the Jinchuuriki, and the one tail waving behind her told as much. She had her back to him, and was facing two people with a cornered attitude. It didn't seem it would be long before a second tail would join the first.

As he expected, there was a bulky man/puppet with his face hidden and a scorpion tail glistening in the light of the fire that was burning sections of the wall. A fire that should have, for all intents and purposes, have already died down as concrete did not make a very good fuel for fire. From the very deadly, sharp tip of that swinging metal scorpion tail, liquid sometimes dripped on the ground. It was hard to tell if it was either poison, as was more common, or acid as it sizzled when it fell.

The second person working in conjunction with the puppeteer from Sand, however, was not the obnoxious blonde man with a fetish for explosions as he had heard and learnt about from Sakura's retelling of her mission and his own intel gathering. For one, the person wasn't on top of a bird made of clay, and for another it was a woman.

She had blue straight hair that ended just below her chin, a small bun with a paper flower origami on the right side of her face. Her eyes were a steely gray, and her face was impassive. Although looking as cold as a glacier and indifferent to the Chakra shrouded enemy in front of her face, she still looked beautiful and exotic, with paper wings flapping slowly behind her, suspending her from the ground just enough for her feet not to touch the surface.

Her thin lips were speaking something Naruto wasn't able to hear, soft as voice was at the moment, but it made the small labret piercing under her lower lip gleam, reflecting the fire on the walls. Sasori of the Red Sand was standing behind her, unlike before where he seemed to be the leader of his partnership with Deidara.

Unfortunately, Naruto was sure he had already been noticed by the blue haired woman, as he could feel some of her attention split from her adversary, as much as she tried to conceal it. She might think Naruto wouldn't notice the small change of pace at which her paper wings were flapping, but he did. And so did Sasori, who's waving metal tail slowed down considerable. The later might not know where the enemy (Naruto) is, who or what is the threat, but he was allerted nonetheless.

In this straight path with nothing but concrete walls, stream of sewage water running down with walking paths on both sides and nothing else, and with enemies already aware of his presence, it wouldn't be in his best interest to try a sneak attack, since he wasn't fully aware of the woman's skillset and Sasori was particularly good at spotting ambushes and attacking the ambushers.

So instead, Naruto left four Shadow Clones behind and went ahead on a quick, but not overly so, speed. Something else that could/would work in his disadvantage if he tried a sneak attack was the Jinchuuriki herself. She was already in high alert, and with another party she knew nothing about entering the fray, she would possibly react negatively.

After all, the saying 'the enemy of my enemy is my ally' had no bearing in the Shinobi world. That was just a different enemy, as far as ninjas were concerned, maybe just one he could take advantage of, at best. At least if he showed up beside her like normal, and maintained a distance, she'd be wary but wouldn't attack outright and risk being placed in a disadvantage she didn't need to.

That way, he could actually put in a word or two to justify his appearance and intentions, which could help them both at least deal with Akatsuki's people before turning on eachother, if she was going to do so anyway.

"So Akatsuki couldn't stay still for longer then a month, huh?" Naruto called out once he was a few moments away from standing side by side, on the opposite side of the small stream of sewage water running down the middle of the passageway. "And i heard you got quite the thrashing, Sasori of the Red Sand. I guess you can piece yourself together faster than your old partner, huh?"

Making his intentions clear from the start to oppose Akatsuki, and showing a previous knowledge of them personally would show just enough for the other jinchuuriki to make the assumptions he needed her to make. Although they were separated by the stream of sewage water, this passage was pretty narrow, so they weren't that far from each other.

"Who… Are you?" / "Konoha's Jinchuuriki, Uzumaki Naruto."

The first voice was growled out by the light blonde woman as she stole a glance from the corner of her eye, still on high alert for the enemies that pushed her so far. The second, that came in conjunction with the first, that had inadvertently answered the question posed before, came from the soft, beautiful yet detached voice of the still gliding woman.

"Yep, that's me. So, ready for a beating, you two?" Naruto lowered his body closer to the ground, widening his stance and smiling deviously. "I'm not about to let the Akatsuki get a hold of a single Bijuu."

Then he flared his chakra. It wasn't Kurama's chakra, it wasn't as much or as malicious as the one tail just a few steps to his side, but it was intense . His body was built of Nature Chakra, not too unlike a tailed beast's. He might be a construct of Chakra with normal body functions and a near life of its own, a mirror of another person in its entirety, but he was dangerou and they should know it.

"I don't know who you are, or what you're doing in my country." Naruto softly said in small voice to the blonde. "But we'll talk later. Right now, Akatsuki is our common and most dangerous enemy. Either fight with me or don't get in my way."

A/N: First let me thank you all for the support you've given me since the last chapter, both through reviews and PM's. I really appreciate it. Truth be told, i got so discouraged by my loss that i've decided to given up on this account and stop writting for some time, but went back on that decision. Honestly, the more reviews and PM's come, not necessarily about your condolences, but also just about this and my other fic, the less i can bear to just let this drop. I really like writing, and writing smut is my guilty pleasure... It was rough just really managing this account, but i think i'm better now.

About this chapter, what does everyone think of my introduction of Tayuya to the story once more? I hope those that like her are happy. Also, Akatsuki! Again! And another Jinchuuriki, too. For those too hopeful about Konan and Yugito, all i'm saying is that you might hold on to your horses a bit. xD But that they showed is a great sign. Next chapter there'll be some fighting, and i had a hard time writing that... Hope you'll like it, people.

Also, for the friend that asked me to put up a list of the harem members Naruto will get... I won't do that, i am sorry. But the thing is... Naruto is getting A LOT of women. He's going full Khan, with dozens of harem girls as far as i'm concerned... My intent with this story was to write smut, and put some interesting plot with it. But i want to write smut with so many characters... And i'm devoted to make Naruto the only main character, so smut will be centered around him, which means... Imense Harem, one way or another. I guess i could make him do one night stands with most people and just leave him with a few select girls be a part of his family for real, but so many people have already expressed they'd rather have Naruto have a real thing with this character, and that character and that other character... So i'm just going to roll with it. Besides, Naruto's current dream is to rebuild his clan, stronger than ever... Having so many women, from so many backgrounds is the best way to go about it. I try to show each character my appreciation, and introduce them slowly to his life. I also hope not to neglect any one of them too much, but as things progress, it'll get harder and harder... Let's see how far we can go, though.

Anyway, i'm STILL thinking about that idea of introducing character(s) from Boruto's timeline right now, but as much as i want to... I also don't want to. Truth is, i don't enjoy Boruto's manga/anime that much, so i'm not terribly familiar with the people there that hasn't made an appearance in Naruto. On the other hand though, some of the girls from Boruto's timeline are real nice... But we'll see. If it does end up happening, it'll be around chapter 20 or so, though. Any thoughts on that? I know i asked before, but truly, tell me what you think and what characters might be a good idea.

Well, that's it for now. See you next chapter!