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* Jutsu List:
Shunshin - (D-rank) Body flicker - 'teleportation' jutsu.
Chouju giga - (B-rank) Super beast imitation drawing - allows to animate ink drawings.
Doton: keisei - (B-rank) Earth style: formation - jutsu of my own creation. Allows user to modify earth in a small area at his will. User need to stand on the ground to do this jutsu.
Jinton: jinryuukamu - (bloodline jutsu) Dust style: dust dragon bite - creates a dragon head from the dust. the head will fly forward and byte the first thing in its way.
Chikara no tou - (samurai technique) Chakra blade - Crescent-shaped cutting wave of chakra, released from samurai's blade.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Naruto or its characters

"speaking"
'thinking'
"speaking of higher beings / Naruto while using yoki / jutsus / Iruka's 'demon head' speaking"
'thinking of higher beings'

This chapter is yet to be beta-read.

chapter 15: Lucky girl

The next morning Sachiko woke up to the most pleasant sensation she had ever felt. Still sleepy and with her eyes closed, she tried to reach for her boyfriend, only to find out that he wasn't in the bed next to her. This, along with a powerful jolt of pleasure, originating in her nether regions, awoke the white-haired kunoichi completely.

"Naru-kun..." She moaned out, her eyes closing back in pleasure that was assaulting her senses. The Kyuubi jinchuuriki looked up from between her legs.

"Good morning, Sachiko-chan." He said, before returning to licking her pussy enthusiastically. ...Not a couple of minutes later his ministrations brought his lover to her release, and, after drinking her cum, he continued licking her nether lips for more... And no matter how good the continuous orgasm felt for Sachiko, this was wearing her out, and there still were things she needed to do today. So she gently pushed her lover away from her core, before pulling him up onto herself and kissing him passionately – for the whitehead this seemed to be the easiest and fastest way to tell Naruto that he had done enough and more. And, maybe she was a pervert or something, but she found the taste of her own juices to be nice, at least when she tasted them from the lips of her beloved... Rolling them over, so that she was now the one on top, Sachiko broke the kiss and looked into Naruto's eyes.

"Good morning, Naru-chan." She said in whisper, sitting up, her nether lips pressed to his rock-hard erection – she had pulled pulled his boxers off him while they were kissing and he was on still on top. Loving the sensation, she rubbed their sexes together, making them both moan in pleasure. "As much as I would love to in the bed with you the whole day, Naru-chan, there are other things to be done..." Sachiko smiled a bit, seeing the pout on her lover's face: he enjoyed these moments of intimacy just as much as she did. "But we can always be naughty later." The whitehead added. Leaning forward, she placed a loving kiss on his lips, before getting off him and heading to the bathroom...

Some fifty minutes later Sachiko was sitting in the Yamanaka clan's main house's guestroom, waiting for her last session with Inoichi to start. So far, the man was a bit late from his shift in the interrogation department – most likely because the man decided to stop by some bar to relax a little after a tiresome night at work.

"Oh, hi there, Sachiko-chan!" Said Ino, who entered the room as she was returning to her bedroom. "Here for your session with tou-san?" The whitehead just nodded. "I think he'll be late a bit more: there was a group of new important prisoners delivered to the HQ yesterday for interrogation, so he had a lot of work this night, especially with his partner being on leave till the end of the week." Sachiko nodded again: it seems that she'll have to wait.

"And you're back from training?" She asked the Yamanaka heiress.

"Yeah, Asuma-sensei let us finish earlier today, 'cause we are getting a C-rank outside of the village this afternoon." Normally, the bearded jounin trained them till lunch, and an hour later the team was in the Hokage tower for their daily mission.

"Good luck then." The white-haired kunoichi said to her fried.

"Thank you." Ino replied. "But I still wish my prince charming was there, on my team, ready to save me, should the things go wrong." Sachiko blushed a bit, as she thought about her own prince charming and what they did both yesterday evening and this morning. The platinum-blond girl noticed this, but before she could start teasing her friend, Sachiko spoke:

"Ino-chan, I know, you like Sasuke, but he doesn't seem to be interested in girls like that right now... Maybe you should try and look for another potential boyfriend?"

"But Sasuke-kun is the best!" The Yamanaka heiress replied in her old fangirl'ish way, which earned her a light glare from the white-haired kunoichi: Sachiko disliked fangirls. "Fine! But he is still good." Ino said, crossing her arms on her chest. The whitehead in front of her shrugged: for her Naruto was the ideal... The blond girl looked at the clock. Damn! She still needed to pack for her mission! So bidding Sachiko farewell, she continued on her way to her bedroom...

Inoichi, looking rather tired and slightly out of breath – it was like he ran back home from the ANBU headquarters not to make his 'patient' wait for too long – and immediately invited the white-haired kunoichi to his personal study, where their sessions in the past days had been held. And once again the head of the Yamanaka clan was talking with her about what was bothering her... Like she did before, Sachiko tried to avoid talking about her personal life, especially the naughty things she did with her boyfriend, but knowing how good a psychologist the blond mindwalker was, she wouldn't be too surprised if he guessed those...

By the end of their hour long session, Inoichi was satisfied with the psychological state of the white-haired kunoichi and said that for now they wouldn't need to meet more. Sachiko thanked him for the time he spent on her – after all it was him, who allowed her understand what was that she desired with Naruto... Bidding the blond man farewell, the chuunin whitehead left the Yamanaka clan compound and headed back home, doing a stop at the nearest shop for some groceries...

It the afternoon, the team five had a training of their own, and Iruka-sensei pushed them quite hard today, giving them the task of capturing one of his shadow clones without dispelling it – the scarred jounin did this to see, whether his team could capture an enemy chuunin or jounin without killing him or her. And to make the things even harder, he made only four clones that all acted independently and in different parts of the training grounds, imitating scout ninja...

Naruto and Sachiko, whose arsenal consisted mostly of the powerful techniques, capable of destroying large groups of opponents, 'killed' two clones, before learning what jutsu and how they should use to complete their 'mission'. The third clone was captured by Sai's animated drawings, but 'committed suicide' before it could have been completely immobilized... But the trio was learning from their mistakes, and the fourth clone couldn't escape them.

Iruka was pleasantly surprised by this, as he wasn't sure that his team was ready such tasks... But it still took them quite some time, and they would have to wait till tomorrow morning to get their next mission, so the scarred jounin dismissed his team.

Since the day was still hot and sunny, Sachiko decided that there was no reason her and Naruto to sit home, so she dragged him to the river. Finding a secluded backwater, where they wouldn't be disturbed, the duo bathed there. Naked, as they had nothing to hide from each other... As they were waiting for the evening sun to dry them, the white-haired girl rolled over to her boyfriend and started playing with his cock with her fingers, quickly bringing it to its full mast.

"Mm..." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki moaned to her ministration, his eyes still closed. But when felt the weight settle on top of him, moments later followed by Sachiko taking his erection into her mouth, he opened them, finding her crotch next to his face. Raising his head a bit, Naruto sent his tongue snaking into her wet pussy, causing his girlfriend to moan oh so delightfully around his cock... The white-haired kunoichi was sucking his member enthusiastically, loving the combined feeling of his hot dick in her mount and his a bit rough tongue in her core, working her towards her orgasm... Several minutes later, Sachiko came, her juices flowing freely from her sweet pussy, as she moaned around his shaft in pleasure, sending delightful vibrations through it. These pushed the Kyuubi jinchuuriki over the edge, and he erupted into his girlfriend's mouth with the load of his seed. When she couldn't fit more, she let his cock out of her mouth – the rest of his cum ending on her face – and sagged backwards a bit while savoring the taste of her 'prize'... After she swallowed the spunk she had in her mouth, Sachiko cleaned her face with her tongue and fingers, before turning around and laying back down onto her boyfriend's chest, while sending her left hand down to massage his balls and get him ready for another round.

"That was incredible!" The white-haired kunoichi whispered hotly to her lover as she laid her head on his shoulder, as he hugged her closer to himself with one hand... Even though his erection was already back, the whitehead didn't want to ruin this moment of their closeness yet, and, thus, remained as she was for now. ...Finally, Sachiko decided that it was time for the second round and sat up, placing herself in such a way that his dick was pressed between his stomach and her pussy lips. To the white-haired girl it felt like a good alternative to penetration – she didn't feel ready for that yet – and Naruto seemed to enjoy this too. Taking his hands in her own, the whitehead started grinding their sexes together, making them both moan from pleasure...

This time they both lasted a bit longer, even though the amounts of pleasure they felt from the act were greater. Once they came, they cuddled under the evening sun for a bit more, before washing each other clean and, drying themselves with the towels – they were now always having essentials, sealed in the scrolls, with them. And after some more cuddling, though this time with their clothes on, they called it a day and headed back home...

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The next morning the team five started with visiting the Hokage tower to get a mission to do. Despite an early hour, Hokage-sama was already in the Briefing hall, giving missions out to some jounin and an ANBU team... When it was finally their turn, Iruka-sensei said something to the aged village leader, and Sarutobi, who was already stretching his hand towards the C-rank mission scrolls, changed his mind and picked a B-ranked one instead.

"Well... The Tanzaku gai samurai guards are requesting our help to deal with their bandit problem. They suspect that there is either a rogue samurai or a missing-nin among the outlaws as they are too good at evading their patrols." Hokage said as his eyes scanned the contents of the scroll.

"Team five accepts the mission." Iruka said, before accepting the scroll from his superior. The scarred jounin lead his team to the side, so that they wouldn't keep others waiting for their missions, and read the information from the scroll himself. "The mission should last for about three weeks, including the time needed to get to Tanzaku gai and back. And even though it is almost positive that we will have to fight a chakra user, I don't foresee you having any problems there. So, pack for a normal mission. We're meeting at the west gates in an hour."

"Hai!" Naruto, Sachiko and Sai replied simultaneously. Their sensei nodded, acknowledging that they had no questions about the mission right now.

"Dismissed." He said, before shunshin'ing away. Sai followed the suit a couple of seconds later, disappearing via his personal 'ink' variation of the jutsu. The remaining two members of the team five shrugged and walked out of the Briefing hall: they were already packed for a mission and since there was nothing special they should have added to their equipment, they were ready to go right away. They headed to the ramen bar Naruto liked so much: they needed something to do for this hour, after all...

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It took team five about six full days and some more to reach Tanzaku gai, and once they were there, Iruka immediately had they go to the samurai guards headquarters to collect any helpful information about the bandits they were to deal with... It appeared that the brigands were attacking merchants that were transporting either durable clothes or equipment that could be used for weapons, like axes, scythes, hammers and the likes, or they attacked the places where they could easily get a lot of cash. It looked like someone was trying to create a small army of the outlaws... Samurai commander also provided them with the map with places, where the attacks had been, marked.

Thanking the samurai guards for their help, the team five headed out of the town and towards the forest where the most of the attacks had happened. Once there, Sai released a large group of animated ink rats and snakes to search for the bandits there. He also wanted to create a bird for himself to look for them from the air, but Iruka said 'no' to him, telling that this could alert brigands that they were here.

Only a couple of hours later, and just about an hour before the sunset, one of Sai's drawings located the bandits' camp. Unfortunately, it ran low on chakra and had to return to its creator with the 'report' before it could investigate the camp thoroughly. Still, from what the rat saw, there was roughly forty outlaws in the camp and at least two of those had katanas like those Fire country samurai were armed with... Most likely those were rogue samurai. Not really good, but not bad either, as samurai were generally on the level of a strong genin or a weak chuunin.

Iruka decided that they would attack the bandits' camp early in the next morning, and right now they were to head back to Tanzaku gai and report their findings to the city guards, before getting some rest... But as they were returning to the city, a small group of five bandits appeared in front of them. Though, as soon as they recognized that these were ninja in front of them, they tried to run away.

"Don't let them get away." Iruka-sensei ordered. "Capture them, or, if you can't, kill." His team nodded and took after them. Thanks to their superior training as shinobi, they quickly caught up with the brigands.

"Chouju giga!" At this point Sai didn't even need to stop to animate his beasts, and several large snakes sprang from his scroll, tying two bandits down before they could do anything to escape the 'attack'. At the same time, Naruto and Sachiko almost simultaneously ran through their handseals:

"Doton: keisei!" They said together, while making the earth rise and capture two other outlaws into a stone prisons. Their jounin-sensei, though, didn't show off, and knocked the fifth bandit out with just a blunt side of kunai to the back of his head.

After the other four brigands were knocked out, the team five continued on their way back to the Tanzaku gai, with their clones, carrying the captured bandits following closely behind them.

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Early in the next morning, well before the sunrise, the team five crept through the forest towards where Sai's rat located the bandits' camp. Hopefully, those five outlaws they captured yesterday weren't missed yet, and the others weren't expecting an attack right now... As there were only four brigands awake (barely), and none of them was a 'samurai', it appeared that there will be little problem with the attack execution.

"OK, team." Iruka said in a whisper. "We need to capture 'samurai' alive, as the Tanzaku gai samurai guard wanted to deal with them themselves. What you do to the rest, they don't particularly care, so you can not bother with not killing them." His students nodded. "Now, Sai, I want you to sent several snakes to take the guards out."

"I shall do that." The pale boy said, as he opened his scroll and quickly drew eight pretty large serpents. "Chouju giga!" The snakes were animated and, leaving the scroll, they slithered into the bandits' camp.

"When the guards are down, I, Naruto and Sachiko will attack." Iruka continued "Sai, I charge you with watching the perimeter of the camp until we deal with everyone inside. Your task will be not to let any bandits that are trying to run away out." The ink user nodded and, summoning four of his ink clones, followed his sensei's order. "Naruto, Sachiko, while we're in the camp, I want you to watch out for the 'samurai': don't let them mix with the other bandits if you are using powerful jutsu – remember, we need them alive."

"Hai, Iruka-sensei." The two lovebirds said simultaneously, before returning to watching the camp guards as they waited for Sai's snakes to take them down... A couple of minutes later, all four were neutralized without being given even a chance to alert the rest of the camp about the attack.

"Go, go, go!" The scarred jounin said, and the operation began... Naruto, tearing through the tents in his 'juggernaut' mode woke up the bandits – those that weren't taken down by the Kyuubi jinchuuriki already – and they tried to regroup to counterattack, only to find the white-haired kunoichi was in their way.

"Sorry, guys, but you are on the wrong side of the law. Jinton: jinryuukamu!" A dragon formed from the dust charged at them, easily tearing through their ranks, as the bandits didn't have even a faintest idea of how to defend themselves from this attack...

"Chikara no tou!" One of the 'samurai', who joined the fight, yelled, sending a cutting wave of energy from his katana, aiming for Sachiko's head. The whitehead ducked under the attack, but this seemed to be exactly what the man wanted her to do, as he tried to behead her... He didn't expect her to be this good with stilettos, though, as the white-haired chuunin blocked his attack without any great difficulty, even if she had to use wind chakra to enhance her blades for this. The man jumped backwards, reading himself to unleash another ranged attack, but Naruto decided to intervene, and sent a powerful punch to the man's side, sending him onto the ground and knocking his weapon from his hands... Not giving the outlaw any chance to recover, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki knocked him unconscious with another powerful punch, this time aimed to the back of his head.

"Good work, team." Iruka-sensei said loudly, also telling Sai that the attack was over and he could rejoin his teammates. The scarred jounin was carrying two rogue samurai – there were not two, but three of them in the camp – over his shoulders, both knocked out. "Now, lets tie them up, collect their weapons and head back to Tanzaku gai to report that the mission is completed." His three students nodded.

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Feeling generous after the successful B-rank mission, Iruka decided that his team can have a day off, before they head back to Konoha. ...Well, an evening off, as the formalities they had to go through at the samurai guard headquarters took almost entire morning... After they got the rooms for tonight, the team five headed into the city for some lunch.

They chose one of the many bars there, but almost as soon as they entered it, they saw a busty blond woman in green jacket sitting behind one of the tables with a petite brunette with a pet pig on her arms next to her. Iruka led his team to that table.

"Good day, Tsunade-sama." He greeted the blond woman. Tsunade of the sannin looked up at him and returned the greeting with a nod. "Mind if my team will sit with you and your apprentice?" This was asked also because the bar was quite full at the moment and there was only one free table there... The blond sannin looked around, before nodding.

"Shizune, can you move a bit?" She asked. The brunette next to her nodded hastily and made some room for Iruka. Naruto, Sachiko and Sai sat across the table, with the white-haired kunoichi next to the wall and the Kyuubi jinchuuriki between her and Sai.

"Thank you." The scarred jounin said. "Allow me to introduce my team, Tsunade-sama." The blond sannin shrugged, before drinking (yet another) cup of sake. "To your left, there is Sai..." The pale boy nodded. "Next to him is Uzumaki Naruto..."

"Uzumaki, eh?" Tsunade asked. "Kushina's son then. They named you after a character from that pervert's book, you know." Apparently, the blond sannin was a bit drunk and more talkative than normal... Then she looked at the final member of the team five. "And you must be Sachiko, right?" The white-haired kunoichi raised her eyebrow.

"Not that I'm delighted, but I don't think that we're good enough for you to know my name, Tsunade-sama." She said, making the slug princess laugh.

"Girl, even if you were just a civilian, I would still recognize you. I was the one who named you, after all." White-haired kunoichi's surprise turned into a real shock: named by one of the sannin? "You were born on October tenth, when the Kyuubi attacked... I don't know what exactly happened at the hospital that night as I was on the battlefield, but when I got there, the maternal ward was no more, and you were the only survivor. Without anything more than a scratch... You were truly lucky that night, girl. That is why I gave you your name." Indeed, 'Sachiko' meant 'lucky girl'.

"T-thank you, Tsunade-sama." The white-haired chuunin said, not really sure what to reply... A silence settled over the table, as the members of the team five were eating their lunches and the blond sannin was finishing the latest jar of sake she had ordered... Finally Tsunade decided that it was time for her to go waste her life somewhere else – it was quite a known fact that did little more than gamble and drink in the past years.

"Alright, kids,.." She said, sounding to be in a relatively rare good mood of hers, when dealing with those from the Hidden Leaf. "Grow strong and powerful and make your village proud."

"Thank you, Tsunade-sama!" Naruto and Sachiko replied. Sai did too, just not as loudly. The slug princess then started walking away with Shizune following closely behind her, but when she was a couple of meters away from the table occupied by the team five, she stopped and turned around, looking at the white-haired kunoichi.

"And, Sachiko-chan, keep your boyfriend close. You don't want something happening to him like it happened to mine." She added, sounding sad in the end. Both Naruto and Sachiko blushed at being 'caught', but the whitehead thanked the blond sannin anyway... After that Tsunade and her apprentice disappeared into the busy streets of midday Tanzaku gai...

Some time later, when the team five finished their meals, Iruka set the rules for them for their free time in the city, before letting them go and do whatever they wanted. He himself remained at the bar and, ordering himself some more sake, got to thinking about his own life...

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