Chapter 13: The Confrontation

After Naruto left, those still in his apartment weren't sure what to say or do. Then the three girls gave their fathers certain looks, ones that could be described as a mixture of hurt, anger, offense, and sadness. The fathers in return gave them looks of parental sternness, disappointment, and small bits of confusion. Both sides looked like they had something to say, yet no one looked like they knew how to start, or if someone else wanted to start first.

Sakura broke the silence, never one to enjoy awkward silences. "Okay, can someone explain to me what just happened?"

"I think you girls owe us an explanation first." Inoichi insisted.

"We were trying to help Naruto with a mental issue of his, Dad." Ino replied, the word 'dad' with a less than loving bite to it.

"With a sex jutsu?" Inoichi asked.

"Sex jutsu?" Hiashi, Kizashi, Hinata, and Sakura repeated, surprised to hear him say that.

"What the hell are you talking about Yamanaka?" Hiashi asked.

"It was just a jutsu to let us talk to each other." Hinata clarified, blushing a bit at the implication. As well as the fact that Inoichi wasn't entirely wrong with his daughter's use for the jutsu.

"And you couldn't do that just sitting here like normal people?" Kizashi asked.

"You shouldn't have been here anyway Ino." Inoichi stated.

Ino's frown got worse. "And what the hell does that mean?"

"Can we get back to this 'sex jutsu' and save the family disputes for our own houses?" Hiashi requested.

Inoichi nodded. "Fair enough. My daughter here had been doing a clan jutsu that allows two people, or more than two people, to have private conversations with no risk of being overheard. We use it to safely spread information with no paper trail, or give someone a safe place to discuss something without being overheard."

"Gee, that is so erotic." Kizashi said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

"That's the official use for it. However, it's rarely used for that compared to how it's really used." Inoichi continued. "Nine out of ten times, couples use it to sneak in quick dates on the job, or relieve stress. You can imagine what exactly that means."

The implication sinking in, Kizashi and Hiashi looked to their daughters. Hinata kept her blush and did look nervous, but to her credit she didn't wither under her father's gaze. Sakura looked resolved, but at the same time half-expecting her father to explode.

To her surprise, he laughed.

"Inoichi, you expect us to believe that my daughter would be trying to have mind-sex with Naruto Uzumaki?" Kizashi asked mirthfully.

'That's... rude, but not unjustified.' The pinkette thought ruefully.

Hiashi in turn relaxed as well. "While my daughter would probably be pleased at the chance to 'have mind-sex' as Haruno-san put it..." Hinata looked like she wished she knew how to become invisible right then. "...I find it very hard believe she would be willing to do so with others watching, let alone participating. Unless you wish to say my daughter was consenting to an orgy."

"I know what I saw, and need I remind you that these girls are teenagers." Inoichi defended. "Besides, if I am wrong, then what were they doing?"

"Why don't you ask us instead of them?" Ino asked.

"Sakura dear, what were you doing with Naruto?" Kizashi asked, hoping he could get something more sensible out of his daughter than Inoichi likely could out of his. Or Hiashi out of his own too at the moment.

"Okay, the three of us learned recently that Naruto has been having some... mental issues, I'm not sure what the best word to use here is. We all realized we were partially responsible for, or in some way contributed to, and so we wanted to make things right by helping him come to terms. Since he can't trust most of the adults in this village, we decided we would do it. Ino decided that the Mind Share Jutsu would help us all talk to him and reassure him of no harm to come."

"Why would you need to do that?" Kizashi asked.

Sakura fidgeted for a moment. "Because one of his issues is... a fear of women. We were trying to show him that he didn't have to be afraid of us."

"By having sex with him." Inoichi bitterly remarked.

"We were not having sex Dad!" Ino raised her voice. "Besides, even if we were, it's not real sex! It's no more real sex than watching hentai is!"

"In our clan virginity is just as much mental as it is physical Ino!"

Hiashi and Kizashi looked at the Yamanaka patriarch with surprise.

"That was probably the most conservative parent thing I've ever heard in my life." Kizashi noted.

"You're not part of a clan so you can't judge how we do things." Inoichi proclaimed. "And you Hiashi, don't pretend you don't have rules about using your eyes for voyeurism. You've got sexual uses for jutsu too and customs to accommodate them as well, so you can't judge me either."

Hiashi narrowed his eyes. "As right as you are Yamanaka-san, I would rather she have imaginary sex than real sex."

"Same here. The worst that can happen from where I'm standing is an imaginary pregnancy." Kizashi added, chuckling a little.

Inoichi looked ready to object, but Hiashi beat him to it. "Seriously Yamanaka-san, even if they were having a mental orgy with Uzumaki, what is the worst thing that could have happened?"

"Would you want them to do it again?" Inoichi asked. "Or move on to the real thing?"

Hiashi briefly glanced to his daughter before returning his eyes to his fellow clan head. "If my daughter's intentions are pure, I would be quite accepting of her pursuing a normal teenage relationship with Uzumaki."

Hinata's eyes went wide, as did Ino and Sakura, but her heart skipped a beat too. "R... really Father?"

"Let's save this discussion for home Hinata." He suggested.

"As for me, I never thought about Sakura being with Naruto." Kizashi claimed. "Though if she's changed her mind about that, I say let her figure things out for herself. Besides, it's not like she can't change her mind again if things don't work out."

'For me though, I'm not so sure that's going to be easy.' Sakura thought.

Inoichi huffed and stepped away. "Well you can do what you want with your daughters, but I don't want mine having that kind of relationship with Uzumaki. Imaginary or not."

"What the fuck is your problem Dad?" Ino demanded, actually stomping her foot on the floor. "You never told me to stay away from Naruto before! So why now?"

"A platonic or professional relationship I can handle. But a sexual or romantic one, not going to happen." He stated, not even bothering to look at her.

Ino silently stared at her father, outraged by his dismissal of someone she considered a dear friend. "What are you going to do if I pursue one? Would you disown me?"

That made him look at her in surprise. "What?"

"What if I do decide to date Naruto? What if I have sex with him? What if I fall in love? Do you hate him so much that you would throw me away rather than accept him?"

"Hate? I don't hate Naruto."

"Seriously?" Everyone in the apartment said simultaneously.

"Inoichi, you tried to hit him when we got here." Kizashi reminded the adult mindwalker.

"That was because he was trying to have mind-sex with my daughter."

"In a jutsu that only your daughter here could have performed. Which means that if they were having mind-sex it was completely consensual on her part." Hiashi pointed out. "You shouldn't have taught her that jutsu if you didn't want her using it."

Inoichi frowned. "I didn't teach it to her. Her mother did."

Kizashi was surprised to hear that. He had met the woman and never would have suspected that a well-behaved woman like Inoichi's wife would have taught her daughter a jutsu that her clan primarily used for secret sex.

"Still, the point remains that your daughter initiated the situation." Hiashi reminded them. "Whatever issues you have regarding Uzumaki, I suggest you come to terms with it. Lest you lose your daughter to the very thing you're afraid to lose her to."

Inoichi conceded with a nod then looked to his daughter. "We're going home Ino. And we're going to have a long talk."

"Give me a moment, I left my panties in the bathroom in case we wanted the real thing." Ino bitterly joked, smirking at the expression her father got from that. 'That probably got me grounded, but it was worth it.'


The three sets of fathers and daughters left Naruto's apartment, being courteous enough to lock it when they left and put away the leftover breakfast they hadn't finished eating, and each headed home separately. None of them talked along the way, agreeing to wait until they had the privacy of their own homes to discuss anything.

"Father, I can assure you that nothing-" Hinata started when she and Hiashi had made it to the Hyuuga estate, and after he led them into his personal study and closed the door.

"Relax Hinata, if I believed you had done anything intimate I would have taken you to a medic instead of here." He cut in. "Sit down, get comfortable."

She took a seat and he did the same opposite her. "Were... were you sincere when you... when you said...?"

"Why would I not be?" He asked.

"Because... I was so sure that you would object to my choice of romantic interest. That you would consider him unfit or unworthy or even dangerous. I was even afraid that you would attempt to murder him if you were truly that opposed to us being together."

"I can imagine several clan elders could feel that way, but let me share something with you Hinata." He started, taking a moment to lean back in his chair. "I've been aware of your interest in Uzumaki for some time. If you thought you were being subtle, you weren't doing it as much as you think."

"I wasn't trying to be subtle." She countered. "I just knew it was better to be Naruto-kun's friend than not to have Naruto-kun in my life at all."

"And you thought I wouldn't approve." Hiashi said, resulting in a nod. "Like I said, I've known for some time, and that's given me plenty of time to think of what I'd do if the situation ever did come up. After thinking it over, I decided that if you ever did pursue a relationship with Uzumaki I would give you the opportunity to see if it was what you wanted."

"Not to be ungrateful, but may I ask why?"

"To be honest, I wanted to test your resolve." He answered.

Hinata blinked twice in confusion. "My resolve? What do you mean?"

"You've been hoping for a relationship with Uzumaki since you were a genin. Back then that was likely childhood fantasy, but the desire continued as you got older. Yet you never made an actual attempt to it a reality. Even if you were bonding with Uzumaki on missions, the lack of anything else got me concerned. I knew from others that he had in the past expressed interest in another girl, but that was not enough for you to drop interest and seek companionship elsewhere. You were still hopeful for the chance to be with Uzumaki, yet you never did anything to make him aware of that. So I questioned your resolve. I wondered, I still do in fact, if it's not the reality you seek but the fantasy instead."

Hinata raised an eyebrow. "You think I like imagining a relationship with Naruto-kun over having a real one?"

Hiashi shrugged. "Until now I had to consider the possibility. I've learned some things about shinobi in my lifetime Hinata, and one of those things is that some people like having a dream but fear making it real. As long as something is a dream, it's perfect and everything you want. But the reality can be flawed, underwhelming, unsatisfactory. After all, a lot of children dream of becoming hokage, but how many of them actually make an effort to accomplish it?"

Hinata nodded. "I have heard Kiba say something like that once or twice, but yes he's never really made it a priority of his. Not that I've ever seen."

"That's what I wondered about you. Are you infatuated with the dream Uzumaki that can't refuse you, or the real Uzumaki that might not be the ideal boyfriend? Have you confessed interest in him?" Hiashi asked, and she nodded. "Has he reciprocated?"

"It's complicated. Like Sakura said, Naruto-kun is currently incapable of having a non-platonic relationship with a woman. He has not denied me, he has in fact expressed joy at my affection, but until he can be healed, he cannot reciprocate in the sense you are asking."

Hiashi was silent for a bit, looking like he was thinking it over. Hinata hoped that was a good sign.

"So, were you engaging in sexual activities in the Yamanaka's jutsu?" He asked.

Hinata naturally could not respond right away. "No, no we did not. Ino did make us aware that such a thing was possible, but we were more concerned on helping Naruto-kun be at peace than that." She paused to clear her throat. "And we intend to continue helping him so he can become a well adjusted person who can reciprocate a girl's feelings and become hokage someday. Despite some people not wanting that."

Hiashi surprised her with a smile. "I'm glad you're up for the challenge."

Hinata nodded with a smile as well. "Do you need me for anything Father? Because there is something I do have to do."

Hiashi gestured for her to leave. "You may go look for Uzumaki."


Back at the Yamanaka house, things weren't going as easily for the resident father and daughter.

"Now Ino, I know what you're thinking-"

"Yeah you made it loud and clear." Ino interjected, sitting down with her arms crossed.

Inoichi sighed and remained standing. "But I'm not doing any of this to hurt you. You may not know it, but it really is best for you to not get invested in Naruto Uzumaki in such an adult manner."

Ino's glare reminded him so much of her mother right there, and this particular glare was one of the worst ones. This was the kind of glare that practically declared 'You just messed with the wrong bitch' to those unfortunate enough to look into it.

"When Naruto told me about the fox, I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to believe that you weren't one of those creeps that hated him for it. That made his life worse. Apparently I was wrong."

Inoichi looked surprised and hurt by this. "He told you about the fox?"

Ino nodded. "Naruto trusts me. He wouldn't have let me inside his head if he didn't. And by the way, there was no fox in the mindscape Dad. So if that's not proof that Naruto is human I don't know what else is."

While the truth was that Naruto went into Ino's mind instead of her into his, Ino felt it still proved her point. And even though she wanted to bring up the issue with Sakura's dark side, now was not the time.

"You think I think he's the fox?" Inoichi asked. "Ino, don't you think I've ever checked his own mindscape before? The Sandaime had me do it in the past to make sure Naruto was mentally fit for becoming a ninja. I know full well that Naruto and the fox are separate beings."

Ino's glare lessened but did not dissipate. "Then what the hell is your problem with him?"

"Well for one thing I don't want you to have a sexual relationship with any boy just yet." He answered.

Ino rolled her eyes. "So you would have been okay if Sakura and Hinata were there but Naruto wasn't?"

Inoichi blushed at his daughter's suggestion. "No, get your mind out of the gutter. You're still my child and I don't want to think about you ever having a sex life."

"Well it's not like I planned on telling you when I have sex. Though if I ever get married or pregnant you're going to have to accept it does happen." She remarked.

"Ino, regardless of that, Naruto has caused trouble for our clan in the past. You being in a relationship with him would only make things worse for us." Inoichi claimed, trying to get her to listen to him.

"What, his pranks? You're still upset over that? Geez Dad I can't even remember anything specific he did back then. Do you intend to hold that against him forever?"

"Ino, surely you noticed that the Yamanaka are the only ones in Konoha with blonde hair right?" Inoichi explained. "With one exception?"

Ino looked confused. "Are you saying we could be related?" If her father was trying to protect her from incest, that could be forgivable.

The clan leader shook his head. "No, we're not related to Naruto. However, that hasn't stopped others from thinking we are. Holding us accountable for what he did. Judging us as if we were responsible for him. As if we were him. It only lessened when we kept our distance from him, and you being with him will undo all that."

Ino lost her glare, but it was replaced with something Inoichi probably considered worse. It was a mixture of surprise, disgust, and betrayal.

"I... I can't believe you." She said, getting to her feet and uncrossing her arms. "I can't be here right now."

"Ino don't go anywhere." He ordered, but she walked out anyway. He went after her but she tried to run off. Sadly for her, Inoichi was faster and caught up to her.

"We'll talk about this later Ino. But the situation isn't as simple as you think it is." He said, letting her go after he got her to stop.

Ino pulled away, frowning at her father. "If you hurt Naruto in any way Dad..." She didn't finish, but just walked away. This time Inoichi let her go, then went back home.


At home, Sakura had been waiting for her father to say something to hurt. Question her, reprimand her, yell at her, just do something. Yet he acted perfectly casual, like he just got home from work and wanted to relax. That made it worse for her.

"Aren't you going to say something?" She asked.

He looked to her. "Should I? Was there more to the situation that you didn't tell me?"

'Yes, but that can wait.' She thought. "How can you be so okay with this? Aren't you angry or even curious?"

Kizashi shrugged. "It's not like you actually did anything. Did you do anything I should punish you for?"

She shook her head. "No, I was honestly trying to help Naruto."

"That does confuse me. Over the years you made your opinion of your teammate very clear. I am curious as to what made you change your mind."

Sakura looked sheepish for a bit. "I grew up and realized how toxic my behavior and attitude towards Naruto was. I hurt him more than I ever had the right to, and I wanted to make up for my mistakes. I want to be a real friend to him, and if that leads to dating or... adult stuff, well, when and if it comes to that, we'll figure it out then. Until then, I have other priorities than losing my virginity."

"I guess that's the best I can ask of you, and it's better than you getting sexual immediately." Her father replied. "I do want to give you some advice though. Don't treat this like you did with Sasuke. You're too old to act like that anymore."

Sakura nodded. "Yeah, that's something I don't plan on doing."

"And since you're a trained medic, I'm sure I don't have to warn you about any of the dangers of sex or the need for birth control right?" He added.

She nodded again. "Tsunade-shishou and Mom were quite thorough on that regard."

"All I can ask is that you be responsible and mindful of your actions." Kizashi told her. "Is there anything else?"

Sakura was hesitant, but nodded for a third time. "Actually, there is. We found out something during Ino's jutsu. Something about my own mind."