A reading of Ashikabi no Shinobi

Chapter 1

As I put the finishing touches into the reading room, I look out across the multiverse. Checking to see what my targets are currently doing. I do not want to pull them in while they are in mid combat since the teleportation will disorient them for a minute. That could get them killed when I return them. At least this dimension here has no time movement. That allows me to pluck them from their time line, and place them back almost instantly. At best there is a delay of about a minute where they will have vanished and returned. That can be talked away easily. I should introduce myself, but I will wait till my targets are here. I need to add in a few last minute precautions. Let's see here.

Chakra limiter? Check.

Sekirei power limiter? Check.

Strength limiter? Check.

Time manipulator? Check.

Auto-translating pills? Check. (This way we all understand each other. Sadly this will only work while in my dimension. Don't want them to leave with more abilities then necessary.)

Anti-pregnancy pills for the females? Double check.

Comfortable furniture? Check.

Food and drinks? Check.

Bedrooms and beds? Check. (They will eventually want to sleep.)

Alright. Everything is Ready to go. Now lets see. Naruto and all of team 7 are asleep. Looks like they just got back from rescuing Gaara. Hmm.. Sauske is also asleep. Looks like he just finished training. Lets hunt for a couple more from his world to join. Anko is always a good choice. And lets add in Tsunade. Both are drunk. I better add some hangover pills. *Snap* Snapping my fingers, I teleported them all into perspective bedrooms. They are still asleep. Good.

I look towards the Sekirei dimensions. I see Minato and his flock. All relaxing. Miya is relaxing in the bath alone. And who else? Hmmm. No. I will leave it as is. *Snap* Snapping my fingers again, I bring Minato and his flock, but I put them in a massive bed in a giant room. Miya gets her own room. Now to wake them up and watch the fun start. *Clap*

Naruto wake up groggy for a few seconds until he notices he is not at home. He then tries to spawn a few clones, but nothing happens. After a few tries, he starts to get nervous. He feels around the room, trying to find an exit. Sakura, and Sauske wake up, and tense up. Prepared for anything, they reach for their weapons, only to not find any. Yeah I was not going to let them be armed. Sauske tries a few jutsu, and fails completely, like Naruto. Kakashi gets up, noticing the room he is in, tries to do a small jutsu, but finding nothing , he opens his left eye. Only to reveal a normal black eye. Getting nervous at the loss of his Sharingan, Kakashi starts looking for an exit. Anko gets up, looks around, sees no exit, then lays back down, feigning sleep whole Tsunade tries to punch her way out. Only to break her hand. I start laughing at that.

Lets see what the other side does. Minato and his flock awake, and looking around they all get up. A few of them try their powers, only for nothing to happen. They start getting scared except for Musubi. Her ability in combat is not diminished, so they all get behind her. Minato starts looking around the room for a door or some way out. Miya gets up, sees where she is, and just walks over to her vanity to start doing her hair. I like her, she is very calm and collected.

Using a little of my power, I broadcast my voice "Relax, all of you. You are not captives, you are guests. I will open the doors in just a moment, once breakfast is ready. So please go and take a shower, change clothes, do what you need in your bathrooms." I snap my fingers and the doors to each of their en suite bathrooms open up. It takes about 45 minutes for all of them to be ready.

After they are ready, I speak to them again. "Sorry for the delay folks but I do have a couple more things to tell you. As I believe you will have questions. I will answer some that I know toy will ask. First, I have teleported you to my realm. Time as halted for each of you. Now while you can function like normal, you will not age, and when I return you. At most, only a minute will have passed. Also, you will notice you can't use any of your unique abilities. That is because I have nullified them. As long as you are in here, you will not be able to do any of your special skills. I have also limited your strength. Essentially, you are all as strong as the weakest one here. Any weapons you carry have also been taken up, but I will return them when you leave." I snap my fingers again to open their doors into the main room. The ninja immediately jump out and seeing each other they stop.

Minato and his flock slowly walk out. Musubi being first, as she is the only one capable of combat. Miya walks out as regal as any queen and heads into the main room. I nod to her politely motioning for her to go to the buffet tables. The food wont ever spoil, with time being halted so I can leave it there for as long as I want. The rest follow and slowly start tasting the food. Then start piling their plates and tearing into it. Wow sekirei eat a lot. I wonder if Naruto can out eat them.

I call out to the ninjas to hurry up or I am putting away the ramen and tomatoes. This causes Naruto and Sauske to hurry out, making me start laughing. I point to the buffet table which causes them to head that way rather quickly. Naruto sees a huge pot of ramen, which he tries to lift and take with him, but being unable to, settles for grabbing bowls and constantly going back for more. Sauske heads over to the tomatoes and tries some. There are fried, grilled, baked, whole, fresh sliced, and two types of tomato soup, plain and creamy, and chunky with vegetables. The other ninjas try to sneak in, but I pop in a searchlight and point it at them. The deer in the headlight look on Sakura was priceless. I tell them to hurry up and eat. And none of it is dangerous. Naruto agrees, but he already had fifteen bowls of ramen already. Sauske has had a few bowls of tomato soup as well as a few of every kind of tomato I had out.

"As you are eating I will explaining some more things. First, I have called you in here mainly to relieve boredom. No there are no hidden agendas here. I have a book that is an alternate dimension of both your sides. I would like us to read it. Now I have seen your lives many times over, in some instances, Naruto, you were born a female. In others, it was Sauske that was born female." The shock and fear that Sakura showed was priceless. Sauske showed nothing. I even showed a few pictures of what they looked like as female. It was to my surprise that Sakura reacted the way she did.

"Oh kami, they are both gorgeous!" ten covered her mouth at that. Naruto henged into it, just for fun. And smirked at her. The adults are sitting back calmly watching, or in Tsunade and Kazehana's case, drinking plenty of alcohol. Good thing it is nonalcoholic alcohol. They can't get drunk.

"I assume you took the pills I left for you?" They showed them in their hand. I sigh. Ninjas. "You are supposed to actually swallow the pills. One that everyone has will allow you to understand all languages spoken n here. The other... is basically a birth control pill. It keeps you from getting pregnant while you are in here. You have to take them both before we can start." none of the ninjas even look like they are going to. While Minato's group swallows them both. I glare at the ninjas waiting for them to. But it doesn't look like they will. "If you want to do this the hard way, so be it. I snap my fingers again, and the pills disappear. I teleported them into their stomachs. "There now was that so hard?" I said with a slight condescending attitude. The ninjas glare at me. "Keep it up and I take away the tomatoes, ramen, alcohol, and your book Kakashi."

Sakura raises her hand, to which I nod at her, giving permission to speak. "What will happen to our homes without us?" A very good question. "I like this one. She is smart and inquisitive. Basically nothing will happen to you and your world. Essentially time here does not move like you think. When you are returned, it will be about a minute after you left. So nothing could happen in that time. You will keep your memories of this place, as I will probably call you again for another reading after this one. The stories I will read, including this one, would be rated mature. Meaning there could probably be scenes of sex. The birth control is basically there inn case you wish to act out those scenes later on. As it would not do for say Matsu over there to be instantly pregnant with say Naruto's kid. The child would be stuck in this world. So the mother would not be able to leave while pregnant. Now, if lets say Sakura were to fall in love with Naruto, it would be fine, tho Hinata would have a problem with it." Naruto looks at me. "Man you are bad. I blame Kakashi on this." Said ninja give a one eyed sheepish look. "Hinata has been in love with her since you saves her from those bullies before the academy. I should grab her and bring her here too." *Snap* and Hinata appears in Naruto's lap, still asleep. I walk over there and quickly poke her and back away as she tried to strike me. This went a few times until Naruto slowly whispers that it is time to wake up. I tell him there are some cinnamon buns waiting, which is apparently the magic word, because she immediately wakes up alert, and runs to the buffet table to grab a plateful of them Still in her sleepwear, which is red and covered in foxes. I look at Sakura ans ask her to take Hinata to a bedroom and get her changed, as well as catch her up to the rest of us.

It doesn't take long before Hinata and Sakura return. Hinata being totally red faced and blushing. I hand her the pills explaining what they are for, and she swallows them immediately. And goes to sit next to Naruto, while still munching on her cinnamon buns. "By the way, the buffet table refills automatically, so we literally have a never ending supply of your favorites." Which most of them beam brightly at me. The rest just nod.

"The book I brought you here to enjoy with me is called Ashikabi no Shinobi. The author is a bit of a seer when it comes to viewing dimensions. He writes what he sees and goes by the name of The Engulfing Silence. He has seen events from multiple realms, involving different versions of you guys, as well as people completely different and unknown to you. In other dimensions, either of you could be a villain, a hero, or even nonexistent. I have seen some where you Naruto end up destroying your home, and killing everyone there. I have seen realms where ninjas do not exist. I have seen some where Sakura and Hinata here end up pregnant by now, with the fathers being the ones next to them." Both girls turned red and buried their faces in said guys shoulders, smiling at the thought. "I have seen some where both of you joined a harem with Naruto, as well as a few others. I have also seen one where Hinata is a male and Naruto is a female. The possibilities are endless."

"Before we start. I would like you to introduce yourselves to the rest of us. I insist you give your full introductions, instead of your name. I will answer some questions if they are not in the story. We will start with you Minato." (I wont give the whole introduction, just an abbreviation of it below.

Minato- (stuttering) Hello, I am Minato, unemployed, pleasure to meet you. I am also known as the Ashikabi of the North.

Musubi- (Excited) Hi! I am sekirei number 88, Musubi. I'm a fighting type!

Kusano-(shy) I am Kusano. Sekirei number 108.

Matsu-(calm) I am sekirei number 02 Matsu, the brain sekirei.

Tsukiumi-(classic tsundere) I am sekirei 09 Tsukiumi, the water sekirei, and the most powerful of one of all.

Kazehana-(Giggly) I am sekirei number 03 Kazehana, the wind sekirei.

Homura-(Professional) I am Homura. Sekirei number 06 the fire sekirei, and was formerly the sekirei guardian.

Miya-(motherly) I am Miya. I own the inn where these are my tenants.

I wait to see if she says anything about her being sekirei 01. but she doesn't. Oh well. Next we will have the ninja side

Naruto-(excited) I am Naruto Uzumaki, ninja of Konoha, and I will become Hokage!

Sakura-(calm) I am Sakura Haruno, kunoichi of Konoha, and one of their best medics.

Sauske-(stick up his ass) I am Sauske Uchiha

Hinata-(shy and stuttering) My name is Hinata Hyuga, kunoichi of Konoha

Anko-(smirking) I am the number one sexiest kunoichi in Konoha, the one and only Anko Mitarashi.

Tsunade-(slightly hung over) I am Tsunade. The Hokage of Konoha. I am it's leader, and most powerful kunoichi the village has ever had.

Kakashi-(reading his book, looking bored) I am Kakashi Hatake. I am the sensei to the blonde, pinkette, and the emo.

I snap my fingers and lock Kakashi's book closed so as not to distract him, or us for that matter. A most of the ninja just laughed at him. I tell him it will stay locked during out reading sessions. And if he is late coming back from sleeping, I will teleport him here without any clothes on and make him stay that way for the rest of the day. Kakashi shivers and nods, putting his orange book up. I also told him if he wants to read it, he can read it to all of us. Seeing a scared Kakashi is funny.

"Ok. Now was to start, I will draw a name out of this hat. It has all of your names in here. The one I pick will read. It will be done a chapter at a time. This story has long chapters. Which means at best you should only get to read 3 chapters each. Some may even only get two. First up... is Sakura." I toss her the book for her to get started.

AN: This is a reading of Ashikabi no Shinobi written by The Engulfing Silence, and done with his permission. I do not own any part of this story. This is also my first reading. Which I hope to do a lot more after this. Provided I get some good responses. I will only do readings of completed stories as well as I will more or less finish the whole thing before I start posting. I will post them in a few a day just so I can get some reviews and suggestions to mix into it. Please do not review anonymously as I will have no way of contacting, and I will not put responses in a chapter. This will probably be the only Author's Note you will see from me. I do not like padding stories with them just to give it a longer word count. Please read and review. They help me out with how I do things, and I want to make it more enjoyable for you guys. Thank you.