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The sun was blaring down at the earth with all its brightness and glory. Giving off a serene calmness you can only find on an island in the middle of nowhere untouched by human influence. That calmness came to an abrupt halt when a rift opened up several feet in the air. A person shot out of it like a bullet before closing.

The person is one Naruto Uzumaki. A spiky blonde haired 18 year old, with whisker like birthmarks on his cheeks. The blonde's attire consists of a muscle shirt and mesh armour underneath; over them he wore a dark hooded waist coat with the hood currently pulled down from his head. He wore breeches with leather gaiters. On his hands and wrists he wore leather vambraces with metal plating adding another layer of protection.

The reason Naruto was not in his trademark orange clothing was because of a simple yet rather cliché reason: he was on the run from people he once trusted and he needed a disguise so no one pursuing him would be able to recognise him immediately.

He was seemingly unconscious and unresponsive as he fell from the sky. He was anything but.

He felt weightless as he fell. He could feel the wind brush against his skin unprotected by his clothes. With his eyes shut he almost felt as if he were flying. That trail of thought was brought to an abrupt end as, with a rough grunt, he hit the soft and sandy ground, flat on his back causing a cloud of sand to shoot up in the air around him. Coughing and hacking as the sand got into his mouth Naruto slowly, tiredly sat up and opened his eyes. Blinking and rubbing the sand out of his eyes the blonde haired teen looked around to see where he had ended up.

To his relief and dismay he had found himself on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere. Relief because he was safe and away from his pursuers. Dismay because he did not end up where he had intended to go. That portal he opened to get here in the first place was a risky move, considering he ended up on a seemingly isolated island, but beggars can't be choosers.

“Great...I'm stuck on an island...seemingly in...the middle of nowhere.” Naruto said to himself in between breaths. He rubbed his forehead with the sleeve of his coat and looked out towards the sea.

He had been chased by his former comrades and Hunter-nin from his birth place and other Hidden Villages. He had been moving constantly through the Elemental Nations with little to no breaks in order to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

All of this had happened, because he, at the request of Kurama and the other Tailed Beasts, allowed them to pass on to the Pure Land. They had given him bits of their chakra to keep as Kurama had a foreboding feeling his comrades, once they realised what he had done, would quickly turn on him.

Suffice to say Kurama's foretelling had come true. Just not in the way Naruto had been expecting. He was thankful he was able to sense negative emotions, because that literally saved him when his former comrades in Konoha tried to subdue him in his own apartment and suppress his chakra.

He quickly got out of Konohagakure when he realised all the ninjas were actively against him. He had to injure a lot of people when he fought his way out of there. Several of the Konoha 12 being among them. Unfortunately after he had went 'rogue' as Tsunade claimed, many ninjas from the Hidden Villages were sent to capture him. Dead or Alive.

Thankfully Suna's ninjas had orders from Gaara to not pursue after him. Neither of them argued as they knew what he was capable of.

Kiri, Kumo and Iwa on the other hand were not as understanding. They sent hunter-nin after him in order to force him to join their ninja forces. And if they were unable to get him to join them, then they had orders to eliminate him in order to prevent him from becoming a possible threat in the future.

Killer B thankfully had kept himself out of it. He did not want to force the teenager into servitude for Kumogakure by his hot-headed adopted brother. It also helped that Naruto had grown on the man.

For several months he wandered the land. For several months he kept moving. Never staying in one place too long in order to make sure no one could be able to catch up to him. He also made sure to stay away from any country he had saved or been to in the past. And his exploits in the Elemental Nations were very well known thanks to Konoha.

He learnt that the hard way when he had been nearly discovered hiding in the Land of Snow/Spring. It was also where he had gotten his new attire. Thank god for the hooded coat, it allowed him to blend in with the populace and walk past many a ninja who were actively searching for him.

After many years of running he was finally cornered at the border between Takigakure and the Land of Fire. A small army of Konoha-nin was waiting for him. And he had walked right into the thick of them. He was forced into combat and managed to kill several of them before he was forced to use an experimental technique that would send him to another place.

Only to find himself falling from the sky and ending up on the deserted island he is on now.

It seemed like years since he had just sat down and rest. It felt good to get a breather after running for so long. Once he's well rested he'll use his Six Path Sage transformation to try and open another portal to get out of this place. He quickly looked up towards the sky when he heard a 'whoosh' sound above him. Much to his surprise another rift opened up directly above him and not long after a woman dropped out. Instinctively Naruto quickly got to his feet and held out his arms to catch her.

He grunted and felt his knees buckle when he caught the woman safely in his arms. Before he could set her carefully down on the beach, he had to quickly jump back when he heard something cutting through the air above him just in time to see a large claymore sword embed itself on the ground he once stood. Blinking owlishly at the sword because of the sheer size of the thing, Naruto quickly gazed up when he heard the rift closing and brought his attention back to the woman in his arms once it finally closed.

The woman wore an uniform that consisted of a light grey two-piece tight-skin suit, with a mock-neck dickie marked with an odd looking symbol near the base of the throat. Over top of that, were several pieces of plate armour: shin-high, slightly heeled metal sabatons, large vambraces on her wrists, shoulder pauldrons and a fauld on her waist. Lastly she wore a short grey cape that reached her mid-back. The woman had long light platinum blonde like hair that fell to her chest in waves. Several locks of her hair had framed her face and hung in front of her forehead.

Naruto had to admit the strange woman was gorgeous. He carefully knelt down and set the mysterious woman on the sandy ground so she was lying flat on her back. Once that was done he slowly got back up and backed away until he was a safe distance away from her where he promptly sat down again. The blonde closed his eyes and massaged the sides of his head. Having previous experiences with woman (even if they were mostly negative), he eventually came to realise they tend to lash out at the closest person to them whenever they find themselves in some place or with someone they don't recognise. He assumed it would be the same in this situation.

And with that big ass sword that came with her... well... if she did lash out at him he wanted to have a head start on making a run for it. Then again he could have just made sure to part her with it but he was not that confident she would need it kick his ass seven ways to Sunday. There are few things that can sustain against the wrath of a female, and being on the receiving end of their wrath many, many times in the past by people who shall not be named – Sakura and Tsunade - he knew they only needed their fists to do a lot of damage. He had seen Tsunade punch Jiraiya into the stratosphere a few times when he annoyed her with his perverted tendencies.

While Naruto was thinking the woman that fell out of the rift was already completely aware of her surroundings. She had been awake after she landed in Naruto's arms; the reason the ninja didn't notice was because the woman made her body slacken in his grip so he would think she was unconscious. When Naruto put her on the ground on her back she partially opened her eyes to find out where she was. Seeing a clear blue sky, the woman slowly opened her eyelids completely revealing a striking pair of silver eyes. Leaning her head up the woman took a quick look at her surroundings.

Like Naruto she quickly came to the conclusion that she was on an island in the middle of nowhere. To the left, the woman found her claymore sword a few yards away from her embedded in the sand. To her right the spiky blonde haired teenager in strange clothing that caught her mid-drop was sitting cross-legged in the sand with his eyes closed appearing to be sleeping.

She found the whisker like markings on his cheeks, while odd looking, to be suitable on him. It reminded her of a fox. She had found his clothing to be a little strange but not out of the ordinary. Looking around again the woman couldn't help but frown at the unknown place she had found herself in. She didn't know how she ended up here, but that boy was the only person around that could provide her with information. When she made to get up and get her sword she heard movement and quickly turned and stared at the whisker faced blonde who she found was now standing on his feet – to which she wondered how he got up so fast - and was staring at her cautiously.

Now that he was standing to his full height she was able to get a better look at him. His attire was indeed odd but not out of the ordinary. On his upper body the teen wore what she perceived to be a low cut tunic, with leather armour underneath. Over that was a dark hooded waist coat. For his lower body he wore breeches with leather gaiters. Finally for his hands and wrist he wore leather vambraces with metal plating.

The two stared at one another in intensive silence. One stared with narrowed, yet curious silver eyes the other with cautious blue.

“...Hello.” Naruto calmly and cautiously greeted the woman. The attractive silver eyed woman blinked at him seemingly in surprise but didn't respond. “Can you...understand me?” He questioned the woman slowly and politely. He really hoped she does understand him otherwise he was going to have a really hard time communicating with her.

Much to his relief the woman nodded in confirmation. “I can understand you.” The woman confirmed politely in perfect English, with a bit of an accent. He found her voice to be pleasant on the ears. She looked around her surroundings again before stopping at Naruto once more. “Do you know where I am?”

“Unfortunately not.” He replied carefully. “You arrived here in the same manner as I did. So I'm just as in the dark as you are.” Which was true as she did arrive in the same manner as he did, and he has no clue on where they are.

The woman sighed in disappointment before nodding in acceptance. She turned and grabbed the hilt of her claymore and effortlessly pulled it out of the sand with one hand, before putting the sword in one of the slots for her sword that was between her pauldrons. The second slot was there in case wearer was left handed. “Trapped on an island in the middle of nowhere. Can it get any worse than this?” She rhetorically asked while rubbing the side of her head in dismay.

“Well you could be trapped on this island by yourself.” Naruto not so helpfully pointed out to her. When the woman deadpanned at him, Naruto coughed into his hand and nervously looked away.

He looked back when he heard her walking to him. “Since we're going to be together here we may as well introduce ourselves.” She stopped in front of him and held out her hand. “My name is Flora.”

“Flora? That's a nice name for someone pretty like you.” He said honestly; taking the woman by surprise with his honesty. He grabbed her hand firmly and shook it. “My name is Naruto.”

“Naruto?” Flora questioned, her surprise turning to slight amusement at the strange name. “That's an odd name.”

Naruto released his grip on her and lowered his hand to his side. “My parents named me after a character from a book, who's author got the name after some ramen topping he ate.” Naruto explained as he shrugged helplessly.

He was honoured to have been named after the main character from his favourite book his late teacher Jiraiya wrote. But when people mistakenly think his name means the ramen topping instead of its other meaning – Maelstrom – it got pretty annoying. After a while it got tiring trying to correct people who'd mistaken it, so he just went with the flow.

“Flora I have a quick question, just to state my curiosity;” Flora looked at Naruto questioningly and gestured for him to continue. “Are you a member of a clan? Your eyes look similar to a bloodline limit.”

Flora narrowed her eyes perplexity at him. “Clan? Bloodline limit? What are you talking about?” She questioned Naruto with a confused look.

“A clan is basically a family with traits that makes them stand out with others.” Naruto began seeing the genuine bewilderedness on her face. Pointing at her hair he added, “Hair colour is a prime example of a trait that is shared with a clan.” Which was true since apart from their longevity, large chakra reserves, and seals the Uzumaki clan were also known for their red hair.

Flora looked at her hair contemplatively. Warriors like her did have similar shades of unnatural light-coloured hair. Like platinum-blonde, silver or light brown.

“A bloodline limit are abilities that are passed down through blood. There are many different types of bloodline limits such as growing bones out of your body and using them as weapons, to ocular abilities.” Naruto paused as he stared at her silver eyes. “In fact... where I came from your eyes could be classed as a bloodline limit.” He added after a moment of silence.

Flora while touching the bottom of her right eye leaned back a little she was a little unsure at the look he was giving her. He seemed...captivated by them?

“My eyes?” She questioned him.

Naruto nodded. “Yes. Your eyes are – no offense to you – an odd colour. There were two clans that I know of that also have odd coloured eyes. One clan had white irises with no pupil and would grant the user a 360 degree field of vision when being used. The other clan had dark almost black/brown eyes, but when activated the irises would turn red with three tomoe's appearing around it, and depending on how many tomoe's the user has it will allow them to know their opponents next moves, to copy attacks and how they are used perfectly no matter how fast they are, and gives the user incredible perception. It can evolve to two other stages that makes it one of the most overpowered, cheap and cheating bloodline limits I have encountered in my life.” He said his tone dropping into a bland tone towards the end.

Giving the user the ability to see things before they happen, copy hand signs for a technique that they see, and allowing them to recognise illusions and other forms of chakra. Let's not forget the ability to evolve it where they can cast an illusion that traps you in your own mind for three days, or being able to get inside your own head without your consent; and able to unleash black fire that burns for seven days and seven nights, and creating a gigantic humanoid being that protects them.

And let's not forget that it can evolve into the fucking Rinnegan of all things!

So yeah. An overpowered, cheap and cheating bloodline limit he had ever encountered in his short-lived ninja career. Good thing he killed that prick Sasuke through beheading and crushing his skull so his stupid eyes couldn't be recovered, when the moron tried to help those fuckers from Konoha in trying to capture him when he deserted. He took great satisfaction in making sure his corpse was wrecked beyond recognition so they couldn't take his sperm to create more Uchiha in the future. Their clan was officially extinct after Sasuke's 'premature' death at his hands.

“I was not offended by your statement about the colour of my eyes.” Flora replied with an amused smile after Naruto finished giving her a brief explanation on what a clan and bloodline limit was. “I can understand why you think I am from a 'clan' considering what you have told me.”

“That's good.” Naruto said with a relieved sigh. “I was afraid I had offended you.”

“It's understandable.” Flora reassured him with a smile. “What you said wasn't insulting. And from what you've told me, these 'clans' and 'bloodline limits' do sound interesting.” She also had a feeling he wasn't from anywhere on This World with what he had been describing to her. She had never heard of any clans or bloodlines where she came from. Following that trail of thought she took notice of his whisker markings on his cheeks and wondered if they were a sign of him being part of a 'clan', or are just a birth mark.

“I wonder if you're part of a clan? Considering you have those whisker marks on your cheeks?” She said while pointing at her own cheek as to emphasize her point.

“I am and was related to a clan. On my mothers side.” Naruto answered slowly; looking almost hesitant to answer. That was still a sore point for him. Finding out he was related to a very famous clan that as far as his former home considered, did not exist. Even though they had his Clan symbol as a crest for their uniforms. Talk about arrogant; flaunting his clan crest as if it were a badge of honour yet act as if the Uzumaki clan didn't exist. There was barely any knowledge of the clan itself in Konoha's library and the information that was there was scarce at best.

Hell the only reference of his clan was Mito Uzumaki, who was the First Hokage Hashirama Senju's wife, thus in turn making her Tsunade Senju the Fifth Hokage of Konohagakure' grandmother. So Tsunade is related to him through Mito Uzumaki, making her a distant cousin to him.

Flora took note of the hesitation and the disdain in Naruto's expression but dismissed it for later reference. She also noticed he said the words 'was' and 'am' in the same sentence. “You said you 'are' and 'was' related to a clan?” Flora asked him questionably. “Did something happen?”

Naruto shrugged his shoulders before shoving his hands into his pockets. “They were wiped out about 30 years before I was born I think? My mother may have been one of the few survivors of my clan's destruction. But I don't know for sure and probably will never know. They made sure of it.”

“Why?”

Naruto stared at Flora with a stony expression; wondering if he should tell her or not. He weighted the pros and cons of telling her his story and in the end he decided to tell her an abridged version of his life. They were going to be together on this island for an unknown amount of time so he'd might as well let Flora know a little about himself. It's not like she can use the information against him or something, right?

“Because I never knew my parents.” The blonde began. “They died when I was born and because of circumstances that were beyond my control, I grew up alone as an orphan. No one adopted me, and after 13 years, I was eventually taken away from the orphanage and given a place of my own to live in.” He paused a moment to recollect his thoughts, as these memories are painful for him when remembering.

“Everyone around me for reasons I had no knowledge of acted as if I was never there. Like I never existed. They even went as far as to tell their children to stay away from me. And children being children, they did what they were told; I was always alone.” He began to chuckle a little bitterly at himself. “I would often hear the adults whispering about me behind my back when they thought I wasn't listening. As for my clan I never learnt about it until three years ago. The main reason behind is is because my 'home' acted as if my clan did not exist. They made sure there was barely any knowledge of them too. Even though my birth place and my former clan were close allies, and, my so called 'home' wore my clan's symbol as if it were a badge of honour to them!”

“Growing up alone. Not knowing your parents. Having people whispering behind your back when they thought you weren't listening... I know the feeling all too well...” Flora thought to herself as she stared at Naruto with genuine understanding in her eyes.

She had lost her parents when she was a little girl. Saw them murdered in front of her by monsters, known as Yoma, who can disguise themselves as humans and blend in with the crowd. She became a half-human/half-yoma to combat these monsters. Both for vengeance of her family's murder and to hope no one would feel the same pain she had felt.

“You hold your home in utter contempt for that.” Flora noticed upon seeing the look of disdain on Naruto's face when he mentioned his former home. She could hear the bitterness in his tone when he mentioned it too. “I don't blame you. You have every right to think of your home the way you do.”

He nodded in agreement with her. He loathed his home so much now that he realised just how long they've tried to manipulate him for their own ends. And it made his blood boil that they were successful partially in their manipulation of him. Even now as he thought back on it, he realised he had been manipulated from the very beginning. From the Third Hokage, when he would come and visit him and tell him to forgive villagers and to give them time. To the academy when he should have been learning how to control his Jinchuuriki abilities, to Kakashi who barely taught him anything apart from tree walking. Then there's Jiraiya; and now that he thought about the late Toad Sage may had been manipulating him too. He gave him vague hints on how to create the Rasengan and then left him alone to do it by himself instead of being there to help him!

He also took his money from him, and while he was gone doing his own thing leaving himself to his own vices, he spent his money on hookers and sake while he had thousands of ryo of his own to spend. And on the 2 and a half year training trip, all he learnt to do was to make a bigger Rasengan, learn how to use his hand to hand skills properly. Throwing projectile weaponry more accurately and lastly use Kurama's - back then - tainted chakra up to four tails before he lost control and went berserk.

It was a damn miracle he was still alive with the limited amount of jutsu's he had in his arsenal. He had to get creative with what he already knew in his battles. Mostly create different variations of the Rasengan, and used the Shadow Clone Jutsu for sneak attacks on his enemies when they weren't expecting it.

“I don't hate my home though.” He told Flora with a shake of his head and upon seeing the inquisitive look on her face he elaborated. “I don't hate my home. Just the people that occupy it. They are the ones who made my childhood a hell of loneliness for me.”

“How did you cope with it?” Why didn't he lash out at them in anger? Anyone in his place would not have been able to cope with little to no contact with other people.

Naruto looked at Flora and smiled and a bright, genuine smile. “Believe it or not I found an outlet. It was mostly harmless though. No one got hurt. Since they were ignoring me and acting as if I didn't exist, I began to resort to mischief in order to gain attention.”

“Mischief?” Flora asked with an eyebrow arched with interest. Now that is a funny image. Looking at him now it was hard for her to see Naruto getting into any mischief.

Naruto nodded his head his smile spreading to a genuine grin. “Yeah. From throwing already eaten food at people, to... whatever you could most think of most likely. There was a lot of mischievous things I did in my youth, and while the attention I got from them was negative it was still attention. It made them actually see me instead of someone they ignored and acted as if he doesn't exist. They saw me as a troublemaker. But that didn't matter to me. Because they saw me, I existed to them. And- and that feeling... it's hard to put it into words.”

Flora stared at him in sympathy. The feeling of hopelessness and worthlessness in his childhood must have been suffocating. Now that she knows a part of his own past it makes her wonder' what happened to have caused everyone in his birth place to ignore his very existence? It was by this time Flora realised when the two of them were talking they took their seat in the shade underneath a tree.

“So what about you?”

Flora blinked in surprise. “Me?”

Naruto nodded. “Yes. From what I can see at first glance you're a skilled warrior. And from the way you've been looking at me when I was telling you about my childhood, you've been through a similar situation as I have.”

The woman stared at him dumbfounded. She had her suspicions that Naruto was not from anywhere on This World. Plus what his description of these 'clans' and 'bloodline limits' sounded very genuine and elaborate to be faked. It also explained why he wasn't afraid of her like so many others who knew what she was, and why he was captivated with her eyes as if he had never seen them before. He was cautious of her but not afraid. He didn't look at her in a weird manner, nor as a freak of nature either. It was honestly refreshing.

“My life has not been pleasant.” She began as she leaned her head back with closed eyes. “It is filled with pain and misery. To make a long story short: when I was a young girl my family was murdered by beings called Yoma. Monsters who are able to take on the form of the ones they consume, inhering all of their memories and personality and making them almost impossible to detect by normal means.” Flora shifted a little in her place with agitation.

“To combat this an Organization that does not have a name has taken 42 girls, usually orphans and survivors from Yoma attacks in their care and are implanted with the flesh and blood of Yoma, becoming part-human and part-Yoma warriors called Claymores by the people we protect from Yoma in order to combat them. What you see before you is the end result.” She concluded as she gestured to herself.

47 girls all of which are either orphans or survivors of these Yoma's were taken and had flesh and blood implanted into their body. He now understood the look of understanding that she was giving him when he told her about his childhood. Having the flesh and blood of the very things that murdered your parents. She must've grown up alone or with others in similar situations to her. With people whispering behind your back everywhere you went.

That sounded awfully familiar to him.

“Were there any side effects when you became a Claymore?”

“There are a few side effects, yes.” She answered him slowly while wondering why he wasn't freaking out that she was part-human, part-Yoma. “My silver eyes that seem to have captivated you so and the colour of my hair are such side effects of having the blood and flesh of Yoma implanted within our body. Another is a never healing scar from the base of my throat to my mons pubis.”

“A never healing scar?!” He exclaimed in surprise looking at her with worried eyes. “You mean it's still-”

“Open? Yes. And it will be for as long as I am alive.” Naruto couldn't help but wince at her bluntness. Sounding as if she didn't care about it in the least. However with his ability to sense negative emotions, he knew she was lying. He can sense bitterness emitting from her even if she hid it very well.

To have a scar that is the cause of your power and never heals must really be disgusting to look at. And she has to live with that for the rest of her life. All power comes with a price, and hers is becoming part Yoma and that unhealable scar. And if that is the case how is it kept shut if it never heals?

“Has this organization of yours made any attempt to find a way on healing it?” Naruto asked as he gave the woman a serious look. Because if they haven't then once he finds a way off to get them off this island he will give them a personal visit and shove a Planetary Rasengan where the sun don't shine.

Flora nodded her head while tilting her head to the side curiously at how serious he was. “They have tried to find a way. But all attempts to heal the stigma, apart from crudely stitching it shut, has failed.”

“Well they tried at least.” Naruto mused inwardly to himself. All attempts they made had failed and in the end they were forced to crudely sew it shut. Imagining all 47 women with an unhealable scar, made for a nasty image. If only there was a way for it to be sealed shut for good...

Naruto blinked and looked down at his hands contemplatively. His Sage of Six Paths mode; he was able to do a lot in that transformation. With a single touch he was able to bring someone back from the brink of death, or returning an already dead person back to life. And he was able to completely regrow back an eye that had been plucked out of its socket.

Pursing his lips Naruto glanced at Flora who was staring at him; an eyebrow arched in an questionable manner. Sighing Naruto got to his feet and walked about 1 yard before spinning around to her.

“Flora, I'm going to do something. So whatever you do, promise me to not panic. Ok?” Narrowing her eyes questioningly at him Flora nodded her head and got herself on her feet too.

Upon seeing Flora nod Naruto transformed in front of her. His blue hooded waist coat turned to light yellow. His cuirass, tunic and breaches transformed into a dark-coloured bodysuit that reached down to his leather gaiters, and down the sleeves of his arms to his knuckles. On his abdomen is a light coloured circle which is where the seal that once held Kurama was located. On the collar of his bodysuit were magatamas.

On the back of the coat were the marking of the Six Paths Sage, a Rinnegan above nine magatama. His eyes instead of his natural blue turned to yellow and the whiskers on his face became more pronounced, almost like rectangles in appearance. Spouting out on top of his head were two horns that was made from his own hair. The only thing that remained unchanged about Naruto was the colour of his skin.

“What the heck!?” Seeing this transformation Flora's first instinct was to reach for the handgrip of her claymore. However two things stopped her from drawing her blade.

The first thing: while there was a serious amount of energy being used she could detect no yoki that warriors such as herself and yoma's use. Unlike yoki this energy that Naruto was emitting was completely different.

The second thing: the sheer power she could feel was unreal. If she were to compare him to warriors such as her, then he would be far beyond the Number 1 ranking warrior who is the strongest warrior the Organization has in every generation. His aura, while strong, felt peaceful and natural in comparison than yoki Claymores like her use.

“This is an ability of mine; something I could do since I was born.” Which was technically true. If you thought about it, if he knew how to use it, then he could have used his chakra cloak when he was younger. Although the first time he used it on his first C-rank mission, the cloak was red and bubbly and radiated hatred and anger. Now it was light yellow and black, and instead of giving off negativity it instead radiated peace and tranquillity.

Giving him a once over Flora asked. “Is that something your clan is capable of doing?”

To her surprise Naruto shook his head instead of nodding like she expected. She thought that transformation is something everyone in his family was capable of doing. So if it wasn't, then, what in the name of the twin goddesses is it?

“Remember when I said there are things that happened when I was born that was out of my control?” Flora as realisation dawned on her face, nodded her head affirmatively. That sheer overwhelming power was the cause of everything he had suffered in his childhood? It made sense now that she thought about it. People do fear what they don't understand, and in their ignorance, they made their own children stay away from him at all times. More than likely to make sure he was miserable in every waking moment of his life and to make sure their children are not in danger of him at the same time.

Now that Naruto was using it freely without restraint she could tell that this power he was using wasn't his own. Not completely at least. She had a feeling Naruto was similar to her and her comrades in more ways than one, yet very different at the same time.

“From the look you have I assume you have questions?” Flora nodded her head again. “Alright. I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my ability.”

“That energy. It is not your own is it?”

Naruto gave her a mysterious smile. “Having had something of great power put inside of me on the day of my birth, this is no more my power than the one you are capable of using.”

Flora narrowed her eyes in confusion at the cryptic answer he gave her. There was a hidden meaning behind his words; that much she could tell and going through the sentence several times she realised what he told her.

That first sentence 'having had something of great power sealed inside of me' had meant they were more similar than she first thought. He had something put into him when he was only a baby, while she had the flesh and blood of Yoma implanted into her when she was a little girl.

She looked at him. Really looked at him. She had to wonder; is he a warrior created in a similar manner to her brethren? “So that power you have is yours, but it was placed in you? Similar to how my yoki power was implanted within me?” She asked for confirmation.

As far she knew there was no one from the mysterious 1st generation to the current generation of warriors that was this strong. That along with everything else she had seen from him had told her Naruto is definitely not from anywhere she knew. The only explanation is he must have come some place else from beyond the island.

“Yes. I gained my power when it was sealed within me. It is very, very different than how your organization created you.” He answered truthfully to her while confirming her unspoken question about his origins. He had said 'sealed' not 'implanted', not to mention he bluntly stated how he was made was different than the way she was made.

“...Why are you showing me this?” She suddenly questioned him. “Would this not be personal to you?”

“The reason why I am showing you this it's because of what I can do in this form. For example...” Naruto much to the disbelief and astonishment of Flora, he in an act of defying gravity began to float off the ground until he was 7 feet in the air. “I can fly if I wanted too.” He floated back down on the sandy beach. “I can also synchronise my energy with anyone I touch and transfer it to them, enhancing all of their abilities beyond what their capable of. And then comes the main point of all this.”

“Which is?”

“Healing. Before I entered this form I was able to stabilise people who were on the brink of death. In one case I was able bring someone back from the brink of death. I was even able to regrow an entire eye that had been plucked out of its socket. In this form I would be able to heal with more effective results. What I want, is to offer you Flora, the choice of getting your scar healed.”

“Y-you can heal my scar?” Flora said with wide eyes as she looked down while bringing her hand to her stomach. She really tried to not get her hopes up. If the Organization's attempts to heal it failed then what were the chances that he could?

But the aura that he radiated...it was hard to not be hopeful.

“I'm not going to lie to you Flora, the best case scenario is if our energies are very similar to one another, then healing you of that scar will go a lot smoother than if it weren't.”

The woman nodded to show she understood. But with every choice there is a consequence and she wanted to know what the worst scenario would be if she chose this. “Then what is the worst?”

“To tell you the truth I do not know.” He told her as he rubbed his chin with a thoughtful look. “One possible outcome is you taking some of my power. Becoming drunk on it and gaining a god-complex. That is one outcome that could happen.” He said with a helpless shrug of his shoulders.

That is basically one of the worst case scenarios he can think of. With his power he gained from all the Tailed Beasts during the battle with Madara and then Kagura, he to be honest, is the closest thing to a god. Kagura was the progenitor to chakra, and she developed a god-complex sometime after and deemed everyone else not worthy of having it. She even went as far as to meld herself with the god-tree just to kill her own flesh and blood to regain the chakra they had 'stolen' from her when they were born. He'd hate to imagine what Flora would be capable of when using chakra combined with what she is already able to do.

Flora frowned at being said she could develop a god-complex. Whatever that meant. If this was anything at all like yoki then she should be fine. She had resisted going over the limit for years. Even when using yoki felt akin to sexual pleasure. Controlling the flow of energy he is using should be similar to yoki. Not to mention he would be controlling it too. So she was feeling rather confident, yet somewhat nervous about doing this. If this energy of his wasn't similar to hers then what would happen? Would the consequences be dire if their two powers were to try and synchronise? Nevertheless, the opportunity to have her stigma healed was to good to pass up.

“What do I have to do?” She finally asked.

Naruto answered by holding out his hand. “Just take my hand and I'll do the rest.” He told her as she stared at his offered palm with consideration. Nodding lightly to herself and thinking it was worth a shot anyway, Flora grabbed Naruto's hand and held it firmly in her grasp. “Okay. Just to give you a little warning: you may feel a slight rush.”

Suddenly Flora inhaled sharply through her nose and her eyes involuntarily shut itself. She could feel the energy radiating from Naruto flowing into her. Melding with her. Soothing her. Energising her. Strengthening her. Comforting her. Making her feel as if she could take on anything the world can throw at her. She felt powerful and was tempted to try and let herself go and try to take more of it. However previous experiences had kicked in and she subdued her desire and aided Naruto in controlling the chakra that was flowing into her.

Exhaling Flora opened her eyes again and blinked when she saw her vision was red. The silver eyed woman saw there was some kind of bubbling shroud around her from head to toe.

“Well it seems I was right.” Naruto said after he saw the bubbling chakra cloak form itself around Flora from head to toe. “Our energies are similar to each other.”

“How so?” She asked as she cocked her head to her right side in a curious manner.

Their energies similar to one another? It shouldn't be possible. Their energies feel so different compared to one another. The yoki of Claymores is pure raging energy; chaotic and uncontrollable; and can manifest itself into an aura of pure malice and power.

Naruto's energy is the opposite of hers. It is light and natural. It radiated peace and tranquillity; and just like yoki it radiated power.

“Chakra the energy you see me using, is a combination of physical energy, which is in the blood of the body, and spiritual energy which is gained from the mind of the body.” Naruto explained to her. “You are currently using one half of it: physical energy. Although it is a corrupted form of it. That is why our energies are similar.”

Flora was genuinely surprised by that info. Yoki and chakra were similar? She looked hopeful now, since there is a very good chance that Naruto will be able to heal her stigma if that was true.

“So you can heal me? Actually heal me?” She asked, almost pleading him, for confirmation.

Naruto nodded and said. “Yes. I can heal you. I'm doing it right now in fact.”

He didn't tell her she would never be able to use the same energy as him unless she had some outside help, in the form of himself lending her his chakra. Mainly because you have to be trained to use chakra from a young age; and since Flora never knew she had spiritual energy, and had trained to strengthen her physical energy by the organization, it is very under developed. He could tell Flora wouldn't be disappointed by that. She is already a warrior to be reckoned with without the use of spiritual energy. If he had to guess he would say Flora would, in the terms of the shinobi system, be an S-rank warrior.

“And this shroud? What can it do?” She asked, gesturing to the bubbling chakra cloak surrounding her with her free hand.

“That is a chakra cloak. Where I am from, people like me are capable of using it. As to what it can do, here are a few things: It boosts your reserves. It can increase your abilities far beyond their capabilities. It can heal any wound - short of dismemberment – you have within seconds. And it can act as a shield.”

For the next several minutes Naruto and Flora stood in one place with Naruto putting all his attention on healing Flora's scar. It was surprisingly a difficult process because whatever had been done to her was resisting the healing process. It was like there was another presence inside of her keeping him from helping her. He eventually managed get around this problem by using his purified chakra to burn away at it, and with the healing properties of his purified chakra it allowed the Yoma flesh to seamlessly blend completely with her body. Becoming one with her. Flora would be able to still use her yoki, but with the presence that was inside of her now gone, Flora was no longer under the risk of becoming the very thing she was created to fight if she went too far.

If his chakra was not purified this would still be possible but it would have been extremely painful since his chakra, before he managed to tame and befriend Kurama would corrode and burn anything it touched. Including him if he went beyond three tails worth of Tailed-Beast chakra.

So instead it made Flora's entire body tremble. And she surprised him immensely when she suddenly threw her head back, letting out a loud almost orgasmic scream.

He almost lost his focus for a moment. Not to mention the view of her throwing her head back, unknowingly thrusting out her chest as she arched her back, screaming as if she is having sexual relief was arousing to him.

Once the resistance was dealt with the healing process began. And that itself took several seconds to accomplish. Once the healing process was done he stopped flowing his chakra into Flora and released her hand. The chakra cloak around her dispersed as Naruto was not actively channelling chakra into her anymore. The chakra that was used to heal her of her scar was no longer within her physique either as Naruto retrieved it the second he felt it finish its job.

Cancelling the flow of his chakra Naruto's Sage of Six Paths form dispersed and his appearance returned to normal. He quickly caught Flora to balance and support her when she began to sway on her feet like she was heavily drunk.

“Are you okay?” He asked her with concern.

“Hmm? Oh! Yes, yes, I am okay.” The woman replied softly with half-lidded eyes. “What ever you did felt good.” She added after she laid her head on Naruto's shoulder.

Naruto blushed as he felt Flora's assets pressing up against his chest as she rested her head on his shoulder. He moved his arms to wrap them around her in a hug. He swallowed the saliva that was building up in his mouth when Flora let out another satisfied moan. She did scream as if she was having an orgasm, and by god Naruto would be lying if he claimed it didn't affect him. Thank god for Jiraiya making him go into brothels as part of his 'training' to resist the temptation of being seduced by foreign kunoichi. He never thought being hit on by the woman in those brothels would come in handy in controlling his libido, otherwise he would be having an erection right about now.

Pushing the thoughts aside Naruto smiled – even though Flora couldn't see it – and asked her; “Well aren't you going to see if your scar is gone?”

Flora widened her eyes at the reminder and thanked Naruto for reminding her of that. Pushing herself off the blonde teen much to Naruto's hidden relief and disappointment, Flora turned around so her back was to him and reached down and pulled up the upper piece of her suit to see if the scar had actually healed. Her silver eyes widened in disbelief when she saw an unmarked and unblemished skin on her stomach where her scar was meant to be.

“I don't believe it...” She said to herself in astonishment. Putting her upper bodysuit back in place Flora turned around and gave Naruto a wide eyed look. “The scar is gone. You actually did it!” She then did something that took Naruto once more by surprise; she hugged him. Tightly.

After a few long seconds Naruto began to let out grunts of discomfort as he felt his own body strain under the pressure the warrioress had been putting in her hug. “Flora, you're hugging me too tight. It's starting to get uncomfortable.” He said to her, prompting the woman to quickly release him.

“I am so sorry! I didn't mean too!” She quickly apologised to him.

Naruto waved off the apology even as he rolled his shoulders to get rid of the kinks. “Don't worry about it. You never hurt me in any way so there is nothing for you to be sorry about.” He told her with a kind smile.

Flora gave a relieved smile before surveying the trees. “So, considering the two of us is going to be here for a while, do you want to explore the island?” She asked as she turned to Naruto with an expectant look. Said 18 year old shrugged his shoulders and wordlessly gestured her to lead the way. With an amused smile Flora shook her head and walked to one of the bushes before stepping over it.

Naruto followed her as he thought on his predicament. He may be unlucky enough to have ended up on an island in the middle of nowhere, and, to be fair he could try and use his chakra to open up another gateway and step through it. But since Flora is here with him, he can prolong going to another place it for a little while.

Besides' this is a nice place to relax for a while.

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Naruto and Flora were now deep within the forest on the island sitting around a camp fire they had set up. Several rocks was positioned in a small-to-medium sized circle, along with wood stacked up in the middle. Beside the two of them was a pile of twigs, leafs and wood to use in order to keep the fire going in case it ran the risk of going out. With the sky darkening and the heat of the sun fading making a camp fire was their priority. The fire was blazing and if it wasn't contained it would have easily spread out to the foliage around them.

Flora no longer had any of her plate armour on, her tight body suit leaving nothing to the imagination. Her shin-high, slightly heeled metal sabatons, large vambraces on her wrists, shoulder pauldrons and her fauld were in a neat pile next to her. Her Claymore sword was implanted in the earth behind her, with Flora using it to lean up against.

“Have you made any progress?” The Claymore questioned as she peered at Naruto through the fire.

Naruto shook his head negatively. “No. Like the last several attempts I've made this week, something is blocking my efforts.” He replied with frustration and tiredness in his voice.

Naruto discovered a problem. During the seven days they had been on the island Naruto had been trying to open another gateway for Flora and himself to leave through. Suffice to say it didn't work. At all. Something or someone was keeping him from opening a gateway to the destination he wanted.

And after relaying this to Flora she was expectedly disappointed. It was also during the week that Flora and Naruto became friends, very close friends if you want to get technical about it. Naruto at one point during the week they had been together wanted to know what happened to the stitches that were keeping her scar closed; to which Flora replied she had removed them from her person when she was alone.

The Claymore had learnt about the Tailed Beasts, and found them to be similar to Awakened Beings only they cannot be killed, and the people who contain them like Naruto similar to Claymores like herself. Little did Naruto know he had gained more respect from Flora when he told her of this burden he possessed since the day he was born.

As for Naruto he had learnt a little about Flora and her nickname: Windcutter Flora. Naruto had quickly learnt the reason why. The Windcutter is a lightning-fast slashing attack, which from close observation, involves drawing, swinging, and re-sheathing the sword in the blink of an eye.

Its fast and incredibly dangerous; and what Naruto found out was that it did not require Flora to use her yoki to execute although she can enhance it with yoki to make it even more deadlier.

The first time Naruto had seen it, he wasn't expecting to see all the trees and shrubbery around them to suddenly be reduced to chopped wood. It scared the living hell out of him when he first saw it much to the amusement of Flora.

However, when Flora asked Naruto what he had been doing just before he had ended up here, he ended up with a blank. He could remember fleeing from his former comrades from Konoha and several ninja from the five major Hidden Villages, but his memory failed him after he reached to a certain point.

He remembered taking shelter in the Land of Waves before he was discovered and was forced to flee in the direction toward the Land of Wind. After a certain point during the chase, he remembered trying to use a reverse summoning technique to get out of there. The next thing he knew he ended up on this deserted island.

The same could be said for Flora. What she remembered was her and 23 other Claymores being in a town called Pieta, fighting against an army of Awakened beings who were trying to invade the South. She remembered the first battle, where they were facing against three scouts and managed to kill them with no casualties. Then for the second battle all she remembered was herself and several others being attacked by a werewolf like Awakened Being called Rigaldo.

After witnessing several of her comrades, the team leaders in Pieta, being killed in front of her, and having Jean impaled and thrown aside followed by Clare being knocked aside she was left unprotected and was attacked by Rigaldo himself. The next thing she knew she was falling out of the sky and into Naruto's arms.

It was frustrating for her; because no matter how much she tried to remember she could not recall what happened after being attacked. She had a sinking suspicion she had died. But didn't dwell on it too much.

“Don't worry about it. You're doing your best.” She said to him soothingly.

Naruto inhaled and exhaled wearily. “Sometimes, one's best is not enough.”

“You should take a break, Naruto. Trying to open another gateway for the past week is taking its toll on you.” Flora told her friend when she noticed how exhausted he was.

Naruto chuckled tiredly. “These attempts are taking a lot out of me. Taking a break does sound good.” He replied to her in agreement.

Flora grinned in satisfaction. Then she leaned forward. “So now that we got that out of the way, can you tell me anymore stories?” She asked with eagerness. Let it be said that Flora discovered Naruto had some very interesting tales of his homeland.

She quickly discovered that his homeland was far, far different to her own. Not to mention the warriors there, these shinobi and kunoichi, are just as skilled if not more so than warriors such as herself. From their feats such as walking on water and climbing on trees with just the soles of their feet, to being able to manipulate the elements with Naruto providing proof for each and every one of these abilities, Flora knew her comrades would be at a severe disadvantage if the shinobi were to be introduced.

However Naruto told her if anyone from his homeland were to fight Claymores' then they would be hard pressed to survive the encounter. Since he had healed Flora of her scar with his purified chakra, Naruto knew how strong she was. As a Claymore Flora is ranked number 8, which marks her as one of the 9 strongest claymores of her generation.

In ninja terms Flora is an S-rank Claymore, and no one apart from Jinchuuriki or Kage's would be able to take her on. If she were to fight against any Jinchuuriki who contains any Tailed-Beasts from 6 to 9 then she would stand little chance against them. However any Jinchuuriki hosting Tailed-Beasts from 1 to 5, she would be able to handle them albeit with some difficulty.

And Naruto who has all of their chakra would be able to defeat Flora in a matter of seconds if he decided to go all out from the very beginning. However, that does not mean Flora would not be able to kill him because of the power difference between the two, however unlikely it is.

Anyone who thought otherwise are complete and utter morons. All it takes is one lucky hit and he would be finished.

Chuckling Naruto nodded and leaned forward as well. “Okay, so what do you want to know?”

The woman tapped the corner of her lips as she thought on what she wanted to know about her friend. Then she picked a category. “What were you like when you first started out as a shinobi for your people?”

“Truth be told? I was the worst shinobi you could have ever met.” The blonde admitted much to Flora's surprise. She wouldn't have thought he was as bad as he claimed to be considering the power he had! “If I were the same as I was three years ago, then you would have been able to beat me. No questions asked.”

“But how can that be? You're a powerful warrior! You are easily beyond the number one warrior of the Organization!” Flora exclaimed her silver eyes wide in disbelief.

“The short story: I never took things seriously. The long story: I never had anyone except for one person to teach me on what I had to do. And even then I was still bad. I may be strong now, but you have to remember that everyone was weak at the beginning too. And in my case, I was the lowest of the low. If I was to take the number system you have Flora, when I first became a warrior of my people, then based on my skill and power at that time I would have been number 47.” He paused for a moment to allow his words to sink in and to see if Flora had any questions.

And she did have questions. “You say you never had anyone apart from one person to help you. What do you mean by that?”

“The majority of my problems was of the instructors not helping me. It didn't help that I was a very active person, so I... mainly skipped out on most of the lessons to cause mischief.” He said the last few words at the end quickly. But Flora was able to catch it and as a result she stared at him with a flat look.

“Don't give me that look.” Naruto said, returning her look with one of his own. “I had to look after myself ever since I could remember. Plus when I was still learning to be a solider for my people no one would have bothered to try and help me even if I was there to learn. And when I finally became a soldier I still hadn't learnt anything of use from my first mentor during the first month or so. All he made us do was focus on teamwork and training. And from the first big mission we had, all I had learnt from him was tree-walking. That was it.”

“I don't see the logic behind that. You are part of their military, they should have tried to make you the best you can be.” Flora said with furrowed brows. She didn't understand the reasoning behind him not getting help for things he obviously needed help with during and after his training to become a warrior.

As a Claymore in training she had to train herself to the bone to get where she is now; some Claymore's even continue their training after they've been deployed and develop a technique that greatly enhances their chances of survival. Naruto as a soldier should have been doing the same thing, considering how important he is to their military.

Naruto shrugged his shoulders. “People fear what they do not understand. And when they fear something, they tend to do some very stupid things. And in the case of the people I protected since the day I was born, they indeed have done some very, very stupid things.”

“That is no excuse.” Flora argued.

“I know. But it got better. Eventually. After that first big mission I was on, I and my team mates had to take part of an exam. To speed things along, this exam is a way to substitute war. Or so the our leader had said. Shinobi from different nations would take part and if they're skilled enough they would advance in rank.” He paused to take a small breather before continuing.

Flora was listening intently to Naruto as she had found this interesting to know. “There were three parts to this exam. The first was information gathering in the disguise of answering questions on a sheet of paper. Odd I know; but the main reason behind that was to cheat without being caught. If you were found out three times, then you were kicked out of the exams with no chance of getting back in. The second part of the exam is basically like a mission; you and your team are given a scroll and in order to complete it you have to get another scroll that is the opposite of the one you have. Your not allowed to open them until you got to the objective. The third part of the exam is like a battle royal. And you're allowed to kill in it although it is frowned upon. However, the third exam takes place a month later so you have time to get rest and train yourself. And that is where things got a little better for me.”

That had gotten the Claymore curious. “How so?”

Naruto smiled reminiscently. Jiraiya, even though he was annoying with his pervertedness, was a good man. The man was pretty lazy at teaching, but knew what he was doing even if it was unethical and often downright inane. Like pushing him off of the edge of a cliff so he could access Kurama's chakra for example. Well most of the time anyway.

“I had found a new mentor, called Jiraiya. He was the one who had taught the Fourth Hokage and actually taught me instead of just making me do teamwork with two others who wanted nothing to do with me.” He had a fond smile on his face now, something Flora liked to see on her friend. “Fast forward a month after training with my new mentor during the first 30 days, I managed to save my birthplace from the One-Tailed Beast and his host that was taking part in the exams. So things were beginning to look up for me after that. Shortly after that my mentor and I were tasked to find the next candidate for the Fifth Hokage. While we did that Jiraiya taught me a technique that the fourth made. I got that down in about 1 week after I was shown it, and got the Fifth Hokage for my birthplace. After that I kept on training with my newest mentor and added more abilities on to my skill set.” He paused again so he could take a breather and to collect his thought lest he make a mess of what he was going to say next.

“Speed forward three years and I got even better. Not as good as I am now but I was a lot better than I had started out as. I was able to evenly fight opponents who are more skilled and more experienced than I was.” The whisker faced blonde finally concluded.

“They still should have at least tried to train you so you were better prepared.” Flora was still stubborn in her beliefs that Naruto should have been trained a little better. Something he found touching to hear.

Naruto chuckled at that and gave Flora a genuine smile. “Maybe. But it's in the past. And like all things that had happened in the past, should stay in the past.”

Flora returned the smile with one of her own. “Wise words for someone who's not an old man.” She playfully teased.

“Hey! I'll have you know that I can be wise...when I want to be.” Naruto replied with mock indignation; although he was grinning to show he was playing along.

Flora arched an eyebrow with obvious amusement in her silver eyes. “And how often is that?”

Naruto shrugged his shoulders disregardingly. “Not that often. I tend to downgrade my intelligence to make people underestimate me. It works surprisingly enough. It makes it easier to take care of my enemies before they know what I am truly capable of.” He said sounding bland at the beginning before becoming more cheerful toward the end.

Nodding to herself with satisfaction at knowing some of his past. She was honestly surprised to learn that Naruto at the beginning was considered to be the weakest of his generation. It seemed pretty unthinkable to her. However, she was proud of Naruto being honest about her being able to defeat him if he hadn't made those improvements 3 years ago.

“Was there anything outrageous you had done?”

“Before or after I became a shinobi?” He asked for clarification.

“Before.”

Naruto inhaled sharply through his mouth. “That's a tough one.” He rubbed his chin as he looked toward the sky in thought. “Although there was one that I had done in my childhood that stood out from among the rest.” Chuckling Naruto brought his gaze back to Flora and gave her a wide smirk. “This was shortly before I became a soldier; I defaced an entire monument that was dedicated to the previous Hokage's. The monument four massive faces that were carved on a cliff side and could be seen throughout the entire village. Why I considered it to be my greatest achievement is because I managed to deface it in broad daylight with no one noticing until I was nearly finished with it.”

Naruto enjoyed the complete and utter astonishment that was on Flora's face when he revealed that to her. “No one noticed you defacing a monument in broad daylight!? Seriously!?” When Naruto nodded Flora threw her arms up in disbelief, though the amused smile on her lips had shown Naruto how she really felt. “How in the name of the Twin Goddesses did they not spot you? In fact, how long were you defacing that monument?”

“One: wearing bright orange clothes allowed me to blend in with my surroundings fairly well in the mornings. And two: I was painting that monument from the early morning to the late afternoon. By the time I was finally spotted I was almost finished.” He paused for a moment before adding off handedly. “It also helped that no one ever bothered to look up.”

Flora let out a sound of understanding now that she saw how Naruto had almost managed to pull it off. Groaning as he stretched his arms over his head Naruto absent-mindedly reached for one of the twigs and tossed it in the camp fire.

Naruto closed his eyes and basked in the warmth the fire provided...

Only for them to open minutes later when he heard Flora move around. He looked at the woman with confused eyes as she crawled from her spot to him.

“Any reason you decided to sit next to me?” Naruto asked Flora with an arched eyebrow after the woman sat beside him; she was so close that their sides were nearly touching.

Flora shrugged with an even look. “It's getting cold and I wanted to get warm.” Was her answer.

Naruto squinted at her. How could she be cold when there's a fire right in front of them. Unless she is using it as an excuse to get closer to him. He shrugged. He wasn't going to further question her on it. Woman are pretty weird and he stopped questioning their reasoning on what they do a long time ago.

“Alright. Sharing body heat is a normal thing to do. Even if there is a large burning fire adding to it.” He said before closing his eyes once again so he could bask himself in the warmth of the fire. Only to snap them open moments later when he felt Flora sit herself in his lap and press her back against his front. Naruto had to adjust his legs slightly so the added weight that was Flora wouldn't hurt him.

“Flora, what're you doing?” He tried to make himself sound as unaffected as he possible could, which was difficult considering the round and firm rear pressing against his pelvis. Thank god for Jiraiya for forcing him to spend time in brothels during his training trip, otherwise Flora would have felt an erection pressing against her rear right about now.

The woman turned to look over her shoulder and smirked coyly at Naruto. “What? I thought you said sharing body heat is a normal thing to do?” She said with fake innocence.

“Not when there's a large camp fire in front of us.” He paused momentarily, then gave her a narrowed eyed look of suspicion. “...You're doing this on purpose aren't you?” Flora gave him an amused look at the suspicious look he was giving her, even if she didn't take away the smirk pulling at her lips.

“I have no idea what you're talking about.” She then purposely wiggled her waist from side to side, her smirk growing when she felt Naruto jerk with surprise before giving her a look of mock annoyance.

Naruto had strained to keep the uncomfortable look from showing on his face, less he give Flora something to tease him with. He learnt that the woman is respectful, yet she can be a tease when she wants to be. Like now for example. Or the last several times she had done similar things to this.

Three days ago when Flora and himself were exploring more of the island she 'accidentally' brushed her ass up against his groin when she bent down in front of him. Because of him not expecting it he quickly bumped into her and got an erection when he felt her soft ass pressing up against him. He quickly backed up and willed his erection away, which is far, far tougher than you could imagine.

The next day when she was only in her two piece body suit and nothing else, she just randomly hugged him out of nowhere and made sure that he could feel every part of her body pressing up against him. From what he knew of her at the time doing something like this was completely out of character. But he wasn't complaining. Why would he? A gorgeous woman that is hugging him willingly? He'd have to be mad to complain about that!

“Yep. You're definitely doing this on purpose.” Naruto inwardly said to himself in confirmation. She had been doing this for almost a week now. He grinned internally; if she wants to tease him then she can tease him. But two people can play at that game!

Flora let out a startled gasp when she felt Naruto wrap his arms around her and palm her breasts. Looking at her friend with wide shocked eyes, she saw the smirk on his face and she squealed in surprise when he squeezed, fondled and massaged her breasts through the fabric of her body suit. She reactively reached up and put her hands over his but never made an attempt to stop him.

Flora had never felt anything like this before in her life thanks to the life style she lived, and she quickly found it to be addicting. She wanted more of this and made no attempt on stopping Naruto's groping of her bosom. As he fondled her Naruto had to admit Flora has a decent sized rack. They're not to large, nor are they too small they're the perfect size for him to grasp and fondle.

“Wha- what brought this on?”

Naruto made a mock thinking sound at her question. “Hmm? You teasing me for nearly an entire week, including that one time you made sure I felt everything of yours when you hugged me.” He answered before leaning his head forward so his mouth was next to her ear. Flora shuddered when she felt his warm breath caressing her skin. “You carelessly rubbing your perky ass against my pelvis was the last straw.”

“Then how come you're not reacting?” She asked referring his lack of an erection. Naruto noticed she did not refute his claim on her teasing him.

“I am just that good at suppressing my inner instincts.” He had to thank Jiraiya for that; who knew being taken to brothels would be a major help in seduction resistance? It also had other uses as well, such as learning the right spots on a woman that is most pleasurable for them. “However, if you want I can loosen them?”

Flora wondered what he meant by that, then she let out a surprise gasp and jumped startlingly when she felt something stiff, and hard suddenly press against her rump. Blinking Flora looked down and experimentally and curiously moved her hips. She quickly stopped and looked up at Naruto in surprise and shock when he moaned pleasurably at the motion.

“Is that your...?” She asked. What she wanted to say never needed to be said. Naruto knew what she was asking anyway, that only an idiot would not figure it out.

Naruto nodded in confirmation, before jumping while letting out a vocalised sound of surprise when the woman suddenly lifted herself up slightly, reached behind her to put her hand directly on his erection, and start to experimentally rub her hand against it. The unexpected move had him reflectively squeeze Flora's breasts together. She let out a pleasured moan at the friction as she closed her eyes. When they opened, her eyes had changed colour. Instead of being silver as was the norm for Claymore's, they were now yellowish gold and had vertical slit for the iris.

“You naughty boy...” She purred out seductively as she leaned up until her mouth was next to Naruto's throat. Letting out a pleased groan as he felt her mouth against his neck, Flora began to suck and nibble against his neck in an attempt to mark it. Naruto closed his eyes...

X.X.X.X

...and opened them again as his entire body jerked. Blinking rapidly Naruto frantically looked around in brief confusion, forgetting where he was for a minute, and found himself still sitting in place in front of the camp fire. Blinking again he looked around some more and found Flora on the other side of the camp fire, leaning up against her of her sword with her arms crossed and her eyes closed.

Blinking once more Naruto frowned to himself and stared down at the ground in contemplation.

Was that... all a dream?

Naruto rapidly shook his head. Was he really that attracted to someone he knew for only a week that he dreamt up a scenario where they were that close to copulating with each other? Yeah... it must've been that.

Meanwhile on the other side of the camp fire Flora was observing Naruto with one eye open. She had been watching the teenager before he startled himself awake. It was...a little amusing to watch him quickly look around in momentary confusion when he woke up, to look at her momentarily and then stare down at the ground in thought. Flora opened both eyes and stared when Naruto suddenly stood up and walked away from the camp sight.

Arching her eyebrows in curiosity Flora got up as well and went to follow.

As he walked Naruto let out a satisfied groan at the feeling of his muscles stretching. He could do without the pins and needles though. His legs were a little stiff and felt the need to stand up and stretch his legs a bit. He also done it to clear his head. Through his contemplation he realised he was attracted to Flora. Not like that childhood crush he had with Sakura when he was younger. This was a genuine attraction and he had no idea what to do.

“Something on your mind?” He stopped and turned around to see Flora walking up to him with curiosity in her eyes.

“Just thinking is all.” Was his answer as the woman stopped beside him.

“What about?” She questioned him as she crossed her arms beneath her bosom with a curious look on her face.

Naruto looked away and faced the ground with a small frown pulling at his lips. He couldn't tell her that he dreamt the both of them petting one another. So after some quick, yet desperate thinking Naruto found a subject to tell her.

“About stuff. From a long time ago. It's funny, I had this crush on a girl when I was younger and immature. I thought she was pretty and really smart too. The problem is she had an eye for another person who had no interest in her or anyone else, and while I paid attention to her, she wouldn't give me the time of day.” Flora stood there listening patently as he chuckled. Wither it be in amusement or bitterness she didn't know. “I was a bit of a moron back then. And I tended to annoy her a lot. She would hit me for the littlest of things I would do – and I admit I deserved some of them - and wouldn't give me the time of day.”

The more she listened to him the more she frowned. She didn't like this girl. “What happened?”

“Well a lot of things happened.” He replied with a shrug now looking at Flora. “But the short story is this: we became a team. A few months in, the boy she liked had turned traitor. She begged me to bring him back. I promised I would. I failed the first few times. Eventually, I got him home. But after certain circumstances that happened to me almost three months I had enough of my homes biased views and fled from it. I don't know how long I had been running for, but my pursuers had eventually caught up to me. He was among them, and wanted to bring me back home. In the end I killed him; beheaded him and crushed his skull and eyes, and then burned his body. She didn't like that and claimed I broke my promise to her.” He scoffed with disdain as he shook her head. “Claimed I broke my promise to her. I told her I had fulfilled my promise to her since I had succeeded in bringing him home. Not to mention he tried to kill her at least 2 times' and I had to save her ungrateful ass because she was unable to bring herself to hurt him.”

“It sounds to me as if she was the weak link of this team you were once part of.” Flora criticized in disdain.

“She was. She got better though. Somewhat.” Flora had a sceptical look but didn't say anything as people can change. That didn't mean she could not dislike the girl though.

The two of them suddenly looked up at the darkening sky when they both heard the sound of a rift opening. Three women were wearing the same two piece body suit as Flora, including the plate armour, shot out of the rift one at a time. Because the rift was so far high in the sky, gravity took effect and the women fell to the ground.

Naruto in an act of quick thinking went into his Nine Tails Chakra Mode, and grabbed the falling women with his chakra arms and setting them on the ground safely. All three of them were awake and aware when Naruto had grabbed them, and had stood upright when Naruto set them on the ground.

Going out of his Chakra Mode Naruto stared at the rift with a frown as it closed almost immediately after the three women were spat out of it, before redirecting his attention to the three new arrivals. The first one, had a heart shaped face and had long pale blonde hair that is tied in a tight ponytail. The second one had short hair that was slicked neatly back with a few strands hanging in her face and had no eyebrows. The third and final woman had long pale blonde hair tucked behind her ears; plus she was bulky and muscular. The three of them were armed with Claymore swords, although in the case of the muscular one she had two instead of one.

All three of them were staring at each other and at Flora in complete shock, as they don't understand what had happened that had gotten them here. Flora was staring at the three women with wide eyes and a gaping mouth as she remembered watching all three getting killed by Rigardo.

Naruto was gazing between the four woman with analystic eyes. The first one was staring at everyone in confusion' wondering how they had gotten here. Everyone else was looking at one another as if they had seen a ghost back from the...

Oh that can't be good.

“I know that look.” Naruto said, prompting Flora and the other women to look at him. Naruto turned to his friend and asked, “Flora you saw the three of them die didn't you?” Flora looked at her friend in the eyes and slowly and shakingly nodded prompting the blue eyed blonde to curse softly under his breath before asking, “When?”

“In Pieta.”

“The campaign against those Awakened Beings?”

Flora nodded affirmatively. “The very same.”

“Can someone explain to me what the hell is going on?” The muscular Claymore demanded in a brash and aggressive manner. “How can she be alive?! I saw her die when she got sliced in two!” She added pointing at the first Claymore.

“I don't know what is going on. But I saw all three of you die.” The second Claymore replied in an even yet strict tone. “So how is it you are all here with me, alive?”

“From what I've heard; you three along with Flora died and somehow ended up here along with us. But you only remember up to a certain point, which I think, is when you died. An example, would be you Flora, remembering these three dying before your eyes and then you don't recall anything else after.” Naruto said in an explanatory manner.

“That's true.” Flora began contemplatively. “I remember seeing Jean getting impaled by Rigardo and then tossed aside.” Her gaze was on the second Claymore as she said that allowing Naruto to identify her as Jean. “After that I don't remember anything else apart from falling out of that rift.” She looked at Naruto almost imploringly. “So... does that mean we're all dead?”

“I have the same problem as you Flora, so I think so?” He answered while sounding a little unsure. “It does kind of explain why I can't open a rift to get us out of here. But I'm not entirely sure of that being true.”

“So...are we dead or not?” The first Claymore questioned Naruto who merely shrugged helplessly in response.

“I haven't got the slightest clue to that answer. Mhmm...” Naruto rubbed his chin with a thoughtful look on his face, before he slowly turned to look at Flora as an idea came to him. “Flora, punch me!”

“What? Why?” She was taken aback at the odd request, as were the other three who were staring at Naruto with startled and confused gazes.

“It's a theory I want to test out; if I can feel pain when you punch me then I am alive. If not then I'm dead.” Naruto explained to their benefit.

“That is a stupid theory.” The muscular Claymore declared with a scoff.

Naruto looked at her with a deep frown. “Do you have any better ideas? No? Then there you g- gaaah!” Naruto was cut off from completing the rest of his speech when Flora suddenly delivered a rather nasty left hook to his cheek. Naruto's head snapped to the left upon impact, and he staggered from the unexpectedness of the strike. He brought his hand to where he had been struck as he straightened himself. “Okay, that hurt. Very much. You have a mean left hook, Flora.” He said to her with a wince as he rubbed his jaw line.

“Sorry Naruto.” She said apologetically.

Naruto brushed off her apology. “You don't need to apologise. Although a little warning would have been nice. On the bright side I can safely say we're most likely alive. In this place anyway.” He added brightly gesturing to the island around them.

“Your name is Naruto?” The first Claymore said giving him an odd look.

“Yep, blame the parents.” He answered with a shrug. “Can I have your names since we're likely going to be together here for some time?” Naruto politely requested of them.

“Might as well, my name is Undine.” The muscular Claymore answered with a shrug of her shoulders.

“My name is Jean.” Said the Claymore that had slicked back short hair.

“My name is Veronica.” The Claymore with the long pale blonde hair tied in a tight pony tail answered.

Naruto saluted them respectfully. “A pleasure to meet you three.” He said to them before he turned to Flora when he felt her tap him repeatedly on the arm. “What is it?”

“Should I tell them?” She asked while covertly gesturing to her abdomen with Naruto instantly getting what she was talking about. “It's only right that they get the same offer as you have given me.”

“That's true, but it will be entirely up to you on telling them. Which I know you will be. However, in the end it will be up to them if they want to do it or not.” He replied while gesturing to Jean, Undine and Veronica respectively.

Said Claymore's were looking between Naruto and Flora with narrowed and confused silver eyes. “What are you two talking about?” Jean questioned.

Glancing at Naruto for permission he nodded to her in approval. Flora gave Naruto a thankful smile and turned to Jean Veronica and Undine and proceeded to tell them that Naruto is capable of removing the stigma on their abdomen without taking away their yoki and abilities. Suffice to say at first the three Claymore's didn't believe her, but when Flora exposed her abdomen to them, revealing unblemished skin where the stigma that symbolised what they are was meant to be, along with her showing still being able to use yoki to augment her Windcutter, as well as her strength and speed they were in disbelief.

Naruto even went as far as going into his Six Paths mode to further prove Flora's claims. And they reacted in the same way as Flora had done when she first saw it. Their instincts told them to reach the grip of their swords but stopped themselves when they all felt something different about the aura around the teenager.

He was not using any yoki. And the sheer power they could feel behind it was completely unreal, yet completely natural and peaceful than their own, which is chaotic and uncontrollable; an aura of pure malice and power.

It was as if he was a god in human form.

Seeing first hand that Flora no longer had her stigma on her abdomen because of his healing ability the three of them were eager to have Naruto get rid of their own. However Undine was a little nervous for reasons unknown to them and told Naruto, while the others weren't listening, that she wanted him do it elsewhere.

While confused Naruto accepted that and offered to heal her stigma first to which she agreed too. So after telling Flora, Veronica and Jean that he was going to heal Undine first, the two of them went away until they were at a respectable distance.

When she released the reason why she wanted Naruto to heal her elsewhere, to say he was surprised would be an understatement.

“Wow. Okay, I never expected that.” Naruto stated with wide eyes.

Undine was simply put, not muscular as he first thought her to be. She changed the physical appearance of her body through the use of her yoki, so she could appear more muscular and bulky to others. The second she stops using yoki her body would revert back to its original physique.

Her real bodily appearance is actually thin and delicate.

“So that's what you really look like?” He questioned her in an awed tone, as he gave the Claymore a look over. He had to admit, without that bulky and muscular appearance Undine didn't look all that intimidating. Though with how thin and frail she looks he could understand why she would make herself look stronger.

“You're not going to mock me?” She was genuinely confused at the look he was giving her.

Naruto looked at Undine with astonishment. “Why would I do that? I'm not going to judge you because of that.” He said gesturing her bodily physique. “I know women who are stronger than they appear to be.” Sakura being one of them. Her punches are capable of destroying mountains and making large craters in the ground.

Undine didn't reply to that. She did have a thoughtful look on her face however. Her attention was brought to Naruto as he went in to his Six Paths mode, and held out his hand to Undine. When she took it, he told Undine to try and keep her yoki under control while he did the rest. When he deemed her prepared, Naruto sent his chakra into the woman's body.

Undine widened her eyes and almost let out an orgasmic moan when she felt Naruto's chakra flowing into her. She felt the foreign energy meld with her own. It soothed her. Energised her and strengthened her. Making her feel as if she could take on anything the world can throw at her. She didn't take notice as her vision became red, as a chakra cloak appeared around her. With it growing a pair of fox ears and a tail. She felt powerful and was very tempted to try take in more of it just to see what would happen.

But remembering what Naruto had told her, Undine was able to realise that was her more 'darker side' of her being a warrior talking, and so she kept herself under control and quickly subdued her desire to get more power.. For the next several minutes the two of them stood, with Naruto putting all his attention on healing Undine's scar.

It took some time but by using his purified chakra to burn away at it, and with the healing properties of his purified chakra the Yoma flesh had blended completely with her body. And like Flora before her, Undine is still able to use her yoki, but without the risk of becoming an Awakened Being.

Once that was dealt with the healing process began. And like before it took several seconds to do. Once the healing process was done he stopped flowing his chakra into Undine and released her hand. The chakra cloak around her dispersed as Naruto was not actively channelling chakra into her anymore. The chakra that was used to heal her of her scar was no longer within her physique either as Naruto retrieved it the second he felt it finish its job.

“There that should do it.” Naruto said as he rolled his shoulders with a stiffened groan. “With that resistance gone, you should be able to use your yoki without having to run the risk of Awakening.” He told her much to Undine's shock.

“How do you know about the awakening?!” She demanded with wide eyes. No one apart from other warriors should know about the awakening process of a warrior!

“I have been here with Flora for a week before you, Jean and Veronica arrived. I learnt a lot of things during that time.” The blonde replied with an uncaring shrug of his shoulders.

He had seen a lot in his short yet lively career as a ninja. Knowing that before he healed her stigma, Flora would have been capable of transforming into a carnivorous demon girl, with a taste for human intestines, while sickeningly, it wasn't all that shocking to him.

Besides Zetsu before he ended up trapped in a moon, in another dimension by yours truly – and with the help of Sasuke - was carnivorous and eat corpses of the fallen. It's basically the same thing; only the Awakened Beings eat humans when they are alive. And continue on eating when they're dead.

“That explains that then.” Undine said with blinking eyes.

“Now that you've been taking care of, I have to see to Jean and Veronica. Oh and Undine; don't change the way you look. Because in my opinion, the way you are now, looks way more natural. And you look cuter like that too.” Naruto said giving Undine a charming smile.

The woman then did something uncharacteristic, and looked away with an expression that was a combination of shyness and embarrassment as she rubbed her arm nervously. Embarrassment because that was what she was about to do, and Naruto called her out on it, and shyness because Naruto complimented on her original appearance instead of mocking her.

Leaving Undine behind to think Naruto went back to Flora and the other two. They were still in the same place luckily so he didn't have to go and search for them. He went into his Six Paths mode and healed Jean and Veronica of their stigma like he had done for Flora and Undine.

“Was I like that when you did it?” Flora questioned with an awkward look referring to the sound of her moaning out like she had just orgasmed, as that was what she had heard from Jean and Veronica just now.

“Yes. Yes you were. And it was very arousing.” Naruto had a look of amusement when Flora, Jean and Veronica all began to blush with embarrassment.

“So when I hugged you...” Flora's facial expression, as she spoke, was one of a slowly dawning realization.

“It reaaaaly didn't help.” Naruto finished in conclusion, .

“...Did you enjoy it?” Naruto, Jean and Veronica were taken aback by Flora's seemingly innocent question.

“...Is that a trick question?” Naruto was more than a little wary of answering that. He wasn't sure if he should tell the truth or not.

“No. It's just a simple 'yes' or 'no' answer.”

Naruto looked at his friend with cautiously narrowed eyes. “...I would be lying if I said, no.” He slowly answered after a moment of silence.

“So you DID enjoy it!” Flora exclaimed with wide eyes. There was no accusation in her voice. Instead she sounded pleased?

“Well, I, erm... Oh look at the time! I gotta go! See you at the camp sight!” The whisker faced teen made a hasty retreat back to camp.

Jean and Veronica both blinked in the direction Naruto left in profound shock. He sure could run fast when he wanted too. They turned to Flora who started giggling to herself and were once again shocked when the normally calm and respectful woman had a perverse look on her face. It was really uncharacteristic of her!

“So he DID enjoy having my body pressing up against his!” She said to herself. Ignoring the unsure looks Jean and Veronica were giving one another. “That would mean he liked the other times I 'accidentally' bumped and pressed against him!”

“Um... what did I miss?” Flora, Jean and Veronica all turned to Undine when they heard her voice coming from the tree line. They were all taken by surprise when they saw the woman's thin and frail appearance instead of the bulky and muscular physique.

Undine looked around for Naruto with a confused look. “Where did Naruto go? ...What are you three looking at?” She questioned, looking lost and confused at the looks she was being given. It took a moment for her to realise they were seeing her in her true appearance instead of the bulky and muscular one she had been taking.

“Oh. You didn't know... well, erm... this is my, erm... real body-build. Not the bulky and muscular one.” She told them as she looked away from them with an embarrassed look.

“That explains why it felt like you were using yoki when we weren't fighting in Pieta.” Said Veronica as she gave Undine a look over. She had to admit that Undine's true appearance is appealing despite her frailty.

“So where did Naruto go?” Undine repeated her question.

“He went back to the camp we both made. I will take you there.” Flora offered them as she turned around, while looking at them over her shoulder.

Undine, Jean and Veronica shared a look. Having not knowing the island they were on they all chose to follow the former 8th ranked Claymore back to the camp-site.

X.X.X.X

One Month Later

“Argh! Son-of-a-mother!” Naruto yelled out as he held his wrist with a pained, tired and frustrated look on his face as his attempt to open another gateway to get off the island had backfired on him once again. His chakra drained and efforts wasted he was frustrated at his failure.

Flora who was nearby along with Jean, Undine and Veronica came running when they heard Naruto cursing in pain.

“Are you okay Naruto!?” Flora cried out as she and the others came running out of the tree line.

Naruto who was hunched forward was clenching and unclenching his hand with gritted teeth with gritted teeth. “I'm fine.” He replied as he straightened himself. “The damn gateway backfired on me again and the backlash hurt my hand.”

He felt one of the women put her hand on his shoulder. “You don't have to do this Naruto. Your attempts keep backfiring on you.” Flora worryingly said to him.

The five of them had been on the island for a month now. And during that time the five of them had gotten a lot of things done. Such as building a cabin, along with all the furniture they needed to accommodate them all. Thank god for Shadow Clones; they really helped when it came to making the entire cabin. It took him less than an entire day.

He was glad Tazuna had freely given him information of all he knew about architecture when he hid in the Land of Waves. That really helped him in making the cabin. After he made them a building to stay in, Naruto kept on trying to open a gateway to get Flora and the other three off of this island. They had gotten used to being on the island however, and while they wanted to go back home to their comrades, they were content on staying if Naruto is unable to find a way back.

During the month together, Naruto had befriended the other women and they now consider each other very good friends. It wasn't until three weeks on the island that they became comfortable around him, and like Flora had done they too removed the stitches from their person once they were alone.

As a sign of trust Naruto told Undine, Veronica and Jean all that Flora knows of him. Since he wasn't going to be able to get back home any time soon he didn't think anything of it. It's not like they were going to use the information against him in anyway, since they're all stuck on the damn island.

He found out a few things about them in return. Such as the island they're protecting. He also learnt of the rank they held within their organization. Undine is rank 11. Jean is rank 9. And Veronica is rank 13. If what Naruto remembered what Flora told him about the ranking of Claymore's is right that that would mean Flora being rank 8 is the strongest out of the four of them, with Jean coming in second, Undine in third and Veronica in fourth.

After the revelation that Naruto enjoyed the feeling of having Flora pressing against him when she hugged him she did it even more. Normally when there is no one else around or when the others weren't looking. Not that he minded. What sane person would not want a beautiful woman hugging them? Plus he took advantage of her hugging. He would grope her butt, or brush his hand lightly against her bosom whenever she did.

If she was going to tease him, then he would do the same!

Flora took that as a challenge. And there was a friendly rivalry between the two and they made it a game to see who could make one another the most aroused. Undine and the others eventually found out about it and much to Naruto's surprise they weren't bothered by it. They had some suspicion that there was something going on between the two of them.

Even more to his surprise they would sometimes take part. Often he would find himself being outnumbered 4 to 1. Naruto noticed the three were more comfortable around him shortly after that.

And because there was no Yoma for them to fight Jean, Undine and Veronica had forgone wearing their armour and carrying their swords. All they wore now was their two piece body suits.

Naruto himself had stopped wearing some of his attire. His dark hooded waist coat and leather vambraces with metal placing was gone, leaving him just in his muscle shirt, breeches and leather gaiters.

And also with Undine revealing what she truly looked like physical wise the others were shocked. Eventually Undine had been asked why she made herself out to be more broad and muscular. She never told them the complete reason; but she did tell them enough to state their curiosity.

“You've been trying to open a gateway since you came here. It's fairly obvious you're not going to be able to do it.” Veronica told Naruto as she stood beside him and took his wrist to look at his hand. She winced slightly at the nasty looking red burn in the middle of his palm that was steadily healing thanks to Naruto's regeneration.

“Not to mention every attempt you made always end up with the same result.” Flora added on when she saw Naruto was about to argue. Hearing Flora say that made Naruto's shoulders slump. Flora was right; every attempt he made always ended in failure.

But he was close; so very close to opening a gateway. He was trying to open a rift to Pieta for this attempt and just when he was close to opening it, he suddenly got a backlash. He didn't know why it
backfired on him though.

Naruto sighed. “I was close though.” He said, turning his head to Veronica, Jean, Undine and Flora. “I don't know why it backfired on me but I was close to opening it. There must be something I'm over looking.”

“What were you trying to do apart from opening the rift?” Veronica asked looking at her friend with curiosity, after she released her grip on his wrist.

“Well...” Naruto began as he clenched and unclenched his hand. “...seeing as my previous attempts always ended up in failure, I figured it was because I was trying to get back to the Elemental Nations. This time I changed the destination; instead of the opposite end opening up in the Elemental Nations, I wanted to see if I could open a rift to where you four came from.”

“And you were close to doing it?” Jean questioned. She and the others had a hopeful look on their faces as Naruto nodded.

Since Naruto had been around the four women for a month, or close to it, he had been able to memorise their inner power. And because he had been able to memorise it, he was able to know what it felt like. There were some remains of their yoki floating about and he used that as a bases to kick start his process of finding their world. It was successful. And he had been able to memorise where the women's world was. So even if his attempt at opening it was a failure he would be able to try again.

“Yes. I was close.” He re-confirmed his close success to them. “But I'm going to have to go and rethink on what I am doing. Because something I did is clearly not right.” He added as he rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

With narrowed eyes Flora rubbed her chin thoughtfully. “Could the problem you're having be because of the time and place you're trying to open the rift?” She questioned getting questioning looks from Jean, Undine and Veronica.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Well the four of us died at Pieta-” Flora gestured to herself, Undine, Jean and Veronica. “-so maybe the reason why the rift back fired on you this time, was because you were trying to open it at the time and place the four of us had died? Or maybe at a time where we were already dead?”

Naruto blinked in dumbfoundment before slapping his forehead in exasperation. “I can't believe I missed that.” He uttered aloud in a tone that sounded almost dismayed.

“Where would you be without us?”

“Most likely insane with boredom.” Naruto replied dryly as he took his hand away from his forehead. With him being armed with that information he knew what to try next. But his latest attempt to open a rift had drained his chakra a lot and he needed to recover it.

Trying to open a hole in the fabric of time and space, between dimensions even, would takes its toll on anyone.

“Are you going to try again today?” Undine questioned.

Naruto shook his head. “No. Every attempt I make is difficult. Opening a hole through dimensions is especially taxing on my chakra. So I will have to wait for an entire day before I can try it again.”

The women nodded with a look of acceptance and excitement. They couldn't help but be excited. They were so close to getting home now! And thanks to Flora they may be able to get home sooner than expected!

Veronica couldn't wait to see her friend Cynthia again and Undine in particular was eager to get back. Since Naruto couldn't open the rift at the time or beyond their deaths, that would mean he would have to open a rift before they went to Pieta. So she and the others would have an opportunity to prepare themselves for Rigardo's surprising and unexpected arrival this time around.

As for Jean, well, if they were all together when they get back then she was going to accompany the whiskered blonde. After all he had managed to get rid of her unhealable scar; in her eyes that had garnered him her loyalty. Not to mention if the organization catches wind of this when they get back then they would be scrambling to capture him. She would hate to see what the Abysmal ones would do once they learn of Naruto's existence. Would they team up to capture him? Or would they try and eliminate him because he is a threat to their very existence?

Those possible scenarios weren't pleasant. Not at all.

“So what were you four doing before you came here?” Naruto questioned, unknowingly taking Jean away from her trail of thought.

“We were gathering food.” Veronica answered.

“And once we gathered a lot we brought them to the cabin.” Undine added.

“And then we quickly came here when we heard you yelling in pain.” Finished Flora.

“Oh? That's good to know. At least we won't starve any time soon.” Naruto then walked past the four women and made his way through the tree line, and followed the faint trail leading back to the cabin with the women following him.

Flora sped up her pace until she was walking side by side with her friend. Naruto looked at Flora with surprise when she held his hand, to which she smiled back at him pleasantly. Shrugging Naruto tightened his grip on her hand slightly and looked ahead with a small smile.

Behind them Undine, Jean and Veronica saw Flora holding Naruto's hand and shared a knowing look with one another.

“Flora definitely has a crush on him.” Veronica whispered so only Jean and Undine could hear her.

“Considering he is very considerate towards us it's not all that surprising.” Jean whispered back, her eyes switching from Flora and Undine to Naruto and Flora with a smile pulling at her lips. Undine nodded in agreement knowing it first hand.

Looking at Naruto and Flora Undine could almost imagine herself being in Flora's place. She would be lying if she said she didn't like Naruto like that. And looking at Jean and Veronica, Undine could see they had feelings for Naruto as she did.

“Truth be told I like Naruto in that way too.” She admitted gaining wide eyed looks from Jean and Veronica.

“Really? So I wasn't the only one?” Jean stated as she gained a bigger smile now that she knew she wasn't the only one who liked Naruto.

Veronica glanced between the two with wide relieved eyes. “I'm glad I wasn't the only one here that likes Naruto.” She said with relief evident in her voice. Now that she knew she wasn't the only one who liked him she felt much better.

As Undine, Veronica and Jean whispered to each other about the subject of their affections they decided they needed to let Flora know of their feelings towards him. A few minutes later the group reached the cabin.

Thank god for The Creation Of All Things; Naruto had been able to make of a lot of the stuff needed to build the cabin. His shadow clones were a major help in that endeavour too. They reduced the amount of time it took for the cabin to be built, and combine his shadow clones with his Sealed Hatred Mode and they got things done – literally - in the blink of an eye.

The astonished and stumped look on their faces when he created things out of nothing was priceless. Telling them about his abilities was one thing but witnessing it was a whole different experience.

While the shadow clones were able to get a lot of things done in a short amount of time they made a single room for them all to share. Naruto, the original one, had quickly used Creation Of All Things to make five separate beds, complete with covers and mattresses.

He quickly came to realise there was little space for them to move about. To solve this he quickly made a seal that made the cabin bigger on the inside, as he didn't want to take down a section of a wall just to increase the cabin's size. The women at that point decided to stop trying to make sense of what he is able to do and just went along with it.

Lesser headaches that way, Jean said.

Now that he was inside of the wooden building, Naruto quickly found the food the women were gathering on top of a table in the kitchen area. Apples, berries and carrots were in one pile. Rabbits were there as well so they had plenty of meat to devourer. He fact they only need to eat in small amounts once every few weeks would help them conserve food for the future.

“That's a lot of food.” He whistled. “I'll take care of skinning and disembowelling of the rabbits.” He told them as he walked to the table, and after taking the fruit and vegetables off he grabbed one of the dead rabbits and proceeded to skin, disembowel and sever the heads with a makeshift knife and meat cleaver.

He kept the organs, skinned fur and the meat on separate sides on the table. He was going to burn the organs later on since he didn't see a use for them. As for the fur that had been skinned off of the rabbits, it provided him with materials to make new clothing if they needed any. Once the blood has been washed off of them of course.

While he was busy doing that Flora and the others walked to the living room/bedroom of the cabin where the they got into a discussion with one another. Naruto glanced at them through the corner of his eye as the girls talking to each other in hushed whispers. Low enough for him not to make out what they were saying.

Flora was looking at Undine, Jean and Veronica with surprise while the three women stared back with a straight face.

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“You three like Naruto as well?” Flora questionably whispered to them. Undine, Veronica and Jean all nodded in confirmation prompting the woman to exhale with surprise.

“This may have come as a shock for you-” Jean began only to be cut off by Flora.

“On the contrary, I have been expecting this for some time. Naruto is a likeable person after all.” She interjected. “I just never expected all three of you to like him.” She said looking between her fellow warriors.

“So... now that you know what happens now?” Undine asked as she and the other two women looked at Flora questioningly.

Flora sighed and rubbed the back of her head as she looked toward the ground in thought. This was a bit of a dilemma. All four of them liked, no, loved the same person. Unless Naruto chose one of them there was bound to be conflicts among the four of them.

Unless...

Flora looked up at the women in front of her. She gazed between the three of them with a thoughtful look on her face and sighed in acceptance.

“We'll have to share him.” She decided catching the women off guard.

“What?” Jean said with wide eyes.

“Really?” Undine said with wide eyes as well.

“Are you sure?” Veronica asked her with an unsure look.

“I am.” Flora nodded in response before giving them a look of deviousness. “After all, you three all know what he is capable of. Imagine him using those copies of his for 'other' uses.” The image that got into their heads got all three women blushing.

Naruto shrugged and went back to skinning and disembowelling the rabbits; whatever they were talking about he would let them sort it out themselves. He won't get involved unless the situation calls for it.

After an hour all the rabbits on were beheaded, skinned, and disembowelled a bloody handed Naruto had gathered all the organs and severed heads together in a single large pile and brought them outside of the cabin to burn them.

There was a fire pit nearby that they use to burn the useless stuff. It had rocks circling it, like a camp-fire to keep the fire from spreading. And the ground inside the circle of rocks was burnt. Placing the organs and rabbit heads in the fire pit Naruto formed a few hand seals before breathing out a small stream of fire, burning the organs and severed rabbit heads in the pit.

With that done Naruto looked at his bloodied hands and pulled a face. He knew he had to wash off the blood otherwise it would dry up. With that in mind he turned away from the fire and quickly made another set of hand seals.

Water sprayed out of his mouth and onto his hands; washing away the blood from his skin. This was a much quicker solution to cleaning yourself when you didn't have a body of water anywhere. After shaking his hands dry Naruto went back inside of the cabin and got to preparing their meal.

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Despite being together for a month Flora, Undine, Veronica and Jean couldn't help but watch Naruto eat with fascination. They were similar yet completely different. Claymore's can go without food and water for an entire week. Two if they really push it.

Unlike them however Naruto seemingly needs to consume a large amount of food. Which makes sense considering how much of his power he needs to regenerate.

The four women had already finished their food and were watching Naruto eat his. He was being reserved too, instead of a ravenous animal like he normally was whenever he's alone. Thankfully they were rationing the leftovers so the meat wouldn't go spoilt over night. Living alone for several years made Naruto resourceful with what he had. Wandering around the Elemental Nations for 2 and a half years on a training trip had allowed Naruto to get even better at rationing his food.

After downing his food Naruto covered his mouth as he burped, and gathered the plates put them on the table before sealing the leftovers away to ration them.

“How much morsel did you eat Naruto?” Veronica questioned.

“Around 8 or 9.”

“I can never get used to someone being able to eat that much.” Undine said shaking her head with a dry look on her face. “How come you never gained any weight with all the food you eat?”

“I exercised a lot.” He answered, now making his way back to his seat. Jean and the other women nodded with a look of acceptance as he sat down. Flora and Undine, Veronica and Jean exchanged looks' and to Naruto's confusion nodded simultaneously. He was surprised when Flora went and sat on his thigh.

“Flora, what's going on?” An amused smile pulled at her lips at the dumb stricken look on Naruto's face. Instead of answering, Flora wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned in until their noses were almost touching.

Naruto looked to his left when he heard Veronica say, “Let's just say the four of us like you, and, after talking with Flora about this she decided that we all share you.”

Naruto looked at every one of them with wide dumbstruck eyes. “You four like me? As in, like me, like me?” When the four women nodded in confirmation to his question he was surprised. “Oh. Wow, I, erm, I don't know what to say to that. I mean, I knew Flora liked me but I never thought you three had shared the same feelings as her too.”

“Considering you're a likeable and kind person, falling for you was inevitable.” Was Jean's response.

Naruto looked at them all, unsure. “So you're all okay with this? You don't mind sharing?” He asked. He received his answer when they kissed him.

“Is that a good enough answer for you?” Flora blinked and looked down. “Oh my... I'd say this part of you is saying 'yes'...” She said with a knowing smile as she reached down between his legs and put her hand on his groin, and started rubbing and caressing the rapidly hardening shaft through his breeches.

Naruto moaned as Flora rubbed and caressed his phallus through his breeches. He was thinking of sitting there and enjoy what she was doing. But, ultimately, decided not to. Since the two of them were almost touching, nose to nose, Naruto just leaned up and pressed his lips to hers. The wavy light platinum-blonde haired woman closed her eyes and moaned as she leaned into the kiss; she let out another moan when she felt Naruto bringing a hand to the side of her face and another to firmly grab her toned ass.

Flora felt Naruto's tongue wiggle against her lips begging for access to her mouth. The light platinum-blonde woman opened her lips and rushed her tongue out to meet his. The two moaned as their tongues began a battle of dominance. It quickly appeared that the two of them were evenly matched, because none of them were experienced in this and were mainly running on their instincts. They were so preoccupied in their face-battle that they have not noticed Jean, Undine and Veronica getting in close as to see the action.

The three women were curious and were not hiding it. The three of them subconsciously licked the bottom of their lips as they stared wide eyed at how ferocious the two were going at it. Suddenly Naruto moved his hands to her thighs, and abruptly got off his chair and moved toward his bed to sit on the mattress as Flora interlocked her legs behind his waist and moved to wrap her arms around his shoulders to better hold herself.

Neither of them broke the tongue battle throughout that.

Feeling her legs touch the mattress of his bed, Flora let out a throaty moan as Naruto ran his hands up and down on the outer ridge of her thighs and pressed her chest against his. Naruto enjoyed the feel of her breasts squished up against his broad chest and ran his hands up and down on her thighs before he moved one of them toward her ass.

Flora pulled away from the tongue battle to regain her breath, only to let out a surprised gasp when she felt Naruto slapped her butt and moaned when he grabbed her round and firm ass cheek and fondled it.

“Oh, aren't you bold?” Flora said with a naughty smirk. She put her hands on his shoulders and using her bodyweight against the whiskered blonde, she pushed him down on the mattress with Naruto looking up at her with wide blinking eyes.

Flora looked over her shoulder to look at Veronica, Undine and Jean only for her eyes to widen in surprise. All three of them were butt naked and their discarded two piece bodysuit was on the ground around them.

Flora gained a challenging glint in her silver eyes. “Take over for a moment.”

Naruto arched an eyebrow when Flora got off of him and widened his eyes when he saw a slyly smirking Undine, Jean and Veronica making their way to him. All of them were naked. On their neck, to their mons pubis was a barely seen scar. He inwardly nodded to himself with satisfaction. Their previous appearance would have immediately put anyone off.

Before he knew it their hands began tugging and pulling on his clothes, stripping him of his attire until he himself was as naked as they are. Kneeling between his legs Undine took the initiative by taking his cock into her mouth, being careful with her teeth, and started sucking and licking as she bobbed her head up and down on his length.

Jean and Veronica lay beside him and pressed themselves up against him, making Naruto moan in enjoyment before the two women leaned for a three way kiss with both women going on the offensive; moaning in pleasure from the three way attack Naruto wrapped his arms around Jean and Veronica and grabbed their asses roughly.

Seconds into the three-way kiss Veronica pulled away, allowing Jean and Naruto to heavily make out without interruption, and diverted her full attention to Naruto's neck with her mouth, teeth and tongue.

Feeling the mattress shift Undine stopped sucking on Naruto's cock and pulled it out of her mouth. She stroked the penis to keep it at full mast with her saliva used as lubricant to help her stroking. Looking to her left she found Flora, who is now naked, kneeling beside her. The platinum-blonde, silver eyed woman was looking at the thick, meaty schlong with an intense look of hunger.

Corner on her mouth quirking upwards', Undine moved so she was straddling Naruto's right leg where she began to lavish the right side of Naruto's dong with her tongue, lips and teeth. Flora straddled Naruto's left leg and started licking, sucking and nibbling on her side of Naruto's dong.

Naruto moaned into Jean's mouth as he reflexively thrust his hips when he felt Undine and Flora lavishing attention to his dick. Both of them were working together to get him off. Flora would lick and suckle her way up from the base to the tip, coiling her tongue around the glans before taking it in her mouth for several seconds of sucking and licking before taking it out. Undine would lick and suck down from the top to the base. She would take his his bulbous head into her mouth after she went up and would do the same thing Flora did. And they would repeat that pattern.

Jean broke away from the kiss to catch her breath before leaning down to lick Naruto's abdominal muscles. Both Jean and Veronica let out pleasured whimpers as Naruto roughly knead their ass with a wide shit-eating grin.

Naruto barely resisted the urge to laugh out loud. And who could fault him? Flora and Undine were taking turns on sucking his cock. Veronica was doing her damned best to give him a love bite and the Jean was busy worshipping his body with her tongue and hands.

Naruto knew if Jiraiya saw him now, he would give an arm and leg to be in his place.