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One day later

Priscilla, Luciela and Riful were making good time in getting to Alphonse, the home territory of the White Silver King. Or, Isley the Abyssal One of the North, as he is more known among the warriors of the Organization. The greenlands have bled into snow a long time ago, but being what they are the snow or the cold didn’t bother them. They were expecting a hybrid or two to come in their way when they went from two different regions, but the two Abyssal Ones and Priscilla had no encounters with said warriors. Their yoki, suppressed as it is, still would have gotten any warrior worth their salts attention. But they had none.

Well, they certainly weren’t complaining about that.

Of course, they found Pieta… or what was left of it. Which was a crater. Along with a massive trench that tore through the ground. Priscilla was secretly unnerved, by the amount of destruction here. And he could have easily did that to her when he found herself and Isley overlooking the town. She realised now, that she was real lucky he didn’t turn on them right then and there.

Coming to a stop within a mountain pass the three awakened beings decided to take a small break. And to collect their bearings. The brunette spread her yoki sensing out and found the energy belonging to their target about a day away from them.

“So, which one is the furthest? The City of Icecrown or Northrend Castle?” Priscilla asked, looking to Riful for clarification. “I have never been to any of them.”

“Icecrown in the farthest.” Riful replied. “It got its name from being at the peak of the tallest mountain, which is located at the northmost edge of this continent. The people of the North tend to refer to it as the crown of the world.”

“And how much of a journey is it from where we are?” Priscilla continued.

“A good distance… that’s all I know,” Riful replied with a frown. “Between the two, I’ve only ever been to Northrend. But, it’s hard to be here at all without hearing someone praising Icecrown as being the gem of the North.”

Priscilla mulled over the loli’s words. And Isley isn’t that far away. Meaning he was in… “Well, it looks like we’re going to Northrend castle then.” the youngest of the three said, “Isley’s yoki is about a day's journey away from here.” the brunette looked to Riful, “Do you remember how to get to Northrend?”

“It’s been a long time since I last entered its halls. But I guess I could?” Riful replied unsurely. “I remember fragments of my time as a warrior of the Organzation, so, maybe retracing my steps will jog my memory? I do know that it’s on top of a hill with no less than three gatehouses, so walking in through the front will be rather tricky. If we can find the postern, though, we should be able to get undetected quite cheerfully.”

“If Isley doesn’t detect our yoki approaching his castle, that is.” Luciela reminded the oldest of them.

“I will have you know that I am quite adept at hiding mine,” Riful replied with an impish grin.

Priscilla quirked an eyebrow. She’ll be the judge of that. “Show me.”

Riful shrugged and reverted to her younger form, as that made it easier. Then, she reigned in her yoki to the point that it was nigh-undetectable. Priscilla could still sense it, but Luciela could not.

“I can still sense you.” Priscilla said. “It’s incredibly faint, but I can still sense you.”

“I cannot.” Luciela added with a frown. That was… legitimately scary. Then she looked at Priscilla. “How can you still sense her?”

“Because, I’m me.” Priscilla answered haughtily. Then she added, with a serious look on her face. “But in all seriousness, it is because I was a close contender to Teresa when it came to our abilities. We shared much of the same skill only she was... better.” she didn’t like to admit that Teresa was better than her. But the truth was right there. Teresa simply was better than her. Even in death the woman had her beat in all of her aspects.

Of course, being completely unaware of what happened in Morris, but feeling the massive yoki burst from her man days before, the brunette is in the dark that Teresa of the Faint Smile is back in the land of the living.

“I see…” Luciela frowned even further. “I suppose we should try and suppress our yoki then.” she looked back to Riful. “I propose we let Riful take point. She has been there before.”

Priscilla hummed, then nodded acceptingly. “I agree. Riful, take the lead. You’re going to guide us there, and hopefully it will jog your memory.”

Seeing as she wasn’t going to get out of this, now that she has been delved as the guide, riful just accepted her role with a sigh and beckoned them to follow her.

----

In Shatter Keep, Naruto woke up with a yawn… and a weight on top of him. He groggily looked down to check who it was and smiled upon seeing a naked and very satisfied Octavia snoozing away on his chest. He hugged her tight, rubbing the woman’s back longingly, giving her a peck on the forehead.

“Octavia,” he gently called out. “it’s time to wake up.”

Said blonde mumbled incoherently, snuggling up to him and sighing happily.

Naruto chuckled at that and rubbed her back some more. “Octavia~” he gently called out once more, singingly this time. “It’s time to wake up,”

The blonde mumbled once more, “Five… five more minutes…” she whined, tiredly, not awake but not asleep.

The Uzumaki Patriarch chuckled once more, grabbing her nice ass with one hand while continuing to rub her back with the other. He grinned in satisfaction when she mewled pathetically and raised her rear towards his hand.

The blond grinned, he had a surefire way to get the woman up. “Octavia, it’s time to wake up… or don’t you want to see the Elemental Nations?”

Octavia mewled once more, his words seeming to get through as she started to stir. “Alright,” she yawned. “Just… give me a moment….”

“Alright.” he chuckled, “since Riful wouldn’t take it too well if you up and left our kids, should Harja and Elspeth come with us as well?” Well… maybe not Harja. He needs to figure out a good punishment for what she did to him the day before… maybe not taking her with him would be a good punishment?

“...Sure.” Octavia yawned. Then she sat up with a groan, the covers dropping around their waists to show off her bountiful breasts. With another yawn the blonde rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, before looking down at her man. “What about Europa?” she asked, sliding off of him to the side.

“She’ll be coming with us as well.” Naruto replied. “She may act lazy, but she’s just as curious about my homeland.” with a grunt of effort, he sat up and stretched his arms. “I’ll have to see who else I’m going to bring.”

As his secretary and charismatic negotiator, Miria was certainly coming with. Jean would, too, were she not still on border patrol, if only to make sure he was safe. She was rather fussy like that. He’d have to get her a present while he was there to make it up to her. He’d probably get Team Undine to man Shatter Keep while he was gone and leave the kids with Clare or something… Knowing Harja, she’d likely try and jump him the moment they were alone together, now that he thought about it.

Now that she was fully awake, Octavia got out of bed to get her dress on. She made sure to give her hips that extra sway for her man’s viewing pleasure. Chuckling Naruto got out of bed himself and got his clothes on as well. Then they went out to collect Europa… and Harja and Elspeth while they were at it. As much as he loved his kids, he didn’t trust to leave them alone for a minute. Not to mention he needs to lock those damn adult books in Raby Castle so his kids wouldn’t get any ideas. Like Little Teresa did when she got her hands on Icha Icha: Taboo. He did not want to see how influenced Harja would become if she decided to take after the main character.

Naruto shuddered at the thought... and then sighed exasperatedly as his traitorous dick throbbed in approval. Think other things… Nagato destroying Konoha! Obito taking control of Kurama and setting him loose on Konoha. Natalie… Natalie… he let out another sigh, this one in depression as he thought of her. He wondered how things would be different if she were still around?

“If it makes you feel better,” Clare said, reaching out to him, “She’s doing quite well on the other side. Unfortunately, she... seems to approve of your daughters.”

Oh, damn it…

“Does she know I named one of my kids after her?”

“Of course,” Teresa replied, “She was so touched it even brought her to tears.” she let out a sigh, and Naruto had no idea why but the sudden image of Teresa cupping her face came to mind. “She didn’t think she made that much of an impression on you. Also, she likes the gravesite you brought her to. And that you stopped the Organization from digging her up.”

“Until she found out they were bringing dead warriors back to life?”

“Actually, as much as she wanted to come back to life again, and see you she wouldn’t have wanted to be brought back in such a cruel way.” Clare pointed out. “She would have been brought back with the sole purpose of killing you. When she found that out, she was glad you stopped them. She couldn’t have bared the thought of killing you.”

“I’m curious… is it possible for her spirit to… show up? Hagoromo did it.”

“No… Not in that way, at least. Reincarnation is an option, but that would require her to be literally reborn as an infant.” Clare replied.

“Not to mention, she would have no memory of me, I take it?”

“Not until she met you,” Teresa corrected. “We could easily have her unlock them later, but you’d be in your thirties before she rejoined the family… unless we pulled some strings to have her brought back as one of your children. I doubt you’d be up for that, though…”

“You assumed correct…” Naruto grumbled. “I have two daughters, that want to fuck me. I don’t think I’d be able to take another. Let alone one who was my previous lover at that! Not to mention it would be plain awkward.”

“Fair enough,” Teresa replied. “If ever you change your mind, however unlikely that may be, just know that I’m certainly willing to pull those strings.”

“Uh… well, thank you, I guess,” Naruto was not quite sure how to feel about that, though he was certainly flattered that she’d go so far as to do such a favor for him. “I wonder if it’s possible if you were to bring her into the seal… or to bring her to me when I’m with you.” he wasn’t sure if either of those were possible, but these were divine beings he was talking to, there was little they couldn’t do… outside of their own realm of responsibility. But maybe they could use their… power of love, to bring her soul to him or something?

“Unfortunately, we lack the authority to do any of those two,” Clare replied with a sigh. ”Remember, we are goddesses of love. Not death. That is outside of our realm.”

“I thought so.” Naruto sighed.

“We’ll see if we can get an audience with a god of Death - the one you call ‘Shinigami’, but no promises,” Clare added.

That brought up red flags. “...Ah. Maybe you can not contact the Shinigami?” he remembered that his dad sacrificed his own soul to the Shinigami, and if this is the very same god of death, then they’re going to be pissed that two souls escaped from their stomach.

“That and there’s the possibility that she is simply unwilling to help.” Teresa pointed out. “Shini’s rather uptight about who can and cannot communicate with the dead. Your meetings with Hagoromo, Kushina, and Minato were allowed, only because the fate of the world was at stake.”

“I see… well… just ask her and if she says no, then that is that. Don’t… antagonise her. I really don’t want her to be pissed off in the likelihood she’s still butthurt that four souls escaped from her stomach… like my dad. And Old Man Third. And the first and second Hokages.”

“Oh, you have nothing to worry about, sweetie,” Teresa cooed. “We’ll be perfectly careful.”

And like that the connection between him and the divine beings was severed. Naruto took a quick look around his surroundings and saw he and Octavia were now out of the bedroom and walking down a hallway. Huh. He must’ve started walking with her when they finished getting dressed.

He could sense three yoki signatures close by. Europa, Harja and Elspeth were together it seems. Hopefully his daughters weren’t being too much trouble for the lazy awakened being. He certainly had trouble with Harja when she was all by herself.

Well, if nothing else, it made gathering the four of them much easier…

It didn’t take long for Naruto and Octavia to regroup with the others. Europa, as one would expect was happily snoozing away in a corner while her poor shadow clones looked utterly miserable, doing their best to stay awake and watch over Naruto’s kids.

“...I feel a bit guilty, now.” Naruto said, which announced his presence to the miserable clones of Europa. And his kids. All three of them perked up, as did Elspeth and Harja. Seeing them looking at him, with the clones giving him looks of desperation, Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. “Well… it can’t be helped I suppose.” the Uzumaki Patriarch made a single hand seal and five clones popped into existence. One for each of them.

While Europa’s clones may be just clones… they were still Europa. And if they were miserable when they dispelled then the original would be three times as miserable herself, once she gets their memories. That and they seem they could use a little pick me up. And a reward.

Before the clones could react, they were each picked up in a bridal carry and disappeared in a swirl of leaves along with their respective knights in shining armour, resulting in Harja letting out a knowing giggle.

“Oh, be quiet you,” Naruto muttered. Then he looked to the slumbering Europa and couldn’t help but sweatdrop at the drool coming from the corner of her mouth. The blond looked to his remaining two clones, and pointed at his daughters. He in the meantime would be carrying the real Europa.

“Who- wha-?” the loli in question muttered as her eyes fluttered open. Her being carried woke her up. Her eyes landed on Naruto, who was staring down at her with amusement. “Uuuuhhh…”

“So, you slept while leaving your clones to do the work for you?” he teased.

“It was effective,” Europa replied in her defense, “even if your kids dispelled most of them by the time you got here... I think. I lost count after the seventh.”

“I see…” Naruto gave said twins, who were suddenly looking so innocent a flat look. “Well… I’m moving the plan for the Organization forward, and I’m going to need to plan it out.” he looked back down at Europa. “We’re heading to Morris. All of us.”

That surprised the three of them. “Really? Why are you pushing the plan ahead?”

“I’ll let you know when we get to Morris.” Naruto replied evasively. Then he looked at Octavia and motioned as best he can for her to grab on to him. Which she did.

Then they were gone in a yellow flash.

----

A moment later, in Morris. Naruto, Europa, Octavia and Harja and Elspeth found themselves in the room Naruto set up for anybody in the Elemental Nations to appear. He made a few adjustments to it so that he can appear there at any time by himself, or with other people. He had no idea if Kakashi got his seal yet, so he’ll summon a messenger toad to try and get confirmation from the man himself if he received the seal or not.

He’s pretty sure Cynthia would want to come with once she realises where he’s going. The dear is still pissed at his home after all. If nothing else, it was sweet that she cared so much. Just so long as she doesn’t start picking any fights out of her admittedly justified anger, she was welcome to tag along. Alicia and Beth would doubtlessly wish to come with him, as well… as always. The childish wonder those two always showed when they accompanied him to the Elemental Nations in his occasional trips back to check on Koyuki and little Mito, among others.

Naruto set Europa down on her feet and turned to address the others. “Alright. I’m going to get Miria and the others in the War Room.” he gave Harja and Elspeth a pointed look, “You two are going to be left here. Don’t cause any trouble. Europa and Octavia meet me there.”

The two awakened beings nodded and went to their destination. Naruto meanwhile gave Harja a no-nonsense look when he saw the impish grin on her face. He decided to put this not so little girl in her place. “I was planning on taking you with me, since you were one of the more eager ones to see it. But after that little stunt you pulled yesterday, you’re going to be left here.”

That wiped the grin off her face and Harja looked at him in confusion. Elspeth was equally confused. “See what, daddy?” the younger of the sisters asked.

“The Elemental Nations, of course.”

Harja frowned deeply. “I’ll make it up to you, I promise!”

“No. It’s too late for that.” Naruto told her with a deep frown of his own. He was gentle, but firm in his deliverance; Naruto was not about to let her off the hook, but he didn’t want to be cruel, either. “You made your choice, and now you have to live with the consequences. Be a good girl and I’ll consider it, the next time.”

The brunette looked disappointed, but nodded in acceptance. She wanted so badly to see her daddy’s homeland, but in her relative maturity, she understood. Daddy had every reason to be mad at her in hindsight.

“Anyway… I’m planning on summoning a toad, here.” he added with a sigh, “If you’re a good girl, I’ll set you see Ma and Pa…” then he trailed off and had the lifeblood drain from his face. “Oh boy…” he hadn’t contacted anyone he is friends with in the Toad Summoning Contract. For seven years. Ma and Pa were going to beat him over the head!

“Is something wrong, Daddy?” Elspeth asked, furrowing her brow in confusion.

Naruto took a deep breath and looked at his daughters. “Listen you two, this may sound strange but... if an old geezer toad with grey hair and a goatee starts bashing me over the head, don’t try to hurt him, okay?”

Harja blinked owlishly. “Wait, what?”

Naruto took a deep breath, before make the necessary hand seals. Then he slammed his palm at the ground with a cry of, “Kuchiyose no Jutsu!”

Naruto was enveloped by a cloud of smoke. Then there was the sound of someone getting smacked, and the flooring cracking. And Harja and Elspeth blinked owlishly when the cloud of smoke dispersed, saw their daddy’s face planted into the floor. There were two, small, but strangely expressional toads sitting on his back.

Both were green skinned, and were clearly male and female.

One had purple marking around her mouth and the back of her body. She looks as if she is wearing a hair net with hair-rollers underneath and is wearing a high-collared cape.

The other had white, mohawk like hair, very thick eyebrows and a small goatee and is also wearing a high-collared cape.

Both of them were old looking.

Out of sheer reflex, both Harja and Elspeth ran up to at least make sure their daddy was okay. The former was especially worried for him for several reasons.

“Naruto-boy!” the female toad barked, “Do you have any idea how long we were waiting for you to call us?!”

“Come now, Shima.” the male toad said her, “I’m pretty sure Naruto-boy has a good reason for not calling any of us for a near decade.” he hopped on down at Naruto, completely ignoring Harja and Elspeth who were kneeling in front of his head. “Isn’t that right, Naruto-boy?”

“I’ve been busy dealing with some shady organization too similar to Akatsuki for my liking and being a father,” he mumbled, still unmoving. “I honestly meant to contact you sooner, but time just slipped away.”

“What?!” the female toad, Shima, shouted in surprise. “You’re a father? At this young an age?!”

Naruto slowly pushed his face off of the floor, surprising his daughters when they saw he was grinning. “Yep! These two are some of my children, actually.” then he looked at Shima, adding, “Also, I’m not that young, Ma... My Uzumaki genes are just… making me look the same as I did when I was 17.”

The two toads looked at the children in question, and the two of them felt like they were in the cage with a very old and experienced lion.

“Your children, eh?” Fukusaku, the male toad, asked. “I take it the brunette is adopted… unless there’s something I didn’t know about when you were twelve.”

Naruto slowly stood up to give the two toads time to hop on up to his shoulders. “Remember the old saying ‘children grow up so fast’? Well, that’s exactly what happened to these little terrors.” he chuckled when he saw their looks of disbelief. “Harja’s actually just turned seven and the blonde, Elspeth, is three.”

“Remarkable!” Fukusaku said, hopping closer and looking at the half-human half-demon girls with critical eyes, “How did that happen? They look twice as old as they should!”

“That would be because of their mother, Riful,” Naruto explained. “Riful is… complicated to explain. But to make a long story short: there are basically half-human half-demon warriors, who become fully fledged demons with a craving for human innards, if they push themselves past their limit. Riful became that about… a thousand years ago? Give or take a few centuries. But she looks like a 13 year old. And Harja and Elspeth are essentially half-humans, half-demons with the ability to transform into their demon forms but without the need to eat human guts.”

“I… see…” Fukasaku muttered; he was really concerned with what he has been hearing. “And you’ve been living with her?” he asked turning to his one time student with a concerned frown.

“Yeah.” the blond nodded. “Honestly, if you get past that fact they’re like ordinary people. I’m living with several demons and hybrids actually. I’m married to almost all of them too, in fact. Oh yeah,” he snapped his fingers, “I’m going to gather almost all of them in the War Room. Tsunade is going to be there too.”

Shima and Fukusaku frowned deeply at that. “I take it she’s not responsible for the Suna Incident, then?” the latter asked, stroking his goatee.

Naruto shook his head. “No. Long story short, her advisors were the ones responsible for that. When Granny-Tsunade found out, she personally beat them to death. Then she left and took Shizune with her, who is also here. Now they’re acting as our doctors. They helped grow some artificial innards using my DNA for the demons here to eat.”

“They’re surprisingly good,” Elspeth chirped childishly, completely oblivious to Shima and Fukasaku’s discomfort.

Naruto stared at his daughter, before pinching the bridge of his nose. “...Elspeth, what did I say?”

Really that girl knew she didn’t have to eat innards.

The blonde in question looked sheepish at that. “Sorry, I just… can’t help myself, sometimes. Also, Mommy’s a terrible cook and Auntie Octie and and Auntie Europa don’t know how to cook, at all.”

“Right. I guess you being part awakened helps you out with that. Even if you can eat once every fortnight.”

“They’re surprisingly ravenous, actually,” Europa chimed in, surprising Naruto, Shima and Fukasaku. Naruto didn’t even sense her coming back into the room! “The little one, especially. I suspect that it’s because they’re still growing but Elspeth and Harja both individually eat more than myself, their mother, and Octavia, combined.”

Fukasaku and Shima both looked at the loli in question, before looking at their summoner. “Naruto-Boy, who is she?” the former asked, hopping on up to the blond’s shoulder.

“That’s Europa, one of my… lovers,” Naruto replied. “Don’t let her appearance fool you, though. Like Riful, she’s much older than she looks.”

“I take it she is one of these… demons, you mentioned?” Shima asked.

“The ones who were once half-demon warriors, yes,” Naruto replied. “She became a warrior around the age of twelve or so and went over her limit some time later in her career. She stopped aging as a result, which is why she looks so young.”

“I did look older than this when I was a warrior, you know.” Europa pointed out. “Not by much, mind you. I just reverted to a younger age because hunting more than necessary proved too troublesome.”

“...You and Shikamaru would get along splendidly.” Naruto deadpanned at her. He looked at his daughters, and clones, “Alright, enough time has been wasted. I’m going to get the others to the War Room. You two, be good and remember what I said earlier.” Then he looked at Shima and Fukasaku and asked, “Do you want to stay and meet the others?”

“I don’t see why not.” Shima said with a smile. Then she turned to her husband Fukasaku and asked, “What do you think dear? I think staying will give us some much needed time on catching up with our last Toad Summoner.”

Fukasaku exhaled, “I suppose so… if it won’t bother you Naruto-Boy, we will gladly stay around for a little while longer.”

“Good to know,” Naruto replied with a chuckle. “Alright, let’s get going, then.” With that Naruto and Europa left the room, leaving Harja and Elspeth with his clones. Harja was still disappointed that she wasn’t allowed to go. Still, she’ll make sure she will be a good girl from now on. Until she goes to the Elemental Nations that is. “Europa, do you think you can get the others?” Naruto asked as he and the awakened being left the room.

“Do I have to?”

“What do you think?”

“...Go get shadow clones to do it, you lazy sod.”

Neither kids could see Naruto balking at Europa, due to them no longer being in their line of sight. “Me? Lazy? You’re known as ‘Europa the Lazy’! if anything, you’re the lazy one!”

“Who was busy watching those two while you and Octavia were getting frisky?”

“...Kage Bunshin no Jutsu.”

----

Several minutes later, in the war room of the citadel, Naruto, Europa, Octavia, Shima, and Fukusaku found themselves standing before the team captains of the rebellion as well as Teresa, Tsunade, Shizune and Team Samui.

Teresa along with many others who were not of the Elemental Nations, were looking at the toads, standing stationary on the wide table as if they were aliens. And to them they are. Never before had they seen a toad with hair… or any toad with hair. They knew he could summon toads, due to his autobiography but they never seen those toads in the time they had been with him.

And they were feeling… uncharacteristically nervous when their eyes landed on them. It was as if they were being analysed, for what, they didn’t know.

Tsunade and Shizune on the other hand, were looking at them with wide eyes. Though they kept their mouths shut.

“Naruto… just who are they?” Miria asked as she awkwardly stared at the toad sages. Honestly she felt uncomfortable at the scrutinising looks they were giving her.

“They are the Two Great Sage Toads of Mount Myōboku.” Naruto replied. “Their names are Shima and Fukusaku,” he gestured to each one respectively, “They’re also the ones who taught me Sage Mode.”

Shima looked up at him with an smile. “Oh you’re giving us too much credit dear.”

“Fascinating…” Fukusaku muttered; then he looked back to Naruto and asked, “And all these ‘hybrids’ have silver eyes?

“As far as I know, yes.” Naruto answered. “They lose the natural colour of their hair once the conversion is complete as well... some to a greater extent than others, as you can see in Miria’s case.”

“Yes, I see.” Fukusaku then hopped onto his shoulder with Shima doing the same. “Something tells me this is going to be an important meeting. So we’ll let you get on with it.”

Naruto nodded in thanks and brought his attention to Miria. “I’ll cut to the chase Miria: I’m going to accelerate the plan to take down the Organization.”

“Oh?” the sandy brunette perked up. “What brought this on?”

“A few things actually.” Naruto sighed, “One the Organization knows some of their ‘tools’ have taken a liking to me. Anastasia, Camilla, Dominique, and Tesla being such examples.” he paused to collect himself, as he again, hated for what he was about to add. “And if I was in the Organization’s shoes… I would get rid of anyone that has taken a liking to the enemy. That being said, we need to deal with them before they catch on and start purging their warriors. Two, word is that the Organization is catching on to our plans. So we need to strike soon before they get wise and again, start executing warriors that have taken a liking to me.”

“Very well, then,” Miria replied with a nod. “Is there anything else you want to discuss?”

“The battle plan. While I can just blow the fuckers up in an instant, I don’t want to do that.”

Undine blinked at him. “Why not? Would that make this whole problem go away?”

“Yes. It would. But you have to remember that they have trainees and other warriors within their headquarters. And if I did that, I would be killing them too.” then he gestured to Miria, “And she wants to save all of them. And because of that I want to get all of them out of there as well.”

“Ah,” Undine muttered, looking a bit sheepish.

“So, how do we extract them?” Teresa asked. “I’m sure several among the brats would not be trusting of the dreaded ‘Ladykiller Naruto’.”

“I am thinking of a siege to distract their forces and an infiltration team to extract the trainees.” the blond replied. “The siege, because I’m pretty sure they’re going to send their own forces to fight ours. Which means while they’re distracted, we need a team to sneak inside and extract the girls they have in their clutches. Which brings up my next point: Team Samui, as the Raikage’s personal underlings have taken missions of such caliber. But they’re only one team. And they’re a member short.”

“Only because you knocked Karui up, again…” Tsunade grumbled.

Said redhead blushed heavily at that.

“To be fair, she was using contraceptives,” Naruto pointed out in her defense. “It’s not our fault they failed.” then he cleared his throat and went back to the point before they get even more off-track, “Anyway, Team Samui are a member short, and even if she was available - they’re still one team. We need help. From my homeland.” he told her and allowed them to take in his words for as long as they need. And for him to brace for the outrage they will most likely display when he tells them who he wants to go for help.

“I see… so who are you going to go to ask? Kumo? Suna?” Miria asked, giving him a questioning look.

“...No.” he inhaled and exhaled, “I’m going to go to Konoha, first, to see how successful Kakashi-Sensei was in cleaning house,” Naruto replied. “If he was, we’ll see how willing Konoha is to redeem themselves. If not, we’ll head to Suna… though I might go there either way.”

“Konoha…” Miria’s eye twitched as she visibly restrained from shouting at him. She took a deep breath and levelled him a glare. “are you serious?”

“Kakashi-Sensei is Hokage,” Naruto pointed out. “He can be trusted. I also know a few others who can. Squad 10 is one of the best units from my generation, for example. Plus when I was still in Team 7, we had the best teamwork with them. Again, I just want to see if they are an option. If not, we go straight to Suna.”

“I see… so who’s going to be going with you this time?” Miria asked.

“Well, as my secretary and leader of this rebellion you are obviously.” Naruto replied, “Alicia and Beth are two, since they are literally glued to my hip if they find out I was going outside of Morris. Octavia and Europa are another two. And since there are plenty of more of you around, that means more than eight can come this time.”

“I’d like to go,” Teresa said. “I am rather curious as to what your homeland is like. I am sure Clare would want to go too.”

“I’ll see about finding someone to keep her and Jean’s kids out of trouble, then,” Naruto chuckled. Harja and Elspeth could use someone to keep an eye on them, as well.”

“I’ll volunteer for that,” Evianna chimed in. “It’ll be good practice.”

Naruto nodded. “Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Harja, Elspeth, and little Teresa can each be a handful on their own.”

“I’ll bear that in mind,” she replied with a warm smile.

“I’ll go as well,” Undine said with crossed arms. “I’ve always wanted to see your homeland and I haven’t had the opportunity.”

“I’ll like to go as well,” Veronica said.

“I’ll go too,” said Galatea who was smiling at her man.

“Hmm… Jean can’t go, because she’s doing border patrol.” Naruto mused. “Chronos and his team are in Westvale Keep, doing their own thing, as well…”

“Perhaps we can bring Agatha along?” Miria asked. “She seems to me feeling a bit claustrophobic after being cooped up in Morris for so long.”

“...Good point, she could do with a change of scenery.”

“Perhaps you can bring Nina with you as well?” Irene asked. “She’s been curious as well… and if you have the time, I’m sure she’d like to grab a souvenir for Miata.”

Naruto let out a hearty chuckle at that. “We’ll see about that last part, but I don’t mind having her tag along.” he drummed his fingers on the table, humming in thought, “Rafaela. She can come with as well. Betty can vouch for your team Evianna and I’m sure Glinda would love to join. I’ll have to fetch her from Raby Castle. I’m sure the rest of her team will be fine without her for a bit.” he sighed and shook his head in exasperation. “Also, we’ll need to send someone to Shatter Keep, seeing as how Riful has gone off with Priscilla and Luciela to secure the North… initially, without permission.”

Miria sighed as well. “I figured they’d eventually try a stunt like that,” she muttered. “What are they planning to do, exactly?”

“Originally, they were planning on killing Isley and taking the North. The North is also a good staging point to approach the Organization since there’s a weak point in that area. However, when I talked to them I got them to at least give Isley a chance to join us. If he refuses, then they’re allowed to kill him.” he blinked as a thought occurred to him. “Now that I think about it, I’ll have to collect Rafaela. The poor woman must be looking after her nieces now that Luciela’s upped and left. Little Chandra must be giving her such a headache...”

Fukusaku blinked and slowly looked up at Naruto. “Naruto-boy… how many children do you have?”

Blinking Naruto looked at Fukusaku back. “Uh... around forty-ish? Not including the ones I’ve had in the Elemental Nations. I also have at least four more on the way. Though the so-called Crimson Guard may be saying otherwise in a week or two...”

Fukusaku and Shima both stared at him with flat looks. Then the former pulled out a stick from… somewhere. Naruto went pale faced, remembering that dreaded stick was used to beat the Nature Chakra out of him during sage training. Literally. Then Naruto let out a pained yelp when the toad whacked him over the head with it. “I knew Jiraiya-Boy was a bad influence on you, boy!”

----

After a quick recovery from the whack across the head, Naruto quickly called up another toad. This one being remarkably different from the two on his shoulders. After giving the toad instructions, he looked thoughtful for a moment.

“So, lemme see if I got this right: you want me to see if the Hokage got the seal you gave to the Kazekage? And if he has it, then he needs to use it?” the small sized, red and orange spotted toad asked Naruto with, what the blond could assume was, a raised eyebrow. He was wearing a scarf and was a small satchel..

Naruto nodded. “Yeah, can you do that?” he asked.

The messenger toad shrugged. “Sure. I don’t see why not. It’ll be a hassle getting to the kage tower, but it’s nothing I can’t handle. Do you want me to pass on any other message, if he doesn’t?”

“If he doesn’t then tell him, the neglected son of the fourth mountain face will be on his way. He’ll, hopefully, know what it means.” Naruto told him. He wanted to make sure that he was subtle, then again, Naruto was never one for subtly. That message alone would tell anyone worth a damn that he was coming back.

“Alright,” the toad nodded. “I’ll get started right away,” the toad formed several hand seals and performed a reverse summoning.

Letting out a sigh, Naruto looked to Fukasaku and Shima, then to the rest of the women in the War Room. “I’ll go and collect the others. We’ll move out when the toad comes back.”

“Alright,” Miria replied with a nod. “I’ll be waiting for you here, then.”

“Okay,” Naruto gave his wife a parting kiss, before leaving the war room to collect the others. Suffice to say they were going to be very surprised to see the Great Toad Sages.

----

Ever since Rubel tried to get Konoha’s aid in getting rid of Naruto, things hadn't been looking good for the Hidden Leaf. But, they haven’t been looking excessively bad, either. Despite them no longer being a part of the Shinobi Union, and being virtually alone with little to no allies, they were still hanging in there. But, things were going to go down hill for them if they didn’t find a way to improve their standing. Or to try and regain old alliances that were broken when the elders fucked up with that mission leading to the Suna Incident.

How those late elders got authorisation without going through the proper channels was beyond the Hokage. But they were gone now. As were other people that had a hand in having Naruto’s shinobi licence revoked.

He made sure of that.

Kakashi Hatake, the Sixth Hokage was reading reports, and requests. Stamping approved and denied on the latter ones after read them. This was the boring part of the job. Apart from making rounds around the hidden village he was cooped up in this office. Signing papers. Authorising things.

At times he wished something, anything, would happen!

“Excuse me,”

Hearing a voice he wasn’t expecting to hear, Kakashi blinked and looked up from the sheet of paper he was reading. He blinked again, this time in surprise in seeing a summon he had not seen since the Fourth Shinobi World War: a toad.

The toad - a messenger toad, Kakashi realised - smiled, “Are you the Hokage? ‘Cos I got a message for him.”

The partially masked man gave the messenger toad a flat stare. “Yes, I am. Otherwise I wouldn’t be sitting behind this desk.” he dully pointed out.

“Ah good. The message is as follows: do you have the seal that was given to the Kazekage?”

Kakashi stared at the toad and nodded. “I do. Though, I don’t know what it does. He never told me, and the sealing matrix was complex. Too much so for any of our sealing teams to decipher. They believe it is a summoning of some kind.”

“Splendid!” the toad chirped. “The next message is to use the seal. You are correct in your assumption, according to the man who sent me. He’d anticipated that the Kazekage would still be rather bitter.”

“I see…” Kakashi looked at the sheets of paper then sighed and got up out of his chair. “In that case, I’ll go fetch the scroll.” it should be in the Scroll of Seals. And it was no longer in the same place, since he replaced it with a dummy, just so he can prevent it from being taken, like when Naruto was tricked into taking it… and succeeded… when he was still a genin. He still didn’t know whether to be impressed or appalled by that, but, if nothing else, Kakashi would get a good laugh if some idiot tried that shit again. He looked down at the toad expectantly. “Are you going to stay or go straight back?”

“I’ll be going straight back.” the toad answered. Then he gave Kakashi a hard look and added, “He’s giving you a chance, here. Don’t mess it up.”

Kakashi frowned behind his mask, but nodded. “Understood.”

Then the toad made a sequence of hand seals, before puffing away.

----

Later that day, a scroll carrying Naruto, along with Fukasaku and Shima still on his shoulders stood before the fifteen women he’d planned on bringing with: Miria, Alicia, Beth, Octavia, Europa, Agatha, Undine, Teresa, Clare, Betty, Glinda, Veronica, Rafaela, Nina, and Galatea. All of them were eager to see his birthplace. But at the same time, they were dreading it. Mainly because they had a feeling they weren’t going to like what they were going to learn while there. Harja was there, too, looking worried for her daddy, as were several of his other kids. Ophelia was keeping an eye on them, her brat, Nissa, especially.

“Okay, I want you all to be on your best behaviour while we are there. Let me do the talking, and by the Twins: do not assault anyone. Yes, I’m looking at you five.” he directed the last part at Miria, Clare, Undine, Alicia and Beth in particular. Because they were the likely ones that would attack anyone who so much as look at him wrong. The five women in question looked a bit sheepish to one extent or another after hearing that. “Any questions?”

“How long are we going to be gone for?” Clare asked.

“It depends on how long the negotiation takes. So it could be from a matter of hours, to a matter of days.” he answered. “I’m personally hoping for the former, obviously, but you never know. Any other questions?” Alicia slowly raised her hand, prompting Naruto to chuckle at the sheer cuteness of it. “You don’t need to raise your hand, Alicia. But go ahead.”

“Are we allowed to explore?” the elder twin asked.

“...As long as you’re in a pair or a group. While you can take care of yourselves, it won’t hurt to be extra cautious. You and Beth should probably take someone with while we’re in Konoha, just in case, though… I’d be worried sick if you didn’t.”

The twins in question frowned lightly but nodded in acceptance. Naruto smiled at them and took notice that no one else had any questions. “Alright, everyone take hands or stand close together. This is going to be instant.”

‘B-be safe, Daddy!” Harja called out, before anyone could move.

Naruto couldn’t help but smile as he said, “I will.”

Fukasaku looked at the girl in question and said, “We’ll look after Naruto-Boy and make sure he stays out of trouble.”

“Or make sure that trouble doesn’t find him.” Shima added, before looking at the blond in question. “You always seem to find trouble, no matter where you go.”

“It’s not my fault…” the blond tried to protest, even if he knew it was completely true.

Harja still looked worried, but nodded, giving the toads and her daddy a half-hearted smile.

Then, everyone took each others hands and stood close together. Naruto being the one to activate the seal took the foremost position. He felt two hands on his shoulders, and didn’t have to look back to know it was Alicia and Beth. The blond quickly formed the necessary hand seals and slammed his palm on the ground.

The group of eighteen vanished in a massive, puff of smoke not a second later.

“Alright,” Ophelia called out, grabbing the kids’ attention. “Let’s get the lotta you something to heat, shall we? I’m sure Nalani’s had enough time to finish that beef stew she’s been making.”

Several of the kids perked up at that as they all followed her to the mess hall. It would prove a welcome distraction for some, as Harja was not the only one worried for Naruto’s safety by a long shot.

----

Kakashi was understandably nervous. While that toad hadn’t told the man who his summoner was, the Sixth Hokage knew it was Naruto. His sensei’s son was the only Toad Summoner that was still around. Either that or his wayward student found someone else. While he wasn’t pacing back and forth, he wasn’t reading Icha Icha: Paradise; for those that knew him it was a shock. Still, he was relieved that Konoha was getting an opportunity to redeem itself at long last.

That seal he was given by Gaara… it had been retrieved just a few minutes ago. And Kakashi personally had it rolled open on the ground in the center of his office. He was by himself, since he was sure having guards of ANBU waiting alongside him would be a bad move on his part. Even if it was a stupid idea, he wasn’t exactly helpless. He was the Hokage for a damn good reason, after all. Now, all he had to do was wait… and was thankfully not kept in suspense for long as a large poof of smoke filled the room.

Then from within that smoke, came the familiar voice of his sensei’s son. His voice was full of nostalgia.

“Huh… it’s been nearly ten years since I last stepped in here, but I recognise that smell anywhere.”

The poof of smoke cleared, revealing Naruto in all his glory, the two Great Toad Sages on his shoulders. And the silver-eyed, half-demon women behind him. And there were a lot of them. And they were armed too. Then Naruto’s eyes landed on him. It may have been the trick of the light, but Kakashi thought he saw the blond’s eyes lighting up with joy.

“Kakashi-Sensei!”

Well… if anything he seemed happy to see him.

“It’s been a long time, Naruto.” Kakashi chuckled tiredly. “I see you’ve made quite a few new friends.”

“I guess you can say that,” the blond chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. Old habits were beginning to show up now that he was in the presence of a familiar face. “Most of them are my wives, actually.”

Kakashi blinked owlishly, staring at him for a moment before chuckling again. “It seems that man in black was somewhat telling the truth. Somehow, I’m not surprised. You’re always getting into mischief, one way or another... So, how goes your campaign against this Organization?”

“It’s going along pretty well, at the moment. We’ve got allies within their ranks - I even befriended a task force that was assembled for the sole purpose of getting rid of me and my new family.” he answered, then Naruto let out a tired sigh and rubbed the bridge between his eyes. “But, I’ve recently been informed that the Organization is becoming aware of our plans, and it would only be a matter of time before they start purging their forces. So, we’re moving our plans ahead of time.”

Kakashi thought long and hard about the information his student just gave him. “I take it the chance you’re giving Konoha to redeem herself involves a mission of some kind?”

He wasn’t surprised when the blond answered with, “Yes.” but what he said after was what surprised him, and apparently the group of women too. “I’m even willing to pay for said mission. Up front. It’s a bit of a doozie.”

“I… I see…” the grey haired kage had to keep himself from rubbing his eyes. “How much are you offering?”

Naruto rubbed his chin. “Well… I was thinking 10 million ryo up front would do the trick. And another 10 million once it’s done.”

Kakashi twitched violently, looking as though he was having a seizure on his feet. “Did I just hear that right?”

“Yeah, did I just hear that?” Miria said, while looking at Naruto with a heavily twitching eye. “Converting it to Bera, you could purchase a small town with that kind of money!”

“With Pervy-Sage giving me his movie business, his book series, and his spy network, in addition to what I make from the books and movies I’ve already written and starred in, I’ll earn it back in about three months,” Naruto replied. “That’s not even counting Morris being under my care and their people giving a small percentage of their earnings to me as rent; 20 million is a small dent in what I already have. Really, I could buy a small country and still have enough to pay for this mission while keeping everyone in my new family, and Morris well fed for several decades.”

“Duly noted,” Kakashi muttered, shaking his head in amusement. “I’ll see what I can do. I take it this mission is liable to be an S-Rank?”

“Yeah. It will be. And it’ll be a Joint Mission.” Naruto handed Kakashi the scroll he had on him, who took it from the blond’s hand with a curious look. “That scroll has the first up-front payment. Including the details for this mission. If you want we can hash out the teams that will be taking part.”

“Alright,” Kakashi replied with a nod, putting the scroll down on his desk. “We’ll see what it entails, then, and go from there, then.”

The toad Sages were being unusually quiet though. Though that happened when they heard what Naruto was willing to pay for this mission. So it wasn’t surprising they weren’t talking. They were trying to recover from the shock.

----

A few moments later, Naruto and Kakashi could be seen walking down the streets of Konoha, Miria in tow, as well as the twins. Naruto’s other guests were dropped off at his old apartment complex. Several of them stayed there to check it out while the others scurried off to wander the shops.

Shima and Fukasaku decided to stay in the Hokage’s office while they went out exploring.

“I still can’t believe you kept my stuff in that old apartment of mine.” Naruto chuckled, then he looked at Kakashi with an amused grin. “Even the photo of Team 7 was there!”

Kakashi chuckled tiredly. “I wanted to keep things the way they use to be as much as possible, in the off chance you wanted to come back to live here. It’s a pipe dream at this point, but it’s still a dream.” then he looked back at his former student with an eye smile. “Still, this suggestion of walking around Konoha was a welcome change. I’ve been stuck in that office for hours.”

“The girls wanted to look around my birthplace. So I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone.” the blond replied with a chuckle. “Honestly, apart from your face on the Hokage mountain, and a few new buildings here and there not much has changed. I’m surprised no one has recognised me yet. I haven’t changed that much have I?”

“Yes and no,” Kakashi replied. “You still look the same, for the most part.” the Uzumaki heritage was a big part of that, Kakashi mentally guessed. “But you’re more… mature and much happier. Your new family seems to be treating you well.”

“I’ll admit it can be a bit hectic, at times, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.” the blond told him. “Honestly, if it wasn’t for Kage Bunshin I think a lot of them would have broken up with me by now. Miria especially.”

The sandy-brunette wasn’t going to dignify that with a response. She was going to be with him, all the way to the end.

“Hmm… do you know where The Konoha 11 are?” Naruto suddenly asked, “Though, I guess they would be the Konoha 7 now, since Neji and Hinata are dead, and myself and Sakura are no longer part of it.”

“They’re around. Shikamaru, Ino and Choji are still taking missions, even though we haven’t been getting as many as we use to. Tenten is at work in her father's shop, and ordering new kunai and other essentials for our forces. Rock Lee is still training in Taijutsu and learning the Eight Gates, of course. Though he has been in a bit down after the Suna Incident. Kiba and Shino are working as teachers in the academy. Though they do take missions every now and then, but seem to have more or less retired, unofficially - the former, especially, after finding himself a girl..”

“Kiba found someone who could put up with him?” Naruto asked half-jokingly. “Good on him!” he laughed, then the blond sombered up. “What about Konohamaru and his team?” Naruto was especially worried for Moegi, though he was hesitant to say why. “How’ve they been faring with their ‘boss’ gone?”

“They’ve been doing fine, actually. Konohamaru is a Chunin now, as are Moegi and Udon. Konohamaru is taking after you actually…” Kakashi gave his former student a flat look. “You inadvertently made a monster, you know that? He’s been mastering jonin level techniques and pulling daring pranks and been trying to one up you. Even his registration photo is almost exactly like yours.”

“Wait. Really?” Kakashi nodded. “The face paint?” Kakashi nodded again. “Even the Uzumaki swirls on the fingers?” Kakashi nodded again. “I am so proud!” Naruto said overdramatically.

He let out a chuckle when Miria jabbed him in the arm and jokingly asked, “what am I going to do with you?”

He gave her a peck on the cheek and after a brief pause, Naruto remembered something that left him feeling… understandably nervous. “Uh, right… about Moegi… When she came back from Haru, she didn’t happen to bring home a kid, did she?”

Kakashi blinked, “No. Why?”

“Oh, thank the gods,” Naruto sighed. “Let’s just say-”

“You fucked her didn't you.” Miria interrupted him in a deadpan. She was completely unsurprised.

“To be fair, that was before I met you,” Naruto nervously chuckled. “And she was considered an adult at the time. A few weeks later, she started avoiding me and I started getting a bit worried, then she was sent off to Haru not long before the Suna Incident. Haven’t heard from her since.”

Kakashi, meanwhile, had no idea how to react to that. “She’s doing fine; you have nothing to worry about… though when she caught wind of the Suna Incident, she was… pissed. All three of them were, and they nearly went rogue to go out and look for you. I was thankfully able to talk them out of it.” He then shuddered at the memories his actions’ aftermath. “Sometimes, I honestly wish I had simply let them leave, though; you have no idea what kinds of hell those three raised for the next few years after that… though I certainly don’t blame them. even I had half a mid to join in.”

“Well a certain Fifth Hokage did mention she killed those elders for that authorisation. And that you were cleaning house after she suddenly stepped down.” Naruto looked at him and asked, “So how did that go by the way? I’ve heard from several sources that the ones who pulled the strings to get my ninja licence revoked were highly influential people.”

“They may have been highly influential, but I was the student of the Fourth Hokage. And a student of the Fourth, becoming the Sixth Hokage, comes with a lot of prestige.” Kakashi answered with an eye smile, “Since what they had done was treasonous towards the kage, I was able to use my authority to investigate various highly influential people. And to cut off the head of the snake by executing them without chance of parole. So yes, I was effective in ‘cleaning house’.”

“I’m pretty sure executing people without a chance of parole is tyrannical...”

“I’m the Hokage. And this is a dictatorship, with a hint of democratic tendencies.” Kakashi pointed out to the blond. “The people didn’t mind, anyway, seeing as how those who wronged you were at fault for everything the village has gone through over the years.”

“Fair enough, I guess,” Naruto sighed. “I’m thankful for the help.”

Kakashi was about to say something in return, until he was interrupted.

“Is that… It can’t be! Naruto!?”

Said blond and the others perked up at the feminine cry and turned to see a scantily-clad woman in purple running up to them. She had blonde hair pulled up in a ponytail, save for the fringe over one eye and was garbed in a skimpy halter top and short skirt with sarashi bindings underneath. Miria glared at her, recognizing the woman as Yamanaka Ino, one of the childhood tormentors mentioned in Naruto’s autobiography. The sandy brunette was pulled into a hug by her husband and calmed down a bit as a result, but she was still not trusting this chick in the slightest.

“Hey, Ino!” Naruto called back. “It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

The blond came to a stop in front of Naruto and Kakashi, completely ignoring Miria, Alicia and Beth. “A while? It’s been seven years, since we last saw each other.”

“A little more than that, but yeah, it’s been years,” Naruto chuckled. “How’ve you been holding up?”

“Ugh, don’t get me started. Shikamaru, Choji and I are the only ones from our generation who are still an active team. Sakura left with Sasuke, and with Neji… gone, Team Guy is no longer active. They never bothered to get a new teammate in his absence. Same goes for Squad 8 after the… you know.” Ino hesitated with the last one, as she remembered how close Naruto was to Hinata.

“The Suna Incident.” when the blonde in front of him nodded with reluctance, Naruto let out a sigh. “It’s fine, Ino. In all honesty, while I still miss Hinata, I’m past grieving for her. She would want me to move on instead of lamenting on ‘what ifs’.”

Ino sighed and gave him a somber nod. “She would… I’m glad you were able to move on.” She then looked at Miria and noticed that Naruto had his arm around her. “Oh! Looks like you’ve even found yourself another girl, even. Congrats!”

Miria snuggled up to her man, half-possessively, half lovingly. “I’m his wife. As are Alicia and Beth,” and the twins took that as their cue to hug him to them as well.

“They’re rather clingy too…” Miria let out a squawk, and giggled when she felt him grab her ass, “...but that’s what I love about them.” Naruto chuckled warmly.

Ino was beet red and in shock at the realization. “W-wait… those rumors about you having fifty kids in Nami aren’t true, are they?!”

“No! That’s an exaggeration! And, those women dogpiled me! Twice!” Naruto said in exasperation, “Only ten are mine for sure… maybe two or three more? At most, I have fifteen. Most likely less than that. So many others dyed their hair and put on makeup to emulate their role model, so it’s kinda hard to tell which ones are mine without a proper investigation.”

“I also seem to remember that Tsunami chick having her jollies with you,” Miria grumbled.

“Those are rumours, honey.” Naruto stressed, “I only had sex with Tsunami once. That was before I left.”

“And she’s been talking about it ever since,” Miria pointed out with a flat look. “Every time we pass by Nami, I keep hearing from one person or another about how you ‘made the bridge builder’s daughter your bitch in all the right ways’. Many even claim that you gave her a pair of twins. Never seen the proof for myself, but there’s a lot of smoke for there to be no fire.”

“...I might have to verify those rumours, then,” Naruto muttered. His wife had a point after all. Then, another certain brunette came to mind. “...and check on someone else while I’m here.”

“Someone else you had sex with?” Miria was unamused. As were Alicia and Beth. “Just how many people did you have sex with?”

“She jumped me when I was sixteen,” Naruto muttered. “Before leaving the Elemental Nations, I had an… eventful sexlife. Give me a sec…” After a moment to collect his thoughts, he replied, “including Tsunami, there were thirteen women in Nami. Here in Konoha, there were three: Moegi, Tsume, and the one I want to check on, Hana.”

“Wait, what?” Ino gasped. “You had sex with Kiba’s sister?! AND his mother?!”

“To be fair, they ambushed me and dragged my sorry ass back to their compound while Kiba, Shino and Hinata were out on a mission. They had chakra suppressors on hand too, so I couldn’t even get away if I wanted to.” Naruto chuckled nervously. “I was sixteen, though… and frustrated by Sakura ignoring me, so I didn’t exactly put up a fight.” Clearing his throat, he continued. “In Suna, there’s also Anko and a girl named Maki, so that’s two more… In Oni, there’s Shion, in Haru, there’s Koyuki and the ten other women who played in the Icha Icha: Conquest movie… and the director.” Three of those actresses were married, too, and didn’t even have any lewd roles in that movie! Needless to say, their advances were a bit of a guilty pleasure…

Only his years of experience and discipline as an elite ninja prevented Kakashi from giggling pervertedly. What can he say? He’s a massive fan of the Icha Icha series. Has been since the very beginning.

“There was also a total of about ten other women from assorted countries, mostly grateful noblewomen whose asses I saved on missions, sooo…”

“Forty-one,” Miria grumbled.

“To be honest, I got to use all that experience I got from all those romps on you. And the twins. And you certainly enjoy-ow!” Naruto was interrupted by Miria stomping on his foot.

“Just so we’re clear, you’re mine!”

“Yes, dear,” Naruto chuckled nervously, kissing her on the forehead. “I know I’m yours. I’m your husband, after all.”

Satisfied with that, Miria gave him a peck on the lips and said, “alright. Let’s go check and see if you have two more brats you might not know about.”

“...Do we have time?” Naruto asked, looking to Kakashi. “We are here on business after all…” and he didn’t want to cause any more unnecessary distractions.

“If I have anything to say about it, we’ll only be there for five minutes.” Miria then gave Naruto a flat look. “And I, for one wish to know just how many children my husband’s had with other women.”

She wasn’t taking ‘no’ for an answer…

----

Galatea couldn’t help but stare wondrously at the buildings. Naruto’s home was very different to what she was expecting. While there was a lot of children and young adults about, they mostly ignored the woman and her companions. A curious look was given to them, mainly because of the colour of their eyes and the clearly foreign clothing they wore, but that was all. It was a refreshing change to what she was use to seeing, if she were to be asked.

Likewise, Veronica and Undine were in the same boat. This was a refreshing change from the scared and untrustworthy looks they were used to seeing outside of Morris. Not to mention the technology here was different. There were even moving pictures on black boxes, and strange looking lanterns that didn’t need to have its oil changed!

“This place is impressive.” Teresa commented. “I wonder if Naruto will allow us to buy some things to take back with us?”

“He let Cynthia buy some things the last time she was here.” Veronica said. “I am sure he will let us buy some stuff this time as well.”

“I hope so. There’s a store that was selling swords and other weapons; the blades they had on display are nothing like claymores.” Undine said as she looked back at the store in question. “There was even a repurposed saber with a two-handed hilt. What purpose that could serve is beyond me, but it looked to be of high quality.”

“It could be this continent’s version of a bastard-sword.” Clare pointed out.

“Too short,’ Undine replied. “Seriously, it was only three feet long. Someone using a bastard sword would lop the hand off of whoever tried brandishing that thing against him before they even got within range.”

“Or maybe it is a sword that can be used with one hand, so the user can use something else, like a shield. Or two hands for extra cutting power.” Galatea pointed out.

“It literally had a two-handed hilt,” Undine chuckled. “Trying to wield it one-handed would be impractical for a regular human. Seriously, you should look at the thing when we get there. It’s ridiculous.”

Teresa chuckled in amusement. “They’re not regular humans though. They’re like Naruto but on a much lesser scale, after all. So normal rules don’t apply to them.”

“Fair point, I guess,” Undine shrugged. “I still find it weird, but that’s just me.”

“I think we all find this place weird to one extent or another.” Clare pointed out, “It is just so… different from what we are used to seeing. Very intriguing, though.”

“Also…” Veronica brought their attention to her, and found the woman looking up at the Hokage monument. “Is it just me, or, does the face of the fourth man on that mountain look… familiar to you?”

When they followed her gaze, Undine, Teresa, Clare and Galatea all found the mountain Veronica was talking about. It was pretty hard to not notice a mountain with six faces chiseled onto it. They quickly found out what the pony-tailed woman was talking about though.

“Is that… Naruto?” asked a squint eyed Clare.

Teresa shook her head. “No… that man’s hair is longer and spikier. Didn’t Naruto say at one point that his father was the Fourth Hokage?” she asked.

“Naruto did say that. It was also mentioned in his autobiography.” Clare replied, then she looked at the fifth and sixth faces. “And there is Tsunade’s and Kakashi’s face too… I think that is a monument for all the leaders this ‘hidden village’ has had up until now.”

“Huh. So it is. How condeceeded can they get?”

Clare sighed. “Teresa… weren’t you condeceeded?”

“I’ve changed!”

“You have. But not by much. You like to rub it in other peoples faces - mostly Irene - that you’re still the strongest claymore to have ever existed.”

“...I’m not that bad, am I?”

“Yes.” Undine, Veronica, Clare and Galatea answered at the same time. Clare sighed and added, “Teresa, I love you, I really do. But sometimes you take it a little too far…” then she grinned impishly, “...you should do it to Naruto. Lord your superiority in his face.”

“...And enjoy being made his bitch,” Undine chuckled. “He gets off on that kind of shit. Let me tell you.”

“Really…?” Teresa gave Undine a faint smile. “I take it he’s done that to you?”

“Multiple times~!” the woman let out a perverted giggle worthy of attention. Luckily it was low enough that only the women around her could hear it. “It makes for a good roleplay.”

“Noted…” Teresa replied with a lewd grin. That gave her plenty of new ideas. Excluding the ‘younger brother, older sisters’ roleplay she’s been thinking of having with Naruto and Clare.

“You know what really gets me confused? That this is called a Hidden Village.” Galatea said with with exasperation.

“I know. It’s at least five times the size of Rabona. There is no way this can be classified as a village.” Clare said with a shake of her head. “But I can see why it’s called ‘Village Hidden by Tree Leaves’, though. It’s literally hidden by trees. It’ll be looking for a needle in a haystack for anybody that doesn’t know where to look.”

“Let’s keep walking. We’re starting to draw attention.” Undine said. After taking a quick look around, Teresa, Clare, Veronica and Galatea saw that Undine was right. They were drawing attention to themselves. So they started to move again.

----

On the way to the Inuzuka Compound, Naruto, his wives, Kakashi, and Ino all found themselves having a bit of idle chitchat. Kakashi was hit with an overwhelming sense of nostalgia as he watched Naruto and Ino talking. It was just like the old days. Back when times were happier. They were rather animated in talking too, and of course that inevitably brought attention on to them. Miria, Alicia and Beth all gave the fangirls who came by as a result the most terrifying glares the Hokage had had ever seen, and that was saying something; they even changed their eyes to make themselves even more intimidating. It was very similar to how Naruto’s eyes would change whenever he used Kurama’s chakra. Only theirs was gold instead of crimson. Very curious, indeed. Naruto was relieved that his wives kept the more… rabid fangirls away. They tended to get a bit… hands-on, in the clothes tearing kind of way. Still, he was more than happy to meet and greet a couple of people like little children. Then Kakashi had to get himself involved when things got a little out of hand. People gave the group a wide berth after all. With Miria smugly taking his arm into hers and snuggling up to him like the loving, but easily jealous wife she is.

“What am I going to do with you?” the blond asked jokingly, wrapping his arm around her with a warm chuckle. Then he blinked and levelled Ino a narrow eyed glare. “...Ino don’t you dare spread gossip about my love life around!”

Miria blinked and looked at her husband. “Gossip?” she never heard of such a thing. Neither did Alicia and Beth for that matter.

“Gossip is like rumours.” Naruto explained, before jerking a thumb towards the blonde in question. “Ino here likes to spread rumours around about things that may, or may not be true. She’s been like that since the academy. But things may have changed since I’ve been gone.”

Said blonde chuckled sheepishly. “Oh don’t worry about that. Your wives legitimately scare me; I’d... rather not piss them off.”

“Good to hear. I’d rather not have them trying to remodel your face.” he chuckled darkly. “They’re more than capable of keeping me on my toes if they work together, and they’re not even the scariest wives I have. I shudder at the thought of what Ophelia would do if you managed to piss her off.”

“Please… don’t bring that woman up.” Miria groaned.

“Still bitter over what she did I take it?”

“Of course…!”

Naruto sighed and hugged her tight, kissing Miria on the forehead. “Alright. Sorry about that.”

“I sense there is a history between her and this… woman you mentioned.” Kakashi pointed out, while wisely avoiding Ophelia’s name. It was a strange one too. Ophelia…

“Long story short: she got my wife’s friend killed. Said friend was later revived by the Organization in an attempt to emotionally compromise Miria, later on, but that plan failed... But yeah, there’s a lot of bitterness between the two. Ophi did improve over time, though, after I got that woman to calm down.”

Both Kakashi and Ino got flat looks on their faces. Even if Kakashi had half of it covered by his mask. “Let me guess: she tried to kill you; you defeated her, and then you became friends…” the latter asked, unsurprisingly.

“Actually. Yeah. That’s more or less what happened.” Naruto replied with a sheepish laugh. He left out the part that the silver-haired woman was a demon that eats human innards. And that five of the fifteen women he brought with him are demon women. He didn’t want to give his sensei a panic attack…. Even if it would be a hilarious prank. “I still have no idea why that seems to work. It seems whoever tries to kill me becomes my friend after I beat them up… assuming they survive.”

“No kidding.” Kakashi chuckled. “You convinced Pein of all people to bring everyone he killed when he attacked our home back to life. And all you did was talk to him.”

“It was a bit more than that.” Naruto admitted. “It was more about ideals and the cycle of pain, but in the end, I got him to have faith in Jiraiya-Sensei’s teachings again. The rest you know is history.”

“‘Jiraiya-Sensei’? Not Pervy-Sage?” Ino joked.

“I do still call him Pervy-Sage, usually in a joking manner… but nowadays, I prefer to call him by his proper title, as I should have done - especially when talking about more serious things. He is a hero, after all.”

“Fair point,” Ino replied with a solemn smile and a nod.

“We’re getting close to the Compound, I think…” Naruto looked to the Hokage and asked. “It’s been a while for me, so, how far are we to getting there?”

“Not far,” Kakashi replied. “They only live about a block away from here.”

Miria noted that they appeared to be nearing the edge of the village, judging by how small and far apart the buildings were getting. “So, the outskirts, then?”

“Close to them,” Kakashi explained. “They live in a more rural area of the village so their dogs have more room to run around. It’s healthier for them, and the clan itself is more or less a collection of oddballs, so they don’t get along with some villagers as well as others.”

“Kiba was one of the exceptions, if I remember right.” Naruto mused aloud.

“Hana’s more of one, actually, but yes,” Kakashi pointed out with a nod. “They inherited Tsume’s charisma, though she herself is far more abrasive than her kids.”

“Yeah, I can see her being an… acquired taste,” Naruto chuckled. “She’s a lot like Anko in that she’s the kinda girl who’s not afraid to speak her mind and has no fucks left to give.”

“You seem to attract women like that, especially,” Miria muttered.

“Admittedly,” her husband replied with another chuckle. “Women like that are generally more honest, and I like an honest woman. I think I got that from dad. Mom was more or less the same, from what I’ve heard.”

“And it doesn’t have anything to do with how you were growing up?” Ino asked, quirking an eyebrow at him.

Naruto scoffed. “What? Being ignored for most of my life. Having everyone treating me like dirt? And being lied to nearly all the time? Nooooooo, of course not. Whatever gave you that idea, Ino?” he asked with sarcasm lathing his voice.

Kakashi chuckled in amusement at the sheepish look on Ino’s face. “He has a point there, Ino.” he pointed out. “And you were one of those people who treated him bad.”

Miria, Alicia and Beth all glared at the blonde upon hearing that.

“I wasn’t that bad!” Ino protested.

“Yes. That’s true. You were one of the handful of people that didn’t treat me as dirt twenty-four-seven.” Naruto admitted with a nod, then what he said next made the smile she had on her face slightly more strained. “But you were one of the ones who liked to… follow the crowd, just so you can spread rumours around. You grew out of it thankfully.”

“Y-yeah. I did. I was an idiot back then.” Ino said with a nervous laugh, and shuddered at the stern eyed look Miria was giving her. It wasn’t even a glare, but it was enough to give her chills! It was official, that woman was scary!

“When we get to the Inuzuka Compound, let’s keep the reason why we’re there under wraps for the most part. If Kiba is there then I dread to know how he would react to his sister and mother kidnapping and having their way with me,” Naruto told them, but more to Kakashi and Ino than the other three.

“I can do that. So can Ino for that matter.” Kakashi replied with a nod and an eye smile.

“Yeah. I’ll keep my mouth shut. My lips are sealed!” Ino added, pinching her forefinger and thumb at the corner of her mouth and dragging them across, like she was pulling a zipper. As they carried on from there, drifting into a comfortable silence after a few minutes, a flash of orange caught Naruto’s eye. He turned to look and was pleasantly surprised to see one of his old ‘minions’.

“Moegi?” Or at least he thought it was her… it had been seven years since he’d seen the brat, after all.

The strawberry blonde in question had her back to them. She stiffened; despite the masculine voice sounding a little different, she recognized it... but could hardly believe it. Looking over her shoulder to make sure her imagination wasn’t playing cruel tricks, her expression went from shock to unadulterated joy. “Onii-Chan!” she cried out, running to Naruto.

The blond in question smiled warmly, giving Moegi a once-over. Now that she was going on twenty, she looked very different.

Her once-gravity-defying hair now fell to earth as it should, though it was still arranged in a pair of pigtails - bound at the end, as they’d always been. Her partially-snipped bangs were a nice, new addition, framing her now-more-angular face. She’d also grown a good two, possibly even three feet, not nearly as tall as Naruto, himself and her attire was now more professional - consisting of a black tanktop and matching skirt under a Konoha-style flack jacket. Her black cloth village plate was worn around her neck like a starf and a pair of matching boots finished off her attire.

“Well, you’ve certainly grown.” he chuckled, when she came to a stop in front of the group, the poor girl was looking she was keeping herself from glomping him. More out of common courtesy than anything. He gave her a look of concern and asked. “How are Undon and Konohamaru? Kakashi-Sensei told me that the three of you were going to try and defect, just to try and find me after hearing what happened.”

“Uh… about that…” Moegi chuckled nervously, her cheeks turning a bright red. “I… might have been at least partially responsible for Konohamaru and Udon being so enthusiastic about finding you…”

“Really? Why?” Naruto asked. Konohamaru saw him as the closest thing to a brother he had, so for him to nearly go rogue as a result of the Suna Incident was of little surprise.

“I’m not to take that as confirmation that she had your kid, am I?” Miria grumbled.

Poor Moegi turned beet red at that, immediately reduced to a sputtering mess. “Wh-what? No! I-I mean, I w-wouldn’t have minded but that’s not why, at all…”

Ino was utterly shocked to hear that.

“Oh, my god, you had sex with her, too?!” It took every last shred of Ino’s self-control not to shout that.

Naruto blinked at her, “Yeah? I did admit that when Miria was interrogating me about previous partners several minutes ago, remember?”

“I thought you were joking!” the blonde hissed. It was taking everything in her willpower to not just run off and spread it around.

“Why would I be? My wife was drilling me for answers,” Naruto pointed out. “You have no idea how scary she can be when the right buttons are pushed.”

“So, why did you avoid Naruto for weeks after the two of you went at it?” Miria asked, giving the young woman a flat look. “He was worried sick that he’d knocked you up.”

“B-because he’d started dating Hinata, by then,” Moegi sputtered. “I… didn’t want my crush to get in the way of their relationship.” She then turned to Naruto and gave him a deep, apologetic bow. “I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to scare you like that! I… I just… uh…”

“It’s fine, Moegi.” Naruto told her with a warm, but tired smile.

“She couldn’t have even been fifteen when the two of you did it,” Miria pointed out, turning her flat look towards Naruto. “She’s too young.”

“She was still an adult,” he defended. “Around here, the age of consent is thirteen, not fifteen.” then he cocked his head to the side before adding as an afterthought. “I guess that’s another difference between our cultures that we can add to the list.”

“S-so, uh, who are these women?” Moegi asked looking to Miria, Alicia and Beth in curiosity.

“Their names are Miria, Alicia, and Beth,” Naruto replied, gesturing to the women in that order. “They’re my wives from a distant continent. We’ve been together for… six years now, right?” he asked, looking to Miria for confirmation.

Moegi perked up at the word wives, leaving the sandy brunette looking rather displeased. “A little longer than that. We’re going on seven,” the woman replied. “If you’re thinking about joining, then you have over twenty women to compete with.”

There was a spark in Moegi’s eye in that moment. She certainly wouldn’t mind giving it a shot if presented with the opportunity. “Well, if he has time for that many, I’m sure he can find the time for me,” she giggled, her cheeks going bright red.

“If I didn’t have Kage Bunshin that would be a whole different story.” Naruto groaned pitfully. “I really don’t want to add another woman… I got enough back on the other continent wanting to get in my pants already!” he whined.

“If you didn’t have Kage Bunshin, then Priscilla, Riful and Luciela would horde you all to themselves,” Miria sighed. “You have no idea how grateful I am for that not to be the case. Also, I seem to remember you wanting to fuck my friend in addition to no less than fifteen hussies. Enough women my ass; you had enough, back when you brought Karui into the fold, let alone all the ones who followed!”

“...For the first part: that’s very true.” Naruto let out a shudder. “And what’s worse, the latter two are kage level. Priscilla can take on all five kages and win. I’d dread having to fight her, to be honest. Also, for the last part: would you have prefered the alternative for them? Because I sure as hell don’t.”

“Alternative?” Kakashi asked, looking genuinely curious… and a bit concerned by Naruto’s tone.

“If I hadn’t, they would have had no choice but to try and kill me and my family,” Naruto explained. “The friend and fifteen ‘hussies’ she was referring to are a team of resurrected warriors. The best of the best of their time, and then some. They were brought back to life for the sole purpose of getting rid of me and any warriors who’d defected from the Organization. Thankfully, one of their members had defected, due to her ability to see the future and convinced them to take a different path.”

“And what would have happened had she not defected?” an understandably hesitant Ino asked.

“According to her,” Naruto started, “ They would crossed paths with a few of my lovers and been obligated to kill them. In that vision, the one who had the visions was executed for treason, because she was trying to tell them that fighting me would be fruitless. So her death lead to that encounter with a few of my lovers - one of whom was pregnant. They were killed, and, when I got there and saw what they had done I got so angry I went tailed beast mode on them. They along with several thousand miles of land, were erased. Except for one… she was able to outrun the blast, but I caught up to her and well… I killed her. Slowly.” death by boiling in oil. It was a real shitty way to go.

“I’m afraid to ask…” Ino muttered, now looking rather pale. “Glad that didn’t happen, then.”

“I forgot about that…” Miria whispered, looking rather pale herself. “Actually, I’ve changed my mind. This outcome is much better than that one.” she had no idea if she knew about Hilda in that ‘vision’ but she hoped she wasn’t. She wouldn’t have been able to cope with it if that was the case.

“Yeah…” Naruto replied. “Well, now, we have them on our side. They’ll be a very big help in taking down the Organization.”

“If there’s anything I can do to help,” Moegi said, “then I’m in.”

“That’s what I’m here for actually. Getting help in taking them down.” Naruto told her. “We have allies within their ranks, but it’s only a matter of time before they start purging their own forces to get rid of anybody that likes me.” he looked to Kakashi and asked, “Is it okay if I tell them the ranking of the mission and the pay?”

“Later,” Kakashi replied. “We still have two more people for you to check on, if I recall.”

----

Europa was laying on Naruto’s old bed in his apartment. It was so much more comfy than she’d been expecting… and she could still detect traces of his scent on it. She giggled, rolling over and hugging one of his pillows. “I could just stay here forever,” she sighed dreamily.

“You just want to stay and sleep on his bed.” Octavia blandly pointed out. “Still, the differences between this continent and ours is staggering. This building is like several-dozen houses mashed into one. I’ve never seen anything of the like!” She turned to a particularly amused shadow clone Naruto had left behind to make sure they didn’t accidentally break anything. “Is this some kind of inn? I don’t think I could have imagined one with a kitchen for every suite.”

“It’s an apartment complex,” the Naruto clone explained. “It’s basically a cheaper form of housing for anyone who can’t afford… well, a house. It provides you with everything you need: a kitchen; a bathroom; a bedroom... almost anything you can think of. This one even has a gym and a swimming pool, though they’re in a separate area of the building.”

“A swimming pool...?” Europa asked. It was such a curious term.

“Basically, a man-made, private lake for swimming.” the clone of Naruto explained, once more. “It’s public. But you can’t go in it naked. You have to have a special type of clothing to wear… which isn’t all that different from ordinary clothes to be honest. Also, I don’t know if this will apply to you, but don’t try drinking the water in one. Just in case. It could make you sick. It has special stuff in it that keeps it clean and prevents bugs from breeding in it.”

“Noted.” Octavia replied. While they didn’t drink much, even awakened beings needed at least some water, as Naruto had learned when living with Riful. The Abyssal loli had apparently stored away rain water in several barrels for precisely that reason… or rather, it was safe to assume she’d had Dauf do it for her, before she met him.

The clone looked towards the kitchen area and walked to it. “I wonder if they kept everything in stock?” he mused aloud. He immediately wandered to the fridge and was unsurprised to see that it was empty. Seeing as how he’d been gone for seven years, it made sense that whoever Kakashi had maintaining this place would throw away the food once it had expired. And the boss took the packed ramen with him when he and Hinata left. The chances of the cupboards being stashed with cup ramen again was fairly minimal. It wouldn’t hurt to check though.

Octavia, meanwhile continued marveling at the bathroom, finding herself playing with the light switch. It was so fascinating! It was like a lantern you can turn on and off anytime you want without replacing the oil! And it was more efficient at lighting up the room too!

The clone chuckled in amusement. Her childlike wonder was just so cute!

----

Later on, a still visibly relieved Naruto now stood in the Hokage’s office with Kakashi, Miria, Alicia, Beth, Moegi and Ino. The other women were still out exploring Konoha or staying at Naruto’s apartment. Kakashi also had someone fetch the rest of Moegi and Ino’s teams, as well.

Apparently, Hana and Tsume hadn’t gotten themselves knocked up when they kidnapped him, though certainly not for lack of trying. He couldn’t imagine Kiba’s reaction had he found out that his mother and sister were pregnant with Naruto’s kids. Oh, he can certainly imagine Kiba trying to rip his face off, or to cut off his genitals and feed them to him.

Fukasaku and Shima had mysteriously vanished from the office. Naruto had initially panicked that they had gotten themselves lost, or that someone had kidnapped them while he was gone. That initial panic was put a stop to when Kakashi found a letter on his desk, left behind by Fukasaku and Shima so they could be told that they had reserved summoned themselves to Mount Myōboku.

It was a relief for the blond.

“So, what’s this mission ranked and how much are you willing to pay Naruto?” Ino asked, now that they had nothing to distract them from getting to the bottom of his visit.

“It’s an S-rank mission. I’m willing to pay ten-million ryo upfront and ten-million if you’re successful.” the blond answered.

The two teams started at him in shock. Of course, half of that would go to the village and the other would be split amongst the teams, as per protocol, but even then, 20 million ryo was not something to scoff at!

“Are you serious?!” Ino shouted. “When did you have that kind of money?!”

“When I inherited Jiraiya-Sensei’s movie company, his spy network and Icha Icha series.” Naruto replied with a chuckle. “And I’m basically a lesser lord, keeping a small town running in another land.”

Konohamaru and his teammates marveled at that, drawing a chuckle from the blond. The boss was just so cool!

“And if I remember right, there is an entire island that use to belong to your mother’s side of the family.” Miria added. “We may want to see about settling down there when we’re done with the Organization and exterminating the youma. Morris is nice and all, but I’d rather have a place to ourselves.”

“I plan to. There should be the ruins of the hidden village over there, too. But we’re going to have to get past the whirlpools… and put a lot of time into restoring the place. There could be a lot of death traps that haven’t been used when they were invaded as well, so clearing those up is also a must. Thank the Twins for Kage Bunshin.”

“The Twins?” Kakashi asked.

“Local deities from a religion on their island,” Naruto explained. “Teresa and Clare, the Twin Goddesses of Love, for the record. They’re pretty interesting… I also seem to have become an unofficial champion of the faith… long story. You’d be surprised what can happen when you save enough lives.”

“I believe it,” Kakashi chuckled. “While I wasn’t considered a hero on quite that big a scale until the Fourth Great War, I had my fair share of interesting tales to tell.”

“I believe it.” Naruto paused… before palming his face. “I think my old verbal tic just resurfaced…”

Several people in the room shared a good chuckle at that.

“What? Because you said ‘Believe it’?” Konohamaru asked.

“Yeah… I hate that tic… so annoying.” the blond exhaled grumpily. Then he cleared his throat and looked back at who was assembled. “So, is this all the teams? Just Team Ebisu and Team Asuma? What about what’s left of Team Kurenai and Team Guy?”

“I’ll see what I can do, though Tenten seems to be considering retirement, while Kiba and Shino are working in the academy,” Kakashi replied. “Lee’s the easy one. If no one else, he’s practically guaranteed, though he has the day off right now… which means he’s probably running laps around the village or something.”

“...I see.” then Naruto’s lips curled into a smile. It was a smile that Kakashi didn’t like. At all. It screamed the days of old, when Naruto would pull off all manner pranks and lead the ANBU on a wild goose chase.

“...Naruto, what are you thinking?” a very reluctant Kakashi asked.

The blond began to chuckle deviously. “...I’m thinking of joining Lee on these laps. And cause all sorts of chaos to get Tenten, Kiba and Shino involved- ow!”

An unamused Miria was holding him by the ear. “No.”

“But Miria- oooooooow!”

“I said, no.” she repeated, in a firmer tone while pulling at his ear once more. “We’re here to get help. Not cause trouble. So, down boy.”

“Y-yes dear. So pleeeeeease stop pulling on my ear.” he pleaded. Naruto was tempted to add, “or no snuggles for you” to it, but didn’t want to push his luck. Satisfied at preventing a potential disaster, Miria let go of his ear.

Moegi couldn’t help but giggle at that. They made for a cute couple.

“So, what is the mission?” Shikamaru asked.

Being as the one who is paying for this mission Naruto spoke up. “Kakashi-Sensei has the scroll with the ryo and the mission details. But, it’s essentially a joint mission with the rebellion.” he turned to the Nara and added, “The Teams that will come with us will be doing a search and rescue, while the rebellion is distracting the soldiers through a siege. It’s an S-rank, because the ones you’re going to be rescuing are hybrids. Young girls, who are being trained to become warriors like Miria and if our suspicion is true, then there are two who are like Alicia and Beth - a pair of twins being trained and broken down into mindless killing machines, with no thought or will of their own. Basically a worse version of Gaara… with the ability to turn into monsters, though we don’t know much else about them.”

“In case you’re wondering, yes, Alicia and Beth have the ability to turn into monsters too, though only one at a time.” Miria said when she saw the looks being given to the twins in question.

“They’ve been rehabilitated, though they’re still a bit shy around strangers,” Naruto added. “But, when I first met them, the poor things were practically lifeless shells. I helped them get better, myself, though it was a long process.”

“And many nights of them sleeping with you.” Miria added.

“And showing us how to love.” Alicia added as well.

“And giving us several babies.” Beth added after her older sister with an small, impish grin.

“Oh, my~!” Moegi giggled.

“Riiight,” Kakashi muttered. “Again, I’ll see what I can do about the others. I’ll see what I can do about adding a third team to the fray if the others can’t join. One way or another, everyone should be ready within a few hours.”

“Take as much time as they need. We’re going to be staying here for a bit… the others are exploring Konoha after all.”

“Alright,” Kakashi replied.

“In the meantime, you wanna catch up, Boss?” Konohamaru asked. “It’s been a long time, and I have got to know what you’ve been up to!”

“I would love to, but... I’ll have to run it through Miria. She gets jealous when she doesn’t get any attention.” with a chuckle Naruto looked to his sandy-brunette haired wife and asked “What do you three think? Can I catch with up with him? Or do you and the twins want to come with? I can buy things for you three if you want~.”

They all perked up at that as Miria replied. “I’m getting extra snuggles tonight if you flirt with the girl.” Moegi blushed and Naruto chuckled at that. The sandy brunette then hugged her man tight and kissed him on the cheek, “but, beyond that, I’m perfectly fine with it~!”

“So is that a ‘yes’ to you coming with?” Naruto teasingly asked. Though he really wanted to know if she was saying yes to him catching up to Team Ebisu, or yes to her and the twins coming with.

“Of course,” Miria giggled. “Someone’s got to beat back all the fangirls with a stick.”

“Yes. No one shall show affection for you but us.” Alicia impishly added.

“...We want to buy stuff, too.” Beth added. “The clothes here are so much more comfortable than the ones back home.”

“We can do that.” Naruto said with a chuckle. “Now that I think about it, I need to get a change of clothes myself… maybe something reminiscent to what I use to wear?”

“You’re not thinking of wearing a god-awful orange jumpsuit are you?” Ino asked.

“First of all Ino that wasn’t a jumpsuit, it was a jacket and trousers.” Naruto pointed out to her. “And no, I’m not going to wear anything like that. I’m thinking of getting something else…”

“I personally like what I saw of your old attire,” Miria said.

“You did?” he blinked. “That’s a first for me. Normally I’m told it’s stupid to wear. It’s nice to see that someone likes my fashion sense! Unlike some people - Ino.” he coughed her name at the end.

The blonde in question shrugged indifferently. To be fair, she just hated the colour orange.

“With your permission, Hokage-Sama, we’ll be taking our leave.” Naruto said. When Kakashi nodded with a chuckle, the blond smiled, put his arms around Alicia and Beth and hugged them to him, then he turned to Konohamaru, Undon and Moegi. “C’mon you three, let’s go and catch up.”

Each member expressed their enthusiasm in their own way as they left with him and his wives.

----

Meanwhile, Agatha, Betty and Glinda were busy exploring Konoha as well. The beautiful but dangerous, human-eating monster women were taking their time, in taking in the sights. As this was the first time any of them had been on Naruto’s homeland they were cheerfully comparing everything they saw here to back home. And in all honesty it was simply overwhelming with how different things were.

What blew their fucking minds was that they could harness lightning to power things. Fucking. Lightning! Not to mention, lightning was used to power those black boxes that had moving pictures and sound coming out of them!

Naruto told them that when Agatha asked him questions. This was before they left to explore on their own of course. Upon seeing one for sale, Glinda just had to snatch up a portable ‘teevee’, as they were apparently called, with a slot for something called ‘movies’ to go into. They had no idea what ‘movies’ were, but they assumed it was for… well… moving. The shopkeep got a good chuckle out of that and explained to the clearly foreign women that movies were on this thing called a veeyatchess? A curious name… they appeared to be little, black regrangles with round bits on the back for some reason and a little flippy bit on top. If they but it into that slot on the ‘teevee’, it would show those moving pictures with sound.

They got one that was rather popular named Princess Gale for later. One of the most popular ones had the Princess going up against her tyrant of an uncle, that kidnapped her.

Now, they found themselves in a shop named Toad Sage Paradise. A rather funny name in their opinion. But they just had to see what this place had to offer!

“...Toad Sage Paradise?” Glinda said the name of the shop aloud. “That’s a rather funny name… I’m going to check it out!” she said with a bright smile.

“Curiosity killed the cat,” Agatha teased.

“Ask the birdie if she gives a shit,” Glinda teased back before heading on in.

Agatha looked at Betty. “Do you want to see what this store has inside? It could be fun.”

“I certainly don’t mind,” she replied.

The redhead shrugged and the two of them entered to see that Glinda had stopped dead in her tracks, stiff as a board and beet red from her collar bone on up. Both redhead and blonde stop behind her, and exchange looks for a brief moment. Then they turned back to the white haired woman.

“...Glinda, is everything alright?” Betty asked.

“You’re a little red faced there. What? Did you see something embarrassing on your way in.” Agatha teasingly asked.

The woman in question giggled and replied, “look around.”

They did just that and immediately understood why their colleague was so flustered. Lining the wall was a large assortment of naughty doodads and outfits from floggers to giant, rubber penises and sexy lingerie to kinky uniforms.

“Oh-ho my~!” Betty couldn’t keep the amusement out of her voice as she took it all in. “Well… this is certainly interesting.”

“Ah, welcome~!” a woman behind the counter called out. She had black hair and coal coloured eyes, appearing to be in her early thirties. “My name is Emi. How can I be of service?”

Glinda walked over to the counter and plastered on a polite smile. “Hi, we’re just taking a look for something to… spice up our relationship with our man. Do you have any recommendations?” the white haired awakened being had ryo on her, thanks to Naruto having the foresight to give everyone that went out exploring, and those who stayed in his old apartment two thousand ryo to use.

“‘Our man’, you say,” Emi giggled. “My, my… if the three of you want to spice it up, he must be insatiable~!

“Indeed,” Glinda replied with a giggle of her own. “He’s got enough stamina to keep the three of us satisfied and then some. And he’s so kind and considerate too. So, the three of us want to get something… sexy to really get his libido going, if you catch my meaning.”

While Glinda and Emi were having themselves a lovely, little chat, Betty couldn’t help but wander to the movies and immediately took notice of a cover bearing Naruto’s likeness. She tilted her head curiously and noted that the movie was entitled Icha Icha: Conquest.

“Very interesting...” she muttered under her breath, then Betty turned to Emi, “Excuse me, but can you tell me what this is about?” she asked pointing to the movie in question. She knew it was titled after Naruto’s third book, and the fact there is someone with her man’s likeness on it, is to her, of no coincidence.

“Oh, that would be Icha Icha: Conquest, staring Kazahana Koyuki and the author, himself, Uzumaki Naruto,” Emi replied. “It’s heavily based on the book of the same title. A lot of men and women love watching it. It’s one of the best sellers within the Icha Icha franchise.”

“Oooooh~!” Glinda got wide eyed, “can we get a preview of it? I’ve read his book, but I never seen the movie.”

Emi smiled and pulled out a remote, pointing it to a blank screen to their left. The three women heard something click to life and looked in the direction to see a tv screen turning on. They were all entranced by the image of their man forcing himself upon… wait… was that Dietrich? No, no it wasn’t. She sounded different. And this one had smaller knockers.

She cried out and struggled as Naruto pinned her arms behind her back with one hand, lifting her skirt and tearing her panties with the other. She was begging for him to stop, telling him that she was due to be married. What he whispered into her ear… the way he said it... sent shivers up their spines and a pang of longing through their loins.

“I know~!”

Then, their knees threatened to buckle as she wailed and the sound of flesh pounding flesh filled their ears.

----

Back in the apartment, the clone of Naruto was busy showing Octavia how the shower works for what felt like the fifth time, when he felt it. A shiver running up along his spine. He had no idea why, but the clone had a feeling a couple of his girls found something that would have them for lack of a better word, ‘rabid’. What that was he had no idea. But the clone had a feeling that something was a thing the boss had done years ago.

He had no idea how right he was.

“Is something wrong, Naruto?” the blonde asked once she noticed how distracted he looked.

“No. Nothing’s wrong.” he replied, then the clone cleared his throat. “Anyway, did you get all of that? Or do I need to run through it with you, again?”

Octavia hummed to herself thoughtfully before giving her man an impish smile, “Run it by me again.” she answered, which got her an exasperated sigh from him.

----

Meanwhile, Naruto and Miria both felt a disturbance in the Force. Blinking the blond took hold of his wife and pulled her to him, as to ward off any unwanted women that might suddenly come out of the woodworks. This surprised the woman in question greatly and she looked at her husband with a flat look.

“Naruto, what are you doing?” Miria asked.

The blond in question was wildly looking around. Almost expecting several rabid fans to come out of nowhere and carry him away. “Just… taking a precaution,” he chuckled nervously.

“I see. Good boy.” Miria nodded with approval.

“I don’t know if I should ask or not.” Konohamaru said with a chuckle. Udon looked equally nervous.

“You don’t want to know. But, let’s just say my love life is hectic.”

“Duly noted,” Moegi chirped.

Then Naruto looked to Miria, Alicia and Beth. “So do you girls want to buy some new clothes? I can lead you to a store or two.” he leaned in and said in a pitch low enough for only them to hear, “You can even buy yourselves a pair of kinky underwear to show me, if you want~.” then he kissed the three of them on the lips one at a time.

The trio gave him a lewd giggle and enthusiastic nod, eliciting a chuckle from their man.

“Alright,” Naruto said, giving the three women a smile. “I might join the three of you; I do need to get a change of clothes as well after all. In fact…” trailing off the blond looked ahead and around for a brief moment. “...if memory serves, there should be a store or two nearby.” then he looked to Konohamaru, Undon and Moegi, “Think you three can show us? My memory isn’t as good as it use to be.”

Konohamaru grinned with enthusiasm. “Of course!” he began to lead the way, “I know a store that sells both shinobi and civilian clothes! It’s a fairly new one that Tenten owns. So it’s got some good stuff there.”

The twins perked up at that and Naruto chuckled warmly, pulling them both into a hug. “Looks like we’re going to that one, then. Where abouts is it? Seeing as Tenten owns it, I take the building is close by?”

“Tenten opened the store right next door to the store her dad owns.” Undon answered. “Dunno why she did it. But if I had to guess she wanted to support her dad.” then he went ahead to follow Konohamaru. “If anything you can surprise her now that you’re here. She’s been less upbeat ever since the Suna Incident.”

“I see. Well, if anything, it’ll be nice to see how she’s doing.” Naruto said. “Let’s get going then.”

It didn’t take long for them to get there as their destination was in the vicinity. It was a fairly conspicuous, light blue structure of wood, two stories tall and simply named The Haven. What surprised Naruto the most, was on the display window of The Haven. It was the Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths, that had the sign “Not for Sale” underneath it in kanji. Well, it seems her habit of collecting all kinds of ninja tools have gotten to the point of being ballsy, if she’s showing them off. How the Raikage didn’t take them back made him wonder. But he didn’t dwell on it. Like Undon said, it was right next to the store Tenten’s dad owns, which was a simple white-painted, one story building that had a blacksmith’s anvil with a kunai on top of it. The Hidden Leafs insignia, the swirling leaf, was engraved onto the anvil itself.

“This place brings back memories,” Naruto chuckled. “It was one of the only two places that treated me fairly when damn near everyone still thought I was a demon in human skin or some crazy shit like that.”

“Really?” Miria asked, frowning sympathetically.

“Humans fear what they don’t understand,” Naruto reminded her with a hapless shrug. “And the third Hokage let out that I was the kyuubi’s vessel. The fact that I was literally born the day he was hypnotized and made to attack the village didn’t exactly help. I won them over eventually, though… or rather most of them. Those old assholes who got my license revoked never liked me, because I couldn’t be controlled.”

“They won’t be missed,” Konohamaru said with a heavy sigh. “The village erupted into chaos and anarchy when the Suna Incident happened. If Tsunade-Sama hadn’t gotten to those so called ‘esteemed elders’ first, they would have been lynched on the spot.”

“Really?” Naruto asked. “Wow…”

“Yeah, everyone was that pissed off,” Moegi sighed. “ Hell, if we were here at the time, we would have been part of the mob… It didn’t help that you are famous throughout the Elemental Nations. So when the other Hidden Villages found out about that incident, they were on the warpath. The fact that we were such good friends with you at the time was literally the only reason we weren’t kicked out of Haru.” The fact that she had spitefully given Koyuki some delicious advice on how best to hurt Konoha was left unsaid. She was not proud of that course of action, even if she didn’t regret it.

“I didn’t know that.” a very surprised Naruto said.

At that Konohamaru, Udon and Moegi gave him a look. “How can you not know that?” Udon asked, furrowing his brow in confusion. “You were wandering around the Elemental Nations for months after the Suna incident, weren’t you? You couldn’t have known?”

“That was actually a month,” Naruto clarified. “ Gaara probably had something to do with that misconception… He always had my back, ever since we became friends.” A smile tugged on the corner of his mouth at the thought. “Anyway, after Hinata died I brought her body to Nami, giving her a proper burial. After that, I just… wandered around with no destination in mind. I avoided civilization so nobody could find me. After that, I went back to Nami and took the first ship across the sea. I found the continent where I met my wives around eleven months later, the rest is history.”

Konohamaru and his friends now understood. All things concerned, he was likely in no mood to notice much. Alicia and Beth hugged his arms, frowning sympathetically.

“That depressing note aside,” Naruto chirped, he turned his attention towards the twins, “let’s go get you two some new clothes, shall we?”

“I’m still here too, you know.” Miria grumbled.

Naruto chuckled, gently extracting himself from Alicia and beth’s grasp, before turning towards her, cupping Miria’s cheek and giving her the most smoldering kiss he could muster. When her knees buckled right then and there, Naruto scooped his wife into a bridal carry. Then, sensing the opportunity, he gave Moegi a charming grin and said, “you’ve grown up to be cute as all hell, by the way~!”

Moegi blushed at that.

“Hey!” Miria lightly whacked Naruto across the head. “No flirting.”

“I seem to remember you saying I could as long as I gave you extra snuggles~!”

“Your type of flirting tends to get people in bed.” Beth pointed out.

Moegi blushed even harder at that...

“And we all know how effective it is.” Alicia added.

Then the twins gave their husband a flat look and said at the same time, “No flirting.”

Naruto chuckled again. Well he can’t deny that. It does end up with getting girls in his bed. Even if he didn’t really intend to. “Alright, fine. I’ll make it up to you three and hold back for now.”

Maybe when the Organization was dealt with he wouldn’t mind, but for now, he’d stop. Meanwhile, Moegi couldn’t help but be amused if her life depended on it. She was also legitimately flattered that Onii-Chan found her cute. Maybe when the mission was done, she could flirt back and see what happens?

“Good.” Miria was certainly satisfied that she prevented a possible hussie from getting in their… rather large and complicated family. For the moment at least. “Now, carry me into that store!” she ordered, pointing at said building with an overly dramatic flare. Naruto let out a hearty chuckle at that and did her bidding without question. His wife has changed a lot ever since she found her best friend has come back to life. She was a lot happier. She still gets jealous though. The group of seven proceeded to enter the two story building.

Immediately, a familiar face perked up. She was an athletic, brown-eyed brunette with braided muns in her hair. Her attire consisted of a white, sleeveless top and red hakama with tabi and felt slippers. “N-Naruto?!”

Said blond placed his wife down on her feet as he chuckled. “In the flesh,” he replied. “I’m not here to stay, but I am giving Konoha a chance to redeem herself.” Naruto explained to the bun-haired brunette. “An S-rank mission, so to speak that has a lot of pay involved. But in the meantime, I’m just showing my wives around… and getting them and myself some new clothes to buy while I’m at it.”

“Oooh?” She looked at Miria, Alicia and Beth with a raised eyebrow. “Never thought you were into that kinda thing.”

“Admittedly, I wasn’t,” Naruto chuckled. “It just… kinda happened. I certainly don’t mind, though. They made my life a lot more bearable, and lively too.”

Tenten chortled, “It would happen to you, wouldn’t it? Well, I hope you and your girls find something to your liking, then. Let me know if you need anything.”

“Alright, “ Naruto replied. With that, he and his wives started browsing while Konohamaru and his friends followed their boss around, chatting it up with him and drawing a giggle from Tenten. Those three were always so fond of Naruto. It was rather cute. Seeing the four of them like this brought up a feeling of nostalgia for Tenten. It reminded her of the good times. Back when Naruto was young and mischievous…

“So, what’s it like over at the place you’re living now? It is anything like here?” Konohamaru asked.

“Actually it’s a lot different over there than it is over here. They don’t have electricity or anything like that,” Naruto replied. “Even their weapons and armor are like they’re from another world. Warriors wielding strange-looking, double-edged swords while completely encased in plate armour… the spears having axe heads… Even the way they punch is different. It was kinda like the way we use to fight before Kaguya came along, but with very different weapons and techniques.”

That immediately got Tenten’s attention. “Just how different are we talking? What do these swords look like?”

Naruto turned to Miria and the twins, “Girls, can you show them your unique swords?” since they sealed them away, it would just be a matter of applying chakra on their seals inked onto their hand.

The women in question shrugged and unsealed their Claymores, prompting Tenten to completely drop what she was doing to get a good look.

“Careful ladies; Tenten here is a bit of a weapon addict. She won’t stop badgering you to let her touch them,” joked Naruto.

“I’m not that bad!” said bun-haired brunette protested.

“I know how you got the Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths,” Naruto countered with a chuckle. “I saw them in your display window. I don’t know how you kept the Raikage from catching wind of them being in Konoha’s possession, though, since they were considered national treasures. I’m impressed… And before that, you were collecting every single weapon you could get your hands on. If you could get the swords from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist, I would bet five million ryo you would do it in a heartbeat. Hell, I’d bet you tried.”

“Uh… No comment,” Tenten muttered, clearing her throat.

There was an awkward silence. “...by the Twins, you actually did!” a heavily amused Naruto said. He was doing everything he can to stop himself from laughing. It was honestly hilarious.

“I’m banned from Kiri as a result,” Tenten admitted in embarrassment. THAT got Naruto to laugh. “It’s funnier now, I’ll admit, but I was legitimately scared for my life at the time. How I managed not to get lynched is a damn good question.”

“You should have known not to try something like that.” seeing as they were getting off topic however, Naruto cleared his throat and brought them back to the original conversation at hand. “Anyway, their swords are unique because they’re capable of withstanding a great amount of punishment.” he looked to Miria and asked, “They’re made from an unknown metal, right?”

Miria nodded, “Yes. The metal that is used to create our swords makes them absurdly durable.”

“That I can believe.” Naruto said, looking back to Tenten, “There’s this group made to fight me that I turned over to my side of the conflict over there, and their armour is made from the same metal. Long story short, I went six tails while I was sparring with one of them and her plate armour wasn’t even dented by the end of it. It’s that durable.” Chloe was scary if he was honest; she had the same freakish strength as Granny-Tsunade and was a bit of a fighting nut. He wouldn’t mind sparring with her again sometime. There were little stars in Tenten’s eyes as she gushed over the thought, drawing a chuckle from Naruto. “Lee is being considered for the mission,” he pointed out. “Maybe we can snatch up a sword or two for your collection from their armoury, if you join?”

“I am so in! What’s the mission?”

“Well, that was quick.” Miria said in amusement, as she and the twins sealed away their claymores into their palms again.

“It’s a search and rescue mission.” Alicia explained.

Miria then added with more detail, “the teams Naruto is taking will be infiltrating the headquarters of the enemy and extract trainees and any silver-eyed woman you see, clearing the way for Naruto to blast the Organization with a Bijuudama. Also, these trainees use swords like ours, but they’re blunt. They also keep a sharp one or two handy in the event of an… unexpected graduation, though. It happens more often than one would expect.”

“Oh, and another thing: this mission is an S-rank.” Naruto chimed in with a grin. “I’m paying ten million ryo up front, and another ten million for when the mission is done. So even if you don’t get your hands on any new ‘toys’, you’ll still be making a killing.”

Naruto, his wives, and Team Konohamaru swore they heard a ‘cha-ching’ in the background as Tenten gave him a charming smile. “Just let me know when we’re heading out, then~!”

“We’re just collecting the teams. Kakashi is going to see if he can get Kiba, Lee and Shino. A portion of Jumogakure’s Team Samui is already coming with and so is Team Ebisu and Team Asuma.” He gestured towards Konohamaru and his friends as he mentioned them. “Samui and Omoi are going to be calling the shot, seeing as how they have experience with these kinds of missions.”

“What happened to their third member?” Tenten asked out of curiosity.

“Naruto married her and knocked her up.” Miria answered for him with an exasperated sigh. She wasn’t bitter about him bringing her into the fold, anymore, but she was still admittedly jealous of the redhead for having another kid on the way. “She is having her second kid, now.”

Tenten, Konohamaru, and his friends all looked very surprised to hear that.

Naruto let out a sigh and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “I would have used more tact than that, but, yes. I married Karui and am now having a second kid with her.”

“Huh… If anyone, I would have expected Temari or Kurotsuchi,” Tenten muttered thoughtfully.

“Why Temari? Aren’t she and Shikamaru a thing? No... more importantly, why Kurotsuchi? She thinks of me as nothing more than ‘minion’,”

“Because she’s got a massive crush on you,” Moegi pointed out. “I think that’s just her way of showing affection…? You’re literally the only one she calls that.”

“She thought I was a messenger ninja when we first met, because I was still a genin.” Naruto deadpanned. “Of course she would call me that… I never did get promoted beyond genin, now that I think about it.”

“Again, you’re the only one she calls that…” Moegi repeated. “Most people suspect that she thought you were cute. Especially now...”

“Right... uh… um… okay.” Naruto just gave up and shrugged. He honestly had no idea how to respond to that. “Tenten, got any clothes that closely resembles to what I use to wear? I don’t want there to be too much orange this time around, but I kinda miss what I used to wear.”

“I’ll see what I can dig up,” she replied with a friendly smile.

“Alright!” then he turned to Miria and the twins, “Did you girls find anything you want to buy? Money is not an issue.”

“I’ll look around,” Miria said with a smile of her own as Tenten scampered off. She then followed the bun-haired brunette, figuring she was heading off to the clothes.

“We, will look around, as well.” Alicia said after Miria, with her sister Beth nodding in agreement. The two of them followed after Miria as well. They might as well follow after someone they were more familiar with.

“Okay. Be on your best behavior you two.” Naruto called after them. Then he looked to Team Esibu and smiled. “So… Konohamaru, I heard you were trying to emulate me. Care to share some of your exploits?”

He and Moego grinned widely, clearly proud of themselves. Udon, however, was more guiltily so.

----

Nina and Rafaela couldn’t help but be amazed as they wandered the streets of Konoha. It was just so different from what they were used to. The former had heard the rumours that Naruto was from a different continent, and even though he himself confirmed those rumours were true, a big part of her doubted the legitimacy of his words. Not anymore. She believed him entirely now.

She never would have thought that she would see the lands beyond ‘this world’. Or rather, her continent. But she did and she was astonished. Amazed. Taken aback. Everything was so very different, yet, at its core everything was somehow the same.

“I never thought I’d see so many stores in one place!” Nina said in amazement. “This place is so huge, too! How the hell does anyone call it a village?”

“Your guess is as good as mine.” Rafaela said, taking in the sights with well hidden awe. “He was not exaggerating about its size. It’s easily five times the size of the Holy City”

Nina stopped, staring at one store in particular. The Toad Sage’s Paradise? How curious... “Is it just me or do you sense Glinda’s group in there?”

Rafaela brought her attention to the store in question. Then blinked. “Huh. ‘The Toad Sage’s Paradise’? Isn’t Naruto a sage?” she asked, more to herself than to Nina.

“I… don’t know?” Nina cocked her head to the side. A curious look was on her face as she regarded the store’s name. “It was mentioned in his book that his mentor ‘pervy-sage’ was a Toad Sage. Though I have no idea what a toad sage is.” Nina blinked and looked to her companion and asked, “Do you think that store has anything to do with Naruto or his late mentor?”

“Perhaps…? I’m immeasurably curious, now…” the eyepatch-wearing blonde replied. “Let us find out, then…” She then turned on her heel and unknowingly made her way to the shop that would rob her of what little innocence she had left. Nina followed after her, unknowingly about to share the same fate as the one-eyed woman.

The instant she entered, Rafaela swore her cheeks were lit ablaze as they invented a new shade of red. The things she saw boggled her still relatively pure mind as Glinda, Agatha and Betty giggled up a storm, filling up several bags with implements of sexual doom. Her one good eye blinked owlishly when she thought she saw an outfit or two among those… those things!

“Oh… my... “ Rafaela heard Nina say beside her. The younger blonde felt weak in the knees, feeling a similar effect to poor Rafaela at the sight of all these lewd items hanging on display. “I never thought I’d see something like those in a store… except maybe in Nash... b-but, even then…” She trailed off. Several outfits also caught her eye - some stranger than others, but all of them were clearly for the bedroom. “...what kind of outfit has this kind of exposure? Aren’t undergarments meant to keep your genitals hidden?”

“You’ve clearly not tried on a wedding dress,” Rafaela muttered. Having been married in a church within her homeland, she was notably less surprised. But what she saw here was damaging to what was left of her innocence. She could feel it being chipped away the more she stared at the lewd tools being proudly displayed on the walls. But, despite how much she wanted to tear her eye away from them, Rafaela just couldn’t.

Glinda giggled upon seeing the new arrivals and couldn’t help herself. “Like what you see~?”

Rafaela turned even redder as she finally managed to tear her gaze from the wall and gave the white-haired awakened being the flattest look she could muster. “I am not going to dignify that with a response.” she huffed and took a brief look around; and making damn sure her eyes did not lay on those… those things having on the walls. “What… is all of this, anyway?!” she asked, wildly gesturing to all the assortment of objects and clothes that are being displayed.

“Those would happen to be called ‘sex toys’,” Agatha answered. “Apparently you can use them in the bedroom, or on those lonely nights to alleviate your own sexual frustrations.”

“And those would be clothes,” Betty added, gesturing to the sexy lingerie and kinky uniforms. “The lingerie can be used to make yourself look more enticing. The other clothes are used for roleplaying. There’s quite the assortment of clothes here.”

“I noticed.” an uncharacteristically amused Nina said. Then something caught her eye. It was purple, it was shaped like a dick, it was a metre long, and it is attached to a handle of a baseball bat. The absurdity of the thing almost made her bust a gut laughing. “W-w-w-wha-wha-what is that?!” Nina asked, pointing at the purple coloured thing while trying her damned best to keep herself from laughing her ass off.

From behind the counter, Emi looked at the object in question, and smiled in amusement. “That is called ‘The Penetrator’ - it’s a metre long dildo attached to a baseball bat. It’s pretty absurd, I know, but there is just something so satisfying about whacking someone over the head with a metre long dildo…”

Nina blinked at that. So a dildo is what it’s called? A weird name if one were to ask her.

“Are you planning on buying one?” Emi asked, looking back to the silver-haired woman with a quirked eyebrow.

Nina shook her head. “No. No, I’m not.”

“Same here.” Rafaela added. There was no way in hell she was going to touch the damn thing.

“Noted,” Emi giggled. Clearly they had a case of nuns in a porn shop, here. These two were so puritanical it was almost comical. “Well, let me know if you need anything, then.”

“We… uh… we will…?” Rafaela slowly eased out of the shop, lest she be corrupted even more by the sheer… lewdness of what was within this store. Thank the Twins her sister wasn’t here. The woman can literally imagine Luciela pulling her back in and forcing her to look through the stuff!

Unfortunately for the one-eyed woman, Nina grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her back into the store against her will. And to Rafaela’s dismay there was a glint in her eyes as she looked at the naughty clothes.

“Actually, there is something we can help us with.” Nina looked at Emi with a devious grin. “We’re looking for some rather… ‘reactive’ clothes, if you catch my meaning. Do you have any suggestions on what kind brings out our best assets?”

“Excuse me!?” Rafaela yelled at the ponytailed woman. Unfortunately, her little protest went ignored by everyone.

“How effective it is will ultimately depend on the guy you’re trying to please,” Emi replied with a giggle. “But, I’ll see what we can do. As you can see, we have quite the selection to choose from~!”

“Indeed you do.” Nina said as her devious grin grew wider. “The one we’re trying to please is a little… kinky. He likes it when we’re forward and honest with ourselves. And he also likes to roleplay. A lot.”

“She’s talking about the same guy as we were, by the way.” Betty told the woman behind the counter. “As you said: he is pretty insatiable.”

“He’s also a lolicon, among other things,” Glinda added with a giggle. “Forgot to mention that.”

Emi raised her eyebrows at that. “A lolicon? He could get arrested if she’s too young.”

“The ‘loli’ in question is actually older than she looks.” Rafaela pointed out in defense of her husband. “So, what is the age of consent here anyway?” she might as well get any potential misunderstandings out of the way before it gets out of hand.

“Thirteen,” Emi replied looking at her oddly. “I take it you’re not from around here. Most everyone knows that.”

“They’re with us, actually.” Glinda said, “There is fifteen of us altogether. And like we mentioned before, we’re foreigners. This is the first time we stepped inside of a Hidden Village.”

“Even though said ‘village’ is roughly ten times the size of an actual village, and is more of a city. And the ‘loli’ as you like to call her, is over twenty years old and can change her appearance between looking like a thirteen year old, or an eighteen year old.” Rafaela said; this was a partial lie. She wasn’t going to tell this stranger that Riful is over five hundred years old, she had a feeling someone living that long wasn’t common on this continent by a long shot. The only ones who did live that long were the Tailed Beasts, but they weren’t human, or awakened being…? Well, they were demonic in nature, so maybe they are?

“Oh, okay,” Emi replied, assuming this ability was either a kekkei genkai or that transformation technique she’d seen the ninja here frequently using. “That makes sense.”

“Come on, let’s pick out an outfit or two to wear.” Nina said, trying to bring Rafaela’s attention back to why they are staying in this store in the first place.

----

Meanwhile, back with Naruto, in Tenten’s shop, the blond in question chuckled as Alicia and Beth were busy showing off their new outfits. Both twins were now decked out in matching, black, shoulderless yukata, decorated in pink and silver. These outfits were about a size too small, and as a result, showed off a bit more of their thighs and bosoms than intended, but that only made them look even sexier. The silver brought out that of their eyes and the pink obi were tied in the back in a large bow, which Naruto found rather cute.

“Very nice, you two.” Naruto complimented. “It’s a bit small on you, but that just makes them hug you in all the right places~! It’s a very good pick.”

Alicia and Beth giggled at that, hugging their man. Naruto hugged them back and couldn’t help but slip his hand underneath to give their nice asses a squeeze. He smiled, feeling naught but bare skin.

“Oh!” the blond chuckled. “You naughty girls~!”

“Only for you, Naruto-Sama~!” Alicia giggled mischievously.

“We picked these out for your viewing pleasure.” Beth said with an impish grin. She then leaned in, whispering into his ear, “and easy access~!”

Naruto chuckled, unable to help but notice his pants getting tighter. He leaned in and whispered into their ears, “Well, I most certainly approve of that~.” Then he withdrew and asked, “do you girls want to buy anything else? As much as I love seeing you in those, I would not be opposed to letting you check out some more. What about you Miria, dear? Did you see something you like?” he asked, calling out to his wife.

The woman in question blushed as she nodded with a smile, a little, red bundle hugged to her chest. “It’s a surprise~!”

“Aw, and here I wanted to see what you bought for yourself.” he teased her with a grin.

“Oh, you will~!”

The blond’s imagination ran wild at her tone. But he composed himself before it could to to wild. “If you want to buy some more, then go right on ahead. Money is not an issue.” he told her, before saying aloud as an afterthought, “I wonder where Tenten is?”

“Still digging through storage for clothes,” Moegi replied. She then turned to Miria and asked, “Is there anything I can help you with in the meantime?”

“Trying to win your way into the family?” the brunette asked, giving her a suspicious look.

“To be fair, can you blame me?” The strawberry blonde giggled, much to the surprise of Udon and especially Konohamaru. She then leaned in and whispered into Miria’s ear, “I know just the thing to make a man go crazy for you, by the way. A few candles here and there, laced with aphrodisiacs… That nice, little dress I saw you snatching up… There are quite a few possibilities, if you’ll let me help~!”

Well, if nothing else, she just earned herself some brownie points… Miria thought about it for a bit, then nodded. “Alright, lead the way.”

Naruto sighed, before chuckling in exasperation. “I foresee a long night in the near future,” he muttered to himself. And with that blessing of fertility Neideen gave him, he’s almost guaranteed to impregnate his lovers, now. Huh… for some reason, he had a feeling he’d forgotten about something. Something very important… He shrugged. Well, if it was important, it would come to him, eventually.

He blinked and curiously looked up at the ceiling. Did he just hear the Twin Goddesses giggling, or was that his imagination...?

“Sorry that took so long,” Tenten called out, scampering on up to Naruto and inadvertently derailing his train of thought. “It took a while, but I managed to find a few things you might like.”

“Alright,” the blond replied with a smile. He then looked to Alicia and Beth, “I’ll be back in a few minutes, alright?” The twins nodded and continued looking around to find something else they wanted. Naruto, meanwhile, took the small pile of clothes off Tenten’s hands and followed her to a small changing room.

Several minutes later, Naruto stared at his reflection in a mirror. The clothes Tenten picked out for him were very reminiscent to his old outfit, but they were refreshingly different, as well. He had the burnt orange pants, but now they came with a light, black coat with a high collar and orange zipper. Surprisingly, Tenten had found a red armband with the Uzumaki crest, as well, which went well with his coat. He should know, because he’s currently wearing it on his left sleeve. He wore a pair of black boots to finish off the look. Looking down in his hands, the blond was holding onto a black, elastic headband with a metal plate bearing the leaf village insignia. Naruto wasn’t so sure about it. He’s pretty sure he can get arrested for impersonating a ninja, even if he use to be one.

Well, if anything, it was the thought that counts. He’ll take it with him as a souvenir, but not wear it, just in case.

Nodding to himself, Naruto turned around and exited the changing room. There he met an expectant Tenten waiting for him. While she was disappointed to see the blond was not wearing the headband, the young woman was glad to see that he had not completely discarded it.

“So? What do you think?” She asked him, leaning forward with an eagerness she had long since forgotten.

Naruto looked over himself again, before looking at her again with a wide grin. “I love it! You know your stuff, Tenten. You wouldn’t happen to have a copy of that coat I briefly wore, when I fought Pein do you?” what can he say? It’s a reverse coloured version of the coat, his dad wore. And it was awesome! He would love to wear it again.

“I’ll look around,” Tenten replied with a wide grin. “We might still have one or two in stock. That’s a fairly popular item, nowadays.”

“I’ll bet.” the blond chuckled. “I’ll go look for Miria, Alicia and Beth in the meantime.”

“Alright,” Tenten replied with a giggle. She’d seen where Miria was snooping around and knew full well what that woman was looking for.

As the bun-haired brunette went off to search for said coat, Naruto chuckled and headed off to see where Alicia and Beth were, wondering what they would think of the new outfit. It didn’t take him long to find the twins; they were in the ninja section for women. They were already in the midst of looking through clothes, but hadn’t found anything to their liking yet.

“Looking for something in particular?” he asked, giving Alicia and Beth a warm smile.

The twins jumped in surprise at hearing their husband’s voice and turned to look at him. Their eyes went wide slightly when they saw his new getup, and the corners of their lips quirked upwards in a tiny, but approving smile.

“That looks good on you~!” Alicia said.

“We’re just looking for souvenirs,” Beth answered.

“Thank you, dear.” Naruto said in response to Alicia’s compliment, then he turned to Beth and asked. “Do you want me to help you?”

“These outfits are rather strange,” Alicia said, looking at the display.

“I’m not a fan of green,” Beth muttered, she reached out and rubbed the fabric between her fingers. “The material is nice though - durable, but soft and comfortable.”

“You can get them in different colours, you know.” Naruto pointed out to Beth. “And, yeah, they can be strange for you. There was one person I knew way back that wore a mini-skirt, fishnet top and shorts, and a long trench coat. And nothing else.”

“I’m sure you’d enjoy that,” Beth giggled.

“She actually scares me,” Naruto muttered, blushing up a storm. She was one hell of a fuck, that night she offered herself as tribute to keep him from turning Konoha back into a crater, but to this day, she still terrified the blond. “She was the one I said that Ophelia reminds me of.”

Both Beth and Alicia furrowed their brow in thought. Then their eyes showed realisation. “....Ohhhhhhhh.”

“Yeah,” then he cleared his throat and looked at the clothes. “So, let’s see what we can get you girls, no?”

“Alright!” the twins chirped in adorable unison.

After a few trips back and forth between various isles of this section of the store, Naruto found himself sitting and waiting in front of the dressing rooms. When the twins emerged, Alicia was wearing a trench coat over a sleeveless, midriff-bearing, high-collar top; form-fitting short shorts; and a pair of matching, knee-high boots - all in black. The top ended just below her breasts and had a zipper in front and the outfit as a whole left nothing to the imagination. Beth wore an almost exact copy, but with a short skirt instead of shorts - one that was clearly intended to be worn with shorts underneath, as it had long slits up either side, thus showing off just enough thigh to give some old people a heart attack.

Naruto knew she was wearing nothing underneath, as well, even without the giggle she gave him when he looked at the garment in question. Well, if nothing else, she’d be easy to pass off as a seduction expert.

“Well,” he chuckled, giving the bombshells in front of him a sly smirk, “you ladies certainly know how to drive a man crazy with your wiles~.”

“Only when it’s you, my love~!” Alicia giggled.

“Do you like them?” Beth asked, turning in a full circle to give him a full 360 degree of her entire outfit.

“I most certainly do,” he answered. “Do you like it, though? We still have plenty of time to look for other clothes.”

Beth and Alicia exchanged looks before looking back to their husband to simultaneously say, “We do, Naruto-Sama~!” suddenly, they became a blur of motion before the twins appeared at either side of him; they both took an arm each and hugging him to their bosom.

“They are comfortable too,” Beth started.

“But we would not be opposed,” Alicia continued directly after her sister.

“To having some casual clothes as well.” Beth finished.

“What you’re wearing can be used for casual clothes too, you know.” Naruto pointed out. “I use to wear my shinobi uniform on my work and off days. The same can be said for what you’re wearing, now.”

The twins shared a look again. Then they looked back to Naruto, with Alicia saying. “Okay. This will do.”

“Alright,” he chuckled and gave the sisters a loving kiss on the lips. “Let’s go find Miria, eh? And hope Moegi isn’t being troublesome for her.” speaking of Moegi, where was her teammates? Shouldn’t they be around somewhere?

----

Outside of Tenten’s shop, Konohamaru and Udon were outside standing guard. With how famous the boss is, it would be a matter of time before someone catches wind that he is back and forms a crowd to try and get his attention. How those kids and fangirls didn’t form a mod yet was beyond them but they were thankful for a little peace and quiet.

Of course, since Tenten was a member of Team Guy, it was just a matter of time before that piece and quiet would come to an abrupt end.

“YOOOOOOUTH!!”

In the form of Tenten’s, very eccentric, and enthusiastic former teammate, Rock Lee.

----

Inside of the shop, Alicia and Beth jumped in surprise upon hearing a loud, but enthusiastic voice pierce through the peace and quiet. Naruto was just as surprised, though unlike his girls he didn’t jump. “Well…” he chuckled with amused exasperation, “it seems the final member of Team Guy is close by.”

“...Who is that?” a bewildered Alicia asked. This was the very first time she felt such an emotion. At least to this degree.

“That is Rock Lee.” the blond answered, he kept his eyes on the entryway to the building, even as he heard Tenten’s dismayed cry in the background. “Don’t let his appearance deceive you. While he is a little… eccentric, and odd looking, he is a good person. He is one of the best hand to hand specialists Konoha has to offer too.” he smiled widely and let out another chuckle. “If we’re lucky he will just keep on running. If not… well… do try to be patient with him.”

Luckily for the twins, Konohamaru and Udon, kept Rock Lee steered clear of the shop; the two friends directed him to the Hokage who was in fact looking for him. They left out why Kakashi was looking for him, though.

“YOSH! THANK YOU, KONOHAMARU AND UDON! I SHALL FIND HOKAGE-SAMA AND SEE WHAT HE NEEDS OF ME! AND IF I CANNOT DO THAT, I SHALL RUN FIFTEEN MORE LAPS AROUND KONOHA!!!”

To the bewilderment of almost everyone in the building, they heard Rock Lee’s footsteps fading away in the distance. So their relatively innocent minds were left… partially unexposed to the weirdness, that was Rock Lee.

“Well… it seems we know where Konohamaru and Udon are… poor guys.” Naruto chuckled sheepishly. Alicia and Beth were understandably, unamused, and they slowly looked at the young man in the grip of their arms. They wanted him to join them on this mission? “He’s weird, but one hell of a ninja,” Naruto chuckled. “Not quite sure how, mind you, but his effectiveness in combat is almost legendary. Just don’t get him drunk. That results in some scary shit, I hear.”

“Noted,” Alicia and beth both muttered nervously.

“Alright, now let’s go find Miria.” he chuckled. With that Naruto guided Alicia and Beth along as he sought out his wife and Moegi.

----

Just shy of an hour later, Naruto was impressed to see that Kakashi had managed to round up everyone he wanted to bring back. It would appear that Ino was the one who’d convinced Kiba and Shino. Though the blonde had a prideful, mischievous grin that screamed all sorts of naughtiness, the three of them were tight-lipped as to how she’d managed that. Naruto had a bad feeling, though he had no idea why he had it. Maybe it was because this was Ino he was thinking about here; that woman tended to get up to some mischief whenever she didn’t get her own way.

Alongside Team Asuma and Team Ebisu, as well as Lee, Tenten, Kiba and Shino, Naruto and his fifteen guests were there, ready to go.

“Well, I be damned. You actually got everyone I wanted.” Naruto said. He then turned to Kakashi and asked, “Were they debriefed on what this mission entails?”

Kakashi nodded. “Yes. They were. But, I’ll go over it with them again… just in case.” He then gave the teams that were assembled before him a hard look, one that was fitting for a Kage and to get their attention. “Naruto will be in command for this mission. When you all reach this other continent, do as he says as he is practically a Kage over there. Do not antagonise the women living with him, either. If the rumours that some of them are human-eating demons are true, then getting on their bad side will be the last mistake you’ll ever make.”

“One of them is strong enough to fight the Five Kage and win.” Naruto added. “And she’s a streaker, too. But don’t let her appearance deceive you. She will kill you if you piss her off.”

“Of course you of all people would find a way to get women like that to fall for you,” Kiba chuckled knowingly. “You have a way with befriending people who are trying to kill you at the time. Hell, I’m honestly surprised that Kaguya wasn’t one of them.”

Naruto gave him a sheepish grin at that. “I won’t argue with that. It’s practically a common occurrence, now. Uh… what else… oh yeah, the ones with the silver eyes are hybrids. I’ll let you guess who aren’t the hybrids… well, aside from the kids there.”

Kakashi blinked and slowly looked at Octavia, Agatha, Glinda and Europa. Since, unlike the silver eyed women here, they were the only ones that didn’t have that trait. Or their various shades of pale blonde, or silver hair, in Agatha and Europa’s cases. Did that mean they were…? All four of them grinned at him mischievously. And the white haired Glinda went so far as to make her eyes change colour for a brief moment, just to confirm his thoughts.

The grey haired Kage felt a bead of sweat drip from his forehead. All this time four human-eating demons were wandering around Konoha...

“Oh, behave, you four,” Naruto said with a chuckle. Then, he turned to Kakashi and said, “they’re harmless, unless provoked. You have nothing to worry about. Believe me, if they’d caused any trouble, the whole village would have known about it, by now.”

“Noted…” then, Kakashi went straight back to the point. “Before we go further off track, you’re to follow Naruto’s command. Listen to everything he says. Do not antagonise anyone living with him. As for the mission, it’s an S-rank. And it’s a Joint Operation with the Rebellion. Teams from the Konoha are to infiltrate the enemy headquarters, and extract any silver-eyed women and children they have in their clutches. At the same time, the rebellion will be engaging their forces to keep them distracted long enough for you to get in and get out.”

“Take note that we have allies within the Organization.” Miria said. “Fellow warriors that we have converted to our cause. There is a particular group you must avoid at all costs - silver-eyed warriors in red and black. While they are on our side, it is best if you don’t engage them as they are some of the best of the best of their respective generations and they will be obligated to attack any intruders.”

“Warriors in this Organization are ranked from Numbers 47 to Number 1,” Naruto added, looking back to the Konoha teams. “To put it into terms you will understand, Number 47 is comparable to green horn Genins, to experienced Chunins. Number 1 is usually Kage-level. The majority of these warriors in red and black are former Number Ones who have been resurrected for the sole purpose of killing me.”

“And yet you still managed to get them on your side,” Kiba said with a grin. “Seriously, can I borrow some of that charisma? I could use it.”

“To be fair, they only got on my side because one of them could actually see into the future.” the blond said with a hapless shrug. “She can actually talk to the local deities there, as well. And another is a champion of a local religion, interestingly enough… she’s also a pervert of Jiraiya-Sensei’s level, and has a thing for molesting people. Particularly girls that catch her interest.”

“I’ll make sure to steer clear of her, then,” Tenten said with a nervous chuckle.

Naruto let out a sheepish laugh at that before he cleared his throat. “Right, before I go off track again: they’re all dangerous, so you’d best avoid them. But if you are unlucky enough to walk into them, say you’re friends of mine and they should let you pass without a fight. Either that or the seer would let them know that you’re coming thanks to her ability to see into the future. Just don’t fight them. For the Love of the Sage. Do not fight them. Get in, get the trainees, and get back out that’s all. Get it done, and there’s an extra 10 million ryo for you all.”

Receiving ten nods, Naruto responded with one of his own and a sigh of relief. “Alright,” he said. “If you’re ready, I can bring you there with the help of a teleportation seal I have at Morris. That’s the name of the town we’ll be staying at until further notice. We start the operation a few days from now.” Mainly because he wanted to see the results of the self imposed mission Priscilla, Riful and Luciela took upon themselves. Once Isley is on their side, or permanently out of the way, then they can begin their approach to the Organization from the North. That and he wanted to get everyone else aligned with the rebellion off the field and under his protection. So that would take a few days to do.

“We’re all packed up,” Konohamaru declared proudly. It had only taken his team fifteen minutes to get everything together.

“As am I,” Lee added with equal enthusiasm. Beside him, Tenten nodded.

One by one, everyone showed that they were ready to move out.

“Alright!” Naruto chirped. “Let’s get going then!”