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Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf	By : Pokemaster12 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 8578 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Chapter List
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Chapter 21: The Return Home

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Over the next week or so the members of Team Seven continued to guard Tazuna as he built his bridge; though Sasuke complained a lot about how pointless the job was since Gato was dead, as always Sakura agreed with her crush, much to the chagrin of Kakashi who told them to shut up or he wouldn't teach them anymore. It seemed to work as the two did their job after that, albeit reluctantly. The only member of Team Seven who didn't seem to have problems was Sai, who did his job quietly and efficiently.
During that time Naruto and his kage bunshin's had gone over the documents, deeds and files that they had found in Gato's mansion. It was during his reading of said documents that the blond had come to one conclusion, Gato might have been able to bully his way to the top and had some business smarts, but he was completely lacking in common sense.
Not only did he keep the deeds and documents to every company he owned, both legal and illegal, with him at all times, he also wrote down the names of all the people who owed him favors, people he had black mail on, or people he had bought out with his money. The list held the names of high ranking members of several countries, including several people within the courts of the various Daimyos, including the Daimyo for Hi No Kuni. Naruto realized that was how the man's bandits had most likely been able to continue kidnapping women for their slave ring for so long without getting attacked. The amount of corruption made Naruto wonder how far people would go for money and power.
The other thing he had done was have a kage bunshin sit down with Tazuna and take care of the paperwork for the shipping company. Naruto felt that the people of Nami were the ones who deserved run of that company the most, not only because it would help them get back on their feet, but because Nami No Kuni had always been one of the more used trade routes for ships. As it turned out, the old man was actually pretty competent when it came to managing a business, having picked up a bit due to his work as a freelance Engineer.
Between the two of them they had been able to organize and write out a new plan for the company, which had been renamed Nami Fune Tsure (Nami Shipping Company). Now the company belonged to the people of Nami as a whole. The people would elect a manager and a board of Employees, a group of seven people including the manager that would be in charge of the direction the company took.
The job had required Tazuna to speak with his people and during that time it would not be surprising for ten or twenty other people to be inside of the small house. Eventually, everything was put into place and Tazuna, being one of the newly dubbed "Heroes of Nami" had been selected as Nami Fune Tsure's first manager.
After speaking about it with Akane and Anko, the three had decided to raid the safe house that Gato had set up in Nami. It had only been a mile or two away from Gato's mansion, and held even more jewels and money than the mansion itself. The members of Team Twelve had proceeded to raid the safe house and then gave the money away to the people of Nami so they could get back on their feet while the new company they had got started.
Feeling that the rest of the information on Gato's company and the people he had in his pocket could be useful, Naruto sealed it up inside of a seal on his inner thigh, which was covered with a powerful genjutsu seal to make it invisible. Thanks to his youki, not even the Byakugan or Sharingan would be able to see through the genjutsu. He created another file that held some of the information, enough to give Sarutobi to keep him occupied so that no one would think he was withholding information.
The stuff he had kept for himself were the deeds to several other businesses, a few of which were in Konoha and refused him access when the blond had tried purchasing necessities and supplies, the list of people in Gato's pocket outside of Hi No Kuni and half of the safe houses that had been set up within Hi No Kuni.
Haku and Zabuza had both been unsure of what to do during this time, having been so used to being not only on the run, but free to make their own choices they didn't know whether they should help everyone else, or keep to themselves.
Thankfully that particular problem was solved by Naruto and Akane who had taken to spending time with the two when they were not working. Anko would join occasionally, but because the red haired demoness still pestered the jonin about her sex life with Naruto, an action which caused severe blood loss from Zabuza and Haku, she usually hung out with Kakashi, at least when he wasn't with his brats, all of three of whom she couldn't stand.
Zabuza and Naruto had taken well to each other, both being skilled swordsmen the two would often be found sparring against each other. The Kiri missing-nin had been shocked and appalled that he had lost to someone who looked only twelve years old, Naruto had not told him about his status as a half demon, so the blond couldn't really fault the man for wondering if he had gotten rusty and just offered to spar until he got back up to par.
Haku had been another thing entirely, he still had trouble looking at Naruto and Akane without blushing. Of course they had not made the task of doing so easy, both had teased the boy mercilessly, telling him it was fine since he had not actually seen them. They also threatened him with castration if he actually did see anything, which had never ceased to make the boys red face go deathly pale.
Other then those small altercations, however, he got along with the duo quite well, they had even shared some of each others past with each other. Naruto and Akane learned that Haku had lived in a small village within Mizu No Kuni and his mother had been a member of the Yuki clan, a ninja clan that had been capable of using Hyōton (Ice Release) which was the ability to combine wind and water chakra to create ice jutsu.
Haku's mother had done her best to keep her ability a secret, knowing that, at the time, Kirigakure had an intense fear and hatred of bloodlines. However, Haku had discovered this ability and been so ecstatic he had shown it to her. She had been so fearful that she smacked him and told him to never use that ability again. Unfortunately, Haku's dad had also seen what he had done and formed a mob, they killed his mother and would have killed Haku too, had he not used his Hyōton manipulation to create several large ice spikes and kill his father and the rest of the mob.
After that he had traveled and was eventually discovered by Zabuza, who had decided to take him on as an apprentice.
In return Naruto and Akane told some stories of their own, they did not reveal as much as Haku had, not yet anyways. The two planned on telling their sensei the truth about their status soon, and would tell Haku then, but felt it best to keep it a secret until that time.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Are sure you three want to leave now?" asked Tazuna, it was the second week since Naruto and the others had come to Nami no Kuni. Well, since Team Twelve had come to Nami, and the group had decided that it was time to go home and report. "The bridge isn't even complete yet, and while I know there's no danger anymore I'd feel much safer with you guys than the cyclops and his brats."
The man's words caused Naruto and Akane to snicker, while Anko coughed and tried not to laugh. When they got under control it was Naruto who said, "we don't have much choice. Our mission was to kill Gato, now that its complete we need to return and give our report. We need to be especially quick considering all the pies that greedy little midget had his hands in."
"Isn't calling someone little and midget kind of redundant?" asked Akane in a teasing voice.
Naruto shot her a glare, though there was no real malice behind it, "not for him, Akane-chan." He turned back to Tazuna, "anyways, it's also important because the Hokage will need to contact the Daimyo of Hi No Kuni to work out a way to escort all of the women from our country back home, and the Daimyo will have to contact the other Daimyo's for the same reason. It's going to take a lot of time and effort, but the sooner we get back the sooner they can get the ball rolling."
"We also have to escort Zabuza and Haku back as well," Anko added, having just finished her Dango she was now able to speak again. "They both agreed to become Konoha ninja and we need to get them registered, because Kiri is still out of contact with the rest of the world we need to make sure the two are entrenched enough in Konoha that if we ever do hear from them we can inform them that the two are no longer to be considered missing-nin."
It was a surprisingly common practice for one village to take in the missing ninja of another. Most ninja who abandon there village don't normally do so without a good reason, because they know that if they leave the village the hunter ninja will be after them. The few that do usually leave do so because of a conflict with their moral's, they're forced to do something they don't agree with and leave. Most end up joining another village so they can receive the protection that comes with being from a ninja village.
Tazuna sighed, "I suppose I understand. It will be a lot different without you guys here." That was a fact, between Naruto and Akane's antics, their teasing of Anko and the way they constantly use sexual innuendo in their talk had made the household very different. His daughter couldn't even look at the whiskered blond anymore without blushing.
"We may visit sometime so it's not like you won't ever see us again," Naruto said with a shrug. He blinked for a second as the older man held out a hand, before taking it in with a grin.
"You three – five," Tazuna corrected as he saw Zabuza and Haku coming down the stairs, "take care of yourselves."
"We will," Anko commented before grinning at her genin and the two others who were coming back with her. "Alright! It's time to get this show on the road, I want to be at least half way to Konoha by nightfall!" With a skip in her step she bounded out of the house, leaving the others to stare at her retreating back.
"Is she always this...excitable?" asked Haku with a sweat drop.
"Yes," Naruto nodded, "yes she is. You haven't spent enough time with her to know, but she's usually worse than this."
Haku raised an eyebrow as he and the other three that were traveling back to Konoha walked out the door, "worse than you and Akane-san?"
"We're not that excitable," Akane said with a scoff, as if she were offended that Haku could even think about her and her mate like that. "We just really, really like sex," both Haku and Zabuza stumbled a bit before righting themselves, one with a blush clear on his face and the other trying to hide how disgruntled he was that these two brats were having so much sex and he was getting nothing.
"Aren't you gakis too young to have sex?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Old enough to kill, old enough to die, old enough to drink -"
"Old enough to fuck like rabbits in heat!" Akane finished Naruto's sentence.
Said blond glared at her, "thank you dear."
Akane blew him a kiss, "your welcome honey."
"OI! GET YOUR ASSES MOVING!" Anko's voice bellowed out from within the treeline.
"Coming!" Naruto and Akane shouted before they bounded off, the two missing-nin following behind them a moment later.
They weren't sure if coming to Konoha was such a good idea anymore, but at the very least, it had to be better than staying on the run.
If nothing else, the antics of the trio they found themselves in the company in were amusing.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

The trip back to Konoha hadn't taken very long, about three days all total. They could have gone faster but Naruto felt it would be better to slow down so he and Anko could give Zabuza and Haku a lowdown of what was likely to happen when they reached Konoha. True to form the moment the group of five stepped through the gate, a squad of ANBU appeared before them, all placing a hand on some kind of weapon as they surrounded Zabuza.
"Whoa!" Anko held up her hands in an ease off gesture, "relax Kuma-san," she said to the bear masked ANBU who had the captains cloak on. "Zabuza's with us."
"What is an A rank missing-ninja doing here with you?" asked Kuma. It was hard to tell where he was looking thanks to the mask, all ANBU masks have a seal on them that make it impossible to see through the eye holes, they can see through them just fine, but you can't. Despite that, Naruto got the distinct impression he was glaring a hole into Zabuza's head.
"I'm here because my partner and I are sick and tired of running from the onin-ninja," Zabuza said, gesturing to Haku who, as always remained unfailingly polite and bowed to the ANBU before them as if they weren't pointing a bunch of sharp and pointy objects their way. "We were offered the chance to join Konoha and decided to take it." Naruto snorted at that, remembering exactly how he had "convinced" Zabuza to join the village.
The bear masked ANBU deliberated for several seconds before nodding, "very well, because of your status as an A rank missing ninja, however, myself and my squad will escort the five of you to Hokage-Sama."
Naruto didn't really think it was necessary, they had been traveling with the two for three days and Zabuza had taken his own watch shift and never did anything that would have harmed them. But he knew this was more or less protocol, or it would be if they ever got an A rank missing-ninja in their ranks. Most A ranks preferred not being tied down to a village because they were the ones that were good enough to evade the onin that were sent after them.
They made their way to the Hokage mansion and Naruto got a good show at seeing the reaction of people in the village when Zabuza, surrounded by the ANBU, strolled through. Most of the civilians didn't give more than a passing glance, curious, but not much else. They didn't know who Zabuza Momoichi was, and so they didn't really care.
However the ninja were an entirely different story. Those ninja who were off duty all stopped and stared at the famed Kirigakure No Oni (Demon of the Hidden Mist) in shock, a few had even stumbled and whirled around to get a second look.
Naruto chuckled, "it seems your pretty popular, ne Zabuza?"
"'Course I am gaki," Zabuza grunted in his gruff voice, "I'm the demon of the mist."
"Right, right," Naruto said. "We all know, you're a big bad demon."
"Awww, I think he seems more like a puppy," Akane said, looking over at Haku, "Or just a big stuffed teddy bear. What do you think, Haku-san?"Haku coughed several times and flushed in embarrassment, unsure whether to laugh at Akane's jab at his sensei, or feel offended.
"Ha ha, you're a funny girl," Zabuza grumbled as they finally made it to the Hokage's office. The girl at the front looked at all of them in wonder and waved them in, after all, it wasn't every day that an entire squad of ANBU escorted someone to the Hokage. Kuma opened the door the rest of his squad, plus Naruto, Akane and Anko all entered before he himself went in as well.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was sitting at his chair, as per usual, smoking his pipe and seemingly relaxed and uncaring about being face to face with the infamous Zabuza. Not that he had anything to fear. Zabuza knew that even if he could defeat the ANBU and team Twelve, the man sitting at the desk could kill him before he could blink. The Kiri Swordsmen respected very few people, but this man was one of them.
"What's up Ojisan!" Naruto greeted with a large grin as he stopped in front of the Hokage's desk, completely breaking the tension the ANBU all felt. Meanwhile Zabuza began hacking and coughing in shock at hearing the Kami No Shinobi being called old man. He was unsure whether he should laugh or feel horrified. The whiskered blond ignored all of it of course, "Did you miss me?"
Sarutobi chuckled at the blond, leave it to Naruto to be the one who destroyed the tension others felt with his uncaring attitude. Kami-Sama really broke the mold when she created him. "Its good to see you, Naruto-kun," he said in greeting. "It seems you have quite the story to tell," the old man looked over at Zabuza for a moment before turning to the genin team, "like, how you got the Kirigakure No Oni to come with you to Konoha."
The members of team Twelve, with a little help and correlation by Zabuza and Haku, spent the next hour or so filling Sarutobi in on their mission to kill Gato. From their first arrival to their infiltration mission to when they got to the bridge where Zabuza was fighting Kakashi. When they were finished the Sandaime Hokage looked at Naruto with a deadpan look.
"So let me get this straight," he said, "after getting to the bridge Naruto-kun challenged Zabuza to a kenjutsu match. If he won Zabuza would have to come with you and become a Konoha ninja, but if he lose he would have had to give away several million Ryu. Is that about right?"
"Pretty much, yeah," Akane said with a devilish grin. Both she and Naruto smirked when they heard the two male ANBU that were surrounding Zabuza gulp.
The Sandaime shook his head, "only with you, Naruto-kun. Only you could possibly convince a member of the Kirishinobi Gatana Nananin Shu to become a Konoha ninja."
"I know," Naruto said, buffing his nails, "I'm awesome like that."
"Now that leaves the question of what to do with you two," Sarutobi said, looking over at Haku and Zabuza. "Haku-san is not a registered ninja, so he can become a Konoha shinobi right now, the report I was given leaves enough evidence to know that he is highly skilled and could most likely become a chunin of the village."
"Actually, we were hoping you'd let him join our squad," Naruto said, bringing attention back to himself. "As you know a two man squad can't take the Chunin Exams, we still need another member and we hoping Haku could be that member."
It only took a moment of deliberation for Sarutobi to agree with that proposal, "that makes sense. Very well, Haku-san will fill in the slot as the last member of team Twelve." Reaching into the left-hand drawer under his desk he pulled out the same form he had Akane fill out when she registered as a ninja. "Just fill out this form and give it back to me, I'll schedule a date for you to get your ninja ID and you'll be an official shinobi of Konoha."
Haku took the form with a bow, "thank you, Sandaime-Sama."
"Think nothing of it," Sarutobi waved the thanks off. As far as he was concerned, this boy was doing them a favor by joining his village. "Now, because Zabuza is listed in the bingo books it will be a little more complicated." He looked at the Kiri swordsmen, "I'm afraid you'll have to go through a ninety day probation period before I can let you join. I will also have to set up an appointment with one of my interrogation specialists to give you an interview. It won't be anything too strenuous, just standard questions to ensure you won't betray the village. It's standard protocol, you understand."
"That's fine," Zabuza sighed, there was no point in arguing over something trivial like that. He had given his word on his honor as a swordsmen that he would join Konoha, and if that meant he had to have a probation period than so be it. At least he would get the chance to rest and not have to worry about the onin coming after him.
"Very well," Sarutobi started again, "the last issue we have to deal with is deciding where you two are going to live."
"Already figured out Ojisan," Naruto said, "they can live in my apartment complex."
"That works," Sarutobi said, then paused. "Is there anything else that you all need to share with me?"
"Just one," Naruto channeled chakra into one of the containment seals on his wrist. A pop and a puff of smoke later he had a thick file in his hand. He set the file on the desk, "that contains all of the information on Gato's operations in Nami, including info on his slave trade, the people he had in his pocket and the names of the people working under him." As Sarutobi picked up the folder the blond continued, "you'll see when you get to the names of people he bought out or black mailed that he has a number of people within the Daimyo's court, so you may want to contact him with this information so he can either clean house, or use it for his own benefit."
Sarutobi's eyes scanned the information as he nodded, this would be a great boon towards cleaning out some of the corruption in Hi No Kuni's borders. "Thank you Naruto-kun," he said, "this information will prove very useful. You are all dismissed."
Naruto grinned as he turned to his two soon-to-be apartment mates, "well, let's get you two settled into your apartments."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Holy shit!" Naruto grinned at Zabuza and Haku , both of whom were currently gaping at their apartment. On the outside the apartment complex was very unassuming. It was well maintained, thanks to the illusion that Akane had placed over it and the various seals that Naruto had placed along the floor, walls and ceiling it was very clean and looked about as good as any other building in the neighborhood. But that was it, there didn't seem to be anything spectacular about it.
However, the rooms in the apartment were, in a word, stunning. The room Naruto had given them looked much more like what they would expect to find on the inside of the Daimyo's palace. With dark red, beautiful looking carpet, soft cream colored walls and ceiling, beautifully crafted furniture and top of the line equipment the place was a dream come true. Especially for two people who had been on the run for several years.
"I'm glad you like it," Naruto's voice was full of mirth and Akane was snickering at the dumb struck looks of their companions faces. The blond gave them a moment to gape at their surroundings before he began his explanation of the room, "each room has been expanded with seals, the entire apartment is around an acre large give or take. There are two stories, four bedrooms and a guest room, four bathrooms, a training room, a library though that is empty until you fill it, a study, a kitchen and a living room."
The missing-nin and his apprentice both gave dumb nods and Naruto grinned, "as you can see everything is brand new, top quality equipment, I've lined every area with seals for comfort and the training room has Jiko-Shuuzou Fūiin (Self-Repairing Seals) on them, so you can abuse the area as much as you want and they'll repair themselves so long as you have enough chakra to power the seals." He paused for a moment in contemplation before shrugging, "we'll let you get settled down, in a few hours if either of you want we'll give you a tour of Konoha. Our room number is 201, c'mon Akane-chan."
The two demons left their new companions and headed to their own apartment room. As soon as they entered they released their forms, changing into their original forms. Naruto sighed in relief as his tails grew out of his back and his wolf ears popped back onto the top of his head, "kami, why do my tails feel so stiff?"
"You're just not used to keeping your true form hidden for so long," Akane explained, "your tails represent your power, so when their suppressed it feels unnatural. You'll get used to it eventually."
"I hope so," Naruto muttered as the pair went up the stairs, towards the bedroom.
"So what do you want to do now that we're back?" asked Akane with a grin as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her chest against his back.
"Hmmm…" Naruto did his best to ignore the way her pressed were pressing against him, it was rather hard to do when her hardened nipples were rubbing against you. "I think I want to go and get some ramen."
Akane smacked him on the chest, hard.
"Ow!" he rubbed his chest in mock hurt.
"That's what you want to do?" Akane huffed, letting go of him and spinning the blond around. "We just got back from a two week mission and you want to have ramen?"
"Well, I haven't had Ichiraku's in a long time," Naruto defended himself, "two weeks in fact."
Akane's eye twitched, "whatever. Fine, go get your ramen. I don't care what you do."
"Don't be like that," Naruto said, "we had sex almost every day on our mission."
"It's different than having sex in your own bed," Akane mumbled.
Naruto rolled his eyes, "I think your just a nymph. Seriously Akane, you always want to have sex."
"I do not!" Akane crossed her arms under her breasts, pushing them up.
"Ok then, when was the last time you had a conversation in it that didn't mention the two of us having sex or was laced with innuendo?" asked Naruto. Akane opened her mouth to tell him when she paused. The last time she had said anything to him that did not have anything to do with sex was before Naruto had stumbled upon her bathing when he was eight… Naruto grinned when she turned red with embarrassment, "see my point?"
"Fine, so I like sex," she admitted, "are you saying you would rather eat ramen than screw my brains out?"
As an answer to her question Naruto walked up to her, not even stopping his movement as he hooked one arm under her legs, the other around her shoulder and swept the red haired beauty off her feet. Akane didn't even get a chance to squeak as the blond leaned in and gave her one those soul shattering kisses that he had gotten so good at.
Akane moaned loudly as she wrapped her arms around his neck, her toes curled and uncurled as tingles raced through her body and heat began to well up inside of her loins. When they parted she looked up at Naruto with half lidded, lust filled eyes to see a crooked grin on his face. "So does that mean we're having sex?" she asked.
Naruto's grin widened, "nope! We're going to get some ramen!" With that he dropped her on the bed and raced off, leaving Akane to stare after him with a dumbfounded look on her face.
A tic mark soon grew on her head as she jumped off after him, "Naruto get your ass back here!"

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Naruto grinned as he polished off another bowl of ramen, drinking all of the broth and setting the bowl back down. "I feel so much better," he sighed as he patted his stomach.
"I'm glad someone's feeling better," Akane mumbled in a depressed and angry voice as she stirred her bowl of ramen with her chopsticks.
"Aw, c'mon Akane-chan," the blond said as he looked over at his mate, "you're not still upset are you?" However, the red head just ignored him. Naruto sighed as he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into his lap, eliciting a squawk of surprise and indignation.
"Put me down!" Akane commanded as Naruto's arms wrapped themselves firmly around her waist. "Let go!"
"You're so stubborn," Naruto mumbled as secured her arms to keep her from trying to hit him, something she had done in an effort to force him to let go. "Just because you didn't get your way, doesn't mean you have to act like a petulant child." Akane jumped huffed, though the whiskered shinobi was pleased to see she had stopped trying to get out of his grip.
"Whatever," she mumbled, trying not to give in to her desire not to be mad at Naruto. It was difficult enough to do in the first place, and only became harder when he placed his lips at the base of her neck and kissed her.
"I'll make it up to you when we get home," Naruto whispered in her ear, making the red head feel a small shiver run down her spine. "Just don't be mad, ok?" he nuzzled into her neck, bringing a slight pink tint to her cheeks as a soft, breathy moan escaped from her mouth.
"C-could you two please not do that in here?" asked a stuttering and blushing Ayame.
"I have to agree with Ayame-san," Haku added with his own blush.
"I third that," Zabuza added gruffly, not that he actually cared what the two brats got up to, he just didn't want to see it.
"You two are just jealous because I can have sex with the sexiest woman you'll ever meet whenever I want," Naruto said with a smirk. Zabuza scowled slightly, even though no one could see it, while Haku just blushed even more.
"Or perhaps we just don't want to see you two getting all into each other," Haku shot back.
"Yeah," Ayame agreed, "haven't you two heard of public decency?"
"No," Akane commented with a grin.
"Somehow, I should have figured that," Ayama said with a depressed sigh. "Now can you two please pick up a different conversation and not, well, do what you two are doing?"
"I suppose," Naruto said, setting his chin on Akane's shoulder. "I guess we should introduce the two with us…"
"Now he suggests doing that," Ayame muttered.
Naruto ignored her and said, "the pretty boy with the long hair is Haku." Said boy felt unsure whether to take the blonds words as a compliment or an insult, but didn't let it stop him from bowing his head at the girl. "And the one without the eyebrows is Zabuza."
"Disrespectful gaki," said eyebrow less man grumbled.
"Hello!" Ayame said to both of them, though Naruto and Akane noticed her eyes lingered on Haku longer than they did Zabuza. They stored the information away in the "tease Ayame" section of their minds for later perusal and use.
"She's following you again," Akane suddenly commented, making the others look at her strangely.
"Who?" asked Naruto before he noticed the look she was giving him and sighed. "Ah, her," realizing who she was talking about. "I have no clue what I'm going to do with that girl."
"I'll talk to her," Akane said as she hopped off Naruto's lap after he let go of her.
"Try not to be too hard on her," Naruto said as he watched his mate leave.
Akane just began heading out of the small ramen stand, "No promises."
"Who are you two talking about?" asked Haku, wondering what was going on.
"She's going to deal with my stalker," Naruto commented idly as he looked at Ayame, "how about another bowl Nee-chan?"

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Hinata watched in envy as Akane sat on Naruto's lap. How she wanted that red head to be her right now. How she hated Akane for stealing her Naruto. Why? Why was Naruto with that girl? Why was he with someone who could never understand him?
Hinata had watched Naruto for years, ever since he started at the academy she had seen him struggle, yet he never gave up. Even when he was being made fun of by the other students, or when Mizuki would try to sabotage the blond with his efforts he always just shrugged it off and smiled. The first year that he had been in the academy she had grown to admire the whiskered marked boy.
She had seen how he had struggled, how he continued to try no matter how many times he failed. It wasn't fair, she had admired and watched him for years. Then this girl suddenly steps into the picture and wrapped Naruto around her fingers within a day. That girl didn't deserve his affection.
So busy was she with her inner monologue that she hadn't even noticed Akane jump off Naruto's lap, nor did she notice when the red head walked out of the bar, or when she disappeared and reappeared right behind her. Hinata didn't notice the girls presence until Akane spoke up.
"Hinata."
"Eep!" Hinata whirled around in shock and soon found herself staring into the beautiful ruby red eyes of Akane. The bluenette gulped as she looked at the red head, so beautiful, so perfect, Hinata was insanely jealous of the girls beauty. Though she was far too timid to admit it.
"A-A-Akane-san," Hinata stuttered, suddenly feeling slightly afraid of her previous thoughts, as if the red haired demoness could feel them. She pressed her index fingers together and looked down at her shoes.
A frown marred Akane's face as she decided just what she should say to this girl. Her feelings on the Hyūga girl were very mixed. On the one hand, she disliked people like Hinata, people who gave up just because they had a hard life.
Akane knew very well what the girl's past was like, how her kidnapping and the subsequent death of the Kumo ninja who did it traumatized her. How the girls clan thought she was worthless because of her timid behavior due to that same incident. The red head had forced Naruto to study up on all of the recent history of the people in his class, that way he knew everything important there was to know about whoever he would be teamed up with. It was a moot point now, but at the time, when they had no clue she would no longer be in the seal, it had been a good idea.
This girls life, while more difficult than say, a civilian, was nowhere near as arduous as someone like Naruto's, and it paled in comparison to her own. Unlike this girl, her mate only had one person to care for him before they had met, and in her opinion, the Hokage had done a piss poor job of doing so. The only reason she was even congenial with the old man was because she understood that as the leader of a village, he didn't have the time to truly help raise a child.
Her own life was no walk in the park either. No one but Naruto truly knew her well, even he had not been told everything. She had never truly gone into the horrors she had faced in her life, the wars she had seen, the untold deaths she had lain witness to, the number of people she herself had slain. Her life was not a pretty picture.
The fact that Hinata couldn't seem to gather any courage, even after stalking her mates Chishio Bunshin for four whole years, was pathetic. One would think that after watching the person they admired most it would, at the very least, help them stand on their own two feet. But not Hinata apparently.
"I'm not really sure how to say this so I'm just going to say it," Akane started in a blunt tone. "You need to move on."
"M-mo-move on?" Hinata knew what she was talking about, but was having trouble fathoming how she would move on, Naruto was the only ray of light in her life. How could this girl just ask her to do that?
"Yes, move on," Akane confirmed, "this business of stalking my mate that you've been doing for the past four years." Hinata "eeped" at having someone call her out on how she followed Naruto, or his clone, wherever it went. "It needs to stop, it's not doing him any favors and it's not doing you any favors. You spend so much time obsessing over him that you can't even stand on your own two feet. You need to grow up and stop following Naruto-kun."
Akane was just about to turn away when Hinata yelled at her, or at least, what consisted as a yell for the timid Hyūga girl. "H-how could you s-s-say that? N-Na-Naruto-kun is the p-p-person that I ad-admire most! He-he inspires me to do better!"
"And how has that worked out for you?" asked Akane with a raised eyebrow. "Have you improved any? Has your Jyūken gotten better? Are you a better shinobi after watching Naruto for the past four years?" When Hinata didn't answer Akane shook her head, "of course not. You've spent somuch time obsessing over him that you spent no time bettering yourself. Your just like all the girls that follow –" she stopped, shook her head and corrected herself, "that used to follow the Uchiha. Spending too much time worrying about their love life than learning how to be a ninja."
"T-That's no-not true," Hinata mumbled, "I-I've always tried to improve! To get better, ever since I met Naruto-kun! H-he inspires me!"
"And yet, despite the fact that you should have been the number one kunoichi of your class, you're only ranked in the middle of your graduating class," Akane said. "You let a civilian, a pink haired, shrieking banshee who spends more time swooning over a boy who will never love her than being a ninja beat you." She watched as Hinata looked back down at the ground and scoffed, walking away.
She never noticed the look of loathing on Hinata's face.
"Harsh much?" said Naruto as Akane walked back into the stand. He had not heard all of what they had said, even his hearing was not that good, but he had been able to get the gist of it through lip reading. "Couldn't ou have, I don't know, said that a little more gently?"
"You're too soft," Akane said as she retook her place on his lap. "People like Hinata need a good kick in the ass or they'll never amount to anything, they'll remain weak throughout their entire lives. If she truly wants to be strong than she'll take my words to heart."
"For once, I agree with red," Zabuza said. Whether he agreed with her because it was the only time he had heard the demoness speak without mention her, Naruto and sex was unknown.
Naruto looked over at Haku who noticed this just shrugged and went back to his eating. He had never really had any experience in situations like this, so it wasn't like he could give them an informed opinion on the matter.
Realizing that no one really had anything to say the blond decided to drop it and got back to his food. After they had all finished eating Naruto and Akane took the pair on a tour of Konoha, showing them the different districts and some of the more historic sights in the village. The blond also showed them some of the places he had pranked, going into vivid descriptions of his nefarious pranks on the people of Konoha. Even Zabuza couldn't keep from laughing when he heard of some the shit Naruto had pulled.
By the time they had finished it was much later in the evening and the sun was beginning to set. Naruto and Akane parted ways with the two former missing-ninja and made their way up the Hokage Monument. Plopping down on the Yondaime's head they sat in what had become their standard position, Naruto leaning against one of the pieces of hair that was spiking up with Akane in between his legs, leaning against him while his arms were securely wrapped around her waist and her head was tucked under his chin.
"So what are you going to do with that information?" asked Akane as they watched the setting sun paint a golden red hue across the sky. She felt lulled by the warmth her mate radiated, it was very tempting to just close her eyes and go to sleep like this, just lying in his arms.
"I've got some plans running through my head at the moment," Naruto replied, having a good hunch of what information she was talking about. "Nothing definite yet, and we'll need those Travel Rights so we can leave the village before anything can happen."
Akane hummed as she closed her eyes, "we could create Chishio Bunshins and let them take any missions that may come up while we head off to do what ever it is you've concocted."
"No," Naruto shook his head, "a C rank mission may not be that dangerous but I don't want to risk it. While the possiblity is low, it is plenty possible that we could be sent on a higher ranked mission. I don't want the possiblity of people finding out we can make clones like that, not only would others try and learn it, but it would let Ojisan know that we may have done more than just leave the village for a few days at a time. I don't want even a hint of my stint in Kiri coming out."
"I guess you have a point," she murmured. The pair went silent after that, waiting until the sun set before going back to their apartment.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Sarutobi sighed as he listened to the council bickering like a bunch of children. Not that this was anything new, the Konoha council had been arguing ever since he had retaken the position of Hokage after the Kyuubi – Akane, attacked the village. Kami, it was still taking him some time to adjust to calling the Kyuubi by her name, or even just thinking of the Kyuubi as a her.
"I believe we should place Haku under the CRA," Danzo stated, trying to make his case. This was what the argument had been about for a while now. What to do about Zabuza's young apprentice.
It had been several days since the two had arrived in Konoha and the Council had somehow managed to get wind of the pair joining the shinobi forces. Not that learning about them was that hard, they had been seen wondering the village, sometimes with Naruto and Zabuza and said blond had taken to sparring in training ground thirty, as was often evidenced by the number crater-pools that had littered the ground.
The Kiri swordsmen himself had been an easy problem to solve. With no word coming out of Kiri, and no knowledge about whether or not they were still embroiled in a Civil War, Konoha could easily afford to place Zabuza within their ranks and suffer no repercussions from Kirigakure. After he had been given a standard interview with Ibiki, they had let Zabuza go. He would still be watched, but only for ninety days to determine whether or not he would be a threat to the village.
However, Haku was a much more difficult problem to solve, mainly because of his bloodline.
Sarutobi was troubled about how they learned of the young boy's bloodline, ever since Naruto had first discovered the seal under his table the Hokage had made sure to constantly search his office for more seals before he started his day. That he hadn't found any suggests one of the ANBU under his command may not be under his command. A troubling thought in and of itself.
"If we can have him impregnate multiple women we could begin harness the power of his Kekkei Genkei when they get older," the war horse continued. "It would add another addition to our clans, and Konoha would be that much more powerful."
"I say we let him join one of our clans," said a member of one of the Kaitachi clan's council member. The Kaitachi clan were a clan of merchants, they owned the largest chain of grocery and convenience stores in Konoha and were also one of the clans whose hatred of Naruto was well known.
Sarutobi had been at odds with them many times, and their last council member had been one of the people that had been responsible for the meeting he had been in during Naruto's attack, and was summarily executed for it. Since then they had kept quiet about the blond, but they had argued with the aging Hokage on many more points. The clan was also very greedy, they had always wanted the power and prestige that came with being a part of a ninja clan.
"You just want him to become your puppet so you can earn a seat on the Clans council," Tsume said with a slight growl. Tsume Inuzuka was the head of the Inuzuka clan, a ninja clan that had a close partner ship with dogs, and was Kiba's mother.
Tsume was a Tokubetsu Jonin and like all members of her clan had an animalistic look to her. She had long spiky brown hair, vertical slit-like pupils, elongated canine teeth and nails. She also had the clan fang markings on her cheeks as well as markings over her eyes and a dark shade of purple lipstick. She wore the standard standard outfit of a Konoha shinobi.
Sitting next to her chair was her nin-dog partner Kuromaru, an adult canin with a wolfish appearance. As his name would suggest, he had black fur. He was missing his left ear, along with his right eye, over which he wore an eyepatch.
"Everyone knows you merchants are a bunch of greedy bastards!" the women continued, getting Hikura Kaitachi to scowl at the woman. "You people are never satisfied with what you have, always wanting more, more, more."
"Than what would you suggest?" asked the scowling merchant.
"I say we let him choose whether or not to create a clan," said Inoichi Yamanaka, the clan head of the Yamanak clan and the former head of the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Forces. Inoichi had long blond hair that reached all the way down to his lower back, which was spiky on top and ended in a long pony tail. He had green-blue eyes and strong facial features, which included a well defined jaw line. His outfit consisted of the standard flak jacket and over a black outfit, complete with hand-guards, forehead protector and a sleeveless red coat.
"Forcing someone into something is not a good way to ensure the loyalty of our shinobi," he continued, "I have already had the chance to speak with Haku-san." As someone who specialized in the inner working of the human mind, it was standard procedure for Inoichi to interrogate all missing-nin who wish to join Konoha. "From what I can gather he doesn't enjoy using his bloodline, in fact, thanks to how his father tried to kill him because of it, he is very uncomfortable even discussing his Kekkei Genkei. It would not be wise to force him into anything that would promote his bloodline abilities."
Many of the council members scowled at the man, however, even the dumbest member of the council knew it would be unwise not to heed his warning.
"What do you suggest we do?" asked Sarutobi.
Inoichi opened his mouth to speak again when he was interrupted by the doors to the council chambers opening. Everyone turned to see who it was and blinked in surprise as none other than Kurenai Yūhi. The reaction her appearance caused was varied, many of the male civilian council members stared at her with open lust, the clan and shinobi council looked at her in interest, while the elders scowled at the intrusion.
"Jonin Yūhi," Koharu said in a commanding voice as she stood up, "what do you think your doing barging in on a council meeting like this?"
Kurenai looked up at the old woman with a raised eyebrow as she did her best to hide her scowl at the lustful looks some of the men were giving her.

Flashback...
Kurenai frowned as she sat down in her seat at a small bistro, waiting for her friend Anko. Though her thoughts weren't on her best friend at the moment, but rather her genin student Hinata. The girl had become even more withdrawn and seemed to be fluctuating between shame, timidity and anger, or at least as much anger as someone like Hinata could give. She was unsure just what to make of it, though she felt it may have something to do with the fact that Naruto was dating that Akane girl.
"Hey, Nai-chan!" Kurenai turned and smiled as she saw Anko walking over to her, though it turned into an expression of curiosity when she noticed Naruto, Akane and Haku with her.
She pushed her thoughts of wonder aside as she stood up and greeted her best friend with a hug, "it's good to see you, Anko. It's been too long since we've actually been able to hang out."
"Well we both have a couple of brats to take care of, so it's rather difficult to plan anything," Anko said, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.
Kurenai nodded before looking at the two genin and the one unfamiliar boy, "I didn't expect you to bring any company."
"Ah, well, they just sort of followed me," Anko spoke in an evasive manner. Kurenai knew her friend well enough to know that there was something they wished to speak with her about, but didn't want to just come out and say anything. She decided to play along for the moment, offering the three a nod of acknowledgment. "Naruto-san, Akane-san, it's nice to finally meet you. The few times I've seen Anko she had nothing but good things to say."
"That's surprising," Naruto commented with a light grin, Kurenai was slightly surprised by how deep his voice sounded. "Considering how all she ever does is complain about Akane-chan and I when we're on missions."
"Yeah well, you can't blame me when the two of you drive me absolutely crazy," Anko shot back.
"Your already crazy, sensei," Akane quipped with a grin, "besides, we all know you love it."
Anko snorted and muttered something about sex crazed red heads under her breath.
Kurenai looked at her curiously, having not heard what she said, but shrugged in the end and turned to their last companion. "I don't believe we've met."
"Hello," the boy bowed and Kurenai's eyes widened as she heard the distinctly male voice, she had thought he was a girl! "My name is Haku."
"A pleasure to meet you Haku-san," Kurenai recovered from her shock admirably.
Once they had all sat down a waiter came, all five of them saw the man's eyes stray to Naruto and a scowl come across his face. It looked like he wanted to kick the boy out, but when he spotted Anko take her thumb and run it across her throat in a threatening manner he decided to just ignore the boy. "Can I take your orders?"
"Yes, I would like a plate of your assorted sushi and some jasmine tea," Kurenai said.
"And I'd like a plate of Dango and some red bean soup," Anko ordered.
"I'll have your Katsudon(1)," Akane said.
Haku looked over the menu before ordering, "I would like your Nyumen (2)."
the man nodded and began to leave, once again, everyone noticed that he was leaving before Naruto could give his order. Of course he didn't get far, the moment the waiter had turned around several snakes wrapped around him and began to squeeze hard enough to elicit a paned grunt.
"Now, now, now," Anko said as she lifted the man in the air and turned him around so that he was facing the table again. By now they had drawn the attention of the other patrons, but ignored them for the man currently wrapped in Anko's snakes. She gave him a bloodthirsty grin and sent a mild dose of killing intent his way, causing the waiter to shiver. "You forgot to take my other students order, that wasn't very polite," she let her snakes squeeze him again, letting the man know what would happen if he did not follow through with the woman's subtle, or not-so-subtle, suggestion.
"What... what would like to have?" the man looked like he had swallowed something particularly vile at having to serve the village demon.
"I'll have your Hyashi Chuka (3)," Naruto said after a few moments of thought.
"And you will bring his order," Anko said in a threatening tone, "if you don't, my snakes will make sure that limp dick of yours will never get up again." The waiters eyes widened and his face paled, before he nodded empathetically. Picking on the demon wasn't worth losing his ability to have sex.
Anko sent the man scurrying and Kurenai shook her head as she looked at Naruto, "I apologize for that man's behavior, it was rude and uncalled for."
"It was," Naruto agreed, he absently put in a mental note to do something nice for Kurenai, as well as another one to find out where that waiter lives and prank his ass to oblivion. "But it wasn't your fault, you have nothing to apologize for."
Kurenai blinked at the blonds display of maturity, she was slightly surprised by it. Even though she had seen his scores, watched his display during team emplacement and listened to Anko's praising of his abilities, she had not expected his mature answer. She was still more used to watching him run around pranking the local populace that this new Naruto would take some getting used to.
Before their food arrived the group had a light discussion. Anko shared the story of their A rank mission in Nami No Kuni with Kurenai, who had heard rumor of the mission, along with hearing about Zabuza joining their ranks. Though she had not known about Haku being said ninja's apprentice.
Conversation tapered off once the food arrived, and the group began to focus more on eating. However when they had finished Kurenai looked at Anko, "I take it there is a reason you brought these three?"
Anko looked over at Naruto who pulled out a rather impressive looking seal away on a sealing tag and slapped it under the table. Kurenai could only guess that it was some kind of silencing seal.
"We," Naruto pointed to himself, Akane and Haku, "wanted to ask for your help."
"My...help?" Kurenai blinked in surprise.
"Yes," Naruto said, "you see, Haku here as a powerful Kekkei Genkei that allows him to use Hyōton Jutsu, as well as several special jutsu of that element that no one else can use. Because of this, we have no doubt that the "council" in all their esteemed, high strung, stick up their ass wisdom," here Anko and Akane snickered at the blonds description of the council. Kurenai actually thought it was rather amusing as well, but being the respectful woman she was, kept her peace. "Will no doubt try to force him to either, join a clan and make him impregnate several women, or place him under the CRA and force him to impregnate several women."
They all watched as Kurenai scowled. Being who she was they knew that she disliked how the male population, particularly those in power, held such disrespect for the female gender. It was half the reason they had come to her.
"Haku isn't particularly interested in even dating right now, much less marrying, especially marrying multiple women," the blond continued.
"And how can I help?" asked Kurenai. She would honestly like to help, the last thing she wanted was to have several girls being used as breeding stock just so Konoha could gain a new bloodline. But she couldn't really see how she could do anything.
Now they had gotten to the crux of why they had come. Naruto gave her a look that almost made Kurenai go into shock. It was a one of a kind look, or it had been. The only other time she had seen that look was when she got back from her first B rank as a chunin, a mission that had gone wrong and gotten one of their members killed. It was the look she had seen on the face of the Yondaime, Minato Namikaze.
"Anko trusts you implicitly so I will too," he said in a tone that let her know she would regret betraying the trust he was extending. "I want you to hold the council seat for the Namikaze clan."
flashback end...

Kurenai smiled as she ignored Koharu and walked over to one of the empty seats at the Clan Head table, sitting down next to the mother of her friend Hana. This action got several raised eyebrows from many of the people in the council chambers.
Koharu scowled and likely would have said something, had Sarutobi not spoken up first. "I too am curious about your presence here, Kurenai-san," he said in a tone that made it sound like he was asking a question, but in truth was giving an order.
"Of course, Hokage-Sama," Kurenai said, "I am here to represent the head of the Namikaze Clan."
Pandemonium broke out amongst the council members. Many of the civilians were yelling, shouting out about how the Namikaze clan was dead. The Konoha and Shinobi councils were looking at her in both confusion and shock, except for Hiashi Hyūga who was looking at her in mild curiosity. Meanwhile, the Elders were glowering at the woman, wondering if what she said was true, and if so, why they didn't know about the existence of the Namikaze clan head.
"SILENCE!" Sarutobi bellowed. Almost instantly everyone shut up. The aging Hokage leaned back in his seat and put on a pensive expression. "Kurenai-san, do you have any proof that the Namikaze clan is in fact, alive? We all know that Minato died before having a child."
Cunning, Naruto-kun, Sarutobi thought as he looked at the young woman. He couldn't help but admire this well played move. By appointing someone to the council, Naruto effectively had a spy within the ruling body of Konoha. And by using Kurenai it threw off suspicion of who the last Namikaze was, since she and Naruto had no real relation beyond Anko.
"I do," Kurenai reached into her pouch and pulled out a scroll. She stood up and went to hand it over to Sarutobi. "This scroll contains the active blood crest of the Namikaze clan, which only a member of the Clan can activate."
As the raven haired beauty walked back to her seat, Sarutobi unrolled the scroll and saw that it did indeed have the crest of the Namikaze clan, and it was activated, as evidenced by the red glow. The Namikaze crest was in actuality a combination, it was Uzumaki swirl of the Uzumaki Clan, and the tri-pronged kunai for Minato's Hirashin. He had created the crest after his nomination as the Hokage, which had automatically given him a seat on the Konoha Clan council, though he had not been able to fill the position because of his tenor as Hokage.
"This is the official crest," Sarutobi commented in a loud voice. He handed it to Koharu, who was seated on his right, "and it is active." He almost smirked when he saw the three elders scowl at seeing an active crest before they passed it along. By the time it was returned to Kurenai many people were once again shouting, most asking the question of why Namikaze-Sama had not revealed himself.
When the Sandaime had quieted the council down again, Kurenai said, "I know everyone wants to know why Namikaze-Sama refuses to reveal himself. I believe that it should be obvious but I will state the reasons for the benefit of those who haven't figured it out yet." It was a subtle jab, one that only a few people got. Those who did, but hadn't figured out the reason scowled. "Because of his father, Yondaime-Sama, Namikaze-Sama would have many enemies should he reveal himself, particularly in Iwa and Kumo. Because of this, he feels it would be better to remain hidden until he can properly protect himself."
"He is a shinobi than?" asked Danzo, leaning forward in interest. He wondered why he had never heard of the Yondaime having a son. Of course, he had known that Minato had been dating that whore from Uzu but...
Danzo paused in that thought, his single eye narrowing as he followed it to it's chosen course. If his thoughts were correct, then this could very well change everything.
"He is," Kurenai confirmed.
Before anyone else could speak, Sarutobi said, "than why don't we continue with our discussion. Unless Kurenai-san has anything to add."
"Just a few things," Kurenai commented. "The first is that he would like to apologize for not being here in person, you all know the circumstances but he still feels as though he has dishonored you by not showing himself." That was a well calculated lie of course, Kurenai knew that Naruto couldn't give a flying rats ass about the council. But he wanted to play the part of the humble Clan head for the moment. It seemed to have worked as many of the council members were nodding in satisfaction. Kurenai had to hide a smirk.
"Also, Namikaze-Sama realizes that I may not always be available," she continued, "which is why he would like to appoint Tsume-san as his benefactor in my absence." Tsume had been on Kushina's genin team, and had been one of her best friends, even though she had not told the woman about her pregnancy. Tsume looked slightly startled but nodded none the less, she had to admit she was rather pleased to be chosen over Hiashi, who looked like he had swallowed a lemon. "When ever there is a council meeting that I can not attend, Tsume-san will fill me in upon my return and I shall in turn inform Namikaze-Sama."
"The last subject Namikaze-Sama would like to approach is that of the new ninja who has been brought to the village," many people perked up at this, their expressions ranging from curious to distrusting. Now Kurenai really had to suppress a grin as she thought of how many plans her next statement would ruin. "He has decreed that Haku-san is officially a ward of the Namikaze clan, any slight against him will be considered a slightly against the Namikaze clan. This includes, attempting to bribe, threaten, or attempt to claim his bloodline without Haku-san's express permission. All slights against Haku will result in all Namikaze clan assets being barred from whichever clan was responsible for acting against Namikaze-Sama's ward."
Many people paled at this announcement. Before Minato had taken the position of Hokage and earned a seat on the Clan side of the council, the Namikaze Clan had been a very wealthy merchant clan. When Minato died, all of the clan assets, meaning one third of the entire villages shops, had been put under the custody of the Council. With a new Clan head that meant all of those shops now belonged to whoever was the new head. That essentially meant that should someone attempt to gain Haku's bloodline, said clan or person would not only be blocked by one third of the shops in Konoha, but likely blacklisted from the other shops who wished to get on the Namikaze Clan heads good side. It would be a crippling blow for anyone, they would be even more hated than the Kyuubi brat.
This announcement of course caused chaos once again. Sarutobi looked over at Kurenai who noticed and gave him a benign smile that spoke of a job well done.
The aging Hokage looked at all of the screaming council members and only had one thought, I don't know whether I should congratulate Naruto-kun on a move well played, or curse him for the head ache I'm starting to get. He sighed, I'm getting too old for this shit.
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