Torune frowned as he searched for Kaji. His master might have thought he hid his pain from the ramen chefs, but he knew something was wrong. They'd been training together for a long time now and he not only knew that Kaji was far stronger than him, but also how he acted.
"Naruto, restock the French dessert section!"
The insect user paused and backed out of the area the moment he heard Kaji's false name. He didn't need to risk getting any closer. Kaji would have already caught his scent by now so he decided to wait until Kaji could come to meet him.
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Kaji smiled slightly as a familiar scent wafted past his nose. He could tell Torune was nearby. Unfortunately, another scent assaulted his senses.
"Need something, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked as he collected the desserts that he needed to restock the shelves.
Kakashi, who was a little surprised that the blonde noticed him, chuckled sheepishly, "I just wanted to talk to you. I've been thinking about … Have you ever thought about your parents, Naruto?"
"Of course," Naruto said not revealing that smirk on his lips.
It was only a matter of time before this conversation came up. Why else would the Hokage risk telling Kakashi about Minato at all? He wants Kakashi to smooth the decoy over. It probably helps that Kakashi didn't seem to be aware that the real Naruto has been dead for a long time now.
An eager Kakashi put the book in his pocket, "What have you thought about? Maybe what it'd be like if one of your parents were still alive?"
Naruto sighed, "Yes, but they're dead." He said calmly knowing that it was true.
Torune managed to confirm it a couple of years earlier. In a town not too far away a record was found of a family murdered by bandits. That incident was about 13 years old and one of the victims was a blonde boy about 4 or 5 years old. A boy who looked exactly like Kaji did at that age and without whisker marks. With the timing and knowledge of everything behind the scenes , it seemed likely that this was a piece of his real parents that was left from the cover-up.
"It's impossible to know what life would be like if they never died," Naruto said as he carried the desserts out.
Kakashi followed Naruto, "What if one of them returned one day?" He asked, sounding too eager or too desperate to convince Naruto of something.
"At this point, it wouldn't matter if one of them revealed themselves to be alive either. I've grown up without them and if that was the case they abandoned me. Why welcome the bastards back?" Naruto said both internally laughing and slightly annoyed.
The amusement came from seeing a vein on Kakashi's temple pulse. Clearly, his lazy sensei wasn't happy that Naruto wasn't saying what he wanted. It didn't help that his words inadvertently insulted Minato, which definitely annoyed Kakashi. Of course, did he really expect it to be easy?
As for Naruto's own annoyance. That came from the lack of help. If Kakashi was so eager to convince him to be the good son then maybe Kakashi could help with the restocking.
Sadly, no. Despite tagging along, Kakashi was only interested in talking and not helping.
"But what if there was a good reason for not being in your life?" Kakashi asked solemnly before dragging Naruto into a quiet side hallway. "Right? If it was a good, potentially medical based, reason would it be forgivable? Wouldn't it be nice to go back to the way things were?"
A completely dumbfounded Naruto turned and looked down at the shorter sensei, "As far as I know going back to the way things were would mean me becoming a screaming baby and a nine-tailed demon running around free. I kind of like the height I'm at so I'd prefer not to 'go back'." He commented jokingly. Unfortunately, Kakashi didn't find it funny.
Kakashi sighed, "I didn't mean it like that. Just think. You could have a father again. Why not bond and learn from him?"
A nasty burning feeling started growing in his chest again and it was making the demon irritated, "You can't say 'again' if I never knew him in the first place and what purpose will it serve?" Naruto asked, taking the older ninja by surprise. Naruto decided he had to distract Kakashi and leave so he leaned right up to Kakashi's ear. "Haven't you noticed I've never been allowed to fight or go on any missions higher than C-rank? When things get messy Sakura and Sasuke step in, which is nice, but aren't we all genin? Shouldn't we actually work as a team? I met Shino not long ago and you, sensei, never mentioned a chunin exam or tree climbing. I realized I was never taught by you so why learn from a man I never met? Most likely another convenient thing comes up preventing such learning … It is odd how many disruptions there have been, don't you agree? One might think I'm not allowed to advance." He leaned back to look Kakashi in the eye. "Speaking of, would my father approve of the way you 'trained' me?" He asked, playing along with the story everyone wanted him to believe.
Seeing that Kakashi was absolutely speechless, Kaji left. He managed to find a closet and closed himself inside. The vine hairs on his head wrapped around the handle of the door effectively keeping it shut. Thankfully, those powerful vines stayed locked in place as Kaji fought to suppress the pain. In fact, just like a fist clenching as the pain rose, the vines tightened around the handle.
"Hey, idiot. Good timing. Make sure to get the paper towels. It's almost ending for today." Sasuke was heard saying through the door.
"Sure." Naruto hissed while the burning became even sharper.
Suddenly, the pain went higher and the fiery feeling spread throughout his body. He started getting blurry vision and then a haze came over his mind. Only the loud cracking sound of something breaking was able to snap him out of his daze. Unfortunately, Sasuke heard it too.
"What did you break, idiot?" An exasperated Uchiha murmured through the door.
"Door handle cracked. I'll fix it." Naruto pressed out as he forced the painful heat to subside.
"Hurry up then." Naruto gritted his teeth to stop himself from growling when Sasuke didn't leave. "By the way. There was an issue with my hotel room so I'm staying with you tonight. We'll just share the bed." Sasuke said before finally leaving.
Something about that comment made the burning feeling flare up slightly. It took Naruto another few minutes to suppress the pain. When he finally did, his vines let go of the now crushed door handle, which fell to the floor.
"It's getting worse each time," Naruto murmured softly as he absentmindedly grabbed some cleaning supplies. "I need to … get help." He said still feeling a haze over his senses.
It didn't even occur to him that the door was wedged into place because of the handle breaking. He just casually pushed it and it broke open. Thankfully, no one, even Naruto, realized the state the demon was in until he heard his real name.
"Master Kaji?" Kaji suddenly realized he was deep in the forest and with Torune. He only vaguely recalled making up an excuse to get away and making a clone in a bathroom, "Master, you're burning up." Kaji heard the insect user's voice and realized Torune had removed his goggles.
The second Kaji felt cool fingertips against his skin he snapped. In a flash, his vines grabbed the pale wrists. Torune was quickly pulled flush against Kaji's strong chest.
"Torune … I can't control it anymore." Kaji groaned into the pale neck.
For a moment Torune thought he understood what the problem was. After all, Kaji's need for human flesh has increased slightly as he grew up. Ayame, Teuchi, Kaji, and Torune all wondered if one day he'd start craving fresh living meat. It hasn't happened yet, but maybe that's what's happening now.
Torune shivered as he felt Kaji's tongue graze his neck. However, he wasn't scared. All his life no one really wanted him. Even his clan and ROOT agents feared his poisonous insects, but Kaji felt different.
The moment his insects told him about the plant creature hiding the vent Torune hoped he found someone who'd accept him. Surely a plant creature would want him. He defied Danzo and took a chance. Not once did he regret it.
"Master … My body is yours. Let me help you." Torune whispered only to gasp in shock when he was suddenly pinned down face-first to the ground. "Master?"
The very confused insect user only gasped when his pants vanished. A flash of pain courtesy of Kaji's teeth biting into his butt cheek seemed to clear things up. Kaji was going to eat him. However, it definitely wasn't going to be a terrible experience.
A heat gushed into his body through the bite mark. It spread throughout his body like a fire and it made his body melt. Soon just the tiniest touch to his skin sent sparks through him and his entire body trembled with pleasure. The demon tongue lapping at the open wound didn't help. It only added to his growing arousal, which grew again when the tongue mercilessly dipped into the tight entrance and thrust into the hot ass.
Even as he moaned in pleasure Torune still believed he understood what was wrong. It wasn't until he was suddenly flipped onto his back that he realized that this was about a different kind of hunger. After all, it was difficult to deny the truth when he could easily see Kaji's large and equally hard cock.
Torune stared at the large cock in disbelief, "Master Kaji …" His voice trailed off when he saw those blue lotus flower eyes. Those gentle eyes were darker than normal and filled with a haze of lust and pain. "Master, let me help you." He managed to whimper just before his ankles were grabbed by vines and his legs were spread wide.
In one motion Kaji's hands grabbed Torune's slim hips, lifted him off the ground, and thrust deep inside. The feeling of that thick hard hot flesh ramming roughly into him made Torune scream and arch his back sharply. It was so hard that it knocked the insect user's shades clean off his face. However, Torune could only feel immense pleasure no matter how hard the fucking was.
Torune's legs and arms tried to wrap around Kaji, but the vines held his limbs firmly apart, "Master! I Ah!" He moaned as the cock stroked deep inside his body.
Each thrust brought Torune closer to the edge. He soon came hard spraying white ribbons of cum onto Kaji. For a moment Torune just stared at the cum that coated the demon's abs, but he soon realized this wasn't over.
"Master … You're still …" Torune didn't get a chance to bring up that the cock in him was still hard before a couple of vines slid under his shirt and latched onto his nipples. "Ah! The tugging …. Hot." He stammered helplessly as the heat in his body flared up even more.
It wasn't just because of the teasing of the nipples. Kaji's hands were fondling the cheeks. Massaging the bite mark was enough to bring Torune back to full arousal, but those were also slowly moving him up and down Kaji's cock.
"So much … please …" Torune mewled and simply started bucking his hips to tease the demon back. He immediately got what he wanted. The thrusting went back to a much faster pace but seemed more gentle at the same time.
With that cock stirring his insides it wasn't long before he felt another climax coming. Just as he came he felt the hands on his hips tighten. What followed was a flood of hot cum pouring into his tight channel. It was too much and Torune passed out.
The feeling of being pulled closer to something warm made Torune's eyes snap open. It was Kaji's face he saw and instantly he remembered everything. Besides a range of unexpected emotions, he was hit with worry. To avoid waking up his master he used his insects to get two types of information.
One team of insects went to get a status report on Sakura and Sasuke's whereabouts. Considering the state Kaji was in when they met Torune really wanted to make sure the Anbu weren't suspicious of anything. Even a clone would be helpful.
Kaji's chakra was freed a few years ago. It was a shockingly long and painful process, but there was a surprisingly good reason for it. Apparently, Kaji's body and chakra were becoming demonic, meaning dense, strong, and hard to control.
Unfortunately, the very last part of the body to change was the chakra coils. The insect user theorized that the dense demonic chakra was too much for chakra coils that were still human, thus the reason his chakra was stuck. All it took was thousands of chakra-sucking insects carefully working the chakra free to free it. After that Kaji's body seemed to realize it needed to fix the coils and not long later the coils became more powerful.
While that's all good it still made things dangerous especially with an Uchiha on Kaji's team. Hopefully, the very different chakra wasn't noticed. Torune couldn't sense anyone nearby so he wasn't too worried, but he still eagerly awaited the insects' report.
As for the other thing Torune wanted his insects to check up on, it was actually the status of his own body. A part of him knew the mark on his butt wasn't normal. Plus, considering the minimum stretching and lube he found it odd that he wasn't in pain.
The insect user watched his beloved master's sleeping face as he waited for the rest of the insects in his body to tell him anything. His eyes widened at what he was told. It appears he was right about the mark.
In a subtle way, his body did begin to change.