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His innocent but straightforward confession made her smile at him widely. He was making her feel like a teenager all over again.
"Let's go back to Ame, shall we? Can your clone summon us there?"
A piece of paper came out of Konan's palm, and Naruto focused his chakra on his index finger to write on it the words "Summon us to Ame". In the next moment, both Konan and Naruto disappeared in a cloud of white smoke.
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After his Shadow Clone summoned them in his living room, before he could even get his bearings, Konan pushed him towards the sofa.
His throat became dry as he watched Konan slowly unzip her grey cloak, letting it slip off her shoulders and fall to the floor. An uncharacteristic, teasing smile appeared on her face at the sight of him watching her transfixed. Due to her paper ninjutsu, despite her real age, she didn't look a day over 25. Nevertheless, as a woman, she was thrilled at making a man younger than her so mesmerized by her appearance.
And mesmerized he was by her beauty, indeed. The dark blue robe she wore under her cloak seemed to cover her modesty properly, but the amount of skin it left exposed was enough to make his imagination run unchecked. Her bare arms and shoulders and the tiny peek he could see from her side boobs, coupled with her exposed midriff and belly button piercing were driving him wild.
It wasn't the first time he had seen a woman, not by a long shot. He had sneaked into women's bathhouses many times as a kid for the sake of developing his Sexy Jutsu, and Jiraiya had dragged him through more brothels than he could count during their 2-year-long trip. He had yet to sleep with anyone, but he had seen enough naked bodies to become used to it.
However, nobody had ever lit such a burning desire within him until then. He couldn't understand it himself - she wasn't even half naked. Compared to most Kunoichi out there, her outfit could even be considered to be on the more conservative side.
As she walked closer to him, the specific sound made by her leather trousers broke him out of his stupor.
"Konan-" he began to say, but she put her index finger on his lips to stop him from talking as she placed her knee on the sofa.
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Nonetheless, a few moments later, Naruto rolled off her and crawled up until they were at the same eye level before lying next to her.
Her face flushed a deep red, her short purple hair matted with sweat, her orange eyes unfocused from pleasure, and her pink lips bruised and swollen from the loving abuse that he had put on them were painting an image that Naruto was sure he would forever be unable to forget.
Finding it impossible to hold in his feelings of love and the need to be closer to her, he wrapped his arms around her waist and brought her closer to him.
"I can't believe I had my first time with someone as beautiful and amazing as you," he said in awe as he gently caressed her feverish face. "This is the best day of my life."
"As it should be. Happy birthday, Naruto," she smiled and pecked him on the lips.
It took a few moments for her words to sink in. So many things happened recently that he had completely forgotten that today was supposed to be his birthday.
"Best present ever," he laughed, and he embraced her tightly. Resting his forehead against hers, he said: "I love you, Konan."
He had never seen a more beautiful smile on her face than at that moment.
"Love you too, Naruto."
Lying in bed on their sides, face-to-face, Naruto and Konan lost track of time as they exchanged kisses and whispered sweet nothings to each other. As evening came and the sun set, tired from the battle in the Land of Rivers earlier in the day and drained from their passionate lovemaking until then, the two of them succumbed to their need for sleep.
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Only Onoki, who was high above everyone's heads, could see what the fox was doing, and his eyes became wide in disbelief when he saw the tailed beast starting to form shinobi hand seals. He had never heard of any tailed beast casting shinobi techniques until then! His shock only grew bigger when he recognized the sequence of hand seals that Kyuubi performed.
Done making all the necessary hand seals, the bijuu's demonic voice reverberated in the night as he placed his clawed hands onto the ground:
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
A large plume of smoke obscured Onoki's sight for a few moments, but when the smoke faded away, the old man gaped at the sight in front of his eyes. Due to the large distance and the darkness of the night, Onoki thought he was seeing things at first: a man and a woman, both as naked as the day they were born appeared after Kyuubi's summoning technique.
The sudden summoning and the rough landing on the hard ground startled the sleeping Naruto and Konan awake.
At first, the two of them checked their surroundings with bleary eyes, too confused by the sudden development to make sense of what was going on. But when he saw the enormous fox standing behind them, it finally dawned on him.
"Goddamnit, Kurama, what's the meaning of this?!" he shouted as he instinctively got in front of Konan to protect her modesty.
Exhausted from their activities that day, Naruto and Konan had fallen asleep in each other's arms, naked. The timing of Kyuubi's summoning wasn't the best, to say the least.
However, before Kyuubi could reply, Konan said:
"Naruto, we're in danger. I sense over 100 chakra signatures around us. Two of those are even comparable in size to mine."
"What's going on?" Naruto asked in a subdued voice this time around.
Konan was a skilled sensory-type kunoichi, so she couldn't have been mistaken about the number of people around them. Furthermore, the fact that two of those chakra signatures were comparable to hers meant that their strength was probably similar to that of a Kage or an S-ranked nin.
"The Tsuchikage brought over a hundred shinobi to capture me. They came well prepared, and I'm not at my full strength, as you know all too well. They almost had me."
While Kurama was explaining to them the situation, a large number of paper tags started coming out of Konan's arms, covering her body and transforming into a black cloak with red clouds on it. Konan's paper also covered Naruto's body as she created some makeshift clothes for him.
"They aren't permanent clothes, but they should hold long enough for us to deal with this mess."
"Thank you," he said, relieved at not being naked anymore.
As he took a second glance at their surroundings, he realized that they weren't in a canyon or a valley but that the walls around them were created by ninjas.
At that moment, the words Konan told him earlier that day came to the forefront of his mind.
"If you set them free now, how long until the other Hidden Villages will send entire squads of elite shinobi to capture them again? The Bijuu are so strong that they can change the balance of power between the Hidden Villages. None of the Hidden Villages is going to pass on the opportunity to capture a tailed beast for the sake of making another jinchuuriki, especially now, after they all lost their weapons."
And just as she had predicted, Iwagakure had already launched a campaign to capture Kyuubi.
'Over a hundred shinobi and a Kage too… this might turn out to be troublesome,' he thought. The fact that they managed to drive someone like the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox into a corner further cemented that idea.
While Naruto was pondering on their next course of action, the Iwa nins started demolishing the mud walls that they had created. They wanted to see what was going on.
"Who are you, people?" Onoki was the first to break the silence as he flew closer to them. It was close enough to make his voice heard but also far enough for him to have time to avoid any unexpected attacks.
The young man's appearance was vaguely familiar for some reason, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. However, the way that his steely purple eyes glinted in the moonlight sent a chill down his spine.
"I am Konan, the Leader of Amegakure. What's the meaning of this, Tsuchikage? Shall I take your actions as a declaration of war?"
Taking a better look at the blue-haired woman and noticing the red clouds on her black cloak, he recognized her identity.
"I know you… You're Konan, the Angel of Akatsuki."
As someone who had had various dealings with the Akatsuki over the years, although Konan had rarely been active outside of Amegakure in the past, he did have some information related to her.
"Akatsuki is no more. Konoha and Ame killed the rest of them and captured Uchiha Sasuke earlier today."
Onoki narrowed his eyes at the new information.
'The Akatsuki were killed off just like that?'
He was having a hard time believing it. The Akatsuki had been powerful and dangerous enough to even prompt the Five Great Nations to organize an unprecedented Kage Summit for the sake of dealing with them.
"Leader of Amegakure or not, you best be on your way, little girl," Onoki said, making a gesture with his hand as if he were shooing away a dog. "The Kyuubi is ours now. I don't wish to start a needless war, but if you're going to get in my way, then you will have war. Iwagakure no Sato is not afraid of any village, much less a minor nation like the Hidden Rain."
Seeing the disrespectful manner in which the Tsuchikage was talking down to Konan, a wave of anger washed over Naruto. With no warning whatsoever, he pointed his palm at the flying kage and swung it down.
A terrible force suddenly pushed onto Onoki from above, and the old man was smashed violently onto the ground, making a small crater with his body where he landed.
"Tsuchikage-sama!" the Iwa nins on the sidelines cried out in shock at seeing their kage unexpectedly get slammed down like that.
Some of the more impulsive ones even started going through handseals to cast their ninjutsu, but Kitsuchi, the second Iwa nin in command after the Tsuchikage, suddenly raised his right arm and shouted:
"Everyone, stay your hand! Nobody move!"
Ignoring the agitated Iwagakure shinobi's actions, Naruto spoke to the old man who was now picking himself up from the ground with difficulty while holding his spine with his hands.
"Lady Konan is the leader of a country too. Watch your mouth when you speak to her, you shitty old man."
Turning to look at the army of shinobi surrounding them from all sides, he said, his voice amplified by chakra:
"I won't let you capture the Kyuubi. I don't want to shed blood if possible. But if you don't retreat now, I will kill every single one of you, down to the last member. And I will start with your Tsuchikage."
Most of the Iwa nins started snickering and saying words of ridicule in response, but the Tsuchikage had a cautious look on his face. He didn't understand what kind of ninjutsu the blonde young man had used against him.
Shinobi generally lived short lives, and many of them never even got to experience the joys of retirement. However, Onoki was already 80 years old - the Tsuchikage had not lived such a long life by being reckless. He was a cautious and calculative person.
However, at this moment, it was as if he was caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, he was wary of the young man's powers, and his eyes looked like they were a Doujutsu of sorts.
But on the other hand, if he retreated with his tail between his legs because of the words of just one enemy while he had over 100 elite shinobi on his side, he would become a laughing stock. It would be a mockery of Iwagakure's Will of Stone, and he would lose all the respect of his subordinates too.
In spite of his instincts warning him of the danger lying ahead, Onoki couldn't afford to back down at that moment.
"There are over a hundred of us, and I'm the Tsuchikage! When I was roaming the battlefield, even your parents weren't born yet! Did you really believe I'd back down from your threats? A snot-nosed kid like you ought to be put in their place."
"So you have chosen death."
"Arrogant brat!" Onoki shouted, infuriated. "Let me show you a power you'll never see again in your lifetime!"
As a white cube of light appeared between his hands, the Tsuchikage yelled:
"Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!"
The Iwa shinobi and kunoichi on the sidelines were about to break into cheers at witnessing their kage reduce yet another enemy to atoms, but their cheers died in their throats when the Onoki's supposedly unstoppable and unblockable jutsu transformed into a harmless ray of white light and got absorbed into Naruto's hand.
"Impossible!" the old kage said in disbelief.
It was the first time he had ever met someone who faced off against his Particle Style head-on without dying.
"I told you that you would die for it," Naruto said coldly. "Bansho Ten'in!"
"What is this jutsu?!" Onoki was startled as he found himself getting pulled without being able to stop it.
Normally, with his flight capabilities, it should've been impossible for anyone to manhandle him like that.
"Doton: Weighted Boulder Jutsu!"
As Onoki cast that earth technique, his weight increased more than tenfold, but, to his disbelief, the pulling force didn't decrease in the least!
"Tsuchikage-sama!" Kitsuchi shouted as he slapped his hands on the ground, and a thick mud wall suddenly sprouted from the ground in front of Onoki.
The old man smashed into the mud wall painfully, but at least he was saved before the enemy could get his hands on him.
"Kurama, I need you to get back in the seal for a moment. Konan, you need to fly a good distance away. I'm going to raze everything off the surface of the earth."
Under the Iwa nin's disbelieving eyes, the titanic bijuu seemed to liquefy, transforming into a stream of crimson-red chakra that burrowed itself into Naruto's body.
"Everyone, Rock Boulders. Attack at will!" Kitsuchi ordered, and his comrades immediately obeyed his orders.
As the hundred-plus shinobi cast their ninjutsu, it looked as if it started to rain with meteorites. Over a hundred human-sized boulders made loud whooshing sounds when they were launched through the air at Naruto.
Nevertheless, there was no sign of distress on his face.
Four unnatural arms grew out of his torso, and two other heads came out from the back of his neck.
At that moment, he looked like a monstrous demon. He looked like an Asura.
With three heads offering him a 360-degree vision, Naruto extended his six arms in a circle around him before shouting:
"SHINRA TENSEI!"