Chapter 18
Naruto wanted to know what she did to deserve the punishment she was being given, because as she went through her brain she couldn't recall a single thing she had done to deserve this.
"Come on Naruto… it's not gonna be that bad." Spoke Iruka and Naruto withheld a snarky comeback, he was just trying to be supportive.
"Not bad? Hehe, did you hear that guys, he said it's not gonna be that bad, which one of you would disagree with me?" she muttered under her breath making sure no one would hear the conversation she was currently having with her other personalities. And once again they ignored her so she looked up to Kushina for support.
"No Naruto. You and I already have a very good immunity to poisons but your teammates don't, so you will have to be there for them as they go through with this." She replied sternly, thinking only for the best in the long run and Naruto could respect that.
"But why, by the almighty sage, would you choose him?" she asked petulantly. Of all the people her mother could have chosen she had to go and choose him.
"Lord Orochimaru was the only qualified person to see this through safely during this period." The red head replied with a blank face.
"Safely is not the word I'd use for a person who uses innocent people as test subjects!" she screeched.
Shisui covered her mouth with a chakra infused hand so Naruto wouldn't be able to do anything with it to silence the girl. He gave a bow to the sennin and spoke, "We thank you for your kindness, Lord Orochimaru, and we put ourselves in your care."
"Imm nmm hummm ym inn hmm har" she spoke, muffled, although Shisui mostly got the gist of it. (I'm not putting you in his care)
"It doesn't matter what you're doing but what we're doing. It's me and Iruka who have to do this, not you." He paused and ignored the glare she gave him, "If I let go of your mouth, do you promise to behave."
If possible her glare intensified and for good measure she made sure to change them to Kurama's eyes, yet it did nothing. Coating her body with a very fine layer of chakra she wiggled slightly and felt him flinch.
He leaned next to her ear and hissed, "You know I'm ticklish, so quit it. You can watch him and if he does something wrong you can throw a senbon at him. How about that?"
She gave it some thought and nodded her head, sighing when he let go of her mouth, making sure to give the sennin the full brute of her glare.
She withheld her instinct to take a step back and rasengan him when she saw his yellow eyes glow. "What a fasssscinating eye colour. But what causes them to be like that? Toads do not have slits in their eyes."
Naruto froze as her blood ran cold, fighting off the images of several people in her past saying those exact words, the things they would do after and what never happened to them, no matter how much evidence was against them.
Without her knowledge her teeth grew longer and her nails turned into claws as Kurama's rage mixed with her own. She tried to suppress it, getting angry and hateful would achieve nothing however the nine bijuu talking in her head disagreed, their anger feeding her own and making it hard to breathe.
She looked up and saw Shisui standing in front of her, sharingan eyes spinning and she feel herself calming down, her anger cooling as she began to breathe normally. "Calm down, that's it. Take deep breaths Naru." Following Shisui's instructions, following the spinning sharingan like a lifeline she calmed down fully.
'I never thought I'd say this, but praise the shodai for the power the sharingan has over me.' kurama grunted in reply, begrudgingly agreeing with her as he hit all of his siblings with his tails.
"Thanks." She whispered, a tight smile on her face and she felt arms over her shoulders, peeking over she saw it was Kakashi and her eyes widened. "Obito isn't here is he?"
He raised a brow and shook his head, Naruto and Shisui both released sighs of relief. "Am I missing something?"
Shisui gave him an innocent smile and Naruto replied quietly, "We'll explain later just don't tell anyone what you saw here, 'kay?" he looked down and saw her giving him the puppy-dog look and he couldn't refuse her.
"Naruto… what was that?" asked Kushina who looked shocked and she could sense fear as well. No doubt she had seen the features on Naruto and compared them to the features of a demon.
Naruto tried to think up and excuse she could use whilst Orochimaru was here and said, "I have uh… a fox contract and sometimes when I'm angry I take on fox features." She hoped they would drop it at that but the damn hebi wouldn't let it go.
"I would love to meet one of these fox summons. I have never heard of them before." His eyes showed that he didn't believe a word she was saying and she could feel everyone's eyes on her as she bit her lip.
She opened the seal on her covered right hand and bit her thumb for effect to 'summon' Kurama out of her seal with hopefully only one tail.
A loud noise and a large puff of smoke ensued the bijuu had time to cast a genjutsu on his tails as he sat down next to Naruto, head rubbing her leg till she picked him up. "This is my summons, Kurama. As you can see, he is a fox."
'Please believe me, please believe me.' Naruto hadn't begged in years yet she would now just so they would drop the conversation and Kushina would hopefully not notice that the fox looked exactly like the nine tails sealed inside her minus the fact this one only had one tail.
"Kukuku, very interesting." If at all possible his eyes gleamed like gold and this time she took a step behind Kakashi who took a protective stance in front of her. The hebi followed both of their actions and cast a glance to Shisui, "Very interesting indeed. I look forward to getting to know all of you on team Kushina."
Naruto withheld a shiver when his tongue licked his lips, Kurama growling at the man before he jumped on him, "You will do nothing to her or you shall face my wrath." Orochimaru didn't seem to buy it and Kurama's smile was feral, "I am usually a lot bigger than this, hebi, and I can- if I so please- devour you whole." Naruto shook her head at his antics.
"Kurama. Enough." He looked back at her and went over, jumping on her shoulder before laying down over shoulders like a damn scarf. It was very welcomed in this cold and she silently thankful.
'I should let you out of the seal more often. At least then the others might not come in my head so often.'
'Now that is an idea.' He thought back as he closed his eyes, going to sleep as usual.
From there the conversation had thankfully been interrupted by the sudden arrival of Minato, stating everyone would have to stay in the mountain cave for a week before they were allowed out of the village and when asked why he simply replied it was an order from the sandaime.
Team Minato and Team Kushina sat together in a quiet area however Naruto, Shisui and Kakashi were further away from the others. "Okay… what really was with that earlier Naruto?" asked Kakashi and he looked to Shisui as well for good measure.
She looked over her shoulder and slammed her hand to the ground placing a small barrier around them to make sure no one listened in on their conversation.
"Swear you won't tell anyone?" asked Naruto although she already knew he wouldn't breathe a word to a soul, lest it be the sandaime then he might.
Kakashi gave her a bland look and nodded. She sighed and looked to Shisui, "Well… you know how I have a bijuu inside me right?" when they both nodded she continued, "Right I- I haven't told anyone but ero-tou-san about which bijuu I have and it's… Kakashi you may not believe me but I hold the nine tails." She waited for that to sink in and just when she was going to continue, Kakashi began to talk.
"That- that can't be." He looked in the general direction where Kushina was and she nodded in understanding.
"I get where you're coming from and it's… part of kyuubi is inside me and the other inside Kushina-sensei. The seal I have is stronger though so the chakra inside her is slowly flowing into me. And that pisses me off because it's messing up my chakra system." She grumbled the last sentence and Shisui spoke up.
"What about what happened over there? You looked so angry…"
She sighed, explaining this was going to be hard, "It was what he said, it triggered something inside and I got angry. My anger was further fed by kyuubi making me even angrier. The only reason I calmed down that quick was because Shisui used his sharingan."
Kakashi's head whipped over to the Uchiha in question faster than any hiraishin, "I saw your sharingan. How long have you had it?" his voice sounded bored and his composure wasn't much different however the two knew differently.
"Since the incident with the Kumo ninjas that attacked us. I-I'm not sure how I got it but all I know is… I was fighting then I saw Ebisu and Naruto severely injured and suddenly I can see a lot clearer…" he shrugged his shoulders and she realised that seeing them like that must have been really bad for him if it managed to activate his sharingan. The fact that it wasn't one person but two must have made it more emotional activating the sharingan with three tomoe in each eye.
That or Shisui no Shunshin was just that awesome.
Kakashi nodded along with Naruto and they could both see a small gleam in his eyes, "So… you've got your sharingan and Obito doesn't. and by the sound of it, he doesn't know you have it or we wouldn't be able to talk in peace right now… how do you intend to break the news to him exactly?" he wanted to know because he wasn't to see the look on Obito's face when he realised that his adorable baby cousin had activated his sharingan before him. The same cousin who seemed bored over the topic of his kekkei-genkai.
Shisui's eyes began to glow as an evil smirk appeared on his face, "I'm going to challenge him to a spar and show him during the match that I have the sharingan."
Naruto giggled and added, "I can't go into detail but this kekkei-genkai has stages and Shisui despite having just gotten it has achieved all the primary stages. The other stages have only been known to have achieved by Madara Uchiha himself." She silently correctly herself. Shisui had the mangekyo, Itachi had the mangekyo, Obito did, Kakashi sensei did and so had Sasuke.
Shisui looked to Naruto confused, "You said the sharingan calmed you down. How?" Naruto was interested to know why he didn't seem to be questioning how she knew so much about his kekkei-genkai.
She gave him a sheepish grin and scratched the back of her neck, "Well uh I don't make a habit of telling people this and if anyone finds out…" she leaned closer, Kurama who was around still around her neck glared, "I will skin you alive and let him eat your remains." He growled for good measure and they both nodded in understanding fear, "I'm highly susceptible to the sharingan because the nine tails can be controlled by it. Because of that, I tend to be wary about it but I don't mind you using it on me Shisui. But abuse that power and he will kill you." She pointed to the feral looked kyuubi on her shoulders who had released the genjutsu and both of their eyes widened.
"So- you don't have a fox summon? Instead you summoned the nine tails out of your seal?" asked a flabbergast Kakashi and once she again she nodded in understanding.
"I had to do something to get the hebi off my case." She replied as if her actions would be justified, which according to the shaking heads of Kakashi and Shisui, it wasn't.
"I still can't get over how you have part of the nine tails inside of you." Replied Shisui as he shook his head slightly. Naruto knew what he was really trying to say was that she held the nine tails whilst everyone seemed to believe she held the eight tails.
She smiled a wry smile at the two of them and lowered the barrier seal around them and took out a scroll, her eyes glinting as she looked at them. Leaning in closer she whispered to them, "I was in aniki's room the other day back in Konoha and found this lovely little scroll. This will teach him to leave fuinjutsu lying around."
She opened the scroll and Kakashi raised a humoured brow, "Why would he leave that lying around?"
She looked up and shrugged, "Because he wants me to take it or he doesn't care?"
"What is it?" asked Shisui.
They both looked at him and replied simultaneously, "Hiraishin."
Shisui's eyes began to twinkle and he leaned forwards, sharingan eyes spinning as he tried to memorise everything in front of him. Naruto raised her hand and hit him behind the head, "No cheating. We're going to learn this the old fashioned way, I don't want to see any of your funny business." She squinted her eyes and made sure he would do as she said and he did.
Obito came over to them a moment later draped across Kakashi's shoulder. Of course the Hatake threw him off abruptly and scooted closer to Naruto and gestured for Shisui to sit on his other side, forcing Obito and Rin to sit next to each other.
"What the hell was that for Bakashi?!" Kakashi and Naruto sighed through exasperation.
"You know, Obito, that isn't his name and your bad habits are rubbing onto Iruka." Spoke a very calm Kushina however she wasn't calm when she saw what Naruto and the boys were studying, "Where did you get this from?!" she reached out to take it however Naruto was slightly faster as she was closer to it and quickly hid it on one of her pockets, jumping onto Kakashi in order to keep her from grabbing it.
"Naruto. You can't go taking things like that." Kushina stated with crossed arms as she looked to her boyfriend's little sister.
Naruto crossed her arms as well, "Well if he didn't want me to take it, he shouldn't have left it lying around."
"Who shouldn't leave what lying around?" asked Minato who came up from behind Kushina and leaned to give her a kiss however she looked the other way.
"Naruto has your scroll on the hiraishin seal." she tattled and Naruto glared at her.
Minato looked between Naruto and Kushina before shrugging his shoulders, "As long as she doesn't decide to hiraishin to Iwa or Kumo it shouldn't be a problem." Naruto refrained from hugging Minato because she knew that if she did, Kushina was ready to take it from her.
"Oh so you're fine with your sister learning the hiraishin but not me?" she quirked a brow and Minato simply smiled at her.
"She managed to take it from my room, you didn't." he shrugged and Naruto got up and took the two boys with her before Minato changed his mind.
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"Um Naruto are you sure I should be learning this with you?" asked a very nervous Genma and Naruto couldn't help but grin at him.
"You'll be fine Genma. If Raido was here with us, I'd teach him as well." She nodded earnestly and handed him a pen as they all began to make notes. "Okay so this layer is centring on chakra absorption but what does this one do?" she asked them but she already knew what it did.
Kakashi leaned forward and pointed to it, "This is the point that correlates to time. Depending on how much chakra you put into this point you can either go to the seal point immediately or in a shortly delayed time, but that isn't advised as I saw Minato sensei do that once and he came back highly disoriented."
"For this point here, it covers space so you have to make sure you put enough chakra into here as well otherwise you won't be going where the seal is, you'll be staying where you are or to a different seal location." Added Shisui and she couldn't help but smile. A year and a half of teaching the boys fuinjutsu had its perks.
"Of course, the further away the seal is you intend to hiraishin to, the more chakra you'll have to use." She finished and looked to Genma who was rushing his notes, "Did you get all that information Genma?"
He didn't answer immediately and all eyes fell onto him. When he finished writing his notes he looked up at them, "Yeah, sorry about taking too long to write them though."
They all raised their hands and Shisui spoke, "No, take as long as you need to. Fuinjutsu isn't easy and if there's something you don't get, feel free to ask us."
"And make sure you can read your notes as well I remember this one time she was going so fast explaining something I had to go and wake her up in order to tell me what the hell I wrote." Replied Kakashi and Genma looked at him as if he grew a second head.
"You woke her up at Minato-sensei's home?"
He shook his head, "I was on the sofa in my apartment so she was sleeping in my bed." He shivered at the memory, "Word to the wise guys, never wake her up before the sun is up for anything other than a mission otherwise." He faded off once again however Shisui finished it for him having experienced the same thing.
"There's this old saying, 'Hell hath no fury like an Uzumaki woman scorned.' And Naruto has Uzumaki blood in her veins."
"Hey! I'm sitting right here dattebayo!" yelled the indignant blonde and all the boys looked at her each sporting sheepish grins, well, all of them besides Kakashi who looked like he didn't give a damn.
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A/N I'm going to have to say the below in italics is not something some readers would like to read as it includes mention of rape and sexual activities and sexual organs. I have tried to work around it so it wasn't obvious but I'm still warning you- read at your own digression. It's safe to read from where the italics end.
"Whilst it is a pleasure to be of use to use, Rokudaime-sama, I am confused why you would come to me over your comrades." Spoke the snake sennin across the youngest kage.
She showed no outward emotion, a skill she had developed over the years, as she replied, "I didn't wish to involve Tsunade obaa-san nor Sakura-chan with this."
He raised a black brow to her, "Meaning you did not wish for them to see you like this? Or because you didn't wish for them to find out this was even a problem?" when she gave no answer he looked to her ANBU guard, Sasuke, before looking back to her, a smirk on his face. "You did not wish to tell them because you do not wish them to know about your time as a hunter." Thankfully Orochimaru valued his life and tongue being where they currently were and shut up.
They were silent as he ran the blood test in front of the two of them and within a half hour, he was finished and looked to her. "I need to conduct another test, one outside of blood-works." She raised a brow and he elaborated, "I need to conduct a physical. If you do not wish me to do it, Sasuke can do it. All I need to do is tell him what he needs to look for etcetera." He waved a hand and she nodded reluctantly.
This wasn't the first time someone was going to conduct a physical on her, being a kunoichi meant she had to undergo it several times however during her time with Jiraiya it had stopped and once he died they started up again. However becoming a hunter-nin made the physical more often, as it ascertained to internal failures- usually temporary and sometimes permanent.
This physical however was a lot more… degrading and Naruto would be sure to never think of it again, having Sasuke inspect her like that was downright embarrassing and put her on edge, even if it made her feel a lot better than if the hebi was doing it.
Another half an hour later and the sennin looked towards her, face blank as he read through his notes. It was another five minutes before he looked up at her and she felt her shoulders stiffen from his posture, something was wrong. "Before I tell you your results I would like you to answer a few of my questions."
She nodded her head slowly and mentally smacked herself, she was showing emotion. "Are your periods regular?"
Naruto's face was calm and schooled which was more than what she could say for her masked guard, "Most of the time… no. When I was younger I was told to take contraceptive pills and they messed up my periods. However even now, years later they still aren't regular."
He nodded and wrote somethings down, not looking up at her as he asked his next question, "Have you ever forced your periods to stop?"
She gave it some thought and nodded but did not elaborate. "During intercourse, have you ever felt pain?" He looked up at her and she gave him a clear look that said 'Are you stupid?' "Please answer the question, hokage-sama."
She grit her teeth, she didn't want to answer that in front of Sasuke but he had to hear the answer, "Yes." His head whipped over to her faster than any hiraishin she had ever seen and it startled both of the other summoners in the room.
Orochimaru cleared his throat, drawing in both of their attention, "Was this pain you felt from times during duty or personal times? And please elaborate on the answer."
"Both. Whilst on duty… you know what sort of missions I was given. I was the commander of the hunter corps however I was just another hunter at first and I was given many mission where such things were necessary, there was always pain as they…" she gave a gesture and he nodded so she continued, "And that pain was mostly in my lower abdomen. I also felt after pains from those times as well.
"Whereas personal times was less painful it was still painful, I had been told with Inoichi whilst he was still alive that such things could be expected and may have been phantom pains from my memories."
He raised a hand to stop her, "Were you in a physical relationship with someone personally at the time Inoichi Yamanaka was alive?"
She shook her head, no, "We had simply discussed probabilities at the time. However he did also state that if I did still feel the pain after a while that is should see a doctor which is what I'm doing now."
"You mentioned after pain before. Did you experience any such pains during your personal times?"
She bit her lip and slowly nodded her head, "It wasn't as frequent as when I was on duty but I do still feel after pains but they're not as strong, I had thought it could have been because I was very active, fighting a lot and using a lot of chakra."
He nodded his head and didn't say anything as he counted whatever it is he had on his paper. "One last question, but this is to Sasuke." He turned towards her masked guard and asked, "You've been with other women during your time in Oto, I made sure of it. Would you say it is easier or harder to get hokage-sama wet?"
There was complete silence in the wall and Naruto felt like laughing and yelling indignantly simultaneously however she didn't allow herself to. If Orochimaru was asking this question then it was necessary.
It took Sasuke a few tries but he finally managed to choke out his answer, "It's harder. Whilst she easily gets into the mood and wants to… I find it difficult sometimes to make her…" he gestured and Orochimaru raised a hand in understanding before turning to write something down.
The clock on the wall ticked as the seconds went by and Naruto could feel her patience ebbing away slowly until finally he turned around and faced her, "Whilst there was nothing wrong in your blood, the physical we had Sasuke do on you, and your answers make it clear that you have physical trauma to your uterus, Bartholin glands as well as your vagina. Tell me hokage-sama, when you were younger were you ever raped with a sharp object? If so please elaborate."
She sucked in her breath before releasing a heavy sigh, eyes clenched shut, "When I was younger, well you're well aware that the villagers hated me. It happened a total of three times before Itachi was assigned as my ANBU detail and put an end to it, but it happened with a rod which had a few small shards of broken glass on it, each one was laced with a poison which I don't remember the name of."
He nodded and gave the rokudaime a sad look which made her blood freeze, from her head to her toes, all she could feel was numbness as he spoke, "My condolences, lady hokage, you are physically unable to have children due to the trauma of your body. However since there is no problem within your blood you will still have IVF using a surrogate as an option-"
She couldn't hear the rest of his sentence. Everything stopped and all she could hear was that annoying, incessant, ringing in her ear. She wanted it to stop. She wanted Orochimaru to stop talking. She wanted to make everything STOP.
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Naruto woke up in a start, body hotter than usual and covered in sweat. She looked around her and saw she was still in the hideout, Shisui and Kakashi using her body as a heater to warm themselves up. Sitting up, she covered her head with her hands as she fought off the memories.
After that appointment with Orochimaru she had collapsed and Sasuke had taken her home. Orochimaru had come the next day and swore he wouldn't say a word and even volunteered to be given a silencing seal on his tongue to keep himself from saying anything to anyone other than the two of them. He had also volunteered to lock her memories away, so she wouldn't have to be constantly worn down by the fact she was barren and at first she had refused him.
However weeks later she hadn't recovered and was getting physically worse, sickness, insomnia and lack of food and water were slowly killing her in the inside and she agreed to have her memories locked from herself since it wasn't something she or her other personalities were capable of doing.
The seal and many other memory seals broke when Kurama had awoken in this timeline however she hadn't been very phased. This body of hers hadn't been forced to deal with any of the physical trauma her other body had so she had schooled herself into believing it didn't matter anymore, even though it pissed her off to no ends. It was in the past- future?
However the resurfacing of this memory reminded her that Orochimaru wasn't completely bad. He was capable of good things as long as he was steered in the right direction. The sennin was powerful and intellectual, begrudgingly more than Naruto and Jiraiya were in many areas and could also be of help in ending this war earlier than she and Jiraiya had anticipated.
It certainly gave her other things to think about.