Chapter 31
Last time-
"Okay. So explain it to me. I don’t like this. I don’t like us arguing especially over something as stupid as a guy I met years ago."
He looked at her and if possible the pain in his eyes intensified and she didn’t like it. She never wanted to cause her comrades pain like this, especially Shisui or Iruka.
They were practically family to her.
He pointed a finger at her and growled out as he stalked over to her, “You are so frustrating.”
Next, he did something Naruto didn’t think him capable of- he kissed her.
Her eyes were wide and her breathing stopped, even when he released her lips. His eyes were soft as he raised a hand to stroke the side of her face, “I’m angry because I hate the guy. I can take your past sex life and I would have taken your future one till you mentioned him. I’ve never been as jealous of anyone as I am with him.”
Naruto was having issues controlling her heartbeat as it raced, her face flushing pink as she stammered out, “You… I… kiss… what?”
Shisui chuckled at her, his own cheeks pink, “I kissed you… because I love you. And I’m going to do it again.”
Not one to go back on his word, Shisui leaned down and moulded his lips to hers again and this time she closed her eyes. She raised her hands into his hair as his went to her lower back and the other to her neck, holding her to him.
She felt him smile against her lips and she finally realised what that annoying and irrational feeling was- she was in love with Shisui. Just as he said he was with her.
There was a tightening in her stomach she had never felt before as his hands wondered and locked her in place, “I don’t intend on… letting you go... Naruto.” He said between kisses and she felt herself smile as well.
“Then don’t.” she murmured and felt herself being pushed onto her kitchen counter.
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For the next few days, despite not seeing Shisui for long due to his work load and her own, Naruto was on cloud nine. She didn’t act like a love stuck fangirl. No, she had class. Instead she was cheery about everything- even torturing that little spy from the medical corps but that was beside the point.
Her bliss of finding someone she finally loved (whilst at age 31 mind you) was eclipsed when she sensed someone and had to confront someone else.
Orochimaru was sitting harmlessly in Jiriaya’s living room, thankfully fully dressed this time, but again that was beside the point.
She glared at the man as she refrained from punching him, “You took Yamato?!” she yelled in fury but somehow managed to make sure she wasn’t loud enough for the nosy neighbours to hear.
Orochimaru raised a hand to stop her from going on, “I took him, yes. Konoha needs a Mokuton user who isn’t hiding in the shadows for their own safety. I’ve not done experiments on hundreds since I knew who was compatible already. I ensure the formula was perfect before I injected the cells into the boy and everything is going nicely. He has come to no harm and when the time is right, I will allow him to go back to his clan if that is what he wishes.
“In the meantime, he is learning to use the wood style which is going on quite nicely. You may condemn me Naruto, but at least I have not killed innocent children for this.”
Naruto grudgingly grunted in acknowledgement and agreement. He hadn’t experimented on innocent children who had ultimately died. He knew who he needed and had a good reason behind it.
Still.
“Next time, say something. I’m not so stubborn that I won’t hear you out.” She grumbled and crossed her arms under her chest before leaving to go and get Shisui and the others something to eat.
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After much debate, Naruto decided to not be suspicious and got something for five people, Minato, Shisui and the three other ANBU in guard within the office. Nothing fancy, she bought four rice and curry bentos with dango and she brought the lunch she had made with more dango she had bought.
Perfect. No one would suspect a thing.
She made it to the front door of Minato’s office when a brown haired kunoichi wearing glasses stopped her. “I’m afraid no one is allowed in. Lord Fourth’s orders.” The kunoichi gave Naruto a smug look as she gave the blonde a once over.
Naruto in turn gave the kunoichi and noticed she must have a crush on her brother/father. She still wasn’t sure what he was at the moment.
Naruto looked to the door and noticed Minato’s ANBU were all outside the door meaning there was an important meeting going on inside. She listened in to what was going on in the office and turned red in the face.
“Sorry, didn’t realise aniue was having quality grown up time with his wife.” She heard the ANBU snicker as the kunoichi flushed a deep red. Naruto went into the bag and handed each of the ANBU there food, her hand lingering on Shisui’s for a moment before she looked at their captain, “Inu, this is for my brother. I’ll send a clone to bring more food since he and sensei are gonna need it.”
Whilst she didn’t want to think of her brother/father and sensei/mother doing the do she did want to knock the little kunoichi fangirl down a peg. No one told Naruto when she could or couldn’t see her brother other than her brother. And Kushina but once again that was beside the point.
She sat on the desk and waited patiently, making small talk with the ANBU guards and when the secretary said they were being improper as ANBU were meant to be silent- she silenced her by stating she was above their ranks within the ANBU had they had no choice but to answer to her whims.
The shade of red she became was hilarious and Naruto would have laughed if she hadn’t been trying her hardest to keep a straight face and piss the lady off.
Naruto didn’t get where Minato got these awful secretaries from and she also didn’t get how Kushina could stand them. If she saw someone who was around Shisui all the time fawn over him she might just have to yandere.
‘Hmm… maybe I should warn Shisui about that?’
‘Definitely. Otherwise it can come off as a surprise. Not one the Uchiha would look forward to.’
‘I don’t know.’ she mused. ‘I knew a few people and still do, that had a thing for the yandere type. Kinda comes with the territory of being hired killers I guess.’ She mentally shrugged. She personally didn’t see the appeal but at the same time she did.
Shodai, she really did need a psyche evaluation doing on her.
Thankfully Naruto didn’t have to wait very long for the ANBU to change shifts, Shisui and Neko changing with two others she didn’t recognise. She’d ask Shisui about them later.
Shisui was about to leave with Naruto when Kakashi speak, “I don’t wish to speak out of turn, Commander, however there’s a hickey on your neck you may wish to cover up.”
Immediately, Naruto’s hand went to the spot on her right neck, an inch and a half away from her ear where she recalled Shisui paying a lot of attention to the other night.
“Oh, on the other side.” Immediately she went to cover the entirety of the right side of her neck, not sure where the hickey might be.
She glared at Kakashi and those who were chuckling and gave Kakashi a look that said, ‘You are so lucky the secretary isn’t there or you’d be dead.’
She didn’t get a chance to speak her retort as Shisui took her hand and shunshined a few times to… his house?
She quirked a brow at him, “Your place?” it was odd for Shisui to invite her over to his house considering the shaky relationship he was having with his father lately.
He didn’t immediately reply, instead taking a seat on his sofa and let out a heavy sigh from behind his mask, “My dad’s out the village on some mission. Won’t be back for a few day.”
Her eyes softened as she moved to stand behind him, untying his mask and giving his shoulders a massage, “You should take it easy. You’re gonna burn out one of these day ‘tebayo.” She murmured.
He looked up at her with droopy, tiered eyes, “I needed to ask you something.” She furrowed her brows and nodded for him to continue, “Did you and lord fourth come up with the agreement for the Uchiha together?” again, she nodded her head so he carried on, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
At this she sighed but didn’t stop her assault on his shoulder’s making sure he’d relax, “You have so much on your plate as it is I didn’t want to burden you with having to listen to me go on and on with different ideas for the Uchiha’s integrations. I’m no idiot, Shisui. I know my other method didn’t work and I don’t even know if this will work but quite honestly… it’s my last best. I’ve got nothing after this.” She shrugged her shoulders and gave him a kiss on the head.
He looked up at her with hopeful eyes that her heart clenched. Shed personally massacre the uchiha elders if they carried on putting burden on Shisui.
Screw what the council thought, they had their chance once, she wasn’t about to let them be the cause of the whole of the Uchiha to be murdered.
Kurama hit her over the head with a tail and she realised she was going in circles within her head.
She looked down at Shisui again and noted he had fallen asleep and she sighed, looking around the house for any spare blankets she could cover him with. After all it was a snowy winter after-all.
Once she had covered him she sat at the foot of the sofa on the floor, removing her haori and undershirt leaving her with her mesh vest on as she took out her fuinjutsu set and bottle of her blood.
She took out the scroll which had the seals she had been recently working on and went to work placing them on herself. She finished doing three when the front door opened and in came Kagami Uchiha- the second, not the first one.
His eyes widened a fraction before he lowered his head in a small bow, "Lady Namikaze. What brings you to my home?"
He entered the living room and finally caught sight of Shisui sleeping on the sofa and Naruto's half-dressed state and cleared his throat, "I'll let you get dressed." he said as he averted his gaze and Naruto couldn't help but roll her eyes.
No body but Captain Yamato had had ever been flustered about her lack of modesty and he had only had to see her like that when she had been training her wind technique.
Deciding it was best to be at least mostly covered in front of her boyfriend's dad she put on her haori, open, so she could still place her seals on.
"I was killing time earlier so I dropped off some food to Minato and the others, Shisui was on guard at the time so he's already eaten." she replied when she noticed he had gone to the kitchen.
He turned around and gave her a small, barely there smile in thanks and went back to preparing himself some food and tea for the both of them. Once he had set the tea at the table she thanked him and took a sip of the scalding drink, uncaring for its temperature.
"Naruto..." began Kagami and she looked up at him, a smile on her face, "Lately Shisui's been distant, has he said anything to you?"
Naruto's smile never faded and replied, "Nothing. Well, other than being a bit tiered from UPF work, ANBU work and his work with me and the Guard Platoon." she shrugged her shoulders and mentally smiled wider when she realized he didn't suspect anything to be wrong.
Before all this drama that had been occurring since her return, she had like Kagami quite well. He was well mannered, wasn’t a stick in the mud and allowed his son to do as he liked as long as he was okay. Those were qualities Naruto liked in a person.
She didn’t like how he was a part of the reason Shisui was so torn, that he was one of the elders within the clan pushing for more rights within the village. Granted, the Uchiha’s deserve more rights as a part of the village but there were better ways to go about it.
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The next day.
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Kakashi glared a hole into the back of the doctor’s head. Rin was out of the village and Lady Tsunade was busy running the hospital but somehow- Obito went missing.
He had argued with the nurses, secretary and several doctors over the fact his old teammate was a cripple with barely any use of his legs at the present time and they should not have lost him so easily.
Once the doctor was out of sight he summoned the pack, ordering each of them to search for the Uchiha as he went to look for Naruto. She’d have much better luck finding his friend than even his pack.
The problem was he couldn’t find her. She wasn’t at Ichiraku, the library, the hokage office, T&I, her apartment- even Lord Jiraiya’s home and he found nothing! He was tempted to go to the Forest of Death till he overheard some female Uchiha’s talking about Naruto in the Uchiha district.
Not even thinking it over, he made his way over to the Uchiha district and first went to the UPF, nothing. So he went to the main house upon the estate however the matriarch and her daughter said they hadn’t seen the girl since the previous day. The last place he search was Shisui’s house.
He rapped on the door and when no one answered within the first ten seconds he barged in, not really caring for the rudeness of the situation as he was in a hurry.
He’d wasted enough time looking for the girl.
He wasn’t ill mannered enough at the moment to leave his shoes on though so as soon as he removed them he made his presence known and began calling out for the girl and young Uchiha teammate of his.
Not even a moment later, a dishevelled Naruto came out of the bathroom, wet, and in nothing but a towel as she looked at him as if he had lost his mind.
“Kakashi? What the hell?!” she asked as he took a hold of her upper arm.
“Obito’s gone missing. The hospital doesn’t know where he is and I can’t find him myself. I need you to sense for him.” He wasn’t yelling however he was frantic.
It was most likely due to this tone he had been using that Shisui emerged from his bedroom in just his trousers and ruffled hair as he removed the vestiges of sleep. He stepped in front of Naruto and spoke calmly, “How about you let her get dressed and then she can help, Kakashi.” It wasn’t a question, nor a suggestion. It was an order to Kakashi and not to Naruto.
Naruto in turn placed a hand on Shisui’s shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze before heading back into the bathroom to finished getting ready as Shisui took Kakashi into the living room to stay comfy.
The dark haired boy left the room and return fully dressed and decided to leave out the pleasantries, “How long has he been missing?” he asked, sitting on the opposite side of the table.
Kakashi raked a hand through his hair, “I’m not sure. I didn’t get a chance to visit him yesterday so I don’t know if he was there yesterday or not.”
Shisui furrowed his brows, “Wouldn’t the hospital have noticed if he was missing for that long?”
Kakashi let out an uncharacteristic snort behind his mask, “They don’t even bother anymore. They just leave him his food, water and medication. He doesn’t like it when others tend to him. Sometimes they just leave it outside his door and they won’t care if he takes it or not.”
“Why doesn’t lord fourth do something about it?”
Kakashi let out a sigh as he leaned back, looking towards to the bathroom where Naruto was still getting dressed, “There’s nothing he can do. Whenever someone other than Rin attempts to treat him they get injured. Apparently it has to do with his sharingan and a multitude of jutsu. He even attacked them with a plastic cup once.”
They both turned back to the hallway when Naruto emerged, her long blonde hair flowing in a ponytail but still damp slightly as she wore standard black shinobi slacks with bandages tied at her ankles and her kunai pouch tied to her right thigh. Today she chose to wear her flak jacket but in black over her mesh shirt.
Shisui stood up and went over to her, whispering something into her ear that Kakashi was smart enough to not listen in to. He had seen the two interact before and he knew they were close, but he wasn’t too sure if they were simply friends or friends with benefits that didn’t mention that detail to others.
He knew that if they were together they would have announced it already, both shinobi were too possessive to not do so. Mostly Shisui but that wasn’t an issue at the current time.
Naruto went to sit on the table with crossed legs and her fingers folded against each other as she focused and did whatever it was she did to sense people and he wasn’t reassured by her expressions. They varied from pain to confusion to intense focus- no not a single expression was easing his worries.
She shouldn’t have that much issue if he was in Hi no Kuni.
Finally she opened her eyes at they weren’t the usual cerulean blue but red with a slit going through them- nine tails.
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