Meikyū Chōeki no Jutsu

Kakashi walked up and blinked, there was a girl sitting with Naruto.  She looked familiar but he couldn’t place her.  He got closer and then it hit him; it was the new girl on his team, Saki. “So, New hairstyle?” He asked Saki, smiling at her.  The black-haired girl scowled and looked away. “You really think that’ll work?” She growled, “That chat up line was old when I was born.”  Kakashi rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, “Well I suppose you may be right there...”

“Did you get all your chat up lines from Icha Icha?” Saki snapped, “And don’t say ‘What Icha Icha?’... The Orange Demon Book is better known than you think...” The masked ninja blinked, he could already tell this one would be fun.  As for the other, he seemed more laid back.  Then again, that was typical of his father too.  “Still no Sakura huh?  Ah well, no helping it.  Let’s hurry to the front gate.  Our client will be waiting for us.”

Naruto and Saki stood up and followed Kakashi to the gate, finding an old man with a short grey beard waiting for them.  “Oh look, a pair of misfits.” The man grumbled, “What’s up? All the decent teams on vacation?”  Naruto growled and retorted, “Hey! you take that back gramps.”

“Ahem, What he meant to say was that it’s not polite to go round insulting our teams like that, and we could very easily turn down your offer of assistance...” Saki said, slowly and carefully, trying to ignore the fact she was thinking about how long and thick the guy was.  “Hmph I could’ve gotten a better rate from Sunagakure you know.  But that blasted desert is just too much for my old bones.” grumbled the man, hefting his pack.

“Now now, let’s all stay calm.  How about we get started sir?” said Kakashi, walking over.  The man grunted and nodded, “The sooner we start , the sooner I can get away from you lot.”  With that, the four of them began to walk down the path away from the village. Naruto smirked, imagining how well the Hyuuga sisters’ little presents for the neo-girl were going, and looked in on how well Yoko was training Sakura.

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Sakura moaned in pain at her current position.  After waking up, she had been stripped and hosed down with cold water.  Following that, her wrists were bound behind her wrist to elbow and a leash attached to her collar.  Sakura was led down the hall to the kitchen where she had been forced to her knees and given a cold breakfast of rice and tepid water.  Yoko made sure she ate every bite, standing over her with a riding crop. “You will eat all you are given, until you have become trim, healthy and have at least a small bust!” Yoko declared, just as she had several times before.

The pink haired kunoichi knew she was serious, a session with the punishment strap she had received after she had refused to hold still for the fitting of her shoes had taught her that. “For now, You will not be training with your partner, since she is busy with a assignment, but you will meet her again, and both of you will make me proud, or there will be... a gentle reminder of what happens to those who disobey.”

Sakura nodded and buried her face into the bowl of rice, eating it and lapping at the water.  When she was done she ran her tongue around her lips, licking up the stray grains.  Yoko inspected the bowl and nodded, “Good girl, how was it?” Sakura thought about it, and smiled. “It was good mistress, more than a lowly slave such as myself should hope for.”  The kitsune smiled and petted Sakura.  “That’s correct, now are you ready for your dessert?” Yoko asked, spreading her legs. Sakura leaned close and began to lick the kitsune’s pussy, it was something she had fought doing at first, but now it was a highlight of her day.

After her dessert, Sakura was escorted to the changing room.  Once there, she was handed a bundle of clothing from one of the many lockers lining the walls.  Yoko left her alone to let her dress herself.  Sakura knew that she would have to make her appearance perfect or she would be punished for every error.  She dressed herself quickly and emerged from the room, giving herself a twirl and earning an appreciative whistle from Yoko.

The outfit Sakura had been given consisted of a pair of harem pants made of light pink opaque silk and with a section cut out for her crotch.  A belt made of silver metal encircled her waist and silver anklets adorned her ankles.  A pair of clamps were attached to her nipples with a chain running between it and hung with tiny bells along its length.  Her hair was held back by a silver hair band and a light pink silk veil covered her lower face.  To finish her look, a silk shawl with bells at the ends was draped around her shoulders, and a pair of silk slippers were on her feet.

“Very good girl, although your shawl is wrinkled so that’s twenty hard ones when we’re done.” Yoko said, smirking. She liked playing with her toys, and it really helped get rid of that vindictiveness that she had gained due to being cooped up in here for so long.  “Now time for your lesson and remember, if those bells ring, then you get punished.” she said, slapping a paddle in her hand.  Sakura nodded and began to sway her hips, slowly raising her arms above her head.

What followed was an hour of belly dancing lessons, Sakura was taught to move gracefully and sensuously without even a whisper of sound.  Yoko knew that after her training was complete, not even an Inuzuka would hear her coming and going.  Still for the time being Sakura had earned a good sixty for ringing the bells three times.  Mabe she could add an extra twenty, a little extra punishment might help her learn after all...

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   Naruto smiled. Sakura was learning well. As he came out of observing Yoko, he noticed a odd pool of what appeared to be rainwater, and beckoned to Kakashi and Saki, pointing to it, and letting them know it was suspicious without saying a word. Naruto then touched the ground at each ‘corner’ of the patch of water, doing a set of handsigns before it vanished, and was replaced by a scroll, which Naruto unrolled and handed Kakashi.

“Hmm... missing nin, pretty high ryo reward for bringing them in alive.” Kakashi said as he read off the information on the contents of the scroll before rolling it back up again, “I’ll let you in on at least half the reward for such a clever use of a seal array, but first, Tazuna, care to explain why Naruto found said missing nins waiting for us, especially considering this was a low-class C, almost a D-Rank, mission?”

“Look, I couldn’t afford the cost to hire ninja at the proper rank.” Tazuna admitted, “There’s this guy, Gato, he’s effectively debalanced Wave economically. You want money, you work for Gato, You want to have a ‘accident’, don’t. This bridge is meant to give us a new trade route, that isn’t choked by Gato already... I’ll pay you at S-Rank as soon as I have the money, I’ll write the IOU right now!”

Kakashi sighed and said, “It doesn’t matter, we’ve already accepted the mission... However, We’ll have our Hokage contact Wave over the anomaly when things are better here, and probably not in the very near future. You’ll need the money if you are this desperate.”  Tazuna opened his mouth to protest and then stopped, nodding his head.  “Alright... Thanks.”

They arrived at the site where the bridge was to be built for the weather to suddenly worsen. “What the hell?” Saki said, “What a time to be without a Hyuuga... and don’t dare tell your girlfriends I said that.”  Naruto smirked at the comment, but kept his guard up. If Kakashi hadn’t been nearby, he’d have dreamwalked Hanabi over straight away. A giant sword then flew towards Tazuna, Naruto bodychecking him before he ended up short a head. “Have boomerangs got more dangerous since last time I played with one?!?” He half-joked.

“That was no piece of wood.” muttered Saki, placing her back to Kakashi’s and shivering as the mere contact made her pussy tingle.  She hated having a overactive libido, having forgotten why that was.  Naruto pulled Tazuna to his feet and moved the older man behind him.  “On your guard you two, this isn’t a pair of dropouts.  This is a Jounin level ninja.” said Kakashi, casting his gaze around as the fog thickened.

“Kakashi of the Sharingan... and a pair of Konoha brats...” hissed a male voice from the mist. “I’ll have you know Saki is a high-class girl... Most of her dresses are made of actual silk.” Naruto called back.  Saki blushed and turned to berate Naruto when he heard a soft whistling sound coming from nearby.  She felt a push on her back and she pitched forward as a large cleaver-like blade whistled over her head.

Saki turned and saw Kakashi crouching in front of Zabuza, a kunai buried in the assassin’s chest.  “Damn, a water clone...” muttered Kakashi, his headband pushed up to reveal his left eye.  ‘Definitely need to hope for some kind of good fuck out of this...’ Naruto grumbled, ‘Can’t even disappear off to get something to snuggle.’  Saki was distracted by the sight of the eye Kakashi had kept covered.  ‘A Sharingan... But how does he have one?’ She wondered, ‘And they’re not exactly any good in this situation...’  

Saki’s mouth moved to form a warning as Zabuza appeared behind Kakashi, but the assassin had begin his swing before she had time to speak, cleaving the Jounin in two.  “A water clone!” cursed Zabuza as the Kakashi he had cut turned into water.  He felt a kunai pressed to his neck.  “It’s over for you Zabuza...” said Kakashi, holding the blade steady.

“I disagree.” came Zabuza’s voice from behind him.  Kakashi turned and took a hard kick to the chest, knocking him into the water. “Need an assist?” Someone said from the forest, as a shower of senbon cut through the air between Kakashi and where Zabuza had appeared from. The three Konoha ninja glanced in the direction of the voice, beholding a slim figure in the garb of a hunter-nin that dropped down from the trees, wearing what appeared to be a crystal jian on her back.  “Who are you?!” snapped Saki, drawing a few shuriken.

“Talk later, right now we have to deal with Zabuza.” the ninja said, drawing her jian.  Naruto nodded and made a handsign, a group of fox-clones appearing next to him.  “I’ll cover you...” said Naruto, him and his clones drawing kunai.  Saki put her shuriken away and began to make a series of handsigns.  “Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!” she yelled, cupping her hand into a tube and blowing, firing a large fireball at Zabuza.

“Too easy...” muttered Zabuza, dodging the fireball.  He felt a heat behind him and turned, seeing a second fireball coming at him.  “Damn you Kakashi!” he snapped, barely dodging the second.  A whistling sound drew his attention and he raised his sword in time to deflect a hail of senbon and kunai.  “Enough!” he roared, beginning a complex series of handsigns.  “Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu!” he intoned, water rising from the lake to form a circle behind him.

“Shimatta!... Hyōton: Hogo Kōri Dōmu!” the hunter-nin snapped, doing a set of handsigns to summon a dome to cover her, Saki, Tazuna and Naruto.  Kakashi, dove under the water, narrowly dodging the torrent of water as it surged forward, taking out most of the clones who disappeared in a series of steam clouds, the dome barely cracking as the water crashed against it..  

Zabuza chuckled, looking at the dome of ice, “Now to finish this-”  He stopped, hearing Kakashi speak behind him, “Konoha Senpū!”  Zabuza went flying, owing his newfound aerial position to a series of kicks delivered to his back.  His impromptu flying session came to an end when he hit the dome, finishing it’s collapse as the hunter-nin fired a set of senbon at the back of his neck.

The assassin slumped, letting out a cry of pain as he fell to the ground and didn’t get back up. “There, it’s done... I wish we could have met under better circumstances, but then again, that was the best fight I’ve been in for a long time.” The hunter-nin said, checking Zabuza’s pulse.  “Hold on a sec, you still haven’t told us who you are.” said Naruto, pulling himself from the remains of the ice dome.

“Snow White.” The hunter-nin said, with a chuckle, then disappeared with Zabuza, seemingly satisfied that he was indeed dead.  “Well that was pretty random.” commented Saki, going to check on Tazuna.  Naruto turned to follow then stopped, he had the sensation that Yoko was trying to tell him something.  He focused inward and appeared in front of Yoko, ‘What’s up?’ he asked the kitsune.  “Snow White is a girl’s name, and means Haku Yuki.’ Yoko said, ‘Also, something seem off about how Ms. Yuki dealt with Zabuza?”

Naruto was about to respond when he heard his name being called, he returned from his inner world, looking around and seeing Saki, Kakashi, and Tazuna further down the path.  He ran up looking confused.  “What took you so long?” Saki asked, “You have Post Battle Shock Syndrome?”  Naruto shook his head, “Something’s not right about this...” He said, looking thoughtful, “Did you notice something off about how the hunter-nin ‘ensured’ Zabuza was dead?”

“He definitely dropped like a stone, no living body does that.” Kakashi said, for Naruto to shake his head.  "Why didn't they use their sword? They were carrying one, hand-crafted, maybe even using a special process." Naruto asked, "The thing seemed to be made of glass or similar..." Saki scowled. “What are you doing channeling Tenten?” She asked, then suddenly realized what he meant, adding, “Quick decapitation, take the head, doesn’t need the entire body to prove he’s deceased...”

“Damn.” Kakashi said, “No wonder Zabuza’s been going so long, Whenever a bunch of ninja do corner him, he uses a fake hunter nin to take him out of the fight so he can figure out a proper strategy to dispose of them... Seems like it went slightly differently this time though... What was your opinion on him?”

“I think that SHE was genuinely impressed when she said she enjoyed the fight alongside us, otherwise she’d have not given away her name so easily... Check the bingo book for Yuki Haku or Haku Yuki. Pretty interesting pun, but easy to figure out.” Naruto said, chuckling as Saki sighed as she realised the same thing, both about the hunter-nin’s gender and name.  “We can deal with them later, I’m sure we’ll see them again.  For now let’s focus on the mission.” Kakashi said, walking down the path after covering his Sharingan.

   When they arrived in Wave, it was clear that it was on the brink of becoming a third world country under Gato. The people were close to being broken, and all three of them decided that, next time they met them. “Mind if I get some opinions from the people of the area? Might be useful to get that fake hunter nin to work with us...” Naruto white-lied. “Keep a eye out for any more mercenaries, but otherwise, you’re good for the rest of the day.” Kakashi said.

   Once Naruto had got a good distance away, he summoned Yoko, walking with her  “It’s annoying that all my other girls are not able to be summoned yet.” He sighed, Yoko nodding, before the kitsune suddenly sniffed the air. “Cool, crisp air, not a normal smell around here.” She said, Naruto noticing someone picking what looked like flowers nearby. As he approached, Yoko smirked, and whispered ‘Snow White’ before disappearing.

“Hi... Sorry if I’m disturbing you...” Naruto said, cheerfully, noticing all the clues that told him Yoko had smelt right. “No, no, It’s hard to find what I need for my father where I am staying...” Haku said with a smile.  “Ah I see, well why don’t I help you out?” he offered, noting the herbs already in the basket.

“Oh why thank you young man.” Haku replied.  Naruto stooped and began hunting for herbs, yanking up a few and placing them in the basket.  “Oh!  I found a big one over here!” he exclaimed pointing inside a hollowed out log. “Did you?” Haku asked, walking over.  Naruto nodded and said, “I can’t reach it though.  Maybe you can give it a shot.”

“That is deep...” She said, noticing the clump of herbs he’d found, reaching in, Naruto looking thoughtful before asking, “So, how did you make the jian, Haku? Self-forged?” She smiled, looking thoughtful. “It’s based on an anci-...Eep!” She said, fear crossing her face for a moment, “This isn’t what it looks like!”

   “Did you mean what you told me earlier?” Naruto asked, drawing his kunai, “Or was that as much of a lie as the fact you’re a hunter-nin? You don’t look like Zabuza’s daughter, and that Ice Release jutsu is not something you’d find in Wave or Hidden Mist...” Haku looked away, beginning to reply with, “T-That is...”

Naruto put his kunai in the side of the log, so she’d know he was unarmed. “If you meant what you say, well, I don’t want to hurt you, and definitely not kill you... If you were lying, however, how long could you last against me... and I suspect Zabuza won’t last long without those herbs...” Naruto said, removing the kunai from the log and stepping back.  “I’ll leave now, I suggest you hurry along.”

Haku’s eyes hardened and she turned, tossing some senbon at him and hitting him square in the back.  Naruto fell, disappearing in a gout of flame.  “Bad move Haku-chan... I guess you were lying...” he said, emerging from behind her.  She turned around, drawing another hand of senbon, but Naruto had already begun to make handsigns.  “Akumu Meikyū Chōeki no Jutsu!” he yelled, pushing her backwards and into an enveloping darkness that swallowed her up.