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Heading back through the employee lounge, Naruto had a shit-eating grin on his face. He was dressed once more, having unsealed his clothes from the storage formula below his collar, and he walked with a cocky, satisfied strut.

"That... was awesome," he remarked proudly to himself. "Some of the best sex me and Hinata have had yet."

The smell of sex coming from him was overpowering, and the few showgirls who were in at this time of day all gave him knowing grins as he passed. Yoshino smirked, batting her eyelashes at him, and Hana tittered wolfishly with her mother and sister, Tsume and Kiba, the three of them wearing inumimi and dog collars with matching canine bikinis.

Naruto winked at the girls as he passed (recalling that the Inuzuka trio did a "dog show" in the morning this time of the week) clicking his tongue playfully as he swaggered on toward the exit. Feeling energized from his rendezvous with Hinata, he swung his hips for the viewing pleasure of the ladies, who followed the movements of his pelvis with intense interest.

However, as he passed out of the employee lounge and into the maintenance hallway that led to the employee entrance, the blond was stopped by a familiarly sultry voice, low and husky and brimming with sexuality.

"Naruto-dono, may we have a word before you go?"

Turning around to face the door he had just come through, Naruto saw the sensual Yin half of his tenant, Kumiko. She wore her scarlet hair in the same fashion as preferred by the late Mito Uzumaki, and the fine silk of her luxurious kimono seemed to shimmer even in the lifeless fluorescent lighting. Countless intricate designs of silver and gold were woven into the deep crimson fabric, forming flowers and vines and spirals and leaves.

It was a subtle embroidery, woven so naturally into the garment that only the sharpest eyes, through the closest observation, could make out the design clearly. Otherwise it simply appeared an intriguing mystique, an indefinable sheen that seemed to dance across the dress, accentuating the natural appeal of her plentiful hills and valleys, contrasting perfectly with her smooth, alabaster skin.

To all appearances, the only differences between Kumiko and Mito, after whom this form was modeled, were the eyes, red and slitted like a cat's, and the nine magnificent fox tails, which she hid usually within her garment, coiled stealthily around her own legs. Like the Scandinavian huldra, or indeed the Japanese kitsune, even when in the form of humans, Kumiko and her sisters still kept the mark of their true nature in the tails of beasts, for they were of course the Tailed-Beasts.

Of course, Naruto's attention was drawn specifically to the generous swell of Kumiko's bosom, and the gloriously bountiful valley of the cleavage which she now strategically exposed. Usually Kumiko wore her kimono in the correct, traditional fashion which have it closed right up the collar, exposing nothing of her "valley of the goddess." Even during her shows, she only exposed her cleavage like this while in the process of disrobing. She was a little old fashioned like that, having inherited many of her sensibilities from times long past.

The only time, indeed, that Kumiko deigned to compromise her manner of dress like this was when she wanted something very much, and was willing to do anything to get it. Naturally, of course, this meant she had Naruto's interest immediately.

"Hmm?" he hummed, eyes zeroing in half against his will on his the Nine-Tails's generous bosom. "What is it, Kumi-chan?" He smiled at her.

"I hear tell you have maids, now," said she, unperturbed by Naruto's affectionate form of address. "And I mean maidservants proper, something quite apart from those three slaves whom Kushina-dono and I have been training." She licked her lips, red and glossy and full. "I was on my way to 'check up' on them, see if they are up to the task of serving you, my lord, and it struck me that I may as well ask if you have any requests. I would not want them to disappoint you in any way, so I shall be... ahem... 'examining' them quite thoroughly."

Naruto smirked, eyes twinkling wickedly. He could figure out quite well how Kumiko would be examining and testing the girls, and it was a very sexy mental image.

He thought for a moment, though, seriously considering what he might want Kumiko to do as long as she was over there at his place.

"Hmmm... Well, maybe you could take a look at them?" he suggested. "Give them a check up, I mean, see if there's anything you can do to heal them."

Kumiko gave him a sultry smile, and stepped closer, the hem of her kimono passing various loose tools and bottles of cleaning agents that were stacked haphazardly along sections of the wall in between doors. The floor seemed to glow like new, clean and pure wherever she stepped. Her feet cut a gleaming swathe of cleanliness through the stubborn, encrusted dirt and grime that clung otherwise unfailingly to the surface even after countless scrubbings and moppings.

Coming close close to Naruto, feeling a reassuring radiance emanating from him like the warmth of a campfire against one's bare skin, the invisible glow of the blond's incredible human chakra mingled to even greater effect with the Yang half of her own chakra. She leaned forward slowly, sensuously.

Soft ruby lips tingled erotically against delicious, tanned skin. Kumiko kissed him on the cheek, letting her bountiful bosom press casually and enticingly against the blond's chest as she did so.

"I shall see what I can do," she purred huskily, pulling back from the kiss with a sensual gleam in her crimson eyes. "...on the condition that, tonight, you... I... the maids... Kushina-dono..." She trailed off, smiling suggestively to make her meaning one hundred percent clear. "Are these terms... acceptable to you, Naruto-dono?"

Naruto gulped a little, honestly just a wee bit intimidated by Kumiko's powerful sexuality. She was like a force of nature in many ways, even quite apart from her raw power and majesty. It was scary at times, how intense she could be.

But it was also hot.

Smirking, Naruto lifted a hand up to gently stroke Kumiko's cheek. "Sure," he said. "I've always wanted to try it that way..."

Kumiko returned the smirk, a victorious spark in her eyes as she leaned forward and gave him a matching peck on the other cheek. "Charming as always, my lord," she purred huskily, suggestively licking her lips. "We shall go at midnight. Prepare yourself for a magnificent time."

Naruto laughed good-naturedly as he turned to head out the exit. "Can do, Kumi-chan, can do!" he declared cheerfully.

He walked out the door.

Hinata was ecstatic, practically skipping through the village streets. She was dressed in a spare change of clothes, practically singing under her breath as she took in the beautiful, golden sunshine. It was a glorious day, magnificent in every imaginable way. She felt like she was on top of the world.

And why wouldn't she? Her boyfriend had all but outright said that they would be getting married, now that she was probably pregnant.

Of course, it wasn't one hundred percent certain yet, and Hinata would likely need her mother, or a doctor, to check for any of the signs of quickening. But, still, she felt sure of it. Naruto-kun would be taking her as his first wife, this was certain. He would take care of her, and she would care for him in return. Even if she wasn't pregnant, they had still had but confirmed one another's intentions. They were completely serious, the both of them.

And anyways, the odds were in her favor that she was pregnant. Even aside from Hinata being at the peak of her fertility today, ovulating and ready for fertilization, Naruto's bijuu chakra was the very essence of life energy. His sperm, when imbued with this chakra, was immensely potent, and furthermore Hinata had been manipulating the chakra pathways inside her own gender to maximize the odds of a sperm cell reaching its destination successfully.

So she was sure she would get pregnant from this, certain that she and Naruto had successfully conceived the beginnings of a new life. And she could not wait to share this news with her friends, and her family.

But before anyone else, she intended to tell her rival.

Thus, Hinata was headed to the home of Sasuki Uchiha, the second daughter of the Uchiha clan head.

"I can't believe it!" Hinata cheered silently to herself as the walls of the Uchiha compound came within sight. "He said yes. He actually said yes! I'm going to be a mother!" She squealed aloud at this thought, so lost in the euphoria of this revelation, this certainty of her belief.

She was excited, to be sure, as she strolled into the Uchiha clan's section of the Leaf. The compound was practically a village within a village, so vast and self-sufficient inside its own bounds, and Hinata could not help but admire how impressive it was as she made her way to the house of her friend, and rival in love.

Even the Hyuuga compound was pretty much just a great, sprawling manor that housed the members of her clan. It was large, to be sure, but nothing like the Uchiha compound. The latter was like a small village unto itself, where the former was essentially just an extra-large manse.

"I hope Sasuki-chan and Itami-san don't mind..." Hinata murmured to herself as she neared the home of the two sisters and their mothers. "I know they both like Naruto-kun, too... and Sasuki-chan is very competitive..."

Sweatdropping slightly, Hinata came to the door of the clan head's house. Only just a little worried for how her love rival would take this news, she knocked.

The door slid open. Itami Uchiha's onyx eyes flicked down to meet Hinata's cloudy opals. The genius elder daughter of clan head Fugako analyzed her visitor for a moment, as though looking for any signs of an imposter. The off duty ANBU captain was wearing a dark navy, high collared tee of a fashion favored among her clan.

The swell of her goodly breasts, maybe the same size as those of Hinata, who was in contrast to Itami - still filling out (believe it or not) creased the front of her shirt around her bosom, accentuating the bulge of her womanly lumps.

Hinata gave the older girl a warm smile. "Hello, Itami-san," she said politely, giving a short bow.

Itami reciprocated the gesture, smiling and bowing to Hinata as well. "It is nice to see you, Hinata," she greeted the Hyuuga heiress with the familiarity of an old friend. She stepped back and gestured graciously for her guest to enter. "Please, come in. Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Thank you," said Hinata, beaming at Itami as she stepped inside. "I am happy to visit."

She removed her sandals at the entryway, storing them neatly out of the way, as was only proper when entering someone's house. Then she followed Itami further inside.

"So what brings you here, today?" the young Uchiha heiress politely inquired of her acquaintance and guest. She was not as close to Hinata as her young sister was, but still Itami was nothing if not a good and friendly host.

Hinata beamed brightly, joy evident in her expression. "I have some very good news," she said. "And I can't wait to share it with Sasuki."

Silently, Itami pondered the import of this statement. She had a feeling that there was much more to it than Hinata was readily divulging, but she was not about to force anything out of the girl.

"Is that so?" she said. "Good for you."

Hinata smiled a little bit brighter.

"Thank you!" she chirped gaily, and the exuberance of this reply bemused Itami, who did not know Hinata Hyuuga to be a very vocal or extroverted individual.

"You're welcome," she said absently, before coming to her sister's bedroom door. She knocked on it, Hinata standing patient, yet also visibly excited, behind her. "We have a visitor, Sasuki."

The door opened. Itami's little sister stood behind it, dressed in shorts and a black bra that she appeared to be in the middle of fastening. Her hair looked damp, like she had very recently taken a shower.

"Yeah?" she said, looking a little vexed by this sudden intrusion on her routine. "What do you want, Hinata?"

At the same time this was going on, Naruto was at a training ground near where he and his team had originally taken their true genin exam. There were still a couple hours before he had that lunch date with Tenten, and he and the others had today off from missions.

So he figured he would take some time out of his schedule to do some training. It was more to keep his skills honed nice and sharp than to actually get stronger, because there was seriously very little he could do now to really improve beyond the level he had reached. As it was, practically no one alive would stand a ghost of a chance in a fight against him, no matter how many strategic advantages they might try to stack up.

Naruto was simply at a level of skill and power where, even asleep and unarmed with zero reinforcements miles behind enemy lines, he just could not be realistically threatened by any human enemy. Even most supernatural powers would balk at the idea of going toe to toe with the Number One Hyperactive Knucklehead Ninja.

So he really only trained to keep himself sharp, these days, and refine his technique every now and then. He had mostly grasped the basics of sealing, and even genjutsu was not beyond his ability with the help of Kumiko's chakra or sage mode. His taijutsu - the frog style kempo in particular - was really down pat, even if Naruto still preferred an uncomplicated haymaker to any sort of real fancy maneuver, and he had mastered the most fundamental schools of shurikenjutsu. He had wind manipulation down to nearly an art form, and he'd even worked on establishing an affinity for the other basic elements.

And that last one, in fact, was what he was working on now. While he was good enough with most of the elements to handle D and C-rank techniques (up to mid B-rank for water and earth) Naruto did not want to settle for just that. With senjutsu, he had an increased connection to nature, and at those he could feel the pull of the different elemental affinities on his chakra. Moreover, he had more than once entertained the possibility of teaching himself advanced elements, as in ones that typically were reserved for people with specific bloodline limits.

While at first glance this would seem a mad endeavor, Naruto's efforts were actually not without some limited success. Using various instructional scrolls that had been sent to him by some lady friends across the elemental nations, Naruto had thus far seen limited results with three different kekkei genkai elements - hyouton, bakuton, and mokuton. The first two, he had more success with, presumably because the 'wind' component of both was his natural and best affinity, while the water and earth affinities were roughly tied as his second best.

This would also explain why wood was the most difficult to use of the three advanced elements he had achieved results with, and why he had no success thus far with any others. As for why he was able to use elements usually reserved for bloodlines or specific bijuu at all, well Miraiya-sensei had theorized that it probably had something to do with his mastery of both sage mode and the Nine-Tails. By mastering both of these, he had gained an subconscious insight into the workings of chakra that perhaps nobody since the Sage of Six Paths had been able to boast.

In layman's terms, he wasn't breaking any rules of nature, but rather using them in ways people hadn't even realized were possible. Present theories of chakra were incomplete and questionably accurate, but since Naruto didn't care much for the academic aspects of ninjutsu anyways, he didn't bother to let those hold him back.

"Achievements in ignorance," Miraiya had called it. Ironically, because Naruto barely understood the theories behind chakra use, he was not restrained by the same preconceptions that plagued other, more learned shinobi. Because he didn't really know what was supposed to be possible or impossible with ninjutsu, Naruto was able to innovate in ways that otherwise only the greatest of geniuses could.

Naruto, in the middle of the field, was surrounded by six groups of shadow clones. Each group of twenty-five kage bunshin was working on a different element. The ones assigned to fire were concentrating on igniting heavy logs without any manner of tinder or kindling, while the ones assigned to water worked on making water leap between stationary buckets, and the ones assigned to earth tried to alternately soften and harden the soil beneath their feet in rapid succession. And so on and so forth.

All in all, Naruto had clones working on each of the remaining basic elements, as well as ice and explosion. And he himself was sitting lotus position in the midst of this controlled chaos, seated opposite Kagome-sensei's kouhai from the ANBU, Captain Nadeshiko. With a forehead protector like the Second Hokage, and the unique abilities of the First, she was tutoring him presently in the basics of wood-style ninjutsu.

Also, she was completely naked.

There was probably a goldmine of dirty jokes to be made somewhere in there about her teaching Naruto how to use wood.