Naruto: The Prince of Lust

Kakashi wonders why Inoichi seems to be in pain, clutching at his chest, when he asks his Hokage, "your orders?"

"Continue Uchiha-kun's mental therapy," the Sandaime tells them. "I don't care if he fakes it. We have experience. Let's use it and try our hardest to show him his quest for vengeance is folly."

"Hai, Hokage-sama," both men respond as their leader leaves.

Taking one last look at his onyx-haired student, acting perfectly distraught, Kakashi wonders what, if anything, he can do, when he hears from behind him, "Kakashi-san…"

The long-haired clan head before him looked uncharacteristically nervous as he asks, "would you say… Is Uzumaki Naruto a good person?"

Kakashi's single eye blinks in surprise before he eventually nods, adding, "Mnn, I think he's a very good person."

The aging straw-haired man with a distracted look in his eyes nods once before turning and leaving. Returning his concern on the avenger, Kakashi enters the secure white room holding his student, all the while wondering if Naruto really knows of a way to help him. Though Kakashi scolded him and lectured him, though Sasuke acted ashamed and repentant, they both knew nothing positive would come out of it. As representatives of the darkest night within the shinobi world, they know it's not in them to change so easily… the lengths they are able to care is just too debilitating.

TENTEN

It took Tenten a second to realize the gorgeous girl waking her up is actually a boy named Haku. It's the first morning after the eventful night she survived Zabuza thanks to Naruto. Confused, Tenten sits up to ask Haku how the beautiful boy managed to enter the secure room when she notices a heavily bandaged Zabuza leaning against the wall beside her father's bed. Quickly standing, Tenten yells, "h-how did you get in here?"

His small eyes feel like shards of glass on her skin as he roughly communicates, "the hidden leaf is too lax. This village forgot nothing dulls a weapon's blade faster than peace."

"Calm down, Tenten-chan," Ōyashiro states from the closed doorway. "They deactivated the security so that I may visit my friend."

Stepping away from Haku and acknowledging every body in the room, Tenten angrily returns, "you're no friend of his-"

"Relax, sheep," a sickly looking Zabuza croaks, rubbing his temple in obvious pain. "I'm only here for him," Zabuza states, nodding toward her father.

"No," she calls, rushing to her father's bedside and taking out her kunai to protect him against the tall and heavily bandaged madman. "I thought-"

"What," Zabuza cuts her off, not at all bothered by her kunai. "That I'd stop being a paid assassin because I lost a fight?" Zabuza laughs but she can tell he's still in pain when he cuts himself off and holds in a groan. "People don't go against their nature so easily."

"Please don't kill him," Tenten pleads, wondering if backup might help her. "He's lost so much-"n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Keep your mouth shut," Zabuza tells her, pressing off the wall to stand in front of her. "What happens to him will now depend on you."

"Momochi-dono," Ōyashiro calls, asking to explain with his eyes. At Zabuza's nod, Ōyashiro starts, "now, Tenten-chan. The thing that you must understand is that not only did my old friend lead me here under false pretenses, risking my reputation with my clientele—which I am willing to forgive so long as I attain Kubikiribōchō—but, he also attempted to take possession of property that did not belong to him and sell it to me. The consequences he must now suffer are of his own making, however, that does not mean his death."

Even Tenten can understand how bad her father screwed them and with a shameful sense of betrayal, as if she wasn't being a good daughter, she slowly asks, "what… do you mean?"

"Naruto-sama would never condone your father's death," Haku tells a cautious Tenten.

Zabuza adds, "and I'm not without so much honor that'd deny I owe him, but, I also don't want your piece-of-shit father anywhere near my sword."

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"He won't-" Tenten tries to proclaim when Ōyashiro cuts her off.

"I proposed to Momochi-dono that Dānyī-san work off his debt to me in Land of Hot Water," Ōyashiro's voice redirects. "He'll love it," he tries to reassure Tenten. "We're even building a resort around the hot springs there."

"No," Tenten calls to the room before hesitantly suggesting, "no! I'll work it off! Take me instead!"

"I wouldn't dream of taking an active Konohagakure shinobi," Ōyashiro asserts, shaking his head as if she was mad. "Too much business to lose for minimal gain."

"Plus you've got your own penance to suffer," Zabuza states, easily grabbing her by the throat and pressing her to the nearby wall despite being armed. "I won't kill him. You can thank the brat for that. As for your crime of being sheep impersonating a ninja; from now on, you belong to Haku, as his pet or his weapon, I don't care, but his. His!" He growls and squeezes her neck for emphasis, springing her instinct to attempt and stab him in the neck but Zabuza easily swats it away.

"You better pray he's good enough to beat the genes of that thieving father of yours out of you," Zabuza continues, glaring at her mercilessly. "Because I'll be checking in. And if Haku ever tells me you maneuvered against me, you snitched to anyone, you even looked at my sword the wrong way, nothing's going to stop me from gutting your daddy to death. Got it?"

Ashamed by the building moisture in the corner of her stern brown eyes, Tenten nods as best she can within his strong grip as Ōyashiro calmly says, "fear not, Tenten-chan. Your father will not like his new life, but he will be alive and in my company to complain about it."

And with that, Tenten is knocked out. When she regains consciousness, her father is gone, the bed is cold, and in his place is the deed of Ten Out of Ten transferred to her name and notarized. Much like her absent mother, Tenten has no idea when she'll see her father again and rather than risk her father's life by telling the Chūnin about Haku, Zabuza, and Ōyashiro, a lifeless Tenten provides a false report.

"He just left," her monotone voice communicates.

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