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The scroll landed in Naruto's open palm with a dry thwap.
He didn't even look at it. Just held it between two fingers like a dead fish, his other hand propped behind his head, weight slouched against the doorframe of the mission office. Shikamaru sat behind the desk with his chin in his palm, eyelids at half-mast, the very picture of a man who had drawn the short straw on administrative rotation and resented every molecule of oxygen the building forced him to breathe.
"Read it or don't, makes no difference to me," Shikamaru said, flicking a second scroll off the pile and into the outbox. "You're going either way. Kakashi-sama signed off on it this morning before I could even finish the briefing."
Naruto cracked the seal with his thumb. His eyes moved left to right. Then stopped.
"You're kidding."
"Do I look like I'm kidding? I never kid, Naruto. Kidding requires energy I refuse to spend."
The mission parameters were simple enough to fit on a napkin. B-rank escort. Principals: Tsunade Senju, Mei Terumī. Destination: Yawaragi Onsen, two days east along the Fire Country trade road. Duration: three days, return inclusive. Threat assessment: minimal. Operative assigned: Uzumaki Naruto.
Naruto's jaw tightened. He tossed the scroll back onto the desk, where it rolled into Shikamaru's tea.
"Shikamaru. I fought Kaguya. I punched a goddess in the face with a Rasenshuriken. I went toe-to-toe with Madara Uchiha while the rest of the Allied Forces were flat on their backs. And you're sending me to babysit two women to a hot spring so they can get drunk where Shizune-nee-chan can't yell at them?"
Shikamaru fished the scroll out of his tea, shook it once, and set it on the windowsill to dry. His expression didn't change by a single degree.
"That's exactly the point. Tsunade-sama can crack a mountain in half with her pinky, and the Mizukage can melt anything that survives the crack. If some idiot does try something, we need someone next to them who's equally impossible to kill. Congratulations, you're the only person in this village dumb enough and durable enough to qualify."
"That's not a compliment, ya know!"
"It wasn't meant to be one. Be at the east gate by dawn, pack light. Three days, in and out. Don't make it complicated."
Naruto crossed his arms, the orange fabric of his jacket bunching at his shoulders. Afternoon sun cut through the blinds and striped the floor gold. Somewhere down the hall, a chūnin was arguing with the filing clerk about a missing expense report, voices rising and falling like bickering sparrows.
"Is there hazard pay? Because if Baa-chan starts drinking and I have to carry her back to the inn over my shoulder again, I want it in writing that I get overtime."
"There is no overtime structure for shinobi, Naruto. There never has been. Go home, pack your bag, and try not to bring more than two changes of clothes and forty cups of instant ramen. I know you. I've seen your travel kit."
Naruto opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again.
"....Thirty."
"Goodbye, Naruto."
He pushed off the doorframe and shuffled down the corridor, hands jammed in his pockets, already doing the math. His field pack could hold twenty cups if he rolled them sideways and sacrificed the spare kunai pouch. If he sealed another ten into a storage scroll and tucked it in his flak vest….
Thirty's plenty. Maybe thirty-two if I skip the extra socks.
The late-afternoon breeze hit him as he stepped out of the Hokage tower, warm and smelling of grilled meat from the stalls lining the main road. Konoha hummed around him, alive and golden, and Naruto squinted up at the carved faces on the mountainside.
Three days. Two overpowered women. One hot spring.
"How troublesome," he muttered, and immediately hated himself for it.
Dawn broke amber and honey over Konoha's east gate, the massive wooden doors already cranked wide for the morning merchant traffic. Cart wheels groaned against cobblestone. A tea vendor was setting up his stall just inside the threshold, the sharp green scent of fresh sencha cutting through the dusty road smell, and two gate guards sat in their booth with their sandals kicked off, nursing their own cups and pretending to be alert.
Mei Terumī stood just outside the gate, one hand resting on the curve of her hip, the other holding a folded parasol she hadn't bothered to open. Her travel robes were pale blue silk, layered loosely over that same dark mesh top, the neckline plunging in a deep V that made the gate guards suddenly very interested in their tea. The silk caught the early light and shifted like water when she breathed. A sash cinched her waist tight enough to make the flare of her hips an event, and the side slit in the robe ran high enough that every other step flashed a long, pale thigh.
"Tsunade-sama, you're drinking before the sun's cleared the treeline. I would say I'm impressed, but honestly, I expected nothing less from you." Mei's voice carried warm and melodic across the gate clearing, her visible green eye crinkling at the corner.
Tsunade leaned against the gate post with her arms crossed beneath her chest, a ceramic flask dangling from two fingers. Her haori hung open, the teal top underneath straining in its eternal losing battle. The violet diamond on her forehead caught the light. She took a slow pull from the flask, swallowed, and pointed the mouth of it at Mei like a teacher's pointer.
"Retirement gives me exactly three privileges, Mei. Drinking whenever I want, sleeping past noon, and never reading another mission report as long as I live. I intend to exercise all three this week, so if you're going to judge me, at least wait until I'm on my second flask." She pushed off the post and closed the distance, pulling Mei into a one-armed embrace that was brief and firm, the kind of hug between women who'd stood across a war table from each other and chosen the same side. "You look good. Kiri's treating you well, or you're just too stubborn to let it show otherwise."
"Both, obviously. A Mizukage who looks tired is a Mizukage whose enemies start sharpening their knives." Mei returned the embrace, her chin tipping over Tsunade's shoulder. "Besides, I refuse to age before I've secured a husband. Spite is the greatest skincare routine ever invented."
Tsunade barked a laugh and stepped back, raising the flask in a mock toast. "I'll drink to spite. Cheers."
Footsteps. Fast ones. The slap of sandals on stone, and then Naruto came jogging through the gate with his field pack bouncing against his back, one strap threatening to slide off his shoulder. His blond hair was still damp from a hasty shower, sticking up at wilder angles than usual, and the black tank top he wore under his open jacket clung to his chest and shoulders in a way that outlined every ridge of muscle the war had carved into him.
"Sorry, sorry! I overslept because I was up half the night trying to fit everything into the scroll and I accidentally sealed my toothbrush into the ramen storage seal, so I had to unseal all thirty cups just to find it." He skidded to a stop in front of both women and dropped into a quick, respectful bow, hands pressed to his thighs. "Tsunade-baa-chan, Mizukage-sama, good morning. I'll be your escort for the trip, so please take care of me, ya know."
Mei tilted her head. Her gaze traveled from his sandals up his calves, lingered on the broad line of his shoulders, traced the sharp jaw and those odd whisker marks, and settled on the earnest blue of his eyes. The last time she'd seen Naruto Uzumaki, he'd been a loud teenager throwing himself at an immortal. The boy was gone. What stood in front of her was six feet of sun-browned muscle with a jawline that could cut glass and hands big enough to palm her entire waist.
Oh my. He certainly filled out, didn't he.
"Naruto-kun, look at you. You've grown so much I almost didn't recognize you, and I mean that as the highest compliment a woman my age can give." The smile she offered was warm, layered, her green eye half-lidded. "I feel very safe already."
Tsunade caught the look. The slow sweep, the lingering pause at his shoulders, the way Mei's voice dropped half a register on Naruto-kun. Tsunade's flask stopped halfway to her lips. A snort escaped through her nose, sharp and knowing, and she took a long sip to hide the grin spreading behind the ceramic.
Oh, this trip is going to be fun.
She said nothing. Just filed it away, neat and precise, in the same mental drawer where she kept every piece of leverage she'd ever collected.
The road east wound through old-growth forest, canopy so thick the sunlight came down in coins and splashes, dappling Naruto's blond hair gold and green as he walked point ten paces ahead. His pack sat high on his shoulders, kunai pouch loose at his thigh, and his head turned in slow sweeps left-right-left with the easy rhythm of someone whose senjutsu senses were drinking in every rustle and heartbeat within a hundred meters. A hawk circled above the treeline. Somewhere off the road, a deer crashed through underbrush and bolted.
"Okay, so you know how Teuchi-ojisan does the regular miso broth, right? Classic, beautiful, no complaints. But he told me before I left that he's testing a new winter menu, and Ayame-nee-chan came up with this smoked pork belly topping with a black garlic oil drizzle, and I swear on the Sage of Six Paths, Baa-chan, it changed my entire understanding of what ramen can be."
"You've been talking about noodles for three hours, brat." Tsunade's voice drifted from behind, flat and fond. "If you spent half this energy on your Hokage candidacy paperwork, Kakashi would've retired a year ago."
"Paperwork doesn't have flavor profiles, ya know! Besides, I'm making a point. The garlic oil has this smoky thing that hits the back of your throat, and then the broth underneath is still clean and light, so it's like two bowls in one. Mizukage-sama, you have to try it next time you're in Konoha. I'll personally escort you to Ichiraku's, believe it."
Mei walked half a step behind Tsunade, parasol folded and tucked under her arm, the pale silk of her travel robe swishing against her calves with each stride. The forest air sat heavy and green, sweet with moss and the faint mineral tang of a river somewhere west. She made an appropriate sound of interest at the ramen dissertation, but her attention kept drifting forward.
His shoulders. That was the thing. During the war, Naruto had been whipcord and desperation, a teenager burning through chakra reserves that should have killed him, all sharp elbows and too-loud laughter. The man ahead of her moved differently. His stride carried a settled, grounded weight, hips loose, spine straight, the measured gait of someone who knew exactly how much space his body occupied and trusted it completely. The tank top stretched across his back when he turned to gesture about noodle toppings, and the muscles beneath shifted like rope under sun-browned skin.
Mei's eye traced the line of his trapezius down to where it disappeared into his collar.
He's twenty-three. That's perfectly reasonable. Plenty of kunoichi have married younger men. It's not unusual at all.
A soft sound from her left. Tsunade, walking with her flask tucked against her hip, had made a low, amused hum through closed lips. Her hazel eyes cut sideways toward Mei, one brow arched just a fraction. The look said everything. The mouth said nothing.
Mei returned her gaze to the road ahead, chin lifted, expression serene.
The second day passed much the same. More forest, more ramen commentary, more of that maddening back.
Yawaragi Onsen materialized through the trees at sundown, lantern light bleeding warm and orange through the mist that curled off the natural hot springs behind the main building. The inn was old wood and river stone, three stories of sliding screens and cedar beams, tucked into a valley where the forest thinned and steam rose from cracks in the earth. The air tasted of sulfur and cedar bark.
Naruto's hands came together before Mei had even set her bag on the reception counter. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Four clones popped into existence, already moving, fanning out toward the tree line and the rear perimeter without a word exchanged. The original turned to both women, expression focused, blue eyes sharp beneath damp bangs.
"Perimeter's set. I've got clones at the four cardinal points and I'll rotate them every six hours so the natural energy signatures stay fresh. I swept the building on the way in, no concealed chakra, no seal traps, the staff are all civilians. Your room is the large suite on the second floor, east-facing. Mine is the adjoining room through the connecting door, so if anything trips the wards, I'll be through in under two seconds." He bowed, palms flat against his thighs, deep and proper. "Please enjoy your evening, Tsunade-sama, Mizukage-sama. I'll be next door if you need anything at all."
He straightened, collected his pack, and disappeared down the corridor with quiet footsteps.
Mei stood at the counter with the room key warm in her palm, watching the empty hallway where he'd been. The innkeeper was murmuring something about dinner service, but the words washed past like river noise.
Tsunade-sama. Not Baa-chan. He'd switched registers the moment he'd entered operational mode, the loudmouth vanishing behind something disciplined and deliberate, and the contrast between the boy who'd rambled about garlic oil for two days and the man who'd just secured a perimeter with jōnin-level efficiency made something in Mei's chest pull tight and warm.
"Well," Tsunade said, plucking the second key from the counter and examining it with theatrical disinterest. "He's come a long way, hasn't he?"
Mei turned. Tsunade's expression was perfectly neutral, but her eyes were bright with something knowing.
"He certainly has." Mei tucked the key into her sash, fingertips lingering against the silk. "Konoha should be very proud of the shinobi it's raised."
"Mmhm." Tsunade's lips twitched. "The shinobi. Right."
The private spring sat behind a cedar screen at the far end of the inn's east wing, separated from the main baths by a winding stone path and a curtain of hanging wisteria that brushed Mei's bare shoulder as she ducked through. No other guests. No attendants. Just ancient rock worn smooth by centuries of mineral water, steam rising in slow, lazy curls that thickened the air until the lanterns along the fence became soft amber smudges.
Mei sank into the water and the groan that left her was indecent.
"Oh, Kami-sama, that's…. I haven't felt anything this good since the war ended." She tipped her head back against the stone lip, auburn hair fanning across the wet rock, her bare shoulders and the upper swell of her breasts breaking the surface as the heat soaked into muscles she hadn't realized were knotted. "I think every single trade negotiation I've sat through this year just dissolved out of my spine."
Tsunade was already chest-deep on the opposite side, settled against a natural shelf in the rock with her arms spread along the edge and a ceramic sake cup balanced on a flat stone beside her. Her hair was piled loose on top of her head, damp tendrils clinging to her neck, the violet diamond on her forehead catching the lantern glow. Steam beaded across her collarbones.
"Give it twenty minutes and a second cup, and you won't even remember the word negotiation. That's the beauty of retirement, Mei…. every problem becomes someone else's problem, and the sake tastes twice as good when you're not drinking to survive a council session."
Mei laughed, low and genuine, and let herself slide deeper until the water lapped at her chin. "You say that like I have the option. My council spent three hours last week debating tariff adjustments on imported steel, and Chōjūrō sat through the entire thing without blinking once. I think his soul actually left his body around the ninety-minute mark."
"Sounds about right. Shizune used to get that same look during budget reviews…. eyes open, nobody home." Tsunade lifted her cup, sipped, and set it back with a porcelain click. "Let them argue about steel. That's what councils are for. You're here to remember what your own skin feels like without the robes on top of it."
The quiet settled between them, comfortable and unhurried. Water lapped against stone. A frog croaked somewhere beyond the fence, and the distant murmur of the inn's main hall carried just enough to remind them civilization existed without intruding on it.
Mei studied the steam. Her fingers traced idle circles on the water's surface.
"Tsunade-san." Her voice dropped, careful, pitched beneath the ambient hiss of the spring. "I've been thinking about doing something very stupid tonight. Something hot-blooded and ill-advised and…. very, very fun."
Tsunade's cup paused halfway to her lips. Her hazel eyes cut through the steam, sharp and bright, reading Mei's face the way she'd once read battlefield reports.
"I know that look, Mei. That's the look I used to see in the mirror before I did something I'd either regret enormously or remember fondly for the rest of my life." She took a deliberate sip, swallowed, and set the cup down with the careful precision of a woman who wanted both hands free for this conversation.
Tsunade swirled the sake in her cup, watching the liquid catch lantern light. "So tell me, Mei. What exactly does stupid look like at your age? Because at mine, stupid involved a poker table and a man from Tanzaku who turned out to be married to three different women in three different countries."
Mei's laugh started low in her chest and rippled outward, warm and unhurried, her shoulders shaking just enough to send small waves across the spring's surface. "Well, since you asked so directly…. I've been thinking about knocking on a certain blond shinobi's door after lights out tonight. Just a friendly visit, nothing scandalous, just to see if the great hero of the Hidden Leaf knows his way around something other than Rasengan."
Tsunade choked.
Sake went up her nose, down her chin, and into the spring water in a graceless spray. She doubled over against the rock shelf, coughing into the back of her hand, and the laugh that tore out of her was so sudden and violent that it sent ripples slapping against the far edge of the pool. "Kami-sama, Mei, you almost killed me, and I survived a war! You would be wasting your time so completely that I almost feel bad for you. That brat is the most clueless virgin in the five great nations, and I say that with the full authority of someone who watched him grow up and miss every single signal any woman ever threw at him."
Mei's eyebrow rose above the steam, her green eye bright with interest. "Surely you're exaggerating."
"I am not exaggerating even a little bit, and the proof is Hinata Hyūga." Tsunade dragged herself upright, wiping sake from her chin with the heel of her palm. "That girl spent years trying to get Naruto to notice she existed…. years, Mei, plural, with an 's.' She fainted in front of him, she blushed every time he looked at her, she literally threw herself between him and Pain and confessed her love while bleeding out on the ground. And she has those Hyūga breasts on her, the ones that make jōnin walk into doorframes." Tsunade cupped her hands in front of her own legendary chest for emphasis, then dropped them with a splash. "Naruto spent those same years thinking she had chronic stomach problems and kept asking Kurenai if someone should walk her home. The boy is immune to seduction. It bounces off him like kunai off a Susano'o."
The steam curled between them. A frog sang its two-note song beyond the fence.
Mei's lips curved, slow and deliberate, the kind of smile that had made diplomats from three nations forget what they'd been arguing about. "That sounds like a wonderful project, actually. Training a virgin has a certain appeal to it, wouldn't you say? There's something deeply satisfying about being a young man's first taste of genuine competence…. shaping all that raw potential into something useful."
"Oh, you're serious." Tsunade stared at her through the steam. "You're actually serious. You're going to try to seduce Naruto Uzumaki, the man who thinks flirting is when someone offers him a second bowl of ramen."
"Deadly serious, Tsunade-san. I've negotiated treaties with missing-nin warlords and reformed an entire village's culture of assassination. One oblivious jinchūriki should be well within my capabilities."
Tsunade reached for the sake bottle, refilled her cup to the brim, and raised it in a toast that shook with barely contained laughter. "Then go for it, Mei. Go for it with my blessing and my deepest sympathy. Watching Mei Terumī, Fifth Mizukage, master of two kekkei genkai, try to seduce a man who genuinely does not know what seduction is will be the best entertainment I've had in a decade. I'll be in the next room with a bottle and my ear against the wall."
Mei sank until the mineral water kissed her lower lip, her auburn hair spreading across the surface like ink in milk. The smile stayed, small and private, curling at the corners while the steam wrapped around her like a second skin.
"Robbing the cradle," Tsunade repeated, shaking her head so hard that a damp tendril of blonde hair slapped against her cheek. "That's what this is, Mei. You're a sitting Kage planning to deflower a twenty-three-year-old who still eats cup ramen for breakfast, and I want you to sit with that for a moment and really let it marinate."
"He's a grown man, Tsunade-san. A war hero, a sage, a future Hokage." Mei's visible eye drifted half-shut, the lantern light catching the green and turning it molten. "And I'm a woman with needs that trade negotiations and council meetings have done absolutely nothing to address. I think the math works out rather neatly, don't you?"
"The math." Tsunade snorted into her cup. "You sound like Shikamaru, except Shikamaru would never be dumb enough to proposition an Uzumaki. Do you know what Uzumaki stamina means in practice? Because I've read Mito-sama's private journals, and there were entries that made me blush, and I trained with Jiraiya."
The picture was forming now, vivid and warm behind Mei's half-closed eye. Naruto on his knees in the dim room next door, those impossible blue eyes wide and bewildered, looking up at her like she was a jutsu he couldn't parse. Her fingers threading through that wild blond hair. Her voice, low and patient, guiding his big calloused hands to the exact right place, showing him how to touch, where to press, how to make her back arch off the futon….
Heat bloomed between her thighs, thick and liquid, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the spring.
"Oh, you've gone quiet." Tsunade pointed at her with the sake bottle, sloshing liquid over the neck. "That's the face of a woman who's already halfway through the fantasy. I've worn that face, Mei, and it always ends with regret and a sore back."
"Or it ends with neither, and I get exactly what I want." Mei stretched one long leg out beneath the water, toes breaking the surface. "I have a very good track record with getting what I want, Tsunade-san. Ask anyone who's sat across a negotiation table from me."
Tsunade refilled Mei's cup, then her own, sake glugging freely. "Fine. But I'm warning you now…. you'll be doing all the work. Every bit of it. That boy doesn't know where anything goes, Mei. Bring lube and bring patience, because Kami-sama knows you'll need both in quantities I can't even calculate."
"I have a feeling I'll manage just fine." Mei lifted her cup and breathed in the warm rice-wine scent. "Enthusiasm counts for quite a lot, and that boy has never lacked for enthusiasm."
Tsunade rolled her eyes so hard her whole head followed the motion. "Alright then. Here's to your coming disappointment, Mei…. may it at least be funny enough that you'll tell me every detail in the morning." She raised her cup higher, sake trembling at the brim. "And here's to the brat finally learning where things go. Kami knows someone had to teach him eventually."
The snoring was extraordinary.
Tsunade lay face-down on her futon with one arm flung wide and the other trapped beneath her torso at an angle that would have concerned a medic-nin who wasn't also the patient. Her haori had been abandoned in a heap by the door. The sake bottle sat empty on the tatami beside her pillow, and the second bottle…. the one she'd sworn she wouldn't open…. lay on its side near her hip, also empty, a thin trail of liquid still glistening toward the floor. Each inhale produced a wet, rattling snore that vibrated the sliding screen in its track. Each exhale came with a mumbled fragment that might have been "raise you forty" or might have been nothing at all.
She was gone. Obliterated. A woman who had outdrunk entire jōnin barracks in her prime and was now exercising that talent in retirement with the same devastating thoroughness she'd once applied to enemy skulls.
Mei sat cross-legged on her own futon with her hair brushed loose down her back, auburn-red and shining in the low lamplight, falling past her shoulder blades in a heavy curtain. The thin silk robe she'd tied at the waist was the color of seafoam, almost translucent where it caught the light, and beneath it there was nothing. No mesh. No wrappings. Just warm skin and the faint scent of the mineral spring still clinging to her.
She pressed her palms flat against her thighs.
This is ridiculous. I'm a sitting Kage. I've commanded armies. I've melted warships. I am not going to lose my nerve over a twenty-three-year-old who thinks garlic oil is a personality trait.
The thought didn't help. Her pulse was doing something quick and irritating behind her sternum, and the heat that had started in the spring hadn't faded. If anything, it had migrated south and settled with the stubborn permanence of a territorial cat.
I can leave at any point. If it goes sideways, I excuse myself, return to my futon, and we never speak of it again. Diplomatic immunity covers a wide range of indiscretions, and I'm fairly certain this qualifies.
She stood. The silk fell to mid-thigh, whispering against her skin. Bare feet on cool tatami, soundless, the instinct of a kunoichi who'd learned to move through fog before she'd learned to read.
At the sliding door she paused, one hand on the wooden frame, and turned her head. Tsunade's snore crested into a guttural rumble that shook the empty sake bottle against the floor, then subsided into a long, whistling exhale that ended with a slurred "....full house, you bastards...."
She's not waking up before noon. Possibly not before dinner.
Mei's fingers tightened on the frame. She drew one breath, held it, and let it out through barely parted lips.
"Diplomacy is a flexible word," she murmured to the dark room. "And I am nothing if not a flexible woman."
She slid the door open, stepped into the lantern-dim hallway where cedar beams threw long shadows across the floor and the distant hiss of the hot springs filled the silence like white noise, and turned left. Three steps. The adjoining door sat closed, a thin line of amber light visible at the threshold.
Mei slid the door shut behind her with a whisper of wood on wood.
The room was small and spare, cedar-walled, a single lantern turned low on the windowsill so the light barely reached the corners. His field pack sat against the wall, neatly organized, kunai pouch on top. The window screen was cracked two inches, letting in the mineral-sweet night air and the distant chorus of frogs.
Naruto lay on his back on the futon with one arm thrown above his head and the other resting across his bare stomach, fingers curled loosely against skin. Sleep pants slung low on his hips, drawstring knotted in a lazy bow. Nothing else. The blanket had been kicked to his ankles sometime in the last hour, and the warm lamplight painted every ridge and hollow of him in amber and shadow.
Mei's breath caught.
The scars told the story his smile never did. A starburst of white tissue below his left pectoral where the chidori had punched through, the skin puckered and smooth. A long, thin line curving along his oblique, old and silver. Smaller marks scattered across his ribs and forearms, the accumulated signatures of a life spent throwing himself between the people he loved and the things that wanted to kill them. His abdominal muscles were carved deep, defined even in sleep, rising and falling with each slow breath, and a trail of fine blond hair started below his navel and disappeared beneath the waistband of his pants like an invitation written in a language Mei was very fluent in.
His lips moved. "....extra chashu…. no, the thick-cut…. Teuchi-ojisan, c'mon, don't be stingy…."
Kami-sama. He's dreaming about ramen. Of course he is.
Mei stood at the foot of the futon for a long, indulgent moment, her weight balanced on bare feet, the seafoam silk robe shifting against her thighs with each breath. Her gaze traveled the length of him the way a cartographer studies new coastline, slow and thorough, committing topography to memory. The broad shoulders. The narrow waist. The way his hip bones jutted just above the drawstring, sharp enough to cast their own shadows.
She knelt. The tatami gave slightly beneath her knees. She settled at his side, close enough that the heat of his body reached her through the thin silk, and she leaned forward and drew her fingertips up the ladder of his ribs, feather-light, tracing the valleys between each ridge of muscle from hip to chest.
The reaction was instantaneous.
Naruto's eyes snapped open, blue and blazing, pupils contracting to points. No grogginess. No confusion. One moment asleep, the next fully operational, and his hand shot up and locked around her wrist with a grip that could have cracked stone, his body coiling beneath her like a spring, every muscle from jaw to ankle going taut in a single silent heartbeat.
Mei didn't flinch. She let him hold her wrist, let him feel her pulse beating steady and unhurried against his calloused fingers, and she leaned down until her loose auburn hair curtained both their faces and her lips hovered a breath above his ear.
"Easy, Naruto-kun. It's just me." Her voice was low, warm, intimate as a shared secret. "I couldn't sleep, and I thought we might discuss…. village relations. At length. In private."
His grip loosened but didn't release. Those blue eyes searched her face in the dim light, wide and startled, the whisker marks on his cheeks stark against the flush that was already climbing his throat. "Mizukage-sama? What…. is this a security thing? Did the perimeter clones pick something up?"
She kissed him.
Soft. Deliberate. Her painted lips pressed against his with the unhurried confidence of a woman who had spent thirty years learning exactly how much pressure to apply and when, and she tasted salt and sleep and the faintest trace of the miso he'd had for dinner. His mouth went rigid beneath hers for one heartbeat, two, and then something cracked open behind his sternum and he made a sound against her lips, raw and involuntary, a low vibration that she swallowed whole.
When she pulled back, his eyes were enormous.
Her hand slid down. Over his chest, across the flat plane of his stomach where the muscles jumped and twitched beneath her palm, fingers trailing through that fine blond hair below his navel, and then lower, over the drawstring, over the thin cotton of his sleep pants, and she pressed her palm flat against him.
Mei went absolutely still.
"Kuso…. nanda kore…." The words left her in Kiri dialect, guttural and unfiltered, her composure cracking clean down the middle. Her fingers curled, testing, measuring, and the shape beneath the cotton was…. "Tsunade lied to me. That woman lied to me so beautifully I could kiss her for it." Her voice had gone breathy, stripped of its diplomatic polish, and her hand was already pulling the drawstring loose with fingers that trembled just enough to betray her. "She said I'd be disappointed. She said I'd be doing all the work. She failed to mention this."
Mei kissed him again, deeper this time, her tongue sliding past his lips with the slow authority of a woman who had never once been told no in a context that mattered. Her hands found the loosened drawstring and pulled, working the cotton down over his hips, over the hard jut of his thighs, and Naruto lifted without being asked, his body responding to her touch like it already knew the choreography even if his brain was still buffering three steps behind. The pants cleared his ankles and she tossed them somewhere into the dark corner of the room without looking.
Her robe followed. One tug at the sash and the seafoam silk slithered off her shoulders, pooling around her knees, and the lantern light caught every curve of her like warm honey poured over marble. Full breasts swaying heavy and bare, pink nipples already tight, the narrow cinch of her waist flaring into hips that could stop traffic in any village on the continent. Naruto's breath punched out of him in a sharp, strangled exhale, his eyes dropping from her face to her body and then snapping back up like he'd been caught stealing.
His hands found her hips. The grip was immediate, instinctive, fingers sinking into the soft flesh hard enough to dimple the skin, thumbs pressing into the hollows above her hip bones with a possessive certainty that made Mei's visible eye widen a fraction.
That's…. considerably more grip than a virgin should have. Interesting.
"I'm going to be very thorough with you tonight, Naruto-kun. So just lie back and let me work." She kissed the corner of his jaw, then his throat, then the hard ridge of his collarbone, descending in a slow trail down his chest, her lips dragging wet and warm over each scar and ridge of muscle. Her hair spilled across his skin like dark silk, and she paused at the starburst scar below his pectoral to press her mouth against it with something that might have been reverence.
Naruto's throat bobbed. His fingers flexed against the futon at his sides, knuckles white. "Is this…. is this like those books Pervy Sage used to write? The Icha Icha ones? Because I never actually read them, but Kakashi-sensei always said they were educational, and I'm starting to think he wasn't joking about that, ya know."
"Exactly like those books, Naruto-kun. Except I'm a much better teacher than anything Jiraiya-sama ever put on paper." Her smile pressed warm against his navel, and then her hand wrapped around him and her other palm cupped the heavy, warm weight of his balls, rolling them gently, testing their heft with an appreciative squeeze. "But first I need to make sure you're ready for me. Consider this…. a preliminary assessment."
She took him into her mouth.
Her lips stretched wide around the flushed, blunt head, tongue swirling flat and wet against the underside, and she sank down with steady pressure until her jaw ached and her throat met resistance and she'd taken significantly less than half of him. Her hand wrapped the rest, fingers barely meeting around the thick shaft, and she squeezed in rhythm with her mouth.
"Nngh…. oh fuck…. Mizukage-sama, I'm…. I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm supposed to…. 'AAAH!'" His hips jerked up hard, driving another inch past her lips, and his fist twisted the futon so violently the fabric screamed at the seam.
Mei pulled off with a wet pop, pressed one firm hand flat against his hip, and pinned him to the futon. "Behave, Naruto-kun. I set the pace here, not you. You'll get your turn eventually, but right now you're mine."
She sank back down, slow and lazy this time, cheeks hollowing, tongue dragging a long spiral from base to tip before swallowing him again. She pulled back just enough to speak, lips glistening, a strand of saliva connecting her lower lip to his cock. "You taste wonderful, by the way. And you're so beautifully thick I can barely fit you in my mouth. Kami-sama, what do they feed you in Konoha?"
"I'm sorry…. I don't…. I'm sorry, I just…. it's so…. I've never…."
She went down again and shut him up.
Mei's head bobbed in a slow, devastating rhythm, her tongue working the underside of his shaft in long, flat strokes that drew shuddering gasps from Naruto's chest like she was pulling thread from a spool. She savored him. The salt-clean taste of his skin, the way his cock throbbed against her tongue with each heartbeat, the desperate clench of his stomach muscles every time she swallowed around the thick head. His fingers had found her hair at some point, tangled loosely in the auburn strands, not pushing, not guiding, just holding on like a man gripping a lifeline in open water.
She pulled off him with a slow, obscene drag, lips glistening, and sat back on her heels. Her chest heaved, breasts swaying with each breath, and she wiped her lower lip with her thumb, her green eye blazing in the lamplight.
"That was the warm-up, Naruto-kun. I'm done being gentle with you." She turned on the futon, presenting her back to him, and lowered herself to her hands and knees with the fluid grace of a woman who knew exactly what that angle did to the curve of her spine, the flare of her hips, the way the lantern light caught the slick shine between her thighs. She looked over her shoulder, one green eye burning through the curtain of auburn hair. "Put me on my hands and knees properly and show me what an Uzumaki can do. I want to feel those hands on my hips like you mean it."
Naruto moved behind her with more certainty than Tsunade would have ever given him credit for. His big hands found her hips, fingers spreading wide, thumbs pressing into the dimples at the base of her spine, and he pulled her back toward him, adjusting her angle with an instinct that owed nothing to experience and everything to the bone-deep physical intelligence of a man who'd mastered senjutsu by feel alone. The blunt head of his cock pressed against her entrance, nudged, found the slick heat, and he pushed forward in one long, steady stroke that didn't stop until his hips met the full curve of her ass with a sound like a slap.
Mei's spine arched like a drawn bow.
"Shimatta…. kuso…. nanda kore yo!" The words ripped out of her in rapid Kiri dialect, then Water Country trade pidgin, then something guttural and ancient that might have been Old Mist. Her fingers clawed the futon, nails dragging furrows in the fabric. "You're splitting me open, you ridiculous, beautiful…. start moving right now, Naruto-kun, or I swear on every Mizukage who came before me I will melt this entire inn to slag."
He moved.
His hips drew back and snapped forward with the same explosive precision he brought to everything physical, and Mei's composure shattered on the second stroke. The sounds that came out of her stopped being words and became something rawer, broken moans and hitching gasps that climbed in pitch with every thrust, her face dropping to the futon, cheek pressed flat against the fabric, mouth open, eyes squeezed shut.
"Oh…. oh Kami…. oh fuck…. nngh…. haaah…. deeper, deeper, don't you dare stop…. AAAH!"
Her arms trembled. Her elbows buckled. She collapsed forward onto her chest, and Naruto caught her before she hit the futon, one arm hooking beneath her ribs, the other sliding under her thigh, and he lifted her like she weighed nothing. Her back pressed flush against his chest, hot skin against hot skin, and her legs hooked over his forearms as he stood, still buried inside her, and took a step. Then another.
He was walking her around the room.
"You…. you absolute menace, this is…. this is completely unfair and you have lied to every single person you've ever met." Mei's head lolled back against his shoulder, tears streaking her temples, her body jolting with each bouncing stride. "A decade of pretending to be an oblivious fool while hiding…. this…. between your legs, you should be arrested, Naruto-kun, you should be tried for crimes against kunoichi everywhere."
His lips found her shoulder, warm and soft, pressing a kiss against the damp skin. "Are you okay, Mizukage-sama? I'm not hurting you, am I? Because if it's too much I can slow down, ya know, I don't want to…."
"I am magnificent," she sobbed, her hand reaching back to grip his hair, pulling his mouth harder against her neck. "Don't you dare slow down, don't you dare stop, I am absolutely magnificent and if you put me down I will dissolve you where you stand."
Naruto's hips never broke rhythm. His hands gripped the soft flesh of her waist, fingers dimpling pale skin, and the sound of his body meeting hers filled the small cedar room like a drumbeat, wet and relentless. His breathing was steady. Controlled. The kind of measured cadence a sage used when gathering natural energy, except he was using it to ruin her from the inside out.
"This is really nice, Mizukage-sama. Like, really, really nice. I had no idea it could feel this good, ya know? I always thought people were exaggerating in those books Kakashi-sensei reads."
Nice.
Mei's fingers twisted in the futon fabric, knuckles bone-white, her face buried against the crook of her own arm. Sweat traced the line of her spine. Her thighs shook with each thrust, the trembling visible even in the low lamplight, and somewhere behind her clenched teeth a sound was building that had nothing to do with pleasure and everything to do with disbelief.
Nice. He said nice. He's been inside me for…. Kami-sama, how long has it been? Ten minutes? Fifteen? Any other man would be stammering apologies and finishing by now, and this ridiculous, golden, impossibly thick boy is making casual conversation about how NICE it is. What kind of monster stamina…. what kind of control does a twenty-three-year-old virgin have that lets him….
Her internal monologue shattered when he pulled out, caught her hip, and rolled her onto her side with the easy strength of a man repositioning a pillow. His left hand slid beneath her knee, lifted her leg, and draped it over his shoulder so the stretch opened her wide, her inner thigh pressed flat against his chest. The angle changed everything. He pressed back in from the side, slow this time, and the head of his cock dragged across something inside her that made her vision white out at the edges.
"AAAH! Naruto…. Naruto-kun, right there, right there, don't move, don't you dare move from that spot!" Her hand shot back and grabbed his hip, nails biting crescents into sun-browned skin, pulling him deeper.
He didn't move from that spot. He ground into it, rolling his hips in tight circles that hit the same devastating angle over and over, his thumb tracing slow patterns on the inside of her raised thigh, and Mei came apart like a dam breaking.
The orgasm ripped through her in a long, shuddering wave that started at the base of her spine and detonated outward. Her body clenched around him so hard her back arched off the futon, and the gush of slick heat that pulsed out of her soaked his cock, his thighs, the futon beneath them in a spreading dark stain. The cry that tore from her throat she buried into the pillow, teeth sinking into fabric, the sound muffled but still loud enough to rattle the sliding screen in its track. "MMMPPHH…. KAMI-SAMA…. I'm…. I can't…. oh fuck, oh fuck!"
Naruto didn't stop. His hips kept their rhythm, steady and deep, fucking her through the aftershocks while her legs trembled and her fingers clawed uselessly at the sheets. His free hand smoothed down her side, warm palm tracing the dip of her waist, and his voice came low and earnest against the back of her shoulder.
"You're so beautiful like this, Mizukage-sama. You're doing so well, ya know? Just breathe, I've got you. You're incredible."
He's praising me. He's praising me like I'm the one who needs encouragement. I am the Fifth Mizukage and I am being coached through an orgasm by a man who was dreaming about ramen twenty minutes ago.
She didn't have time to process the indignity. His hands were already moving her again, turning her onto her back with that same effortless strength, and the ceiling swam above her, cedar beams blurring through the tears that had gathered at her lashes. Naruto caught both her ankles, pressed them up and back until her knees bracketed her own ears, and the stretch burned through her hamstrings in a way that made her gasp.
He drove down into her. Hard.
"NARUTO! Oh Kami…. NARUTO!" Her hands flew to his shoulders, nails raking down his back, leaving red welts across the scars. "NARUTO-KUN…. please…. I can't…. NARUTO!" Each thrust punched the air from her lungs, the wet slap of his hips against her ass echoing off the cedar walls, and language abandoned her entirely. She screamed his name a fourth time, raw and broken, her voice cracking on the second syllable.
He eased her legs down, slow, careful, letting her calves slide over his shoulders until her thighs pressed wide around his waist and his weight settled over her. Chest to chest. His forehead touched hers, damp blond hair falling into her eyes, and his hips shifted to a deep, grinding roll that pushed him impossibly further inside her with each slow rotation.
The swelling. She could feel it, thick and insistent, his cock growing harder inside her, the head pressing against her cervix with each grind, and the realization hit her like cold water.
"Naruto-kun…. you need to pull out." Her voice came ragged, barely a whisper, her hands cupping his face. "I'm not…. it's not safe, you have to pull out before you…."
His lips brushed hers. His blue eyes were dark, pupils blown wide, and the look in them was nothing she'd ever seen on the oblivious boy from the war. "I can't, Mizukage-sama. You feel too good and I'm not going to. I'm sorry, I just…. I can't stop now, ya know?"
Her head fell back against the futon. Her legs locked around his waist, heels digging into the small of his back, and the last thread of diplomatic composure snapped clean.
"Then fill me up, Naruto-kun. Every single drop, give it all to me, don't you dare waste a single…. please."
His hips snapped forward, harder now, the restraint crumbling, and the sound of skin meeting skin cracked through the cedar room like thunder. Mei's hands flew to the futon above her head, fingers twisting into the fabric, her back bowing off the mat with each brutal stroke.
"AAAH! Yes…. yes, Naruto-kun, just like that…. don't hold back, give me everything you have!" Her voice broke on the last word, shredded and raw, the Mizukage's composure a distant memory buried beneath the wet rhythmic collision of their bodies. "Harder…. HARDER! I can take it, I promise you I can take every inch!"
Naruto's jaw clenched. His fingers dug into the backs of her thighs, spreading her wider, and he drove into her with a force that shoved the futon two inches across the tatami. Each impact punched a sharp, guttural cry from her chest, her breasts bouncing violently with the momentum, nipples flushed dark and swollen. The room filled with the obscene percussion of flesh on flesh, the creak of the floorboards beneath the futon, and Mei's voice climbing higher and higher until it wasn't language anymore.
"NNNGH…. KAMI…. KAMI-SAMA…. I'M GOING TO…. NARUTO!"
He buried himself to the hilt.
His pelvis ground flush against her, every thick inch sheathed so deep the blunt head pressed through the tight ring of her cervix and kissed the entrance to her womb. Mei's eyes flew wide, her mouth frozen open in a silent scream, every muscle in her body locking rigid as the impossible fullness registered in her spine like lightning.
Naruto's mouth found hers. He kissed her deep and slow, swallowing the broken sound that finally tore free, and his hips rolled once, twice, a grinding pressure that held him exactly where he was, and then his cock pulsed.
The groan that rumbled from his chest into her mouth was low and animal, vibrating through her teeth, and the first thick rope of cum hit her womb like a punch of liquid heat.
"Oh…. oh fuck…. Mei…." His forehead dropped against hers, breath ragged, blue eyes squeezed shut. "You feel so good, I can't…. Kami-sama, I can't stop, it won't stop coming…."
Mei's body answered before her mind could. Her walls clamped down on him in violent, rhythmic contractions, milking each surge deeper, and the orgasm that crashed through her was nothing like the first. This one started in her womb and radiated outward in concentric waves, her vision whiting out, her thighs shaking so hard her heels drummed against his lower back. She squirted around the seal of his cock, slick heat gushing past the tight junction of their bodies and soaking the ruined futon beneath them.
"I'M CUMMING…. I'm cumming again, Naruto-kun, I can feel you filling me up, oh Kami, there's so much…. there's so much!" Tears streaked her temples, pooling in the hollows of her ears, and her nails carved fresh red lines down his shoulders.
Then the heat came.
A tingling warmth bloomed across her right breast, painless but unmistakable, spreading like ink dropped in still water. A second bloom ignited on her left ass cheek, twin points of sensation that pulsed in perfect synchrony with the cock still throbbing inside her. Mei's dazed eye dropped to her own chest, and through the blur of tears and sweat she watched black ink spiral into existence on the pale swell of her breast. Lines curved and branched, precise as calligraphy, forming the unmistakable whorl of an Uzumaki spiral seal. The ink darkened, set, and pulsed once with faint amber light.
The seal on her ass completed a heartbeat later. She couldn't see it, but she could feel it, warm and alive against her skin, thrumming in rhythm with her heartbeat, with his heartbeat, with the thick pulse of his cock still buried in her cum-flooded womb.
The moment both seals locked into place, the second wave hit.
"AAAGH! What…. what is this?! Naruto-kun, what did you…. NNGH!" Mei's spine arched so violently her shoulders left the futon, her body convulsing around him in a clenching, rolling orgasm that made the first two feel like warm-ups. She squirted again, a hot gush that splattered against his pelvis and ran in rivulets down her thighs, and the seals pulsed in tandem, each throb sending another cascading wave of pleasure through her nervous system like chakra forced through tenketsu points.
"I didn't…. I didn't know seals could do this!" she sobbed, her fingers gripping his biceps, her whole body trembling beneath him. "Kami-sama, they're still going…. I can feel them inside me, they're connected to you somehow, every time your heart beats I…. AAAH!"
Naruto stared down at the black spiral on her breast, blue eyes wide, his cock still twitching inside her with the last thick spurts. His thumb traced the edge of the seal, and Mei whimpered, her hips bucking up involuntarily.
"I didn't do that on purpose, I swear. That's…. that's an Uzumaki bonding seal, I've seen it in the old clan scrolls but I never thought…." He blinked, something between wonder and bewilderment crossing his face. "Ero-Sennin would have loved this. He'd have written six chapters about it and made me proofread every single one, the old pervert."
He eased out of her. Slow, careful, his softening cock dragging against her swollen walls, and the gush that followed was immediate and obscene. Thick, white cum spilled from her in a heavy flood, pooling on the soaked futon beneath her hips, and Mei lay there heaving, chest rising and falling in ragged gulps, the seals on her breast and ass still tingling with residual warmth. Her thighs trembled. Her hair spread across the futon in a tangled auburn halo, damp with sweat, strands plastered to her neck and shoulders.
She pushed up onto her elbows. Her green eye found him, glazed and half-lidded, pupils blown so wide the iris was a thin emerald ring. Cum leaked from her in a slow, viscous trail. The Uzumaki seal on her right breast pulsed once, soft amber, and a shiver rolled through her.
Her hand found him. Still half-hard, sticky with the mingled evidence of both of them, and the weight of him in her palm made her breath catch all over again.
"Come here, Naruto-kun. I'm not finished with you yet, and you are not going to sleep until I've tasted every last drop." She wrapped her fingers around the base, squeezed once, and bent forward without ceremony.
Her lips parted around the flushed head and she sank down, tongue dragging flat and slow along the underside, tasting salt and musk and the sharp sweetness of her own arousal layered beneath his cum. She hummed, low and satisfied, the vibration buzzing through his shaft, and her cheeks hollowed as she sucked him clean with long, deliberate pulls. Her tongue swirled the ridge beneath the head, dipped into the slit, gathered the last pearl of thick white that beaded there, and she swallowed with a soft, audible gulp.
Her eye lifted to his. Green and luminous, lashes damp, the look of a woman who had been fucked past coherence and was already calculating how to make it happen again. The seal on her breast glowed faintly with each suck, each pulse of his blood beneath her tongue, and the connection hummed between them like a plucked wire.
"You taste even better mixed with me," she murmured around him, lips glistening, before sinking back down to the root.
Mei came off him with a wet, obscene pop, a string of saliva and cum stretching between her swollen lips and the flushed head of his cock before it broke and landed on her chin. She wiped it with the back of her hand, smearing it across her cheek without caring, and sat back on her heels to look at him properly. Her chest heaved. The Uzumaki seal on her right breast pulsed soft amber in the lamplight.
"I'm impressed, Naruto-kun. Genuinely, thoroughly impressed." Her voice came out wrecked, scraped raw, the diplomatic polish stripped away to something honest and breathless. "For a virgin, you have absolutely ruined me, and I mean that as the highest compliment I have ever given a man in my entire career as a kunoichi and a Kage. I am good for two more rounds before I'll need a real break, possibly some water and definitely a new futon, because this one is beyond saving."
Naruto sat back on his heels, knees spread wide on the soaked fabric, his cock still heavy and half-hard against his thigh, glistening in the low light. He tilted his head to one side, blond hair falling across his forehead, and the look on his face was so earnest, so genuinely curious, that it made her stomach flip.
"That's really nice of you to say, Mizukage-sama, and I'm glad you're having a good time, ya know? But how would you feel about ten instead of two? Because honestly, I don't think I'm anywhere close to done, and I've got a lot of energy left that's going to keep me up all night anyway."
Mei laughed. The sound was warm and rich and genuine, bubbling up from her chest, her shoulders shaking, her ruined hair swaying against her back. She laughed because the earnestness was absurd, because the offer was absurd, because the entire night had been absurd from the moment she'd slid open his door in a seafoam robe with nothing underneath.
She stopped laughing.
His hands came up in a cross seal, index and middle fingers locked together, and the room got fuller.
Four puffs of white smoke bloomed around the futon in rapid succession, displaced air ruffling Mei's loose hair across her face, and when the haze cleared there were four more Narutos arranged in a loose semicircle. Each one solid. Each one real enough that she could feel their individual body heat pressing against her skin from every direction. One knelt to her left, shirtless, sleep pants riding low. Another stood at the foot of the futon, already bare, his cock hanging thick and heavy between his thighs. The third crouched behind her, close enough that his breath stirred the hair at the nape of her neck. The fourth leaned against the cedar wall with his arms crossed, watching her with the same blue eyes as the original, his erection straining visibly against thin cotton.
Mei's head turned. Left. Right. Behind. Back to center, where the real Naruto knelt with his hands lowered and that same guileless tilt to his head.
Her tongue dragged slow across her lower lip. The gesture was automatic, involuntary, something between hunger and a fear she would never in her life admit to feeling. The seal on her breast pulsed faster.
"Do they all have the same equipment?" Her voice came out smaller than she intended, her visible green eye darting from clone to clone, cataloguing the identical thickness, the identical heavy hang of balls between identical muscled thighs. "Every single one of them, Naruto-kun…. are they all exactly the same as you?"
The closest clone, the one kneeling to her left, answered in a voice that layered softly with the others, four mouths moving in near-unison like a whispered chord. "Every inch, Mizukage-sama. Every single inch, all the same, all real enough to feel everything and give everything right back."
The original Naruto reached forward and tucked a strand of damp auburn hair behind her ear, his calloused thumb brushing her cheekbone. "You can tap out anytime, ya know? Just say the word and they're gone. No pressure, no judgment. I mean that, Mizukage-sama."
Mei's hands were shaking. She could see them trembling against her own thighs, pale fingers against flushed skin, and she clenched them once, hard, then released. The smile she gave him was unsteady at the edges, cracked through with something wild and reckless, the smile of a woman standing at the edge of a cliff she fully intended to jump from.
"I am a Kage, Naruto-kun. I have never tapped out of anything in my entire life, and I am not about to start tonight." She straightened her spine, squared her shoulders, and lifted her chin. "All of you. Come here. Now."
They moved as one.
Four sets of hands found her at the same moment, warm and rough and everywhere, and Mei's world collapsed into sensation. The clone behind her pulled her back against a broad chest, mouth latching onto the curve of her neck, teeth grazing her pulse point while his hands cupped both breasts from behind, thumbs rolling her swollen nipples. The clone to her left caught her wrist and guided her hand to his cock, wrapping her fingers around the shaft, and she gripped on instinct, stroking without conscious thought. The one at her feet spread her thighs apart with firm hands, dropped between them, and his tongue found her clit with devastating accuracy.
The real Naruto tilted her chin up and kissed her, deep and slow, swallowing the first broken sound before it could escape.
"AAAH! Oh Kami…. oh Kami-sama, there's too many hands, I can't…. I can't track them all!" Mei's back arched against the clone behind her, her hips grinding down against the mouth between her legs, her hand pumping the shaft to her left in a rhythm that stuttered every time the tongue below found a new angle. "Don't stop…. none of you stop, if a single one of you stops I will melt you where you kneel!"
The fourth clone stepped off the wall, caught her free hand, and pressed it against his cock. Mei's fingers closed around him and she moaned into Naruto's mouth, both arms now working in tandem, stroking two thick shafts while a third tongue devoured her and a fourth body held her upright from behind. The wet sounds filled the cedar room, obscene and layered, slick skin and desperate breathing and the rhythmic schlick-schlick of her hands on identical cocks.
"NNNGH…. fuck…. fuck…. you beautiful, impossible…. AAAH!" The clone between her thighs sucked her clit between his lips and her spine snapped rigid, her orgasm crashing through her without warning, the seals on her breast and ass flaring amber in synchronized pulses. She squirted against his chin, her thighs clamping around his head, and the scream she released into Naruto's kiss vibrated through both their skulls.
They didn't give her time to recover.
The clone behind her lifted her by the hips, positioned her over his lap, and she sank down onto him with a sound that was half sob, half prayer. "OH KAMI…. it's so deep from this angle, I can feel you in my stomach!" The original Naruto knelt in front of her, cock level with her gasping mouth, and she took him in without being asked, lips stretching wide, tears already streaming. The two clones she'd been stroking pressed close on either side, their cocks hot and heavy against her palms, and her fingers resumed their desperate rhythm. The fifth clone watched, waited, his hand lazily stroking himself, blue eyes patient.
The pace built. The clone beneath her thrust up in steady, punishing rolls while she bounced on his lap, breasts swinging, the seal pulsing with each impact. Her mouth worked the original with sloppy, choking devotion, drool running down her chin and dripping onto her heaving chest. Every few strokes the clone below would grind deep and hold, and Mei would convulse around him, a small death each time, her muffled wails vibrating around Naruto's shaft.
"MMMPPHH…. MMMPPHH…. HHNNNGH!" She pulled off the original long enough to gasp a ragged breath. "I'm cumming again…. Kami-sama, I've lost count, I can't…. they won't stop coming, the seals won't stop pulsing!" Then his cock was back in her mouth and the sounds she made weren't words anymore.
One room over, Tsunade lay face-down in a sake stain that had spread from her pillow to the middle of the futon, her cheek mashed flat against the wet fabric, one arm dangling off the edge. Her snore crested into a thunderous, rattling crescendo that shook the empty bottles beside her, held for three magnificent seconds, and subsided into a mumbled "....call…. raise you…. sixty…." before cycling back into the deep, oblivious rhythm of a woman who could sleep through the end of the world and had, in fact, very nearly done so once before.