There was a lot of silence for some time after Naruto and his Mother had embraced, the four of them sat in the room, with drinks, but unsure what to say in this awkward moment.
Kushina would look him over, amazed at how much he looked like her husband the more she looked, and noticing small details about him that would chip away at the lingering doubts that her heart was simply accepting a falsehood out of pain.
Kushina was also thinking back to her encounter years ago with the orc chief who she killed for the death of her son, wondering if she had missed a sign, a clue to his deception, and could find nothing. Either her memory had failed her, or the Orc had somehow become a master deceiver.
“So...” she eventually spoke up. “...I’m sure your father would have liked to be here to greet you too. But, there is trouble to the east.”
“Trouble?” Naruko asked. “It’s not the giants again is it?” a nod, given by Kushina, being her answer. “Those Neanderthals seriously need to stick to their territory; we can’t keep send out extermination forces to...”
“This is the way of things Naruko.” Kushina said, more sternly, before turning to Naruto. “Tell me... were you a warrior of the human world, or some academic?”
Naruto shook his head. “Not really. I guess you could say I was still in my academic years.” He said, “I was still deciding what route to take in my life when all this came up.” He chuckled. “I’d.... grown up a bit of a wild child, moving between foster homes really got to me, and getting in to trouble... just seemed like a good idea at the time. But, I never did anything bad, in fact, whichever school I went to, I was a loner, but I always ended up looking after the weaker kids. I really hate bullies.”
“You are a defender.” Kushina smiled.
He blushes a little, and smiled “I guess so. I suppose I was debating on whether to join the police, or the army, or army then police.”
“Police?!” Kushina asked, unfamiliar with the term.
“Umm... a Law enforcer.” He explained.
“AH, A town guard.” She nodded, understanding, and smiled. “I will not lie, this pleases me, that you did not become too much of the scholarly kind, that you understand the need for action.”
Naruto was happy to hear that it had pleased his mother, but he was still unsure if he could please her with his level of skill. The warriors of this world were raised up with it, from what he understood; Naruko was learning the sword at the age of six years old; by 10 she was hunting with a bow.
He didn’t like the idea of disappointing her now, but what could he do?
She must have noticed his worry in his face, as the next question seemed too well timed to his thoughts.
“You’re worried that your time as a human has left you... unfairly weak and unskilled.” She commented, with a sympathetic tone.
“He... has improved during our journey home.” Naruko interrupted “He seems to show promise too in power, but... he still has a ways to go.”
“Promise?” Kushina asked, for clarification.
“During my initial test, and only yesterday, Naruto released up to four tails worth of energy, even if it was just for a short time.” Naruko explained.
“But I didn’t really control it though.” Naruto confessed.
“That will come with time my so... son.” Kushina said, hesitating when she named him her son. It was still only hitting her that her child had returned, like a dream she had had every day since she began mourning his loss.
Naruto noticed, and looked to his feet with a small smile. He had dreamt of a real mother for years, so he understood the feeling.
“Then, how about I see your strength for myself, so I can understand what needs to be done?” Kushina said, and then turned to Naruto. “Unless... you do not wish to be a warrior?”
The question jarred Naruto a moment, he didn’t really think about it; what did he want to do now? He had met his mother, and was learning about whom he was, but beyond that, he had not considered the future.
He just nodded and smiled, which pleased his mother.
But with all the travelling they had done, it was now early evening, and so, it was decided to settle in.
Kushina allowed Naruto to be use Naruko’s room, which he was unsure about, filling up, getting cramped with three people; but upon seeing the room, he realised it was a foolish concern.
The room itself was like an apartment, a large living area with a balcony, and a second room just as large with a bed wide enough for probably five people lay shoulder to shoulder, and long enough for someone his height and half again.
The bed had silk drapes all around it, and the décor of the room was sparse, but not devoid of colour and things to enjoy.
Naruko spent little time here as she trained a lot more than anything else, but had books to read when she wished to relax.
While Naruto and Hinata relaxed in the chairs by the fire, Naruko left to change, returning in silk wrap dress. It seemed like one long piece of cloth, clasped at certain pints so it simply wouldn’t fall off.
And it was partially see through, so it seemed all the more revealing than the way it was wrapped around her; she even had her hair down.
Naruto and Hinata were a little surprised as she seemed so much more relaxed as she sat beside Naruto, opposite to Hinata, and the three relaxed, and talked until dinner.
It was very late when Naruto’s eyes opened.
It was dark, but there was enough faint light to see the naked forms of Hinata and Naruko laid either side of him.
He looked at them, and realised he had started to get used to sleeping with them, no longer as embarrassed as he once was.
But as he continued to look, his mind tingled with a sensation, as if sensing someone in the room; turning to the direction, but seeing no one.
He took a breath and summoned enough energy to turn his eyes red, and increasing his night vision.
Naruto carefully slid out of the two girls’ arms and to the floor, pulling on his shorts, and trousers before checking out the next room; he knew he should have awoken Naruko at least, but something told him he needed need to.
He continued to search, following his instincts as they worked him through the corridors and eventually, he exited in to a garden area.
The garden area was placed on and overlook of the city, and it was very quiet, and the scent of the flowers, and trees calmed him.
“I like this place.” Came a feminine voice; its very tone was strong, and regal, that he nearly turned and bowed, as well as putting himself on guard; it was an odd sensation not being sure whether to defend himself, or kneel.
He did turn though, and his eyes went wide at the stunning beauty stood before him, nine long tails waving behind her, emitting a strange ethereal glow that made her body silhouette a little in the changing light.
“Welcome home, young prince.” She said, stepping closer, her hair was red and longer than his mothers, and her eyes were both mesmerising and dangerous; her entire being seemed to show beauty, and yet there were things about her that gave the sense that beneath her was an incredible danger.
“Th-thank you...” He said, and with an uncertain tone added “...your highness.”
She smiled as she drew even closer, stood before him.
“You may call me Kurama when we are alone.” She said with a pleased and soothing tone, her voice sending a shiver through him, he could feel the atmosphere around him emit a strange pressure the closer she got.
“Relax, young kit.” She said, a finger lifting his chin to look her in the eyes. “You will get used to my presence soon enough.” She advised. “Ah... yes, truly you imitate your father in his younger years.”
“So I have been told.” He replied. “It was you I was... feeling.” He then realised.
“Ah, quick to understand, this is good.” She said. “Yes, I reached out to you, as I wished to see you in person.”
“...It was you in my head too, at the succubus palace wasn’t it?” he asked.
She laughed a little “Yes, I have my ways of... watching over my people, and my kin.” She said. “You are my blood, through my daughter Kushina.”
“I wish you had known I was alive... perhaps you could have...”
“I would not have been able to do anything.” She interrupted, walking around him, to look out over the city. “Even I am unable to search beyond this realm. And if I had known by other means, the human world’s essence would only weaken my capabilities to locate you, even if you were within a mile of me.”
“Do you know what happened to me?” he asked. “I mean... how I could have gotten to the human world?”
“You were sent there.” She said. “I’m not sure by whom, or why.”
“And the book?”
She growled a little. “That book destroyed my grandfather’s essence... and yet, despite what we believed it still exists.”
Naruto felt a little afraid of her anger at that moment, and tensed, but she calmed down.
“May I?” she calmly asked, reaching out a hand. Despite he had not carried it she knew he could call upon it.
He handed her the book as it appeared like a ghost in his hand and he opened it.
She looked through a few pages, glancing over them more in curiosity than in scholarly intent.
“I see...” she said, closing the book and holding it in one hand, as energy appeared around her hand, like red smoke, and over the book, before revealing a line that connected the book to Naruto.
“W-What the...” Naruto, looked and tried to rub off where the line attached to his chest, but his fingers just went through it.
“Do not expect more, this book is soul tethered to you.” She said.
“Soul...” Naruto blinked.
“I begin to understand.” She said. “You were not given this book, you were born with it.”
“Born with it?” he asked, confused, after all, wouldn’t someone have seen it when he popped out of his mother?
Wait, did Demon foxes give birth differently to humans?! He pondered that for only a second, before thinking it might be a dumb thought.
“When my grandfather tried to destroy the book, did he make a mistak...” she muttered, more to herself, thinking out loud, before scowling at the book. “...Grandfather, you fool. How could you?” she grumbled. “You paid for the sin though, but cursed your blood!”
“Kurama?” Naruto asked, stepping forward.
She turned and smiled to him, handing him back the book. “You have a troublesome duty Naruto.” She said. “Be wary of this book, and the knowledge it maintains. It could as easily corrupt you, as it could lift you to greater heights.”
“Then why would I use it?” he asked “If it’s that dangerous then I should...”
“You know you cannot.” She said “And don’t use it, if you can resist. But power is an enticing thing, and few who sip upon it find a way to resist a second taste.”
Naruto looked at the book, and was a little worried.
Kurama reached over and cupped his cheek. “Worry not, young one. Worries can wait for a new day, come, and let us speak more of less troubling matters.
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Bonus Scene.
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After an hour of talking about his life Kurama had patiently listened, and finally stopped him, by running a hand up his bare chest.
“You have mated with Naruko.” She mutters, and sniffed him. “Multiple times..”
“H-Huh?!” he blinked, blushing. “W-Well... I... we... she...”
She grinned. “Worry not. We do not follow the same sense of behaviour that some races do.” She said. “As long as it is consensual, anything is possible.”
“R-Really?!” he blushed. Naruko had said the same thing, but somehow it still surprised him every time he heard it.
“Yes.” She says, standing, and disrobing before him, revealing her naked body; despite her age, she looked no older than his mother, a woman in her mid to early thirties, at least.
Her tails swished around her body, covering parts at first before displaying her nudity, and wrapping around him, to pull him closer.
her hands slid down his chest to his trousers, and she unbuttoned them.
“It has been some time since I have mated.” She said, “And since I have presented my naked form to you, you must accept me.”
Naruto felt his trousers and shorts getting pulled down by two of her tails, and was nude in front of her.
“And... if i.. refuse?” he asked.
Her lips drew closer as her hand clasped his aroused member, and started stroking him.
“Do not make a queen beg.” She breathed.
“Then... I accept.” He muttered before she pressed her lips to his.
Energy seemed to rush between them, Naruto’s body suddenly feeling high on power.
“Don’t waste it.” She muttered as she used her tails to not only form a bed, but lift her up and lay Naruto back, but also to lift and lower her on to him, straddling him, as she felt him enter her.
She looked down to him. “Now... fuck your queen.” She growled.
Naruto nodded, and grabbed her hips, starting to move her.
The energy he felt was hot, and he felt himself grow more excited, grinning, and starting to growl, his actions roughly moving her.
She looked so beautiful too, even though she glared at him, but the more she did the harder and faster he moved her hips, and dug his nails in to her hips.
Sweat was quickly building between them, as Naruto got rougher, kurama’s own efforts starting to add in to his as the two grew more intense with their fucking.
Naruto could barely focus on anything else but her, and her body, and having sex with her; he could feel the animalistic desire for her, just like he had with Naruko.
He growled as he sat up and began suckling on her tits, Kurama moaning out loudly with barks and growls as she wrapped her arms around him, scratching his back, as the wildly kept fucking, sounding like beasts, their lips ferociously mashing together.
When they felt themselves orgasm, they practically howled out in to the night.
How many times they did it, Naruto wasn’t sure, through the haze of it all, but by the time he returned to bed, the nigh had brightened slightly, and he collapsed in to a short sleep, before being awoken for a new day.