Naruto: Ero-ninja

Target: Samui

Naruto waited as the cloud of smoke cleared from the henge he had worn while he pretended to be Kakami Takayama. It was the persona that Naruto used when he was taking one of his lovers out for a date as it allowed him to spend time with each of his lovers equally. The woman his lovers would be was named Meiko, although her name changed due to the backstory that she was a Snow-nin who was suffering from multiple personality's disorder. Naruto smiled as the smoke billowed around him as he enjoyed that aspect of dating his lovers due to how some of the people they interacted with never knew exactly who they were dealing with. There had been more than one example when Naruto and a lover had been out on the town, and when his back was turned some guy would hit on her only for the person to learn that the response he could expect varied widely. He couldn't help but chuckle as he recalled a time when a guy had tried, while Naruto had been getting him and his date a drink, to convince his lover to leave with him. The man had obviously expected that at worse he would receive the same polite refusal that he had received when Hinata had been playing Meiko. He had learned that while long purple hair might mean that, unless of course it was Yuugao as Naruto figured she'd simple chop such a guy in the throat, long red hair tended to me proceed with caution. Especially, when the red-head playing Meiko was Tayuya. She had simply responded with a quick, "Fuck off," and when the man had become belligerent had simply decided to end the conversation by slamming the guy's head into the bar. It was a lesson that most people had taken to heart as they recognized that the hair style and color that "Meiko," wore was a fairly good indicator on what kind of temperament they could expect.

Naruto waited for the smoke to clear so he could look upon his date for that night, so made use of the time to reflect on the previous several weeks since his adding Toka to his life as a lover. Naturally, his home life had calmed down substantially with her inclusion, and like he had expected his other lovers had not carried a grudge for her previous demeanor. Although, Mito and the Senju still had yet to truly interact outside of a few gatherings in the Den's war room where they had discussed matters related to his ambition. Truthfully though, Naruto felt it was a mislabeling to consider it only his ambition so had taken to thinking of it as theirs, since while he may have been the one to get things rolling. His lovers were just as dedicated and passionate about it as he was.

But that wasn't to say that he was relinquishing his position as the head of his family. Far from it in fact as he had noticed that with his taking a firmer stance on his being the one in charge it had shored up the cracks in his relationships that had allowed things like the recent discord between Kiyomi and him.

He had been a little worried the first time he had gone against Tsunade's wishes, such as when she had wanted him to seduce a noblewoman, who served as one of the Fire Daimyo's advisors. The Hokage had even gone so far as to arrange a mission where the two of them would be alone for the duration of it. Yet, when he had returned and she had asked how it went, he had informed her that he had not even tried as he had found the woman's personality rather revolting. Tsunade had tried to explain to him how the woman would be in a key position to help influence the Daimyo. However, Naruto had explained how he couldn't bring himself to take her as a lover due to a belief she held that she was superior to others mainly due to the family that she had been born to, more to the point he doubted that she'd ever wish to change. Still his lover had pushed until Naruto had firmly told her to drop it. The Hokage relented, but as he left her office he had thought that he noticed a small smirk appear on her face making him believe that she had arranged the whole affair in order to show him that she too was willing to follow his whims at least as far as their family was concerned.

Naruto felt that in a sense he was finally able to sit back and smell the roses as it were, especially when he considered for how long he and his lovers were reacting to other people's plots. He knew another analogy could be that he was simply in the eye of the hurricane. But peaceful times were peaceful times, and he knew that regardless of the type of peace he was enjoying there was still work to be done. Therefore, every free minute that he had not dedicated to his shinobi duties or lovers was spent training. The results of which he felt were really beginning to bear fruit. For example, Yuugao had taken to joining him and Miya in their swordsmanship practice, something that had benefitted both women's styles as much as it had his. He had also taken to having Tsunade train him in chakra control, and while he had yet to master the basic clone jutsu. He had noticed that the number of shadow clones he would create tended to be double of what he would normally have created due to the fact that he wasted less chakra. Meaning, that using the same chakra that he would have to create two clones now produced four and so forth.