Naruto: The Prince of Lust

Chapter 220

NARUTO

'Ask, ask, ask,' Kurama repeats. Though Naruto is physically in Iruka's kitchen with nine cups of ramen in front of him, waiting for the heated water to soften the hard noodles, his consciousness in within the seal, in the large, dark, and dank room housing the greatest bijuu. From behind the tall metal gates, Kurama is prowling in a circle, agitated as he continues to chastise Naruto. 'You said you would! ... and to think I restrained all of my chakra for your pride!'

'It wasn't about proving something,' Naruto calls back. 'That fight just didn't have anything to do with you. Do you want me to just use your chakra for everything?'

'Yes,' Kurama calls back. 'Do you know how devoid I was of any sensation during your fight? It felt worse than being in this cage, as if I ceased to exist; as if one as great as I didn't matter! I felt cold and dead and I shouldn't need to go through that!'

'...I wasn't trying to make you feel that way,' Naruto slowly responds, realizing he never actually thought how Kurama might feel. Naruto knows all too well what that feeling is like and says as much. 'I get how horrible feeling like you don't exist is... which means, I should've known better. I'm sorry I made you go through that.'

Kurama grumbles for several moments as he continues his agitated pacing, before asserting, 'it's intolerable.' Moving before the gates, Kurama lays down and places his head over his front paws as he relays, '...it's only because you were not defeated that I'll ignore it this time.'

Moving closer to the gate, Naruto smiles at the large beast, offering his gratitude before adding, 'we're partners, Kurama, and I really do want you to feel like you can trust me.'

'Then ask,' Kurama voices.

'I will, I will,' Naruto skittishly responds, anxiously clapping both his hands over the sides of his face. 'I'm just nervous. I've never heard of such a thing. Ji-chan and Teuchi-jiji always talk about how the right one for me is out there. Aren't I being greedy by being with multiple girls?'

With lazy eyes, Kurama effortlessly answers, 'no.'

Rolling his eyes at Kurama's bias, Naruto then asks, 'what if I take someone else's one?'

'So,' Kurama flatly responds. 'You make it sound like thievery. It's there decision as much as yours, yes?'

'I guess,' Naruto wonders aloud, before asking, 'how's it possible to love more than one person?'

"What? Where did that come-" Karin calls out wide-eyed in surprise as she sets her sticks in her nearly empty cup. Suspicious of his regard, Karin asks, "do you mean for our clan?"

"No, no," Naruto tries, shaking his head as he sets down his empty cup. "I don't want it to seem like it's for that. I just mean, I've never heard of a marriage-type of love between three or more people and I was wondering if you have."

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"Uh, I haven't," Karin evenly states, finishing her cup. She takes another cup he offers as she asserts, "I know we're not a big clan anymore, but we don't have to rush-"

"Yeah, yeah, I know," Naruto expresses. "Sorry, I'm not explaining this right. I just don't think you can love more than one person, like that, at the same time."

"Well, marriage tends to be between two people," Karin comments. "But I don't really know enough about that to be of any help. I've only just recently- uh, ...I don't have any experience that might help you. Sorry."

"That's okay," Naruto waves her off, blowing into his third cup. "I just thought I'd ask."

"What I can do is help get our clan established here," Karin offers. "Do you have time today? It's a lot of stuff."

"Are you kidding," Naruto eagerly asks. "Let's do it!" However, thoughts of the plans in place led Naruto to yell, "aah, but first," before he rushes outside. Once in the middle of Iruka's forested backyard, Naruto concentrates on a majority of his spirit energy, crosses paired fingers into a cross and voices, "Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Karin is by the door watching curiously when nearly five hundred clones of her blond cousin manifest with popping bursts of puffy white smoke, filling her vision with white.

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