What followed, was a rather one-sided beat down. The trio seems to be rattled that their beloved Orochimaru-sama would gift Sasuke a hickey, so they barely summoned the effort to resist.
Mummy seemed to be the most shocked and didn't even try to attack Sasuke.
After Sasuke broke one of Handjob Man's hands, the black markings on his body receded which resulted in him staggering and almost collapsing to the ground.
Naruto was already looking through his bag to find some snacks, so he can properly enjoy the reverse beatdown, but to his disappointment, Mummy handed over his scroll and left.
'What the hell, Mummy? You should have at least snuck a few kicks in before leaving. I would have even pretended to not be able to reach Sasuke in time to prevent it. And why is Sasuke looking at me this smugly? Does he want applause?'
[Pretty sure he does. This was the first time he won a fight, after all.]
'Now that I think about it that's true, huh?'
Naruto was just about to make a bunch of shadow clones to create a crowd that could cheer for Sasuke, when Sakura, with tears in her eyes, hugged Sasuke from behind.
"Please don't become like this ever again."
Naruto could only shake his head when he heard that.
'Pretty sure that is not a realistic request. He got a high from the power up and as soon as he did he won a fight.'
[Totally hooked on the Orochimaru juice.]
'...'
[...]
'Couldn't you have said that a little bit differently?'
[Yeah, sorry. I am already regretting what I just said so cut me some slack, here.]
Naruto shook his head to get the weird images out of his head and started to speak.
"Well, now that our princess has awoken from her slumber and Mummy gave us the scroll we needed, we might as well race to the tower in the middle of the forest and get this over with."
'The earlier I can get away from Sasuke, the ticking time bomb, the better. If I suggest putting a seal on that curse mark, he will probably fight me to the death. *Sigh*, so troublesome.'
Meanwhile, outside the Forest of Death, a little mouse was frozen in fear in front of a snake.
"Oh? So Yuna gave you a message for me, huh?"
"Y-Yes, Mitarashi-sama!"
Karin really wanted to curse Yuna right now. Although the feeling Anko gave off wasn't as dangerous as Yuna's, but Karin still felt like a dangerous predator appeared in front of her.
With shaking hands, she handed over the piece of paper that Yuna had given her.
As soon as Anko touched it, text appeared on it.
"Dear Anko,
two shinobi from the grass were unfortunately killed by Orochimaru, while a third one, a girl with red hair and red eyes was kidnapped by him due to her powerful sensing capabilities.
On a totally unrelated note, the girl in front of you is Karin Uzumaki, I decided to pick her up due to her powerful sensing capabilities and her being an Uzumaki.
Please handle it like the other Uzumaki that were brought to Konoha.
With Love,
Yuna"
Anko chuckled when she finished reading Yuna's message, which was written in the typical "Yuna" style. At the same time, she couldn't help feeling happy about the last part.
"I see, having you become part of Konoha shouldn't be a problem, just don't announce loudly that you were originally a shinobi from the Grass."
"Is it really that easy?"
Anko only shrugged her shoulders.
"It's Yuna after all. This much is normal."
Karin's face brightened when Anko said that.
"So, I was right! She seemed really dependable when I first saw her. And it's really cool how determined and confident she is. And her smile is... hehe..."
Anko slightly raised her eyebrows when she saw Karin gushing about Yuna with a blush on her face.
'She sure works fast, huh?'
A smirk appeared on Anko's face.
"Hey, Karin? Just out of curiosity, do you like reading books?"
Although Karin was slightly taken aback by that sudden question, she still nodded her head.
"I do."
A predator-like smile appeared on Anko's face.
"I wonder if you have ever heard of the book Garden of Lilies?"
Karin's face immediately turned crimson when she heard that name.
"N-N-No I h-haven't."
"Oh? Are you sure about that?"
Anko was slowly approaching Karin and despite them being outside, Karin felt like she was being backed into a corner.
"Hehe, you fell for Yuna, right?"
Karin blushed even harder when she heard Anko's question.
"N-N-No! I-I-I..."
"Hehe, you are in luck, Yuna actually likes women."
Karin's eyes lit up when she heard that.
'So, I have a chance! First, we'll get to know each other better, then we'll starting dating, after a while, we will start kissing and then guhehe...'
Although Anko wasn't sure what kind of fantasy Karin was having, her surprisingly lecherous smile gave a rather good indicator.
'Guess I should wrap this up. I wonder how she will react to this.'
"Well, there is, even more, I haven't told you yet. Yuna is already together with someone. Or in fact with two other people. And she actually wants to increase that number even further."
At first, Karin completely froze up when she heard that. Then, she started blushing harder and harder. Next, her smile became more and more lecherous until it no longer resembled a human and finally some blood came out of her nose and she fainted with a blissful smile on her face.
"This little girl is a different kind of genius, huh? This should be fun~ I wonder how Hinata will react when she finds out that Yuna has picked up another girl. Hehe, so much fun~"
Hinata and her team had just defeated a bunch of Rain shinobi with gas masks that prepared a trap near the goal, when Hinata, yet again, abruptly lifted her head and started to scan her surroundings.
"What wrong Hinata? Are there even more of these weirdos lurking around?"
Hinata was still scanning her surroundings with her Byakugan, but couldn't find anything. A frown appeared on her face.
"It is the same feeling as last time, but much stronger. It feels like something happened that I didn't want to happen."
"That sounds rather strange."
Hinata nodded her head, but the frown stayed on her face for a while longer.
"Whatever, we have more than enough scrolls so let's get out of here."
"Haha, finally! Although it was only a day being constantly on guard is rather stressful."
Although Hinata nodded her head in agreement, she didn't think that was actually the case. After all, she was always on guard, no matter the situation so she didn't feel much pressure during the second test.
The only time she felt the pressure was during the fight against Orochimaru. The fatigue of that instantly vanished after Yuna kissed her, though.
A few days later, the second test finished and it was time for the next part of the chunin exam.
And then there was three and a quite perverted three at that. I look forward to the shenanigans these girls get into but I'm hoping she doesn't add to many more as a giant harem loses its impact as you can't give them all enough screen time. 3 to 4 is perfect, plenty of room on a bed for some interesting night time fun.
Maerry· Author · Dec 30, 2020
Yuri harem. 4-5 members in case you're wondering
This is an earlier quote from the author btw. Not sure if Haku is going to be included, but there are some cute potential waifus from the movies also...
@Salokin Hey stories evolve past original expectations, especially if fans are vocal and dedicated enough so more harem is possible but I doubt it growing larger than 3 times projected estimate
@Rexsaur As long as the waifus remain actual characters that continue to interact and have wants and desires instead of being background dressing I'll be satisfied.
@Salokin True I don't want a bland harem of barely seen women, a good example against this is Eroninja
@Rexsaur Ya so far the author is doing a excellent job at giving each major character screen time but if the harem raises to say 6 plus it will be difficult to keep the members relevant unless they form a ninja team of their own and even then there is limits. I loved the team work displayed against the snake but if there is too many involved that would be difficult to pull off.
@Draecath Not all harem members have to be ninja but yeah keeping everyone relevant at every arc will be hard but a simple solution (if it does get to that point) is to make some more important is some arcs and the others important in other arcs
@Rexsaur True but I'm more of a fan of small highly detailed and involved harems. However with how detailed the current batch of characters are I'm sure the author will give life to a decent sized harem giving each member their time to shine.
@Draecath True I love those stories as well but as you have seen I biased towards bigger ones so let us hope that no matter the path the author goes the story remains as good or better quality as it is now
@Rexsaur heh. Reminds me of Toika's works.
Don't get me wrong, guy's a good writer.
Just can't write non-harem to save his live. Hell on one in the author's notes at the beginning he even said he wasn't going to do harem. That did not work.
@FishEater can you link me his work I would like to see it
@Rexsaur Sure, here ya go:
https://www.novelupdates.com/nauthor/toika/