Turning around, i leans on the railing, straightening her posture so her chest juts out more as she asked with playful concern, "ara, I'm not being a bother, am I?"
"No, no," Naruto tries to reassure her. "No bother. I like eting new people. I t a couple from Kiri too. One's my best friend."
"A best friend from Kiri... that's uplifting to hear," i admits with a sweet smile. She suddenly felt different then. Unless he's a spectacular liar, she can tell he's being honest. It makes her want to be a little more open as she orates, "you know, strength and power may move a man in the physical world but I believe Karma is the law of the spiritual world. When you inevitably cross into the eternal lands, I don't believe you can absolve your sins in this life by claiming, 'I was ordered to do that,' or, 'they threatened to kill if I didn't,' or, 'being virtuous was inconvenient.' Your actions, and thus, your soul is in your keeping and yours alone. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, I do," Naruto thoughtfully answered. "I an, I never put it as well as that but, yeah, that makes sense."
"What a pleasant feeling," i sounded with content. "To know there are others who can understand that, even if we're not from the sa country."
"I don't think we're as alone as we think we are," Naruto tells her with a ntal smile for Naru-nii and Kurama. "There are a lot of friends out there from places you'd never expected to make them. I'm sure a nee-chan as pretty as you will et loads who'll understand you."
"Mmn, how sweet of you to say," i remarks with a sultry tone and seductive eyes that bluntly stunned Naruto into recalling how captivating this woman is. "Sadly, I fear the position of leadership is a lonely road." Looking at her ring finger, she bemoaned, "even though I long for the ring... for my country, I must choose the hat."
Thinking it odd to bring up wardrobe challenges, Naruto simply suggests, "I know I just t you, but as long as you're not hurting anybody, I don't see anything wrong with wearing a ring with a hat."
Rather than pointing out she ant the Kage's hat, i simply laughs silently to herself; incidentally jiggling her chest and shoulders for Naruto's visual benefit. Even if she cleared the confusion, she has little doubt his response would change. "Having already t Kiri-nin, I'm certain you can see how villainous they can seem, especially with a nickna like the Bloody Mist."
"Haku's weird, sure, but he's not bad, like at all," Naruto tells her. "And Zabuza... well, he's not all bad," he tries without completely believing it.
Standing upright again and turning to the Hidden Leaf village, i proclaims, "that you would admit as much confirms what I've longed believed. Kiri can be saved. It's why I chose, unlike many of my countryn, to fight senseless violence, corruption, and betrayal; to be an agent of life and order rather than death and destruction. So, I suppose I'm fighting to prove sothing as well, Uzumaki-dono; to end the dark days of my village."
His suspicion grows enough to be alarming and asks, "...are you really in Konoha to et soone or this a trick?"
"No, no," i asserts with a slight shake of her head, swaying her beautiful auburn bangs. "No trick. It wouldn't do to spoil what could be between us by starting our first eting with deceit. However, I am guilty of omission." With a sensual grin that makes him wish he hadn't left Mabui and Samui, i admitted, "the person I'm here to et... is you."
With flat lines for eyes, Naruto plainly states, "I'm going to need you to start making sense here or I'm jumping down to Hokage Tower and telling them you're from Kiri."
Secure in herself, she answered with a confident smile, "as you wish, Uzumaki-dono. I originally ca here to purchase Kubikiribōchō, then I spoke with Zabuza and Haku, and now I'm standing here overlooking your enchanting ho because you're soone that I simply had to et."
"Why?"
"In a word: diplomacy," she answered. "As citizens of Kiri, I'd like Haku and Zabuza to help quell the large-scale and on-going violence in our village, but, as they are both in your employ—which I must admit is very impressive for one so young—I cannot do that without your help."
Taken aback by the information, Naruto asked with disbelief, "you want to take Haku back to Kiri?"
She duly noted, "I realize how much you an to each other, and I understand I'm asking a lot of you but I don't an to take without giving."
"...What do you an?"
"I truly an to negotiate an arrangent we can both agree to," i honestly stated. Peering down the cliff's edge to the spiky stone hair of the Yondai and the Hokage Tower below that, i turned to Naruto and admitted, "and as a show of good faith, I'm certain we have ample ti to et with your Hokage."
In all her years as a leader of battle-hardened shinobi, it would be impossible for i to be in the high position she is without the skill to debate with many stern, wrathful, or outdated figures of power, which ant maneuvering Naruto was no challenge at all. She wasn't surprised when he curiously asked, "what for?"
"So you can warn him of an imminent attack," i offered with her smile.
Drawing his brows together, he returned, "what are you talking about?"
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