Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Between Deception and Truth ❯ Truth Revealed ( Chapter 10 )
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By: Lord Archive 
The extent of Jiro and Ai's relationship is unveiled.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 03.05.2008 | Updated On: 03.16.2008 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.8K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
The extent of Jiro and Ai's relationship is unveiled.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 03.05.2008 | Updated On: 03.16.2008 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.8K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
Between Deception and Truth
Chapter 10 - Truth Revealed
By: Lord Archive
Naruto belongs to Kishimoto, all rights reserved. I'm only borrowing them.
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"Ai, wait, I'll help." Jiro moved to stand up, but found someone's hand holding him down.
"You can best help her by explaining this," Jiraiya told the boy before letting go of his shoulder.
Sakura stared at Ai as the girl left to breast feed a baby. She just couldn't have heard that right. Ai was really Naruto! And there was no way in hell Naruto would ever be a mother. Naruto was a guy! She should know, considering he spent over a year wanting to be more than friends with her.
Maybe Ai could've adopted Yamiko's baby? That would make sense to Sakura. Yamiko didn't want to have a baby, and Ai could've taken over the role of being the mother to give the infant a chance at life. But there would be no way Ai could be nursing if the baby wasn't her own. She then glanced at Tsunade, and in particular her teacher's rather large chest. Maybe Ai sent a message explaining the situation and Tsunade sent a scroll that transformed Ai's chest to allow her to breast feed. If anyone could do such a thing, it would be her teacher.
"Still number one at surprising people," Kakashi joked despite the stunned tone of his voice.
Hiashi slammed his hands down on the table. "What have you done?! Is that baby really Jiro's?"
Tsunade glared at the man. "How many times do we have to rehash this, Hyuuga? You knew ahead of time that this was a possible result. You know that we avoid setting up missions lasting over six months using two ninja of opposite genders because such missions tend to have a high marriage rate. And I even warned you when you suggested using Hinata about the kind of cover they would use. Even if your daughter had remained a girl, there was a good chance of Hinata becoming a parent of a child that you would have no blood relation too. I don't like this situation any more than you do. However, because of _your_ suggestion, I could not go through with my original plans of personally disguising Jiraiya so he could continue to train Naruto. It was _your_ decision to use Hinata that has caused her to be the father of a baby."
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Ai walked at a fast pace through the corridors of the hospital. "Thanks for the save."
"Save from what?" Tenten wondered as she followed the young mother. "What's going on in that room?"
Ai laughed. "Can't tell you. At least not yet."
"Well, I can figure out you're being debriefed, but it doesn't make sense who was included in it," Tenten tried to figure out.
Ai gave no reply. When she arrived at the hospital's nursery, she passed a confused Neji and a twitching Rock Lee. Wasting no time, Ai unbuttoned her blouse, gathered up her crying daughter and began to feed her with such speed and practice that it was impossible for the boys to even glimpse her bare breast.
Tenten swooned at the scene. "Oh, I want to have a baby."
Now Neji was the one to start twitching.
Tenten didn't like her boyfriend's response, especially as she could be pregnant at the moment thanks to him. Now wasn't the time to bring it up, so she went after her other teammate. "Lee, what's wrong with you? You've been like that since you learned about Shinobu-chan. Don't tell me you liked Ai?!"
Rock Lee's twitching became even more pronounced.
Ai chuckled. "I doubt that's the problem."
Neji gazed at the young mother. "I still don't understand why we were ordered to guard your daughter."
"You'll probably find out part of the reason soon enough," Ai replied. "But it was mostly to keep you near by yet away from the debriefing."
Tenten put her hand on her hip. "Are we going to rehash the debriefing of our mission in the Land of Waves again? The last time had been such a pain. Whatever secret you and Jiro kept from us must have been important because the Anbu certainly made sure we didn't know anything about it."
"It's not just one secret, and you better believe they're important," Ai retorted.
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Ai was rather surprised that the debriefing room was still intact when she returned. However, the unnatural silence was almost deafening. Glares were being cast in various directions, and not everyone was looking in anger at just one person. Kakashi was the only one not involved in the group staring contest, though he seemed to be trying to blend into the wall.
"What did you tell them?" Ai asked her mission partner.
"That I was kind of drunk one night and well...," Jiro trailed off.
Ai reached across the table and smacked the top of his head. "Moron! You were not fucking drunk! And how many times do I have to tell you that you didn't rape me?! I let you have sex with me! Sure, you had a little to drink, but not nearly as much as you did that one time in Tsuji!"
"He got drunk before then?" Sakura growled out.
"The day after we fought and killed those rain-nin we had a little extra money, and well, spent most of it at a bar." Ai folded her arms. "I won two drinking contests before I dropped. Jiro didn't even have half as much and he couldn't take a piss without my help."
"How often does Jiro drink?" Sakura almost snarled.
"Only when something REALLY bothers him. Since the mission started he drank..." Ai tapped her chin in thought. "Maybe five or six times."
"Are you sure?" Sakura pressed.
"For eighteen months I was practically forced to live joined to his hip. He took guarding me seriously, especially after I taught him Kage Bunshin. He would always be near enough to me that he could hear me yell, even when I was taking a shit," Ai groused. "We've trained, worked and slept together damn near every second of the mission. If I don't know Jiro, no one does."
"Did Jiro force you?" Sakura persisted.
"Look at me, Sakura. Remember who the hell I am. If I didn't want Jiro to touch me, would he really be able to do it?" Ai shot back.
"He has the Sharigan," Sakura pointed out.
"Is the Land of Waves still there?" Ai retorted.
Sakura blinked. "Yes, but what does that have to do with it?"
"Had I been somehow overpowered, then what would stop the Kyuubi from getting out? The stronger my hatred and anger, the easier it is for him to get loose. And trust me, when a girl is violated, they do feel anger, even if they're also scared and helpless." Ai folded her arms. "I personally knew six girls like that."
"Then how in the hell do you have a baby?" Sakura demanded.
Ai roughly plopped into her seat. "It began on December twenty-seventh..."
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Eyeing her partner suspiciously, Ai was wondering what his problem was today. He had looked at her strangely for most of the day, but as the day wore on, the grumpier he got. She was beginning to think Jiro had switched back to Hinata and was about to have a period. Especially as every time she asked him what was bothering him, he wouldn't answer her. If the boy didn't tell her what the problem was by tomorrow, she'd beat it out of him.
Ai went into the small wash room to change as she normally would, but when she exited the room she found Jiro laying a blanket and pillow down on the small couch. "Why are you going to sleep there?"
"There's no reason for us to share," Jiro retorted bitterly.
"Besides the fact that there's no way to get comfortable on that thing," Ai shot back. "You've been a royal pain all day."
"Perhaps I should see Tazuna about getting another shack so I won't have to bother you so much." Jiro moved toward the door.
Ai grabbed the boy by his arm. "What the fuck has gotten into you? Why are you so upset? I don't remember doing anything to piss you off. Did something happen to one of your copies?"
"It's not what you did, it's what you didn't do," Jiro growled out. "It's rather obvious you want nothing to do with me."
Ai tightened the grip on his arm. "Where the hell did you get that idea?"
"If you cared you would have at least wished me a 'happy birthday,'" Jiro snarled.
Ai stared at him with wide eyes. "It's... you're birthday? I... I didn't know."
"You don't remember the chart at school listing our birthdays? The cake that was brought in on my twelfth birthday at the academy?" Jiro asked harshly. "When I was a little girl, my birthday was practically treated as a holiday. It seemed half of Konoha would show up for my birthday party. But each year the celebration became less and less. Last year all I got was a few people wishing me a 'happy birthday' and a handful of presents. And this year, nothing. Not even from you."
"Oh, come on. I was Naruto back then. If it wasn't ninjutsu or a prank, I wouldn't remember it," Ai defended.
Jiro tried to free his arm, but had to settle for turning away from the girl. "Or if it involved Sakura-san. I bet you can't wait to turn back into a guy and see her again."
"The only girl I'm interested in seeing when we get back to normal now is Hinata," Ai retorted.
"Don't lie to me!" Jiro wheeled around and punched Ai in the face. "You don't care about me. Even if you had forgotten what day it was, you could've asked me. I went out of my way for your birthday, and then you ignore mine!"
Ai glared at the boy while rubbing her cheek. "Yeah, you're right. I should have asked you. But you know how focused I am. When I have a goal, I do everything I can to achieve it, forgetting everything else. Last year I forgot about my own birthday. Not that anyone had celebrated it before."
"So you really don't care about me," Jiro observed.
"I didn't care about birthdays! Until I became a ninja, it was just another lonely day that made me wonder why I was even born." Ai folded her arms and looked away from him to cover her blush. "And I honestly do care for you."
"Why should I believe you when you can't even say that to my face?" Jiro shot back.
Ai whirled around and stared straight into the boy's eyes. "Jiro, I really like you. Happy? I just admitted I have feelings for a guy."
"You're still lying," Jiro hissed.
"I am not!" Ai returned heatedly.
"I'll prove that you don't." Jiro grabbed the girl by her nightshirt and began to kiss her roughly. He wasn't pushed away. His hands began to touch her body. She didn't stop him. He ripped off her clothes. And she did the same to him.
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Ai pulled away from the bed and shambled over to the wash room and gazed at the mirror in it. Looking at the reflection, the image shown was no longer a stranger's. When the change first happened, Ai avoided looking into a mirror, not recognizing the face that stared back. There had been a long battle against becoming a girl, whenever possible ignoring the obvious changes. Periods had been a bitch to deal with, but grim determination and unwillingness to quit pushed Ai through those hard days. The idea of being with anyone romantically in this body had never been a thought until Mokkou had professed love. That Hinata had loved Naruto and still held that love as Jiro did not help matters in trying to ignore the instinctual reactions the body held. Accepting a different date for a birthday had now proven to be a mistake. Ai had fought to remain Naruto even in this body. This face had remained being a stranger's until now.
Tears leaked from the girl's eyes as she flopped to the ground. She wasn't Naruto hiding in a girl's body anymore. She had done something willingly that Naruto would never do. Only the stains from sweat covered her otherwise bare flesh.
Ai glanced out of the wash room and saw the equally naked man sound asleep. To her, that was Jiro, not Hinata. The Hyuuga girl was shy and meek. Few people knew anything about her. Ai certainly had known nothing, not even her birthday. Jiro, on the other hand, was still shy, but had a level of confidence Hinata never carried. Ai could never think of him as being meek. As much as Ai was no longer Naruto, Jiro had stopped being Hinata.
Now here they were, after having pretended to be husband and wife for over a half-year, no longer faking it. They had sex. He had been inside her in a way that should have made her feel ill, yet it hadn't. The idea of him touching her should've made her upset or scared, but she looked forward to it. Having originally been born a boy, she should have never want to touch a guy as she had done that night, and yet she had enjoyed doing that.
Naruto had never accepted defeat before. He didn't quit trying to become a ninja even though he held the lowest scores in his class. Despite Sakura's rejections, he never gave up hope that she would come to love him. He still believed he could find Sasuke and bring him back.
But now Naruto had lost. Sakura no longer mattered to her and Sasuke was still out there with Orochimaru. There was no turning back now. The boy no longer existed, and now there was only Ai.
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Jiro couldn't look the girl in the eyes as she prepared breakfast. What he had done was unforgivable. He had touched her in ways that she couldn't possibly have wanted. He wasn't sure if he had wanted to have gone that far in this body. As Hinata, he wouldn't have stopped Naruto, but these weren't the bodies of their birth.
"I'm sorry," Jiro suddenly blurted out.
"I'm the one who should be sorry about your birthday," Ai retorted.
"That's no reason for me to have raped you," Jiro squeaked out.
Ai smacked him with a skillet. "You didn't rape me."
"You couldn't have possibly wanted to do THAT last night," Jiro returned.
"I did and I didn't." Ai huffed. "I'm sure you're feeling much the same. You wanted to wait until after the mission, right? Well, so did I. But I DID take your clothes off."
Jiro didn't remember how his pants came off, but he still assumed he had removed them. "I forced you."
Ai poked Jiro's forehead, making him look at her. "Let's not get into another argument. We're partners in this. We've shared just about everything, including these borrowed bodies."
Jiro bowed his head. "How can you forgive me?"
Ai stomped over to the stove and turned it off. She then pounced on top of Jiro, pinning him to the floor. "You made me prove that I like you, now I'm going to do the same to prove you didn't force anything." She began to kiss him hard on the lips. She then pulled away and got a devilish look. "Why don't we have some real fun with this? Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Two more copies of Ai appeared to make Jiro one lucky bastard.
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Hiashi looked like a dead fish with his mouth agape and completely blank stare. His mind unable to take what he had just been told.
Sakura's face was an extremely deep shade of red as she reached over and grabbed the young mother's hand. "You really do love Jiro, don't you? To let him be with you. To have his child."
Ai nodded shallowly. "I know we haven't gone through any ceremony, but to me Jiro is my husband."
"And this is why there's such an issue with you changing back to Naruto and Hinata. You've got a baby to care for, and you can't nurse her as Naruto," Sakura tried to rationalize.
"Well, that and after eighteen months of being in this body, turning into Naruto feels like he's the stranger now. When I look in the mirror, I recognize this face as being my own, not Naruto's," Ai added.
Hiashi slowly shook his head clear. "Will there be a time I can welcome home my eldest daughter and her husband, or I am going to be an uncle to you from now on?"
Jiro didn't immediately respond. "I don't know what to say. It's hard to explain the changes. I like the confidence this body gives me. I don't feel the need to hide like I did when I was Hinata." He looked away from the man. "The only reason I would change back to Hinata would be if Ai decides to return to being Naruto."
Ai could feel Hiashi's eyes move toward her. "I don't even see myself as a guy anymore. There's no reason for me to change back, and more reason to stay the way I am. When I walked through Konoha this morning, no one suddenly stopped talking, no one tried to push their children away from me, and no one muttered a negative word about me. In fact people moved to see me and my baby. I didn't make them frown, I made them smile."
"That is only a false security. In time people will learn who you are, and those looks will return with interest as they will not understand your relationship with Jiro," Hiashi warned.
"And how would they learn? It's not like I'm going to advertise that I used to be Naruto. And the only people likely to figure it out would be my fellow ninja. And if they can't keep a secret, no one can," Ai returned.
"Excuse me." Hiashi stood up. "I need a moment to myself."
"Hyuuga, this debriefing is to be considered top secret. That includes Ai's real identity," Tsunade warned.
Hiashi did not give her any reply as he left the room.
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Wandering the hospital while lost in thought, Hiashi found himself at the nursery. He didn't need the presence of Neji and his teammates to tell him the baby girl with raven black hair was Jiro and Ai's daughter. He could see Ai's nose and Jiro's cheekbones on the infant, but there was nothing that said the girl had any relation to the Hyuuga clan.
"Hyuuga-san, what brings you here?" Neji asked nervously.
"I have my reasons." Hiashi could guess Tsunade ordered his nephew to guard the baby, which effectively would garner more attention to the infant and her parents and may ultimately increase the danger in the long run.
"Ano... Did Jiraiya-sama bring you some news about Hinata-chan?" Tenten wondered.
"In a sense," Hiashi replied.
Tenten did not miss how intently and fondly he was looking at the infant. "Is Hinata-chan... well..."
Neji stared at the girl in shock, but then he slowly turned back toward his clan head.
Hiashi stood there unable to say anything in response.
"Hinata is the father, isn't she... er, he?" Rock Lee asked.
"This is the first time you said a damn thing since we saw Ai here, and you say something so stupid!" Tenten hissed out, not wanting to yell and wake the baby.
Hiashi took one last look at the baby, before turning away stiffly. "I have no relation to that child."
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"Do we really have to continue this crap now that you know that I like having sex with Jiro and that I'm a mother?" Ai groused.
"You know that's not the only point to this debriefing. If Sakura or Kakashi wish to leave, they may do so, but I still need to know about the events that happened this year," Tsunade retorted.
"Why leave now? This is the most interesting debriefing I've ever been too," Kakashi commented with a smiling eye.
"I want to know more as well," Sakura added.
Ai folded her arms. "Fine. Do we include Rock Lee and the others on this now? The next event is the one they were involved in."
Tsunade thought it over for a minute. "We'll call them in if I feel the need to clarify something. I'd rather keep those in the know to a minimum."
"Well, you could include Rock Lee," Ai offered.
"Why him?" Sakura wondered.
"He figured out who I am. Course I denied it, but I gave him too many hints by calling him 'Fuzzy-Eyebrows' and that he's a Taijutsu master who has seen me fight in both my bodies," Ai explained.
"So that's why he was twitching when he saw your daughter," Tsunade muttered. "That certainly does bring up issues of keeping your identity a secret. Jiro's fighting style is different now, but yours has remained mostly the same and any jounin who saw Naruto fight could potentially figure it out."
"Neji hasn't, but that might have to do with denial." Ai grinned. "After all, if I'm Naruto, then Jiro is Hinata, and that would be hard for him to swallow."
"Why don't we take a break to get something to eat, then get back to the debriefing," Jiraiya suggested.
Tsunade was about to shoot down the idea, but her stomach growled hungrily at the suggestion of food. "Meet back here in an hour."
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Hiashi arrived home and saw Hanabi practicing vigorously but with little control. He wanted to smile at her, but couldn't find it in himself to give her false praise. The young girl was diligent in the ways of the ninja, and certainly wasn't shy like Hinata had been, but his daughter still had flaws.
Hanabi was in the middle of her class, much as Hinata had been. But where the older daughter had been well rounded in her grades, Hanabi excelled in some areas, like Taijutsu, but scored horrible in others, like mathematics. Hinata avoided taking risks unless she needed to in order to achieve a goal, Hanabi took needless risks where failure far exceeded the reward of succeeding. Hinata avoided confrontation, Hanabi practically sought them out. Hinata nearly died fighting to prove herself, Hanabi broke an arm and a leg trying to find a short cut in her training. Hinata never wanted to be heir to the Hyuuga clan, Hanabi seemed to believe that she was entitled to that rank even though she did not earn it.
"Is something bothering you, Father?" Hanabi asked.
"I could ask you the same thing. Why have you lost focus?" Hiashi asked, barely able to keep himself from adding 'again.'
Hanabi looked away. "The academy got two new students today from some backwater town. One of them was initially tested to be in my class."
"I take it you fought the person and lost," Hiashi commented firmly.
"No. Takashi-kun fought her," Hanabi muttered out. "And he didn't stand a chance."
Hiashi frowned. Takashi was increasingly part of Hanabi's words. The boy was the top student of his daughter's class, and was someone she wanted to surpass in skill. But Hiashi was beginning to think that wasn't the only reason why the boy was on his daughter's mind so often. Children grew up too fast, he decided. With the thought of Jiro and the pseudo-granddaughter at the hospital, much too fast, Hiashi mentally added.
"How in the hell does some nobody girl from the middle of nowhere know jounin level skills?!" Hanabi demanded. "Keiko is going to graduate this year! I've been in those boring classes for years. Being made to learn pointless crap like flower arranging, and here comes some hick who's better than us. It's not fair!"
"I have heard about Keiko and Inari already," Hiashi informed his daughter. "They were trained by two Konoha ninja stuck on a long mission. While they may be strong fighters, their skills aren't as well rounded as they will need to be."
Hanabi growled and attacked the wooden post in front of her with anger, causing her hits to be sloppy.
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Author's Notes:
Coming Soon:
Chapter 11 - Mission in Doubt
Team Gai arrives in the Land of Waves, but find things aren't as they appear.
This is _NOT_ the end of discussion concerning whether or not Ai and Jiro will be returning to being Naruto and Hinata. While they have a lot of reasons to stay Ai and Jiro, namely their daughter, there are also reasons why they should change back. The end of the debriefing will mark a rough 'half-way' point of the series. I will not answer what the final decision will be as I do not want to spoil the story.
Yes, Ai is the full biological mother of Jiro's baby. And no, I will not be making any detailed scenes leading to the conception of the baby.
There are reasons for mentioning Yamiko's pregnancy. First and foremost: Ai and Naruto never take back their words. More will be explained in the coming chapters.
Chapter 10 - Truth Revealed
By: Lord Archive
Naruto belongs to Kishimoto, all rights reserved. I'm only borrowing them.
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"Ai, wait, I'll help." Jiro moved to stand up, but found someone's hand holding him down.
"You can best help her by explaining this," Jiraiya told the boy before letting go of his shoulder.
Sakura stared at Ai as the girl left to breast feed a baby. She just couldn't have heard that right. Ai was really Naruto! And there was no way in hell Naruto would ever be a mother. Naruto was a guy! She should know, considering he spent over a year wanting to be more than friends with her.
Maybe Ai could've adopted Yamiko's baby? That would make sense to Sakura. Yamiko didn't want to have a baby, and Ai could've taken over the role of being the mother to give the infant a chance at life. But there would be no way Ai could be nursing if the baby wasn't her own. She then glanced at Tsunade, and in particular her teacher's rather large chest. Maybe Ai sent a message explaining the situation and Tsunade sent a scroll that transformed Ai's chest to allow her to breast feed. If anyone could do such a thing, it would be her teacher.
"Still number one at surprising people," Kakashi joked despite the stunned tone of his voice.
Hiashi slammed his hands down on the table. "What have you done?! Is that baby really Jiro's?"
Tsunade glared at the man. "How many times do we have to rehash this, Hyuuga? You knew ahead of time that this was a possible result. You know that we avoid setting up missions lasting over six months using two ninja of opposite genders because such missions tend to have a high marriage rate. And I even warned you when you suggested using Hinata about the kind of cover they would use. Even if your daughter had remained a girl, there was a good chance of Hinata becoming a parent of a child that you would have no blood relation too. I don't like this situation any more than you do. However, because of _your_ suggestion, I could not go through with my original plans of personally disguising Jiraiya so he could continue to train Naruto. It was _your_ decision to use Hinata that has caused her to be the father of a baby."
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Ai walked at a fast pace through the corridors of the hospital. "Thanks for the save."
"Save from what?" Tenten wondered as she followed the young mother. "What's going on in that room?"
Ai laughed. "Can't tell you. At least not yet."
"Well, I can figure out you're being debriefed, but it doesn't make sense who was included in it," Tenten tried to figure out.
Ai gave no reply. When she arrived at the hospital's nursery, she passed a confused Neji and a twitching Rock Lee. Wasting no time, Ai unbuttoned her blouse, gathered up her crying daughter and began to feed her with such speed and practice that it was impossible for the boys to even glimpse her bare breast.
Tenten swooned at the scene. "Oh, I want to have a baby."
Now Neji was the one to start twitching.
Tenten didn't like her boyfriend's response, especially as she could be pregnant at the moment thanks to him. Now wasn't the time to bring it up, so she went after her other teammate. "Lee, what's wrong with you? You've been like that since you learned about Shinobu-chan. Don't tell me you liked Ai?!"
Rock Lee's twitching became even more pronounced.
Ai chuckled. "I doubt that's the problem."
Neji gazed at the young mother. "I still don't understand why we were ordered to guard your daughter."
"You'll probably find out part of the reason soon enough," Ai replied. "But it was mostly to keep you near by yet away from the debriefing."
Tenten put her hand on her hip. "Are we going to rehash the debriefing of our mission in the Land of Waves again? The last time had been such a pain. Whatever secret you and Jiro kept from us must have been important because the Anbu certainly made sure we didn't know anything about it."
"It's not just one secret, and you better believe they're important," Ai retorted.
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Ai was rather surprised that the debriefing room was still intact when she returned. However, the unnatural silence was almost deafening. Glares were being cast in various directions, and not everyone was looking in anger at just one person. Kakashi was the only one not involved in the group staring contest, though he seemed to be trying to blend into the wall.
"What did you tell them?" Ai asked her mission partner.
"That I was kind of drunk one night and well...," Jiro trailed off.
Ai reached across the table and smacked the top of his head. "Moron! You were not fucking drunk! And how many times do I have to tell you that you didn't rape me?! I let you have sex with me! Sure, you had a little to drink, but not nearly as much as you did that one time in Tsuji!"
"He got drunk before then?" Sakura growled out.
"The day after we fought and killed those rain-nin we had a little extra money, and well, spent most of it at a bar." Ai folded her arms. "I won two drinking contests before I dropped. Jiro didn't even have half as much and he couldn't take a piss without my help."
"How often does Jiro drink?" Sakura almost snarled.
"Only when something REALLY bothers him. Since the mission started he drank..." Ai tapped her chin in thought. "Maybe five or six times."
"Are you sure?" Sakura pressed.
"For eighteen months I was practically forced to live joined to his hip. He took guarding me seriously, especially after I taught him Kage Bunshin. He would always be near enough to me that he could hear me yell, even when I was taking a shit," Ai groused. "We've trained, worked and slept together damn near every second of the mission. If I don't know Jiro, no one does."
"Did Jiro force you?" Sakura persisted.
"Look at me, Sakura. Remember who the hell I am. If I didn't want Jiro to touch me, would he really be able to do it?" Ai shot back.
"He has the Sharigan," Sakura pointed out.
"Is the Land of Waves still there?" Ai retorted.
Sakura blinked. "Yes, but what does that have to do with it?"
"Had I been somehow overpowered, then what would stop the Kyuubi from getting out? The stronger my hatred and anger, the easier it is for him to get loose. And trust me, when a girl is violated, they do feel anger, even if they're also scared and helpless." Ai folded her arms. "I personally knew six girls like that."
"Then how in the hell do you have a baby?" Sakura demanded.
Ai roughly plopped into her seat. "It began on December twenty-seventh..."
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Eyeing her partner suspiciously, Ai was wondering what his problem was today. He had looked at her strangely for most of the day, but as the day wore on, the grumpier he got. She was beginning to think Jiro had switched back to Hinata and was about to have a period. Especially as every time she asked him what was bothering him, he wouldn't answer her. If the boy didn't tell her what the problem was by tomorrow, she'd beat it out of him.
Ai went into the small wash room to change as she normally would, but when she exited the room she found Jiro laying a blanket and pillow down on the small couch. "Why are you going to sleep there?"
"There's no reason for us to share," Jiro retorted bitterly.
"Besides the fact that there's no way to get comfortable on that thing," Ai shot back. "You've been a royal pain all day."
"Perhaps I should see Tazuna about getting another shack so I won't have to bother you so much." Jiro moved toward the door.
Ai grabbed the boy by his arm. "What the fuck has gotten into you? Why are you so upset? I don't remember doing anything to piss you off. Did something happen to one of your copies?"
"It's not what you did, it's what you didn't do," Jiro growled out. "It's rather obvious you want nothing to do with me."
Ai tightened the grip on his arm. "Where the hell did you get that idea?"
"If you cared you would have at least wished me a 'happy birthday,'" Jiro snarled.
Ai stared at him with wide eyes. "It's... you're birthday? I... I didn't know."
"You don't remember the chart at school listing our birthdays? The cake that was brought in on my twelfth birthday at the academy?" Jiro asked harshly. "When I was a little girl, my birthday was practically treated as a holiday. It seemed half of Konoha would show up for my birthday party. But each year the celebration became less and less. Last year all I got was a few people wishing me a 'happy birthday' and a handful of presents. And this year, nothing. Not even from you."
"Oh, come on. I was Naruto back then. If it wasn't ninjutsu or a prank, I wouldn't remember it," Ai defended.
Jiro tried to free his arm, but had to settle for turning away from the girl. "Or if it involved Sakura-san. I bet you can't wait to turn back into a guy and see her again."
"The only girl I'm interested in seeing when we get back to normal now is Hinata," Ai retorted.
"Don't lie to me!" Jiro wheeled around and punched Ai in the face. "You don't care about me. Even if you had forgotten what day it was, you could've asked me. I went out of my way for your birthday, and then you ignore mine!"
Ai glared at the boy while rubbing her cheek. "Yeah, you're right. I should have asked you. But you know how focused I am. When I have a goal, I do everything I can to achieve it, forgetting everything else. Last year I forgot about my own birthday. Not that anyone had celebrated it before."
"So you really don't care about me," Jiro observed.
"I didn't care about birthdays! Until I became a ninja, it was just another lonely day that made me wonder why I was even born." Ai folded her arms and looked away from him to cover her blush. "And I honestly do care for you."
"Why should I believe you when you can't even say that to my face?" Jiro shot back.
Ai whirled around and stared straight into the boy's eyes. "Jiro, I really like you. Happy? I just admitted I have feelings for a guy."
"You're still lying," Jiro hissed.
"I am not!" Ai returned heatedly.
"I'll prove that you don't." Jiro grabbed the girl by her nightshirt and began to kiss her roughly. He wasn't pushed away. His hands began to touch her body. She didn't stop him. He ripped off her clothes. And she did the same to him.
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Ai pulled away from the bed and shambled over to the wash room and gazed at the mirror in it. Looking at the reflection, the image shown was no longer a stranger's. When the change first happened, Ai avoided looking into a mirror, not recognizing the face that stared back. There had been a long battle against becoming a girl, whenever possible ignoring the obvious changes. Periods had been a bitch to deal with, but grim determination and unwillingness to quit pushed Ai through those hard days. The idea of being with anyone romantically in this body had never been a thought until Mokkou had professed love. That Hinata had loved Naruto and still held that love as Jiro did not help matters in trying to ignore the instinctual reactions the body held. Accepting a different date for a birthday had now proven to be a mistake. Ai had fought to remain Naruto even in this body. This face had remained being a stranger's until now.
Tears leaked from the girl's eyes as she flopped to the ground. She wasn't Naruto hiding in a girl's body anymore. She had done something willingly that Naruto would never do. Only the stains from sweat covered her otherwise bare flesh.
Ai glanced out of the wash room and saw the equally naked man sound asleep. To her, that was Jiro, not Hinata. The Hyuuga girl was shy and meek. Few people knew anything about her. Ai certainly had known nothing, not even her birthday. Jiro, on the other hand, was still shy, but had a level of confidence Hinata never carried. Ai could never think of him as being meek. As much as Ai was no longer Naruto, Jiro had stopped being Hinata.
Now here they were, after having pretended to be husband and wife for over a half-year, no longer faking it. They had sex. He had been inside her in a way that should have made her feel ill, yet it hadn't. The idea of him touching her should've made her upset or scared, but she looked forward to it. Having originally been born a boy, she should have never want to touch a guy as she had done that night, and yet she had enjoyed doing that.
Naruto had never accepted defeat before. He didn't quit trying to become a ninja even though he held the lowest scores in his class. Despite Sakura's rejections, he never gave up hope that she would come to love him. He still believed he could find Sasuke and bring him back.
But now Naruto had lost. Sakura no longer mattered to her and Sasuke was still out there with Orochimaru. There was no turning back now. The boy no longer existed, and now there was only Ai.
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Jiro couldn't look the girl in the eyes as she prepared breakfast. What he had done was unforgivable. He had touched her in ways that she couldn't possibly have wanted. He wasn't sure if he had wanted to have gone that far in this body. As Hinata, he wouldn't have stopped Naruto, but these weren't the bodies of their birth.
"I'm sorry," Jiro suddenly blurted out.
"I'm the one who should be sorry about your birthday," Ai retorted.
"That's no reason for me to have raped you," Jiro squeaked out.
Ai smacked him with a skillet. "You didn't rape me."
"You couldn't have possibly wanted to do THAT last night," Jiro returned.
"I did and I didn't." Ai huffed. "I'm sure you're feeling much the same. You wanted to wait until after the mission, right? Well, so did I. But I DID take your clothes off."
Jiro didn't remember how his pants came off, but he still assumed he had removed them. "I forced you."
Ai poked Jiro's forehead, making him look at her. "Let's not get into another argument. We're partners in this. We've shared just about everything, including these borrowed bodies."
Jiro bowed his head. "How can you forgive me?"
Ai stomped over to the stove and turned it off. She then pounced on top of Jiro, pinning him to the floor. "You made me prove that I like you, now I'm going to do the same to prove you didn't force anything." She began to kiss him hard on the lips. She then pulled away and got a devilish look. "Why don't we have some real fun with this? Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Two more copies of Ai appeared to make Jiro one lucky bastard.
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Hiashi looked like a dead fish with his mouth agape and completely blank stare. His mind unable to take what he had just been told.
Sakura's face was an extremely deep shade of red as she reached over and grabbed the young mother's hand. "You really do love Jiro, don't you? To let him be with you. To have his child."
Ai nodded shallowly. "I know we haven't gone through any ceremony, but to me Jiro is my husband."
"And this is why there's such an issue with you changing back to Naruto and Hinata. You've got a baby to care for, and you can't nurse her as Naruto," Sakura tried to rationalize.
"Well, that and after eighteen months of being in this body, turning into Naruto feels like he's the stranger now. When I look in the mirror, I recognize this face as being my own, not Naruto's," Ai added.
Hiashi slowly shook his head clear. "Will there be a time I can welcome home my eldest daughter and her husband, or I am going to be an uncle to you from now on?"
Jiro didn't immediately respond. "I don't know what to say. It's hard to explain the changes. I like the confidence this body gives me. I don't feel the need to hide like I did when I was Hinata." He looked away from the man. "The only reason I would change back to Hinata would be if Ai decides to return to being Naruto."
Ai could feel Hiashi's eyes move toward her. "I don't even see myself as a guy anymore. There's no reason for me to change back, and more reason to stay the way I am. When I walked through Konoha this morning, no one suddenly stopped talking, no one tried to push their children away from me, and no one muttered a negative word about me. In fact people moved to see me and my baby. I didn't make them frown, I made them smile."
"That is only a false security. In time people will learn who you are, and those looks will return with interest as they will not understand your relationship with Jiro," Hiashi warned.
"And how would they learn? It's not like I'm going to advertise that I used to be Naruto. And the only people likely to figure it out would be my fellow ninja. And if they can't keep a secret, no one can," Ai returned.
"Excuse me." Hiashi stood up. "I need a moment to myself."
"Hyuuga, this debriefing is to be considered top secret. That includes Ai's real identity," Tsunade warned.
Hiashi did not give her any reply as he left the room.
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Wandering the hospital while lost in thought, Hiashi found himself at the nursery. He didn't need the presence of Neji and his teammates to tell him the baby girl with raven black hair was Jiro and Ai's daughter. He could see Ai's nose and Jiro's cheekbones on the infant, but there was nothing that said the girl had any relation to the Hyuuga clan.
"Hyuuga-san, what brings you here?" Neji asked nervously.
"I have my reasons." Hiashi could guess Tsunade ordered his nephew to guard the baby, which effectively would garner more attention to the infant and her parents and may ultimately increase the danger in the long run.
"Ano... Did Jiraiya-sama bring you some news about Hinata-chan?" Tenten wondered.
"In a sense," Hiashi replied.
Tenten did not miss how intently and fondly he was looking at the infant. "Is Hinata-chan... well..."
Neji stared at the girl in shock, but then he slowly turned back toward his clan head.
Hiashi stood there unable to say anything in response.
"Hinata is the father, isn't she... er, he?" Rock Lee asked.
"This is the first time you said a damn thing since we saw Ai here, and you say something so stupid!" Tenten hissed out, not wanting to yell and wake the baby.
Hiashi took one last look at the baby, before turning away stiffly. "I have no relation to that child."
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"Do we really have to continue this crap now that you know that I like having sex with Jiro and that I'm a mother?" Ai groused.
"You know that's not the only point to this debriefing. If Sakura or Kakashi wish to leave, they may do so, but I still need to know about the events that happened this year," Tsunade retorted.
"Why leave now? This is the most interesting debriefing I've ever been too," Kakashi commented with a smiling eye.
"I want to know more as well," Sakura added.
Ai folded her arms. "Fine. Do we include Rock Lee and the others on this now? The next event is the one they were involved in."
Tsunade thought it over for a minute. "We'll call them in if I feel the need to clarify something. I'd rather keep those in the know to a minimum."
"Well, you could include Rock Lee," Ai offered.
"Why him?" Sakura wondered.
"He figured out who I am. Course I denied it, but I gave him too many hints by calling him 'Fuzzy-Eyebrows' and that he's a Taijutsu master who has seen me fight in both my bodies," Ai explained.
"So that's why he was twitching when he saw your daughter," Tsunade muttered. "That certainly does bring up issues of keeping your identity a secret. Jiro's fighting style is different now, but yours has remained mostly the same and any jounin who saw Naruto fight could potentially figure it out."
"Neji hasn't, but that might have to do with denial." Ai grinned. "After all, if I'm Naruto, then Jiro is Hinata, and that would be hard for him to swallow."
"Why don't we take a break to get something to eat, then get back to the debriefing," Jiraiya suggested.
Tsunade was about to shoot down the idea, but her stomach growled hungrily at the suggestion of food. "Meet back here in an hour."
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Hiashi arrived home and saw Hanabi practicing vigorously but with little control. He wanted to smile at her, but couldn't find it in himself to give her false praise. The young girl was diligent in the ways of the ninja, and certainly wasn't shy like Hinata had been, but his daughter still had flaws.
Hanabi was in the middle of her class, much as Hinata had been. But where the older daughter had been well rounded in her grades, Hanabi excelled in some areas, like Taijutsu, but scored horrible in others, like mathematics. Hinata avoided taking risks unless she needed to in order to achieve a goal, Hanabi took needless risks where failure far exceeded the reward of succeeding. Hinata avoided confrontation, Hanabi practically sought them out. Hinata nearly died fighting to prove herself, Hanabi broke an arm and a leg trying to find a short cut in her training. Hinata never wanted to be heir to the Hyuuga clan, Hanabi seemed to believe that she was entitled to that rank even though she did not earn it.
"Is something bothering you, Father?" Hanabi asked.
"I could ask you the same thing. Why have you lost focus?" Hiashi asked, barely able to keep himself from adding 'again.'
Hanabi looked away. "The academy got two new students today from some backwater town. One of them was initially tested to be in my class."
"I take it you fought the person and lost," Hiashi commented firmly.
"No. Takashi-kun fought her," Hanabi muttered out. "And he didn't stand a chance."
Hiashi frowned. Takashi was increasingly part of Hanabi's words. The boy was the top student of his daughter's class, and was someone she wanted to surpass in skill. But Hiashi was beginning to think that wasn't the only reason why the boy was on his daughter's mind so often. Children grew up too fast, he decided. With the thought of Jiro and the pseudo-granddaughter at the hospital, much too fast, Hiashi mentally added.
"How in the hell does some nobody girl from the middle of nowhere know jounin level skills?!" Hanabi demanded. "Keiko is going to graduate this year! I've been in those boring classes for years. Being made to learn pointless crap like flower arranging, and here comes some hick who's better than us. It's not fair!"
"I have heard about Keiko and Inari already," Hiashi informed his daughter. "They were trained by two Konoha ninja stuck on a long mission. While they may be strong fighters, their skills aren't as well rounded as they will need to be."
Hanabi growled and attacked the wooden post in front of her with anger, causing her hits to be sloppy.
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Author's Notes:
Coming Soon:
Chapter 11 - Mission in Doubt
Team Gai arrives in the Land of Waves, but find things aren't as they appear.
This is _NOT_ the end of discussion concerning whether or not Ai and Jiro will be returning to being Naruto and Hinata. While they have a lot of reasons to stay Ai and Jiro, namely their daughter, there are also reasons why they should change back. The end of the debriefing will mark a rough 'half-way' point of the series. I will not answer what the final decision will be as I do not want to spoil the story.
Yes, Ai is the full biological mother of Jiro's baby. And no, I will not be making any detailed scenes leading to the conception of the baby.
There are reasons for mentioning Yamiko's pregnancy. First and foremost: Ai and Naruto never take back their words. More will be explained in the coming chapters.