A few hours later Yugito woke up feeling a lot better, closing her eyes for a moment she let out a satisfied groan as she stretched herself out in very cat like fashion.
"I'm glad to see your awake."
Yugito smiled as she turned her head to the source of the voice to see Naruto on the chair right next to hers, "Naruto-kun…"
Naruto got up from his chair and moved over to her bed where he sat next to her and leaned against the head of the bed, wrapping an arm around her shoulder and pulling the blond woman close. Yugito leaned into the blond as the two shared a companionable silence, just soaking up each other's presence. One of Naruto's hands reached out and gripped hers; while he let his fingers play with the ring he had gotten her.
The band itself was made of white gold, which was a very rare and valuable metal in the elemental nations. Along the band were several motifs of the Nibi in various poses, as well as several Kyuubi's doing the same thing. The jewel in the middle was a Tsavorite Garnet, which was a shade of green that complimented her eyes and had a depiction of the Kumo symbol on it. The jewels on either side of it were red rubies that were cut into the shape of tails, with one side being two and the other being nine. Yugito looked at his hands and the ring with a smile, remembering how he had given it to her during a festival in a small town outside of Tsuki No Kuni called Gotaku Suriampu.
The comfortable silence was soon broken by Naruto, "How are you feeling?"
Yugito sighed, "I don't know… I mean I'm thankful that I'm alive and I don't feel any pain anymore, but the fact that I got beaten in a one on one fight even when I was using Nibi's full transformation is just…"
"Frustrating?" Naruto finished for her, he received a small nod. "I can understand that, it's never fun having your weaknesses and faults shown, but that just means you know what you need to work on now." Naruto said as he tried to give Yugito something positive to take out of this, he fell silent for a moment to let her reflect on that before continuing, "still at least two members of Akatsuki are dead, which means we have two less people to worry about coming after us."
"I suppose that's something," Yugito said with a smile at Naruto's optimistic attitude.
"On to more important things," Naruto began as he handed Yugito the file he had been looking over. "I was looking through some files on the members of Kumo's council," he actually had several clones read it but it amounted to the same thing. He had gone over every little tidbit of information he had been given on the councilors, most of it were things that seemed to be the obvious activities to look for when dealing with a spy. Mainly the financial situation of the council members, how much money their accounts had received in the last few years. As well as any trips one of the council members went on, including trips for both business and pleasure. Most of that had led to a dead end, in Kumo people rarely ever got out of Kaminari No Kuni except for the council member who was in charge of the merchants guild and he went on so many trips that Naruto was unable to keep track of them. Naruto had also checked his own spy network and found that whoever it was had no other allies within Kumo, the spy had not gone to any of the other members of the council as none of his seals had picked up conversation about Akatsuki or Yugito within or around the council chamber. Naruto had then been forced to check more personal information about individual members, finding any Intel he could ranging from personal beliefs to even personal hygiene, wanting to ensure that he left nothing out.
It was there he had found a single lead.
Kotake Mushibata had been a standing member of the council for sixteen years, and had at one point been an extremely loyal ninja. Before joining the council he had been one of Kumo's top Jonin and even been a candidate for the position of Raikage, however A had been chosen for the position both because of his prowess on the battlefield where he had been able to match Minato Namikaze for a short time with his Raiton: No Yoroi (Lightning Release: Lightning armor) and also because his little brother Kirabi had been chosen for the sealing of the eight tails. After the third Raikage's public fall out and A's succession Kotake had become disgruntled, opposing many of A's idea's specifically the Raikage's decision not to go after the Byakugan after the Hyuuga incident. It had become even worse after Killer Bee's sudden rise in fame and popularity, going from Kumo's hated demon to the 'Guardian of Kumo' a title that had been bestowed upon him by the people of Kumogakure due to his constant desire to protect them. As time went by the man's beliefs had begun to get so bad that most people on the council ignored him, something that had seemed to irk the man to no end. However the most interesting piece of information Naruto had found was that Kotake had a single case of attempted rape on him that had been filed about eight years ago, fortunately it was stopped before he could actually do anything. That in itself would not have gotten his attention, after all rape was one of the most common crimes amongst ninja. What made this suspicious was because of just who Kotake had attempted to rape.
Naruto reached over onto the table near the bed, grabbing a folder he handed it to Yugito. "Yugi-chan I want you to flip to page fifty six and tell me what you know about the man in there," Naruto said.
Yugito looked up from the folder to look at him for a second before doing as asked; flipping through the pages Yugito got to where Naruto told her and could not hold in her gasp. The file had the picture of a man with dark red hair, dark skin and black eyes, "I… This man is…" Yugito dropped the folder and closed her eyes as she remembered the night that man had almost raped her. The way the man had used some kind of seal to cut her off from Nibi's chakra, before she had the chance to retaliate and knocked her out. Waking up tied to a bed and having the man rip her clothes off, claiming she should be honored to serve him since that was all demons were good for. While Raikage-Sama's Volt had managed to rescue her before anything could happen, it had still taken a year's worth of counseling sessions before she would let a man other than A and Bee near her. It did not help that the council had been comprised of several supporters of the Third Raikage at the time, and had enough pull during that period that they had been able to get Kotake off with a year in prison and a warning. Afterwards he had merely reclaimed his position on the council, through some kind of political loop hole in Kumo's charter.
She was jerked out of her thoughts as she felt an arm tighten around her waist, turning her head and looking up she saw Naruto staring at her with a concerned expression. "Are you alright?" he asked as he grabbed the folder and closed it, perhaps it had not been a good idea to show her that. Yugito bit her lower lip as she blinked back the few tears that fell from her eyes; leaning into Naruto she buried her face in his shirt. Knowing she needed to be comforted Naruto pulled her closer to him, and shifted her position so she was lying in between his legs. He gave her a chaste kiss on the head, "I'm sorry," Naruto apologized in a small whisper, "I probably shouldn't have showed you that…"
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