Chapter 47: Honestly.

I led the three of us to the rendezvous point I had given to Shino. I could tell Kouta was deep in thought, as he wasn't even glancing at Hinata's and my asses anymore, like he was back at the bar. It would be a few hours before the rendezvous. I wanted to improve the atmosphere with Kouta before the rest of the team showed up, but I knew he needed some questions answered first.

The night was dark, cold, yet beautiful in the snowy forest of the Land of Frost. It was a clear night with all the stars bright and visible. My wife and I had no need for heavy winter clothes or any clothes at all, but Kouta was still wearing his Frost ninja uniform with the heavy fur coat and snow shades.

Having grown up here, he seemed to be far better suited to the cold than the boys from our team and had proper clothes for the weather. At the rendezvous point, I found a fallen tree that made a decent bench and sat my big, almost bare ass down. Thanks to Hinata's and my passive chakra heating, the snow that touched our bodies quickly melted, and its sensation was pleasant and sensual. However, I wanted to discuss serious matters, so I ignored it rather than letting it get me worked up.

"Hinata, check to see if anyone followed us or is in earshot," I ordered as the second in command of the mission. She immediately activated her Byakugan and did so. Kouta was surprised.

"Oh, you're from my dad's clan. Is that how you knew about me?"

Hinata and I waited until she was sure no one was spying on us before we answered. Sure, there was always the chance that there was a strange recon jutsu that Hinata was unfamiliar with and thus couldn't detect, but if there was, there was nothing we could do.

"All clear, and to answer your question, I was born into the Hyuuga clan but recently left and joined the Uzumaki, our husband's clan," Hinata said as she leaned back onto a tree and crossed her arms over her large breasts, her white fur coat falling open to reveal the sheer lingerie beneath.

I think she was slightly defensive about him saying she was from the Hyuuga. Given how they treated the branch family, Neji, his father and now her, I doubted Hinata had much love left for her old clan.

"So you didn't lie about being married to each other and the blonde guy?"

"No, that was all true. I'm Sakura Uzumaki, that is my wife Hinata Uzumaki, and the blonde guy is our husband and the head of the restored Uzumaki clan, Naruto Uzumaki."

I said as I lay across the fallen tree, with my head propped up on my hand and my other hand on my thigh. I thought it was best to redo our introductions now that we were going to be honest.

"The truth, Kouta, is that Hinata noticed you used your Byakugan to check us out back when we arrived at the Frost Village. Plus, you being so open about your father being from the Leaf Village made it easy to figure out all the important stuff. Hinata isn't part of the Hyuuga clan anymore, so you don't have to worry about us turning you in to them or the Leaf. All we want from you is to help in some negotiations with the Cloud Village, and we might even get you a good deal out of it, too."

Kouta looked embarrassed, probably at being caught peeping and at the careless divulging of information leading to us discovering his origin. He stooped awkwardly between Hinata and me, looked down at his boots, and kicked some snow.

"Sage damn it..." He then realised what I said at the end. "Wait, so you are taking me to the Cloud?" He looked a little nervous.

"Do you have a problem with the Cloud?" I asked, worried that all this would be for nothing.

"No... It's just... I've never been outside the Land of Frost." He answered sheepishly.

"Well, I would say don't trust any rumours you heard about them and just dismiss them as Frost propaganda, but some of them might be true. Every village has done bad shit, but I also like to think every village is majority populated by good people... Well, normal people. The point is, they are just people."

I didn't want to lie to him and say that they were all nice people; hell, we weren't nice people. Ultimately, you are only a 'nice person' to the people who agree with you or who you feel a duty to protect. I'm sure Ichiro, the Ice Man, and Sasori of the Red Sand didn't think I was a very nice person. And I'm sure Orochimaru wasn't all bad, but he was still a monster due to his human experiments and an enemy of the Leaf Village.

"So... What sort of negotiations do you want me to help with?" Kouta asked while trying not to look at my cleavage. I smiled; it was a good sign that his libido was back.

"I can't tell you that. What I can tell you is that the Cloud have long wanted the Byakugan and in the past has even tried to kidnap my lovely wife as a child. Basically, we want to sell you as a breeding stud to them. It will be off the books, so the Hyuuga won't know. Even if they catch wind of it, by then it will be too late, and you will be living the high life in the Cloud, pumping out little Byakugan users. The Hyuuga might have caused shit to eliminate you and punish the Frost if they found out about you, but the Cloud is too powerful."

I left out the part about using Hinata's eggs. I'd wait until the very end of the plan to tell him that, in case he let it slip to the rest of the team, especially Naruto. I still didn't feel good about this, but it was Hinata's decision, and if she didn't want anyone to know, I would keep the secret.

"B-breeding s-stud!" The former Frost ninja stuttered out in a mix of disbelief and excitement.

"It's not unprecedented. Before the modern reforms were introduced during the formation of the first ninja villages, smaller ninja clans needed a steady supply of fresh troops with powerful kekkei genkai during the Warring States period. So men with rare or powerful abilities, either too old or injured to fight or not skilled enough to be effective on the battlefield, would be put out to stud."

The practice was never outlawed; it was just that, with multiple clans coming together to form a village, fewer fresh bodies were needed, and selective breeding to refine kekkei genkai via arranged marriage was preferred over mass reproduction.

"It most likely still happens only in secret, in similar situations where a ninja defects to another village."

I left out the other, more disturbing scenarios, such as abductions and forced pregnancies, which we suspected the Cloud had intended for Hinata all those years ago. No need to bring that up and put Kouta off.

"B-but... I'm... Not... I've never..." He looked everywhere but at Hinata and me while stumbling through his words.

"You're not experienced, I take it." It was clear he was a virgin. When we left the Frost Village, he had admitted he had no friends, so his being a virgin wasn't surprising.

He nodded and sighed. He seemed to be ashamed of being a virgin despite being in his mid-twenties. Now, I'm a hardcore slut, and I think sex is fantastic. It can be fun, passionate, dirty, emotional, romantic or comforting, but it's also deeply personal and can be scary for the inexperienced.

"There is nothing to be ashamed of, honey." Despite being older than me, it felt as if I were talking to someone several years younger. But people mature at different rates; that's the luxury of peacetime. We ninja tend to mature faster than the average person due to what we have to witness and do, but it looked like, due to his situation, Kouta was sheltered by his village out of fear of being discovered. I doubted he even attended his generation's Chunin Exams.

I stood from the fallen tree and walked over to Kouta in my black, chakra-formed thigh-high boots. I rested a hand gently on his cheek and looked into his eyes, hidden behind snow shades.

"It's okay to be a virgin. Not everyone has to have sex, and even those who want to can have trouble interacting with people in that way... But you clearly are attracted to Hinata and me, so I know you have a sex drive and are into women. You can do it, and I can walk you through it. That is if you want it."

The children born of Hinata and a Cloud ninja would have only a fifty per cent chance of developing the Byakugan, and once we left the Cloud, they would have to wait until those children matured to produce more. Hinata's eggs fertilised by Kouta would have a one hundred per cent chance, and even after we left, the Cloud could use him to keep producing children with a fifty per cent chance with other women. He strengthened our negotiations immensely, but ultimately losing him wouldn't leave us dead on arrival. So I decided I wouldn't force or manipulate him into doing anything he was uncomfortable with.

"Hinata and I promised to do our best to keep you safe and well-treated. And we meant that." I felt comfortable speaking for my wife in this regard. "So if being a breeding stud for the Cloud is something you can't or won't do, then we won't force you into it."

If he said no, we would let him go off alone. Maybe the Frost would take him back, but I doubted it. He wouldn't be classed as a rogue ninja till he failed to show up for duty tomorrow, but no matter what we said, the Shimokage wouldn't believe we wouldn't follow through with our threat to inform the Hyuuga and Leaf.

I smiled up at him. "What do you say, honey?"