After her little mischief with Sasuke, the topic of virginity wasn't brought up again. Or so she had hoped. Every now and then, he would blush. She knew, holding back laughter with a wicked smile on her red lips, exactly what he was thinking. She could almost feel how he was remembering her bold claim that she was going to fuck Kakashi. Had she been cruel, considering his hormones? Yes. Was Sasuke uncomfortable thinking about it? No. So, she didn't try to apologize, because Sasuke wasn't embarrassed. He was aroused. Not because he liked the idea of her and Kakashi, but because his hormones were through the roof, like his brother's... or hers.
The funny thing about all of this was that, because of Naruto, they started talking about more mature and spicy topics that they had previously avoided out of embarrassment. Now, at 15 years old, she imagined that sex was something they thought about a couple of times a day. That's how they began asking her things they had never asked before.
"Did it hurt the first time?" Naruto asked her, his face deeply flushed as he scratched his head nervously. "I-I mean… does it hurt for girls?"
Sasuke and Naruto waited for her answer, completely focused.
"Some girls feel more pain than others, but it hurts less when your partner prepares you first. I mean oral sex, using fingers, playing with the clitoris, etc. The wetter and more prepared you are, the less it hurts, obviously."
"So, it's better to have an... orgasm beforehand, without penetration, right?" Sasuke asked. She nodded.
"The point is to communicate with your partner—whether you feel good or not, if something doesn't feel right or makes you uncomfortable—and to respect their response. If they say no, it's no."
She went on to explain how important consent was, how partners should talk in advance before trying out any fetishes or kinks, how necessary it was to play and explore with each other before penetration, etc. They were listening so intently that they forgot all about their embarrassment. Sasuke approached her alone one night to talk about something else.
"Naruto says he's straight, so I don't think he'd be very interested, but..."
"Do you want to know what it feels like and what anal sex is like?" she asked, guessing what it was about.
"...Yeah."
"You could ask Itachi too." Sasuke's face started turning red like a tomato, but she didn't laugh.
"...I don't know if I can even look him in the face and ask."
"Do you want me to call him so we're both here? I'd say he has more experience than I do in that area."
"Alright."
Seina got up from her room to go look for Itachi. It was late, so she hoped she wasn't waking him. As soon as she knocked on the door, Itachi opened it within a couple of seconds. He blinked when he saw her standing there, in a conjured white camisole, surely wondering what was going on.
"Can you come talk with Sasuke and me for a few minutes?"
"Sure. What's it about?" he asked, closing the door behind him.
"Anal sex."
Itachi stood still in front of his bed, looking alternately from one to the other. Then he focused on Sasuke's still flushed face without saying a word. He sat on the bed next to them and began to explain to Sasuke what he should do if he wanted to be with a man, or a woman and a rubber penis. Seina just smiled as she let Sasuke squeeze her hand, less and less embarrassed. Itachi was compassionate and very diligent. Just as he thought, he didn't laugh once. In the end, Seina had a slightly crazy idea.
"Why don't you try it on yourself and see if you like it?"
"Wha- What? How?"
"With your clones, obviously. Here, take this," she said, handing him a jar of conjured lubricant, which Sasuke took as if it were a piece of dried shit.
Sasuke blushed again, though less violently, at how she was saying in front of his brother to penetrate himself with a clone. Itachi, however, looked intrigued. He also seemed to be suppressing a smile in her direction.
"Oh, come on. If I had a dick I would have tried it by now," she confessed. Who do you trust more in this world if not yourself?
"It'll turn out that Jiraiya-sama isn't the only pervert on this island."
"We're all perverts out here, Itachi. The sooner you understand that, the better for you."
Itachi couldn't help but laugh out loud, as he rarely did before, when he heard her. Seeing the smile on his face filled her with joy. It tugged at her heartstrings as if he were an adorable puppy lost in the middle of the street. She hugged him against her as tightly as she could when she saw how much he had improved. Itachi picked her up, pulling her into his lap against his torso as if she were a stuffed animal, and gave her a kiss on the cheek that pleasantly surprised her.
"Perhaps Seina is right, little brother."
"Hn."
From Sasuke's expression, she knew he was having second thoughts. Shortly after that, he got up from his bed to go to his room. Not before giving her a kiss on the cheek and teasing her for embarrassing him.
"By the way, Seina... I can see your nipples in that nightgown."
She threw a conjured cushion at his back which he dodged. Itachi snorted a laugh, setting her down on the bed carefully before leaning over her to press another kiss to her cheekbone.
"Thank you for taking care of him," he whispered, and left.
The next morning, she looked at Sasuke and knew he had done it. It wasn't the first time she'd seen that gait. She couldn't suppress a huge grin as she chuckled quietly in her chair, trying to eat her breakfast. Naruto was too asleep to notice, Kisame hadn't come down yet and Itachi seemed to be trying to hide his smile so as not to embarrass his brother. Sasuke, however, realised that she was laughing at him, but he was in such a good mood that he just grabbed her by the neck with his arm, pulling her towards him for a resounding kiss on the cheek.
"What's wrong with you?" Naruto asked with his eyelids glued shut from sleep, looking vaguely in her direction.
"Nothing."
After that, Sasuke lost practically all modesty he had. While Naruto was still blushing, Sasuke was unable to feel ashamed of his sexuality. He had discovered that it was neither impure, nor humiliating, but pleasurable and a normal part of being human. So it was that many evenings they began to talk about their sexual encounters from their earlier life. George was not her first or last man so she had plenty of experience to share.
"And you don't think it's weird?"
"What does?"
"To go from a life full of lovers to..."
"To love just one person?" Sasuke nodded. "No. Sex is very different when you have it with someone you love. Besides, I'm never alone."
Sasuke looked confused for a few seconds. He could almost see her dismissing that she was talking about the bond with Naruto, and with her own, until she came up with the answer. He watched her with disbelieving eyes.
"You mean... Kurama?" She nodded, "You're telling me that when you masturbate, he's there?"
"All the time, except when he goes to sleep. Unlike Naruto's Kurama, my Kurama is more interested in the outside world and can only experience it through me."
"But… doesn't it put you off?" Sasuke asked again.
"No, because when I start something I try to separate us with my mental barriers and he goes to sleep. Still, there are thoughts that come so fast that I can't hide them, unfortunately."
Sasuke watched her dumbfounded, instantly understanding what she wanted to tell him, though then he began to grin in amusement. At least one of the two of them had found humour in their bizarre situation. Seina, on the other hand, was delighted to be able to converse with her siblings in a more adult manner. It wasn't that she'd been bored talking to them before, but now she felt she could confide quite a few things to them that she'd kept quiet about before.
"Did you know that I can use my magic to... you know?"
"Really?" He asked curiously. "How does it work?"
"Yes. It stimulates the nerve endings causing pleasure. There's no penetration or anything like that, but it's fun, and pleasurable. Do you want to try it?"
"Now?"
She smiled when she heard his answer. He hadn't said 'Really?' but had agreed beforehand and then asked if this was the right time. She looked at the training clearing.
"Perhaps we should tell Naruto as well."
"At this rate, Itachi and Kisame will find out too."
"Find out about what?" Itachi asked from the top of a branch.
She and Sasuke exchanged glances.
"You should have kept quiet," she sighed. "Let Naruto and Kisame come, and I'll explain."
Minutes later, they were all sitting in the clearing, watching the sunset. She explained a snippet of her conversation with Sasuke about how she could use her kekkei genkai to give, and give herself, pleasure. Naruto looked embarrassed to hear it, and somewhat surprised, while Kisame was grinning from ear to ear.
"I see you two have been talking about the same thing lately."
"We're teenagers, what do you expect?" Sasuke shrugged.
"The point is, I told Sasuke if he wanted me to try it on him. It's nothing like a normal sexual relationship, but I don't know if he'll want to try it in front of everyone."
"I don't care," Kisame offered. "You just have to touch one hand, right?"
"You don't mind cumming in front of everyone?" Seina asked a little sceptically.
"Do you think you can make me orgasm with a simple handshake?" grinned Kiri's ninja like a madman. "We'll have to see about that."
"Hey, you're on your own. I've already warned you."
Kisame lit her competitive fuse like never before. Did he think she wasn't capable? He was going to find out. She grabbed his huge hand, watching as he engulfed it like a doll. She made him lie on the ground just in case, then used her magic to slowly flood him. At first Kisame didn't flinch, but then, when she had him completely surrounded, when she felt the pleasure of her magic at every nerve ending in his body, he began to convulse as he tried not to moan in pleasure. She didn't stop. She did not want to border on pain so she played at slowing and increasing the intensity of her magic on the erogenous zones of his body. She contemplated his huge erection struggling to escape from his black trousers. It took less than 10 minutes for him to cum with a choked roar, writhing on the grass. She let him breathe for a few minutes.
"Didn't I warn you?"
Kisame's eyes snapped open, staring up at the sky as if he had found the messiah. Itachi, Sasuke and Naruto were watching him with partially stunned and somewhat excited faces.
"How did you do that?" Kisame asked, staring at her, after catching his breath. "It was like you were fucking every inch of my body. Not just on the outside, but on the inside as well."
"That's just what I did. More or less."
He rose from the grass to sit on his log. He looked at Itachi with an impressed face.
"That was the strongest orgasm I've ever had in my entire life. You should try it. I'm going to change my clothes," he snorted a laugh.
Kurama, lying next to her outside, laughed mischievously. She stroked his soft fur affectionately as she watched Kisame leave. Naruto, of course, didn't want her to try it on him, red as a tomato. Itachi looked mildly amused at what he had just witnessed while Sasuke's eyes glittered. She knew he did want to try it. All he did lately was try new things that gave him pleasure.
That night, sure enough, Sasuke appeared through her bedroom door. Seina snorted a laugh as she realised she was right.
"I'm not going to let Kisame try it and not me," he said, crossing his arms. 2Though I'd rather not be seen by Naruto or Itachi."
Kurama, lying at the foot of the bed, opened one eye as Sasuke lay down next to him. He was so used to feeling his team's presence that he simply went back to sleep. She lay down next to Sasuke so she could hold his hand. Since he didn't have Kisame's stamina it only took him about 3 minutes to finish, panting beside her as if he had run a marathon.
"Now I understand what he meant. Damn, it's totally different than anal sex!"
"How are you going to compare an energy to a dick," she rolled her eyes.
"Can we try it again? I want to last more than three minutes."
Seina used considerably less magic to push him over the edge, and then bring him down to reality. As soon as she noticed he was about to cum she loosened the intensity, stretching out his orgasm for a long while. Beside him, Sasuke clenched her hand tightly, his face pearly with sweat, his eyes closed and clutching the sheet shakily. He wiggled his hips in the air, as if he wanted to rub his erection against someone or something. She didn't say anything.
It was a strange thing to have Sasuke next to her in such an exposed way and yet it didn't turn her stomach to have him enjoy his magic in a pleasurable way. She closed his eyes as she listened to Sasuke's countless moans until he couldn't take it anymore and cum with a cry.
He gasped beside her, covering his eyes with his free arm.
"That was amazing," He looked like she wanted to ask a question, but then closed her mouth with an impressed smile. "Thank you, Seina."
After that. The topic of sex died down, finally, slowly as everyone had spent it. Sasuke and her brother were still curious about everything they were missing out on regarding it, but seemed content to explore it more quietly when they got off the damn island.
On the other hand, they kept training, kept chatting about trivial things and the affairs of the Land of Fire, and she kept avoiding Jiraiya until one day he showed up with a huge box of chocolates and a surrender request.
"I know I've been an idiot, I admit it," he sighed when she agreed to listen to him. "I've taken some time away to think about myself and my actions… The thing is, a part of me has never seen Kurama as a human being but as just another bijuu, you know? I remember how Kushina used to complain, and it's hard for me to believe that you can get along so well with Kurama, that he's capable of feeling more than just anger like he did with Kushina."
"That's because Seina isn't Kushina, nor will she ever be," Kurama snapped, lying next to her. "Stop comparing people, and you'll do better in life. Besides, I can hate one person and love another. I don't know why you think I'm incapable of feeling anything other than anger."
"Because until now you've only shown anger!" Jiraiya said, looking him straight in the eye. "You destroyed part of Konoha 15 years ago, for God's sake!"
"Should I remind you that you kept me imprisoned for decades just for being who I am, a human? How would you react to the first sign of freedom? Also, remember that fake Madara put me under his influence with his mangekyo sharingan. Part of that fight wasn't even my doing."
"And should I believe you're an angel now?"
"No. What you need to understand is that Seina is my jinchuriki and, despite having sealed me inside her without me and without her consent… if I could have chosen, I would have chosen her. I don't hate Seina, nor Naruto, nor Sasuke… I don't hate many people thanks to Seina. You should learn to trust your apprentices if you want them to advance more than you have in your life. Even I, whom you describe as an enraged being, gave Seina a chance and I've been rewarded for it."
They kept arguing a bit more between them. Jiraiya's problem boiled down to a few things: 1) he was comparing Naruto's progress to his own, 2) he couldn't accept that Kurama was more than his dark side because his father, Minato, had died sealing him, 3) he was unaware of the work she had done for years to interact with Kurama, and 4) he was mixing his personal issues with Naruto and with her.
She hadn't forgiven him entirely because Jiraiya had to work on his problems since they affected his brother, and her by extension, but he was on the right track. At least he had stopped comparing Naruto's progress to his own and had accepted that Kurama seemed to hate everyone except a few, which meant he wasn't purely evil. That confronted him with the reality that maybe Kurama behaved as he did because no one gave him a chance, since before they knew him they already had a preconceived idea that he was bad and always treated him like garbage.
"Clearly, the old man has some problems even he didn't know he had."
"True," she thought to Kurama. "The problem is we don't have to pay for it."
"If he ever hurts us like that again, hurts you, I'll kill him."
By the time September came, they decided by absolute majority to leave Uzushiogakure to return to live in the Land of Fire, or anywhere else that wasn't the Uzumaki village. Jiraiya, obviously, didn't want to take Kisame with him to see his informants, so he left alone while Itachi took them to one of his safe houses in some remote spot so they could stay there for at least a few weeks.
" We can move around whenever we get tired of one place."
"Anything is better than staying one more day in Uzushiogakure."
Itachi took them to Sora-ku. It was an apparently abandoned city full of very tall, rundown-looking buildings. It reminded them of the buildings in Uzushiogakure before they were repaired. The city was on the border with the Land of Wind, right in the desert, and although it looked abandoned, it wasn't.
"This place has always been a refuge for criminals," Itachi explained as they walked shielding themselves from the harsh desert sun toward the entrance. "You can find everything here."
"So, it's basically a black market, right?"
"Exactly. No ninja should find us here unless they're looking for us. They're criminals but not stupid. They know that if they sell our location, we will most likely punish them with their own lives for betraying us."
"Understood. We don't get involved in other people's business, and they don't get involved in ours."
"Hn."
"I remember this place!" Sasuke said suddenly. "This is where you used to bring me to collect cat footprints years ago!"
Seina caught a sideways glance of Itachi's pleased smile hearing Sasuke recall that. As they got closer, a somewhat disgusting stench from lack of hygiene began to fill the air. The place looked a bit shabby but wasn't full of trash. Something was better than nothing. Itachi led them through labyrinthine streets to a kind of multi-story warehouse made of cement and glass. It was, like everything else, in poor condition, but it held up admirably. Some glass was broken, a few chunks of wall missing, and the metal door at the entrance was dented.
"This way."
Naruto, Sasuke, Kisame, and she followed Itachi. A cat wearing a ninja vest appeared right away, so she knew it had to be a ninken like Kakashi's.
"Itachi!" she called out, surprised and delighted to see him. "I thought we'd never see you again!"
"Hello again, Denka. It's been a long time."
"You'll see when Nekobaa sees you! HINA!"
"No need to yell," said a more feminine voice. It was another cat ninken. "Itachi! And Sasuke!"
"And more people. Who are they?"
"These are the Uzumaki siblings, Naruto and Seina, from my brother's genin team and my Akatsuki partner, Kisame."
They entered the warehouse, home of the ninken and someone named Nekobaa. Seina caught a glimpse of other cats watching them from the shadows. One black cat stopped licking its paw when their eyes met. They followed Itachi to a large room where an old woman with grey hair and a sun-spotted nose gave her a catlike appearance. Surely that was Nekobaa. As they appeared at the door, she covered her mouth upon seeing Itachi with Sasuke and quickly stood up.
"Itachi! And Sasuke! I thought I'd never see you together again!"
"We have reunited thanks to Sasuke's team," Itachi smiled slightly, to the astonishment of the old woman and the cats. "We were wondering if we could stay here for a while."
"Of course, of course! We have plenty of space. I always like to receive guests and visitors. I'll call Tamaki to come greet you."
Tamaki turned out to be a 15-year-old teenager clearly infatuated with Sasuke, who avoided looking her in the face to not encourage her. She reminded him of his first interaction with Karin. Luckily, Tamaki didn't seem to be a hysterical fan, but accepted keeping her distance without complaint after being rejected. Naruto, however, gave Sasuke a couple of playful elbows with a mischievous smile.
"Stop it, dobe," Sasuke hissed softly. "Or do you want me to do the same to you every time you look at someone?"
"Okay, okay. I'll stop," his brother raised his hands in peace, knowing Sasuke was capable of doing it. "What a temper."
They talked for a couple of hours with Nekobaa and Tamaki, who showed them the footprint encyclopaedia Sasuke and Itachi had collected when they were children. Seina could only smile imagining an adorable Sasuke running after cats with his book and a bottle of ink.
"Aww," she couldn't help but say when she saw on one page a couple of sentences handwritten by Sasuke at five years old. "You must have been adorable."
Sasuke looked at her with a hint of indignation, but Nekobaa nodded firmly. She bent down to give her a kiss on the cheek, seeing how embarrassed he was when it wasn't a big deal. He sighed, accepting the kiss and putting an arm around her shoulders, to the surprised looks of the old woman and her granddaughter. Both, along with Naruto on his other side, leaning on his legs, turned the pages of the encyclopaedia as Sasuke explained how he collected them and which cat they belonged to.
They set up their tent in one of the less dusty rooms, assuring Nekobaa they had no problem staying there.
"We can clean it a bit, at least," she told them, "before you put up the tent."
"We'll take care of the cleaning, Nekobaa. Don't worry," Naruto said, with a charismatic smile on his face.
As soon as they were left alone, Seina waved a hand to clean everything in a second. They pitched their tent and some protective measures. That night she slept like a log with a smile on her face because, although she wasn't in Konoha yet, a change of scenery was just what they needed.