[Hope in Ruination] Chapter 11 – Promise Of A Lifetime (NSFW)

Completely unaware of Illaoi’s clash against the Bloodharbour Ripper, Naruto and Ahri continued their day uninterrupted. The two of them made small talk and drew Exploding Seals for hours.

Though the fox girl was usually flirty and playful, she could also be serious and focused when needed. If those Exploding Tags were going to help them in their journey through the Grey Harbour, she had no intention of slacking off or distracting Naruto from his work.

As evening fell, their work finally came to an end, and they went down to the tavern owned by the inn where they were staying to have dinner.

Soon, their dinner came to an end, too, and they retreated to their room. Now changed into their sleeping clothes, Naruto and Ahri got into their respective beds.

Due to spending nearly seven years on the run, pursued by terrorists and special forces black ops, the blond had developed a skill of falling asleep whenever because he never knew when he would have to wake up and run again. The first few years of his life as a fugitive had been particularly difficult.

Whereas he fell asleep seconds after he hit the mattress, Ahri had trouble doing the same. Her fox ears gave her an excellent sense of hearing; it was a trait that she appreciated in her daily life and one that she had never really seen as a disadvantage because she had never lived together with other humans in large cities. Furthermore, she had spent the past century all alone, in the forest, away from humans.

But now, she was in Bilgewater, a very large and very rowdy city. It was a city that never slept. No matter the time of day or night, many taverns, pubs, and casinos were filled with partygoers.

Ahri flattened her fox ears against her head with her hands in a futile attempt to muffle the noise and curled up in her bed, sighing in annoyance.

Not being able to sleep wasn’t the only thing that bothered her at that moment; she was also hungry.

It wasn’t regular hunger; she had had dinner with Naruto three hours ago. No, it was a hunger that burnt her soul, one that consumed her from within. It was a hunger that she could satiate only by draining other living creatures’ life force.

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The fox girl turned and twisted in her bed for hours, unable to sleep. The longer she remained awake, the harder it was for her to ignore her hunger.

Ahri was always hungry. She could be draining other people’s life force for days, and she would still have room for more.

Having lived for centuries, she had found a way to control her hunger somewhat and avoid killing people. However, ever since she had met Naruto and he had allowed her to feast on his life force as much as she wanted, Ahri felt her control slip, and she started reverting to how she used to be a hundred years ago.

Turning on her side, her eyes glowed with a deep magenta colour in the darkness of the night as she glanced at Naruto’s bed where he was sleeping.

She got out of her bed and walked slowly towards him as if she were possessed. Her hand raised to touch him, and she licked her lips in anticipation. But, at the very last moment, she stopped her actions and pulled back.

‘I can’t do this. Not again.’

She climbed back into her bed once again, inwardly wracked with guilt and tortured by the ever-present feeling of hunger.

The girl continued struggling against her hunger for another half an hour before she could no longer bear it. She got up, but this time, she didn’t go to Naruto’s bed. Instead, she grabbed her white cloak from the hanger, put on her red boots, and left the room quietly.

The moment she left the room, the sleeping Naruto opened his eyes. He had been aware of Ahri’s movements the entire time. As a shinobi, unless he was utterly exhausted, he usually slept with one eye open, as the saying goes. He was always ready to react in case someone tried to kill him in his sleep. The powerful negative emotions inside Ahri and the way she kept twisting in her bed had alerted him from the start.

Letting out a sigh, he got out of bed as well, and he also put on his grey travelling coat and his boots. Then, he grabbed his backpack with the Scroll of Seals (he never left it unguarded) and his large broadsword before leaving the room, following Ahris' tracks.

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‘It’s not enough.’

‘It’s not enough!’

‘IT’S NOT ENOUGH!’

She had fed on the life force of eight people already, leaving them barely standing on their two feet, but her hunger had yet to abate. It was the opposite; it was as if she was only getting hungrier.

‘Maybe I should never have come out of the woods.’

‘I should never have left Ionia.’

Afraid of what she might end up doing if she kept feeding on random passers-by in Bilgewater, Ahri left the city and headed into the forest.



She was going to feed on the life force of various animals. It wouldn’t be that big of an issue if some monkeys and some birds dropped dead once she was done with them.

“Where are you going, Ahri?” a voice came from behind her, and the fox girl froze in her tracks. 

“I-, I couldn’t sleep. I was going for a walk,” Ahri said as she turned around to face him.

Naruto studied her for a few moments before asking:

“Were you going to disappear on me secretly, in the thick of the night?”

“What? Spirits, No! Of course not!” she denied it right away. She let out a heavy sigh. “I’m hungry, Naruto. Hungrier than I’ve been in many years. . . I feel like I’m losing control,” she confessed.

“If you were hungry, why didn’t you say so? Didn’t I tell you already? You can feed on my life force whenever you want. Just let me know.”

Ahri wrung her fingers in distress.

“I can’t. This is different. I’m afraid of what I might end up doing.”

She glanced at her feet, unable to look him in the eyes. Even when she wasn’t draining other people’s life force and feeding on their emotions and memories, Ahri could still get a rough idea of what someone was feeling. All she could sense from Naruto at that moment was concern for her. . . and affection.

He took a few steps towards her, but her pleading voice stopped him from getting too close:

“Please, Naruto, stop. Don’t come any closer. I don’t want to hurt you. I can’t control myself now. I don’t want to end up killing the person I love once again.”

Hearing her words, Naruto stopped hesitating. Despite her protests, he walked towards her again and wrapped his arm around her back, embracing her to his chest.

“It’s alright, Ahri,” he said kindly. “I don’t know what happened in your past, but everything is alright.”

Pressed so close to him and feeling his strong emotions of concern and affection, Ahri couldn’t hold back her hunger anymore. Her yellow eyes turned a deep magenta colour once more, and Naruto let out a small grunt as he felt his chakra being drained away.

Five minutes later, he softly pushed her away, and Ahri had enough self-control not to fight it.

“Let’s head back to our inn, shall we?”

Unlike earlier that day, he took the initiative to grab her hand as they walked back to their accommodation at a slow pace.

On the way back, Ahri opened her heart to him and told him about her past.

“In my earliest memories, I remember growing up with a pack of ice foxes in northern Ionia, in Shao-Xan. At first, I didn’t know I was a Vastaya. I was stronger and faster than the other ice foxes, but I didn’t know I was different until I fed for the first time on a human’s life force.”

“It was a man wounded by a stray arrow. He was dying when I found him. I followed my instincts and started feeding on his life force. I drained his spiritual essence, his emotions and knowledge of the Ionian language.”

“That feeling was unlike anything I’d ever experienced until then. I quickly grew addicted to it, and my hunger and greed increased with every passing day. I started feeding off humans more often. I gained their memories, their knowledge, and this human-like appearance too. . .”

Naruto remained silent, only squeezing her hand in a wordless show of support and comfort as she continued to tell him her story.

As Ahri kept on feeding on people’s memories and life essence, she became sapient. Eventually, she stumbled upon memories depicting how humans perceived her: a terrifying monster. She had already become infamous among the locals of that province.

It was at that moment that her never-ending fight against her nature had begun. Many years passed like that, with the fox girl slowly gaining a measure of control over hunger and magical abilities.

“One day, I met an artist. Unlike the rest of the humans, he wasn’t afraid of me. He offered me a deal: he would give me his life essence as long as I allowed him to paint me. Soon, we fell in love. . . but it did not last.”

As cautious as she had been, the painter was just a regular human. Not long after they became a couple, his body gave out.

“I told him that I cannot control my magic. I asked him to leave me. I begged him to go and not look back. But he didn’t listen. He refused to leave.”

Tears started rolling down her cheeks, and she quickly wiped them away with the sleeve of her white cloak.

“One day, I couldn’t hold back my hunger, and I drained the last of his life force. I killed him,” Ahri said in a whisper.

The anguish in her voice couldn’t be faked, and Kyuubi’s sensing ability told him that her sorrow and remorse were real.

“I don’t want you to end up the same, Naruto,” she said, fresh tears welling in her eyes. “It would be better if you left me.”

But even as she said it, she didn’t let go of his hand. She clung to it like a lifeline, as if she couldn’t bear the thought of letting him go.

At that moment, he wanted nothing more than to wipe her tears and hold her close, to cradle her face in his hand and tell her it would be okay. But he only had one arm left. So instead, he pulled her in and held her tight.

“I’m not going to die on you, Ahri,” he said.

She released his hand and wrapped both arms around his back tightly, burrowing her face into his chest.

“And you don’t have to hold back with me,” he continued. “You can have all my chakra. All my life force.”

She raised her head from his chest, glancing up at him tearfully.

“But what if-”

He pressed his index finger gently on her lips, shushing her.

“Focus your senses on me. Really focus on sensing my life force. I won’t hide anything from you this time. Put your hands on my belly and feel the chakra coursing through my body.”

Simultaneously, Naruto also flared his chakra. Great clouds of dust rose in the air, the nearby windows and doors were slammed shut with a bang, and tables and chairs were sent flying. The passers-by on the street started running away in panic, screaming expletives and yelling about the appearance of a sudden typhoon.

That phenomenon lasted no more than five seconds, but it was long enough for Ahri to understand just how deep his power was and how vast, nigh unlimited, his life force was. She was a Vastaya, a being deeply connected to the Spirit Realm. Few mortals in Runeterra could compare to her.

Yet, when she sensed Naruto’s ‘magic’, his chakra, she suddenly felt small. It was on an entirely different scale from hers. She understood then how laughable her worries must have been in his eyes.

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Eventually, they arrived back at their inn. After closing the door behind them, they took off their cloaks, and Naruto placed his backpack and broadsword against the wall before sitting down beside her at the edge of her bed.

“You can start, Ahri,” he said gently, smiling at the sight of her flattened fox ears.

Having opened up to him earlier and realising that most of her fears had been unnecessary thanks to the overwhelming amount of chakra he possessed, Ahri looked down at her hands in her lap, a red colour in her cheeks. She felt like a fool for overreacting.

“It’s not just because I was afraid of harming you,” she mumbled, still avoiding his gaze.

“Then what else ails you, dear?” he asked, barely holding back a snicker.

“Don’t make fun of me, you!” she whined, softly headbutting his shoulder with her forehead. 

He chuckled and raised his hand to caress her head, right between her fox ears.

“Letting me feed on your life force is just a band-aid solution,” she muttered. “What if you suddenly decide one day that you don’t like me anymore? What if-”

He lowered his hand from her head to cup her cheek, and he turned her face to him so that she would look him in the eyes.

“Ahri, I will never abandon you.”

Uncharacteristic of her, the girl looked down, her complexion reddening by the second.

“Is that a promise?” she asked shyly.

He leaned in and pressed a chaste kiss on her lips.

“Yes. It’s the promise of a lifetime.”

Her breath hitched in her throat, and her slit, fox-like pupils widened as she looked at him.

“Don’t be so surprised, Ahri. You were my first friend,” he said, smiling as he caressed the whisker marks on her cheek with his thumb. “Because of my tenant’s power, I could always sense other people’s negative emotions. It made me keep everyone at an arm’s length. But you broke past my reticence. You earned my trust, and then you stole my heart, too.”

“Are you trying to make me cry again?” she said, embarrassed at his heartfelt confession. His sincerity had caught her completely off guard.

“No, I want to make you smile. And, as long as you’ll have me, I want to protect that smile.”

His words made her let out a squawk, her face looking as though she was going to combust from embarrassment any moment now.

Naruto himself was not entirely unaffected either, but after the fox girl opened her heart to him, he saw no reason to hesitate anymore. He was not the type who hid his feelings from the person he loved.

Now that he was sure that she was the one, he told her exactly what he felt, unknowingly making Ahri fall for him even harder than she already had.

“Who is this playboy, and what have you done with the bumbling fool of a sellsword that I used to know?!” 

He leaned in and covered her lips with his once again.

It was supposed to be just a chaste kiss, but after he pulled back, Ahri's arms snaked around his waist, and her warm, soft lips left a trail of butterfly kisses down his cheek and jaw until she reached his neck. 

“Ahri!” he whispered her name breathlessly, and his eyes closed as he felt her sharp fangs lightly graze his neck.

Emboldened by the groan of desire that he had let out, Ahri threw one leg over his and straddled his lap.

Her large breasts squished against his chest as she pressed herself tightly against him, the fabric of their sleeping clothes the only barrier between their skin. The sensation of her soft, warm body moulding to his was almost too much for the blond to handle, and he moaned into her mouth as she kissed him.

He slid his hand down her back, tracing her svelte waist until his fingers reached the base of her fox tail. Ahri couldn’t hold back the shiver that coursed through her body and pulled back from the kiss, mewling softly against his lips.

Smirking teasingly, he wrapped his hand around her tail and pulled. The girl arched her back, and her tail twitched sharply in response. Annoyed with him, she actually hissed at him before suddenly leaning in and biting his nape, her sharp fangs almost breaking past his skin.

"Not my tail!" she whined. 

Her pleading, offended face made him want to bully her even more, but he reined in that urge. He decided to leave it for another day; what Ahri needed at that moment was love and comfort.

As they began kissing again, Ahri’s hunger returned with a vengeance, and her amber eyes turned a bright magenta colour. She broke their kiss to gaze at him one more time, but to her hidden relief, there was no hint of fear or hesitation to be found in his eyes. All she could see was affection, understanding and acceptance.

Leaning in, she cupped his face with both hands and pressed her lips to his. It was not a soft, tentative kiss this time. It was completely different. She kissed him like she was starving, like she was trying to suck his soul out. It was messy and hot, and a small trail of saliva slid from the corner of their mouths as her tongue slipped past his lips and tangled with his. She sucked on his tongue and drank his saliva as she drained his life force, feasting on his chakra.

The kiss grew more intense, and she started gyrating her hips against him, her hunger and lust making her crave his touch in her most intimate place.

Without breaking the kiss, her hands began to unbutton his shirt, revealing his strong core and sculpted chest. He did the same, slowly pulling her white nightgown down past her shoulders and revealing her voluptuous, milky white breasts.

But then, she broke the kiss and sat up, making his eyes widen in surprise.

"Ahri, you don't have to do this," he said quickly when he saw her dropping to her knees in front of him, between his legs.

“But I want to,” she whispered as he pulled at the string holding his pyjama pants. "Let me take care of you."

Her slit pupils widened imperceptibly when she pulled down his pants, and his cock sprang up, throbbing and looking like it was on the verge of exploding.

“You’re so hard for me, Naruto. So big,” she said as she wrapped her small hand around its base and pressed a kiss to its side as she gazed up at him.

She stuck out her tongue and dragged it on the underside of his dick, greatly enjoying the way his nostrils flared from pleasure and how he throbbed at her touch.



Naruto’s heart leapt into his neck when she opened her mouth and he saw her sharp fangs, but he forgot all about his fears when her soft, wet mouth wrapped around his cock, and she began to suck, her eyes never leaving his.

Her tongue traced the edges of the crown of his head and then teased the slit before she took him deep into her throat. Her cheeks hollowed, and her eyes watered, but she didn't stop, sucking and forcing her head down his dick until her nose reached his pubic bone. He couldn't believe the sight in front of him. That flirtatious fox girl who used to tease him mercilessly, the most beautiful being he had ever seen, was down on her knees in front of him, worshipping him with her mouth.

The pleasure was so intense that he unconsciously bucked into her mouth, his hand pushing the back of her head as hard as he could against him. It was unlike anything he had ever felt in his entire life. No geisha, no escort could be compared to her.

“Ahri!” he cried out in a strangled voice.

The fox girl’s magenta eyes glowed brighter as she felt his life force pulsing through his cock. She took him in deeper, her throat constricting around him, and she moaned obscenely as she started draining his life essence.

The sight of the fox girl moaning as she deepthroated him was simply too much. He came with a loud grunt, filling her throat with his hot, sticky seed.

Realising that he was suffocating her, he let go of her head in a panic, and Ahri pulled back with a gasp. He was still in the middle of his orgasm when she pulled back, and ropes of cum splattered all over her face and breasts.

He came so hard that he was breathless and dizzy. He thought he was completely spent, but when Ahri opened her mouth, showing him the cum pooling on her tongue, he damn near lost it a second time.



The post-orgasm clarity hit him hard, though, and, realising what he had just done to her, he quickly got down to her level.

“Oh my god, Ahri, I’m so sorry,” he said as he grabbed his own shirt off the bed and started cleaning her up. But it wasn’t going too well. There was so much of it, and it was everywhere; some of it even got into her hair.

Ahri stood up with a smile and giggled softly at him before pushing his forehead back playfully.

“Don’t worry, and just wait for me. Give me a few minutes to clean myself; I’ll be back right away,” she said as she headed to the bathroom, her fox tail swaying with every step she took.

He sat on the bed and let himself fall on his back, covering his face with his forearm. Daydreaming about the pleasure he had just experienced, almost ten minutes passed like the blink of an eye. He didn’t even notice the passing of time until he heard the bathroom door open, and Ahri actually used her Spirit Rush ability, seemingly teleporting on top of him.

“I’m sorry for earlier, I-”

“Shh,” she shushed him this time, bringing a slender finger to his lips. “Don’t apologise. I loved every second of it.”

He was about to protest, but she covered his lips with hers, taking his breath with a kiss.

“I loved it, Naruto,” she said, her voice like a purr. “I loved your thick cock down my throat. I loved the feel of your hot cum filling my mouth. I loved seeing you lose control.”

He thought that she had drained him with the last orgasm, but her dirty talk got him so hard that it was almost painful.

Feeling him poking her from beneath, Ahri stood up with a grin, desire burning in her eyes. She got in position, straddled him, her warm, wet pussy hovering just above the tip of his dick.

He had just had the most mind-blowing orgasm of his life, but all it took was one look at her thigh gap glistening with her own juices for him to almost lose it again. He was scared of how much control she had over him.

Ahri’s yellow eyes never left his as she lowered herself onto him, his cock sliding into her with relative ease up to a point. Despite how wet she was, she moaned in slight discomfort as she started pushing herself down deeper, and she gasped when he hit the very bottom of her inner part.

Naruto moaned helplessly at the heavenly feeling of her hot, wet pussy constricting around him like a vice.

Placing her hands on his strong chest for support, she started raising and lowering her hips slowly, her walls squeezing him in a death grip.

He wasn’t a virgin. After Konoha’s ANBU had almost captured him due to a purple-haired kunoichi who had seduced him, Naruto had made it his goal to build tolerance to such tactics. He was no stranger to the pleasures of the flesh.

However, in the present, to his great shame, less than a minute after Ahri started moving her hips on top of him, he spilt himself inside of her, unable to control his release. It was as if it were his first time all over again.

Her lips curled in a smirk of satisfaction, and her yellow eyes turned a deep magenta colour again as she locked her gaze with him. Outside of his own volition, under the effect of her Charm, his dick instantly hardened again, and she started riding him once more.

His hand gripped her ass, urging her to move faster, but Ahri kept her movements slow and constant, seemingly savouring every second of it. Her eyes never left his, oscillating between her usual yellow and the pink of her Charm as she made love to him.

"I love you, Naruto,” she whispered as she lowered herself on him, and a tingle of both pleasure and pain shook her body when the tip of his dick bumped against her womb.

“I need you.”

“I love you.”

“I want you.”

Every time she lowered her hips, she would tell him how much she wanted him and how much she loved him.

Her rhythm slowly increased in intensity, and her whispers gradually turned into moans and shouts as she started slamming her hips down on his, the sounds of their flesh smacking together filling the room.

Their neighbours, the other people sleeping in the room next to them, came knocking on their doors, demanding they be silent, but the two of them were far too lost to care about that.

They only had eyes for each other, and the only things they could hear were each other’s moans and grunts.

For the first time in her life, Ahri let loose completely, and she started fucking him with wild abandon.



Her eyes rolled in the back of her head as she drained his life force through his cock, through his mouth, through the touch of her hands, and even through the contact of her breasts with his chest.

She couldn’t get enough of him. His emotions of love and devotion were intoxicating her. She was drunk on his life essence and on the happiness that she could sense from him every time she drained his life force.

He, too, was lost in a haze of pleasure, unable to do anything but shake his hips and grab her ass in a bruising grip, pressing her as closely as humanly possible against him before spilling himself inside her.

He lost count of how many times he witnessed her shaking and collapsing on top of him, to say nothing of how many times he had released his seed inside of her.

It was only in the wee hours of the morning that the two of them finally stopped, with Ahri collapsing on top of him, exhausted. Despite how much life essence she had drained from him, her body was sore, bruised, and tired like never before. As for Naruto, for all his Uzumaki stamina and chakra reserves, he felt more drained than after training with 5000 clones.

“I love you, Naruto,” Ahri whispered one last time. “I love you so much.”

The fox girl closed her eyes, falling into a deep sleep, her head resting on his chest.

A tired smile came on his face, and he kissed her on the forehead before embracing her more closely to his body.

The last thing he remembered before falling asleep was a feeling of comfort washing over him as Ahri’s nine fluffy fox tails draped all over them both, keeping them warm and cosy in the chilly air of the morning.