As promised by Azula, Mai won the prisoner Naruto for the night to do with as she wished. She put on her still wet and spongy feeling boots as two Fire nation guards Azula had ordered entered the cell. The guards the proceeded to knock Naruto out with a quick blow to the head, remove him from his one set of chains, force his arms behind his back, and then chain his wrists and ankles together with the another set of the same extra strength chains found in the dungeons, only this time they weren’t latched to the building. They then carried Naruto to Mai’s private quarters as she followed behind. Upon arriving, the two guards threw Naruto into the room on his back, allowed Lady Mai to enter, and stood guard outside the now shut door.

Mai, starting to have ideas begin swirling in her mind, hurriedly sat herself down upon Naruto’s chest/stomach. She quickly pulled out a kunai from her sleeve and aimed it preciously at Naruto’s exposed throat just as he awoke.

“Listen blond boy” Mai began softly “From spending so much time around Azula, I’ve become the type to never tolerate disobedience. I want everything in life the way it is when I throw my knives: quick, precise, and direct. Never boring.”
At this point Naruto became very worried from her somewhat hostile words, as if the sharp object pointed at his jugular wasn’t already enough. A quick glance around the room told him he was quite alone, and Mai was quite in charge.

Mai continued, “I know you just want to help me, but right now…this very moment…I need to get something out of the way before you can begin to do that, if at all.”
At this, Naruto was confused, but he thought it simply best to allow her to go on with her explanation. Maybe he could find out some useful information for later.

“As you may have noticed, there was a somewhat hidden anger behind parts of my torturing you before. Not directed at you in particular, but maybe at all men in general, my seemingly uncaring former boyfriend Zuko especially for sure.”

Naruto internally groaned. ‘Oh great, a girl with weapons that isn’t so keen on men right now. Her and Tenten would get along swell.’

Mai had the perfect idea in mind…a way to get at least some semblance of vengeance, if not against Zuko for leaving her alone, then at least against all males and their pigheaded ways of only caring for their own feelings.

“You and I are going to play” she said with the slightest of smiles, one that would uncharacteristically grow as she went on. “And by play, I mean I start to feel confident about myself once again, my pain maybe heals, and you possibly make up for some of the other members of your gender’s past mistakes.”

“How exactly do you plan on that!?” Naruto cried out.

“You’re going to lick my feet clean” Mai said nonchalantly as one could while kicking her boots off. The walk back from the dungeons encased in her boots had once again put her feet in a less than dainty state.

Naruto’s jaw dropped, and as the familiar aroma of Mai’s putrid foot stench once again reached his nostrils, he practically screamed an ear piercing “WHAT!?”

“You heard me” Mai started with a her clear and steady voice, although one could say it began to crack towards the middle of her monologue. “It’s exactly what you’re going to do. And during it all I get to feel like the princess Azula is…the Fire Lady I should have been by Zuko’s side. If nothing else, it’ll just be relaxing to have my tired, smelly, dirty, sweaty feet massaged and cleansed by your male tongue…therapeutic in a way when you think about it.”

“And if I refuse?” Naruto asked meekly.

Mai twirled the kunai in her hand, and pressed it against Naruto’s throat. Should she have pressed any harder, she would have surely drawn blood. “I don’t think you want to find out.”