Chapter 2 - Senju Satsuki

"Ituski sensui?! What are you doing here so late?!" I immediately ask my notoriously lazy and now drenched sensei as he stands outside of the front door of my house; the rain pouring heavily on him as he attempts to shield some of it away with his arms high above.

"hey satsuki! Im sorry to bother you so late! but I just really needed to talk to you before I left the village on some important business!" he responds, trying to shout over the loud and powerful rain.

"Important business?!" I repeat.

"yea! Well, it is a mission but not exactly an average one! Heh! The ANBU personally requested my help and I!-"

" Oh my! is that Nara itsuki's voice I hear?! Oh it is! it is! oh joy! More food for me to cook then!" my mother announces behind me as she fully opens the half opened door I held over itsuki.

"Mr. itsuki! my, my, I'm so pleased to see my daughters sensei show up for our late night dinner! ohohohoho!" she laughs away. "It's been so long since I've seen you! and please excuse my ease dropping but I overheard a bit of what you were saying to my daughter about leaving and now I feel that I really must feed you! I can already see how much skininer you've gotten since we meet!" she speaks reaching out and examining his right arm.

"oh no, ma'am please, i really need to be going! I have a lot ah- aaaaah!" Itsuki sensei screams being pulled by his arm and dragged into my house by my mother.

"Nonsense!" she exclaims forcefully siting down around our dinner table.

"I insist! You will to eat here! And leave with enough food in your stomach to last you until you come back to the village! ohohohoho!" she laughs away setting up a plate in front him.

"..but I!...ugh.." he sighs being overwhelmed by my mother's enthusiasm and persistence ;her bright red checks and thinly sculpted pale face lighting up with joy and eagerness.

"alright, alright, I'll have something before I leave then... thank you..." Itsuki sensei reluctantly gives in trying to be polite.

poor itsuki sensei...I feel sorry for him...

he's not used to eating the way me and family eat and he already knows and witnessed just how much my mom cooks and feeds people.

Our family alone can average more than 10 meals a day, So we've become pretty infamous because of our appetites; everyone even calls us inhuman because of it.

"so right then!" my mother announces after filling up Itsuki's plate.

" now, I shall return with the second course of the appetizers!" She joyfully sings out as she scurries her way back to the kitchen.

"Second course of the appetizers?!" itsuki responds in disbelief, looking at the large array of food already filled in his plate.

Itsuki sensai then looks up from his plate with an even more shocked look as he sees the rest of food on the dinner table.

The variety, depth and intoxicating aroma of dishes cooked by my mother

Immediately stuns and overwhelms him as he shallows a gulp of spit.

...

"This...is unreal..." itsuki sensei mutters to himself.

"im sorry, sensei." I apologies to him, sitting across the large dinner table.

" you know how my mother is itsuki sensei, she loves cooking and feeding people so much and now you probably won't leave until you're as fat as my father!" I say beginning to chuckle.

"Yes yes...I know." he responds sighing and rubbing his forehead in frustration. "I was hoping to avoid your mother to be honest, that's why i didn't try to come inside your home when you answered your door and even stopped you as tried to completely open your front door despite the harsh weather outside."

"it's funny." he says beginning to eat some of the food in his plate. "the hokage certainly has the perfect wife to satisfy his hunger."

"Yea, I don't feel like any other woman could satisfy his hunger like my mother can!" I respond.

"Indeed" itsuki agrees. "Although, I wouldn't say that he is the only one that lucked out. You also lucked out by having the perfect mother to feed your own inhuman appetite as well and I've never understood how you don't seem to ever gain any weight depite the way you eat; which easily

rivals the way your fathers eats."

"Yep!" i I respond reaching out for 4 massive rice balls in a bowl full of them on the table.

In seconds I devour each in just a few bites as itsuki sensai watches in horror.

"I.- don'-knnnwow, I'm luukk-kcuy I gguse-s" I attempt to say with a mouth full of rice balls.

...

Itsuki sensei pauses for a moment before speaking. "indeed, you and your father are simply to much alike...in fact, you both even share the same uncanny resemblance to your ancestor; The First hokage. It's unbelievable how similar you both look to him. Although, everyone does say that your father looks like in over inflated akimichi clan version of the First, while you look like a young female version of the First. and I must say, I certainly can't help but agree with those comparisons."

"hmm..I don't know." I respond licking my fingers in order to be rid of each delicious rice that remained on them.

"I mean, I guess you could say that, I do hear everyone say that about us; especially towards my dad…Hmm..how has that chubby grizzly bear been? He barely comes home these days and when he does he seems to be too exhausted to train me like he's always done since I was practically a baby!"

"hahaha! practically a baby? " itsuki sensai repeats spewing out tea in laughter. " you know, that actually does sound like something he would try and do. The man has always been so keen on your progression as a kunoichi…but as for his recent absence go, well, you have to understand satsuki your father is a busy man; he is the hokage after all and he's been especially busy lately consulting with his advisors about the village's status and good standing with the other hidden villages."

" it's regrettable to say" itsuki sensai states changing his demeanor to a more serious tone. "but despite the peace and tranquility that's remain within the hidden villages for nearly more than 80 years Fourth shinobi war, The relation between the villages seem to be appearing a bit shaky once more; Especially with the newly announced kages in Amegakure and Sunagakure. So you see, it's become even more essential to reinforce the peace treaty that was agreed on by all the hidden villages after the war."

...

Itsuki sensei pauses for a moment as he shifts his head to the side and spaces out briefly.

he then pulls back his chair, resting on it's heel as he leans back with hands resting on his head.

"Times like these are very unsettling to the villagers" he begins "everyone seems to be so paranoid and scared of conflict and the potential of war... even it appears in the most insignificant way, no one wants the idea to shape in any possible way... the pain and death from our history, that's been fully removed from our world for so long is something so many of us are willing to do anything to prevent from resurfacing.."

Itsuki sensei pause once more, moving his eyes to me. "Hmph, in short satsuki, Your father has a lot of heads watching over him, nagging him about his duties and as the hokage, his job is not only to keep the village safe, but also keep his people feeling safe..do you understand?

" I understand itsuki sensai, and I really don't mean to be selfish, I'd just really like for him to be around a little more often, my 15th birthday is just in a few weeks and at the rate he's been going, he's not even going to see me that day."

" awww! don't say that my dear suki suki! He'll make it!" my mom responds coming in with a massive tray of noodles and steamed vegetables.

She lays the large tray near the center of the table. Her long, thin and skinny frame reaching out across the variety of foods she prepared.

my mother continues to comfort me with her words as she pours itsuki sensei some tea.

" thank you" he says taking a sip.

"I hope your right mom, I really do hope he's able to do what you're telling me." I mutter sipping some tea she pours for me as well.

" oh I am right! so don't you worry my dear, your father maybe seen as the leader and head Concho of the village, but when it comes up to me telling him what to do, he already knows who's in charge! and I'm also not afraid to limit his meals to just seven a day to remind him!"

"just...seven a day...?" itsuki sensei repeats nervously. " Yes that sounds very… horrific" he remarks choking briefly after hearing the number of meals.

" I know! I know! it's drastic!" my mother weeps as she stirs the hot steaming noodles. "I would feel so cruel leaving him with just that to eat each day! But tough times call for desperate measures! Heck, I may even remove the appetizers in-between those seven meals! but only if I really need to! and believe me my daughter, if I do that he will at the very least make it to your birthday, I promise thi- "

" ...oh my! No!" my mother suddenly yells out after sniffing the air. "My Fish is burning!" we hear her cry out, rushing back to the kitchen.