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Chapter 20

The door to the interrogation room opened after a further thirty minutes and Naruto came through with a bloody rag as he wiped the blood off his hands, and gave an impressed whistle before speaking, "well I'll give the old bastard some credit, he took
all that, and it still took four broken pigies, three pulled toenails, two severed and cauterised ones and one slowly crushed nut-sack before he finally broke," Naruto said as he finished with the rag and tossed it over his shoulder, before looking
to a smirking Ibiki and an extremely lustful looking Anko as he chuckled, "He's all yours Scarface, I've got what I needed out of him, and I'm sure he'll be more than happy to tell you anything you want to know, if not just inform him he still has
a sausage that I can chop up paper thin and feed to him piece by piece, I'd be more than happy to any time"

Ibiki chuckled shaking his head heading back into the room, and no sooner had he closed the door than Anko pounced on Naruto their lips locking immediately as she grinded her body off of his as she moaned into his mouth for a full thirty seconds before
pulling apart to breath, Anko still with a lustful look in her eye as she spoke, "Damn, I forgot how much watching you work turns me on, I want you so bad right now"

Naruto smirked as she continued to press her body against his as she felt his response and he hugged her close to him as an equally lustful look sparked in his eyes, "Well I don't see what a quick session could hurt, but I'm going to have to get to work
after, fun times ahead and all, got to prepare"

Anko smirked, "oh I know, I've read the script, but what about all those horny readers, what they are going to do while we're doing this?"

Naruto chuckled, "Oh they can follow Sakura's progress in her training, or find something else to occupy them, the next fun scene is a long way off yet," Naruto said before looking to all the readers, "have fun with those blue balls guys" before the scene
faded out.

Scene break

Sakura Haruno groaned in her bed as she covered her head with her pillow wanting to drown out the noise from her alarm clock and get more sleep, the past two days had been exhausting on her, she'd been summoned to the Hokage tower and had to answer a
long drawn out list of questions regarding her time at the academy before spending an hour talking with Ino's father about her goals for becoming a Kunoichi.

On top of all that Kakashi had informed them that their training times had been pushed forward to six in the morning to seven in the evening, so that meant to even be looking half decent she had to be up at five in the morning to start to get ready.

Resigning herself to her fate she was about to get up and get on with getting ready for her day when all of a sudden her bed sheets were pulled off her and she was hit with a wave of ice cold water that came from above, her eyes burst open as she screamed
out in shock as she sat straight up her arms going to her now soaked body rubbing trying to warm herself before she looked to find the source of the water, her eyes widened when she found it, standing just to her left was her mother holding an empty
metal bucket with water dripping from its sides.

"K-Kaa-chan w-what t-the h-hell, wh-why'd y-you d-do th-that" Sakura stuttered out as she tried to warm herself.

Mebuki crossed her arms looking down at her daughter feeling a little bad for what she just did but knew it was necessary to get Sakura back on track as a Kunoichi, "Because your alarm has been ringing for five minutes straight, I told you last night
that if you weren't up in time this is what would happen"

Sakura shiver still in her bed, "I-I th-thought y-you w-were k-kidding" she said remembering her mother's promise the night before.

Mebuki shook her head, "I will never kid when it comes to your well-being Sakura, and your retraining is crucial to that," she said before smiling, "Now get up, you have eight minutes to get a shower and get dressed, it would have been fifteen but you
wasted five in bed and another two complaining about my wake-up call," Mebuki said as she set the bucket to the side of Sakura's door, "Your breakfast will be on the table waiting for you when you're done, and I better not see any excessive makeup
on you or any feminine fragrance on you other than deodorant, you don't have time for that while your training. Once you're finished your breakfast we'll be going on a half an hour run before I drop you off at the training field with your sensei"

Sakura blinked, "W-wait, y-your r-running t-too K-Kaa-chan," she asked not sure why her mother would be as well.

Mebuki nodded, "Yes, all these years of civilian life have left me yearning for the shinobi life again, I signed up yesterday as a reservist, should the village come under attack I'll be called to help defend it, and I'm starting to getting myself back
into shape" Mebuki said before heading towards the door, "Now stop talking, you've only got six minutes to shower now" she said as Sakura blinked before rushing to the shower.

Time skip

Sakura collapsed on the dirt path leading to her team's training ground as she tried desperately to catch her breath, she looked like she'd been dragged through a forest backwards, her hair was a mess, her clothes were untidy, and she looked completely
exhausted, this morning had been an experience she'd never forget.

First she realised when her mother had said six minutes she meant six minutes, when her time was up her mother had come into the bathroom blowing a whistle making her jump seconds before the water ran cold and she had to get out, luckily she'd finished
washing her hair so it wasn't unmanageable, and while she was getting dressed in a hurry, her mother had lectured her through the door about how timekeeping was of key importance and how a shinobi and Kunoichi had to be aware of their surroundings
at all times, what if she was an enemy Kunoichi who had snuck into the village, she'd have been dead before she even knew it, her mother had told her blankly that the shinobi like was a hard life and it was time that she learned that.

Trying to get up on her feet Sakura felt her stomach heaving as she recollected just what she'd eaten for breakfast after coming out of her room, her mother had prepared a large breakfast of fatty foods with plenty of meat and high protein foods, telling
her that after so many years of her not eating right she needed to put on some weight so that her body would have something to turn into muscle and energy while she was training, that starting from today her entire diet was going to change.

As Sakura stood up her legs felt like jelly cause of all the running she'd just finished, when her mother said they would be going for a run she meant it, as soon as Sakura was finished her breakfast they had left on the morning run and once they started
running they didn't stop for a full half hour straight they had run through the streets and around the village before they had made it at the training area just as her training was mean to start, her mother had obviously calculated the time it would
take for them to reach the training grounds and plotted a running route along that time, something that Sakura realised she must have done when she was a shinobi on missions, as she got some of her balance back she looked to see how her mother was
fairing and was shocked to see she was looking a lot better than she was with only a light sweat on her brow from the run, which made her frown slightly she was older and hadn't been an active shinobi for fifteen years and yet she was in better shape
than she was.

Making their way into the training ground they were greeted by the sight of the rest of her team already there and waiting for her, Kakashi noticed them coming and greeted them with an eye smile.

"Good morning Sakura, Mebuki it's good to see you're looking well this morning" Kakashi greeted them smiling beneath his mask.

Mebuki smiled back at him, "Good morning Kakashi, good to see you're not showing up late to training by three hours" she said giving him a friendly jive.

Kakashi rubbed the back of his head, "well you know with direct orders from the Hokage to get these three up to scratch I figured I'd need all the time I have to do it in" he said before smiling, "I heard you signed up as a reservist yesterday, you getting
back into shape for it"

Mebuki nodded, "yeah, feels good after all those years, just like riding a bike, when are Sakura's personal senseis to get here"

"In six hours' time, I'm taking her for six hours and then they'll take her for the next six so expect her home around seven or after that" Kakashi said with a pleased smile.

Sakura just blinked as she listened to her mother and sensei talk so casually, like two old friends who hadn't seen each other in so long that just fell back into the swing of things and knew everything about the other like teammates and comrades in arms,
which struck Sakura that that's just what they were, her mother had been a shinobi so it stood to reason that she knew Kakashi from her days as one, but before she could think any more on it, she saw her mother turn and started to jog away from the
training grounds, "see you when you get home dear, and don't worry I'll have a big dinner ready for you and a nice warm bath for you to soak in when you get home, something tells me you're going to need it"

Sakura blinked wondering what her mother meant by her last comment, but when she saw the glint in Kakashi's eye she realised she was soon to find out first hand.

Scene break

It was official Kakashi was a sadistic training bastard in Sakura's eyes as she lay on the ground her body too weak to move, her time with her team for the day was almost through and her other sensei's were due to arrive shortly, but Kakashi's workout
from hell had left her unable to even lift a finger she was so exhausted.

First she had to run a hundred laps of the training grounds at full speed, before being allowed a five minute break starting into sets of two hundred sit ups, push ups, and squats before another five minute break before she went to the post for two hundred
kicks with both legs and two hundred punches with both hands, before having a final five minute break before repeating the cycle for the next six hours.

Sakura groaned as she used all the strength she could muster to lift her head to look and see Sasuke and Sai still going, Sasuke on his eighths round of the course and Sai on his ninth, while she had collapsed half way through her second set.

She could hear Sasuke talking.

"This is a waste of time" Sasuke complained, "this whole thing is pointless, when are we going to do something that is going to make me stronger"

Sai was grunting as he continued kicking the post he was at while Sasuke was punching. Kakashi stood across from them with his arms crossed.

"Shut it Uchiha, and quit your griping, the whole point of this is to test your limitations and stamina so I know where the three of you stand so the next training session I can bring you to that limit again and then put you past it, until I'm convinced
you've reached your peak physically I won't be teaching you any Jutsu, now quit whining and keep punching" Kakashi spat out having heard enough of Sasuke's complaints about the past six hours.

Sakura wanted to say something but she was just too week and lay there as she tried desperately to keep herself awake only to hear a new voice enter the area.

"My, she certainly seems to have tired herself out, we'll have to do something about that before we start your extra training" the new voice spoke, Sakura didn't recognise it but it was definitely female and around her age.

Kakashi turned to see the source of the voice entering the training area and gave an eye smile when he saw the source, "ah good afternoon Akane-san, I take It you're here to take Sakura for her extra training?" he asked as he rubbed the back of his head,
"Sorry I seem to have overworked her a bit"

It was then the figure came into Sakura's view, it was a woman who looked to be her age, she wore black shinobi shorts and a black flak jacket with a dark crimson t-shirt underneath with bandaged wrapped around her arms down her wrists and around her
hands but stopped before her fingertips like fingerless gloves, her headband hung from her waist but to her confusion she had two, one was the Konoha leaf symbol the other looked to be a circle with a swirl in it, she had long beautiful crimson hair
tied back into a ponytail that hung down her back with strands framing her face.

Akane smiled as she leaned down to Sakura brushing her hair back out of her face with a smile, "Oh don't worry, I can guarantee once myself and my colleagues are finished with her, she'll remember this as a nice relaxing warm up session" Akane smiled
making Sakura gulp seeing the sadistic look in her eye.

It was then that Sasuke stopped his punching when he heard about extra training for Sakura and scowled, "Why is she getting extra training and not, me she can't even do half of what I can, you're wasting your time with a useless tramp like her," he said
as he walked towards the pair and stopped ten feet away from the and crossed his arms, "She's hopeless and she'll always be hopeless, no amount of training will change that, so why not train me instead"

Sakura felt each word like a slap to the face although she tried to push it aside not believing that Sasuke really meant what he was saying, that he was just saying it to try and get her to work harder, that had to be it.

Akane let out a low growl hearing the Uchiha talk to her but it faded and a smirk replaced it as she stood up and turned from Sakura and looked to Sasuke as she began to approach him, all the while Sasuke started to smirk thinking he was going to get
what he wanted, oh that poor duckbutt'd fool.

Akane walked right past Sasuke much to his confusion as she spoke, "Sorry but I don't train worthless trash like you, I prefer students that actually have a chance of becoming truly strong, which if you haven't guessed isn't you"

Sasuke growled as he spun on his heals the face Akane again as he yelled, "You stupid bitch, I demand you train me, as an Uchiha I order yo…" Sasuke started to yell but before he could finish his sentence he suddenly found the air forced out of his lungs
as he doubled over in pain when Akane disappeared and reappeared by his side in a burst of speed driving her closed fist into his gut, before Sasuke was lifted off his feet by her strength and slammed hard onto the ground like a rag doll, he tried
to take a breath but his attempt was stopped when Akane gripped his throat hard and he found himself staring fearfully into red slitted eyes looming about him with a deathly aura around them as Akane spoke.

"Listen and listen close Uchiha, there are only three people in this entire village that can order me, and you are not one of them nor will you ever be, and if it weren't for one of those three asking me not to kill you just on a whim I would have already
done so a hundred times over as soon as I entered this clearing, so don't push your luck" Akane snarled before lifting him off the ground and slammed him back knocking him out effortlessly before standing up and brushing herself off and fixing her
hair.

Sakura had been watching the whole time and gulped in fear seeing how strong her new sensei was immediately deciding it was better not to piss her off, but part of her was confused when Sasuke was knocked out, part of her felt satisfaction from Sasuke's
pain because of what he'd said about her before, she didn't know how to feel now, but then suddenly she felt herself lifted off the ground and hoisted over a shoulder, Akane's shoulder as she started to walk out of the training ground.

"Sorry about the Duckbutt Kakashi, he should wake up in a few hours, or you could always toss him in the river and say he drowned trying to live up to the Duckbutt name, just a suggestion" Akane called back as she walked away.

Sakura didn't know why but she actually found that comment funny and started to giggle at the comment but as she did she felt herself get tired as she blacked out finally giving in to her exhaustion.

Time skip

Sakura awoke with a groan as she slowly opened her eyes trying to recall what had happened to her, when she remembered her sadistic sensei's training routine, she found it slightly sore for her to move as she sat up her joints and muscles killing her,
but then she remembered that one of her new sensei had come to pick her up, as she started to look around to find out where she was, it was a large training area she hadn't seen before but she could tell she was still in Konoha cause she could see
the walls, looking at where she was lying she was surprised to find she was lying on a large blanket so as not to dirty her clothes, for that she was grateful before wondering where her new sensei was, but before she started looking she heard Akane's
voice. "Ah so you're finally awake, you've been out for an hour, have a nice sleep"

Sakura immediately turned to see Akane in the trees on a low hanging branch looking down at her with a smirk.

Sakura gulped as she got up slowly before looking to Akane again, "Ar-are you one of my new senseis?" Sakura asked just for clarification.

Akane smirked, "that's right, my name is Akane I'm one of the five Kunoichi assigned to train you to get you up to a respectable level for your age, the others will be arriving shortly"

Sakura started to look around, "where are we, I don't recognise the training ground," she asked only for a new voice to answer her.

"That's because you're in one of my clan's private training grounds", Sakura swerved around to see Tsume Inuzuka coming through the trees with a scowl on her face, "this is where we're going to be whooping you bony little ass into shape, I'm Tsume Inuzuka,
Kiba's mother"

Sakura gulped seeing the Inuzuka matriarch, it was no secret she was one of the most feared and strongest Kunoichi in the land of fire and was someone you didn't want to cross, and then a thought crossed her mind, 'these two are going to be training me, but how does Naruto even know them to ask for this, wait Kiba's mother, that explains that but what about this other one, I've never even seen her around the village, and she doesn't even look older than me, just who is she'

As Sakura was thinking Akane looked passed her into the tree line seeing the others coming through the tree line before she called out, "Hey about time you three are late"

Sakura swerved to see who it was she was talking to when the rest of her new sensei came through the trees.

"Yeah sorry we're late," Anko said rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

Yūgao sighed standing beside her, "You should be. It's your fault for taking so long"

Anko chuckled to herself, "hey don't blame me, I was just getting my afternoon dose of Sexy fox, and he likes to be thorough" Anko said with a lick of her lips, while Akane blushed getting the meaning licking her own lips with an audible whimper as she
pressed her thighs together, Anko smirked seeing it, "Oh don't you worry he said he'd have plenty for you later on, he's in a very good mood after our visit to the T&I this morning to pay an old fart a visit, he was like a bull in the sack, I
didn't even get time to get my skirt off me before he was on me" Anko said licking her lips remembering the session she'd just came from.

Sakura was blinking hearing them talk and it finally clicked with her what she was talking about and her cheeks went red realizing who they were talking about and what they were actually saying, "What the hell is wrong with you, you don't talk like that,
and what do you mean he'll have some for her, isn't he with you how could you be alright with that, and why haven't you dumped his ass already, didn't you see how he was all over Ino and Hinata in the academy, are you such a slut you're alright
with him cheating on you" Sakura yelled in disgust at what they were talking about.

Anko started laughing at Sakura's stupidity, "he's in the CRA, you bubble gum haired twerp, he's the last of his clan like your precious Duckbutt and is allowed to date multiple women to bring back his clan," Anko said as she whipped a happy tear away
before shrugging, "I wasn't overly keen on the idea of sharing foxy at first but I grew into it, and it's kind of necessary for him, he's more man that any one woman can handle, and then there are the shadow clones, oh so many shadow clones, oh that's
good"

At that every woman's cheeks went red at the thought of that mental image before Kurenai coughed getting their attention, "Could we please remain focused on what we came here for, and not go into such a lewd topic Anko" Kurenai reprimanded Anko or attempted
to as best she could while her own cheeks were red still picturing such a scene in her own head mentally noting to ask Asuma if he could learn the shadow clone Jutsu for their next session.

Anko smirked looking to her friend, "Oh will you quit being such a prude already, you didn't seem to mind the lewd stuff the other night at the party, if the position you woke up in was any indication, maybe I should ask Foxy if he can get us more of
that stuff so you can loosen up again" making Kurenai's blush grow in embarrassment.

Sakura blinked hearing the statement and was confused at just what they meant but before she could ask Akane cleared her throat from her perch, "Ladies perhaps we should get started with the introductions and let bubble-gum here know exactly what she'll
be learning from each of us"

Each of the Kunoichi nodded before Kurenai stepped forward as she put her hands together into a ram sign, "I'll go first" she said as she looked at Sakura who's eyes widened as she faded from sight only for Sakura to freeze feeling the blade of a kunai
against her throat as Kurenai's voice rang in her ear, "My name is Kurenai Yūhi, and I'll be your Genjutsu instructor, I read your file and Kakashi's report on your skills, apparently your hopeless at Genjutsu both detecting it and dispelling it,
but I'll make sure to change that" Kurenai said before she faded from existence again only to appear standing right back where she had been the whole time.

Sakura blinked finally recognising her, "Hey wait, aren't you team eight's sensei, shouldn't you be training them"

Kurenai scoffed, "Of course I should be but they, unlike you, have finished their training for the day and have even completed their first D-rank missions, and are currently in an extra training session together, I'll be checking in on them once we're
done here"

Sakura winced at the tone, she obviously didn't like her but then it was no secret that Kurenai despised fangirls, and looking back at her time in the academy that's exactly what she had been, and felt like kicking herself for not training harder.

Yūgao stepped forward, "You already know who I am so there's no need for an introduction, I'll be taking you for your stealth training and the basic Kunoichi practices involving stratagems, espionage and hiding in plain sight"

Sakura gulped but suddenly winced in pain when a Senbon needle came at her and cut her cheek as it zipped past her, Sakura looked to Anko to see her with a Senbon needle in her teeth with a sadistic smirk making her shiver, "And I'll be taking you for
your physical practices, making sure your body is in good shape for all the training we'll be putting you through, although from the looks of things you could use a fucking sandwich you bony bitch"

Tsume growled at the bitch comment making Anko chuckle nervously as she stepped back as Tsume stepped forward, "I'll be taking you for your tracking classes as well as your hand to hand combat training, I suggest you bulk up quickly, as it looks like
I could break you in half in our first spar" she growled looking Sakura's weak form over making her shrink away a bit in fear of the older Kunoichi.

"and that will leave little old me" Akane said as she jumped down from her perch, "when the others deem you ready I'll be taking you for your chakra and Ninjutsu studies and practices, but first" Akane said as she took out a scroll, "I took the dis-privilege
of stopping by the hospital before this and picked up your last medical exam data, which was updated the day before your Genin exam, I've already reviewed your results and I wanted to blow chunks, how the hell you were allowed to even partake in the
exam is beyond me"

Anko raised an eyebrow, "that bad?" she asked curious by what she meant when Akane tossed her the scroll with a see-for-yourself look, which Anko did and instantly regretted it, "fucking hell, I can lift two of you with one arm, fuck me, how the hell
does someone get that skinny?" she said as the others came over to look at the scroll each grim facing seeing the report details.

Anko threw the report over her shoulder as she made a march right towards Sakura, "Oh you bony bitch first we stuff your face with every fatty food known to man to get some meat on them bones and then we turn you into a punching bag for a few days to
toughen you up some" Anko said as she walked past Sakura grabbing her by the collar and started to drag her away as she blinked rapidly as she registered what Anko just said.

"Wait? What?" Sakura said as she started to struggle, "what the hell kind of training is that?!"

Anko grinned, "the fun kind and the sooner we get started the sooner I don't have to listen to your whiny anymore," Anko said as her grin turned sadistic making Sakura gulp nervously.

The other four Kunoichi chuckled to themselves as they started to follow behind the pair as Anko continued to drag Sakura.

Akane giggled, "It's kind of funny how Naruto roped us all into doing this when chances are Anko will break her before we chance to try and fix her"

Kurenai smirked, "let Anko have her fun, she might actually succeed where other have failed in beating the fan girl out of her"

Yūgao chuckled, "with Anko that won't take too long she wants to get back to Naruto as soon as she can, when we left the apartments he was neck need in books and scrolls, Anko said he's started on the next set of advances Fūinjutsu scrolls, he was like
a kid at Christmas that's found a mountain of presents under the tree"

Tsume laughed hearing that, "yep that sounds like him alright, doesn't look like Anko will get any more of her fun until he's got those finished, she won't be happy about that"

Akane smirked, "don't be so sure Tsume-chan, Naruto's clones do about seventy percent of the work for him, he just feels like it's cheating if he doesn't read over each scroll at least once himself, he'll get through them by tonight and he'll start on
this new projects that he's just dying to start, with any luck it will be finished them by the time the Chūnin exams come around"

Kurenai smirked, "any clues as to what this one might be, his last creation was that staff of his right, it's pretty powerful for him to be able to fight Kakashi on equal ground"

Akane smirked, "the Staff is only the refining conductor Kurenai-chan, as an Uzumaki Naruto's chakra control will take decades to get to a high enough level so that he's not wasting chakra on every Jutsu, shadow clones or not, a feature staff has is an
array made of hundreds of linked chakra focusing arrays on it that does all the work for him which allows him to channel his Jutsu through the staff and use them without wasting chakra and will allow Naruto to crank the Jutsus power up or down to
any level he needs to allow him the perfect level of control for his Uzumaki Jutsus" Akane said while Tsume whistled impressed by the explanation, Akane smirked, "But as for what this new project is sorry, but I'm not giving out spoilers all I will
say is once he completes them and reveals them in the Chūnin exams, all those who mistreated him are in for a hell of a surprise when their reckoning comes"

Tsume growled, "the sooner the better if you ask me, I'm still angry at myself for letting that happen to him for all those years and not doing anything to stop it"

Akane frowned, "I'm sorry for reminding you Tsume-chan, I remember how close you and Kushina were, I could see you both from inside the seal"

Tsume gave a small smile remembering her friend, "Thank you Akane-chan, I just wish I could have known who he was sooner and been there for him as he grew up," she said looking down slightly, "it's not as if he needs me to look after and raise him now,
he's already grown into a man with his own women, he's not a child anymore"

Akane smiled as she came over to Tsume and put her arm around her shoulder, "That's true, but you know," she said as she leant in, "you could be there for him in other ways, not just as his godmother" she whispered into the Inuzuka's ear.

Hearing the words Tsume's eyes widened as they sounded familiar before it flashed in her mind

Flashback (Minor Lime)

Tsume groaned in pleasure as she felt a warm tongue against her skin as It licked off the cold cream making her curl her toes as she threw her head back in the ecstasy of the moment before bringing her head around as a head of blond hair continued up
her toned stomach licking the cream away getting to her covered breasts as it continued to lick at them making Tsume's breath speed up with excitement as she felt the tongue circle her right nipple and then her left before biting down making her throw
her head back as her toes curled in the feeling before she came around again finding herself staring into those deep blue eyes as she heard her voice speak.

"Are you really ok with this, my age, your age, I'm not young anymore, I'm.." she heard her voice say before it fell silent as the blond kissed her, she felt his tongue inside her mouth, she could taste the cream and chocolate in his mouth but the feelings
behind it were so powerful, so dominating, so passionate, it was everything she wanted as an Inuzuka woman, everything she looked for in a mate in a lover.

The kiss ended and the blond figure pulled back and finally she could see who she'd knew it was all along, Naruto as he smiled at her, "I love you Tsume-chan, no matter your age" he said before he moved to her side as he felt her kiss up her neck as she
revelled in the feeling as he reached her ear and she heard him in a low growl that made her so hot hearing it, "you are mine, now and for always"

Flashback end

Tsume's eyes were wide as part of her memories of the party came back to her, and what she had done and with whom, as she could feel the memories cause her heart to beat faster as she felt a feeling of warmth below and in her chest that she hadn't known
in such a long time.

She looked to Akane who was looking back at her giving her a knowing look making the Inuzuka matriarch gulp as she took a breath feeling embarrassed in the recollection and stopped on the spot before she turned, "Excuse me, I just remembered I have something
to take care of, I'll catch up in a few hours" she said and before Yūgao or Kurenai could say anything she took off in a shun shin leaving a smirking Akane.

'Oh goody looks like things are going to be getting interesting shortly,' she mentally giggled to herself before continuing on her way with a confused Yūgao and Kurenai following.