Disclaimer: This is a fan written work based on the works of J.K. Rowling. Also features Naruto which is owned by Kishimoto. It might possibly also have some elements of a number of other works. There is no money being made from this, it is merely a work meant for the entertainment of myself and the masses. This is merely for fun, and no profit. I repeat: I am not making any money out of writing this.
Warning: OCs OOCs Sues, and some crack. You have been warned.
Note 1: AU.
POWER
chapter thirty-six
Mei was delighted that she finally found out where her, now, husband lived. She had always wondered why his mail had been left in his office and not his home. There was no mention of his home address in any file or registry or anywhere in the archives of the village. There were only notes and reminders, if he was not in the village and a message needed to be sent to him anyone with a summon would have to send the message, or simply leave it in his office. Only summons retained the memory of the location of Ryoku's home in the mountains of Mori no Kuni.
His home was the most secure out of all the homes of all the Kage's of Kiri, seeing as it wasn't in Kiri. There were two ways of getting there, by magic, and by walking. But there were many safeguards in place, to make sure that nothing happened to the place. That no intruders were allowed entrance. She also found out that Ryoku was a master puppeteer, and that his puppets continued to go about their daily 'lives' even when he was not present to control their actions. There was a literal hidden village of puppets near the land which Ryoku called his own.
She had a difficult time walking around the morning after the the wedding, she was also rather tired, and drifted off to sleep as soon as the sun rose over the horizon, and she only reawoke an hour or so after lunch time. She had lunch with her husband in the puppet village, she was amazed to find that the puppets were like living people, they had an artificial intelligence, their bodies ran on chakra, natural chakra, and converted chakra. The only thing separating them from living humans with souls was that they had no souls, and were still just creations of Ryoku. The only way for them to grow was for their parts to be replaced. The only way for them to add members to their 'families' was either for the puppet making puppet to make a new one, or for Ryoku to make a new one.
They were all programmed somehow using seals, with personalities and knowledge. They were all battle puppets, but looked like civilians. Anyone would underestimate their ability, and by the time their victim realized what was going on, they would be moments away from death's embrace.
The puppets couldn't leave the sanctity of their hidden village, there were seals in place all over to make sure that they stayed within, until their master decided to move them to another location. They were also there as a last defense for something that Ryoku had created alongside them. It was a transparent crystal that leaked or dropped a colorless liquid, one that Ryoku used as a substitute for a number of ingrdients needed in making a kind of dreamless sleep draught of living death potion hybrid. The same undetectable potion which he had his air/wind golems inject into Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina. Ryoku hadn't shown Mei the crystal itself, but he did tell her about it.
They were now on their week long honeymoon, the village was aware of it, but what the village wasn't aware of, was that Ryoku would be extending the vacation, he had the power after all. It twas time to put his plan in making his wife a force to be rekoned with into play. And eventually the two boys he knew he would be having with her, as he had already met them, it was rather confusing at first even to him.
Along with sharing with Mei his more or less life story, his life in this world, he also shared his story of when he was on Aetas, and even his life before that with her. She was thrilled with finally getting to know more about his, as he knew everything there was to know about her. She was skeptical about the validity of some of his statements, but then she remembered that he had dived into a bucket of water the day she first met him.
Magic was real, and there were real gods out there. There was also the funny fact, to her at least, that the shinigami had an unnatural fear of Ryoku. Ryoku didn't elaborate on that fact. But it wasn't due to him being one of his alter-egos, or other personalities.
"..So let me get this straight," she said, "You come from another world, one where the possibility of chakra existing is like the possibility of magic existing here, next to nothing..that's kind of hard to believe, I mean what you are implying actually makes you sound crazy."
"Bu..." he was cut off.
"If I hadn't watched you dive into that bucket that first day, I wouldn't have believed you," she said, "But since I'm married to you, all the more that I have to believe you."
"Bu.." he was cut off again.
"And I don't think you're a freak, or weird, or anything like that," she said, "I love you, that's all that matters, and if I did find you weird, well how much weirder am I? I can vomit lava for crying out loud."
"Ye.." he was, you guessed it, cut off again.
"There's also the fact that you can manipulate and even travel through time," she said, "No wonder you love paperwork so much! It gives you something to do!"
"Ano.." he said, but shut his trap as soon as he realized that she still wasn't done talking, ranting more like.
"Someone who has so much time on his hands must get bored easily! Paperwork is the perfect hobby as the papers never seem to end!" she said, she was pacing the living room of the house, it was a house now due to Ryoku having to expand the inside of the thing, it was like him something not to be underestimated, "There's also that henge, its not even a henge is it, its an actual transformation! I can't believe my husband can literally transform into anything he wants to...that reminds me," she turned to face him, her expression neutral, "You haven't transformed into me have you? You haven't done anything perverted like that have you? You know, back when I didn't like you as much as when I started liking you."
"Ah.." he was cut off again.
"I mean I know that you sure know a lot about female anatomy, and mannerisms, and the like," she said, "You didn't transform into me, and perform weird things with your clones that aren't clones, did you?"
"I.." cut off again.
"I mean if you did, tell me now," she said, "I'll kill you sure, or try to at least, but I'll make it quick cause I love you."
"Um.." still got cut off.
"I'm not all that fond of perverts, so if you did do it, and did do something perverted, or something that made my village rep go down," she said, still in full rant mode, "I'll not only castrate you but I'll make sure your ancestors feel it."
"Hey, that's uncall..." he was cut off, but at least he got more words in.
"Well? Why aren't you answering me?" she demaned, her hands on her hips, looking all cute, and hot at the same time since they were still butt naked, "Don't you respect me? I know you love me, but the respect part doesn't always come with the love part."
"I do, but.." what do you think happened.
"Oh my god! What am I hearing!" she said, "You don't respect me? Why? What did I do wrong? Tell me! Do you really love me? Or did you marry me cause you could?"
"I di..." minus one word and a half.
"I can't believe you lied to me! I am stuck in a marriage without love!" she ranted screamed, and wailed, then got to ranting, "I don't feel the love here! Where is the love! You married me for my looks alone didn't you?"
"I didn't," finally a full sentence type answer.
"I can't believe you thought I was just easy! Just some two bit whore that you could simply have at your leisure!" she shouted at him, rant mode still on, "Sure you've got the stamina to please a hundred of me, but to marry me just for that! You really are cheap aren't you, having the ability to make money grow on trees and jewels fall out of your ass!"
"Well, I can do those two things.." he mumbled, then realized what he had just mumbled, and shut himself up.
"I know you can do those two things, but I can't believe you just admitted to marrying me just for the sole purpose of having a pleasure toy!" she ranted some more, he believed she was undergoing some kind of hormonal imbalance or something like that due in part to his multiple use of time manipulation during their honeymoon night, "I can't believe I married you! You of all people! I mean you're older than me! Older than Kiri! Older than Mizu no Kuni! Heck, you're probably older than the Bijuu!"
"Hey, that's.." he was cut off, again, finally.
"You're probably older than the world! Stamina of an army sure, but still, you must have some sort of illusion up at all times, eww!" she was now slightly hysterical.
"Somebody kill me," Ryoku said as he stood up from where he was sitting, and listening to her diatrade.
Mei seemed to be in her own world, her ranting continued as Ryoku simply decided to put some clothes on, on himself and on her. She didn't seem to notice as he slipped her arms into the sleeves of a blue v-neck shirt, and place her legs into the pant legs of some jeans. She didn't seem to notice when he tied her haid into a kind of half-bun half-ponytail. She didn't notice any of the things he did while she was ranting.
"I'm going out," Ryoku said as he walked to the door, "Don't wait up, I may be gone for a few centuries!"
"...And now you're leaving me! The nerve of you! First you embarass me infront of my peers, then you marry me, then you use me, then you leave me? What am I some toy you can simply thorw away!" Mei was still into her rant, "I can't believe I fell in love with a man like you! I wouldn't even wish for any of my enemies to suffer what I have suffered at your hands!...oh...your hands...But that's beside the point!"
"Er...whatever...I'm gonna go get you some hormone and time displacement cures...as well as some normalization potions...and maybe a pregnancy test kit...yea...might be that last one..." Ryoku mumbled the last part, then walked out the door.
"GET BACK IN HERE! I'M NOT THROUGH WITH YOU YET!" Mei shouted when she noticed that Ryoku was no longer in the house with her, she finally noticed something, when she got to the front porch, yes there is one now, she shot great balls of fire in Ryoku's direction.
"Shit!" Ryoku exclaimed as he dove from one side to the other just to avoid the great balls of fire, which for some odd reason looked like meatballs, "Calm down! I'll be back in a while!"
"THERE'S ANOTHER WOMAN ISN'T THERE!" Mei raged as she sent a lava dragon heading his way.
"Of course n.." he was unfortunately unable to finish answering as Mei wasn't in the mood to believe him, which was made very obvious when she sent a lot more elemental dragon jutsu his way forcing him to slip out of time and make a mad dash to the cliff beside the house, and jumping off right after slipping back into time.
"HOW DARE YOU TAKE THE COWARD'S WAY OUT!" Mei shouted as she sent the dragon jutsus that were still active in Ryoku's falling direction, she believed that there was no way that he would be able to dodge in mid-air.
Luckily Ryoku loved flying, and simply brought out his broomstick, mounted it mid-air, and kind of danced around the chakra based dragons while in the air. Mei paid it no mind, and doubled her efforts to kill her husband.
"STAY STILL TEME!" Mei demanded as she spat out acidic water bullets, and a bunch of other elemental jutsu, in an effort to off the immortal.
'Alexandre Westwurld! Save me!' Ryoku couldn't help but send out a mental outburst type of message to the only being in existence that he believed could help him.
'No way! She's nuts! I may not be married, but I doubt even Crius would come to your aid, or Aetas for that matter!' Alex mentally replied, along with a temporary boost in power to Ryoku so that he would last longer just as he was supposed to, along with the potions Ryoku needed to calm his wife down.
'He's right you know,' Aetas entered the mental convesation, 'I ain't gonna help you out, but here's a little boost in power to keep you going! Good luck! You need it!'
'How the hell are those going to help me!' Ryoku asked while maneuvering his broom in and out of the way of the numerous attacks that his wife was sending his way, as well as the metal implements of death that were also sent soaring his way.
'Voice projection could be a start,' Alex said in contemplation, while Ryoku continued dodging.
'Aren't you a Kage! You really shouldn't take shit like this from your wife,' Aetas advised, 'After she's calmed down, are you simply going to act in such a cowardly way? She may have been wrong that you were commiting suicide by jumping off the cliff, but you are running away from your problems, or problem as the case may be. Stand up to her and fight, when words have no effect, then that means it is time for actions.'
'I'd do as Aetas suggests,' Alex said, no longer in contemplation about the rather pathetic situation that was and had taken place, 'There comes a time when enough is enough. So are you going to keep running, or are you going to confront the problem, and beat some sense into your wife, or what?'
"Fine," Ryoku said, resigned to what he needed to do, he already had the potions stored in a very safe place.
He unleashed his power, a power which the whole of Mori no Kuni felt, even with the protective barriers and wards placed all over Ryoku's mountain home and hidden village, and that was while his eye patch which he had put back on was still on. He would need to upgrade his eye patch after dealing with his temporarily hormonal and insane wife. He did not waste any time before incinerating his eye patch, and allowing the rest of his power to come to the fore, illuminating the skies and nature around him with his aura, an aura which was more than just visible.
The unleashing of power was not a gradual one but a semi-sudden one, the first wave was felt by an entire counrty, but the second one was felt all the way in Kiri. The chakra sensors and identifiers built into the map of Kiri were able to identify the power signature, even if only a part of it was chakra while the rest was magic, it still registered, and the monitoring staff were shocked to the core of their being that their Kage was somewhere out in the world, hopefully still with his wife, and had unleashed such a tremendous amount of power.
But such reactions were not important to Ryoku who was literally one with the world due to the output of magic and chakra. He was focused on the reaction of his wife. She was the closest human being to the epicenter of the blast zone, and was the reason for his outburst.
With the level and amount of power that he was letting out he was unable to slip out of time to create that new eye patch, as his power would be too much for the realm which connected all times with himself, that was what happened when he moved out of time, he moved out of present time, and moved into all times. With his regular output of power there was no problem with slipping in and out of time, but with the present output it would be dangerous not only to himself, but to the whole world.
His power was semi-out of control, as he did not have the perfect control needed for controlling such power. It was much like the Juubi, but who ever said that the Juubi had control, or even cared for it.
It was an amount which was more useful as an intimidation tactic than anything else. With it he was able to halt his wife from further trying to end him.
With his goal complete, Ryoku grabbed hold of his power, and tried his best to form some semblance of control over it all. Pulling all that he could back into himself, while at the same time floating back to where his wife was gasping for breath by their house. It was a good thing that he hadn't added any form of killing intent or hostility with his power, as that would have caused his wife to have prematurely met with the shinigami, a being that feared Ryoku and the outcome of such a house call was something that Ryoku did not want to think about.
When he finally touched down beside her, he had pulled in most of his power, while his aura may still have been visible, his power could no longer be felt beyond the barriers and wards he had in place to keep others from feeling his power.
"Fuin," he intoned as he touched his left eyelid with a finger. The power boost that Aetas had given him, he used to form a temporary seal to seal up his power. For the seal to be turned on, he would have to keep his eye closed.
With the seal in place, he moved closer to his wife who was still in the process of calming down. He wrapped his arms around her to comfort and calm her. They both sat on the ground, right near the edge of the cliff, one that had seals and spells around it to make sure that no one fell accidentally, save for Ryoku himself as he had a way of not dying from the fall.
Before speaking to his wife, he took out the potions and forced them down her throat. She needed them, no matter how bad they tasted, and these ones had a way of tasting bad for some reason. He could alter the taste, but where would be the fairness in that. Medicine is naturally thought of as being not yummy, therefore he did not change the taste of what he knew tasted rather bad. He knew that they had worked their magic on his wife by a soft golden glow that briefly enveloped her body before dissipating back into normalcy.
"Now that the ill effects of our constant love making have been dealt with, are you willing to listen to me?" Ryoku asked as a whisper.
"Hai," she weakly replied, she was still feeling the effects of Ryoku's massive aura, even though it had been sealed up again.
"Just to clear up a few things, first I have never transformed into you, second I love you, and therefore third there is no other woman, you are the only woman for me," Ryoku stated, "I think that's about the gist of everything I need to say."
"Ok.." she said, "Sorry for my outburst, I don't know what came over me.."
"All is forgiven," Ryoku said, and lifted her up, and carried her back into the house bridal style, "I believe it is about time we ate something other than each other."
He brought her to the kitchen, and placed her on one of the chairs surrounding the table there. Then called up his other forms that they may help him in preparing some food.
"Don't you think you're cooking a little bit too much food? There's only two of us right now," she said as she noticed Ryoku looked to be preparing a meal fit for an army, rather than a married couple.
"Trust me, when I say, you'll need it," Ryoku said, "As after this meal, we'll have to cut short our honeymoon, as I will need you to prepare for the duties of taking up the position of Godaime Mizukage."
"What?" Mei said, "That's so sudden, you're stepping down and you expect me to be ready in a few short days."
"Not exactly," Ryoku said, "I will step down in two to three years, and leave the village in your, by then, capable hands," he said.
"Oh...so why will I need the extra energy? Are you going to make sure that I really get pregnant?" Mei asked, half expecting that he would say yes.
"I don't need to worry about that," Ryoku stated as he placed an initial plate load of food on the table, "Due to our fun, and my...experimenting with my powers, or rather slight inability to fully control my powers while we were having fun in bed...you already are with child, and we will be having twins..."
"What! How can you know that?" Mei asked, both happy and excited, at the same time worried and puzzled.
"I just know, I've already met our children," Ryoku said, "Just as you have, you've even met yourself a few times."
"Met myself..? A few times?" Mei asked, confused, if she had met a double of herself she would have known.
"Yes," Ryoku said, placing plate after plate in front of his wife, noting that she hadn't noticed yet, but she was already on her seventeenth plate load of food, "You go by the name...Kurenai Kei..I believe."
"Impossible! I can't be her, she's too good to be me," Mei said, "And how can I be someone I'm not and how come I have no memories of being her?"
"Oh, that's simple really," Ryoku said, "That's the future you, in your life, you haven't done the things she has. But you will. Just as soon as you finish your last plate for today."
"Wait," Mei said, after giving some things some thought, "You said I'm pregnant now..with twins even. Most kunoichi have to give up their careers to raise a child, how am I supposed to do that and be Kurenai Kei at the same time?"
"You will have what will from this day forward be called an extreme case of delayed pregnancy," Ryoku said.
"Delayed pregnancy? What are you gonna do, put my babies in stasis?" Mei asked, a bit of her motherly instincts kicking in, at a semi-accelerated pace.
"Something like that.." Ryoku said, "But it wont be me doing that exactly...it will be time itself."
"Time..itself..?" she said, confused.
"As you know, I'm the Avatar of Aetas, and therefore the Avatar of Time," Ryoku said, "Time can be viewed as a living entity, and it has already deemed to stop time for your pregnancy, in order for you to become stronger in what would seem like such a short period of time."
"So...how am I going to become Kurenai Kei?" she asked.
"Since you're done eating, I've already prepared your costume aka uniform," Ryoku said, and had Keigo fetch the things, provided by time itself, along with a few seals and spells weaved into it.
"Put these on please," Keigo said holding out the things, as well as holding out a scroll containing her blade, the one nearly identical to her Seven sword, "Take care to dye the blade crimson, and you're all set."
"I'll be sending you a good seven years into the past, after every year is over you will return to me in this time, for a day of rest," Ryoku said, "Though you wont be returning to this place, but will be returning to another home of mine, it will be where you will go home everyday, unless on a mission, throughout the year."
"How exactly am I supposed to meld into society or into the ranks?" she asked him.
"I'll give you an introduction scroll," Ryoku said, "It will make sure that you answer to only the Kage, be it myself or my predecessor, whatever the case may be, as the me of the past will be unaware of this action, but after reading the letter, I will be."
"Anything else, my beloved husband?" she asked, "Will I be able to act as your wife during these seven year or more years?"
"Of course you will," he said, "I will be seeing you everytime you go home, and no it will not be my past self. Byakko is not known as being myself, and therefore you will be seeing me in that form. You are also to avoid two people. Shinku Rensa..and well..just avoid most nobles until I say that it is safe."
"Ok...I think I can do that," she said, "So when do I leave?"
"If you want to, you can leave now," he said.
"Before that," she said, "When will this weird form of training end?"
"Today," Ryoku said, "I'm expecting you to arrive any minute now actually."
"Seriously?" she asked.
"Yeah, Time itself is just holding the future you back so that you can leave without freaking out at seeing the future you," he said, "Its not weird for me since at the moment I am one with all my selves in almost all times."
"Oh...ok...so...since I wont miss you and you wont miss me, I'm not giving you a goodbye kiss," she said, fully dressed in her disguise.
"Fine," he sighed, "See you in seven years!"
"Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" she screamed as a black hole appeared below her feet, and like a cartoon floated for a second before plummeting down into the abyss like portal which landed her in the past in front of the cottage where Byakko Ryoku was wating for her.
Back in the future, another such portal opened up, but this tim, it opened up on the ceiling depositing a fully and obviously pregnant Mei, her belly looking like what a nine month old baby in a belly should look like.
"So..when am I due?" Mei asked, a bit irritated for having to wait so long, even though it was her own fault.
"I don't really know...actually..." he said.
"So..how do we explain us having kids when we've only been married for what everyone else knows as being seven days," she said.
"Well...you can always claim that I knocked you up nine months ago, without my knowing," Ryoku said, "Its believably in the sense that we do spend an awful large amount of time alone together."
"Did you just say awful?" she asked far too sweetly.
"I didn't mean it in a bad way," he said, prepared to conjure the required potions to calm her down in case her top blew.
"I know," she said, then she felt something that was entirely new to her, "Ryoku.."
"Yeah?" he said.
"I think my water just broke," she said.
With that simple announcement, Ryoku exploded into action, handing out orders to himself, he was insane like that.
"Ryuumusha, we need transport," Ryoku said.
Ryuumusha ran out of the house and jumped off the cliff and transformed into his lung dragon form, ready for departure.
"Byakko inform the Hospital," Ryoku said, since it was just another part of himself, mentally or verbally saying something didn't really matter.
Over in Kiri, Byakko who had simply been waiting for the core of the whole of which he was a mere part, bolted up from where he was sitting as soon as Mei told him that her water broke. He raced out of the moderately sized house located rather close to the Mizukage Tower, not that anyone aside from himself and Mei knew that they lived there. He took to the roofs of the village and rushed to the hospital to prepare for the impending arrival of his other selves and his wife.
"Shinobu, Keigo, you're in charge of the new arrivals when they arrive!" Ryoku ordered as he carried Mei out of the house and jumped on Ryuumusha's back, and they proceeded to fly all the way back to Kiri, time travel and all those other shortcuts were things that Ryoku did not want to try while his wife was in such a vulnerable state.
They flew above the clouds, and it would have been quite a sight if it weren't for the fact that Mei could shit the kids out at any moment. Ryoku focused on his wife, while Ryuumusha made sure that he got his wife there in time, as he didn't dare imagine what a birth in mid-flight would be like.
Ryoku and family arrived at the village at around midnight, and there was a team ready and waiting by the emergency room doors, waiting for them. They were, seemingly, unfazed by the arrival of a dragon of all things, with their Kage and his wife riding on it. With them off, and her on a stretcher, Ryuumusha reverted back into armored human form.
"Shall we?" Byakko said.
"Might as well," Ryuumusha said.
"Let's just go," Ryoku said, then his two other forms merged with him, the core of the whole that the other two were mere parts of.
He followed his wife's chakra signature, and ended up outside the delivery room as he was not allowed inside due to him not really having a real clue about deliveries of this kind. A few minutes later, Ryoku was joined in the hallway by his commanders, from Kisame and Mogatari all the way down to Tora, and all the rest of the Seven.
"So.." Yagura said leaning against a wall," How does one go from being married for only a week to waiting here?"
"The official story will be that I knocked her up nine months ago," Ryoku said, "The unofficial and real story is that our wedding night had a mixture of some forces accidentally affecting the conception and development of the fetuses."
"You said, fetuses, as in plural," Yagura said, "You two're having twins?"
"Congratulations! All we need to know now is if they're boys, girls, or both!" Kisame said.
"I already know," Ryoku said, sitting down instead of pacing as he knew everything would be well.
"How are you so calm?" Mogatari asked him from beside him, "You're wife will be going through labor soon, and you're not worried about the possibility of complications to turn up, what with the other forces being at work."
"Ryoku! I'm going to kill you!" Mei's voice suddenly filled the hallway, she had just gone into labor, the intensely painful kind, "If you come near me again, I'm gonna cut IT off! I'll make you wish you'd never been born! You..." she simply continued to curse his existence and shout the things she planned to do to him after the babies were delivered.
"How can you look so calm with everything she's saying!" Kisame asked, Yagura was preparing to make a run for it, due to the occassionaly bouts of Killing Intent that escaped the delivery room.
"From what I've heard, this is normal behavoir," Ryoku said, "I'm lucky she's not like Sakuran...I heard she almost castrated Kagemusha after the birth of their first son."
"Kagemusha?" Tamago asked.
"He meant Rikudou Sennin, and his wife's name was Sakuran," Yagura said.
"Oh," Tamago said.
A few minutes of shouting and killing intent later, the higher ups of Kiri were cowering in fear, while the highest member of the shinobi corps was calmly waiting to be called into the room. Unbeknownst to his companions in the hallway, he had continously been casting protective magics on his person in preparation for meeting his wife.
"Mizukage-sama, you can come in now," a medic-nin exited the delivery room and said, the commanders and Seven members noticed that the medic-nin looked to be favoring one side of his body, and wondered what the hell had happened in the delivery room.
Ryoku walked into the room, while the medic-nin stayed outside, and sat down beside Mogatari.
"I'm never doing that again," the medic-nin said, "Never again..."
"What happened?" Tora asked.
"You may have only heard the screaming and shouting," the med-nin said, "We should have allowed Mizukage-sama into the delivery room..her grip was intense, and when that didn't work...Simply holding her down was insane..."
"So...she actually tried to beat the living out of Mizukage-sama?" Tamago asked.
"Yeah..." the med-nin said, "Luckily, we know how to deal with such things...we promised her after she had sent one of my teammates through a wall that the sooner she gave birth the sooner she could beat the crap out of Mizukage-sama."
"So...you were saving your own skins?" Tamago said.
"Pretty much," the med-nin said, "We were very much concerned with the babies, which was why he had to sedate her, bribe her, and force her to be strapped to the bed."
Inside the delivery room, where Mei was resting, Ryoku was busy pulling his head out of his ass. As soon as he entered the room Mei had formed a very special clone that only women who had just given birth could create, and had it perform the act of shoving Ryoku's head up his own ass. When he had finally been able to extract his head from his ass, he cleaned himself up, and walked up until he was standing beside her. In her arms were the twins, not identical mind you, but twins.
"What will their names be?" a med-nin asked after a while.
"Ryo-kun?" Mei said, prompting Ryoku to name the kids.
"The younger black haird one is to be named Toukou Shiro, while the dark red haird one is to be named Jikoku Takeshi," Ryoku stated, which the med-nin jotted down and left to file the paperwork.
"Why different clan names?" Mei asked while feeding both boys at the same time.
"Takeshi-kun will be the head of the future clan here in Kiri, while Shiro-kun will be my heir in the capital," Ryoku said.
"But why does the elder get to be your heir in the village, while the younger the heir to a country?" she asked, perplexed.
"Takeshi will be in charge of the village I personally founded," Ryoku said, "It is something only the eldest can do, while the running of a country can be done by any one, sort of."
After it was revealed to the village that Ryoku and Mei had children, that there were two princes of Kiri. No one bothered to ask for the official and unofficial stories, they had simply assumed that the couple had just postponed their wedding in light of the many events that were going on at the time, like preparing for the Chunin Exams, and whatever else people could think up, or think of.
Mei was placed on paid leave, and no one doubted that she would be getting back to work as soon as her children allowed her to. The citizens of Kiri also finally found out where in the world their Kage lived in the village.
The Kiri Anbu were also surprised to find out that Kurenai Kei was actually Mei in disguise, how such a secret had been kept for however long that it had been they did not know. It made them wonder just who Shinku Rensa was.
Three years later, Ryoku announced his resignation, and announced that Mei would be his replacement as Mizukage. The people weren't all that surprised with the appointment, they were just surprised that right after that announcement, they had to get used to calling the Yondaime Mizukage another title, that being Mizu Daimyo. Kujira made sure to make a big production out of the annoucement of that little fact.
It was also at that time that Mei experienced another time travel, this time to ten years in the past, their home being another location, and it was time for her two boys to start their own special training. Shiro at the Mizu court, and Takeshi as Shinku Rensa. By the time the two boys returned to the present time of the time line, they were each around seventeen.
They each inherited things from both their parents. They had a quadruple bloodline limit. They could flawlessly perform Boil Release, Lava Release, have some form of control over time but not to the extent of their father, and they had magic flowing in their blood.
One year after their return to the normal and regular timeline, Mizu no Kuni received word that the Yondaime Hokage had sacrificed his life in a successful attempt to defeat the Kyuubi, that had finally awoken from his tranquelizer induced coma. Ryoku knew who had done the awakening, and the reason for the attack, and other such things that were not commonly known.
He had raced to Kiri with Shiro at his heels after hearing the news. Kiri was the only Hidden Village that did not have a jinchuuriki, and Ryoku wanted to make sure it stayed that way. He split the bijuu into pieces for a reason, and that was so that Akatsuki had a harder time collecting the bijuu.
"Daimoy-sama, what are you doing in Kiri?" the chunin at the gate asked as his former Kage appeared in a swirl of mist at the gate, his son arriving a second or two later.
"I'm here to make sure that some people do not act against my orders and wishes," Ryoku said as he waved off the offer of an escort and instantly merged with Byakko who was closer to the Mizukage Tower, where he was sure his wife would be found. His son had the misfortune of not being able to split himself like his father, and therefore had to run across the rooftops, only to be stopped by a passing Anbu, that turned out to be his brother.
"Shiro, where's the fire?" Takeshi asked after stopping his brother.
"Have you heard about the Kyuubi's defeat at the hands of the Yondaime Hokage?" Shiro asked his brother.
"That's why you're here? Where Tou-san?" Takeshi asked his brother noting that his father was not with his younger twin.
"He's probably with Kaa-san already," Shiro said, "Maybe we should get there now."
"Yeah, sure, this is a family matter after all," Takeshi said, and sped off, his brother keeping up.
"By the way, why'd your team send you to intercept me?" Shiro asked his bro.
"Cause I'm the taichou and I knew it was you even before you took to the rooftops," Takeshi said.
"Oh yeah, we're twins after all," Shiro said, and before long they were at in the Mizukage's office, having entered through the window.
"...So there is no need for you to worry, I shall repeat, no one has suggested that the bijuu bits be recalled and we have ourselves a jinchuuriki to counter the possibility of Konoha having one now," Mei told her husband.
"Fine, fine, I'm glad for that, especially considering that Konoha does have a jinchuuriki," Ryoku said.
"What?" Mei shouted, her sons were forced to cover their ears.
"How do you...never mind," Mei said.
"Yeah," Ryoku said smirking, "I'll go meet him in about four years."
"Meet him?" Mei asked.
"Why?" his two sons asked at exactly the same time.
"Well I would love to meet my great great grandson," Ryoku stated.
"Great great grandson? I have one of those?" Mei asked surprised, then turned to her boys, "Which of you did it?"
"Don't look at me," Shiro said, "I've never even been out of the country, save for with you guys."
"Takeshi..you better not be hiding something from me," Mei said, her aura beginning to glow around her.
"I'm not! I swear! I don't even have a girlfriend!" Takeshi said.
"Now, now, Mei-chan, Takeshi is only partially at fault," Ryoku said.
"Kindly elaborate, husband or not, daimyo or not, I will kick your ass from here to Kumo if I don't like your answer, and you can't make me your assistant or whatever anymore," Mei said.
"Takeshi-kun left his eye patch off one time, and accidentally slipped back in time while drunk, and ended up getting one of the nobles of Nami no Kuni pregnant," Ryoku said, "See..his only fault was that he was drunk enough not to remember when he lost his virginity."
"I can't believe I'm hearing this," Mei and her two boys said at the same time, such things just aren't topics that are talked about that openly by family members.
"So..I have a son?" Takeshi asked.
"Had a son...unfortunately," Ryoku said, "He died early on defending his own kid."
"So I have a grandson?" Takeshi asked hopefully, while Mei had an inkling that the answer was negative.
"Sort of..." Ryoku said, "He is..recovering...in a chamber that at the moment not even I can enter, he is there along with his wife."
"No way..." Shiro said before his brother could say anything, "I have a grandnephew..and he's the Kyuubi no jinchuuriki..."
"Yeah..." Ryoku said, "The good thing is that he's family...the bad thing is that we can't petition to gain custody of him..since his dad was the one to seal the kyuubi into his gut."
"Wait, wait, wait, hold up," Takeshi said, "My grandson was Hokage?"
"Yeah, your mom's Mizukage, I'm daimyo, what the big deal?" Ryoku asked.
"I'm a freakin Anbu Captain! My grandkid was a Kage!" Takeshi said.
"Its ok brother, I'm just a prince, so are you," Shiro said, attempting to console his twin, and it was not working.
"My grandson was a Kage..." Takeshi repeated.
"Three Kages in the family ain't bad," Mei said.
"Takeshi-kun," Ryoku said, "Its nothing to be ashamed about, if it helps your grandson was about your age when he became Kage..possibly older than you by a few years..hehe.."
"That's not helping," Takeshi said, "I'm in denial...can I come with when you do meet him?"
"Who?" Ryoku asked.
"This Kyuubi no Jinchuuriki," Takeshi said, "And do you even know his name?"
"His official name is Uzumaki Naruto," Ryoku said.
"Hey bro, I got a mission request form all filled out," Shiro said, "All it needs are the what needs to be done, along with Kaa-san's seal of approval."
"Shiro-kun, where are you going with this?" Mei asked, she was sitting behid her desk, while Ryoku sat by the window, and the two boys were on chairs in front of her.
"Security around the kid will be tight, especially considering the circumstances," Shiro said, "Bro can steal all files and documented information pertaining to this kid. Like birth certificates and the like, while leaving the basic necessities type of information and documentation behind, or at least copies of such."
"Sounds like a good idea," Ryoku said.
"A Kiri prince while at the same time a Konoha prince..." Mei said, "Takeshi-kun?"
"I'm willing to do it," Takeshi said.
"Shiro, fill out the rest of the form," Mei ordered her youngest son, "Ryo-kun..from where do I get the payment for this mission?"
"Take it from our dual clan account," Ryoku answered, "It is a family matter after all."
"Hai," Mei said, "Takeshi, fetch your team, Konoha isn't the only village that values teamwork."
"Hai, Kaa-san," he said and left the room through the window in search of his still patrolling team.
"What are the chances of success?" Mei asked her husband while Shiro filled out the rest of the form.
"One hundred percent," Ryoku said, "Its actually the perfect time to plant spies..don't you think, Mizukage-chan."
"Hai, Daimyo-kun," she said.
"You two are probably the only two parents and leaders that can actually call each other those pet names," Shiro said as he finished the form and stamped it with the seal of approval, using his mother's rubber stamp. He was the only one of the twins that could get away with it, being the youngest and the heir of the country.
Moments later Takeshi's team entered the room, but no matter how much stealth they used, Mei knew when they entered, just as the rest of the family in the room.
"Your task is to infiltrate Konoha, while the chaos is still rampant," the Godaime Mizukage said, "You are to retrieve any and all information pertaining to one Uzumaki Naruto..or.."
"Namikaze Naruto as the case may be," Ryoku supplied.
"Yes.." Mei said, "Leave copies of documents that you believe will be missed terribly. Any questions?"
"..."
"None? Good," Mei said, "Leave at your own discretion, but remember, time is of the essence."
"Hai, Mizukage-sama," they all said, then left the office, Takeshi included.
"So..we've heard of the child's father's side," Mei said after Takeshi left the gates a few minutes later, "What of his mother's side?"
"Direct descendant of Uzumaki Shiokaze," he said, "He is the last true Uzumaki, and last true son of Uzu no Kuni, that I am positively aware of."
"So he has the blood of one of your students flowing through his veins," she noted.
"Precisely," he said, "Actually, he has the blood of Kagemusha as well as Seigi Musei."
"How?" she asked.
"A Senju married into the Namikaze clan a long time ago, before you were born actually," Ryoku said, "I'm not sure as to when or who, but Naruto-kun has the blood of the Rikudou Sennin flowing through his veins."
"Did you have anything to do with the circumstances of his birth and the blood flowing through his veins?" Mei asked.
"None, my only involvement, was teaching his ancestors, and being the father of one of his direct ancestors, our son," Ryoku said.
"Good, I thought you were manipulating fate too," she said.
"Worry, not, no matter how hard I've tried, I simply cannot seem to figure out how," Ryoku said.
"I'm going home," Shiro said, "The court will be in a panic when someone realizes we're not home."
"Alright, I'll follow," Ryoku said, and so Shiro activated a portkey which deposited him in his room just as one of the guards barged in to inform him that his father could not be found.
With both their kids gone, Ryoku decided that he and his wife needed to relax a little, and so they further defiled the office. It was a good thing that Ryoku remembered to kick out all the Anbu that were stationed in the office, before he tested his luck, he wondered if it was possible to have another pair of twins.