…The Hyūga Clan
The Hyūga Clan was the third clan to join Konohagakure after its inception and was the first to trust in the peace that had been brokered between the Uchihas and the Senjus. Because of this and the very powerful kekkei genkai they brought with them, they are considered to be nobles in Konohagakure. And the clan used that nobility to maintain one of the stricter clan organizational structures in the elemental nations.
As many people have heard, but few understand, the Hyūga clan is split into a main and branch family. In simple terms, the main branch are the clan members that represent the direct line of succession for the position of clan head and the branch makes up everyone else. Up until the introduction of the caged bird seal, this system had few problems.
The original Cage Bird Seal prevented anyone from acquiring the eyes of a Hyūga Clan member by destroying the eyes upon death or removal. When the seal was adopted by the Hyūga clan, it was decided that it would only be applied to the branch family members. That created some conflict and so a pain and suppression element was added to the seal and before long the branch family became slaves (though no one dared used that term) to the main family.
To aid in the application of the seal and control of the family, a council of elders was created. The council was made up of all former clan heads, who did not receive the seal even after relinquishing the head status, and selected branch family members who were allowed into the main family and had their seal removed.
Over time the council of elders gained power and the system to apply the cage bird seal was changed. Originally the main branch included the direct line to the seventh member in the line of succession. But eventually only the Clan head and their named heir was made automatically immune to application of the seal.
By the time of Hinata's birth, clan heirs were being forced to face their siblings in combat after graduating from the academy with the winner remaining (or becoming) the heir and the loser being branded with the seal and put in the branch family, though in the limited generations since the introduction of the system, almost every branded sibling was eventually put on the council and had the seal removed. And the siblings rarely had the pain and suppression functions used against them.
Hokage's Office, Hokage Tower, Konohagakure no Sato
It had been 2 weeks since Senju Tsunade was installed as the Godaime Hokage and it was time for her to attend her first council meeting. She had spent the two weeks in meetings with the, once again retired, Sandaime Hokage. Like her, Sarutobi Hiruzen had been remade under the spreading influence of Hentaishindo and the former Sensei/student pair had quickly developed a casual and flirty relationship that still managed to conduct the business of bringing the new Hokage up to speed.
The flirtations started with inappropriate comments about Tsunade's breast and equally inappropriate musings about whether the "God of Shinobi" was a "God" in bed as well. That led to playful challenges and on their third day together, culminated with Tsunade riding her former sensei while he sat in the Hokage's chair. He would never replace Jiraiya and she couldn't displace Yuyu (or her sister and niece) but the two did enjoy fulfilling a deeply buried fantasy from their younger days.
Their behavior was in no way kept private. Not from their lovers and not from any of the people that worked in the Hokage tower. Tsunade was a screamer and no privacy or sound damping seals were used adding to the overall excitement of their coupling. The two weeks before her inauguration as the Hokage had been spent fully accepting and immersing herself in her own lusts.
That had led her to the discovery that she loved fucking in public. First with Jiraiya at the temple, then with him (and Tomi) throughout the village and finally on the Hokage's desk with her former mentor. How she loved the design of the Hadakashi pants. It was actually two pieces with the top held together by only one zipper. With it off Tsunade and any Hadakashi eager to be fucked was left in, basically leather thigh-high stockings.
She also loved the aftermath of her vocal and wild public displays. For so long she had been overly sensitive about people (especially men) admiring her body, especially her breasts, publicly. Now she reveled in it. Especially after being fucked to orgasm. Her breasts were constantly exposed now and drew eyes like a magnet but after being with one of her lovers, they would be flushed or bruised and caused her to feel people's lust like she could sense chakra. And it empowered her.
Because of all of this, while the Sandaime and Godaime toured the various divisions and governmental offices of the village, many of the civilian and shinobi employees found themselves both charmed and blushing by the combined aura of power, command and perverseness, that the two kages carried with them. All magnified by the Godaime's breasts peeking out of her open robes and flushed from the hand that had been squeezing them while she yelled out her completions.
When not touring the village (or having sex), the Sandaime also gave his successor the full unfiltered, unedited history of Konohagakure no Sato from the first Hokage all the way to himself. It was an eye opening discussion that left her both extremely disappointed with her home village and extremely proud of it. It also left her to wonder how a future Hokage would view the decisions she would eventually have to make. But mostly it left her with the understanding that the strength and reputation of Konoha was not an accident, it was the result of purposeful planning and execution by its leaders.
When not with her mentor she was with her lover. Much to the irritation of the politicians and power brokers on and surrounding both councils, she gave them absolutely none of her time before the scheduled council meeting. Instead, when not carrying out her duties as Hokage, she tended to her new religion, accepting her position as high priestess of the Hadakashi. And joyously basking in the love Jiraiya showered her with.
It amazed her how much she craved him. Not just his body or how it could make her feel but his cleverness and ability fluster and challenge her. Most men who had tried to seduce her could not find it in themselves to challenge her without putting her down, but Jiraiya could. It was the thing she had openly admired about him even before admitting she loved him. He had also had the habit of allowing her to trample over him but he no longer did that and the two traits combined to make a man she could not help but love.
She had denied herself so much of what she truly wanted and now she eagerly grabbed at the opportunity to make up for lost time. For Jiraiya it meant being totally honest with her about his feelings. For her it meant submitting gleefully to every sexually depraved fantasy she had ever held and kept secret (sometimes from herself). From fucking Hiruzen to semi-seriously teasing her adopted grandson with her breasts.
Her and Tomi, together, had even been able to finally sate Jiraiya's lust for an entire night and her pussy, ass and mouth still tingled in remembrance of the accomplishment. Or perhaps it was because she had yet to go more than four hours without having at least two of her orifices filled with a meaty shaft or slick tongue since finally returning Jiraiya's feelings.
But now it was time to meet her council. She stood and made her way to the Hokage robes that hung next to her desk. For day to day business she did not wear them and instead wore a stole that was embroidered, like her robes, with the kanji for the leaf village on one side and the one for the land of fire on the other.
Having her breasts exposed was symbolic of her personal life and her religious practices so, when not in the Hokage robes, but still working, she wore the stole to cover her breast, though it only covered her nipples and areola. She was sure certain members of the council and village would not see the difference between walking around topless and wearing the scarf-like adornment, but to her it made all the difference.
One thing that she did not give up from her new life was her newly appointed personal guard. It was made up of three kunoichi; Jōnetsu, Ekusutashī and Kanraku. The same three women that had come with Jiraiya to retrieve her after she finally stopped running from herself. It turned out that they were not just any three Hadakashi but were in fact the Hadakashi council who knew they were on a journey to find their High Priestess.
The ANBU were OK with the three women taking on the role of the Hokage's personal guard. It was an unspoken tradition that the Hokage chose their own personal guard, and that they would come with them to the position, usually being young shinobi from the Hokage's "school" (student of a student). The only requirement and expectation was that whomever the people where, they could meet ANBU standards, something that was absolutely true in the case of the Hadakashi.
When she had first accepted that she wanted to be Hokage, Tsunade had planned for Shizune to be her personal guard and assistant, but her conversations with Hiruzen and the availability of the Hadakashi had led to a new use for her longtime apprentice. Tsunade looked at her three guard. She, of course, knew who they really were and remembered them from her previous time in the village. There skill could not be called into question. Either marshal or sexual.
Like her, the three women wore an additional article of clothing to indicate when they were on duty to the Hokage vs on duty to their religion. The kept the one-piece bodice that stopped beneath their breasts but added a sheer shirt with belled sleeves. Unfortunately for the prudes that still resided in the village, the top did nothing to hide away the women's breasts and for some men only increased their lust for the women.
Once again wearing the Hokage robes, Tsunade and her three guards left the office and moved through the building to the council chambers causing the entire building to pause as they walked by. Dangerous and supernaturally beautiful, the women always caused that reaction and Tsunade loved it. She could practically taste the respect and desire that radiated from both the men and women that watched her walk by. And she loved it.
... Council Chambers, Hokage Tower, Konohagakure no Sato
Hyūga Hiashi was in huddled conversation with his co-conspirators. That would not be the word he would use for the group of "concerned councilors" that had come together in the name of "saving" Konohagakure, but that was what they were. They were made of two, seemingly disparate groups allied behind one goal; returning Konohagakure to the way it was before the Sandaime had "supposedly" regained his will of fire.
"I cannot believe she had the audacity to ignore us for two weeks. Just so that she could indulge in her sluttish behavior. We do not have a Hokage, we are being led by a whore." Offered a shinobi councilman. Hiashi rolled his eyes as yet another blowhard found a new way to say the same sentence. Since arriving in the council chambers, this was the eighth version of the same sentence uttered by the sixth different asshole. One industrious councilwoman having repeated herself three times.
Hiashi sighed as he found himself having to repeat his own sentence, in a new way, for the eighth time, wondering if he was doomed to fail at this too. He desperately wished Fugaku was still alive. He was sure the man would have been part of this group and then he would have someone to share the burden of these people's ignorance.
"The fact that she has allowed herself to become little more than a… plaything for Jiraiya's little religion, is exactly why we shall succeed. She will bow to the will of the council and we can, get the village back on track." Hiashi said in emotionless tones and the group settled again into humming and grumbling agreement.
"What is really important is that this woman recognizes the importance of the civilians of this village and does not repeat the strong-arm tactics of her predecessor." Offered a separate civilian councilman. For a moment Hiashi seriously considered abandoning all of his plans just to be done with the group. The latest comment had come from the second of the "allied" groups.
The first group was the small but vocal remnants of the "prudes", as everyone called them. They did not give themselves a name and simply referred to themselves as concerned citizens who worried for the moral fiber of the village and the elemental nations. Hiashi thought "prudes" was much more succinct. The speaker, who also just reiterated what had been said four times previously, represented the larger economic group that wanted more money.
The economic group did not have a derisive name and Hiashi figured it was because they had "won" the marketing battle by naming themselves "Civilian Economists". Before the announcement of Uzumaki Namikaze's heritage, they were the primary group that organized against the boy. Unsurprisingly, the revelation of Naruto's parentage had decimated the group that had been already reeling from the Sandaime's "renewed will of fire."
What was surprising was that the remaining members never cared about the status of the Jinchūriki. The boy was just leverage to get what they wanted. Power. Civilians were the majority of the population, in Konohagakure, in Hi no Kuni and in all of the elemental nations and yet they held very little power, relatively. The Daimyo's were all civilians, but the power of the nations rested with the minority chakra users and the "Civilian Economists" wanted to change that. With a weakened Hokage and young Naruto as a distraction, they had almost succeeded in one of the great shinobi villages.
Now they wanted to try again. They believed that the inexperience of the Godaime combined with their belief that she was a whore (and whore meant stupid to them), meant they could steamroll her and become the true leaders of the village, leaving the "slut" as a figurehead. As the time drew nearer, Hiashi prepared himself. Nothing would happen in this meeting. The goal was just to overload Tsunade with information and establish her inexperience. Fortunately, Hiruzen had not taken a position as one of her advisors and would not be present so they could hopefully bully her politically.
Naruto looked around the council chambers at the gathered people. Konohagakure was a very large village and based on its size could be considered a town or even a city. Even so, he thought that there were way too many council members. The village councils were there to offer advice to the Hokage and keep the village leader informed about issues affecting the people. That was supposed to be their purpose.
So, Naruto did not understand why the merchant's guild required three members to sit on the civilian council. The same was true for the shinobi council. Was it really necessary for every clan to be represented on the council, when there was also a clan guild of which they were all members and had a council representative? Don't even get him started on the shinobi guild which also had a seat for every clan and also had a seat on the shinobi council.
Currently the young man who represented two seats on the council (and 3 separate guilds) by himself was watching a mixed block of shinobi and civilian council members as they plotted against the Hokage. The woman was his honorary grandmother and the star of a few of his sexual fantasies (it really wasn't fair to call rubbing his crotch; flirting), but he remained calm despite the betrayal that was happening in front of him, in real time. Mostly because it was doomed to failure.
The Sandaime had done much to clean up the corruption that was threatening the village. The death of Danzō and the dismissal of Utatane Koharu had eradicated the most dangerous threats but a weaker and more provincially motivated conspiracy had grown up in its place. Older rich merchants, who worshipped money and power with the same fervency of the most dedicated Hentaishindo adherent, had teamed up with older prudish civilians and shinobi to try and "defang" the newest Hokage.
The nominal leader of the "political block" was Hyūga Hiashi. He cared little for money or morality and was a member, Naruto suspected, to try and regain control of the branch members of the Hyūga clan. And was leader due to his prestige alone. The Hyūga civil war had ended when the branch family member's desire for revenge had run its course and the main family had accepted that with the Uzumaki-Namikaze seal that prevented involuntary sealing, their ability to control their cousins had been lost to them.
Still, Hiashi's position and power was tenuous as the end of fighting did not mean the end of hostilities. As far as Naruto could tell he had joined the "Asshole Alliance" (as Naruto called it in his mind) in hopes of forcing Tsunade to help him "fix" the Hyūga clan. After a few months of fighting, the people supporting the cage bird seal and similar clan practices had been reduced to the remaining elder council (two of them having been killed) and Hiashi.
Unsurprising since, other than Hinata and Hanabi, they were the only ones truly in the main branch. Naruto wondered if Hiashi knew that Hanabi and Neji were well on their way to uniting the main and branch families, carnally. It was a match that under normal circumstances, Hiashi would have tried to make purposefully but Hanabi had become a "reformist" and matching with Neji was the final deathblow to his control of the clan.
Hiashi wanted control of his clan back, while the prudes wanted Anko, and her seduction classes, out of the academy and the civilian economist wanted power over the shinobi to use them for their businesses. All three groups were intelligent and devious enough to come up with a, to borrow from a separate universe, Slytherin worthy plan to undermine the new Hokage and achieve their goals. Unfortunately, all three suffered from the same fault. They did not respect Senju Tsunade.
"You gonna learn today." Naruto thought.
…Home of Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Clan District, Konohagakure No Sato
Uchiha Sasuke found himself in front of his mirror once again. He had been in front of the same mirror many times since the day he had looked at his own emotionally broken form after being suspended from the shinobi forces. His journey to this point had been long and arduous, and he had learned surprising things about himself. But he could not deny the results.
In his first act as a former Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen had recommend his reinstatement into the shinobi forces to the Godaime. The man had told him that he would have done it himself but that it would be unfair to not give his future commander the right to make such a decision. The Godaime had met with him privately and after that discussion had reinstated him.
He was happy to be a shinobi of the leaf again but was no longer driven by the same motivations as before. He was still eager to find and capture his brother but now it was so he could present Itachi to his mistress, so she could guide him to the same peace and tranquility that she had helped him achieve. "Are you ready, Sasuke-kun" came the sickly sweet voice of his other mistress. Her voice would have sent disgusted shivers up the spine of most men but for Sasuke it was heaven.
"Hn" he grunted and Ayame rubbed his back with her hand before pressing her lightly curved body into his back. Ayame, and Rena represented the true future of the Uchiha clan now. They were both pregnant with his child and Rena had already manifested her new sharingan. Sasuke had achieved his third tomoe, fully maturing his sharingan in the same episode where a former fan girl had tried to murder his future child. She did not die easily.
The older woman was recovering on the bed from the passionate, and violent, love making they had to celebrate his first day returning to his shinobi life. Ayame's hand lowered down Sasuke's back and then Sasuke's eye's widened and he groaned as his second mistress gave him his final gift before his new outfit was complete. "Do not forget your letter." She said with a tinkling, but somehow cruel, laugh before joining Rena on the bed where the two women kissed each other with more love and care than they would ever outwardly show Uchiha Sasuke.
... Council Chambers, Hokage Tower, Konohagakure no Sato
Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto was doing his best not to laugh, but was failing as yet another snicker forced itself from between his sealed lips. Beside him Inuzuka Tsume pinched his leg again. He would be more likely to take her silent reprimand seriously if it wasn't her barking laughter that had caused his latest round of snickering. Since he joined the council, Tsume had taken it upon herself to be a political mentor to him.
An Inuzuka ninken for his descendants had been the price of her failure to care for the son of her friend, Uzumaki Kushina, and like he had done with Jiraiya, he had considered her slate clean and accepted her completely into his life as a surrogate aunt. The two were already building a reputation on the council for boiling political babble down to one sentence summaries that cut through much of the bullshit.
It was done under the auspices of teaching him what he needed to know about the council and so Naruto's statements were typically in the form of a question while Tsume usually used an explanatory tone in her replies. As such, Naruto spoke in a serious voice devoid of the humor he just had and replaced with almost childish curiosity, when he said, "Tsume-chan, did Hyūga-sama just suggest that Hokage-sama shouldn't have been chosen to be Hokage. Isn't that a challenge for the position?"
All voices stopped. Naruto had managed to speak loud enough for everyone to hear while still sounding like a child. Tsume was impressed as she did her part while laughing like a hyena in her mind. "Well, Naruto-kun. Hyūga-sama cannot directly challenge for the position of Hokage. But he can challenge Tsunade-sama's claim to the title. If he wins, it would only mean Tsunade-sama might have to step down, which is why it's not typically done. But you are right that Hyūga-sama's words suggests he believes himself stronger than our village's Kage."
From the moment Tsunade had entered the council chambers with her three guard, the "Asshole Alliance" had gone on the attack. It had started with scoffs and "accidental" forgetfulness when addressing Tsunade and not using her title, Hokage-sama. Tsunade had not fought back and that had encouraged them to become more and more bold as the meeting continued. Through it all Tsunade sat in the Hokage's chair, seemingly unbothered.
…Flashback
At first, Naruto had been livid, only held back by his confusion about why Tsunade was not defending herself and demanding respect. When he looked closely at her he saw that she was fighting a smirk and that made him decide to remain silent. Eventually the energy changed and he was pretty sure something was happening, but he couldn't tell what.
"The civilian council expects that the shinobi of the village will serve the community when required and will not tolerate the use of the shinobi forces as a personal tool of the leadership." Spoke one woman who Naruto had not tagged as a member of the Asshole Alliance. That was when his confusion turned to a smile. He looked over to his "aunt" and saw that she saw that he got it and she smiled at him in approval.
His baachan's seeming timid-ness had caused more of the snakes to show themselves and that was the point. Deciding he wanted to be part of the "prank" he and Tsume had joined in. All it took was for them to show the same disrespect to the councilors that they were showing the Hokage. He knew that the Asshole Alliance did not care who his parents were and still hated him so his open disrespect of them uncovered two more conspirators.
"Hey Fumio, wasn't your son in the year behind ours? How is he doing at the academy?" Naruto shot out as an interruption to the councilman's demands about "reforming" the academy. The man was clearly angry at Naruto's question because it cut to the reason he wanted the standards lowered as his son had no chance of passing under the increasing expectations of the academy. However, instead of him responding, a new voice yelled, "Be respectful of the councilman, brat" which caused Naruto to think "gotcha".
Tsume directed some verbal energy to the new voice and before long he was added to the list of associate members of the Asshole Alliance. Naruto did not know why Tsunade thought they had found everyone but the "unmasking" of the last councilman had caused her face to shift and Naruto knew she was about to act. "Hiru-kun told me that Uchiha Sasuke is ready to return to the shinobi forces so I signed the approval. He should be returning to his team now." Tsunade said with a voice that sounded like it was seeking approval of her action.
"Perhaps Sandaime-sama should reclaim the hat if his are the decisions we will be hearing from you, Tsunade." The speaker was Machida Sanako. She was the head of the Machida clan, a major power on the merchant's guild, and she had lost her husband in the Kyuubi attack. She had hated Namikaze Minato before that and so had no faith in his "vaunted" sealing ability. Something she had made very clear to everyone when she used to lobby to turn Naruto over to Danzō.
No one knew why she hated Minato. She was old enough to have been his mother and some of the wilder rumors that had existed when she had clashed with him, before he died, was that he was the love child of her husband, that she had forced the man to give him up to an orphanage and that she was mad that he had risen so far as a shinobi anyway.
She no longer believed Naruto was the Kyuubi in a weakened form but still hated him for being the son of the Yondaime. As if that was not enough, she was a prude and a true believer that shinobi should just be tools for the civilians to use to better their lives. No one in the room knew, but she had also been a secret financial backer of Danzō's ROOT program.
The fact that Tsunade had accepted a position as Naruto's surrogate grandmother, that she was acting like a slut that could put Anko to shame and that she had been given power over the civilians, meant Sanako hated Tsunade with a passion that made no sense considering they had never met each other before that day.
Her words caused her supporters to hum amusedly which further encouraged the civilian clan head to continue. As if she was relishing the opportunity to finally say anything she wanted to a powerful shinobi, she gleefully continued, "From what we have all seen and heard, I am sure he can make better use of you in positions you seem to have become more comfortable in." that caused open chuckling, though the shinobi council became deadly silent.
"In fact, I can no longer hold my tongue now that I actually see this disgrace wearing the Hokage's hat.", the slightly hysterical woman said picking up steam. "Konohagakure no Sato is not a brothel and that is all this woman is fit to lead. We would be better led by a man of character, like Hyūga Hiashi." Anyone looking at the Hyūga clan head in that moment would easily see that he had not expected the blustering woman to make such a suggestion but Tsunade's behavior had encouraged arrogance to ignore sense.
Perhaps it was also the fact that with the revolt of the branch family, no one had stroked Hiashi' s ego in too long. But for whatever reason the pale-eyed man rose to his feet with a bearing clearly meant to convey royalty and said in a smooth voice. "Thank you, Machida-sama, for the recognition of my personal power and that of my clan. Perhaps the Daimyo had other things on his mind when he accepted the Sandaime's recommendation. It is something we should definitely bring up with him."
…End Flashback.
The minute Hyūga Hiashi rose to speak, Naruto knew that his baa-chan had orchestrated the downfall of the entire asshole alliance and had done it with silence and a bit of timid behavior. The old saying about giving a person enough rope to hang themselves rang true but the Namikaze and Uzumaki clan head was surprised at how far the conspirators had gone exposing themselves. It had been the cause of his and Tsume's laughter.
Unwilling to not be part of what he considered an amazing prank, he and his obachan (aunt) had added their two cents. They had basically gone unchallenged in the council meeting and Naruto's question and Tsume's answer seemed to clear some of the fog from everyone's mind and thoughts about political ramifications started to circulate again. That led to some doubt, but no one believed that they would face any real repercussion from the "weak" Hokage. Until they felt the killing intent.
…Training Ground # 8
Uchiha Sasuke arrived at the training ground to meet with his team, once again. It had only been 5 months since he had been suspended from the shinobi corps but to the "last loyal Uchiha" it was like he was reborn and lived the first 14 years of his life all over again. Based on the looks he had received on his way to meet his team, he was sure most people would doubt it had only been 5 months. "Perhaps I've changed so much that I am simply unrecognizable to them." He thought with a smirk he had learned to keep in his mind only.
Surprisingly, his team had left his spot open for him. They had been assigned various shinobi for their missions, but none had become permanent members of the team. The closest had been an odd boy named Sai. The boy had a seemingly unnatural ability to say the worst thing in any given situation. Despite constantly putting his foot in his mouth the boy also was unaffected by the awkward moments he created. Kiba loved him and actually was still friendly with him despite the boy leaving to another team.
Kiba and Shino had not had to be forced to hold their open team position for Sasuke. Despite his issues, the two clan heads considered the wayward Uchiha to be their teammate and had bought in to Kakashi's teachings about the importance of team work and never abandoning a teammate. Kakashi had been very proud of them when Kiba told him, "Until Sasuke was officially retired from the shinobi force, he would always have a place with them." Shino nodding in agreement the entire time.
The boys had been sincere in there declaration that Sasuke was still their teammate, but both boys had to admit seeing the Uchiha again was more than worth the effort. It was such a shocking presentation that Shino's bugs went completely silent, something they only ever did on missions. Even Kakashi who had been reading his little orange book had looked on in surprise, breaking his normal cool stoicism that always annoyed his "eternal rival".
Sasuke was wearing the stab and slash resistant sheer body stocking typically worn by kunoichi. On his legs he wore tight black leather chaps, paired with equally tight and black leather briefs that left absolutely nothing to the imagination (respectable but not impressive). The black leather continued with a 3/4 length leather vest that left his ripped abs exposed but was closed around his chest by a multitude of belts, the buckles of which were matte black. A similar buckle closed the collar that wrapped around his neck, though that one had a lock on it.
The collar was at the base of a face mask (leather, of course) that covered Sasuke's mouth nose and ears. Kakashi would not admit it but Sasuke's face mask made him feel uncomfortable and he could not exactly understand why. The outfit was completed with ANBU style boots and gloves that reached his biceps. He carried a wakizashi across his back as a primary weapon and Kakashi forced himself to note that he needed to find out how proficient his student was. "Once the shock wears off." He thought.
... Council Chambers, Hokage Tower, Konohagakure no Sato
The modified curse of heaven seal that every Konoha shinobi now had tattooed on them was a complex piece of fūinjutsu. In the simplest terms the seal acted as a chakra collector, recycler and purifier. Having the seal increased a shinobi's chakra use efficiency and also increased the shinobi's chakra capacity. Naruto was likely the only living Uzumaki Seal Master and he remained impressed by the ingenuity of the idea that led to the creation of the original seal.
Operationally, no matter how refined and controlled a person was with their chakra use, there would always be some chakra loss. The first function of the seal was to capture that loss. Then the seal would purify the captured chakra. Orochimaru's version of the seal was able to purify the captured chakra until it was dangerously close to the natural energy of senjutsu. So much so that Naruto's modified seal was less efficient in that regard for safety's sake.
In Orochimaru's version of the seal, the purified chakra would be corrupted by a sliver of the snake Sannin's own chakra before being pumped back into the chakra system. The looping effect slowly corrupting the victim. In Naruto's modified version, the seal does not add any foreign chakra and the purified chakra is pumped back into the coils, creating a loop that not only purifies the chakra in the coils, but due to the now constant flow in and out of the body, continually exercised the chakra coils increasing the chakra capacity threefold (average) before settling again.
For Senju Tsunade, the seal was an unknown, un-sought after final addition to her strength of one hundred seal. The one downside to the seal she had carried was that it took three years to fully charge with chakra. The modified seal solved that problem with the absorption, purification, re-integration loop allowing for the strength of one hundred seal to refill from empty in a week. Allowing the slug princess to be much more liberal with the use of her stored chakra.
No one could breath. Tsunade had released 3/4ths of the chakra stored in her strength of one hundred seal as pure killing intent. If she kept it up for a full minute, there would be deaths. Power rolled of the Godaime Hokage in waves that manifested in the visual spectrum enough for the civilians to see it. If they had the ability to breathe, they would say it looked like the waves of heat that hovered over a desert.
Tsunade rose to her feet and sauntered, with rolling hips to Hyūga Hiashi who could not bring himself to even activate his Byakugan. To freeze a Jōnin level shinobi with just killing intent was a clear declaration that Tsunade was not just a kage in name. To add more insult to the frozen Hyūga clan head, she stepped into striking distance from the man. Something that would normally be considered foolish but in the moment was another clear declaration. The Godaime Hokage held no fear of Hyūga Hiashi.
"Hiashi-kun", Tsunade said with a seductive menace that caused the men still aware to instinctually cross their legs in a defensive reaction. "Do you think I will make a bad Hokage?" Unlike the use of his name, her question came out as a terrifying childlike pout that sadistic clowns from several universes only wished they could match.
The killing intent lowered enough for Hiashi to be able to shake his head but little else. "So Sanako-busu was just being mean and disrespectful?" She asked, in a clear and dangerous voice. Once again Hiashi did the only thing he could and nodded in an affirmative. "I understand" Tsunade said and released the killing intent. She did not, however, move out of striking distance from the Hyūga and once everyone could breathe again they looked on at the power play. Hiashi looked away in shame and Tsunade turned her back to him before returning to the Hokage's seat, the final insult un-missed by everyone.
Before she reached her seat, Tsunade nodded toward her guards and said "Kanraku!". The woman in question dashed forward, grabbed Sanako by the head and slammed it into the table she was sitting at with two other councilors, drawing her sword in a smooth motion and holding it over the woman's head. Once again fear ran through the room, though it was not aided by any killing intent. It was simply the fear that comes from the realization that you had carelessly pissed off one of the strongest shinobi on the planet.
The room was silent as Tsunade took her seat. "I am aware that at a time like this, during a transition of power and leadership, it can be easy to allow our emotions to run away with us. However, we are all in this room because we chose to rise to positions of leadership. Positions that have many benefits but also comes with higher standards of behavior. We must, after all, lead by example." The Godaime Hokage spoke in calm, measured, quiet tones that forced the councils to listen carefully. Then she nodded at Kanraku.
"Stick your tongue out Sanako-sama.", the Hadakashi warrior said in a calm, almost soothing voice. The woman whose entire body, beside her head, was shaking, went wide eyed as she realized what was to happen to her. Fear turned to anguish and her eyes moved in her head trying to find someone to save her. "My sword will strike in 10 seconds, Sanako-sama. Choose." Kanraku said again, in motherly tones of comfort that belied the situation.
With time almost up, and her face tear stained, Sanako stuck her tongue out.