In Naruto: Reborn With Talent

by Little Merger

A soul was transmigrated into Narutoverse but was refused to be given any sort of insta-OP power, instead, he could choose from three talents. Follow him and his loved ones on their journey to become strong as they pave their own path through the battle-filled world of Naruto. Will they be villains? For some, surely. Will they be heroes? For others, maybe. But anything they do is d

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Chapter 33 - Ch33. Wonders of focused minds

"So? What did you find?"

Rei looked at the source of the voice, Konan. Konan laid n.a.k.e.d on the bed, on her tummy was the small square paper with the seal that connected them together. Rei sat next to her body, studying the seal while touching Konan all over her body. On his hand was a seal that allowed him to inspect the soul of the person he touched. Of course, the soul was connected with the entirety of the body so he had to, ahem, molest Konan.

"Other than that one should not mess with the soul?" Rei quipped, making Konan roll her eyes at him.

"I found out we are going to do it again!" Rei exclaimed and took the small paper from her belly, putting it on the table near the sealing matrix he was working on.

Konan sat down, looking at Rei to scribble down more seals. The complicated seals were no longer only words with a few numbers. She just wasn't able to put her head around them even though she learned English. Shaking her head she dragged her body across the bed, putting her ching on Rei's shoulder as her arms sn.a.k.e.d around his neck. Closing her eyes she relished the closeness.

Rei could feel Konan's b.r.e.a.s.ts on his back and smiled. Through the years he got used to working on seals in this position. He kinda started to miss it when he was trying to think of a seal and Konan was not hanging on his shoulders.

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Konan's quiet whisper entered Rei's ears.

He hummed as his pen stopped momentarily.

"I am making a soul detection seal geared towards our souls."

Rei could feel Konan tilting her head. It was more like she leaned it into himself but the meaning got across.

"You know my theory that seals are capable of creating dimensions, right?"

Konan hummed in affirmative. A farfetched theory but Rei was very convincing. After all, these storage seals must find the space to store all these things somewhere.

"I want to create our own place. Only for us." Rei told her, making her heart flutter. "For now, I am working on a mechanism to allow entry only to us."

"Rei..." Konan opened her ambers with a smile. "I love you."

Rei smiled and softly bopped her head with his. "I love you, too."

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Rei and Konan entered a vast clearing. It took Rei two months to create the keys but he finally managed it.

"Whoa!" Konan spun, bewildered, taking a proper look around. "You created this with seals!?"

The clearing was huge. Enough to fit the entirety of Kirigakure with its training fields. But it ended with blackness. There was nothing following at the end. Just solid darkness. Even the sky was all black and Konan wasn't sure how she managed to see without the sun! Rei told her the sight is dependent on the rays from stars and sun! Yet here were none and she could see!

Rei saw her looking at the sky with a confused expression and smiled.

"It's due to seals. There are light-absorbing and air-absorbing seals. They suck air and light from outside, trapping it here. It is then sent from the sky down, making you able to see. I am sure I could get a better design sometime later but for now, it is enough.

Konan nodded and approached Re, kissing him.

"So, the ground is made with Jutsu then?"

"Yes." Rei softly laughed as he returned her kiss. "It is doton producing Jutsu. It actually worked! And the grass was an experiment to see if the plants can grow here.

"Where are we?" Konan asked curiously.

"Ah... I don't really know, actually. My theory is we are outside of the space. I... think I may be able to define this little dimension to be outside of the time as well but it will take years..." Rei bitterly smiled.

Konan just kissed the tip of his nose. "We have all the time in the world, my genius."

"That we do, my love." Rei nodded and kissed her cheek as both felt the nature energy of their dimension increase by the second the more they were inside. It started to affect the grass near them, which was getting greener and greener... Rei got many ideas seeing it but he shrugged them off. He had to fulfill his boyfriend's duties first.

"So... up for a picnic?" He raised the basket he was holding, making Konan giggle and hug him.

...

A month later, Rei and Konan stood in the middle of their dimension. They joined their hands.

"Ready, Konan?"

"Ready, Rei."

Both smiled as the chakra and nature energy surged from their bodies, affecting the surroundings. The ground soaked up every bit of it and the world stilled for a second. All was peaceful and quiet until the world trembled. The ground started sending pulses like a heartbeat, sending earthquakes that clashed with each other, making the entire dimension violently shudder.

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Only Rei and Konan, standing in the center and the ground under them was completely still, not moving even an inch. The ground was twisting, raising, lowering, mixing...

It took twenty minutes until Konan and Rei stopped supplying chakra for the Jutsu that will change their dimension forevermore.

The ground stilled and then one last pulse could be felt like a shockwave under the earth surface slightly raised the ground before it promptly fell back and... started to lower itself, creating a perfectly flat surface. No longer was it a grassy plain. Instead, the grass completely disappeared as a hard brown ground replaced it.

But not for long...

The ground started cracking all around as if a bud of a new plant was about to rise. The only difference was that these cracks were a few meters large, cracking the ground in the entire dimension except a circle with a few meters radius around Rei and Konan.

Both Rei and Konan knelt down and slammed both of their palms to the ground, sending a pulse through it, pushing air away from themselves, creating shockwaves.

"Mokuton: Evergrowing Evergreen."

Their voices reverberated through the entire dimension as vines as thick as buildings started to cover the ground, snaking their way, intertwining, smashing, and pushing each other.

When the vines finally covered the entire dimension except for a circle of a few hundred meters around Rei and Konan, they stopped. Instead of ground, the dimension was full of massive vines.

Then the vines started creaking as if in pain when massive trees thrice as thick as the vines started forcefully pushing their way through them from the ground, reaching the 'sky' almost touching the ceiling of the artificial dimension. Leaves started to slowly but at a visible rate grow from the branches, painting the dimension green.

These trees were all special. All having the power to gather the natural energy and saturate the ground and the air with it.

Rei and Konan could feel the nature energy being gathered from the space beyond their dimension. Space 'around'. Space 'below'. Or space 'above'. It just all started to hurtle and oversaturate their dimension. The more nature energy the trees gathered, the faster their leaves grew until they started falling down, touching the ground, dissolving there, gifting the ground with energy.

As the energy filled the ground, the earth surged according to the intent of Rei and Konan, covering the vines, swirling like a whirlpool with the center around the space with Rei and Konan, mixing the nature energy as if it was in a pot of boiling water being mixed by a spoon. But slowly, the energy started snapping. Transforming.

And then... everything changed. The trees stopped sucking nature energy from the surrounding space and instead started to 'produce' their own nature energy. Completely different nature energy. Nature energy... tailored for Konan and Rei and their chakra, their souls.

Both Rei and Konan powerlessly fell onto the ground, unable to move as they felt their chakra stores completely drained almost as much as they felt the immense drain in their mind. Their focus.

"Heh, told ya it would work." Rei dryly chuckled.

"You and your theories." Konan mumbled with a giggle.

"If there can be two different nature energies in two different worlds..." Rei started.

"... then we can create our own nature energy suited only for us." Konan finished.

"We did it, love." Rei tenderly whispered, still in disbelief. "We did it. We created a self-sustaining dimen..."

"That we di..."

Both fell asleep mid-sentence from the sheer exhaustion.

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Chapter 34 - Ch34. Konan training Ringo? Uh-oh.

Rei sat on the lake in 'their' training ground. The Mizukage made sure to permanently book it for Konan and Rei. Rei knew it was yet another of his moves to show them that Kiri was cherishing them. Showing them they are deemed important to the village. And for that Rei would help Kiri in need. But he won't do it until there will be a profit to be had for him. He was still a shinobi and as a shinobi acting for the good of others was just not in the guidebook.

Rei's hands were on the surface of the water. He channeled katon chakra into the center of the lake, deep under the surface, and kept trying to keep it there despite it being inside of its polar opposite, water. It was not easy but he found out it was the best control exercise for katon chakra. He neglected it for years as he was busy but as Konan decided she would train Ringo, he finally found a peaceful time to practice it.

He watched as Ringo swung her sword at Konan, only to be blocked by brown paper, signalizing it was hardened. Rei sighed. Konan was even showing Ringo which papers were hardened, which had water, and which were sharpened by coloring them brown, blue, and green! Yet, Ringo somewhat managed to always evade futon papers only to hit doton ones, unable to bypass the second layer of Konan's protective paper barrier. He shook his head as he saw her charge again, her double swords coated in lightning...

Ringo charged at Konan. She knew her speed was solid jonin level after two years of training with Rei! He taught her how to raise it with her raiton chakra and put her through literal hell to raise her natural speed! With raiton chakra, she was finally able to reach the threshold to jonin speed!

She parried a futon paper and jumped to the right to evade another. As she landed, she spun, making two futon papers bypass her by an inch while her swords deflected two other paper slices. Ringo was sure that if her swords didn't have concentrated raiton chakra, Konan's papers would damage the expensive blade made out of chakra metal!

As her spin ended, Ringo could see then more futon papers fly at her and she crouched down, jumping over them, twisting her body mid-air while channeling her raiton chakra into a Jutsu.

"Raiton: Depth Charge!"

Her body was enveloped in very concentrated raiton chakra, sending bolts of energy from her body to avert the futon paper slices away from her. It worked and she landed on the ground, unharmed. Springing up, she again started running at Konan who motionlessly stood in the same place for over four hours now, as Ringo tried to reach her.

The game was simple.

Three areas. Frist futon, second doton, third suiton. So far, Ringo reached only doton area before she was pushed back to the futon one and then had to disengage completely as she was getting winded.

As she ran forward, Ringo was happy when she saw she crossed the edge of the futon area. From now on, she didn't have to worry about sharpened slices of paper. Only the doton-hardened ones were in this area.

It really hammered down the difference between her and Konan when she realized she was happy to face only one type of Konan's attack and even then had a hard time to reach her. For Konan as a ranged fighter, that was a real show of strength.

Ringo braced herself. She knew this area was designed to test her strength. Something she lacked. In the futon area, she could pass with speed alone. This one, however...

Lightning was supposed to be strong against Earth but...

Ringo's blade coated in raiton chakra parried the first doton paper, making Ringo's feet slid a foot on the grass until she managed to brace herself and put her weight behind her parry. She twisted her arm, sending the paper to the side.

She took a stance, one arm outstretched forward, holding her sword across her body while the other was behind her, holding her second sword in a reverse grip.

Tens of papers flew at her, and Ringo, spun on her heel, forcing her raiton chakra to quicken her spinning rate. The coating on her swords was pulsing as she was molding raiton chakra for a Jutsu. Something she herself developed with the help of Rei-sensei.

"Raiton: Heavenly Rotation."

Her sensei told her the name was a slap to the Hyuuga's face and she really liked it.

Her spinning created a dome that spun at very high-speed, vibrating and repulsed anything that came into contact with it. The papers were being flung backward as they impacted the dome but Ringo wanted to puke blood from the sheer force employed in them. She felt as if she was being crushed by just blocking them!

She deflected the last and her focus slipped, only for her eyes to widen. Another paper impacted her dissipating dome, flinging her body to the right side. She landed on her feet into a crouch, coughing slightly.

"That hurt." She grumbled as she started running towards impassive Konan again.

Ringo breathed hard when she was forced to deflect multiple doton papers at high-speed while jumping from side to side as she tried to advance. Inch by inch. She was not about to give up!

Her panting intensified but she finally deflected everything close to her! She smirked right into Konan's face.

"I-,haa, did it, huu." Ringo was gulping air greedily. It was not over yet! She would reach the thir-

Her eyes only registered the minuscule upturn of the corner of Konan's lips when she felt as if Truck-kun, as Rei-sensei tried to say, impacted her back.

"Achaa! That's game over if I see one." Rei chuckled as he saw Ringo's body sail through the doton area, passing suiton area, and flying way past Konan's figure only to impact the ground which sent Ringo's body into a forceful roll for tens of meters until it finally stopped. It was only her raiton chakra still in her system that made it possible to leave only with a few nasty bruises after such a display of kinetic rollercoaster.

"Sigh. That baka-deshi. She once again managed to piss Konan off with her cheek. Then again..."

Rei turned to the right where the real Konan was sitting not far from him, reading a book.

"Did you really have to put enough force to break ten trees into that paper?"

Konan calmly raised her head and her amber eyes impassively stared at the sprawled form of twitching Ringo.

"Yes."

Chapter 35 - Ch35. Konan and Rei, finally one.

Rei was mulling over a missing part in his fuinjutsu when he heard the door to the room open. He raised his head and froze, his throat going dry, making him gulp. He just realized... today, both him and Konan are fifteen!

Konan walked inside, swaying her h.i.p.s as her privates were covered in underwear made of paper. Her steps were purposeful, slow, focused to give him show and emphasize her curves. Konan wore her typical make-up as she stopped three meters in front of Rei and leaned forward, giving him a look at her cleavage, her hands behind her back.

Rei could see her eyes sparkling, expecting his reaction as both stared at each other.

"..." Rei stared at her with his mouth open.

"..." Konan stared at him, her lips curling up.

"Paper...seriously." Rei deadpanned, making her face-fault.

She sprang up to her feet.

"What! It appeared the most natural!" Konan shouted while pouting sullenly.

"I am sure." Rei snorted, averting his gaze, trying to hide his snickers.

Konan sat on the edge of the bed with a huff, crossing her arms.

Rei chuckled and approached her, he put his knee between her legs and cupped her chin, dragging her face to meet his as he embraced her.

Rei looked at the small woman in his arms. She was barely 5 feet 3 inches tall and while he was not that tall either, her head was barely reaching his chin.

He smiled and put his chin on the crown of her head, his hands on her h.i.p.s.

"How are you feeling?" He asked tenderly.

"I love you." She blurted out, somewhat helplessly but then her body relaxed as she somehow found amus.e.m.e.nt in the situation and released a small giggle.

"And here we are. I wanted to seduce you yet it is you who are doing the seducing."

"Well, at least you are cute." Rei told her, making her widen her eyes and before she could give some cheeky reply, he claimed her crimson lips.

Their lips separated as Rei pulled his head away from her.

"Ne?" He gave her an eye smile, only to feel his long braid be grabbed by Konan and pull him towards her as she started trailing pecks on his lips while her hands sn.a.k.e.d around his neck, pulling him closer to her.

Konan jerked her body backward, making her back fall onto the bed while pulling Rei with her.

Rei smiled at her as he stored his clothes into a storage seal on the bracelet around his wrist.

"Are you sure you want this now?" He quietly asked Konan. He knew she was prone to be hasty when it came to these things.

"Be gentle, okay?" She timidly nodded and spoke in a mouse-like voice.

"I wanted nothing else for years." Konan whispered with a longing, desire-filled voice.

She started kissing the crook of Rei's neck, and her hands started slowly scratching his bare back.

Rei was momentarily distracted until he felt her teeth nibble on his collarbone. He was now assured that Konan really wanted this and wasn't about to let her be in the lead.

Rei pulled his body backward, into a sitting position while Konan's hands instantly tightened her hold around his neck, pulling her body upwards, trying to get into his lap.

Rei held her around her waist with one hand, helping her body rise as his second hand made the girl yelp when it took a handful of her ass to help her up. Konan didn't hesitate and her legs ended locked behind his back.

They made out until Konan decided she had enough as she felt Rei's stiff member pressing on her butt. She raised her body and lowered herself, stopping only when she felt the tip of his p.e.n.i.s slightly spreading her slit.

"Ko-"

Before Rei could continue, Konan pushed his entire length into herself, her embrace tightening as she felt the pain of losing her v.i.r.g.i.nity. She took a deep breath and started moving up and down. She was kunoichi. Small sting like that won't stop her! Not when she waited years for this!

Rei was bewildered. Konan just took his v.i.r.g.i.nity so fast he didn't even manage to blink! He bit back a laugh and decided. If she wanted to play it this way, then sure. He will oblige!

His left hand touched her lower back, pushing raiton chakra into it, sending a jolt of pleasure through her spine, making Konan straighten up with a squeal.

She glared at Rei for that and her hands grabbed Rei's h.i.p.s, sending her suiton chakra, making his body instantly relax. He didn't lose control but with his body loosened like this, it was hard to move and Konan was in the charge.

Konan pushed his upper body back, making it fall onto the bed as she straddled him, rocking her body back and forth while panting. Rei felt her wet and warm walls as her body begged for release. Releasing his own suiton chakra into his system, he regained the control and quickened the pace, putting his hands on Konan's thighs sending his lightning chakra to her nerve endings, up her thighs, making them all tingle with pleasure. He could see Konan's body stiffening, coiling, as instead of continuous panting she was now releasing sharp breaths. She was almost there. Rei continued. His chakra was climbing up her thigh through her nervous system, flaring every nerve ending it encountered, and when it finally reached her nether regions... the nerve endings in her p.u.s.s.y, Konan squealed in a high-pitched girlish tone as her slit started gushing out juices while Konan's body was continuously shuddering in delight.

Rei felt himself being gripped in crushing fleshy walls, feeling Konan's warmth, he couldn't resist and released a hot m.o.a.n as he climaxed inside of Konan.

He felt Konan's body fall onto his, still shivering in ecstasy. They laid there for five minutes like that when Konan started moving again and Rei pulled her head up, kissing her.

Their night only started. They had much, much more chakra and energy to spare for this much awaited night!

...

They were at it for six hours straight, until all l.u.s.t was filtered out of their system by sheer tiredness and the wetness around them. The sheets were drenched in their mutual juices, mixing together.

Konan looked at Rei's head that rested on her chest. She was... proud. She made her man exhaust himself so much, he was unable to move! It made her giggle as her fingers coursed through his hair. She loved his long hair as her fingers could swim in them, feeling the silkiness. At times, it made her jealous but Rei always made sure to compliment how he absolutely loved her neck-long hair.

Konan was looking at Rei's drooping eyes and sighed in absolute satisfaction as she could still feel his seeds deep inside of herself. It made her so glad that Rei made that anti-pregnancy seal. She wouldn't want to lose this feeling due to caution!

Rei felt... proud. No, really! How many men could say they went blow fo-, ahem, orgasm for orgasm with the girl of their dreams!

His cheek was sinking in Konan's modest but very comfortable chest as he felt Konan's fingers massage his scalp. Konan hummed as she cared for him. He could feel how much of a warm goo her body became and was actually impressed she could move her hand through his hair. He could still feel on his belly how wet her crotch was and how her muscles were relaxed. He wondered if either of them would be able to move tomorrow as their muscles reached their limit in the third hour of their lovemaking due to the excessive use of fine-controlled elemental chakra they pushed through themselves.

But... as with explosives, if it ain't working, you ain't using enough.

Konan just pushed more suiton chakra into Rei's muscles, relaxing them to keep going in her desire-driven pursuit for his body while Rei pumped her nerves with his raiton chakra as he didn't want her to stop looking at him with such a loving devotion in her eyes.

They knew well this was not the smartest approach. When your muscles are about to give up... you probably should not force them to continue for hours. Rei was sure their bodies gave out somewhere between the fifth and sixth hour and neither could move anymore. Konan's nervous system was screaming in pleasure at her to NOT put more raiton chakra through it and Rei's muscles stopped working no matter how much he wanted them to continue. Their minds… were far too gone long ago.

Somehow, neither wanted to lose this connection. They could feel their souls embracing each other as they had s.e.x and it brought them to new heights of mental high. Konan just used her paper to move while Rei used his fabled chakra strings! In the end, they stopped at the end of the sixth hour as even their chakra gave out. Their bodies completely numb as a slight pleasurable ache ran through their entire beings.

Neither regretted taking this step as both knew they desired it greatly for years. Now... they were finally one.

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Chapter 36 - Ch36. Emergency Mission 1

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Rei and Konan came into Mizukage's office as they were called.

The Mizukage noticed Konan's quite obvious limp and smirked widely.

"Ara, ara~. I see you had quite a funny weekend, Rei-kun~. I wonder~, how did young Konan end up in that state?" He wiggled his eyebrows at them, making three ANBU snicker, revealing their positions as the fourth female ANBU groaned and glared at the males.

"Too much lightning chakra through my nerve endings." Konan deadpanned, making the people in the room freeze.

Suddenly the female ANBU fell from the ceiling to the ground, a trail of blood flowing from underneath her mask as she giggled perversely.

The three ANBU were giving Rei an Elfman-patented stare of 'Otoko!' with thumbs up while the Mizukage was gaping. His mouth continuously opened and closed in speechlessness as his mind was deciding if he should continue with his previous attitude and go all 'Men~' at Rei or actually do what he wanted and promptly bang his head on the table as he groaned before he started facepalming!

The elemental chakra was aggressive. To push it to the body of another person and NOT damage something was hard as hell. That's why medics needed superb control! Yet using it during s.e.x? Mizukage shuddered as his lower part was getting uncomfortable and he was glad there was a table in front of him. A luxury his ANBU guards didn't have, he noted with his trained eye.

If only they didn't shed all these manly tears... He mused as he tipped the Kage hat down, ashamed of his ANBU.

Rei saw the conflict on Mizukage's face and was about to say something, completely ignoring the twitching female ANBU between them but then the Mizukage's face split into a lecherous smile.

"Oho~. You are quite skilled, aren't you, Rei-kun~! With your 'skills'," The smile on Mizukage's smile widened as he eye-smiled and continued. "can poor Konan-chan even keep up with you by her lonesome self?"

"Of course, she is very skilled with suiton chakra!" Rei cheerfully exclaimed, ignoring the three thuds all around the room as the three remaining ANBU fell to the ground, only masks hiding their elated, dreamy expressions.

And they say the security in Kage's office is the best one could find... Rei mentally deadpanned but his face was still smiling as even the Mizukage planted his face on his hard table with a groan.

I win~... Rei's smile got positively Cheshire.

The Mizukage finally raised his head again and his expression twisted into seriousness.

"I called you here for a mission. It is an emergency. The Daimyo's son was kidnapped."

Rei stared at Mizukage in exasperation. Konan dreamily stared at Rei while the Mizukage stared at his four ANBU quite irked at the groans they released.

Since when do we employ perverts?... He thought, a vein pulsing on his forehead. Poor him, he forgot the golden rule of Narutoverse. All chakra users were perverts! Even Kaguya was slugged into her face due to Reverse Harem no Jutsu!

"You are certainly taking your time, then." Rei uttered boredly.

"Ah?... ah!" The Mizukage understood what Rei meant and just waved his hand from side to side in a dismissive motion. "It's the son of the Daimyo. If that scu-, ahem, boy died...," The Mizukage shrugged. "Who cares? Bring his bo-, ahem, him back, will you? We were already paid for at least attempting it. Oh! You may consider taking one day off before you depart! That little shit said my mustache looks ugly. One day with kidnappers regretfully won't kill him! I am 'positive'."

The Mizukage's face was beaming and Rei knew that 'day off' was more of an order than a suggestion. He shrugged as a smile tugged on his face as they left the office.

...

Kakuzu sat in the chair in the room where he and his little band of misfits momentarily hid after they kidnapped the sc.u.m of the Daimyo of Water.

To be perfectly honest, even he was disgruntled by the things the boy did. Sure, he was shinobi and for MONEY he would do anything. But he felt that the boy took the candle. His morals were so skewed that he would make a fine shinobi!

If only he was not a pampered little shit.

But alas, the survival of the little prince all came down to one thing only. Money.

No money, no life.

No sweet 5 billion Ryo, no more privilege of keeping his head on his shoulders.

That was Kakuzu's motto when dealing with things like kidnapping a target that could potentially start another shinobi war. Ah, the woes of nuke-nin life~.

Kakuzu, despite everything, fancied himself a reasonable man. Unlike everybody surmised, Money was not his hobby. Money was his priority. His lifeblood. His soul force. His 'bruh' for all purposes!

But not his hobby.

His hobby was simple. Knitting! Oh, how he like-

'Creak, creak, creak.'

And oh, how he hated annoying little shits especially when they woke up...

Kakuzu stood up with a grunt, alerting the swordsman in the corner. He gestured to him to not worry and proceeded upstairs into the room they held their prisoner.

He opened the door and entered only to see the reason for the creaking sound.

The little shit was n.a.k.e.d on the bed, m.o.a.ning heatedly as a woman rode him with passion.

Kakuzu blinked. Why would she? Did the boy perhaps offer her money? Sure he too wou-, NO, bad Kakuzu! Don't be blinded by money!

Then he blinked again and a lightbulb went on in his head. He put his hands into a hand sign.

"Kai."

The Genjutsu dissolved and the boy became quickly clothed. Still writhing and m.o.a.ning as he still saw himself enjoying the ethereal beauty on top of him.

Kakuzu turned to the corner to his right.

"Why do you make him believe you're f.u.c.k.i.n.g him?" He exasperatedly asked the woman sitting there while boredly cleaning her kunai set. She was not nearly as pretty as the one he 'saw' on the boy but with a striking resemblance.

Karumi, the genjutsu mistress he picked up on his travels after she massacred the team from her village and unfortunately got caught, making her nuke-nin, just raised her head disinterestedly.

"Well, if this fails, I can still become one of his courtesans. These have a nice life, I heard..." She shrugged and looked at the boy in disgust. "Not like I would have to do much."

"Ah, money." Kakuzu nodded in understanding.

"Maro won't be happy. He liked doing you." Kakuzu grunted. Maro didn't ask for much money. As long as Karumi pretended to like him.

"And since when do you care?" Karumi rolled her eyes.

"Money." Kakuzu grumbled.

"We can always find someone else." Karumi shrugged with her left shoulder.

"But Money." Kakuzu gave her a meaningful look.

"I already tasted Maro. He's bland. Average in the sack and in fights. All he has going for him is that special kenjutsu of his." Karumi defended her cause.

"M-o-n-e-y!" Kakuzu spelled it for her. Why the heck couldn't the girl understand his plight? He was talking in the intergalactic language after all! Was she that dumb!?

"Fine! I will do it with Maro. Sigh, I hate that he is too strong for genjutsu... But you will raise my pay." Karumi glared at Kakuzu. She knew the life of a nuke-nin wasn't that great. But... surprisingly, it wasn't that different than work in the village.

Go there, sleep with that guy, slit his throat, that noble wants a taste of kunoichi...

Ah, the life of the Seduction Corps. Why the heck did she become shinobi again?

Uh-oh. Tarou Mokuro, the last of the Mokuro clan... I wanted to 'cure' his heart... Karumi thought in depression when she remembered her fangirl phase and where it led her.

"Money." Kakuzu simply grunted as he shook his head in dismissal.

Before Karumi could argue more, Kakuzu was already out of the room, leaving her gaping at his back, only heated m.o.a.ns of the noble shit and the creaking of the bed accompanying her. It was official. Her life sucked.

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Chapter 37 - Ch37. Emergency Mission 2

Kakuzu came down and sat into his rocking chair, he took into his hands two knitting needles and giddily thought.

What should I make? Socks? Nooo, those are bland! Hmmm, what about a pink scarf! Un! These sell well!

His body was bouncing up and down in giddiness as Maro, the swordsman interrupted him.

"Kakuzu-dono, did your suiton heart perhaps discover who they sent after us?"

Kakuzu grumbled under his nose about time-wasting idiots of teammates but answered.

"No. It is lurking around Kiri but nothing ye-"

A knocking sound resounded through the room, making both of them tense.

"I will go and check." Maro politely told Kakuzu.

Kakuzu shrugged, slightly loosening his strands, in preparation for a fight. Sighing, he took one knitting needle into his hand as he sadly pondered about the futility of it all.

Suddenly he heard a buzzing sound but before he could warn Maro, he saw a sword enhanced with raiton piercing through the wall, decapitating the useless idiot!

Damn, he was not worth HIS money!

Kakuzu grumbled mentally as he stood up.

The door fell down, revealing a man in white kimono and a plain white ANBU-style mask holding a chokuto gleaming with raiton chakra. As the door stopped obstructing the way, a dense white mist rushed past the man, shrouding him in itself as it started filling the house.

Kakuzu didn't hesitate.

"Futon: Atsugai!"

The pressurized wind blew the entire front of the house away as it dispersed most of the mist in front of it for a whole kilometer.

Kakuzu groaned as he saw it! As the air hit the masked man, he changed into water! It was a water clone!

Kakuzu grumbled at the humiliation of having his hired sword killed off by a water clone. Maybe it was time to spen-, ahem, to spen-, uh, to... to invest! Yes, to invest some... money... into a proper fighter? Perish the thought... his money!

Kakuzu didn't have much time to ponder as he clicked his tongue. The mist war returning.

As he saw the density of the mist, he realized who he was fighting.

"Rei of Kiri... leave. You have no bounty. You are worthless." He impassively stated.

Shit, shit, shit! Why must my luck be so bad! If I am to be attacked at least make it someone who can shit gold! ... Kakuzu internally cried.

As he got no reaction from the mist, he frowned and with a resigned sigh.

'BOOM'

He jerked as he heard the explosion coming from the room with Karumi and their hostage. He would pull his hair if it helped! His money was running away! He pulled out his fire and wind mask from his back in anger.

"So be it."

The masks suddenly surged with an incredible amount of chakra as they did a combination Jutsu of Futon: Atsugai and Katon: Intelligent Hard Work. The world... burned.

...

A few moments after Kakuzu left the room with the son of Daimyo:

Karumi sighed as she watched 'her' body m.o.a.n from 'pleasure'. Genjutsu it may be but it made her incredibly annoyed to keep it up. But this was her chance. She would never get so close to the son of Daimyo. If she showed her... good points to him and he got interested, she would be a winner.

Her expression slacked as she imagined the dreamy lifestyle of a noble concubine! But then she froze for a second before instantly weaving hand signs.

"You are good. But I am not the partner of Kakuzu for my incredible looks alone."

She smirked, seeing a female figure with neck-long bluish hair and plain white mask appear near the window, standing there without moving.

"Heh, genjutsu success." Karumi snorted, she put the woman under a nasty genjutsu of losing all five senses. Karumi boredly flung a kunai into the forehead area of the unmoving figure after she looked over the curves of the figure, giddily noting she was not losing!

She saw the kunai get stabbed up to the handle through the mask into the forehead of the figure.

"Why would they send someone so wea-" Karumi was saying while shaking her head when her eyes got wide as the figure started bloating...

'Boom'

Karumi managed to cover her face with her arms to prevent damage but her body was still flung into the wall behind her due to the explosion. It impacted the wall and slid down as Karumi ended on her ass.

She groaned and blinked a few times to get a clear view. It took her at most four seconds to get her mind back into the fighting condition but all she could do was gape as the m.o.a.ning and writhing noble's body was pulled via chakra strings from the bed, dragging it through the newly-made hole in the wall the explosion caused. She just lost her hostage!

Shit, shit, shit! Kakuzu will kill me! No! He will whore me for money and then kill me! ... Karumi's mind was panicking. She lost 5 billion ticket! This was bad bad bad!

Poor Karumi was unaware that Kakuzu already knew as he let a few strands of his in the room, connected to his body.

She suddenly felt an incredible surge of chakra.

"Shit." Was the only thing her terrified mind could produce before... pain.

...

Rei and Konan watched from a nearby hill as the madman produced a combination of Katon and Futon Jutsu, creating a firestorm engulfing the entire area.

"Damn, that must have burned half of the forest!" Rei exclaimed as he sat on the groaning noble prick they were hired to save. The princeling was all dirty from mud and dust... not to say his sweat as Rei's strings dragged him a few kilometers on the ground in a few seconds. Only his protective layer of doton chakra made the civilian survive the ordeal.

"Yes, he certainly didn't pull punches." Konan nodded boredly.

"Well, let's go. No need to stick with him here. We have a delivery," Rei kicked the boy he was sitting on with his heel. "to finish."

"Yes, I will leave a few clones to play with the guy." Konan smiled and ten paper clones formed around them, rushing at Kakuzu as Rei and Konan turned around and walked away. Their mission half-accomplished.

...

Kakuzu growled. Sure, he killed Karumi but the bitch deserved it! He looked at the scorched newly-made clearing as his katon/futon completely burned the cottage to ash. He was about to rejoin the masks when he was forced to lean back as futon enhanced paper almost hit his shoulder!

His growl intensified.

Chapter 38 - Ch38. Emergency Mission 3

Kakuzu suddenly jumped up while lifting his legs to his chest, evading three doton papers that crashed into the ground, spreading cracks through it.

His left hand was sent flying towards the ground where it buried into it, flinging his entire body to the side to evade sharp futon paper shurikens while his two masks started blasting Futon: Atsugai and Katon: Intelligent Hard Work all around.

The whole field was full of flames, pressurized wind, and incredibly durable paper, creating a hailstorm of danger.

Kakuzu sped up towards a silhouette of a person and engaged it in a bout of taijutsu. He was winning. Kicking that person around like a ragdoll. It was a woman, he noted. She was good at technique and speed but her body lacked power compared to his. It was as if she were made of... his eyes widened when he was about to deliver a punch to her face only for his arm to bury into her head up to his elbow!

He didn't even have a chance to hear any sizzling sound before...

'Boom'

The paper clone made solely of exploding tags blasted a crater of the size of a small lake into the ground.

Kakuzu wobbly stood up, noting his arm ripped to shreds from the explosion. He at least managed to harden his body with Doton: Iron Skin. He was shaking his head to get his ears into working condition again when he spat blood from his mouth. He looked down, only to see a womanly hand with blue, very cared for, nails covered in his blood as his the was sticking from his chest, holding his heart that painted these blue nails bloody red.

Kakuzu snarled as his threads made short work of the woma-, he cursed. Of the clone, he noted as he saw it dissolve into paper. He lost one heart to a clone. His raiton one! He felt ashamed! He! He who survived Hashirama! F.u.c.k this shit!

He still had his doton heart in his body. He decided to get serious. His body parts fall apart, the black threads coming out of it.

He noted his futon and katon masks killed four paper clones so far. Four assailants remained.

"You are a lucky girl! Six out of ten, all clones. But now I have a twenty-five percent chance to hit the original." Kakuzu stated as the threads expanded all around him, trying to appear threatening while the threads from his feet entered underground, approaching his opponents.

"It has a brain."

"It can talk."

"It can count."

"It can do the math."

The clones dryly uttered one after another and jumped to the side, evading the threads shooting from the ground, pissing Kakuzu off even more, making him focus on them.

They were supposed to stall. So, stall they would.

Kakuzu could only hopelessly watch as his enemy took the defensive approach and swapped to ranged tactics. He understood. These two clones that injured him were there to slow his body and the four clones his masks destroyed were to observe his attack pattern.

The four in front of him were only a nuisance to stall him. He understood... he lost his 5 billion Ryo hostage for good!

With a snarling fury, he jumped into the battle.

...

And while Kakuzu fought, Rei looked at the rapist who was being dragged in his chakra strings. He was mulling if it wasn't better to do the world a favor and kill the guy off, suffering the first failed mission in his career.

He could understand Raikage ordering kidnappings of Kekkei Genkai girls. Not condone it and certainly not approve but understand the reason, he could. It was all politics and 'for the village'. Disgusting but it WORKED in the long run. Maybe cruel but it WAS efficient.

The women were miserable. But males? For those more informed, the Raikage, at least the third, actually preferred to kidnap males and showered them with literal harems of kunoichi to pamper the shit out of them in any way conceivable. They got wealth. They got any woman they pointed at, if she didn't belong to someone else, and was agreeable to the disgustingly high pay procuring a kid with Kekkei Genkai would give her. They lived in heaven on earth and after their useability was finished, they were ALLOWED to keep three of their favorite kunoichi. They just could not complain!

Rei could also understand Mizukage trying to manipulate him to have s.e.x with the women of Kiri to produce babies. Konan had to chase these away on a WEEKLY basis. It would first, tie him down to Kiri and second, create a future shinobi with good potential. Not to say, shinobi who would be raised IN Kiri and shinobi Rei would actually teach everything he knew as they would be his kids. If they revealed to Mizukage that Konan had Kekkei Tota? Rei was sure even Mizukage would pull Raikage on Rei, drowning him in money and women. He would at least not think of putting hands on Konan as he was aware she could blow Kiri to high heavens if she was so inclined. He was manipulative. Not stupid. He knew even restrained and bound, Konan could still use her paper.

Rei also understood the idiotic way Hiruzen tried or will try, to manipulate Naruto. It was... stupid, to say the least as it could have backfired in any conceivable way possible. But it was a solid attempt at manipulation for the good of the village.

Heck! Rei could even understand Danzo! He hated how he treated and mind-f.u.c.k.i.e.d the orphans, all to make them a tool for himself. He was very put off when he read about it in his old world. After he actually became a shinobi and saw a bit of the Narutoverse? He didn't quite admire the man, more like felt disgust but grudging respect. Not everybody would be a monster enough to do what Danzo did and wholeheartedly believed it was for the 'greater good' of his village. It really put things into a perspective.

Rei had no delusions. If Hiruzen stayed Hokage for ten more years, little Naruto would spend days in the eager care of many Konoha kunoichi to recreate the Uzumaki clan in Konoha and make sure Yondaime had some grandkids that could inherit Hiraishin. Oh, Naruto was NEVER meant to inherit THAT Jutsu. Scorned Jinchuuriki with Hiraishin? That was a disaster just waiting to happen...

What? Some clueless fools believed that Hokage didn't have access to it? Hah. Blood seal? Naruto was on his beck and call. As was his blood. The problem was more in the set-up of Hiraishin sea?, Rei surmised from his knowledge of seals. It must be a bloodline linking seal that was usable in its full ability only for Minato's descendants. Minato after all had or will have access to Uzumaki seals via Kushina, and this one was widely used by that clan. That was the reason why most scrolls looted from Uzushiogakure were deemed worthless and the entire raid was marked as a glaring failure.

That was the only thing that would prevent it from being learned willy-nilly. And since no one knew Hiraishin jutsu in the future he knew of... Rei was almost a hundred percent sure that was what Minato would do. Key it to his descendants only. Of course, he as the seal master could give someone a tweaked seal that could be used... say, by his bodyguards. But it would be a very watered-down version.

It was VERY important for the villages that bloodlines survived. The Kages really pulled no moral stops to ensure that. Naruto dodged that bullet due to Tsunade thinking of him as her grandson. She didn't want him to live a life of debauchery. To lose his innocent nature. Or whatever went through her head.

As for Sasuke, for him, it was an obvious conclusion. The girls were fangirls. But most of them? Their parents tried to push them onto him. Yes, he would be given Kunoichi to reproduce the clan. But if he liked a civilian girl? He could take her. Nobody would complain if the almost extinct Uchiha clan got more kids.

Rei marveled at the amount of information about these matters he could find in the Kiri Library. They were not even restricted. The second Mizukage had five women, not of his clan, to keep the Hozuki clan up and running and inject new blood, for example. Most clans practice polygamy. And worse yet, inbreeding. It is only thanks to the chakra that the kids are not born retarded... yet. But the problems were glaringly obvious. Just look at Kaguya males!

Another example, where during the Warring States clans had hundreds, approaching a thousand members, now, they were barely around one hundred strong.

That's why whenever there was the LAST male of a clan, cue Sasuke's situation, the Kage desperately tried to make him pair up with as many women to inject new blood into these family lines. They KNEW about these problems. But even they had to tip-toe around clans matters. Of course, this allowed the loyal kunoichi that could 'influence' the last male of the said clan to be put into these positions.

Anyway, these decisions HAD TO be done and were EXPECTED from leaders. They didn't have to like it but it was their job to make sure the bloodlines survive. Each Kage had their own way of dealing with things but none was completely clean. Even Tobirama is rumored to use a mild genjutsu and manipulations to make a few happy couples. Kiri spies certainly found multiple very suspicious starts for a relationship.

These doc.u.ments were so old they were long deemed not important to restrict and even Kiri chunin could read up about it. It was Konan's past-time activity actually. She loved to read about it and always pointed something funny or interesting to Rei. Especially when it came to the 'misdeeds' of other Kages of old. It almost made him shake his head.

But the sc.u.m Rei and Konan were hired to save? He r.a.p.ed powerless women only for his own petty ego. He tore families because he could. Because his father was Daimyo. Because he will be one day Daimyo. The doc.u.ments about him made it abundantly clear why the Mizukage wouldn't care if the guy died. The pig was disgusting.

"Wanna kill him?" Konan asked disinterestedly.

"Is it that obvious?" Rei sighed.

"Yup, you are all pondering, you know." Konan chuckled before she continued without care. "Let's deliver him and get money. It's not like he matters to us."

"Right..."

Konan came closer and put her hand on the princeling's arm.

"There, done. I used my suiton chakra to relax his heart. He will die of heart stroke a few months later.

Rei smiled at her and chuckled. Sigh. It was all so easy, after all.

...

It was only hours later when panting Kakuzu held both remaining Konans enwrapped in his threads.

"So... which, haa, one of y-you, haaaa, is the, haa, original?" He heaved after the fight the girl just put him through. The surroundings were completely destroyed. Earth gouged, ground incinerated. The previous forest all but disappeared.

"None." The calm women pierced by his threads through various painful organs impassively stated with small smirks, not showing an ounce of pain.

Kakuzu got a veeery bad premonition when they suddenly started glowing.

A rattling explosion resounded through the area, creating a kilometer wide crater. These two paper clones were carrying Konan's most potent explosive seals up to date. Far away, Konan only cheerfully nodded her head in satisfaction as she did guts pose, startling Rei who dropped the prince head-first because of it. Her experimental seals passed their trial!

In the center of the crater, Kakuzu's body fell down, dead, all his hearts pulverized.

Three hours later his suiton heart finally arrived from scouting Kiri and merged into the pitiful shredded remains of his body. He took a sudden deep breath as he came back alive and groaned, mentally scanning his body.

He was half-dead, missing more organs than comfortable. Most of his threads snapped, pulverized, atomized, burnt. Four hearts destroyed...

No one has done a number like this on him since Hashirama.

"You gotta be f.u.c.k.i.n.g shitting me." He croaked.

His head fell onto the ground with a 'thud', unconscious.

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Chapter 39 - Ch39. The Capital of Mizu, again

Rei and Konan delivered the prince to the guards guarding the entrance to the castle. They still wore their while blank ANBU masks so nobody really recognized them. Stating they were busy, they quickly disappeared before any smart-ass decided to 'invite' them in front of Daimyo.

Rei and Konan were not about to spend their day in that heap of problems!

They were in the capital of Mizu and they were going to enjoy it!

...

Rei and Konan found themselves in the best restaurant in the city, their hitai-ate stashed in the storage seals. They picked a table in the corner to be inconspicuous but they both forgot this was the so-called 'higher' society of a feudal world. The second Konan walked in, many wealthy young masters turned their heads in her direction.

Rei's jaw hit the floor when he saw it.

Brothers are you perhaps also transmigrants from a cultivation world? What's with these lecherous looks!

He couldn't help but mentally ask in utter bafflement. In the end, he realized these young masters are everywhere. They are FLOODING the omniverse! A shiver ran through his spine and a horrified look appeared on his face as he imagined Kisame spitting a tsunami of arrogant chibi-young-mast...

Auch...

Konan thankfully swatted him, ending the nightmare as they finally reached the table and sat down.

"Young masters everywhere." Rei mumbled at her curious look, a shiver running through him.

Konan blinked and tilted her head as she scanned the room with the corner of her eye.

"These utterly powerless retards who stare at me without realizing it gets them closer to death?"

She asked in a deadpan voice, quietly so only Rei could hear her.

"Ah, uh-oh." He nodded.

Konan only smiled, stood up from her chair, walked to Rei, and sat on his lap.

"Then, let them seethe in their little world." Rei could feel her butt pressing onto his crotch. "We will enjoy ours." Konan saucily whispered to him.

The diner from then on was a very pleasant matter. If the hordes of murderous glares from incompetent young nobles were disregarded.

...

Rei and Konan left the restaurant in a merry mood, half-hugging as their heads were resting on each other.

"It was a nice evening." Rei stated.

"Mmm." Konan hummed. "But I still like cuddling on the bed more." Her face bloomed into a genuine full smile. It made Rei happy and satisfied.

That smile was the entire reason why Rei bothered. Konan didn't smile like that. Ever. When she did, it meant she was inwardly jumping from joy. It was the same kind of smile she had when they slept together for the first time. Since then, Rei wanted to make her smile like that again.

He snuggled his head more into her hair, pulling her closer with his hand on her hip. As they got close, he kissed her cheek, making her close her eye.

"I love you, Konan." Rei whispered to her, making the smile widen.

"Mmm. I love you too." Konan blushed and nibbled on her lower lip. Rei could feel the fingers grasping his hip squeezing and dancing, not knowing what to do.

He spun her and kissed her crimson lips, completely ignoring the audience and the gasping grandmas who were hiddenly fangirling at such a scandal!

As the duo played with their tongues, caressing the other's tongue with theirs while gazing into each other's eyes and feeling their joined souls quiver at the intimacy... It was enough for them to be completely and utterly in need of more. Konan's hand sn.a.k.e.d under Rei's kimono, feeling up his muscles while her eyes were not-so-subtly hinting she wanted him to feel up her chest.

Rei ended their kiss, separating, making Konan sad and confused. She looked at him with an apparent question on her dejected face. Rei leaned closer to Konan, making her smile and close her eyes as she awaited his kiss but he moved his head to the side in order to reach her ear.

"We are being followed." He gently whispered while still tightly clutching her body to his. They outwardly looked like a couple intimately hugging.

Konan froze. Her brows furrowed but then Rei felt it. She... grew stoic. Now, coming from completely happy and elated to the heavens to stoic in a second... that was never a good sign. He barely managed to pull away from her ear and give her another searing kiss to get her head back into the gutter, away from murderous thoughts.

When the kiss ended he put his forehead on hers.

"Don't go blowing up the entire capital city." He gently admonished, making Konan blush.

Yes, she was about to activate her exploding tags she positioned all around the city when they entered it. Because she was irritated at her lovey-dovey time being interrupted. But who could blame her!? She was enjoying Rei's lips when some idiot decided to interrupt them! One city is a small price to pay for that!

"Let me deal with it, kay? Don't go blowing things up." Rei whispered, making Konan nod in a great reluctance.

Now she won't even be able to blow up that restaurant where the idiots made Rei feel bad with their stares. And she already packed it full with exploding tags too! Tsch, wasted effort.

Konan tried to avert her gaze from Rei, her cheeks red but he cupped her chin and trailed kisses on her mouth. She sighed dreamily as she reciprocated.

Rei was half a mind to just let Konan blow the capitol up and enjoy her body right there. She was definitely not making it easy for him, ramping up his desire higher and higher. But he was giving the annoying shits a time to approach. By now they were surrounded and the 'audience' already left from fear. Even the very reluctant grandmas sullenly left while hitting the heads of the idiots who were surrounding Rei and Konan with their walking sticks.

"Cut it out!" A huffy voice resounded loudly through the street.

Rei ended the kiss with a very annoyed sigh. He looked over his shoulder and saw a lean man with a fan, clad in luxurious attire, and a very punchable mug that screamed one thing only.

Young Master.

Around the smug idiot were hordes of people holding swords. The entire street was empty bar them. They all looked high and mighty, thinking they have the upper hand.

"You peasant! Why are your hands on MY girl!" The 'young master' screamed, pointing his folded fan at Rei who only blinked at the BOY in utter astonishment. "Unhand her at once! She belongs to this master from now on!" He smugly exclaimed. "For your cheek, I will grant you a swift death!"

Rei's mood sank. He just met a young master disease. His mind blanked out and every word of caution and 'not blowing' things up disappeared from his mind on instinct.

Young masters were truly fearful beings. Even someone as collected as Rei was afflicted with a mind effect: Rage when they opened their mouth!

Without even thinking he raised his hand, palm facing the sky as a small blue ball fire appeared above it.

Konan's eyes went wide as her mouth opened in 'O' when she saw what he decided to use. The blue flame was similar to mokuton! Merge between katon, suiton, and nature energy as the stabilizer!

Konan suddenly felt as she was enveloped with a coating of Rei's suiton, katon, and nature energy, not different from how they coated themselves to prevent being soaked in heavy rain.

In a blink of an eye, a wave of light-blue flames spread away from Rei, growing and swirling until... a massive tornado of bluish flames burst out from the city, reaching the clouds. The flames visibly chilled even the air while violently spinning.

Fortunately, Rei didn't concentrate the Jutsu towards the ground but fired it to the sky. Otherwise, the capital city would be akin to Cocytus. The entire street was covered in these bluish flames dancing on a sheen of ice, chilling anything that touched them to the bone.

The Young Master and his guards were already dispersed into the air as sparkling ice-dust as their bodies without chakra couldn't guard against the chilling flames and froze way beyond the shattering point.

It was not the end though. The flames in the sky froze the molecules of water in the air, making them heavy, falling to the ground as vicious winds whipped the ground. For the first time in history, the city experienced a ferocious hailstorm. The people shrieked in fright as they hid inside their houses. The animals loudly panicked. The roofs creaked as the small shards of ice continuously fell on them.

'cling, cling, cling.'

The ice fell from the sky, covering the streets and the buildings as if it was snow. The temperature of the entire city dropped far below zero as an eerie bluish mist started forming all the while the sky burned with the bluish flames, engulfing the entire horizon in blue light. The entire city was as if under a blue lamp as the hailstorm ravaged it.

And when the tornado stopped, the hailstorm ceased, the flames extinguished, only the bluish highlight in the sky still present, the frozen street... was empty. Konan and Rei long gone.

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Chapter 40 - Ch40. A Gift

The next day, the entire capital was bustling with rumors, fears, and fake prophecies about the end of the world in chilling ever consuming flames and whatnot...

Rei happily and carefreely woke up, noticing Konan's bare back next to him, and remembered yesterday's night. He slightly smiled and kissed her back, making her shiver in the echo of pleasure his chakra put her body through.

He turned around and was about to leave the bed when arms locked around his neck, Konan's body pressing into his back and her chin ending on his shoulder.

"Don't leave. Stay in bed." She purred in a m.o.a.n. Rei could feel the expectant shivering of her body but tapped her arm appeasingly.

"Not today, Konan. We have an appointment with Mikado." He reminded her. He knew if they started their 'second' round, Konan and he wouldn't stop for hours, most likely ending up as a quivering mess of goo incapable to go anywhere.

"He can wait a day... or four." Konan whined as she trailed kissed on Rei's neck. "Pretty please?" She whispered into his ear.

"Nope."

And received a flick to the forehead, making her unhand Rei and flop on her back. Her body was sprawled on the bed, completely showing all of her womanly parts as she released an annoyed sigh.

"I have a gift for you, Konan. Don't wanna wait!" Rei noted as he stood up, about to dress.

Konan perked up. They never gave gifts to each other. It was unnecessary. They had each other! What more could they give to the other than themselves? But her curiosity was certainly piqued!

She stood up and with a whirl of papers, she was clothed. Her tell-tale blue-rosed black kimono and skirt were on her. Life became easier when she learned how to make her paper imitate clothes!

Konan spun on her heel leaning forward, giving Rei a proper view of her cleavage.

"So? What are we waiting for? I am ready." She told Rei with bemus.e.m.e.nt.

"Cheeky little minx." He exasperatedly exclaimed, half-n.a.k.e.d, about to pull his pants up.

...

They sat in the office of the chief merchant of the Biri-Biri company, Karubo Sazaro. The people were looking at them funny when they entered and they even had a few problems with the receptionist. Thankfully Karubo showed up and so here they were.

In front of them was a final financial accounting. They didn't ask for it but Karubo delivered it either way. After all, this was they were the biggest share-holder.

Konan made a few paper clones to check things up and every time some small inconsistency was found, they informed her. So far, four people were already sacked for minor embezzlement as Karubo sat opposite Rei with sweatdrop while both watched Konan buried in papers upon papers of financial statements, cutely chewing on her lower lip.

It was only an hour later she heaved a sigh and nodded to herself.

"Rei. Make more seals that could sustain paper clones. I will leave four more to do this work and help with seals." She determinedly told Rei.

Konan was pissed, alright. The money that was stolen, no matter how little, belonged to Rei!

Rei calmly put a teacup onto the table as he looked at Konan.

"That's half of the reason we are here. I need you to dismiss the previous clone. We both know you got better at them so the one stationed here is inefficient. People will also get suspicious if the seal mistress of Biri-Biri Company was unaging. You are also getting closer and closer to the look of the a.d.u.l.t paper clone. I want you to create four completely different-looking paper clones."

Konan nodded and with a slight focus, four 'people' appeared behind her. All it took was a slight tweak to the coloring and rearranging of the paper in the clone.

Rei smiled and pulled out four seals.

"These are better than the sets of six seals I used previously. More efficient. Do put them in the chest area."

Konan did so and the clones were now self-sustaining. Just then Konan-alike walked inside and approached Konan. It dissolved into paper and entered Konan's body, only six slices with seals were left on the table.

"I wonder, would I be able to take that seal inside of myself?" Konan mused as she saw that it can power up her paper clones. She could change into paper so why not herself?

"Well... it could." Rei nodded and Konan's eyes shone. "But as you know I am making something better for us."

"You are working on it since we became chunin... that's two years." Konan rolled her eyes.

"I just don't want any accident to happen again." Rei chuckled dryly, making Konan come closer and sit in his lap.

"Fine, I will wait." She kissed him.

"Good girl." Rei patted her head, making her shudder in pleasure as she heard him call her that.

They stared at each other with a tender gaze as they held the other in their embrace.

While Rei and Konan acted all lovey-dovey, Karubo could only awkwardly listen with his eyes averted.

Why is it always me?... He shed manly tears of bitterness but kept his mouth shut. He knew interrupting them would bring Konan's patented death glare upon his feeble frame! His death was imminent! Only a sound away!

Thankfully, he was saved when a knock resounded on the door, getting Rei and Konan out of their sickly sweet world.

"Ah... it's here!" Konan exclaimed and made a water clone to open the door.

Sigh, I will never get used to this. ... Kurabo dejectedly thought as he watched the water from the cup on the table flow out and form into the appearance of Rei.

The clone took a package from the employee who delivered it and put it on the table in front of Konan before dissolving into water, flowing back into the cup.

Konan was interested. It was quite a big square box. She looked all around it, still sitting in Rei's lap.

"Open it." Rei expectantly nudged her back.

Konan took it into her hands and opened the box. She saw... a fan.

She reverently took it into her hands, carefully in fear of damaging it. This was the first gift she ever received from anyone. Her heart fluttered, gazing upon it as a small smile tugged on her face. This was the gift Rei gave her. Her smile widened into a sincere full smile. The fan was already the most precious possession of hers.

She took it into her right hand and noted it was as long as half of her forearm. She unfolded it and her eyes instantly widened fondly at the sight. The fan was mostly watery-blue and had a decorative painting on it. From the upper part, droplets of dark-blue gentle rain fell towards the handle. There was a painting of a blue flower in the center. The same she usually folded from the paper as decoration into her hair. Around the flower was protectively circling a suiton dragon coming from the lake underneath the flower as both were showered by the rain, absorbing it.

Konan didn't need an explanation to understand what the flower or the dragon signified. As for the rain... they were called Downpour, weren't they? A smile tugged on her lips.

"Do you feel it?" Rei patted her head, getting her out of her thoughts.

"Yes. I am happy." Konan timidly lowered her head to cover her blush.

"Not that." Rei chuckled, kissing her hair.

Konan tilted her head. Indeed. There was something different about the fan...

"It is a tessenjutsu fan from the Land of Wind." Rei told Konan. "I asked for a miniaturized version. With your Wind affinity, you don't need to carry a huge fan. The skeleton is made out of the best quality chakra metal and the fan is from special paper for tessen fans. Getting this paper was a backbreaking endeavor as it is a national secret of the Land of Wind and Sunagakure."

"Yes, yes! Just this small fan cost a fortune!" Karubo huffed only to squirm down when both Rei and Konan gave him a glare of death promising untold suffering.

Konan was grateful. She would cherish the fan forever. She put the strap of the fan around her wrist, fastening there.

Rei watched her playing with the fan as her expression showed elation and kissed her shoulder as his arms sn.a.k.e.d around her torso, resting on her stomach.

"I love you Konan." He whispered to her, making her blush again.

Konan could only bite her lower lip as she nodded timidly. That instant, she promised to herself that she would become the best tessenjutsu practitioner in the world. She would make Rei proud!

Rei, ignorant of the resolve he ignited in his lover, just happily trailed kisses on Konan's shoulder and the nape of her neck. Both again happy in their own world.

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Chapter 41 - Ch41. Return to Kiri

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Rei and Konan leisurely walked through the gates of Kirigakure, hand in hand as they enjoyed the humidness of the village. It wasn't really the feel of home but they did come from Ame no Kuni so the humidness was something very familiar and pleasant to them.

Just as they headed towards the guard outpost to show their doc.u.ments, an ANBU landed in front of them, staying on one knee.

"Lord Mizukage is summoning you, Rei-sama, Konan-sama." The man respectfully said and disappeared with water shunshin.

Rei and Konan might not be recognized by many chunin or even jonin but they DID spar with the Seven Swordsmen of Kiri on a regular basis. That coupled with the fact that ANBU had to memorize the entire Bingo Book and the 'exchange of information' aka rumors of whatever non-classified happens in the office of Mizukage. Yeah, the entire ANBU force was familiar with Rei and Konan as masters at chakra manipulation who can use their elemental chakra during s.e.x.

What! The respect was not due to being able to use superb Jutsu or being two of only five S-rank shinobi of Kiri. Not at all... it was all due to the perverted ANBU female who passed out with a nosebleed during the briefing after their first time!

Both Rei and Konan could only wryly smile as they started their leisure walk towards the Kage Tower. They were sure the Mizukage was awaiting them. Hmm, let him wait then, no~?

...

Both Rei and Konan stood in front of Mizukage in his office, having a stare-off. Neither side spoke as the air grew heavy. The atmosphere intensified and one could almost hear the hearts of ANBU beating.

'Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum'

So it went as The Mizukage glared with narrowed eyes at casually standing Rei and Konan, still holding hands. His eyebrow was twitching as he drummed his index finger on the table, his lips scowling.

"You... is there really nothing you would like to add to your report, heeh?" The Mizukage grit his teeth.

"No." Both Rei and Konan chorused calmly.

"Konoyaro..." The Mizukage bit out when he saw that neither Rei nor Konan wanted to add anything to their report and released a long insufferable sigh.

He took a deep breath to recollect himself.

"I see." He impassively stated and looked at the file on his table.

"So... you two didn't encounter any blue tornado made of fire reaching the sky, bringing a literal storm of ice to the capital city, huuuh?" Mizukage asked as he intently peered at Rei and Konan.

"No." Both Rei and Konan again chorused calmly.

"I see..." The Mizukage stated plainly.

"I suppose that neither of you saw any missing-nin capable of... I don't know... destroying cities during your visit to the capital, haah?"

"Nope, not that we know of." Rei shook his head and Konan nodded eagerly.

"Hmm, good. Security nowadays is really good, isn't it?" The Mizukage asked with an exaggerated nod. "A person is walking on the street and doesn't have to fear sudden storms or tornadoes of fire. Really good." He said in mock-satisfaction. "It's not like the capital city would be suddenly hit by a hailstorm, is it? Surely not when two of my strongest ninja are in the city..." He trailed off mockingly and the stare-off continued.

"I am sure it is a coincidence." Rei nodded assuredly.

"Coincidence." Konan added as she bobbed her head.

The Mizukage's eye twitched.

The ANBU were now choking on suppressed laughter in their hiding places.

"So... you are saying it was not you who completely destroyed a whole street in the capital, covered it in a shitton of ice. So much, in fact, it is still not melted even after days. It was surely not you who sent a shitton of wind that almost toppled down buildings... Oh, and damaged the Daimyo's castle, by the way. The entire castle garden was destroyed, too... Millions of Ryo worth of plants down the drain... Now I wonder, who could have been responsible for that, hm?"

"You surely are not responsible for scaring the populace by making the skies BURN, of all things, right? When the witnesses speak of a blue-haired woman and pale-haired man kissing each other in the middle of the street it all happened... That was surely not you, now, was it, riiiight?" The Mizukage glared with a frown. He could feel the start of migraine as the two decided to be 'forgetful'.

"When you say it like that..." Rei trailed off awkwardly as he scratched his cheek.

"Yes..." The Mizukage expectantly leaned forward with a hopeful look.

"We may have seen a missing-nin or two." Rei seriously added.

"Or two." Konan nodded.

"Right." The Mizukage deflated. "I am sure you did."

"Pray tell, how did that missing-nin or two look like. You don't want to tell me it was a male-form of Tsunade Senju, the best medic of Konoha, kissing with female-form of Dan Kato, the candidate for Hokage position, do you?" The Mizukage quipped in sarcasm.

"Well..." Rei started.

"Yes?" The Mizukage sweetly smiled.

"Depends... is Dan Kato still alive?" Rei quipped.

"No. No, he is definitely NOT ALIVE! NOT FOR YEARS!" Mizukage's smile fell as he stood up barely holding himself from screaming at tearing his hair off. After a while of panting, he just powerlessly flopped back into his chair.

"Moreover, according to our spies, Senju despised Kato." He muttered to himself.

"Well... in that case the missing-nin was..." Rei's eyes darted all over the office but then he shrugged in 'whatever' motion. "...pink."

"...and fluffy." Konan added helpfully.

"Long ears too." Rei smiled.

"Long, long. With buck teeth." Konan nodded.

"Eh? That's wrong... that was the bunny we saw in the zoo, Konan, wasn't it?" Rei looked at Konan.

"Hmm? We are talking about that, are we not?" Konan put her finger on her chin in mock-confusion.

"I give up. Seriously. I f.u.c.k.i.n.g give up." The Mizukage helplessly leaned into his chair and took his smoking pipe out. "Now... what do you two geniuses recommend I should report to the very concerned and utterly pissed off Daimyo, hm?"

Only silence greeted him.

"Nothing, hm? What about you, the four already-blue-from-choking ANBU on the ceiling." He looked up, just in time to see three of his ANBU fall onto the ground and start rolling in laughter. The fourth was still desperately sticking to the ceiling with his chakra, also rolling in laughter.

The Mizukage looked at casually smiling Rei and Konan with a fed-up deadpan look.

"Well... I would personally say that the assailant had a mask." Rei's face turned to seriousness and Mizukage face-faulted onto his desk.

"Hmm... I see. Continue." The Mizukage waved his arm around uncaringly.

F.u.c.k this shit, I should start looking for a successor. I am not paid enough for this... The Mizukage frowned as he straightened up and started chewing on his pipe.

Maybe he could use his bullshit affinity? He was a ninja, after all. Making up stories was common in his line of work! And the current Daimyo wasn't the smartest fish in the pond too. Hmm, that could work...

"Just give me something GOOD. I am really not interested in being blamed and getting our funding cut, alright?" He pleaded.

Rei nodded and gave a sweet wide Cheshire grin.

Uh-oh, this will be utter bullshit the size of Konoha's Hokage Monument, alright... Mizukage internally thought as he saw Rei's wide smile.

Ah, here we go. Rei's going to get nasty... Konan mentally deadpanned.

"Well. As I said, the assailant had an orange swirl mask with only one eye. He was quite a cheerful dude too! Called himself Tobi and whatnot. He liked to say that he was a good boy, alright! Right nutter, I say!" Rei laughed. "He wore a black coat with red clouds and was singing about Dawn or whatever! He wanted to put his eyes on the moon too so he fired himself there with jutsu... hence the sky-reaching tornado! Sigh. Some of us just do believe they can fly." Rei sadly shook his head.

Both Konan and Mizukage stared at Rei with an open mouth as Mizukage's pipe fell onto the floor.

"That's..." Konan started but then her eyes looked at the shocked Mizukage. "...the truth." She nodded stoically, her expression completely blank even though her body was slightly shaking.

"You know what?" The Mizukage drawled lazily. "Why not? Sure. I will report exactly that." He shrugged, not giving a damn anymore.

"You may go... I won't say job-well done though."

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Read this if you find CH39 disappointing.

I read a few comments (And a one-star review of a dude who even at this point thinks Rei and Konan are Konoha shinobi... damn, that floored me, to be honest) and I found out I might have messed up in the ch39 and my writing might have been easily misunderstood.

Now... for a clarification. Rei did NOT destroy The Capital nor did he kill anyone else other than the young master and his goons. Sure, he caused damage but didn't kill.

He also did NOT use the jutsu because he meant it. He wanted to deal with it peacefully and only due to the trash coming out of the Young Master's mouth, he flipped and subconsciously used his strongest 'vermin-wiping' Jutsu. The entire build-up of his 'illogical' fear of Young Masters was leading to this scene where he forgot all reason for a second.

That scene might have been a bit forced but it is IMPORTANT. I am giving you small hints into Rei's uniqueness right there.

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Chapter 42 - Ch42. Mizukage's schemes.

Few weeks passed since their mission to rescue the prince and receiving a huge paycheck. Since then, Konan practiced at least three hours in tessenjutsu and Rei was usually sitting there, cheering her on as he trained in something or thought about seals... or just ogled her body.

Moving on! This was not a day like that. Today, Konan was alone as Rei was returning from buying more chakra ink for his fuinjutsu. The kind that was high-quality. He could have created his own but... why bother when there was a store for it?

He was walking around the corner when suddenly a six-years-old looking boy tightly clutching a loaf of bread ran straight into him. Rei could have evaded, of course, but that would send the boy rolling in the ground somewhat painfully. This way, the boy only flopped on his ass.

Rei noted the loaf of bread on the ground and sighed. He was about to speak to the still dazed boy when an old man with a ponytail suddenly shrieked.

"There you are, you thief!" The man came towards the boy and gripped him by his short red hair as he gave him a good lashing, not listening about the boy's wailing.

The old man then threw the boy into the mud, flipping his ponytail in disgust. Rei could see the boy reaching towards the bread covered in mud as his eyes hopelessly and intently watched it in hunger. The old man snorted and took the bread before the boy could reach it.

"That's not yours. Be glad that I won't report you for stealing!" He harrumphed and walked away with a huff.

Rei watched, somewhat bewildered.

Since when did Kirigakure gain its own 'Naruto'? ... He thought as he saw the contempt in the eyes of the people passing around.

As Rei pondered about it, the boy sat up, sobbing. Rei could hear the loud grumble from his stomach and realized it must have been days since the boy had a meal. With a sigh, he took the boy by the collar of his torn tattered clothes and put him on his feet.

"Well... I bumped into you, making you get caught. Ah..." Rei waved his hand from side to side, trying to dissuade the fearful look the boy gave him when he saw the hitai-ate. "I can at least buy you lunch for that." Rei eye-smiled. "Come on..."

He left, dragging the bewildered kid by his arm.

...

Rei watched as the kid gorged himself on the food. He awkwardly scratched his cheek.

Don't they feed him or something? ... He wondered.

"Hey, kid, you orphan, right?" Rei asked as he watched him lick the plate.

The boy ashamedly looked down and nodded.

"Don't they feed you there?"

The boy looked like a deer in the headlights and closed his eyes in fear, quivering in his seat but didn't answer.

"Ah, whatever. Eat your fill." Rei just shrugged. Konan was training so he had nothing better to do. A little charity wouldn't hurt, now, would it?

Rei just sat there, watching the boy until he finally stopped eating.

"Tha-thank you." A very soft voice entered Rei's ears. He smirked and ruffled the hair of the boy.

"Haha, so you can speak, after all!" He nodded and then looked seriously all over the boy.

Bruised. Malnourished. Sunken cheeks. Dull auburn hair. Pale as a ghost. Tattered dirty clothes...

"Here." He gave the boy a paper with his address. "If you find yourself hungry again, come by."

Rei decided he would help the kid. It was not like anyone would be able to steal from his apartment since his security contained many of his seals and he was loaded. Paying for food for the kid wasn't really all that difficult for him. Biri-Biri company earned him millions of Ryo per month since it had its branches all over the elemental nations by now. Every capital city had a branch.

And who knows... maybe I would get a follower outta it? Hah... He almost choked on laughter at that ridiculous thought. As if he ever allowed a dude to follow him!

...

The Mizukage office:

Mizukage sat behind his table with his hands clasped in front of his face.

Opposite him was a woman sitting in common clothes. The only tell she was a shinobi was how she held her body.

"Jonin Rukimi. This is the first time we are speaking with each other since I assigned you 'that' mission." The Mizukage amiably started.

"Yes, Mizukage-sama. Three years to be exact." Aika Rukimi leaned into a slight bow.

"I must say... it was almost back-breaking to persuade other clans to stop trying to tan my hide because of it." He chuckled, making the woman smile wryly. "Report." He lightly said, taking his tea into his hand.

"Yes. Four years ago, when you took two-years-old Mei Terumi and threw her into the orphanage, she had a happy childhood. As per your orders, that changed when I was assigned to act as the matron of the orphanage." The woman stoically droned out. "I subtly estranged her from other kids, and she swiftly became the target of bullying."

"Hm." The Mizukage hummed. "Her mental state?"

"She is... doing well. There are no signs of a mental breakdown... yet." The woman unsurely answered. She knew she was picked because of her past in the Seduction Corps. She was ruthless enough to slit the throat of a child and good psychiatrist so she could keep any and all mental trauma non issue for later. Well, as much as it could be made into a nonissue. She was sure the treatment the girl is going through will mold her and stay with her for the rest of her life. She just won't be mentally impaired due to Aika's 'care'. "But she is, no, WILL break if we continue this route."

The Mizukage heard his jonin conclude.

"I see. Hmm. The problem is the rumors, after 'that' incident... how is the girl herself taking it?"

Aika groaned, yes... that. Neither of them planned for that to happen but it certainly did help the plan. Aika decided to not do anything with it and let it run its course.

"Ah, she is more withdrawn. Never talks to anyone. This made the bullying intensify. The kids even go as far as stealing her food, making her sleep on the floor, and beating her. Seriously... this batch would do fine shinobi, at least morally." Aika snorted sarcastically and rolled her eyes. As if any of these twerps had enough guts to be shinobi. They could only gang up on a weak malnourished girl.

"Hmmm, a loner, then. Well... no wonder. Just as we wanted." The Mizukage took a file from his table. "After the first day of the academy, Mei Terumi's chakra was unlocked. She kissed the cheek of her best and only friend in the entire orphanage and her bloodline acted out due to the inability to control her chakra. Mei Terumi watched as her best friend slowly died in agony while her face was being slowly melted by Mei's Kekkei Genkai... you wrote."

"Yes. It was a brutal and painful death lasting minutes. Mei watched every second of it and blamed herself."

"Well, normally she would be trained since three to prevent this happening." Mizukage shrugged. "But making her even more isolated helped us. Especially since the girl already had her first kill."

Aika nodded and opened her mouth when the door flew open and inside casually strode an old man with a ponytail, holding a muddy loaf of bread.

"Ah... Sandaime-dono, you really can pick a distasteful mission for retired ol' me, haha!" The old man laughed.

"Well, it had to be someone undetectable, Kouhei-sama. Since your chakra coils were destroyed..." Mizukage smiled and slightly inclined his head in respect.

"I am nothing but a civilian in the senses of the ninja." The old man waved his hand jovially. "Geez, what did you do to that orphan. It was as if you starved the kid."

"We did." The Mizukage told the elderly man who raised an eye-brow with a frown. The Mizukage nodded at the woman to introduce herself.

"I am Aika Rukimi." The woman stood up and gave the elderly man a small bow. "It's an honor to be in the presence of the brother of the first Mizukage, Kouhei-sama."

"Sure, sure. Just get on with it." Kouhei grumbled in annoyance.

"Well... reporting. I beat that bony little girl somewhat fiercely but damn did it hurt my knuckles." The old man grumbled. "I am sure I cracked a few ribs too but the girl has a high pain tolerance, I must say."

The Mizukage winced slightly while Aika was completely impassive. It was not like he wanted Mei to suffer but his plan would be marginally harder without her being a loner and abused.

"But..." Kouhei stopped momentarily. "The civilians are talking. They are starting to get afraid of her due to rumors and from what I gathered, she is being beaten by some of them. When the clans find out..."

"Thankfully the Yuki and Hozuki clans agreed with this plan and persuaded the leaders of other important clans. I wouldn't try to 'threaten' a clan with their own fortune if I didn't have the support of other clans." The Mizukage interrupted, shrugging. "We need Rei and Konan bound to Kiri since they are two of our five S-rank ninjas. The clans at least understand that much."

Kouhei nodded. He didn't like the endgame and certainly, the betrothal contract was stretching the authority of the Mizukage thin and dangerous. But it had merit. The girl will be an anchor around the leg of Rei and with Rei, Konan will follow. They will stay in Kiri. All this mission had to accomplish was to make them feel at least some fondness for the girl.

"My brother would be proud of you, kid." Kouhei told him with a grim expression. "This is positively evil. To think you would give her the Terumi estates only if she gave birth to two of his children. You pulled all stops." He shook his head.

"Yeah. Sadly, the plan is not completely foolproof as I can't really hold back the bank accounts from Mei as the bank won't give a shit about me being the Mizukage. But she will be told of those only upon her eighteen birthday." Mizukage smiled.

"Or if she gets pregnant." Kouhei nodded. "It is kinda disgusting to have this talk about a six-year-old girl." He chuckled and got a shrug in response. They were shinobi. They did worse. "The problem is... yet again the civilians. She is a girl. I wouldn't want this plan to crumble due to her being r.a.p.ed by some sick drunkard."

Kouhei had a valid point, the Mizukage agreed. That may help with her being more subdued... or completely break her. But it might crack any and all future interaction with Rei. The Mizukage was trying to make her depend on him. Not make her afraid to be in the same room as him or despise all males.

"Yes. I will probably make Ringo Ameyuri 'suggest' him taking the girl in, giving her an empty bedroom. Or I will straight out order it for the 'safety' of the last Terumi." The Mizukage shrugged. "It will maximize the interaction between them."

"And then, when she is older and Rei likes or even loves her... you will spring up the betrothal on them." Kouhei smiled.

"Not if they decide to have an intimate relationship with each other without finding out." The Mizukage dismissively waved his hand around. He hoped to not use it and let it be buried somewhere in the archive. If the girl started to have s.e.x with Rei without his intervention it would be smashing!

"A precaution, then." Kouhei nodded. Both knew what they did was for the good of their village. Someone capable of having and wielding three chakra natures at the age of eleven, being S-rank at thirteen due to 'destructibility' of his Jutsu of all things...

There were various categories of S-rank ninja. But getting that rank for wide-scale destructive Jutsu was a serious feat. Only Onoki with his Kekkei Tota and the third Kazekage with his Kekkei Genkai were the most famous examples currently and both had the power to destroy vast areas easily.

Both Mizukage and Kouhei wanted to see what kind of monster Mei Terumi would bring on this world if her two Kekkei Genkai mixed with Rei's three natures and natural genius.

While the two influential men talked, Aika quietly listened. It was her job to make this work and she was ordered to make sure that Mei Terumi will love the village despite the hatred. It was a tiring job but she did well, making the girl miserable in the shadows while in the light she was her sole supporting pillar, always repeating 'if you become a respectable Kiri-nin, you will be loved'. She had to make sure the girl would want to serve Kiri with half of her soul and that she would latch on Rei with the other half, keeping him in place. It was a delicate job... sometimes, even she wondered why she accepted it.

Unknown to the trio, under the furniture, a few inconspicuous papers with listening seals 'overheard' the entire conversation.

In Rei's and Konan's apartment, in their spare bedroom, a paper clone of Konan suddenly punched the floor from sheer rage, cracking it as the killing intent spread through the street. It took at least five minutes until the clone finally calmed down and went to report to Rei and the real Konan.

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Chapter 43 - Ch43. Counterattacking the schemes 1

The very next day Rei and Konan found themselves in the orphanage where Mei was residing. Rei was gripping Konan's hand, making sure she won't go ballistic upon meeting the 'bitch', as she put it yesterday, who was helping in the scheme against her Rei!

Konan glared at everything in the room with her impassive stare. It made Rei proud and weirded out at the same time at this ability of hers. To appear utterly bored and impassive but actually show that she is completely enraged. For the first time, Rei saw how cold fury looks like.

They had a long debate yesterday after the clone reported its findings. They both were baffled. Sure, the Mizukage did it very cleverly. They knew he was smart and really didn't think he would try the exact same thing as he did with Ringo just in other colors and under a pseudonym.

His influence would appear to be minimal on the entire thing as at most five people were a part of the scheme and other than them, only clan heads knew about it.

In their talks, Rei told Konan he was interested in Mei. Not romantically, of course. That would make for a good mental case to be interested in a kid you met only once. He was interested in her potential. To be honest, most crushes he could have had... he remembered he loved Hinata's character... disappeared after all these years. He would still very much like to meet these char-, ahem, people. He would also like to swat Naruto on his head for being a naive idiot. Yup... he was a true fan! The kind that would beat that insufferable idiotic shit to death for not becoming smarter during the entire series!

Sigh, but he digresses. These feelings were somewhat dulled. He was interested in Mei because of her two Kekkei Genkai. Two in one body. That was almost impossible since genes usually merged or one dominated the other. Her two sides of the family were in such a synergy they created two Kekkei Genkai. It was a curious thing.

It all led them to this moment. They decided to make it easier on the Mizukage and adopt the girl, right? Well, if she will be pushed onto them anyway, why not make their influence prevalent? They might be forced to take her in but neither Rei nor Konan would suffer the fate of getting to like her and then having to leave her behind because of her overt love for the village. They knew it would happen with Ringo and it wasn't a very nice feeling. Both Rei and Konan somewhat got to like her but knew well she would pick Kirigakure over them if she had to choose. That's why Rei was not teaching the girl his best Raiton Jutsu for kenjutsu.

Konan had it easy. She was starting to feel fed-up with Mizukage. She understood he must protect the village and whatnot but right now, he was actually doing his damnedest to make Konan blow this village to smithereens. She didn't like her Rei to be schemed upon!

As for the little girl herself... if she was really as interesting as Rei said, Konan didn't mind taking her in. She would make the girl into a proper wife-material, yet! Konan was not as naive as to think that a decade of living together would not make the girl fall in love with Rei! Un, impossible!

And since Rei had a good impression of the girl and the girl had real potential, if she grew into a beauty, Konan wouldn't mind giving her a hand. But the girl will become vicious and loyal only to Rei if she wants to stay anywhere near them! That Konan promised to herself.

Rei only cluelessly waited for the matron to finish the paperwork. He had not yet any clue of Konan's already forming training plan for little Mei. Alas, history was set to repeat himself. As he saved Konan in her darkest hour and unknowingly created a fierce yan-, fuuuu, better not say the word! The same way he was now saving Mei. Or, at least, that's how it would look like to the girl. Konan would make sure of that!

Aika Rukimi was flabbergasted when Rei and Konan came in the morning, willing to adopt Mei Terumi. She never expected such luck. The Mizukage wouldn't even need to persuade them to raise the girl! While it made a few problems since the girl was not yet completely indoctrinated into being loyal to the village... she would let these worries to the Mizukage. The girl will probably make a few 'friends' that will make her see the 'light' shortly. It was not Aika's problem anymore. She was only giddy at the fat paycheck she would receive for job-well-done! With a joyful hum, she filled the paperwork and... Mei Terumi was now adopted by Rei and Konan Yotsuba.

...

Aika dragged Mei into the room where Rei and Konan waited.

Both Rei and Konan noted the tattered torn clothes on the bo-, uh, girl. Her auburn hair was so short it was hard to recognize the little creature as a girl. Her green eyes were completely dull, almost lifeless with big black circles under then and the girl was unhealthily thin and small. Her skin was pale... well except the visible purplish, almost black bruises marring her skin.

When Mei's eyes landed on Rei they regained a bit of light. She remembered the kind man who fed her yesterday and with a blush, she timidly looked towards the ground, wondering what he was doing here. She was dragged from her bed by the matron. Yesterday she was beaten by the older kids for being bad so she couldn't sleep from the pain. She was dead tired and barely swayed on her feet.

"Mei-chan~." The matron started and Rei was instantly in 'uh-oh' state of mind as he recognized the fake sweet and kind voice. "These two, Rei and Konan Yotsuba decided to adopt you."

Mei's eyes widened and teared up. She meekly nodded. She was still afraid. The people didn't like her and she feared being adopted. She thought she would be beaten by the people adopting her! But... the man was kind to her, right? He wouldn't hurt her, right?

"Thank you." She quietly whispered as was expected of her after the matron squeezed slightly her shoulder, coincidentally pressing on one of her worst bruises, making her wince.

Konan was coldly glaring at the matron. She saw that it was no coincidence. Rei sighed and walked closer to Mei.

"Yo. So we meet again, kid." He grinned and hugged her.

Mei stiffened. She was never hugged. Tackled to the ground, maybe. But hugged. She couldn't help but be frozen at the warmth it made her feel. Silent tears streamed down her cheeks as she leaned into the hug, pushing her small head into Rei's shoulder.

Konan looked at the matron.

"That will be all." She dismissively stated, making the matron open her mouth but she swiftly shut it. Well, being dismissed might have hurt her ego but why bother complaining? Her job was done. Aika just left with a huff, heading straight to the Mizukage's office to report.

Rei heaved Mei up into his arms and left towards their apartment.

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Chapter 44 - Ch44. Counterattacking the schemes 2

The trio arrived at the apartment and Mei was told to sit behind the table in the living room with Konan while Rei was making ramen for them in the kitchen.

Mei wasn't very comfortable around the blue-haired girl. She was looking at her weirdly. Like matron.

Konan smiled at the awkwardness of the girl. She reached her hand towards the girl, making her stiffen and close her eyes. Konan didn't care and ruffled Mei's hair.

Mei snapped her eyes wide at the gentle touch and found herself enjoying it.

"Be a good girl and we will have no problem." She heard the blue-haired girl tell her in a gentle but firm voice.

Good girl... Mei thought that she could at least try. She timidly nodded with a blush.

"Don't worry." The blue-ha-, Konan, yes that was her name, Mei remembered.

"I will teach you how to be a good girl." Konan continued cooingly as she leaned closer to her and patted her head.

Rei entered with a tray of three bowls of hot, steaming ramen and saw a weird sight. Konan smiling devilishly at the determined Mei while Konan patted her head in 'my precious' kind of Kakashi-like way. His eyes couldn't help but instinctively trace a few escape routes as he felt a shiver run down his spine.

In the end, he steeled himself and approached the girls with a smile, putting the food on the table. He saw that Mei instantly looked at the big bowl of noodles while gulping hungrily. He put the first bowl in front of the girl who raised her head, her eyes meeting his and he could see a spark of adoration. He could only sigh to himself. It was so easy with children. No wonder the villages started to train their ninja during childhood and made them listen to hours per day of patriotic drivel. Because that was exactly what the first two years of the academy were about. Indoctrination of children to loyalty.

He saw Mei watch the ramen with want in her eye but the girl didn't dare to touch it. Rei tilted his head.

"Ah!" He understood. "You may start eating, Mei-chan." He smiled at her.

Before he even finished the girl was inhaling the noodles. Rei quickly stopped her hand, making the girl stiffen.

"Slow down. You will choke on it. Nobody will take it from you." He quipped in bemus.e.m.e.nt, letting Mei's hand only when she nodded embarrassedly. Rei smiled and continued. "Don't be afraid to ask for more."

He knew the girl would want more. He was a master at suiton and very good with katon and temperature manipulation! What! Jutsu were not only good for fighting! Cooking was a viable way to use them too!

Especially since he could make the food full of chakra this way. Elemental chakra. With his proficiency, he could add his katon and suiton chakra into it, making it actually beneficial instead of harmful to Mei. It will certainly help her own katon and suiton chakra nature, if only ever so slightly. He also added a bit of nature energy into the ramen so Mei will stop being so tired and malnourished.

Rei would never do something like this for Ringo. He liked Ringo. She was his baka-deshi. But she was not loyal. Not as much as he would like her to be. But with Mei, he didn't need to worry. He was not as naive as to not know Konan's plan for the girl. But he was not about to do anything about it. He knew that under Konan's care, Mei would shortly be a... he hoped not zealot or fanatic... he would need to have some positive input on the girl to prevent that. But he knew Konan's 'education' would make the girl loyal only to them. And he knew she would be subtle enough to make Mei appear like a good little ninja of Kiri.

Sometimes, Konan could be scary.

They finished eating as Mei ate her third bowl of ramen with an embarrassed blush.

"Well, some ground rules." Rei told the girl, making her straighten up.

"We are often on missions so you will stay alone here." Rei told her and Mei nodded. She was alone her entire life. Nothing new. Seeing it, Rei continued. "Therefore you will have to learn how to cook and clean up after yourself."

Rei didn't tell the girl there will always be paper and water clones looking after her. He would make sure the girl puts her all into learning the basics of household chores. Well, not like there was much to do. His seals did ninety-percent of these automatically. But cooking will be a very beneficial skill in the girl's future ninja career.

Mei was bewildered. Someone actually wanted to teach her. She smiled slightly, her heart happily fluttering.

"Thank y-"

Before she could finish, a knock resounded on the door.

Rei sighed and stood up. He approached the door and as he opened them, he could see an ANBU who gave him a scroll and disappeared. Coming back to the table, Rei opened it.

"Well, the Mizukage is summoning us." He quipped in amus.e.m.e.nt, his eyes sparkling. Both him and Konan knew what this was about. "Well, be a good girl Mei," Rei started, not seeing how Mei's eyes brightened. "and stay here." Rei took out a few slices of paper. "You can practice the sticking exercise. We know the academy already started teaching you."

Konan created a paper clone.

"My clone will instruct you." She said merrily, ignoring Rei's deadpan stare.

With a sigh, Rei gave up and both him and Konan disappeared in shunshin, leaving only determined Mei with a smirking paper clone that sat next to Mei and it's smirk widened.

"Well, Mei-chan, first..."

...

In the office:

Rei and Konan walked in and did the usual greeting.

"I will be blunt Rei-kun~. Why did you adopt Terumi-chan?" The Mizukage curiously asked. This was not in his plan. While it was a good thing for his plan, the timing was too... precise.

"Felt like it." Rei shrugged. "I met her yesterday and saw Konan in her."

"Yes. I also could see my past self in the girl." Konan nodded with a slight smile. "I was a homeless orphan in Ame before Rei took me in."

The Mizukage didn't know that. He smiled to himself. Maybe his suspicions were unfounded, after all, and it was all caused by a sentiment.

"Well, as you know, Terumi-chan is the last of her clan..."

"Are you going to bar us from adopting her?" Rei amusedly asked, knowing well that was far from the truth.

"No, no. I am happy to have two capable ninjas raising her!" He put his clasped hands in front of his face and got serious. "I just want you to teach her how to use her elemental chakra and Kekkei Genkai."

"Hmm, you ask a lot." Rei smirked. "In that case, I want her as my second apprentice. We both know Ringo is low-jonin level already so keeping her a genin is an insult to her skill."

"You want a six-year-old as your apprentice?" The Mizukage blinked. "I can't approve that. She must go through the academy curriculum."

And its indoctrination plus a bonus... Mizukage thought to himself.

"Oh, Nah. I just want her after she graduates from the academy. Do that and we have a deal. We both know you want her to be strong for Kiri but if I am to teach her, she will be mine. My apprentice. My teammate. Mine. She will become a permanent part of my team."

The Mizukage was stumped. Rei was not asking for Mei as an apprentice. He was asking for her as a ninja. If he agreed, sure, it would make his plan surefire success with enough time. But it would be agreeing to Mei belonging to Rei as a ninja. The very same as Konan. He had no delusions that Konan is not really a Kiri shinobi and certainly not his. She was more of a property of Rei. At least, that was the not sugar coated way of looking at it.

Rei asked for a lot. But then again... with their guidance, Mei would become an S-rank in the future. Heck, Ringo Ameyuri was going to become S-rank with enough time.

Sigh, I will have to put extreme focus on making Mei loyal but... The Mizukage mulled over it.

"Sure. Mei Terumi will belong to you, Rei. You may do whatever with her." The Mizukage nodded. "But I want you to make an S-rank ninja for Kiri from her. Don't forget she owns the whole famous Hot Springs of Kiri. She is an important girl. If you want her, treat her well."

Rei shrugged in acceptance and almost gagged as he heard 'important' and 'treat her well'.

He knew that he basically asked for kunoichi Mei, rather than adopted a kid. The Mizukage just gave her to him. He could make the little girl into child labor and nobody would care as long as he justified it by 'The Mizukage gave her to me'. Not to count numerous worse things he could do to her. But this was reality. The shinobi belonged to the village. They were its property in a way. Only the really strong shinobi could look at the Mizukage and openly sneer at him or rebuke him. Because they were strong. Because they were an asset the village couldn't afford to lose. Because they were a threat. Because they could. A small six-year-old orphan from an extinct clan? Her only protection was the other clans and their 'interests'. If Rei didn't come to Kiri, Mei would live a pampered life, her head would be filled with ideas of marrying into some other clan that would acquire her wealth and bloodlines this way and the grandeur of serving her country.

"Don't worry. We will raise her 'very' well." Konan gave a wide sweet full smile with delightfully narrowed eyes as she put a great emphasis at the word 'very'..

Suddenly, the Mizukage didn't feel all that good about this little plan of his...

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Chapter 45 - Ch45. Teaching Mei

Few weeks have passed since Mei started living with Rei and Konan.

Konan and Ringo were in a clearing, doing the usual three areas exercise. Ringo was getting stronger faster and faster as her senses and speed were trained and her strength increased bit by bit every time Konan's doton-hardened paper slices hit her. Konan wasn't just swinging them at her. She was precisely targeting the sets of muscles that needed to be put under pressure. Ringo was very grateful when she found out how effective this training was for her.

Still, she didn't manage to reach Konan yet. She once reached the third area and was jumping in joy but then out of nowhere a flood of the river was released from the papers, washing Ringo all the way back to the start. She would grumble for days after that.

While Konan spent time training Ringo, Rei was with Mei.

Ringo was quite uncomfortable around the younger girl. She was used to being the one taught by Rei but eventually accepted it. She knew her time in Rei's team was coming to its end as she was already informed about her upcoming promotion. Getting chunin rank meant her being put under the tutelage of the Kiba wielder to be his successor. It was disheartening but it was her dream.

As for Rei and Mei... Mei was liking Rei a lot! He was kind to her and patiently taught her. He didn't beat her when she didn't get the thing done in one try! He...

Well, let's just say that Rei was getting creeps by the rising adoration he saw in the girl's eyes. He cursed himself for letting her stay with Konan's clone. He came home from the Mizukage's office and the girl was droning about being a 'good girl'! Ugh.

That night, he and Konan had a very heated and very sweaty debate on raising young children. A debate he sadly lost...

Moving on!

Rei decided to teach Mei properly. He started small with tree-walking and water-walking after she managed the paper-sticking exercise. He had to give it to the girl, she was determined and a prodigy. It was obvious why she would become the Fifth Mizukage in canon. In just a week she managed tree and water-walking. Yes, Rei was there with her every step of the process, always sensing what she did wrong and corrected her. He would not be a jerk like Kakashi and just say, do it. It was counterproductive.

Then, after she managed these exercises he found out the girl had suiton, doton, and katon chakra natures. Well, obviously since she had Futton and Yoton.

(Author Note: Futton - Boil, Yoton - Lava, Futon - Wind)

Rei decided to start with Futon. Something the girl didn't have a predisposition for and even her canon self didn't know. He somewhat remembered Mei Terumi in canon doing some suiton with raiton combo so she knew raiton but he didn't remember the Jutsu. But he knew canon Mei never practiced Futon. But he would be damned if a girl with Futton didn't know Futon to spread her boiling mist!

Rei also started practicing Futon alongside her. They made a game out of it. Seeing whose paper would move sooner. Well, of course, he held back and let the girl have her minute of glory and joy. Rei usually watched Mei as she always slightly stuck her tongue out while focusing and thought it was cute. He kinda suspected she started to crave winning not because of the win but because of the hug, he would always give her. But then again... as long as she had the drive to practice, all was well.

After a week, again, Rei noted. Damn was Mei fast in nature training. Sure, most of it was due to tips she received from Konan who was almost master in it, nearing perfection, and from his careful and precise tutoring. But for a child of six? A child that has to go to the academy almost daily? Oh, the complaints Rei received that Mei wasn't paying attention and instead was 'fiddling' with her paper...

Rei knew that Mei would be a Ninjutsu freak. Her chakra reserves were already almost genin level. Something Rei was really jealous of as at that age, he had only civilian reserves. It was all due to years in the academy and diligent practice of the chakra circling, he found out. The exercise isn't that good and the kids don't really practice it that much but Mei was VERY diligent in it. She didn't miss even a day of practice even if she was hurting from a beating.

Right now, Rei and Mei stood opposite each other and they played with a ball. A ball made of paper, without touching it, using only futon chakra to keep it afloat. It wasn't powerful but it propped the ball up after every burst that created a very weak uplifting wind. If the ball wasn't made of light paper, it wouldn't even raise an inch. But it was training a fine control of futon.

Mei loved the exercise as she always laughed when she managed to 'outplay' Rei and he 'missed' the timing, letting her win only to heave her into his arms into a hug.

...

Rei walked into the bedroom they gave to Mei and saw Konan sit across Mei behind a table.

"...this?" Konan pointed at a paragraph in what Rei recognized to be Kiri academy book.

"It is supposed to spur awe and make us think we can also reach greatness if we stay loyal to Kiri." Mei stated and Konan nodded. Just then she saw Rei and smiled.

"Mei. Looks like the diner is ready." Konan pointed in Rei's direction, making Mei perk up and run into Rei's waist for a hug.

Rei stroked Mei's short hair and forbade her to cut and ushered her out of the room.

"Go eat, Mei. I have to talk with Konan, kay?"

Mei nodded and left the room as Rei sighed, sitting in the exact same spot Mei was a moment ago. He leaned towards the book and cringed.

"The Heroics of Second Mizukage?" He raised his eyebrow at Konan.

"I am teaching the girl to recognize indoctrination." She shrugged. "She had her first kill and it was pretty gruesome. Behind that happy kid that loves hugs is already a killer. She is mature enough."

"I am not admonishing you." Rei rolled his eyes. "Merely curious."

Konan bit her lower lip and took a deep breath.

"I know you love Ringo." She stated with a grimace, making Rei look at her intently, patiently waiting for her to continue. "Maybe not entirely romantically but you are way past just liking your energetic baka-deshi."

Rei slowly nodded. There was no need for lies between him and Konan.

"I also know you would never let her get closer to you because we both know she is Kiri-loyalist to the core. She would betray us in due time."

Rei again slowly nodded. Again the truth. Konan sparred, taunted, and probed Ringo enough to know the core of her personality, aspirations, and loyalties.

"But I see your interest in Mei's bloodline and talent. I won't let her go the Ringo-route. She WILL be loyal to us if we are going to teach her. I dunno if she will love you that way when she is older. I don't even know if you will see her that way. But I know I am not just letting her be and hope for the best." Konan huffed and crossed her arms. "I already made that mistake with Ringo because I didn't like her intruding in our alone time. If I acted, she could be here in my place, teaching Mei while we could have been making out in our bed!"

"Sure. Do what you think is best." Rei's lips stretched into a smile as he chuckled and leaned closer, kissing Konan. "I love you and trust you to do what you believe is best for me. Always will." He gave her another long kiss. "We should go and eat our diner."

They happily took a hold of the other's hand and went into the kitchen. Mei was surely lonely, eating alone.

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Chapter 46 - Ch46. Promotion!

Sixteen years old Rei and Konan, and twelve years old Ringo stood in the Mizukage's office.

The man was eyeing them proudly as he turned to Rei.

"As of now, I declare you Rei Yotsuba, a jonin of Kiri." The Mizukage smiled and turned to Konan.

"As of now, I declare you Konan Yotsuba, a jonin of Kiri." He repeated and then turned to tense Ringo.

"As of now, I declare you Ringo Ameyuri, a chunin of Kiri." His features softened.

Rei and Konan grew bitter. They knew his features softened only because Ringo was proving her loyalty and drive to protect the village and become one of the Seven Swordsmen of Kiri. They could only sigh as the girl was already lost to them.

"With this, your team is also disbanded and Ringo will be put under the tutelage of the current wielder of Kiba. Rei and Konan will stay as a team. You may go."

The trio bowed and left the office.

"Well, shall we go celebrate it somewhere?" Rei asked the girls but noted that Konan was staring at Ringo.

"I want a spar." Konan told Ringo who looked at her in confusion.

"A melee spar." Konan elaborated as she took out her fan. She practiced a lot with it and wanted to know how good she was against Ringo.

Ringo slowly nodded. She knew that Konan was a ranged fighter but now she challenged her to a close-combat weapon spar? On one hand, Ringo was excited about such a fight. On the other, she was afraid she would lose to a long-ranged fighter in her specialty. Illogical fear it might have been but after sparring with Konan long enough, she learned to expect the unexpected.

...

The trio came to their clearing and found a lone figure of Mei practicing her katon. She was passable in futon so Rei decided to start katon as that was the nature she would need for both of her bloodlines.

Rei came to Mei and saw dried tears on her cheeks. He clicked his tongue. The Mizukage's idiocy did a number on the girl. The villagers really didn't like her and feared her and from time to time, some of them struck her. Well, Rei showed them exactly what he thought about that and since then Mei was practically worshipping the ground he was walking on... Konan was a bad influence like that.

Mei was quickly taught Henge and trained in it so she won't have to endure the glares. But the girl said she doesn't want to use it. Rei was really at the end of the rope with her. She wanted to be glared at!

Unknown to Rei, Mei hated the glares. She hated the civilians. And she despised Kiri. Konan really did make Mei open-minded. She never gave Mei any opinion or a way to look at things. Nor did Konan actually try to brainwash Mei. She just told her the things as they were. However brutal it was. She was blunt, honest, and precise when she explained things. This made the young mind of Mei mature faster. The very frequent injection of nature energy and elemental chakra through food Rei cooked only fastened this process exponentially. Mei Terumi started seeing things as they were. The subtle fear-driven hatred the civilians showed her. How other kids shied away from her. How the teachers were always awkward when she asked a question. Even if the last one was a shocker since they were chunin and should know better.

Mei started to form her own opinions. Her somewhat mature but still childish mind thought simply. People who hated her were on one side. Rei and Konan on the other. And those who hated her didn't deserve respect or acknowledgment from her. Mei Terumi officially hated Kiri with her whole heart. She was just good at hiding it, thanks to Konan's lessons.

There was only one thing Mei loved...

Rei came closer to Mei and firmly grabbed the distraught kid's chin, turning her face towards him. He saw the big purple bruise on her cheek and sighed. He put his hand on it, making Mei wince but her expression turned to a relaxed one after Rei started using soothing water chakra to relax her bruised muscles.

"Better?" He asked Mei who nodded.

Rei picked Mei up while she yelped and shunshined onto the lake, sitting there while putting Mei into his lap.

"Konan is going to fight Ringo. Watch, okay?"

Mei excitedly nodded as her very observant mind didn't want to miss even a second of the fight between the two strong kunoichi!

...

Konan stood opposite Ringo, holding her folded fan at the ready. Ringo, holding two swords, nodded at Konan, signalizing she was also ready. Just then a gentle breeze rushed through the clearing and when it settled... the battle started.

Ringo ran at Konan with her two swords, slashing one in a downward motion, aiming from above at Konan's head. Obviously, Konan raised her fan and blocked it, instantly opening herself for an upward slash of the second sword of Ringo, as it aimed at her belly.

Konan twisted her body and stepped to the left, evading the upward slash, her fan still clashing with Ringo's other sword. Konan slightly relaxed the hand holding her fan, unbalancing Ringo's hand and then Konan tensed her muscles, jerking the fan alongside the sword to the side while her body stepped into Ringo's guard.

Ringo was sent flying as Konan punched her in the gut.

"Don't underestimate me, kid." Konan snorted as Ringo sprang up on her feet, a sullen pout on her face.

Ringo did indeed underestimate Konan. She didn't find the fan threatening. In her mind, it was less than kunai! But it stopped her sword...

"Okay." Ringo accepted the rebuke and her swords sparkled with raiton chakra.

Konan smiled and her fan glowed in futon chakra.

...

On the side, Mei tugged on Rei's sleeve, making him hum and look at her.

"What's going on?" She asked, pointing at Konan and Ringo.

Rei smiled. Konan was parrying slash after slash in a high-speed clash with Ringo. Ringo was good. Strong. FAST. Extremely fast. But Konan's body was nurtured with nature energy. She might not be a close-combat fighter but she was fast enough and her mind was used to controlling thousands of papers. Split-second decisions were not a problem for her.

"The fight is a struggle between Ringo's strength as a swordsman and raiton user. She is natural and very strong. But Konan is more experienced and her mind is used to do fast decision-making. She is holding Ringo off by offsetting any momentum or deflecting any power she uses into the slash to the side, making Ringo unable to start her fast-slashing combo."

"Yes! But how! They both coat their weapons in elemental chakra!" Mei exclaimed as Ringo's sword again bounced off of Konan's fan, forcing her to regain her balance. Rei saw that Ringo was frowning hard. She was faster, better, and stronger than Konan but she was always interrupted mid-combo or always somewhat missed.

Rei patted Mei's head. The girl was very inquisitive and perceptive about matters she shouldn't know for at least a decade yet.

"The foundation of raiton is high-speed vibration. So fast it is actually cutting power. Futon, on the other hand, is sharpness itself. Raiton is weak towards futon. You can see it here." Rei pointed as sparks flew from yet another clash between Ringo's and Konan's weapons. "Konan's futon is so sharp it makes Ringo's raiton vibrations literally bounce away instead of letting them cut it. That sets them into opposite motion, sending Ringo's sword back, unbalancing her, therefore stopping any momentum she may have gained and making them reposition herself. Which must be a hell of a pain in the ass for somebody whose fighting style is based on speed. She is getting a stopper to her acceleration every time they clash." Rei chuckled.

"Oooh." Mei nodded and continued to watch the fight.

...

Ringo was frustrated. She would be seething mad if it was not so damn depressing! She couldn't build her momentum. She couldn't build her chakra! She was attacking and attacking, always moving around, looking for openings and Konan was still in that damn defensive stance, almost standing near the place when the battle began! At times side-stepping Ringo's slashes, at others parrying them.

Yes. Parrying her swords with a fan! It was ridiculous!

Ringo was faster and stronger. It was obvious. But Konan was patiently chipping away her strength by steadily guarding herself. She wasn't even attacking! Just waiting for a major opening!

Ringo decided that enough was enough. She charged at Konan again, gripping her two swords and her left one quickly slashed from the left side in a side-swipe at Konan's mid-section. It was her fastest possible speed and Konan would be forced to block it! She wasn't fast enough to dodge!

Konan did just that. She blocked. And Ringo was expecting it. Before their weapons met, she did what she was taught to NEVER do. She let go of her left sword and inwardly noted that it bounced from the fan and flew away.

Ringo didn't care and her right sword slashed at Konan. Konan wouldn't be able to block! Her fan was on the left side and the sword was coming from the right!

In her excitement, Ringo made a fatal mistake. Her swipe was too fast and too high. Only at the last moment, she realized. Her sword entered Konan's throat and her head... was sent flying.

Ringo's elation at hitting her opponent quickly fell as horror filled her. She could hear a childish horrified scream from the side but her mind was mostly blank, as she stared forward. Her world stopped to crawl as she watched the headless body in front of her, as her sword was moving in a crawl, away from the neck it just exited. Konan's head flying up, inch by inch, her serious expression still on her face, no signs of realization on it.

Ringo was mortified at what just happened that she missed one important detail.

Suddenly the arm of the headless body sprang up, unfolding the fan and sending a quick, concentrated, and strong but small tornado into Ringo's unguarded stomach, sending her forcefully flying and painfully rolling on the ground.

The detail was... there was no blood.

Konan's head reconnected with her body as papers re-created the neck that she previously changed into paper and 'vanished' before Ringo's sword could slash it.

Konan sighed and looked at her unfolded fan and then at the unconscious Ringo on the ground.

"Well. This is my loss as I used ninjutsu." She shrugged and went to kic-, ahem, wake Ringo up...

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Chapter 47 - Ch47. Joining 1

Rei and Konan were coming back from a mission. They were in the countryside, in the northern part of the Mizu no Kuni as they ate lunch in a tavern in a small town.

"I am never doing an escort mission again." Konan huffed and crossed her arms. "That pig ogled my ass the entire time!"

"I concur. I wanted to wring his neck at least fifty times." Rei agreed with a twitching eyebrow. "At least he didn't have guts to try anything."

"If he did," Konan snorted derisively. "noble or not, a friend of the Daimyo or not, his head would fly!"

As they conversed about the pig of a client they had to escort, a hooded figure in a small black cloak sat opposite them. They could see it was a woman and Rei took a peek at her chin, mouth, and nose that could be seen from under the hood. He quickly understood the woman is beautiful from these features alone.

"We need to talk." The hooded woman said.

It was not an order. Both Rei and Konan recognized it for what it was. The woman was pleading, almost begging them to hear her out. Rei looked at Konan and smiled when he saw her nod. They both felt a slight familiarity with the woman and didn't know why. He turned to the fidgeting woman and spoke.

"Follow us."

Rei rented a room for a day and they entered it. Konan quickly made papers with Rei's silencing and anti-spy seals stuck to each wall.

They sat on the bed and watched as the woman stood in front of them somewhat insecurely, quivering. Her shaky hands reached upwards, taking hold of the edge of her hood and she ever so slowly started pulling it down.

Konan just looked in confusion as Rei's jaw dropped the second the forehead of the woman was revealed.

"I am..." The fidgety woman quietly mumbled while her eyes tried to look anywhere but Rei and Konan.

"Tsunade Senju." Rei finished for her, half in disbelief.

Tsunade nodded silently, biting her lower lip. Rei never thought he would see Tsunade Senju act all insecure. Konan tensed but Rei put a hand on her shoulder.

"So why did you need to talk with us?" Rei asked calmly.

Tsunade opened her mouth and her eyes for the first time, landed on Rei, making her freeze. She stayed like that with her mouth open and wide-eyes, gazing at him intently while her body trembled.

Rei had some really bad premonition and activated his nature sensing and recoiled at what he felt.

He and Konan were the picture of calmness but Tsunade? The Nature energy was pushing, tugging, and forcefully pulling her towards them. Her chakra was invisibly leaking from her body, its tendrils trying to reach Rei and Konan. Rei saw why she would be trembling, fighting to even keep standing. He cursed.

"Konan, follow." He instantly ordered Konan and in a burst of raiton chakra, appeared near the still bewildered Tsunade.

Tsunade couldn't fight even if she wanted to. She was at the end of her strength. Half-dead and she wondered how it was even possible she could keep her eyes open, much less stand. When Rei swept her from her feet, bending her over his shoulder, she couldn't even protest as a jolt of pleasure sprang through her spine at his touch.

Konan tilted her head but listened and in less than a minute, Rei and Konan sped up away from the town, Rei carrying Tsunade on his shoulder.

They arrived near the cliff, in front of them only a high jagged wall of rock, Tsunade already unconscious.

"Let's create a cave." Rei said and Konan nodded.

Both Rei and Konan put their hands on the wall of rock and said.

"Doton: Hidden Cave."

The wall of rocks gave way and a big half-circular entrance appeared in front of them. They entered and the Jutsu completed its second function, sealing the entrance off as Rei created small balls of fire all around to produce light.

That Jutsu was a very useful thing to have in a repertoire. Earth was everywhere and making an underground cave or one inside a mountain as a headquarters was always a useful skill to have.

Rei removed any and all Jutsu affecting Tsunade and saw her revert to a very old woman. She was shriveled and wrinkled. Her body was just skin and bones, making him wince.

"It's even worse than I thought. We need to enter our dimension." He gravely told Konan.

Konan raised her eyebrows at Rei thinking of dragging that woman, Tsunade, into their dimension but she followed with a pout. Rei took out a storage seal and unsealed a square paper of the size of a half of the floor of the room in their apartment. Rei lifted Tsunade's body and carried her into the middle of the key seal on the paper as Konan followed. A chakra engulfed them and with a puff of smoke, they disappeared.

...

In their dimension, an influx of their nature energy swirled around peacefully. The second they appeared, their bodies started to be filled to the brim with the giddy energy, making them smile. It was a very soothing feeling. The complete opposite of what Tsunade felt. The nature energy rammed into her as it recognized her as an intruder and her body started to be destroyed from the inside.

Rei quickly whipped out the sense connecting seal that caused this in the first place and placed it on Tsunade's chest. Konan understood and put her hand on it. Rei activated it and their world... shifted.

The second Rei's and Konan's soul, one, connected, joined soul clashed with Tsunade's, the reaction was very violent.

The entire dimension pulsed. Years the dimension saw no use and only made nature energy stronger, more condensed. By now the energy permeated the air and saturated the entire space. It was clearly VISIBLE even by the n.a.k.e.d eye. The energy was thick and now, now it finally had something that it could fill.

The bodies of the three people as if opened the floodgates as the energy pushed into them, doing the exact same thing it did previously when this happened the first time. Only, purer, stronger, concentrated. This energy BELONGED to Konan and Rei. This energy was in THEIR favor. It did its best to enhance and enforce their bond.

Tsunade's soul didn't have even a shred of a chance. It couldn't hold itself together as it was continuously forcefully ripped to shreds and repatched with parts of Konan's and Rei's big patchwork soul. It slowly started merging with theirs and from Two patchwork souls that made one bigger, quickly became three. The volume... increased. And then it momentarily separated into three parts.

One, the biggest and watery blue, containing a lot of the green and a massive amount of purple parts, was Rei's soul. Anyone skilled in soul magic from some higher world would tell you that what just happened should be impossible. But when the entire dimension pressurizes the soul... many things become possible. The purple parts were calm, collected, and happy. They invitingly welcomed the green bits that danced in delight and utter joy at the merging.

Only then did Rei find out the problem. He saw a small old and dull part of his soul that was green. Green that didn't belong to him and understood. Tsunade Senju was his. She BELONGED to him. How? He had no idea. But her soul craved to join with his and it was slowly killing her.

She must have been close when the mishap happened the first time... Rei thought.

The second part was mostly bluish purple with many patches of watery blue, creating harmony and tranquility. For this soul, this state was natural and pleasant. But when the green pieces started to fill it, they were not rejected. But they were not accepted with the same enthusiasm as Rei's soul did. Konan... accepted Tsunade as her sister-wife. It was abrupt. Too abrupt but... her mind and soul were telling it was a foregone conclusion. There was nothing to do anymore so she grudgingly accepted the woman. But... Konan also sent loads of 'demands' with the parts of her soul. She wanted Tsunade to be obedient, after all. To Rei only, of course.

The last part was the forest green soul. Cracked soul. Damaged. Broken. It was leaking. The piece that joined Rei's soul long ago created a very unpleasant thing. It created a crack that slowly over time weakened Tsunade's existence. Her soul needed mending. Yes, Rei's watery blue and Konan's bluish-purple bits filled it and patched it up, closing the leaks. Tsunade's soul was finally repaired and it took any 'demand' or bond these parts of souls as fish to water.

It wasn't like she HAD to listen to these 'demands' of Konan. Nothing really bound her but the nagging feeling was there. But the connection... Tsunade's mind came to one conclusion only. It couldn't help but feel deep unexplainable affection for Rei. The same Konan felt for him after the mishap with the seal and Konan was firmly placed on the level of Nawaki in her heart. This, however, was a two-way street and Rei and Konan also accepted Tsunade.

But even if Tsunade's soul was now mended, it was still half-empty. Rei knew this would be a problem later on. But for now, Tsunade was stable and will be for years to come. That was what really mattered. She will survive.

The souls re-established themselves, creating a certain hierarchy. Rei's soul gave away most. After all, these talents were on the level of Godly and Supreme. And while the souls received only a diluted version, it was way more than what they could get in this world even from the strongest beings, Otsutsukis. Rei's soul took the lead and bound Tsunade the same way Konan was bound to it. As his 'partner'. Someone unable to betray him. Both Tsunade's and Konan's souls firmly attached to Rei's while creating a 'bridge' between each other.

And then, the tree souls banged together, creating the one big lump of green, purple, and blue. One big soul. And with the souls changed, the outwards changes started.

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Chapter 48 - Ch48. Joining 2

In the dimension, Rei, Konan, and Tsunade were bathed in the swirling nature energy. Their chakra visible, whirling all around. Even Tsunade who was on the verge of dying from chakra exhaustion, had her chakra stores refilled by the energy of the dimension.

The three chakras leaned on each other and started merging, interweaving. Rei's and Konan's chakra no longer contained only two 'ingredients' but now it was made of three, getting even denser than before, heavier.

Their chakra reserves again rose by the factor of five, far surpassing Kage level reserves.

This time, both Rei and Konan were completely aware of the changes and marveled at them. The previous time, their minds couldn't stay coherent from all the energy but now... they saw what happened and Rei was already devising a seal to 'finalize' the change. For years he was drowning in darkness but now, finally a ray of light enlightened him. He finally knew what he needed to know to finish his binding seal and finalize this bond between them, making it iron-clad! To make their souls regain their form as right now, they were open. He had no idea how to describe it more but it was always there. A weak nagging feeling that something is not right.

They both watched Tsunade... the old woman looking around ninety.

"She is old." Konan frowned and Rei chuckled.

"She is in her late twenties." He commented, making Konan gape at him.

Rei leaned forward and tapped with his free arm on the purple diamond on Tsunade's forehead.

"This is the sole reason she is still alive." He saw Konan tilt her head so he elaborated. "When we connected, she must have been close and a piece of her soul was taken from her."

"Ah! So that's why you were so decisive in connecting with her! She was already a part of us!" Konan exclaimed in great surprise.

"Yes," Rei nodded. "she was not a finalized connection but she was a part of us nevertheless. We just never noticed due to the... small amount of her in us."

"Then? What was the problem?" Konan hummed.

"We took too little of her soul. That would be fine. But we didn't give her any of ours. Her soul was 'leaking' for the lack of a better word."

"Leaking... really?" Konan's lips curled into a small smile.

"I really don't have a better term to explain it." Rei shrugged helplessly. "It manifested in her chakra slowly leaking from her body. Sure, she regenerated it but it put a tremendous strain on her body and life force." Rei lovingly put his hand on Tsunade's cheek. "Day by day, she must have felt herself dying but even her lifelong medical experience couldn't save her."

"That's... shuddering thought." Konan bitterly grimaced and decided to be good to Tsunade.

"Her body couldn't keep it up and she was slowly starting to be unable to regenerate her chakra. She herself must have recognized she was dying. It must have taken years." Rei caressed Tsunade's cheek. "She would be dead years ago if not for her stored reserves in the yin seal."

"I see. She was lucky."

"More like dead tired most of the time." Rei snorted as he put his thumb under Tsunade's eye and gently rubbed it, removing a thick layer of make-up. Under Tsunade's eye was a deep black circle. One, a certain future Ichibi Jinchuuriki would be proud of. "Well... it also took a considerable amount of life force from her since there was nothing else holding her body together. She is a Senju. Senju would have her current look if he was around 150-180 years old. You can understand why I freaked out in the tavern."

Konan nodded. To think the woman who was barely thirty lost around a hundred and fifty years' worth of life force. Konan really couldn't help but pity her. She didn' know how much of that is the new bond and how much is her own sincerity but... it didn't matter. The bond was a part of her and she decided to accept it wholeheartedly.

"Oh, finally." Rei smiled as he saw Tsunade's body reverting. He saw the curious look on Konan so he explained with a chuckle. "Her body is regaining her youth. It is oversaturated with nature energy that is making her younger, giving her back her lost life force. And then, making this life force stronger. The Summoning Animals gained intelligence and speech due to nature energy. They live usually in highly saturated places with this energy and can live hundreds, if not thousands of years..." He trailed off as he noticed the look of understanding in Konan's eyes.

"We are similar to them, then." Konan concluded and Rei nodded.

"Yes. That's my conclusion. Tsunade is going through every change our bodies did when we connected. It is enhancing her all over. Her mind, body, and chakra."

Rei finally took his hand away from the connecting seal as he saw the nature energy around them to calm and settle down. The connection was finished.

"We would have lived for hundreds of years on nature energy alone. But now..." He said as he spread his hand to the sides, gesturing to the dimension of green, tall trees and a thin mist of healthy bright greenish glint, made of nature energy. "Now that we have our own source of an unending energy customized for us?" He turned to Konan with a smugly raised eyebrow and the left side of his lips curled in a smirk.

Konan understood he wanted her to finish the statement.

"We are unaging?" She half-answered, half-asked.

"Oh, we do age. Our souls do. But our bodies will stop at our prime. That's why..." He pointed at Tsunade and Konan's eyes widened. She was now looking like a twenty years old woman, her body strong and toned. Konan noted the woman was extremely beautiful and smiled happily. Yes, this woman would do. She started unconsciously caressing Tsunade's head.

"As long as we have our dimension, we won't age." Konan nodded in understanding.

"Yes... that's why I gotta make more seals in order to improve it and us." Rei chuckled. Konan tilted her head.

"Well, I can finally close our bond on a soul level. That will allow me to root our existences deeply in this dimension and connect it to our souls. Right now it would be dangerous..."

"The Uzumaki seals gave you a lot of knowledge and basis for new theories..." Konan grumbled. She didn't understand and didn't like it when Rei talked about something she didn't understand! But she could only sigh in annoyance.

"That they did." Rei snorted. "Uzumaki forbade soul-level sealing a long time ago. But they kept the knowledge. Most of their sealers couldn't pull it off safely anyway. It almost always ended with some deformities, accidents, or most likely death of the target, so they forbid using it. But with my talent? Hah, I can and will pull it off." Rei rolled his eyes. The knowledge about this kind of sealing was hidden very deeply and discreetly in the sealing scrolls in the Kiri Library. It was not even in one scroll. It was strewn through hundreds of them, most of them useless scrolls that wouldn't see any use. But Rei looked through them all and connected the dots. And he found out the most chilling and exciting art. Sealing on the level far above the grandmaster level. Soul and dimensional sealing.

Creating Dimensions... that always made Uzumaki stumped. They wanted to make their own small world and relocate there. Nobody would threaten them there. But their experimental dimension would ALWAYS collapse so they gave up.

Soul-level sealing... It was one of the most powerful things in the entire Narutoverse. Theoretically, creating Bijuu should be possible if only really, really hard. But in practice? Even Uzumaki couldn't pull it off safely. But Rei could. With enough effort… and time.

And now that he saw and sensed the entire process of connection creation when Tsunade joined... He was sure. He was going to make a soul-level seal. A seal that will allow for far too much than just a simple soulbond. He couldn't help but get excited!

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Chapter 49 - Ch49. Tsunade Senju 3

After the end of the second shinobi war, Tsunade left Konoha with her apprentice Shizune. God, were there so many old senile people grumbling about that particular thing!

They all wanted her to be their personal healing tool. But... she was fed-up and left. In the middle of the Council meeting as they were all raving and raking at her, she just up and went away, consequences be damned. The council couldn't help but gape at her.

Tsunade traveled to the Ame no Kuni... And she saw the results of the war. It was disheartening, really. She tried to heal anyone she could as she trained Shizune on the innumerable amounts of injuries there. The girl was shaping up quickly into a good medic.

But... Tsunade couldn't find any clue about the phenomenon she felt during the war. It was only when she was on her wit's end, she met in the market of one town a girl who told her a peculiar story about two kids who grew a tree. It ignited her hope and she instantly checked it out only to find... mokuton. It brought new hope to her life.

Then... the problems started. She was dying. It took her years to find out what the discomfort was but when the first symptoms started, she quickly understood. Her body was slowly starting to lose its ability to replenish her chakra. She didn't know why. She tried everything she knew... but nothing worked!

Eventually, she accepted that her life in this world was coming to an abrupt end but she refused to die before she met the two mokuton users. Somehow even the thought of that made her seethe in rage and stubbornly continue her search no matter her condition.

And so, Tsunade traveled all around Ame once again. Trying to find more clues only to find... nothing.

At least her apprentice, Shizune, was shaping up good. She was ten but already on the level of elite medic-nins of Konoha when it came to iryo-ninjutsu. Tsunade could be proud of that. She left her medical legacy in the form of Shizune.

In the end, Tsunade decided to briefly return to Konoha. She wanted to 'deposit' Shizune back into the village and go on her last wild hunt across the Ame until the reaper claimed her.

But in a stroke of good luck, she could feel a tug. A slight tug on her chakra. When she focused, she found out it was pulling her... somewhere.

After she left Shizune in Konoha, she went to follow that tug as her instincts screamed at her to do so. It surprisingly led her to Mizu no Kuni of all places! Tsunade traveled all over the country following leads. She avoided only Kirigakure. It was frustrating, really.

But finally, after years of traveling around Mizu in various disguises, dragging her utterly exhausted, chakra-depleted self through the towns of the humid country as she visibly aged by the day and her body ached, bones creaked, and muscles weakened... when she thought she would just drop dead on her feet, she finally saw the two figures that plagued her mind for years. She just could feel that it was them, she was looking for. And her heart desired to be in their presence. She instantly approached them and her wish was fulfilled. She met them and was a nervous wreck due to it. Damn, she said the first thing that appeared in her mind! What 'we need to talk'! It was damn embarrassing!

Senju Tsunade... quivered in her boots. The sheer thought made her internally chuckle at her pathetic self. But as she gathered her courage to speak with them... her eyes landed on the man and she froze. Her heart desired to be held by that man. She didn't even know what or why but she deeply wanted it.

Before she could get her head out of the gutter, the man bent her over his shoulder and she, much to her eternal embarrassment, passed out due to the sheer exhaustion. Her body just shut out. And she remembered no more.

...

Tsunade Senju fluttered her eyes open. Slowly, groggily, only to close them quickly. She m.o.a.ned! M.o.a.ned from the sheer pleasure she felt. The feeling of... being rested. She didn't feel at ease and rested for years! A cute yawn tore out of her throat and Tsunade's face split into a beautiful smile. She m.o.a.ned again and giggled at the pleasant feeling of joy that filled her. This was heaven...

Tsunade rolled her body, lying on her side, her cheek burying into the lap of... wait.

She snapped her eyes open and if not for the firm hands that held her body down, she would have jumped to her feet. Her wide, shocked eyes looked in front of her as she regained her clarity.

She saw... Rei. That name sprang up in her mind almost instantly even though she was sure they never introduced themselves to each other.

Rei chuckled at the 'deer in the headlights' expression Tsunade showed. She was madly blushing and he couldn't resist and put his hand on her cheek, stroking it slightly.

He chuckled again when his little affection earned him a satisfied m.o.a.n from Tsunade, making her even more embarrassed as he continued stroking her cheek.

"How do you feel." He asked her tenderly.

"I-, I feel..." Tsunade's breath hitched. She felt... amazing. Young. Energic. Strong. She felt... alive. Tears welled in her eyes and started to stream down her cheeks. The only thing she could hear was the cooing voice of Rei as she bawled her eyes out into his shirt.

"Don't worry, you are alive. Safe." Rei whispered to the distraught woman as he stroked her hair. Tsunade curled into him, her loud wails resounding through the dimension.

When her tears were finally exhausted, Tsunade looked again at Rei.

"What happened." She asked him quietly, sniffing. "How come I am... alive."

"Well, you see..." Rei started explaining the bond and their current situation with an awkward expression.

Hearing everything, Tsunade mulled over it. She was now bound to a ninja from Kiri. It was... baffling but she spent years trying to find him. She would not be deterred by a little set-back like this! She was a Senju! Senju didn't back down!

"I understand." Her expression turned to steeled and determined one. "I will defect for you, then." For her it was a foregone conclusion. If she couldn't keep Konoha and Rei at the same time, she had to choose what was more important to her.

Tsunade saw Rei's jaw drop at her statement and the casual way she said it. Both knew she meant every word thought.

"No, you will not." Rei recollected himself and admonished, putting his index finger to her lips, stopping any and all protests.

Just then a blue-haired woman with a slight smile came closer to them.

Konan. Tsunade's mind supplied. Tsunade returned the smile as she couldn't help but feel happy at seeing the unknown woman. Konan was the same. She decided to be good to Tsunade but it was astonishing that Tsunade's mere presence brought her joy. To a lesser degree than Rei's but it was still noticeable.

"This is..." Rei started introductions.

"Konan." Tsunade interrupted as her lips curled into a calm smile.

"Nice to meet you." Konan stated and Tsunade nodded.

Both women looked at Rei intently.

"If I won't defect from Konoha... how could I stay with you?" Tsunade asked but then blinked as her eyes grew horrified. "I can't be separated from you!" She shouted desperately.

Rei showed a mysterious smile.

"We will do it like this..."

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Chapter 50 - Ch50. How to get your girl accepted into the hidden village full of paranoid killers

The Mizukage stared at Rei while Rei stared at the Mizukage. It was an epic staredown of two wills clashing, neither backing down!

"She is my slave!" Rei exclaimed shamelessly.

The Mizukage blinked and gave a fed-up look at the blond-haired around sixty years old woman with a wrinkled face who promptly snorted at Rei's proclamation. Konan was as always, completely stoic and uncaring about his suffering too. He slowly put his elbows on the desk and started to rub his forehead, trying to prevent his growing headache.

Ah... it's that time of the month again, I see... The Mizukage mentally sighed.

The Mizukage let out and then took a deep breath. He leisurely leaned back into his comfortable fluffy chair, sighing in relief. After a few moments of enjoying the pleasant softness on his back, he again looked at Rei, Konan, and the mysterious old woman with them.

Nodding to himself, he leaned down and opened a drawer. Slowly, he took out his precious smoking pipe, putting it in the middle of his table, right in front of him. He looked at Rei's group for five seconds straight and again nodded to himself as if reassuring his own mind that he is not hallucinating.

He reached to the drawer again and took out his special weed from the Land of Grass. It was a luxury good for very special occasions. At least, until Rei started going to missions. From then on it became a stress relief... and help to forget.

Sigh, being Mizukage is a hard job, maaan~... The Mizukage wistfully thought.

He again looked at Rei's group as he blinked a few times and slowly put his hands into a hand seal.

Rei could swear he heard a quiet 'Kai' before seeing the Mizukage nod to himself again.

The Mizukage, now doubly sure this was really happening, took out a sake bottle from his drawer and put it next to his pipe. He leaned back into his seat and took the pipe into his mouth, chewing on its tip.

"ANBU get out." He lazily drawled in a 'I don't care anymore' tone.

The ANBU hesitated. Not because they were afraid for the safety of Mizukage. Not because of their duty. Nothing so grand. They hesitated because they would miss the entire show, dammit!

"Now." The Mizukage ordered, and the reluctant, scowling ANBU vacated the room.

The Mizukage chilled in his chair, looking between his special weed and his very expensive sake as if he couldn't decide if he should get drunk or high.

His senses still worked though and with the corner of his eye, he noticed that only the old blond-haired woman gave him a knowing sympathetic look. Sigh, she clearly knew his woes. Drunk or high... that's the question. Suddenly, he felt it wouldn't be that bad giving her citizenship. After all, she clearly could relate to his problems.

With a sigh, the Mizukage started speaking, without lifting his gaze from the sake and weed as he curled the tip of his mustache in his hand.

"Rei... remember that mission two years ago where you somehow, and never let me know how or I swear I will use it on you, not henged but outright transformed your fat noblewoman of a client into a small ball of wool to escape your pursuers since she was too fat to run?" The Mizukage dryly chuckled to himself.

"Hehe," Rei chuckled at the image. "I am sorry, Mizukage-sama. I am afraid that was a long time ago."

"Long ago, heh? Indeed, let me refresh your memory... you somehow forgot her still transformed on the porch of her own house... and her cat has strewn the wool all over the porch and the garden. It took two whole days to get her back into the ball and transform her back into human form. Since then, I give you escort missions only when you are the LAST possible choice."

The Mizukage lifted his gaze and saw the confused look in Rei's eyes.

"I see... You forgot." He concluded and took yet another deep breath and his eyes went back to the weed as he smiled and stuffed a bit into his pipe.

"Or that mission year and a half ago where you were tasked to deliver a 'package' to a certain building and you delivered it too fast? ... the one where it was a bomb that due to your speed blew up with our informant still inside? Poor bastard won't ever have children..." The Mizukage puffed on his pipe and chuckled.

"That was not my fault!" Rei indignantly exclaimed.

"True. Nobody thought you would deliver it that fast... Since then I never gave you another delivery mission." Rings of smoke came from the carefree-looking Mizukage with a big lazy smile plastered on his face.

"Oh! Or that one! Where you were sent to interrogate a guy in TI a year prior? Damn... you somehow made him catch dementia, heh."

"To be fair, I was there to interrogate him. Not coddle him." Rei quipped.

The Mizukage nodded in affirmative.

"Since then I gave you no interrogation or torture missions."

The Mizukage smiled in reminiscence.

"Now... we have a similar discussion almost every two months. God forbid, I think it gets more and more frequent! So, Rei, tell me. How long did you study the law book to come with the excuse of her being your slave?" The Mizukage's smile changed into a curious one as he puffed on his pipe but his eyes were not on Rei and the women. He was too busy pouring himself a drink from his expensive sake.

"Around te-, ahem, thirty minutes... or so." Rei scratched his cheek. "But slavery is totally legal here!"

"I see... yes, it is legal. If you are noble." The Mizukage calmly stated, taking a sip from his cup.

"Oh..." Rei blinked. Then his demeanor completely changed and he gave a pleasant smile to Mizukage. "Mizukage-sama, you misunderstood! I meant to say, she is the new babysitter for Mei!"

Tsunade couldn't and burst into giggles as even Konan averted her head and covered her snickers with her palm.

Tsunade came forward and bowed slightly.

"Mizukage-sama, I am nothing much but I know some medical Jutsu. I may help in the hospital."

The Mizukage squinted his eyes at her.

"What's your name again?"

Tsunade gave him a sickly sweet smile with mischievously closed eyes.

"I am Tsuna Yotsuba."

The Mizukage instantly did a spit-take, covering the doc.u.ments on his table in it.

Noooooo! My paperwooooork... Was his first thought.

Shiiiiit! I wasted my expensive sake!... Was his second thought.

Wait, did she just say Yotsuba?... Was his third thought that froze his mind.

He looked at the old wrinkled woman and gave a sheepish Rei an unamused stare.

Here I am showering the guy in young, firm, juicy, healthy, strong, gorgeous kunoichi and he takes an old woman as his wife!?...

The Mizukage wanted to bang his head on the table as he heard Rei's bashful 'Tehehe'.

He laid lifelessly on his table and could almost see his soul leaving him.

"Ya know what? Do what ya want, punk. Just don't cause any more trouble, I beg you!" Anime tears streamed from his eyes.

Wao, he is really Mizukage... Tsunade thought as she watched the eye waterfalls completely soak the full stack of finished paperwork with mirth in her gaze as the man didn't yet notice the catastrophe his tears were causing.

...

Rei and the company left the office as Himeno entered.

"Remind me why don't I just save myself the trouble and offer them defection without being pursued?" The Mizukage grumbled childishly.

"Because they are our S-rank ninja, silly!" Himeno giggled.

"Right..."

Himeno suddenly stopped in her tracks and robotically turned to Mizukage.

"You... smoked?"

Himeno hated it when he smoked. Long ago he promised not to, on the pains of months on the couch-kun. A fate worse than death.

"Himeno? Ah... it's just your imagination, ahaha." He awkwardly rubbed the back of his head, as he tried to hide his weed.

"You..." Himeno looked sweetly at him and the Mizukage did the only thing he could. He slowly slid towards the window, slid it open, and jumped out, running for his life.

Reeeeeeiiiii! Daaaamnnnnnn yoooouuuu! I blaaaameee yoooouuuu! ... He tearfully thought as he evaded sharp ice-spikes.

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Chapter 51 - Ch51. Tsunade and Mei meeting

Rei, Konan, and Tsunade sat around the table in Rei's apartment, waiting for Mei to come from the academy.

"Was it smart to reveal your medical ninjutsu?" Rei asked Tsunade, not really caring.

Tsunade shrugged with a slight smile. She was in her young, normal form without any transformation. Konan told her that she trusts this Mei person so she would too. The entire apartment was filled with privacy seals no ninja in Kiri would be able to bypass so it was safe.

"I revealed my ability to use it. Not the extent. My chakra is looking like a low chunin level thanks to your hiding technique too. As long as I don't use anything too advanced, I will be fine. I did it mostly so I can protect myself if I am ever attacked. We wouldn't want a complete civilian defeating ninja, now, would we?" Tsunade chuckled and took Rei's hand into hers, playing with his fingers with a slight self-indulgent smile.

"Fair enough, Tsu." Rei nodded, making Tsunade blush at the affectionate nickname.

"I also wouldn't want to freeload..." She trailed off only to have her shoulder swatted by Konan.

"You are one of us. Just accept it." Konan reproachfully stated, making Tsunade lower her head, showing her understanding and Konan pecked her cheek for that.

"Good girl."

Tsunade internally squealed. It was so embarrassing! She was the strongest kunoichi of Konoha! And here, she was being verbally juggled by two kids younger than her! But... she wanted to feel Rei's and Konan's affection. She wanted them to tease her. She... oh.

Tsunade abruptly raised her head in a realization as she stared at Rei and Konan in utter shock at the idea of her having these feelings. Not once in her life did she actually feel like this.

"Hm?" Konan tilted her head when she noticed Tsunade's state and distraught.

"I love you." Tsunade blurted out. "Damn, I love you..." She blinked, not really knowing how to react. "I..."

Rei put his finger on her lips with a smirk, silencing her. Tsunade looked at him and her eyes morphed into acceptance. Wanting to be near them and outright loving them without even knowing why... that was a very big jump and it would need a long time for Tsunade to fully accept it. But for now, she wouldn't deceive herself. Her lips stretched into a gentle bashful smile.

Seeing it, Rei leaned forward and fully kissed Tsunade on her lips, startling her. Her hands quickly shot to Rei's shoulders but she didn't...want...to...push. Her hands became powerless as they laid on his shoulders while he played with her tongue and Tsunade just gave in. Her arms sn.a.k.e.d around Rei's mouth and pulled him closer. Rei's hands took hold of Tsunade's cheeks and the two made out for minutes while Konan watched with an amused smile. She supported her chin with her hands, elbows on the table as she enjoyed the happy tingling on her lips. She could feel the sweet taste of Tsunade on them as well as the familiar taste of Rei and it was a very... peculiar feeling. She was only a bit rueful that it was such a delicate feeling she barely perceived it.

Rei and Tsunade separated as Tsunade had a bright satisfied face with a dreamy smile.

"That was... nice." She giggled with a content sigh. It was the first real kiss she received.

"Glad to hear that, Tsu." Rei chuckled and licked his lips. "You are sweet."

Tsunade gulped at that simple compliment. She couldn't help but feel herself getting hot as her mouth filled with saliva and her eyes intently stared at Rei. She bit her lower lip to not blurt out the first thing on her mind.

"Cute too." Konan snickered, making Tsunade blush even more, her face now nearing scarlet.

"Moooo~!" Tsunade let out a whiny sound and averted her eyes to the side as she pouted while petulantly crossing her arms on her chest and sullenly sniffing.

Konan and Rei secretly high-fived under the table with smug smirks as they exchanged subtle knowing looks.

"I am just a little sorry that you will have to wear that transformation technique." Rei refocused on Tsunade and sighed, making Tsunade gently shake her head.

"No. It's alright. Using it to appear old while I am young is much better than using it to appear young when you are actually old."

Both Konan and Rei smiled at her. They had to admit she had a point. It must have been hell to travel the Land of Water with a body nearing two centuries of age.

"Well, after I finished the seal for our bond stabilization, you will be able to spend time in our dimension." Rei said and Tsunade perked up. She really loved the nature energy-filled place. It felt oddly calming to her. Her Senju senses were all tingling!

Just then the door opened and in walked Mei. She ran and embraced Rei while greeting Konan but her eyes stopped at Tsunade. Both stared at each other quietly and Rei was getting awkward as the atmosphere was getting heavier and heavier. The sparks could be almost seen flying between them.

"Hi." They both exclaimed at once.

Mei looked at Konan, her expression openly asking who the blond woman was. She knew she would probably get someone to look after her when Konan and Rei were away. Even Konan told her as much and they expected it to be some Kiri-diehard-loyalist aka dipshit so she was getting mentally ready for it.

"She is Tsuna Yotsuba. Rei's second wife." Konan playfully quipped with a devilish smile and Rei froze. He could feel Mei's hold around his waist getting tighter and tighter as Mei's head snapped to Tsunade and her look was getting stormier and stormier by the second. She was visibly pouting as she glared at Tsunade who enjoyed the spectacle immensely and taunted Mei with a winning smile. The girl was adorable, indeed. She felt they would get along smashingly.

"Don't tease her, Konan." Rei ruffled Mei's hair with twitching lips and stood up as he tried to restrain himself from grinning. "I am going to cook something up."

He was about to step through the door into the kitchen when he heard Mei stomp her foot on the floor with a huff. He turned around and saw Mei intently looking at him, one hand pointing her index finger directly at him while the other was pressed on her hip as she gnashed her teeth at him.

"I will become your wife too! Count on it!" Mei loudly exclaimed with a determined look as both Tsunade and Konan snickered into their palms.

Rei knew that look! It was the horrible, horrible look of a woman that made her mind and won't budge! He better ran to the kitchen after he gave her a helpless shrug! He was only glad there was no 'dattebayo' in that statement!

He would let the girls talk among themselves and get to know each other. Especially Tsunade and Mei as these two would spend a lot of time with each other. He only hoped Tsunade would be a better idol for her than Konan. One Konan-like person was enough in his life. He really didn't crave more of THAT personality.

And who knows, maybe Tsunade would talk Mei out of it? ... He thought.

Oh, he had no idea how far from the truth that was! Tsunade would be a very 'positive' influence, alright!

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Chapter 52 - Ch52. Sealing the bond 1

The seal for finalizing the bond was finished. Rei went all out with it and it became a full-body array that had various seal matrixes.

Quite frankly, anyone without his nature attunement talent would be killed by the seal. Without the nature energy acting as a stabilizer during the sealing, the matrixes would just mash together and clash, making for a very slow and very painful death.

Well... it could be good for executions too!

Even though it would be a waste of ink...

...

Both Tsunade and Konan laid n.a.k.e.d on the grass in Rei's dimension. Konan was calm and peaceful, completely fine with whatever Rei would do to her. Tsunade though...

"Calm down, Tsu-chan." Rei cooed at the quivering woman as his brush caressed her skin. He could see her getting wet but opted to go round and round and completely ignore that conversation for now.

"Ca-cal-calm down!?" Tsunade's shaky frightened eyes looked queasily at Rei. He was painting a killing number of seals on her body and it did NOT make her feel calm or safe! She was no master, barely knowing intermediate stuff that she had to learn for her yin seal but she was aware of how close to death she currently was!

"Shhh." Rei put his free hand on her head. Yes. It made her feel good and protected, alright. But... he was basically using only one hand and focusing on something OTHER than the deadly ink-splotches on her body! Reassured, she was not!

Rei smiled to himself. It was a good idea to do Tsunade first.

She was definitely like a child in the chair of the dentist for the first time.

After an entire hour of painting on her body Rei was finally done.

"It's finished." Rei sighed tiredly but the amus.e.m.e.nt was obvious in his eyes as Tsunade heaved a long sigh of relief. Her entire body was covered in black ink seals.

"You can move, Tsu." Rei told the unmoving woman as multiple times she had to turn around and lie on her belly. The seals were imprinted with a small katon jutsu into her skin the instant they were painted for a lesser error margin. This way, they didn't need to wait for the ink to dry.

Rei moved to Konan.

"Hey, beautiful~."

"Hey yourself..." Konan pouted. "You took an hour to do Tsunade so you could ogle and feel up her chest, right?"

Rei smiled and pinched her sullen cheek, making her look at him in exasperation.

"Of course, I did!" He shamelessly exclaimed, making Tsunade's eyes bulge at him.

"Pervert..." She mumbled quietly to herself yet... a small smile formed on her face as deep down, she was excited Rei found her desirable. She lowered her head in an attempt to hide her smile but her entire demeanor was suddenly brighter so it didn't do much.

Rei's lips twitched upwards as he leaned closer to Konan's ear.

"Good girl." He whispered and patted her head, making her body shudder just from hearing these words. To her, hearing it felt like having an orgasm and she was quite addicted to it already. There was a reason why she always repeated to Mei to be a 'good girl'.

Rei knew she did it to ease Tsunade up so he played along. He really didn't have time to ogle her. She was gorgeous, no, she was way past gorgeous. Her chest wasn't as big as it always seemed in anime but for her small size, it was quite contrasting. It didn't help that her b.r.e.a.s.ts were all perked up and kept their form perfectly. As he said... he really didn't have time to peek, ahem, admire them. Honest!

Rei started painting the seals on Konan who was shamelessly shuddering and enjoying it. Tsunade was looking at the elated expression of Konan through the entire process with an open mouth in a perfect shape of 'O' since the first orgasm Konan had from it.

These two are worse than Jiraiya!... She mentally screamed but her hand sn.a.k.e.d to her slit long ago.

An hour later, Rei finally finished as he wiped the sweat from his eyebrow. As he refocused on the normal world instead of seals, he instantly heard a hot panting and turned around in curiosity. He saw Tsunade playing with herself on the grass, her eyes glazed over and her body covered in a sheen of sweat. He could see that she was no longer 'just' wet but her inner thighs were drenched in her juices and he sweatdropped.

Who the hell is the pervert in this relationship! ... He resisted the urge to mumble it out loud as he looked at Konan and deadpanned.

She was pretty much in the same state except she was not trying to hide it and her eyes were invitingly and hungrily stare at him.

Rei sighed... but didn't resist.

For hours, Tsunade looked in awe as Rei and Konan m.o.a.ned in ecstasy.

...

The trio created a natural bath. They gouged out some earth, covered the hole by two-inch-thick mokuton planks, and filled it with Katon-heated water made by Suiton Jutsu. They relaxed there, the girls laying their heads on Rei's shoulders.

Konan was mewling as her fingers danced up and down Rei's shaft underwater. It was just fleeting, not serious as both were spent but she loved touching and since Mei moved in... their activities suffered.

Rei was still giving some much-needed attention to Tsunade as his hand was sn.a.k.e.d across her back, around her hip, and reached to her p.u.s.s.y. He massaged it, occasionally slipped his fingers inside as he used raiton or suiton to drive her to pleasure-induced madness. He didn't use nature energy as when he tried that for the first time, it instantly clashed with her Senju heritage and Tsunade couldn't move for ten minutes as her mind reeled from the sheer euphoria. Rei knew that using that would break her eventually, no matter how careful he was.

Despite everything, he didn't have s.e.x with Tsunade. She didn't ask for it so he didn't push.

Both girls were still covered in the black seals and looked as if they were used by a tattoo artist for his new exhibition.

"I am, ugh, surprised this, ah, didn't make you p-put, oooh, out..." Tsunade said as he noticed him looking over her seal-filled skin while she felt his fingers inside her, pumping her folds with suiton chakra... she c.u.mmed. She thanked God that she piqued her interest in medical ninjutsu as that was the only reason she could even talk instead of curling into a ball and shivering. Long ago she numbed her nerve endings. Unfortunately or... fortunately, she couldn't decide, it didn't help half as much as she hoped.

"I am a seal master, dear. You covered in seals? It makes me horny, Tsu." He purred into her ear, making her go rigid only to loosen up a second later with a long euphoric m.o.a.n.

"Weird fetishes aside," Rei withdrew his fingers from Tsunade's p.u.s.s.y, making her whimper and look at him pleadingly to which he chuckled. He also stopped groping Konan and instantly felt an intense stare at the back of his head but ignored it even though he felt her grip on his member tighten. They were relaxed and happy, drowning in pleasure for hours on end so now it was time to pay attention.

"Girls, I have to explain what the seals do. You can't go out looking like that." He smirked at them as they showed completely identical pouts.

Raising his hands, he ruffled their hairs simultaneously, making Tsunade curl up and sink to the water up to her nose and release bubbles from her mouth in embarrassment while Konan straightened up and proudly pushed her chest forward, enjoying the touch, shamelessly asking for more with her eyes.

Knowing he had their full attention, Rei pulled his hand away from Konan's head and the tip of his finger pressed tenderly into Konan's upper abdomen, under her chest. She giggled as it tickled her but held her body straight. Rei trailed the finger down, along with an intricate seal matrix.

"This," He circled one of the three seals in the seal matrix. "is a storage seal."

He knew Tsunade wanted to ask but he just pushed her head a bit more downwards with his hand on her head, making her mouth still underwater. She understood. No interruptions.

"It will make you capable of storing things into our dimension." Rei smiled. "Deep underground is a place that is basically the same as a storage seal. Each of us has a set space. To be honest I doubt you would actually manage to fill it all up." He shrugged helplessly as he even tried to store five lakes worth of water but it was still not full and he just gave up and released the water. "The advantage is that it is on your body so you can use it anytime without taking out a scroll. The safety through makes this storage seal be capable only STORE things and things only. The inbuilt storage seal only works for non-living objects as any storage seal. It could get dangerous otherwise. For withdrawal, there is another seal."

Storage seals were never on the body. It was dangerous. If they malfunction, they could shred the poor idiot with a space continuum. Alas, he had the advantage of having his own dimension so he could and DID just that. Even if he had to separate the storing and withdrawing function. Without any harm nor threat to his precious girls.

"Here," His fingers dragged itself to Konan's right lower belly, making her gasp and shiver from the touch. "is a self-storage seal." Rei smiled genially. "It allows you to store yourself without the need for a key entrance seal. But only yourself and each of you has a designated place where you will appear so we won't transfer into each other by some mistake. Additionally, even if you hold or hug somebody, he won't be affected nor transferred by the self-storing. Anyway," He smirked. The next part was his favorite as it basically made it utterly impossible to kill his precious girls. "it is instantaneous. Meaning... anytime you have to retreat from a fight due to whatever reason... you can just store yourself."

Tsunade's eyes widened as she realized just how bullshit that was. No longer was there a fear of being overwhelmed. She could go all in and then just 'poof' away. Her eyes glinted in depression but also gained a steely resolve and determination. She was weak. Weaker than both Konan and Rei. Her only worth was medical knowledge and even that was becoming somewhat obsolete due to the bullshit seals Rei was pulling out of his sleeve. She decided to better herself. To become S-rank not due to her medical knowledge but due to her destructibility!

Rei smiled as he saw the change in Tsunade's eyes and his finger fleetingly caressed Konan's skin as it went to the left side.

"Next is..."

Chapter 53 - Ch53. Sealing the bond 2

Rei smiled as he saw the change in Tsunade's eyes and his finger fleetingly caressed Konan's skin as it went to the left side.

"Next is this little nifty seal." He pressed his finger deeper into Konan's smooth belly, making her m.o.a.n as he smiled at his handiwork. This seal was his true masterpiece and it took the entirety of her left side of her stomach and half of her lower back. It was complicated as heck with many fail-safes but Rei would never neglect something like that and endanger Konan... or Tsunade.

"This is a Multipurpose Withdrawal Seal. MultiW for short. This thing works simply despite being anything but. Firstly, it can withdraw things from your storage area in the dimension. It is keyed to your personal storage. You can withdraw it in the range of ten meters around you... Konan." Rei looked at her as her eyes sparkled at hearing about this seal.

She had MILLIONS of paper slices with seals and it was getting tedious to store them or even create Rei's special storage seals. Just five clones of her were for storage seal-making duty around the clock as the number of her explosive tags increased. She only thanked God and cursed him at the same time that only Rei's storage seals were able to store other seals thanks to the special inbuilt stasis seals that kept them stabilized inside. With this little improvement, she could hold all of her seals inside of one big seal storage in their dimension and use it effectively for battle! It was marvelous! And then she could still keep some storage seals on her papers for more long-ranged surprises! And then...!

Rei leaned in and gently took Konan's lips as he saw her already entering her own world. This quickly got the girl's mind back on track with a visible blush.

"You won't need my storage seals anymore. I am actually thinking of removing the stasis seal as even without it, my design is superior to the normal one and can't be plagiarized unless someone knows English as the intent-imbuement would fail. That seal would have a nice market value... Anyway, back to the topic. I will teach both of you special seals that can connect with your MultiW seal and act as long-range withdrawal. You won't need to keep all these storage seals, Konan. The MultiW seal is VERY adjustable and when you are withdrawing, there are various mentally selected parameters. You can withdraw one slice of paper or even a million, near you, or anywhere in the ten meters radius. It took a long time to get THAT right. With the special connect seal, you can do the same for long-ranged withdrawals of your papers." Rei told the excited girl.

Konan hated organizing her seals, alright! It was a chore! But with this! With this, it was made almost elementary! Storage seals worked on intent. As long as she mentally wanted to withdraw this or that much, it would be done with a push of her chakra. Since the seal would be on her body..." She giggled. Hours would be saved by not having to organize her storage seals. Hours that could be used to show Rei her appreciation!

"But the real masterpiece of MultiW seal is its self-withdrawal function. I made this seal solely with you, Konan," He kissed her temple. "in mind. Let's call the outward Multipurpose Withdrawal seal, the one that is only connecting to the one on your body, a MultiWLink."

Rei saw the amused look in the eyes of his girls and slightly scowled.

"The terminology doesn't matter. You will learn how to make only the MultiWLink. Not MultiW itself. I am sure you will forget its name before the end of this month but it will help me to clarify it and explain what they do better if I differentiate them!"

The girls obediently nodded and stayed wisely silent but couldn't help but giggle. They would forget the name almost instantly. Rei gave them a nonplussed look but sighed and continued.

"So, let's assume you will have several pieces of paper with this MultiWLink seal. You won't be only able to withdraw your paper through it but also yourself if you are in the dimension. The problem is it is not instantaneous so it is not as good in battle as it could be. But it can be used just as well." Rei shrugged. "For Tsunade... a simplified version would be that it works like non-instantaneous Hiraishin of your Uncle Tobirama."

Her eyes went wide. That was a dangerous thing...

"I will be able to teleport myself to my papers." Konan concluded giddily. "If I leave one with you I will be able to always reach you in seconds!" And her Yandere side showed up.

Rei chuckled. "No need for that."

The girls looked at him curiously.

"The MultiW seals on our bodies function as a kind of beacon and MultiWLink seal for each other. You can always transfer into the dimension and from there to each person with the Bond seal. The self-storing also leaves a MultiWLink seal in the place where you store yourself so you can always use that place to reappear there."

"You thought about it a lot, didn't you?" Tsunade quipped as she pushed her upper body up from the water.

"Years." Rei admitted. "I never had a good foundation for it but this Bond Seal is almost perfect."

"And that does what exactly?"

"Ah... it only stabilizes our souls and most importantly, every seal matrix in the Bond seal is made to be on the same level as the Bond Seal... you now have a seal not on your body but on your soul. Even if you position the representation of the seal on your hand and it is chopped off, it wouldn't matter as the soul itself is the canvas for my seal. That's why it was a good foundation. Our souls are interconnected on some level and it was very easy and simple to add these dimension related seals as that dimension is connected to my soul. I am basically a medium for your seals that connect yourselves with my dimension."

"Won't that disturb you?" Tsunade asked worriedly, making Rei shake his head.

"I don't even feel it. Think of it as a tunnel through a mountain. It is there but is a mountain bothered by it? You have a safe passage. No mishap can occur. And I am not bothered by it in any way. It is the ultimate win-win situation."

Tsunade nodded, relieved.

"The Bond seal stabilized our souls... that didn't do much. Except we would have a natural resistance against Genjutsu. Which with our perfect chakra control is actually a very high one. Things that affect the soul like Yamanaka Techniques... I personally wouldn't have the guts to try it on one of us. Wouldn't wanna become a mental cripple." Rei smirked, making the girls giggle.

Tsunade looked at her n.a.k.e.d reflection on the surface of the water and frowned. She didn't care before as she was just feeling too good but...

"What about..." Her hand was gently pressed on her forehead. Her diamond-less forehead.

"Ah... Your chakra storage." Rei nodded and put his free hand on Tsunade's chest, right over the seals on her, above her heart. "I moved it here." Suddenly she could feel 'something' IN her heart that made her breath hitch.

"I must say," Rei gave Tsunade a proud smile that made her calm down and feel butterflies in her belly. "that seal is your best creation. No medical ninjutsu would compare to this seal made up with your intermediate sealing knowledge. I dare say, you would be a prodigy in seals if you actually had an interest in them."

Tsunade snorted and averted her eyes. She hated seals. It was just too... sigh. But she couldn't deny that the praise flattered her. Her beet-red face certainly proved that.

"You created storage for chakra so you can use that for your Creation Rebirth. By the way, that technique is forbidden for you." Rei glared at her and sternly continued. "If you want to use it, you WILL improve it so it won't take ANY life force from you, understood?"

"Hai." Tsunade lowered her head, making Rei nod to himself. At least she knew her shortcomings!

Rei was done with explanations so he pressed his finger on their respective pre-selected places where they wanted to be marked. Konan wanted it on the left side of her lower abdomen while Tsunade wanted it on her right upper arm.

The second he put chakra into the full-body seal, it shrunk and in these places, a tattoo of black rose was left. The same tattoo Rei had on the upper part of his right hand.

The girls looked at him in understanding when they saw their tattoos, making him smirk

"Yes, I already tried the seal on myself. What. You didn't really think I would use you as guinea pigs, did you?" He asked them as if he was questioning if they were retarded or not. Before they could blush, he decided to change the topic. "Back to the Yin Seal... Sure it is only Yin chakra storage but I should be able to tweak it for normal chakra and... Nature energy."

"Why would you do that?" Tsunade tilted her head but immediately understood how idiotic that question sounded. "Ah... sure, bigger reserves but somehow I doubt that's your reason."

Rei's face twisted into a menacing smirk, making Konan's heart flutter as she rested her head on his shoulder now that he didn't pay attention to her.

"Did you ever wonder how it would feel to be like Kinkaku and Ginkaku, just on a bigger, let's say, full bijuu scale?"

Tsunade instantly paled.

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Author note: I really couldn't help myself and add this note. And if I added it the normal way, most would just skip it :D. I want you to listen to my rant, dammit!

Did you actually notice that every freaking Jutsu of Konoha with a big significance was actually either poached from Uzumaki, was a Bloodline of a very select few, or was made by Tobirama?

Or stolen by Uchiha but that's completely irrelevant as even then these little shits couldn't actually use anything else than Sharingan and Katon in the series. No matter how glorified Jutsu thieves they were. For that kind of reputation, their repertoires of Jutsu was depressingly small!

Anyway, back to Tobirama:

The guy MADE Hiraishin - meaning seal master! The guy made Edo Tensei - meaning seal f.u.c.k.i.n.g master! The guy made shadow clones - and wasn't that the most OP shit of Narutoverse!? I mean when someone says Narutoverse, these are the first thing that pops up in my mind... dunno about you.

And that is basically the sum-up of Narutoverse's three most OP skills. EVERY FREAKING OP SHIT WAS MADE BY HIM and he is completely forgotten by Naruto fans.

Plus the guy was a prodigy at Suiton, the best user in the entire world and Konoha doesn't even have any famous suiton users beside him - shame on them! He made an academy. He made Uchiha into a prestigious police force (Even if it would come to bite Konoha in the ass later - imho, if he gave the position to Hyuuga, they would be happy and so much more loyal for it. But Uchiha's wanted more... and more... and more. And when the momentary problems came, it was insta 'let's coup'!)

Every freaking story is a glorified gospel to Minato for 'his' Hiraishin when it actually is NOT his Jutsu. He only improved upon the foundation. Yes, he made it battle-ready but he did NOT invent it. He already had a premade Jutsu that he made more usable. It IS admirable that he was able to do it. But did it beat Edo Tensei or Shadow Clones? Nu-uh. The guy didn't even do that much for Konoha except killing a few thousand at one battlefield. What could he manage to do during the few months of his reign? Nuthing! That's what. Yet, always... Minato, Minato, Minato. Seriously... what did that guy ever accomplish other than f.u.c.k.i.n.g Naruto's life up and bagging Kushina?

Sure he was a Hokage. He had his own accomplishments but celebrating his name due to Hiraishin? Well-duh...

If not Minato, then it is Hashirama for his prowess and Mokuton. God that guy was a dense idiot rivaling Naruto himself. He actually gave away bijuu thinking it would bring peace! No matter the battle-prowess, if your head is empty it is useless...

And then there is good 'grandfather' Hiruzen... uh, that guy just useless and can't compare to ANY of the other Hokages. He is good at being a c.o.c.kroach and his merit was surviving till old age. But notable Jutsu of importance? Pfft. Any contribution to the village's OPness? Double pfft. What he did was being proverbially d.i.c.kled by Danzo the entirety of his reign and completely f.u.c.k.i.e.d up Konoha beyond repair.

Academy sucked. Jonin instructors sucked (IT IS THE TRUTH - just look at THEM. Kakashi the prime example). Civilians sucked... CLANS sucked (I swear, every clan had at least ONE major problem there, Uchiha and Hyuuga at the forefront.). IT WAS PATHETIC.

He just made Itachi slaughter his clan because he couldn't bother sending out his own ANBU and kill off the idiots who wanted to rebel, leaving INNOCENTS alive. (Don't go at me with that revenge bullcrap. He could prove their crimes. He could install Itachi as a patriarch and give the entire burden of calming his clan to him. He could do numerous things that would work. He was a freaking dictator.) But no, he just had to go for full extermination because it would obviously help his kind grandfatherly persona, right?

And that was just the matter with Uchihas. Then there are Hyuuga kidnapping and many more but who cares about those right? Uchihas are mainstream... idiots.

Author's rant done, Peace out!

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Chapter 54 - Ch54. Massage

Rei m.o.a.ned as he felt Tsunade gently press her finger into his n.a.k.e.d back and start to do circular movements, kneading his muscles with her medical chakra. All around were privacy seals so she could stay in her real form.

They were in their training ground 66 and watched as Konan was giving Mei lessons on Doton. The girl instantly spotted the tattoo on Konan and Tsunade and was sullen for three days straight! She had no idea what it was... only that it signified they were married.

Rei smiled as he remembered that but instantly released a heated pant as he felt Tsunade's fingers push into his upper back, slowly sinking her entire palm into it. Her hand was glowing green and the chakra she pushed into him was nothing like suiton one.

It relaxed, loosened, and tensed his muscles continuously and randomly. It felt like being in a very gentle jacuzzi. Tsunade was good. Her medical knowledge certainly hel-

Rei again released a loud yelp as his eyes widened and a long pleasant sigh left his lips. Tsunade grinned as she finally found one of his pressure points. One that would make his body into warm goo.

She was straddling him, sitting on his lower back with her legs around his waist as he laid on the ground with his back bare. She was loving every second of this. She just couldn't get enough of his reactions. Of his m.o.a.ns. The fact that it was her that made him m.o.a.n like that was driving her over the edge more than any s.e.x.u.a.l activity ever could. She was mentally getting off! It made her embarrassed! Proud of herself! Smug! Excited! Satisfied! And so much more, that her emotion-filled mind just registered it as una.d.u.l.terated mental pleasure.

"Wouldn't it be better if you taught Mei Doton?" Tsunade asked offhandedly as she kneaded the muscles on his shoulders.

Rei smiled lazily, enjoying her care for a bit before answering.

"Nah... Konan is better."

"Hm? That's surprising." Tsunade admitted.

"What is?" Rei asked as he felt Tsunade's arms relocate to his upper arms and squeeze his biceps, making them loosen up.

"I always thought you were the ninjutsu expert of the team. No offense but Konan doesn't strike me as someone using anything but her paper." Tsunade hummed.

Rei smiled at that. He realized Tsunade didn't yet know.

"Konan's papers are a Kekkei Tota." He dropped a bomb that made Tsunade stop her hands for a second before they restarted their activity on the sides of his upper torso, pulling, stretching his muscles with devoted care.

Rei knew Tsunade was intently listening and waiting for him to continue so he did.

"She has Doton, Futon, and Suiton affinities." Rei elaborated. "To be honest, she is much better at Doton and Futon than me because she always uses it with her paper. She is natural at it while I am better at Suiton. She never learned Katon nor Raiton so I can't really brag that I am better at them than her." He chuckled and another m.o.a.n tore from his throat as Tsunade's hands softly reached the nape of his neck, sending shivers through his spine.

"Hmm," She hummed, more interested in feeling Rei's body under herself pulse and quiver from her care than listening to Konan's prowess. "I see."

"You should, haa, probably take some lessons in D-, uhh, Doton from Kon-, oh, Konan." Rei said and had to pause several times as the intensity of her medical chakra increased at very specific places.

"Why?" Tsunade huffed, relocating, sliding her crotch on Rei's back until she sat on his posterior and her hands started to massage his lower back. She put her entire palms on his back and with a slight force, pushed upwards across his back. As she reached his shoulders, she did the same thing in reverse, pushing her palms downwards all the while her medical chakra seeped into his muscles, sending a tingling sensation down his entire back. "I am not ninjutsu-person."

"Yes," Rei admitted and m.o.a.ned as he felt her fingers pleasantly dug deeper the second he said it. "but you have Doton and Suiton. You are Senju." He stopped to release another m.o.a.n.

"You want me to get good at Mokuton." Tsunade finished for him in a matter of fact tone, fleetingly dragging her nails across his back, caringly scratching it while activating several pressure points.

"Yes..." Rei told her and felt her medical chakra go through his back, all the way to his heart and lungs as it gently purged any stress from them.

"I wanted to improve my Creation Rebirth." Tsunade sighed but then nodded and followed. "But fine. I will learn it." Her hands were on his h.i.p.s now and she was repeatedly swapping between goading tickling and very soft scratching, slowly driving him mad from how pleasant it felt.

"You... can." Rei told her.

"How?" She hummed. She had a few ideas but if Rei knew...

"Kaguya." He breathed out as he could feel Tsunade delicately kneading his back above his shoulder blades.

"Hmm... Well, their bone creation IS a mystery but..."

"We are in Mizu no Kuni. There are a lot of them. I can get you one." Rei told her.

Tsunade bit her lips. He was proposing human experimentation. She was quite averse to it but...

Rei could feel her hands momentarily falter but then they gained resolve as their massaging intensified.

"Okay." Tsunade resolved herself. If it made her stronger, she would do it. "But please, make sure it is a man around forty. I don't want to dissect a woman, child, or elderly."

"Don't worry." He released a needy breath. "They are savages with male dominant society who still think the best s.e.x is when a couple of them gangbang their females." Rei finished in disgust.

Tsunade pursed her lips. Now any guilt she could have felt for dissecting them left her.

"Why does nobody do anything with that?" She asked softly, pressing her fingers firmly under Rei's shoulder blades, trailing its shape.

"Because their women are no better." Rei sighed. "They are a closet society and their women grew up there. They start to get 'r.a.p.ed' very young, well, it sounds and looks like gangr.a.p.e but really, as Mizukage explained it to me, for them it is a tradition and they are supposedly 'proud' of it."

"Do you actually believe that?" Tsunade snorted.

"I don't know... weirder things are happening than women of a certain clan thinking that the louder she protests and the more men she can handle through the night and actually get pregnant, the higher her status in the clan." Rei shrugged and actually hissed as the abrupt movement dragged Tsunade's medical chakra through his back too fast.

Shit, I almost creamed myself... He blushed.

Tsunade smirked mischievously and Rei started to know hell while being in the seventh heaven simultaneously. She started to drag her chakra quickly across his back with her fingers coursing through it and Rei had to bite his lower lip to not m.o.a.n like a...

"That must be a sad life." Tsunade uncaringly hummed. By now, she was doing it just to get the conversation flowing. She didn't care anymore. But she wanted to see if Rei would manage to answer her in his current state!

Rei sent his raiton chakra to his nerve endings, dulling them slightly, making the pleasure less intense. With a relieved sigh, he almost giggled at the sullen pout of Tsunade.

"But so is being kunoichi..." Rei rolled his eyes, making Tsunade blink. Fair enough.

"I see. As we were raised to be such, they are also raised in their own beliefs."

"Yup."

"Well, then." Tsunade said and Rei thought the massage was over but then he felt Tsunade lean her upper body on him, her b.r.e.a.s.ts melting into his upper back as her well-toned belly pressed to his lower back. And his world melted.

Tsunade's entire body was excluding medical chakra, making Rei m.o.a.n desperately as Tsunade m.o.a.ned on top of him. She felt every single sensation and due to Rei's raiton, she felt it more as she came the second her Jutsu started.

In the end, they both panted as Tsunade laid powerlessly on the top of Rei's back. For the remainder of the afternoon, they watched Mei and Konan play with Doton, unwilling to move.

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Chapter 55 - Ch55. Teaching Mei to throw away her fears

Mei and Rei were in Rei's dimension. In the middle was a big wooden house made from mokuton.

These days, they started feeling quite cramped in the two-bedroom flat so Rei decided that they would use it only as a 'cover' and instead live inside his dimension. It was not like anyone could get through the security seals in his apartment and if anybody came, he had prepared an alert seal.

They couldn't keep this from Mei as she lived with them so the secret was out and Mei was taken to Rei's dimension and even witnessed the Mokuton of Rei and Konan as they raised the house. For now, Mei had a secrecy seal on the upper part of her mouth.

She was all huffy about them keeping this from her and actually had her first childish fit. Rei even had to promise her to take her as his wife to make her stop being angry!

Outtalked by a kid... Rei depressedly thought.

Well, at least he managed to argue that she would first have to be fourteen! Rei was feeling quite betrayed too! Both Tsunade and Konan joined little Mei and verbally ganged up on him! He was literally pushed into a corner and couldn't run!

"Yes, like that!" He exclaimed as he watched Mei produce a small fire through fire chakra alone. The feat was very hard and very draining but it would help her immensely later on in katon Jutsu.

She finally managed it after a week of continuous practice. Rei hugged her tightly and Mei melted into his hug.

Patting her head with a slight smile, Rei spoke.

"Now... I think it is high time to teach you about your Futton."

Mei froze in his embrace. Futton. She remembered vividly how she melted her best friend. The screams, the blood, the melting flesh. She tightly closed her eyes to keep the images away.

Rei seeing it, squatted in front of her, and pressed his lips on her forehead, sending a calming pulse of suiton chakra through her brain. He pulled away and smiled at her.

"It's fine Mei." He ruffled her hair. "Futton is your strongest but most brutal offensive. It will take time for you to get used to it. Will you try, please? For me?"

Mei was conflicted. She was scared and didn't want to use that thing again. But... Rei asked it out of her. She timidly nodded, still trembling.

Rei knew she had trauma and her biggest fear was her futton bloodline but he had to get her out of it. He spent months on getting her to regard him as someone trusted. Someone, she felt safe with. It was time to push and make her accept her powers.

He took the upper part of her hand to his palm and gently turned it upwards, her palm facing the sky as he raised it closer to her mouth.

"You know what to do." He whispered to her.

Mei was scared witless. He wanted her to try it while he held her!? She shook her head in fright, her eyes tightly closed in refusal as she was afraid she would hurt him but his suiton chakra calmed her.

She opened her eyes and her heart froze. She was... bathed in flames. Bright blue flames danced all around the clearing, Rei, herself... but other than a pleasant chill, she felt nothing. The flames also harmlessly flickered, as if lazily all around the clearing.

Rei smiled at her awestruck expression as she looked around. This was the first time he showed her his katon/suiton/nature mix and he felt proud he made the kid all sparky.

"This is my mix of suiton and katon." He told her slowly and Mei's eyes widened even more as she intently listened to Rei. "It is not Kekkei Genkai like yours." He told her, making her slowly nod. "But it is similar. As you see, I can completely control it," He pointed at a tree behind her and Mei turned around only to see a tree slowly freeze, becoming completely white until it shattered into smaller parts. These smaller parts then became smaller and smaller, until only snowy dust remained of the massive tree.

"You can also gain such control. All it needs is a practice." He told the still gaping Mei as she realized just how dangerous these flames were. "So... will you practice with me?" He coaxed her and Mei nodded, somewhat excited.

Rei ruffled her hair again. "Good girl." He smiled at her, making her blush, and their practice of Futton started.

...

Three weeks passed and Mei was 'sparring' with Rei. Her advancement with her futton was almost as fast as Konan's with her paper and by now, Mei could create a somewhat thin mist of acidic mist. She was far away from real boiling mist but it was a start.

Rei didn't make her actually master her katon, suiton, and doton. He only taught her the basics and some of his own exercises that were incredibly hard but would teach her how to properly manipulate her elemental chakra. She would instinctively pick up on her natures as she used her Kekkei Genkai so it was pointless to teach her more.

But... his tutelage already showed as she spewed mist at him when he came closer. He let her hit as always, to make her stop being afraid of melting him. Rei observed that Mei had utter disregard for anything that was not Rei, Konan, and slowly but steadily Tsunade was getting on that list.

When he first brought an animal... she melted it with her acidic mist and didn't even twitch. But when she was to use it on Rei? She was all shaky and stuff. He couldn't have that.

"More output, Mei." He admonished her as his hand grabbed her by the neck and lifted her from the ground. Her legs dangled as she choked. It was quite a familiar sight these days as constricting her neck and preventing her from spitting more mist is the FIRST thing an enemy would do. Rei didn't coddle her and did it too with brutal precision. It showed her swiftly how weak and powerless she was when her neck was held. And while Mei had more often than not had to go to Tsunade to treat a palm-sized bruise on her neck... she slowly learned to not panic and more importantly, to NOT lose control and burn her neck from inside.

Rei had to save her quite a few times when he did it the first time. Fortunately, he had the foresight and pumped a lot of suiton and katon chakra through her neck, offsetting her own bloodline as he grabbed her neck and she lost control. Otherwise, she would melt straight through it from inside. Her Kekkei Genkai was a dangerous thing. While she had unconscious control and protection, once she panicked...

Rei's tactic was simple. He did it so many times, always in a different way, always startling her, making her lose control. As they practiced, he started putting in less and less of his own chakra to offset her own when she lost control and Mei was starting to consciously do what he did with her own chakra. It worked for the last three days, not even once did she burn the inside of her own neck even though he didn't safeguard her anymore.

As his hand held her neck, he had to let her go as her right hand slashed at his wrist with a kunai.

"Good." Rei praised her and his hand quickly struck the kunai, making her drop it while his second hand again violently grabbed her neck while her body was still mid-air.

Mei hated this exercise with passion but she knew exactly what Rei wanted from her. He wanted her to let out her maximum output of futton right into his face as he held her neck. She knew she could do it days ago when she mastered protecting her insides from the mist. Deep down, she was still afraid of hurting Rei though.

Closing her eyes as she choked, she decided to believe in Rei and let out her futton.

Rei suddenly found himself covered in a white translucent mist that irritated his skin slightly before he raised the output of suiton chakra in it, negating the mist.

He let Mei go, making her fall to the ground and start coughing as she gulped the air greedily.

He squatted near her and ruffled her hair.

"That's my girl. Keep it up. Don't be afraid of your own power. Master it."

Mei raised her head, her eyes exhausted from all the choking she was put through today. But she was happy. Her mind was... free. She bathed Rei in her mist and he didn't melt! Her childish mind completely lost all fear for her futton and Rei couldn't help but praise himself.

A brutal method it may be but the girl learned to guard one of her most vital weaknesses and stopped being such a wimp about her bloodline. A win-win in my books... He grinned at her.

"So... up for ramen?"

Mei instantly jumped up and embraced his waist, making him laugh.

"Sure you are. You glutton." He took her into his arms and left towards the house.

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Chapter 56 - Ch56. Tsunade and Hot Springs

Rei and Konan were in the Land of Hotsprings, heading to a mission in Iwa of all places. They were requested by a noble of the Land of Noodles to save his daughter who was kidnapped...

Well, they knew it was a trap the second they were told what was their task.

Even the Mizukage knew as the initial screening showed plainly some fishy movements from the client but... Rei accepted anyway. He was really in a need of a vacation.

They arrived at the capital of the Land of Hotsprings in hours by flying and instantly found the best hot spring, booking entire mixed baths for themselves. Tsunade swiftly arrived through Rei's personal dimension and their vacation started.

Right now, Rei, Konan, and Tsunade were chilling in the hot water together.

Tsunade was drinking sake. She enjoyed it as previously she drank to forget her crappy life but now... now she could properly savor it! Her life was fulfilling, happy, satisfying. Even she herself was surprised when it took her an entire hour to finish one bottle of sake as she savored every drop of it!

Konan was folding origami with her hands, taking her time to make every fold perfect and then she let them float on the water surface. She loved doing this as it always made her relaxed. By now, there were more than five of her flower origami. She made sure to take great care in their creation and it took her at least ten minutes for one. She had nowhere to hurry.

Rei just looked at the n.a.k.e.d beauties sitting near him as their faces were openly showing their contentment. He enjoyed the state of emptiness his head was in. Usually, he always thought about new seals, Jutsu, or things like that. But now... he could turn off. All that mattered was savoring the curves of his two women and relaxing in the hot water.

"Sigh... this is exactly how S-rank missions should be like." He mumbled in satisfaction, making Tsunade chuckle.

The corner of Konan's lips twitched upward and she stood up, slowly walking towards Tsunade. She sat near her and fully smirked at the inquisitive look Tsunade threw her. She took Tsunade's hand as she was about to grab a second bottle of Sake and leaned closer to her ear.

"Don't. It won't feel as good." Konan put her hand on the bottle and prevented Tsunade from taking it.

"Wha-" Tsunade blushed and looked at Konan with a slightly spooked expression.

"You are trying to get drunk to get the courage to sleep with Rei, right?" Konan quietly whispered, giving her a knowing look.

Tsunade blushed crimson red but didn't deny it so Konan continued.

"Go, girl." She slightly nudged her and nudged her again until Tsunade grumbled but listened.

Rei was watching the girls whisper to each other and was wondering what that was about. Then, suddenly, Tsunade stood up and he saw her walking closer to him.

"What's up, Tsu?" He asked her with a smile.

Tsunade blushed and sat on her knees in front of him. He sat waist-deep in the water and Tsunade was also waist deep as she was sitting on her knees. Rei blinked and watched as her shaky hand reached towards his crotch. He didn't try to stop her. They had a few teasings already so this was nothing new.

Tsunade grabbed his member and started to slowly jerk him off. Her expression was priceless as she didn't know if she should feel excited, embarrassed, ashamed, or elated at the feel of his d.i.c.k in her hand. Rei watched her expression, looking directly into her eyes as he enjoyed the good feeling between his legs for minutes to come.

Rei grunted as he could feel himself about to come. Tsunade was moving her hand up and down slowly, teasingly, but she held him firmly in her grasp. It didn't take long until he released his c.u.m into the water, making Tsunade's blush intensify. She didn't act embarrassedly though. She openly smiled at him.

"Sit there." She gestured to the edge of the pond and Rei obeyed. As he sat down, his member was out of the water, still stiff and Tsunade again kneeled in front of him, bending forward as her b.r.e.a.s.ts started to be dragged down by the gravity and took his p.e.n.i.s into her warm mouth.

This was the first time she was giving him a blowjob and Rei could tell she was quite clumsy at it.

Definitely not the legendary sucker yet... Rei joked as he m.o.a.ned from her slim tongue dancing around his shaft.

He arched his head slightly forward so he would see her face as his hands took hold of Tsunade's head and he started to slowly and gently move her back and forth. She immediately understood what she was doing wrong and started to bob her head by herself while releasing wet slurping sounds as her eyes looked upward at Rei's expression.

It was slowly getting better and better until he could feel that Tsunade found out just what spot exactly he liked most and started to make a conscious effort to shower it with care. Her tongue was wetting his c.o.c.k, caressing it all the way up and down his entire shaft while Tsunade kept the head of his c.o.c.k in her throat as she massaged it by constricting and loosening her muscles via gulping.

Rei c.u.mmed with a loud m.o.a.n. His seeds spurted right into her mouth and he could see her wide but delighted eyes as the c.u.m started leaking from it. Tsunade tried to clench her lips around his c.o.c.k to not let the white liquid escape while gulping his c.u.m greedily and still bobbing her head up and down. He could feel the wetness of his seeds and her saliva as she refused to let him out of her mouth. Rei was unable to do anything else but m.o.a.n heatedly as he stroked Tsunade's hair.

Konan watched for half-hour as Tsunade, with enamored expression and eyes narrowed in glee, sucked Rei off, devotedly feeding on his c.u.m. She could understand. Their bond made it taste heavenly and she often did the same in the morning. Rei's pleasure was a pleasant bonus too... Konan watched as Tsunade stood up from the water, insecurely looking at Rei, her eyes begging him to take the action. Rei did and pulled Tsunade into his lap, her feet straddling him as he sat on the edge of the pond as they made out. Konan heard Tsunade grunt as Rei finally slipped inside of the blonde and smirked.

Took her long enough... She mockingly thought as she watched Tsunade's ecstatic face.

Rei had his hands on Tsunade's waist as he pushed her down while she pushed herself up.

"I love your b.r.e.a.s.ts." He told her bluntly and took her left n.i.p.p.l.e into his mouth, making her m.o.a.n while her cheek reddened even more than they already were. Her right b.r.e.a.s.t was bouncing up and down as she rocked her body on his c.o.c.k, squeezing him in her warm folds.

Rei could feel Tsunade start to use her medical chakra inside her p.u.s.s.y and felt intense pleasure in his c.o.c.k. He instantly c.u.mmed into her, making her release a few hitched, shuddering breaths as she for the first time in her life felt c.u.m flooding her p.u.s.s.y.

While she was in that state, Rei didn't stop pushing her body up and down his shaft and even added his raiton chakra through his hands. It started coursing to the nerve endings in her h.i.p.s, making her straighten up and arch her back backward.

Rei didn't want to slip out of her so he quickly leaned forward and his hands sn.a.k.e.d around her torso, hugging her body close to him. Her big b.r.e.a.s.ts were squished on his chest as his mouth pressed on hers and ravaged it.

Tsunade's mind finally cleared and she embraced Rei too, sending her medical chakra to his body through her skin. Both were m.o.a.ning into the other's ear as Rei too sent his raiton chakra to her back, flaring every nerve ending in her spine, down her belly until it finally reached her p.u.s.s.y where it made her let out a high-pitched squeal as her juices violently squirted at Rei's crotch while his d.i.c.k was still in her, filling her up with his seed. They both shuddered in each other's hands with their heads in the crook of each other's neck.

"It w-was i-incredible." Tsunade ground out, still shaking uncontrollably due to the multiple orgasms her body was put through.

"Heh." Rei didn't manage to let out more as he still relished the afterglow.

They held each other for five minutes straight, just cuddling up as Tsunade enjoyed the feeling of Rei inside of her while Rei also enjoyed Tsunade's warmth.

They suddenly pulled slightly apart, both at the same time, and looked into each other's eyes.

"Second round?" They chorused at the same time, blinked at each other, and then chuckled.

Needless to say, Tsunade was quickly put on her back as their lovemaking continued while Konan watched, drinking Tsunade's sake while playing with herself, getting off on Tsunade's heated panting or her ecstatic m.o.a.ns, as she quietly cheered Tsunade on.

She didn't intrude. This moment belonged to Tsunade and she would gladly watch and imprint every second to her memory. Her mind was giddy despite being muddled from orgasming several times due to using her water chakra on herself. She almost couldn't wait to 'remind' Tsunade of this moment! This was great material for future teasing!

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Chapter 57 - Ch57. Border Outpost

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They spent two days in the hotel in the capital of the Land of Hot Springs. Their first day was spent in their booked pond as Rei pounded Tsunade. Simply, they enjoyed each other to the fullest and Tsunade could now embarrassedly say, Rei took her EVERY first and she enjoyed all of it.

The second day, Konan joined in and it made Tsunade so much more embarrassed as she had her p.u.s.s.y eaten out by Konan while Rei pounded the blue-haired vixen from behind. Tsunade also had her first serving of Konan as she returned the favor as she too was being pounded from behind. But her favorite was when she and Konan cared for Rei's c.o.c.k with their tongues, both at the same time from different sides.

Tsunade didn't know why but something about her tongue caressing Rei's member while also licking Konan's tongue made her almost orgasmic. She didn't even need to rub herself much to come...

At the end of their little vacation, she was so embarrassed, she wanted to cry! But she would never regret even a second of it.

Thankfully for her, their time was up and the trio was on their way to the borders of the Land of Fire.

...

Tsunade wanted to visit Konoha. It had been a long time and since she couldn't really go with Rei and Konan to their mission...

It was dangerous for her to be seen fighting alongside someone with Kiri hitai-ate. She didn't really care but Rei had forbidden it so she had to sullenly listen.

Her wish to visit Konoha... she regretted it the second she uttered it. She hasn't even parted with Rei yet and she already missed him! She was dragging her feet, trying to slow their pace down until Rei swept her up on his back and started to piggyback her.

At first, she was disgruntled but then she melted into his back and leaned her head into the crook of his neck, and dozed off. For Tsunade Senju, life was good.

...

"...na..." "Tsu...de" "Tsunade."

"Huh?" Tsunade woke up with a drool coming out of her mouth and sleepy eyes.

"We are almost at the outpost." Rei informed her, making her grumble and mentally curse the border control!

A few miles away, the diligent people of the border outpost suddenly felt a chill run through their spines and decided to not obstruct any moody women today.

"Did you adjust your reserves?" Rei asked Tsunade who shook her head, burrowing her face into his shoulder.

"Then do it." He told her firmly.

Tsunade sullenly groaned but listened and focused and her chakra levels started 'dropping' as nature energy enwrapped them. She stopped when she reached Kage-level reserves.

"I say... my chakra is rising like crazy as of late." Tsunade sighed but it was not in unhappiness. She was very happy at having more chakra. It was just annoying to keep up with the changes.

"Since the Bond Seal, right?" Rei hummed.

"Yeah." Tsunade acknowledged but the question was plainly obvious in her tone.

"Well, the Bond Seals stabilized our souls and their connection." Rei chuckled. "Your chakra is trying to catch up to mine as I have the most of us three. Konan's increased too but you had way less than us so yours is rising at a visible rate."

"Not so visible to me." Tsunade pouted.

Rei had to admit he felt slight pity for her. Her chakra control was superb even before they bonded. Now...

"That's because of the supreme chakra control talent you received after bonding with me. Your already superb chakra control was boosted even more... you just can't perceive the changes in the level of your chakra without consciously checking because you can control it all without any problems. It is natural for you."

They walked for another hour after Tsunade dismounted Rei and as they reached the outpost, they saw a long line of merchants lined up, waiting for their turn to pass through. Rei groaned but Tsunade wasn't even fazed as she grabbed both Konan's and Rei's hand, cheerfully dragging them a bit to the side along the long line while the people lining up stared at them with hostility.

As they were half-way through, one round fat merchant shrieked at them as his face twisted in rage. "Hey! You! Who do you think you are!?"

Tsunade looked at him coldly but the man didn't stop his tirade.

"Even I, the great Sonwa Kung, have to line up! What's the meaning of this!? Huh, peasants!" He tried to appear threatening but Tsunade instead opted to ignore him but then he had to open his mouth again.

"Boy! If you leave the ladies with me for a night, I am willing to be generous and overlook this matter! I advise you to be wise! I am an important person! A noble from the Land of Fire! You offended me and here I am willing to let you go for such a small favor!"

Rei released his killing intent, about to jump at the guy with his sword but Tsunade was faster. She appeared in front of the noble and the world slowed for him. All he could see was a massive fist approaching his head as his mouth started ever so slowly opening before...

The people around watched with horrified gazes as the c.o.c.ky noble from the Land of Fire literally exploded into a bloody soup as Tsunade's fist impacted him. The blood splashed onto the ground and the nearby trees that creaked from the shockwave the punch generated as the ground cracked from the sheer pressure. The convoy of that guy just helplessly stared at the smudge of red on the ground that was left of their previous master with their mouths wide open.

It was then that three genins and one very young jonin landed near Tsunade and looked horrified at their 'client'. Or what was left of him.

One hot-blooded thirteen-years old genin with blond hair rolled up his sleeve and glared at Tsunade while the two others were terrified of her. The idiot was about to jump at her when her cold look landed on him.

"Try it squirt and you will be next." She stated seriously. Her good mood was utterly destroyed so she smashed the man who was responsible. These kids... Konoha-nin or not, she would kill them with extreme prejudice too if they tried to piss her off.

The jonin tensed and was about to prepare for a fight. He looked sixteen, merely a fresh graduate or even an academy student during the war. It looked like he didn't recognize Tsunade. Tsunade was about to smash when...

"Tsu, calm down." Rei's voice halted Tsunade in her tracks.

"Wait for a second, Rei." Tsunade sighed. She would have to knock some sense into these. Rei was right, no need for killing them. She raised her fist but just then, one ANBU appeared between them, one behind the team, and another behind Tsunade.

In each border outpost is stationed a hundred samurais from the Daimyo's army. Then there is one ANBU squad and ten chunin with twenty genins. That was a standard set up for outposts. Then there were ninja-only outposts but those were a different matter entirely as they didn't serve as a passage for civilians.

The poor ANBU who tried to sneak up on Tsunade didn't have a nice day. He didn't even register as he was grabbed by his neck and flung at the guy in between her and the jonin. The jonin wanted to spring up and jump at Tsunade but was promptly stopped by the ANBU behind him as he grabbed his collar, making his leap stop mid-air as the guy flopped onto the ground with his back. Hard.

The ANBU quickly raised his hand in an appeasing manner and the three genins around him gaped.

"Lady Tsunade." He slightly bowed his head, making Tsunade snort.

"Looks like at least someone from Konoha still remembers me." She huffed and crossed her hands on her chest.

"We are sorry for any inconvenience." The ANBU watched his groaning subordinates on the ground and thanked God she didn't use enough force to kill them. He was merely a chunin during the war but he clearly saw how she flung Suna-nin after Suna-nin into each other, making bloody mangled corpses out of them. He saw war but when he watched Tsunade fight, it ceased to be a war. It was carnage. A bloody spectacle. How could he forget... How could he forget the hero who saved them in that desert hell of poison.

"But," The blond hothead pointed at Tsunade, peeved with the treatment the ANBU gave her. "But she killed our client! She killed a noble!"

It was at that time the chunin arrived and stared at the busty blonde in front of them... all instantly recognizing who it was. There was no newbie among them and every one of them saw her at least once during their lifetimes. The genin though, these gasped as they heard someone killed a noble. That was a capital offense!

"So?" Tsunade mockingly looked at the blond genin. Her childishness surfaced.

"So..." The genins gaped at her attitude while even the chunins were baffled but the ANBU just wryly smiled. He knew that Tsunade was unreasonable but this... he had no idea how to proceed.

"Let me tell you one very important thing that Konoha's Hokage and his elders like to 'forget' very, very often even though they are fully aware of it." Tsunade leaned forward, her hands on her h.i.p.s.

"When I am called 'Princess' Tsunade. It is not just a matter of speech, squirt. Senju just never really cared for titles." She lectured the bewildered kid with a condescending tone.

Yup, that's the sober version of canon Tsunade, alright... Rei stared at the change in Tsunade with raised eyebrows while Konan snickered into her palm.

Tsunade didn't care about his reaction though and spun on her heel, walking back to Rei and Konan who were having fun watching the spectacle. The duo was just now noticed by other ninjas.

They of course didn't have their hitai-ate on themselves, rather, it was safely stashed in the storage seal. And even their chakra appeared to be only civilian level.

"Sign I entered the country with two companions. Would you?" She momentarily turned to the 'sensible' ANBU and after he nodded she marched off, dragging Rei and Konan with her as the ninja and the people around gaped.

"That was... Senju Tsunade?" The girl from the genin team looked at her jonin-sensei.

"Seems like it." He grimaced.

The girl looked at the disappearing back of the violent blond woman and did guts pose.

"So cool!"

That day, one girl gained her eternal idol…

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Chapter 58 - Ch58. Number nine

Tsunade left Rei and Konan in the closest town to Konoha and they decided to fly the remainder of the way. As they were getting ready to set off, Rei flashed his nature sensing in order to be sure nobody would spot them and quickly put his hand on Konan's shoulder, stopping her.

"There is a group of veeery suspicious people north of us." He told her.

"Okay?" Konan raised her eyebrow, not knowing why should that bother them but Rei had other plans.

"Come, Konan! This is once in a lifetime opportunity!" Rei exclaimed enthusiastically as he grabbed Konan's hand. He didn't think his luck would be this good! To casually stroll on a mission and even stumble on this event!

They both hopped through the trees until they were almost near the group of 'suspicious people.' Crouching down, they watched from foliage as a group of ninja dragged a small exhausted girl. The girl had her hands tied together and under her eyes were big black circles.

"I am going to get her out, you finish the ninjas." He whispered to Konan and gave her a kiss on her cheek before disappearing. Rei appeared in the middle of the ninjas and grabbed the red-haired girl by her waist as he cut the rope. He instantly jumped back, away from them.

"Who are yo-" One of them screamed but didn't manage to finish.

Konan completely surprised the group as it was dark. She enhanced her papers with doton but didn't make them stay white. The paper changed to brown and in the dark, it was almost invisible. As it flew at the group of five ninjas, three were hit whereas the other two actually could use other senses than sight to locate the papers. These three people were hit with the paper...

One's ribcage completely caved in as the paper impacted him, killing him instantly,

Another had a crushed head as the paper hit him in the forehead and unfortunately for the guy, a tree was behind him so his head exploded due to the pressure the paper put it through as it pushed it against the tree trunk before completely felling the tree with a loud 'thud'. It was a quick death.

The third was the unlucky one. He managed to jump away slightly but in mid-air, his foot was hit, snapping it due to the force. He howled in pain as it shattered the bones in his foot and half of his shin. The guy couldn't fight anymore and just rolled on the ground from pain.

The two who survived started to become afraid as they saw their comrades felled almost instantly and looked around. Neither Rei nor Konan could be seen anymore.

Rei landed on the branch Konan was sitting at and put the girl down. Konan noted, the girl looked at the screaming man with sullen anger, enjoying his misery while pouting at her still bound hands. It was almost cute, she thought.

"Well, let's end it then."

Rei shrugged and pointed his finger at one man who was looking for them.

"Raiton: Chain Lightning."

From his finger blue, sparkling lightning connected his finger with the man as the Jutsu colored the dark forest with a blue hue while lightning cracks reverberated through it.

The man was also a raiton user. He was actually very good at raiton and quickly countered the lightning with his own raiton chakra... only strengthening the Jutsu as it rebounded behind him... to his unsuspecting comrade, frying him completely before snapping in the direction of the last man in the clearing. The one with a shattered foot, also killing him.

The man snapped back as the shouts of his fellow jonin filled the clearing and saw that the Jutsu he 'deflected' hit his friend! His eyes widened. He thought the enemy appeared behind him! Shit...

Alas, his back and momentary distraction were too big of an invitation as a suiton bullet drilled through his chest.

"Well, that would be a job-well-done." He sighed and looked at the redhead who timidly watched him with caution in her exhausted eyes.

Before the girl managed to blink, Rei grabbed her by the collar and leaped down from the tree branch followed by Konan.

The girl's heart started beating like crazy but it took time for her mind to reboot and when it did, she found her feet on the ground, the man who saved her smiling at her gently.

She tried to smile back but she was too exhausted and her body collapsed, falling asleep.

Rei caught the falling body of the girl and put her onto the ground.

"So... what's the point of saving her?" Konan asked, coldly staring at the red-head. "She is not some kind of replacement for Ringo, is she?"

Rei rolled his eyes.

"Nope. This girl is special." He took the hem of the girl's shirt and raised it.

"Hmm, are you going to molest the Miss Special then?" Konan asked with an amused voice.

"Of course not!" Rei exasperatedly answered as he put his palm on the girl's bare stomach.

A seal appeared.

"Here we go, Kyuubi jinchuuriki." Rei giddily smiled and half-turned to Konan who was hit with a realization. "Watch the surroundings and wake me up when somebody approaches us. I would loathe anyone seeing what I am gonna do."

Konan understandingly nodded and Rei turned back to the girl, putting a paper with a seal on her belly directly above her seal as he put his hand on the paper and closed his eyes.

...

He appeared before a big golden cage and smirked.

"Heh, so this is Kushina's mindscape? Kinda like Naruto's." He looked around and saw Kushina's form floating on the water surface a few meters away, out cold.

His gaze turned back to the cage, making him smirk.

"Wow. Mito definitely nailed it." He exclaimed as he saw the big boulder and the fox literally nailed by massive spikes to it, chained with chakra chains with many seal tags. As a seal master he knew. This seal would not weaken. It was a masterpiece, to be honest. Created solely to keep the fox in captivity.

Rei walked behind the bars as if he owned the place, approaching the fox that was curiously looking at him.

"Hello, foxie." He smiled.

"Heh, human... I am going to kill you."

Kurama's chakra lunged at Rei, intent to kill clearly visible in it while Rei only smiled as the chakra vanished the second it came close to him. Kurama's eyes widened but then threateningly narrowed. He roared and sent blast after blast at Rei, violently struggling against its bindings in the impotent, mind-numbing rage it felt.

"Noppe." He pleasantly told the fox as he was finished with his objective. He took hold of the seal functions and tightened the 'leash'. Kurama was completely bound to the builder, unable to even exert his massive chakra.

"Well, here I thought this would be an intellectual debacle, ahem, I mean debate. Alas, I gotta go."

And with that, he disappeared from the seal.

"How long was I gone?" He asked Konan as he swiped the paper from Kushina's belly, a smug smile on his face.

"Half an hour. What did you do? Her seal flared with red chakra as your seal absorbed it." Konan asked.

"I am storing some of our nine-tailed friend's chakra for future references. I would do it with sanbi and rokubi back in Kiri but they always have at least one ANBU around. I know I will have the best opportunity later but finding this girl so far from her village... without guards... Hehehe." He let out a creepy laugh which made Konan deadpan.

"Well, a kid is getting closer while some man is being hidden but follows the kid." She stated.

"Ah... already?" Rei nodded and sat near Kushina as he dragged her shirt down. No need to give these two ideas, right? Rei was sure at least one of them would like that.

...

Another twenty minutes when a blond teenager burst from the foliage, flying directly at Rei only to... find his face pressed into the ground as Rei's hand kept it there.

"Punk, nobody ever taught you it is impolite to just jump at people? Who is your teacher? Some s.e.x.u.a.l offender?" Rei passively asked and could hear someone stumble in the foliage.

This was not yet the Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage. This was a teenager. A hasty one at that.

"I am going to loosen my grip, be a good boy, and don't perv at me too much, kay?"

He could hear a muffled muttering as the boy's head was pressed to the ground and chuckled. The second he let the boy go, he jumped back, landing in a crouch as he unsheathed his tanto.

"Who are you!" The boy asked but Rei ignored him.

"Will the pervy-sage come down alone or is such a strenuous activity too much for you, Jiraiya?"

"Sensei!" Minato was startled as his sensei appeared next to him, his eyes narrowed at Rei. He thought he was hidden well... How did this kid.

Jiraiya was about to jump at the kid when he saw something very disturbing. Thousands of futon papers came floating from all around, felling trees in their path. He stopped in his tracks, knowing this was a very dangerous situation as his eyes trailed to Konan while narrowing. He wasn't afraid for himself. But the two teenagers of Konoha? They would not survive it.

"What do you want..." He sighed.

"I just wanted to know... Minato-kun, is this a mission, or did you really run from the village for her?" Rei jabbed his finger at Kushina.

This was all fishy. If it was a proper mission for reclaiming a jinchuuriki, they would send an entire team of jonin. Not a... genin? Chunin? Whatever he with his lonesome self was.

Just the fact that the losers who kidnapped the girl were supposed to be 'jonin' from Kumo yet fell like flies... Something was fishy here. The idiots were WALKING. Not running away. Not rushing to deliver an important package. They were having a goddamn STROLL.

"That is classified." Jiraiya bit out and Rei laughed.

"Yes, that is clearly a positive answer if I ever heard one." He slapped his knee happily.

"Kid... just don't go out with your 'I didn't help you in the academy because I thought you are a strong tripe', kay? It is a pathetic excuse." Rei snorted, making Minato blush and open his mouth only to close it.

Oh, Rei had no doubt the kid loved Kushina. The fervor he put into his attack as he saw her body lying in front of Rei... He loved the girl, alright. But it was also obviously a recent thing as his hormones started working and she started to look less like a tomboy. During academy, he most likely just didn't care.

"Well, I just wanted to know if Konoha would stoop so low as to manipulate a lonely girl into marrying a ninja who wanted her... well, you being here completely ALONE is a clear answer. If you really rushed out of the village to save her, it would be grounds for defection."

It would f.u.c.k up his career somewhat fierce as the kid was an orphan. Sure, Jiraiya could mitigate it but becoming Hokage would be hard if not impossible after that. There was too much politics involved to pick someone who had 'reckless' in his records.

Before they could answer, the chakra ran out and Rei dissolved into the water while Konan into papers, leaving two gaping men and one unconscious tomato lying on the floor.

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Sooo, you probably noticed I am not going for Kushina.

Reason 1: Plot. Yup. It's that simple.

Reason 2: I just do not like her character. Her a.d.u.l.t character looks... dunno, never really liked it. And that's not talking about her personality...

Reason 3: Had no inspiration as to what to do with her. I wasn't about to write about MC and another woman... Too much work.

Now: It might look like MC left her in the clutches of manipulative people and he did. He owed the girl nothing. But in this story (even if it is not important) Minato loves Kushina and Kushina will fall in love with him regardless of him saving her. Period.

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Chapter 59 - Ch59. Tsunade visiting Konoha.

Tsunade walked through the gates of Konoha but surprisingly, she didn't feel at home at all. She felt... annoyed. The faces of her grandfather and granduncle were the only thing that somewhat soothed her reluctance as she approached the booth with the guards. When she came closer to it, she instantly saw two men sweetly sleeping and her annoyance was again there, rearing its ugly head.

With a twitching eyebrow, she banged her papers on the table, making it shake enough to wake up the two shinobi. They jumped up, prepared for a fight until their sleepy eyes spotted a frowning Tsunade.

"What the hell are you two doing..." She asked darkly, drumming her finger onto her papers. "I don't have all day." She added with a threatening scowl.

The guards looked sheepish and took her papers, their eyes bulging out the second they read her name. While the guards were busy with her papers, she noticed an ANBU departing from behind the booth, most likely heading to inform the Hokage about her arrival. Nevertheless, Tsunade didn't go to greet her Sensei. No, she first went to the Senju compound where she spent hours on end to relocate the entire library, treasury, and anything of use to Rei's dimension or her storage. She cleaned it all. She wasn't feeling generous towards Konoha. Sure, it might have been a village created by her grandfather and even could be called her clan's heritage but… with the current leadership of the village and the Senju clan's extinct status, Tsunade really didn't feel any attachment toward the village.

As she looked at the bare walls and furniture-free rooms of the houses in the Senju compound, Tsunade nodded in self-satisfaction at her handi-work. No scroll was left unturned and even if the village broke through the seals securing the compound, they wouldn't be able to find anything. Tsunade found quite a few marks that somebody indeed did try to get inside the compound in her absence… this, however, only strengthened her belief that the future of her clan no longer lies with Konoha.

"Maybe I should do the same with the Uchiha compound just secretly?" She briefly thought but dismissed the idea as she doubted these egoistical pyromaniacs would have anything useful stashed away.

But now... her reason for returning to Konoha was finished and she couldn't help but feel awkward. This place was once her home. Something she wouldn't mind dying for. But now? Now it was but a painful reminder of her clan that died for the village.

Sure, maybe her ancestors would want her to protect it to pay her respect to them… she was even playing with the idea of destroying it as it was the reason for their demise. For better or worse, Rei disabused that notion quite quickly though. In the end, Tsunade decided to go the third, neutral route and just stop caring about it. She had a new home and the dead will stay dead no matter what befalls Konoha.

At the end of the day, she was about to exit her compound and sullenly walk towards the Hokage Tower when she saw an ANBU waiting for her in front of it.

"What." She asked in irritation, her hands instantly crossing on her chest.

"The Council is calling for you, Lady Tsunade." The ANBU bowed and disappeared.

"So?" She muttered to herself as she looked at the empty spot where the ANBU stood just a second ago. "Tell me, ANBU-san, why should I care what some old inept idiots want? Do I look that free to you?" She told towards the air with untold amus.e.m.e.nt in her tone, knowing full well nobody listened. Being summoned? Why should that be her problem? She was the head of the Senju clan! She can be summoned only by Hokage and even then the old monkey must be polite about it. The council? Ha! No chance.

Tsunade shrugged and decided that it was a great day for some shopping!

...

It was an evening already, six hours later, when Tsunade leisurely walked into the Council Room as her eyes slowly trailed over the forms of very annoyed clan heads, dozing off civilians, Hiruzen smoking his tenth pipe with a twitching eyebrow, the elders looking at her with a murderous glare, and Danzo... being Danzo.

"Tsunade... where were you?" Hiruzen asked as she reached the Senju seat and flopped into it, instantly supporting her head with her arm.

"Home, Shopping, a new restaurant called Ichiraku… damn they have incredible ramen!" Tsunade, with the corner of her eye, noted that only the Akemichi clan head appreciated the comment and quickly tried to discreetly make some sort of 'note'. She continued. "in the park, on the Senju training grounds, trying to find out what changed and then I was asked for autographs. It took time to get out of that." Tsunade dismissively waved her free hand around as she drawled. "Anyway, I thought the civilian council should have been abolished after the war. What are they doing here?" Tsunade uncaringly pointed at the sleepy civilians with her thumb.

The civilians looked at her with spooked eyes while the clan heads just smirked. As they were to get involved, Danzo interrupted. "We are here for a different matter, Tsuna-" Before he could finish the killing intent of Tsunade flooded the place and he stopped himself to reword it. "Senju-san." Tsunade grunted and gestured a 'get on with it' with her hand.

"We think it is time for you to come back to the village and marry." Koharu stated.

"And is that something a woman whose husband supposedly hung 'himself' should be telling me?" Tsunade quipped in annoyance with an apparent smirk on her face, making Koharu blanch as even Hiruzen flinched slightly. That was a low blow if he saw one. "Anyone with half a brain knows he had external 'help' councilwoman Koharu." Tsunade added, making the civilians give Koharu suspicious stares.

Damn, Konan is really a bad influence... Tsunade thinned her lips to at least somehow hide the smirk. Just then she was pulled out of her thoughts by the elder Homura. "Senju-san, you are the last breedable Senju. It is your duty to Konoha to-"

"To make sure my clan is never going to be a part of it ever again." She chuckled, startling all clan heads and even Danzo widened his eyes slightly at that despite knowing why she fought it so much. Hiruzen, on the other hand, looked at Tsunade with pity. He had to praise her though. Her transformation was really impressive! Even he was unable to see through it. Just... he thought she would choose a look closer to her age. Contrary to his thoughts, this was her real look. Her prime, twenty-two years old body.

"I had a LOT of time to think you see..." Tsunade sighed as she continued talking but her tone turned cold. "There is no one with Senju blood in Konoha but me. And you want ME to marry?"

"Well, that's obvious. That's why you are integrated into CRA." Uchiha clan head sneered at her as if she was stupid, making her chuckle at the idiot.

"I pity your simplemindedness. Stupidity runs in your blood, huh?" She mocked as if talking to a child, making the man bristle. She didn't give him time to counterattack though. Turning to her Sensei, her eyes narrowed. "Senju was the most intermarried clan of Konoha. Almost every clan had a Senju married to it at one point or the other." It was then that the minds of the clan heads clicked. Their eyes snapped to Tsunade as they widened.

"I meant it when I said there is literally NOBODY with Senju blood in Konoha." Tsunade seriously told them, observing Hiruzen intently. "Ten years. That's how long it took for this to happen. The Senju, the intermarried Senju, and even any kid with Senju blood. Plus civilians. All gone. In ten years. Do I need to ask how exactly that came to be?" She then turned towards the Uchiha clan head who was now staring at her with wide eyes. "What about you Uchiha? If Senju took a decade while being spread through the entirety of Konoha and had members in every clan… how long would it take for your inbred clan that is concentrated in a single spot to be culled out? A day?" In the middle of her sentence, her eyes clashed with Hiruzen's.

The room was silent at that. Clan Heads feared extinction more than death itself but none were foolish enough to think that a complete blood purge could be 'natural'. Their looks got wary as they watched the stare-off between Tsunade and Hiruzen.

In the end, Hiruzen in the end slumped down and sighed. "We noticed the unnatural death rates and accidents of the Senju clan. But... the culprit was never found." He told Tsunade who barked out a sarcastic laugh at him.

"So you did know!... and it didn't occur to you to inform us about it? You let Senju die out." Tsunade chuckled as she said that and wiped a tear from the corner of her eye. "You know what... don't answer. I am outta this shithole." She said and stood up, leaving the chambers.

An ANBU tried to intercept her path but Tsunade was way past the point of coddling anyone and directly smashed the ANBU through three walls, utterly breaking his body. After that, no other ANBU stopped her. Nor did the councilors or the Hokage who were awkwardly staring at her disappearing back.

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Chapter 60 - Ch60. Confrontation

Tsunade was walking out of Konoha for an hour already. She was not there even for a day and her mood was already f.u.c.k.i.e.d up. She was so angry, she decided to take a bit of a stroll through the forests her grandfather created to cool her head. She wasn't really angry that Sarutobi didn't stop her clan from going extinct. She was mad he allowed her brother to go out of the village even after knowing that somebody was hunting for Senju for a DECADE.

She didn't really think her Sensei would know about the Senju 'purge'. She wanted to believe in him. Believe that he would inform the clan if it was true. But Konan and Rei had a very plausible and chilling hypothesis. They both told her it is only their guess but... she wanted to make sure. It WAS very suspicious, indeed. When she told the councilors that she was sightseeing, she meant more of 'research in the hospital' kind of sightseeing. Yes... Rei was right. There was nobody with Senju blood left in the Konoha. At all. Every descendant was killed. To the last child.

She knew Senju were dead. But it didn't mean extinct. There was still that minuscule chance their blood in the village would awaken again. But now... she could only shake her head. First Konoha let her clan die and then wanted HER to be a baby factory for their loyal ninjas to enjoy themselves. She really didn't know what to be more disappointed about.

Worse yet… it was obvious the 'Senju-hunter' was somebody FROM Konoha as there was no way an outsider would get enough intel to pinpoint every Senju. The only way to do that was blood tests… and that meant the one responsible for her clan's demise IS on the Council and WAS in the room when she spoke the truth about the REAL state of her clan. Tsunade was only sure it was not the Hokage as the man was basically worshipping the ground her granduncle walked on. He would rather kill himself than do this. She would suspect the Uchiha-twerp but… she doubted he had enough brain cells left to do something as elaborate as this.

In the end, it was pointless to think about it. Tsunade wasn't even that interested in 'who' and she could imagine multiple 'why'. As for revenge? What would that accomplish? Her heart demanded her to return to Rei's side rather than plot a pointless witch-hunt in Konoha. It was just not worth the effort.

As she was walking away from Konoha on her own two feet, suddenly ten ninja in white masks surrounded her. By now, Tsunade was aware they were following her for minutes. Since Rei started teaching her how to 'control' nature energy, her sensory abilities improved tremendously. She could have just teleported away but she was too interested in what they wanted.

One of the ninja stepped forward and spoke in a monotonous voice that lacked emotions. "Tsunade-sama. Please return and join CRA or we will be forced to make you participate forcefully." Tsunade was a bit disturbed how… dead, the man sounded but in the end, she derisively snorted. She had just about enough for one day of bullshit.

Bending forward, her fist smashed into the ground.

...

In Konoha, Hiruzen was sighing in sadness at the way his student departed. He looked through the window at his village and couldn't help but wonder if he did something wrong. Just then a huge cloud of dust rose a bit away from the village up to the sky. He recognized it. How could he not when he saw it just on a smaller scale almost daily!

"Tsunade!"

His heart almost jumped out of his throat as he quickly grabbed his armor and ran out of his office, towards the place.

…

The impact of the punch smashed the ground in a radius of hundred meters, making it break. Thanks to her sensory abilities, Tsunade knew nine of the men jumped up before the impact and only one of the ten was affected by it. Ironically it was the idiot that spoke as that action proved to be distracting enough for him to not react on time. The kinetic force she spread through the ground was so fast and strong that it shattered his legs upon contact. She straightened up and crossed her arms. All around, only dust could be seen, and she was quite certain her opponents would use this to attack her.

She was obviously correct as three seconds later, four men with small tantos jumped at 'her' through the dust only to find the spot, she was previously on, empty. They momentarily looked at each other before they heard creaking and felt themselves being squeezed… darkness claimed them.

Tsunade looked at her handiwork as the four men were now trapped in woody vines that spiraled around their bodies, binding them while putting tremendous pressure on them. Tsunade was aware that while Rei might not do it intentionally, his stories about various Jutsu used by some people she was not even sure 'existed'... helped her incredibly with inspiration for Jutsu. For example the Suna Jinchuuriki he was talking about. Tsunade was sure the jinchuuriki containing the Ichibi was a monk who was locked away his entire life but Rei said he could use sand to wrap people in it and squeeze them to death. She had no idea where he got that information but it was VERY inspiring!

More woody vines sprang up from the ground due to her feeding the ground with her mokuton chakra and the remaining men were dragged towards her location by them like ragdolls, smashing to the ground, trees, or each other. She just walked towards a nearby trunk of a tree that fell when her punch impacted the ground and leisurely sat on it. Her eyes were looking at the bodies trapped inside thick vines, all ten of them, as she reached towards the head of the guy with shattered legs. She took the mask of the idiot who spoke into her hands and looked at it with a frown.

"I don't know who sent you... but I don't care." She spoke in a very uncaring and cold tone before the vines constricted… The Root ANBU exploded into a bloody pulp as blood covered the clearing, squirting out of the gaps between the vines as they squeezed the men before promptly vanishing into the ground, leaving only smears and very mangled remains of corpses behind.

...

Koichi was a sensor. He was the so-called eternal Chunin, aged 75. He still played ninja because he found it fun to flex his impeccable sensing skills from time to time! But right now… he was positively elated! His sensory abilities were praised even by the second Hokage and he had indeed incredible range. But… he had to gulp as he sensed what exactly happened in front of them.

"Oi! Koichi, sense something yet?" His teammate asked him, making him purse his lips but...

"No. Nothing, sorry." Koichi shook his head. His eyes teared up as he felt the nostalgic pulse of Mokuton Chakra. The very same he last felt from the man he respected most, Hashirama Senju.

A few minutes later, they came to a clearing and saw Tsunade sit on a thick trunk, playing with a white mask in her hand. All around were bloody puddles, making the shinobi gulp as they smelt the blood in the air. Koichi was looking around but surprisingly, no evidence of Mokuton could be found in the vicinity.

Tsunade-sama, your secret is safe with me. I am sure Hashirama-sama would be proud of you!... He thought as a slight smile appeared on his face only to change into a frown as one ANBU stepped forward with quite a condescending attitude.

"Senju, what happened?" The ANBU asked her somewhat haughtily. Uchiha, most likely and a young one at that, Koichi noted. No sane or experienced person would confront Senju Tsunade while her mood was clearly murder-happy! While shinobi were not sanest of the sort, they compensated with experience… and now was NOT the time to act like a d.i.c.k!

"This happened." Tsunade boredly said, gesturing to the mangled corpses strewn around the clearing as she lifted her eyes to the ANBU and lazily threw the mask in her hand to him. Koichi saw the young Uchiha ANBU about to smugly catch the slowly flying mask when... the mask somehow 'overpowered' the man and flung him to the tree behind him due to the force of the throw. The tree creaked and broke as the body of the ninja powerlessly flopped to the ground alongside the now broken tree. Thankfully, the man had chakra reinforcement and armor on so he survived.

Tsunade didn't care and turned to the remaining ANBU and Koichi shuddered at her impassionate gaze. "Tell the Hokage that if one more ninja from Konoha attacks me, you will have a new Sanin defecting." Tsunade said and stood up while patting the dust from her thighs away. "Tell him to call me only if something really important happened... like a war. I am sure Jiraiya would be able to find me if I am needed." She turned around and was about to walk away.

"And if not?" The Sandaime's voice sounded from behind Koichi's group, making her stop but not turn around.

"Then that would mean you don't need me half as much as you think if you can't even spend resources to find me." She grunted and continued forward, heedless of Sarutobi's sad expression.

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Chapter 61 - Ch61. Vs. Hanzo

Rei and Konan were in the Land of Rain on a quick detour when Tsunade suddenly popped next to them. Rei raised his eyebrow at her and asked. "Done in Konoha? That was fast." Tsunade pouted at his sarcasm and embraced him. As she hung around his neck, she started complaining about her time in Konoha, making Rei laugh a bit. He patted the head of the sullen small blonde in his arms. "Ma~, ma~, it's fine." He bemusedly told her.

"You going to fight Hanzo?" Tsunade asked as she saw Amegakure a few miles in front of them. She also noted that neither Rei nor Konan had their hitai-ate on them. Ame was isolated so not many rumors would be able to escape it but it seemed like they were overly prepared.

"Yup." Rei nodded. "There should be a salamander that could help you with Creation Rebirth."

As Tsunade heard him saying they are going to face Hanzo for her... She couldn't help but feel her heart flutter. Her expression softened as a determined look entered her eyes. "I will fight too!" She half-expected to be rebuffed but to her surprise, Rei only nodded.

"Sure." He shrugged. For Rei, Tsunade was strong enough to get out of this fight alive even without her Creation Rebirth. She was a lot stronger than before after their training.

The trio finally arrived near the Amegakure and didn't have to wait long after they flexed their chakra. At first, ten jonin of Ame appeared to question them about their intentions but before they could speak, Rei sent ten needles formed out of Raiton chakra, killing nine of them while the last one barely evaded and shunshined away.

Rei didn't mimic the Chidori techniques of Sasuke. How could he? Sasuke was not born yet! It was obviously his original, right!? Hell, Kakashi didn't even invent Chidori yet! Obviously, the Jutsu was invented by Rei! What original of Kakashi! The kid obviously only copied it from yours truly! Muhahaha!

It didn't take long for an entire army of two hundred Ame-nin appearing in front of them and… Rei and Konan just molded their suiton chakra while Tsunade weaved hand seals. "Suiton: Tsunami Stream." Three voices chorused as the water all around them lifted and five meters high, crushing waves covered the small army rushing at them.

"Well, but seriously. When will the last boss appear." Rei mumbled.

...

Hanzo in his tower frowned. He saw what happened and could only sigh. No matter how many he would send, they would be drowned by these three assailants. He couldn't see them well but... obviously, three suiton users in a country perpetually covered in water was a dangerous combo. There was only one conclusion. He had to get involved himself so with another sigh, he was off to face these insolent twerps.

It didn't take him long. He arrived in front of the intruders quite fast but was surprised by what he saw. The blond woman and the pale-blond kid were making out! Now... now he felt insulted. But he was a patient AND polite man. He waited until they finished. He would give them time for their last kiss. Did he mention he was generous too?

Five minutes later… "Oi..." He was not THAT generous!

Rei finally stopped licking Tsunade's mouth as he heard an annoyed voice from behind him. He turned only to see an old man with a breathing mask who was looking at them with a deadpan stare as his eyebrow twitched. "Oh? Sorry old man. We are a bit preoccupied now. Could you come later?" Rei asked politely, discreetly preparing for a fight.

"No." Hanzo answered in deadpan but then his eyes trailed to the blond woman and he squinted. "You... the Senju?" He looked at her as if she was stupid. "Didn't you receive enough of a beating the last time we met, girl?" He asked her mockingly, remembering her temper from the last time.

Tsunade just uncaringly shrugged, startling Hanzo. "Don't care..." As she said that, thick tree trunks sprang from the ground around Hanzo and their branches attacked him. He was bewildered but managed to dodge as he saw the flatlands near his village being changed to a forest.

Grumbling, he took out his kusarigama and enhanced it with futon chakra as he mowed tree after tree in his vicinity. He suddenly found himself a target for a big fireball and clapped his hands, calling forth a Waterwall. A sizzling sound resounded through the newly-made forest as the fireball met waterwall and vapor started being created, covering the forest in a mist. Konan used that mist to discreetly move her papers all over the forest, making sure they were unseen by Hanzo.

They were fighting while trying to not use any of their signature Jutsu. Rei was good at this as he revealed only his Suiton, Raiton, and kenjutsu so far but her? She had at most her doton and futon Jutsu and those were quite limited.

Hanzo leaped up as he felt danger and a second later, ten water needles impacted the place he previously stood. "Heh, nice dodge." Rei's voice resounded through the mist.

Hanzo was about to reply when his feet landed on a branch and... he only barely managed to jump away while coating his feet in suiton chakra to prevent damage as the branch exploded. "Paper tags... now that's insulting." Hanzo commented dryly. Paper tags were the basics of basics. To use them against him... He couldn't help but praise them mentally. He landed on the ground and threw his kusarigama to the right, making it vanish in the mist.

Rei was about to unleash a raiton Jutsu as Hanzo stood in a puddle of water but he had to dodge to the left as kusarigama suddenly flew at him. "F.u.c.k, he can sense me?" Rei was quite bewildered but didn't have time to ponder as the chain connected to the kusarigama jerked and the blade flew at him. He blocked it with a kunai and leaped back but the kusarigama's chain again pulsed and the weapon just followed Rei while he blocked its slashes and weaved through the trees but was unable to shake off the scythe.

"You are too green..." Hanzo chuckled as Rei had to use supreme effort to evade his technique but then his eyes went wide. "Shit." He exclaimed as he sidestepped a downward punch from Tsunade and saw as the ground in the entire surroundings broke, creating large pieces of the earth that rose at the pressure the punch exerted onto the ground. "Ah... you did have massive strength, didn't you?" Hanzo said when he landed a bit away and instantly threw a kunai behind himself. "Sneaking? That won't wo-"

'Boom'.

Away from the battlefield, Konan chuckled. "Simple always works."

Hanzo coughed as he felt his back slightly burned, anger flooding him. "Paper tags again..." He grumbled as he unsheathed his second kusarigama and blocked a flurry of shuriken enhanced by futon chakra in instant only to spin on his heel and block Rei's kunai.

The two men stood and tried to overpower each other. "You are good, kid." Hanzo praised but then noted the smile on Rei and read his lips. His eyes opened wide as...

'Boom'.

The real Rei, a bit away, chuckled. "Third time he fell for it!" He turned to Konan and high-fived while Tsunade could only chuckle.

Hanzo's eye was twitching as the dust cleared. He was not injured. He could block a freaking paper tag! That's academy level stuff! Or at least, it should be! He had enough proficiency in the suiton to do so. But it was annoying as heck... his reputation was suffering! Sighing, he put his hands together, his index fingers pointing upwards. "You asked for it, brats." He started quickly weaving hand signs and ended it with crouching and powerfully pushing his right palm into the water on the ground.

"Suiton: Shredding Wave."

Rei and Konan cursed as they felt the chakra fluctuate and a huge amount of suiton chakra was pushed into the Jutsu. Rei knew that Tsunade couldn't yet sense that well through the nature energy to distinguish what Jutsu was used as she focused more on Mokuton so he jumped to her and took her in a princess carry before jumping up, where Konan already formed a platform of papers.

They could only watch as the very small amount of water on the ground suddenly pulsed, and from Hanzo's position as its center, it spread in ripple-like motion to the surroundings, gathering more and more water, rising up to the level of a human chest. Despite being only that high, the wave of water was so pressurized, it literally shredded through the mokuton trees and the forest Tsunade built, started falling down.

"Damn... that was a blow below the belt if I see one." Rei commented while Konan nodded as Tsunade could only wryly smile. That single Jutsu covered a few hundred meters radius. It was the true testament to just how much Hanzo played with them during the fight.

Hanzo casually stood on the ground among the felled trees and cooly looked at the paper platform as he spun his kusarigama lazily, not drained or tired at all. "Well..." He started. "This is entertaining and all but I can't have you rampaging around MY village, you see. You will just have to be good kids and die." He stopped his spinning kusarigama and stuck it into the ground as his hands started weaving hand signs. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He smashed his palm onto the ground and Rei smirked.

"Finally." Rei quietly muttered. "The rest is yours, Konan." Rei enhanced his body with raiton chakra and jumped towards the summoned Salamander. Their goal was finally reached.

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Chapter 62 - Ch62. Rain 1

As the summoned salamander was about to ask why he was summoned, Rei, coated in raiton chakra, entered its mouth.

The salamander quickly closed it due to the unexpected feeling.

Rei didn't need to do much. He only jabbed Chidori through the insides of the salamander and...

Hanzo gaped as the salamander boss summon, his personal salamander, was minced from inside by lightning jutsu and then went 'puff'.

When Konan saw Rei safely enter the Salamander Summoning Realm, she turned to Tsunade.

"Go and enter our dimension. I will be there in a second."

Tsunade wanted to protest but something in Konan's voice stopped her. Konan was completely serious and it was clear nothing short of total obedience would be tolerated. It was the same kind of voice her uncle Tobirama used on her when she pulled on his hair as a kind...

Tsunade shuddered but nodded with utmost seriousness as she used the Self-Storing seal on her body to pop herself away.

Konan smiled as she saw Tsunade disappear and turned to Hanzo who was glaring at her.

"Girl! Do you know what you just did!?" He coldly shouted. He tried to spark a conversation while he molded his chakra for a finishing move.

Konan didn't care and just cracked a slight smile as she put her hand next to her face and pointed upwards. It was a calm, and amused gesture that made Hanzo's have a bad premonition.

He slightly arched his head back so he could look up without losing sight of Konan. His eyes squinted and his confusion turned into a confused one as he saw... black clouds.

It was the exact same black clouds that covered Amegakure all year long, showering it with rain. He pursed his lips and looked at Konan, about to mock her when his senses felt 'it', making his head snap back onto the sky with his eyes widened.

"You didn't think I just stood back without doing anything, did you?" Hanzo heard the amused voice of the girl but couldn't bring himself to care. He had bigger problems than her.

His respiration mask almost dropped on the floor as he saw it.

The clouds were torn apart due to sheer wind pressure, stopping the ever-present rain for the first time in months. But it was not the sky that greeted Hanzo's sight. Far from it...

He gulped as he saw hundred house-sized brown balls of rock falling from the sky as flames licked their surface, creating a fiery spectacle aimed straight at him. The wind was visibly washing over the meteorites as they pushed their way through it.

"Well then, I will be off. Good luck." Konan uttered in a smug tone and ported herself away.

Hanzo's head snapped onto the spot Konan just disappeared from and he cursed. He didn't have time! His hands snapped into a rapid flurry of hand seals as he started raising a wall of the earth after a wall of earth to make the surface as uneven as possible in the hope to mitigate the damage this would cause his village!

These 'meteorites' were worse than normal ones. They were a ball made of Konan's doton-hardened slices of paper. Millions of them stacked on each other to create a heavy and hard ball. Konan would never be able to use this without the MultiW seal, Rei's dimension for creating Mokuton Trees, and her Mokuton to paper conversion.

It was a lot harder than normal earth, rock, almost surpassing metal or steel in hardness. Something like this impacting earth at high velocity...

For the first time in the history of the Land of Ame... the heavens rained fire and earth.

And then... the flaming meteorites impacted the ground, completely snapping any earth construct Hanzo was capable of making in the short twenty seconds he had. Loud booming explosions could be heard as one after the other, the meteorites landed, creating large craters due to the sheer speed they attained by falling. Shockwaves spread away from the landing-place, destroying everything in their path as pieces of earth flew all around in a flurry of dangerous and fast projectiles, most of them set on fire.

The clearing in front of Amegakure changed to fiery hell as more and more flaming rocks were sent all around, setting the previously created forest on fire, creating a maelstrom of an inferno that ferociously devoured the strong Mokuton trees.

Fortunately for the Amegakure, it had its own sealing protections and some capable ninja as walls of earth and water raised almost instantly, in the hope to mitigate some of the damage. The ground trembled as if in pain from the impact, creating the first-ever earthquake Amegakure experienced. Shinobi barely managed to stay on their feet while the unfortunate idiots who stayed on the streets, gawking at the spectacles instead of hiding inside, were sent rolling and sprawling on the ground.

But even then, the shockwaves came just a bit later and tore through the defensive Jutsu as a knife through butter, and as weakened as they were from it, they impacted the closest part of the village to the landing place of the meteorites. The civilians on the ground were again lifted to the air as they powerlessly sailed, stopping only when their bodies crashed into some obstacles while the shinobi tried to brace themselves as the wind pressure made them slid back across the ground. The buildings creaked from the strong pressure, making the people inside weep and shake in their boots from fear of the buildings falling on their heads.

It took an entire minute for the booming sounds of meteorites impacting the ground to finally cease. This minute was a nightmare for the inhabitants of the Amegakure as with every second, the earthquake got only stronger, with every second, another shockwave hit the village, with every second, the buildings groaned stronger and stronger from the pressure.

It was a miracle no major damage was caused to the village and none of the fiery debris created by the impact actually reached the village.

The Amegakure survived. Frightened, marked, traumatized... but survived.

The clearing in front of it though, the very same clearing that now had no trees as every single one burned down... now contained a multitude of craters and dents. A stark reminder of what could have been if the meteorite shower landed a bit closer to the village.

Hanzo's head suddenly popped out of the ground in the central crater, making his heart tighten as he saw the amount of destruction all around. He barely managed to use the Hiding as a Mole technique to burry himself deep enough to come out of this almost unscathed. But even then, the pressure of the landing of the meteorites sent vibrations through the ground and many of his bones were either cracked or broken while bruises marred his body. He was dirty, sweaty, covered in dust and earth, and angry beyond belief... but he was scared first and foremost.

"Hashirama... Madara... is another world-shaking monster crawling its way out to the world?" His shaky eyes couldn't stop staring at the many wide craters...

'I will need stronger ninja... more ninja. I will need a better deterrent.' Hanzo glumly thought. He fancied himself strong. He knew he had nothing on the real monsters in this world but these rarely paid attention to him and in this era with both Hashirama and Madara dead. With the first and Second Kages death, he thought he was finally getting back into the top three, at least.

Hanzo had no idea what the reason for this attack was as fortunately, he and his village came out of it relatively unscathed and the biggest losses were his summoned animal and a few shinobi but he couldn't deny that it happened. It was time to start strengthening the village in the earnest.

Thoughts like these fearfully swirled in his head as he limped his way through the devastated land, back to his village. It was time to take the game seriously again. Determination filled his being. Determination to survive. Determination to train. To become stronger. To make Amegakure greater. Hanzo regained his long-forgotten resolve as he survived the obvious reminder of the era long-past.

...

In Rei's personal dimension, Tsunade watched Konan as she teleported herself inside the dimension, taking off her raincoat with a nostalgic smile as she shook the water out of it on the porch.

"What happened?" Tsunade asked worriedly, her eyes trailing on Konan's frame, trying to find even the smallest of wounds with worry in her gaze.

"Ah... I am fine. Just showered Amegakure a bit." Konan dismissively waved her hand in a 'no big deal' gesture. "I definitely lived up to the reputation of Downpour..." Konan's lips stretched into an amused and knowing smirk.

'Suiton Jutsu, huh...' Tsunade accepted the explanation with a nod, not really caring all that much. But this was Hanzo they just faced. Of course, she was worried about her sister facing him alone!

"Let's cook something for Rei." Konan excitedly told Tsunade as she took her hands into hers and dragged her to the kitchen. Tsunade quickly forgot her questions as both girls expectantly awaited their beloved while preparing a meal, peacefully chatting away the long while as they enjoyed the warmth and comfort of each other's presence. In the end, both girls ended up covered in floor and cream after their escapades in the kitchen... well, nobody said they actually COULD cook.

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Chapter 63 - Ch63. Salamander Realm 1

The body of the dead and bloody salamander boss summon appeared inside the Summoning Realm of Salamanders. It had many cauterized holes all around its body caused by Rei's lightning Jutsu that blasted it from inside out. A lot of salamanders looked at it with bewilderment clear in their eyes, never expecting the strongest salamander of the younger generation to die so brutally! But before they could react, the body exploded outwardly in a massive show of blood and gore, covering the closest ones in blood and gore while obstructing their vision.

As the salamanders were still shocked by the death of the boss summon, thousands of Rei's water clones burst out of the now exploded corpse and started to attack the salamanders with abandon, explosions filled the immediate surroundings and the battlefield started spreading further and further, the further the clones reached. But they were only a distraction. Rei covered himself up in nature energy and started sneaking around, evading the battle.

The entire Salamander Realm was turned upside down. Fighting resounded through the cavern system as water splashes and explosions were the most frequent sounds. It was then that the oldest and most experienced battle-veterans of Salamander Realm showed up and with them... water. Humongous amounts of water Jutsu started drowning the clones as the caverns started to be flooded. Rei didn't care, he located his target and was on his way towards it.

Axolotl Salamander as big as a building was smashing two clones right and left with his body, heavily relying on its regeneration. It was a magnificent sight. Axolotl had a massive regenerative factor by itself but when it got enhanced by nature energy, the beast became night unkillable unless he was struck in a vital area! Cut off his limbs or tail... heck! Destroy half of its brain or snap its spine and it could just regrow it or reconnect the nerves! Even puncturing the heart wasn't fatal.

This salamander was his goal. He needed a proper gift for Tsunade, after all. The Kaguya clan is good and all and their regenerative factor is amazing but even they can't survive with their heart or brain injured. Axolotl could. Axolotl filled with nature energy? 'Oh boy, Tsunade will have a field day with this guy!' Rei giddily thought. He naturally didn't want his girls in harm's way but he wasn't naive to think it would never happen. If he could help Tsunade to make a Jutsu that would make her semi-immortal ever-regenerating battle-monster? Why not? He was all for it!

The Axolotl just smashed a clone into the ground with his tail, cracking the ground, impacting the water there, sending it all around. Rei knew he had to sneak attack it. Fighting with it would attract attention and such a durable thing like the beast in front of him would have ample time to get reinforcements. He might be supremely strong but he had no idea what Salamanders could do and didn't like charging forward blindly. But then again, there was nobody who knew what Salamanders were capable of. Rei doubted even Hanzo was fully aware of their strength. After all, the guy was never taught Senjutsu, for one.

It was then... five of his clones jumped at the Axolotl from the sky, distracting it and Rei instantly used his very own improved Suiton: Water Dome to trap both him and the salamander inside. It was his own derivation of the Water Wall and raised a very dense and chakra-soaked Water Dome all around Rei. The Dome was quite durable and nothing short of borderline S-rank Jutsu could penetrate it which showed at the chakra cost of creating it. But Rei knew that direct confrontation against an ever regenerating opponent would last ages, a time he definitely didn't have, so he decided to be sneaky and for once act like a ninja. The second the wall covered both the Axolotl and Rei, tens of clones were made from its walls and jumped the Axolotl from every direction, distracting it with their attacks. The beast was instantly startled and started thrashing itself madly around in hopes to defeat as many clones. At least, it looked like a thrashing but by the number of clones that were already smashed, Rei surmised its some form of salamander taijutsu... He didn't create the clones for offense though. No, he created them so he could hide amongst them! The Axolotl was too focused on destroying the clones and Rei could approach it unseen. As he neared the side of the summoning beast, he smiled to himself.

The Axolotl indeed didn't notice the real Rei in the middle of his clones. Killing it would be so easy! Just separating the head from the body... no matter how big of a regenerative factor the beast had, it would not survive decapitation. Alas, he needed the beast alive so Tsunade can study it and that made his task so much harder. He decided to go for it quite brutally as he stuck his chokuto up to the handle into the side of the Axolotl. Before the beast could even let out a yelp of pain, however, Rei coursed finely-controlled raiton chakra through the blade, paralyzing it. From that point on, the clones jumped towards the paralyzed beast and quickly started drawing binding seals all over it. Two minutes of a dozen clones doing the seal work and the beast was prepared to go. Rei used a specially developed stasis seal for living beings to stash it away. It was kinda anti-climatic and was a stark reminder to not be conceited even when one is almost immortal. One sneak attack. That's all that's needed to end your life.

Rei's shoulders slumped relaxedly as he tried to sense the battlefield. "Damn, I already lost two-thirds of my clones? Now that's surprisi-" Suddenly his body tensed again and he frowned as he slowly turned his head to the right and quickly stepped to the side with his eyes widening. Not a second later, a stream of highly pressurized water cut straight through the water dome Jutsu, almost hitting him as it sailed through the spot he earlier stood at, and then effortlessly cut through the other end of the water dome. Seeing that, Rei's eyes twitched as he instantly prepared for a battle. It didn't take long for his water dome to fall completely and he saw two salamanders. One was completely black with watery blue streaks on its skin and the other was dull-green.

These two were obviously special as he instantly recognized the difference that set them apart from other Salamanders he saw so far. They both had light-green eyeshadows and as Rei felt the energy around them, his frown widened. These two... knew senjutsu. His expression twisted into a minuscule scowl as he realized that his chakra hiding technique through the nature energy might have backfired since the two senjutsu users clearly could pinpoint him even amongst tens of his clones.

But it was not the time to ponder about that weakness. He instantly schooled his expression and smiled cheekily. "Isn't that a bit too dangerous welcome, geezers?" Rei quipped towards the ancient Salamanders who eyed him warily under the guise of senility. He wasn't about to underestimate them due to that though. "Huh, no answer?" Rei nodded to himself. "Guess you aren't the most eloquent of your species then!" He exclaimed and fought the urge to smirk as he saw his words had an effect on the two beasts.

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Chapter 64 - Ch64. Salamander Realm 2

The two salamanders glanced at each other and the one on the right side, the black one sighed. "Youngsters and their cheekiness." He said in an exasperated tone to which, the salamander on the left, the green one... shrugged? Rei wasn't sure what that shaking gesture was meant to be but it was apparently an agreement. The black salamander continued. "Well then, I am Elder Salam and the esteemed salamander next to me is Elder Mander. Now that we are here, your free-roaming through our caverns has come to an end intruder! We will show you the terror of offending Salam and Mander! Prepare for your Doom!" The one on the left... Elder Mander just again... shrugged, or better yet shook in agreement but stayed quiet. Rei expected the fight to begin so he crouched slightly, preparing for it as he quickened the flow of his chakra and reinforced his muscles... but the two geezers just motionlessly watched him.

After a minute of stare-off, Rei blinked in confusion, straightened up, and raised his eyebrow at them as he awkwardly scratched the back of his head. "Uh... shouldn't you... I don't know, attack me?" He asked. He wanted them to do the first move as reacting would be better than charging in without knowing their way of fighting. It was then he noticed a slight smirk on Salam's maw.

"Oh, youngsters nowadays... so impatient! We already did our move! Kehehueheaha!" He laughed in a senile way. Rei instantly tensed up and discreetly looked around but was unable to find anything out of ordinary. And so the duo of salamanders and Rei stared at each other in awkward silence for a few more moments. As time passed, Rei watched as the 'eyebrows' of the beasts started to twitch. Salam suddenly turned to Mander and asked in an annoyed tone. "Oi, did you add Laman's wet socks into the recipe? How come the intruder is still standing!? That thing is more toxic than Hanzo's underwear!" Mander just shook in agreement but Rei wasn't feeling good when he heard the words 'recipe' and 'wet sock' and 'Hanzo's underwear'. His prospects for this battle were getting quite bleak if that's what they wanted to fight him with. He started looking around with mild disgust, his wariness increased by ten magnitudes when his eyes widened.

"Shit!" He started swaying on his feet and put his palm on his face, his vision blurring slightly. Only the timely input of nature energy into his system stopped him from feeling dizzy. "Salamanders equals poison." He quietly grumbled to himself, feeling indignant he didn't realize it sooner. "Go figure. The entire air is steeped in a special kind of undetectable poison..." Thankfully he kept his eyes on the salamanders. The second they saw Rei swaying, the two senile geezers as if evaporated and bloodl.u.s.t filled the cavern and Rei barely managed to push himself to the side, evading another water jet that could cleave him into two pieces. He was about to recollect himself, only for his eyes to widen as Salamander Mander suddenly appeared in front of him and slammed his tail into his body, sending him flying. Only the wall of the cavern stopped his body, making him slid down onto his ass and groan in pain.

Rei didn't have time to take a breather as a water bullet, courtesy of Salam, impacted his abdomen, making him bend forward with a silent gasp, breaking a few of his ribs in the process. The poison still coursed through his body, numbing it so it was quite hard to move for him. Yet again, he wasn't given a breather as Mander appeared near him, his tail lashing onto Rei. He did the only thing he could in his battered state. He used Kawarimi and swapped places with his clone who was smashed into a watery pulp almost instantly. Rei wobbly stood up, holding his stomach in pain, and stared at the two senjutsu-using salamanders. He smiled slightly, even though his smile was broken and resembled more a grimace due to pain. "I must admit... you two have supreme teamwork." He wheezed out before chuckling. "But..." The second he said that both Salam and Mander tensed as they could feel a danger from his hunched up, hurt form.

Suddenly, Rei straightened up, wiping the blood from the corner of his lips while wincing slightly. "I also admit that in hindsight, Konan was right and storming the Salamander Realm by myself might have been a stupid idea." He clicked his tongue and took a deep breath. Neither Salam nor Mander felt at ease so they didn't leap at him to continue. Instead, both Salamanders could clearly feel the danger in the air and tensed as chakra started swirling around Rei. "You know what's funny?" Rei offhandedly asked as he started closing and opening his fist. "Nobody ever checks for chakra strings." He quipped and the chakra swirling around him went towards the floor and condensed into a massive amount of fine threads spreading outwards, dragging themselves on the ground. These then started connecting to an even wider system of threads that was spread through the cavern by the water clones right at the start of the battle. As the previously invisible chakra threads lit up, the entire ground of the Salamander Caverns looked like one big intricate web. This was Rei's trump card. Since day one, he didn't stop honing his chakra strings. It was his first usable skill, after all. But getting them combat-ready... now that was quite a chore.

Using the strings to defeat a chunin was nice and all but Rei was no longer playing in the casual league. Against jonins, the strings were most of the time useless and that was the actual reason why Suna was known for puppetry instead of chakra strings. Hence, Rei had to be... creative. The threads started to enwrap around Rei, forming a cocoon that completely covered his figure. For Salam and Mander it resembled something akin to evolving butterfly summon. Multiple thread endings loosely hung from the cocoon, like decorative strips.

"Salam," The ancient but quiet voice of Mander suddenly hurriedly exclaimed with a warning undertone. "Water Wall, fast!" Salam's eyes widened. He knew Mander was the better sensor amongst them and the Jutsu the human was about to unleash was quite powerful if it unnerved Mander so much! Salam slammed his front legs into the water-covered ground of the cavern, snapping a few chakra strings in the process as he pushed half of his chakra into them, getting assistance by Mander as they created quite similar Jutsu to the Water Dome of Rei. Three layers of water formed three domes around the cocoon. The Jutsu of Salam was more geared towards preventing escape so the inner walls were neigh-impenetrable while the outer ones were weaker.

While the two Elders busied themselves with protective layers, the salamanders finally finished dealing with Rei's clones and came to spectate their esteemed Elders dealing with the intruder.

All this took at most three seconds and inside the water Jutsu, the cocoon started changing. The strings started revolving around Rei's figure, creating a spectacle no different than Hyuuga's kaiten. Despite that, it didn't have the protective function of kaiten. Inside, Rei smirked. "Well, time to fire this party up." His chakra flared. The strings were now spinning at insane speeds, grinding against each other. All it took was a slight spark of katon and futon chakra, supported with nature energy.

Outside, Salam and Mender watched the water of their protections. "This should be enough." Salam said but Mander didn't answer. Suddenly, his body went rigid. Salam saw and...

Uncountable small crimson red droplets of condensed flames shattered the three layers of water domes as they went through it like a knife through butter. As the strings spun, the previously loosely hanging thread endings were now flying around in a swirling pattern. The second the cocoon lit up with the crimson fire, these flying endings created a whirlwind of a crimson whirlpool of fire, the sheer speed tearing apart droplets of it, showering the entire Salamander Realm with highly concentrated fire capable of burning even katon itself. These crimson flames were the direct opposite of Rei's blue suiton/katon flames. Their potency reached and slightly surpassed even blaze release. Their sole purpose was to 'kill it with fire', even if 'it' is the fire itself.

The salamanders were disorderly running around, trying to avoid the shower of crimson death. Many of them already died due to being stupidly brave and trying to block them with water jutsu only for the droplets to go through the Jutsu first, and the caster second. The walls of the caverns were burning and the ever-covered grounds with water were now dry. These flames could spread alongside the chakra strings and as the entire cavern was covered in Rei's strings... The ground flared up with crimson whirlpool as the web of strings became a burning death-trap.

Salam and Mander watched with horrified gazes as the fires started to engulf their Realm in its entirety, both pushing enormous amounts of senjutsu chakra to create a safe haven from flames on the ground and in the sky with their senjutsu-enhanced water Jutsu. As the minutes of the downpour of fire ticked away, the two Elders gathered around a hundred surviving salamanders in their water barrier, their hearts could only ache as they saw that those of their kin still outside were most likely already burned to death. Fortunately, they had enough strength to create a place safe from the crimson hell.

Thirty minutes. That's how long it took for the spinning to stop and Rei hummed in appreciation. He was not yet that proficient with the Jutsu and had to channel his chakra for a long time. He nevertheless stopped supplying chakra in the third minute and the spinning sustained the Jutsu for ten times as long. He made the cocoon open to witness the effects of his Jutsu with his eyes and as he did so, his jaw dropped to the floor. The cavern... was no more. Above him, a clear night sky was highlighted crimson as the hellish crimson flames still burned strong all around him.

Rei smiled. "Damn, that's way better than I thought. These flames will last at least for three days with the chakra I supplied." He shook his head but then winced, showing a bitter expression. "Shit, Konan will scold me! I have at least two broken ribs and six cracked ones with multiple torn muscles. The Mander did pack quite a punch...Tsunade could learn a lot from him." He said as his eyes turned to resigned sad gaze full of unwillingness as he used his seal to enter his dimension.

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