"What have you done to my subordinates?" The solemn voice of Kazuma rang out from behind me some time later.
By that time, I fully learned of the abilities of both women, and though I wasn't entirely sure of the loyalty of either, especially Fuka, I had both of them sit on the ground in front of me as my pills healed their previous wounds and cleansed their bodies.
"This Fudo dude suddenly fell and died after his arm left his body incomprehensibly," I answered as I stood up to look at the newly-arrived grey-haired man.
The previous guardian ninja narrowed his eyes as he saw part of my face thanks to the small campfire Fuka had set up earlier that I ignited. It seemed he had at least part of a clue of who I was.
"What is your purpose?" He asked tersely.
"That's a rather broad topic. In life? In general? At this moment?"
Kazuma took out a monk-staff from a weapon scroll and a kunai as he looked at me with annoyance due to my non-answer.
Holding up my hands, I tried my luck at calming the man down lest the monks come over due to the commotion of a fight with the guardian ninja. Seeing him not charge forward, I offered, "Your son. I want the nine-tails chakra you sealed inside of him. Allow me to get it and I'll let him live. I'll even allow him to grow stronger for it."
Kazuma's eyes briefly flickered to Fuen with hatred before he looked back at me and asked, "And if I refuse?"
"I'll kill everyone in that temple, scrape the chakra out of the seal on your son with my own hands and let you watch it all before I kill you moments after your son bled out among the dead monks," I proposed with a shrug and a helpless smile. "I'm not here to cause an incident or murder anyone... but since I learned about the chakra that you stole I won't just leave it alone."
"You're awfully sure of yourself," Kazuma scoffed but stayed vigilant.
Something about the dead Fudo and the kneeling two kunoichi told him that this red-haired ninja in front of him, me, was much more powerful than he realised.
"Well, let's just say I could easily wipe out this entire part of the Land of Fire without even using my strongest chakra nature," I grandly declared while being purposefully vague as I unleashed just Saiken's chakra instead of all of my chakra to show the man how outclassed he was.
In no time, Kazuma paled a little and whispered, "Tailed beast..."
Just as he realized that he would be fighting a jinchūriki, I unleashed all my chakra, but only towards him to not cause a commotion and Kazuma immediately kneeled as he used the monk staff in his hands as a crutch. My ridiculous chakra control was a broken ability when used against jōnins and those even weaker.
I walked toward him and from a distance he likely thought was still safe for him, I unleashed my adamantine sealing chains to catch the rogue guardian ninja. Talking about hostages was just a distraction before, I never planned to let anyone leave alive.
The rogue guardian ninja struggled fiercely but my sealing chains kept him in place long enough for me to stand before him as he hung in the air.
As I put my hand on his stomach and ignored his thrashing around, I started to explain, "I'm going to seal my chakra into you. Believe me when I say you do not want the seal to deteriorate on its own. You don't want to disable it yourself either. It will only lead to pain. Just ask Fuka."
Done with my work as Kazuma looked at me with unending hatred, I mocked, "You wanted to replace all kage and daimyo on this planet with your meager skill? I'm not even the strongest ninja on this planet yet. Your plan was doomed to fail anyway."
An hour later, Kazuma had done as he was told and I had extracted all the nine-tails chakra from his son inside my plant dimension with Saiken's help. Kazuma came back after putting his son in the temple once more with the intention of having me remove the seal from him, but he knew too much so I broke the seal in a way that had Kazuma conflagrate immediately to die a fiery but instant death. The chakra inside him was my deadliest kekkei tota chakra.
At least I paid the man by feeding his son pills that only my most promising orphans were given. He'd grow up reaching elite jōnin level for sure if he was taught how to become a shinobi.
With Fuen and Fuka put in a genjutsu I cleared the small camp, got rid of the evidence and corpses, and made my way north to cross the sea and get into the western land of the Land of Fire.
A day later, I rented a room in an inn in a small village and got the two kunoichi out of my plant dimension.
"How may I serve you, Lord Yoshihiro?" Fuen asked as the raven haired woman dropped to one knee instantly upon seeing me as she woke up.
Fuka merely looked at me sultrily and sat in my lap.
"Do you have any other pills for me, Terumi-sama?" She breathed that last name out into my ear as she used a hand to guide mine to her breasts.
"You being sheltered in my personal domain doesn't serve me so I got you out now that we reached this village. I don't want to eat another soldier pill and the food in this inn smelled terrible. Make me something better," I ordered and shoved Fuka off of me with my hand on her generous tits.
With a wave of my hand, all the tools and ingredients they could possibly need appeared next to me, summoned from the house in my domain.
Seeing that they understood their assignment, I concentrated back on my senjutsu training. I could load copious amounts of natural energy into my body without turning to stone… but I realised that I didn't really allow it to merge with my own chakra yet to become sage chakra. And despite having a sage body, as certified by Lady Katsuya, the immortal slug sage, this missing sage chakra didn't come to me naturally yet.
Deep into the night after a passable meal, Fuen was still kneeling in front of me as Fuka looked on in boredom. She hadn't tried seducing me again after I pushed her off and she seemed to have respected my meditation.
"What was your experience with my pills?" I asked eventually.
I had allowed them to eat a whole bunch of lower tier cleansing, expansion, and strengthening pills. Their chakra volume and control should have shot through the roof. The first few pills were always the most powerful, even for adults.
"My hair has never looked and felt so close to silk," Fuka answered with a dreamy sigh as she playfully twisted her long hair between her fingers.
Fuen looked at her like she was an idiot before looking at me and reverently praised, "Lord Yoshihiro, your pills are without equal in this world. Yes, my skin and hair never looked prettier and my breasts have never felt so full and perky, but my control over my chakra cleared a barrier that I was sure I couldn't break anytime soon. I have become much, much stronger."
I looked down at her, and indeed... her tits did look even better than before - not that the young woman had needed help. Her figure was flawless even before. The benefit of living in a world where kunoichi either stayed fit or died was that it was true for most women.
"I see. I suppose if I wanted you two to become my actual followers, I should start strengthening you individually. Fuen, you'll be focusing on chakra control and increasing your chakra volume. Fuka, you'll need a stronger body to accommodate your draining kiss hiden."
I didn't know why I bothered giving these two a chance. I had already declared I wouldn't help kunoichi get stronger when Saiken had asked about strengthening Ryuzetsu, the special jōnin I 'rescued' as I obliterated large parts of Kusagakure's ninja forces. I chalked it up to the fervent worship I saw in Fuen's eyes.
Fuka's draining kiss secret technique allowed her to master all five nature transformations quite easily - though sadly her body couldn't contain all the chakra she stole. That was why she created a second and third body that she hoped to be able to inhabit should her original body ever fail. She had even looked up ways to seal herself in her hair as weird as that sounded… she wouldn't need to do that with the help of my pills.
Though, I was still shocked to learn that her chakra draining secret technique allowed her to kill civilians and thus turn them into meat puppets she planned to inhabit.
Early the next morning, I woke up to Fuen softly suckling on my dick.
The kunoichi was stark naked as I looked at her with my manly tool fished out of my trousers and inside her mouth.
Her ministrations felt nice, though unpracticed. Her technique felt like something she had read about in smut novels but never actually implemented in real life outside of maybe a practice cucumber.
Watching her worship my ever-hardening dick was a sight for sore eyes despite the lacking experience. I propped myself up a little to more easily watch. She seemed to like that as her tongue started roaming around my length with a small smirk on her face.
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With a young grand-daughter, Hotaru, that he doted upon quite heavily, it was easy to convince En No Gyoja to fill in some blanks in my fūinjutsu knowledge. Simply bribing him with pills to increase her talent and physique did the trick.
Two weeks where Fuen and Fuka were silently digesting the pills I had thrown them and me enjoying the tutelage of the old Tsuchigumo clan head were sadly over when a group of Konoha ANBU checked rumors about my presence in the Land of Fire. It was weird that it had taken them so long to find me after my run-in with the monks at the Fire Temple, but maybe I wasn't high on the priority list.
"Why are you trespassing in our lands, Red Demon?" The leading ANBU asked after En No Gyoja allowed them through to meet with me. After all, I had just paid him with low-tier cleansing and strengthening pills for some insights in sealing. He didn't owe me anything, especially not if it meant antagonizing Konoha.
Narrowing my eyes as I looked at the five ninjas who didn't bother hiding around me, I focused on one of them with black hair at the back.
"Long time no see, Shisui," I greeted with a small smile. "It's rare for an Uchiha to be made ANBU, no? Reward for almost taking me out during the war?"
The ANBU shinobi all stayed quiet, Shisui included. Only their leader repeated the question before I looked back at him.
"I am here for personal business with the Tsuchigumo clan. I have not gathered any intelligence, killed any civilians or ninjas and I have no reason to hurt Konoha at the moment," I explained with a wry smile before I looked at the only ANBU stretching.
"Might Guy, I presume? I'd like to advise you that I will kill everyone present the moment you open any gate past the fifth. You're all starting to sweat because the surroundings are drowned in my fire chakra. One wrong move and I will ignite the chakra and burn out all of your lungs."
That lone stretching ANBU took off his mask and asked in astonishment, "You've heard of me?"
I saw two other ANBU slap their foreheads, one of them had white hair. Hatake Kakashi, it had to be.
"Your father quite famously took out a lot of our swordsmen. A very respectable feat. Not many ninja could do that so cleanly, and he was just a genin his entire life. Plus, you're wearing a green jumpsuit and orange leg warmers. Please wear something different next time or don't bother with the ANBU mask."
Might Guy gained a sheepish smile, but the atmosphere still grew tense.
"You can't be here," the leading ANBU said once more to get the conversation away from me, exposing more of their secrets.
"Well, you're five people and I know the identity of three of you. Guy, Shisui, and that lad over there must be Kakashi. Why don't we all introduce ourselves?"
Seeing no reaction from any of them except for the one non-identified non-leader of the group trying their best to get rid of my chakra near them, I sighed deeply.
"Fine, I'll leave. But before I do, there's something I owe Shisui over there. After all, he almost managed to kill me years ago," I offered with a dramatic sigh as I put one of my hands in my kimono.
Everybody tensed up, I even saw a red glow coming from behind Shisui's mask that I could feel quite clearly with my mind's eye - he actually activated his Sharingan to his highest level. I'd now be able to pinpoint other Mangekyō pupils. The chakra felt unique.
"Don't waste your ocular powers and just take the hit," I said with a scoff as I took out a marble made with pieces of chakra metal.
Making a fist, I breathed into it. My breath was so overwhelmingly hot, the marble was soon heated to the point of liquefaction. The glowing metal shone so brightly that it looked like I had a lamp in my fist.
"That should do it," I mumbled to myself and wound up my arm like a baseball pitcher.
Using all my considerable strength and accuracy, I threw the liquid metal at a tree not far away from Shisui. Thanks to my Mind's Eye of the Kagura, I knew that the Uchiha prodigy had never been in my eyesight. What I was seeing was just a clone.
Immediately after that throw, I held up both hands in mock surrender. But except for Kakashi who seemed certain that Shisui would survive, the three other ANBU looked back in Shisui's direction. They were horrified to hear my projectile break through the sound barrier with a sonic boom as it obliterated several trees in its path.
"Don't worry, I'm not unreasonable. He almost killed me, but realistically he cut one of my ribs. I only aimed for a glancing blow on his ribcage as payback. He'll surely survive. I did, too, didn't I?"
I breathed out with a smile. That felt really good. Shisui had lived rent-free in my head for years for almost killing me. At least he got me to realise that all ninja were either fast glass cannons or dead glass cannons. I eliminated the weakness of being one quick poke to the heart or the eye away from dying to a random fast ninja because of him.
Sounds of a small skirmish was heard from the projectile's path and before long, a fire clone that I imbued into the projectile came back carrying a bleeding Shisui as the other ANBU who went to help him looked a little worse for wear.
"Release him immediately," Guy solemnly ordered as he undid some bandages on his arms and dropped ridiculously heavy weights.
My clone had already fed him a pill as planned, so it tossed Shisui to the leading ANBU's feet and dispelled itself.
"Check his wounds. Told you I'm not unreasonable. None of you struck me as proficient in healing jutsu and I didn't want to be the reason the Root gets a chance to steal another Sharingan in a staged ambush on your way back," I casually revealed with a cocky smirk.
Kakashi went over hurriedly and assessed the situation. Two broken ribs and just like I had said, a deep but cauterized cut on the side that was clearly a glancing blow.
"There is no need to slander Danzō-sama," the to-me-unknown ANBU who wasn't the leader cut in.
"Whatever. I was the darkness of my village so I'd like to think my judgment of your darkness is accurate but you obviously don't need to trust an enemy jinchūriki. What can I do? Make your village hate your jinchūriki more by wiping half of you out here? Not needed, your village's 'darkness' already made sure he's hated beyond reason despite being a toddler," I scoffed and turned my back to the group. I still needed to collect Fuen and Fuka before leaving.
"I hope you don't mind the duplicity," En No Gyoja solemnly stated as I walked in his direction. Seeing a 'casual' throw of mine obliterate the forest in a straight line way past his own sealed clan area likely gave him second guesses over whether or not he should have told the ANBU to fuck off.
"You were answering the call of your allies, I'm not petty enough to hold you accountable for that," I answered with a shrug and gestured for Fuen to collect our things.
Looking back at the Konoha ANBU with two tending to an unconscious Shisui while the other two kept an eye on me, En No Gyoja eventually took out a scroll from his sleeve.
"Some of the things I didn't get the chance to teach you," he offered as he threw over the scroll.
I narrowed my eyes at him as I caught the scroll. He wanted to make amends? Good.
"Our discussion on large scale sealing patterns and the Five Elements Seal were very enlightening. Maybe we can discuss some more at a later time," I proposed and stored the scroll away. I already checked and was sure it wasn't a bomb or tracking seal.
"What did you mean when you said you're no longer your village's darkness?" The leading ANBU asked when my two companions walked to my side and we made our way down the mountain path.
"Haven't you heard? I'm now the fiancée of the new Mizukage. Why would I remain their executioner when I can get spoiled by my future wife?"