"Sorry again about Naoki, he's just stupid and utterly unprofessional." Hitomi said, sitting in a comfortable chair.
"No problem, Hitomi-san, you don't need to apologize for other people." Kenshin replied with a smile, looking into her magnificent white eyes. Just yesterday, he'd noticed a small bandage on her forehead, stylized like a hairband. Few knew it, but Kenshin was well aware of the Hyuga clan's "branch family," whose members were essentially slaves to the main branch, bearing a slave seal on their foreheads.
"Good." Hitomi said with a warm smile, and continued, "How are your arms? Anything bothering you?"
"The right one barely hurts anymore, but the left throbs with pain from time to time, though it's nothing compared to how they hurt before you treated me. You really have excellent skills, Hitomi-san." Without tearing his gaze from her beautiful white eyes, Kenshin declared.
"What a flatterer you are, Nakayama-kun. Aren't you ashamed to so mercilessly flatter an old woman?" Hitomi laughed, covering her mouth with her palm. And though she'd been flattered countless times, the flattery from this young man's lips made her stony heart tremble.
"It's not flattery at all, just the plain truth. Besides, Hitomi-san, you're not old at all. Your beauty would put the overwhelming majority of young girls to shame." He said with a smile, then immediately scolded himself for rushing.
Hearing his words, Hitomi's smile froze, and after a split second, she looked away and changed the subject.
"Time to start." She said, and took his left hand.
The rest of the session, Hitomi was cold and utterly professional, only answering questions without taking initiative in the conversation. By mid-session, Kenshin thought he'd completely ruined their fragile rapport with this magnificent woman, and stopped pestering her.
"Thank you, Hitomi-san, you were magnificent as always." Kenshin said, rising from the chair and stepping toward the door.
"See you tomorrow, Nakayama-kun." Hitomi said, attempting a smile.
Kenshin barely held back a smile, just nodded to her, then stepped out the door and took a deep breath.
"Not all is lost yet..." He thought, and headed down the corridor where Ichiro was waiting.
After returning home, Kenshin fell into the hands of a fierce kunoichi who could no longer wait, and was gently mounted by the beauty Kasumi. She was very tender and affectionate, so the lovemaking lasted about half an hour, after which the black-haired beauty squealed and received a long-awaited load of seed into her womb.
After the tender, love-filled sex, Kenshin lay with Kasumi for half an hour, then headed to his workshop to try sensing psionic energy. During the enemy attack, he'd suddenly infused some of this energy into his arms, giving them some protection. At first, he thought it was simple telekinesis, but after reconsidering the moment, he concluded it wasn't quite telekinesis.
Until late evening, he tried every method to detect psionics, and finally succeeded. After the runes glowed faintly red, Kenshin's eyes widened in shock, and he lost concentration. Calming his pounding heart, he finally tried repeating it, succeeding only on the fifth attempt.
He couldn't contain his excitement and involuntarily lifted a bunch of tools and papers into the air. Noticing this, he tried regaining composure, and after a minute, was calm again. Over the past few weeks, his telekinesis had grown strong enough to lift thirty kilograms, and the ability was only getting stronger.
The entire evening until deep into the night, he spent trying to merge psionics and formations, trial-and-error replacing nodes, restructuring, and devising various crutches in the formations. He catastrophically lacked knowledge, so everything progressed with difficulty.
The next morning, Kenshin again took Ichiro with him and went to the outpost, where Hyuga Hitomi greeted him courteously. No trace remained of yesterday's "offense," which delighted Kenshin immensely.
Hitomi even served him tea, and they talked very warmly. Kenshin enjoyed conversing with such a beautiful, refined, and intelligent woman, while Hitomi's soul rejoiced at talking with him.
Kenshin indirectly learned she wasn't married and had no children, which pleased him a bit. He didn't pry for details and gave her a compliment. After the session, he lingered ten minutes and drank another cup of tea, admiring the mature woman's beauty. She, in turn, kept her gaze on his face and smiled sweetly.
Upon arriving home, Aya and Natsumi ambushed Kenshin and wouldn't let him go to the workshop until he made both of them pregnant. He sighed heavily and spent an hour and a half fulfilling his duty, lying on the bed and gritting his teeth that he couldn't touch his beauties.
The following days were copies of the previous ones. Every morning, Kenshin went to Hitomi for sessions, gradually improving their relationship. He never stopped complimenting her beauty, and on the fourth day, she couldn't take it and declared that since he considered her young and beautiful, he had to treat her as a peer and switch to "you." He was very pleased with his progress and happily agreed. Each session lasted longer and longer, and Kenshin stayed in her office for an hour, enjoying pleasant conversation and good tea.
On the 134th day, Eighteenth turned eighteen and awakened chakra that evening. His stats were a bit lower than Fifteenth's at awakening, but still thrilled Kenshin immensely.
Name: Eighteenth
Age: 20 years
Talent Level: 33
Chakra Quality: 3
Chakra Amount: 3450
Chakra Control: 43%
Shadow Control Lvl 1
Eighteenth was immediately sent to the gym and began training under his mother's careful guidance. Kasumi's personality completely changed the moment she entered the gym. From a loving mom, she turned into a terrifying panther who kept nipping at her kittens. Fifteenth and Eighteenth returned from training covered in bruises, and while it was routine for Fifteenth, Eighteenth nearly cried from offense, then got a light slap and was punished not to blubber.
Kasumi justified her harshness by saying training should be serious business for the kids, not a game. After training, Kasumi turned back into a loving mom and personally treated their scrapes.