"You're finally awake," I pointed out with a wry smile.
It seemed caring for comatose Konoha kunoichi was somehow becoming a hobby of mine.
"Yoshihiro-sama," Yakushi Nono quietly greeted as she remained lying down. "You managed to save me? What about Kabuto-kun?"
"Sitting in our T&I department. Don't worry, I made sure they use 'I' first before resorting to the 'T'," I explained with a mischievous grin.
Nono still kept looking at the ceiling even moments later, then she sighed, "You warned me this would happen. But Danzō-sama was very patient with the two of us…"
I nodded and reminisced. Root operatives tried to brainwash Nono to forget Kabuto by replacing the boy with another in her memories. Nono fought it off but pretended it worked with the help of a pill of mine that pretty much made the one taking the pill immune to genjutsu for a short while. On the mission where the two were supposed to kill each other, Nono brought back a corpse indistinguishable from Kabuto's – once again thanks to a pill of mine.
And Root had no idea how that happened since Kabuto came back from that mission, too.
So they did the same to Kabuto and made him forget Nono, but the boy brought back a body that looked just like his adoptive mother while the nun survived again.
Danzō seemed to simply forget about the matter for a few years – I wasn't privy to his thoughts on the matter – until he simply decided to use them as cannon fodder to get rid of the headache.
Since I was still interested in the most impactful secondary antagonist of this world, I had bought Nono's loyalty by instructing her how to reach me in case she was ever sent on a suspicious mission.
Three of my loyal graduates from the Kaguya clan obliterated the root agents near the Kumo and Konoha battlefield and saved both Kabuto and Nono before bringing them to me earlier in the week.
"Well. For the time being, you cannot go back to Konoha. There aren't many orphans that need someone like you here in Kiri either, unless you want to settle on one of the other islands to build a sanctuary for abandoned children. What do you want to do now? The Land of Hot Water is suffering right now because it's used as a battlefield… but for that same reason I don't believe you should try to go there either in the near future. Some Konoha nin might be able to recognise you," I calmly narrated. "You could try your luck in other smaller countries like the Land of Bears that recently lost their ninja village and is teeming with rogue nin and Iwa shinobi trying to claim the land. Kabuto will be an excellent guard for you and your future orphanage."
"Kabuto-kun deserves better. I want him to go back to Konoha," Nono breathlessly asserted, tears starting to form in her eyes.
I nodded but pointed out, "He might not agree to that."
Nono shook her head and murmured with the smallest of smiles, "I raised him to be a fool."
"Be that as it may, I urge you to stay in the Terumi clan compound for the time being. And stay away from my wife's courtyard. I didn't tell her about your presence," I ordered with a wink and stood up to leave.
———
Two days later I was relaxing in my hot spring with two of my strongest pet projects, Ryuzetsu – the jōnin from Kusa, and Fuka – the rogue ninja with the chakra draining kiss secret technique. Both had gained kage-level strength a couple of years ago and were firmly inside the realm of kage-level fighters, bordering the super-kage level.
"You're taking Fuen with you to Konoha, why am I left behind?" Fuka whined once more. She brought it up every time the two of us saw each other.
I merely shrugged and explained, "Fuen has a particular goal in mind. One ANBU nin that needs to die. You just want to inflict as much damage as possible. If the Konoha Crush plan happens, I'll let you watch the destruction through genjutsu when I'm back. Just be content that Mei allowed you to go to the Kumo-Konoha battlefield to kill the sentries as much as you like. We don't want to be brought into a war just because you couldn't sit still. It will reflect badly on me."
"Hmph, Mei-chan has no reason to refuse my covert actions on their battlefield. I even go out with the face of a Konoha kunoichi so that they could never link it back to Kiri," Fuka complained with a pout.
Her secret technique allowed her to inhabit corpses like vessels, though she technically no longer needed to do that because her original body was strong enough to host all the chakra she drained from her victims. The development of that mind transfer technique became necessary to her hiden because the draining of foreign chakra weakened her own body with continued use.
"Unless you get caught and immediately break once the Yamanaka clan gets their hands on you," Makihara Ryuzetsu quipped from my other side.
"Ha! As if, Yoshi-chan sealed my mind real tight," Fuka purred with a gloating smirk toward her 'rival'.
The woman liked bondage play and me having power over her for some inexplicable reason. Well, I could figure it out, but she was much more of a sadist with anyone else. Maybe I was the counter to her usual urges and scratched an itch she couldn't reach otherwise.
"Anyway," Ryu drawled with a small roll of her eyes and started looking at me. "I managed to change my family's secret technique to steal life force instead of giving it. But it still doesn't work when someone other than me uses it. The speed of the stealing process is also much, much slower."
"So it's a bloodline ability, just like we suspected," I nodded along. Ryu was one of the better jutsu researchers in Kiri and enjoyed trying to find variants of other fire jutsu. Plus, her family had a secret technique that allowed the user to shift one's own vitality to a target of their choosing. A gift of life.
I ignored the implication that she essentially created a technique that made her a vampire that sucked vitality and chakra instead of 'plain' blood.
The white-haired kunoichi swung a leg over my lap and sat on it, her eyes changing to a slit as they glowed in a pale teal color. I had granted her the opportunity to awaken her own Tsui'sekigan and the ability she received was instant transmission of information through her yin-chakra which she developed quite a bit.
She even recently managed to form a kekkei genkai by mixing fire and yin chakra to copy my 'ghostly fire' bloodline ability. The dojutsu I granted her with the spell was to thank for that.
With the information about her newly created jutsu in my head, I closed my eyes and thought about how to use this ability to its utmost effect until I noticed someone touching me inappropriately.
"Hey, I thought we would just relax," I heard Fuka complain half-heartedly.
"Please, I saw how you looked at him and simply didn't want to come second for once," Ryu shot back with a huff.
Her tender hand guided my half-mast into her waiting sheath and let out a content sigh once I was inside her.
"This is the life," she whispered into my ear and simply stayed still with dick slowly growing stiff and starting to fill her whole.
I allowed her to stay like this because I enjoyed the feeling of contentment Ryu radiated. The warm hug in the hot spring soothed nerves I didn't even know were taut.
But the mischievous kunoichi looking at the two of us didn't care to watch this wholesome scene and sneakily pinched one of Ryu's nipples pressed against my own chest, while the pinky of her other hand found its way to the Kusa-native's backdoor.
"Aaah!" Ryu cried out as her back arched backwards, the calm in the hot spring shattered. "Fuka, you stupid bitch!"
The long-haired kunoichi next to us merely smirked and cursed back, "Hurry up, you slut. I get sick just watching you two hug."
A few hours later, two clones of mine carried out the exhausted two kunoichi and passed Yakushi Nono on their way, guiding her to my real body.
"You could relax here," I offered with a hand gesture once she arrived near me.
Nono unhurriedly started to undress without a hint of shyness and asked, "Is this how you spend your time? Don't you have an academy to run? A very successful one at that?"
"I have plenty of clones for that," I answered with a shrug, my eyes still closed in relaxation because my mind was still busy while a few of my clones in the academy fed me the progress of some of my more promising students they were teaching.
"Every single Kiri student is being taught by a kage-level shinobi," Nono said wistfully with a small shake of her head. "Danzō-sama would salivate at the thought of recruiting directly from your academy."
Feeling her sit in front of me, I merely gave a small smile and countered, "But there is a reason why I ordered some of my subordinates to take over some of my classes. If I teach everything, they would lack the perspective of someone with a different outlook on the way of shinobi. Ryu teaching the basics of elemental jutsu before I take over the graduating classes, Samui joining me as the second instructor for taijutsu, Kaede giving the introductions to fūinjutsu… this village is better when it's more than just me."
Nevermind that all of them were kage-level too or the closest thing to it.
"Do you have nobody teaching medical jutsu?" Nono calmly inquired as she studied my relaxed face.
"Not in the academy," I admitted with a shrug. "My vision and expertise in medical jutsu is limited. I never needed to become better thanks to my pills and my tailed-beast's chakra. And my sister sucks at teaching those without foundations despite heading the Kiri hospital. I thought about my aunt or her student Ruka who served as medi nin for years, decades even, but they can't teach full classes having failed my standards. So I just send my cute little students who want to learn medical jutsu to the hospital after graduation with extra guidance on chakra control before that as a foundation."
"May I try to teach a class?" Nono asked as she relaxed a little herself.
My hot spring was magical. And filled with water enhanced by crushed pills.
"You don't have to pay me back for rescuing you several times over the years," I replied with an amused grin. "I did that because I could and you were simply lucky to have caught my eye."
Nono gently shook her head and explained, "I want to feel useful. I need to feel useful. If my little knowledge on medical jutsu can help save a life, I'd like to share it."
"You'll stay in Kiri then?" I asked as my brows furrowed a little.
"For now," Nono asserted with a small nod.
"Glad you shared that train of thought," I quipped with a small roll of my eyes and formed a fire apparition. Without having to explain, it used my jutsu to appear inside the T&I, torture and interrogation, department of Kiri.
If Yakushi Nono stayed, it wouldn't do to keep Kabuto chained there like a prisoner.
"It goes without saying that you shouldn't share the secrets you learned with your son," I pointed out as I looked at the woman in front of me.
She gave me a reassuring little smile.
"He can help me teach, as an assistant for now. Kabuto-kun is very knowledgeable and patient," Nono promised, having understood that I changed the topic after sending my 'clone' away to reassure her that Kabuto would be released if she stayed.
"His access to my students will be limited for now, I hope you can understand," I pointed out with a shallow half-smile.
The ex-matron gave a small nod in response.
We stayed quiet for a while until Nono eventually asked, "Is your wife okay with you having so many lovers? Will it be disadvantageous to you revealing my continued presence in the village?"
"She is not a fan, but we have come to an arrangement. Her heart was bleak for the longest time after coming to terms with me as her spouse. Only her work for Kiri distracted her at the start. But she now pours all her love into our son. His birth eased most of her pain, I suppose," I easily admitted.
There were moments when I felt a little bad for Mei. Despite having me as her husband, I wasn't really her husband. She just had the misfortune of being unable to get rid of me and enduring the title of being my wife. I was too strong and too important to get rid of or displease after she became Mizukage and she named me the headmaster of the ninja academy. Kiri couldn't stomach losing me and in the worst case scenario, Mei's life would be forfeit if she stood on opposite sides of me.
"There are worse fates," Nono eventually claimed in a quiet voice.
I nodded in agreement.
I had killed enough tragic victims of bandits and other rapists who yearned for death in this life and so had Mei. There were indeed many fates worse than being stuck with me. I might not be the most loving husband and I wasn't faithful at all, but I also treated her rather well and helped her grow into a respected kage with a respected legacy that would likely endure generations.
It probably still wasn't easy to accept not being entirely free despite Mei's enviable strength putting her firmly as the strongest kage among the five great ninja villages.
"I'll inform Mei later and arrange for Mabui to help you properly schedule and organise your classes," I informed Nono after short contemplation and once more leaned back to relax. "You're on probation for a month, though."
Minutes spent in silence later, a dainty foot suddenly found my knee underwater and I gently caught it with one hand.
I might not be the most knowledgeable medi nin, but I had thoroughly memorized the pressure points in a human's body. As such, I worked to perfect massages and started to show my prowess to the 'wandering miko'.
My thumb slowly glided over the full length of her sole starting from her heel with light pressure, shortly stopping at certain points to circle around a little. Having reached the ball, my thumb found its way between her big toe and the one next to it as my other fingers gently spread her other toes.
Softly pulling, rolling, and massaging Nono's toes, I concentrated on the fire apparition I had sent out to free Kabuto.
A small complication arose because Ao was informed about the boy's presence, but I stopped fully paying attention to the part of my consciousness when Nono's other foot found my dick.
It wasn't often that I spent a day having so much sex, but my stamina in that department was unrivaled and much larger than my appetite. So I tugged at her foot I was massaging and moved the woman into my lap, her back facing me with a half-spin in the water.
"You want a repeat from last time?"
Nono's answer was taking my hand and pulling it to rest on her pussy as her legs widened a little as a form of invitation.
"I told you, women also have needs. I haven't found anyone who caught my attention since we fornicated in the hot spring of Konoha. I had to ease my urges all on my own all these years."
Just like last time, it seemed Nono knew what she wanted so I started circling my fingers resting on her delicate lips with a light but firm touch. My other hand went up, briefly squeezing her wonderful breasts playfully before crossing between her tits to gently apply pressure on her throat and collarbone.
The last time, Nono came just by me applying pressure on her delicate shoulders, so that was what I did again. And it worked flawlessly, just like last time.
Nono threw her head back, placing it next to mine, her back arched and her hips pressed into my hand holding her womanhood. With a small shiver, she let out a content mewl and her hips started grinding into the hold I had on her down in the water.
"Take me, Yoshihiro-dono," she suddenly moaned into my ear as her head tilted to face me and I didn't know why, but that got me rock-hard instantly.
Nobody had called me that in a sexy setting ever before.
Using my hand on her pussy to move her back flush against my torso, I quickly settled her eager entrance on my stiff erection and pressed the woman down onto it.
Nono came again, just as hard as before.
"I was so pent up," she breathed out while still on her high. "Use me to your heart's desire, Yoshihiro-dono."
So that was what I did.