NABC Chapter 44: Masked Maiden (2)
Chapter 44: Masked Maiden (2)
Chapter 44: Masked Maiden (2)
Beyond the porcelain mask that held the woman's violet eyes, Kai noticed many other things. Hints, more like, that made his breath hitch for a moment. The woman's bright red hair was tied into two perfect buns, the kind that you'd wanna hold from behind with a golden, fan-shaped headdress pinned on her hair. Two paper tags hung from each of the hair buns.
The Left one had Taming the Fox.
The Right on contained Still on Top.
His gaze, however, silently trailed down. The woman wore light, which also meant she had her curves exposed to others. Slender and filled in just the right places, a little lacking when it compared to his Sensei, Kai noticed. He's an honest boy, after all. But what attracted him were the uncovered feet of the woman. Nah, he wasn't into THAT.
But he'd been focused on only a single set of feet for two years. Wrinkled or not, he'd recognize the pair in an instant.
Just the silent hints, that Kai knew the figure purposely gave, however, made him peeved. Cranking back the pressure of the fuinjutsu weights on his body to normal, Kai gave the woman a look. It may not be his place to speak so... overbearingly but damnit, he loved Mito, and impersonating her younger self, the picture of whom he'd also seen in the Uzumaki mansion back in Konoha, wasn't appreciated at all!
"That's a joke in bad taste," Kai scowled, "You could have done several things, like maybe crashing the funeral or something else but impersonating a dead woman? That's 0 points from me."
Tsunade and the woman behind the mask were stunned before they blinked and the lady in the mask chortled, "0, huh? You've soured my heart, dear. So? You seem annoyed enough. What will you do about this?"
Kai noticed that the woman's chakra was beneath even a genin. A chakra suppression technique, he realized. But that also meant the woman would need time, no matter how short, to utilize chakra again and that would be his chance to set the woman straight. But...
'Why the hell is Tsunade amused...?' Kai was stunned. Wasn't Mito her grandma? Didn't she have an ounce of compassion? Even Kai felt he had just one... or two ounces of it but he, at least, did!
'Unless...' He hesitated for a second. Again, he knew that nobody around him was aware that he can sense intent in their chakra. While the woman in front of him could even mask her intent, Tsunade couldn't. Despite the frown on his Sensei's face, she was mad cackling inwardly!
'One way to find out...' Kai smirked as his entire intent converged. His muscles tensed and his whole body screamed a sense of aggression he rarely revealed.
He licked his dry lips for a second and then tested the grounds as he intended after a moment of logical deduction. Of course, if he had gamer mind, he would know just the kind of risk he was taking since battling would have been easier.
"If you wanted to impersonate Mito-sama... at least get her toes straight. She had ugly ones. Thick, brawny, sometimes stinking! Her nails jutted out and whatnot. Yours are just fin"
Kai didn't need to see his life flash past against him to move at a quick speed as dodging was easier than wasting a millisecond on Body Replacement Jutsu.
Tsunade's expression was frozen as the masked lady's punch tore into the ground before causing massive ruptures that pushed chunks of earth up and uprooted the trees.
"Oh... I'm now sore and annoyed," her melodious chime echoed as Kai scowled even harder and stood his ground this time, "And what? All that drama was just bullshit?"
His words stopped the woman in her tracks as he was covered in a poof and the next second, he transformed into an elderly Mito who spoke in her aged voice, "Oh, Kai, take care of Kushina. Oh, Kai-kun, accept the mission. Oh, brat, study harder. Oh, boy, your fuinjutsu is subpar..." Every time this 'Mito' spoke, her expression would sometimes show kindness and sometimes exasperation as if she was the real Mito herself.
*Poof*
"Hmm, be a good boy. I'll keep in contact with only you in Konoha, Tsunade knows that. I don't have to tell you to not spread the news about this, right?"
Had it been Kai... he would have used a similar seal on someone else to make them keep the secret but just her lack of it in this regard made him quite... emotional. Oh, he would cry a river if he wasn't distracted by the smashable grandma's body.
"Uh, yeah, of course. Can I ask you something?"
"I have many matters to take care of... but sure, your team would be leaving today so I can entertain one last question."
"Is this a transformation jutsu?"
Smirking underneath her mask, she giggled, "Get strong enough to find out."
'Not old enough?' Before Kai could even share his thoughts, the woman's body disappeared in a flicker, way faster than his own but not as silent, making him a little proud about his Chakra Paws skill.
Kai glanced at Tsunade who now sported a discreet smirk herself, making him roll his eyes and groan.
Women vicious ones indeed. And he just had to desire a whole lot of them, didn't he?
Compared to all of them, the gentle Nono and the sweet pup Tsume were beginning to look better options to find friendship in.
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As 'she' predicted, or maybe concocted behind the scenes, Team Tsunade left Uzushiogakure three hours later once Ruuji Uzumaki, the Uzushiokage, provided them with his seal of acceptance that would be delivered to their Hokage and mark the end of their mission but... once Heijo left, surprising even Team Tsunade was the act of the space-time ninjutsu seal suddenly fizzling out.
Uzushiogakure just cut off the last contact with the outside world.
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