บท 124: Temari in Konoha
After 30 minutes, Konan had finished only 30 push ups. It was just too hard. She was lying on the ground, full of sweat. Akihiko saw this and went to help her.
"Don't push yourself too hard. You should try to push your limits but it isn't done in a short time. You still have a long way to go." Akihiko gave her a towel and helped her up.
Konan took the towel and wiped her sweat off. She merely smiled at Akihiko and bowed.
"Thank you." She said as Akihiko smiled back.
Konan's emotion control has improved leaps and bounds since she came to the Uchiha Household. Inside the house, Akihiko didn't use his transformation jutsu.
In Konan's mind, she was fangirling Akihiko but her face didn't show it. She had a neutral face the whole time.
As for the men, Deidara, as a senior, gave them advice. You can use the chant "Boom Shaka Laka! Boom! Boom! Bababa- Boom!" to not be enchanted by Akihiko or you can occupy your mind with something else.
It worked wonders for them…. most of the time. Sometimes, Akihiko just appeared randomly that they had no choice but to get enchanted.
Jugo finished his meditation and the seal was placed on him. Akihiko finished making the seal 10 minutes ago and he gave it to Jugo. Jugo placed it on himself and he was extremely happy. The reason it took 20 minutes was because of Akihiko teaching Jugo how to meditate and experimenting if he could use Sage Mode.
But no, he can't. Jugo soon felt that the natural energy entering his body became a lot slower. During the 20 minutes of meditation, he managed to sense natural energy. He thanked Akihiko as Akihiko just replied, "It's fine. You're Sasuke's friend after all."
Afterwards, Akihiko also made him wear weights and start doing the same exercises as Konan.
After around 10 minutes, the sounds of sparring from Naruto and Sasuke's chambers, stopped with a loud *Thud*.
Akihiko flicked his hands and the two wooden walls went back down and revealed Sasuke and Naruto both lying on the ground with light bruises. They were exhausted but their eyes were still competitive. During the whole spar, they didn't even manage to touch Akihiko's clone.
Jugo and Konan were also looking towards them as they wanted to see how much they trained. They were extremely surprised and Konan also decided to train harder. She went back into doing push ups as she wanted to finish the remaining 20 push ups in 10 minutes.
Akihiko walked over to Sasuke and Naruto as he asked, "Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah, we're okay. Can we rest though?"
"Sure."
As they were talking, the kids arrived with their mother.
"Mother! We're her-"
Before they managed to finish the sentence, there was a sound of thunder in the kids' head.
'T-this is training!!! It looks very painful!'
"Ah! Big Brother Sasuke is dead!" Kyoko shouted as she pointed at Sasuke.
"Ahhh! Big Brother Naruto is dead too!" Mirai shouted again.
The kids ran towards their brothers while Hina only followed them.
'If this is how much my brothers trained to get stronger, I also need to train a lot when I get older!' She thought as the kids were shaking Naruto and Sasuke.
"I-it's fine. Shaking makes me want to vomit." Naruto replied with a ghastly face as the kids stopped.
"It's fine if we rest for a while." Sasuke said as he stared up at the sky.
"*sigh* Akihiko, why didn't you go easy on them?" She asked as Kushina also joined in.
"Yeah, you should have gone easy."
The other wives were staying quiet since they didn't want to interrupt.
Sasuke and Naruto were about to stop their mother and say that it was fine but they were not expecting what their mothers were about to stay.
"Look at Konan. She's training so hard on her first day. You should have at least reduced the weights."
"It's fine, Mikoto-san, Kushina-san. I have to do this."
"Aiyaa, don't worry. You can continue later. Come with us. We'll make something for you to eat." They removed her weights and dragged Konan away. Before Konan left, she bowed and said to Akihiko.
"I'll come back and do the training later. I will not run away from the training."
"Naruto, Sasuke, train properly! We'll make very very delicious food for you." Kushina and Mikoto just said that with a smile as they waved.
Then, they all left.
"Naruto, Sasuke, did you hear that?"
Naruto and Sasuke were silent as they were still dumbfounded.
"Don't worry. You can rest for 20 minutes." Akihiko said as two streams of tears fell down from Sasuke and Naruto's eyes.
'At last, our rest time got increased from 10 minutes to 20 minutes. That's even double.'
Sasuke and Naruto were filled with gratitude not knowing that they were just too used to the previous time. If other people were here, they would have gone crazy.
"We'll cheer for you, brother!" The kids said with cute voices as Naruto and Sasuke smiled. Akihiko was thinking, 'My daughters are the cutest in the entire worl-, univer- multiv- no, they are the cutest in the entire omniverse.'
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[In Ichiraku]
"Ayame, I'll help you unlock your Rinne-Ramengan now." Teuchi said as Ayame was surprised.
"Eh? What about the shop?"
"We'll only close for 30 minutes. I already finished placing the sign in front of the shop." Teuchi said as Ayame saluted.
"Yes sir!"
"Alright. Now, just sit down in a meditating position." Teuchi said as Ayame followed his instructions.
"Relax. I'll send my chakra inside. Remember. This is only the first step." Teuchi said as he placed his palm on her back and sent his chakra to Ayame.
Suddenly, Ayame felt something changing within her eyes. Teuchi continued and stopped after 2 minutes.
Ayame got up as she exclaimed.
"Wow! Dad, is this the Rinne-Ramengan?"
"No, this is only th- Wait. What?" Teuchi was genuinely surprised to see that Ayame achieved the Rinne Ramengen.
"Huhu. I'm just too amazing, dad. I also gained a new personal ability. It's called 'Blessing of the Ramen'. I can heal anyone who eats my special ramen without any distance limitation. But there's a time limit and the chakra usage is a bit high, the same as my buff skill.
I can only use it within 24 hours after someone ate my ramen but I can heal them from the brink of death to full health. But I can't heal a person several times in a row. The chakra consumption increases."
"Hm. It's a great ability, Ayame. It's a very strong support ability."
"I thought so too, dad."
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A beautiful girl with sandy blonde hair was dashing towards the gates of Konoha as the guards noticed it.
"Halt! What are your purposes for coming to Konoha?" They asked as Temari stopped in front of them.
"I'm Temari from Sunagakure."
"Do you have anything to prove your identity?"
"Yeah. Here." She said as she showed them the scroll.
They stared at it for a while and then gave it back to her.
"Thank you Ma'am. You may enter Konoha."
"Alright. Thanks." Temari said as she walked into the gates. As soon as she entered the gates, she saw several stalls and shops with lots of customers walking around. Konoha's streets were busy, just like always.
She went to the Dark Side to buy some cookies but she bumped into a kid.
"Oh kid, are you alright?"
"Yeah, and I'm not a kid. I'm going to be an adult soon." The kid replied as she stared at Temari with her white eyes.
Temari just smiled as the small girl took the bag of cookies that she bought from the store.
"Thank you." She said as she showed her tongue towards Temari playfully and then ran away.
'Right, that kid looks like she's from the Hyuga clan.' Temari thought as she got her cookies from the store.
She took a bite as she walked towards the Uchiha Household. The Uchiha Household was quite a distance from the entrance.
After 10 minutes, she arrived at the entrance.
*Knock* *Knock*
She waited for a minute before someone opened the door. It was a beautiful lady with black hair that had some blue tint in it.
"Yes?"
"Oh. I came to meet Akihiko." Temari said as Anko opened the door fully.
"You can enter. I'll go and call Akihiko." Anko said as Temari entered and closed the door. After that, she led Temari to the living room where Kushina, Mikoto, Izumi, Haku and Konan were sitting while eating snacks.
"Hello, Temari." They greeted her as Temari was stunned.
"H-how do you know me?"
"Oh, we heard your name from the chunin exams back then and Akihiko also talks about you." Kushina said with a playful smile as Temari blushed.
"R-really?"
"Yeah, of course." Mikoto said with a graceful smile as she finally understood. Another girl has been trapped by Akihiko's charm.
"Come, let's talk more." They invited Temari to sit with them. Temari nodded as she sat beside Mikoto.
Meanwhile, Anko went to the training ground to call for Akihiko. This time, there were no wood walls covering Sasuke and Naruto. They were sparring with the shadow clones in the open while the kids were cheering them on.
"Brother. You can hold on for 5 more minutes!"
"Brother! Endure 15 more hits!"
Sasuke and Naruto's heart ached from their sisters' words. They didn't even think that they had a chance to win. Itachi was looking at the training ground from his room as he chuckled.
He was resting in his room since he still felt the symptoms of his disease becoming more and more frequent. He didn't want everyone to worry about him.
Jugo already left the training area as his request was completed. Anko walked near Akihiko as she informed him that Temari was here. Afterward, she sat near the kids and asked them if they wanted to go back inside.
The kids have watched the spar and cheered for quite some time. And as kids, they got bored.
"Mm! Mm! We'll go inside." They said as they nodded.
"Nice." Anko said as she led them inside. Akihiko also entered the house to meet with Temari.
Sasuke and Naruto looked at the kids leaving but they got punched and kicked respectively.
'Ah, right. Can't lose focus.'
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Akihiko arrived inside the house with Anko and the kids as they walked towards where Kushina, Mikoto, Izumi, Haku, Konan and Temari were.
When they arrived, some of the kids sat on the remaining chairs and some sat on their mothers' lap. They stared at Temari who was a stranger to them.
[E/N: Stranger Danger!]
"Mama, who is this sister?"
"Oh, she's Temari, your father's friend."
"I see. Big Sis Temari, do you want to play with us?"
Temari was getting hit by the cute stares the kids were giving as she answered.
"I'll play with you later. I have something to talk about with Akihiko, okay?"
"Promise?"
"Promise."
"Big Sis, I don't know what you are going to do but good luck!" Hina said as she nodded.
"Thanks." Temari smiled and then walked towards Akihiko.
"Akihiko, can we talk alone?"
(End-)
Credits to Editors
Black Latte
Magnus the tired
Master Baiter
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