Chapter 78: Rasen...

Chapter 78: Rasen...

Kai was still feeling... surreal. One minute, he was hoping to get Kushina out of her clothes... to bathe her, of course. He DID have some responsibility towards her since he promised Mito and all that before she left this 'world' but... damn, Orochimaru efficiently and systematically ruined the mood with interesting facts about Juinjutsu and whatnot...

Again, Kai loved every moment of the knowledge, but also felt pissed that by the end of it, when the smiling Sannin who had been eyeing him for quite a while left once they formed an unsealing key to the Juinjutsu with Kushina's help largely, she herself was kind of exhausted and had lost the mood for it.

And Kushina wasn't as sensible as Mikoto so it was hard to ever make such remarkable progress with the shy, tomboyish redhead. But hey, anything for the grind! Kai would eventually get her onto the panting, sweaty, rewarding path of the grind UNDER his personal... expertise.

Still, Kai admitted that being unable to sense Orochimaru bothered him greatly.

There was only one reason why this was possible Senjutsu Chakra. While Kai hadn't started this severe training, he had been advised upon the subject by Tsunade who boasted quite the knowledge of it given her origins. And... Orochimaru seemed in tune with his surroundings. It was simply a new realm of 'disguise' and while Kai was certainly stunned that he couldn't peer through the man's intent, he knew well enough why it was as such.

Chakra Empath worked on regular chakra but not the specialized kind. That's all.

And...

'What the hell was wrong with his lips? Was it a hint? Did something happen?'

Kai silently wondered.

Whatever kind of shitstorm he had created by Uprooting Danzo's Angels, and setting free the said angels in Hokage's absence, he did not care. A troll's nature is not to care about the consequence but even make the consequences fear them!

Sure, Danzo fucked up. Sure, Kai had a lot of inventory to go through.

But... Orochimaru always interested him and one of the ways the man taught him was by constantly dropping hints and the Sannin's lips... positively looked weird. But why?

'Damn... talk with Mikoto's pop wasn't all that great either. A good thing that things were mostly neutral by the time the chat ended... should I give the team a day off? Kushina is tired. Nono will be with Sensei all day to help her sort out the mess... what the fuck was Danzo thinking planning to plot about... every-fucking-one? Man will really get pursued to the end but... another thing... my clone didn't kill two of the Root's kids. Neither did the Anbu... I didn't sense Orochi doing something either... but the pouty-lipped Sannin constantly kept hinting about something...'

Kai grumbled slightly. Of all things, Kai actually believed that somehow, Orochimaru was onto him because Kai simply had no way to check otherwise. After all, he still couldn't sense the man if he would be standing behind him.

But this also meant...

'Is Orochimaru in cahoots with Danzo? Let's just wait and see. If he didn't kill me now, then it's obvious he's either too smart or too foolish... or probably, he bears me no ill will. But the chalk-skinned sissy cockblocked me! Damn it!' Kai groaned while thinking of Kushina.

He looked sideways and found an equally idle Kushina that had tagged along stopping at the corner of the street where they found Mikoto making her way towards the market of the village, too.

Suddenly, all three of them froze.

"Ah... oh... I didn't expect you guys to be here," Mikoto blinked, and then her gaze drifted towards Kai. "H-hey..." she stuttered.

While their meeting had come to a surprising but climatic end... Mikoto was quite happy with how Kai handled himself and the situation. Honestly, showing maturity despite his age wasn't any problem, and... before leaving, he knew to plant a peck even if it was just to annoy her father. She liked THAT.

Even if she didn't say anything, things were tough in the clan for her.

So, once their meeting was currently concluded without any decision, she was quick to change out of her gi and hakama. Still holding his gaze, Mikoto's smile grew a bit warmer as she complimented, "Bringing flowers was a nice touch."

As much as she wanted to NOT show it when around the duo, Kushina couldn't hold it any longer and let out an "Ugh..."

This made Kai and Mikoto, who was having a moment, blink and then look at the redhead who promptly realized what she'd done as she blushed, "Ah, I mean, Ugh, my stomach hurts!"

Shaking her head and feeling somewhat responsible for getting 'in between' Kai and Kushina given their arrangement from way before, Mikoto shook her head with an even brighter grin and made her way towards the duo, "Of course, it's always your stomach, Kushina. Want to grab a bite? Teuchi-san is probably already waiting in his stall."

Mikoto realized early that the quickest way to communicate with Kushina was through food and after the suggestion, both the women turning into fine kunoichi looked at him.

"What about your father?" Kai inquired.

Bam!

Instead of 'exploding' out, the stump was dissected from the center due to a controlled explosive!

Alas, Kai found nothing 'new.'

This was pure Shape Manipulation of chakra at its finest to make the basic chakra of the body more intense.

That's all.

The trick is that this technique itself would have a high learning curve due to the training needed to master shape manipulation.

"Or," making Minato even more depressed, Kai continued as five of these 'bullets' of energy just extended out of the tips of Kai's fingers and waved around him, "Just attach a chakra thread. Or extend a chakra threat and form your technique at the end of the thread itself... What's it called?"

"I... named it Rasengan," Minato sighed.

"Cool, I'll name my variant Rasengun," Kai shrugged as Kushina's stomach growled out loud this time, pulling the attention on her as she barked.

"What? I'm hungry, dattebane! And isn't it even simpler to learn a jutsu storage seal and then keep on sealing this technique to use it later?"

Minato was even more depressed now.

How could he have missed all of THIS?

But... Kai smiled. Everyone around him, especially the blonde youth, was blessed with the path of grind. Patting the youth's shoulder who was around four years older than him, Kai spoke in a deep, attractive tone, "How about we train? Like old times. It will be just you, me, and exhaustion till our minds find better ways to"

While Kai's words made Minato, still on his knees, starry-eyed with a fascinating and goofy smile on his lips, two hands quickly latched onto Kai's shoulders.

Both, Kai's and Minato's, expressions changed as two women dramatically made their presence known from behind Kai with guttural growls escaping their lips and tummies.

*Poof*

A shadow clone appeared this instant as Kai looked at the clone seriously, "Work hard!" Before getting dragged away by Kushina and Mikoto. Ah, sweet bliss. Grind and women at the same time.

God bless Shadow Clone Jutsu... and the Legend who created it.

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A/N: Aye, Bringing Rasengun to a Rasengan fight~!

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