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Chapter 123 - Petals, Thorns, and Technicalities

I took the spot next to her and grabbed a sheet of paper, starting to fold it into the shape of a bouquet like hers.

“What are you doing?“ She glanced at me from the corner of her eye. "I asked you to leave."

“Helping you.“ I smiled and bumped her shoulder with mine. "I need two bouquets, after all. I hope my little flower wo...

Chapter 122 - Thorns Beneath the Petals

I pulled away from the kiss and looked at the breathless girl in my arms.

Ino's lips were swollen and red, her gloss completely kissed off. Her eyes were half-lidded and dazed, unfocused, like she'd just surfaced from underwater. A thin line of saliva connected our mouths for a moment before breaking. Her chest heaved against mine, breath ...

Chapter 121 - Green with Bloom

The shop bell jingles, and I stepped into a cocktail of fragrances that hit like a perfumed freight train; roses, lilies, something citrus-y, a floral ignorant monkey like myself couldn't name. I'd smelled the damn place three blocks away, but inside it was borderline aggressive. My nose wrinkled. Too much sweetness, like drowning in potpourri.<...

Chapter 120 - The Gift and the Gaffe

I felt out of place the moment I stepped into Naruto's room. Wrong-footed, like I'd walked into someone else's life uninvited. Which, technically, I had.

Quite uncharacteristic of me, I know, but I wanted to turn around. Leave. I'd gotten what I came for. Most of it, anyway. Seventy percent of a god-tier seal was nothing to sneeze at, even...

Chapter 119 - A Trophy on the Floor

Things had not gone as I'd expected them to... again, like most things with this woman. But this time — and I couldn't believe I was actually thinking this — it was a positive development. I couldn’t even pretend to be mad about it.

The lies she came up with herself were better than any I could have sold her. If she thought the reaso...

Chapter 118 - Strange Warfare

With the permission given, I didn't rush in to 'check' the state of her underwear. I already knew their state perfectly well.

Not because I was that much in control, oh hell no. Nobody, not even the most disciplined monk or chakra-castrated ascetic, could maintain patience in the face of this unfair temptress. She was just too perfectly cr...

Chapter 117 - Probing the Red Zone

Kushina’s face was absolutely delectable in that moment.

Flushed crimson from her cheeks down to her neck, lips parted and glistening, eyes half-lidded with a mixture of frustration and barely contained yet clear need; bedroom gaze, if I had seen any. The way her chest rose and fell with each breath made her look like she was on the ver...

Chapter 116 - Negative Logic

The Eight Trigrams Sealing Style.

One of the most important sealing techniques in shinobi history. The Uzumaki clan's masterpiece.

Some would say it was the reason they were arrogant enough to think they could make their village on their own, isolated on that island of theirs. Hell, some historians even argued that the Eight Trigrams...

Chapter 115 - The Cornered Tiger

The sight before me should not have stolen my breath the way it did.

Kushina was hunched forward slightly, her long green dress hiked up and bunched at her waist, exposing those pale, mature thighs that seemed to glow in the soft light filtering through. Her hands fumbled over beneath the fabric, and when she looked up at me, her violet ey...

Chapter 114 - Volatile Negotiations

I'd braced myself for the explosion, but it didn't come.

Which, in fairness, was a good outcome. Kushina going nuclear here, forgetting her sleeping son and the watchers outside, would be catastrophic for both my short-term plans and my long-term prospects of living in this village.

In retrospect, I'd fucked up a bit there. I was rel...

Chapter 113 - Wipe the Slate Clean

I felt like I'd made the biggest mistake of my life.

Releasing that plush, mature body felt wrong on every level. The warmth of her pressed against me had felt so damn right.

The moment I opened my arm, cold air rushed between us like a slap. My arms felt empty, useless things hanging at my sides. The absence of her body hea...

Chapter 112 - To Claw and to Crave

KUSHINA UZUMAKI

It had been weeks since she’d last seen him. Weeks since she’d punched his smug face and warned him—swore to him—that if he ever breathed a word of what happened, she’d cut his balls off and bury him deep enough that even an Edo Tensei wouldn’t find his damn name.

Weeks since the infuriati...

Chapter 111 - Into Demon's Lair

What would you do when your own village decided you needed to be kept an eye on?

You've got some options. Play the model citizen. Smile, wave, and pretend you don't notice the shadows trailing you. If you have some petty bones, you can go about useless business and let them waste their time documenting your boring daily routine. Or if you ...

Chapter 110 - The Girl Who Waited

AYAME

Ayame wiped down the counter for the third time, her cloth moving in slow, absent circles as she replayed the morning in her mind. Eishin-kun. Just thinking his name made her chest flutter. She called him Eishin-san, but in the privacy of her mind, it was Eishin-kun or just Eishin when she was all stressed a...

Chapter 109 - The Early Bird Gets the Cold Shoulder

We didn’t immediately find a restaurant ready to serve yet.

The day was too early for most of Konoha's establishments to be open and ready for business. We wandered through the quieter streets, past shuttered shops and half-awake vendors just beginning to set up their stalls.

The village had a different personality at this hour. So...

Chapter 108 - Dawn Found Us

The afterglow hadn't even faded when reality kicked poor me square in the balls. Shiho barely lasted two other rooms, let alone the whole house

Though to be fair, I'd set some pretty ambitious goals for christening our new place. Not that I was complaining about her limitations; she wasn't a combat-oriented kunoichi, after all. Her strengt...

Chapter 107 - A Nerd and Her Consequences

The first time she came under my guidance, it was a sharp, jagged peak. Her whole body clenched, hands scrabbling at my chest, mouth open in a strangled cry that left spit on her chin. Her legs locked, thighs quivering, and her hips lifted in a tiny, involuntary buck. The panty fabric soaked darker, and a small, embarrassingly loud sob replaced ...

Chapter 106 - A Change of Pace

I studied her face, taking in the complexity of what was happening.

Shiho was many things—brilliant, submissive, devoted—but she was also fundamentally reserved and professional. Her whole persona was built around being the nerdy cipher girl in the corner, hiding behind lab coats and modest dresses like armor. Even though she was well-...

Chapter 105 - A Possessive Heart

My arm cradled her head, thumb stroking along her jaw, keeping her face tilted up to me, while my other hand stayed warm on her belly. A girl offering herself up whole, eyes glassy behind crooked frames, lips wet from the kiss I’d stolen. She lay there, eager, still, and waiting.

Waiting for me to do what she’d just said—whatever I w...

Chapter 104 - An Empty Nest to Fill

The house smelled like cedar and fresh straw. Old wood and older money, if that made any sense, polished beams catching slivers of sunlight that cut through the paper shoji.

Big enough for a samurai’s pride and a concubine’s drama. Bigger than I had any right to call mine. I wasn’t fooling myself; this was the kind of place made for ...

Chapter 103 - Warmth in a Cold World

The rest of my hospital stay was… peaceful. Relatively speaking. Which meant my balls were aching with a vengeance, and my dick kept twitching every time I remembered Naruto’s little stunt. Or Naruko’s. Fuck if I knew what to call it.

All I knew was I came down the throat of a bombshell nurse henge, a friend at that, and I still coul...

Chapter 102 - The Weight of Leadership

MINATO NAMIKAZE

His desk, Minato came to learn through nearly two decades as Hokage, was his most ardent enemy. One that had never and would never surrender.

Merely two days, and the stack he hadn’t avoided but tried to ignore had accumulated to take up half his desk. Complaints piled like barricades, each stamped ...

Chapter 101 - Dattebayo Aftercare

“H-hey! Quit twisting ’em like that!” she yelped, cheeks puffing up like a damn chipmunk. “You think you’re funny, huh?”

Cute. Too cute. She pouted, lips puckered, then immediately doubled down, squeezing her tits tighter around my shaft like she had something to prove.

I just smiled at her. “What do you think?” Inwar...

Chapter 100 - The Will of Fire at its Finest

Naruko didn't have the same inhibitions most girls had about having their chests exposed. Probably because in her mind, these weren't really her tits. Or more likely, she had never been taught about a girl’s dignity. What was proper, what was shameful.

She didn’t give a damn. She didn’t know to give a damn.

It...

03 - The Journey

I strode from Helaena's chambers with purpose, my mind already racing toward the journey that lay before me.

First, I required a change of garb. The familiar weight of last night's courtly silks felt suddenly cloying, like chains wrought of gold and vanity.

I shed them for something more fitting. A supple leather armor, black as nigh...

Chapter 99 - The Nurse's Special Treatment

The smoke cleared, and there she was—blonde twin-tails bouncing, chest threatening to spill out of a nurse outfit that looked like it came straight from a horny teenager's fever dream.

"Naruko-chan is here to give sensei some very special treatment," she purred, one hand on her cocked hip, the other trailing down her barely-cont...

Chapter 98 - Pain and Promises

I stared at the window for a long moment, then let my head fall back against the pillow with a sigh. My head throbbed less without the girls’ shrill back-and-forth ringing in my skull.

“Are you mad? You must be mad.“ I spoke to the apparently empty air outside. “Why else lurk around like some second-rate stalker kunoichi? Jealousy ...

Chapter 97 - Of Flowers and Foreheads

With Naruto boisterously pointing it out like the tactless idiot he was, the girls seemed to forget their mutual animosity entirely, both sets of eyes locked onto the obvious tent my arousal had pitched in the hospital bedsheets.

Sakura's reaction was... educational. Her mouth fell open in a little 'o' of surprise, those green eyes going w...

Chapter 96 - Nutrients for a Needy Flower

I leaned back, tilting my head.

“And?”

Her throat bobbed as she swallowed. Then she tucked her bangs behind her ear with shaking fingers, leaned down close, closer, until her lips pressed to mine. They were incredibly soft and slightly sticky from her lip gloss, tasting faintly of strawberries.

Normally that would have been...

Chapter 95 - Tending the Flower

Author’s Note:

This chapter is a little bonus! I wasn’t planning to post today, but IzaKi dropped such a passionate review over on Webnovel that it really made my day and I happened to have an reserve chapter on hand.

I don’t have grander words to give, but I do have my thanks and this extra chapter. T...