CHAPTER 66: RESEARCH

“Sensei, I’m sure I’m not the first woman you’ve seen like this.”

“No but it is a sight I gave up on ever seeing years ago. Proof that life always has something in store to surprise you.”

The retired Hokage was looking at his student sitting behind her desk and with a child at her breast feeding on it. Meanwhile he had one in his own arms and was rocking it to sleep.

“Now I know from whom Jiraiya got his pervertedness.” the blonde woman said.

“Jiraiya was already a pervert the day he was born, I have nothing to do with him turning out the way he is.” he replied with a flat tone. “Biwako blessed us with sons but no daughter and I came to see you as one, you know that. I always believed you’d have your own children and see you… Happy like you are now. Though it’s a bit different, I dare say the results are the same.”

“Creating a jutsu to force the production of milk wasn’t that difficult.”

“I’ll take your word for it. It will help a lot with orphans or adopting mothers to bond with their child better.”

Tsunade nodded with the statement and removed her grand-daughter from her breast, seemingly not hungry at all anymore. After making her burp, she handed the little one to a shadow clone of hers that she had made to do the paperwork while she was breastfeeding.

“I’m surprised you convinced Riku to part with them.”

Ever since the birth of his twin daughters, Riku had been completely smitten. He didn’t want to leave them alone for a moment. Sometimes he was just looking at them sleeping for hours with a stupid happy smile on his face. Had his wife and fiancees not put a stop to him spending so much time with the babies, they would have never seen him anymore. A bit problematic now that Karin was beginning her eighth month of pregnancy.

With everyone busy as hell and because she wanted to spend time with her five months old granddaughters, Tsunade, despite being Hokage, ‘volunteered’ to be their nanny for the day.

Hitomi and Toka were a perfect mix of their parents at first glance. They had their mother’s hair but their father’s eyes. Their faces, from what Hiashi told them, were Hinata’s too, though some features were Riku’s. The eyebrows, the ears, their skin complexion that was all him and that was it.

“Not like he had any choice in the matter. Karin’s maternity leave began today.”

“Speaking of young Karin…”

“I know. The Kyuubi. Measures had been taken to not have a repeat of twenty years ago.”

“I hope so. I may have one last fight in me, but I’d rather not use it for the fox again.”

“It’s not like Riku won’t be there to deal with it should that ever happen but it shouldn’t. As I said, measures were taken. Better than the last time.”

“I trust you but I’ll see it when I see it. Anyway, how is their last project going?”

“They sequenced it all. Finished it a few days ago. Now they’re sequencing other DNA than their own for making comparisons.”

“They’re no closer to find…”

“The origin of kekkei genkai? I’m afraid not. It’s different for each one although some are pretty similar, like dojutsu. They’re all in the same range of the sequence. There is good news. Riku found out why his healing abilities are so strong. He compared his sequence with mine, Minato’s and the whole Uzumaki. Turned out that he got it from my Uzumaki side. I have the sequence for Karin’s special chakra but it’s dormant. Riku inherited it but it mutated. Where Karin could heal everyone taking her chakra in, including herself, Riku’s is… not as dense but… purer so to speak, that’s why it heals more. It affects not only the cells but the sequence itself. Healing the damage that comes with time. Since it’s just the purity of his chakra it’s not considered a kekkei genkai, despite being a mutation.”

“Hitomi and Toka?”

“Dormant I’m afraid.”

“Did they discover anything else?”

“They think I may have the mokuton but it is dormant too. They need to check things more but it’s difficult with only three individuals’ sequence.”

“We’re far away to make genes dormant awake, hm?”

“Oh, yes. Once we succeed though… let’s say that Orochimaru’s results from his experiments would pale in comparison and everything would be done properly like actual science.”

The talk was interrupted when a loud sound of rippling water was heard. Looking at the ‘phone’ that was laying on the side of her desk, Tsunade looked at who was calling her by recognizing the seal that had lit up on the machine.

‘Intelligence?’ “Yes?” She said when she picked the handset and put it against her ear.

“Hokage-sama, one of our advanced outposts, reported unusual movement from Iwa.”

“Which one?”

“LOE SE03, Hokage-sama.”

“I’m on my way, be ready.” she ordered and put the handset down.

“I don’t think I’ll ever not marvel at what Riku comes up with.” Hiruzen said.“Trouble?”

“Iwa made a move and it was picked up.” informed Tsunade.

She made another shadow clone to deal with the paperwork while the previous one was keeping an eye on her granddaughters. It didn’t take long for her to reach the secret intelligence underground complex. Ten people were working there at all times to deal with all possible reports from the diverse small surveillance teams scattered across the many advanced outposts that had been created for the past year. Such an endeavor had necessitated recruitment from the general corps, Anbu being too few and more skilled to be stuck into simple observation jobs.

“Who did I get on the phone?”

A brown haired shinobi wearing glasses raised his hand and guided her to the main table in the middle of the room. He activated the holographic display and showed her what he had seen.

“At least twenty shinobis passed by one of the outposts I’ve been in charge of roughly half an hour ago. Team IS-09 kept monitoring their movements and the targets went through the border with Ame. They’re not travelling light.”

He manipulated the seal to control the view displayed and Tsunade was able to watch a small camp being built by shinobis.

“They confirmed just before you arrived they were Iwa ninjas.”

“A small team would mean a simple mission but a group of twenty?” she wondered aloud about what it meant. “I want to know what they are doing as soon as possible. Anbu will be ready to intervene if necessary. Anything else happened?” she asked around the room.

“Nothing to signal with Wind, Birds or Mountain Streams, Hokage-sama.”

“Neither from Frost. Kumo has not made any move to invade it.”

“Alright, keep up the good work.”

She left the room and went back to her office, thinking about how despite how amazing this new surveillance system that her son had come up with, they still haven’t found the last two members of Akatsuki. With the Rinnegan in their possession and what they learned about it from Nagato, she was right to fear what they could do.

While his mother was busy pondering their enemies actions Riku was… not home. He had left a shadow clone with Karin who was in one of her moods because of her pregnancy, to have some respite. He loved the redhead dearly, more than almost  any other but the cycle of yelling, crying, and cravings was driving him nuts. Hinata had been volatile with her mood swings but not nearly as much. Speaking of his moon princess, she was at work at the hospital. While she wanted to be a housewife and stay at home mom, Riku argued that she would quickly get bored. He also argued that when the girls would start the academy she would have nothing to do  during the day and it was preferable for her to keep working just with a lighter schedule. As such, with Hinata busy he went to Ino. She had come back the day before from a routine mission and had a day off. Between the birth of the twins, Karin’s pregnancy and their respective work, he hadn’t had much time with the blonde. Something that he had quickly acted on rectifying first thing in the morning. He had brought her to the forest, hid his Botib there and dragged her to their bedroom. They’ve been going at it for the past three hours like beasts in heat.

“HMMMMMMMMMMMM!”

Grabbing her ass he pushed her down on his dick and discharged everything into her womb as she orgasmed herself. She was in paradise. One Riku in each hand, one in her throat, one in her asshole and finally, Riku himself in her pussy who was also biting on one of her pierced nipples. When her body stopped shaking, he dispelled the clones and an exhausted Ino fell on him. Her breath was short and her brain shot. After a minute of absence she came back to the world.

“I really needed that.” she said with a blissful smile giving him a peck on the lips.

“We needed that. We needed us. It’s been way too long and blowjobs here and there are not nearly enough, despite you being the best.” he answered, scratching her lower back and fondling her butt. “I needed my gorgeous bimbo slut and her tight little pussy.” he joked, making her chuckle.

“And ass, and throat and-”

“If I had to list everything, we would still be here tomorrow. So let’s summarize it with ‘you’.”

“I don’t know. I’d love to hear you say every entry.”

“Rather than fucking?” he asked, pushing his pelvis upward and putting a finger in her ass which made her moan.

“Hmmm. No. I’m good.”

“Now, if you don’t mind me asking. When did you add those things?” he said, using his hand to tug on the small steel balls caging her nipples.

“A month and a half ago. Like them?”

“Love them, more like. What’s next? A collar?”

“I wouldn’t mind trying one from time to time.”

“Is there anything you wouldn’t try?” he inquired in an amused tone.

“For you? Nothing.”

Hearing her devotion made him go from half mast to hard as steel again. Ino couldn’t help herself, she began to shake her ass up and down, fucking herself on his dick on the spot with an innocent look on her face.

“You’re insatiable.” she said with a chuckle.

“It’s your fault. You just keep me going and going.”

“You make me feel the same.”

They had a few more rounds. Not pent up anymore and because she wanted to enjoy the rest of her day off differently, they stopped their escapade afterwards. Ino had planned to have lunch with her mother. She gave Riku one last kiss and left for her childhood home.

“Hello, mom.” She greeted her mother who was behind the stove in the kitchen.

“Ino, dear. It’s so good to see you again.” said Noriko as she went to hug her daughter.

“You too, mom. How are you doing?”

“Well. It would be better if I had some grandchildren to spoil though.”

“Mom, really?” the young engaged lady replied with a flat tone. “I just came back.”

“I’m worried. Hinata and Karin-”

“Hinata was an accident she was very much happy with and Karin was planned because of the village’s law regarding clans. You will have your grandchildren, mom. You just have to wait a few years. And if you can’t wait for grandchildren to spoil, both wouldn’t deny you to fuss over their children, I’m sure.”

“I would love to but it wouldn’t be the same.”

“Yeah? Well… Sorry I’m not into a baby making mood and more of a-”

“Having sex mood?”

“Mom!”

“Dear, with all the hickeys you have on your neck and how much you smile, it’s obvious.”

Ino raised a hand reflexively to her neck to hide it and blushed while grinning.

“Come on, share with your poor old mother how well my future son-in-law is treating you.”

That Ino had no problem doing it.

Meanwhile the said son-in-law had chosen to go to work instead of going home. Out of curiosity he took cells he had secretly taken from the Rinnegan and analyzed them. His purpose was to determine how the peculiar dojutsu came to be. He didn’t believe in the ‘The Rinnegan appears in time of great chaos and its holder will decide of the salvation of the world or his destruction’ spiel that Jiraiya had shared. It sounded like a prophecy to Riku and he didn’t believe in them. The future was not set in stones because of the existence of free will. Some events may be bound to happen but they didn’t have to happen the way the ‘prophecy’ said it would. Infinite possibilities, that was the future's true nature and it wasn’t possible for someone to see all of them. No, if the Rinengan had reappeared it was because of a more scientific reason, he was sure of that.

The results he got were strangely familiar. He didn’t know why and it made no sense to him at first. The only DNA sequence he has made regarding humans, was of the last Senjus, the last three Uzumakis, one pureblooded Hyuga, his father, a mix of all of them (coming from his daughters Hitomi and Toka), from Hiruzen who had decided to take part in the research indirectly out of curiosity and the Uchiha clan. Since the village had plenty of sharingan, it had plenty of opportunities to make comparisons. First between the sharingan itself and second with the Hyugas who had the byakugan.

‘The sharingan! That’s why this sequence is so familiar. The parts about the eyes are very close, closer than the byakugan and sharingan at least. Or I think it is. I need to compare the three.’

Quickly he used the seal he had created for DNA matching, to compare the sequence of the three kekkei genkai. Honestly, the seal wasn’t perfect by any means. It just read the whole sequence of each sample it was provided and wrote in a different color the similar part of the sequence. The amount of chakra paper needed was staggering and so was the length of the scroll he needed for that. Thankfully since he could use the mokuton, making chakra paper was only difficult when the wood needed to be processed. As such the money needed was much less than what it should have been. Much, much less.

The process took time however. Hours in truth. So in the meantime he looked at the comparison made from his mother’s, Hashirama’s and his cells. He had started it the day before in the hope of finding what part of the sequence was responsible for the mokuton.

What he found was quite interesting in his opinion. As expected his DNA matched less than Tsunade compared to Hashirama which allowed him to have a better idea of where the Mokuton was on the sequence. It helped but not much. The DNA of his grandmother, Senju Toka would have been more beneficial to determine that as a direct descendant of Hashirama. He could work without it, however after all he knew that his mother had the mokuton. The way it had been easier for her to find and learn the correct balance between earth and water chakra to use the legendary element compared to himself had been like night and day. That was why he was thinking that she had the mokuton but was dormant. That simple fact helped way more in finding the correct gene responsible. With both information put together, Riku believed it wouldn’t be long before he got the answers he wanted.

What was more fascinating to him however, was the comparison between Karin’s and Kushina’s DNA. He had easily found the gene corresponding to the Adamantine sealing chains and was pretty sure he had isolated Karin’s mind eye of the Kagura ability.