Chapter 27: Good Morning

When Riku came to himself, he felt like he was in heaven. He felt very warm, his head rested on the best pillows it had ever rested upon and his nose picked up a very peculiar aroma. Booze, a bit of sweat and a zest of clove. It didn’t know nor care from what it came from but he loved it. Burying his head deeper into the pillows he ignored the lustful moan he heard into his ear because of the atrocious headache he finally began to feel. Wishing for it to stop he dove even deeper into the pillows, to the point of having his whole head surrounded by them, while he grabbed them firmly with his hands to keep them in place. Their texture felt like very hot skin and he liked the sensation, gripping them harder. It was like his hands sank into them and his like of the feeling turned into love on the spot. The third moan and something hard beginning to push against the palm of each hand, told him that something was wrong.

‘Pillows don’t do that.’

Curious, he let his hands explore by lowering them down a bit until he found the thing was some kind of nub. He probed them a bit with his fingers then up the ante by pinching them. The result was instantaneous and a fourth moan, more guttural this time, echoed from above his head. Getting an idea, he pinched them again and another moan was heard.

‘This is fun. What would happen if…’

His thought was interrupted when the warm cocoon he was in moved. Opening his eyes and pulling his head back to look at what was happening he was confronted by a shocked, flustered and frozen Tsunade. A look that he mimicked on the spot realizing the whole situation they were in. They looked at each other in an awkward silence. Neither of them knowing what to do or say. It was Shizune’s voice calling out for Tsunade and that came from outside the room that broke the weird spell. Riku tried to move but he was stuck in the iron cage that was Tsunade’s embrace.

“Sensei!” he whispered with urgency. That was enough for the blonde woman to finally understand what was happening and release her student. He quickly rolled away and henged into a lamp to the side of the room immediately as Shizune opened the door.

“Good morning, Tsunade-sama.”

“...”

“Isn’t Riku with you?”

“NO!” the Hokage yelled in panic before quickly changing her tone, realising that her strong denial was kind of a guilt acceptance. “I mean... W-Why would he be here? This is my room, Shizune.”

“Because you dragged him there when you went to sleep last night?” replied a confused Shizune.

“I did?!” she exclaimed in shock. So did Riku but in his mind.

‘She did?!”

“Yes. Don’t you remember?”

“N-No. A-anyway, as you can see he’s not here.”

“It seems so. Izumo and Kotetsu got up a few minutes ago and left. Asked me to thank you for not throwing them out and letting them sleep here. Breakfast will be ready soon. Karin, Hinata and Ino are all awake and felt like cooking. Well, mostly Hinata, the others are a bit hungover.”

“I’ll be there in a minute. Thank you, Shizune.”

Her oldest apprentice nodded and exited the bedroom, closing the door behind her. Riku waited for her footsteps’s sound to disappear to release his henge.

“Dragging fourteen year olds back into your room to have their way with them? Now who’s the pervert, sensei?” Riku teased with a smile.

“Shut it.” she said with narrowed eyes.

He did. Instead he moved from his corner and plopped himself into her lap, looking up at her.

“Riku! What are you-”

“If it’s you, sensei, I don’t mind.” he joked and took one of her hands to put it on his chest and held it there.

Tsunade closed her eyes and took a very deep breath. Before she could say anything however, she felt Riku’s lips on her forehead, throwing out the window any rant she was about to give him. She opened her eyes in shock and saw an amused, smiling but more importantly grateful Riku which confused her.

“Thank you for everything, sensei. I… don’t remember ever having a birthday party, you know? The only thing I remember from that time is my father hanging himself in front of me. The orphanage has not been better, then when I entered the academy I began living alone. My life is so great now all thanks to you that sometimes… I think I’m still in that coma from the day we met because it’s too good to be true. I guess what I’m trying to say is… if you want to cuddle because you feel lonely, sensei… I don’t mind. I understand loneliness well. How much it hurts. So really, if you want to cuddle, I’m all for it.”

Having said that, he raised from his kneeling position and left the room leaving behind a dumbfounded Tsunade. Her thoughts and feelings were all over the place. Hangover aside it has been the best night she has had in years. To have someone close to her like that made her feel incredibly good. She couldn’t understand her drunk self’s motive for dragging Riku with her the previous night but she was thankful. She completely ignored the fact that her nipples were hard as diamonds and had been a bit aroused by what her apprentice had done in their sleep. There was no way she was touching that subject with a ten foot pole any time soon if ever.

To avoid thinking about it because she knew the more she would try to ignore it the more she would, Tsunade exited her futon then her room to join everyone in the kitchen for breakfast.

“WOW.” Ino said after gasping loudly.

Tsunade could almost feel the heat from the gazes focused on her chest. Once again she ‘forgot’ to close her kimono and her girls were almost completely displayed in front of everyone. Hinata had a shocked look on her face, Ino kept making a comparison that she didn’t like by alternerting her look between Tsunade’s chest and her own and Karin’s right eye was twitching so much one would believe something kept poking it repeatedly.

“There is no way they’re natural!” the young blonde exclaimed.

“Technically they are.” Tsunade answered and took a seat at the head of the table.

“Technically, Hokage-sama?”

“See, Hinata, before I used to be a FFcup. The perfect size for my frame.”

“And you made them bigger?! Why?!” inquired Ino completely confused.

“I didn’t. Riku did.”

The three teenagers turned to the other hand of the table to look at the only male present. He stopped chewing whatever he was eating when he felt the gaze of everyone on him then quickly swallowed.

“Yes?”

“First off: YOU PERVERT!” Karin shouted, scaring the hell out of him. “Second: What the hell?!”

“What are you-”

“HOW?! HOW DID YOU-”

Hinata quickly closed Ino’s mouth with her hand. The volume the blonde had used to shout was way too loud.

“Tsunade-sama, just told us that you increased the size of.. O-of  h-her..” she was too embarrassed to say it so skip it. “Ino-chan and Karin-chan want to know why and more importantly how?”

“Oh? Well…The why is simple: it was an accident. The how: Sensei was choking the life out of me and I used a prototype medical jutsu of my creation to free myself. It worked partly as intended. The unintended part was the increase in size. Fortunately, sensei reacted fast when she saw the problem and stopped them from growing further.”

The teenage girls looked at him in silence as if he was retelling a miracle he had performed.

“Y-you-” Hinata began but couldn’t find the words. Ino and Karin certainly did.

““You created a jutsu to increase breasts size?!””

“Eeeh… No? Not exactly. It could be used like that. Probably. Once I understand what went wrong with it.”

““DO ME!!”” they shouted, nearly getting out of their seats to grab him. Tsunade spit her tea when she heard the young girls and began to have a fitting laugh at the barely subtle innuendo they made without even realising it.

“The last time I used it I blew up a guy and it’s-” he replied flatly.

“Then you better master that jutsu and fast!” Ino ordered.

“Dibs!” called out Karin.

“Wha- Wait! No! Me first!”

“Too late Ino-chan.” the redhead replied smugly.

“What’s going on?”

“They want you to do to them what you did to me.” announced Tsunade amused to hell and very well distracted from her earlier thoughts.

“Why? It won’t work on them.”

““WHY NOT?!””

“Because you’re still in the middle of puberty. What I unknowingly did by accident to sensei is give her chest a second puberty so to speak at a very fast speed. Since her first one had been… let’s say generous, her second one was too. My jutsu doesn’t grow breasts bigger, it's a misconception. If I use it on an old flat woman she would stay flat, provided I don’t explode her from the inside but that’s another story.”

Both interested teenagers deflated at the news. Hinata, who was sitting between the two of them, put a comforting hand on their shoulders.

“There, there. It’s going to be fine.”

“Of course you‘d say that!”

“Yes, miss cantaloupe!”

“YeeEEP!”

Hinata let out a very cute surprised shout when Karin and Ino grabbed one of Hinata’s breasts each. The young Hyuga heiress was always wearing baggy clothes so nobody realized that puberty had either started earlier for Hinata or she was as lucky as Tsunade in the chest department. Even the older blonde was impressed by what she was seeing. Riku looked nonplussed. Surprised by Hinata’s size, yes but after knowing Tsunade for nearly a year and having her tits on display straight in front of him, he was not really interested. He also respected his friend too much to take a look.

“P-please stop!”

““Tch.””

The two sexual offenders released their victim but were not happy with the situation one bit.

“It’s funny having you here in the morning, girls. Really entertaining. However I have a big day today and I’m sure you do too. So hurry up with breakfast.”

“““Yes, Hokage-sama.”””

The teenagers did as instructed and less than a quarter later they all went back home. After a quick shower, Tsunade took Riku to the backyard. She bit her thumb hard enough to draw blood, made a Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram seal sequence then slammed her hand on the ground.  He barely had the time to look at the seals spreading from her hand that a puff of smoke came from it and revealed a golden retriever size slug.

“Tsunade-sama! How can I be of help?”

“Hello, Katsuyu. I summoned you because it’s time.”

“Time?” a bit confused, the slug followed Tsunade’s line of sight and saw Riku. “ I see. Hello! I’m Katusyu, Tsunade-sama's personal summon.”

“Nice to meet you, I’m Warudo Ri-”

His introduction was interrupted when Katsuyu regurgitated a huge scroll. At least two and a half feet long.

“-ku.” he finished stunned at what just happened. Tsunade had an amused smile on her lips and bent down to open the scroll. A few names were written on it in a neat order. One after the other. She stopped unrolling the scroll a bit after her name appeared. There was no name after hers and Riku understood what this was all about.

“It’s your birthday present from me. I didn’t quite know what to give you so I thought letting you sign the slug contract would do.”

“Sensei…” he said softly. “Just spending time with you is enough.” he added, making her heart burst with joy.

“You don't want to sign it then?” she teased, knowing perfectly well what his answer will be.

“Oh! I want to sign it but only if Katsuyu-san is willing to accept me as a summoner. Because I fit her criterias, not because you asked it of her, sensei.”

“You do, from what Tsunade-sama told me about you. I would be honored to have you as a summoner.”

“And I would be honored to be your summoner.”

He picked the kunai at his right leg in hand, and slashed the palm of his free one. Putting back the kunai in its sheath he signed the slug contract by writing his name in blood then added a bloody handprint mimicking Tsunade and all others summoner before him.

“Come on, try it. The hand seals are-” she was not fast enough, Riku at her invitation had immediately made the summoning hand seals sequence and summoned another slug of the same size as Tsunade.

“Hello, I’m Riku, nice to meet you.”

Tsunade snorted and he was pretty sure that Katsuyu and the slug he summoned chuckled.

“Did I say something funny?”

“Yes. The slug contract has only one summon.”

““Me.””

“But…” Riku looked from his summon to Katsuyu alternatively. “A clone? No that doesn’t make any sense you’re too synchronised to be a clone. Twins? No, that’s stupid that makes two entities not one. Then… You can… divide yourself? Are you a small part of a bigger Katsuyu?”

The slug summoned by Tsunade looked at her while the other simply approached Riku.

“He’s as smart as you said he was Tsunade-sama.”

“And you haven’t seen the half of it yet.” praised the older blonde as she looked with pride at Riku who had crouched down and was petting his Katsuyu gleefully.

“You’re sticky but at the same time very soft to the touch. That’s amazing.”

““Thank you.””

“Katsuyu is the best summon ever. She has the best attack, best defense and most importantly, the best healing abilities in the whole Emental Nations. You will learn with time how to use her skills to the best of their capabilities.”

Riku nodded and began to ask Katsuyu plenty of questions to get to know her better. The likes of ‘where she lived?’, ‘what did she eat?’, ‘what she liked and disliked?’ and she did the same with him. After some time Katusyu went back to her realm, the Shikkotsu Forest, leaving behind Master and apprentice. Said apprentice didn’t wait a second more to dive into Tsunade’s bosom for a rib crushing hug.

“You’re the best, sensei! Thank you! I love her, she’s awesome!”

Tsunade chuckled and ruffled his hair. “Glad to hear that. Now let go of me, I have work to do and you, some tags to make for T&I and Anbu.”

Riku did so and went back inside with a small spring in his step. Entering the living room he summoned five clones and all sat around the table. Picking what he now called his ‘BoS’ for Book of Seals, he unsealed his fuinjutsu tools. With the addition of shadow clones he had to buy a few more sets which while costing an arm and a leg (and that was before the vendor gave him his special “discount”), with the amount of money he won during the finals of the chunin exam it was almost free.

“Alright, you three. Nerve sensitive tags.” he said to the clones on his right. “You two, we’re doing barrier tags.”

““““Got it, Boss.”””””

At this point Riku wondered if it wouldn’t be better to simply change the barrier for another one that he could inscribe on a crate to secure a prisoner instead.

“Oh!”

“““Boss?”””

“I need to check something. Keep working.”

He got up from the table and opened the sliding door leading back to the backyard. He unsealed a crate from his BoS and began to think.

‘Writing seals on each side of the crate will be problematic. Be it inside or outside the barrier will either forbid opening the crate or closing it. Maybe a two part seal that activates when they are in contact? No, the problem would be the same: you won’t be able to open it afterwards… A third seal? One that commands the ope-. What an idiot. I don’t need a third one, I just have to modify the second part of the one on the lid. Stupid me. Now that won’t be difficult, but what else could I do to make the crates last? Make it out of something else than wood? Metal? Rock? No, no, that would be too heavy. Hmm… Another barrier? No, not that either, it could enter in conflict with the other one. Maybe make it inside? No, It’s the exterior that needs to be reinforced… Creating a reinforcement seal? The wood the Shodai made using his mokuton is way more durable than normal wood. Probably because of the chakra in it. Could I replicate that with a seal? With time the wood wouldn’t even need the seal. Or I could let the seal and strengthen the wood in infinity, or at least as long as the seal as chakra. Yes. It's doable. Now let’s start on those seals.’

When Shizune and Tsunade came back from their respective jobs, they found Riku inside a crate that was held above his head by two clones of himself.

“What is he doing?” Tsunade asked no one in particular.

“I have no idea.”

“He’s making a prototype for a new crate for Anbu, sensei.” a clone said as he came into the living room with three bowls of ramen on a tray.

“Why?”

“I don’t know, I was created before he had the idea. If I had to take a guess… It’s because he’s fed up with the need to make barrier tags for them.”

Finally, Riku was done with his work and after ordering a clone to get inside, he tested the seals. Unexpectedly, the crate exploded and Riku was launched backward, landing right at Tsunade’s feet. Unconscious and with his eyebrows completely singed.

“That brat will be the death of me.” she sighed and began to use a diagnostic jutsu on Riku while her former apprentice simply giggled.