Chapter 53: Planning for the future

Tsunade was looking at the plan Riku had made and shared. It was an ambitious one, using the barrier of the village to teleport to safety the whole population. Except it needed to tweak the barrier. Nobody has done that ever. Not since it was activated. She raised her head from the plans and her eyes set on her son. He had dark circles under his eyes. They were almost black. It was obvious to her that he hadn't had a lick of sleep ever since he had come back from Suna a week ago. The morning after his arrival she had woken up alone when she should have done it cuddling up to him. She had not been happy that morning. Even more so when Riku had been nowhere to be found.

“After a week of disappearance, without telling anyone where you went, you come back, looking like death and you expect me to give you the go ahead to modify the village barrier?”

“Not modify. I won’t touch a single seal of it. I will add to it.”

“... And for being able to teleport every single living being to… to where, exactly?”

“Underground. Lowest level of Root’s headquarters. I have thirty clones permanently working under chakra pills to consolidate the place and expand it. It’s almost done.”

“Done? As in almost ready to welcome 25 thousand people?”

“And animals. Don’t forget the animals.”

“Right. And the animals...” she said flatly. “All so the village could survive an attack from Akatsuki.”

“Yes.”

“... No.”

“Pardon?”

“I said no. Riku, you never tested the seal with good reason since you need to test it with the barrier. I can’t let you do that. What if you made a mistake?”

“I don’t make mistakes.”

“I remember seals exploding in your face.” she countered, a vivid memory coming to mind.

“That was years ago.”

“Riku. It’s obvious you barely slept all week. As such I cannot trust in your judgment regarding the seal you made. I will have Karin, Kushina and Minato have a look at it.”

“You-”

“I will take your opinion and expertise into consideration, once you’re rested and have looked over your work with a healthy mind. Not before.” she interjected, putting her hand up to stop him from talking.

“FINE!” he snarled.

He brought out his Botib in the middle of the office and went inside. 15 seconds later he was out and looked nothing like he did previously. He looked fresh as a daisy. He sealed the Botib back and took a look at his work as if nothing happened, under Tsunade’s dumbfounded eyes. She thought he would have gone home and crashed, not used the Time seal. After five minutes of silence, Riku handed back his work.

“There is no mistake, happy?”

“Not until…”

“Karin and Kushina will understand the part linked to the barrier but not the rest. The rest is above Minato’s current knowledge in space-time.”

“I don’t care.”

Riku held her gaze for a full minute before he decided to turn around and left the office without a word. He knew he wasn’t going to win this argument and staying there to try to convince her was a waste of precious time. Time that could be put to better use elsewhere. He remembered a promise of a picnic with Ino and her mother and went to buy some ingredients for it. It was still early in the morning so he took his time by letting a clone cook. He had dispelled most of them when he was in the Botib leaving only a sufficient number that would work on the finishing touch on the bunker he had been working on the whole week.

He didn’t know why but his feet guided him to his not so secret place with Hinata, near the Naka river. He was coming up with plans after plans on how to put up his seal matrix on the barrier behind his mother’s back and without having access to the core of the barrier itself, when a pair of arms embraced him from behind. The huge but very soft and pleasant weight against his back indicated that it was Hinata.

“I’ve missed you.” she said, getting on her toes and kissing his cheek from behind.

“I’ve missed you too.” he replied and leaned back against her.

“Did you really?”

“...I missed the support, the calm, the tranquility, the peace and the quiet that only you know how to make me feel. Does that count?”

“Hmm… I suppose.”

“Sorry. It sounded like that’s what interested me in you and what I would miss. I’ve been so focused on the task at hand that I didn’t think of anything else this past week.”

“It’s alright, I know what you meant. I’m fluent in your language now. You sound all rational but behind it there are lots of emotions involved.”

“Does it help that I didn’t think of anyone else either? Not Ino, not Karin…”

“A little bit.” she replied with her index and thumb, really close together. Her badly contained amused smile told him all he needed to know about how she felt about this.

“I did think of you a lot before that.”

“Oh? And what about?”

“Marriage.”

That had the effect of a huge exploding tag for Hinata. Her hands gripped his clothes tighter in reflex when she heard the word. She stayed silent.

“I want you to be my wife. Not just my concubine. You deserve it. You earned it. I love you no less than Ino or Karin.”

“You’re serious…” she whispered in realization.

“I am, yes. I want you to be Lady Senju Hinata. I want people to look up to you and not down. And I want our little moon babies to be Senju too.”

“Moon babies?”

“What else would my moon princess have for children? Toads?” he japed and she playfully frowned as she pinched him.

“I like it. ‘Moon babies’. I like it a lot.”

“What about being Senju Hinata?”

“As long as I’m yours and you’re mine, my family name doesn’t matter, Riku.”

Riku turned around to have his first look at her since she arrived. As always she was utterly beautiful. Why Kami had focused so much on her, he didn’t know but he was glad they did, because she was perfect in his eyes.

“I think the same.” he simply said and gave her a smoldering kiss. She answered in kind and hands began to move along their bodies, answering naturally their growing desires. Soon enough they were practicing making the moon babies they dreamed of having. Right there in the open. Where any one could catch them at any moment. They didn’t care though. All they cared about was conveying their love to the other and making them feel good. Riku always loved that contrast with Ino. The blonde was like a raging fire, more focused on the pleasure and roughness of the act to show him her love. Hinata was the opposite, more focused on intimacy, on love, that led to pleasure. That didn’t mean the bluenette was all vanilla and all up for slow and gentle sex. She was pretty wild when she wanted to be. It just wasn’t what she liked to focus on. Both were on the other end of the extreme. Karin was down right in the middle. Sometimes more like Hinata and sometimes more like Ino.

“You really want those moon babies, don’t you?” he joked and Hinata just smiled. She was too busy catching her breath, enjoying his warmth and her post orgasm bliss. “Once Akatsuki is dealt with… Let’s work on them?”

“Marriage first.”

“Marriage first, yes. Better be prepared because my proposal will be epic.”

No matter how hard she tried, Riku stayed tight lipped and she learned nothing. After a while, they separated from each other and dressed. Riku invited her for lunch, ditching his idea of a picnic but Hinata was to eat with her sister and Kurenai, so declined. After one last kiss they went their own way.

Riku got home, picked up the lunch his clone had made and went to visit Ino. He knew she was there because Team 10 was on standby because Shikamaru had chosen to stay with Temari back in Suna to support her.

He was hoping her mother would be present too but she was not so Riku made a change of plan regarding the location and carried his girlfriend to the top of the Hokage monument. Ino loved it though eating on Tsunade’s head brought up a topic of conversation that they had not discussed yet.

“So… Tsunade is your mother, huh? We never really talked about what that meant regarding your relationship.” she broke the ice like that and Riku frowned, not sure he liked what she was implying or if he understood her implication properly.

“That she’s my mother. What else-”

“That you have sex with.” she cut in, done beating around the bush quite fast.

“What do you want me to say?”

“Do you still?”

“Does it matter?” he frowned even more.

“You do then.”

He took a second to think about the answer he was going to give her then thought ‘the hell with it’.

“What if I do, what if I don’t? It happened before we knew about us. It changes nothing.”

“I’m not pointing fingers!” she quickly said. “I'm just… trying to understand where the two of you… stand with each other. It’s not like you can have kids together so it’s more of a social taboo than anything.”

“We’re not going at it like bunnies like you and I are. It’s once a month at best. And for her to relieve the stress of the job. It started like that and there is love involved but not a romantic one. Even back then it wasn’t.”

“Okay.”

“Okay?”

“Yes. She had a shitty life and if the bright spot in it now is you two together from time to time, then okay. I won’t throw the first kunai at her for using sex that way when I sometimes do the same. Even less when it’s with you, baby.”she said and moved from her sitting position on the ground to his lap for a kiss. “That does bring up a lot of mental issues to light.”

“Like my skewed sense of morality, sometimes?”

“I… wasn’t talking about this, it’s way too broad a subject and is it really when it’s standard for shinobi? No, I was talking about being attracted to your own mom. It’s not rare to develop an emotional or physical attraction to older people when a parent of the opposite sex is absent in a child’s upbringing. That’s why your first crush was Yugao, your first sexual experience was with Shizune and your very first time with Tsunade. All older women. You see where I’m going with this?”

“I do… Yet I’m with you and you’re my age.”

“I’m a few months older actually. So are Hinata and Karin.” she replied with an amused smirk.

“At least now you know I won’t ditch you for a younger model.” he joked back.

“There is seriously something wrong with you if you go for someone younger when you are with the three prettiest women in our generation.”

“Not like I could in the first place. I’m pretty sure Hinata would make me suck on her boobs while you suck my soul out of my dick and Karrin got me restrained with her chain while giving me a rimjob.”

“Probably, yeah.” she laughed at the mental image he put in her mind. “I can’t believe Karin is such a degenerate. And here I thought I was the adventurous slut.”

“Yeah. She’s the one with the chains but she’s the total masochist. Go figure. That makes me think… Are the three of you…”

“Having sex?”

“Getting along well in general but if you want to be specific I won’t stop you.”

“Karin has been difficult at first but since she likes being abused, Hinata and I put her in her place and she loved it. We’re good… As for sex well… Hinata rarely if ever initiates it. It’s mostly me but she’s very receptive when I do. With Karin it’s half and half she’s either horny or I am and we don’t restrict ourselves; we act on it. It doesn’t happen often but it’s mostly when we can’t get a hold of you.”

“I’m sorry it happened a lot recently.”

“We get it. You needed to heal then there is Akatsuki that’s becoming way more active. We don’t like it but we get it.” she said and she turned herself to the side to lean her back into his chest and watch the greatest view of the village.

“Once they’re dealt with, Ino… Once they’re dealt with I… Nevermind. Telling you will spoil the surprise.” she said nothing, understanding what it was about. Ever since he put the idea of marriage on the table she’s been waiting and she wasn’t in a rush. “I want Hinata and Karin to be my wives too. I feel it’s not right for them to be concubines.”

“I agree. That would be difficult though.”

“Honestly, I was thinking of flexing my muscles. Who wants to say no to the guy that tussled with the Kyuubi with his bare hands and won?”

Ino laughed at that but gave credit to the idea. Whoever tried to say no to Riku having three wives would not end up faring well. She was sure that he would also play the card of repopulating the Senju clan quickly. The villagers were such Senju worshipers that they may end up not caring about the propriety of having more than one wife. The old generation at least and considering their culture where the elders made the decisions, it was all good in that particular case.

“Lunch break is almost over.” he noted aloud and a familiar glint that he absolutely loved shone in his girlfriend’s eyes.

“Time for dessert then.” she replied sultrily, rubbing her perfect bubble butt against his already hard member.

“Fine but I’m feeding you.”

In a flash, Ino was out of his lap and crouching. Her legs were spread and her mouth opened wide right in front of him. She loved when he was doing all the work because he was so rough that she usually had an orgasm. She knew it was weird. Hinata and Karin said as much but she was happy to be that way. She was pleasing her man and she got rewarded for it too and in more ways than one. Best of both worlds in her opinion.

He completely ruined her make-up but she didn’t care, he found her even more gorgeous that way to the point his dick never softened after his release. Ino being Ino, loved it too. After cleaning herself up she gave him a loving kiss and he brought her back to her family shop. They arrived just in time to see her mother coming back from her own lunch.

“Riku! It’s so nice to see you!” She greeted him with a smile.

“You too, Yamanaka-san.”

“Please, call me Noriko.”

“A shame you had obligations, mom. Riku came to take us for this long awaited picnic.”

“Aw!” she exclaimed in disappointment. “Had I known I wouldn’t have gone to the Allied Mother Force gathering.”

“Since Ino is keeping me around until I die, there will be many more opportunities. Don’t worry.”

“I look forward to them.” Noriko said and went inside the shop.

Riku gave Ino one last kiss and a slap to her butt before teleporting away. A happy Ino went into the shop closing the door behind her and was called out by her mother.

“You’re keeping him until the day he dies, hum?” she said with a knowing smile.

“Uh-huh. Marriage is on the table, mom. For real, not as a joke.”

“Is that you wishing or…”

“No. It’s us. HE was the one to breach the topic first though.”

“Him?” exclaimed Noriki in surprise. She was under the impression that Ino was leading the boat and was the one making the decisions. Part of her still thought he was using Ino.

“I told you he needed time to sort himself out. He did months ago and now he’s not hesitating anymore. If anything he’s the one pushing forward. Not like I mind, quite the contrary.”

“As long as you’re happy, dear.”

“I am, mom. I’ve never been happier in my entire life than when we’re together.”

Ino’s answer was given with the most beautiful smile a woman could have. A smile born from happiness born from true love.