NOVEL NEXT Chapter 45: Chrysalis
Chapter 45: Chrysalis
With the Otokage asking him to wait a few days before dismissing him to speak with Tayuya, Wu returned to his room, pleasantly surprised to find no cameras or microphones had been installed while he was away. Those with adequate mastery of the Earth Release could move through walls as if they were immaterial, so planting such devices was easy with someone like Kagero around.
Speaking of Kagero…
Less than ten minutes after Wu had laid down to relax, the ground a few meters away distorted, revealing the green-haired girl in her thin, single-strap white dress. However, instead of rising out of the earth to join him on the bed, she just stared at him with her bluish-purple eyes and asked, “Why did you ask me to come here…?”
Instead of answering the girl’s question, Wu’s brows perked up slightly as he inquired, “Did you give up on using me to restore your clan? I’m hurt…”
Lowering her head, Kagero gave the impression she was in deep thought, her half-lidded gaze directed at the ground for nearly a full minute before she climbed the rest of the way out like exiting a pool.
Before Wu could tease her further, Kagero reached up to the metal clasp preventing her dress from slipping from her thin frame. The moment she did so, the garment slipped away from her body like smooth silk, revealing the rather ‘modest’ physique underneath. She would be turning seventeen in less than two months but could have easily been mistaken for one of the girls that had starved themselves during their fifth and sixth years at the Academy, desperately attempting to catch Sasuke’s attention. It was certainly eye-catching, that’s for sure…
With an utterly relaxed expression, Wu casually remarked, “No tits, and I can clearly see the outline of your ribs. Do you honestly believe you’re suited to bearing children? As you are right now, you’re more likely to have a stillbirth or die during the delivery…”
Hanging her head, Kagero closed her eyes and attempted to conceal her body beneath her hands. She knew she wasn’t beautiful, but Wu’s words caused her chest to tighten painfully. Before she could retrieve her dress and run away, however, Wu pat the space next to him a few times, saying, “Come and lie down…” in a paradoxically relaxed yet forceful tone.
Suppressing her desire to refuse, Kagero took a few tentative steps forward before sitting on the edge of Wu’s bed with her back facing him. In response, the latter ran his surprisingly hot fingers along the ridges of her spine, remarking, “I can literally count your vertebrae. You are one seriously malnourished woman…”
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Feeling even more insecure, Kagero instinctually hugged her body as she attempted to excuse her appearance, stating, “It is my fate to sacrifice and die for the Fuma Clan…the condition of my body never really matt-”
Before Kagero could finish, Wu’s expression and tone hardened as he asserted, “It’s the most important thing. Physical and mental wellness are interconnected. Unless you can look me in the eye and tell me it somehow benefits your Clan for you to be depressed and feeble, I’m calling you out on your bullshit…”
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Not sure what else to say, Kagero settled on saying nothing at all. Before the Otokage had approached her with the task of getting closer to ‘Dadi,’ she had never even considered lying with a man. Well, she had, but the Forbidden Jutsu she had inherited meant she was destined to have a very short lifespan. Others with her ‘condition’ were lucky to make it to twenty, so the notion of having children had only crossed her mind in her dreams.
Interrupting Kagero’s increasingly depressive thoughts, Wu surprised her by adding, “Yeah, I didn’t think so. From now on, you’ll be sticking to the diet I assign you. Before putting a bun in your oven, we need to put some meat on your body…”
“Ah…”
Surprising the green-haired girl even further, Wu punctuated his words by reaching around to the front of her body, his palm caressing her abdomen as he made his way South. The tension in her body increased to the point that she was shivering, but she offered no resistance as his fingers delved into the consecrated grounds between her inordinately white thighs.
With his lips close enough to tickle the ridge of Kagero’s ear, Wu’s voice deepened as he teased, “At least this spot still has a bit of flesh on it…I guess your body still understands its biological purpose, even if you try to deny it…”
Biting her bottom lip, Kagero attempted to close her thighs, but the rather prominent gap between them made the action futile. All she could do was endure, her back arching as Wu effortlessly repositioned her onto his lap and just as easily pried her legs open. It was the most embarrassing thing she had ever experienced, but less than two minutes later, it became a lot easier to bear…
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Hearing a knocking at his door, Wu gave the unconscious Kagero’s hair one last caress before rising to his feet. The latter was lying face down on his bed, the tension drained from her body so thoroughly she had passed out with her eyes open, absentmindedly drooling on the sheets.
Opening his door, Wu was equal parts surprised and unsurprised to find Tayuya standing outside, now garbed in her Oto Shinobi attire. Wu found the ensemble, consisting of a tan tunic and a thick purple rope wrapped around her waist, more than a little ridiculous. However, as the only thing she wore underneath was her usual black spats and black crop top, it was barely tolerable.
Seizing the initiative, Wu adopted a cheeky smile as he asked, “Missing me so soon~?”
Furrowing her brows into a fierce pout, Tayuya forced her way into Wu’s room before pausing when she noticed Kagero, buck naked and passed out on his bed. The latter’s presence…bothered her a lot more than she had expected. However, as Wu had already made it ‘very’ clear he was to have multiple wives, she suppressed her frustration and retorted, “I was going to see if you wanted to sleep together, but I can see that you had ‘other’ ideas…”
Instead of attempting to defend his actions, Wu nodded his head and revealed, “I was actually hoping you would show up a bit sooner. This one could learn a thing or twenty from you…”
Turning to meet Wu’s gaze, Tayuya’s expression remained visibly miffed as she asked, “So, what? Are you expecting me to train ‘all’ of your future baby factories…?”
Shaking his head, Wu replied, “Only those who have value…besides, we both know you’re more of a Sadist than a Masochist. So long as you don’t take things too far, feel free to ‘explore’ that aspect of your character. Just remember who’s really in charge, got it?”
Punctuating his words, Wu gave Tayuya a firm slap on her left ass cheek before squeezing it hard enough to elicit a pained yet distinctly pleasure-tinged moan from her throat. Because of Kaia, Wu had developed a habit of spanking girls who were subordinate to yet disobedient to him. Tayuya had been on the receiving end of his ‘disciplining’ quite a number of times, so instead of lashing out like she used to, she just stared at him pointedly while massaging her ass and making her way over to the bed.
Catching even Wu by surprise, though he also expected it, Tayuya awoke the absentminded Kagero by giving the latter a comparably lighter smack on the bottom, shouting, “Wake up…!” in a barking tone. The green-haired girl instinctually rose to a seated position and recoiled, but upon seeing that her assailant was Tayuya, she began to stammer, “T-T-Tayuya-sama! I-I-I…”
Before Kagero could think of an excuse to justify her existence, much less her presence within the room, Tayuya narrowed her eyes at her and said, “Dadi-sama has requested that I show you how to ‘properly’ perform your functions as a woman. You had better pay close attention because I’m not letting you sleep until you get it right. Understood, stick bug?”
As Tayuya was fairly famous within Otogakure for her violent disposition, Kagero found herself swallowing a knot in her throat while simultaneously bobbing her head like a chicken. She didn’t like the play on her name, but she wasn’t going to talk back, not when she was stark naked and literally with her back to a wall.
Snorting through her nose, Tayuya growled, “You better…” before turning to Wu and beginning an impromptu strip tease. She had never performed one before, so she didn’t dance or anything. However, using what Wu had taught her, she managed to sell it well by taking her time and maintaining eye contact. According to him, that was all it took for a confident woman to effectively ‘ooze’ sensuality. It didn’t matter if they were eating a meal or doing something as mundane as brushing their teeth. So long as they took their time and maintained eye contact, they could be reading a book on how to perform a vasectomy and still look ‘sexy’…
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Though she had wanted to talk to him the previous night, Guren stopped herself when Tayuya informed her that she would be paying ‘Dadi’ a visit. Now that it was the morning of the following day, however, she was left with no choice but to disturb the young couple as they were supposed to be setting out for Suna.
After mentally preparing herself, Guren was about to give Dadi’s door a firm knock when it suddenly opened, revealing the aforementioned boy in nothing but a pair of briefs. She really should have controlled herself, but Guren’s gaze immediately lowered before widening in shock.
Adopting the cheekiest smile Guren had ever seen, Wu crossed his arms and teased, “If that’s your reaction to seeing its outline, I can’t wait to see your response to its ‘Level Two’ transformation…”
After coughing a few times to try and cover her embarrassment, Guren’s expression hardened as she asserted, “It isn’t appropriate to answer your door in a state of undress. Please wear your clothes properly, Dadi-kun…”
Leaving the door open, Wu turned around, responding, “Yeah, yeah…” as he meandered over to his bed and started picking up his clothes from the ground. Guren briefly followed him with her eyes but quickly stepped out of view when she eventually noticed Tayuya staring at her with a deadpan expression from Wu’s bed. She immediately regretted doing so but knew it would only make her look even more suspicious if she stepped back into view and pretended nothing had happened…
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After forcing Kagero to promise she would stick to the meal plan he had ‘painstakingly prepared for her, Wu, accompanied by a silent Guren and a stone-faced Tayuya, made their way out of the underground compound. The latter was absentmindedly wondering how they would get to Suna if Wu could only carry one of them, but she quickly realized how ridiculous her concerns were when he promptly manifested one of his increasingly infamous clones. Guren briefly protested the idea of being carried through the sky in a princess carry but soon gave up when Wu put his foot down on the matter, saying she was more than welcome to stay behind if she thought for a moment he would spend four days running when he could save nearly as many flying…
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(A/N: Kagero’s situation is pitiful, but it’s also one she willfully placed herself into. Wu might be a little forceful, but it’s only because Kagero pretends not to care despite clinging to life and possessing considerable power. As for Tayuya…well, just check the image I put in the comments section.)