Chapter 26
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Title: Making a Business
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Shortly after my call, the space before me shook and separated forming a small portal, MD out of it, Kaguya stepped out. Simultaneously, Hinami and Ria also stepped out, but unlike Kaguya, they stepped out of doors connected to their side of the house.
"You know, there's a reason I put space seals on the doors." I said looking at Kaguya with a deadpanned face.
"You don't say." She replied in astonishment.
"Yeah. You just need to put your hands on the door and think about where you wanna go and the rest will be taken care of." I continued.
"Wow. I didn't know that." She rolled her eyes and answered, but before I could come up with something else to say she continued. "You called us here for something?"
Oh!... Oh, I see. Nice going babe. Nice going.
"Ahem. I know we've all been bored lately and there's been less excitement in our lives as time passes and I'm sorry for that. I promise, in coming years, this world will get interesting but before then, I have a plan that will make us people that have a say in the happenings of the world, both from the light and the dark." I began my speech.
"Another genius idea of yours?" Hinami asked with a smile.
"Even better. This plan will make it possible for me to destroy any clan, group, village or even country at a moment's call." I answered.
"Ok, what's the genius idea." Ria asked now interested.
"Simple. Money." I said with a puffed chest.
"Money... He said money, Nami. Shun said money." Ria looked exasperatedly at Hinami causing Hinami to squint at me.
My face fell seeing this. Are they begining to underestimate me?
"What? Let him finish. This is probably just the introduction." Kaguya said from the side while eating some dangos.
Wonder where she got that from. Hope she doesn't get fat from overeating. That sight wouldn't be pretty.
"Thank you Kaguya." I smiled at her before putting back my serious face. "I know that we don't need money to do whatever we want and have whatever we want. I also know that currently, the concept of having money to yourself is stupid as you can be robbed at anytime, right?"
"Um," they all nodded.
"Now what if we can offer to safekeep their money for them?" I asked.
They looked confused for a while before it finally began to make sense to them. I could literally see the wheels turning in there brains before they all brightened up.
"Exactly what you're all thinking." I said with my pride coming back.
Hinami seemed to have thought of something as she suddenly frowned and asked. "But will they trust you with their money in the first place?"
"Yeah. People are really hard to reason with these days. Back then everything was still peaceful but now, sigh..." Ria said in melancholy.
"That's not necessarily an issue. We just need to approach a target market. Those who have the money and are at risk of losing it. The mercenaries and clan less warriors." I said.
It's true that not all people will be trusting but Rome wasn't built in a day. It got to start from somewhere.
"Hmm... And I thought we'd go around 'convincing' them or something." Kaguya said and bit off the last dango on her dango stick.
"I had thought of that but that's an infringement on their freedom of choice. It's not something I'm okay with." I said and looked at her dead in the eye.
She had developed this strange laziness over the past few decades with no new person to make friends with. In almost every situation, shell always want to have the easy way out. That's not a good attitude to have, but who am I to judge.
"I'm going to begin approaching them starting today and this house right here will be our starting point. We just have to know who our target market is."
"First off, we'll get the our clan to be our first client and guarantor or voucher. Hinami, sorry about this but can you approach the Hyuga clan?" I asked.
She had these sore spot whenever the Hyuga clan is mentioned. First off it was the civil war on the moon, then it was the act of slavery by the so called Main Branch.
The only reason she hasn't gone over there to give them a good talking to was because she believed that they had to be someone who has to stand up against the main branch for something to change.
I breathed a good sigh of relief when she said that. I still wanted my Neji and Hinata to be born.
Hinami frowned as I mentioned the Hyuga clan and looked at me with squinted eyes. "Why them?" She simple asked.
"Because they're a major clan." I answered. "There's the senjus and Uchiha. Even the Uzumakis are major clans." She argued.
"I need the five major clans in this. Our children are already the most respected and feared clan in the world so with them as a first others will follow. The Uchiha and Senju/Uzumaki have a good connection with them. These two will follow up as soon as they hear about it. Also, the Uchiha wouldn't want to be behind the Senju clan when it comes to doing things that will benefit them. Only the Hyuga are left." I explained.
"Why me though? Kaguya or Ria could go." She continued her argument.
"Because you're the only one with bad blood against them. C'mon they're your brother's descendants. They're your blood and I know that there would be one or two from the main clan that sympathise with the branch clan predicament. Why don't you go check it out. Do whatever you want but know that the seal that was put on them is quite a tricky one. Don't meddle if you can't remove it." I explain once more my reason for sending her.
"Even you can't remove it?" She asked.
"Of cours I can. But that's actually a good seal. It was a degraded version of the seal left behind by Uncle Hamura your father. Your father's is actually a slightly degraded version of the one used to seal Kaguya. It's merely locking away a single chakra point in the brain. Although it's a slave seal, it's not all that bad." I answered.
"It's still a slave seal." She said.
"Yeah, it's still a slave seal." I smiled. "So? What are you gonna do?"
She looked at me for a good while before closing her eyes and sighing. "Whatever. I'll just take it as I'm taking a walk."
"Perfect. I'll call your two maids to accompany you. They've had nothing to do for quite a few decades." I said and tore space open before she could say anything.
"You didn't have to. I planned on entering sneakily." She sighed again in defeat as she saw the two maids coming out of the spacial tear, dorned in maid Kimono.
"Forgive us if we did something wrong my lady." They knelt down and bowed in shame as they saw Hinami looking at them in dissatisfaction.
Hinami shook and waved her hand, directly raising them up from the floor and said. "What are you two doing? Who taught you that? And why are you kneeling?"
She wasn't used to being served and stuff like that. She was born a noble, yes, but back then, even maids weren't prone to kneeling and apologizing whenever there was a change in their master's or mistress's expression.
"It's common courtesy to kneel and apologies when you're in the wrong, especially if it's against our mistress. This was taught to us by Miss Eien as it was copied from Master's Memory." One of the maids answered while floating in the air.
What? Why are they bringing me into this? "I'm innocent." I said resolutely. Causing the maids to shake once more and if not for Hinami's hold on them, I was sure they would have possibly kowtowed in apology.
Don't tell me my knowledge from Chinese and Japanese mangas were leaked when I was transfering some stuff to Eien. I'm suddenly having goosebumps. Why the hell am I having goosebumps.
I dread how the inner decoration of the Floating Castle will be upon our return. I did tell Eien to take care of the place as she sees fit if aren't back in ten years. With the maids uniform and the maids behaviour now, I'm suddenly filled with both dread and expectations at retuning back.
Kaguya and Ria were at the side snickering at Hinami's misfortune at having people follow her like servants.
Wait why don't I Summon the entire family here. Even Sebas. No, Eien would be lonely being alone up there. Leaving her with only the maids and Sebas is already mean enough.
The maids have a preordained tasks engineered to their Processing Unit, that's their brain. Hmm, why don't I just Summon them all, I'll need staffs to take care of the works in the bank afterall.
I could also create a body for Eien, or maybe make her my System. I didn't wish for a system all those years ago and that God gave the knowledge I have now. I could even isekai someone now. Damn, look how far I've come.
Sigh. Anyways back on track.
With her as my system I'd have another voice in my head but at least, she's loyal to me and my desires unlike those other voices loyal to my reasoning.
Umu... It's decided, I'm summoning them all, but before that, I have to create a functioning bank.
"Kaguya, you'll be going to the Kaguya clan, Hoshigaki clan, Yuki clan, and Inuzuka clan. If you see the Fenrir, tell him vacation is over. I have a bad feeling whenever I think if him and the Inuzuka clan in one sentence." I said to Kaguya, she just nodded.
"Ria, you'll be going to the Kaze clan, Fuma clan, Iburi clan and those Medical clans from back then. There's a surprise in one of those clans waiting for you, if it's convenient, bring the surprise back." I smiled as I had noticed something sometime back about one of our students.
Ria nodded and then asked. "What about you? Where are you going?"
"I have some clans in mind to go to. Also, there's this new clan that just started up from nowhere, I'm planning on looking into it." I answered excitedly.
"Which clan is that? Why has it got you all excited?" Kaguya asked.
"Hatake clan. A clan of swordsmen." I gave a short answer.
"And why are they interesting?" Ria asked confused. I don't blame her though because...
"They have white hair." I said with a grin.
"Oh... You think they're our clan far off relative?" Ria asked again.
"No. I don't think so. Infact, I hope not. Why I'm interested in them is because, they may have a naturally occurring white hair. To have white hair means you got destiny with you, you know." I said.
That's basically a characteristic of a badass anime character. Once you got white hair, and an attitude to follow, then you're probably badass. Around 96% badass.
"I'm going to ignore the destiny part and ask, don't your clan have the white hair too?" Kaguya asked.
"No, they don't, they got it from me. Originally, I was Black haired. It was when I reached a state of perfection in this world's standard that my hair turned white. You Otsustsukis all have white hair, I'm sure no one has ever questioned why because to them, you're already the peak of perfection in this entire universe. But his world is still young hence my interest in them." I have my explanation.
"That's surely an interesting view on things. Now you've made me curios as well." Kaguya said as she placed her hand on her chin in thought.
"Nu-huh... No one is changing my already given plan.aybe next time you can have a go and check them out, but for now, here..." Saying this I tore space again and four ladies in Japanese maid uniform with a middle aged man with proper Kimono walked out of it.
"Take your maids to your respective places. You have to have flair as you enter. The maids should be able to do everything for you. Your only work is to command them and then talk to the clan heads and elders about the banks. Before you get to your destinations, I should have gotten the voucher from the clan." I said and turned to give Sebas a good look over.
I nodded at his get up. He looked just like butlers from that anime, Black Butler or something. He even had a tie. Who has a tie in this era? Huh?
I turned around to look at the girls only to see them giving me the stink eye as they too held their maids telekinetically in the air.
I chuckled and tapped Sebas on the shoulder and said. "Alright girls, see you soon." And without waiting for a reply I teleported to the island housing the Tengoku clan and some small affiliated clans.
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2000 words. I got carried away while writing and this came out. I had planned on 1500 - 1700 words for this volume but... Hope you enjoy though.