The Granny Lover

"Good work, everyone," Kai smiles as the street lamps dotting the streets of Konoha illuminate him and his team.

Weary after a day's mission and studies related to Iryo-Nin, Team Kai merely replies with tired sighs. The days after their joint training with other teams have not been fun. They still meet familiar faces from time to time.

Rin meets with the group to have some doubts cleared and has started to reach for more material outside the usual curriculum, and once she asked for assistance from Kai, she got directed to Nagato instead. He wasn't unwilling to help the girl who wanted to grow, but he merely felt that Nagato would grow better by teaching someone. Rin happened to be the someone who asked him the earliest.

The team would also run into Kakashi in the hospital.

Dismissing his weary team with a wave of his hand, Kai adds, "Same time tomorrow~!"

"Yes…" Kurenai is the quickest to grunt her assent.

"Sensei… I overdid myself. Could you carry me back?" Shizune questions with a wry smile.

"What? I'm tired, too!" Kurenai suddenly slumps on the pavement.

"Really? I'm not," Konan smirks and puffs her chest out, "I guess the difference was bound to show one day."

"Hmm, alright. Konan, carry Kurenai to her home. Shizune, come here," Kai chuckles and drops to his knee as he turns his back to Shizune.

Shizune groggily gets on Kai's back and coils her thin arms around his neck while resting her head on the small of his back with a weary huff.

Not waiting for the remaining duo, Kai took to the sky before jumping around on the roofs to get Shizune home. The girl is practically trying to break herself to improve as much as she can. In essence, she has more trust in her chakra network's development than Kai has in Kurenai when trying to come up with fucked up scenarios that will make many of Jiraiya's dreams come true.

"Shizune?"

"Yes, Sensei?"

"When angry at the constant reminder of being a traitor, you don't break yourself or bottle it up," Kai smiles as the wind hits his face but Shizune only feels warmth against her face.

"I'm… sorry."

"Don't be sorry. It's my job to remind you of things when it gets too extreme. You have been nothing but impressive in these few months. Don't let small defeats break you. Let them build you."

Kai could have used Hiraishin, but he needed to have a small talk with the girl who was more bothered by her defeat at Kinju Uchiha's hand than she let others believe.

"How… do I let it build myself?" Shizune questions, "Whenever I see Kurenai-san getting aggressive with others who don't see things her way… or the times when Konan-san used to ignore others' taunts in the academy when they compared her to Nagato and Yahiko while calling her a coward… I just don't get it. How can words affect me so much when I try not to give them any power? How can others have it so easy?"

"Easy?" Kai chuckles, "Nobody has it easy, Shizune. It looks easy because they make it easy. And you know better than others how much Kurenai and Konan actually look up to you."

The girl grows silent before choking back a sob, "But I will always be a traitor. I mean, in my records. I will always make others insult me and those two would get angry. They continue to make many, many plans for how to ambush Kinju even now."

"Hah! Good for them!"

"Sensei!"

Kai chuckles at her whiny tone and decides to advise what little he knows.

Dan left a lasting trauma on the girl. There have been many instances when Shizune would show signs of recovery, but just one push in the wrong direction would make her stumble again.

It may be insensitive of Kai to hope that Shizune would have the emotional intelligence needed to work through it despite being a 7-year-old girl, but as he said, the other two look up to Shizuen for a reason.

Sighing softly, Kai stops on the roof of her clan's residence.

"Listen, Shizune," he speaks as he lets her down, "The only way I know how your insecurities can build you are by accepting them. But that line of thinking will force you to accept that you are a traitor, which you are not."

Turning to look at her, Kai smiles, "So what other options do you think you have in facing a lie that others accept to be the truth just to spite you?"

Shizune contemplates.

On her left shoulder, clad in a sultry black and red kimono with dropping collars, a mature Kurenai whispers, "Beat them! Ambush them! Burn them!"

On her right shoulder, clad in blue-white kimono with a halo made out of paper floating above her head, an innocuous Konan whisper, "Ignore them and then poison their food when no one is looking."

Shizune sweat drops!

Her imagination is getting the better of her.

'How do I face a lie accepted as truth?'

An image of a redheaded girl who was present that day briefly resurfaces in Shizune's mind.

'She is called a monster. Yet she was the one who protected Konan and me that day. Would a monster do that? But… I believed that she was a monster deep down till that day. Why did I stop fearing her as a monster? When did that happen?'

"Actions…" Shizune whispers.

"Hmm?"

"Actions, Sensei."

The girl looks up with slightly red and weary eyes settling on his cheekily smirking face.

"Actions speak louder than words. If I cannot ignore their words or want to lash out, I cannot adopt Kurenai's and Konan's methods. I need my actions to make my case. I have to make you proud with my actions and bear things till I achieve what I'm set on doing!"

Kai looks at the girl and chuckles.

His wide palm easily covers the top of her head.

'Huh, I did not need to go all out and help her through things, after all.'

He is already proud.

That's the truth. If Shizune cannot ignore the label of traitor or have the heart to lash out at the ignorant ones, then all she can do is let her actions make a case for her.

"Keep this in your mind from now on and stop trying to break yourself," His petting palm turns into a gentle chop on her head as she nods quickly.

"Hmm, goodnight then—"

"Sensei, how would I get down?" Shizune suddenly calls out, making Kai look back with a grin.

"You're somewhat rested now, right? Use the ability to act and climb down the wall!"

He disappears without allowing her to retort and she huffs with a pout.

'Could have rewarded me for thinking for myself and carry me down, too…'

Meanwhile…

"Move, you silly steed!"

"Shut up!"

"You're the one who had to open your mouth and gloat, right? I would be riding Sensei if not for you!"

"I said shut up!"

"No! I'm going to yap into your ears and annoy the shit out of you!"

*Shhhk*

A piece of paper slides out from Konan's pouch and glides across Kurenai's left ankle to leave a shallow cut.

"Ack! Paper cut!"

"Serves you right!"

Tightening her arms around Konan's neck, Kurenai screams into Konan's ear, "GIDDY UP!"

"Gah!"

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He opens his eyes and his pitch-black pupils transition to yellow irides surrounding a pair of predatory pupils. A shadow sits on the edge of the open window to block the moonlight from reflecting off his pale white skin. Sensing the figure's intent, the boy vibrates in his bed with thinly veiled anxiety.

"Why are you here?"

"Why can't I be here? I see no one that can block me. Even Orochi isn't here to stop me from dealing with you."

The boy chews his lips in helplessness. But chakra fluctuates around him and the shadowy figure of the bandaged cunt disappears from the window. Instead, the boy turns to look at the youth sitting on the chair not far from his bed with a shit-eating grin.

"You have to stop doing that, Kai."

Grinning in reply, Kai waves his hand in a greeting gesture, "Miss me, Mitsuki?"

"Not particularly."

"Really? Your mother's out on a mission with her conditions unknown. That gotta ruffle some feathers," Kai narrows his eyes, "Maybe she won't return to take care of you. You'll become an actual orphan like that, you know? Not just sent here for the time being but becoming a permanent resident instead."

"Ok, and?"

Kai smirks.

Kakashi is known to be the young genius after Kai in Konoha but Mitsuki is everything any child can hope to achieve if they can ignore broken character and trauma filling the gaps of life that are better spent playing tag with friends.

"Nothing, I just thought I might check in on you," Kai shrugs, "Feeling excited that Orochimaru will become your father officially while being a mom at home? You've got the entire package."

"Are you here to confirm if I have intentions of escaping? If so, you can rest assured," Mitsuki conveys calmly and Kai shrugs.

"You think I am Orochi? I don't care if you live here or elsewhere," Kai shrugs.

"You would care. After all, I'm the loose thread of your raid in his last facility."

Kai smiles.

'I didn't know before but I'm god damn wise. Or maybe it's the kids that are too stupid?'

Kai leans forward, "Loose threads don't live as long as you if caught by shinobi like Orochimaru and me."

Thinning his lips, Mitsuki averts his gaze.

'Or maybe, I'm living my best life and working to care for most of the issues that I can see emotional faults in others? Nah, it can't be. Others are too stupid.'

"Why are you truly here, Kai?"

"To check on you."

"That makes sense. You'd send a clone…"

"And how do you know that?"

"I don't sense Cinnamon."

"Well done," Kai smirks and notes the slight bitterness in Mitsuki's tone and chakra using his empath skill. "But what you consider a clone is actually a part of me. A new jutsu that I'm trying to derive from the shadow clones."

"What does that mean?"

"I'm here, training elsewhere, and banging Kushina all at once!"

Mitsuki blanks out before scoffing under his breath. The boy usually put on an indifferent facade with Orochi around, but both— Kai and Orochi— knew that the boy was fooling no one.

"Don't look so glum!"

"Then stop avoiding the question and answer! Why are you truly here?"

"The matron is hot."

"She is 57 years old."

"Even better."

Mituski releases an annoyed huff and lies back on his mattress. He won't get answers from Kai, and he isn't strong enough in his sage transformation to make Kai exert more than 5% of his strength.

"Fine, I'll tell you why I'm here," Kai grins and sets something on his nightstand.

"Why?" Mitsuki looks at the shrugging youth.

"No lies. I truly am here to check on you. And also to gift you this until Orochimaru has you reinstated with herself."

With that, Kai blinks away.

Climbing out of his bed like an ordinary child would, Mitsuki sits quietly and picks up the small pouch to find wooden, blunted shurikens inside.

A conflicted look appears in Mitsuki's expression.

'He has been keeping tabs on me ever since Orochimaru had me sent here… shit, did he see me playing make-believe with others?'

Mitsuki could imagine Kai lording this piece of information over him for the remainder of his life and released an exhausted sigh.

Meanwhile, appearing on the borders of the Land of Fire, Kai begins to continue to prepare many things as he and Nono have been discussing.

He admits that his appearance to Mitsuki's side is manipulative of him. But…

'That second variant of the cum-man has been observing Mitsuki for a while, and I still, for the life of me, cannot figure out how he got Biwako to defect. Her chakra network is fine, too, so she is not in any genjutsu and has shown no signs of being a traitor otherwise. It only changed when the cum-man began to pay a visit with scrolls of information dropping on the doorsteps of various clans.'

'By now, two individuals have attracted the creeper's attention. Nagato and Mitsuki. And both these individuals are… troublesome.'

Not because of their strength.

But… things related to them.

Aside from Nagato's ambition to make seals for healing and increase the survival rate of shinobi by making a sealed item that can make healing portable for all… he possessed Rinnegan.

And as for Mitsuki, aside from him being the strongest Orphan after Kai, he knows what happened to Danzo.

The same Danzo who got First Kage's stem cells on his door steps like other clan heads getting the information from the other villages.

The similarities are too great to go unnoticed yet…

'What is this odd sensation? This bout of nervousness whenever I think about it?'

He licks his dry lips.

Kai kept such inhibitions from Nono, too.

Making her worry won't help the situation.

'Don't worry… I will get my chance to catch him. The case of the Hyuga Clan should be known to other villages without a doubt. Anyone would use this chance of turmoil. This is the reason all the great powers are waiting for.'

Thinking of someone else who has associated himself with the cum-man like Biwako, Kai smirks.

The image of a youth not much older than him with bored brown eyes and slightly sunken cheeks due to smoking resurfaces in Kai's mind.

Mukai Kohinata, whose existence set all this in motion.

Kai does not care about what others are saying. Mukai can be stronger than him for all he cares. What Kai is interested in are the two specimens that show signs of being controlled so subtly that they themselves do not register it without any signs of genjutsu present around them.

And anyone with the right mind knows how valuable the information of coming conflict can be if they want to gain something good front the Hyuga Clan.

The only good thing they have, to be precise.

Their adamant tradition!

…

The Byakugan.

'Rinnegan, Sharingan, and now the Byakugan. Anyway, with this seventh clone, I can finally start exploring more of Konoha. Especially, the shrine of the Uchiha. I never really found some me time to break into their seal. I could use Sage Mode to bypass it, but where is the fun in that?~ I wanna crack the seal!'

'With this clone here, I can also finally apply for the Uzu Peace Mission,' Kai smirks, 'The quicker I get done with it, the better! I'm all grown up and ready to hold her responsible for playing with my young, fragile heart!'

Granted… this thought made his other clones train with renewed vigor, and his original body to stick it to Kushina harder!

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Alternate Title: She is 57! *Jiraiya and Kai* Giga Chad Expression; The Snapper of Trauma!; Shizune Got Two Devils on Her Shoulders!; Kurenai's Paper Steed; Actions Speak Louder than Words; Kushina's New Admirer; Mitsuki's Matron's the Beauty!; Mitsuki Has Both His Parents; The Gift; Two Key Points; Two Unknowing Traitors.

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