Chapter 93

'I feel cozy' I thought as I felt like I was slowly recovering from my previous exhaustion, my body feeling great though I still had a headache while I felt something or someone brushing my forehead and my hair

Opening my eyes, I recognized the room I was in from the roof since it was my bedroom within Shiromari's body, but I also saw a thin arm which was enough for me to know who was brushing my hair.

Turning my head to the left, I was now facing Kaguya who looked at me with noticeable dried tears under her eyes but smiled as she saw me move before mumbling "Don't move, you're still weak." as I realized that the warm feeling I sensed until now was her chakra slowly regenerating mine

Well, it shouldn't be the only reason why I was feeling warm since I noticed something which made me ask "Though I'm delighted to see that you are truly here, why are we naked?" since she was extremely close to me, laying on her side while I was on my back

"I appeared naked, as for you, you were sweating a lot so I thought that taking off your clothes would help while I also cooled your body with my own before I could transfer you my chakra, was I wrong?" Kaguya gently replied as she kept on brushing my forehead while filling my body back with more chakra

"No, it's fine... Thanks." I replied before smiling and closing my eyes to rest a little more since keeping my eyes open intensified my headache

After a long moment of silence, I heard Kaguya mumble "I..." but I quickly interrupted her by saying "No, don't say it's your fault. I was the one deciding to help you and I knew that something like this would happen afterward. You did nothing wrong, alright?" since I easily sensed her sadness when I looked at her, even more with the tone she had when she talked

"You're... You're truly a kind man... I wish we would have met sooner." Kaguya replied which made me open my eyes again and, with a smile, retorted "Come on, it's never too late." before raising my right arm to lay my hand on her own above my forehead

This finally made her smile which was my initial goal since I didn't want her to stay saddened over me, though her next words were quite surprising as she asked "Do you... Love me? Because I... I feel weird whenever I look at you, an unusual feeling in my chest, Tsunade told me that it was love." which made me remember that Tsunade also had some occasions to talk with Kaguya when we both slept together and asked me to bring her to Kaguya's sealed dimension

Turning my head to look at the ceiling, I couldn't help but be lost in thought for a few seconds before answering her, though I ended up smiling and faced Kaguya again as I replied "I do love you as well." before leaning forward to plant a quick peck on her lips, taking her by surprise as she then stayed with her eyes wide opened and brough her hand in front of her lips, trying to understand what just happened

"What, you were never kissed before?" I let out while smirking but her answer surprised me "No. So that's how Tsunade feels when you kiss her..." as she apparently wasn't kissed before, meaning that her husband may have been quite a douche or maybe it was just because of the era they lived in which was ages ago and therefore different

Kaguya didn't say anything more before getting up and, when I saw what she was doing, I mumbled "Wait, what are yo-" as she ended up sitting on me before saying "I know that Tsunade and you always get better after doing that." which really made me scared that she would suddenly change the chapter into an R-18 one but, luckily, she simply began to lay down on my chest before hugging me, cooling me down while continuing to transfer some of her chakra with a near complete skin to skin contact

Since I knew that she could see from my eyes since the day I first met her, I was honestly nervous that she would do something naughty from the start, thankfully she only went for the kind of hug Tsunade and I always did... After some heated sessions, mostly, but also whenever we wanted to cuddle.

Releasing a sigh of relief, I decided to hug her back as her head was resting near my neck while I laid one of my hands on her head before gently brushing her hair.

"I guess we'll stay like this until I get better." I mumbled as hugging Kaguya who had a naturally colder body temperature as well as a different... Let's say 'chest feeling', made it enjoyable in its own way

Nevertheless, we stayed cuddled like this for a few hours, the time it took for my headache to go away and my chakra exhaustion to quell.

While I didn't lose a hundred percent of my chakra after transferring it to Kaguya, or the homunculus before, the amount I gave was massive enough to put me in a state of chakra exhaustion, after all, I was not used to spending so much chakra in such a short period.

Since we were within Shiromari, I asked him to fly away from Uzushiogakure while I was recovering and go towards the Land of Water because I received a message from the clone that stayed there for years.

"We are not going home?" Kaguya asked as she essentially thought of my house as her home after watching through my eyes for decades while I was most of the time staying at Konoha myself

"Not directly. There's someone I want to bring with us, a descendant of yours that manifested the rare Shikotsumyaku, an ability similar yet weaker than your All-Killing Ash Bones." I explained as I made myself a new pair of clothes while also giving a red Kimono to wear for Kaguya

"Someone inherited this?" Kaguya replied as she was interested and produced a long spiked hardened bone from her hand

Just by remembering that this technique petrified anyone pierced by it, I was glad to have her on my side since this was not a technique shared between all Ōtsutsuki but one she gained from the Chakra Fruit she ate.

"As I said, it's similar but weaker since he doesn't petrify the enemies he pierces with his bones." I added as the one I was talking about was Kimimaro, albeit he was just 'born'

"The poor infant killed his mother while he was still within her womb, prompting him to be born earlier than a baby should be... Also, his Clan considers such an ability a curse, and his father was ready to kill him out of anger and fear but my clone prevented it from happening." I explained to Kaguya as Shiromari warned me that we arrived at the place where my clone waited along with the infant Kimimaro

While my words made Kaguya's expression sadden, surely pitying the child more than caring about his parents' death, I decided to take her hand so we could go outside and meet my clone.

"Is he..?" Kaguya mumbled as she saw the extremely small baby my clone carried in a bubble-like thing that was made to compensate for his early birth by providing the nutrients he needed, after all, it was still supposed to be a fetus at this stage

I believed him to be Kimimaro since the date of birth kind of matched and the Shikotsumyaku was too rare to appear on someone else, especially this year, and the Kaguya Clan wasn't much affected by my action in this world since their rebellion was supposed to happen later, and I also doubted that it would happen now that the supposed Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, was killed along with his whole Clan by me years ago during the Second Shinobi World War.

The Third Mizukage, Hirotaka, was not racist against Kekkei Genkai, though he was growing old and needed a successor even though he was the Six-Tails Jinchūriki.

Nevertheless, leaving my train of thoughts, I began to explain "Yes, but he's in a pretty weak state right no-" but Kaguya walked towards the baby while essentially dragging me with her since we were still holding hands

Once she was close to the baby-in-a-bubble, she freed her hand from mine and took the bubble within her arms, keeping the baby close to her chest before mumbling "Poor child..." as she began to transfer some of her chakra to him

"What..?" I mumbled as I didn't know what the hell she was doing, or more precisely what giving chakra to an infant would do, but as she did so, she looked at me and asked "Lay your hand here with me and give him some of your chakra." as she continued to tightly hug the bubble containing the baby

Since I felt that whatever she was doing was not something she randomly thought about, I did as she said and began to give some of my chakra to the boy, even though I was experiencing chakra exhaustion just before, it wasn't an amount that would put me in danger.

As we were somehow nourishing the baby, I felt that Kaguya also gave him a subtle amount of the Natural Energy surrounding us, and, with every second that passed, the baby began to grow in size, and only when it reached the size of a baby should have at birth did Kaguya said "It should be enough."

We both stopped pouring our chakra before Kaguya suddenly decided to 'pop' the bubble surrounding the baby which made him let out his first wail as if he just come out of a womb.

'How did she...' I thought as I looked at the baby on a molecular level and realized that his DNA changed after what Kaguya did, even more surprising, the boy's DNA seemed to be a mix of Kaguya's and mine

'I know that in some mythology there are some weird ways of getting a child but giving chakra to an infant was not one of them' I thought again as Kaguya literally made the boy ours

"Now this child will have parents." Kaguya mumbled with a smile as she was able to stop his wailing and even made him fall asleep before looking at me with some expectation

"You mean us? That's not how I expected to get our first but... It's fine, just promise me to never play with someone else's DNA, that's dangerous." I replied as my DNA couldn't be used unless I was willing, even then, I was extra careful with it

"Actually, how were you able to change his DNA with just my chakra?" I then asked but she only looked at me with a gaze that made me explain "Ah- DNA is like the boy's cells, what you changed within him to be like us, how did you do that?"

"You said that he was a descendant of mine which allowed me to use my ability on him, and since you are also a descendant, I was able to use your chakra and mine to help him grow." Kaguya replied as if it was something that could easily be done and even normal to do

"You can rewrite any of your descendants?!" I exclaimed but quickly put my hands in front of my mouth since I didn't want to wake up the baby

"As an Ōtsutsuki, we can use chakra to make our children inherit the parts of us that we want them to get, but it only works on the unborn, and I could use your chakra because you are related to me." Kaguya explained what was something new for me about the Ōtsutsuki

"Hum... So your parents could do the same with me?" I asked, slightly frightened by the idea of being used as a baby maker

When I said the word 'parents', Kaguya began to release some killing intent as her eyes became surrounded by veins, though she quickly calmed down because of the sleeping newborn she was carrying, thankfully not waking up since he was not capable of feeling such intent... Yet.

"No, they can't since I ate a Chakra Fruit, our connection severed because my body changed." Kaguya explained with a scary tone as she seemingly did not like her parents at all

'Note to self, avoid talking about her parents for now' I thought before looking at the baby who was now partially mine and shivered when I thought about Tsunade's reaction when I come back home with Kaguya and a literal baby after leaving Konoha for around a few days

Knowing Tsunade she will punch first and ask questions later just as I taught her to do when we were young.

"Alright, good to know." I replied before looking back at Shiromari and said "We will leave the travel back to Konoha to you buddy."

"No problem." Shiromari shortly replied before opening his mouth, revealing the mansion's main room since he acted as the entrance door

Laying my arm around Kaguya's waist instead of taking her by the hand since she carried the baby, we walked back inside before departing towards Konoha, my clone merging back with me before.

I will rest for a while before trying my luck in finding the portal leading to the moon, though my guts are telling me that the Land of the Moon was the place I was looking for but then it would be too simple from Hamura Ōtsutsuki, wouldn't it?

I guess no one would expect a portal leading to the moon in the first place so leaving one somewhere within the Land of the Moon, a rich yet pretty isolated island, was far from impossible.

I might send someone there for me while I recover, for now, I should prepare myself for Tsunade's fury, while not forgetting to change Kaguya's appearance to not shock the entire village.

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[A/N: It may be quite late to ask such a question but do the words 'chakra', 'shinobi', or/and 'jutsu' have a plural that requires adding a 's' at the end? Honestly, I think I never added the 's' on any Japanese words because I wasn't sure, and I don't think I will use these words on other fanfics I will release, hence the lateness of my question. Thanks for giving me your thoughts.]