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Issei's Gamer Life was harder than he expected by NickTheHun
 High School DxD/ハイスクールD×D & Fate/stay night Xover Rated: M, English, Adventure & Parody, Okita Souji, H. Issei, Rias G., Ravel P., Words: 219k+, Favs: 2k+, Follows: 3k+, Published: Mar 23, 2015Updated: Aug 19, 2016 1,433Chapter 23: 3 Year Wild Ride
AN: The Naruto-verse has always been a mixed bag tech wise. It's mainly in the medieval era with a few technologies from the Renaissence and the Industrial Era. Heck, they even have refrigerators, from the modern era. Although their technologies are mainly the ones that could be weaponised. Right now we are around the Second Shinobi War. Kushina has been in the academy for… around a year or two (10 years old since Issei's arrival, she's two years younger than Mikoto, presumably). The Sannin are still in Konoha, Jiraiya has already lived in Ame for a few years and has trained Yahiko, Konan and Nagato. Akatsuki is in pre-formation, they are currently around 15-18 years of age. Shizune, Obito and Kakashi are not born yet but will have been born during the three years stay. Sannin are in their early twenties.
Chapter 23: Three year wild ride
A lot has changed in the Elemental Nations in just a single year. Since the new Ninja God came arrived the five major hidden villages and all many of the minor villages somehow started co-operating for sustainable peace. Even the Daimyo's of the many lands started doing the same. Not that this meant a huge decrease in jobs for ninjas… businessmen, merchants and other nobles still hire ninjas to kill or sabotage one another as usual. The only difference is that most of these were more domestic.
Plus, there are plenty of new jobs for ninja's or in general, chakra users. New technologies, industries and infrastructures were brought about by Hyoudou Issei the Dragon God Emperor of Ninja's. Advanced printing presses, advanced banking, gunpowder, astronomy, economics, chemistry, metallurgy, radio, electronics and vehicles… just to name a few.
Some ninja's were especially excited by the advancements in technology. Orochimaru, for one, welcomes his new ninja overlord. Especially since he's now head of the science division in Konoha, leading the Chemistry, Biology and Physics fields. Plenty of science to keep himself busy with.
The sudden end to the second shinobi war had gotten Jiraiya to put in more work into his Icha-Icha series. And with the now advanced printing technologies he has successfully taken the elemental nations by storm through mass production of his smu- literary masterpiece. His teammate Tsunade went ahead to focus on medical ninjutsu and also on the new medical knowledge introduced. It helped that her lover Dan was revived on request, although a lot of people still found that their new god was making death incredibly cheap.
Hiruzen had sung praises to his new god since he had thought him the solution to paperwork. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Which the new god had officially declared to be the second best chakra technique in the world. Just behind Banbutsu Sozo, the Creation of All Things, which Issei had used in conjunction with different materials and technologies gathered across the multiverse.
In any other time this would have been chaotic, if it weren't for the fact that the new god of the Elemental Nations didn't have thousands of shadow clones teaching everyone while somehow getting almost every single person of authority to endorse or adopt the new technologies. Families that would have lost jobs due to these changes were compensated with riches through the essentially infinite wealth of their new god.
Crime has been reduced by a huge amount. A lot of it was due to their new god's indiscriminate 'purging' of individuals that were deemed to be irredeemable. Having a god that would casually revive victims to name their own killers helped with enforcing a thought process that no criminal will go unpunished. Ninja's are an exception to an extent because it's part of their job description. Although, the people that hire the ninja's are a different matter altogether.
Issei, meanwhile, simultaneously loves and hates the fact that he is allowed to do whatever the heck he wants just because he's on top of the food chain. Madara Uchiha, after being Kaleidoscope'd loves this new world, since it's technically so much more peaceful and safe. Hashrama Senju, on the other hand, is conflicted. But still, it's only for a while. He keeps telling himself that every time he feels guilty that he's an accomplice to the shadow despot of the Elemental Nations. Still, he gets to be best friends with his crazy friend Madara again… and also spend another lifetime with his wife, Mito Uzumaki. Also, he was glad to know that in this reality Tsunade was not Hokage, mainly because he still believes that she would have gambled away all of Konoha's funds. He did spoil her a lot.
Issei didn't particularly want the chakra users to stagnate and for the ninja's to start using their talents against civilians when new technologies like guns reduce their employability. Luckily for him there was no real need to do so considering that outside of the elemental nations there was still a whole world out there. And wow, the whole world was filled with conflict, but quite frankly the elemental nations were a handful already so… yeah, he decided that just advancing the Elemental Nations until they unite as one country against the rest of the world would be just fine. It helped that with all the technology he was introducing it should take another decade or two before the united elemental nations can conquer the world and show that the world just how well peace works!
Such were the thoughts of the simultaneously draconian (no pun intended) and benevolent despot of the elemental nations. It was a good thing that he sent off anyone with strong morals back to his homeworld first. Okita doesn't really care about all of that, and spent her day playing the part of a dutiful mother caring for the children, mainly Caren, since Shirou was much more attached to Issei. Tuka was used to monarchs dictating everything back in her world, and she was rather busy learning Japanese and English. Shirou was just glad that there was so much less death and is currently trying his best to be a good older brother. Caren was having a nice peaceful childhood in the family floating island, away from her world where her body's unusual property would have been used as a radar for the demon possessed. Her proneness to being ill was essentially a non-issue when you have ninja magic, I mean… ninjutsu, plus all sorts of multiverse solutions for it.
Hashirama's family, Madara, Issei's family plus Tuka were particularly close. In the sense that reusable [Portkeys] essentially meant that they were neighbours. Madara still hated the Uchiha Clan and mainly bunked in with Hashirama and his wife. Most of Konoha would steer clear of him on a good day. On a bad day people would be shivering in fear. Hashirama on the other hand was trying to get people to stop him from calling him the Hokage. Issei's family was globally feared, Tuka for some reason seems to be known in Uzushiogakure as that crazy healer.
Issei had been less productive in his magical practice and had mainly focused on perfecting his uses of chakra. Mastering all jutsus and making new ones. Banbutsu Sozo was used to create Unobtanium from James Cameron's movie 'Avatar' to help in advancing the progress of clean energy. Importing, in other words, stealing Tony Stark's Arc Reactor technology essentially resolved whatever energy crisis they might have for decades. His ludicrous chakra regeneration and his massive chakra reserves which even when split among 10 primary clones, was more than enough to create whatever he had needed.
Issei, the original one, was currently relaxing in the judging stand for a tournament he had held for ninjas across all ranks and ages. Even academy students were allowed to participate. This one was held in Konoha. Tournaments like these were held so that combat ability of ninjas were kept high. Prizes varied between money, a custom familiar or whatever crazy wish he could grant. He was already regretting granting the rather insane desires of the stressed out Jounins and Chunins. The genin's were cool with money so that was easy.
Unfortunately for him the winner of the academy student section was Kushina Uzumaki. Who had beaten up her final opponent after the kid made the mistake of calling her 'tomato'. Why did Issei find this unfortunate? Because apparently being a Ninja God is a totally realistic and achievable status, and apparently, it was also a good way to make a huge impression. Quite honestly, she had already made a huge impression on him when she started to prank his clones to grab his attention. But this takes the cake…
"I'm gonna be the next Ninja God! That's why, for winning this tournament, you're gonna to be my sensei! You know! (Dattebane)"
If the audience was mortified, horrified, shocked or feared for their safety in any way… they didn't bother to hide it.
"Puh! AHAHAHAHAHA!" I laughed my ass off. It's so hard to find good entertainment with most of the populace either in awe or in fear most of the time.
"OK." I agreed in the most anti-climactic manner as I could possibly managed after calming my expression.
And with that I grabbed her out of the academy after smoothing things over with Hiruzen Sarutobi the Third Hokage. Not too difficult since they don't really need her to contain Kurama with Mito young and healthy again.
The first thing I did was bringing her back to my still running ramen stall in Uzushiogakure. I quickly served her some Salt Ramen, which I knew from the Naruto Databooks plus [Observe] that it was her favourite.
Being back home and not having to feel like a foreigner made her feel a lot better immediately. Tasting the best salt ramen of her life which had the '+Foodgasm' effect which I got from Shokugeki no Soma made it one of her best days in her life.
Thankfully the foodgasm effect was rather tame, or I would have felt like a paedophile. Inducing foodgasms has been a way for me to indulge in my perversion without actually committing a crime since it's technically not real and only I can see what's happening. Madara is still arguing that it was just a worthless genjutsu, I disagree. Although I try to avert my eyes when I serve men my food since there's no way a pervert like me would deliberately create an opportunity to see men naked.
On that note, I have successfully spread and proliferate cooking techniques and recipes throughout the nations. Quality of food has gone up since. A dozen or so of my clones run restaurants all over the nations. As much as people fear and are in awe of me there are always those that care more about quality food. It was with great pleasure that Teuchi, the ramen guy who fed Naruto throughout most of his youth had been able to improve upon my recipes.
Kushina would start living with us from then on. I focused on Chakra and other skills while Hashirama, Madara and Mito occasionally thought her some stuff. Apparently all three of them were slave drivers when it came to training. My method of providing super nutrients, good food and optimised training was obviously her favourite method. Sending her to those three became more of a punishment and penalty rather than training.
Ah, such was life. In a way, the elemental nations was my tutorial to leading a nation. Unfortunately, it was on easy mode since I could simply 'convince' everyone to work together. That wouldn't work back in my home world where there's a whole lot of supernatural groups that have an interest in controlling parts of the human world. Still, I simply have to gather so much influence and power that whatever influence the supernatural factions have will pale in comparison. Not impossible considering that I can just buy up any excess production in the elemental nations with money and created goods. Combined that and Banbutsu Sozo, I essentially can out produce any industry. Which reminds me that I should consider getting more Chakra Fruits until I have so much chakra that I can stop relying on Ddraig's boosts to create a star. Right now I can only create a planet half the size of the earth with Banbutsu Sozo normally. And that was after I have maxed Chakra Usage and mastered Banbutsu Sozo.
I mentally sighed at the amount of effort I will have to put into increasing my END and MAG, which influences my chakra reserves. When I consider that my skills adds to my stats I feel rather conflicted as natural increases in stats become ridiculously hard when compared to the increases from practicing and learning skills. Still, all that gravity weights still help out a lot. It's times like these I wish I had some Saiyan DNA, but then again I don't want to be a giant monkey.
In any case, it's that time of the week again. Movie night.
"Kushina, anyone you want to invite?" I asked my red haired student.
"Issei-sensei! I'm not inviting that blonde weakling! You know!"
"Oi! Oi! There's no need to be mad. But you do realise he likes you?"
"He only likes my red hair… you saw what happened when you dropped him in the middle of Uzushiogakure."
"It's… um, a guy thing? Probably?"
Does she not realise that stomping me on my foot doesn't hurt me? In any case she stomped away and took a seat in our home movie theatre room.
"Well, can't say I didn't try. Geez, what's with Konoha and their track record of making people feel unwelcome. It only seems to happen with the Uzumaki's and the Uchiha's… always seems to cause problems." Turning to a different red head.
"Shirou? Any friends?"
"Nope!" Shirou says as he leads Caren by the hand into the theatre room.
I sigh. What's the point of making portkeys and hover cars if no one is actually building relationships with one another? Oh, right, convenience and work.
"Okita?"
"Nope!" She answered in a cheery manner. I'm not even surprised at this point.
"… I don't even need to ask, do I? Tuka?"
"Hmm… Issei-kun should just go sit and relax! It's more fun that way!" Tuka replied.
"Yes, yes, please get in the room and start voting on the movie."
Seeing the arrival of our 'neighbours' from Konoha via portkey.
"Any friends?" I ask Madara… who am I kidding, this is Madara. Only Hashirama is willing to be his friend, aside from me, that is.
"Hn." Move it damn Uchiha.
"Hashirama? Mito?"
"Ahahaha! I tred getting Tsunade to come but she kicked me out of the hospital."
Because it's embarrassing having family bugging you at your workplace.
"Alright, go right in. If you need popcorn just use your Mokuton and grow some corn, put it in the machine to your left and wait."
And as I say that I went ahead to gather some snacks.
"Alright, so what movie have you guys voted on this time?"
The Hobbit Trilogy. This is going to be a long night.
An exhausting movie marathon later…
Tuka is complaining about the portrayal of elves at me. I just nod along, as I had done before. It's not that she hates the portrayal, she just couldn't stand the arrogant elves and the lack of magic used.
After everyone freshened up a bit and performed the usual 'did you like the movie?' discussion.
We went ahead and discussed vacation plans.
"I need to fight something! Someone! Hashirama's wife isn't letting him fight me!" Madara complained.
"Lies! I simply don't let the both of you fight each other every single day. Honestly, the both of you can be such children." Mito retorted.
"Mito, we have been over this. What's the harm if we fight inside an Illusion Barrier?" Hashirama said pleadingly.
"The both of you fight for hours until the barrier crashes and an attack that levels mountains 'accidentally' gets out? I think that counts as harm. Now be quiet!"
Hashirama went into his depression state. Honestly he goes from super happy to super depressed at the flip of the coin.
"Somewhere pretty." Caren requests. Tuka, Okita and Kushina agreed with that sentiment.
"A place where we can help people!" Typical Shirou.
"Alright, I think I know just the place." I say as I scan through my inventories.
2 Days Later… in Little Garden
"Madara Uchiha, meet Izayoi Sakamaki. Izayoi Sakamaki, meet Madara Uchiha." I introduce them.
"You choose to make me fight a child?" Madara glares at me with his Eternal Mangekyou SHaringan.
"Ho? Is this old timer supposed to give me a run for my money?" The blonde-haired teenager mockingly asked me?
"It would seem that this child will need to be taught some respect."
"Ha! Funny! I was just thinking of doing the same!"
I swear I could see sparks fly in the air.
"Um? Is this really alright?" The blue haired moon rabbit, Kurousagi asked me.
"It'll be fine. We're in another layer of reality. Besides, I've just created that star sized planet there for them to fight in. We'll be fine."
As I say that I exited the Illusion Barrier with her and proceeded to use my homemade Kaleido TV to watch the fight alongside the rest of my fellow vacationeers.
The rest of the No-Name Community also joined us in the impromptu movie room I made.
"Mmm, this is good popcorn!" The 10 year old leader of the No-Name Community, Jin Russell commented as he dug into my Mokuton fast grown chakra enhanced and prana reinforced super caramel popcorn.
"Grew the corn myself!" I say proudly.
It looked like the arrogant and confident looking young-mistress of a wealthy family who sports the most luscious long black hair I've seen in a long time wanted to say something about my unusual hobbies. If it weren't for the fact that she too was indulging in my super popcorn. I swear Asuka Kudou is some sort of Rin Tohsaka expy with the way she dresses in red. Although she fits into the Ojou mold a lot better.
Her friend You Kasukabe, the cute brown haired girl was a big eater. I know that by seeing the huge piles of super popcorn stockpiled in a corner of the movie room.
As for the other three loli's and the water goddess, there wasn't much more of the community aside from the children.
Hashirama is taking bets and apparently betted against his best friend. Well, from what I saw from [Observe]… that might be the smart choice so long as Izayoi isn't unconsciously or consciously holding back by loads.
Honestly, I would be outmatched completely by Izayoi. I mean, the guy can move at massively hypersonic speeds and his casual punches could destroy stars. In terms of the vsbattles website's tiering system I'm around 1 or two full tiers behind Izayoi. Madara is two to three full tiers behind Izayoi, and that would include being the ten-tails jinchuriki. Although, it's a different story altogether if I use [Balance Breaker] which I haven't bothered to develop yet since I have more pressing skills to master. Like my new [Arms Mastery] that developed from learning to use many weapons and has replaced by other weapon masteries.
"In any case, regardless of the outcome of the fight I will be donating a small amount of my fortune to the community." I say as I started to unload 0.2 GIL worth of treasure outside the room. To any of the people that saw the sheer amount of wealth, well, they gawked. As expected.
The fight actually seemed like a fight at the start. Izayoi rushed forward with a straight punch which launched Madara through the air across a small country's entire length. Madara healed from that almost immediately and went activated his Eternal Mangekyo. After some unsuccessful attempts at ninjutsu which Izayoi simply punched his way through, Madara started to break out the Genjutsu and landed some strong hits.
But with Izayoi's [Divine Essence] and [Mystic Resistance] from his [Code Unknown] the damage was minor at best.
Then Madara brought up the Perfect Susanoo and the star I spent so much effort (Not really) on making was being torn apart by the sheer shockwaves of their clashes. Madara's Perfect Susanoo used his Yasaka no Magatama attack which spun rapidly and collided with Izayoi, sending him spiralling into the ground.
Madara used the time bought and swapped to the Rinnegan. Swiftly summoning various creatures with the Animal Path. However, due to the nature of this world, instead of the usual summoned beasts Madara had brought in Dragons and other mythical beasts. If he was surprised he hadn't showed it. They were immediately sent at Izayoi who had leaped out of the crater.
They weren't a challenge to Izayoi at all since he proceeded to one-shot all of those creatures.
However, they bought enough time for Madara to channel enough chakra to use Chibaku Tensei.
A strong Chibaku Tensei that pulled and trapped Izayoi in an almost moon-sized construct of rock.
Madara moved back and gathered Natural Energy. By the time Izayoi had broken out of the planetary sized prison, Madara had gone into Sage Mode. Damn cheating Uchiha's, I haven't learnt that yet and everyone else took ages to learn that.
As expected of the ninja that could out speed a Sage Mode enhanced Minato Namikaze, in terms of reaction speeds, Madara is at Massively Hypersonic speeds as well. Combined with the ocular powers of his Dojutsu he can predict and fight against someone way faster.
I would be in a similar situation due to [Zero Lag], although there are differences. I have both movement speed and striking speed in equal amounts, although I can boost my movement and striking speed through skills. Madara would only have the striking speed and Izayoi would mostly have the movement speed with a lesser emphasis on the striking speed.
Still, Madara is a ninja and had hidden a shadow clone under the ground. Izayoi had eventually sprung the trap, allowing the Sage Chakra enhanced Chakra Receivers to be stabbed through his legs. Madara immediately capitalised on this using a maximum powered Shinra Tensei. Sending Izayoi flying and giving Madara some breathing space.
When Izayoi had gotten back after removing the chakra receivers, they finally had stopped to banter a bit.
"You know. You're pretty good." Izayoi complimented Madara with a confident smile, which eventually turned into a smirk.
"Hn. You dance well. You are inexperienced, but your power more than makes up for it." Madara responded with his typical axe-crazy grin.
"Hah. Thanks. Still, you can't win this. Endurance wise I could go on for hours. You're about to run out. I won't ask you to surrender, because a fight is only won when someone loses, and you want to finish it, don't you?"
"Heh. You are correct. However, an Uchiha fight's begins and ends with the power of their eyes. Tsukuyomi!"
Ah damn! Madara got Izayoi there, then again, let's see how well his resistance fights against mental attacks of that level.
A few seconds later, Izayoi had stumbled backwards, panting. Looking terrible but still powerful as usual. He was… however, particularly angry.
"You! You'll pay for that!" Izayoi began charging his [Aurora Pillar], I hope he only destroy the star and not the Illusion Barrier with this.
Sigh, luckily I prepared a Heaven's Feel soul trap to revive Madara in case he died.
Izayoi creates a pillar of light and swung it with his maximum speed. Vaporising everything in his way and.. oh! Oh damn! Madara used Izanagi to negate that attack and had used Kawarimi to replace himself behind Izayoi with a clone he had Henge'd into a fruit fly earlier. Kushina seemed to have gotten a pranking idea after I explained what just happened.
The surprise survival was enough time for Madara to stab two Chakra Receivers right through Izayoi's torso, none of them were lethal thanks to Izayoi's reflexes. Unfortunately for Madara, that was about all he could manage before Izayoi punched and dragged him threw the remnants of the star. Finally defeating Madara. Well, that will make sure Madara will be humble for at least a month or so.
I shattered the Illusion Barrier then and dropped some [Elixir of Life] into Madara's mouth, fixing his eye and the rest of his body.
"Nice fight! So, how was it?" I asked Izayoi.
"It-it was pretty good. Damn man, it was great to let loose like that. Although that illusion trap was nasty as fuck. Man… are there a lot more stronger guys out there as well?"
"Hell yeah, give me a couple of years and I will get strong enough to match you. And there are plenty of crazy strong beings out there, on the top of my head I can think of Saitama… although honestly I'm not sure on his upper limit. I suppose Goku would be a good match but unless you can breathe in space I wouldn't think about it yet."
"Heh. Looking forward to it. Mind fixing my arm? That Shinra Tensei broke it along with a few ribs." I did so immediately with a couple of spells.
Come to think of it, Lord Boros should be around my level, most likely quite a bit stronger in terms of pure strength if I don't factor in chakra use in enhancing my strikes.
I think I will have to train a lot more first. Since I doubt a fight like that will be particularly friendly.
Our vacation in Little Garden wasn't particularly eventful, aside from Hashirama and Madara participating in a few Gift Games. I spent time grinding the unique Illusion Barriers in this world for materials. Everyone else played the role of a tourist.
The rest of my main body's three years stay consisted of roughly the same schedule. Advancing the elemental nations, grinding through clones, grabbing whatever technologies I can get my hands on through the multiverse… although I wasn't too successful since I seem to have the tendency to end up in fantasy verses more often than not. [Kaleidoscope Bullshit] simply made me arrive at the best possible time to 'save' those worlds.
Of course… not all things were simply done according to a schedule.
Kushina's pranks often livened up the place. I was her accomplice in replicating the Saitama vs Mosquito fight with Madara. Specifically, I used Madara's trick to Henge a clone of myself into a mosquito to bug him. Only this time my clone could use most of my abilities, in other words, [Spirit Phase] allowed it to fly right through Madara's palms. Much destruction was caused in the Senju estate that day. Kushina and I had to clean up after the mess we kind of caused.
Caren was a kind girl. Probably picked it up from Shirou and Tuka since there's no way Okita and I make good role models. I think… although there were small moments of sadism whenever she knew she could get away with it.
"Okita! Made you some new sweets!" I bellow as I exit my home's kitchen. Ah, cooking, such a great pass time when I'm not training my ass off or solving the continent's problems. Honestly, Banbutsu Sozo is great for solving any food shortages. Unfortunately the economic consequences are always a headache to deal with.
"Yippee! Thank you for the meal Issei!" Okita says as she helped herself to the assortment of treats I cook up every week or so. Usually she would either buy some herself or I would buy sweets from some other dimension and import it here for her.
"You're welcome. Wait, what did you mean meal? You're not having just sweets for dinner."
"Aww…"
"Hmm, come to think of it, today would be mother's day back in Japan." I mused.
"Oh! We never had celebrations like that back in my day. The only celebrations that we had were organised by Kondou-san and Hijikata-san. And there was a lot of alcohol involved."
"You miss them."
"Yeah, the both of them were to me… basically family." Okita says softly.
"Old man! Caren's really good at the piano! You have to come listen! Oh, you too Okita-neechan." Shirou came running to us with those words.
"Really? Well then, shall we depart to the living room?" I say.
"Yes! Let us depart quickly!" Okita enthusiastically agrees.
We merely moved three rooms across. Yeah, a tad bit too dramatic with our exit, but we like it.
Caren seems to be playing some songs from the Korean pianist and composer Yiruma, I suppose I'm glad that I just went and bought every single song I found in some music stores and online music stores. She's really good, considering that she had learnt to play the song by ear.
She had just finished playing 'River Flows in You' and had just started playing 'Kiss the Rain'. She gave no indication that she is bothered by our presence.
The song's were rather relaxing, beautiful, even. It was moving, in a way that made me stop to reflect. I did plenty of reputation quests with everyone and improved their opinions of me. But… did my opinion of them improve?
I think, that they did, but now that I think about it… it is rather difficult to act on it considering that shadow clones aren't perfect in information transfer. How much time did I, as in my own self spend with them? If I exclude the additional time I spent in an Illusion Barrier without discounting training time… I spent around 10-15% of my 24/7 day with my… family? Are we really a family?
I train and teach Shirou while letting him go off on his own with a shadow clone guarding him most of the time. We spend time together eating meals, chatting about our day, and talking about various metal compounds. I still remember him complaining when I handed him a block of Proto-Adamantium since he is of the opinion that something so indestructible was cheating. Still, we made tools and weapons out of it together.
Most of Caren's needs were taken care of by Okita. I spend most of my time teaching her a while lot of things, exploring the floating island I made, giving her plenty of toys and books. I mean, she was four years old. I can't train a four year old, she's technically seven now. But I don't run this household like some ninja village who conscripts kids. Shirou is an exception.
Then again I did plan on recruiting orphans back in my home world. And I am training Kushina who I bestowed all the types of chakra I had one by one via Haragomo style.
Aside from that… Tuka is essentially the older sister of the family. Despite being over 160 years old she acts like a 16 year old girl, and she still does. She's cheerful, positive, upbeat and her sense of wonder in everything I introduce and explain to her is always a pleasure.
Kushina, the impulsive, loud and optimistic apprentice of mine. She never quite felt at home in Konoha and so was insecure for a long time. She had confided in me about it. She also had said that she did not consider Uzushiogakure as much of a home as she used to since she learnt that they had sent her to be a jinchuriki. So… she's kind of like a funny younger cousin or niece I never had. She's twelve now, although I could have sworn she's fifteen if I didn't know that. I suppose all that crazy enhanced nutritious food that I have been making for everyone made her grow quicker. I'm pretty sure she's still jailbait anywhere outside the elemental nations.
Ddraig spent most of the time asleep and only woke up for meals. He says the sheer amount of work I do makes life extremely boring so decided to wake up only so that he could taste my delicious food through my taste buds. Yeah, I managed to find a way to share some of my senses using the principles behind sharing perceptions with my familiars.
And Okita… like Tuka she's a cheerful young girl. But has many regrets from her past. Still, she had put in a lot of effort in taking care of our children.
…
…
Wait, did I just think 'our' children?
"Daddy? Was it good? Did it make you sad like it was supposed to?" Caren asked cutely after grabbing onto my shirt.
"A-Absolutely. You were great. Did you learn that all by yourself? Sorry to disappoint you but rather than being sad, daddy here was deep in thought."
"Yay! Tuka is going to be happy after I tell her!"
"Oh? Why is that?"
"Tuka thought me how to play music. She's super good at the harp, but she's good at teaching any kind of instrument."
"Is that so… looks like those 165 years were very productive."
After having dinner I was still deep in thought about that. My latest shadow clone report from my homeworld had solved Asia's schooling issues and that Rias has recently recruited Mil-tan after I had armed Mil-tan with an intelligent device from Nanoha. She's getting desperate it seems… still, I think that my clone has planted enough seeds in her mind to understand that I would be more than willing to help a friend.
Social wise, my clones had made public appearances, attended parties, gave interviews and continued to keep in touch with everyone. The three scientists which I hired had a mini arc reactor put in front of them and told that they would have to upscale it to industrial size. With some compulsions they would not spill out any secrets, and honestly, the chance to be part of a more dirt cheap source of free energy was more than enough reason to keep them motivated.
Still, I couldn't help but be… concerned.
"Okita, well, on mother's day I think it's rather typical for the father to take the mother on a date to show his appreciation. So… if you would like…" Ah damn, this is more awkward and harder than I thought.
"Eh! Yes! I would love to!" She eagerly agreed.
And with that, I whisked us off to some other modern Japan which is currently holding a summer festival. You know, the typical festival an anime would show.
It was pretty ... normal. Sweets and games. Normal stuff, but fun stuff.
A wave of my hand sets up a [Muffliato] around us.
"Okita, did you have fun?" I asked a little hesitantly. I mean, after all, this wasn't like some quest which I made off the bat and rolled with it. I… Oh shit, I just asked a girl on a date!
"Of course, Issei! It was great. It's really nice to know that festivals don't change a whole lot. I mean, I actually have a lot of free time and I don't really know what to do with it. Hahaha! So anything like this is really fun."
"Ah, sorry. You know for not taking you out for fun stuff like festivals more often, I guess I didn't properly show my appreciation for you taking care of our children."
"No, I, Okita, am not angry at all. Hence, there's no need to be sorry. All the sweets and time you spent with me… you're so kind and friendly to a killer like me, it makes me feel… I don't know, how should I say this? I, when I'm with you… you make me feel at ease. And… at peace. Even if I don't deserve it." She says so rather sadly. I would not have any of it.
"Okita, please, never say you don't deserve it. You're great with kids and so what if you're a killer. I'm one too, and don't give me any lectures about you being a cold hearted killer because I know what it's like to keep that part of me separate from my normal self as well."
I hug her.
"I think you're wonderful sure you're a little childish at times especially when it comes to sweets, but I love that about you."
"Ah, a-alright. I won't say that again. And, thank you for those kind words, Issei." She says as she returned the hug.
Suddenly her eyes widened and she looked up at me.
"Eh? What was that about 'our children'? What did you 'love' about me again? Can you say that again?" She looked up at me pleadingly.
"Huh? Eh! I said that! I mean, of course I said it. We raised Shirou and Caren together so of course they are ours! And well…"
"But… but… how can they be ours if we're not married?"
"Wait, I think you're skipping a few steps here."
"Don't try to distract me. I may not be familiar with love affairs like Hijikata-san is, but even this Okita-san knows that our relationship isn't normal."
"Normality is overrated. And…"
"No! Keep quiet! Don't think you can tsukkomi our way out of this! I have watched all 316 episodes of Gintama and am adequately prepared for your pitiful attempts to divert the topic."
"What happened to having a lot of free time! And why is the captain of the Shinsengumi watching an anime with slanderous interpretations of the people you commanded!"
"Keep quiet."
"Ok." Shutting up now.
"Thank you. It's just that… I thought that you knew…"
"Huh… knew what?" I was genuinely confused. Damn it [Sha Nagba Imuru], why do you never help me when it comes to women!
"Your… that reputation menu! At first I didn't know why my heart was beating so fast, I thought it was weird, that… it's my fever acting up. Then Mito-san took me aside and explained that it was love and then I remembered your explanation about your Gamer power and I just thought that you had already knew."
Oh… oh… I think it's a fatal flaw of mine to work on reputation but never actually check my progress.
"So I waited, thinking that you knew and would say something about it eventually. But you just treated me the same as always, I knew you were interested in relationships because of your whole harem king dreams but then you didn't touch me, at all. Then I remembered that you liked big breasts and with my body as it am I thought that I wasn't attractive to you and…"
Wha… I, what? I made her think that way? I made a girl feel that she was unattractive? I…
With my enhanced thought speed it was a simple matter to interrupt her there. This… this wasn't the time to be the awkward young man with no relationship experience, being that kind of person caused this in the first place. I, I knew that I was in that hated mold and now… it's time to break out of it.
I grabbed her shoulders and brought my face close to hers. Then, I kissed her.
I knew that it was cheating, but this wasn't the time for it. In many Japanese adult games there are plenty of magics that fit into the category of [Sex Magic]. I have levels in it purely because I tested it in some of my cooking. But the point is that the feeling 'pleasure' could easily be generated with many of those magics. And many of them were subtle.
Considering Okita's terrible magic resistance it was child's play to transmit the magic through skin contact while I was utilising [Sha Nagba Imuru]'s clairvoyant abilities to maximise her pleasure through taking the safest course of action.
By now both our cheeks were flushed, the both of us blushing furiously. I continued the moment she had caught her breath I kissed her again, this time holding her lovingly. I placed a hand to caress the back of her head and another hand to hug her close to me.
I pulled away slowly after a few more seconds.
"Okita Souji. You are beautiful. You're cute, honest and fun. And I have always found you attractive. I am so, so sorry for every making you think otherwise. Will you forgive me?"
She kissed me again. I think that's a yes.
When we pulled away again I continued.
"Thank you. I'm not at all good with dealing with women, I mean, I know that in the multiverse out there I'm considered a dense harem protagonist. Heck, I've bought the light novels that has my character in it. I don't even need to open it to know what I'm like. So, I'm so sorry for taking so long to say this. And again, I apologise also because I know that you won't be the last women I will confess to but still…" I caught my breath and looked into her eyes as I thought back to these past few years.
"Okita, I love the way you smile. I admire your skill with your blades. I am honoured by your loyalty and willingness to kill in my name. I like the way you stuff your face with all sorts of sweets even through you know it messes up the taste. I am thankful that you're so caring and patient with children and well… with me as well. Okita, right now, I love you. Will you let me love you?"
She stared at me. With a small amount of tears in her eyes she looked up at me and smiled so brilliantly I could have sworn the skies stars paled in comparison to her eyes in that very moment.
"Master, Issei… the answer is yes. And I'm not very sorry to tell you this, but I would have loved you no matter what you would say."
*Ping* You have gained a title due to –
I swiped the offending screen away.
Smiling, I asked. "And where do you want to go from here?"
"I… I know that you will love many women in the future. But, even if it's only for a short while, I, Okita, would like to be the only woman in your eyes. I, Okita, have no doubts any longer. Wherever you are Issei, even if it's to the ends of the earth, the ends of the sea, across the vastness of the infinite dimensions out there, I shall always be with you and will always love you. So, even if this might be selfish or unfair…"
She didn't need to say any more. I didn't need some Noble Phantasm to give me the answers.
We eloped together for two weeks right there and then.
A handful of months later we would return back to my home world.
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