Chapter 246: Confusion (1)
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What type of reaction would you expect from people if you walked with two jaw-dropping, naked beautiful women following behind you while wearing dog collars?
Neji had the answer to that question.
Though the initial reactions consisted of confusion and fright, given the nine tails dancing behind each of the women, it didn't take long for all those emotions to take a turn and lust to fill people's eyes. The females looked away from the scene, blushing at the feeling of self-consciousness while the males gawked shamelessly.
The fox-women, on the other hand, tried to cover their privates with their tails. Neji didn't stop that, it was fun seeing them struggle as they were mostly failing because of the lack of control over their tails. Though Midnight was rather enjoying it, if the juices dripping from her thighs were saying anything. She really was Kimi's admirer. Sluts.
Neji ignored the looks of people and yanked the leashes of red chakra that were wrapping around the two women's necks, making them grunt as they were forced to follow behind him. He walked through the front gate of the hospital, the crowd making a clearance for him to enter, and soon found himself inside the hospital.
The first doctor he recognised inside was Sakura, who was busy healing the patients laying down on the floor. Busy, until she saw him and his 'company'. Her expression froze as she stared at the scene briefly, watching the foxy girls glare at her before she looked up at Neji.
"W…what…?"
"Sorry to leave you like that," Neji said, remembering how he ditched her in front of her house. "The situation happened to be very serious."
Sakura's gaze kept shifting from him to the foxes.
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"That's fine, but…" Sakura gaped at the scene. "What is happening?"
She asked slowly, looking at him shrug as he took out a pink bunny headband from his pockets. For the record, his pockets shouldn't be able to house such a thing.
"What's this now? Also, you are not answering my question."
"Wear it." He ignored her statement, tossing the headband over to her, watching her accept it with a small frowned. "Trust me."
He was telling her to trust him while two naked women crawled behind him like bitches? Heck, the raven-haired woman even looked turned on. Regardless, Sakura sighed and put on the bunny headband even while people gave her weird looks.
Gosh, her reputation was ruined. 'The Hokage's disciple wears kinky bunny ears instead of treating patients.'
Neji walked away without explaining anything and Sakura just growled and went back to her healing. More than the fact that he was followed by two bitches, she didn't like how he didn't give her more than a minute of his time. Naruto… was dead, supposedly, but she was still more worried about Neji. Yet now after coming back, he didn't even give her enough attention!
In irritation, she went to heal the patient in front of her, his arm broken. It would usually take 3 minutes for an injury like that to heal, however, as Sakura channelled her chakra, instead of the green light of the Mystical Palm, pink light lit up from her palm and… the arm was healed in an instant.
Huh?
What?
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[Healer of the Pink Headband] - that was the item that Neji just handed over to Sakura. She deserved it because he got it from her quest. He just forgot to give it to her before. In short, it boosted any healing done by or at the user by 5000%.
Though that just made him more curious about one person. The Director of the Last Act. Ninty percent of the items he got, the ones who's creators were named, were made by the Director. Just who the hell was that? Curious.
In any case, Neji led his two pokemons to the third floor of the hospital where Tsunade was waiting, healing the especially injured people. She had summoned the Great Slug as well, who was also helping with the healing process.
"Hokage-sama," Neji called, watching Tsunade's focus snap from the patient to him.
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Tsunade Senju was very worried when Neji's Shadowclone asked her to stay out of the battle a few hours ago. She didn't want him to risk his life, far from that – but she had no choice but to do as he asked since he started to dominate the battle before she could meddle in. So when she heard his voice all of a sudden, her eyes snapped to him and lit up with a relieved light. However, that light died out immediately when her eyes fell on the two foxes crawling behind him, and her expression turned sour.
"I am back and done with my interrogation." Neji finished.
"...I see." she replied dryly, her eyes still on the two women. "And what is the meaning of this?"
She understood the mechanism of… the dog collars around the two women. They seem to have the same principle as the First Hokage's wood chakra suppression jutsu. But why did he use it on them like this?
Why were they naked?
Was this kid insane?
"Judgement that I decided after the interrogation." Neji said calmly. "They were in the wrong and now they're being punished for it."
She frowned and stood up, taking off her medical gloves. The patients around the room, and a few of the other doctors, we're looking at the scene strangely, so Tsunade gestured for him to follow her.
Neji followed wordlessly, the foxes groaning as they did the same.
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After walking behind her for a minute, Tsunade took Neji to the rooftop.
He was expecting her to leash at him, to yell at him immidiately now that there was nobody else around- but she didn't do that. No, rather than anything negative… unlike anything he expected, Tsunade jumped on his embrace and hugged him tightly.
"Are you alright?" she asked in a very gentle voice, filled with worry.
"Ah…" Neji was dumbfounded, and so were the foxes under him. "I am alright. Thanks for asking…?"
Weird. He expected her to get angry at him and whatnot. But… holy shit, did she sound worried. She pulled herself back, giving him an uncertain look, and he suddenly felt a bit guilty for assuming things. "There isn't any weird side-effect or anything of that sort for using that merged form right? Tell the truth, are you really alright?"
"Um," he cleared his throat. "Well. Yes. That's my cat, Kurai's, racial ability. There is a cooldown to it, but nothing that hurts me. I am fine."
"Alright, I will take your words for it." She nodded, her worry vanishing slowly, though not entirely. "Hope you aren't lying to not make me , Neji-"
"I will take this opportunity to declare I am not Dan, by the way." Neji interrupted her. He didn't like how spoiled she treated him just because he looked like Dan. "A Hokage shouldn't act so… easygoing. I was expecting you to punish me – though I obviously wouldn't have accepted any punishment regardless – but you didn't even try. I want to clear it up, I am not Dan, I am someone else entirely. Please treat me accordingly."
Tsunade frowned and crossed her arms under her breasts. Her expression looked annoyed as she looked into his eyes without blinking.

Right.
She was mad now-
"I know you are not Dan, brat. Did Shizune tell you about him?" Tsunade replied, her tone much calmer than Neji would expect. "True, I initially took favour of you because you do look like my lover – who's been dead for 28 years, by the way – but that lasted for a very limited amount of time. Dan can't be replaced for me, not just because someone else has white hair and blue eyes. You are more like… a son to me, Neji, as weird as that might sound."
Neji paused.
She was sixty years old, while he was more than two hundred years old if he counted his first life, the time he spent in the void, and his memories as Neji Hyuga. So to get son-zoned by someone so much younger – even if she was a prime milf – it felt somewhat… weird.
"You look kind of disappointed?" Tsunade asked, smirking softly. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Neji replied dryly. "Shizune was sure about her point though."
Tsunade shrugged. "That girl never loved another person romantically - how can she ever understand? In any case, let's drop this subject." She shook her head. "Anyway, give me a brief of what happened to your maids? Who are they anyway?"
Neji glanced at the two foxes under him, and started his story. It was a fake one, but it imitated the original one. He told her the story where these two women were from the Land of Silence - who escaped from there to form a village with other similar fugitives in a lost corner of the Land of Fire. After encountering the village while in a mission, the situation led Neji to destroy the entire place with only these two women (and the other blonde Maid girl) getting out of it alive. Guilty, and also because Neji liked them, he brought these three girls to the Clan after becoming the Clan Head. He wasn't expecting two of them to form a plan to take him down.
The two women had tried to interrupt his story and point out his lies three times – but some telekinetic assault kept their mouths shut (not exactly, but yes). Neji then went into details where these two girls teamed up with the Hyugas and how things ended up with Naruto – and finally finished the story.
Tsunade took in his words in long silence before sighing and shaking her head. "People died, Neji. Even… Naruto. All because your maids wanted to play Pick Me. I… I don't know what to do with this. You are strong, you can probably beat me in a fight – so I can't punish them as long as you say 'no'. But… please, be mindful of people's lives. It's not humane if you stop doing so. Same goes for your maids, even though you say they had no intention of hurting normal people – and the target was only you all along."
"That's true…"
"Also, you shouldn't have hid the news of taking out a secret village and having foreigners maids under you. I did hear about the story of that night when these three girls interacted with the villagers – but I didn't bother making sure of their identity because… I trusted you Neji." She said, looking at him in silence, the light in her eyes weak.
She had a really soft spot for him, it turned out. This wasn't a situation where one would get a slap on their wrist – even if they were strong. She could easily exile him from the village for protecting these two terrorists. But she wasn't doing it. It was… touching. It reminded him of his mother. Not the first one – but Gara, the one who loved him like the most precious gem.
Neji… felt bad. Really, he didn't feel this way in a long time. The Neji that Tsunade looked favourably with was himself – not the original one – since Lady Luck rewrote reality and placed himself in the history of the timeline. So, seeing her trust break that way… he really did feel bad. Shit. He was even playing to get into her pants for two weeks now.
Neji sighed in his head, angry at himself for even caring. He needed to fix this. Somehow. He needed to… apologize.
Neji bowed. "I am sorry for what they did. I am going to leave the village. Even the current situation… that's another mistake I made, I didn't have to take them out on a 'stroll' as if they were dogs. People would know about them by the morning, and they will be frightened. I don't want to make things worse for you."
"No, you are going nowhere," Tsunade said sternly, pulling him up and looking up at his eyes with a frown. "Did I say I exiled you? It's really the Hyugas who need to be punished – for trying to do what the Uchiha did once and failing. Though yes, I do agree I don't like what you are doing with these two. Get them dressed and… at least do something permanent to seal their powers, I am sure you have something like that on you. Another of your cat's 'racial ability', perhaps?"
She said the last line with an amused smirk. Right. She didn't buy that. He told her about how he got Woodstyle from Yamato. It was Kurai's racial ability that he earned while in Fusion. She didn't buy that either. Hah, she really did remind him of his mother… it was hard to hide things from her.
Hah, and he just wanted to bone her. Really, he was going back to his bad habits.
Neji dropped two nice dresses from his inventory and eyed the two foxes, gesturing for them to wear them.
"In any case," Tsunade continued as the two women started to wear their clothes with a bewildered expression. "If you are free, can you come and help me heal some patients? You don't have to if you are tired."
"No, not tired. But honestly," Neji looked at the two foxes. "I think I have a better idea."
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The Nine Tails' chakra, if shared willingly by the Tailed Beast, can be used as a healing cloak for another person. Neji found that action to be the best way possible for these two to clear their image. The public didn't know that these two were actually the tailed beasts, so with Tsunade's help Neji could sell their identity as Jinchiurikis who took the beasts inside them to help humanity.
The plan was a success. First to share her chakra was Midnight – who may be somewhat apathetic to killing, but was still a hero in the end. The receiver of her chakra was a brave shinobi, who was initially getting hurt by the chakra – but as Neji kept healing him with magical spells before Midnight finally managed to balance her chakra enough for it to actually heal the Ninja.
Slowly, the rest of the people got braver and came to the two foxy women, taking their chakra and getting their wounds healed. The seriously wounded ones – the ones who lost a body part or two – were helped by Neji's [High Heal].
Like that, something phenomenal happened. In the world's history, everyone in the hospital was healed 100%. More so, it all happened in less than 5 hours. Night had ended and the morning sun was rising in the sky.
Neji sat on the edge of the rooftop, basking in the sun with the two foxes silent beside him – their expression complicated.
"...Sorry. Really." both Nagant and Nemuri said, their heads lowered as the sun rose above their heads.
Neji was pleased, though somewhat…. confused.
What the hell was he doing right now?
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Master4thWall Note: I am somewhat sick due to drinking too much cold soda and then ice cream, which I don't regret. Except I had to do long travel back and forth, which I don't like given my motion sickness. I will try to keep uploading, but just be weary that I might not be able to.