Tsunade felt her throat clench as she stared at everyone with a somewhat 'calm' expression. Orochimaru, 'himself' continued to let Cinnamon slowly slither back to Kai while Nono, Kushina, and Mikoto stared hard at the Senju of the Legendary Sannin.

"Her? I called Orochimaru with 'that' accidentally," Tsunade exhaled an annoyed huff and brushed past the subject only for Mikoto to narrow her eyes, "No... I don't feel something's right about this situation." She felt that she had a pretty good grasp of Kai's 'better' nature and while he mingled with Orochimaru, it was mostly on more research works than such an intimate conversation that involved betraying the Hokage's trust to a certain extent.

All this time, Mikoto had been fearing the 'worst.' Sure, it may sound extremely discriminative of her to become even more uncomfortable at the thought of Kai being with Orochi than other girls but that's just how it was. It was her own discomfort, nothing else. But... the situation might just be even more convoluted than any of them could have imagined.

"Everything is fine," Tsunade asserted and looked at Orochimaru, "Would you say something already?!"

"My," Orochi smiled, "I just couldn't help but admire your ability to handle any situation. Do go on, Tsunade. It's more interesting to watch you stumble and stutter, like the good old days."

Heaving a deep breath to keep this from annoying her any further, Tsunade glared at her apprentices sharply, "Don't always make the most out of my words—"

"Hah!" Nono gasped, "Orochimaru-san turned into a woman and has hots for Kai!"

Tsunade's expression crumbled. Mikoto and Kushina were in a stunned daze as they were already looking at Orochimaru whose features grew more feminine. Her eyes grew slightly round at the edges, her lips plumper, and her curves began to strain against her drip of an outfit.

"How did you even get that?!" Tsunade snapped at Nono who shrank her neck while Bimborochi chuckled, "That would be your Loyal Guardian mouthing those exact words to Nono. And I wouldn't say I have hots for a kid. I can only remain interested in... well, interesting beings."

Tsunade looked at Kai who lowered his head to pick Cinnamon as she questioned, "Why would you do that?"

"Why not?" Kai shrugged, "Does her gender change anything aside from her own measurements? Our situation is still the same except Mikoto's now relieved that her soon-to-be husband isn't planning on filling his harem with men."

Mikoto scoffed but kept her relief to herself and then glanced at Orochi once again to assess the 'complete' problem.

Exhaling a tired groan, Tsunade decided to massage her head instead as Kai looked at everyone calmly, "The Third Hokage may have a problem with things kept out of his knowledge but the entirety of this problem leaves if any one of us take that position eventually and let me tell you..." Kai narrowed his gaze, "That position is mine."

"Good luck with the paperwork," Tsunade scoffed.

"I'll figure something out," Kai shrugged, "But if I don't want conditions upon conditions tied around my jock to actually achieve my goals and spend the rest of my life with you," he looked towards Mikoto, "Being the best simply happens to be the best choice. I'd like to see any other elder bitch up about us or try to create a commotion at our wedding."

"Tch..." clicking her tongue under her breath, Mikoto averted her gaze with a prominent blush, "No need to look at me like that..."

Kai smirked and looked at Tsunade, "Since everyone is already here, Sensei, how about we seal our deal, too?"

Matching his roguish smirk with a scowl, Tsunade snorted, "Keep it in your pants when you help me train or I'll break it. You do remember what happened to Jiraiya and Dan, right?"

Largely unfazed, Kai shrugged and replied, "Well, you can try. Jiraiya-san writes to me and Nono frequently. One of his latest manuscripts involves a rather hot and heavy story of someone showing their brazen interest through battles."

"Oh, it was a spicy one," Nono added and adjusted her glasses, "But aside from these talks... what should we do? Konan surely saw you helping her. If she accidentally reveals it even without her knowledge..."

"The best way is to place a seal on her," Orochimaru narrowed her eyes.

"Nobody's sealing anything," Kai frowned and retorted while matching his gaze with Orochi, "If there's a seal and someone does try to extract this information, it would just confirm the validity of their suspicion. Besides, all of us know what happened so, if one is to have a seal, I propose that all of us get it, too."

Orochimaru narrowed her eyes, "And here I thought you were capable of understanding my strength."

Adopting an even colder smile, Kai replied in kind, "And here I thought you were capable of understanding my nature after everything you've noted about me. If one gets a seal, everyone else will get a seal, too."

"And who will engrave a seal on me?" Orochimaru smirked.

"Who's the better Fuinjutsu expert in this room?" Kai retorted with a chuckle as the question answered Orochimaru's inquiry itself.

Oddly... 'excited' by the challenge posed by Kai, Orochimaru's slitted pupils revealed a more aggressive glint when Nono's whisper caused Orochi's smile to freeze.

"I recall... that chapter was titled Violent Lust..."

Mikoto and Kushina nodded slowly while Tsunade was the one to blush slightly and hiss, "Enough of this drama. God damn... Nothing will happen, alright? Sensei ignored Danzo for years and he turned out to be the worst thing for Konoha. Still, I'll have Konan tailed by one of the jonins of the clan and that's that."

Tsunade, of course, didn't state explicitly that Kai could save anyone or hurt anyone from any location since he just loved marking many spots with Hiraishin on a regular basis. In fact, he could probably teleport onto Hokage's desk and stab the man to death.

Kai finally stood up with a sigh.

"Where are you going?" Mikoto inquired.

"Oh, I promised Minato to help him with his jutsu. I figured that it's better to help him out and then spend the rest of the three weeks with all of you. You know..." If his smile was anything to go by then he was absolutely lying when he winked and concluded, "I'd love to train with you all."

He disappeared promptly, leaving the room full of women. Well, three women and two teens.

"Mikoto, I heard that you spent the night with Kai-kun. How was the experience?" Orochimaru questioned in her usual raspy tone as Mikoto looked weird and then smacked her lips, "I'd rather not talk that with you, Orochimaru-san..."

"She said he reshaped her," Tsunade scoffed.

"Sensei!" Mikoto gasped.

"What? We already established I'm bad at keeping secrets. Just leveling the playing field," The Blonde Senju snorted.

"Hmm, I wonder if I should recount the night when you first got drunk. You know, in the name of leveling the playing field," Orochimaru smirked.

"Oh!" Nono instantly grew interested.

"We're done!" Tsunade glared at everyone sharply, "Get out!"

"We live here, Dattebane!" The redheaded jinchuriki finally burst out and pouted.

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The sun was far from setting and an eager Minato soon jogged towards Kai who had been sitting cross-legged in one of the many training grounds. As Kai had promised Minato, he wanted to see the technical issue that the blondie had arrived on with his Rasengan. Despite his input, this technique was largely Minato's 'project' and Kai already knew that a pure chakra ball can be devastating if used right. But it did not change the fact that it was an incomplete Jutsu and if he could assist another fellow of grind to complete his goal, Kai would gladly do so. Enemy or friend. Grind surpassed all differences.

"Thanks for calling me right away," Minato smiled, "I was still planning on what training to spend the next three weeks on."

"Lemme make it somewhat easier," Kai grinned, "How about a spar for an hour every morning with a clone of mine in Senju Ground?"

The offer was too good to be true as Minato's eyes widened, "Really? Won't you be spending time with Mikoto-san... and others?"

"What business does a clone have in that? I mean, we aren't that kinky," Kai smirked as the youth only offered an awkward chuckle— a mighty improvement in Kai's eyes now that Minato had achieved the other grind, too.

"But I didn't want to let my clones have all the fun. So, here I am. Let's warm up and begin with your problems," Kai stretched his arms slightly. He, of course, had another motive for sparring sessions with Minato...

The youth had a basic taijutsu skill by the name of Toad Kata. It had hints of manipulation of nature energy but in its simplest form to the point, it was unusable by shinobi. But after practically tasting the effects of Shikkotsu Rock Egg Sage Art, Kai wanted to learn more about this Toad Kata. Even if Minato didn't have it now, Kai wouldn't lose out on anything by sending a clone every day to keep him busy.

After their five-minute light sparring, Minato soon extended his arm with his palm facing upward, and a ball of swirling chakra condensed over his hand and stayed right there.

"Alright, so, the point of Rasengan was to mimic a Tailed-Beast Bomb, and that we did by keeping chakra concentrated alongside condensing it a lot. This much amount of chakra can create multiple B-ranked Jutsus and I'd personally categorize this jutsu as A-rank... but, look carefully," Minato, for the first time in ever, revealed an annoyed and somewhat distressed look as Kai felt the youth slowly shift the elemental nature of the chakra.

*Whoosh*

And Kai realized why Minato specifically asked to remain attentive. The moment Minato induced wind nature transformation to Rasengan, the visible ball of bluish chakra inflated with gale bursting out and promptly turning into empty gusts. But... the problem was just too... easy to crack.

"Damn, and people call ME arrogant despite being the youngest Jonin..." Kai muttered.

Minato blinked in surprise and then questioned eagerly, "You already know the problem, Kai-san?"

Kai nodded and crossed his arms, "Sit down, you're about to be tutored, son," he scowled, "Cause even if you wanted to cheat, you did it stupidly and disrespected the grind!"

Minato's excited smile froze and he muttered, "Pardon me?"

Snorting through his nostrils as if the problem was simply elementary, Kai decided to walk Minato through this situation, "First of all, answer me one thing. Why do we individually train shape transformation and nature transformation?"

"To mold chakra with conscious effort instead of hand signs and further modify other elemental jutsus," Minato's response was a quick one as he still failed to see the problem since his gaze was stuck up too high!

"Tell me another thing... have you fully mastered wind nature transformation?" Kai inquired.

"No?"

"Then what's the damn problem if you're still fumbling? You made it sound like this jutsu was impossible when all you lacked was more grind and patience! Don't tell me you think that all the training needed to have a basic mastery of an element isn't needed just for situations like these?"

Minato had a stunned expression and then his lips further parted and he suddenly slumped down over his butt with a simply... disappointed expression.

"I... somehow overlooked it..." he whispered and then wondered how this happened in the first place.

"Happens to the best," Kai sighed and smiled, more than proud of himself to show the excited youth the err of his ways.

"Now, this was something you could have understood on your own. At worse, would have taken you a few years, hopefully. But the actual problem still remains."

Kai sat down cross-legged, too, and pressed his index finger onto the ground before drawing the symbol of wind nature.

"Wind nature transformation can be adopted into two manners. First is the same thing you showed— a ball of gust or something more if you master it. But a ball of chakra nonetheless. The second is the attribute of sharpness that comes with the pure sublimation of chakra with wind nature, something used in tandem with bladed weapons through chakra flow technique."

Saying so, Kai looked at Minato and questioned, "So? Want to see what both versions may look like? The simple 'wind'gan may be the simpler of the two variations but we've got time. If we can't form anything concrete right now, you and my clone can take another hour in the morning or until the clone's chakra dissipates."

Minato looked serious and nodded, "Meanwhile, I will focus my time on basic nature transformation training. I have avoided it for too long..."

"Heh, that's what I'm talking about," Kai smirked and they got down to business.

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