Konoha's border

It's been a couple weeks since Ino and Anko signed the summoning contract and both women were getting used to their partner summons.

Jiang also started his training with Neko up again, having the cat around while he's doing whatever physical training Gai orders him to do.

Aside from that nothing much happened for Jiang, other than that he's looking for someone knowledgeable about seals but hasn't found anyone yet who could help him with his plan to free the undead lynx.

"You can hold the sage mode for 30 seconds before losing control over it at least. That's quite an accomplishment given the little time." Neko tells Jiang, sitting on his shoulder while the teen is carrying a boulder about 12 times his size around Konoha.

"Yeah, thanks. My physical training is also paying off." Jiang replies.

"Say, what is your progress with the seal master search?" Neko asks.

"I'm still waiting on an answer from Kumo." Jiang says.

"Why exactly Kumo anyways?" The cat asks.

There is someone in Kumo who has seals on his arm, which allow him to channel a different elemental chakra. So my hope is, that it'll work on me and my weapon too." Jiang says.

"Are you sure you want to go through with this though?" Neko asks.

"Yeah. In theory I shouldn't absorb that much of the death energy." Jiang replies.

"Let's hope so, I think you're getting summoned by the way." Neko says, pointing at a bird circling over him.

"Right. Thanks for the training again, sensei." Jiang thanks the cat.

"My pleasure. It's nice being outside after such a long time." The cat says, before patting his summoners head, and disappears while Jiang sets down the boulder and shunshines to the Hokage's office.

"You summoned me." Jiang says, entering Tsunade's office after knocking on the door.

"Yeah. Thanks for the hurry. I want you to accompany Hana on her mission." Tsunade says, motioning to the Inuzuka who's blushing slightly at seeing Jiang sweaty and pumped, his tank top clinging to his skin.

"Nice to see you again." Hana greets him, receiving a nod in reply.

"What's the mission?" Jiang asks.

"There have been reports of Kumo nins entering Konoha's borders. I want you two to see what's going on there." Tsunade says.

"Can I speak freely?" He asks, getting a nod positive from Tsunade.

"Am I going because of my connections with Kumo?" Jiang questions.

"Well there is that, but actually Hana chose you from possible candidates without my input." Tsunade informs him, Jiang looking at Hana surprised, before addressing Tsunade again.

"Is it possible for us to pay a friend of mine a visit in Kumo, after we completed the mission?" Jiang asks.

"Hana, do you have a problem with this?" Tsunade asks, getting a head shake 'no' in response.

"Alright. Then you may go visit Kumo after finishing the mission. But I expect you both to come back alive, so don't screw up when you enter Kumo territory." Tsunade tells him.

"No worries. I know the lay of the land." Jiang replies confidentially.

"Alright, you can go now." Tsunade tells the two.

"Do you need a minute to get ready?" Hana asks.

"My home is on the way to the main gate, so if you don't mind we can stop by." Jiang suggests.

"Alright, afterwards we need to drop by the Inuzuka compound to fetch my nin-dog partners." Hana tells him.

"Alright." He says and grabs her head, shunshining then in front of his apartment.

"Come on in. I hope you don't mind it's a little messy, Anko stops by almost every other day." Jiang says chuckling, entering the apartment with Hana and he moves to the bedroom to change into fresh clothing, wiping himself off in the bathroom quickly.

"I know what effect Anko can have on a home." Hana says amused and spots a heart symbol made with Dango sticks on his wall.

"Well, I don't really mind it. Ino's not a fan though." He says, recalling Ino refusing to stay over on two occasions where Anko made a large mess.

"Well, Anko's an acquired taste." Hana says.

"I'm glad she has such good friends in you and Kurenai. She often talks about you two." He tells her, stepping out of his bedroom in new clothes.

"I hope only good stuff." Hana replies.

"Well, she said that the past few weeks you have been a little down and distracted. Anything I should know about before we go on the mission? Being distracted on a mission is dangerous." Jiang tells her, leaving the apartment with her and follows her when she hops over Konoha's roofs towards the Inuzuka compound.

"No. It's all fine." Hana says, thinking 'like I could tell you I've been imagining you taking me and fucking my brains out all the time.'

Shortly after they reach the Inuzuka compound.

"Just wait here, I don't want the other dogs to cause a ruckus." Hana tells him, asking him to wait at the compound entrance while she heads to a side building, her mother seeing her packing her stuff with a beet red face.

"Tsume, there is a man waiting at the compound entrance." Kuromaru, a wolf like dog with an eyepatch tells Tsume.

"Now this I gotta see." Tsume says with a smirk, heading over to Jiang while Hana is getting ready.

"Can I help you?" Tsume asks, while walking over to him.

"I'm just waiting for Hana. We have a mission. I'm Jiang by the way." He answers, offering his hand.

"Nice to meet you. Tsume, Hana's mom." She greets him, shaking his hand.

"Ah, you're the clan head then?" He asks.

"That's right." Tsume tells him proudly.

"Well if you have time I'd like to meet with you to talk about a collaboration." He says.

"Oh, I wouldn't like collaborating with you handsome." Tsume flirts, with Hana arriving behind her.

"Mom! He has a technique collaboration to discuss. But not now, we gotra go." Hana says.

"Fine. Let's talk when you're back then." Tsume says with a smirk, guessing her daughter's wet dreams are about the strong man she just met.

"Thank you, it was nice to meet you." He says, leaving with Hana pulling him after her, her triplet dogs following the two.

Two days later Hana, her dogs and Jiang arrive at the border to the lands separating them and Kumo.

"So, we're here. Shall we set up camp up there? We can watch the area for a day or two from there easily before taking any action." Jiang suggests, pointing to a cliff, giving them a good lookout.

"Yeah, let's go." She agrees, running towards the cliff wall and runs up it while carrying one of her dogs, Jiang just behind her, carrying the two others.

"Alright. Looks like we've got some time to spend." He says, putting down the dogs.

"Yeah. I'll set up a tent for us." She offers, setting down her backpack and taking out a scroll.

"I'll watch the area and get some training in." He says, doing the summoning jutsu on top of his shoulder, where Neko appears in a puff of smoke, getting growled at by the dogs, but the cat only smiles at the dogs, his sharp teeth showing and they back up behind Hana with a whimper.

"What am I doing here Jiang?" The cat asks.

"You always tell me to train whenever possible, so we're doing just that. This is Hana and those are her nin-dog partners." He introduces them to his cat sensei.

"Hana, this is Neko-sensei. My summon clanhead." He tells the woman.

"Nice to put a face to the name, Anko mentioned you a couple times." Hana greets him with a nod.

"She's not here is she?" Neko asks slightly worried.

"No it's just Hana and me on this mission. No need to worry about Anko getting you drunk again." Jiang chuckles, before moving to the edge of the cliff and sits down cross legged, concentrating on absorbing nature chakra. Hana's dogs lying down around him soon after, drawn to the calming energies.

"What's he doing?" Hana asks interested, after finishing to set up their tent.

"He's absorbing nature chakra." The black cat answers, before slashing his summoner across his cheek.

"Again?" Jiang asks with a sigh.

"Yup. You're not distributing it right. Any longer and you'd have grown a tail. Permanently." Neko informs him.

"Mhh. What about the absorption rate?" He asks.

"It's steady. But I told you. The absorption never is a problem. Especially with your kekkei genkai.

What you need to worry about is placement and control my stubborn pupil." Neko says, hopping on Jiang's head, lying down on his side.

"Can anyone learn to control this nature chakra?" Hana asks.

"I have heard of cases a long time ago and I'm talking like 400 years. Nowadays only summons can teach you how and even fewer dare to so do, since the mortality count is high."

Neko answers the brunette woman sitting down next to one of her dogs, which lied down next to Jiang.

"Why do it then?" Hana asks.

"To become stronger. This is actually the technique similar to your clan technique." Jiang answers.

"I don't see the similarity." Hana chuckles.

"Well he's only a few months into the training. It can take tens of years. He's aiming for 2 though." Neko informs the kunoichi.

"So what makes it similar to our technique?" Hana asks.

"May I see your technique?" The cat asks.

"Yeah, I don't see the harm." Hana says and puts her hands into a hand sign, and gets on all fours, with her fingernails and teeth sharpening and her facial features sharpening.

"Hmm I see." Neko says, watching Hana's energies.

The woman however sees Jiang in her changed form and suddenly lies down in his lap, humming happily.

"What just happened?" Jiang asks, stopping absorbing nature chakra and looks at the woman in his lap surprised.

"Uhh, beats me." The cat answers.

"Hana, are you OK?" Jiang asks the woman, touching her back.

"Hah, take me. Make me yours." Hana pants, pushing him down and crawling on top of him.

"Hana what's wrong?" He asks her, holding the attractive woman back by her shoulders while she' trying to make out with him.

"Why? Don't you want me?" Hana asks, still trying to kiss him.

"You are very beautiful, but you can't expect me to believe that you behavior is normal right now." He says, struggling against her.

"I think I'll leave you two alone." Neko chuckles.

"Neko, help me." Jiang says, keeping Hana at back with some difficulty.

"Fine." Neko sighs and goes over to the two, tapping Hana's head, cancelling out her jutsu.

"Oh, sorry. I... I don't really know what happened." Hana stammers, getting herself back under control.

"You are attracted to him and your jutsu made you lose your self-restraint upon feeling his natural energy." Neko explains before dispelling.

"I'm sorry. I should probably put some distance between us for the time being." Hana apologizes, blushing embarrassed and gets off of him.

"Wait. Don't worry. It wasn't your fault. I mean look at how your dogs are acting because of the natural energies." Jiang tells her, grabbing her wrist and rubs one of her dogs head.

"Still, I'm so embarrassed." Hana says sullenly, but sits down next to him anyways, hugging her knees to her chest.

"Come on, don't beat yourself up. I know you were only acting on animal driven instinct." Jiang tells her with a smile, patting her back.

"That's actually not completely true." She quietly says, not daring to look him in the eyes.

"Come again?" He asks surprised.

"I said that's not true. I have had a crush on you for a while now, thanks to Anko I guess." Hana sighs, deciding to put it all out in the open and see what happens.

"What did Anko do?" He asks shaking his head at Anko's behavior.

"She told us about your guys' relationship and bragged about you all the time. I guess I got curious if she was telling the truth and kept thinking about you, even changing my usual routes so I'd run into you from time to time when you were training with Gai." She confesses.

"Woah. Sorry, I had no idea. Is that why you requested me for the mission?" He asks.

"No. You simply were the best choice and here I thought I'd get lucky and have time to get to know you better and I pull something like this." She says disappointed and embarrassed.

"It's not that bad. And hey, we can still get to know each other better. Though starting a relationship without talking to Ino or Anko about it... I wouldn't want that." He informs her.

"They know. At least I know that Anko does. She tried to drag me along and make me force myself on you while she gets to watch." Hana tells him still wondering what the purple haired woman was thinking.

"Sorry about her, I don't get Anko all the time either. But I love her dearly. Ever since I first met her actually." Jiang says with a smile.

"Anko always was worried about me because I never really had much success with guys and relationships beyond a one-night stand." Hana tells him.

"How come? Granted I don't know you that well, but I can still think that you're a very caring, passionate, beautiful woman." He asks.

"Thanks. That means a lot. But the deal breaker often is my dogs, who scare men away or my mother drives them them away if she thinks they're not right for me..." Hana explains.

"Well it's their loss. You're a catch even with a protective mother." Jiang tells her, pulling her against his side with an arm around her.

"Can we stay like this for a while?" She asks timidly, putting her arms around his torso and pressing against him.

"Sure." He says softly and they continue to watch over the area leaning against another for along time until they see movement at the border.

"So you see that? What's happening down there?" Hana asks.

"I don't know. There's a storm heading this way. The rain makes it difficult to see." Jiang says, the two only having a few droplets coming down on them so far, while at the border a few hundred meters away it's pouring.

"I... think I need to check it out." Jiang says, blinking and getting an concerned feeling, but he can't place his hand on why.

"Alright, let's go." Hana agrees, being able to make someone out, running away from a group of people.

"No, let me go alone. You and the triplets get in cover. I don't want to lose sight of you in the storm. And don't worry I can handle myself." He tells her.

"Alright. But be careful." Hana agrees.

Jiang nods once in response before running down the cliff and towards the people who are now starting to fight. One person in white clothing struggling to fend off about a dozen black clothed people wearing grey scarfs.

Half a minute later Jiang is close enough to see why he had such an unnerving feeling, because the white dressed person turns out to be a friend of his from Kumo.

He quickly activates his lightning cloak and dashes through the lines of enemies, slashing them up with his double trident, standing in front of a bosomy girl a few years older than him, dressed in a white Kumo attire, bleeding from a wound on her stomach, where a kunai is sticking out. "Cool." The girl says weakly, seeing him standing amongst her now dead attackers, with his lightning cloak turning off slowly.

"What trouble did you get in now Samui?" Jiang asks, going over to her and her up in his arms.

"About time you visited." She says weakly and passes out.

A minute later Jiang is back on top of the cliff and brings Samui into the tent, lying her down in it.

"What happened? Who is she?" Hana asks, already preparing to treat her wound.

"A friend of mine. She was being chased by a dozen or so guys, I don't know why. But they were wearing Oto clothes." He answers.

"Friend?" Hana asks surprised.

"Yeah. From my time in Kumo. Her name is Samui." Jiang answers.

"Alright. I'll do my best to help her. She needs to get warm though and out of these wet clothes." Hana says, starting to remove the busty woman's clothes.

"I'll make a fire in a moment." Jiang says focused. Hana then hears some loud crashes and sees the rain around their tent missing, being replaced by a large shadow. Peeking out of the tent she sees that Jiang knocked over a couple trees around them and placed a enormous part of a rock wall ontop of them like a roof, the rock probably carved out somewhere, based on he smooth underside of it.

"Here. I'll have a fire going soon." Jiang says, holding his hands over some logs he places under the roofed area, concentrating until the wood catches fire, burning with a lot of smoke though due to it being wet. Jiang quickly gets some more wood and stacks it near the fire to get it as dry as possible.

"Is there something I can do to help?" Jiang asks, seeing Hana gently pull Samui out of the tent and towards the fire, the girls clothes lying in the tent.

"Yeah. Press down on her wound when I remove the kunai. I'll need a moment to get my healing chakra under control. I haven't treated a human in a few years." Hana says.

"alright." Jiang agrees, sitting across from Hana and presses down on the wound to slow the bleeding.

A couple minutes later the two have treated Samui as best as they can and are sitting around the fire wrapping a bandage around the kumo nin.

"So, how well do you know her?" Hana asks, tying the end of the bandage to a small bow.

"She was one of my best friends in Kumo actually." He says, looking at the hurt, naked woman worried, her state of undress having no impact on him in her situation and since he's used to excessive nudity curtesy of Anko.

"We should probably take our clothes off too. Or we'll catch a cold." Jiang says, taking a scroll and gets three blankets from it, handing one to Hana, lying one beside himself and drapes one over Samui carefully, looking at the blonde woman with bob cut.

"Yeah, you're right. It's not like I haven't seen it before anyways." Hana chuckles drily, taking off her clothes, piling them neatly near the fire before wrapping the blanket around herself.

Jiang also takes off his clothes and puts them near the fire, getting under a blanket.

After a minute or two he sees Hana shiver however and feels Samui, noticing how cold she is.

"Hana. Come here." He tells her, leaving no room for objection from the surprised girl.

Once she's next to him and Samui, Jiang lies down, pulling Samui against him, making sure to keep their blankets on and to not stress her wound and pulls Hana against his other side, his hands wrapped around both girls waists.

"Better?" He asks Hana with a warm smile.

"Much." She replies, mindlessly letting her fingers explore his muscular frame while they are under their blankets and pressed against each other.

"Thank you for helping her." Jiang says, his eyes drifting from Hana's brown ones go the unconscious girl in his other arm.

"No problem." Hana replies smiling reassuringly.

Jiang stares at her for a while, before they both lean in, their lips meeting innocently.

"Sorry." Hana says, her face flushed.

"Don't be." He replies, pulling her against him stronger and kisses her again while his hand drifts from her waist down to her toned butt.

"Does that mean you are interested in me as a woman and potential mate?" Hana asks, her warm lips hovering over his.

"Yes. I couldn't be more interested." He says with an amused grin.

"Good." She says, wrapping her arms around his neck and nuzzling herself against him, her breasts lightly dragging over him.

"Still as impressive as the first time I saw it." Hana then says smirking, pulling up his cover, seeing his above average cock half erect lying on his stomach.

"Not now, not before we talk to Ino." He tells her, gently kissing her one more time while stopping her hand from wandering to his member.