Nindō 0119: Job Offer (3/3)

"Honestly …" Naruto had a wry expression on his face as he looked at Sakura, huffing as she bonelessly leaned against the back of her couch. Her clothes were all soaked, especially her white trousers, making it seem like she was sitting in a puddle of water. "I know I told Hinata that something like this might happen, but I never did I think you would be that sensitive. I feel like I just cheated on her."

Sakura hadn't recovered enough to respond verbally, but the death glare she gave him was enough to tell him that she wasn't about to lose consciousness like the other recipients of the Dominion Mark.

She was the first person who had actually weathered the entire experience without losing control of her senses and fainting entirely.

"How do you think I feel right now?" Sakura asked tiredly. "I was violated by your chakra and came my brains out just by holding your hand. What the fuck kind of seal is this, dickhead? At least your previous perverted jutsu was only a visual thing … This one … Seriously, what the fuck, Naruto?"

"My chakra is running through your body, branding itself into your soul and forcefully inducing a mutation that takes the form of a unique seal on your body. The fact that it only overwhelms you with pleasure instead of putting you through pain or something even worse is a boon. Plus, you looked more than excited enough while rubbing yourself. Seriously, that expression you had on your face … If I hadn't moved on, I probably would've lost control and pounced at you right at that moment."

"Fuck off," Sakura looked at him with a deadpan expression. "Tell me what this whole seal thing is about. You were right about the enhancement. I can already feel the chakra reserve inside my Strength of a Hundred Seal increasing rapidly. At this pace, I will have more than quadrupled the amount of stored chakra in an hour or so."

"It will slow down eventually, stabilizing you at a little over three times your current reserve."

"One of the benefits was Telepathy, you mentioned?"

[It is. I can talk in your head whenever I want, no matter where you are. Of course, I have no plans to intrude on your privacy and will only contact you in this manner if the situation is urgent.]

Sakura's expression changed as she heard Naruto's clear voice in her head.

[Do you hear me?]

[Yes. You just need to want to talk to me, and your thoughts will be transmitted.]

[So it works almost exactly like Ino's communication jutsu. Interesting.]

"What else does this have?"

"Try this," Naruto smiled, pouring his chakra into Sakura.

"Holy!" Her eyes widened as a massive amount of chakra entered her system. It was as if she had just unleashed the stored chakra within her seal, completely under her control. Still, the sheer amount of it was enough to overwhelm her quickly. As she was about to ask Naruto for help, the chakra that she had just received got taken away from her, not even leaving a trace as it disappeared from her body.

"This works two ways," Naruto said. "I can give you my chakra and take your chakra if I need to. You don't have any autonomy over this ability since I am the master of the seal. Of course, I would never need to take your chakra because it is pitiful in comparison to my reserves."

"Thanks for the reassurance," Sakura said dryly. "How about we get to the main reason you gave me this mark? The whole switching situation."

"It was Ino." Naruto's words made Sakura widen her eyes.

"Impossible," she instinctively refused to entertain even the possibility. "We've hung out once every couple of days for months. It cannot be her."

"Yet it was," Naruto said. "She told me herself what went down."

"I still don't believe it."

"Let's see if you'll believe what I'm about to dump on you," Naruto chuckled. "According to Ino, she was transported to another reality — A copy of our planet and the Elemental Nations in another dimension. I was still the Hokage there, but some things were different. As for the Ino that was prancing around for almost a month prior to last week. She was the Ino of that reality. That's why you couldn't tell any difference. Because they are literally the same person. That is the reason I can't trust anyone who doesn't have this seal on them. I can't ever be sure if the person I'm talking to is our reality's version or the other reality's."

"How do you know it wasn't just some big genjutsu? The Infinite Tsukuyomi did exactly this, didn't it? It gave people different realities according to what they wanted under its genjutsu."

"Because Ino had a failsafe. Since she is deeply involved in the village's defenses, she has multiple measures to deal with any kind of genjutsu. Even one on the level of the Infinite Tsukuyomi."

"That's so messed up … So I can never know if the people I interact with are actually our people?" Sakura said. "What about Sarada? Could she have been switched?"

"Low chance of that happening," Naruto said. "With all of Sarada's training and progress, if she gets replaced, I will know immediately because of the change in her chakra. Plus, as far as Ino told me when I talked to her about this, Sarada doesn't exist in that reality. Nor do Himawari and Boruto, for that matter. All of Naruto's kids are redheads in that reality."

"All of … Naruto's kids?"

"The version of me in that reality."

"No, I got that. What do mean all of Naruto's kids?"

"Oh, that. He has a harem. A considerably large one at that. You, Ino, Hinata, Tenten, and a couple more women. Ino counted at least ten, including herself, while she was there. It was an interesting piece of information."

"We're together in that reality?"

"Yep. And if Ino's to be believed, we also have two kids and are very passionately trying for a third."

"Sounds like a blast …" Sakura said flatly, without any emotion in her voice.

"Oh, before I forget. You need to start maintaining a permanent transformation jutsu like Granny Tsunade from now on."

"What? Why?" Sakura looked weirded out.

"Because you can't go around the village with the shining crest of Uzumaki on your forehead. Your seal has mutated into mine while incorporating the abilities of your original seal."

"What?!" Sakura looked panicked and immediately jumped to her feet. She looked determined and looked like she was walking forward if one went by her expression. Unfortunately for her, her legs were completely jammed. Moments later, her knees buckled, making her fall back down on the couch. "Fuck …" She looked at Naruto with blame shining in her eyes.

"Here you go." Naruto helpfully created a mirror made of water in front of her. "See the center of your forehead? The Matriarch Apparant of the Uchiha was permanently branded with the Uzumaki crest logo on her forehead. I can already see the headlines in the newspapers."

"This isn't funny, Naruto." Sakura looked genuinely distressed. "I can't maintain the transformation jutsu for a prolonged period like Tsunade-sama because I never needed to. How am I going to explain this to Sarada? Worse yet, how am I supposed to explain this to Sasuke?"

"I am confident that he wouldn't ask you about it even if he does notice," Naruto said. "Sarada definitely will, though."

"Not helping. Fix it. I don't know how. I don't care. You did this, now you have to fix it."

"Fine, no need to throw a temper tantrum," Naruto laughed. "I told you to use the transformation jutsu because the alternative is going to make you go crazy again."

"Damn it … Do it. I don't have any other option. I can't be seen walking around with the Uzumaki crest on my forehead like some kind of branded slave."

"Come closer," Naruto said as he raised his hand and placed his index finger on Sakura's forehead, covering the Dominion Mark. His first attempt was the simple solution— willing the mark to conceal itself. It didn't work. Sarada's situation was slightly special since her seal manifested in her Doujutsu, which can naturally be retracted, giving the mark the property of camouflage as well. That was why Naruto could easily shift Sarada's eyes between their original state and their mutated state. Unfortunately, Sakura's Strength of Hundred Seal had no such abilities that the mark would be able to capitalize on.

'The difficult way it is …'

"Fuck …" Sakura suddenly stiffened up as she felt Naruto's chakra flood her system again. "Is all this really necessary?"

"I need to force the seal to transform itself and take the form of your original seal. It's not going to be easy. Be prepared, this is going to take longer than just giving you the seal."

"Give me that thing to bite —" Sakura's words weren't even finished before a ball was shoved into her mouth. Naruto was completely focused on camouflaging her seal at the moment and didn't bother transforming the orb from its original shape.

Sakura didn't take long before convulsing with an orgasm that cascaded down into the next one before she could even recover. Naruto continued doing his best to transform the seal into a rhomboidal shape. Before long, multiple minutes had passed. Sakura had lost all strength in her body and had expelled so many liquids that she should've been dehydrated multiple times over by now.

It took more than ten minutes before Naruto was done with the modifications, leaving Sakura unconscious in his arms. At the very least, the seal on her forehead had transformed back into the rhombus-shaped Strength of a Hundred Seal.

"Ultimately, you ended up unconscious despite your impressive fortitude." Naruto sighed and created a clone to take her up to her bedroom and take care of her until she woke up.

As for him, he ran back home as fast as he could, like a whipped man — his new personality in front of his still very angry wife.

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