Chapter 103

He walked passed her, catching both Shizune and Akina off guard as he stood infront of the blond girl.

She looked up into his eyes, pale blue meeting, blank pools of obsidian, never noticing the handseals he formed behind his feathered fan until…

"GogyoKain!" He yelled suddenly, the blond girl tried to jump back but before she even made it two inches off the ground his hand slammed into her stomach, five small flames sinking into her flesh, destroying the five element seal placed on her by Jiraiya. She gasped in shock, and with a brief flare of chakra she collapsed clutching her stomach and breathing heavily.

"Wha-what…"

"Sleep." She heard his calm voice, before she felt her eyelids go heavy and she fell forward. He and caught her before she fell.

"What did you…" Shizune too began but was interrupted by the Raikage as he addressed his wife.

"Yue Ying, if you would please take the young lady to one of the spare rooms to rest." He drawled.

She growled and stalked over, hefting the girl onto her shoulder. Kicking him in the shin with enough force to make him grunt sending a message which clearly read 'If you don't give me an explanation as soon as this is over you are so sleeping on the couch for the next month.'Before stalking out the door.

He cleared his throat, hiding his slight discomfort, an angry wife was not something he wanted to deal with. Ever.

Tsunade's eyes narrowed. "Shizune, go with her."

The black haired assistant jumped slightly, but quickly nodded as she turned and followed at a brisk pace.

Linag turned back and settled his eyes on Tsunade. The two had met some time ago. While he was still a gennin and she had just achieved her jounin rank, along with her two other teammates, Jiraiya and Orochimaru. His team had been caught in a border skirmish along the pass which connected Konoha and Iwa and she and her team had arrived in time to help them.

Years later, when he had achieved the title of Raikage they had met again. This time, when his scouts had found Jiraiya's half dead body floating in the river. When asked what happened, he only said one thing "Orochimaru."

It didn't take long for him to decipher what had happened. Orochimaru had betrayed the village, since he highly doubted that anything short of twenty Anbu platoons could take down two of the legendary Sannin while fighting alongside one another.

He had sent word to Konoha, telling them that Jiraiya was in Kumo and Tsunade was the first to arrive, it is rumored that she ran two days straight without pause, and arrived in Kumo at the dawn of the third day, healing his injuries and stabilizing his condition, before collapsing from chakra exhaustion.

He had visited them during their brief stay here, hoping to finally seal a peace agreement with the leaf village and had finally achieved one years later, with them acting as envoys. Only to have the alliance fall and break apart because many of his former high ranking retainers wished for the Hyuuga eyes.

It was at that moment, that he swore to never allow himself to be caught off guard by anyone again. And he had succeeded, pouring himself into the studies of strategy, psychology, diplomacy, politics and even astrology and was now regarded as one of the most intelligent and powerful ninja Kumo had ever produced, some, more avid supporters of his, claimed that he could even predict the future through the use of magic.

Utter nonsense of course.

He did predict the future, though hardly by magic, but instead by education. He analyzed the situation and prepared for every single viable outcome as much as he could. Then, judging by the personalities, and behavioral patterns of the individuals involved, made his predictions. When an answer eluded him, that was when he turned to the stars, though that was very rare and its effectiveness or lack thereof to date had not yet been proven it was still something to think over.

"Zhuge." Tsunade greeted seriously.

He bowed his head, the small smirk tugging at his lips again. "Tsunade." He greeted back before gesturing to one of the seats infront of his desk. "Please have a seat. We have much to discuss."

She nodded, and sat down, as he walked over and also sat down, setting his feathered fan down on the desk he calmly began drinking his tea. "Now…you may ask what you wish."

She leaned back on her chair, already having known his elusive mind games as he practiced with both her and Jiraiya when they were messengers between Kumo and Konoha. "First off, how did you know about Akina's condition."

He reached into one of the desk drawers and pulled out a small file. Placing it on the desk and sliding it over to her where she carefully took it and began to examine it. "You should know that your sensei could never hide something from me forever Tsunade." He stated before sipping his tea again. "Though I do admit, even I had almost missed this. In fact if it wasn't for that civil war young Naruto caused, I may have never even found out."

He heard her sharp intake of breath. "But…but this says that she's…"

"His sister." He interrupted finishing his tea as he set the cup down. "Even I was somewhat surprised by that. But it was not all that unbelievable."

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