"This is honestly impressive!" Temari exclaimed as the primitive elevator platform finally finished its descent from above the ground to the bottom of a hundred-meter-deep shaft.
In front of her and Ren's eyes, a massive room with no end in sight spread into the horizon. Countless massive p...
2025-11-19 17:42:50 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Ren woke up to a beautiful morning. He was warm and comfortable, spooning the still-sleeping Temari, cuddled to him in his arms. He enjoyed the feel of her silky hair against his cheek and nuzzled it gently, sleepily into her head.
Her pajamas were also very comfortable to the...
2025-11-16 20:35:54 +0000 UTC
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'Is he three-timing all his employers?' The Detective Clone-kun wondered with a measure of amusement as he watched the Jonin kneeling on one knee from the shadows covering the ceiling.
"Well? Is it done?" Akito asked in a commanding tone of a man who already knew the answer. What he was rea...
2025-11-16 16:38:49 +0000 UTC
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"Was that smart?" Temari asked Ren as they were walking through the halls of the Kazekage Tower after leaving the council meeting.
After Chiyo's little performance, Ebizo got enough of an excuse to adjourn the meeting, and he had happily done so, considering they were not going to reach any...
2025-11-15 20:52:26 +0000 UTC
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"Well, isn't this a complete clusterfuck?" Ren jovially asked, and Temari, who stood next to him, instantly grabbed his forearm, giving him an urgent look that screamed 'Shut up!'.
He only smiled at her, pretending not to notice the heavily displeased looks of the Sunagakure council members...
2025-11-14 20:36:07 +0000 UTC
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Assassins! Three of them. Ren realized as they all moved.
The world slowed as the knives neared Ren from the front and back, but these ninjas seemed to be only chunin. They were too slow. It might have worked if Ren hadn't noticed the ambush, but he did. Slipping an inch past the knife comi...
2025-11-13 18:32:06 +0000 UTC
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Ren leisurely walked through the streets of Suna, quietly humming to himself under his nose as he observed the happenings around him with a measure of amusement shining in his blue eyes.
Stopping at a stall on the side of the street, Ren smiled at the suddenly nervous vendor who glanced at ...
2025-11-12 15:49:42 +0000 UTC
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A stream of lightning surged toward Ren as he whipped out a kunai with a brand-new sealing tag and threw it toward it. The kunai and the lightning collided, and the kunai should have been instantly engulfed by the lightning, but instead, the lightning changed direction straight downward as it rus...
2025-11-09 15:11:28 +0000 UTC
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"Still no news from Danzo?" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked, but his shoulders slightly sagged as he was already expecting the obvious answer that would come.
"No, Lord Third." A kneeling ANBU replied in an impassive tone.
Hiruzen sighed and nodded. "Very well. Dismissed."
With that, the...
2025-11-09 13:00:37 +0000 UTC
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"Old man! Have you seen the threat those arrogant bastards in Kumo sent us!?" Kurotsuchi barged into Onoki's office, incensed and yelling in outrage while waving around a copy of the letter he had just read. Looking at her, Onoki let out a long, aggrieved sigh.
Why did his granddaughter hav...
2025-11-07 16:52:47 +0000 UTC
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"Tobi is a good boy!" Tobi cheerfully exclaimed and gave a silly wave to the disgruntled members of Akatsuki who were leaving the room after a meeting.
Most of them ignored him, deeming him not a threat or worth attention. A few, like Itachi and Kisame, watched him carefully before slipping...
2025-11-06 23:03:12 +0000 UTC
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Samira Kagero was the last in the entire plethora of identities Samui had made for herself in the recent months. She was changing them more frequently than Ren changed kunai knives, which was honestly ridiculous.
Ino said the woman is trying to 'find herself'. Now, that made Ren wince when ...
2025-11-05 16:43:32 +0000 UTC
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Ren woke up with a small groan, blinking the drowsiness from his eyes a few times before he dragged his body into a sitting position. Hearing a quietly protesting, "Mhmmm," coming from the spot on the bed next to him, he sleepily turned toward the noise and dryly chuckled, only for his chuckle to...
2025-11-03 09:11:54 +0000 UTC
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Sitting in a living room, Ren heard the front door open. Perking up, he turned his head toward the sound, and chuckled as he heard Temari yelp in pain before hissing a curse under her breath. She no doubt tripped over Kankuro's puppet parts, which the boy had forgotten to clean up earlier today.<...
2025-11-02 13:32:09 +0000 UTC
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"Come on, Kankuro, put some spirit into it!" Ren smugly exclaimed his encouragement while standing straight in front of the sitting puppeteer, his hands behind his back in a scholarly pose he had seen so often in all these bullshit cultivation stories from his past life. "Make your master proud!"...
2025-10-31 12:13:54 +0000 UTC
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"Will this place suffice?" Ebizo asked after he led Ren and Temari to one of Suna's empty water storage facilities. It was basically a large underground room with a 'pool' as deep as the Hokage monument was high, where the drinking water could be stored. Ren could see a system of pipes and pumps ...
2025-10-30 14:18:21 +0000 UTC
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"Why should we trust you? As you so readily reminded us, you are a Konoha ninja. Giving Konoha control over our water supply would be foolish." Ebizo pointed out.
Ren nodded, and his rude demeanor dropped as he was inwardly satisfied. Now they were finally getting somewhere. The negotiation...
2025-10-29 23:20:55 +0000 UTC
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Ren gave Temari a probing look as they walked side by side into the Kazekage Tower. The girl was still disgruntled and refused to speak with him after the 'training' she had gotten earlier today. She did not enjoy facing Ino at all as the Yamanaka girl systematically dismantled her with a contemp...
2025-10-28 21:13:05 +0000 UTC
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"Let's not torture her too much too fast, alright?" In the end, Ren decided to refuse Ino and gently patted her hair, causing her to let out a whine. But as somebody who had spent a lot of time with the girl, Ren heard the barely noticeable hint of content acceptance in that whine as her embrace ...
2025-10-26 18:25:28 +0000 UTC
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The next day, after breakfast, Ren informed Temari that he would like to start her training, causing her to get excited. Mirthfully wondering how long that would last, Ren teleported them to the Hidden Garden after she fetched her fan. He led the girl to the massive grassy plain in front of his h...
2025-10-25 23:14:36 +0000 UTC
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With Gaara's sand manipulation, all the sand from the room was quickly evacuated through the window, and the four of them found themselves sitting behind the table, looking with trepidation at the food Gaara had prepared.
"Gaara," Temari slowly started, poking her fork into the omelet on th...
2025-10-24 20:50:33 +0000 UTC
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With an exhausted groan, Ren let himself fall onto a couch in an empty office inside the Kazekage Tower. A few seconds later, the similarly tired Temari sat next to his head, with a small grunt. She nudged him slightly to move because he was taking the majority of the couch, but Ren just huffed. ...
2025-10-23 18:00:30 +0000 UTC
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As Ren's party neared the Sunagakure's gate, his travel companions were practically oozing a silent excitement to be finally home, while Ren's mood somewhat worsened. It started to feel more and more real, and he couldn't help but think that once he stepped past that gate, it would be a step that...
2025-10-22 17:00:53 +0000 UTC
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Sorry, guys, I don't write on Mondays, but this week, I needed to take a break today, on Tuesday as well. I kinda feel under the weather and couldn't produce anything worthwhile.
Don't worry, you will still get 5 chapters this week. I just needed two days off in a row instead of one.
2025-10-21 18:18:29 +0000 UTC
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After the picnic, Ren and Temari returned to Ren's safehouse, and alongside Kankuro and Baki, they made plans on how to move from there. Suna had likely already been informed that they had left Konoha and were on their way, so they could not just take a week off or something. They had to arrive i...
2025-10-19 18:38:32 +0000 UTC
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Konan heard the door to the room reserved only for the Akatsuki members in the Tower open, and with a slight surprise, she raised her head to look at who came back.
But seeing a short man fully covered in a black cloak with a hood covering his hair and face gave her pause as she tensed, pre...
2025-10-19 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Temari yawned, feeling drained as she was distractedly preparing some sandwiches for a very late breakfast. Or lunch. It depended on when one woke up.
Despite being utterly exhausted, she refused to leave her brother's side until very late in the night. Yesterday was a complete mess. First ...
2025-10-18 18:49:20 +0000 UTC
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Back in his room in the safehouse in the Land of Tea, while having a hard time stopping his snickering, Ren removed the orange ANBU mask from his face. The Raikage's expression at the end was simply priceless.
"Ah! That hit the spot!" Ren sighed in satisfied relief as he put the makeshift A...
2025-10-17 19:31:21 +0000 UTC
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The Raikage finished signing a document and let out an aggrieved sigh, wistfully thinking of Darui. If only his right-hand man weren't killed. He usually thre-, uh, delegated these boring, mundane duties to him as 'training'. But since the Stoner had killed him, A was thrust into the world of bur...
2025-10-16 18:04:56 +0000 UTC
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With a swirl of space, Ren appeared in his no longer so secret safehouse in the Land of Tea, inwardly feeling very darkly satisfied as he gained the memories of a clone he had left behind. The fury on Killer Bee's face was almost as sweet as the 'Oh shit' look in Sasori's eyes before the eight-ta...
2025-10-14 18:47:33 +0000 UTC
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