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Tsunade after her ascension to the hokage seat, has barely even been in the hokage office over the week of taking office.
The person doing all the work was none other than tobirama himself, even now he was burying himself in piles of paper.
'boom'
Tobirama who was writing just now jumped up, upon the door being slammed open, "you, can't you come in normally, why.." he breathed in heavily and continued "why can't you open the door the normal way".
Kimiko walked over and said "hmph, moms busy again so I'm coming here".
Tobirama who had sat back down and started writing again, looked up at kimiko and he thought [busy, I doubt it, that busy is probably gambling again].
Tobirama: why aren't you with your grandma or my idiot brother.
Kimiko sat down on the large couch in the middle of the office and replied to tobirama in a lazy tone "he's busy as well".
Tobirama almost choked on his spit and he immediately knew that both hashirama and tsunade had gone to gamble he thought, while trying to look normal [if this keeps up they'll drain the money gained over the week in a single day].
Kimiko seeing a slight shift in his expression asked "what, do you know where they're".
Tobirama didn't look up but he was blushing furiously, because it was to shameful to tell his great granddaughter that her mother and great grandfather was out gambling.
Kimiko ignored him and said "you don't have to tell me, I already know where she is, that's just how she is after all".
"Aunt shizune would always have a headache over it" her face went sour and she used her ability to pull some food from Tsunade's secret stash, it was Tsunade's favorite food a meatloaf.
She started eating it and when tobirama finished the mountain's worth of work the door opened and more paper was shoved onto the desk causing a vein to appear on his forehead.
In the Vergil's tomb, fifth floor.
Mikoto was with her daughter and was walking around a shopping area, seeing her daughter even more thrilled here than she was outside she felt a little helpless, until she bumped into an old acquaintance.
The two just stared at each other for some time before Reiko turned around and said something "is she a bad person".
Mikoto murmured "not again" then she spoke to Reiko before the person in front of her "she isn't a bad person, this is an old friend".
Reiko gave the person a long innocent stare before nodding and saying "okay, but I'll be watching" she then started trotting in circles.
Mikoto breathed a sigh of relief and said to the person who was stunned with a smile "it's been a while kushi".
Kushina who was stunned felt even more stunned and thought to herself [my names kushina ain't it] "uhmm, my name is Kushina, have you forgotten" she said a little aspiratedly.
Mikoto just stared for a moment before putting a hand on her mouth "you, you mean uzumaki kushina".
Kushina frowned and nodded, not understanding why she's acting like there's another her or something.
Mikoto who was about to pounce on kushina was immediately stopped by her, causing mikoto to be stop midway in confusion.
Mikoto: what's wrong, did I do something bad.
Kushina shook her head and blushed then looked down and pointed towards her stomach, mikoto quickly understood and smiled mischiefly and said "I see".
Mikoto turned towards Reiko and said "Reiko come over here" Reiko appeared by her side instantly and put up her fists towards kushina.
Mikoto picked her up and looked at kushina with helplessness "kushina, follow me, we'll talk about what's happened over the years in that place over there" she pointed towards a place ran by yasaka, it was a tea house.
After the two entered mikoto asked yasaka to take care of Reiko and a little fox girl appeared beside yasaka in a shy manner holding onto her kimono while staring at Reiko.
Yasaka nodded and told Reiko to follow her into the next room with a polite smile, completely making Reiko obedient and mikoto found a seat within the tea house in a secluded corner for the two to sit completely unaware her daughter was listening for once.
Kushina took a seat and looked outside the window feeling strange she muttered to herself "this place is like a paradise compared to outside".
Mikoto: hmm, did you say something.
Kushina shook her head again feeling reminiscent about seeing mikoto again "I heard from a woman named grayfia that the uchiha clan was wiped out, I'm sorry".
Mikoto was stunned by this direct approach and she smiled bitterly "you don't have to be, it wasn't your fault, it was the higher ups putting pressure on the clan before they decided to get rid of it all together".
Mikoto clapped her hands together and said "please, let's not talk about anything depressing, tell me, how long" she smiled brightly.
Kushina seeing the shift also smiled and responded to her "three weeks" she was tapping the table nervously.
Mikoto seeing this was quick to change her mood and she leaned forward and whispered "how was it, he was like a beast that never gets tired, right".
Kushina stopped tapping the table and stared blankly at mikoto and she thought to herself [since when was mikoto always so eager and happy, she remembered her always looking tired and lazy outside, the uchiha clan].
Mikoto: well.
Kushina blushed and didn't say anything she just turned to look outside again and mikoto seeing this begun to tease her more "if you want to last longer, try and speak with yasaka here she'll help you".
Kushina retorted in a shy manner "no", kushina who said this heard someone behind her "fufufu, I don't mind teaching, if it helps, it helps".
Kushina thought these two were ganging up on her innocent heart and was trying to corrupt it with their ways of life.
Kushina: I..I
Yasaka: it's okay, take things slowly, it's not good to always be the one receiving and not giving.
Kushina: huh?
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