After Hitomi left to examine Ichiro's ribs, Kenshin decided to begin implementing his plan. He took a shower and then invited Kasumi and Natsumi to his room, because of his four wives, it was they who were not pregnant at the moment.
Hearing the call of their beloved husband, Kasumi and Natsumi were incredibly happy and both hurried to his room, colliding with each other near the door.
"What did you forget near Kenshin's room?!" Kasumi asked in a displeased tone.
"Me?! What did you forget in his room?!" Natsumi asked in response. She did not know what to say to such audacity in her opinion.
"Pff." Kasumi snorted and pushing her rival away fluttered into the room, instantly climbing onto the bed to Kenshin and laying her head on his chest.
"Kenshin, why did you call her? Isn't one of me enough?" Kasumi purred coquettishly, glancing out of the corner of her eye at the stunned expression on her rival's face.
"Kasumi, stop it. You know that I love you both equally, there is no need to compete." Kenshin said and slapped Kasumi on her firm ass. "Natsumi, girl, come to me." He said with a smile, turning his head.
Natsumi literally blossomed before their eyes and regaining her composure gracefully walked to the bed and in one motion pulled off her tank top and shorts, becoming completely naked, and climbed into the embrace of her beloved husband.
Kenshin smiled and immediately caressed the beautiful naked girl. To his happiness, Kasumi apparently was not going to yield to her rival in anything, so for the next two hours they both squeezed him dry again and again, after which all three fell into a deep sleep together.
Waking up a few hours later, Kenshin saw a completely touching picture in front of him. Kasumi and Natsumi, who in ordinary times were like cat and dog, lay blissfully hugging and sweetly whimpering in their sleep. Kasumi lay on her longtime rival and burying herself in her neck unconsciously kissed.
"Mmmph, I love you so much…" Kasumi whispered through her sleep, kissing Natsumi's tender neck.
"I love you too…" Natsumi purred, thinking it was Kenshin. Dreams did not allow her to pay attention to the fact that the voice was female, and the beauty hugged her rival, pressing her to herself.
Both girls unexpectedly opened their eyes and stared at each other and then threw a glance at Kenshin who was barely holding back laughter. They blushed strongly, and Natsumi was about to push her rival away from herself, but Kenshin pressed himself against both and whispered:
"No need to quarrel. Love and affection suit you much more than displeasure and quarrels." He said and kissed both in the corners of their lips.
"Okay…" Both beauties whispered, agreeing with their eyes on a truce. This was the first time Kenshin slept with both of them at the same time, and for each of them this experience was completely special, contributing to some rapprochement between two irreconcilable rivals.
Hearing their tender chirping, Kenshin smiled contentedly and kissed both again and then still allowed them to take a more comfortable position on both sides of his broad chest.
All his wives for completely mysterious reasons adored sleeping together with him, laying their head on his chest. It seemed that just the smell of his body put them in a state of peace and allowed them to fall asleep faster. Kenshin was completely against such increased interest on their part and almost every night called one of his beauties to himself if she was not in the late stages of pregnancy.
"Kasumi, dear. Do you remember how you told me about the underground market where captured shinobi are sold?" Kenshin asked after a short rest in the embrace of two beauties.
"Mmm? I haven't been there myself, I only know that clans or very rich people often buy slaves there to train their descendants…" Kasumi muttered thoughtfully, trying to remember more details.
"Interesting… And how do the Hokage or Daimyo look at all this?" Kenshin asked. Something so outlandish as slavery was hard to fit in his head.
"Officially this is prohibited, but all these slaves are one way or another outside the law. These are either missing-nin or shinobi from other countries, so no one cares about them, besides it brings huge profits." Kasumi answered. She did not understand why Kenshin suddenly showed such lively interest in this topic but was gladly ready to answer any question.
"How strong are the slaves sold there, and what is their price?"
"As far as I know, no one stronger than a weak Jonin has ever been sold there, but this is a very big rarity. Mostly Genin are sold, and occasionally Chunin. Prices depend on many factors, but on average a Genin costs from 100 to 250 thousand ryo. The one bought for my exam cost 180 thousand." Kasumi said enthusiastically. She liked being useful to Kenshin and periodically glanced contentedly at the silent Natsumi who could not boast of such extensive and useful knowledge.
"And what was this exam?" Kenshin asked with interest. He was quite surprised by this aspect of her biography which he had never heard of.
"Ahem… I had to fight this captured Genin and kill him… I knew that in case of anything I would be saved, but still it was very scary…" Kasumi whispered, pressing herself even closer to Kenshin.
"No way… Do all in the Nara clan go through such an exam?" He asked, stroking the beauty on the back. In general he didn't care that she once killed some captured Genin, because he knew that in the overwhelming majority of cases completely bad people got into such slavery, namely missing-nin.
"No, not all. Only descendants of the main family and descendants of elders. This is very valuable experience because very many die in their first death battles being morally unprepared to kill another person." Kasumi said with a sigh. She perfectly remembered what she felt when she pierced the throat of that very Genin. At first she didn't want to fight him at all, but he was promised freedom if he could kill her, and young Kasumi had to defend her life and then take someone else's.
"And now the most important question: are strong kunoichi sold there?