Chapter 188: Tenten, Eager to Have a Child
"What... what is this?"
Tenten's face was full of surprise. The strange experience she had been imagining didn't happen. Instead, a very magical power surged into her body.
She wanted to say something, but the next second, she lost consciousness, and the bloodline feedback officially began.
[You are about to transfer the bloodline of Akiyama Tenshi to its mother, Tenten. Confirm operation?]
Akiyama Makoto confirmed it in his mind.
[Ding! Your Affection Level with the kunoichi Tenten is 3: You like each other. You have obtained 3 random enhancement chances. The maximum number of random enhancement chances is 5.]
[Random enhancement in progress... Enhancement complete. Tenten's 'Strength' attribute has been enhanced from 7 to 8. Her 'Stamina' attribute has been enhanced from 8 to 9. Her Low-grade Mind-Mirror Image talent has been upgraded to Intermediate.]
[Infusion of bloodline power beginning. Duration: ten minutes.]
Her enhancement didn't bring any huge surprises, but he had no complaints. All of this was just laying the groundwork. His real explosive growth period would be after the Chūnin Exams.
He just held her patiently, waiting.
A long time later, she opened her eyes.
Without him needing to explain, she already understood everything.
"Is this... the power from my daughter, fed back to me?"
"Tenshi..." she murmured, and a tear actually slid down the corner of her eye.
His heart ached, and he leaned in to kiss it away. Only then did she look at him with a mix of shyness and annoyance. "You! You make me cry and laugh. What on earth are you trying to do to me?"
"I want you to be my wife, to have a cute and beautiful daughter for me, and then we'll be together forever and ever."
"One of your wives, you mean!"
She was still a little annoyed. She looked at his infuriatingly handsome face, opened her mouth, and bit him on the nose. Only after hearing him yelp in pain did she let go.
She looked at him triumphantly, as if she were a general returning in victory. But in reality, she was secretly staring at his lips. That was the place she had really wanted to bite.
"For the sake of all your hard work, and for our yet-unborn child, I'll forgive you this time."
"But you have to promise! You can't do that kind of thing with Anko again!"
He nodded, then put on a troubled look. "But what if she forces me?"
"Then—then the rest of us will team up to stop her!"
Tenten knew that it was unlikely she and he would ever reach the level of him and Anko. His refusal of Ino and Sakura was the best proof of that. But they couldn't just let Anko get away with it!
"Ahem, I have no objection."
He nodded quickly in agreement. In any case, he knew Anko was not one to just sit quietly and obey. She would definitely try to sneak a snack.
Tenten finally breathed a sigh of relief. She leaned softly against his chest, inhaling his scent, and enjoying this moment of love that belonged only to the two of them.
She placed her hand on her own stomach, as if a small life was already there, named Akiyama Tenshi.
"Oh, right! Shouldn't you be implanting the True Spirit Seal in me now?"
She finally remembered the key point and sat up straight.
"And, Mako, do you think... this True Spirit Seal is related to our child?"
"That's impossible..." he denied it subconsciously, but then he became uncertain.
No matter how he simulated, the names of his children were always fixed. He couldn't figure this out. Could it really be related to the True Spirit Seal?
"Let's not think about it too much. Our child will definitely be born in the future, and her name will only be Akiyama Tenshi. As for the True Spirit Seal, just think of it as an ordinary sealing jutsu."
Tenten nodded with some disappointment. She really wanted to see her child sooner.
He naturally knew what she was thinking. Tenten had seemed to be single the longest, but her maternal instinct was one of the strongest among the girls. He had already experienced this in his simulations.
So he decided to change the subject. "Alright. Now that you've received our power from our daughter, shouldn't you start training?"
"I still have a lot of things I want to teach you."
"What? What is it? Come on, show me!"
"First, Chakra Enhanced Strength."
He picked up a kunai and threw it using his super strength. It instantly broke the sound barrier and smashed a large crater in the ground.
Seeing this, Tenten was dumbfounded, and then her face flushed with excitement. "I want to learn! I want to learn!"
Her biggest problem in combat was her lack of power. Now, this was solved. As long as she was hit by one of her ninja tools, the enemy would be either dead or disabled.
He naturally wouldn't be stingy. After all, it was essentially a chakra control technique. With her current panel, it wouldn't be difficult to learn. The only problem was that her current chakra reserves weren't enough to use it as a regular attack.
Of course, her talent was sufficient. Her Stamina 9 panel was even one point higher than his. It just clearly required time to be realized.
After that, he also taught her how to control chakra threads. Not for any other reason than for her to be able to use them to control her ninja tools at critical moments, to achieve an unexpected effect. This was just a small trick, not a fundamental new move.
Her fundamental new move would be the Flying Thunder God Technique.
"You're going to want to watch this next move I'm about to teach you very carefully."
The next second, he vanished from the spot.
"What is that? A Body Flicker?"
Just as her words fell, he appeared with her in the Cloud Village.
To her shocked gaze, the transformed him flickered back and forth, dodging pursuit again and again, and finally appeared in the Land of Waves with the Sage of Six Paths' tools.
At this point, how could she not understand?
She was so excited she was blushing, her fists clenched, and she was screaming. "Flying Thunder God! That's the Flying Thunder God Technique!"
"Mako! You actually learned it! How did you learn it? Don't tell me you're a descendant of the Fourth Hokage? Ah, no... how could a descendant of the Fourth Hokage be an orphan and be bullied by a Genin? Absolutely impossible!"
He didn't let her guess any further. He picked her up, placed his palm on her stomach, and the warm feeling instantly captivated her.
"Could it be—"
She trailed off. He nodded. "You have a talent for space-time sealing jutsu. And our child has taken our talents in this area and brought them to a new level. She will be a Flying Thunder God master in the future."
"So, I have mastered this power. And now, I want to teach you how to use it too."
Tenten was so happy she was about to faint.
They hadn't even kissed yet, and she was already receiving blessings from her future child. Didn't this mean that she would definitely become this man's wife, and that there was no possibility of refusal?
Of course... it wasn't like she wanted to refuse, anyway.
Her hand came to rest on the back of his. She then whispered, "Thank you, Tenshi."
"In the future, when Mako and I get married, I will definitely bring you into this world as soon as possible."
"You're already impatient for it, aren't you?" he teased, which earned him a light bite.
She bit his chin, trying three times before letting go.
He pretended to be in pain, which made her even more satisfied. She clapped her hands. "Come on! Teach me the Flying Thunder God! I'll definitely learn it!"
He naturally told her everything he knew. But even by midnight, she hadn't been able to grasp the basics. Just one Hiraishin mark was enough to make her want to tear her hair out.
"Why is this so hard?!"
"This is the Flying Thunder God Technique. If it were that easy to learn, the ninja world wouldn't have had only one 'Yellow Flash'."
He smiled, not in a hurry. In fact, her learning speed wasn't slow. In ten days to half a month, she would be able to cast the mark herself. In another month or two, she would probably be able to activate the teleportation on her own.
What was limiting her now was that she had only just received the talent. Her own strength was still far from being able to realize it. She just needed time to grow.
He estimated that in about a year, she would be able to use it in actual combat—of course, only for teleportation. And in two years, she would probably be able to use the Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder, the jutsu to teleport objects. At that time, when she combined her own kunai-throwing skills with this, it would be enough to make many people tremble in fear.
Of course, all of these predictions were based on her current talent. When he upgraded her talent again in the future, her progress would be even faster.
She sighed and looked at him with an aggrieved expression, muttering, "Then when are we going to implant the True Spirit Seal...?"
"If you want it, then let's begin."
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