Rei and his girls stayed in the Water Capital only for two days to make sure the Daimyo and his family left towards Uzushio, leaving behind only a regent whose name Rei really didn't care about who would announce the embargo in two more days.

After they cheerfully sent the resigned Daimyo off, Rei decided to leave the Water Country no matter how much Ao protested. ​​

"It's just a waiting game now. We can't do anything until Ob-, ahem, Yagura moves. Having people from Yozora skulking around the capital would only hinder Yagura from doing the 'right' thing and sending assassins." Rei told the exasperated Ao before teleporting home, leaving the poor guy glaring at an empty patch of land.

The second they arrived Mei instantly rushed off to talk with Yugito while Ringo got this overpowering urge to check on her forge. It certainly didn't have anything to do with the three very concentrated bursts of serious killing intents from Tsunade, Pakura, and Konan focused on the two girls who spent months with Rei.

Poor Rei gave the backs of his two runaway girls a slight glare. He couldn't simply run off to his office. Not with the peeved looks the three girls in front of him were throwing him. 'Damn, I knew telling them we are coming back was a bad idea!' Rei thought in regret.

Surprisingly enough, it was the ever-serious Pakura who angrily marched towards him, causing him to stand rooted in his place, deciding to take it like a man. She came close and stopped only a foot away from him, Rei already preparing himself for a verbal tirade when suddenly, Pakura's lips hungrily landed on his. Before he managed to shake off his shock, Pakura was already hanging on his body, her legs tightly locked behind him.

At first, he was bewildered, not expecting the most reserved of his girls to just jump him but then he decided to not think about it and started kissing her back, his hands snaking around her waist, downwards towards her butt, lifting her a bit more.

Seconds slowly ticked away as Rei and Pakura were immersed in their own little world. Finally, their lips separated and teary Pakura whispered, "I missed you. You could have at least visited more often." She lowered her blushing head, still possessively clinging to him. Unlike Konan and Tsunade, Pakura had her hands full with running his hidden village so many times he actually visited in the past month, she was too busy.

Smiling, Rei put his forehead on hers, making her even more flustered. "Sorry. I didn't have all that much free time either. Trying to implement any kind of intelligence into dealings with the Kirigakure clan heads was frankly torture."

Rei only briefly noticed that Tsunade and Konan made themselves scarce and with a content feeling in his chest, he started pecking Pakura's lips as he marched them towards the bedroom.

Little did he know that neither Tsunade nor Konan gave up and decided to give Pakura at most two hours of alone time. That night, Rei had to satisfy all three of them in what he would later describe as heavenly torture of pleasure.

Why was he so stupid to show them how to use chakra in bedroom?

...

The days started blending together as the girls took advantage of having Rei on hand. This was the first time he was away for so long. Sure, he stayed a week in the Land of Fire with Tsunade but a week was much more bearable than an entire month. As such, Rei had to deal with quite a lot of exasperating yet cute drama.

To his utter surprise, most of it came from Konan who didn't like the idea of being separated from him. Only now did it strike home that this was the very first time ever they separated for more than two weeks in their WHOLE life.

That made Rei feel extremely weird when he realized how dependent on each other he and his girls became. Not that the feeling was bad but it certainly cemented his resolve to proceed with his plans. He absolutely refused to have his family live in a world where murder is as common and natural as breathing. Not when the murderers had access to veritable superpowers. In the end, he made sure to follow the only way to attain personal peace for his family and himself.

Hearing a soft hum from above, Rei slightly opened his eyes and squinted at Konan who lovingly ran her fingers through his hair while leaning her back on the side of his sleeping fox, Blackie, who was already the size of an elephant.

Rei petulantly decided to stay lying in Konan's lap despite being awake. He smiled at her, "Hello Konan," He then looked at the small, pup-sized fox happily lounging on the top of Konan's head, messing up her hair, "Hi, Indigo, how long was I asleep?"

The small fox yipped while Konan rolled her eyes, "An hour. I must say, I didn't expect you to fall asleep. Tsunade must have been extremely demanding during the night." She playfully said in a knowing manner but instead of blushing Rei proudly beamed.

"Sure was!" Rei slightly turned his head to the right side where Tsunade was playing with her fox, Blondie. "You know how hard it is to keep up with somebody with Senjutsu." He added with a mischievous wink, knowing this was the only way to make Konan embarrassed. She absolutely resented that it was her who was every time sent to the dreamland through exhaustion when they had sex.

As for Rei... he loved it far too much. Especially since his girls started developing more and more Jutsu that could help them in that regard. Alas, a daily intake of Nature Energy still proved to be superior to whatever they cooked up, hence, Rei had loads of fun while his girls stayed determined to defeat his stamina.

Only Tsunade could keep up with him in the bedroom, no matter how barely... which usually ended with their bed destroyed no matter how many strengthening runes Rei drew on it. Fortunately for him, Tsunade was craving more of an emotional satisfaction rather than a sexual one so they usually stopped before the house could collapse.

"The foxes are growing quite fast." Noticing how flustered Konan became, Rei said to her in order to get her to think about something else than their sex life. "Indigo can already change her size at will." He praised, getting another proud yip from the fox on Konan's head.

"Yes, she is very similar to her mistress." Konan proclaimed winningly before her proud smirk faltered. "Though... that might be because I actually spend my time training her. Tsunade tries but Blondie always coaxes her to play rather than train while Pakura is stern but she is far too busy to give Emerald enough training. God knows that both Auburn and Crimson missed Mei and Ringo this past month. Even Blackie missed you despite his grumpy self refusing to show it."

A low grumble could be heard from the fox Konna was leaning on but it was promptly ignored by them, earning them an annoyed huff.

"Yeah... we will have to account for that the next time we have a mission like this. In the end, the foxes are our chakra made bijuu and deem our bodies to be their natural home. It can't feel good to be outside, much less far away from us, for them." Rei stated and immediately sensed Blackie relaxing a bit when he heard him.

Rei smiled. He knew Blackie was considerate when he didn't instantly demand being in Rei's vicinity like Auburn and Crimson did with Mei and Ringo. Blackie instead gave Rei space to first focus on his wives who felt a bit left out after their first month-long separation.

"If it were not for the nature chakra and the growth increase in your dimension, we would love having them inside of our bodies." Konan grumpily said and Rei understood.

It felt weird, seeing his chakra with sentience and outside of his body. Every second in Blackie's presence, Rei had this small almost unnoticeable urge to let him in and he had to prevent himself from doing so. It was an ever-unsatisfiable itch that just refused to go away.

"Just a few more years." Rei tried to sound reassuring. "Anyway... shall we check up on Mei? You know, to prevent her from finding a world-ending Jutsu and then teaching it to Auburn." He joked but was unable to muster a smile when the words left his lips.

After all... Mei already had one or two planet-ending Steam-based Jutsus that could feed on Nature energy after their initial casting. Whenever Mei was close to Auburn, she would get all these crazy ideas of new Jutsus for either Lava or Steam Release.

Hearing him, Konan stiffened. They left Mei and Auburn unattended for a whole hour!

"Now that you mention it..."