My New Life is Harder Than Expected(Naruto SI-Waifu Catalog) (Patreon)

Chapter 17

We arrived at the scene of Team Seven and the Sand siblings having a standoff while Konohamaru and his friends watched from the back. Further back I could also sense some sound ninja hidden in some trees spying on the confrontation.

“Is there a problem?” I asked suddenly appearing next to Konohamaru and his friends with Hikari at my side startling everyone.

“Akari! / Nii-san!?  / Akari-sensei!”

I ignored the tense look the sand siblings immediately took at our appearance and focused my attention on Konohamaru and his friends first having become acquainted with the kid when the old man would bring me over to his home on the rare occasion.

“What are you doing here?”

“Hey Konohamaru, you doing alright?” I asked ignoring the rude question by Naruto with the poor kid not knowing that he had already earned Hikari’s animosity going by the harsh glare she was currently sending the oblivious boy.

“Hey! Don’t ignore me!” The blonde yelled indignantly scowling even further as he was ignored by everyone.

“Nii-san! That jerk with the make-up bullied me! Beat him up!” Konohamaru said now with a smug expression as he pointed at Kankuro who along with his sister had paled at hearing that. Gaara on the other hand was strangely quiet while staring at me with a scary intensity.

“You’re in for it now, you clown! My Nii-san is super strong, maybe even stronger than grandpa. Let’s see you bully me now!”

Looking at the nervous looking Kankuro I saw him flinch when my gaze was directed at him almost making me snort in amusement. The asshole was all good at bullying a little kid but when confronted with someone clearly stronger than him, he cowers in fear behind his siblings.

“Now now Konohamaru, don’t be rude to our guests.” I said gently chopping the kid in the head getting him to pout childishly and look to the side.

“Move along now dear guests, I’m sure we can all put whatever altercation that happened behind us, right?” I asked with a raised eyebrow getting Kankuro and Temari to rapidly nod their heads in agreement.

“O-of course. Please excuse us! We’ll be going now.” Temari said in a rapid tone while backing away nervously with Kankuro right behind her.

“By the way…” I suddenly said making Temari and Kankuro freeze in place with nervous sweat rolling down their heads.

“Would you please reign in your bloodlust? You’re making the kids nervous.” I said looking directly at Gaara who was unleashing an impressive amount of bloodlust that would have already affected Sakura, Naruto and the kids if I had not stepped in front of them taking the brunt of it.

“You…,” Gaara finally opened his mouth directing a glare at me. “What is your name?”

Raising an eyebrow at the question I couldn’t help but to let out a chuckle at his demand already guessing what he meant by that causing his bloodlust to spike in response.

“Sorry but if you think I’m participating in the exams then you’re wrong. If the word ‘Sensei’ didn’t clue you in then let me spell it out to you. I’m already a Jonin, there’s no reason at all for me to get in the ring with a bunch of weaklings.” I finished with a mocking smile.

“S-shit…” Came the whispered voice of Kankuro as he looked at Gaara with clear terror in his eyes as if expecting him to snap at any moment.

In response to my provocation the cap to Gaara’s gourd came undone as sand slowly came out making everybody that was watching tense up.

“Mother demands your blood.” Gaara said with a psychotic smile slowly growing on his face before he suddenly froze in place as he heard a voice behind him with the teen, he was threatening disappearing a second later as if he was never there.

“Easy there, kid.” I said calmly from behind the teen with my index finger slightly touching the side of his neck ready to pierce it if he made any sudden moves.

“G-Gaara!” Temari and Kankuro said in alarm with their hands immediately going towards their respective weapons.

“Don’t move!” Came another voice from behind them as a kunai pressed into their back.

I didn’t even need to look back to know that it was Hikari, knowing she would have my back even if I didn’t need it.

“Now,” I began again bringing everyone’s attention to myself. “I’m only going to say this one more time. Back off and be on your way.” I said with an empty smile on my face.

“Otherwise, I’m going to stop treating you like guests and assume that you’re hostile and take proper actions against you.” I finished unleashing a bit of my aura at the teens, this time making all three of them pale in fear.

“M-m-monster…” Kankuro whispered out unconsciously going by the way he immediately covered his mouth in shock after realizing what he did.

“It’s alright Hikari. This is not the first time I’ve been called that.” I said with a laugh as I took a step away from Gaara lowering my hand while the other was holding Hikari’s wrist stopping her from killing Kankuro by stabbing him in the lungs.

“W-what the hell!?” Kankuro exclaimed as he jumped back along with his siblings with sweat running down his face at realizing how close he was to losing his life.

“Hmph! He deserved it.” Hikari said not looking bothered at all and looking away to the side with a pout on her face after I released her wrist.

“L-Lets go guys!” Temari suddenly exclaimed in a hurry and in a bold move grabbed both of her brothers’ hands and pulled them behind her. “Thank you for sparing us.” She said in a hurry with a small bow of her head before dragging her brothers away.

“Cowards. As soon as they realized they were outmatched, they run with their tails between their legs.” Hikari whispered while glaring at the retreating trio. “Let’s see them run when it starts.” She finished with a dark tone referring to the incoming war.

“Indeed.” I quietly agreed before finally turning towards our audience with a smile on my face now that we were finally alone with the ninja from Sound also having left after my little display.

“Sorry about that, guys. I didn’t think the situation would escalate to the extent that it did.” I apologized giving them all a reassuring smile.

“You don’t have anything to apologize for Akari-sensei.” Sakura was quick to say with an embarrassed smile on her face waving my apology away. “We are actually grateful that you made it in time before things devolved into a fight. Right Naruto?” Sakura said turning to Naruto and before he could say anything, punching him in the head and forcing him to bow his head in thanks.

I only shook my head in amusement at their antics while discreetly noticing that Sakura’s breasts were now much bigger than the last time, I had seen her. Of course, that had been due to my interference while we were in Wave and I had to say that she was looking pretty good.

“That was so cool Nii-san!” Konohamaru yelled in amazement while looking at me in awe with Moegi and Udon nodding in agreement. “See Boss! I told you that Nii-san was the coolest~”

“Hmph! I’m way cooler than that guy. Dattebayo!” Naruto yelled back with an embarrassed blush on his face.

“Akari. What Exams were you talking about?” Sasuke suddenly asked as he jumped down from the tree, he was on with a frown on his face.

Ever since our talk back in Wave, Sasuke had mellowed out a lot and no longer looked at me with anger or resentment in his eyes. Though that’s not to say that we were now friends or anything as Sasuke still couldn’t help but look at me with some jealousy even if it was nowhere near as much as before.

“Oh that, sorry but you’re going to have to wait for Kakashi to tell you.” I said turning to the teen and giving him a nod in greeting that was subtly returned.

“Tsk, what a pain.” Sasuke said clicking his tongue in annoyance knowing that when it came to Kakashi it was up to anyone’s guess as to when he would get around to telling them such info. “Does your team already know?”

“Of course.” I said with a nod only getting Sasuke to look more annoyed so I decided to throw them a bone.

“Haha, don’t worry. Due to the importance of the situation Kakashi will be forced to reveal it by the end of the day at the latest if he doesn’t want to get in trouble with the old man.” I said with a reassuring smile causing the three members of Team 7 to sigh in relief.

“Hey Nii-san. Who is the girl behind you? Is she another one of your girlfriends?” Konohamaru suddenly asked with a teasing smile on his face.

“W-wha!” Taken by surprise Hikari couldn’t help but blush a pretty shade of red and look off to the side while looking at me from the corner of her eyes.

“Hmm that’s right I never did introduce her huh? Sorry about that.” I apologized ignoring the girlfriend comment for now and throwing a hand around Hikari’s shoulders, pulling her to my side and making her let out a cute squeak with her blush increasing in size.

“This here is Hikari. A good friend of mine I met a couple of months back. Say hello Hikari.” I introduced her cheerily to everyone only getting raised eyebrows from the boys and a jealous glare directed at Hikari from Sakura.

Put on the spot Hikari had no choice but look at everyone for the briefest of moments, offering them a slight nod of her head and then turning her head away again.

“Hahaha as you can see, she’s not very talkative but don’t let that fool you as she’s secretly a sweetheart.” I said looking down at Hikari with a teasing smile on my face but being truthful nonetheless.

“A-Akari!” Hikari exclaimed in embarrassment as she cutely buried her head in my side in an attempt to hide her red face from the others only proving my point.

Of course, what the others didn’t know is that she only showed that side of hers around me and nobody else.

“You have great taste as always Nii-san!” Konohamaru said with a slight lewd look on his face immediately receiving a smack to the back of his head by Moegi for his troubles.

When the introductions finally concluded we bade our farewells and went on our own way again.

“Is everything still happening as you remember?” Hikari suddenly asked quietly as we made our way through the busy streets of Konoha.

“Yes, my informant relayed that Suna was readying half of their forces for something big.” I whispered back in return feeling like patting myself in the back for my decision those years back to Stamp a certain someone.

I’m talking of course about Pakura. My prediction had come true and two months back I had been forced to come to her rescue when I noticed her being surrounded on all sides by enemies with Satou’s HUD skill. Arriving at her location I had found her surrounded by Iwa Shinobi and after taking care of them I found out that just like in the anime she had been set up by her own village.

Having nowhere else to go she had joined me when I offered her the choice and had been living in our Sweet Home since then until about a month ago when she volunteered to spy against her former village when I had informed her about the incoming conflict. When I asked if she was okay betraying her former village she had shrugged and had only said that they betrayed her first before leaving for Suna.

“Haah, I hate this world. I look forward to the day when we can finally leave for good.” Hikari said with a sigh as she leaned against my shoulder.

“You and me both.” I whispered in return bringing my arm around her shoulders and bringing her closer for a proper embrace.

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(A Few Days Later)

“Alright girls this is where we part ways. I’ll see you after the first part is over.” I said with a smile directed at my 3 students.

Said students only blushed and puffed up their chests in pride with a beautiful smile on their face at the silent meaning behind my words. That I had absolute confidence in them passing the first exam.

“Thanks, Akari~ We won’t let you down. Right girls?” Hanabi exclaimed with a confident tone in her voice.

“Yeah!”

“I’m sure you won’t.” I agreed feeling a bit of pride myself knowing how far the girls had come since I first began training them.

Speaking of things growing, I noticed that Hanabi and Hinata were no longer flat at all having finally regained their true breast sizes from what I remembered.

‘No, in fact they’re probably even bigger than their canon counterparts from what I recall. About a cup size bigger I think.’ I thought discreetly eyeing them for a moment before shaking those thoughts away.

I stood back at the entrance to the Academy and watched them go before they disappeared from sight and teleporting away a second later to the Jonin lounge.

“AHHHH! Damn it Akari ‘smack’! You almost gave me a heart attack you asshole!”

Was the response I received upon arriving at my destination by a woman with spiky purple hair done up in a short ponytail and brown pupil-less eyes.

“Nice to see you too Anko.” I said in return while pretending to rub my side where she had punched me in retaliation for startling her.

“Hello Akari-kun. How has your day been going?” Came another female voice from the side sounding much more pleasant to my ears than Anko’s boisterous one.

“Going good so far thanks for asking Kurenai. And yours?” I greeted in return finding an empty seat and sitting down before turning to Kurenai who was giving me a smile.

“Better now that you’re here.” Kurenai said with a teasing smile on her face knowing what was coming next.

“Geez get a room will ya?” Anko said immediately jumping in the conversation with an annoyed tone on her voice taking the seat beside me.

It had become a bit of a running joke between me and Kurenai where we would flirt with each other when we were in the presence of Anko as it never failed to annoy her. I had been able to become friends with the two in the past few years managing to stamp them in that time.

Since I still didn’t know what to do about the two women, I had lowered their attraction to me to zero with the use of Toggle for now. In spite of that however they were still considered bound and they developed crushes in me naturally that I was now able to confirm with the use of Kurama’s emotion sensing ability.

While Kurenai only had a slight crush on me from what I could sense, Anko was crushing on me hard and would get jealous when she saw me with any other girl. Noticing that, Kurenai would flirt with me at every opportunity to tease her and I would join in as seeing Anko in this manner was very amusing.

To be honest other than wanting to fuck Kurenai a few times, I was not really that attracted to her. Kurenai while hot and exotic looking brought literally nothing to the team in terms of unique abilities with Izumi, Hikari and myself already far surpassing her in the art of Genjutsu. Anko actually had unique skills with her snake summons and tracking abilities along with having a good grasp of ninjutsu.

If I was being honest with myself though, I wanted to prevent the atrocity that Kishimoto had done to her by turning her fucking fat in the future and in the disaster that was Boruto. I had never been able to forgive him for turning such a sexy piece of ass into a fat pig.

Ahem, my grievances aside, I just liked Anko much more than Kurenai.

“Hmhmhm anyways here Anko.” I said handing the woman a bag making her grin in excitement. “I made some extra dango this morning.”

“Huhuhu you sure know how to treat a girl Akari~” Anko said impatiently opening the bag while wiping a little drool from the corner of her lips. “If you ever decide to retire early you can always open up your own restaurant. You’re looking at your future number one customer right here.”

“I agree. You have a real talent for cooking Akari-kun.” Kurenai said in agreement looking at me expectantly making me sigh and hand her another bag causing her to smile in a pleased manner.

“How are your brats coming along?” Anko asked with her mouth still full.

“Pretty good.” I said with a shrug before relaxing in my seat.

“You’re the proctor for the second exam this year, right?” Came the voice of Kakashi as he joined our conversation pulling out his porn book making Kurenai and Anko narrow their eyes in annoyance.

“Yep. With my bloodline I can cover the whole forest in case anything goes wrong.” I said with a nod of my head.

“Tsk, I can’t believe I’ll have to work under someone younger than me.” Anko said with a click of her tongue but curiously enough not sounding upset at all.

“Well before they worry about dealing with your test, they have to get through that sadist first. I heard that Ibiki Morino was the proctor for the first exam this year.” Kakashi said in a bored manner while looking up in thought.

“Ibiki’s not that bad.” Anko said offhandedly.

I mostly ignored the rest of the conversation as I thought about the second exam. More specifically, whether or not Orochimaru would show his face and who his target this time around would be.

‘Are you still after me or did you decide to go for the easier target like the coward you truly are?’