As Shiki laid in bed, Tsunade curled up beside him, using his arm as a pillow, he started thinking about his next course of action.
'I should be going to the Ryuchi cave next but even though my body and mind can take all the stress, the girls have been complaining I don't get enough rest to enjoy what I already have.'
'I mean . . . They do have a point but I just feel itchy when I'm not doing something . . .'
'Hmm . . . After the matter of Ryuchi cave and all adjustments required afterwards, I'll take a nice break. Maybe a good little vacation with the girls, cross a few lines and finally go all the way . . . Yep that seems great!'
"What are you thinking about?" Tsunade suddenly asked from the side, having woken up.
"More work I guess." She said.
"Am I really that much of a workaholic?" Shiki asked in turn.
Tsunade just looked at him as if he was a fool, with a face that was just saying . . .
'Do you even need to ask that!?'
Seeing that face, Shiki told her his plans to take a vacation after his next big job, an idea that greatly approved and declared with complete confidence, the rest of the girls would approve of as well.
Later that day, as he was preparing his little expedition to Ryuchi cave, Shiki considered that he needed to strengthen in hold on his various territories in a different way.
Right now, most of the heavy lifting was done by soul clones which through their direct connection to Shiki and each other could maintain a high degree of efficiency and effectiveness even when plans were changed.
The problem was that soul clones required Pure Souls to make, Pure Souls that Shiki wanted to conserve. So ultimately, he made an important decision.
While soul clones were invaluable in regions where his hold had yet to become stable, in other regions where his influence was not threatened, it was fine to attribute them to a capable and loyal subordinate but before this could be done, there were a few preparation to take care of.
First, more members needed to be recruited into the inner circle. Most of its original members stayed most of their time on base and only left for missions.
Shiki had started to fix this a while ago though. Zabuza was on a long term mission in his homeland, the Land of Water to expand Mugetsu's influence there. Haku oftentimes lent her assistance to that cause as well.
Isaribi was also mainly based on her home country, the Land of the Sea but also took care of threat on other coastal territories under Mugetsu's influence and helped deal with pirates. Many of these captured sea raiders actually ended up as test subjects in Shiki's facilities.
Koyuki and the Yukigakure sisters were based mainly in their homeground as well. Koyuki had even begun receiving training and even underwent the full strengthening procedure reserved for the core members.
Right now though, Shiki was looking for more members to recruit that he could train to hold territory for him, even if not now, in the future, so that at that time, he can safely reassign the soul clones to other critical tasks.
First on the menu was the background leader of Konoha, the darkness to Tsunade's light. Both Shiki and Tsunade already had someone in mind.
Uzuki Yugao, she had know Shiki since his very early days hand they still had a close relationship, she said she would come to him for the duel with her hand in marriage as a stake.
It was just a casual promise made when shiki was just a child but it was getting quite serious for the Kunoichi right now, specially since despite getting older, Shiki had not let go of it.
Once she came to fulfill the promise of the duel, Shiki was planning on giving her the position after he had won.
Shifting his attention to another country, there was the Land of Waves. It became quite prosperous once the bridge was built but specially since Shiki took over Gato's shipping business empire.
Mugetsu hold on maritime trade was quite strong and bringing in massive amounts of profit. There was a soul clone in charge of it all but it had a competent assistant who Shiki thought was ready and loyal enough to take on the responsibility.
All he had to do, was officially induct her into Mugetsu and offer her the position. As for who this assistant was. It was Tsunami, the daughter of Tazuna.
She had shown tremendous business sense and had provided valuable help. Her motivation to make her home country a better place and provide a better life for a her father and son surely helped.
Over time, as his assistant, Tsunami had many interaction with Shiki in his older form sho she still had no idea it was the exact same person that saved her father. She just thought they were related.
Tsunami, had begun to develop feeling for her boss that treated her so nicely, flirted with her every change he got, and gave her this opportunity to grasp a level of success she had never even dreamed of.
Soon, this developed into a sort of open secret type of relationship between the two and they had become lovers. She knew she was not the only one but had never met her "sisters" but this was about to change.
It was all a big shock to the former village woman but she was happy beyond measure. Rather than seeing this as an opportunity to move forward in life, she saw it more as her relationship with Shiki evolving into the next step making her officially his woman.
Shiki had given her a slight amount of training since he didn't want her to be defenceless and after she received the enhancement procedure, she would be sure to receive some harsher instruction.
With Tsunade's great managing skills, Tsunami was smoothly introduced into the harem.
"So Nami!" Shiki called Tsunami affectionately by her nickname.
"What do you think?" He asked her.
She turned to him with a bright smile and pulled him in for a hot deep kiss.
"How was that for an answer~?" She teasingly asked.
"Oh my naughty secretary~" Shiki replied.
"Well, you're always saying that the secretary does the work while the boss does the secretary no? Just know that I'm still waiting for my boss to fulfill his end~. . ." She suggestively said.
But before Shiki could answer she went back to her "sisters" to have their girl talk.
'Temptation everywhere!" Shiki thought. 'I'll definitely rid myself of this virginity in my vacation! With my limitless stamina I'll spend it all bangin' away!" He thought to himself.
Seeing all of his girls together just gave Shiki and immense amount of satisfaction that he couldn't even describe. Safe to say, his male vanity was fully satisfied, or was it?
As a man of culture with boundless desires, Shiki, flirty ways made his harem ever expanding and even now, there targets that were slowly being converted to the Shiki cult.
His next two, were in Suna. While his relationship with Temari was progressing nicely, Shiki found that jealousy seemed to be a great motivator in her particular case so he decided to focus on somebody else first.
Someone he was interested in, not just for her great beauty, but also for her skills as a kunoichi, namely, her genius application of Water Style in medical ninjutsu and even its uses in combat.
In fact, Shiki had even taken some inspiration from her Water Style jutsu to develop some of his originals which was an even higher amount of praise.
Ameno was her name, Shiki had already met her during his initial visit to Sunagakure. He got closer to her by doing work in the medical corps of Suna, thus showing his incredible skill as a medical-nin he could proudly saw was nearly equal to Tsunade's at this point.
Though now that she had access to test subjects and was swimming in research instead of hateful Hokage paperwork, that might soon change with her increasing the difference between them a bit.
To the medical-nin of Suna however, Shiki was nothing short of a medical god with skill they had never seen. Thus, his popularity in the medical corps rose to unprecedented heights. Even the common shinobi returning injured from mission were starting to appreciate him for all his work.
Naturally, this meant that Ameno now attached far greater importance to Shiki and his words. This in turn meant that the flirts he sent her way were that much more effective.
After all, Ameno couldn't just see him as a guy who is good at nothing but flirting around. Right now, she saw Shiki has a very capable individual who was very skilled in the same area as herself and showing interest in her personally too.
Due to all of this, Shiki had even managed to invite her on some dates and they were very close to walking that final step and becoming lovers even if they were not quite there yet.
It was during one of this dates though, the Shiki noticed a presence he recognised. He had sensed it before but now the intentions of this individual were becoming clear to him.
This would be the first Suna native to join his Mugetsu!
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