"Ah, finally peace and quiet!" Rei exclaimed while enjoying the water in his indoor pool in the mansion in his dimension. He really couldn't stop praising himself for installing one of the Spring Generators in his dimension, enabling him to change the weather at will. Thanks to that, he could have anything from white-covered snowy fields to tropical heats.

"It's not as if you did anything substantial. As far as I know, it was Ringo who did the heavy lifting." Pakura who sat in his lap, leaning her back on his chest, suddenly spoke. ​​

"Oi... now that's just unfair." Rei dismissively drawled, not bothering to put any strength behind his words. "I negotiated and set up the entire thing. That counts, ya know?"

"I guess I can give you some brownie points for kidnapping the Fourth Mizukage." Pakura noncommittally hummed, snuggling more into Rei. "But... indeed. Finally peace and quiet." She sighed in content. "I was really happy when you gave me the responsibility to oversee our hidden village while you were away." Pakura continued, her eyes half-lidded, "You didn't choose Konan. No... you gave this responsibility to me. It really made my heart flutter." Pakura grimaced, "At least, it did before I realized just how much workload overseeing a village in the height of its development boom without shadow clones means. God, it was hell on earth." Pakura shuddered, causing Rei to snicker at her.

"That said," Rei started while gently stroking her hair, "you developed the Village on The Other Side incredibly well in the past few months. Setting up small Spring Generators in the training grounds so the ninjas can set their own training environment, hashing out the finishing touches upon the organization of our ninja ranks, creating fake misleading alliance documents with the Uzushio in case some busy-body decided to check what exactly is going on between them and us, and my personal favorite... your initiative to set up secret forward bases in countries that don't have ninja villages. You saved me a lot of time, Pakura." Rei said and affectionately kissed the side of her neck in a show of appreciation.

"Yeah." Pakura agreed, "I couldn't really leave that project idle. Honestly, that idea of yours to set up booths where locals can issue missions and our troops can respond via teleportation seals... it was golden, it just needed some very precise but strict woman touch to improve all the imperfection. By my estimations, the project should be finished in a few months at the latest and we will have a forward base with teleportation-anchoring seals in most countries."

"I see, but... Woman touch, eh?" Rei amusedly stated, making Pakura giggle as she lifted herself from his lap and turned around, straddling him while leaning into his chest and letting him feel her soft breasts.

"Yes. I would be delighted to show you what I mean." Pakura replied before her lips softly landed on Rei's, giving him no time to gather his wits as her tongue started asking for entry. He did the only thing possible in that situation and his hands quickly found their way to her bottom, from time to time eliciting soft moans from the woman.

Pakura and Rei made out for a few minutes, enjoying the presence of the other before they finally separated and Pakura laid her head onto Rei's shoulder, contently sighing. Rei simply let Pakura take the lead, knowing she was not one for being overly passionate or hasty. They had the entire day off so there was no need to rush anywhere.

"How is our new resident jinchuuriki settling in?" Rei asked, starting to caress Pakura's back while from time to time stimulating her nerves by sending a flicker of his chakra into it through his fingertips.

Squirming, Pakura whinily breathed out before answering, "He is, ah, go-od." Biting her lower lip, Pakura's hands quickly found themselves around Rei's neck as she started using her wind chakra to produce an effect of a soft, exciting caress all over Rei's body that was above the water surface.

Feeling it, Rei smirked before leaning closer towards Pakura's head on his shoulder and kissed her hair before quietly but smugly chortling into her ear, letting her know he acknowledged her attempt but it was still nothing extraordinary.

Pakura hummed, trying to sound irritated but through the electricizing flickers of Rei's chakra through her back, she really didn't manage it. Then again, she had to admit her control of Wind chakra was not yet good enough. It certainly didn't compare to what Konan could do with hers so Pakura gave up in trying to compare herself with Konan and focused on making her touch as enjoyable for Rei as she possibly could. Plus Rei had an unfair advantage since he could use his Lightning Chakra even underwater without problems while controlling her Wind Chakra was a bit tricky underwater. Yup... there was no need to compete, she grudgingly told herself.

Pouting, Pakura continued speaking about their latest free-loader, "Yagura for some reason made quick friends with Yugito. I guess it is some kind of jinchuuriki compassion or whatever." She let out in one breath before a gasp tore out of her throat when Rei reached her weak spot on her back. "La-last I heard, Yugito refused to help me with, aah, some easy and unimportant paperwork because she was helping him with s-some reforms." She shuddered.

Rei simply smiled at the working ethics of his newest sla-, ahem, worker. The guy was quite good too! Happily doing his job for him and not even knowing it.

Pakura pulled her body a bit away from Rei, looking him straight in the eyes with a small smile decorating her lips, "Enough about work. There are more... enjoyable pursuits we could do during our holiday." She purred, putting her forehead on Rei's. "After all, we do have a few days of vacation in front of us. We wouldn't want to waste them, now, would we?"

'Few days without any research or work does indeed sound nice.' Rei's eyes sparkled as he lightly kissed Pakura, starting an exchange of quick pecks between them as they both got more and more into the mood.

Rei embraced Pakura's body tighter to himself, indulgently smiling at her while his naughty hands reached towards...

The door to the indoor pool suddenly burst open and the disheveled Maki gasping for air spotted Pakura straddling Rei as they sat in the pool, both giving her a bit bewildered but also irritated looks. Not knowing if she should blush due to the situation she found her sensei in or go completely pale because of the looks her sensei is giving her, Maki decided to pretend she didn't see anything and straightened up.

"I-It's an emergency! Anko Mitarashi just reported Uchiha Itachi and ROOT starting to act strange. The Uchiha Massacre is coming!"

Rei and Pakura stared at Maki, both capable of thinking of only one thing. 'For fucks sake, the Kirigakure war just ended and now another bothersome situation sprang up!?'

Their vacation was apparently cut short.