Chapter 326: Discomfit
Though all of his minds briefly blanked at Kushina’s closed-eyed, loudly shouted admission, Vahn’s expression remained a fracturing mask of calm as he stated, "It makes me happy that you feel that way, Kushina, but just us sitting here is crossing more than a few lines."
"Would it change your mind if you knew I had Minato’s blessing...?" asked Kushina, peering up at Vahn with her violet eyes shimmering with severity and expectation.
"That gives me many more questions..." noted Vahn, his brows furrowing with conflict. He didn’t think Kushina was lying to him, but he found it very difficult to believe Minato had permitted her to have an affair.
"Well, it’s the truth..." asserted Kushina, gazing forward and exhaling a melancholy-tinged sigh from her nose before revealing, "His position as Taiyo will only become increasingly demanding with time, and there have already been multiple Daimyo who have approached to pressure him into accepting wives from their respective clans. He doesn’t want me and our child to become entangled in all of that, and since I never had the option to play the field, he believes we will be safer and freer under the umbrella of the Dragon’s Pavilion...specifically under your protection..."
"That sounds like Minato..." muttered Vahn, the image of Minato’s smiling face appearing in his mind before being replaced by the cold, calculating gaze of a man embroiled in politics. Kushina and their child would almost certainly be targets for those who wanted to elevate their status or force him into a compromising position, so distancing them from him before his ever-increasing enemies knew of their existence was both pragmatic and a tragic expression of Minato’s love.
"Now I’m all depressed..." sighed Kushina, causing Vahn to tense as she rather abruptly rested her head against his shoulder, her eyes closed as she faintly muttered, "But I’ve also had a lot of time to think about what I want to do and what’s best for my child. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized he was right. From just about the moment I was born, I’ve always been bound and forced to obey others. If Minato hadn’t taken an interest in me, odds are I would have fallen into the hands of Danzo or been forced to bear children as weapons for the village or to empower the other Clans with Uzumaki genes..."
Not sure how to respond to Kushina’s utterances, Vahn remained silent, his hand shifting from her thigh to the hot spring’s warm water before he placed it on her pregnant belly, gently caressing it.
"Besides..." muttered Kushina, bringing her left hand across her body and tentatively grasping Vahn’s cock as she revealed, "We’ve seen our anime. If Minato and Kakashi hadn’t been invited to become Ascendees, he and I would have died protecting our child...our Naruto. We might have changed our fates ourselves, but you granted us the opportunity and supported us every step of the way..."
"It just doesn’t feel right that Minato’s reward for trying to make his world a better place is relinquishing the woman he loves and the product of that love..." sighed Vahn, his expression melancholic as he focused his gaze on Kushina’s hand, carefully caressing his cock.
"He will forfeit his title of Taiyo eventually..." muttered Kushina, her words tinged with a faint but growing undertone of heat as she contended, "And as Ascendees, we can live a hundred lifetimes. Once he’s done everything he wants to do in our world, there’s nothing to stop us from assuming new identities and rekindling our marriage. Ten thousand years is an awful long time..."
"It really is..." affirmed Vahn, his gaze lingering on Kushina’s hand as he moved his left from the floor behind her to her waist and the soft mound that was her left ass cheek. Since Minato and Kushina had put a hold on their marriage, a detail that was confirmed by Sis, he technically wouldn’t be making the man a cuckold by pursuing a relationship with the maroon-haired Kunoichi. And since he was on the record multiple times giving his own lovers permission to pursue other options, Vahn concluded there was nothing wrong with Kushina doing the same.
"Don’t let me slip..." muttered Kushina, causing Vahn to briefly feel uneasy as she leaned forward and awkwardly moved to position herself in front of him. He immediately supported her by her waist, and as a result, he soon found his cock being sandwiched between her warm, round, and absurdly soft ass cheeks as she stared back at him with her hands on his thighs for support, grinding against him.