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Chapter 163: TIME SKIP 5 YEARS
3 MAY KONOHA YEAR 42
It had been five years since Itsuki was born and in that time Raiken had welcomed two more children into the family, both daughters. The first daughter was Uzumaki Raika, now three years old and the youngest was Uzumaki Amame, still small just under one year.
Raiken told himself he loved all three of his children equally and in most ways that was true. But if he was being completely honest with himself, he loves his daughters more than his son because the daughter are more cute and melt his heart whenever they acted cute.
The way Raika would run across the room the moment he walked through the door, with her arms outstretched and demanding to be picked up before he had even taken off his shoes.
Maybe it was the way Amame, still too young to talk properly, would simply reach for him with both hands and make small sounds of protest if anyone else tried to hold her first. There was something on those small action that softened him.
While Itsuki who had become big brother are a bit different, he is now five years old already and developing his father looks and maturity. Both Mikoto and Raiken had the physique similar to third Raikage, naturally Itsuki inherited both physique of his parents, slightly stronger body, red hair and Sharingan.
The other two daughter is more powerful than their brother because in the span of timeskip, Raiken had bought more kekkei genkai and even the power from one piece world such as Haki.
So among 3 children, Amame was the most powerful because she was born the latest. Currently not even otsutsuki can scared Raiken, he even hope they come early.
Itsuki had grown into a serious child, sharp eyed and observant in a way that reminded Mikoto strongly of her grandfather Hikaku, though he had inherited just enough of his father calm patience to balance it out.
He had already begun basic chakra control exercises, though he rarely smiled the way his sisters did and seemed far more comfortable watching others similar to Itachi.
That is why everytime Raiken saw Itsuki he had a feeling that Itsuki are actually Itachi, the similarity was when Itsuki caring for his sister.
The five years had not just changed Raiken family, it had reshaped the entire social structure of Konoha. There was a TV and even more modern technology appear.
Intermarriage between the Uzumaki and Uchiha clans had become common enough that it was no longer remarked upon the way it once had been. What started as a rare and politically significant union between Raiken and Mikoto had opened a door that dozens of families on both sides.
The Hyuga Clan had undergone its own transformation especially after they lost their clan name and become a normal civillian. Freed from the weight of the old Birdcage Seal and the rigid hierarchy that had once defined every relationship their clan, the previous branch members who had once been forbidden from marrying outside the clan began doing exactly that.
Several Hyuga had married civilians from outside clan, choosing partners based on love and genuine affection, something that had been an almost foreign concept inside the old Hyuga system. Chiharu herself had eventually married Tsugumi, the childhood friend she had once been forbidden from choosing and they had a son and daughter together.
The Senju Clan situation had gone in a direction nobody expected
After reclaiming their clan name, the elders who had pushed so hard for its return discovered that a name alone did not restore what they had actually been hoping for. Konoha had moved on without them in the years they spent as civilians and the wealth, influence and respect they remembered from before had not simply reappeared the moment the word Senju was reattached to their household registries.
If anything, some villagers openly mocked them for it, pointing out that they had spent years content being civilians and now suddenly wanted to become clan again. This did not help them especially after Hyuga Clan had removed their clan name too.
"Senju in name only," became a joke among civillian.
Dan Kato, without Danzo influence from behind the scenes and without the political pressure and war had grown into another person from original timeline.
His sister, who had died early in the previous story from manga and pushed him toward a darker and more desperate path, was alive and well in this one, living an ordinary life that gave Dan no reason to chase power or take dangerous shortcuts in his career. Without that grief shaping him, he had simply become another young man who occasionally tried his luck flirting with Tsunade, much like several others who had tried and failed before him, none of them leaving much of an impression.
Senju Nawaki had also survived in this timeline, growing up healthy and reaching eighteen years old without ever facing the death that had once devastated his sister and pushed her toward years of avoiding attachment entirely. Without that loss hanging over her, Tsunade had never spiraled the way she once had in the other version of events.
She remained sharp tongued, confident and entirely unimpressed by most of the men who tried to court her, though she would occasionally admit, only to herself and only in passing, that there had been a brief period where Raiken impressed her more than she expected. That admiration had remained exactly that because Raiken is the married man with a child.
Tsunade was not stupid and desperate to destroy other people marriage.
Nawaki, meanwhile, had grown close to Uzumaki Maruku over the years, the two of them spending enough time together within the wider Uzumaki circle that what started as friendship had slowly shifted into something neither of them bothered denying anymore.
Quiet talk of marriage had already begun circulating between the two families, Lady Mito are excited at the thought of his grandson marriage.
Thanks to System, the seal inside Lady Mito had become more secure and comfortable place for nine tails to live.
Without the need to suppress the chakra, Lady Mito become more healthy.
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