As per Tsunade's choice, Yasaka took an ominous bottle of Greek ancient rum brewed by the gods, the legendary 'Ambrosia'.
"Try it~" Yasaka encouraged her. Once she opened the bottle, a toxic and mind-numbing flavour invaded the air around us.
'Holy shit...' Ray thought in disbelief, never having smelled anything close to it.
Even Tsunade, upon smelling it, cleared her throat and sent Ray a meaningful look that said something along the lines of 'I want to drink, but I am not sure'.
Yasaka walked up to the kitchen stalls, where there were some rather old cups. She rinsed and prepared them, serving each of them one cup.
Ray was going to give it a try when they all saw Haku take that thing like it was water and down it all in one go.
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"OH!~" The yokai moaned in bliss, her pale skin gained several tones of flush, and she shook in pleasure. It was as if she had eaten the most spicy dish ever; her mouth reddened, and her mind entered a state of euphoria. Far from drunk, still also far from sober.
"This is GOOD! As expected of the Olympians, they know their stuff~ another one!" She presented her cup to Yasaka, who giggled and served it again. However, Haku had learnt her lesson and sipped slowly this time.
Tsunade, still ruminating over their previous soured mood, decided she wanted to take everything in one go as well. Once the rum touched her eyes gasped, revealing the spinning rinnegan. Her countenance looked lost and empty as she tried to analyse every flavour contained within the rum, all while the ambrosia worked its way up her brain.
Her resistance was nowhere near Haku's, and with one drink alone, she started to feel lean.
"T-This is bad..."
"Are you crazy?" Haku asked her, thinking that was the best liquor she had ever tasted. Tsunade had to be crazy to call it bad.
"H-Hehehe, this is bad~" Tsunade said again, faltering and falling off, only to get caught by Ray.
"Tsunade...?"
The woman touched Ray's cheek lightly, as if to check whether this was a dream or not. She pressed her lips forward and kissed him, taking the Sun God by surprise.
"This is real... who would have thought...? The best sex, and now the best alcohol... You have blessed me so much, Ray," She stammered, trying to regain her balance while the rum wrecked up her brain and inhibitions.
'It is like everything I have drunk before this... is just water'.
"Hush, you..." He sighed and put her down. Tsunade grasped his wrist; she didn't want him to go
"Stay next to me".
She said it so cutely that he had no choice; he took his cup and gave it a try.
"Umm..."
The girls awaited his reaction, which ended up being just a 'not bad' as he kept sipping in slow sips. It was tasty, it was strong... but he didn't think it was that good for the girls to react the way they did.
"Master, you are so dull", Haku huffed.
"What do you want me to say? It is just good..."
"I expected it not to work on you, Ray. This is a beverage that triggers divinity. I have already shared it with Amaterasu-sama and Susanoo-sama not too long ago, after I destroyed Olympus".
Haku almost spat the ambrosia she was drinking, sending a disbelieving glare to Yasaka.
"After you what...?" Ray squinted his brows.
*cough!*
"I visited Olympus~" Yasaka giggled with exasperation.
"Is that so...?" Ray smirked, eliciting a nervous laugh from both Yokais.
"S-Should we play a game?~" Yasaka tried to change the topic, taking advantage of the fact that Tsunade had been enjoying her rum and wasn't paying attention.
"What game do you want to play?" Ray asked.
"It is simple, we spin the bottle~ do you all dare play?".
"What is this game? I have never played it," Tsunade hiccuped. She was interested.
"If the bottle spins and falls on you, you have to answer a question with the trust, or you can choose to down your cup to avoid answering the question, it is that simple, the game finishes when we wish to finish it or when none of us can continue" Yasaka explained the rules, putting one of the empty bottles of the weak mortal sake that Tsunade had drunk.
"Easy", Haku snickered, she lifted her now re-filled cup and declared: "I will answer all the questions and still drink the whole bottle, I have nothing to be ashamed about~".
"You crazy bitch..." Yasaka sighed, "I hope you don't regret that".
"What is there to regret?~ master already knows everything about me, I have nothing to fear".
"I will also say all the truths", Tsunade said, trying to compete with Haku. She also thought she had no secrets left to tell Ray. However, she was severely underestimating the real purpose of this game.
"Fufu, I guess I will have to say all my truths as well", Yasaka joined them.
The women looked at Ray, who was slowly sipping his rum, minding his own business as he came to enjoy it one sip at a time.
"I don't promise anything–"
"He's also saying all the truths", Haku demanded with a wicked grin.
"I don't! It is not a condition to play the game. Don't lump me up together with you all!".
"Master, we have already done every single embarrassing thing that can come to mind. What are some secrets?~" Haku mumbled.
"That's right, Ray... I don't think there is anything you can say that will make me fall out of love with you~" Yasaka giggled lovingly.
"Okay, okay... you win"
He accepted because he knew they were just going to keep nagging and even Tsunade's threatening eyes were telling him: 'If you have no secrets, why don't you accept?'.
He didn't know if it was because of the rinnegan, but that woman's eyes could literally talk.
They all took their positions on different ends of the table with their cups ready. Yasaka put the bottle in the middle with one of her tails and made it spin. Tension immediately broke loose. Tsunade in particular felt an ominous sensation in her stomach, as if she had made the wrong decision playing this.
The bottle span and fell on Tsunade first. The woman rolled her eyes, and all her fears seemed to materialise one by one.
"Let's all ask a question and then we decide whose question is better by voting, that's the one she will answer, do we agree?~" Yasaka said and they all agreed.
"Then I will start, popopo~ who was your first time with, Tsunade?" Haku went in hard, as expected.
Tsunade's countenance flustered up immediately. It was not the type of question she was expecting.
"Hasshaku-sama!" She hissed.
"What? this is a normal question in this type of game~".
"Among all the people you have met in this lifetime, who do you hold most close in your heart?" Yasaka followed with another banger.
Tsunade bit her lips and waited for Ray's question... she didn't think she had a problem answering those two, although they represented a bit of a moral dilemma to her... to choose between the three people she had loved the most in her life: Ray, Dan and Nawaki.
Nevertheless, she wasn't ready for the question that Ray asked with a nonchalant expression, as if he didn't care about the answer, even when he did.
"If Dan were to come back from the dead, and you could forget all our time together and be with him now... would you do it?".
The girls gasped, Tsunade even more so... she felt Ray's star-shaped pupils pierce her very soul for an answer. She couldn't detect jealousy, poison or even a test. It was just a genuine question.
She bit her lips and contorted in his grasp.
"You have to answer the truth", He reiterated, "You can't lie in this game, Tsunade".
"I know..." She said lightly, looking towards her cup, which she had audaciously said before she wouldn't take and would instead answer. As if he detected her desire to backtrack, he put his hand on top of her cup, preventing her from taking it.
Yasaka and Haku looked at Tsunade's uncomfortable expression, and also cleared their throats, not expecting Ray to ask such an edgy question that aimed to expose her heart bare. They began to feel apprehension about what questions they would be asked by him.
"S-Should we vote?".
Ray obviously voted for his own question and expected both his pets to follow. No, he sent piercing glares in their direction as if ORDERING THEM to vote for his question. Yasaka and Haku, nevertheless, evaded his gaze quietly voted for Yasaka's question.
"It is not good to put someone in a pinch like that, Ray. At least leave a way out~" Yasaka giggled nervously.
His unhappy expression spoke tales even when they received grateful looks from Tsunade. So unhappy in fact that he stood up, wanting to leave the table.
"Master, wait!–"
Tsunade took his hand within hers, "The person I have loved the most is Ray, there is no doubt about that..." Tsunade spoke resolutely while staring at his eyes; it was like the answer was for him even when he wasn't the one who asked it, "No one can even come close–".
"Then why won't you answer my question?" The disappointment in his voice felt like ten sharp kunai piercing her heart from different sides.
"You should understand what I feel, Ray... besides, what even is the point of that question? It is just fiction, it can't happen".
"I could make it happen".
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Tsunade gasped, but then her eyes towards him changed from apologetic ones into more annoyed and unnerved ones; her rinnegan was at the brink of explosion.
"I don't know what kind of response you are expecting from me, but you're not going to get it".
Ray smirked, "Should we continue with the game? If you can't play, then you should retire, Tsunade".
Sparks flashed between the two; the woman, rather than back off, pressed her body against him defiantly.
"I am not going to retire... and I hope you're looking forward to my questions too".
Haku and Yasaka gulped; the latter even felt her ears fall down, feeling a bit depressed. This wasn't the type of vibe they were expecting. Clearly, there were some unresolved troubles between the two.
Yasaka made the bottle spin once again.
'It is the first time master has had problems with a woman like this', Haku sent Yasaka mentally, 'Should we help?'.
'There is nothing we can do to help. Tsunade doesn't like Ray having a lot of lovers... Ray doesn't like that Dan is still in Tsunade's mind. It is a complex issue, dear' Yasaka rubbed her ears cutely.
'These two clearly love each other, aren't they being childish? Why can't they just fuck and be done with it?' Haku sent back, annoyed.
'Genuine love is childish...' Yasaka sighed, 'and how many times do I have to tell you? Not everyone is like you, Haku. Not everything can be resolved with sex. Love is sometimes about double standards and dilemmas, about being possessive and wanting the other person for yourself. We can tolerate it and accept it, but it doesn't mean she can'.
'Then why didn't she answer master's question? We even had to help her... I didn't want master to hear that answer' A bit of saltiness spiked up from her tongue; she had made Ray upset by protecting Tsunade, and she didn't like that.
'You misunderstood, just like Ray did. Her answer was not that she wanted to be back with Dan; it was the contrary. She didn't want to say it out loud: that she's glad Dan is dead and won't come back and take her away from this happiness... she didn't want to disrespect him and their memories together, that's why she didn't answer, and that is why I told master he shouldn't have cornered her like this... it is not fair' It was Yasaka's turn to harrumph as she too was not happy she made him upset trying to protect the Hokage.
'Master is a bit merciless~' Haku smirked inwardly.
They stared at Ray's vicious and possessive eyes that were still glaring at Tsunade with a bit of scorn and disappointment. There was a flame in there, past his facade of a good, benevolent lover that he usually showed. A masquerade only they pets knew that existed.
Yasaka couldn't help but lick her lips as the bottle continued to spin ever so slowly.
'The truth is that he is not the same as he used to be, and he hasn't realised yet. He no longer sees us just as his lovers; we are his belonging... He wanted to get that answer from her, the confirmation that Tsunade was completely his in mind, body and heart, but she's not ready for that, and that's because Tsunade is not happy with this arrangement; she doesn't like sharing'.
'All master has to do is use his cock to convince her, don't you think?~' Haku joked, thinking Yasaka would once again say that not everyone was like her... but as the bottle came to a stop, Yasaka had yet to respond.
She looked at the kitune whose eyes were glaring at her master, who, in part, had his focus placed completely on Tsunade and this newfound spark between them.
'Yasaka...?'
'That's right, Ray should just do what he has done to us... he should convince her with his cock, he has to stop holding back and mess her up~'.
Once the bottle stopped, it was pointing at Yasaka.
The Kitsune's tails wiggled in joy and excitement. She got the attention of everyone in the room who was looking forward to asking her a few embarrassing questions. Nevertheless, Yasaka took Ray's hand within hers with this toxic and infatuated expression.
"That same question that you asked her... do you want to know my answer?".
Because she had once been in the same circumstances as Tsunade, she had once been married to a man she loved dearly, someone with whom she had a daughter, someone whom she lost and felt her world was crumbling when that happened.
But much has changed since then; not even the shadow of that person remained in her heart; the memories and feelings had been completely drowned in pleasure and happiness to the point that anything that got in the way of that happiness was a direct threat that had to be eradicated.
Ray's eyes were glaring at her; she had his whole attention... she didn't even let him ask the question. Yasaka was infatuated and ready to answer.
"If Naruhiko were to come back... I would personally kill him and send him back, Ray".
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"Yasaka–".
"My answer is absolute, master" She called him master instead of Ray, asserting that before being his woman, she was his pet.
Yasaka enveloped him with her tails, fiercely yanking him away from Tsunade's side and into her embrace... in her eyes, there was more than just love, there was something primal and unique.
Ray also felt it from her. The ultimate devotion, the answer he wanted to hear from Tsunade.
Because he had already felt it once, how exhilarating and fulfilling it was.
To see Albedo sacrifice everything just for her love for him, to see her personally massacre Ains Ooal Gown, who had been her beloved master... just to assert her position in his heart.
Tsunade watched this aghast. She knew Yasaka's story, but she never imagined that the kitsune could go that far with her words, say the words she knew deep inside were true, but didn't dare say.
It was in the middle of this moment, when Ray's arms wrapped around Yasaka's frame, that the kitsune came to see the one she considered her only rival.
A silhouette materialised in the room just like the Sun descending from the skies in massive brilliance. She looked at Yasaka, who was hugging Ray and immediately sparks flew between the two.
The one who was the number one in her master's heart.
"You all seem to be having fun here. Mind if I join? I'd like to ask you some questions too, Yasaka".
"Same here, Elysir~".