Jiraiya's Second Chance

Aikiko's Secret

Akiko didn't go much around the village.  Jiraiya is always out and refuse to do anything with her except when he has manly needs to be met and then he use his husband card.  But she doesn't take that too hard against him.  After all, they never agreed on love.  She only asked for kindness and protection. 

Jiraiya always left her some allowance and made sure she has food to eat then he will be gone days on end.  Protection, well she is in Konoha, apparently one of the strongest ninja villages.  And she did notice a strange mask man always monitoring her movement when Jiraiya is away.  At first his presence frightened her, but when one time she almost fall down some steps of stair, the mask man saved her and took her to her doorstep.  He didn't say anything but just took a bow and went away.  Guess, Jiraiya is an important person in the village to even have a body guard for his wife when he is away, Aikiko thought.

Aikiko, though she deny it even to herself was hoping for something better than this. She didn't want luxury not even love. All she hoped was to find a quiet home, away from the mocking stares, from people talking behind her back.  Away from people who want her... her body to be used not just for lustful pleasure but something more sinister than that.  And she wanted a companion, a friend.  She thought that the loud funny old man can be that to her, but she know now she judged wrong.

Unknown to everyone in this village, Aikiko has a secret, she has a kekkei genkai, not only can she wield ice, and heal inhumanly fast that no normal weapon can hurt her fatally, the most desired part of her kekkei genkai is that her chakra is so potent that specially during intimate act, the partner's body will heal and will even regain their youth.  This is the reason why their clan was hunted down.  Men were typically killed outright.   But women, they were captured, kept as sex slave and used to revitalize men greedy for power and long life.  Typically these women, even as little girls will be used this way until they die from extreme chakra exhaustion and broken hearts.

She heard stories from her mom that long time ago they were a proud clan, always at the prime of their strength, unharmed by normal weapons.   But because of this seeming invincibility, their clan never trained to be warriors.  So when their secret was discovered, their village was destroyed, their men massacred and their women used as sex slaves.

Her parents were lucky enough to escape that attacked that destroyed their clan.  They quietly lived in a nearby village never revealing who they truly are.  She can still remember that tragic night though when their little house was discovered.  Her father tried to protect them by creating ice walls but he was easily subdued. Her mother tried to protect her but a chakra infused kunai came flying her way, and her mother shielded her and lost her life.

She was captured but because she was very young, she was treated as a servant or slave the first few years.  Then when she reached puberty, the touching and the usage began.  The master who captured her was greedy so she was not used by any of his men. Those were days of war and one day a group of assassins came and disposed of her master.  She was already 20 then and had acted both a slave and a courtesan for her master.  In the midst of the chaos, she ran and escaped for her life. 

And that's when she started her life in one of the taverns.  She was able to steal some gold and jewels from her master before escaping.  She then used this money to open a little bar in a far flung village.  She opened her bar and even allowed the ladies of the night to do their hosting in her tavern for a little cut.  She hid her powers except for occasional times where she used her ice shield to protect the village from petty criminals.  Nobody knew she was doing it and she never told anyone in case it will draw attention.  Through the years she learned a few tricks, ice wall, ice pikes and ice pellets.  Ice walls for defence, ice pikes as traps and ice pellets if she need to do an attacked.  She tried to avoid the latter because she cannot control the peripheral of the attached that she would accidentally hurt people she never intend to hurt.  It happened during her childhood; sometimes she thinks if that is the reason her small family was found out.  When on one night in the spur of the moment she tried to protect herself and some other kids from some raiding nins. But the circumference of the ice pellets hurt even the children behind her back.  It became known to the village and instead of thanking her for saving their children's lives, she was shun as a freak and as a monster.

It was so long time ago and she didn't want to remember it anymore.

But the stares and whisper are back.  If only Jiraiya didn't slip and make that coarse joke. Now many people in the village point and stare.  And as hard as she try not to overhear, she heard the words woman, whore, using, stranger... and nobody seemed to care to approach or get to know her.

So she would quietly go through the markets and do her errands and walk back home.  Sometimes she feel like jumping over the cliff and ending it all, after all she thought marrying the old man was a ticket for her to have a "normal life", but apparently the old man is living anything but a normal life.

However after the incident with the mask ninja saving her, she realized she doesn't want to be a bother.  If she does some silly antics, the masked ninja will have to do more work.  So she just toughens up and goes through her day.  Sometimes she would even waive to the mask ninja and even without the mask off, she gets a little laugh from the surprise reaction of the ninja.  It's funny how she can tell although he is well hidden in the trees or rocks.   The thing is her ice can be as small as wind or water dew.  Usually as a protection, she will release this small wind or dew to know in advance if there is someone in the close perimeter. This usually would alert her to danger so she has enough time to hide or escape.