Why did the Raikage end up being such a common workhorse in doujin stories?
Because at first glance, his whole vibe made people deeply uneasy.
The same was true for the Raikage brothers.
At least with the Fourth Raikage, once you knew more about him, it became clear that he was actually a proper man who kept his distance from women.
But Killer B was completely different.
The more you learned about him, the more obvious it became that he really was NOT a serious person!
After all, "rapper" and "raper" were only one damn letter apart!
Of course, Killer B wasn't depraved enough to actually be the latter.
But he really was lecherous!
Basically the Cloud Village's version of Jiraiya.
Even with sunglasses on, Killer B couldn't hide that same shady aura Jiraiya had.
So the more Kushina thought about it, the more convinced she became that her horrifying guess was right.
At the same time, she thought of another terrifying possibility.
Everyone knew that things in the Limited Tsukuyomi world had some kind of connection to reality—either similar or the exact opposite.
In that world, Menma once said, "You're no longer the demon fox but my waifu."
Kushina originally assumed the "opposite" referred to the real Nine-Tails being a stern, serious tailed beast that actively hated humans.
But now, from another angle, maybe the "opposite" referred to a totally different part.
'Maybe the shameless one wasn't the Nine-Tails—maybe it was Naruto!'
Otherwise, why the hell would Killer B's rap lyrics contain such indecent-sounding things?! Something about Naruto and... a lot of something flowing...
It was too much!
Kushina felt utterly miserable.
It was all her fault!
She died too early and failed to raise Naruto properly.
It was all Minato's fault too! He could have lived, but instead he insisted on dying with her, leaving Naruto without anyone to guide him properly.
It was the Third Hokage's fault! It was that damn Obito's fault!
It was Kakashi's fault for carelessly muttering things and leaking information!
Kushina was totally heartbroken.
Who would have thought that Naruto, after going to Kumogakure as a sort of exchange student to learn tailed beast control, would come back influenced in such a freakish way?!
...
While Kushina was suffering in pure grief on the rooftop, over at the hot spring inn, Naruto swaggered up to the front desk and slapped down his fat frog wallet.
After all, this was just a genjutsu.
Even if he spent all the money he saved, it wouldn't matter a bit.
'I've been doing missions my whole life. Can't I enjoy myself for once?'
"Huh? Sakura-chan, and... Choji and Shikamaru's teammate?"
While paying, Naruto noticed Sakura and Ino coming out from the lounge area and completely froze.
Hadn't Sakura gone off to find Orochimaru? When did she come back?
"Naruto? W-what the hell are you doing here?"
Sakura looked over after hearing her name, saw Naruto dressed in a literal one-piece dress, and her brain went blank.
Luckily, before coming here, Sakura just used a custom hormone formula on herself and was in a surprisingly good mood, so she didn't violently explode.
Ino, on the other hand, felt incredibly annoyed when Naruto called her "Choji and Shikamaru's teammate."
Did she not deserve to have her own name remembered?!
"Sakura-chan, why are you acting all girly?" Naruto scratched his head.
This really proved it was the genjutsu world!
Its waaaaaaaaay too damn fake!
In the real world, if Sakura saw him dressed like this—or using the Sexy Jutsu—she would have punched him into orbit immediately.
There was absolutely no way she would talk to him this calmly like she was now.
This was obviously just Sakura as Sasuke imagined her, which was why she was being so nice.
'Tch.'
And Sakura was supposed to be with Orochimaru right now.
So how could she be in Konoha with Ino? Way too fake indeed!
Still, fake or not, that didn't stop him from having fun with it!
At that thought, Naruto gave a highly sleazy grin.
"…Girly." Sakura's mouth violently twitched.
Her fist clenched, then loosened.
Since Naruto, of all people, actually said that, it meant the medicine's effect really was significant!
Fine.
She wouldn't punch his face in today.
'Just like I thought.' Naruto saw that Sakura stayed quiet, fists clenched, face red, and only seemed able to mutter a tiny complaint under her breath.
That was clearly not how the real Sakura would act!
"Naruto, showing up dressed like that... you're not planning to do something creepy, are you? You can't go copying Lord Jiraiya, you know!"
After regaining herself, Sakura looked Naruto over and spoke.
But her tone totally lacked force. She sounded strangely guilty!
There was a very specific reason for that.
From the Sound Village, Sakura not only obtained the estrogen mix she desperately wanted, but also picked up quite a bit of medical ninjutsu knowledge that was wildly different from Tsunade's.
The medical techniques under Tsunade were all formal and proper.
Orochimaru's approach, on the other hand, took a completely unhinged path—he cared only about results, not morality or ethics!
Among those techniques was a whole branch that could be broadly described as cosmetic medical ninjutsu.
There were multiple methods within it.
When Sakura first saw that material, she was deeply stunned.
She truly felt that science was wonderful!
According to Orochimaru's theory notes, the main purpose of that line of research was to study how changes in nutrition during biological development could heavily affect the body.
It fell under human-body and biological research.
After obtaining that taboo knowledge, Sakura returned to Konoha and immediately sought out her close friend Ino.
If Sakura wanted to improve her figure, it would require highly precise surgical work.
A medic couldn't safely operate on herself, and even with shadow clones it would be way too risky, so she handed the job entirely to Ino.
The problem was that Orochimaru's techniques were too precise and advanced.
This wasn't some crude method of stuffing something in and pretending it looked natural.
Orochimaru wanted actual, functional biological improvement!
That meant it was complicated.
The first thing needed was data and real-life reference knowledge. Orochimaru's research only cared about function, not appearance.
But Sakura cared about appearance very, very much!
You could even say she was willing to accept lower performance as long as the shape looked completely natural.
So she needed to help Ino gather data.
And so Sakura and Ino ended up doing something very similar to what Jiraiya once did.
Research.
The major difference was that Jiraiya gathered material for his smut novels, while Sakura and Ino were illegally gathering anatomical reference data for medical procedures.
That was exactly why the two of them were at the hot spring inn!
They came here on purpose to secretly observe people!
So when Sakura scolded Naruto, she naturally felt a little guilty herself.
And because of that guilt, her weak little scolding only made Naruto aggressively roll his eyes.
'Way too fake! Was this really Sakura?!'
"Sakura-chan, you should just give up on Sasuke. That guy likes men anyway! My embrace will always be open to you! Come on, Sakura-chan, I'll allow you to scrub my back."
Naruto smugly lifted his chin and tossed over the bath towel he just received from the front desk.
Whoosh.
The towel landed right over Sakura's head.
Sakura completely froze.
'Is this really Naruto?! Could someone else be disguised as him?!'