Journey of Desires

- Time exhaustion barrier?

Hearing such a name, Naruko decided to satisfy her curiosity, which is what she actually did by asking this question. And she heard the answer from Kiliya's lips.

- Yes, this is exactly the spell that we defeated the demon king with.

- He seems incredibly strong, right?

- Yes.

- Cool... But how will the barrier that was needed to defeat a super strong enemy help in the current situation?

- The essence of the barrier is that a certain piece of space changes places with another dimension in which time goes at a different speed, we placed the demon king in this barrier and in ten minutes he spent several billion years inside it, the barrier also has the ability to influence the body of the prisoner, this function was specially added, and can make him fall asleep or, on the contrary, prevent him from sleeping. In the case of the Demon King, we simply sent him to sleep for several billion years without a single second, which caused his mind to become exhausted and weakened, and when we pulled him out of the barrier, it was only a passive and non-initiative thing, which was easy to finish off without risking yourself.

- Uh, do you want me to spend several billion years inside the space training or something?

- No, Ban can regulate the duration and intensity of being in the barrier, my idea is to artificially age you to seventeen, maybe eighteen years old, then we can give you immortality, although you can choose the age you want to look like yourself.

Having understood the essence of Kilia's idea, Naruko thought deeply, so deeply that it took her about twenty minutes, Ban did not understand why you could think for so long, but the others had other things to do, Hikari liked the fish and she, noticing that the conversation had died down, persuaded Kilia to cook more.

And after this time, everyone heard how Naruko gave her consent.

***

The next day, the same kitchen but already in the morning. Hikari was reading the scroll of forbidden techniques, Kilia was still asleep, and Naruko woke up very early because of the excitement, so now she was crawling around the kitchen in search of at least some food. Everything that Kilia bought yesterday was already gone, and the usual source of food was Ban, who was not in the house now, today he did not sleep, and early in the morning he received a message from Orochimaru.

Ban returned back after another half an hour, and when he entered the room, Naruko appeared in front of his nose, whose face literally screamed "I'm going! Quickly!".

Having received what she wanted, she went to the table, and Hikari, seeing that Ban had returned, stared at him with curiosity, Ban himself interpreted this look correctly and said.

- News came from Orochimaru, I asked him to notify if something important happens.

- Did something bad happen?

- No, Jiraiya happened.

- Huh? Who is it?

Hearing the question, Naruko decided to answer it.

- My godfather... Well, I guess. I've never seen him.

Having received an answer to her question, Hikari returned her attention to Ban again, as if telling him to continue.

- So, Jiraiya picked up the trail. During the first month after we left Konoha, the Hokage tried to return the Jinchuriki on his own, but then he turned to Jiraiya, giving him a mission, and motivating him with the words that his student's daughter was kidnapped. A week ago, he showed up in the Land of Iron, thanks to the fact that we were in the Land of Earth and Iwakagura, our search took him a lot of time, and caused a huge number of problems. And two days ago, he got information from somewhere that someone who looked like me came to the Raikage and had a fight with him in the middle of the village, and now Jiraiya is moving towards us.

- So what? Let him go, I'll get old today anyway and he won't recognize me, there are a lot of blue-eyed blondes in Kumogakure, look at Samui with her size six breasts, let him spend all his attention on her.

- In general, you're right, but it's impossible not to recognize me or my sister, your very presence near us will give away your new appearance, although while we are inside Kumo this is not a problem.

- That's good.

The conversation died down, and time went on as usual, Kilia had already woken up and came to everyone else, it was decided to start preparing to create a barrier.

If Naruko were to be placed inside this barrier right now, she would simply die from lack of nutrients, she cannot survive without food and water, and this problem needs to be solved.

In everyday magic there is a rather useful spell, it allows you to replace mana, in fact it is a drink of the body with mana that will replace substances from food, the duration of how long this spell will last depends on the amount of mana invested in it, but it will not be possible to exceed the limit per month, also, since Naruko eats a lot, her costs can be multiplied by two, and Kilia will have to create more than 156 symbols of this spell, as well as make a magic program that will automatically activate these symbols every two weeks. So much is needed so that they will last for 6 years that Naruko will spend inside the barrier, she chose the age at which she wants to look like nineteen forever.

While the preparations were in full swing, something happened that the brother and sister did not expect.

At one point, Hikari approached them with a request, as it turned out, she also wants this technique to be used on her and she becomes older.

Ban immediately became against it, since if Naruko lives a second time and in total for two lives she is already over thirty years old, so it is normal for her to look nineteen, but Hikari corresponds to her real age.

Although to be honest, observing her behavior, it is almost impossible to notice that she looks like an ordinary fifteen-year-old girl, rather she looks more like a calm librarian of about thirty, who always remains calm and loves to read, and sometimes in the right situations she can yell.

- No!

- But why?..

- You just said that you want to get into this barrier too, but why? Name at least one good reason!

- My body will become stronger, and I can be given that seal of Orochimaru because of which the risk during the attack on Konoha will be minimal.

Ban wanted to object to something, but the words stuck in his throat and he began to think about her words. And as a result...

- Okay... Since that's your wish, then I agree. Sister, what do you say?

- Hikari is a smart girl, if she asks for this, it means she's thought about all the options a long time ago.

Ban's emotions were mixed, on the one hand, he understands that aging a person who won't live up to his age is bad, but on the other hand, there are logical explanations and reasons for this, and Hikari's desire itself cannot be ignored, the truth speaks through the mouth of a child.

As a result, after an hour and a half, Kilia completed all the preparations and made all the necessary symbols of the spell, which will be needed both for maintaining Naruto and for Hikari.

A spell symbol is something very similar to fuinjutsu, some kind of drawing or letter filled with mana and carrying the program of the desired spell.

And it took quite a long time to make almost 250 such symbols, when everything was ready, all four were in Ban's room, the girls had already changed into clothes of a larger size, when their bodies age, then with the help of a spell, Kiliya will simply adjust the size of their old clothes to the new standards.

- Listen, one thought came to my mind, what will happen to our muscles? We will essentially spend six and four years in a coma, shouldn't the muscles atrophy?

- Don't worry, the spell I entered into the symbols will help with this.

- Huh? It will just be a replacement for food, right?

- Not really, this spell fills the body with energy and stimulates it, due to which the muscles will remain in good condition, in fact, if a person who eats unhealthy food, does not take care of himself, does not eat anything for about a year and lives exclusively due to this spell, then after this time, even if he spends it almost without moving and being lazy, he will become a fit handsome man with a perfect body.

- Oh-oh-oh cool.

Then they got down to business, there were no rainbow rays or light in the whole village, the girls stood in their places and the next moment translucent cubes appeared around them, the walls of these cubes were like dark glass smeared with something dark and similar to oil, as if the space itself in their place had disappeared, but because of the girls inside it was visible there it was still there.

In the first second, cubes appeared.

In the second second, it became visible how the girls changed, starting to look from thirteen and fifteen years old to fifteen and seventeen.

On the third second, Ban turned around and started walking towards the exit of the room.

On the fourth second, Kilia saw how the now nineteen-year-old Hikari fell to the floor when the cube around her disappeared.

On the fifth second, the situation repeated itself with Naruko, and Ban took the first step towards the exit of the room.

When the spell dissipated, Kilia came to check on the girls' condition, and Ban took out new sets of clothes in their old style from the distortions, threw them on the blood, and left the room heading to the kitchen.

After years without food, the girls' bodies will be very happy to try a feast of different types of pizza and unusual dishes, he even took out his sister's favorite meat dish.

Meanwhile, Kilia made sure that everything was fine with the girls and began to wake them up.

Naruko and Hikari looked very confused, everyone has ever experienced the state when you slept too long, or decided to take a nap during the day, they now had similar feelings but multiplied by whole years of sleep.

- Mmm-m~m... Kilia? What a strange feeling, as if I slept too long... ah, well, yes, I really did sleep.

While Naruko showed her active nature, immediately after waking up she began to speak, Hikari looked at her hands, turned them from different sides, and then stared at the door to the room, she looked at it for about ten seconds trying to understand the secrets of the universe, but then came to her senses and shook her head and began to get up.

Ban's room was chosen for today's event for a reason, the fact is that it was the only room in the building where there was a full-length mirror. And standing up, Hikari immediately went to him, starting to examine herself, the clothes that a minute ago were in perfect condition now looked a little older.

The first thing she immediately felt the difference in her body, Hikari became only a little shorter than Kilia, although previously she was only up to her shoulders, and also the muscles, the strength of her body, everything became noticeably stronger and better, the spell from household magic did a great job year after year improving the muscles and body of the Uchiha.

Approaching the mirror, she saw a very beautiful girl of nineteen years old with black hair and scarlet eyes, it seems that due to the constant energy drink, the color of her eyes changed from coal black to red, apparently the Uchiha genes played a role in this situation, Naruko's eyes became incredibly bright but still blue.

Examining herself for several minutes, she saw Naruko approach from behind, and then standing next to her began to examine herself.

At the end, the girls noticed an elephant in the room, their hair was literally lying on the floor because of its length, and their fingernails and toenails were long overdue for a trim.

Then they heard Kilia's voice, smiling cheerfully.

- So, what hairstyle do you prefer?