Feb 27th, Year 7
POV: Suikondo
For the past week, Suikondo has been helping the Kaguya Clan women settle in to their new homes. Things were tense at first, because the Kaguya Clan have terrorized quite a number of people, in the Land of Water, so more than a few of the refugees had an axe to grind, but Suikondo dealt with it swiftly. Though it is best to keep them separate for now.
Fuyumi has been by his side the whole time like a fangirl. He doesn''t mind because the boobs pressing against him are therapeutic. Jokes aside, she''s been very useful in keeping the women in check, so he''s glad she''s onboard. It looks like the Kaguya Clan is going to be one of, if not the biggest clan in his new village. Though he''ll have to deal with the violent tendency of the boys before they take it to adulthood.
POV: Fukumoto Kondo
Kondo has been brainstorming possible ways to deal with his problems. You see, he wants to do intense physical training to raise his stats so he can handle Sage Mode and 8Gates for longer.
Wild animals don''t give enough XP to level up fast enough nowadays, plus he makes more money trading, so he''s basically done with hunting.
Problem is, he can''t train as intensely as he needs to while keeping all his Shadow Clones active at the same time.
Another problem is he can only create new clones twice a year during the father-son hunting trip because that''s the only way he can exit the village.
Half a year of knowledge flooding into your head in an instant is migraine inducing even with the resistance he has built up so far.
Also, having the new clones travel the ridiculous distances is a waste of time and memory. He needs a faster way to get back to his... Muster Points.
After an afternoon, he has his genius plan. The inspiration came about from the fact that Clones placed in Storage Scrolls aren''t affected by the original. He can''t even poof them if he wanted to while they were still in the scroll.
They also didn''t place any strain on the original. Sealing a clone was equivalent to now making the clone in the first place. It was like the connection was cut off.
Step 1: Create at least 1 Earth Shadow Clone(s) for every Shadow Clone out in the field.
Step 2: Seal the Earth Shadow Clones in the Storage Scrolls.
Step 3: Send Scrolls to Shadow Clones via Inventory.
Step 4: Shadow Clones release the Earth Shadow from the scrolls Clones before they poof themselves.
Step 5: Kondo creates new Shadow Clones.
Step 6: Repeat steps 2-5, but replace Earth Shadow Clones with Shadow Clones.
It''s tedious, yes. But it takes only a few minutes if not seconds to do. It also eliminates the need to leave the village, the need to travel, and spares him the headaches from leaving his clones active for so long.
This doesn''t completely solve his problems, though. He needs a few cloneless days so he can train with reckless abandon without worry. The simple solution to that is handing the Earth Shadow Clone Scrolls to a third party who''s only job is to open the scroll after a specific number of days, then the clone will take it from there.
He''s going to need people that he trusts for this part. With Ichigo, he can trust Ada to handle that. He doesn''t need to tell her everything, just what she needs to know.
With Ruinkondo, it''s a long list, so no issues there. But Touma though, that''s another story. He''s going to need a travel companion: someone trustworthy, and can handle themselves for days without him to hold their hands. He''ll figure that out in time. He''ll also see if he can make a self-opening Storage Seal with a timer. That would rock.
As for the execution of his brilliant idea and training schedule, he''s going to go cloneless for 4 days of the week to train his body, then deploy the clones for the remaining 3 days while he does Fuinjutsu Research. He''s going to rely on people in the village to handle themselves and wipe their own butts. He has already chosen people to be incharge of various groups and departments. They''ll report to him weekly, and he''ll deligate tasks as well as address concerns.
POV: Kenji Touma
Touma finally makes it back to the Hidden Waterfall. He''ll secretly check up on Fu real quick before heading South through the many small nations separating the Lands of Fire and Wind respectively.
March: Week 1, Year 7
POV : Fukumoto Kondo
This week, Kondo begins his hellish training. By abusing his system, he''s able to recover faster with [Rest], and Regen HP by eating food; soldier pill give the biggest bang for his buck. As a result his stats grow slowly yet steadily at a pace faster that farming XP.
Log of people and his intentions with them: Akatsuki.
Deidara: His moveset is too niche. It''s formidable in early Shippuden, but useless against any War Arc boss. However his microscopic explosions are cracked. If you don''t have lightning release like Sasuke, you''re cooked. Will watch and see.
Sasori: I''d like to investigate his core and learn more about his immortality.
Hidan: Would like to research his immortality and determine if this Jashin is real or not.
Kakuzu: He''s got nothing I want.
Kisame: Would like to see and copy his water jutsu. Also try to see if I can nab Samehada.
Itachi: Don''t give a shit.
Pain: I''m not changing his mind, so I''ll leave that to Naruto. I''ll just have to make sure my family is safe when he attacks the village. I want to snatch his Rinnegan after he dies, but I''m worried Obito will hunt me down. I could just chuck his eyes or body into the inventory by a clone and then poof, but Obito was able to find the dimension Kaguya sent Sasuke to. My inventory must have some space-time characteristics for him to latch on to. Not risking it.
Konan: I want to save the goth milf. I could hand over Nagato to Obito and hope he let''s her live, but then she''d hate my guts. I could also attack Obito after he uses Izanagi and prevent him from stabbing Konan in the back. Then it''d be a 2v1 and we''d send him packing temporarily. The problem is, would we be able to keep him at bay forever? He''d just swap an eyeball and continue to harass us. The War Arc ain''t happening without Obito getting the Rinnegan. That Arc has to happen so team 7 get their power creep in preparation for Kaguya and eventually Momoshiki. OK, for now my priority is to save Konan and let Obito have the Rinnegan. Maintaining the core canon is what matters.
POV: Itadori Ichigo
Revealing to Asa that he has Shadow Clones and needs her to hold on to the Storage Scrolls made her super curious and also strengthen her attachment to him since in her mind he was trusting her with his secrets as well as relying on her.
Ichigo didn''t tell her much except tidbits here and there. And to shut her up for a time, he made a Shadow Clone and double teamed her one night. Fun fact: Shadow Clones leave behind their bodily fluids after they poof. So the bed and Asa were twice as gooey as usual. This got him wondering if Shadow Clones can knock up a woman. Best not to dive into that rabbit hole.
March: Week 2, Year 7
POV: Fukumoto Kondo
Kondo and the gang celebrated Tenten''s birthday today. It wasn''t anything particularly grand, they just trained like usual, and then threw the surprise with the help of Teuchi when they went to Ichiraku Ramen.
They all chipped in to purchase one of Ichiraku Ramen''s premium dishes for Tenten to eat.
After they all ate to bursting, they presented their gifts, sang happy birthday again, and all went home to digest. Goes without saying, that Tenten enjoyed herself alot.
Ino was very helpful through it all, as she was the one who provided the date of Tenten''s birthday for Kondo, as well as the birthday girl''s sizes so he could make sure his gift fits. Kondo sure hopes she likes his gift after she opens it at home. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.
As for his training, Kondo made a breakthrough in his pursuit of a stronger and sturdier body.
It involves activating [Meditation] while one of the 8 Gates is on. His current limit is 3rd Gate. The resulting mental state will help him ignore most of the pain as well as grant him the level of concentration required to use a full body medical ninjutsu to heal his tearing muscles, as well as a quick snack to regen HP.
This will allow him to maintain the 3rd Gate longer which helps him farm vitality stats from the damage, as well as strength stats from the rebuilding of his muscles at a rate way faster than before.
These two stats bring him closer to sustaining his transformations for longer. However he still has to set aside time to train his dexterity.
March: Week 3, Year 7
POV: Fukumoto Kondo
Log of people and his intentions with them: Everyone from other villages.
Gaara: I''ll leave him to Naruto.
Temari: I''ll leave her to Shikamaru.
Kankuro: No.
Granny Chiyo: She was old anyway.
Kurotsuchi: Cool, but she''ll be a kage, so I can''t add to my harem.
Onoki: He was old anyway.
Raikage Ay: Nothing.
Killer Bee: Nothing.
Darui: Copy his Ninjutsu.
Mabui: Try to save her in war arc.
Samui: Will shoot my shot.
Karui: Leave her to Choji.
Mei: Will smash. She''s desperate.
Chojuro: nothing.
Sugetsu: Can I drink his water?
Jugo: Get his DNA and see if I can unlock curse mark. OK, I''ll let Sasuke defect so he can find him and recruit.
March: Week 4, Year 7
POV: Fukumoto Kondo
It''s Sakura''s birthday today. Kondo didn''t do anything particularly grand. He just chipped in with Ino and Tenten to get her a cake.
The party was held at the Yamanaka Flower Shop with just the four of them.
As for gifts, Kondo got her a hair clip. Nothing grand, but Sakura seemed to really like it.
With regards to his Fuinjutsu projects, he created a paper tag that shreds itself to pieces after a set amount of time passes. It''s to be used to wrap a Storage Seal containing a clone, then rip apart after the timer runs out, thereby releasing the clone contained within. This was rather easy to do, because he figured out the timer from reverse engineering paper bombs. Now he doesn''t have to worry about someone tagging along with Touma. He can self replace now.
Lastly, Kondo has outsourced Fuinjutsu research to a team of clones back on New Uzushiogakure. Ruinkondo managed to find a ruined lab in the village with underground facilities. He then had the structure repaired as best as possible, secured it, and is now occupied by the team.
POV: Kenji Touma
In the Takuma village of the Land of Rivers, Touma is perusing a number of unique looking weapons on display.
Weapons that allows one to channel and control nature transformations without training.
Weapons with holes that create auditory genjutsu when swong.
Armors that self repaired, create chakra shields, absorb chakra, neutralized kinetic energy, etc.
In all his travels, he hadn''t seen many weapons and armor as queer as these, but now he''s in a village full of them.
Inquiring about the price revealed that they''re just slightly more costly than regular gear of the same kind. They''d cost more if there was actually a demand for the stuff, but business doesn''t seem to be good around these parts.
Regardless, he plans to see if he can get some custom work done. Something like Sasuke''s sword that can Channel Lightning Chakra would be a good start.
He''d like to see if he can form ties with this village so they supply weapons to New Uzushiogakure exclusively.
POV: New Uzushiogakure
Leadership Structure: At the top of the New Uzushiogakure power structure is the Miraikage. He''s the same as other kages except for some key differences.
Firstly, he doesn''t answer to a Daimyo.
Secondly, he doesn''t deal with nearly as much paperwork because he''s sharing more responsibility.
Below the Kage is the council which is divided into the upper and lower council respectively. Kondo copied this from the American Congress.
The members of the lower council function like the house of representatives who represent a district, and are selected by their respective clan leaders.
Districts not under the control of a clan will select their representative democratically.
As for the Upper Council, they consist of each clan head, plus 1 Individual who is voted in by the democratic lower council. These positions are currently occupied by Kaguya Fuyumi, Uzumaki Kaede, and someone else.
In order to beef up the number of clans in the future, A clan creation procedure was created. Ruinkondo hopes to use it for himself, Haku''s Yuki Clan, and Ranmaru''s Ranmaru Clan.
Departments are being created to handle various things here and there in the village when the need arises. The Department of Commerce for example helps to assist with everything economics from bookkeeping, to internal trade.
April: Week 1-4, Year 7
POV: Fukumoto Kondo
Kondo has experienced a great breakthrough with his modified [Chakra Absorbing Seal]. By using the [Finger Carving Seal] on the tip of a [Chakra Thread], Kondo is able to draw seals so small they can fit in his palm with lots of room to spare, though it requires super high precision and concentration.
This enabled him to complete an unintended [Chakra Suppression Seal]. Its basically his [Chakra Battery] but is implanted on someone else by touch, and with a hand seal, it rapidly drains the victim''s chakra. Kondo can then place a hand on the victim''s seal, make another hand seal, and siphon the chakra from it.
Kondo hopes to have the actual [Chakra Absorbing Seal] ready in a month. His team of research clones have accelerated his progress.
Log of people and his intentions with them: New Uzushiogakure.
Fuyumi: If the cleavage flashing keeps up, there might be a new Kaguya clan Patriarch soon.
Kaede: Hope she gets remarried soon. I want the Uzumaki Clan growing.
Karin: My genin team.
Ranmaru: My genin team.
Kimimaru: My genin team.
Haku: My genin team.
POV : New Uzushiogakure
The New Uzushiogakure ninja academy is officially launched. Well, its more of a pilot so they can get in the groove. The true first semester starts October 15th. The curriculum was copied from Konoha plus other places, then modified for New Uzushiogakure. Ninja gear, targets, sparring platforms and other facilities have been provided for training. Kaede Uzumaki serves as the head teacher and pseudo principal.
There''s not many who have ninja training, so Ruinkondo chips in as often as he can in the academy. Additionally, he kinda took in Ranmaru, Kimimaro and Haku as his personal Genin Team and are currently adventuring alongside Touma. He really wanted Karin over Ranmaru, but Kaede fought him tooth and nail, so he had to let her go. The silver lining is that Karin feels left out and is giving her mom a hard time. "Hehehe. Serves you right."
POV: Kenji Touma
Touma has been hanging around Takuma village longer than he thought he would. Why no one is patronizing them is a mystery to him. Their loss, cuz he intends to form an alliance with them so they make weapons exclusive for New Uzushiogakure.
The first step would involve growing his influence with them through transactions. That''s why he contracted a number of the guys here to make ninja gear and facilities for his ninja academy back in New Uzushiogakure. That brought a spark of life into the local economy along with him trading goods with the local traders.
Touma is currently testing his new lightning katana which he had commissioned some time ago. Kimimaro can be seen testing some other swords in the background, while Ranmaru and Haku just look around.
His sword was designed to allow the user to transform lightning freely. It will also boost the user''s attack power to the highest limit. This sword''s greatest advantage is harnessing the user''s chakra and performing high-level lightning techniques alot of which were suggested by Touma, with a minimal cost of chakra, effectively letting a lightning release specialist fight for extended periods of time unhindered.
Touma is very satisfied with it, and only needs to name in now. But that can wait. Right now, he''s discussing commissioning more swords like this, but for different elemental releases. The craftsman responsive for his sword is young woman named Kujaku. She''s a tad arrogant, but not in a way that has any bite; more like a quirk than anything else. She says she can handle all but the fire sword, and redirects Touma to someone named Suiko to have that taken care of.
If these prototypes turn out great, he''d love to mass produce them and give them to his best performing academy students as well as others in New Uzushiogakure.
May: Weeks 1-4, Year 7
POV: Fukumoto Kondo
Finally, it''s ready! The [Chakra Absorbing Seal] is ready. By combining concepts from storage seals, his [Chakra Battery], [Chakra Suppression Seal] and more, Kondo was able to make it. All Kondo has to do is grab someone to absorb their chakra at a ridiculous rate.
Now Kondo hopes to make a better version that will absorb Ninjutsu fired at him just like Pain and Momoshiki.
Additionally, he had time to make an extra seal. It''s a [Paperbomb Seal] he can implant with just a touch and will explode on his command. It can''t be removed unless you''re a 10 tails jinchuuriki, so it''s instakill.
Though things are going great in the seal department, Kondo wishes to invest more of his time into something he had forgetten about for months: Rasengan training. He can''t believe he got Sage Mode before the Rasengan. Anyway, he''ll see what he can do next month.
POV: Kenji Touma
In the Demon Desert which is located some distance from Sunagakure in the Land of Wind, another giant ant joins her sisters in the afterlife courtesy of a Senbon of Ice to the head.
Her unaliver continues on his way alongside his teammates and Sensei, past numerous bodies of dead ant towards the humongous Ant Hill.
The ones responsible for this massacre is non other than Team Touma: consisting of Touma, Haku, Ranmaru and Kimimaro. Touma and Kimimaro are the main offensive force, with Haku providing ranged support, and Ranmaru serving as their eyes.
Touma is putting his new lightning sword named Thorsday to good use, and is loving roasting all these ants with his lightning techniques.
Kimimaro on the other hand is busy running through the army of ants and oneshoting them left and right with his swordsmanship.
Haku is giving the ants fatal brain freeze as he chucks Senbon needles made of ice at their heads. Using actual needles would be wasteful. Touma shouldn''t have been surprised Haku had grasped his Ice Kekkei Genkai to this extent so quickly, but the speed of improvement was so ridiculous that he couldn''t help himself. He''s not beating most of Sasuke Retrieval Arc Konoha 11 as he is now, but Touma is confident he will mop them all solo by the time they graduate.
Ranmaru is serving as the eyes of the operation. He can see the layout of the labyrinthine ant colony, and directs the team where to go. The kid''s physique has improved a whole lot thanks to care from Touma and Kaede. He''s also able to place the ants under genjutsu and have them fight each other. Ran-kun is basically a diet-Uchiha+.
Touma was initially not pleased with the fact his system didn''t have a Party feature, but he''s still just glad he doesn''t have to explain the system to the kids. He hates it when MCs do that. Besides, he''s still getting plenty EXP from the highly dangerous wildlife here.
It was quite a hassle to sneak into the Demon Desert, he wasn''t keen of being found out and chased out or hunted down for decimating the animal population, so he make sure they hunted animals that are plentiful and easily replaced: Ants and Termites.
The Giant Ants are getting put to the sword first, as Team Touma cuts then down left and right. They take a break, then move over to the Termites while the other creatures feast on the Ant bodies; thereby erasing major evidence of them being there. After alternating a few times between the Ants and Termites, they make a break for the Anthill with intention of taking the fight to their home turf.
That way they can kill as much as they want without having to stop to wait for other animals to dispose of the bodies; the ants will do it themselves. Once the team got in, they got alot of pushback as the difficulty increased substantially, but Touma was glad for the opportunity to push his limits and that of the kids.
After a long and arduous battle, they fought their way to the Ant Queen. When they got there, Touma acknowledges her presence before taking a short break with the others after which they leave.
Touma had no intention of killing the Queen as he needed their numbers to replenish. So off Team Touma goes to the Termites to do the same and give their Queen a neardeath experience.
This strategy would be repeated on multiple colonies for days. After which they left to let them recover their numbers, as well as to continue on their adventure.