Chapter 24 "Return"

"The longest four days of my life," Akashi whispered as he gave a very long sigh.

The White Snake scholar predicted 5 days, but Akashi achieved it in 4 days, Akashi's talent was still garbage, and this did not surprise anyone, but to endure such punishment for 4 days was already something of respect.

"I never saw someone use such an extreme method to suppress and understand my poison, although it can be said that now you are apt to teach you, you used a lot of vitality to maintain your life , hopefully you can reach 20 years" (Sage of the Serpent)

Akashi scratched his head when he heard that, losing most of his life was better than dying, although it was still disappointing to have only 7 years of life.

Not counting Akashi had just spent a few days in hell, Akashi thought very seriously about going on vacation after returning, so many hellish workouts could not be good for anyone's mind, although Akashi felt pretty after that kind of experience, This could only be attributed to Akashi being used to this kind of thing.

"I thought you would put a funnier face when I told you your status, but it does not matter, when you learn to fully use the senjutsu, then you can recover some of your vitality, but it may not be much, but there are still rituals that could help you, but only it will work if you abandon your humanity "(Sage of the Serpent)

This was very bad news for Akashi, since he had no intention of becoming a snake, but there were still many things to learn in this place.

" Whatever, I'm ready for the training. "(Akashi)

Akashi was very motivated, especially because his life depended on that.

"You've already heard the human, Now you can go Orochimaru" ( Sage of the Serpent)

Orochimaru did not say anything when he left, especially when he got some of Akashi's blood, now Orochimaru had more hope of understanding the relationship between spiritual energy and vital energy , since Orochimaru could feel a huge amount of chakra emanating of Akashi's body when he managed to control the natural energy, although it was only an instant, but Orochimaru is quite satisfied with the data he obtained.

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"you should relax " Kushina said, to the upset Mikoto who kept eating while cursing Akashi.

"That pervert, six months have passed and he has not yet arrived, for his own good I hope he has not died" (Mikoto)

As Mikoto said, it had been 6 months since Akashi left, during this time Mikoto spent most of her free time with Kushina, they had become very friendly during this time.

Kanade Uzumaki, it did not bother Kushina so much, especially since Kushina did not lose so much time with Akashi anymore, so she could have more hours of study.

With Kushina's situation fixed, Kanade was able to return to her village, but she decided to stay, as she found a yellow haired ninja with whom she got along very well, so she settled in Konoha.

This made Kushina happy, since she now had a relative close to her, but the main thing was that her cousin no longer drowned her in books, so now they could talk quietly.

On Mikoto's side, she could only train while trying to get used to her situation , since sooner or later she will have to fulfill her arranged commitment, but Akashi's words seemed a curse, since whenever Mikoto accepted her fate, in the In Mikoto's mind, Akashi appeared to rescue her.

So lately Mikoto has been in a bad mood every time he remembered Akashi, since he was just a pervert who told him a lot of lies.

And like any day, there were three people talking in a ramen restaurant.

Kushina, Mikoto and Kanade went to eat at Teuchi's restaurant, which was now called Ichiraku Ramen.

The environment had improved in these months, since the fame of Teuchi was growing little by little.

Although there were still free places, Ichiraku Ramen is already well known in Konoha.

"Come, I'm sure it's okay, but if it takes more time, I plan to go through your head in a few months, I can take advantage of the war that comes to leave the village." (Kushina)

Mikoto and Kanade made a pretty forced smile, since in these months they realized that sometimes Kushina said very dangerous things , but they learned to ignore it, since they can not imagine that pretty girl with that innocent smile doing everything she says.

"I have some curiosity, I really can not believe that there was a ninja who could overcome Minato," Kanade said, but his main concern was to meet the person who left her little cousin in that state.

Mikoto could only sigh, as these quiet days will end soon, especially when the war is imminent.

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"The sun really is good," Akashi said, after taking a big breath of fresh air.

Akashi's temperament had a subtle change, now it seemed that it was fused with the environment, but it also gave a more dangerous image.

But his biggest change, was that his right eye was closed, 6 months ago when Akashi finished assimilating all the venom of the White Serpent Sage, the illusion that was in his eye disappeared.

And the reason why Akashi closed his eye was because his right eye looked like a snake's.

During this time, Akashi managed to regenerate his eye, using senjutsu, but the end result was a scarlet snake eye.

Anyone who saw it, would feel an instinctive fear , and this was something Akashi could not control, so he decided to keep it closed.

But that was not the biggest at the moment, currently all the villages are preparing for war, and Akashi did not want to get involved with something annoying, so he decided it was time to return.

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Akashi walked slowly while still training, the handling of natural energy is really complicated, and any carelessness can cost quite expensive.

Therefore, anyone who wants to absorb this energy, as a requirement should stay still, but that way was very inefficient for Akashi, since after 5 minutes, he should stop again to continue collecting natural energy.

That's why Akashi decided to continue training his control, and after several months, he managed to walk while continuing to collect natural energy.

That's why Akashi's steps were slow and repetitive, but this did not bother Akashi, since this kind of training was quite relaxing for his spirit.

Akashi kept moving away from the cave where he spent a lot of time, but not without a smile.

This time brought several benefits to Akashi, especially since he discovered how to use chakra.

Not to mention that Akashi had a breakthrough when it came to the eight internal doors.

Akashi had a lot of time to reflect, so he change the concept a bit, that's why Akashi decided to use natural energy instead of vital energy for this technique.

The level of difficulty increased in several levels, but Akashi managed to eliminate the great deficiency of this technique, although it was too early to have a visible result, Akashi confident that over time he could complete something really scary.

The only drawback is that Akashi will not be able to share this finding with Dai, unless he manages to master the natural energy, but at least Akashi will tell Dai how to train the natural energy, what he achieves will depend on him.

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"Hokage-sama, the disciple of Orochimaru returned, asks permission to enter the village" (Anbu)

At this time Hiruzen did not have time to worry about Akashi, and even if he wanted to do something, he could not do much, as the entire council kept insisting on bringing Akashi to the village.

But this was mostly by Danzo, since he got quite interesting information at first hand.

According to Danzo, Orochimaru is loyal to him, since Orochimaru was trained at root, that's why Danzo is happy with what he got, since all the information is just for him.

But what Danzo did not know, was that Orochimaru only gave false reports, and all that Danzo obtained, were only some failed experiments of Orochimaru, but it will take a long time for Danzo to discover that.

But Orochimaru doing that kind of thing for Akashi, meant that Orochimaru had some kind of good feeling for Akashi?

Not even jokingly, Orochimaru managed to understand Akashi a little, and Orochimaru knew that Akashi would not do anything if he tried to make a move against Konoha.

In addition, Orochimaru expected Akashi to be strengthened so that the same village would realize that Akashi is an unstable element, and when Konoha makes a counterattack move against Akashi, they only get another enemy.

Orochimaru knows how those old people think, so it will only be a matter of time when they try to give Akashi a smaller belt, and that will fail, because no matter how much time passes, Akashi will never have a feeling of belonging to Konoha

That's why Orochimaru decided to cover Akashi, since he has really interesting plans for the future.

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When Akashi entered the village, he noticed everyone very agitated, but he did not blame them, since the war had begun.

Akashi took a month to return, since all the way, he continued training.

But the reason why Akashi was so calm, was because his acquaintances should not be affected by the war.

Orochimaru went to the cave several times to get more samples, and collect data on Akashi's advance, so they had several conversations.

At that time, Orochimaru told her that Kushina was a jinchuriki, and that she was a very important element for the village, so it would be impossible for her to be involved in the war.

That's why Akashi did not hurry up in his training, and since Teuchi was not a ninja, then he would stay in the village.

Akashi's only concern was for Mikoto, the possibility that she was sending was very few, since she was still quite young, but one never knew, but even if Akashi wanted to do something, it would be impossible for him, since he could not intervene in this war .

While Akashi was still heading home, a red dot appeared in the distance.

Akashi had a small smile, because during this time, Akashi missed Kushina a bit.

While Akashi watched as Kushina approached, an ominous feeling began to fill his head.

And everything was confirmed when he saw the fury in Kushina's eyes.

"I think I'll go back to the cave, it feels nostalgic not to be surrounded by snakes," Akashi whispered as he turned around.

"Forget about your life if you happen to run" Kushina shouted.

Akashi no longer hesitated, when he began to run across the rooftops while escaping from Kushina.

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Second chapter of the day, I'll upload more if we reach a million of likes, or some positive comment to have an acceptable score.

I finished the arch of Naruto, there are 8 more chapters, we reach the top 10000, and I will hang all the episodes today.