36 36 Research

Konoha.

The sky was brightly lit as the gentle breeze made the refreshing day even better.

Though unlike the cool weather, the whole village seemed to be enveloped by a strange fever, groups of people whether young or old, everyone was currently discussing something.

"Mom! Mom! I have decided not to become a shinobi in the future, I'm gonna set sail and form a crew, becoming the king of pirates!!"

"Haha...then you need a strong right hand in the future brother, don't worry with my three swords I'll help you accomplish your dream, the least I have to do as the future strongest swordsman!"

On the street, the women looked at her two sons with a speechless face, one wearing a rough broken straw hat bragging about his dream, the other holding three broken pipes bragging even better.

Such scenes could be seen all around the villages, some kids dying there hair red and hiding one arm in clothes pretending to be certain someone.

And not just Konoha, all around Land of Fire in every big and small town similar scenes could be sighted.

Hokage Office,

"What creativity and imagination, truly an all rounder!"

Hiruzen closed the book in his hands and sighed with a look of acknowledgement in his eyes, the fever caused by this book truly understandable, how did that kid even think of such stuff.

He truly excelled in most aspects, given the title of an all-rounder by Hiruzen.

"He is wasting his potential in this useless stuff, I gave him a month off and he spent it like this!"

Danzo was also present in the office, though he was surprised after reading the book as well, but to him fantasy was fantasy.

He was annoyed at Naoki for wasting his time, he should be learning ninjutsu he had given him as improving your strength mattered the most, not making money.

'Hahaha! Don't be so harsh Danzo! you read the reports about his disciplined training over the years, he is a child after all, let him enjoy his childhood phase!"

"Hmph! You are too soft and compromising Hiruzen, I'll train him my way as you handed him to me, or are you regretting your decision now?"

Asked Danzo with an expectant look in his eyes, whenever hiruzen admitted his mistake, he always felt good, so looking forward to it again.

"I have no doubt over my decision, I had to form a balanced squad, Tsunade and Naoki both excelled at chakra control but having both on the team would have destroyed the combination!"

"Both of them are aspiring to be medical shinobi and are good in offense and defense, still I'll choose a senju everytime, you know there potential!"

....

Told Sarutobi the reason behind the selection of his squad, it was common sense that Tsunade was gonna eventually overtake Naoki, so he choose her.

Danzo at his reasoning didn't say anything in response, staying silent, but it showing he agreed with the reasoning of Sarutobi here.

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The whole land of fire was in the fever of One Piece, though it's author was rather busy at this moment.

Forest behind the Hokage Mountain.

Underground Lab,

The whole lab was painted white, white tiles on the floor as well, lighting installed on the ceiling illuminating everything.

Most of the lab was still empty with not much equipments, few stretchers, tables, microscopes and some surgical tools around.

Naoki donned in a white coat stood before a table, a white mask covering most of his face, eyes focused on the table completely.

On the table was a corpse, a male who seemed to have died quite a while ago.

Currently the dead male was completely dissected vertically, from neck to naval, though miraculously no body fluid or anything falling out.

"Hmm...this is most likely the main reason!"

Currently Naoki was missing one of his arms, it floating next to the dead body, dissected as well, Naoki looking at his chakra pathways coming on a guess, though not completely sure.

To be completely sure, he needed to experiment on a living person other than himself, but that was not gonna be easy.

Like Orochimaru and Danzo, he just couldn't kidnapp civilians and experiment on them.

Anyway, Naoki put the matter of finding a living experiment on the back of his head, thinking more about the guess he had reached upon.

Ever since his body changed due to devil fruit and got stronger over time, he always wondered why his chakra stayed the normal.

Aa far as he knows chakra is combination of physical and spiritual energy, so the stronger his body had gotten, the more chakra should have been produced.

But it didn't happen, Naoki looking at his chakra pathways reaching a guess, though another experiment needed to confirm his doubt, an experiment on a living person.

(Two chapters today)