22.

What can I say about the border with land of water, it's boring here, only a few groups of ninjas invade sometimes and I have a feeling, that it's more out of decency. However here is better scenery, than on the border with land of hot waters and land of frost, there were too much fields and forests, no don't misunderstand me I love forests, but not when you see them every day for 13 years.

Ocean was beautiful and at the same time dangerous for the people from the forest, that's how clans on this border call shinobis from Hidden Leaf. By the way, one of the clans is Umino. A for why is here dangerous, it's because ninjas from hidden mist breath with water, for some of them it's literally.

In the hospital there were not many patients and even when they were, besides me here is another A ranked doctor, Nanase-sama she is already old woman, which is very unpleased with the Konoha's financing of teaching new medical-ninjas, here I agree with her.

Konoha decreased our funding a lot, like I heard they invested a lot money in Orochimaru's researches. Moreover, there never were many interested in medicine, that's mainly because of younglings want to learn cool ninjutsus, they don't understand, that you must understand yourself, to start understanding your surroundings.

I'm already one month here and I did 3 big steps toward greatness, even if I'm already great. First thing is that I placed on everyone on whom I could very simply command to get some DNA and Chakra from their enemies.

About commands, if command is not something, what they don't want to do it's not hard to imprint it in their mind and I'm not afraid of someone finding them, because in our situation maximum what someone check is, if ninja is a traitor or not, there are a few other questions too, but none of them has something to do with my genjutsu.

Yes, there are techniques, which can detect even this, but for this mind reader either must lose a lot of time and chakra, or use fuin, which is only in the village. One more security level is that they don't give samples to me directly, no they just leave them on specific place and then forget about this.

Second achievement is that I modified, or should I say adjusted, shadow clones. I wanted to do this long time ago, but didn't have time, so now I can control how much chakra each clone takes, there's still some minimum, but it's not so big. These clones can't help me train ninjutsus, but they can help me for example draw seals or read books, and here is second adjustment, they can control which memory or experience to give me back and how much chakra to return.

Third one was very unexpected for me, it's empathy, no I'm not unique with this skill, 2 other my clansmen have this power, but normally it opens only after 30 and only real master can do this. Probably also my last life counted.

'Hmmm, last month was just too calm, I don't like it, it just means that either for all of us or concretely for me is going to start a storm. Okay just for security today I fully activate seals on the "house" made of earth. I want to have wood release.' - *Sigh* I went out of the house and activated seals. Full activation coasts 27% of my current chakra reserve.

I turned around to look at dawn, yeah, it's very beautiful, our base stands on a crag, right under us is the ocean, I closed my eyes and focused on light land breeze. In the moments like this I can feel how beautiful this world is. You must try to find something, what gives you this otherworldly feeling, for me it's ocean and mountains.

After 4 minutes I slowly went to the hospital, when I entered it I greeted others, 2 patients from last mission and 2 doctors, we have 1-A, 1-B and 3-C ranked medics, but we have different shifts, only rule is that here always must be at least 1 and normally 2 doctors.

"Ichimaru-san, did you hear today comes a little reinforcement." – said one of them to me, at the same time second one started collecting her stuffs to leave and take rest.

"Oh, is this because of last activities?" – I asked, checking one of the patients.

"I think so, after the attack on the main base on the border in land of hot waters, we deployed many troops there and fishmen started to act aggressively." – he said this with hate, before the war his fiancée died on one of the attacks from kiri's shinobis.

"Yeah, but I don't like how silent Iwa is." – one of the patients.

"Yeah that's a bit suspicious. After last big attack 2 weeks ago, they didn't do anything." - I said and took a sit next to the doctor.

"I hope nothing bad will happen." – Doctor said and stood up. – "I'll go out to smoke."

"Smoke is bad for your health Sokamo-san." – I said and smiled.

"Hmpf, I can heal my lungs, if I need." – he went out and I started to meditate, last times I noticed that I have not so big free space for memory. That's generally because of the knowledge I have about genes from last world. So, I started expanding space with the help of the techniques from my clan.

I sat long time like this, until I was interrupted with familiar voice.

"Ichimaru-kun, how are you?" – I recognized this voice and opened my eyes happily.

"Wow, hello Nia-chan, I didn't expect, that you would've come in this base." – I smiled and greeted her.

"Me too, after I became chunin our commander moved me here."

'Was this... No, it can be my imagination. Or… okay, I won't risk…' – I didn't change my facial expression and just continued - "That's great news, congratulations." – I clapped hands - "Let's go out and talk a bit outside."

"Isn't it a problem? I mean you patients."

"No, it isn't, I'll just check them last time and I can leave them on Hasako-san." – Hasako is a doctor, which came after Sokamo. I checked them quickly and left the tent. – "Let's go."

We talked about an hour, when she asked to stay today in my house, she said that she doesn't know anyone here, so I was her best choice. I didn't reject. It was already dark, so we moved to my house, at the house I didn't deactivate defensive seal and went in, right after me she came in. I closed the door. She took a quick look at the room, turned to me and said looking on the ground with red face:

"Ichimaru- kun I wanted to say this to you long time ago, but I couldn't find courage, however because of war I understood that I di…" – I didn't give her time to finish the sentence and activate the seal, because of which she lost concession. I picked her up and laid on the bed.

"It's bad for you, that I opened empathy 3 weeks ago, otherwise you probably could fool me. But let's see what you regretted and why did you look at me pity." – I started to suck her chakra, it will help me to read her memories without much problems. Thankfully their clan can't work with memory as good like ours.