65 Chapter 65

Kushina's blood didn't give any amazing improvements.

It did exactly what the others did, with only a notable increase in stamina.

It wasn't exactly exciting.

But I could probably use her Chakra to learn Wind and Water Release should I ever have the urge.

I shrugged and threw Aomi's notes on my desk.

The blood injections seemed to be a shortcut to Low-Chunin and learning nature transformation.

It was something that would probably see a lot of use from myself in the future.

I was shit at nature transformations after all...

My saving grace was the continued expansion of my 'range'. The more chakra I had the less restricted my range was.

It was nice that I was finally able to make tea with chakra strings without moving from my spot at the table.

A true thing of beauty that was.

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"Hmmm..." I hummed and ignored Tsunade who was blabbering while scanning someone I had given Kushina's blood to.

People who got blood transfusions had a change in their chakra and that was able to be sensed by competent sensors.

My little experiment was shut down while Tsunade examined my 'victims'.

The blood had left their systems and Tsunade couldn't figure out what I had done, so I wasn't overly bothered by the whole thing.

I wasn't going to be able to do it again though...

"How many times could you do this?" I raised an eyebrow at the question as it was not what I expected.

I could do it as much as I wanted. But I didn't want to do it often.

"Not very often, it takes too much time and chakra for such a minuscule increase in power." I shrugged. "And It only benefits those under Chunin-level." Making Chunin should be left to the academy.

I wasn't interested in wasting my time by pumping them out. I was just trying to see if there were any side effects.

"Don't do this anymore, it stresses the body and chakra system." I nodded, of course, it did, people weren't meant to grow that fast in body or chakra.

"Ok." It didn't matter too much, I was done anyway.

I couldn't see any more avenues to explore this. Learning nature transformations was all it was good for.

"You're getting sent to the front to relieve the personal there." I nodded distractedly as I was watching my 'victim' leave the room after Tsunade finished her exam.

"Am I just guarding or can I go chase them a little?" We had troops deeper in the desert stopping Suna from advancing towards our camp.

They were regularly traded for fresh troops and it seemed that it was our turn.

"Do what you wish, you'll be the authority out there." Meaning there was no Ino, Shika, Cho out and about...

"That's ideal." I smiled. "Do I have any mission while I'm out there or am I just holding the line?"

Tsunade shook her head.

"Just holding the line and repelling attacks, do as you wish." I smiled as I realized that my stay in Wind Country might not be too bad.

"Well I'll go pack my stuff, it's been fun." I sent her a wave and ignored her muffled snort.

First impressions aside we got along well.

I couldn't wait until she was Hokage...

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I leaned against the building we had taken over and waited for my little group to finish their preparations while I basked in the heat.

I'd bought a wide-brimmed straw hat from a shop in River Country and it had become my item of choice in blocking the sun's harsh rays.

I looked silly wearing it, but it kept the sun out of my eyes so it was going to stay for the foreseeable future.

"Can you put some seals in whatever building we end up in?" Isami had her own wide-brimmed hat, though she had also bought a reddish-yellow cloak that was supposed to blend in with the sand.

I nodded to her question, as I planned on placing seals on any buildings we occupied at the front.

"You'll only be there for a week." I had plans to stay a bit longer, as I didn't want to miss out on the last few battles of the war.

I felt like I should get my fill while I could, experiments could be done during my free time after the war.

"It's a week too long." I rolled my eyes at her.

Battlefields are where you gain strength, she should be trying to stay for as long as she could handle it.

"Luckily we're not running missions this time, so you'll have plenty of time to rest." And train.

I couldn't have weak minions after all...

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The 'front' as it was called wasn't far away, it was only a ten-minute run.

The 'front' was a small camp similar in structure the main camp with all its buildings being identical buildings that were quickly thrown up with Ninjutsu.

I wasn't sure why I needed to be stationed here, as I could arrive in a minute from the camp should I go at top speed.

It was a minor annoyance, but nothing more than that.

"Where's the command center?" I eyed the ninja who had approached me to look over the scroll I held out.

Brown hair and brown eyes with Konoha's standard Jonin uniform, his only notable feature was the signature fangs of the Inuzuka on his face and the Nin-kin trailing after him.

Total cannon fodder.

"This way Hyuga-Sama." I nodded and followed after the man.

I was feeling slightly sad, the cannon fodder in front of me was twice my size and twice my age. And yet I would be the one to see Kaguya's 'resurrection'.

I'd outlive almost everyone I met.

It was a sobering thought.

I was very hard to kill and potentially immortal.

Though the latter was still up for debate.

De-aging my DNA had seemingly worked but hadn't stunted my growth. So, I wasn't very optimistic about it working.

"This is it." I nodded at his words and studied the building briefly.

It was the same as the others, probably so it wouldn't be targeted.

"Thanks." I made a hand-sign and fourteen clones appeared around me

I turned towards the now surprised Inuzuka. "Can you bring my clones and team to their residence?"

"Certainly." He smiled and nodded.

I watched him lead seven of my clones plus friends and family away with a smile on my face.

He was perhaps the first Inuzuka I've liked.

"I only work for hugs!" I eyed the clone who had just volunteered for death.

Silly clones were the bane of my existence.

"Hugs for the Hug God!" His existence was ended with a smack to the back.

I sent a nod to the clone who smacked him and received an eye roll in reply.

Alrighty...

The clones were going to work on the seals while I pondered ways to continue mutating different genes...

It was the most straight forward path of advancement I currently had...

And the most likely to provide results...

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"Hmmm..." I hummed and looked over the small amount of paperwork I had to do.

I just needed to note our supplies, the number of troops lost, the number of enemies captured, and other boring things.

It was considerably less then what I had to deal with at Frost.

But that was probably because Orochimaru left most of the Paperwork to me...

I scowled at the thought.

Paperwork was the enemy of progress...

"Hmmm..." I hummed and nodded while ignoring the screams outside.

I blinked and stood up when I realized I was no-longer in Frost and it wasn't test-subjects that were screaming.

I activated my Byakugan and made my way outside.

We were being overrun...

My Dermal Armor formed, and I broke out into a run towards the nearest enemy.

This one thought he was clever and was using a puppet while hiding underground.

A quick Chakra Enhanced Stomp injured the puppeteer and a second silenced his muffled screams.

The sand wasn't as easy to stomp on...

I drank in the chaos around me and smiled a real smile.

I don't think I could ever go back to being normal after experiencing battle.

It was already too late for me.

I aimed my palms at the nearest enemy ninja and fired Bone Spears through them, I followed it up with two more spears that shredded another's throat and pierced the fourth sticking him to a wall.

"Hmmm..." I hummed and slowed my perception finally remembering that it was part of my whole fighting style.

The most important part...

An explosion brought me back to reality and I turned my focus to an old woman who was causing trouble with her puppets.

Perhaps she would be my main problem.

An almost blinding amount of chakra quickly changed my mind.

A frail middle-aged man waved his hand and buried many of our structures in sand revealing his identity as Suna's Jinchūriki

Fuck...

I charged up a Heaven's Palm, Shunshined behind him and slammed It into his back as hard as I could.

The sand surrounding him came to his defense but it wasn't enough as my attack sheered through it and continued through his arm.

I jumped away as the Jinchūriki became surrounded by sand.

My attack had taken an arm but it also continued into the camp and pierced a few buildings before expanding and destroying the final building.

"Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!" I ignored the Jinchūriki's muffled 'Die's' and created a clone before charging up a second Heaven's Palm.

My clone Shunshined towards the old woman while I dove towards the sand sphere.

Hands made of sand attempted to grasp my ankles while sand tendrils wiped towards me.

I dodged the first few sand hands and whips but was caught by a tendril of sand that wrapped around my ankle.

It tightened but had no effect, a quick application of lightning chakra on my legs and I was free of the tendril.

More tendrils and hands came at me with impressive speed.

I ignored both and Shunshined above the sphere.

"Ugh!" With a grunt, I smashed my attack into the sphere and Shunshined away.

The attack drilled through the sphere and expanded inside it, the Jinchūriki sadly wasn't harmed.

He had drilled himself into the ground and was now hiding while building up his chakra.

I took a deep breath, unlocked my seal, and created a clone who in turn created more clones.

The clones ran off into the chaos poking people as they went and shutting down organs, blocking tenketsu, and killing as they went.

I took a moment to wrench a bone sword from my knee while the sand started building above the Jinchūriki.

He rose from the ground, half-covered in sand and blue markings, his eyes and teeth on his injured side were no longer human-looking.

I eyed the tail behind him while wondering if killing him would cause the One-Tails to escape.

"You've made me angry!" I ignored his weird demonic voice and instead focused on the sand that continued to creep onto him expanding his form.

He launched a large clawed hand at me with both rage and glee.

"Sorry." I coated my sword in as much lighting chakra as I could muster and vibrated it as much as I could.

I Shunshined right to him and cut deep into his torso.

The sand resisted but was ultimately cut in half along with his body.

"I'll enjoy killing you!" I rolled my eyes as he became more bestial and his two half's reconnected using sand.

Because of-course cutting him in half wasn't enough...

He opened his mouth and started launching sand balls at me like a machine gun.

I Shunshined around him a few times while giving myself time to put more Lighting chakra into the sword.

I deprived him of his tail with swing, and a clone scoped it up with surprising quickness.

The One-Tails and I stared at the clone in surprise.

"I'll kill you!" The clone stuck it's tongue out and Shunshined away from the danger leaving me with an angry tailed beast.

More sand gathered and I started to panic a bit as I didn't want to fight a fully transformed One-tails.

I made a one-handed hand-seal and created a construct on my sword, further lengthening it.

I dodged a dusty wind launched from the creature's mouth and Shunshined behind it for what I hoped would be the last time.

I Enhanced my muscles as much as I could and swung.

Swoosh*

My sword cut through the sand, toward the human hidden within.

The chakra in the sand shifted and lashed out in the form of whips as my sword continued towards the Jinjuriki's head.

My sword split the head at the same time I was hit with the whips.

Poof*

I was embedded within the sand in a poof of dust.

I watched the sand bubble and writhe for a moment before simmering down as the chakra within slowly dispersed.

I laid there for a moment feeling slightly numb as I hadn't planned on killing a Jinchūriki today...

I ignored a clone who scooped up the body with glee and turned my focus to the now retreating Suna-army, they had come in full force only lacking their Kage and Sasori who I had been looking forward to fighting.

My clones had ganged up on the old woman and were chasing her down while a woman with a bloodline of some sort defended her, the old woman was missing an arm and probably wasn't going to be happy with me in the future.

I knew she was in canon but couldn't remember her name.

My clones and the women left my range, and all that was left was the slower Suna-nin or those that surrendered.

"Sigh..." Another page in my tale.

I deactivated my Byakugan and realized that I had forgotten my mask...

"Shiro?" I turned my eyes to Shikaku who was standing on the edge of the pit I was in and was staring at me.

A rush of memories hit me as my clones had been taken out by an awfully convenient sandstorm that covered the fleeing ninja.

"Give me a minute, I'm going to lay here for a bit." I waved Shikaku away and stared at the sky enjoying the cloudless view.

More and more memories hit me as the clones that didn't enter the sandstorm dispersed after giving up.

I held back a sigh as I realized that the Clan Head trio had done me a solid and held back bloodline woman while I killed the Jinchūriki.

Aomi had deprived the old woman of an arm with the help of mom, in defense of Duy who had been poisoned and was being rushed back to the main camp.

I closed the seal and got started on sending some of the excess chakra back into it.

I'd have to catch up with Duy so I could save him if things went south...

With that in mind, I Shunshined towards the main camp.

...

Duy thankfully wasn't in bad shape, however, I was reminded of the Poison and Disease Resistance I had forgotten about.

It was probably time to make everyone poison resistant...

I'd get some blood from around the camp and have some clones work on it...

With the addition of Poison Resistance from Suna, I'd say it'd be pretty good.

But...

If I was already doing an Overwrite why stop there?

Surely bigger reserves and denser chakra would be apricated would they not?

I nodded to myself.

A few sneaky changes wouldn't hurt...

Anger was temporary, power was forever after all...

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A briefing was held and time was wasted.

With the death of their Jinchūriki, it was likely Suna would drop out of the war.

They were fighting us and Iwa currently and their Jinchūriki was the only thing stopping Iwa from stomping on them. With their lack of Jinchūriki and Iwa's surplus of them, it seemed obvious that they would quit when they were ahead.

Or so Shikaku said...

I thought that it probably wouldn't be the case.

The battles between Kumo and Iwa had become more frequent and thus Iwa was committing more of their resources towards Kumo as well as Konoha.

Kumo was only fighting with one village while Iwa was fighting on three fronts.

Us and Suna were fighting on two fronts

So, Suna still had a chance even without their Jinchūriki as no-one could commit a lot of resources to destroy them.

I figured they knew that and would stay in the war.

Suna hadn't lost much yet, and could still afford to lose more.

The same held for most of the other nations, only their lack of income and failing economies would cause them to pull away from the war.

It was a fun state of affairs...

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