Chapter 19: Devlish Schemes

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any other references mentioned in this fanfic.

Kenji will go full blown Demon Merchant in this chapter. You have been warned.

Chapter 19

"Here, you can have the rest of my Takoyaki," Kenji offered as he held the half empty plate of octopus balls to Akame.

The small rabbit's ears perked up as she devoured the food in seconds.

Kenji smiled slightly as he wiped away the seaweed flakes off her mouth.

The duo was standing outside a small shop eating lunch. They were having a late lunch since the Hokage had ruined his work and he had to do it all over again.

Still he decided to forgive the old man, since he had given him such a useful jutsu.

"Mmm. The scroll says that it splits the chakra in half, but that seems like such a waste. I wonder if I could create an item to improve the effects. Maybe a talisman that makes clones harder to dispel," he wondered as he read the open scroll in his hands.

Of course, he had tried to make sentient clones with talisman in the past, but they were all failures. He never could figure out the right wording to replicate the jutsu, so he had been putting it off till now.

"Hm? There's a note that says yin chakra is used to create the shell of the clone while yang chakra fuels it. That's interesting. My Earth clones work by using dirt as a medium for my chakra. This would allow spiritual energy in yin chakra to transfer memories back to the user. A body of yin with the energy of yang. This could help me with 'that'."

Putting his hands in a cross seal just like the scroll indicated, he immediately felt his reserves cut in half. A puff of smoke appeared in front of him.

Chakra: Genin

Chakra Points: 2,075/ 4,150

Standing there was a perfect copy of him except without Akame.

"This is rather interesting isn't it," the clone told his creator as he took the bandages off his face.

"I couldn't agree more," Kenji commented as he handed the clone a kunai.

The clone accepted it and tried to cut the pink bandana.

Riippp

"Looks like the effects of upgraded equipment doesn't transfer over," the copy said holding up the ripped bandana.

The clone then handed Kenji one of his own kunai.

Kenji took it to see if he could upgrade it, but no information came, "Interesting, looks like I can't upgrade it either. Might be because it is made up of pure chakra. What about you, can you use our ability?"

The clone shook his head, "No. I tried it on your kunai but nothing happened. Looks like you are the only one that can use it."

The two gave each other evil grins.

"Good, last thing we want is for someone else to have this ability."

"Right, well then, I'll head to the shop to see how things are going," the clone announced but a hand from Kenji made him stop.

"I have a better idea."

(Scene change)

3:28 PM

A gathering of 10 people looked at the clock with annoyed looks.

They were in a brightly lit room without any windows. The room was made to look like a giant octagon with white stone walls. In the center of the room was a 10-foot-tall furnace in the shape of giant egg made of copper, three sturdy legs holding it a foot of the ground. The ceiling was high, at least 30 feet, and there was a ventilation shaft above the furnace to let out the smoke.

3:30 PM

"When is he going to get here? It's already been half an hour. Shouldn't the teacher be the first to arrive?" a woman from the group said as she scowled at the clock hanging on the wall.

Just as she said that, the large front door opened, and two cute looking children walked inside, pushing in a cart with a sheet on it.

Those inside wondered why they appeared to have a pink bandana over their eyes, but tactful decided from asking such a rude question.

"Oh? You guys are early," one of them said.

She gave him an irritated look, "It's already 3:30. You're late!"

The two looked at each other and turned to the clock on the wall.

One of them walked closer to the clock to inspected it, then he used his finger to turn back the minute hand until it said 3:00.

The child gave his counterpart a thumbs up.

The other boy looked back the group with a sarcastic smile, "Really? Seems to me I'm right on time."

The students looked incredulous at their teacher.

Clapping his hands together Kenji spoke, "Right, enough fooling around. I've been hired to teach a group of people the art of alchemy. Whether this applies to you is entirely dependent on how well you perform in this class. If I find you lacking then I will not hesitate to kick you out and take someone new. Am I understood?"

The group stood ramrod as they answered, "Yes, Sensei!"

"I don't care what you call me outside but during these class you will refer to me as Master or Yamamoto-sama. Am I clear?"

"Yes, Master."

"Good, then I will start. Take a seat, it doesn't matter where?" Kenji said as his clone placed pillows in front of the furnace in an arc.

The ten students all took their seats however there was an eleventh seat. This was Akame's seat. She too would learn the art of alchemy.

The other students gave her questioning looks but since Kenji hadn't said anything, they turned back to the boy.

Kenji looked at the group of assembled people. It was a mixture of different people since this was a test batch. The Hokage and him had chosen people from different background to see what type of people were capable of learning. As such, these people were made up of both men and women, civilians and shinobi, and ages of all types.

Standing in the group Kenji had immediately noticed Konoha's infamous Snake Mistress, Anko Mitarashi standing front and center with a excited grin. Also in the group was a Hyuga, a Nara, a Yamanaka, and a Akimichi. Those had all been the Hokage's choices. Kenji's choices had consisted of civilian members, two of which belonged to the families of the Civilian Council.

"Right can anyone tell me what alchemy is?" Kenji questioned them as his clone pulled a chalk board and began to write things on it.

They looked hesitantly at each other, but finally a civilian girl nervously raised her hand.

"Megumi, right? Tell me what you know?"

"Ah. Isn't it you know-hmm… mixing thing into a pot to create stuff, like those in fantasy books," she finished with a flushed expression.

"I know which books you are talking about, it would be hard not to," Kenji said as he took out one of those books from his kimono and held it up for everyone to see, then turned it to the back cover that had a black and white picture of him.

As Yukiko had predicted, the books were a massive hit. With careful planning and expert marketing, they were able to pique the interest of many in the village. These books were especially popular with civilians since many of the protagonist were those that came from humble beginnings and rose up to defy the worlds that was built by nobles and such. The martial arts and fighting interested the men, while the romance and political aspect appealed to the women. Currently there were five series of novels out on the market, with their respective sequels already in the publisher's hands to be released when the time was right.

"And before you ask yes, I do autographs, but only for 10 Ryo."

Turning to the chalk board he picked up a piece of chalk and added some things. "Now as I was saying, yes, this is the exact type of alchemy found in my books. However I would like to say this now, but all of the ingredients mentioned in the books are fictional and you should never attempt to replicate it without supervision. I still recommend you buy a book just to familiarizes yourself with the subject though," he advised as he held up the book high in the air.

The class looked with deadpanned eyes at the blatant show of self-promotion.

"Ahem, moving on. Now I'll begin by explaining exactly what Alchemy is. In simple terms, alchemy is the manipulation of energy found in objects to create miracle drugs," Kenji stated while his clone pulled away the sheet to reveal different types of alchemy ingredients.

The students recognized a few ingredients like ginger, sage and worm wood, but the rest were an unknown. There seemed to be a dried-up mushroom that had a moaning face on it, as well as a fruit that looked like a pomegranate only blue. Animal body parts such as horns, teeth, claws, and hair also littered the table. Pouches filled with different colored powders also caught the attention of many.

Picking up the ginger and the mushroom in both hands he went on, "As I mentioned, these ingredients can range from a wide variety of objects. Things as simple as this ginger to the dried-up corpse of a chakra beast called the Smiling Mushroom. Hiding inside of these ingredients is a hidden energy and it is our job as alchemists to bring it out, in the form of pills, potions, and elixirs. All of you understand so far?"

"Yes, Master," they said as one.

"Good, now gather around and look closely, this is what pill refining looks like," Kenji announced as he opened the furnace door.

They saw red and yellow flames dancing on the inside of the furnace, yet they felt no heat coming off of it.

Kenji threw in the ginger and Smiling Mushroom corpse, then he added some stems of worm wood and a couple of animal teeth. As soon as they touched the flames, they were burned to ashes but continued to float suspended in the air.

Kenji then went through different hand gestures none of which belonged to the twelve hand seals, but resembled those made by monks and priest when they were offering prayers.

The class watched as the flames would either grow larger or smaller with every gesture, sometimes changing colors. The pile of ash would also move almost as if guided by an invisible hand. It was as if the very flames themselves were molding the ash pile just like potter molded clay.

With one final upward gesture the inside of the furnace gave off a blinding golden light, causing all of those watching to momentarily go blind.

"Ah, fuck, my eyes!"

They rubbed their eyes to get rid off the spots in their vision.

Then they witnessed as 11 pills about 1mm in size floated out of the furnace and into Kenji's awaiting hand, their glossy surface made them look like tiny pearls.

"Woah."

Kenji handed one to each of the students except Akame.

"This is a (low) body purifying pill. They are my gift to you so take them. You will find that your body will feel cleaner as a result."

Hesitantly they all took the pills. The clone secretly took out a timer.

Several seconds passed by without result.

"I don't feel-urk"

They collapsed on the ground and began to spit out black tar.

The clone showed Kenji the timer, "Oh, not bad."

Kenji watched them for several minutes before making a signal to his clone. "You guys sure made a mess. Alright then, first assignment, clean up this entire room. I want it spotless. I want it so clean that you can eat off the floor, in fact you might just do that."

The pile of groaning students watched as the clone came back with cleaning supplies.

"If you manage to clean it all before the time is up then I'll go over some of the more common ingredients used in alchemy."

With that Kenji left his clone to supervise the students, while he took a seat on one of the pillows.

He got into a lotus position and began to meditate.

With every breath he took the world around him grew quitter until all he heard was silence.

A white diagram began to appear in his mind, lines of all different lengths and thickness appeared. Some were curved while others had sharp corners. Together they formed a rough design of a rabbit head inside of an octagon.

Each corner of the octagon lit up with a blue light. With every breath he took the line grew.

With every inhale he could feel energy in his surroundings be pulled into him. When he exhaled, he mixed it with his own energy and fed the diagram a little more, carefully tracing the white lines with surgical precision.

His abdomen tightened as they felt the build up of chakra in his stomach.

When the diagram was half-lit, Kenji was sweating profusely.

At the third-fourths mark, the veins under his skin began to bulge yet Kenji didn't move an inch.

When he was 90% done his body began to give off a large amount of heat.

Finally when the diagram was fully lit Kenji willed it to grow smaller and smaller. His body trembled trying to contain all of that energy from escaping.

Very slowly the energy was condensed into a single point. The result was a golden drop that made its way into his reserves where it joined other droplets to form a golden liquid.

Kenji exhaled a breath from his mouth, that came out as super-heated steam. His face was flushed as a result of the heat he was giving off.

Chakra: Genin

Chakra Points: 1,812 /4,150

Soul Point: 21

Looking at the clock he noticed that an hour had gone by.

'The time to gather one soul point is getting shorter. I wonder if I can shorten it to only a few minutes,' the small boy thought deeply, remembering when it used to take him 7 hours.

Soul Points, the name that he had given to this strange new energy in his body.

He had first noticed the emergence of this energy when he was in his cell. He had meditating like usual when he noticed an anomaly in his chakra system. A normal person would have completely missed it but someone like Kenji, who had perfect chakra and a hyper sensitive awareness of his chakra system was able to notice it almost instantly.

This energy appeared as tiny white fragments that floated around his chakra pathways, just like how white blood cells tended to float in blood vessels.

From his observations it wasn't anything harmful, but he kept a close eye on it anyways.

He noticed that when he entered Sage Mode this mysterious energy would act strangely. These flakes of energy could absorb nature energy for a small time and then release it slowly, therefore extending the time limit of his Sage Mode.

When he was finally freed, he dedicated at least an hour every night to study this new phenomenon.

Kenji had asked Kaguya if this was her doing, but the Rabbit Goddess admitted that even she didn't know what it was.

Then a crazy idea had appeared in his head, 'I wonder what would happen if I gather these little fragments into something bigger?'

This simple thought plagued his mind for days before he finally gave in and decided to come up with a way to gather the white flakes.

He tried a number of different ways, but nothing ever seemed to work.

When he asked Kaguya for help, she readily agreed as she too had been rather curious. It took days of trial and error but they had finally created a method to capture the energy in Kenji's chakra and condense it into a single point.

The Cultivation Formula.

This ridiculous sounding name had come from Kaguya herself. Kenji thought it was stupid but knew better than to state otherwise, especially when the calm goddess looked so proud of her work.

The Cultivation Formula was a product of their blood, sweat, and tears (all Kenji's).

In theory it was rather simple, you just molded chakra to create a talisman inside of your body. Once the talisman diagram was fully formed all you needed was to make it smaller and smaller, at which point it would turn into a golden liquid.

That was in theory anyways, it was only in practice that a number of problems arose. For instance, the amount of chakra points needed to create just a single drop was equal to 1,000 Chakra Points. You also couldn't lose your concentration for even a second or else the diagram would disappear, and all of the chakra gathered would be wasted.

There was also a heating problem. As most things in nature, the more pressure you apply to something the hotter it becomes, and chakra was no different. The result of condensing that much chakra into a single point meant that the body's temperature rose astronomically, up to the point that Kenji would sometimes pass out from heat strokes during the first few tries. It was only thanks to his enhanced body durability that he didn't set his insides on fire.

All in all, Kenji felt that the payout was too little compared to all the effort and pain he had to suffer for a measly drop. The only reason why he even bothered with doing it was because he noticed that his vision problem had improved slightly ever since he started… well that and Kaguya had promised him a gift if he reached 100 Soul Points.

Glancing at his 'students' he saw his clone drawing a picture of what looked like a dandelion fluff with a cat face on the chalk board.

"-and while the body of the fluff-fluff is easy to damage all of it's internal organs are covered in a protective mesh comprised of collagen. The kidneys hold cleansing properties and can be eating as is to expel poisons or combined with other ingredients to make a stronger cure."

One of the students raised their hands, "How do you know all of this?"

"With trail and error," the clone said in a emotionless voice.

"I-I see. I'm sorry," the boy said apologetically.

"That being said, I would like to make one thing clear. Alchemy is a newly created branch of science and therefore not much is known yet. Even I who has experiment extensively do not everything. If you want to pursue the path of an Alchemist, then you must be willing to put your mind and body in harms way to discover new things. At times you will be forced to eat disgusting ingredients just to find out what it does."

"Isn't there a simpler way?"

"Of course, I recommend teaching a class and making the students do it," the clone finished as it began to toss a packet of paper work at them, "This packet lists 30 of the most common alchemy ingredients and a short description of what they do. Memorize it because I will be testing you next time. A quick reminder, classes are Monday and Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. You can all leave now, I'm tired of looking at your faces."

The clone made shooing motion with his hands, irritating the group further.

The group of students exited the room looking through their homework packet.

Kenji walked to his clone now that they were all gone. "Looks like I might actually have a talent for teaching after all."

"Of course, it's us we're talking about," the clone said with a smile.

Kenji's face then took a serious tone, "Did everything go as planned."

The double gave smug grin, "Obviously."

"Perfect," the small boy said as they shared identical grins.

"Hehehahahaahaa-MwahahahaHAHAHA!"

The two laughed manically as their scheme.

It was so simple. While the Hokage had deemed all information taught to be kept secret for the time being, Kenji knew that the information would eventual be leaked, in fact he was counting on it. It would be foolish to think that people would just do as they are told afterall, especially with people like Danzo and Orichimaru in the world, so he made plans for the inevitable future.

He would continue to teach this class and in doing so reveal more and more of his secrets, however that was only on the surface.

For example, while it was true that the Puff-Puff's liver could indeed be used for detoxification, he purposely left out that its skin could also be used to make a powerful pill that could increase chakra reserves. Not only that, they were a level 0 chakra beast that could even be beaten by normal civilians carrying sticks. Their only advantage was being cute.

People, as was their nature, would be overcome with greed and hunt the adorable Puff-Puffs excessively for their liver and when they brought the corpses to Kenji for dismantling, he would be able to take the skin for himself without paying a single extra ryo.

This was done to all of the chakra beasts' ingredients not just the Puff-Puff.

As for the other ingredients, well their value on the market would rise tremendously once it was known that they had beneficial properties. The blue pomegranate for example was a rare and mystical ingredient that could only be found in two places. A small province in the south-western part of the Land of Fire and right here in this village, both of which were owned by Kenji.

The Daimyo, as thanks for healing his wife, had gifted Kenji with his very own land, and while he hadn't been their yet, Akame had inspected the land with her shadow travel. His land was a green forested area with many tall mountains that reached the clouds.

She had found pomegranate trees and various medicinal herbs growing on the side of a mountains. In fact, he had started a minor farming operation at the very top of these mountain tops. He placed a large number of protective talismans around the area to stop theft and if that wasn't enough he made Akame transport a Shrine of Kaguya so that she could keep a close eye on it. She promised to protect his land as an apology for getting him arrested.

As for the more common ones like ginger and sage, Kenji had bought a large number of farms that already grew them beforehand using the money he received from the Daimyo.

"HA- *Cough* *Cough* *Cough*."

The two Kenji's began to cough as a result of two much laughing.

"Cough. Ouch, this better not give me a sore throat," Kenji said grabbing his throat.

"Ah, but it's worth it," the clone said doing the same, "we are turning things into gold after all. Isn't that every alchemist's dream?"

"How right you are me," Kenji agreed at the sage words coming from himself.

"Don't worry about the paperwork too much either, us clones will handle it from now on," the clone said with a bright smile and a thumbs up.

'As expected of my clones, they now the importance of responsibility,' the small boy thought as he looked at his clone with the eyes of someone seeing a heroic figure from legend.

(Scene break)

"Haaaaa~ I really needed this," Kenji said as he soaked all the way up to his neck in the hot water.

He had his hair loose and his face had the magenta lines and purple crescent moon for all to see.

A wooden bucket floated nearby with a pot of tea and some boiled eggs.

"I must agree," said his companion as she relaxed in the soothing water, letting all of the stress melt away.

"I've been so busy that I rarely get the chance to visit a hot spring in the real world, I thank you My Lady," Kenji told the Rabbit Goddess that was also enjoying the bath.

Currently she was in her giant form, since shapeshifting her form took energy and she wanted to relax. They were in his mindscape so Kaguya had designed this hot spring to relax from time to time.

Well he said hot spring but in reality, it could not be considered as such. For instance, they were currently on top of a giant mountain whose height reached past the clouds. It looked like the top of it had been completely cut away with a giant blade leaving it perfectly smooth, then the middle had been dug out and filled with water. Kenji suspected that it was actually a volcano rather than a mountain since the water was always hot, as expected of a Goddess.

The volcanic spring was wide enough for even Kaguya to full stretch out if she wanted to, and while she did exactly that, Kenji was peacefully soaking inside of a giant wooden bucket the size of an Olympic sized pool. It floated just above the water's surface moving every so often as a result of Kaguya who caused tidal waves even the smallest of gestures.

'They're big,' Kenji thought as he stared at the two mounds of milky flesh that floated on the water's surface. Normally they couldn't be scene very well since Kaguya tended to wear baggy kimonos, but Kenji was sure that they would be C-cup borderline D-cup when compared to normal sized women. Not that he cared very much since he had yet to reach puberty and things of sexual nature were generally dismissed by him.

"You have been working hard as my Advisor Kenji," the Goddess said as she took a giant hand towel and wiped the sweat on her brow.

"Uuurggh," Kenji moaned as he sunk into the water even more, "The village has been hectic ever since the emergence of the chakra beasts, but it looks like people are finally starting to adapt. As expected of a village full of shinobi, even the civilians are quick to adjust to the weird."

"Once again I apologize," Kaguya said as she inclined her head in his direction, involuntarily making his tub rock from the waves it created, "I acted hastily, and it has caused you unneeded problems."

It was just as she said, she had not put great thought when she had decided to make more chakra beasts.

The more Kenji got to now her, the more prevalent her flaws became. Her biggest was that despite always maintaining a calm and confident façade, Kaguya was absolutely horrible in planning, or rather she was one of those people that only say the big picture.

It should have been obvious in retrospect. Kaguya had always been someone of great power or high standing. Back when she had first arrived, she had been the Daimyo's concubine, so she had rarely needed to manage anything. There had always been servants at her beck and call if she ever needed anything, and for the most part she was fine in letting the humans do things on their own.

When she obtained the power of the chakra fruit, this mindset only got worse.

When Kenji had asked her about this, she always said that she didn't want to be viewed as a tyrant, which was true but only half. The real reason was that she didn't know the first thing about being a ruler other than asking for stuff. She had no understanding of farming, cleaning, or even basic life skills. In other words, she was a spoiled Noble with zero work experience.

The only reason why she had let a small number of people out of the Infinite Tsukuyomi was because she needed servants, and only enough for a small village. If she had any real skills in ruling than she could have created an entire kingdom and trained them to defend against her clansmen but instead she had decided to create the White Zetsus.

It wasn't entirely her fault though; her clan weren't exactly the most caring of people. If they wanted something then they just took it, with hardly anyone being able to stop them. If anyone got in their way, then they just need to flex their power, maybe blow up a country or two, and usually 10/10 of the time that would be enough. There was no need to come up with complicated plans to get their way since Plan A rarely failed.

That wasn't to say that she was stupid, in fact it was the exact opposite. She was able to pick up knew things in seconds, it took her only a couple of days to learn everything that Kenji knew about the world after all, even complicated things that she had never seen before like chemistry or arithmetic's.

However, because she had never experience failure or strife, she was unable to completely understand people.

One of her favorite past times in fact was watching Kenji interact with others, something that even the small boy didn't even know about. And while he was far from what you would consider a good role model or even a decent human being, Kaguya began to understand humans a little better.

Kenji on the other hand couldn't say he was entirely unhappy about their relationship.

Sure he was little more than a goffer or servant at this point with Kaguya making vague request here and there, but he honestly felt purpose in his life. While owning a shop would always be his dream there were times when even he craved the occasional thrill, and nothing was more thrilling than creating plans after plans to achieve some task.

In some way, the two were perfect for each other, with Kaguya making requests and Kenji making the plans to achieve the desired goal.

"It's fine," the merchant said waving her off for the hundredth time, "I was able to turn it around for our benefit so everything worked out. Although I would appreciate greatly if you were to warn me next time My Lady."

"…"

"Did it just get colder," Kenji said out loud as he felt a sudden chill run through him.

"How has your efforts to strengthen the humans gone?" she said conjuring one of the sake bottle that Kenji had presented as an offering.

Kenji got into a pensive look, "It is still to early to tell but I feel that thing are going well. The Chakra Beast Association, although new, have been able to make great progress in combating the ever-growing number of chakra beasts. As a whole they have been able to categorizes about 43 new species without my help bringing the number up to 354. With the new equipment that I sell to them, I've been able to make quite a profit too. Although despite my best efforts they have not fired me, I mean that has to be clear abuse of power, yet they ignore it like nothing!"

"Are you well?"

"Ahem, I apologize for that. As I was saying, they are steadily getting used to their new job. Currently we have 52 researchers and 780 field members comprised of shinobi and the Daimyo's elite soldiers. A monthly expedition into the Forest of Death will also begin in an effort to reclaim the lost training ground. Chances are that I will be tasked with leading this group along with the other head officials," Kenji predicted biting his nail with a small amount of worry.

The Forest of Death had become the most dangerous place in the entire Land of Fire, beating the acid lakes in the west by a large margin.

The area had almost become unrecognizable as a result of the new animals and vegetation. Around a quarter of the chakra beasts in the area had already reached Level 2. Worse was that some had intelligent minds that didn't lose out to humans, like the blue gorillas that dominated the north of the forest. They could create low grade armor and weapons from animal bones and wood.

Kenji wouldn't be surprised if a Level 3 were to immerge in a couple of years.

And if it wasn't troublesome enough, Kenji himself had a strange effect on them.

In simplified terms, he was crack to them.

Perhaps it was some instinctual part in their brain, since the chakra dust that changed them had originally come from Kenji, but almost 70% of the time they would attack him on sight. The other 30% was split evenly in either running away or submitting to him, although this typically only applied to Level 0 Chakra Beasts.

"Although I'm happy to say that the villagers have gotten used to seeing the occasional chakra beasts. Some have even started to keep them as pets, despite it being illegal. The Puff-Puff and the Fire Ferret being the most popular so far."

Another thing to note was that Kaguya had a horribly sense of naming. The Puff-Puff being the clear example, and since she had already named about half her creations Kenji had no choice but name the rest to stop her.

Seriously, she had the naming sense of someone infected with eight-grade syndrome. Although the names that the CBA and the villagers gave them weren't much better, so maybe it was him that was weird.

"We will be close to finishing the first edition of the chakra beast handbook next week. It lists the different strengths and weaknesses of different chakra beast as well as the best tactics when fighting them. Hopefully with this the number of casualties will go down too."

"It really is a shame," Kaguya said when she thought of the loss of life, even it was just humans.

"Well, no one ever said change was pretty. Those that survive will be stronger as a result though, so their sacrifices won't be in vain," Kenji said trying to reassure her as well as himself.

Perhaps it was just wishful thinking but Kaguya hoped that was the case.

"Now as you suggested, I have begun to teach others the way of pill refining and alchemy. Although normally they would be unable to make any without one of my special pill furnaces it is only a matter of time. Plants and different materials have started to appear in the world and the way things are, they would have eventual discovered the art of alchemy in 20 or something years even without my chakra dust to act as an enhancer."

"Right now, nobody knows much about the subject other than what they have read in my books but that will soon change. My goal is for people to start experimenting on their own, and make brand new recipes, that way it's not just me that's putting in the work," Kenji spoke his intentions.

Danzo, Orochimaru, and the other nations would begin their own study in the subject once they find out it was possible. Once the time was right, Kenji would then steal their recipes for himself and save himself the time and effort it took to develop them. Why risk his life to create more when his enemies would do it for him? No doubt Danzo already had plans to steal the information from one of his students to make some for himself. But that was fine, since after he killed Danzo those recipes would be his, cause make no mistake, that one eyed hawk was going down.

Kaguya raised a finger to her chin in thought, "Is that why you deliberately bought almost all of the ingredients on the market that were mentioned inside that packet you gave your pupils?"

"How astute of you My Lady. Yes, once they figure out that the ingredients mentioned in the packet were purchased in large amounts, they will suspect one of their own to have leaked the information to an outside party and with no way of knowing the identity of the culprit they will be forced to leak the information themselves to their respective superiors. The clansmen will go to their Clan Head for help, while the civilians will go to their parents or other powerful figures. Never would they think that it was actually me."

'Plus with this, it will result in a sudden spike in prices, making my farms all the more valuable.'

"You truly are meticulous in your goals Kenji," Kaguya compliment, impressed at his scheme, "You appear to be enjoying yourself."

He shrugged his shoulders, "I have to admit I haven't had this much fun in a while. And what of yourself My Lady, anything I should be aware of?"

"Nothing to speak of I'm afraid. I've been traveling the world in my spare time, creating new creature here and there, observing the humans from time to time," she said casually as she waved her hand over the water's surface making giant droplets float in the air. These droplets then took the shape of different chakra beasts. When she waved her hand again a blue dust was scattered, and the water creatures gained color.

In less time than it took for Kenji to sip his tea, she had created over 200 chakra beasts using nothing but her power and the chakra dust that Kenji provided.

The small merchant would give her one thing, she had quite the artistic eye.

The chakra beasts disappeared with another hand wave, no doubt they would be born on Earth shortly.

"Kenji, I am in need of more of chakra dust."

Kenji put on a puzzled look, "Already? You should still have plenty from the amount you took during my genin exam."

"I do not wish to bore you with the details, but I too have devised a way to strengthen the humans. Unfortunately, it requires a large amount of energy and chakra dust?" she admitted, causing that chilling filling to run up Kenji's spin again.

In a flash the laid-back attitude was erased, and Kenji stared up at the giant Goddess with a serious frown, "Strengthen how?"

Kaguya snapped her fingers and the water rose once more. This time however it formed a 3D layout of what appeared to be a labyrinth with numerous chambers. The corridors twisted in various directions and the walls and rooms were lined with all manner of deadly traps.

"I took inspiration from your novels and created Ancient Ruins," she boldly stated, dismissing Kenji's sharp intake of air. "No need to concern yourself with them, they are well hidden, and are guarded by my more dangerous creatures."

'Wait? They?' "How many have you created so far?"

"27 ruins have been created thus far, scattered all over the entire Elemental Nations."

"Oh dear."

"Which brings me to my next point. I wish for you to make an appropriate reward for those that choose to challenge these ruins. Perhaps an Earth Grade Artifact or two," she said going into full blown dungeon master.

Slowly Kenji submerged completely into the water in a futile attempt to drown himself in his own mind.

A/N: Done. (:

Happy New Years everyone!

Hope you enjoyed this chapter.

A few things I would like to clarify to start.

First, the Alchemy and Chakra Beast Association. I won't right too much about them, most chapter will be about Kenji managing his shop. The rest of the time just think that a clone is doing the work in the background. The only times I will mention them is if there is an arc concerning them, like if he was tasked with exploring an 'Ancient Rune'/ Dungeon or creating some powerful pill.

Next, the Soul Point system. Right now you can just ignore it, it won't appear to often. Just think of the soul drops as batteries that can be charged with Nature chakra that Kenji can use to enter Sage Mode any time he wants.

Did you like the method of cultivation? I'm sure some Wuxia fans have been curious when he would get it. I'm still working out the kinks so please be patient.

I hope my logic concerning Kaguya wasn't too weird, it just seemed obvious to me. It's like if you took a Japanese Noble for Ancient times and stuck them in the middle of WW2 and expected them to know what to do.

Should I add more kinship between Kaguya and Kenji or is this enough?

PS: The Puff-Puff look like one of those white dandelion puffs except with an adorable cat face and tail, no legs but they can jump pretty high.

Next chapter will be from the viewpoints of various figures in the elemental nations, and their reaction to everything that has been happening. So stay tuned.