Chapter 6: Tsunade: Have I turned into a wild boar?

At the start of a new month, he began by opening the ability roulette.

After deciding to leave the village, Uchiha Youichi spent two more days familiarizing himself with the Lightning Release Chakra Mode. He then prepared to see if the superpower roulette could grant him a strong ability before he left.

[Sneeze Transformation]: When you sneeze, you randomly select a person within ten kilometers and possess an animal. The person turned into an animal will hear your inner voice. Another sneeze will end the transformation.

What kind of bizarre ability is this, and how is it relevant to him?

After thinking it over carefully, Uchiha Youichi confirmed that this was almost a prank ability that had nothing to do with him, so he closed the ability roulette and stopped paying attention to it.

In the past year, Uchiha Youichi had drawn too many useless abilities. Initially, he had high hopes that the ability roulette would grant him a fate-changing power, enabling him to achieve the level of the Six Paths. However, now it had become a routine check-in.

Today's ability was obviously a prank, and a random one at that. Uchiha Youichi couldn't control it, and if he remembered correctly, he had already sneezed when he got up in the morning.

After having breakfast, Uchiha Youichi packed his ninja tools and headed to the Hokage Building fully armed.

He had a considerable amount of savings at home, and taking on missions was Uchiha Youichi's way of leaving the village. He was not a native Uchiha or Konoha resident, so his sense of belonging here was minimal.

Moreover, although Konoha Village seemed large, more than sixty percent of it was occupied by villagers and ninja clan residences, leaving few places to visit. Staying here for a long time felt suffocating.

Upon arriving at the Hokage Building, Uchiha Youichi went straight to the mission desk.

Usually, the Third Hokage was also involved in issuing missions. A-rank and S-rank missions were personally assigned by the Third Hokage to ninjas, but when the Hokage was busy, he wouldn't come to the mission desk.

"I want to take a mission, preferably a C-rank mission that involves leaving the village, something like a solo bandit extermination."

After a pause, Uchiha Youichi continued with a heavier tone, "A real C-rank mission, not a disguised A-rank or fake S-rank. No enemy Jonin hidden in the mission!"

The ninja at the mission desk recognized this ninja asking for a mission. Within half a year, he had disbanded three mission teams and was known as the "cold-blooded teammate," prioritizing mission completion over the lives of his teammates—this was Uchiha Youichi.

"Got it."

Although the mission desk staff wasn't particularly happy, the last mission's mistake was indeed partly their fault. Additionally, the person in front of them was an Uchiha, and his gaze wasn't very friendly, so they didn't argue back.

"There aren't many C-rank missions left. Currently, only four involve leaving the village. One is escorting a caravan, which requires a team. Another two are long-term protection missions, also requiring ninja teams. The last one was just brought in by the client. It's from residents near the village who reported wild animals trampling their fields and breaking into their houses."

The ninja at the mission desk explained that besides combat missions, very few tasks were meant for a single person. Especially escort and protection missions, where the more ninjas there were, the more reassured the employers felt, as they couldn't distinguish between strong and weak ninjas.

"You can only take this last beast-clearing mission. The remaining ones are D-rank missions, which have no restrictions for Chunin. There are also some B-rank missions, but you can only take assassination types."

Uchiha Youichi was a bit surprised. "I can take B-rank missions?"

Although Chunin could take B-rank missions, it was typically for Chunin teams, as team coordination helped lower the failure rate. Solo missions had a high failure rate, and a few failed records could tarnish Konoha's reputation.

"Others can't, but Youichi-san, you can."

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Youichi realized that his clan and the Elders must have put in a good word for him.

"Check for any suitable B-rank missions for me."

Uchiha Youichi took on a C-rank mission to clear out wild beasts and a B-rank mission to eliminate a mafia supported by ninjas. The first mission was reported to the village today, and when Uchiha Youichi arrived at the Hokage Building, he probably just missed the client.

According to the investigation, it was said that the wild boar had escaped from the Forest of Death, trampling a field and then crashing into the home of a village head near Konoha.

The village head was so frightened that he immediately ran to Konoha, hoping to hire a ninja to kill the beast.

Wild beasts that escape from the Forest of Death are likely to have chakra in their bodies. However, even if they have chakra, they are still unintelligent beasts and do not pose the threat level of a ninja.

Uchiha Youichi took this mission purely out of convenience. Killing a wild beast would earn him 50,000 ryō, and without having to share it with other team members, he thought it wasn't too bad to work solo.

At the Konoha village gate, Uchiha Youichi met the village head who had commissioned the mission, and they walked to the village together.

The attacked village was not far from Konoha, only a ten-minute walk away.

While on the way, Uchiha Youichi learned the general situation from the village head. The attacking animal was likely a wild boar, but its tusks were as large as an elephant's, and its body was like a small hill. The village head had been terrified, but he recalled that the boar was at least four to five meters long.

This size was not small even for the Forest of Death, but given the irregular natural environment typical for ninjas, it wasn't unusual. In the Land of Grass, there are even bamboo stalks that are several meters thick.

Tracking the beast was simple. Unlike ninjas, animals can't hide their tracks, and the footprints left behind were clear.

After observing for a while, Uchiha Youichi was ready to move out and find the beast. "Village head, wait here for news."

With that, he performed a Body Flicker Jutsu and disappeared from the village head's sight. The Lightning Release Chakra Mode required daily use of Lightning Release Chakra to stimulate and train the body, so the Body Flicker had become his frequently used jutsu.

'How did I turn into a wild boar!?'

Upon waking up, Tsunade was so shocked that she almost lost her bearings.

Last night, she was still drinking at home, but today she woke up to find herself in a forest on the outskirts!

Moreover, her body had changed, and her vision was completely different from usual. When she tried to speak, she made grunting noises, and she couldn't even wave her hand.

As a top medical ninja, Tsunade's understanding of the human body was unparalleled in the ninja world. She quickly realized that she was no longer in a human body.

Her body was huge, her limbs were short, and she was covered in foul-smelling mud. On top of that, she was very hungry.

"Oink oink oink!!!!"

'Damn it, who the hell played this joke on me? When I get back to normal, I'll definitely kill you!!'

After discovering she had turned into a wild boar, Tsunade roared in anger, but her words came out as a series of boar grunts.

Finally, she reached the riverside and discovered she had turned into a wild boar. This place seemed to be the Forest of Death.

Under normal circumstances, it would only take Tsunade ten minutes to leave the Forest of Death. But now, in the body of a wild boar, she couldn't even mobilize much chakra, let alone climb trees or walk on water. Hungry, she could only pick a direction and move forward.

After breaking through the protective barrier of the Forest of Death and spending some more time, Tsunade finally found a village next to Konoha.

At this point, Tsunade realized she had gone the wrong way, but her hunger was unbearable. She broke into the village head's house and found a rice bin to eat from. Eating raw grain was the limit of what Tsunade could endure. If she had to eat what wild boars normally eat, she'd rather die.

After eating her fill, Tsunade headed back to Konoha along the same path. Her primary goal now was to return to her human form. She vaguely remembered that Jiraiya had used a ninjutsu that transformed people into animals.

However, he transformed people into frogs, not wild boars. Tsunade was not sure if Jiraiya was behind this, but she felt it was unlikely. If Jiraiya dared to play such an excessive prank on her, Tsunade would break twelve of his ribs again.

'Konoha Village. I'll find Jiraiya first when I get back, but avoiding villagers and ninjas will be a hassle since I can't speak right now.'

Just as Tsunade was contemplating how to return to her human form, her battle-honed sense of impending danger kicked in, and she instantly sensed something was wrong. With a push of her short hind legs, she leapt forward.

No sooner had Tsunade jumped than six shuriken came flying from multiple directions, piercing the ground where she had just been.

From a distance, Uchiha Youichi, perched in a tree, widened his eyes slightly at the sight. Was his shuriken-throwing technique that poor?

Even a wild boar could dodge it?