Chapter 81

Observing the little girl, the clan princess took a small jar of brown pills from her kimono pocket and looked at it doubtfully. After some hesitation, she shrugged, gave one to the girl to swallow, and took three for herself. Then she settled into her place, feeling a pleasant warmth spreading through her body and her strength increasing.

Without delay, the woman placed the jar next to her and activated the seals with a simple impulse. Hundreds and hundreds of symbols, hieroglyphs, and signs covering all the walls, floor, and ceiling of the room suddenly ignited and began pulsating, gradually changing and converging around the two motionless figures.

When ovals of seals gathered around the two Uzumakis, pressure suddenly built up in the room, and dark red, almost crimson chakra began to emanate from the elder's abdomen, gathering into a small cloud that exuded a palpable thirst for murder.

For a couple of minutes, this process continued, concentrating the power of the bijuu, but then the seals surrounding the girl started creeping onto her body, concentrating around her abdomen. Afterward, the chakra hovering in the air began to be drawn into a shining seal that emerged beneath the fabric, just above the seal on Mito's abdomen.

Slowly at first, but as time passed, the process accelerated. Despite the intense pain one of the participants was experiencing, judging by her distorted face, there was not a sound in the room, thanks to the prudently prepared paralyzing seals. One wrong move could spoil everything, so it was better to be cautious.

After a dozen minutes, the process reached its logical conclusion, and precisely at the moment when all the seals disappeared, the new jinchuriki lost consciousness. For her, it was all over.

As for the second Uzumaki, it couldn't be said — the material, destroyed by the chakra of the strongest bijuu, revealed a gradually disappearing seal on her abdomen, but instead, a new one emerged, just slightly higher, and from it, symbols swiftly spread, covering the kunoichi from head to toe.

And simultaneously with Mito's groan of pain, the ink flashed with a brilliant blue light, filling the damaged, almost destroyed chakra coil of the woman's body with a huge amount of alien chakra. With trembling hands, overcoming pain and pleasant tremors coursing through her body in waves, the kunoichi reached for the jar of pills and hastily emptied its contents into her mouth, swallowing the remaining five.

All her strength left her from such a simple action, and she could only wait, trying not to lose consciousness from immense fatigue, gradually diminishing pain, the heat burning within, and waves of bliss. Losing track of time, Uzumaki could only lie on the floor in a kind of trance, fighting off sleep.

However, all of this disappeared in a single moment of sudden realization — the hand in front of her was changing! Slowly but surely, the parchment-like elderly skin began to fill with life, getting rid of sagging and wrinkles, becoming more and more elastic and smooth. Unbelieving her eyes, the kunoichi staggered to her feet from the cold stone floor and looked in amazement at the changes happening to her hands.

The seal had already disappeared, but it had done its job — the source was once again producing chakra untouched by external interference, now rapidly working on the body.

Over the last twenty years, Mito had become so accustomed to approaching old age that she could hardly believe all the changes, even when her fingers moved nimbly and agilely over smooth skin… Until she looked below. With a loud squeal, the formerly solid kunoichi jumped like a girl and happily squeezed her once again firm and strong chest, barely fitting in her palms.

Soon, the same fate befell her buttocks, causing a new wave of joyful squeals. Eventually, the incredibly happy Mito pulled the pins out of her hair and was pleased to discover that their color had once again become burgundy-red, as befitting any true Uzumaki!

"Ryo-chan was right after all!" echoed the happy laughter throughout the room, nothing like the slightly shaky elderly voice from before. "I just can't believe it! I'm young again! Oh Kami, how wonderful it is!"

After calming down a bit, now looking only in her early thirties, the elder noticed Kushina. A quick examination showed that the sealing had been successful, and the jinchuriki seal was holding the bijuu quite reliably.

Picking up the girl in her arms, the rejuvenated Mito Uzumaki headed for the exit from the basement — with the changes that had taken place, there were many things to attend to. And not the least of them was to restore her former combat skills.

Even though her kekkei genkai was once again working at full capacity, the practically protruding ribs and too thin limbs hinted at a good meal and the necessity of training.

Of course, even in such a condition, she was capable of causing quite a lot of trouble to the current Hokage, but it was still a long way from reaching the peak of her abilities, when she could fight on equal terms with Tobirama and before losing, give Hashirama a run for his money. And this needed to be corrected as soon as possible!

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