the end of tragedy
(A/N: hey it's the third batch that I released, I will not waste your time reading these notes, just let's go to the chapter)
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it's been a few days since the day when Orochimaru and the Sand village raided Konoha, today is the day when the funeral ceremony will be held for everyone that falls on that day.
this time the causalities are being suppressed by Kaoru and his friends' actions, where they replace some civilians and put them in the secret bunker.
it is amusing to see their expression when they wake up but everything near them is destroyed, even the medical ninjas think these civilians were just too traumatized to the point that they forgot about the raid.
on this day everyone wore a similar black suit or dress and in a solemn mood, some lost wealth, some lost friends, and some lost a family or their loved one.
this is the real cost of war, there will be no real winner, and everyone will be a loser but, as a human, it's already in their blood to shed the blood of their own just for a little profit.
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Kaoru who is among the row of Jounins is thinking that this time he needs to take a mission outside of Konoha to find Tsunade, he knows that Jiraiya and Naruto will succeed in bringing her back to Konoha but, he needs to meet Orochimaru to make another deal because he knew that Orochimaru will try to find her.
but before he needs to meet someone who will act as his trump card since Hiruzen is dead and Danzo still always hiding in his hole Kaoru believes he needs her help, and if he can convince both her and Tsunade later, then he will have the greatest support except Sage of the sixth path and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
after the funeral ceremony, Kaoru immediately disappears and reaches the secret base to perform the ritual.
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Under Shirou's restaurant, inside the secret base, Kaoru prepares all the materials for this ritual.
at first, he wants to kidnap the white Zetsu but still doesn't find it to the point that Kaoru has to buy the Einzbern Homunculus because of their potential, and he also makes sure that the homunculus is a mindless one.
what Kaoru does right now is not just normal Edo Tensei, but similar to Gedo Rinne Tensei, a true revival Jutsu that he designed with Edo Tensei as the base.
that is also the reason that he needs a body for the sacrifice, lets the soul of the deceased possess the body completely, and uses the Jutsu as an anchor to bind the soul and body, also to make sure the ritual is successful and a compatible body is need, that's why Kaoru choose homunculus.
if the ritual is successful, there are three possibilities, which is the revived will lose both mana and chakra since both energies are not compatible, the second is the revived will have one of the energies whether it is mana or chakra, and the best outcome will be the revived have both chakra and mana.
no matter the result there is no disadvantage even if she lost both chakra and mana, Kaoru still has a guild shop and there are so many kinds of energies that he could buy as a last resort.
and even if the ritual fails, there are no problems since he could do it again later, Kaoru also is not afraid to offend the world's law since in this world revival is not a taboo or punished by heaven.
after finishing the preparation Kaoru is ready to start the ritual, the first step is to open the tunnel between the Pureland and the living world but what he doesn't take into account is that the reason why everyone who is revived by edo tensei is sometimes weaker than their prime.
*CRACKKK
as if the entire space was being destroyed by something, Kaoru was also being blown away by the explosion fortunately, he only lost his left limb and got several internal injuries.
the reason for the loss of power is not only because of the Jutsu user's chakra, but just opening the pathway for the soul to appear in the living world already draining the user's chakra and finding the soul in Pureland also cost a big amount of chakra, and the hardest is the soul approval to be summoned if the soul didn't approve the summon then the user needs to spend an absurd amount of chakra.
that's also the reason for the user of Edo Tensei sometimes dies before the Jutsu can be activated.
if it's normal Edo Tensei this kind of effect will not happen even if the Jutsu fails, since this is the modified one, the price for failure also changed accordingly, in this case, the tunnel between the Pureland and the living world will be destroyed and create a small space quake that strong enough to kill everyone in the radius several meters.
fortunately, Kaoru's reflex and instinct are too good, and combined with 'The End' his perception is good enough to detect something strange in the space around him.
Kaoru then quickly took the potion to heal himself and not long after that, his wounds recovered quickly and his lost limb regrew at a terrifying speed, if someone saw it maybe they would think Kaoru was a monster.
"Shit! I waste two weeks' worth of points for this potion, luckily I store the homunculus fast enough"
this time Kaoru already knows the reason for his failure, and he will not fail for the second time.
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after taking a break for a few hours and making another preparation, Kaoru is ready to perform the second experiment.
this time Kaoru also took strange pills, this is specialized chakra pills that he bought from the Akimichi clan, with his relationship with Chouji, it's easy for Kaoru to buy these pills.
it may have a weaker effect than the three-colored pills but, still better than normal military ration pills.
after everything is ready, Kaoru immediately starts the ritual, just like before he opens the tunnel first and Kaoru starts to search for her soul, this time Kaoru already consumes several pills but he still can't find her.
as if fate wanted to help him, not long after that he found her and started pulling her soul into the living world, at first her soul resisted his summon making Kaoru have to swallow so many chakra pills but, after he could make a small connection and say some word the soul accept his summon.
after pulling the soul into the living world, what Kaoru sees is a very bright white flame floating on top of the homunculus, and then the soul slowly goes into the body, when the soul is completely inside, the body starts to change.
the body becomes taller, if what he bought from the shop is a homunculus with the appearance of a teen, then this time the body grows into a middle-aged woman, the hair also becomes longer, and the color also slowly changes into a bright red with a little bit of white at the edge of the hair.
the body opened her eyes and started looking around after she saw Kaoru who was in tatter and still trying to control the massive amount of chakra that he lost.
the first sentence that she says is. "So, make sure to give me a good reason to not beat your head, ttebane!"