Geniuses...

Chapter 124

Title: Geniuses....

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-One Month Later-

-General POV-

During midday, in the Inuzuka Training grounds, Yami was training. He was stretching and doing light exercises to warm his body up. He was shirtless and had even taken off his headband and put them to the side. His only clothes were his dark blue pants. 

As Yami finished the last warm up. He took a deep breath and slowly lightning rays started appearing over his skin… 

'This is it.' Thought Yami trying to motivate himself.

<Lighting Armor>

Soon lighting encompasses his body and…

*fwosh*

Yami blitzed two meters to the right… but as soon as he did so, he started smelling something burning. He looked at his hands and saw that his skin was slowly melting away. He tried to gain control of the lightning but he couldn't so even half of his face melted away, showing a black skeleton beneath his flesh…

As soon as Yami saw that he couldn't control the technique, he just stopped it. The lightning dispersed and everything went back to normal… his flesh knitted itself back together and in less than two seconds. His flesh was back to normal…

'I can't seem to have control over the lightning I generate from the ninjutsu… if only I had the Jutsu scroll for the technique and how it is used.' Contemplated Yami.

He wasn't able to use the technique because he couldn't copy (even with the sharingan) something at the level of the Raikage's Lightning Chakra Cloak. But even at the failure Yami wasn't disappointed at all. He was at least making progress and when he kills the 3rd Raikage and experiments on his body and reads through his memories, Yami will figure out how the Lightning Armour works. 

'I will not kill the Raikage for almost killing me during the 2nd ninja war. Revenge is something that clouds the judgement of people and makes them act irrationally. I will kill the 3rd Raikage because that is beneficial to me. Plus it wouldn't significantly change the future events that I know if I decide to kill him during the 3rd ninja war. Though with my power rising to such levels lately, I have not even been that worried about such things like the timeline. I already have eyes everywhere in this world, even as far away as the Land of Demons.' Calculated Yami with a strange glint in his eyes.

After a couple minutes of resting while standing up… Yami suddenly looked towards some trees and with a cold face he said. "You know for a Sanin you really aren't that good at stealth."

Then a strange laughing tone comes from one of the trees as it slowly morphed into a human figure and that figure was… Orochimaru. He had his hands in his pockets as he calmly walked forward. 

"As expected of you Yami. Your sensory abilities are extraordinary. I wonder how you got them." Said Orochimaru with a twisted gleam on his eyes.

Yami had a bored look as his black eyes stared into Orochimaru's yellow eyes, which with the slit in them, they looked like the eyes of a snake. Yami wasn't scared of Orochimaru at all, but the gleam in his eyes definitely unnerved him. After all Orochimaru is someone dangerous and extremely intelligent, letting his guard down even slightly around him could be his end.

"When you talk, it  almost feels like you are about to get to the point of something, but then you just babble on and on… and on…" Says Yami calmly while trying to discern Orochimaru's goal. 

Orochimaru doesn't take what Yami said as an insult and he starts getting closer to Yami, his hands come out of his pockets as he says. "Tell me Yami… what is the meaning of life."

Yami still just had a bored look on his face as he said. "*sigh*... life is what you make it out to be Orochimaru, now can you stop bothering me."

Yami waved his hand to tell Orochimaru to go away. But Orochimaru's eyes had an even crazier glint on them. This slightly worried Yami and he clenched his muscles, ready for any sudden attack or anything like that. 

But Orochimaru asked again. "What is your view on power then Yami."

Yami just rubbed his eyes while acting annoyed. 

"*sigh* You know… I was in the middle of something before you came here. And you coming here and asking these questions, not only does it seem suspicious, it also seems like the kinda thing that the T&I department might like to investigate." Yami said to Orochimaru while giving him a hidden threat. 

"Huhuhuhu... C'mon now Yami… me and you… we are the same… aren't we… I analysed your behaviour reports ever since you were young. You are a lot like me… and your dream isn't to be Hokage or anything like that… your dream is… immortality." Exclaimed Orochimaru as the grin on his face widened. "You want to be perfect don't you. I have an idea, if you help me with something, I can give you a certain technique who would allow you to be perfect."

As soon as Yami heard Orochimaru say that… his eyes became dull and the aura around him became colder. Even Orochimaru felt a small chill on his back, but he still had the crazy smile on his face.

'This reaction just confirmed my speculation.' Analysed Orochimaru.

But suddenly as soon as it came Yami's cold aura calmed down and he… smiled at Orochimaru as if mocking him. "You know nothing Orochimaru… There is nothing in this world that is truly 'perfect'. Though it may be a rather large cliche, it is still the truth. It is the ordinary people who look up to 'perfection' as an ideal and seek after it. But in truth, what is this idea of 'perfection' truly worth? Nothing. Not a single thing. I detest 'perfection'. To be 'perfect' is to be unable to improve any further. There would be no scope for 'creation', not a single gap in one's knowledge or one's ability. Do you see now? To true…. scientists like you and I, 'perfection' is tantamount to 'despair'. We aspire to reach greater levels of brilliance than ever before, but never, NEVER, to reach perfection. That is the paradox through which we scientists must struggle. Indeed, it is our duty to find pleasure in that struggle. In other words, the second you allowed yourself to spout a ridiculous word like 'perfect', in truth, you had already been defeated. That is, if you wish to be treated as a scientist."

Orochimaru's eyes widened at the things that Yami said. The more Yami said the more Orochimaru was amazed. He had never heard something like this… in the end, Orochimaru's face calmed down, he turned away and started walking off without saying anything. 

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-Yami POV-

I just looked at his back… 

Should I kill him now… he got dangerously close to the truth… as expected of a true genius… even though I never underestimated him, neither did I ever let my guard down… he still figured me out. 

Truly terrifying… the geniuses in this world are scary. I mean someone like Kabuto was able to read the Uchiha tablet out of nothing. I don't even know how Orochimaru connected the dots to figure me out. 

Though as expected, he tried to manipulate me by saying things like he will give me perfection and such things. When he wants to manipulate, Orochimaru is scarily good at it. But I already know how he is, so I would never accept anything from him. Still… I was able to amaze him and this will lead him in a wild goose chase for at least a decade.

 Though I myself am nowhere near a genius, sometimes the smarter you are the easier you are to predict. Orochimaru will overthink the speech that I gave him and will try to philosophically understand it. But the speech that I gave to him is complete and utter bullsh*t. 

*sigh*

I better rest… tch… I hate people smarter than me… even though I will take absolute measures against Orochimaru… I am not necessarily too worried about what he can cook up… after all… not only do I know his secrets… I am also more powerful than him.

Plus Orochimaru truly was impulsive with this. He probably came here to confront me as soon as he figured it out. Plus with that cazy expression on his face as if he figured out the secrets to the world... and to me.... he is simply... immature...

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A/N: The MC had to use his foreknowledge to fool Orochimaru and lead him in a wild goose chase. In a way you could say he used the <Talk no Jutsu>

P.S: The MC recognizes that there exist people more intelligent than him… but that doesn't mean he can't overcome them all… with YOUTH🤣🤣🤣… (Just joking about the last part… but still, even though now Orochimaru can't read what Yami is thinking or planning, he can analyse his past actions and guess his personality. As I said… genius sh*t…)