Chapter 51 Crimson Eclipse

Mount Myoboku.

Emerald hues dominate the landscape, with ancient trees spiraling towards the heavens, their roots delving deep into the earth's mysteries. The air is alive with the hum of natural energy, a symphony of life that resonates with the soul of every creature that calls this place home.

Cascading waterfalls carve their way through the rock, creating crystalline pools that reflect the mountain's serene beauty. The Sacred Oil Fountain, a wellspring of mystical potency.

The air seems to have a unique power in it as well and seem to have affected even the sky, an orange hue all over it.

This was the Land of Toads, one of the three unexplored sage regions of the world, everywhere statues of toads could be seen.

At one of the peaks surrounded by beautiful lakes and plants with thick leaves, located was the resting place of great toad sage, Gamamaru.

In the hall,

On top of a shallow pool of water was a huge yellow seat and behind it lined huge scrolls.

On the yellow seat sat an old toad brown in color and a white belly, wrinkles all over his body, it's size was huge, easily one of the largest toads residing in Mount Myoboku.

He was the great toad sage, Gamamaru, rumored to have been alive for at least a thousand years.

Currently the condition of great toad sage didn't seem that good, its yellow eyes were currently red at the moment and were with time getting blurry, purple blood was running down toad sage's nose.

Gamamaru wasn't the only one in the vast hall, on the floor before him stood two small figures donning capes.

Both of them had green skin, the male toad having few white hair and the female toad having a net of purple hair on top.

These two were the heirs of great toad sage, Fukasaku and Shima.

"Just what kind of future is this? It's taking such a huge toll on lord Gama?"

Seeing the state of great toad sage, both the elders were shocked and scared, a while ago there were called for by the great toad sage.

The great sage revealed to them, that the future he had seen years ago seemed to be blurry now, as something seems to have caused a huge change.

Right before them the great sage once again tried to peer into the future, trying to see that blurry future clearly but it resulted in this.

"Cough!"

"Great Sage!!"

Suddenly at this moment gamamaru twitched a little and coughed out blood, both the elders watching horrified and immediately turning into an afterimage to appear next to him on the seat.

"No way...

But Fukasaku and Shima got even more terrified when they gave gamamaru a close look, his face had shock and terror all over it  

At this moment, Gamamaru apparently exhausting his all strength parted his lips and spoke up.

"I see it… Muttered Gamamaru in an exhausted voice, Fukasaku and Shima close to him still able to hear him clearly.

"A Crimson... Eclipse Binds, A... Lone Wanderer Unites The Fractured World."

Said Gamamaru, more of his blood seeping out of the nose, mouth but not able to stop him from speaking.

"The man… with a mark…on his forehead…. make sure to kill-

Thud!

Finally, Gamamaru couldn't seem to hold on anymore, coughing more blood as his eyes went white, going into a coma.

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Konoha.

Root Headquarters.

Deep inside root headquarters, behind a heavily guarded steel gate was a research lab, containers with green fluid and bodies of young, old, and even kids floating in the containers.

Aghh!!!

Near the containers on a table was placed a man who looked in his early twenties, his body twitching continuously, veins seemed to be close to popping out from everywhere on his body, the man groaning in pain with a look of despair in his eyes.

Next to the table stood few figures donning white coats quietly watching the pain suffer from unimaginable pain, but the man with the most presence in the room was a somewhat well-known figure in konoha, Shimura Danzo.

Danzo had his forehead and right eye covered with a bandage.

Though at the moment Danzo didn't seem to care about anything else but the man before him, his only visible eye stuck on the man groaning in pain, infinite hope in his eyes.

Boom!!!

But that hope soon turned into anger, as the man suddenly stopped groaning and his body went motionless, though half of his body turned into tree like, Danzo at this development banging the table with anger.

"The cells of First Hokage are too strong for anyone to handle Lord Danzo; even this jonin couldn't last more than a minute after being injected with."

Seeing Danzo angry, the people in white coats hurriedly explained the reason behind this development, fear for Danzo clearly on their face.

"So you want to say it's impossible to control these cells? Do you think I invested so many funds just to quit at the end!!!?"

Yelled Danzo at the researchers with frustration clear on his face, the recent beating from han seemed to have made him impatience for result.

Facing the jinchuriki Danzo truly felt how powerless those without powerful kekkai genkai were, his obsession of controlling mokuton, the power which brought an end to the warring states era increasing.

Facing Danzo's anger the researchers were nearly scared to death, still knowing being silent won't lessen Danzo's anger one of them taking a deep breath gathered the courage and spoke up, trembling.

"Actually, It's not impossible to control these cells Lord Danzo! All of us have come up with a hypothesis after deeply studying the reasons behind multiple failures"

"Tell me!"

Immediately Danzo inquired about the way but the researcher went silent, hesitation clear on his face.

"I don't have whole day!!"

Seeing him silent, the anger of Danzo shot up again.

"These cells belong to The First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, instead of injecting these cells into ordinary people, why not we experiment on those who are blood related to him"

"Maybe they will be more resistant to these cells and probably we can develop a weakened version of Hashirama cells with the combination of two, which won't be fatal to inject."

…..

Saying that the researcher went silent again, Danzo also going silent, a look of struggle on his face.

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