Kapitulo Trenta-y-Singko

Sasuke growled through gritted teeth as his weights went from nowhere near 1000 lbs to 4000 in a span of one month. He would have long been dead if not for body activation jutsu that healed whatever broke as well as making them stronger. Before resting he is recommended to activate the gate beyond his capacity for greater efficiency of his training.

It was hell in every sense of the word. The pain never really decreased with time, he just learned to better accept it everytime he used the eight gates release formation. Aside from the activation jutsu, he also found out that he felt refreshed every morning even without that much sleep and his body didn't feel even an ounce of sore muscle from the previous day's exertion.

During his whole stay in this village he found out why the children spoke like the outside world apart from this village is some weird barbaric lands where monkeys and beasts dwell instead of humans. The village, if it can be called that is simply paradise compared to Konoha where people only needed to render a few hours of labor each day to support his needs.

These people call themselves public servant of Takamagahara because they are the only ones working in this village, when they acquire citizenship through the card system they will have unlimited freedom to pursue whatever their hearts desired provided that it did not go against the very few village rules.

'Actually, this place is awesome.'

Sasuke once again felt reassured that he made the right choice that day. He really didn't want to go with the perverted snake bastard of a sannin. He wondered what would have happened if he went along with Orochimaru and felt a cold tingle at the bottom of his spine. He didn't like what he saw in that one thought.

The Uchiha children are also training their body similar to what he is doing except their training plan is designed to go for the slower and steadier route since they are pretty much still playfull children who are already weilding strength that would put the elites of Konoha to shame. He feared the day these children learned to use ninjutsu along with the sharingan.

"I heard you liked the place?"

Sasuke stood up his bare chest ripped with beautifully crafted muscles made to balance speed and strength. He also grew from 152 cm to 158 cm in what seemed to be a growth spurt from being exposed to high life essence concentration, an active healthy lifestyle, and plenty of nutritious food.

"What's not to like?"

Sasuke cleaned himself and wore a kimono over his naked upper body and gave his employer/master a respectful bow.

"Hehehe. I knew you will like it from the very beginning. Are you ready for the next step? There's no more turning back if you undergo this procedure."

"I am aware. Please let us proceed."

The formerly last member of Uchiha looked and sounded determined much to Gaara's liking.

"That's the spirit! Let's go!"

Sasuke's vision blurred under that white set of grinn and he started to colapse but was caught by Gaara before he could fall to the floor.

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When he came to Sasuke found that he is already back inside his room. He examined his body and felt the same sated feeling he always had whenever he rose up from sleep in Takamagahara.

'What the heck? Was I dreaming all that?'

He took the phone on his bedside and checked the date on it before sighing to himself. He wasn't dreaming and instead really just fell unconscious, which is more unacceptable to him who is in posession of a pair of sharingan.

The door to his room opened and Karin came with a tray of food.

"You need to drink and eat something, it has been three whole days. Oniichan told me to tell you that he will be back in another month and if you still can't open up to the seventh gate then you can forget about the contract and go back to Konoha or anywhere you want to go."

Karin left the tray on his bedside table and asked if he needed anything before leaving.

'My arms feel heavier.

My legs too.'

He looked at the weights he had on and found out that another 500 lbs seal had been added to each of them.

'I must learn everything I can from him and then...'

Sasuke looked out the window seemingly to convey a message through the wind. Or made a promise with the blue morning skies. He felt his stomach grumble and so he slowly began to eat.

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Roran

"I have found something interesting. Do you want to know?"

Haku frowned but resumed her work as soon as the owner of the voice registered in her head.

"If it has nothing to do with my research then no."

She said as she looked down through a lens while examining samples.

"Then you will want to see this. But since you are so BUSY I will not disturb you anymore."

Haku pried her eyes from the lens to look back where Gaara stoo. He had a wide silly grin while waving a leather bound book in hand.

"This is a translated version?"

Gaara simply nodded as he gave the book to Haku. She read the book carefully and with great interest while looking up to ask some questions from time to time. Hours passed after another and her eyes finally landed on the seret surprise in the last page.

"Is this for real? No. It actually makes perfect sense. With this, most of the mysteries and questions that I previously had about the tree of Roran are all but answered. I need to make this Fuzorian core while the tree is still in its growth phase... 50 years? Isn't that too long a wait? No wonder the Fuzorians left, the tree is also expected to grow for 15 to 30 more years."

"I can hear your thoughts you know."

Gaara smiled while breaking her out of her musings, he wondered why all scientists he had are like this. They had to be forced to take a break or they'd plow through their research in exchange of their life.

"I found that book in a ruin and with it is a fully mature Fuzorian core from more than a hundred years ago-"

"Where is IT! Teeeell me"

Haku grabbed Gaara's shoulders with both hands her eyes gleaming akin to those of a child on an early Christmas morning. The distance between their faces made Gaara pause with wide eyes while Haku who also noticed shortly after seeing Gaara's reaction reigned in on her welling emotions as she persisted on the awkward pose. Her face burning up and a tingly sensation ran through her body.

"Sheesh. You are a hopeless case. Go to Takamagahara I'll tell the details you when you are fully rested."

Gaara said as he held her hands with his and placing them to her sides before he disapeared once again.

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"Did you find it?"

In the room of the Kazekage where a lot of renovations are being held to fully digitize the processing of information a shinobi jonin knelt before the fifth Kazekage.

"Yes! It's here!"

A huge scroll with chameleon designs was presented before Gaara. This scroll came from the land of Neck's Koza castle/summon of the previous lord who wanted vengeance on the enemies that stormed his castle. Since this scroll managed to persist for a very long time despite the summoner's death then the materials used to make this scroll should be capable of making his supercomputer work.

'It's worth a try at the very least.'

Gaara held the scroll and was tempted to sign a contract with a summon. These nifty creatures can help him take care of bothersome foes and it's also possible for him to gather information about senjutsu if he is lucky. But if its about gathering information, did he really have to do it himself?

"You called?"

Kankuro walked into the room lazily as he yawned hot breath to his right hand. It's highly likely that he just woke up from a nap and immediately teleported here. Temari came in after him still sweating from training the military forces of Sunagakure.

"I have a gift for you guys. You can't refuse."

'Ahhh shit! What is it now?'

They thought at the same time before turning towards each other.