Chapter 387: The Class Rep Ends Up the Same as Sarada
The so-called "skiing" is a sport where you hold ski poles in both hands and glide across snow.
Team 7 had once visited the Land of Snow, but they hadn't stayed long.
Perhaps skiing had become a small, hidden wish deep inside Sasuke's heart.
It was a very beautiful dream.
If not for the fact that he was so exhausted that his movements in the dream synced with reality.
Thump, thump, thud.
Everyone had been sleeping peacefully, but Sasuke's dream was simply too outrageous.
Sai was relatively fine. After waking up, he stared at Sasuke in confusion, curious about what kind of dream he was having.
But the other sealing squad member had it much worse.
Like Sai, he had once been one of Root's subordinates.
He had also gone through interrogation and evaluation before being transferred into the current department.
People from Root were generally skilled in poisons and sealing techniques.
This man was no exception. His sealing skills even surpassed Sai's.
He had once been deeply loyal to Shimura Danzō, and after Danzō's death, he had even considered defecting.
However, his wife was a kind person who rejected hatred. After learning that her husband had returned from Root's darkness to the light, she persuaded him to stay, allowing him to pass Tsunade's political review.
Yes, he was married.
So he wasn't confused at all.
He finally understood why, during a mission rest period, he suddenly found himself thinking about home!
"Wuwu, Hakobe, I'm no longer clean."
The man bit his lip and looked up at the sky, holding back tears.
As a sealing squad member, he had never imagined he would have to sacrifice something like this!
Don't ask why he didn't resist.
Sai didn't resist because he was curious.
As for him, just as he was about to retreat, he heard Sasuke mutter the word "Chidori."
He knew exactly what Chidori was.
A lightning-style technique created by Kakashi Hatake.
Even worse, he could faintly feel the numbing sensation of electric current.
That meant Sasuke had already started releasing electricity in his dream.
He absolutely could not provoke Sasuke. If Sasuke got stimulated and actually used Chidori, he would be finished.
The only fortunate thing was that Sasuke had exhausted a huge amount of ocular power and chakra before passing out.
But the unfortunate part was that Sasuke had been fed a soldier pill, restoring his chakra.
Fortunately, the pill had expired, so Sasuke was not only "skiing", but had also "over-skiied", leaving him completely drained.
Still, could he really gamble on whether Sasuke had enough chakra left for one Chidori?
If he did…
Then just like Kakashi's Lightning Cutter had once been jokingly said to "cut" a certain sensitive spot, Sasuke's Chidori might as well be renamed "Bird Cutter."
"I can't die… I've already thought of my daughter's name…"
The sealing squad member muttered, sweat dripping down his forehead.
And so, the night passed.
Meanwhile, Shiromo received an intelligence report from a White Zetsu.
After absorbing a large amount of "Boruto·Himawari·Origin", Sasuke had awakened the Rinnegan.
Then a series of events followed.
Everything that happened the previous night had also been secretly observed by White Zetsu and reported.
"…If Boruto was still alive, I'd suspect Sasuke was helping his daughter Uchiha Sarada eliminate a romantic rival in advance."
Shiromo was speechless after hearing about the "skiing incident."
The former Root member who came with Sai was named Shinraku Tanuki.
That name might not be familiar unless you've seen Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.
But his daughter was quite famous: Shinraku Sumire, later renamed Kakei Sumire, the class representative and first arc mini-boss.
Under Danzō's orders, Shinraku Tanuki had secretly carried out a project called "Gozu Tennō."
Don't misunderstand the name. It's not some kind of "NTR" plan.
"Gozu Tennō" is simply the name of a sealing technique.
The process involved using Senju Hashirama's cells to cultivate a monster called Nue.
Yes, once again, the all-purpose Hashirama cells.
Give it a few thousand more years, and Hashirama might as well become a mythological figure like Pangu in ninja legends. Everything would trace back to his cells.
Nue resembles the Pokémon Raikou. It can absorb chakra and negative emotions, then self-destruct.
At full power, its explosion could flatten all of Konoha.
Yes, using Konoha as the reference point.
According to Sumire's account in Boruto, relaying what her father said Danzō told him, this weapon was meant to deal with Konoha's enemies by perishing together with them.
It's quite strange.
It doesn't really feel like something meant to fight Konoha's enemies. It feels more like something designed to deal with Naruto.
Because it needs to absorb chakra to explode.
And in the entire ninja world, only Naruto would willingly pour chakra into something like that until it bursts.
Some might say: Danzō spent his entire life creating a bomb that either doesn't explode or explodes unpredictably while killing himself too…
Isn't that a bit insulting to his character?
Doesn't it feel like overusing an old character?
But if you think about it…
Danzō was already willing to use techniques like the Reverse Four Symbols Seal to die together with his enemies.
So creating an unstable bomb that could blow himself up isn't that far-fetched.
However…
In the end, the report from White Zetsu brought bad news.
Shinraku Tanuki, who only existed in his daughter's memories in Boruto, was actually quite pitiful.
Because he feared Sasuke's Chidori turning into "Bird Cutter", he endured everything through the night, following Root's old discipline.
And the result…
There might be a problem now.
A faint electric current had been running through Sasuke's hands the whole time.
It wasn't lethal, and barely even painful.
But that didn't mean it caused no damage.
This was "low-temperature slow cooking."
According to Orochimaru's human research, a man's "vital part" originally develops inside the body before moving outside to maintain a lower temperature.
It needs to stay slightly cooler than body temperature.
But now…
Shinraku Tanuki was about to "turn dark" again.
In his understanding, if other body parts were damaged, Hashirama cells or White Zetsu tissue could regenerate them.
But here?
That wasn't possible.
Even if it could be replaced, then whose child would his wife give birth to?
His, or Senju Hashirama's?
At that point, the "Gozu Tennō Plan" would truly become an NTR plan.
"…Alright."
Shiromo thought for a moment.
"White Zetsu, send him an invitation. Tell him Orochimaru can help him."
He really didn't want to personally deal with fixing that part for some random man.
Besides, Shinraku Tanuki wasn't completely incapable now. He had just become… "functionally limited."
So why not just let Orochimaru recreate Sumire the same way he created Sarada?
(End of this chapter)