Chapter 69.5- One Thousand Hands

If her memories ended up being viewed by the Yamanaka, I needed to give them enough to think that everything was above board and to believe the story I wanted them to.

“What the hell are you talking about?” She asked, trying to push herself to her feet.

“I will become Hokage with your power, Jinchuriki. I will use you to—“ I never got to finish the sentence as she formed a single handsel and shot a stream of lava at my clone that I could tell blocked her vision of my fake body. I triggered the hiriashin replacement technique, replacing myself with Danzo’s real body, and allowing the lava take him.

“What an idiot” She scowled before finally succeeding in pushing herself to her feet. I watched from the shadows as she left Danzo’s house, beginning to try to make her way out of the village. I removed what I could of my traces and obscured what I could not remove the best I could by blowing up sections of the house, and then dropped the barrier. In no time, the alarm was sounded. The Iwa Jinchuriki’s escape was noted.

I returned home, substituted with my clone and joined both Kushina and Grandmother Mito to work on the latest project. A seal for the hospital that would make diagnostic jutsus a breeze. Basically the seals would act as diagnostics and then display the information in a way the doctors could understand. It would take our health care system to the next level and reduce the burden faced by medical nin as of present and allow Civilian doctors to perform some of the more complicated interventions.

They had already finished the actual diagnostic part with the help of my clone so all we had to work on now was the part that made it visible to the civilian doctors. The seal could not be activated by chakra, as it would not be useful enough for civvies so we still needed to figure out a suitable activation mechanism. Those two problems were what we tackled in tandem. In truth, Mito and I were the ones doing the real work while Kushina shuffled from table to table, watching what we were doing and trying to learn from what she could.

It reminded me of when I had been younger, toddling after Mito and trying to learn as much from her as I could. Well, Kushina at least had the advantage of us being involved in making actually useful seals these days. We were trying to Leo the village as much as possible from a fuinjutsu standpoint so she got to se multiple theories and methods in practice as we tried this and that. She got a front row seat to real experimentation, ideation, and eventually implementation.

“Shorirama-sama” A voice said from the corner of the room, body flickering in. I had seen his approach so I did not jolt, but Kushina nearly tossed her inkwell to the ground, only Mito’s chain managing to catch it in time. I watched the chain with some jealousy but cleared my mind of it. I was a third generation Uzumaki at best. In truth, I was more Hyuga than either Uzumaki or Senju. It was just lucky that I happened to be born with the viltality and chakra reserves. Missing out on the adamantium sealing chains was just cost of doing business.

“Report, Shark” I barked.

“The Four tails has escaped custody. Preliminary reports from witnesses say the last to see her was Danzo Shimura. He is the primary suspect” He said.

“I assume you’ve gone looking for him” I said rather than asked.

“A body was found at his residence. Forensics are investigating both the body and scene the best they can but preliminary conclusions are that the Jinchuriki killed the Clan Head after he released her.Anbu are scouring the village for the Jinchuriki at present.”

“No need, I have my seal on her” I said.

“I’ll be right back, Kushina-chan, Grandmother” I said, pushing myself up from the seiza position we worked on seals in and planted a kiss on the forehead on Kushina and one on the cheeks from Grandmother when she tilted her face in my direction.

In a flicker of space, I was gone.