Chapter 56.4 - One Thousand Hands

“What idea has wormed its way into your fooled that you can’t figure out on your own?” She asked.

“Who said I had an idea?”

“That smirk on your face. Now talk before I lose my patience and get to whacking” She picked up her cane, showing that she had every intention of backing through threat up with violence.

“Remember when we needed to rescue Tsunade and needed to get her precise coordinates to send a hiraishin marker to her location?” I asked.

“It wasn’t even a week ago. What do you take me for?”

“Obviously a rhetorical question, but I’ll continue and ignore your attempt to derail the conversation”

“You’re just begging for a spanking at this point”

“I was thinking that it would be useful for our intelligence and troop movements if we could have seals scattered across the Land of Fire aimed at scanning all chakra signatures within a fixed range and acting as hiraishin markers so I can move to any part of the country as needed” I said.

“Doesn’t sound all that hard. You could probably design it yourself. Nothing more than a classic chakra identification matrix. You helped me with one before your tenth birthday, I remember.”

“Well, I’m Hokage now and have less free time than ever. Besides, I’m nearly certain that you have some ideas for how to improve what I told you about already” I smirked, and she nodded.

“Fine. I’ll help you out. And you’re right, I have a few ideas”

“Who’s going to mass produce these seals and place them about the Land of Fire?” She asked, and I just pointedly looked around the house.

“No.”

“The other clans are beginning to grumble. The Uzumaki haven’t overtly contributed anything to the war effort as far as they are concerned and they think it’s unfair” I said.

“We’ve lost more than any of them have. Our village. Our family. We were the war’s first casualties, Shorirama” She pressed.

“I agree. That is why I’ll be giving the clan a job with very little chance of seeing combat. I’ll name this as the internal intelligence and reconnaissance division and make it the duty of the Uzumaki clan to oversee in much the same way the Uchiha Clan oversees the Police Force” I said.

“No combat. You promise me?” She asked.

“I promise” Being Hokage seemed to involve a lot more talking than doing.

“Okay then, I have an idea” She said, taking out a scroll from somewhere within her kimono— I’d learned not to bother asking.

“We want something that can read chakra signatures at a distance and transmit that information back here, yes?” She asked.

“Yes”

“Good. We need three seals chained together, I think. If we have a seal dedicated to sensing chakra and place that all about the country then those should work. We’ll then attach them to seals that aggregate and collate all those readings— essentially creating a map of the land of Fire. I imagine something like a rod that interfaces two ways both with the smaller reading seals and then back here with the seal that displays the information for us” She said.

“And which one would have my hiraishin markers?”

“Obviously the rods. There would be fewer of those so less chance of you getting things wrong and jumping to the wrong one. Also less chance of one getting discovered” I nodded.