Chapter 22.3- One Thousand Hands

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The conversation with Tobirama had not gone the way Kagami might have been expected. Sure, he was pissed at the danger I’d put myself in but it was not like I wasn’t already serving some form of punishment. I only really had two hobbies- hosting my dinners and training. The dinners were literally the only reason I hadn’t been lynched out of the village yet. Okay, that was an exaggeration, but it was not an exaggeration that hosting the relatives of the most powerful clan heads at my house to eat food mostly made by me was one hell of a way to at least keep some of the public opinion on my side. Tobirama saw it as me cementing my place as the leader of the next generation so there was no way he was messing with that. I’d even begun to suspect that he had the anbu paying closer attention to the dinners these days than they usually did, but that as not something that could be proven or even needed to be worried about.

One advantage of being born in this era was that I had no fears of Danzo doing Danzo shit. Tobirama was still arundto cut him off at the knees if he ever tried anything stupid so we were all safe from that hot mess. The other thing I did was train, and banning me from that would be braindead.

Besides, his anger had only lasted long enough for me to explain that I had succeeded, and then to explain what it was that I had actually seen. Whales. When I used the word whales, I did not mean the kind that I had seen in an aquarium in my first life, or even on the internet. I used it in the sense of what Megadolon was to the sharks of my world. Only seeing them for a few seconds had done well to drive in that impression. With my byakugan active, I could see about 1 kilometre in all directions, and all I’d been able to see beyond the back part of another whale, was the whale in front of me. That should give some idea as to the scale I was speaking about. Those things were absolutely massive, and then there was their chakra. I thought Tobirama had a lot of chakra. He was like a thimble in the ocean when compared to those guys.

With their size and chakra capacities, Tobirama was doubtful that I’d ever be able to actually summon them but he was curious as to the kind of water release that creatures like those would be capable of. The way his eyes lit up with boundless curiosity as he wondered how they managed to move. Surely it was water manipulation at a scale hitherto unimaginable, he’d opined with wide eyes at the thought. I agreed with him as well, but I also had another reason I needed them. Nature chakra. I could see the way their bodies took it in constantly and balanced it with their chakra cores. Sages. The two whales I’d seen had been sages. That was enough for me. Sage mode was within my grasp now. I just had to somehow figure out how top breath underwater.

I wonder if this qualifies as enough of an extenuating situation for Mito to put a pause on my fuinjutsu ban. Heck. Who was I kidding? Telling her I’d chosen to mess around with space-time summoning techniques instead of thinking about the consequences of my actions was practically guaranteed to get me another month added to my ban.