Chapter 60.5- Gamer of the Desert

It was a masterpiece. Complete and total. I forced myself to think about it instead of the pain I felt as my clone removed my eye and began the delicate surgery to replace it. That scene where Madara just took Kakashi’s eye and plugged it in with no hesitation was complete bul;lshit. Sure, this world didn’t have things like organ rejection for doujutsu as they seemed to be compatible with every eye or eye socket regardless of things like shape and size that should have been limiting factors, but they weren’t still as easy to plug in as Madara had depicted. Either the scene was bs or the body of the ten tails jinvchuriki was just made different.

Either way, the surgery was necessary for me. I would have one rinnegan and one sharingan in each eye. Both eyes were going to drain tons of chakra even in their base passive states, but that was a sacrifice I would have to make- psyche. That was where the seal came. Multiple parts of the seal were dedicated to passively pulling in nature chakra with no limitation. That meant that after this, my body was basically always going to be in Sage Mode, and my eyes would not drain a single drop of my chakra.

Jugo’s kekkei genkai made with fuinjutsu, essentially. Except for the fact that it was better. Better how? Filtration. I didn’t have access to Hugo’s cells- not really. But sending shinobi into the Land of Rice had yielded fruits eventually. We had quite a few test subjects with Orochimartu’s cursed seals on them. Breaking down the cursed seal and how it worked told me all I needed to know about Hugo’s clan kekkei genkai. It took nature chakra in with no filtration system. Orochimaru’s cursed seals had filtration systems but they were so basic and barebones that they might as well have never even been there in the first place.

Mine had a more robust system. Not just aimed at filtering the volatility that came in with the chakra, but the Chakra itself. Dedicating a team of some of the smartest strategists in the village to come up with ways to defeat an imaginary opponent who had my seal at their disposal had given me a lot of possible situations to safeguard against. One of which was chakra poisoning. One of them had come up with the idea of designing a poison aimed at nature chakra itself that would poison the person without them even noticing. It was purely theoretical as nothing of the sortie had ever even been attempted before, but it was a scary enough theory that I had to prepare for it.

The gathering and filtration of nature energy was an important part of the seal, but it wasn’t even close to the full thing. I had another matrix dedicated to automating the mixture of my chakra and the nature energy. This was the most complex. There was a reason why sage mode required one to sit still and focus for minutes on end to gather enough energy to trigger the transformation. It was because sussing out the precise ratio of human chakra to nature energy to form Senjutsu Chakra was a task and a half on its own. And then there was the actual mixing process. I designed a seal that would essentially act like a computer program. It would know exactly how much chakra I had at all times, and know exactly how much nature energy my seal was letting in. And then it would decide how much of it to mix to form senjutsu chakra and run this process multiple times in a second. It was easily the most energy intensive and complicated part of the seal.

Apart from that, there was also the part of the seal that functioned like my old blessed seal of Theotita. This seal was special in how finicky it could be so I had been forced to remove that seal to place this one. It was why I’d unsealed Shukaku in the first place. It would direct chakra to both my eyes to keep them powered and then heal them at a consistent rate. That would ensure I could use them both at full power while still avoiding the blindness of the mangekyou.

And then there was the final bit of the seal that pushed the senjutsu chakra directly into my chakra system and kept me in sage mode consistently. Altogether, it was perfect. That was why I called it the complete seal. It would not permit any other seals to be placed on my person, and that was a worthwhile sacrifice.

It was perfect. My clone coughed to signify that he was done with the painting of the seal and the required transplants, and I braced myself for what was coming.

He slammed his hand down right on my stomach and screamed, “Fuin”

I felt the ink all across my body light up at once as I got the influx of memories from the clone dispelling.

I had no idea how long I slept for, but I did know that when I woke up, Shukaku was curled in on himself sleeping. I took a deep breath in and then one out before I opened my new right eye. The rinnegan was everything I expected. I couldn’t see things with the same clarity as the sharingan, but that only applied to things not made of chakra. A being like Shukaku had all that he was laid bare before the Sage’s eyes. The eyes that revealed all things indeed, I thought to myself with a smile. Pushing off from the stone tablet was easier than expected as I felt myself sail through the air for a few seconds before I instinctively stopped my motion with a gesture. I was floating. No sand. No weight manipulation. Just me looking at the draw of gravity an saying ‘nope’.

This was going to be so fucking awesome, I decided. Turning towards the exit, I felt the temptation to step out to check how things were going. But then another part of me just wanted to stay here and test out my new eye and body. I felt my arm turn into an actual chakra canon with only a quick application of my will, and it was clear which part would win.

A/N; Worth it?