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Luckily, the trip back was clear of bandits, and we made it back to Konoha without incident. Kurenai was still heavily injured, and in no condition to fight, or even to move. I had to carry her all the way. The return trip was greatly shortened though, with my use of the Shunshin. On the way to the bandit camp, I hadn't used the Shunshin to save chakra, but on the way back, I didn't have to fight anyone, so I sped us along with Shunshin jumps.

While we were on the road, I went over the list of things that I had to do.

I had to incorporate Mangekyou abilities into fighting style, proceed to train my ass off, run probably one or two more C-Ranks to gauge my progress, take the chunin exams if there was time, then help Shisui brainwash the entire clan.

I had about a year and a half to do all that before Shisui made his move.

It'll be a tight fit.

I walked through the gates of the village, nodding to the guard chunin, who gawked at us. We probably were quite a sight, with Kurenai's heavily injured form on my back, and my crappy patch job on my eyes.

Really, I looked almost like Kakashi now, with a scar running over my eye. Granted, it was significantly smaller than Kakashi's scar, only running one or two centimetres above and below my eye. Thanks to the genjutsu I had placed on the bandit leader, and my Fujin, I had only received a small cut.

I shifted Kurenai around on my back. The only reason that I could carry her at all was my enhanced strength that came from being a ninja. Her feet dragged on the ground behind me, which was probably rather uncomfortable for her.

I made the hand seals for the Shunshin-

Actually add that to the list of shit to do. Gotta get the Shunshin sealless. That'll be useful as hell.

-and we appeared in front of the hospital. I barged into the lobby, drawing quite a bit of attention. The receptionist immediately called for medics and within seconds, iryo-nin appeared in the lobby and carried Kurenai away.

Alright, now that that's done, I gotta go do a mission report and head back home. I'll visit Kurenai in a day or two.

I prepared to head to the mission office to deliver a report, when an iryo-nin called out.

"Where are you going?"

"... to the mission office?"

"Absolutely not! You need medical attentio-"

"I don't, and even if I did, I have a perfectly capable iryo-nin back home."

The iryo-nin that Fugaku had hired for me was a private medic, an Uchiha, actually, and as such, was loyal to the Uchiha clan rather than Konoha. Usually Uchihas were ninja out on the front lines, but there are always outliers.

Because of their status as a private medic, they weren't required to report their medical procedure and their findings to the village. Normal iryo-nin weren't allowed to report Kekkei Genkai, a law passed to pacify the clans, but Fugaku, was a paranoid bastard. He had explicitly told me not to use the village's iryo-nin.

I walked out the hospital, ignoring the protesting iryo-nin.

You know, this is probably the reason why most people thought the Uchiha were stuck-up assholes.

The next day, after I had sufficiently rested, I began think of training.

Hm. What's on the list of things to do?

Let's start with incorporating the Mangekyou moves into my fighting style. My Mangekyou abilities, in stark contrast to the ones displayed in the series, were rather weak, with low chakra usage and more subtle applications.

How do I make the most of those applications?

With Dodomeki, I dismissed it in the beginning because I thought it would be ineffective as a stealth method. But, I could cast Dodomeki and random weapons, people, and objects during a fight to throw people off. The more skilled ninja would be able to feel the air disturbance that kunai and shuriken generated, even when they were invisible. To counter that, I would use Dodomeki on senbon, the smallest and thinnest of the weapons, thus the ones that created the least wind.

I could randomly use Dodomeki on the ground and trees and stuff. It was always disorientating to look down and see yourself standing on nothing. I remember in my old life, there was that glass bridge in China that was positively terrifying.

For Fujin, the application was obvious. I should have been using it from the beginning. I could use the teleportation for little adjustments in my position. That would have saved my old eyes.

For Funayurei, the flooding genjutsu, the usage of it wasn't too obvious. It was good for distractions, maybe a bit of disorientation and/or confusion, but that was about it.

Jubokko, the flower growing one, was the ability that I was, by far, the most excited for. I discovered, after fiddling around with it for a little bit, that I could make the flower grow in peculiar ways. Everything had to be more or less proportional to the normal flower, but I found that, because I controlled everything about the growth of the flower, could make some things grow abnormally.

Such as flowers whose petals continually fell off. I would grow the flower, the petals would fall off, I would grow them back instantly, and within moments, the entire place would be filled with flower petals.

But the part about that that I was most excited about was the pollen. I could make the flower continually produce pollen in extreme excess.

Oh you might be laughing now, but around twenty percent of the population was allergic to pollen.

Statistically, that means that one in five shinobi would turn into sneezing, water-eyed messes the minute I filled the battlefield with pollen.

Of course, it wouldn't be an instant win should I get at shinobi with allergies, but it would definitely help a lot.

Oh yeah, did I mention that pollen is flammable?

Because it is.

Very flammable.

And, when in large enough quantities, it was potentially explosive. Thirty-seven kilograms of pollen, when burnt, was roughly equal to a quarter tonne of TNT.

I would never have to carry explosive tags ever again.

Well, I would, because it's not very chakra-efficient to produce that much pollen. Even though the ability normally didn't cost too much, when making enough pollen that it weighed about as much as I did, it started to put a strain on both my eyes and my chakra reserves.

Even outside of pollen, there were a multitude of ways that I could use Jubokko could be used. If I got my hands on the seeds of the poisonous flowers, I would never have to pay for poisons ever again.

Really, any flower with medicinal properties, I could grow.

Of course, to use Jubokko to its fullest potential, I would have to carry seeds everywhere, and also be able to identify various flowers and their uses.

Which is why I was heading to the Yamanaka flower shop.

Here's a fact that wasn't shown in the TV program: the Yamanaka flower shop sold the dangerous variety of plants too.

Oh, they did it in the back, outside the eye of the civilian shoppers, and you had to give them your shinobi ID for them to let you through. A fact that most people forgot about the friendly flower shop owners was that they were a ninja clan.

A ninja clan that provided ninja services.

Normally clients didn't actually buy the poisonous flowers themselves, instead preferring to purchase the prepared poisons that were already extracted from the flowers.

There were some specialty clients though, who had their own special mixes of poisons, and their own methods of preparing the poisons. They were the ones that actually bought the flowers.

I walked into the shop, the smell of flowers hitting me right away. I walked to the counter, where Ino was busy arranging flowers. She was so engrossed in her task, that she didn't even notice me approach.

"Excuse me."

Ino jumped, her fingers knocking knocking around the flowers, messing with their arrangement.

"The hell! Who even… "

Ino looked up and saw me. Whatever she was about to say died in her throat, and her eyes clouded with nervousness.

…

She was there for the day that I beat up Kiba, right?

She probably thinks that I'm a monster or something.

…

Well, she's not wrong necessarily…

Whatever. I run through the smiles that I have stored from that one time I creepily watched people. Let's go with… small polite smile number three. That one will probably work.

"Hello. I'm looking make my purchases in the back," I held up my ID for her to see.

It looked as though my smile had marginally calmed her down.

"O-of course. Right t-this wa-ay."

Marginally.

Very marginally.

Dammit. I need to work on my social interaction skills.

I ended up buying a flower manual along with my flowers. I figured that I'd need it for figuring out which flower was which. It was a useful skill to have anyways. I could have just used my Sharingan and memorised the whole manual instead of actually paying for it, but I felt that would come across as a rude gesture, if not thievery. I had the money for it anyways.

Or rather, the clan had the money for it.

I also bought a bunch normal flowers, in seed packets, both for some variation, and because I figured that I could go give them to Kurenai when I visited her in the hospital.

The minute I got home, I went to one of the Uchiha training grounds. There, I ripped open a seed packet and shook out a single seed.

Which flower is this?

I read the label on the seed packet: Moondust Carnation.

Yeah…

Maybe I should've read the flower manual first.

I activated my Sharingan and sped through the manual. The thing described the flowers themselves, providing drawings, their anatomies, uses, and how to take care of them. I didn't really need that last one, as I never really had to take care of my flowers. Why bother to water them when you could use your magical eyeball instead?

Alrighty, moondust carnation, here we go!

I activated my Sharingan. My eyes spin into the pinwheels of the Mangekyou, and I focused on the seed.

Jubokko

It was kind of surreal, how the flower grew. The plant sprang up at an alarming speed, immediately blooming into a large purple flower.

I shook a couple more seeds out of the packet into my hand. I tossed the seeds into the air and glared at them with my Mangekyou, watching as they filled the air with large purple flowers.

I can work with this.

I walked into the hospital carrying a bouquet of flowers that I had grown myself with Jubokko. I was rather proud of myself. I went through the non-poisonous flowers that I had, selecting the ones that I thought looked rather nice.

I ended up putting together a pretty nice looking bouquet. At least, I thought it looked pretty nice. The colours went well together, I think.

I walked up to the receptionist and put on charming smile number two, "Hello. I'm visiting Yuhi Kurenai?"

The receptionist glanced up at me, "Name and reason for visit?"

"I'm Uchiha Kyouki, and Yuhi-san is my sensei."

The receptionist shuffled through some files. After just a few seconds of looking she glanced up, "Clear. She's in room 204B."

Alrighty then. There was a helpful little map of the hospital posted on the wall for visitors. I activated my Sharingan and scanned the map for 204B, finding it not even a tenth of second later. I stuffed the bouquet of flowers into one of the storage seals on my bandages. With my hands free, I made the hand seals for the Shunshin.

I whizzed through the hospital, arriving at the door to Kurenai's room. With a puff of smoke, I unsealed my flowers. I knocked on the door.

An iryo-nin opened the door for, blinking when she saw me. She smiled and waved me in, "Come in! Come in!"

Kurenai's voice, sounding significantly better than it did a day or two ago rang out, "Who is it?"

I walked into the room, waving at her.

She blinked, "Kyouki?"

"The one and only."

She blinked a few more times, as if to make sure that I was really there.

"Surprised?" I asked.

"If I'm to be entirely honest, yeah. I didn't think you were the type of person to visit."

Well, normally I wouldn't. There are better things that I could be doing. But, fostering relations is never a bad thing. I could always use connections, and it was best to have a good relationship with the one responsible for most of your training.

"Well, here I am," I shrugged, "I brought flowers."

Kurenai seemed even more surprised, her expression bordering on shock, "Really now?"

"Yes…? What of it?"

She shook her head, "No. Nothing."

"Okay…?"

I handed her the bouquet, and she took the flowers gently.

She looked at the flowers, and her eyes widened. She just stared at them in open shock for a few seconds. Then she burst out laughing.

"What?"

Kurenai just kept laughing, taking loud, gasping breaths between convulsions.

"What?" I repeated.

Finally, Kurenai calmed down enough to make coherent sentences, "You never studied flower arrangements in the Academy, huh?"

"No…?"

"Allow me to educate you a bit," She pointed a dark red flower, "This one symbolises hatred."

No. Really?

She pointed at another, "This one symbolises nightmares and fear."

Really?

"This one symbolises pain, this one represents anger, and this one, anguish. The white one over there is a symbol of regret and this one over here symbolises the loss of will to push on in the face of cosmic nihilism."

Okay. Okay. The first ones I could kind of believe, but really? That last one? Really? She was just screwing with me now.

"You're totally screwing with me."

"You wanna bet on that?"

"... No," I admit defeat.

How the hell did I pick out such terrible flowers? I just put in the ones that I thought looked nice!

Man, now I gotta go back to the Yamanaka flower shop to pick up a book on flower arranging and stuff.

A/N: For the Mangekyou thing, keeping it active all the time, I guess the opinion is that the chakra cost should be low for the EMS, but keeping it active all the time would either cause eye strain or would overload the brain with information eventually. Works, I guess.

MrTicklesMMM: I actually didn't think of reusing the Izanagi to recycle dead Sharingan, but I'm not certain that it'd work for all situations. With the mother's eyes, there was something that Kyouki could work off of. The eyes hadn't fully decayed, and he had observed what they were like in full working order with his Mangekyou. The eyes have to be at least relatively intact, and he has to know what he's doing. If the Uchiha he grave robs is entirely rotten, and there's nothing left but the skeleton, there's not much he can do. At least, that's my interpretation.

I think using Izanagi to revive former Hokages is a bit of a stretch too, for the same reasons. Body has to be relatively intact and he has to know what he's doing.

Some Guy In An Ambulance: I was thinking the exact same thing with poisonous flowers. Hit the nail on the head, you did. I didn't think of the opioids though. That could certainly be a really interesting plot point in the future.

I should probably world-build more too. The quote you included reminded me of that.

Ashborn2271: Yeah, the Susanoo'll be introduced in a later chapter, probably either the next one or the one after that. I couldn't find a good place to mention it up until now.

The-Funeral-Pyre: I was under the impression that the Mangekyou abilities were more or less random? Some of them were shared, like Sasuke and Itachi both having Amaterasu. Genjutsu is also one that's common between eyes, with Tsukuyomi and Kotoamatsukami. So, I tried to have genjutsu in both sets of eyes, unbreakable ones. The other ones in canon were all over the place though. Amaterasu, Kamiu, that telekinesis thingy that Uchiha Shin had, there didn't seem to be a connection between them. Unless I'm missing something?