"What was that you did back there, young friend?" One of the monks asked as we settled around a campfire underneath a large tree.

"To bring someone back from the dead, it was like some sort of sorcery."

"Or forbidden technique..."

A collective gasp sounded out from many of the monks.

"It was nothing like that." I spoke up to calm down the monks before they got the wrong idea.

It would be bad if I had to face whatever version of witch burning they had here.

"A pair of travelling doctors once stopped by our stall and were discussing techniques. I heard them say that after a person drowns, even if their heart and breathing stops, their brain can still be active for a little bit of time. So if you can artificially stimulate their heart and lungs into working again, you might be able to bring them back before the brain dies from lack of blood flow."

'That should cover it.'

"Amazing."

"Truly, for you to have met such benevolent doctors, and thenceforth have your path blocked, only to be guided towards us, was an act of divine intervention. Namu Amida Butsu."

"How did you get caught in that mudslide anyways?" Shohei asked.

"Haaa...we had taken refuge from the rain in an alcove, but alas, some of our brethren had been resting when the mudslide occurred and couldn't retreat in time."

I felt Teru put a hand on my shoulder. Looking over, I could see a solemn look on his face.

"I know..." I said softly. "Awareness."

Teru gave my shoulder a squeeze as I tuned back into the conversation.

"One of our brothers went ahead to seek help, they should arrive tomorrow."

"That's good news." Mister Bando said.

We went to sleep exhausted soon after, and the rain let up during the night. When I woke up the next morning, some of the monks were already up, resuming their search for the others, if not alive then at least to retrieve the bodies.

I approached the site of the mudslide to offer my help when I something caught my eye. In the area close to the cliff wall, where a monk was digging, I noticed something red-brownish peeking out from the dirt.

I moved in to wipe off some dirt and discovered that it was a clay block. Removing some more dirt around the area revealed it to be a brick wall. I went back to retrieve my trowel and continued working on digging around the brick wall.

Sometime later in the morning I dug my way towards a window.

"What have you got there, little Zai?" Teru appeared from behind and asked me.

"I don't know, looks like an older building. I wonder if it was buried by a landslide a while back?"

"Hmmmm." Teru's interest was piqued as he left and returned shortly after with his own trowel.

We dug for a little while until Shohei came to retrieve us for breakfast.

"The food is ready." He said.

I stretched my back and looked over at Teru. He was looking at something intently.

"What is it, Teru?" I asked as I drew closer.

"I've never seen anything like this before." Teru said in wonder.

Teru had cleared a large area and was now looking at part of a table's surface with a broken and rusted machine on top.

'It's a typewriter.' I realized. 'For this type of building to be here, the Europeans must have been here before.'

"Do you think it's some kind of ancient artifact?" Shohei asked and I had to bite inside my lip to hold myself back from laughing.

'I guess it could be back in my time period.'

We went back for breakfast and when we were just about done, a monk arrived with people from a nearby village, and they brought an ox-wagon with them.

"Thank you for saving my life, Zai. I will not forget your benevolence." The young monk I saved, Anzan, thanked me as he was being helped onto the wagon. "Amida."

The injured were being put on the ox-wagon to go to the village. Shohei and Mister Bando decided to leave with them.

"Are you sure you don't want to come with us?" Shohei asked.

"Yes, we'd like to stay here a bit longer." Teru said. "We also don't have a wagon anymore."

"That's generous of you to stay and help those monks."

Teru gave him a smile and changed the subject. "Don't forget to get in contact with the Supervisor Murata or they might come looking for us."

'He's clearly interested in that building.'

"Rest assured Mister Teru, we'll handle everything." Mister Bando came up to us, leading the horses with him. "Are you sure you don't want us to leave one of the horses with you?"

"We can handle it." Teru said as slapped my shoulder.

"Then we will take our leave."

"Goodbye, Big brother Teru, Zai."

"We'll see you in Shimamaki City then." Teru said as I waved at them.

We resumed our excavation and later in the day, found out the room we had dug into was an office. There were filing cabinets and bookshelves but all the books and paper had worn out to the point of falling apart and decaying. The writing was illegible. We also uncovered an old radio and a broken down grandfather clock with it's gears exposed.

Teru was completely fascinated by all this.

'Just wait a couple years when they build that railroad and more technology starts appearing over here.'

When we were just about to start working our way out of the office and into the hallway when a monk approached us.

"Friends, we have done what we can and are preparing to depart from these grounds."

Teru looked back and forth between the monk and building before coming to a decision.

"Alright, we'll come with you." As we were leaving the building he whispered to me, "We'll stop by here on our return trip."

During a break later on, Teru led me to a clear area and began picking up pebbles.

"May I ask what you are doing, friend?" One of the monks asked in interest.

"Just some training for this little one." Teru said.

"You wouldn't mind if I observed?"

"I have a better idea." Teru gave his pile of pebbles to the monk and collected another pile.

"Sword up, Zai. Let's see if your trick can dodge this." He chucked a pebble at me.

I wasn't ready for the speed and stumbled out of the way, only to get hit by a pebble from behind that was thrown by the monk. By the end of this training session another two monks joined in on the fun and it was like the first day all over again.

We continued our journey, ate and meditated with the monks, and reached a village by the evening. We stayed at a small monastery for the night before leaving the next morning.

"What are you trying to do with your hand, young friend?" During one of the breaks, one of the monks questioned me when he saw me flailing my arm around trying to detect pebbles coming from behind.

I explained my trick to him and he said, "Perhaps it may be more helpful to change the position of where you extend your perception? Have you ever heard of the third eye, young friend?" He asked.

"Yes, but I'm not sure exactly what it is."

The monk pointed to his forehead. "Similar to the type of training I've observed from you, the third eye is connected with ones perception, awareness, and spiritual communication. It is believed that one who reaches full enlightenment can open the third eye, a gate that leads to the inner realms and higher consciousness."

By the time we reached Shimamaki City I had changed my detection method from extending an invisible ki hand to sending out sweeping pulses from between my brows, sort of like a radar.

Since I couldn't move it around anymore like with my hand, I had to put in a large amount of concentration to rotate the pulse around me to scan my close surroundings. The range was 1 meter but I could extend it to a maximum of 3 meters if I took the time to build up more ki, and I started getting a little light-headed if I used it too much.

'Seems like it's expending my ki.'

Like that, 11 days after we began our trip, we crested a hill and discovered the sight of a sprawling city with a river running through it, much larger than Yamainu.

Theres tech in the naruto world, just wanted to come up with an explanation why they exist.