His chakra had changed colour again.

Originally, cliche as it was, his chakra was a light cyan blue. Also ironic considering he disliked light blue because it gave him headaches in his other life when looking at it too long.

It wasn't a bad colour really, but he didn't like large swathes of it and preferred it merely for decoration trimming and such.

When he became the jinchuuriki of Isobu and his chakra coils became constantly exposed to Isobu's own, his chakra not only became denser, but darkeed in colour becoming a dark blue.

Much more his style.

When he gained the Cursed Seal and absorbed all the chakra of Orochimaru's soul fragment, his chakra darkened once more, becoming a royal purple.

Which then became an even darker purple after he remodelled the Cursed Seal into the Heavenly Star Seal.

Now though, hours after his meeting with Temari and Toka returned to him, the colour of his chakra had radically shifted once more.

Now, after sealing the stone or rather Fragment of Gelel into the Heavenly Star Seal on his shoulder and setting it up the in the same way as the star chakra, the colour of Daiki's own chakra had shifted into a dark green that seemed to almost border on grey.

'Timber green actually.' Isobu helpfully corrected him as he stood in the middle of his provided bedroom for the next few days, a blaze of chakra covering his hand and examining it in interest.

Timber green, huh?

'Not a bad name for chakra of a leaf ninja.' Daiki snorted in amusement. Still, it wasn't like he could complain at all.

It wasn't like the change of colour in his chakra was a bad thing. Quite the opposite, it had become even more dense and powerful, and on top of that, much easier to control.

He supposed that made sense considering that loser Haido learned to control the power from the Stone of Gelel extremely quickly after getting a hold of it.

And it wasn't just his chakra that felt stronger and easier to control. His body itself felt like it had grown quite a decent bit stronger over the last few hours after he got used to the influx of power from the Fragment of Gelel.

And his healing factor was amped massively as well. He'd slashed his hand not long ago to check and it had sizzled and healed up within seconds.

Jinchuuriki healing factor plus the regeneration from the Fragment of Gelel that was a match for Naruto's own in the other timeline…made for a potent combination.

Honestly, he was super curious to see how it reflected on his status screen and to see if it had actually increased or if it would even show up at all, because when using his Jinchuuriki cloak forms, his status screen never reflected that.

It was weird.

Still so many questions left unanswered about it.

'Status.' he thought, shaking his head.

Name: Daiki Yurei
Age: 13
Chakra Capacity: 170,000/170,000 (Low-Tier Kage)
Strength: 198/?
Endurance: 275/?
Durability: 197/?
Agility: 197/?
Taijutsu: 205/500
Ninjutsu: 290/500
Genjutsu: 45/500
Bukijutsu: 120/500
Chakra Control: 259/500

Chakra Affinities:
Lightning - (Advanced): Roar with the power of thunder.
Water - (Expert): The sea parts before you.

Fuinjutsu - (Advanced): The breath hitches.

Huh,

His chakra capacity had risen nearly ten thousand in the last few days, a decent little jump already from the massive jump he'd gained from his little run in with Orochimaru. Granted, that wasn't all from the Fragment of Gelel, the star chakra, Isobu's chakra and his eyes made sure his chakra capacity was passively growing constantly.

And of course he had a bunch of shadow clones training it out right now, which made his chakra capacity grow through training it.

Still, even with all that, the growth was noticeable from last night he knew.

And beyond that, interestingly, his physical abilities had indeed grown, as had his chakra control apparently. Each had grown by roughly, near twenty points each by his estimation after gaining the Fragment of Gelel.

That was great. That was weeks worth of training right there. He was close to breaking two hundred on most of his physical abilities and closing in on three hundred with endurance.

'Man, I'm a total beast!' Daiki grinned as he stared at the status screen.

'Eh, getting there I suppose, give it a few years and I might allow you to claim as so in truth.' Isobu piped in.

Daiki blinked, 'And who made you the beast title police?' he asked with a snort.

'I am a Tailed Beast remember? It's in the name, right now I'm afraid Daiki, you can only claim to be a beast by proxy because of me, not of your own merit, too bad, so sad.' Isobu replied, smugly.

'You know, you were made out to be the nice polite one of you nine,' Daiki replied with a pout, 'All you do is bully me though.' he whined.

'I am the polite nice one, you already know what head cases my siblings are,' Isobu retorted, 'And I'm just doing my civic duty to deflate that ego a bit here and there before it inflates your head so much you fly off to space.'

Before Daiki could think of something to fire back with, Isobu coughed, 'Anyway, it's not just the power of your chakra and abilities that have increased, you probably can't tell yourself right now, but I am chakra itself given form and your chakra is part of your very life force.' the three tailed bijuu brought up.

'And so what are you getting at?' Daiki asked. He already had a pretty good idea of course, since it was perhaps the main reason he actually went for this Fragment of Gelel, but he couldn't exactly confirm if it was working himself.

Isobu apparently could.

'The energy of Gelel, it's not quite chakra, it's more akin to the natural energy being absorbed into your Heavenly Star Seal at a rough guess, though I cannot be fully sure on that part until we actually learn how to sense natural energy,' Isobu continued, 'Still, it is incredibly pure and as it increases your chakra, so to does it enhance your life force. Already through since yesterday, I estimate that your max living age has increased by near a year, eight months if I had to narrow it down fully and will increase by that amount daily so long as that fragment in your seal continues to pass its energy to you.'

Hmm.

That was very good to know. And meant he would recover the life span he'd given up with the Hero's Water, roughly ten years in just over two weeks.

Eight months per day, which would be roughly around between twenty nine hundred and three thousand in a year, which in months would equate to around one hundred and twenty years.

…Huh.

A lot different from how it worked in the other timeline. Perhaps a change somehow because this was a different universe, maybe?

But then, that didn't really make sense either.

'The full stone is not without its drawbacks, the pure energy, I theorize gives a mutated form, just like the way the Cursed Seal does, which is another reason I'm guessing it is akin to natural energy,' Isobu already had an answer for that as well apparently, 'You are not using the full power of the stone, but rather purifying and filtering its energy into your own, gaining only beneficial traits, if at the cost of some instant strength. In this sense, it is more akin to you drawing from that fragment and making your chakra become Gelel chakra itself, a source of its own growing from the ground up. Perhaps in the future your chakra will have innate healing properties to it?'

'That does make sense, after all I can't feel anything like a transformation coming from my energy.' Daiki mused, crossing his arms in thought. And it wouldn't be that hard to draw on and transform if it was anything like the Cursed Seal, after all, Sasuke could use his level two transformation without any training whatsoever just from drawing more on the Cursed Seal.

He wasn't the type to toot his own ho-

'Yes you are.' Isobu deadpanned.

But, he was pretty damn skilled if he did say so himself. And he had Isobu backing him up, between the two of them, if there was a transformation, they'd have found it real quick.

Since they hadn't, it made sense Daiki didn't have a transformation coming from the energy.

'As it should be, the only transformations you need are my forms.' Isobu added.

Daiki quite agreed with that.

Plus, if he transformed into some weird mutated bat or wolf thing, it would make his chakra cloak and shit look way less epic.

Hell if he gained fur or something, people probably wouldn't even be able to see the badass tattoo's he got from his Heavenly Star Seal!

Wait!

'What about Sage Mode?' Daiki asked.

'That is less a transformation and more an augmentation of your base form. It gets a pass. Bijuu Sage mode is definitely something we should acquire in the future if we can.' Isobu replied.

Phew!

'Also by the way, your math was totally off, in a year you would accumulate two hundred and forty three years worth of life force,' the huge tortoise bijuu then added on, 'You should slow down a bit when calculating in your head. Then again, I suppose you even managing simple times tables is a massive feat considering all your brain power revolves around your precious grind and figuring out how to punch harder.'

'Hey!' Daiki narrowed his eyes, 'You can insult me all you want buddy, I know you love me really, but watch your tone when talking about the most holy life style!'

'Ugh, the worst of it is, you actually do pretty much worship it,' Isobu groaned, 'Konoha better hope the Sandaime Hokage survives this little invasion coming up, otherwise they'll find themselves as a whole forced into an all new religion and possible cult.'

Daiki opened his mouth to reply, before pausing, 'Hmm, that's not actually a bad idea.' he mused.

Isobu shut up instantly.

'Yeah, yeah I like it, if I become Hokage, I'll make the grind mandatory for all ninja and ninja in training, really boost the performance of my ninja minions,' Daiki nodded to himself, 'That way they'll be way more useful in the future instead of just fodder I'll have to waste energy protecting if things spiral into a big ol' war like they did in the other timeline.'

'…I should practice what I preach and watch what I say.' Isobu groaned in defeat.

"Are you quite done?" Toka's voice broke him out of his mental conversation.

Daiki looked over to the opposite end of the room, where a single bed sat pressed up against the wall and a familiar pink scaled chameleon lay resting atop his pillow in her shrunken form.

"More or less." he shrugged.

He wasn't actually sure why she had stuck around. Generally whenever she had finished a task for him or finished training with him, she disappeared off back to her homeland.

"Good," she nodded simply, "I must say, watching your face shift through such a variety of ridiculous expressions was rather nauseating, at one point you even had a rather horrid grin on your face that would not look at all out of place on the face of a serial killer."

Ouch.

"I am a serial killer." he deadpanned at her. He'd honestly lost track of how many people he'd killed, but he was betting it was over a hundred by this point at least.

Bandits were absolute clowns that never learned, even when doing minor D-rank missions outside the village, it wasn't that rare to run into a few of them.

They were like roaches to be honest, they weren't at all a threat, but just when you think you had stamped them out, a few more popped up out of the tracks and loitered around the forests looking for travellers.

…Which never really worked out well for them, cuz they tended to get swatted by any passing shinobi if they came across them.

"Hmm, slightly true I suppose, though there is a difference," Toka mused lazily, "Still, I advise you not to show faces like that around the female population, you will surely be unable to attract a mate while wearing such a ghastly expression."

"Trust me, I have no problems on that front." Daiki rolled his eyes….well, maybe. Granted, he was lacking entirely on the romance front and only had a booty call and a hot older woman offering to bang him if he did something epic for her.

…Even Naruto and Sasuke had actual girls interested in romance and a proper relationship and love with them.

Gah!

How depressing.

"…So is there a reason you're still hanging around?" Daiki asked, shaking his head and putting those thoughts out of mind before he got so depressed he started listening to country ballads and songs about heart break…then busted out the tubs of ice cream.

"Is it a problem for you that I'm still here?" Toka asked instead of answering the question.

"Nah, I like having you around despite how much of a bitch you are to me," he shrugged, "Just curious since you tend to split when you feel like you've done what you needed to."

"Perhaps I wouldn't be so much of a 'bitch' as you so crudely put it if you were not such an incompetent muscle head?" Toka rolled her ringed eyes, "As for why I am here, I have no duties currently within the clan and have some free time, and soon you shall be participating in a competitive bout, no? I thought to stay around and see the great Chameleon Clan's chosen summoner show his power off to others for a bit and enjoy myself."

"Also," she added before he could say anything else and narrowed her eyes at him seriously, "You had a run in with the main summoner and contract holder of the Snake Clan. Father wishes to keep an eye on the situation, just in case grandfather is brought into battle against you."

…Huh, that was right wasn't it? Manda was actually her grandfather. Honestly, it was quite the pedigree, the daughter of the one who would become one of Pein's main summons and the granddaughter of the personal summon beast of the Snake Sannin.

"Fair enough, feel free to stick around as long as you want," Daiki shrugged, personally, he wasn't all that fussed about the snake summons, Chameleon's were clearly superior, "Actually that reminds me, I gave another search mission to your clan to find something for me near two days ago, how is that-"

"The Uchiha corpse, yes?" Toka cut him off, "We already found it, you already had the location for it after all, we have been keeping a hold of it for now since you were busy and we did not want to just leave it at your estate."

Daiki's eyes widened, "You found it!?" he gasped, a massive grin spreading across his face.

Chameleon's seriously were the best, no doubt.

"Yes, though it is in a very poor state," Toka shrugged her scaly shoulders, "It hasn't decomposed too much, but it has been partially eaten by the aquatic wild life within the Naka River and what is left of the corpse is quite water logged, and beyond that, it lacks eyes as well. I have no idea why you wanted it to be honest, without the Sharingan the corpse of an Uchiha is rather useless."

"You let me worry about that," Daiki waved her off, "Can you bring it here?"

"I suppose, give me a moment." Toka agreed and a second later, disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Daiki wasn't waiting long.

A mere minute at most passed before another puff of smoke signified the return of Toka.

She was prudent like that.

When the smoke dissipated, it was to show Toka still in her miniature form, standing beside a bloated, soaking piece of flab.

Daiki grimaced.

For all intents and purposes, Shisui Uchiha had been a pretty handsome guy. From what he remembered, he had the pretty boy looks of a typical Uchiha, yet at the same time, his features were more masculine than say Sasuke.

Now, he, or rather was was left of him, looked more like a fat, bloated tumour of skin that seemed to leak a disgusting watery substance from each and every pore.

And that wasn't even getting into the fact that there were tons of great big rents in the body all over the surface, as if tons of creatures had taken to nibbling on it from time to time.

It was a wonder it hadn't just become a skeleton at this point. But then, Shisui was just built different from your typical person, he was near an S-class shinobi when he died.

His body was just that much tougher than an average person, that it was taking longer for his body to decay.

…Still it wasn't exactly a pretty sight. And it was a horrible look for such a cool guy.

"I still do not understand what good this body will do you," Toka mused, casting it an indifferent glance, "Unless you've went all mad scientist like the snake contract holder and plan to clone this Uchiha."

"No, nothing like that," Daiki replied, eyes on the corpse. His scarlet red eyes glowed and he looked into the body itself, taking in the contents of it. Damn, it wasn't half water logged now was it? That would have to go, "Do you remember what I told you about my Infinite Armour?" he asked, crouching down over the body and pressing his hand over it.

He focused, spreading his chakra through the body and drew the water within the corpse to it. He'd already long since learned what he needed to do when using raw life force to repair a body.

The contents of those four clowns technique to revive their master Seimi, had been explained to him from his loot. In the process of regenerating the body, it would flush out all impurities that had taken root, including the likes of insects and such that had infested the body.

Still, there had to be a dozen gallons of water stuffed inside this corpse. Eesh. It was a wonder it hadn't just popped, but then he could attribute that to Shisui's strength before death as well he supposed.

Just in case he'd draw the water out.

"Yes, absorbing chakra and converting it into life force, how could I forget when it has such a silly name?" Toka snorted and rolled her ringed eyes, then walked over to hop up onto his shoulder and lay down, observing what he was doing.

"Yeah," Daiki grinned faintly as he guided the water in the corpse up and out of one of the great big rents in the corpse's flesh, "While I lack the revival jutsu itself that will pull a soul from the after life, using life force, I can do what they wanted, and way better than those guys thanks to my eyes."

In fact, the jutsu used for the life force transference itself, wasn't really a jutsu, but rather just a function of the Infinite Armour. A seal.

A seal he'd long since cracked. Knew the functions of, and could do better with his eyes.

Especially in conjunction with perhaps his most used jutsu of all.

"And what was it they hoped to accomplish, hmm?" Toka asked, "Some form of revival jutsu, like your village's Edo Tensei?"

"Figures you guys would know about that as well," Daiki snorted, "But yeah, along those lines. Basically, with enough life force, it's possible to regenerate a corpse that is little more than a skeleton, back to perfectly healthy and alive."

"I see." Toka said simply and nothing else.

Ever the composed lizard lady, huh?

She was silent for a moment as he worked, digesting what he said, before-

"You wish to regenerate the Sharingan and take it for your own, then?" Toka questioned a moment later, hitting the nail right on the head.

"Pretty much." Daiki nodded.

"Hmm, the Sharingan is a powerful tool for sure, but why? Do you plan to replace those eyes you have now, the Shinkugan you call them?" she asked next, "I would advise against it. The overall abilities, especially the sensory linked ones and the fact they enhance your analytical ability outweigh the benefits of the Sharingan in my opinion."

"Don't worry, I'm not giving up the Shinkugan, it's way better than the Sharingan," Daiki assured her, "I simply plan to fuse the Sharingan with my Shinkugan with Fuinjutsu, I just haven't gotten around to making the seal yet."

…It hadn't exactly been a top priority so far. He already had a rough idea how he would do it mind you, with the Four Symbols Seal, The Chakra Filter Seal and some of the applications of his improved Heavenly Star Seal.

"Hmm, and how will you go about that I wonder?" Toka hummed, and in his peripheral vision he saw her lips stretch into a taunting grin, "Do you plan to pull out your eyes to physically inscribe the seals on them?"

Daiki said nothing.

Toka's eyes widened, "Truly!?" she gasped, before erupting into laughter, "My goodness! You are truly a buffoon that will do anything to grow stronger. Though, an amusing buffoon at least."

Daiki resisted the urge to tell her that there was a fine line between something being stupid and something being genius.

It was whether it worked or not.

But he would just let his work be all the proof he needed and show her.

…Later when he actually got it done.

Still, he did toy with the idea of making a seal around his eyes, connecting to his temples rather than the eyes themselves. But, he figured that would weaken the connection and it would be stronger if he fused them together.

And actually could lead to a better result.

If he sealed the finished product to his genome. Making it truly part of his bloodline and able to be passed down. That, was something that would take a lot longer to complete though.

He wasn't quite good enough to pull something like that yet.

He shook his head as the last droplet of water came free, swerving up to join the rest, forming into a large sphere of water nearly as tall as he was that was idly floating in the air under his control.

He was really getting good at the water manipulation these days. Improving every day, every second even considering he had clones training with it right this very moment.

"Right, let's get this show on the road then," Daiki said a few moments later, after dumping the water down the plughole of the shower provided to his room, once again crouching down over the body, which was now while still a lump piece of meat, now much slimmer. He made a single hand seal, "Mystical Palm Jutsu." he intoned, familiar warm green healing chakra forming around his hands.

And then he focused and drew upon the massive quantities of life force stored within the Infinite Armour. Beyond absorbing any chakra going his way, Isobu was constantly adding chakra to it himself, and by his counting, in sheer volume, they had stored enough chakra to rival that of his two tailed sibling, Matatabi.

His eyes began glowing, so bright the room was cast in a deep red glow, and he moulded the life force into his hands. The soft warm green aura of his Mystical Palm Jutsu turned a pure gleaming sliver and he pressed his hands down atop Shisui's body and let loose, directing the pure healing life force into the corpse.

And instantly, before his very eyes, he watched as time itself seemed to rewind rapidly for the body. The bloated skin shrinking, tightening, going from soggy pale grey to warm creamy skin, the rents all over the body healed, filling in, teeth reformed, the bloated skull and face shrunk and moulded back into proper shape, a handsome black haired teen just a few years older than Daiki staring back at him…with empty eye sockets.

By his counting, he'd already directed a tenth of the total gathered life force, amplified by his eyes and the Mystical Palm Jutsu into the body.

…What the?

'Keep going.' Isobu urged him before he could falter, 'Power requires power, and the Sharingan, especially this ones, isn't so easily restored from nothing, especially considering this ones eyes still exist.'

…That didn't make sense at all. Isobu was sure for instance Daiki himself could regenerate a lost lung rather easily. So would that mean if somebody just tore his lung out, and kept it in their hand and didn't destroy it, it would make it harder for Daiki to regenerate?

'Just keep going, I admit, I do not know everything, but eyes such as these are special, they require you to go further.' Isobu replied.

How cryptic.

…And stupid.

Really, what was up with the fucking bullshit around the Sharingan that even the laws of the universe apparently made it harder to regenerate them just because?

He pushed even more life force into Shisui's body. Yet still, nothing formed in his eyes.

He tripled the output.

Soon he'd expanded life force equal to Shukaku the One Tailed Bijuu in chakra by Isobu's estimates. Which had been enough to fully revive Seimi and pull him from the after life.

…There!

There was a glimmer within eye sockets, small white flakes forming over the optic nerves within.

"Orah!" Daiki roared and went full in, he pushed every little bit of life force stored within the Infinite Armour out, amplified it by his eyes and directed it into the body with the Mystical Palm Jutsu.

And then he went a step further and went even further beyond!

He drew on his own chakra, converting almost the entirety of his own chakra capacity into life force and added it on, chakra comparable to that of a kage converted into life force just to top it off.

He was using so much chakra, his own and beyond, spots started dancing in his vision and he began teetering from side to side almost drunkenly.

And then all of a sudden, the flow cut off entirely.

There was nothing else left beyond his very own life force and Daiki found himself toppling backwards in a dead faint.

'Chakra…exhaustion…!?' he realised blearily.

The back of his head smashed into the hard tile floor of the room, yet Daiki didn't even have the strength left to wince.

Toka of course easily and casually left off of his shoulder before he hit the ground, not even bothering to stop him.

"Truly a buffoon," she snorted while he lay there and stared up at the ceiling, or rather as much of the ceiling as he could see since most of his vision was filled with spots and blotting most of it out of view, "A competent buffoon I suppose though, it seems your efforts were not in vain."

Daiki gave a slow blink, '…Did it work?' he thought hazily.

A second later, the numbness that had befell his body began to fade away as a familiar dense, powerful chakra flowed into his coils, rejuvenating him, giving him strength enough to push himself up to his hands and knees.

His limbs still shook mightily with the struggle of it, and even with Isobu it would take a little bit before the effects of chakra exhaustion totally faded, but, he for now he could move.

He turned his head and looked at the corpse, and a grin began to spread across his face.

The perfectly restored body of Shisui Uchiha lay staring up at the ceiling just like he had been before, eyes wide open, crimson red sharingan eyes with three tomoe gazing blankly upwards.

He done it!

….And all it took was chakra comparable to the two tailed Bijuu, amplified by a bullshit doujutsu of his own.

Daiki grinned in victory, before collapsing backwards again onto the ground and just laying there, basking in the moment.

'Never again.' he vowed.

'Well I wouldn't say never, it may be possible to make an Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan if you have two pairs of the same set of eyes,' Isobu interjected, 'But I do believe it will be a long time coming. The amount of life force you used for this would truly come in handy in a pinch if we were ever in over our heads. As it is, it will take us months to gain that amount of chakra again, and that is assuming we do not get into any battles that force me to exhaust my chakra to keep us alive in the mean time.'

Daiki grimaced.

…Yeah, he hadn't at all thought it would take that much life force to just regenerate Shisui's body.

Not even close.

'For reference, that amount of chakra turned into life force, was easily enough for you to live a thousand years life span wise.' Isobu added.

…..Fucking Sharingan.

And here we are back again, this time with the big three zero, breaking into the thirties with chapters now.

You know, the bullshit around the Sharingan is just that, utter bullshit. I don't understand at all how Orochimaru can clone Sharingan and people pretty easily going by Shin who was around long before Burito, but Madara who was revived with the Rinne Tensei from the Edo Tensei didn't keep his Rinnegan. Despite the fact he had become young again, was in his prime when summoned for some reason, when nobody else was, Hiruzen and Hanzo for instance. Best I could come up with is that it's just a power thing and the stronger the set of sharingan eyes cloned or regenerated, the more power it takes. It's about the only thing that makes even a slight tiny bit of a lick of sense. So here, it took Daiki using up all the chakra converted life force he'd been gathering for over three months and not just from Isobu at that, over a thousand years worth of life span and not something he can just do on the fly. And this is just a set of mangekyou, strong mature ones for sure, but no a set of Eternals, never mind the Rinnegan. Yep, even then it doesn't make sense, I know, but I'm rolling with it. Finished chapter 38 on Pa-atreon and will be moving on to chapter 39 soon, possibly tonight. Only two more fights left before I'm done with this prelim nonsense!

Anyway, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.