"Come on, make your mind up! Show me what you're worth!" The white-haired beast shouted cheerfully.

And I once again ate the dust of the landfill. Damn the blonds! That squealing pervert, that spoiled princess. Well, it's not my thing! Damn taijutsu!

No. My fighting skills have nothing to do with it. For the first fifteen minutes when I was fresh, Tsunade only ate like this. I know Destreza, and I've been trained in unarmed combat. And destreza is, for your information, almost Hyuga clan taijutsu. The principles are the same, because the white-eyed techniques are very similar to baguazhang. Yes, and here I picked up a lot and myself gained something. But that's not the point. After fifteen minutes in the ring, I just don't have the strength to continue fighting this monster on equal terms!

"How are you?" The monster asks with a hint of sympathy.

"I'm fine, Tsunade. But I've had enough for today," I said wearily. "We will assume that we are done with the warm-up."

"Orochimaru!" Jiraiya exclaimed indignantly and resentfully. "It's only been half an hour, come on again!"

"You did well," the girl nodded, holding out her hand.

Of course, with my White Snake body, Young Senju's punches don't do as much damage as they might. But it takes too much chakra to maintain the body. In general, in recent years, the problem of my lack of physical energy has begun to manifest itself clearly. The spirit is through the roof because of reincarnation, but Taurus can't cope. No matter how hard I train, I still can't strengthen it.

"Well done!" Toad also condescended to congratulate them, giving them a friendly hug on the shoulders. "You did a great job with her!

"Yeah, not like you!" Tsunade said with a condescending snort.

"Well, you know," the white-haired man drawled in a greasy voice "I'd rather take you down on softer surfa... ha!"

He didn't have time to finish, as he was expected to get an elbow in the ribs. I hope his bones aren't cracked, but I don't want to treat him. I deserve it. This joke was too much even for him, but apparently, until the pervert is on the verge of life and death, he will not calm down. Our partner's breasts have been bothering him lately. And, to my shame, I understand him.

"Hey! For what?!" I didn't get it when I got hit on the back of the head.

"For prevention! Where were you looking at just now, huh?!" The young fury's menacing gaze made even me feel embarrassed.

"On the necklace!" Nevertheless, I didn't shy away and immediately came up with an excuse for myself. "You should take it off while you're sparring, or it might break."

"It's a gift from my grandfather." she said, hiding the pendant under her gray tunic.

"Oh, Hashirama-sama? "Jiraiya perked up, his eyes devouring Senju's unnecessarily deep cleavage. "For what? I was looking at the necklace! Kha!"

This blow was stronger, as if the ribs were cracked. What an idiot, eh? Despite the fact that he is almost a sage. I was hoping the toads would give him some sense. No wonder they still say that wisdom and intelligence are different concepts.

"You need to strengthen your body," Senju admonished me, ignoring her hunched partner.

"I know, I know" I said, not even trying to hide the longing in my voice.

"Since you know why you don't train?! — the girl was indignant, putting her hands on her hips in displeasure. "I spent all day with the test tubes again yesterday, didn't I?"

Well, it's started…

"Yes, yes, I regret that I didn't develop as you see fit, Senju-sama," I also bowed to make it more effective.

"You want me to count your ribs, too?" Tsunade asked with a quiet threat.

"Look, why don't we have some meat?!" Jiraiya suddenly exclaimed.

Sometimes I really don't understand how your head works… But you just saved me, friend!

"Come on," I said immediately. "They gave us a lot of money from the last mission."

"And then!" Ji squeezed his eyes shut with pleasure. "I've already bought myself a new pair of binoculars!" Tenfold magnification, clear glass, no glare — that's amazing! So, Tsunade, how about we celebrate our successful mission? Agree! You know how difficult it is to take our snake out for a walk!"

"Take me out for a walk?" I hissed. "What are these hints?"

"Let's go!" the girl interrupted me at the most interesting point, grabbing my elbow and dragging me out of the training ground, almost knocking me off my feet. What a power she has!

Yes, but I clearly have a problem with this. In general, Tsu-chan shouldn't be talking about me, I'm working on myself. And in general, he became a fairly strong Shinobi by the age of sixteen. Future Sannin all right. In my opinion, all three of us can pass the tokubetsu-jounin right now. But no one asks, and I don't say anything. Anyway, the war will start soon, and we'll all be ranked up there, and there won't be any exams.

We sat well that day. Whatever you say, friends, whatever they may be, always bring a good mood.

"I'm home, Mom!" I shouted loudly, trying to be heard.

It's supposed to be Reiko's day off, the door is open, so she's home.

"Chi-chan! Welcome!" The blue-haired girl smiled at me as she peeked around the corner and leaned against the wall. "You took a long time today."

"We went out with friends to have a snack, celebrated the completion of the mission" throwing off my tired shoes, I went for my portion of hugs.

"Missions that you completed a week ago?" Mom asked, putting her hands on my chest and not letting me get any closer. "At least take off your dirty clothes first!"

"It just so happens," I said, smiling.

"I've made you all sorts of things," Reiko said with a touch of annoyance, "and you're already full."

"Ah, can you really eat enough with this Ji?" I said irritably. "Glutton!"

"Then go to the bathroom, change your clothes, and sit down at the table!"

Reiko, my current mother, unlike the first two Hokages, I managed to save her. But I really hope she never finds out who poisoned her so badly that she was in a coma for a year. But what can I do, at the age of four I couldn't think of anything better. It was a good thing that they didn't try to send her on missions in the next six years of the war — they also needed her in Konoha. Of course, it was hard for her at first, since she was almost the only medic in the village, but then Tsunade and I joined her.

Yes, I have completed all the points from my original plan. Reiko saved him, became an iryonin, dealt with the body and returned all the organs to their place. No one knows about the latter. I immediately introduced myself to my team as Orochimaru, they always thought of me as a guy. The vast majority of the villagers just don't bother me.

They don't really like me very much in the village. I, like Naruto, am considered something of a demon. For the beautiful snake eyes, I guess. Therefore, it turns out that everyone knows me by sight, but the details about me are no longer available. They probably disdain it. My mom just doesn't care what anyone says about me. I'm her favorite daughter, Chi-chan. Here are some pies with kittens.

"Delicious?" Reiko asked, looking at me with emotion.

"Of course!" I answered immediately, also looking up from my dinner for a second and looking at her.

She will soon be thirty years old. My second mother, whom I could never accept as my parent. She's too young, her attitude toward me is too strange. No, maybe all mothers feel that way about their daughters, I don't know. But Reiko was more trying to be my friend than my mom.

By the way, she didn't look her age. It's all the fault of one minor poisoner. At the age of four, when the war suddenly broke out, I was just beginning to deal with my body, and I felt an unprecedented euphoria. Of course! I have a whole biochemical synthesizer hidden in me! In the Orochi Bite canon, the Juugo clan's enzymes were implanted, so how am I any worse? Anyway, when everyone was wondering why Reiko-san would take a nap for a year, I gave her an age-fixing course. Never immortality, of course, but up to a hundred years of youth provided. Almost like Uzumaki now I have a mother, only she won't grow much further than her seventeen years. M-yes.

By the way, about all sorts of Uzumaks.

"Ma," I called to Reika, who was now putting dirty dishes in the sink, "did you manage to get what I asked for?"

"Yes," said the girl, " in the scroll on your desk."

— Thank you! — in my joy, I even hugged her from behind and kissed her on the cheek.

"Just be careful.

"Of course! I left!"

Ha, well, now I won't be afraid of any Senju!

I flew to my laboratory, built with Doton's help under the house, driven by enthusiasm and forgetting everything else. I finally have Senju stem cells! Boy oh boy, Reiko well done! Members of this clan rarely give birth in the Konoha hospital, so it was very difficult to get their umbilical cord and blood from it. It's good when my mother is recognized by everyone as an Iryonin. And now I have this treasure! As much as a hundred milliliters of blood!

"Looks like I have a fun night ahead of me!" I grumbled contentedly, looking at the red liquid in the flask. "Well, let's get started."

I became interested in local medical practices almost as soon as I came to my senses thirteen years ago. Science has developed very interestingly here, I can tell you. Thanks to chakra and ninjutsu, local farriers manage to implant other people's cells into the body without any devices. True, no one knows what histocompatibility is, so positive results when creating chimeras are achieved by increasing the number of test subjects and chakra. And this is TIN, I'll tell you!

In fact, as soon as I proved myself a genius in terms of genetics — I made a couple of mistakes in front of Sarutobi's teacher — Danzo became interested in me. Yes, yes, this guy still dragged me to the Root, he knew how to bribe me, the infection. But that's not the point yet. The first time I saw local experiments with the genome was when Shimura wasn't such an influential type, but was just beginning to get a taste of power under Tobirama's wing. Even during the Second period, experiments with the Kekkei Genkai of the Uchiha clan began to be conducted in the catacombs of the newly formed Anbu.

Well, the Hokage didn't like the red-eyed ones! However, in those basements they studied not only Sharingan. Yes. It seems that the only normal ruler of Konoha so far was only the First One.

So, I then looked at what was happening there, and was amazed. Barbarians with a magic wand-that was the first thing that came to mind. It is necessary to work so rudely, having such opportunities! And, most importantly, it all really works! The eye transplant really stunned me. They just stick in their sharingans and say "Use it!", and then they are surprised that nothing happens. There is also such an overrun of chakra to suppress the histocompatibility complex that it is almost impossible to use doujutsu! Idiots…

No, I didn't point out their mistakes to them. They'll be fine. And so Yamanaka shone through me, who almost went crazy from the first second. But you don't need to get into my head and soul was-I have demons there more terrible than Kurama are found, cockroaches are called. It's good to be reincarnated.

In general, I then walked around those laboratories and decided that it was worth working with these farriers. First of all, after Yamanaka did this, I won't be left behind. Secondly, it was interesting to learn more and get a reputation. Third, keep your enemies close to you. That's why I'm at the root of it now. I don't know yet what plans Danzo and Hiruzen had for me, and I don't know if Reiko was almost sent on a suicide mission on purpose in the first year of the war. But I had to poison my mother exactly a week later, when the future Third found out that I had an excessive amount of chakra for my age at that time and that I could use soft body modification. I don't believe in such coincidences, although so far I don't see any logic in killing the Third Reiki.

"How's it going?"

"Ma!" I almost dropped the pipette in surprise. "Don't scare me like that. It's not clear yet, but we'll see it in a couple of hours. How long have you been here?"

"Yeah, about ten minutes," Reiko said, cocking her head and leaning back in the chair she was sitting in. "Chi-chan, you were so busy with your work that you didn't notice your mom?"

"I'm sorry…

"You're so smart," the girl interrupted, smiling brightly. "Real Chi!

"I'm an Orochi, Ma," I corrected, chuckling.

"Snakes are smart, too."

"Oh, praise me, praise me," I gave up, simpering as I finally finished implanting the cells into the packaged organs.

"Oh, what is this, Chi-chan?" Making startled eyes, Reiko covered her mouth with her hand. "Really… Flirting?! My little girl has become so grown up!"

"Ma, stop it!" damn, what a shame! Should I tell her that I'm not really a girl anymore, but rather a boy?

"Okay, okay," Reiko said with a satisfied smile. "Can you finally tell me what you want to do?"

I looked at her suspiciously. Is it worth talking about?

"Just promise not to tell anyone. We want to become one of the noble clans of Konoha, don't we?

"Of course," the girl nodded gravely, straightening up, then added with a sly squint of her eyes and a smile, " One little secret more, one less — it doesn't make much difference.

"Yeah," I grinned, if you only knew what my little secrets are, Reiko." Anyway, I'm checking the histological compatibility of my tissues with Senju cells. According to my idea, reduced to embryonic stem cells from umbilical cord blood should take root in the tissues of my liver, since they do not produce tissue compatibility antigens. In a couple of hours, it will be possible to judge how well the engraftment is going. Tomorrow morning I will evaluate how successful the experience is."

"Will it be successful if the liver tissue is completely replaced with a new one, based on Senju cells, and your body does not reject the new organ?"

"Yeah."

"And if it doesn't work?"

"I've put a few samples in reserve for this one," I said, waving at the thermostat with a dozen cups where the new Senju cells were currently dividing." Then I will continue my experiments. If I can't take the easy way out, then I'll have to insert DNA into my tissues. No, these experiments will still need to be performed," I grimaced. "Some people have already started thinking about reviving Hashirama's kekkei genkai, and work in this direction has been underway for six months."

"Disclosure of classified information," my mother scolded me.

"If someone doesn't know how to put seals, it's not my problem," I smiled slyly.

"No, it's just that someone doesn't take care of themselves," Reiko glared at me. "You didn't have to cut out your tongue!"

"The easiest way," I said, shrugging.

What's the point of complicating things if you can just cut out the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal? I learned my signature Body Replacement technique when I was seven years old, so I simply cut off the damage that was inflicted when I entered Juin Root, and then repaired all the damage. Of course, it wasn't very pleasant, especially with my current chakra level, but now all I have on my tongue is an imitation of the cursed seal.

"You want power so badly," Reiko said with a sigh after a few seconds of silence.

"I want to be called Tailless Biju," I said wryly. "My spiritual energy is fine. Inton techniques are going well, but with the release of other elements and, especially, with taijutsu problems. For the desired result, I need to have a lot of body energy, like Uzumaki and Senju with their longevity. Or I need to have a body that can break Hashirama's Mokuton with just physical strength."

"A senjutsu. Why don't you try it?" You haven't even been to Hakuja Sennin's Ryuchido, but you're already refusing.

"I know what the White Serpent will tell me," I said. ""You are too weak to accept sanchakra." Don't frown, it will. To become a Sannin, I first need to strengthen my body."

"Can you repeat my experience? You're the one who put me in a coma seven years ago, aren't you?" Reiko asked seriously, making me shiver.

"So you understand..." and I just wished she'd never found out.

"Of course!" Mom said with a snort. "Neither I nor my ancestors were in the habit of sleeping through the year and not getting old after that, you know."

"And everyone else has bought into the chakra drain," I said, looking down in embarrassment.

"It looked like it, I agree," my mother said. "I looked at my medical records later. Don't look away, I understand why you did that. But we'll talk about that later. Well, how's that? After that coma, my chakra volume increased significantly. Even if I, who was once a feeble Iryonin, now have enough strength for sufficiently strong techniques, then you should rise just to the level of, as you say, "Tailless".

"It won't work," I said, shaking my head. "I've already done everything I could, and for everything else, you need to have a second me, with the same body. Otherwise, you will not be able to accurately select the necessary cocktail of stimulants. By the way, I really don't have enough helpers. I don't trust anyone at all, and I only perform a small part of the interesting experiments with the genome of the First and Uchiha, which Danzo is so fixated on. Basically, we are developing cloning technology in general. Danzo hasn't reached the point of experimenting on humans yet, but I feel like it won't be long before he does… So, cloning is, of course, interesting and promising, but something else is important to me now. Ma, I'll get Mito-sama's DNA soon. And since you're in the Village more than I am, I'd like to ask you to do some dreary, simple work, don't you think?"

"I don't mind, but you need to tell me the details first, don't you?" Reiko replied with a chuckle.

"It's simple," I said briskly. "One of these days, I'm going to make a thousand samples with my own bone marrow cells, which I'll transplant various pieces of Mito-sama's DNA into. You will need to check every day how the cells are growing. If the sample is dead, discard it and mark it in the log. So, since we can't get the Uzumaki cells without the antigens, I want to change mine using the genome of the Former's wife. After the first stage, when all the remaining samples are definitely viable, they will need to be checked for histocompatibility with my tissues. And only after the second phase of the experiment, the remaining test tubes will need to check whether the necessary DNA strands have been transmitted to us."

"And how to do it? The organs themselves don't secrete chakra," Mom said, frowning.

"But they do release body energy," I said, grinning back. "You just need to pass some spiritual energy through the sample and observe the response. I have already conducted similar experiments in the Root, it works. You can feel the chakra, right?"

"I'm a very poor sensor, but if the source is a few centimeters away, I can sense it," the girl shrugged.

— I'm just like you!" he couldn't help but smile broadly. "At the end of the experiment, there should be samples whose chakra is either different from mine, or the response is brighter than the others. I'll check them out for myself. I will implant them in turn in my arm, for example, until I achieve the desired result, that is, an increase in body energy. If there are any problems, I cut off the arm, use the technique of Replacing the Body-the limb will be restored according to the sample of a larger piece, that is, it will become the same as it was before the genetic changes."

"I see. I won't say that I like everything, but I'll do it if I have to," my mother sighed again, smiled and patted my head. "You're trying so hard, Chi-chan."

"It's all for you, Mother," I couldn't help saying sarcastically. "You see, I even gave you a house when I was ten!"

"Gave it to me?" Reiko mused, putting her index finger to her chin. "For some reason, I think you only bought this house because the apartment couldn't have had such a nice basement. Also, because I wanted to get away from that restless kid, huh?"

"You mean Navaki?" I smiled, remembering the kid.

"Ouch!" mom's eyes suddenly widened, "What kind of smile is that, Chi-chan?" Did you really…"

"Ma! Don't draw any erroneous conclusions, please! "I shook my head wearily. "He's just a Senju with their family awl up his ass who thinks I can teach him something... like that."

"Ah, daughter, you don't know anything about men," Reiko said, shaking her head reproachfully. "But Nawaki might be the future Hokage."

"He thinks I'm a guy." And let him live first," I snorted, folding my arms ostentatiously. "How do these Senju put up with each other as kids?"

"Yeah, if only he didn't think you were a guy," Reiko grumbled. "You introduce yourself to everyone as Orochimaru-this is one, there are no breasts-two, there is no butt-three, you talk about yourself in the masculine gender-four. Sometimes you even talk to me."

"That was a shame just now, actually!" not really, of course, but my mother won't understand if I don't resent it.

"What makes you think Nawaki won't live to become Hokage?" the girl ignored me. "The war is over, and you have overfished the nukenins that bred after it. No dangerous tasks are planned yet. Even you've stopped making Mummy a lot of money."

"Ah, as if it's hard to start another war," I said. "Hiruzen is already outraged that Suna is raiding our borders and threatens to respond 'appropriately'. In short, between the First war and the Second break will not be long."

"And that's why you agreed to learn some Nawaki recently, isn't it?"

"He'll get killed on the first mission, you idiot," I said irritably, remembering the hyperactive kid. "I would like him to become Hokage, of course. And then, God forbid, I will be appointed!"

"Um," Reiko mused, looking at me carefully. "Chi-chan, are you really ... Tsundere?"

Take a deep breath. Exhale.

"Mom. You have duty tomorrow. Go. Sleep. Please!"

"Chi-chan is evil!" Mom exclaimed, throwing up her hands in a clownish gesture, and ran upstairs.

"Damn, and this woman is thirty years old?" I almost spat on the floor in anger. "At least I'll go to the lab and get some rest."