Setsuna's P.O.V.
Sometimes I wonder, are all Hyuga clansmen perverts deep down?
I mean, no offense but when you get to see any sex act committed in several kilometers around you it is no wonder the Hyuga family does its best to seem noble-like and so demure. If not for that, others might realize the Hyuga clansman can be watching every debauched act done in kilometers around them at any time.
Pretty sure the Hyuga compound would be put as far away from the center of Konoha as the other clans can manage, if only so no one truly realizes this small 'detail'.
And why am I thinking this? Well, because I am currently studying the fuinjutsu Kushina gave me in exchange for not saying anything about what she is doing with and on Minato. She literally sends me the fuck away every chance she gets to stay as far away from the Senjuu compound as she can manage.
Not that I overly mind this. I just spend most of my time in the Nara forest or at the Konoha Hospital anyway together with Shizune. The little girl has actually been a great help with my research on developing a useful medicine to enhance my chakra amount and other aspects. She has a real knack for these sorts of things, being very capable of these and with her already having learned the summoning jutsu from teacher she could get Katsuyu to give us many of the herbs and minerals that come from the Wet Bone Forest.
That place is the same level of existence as the Mount Myoboku and the Ryuchi Cave, the nature energy from it is far more saturated and strong than in our surroundings to the point it allowed for animals in times immemorial to develop to the point they reached today. Those three places must be the very best even amongst the summoning beast lands, and the materials from them show it.
The whole month passed in this calm, I divided my time between physical training, my research on the drug I wanted to produce, fuinjutsu studies using the material Kushina bribed me with, practicing Tai Chi, and practicing with how to improve the Strange Force jutsu.
Funny story, moving only spiritual or only physical types of energy in the body is hard as all hell. My original observation regarding the usage of the Strange Force with using different ratios of spiritual and physical energy and the loss of the excess, and thus the chakra expenditure, was mostly correct. Of course, after I was able to analyze this and see this aspect, I realized that the spiritual energy that was thrown away to reobtain balance on the body could be used in another way, so I tried to move it somewhere else.
Namely, I threw it into my Byakugan with rather mixed results.
It took me two weeks to barely manage to move even 20% of the spiritual energy that would otherwise be wasted, and even then I spent a lot of focus to do this and by the end the addition of the extra energy on my eyes for two weeks of training only enhanced my vision by a very, very small degree.
It increased my sight range on the 359° from seventy meters to seventy four meters, and my focused one when I deliberately observe a single spot went from twenty thousand eighty meters to three thousand four hundred meters. It is a nice improvement, but I know that someone like Neji could reach a much higher improvement in two years even without any specialized training and just doing regular practice.
The guy will be a true monster, he could go from a fifty meters radius for his 360° vision to eight hundred meters in just two years while he was also doing missions and not doing any truly specialized training beside the one the rest of the clan already does. While it is true that the growth rate of a person between 12 and 18 is the highest, it is still a terrifying growth rate that shows how impossibly high his talent truly was.
I wonder, maybe in the future I could try and teach him a bit to see how high he can reach and maybe, just maybe, the kid could have his happy ending where he can plow Tenten silly every night as the two deserved.
Maybe this is how the byakugan's power increases anyway? I did notice that a small, like 0,001% or less of the spiritual energy that would be lost was naturally moved to the Byakugan when practicing the gentle fist, it was an almost entirely negligible amount, but if Neji could move more it would explain how he managed to evolve his eyes so much. Still, I think I am on the right track to make my field of vision increase by a lot more.
Ending such happy thoughts, I return to what I was doing right now.
"You are one scarry kid, you know that?" A Uchiha chunin said from the side as he brought along another prisoner.
"Nah, I am just practical." I said with a shrug as I once more did about twenty six hand signs as I concentrated before I used it on the prisoner. Thick dark marks spread from where I touched him to all over his body as the man's body completely froze up.
"Self-Curse seal, complete." I said with relief as I finally managed to sorta pull off this jutsu.
The Uchiha guard from the Konoha prison widens his eyes before he asks me to undo the seal which I do after I make sure the seal works as intended.
The Self-Curse Seal is a unique one as it is a Uzumaki seal done based on the Gentle Fist technique, it is a single seal that can completely close off all of a person's tenketsus and movements, making the target completely imobile. The only two ways to break the seal once complete is if the user undoes it personally or if the one who received the seal uses a burst of chakra all at once with enough force to break the seal.
Using my Byakugan I see that it would take at least a Jonin to break my seal, and even then I am not sure all jonins can do it. This is incredible, sure, especially since I have only started learning this seal for a bit over three weeks now, but this IS an A Rank seal.
Besides, I am far from actually mastering it. This seal's mastery can be seen by how many hand signs you need to cast it and how strong a target you can seal, according to the scroll the creator of this seal could seal completely even the six tails when it tried to attack Uzushio in the past and he was capable of doing so with not even doing any hand signs. Just a single touch, and that was it.
In comparison, I can at most be considered to have scratched the surface of what this seal can do… but it is still great to have it.
Looking at it more clearly, this is clearly the same seal that Danzo used in his fight against Sasuke to try and stop him, which is another way to see how strong this seal truly is.
Anyway, I check the seal and try to understand more precisely how the seal closes the tenketsus and body movement. Using my byakugan it is clear that there is something similar to chakra that is clogging the tenketsus and joints… maybe this is the so-called 'curse' energy the seal mentioned?
The seal scroll did mention that this seal uses a 'curse' to seal the body by transforming the target's chakra in those places into a different energy. Looking at it with my Byakugan I can see why I was able to put a seal that can lock up even someone with more chakra than me, this 'curse' energy is a nasty deal.
If I were to make a comparison, it is almost as if it was arterial fat plaques, clogging the chakra circulation system. Wait, now that I am looking at it, I can see that this thing is tougher than the chakra that originated it.
So weird, let me check how strong this energy is. With a single tap of gentle fist, I hit one of the clogged tenketsus and… it didn't work. I used the same energy expected to close someone of this strength's tenketsus, but it barely made the 'curse' energy tremble slightly.
I tried again and again until I managed to break open that tenketsu before the seal re-established itself and closed the thing up. I had to use ten times as much energy as it would normally be needed. How intriguing, I know that 'curse' and 'dark' energy exists since something like the Zero Tails can be born in the world, something born from pure dark chakra, but is this seal tapping into a similar energy?
And, can it be used in other ways? Maybe extracting this energy specifically and concentrating it could generate a Zero Tails?
So many things to study, oh I can see clear as day why someone like Orochimaru would want eternal life. This world has so much left to discover, so many things to study and create, a single person's lifetime is simply not enough!
It is just a shame that eternal life is not really possible, but I can see why the genius man would be so interested in this as I feel the same way.
Still, the seal's effectiveness only lasted for around three minutes before it broke apart naturally. I casted it two more times to observe this unique chakra mutation before I was too exhausted to keep on going.
Laying down on the floor, the Uchiha guard looked at me with some curiosity before speaking.
"You really are as weird a kid as I've heard."
"Oh, someone told you about me before?" I question with some curiosity. It is not like I can go on missions yet and the only thing I do is train, the higher ups knowing of me because of that wouldn't be strange but for a normal Uchiha police guard to have heard of me certainly is quite weird.
"Yeah, that kid Obito mentioned you a few times. It is hard not to hear about it when he always comes back over to the Uchiha compound complaining loudly about you and lord Sakumo's son."
"... I am really not surprised. He is quite loud, after all." I said with a slight grimace to which the guard actually chuckled.
"Oh, you have no idea. He would not shut up about entering that class even if it is nothing too major for us Uchiha, and don't get me started about him loudly reciting his bad tries at love poems for that civilian girl, 'Rin' I think the name is." The man said with a roll of his eyes. "Honestly, the only reason he doesn't get beaten up by waking up half the clan members because of his voice is that the patriarch thinks the kid is funny."
I can only shake my head, to think that the future 'big behind the scenes boss' was such a person as a child, it is hard to match him with what he will likely become. Honestly, I thought about befriending him, maybe making sure he doesn't end up the puppet of a puppet of another puppet, being more pure concentrated teenage angst against the world than an actual human being, but then I realized I am not that stupid.
While the world's 'plot' has already started going up in smoke and more will not happen as it originally would, Obito becoming the pawn of Madara is still important. No, not because I hate the brat, but because if not Obito then someone else would be picked up and I would have no fucking clue what their abilities and skillset is like.
Sure, Kamui is still an incredibly broken skill and is not easy by any means to deal with… but it is something I can deal with in time. With seals, knowledge, preparations, and not being stupid this is something I can relatively comfortably deal with. But someone else being chosen as the pawn? What if he also has another super cheat-like skill that I have no clue about?
Sorry, not sorry. My own survival comes before yours, if you want to blame someone blame that braindead tree man named Hashirama for not doing the world a favor and ACTUALLY finishing Madara for good.
"So, want me to bring you home or you will stay over for a while more?" The guard asks and I shake my head.
"Nah, I need to stay a while longer. Part of a deal, you know how it is." I said and the guard seems to have picked up on what I meant pretty quick.
"Oh, smart. Anyway, after you recover you can ask to get a few more prisoners with me. The inmates here in this jail are only good for ninjutsu and genjutsu practice anyway, what secrets they had were long extracted and they are all sentenced to die, so you can practice as you want with them." The Uchiha guard said, the inmate he was holding shooting a glare at the man and I almost snorted seeing this.
Ninja villages really are something else, I can see why Orochimaru would eventually be unable to care if the person he is experimenting on is born in Konoha or not, this society all but guarantees one turn into a sociopath.
Good thing I am a well adjusted man from the 21 century inside who grew up with the internet and dealing with customers on my family business as well as going through college, a sociopathic society feels almost homely.
As I rested I saw someone coming inside the hall I was resting on. His face looked panicked as he spotted me and ran in my direction.
"Setsuna-kun, I need your help." Namikaze Minato, the future Yellow Flash of Konoha and already one of the deadliest shinobis of the entire leaf village said as he approached me and, with no hesitation, touched me and we… blinked away.
Honestly, as my surroundings changed I felt some slight vertigo. Is this the Flying Thunder God technique? Was it supposed to be so disorienting?
"I wanted to… hey, you okay?" Minato questioned me as he saw me one step away from throwing up. "Shit, did I make some mistake with my jutsu? Wait a bit, I will bring you some help!"
With that, the man teleported once more before I could say a word. Dam, he didn't even let me put a word in before he left. I am fine, just vertigo really. Checking with my Byakugan quickly I saw that there were no signs that my body had any sort of damage or something. I am as fine as they come, or as fine as I have been these days with all my hard work.
Honestly, if not for getting some time to talk with my friends from time to time I would have gone insane from all this training, but I need to get as strong as possible if I am to survive the wars to come.
Anyway, I relax for a bit before he comes back with Kushina, this time on foot instead of via teleporting, his face worried as he looked at her as if she was made out of glass and she looked a mix of happy and worried and… oh my god, I know that look. It is the same look my brother in my previous life had when he made that stupid, stupid mistake with his girlfriend at the time.
"... You are pregnant." I blurted out as I looked at the pair, Minato freezing on the stop and Kushina looking at me shocked.
"H-How did you-" Kushina started to ask with a tone of incredulity.
"Minato's face, I've seen it too many times in the hospital." I said, giving a plausible and partially true answer.
The two looked at each other with some weird smiles before Minato spoke.
"Well, since you guessed it, yes she is pregnant and I intend to marry her soon. I will be going on some missions to get the money we need and when I come back, we will marry properly."
"Dude, you have Jiraiya as your teacher right?" I ask while doing a facepalm.
"Yes, why?" Minato asked in doubt.
"Because I am not sure how you managed to be the student of a writer like the pervy sage, and end up not realizing you just spoke one of the topmost death flag phrases you can manage." I said with a deadpan and Minato seemed to have realized what he just said.
Kushina, on his side, has her hair start to move as if they were tails behind her as she glares at me.
I have seen her doing that before when I 'accidentally' ate all her pudding in the refrigerator. Raising my hands I said.
"Hey, don't worry so much about it. I am just saying that what he said is like that, but I am pretty sure he can survive just about anything below assassinating a kage in their village. Mister Minato is that great." I said, sucking up to Minato a little bit.
As Kushina heard this, she opened a large smile and nodded.
"I know right, he is just so great." She said with a loving and… yep she is horny again. Damn girl, either put on proper underwear or stop wearing thin shirts that show your stiff nipples all the time you see your boyfriend and maybe, just maybe, not lick your lips like that while looking at him.
Are all Uzumaki girls this horny, god damn.
As for Minato, he scratched his head in embarrassment and spoke up.
"Well, thanks I guess. Anyway, I brought you over because I want your help with something. While I am gone, I would want you not to tell Tsunade what will be happening and to help us when we tell her so she doesn't, you know-"
"Make you an eunuch, I understand." I said. "She said it a few times to me what she would do to you and Jiraya, especially Jiraya, if you did something like, well, what you just did." I said and Minato now looked terrified. "Want an advice from me, let Kushina tell her this while you are gone on your mission but leave your bank accounts with Kushina so she can start looking into a home for you two. By the time you return, the worst of teacher's anger should be gone."
"... You know what, that works for me. I trust Kushina with my bank accounts and everything, so it is not a problem for me. I will just go grab teacher so we can-"
"Better leave Jiraya out of this." I said, making Minato look at me weirdly. I then explained. "You want to seem mature and like someone she can trust Kushina with, if you do so by traveling with your strong teacher you will just seem like you are still in need of protection from others."
"O-Oh, that is true. Still, I should warn Jiraiya about it so he can go hide and-" Minato started but I countered it.
"You DO know that, if teacher has no one to discount her anger at, she may end up even more angry by the time you come back, right? If your teacher cares for you, I am sure he would be willing to withstand this small sacrifice." I said with righteousness to which Kushina nodded.
"I agree. Besides, the old pervert is strong enough to survive Tsunade's anger and, if someone is to turn eunuch, better it be him instead of you dear." Kushina said and Minato's face began to swing between terror and indignation before he steeled his resolve.
"I should still warn him. He was almost like a father to me these last few years and-"
Kushina, putting a hand on her stomach, mutters loud enough for us both to listen.
"You hear that sweetly, your father cares more for his teacher than having a big loving family with us."
"Uhm, no, that, uhm, I gotta go, bye!" Minato said, teleporting away.
I just looked as Kushina's fake sadness turned into an evil smirk.
"Ah, that felt good. With this I got that old man for what he did when I was twelve." Kushina said and I felt a shiver run down my back.
I almost forgot, women are the type that can forgive, but hardly ever forget. Good thing I didn't do that much to provoke her.
The female monster then turned in my direction and smiled.
"... Thanks, for the advice." She said before continuing. "If you have any doubts with the fuinjutsu techniques I gave you, you can ask me. I gotta start learning more about how to teach others for when this little one is born." She said with a loving smile as she put a hand on her belly.
Looking at that smile, it was almost enough to make one forget she has just planned a man's permanent emasculation.
Scarry.