After letting Daiki know which room Sakura and Naruto currently occupied, Kakashi cheerily disappeared with a shunshin, off to go…most likely take the piss out of Sasuke while they waited on him to heal up Sakura.
'That guy's good.' Daiki begrudgingly accepted. He had a counter for literally everything the tan genin threw at him, verbally at least.
He'd have to work on his material if he wanted to rinse the crap out of the famous copy ninja it seemed.
Just another thing to add to the grind.
As always, the grind was eternal.
Putting Kakashi out of mind, Daiki made his way towards the room he was directed to, down the hall.
Team Seven it seemed had picked a room near the middle.
Not that they would get to enjoy it much. It seemed there was only, roughly twelve hours or so before the second round ended and the third round began.
Then again, the rooms were utter crap anyway.
Stopping in front of the door, he wrapped it with his knuckles. He probably could have just walked in and gave Sakura a good startling for a laugh, but, he had manners.
…Sometimes.
"Eh, come in?" Sakura's voice called out, echoing from behind the door.
Accepting the invitation, Daiki opened the door and stepped in, shutting it behind him. He was immediately greeted by loud snoring. Naruto was in the bed closest the bathroom, fast asleep, sprawled out messily, drool trickling from his mouth, down his chin and onto the pillow he was snuggling.
Sakura herself was sitting at the edge of the middle bed, both arms held together in a set of slings made from bandages.
"Daiki?" she blinked, looking surprised to see him, "What are you doing here?"
"What do you think I'm doing here?" he raised an eyebrow at her, "I'm obviously here to check in on my favourite pink haired lady friend."
"I'm the only pink haired girl you know, it's not exactly a common hair colour." she replied, giving him a deadpan look.
"That you know of." he shrugged.
Hmm, actually, was there any other pink haired girls around? He actually couldn't remember any.
The closest was probably Tayuya or Karin.
Sakura sighed, "If you're just here to tease me, I'm kind of not in the mood," she replied, then gave him a small glare, "Besides, I'm still not happy with you, you felt me up and slapped me on the ass before running off." she reminded him.
"I did indeed, good times, good times," Daiki nodded sagely, "But, as fun as riling you up is, I'm not actually here to annoy you for funsies."
She raised a sceptical eyebrow, "Uh-huh, and what are you here for then?"
He raised one of his own eyebrows at her in response, before forming a single hand seal, warm green healing chakra coating his hands.
He gave the healing chakra an obvious glance, before looking her in the eyes.
"Oh," Sakura blinked in realisation, "Wait, how did you know I was injured?" she questioned.
Hmm.
He was tempted to tell her he'd saw them through the walls and mess with her a bit. See if she'd gotten nude at all while in this room and get her all embarrassed.
…But, it was probably better to heal her first, then tease her.
Priorities and all that.
He walked over and sat on the bed beside her, "Kakashi stopped by and told me," Daiki replied, "Though, I already knew you were injured before he came along, I heard you did good in the forest, even took out one of those Sound genin."
"How'd you know that?" the pink haired girl asked, before blinking and freezing, "Wait, were you watching?"
"Nope, Tenten told me," her replied, "Turn around to face me."
"Oh, the bun haired girl on Lee-sans team?" she asked, and did as he said, sitting fully up on the bed and turning to face him, crossing her legs.
"That's the one, I actually finished up not long after I left you guys, I got bored since there was nobody interesting to fight." Daiki replied with a shrug, before reaching over, hovering his hands over hers and directing the green healing chakra into them.
There was an immediate reaction.
Sakura sighed in relief as the mystical palm jutsu numbed the pain in her arms. And Daiki whistled as he got a good look at the damage she'd done to herself.
Her wrists were snapped of course, but beyond that, there were multiple fractures spreading up from her hands to through her forearms.
"Better?" he grinned at her.
"Much, thanks," she smiled, her face seeming to be much less strained now, "And I really do need to thank you for the jutsu you gave me, without it, I wouldn't have been able to beat that bitchy sound girl and they might have killed us before Sasuke-kun woke up."
"Not a problem, I'm a generous guy like that," he waved off her thanks, before his grin turned impish, "Though if you're dead set on thanking me, I'm a big fan of lap dances."
Sakura sighed, "And you ruined it."
"Hey, at least I'm consistent," he shrugged it off, "Besides, I'm mostly joking anyway, while I'd love a lap dance from you and that awesome ass of yours, I'm just giving you a hard time for a laugh."
"No, no I think a hard time is exactly what you want to give me." she responded, voice dry, eyebrows raising almost challengingly at him.
He blinked, actually surprised and almost taken aback by Sakura throwing some innuendo his way.
Sakura with the banter, huh?
Nice.
"Well, you're not wrong," Daiki laughed, "I'd love to give you a real hard time. All night long in fact. I'm free right now in fact if you're up for it."
"You're such a pervert," she snorted, shaking her head, "Honestly, you should be more careful. What would you do if I accepted? And no, fucking me isn't an acceptable answer, I'm talking about after that fact."
Daiki opened his mouth to respond, before pausing. He wasn't at all expecting her to be so blunt about it, that his shtick.
And also-
Because he actually didn't have an answer for that.
Railing her into the bed and making her scream his name to the heavens was one thing. But, the after fact was something different. For one, he couldn't promise her anything.
Because he'd already more or less lined things up with Tenten to see about how their relationship would progress.
"That's my point," Sakura rolled her eyes, breaking him from his thoughts, " You know, you gave me some hard truths about Sasuke-kun and my naive thoughts about loving him in the forest, but isn't this more a case of the pot calling the kettle black now? You flirt so freely with girls, spread your attention all around but can't focus on just one. Then again, maybe you aren't interested in love or a relationship and just want to sleep around. I'm not really interested in that."
…This took a turn he was not at all expecting.
Sense and logic, his greatest weaknesses!
How did she know?
It actually took him a few moments to organize his thoughts in response, "Honestly, you're only half right," Daiki replied, sighing, "Do I want to sleep around? Yes, most guys our age do, but it doesn't mean I'm not interested in a relationship, I'm testing the waters myself you know to see who I mesh well with."
Also, he was kind of surprised.
About how reasonable she was being about her infatuation with Sasuke. He kind of expected her to dig her heels in more, she'd spent years thinking she was head over heels for the guy after all.
Granted, in the other timeline, she realised that her infatuation was utterly childish and not real love if he remembered right. And her infatuation turned into real affection later despite Sasuke being a traitor.
And she was already older here than there.
"Still, I'm more surprised of you even talking about the possibility even being there," he pointed out, "What, with you liking Sasuke and all."
"Guess we're both just a couple of hypocrites then," Sakura snorted derisively, "What can I say? Those hard truths of yours hit home, you apparently know far more about Sasuke-kun than I do, you're closer to him than I've ever been and probably ever will be, and I'm not even his type at all. It's funny how a single little fight to the death with enemy ninja can put things into perspective and it just got my mind wandering."
"About?" he prompted, raising an eyebrow at her in interest.
"A few things," she shrugged, "How useless and weak I am compared to Naruto and Sasuke-kun, how I've not been serious enough at all, thinking back to bad decisions I made around Sasuke-kun, you."
His second eyebrow joined the first, his interest totally piqued now, "Me?" Daiki repeated in askance.
Pretty emerald green eyes stared into his own and Sakura gave him a half smile, "Sasuke-kun never showed an ounce of interest in me looking back, no matter what I did," she replied, "You did though, actually you couldn't make your interest any more blatant. You're good looking, strong, successful, help me out…even if you're a pervert about it, so yeah my mind wandered and I thought, what if I tried going after you instead?"
Well…this was unexpected.
Not at all unwelcome though.
"Of course, then I remembered, you mostly just seem to want to bed me," she continued with a shrug, then snorted, "And I realised how shallow I was being."
"I'm mostly playing it for a laugh you know," Daiki sighed and responded seriously, this wasn't really the time for jokes, "Sure, I do want to bed you if I'm being totally honest, but that's just instinct cuz you're hot. You're not perfect, but nobody is to be honest, you've got your problems but I can already see them easing out of you."
Actually, right now, he felt more like he was dealing with Shippuden Sakura, rather than the pre time skip one.
Age wise, she was only a few months off of Shippuden Sakura was at the beginning, and despite having the outfit of her pre timeskip self, she was looking more like her Shippuden self as well, especially now that her hair was cut short.
It was what, October now? If he remembered right, her birthday was in March, so she was six months from being fifteen.
Sakura chuckled lightly, "Now see, if you were serious like this all the time, then I might have went all in and chased you." she teased.
"That'd be so boring though," Daiki laughed along, "I did the serious thing before remember? All through the academy in fact, life is much more fun now that I've changed things up."
They fell into easy, more comfortable conversation after that while he continued healing her. He asked mostly about what went on with them in the forest after he left behind and got more or less the full story of what went down.
Which more or less lined up with what he already knew and what Tenten told him.
After that, they took the sound teams earth scroll and continued on, struggling here and there, before they ran into Kabuto who had been separated from his team.
And from there, things progressed as he remembered, with them running into one of the other rain teams, Sasuke being unable to do anything, the same with Sakura since she was injured, with broken wrists and all and Naruto carrying them to victory.
Though he apparently had a much easier time of winning this time around and defeated them within around ten minutes apparently.
'Probably because he didn't have to worry about his chakra being fucked from the five elemental seal.' Daiki mused inwardly.
And also because he was apparently able to box in the rain shinobi's clones with the Earth Style: Barrier, making it easy to catch them out and tell they were all fakes.
Before he knew it, over a half hour passed and he finally finished up healing her, taking care of both the broken wrists and the fractures going from her hands to up her forearms.
"Medical ninjutsu is really amazing, my arms feel pretty much fully healed." Sakura flexed her hands after removing her slings once he was done.
"Yeah, it's super helpful," Daiki nodded, "I've taken care of all your injuries, but your arms might be a little tender, so don't strain them too much for the next little while and just rest up until the next exam starts."
Alright, I'll do that," she nodded, before eyeing her hands thoughtfully, "Hey? Do you think I'd be able to learn medical ninjutsu as well?"
"Yep." Daiki replied instantly.
Sakura blinked, "That was fast." she noted, looking surprised.
"I know how good you are," he shrugged, "I don't doubt you'd be able to learn medical ninjutsu pretty easily, hell I wouldn't be surprised if you had a real talent for it, maybe you could even rival Tsunade one day if you go for it?"
Of course, he already knew she did and could do so. She had the potential to be the best medic ninja in the world, rivalled only by Tsunade herself.
Her cheeks took on a red flush at his words, "You think so?" she asked.
"Not a doubt in me." he confirmed with a grin.
The flush got deeper, and a pretty smile spread across her face, "See, you can be charming when you want to be." Sakura teased, a slight giggle escaping her.
"What do you mean? I'm always charming." Daiki's grin widened and he gave her a wink.
"Only you think that," she shook her head, and looked up at him, pretty smile aimed straight at him, "Thanks."
"Not a problem, getting some alone time with you is a pretty fair deal in exha-" he was cut off by a resounding snore coming from a certain spiky haired blonde, "Well, mostly alone." he amended.
Sakura looked over her shoulder and gave the sleeping blonde a dry look, "Well…he's earned the rest I guess, he really pulled through for us there at the end," she mused before turning back to look at Daiki, "And I wouldn't mind doing this again sometime."
"Hit me up whenever you want," Daiki shrugged, "I can even help you get started on learning medical ninjutsu if you want."
"Let me guess, in return for a lap dance?" the pink haired girl's pretty smile turned teasing.
"Well, I definitely wouldn't say no." he grinned.
Her teasing grin just got wider, "Hmm, I'll think about it," she responded, stepping forward and surprising him by standing on her tip toes and pressing a kiss against his cheek, "Right now though, I've got doctors orders to rest, so I'm going to sleep a bit, so it's time for you to go bye bye."
"Or I could join you." he wiggled his eyebrows.
"There'd be no sleeping or resting involved then I'm afraid, right?" she snorted, stepping by him and opening the door, "So bye bye for now perv boy."
"Fair enough." he chuckled, turning around and leaving out of the door. Just before he stepped passed her though, he reached out faster than she could react, and took a nice big handful of her ass and squeezed, "Just grabbing my payment." he grinned widely.
He was expecting to have to dodge a punch, but instead, Sakura barely reacted at all.
And merely raised an eyebrow at him, "I knew you were gonna do that." she snorted.
And yet she didn't try to stop him, and wasn't attempting to remove his hand.
He gave her full, round ass cheek another hefty grope, grin widening.
Sakura sighed, "If you leave that hand there much longer, I'm keeping it." she told him dryly.
He gave her ass another nice squeeze, getting a fell for the bouncy cheek filling his palm, before letting go, "I'm tempted to let you, but sadly, that annoying guy Kakashi needs me to do something else for him." he huffed, stepping outside into the hallway.
"That's too bad," Sakura suddenly pouted at him, leaning on the door, "I was kind of liking that there and was thinking of giving you that lap dance."
And another confirmation that a kunoichi could give a lap dance. Seriously, what did they teach in those kunoichi only classes?!
But more importantly-
"Really?" his eyes lit up excitedly.
"Yeah, no, you're not that lucky buddy." Sakura snorted, and promptly shut the door in his face.
"That's not nice Sakura." he called through the door.
"Ah, I'm soaked with sweat and this thong I'm wearing is just digging in, I should really take it off~" her voice echoed back, definitely teasingly.
That's not fair.
That's not fair at all.
He of course could just peak through the door and wall themselves with his Shinkugan.
But that would mean he lost.
'Fucking Kakashi.' Daiki huffed, mustering his mighty grind enhanced will power and self control and walking away.
It wasn't really the copy ninja's fault.
But, it just felt good to blame it on Kakashi.
What most of the people currently visiting the tower in the middle of the Forest of Death, probably didn't know-
Was that the tower itself had a basement level.
Daiki himself wouldn't have known about it either.
If not for the fact he could literally see through any solid object with but a glance with his Shinkugan. So a sweeping look revealed it to him during his first day in the tower.
And another sweeping glance with his eyes after he left Sakura behind, revealed to him, that the basement level was exactly where Kakashi and Sasuke were.
Honestly, finding the door to the basement took more time than finding their whereabouts.
He even stopped a passing chunin patrolling the halls about it, who had no idea what he was talking about.
As it was, it took him a few minutes to locate the door.
Fucking Kakashi, couldn't that lazy prick do anything helpful? 'Oh Daiki, by the way, the door is located over there'
That was all he needed to say, but no, as always, he had to make things way more difficult than they needed to be.
Because, he was a prick.
There wasn't even any stairs, just an inclined little hill kind of thing. It was subtle as all hell, to the point where he missed it a few times when searching with his eyes.
The basement level itself was odd. It was really only one big massive room, filled with pillars going up into the ceiling.
He had no idea what purpose this place served at all. Granted, he also didn't really care.
Though with all the huge, sturdy pillars around, his best guess was that it was a place used for chaining up huge beasts.
Which made a slight bit of sense considering all the massive beasts in the forest of death.
Though the why still alluded him.
He found Sasuke and Kakashi quite quickly, making his way through the huge basement level room towards them.
His eyes revealed to him though, that there was a fourth in the room. Hidden underground, not far away from Sasuke and Kakashi, their presence completely concealed.
Daiki hid a grimace.
Fucking Orochimaru.
He made sure not to look directly at the man or stare and give away that he knew he was there.
He didn't want to spook the man into action, with what he revealed the other day, he might feel his plans were jeopardized and try to kidnap Sasuke right here and now. His serpentine yellow gaze followed him with interest, and Daiki ignored him as best he could as he made his way over to his friend and the copy prick.
'Shit, I didn't even consider that.' Daiki cursed inwardly. He'd left Sasuke and his team behind in the forest, after showing he was capable of destroying Orochimaru's soul fragment in the Cursed Seal.
He hadn't even considered the fact that the man might just have taken Sasuke because of Daiki, and not risk losing his future vessel.
Stupid of him.
He'd need to think things through a bit more.
He was lucky this time, but the consequences of his actions needed to be understood more.
He put that out of mind for now though as he approached the student and teacher pair waiting for him.
"Well well well, if it isn't little Timmy and the would be criminal." Daiki said in greeting as he reached them.
It was an odd sight. While Kakashi was the same as usual, Sasuke knelt within a sealing circle on the ground, shirtless. Lines of sealing kanji were painted all over his torso, leading down like chains onto the ground, going on for a few feet, before reaching up and spreading across multiple pillars.
So this was the Evil Sealing Method seal array?
Or rather-
It was extended compression seals, spread out over a larger surface to make it easier to compress the seal matrix onto a smaller target.
It showed Kakashi's lack of skill when it came to sealing, because just from a cursory glance, he already had a descent understanding of the Evil Sealing Method.
'I could apply this with only a fraction of the space.' he mused.
…But this was something he hadn't considered. Using an amateurs tool, which would be akin to someone tracing another drawing and calling themselves an artist in scale, to apply a seal.
'With this method, I could use it to compress the seals for my eyes.' he mused.
"I think he's talking to you Sasuke." Kakashi mused, idly turning a page in his smutty book.
"Just ignore it, he says random crap that nobody understands all the damn time," Sasuke rolled his onyx eyes, and looked to Daiki, a frown on his lips, "Tch, so you are totally fine, unlike me apparently."
"Sakura told you then?" he asked in reply.
"Yes," Sasuke clicked his tongue, "Told me you shook off the pain of that seal unlike me real quick and then made it your own, even used the power boost it gave you to blow that Orochimaru guy away."
"Well, almost right, if it was that easy to kill him, he wouldn't have lasted to this point, he escaped my jutsu without any problem," Daiki shrugged, "As for the Cursed Seal, well, let's just say that I'm just built different from you." he added, and gave Sasuke a pointed look before touching his thumb to the right side of his chest.
Sasuke's eyes widened minutely, before he quickly smothered his surprised look, returning to his usual impassive expression, "I see." his frown deepened.
"Hmm?" Kakashi looked up from his book at their silent conversation, before shrugging, "So, the Hokage tells me you have a way of not only dealing with the problems of the Cursed Seal, making it safe to use, but also improving upon it."
Hmm, well obviously the old man would tell Kakashi about it.
"Not quite, I've made my own safe to use and improved upon it, in fact by my estimates, the power boost it gives me has been increased by a bit over fifty percent," Daiki replied, "The problem is, the way I made it safe for me, isn't something I can replicate for anyone else."
Kakashi's eyebrow raised and he gave him a searching look.
If the Hokage told him of this, no doubt he told him of the fact that he could in fact do something about the Orochimaru soul fragment in other seals as well, he was just holding off on it for now.
'Drop it for now.' Daiki projected his chakra into a message and directed it into Kakashi's mind.
"Hmm, well that's disappointing," Kakashi mused, "You're really quite useless here then, huh?" he needled.
"Like you're one to talk, look at the mess of this sealing array," Daiki scoffed, "I could get this seal down in a few hours and apply it with just my chakra, and you're supposed to be a student of the Yondaime Hokage, one of the greatest sealing experts to ever live, probably the best outside of the Uzumaki Clan period."
"Uzumaki clan?" Sasuke's eyes widened a bit, he seemed a bit shocked to learn of such a thing.
"Yeah, extinct now except for a few like Naruto, but we used to be allies with them, in fact we still wear their symbol," Daiki jabbed his thumb at Kakashi's flack jacket, pointing to where the Uzumaki swirl was displayed proudly, "They were known for having absurd vitality, powerful chakra and stamina and being absolute monsters when it came to the sealing arts, as in so good they even make me look like an amateur and I'm pretty fucking amazing."
"Absurd vitality, powerful chakra and stamina huh? Just like Naruto." Sasuke mused thoughtfully.
"Yup, honestly, odds are, Naruto might be the last of his clan like you," Daiki pointed out, "Actually, I know you're a shit teacher and all Kakashi, but why haven't you tried to at least get him started on the basics? He might be a spastic, but his actual talent is only something an idiot would miss."
"Hmm, you seem to know a lot about the Uzumaki clan and Naruto in general." Kakashi pointed out instead of answering.
Always with the run around with this prick.
"Our alliance with the Uzumaki clan is well established in older textbooks and what clown would pursue the sealing arts without knowing of the foremost masters of the art?" Daiki replied with a shrug, "Hell you don't even need to teach him yourself, if you just told him he had a clan and they specialized in seals, he'd pursue it himself."
That was just how much the blonde desired family, that even for just a connection to his clan he'd pursue it all.
"Eh, just didn't occur to me." Kakashi waved him off blandly.
…This guy.
"Ignore Kakashi, I'll tell him about it once this exam is done, so he doesn't obsess over it in the next round," Sasuke cut in, "Now enough of this crap, can we get a move on here? You two might be having fun bantering like fools, but I'm not having a good time kneeling here with my own blood painted all over me."
"You're such a spoil sport Sasuke," Kakashi pouted, "But, I suppose since your little friend is utterly useless, we can get a move on."
Don't Bijuudama him.
Don't Bijuudama him.
'I want to fucking Bijuudama him.' Daiki's eye twitched in annoyance. He'd even be pragmatic about it and fire it in the direction of Orochimaru while he was at it.
Get rid of two annoying pricks for one Bijuu Bomb.
And everybody won.
Except Kakashi and Orochimaru.
But who cared about them?
'You'd also blow away the entire tower, and much of the surrounding area.' Isobu added his input.
…That was a sacrifice he was willing to make as long as it shut Kakashi the fuck up for a bit.
"Alright, brace yourself Sasuke, this might sting a bit." Kakashi said, stowing his book away and walking over to stand behind Sasuke and ran through a few hand seals.
"Just get on with-" Sasuke began, only to be cut off by Kakashi.
"Evil Sealing Method!" Kakashi declared, finishing his hand seals and pressing his hand flat against the Cursed Seal on Sasuke's neck.
The Uchiha's onyx eyes went wide and a howl of agony erupted from his throat almost immediately, his body beginning to convulse.
The sealing kanji spread out over his back, the floor and the pillars began glowing and retracted from the pillars, shrinking from the floor and retreating up onto his back.
It moments it was over, the massive lines of kanji gone, and replaced by a ring of sealing kanji circling around the Cursed Seal on Sasuke's neck.
Kakashi pulled his hand from Sasuke's back, and the boy slumped over onto the ground, sweating profusely and panting deeply and rapidly, eyes wide.
"So, even if the Cursed Seal awakens again, this seal will suppress it," Kakashi began explaining nonchalantly, "Though Sasuke, the foundation of this seal is your own will power, you have to want it to work and not be led stray by the temptation of the Cursed Seals power, if you give in and rely on its power, the Evil Sealing Method will be useless, so-"
"Blah, blah blah," Daiki cut him off rolling his eyes, "Sasuke, if you rely on the seal, Orochimaru will brain wash you and take over your body, so don't just be a little bitch. I already owned this bitch ass seal and made it my own, you can't because you're too weak and unskilled, that's it, so if you have to rely on it, it just means you're a weak piece of trash in the end and you'll never come close to Itachi."
Honestly, Kakashi didn't understand Sasuke at all. The best way to make him not rely on the Cursed Seal, was to bitch slap his pride and rub his balls all over it.
Sasuke scoffed at his words, a smirk spreading across his face at Daiki's words, "Look at you acting all high and mighty just because you've got a crappy seal that gives you a little power boost," he said, "Don't forget who you're speaking to loser, even with that seal, your eyes and all your other little advantages, I'll still beat your ass in a fight."
Daiki crouched down in front of the other boy and smirked, "Tough talk, let's see you prove it," he replied, "I'll wait for you in the finals, try and keep up, eh?"
"Keh, It'll be fun to see you talking so big when I'm punching…your face…in." Sasuke began replying, even as his eyes dimmed and his consciousness left him.
Before his face could smack into the ground, Daiki caught him and hoisted his friend up onto his shoulder.
He'd keep him safe himself. If Orochimaru tried to go for him and take him now, he'd blow him away full power.
While he wanted to keep his status as a Jinchuuriki hidden, he was surprised to find that he wouldn't hesitate to unleash his full power as the Sanbi Jinchuuriki alongside his Heavenly Star Seal to keep him safe from Orochimaru.
'When did I become such a fool?' he wondered idly.
It really was odd. Initially, he only planned to use these people and Konoha as a whole to make sure he survived the coming apocalypse. But somewhere along the way, he'd come to respect and care for them.
"Kukukuku," a familiar hissing laugh echoed through the underground basement, "Now wasn't that an interesting little show."
Kakashi's eyes widened and he immediately fell into a ready stance, pushing up his headband, "Daiki, don't move from my side." he said, utterly serious.
It was an interesting change from the Kakashi he was used to dealing with. And it seemed he hadn't at all sensed Orochimaru until the man decided to introduce himself.
From behind one of the pillars, the pale snake faced man, dressed in what looked like a Konoha jonin uniform made his way out, though it was different, where Konoha's base was a dark blue, this was a pale purple, and the flack jacket a greyish blue.
He'd outright copied the uniform of Konoha for his Sound Village it seemed.
"Kakashi-kun, it seems you've even dabbled in the sealing arts these days, impressive," Orochimaru's eyes gleamed as he looked from Kakashi to meet Daiki's own eyes, "And Daiki-kun, so good to see you again." he licked his lips with a long, snake-like tongue.
"Yeah, nice to see you not frozen over and charred by lightning I suppose," Daiki replied blandly, before smirking, "If I were you, I'd toddle off, because I won't hold back this time." he added and as he did, he pulled not only on the Heavenly Star Seal, but also Isobu's chakra.
Lightning-like marks spread across his body, and the whites of his eyes shimmered and turned into a ringed purple.
This was more or less the same set up he had against Orochimaru in the forest before.
But now, he was even stronger. Not only was his base form a decent bit stronger from the energy from the fragment of Gelel, but even the Heavenly Star Seal gave a much improved boost compared to the Cursed Seal.
In fact, with the Star Chakra and Gelel energy amplifying it, it was close to double the strength, at least hovering around the one point seven five times mark.
So seventy five percent stronger boost wise.
The boost it gave was near enough comparable to two of Isobu's base chakra cloak tails.
With it and his initial jinchuuriki stage, he was around the same strength right now as back when he used the Hero's Water.
Orochimaru didn't bat an eye at his threat, instead his eyes seemed to brighten with interest, "So Kakashi was not lying when he said you improved upon the Cursed Seal, how interesting," he hummed, "You really are quite the specimen Daiki-kun kukuku."
And here we are back again, this time with the big three to the two, thirty three hee heee hee.
And so, things begin to move again. We're more or less pretty much done with the socials and the prelims will be beginning very soon here. As it is, this chapter Daiki had a little talk with Sakura, learned some truths, had some thoughts and moved on to help Kakashi and Sasuke, only to realise his mistake with Orochimaru-kun kukuku already being there laying in wait. IN the process, Daiki learned that even the help tools of an amateur can be helpful as well and took the time to rub his balls over Sasuke's pride like a good friend. Up to chapter 40 on the Pa-atreon and the final fight concluded with it thank fuck, I swear to god each part of it was like pulling teeth it was annoying as all hell to right and really slowed me down. Thankfully, with the prelims pretty much wrapped up, I feel like I can speed up again so yay.
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.