Naruto: From Capturing the Main Clan to Becoming the Mastermind

Chapter 37 Kaleidoscope

"Don't be so angry, you should already have a way to get rid of it."

Danzo looked at Tsunade indifferently, "If you hand it over, break her curse seal here, and describe in detail your method of breaking it, you can leave safely."

Tsunade stared intently at him. "What if I say no?"

Danzo looked at Tsunade's resolute expression and smiled contemptuously.

"You no longer have the power to negotiate with me, Tsunade."

Suddenly, the Jonin beside him made a move. With a sharp whooshing sound, a kunai grazed Shizune's face, and a trickle of blood flowed down instantly.

Upon seeing this, Tsunade's face gradually contorted.

Blood…silence…cut off!

Memories of that night flooded my mind uncontrollably: my hollowed-out internal organs, my body gradually growing cold...

Tsunade knelt on the ground, trembling.

"Right now, you're just a useless person who can't do anything."

Danzo shook his head. "Let's begin. You're the teacher's granddaughter; I don't want to lay a hand on you."

"..."

Tsunade's eyes were vacant, her pupils completely unfocused.

Danzo frowned slightly and had a medical ninja treat Shizune and wipe the blood off her face.

Only then did Tsunade's eyes regain some of their sparkle.

She stared at the silence, then suddenly chuckled softly.

"I never thought I'd end up like this."

She took out a scroll, got up, and walked to Shizune's side.

"This is my first time using it, and I don't know the consequences. You'd better pray that it's silent and nothing goes wrong!"

As Danzo gazed at the potion Tsunade had taken out, sensing the peculiar chakra contained within, his eyes gleamed and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

"Don't worry, she'll be perfectly fine!"

As soon as she finished speaking, six masked Root ninjas appeared around Tsunade, their hands radiating pale green chakra, indicating that they were all medical ninjas.

Moreover, as the strongest medical ninja, Tsunade could tell at a glance that these people were all of top quality.

When did its foundation become so strong?

Confused, Tsunade began injecting Shizune with the medicine.

While administering the injection, he explained it to Danzo at his request:

"This is a medicine developed using the cells of a slug fairy. For that fairy, division has become an instinct, and the medicine developed using its cells can greatly increase the probability of division."

"If the original A-rank split technique is actually no less difficult than some S-rank ninjutsu, using this potion can reduce it to B-rank, which is similar to the Shadow Clone Technique."

Danzo asked thoughtfully, "Is your method the Split Technique? What are the flaws of that technique?"

"Failure will result in the loss of half our strength, or even death!"

Tsunade said coldly, "You have a member of the Yamanaka clan here, right? Let him control Shizune to perform ninjutsu."

Danzo nodded to a figure, who immediately turned around and manipulated Shizune, then used the splitting technique developed by Tsunade, as instructed by her.

A Jonin behind Danzo stared intently at the scene. As Shizune's body gradually split in two after she used her ninjutsu, and one of the bodies was free of the cursed seal, a smile appeared on his lips, and he clenched his fist excitedly.

He didn't try to hide it, and Danzo noticed his actions, which pleased him.

Hyuga Tokuma truly hated the main family and the Caged Bird Seiryuu clan; he could see the darkness in their eyes clearly!

It's laughable that the Hyuga main family didn't even notice.

Tsunade secretly breathed a sigh of relief upon confirming that Shizune had successfully executed the Split Technique.

This was developed from slug sage cells, which contain sage chakra and have great research value.

In addition, since she regarded the live slug as an elder and friend, it was impossible for her to keep taking the other's cells to make this stuff, so the quantity was limited. The live experiment was only conducted twice, and the success rate could not be guaranteed.

She was really worried that the mute function would fail.

Thankfully, everything is alright.

With that thought, Tsunade turned her gaze to Shizune, who possessed a cursed seal, and struck her head with a palm strike, her expression complex.

In Tokuma Hyuga's Byakugan, this palm strike directly took away the opponent's life force, as her eyes and nerve tissue were completely destroyed due to the influence of the cursed seal.

However... a surge of chakra returned to another silent body.

What is this?

With doubts in his mind, Hyuga Tokuma stepped forward and told Danzo.

"My lord, when that body died, a portion of chakra returned to another body."

Danzo squinted. "What's that, Tsunade?"

Tsunade looked at Hyuga Tokuma and frowned at his keenness and ability to detect that chakra.

Which ninja clan does this belong to?

Thinking it over, Tsunade said calmly, "The soul."

"soul?"

"That's right. After the Split Technique is cast, the soul will also split in two, but when one body dies, the other body will reclaim that part of the soul. This is similar to the principle of the shadow clone's disappearance feeding back the original body's experience and memories."

"You can tell from the Spirit Transformation Technique that the essence of the soul is chakra, which is why the ninja next to you was able to detect it."

"I see."

Danzo nodded understandingly. "Can the power of the Split Technique be restored after being halved?"

"Can."

Tsunade stated definitively, "For a split ninja, the two bodies will share the power equally, and the soul will also be split, which greatly affects the strength and may even prevent the use of some ninjutsu."

"But when a split entity dies, the soul will return as it did just now, while the divided body energy cannot return, but it can be slowly restored through training, and the strength will naturally be restored as well."

The process of studying the Split Technique also allowed Tsunade to learn something from the live slug: its strength was actually far greater than that of some tailed beasts.

However, splitting her into parts that she can summon would severely diminish her strength. If she could summon her true form completely, she could even suppress the tailed beasts!

After all, if she split into multiple tailed beasts based on her original size, the sheer number of them would be enough to bury them all with her acid spray alone...

Simply put, it's not that Tsunade is weak, it's that she's not strong enough!

And that's the reality...

Looking at Shizune sleeping peacefully in her arms, Tsunade's expression was complicated, but she quickly regained her composure, handed the Split Technique and a scroll to Danzo, and said coldly to him, "Is it alright now?"

Danzo waved his hand, and all the surrounding ninjas retreated, with several even leaving Root to make way for Tsunade.

Without saying a word, Tsunade picked up Shizune and slowly walked towards the exit.

"etc."

As Tsunade was about to reach the end of the passage, Danzo coldly said, "Since Shizune has the Root Seal, she is a Root ninja. I only told you to leave, not that she should leave too."

"If you want to take her away, fine. But give me the technique to activate the Caged Bird Seal of the Hyuga branch family!"

Tsunade paused, then lowered her head.

Her loose hair obscured her face, preventing the surrounding ninjas from seeing her expression.

Only Hyuga Tokuma noticed a faint chakra emanating from Tsunade's mind, a sign that she was being subjected to genjutsu!

He had been paying attention to Tsunade for a while, and this extremely weak chakra didn't seem like it had just been subjected to a genjutsu, but rather like it had been lurking in Tsunade's mind before.

She was under an illusion spell before she arrived? An illusion spell that even fooled her with her white eye?

As he pondered, he clearly felt a chill creeping over him and abruptly looked to his side.

The other Jonin behind Danzo had his Sharingan eyes transformed behind his mask!

The Uchiha clan?

How could there be Uchiha in Root?!

Was he originally a member of Root, or did he infiltrate it?

Under Tokuma Hyuga's incredulous gaze, the tomoe in his eye spun rapidly, transforming into a complex pattern...

The unusual chakra in Tsunade's mind surged instantly!

If I don't find a better name within a day, I'll change it tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)