Unborn Bizarre Creatures

Even so, he was still filled with trepidation.

Is the Tenseigan truly that powerful?

Or perhaps this girl's Tenseigan abilities are different from Hamura's.

After all, he had only ever seen one pair of Tenseigan, and that was Hamura's. It was plausible that a second pair would be different from Hamura's.

However, mental attacks... he needed to figure out how to defend against them.

Black Zetsu dissolved into a puddle of liquid, gradually enveloping White Zetsu's corpse before seeping into its body.

"Fortunately, this was a mental attack. My body is unharmed and still usable."

All he wanted now was to find a safe place to recover. Although he wasn't dead, his mind was severely injured. If he dared to be reckless out in the open, he'd probably end up killing himself.

He also needed to think of any secret techniques for defending against mental attacks.

After handing over the White Zetsu clone to her teacher, Hinata used her spatial abilities to return to Kakashi and the others.

Kakashi and the others were still in the same spot, not having moved. Seeing Hinata return without the white humanoid creature, they wisely chose not to ask any questions.

The group continued on their journey, but the atmosphere had changed considerably.

Before, even though Hinata was a disciple of the Hokage, it was merely a title. How powerful could an eight-year-old child be?

But now, Hinata's display of spatial ninjutsu showed everyone that her strength was not as simple as they had imagined, coupled with that mysterious Tenseigan...

Wait, Kakashi, who was on the way, suddenly thought, Hinata is the Hokage's disciple, and Jiraiya's junior disciple.

And Jiraiya is his master's master, which would make him his grand-master. This means, by seniority, Hinata is his grand-disciple-aunt...

Ugh... What was I just thinking? I wasn't thinking anything. I'm just a heartless travel machine.

Kakashi remained silent for the rest of the journey, barely saying a word.

Two days later.

"Wait."

Hinata called out to the group, who were hurrying along. After two days of travel, they were very close to the Land of Wind.

"Miss, is something wrong?" Hyuga Soki asked.

Hinata pointed to the front left. "There, a ghost is being born."

"What!"

"Lady Hinata, are you sure?"

Everyone was very surprised. Although bizarre creatures had been appearing for several years, their origin and how they came to be remained a mystery.

But Hinata said a bizarre creature was being born!

The group exchanged glances, and though no words were spoken, they confirmed each other's thoughts.

"Let's go check it out!"

As for the mission? It seemed less important compared to confirming the birth of a bizarre creature.

Hinata was also quite surprised. When she was in Konoha, most of the bizarre creatures she discovered had already been born.

She had never witnessed the birth of a bizarre creature before.

Although the place Hinata pointed to was ten kilometers away, when the group arrived, they found nothing.

It was just a perfectly normal spot in the forest.

"This is it?" Nara Takumi looked at Hinata.

Hinata stood on a tree branch, looking at a clearing. A strange, distorted energy was gathering there, and it would likely gestate a bizarre creature within a few days.

"The energy isn't sufficient yet. It will take a few more days to be born."

Nara Takumi looked at Hyuga Soki, who shook his head. His Byakugan couldn't see everything like his young lady's Tenseigan.

Nagai Ukaku's eyes suddenly lost their whites, becoming completely black.

"There is indeed a large amount of ghost qi gathered there. This is very abnormal!"

Ghost qi was the energy possessed by bizarre creatures. Normally, places where bizarre creatures had passed would have residual ghost qi, but such a large amount of ghost qi with no visible ghost indicated that Hinata might be telling the truth!

A ghost might truly be born here!

The group set up camp about two hundred meters away. They decided to wait for a few days, and as for Sunagakure, they would just have to wait a little longer.

Sunagakure: "..."

For the next few days, everyone except Hinata stared intently at the spot where the bizarre energy was gathering, trying to figure something out.

But after several days, they hadn't figured anything out.

Except that as time passed, they felt the surroundings becoming increasingly oppressive. They couldn't rest properly, and some ninjas even had nightmares.

Even the refinement of chakra became blocked, as if something was interfering.

Among these ninjas, the few who had entered the alternate dimension of the bizarre creatures knew that this symptom was extremely similar to the reaction they experienced after being suppressed by the alternate dimension.

It was just countless times milder.

These past few days, Hinata had only glanced at it occasionally, checking the progress of its energy convergence.

The rest of her time was spent placing sealing jutsu on the sword in her hand.

Hinata had long harbored a question: how was the appearance of these bizarre creatures determined?

So far, the bizarre creatures she had seen had all sorts of shapes – humanoid, beast-like, and even just a rope.

Did the appearance of a bizarre creature depend on what was present in the place where it was born?

This time, by chance, she encountered the birth of a bizarre creature, and Hinata finally had the opportunity to confirm this idea.

If Hinata's guess was correct, then she had a good idea.

So Hinata specifically traveled to Mount Myōboku and dug up several pieces of special metal nurtured by nature energy.

This metal had a very high affinity for true qi, after all, it was dug from Mount Myōboku, where nature energy was extremely dense.

After that, she went to Konoha and found a blacksmith, wanting him to forge a sword from this metal.

But the blacksmith told her that he couldn't. He couldn't even melt these pieces of metal.

There was no other way, so Hinata had to do it herself. Fortunately, the flame transformed from her true qi was hot enough.

The result was the long sword in Hinata's hand now.

This sword was a double-edged sword, not the style of the tachi commonly seen in Konoha.

After the long sword took shape, Hinata began to engrave the incantations of sealing jutsu onto the sword body.

Because of the material of this sword, it had a high affinity for true qi, so Hinata could carve sufficiently advanced sealing jutsu onto the sword body without causing it to collapse.

Hinata was confident enough that this sword could even seal the Nine-Tails, making it obediently become the sword's "sword spirit."

Thinking of this, Hinata had a sudden idea: should she forge a few more pieces of equipment like this and then capture a few Tailed Beasts to seal into them?

Not long after Hinata finished the sealing jutsu on the sword body, she sensed that the energy not far away had converged to a critical point, and a bizarre creature could be born at any moment.

Hinata did not place the sword at the center of the energy convergence, allowing the bizarre creature to use the long sword as a vessel and take the form of the sword.

Each bizarre creature had different abilities, and because the power that nurtured them was bizarre and chaotic, even Hinata didn't want to confront a bizarre creature head-on.

So she wouldn't obediently wait for the bizarre creature to be born.