Tamura Hiten

While Tamura Hiroshi was taking a bath, Shimura Danzō back in Konoha had already received intelligence about his abnormal behavior, transmitted by someone using a summoning beast, quite swiftly.

"He discovered a spy stealing purchasing funds from Kumogakure, won the Third Raikage's praise and reward, became the Raikage's nephew's student, and even showed a close relationship with the Raikage's Son."

Looking at the brief intelligence, Shimura Danzō fell into deep thought, only recalling that precocious brat from back then after quite a while.

"I remember that brat also had a childhood sweetheart female companion."

Thinking of those two brats from back then, Shimura Danzō did not have a shallow impression of them.

Although both of their cultivation aptitudes were quite ordinary, their mentalities were very precocious, making them very suitable to be spies.

Coupled with the fact that the brat only had a single Lightning Release, he arranged for him to go to Kumogakure.

Originally it was just a casual idle move, mainly to replace that nearly dead pawn over there, but who would have thought this little pawn would develop so well on his own.

"These are their files!"

A masked ninja at the side presented two files. Shimura Danzō took them and opened them. At the very top was Tamura Hiroshi's photograph, a black-and-white one, and below it was the name Tamura Hiten.

This was Tamura Hiroshi's real name in this world. Originally he had no surname, but after his parents learned that their son had been recruited by Lord Danzo's department, they thought of the surname Tamura based on Lord Danzo's surname.

Of course, this kind of self-fabricated surname was not recognized. In this era, surnames possessed extraordinary significance and were even symbols of status and position, not something just anyone could possess.

Looking at that name, Shimura Danzō couldn't help but think of his old partner, Hiruzen Sarutobi.

After sighing a bit over the years spent executing missions with his old partner in the past, Shimura Danzō casually flipped through the files, but there was nothing much to see.

The two's talents were mainly manifested in their precocious mentalities, while their cultivation talents were very ordinary, especially this brat.

Only that girl was very talented in medical ninjutsu and might not fail to reach Tsunade's current medical standard in the future; she was a rare talent.

However, he valued Yakushi Nonō's espionage ability more. The core of ninja warfare was intelligence warfare, and the establishment of Root was primarily for this.

A piece of useful intelligence was much more valuable than a jōnin, and their Konoha was not lacking in geniuses and jōnin, perhaps even having a few too many.

"Elevate his rank to B-rank!"

Having looked through the brat's file, Shimura Danzō gave an order.

Originally he was just a lowest-level pawn, but now that pawn had autonomously increased his value, so his rank naturally had to be elevated accordingly.

"Yes!"

The masked ninja at his side acknowledged the order, then put away the two files.

"Arrange for the people over there to contact that brat and have him investigate Kumogakure's upcoming strategic movements regarding the war, as well as the progress on utilizing the tailed beasts."

Pondering for a moment, Shimura Danzō gave the command.

He had long since seen that the major ninja villages were ready and the Second Great Ninja War was about to begin, but he just didn't know where it would start from.

Kumogakure was a purely militant ninja village, and the upper echelon were almost all hardline warmongers who advocated external plundering, having seized quite a few secret techniques and talents over the years.

If not for traitors like Kinkaku and Ginkaku appearing during the First Shinobi World War and dealing a heavy blow to Kumogakure's vitality, that Great Ninja War wouldn't have ended so easily.

Therefore, Kumogakure's intentions were of utmost importance; the sooner they figured them out, the better, so that their side could make preparations early on.

And then there were the tailed beasts. He had witnessed the terror of the Nine-Tails with his own eyes; that kind of Tailed Beast Bomb could be called world-destroying, and once it entered the battlefield, it would be devastating to any side.

Putting aside Shimura Danzō's orders, on the other side, after waiting for the medicinal power in the medicinal bath to fully invade his body, Tamura Hiroshi was taken out of the tub and received ninjutsu treatment from a medical ninja to accelerate the repair of his bone cracks.

"Are these human?"

Barely sitting up, Tamura Hiroshi examined the broken teeth in his hand, which he had felt earlier at the bottom of the tub.

"One of the main ingredients is bones from the Kaguya Clan."

Yozuki A nodded. The few main ingredients for that secret medicine were all very rare; this time, part of the bones of a Kaguya Clan jōnin were used.

In the entire ninja world, only the Kaguya Clan's bones were the hardest, surpassing the limits of bone structure, which was why medicinal liquid made using their bones as the main ingredient had such a great improvement on bones.

"Humans are great medicine too!"

Tamura Hiroshi sighed with emotion, feeling no repulsion toward this.

After all, humans were also a member of the myriad living creatures. Since the body parts of other animals could be used as medicine, humans naturally could be as well.

Especially since this world possessed Kekkei Genkai and bloodline inheritance, using them as medicine had an effect far stronger than those wild beasts and ninja beasts.

Perhaps only the material of species capable of Senjutsu in the Three Great Sage Lands could compare to it.

If needed, he wouldn't mind having a serving of bone ash mixed into rice.

In this world where even terrorists despaired, only by becoming strong could one possess dignity and control one's own destiny; the weak were worse than dogs.

"These are some of my insights into Lightning Release and a few practical Lightning Release Nintaijutsu. You can look over them these few days. If there's anything you don't understand, I'll answer it for you next time we meet."

Fukai took out a scroll he had prepared long ago and handed it over. He had previously looked at this student's file and background information, knowing that he only had a single Lightning Release, so he had prepared these notes.

"This is mine, and it records the Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop and its advancement, the Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop.

A ninja's combat changes in a flash, and there are always times when it's too late to draw a blade. Practicing an extra hand-to-hand option is never wrong."

Yozuki A also took out a scroll he had prepared long ago and handed it over. Inside were not only his cultivation insights on Lightning Release and body tempering, but also two nintaijutsu techniques: the Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop and the Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop, both executed using hand blades.

The consumption of nintaijutsu itself was much smaller than other projectile-type ninjutsu, and the most basic Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop consumed even less, equivalent only to a D-rank ninjutsu. With the little junior brother's chakra, as long as he improved a bit more, he could barely cultivate and execute it.

Of course, the prerequisite was mastering the Lightning Release Nature Transformation, which was the focal point of the Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop and emphasized nature transformation even more.

"Thank you, I will study them carefully!"

Tamura Hiroshi was deeply moved, and also gave a thumbs-up to his own adventurous gamble back then.

He had struck it rich!

"Right, do you want these two ninja swords? I had them forged first, but the shape doesn't quite suit the application of my sword technique philosophy, so I had another set made afterwards."

Tamura Hiroshi untied the Sealing Object Spell from a piece of his armor and took out a set of ninja swords sealed within.

The style was Kumogakure's standard ninja sword, one meter long, very suitable for Yozuki A and Fukai to use.

These two swords were the ones he had first commissioned people to forge, but ninja swords of this shape were not suitable for stabbing and were mainly for slashing, so after using them for a period of time, he sealed them away and instead drew the style of a Chinese Saber to have a new set forged.

Fukai, who specialized in sword techniques, picked up a ninja sword, swung it, and then poured chakra into it. Immediately, the gleaming blade flashed with dazzling electric light.

"Good sword!"

Feeling the smooth circulation of chakra within the blade, Fukai's eyes lit up.

This sword was much higher grade than the ones he used previously; the Chakra Conductive Metal fused into it was definitely more, and the balance point of the blade was also very suitable for exerting force. At a glance, one could tell it was the work of a master.

It was a rare and good sword!

Yozuki A picked up the other ninja sword, swung it, and poured his own Lightning Release Chakra into it, showing great interest in it.

Although he mainly focused on his family's inheritance and primarily practiced the heirloom hand blade, whose power was not inferior, empty-handed combat always had some limitations.

If he could have a good sword, naturally it would be even better.

Although this sword was lightweight, weighing less than four jin, he himself was the close-combat type leaning toward speed bursts, and using this kind of sword was just right.

"This is too precious!"

After appraising it for a moment, Fukai sheathed the ninja sword and returned it to Tamura Hiroshi.

If it were just ordinary ninja swords, even of his previous fine quality, he could have accepted them.

However, this ninja sword was no ordinary item; he guessed its value was definitely over a hundred million. He could not accept such a precious gift.