A Kindred Spirit Is Hard to Find / The Worst of the Senju

His Cursed Seal Orochimaru Ninjutsu much gentler than Orochimaru's original version, which could actually kill people.

Uchiha Shingen was always thinking about how to make the power of the Tailed Beasts work for others, just like Naruto Uzumaki in the original timeline.

He wasn't Jinchūriki and never intended to become Jinchūriki. Moreover, Matatabi's power was different from Kurama's, and the Cursed Seal Ninjutsu solved that problem for him.

After the first member of his clan successfully acquired the Cursed Seal, Uchiha Shingen immediately conducted an experiment, and the results were gratifying. He successfully transferred Matatabi's Chakra to Matatabi.

Only in this way can it be considered that "the Uchiha Clan has obtained the power of the Two-Tails," instead of the previous situation where Matatabi could only serve as his personal combat partner and provide Chakra to him alone.

Before taking his students to the Land of Rice Fields, Uchiha Shingen planned to visit Orochimaru one more time.

As for acting alone, the reasons are easy to find.

Whether for the students or the observation team, it's perfectly reasonable to scout out the environment beforehand and make arrangements with our ally Sound Village.

This argument shouldn't be used at home.

Pakura had already completed his mission and returned home while he was handling the case. Unlike Sakurako, the couple had been separated for a long time and were reunited. Pakura did not think that Uchiha Shingen needed to go out to teach.

Therefore, it became even more impossible to establish an observation group.

Therefore, Uchiha Shingen did not immediately set out to do this. Apart from his days at school, he spent his time with his family after work.

Uchiha Yosuke was also more lively than usual because his mother had returned home.

Uchiha Shingen valued this highly, after all, his son's personality was usually quite dull.

Personality needs to be cultivated from a young age; otherwise, you won't be able to attract girls later in life.

Who else could he pass on his experience of effortlessly chatting with young women, gained over two playthroughs, besides his son? No one, right?

A ninja's family life must be filled with pure joy and warmth.

Enjoying this warm Uchiha Shingen spent the last season of Leaf Village's sixtieth year and stepped into the first month of Leaf Village's sixty-first year.

The war situation between Iwagakure, Sand Village, and Cloud Village has begun to change.

From the slightest hints from the association, Uchiha Shingen knew that Iwagakure was about to collapse.

One against two is not that easy; Iwagakure cannot learn from Leaf Village.

An urgent plea from Iwagakure was also sent to Hidden Leaf Village and placed on the desk of the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato.

Under the watchful eyes of all parties in the Ninja World, Uchiha Shingen, an important mobile force of Leaf Village, left Leaf Village and Kitakami- Land of Rice Fields in a public manner.

Chapter Thirty-Four: A True Friend is Hard to Find in Life

Once a ninja's strength reaches a certain level, they will naturally acquire political attributes.

Genin orders is called being disorganized and undisciplined.

Chunin orders lacks a sense of the bigger picture.

A regular Jonin disobeying orders constitutes a major safety incident.

However, if Five Kage- level figure acts without authorization, the village will cooperate with that Five Kage first. Even if it is truly an accident, they will find a plausible reason to cover it up.

Uchiha Shingen never acted without authorization; he always reported to the authorities first.

He is the kind of Five Kage- level ninja that the other four major ninja villages would all want to have.

When Uchiha Shingen arrived in Land of Rice Fields, everyone believed that Hidden Leaf Village was about to take action.

As it turned out, their plan was correct; the establishment of an observation group by Leaf Village and Hidden Mist Village was quickly announced.

At this moment, Uchiha Shingen was already standing on the land of the Land of Rice Fields.

After the war Cloud Village and Iwagakure began, a peculiar situation emerged in the northern part of this country.

On the one hand, they opened the port to supply the Cloud Village Army's transport fleet, creating a very commercial atmosphere.

On the other hand, the nobles in the north temporarily closed their fiefdoms and moved their families to the south.

Orochimaru himself didn't care much about the Five Great Villages. After several years of training under him, the Sound Ninja under his command, regardless of their skills, were truly arrogant.

Sound Village never refused any requests from the daimyo and nobles.

It entered a period of explosive business growth.

For example, the military defense of the port was the responsibility of the Sound Ninja. The Cloud Ninja were always quite arrogant, but the Sound Ninja were louder than the Cloud Ninja, which suited the Cloud Ninja's taste, so the two sides got along well.

Uchiha Shingen first visited the daimyo of the land, handing over documents from the Hokage and Mizukage. The daimyo warmly welcomed the two Kage's idea of establishing a military observation group, and said that the observation group could use whichever piece of land it liked, and it would be even better if it were located in the daimyo's Daimyo's Court.

Uchiha Shingen merely smiled politely, saying he was willing to help the daimyo of the land, and then left.

Head straight into Sound Village.

As an ally of Leaf Village, it was perfectly justifiable for him, a Konoha Ninja, to go to Sound Village.

The deal between Uchiha Shingen and Orochimaru was so secretive that only a few high-ranking members of the Uchiha Clan Hidden Leaf Village suspected it. However, since Uchiha Shingen was the most favored next clan leader in everyone's eyes, no one would say anything; they would only help cover it up.

Uchiha Shingen himself was also very cautious to ensure that he would not leave any evidence against him.

Orochimaru's interest in having leverage over others depends on whether that leverage can be used to make money.

The Uchiha Clan's secrets do indeed have some monetary value.

When Uchiha Shingen met Orochimaru, it was still in his laboratory.

"Shingen- kun, are you satisfied with the effect of the Cursed Seal?" Although Orochimaru spoke in a casual tone, he didn't even glance at Uchiha Shingen.

He kept staring at the test tube in his hand, watching the color change of the liquid inside.

Orochimaru is, in a sense, the easiest boss to deal with.

As long as he is given a fixed amount of money and experimental materials, no one can pull him out of the lab.

Unless his lab is blown up and his important experimental data is destroyed.

Then Orochimaru will fully demonstrate his human side—he will spend a long time creating all sorts of trouble for this person, whether there is any benefit or not is not important, he just wants to cause trouble.

Since accepting the Uchiha Clan's indirect investment, Orochimaru's activity in the Ninja World has decreased dramatically, and in the last three years, he has been almost nowhere to be seen.

So much so that some people in Hidden Leaf Village have begun to suspect that Orochimaru is dead.

Sarutobi Hiruzen vehemently denied this, saying he knew the student well and that he was definitely hiding somewhere doing experiments.

At this age, Sarutobi Hiruzen would often reminisce about the past, feeling that he hadn't done enough; otherwise, the Legendary Sannin of Leaf Village wouldn't have disbanded.

But he also knew that Orochimaru wouldn't be coming back, and even Tsunade might not return.

"The Cursed Seal is fine." Uchiha Shingen looked around, neither approaching Orochimaru nor touching anything in the laboratory.

Although he's not conducting experiments this time around, his perspective remains.

In this lab, Orochimaru created many things that looked like important achievements but were actually traps.

As for Orochimaru himself, he probably carried even more.

The Orochimaru in the laboratory, in terms of sheer ability to harm people, is at his strongest.

"Shingen- kun, I've always been curious why you're so familiar with these things." Orochimaru finally put down the test tubes in his hand, carefully placing them away, and finally looked at Uchiha Shingen properly. "Does the Uchiha Clan also conduct experiments?"

If there was anything unexpected about Orochimaru's cooperation with the Uchiha Clan, it was that Uchiha Shingen could actually understand the very complicated experimental data that Orochimaru had deliberately created, and he understood it very quickly, with an expression that said, "Is that all you've got?"

This is quite awkward; investors can understand it.

However, Uchiha Shingen was a decent investor. Although he noticed that Shingen had misappropriated funds, he didn't get angry. Instead, he pointed out some shortcomings in Shingen's research and reiterated his belief in Shingen's professional abilities.

From his words, Orochimaru sensed that Uchiha Shingen actually thought that diverting funds for research was perfectly normal, so he didn't take it seriously at all.

This really touched Orochimaru; this was a true friend!

Orochimaru left Leaf Village and founded his own ninja village primarily because he felt that no one in the existing system understood him.

But little did he know, his confidant was actually in the Uchiha Clan!

Orochimaru felt it necessary to prove his exceptional professional skills to his confidant, so during that period, he unusually refrained from diverting funds and truly dedicated himself to this project.

Without comparison, there is no harm done.

As for Xiao, screw him. He's the worst investor ever. He doesn't have much money, but he makes a lot of trouble.

Take Kakuzu as an example. Tenten saying he's falsifying accounts and that they'll kill him if they find out.

Putting aside whether it's actually being done or not, how can this research be considered falsifying accounts?

Vulgar!

It's impossible to find out.

Did he really master the Great Budget Rationalization Technique for nothing? Even Shimura Danzō, they couldn't find anything; they could only suspect, not prove.

Without evidence, how can you accuse him of falsifying accounts? He simply used those resources more flexibly.

So far, the only one we can tell is Uchiha Shingen.

But Uchiha Shingen was a close friend, and since he was a close friend, it was only natural that he could see through it.

"Such a large ninja clan, and so many years old, it's normal for them to conduct experiments," Uchiha Shingen answered Orochimaru's question. "They have so many Ninjutsu, and not all of them are copied."

To be honest, most of them are actually copied and then modified.

All the experiments conducted by the Uchiha Clan were related to the Sharingan.

However, this experiment is different from that experiment.

"What brings you here today? Is it about the second stage?" Orochimaru asked.

After the mature version of the Juinjutsu was released, he began the process of casting a wide net.

The second phase has not yet yielded any results.

"No, that's not it." Uchiha Shingen shook his head. "I heard that you're trying to improve the Impure World Reincarnation?"

"Oh?" Orochimaru's snake-like eyes changed slightly. "Where did you get this information from?"

"I still have some morals, so I can't tell you. But you'd better be careful; this technique is very sensitive."

"Alright, then I won't ask who it is." Orochimaru chuckled. "What, does Shingen- kun also have someone he wants to resurrect?"

"Of course there are, but let's forget about using the Impure World Reincarnation technique. Who are you trying to revive with Impure World Reincarnation?" Uchiha Shingen asked.

According to the original timeline, it was the Big Fool and the Dog Tycoon. In this timeline, Orochimaru was not fully prepared when he left Leaf Village, and the internal environment of Hidden Leaf Village had also changed. No one was in contact with him, so it is unknown whether he still had control over the bodies of these two people.

Wait a minute, does he now count as replacing Dango and becoming the "traitor" connected to Orochimaru?

"Shingen- kun." Orochimaru didn't answer immediately. Instead, he tidied up the things on the lab table. After cleaning everything up, he took off his gloves and threw them into the trash can. "Let's go somewhere else."

"Good."

Uchiha Shingen turned and left the laboratory first.

After a while, Orochimaru also came out, and he closed the laboratory door first.

This underground base is no longer the bare shell it was when we first arrived. All the decorations and mechanical and electrical equipment are in place, and the corridors are bright and clean.

After locking the door, Orochimaru turned around.

"Shingen- kun, since you asked, I'll take you to see how this project is going. Kabuto is keeping an eye on it for me right now."

Chapter Thirty-Five: The Most Evil Senju Clan

In this timeline, Kabuto Yakushi's life trajectory remains largely unchanged.

He remained a double agent.

Shimura Danzō earlier than in the original timeline, but as Leaf Village's external intelligence expert, Yakushi Nonō and Kabuto Yakushi had already recruited him into Root.

After all, as intelligence agents, these two were exceptionally talented, and Kabuto's abilities even surpassed those of Nonō.

Shimura Danzō's exceptional abilities led him to distrust both Kabuto and Yakushi Nonō, especially Kabuto Yakushi.

As a spy with multiple identities, Kabuto Yakushi appears before others under different guises at all times. No one can fully fathom his thoughts. While Shimura Danzō admires his outstanding abilities, he is also labeled as untrustworthy.

Because Shimura Danzō knew that Kabuto Yakushi was a person who lacked a sense of identity.

What ordinary people are born with is a luxury for Kabuto Yakushi; it is the answer he spends his whole life searching for.

A person has only one identity in their lifetime, and for Kabuto Yakushi, this was an important question. He didn't know who he really was. Yakushi Nonō gave him an identity, but Shimura Danzō believed that such a knowledge was fragile, and moreover, this identity did not include the role of Konoha Ninja.

The longer they serve Leaf Village in this state, the more dangerous it becomes.

When he felt that Kabuto Yakushi posed a greater threat to Leaf Village than he was of value to the Leaf Village, he did not hesitate to kill him.