Chapter 55: Injecting the Serum and Bodily Metamorphosis
After Karn left the Uchiha Clan Compound, he discovered that Tsunade was still waiting nearby, so he quickly walked over.
Once Karn approached, Tsunade asked, "Are you done talking?"
"If it was just a matter of a courtesy visit, their hospitality was fairly polite. As for other matters, it was neither a success nor a failure."
Karn shook his head and said that while he had indeed met Hamada Uchiha, that was about the extent of it. They hadn't really discussed much else; after offering greetings and expressions of gratitude, Karn had left.
Hamada Uchiha was a man of considerable insight, having lived through both the First and Second World Wars. Right now, Konoha's targeting of the Uchiha was merely a matter of sentiment among the Konoha High Command, and no open hostility had surfaced yet. The moment Karn saw the man, he felt it would be very difficult to persuade him-whether regarding business cooperation or anything else-so he simply refrained from bringing it up.
The current patriarch was hard to convince, so they would just have to wait for the next one. Fortunately, Hamada Uchiha seemed to have fathered a child late in life; Uchiha Fugaku was around the same age as him and should be inheriting the position of patriarch soon.
For the next period of time, whenever Karn had free time, he stayed at the Senju Clan Compound, and whenever he wanted to go out, he would call Tsunade. Meanwhile, Tsunade seized every moment to handle village affairs, conveniently using Shadow Clone Techniques and Transformation Techniques to help Orochimaru grind out some missions.
This was the condition for Orochimaru to remain inside the research laboratory. As a disciple of the Hokage and a Konoha Jonin, being too idle would