Amegakure,
Inside the Akatsuki base.
Yahiko stood in place, golden flames surging around him, his eyes closed as he felt that unprecedented power.
He felt every cell in his body cheering. He tentatively clenched his fist, squeezing a sharp crack out of thin air.
"So this is... power..." Yahiko murmured, his voice brimming with barely contained excitement.
Pero leaned back in his stone chair, watching him expressionlessly.
His gaze swept over Yahiko, then pierced the wall to see Rin adapting to her strength on the training ground. After several days of growth,
Kakuzu was beginning to struggle when sparring with Rin.
Rin had tremendous potential now. By the standards of this world's ninja, she was indeed very strong. But... it was not enough.
Pero's thoughts began to wander. With Akatsuki's current strength, they could already do as they pleased throughout the Shinobi World.
Nagato possessed the Rinnegan, and newcomers such as Kakuzu and Sasori were roughly at Kage Level.
But in his eyes, this was still a very fragile organization.
Apart from Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, the companions he had grown up with, the other members were all unlucky souls Pero had forcibly dragged here.
In terms of loyalty, they were a disorganized rabble.
They had neither a shared belief nor absolute loyalty.
Once he left this world through the Ryūmyaku,
This seemingly powerful Akatsuki might fall apart through infighting or some other cause.
Still too weak, Pero thought.
He could not stay here playing house forever. To him, this world was merely a starting point on the long road of life ahead.
Sooner or later, he would venture into the wider universe.
He needed a solution that would settle things once and for all.
A plan that would allow Akatsuki to remain at the pinnacle of the world even without his protection.
For the first time, Pero truly began thinking proactively.
Rather than passively following the plot.
His Kryptonian brain began working at high speed.
With his super-vision, he examined countless pieces of intelligence on the spot. Ninjutsu textbooks and all kinds of secret documents flashed through his mind.
His super-brain broke them down, reassembled them, and extrapolated.
He suddenly thought of this world's jinchūriki.
The practice of sealing tailed beasts inside ninja to grant them tremendous power.
This approach... could work!
A bold idea suddenly appeared in his mind.
[Ding! Host has used "super-brain" for the first time. Energy +0.5%]
The notification that suddenly rang out in his mind interrupted Pero's train of thought.
Tch, why pop up now just to remind me you exist? Pero grumbled inwardly.
Couldn't you wait until I finished thinking? Not user-friendly at all.
Although Pero's thoughts had been interrupted, that brilliant plan had already taken shape in his mind, and his rapidly working super-brain instantly filled in every detail.
He glanced at the still-excited Yahiko, then looked through the wall at Rin, whom he had previously revived with chakra.
This method of sealing chakra inside someone to grant them power was still far too primitive and inefficient.
Though this chakra was vast, it would eventually run out.
What he needed was an entity capable of growing and sustaining its own cycle, just like a tailed beast.
Since tailed beasts could be sealed, what about a clone created using Pero's own chakra?
A clone composed of a trace of his cell-nucleus chakra, under his absolute control. He would use this clone as a tailed beast and seal it inside someone he selected.
He would turn them into beings similar to jinchūriki, yet not jinchūriki.
"Superman Squad!"
The moment those words appeared, Pero's eyes lit up.
This would mean that those who gained Pero's power would no longer merely be borrowing his chakra, but would possess something like a weakened Kryptonian core... perhaps they could be called Homelander?
Like Pero, they would be able to strengthen themselves by bathing in sunlight.
Though this power would certainly have an upper limit and could not compare to his original body,
It would be enough to place them above the entire Shinobi World, even the alien Ōtsutsuki.
Then he would not have to worry about Akatsuki being bullied by visitors from beyond the heavens after conquering the world.
"Yahiko, go bring Rin up to the office," Pero said calmly.
Yahiko, who was adapting to his power, scratched his head and left the office.
Before long, he returned with Rin.
Both approached Pero with puzzled expressions.
"Pero?" "Mister?"
Pero offered no further explanation and clapped his hands together.
With a muffled grunt from Pero, two energy clones made of golden light, identical to him in appearance, separated from either side of his body.
"Stand still. This might hurt a little."
Pero thrust both hands straight out and pressed them against Yahiko's and Rin's abdomens.
An improved sealing jutsu appeared on their abdomens.
He was going to replace the chakra he had previously injected into them and seal the two perfect Kryptonian clones inside.
"Aaaaaah!"
Intense pain instantly flooded every part of Yahiko's and Rin's bodies as violent chakra completely transformed them in that moment.
A short while later.
Pero withdrew his hands. Without his support, Yahiko and Rin both dropped to their knees, bracing themselves with their hands and panting heavily. Their sweat soaked the floor.
"I got to enjoy this pain twice today!" Yahiko raised his right hand with difficulty and flashed a V sign.
The pain came quickly, but vanished just as quickly.
The next instant, an unprecedented sensation surged into their minds.
"Wh... what is this?" Rin raised her head in shock.
"My eyes... my ears!" Yahiko was even more shocked. This power was countless times stronger than what he had just received. He clutched his head.
He felt as though the entire world had changed. Countless sounds, images, and smells poured into his brain like a tide. Unable to process all this information at once, both of them grew dizzy.
It felt a little like a Kryptonian encountering Earth's environment for the first time.
Pero watched them quietly, then touched a finger to each of their foreheads and activated his bio-electric field, helping them block out the excess sensory information.
It seemed their brains had not evolved along with them.
"Take your time adapting. Everything you have now is only the tip of my iceberg."
Pero spoke mildly.
Several minutes later, Yahiko and Rin finally recovered from the sensory overload.
They stood up, feeling the powerful, endlessly renewing energy inside them, their eyes filled with delighted surprise.
Pero nodded in satisfaction. It seemed part of the plan had succeeded.
Next.
His gaze seemed to pierce time and space.
Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato. These core members all had to be made into Pero jinchūriki.
As for the other members, Pero did not trust them at all. He would decide whether to grant them this power based on their loyalty. If they used it to do anything detrimental to Akatsuki,
He could take it back at any time. As for the consequences of suddenly losing a vast amount of chakra, he would not be responsible.
Then he thought of Nagato's Six Paths of Pain.
A smile curled Pero's lips. "What if the bodies of the Six Paths of Pain were all Pero jinchūriki?"
That would mean six Supermen who obeyed orders absolutely, never tired, and did not fear death.
An unprecedented organization, the strongest of all, was quietly beginning to take shape.
But it was not time yet.
Pero raised his head, as though looking into every corner of every Shinobi Village.
"Before that, I'll play a little game of house with the Shinobi World."
He would leave a clone in the Shinobi World and head into the sun's core to savor its radiance.
A Shinobi World war directed by him was about to begin.
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