Kuroto slowly walked in the forest from tree to tree followed by a young child.
The child's name was Yuki Haku, and he looked at Kuroto from time to time as they continued their travel and after repeatedly hesitating, he finally mustered the courage to ask, "Ano… K-Kuroto-Sama, w-where do you want to t-take me?"
Most of Kuroto's attention was currently delved towards planning out his experimental project so he answered somewhat absent-mindedly, "Konohagakure."
Haku got the answer and lowered his head to murmur, "Konoha…gakure…?"
Haku obviously has no concept of where is Konohagakure. He couldn't even begin to imagine just what kind of place Konohagakure would be, and considering his time of living in the Land of Water, he was a little nervous at the moment.
Kuroto perceived Haku's nervousness and fear and said with a calming smile, "Don't be afraid, you won't be in danger."
Calming down a little, Haku asked lightly, "I… will I still be able to meet Jugo and the others?"
Even though it hasn't been very long since he met them, but Haku has become friends with Jugo and Kimimaro, who are of the same age as him, and now that he had to suddenly part ways with them, this made him feel sad.
Noticing Haku's sadness, Kuroto gently touched his head and then said with a reassuring tone, "Don't worry, if everything goes well, maybe you will be able to see them again in a few months."
Listening to Kuroto's reassuring words; Haku nodded slightly and then continued their travel.
It didn't take them very long to reach Konohagakure.
After sneaking into Konoha through a secret path, instead of bringing Haku to his home, Kuroto led him to the secret laboratory that Orochimaru left him.
He has already transferred all the equipment that Orochimaru left him to his own laboratory, therefore, this place was now modified into a secret underground residence that can be used as a small shelter during an emergency.
As a shinobi Village, Konoha's investigation procedure of all outsiders is very thorough and strict.
Even an ordinary child is no exception to this, not to mention, Haku isn't an ordinary child, but most probably the last survivor of the Yuki Clan of the Land of Water, and the child has already awakened the unique Kekkei Genkai of the Yuki Clan; Ice Release. If his presence in Kuroto's home is discovered by anyone, then Kuroto will in big trouble.
Therefore, he obviously wouldn't keep Haku at his home in the Hyuga Compound, but at this secret underground residence, that would prevent anyone from discovering him.
After arranging Haku at the secret underground residence, Kuroto directly returned to his home to retrieve all the memories of his Shadow Clone.
Through the memories passed back by the Shadow Clone, Kuroto learned that nothing noteworthy happened in the Village during his absence, aside from the regular Anbu duties.
But there was information that relieved him a little, it was about the peace talks with Kumogakure.
The peace talks that have been in a deadlocked state for such a long time seem to have made some progress recently.
Additionally, there was also the news that the Uchiha Clan has been continuously searching Uchiha Shinichi's whereabouts, but up until now, they haven't received any helpful trail.
Poof…
While Kuroto was going through the memories he got, the greedy Orange Cat, Kasai appeared in his room with a puff of white smoke.
While leisurely licking its fur on the paw, it spoke boringly, "Nya, One thousand Ryo, Kuroto-San!"
Kuroto immediately paid a One Thousand Ryo note and took the small information scroll from the cat.
It's been a little while since Shinichi last sent him any message, therefore Kuroto was a little worried, now that a message has finally come, so he was really relieved.
After unfolding the scroll, Kuroto glanced at the lines:
"This guy Shinno is really a rat; he was hidden so deeply that it took me and Biwa Juzo such long to find his trace and catch him!"
"Do you know his true identity? Oh, you wouldn't believe it and might be highly surprised, it turns out that the old doctor was just a façade, in reality, he is the leader of the remnant Shinobi of the Land of Sky, surprised, right? Even me and the rest of the members of the Akatsuki were too! Bet you couldn't have thought of this!"
"Oh, by the way, I tortured out the secret information he was hiding, this guy actually intends to create an artificial tailed beast called Reibi, and use it to destroy the five great Shinobi Villages and rule over the entire Shinobi World!"
"Hahaha…, that's hilarious, right!? Putting aside the thought of destroying the five great powers and ruling the shinobi world, the mere thought of him wanting to create an artificial tailed beast cracked me up! How can anyone make an artificial tailed beast? He is an idiot I am telling you…!"
"Oh, and also…
After reading everything, Kuroto burned the scroll and thought to himself, 'Control yourself, don't get angry, don't be angry, Shinichi is neurotic and you know that… So, don't get affected by his monologue.'
Every time Shinichi sends him a message or some intel, instead of directly describing the detail going straight to the point, he would choose the roundabout way as if he is talking like an idiot.
But Kuroto also doesn't have much of a choice to berate Shinichi, as the guy is only venting out his depression from his time at the Akatsuki.
Being a spy in the Akatsuki is obviously not as easy as it may sound, and since there aren't any allies in Akatsuki, therefore, he can't open up to anyone, so Kuroto is the only one he could speak freely to while passing on the intelligence.
So Kuroto is also helpless in this matter.
Sighing heavily, Kuroto completed some of the trivial matters and came to the secret laboratory.
As soon as he entered the secret laboratory after passing through several layers of security, he was immediately greeted by Sandaime Kazekage puppet, "Kuroto-Sama!"
Ever since he created this laboratory, Sandaime Kazekage puppet has been left in the laboratory by Kuroto for twenty-four cross seven. The purpose is obviously to guard the secret laboratory so that even when Kuroto, himself is not in the village, there are no tedious issues.
…
At the edge of the Death Forest.
Jonin Minazuki Yuki looked at the three genins of Team-2 and said with utmost seriousness, "Three of you listen very carefully, this task is not easy, there are chances that you might lose your life if you aren't careful!"
Izumo Tenma, a young boy with somewhat long, grey hair spiked more so towards the right side with his bangs framing his face, black eyes, wearing a blue Konoha forehead protector that his bangs hung to the side of; lazily kept both his hands behind his head and spoke in annoyance, "What danger? It's another one of those boring D-Class missions, to drive out a wild boar? What's the big deal about it!"
"Minazuki-Sensei, you are underestimating us way too much, it's just a wild boar, how can it kill us?" – said Shinko Inari, a young girl with two small pigtails and a blue bandana with the village symbol facing forward and a foreign appearance that isn't very hard to identify.
The final and last member of Team-2, Uchiha Itachi didn't say a word, but carefully checked the map of the Death Forest.
Minazuki Yuki held his forehead and said with a headache, "Didn't the official at the mission commission office already told you that it's no ordinary wild boar but a ninja boar. A-Ninja-Boar!"
Initially, when he saw the content of the mission, Minazuki Yuki didn't care too much, as it's just another one of those simple D-Class missions that any new Genin team has to complete to develop a better understanding of one another, but when he inquired some of the details about the mission, he realized that this task is not as easy as it may seem as first glance.
According to the content of the mission, a very powerful wild boar has appeared in the Death Forest not long ago, but the problem is that it has immediately become the boss of the forest with no natural enemies.
His appearance has seriously affected the ecological balance of the Death Forest.
It should be understood that the Death Forest isn't any ordinary forest but a practice field specifically managed by Konoha to have the same or even more fierce ecosystem than anywhere. So, if the Wild Boar has already become the boss of the Death Forest, he would no longer be allowed to continue to stay here and disturb the ecosystem anymore
But with that comes a problem, can newly Graduate Genins handle such a task? This is worrying.
Seeing that neither Tenma nor Shinko had any change even after he reminded them, Yuki shook his head helplessly and ordered, "Go!"
He thought about it a little, although this task seems a bit tricky, his Team-2 is still quite good, even if that Wild Boar happens to be strong, the three of them should manage it somehow without any accidents.
What's more, with Uchiha Itachi in the team, Minazuki Yuki wasn't that worried.
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In Kuroto's Secret laboratory.
Looking at the two large nutrition tanks, Kuroto sighed.
At this time both the nutrition tanks have a deformed clone each, immersed in the Nutrient Solution.
These two clones were Kuroto's first attempt in the branch of Cloning before he went to see his teacher Orochimaru.
Looking at the distorted and deformed shape of both the clones, even an amateur in the field of Biotechnology could tell that the first attempt resulted in a complete failure.
Shaking his head helplessly, Kuroto readjusted his mentality and took out a scroll to record all the data.
After doing that, he took out the information scroll that Orochimaru gave him about the data and Cloning Technology and read it line by line.
Kuroto believes that experiencing failure is not a terrible thing, but if one can't learn anything from their past failures then that is a really terrible thing! Therefore, he must figure out what went wrong in his first attempt.
While Kuroto was busy, suddenly slight vibration was felt in the laboratory.
Byakugan…
Although the vibrations were very weak, they weren't unnoticed by Kuroto. Frowning slightly, he activated the Byakugan and looked in the direction of the source past the walls…
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Whish… Whish…
Accompanied by the sound of breaking wind, several shurikens were shot straight towards the massive wild boar that was sleeping lazily.
Unfortunately for team-2, the shuriken did hit it but instead of piercing through his skin, they were all bounced off as if they encountered an incomparable hard wall on their path!
Even though the shurikens didn't cause the wild boar to be severely hurt, it did cause him annoyance and woke it from its sleep.
Roar…
The wild boar snorted hot air from its snout and let out an angry growl.
Seeing that the situation wasn't right, Tenma said, "Hey, hey, this guy's skin is too hard!"
Minazuki Yuki, the leader of Team-2 hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, it's going to attack!"
Before Minazuki even finished, the wild boar already rushed towards the three genins with a fierce momentum living a dust trail behind.
"Fire Style: Fire Ball Technique!"
Contrary to the rest of the panicked genins, Itachi calmly used the Fire Release Jutsu towards the incoming wild boar.
The huge fireball immediately drowned the wild boar, but before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief, its huge figure that was now blackish jumped out of the flames with great momentum and rushed towards the three genins.
Minazuki and Itachi immediately caught the panicked Shinko and the dazed Tenma respectively and flickered away from their spot.
Boom…
The wild boar that failed to hit its target collided with the big three on its path.
The momentum of the wild boar was more than what the tree could handle and it instantly fell to the ground with a muffled noise.
Not to mention the Tenma and Shinko, even Minazuki was shocked at the sight of the entire giant tree falling by a mere collision.
Shinko was a little afraid and said, "T-that was dangerous… M-Minazuki-Sensei… is this really a D-Class mission!?"
On the other hand, the wild boar that just collided with the big tree wasn't hurt in the slightest, and immediately got up, shook his head, and again snorted hot air from its snout and rushed towards Itachi and Tenma.
Tenma also spoke from the side, "That's not a wild boar… it's a monster!"
This time they were more cautious and understood that dealing with this wild boar wouldn't be as easy as they thought initially.
So, without any more hesitation, Itachi printed some hand seal and spoke in a low voice, "Genjutsu!"
As Itachi used the Genjutsu, the wild boar staggered a few more steps and then collapsed to the ground.
Seeing that the Wild boar was defeated, Shinko immediately jumped from the tree and cheered: "Wow, Itachi-Kun you defeated it!"
Minazuki also landed next to Itachi and patted on his shoulder, "Good job, Itachi!"
While the four were celebrating the completion of the mission, the wild boar who blacked out only for a few short seconds suddenly woke up and rushed towards the four.
"Be careful everyone!" – Itachi suddenly noticed the boar getting up and immediately warned the rest, but by the time his voice fell the boar was already close at hand.
Minazuki immediately turned around and was shocked, he had no time to make any moves so all he could do was spread his arms open to guard the three genins behind him.
Both Tenma and Shinko were horrified and couldn't do anything.
Whistle…
Suddenly, a clear whistle sounded from the other side.
The wild boar that was inches away from Minazuki and the three genins suddenly came to a halt as soon as it heard the whistle and turned to look in the direction from where it came.
At this time, a person slowly walked out of the forest.
As soon as, Itachi saw the person he muttered in surprise, "Kuroto-San!"
The person that came out from the other side was none other than Kuroto.
With his hands in the side pocket of his Kimono, he walked leisurely, his eyes shifted up and down of the wild boar and back and forth between the team-2 and the wild boar.
Realizing that it was Kuroto, the wild boar immediately turned around and walked towards him to confirm his scent.
Kuroto looked at the more than two meters high wild boar intimately nudging his feet and muttered in amazement, "Hey… I haven't seen you for just half a year, how come you have already grown up so big?"
The last time Kuroto saw the wild boar it only reached up to his waist, and now Kuroto himself doesn't reach up to the other party's waist.
While the boar was excitedly wagging its small tail, Itachi came towards Kuroto and asked curiously, "Kuroto-San, is this Ninja boar your summon beast?"
"Uh…" – Kuroto didn't know how to answer that, although this wild boar wasn't his summon beast, he was somewhat responsible for such growth, so after considering a little, he nodded, "That's right."
Itachi was surprised, "It turns out to be your summon beast, no wonder it's so powerful!"
While the three genins were admiring Kuroto and the boar much to its annoyance, Minazuki came over and introduced himself with a polite smile, "I am Minazuki Yuki, Konoha Jonin, thank you for helping us out a few moments ago!"
Kuroto nodded and after introducing himself, he asked Minazuki, why was his team fighting the boar and learned that while Kuroto was busy with all sorts of tasks and preparing to build his personal laboratory, the once little guy has become the boss of this forest area and severely damaged the ecosystem here.
Listening to this he didn't know what to feel about it.
Kuroto never expected that his momentary interest and random action at the beginning had cultivated such beast.
So, after a little consideration, Kuroto said to Minazuki, "Don't worry, I will drive it out of the Death forest."
Kuroto obviously can't let it stay in the Death Forest anymore, otherwise, it would continue to cause trouble and would ultimately be used to fulfil the belly of many shinobi at the Akimichi Restaurant Chain.
Although Kuroto too would want to try the taste, he still has better options for the wild boar.
So after sending away the Team-2, Kuroto circled around the wild boar and observed it more carefully.
To be honest, the potential displayed by this guy has been a little beyond Kuroto's initial expectations. Now he is more curious as to how far can it continue to grow, so after thinking a little he decided to create a summoning contract with it by making it his summon beast.
Perhaps it was because of the presence of the Tenseigan Chakra that has been flowing through the boar's body, or maybe because Kuroto fed it during its young age, it didn't resist the summoning contract and smoothly became his summon beast.
After sighing the summoning contract, Kuroto named it 'Okina Buta' which literally means 'Big Pig', and ordered Okina Buta to leave the territory of the Death Forest.
Kuroto didn't have enough energy to train Okina Buta so he decided to send it towards some of the dangerous forest territories of the Land of fire, and let it grow up naturally. As for how far it can grow in the future remains on it.
At the end of this short episode, Kuroto immediately returned to his laboratory.
The failure of the first attempt to create clones, Kuroto understood that instead of rushing headfirst for early results; he will have to invest some time to learn the science of cloning from the information scroll he obtained from Orochimaru, and review the mistakes he made.
Perhaps because of his research and development of the 'Living Corpse Reincarnation,' and all those cruel experiments' that Orochimaru currently has a deep knowledge of human anatomy, from the body structure to organ transplantation.
Just from casually reading through the information written in the scroll, Kuroto already learned a lot and figured out a lot of his mistakes, some of which can even be considered very minor but in fact, have a very important role.
After summing up all his mistakes turn-by-turn, Kuroto created the next plan.
With the devices he has in the laboratory currently, Kuroto can barely try the experiments involved in the process of creating a Water Clone.
The reason why he chose the Water Clone because the water Clone is the most stable of the five basic chakra natures, therefore, the success rate for the formation of a Water Clone is the highest, theoretically at least.
For creating other clones, either Kuroto lacks the necessary devices or that their characteristics are too unstable and Kuroto would need more experience to create them, so currently their theoretical success rate is not very high.
And lastly, there is also the Yang Clone, which would represent Natural Energy, and be mainly useful for the Six Path Senjutsu, Kuroto has no idea where to begin about it so it can only be postponed for the last.
The development has to be done step-by-step, so starting with the most stable Water Clone seems most reasonable, and this is also the main reason why he brought Yuki Haku with him.
The reason is obviously the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai of the Yuki Clan.
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