Chương 83: Chapter 83: Soul Escape
Time—
It always seems to pass quickly, almost without noticing.
In the morning, Kiyoshi had intended to train, but Shizune and Karin dragged him around to the famous scenic spots, touring each one together.
As for Tsunade, she acted as though nothing unusual had happened yesterday.
She was her usual self.
Laughing and chatting with the three of them.
Before they knew it, they'd finished lunch.
And it was already afternoon.
Tsunade then led Shizune and Karin.
They went out into the streets to find "test subjects" for Karin's medical practice.
Naturally, Kiyoshi didn't go along.
He returned to his room.
Sitting cross-legged, his form poised in focus.
In his hands was a scroll containing instructions on the S-Rank Forbidden Jutsu: Spirit Transformation Jutsu.
He read through it carefully.
The Spirit Transformation Jutsu!
An S-rank soul ninjutsu allowing one's soul to leave the body.
It allows the caster to turn their soul into a living spirit, capable of traversing any distance to kill enemies, or even possess their bodies or enter their mental space.
With this jutsu, one can separate their spirit from the body, becoming a soul entity that can infiltrate and destroy the enemy's mind from within.
But the spirit retains the caster's consciousness, which implies far more uses than just possession and killing.
Due to the technique's mysterious connection to the soul realm, it couldn't be practiced with a Wood Clone, unlike the Flying Thunder God Jutsu that he'd practiced the evening before by sharing the experience with a Wood Clone.
This time, Kiyoshi simply summoned a single Wood Clone.
Its task was to guard his body and ensure his safety.
With his hands, he made seals at a steady pace.
Concentrating, he gathered his chakra.
Following the method of the Spirit Transformation Jutsu, he began to attempt the jutsu.
He failed immediately, his body showed no changes at all.
He didn't succeed in letting his consciousness leave his body.
The second attempt...
The third...
More and more attempts failed in succession.
Yet Kiyoshi was undeterred.
Instead, he kept reflecting, analyzing his own shortcomings and errors.
In less than half an hour, a strange ripple spread through his body.
A transparent spirit form separated from him.
"So, this is the state of an out of body soul?" Kiyoshi, seeing his soul successfully detached, marveled at his own form.
He looked down at his still body, seated cross-legged with eyes closed, unmoving.
"Make sure to protect my body well."
Sensing the positions of Tsunade and the others, he gave a quick instruction to his Wood Clone.
Then Kiyoshi's spirit form passed through the walls and vanished from the room.
At that moment, on the west side of the town.
Inside a nondescript, worn-down house—
An elderly woman lay there, looking frail.
Shizune, as Karin's mentor, was guiding her through a thorough check of the woman's condition.
Tsunade, their teacher, sat off to the side with her arms crossed, watching calmly.
She had no intention of treating the patient herself.
"Tsunade-nee."
In an instant, Tsunade's senses tingled, her skin prickling.
The next moment, her mind blurred.
Suddenly, she was pulled into her mental space, where she found herself embraced by Kiyoshi.
"Kiyoshi?"
Tsunade froze.
Surprised, she looked at him in shock.
She glanced around, realizing what had happened, her face showing slight disbelief. "This… is the Spirit Transformation Jutsu?"
"Heh... Just learned it." Kiyoshi, noticing how strange it felt to hold Tsunade in his spirit form, found the sensation surprisingly pleasant.
"No respect at all."
Tsunade's face flushed faintly.
Pushing away Kiyoshi's slightly unruly hands, she looked at him, exasperated. "You… "Just how many jutsu did you get from Danzo?"
Most people, even in a lifetime, would be fortunate to master one or two forbidden jutsus.
This brat… really made people envious.
The jutsus he'd mastered were all notoriously difficult, even needing special talent and insight, yet for him, they seemed effortless, like child's play.
"Not many, I just cleared out Root's entire collection, that's all."
Kiyoshi shrugged casually.
"You sure have some nerve. Now get out."
Tsunade shot Kiyoshi an annoyed look, trying to send him away.
Having him enter her mental space made her feel strange.
It was as though every part of her had been laid bare to him, with no secrets left unexposed.
"Finally getting to—hmm?"
Just as Kiyoshi was about to protest, he felt a sensation, turning his gaze toward the outskirts of the town.
About several dozen miles away, he sensed a significant chakra presence.
The direction pointed toward the Land of Hot Water.
And the aura… seemed even stronger than Tsunade's.
"Is it the Akatsuki?"
Surprised for a moment, Kiyoshi decided not to pay it any mind. "Doesn't matter, as long as they don't bother me."
If the Akatsuki dared to cause trouble, he'd have no qualms about bringing their downfall ahead of schedule.
"What's wrong?"
Tsunade asked, seeing Kiyoshi's distant look.
"It's nothing, just a strong passerby," Kiyoshi responded, releasing his grip on Tsunade's mindscape and moving on.
He flew in another direction, searching for a target with a weak chakra signature, before he entered that person's body directly.
Controlling them with ease.
His host was a young man, about twenty, wearing a forehead protector from Yugakure.
Judging from his chakra, he was likely a mid-level ninja from the village.
Whoosh!
Kiyoshi controlled the ninja's body, making him punch, kick, jump.
Soon, he had mastered this body's movements, controlling it smoothly as if it were his own.
Commanding the young ninja, Kiyoshi dashed across rooftops until he reached the outskirts of the town.
"Hmm, it's not my own body, even under my control, chakra manipulation feels a bit clumsy. I still have to make hand seals to perform basic ninjutsu."
"His chakra affinity is Fire? Well, that's no issue."
Kiyoshi manipulated the body, testing its current state. "My spirit form carries my chakra, so I can still use all elemental jutsu and exert part of my own strength."
His eyes opened—
Directly revealing the Sharingan.
In the next instant, it spun into a complex pattern.
"Just as I thought, I can even use Wood Release and the Sharingan."
Kiyoshi wasn't surprised.
After all, in the original anime, Pain had used the power of the Rinnegan to perform something similar.
He'd distributed the chakra of the Akatsuki members into living human sacrifices, converting them into copies with nearly equivalent strength.
These transfer clones even retained the original user's Kekkei Genkai, making them nearly indistinguishable from the real deal.
And his own spirit form, equipped with his chakra, was, to some extent, like that ability of Pain's Outer Path.
Thus, it was no surprise he could use his own Kekkei Genkai while possessing another body with the Spirit Transformation Jutsu.
Though perhaps, this might vary based on the skill of the caster.
Another person using the Spirit Transformation Jutsu might not reach this level of control.
"Still, this is quite the bonus—it'll save a lot of trouble."
Kiyoshi's eyes lit up with a slight smile. "In the future, it'll be much easier to extract the other half of the Nine-Tails from Reaper."
He could even control others.
Using this technique to exploit loopholes, he could perform forbidden jutsu that normally required the user's life as a sacrifice.
For example… the Reanimation Jutsu of Sunagakure that could bring the dead back to life!.
"Let's give it a try."
Without hesitation—
He made a single-handed hand seal.
Using precise chakra control—
He even made Yugakure ninja's body perform the hand seal with one hand.
Having just learned the Spirit Transformation Jutsu, Kiyoshi's interest was at its peak.
With his ample chakra supply, he released jutsu one after another.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!"
"Earth Style: Mud Wall!"
Boom! Boom!
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Chương 84: Chapter 84: Pervert Busted
"Boom! Boom!"
Not even half an hour had passed.
The land was scarred and devastated.
Everywhere, there were signs of blackened, collapsed ground.
After going over the land repeatedly with various jutsu and having enough fun, Kiyoshi's spirit detached from the body of the ninja he had possessed and flew back to his own.
Left behind was the ninja, who had only been wandering around the town moments before, and then had unexpectedly lost consciousness.
As he regained his senses, he looked around, utterly confused, at the ruined landscape, as if the very earth were silently accusing him.
He had no idea what had just happened.
"Nothing beats being back in my own body."
Meanwhile—
Back at the inn.
Returning to his body, Kiyoshi stretched and called back his wood clone.
He began to study the Flying Thunder God Jutsu, experimenting to see if he could improve it further.
Though the progress was small, he suddenly realized it was already past five in the afternoon.
Tsunade, Shizune, and Karin had all returned from their day's work of medical consultations.
They asked the innkeeper to prepare dinner, and the four of them, somewhat exhausted, decided to relax with a nice soak in the hot springs.
In the women's bath—
Karin was filled with excitement.
She had finally treated a couple of patients herself and, clenching her fists with pride, looked eagerly at her teacher, "Tsunade-sama, I did pretty well today, didn't I?"
"Hmm, not bad. Your chakra control has improved, and you didn't make any major mistakes with the procedure."
Tsunade gently tapped her young apprentice on the head, but didn't hold back her praise.
"Hehe."
Hearing her teacher's approval, Karin's eyes sparkled with pride. Feeling confident, she clenched her fists and called out, "Sooner or later, I'll surpass that dummy Kiyoshi."
"In your next life, maybe."
Kiyoshi's teasing voice rang out from the men's bath next door, cutting down her confidence without mercy.
But in the next moment, he sensed something, and his eyebrows raised slightly.
"Is it that guy?"
He detected a fairly strong chakra presence moving through the town.
It was the same foreign chakra he'd sensed earlier when he first used Spirit Transformation and entered Tsunade's mind, now that presence had come here.
What surprised Kiyoshi was that this presence wasn't in a hurry. Instead, it lingered here and there, as though observing something, and slowly moved closer to them.
"A peeping Tom?"
Kiyoshi's gaze grew cold as he realized what the person might be doing.
He had noticed that each place where the presence lingered happened to be at locations like public baths, hot spring inns, and similar places.
"Wood Eye."
He raised his right hand, forming the familiar hand seal.
In a concealed spot, several dozen meters away—
In a corner above one of the hot spring inns, a tall, shady figure was crouched down, entirely absorbed in peeking around.
Unaware—
A pair of eyes had opened silently on a nearby tree's cracked trunk, watching his every move.
"One of the Legendary Sannin… Jiraiya. So, it really is you."
Kiyoshi's gaze sharpened as he observed the tall figure with a forehead protector.
The man had white hair, red markings under his eyes, a red cloak, and wore traditional geta sandals.
These features confirmed his identity at first glance. Kiyoshi had already suspected it might be him. He just didn't expect things to fall into place so conveniently.
"You came here looking for trouble, don't blame me for what happens next."
Without hesitation, he jumped out of the hot spring, revealing a physique that, though not overly tall, had muscle lines sharp as blades and a symmetry that was nothing short of perfect.
For such a lecher, who went around peeking at girls in the bath under the excuse of "gathering inspiration," Kiyoshi had absolutely no tolerance.
To him, this was a sign of terrible character, not the so-called charm of a hero.
What kind of noble shinobi would act so low?
"Tsunade-nee, Shizune-senpai, Karin—make sure you're all dressed." Kiyoshi reminded them with a smirk.
"We've got a rat to catch in a bit."
He quickly put on his clothes.
"What?"
"A rat?"
In the women's bath, Tsunade, Shizune, and Karin looked at each other, confused, but they trusted Kiyoshi's judgment. They quickly ended their bath and dressed.
Soon after—
In the women's bath, Kiyoshi re-entered, his short black hair still wet, dressed in a white t-shirt and black pants, looking dashing. The girls couldn't help but glance his way, with even Tsunade not immune to the sight.
She had to admit, the brat certainly knew how to catch eyes.
If he went to one of those mixed-gender hot springs, the older ladies would probably lose their minds.
"He's so handsome."
Karin, who was weak for good looks, whispered in awe before quickly realizing what she'd said. Turning red, she looked away.
"Hmph, you show-off."
"Kiyoshi, what's going on?" Shizune asked curiously, holding Tonton close.
"Some guy with a decent amount of chakra is peeking around the hot spring inns. He's getting closer," Kiyoshi replied, crossing his arms.
"What? A pervert?" Karin jumped, startled.
"Is that so?" Tsunade narrowed her eyes. Kiyoshi's approval of someone's chakra strength meant this wasn't just an ordinary person.
She had her suspicions about the identity but couldn't be sure.
A cold smirk crossed her face. "Let's give him a lesson he won't forget." She cracked her knuckles, sending an intimidating pop through the air.
"We'll wait for him to come to us," Kiyoshi said. He was already close enough.
The girls nodded, all smiling with a trace of cruelty. They were eager for the rat to arrive.
Suddenly, Tsunade turned to Karin with a smirk, "Karin, you're looking more beautiful every day."
"Huh?" Karin froze, confused.
Seeing Tsunade wink, she caught on and loudly replied, "Saori-nee, you're beautiful too! Your figure is getting better every day."
Shizune joined in, her eyes glinting mischievously. "That's true, Saori! You're known as the hottest woman in the Land of Hot Water! Even the nobles are competing to marry you."
"Your skin is so flawless, like a painting," she added with a giggle.
"Absolutely gorgeous—your figure is something to envy," said Karin. "No one knows who'll get so lucky with you."
"Stop! You're embarrassing me," Tsunade giggled.
The three women's voices echoed, and Kiyoshi, watching, couldn't help but sigh. Women were natural-born actors, no doubt.
"Hehehe."
Their laughter floated through the air.
Predictably, in the shadows above a nearby hot spring inn, the tall figure twitched his ears at the mention of beautiful women.
"Hmm… that voice sounds familiar."
Still, hearing the playful laughter from the women's bath, he felt his pulse quicken, and his face twisted into a lecherous smile.
Unable to resist, he dashed over to the inn and perched above the hot spring.
Then—
With all the anticipation in the world—
As he peeked his head down toward the women's bath, he froze.
What met his eyes were several figures, all poised and glaring at him.
He stammered, "Tsu… Tsunade?"
"Heh."
Seeing the lecher finally reveal himself, Tsunade's face turned icy, her expression hardening.
"Jiraiya, so it is you."
But before Tsunade could even speak, Kiyoshi had already launched himself at Jiraiya like a bolt of lightning.
His fist, not large but brimming with chakra, shot out with incredible force.
"What?"
Jiraiya's eyes widened. With no time to dodge, he instinctively crossed his arms to block.
"Boom!"
A deafening crash echoed as Kiyoshi's terrifying strength sent him hurtling backward, smashing through walls and causing the structure to shake.
The entire bathhouse wall cracked and then collapsed, sending dust flying everywhere.
Jiraiya's figure was thrown back like a missile, struggling to brace himself.
His arms were left numb from the impact of Kiyoshi's punch, and he broke out in a cold sweat as he gaped at the young figure standing far away.
"Damn… what kind of monster is this kid?"
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