Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

Konoha 50, late summer.

"Hey~ Kabuto-senpai, it's time to get up?"

A cheerful and lively voice sounded nearby, and with the sound of the curtains being slowly opened, the late summer sunshine, which was no longer so dazzling and hot, shone into Yakushi Kabuto's room. A man with light gray hair The boy rubbed his eyes sleepily, yawned and sat up from the bed. He looked at Gui Deng Cangyue who was walking up to him with his glasses, showing a helpless expression.

"Didn't you say you don't have to call me every day, Cang Yue?"

"So you don't like it, senior?" Ghost Cangyue handed Kabuto's glasses to him, tilting her head and asked.

"No, it's not about whether you like it or not..." Kabuto Yakushi looked at the ghost lamp Cang Yue who was staring straight into his eyes under the falling sunlight, as if his whole body was emitting a warm and soft light, and dodged. He tilted his head and said, "It's just that you're like this, so I don't know how to repay you..."

"If you want to repay us, just give us more after-school snacks~" Oni Deng Cangyue smiled and raised her hand to tap Yakushi Kabuto's forehead, "After all, Kabuto-sempai, you have received special approval from the Yondaime-sama, so you can do it while As an assistant teacher who studies peacefully in the ninja school and is responsible for part of the teaching tasks of the medical ninja class, he must know many more advanced medical ninjutsu techniques, right?"

"Yes, yes, but judging from He Lanyue's progress, it will probably take another year or two before he has the opportunity to learn medical ninjutsu of that difficulty..."

"My sister who is helping you prepare breakfast downstairs will be very sad if she hears this comment?" Ghost Deng Cang Yue turned her fingers into cool water droplets and let them drip into the pharmacist's pocket as a prank. On the back of her neck, "In order to catch up with your progress, she goes to bed nearly two hours later than me every day..."

"Let her have a good rest and go to bed on time. I won't suddenly disappear from her. Don't do such stupid things that will affect your body." Yakushi Kabuto put on his clothes neatly and neatly, and knocked on the Ghost Deng Cang Yue's head said so.

"If you are concerned, talk to the person you care about. This is the most basic rule of communication between friends, Kabuto-senpai?" Ghost Cangyue stuck out her tongue and made a face at Yakushi Kabuto, patted the other person's thin shoulder and said, "Special For those who have taken the initiative to care about you, such a response can impress them very powerfully?"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Kabuto Yakushi nodded with an expression of being persuaded by you, which was regarded as acceding to Ghost Light Cang Yue's request.

"Then I'll go down first and help you prepare breakfast and lunch with my sister. After washing up, come down and eat quickly~"

Ghost Light Cang Yue ran downstairs, while Yakushi Kabuto, after sighing helplessly, turned around and walked into the bathroom to start a simple wash.

After his talent in medical ninjutsu gradually emerged, Kabuto Yakushi easily passed the graduation examination newly added by the ninja school for students with medical ninja tendencies, and obtained the qualification to become a genin.

But what he didn't expect was that when Rei Kaguya, the Fourth Mizukage, personally came to award ninja forehead protectors to the first graduates of the ninja school after the reform of the academic system, he actually took the initiative to find the first-place student. After passing the medical ninja exam, I made myself an offer that no one could refuse:

"You are Kabuto the pharmacist who ranks first in this exam, right? I wonder if you would like to temporarily put aside the idea of ​​becoming a ninja and stay in the ninja school to be an assistant teacher for the newly established medical ninja class for a period of time?"

"No, it's not that there's anything wrong with your identity. It's simply because Kirigakure is currently short of available medical ninjas. The fact that you can complete all the medical ninja courses on your own so quickly proves that you have this ability. A gifted and excellent question maker, I hope you can pass on some of your experience to those children who have chosen the medical ninja class for various reasons, and help them better develop their interest in medical ninjutsu."

"Of course, in order to make up for your loss of not being able to become a ninja, Kirigakure will provide you with a chuunin-level salary and an independent residence while you stay in school as a teaching assistant and continue to work. At the same time, it will also be open to you. Some more advanced medical ninjutsu to ensure that your amazingly excellent medical ninjutsu talent is not wasted... I wonder what you think?"

how about?

Is there any other answer than agreement?

Kabuto Yakushi nodded and agreed to Kaguya Rei's request, so the next day he received a teacher's uniform, a house contract and a salary schedule customized for him. Such efficiency made Kabuto couldn't help but marvel at this fourth-generation waterman. While Kage's resolute actions also made him feel more deeply the huge changes that Kirigakure had undergone after his opponent came to power.

I wonder if Konoha has changed like Kirigakure because of the rise of the Fourth Hokage? If so, have everyone in the orphanage enjoyed the benefits of those changes?

After simply washing up, he went downstairs to enjoy a simple and delicious breakfast with the twin sisters of the Oniden family. Kabuto Yakushi took the new lesson plan and research notes he had written up late yesterday and walked out of the room with the two of them, heading towards the ninja school. Go in the direction.

Thanks to a series of open policies formulated by the Fourth Mizukage Kaguya Rei, the cold, solemn, and gloomy atmosphere of Kirigakure Village today has dissipated a lot compared to the past, and the expressions on people's faces are no longer so While cold and distant, the commercial activities that can make the village prosperous have gradually become diversified.

Walking on the way to the ninja school, Yakushi Kabuto saw plainly dressed civilians and jounin in uniform chatting and laughing in line waiting to shop. He also saw young ninjas wearing forehead protectors asking fashionable ninjas. The commoner girl asked for advice on how to dress, and even saw some foreign businessmen who were dressed in a style that was obviously different from that of the Land of Water, sitting in a street restaurant, tasting the special food of the Land of Water, and discussing where to go from the Kirigakure Village. What kind of specialties should I buy and sell back home...

It has to be said that the fact that this lively scene of vigorous vitality and all things competing can appear in Kirigakure, a place that was known as the Blood Mist two years ago, can still explain the political, economic and even diplomatic achievements of the Fourth Mizukage. The long sleeves are good at dancing.

"By the way, Kabuto-senpai, have you heard that Hyuga Makoto, who has clan blood, just announced two days ago that he will suspend business for three months... I heard that it was necessary to cooperate with some experimental projects being carried out by the fourth generation. The sacrifices you have made, senior, as the future medical ninja star that the Fourth Generation has high hopes for, have you heard any relevant news?"

Just when Kabuto was surprised to see a businessman wearing Wind Country-style clothes walking past him, the elder sister of the Oniden sisters, Oniden Lanzuki, seemed to have remembered something and suddenly asked him.

"Ah? Hyuga Makoto is temporarily closed?"

Kabuto Yakushi didn't have much sense of belonging to Konoha. His destination was only the orphanage, so when he heard the name Hyuga Makoto, which was enough to make Konoha's top brass sigh and gnash their teeth, he even immediately Neither of them knew who the other party was, but after finally remembering the identity of the other party, the seven-year-old Yakushi Kabuto could not help but blush, and stammered:

"Why, why did you suddenly bring up this topic, Lanyue?"

"Maybe it's because the aunt in the clan mentioned the name of Hinata Makoto yesterday when she was showing off that her son turned white at the age of one?" Ghost Lanyue thought for a while and gave an answer that left people speechless.

"I'm not interested in that Hyuga Makoto, but I'm curious as to what kind of experimental project it is that would be worthy of the fourth generation ordering Hyuga Makoto to cease operations for so long..."

Ghost Cangyue joined the topic at the right time, "I heard my mother say that after the first wave of applicants, every subsequent use application for Hyuga Makoto will require a large sum of money to be paid. That aunt in the clan , I remember she seemed to have spent three or four times before she finally succeeded, right?"

"I'm not sure about this," Yakushi Kabuto pushed up his glasses, using this action to hide the sudden shyness in his heart, "I just can get some medical ninjutsu from the Ninjutsu Research Department. It’s just relevant information, but I haven’t had much contact with the experimental projects in the village that were personally hosted by the Fourth Generation.”

"That's right. Kabuto-senpai is only seven years old now. Even if he is a genius who is admired by the fourth generation, he still needs time to accumulate knowledge and experience..." Ghost Cangyue stuck out his tongue and gestured to Kabuto. He said with an apologetic gesture, "But that's okay. If Kabuto-senpai was so good that he could become the Yondaime-sama's assistant now, the difficulty of guarding Kabuto-senpai would be countless orders of magnitude higher than it is now." …”

"Cang, Cang Yue! No, don't say it so, so straightforwardly!"

Standing next to Kabuto, Ghost Lanyue's face fell, and he immediately chased after his sister and began to fight. However, Kabuto, the pharmacist who was the center of the conversation between the two, had no choice but to push up his glasses and pretend that he didn't hear, while he couldn't help but be curious. He continued to think along the topics mentioned by the ghost lamp sisters.

The only things that can make people temporarily put aside immediate interests are foreseeable greater interests.

So what could be the greater benefit that would allow the Fourth Mizukage to temporarily stop creating babies with Byakugan in the village?

…

"Huh huh huh, the research conditions here are so good that it makes people jealous, Lianjun..."

"What do you think I do with the help of the witches from the Kingdom of Ghosts to establish this high-end seafood export industry chain from the Kingdom of Water to the Kingdom of Waves and the Inland Country, and also vigorously cultivate medical ninjas? Isn't it just to make more money? Can the money guarantee that in this era of rapid technological development, Kirigakure’s research team will always have the most advanced research equipment?”

Kaguya rolled her eyes and said angrily to Orochimaru, who had unconcealable desire in his eyes:

"Don't keep staring, Orochimaru... It's not like I haven't sent you an invitation. It's because you want to build your own ninja village, so you didn't agree to be my director of scientific research. Don't do it now. You have a jealous expression on your face."

"...Perhaps at that time, I really should have come to seek refuge with you," Orochimaru put away his greedy eyes, and said casually without being very serious: "But I don't regret that I chose this path now. That’s it.”

"I don't care what you plan to prove to Konoha," Kaguya Rei narrowed her eyes and released some of her chakra slightly at Orochimaru, "I just want to know... what I gave to you before. That subject has indeed yielded results, right?”

"Otherwise, I won't show up in front of you, Rei-kun," Orochimaru looked up and down at Kaguya Rei, who had grown nearly ten centimeters taller than the last time we met, and her temperament had become more mature. The astonishingly long tongue licked his lips, "Just standing in front of you now, I feel like I'm being targeted by an irresistible beast..."

After finishing his words, Orochimaru walked up to Hyuga Makoto, who was soaking in the nutrient solution, and it was obvious that his body was severely deficient, and said in amazement:

"Is this why you hope that I can complete the cloning and cultivation of Byakugan, Rei-kun? Because this poor clan member will soon be used by you until the lamp is exhausted?"

"Part of it can be calculated like this," Kaguya Rei nodded, and used the power of the corpse veins to pierce his palm from the inside, and dripped his blood into the test tube prepared in advance, "But the biggest reason The thing is, I want a pair of white eyes grown with my own cells, that’s all.”

"Isn't it the Sharingan?" Orochimaru turned his head, looked at Kaguya Rei and asked: "The Byakugan is indeed a good eye technique, but at Rei-kun's current level, I'm afraid you only have the legendary Mangekyō Sharingan. , can it have a certain effect on your strength, just rolling your eyes... Huh?"

"This is the limitation of your understanding of the history of our families with special bloodline boundaries, Orochimaru."

Kaguya Rei sealed the test tube filled with her own blood, calmly handed it to Orochimaru, and said slowly:

"Before the first Hokage Senju Hashirama established the ninja village system, the Hyuga clan and our Kaguya clan always maintained a very close and good relationship. By analogy, the relationship between the two clans is even comparable to that of Konoha The pig, deer and butterfly tribes..."

"Is there anything strange about this?" Orochimaru took the tube of Kaguya Rei's blood that was a little bit dark for some reason, and frowned in confusion, "During the Warring States Period, the various ninja clans were close or distant. It’s a normal thing, and it’s not uncommon for ninjas to not continue to maintain relationships after the establishment of the ninja village system for some reasons..."

"No, you are wrong Orochimaru," Kaguya Rei pointed at herself, and then at Hinata Makoto in the nutrient solution, "According to the information I found from the Kaguya clan's documents, Hinata and Kaguya The relationship between them can almost be traced back to the Six Paths Immortal era thousands of years ago..."

"Is it that long ago?" Orochimaru still didn't grasp the core of the problem, and still wondered why Kaguya Rei would bring up this topic.

"Then do you think the Hyuga clan's personality and our Kaguya clan's personality seem to be compatible types?"

Kaguya sighed, feeling sad for Orochimaru's poor sensitivity in humanities and history, "Think about it, the Hyuga clan is arrogant, indifferent, and self-righteous, while the Kaguya clan is irritable, impulsive, and does things without considering the consequences... ...Why do these two ninja clans become good friends with each other, and why can they maintain a good relationship with each other for thousands of years?"

Orochimaru narrowed his narrow and gloomy eyes.

When Kaguya Rei said this, Orochimaru began to realize the problem.

Yes, why has the Hyuga clan maintained a relationship with the Kaguya clan for so many years?

With their personalities, even if they don't have an undying hatred like the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan in the Warring States Period, there's no reason for them to get together, right?

"Rei-kun, you mean... there is some kind of interest relationship between the Kaguya clan and the Hyuga clan that allows both parties to ignore each other's bad personalities?"

"Yes, after I checked all the documents of the Kaguya clan and conducted some research on the ancestral land of the Kaguya clan, I found a name."

Kaguya Rei vividly acted out the image of a young man who was obsessed with discovering a huge secret, and said in an almost crazy tone:

"The name I found is Otsutsuki Hamura, and the name alongside him is Otsutsuki Hagoromo, and Otsutsuki Hagoromo is the common ancestor of the Uchiha clan and the Senju clan, that is, the legendary... Six Paths Sage. "

It can barely be considered a two-in-one chapter...