Naruto: Immortal Spirit

The Konoha jungle in spring should be beautiful, at least it was before.

The stream slides over the bluestones, gurgling loudly, and the breeze blows through the young willows, greening the branches.

But now if someone can hang in the air, they will suddenly find that Konoha's training ground is riddled with holes at some point - countless deep pits are spread all over the corners of the dense forest.

"Since the roots are hidden underground, I will dig deep into the ground to find you!"

Obito held a shovel that was already full of mud in his hand, and shovelfuls of soil were thrown out from the deep pit. In the jungle, only mud flying out from unknown places could be seen.

"hiss……"

The blood bubbles on his hands were suddenly punctured by the gravel in the soil, and the blood mixed with turbid liquid immediately filled the shovel.

Obito stopped moving, his slightly lowered eyes looked a little lonely, and he just stared at the blood on his hands and frowned.

After looking at it for an unknown amount of time, he sighed softly, and slowly sat down in the pit with a bit of dejection.

His clothes were covered in mud, and his chakra had been depleted. Leaning on the cold, damp soil, Obito looked at the sky.

It's just that the sky like the mouth of a well is filled with blue, and a few clouds slowly pass by, soft, soft, tranquil and still beautiful.

"In the dark underground, he also feels the coldness, but yearns for the beautiful..."

Obito slowly closed his eyes. The light through the hole was only slanted, but it was difficult to shine on his face.

"With soil?"

"Are you Obito?"

The silence of the jungle was broken by the crisp sound of doubts. Yuhi Hong and Anko were lying in front of the cave entrance, looking at Obito who was already covered in mud in the pit with some doubts.

Obito suddenly opened his eyes. With the light behind him, he couldn't see clearly the two small heads at the entrance of the cave.

"Who!"

After coming back to his senses, Obito jumped up and jumped out of the pit.

Obito, who was covered in mud, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yuhi Kurenai and Anko who were slightly frowning.

If he was found to have destroyed Konoha's training ground like this, he would have to fill in the deep hole that took several days to dig again, just like the previous times.

"You...why are you here?"

"Hey, this is what we're asking you, right? What are you doing digging such a big hole here?"

Anko pinched her nose and snorted softly. Obito, who was covered in mud, was exuding an unknown stench. No one knew what he had dug up.

"Anko and I were practicing kunai at the training ground, but a puppy ran out of nowhere. Such a cute little puppy ran into this jungle, so we followed it here..."

Yuhi Hong frowned slightly, but she didn't pinch her nose like Anko. In the tutor of a gentle girl, this seemed to be too impolite.

"Dog? What dog?"

"It's just a very cute dog, and you wouldn't know it even if I told you."

Obito wanted to ask something else, but was interrupted by Anko's voice. Looking at Anko who was pinching his nose, Obito sniffed his body gently. The wind in the jungle seemed to have opened up his nasal cavity. There was nothing there just now. I woke up, and now I realized the stench on my body.

"Why is it so stinky!"

"Did you just smell it?! I thought you just liked this smell!"

"No way! Who would like such a taste!"

Obito jumped into the stream and was all wet, but the mud on his body was washed away. However, this season was not so warm, so Obito couldn't help but sneeze.

"Master Nephew Obito, can you tell me what you are doing here now?"

Yuhi Hong wanted to leave here with Anko, but was influenced by the curiosity on Anko's face and followed Obito to the stream.

"I'm looking for someone..."

"He...is buried here?" Hongdou's eyes widened with a bit of surprise on his face.

"What did you just... call me?"

Obito seemed to have slowed down his reaction, and suddenly remembered something.

"Obito...nephew! Just tell me whether you admit it or not!"

Anko had her hands on her hips, holding what seemed to be a meatball stick in her mouth, and just looked at Obito with a bit of teasing.

"Master Nephew..." Obito's eyes widened a bit in an instant, and he seemed to be stunned, staring at Anko blankly.

"Master Nephew Obito? Obito? Uchiha Obito!"

Anko blinked and looked back at Kurenai. She and Obito were a few years apart. In fact, they were not too familiar. If the Sannin had not met several times at occasional gatherings before, she would not be familiar with the unfamiliar ninja. Make a joke like this.

Hong shook her head. In her impression, Obito was not as... baffled as he was now.

"You are Lord Orochimaru's disciple! He is also Lord Orochimaru's disciple! You must know where he is! You must be able to find him!"

"I'm so stupid! So stupid! Why didn't I think of you!"

Obito looked at Anko with a bit of excitement and a bit of regret and self-deprecation, his eyes were shining, and he held Anko's arm tightly with both hands, as if he was afraid that she would suddenly disappear.

"Hey! You guy! First of all, let me go! Stupid nephew!"

Knocking off Obito's hands with one hand, Anko remembered that Obito said that he seemed to be looking for someone. If he was also a disciple of Orochimaru-sensei, she probably knew who Obito was looking for.

"The person you are looking for...is Brother Kato?"

"Yes! Ou, Kato Ou!"

"But when did he become your little brother?"

Obito became excited. He searched all over Konoha but couldn't find Kato Oo, but he didn't expect that there would be another village with dark flowers and dark flowers here.

In the jungle, a white shadow flashed past, but none of the three of them noticed it.

"He has always been my little brother, do you know it now?" Anko snorted, quite proud of herself, but looking at Obito's excited look, he seemed to hesitate for a while, then frowned and said softly: "But …I don’t know where he is now…”

Seeing Obito's expression that seemed to change in an instant, Anko added inexplicably: "Ou and Mr. Orochimaru seem to be studying something. I haven't seen him during this time..."

As if hesitating, Hongdou pursed her lips slightly and did not speak again.

"Then do you know where he might be? I've been looking for him for a long time..."

"I...I want to find him..."

"please!"

Obito seemed to have no way out, as if grasping a life-saving straw, he bowed towards Anko seriously.

Looking at Obito who was quite solemn, Anko had roughly heard about Kato Oo's withdrawal from the Minato team. He hesitated to speak, but he just scratched his head helplessly.

"Is it the one from last time, your senior brother? He is so powerful that he is studying ninjutsu with Lord Orochimaru?"

A glimmer of light flashed in Hong's eyes, and she looked at Anko with a bit of teasing. She seemed to be thinking of the young man who was a bit indifferent but had a gentle heart.

"It's Junior Brother!"

Anko tilted her head, as if her curiosity had been aroused, as if she had made up her mind, thinking to herself: "Orochimaru-sensei, you shouldn't blame me..."

He turned around and looked at Obito who was still bowing, shook his head, paused, and nodded sharply, as if to eliminate the last trace of worry in his heart.

"Well, maybe I know roughly where they are..."

"If you don't find it, don't blame me!"

……

In the dark Ryūchi Cave laboratory, Kato Oo's Sharingan experiment has reached the final step that can be carried out for the time being - all the Sharingan have been transplanted to different experimental subjects by him, and they have been systematically analyzed.

"If we only look at the intensity of the Yin Escape chakra, the Sharingan of a triple magatama is between five and ten times that of a double magatama, and a double magatama is between two and five times that of a single magatama..."

"Although there are different strengths in different experimental subjects, there is no doubt that the strength of the Yin Release Chakra in the body of the Uchiha clan will be exponentially higher than that in the body of the non-Uchiha clan."

"And it can be used like an arm, even..."

"There won't be any rejection reaction..."

Kato Ou frowned deeply. This phenomenon that violated common biological knowledge made him suddenly confused.

It seems that all the Sharingan in the Uchiha clan is like a prosthetic limb recognized by biological coding, which can be replaced and interchanged at any time, rather than like an organ of its own.It is obviously made of cells, but there is no foreign body rejection...

"Why on earth is there such a special performance..."

Kato Oo kept diverging his thoughts, even imagining in some illusory direction.

"Is it possible that these Sharingan don't really belong to the Uchiha clan?"

He has only seen this kind of behavior in some special symbiotic organisms. Companion organisms separated from the host organism can continue to survive on the host species of the same race without any abnormalities.

"The Sharingan seems to be like a companion creature, inhabiting the Uchiha clan..."

"However, such a thing... can never be formed naturally..."

"Perhaps the Sharingan is just something that is cultivated and cultivated like a parasite on the Uchiha clan by someone who really owns it..."

Kato Ou patted his head gently, not even knowing why he would think of such a ridiculous thing.

"Exclude all impossibilities, even if it is unbelievable, it may be the real truth..."

He only felt that the absurd things he imagined now might be even more outrageous than the stories conceived by the most imaginative story king in the ninja world, but he still continued to carry out this speculation.

"If there is such a true master, why would he do this?"

“There are generally two reasons for breeding other animals, one is to increase their size, and the other is to improve the quality of the individuals.

Regardless of the increase in scale or improvement in individual quality, it can bring extraordinary benefits..."

"Then make a bold assumption, if it is for the sake of scale, then when the number reaches a certain level, there will be some kind of harvesting... Perhaps this result can be verified from the history of the Uchiha family..."

"If it's for quality, then it means that the three magatama is not what this possible owner wants..."

"Single magatama evolves into double magatama, and double magatama evolves into triple magatama..."

"evolution……"

Kato Ou frowned deeply, an unknown look flashed in his eyes.

"Could it be that... Sanmagatama is not the end?"

There seemed to be an inexplicable noisy sound suddenly outside the laboratory, but it also interrupted his thoughts. Kato Oo felt a little annoyed, his perception instantly expanded to the maximum, and his eyes suddenly showed a bit of surprise.

"Why...are they here?"