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  "Yhness, what makes you so certain that teology is the future?" The Genin asked.

  The priuro the boy and replied. "Teology or Sce be used in two ways. For the growth aerment of the people and their nation and for destru and military advahe Land of Snow has an unusually high level of teology when pared to the rest of the world. They have airships, railroads, peors and even these maes called snow mobiles. Now all of this be used to improve a nation faster. I heard that they retly developed something called Chakra Armor which help them in battle."

  Daichi stayed silent but dispyed the appropriate expressions of surprises and skepticism as he listeo the prinbsp;'His informatiowork is certaiensive. Some of those things about the Land of Snow are not easy to find ht now. I o keep up appearances and 't let this guy figure out that I already know about all that.'

  The prince, unaware of Daichi's thoughts, tinued. "During the sed shinobi world war there was a try known as the Land of Sky. It was formed by ninjas from across the nds. Their teology was much more advahaher nations and they had the ability to fly. Now unfortuhey decred war on the five great nations and were destroyed but their teology allowed them to deal a lot of damage to the nations."

  The priopped and looked at the boy sitting opposite. "With chakra a lot of things are possible but times are ging. It may be slow but ge is iable."

  The Genin leaned ba his chair and crossed his arms. He had much to think about.

  The prince closed his eyes and took in a deep breath of air and slowly exhaled. He kept his full attention on the Genin who on the implications of their discussion.

  "Tell me Daichi, what is yoal?" Katsuya asked the boy.

  The young gamer decided to be straight forward and told the truth. He o know the iions of the young prind wao see if the man in front of him would one day oppose him. "To bee the stro. To stand at the top of this era."

  Katsuya smirked at that reply. "That's not an easy task to aplish… But I suppose with your talent and potential it might be possible."

  Daichi leaned forward in his chair and asked the same question. "Prisuya, what's your ambition?"

  "Hmm… Well, I won't be the Daimyo of this try. That title will belong to my oldest brother when my dear father departs from this world… My sed eldest brother will be the ander of the military force. I would just be an advisor. But then again… I have no i in ruling this try or anding its military. My ambition is… much higher. I'll tell you ime we meet."

  Daichi raised an eyebrow at that st remark. 'What game is he pying? He wants me on his side but what else is he after?'

  The Genin decided to move on to the atter he was here for. "You said something about an alliance? What did you have in mind?"

  "I'm suggesting we could establish a covert alliahat would strehe both of us. And I'm not talking about the Leaf vilge and the Land of Fire. I'm talking about you and me. I have certain projects in mind and like I said earlier I'm looking for talented people in multiple fields. You're the best in the field of medie and biology."

  "And I'm someone who's g in resources and political power. I'm also not as dangerous as some others, right?" Daichi said with a smirk.

  The prince gri Daichi. "Ha! Yes. That's true. The others who are capable would be a headache for me to deal with and… I might actally kill them." The grin widened and Katsuya's eyes held a dangerous glint.

  The hairs on Daichi's body stood and multiple notifications popped up. But the boy kept a cool face despite the danger right in front of him. The i ing from the prinly made Daichi's blood boil ae him. The gamer ninja reciprocated in kind and the dangerous i started p out of him as he looked at the prih a wide smirk.

  The calm atmosphere of the garden quickly ged. The birds happily chirping about a few seds ago fell silent and quickly disappeared into the sky. All other small animals scurried and disappeared into their holes. The air was thick with the i of the two powerful individuals.

  ''Crack."

  One of the small cups cracked and its sound cut the tension. Both of them quickly reigned in their i but kept the smile on their faces as if nothing happened.

  "Apologies. I seem to have broken your cup, yhness." Daichi said with a small bow.

  "Hahahaha… No worries. I was getting bored of them anyway… What do you say we table this discussion for aime, huh? e. I'll give you a tour of my humble home." Katsuya said and got up from his seat.

  "That would be wonderful. This pce is certainly geous. Some of the artwork I saw when ing here is magnifit." Daichi said as he looked around.

  "Ah! That's just a fra of my colle. e e."

  And so the 3rd priook Daichi on a tour of his rge mansion and about an hour ter it was time for the Genin to leave. Whewo shook hands, Katsuya leaned forward and whispered something in Daichi's ear that made the Genin's eyes slightly widen.

  The prince pulled bad just smiled at the boy. "Safe journey, kid."

  Daichi left the mansion and Hotoja watched the boy disappear into the busy street. He came near his master and looked at the smiling prince.

  "Do you think he will join you, my lord?"

  "He's definitely ied in my offer. He's a smart, ing kid and definitely a lot strohan what was mentioned in the reports… I have a feeling he'll be seeing us soohahinks."

  "So you told him what was happening?"

  "I gave him a short warning. What he does is entirely up to him."

  —-

  "Safe journey, kid."

  Daichi silently gave a short bow and quickly left the pbsp;'What did he mean when he said that? Does he know something? Looks like I o be more cautious… I should keep the visit to the prio myself. At least for now. My visit to his pce wasly a secret and ied parties are bound to find out about it…'

  The Genin decided to drop the matter and think about the few months. 'In just two months Naruto's graduation will take pd will begin. Here's hoping I haven't fucked everything up.'

  The boy soon reached his house and found Kensei waiting for him. "Finished with yhtseeing?"

  "Yeah. It was an iing walk."

  Daichi and Kensei left the Capital and by evening reached the vilge gates. As soon as they verified their identities with the guards, an Anbu ninja appeared in front of the two.

  "Daichi Hekima. The Hokage has asked for your presence."

  Daiodded and gowards Kensei. "Must be about our trip."

  The old man nodded and was about to go to the tower with his grandson but the Anbu raised a hand stopping the old ninja. "Just the boy."

  Kensei narrowed his eyes slightly and then agreed. He looked at the Genin and spoke. "I'll be heading home. Make sure to buy something for dinner when you get back."

  "Right." The boy vanished in a swirl of leaves and the instant the Anbu was gone as well.

  —-

  Hokage Office.

  Hiruzen was going over some dots when he sehe presence of the body flicker jutsu. 'He's getting quite good at it. Practically no chakra waste and no sound. I doubt the guards could have reacted in time if he was an enemy.'

  The Hokage looked up from his paper and saw Daichi giving him a small bow and straightening.

  "Lord Hokage."

  "Ah Daichi. I'm sorry to summon you here so quickly and just after you got home but there are a few important matters I o discuss with you." The old kage said with a small smile.

  "I'm guessing this has to do with what Lady Tsunade wrote in the report?"

  Hiruzen's face turned serious. "Yes. You said Orochimaru was behind that man Jin's poisoning. Are you absolutely sure about that?"

  The Genin nodded. "All the evidence points me towards him. But I don't know why Orochimaru would poison him or why he doesn't care that the man lives now. So my theory is that it was a test or maybe he just did it for his amusement. Don't know about the motive really."

  Hiruzen nodded and leaned ba his chair. "So you're sure of the who but not the why?"

  The kage was silent and then asked the boy something that's been on his mind since he read the report. "Based on Tsunade's report, the pnt that was artificially created to synthesize part of the poison, it must have taken a great deal of time and research to create something like that. Any thoughts on why?"

  'So you want to know the real reason huh. It seems you have some suspi about his pns just like me. I have to give you credit. You're certainly a smart old man. Still 't just give up the info like that or he'll be suspicious.' Daichi was keeping a cool calm face as he was debriefed about the situation.

  Daichi looked puzzled at that question. "What do you mean Lord Hokage?"

  "I've taught Orochimaru a great deal. I know he has several lethal poisons of all kinds under his belt. But for him to spend his energy and time and try to create something like this… What is he trying to aplish by bining and cross breeding different species of pnts? Any ideas?" Hiruzen asked.

  Daichi was silent for a minute before he gave his reply. "I believe this was an experiment. I think he was doiigineering and trying to see if using rebinant DNA to create a successful test subject ossible."

  Hiruzen raised an eyebrow at the boy and gave him a deadpanned look.

  Daichi could see that the old ninja didn't uand what he was talking about and began expining in simple terms. "Yeah. Um, right now stists have developed something called geigineering. Geigineering teiques alloerson to identify and isote specifies responsible for desirable traits. In pnts those would be disease resistance, increased yield or improved quality. Usiigineering stists could trahese traits between different pnt species."

  Hiruzen's eyes widened in arm as he heard what ossible. "So… So if he wao use these geigineering teiques on humans… Would they be successful?"

  Daichi had a grim look at that question and gave the kage a small nod. "Yes. I believe Orochimaru created the hybrid pnt as a test phase to see the effects and the shortings of his stifiowledge and geing skills. I think he pns to use the information gaio improve himself and use it on humans with special Kekkei Genkai traits… Theoretically he could bihe Kekkei Genkai abilities of multiple s and use only the raits from them and create a new hybrid human."

  "If he hasn't already…" Hiruzen was shocked and stunned. Even the couple of guards in the room were astouhat something like that ossible.

  "Hypothetically, if Orochimaru were to experiment with human DNA, how many different Kekkei Genkai abilities would he be able to bine?"

  Daichi fell silent and thought about it for a while. Hiruzen wao know the answer immediately but he knew he shouldn't rush the boy. After a few moments Daichi looked at the man and replied. "At most 7 or 8 different types of DNA could be bined. At most. If everythi well."

  Hiruzen was surprised at the nont way Daichi dismissed the threat. "What do you mean? You don't seem too ed. Especially knowing how dangerous the man is."

  "I know you're armed when I said that he could create something with multiple Kekkei Genkai traits but you shouldn't be too ed about that. Humaic sequence is far more plex than a pnt's. bining Kekkei Genkai traits isn't as easy or straightforward as you think. Orochimaru would have to find the right traits that wouldn't csh against another, isote the needed gene from them and add them to the test subject without reje. And trust me. That is not an easy task. Even if he was somehow successful, it would take time for new mutated cells and abilities to emerge… If that even happens."

  Hiruze out a sigh of relief hearing that. 'So I have some time. But how loly?'

  "How long would an experiment like this take to bear fruit?" The kage asked.

  "I'd say a decade at least. And only if he spends all his time on researd development on this sole project. That's if he wants a perfect subject with the results he's looking for. If all he wants is a weak crude copy of one ability then all he o do is correctly synthesize the DNA of a subjed extract the gene sequences of the Kekkei Genkai from that DNA, jam it into a 100 people and see whie of them survives and adapts." Daichi said those words for a specific reason.

  To find Tenzo. The man idely known as Yamato and the leader of Team 07.

  And his gamble paid off. When Daichi talked about the experiment at the end, the chakra of one of the Anbu hidden in the room fluctuated. It was a minor fluctuation that wasn't caught by anyone except for Daichi.

  'Got ya. I need a bit of your blood Yamato… Or should I address you as Tenzo? It's time I took a peek at Hashirama's blood at work.' The Gamer ninja quickly memorized the man's chakra and Mana signature. 'Now I'll be able to trauch more easily.'

  Daichi tinued without giving away his iions. "Is it a horrific, terrible, morally wrong thing to do? Yes. But it would give some results in a much faster time. But it wouldn't be anywhere close to what he would be looking for. So I don't think he would do that. At least that's the impression I get about the man after all I've heard about him. I could be wrong though."

  Daichi fell silent and Hiruzen took in a deep breath of air to process the information. 'You are such a headache. Why couldn't you just let me be in peace Orochimaru…'

  He shook his head to get rid of the heavy thoughts. He looked at the boy and nodded. "So I don't have to worry about an army of Kekkei Genkai users with multiple abilities suddenly st the vilge, do I?"

  Daichi chuckled at that. "Most certainly not."

  "Thank you for the information and your insights Daichi. You have given us some valuable intel."

  "Of course Lord Hokage."

  "I'm sure you're eager to get home a. Take a couple days off and then you'll be ba duty."

  "Yes sir."

  "Dismissed."

  Once Daichi left the room Hiruzen called for one of the Anbu in the room.

  "From what was said, Orochimaru would need several specialized medical equipment if he wants to duct a project like this. See if you find sales of any such maes in or around Fire try." Hiruzen said. 'It's a long shot. Orochimaru would be sure to cover his tracks. But it won't hurt to follow up.'

  "Yes sir." The Anbu vanished leaving the ruler of the Leaf vilge to this thoughts.