Chapter 9
“alright Naruto”, Hiruzen says, no in the proper state of intoxication to have this conversation, “ignoring the whole fantastical thing and going into the politics, why would me as the Hokage should allow you to bring back the Uzumaki? Besides the obvious travesty against the natural order”.
“to begin with, Konoha would be righting a wrong regarding my clan, after all, it was due to the sabotage committed by village elder Danzo that stopped Konoha from sending aid to Uzushio to help stave of the invading forces who slaughtered the Uzumaki”, Naruto says.
“is here anything else that son of a bitch did that we should be aware of?”, Tsume asks, with a growl of frustration.
“well, he did meddled with Amegakure’s political stage making Hanzo the Salamander turn against the peace aspiring mercenary group, causing the civil war in Ame to excalate exponentially”, Naruto keeps going, “if he hadn’t, the civil war would had come to an end and I presume considering the fact the heads of mercenary group were the Ame orphans Jiraiya raised a while ago, presume of the civil war had stopped, they would have reached Konoha for a treaty, setting a precedent showing that small hidden villages can ally with the bigger ones shortening the way to world peace, but that’s not the case anymore, by the way, shit’s gonna hit the fan, violently in the next two to three decades”.
“back to the Uzumaki”, Hiruzen says, feeling his boes weighing inside his body.
“well, besides the fact the village would be unfucking up a fuck up post haste, there’s also the military advantage that it will bring”, Naruto says, and that catches Hiruzen’s eye, “just think about it, currently, this village has just one seal master, that also doubles as the spy master. He’s good, but he’s not the best, with the Uzumaki back, the village will have the best seal master in the whole world at back and call”.
Granted, if the village could secure their loyalty, was what Naruto chose to keep out of argument.
There’s a round of murmurs going around, what Naruto said was true, in the whole world, there was no match for the Uzumaki when it came to fuinjutsu.
“besides, with pure Uzumaki blood back in the market, that means the village as whole will be strengthened”, Naruto says.
Again, granted the village is able to swoon them, was another tid bit Naruto kept out.
The sound of gears turning inside heads was loud and palpable, the Uzumaki were what one would call overpowered and rightfully so, on top of the mastery of fuinjutsu, there was also the legendary vitality, near bottomless chakra polls, adamantine chains that could restrain anything and anyone, the mind’s eye of the kagura that was the wet dream of any sensor type unit and a bunch more things that were highly sought after.
“those are very sound points, I’ll admit, however that brings up the matter of the council of clans, bringing the clan back to life would made them indebted to the Senju, that would greatly upset the balance of power amongst the clans”, Hiruzen points out, he wanted to see how Naruto would deal with the political side of things, “I understand that there’s no such thing as unfair advantage when it comes to shinobi politics, however, to keep the fine balance necessary for a village to work it would be unwise to allow one clan to have a granted way of successfully pushing forward their agenda”.
“you make a good point jiji, a point that I already brought to Lady Mito and my mother’s attention, thus we came with a solution”, Naruto says, making a pause, “on exchange of aid from Konoha, the Uzumaki, at least the branch that will remain in the village, agreed on being a vassal clan under the Senju”.
“what you mean by the branch that will remain in the village?”, Hiruzen asks.
“I’ve talked with all the ghosts, a good chunk agreed on staying here, but the majority wish to go back to Uzushio upon resurrection”, Naruto explains, “the amount that would remain would number around one and half time what the Uchiha numbers are”.
“the remaining ones is what worries me”, Haiashi says with narrowed eyes, “what exactly does the Uzushio branch intend on doing with a second chance in life?”.
“ever heard of the saying, hell hath no fury like an Uzumaki woman scorned?”, Naruto says as shivers run down the council’s spine, “well, let’s just say that you guys won’t have to worry about either Iwa or Kumo for a good while”.
“I’m kinda impressed you haven’t resorted to tracking any living Uzumaki, it would surely be less troublesome then resurrecting the whole clan”, Shikaku says.
“who said I didn’t, so far only found four”, Naruto says, “two in Taki, one in Oto and the other in Ame, the one in Ame as of right now is evil and planning very nasty things on a global scale”.
“and you didn’t stopped them because…”, Inoichi asks with a confused tone.
“I missed the memo that says that I should give a fuck”, Naruto answers making most of the adults groan, “that’s a problem with living in a world of endless petty squabbles, the older generations always end up leaving a huge mess for next generation to clean and for that I say fuck it, the only mess I’m cleaning up it’s mine”.
There’s a little uncomfortable silence in the room before Naruto speaks again.
“did I also mentioned that the same Ame Uzumaki is the guy in charge of the mercenary group that took Ame?”, Naruto says, while Hiruzen prays that for once Danzo isn’t involved, “the same one that Danzo fucked over by playing on Hanzo’s paranoia to keep Ame neck deep in chaos”.
“so, about the necromantic ritual to bring my kin back to life dattebane”, Kushina says, “you sure it will work?”.
“I just have to finish the fine tuning and we are good to go”, Naruto says.
“but you did not explained how this resurrection works”, Mito says, narrowing her eyes.
“it is pretty simple”, Naruto then, from thin air, pulls two golf ball sized red marbles and put then on the table, “there are soul stones, they catch your souls at the moment of your death, stooping you from crossing the veil and allows your soul to bind with something, in this case, a new body, what I’m going to do is use them to bind your soul into a blank”.
“a blank?”, Tsunade asks.
“ok, if I’ll have to explain everything I may as well show up”, Naruto says with an annoyed tone, “lady Mito, mom, would you kindly touch the stones, the ritual won’t allow you to travel to where I need to get you”.
Kushina and Mito agree, they both touch the stones and are sucked inside, making the stones glow red, soon after, the stones start floating and both women appear as projections with said stones firmly floating where their bellybuttons are.
“I feel incredible”, Kushina says stretching herself, “it’s almost like I’m already back”.
“another function of the soul stone, once your soul enters the stone, it becomes your anchor, that allows you to roam amongst the living”, Naruto explain, “now, enough with wasting time, let’s go”.
Naruto snaps his fingers and in a snap, they are in a lab, a big and well-illuminated lab with weird equipment, large vat tubes filled with a pink-ish translucent liquids and shelves upon shelves filled with bottled containing chemicals, potions, herbs, the occasional misshaped thing floating In formaldehyde, books and disgustingly detailed and realistic anatomical drawings of various living things mainly humanoid.
“kai!!”, Tsunade is the first one to exclaim.
To say they were uncomfortable was understatement.
“this is not a genjutsu aunty, this my lab, the east wing to be exact”, Naruto explain as he puts on a lab coat way too big for his five years self.
All the adults turn pale and stare at him like he just had grown three more heads, Kurama on the other hand was laughing her ass off inside of him.
“how did… how do… why?”, Haiashi says, confused as all hell.
“pfft, teleportation magic that’s the ‘how did’, I didn’t reincarnated empty handed, that’s ‘how do’ and I was a scholar, I still am and that’s the ‘why’, now can we proceed?”, Naruto says as he claps his hands a six faceless puppets wearing lab coats come marching to him, “prepare the subject would ya?”.
The puppets bow and obey, going to one of the corners of the lab and pulling an acrylic coffin from a machine and putting it in the surgical room where Naruto had guided the adults.
“gruncle Tobirama would have loved this place”, Tsunade mutters and Hiruzen nods in agreement.
After all the machinery of the coffin is online and showing the signs of the humanoid shaped thing floating in a pink-ish translucent fluid
“this, ladies and gentleman, it’s a blank”, Naruto says as the coffin lid removed revealing an genderless, hairless and faceless porcelain white humanoid being floating in the fluid.
“Naruto, what are we looking at?”, Tsunade asks, her medical senses tingling with excitement and worry.
“to a miracle of both medicine and necromancy”, Naruto says with a bright smile on his face, “both fields run into the same problem, not too many bodies suitable for harvest”.
If that was joke, nobody noticed.
“the blank solves that problem”, Naruto continues, “as the name implies, the blank is blank body, a blank canvas made out of blank de-genetic stem cells that adapt to either DNA or a soul, which means…”
“a reliable source of harvestable tissue compatible with any patient”, Tsunade completes with wide eyes.
“exactly, and best of all, it doesn’t need to be for just one patient”, Naruto says with sparkling starts in his eyes, “and the blanks remain fresh as long as they have a steady supply of nutrients and water and can be kept in storage to be harvested as needed and since the blank stem cells adapt t the receiver…”.
“it completely erases the risk of rejection and need of immunosuppressant’s because you would be basically be transplanting a new and healthier version of the patient’s organ and not a foreign one”, Tsunade completes.
“it is also a necromancer’s wet dream, because it nullifies the need of having the original body of a deceased person to use any sort of resurrection spell, all it’s needs would be either a sample of DNA or the soul of the deceased”, Naruto completes.
“this… this is amazing”, Hiruzen says, his eye going everywhere with the possibilities, “with this…”.
“and I’m stopping you right there”, Naruto says, cutting the euphoria short, “this…”.
He points to the blank.
“is not leaving this pocket dimension”, Naruto says.
“brat!!”, Shikaku exclaims, after all the Nara clan is mostly a medic clan, “don’t you see how many lives this can save?”.
“of course I know, I created this, studied and worked on the healing arts so diseases and unnecessary ailments would be a thing of the past for all under my care back in my second life”, Naruto explains, “I worked day and night for millennia to crack the code cure all wounds and diseases. I single handedly extended the life expectancy for the humans under my rule to three hundred years and believe me, the blanks are the least fantastical thing I have created in that regard”.
“then…”, Shikaku starts saying.
“but I’m also not stupid enough to let it out of here willy nilly where both enemy and ally can put their sticky shinobi finger over my life’s work!!”, Naruto points out, “or did you forget that there’s a missing sannin obsessed with immortality on the loose? Also, I don’t trust any of you enough to let my things out of my sight!!”.
“but…”, Shikaku tries to say.
“Nara, when I killed Danzo, I collected residual genetic material from his eye socket”, Naruto snaps his finger and the puppets bring a vat tube the size of a 50 litters gallon with a dozen eyeballs floating inside the same pink-ish fluid, “and with that residual genetic material, I was able to clone Kagami’s sharingan and I was even able to awaken his eternal mangekyou sharingan, with the same kind of tech used to make blanks. Now look me in the eye and tell me, if this got out and the enemy villages or even this ow village’s power hungry warmongering mongrels in the council wouldn’t abuse it if they got their hands on it?”.
There’s a fat silence in the room, save for Fugaku seething.
“you are right”, Chouza in the first one to speak, “as incredible this whole blank thing is, it would quickly be completely sucked into being used as a way to mass produce kekkei genkais and would never be used to help people again”.
“and what about those sharingans?”, Fugaku asks, narrowing his eyes.
“don’t worry I’ll destroy these eyes, I just wanted to prove a point”, Naruto says, looking the man in the eye, “you have my word, and if anything, I’m a man of my world, if you are willing, you can stay and make sure they are destroyed”.
“no, keep them and keep them safe, if the recent debacle involving the former Village Elder Danzo is anything to go by, we cannot afford to just discard a useful asset”, Fugaku says.
“I was honestly thinking of giving a pair of them to my mom, but I think it’s better not to”, Naruto says with a chuckle as everybody else in the room, save for Kushina pale at the tough of an Uzumaki with EMS, “anyway, with the explanations out of the way, it’s time to start working, any more questions?”.
“I have one”, Mito raises her hand, “will I be back as a granny? Because I would like to able to walk around without having to use the toilet every twenty minutes”.
“pff, nothing that a few drops of rejuvenating potion won’t fix”, Naruto says, catching Hiruzen, Tsunade and Tsume attention.
“rejuvenation potion? Like, a fountain of youth?”, Tsunade asks.
“yep, those things are pretty rare and difficult to make, back in my previous life a single drop of a legendary rejuvenation potion would cost the weight of three elephants in gold”, Naruto says, making the everybody’s eyes get wide, “anyway, any more questions? No? ok, granny, come here, I’ll get you a new body in a jiffy”.
“I actually have one more question”, Inoichi says, “how do you intend on explaining the sudden repairing of, I presume, hundreds of not thousands of Uzumakis?”.
“seal gone wrong”, was Naruto’s answer.
For a few seconds there’s confusion in the faces of all of the adults, but then, they all shrug, there was one to many stories of Uzumaki seals going wack and doing something weird to the laws of the universe.
“I also have a question”, Tsunade says with a raised hand, “I understand you not letting your life’s work get used freely, but would you be willing to let it be used trough you on your terms?”.
“are proposing that sell it to the village?”, Naruto asks with narrowed eye.
“not the process, just the final product”, Tsunade says, with a sight, “I’m sure sensei would be willing to pay a fair price for a way to get our men back in the field as fast and reliable as possible and it would also mean more resources would be allocated to the treatment of innocent civilians”.
Naruto pauses and gives some though, and then he answers.
“we’ll discuss it later, but I’m not against it”, Naruto says.