Chapter 8 - In my mind

Sitting crossed legs on his bed, Minato was breathing in and out gently, and ever so slowly his consciousness grew faint as he meditates. His consciousness was drifting in his chakra, slowly merging with it.

Sensing that his surroundings have changed, Minato blinked his eyes and opened them slowly.

"What the fuċk??!" He was shocked beyond belief that the eyes of his mental projection nearly pop out of their sockets. His mind was... Not at all like the sewer of Naruto.

It was in the form of white gas, with some colored bubbles that represent his memories, but that's not what shocked him. In the middle of his mind, a gigantic black hole was spinning quietly.

Seeing that it didn't take any action, he was finally relieved. Even his mental body was soaked in sweat, demonstrating the deeply ingrained fear that he has for this monstrous phenomenon.

"Now I understand how I absorb Minato's soul, it was this boy job. Luckily it's on my side if not I would have been ripped apart already. Well, there is no better defense than this monster here, if a Yamanaka comes he will never leave again. Even if it's scary it may have unexpected benefits, but I won't probe it for now, I am still at the base of the food chain, not one that can mess with such scary thing."

"It's bothersome in the middle of the mindscape..." He enveloped the black hole with his mental energy, and breathe in relief when it did not act. With that he sends it hovering over the 'entrance' of his mindscape and sets a door behind it where he will enter the next time he comes here. "No way I will enter the black hole because of a blunder"

With that done, he explored his mind floating around, but apart from the black hole and the bubbles, there was nothing more.

"Well, the memories of the 8 years old Minato are useless to me because the 21 years old one has them too, so goodbye" Having browse through the memories, he threw those specific bubbles to the black hole, gulping when it devours them, reaffirming his decision to not mess with it for the moment and just using it as a guard dog.

"Now I will have to arrange my mindscape, can't have a boring white space for it now can we?"

First, he created a shelf out of his mental energy "Eh, it replenished itself instantly. Hm, maybe it's the benefit of a strong soul? In the beginning, I thought with such a soul I would have a ton of mental energy, but in the end, it was not linked. If it replenished my mental energy, it means there is more to it. At least I won't even be tired, it's an unexpected boon"

He created a nameplate on the top of it, on which he wrote 'Byron's Life'. He then arranged multiples compartments on the shelf, 'Cooking' 'Technology' 'Mother's moments' etc ... which he placed in the respective bubbles.

He repeated the motion with Minato's memories but did it differently this time. He made a shelf for all the daily life memories, but all the ninja arts were not included in it.

He created a building where he put all those daily life memories, where he could refer to later and made it disappear under the white brume.

After that, he then created 4 pillars. One white, one blue, one red and one green.

He placed the white one in the middle, on it was written 'Soul', where he put the findings that he had on the soul, like his sixth sense or intuition ability. He put it in the middle because it is the essence of his life.

Around it, but far enough he put the other 3 pillars in a triangle formation. The red one with 'Body' on it, where he wrote all the exercises that he learned by reading novels to train it. Nourishing it with natural energy, tempering it under a waterfall or with lightning, how to increase his agility, endurance, toughness, instinct...

The blue one with 'Mind' on it, with exercises on how to increase it (Kage Bunshin feedback, Elements Understanding...)

The green one with 'Chakra' on it, with all the exercises to control it and to shape it.

Around the red pillar, he created 3 more pillars, named 'Taijutsu', 'Bukijutsu' and 'Sword'.*

For Taijutsu, he put all the style of the Naruto world that he was interested in:

-Uchiha Interceptor Fist also named counter fist consisting prediction and counter.

-Hyuuga Gentle Fist, closing the target tenketsu with small chakra taps.

-Goken (Maito Dai), a style made to break bones. (8 Gates by Maito Dai)

-Uzumaki Whirpool Taijutsu, consisting of moving around like a whirlpool to redirect the enemy attack (Kushina)

– Snake Style, making the body go soft like a snake allowing attack to unexpected angles and good evasion ability as well as protecting the skull and organs (Hokage Library or Orochimaru)

– Swift Style, fast attacks on all the soft parts of the targets (Minato)

He lightened the Swift Style, signifying that he already has it mastered, only his body has not.

For the Bukijutsu, he inscribed all the weapons that Minato knew to use: kunai, shuriken, and senbon.

For the Sword, he inscribed all the basics sword moves, and all the tips that he learned from the novels, now knowing that there were real and not just an author rambling.

The second pillar was on the Intent. Sword Intent, Killing Intent, and even a Lust intent, if Kaguya could be distracted by the Oiroke no Jutsu, why not blasting her with Lust? He slept with thousands of women in his past life. If he succeeds in projecting it who knows if the opponent will not ȯrġȧsm and be weak on his/her knees. "At least they would die happy"

On the door of the chamber was the nameplate 'Battle Experience', where he could replay all Minato and his future's battle, and perfect his fighting style without danger.

Finally, around the Chakra pillar, he created 3 other pillars. The 'Fuuijutsu' pillar: On it was all the seals that Minato learned in his life, and all the ideas of new seals. The most prominent one was the anti-betrayal seal, an art of Fuuinjutsu that make the target unable to think of betraying the caster. 'With this, I could finally love again without the fear of being backstabbed' Thought Minato.

And under it the Hirashin no Jutsu, the best jutsu of Naruto world, allowing one to teleport anywhere as long as one seal is created at that place.

Another pillar was on Iryoninjutsu, with nothing on it for the time being.

And the last one 'Ninjutsu', with the Henge, Shunshin, Kawarimi, Kage Bunshin, Rasengan, and some elemental ninjutsu that Minato learned in his life, wind and lightning style.

"Now for elemental ninjutsu...hmm...I know, I will create a river of each element around all the pillars, that will grow with my understanding of them. A small ember in the beginning to an ocean, in the end, I will have the best mindscape of the universe" Thinking of the beauty of such mindscape, Minato was excited.

"The only thing missing is the Six Path chakra, the Rinnegan, the Sharingan, the Rinnesharingan, the Byakuugan, and the Tenseigan. Without omitting all the Kekkei Genkai and Tota bloodline."

"My soul can absorb others, so I'm pretty sure that the drop of blood in my body that came with me is the same, and can absorb others' bloodlines. Even my sixth sense tells it to me.

For the Elements, it's as simple as finding the clans members, Yuki, Kaguya...

For the Sharingan, the most talented of the current generation is Uchiha Fugaku. And for the different Mangekyo, I will just have to take some of their DNA from them or even the hospital, but I doubt they will let things like that to the village, with Danzo and Orochimaru around. Well, they don't have the technology to separate DNA, luckily I just have to absorb blood and my body will do the job without risk of exploding...I think and sense.

For the Rinnegan, I need Hashirama and Madara blood, or Asura and Indra chakra. If I can absorb Indra and Asura chakra just before they reincarnate in 16 years, maybe I will obtain unexpected benefits. And it's not like that will count as killing babies, after all, they're grown men that fuċkėd up the world. Not that I will not kill babies if I need to, I'm not really a saint. Speaking of Asura, because he has inherited his father's sage body, he can use his lifeforce in form of Mokuton, it has nothing to do with the Senjus. The only thing that they have is a strong lifeforce like their cousins Uzumaki. And not only that, if I remember right, the Sage body allows one to absorb natural energy to refine the body. If not for that perk, Hashirama will not dominate Madara. The only difference between Indra and Asura was the fact that Hagoromo gave his youngest son his Sage chakra that changed his body into a Sage body. If not for Asura being a fool, he will have been stronger than Indra on his own like Hashirama and Madara. Indra is the Yin of Hagoromo and Asura the Yang. With Asura chakra, I will be able to have a Sage Body, just under the Sixth Path Senjutsu body.

The Hyuuga clan's most promising youth is Hiashi, so for the Byakuugan, I will go with him. For the Tenseigan, one needs to mix the Hyuuga clan Byakuugan with Hamura's bloodline. And the most talented is Toneri of the moon, well there is a long time before I can go there.

For the Six path chakra, there are multiples ways. One is to become Juubi jinchuriki, and obtain the Six Paths Yin and Yang chakra. There is no way I will do that. Juubi is a mix of Shinju and Kaguya, even if I'm confident in the black hole, I will not be ċȯċky and risk it when there is another way. And I want my chakra to become mine, if I absorb the Shinju it will be harder to separate it from the Shinju will.

The second way is to become one by breaking through the barrier of mortality with a higher quality chakra.

An example is Hagoromo's chakra, which will appear when Indra and Asura chakra is reunited in one body because it's the prelude of the rebirth of Kaguya. So my chance will come when Madara will be reborn during the 4th Ninja war. I have to be strong enough to absorb Hagoromo's chakra and transcend.

Another one is Hamura chakra that will appear when the Tenseigan is born... No, even if Hamura has surpassed mortality it will not work with him.

When Asura and Hagoromo are reunited, the Rinnegan is born, but it is not on the level of the Six Paths. It is merely the incomplete Six Path Yin chakra of Hagoromo. The Rinnesharingan on other hand has transcended mortality and is obtainable when one obtains Hagoromo Six Paths Yin chakra, which augments the destructive power.

Meanwhile, the Six Paths Body, the one obtained by Madara in the anime, that can regenerate from anything, is the Sixth Path Yang chakra, which comes with healing power by the use of vitality. Hm, if one transcends with a weak body, it will stay fragile even immortal. If it was Hashirama, his body will not have been partially destroyed by Maito Gai, the proof is Naruto. The 2 of them had the same body, but the latter being an Uzumaki was capable of taking more hit without losing a part of his body. And I think Kaguya hit harder than Gai.

So if I use Hamura chakra to fuel my 'breakthrough', it will be only my spiritual energy that will transcend and not my body. Hm, maybe that could at least prepare me for my battle against Hagoromo, even if he is dead, I doubt it will be easy to snatch his chakra. And I don't think I can ascend on my own, if it was that easy, there would have been an Asura or Indra reincarnation that would have done it. Well, it would have been possible with the Ootsutsuki bloodline, but I will not be able to snatch it from Kaguya if I'm weak as hell, aka under Six Paths power.

And coming with the Sixth Path chakra, are the truth-seeking balls, a nice ability, combining the 5 elements, Yin and Yang and the natural energy.

I hope absorbing another chakra will not taint mine, well I will just use it as fuel to break through the barrier between mortal and Six Path, I'm sure it exists. And with the Ootsutsuki bloodline of Kaguya, I could go even higher than that, after all, who knows what monstrous power must have the Ootsutsuki clan Boss.

Well, no use of daydreaming about it, I will just store this in a corner of my mind, it will be a long time before I can think of that. For now, let's begin my training!"