Chapter 42 – Reboot

Chapter 42 – Reboot

With a goal in mind, I analyze my chakra network.Fôllôw new stories at novelhall.com

Chakra starts in every cell of our body. It starts with the physical energy every cell produces.

This energy is carried over by the network to the heart where it is refined into chakra when spiritual energy is added. The dantian then stores most of the chakra and the network focuses on distributing it to where it is needed in the body.

In that case.

I look at all the chakra in my body. I avoid looking at the blinding white chakra pathways, instead, I stare at the most minute amount of chakra in every one of my cells.

Chakra is made from spiritual energy. That is why it is controllable, but our chakra is also deeply connected to our soul.

Chakra is what is used for reincarnation. Chakra is what is used to leave behind one's will.

In that case, I need to do something else first

I first need to bind my soul to my chakra.

At any other moment, I would have just said it was impossible without a chakra technique. But this is not any other moment.

I can feel my soul trying to leave my body.

Thus I can find my target.

I latch onto it, I use my every will, my full intent to tie my soul down into my chakra.

IT HURTS LIKE HELL.

Like a million knives being stabbed in every single atom of my body.

But I ignore the pain, I persist.

For myself and to save others from pain.

Slowly but surely my soul gets glued to my chakra. I can feel that I won't pass on now. Not until my chakra dissipates from my dying flesh.

My soul is not in my chakra, but so long as a final ember remains, it's not going anywhere.

Now for the second part.

I push my intent into every cell in my body. An intent to burn my chakra into life for my cells.

I need to push it several more times until I finally see my intended result happen in a few cells.

Some of my chakra is gone. But in every cell where it is gone, physical energy, and thus life is returned to it.

Once I realize how it’s being done consciously it becomes simpler to coerce the process.

I take it very slowly. Not every cell needs energy, most can starve for some time and I need to be very stingy with my leftover chakra.

I open my senses again.

My head becomes clearer as my brain has energy once more.

Sound fills my ears and time no longer seems to stand still.

“Did you see my finger anywhere Kakuzu”

“No”

“Don’t tell me they grabbed it before running away. Who the fuck would do such a thing.”

“Idiot...”

I can hear Hidan and Kakuzu’s talk as they walk away.

I need to play dead for longer. That’s easy, I am dead already in a way. I’m not breathing, my heart isn’t beating. My own chakra is returning the life it took back to me, for now...

I slow down my body as much as possible.

My blood doesn’t need to flow, my kidneys and stomach don't need to work right now.

I set just about everything except my brain on standby to consume as little energy as possible.

“He might have made his way closer since.”

“That makes no sense, he either died in place or got taken, there is no way he-”

“HE’S ALIVE. Now stop wasting time and let’s go”

‘He has to be alive. He wouldn’t abandon me.’ Were the thoughts repeating themselves in Anko's mind.

The team had only run for less than an hour, less than 5km away when the snake and ninken caught onto his scent. As they headed several kilometers closer the Hyuga soon saw their target.

“There’s a... body on the ground”

“YAMI”

Lying on the ground they found Yami’s lifeless body.

Anko rushes to hug him as tears well in her eyes. Her emotions leaving her unable to realize the strangeness of the situation.

It was the words of one of the combat Jonin that woke her up from despair.

“This makes no sense at all. It’s been a week but the body is as fresh as if it’d just died, but if that’s the case why is there no blood outside bandaged wounds, and why is it so far away from the reported region.”

As they look the west they notice clear signs, Yami had walked his way there before falling down.

Anko gurgles an order

“HEAL HIM!!”

The medical ninja shows reluctance, noticing the unnaturally grey color from the lack of blood in Yami'sskin, but he follows orders and raises Yami’s upper body, holding him in a seated position.

He starts performing the Mystical Palm Technique on Yami, as Anko starts unbandaging Yami to assess the situation.

Yami's body feels cold to the touch.

As the bandage on his chest is unwrapped they see nothing... an actual hole showing the other side.

“He’s... dead... There is no surviving a missing heart. Even if it had been ripped out right now I would be just as powerless to save him”

The medical ninja stops wasting his chakra and lets go of Yami

“Nooo!!!! don’t stop!!!”

The medical ninja ignores Anko’s grief and turns his back

“YAMI! YAMI! DON’T YOU FUCKING DIE NOW.

THIS ISN'T FUNNY.

DON’T LEAVE BEHIND SAKURA AND HINATA.

DON’T LEAVE... me..."

Anko screams loud enough to raise the dead.

And from Yami’s mouth, a small whisper leaks out...

“... ...chakra.”