Chapter 144: Chimera Cursed Seal (2)

Chapter 144: Chimera Cursed Seal (2)

Kai's body transforms in almost an instant by now. Ignoring Orochimaru entering her sage mode as the purple mark around her eyes grows prominent the only indicator is whether she's in Sage Mode or not, Kai starts to inspect Cerberus. As the reports state, the beast's Chakra Coils have tampered but this really speaks more of Kumo's research division. Like Konoha, they must be researching Cerberus and Fukushu to learn their secrets and apply whatever possible to themselves.

Just because this dog can endlessly grow heads doesn't mean that its strength will be useful to humans. The world doesn't work in this manner or there would already be a supremely advanced race of sentient beings that could fart and crack planets at once! But Orochimaru's and Kai's wish is to only study the beast and learn its secret. The village's wish is to apply this strength to whomever it can so the war potential of the village grows!

With her senses enhanced, Orochimaru watches and observes Kai's chakra seeping into the beast. His hand is connected to one of the heads of the beast and she frowns at the realization that Kai's chakra isolates the four of eight more volatile tenketsu points that control chakra and limits it to the body's favor and keep the physical and spiritual growth in check.

"I've been thinking for a while now," Kai suddenly speaks up, "But I grew by three years because my body adapted to the enzymes and your Cursed Seal... but the major cause is that my body unsealed a few of my eight gates, right?"

"Hmm, it did. Eight Gates holds secrets to more than just physical strength. Until now, Konohagakure only has one verified jutsu that opens the Eight Gates for strength. It's temporary. But... what other mysteries it holds are beyond me," Orochimaru sighs softly, "I feel small at times like these."

"But excited, too," Kai snickers.

"Exactly." A like-minded smile touches Orochimaru's lips but her eyes suddenly widen while Kai's chakra forms a seal on all four of these points!

"What?!" She blurts out as Kai continued to meticulously form the basic chakra storage seal that he formed during the Second War to keep his chakra hidden.

"I could cut off these Tenketsu, but that's a permanent change. Even with Senjutsu, I cannot easily heal Chakra Coils. Every living being has a different composition of yin-yang and elemental natures in their chakra that forms their talents and Kekkei Genkai. But this... temporary method should give us some time."

Under Kai's and Orochimaru's eyes, the body of the dog begins to 'deflate.' It's still large. But tens of its sleeping heads begin to disintegrate and vanish into chakra that spread around and dissipates at a breakneck pace down to its last strand of brown fur.

Its lone head is still asleep but other tubes and mask dangle from the ceiling aimlessly.

Turning around and facing a somewhat peeved Orochimaru who didn't let her emotions show on her surface, Kai smiles, "See? We can finally take more solid steps."

"It's annoying to admit that I didn't realize such a simple method," She sighs and looks at her clipboard. Why the hell did she research so much?

"Don't be so hard, even I feel the same sometimes. A third party's observation helps at times," Kai shrugs and speaks from experience before pulling up the beast's lips and checking out its sharp fangs, "The only one who would really benefit from this research is the Inuzuka Clan. But Kumo already knows of the way to deal with its ability to regenerate heads and that's to unleash their gate points."

"Why are we so sure it can regenerate its head without a few of its Gates opened?" Orochimaru questions and Kai stops. That's a valid concern.

He looks at the beast and uses the [Sage's Scalpel], cutting off the Dog's head clean, and even before she could reproach at such a hasty and 'uncultured' mannerism, both of them frown. Two more heads grow out and their hateful eyes fall upon Kai but its heads are instantly cut off once again!

Three large canine heads now litter the floor but their frown turns deeper as three heads grow out. This time, Orochimaru moved, too. She cut off one of the heads while Kai dealt with the other two.

This time, however, instead of four, only three heads grow out and Kai looks at Orochimaru.

He seals the beast's two Gates once again and two of the heads crumble into bits of chakra while the main head yowls in pain.

Kai's and Orochimaru's expressions brighten upon seeing this and she brings over the sleeping serum running through the tube and stabs the head of the beast once more. The beast's pained yowls grow weaker in seconds and it sleeps once more!

"So, its regenerative skills are directly related to two of the eight gates," Orochimaru muses, "But after that, the other two should be the work of Kumo. So, the beast can naturally grow three heads during a fight but once it rests, its body must close the gates and two of its heads would disappear. But it's likely to bring too great of a pain to this Cerberus and this mental trauma could be one of the reasons for its rabid behavior." She feels she isn't far from the truth.

Sage Mode easily covers the physical difference... but being a brawler wouldn't help her. She is good with Yin-nature release and made Iryo Nin out of it. It's practically impossible to defeat her in a single blow or even tens of it because she'll heal and get up...

But the problem is...

She is the dumb cat who taught the tiger disciple EVERYTHING. A cat should keep some tricks to itself, she didn't. Kushina and Kai have their variations of Strength of a Hundred Seals and Mikoto is making her way there, too alongside Nono. They all can use her prized Jutsu Creation Rebirth.

So, the only viable option left for Tsunade is to learn new tricks.

Again...

Kai will most likely learn them even if she doesn't teach them to him. He and Orochimaru are obsessed with training and learning new things.

But...

Wood Style contended with the strongest Uchiha and even made Kyubi its bitch, right?

If she practices it to a certain degree, she should keep a firm position on the top, right?

Transformed as a tree, Tsunade has a rare moment of introspection.

'Competing with children... is that how low I've fallen?'

But then she recalls Nono's cheeky remarks and then she deadpans.

'All of them deserve a proper beating... no doubt about that. Especially my Paper Bitch.'

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Alternate Title: Wood Tamer

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