Bug hatching

Bug hatching

To be fair though those areas also had an entire population of sage beasts living in it for hundreds if not thousands of years. It was also worth mentioning that the stretch of land I was occupying was miniscule compared to those regions so the speed at which I was "tainting" it was considerably faster. Besides these things though nothing happened during this past year. It was only after this time passed that something finally changed, my caterpillar started to break free of it's cocoon. It had been in the damn thing for nearly two years now so I was almost getting worried.-

"You said this thing had been wrapped up for how long!?" Karin exclaimed in shock after I brought her with me to watch the hatching.

"Yeah it's an incredibly long time for any butterfly or moth species to be cocooned according to all the records that we had on that type of insect." I said calmly.

"What kind of bug even is this then?" she asked curiously.

I shrugged "we have no idea, none of the records we went over that went as far back as five hundred years ago mentioned anything quite like it. As far as we know it may be unique and the only one of it's kind." I said honestly.

"And you just randomly found it in the forest of death one day?" she asked but I shook my head.

"It found me in truth, I merely chose to add it to my collection of beasts is all." I said honestly.

Katsuyu was a well of knowledge on the matter of sage beasts which was how I discovered that they were a whole hell of a lot rarer than I had originally thought. See there was two ways that a sage beast came about, the first was that a sage helped a chakra beast to learn how to utilize natural energy. The second method was for a chakra beast to either mutate in such a fashion that they could sense and thus utilize natural energy or if they were born able to sense it due to a mutation before birth rather than after.-

According to Katsuyu new sage beasts while possessing the same level of intelligence as a human had to learn how to speak over time through experimentation with each one learning how through a different method based on their biology. Katsuyu for example apparently exhaled air that she vibrated within her body to imitate speech since as a slug she obviously didn't have vocal cords. The toad sage beasts croaked to speak while the snake sage beasts hissed to do so. Obviously chakra beasts could also learn to speak if they were smart enough as well but it was different in that case as those were the exceptions rather than the rule.-

ALL sage beasts could learn to speak which was what separated them from most chakra beasts other than the natural energy use of course. Anyways it took my bug nearly three hours to adjust to it's new state and finally start moving away from it's cocoon. During that time Karin and I had been talking about what we wanted for the future and her idea was pretty standard to be honest. She wanted to become the best medical ninja in the world like my sensei, get married and have a few kids while living happily ever after.-

I wished her luck on that while sharing the fact that I didn't really have any plans for the future, not even basic ones like hers. Sure I was probably going to keep collecting chakra beasts and reaching for my full potential but I didn't really have an accomplishment I wanted to do. I already succeeded in having the most impressive collection of chakra beasts in the world so I was pretty much just living day by day doing as I pleased.

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