217. Cheating, blatant cheating and Tomoka

217. Cheating, blatant cheating and Tomoka

Ignoring the fox currently clawing at the seams of her mind, Tomoka decided to continue with the tour.

“Ahem, now that we are here we might as well get other stuff done. For starters, full body scans to check for any health issues.” Yeah, ignoring the glares from her girls was hard but currently she still had stuff to do. She would give them what they want later, in a more private setting.

“We also need to discuss a few things while we are at it. For example, I already talked with Gaara about this, but I have already delivered clones to take your respective places. As I offered Gaara, you can keep a connection to them or you can just let me deal with it.” After hearing that everyone's jaws dropped except for Gaara's, her girl’s and Orochi who just raised an eyebrow.

“Do you mean to say there is a copy of all of us running around pretending to be us!?” Naruko looked both angry and confused.

“Yup yup, there are a few events that I want to happen in certain ways for convenience sake.” Afterall, if the whole fourth shinobi war doesn’t happen she won’t get her hands on an Otsutsuki.

“As I have said, if you want I can hook you up with a connection to your respective clones. With that being said, Gaara if you would please sit over there.” Tomoka was currently pointing towards a normal looking chair.

“It will be very disorienting at first so I do recommend you sit down.” After sitting down Tomoka got to work. This time she wasn’t just going to shove a phantom in and be done with it. Though Gaara did have a phantom inside him, that had been a momentary thing.

Unlike Nozomi and Hinata, who had spent so much time with Tomoka and her phantoms that their body didn’t fight their intrusion anymore, Gaara’s body and chakra continued to fight the phantom’s presence. Not only that but the connection would place strain on Gaara’s brain and mind.

Taking her time Tomoka lit her fingers with chakra as she began to inscrime micro seals on Gaara’s scalpel despite his hair still being there. A few minutes later she activated the seal connecting it to her phantom. Instantly Gaara felt dizzy as all his senses split in two. One group was of his original body while another group was that of the clones.

“Alright the connection has been set. The seal I applied is so you can better handle the sensory input as well as any output you want to do. It will also let you cut any group of senses whenever you wish to do so with just a thought.”

After explaining that Gaara shook his head lightly as he just cut off the sensory input from the clone. What Tomoka hadn’t said was that Gaara also got a new set of memories, those of his clone. From the looks of it the clone would also transfer memories to Gaara as well as review his if he allowed it.

“This... is very disorienting.” That was all Gaara said as he stood up, opening and closing the sensory input to try and get used to it.

“Yeah, it is and somehow Tomoka can do that with thousands of clones at a time... well phantoms but same difference.” Responded Nozomi as she looked around the lab. Both her and Hinata had been practicing Tomoka’s phantom clone jutsu. Unfortunately they could at most make two phantoms despite their enhanced brains. They couldn’t comprehend how Tomoka did it.

“Bah, I’m just built differently. Talking about that...” Tomoka had been curious about her biological make up. She was more than sure that by now she was something else in the shape of a human than an actual human. Unfortunately she couldn’t do a proper scan unless she either went to konoha’s hospital, big no no there, or came here.

“It’s high time I do a full scan of myself.” After saying that Tomoka got comfortable in a special machine. This machine would do a full body scan with as many methods as possible. X-rays, electrograms and whatever else you can think of. Once the doors of the chamber closed on her a phantom walked into the lab.

“What, I still need to manage the machine?” The phantom looked exactly like Tomoka just with a lab coat on. After saying that she got to work pressing this and that on the machine until it began taking as many and clear reads on Tomoka as it could. Moments later a holographic screen opened up showing Tomoka’s information.

“My job here is done.” Not bothering to look at the information the phantom turned around and left as her shape changed into that of a completely different person. Moments later Tomoka came out of the chamber to review the information.

“Am I the only one that found that a bit creepy?” Kankuro shuddered as he thought of both how a second Tomoka just waltzed in after the first entered the chamber and how the second changed shape mid stride as it left.

“T-Tomoka?” Nozomi asked as she looked around the room with her mangekyou actively searching for the threat she couldn’t find.

“Sorry, sorry, just testing something.” Seeing how everybody became uncomfortable she instantly pulled the soul limb, because that is what it felt like, back inside herself. Instantly the chilled air became normal as the other relaxed.

“What was that?” This time Naruko was the one to ask. Her instincts had been screaming contradicting alarms in her head. She felt like she needed to run for her life and get as far away as possible while also feeling like moving, even breathing would end up with her demise.

“To tell you the truth... I am not entirely sure myself.” Things have been ramping up lately. Stranger and stranger things involving herself making everything a bit confusing. Tomoka truly didn’t know what was going on with herself. Her body was changing faster than she could comprehend into something hard to understand. Her soul was even stranger and at this point Tomoka didn’t even know where to start. Then, there was that dream, she had blamed the alcohol back then but something told her it hadn’t been the cause.

“Well, let's just forget that for now. So, do any of you want the connection to your respective clones or nah?” As she expected, after asking Gaara about it all of them decided to go for it. Funnily enough the one that had the least trouble getting used to the double set of senses was Kankuro. Understandable seeing as a puppet master he would need to divide his attention to control multiple puppets.

“Well, with that done, we should continue with the tour, no?” Tomoka really wanted to get the tour over with so she could start experimenting with her soul limbs. Unfortunately this is something she needs to do herself as her phantoms do not possess souls, and even if they did it wouldn’t be her soul.

“I would rather stay here.” As expected Orochi wished to stay and play with the many toys around. You know, dissect a few clones, do some human experimenting, the works.

“Come on Orochi, if you want to play with my toys at least do so with your own body. You will have all the time in the world for your research once you join my group. Now let’s go.” No, Orochi didn’t pout like a little kid who had been denied his favorite treat. He would never admit to it anyway.

“Next stop is Vanaheim.” And so everyone teleported to the next level of Yggdrasil. Once there the first thing everyone noticed was that unlike the other levels who were mostly flat this one had many different protrusions and holes everywhere.

“Vanaheim and Asgard, the last two realms aren't inside the main trunk but instead in the many branches of Yggdrasil. Vanaheim is the food generating level. The many branches provide the other plants up here with the necessary nutrition making them grow faster and stronger. The forests of Vanahem also hold a wide diversity of animals. Yes, it's funny that there is a forest on the branches of a tree.”

Everyone looked around seeing the beautiful combination of nature and technology as people and machines alike worked the fields of grain or the orchards. Some would also rear the different cattle. From their position they could also see a segment of the mentioned forest covered in spider silk.

“Uh, what is that?” Naruko, always the talkative and curious one, asked while pointing at the said segment of forest covered in spiderwebs.

“That is the home of the spider clan. They are my summons. Before moving here they lived in the land of fire but now they live here instead. It is a funny story actually. I just summoned a few here to boast about the place and the next thing I know they pretty much demand I let them live here.”

Tomoka remembered the event fondly. She had been very confused at the time until one of the spiders explained that both the abundance of food and natural energy here appealed to them deeply.

“Thanks to my technology and Yggdrass efforts, anything and I do mean anything can grow over here. We have products from all over the world here. From the cactus fruits of the desserts of Suna to the special peppers from the land of lightning. Hell, I have some products from the other continent as well.”

With that last part said Tomoka began taking them around the place, taking some fruits from the trees here and there and overall having a nice trip.