(After 3 weeks...)
The few weeks were busy for everyone. Kaida spent most of his time after the hospital at Sora's house, practig various sealing teiques under his guidahe hardening seal was the first one he mastered, allowing him to increase the hardness of an object.
Like making paper as hard as wood or making wood as hard as steel, doing things like making wool as hard as stone was still not possible for him.
The heat and cool seals followed, enabling him to manipute temperatures in a localized area. Also, Kaida found that if he applied those seals on a living person, their body temperature would be altered. Due to this, the mouse popution in the Uchiha ce again reduced in numbers.
At st, the cealment seal proved to be the trickiest, as Sora had warned. It required precise chakra trol and a deep uanding of the seal's intricacies. Kaida struggled with it initially, but after weeks of practid help from many shadow es, he was finally able to learn the cealment seal as well, though it was not as effective as he had guessed.
The smell and noise of a person were not masked by this seal. The cealment seal just masked the chakra of the person or persons present in a specific area. Acc to Sora, that really helped in hiding from a sensor.
Meanwhile, Yomi's sensor training rogressing well under her mentor's tutege. After more than two months orous training, she could now detect chakra signatures from impressive distances and differentiate between various types of chakra natures. Her ability to pinpoint the exact location of multiple targets simultaneously was also improving steadily.
Acc to her sensei, she was ready for the part of the training, and she could finally move to the part. The first stage of her training was finally over.
As for Hae, her involvement with the bathhouse stru kept her occupied. She meticulously supervised every aspect, ensuring the work th standards. This was a really big project for her family, so she was really serious and strict about everythied to the stru.
As for Shisui, he had taken on several missiing from escort duties to reaissaasks and much more. In just three weeks, he had pleted more than ten missions, whicluded three A-rank missions as well. Due to this, he himself was able to earn more than 1.5 million Ryo.
This is one of the reasons why high-ranking ninjas never had to care about mohey could earn quite a bit of money in such a little time. This, bined with the money Kaida earned, was enough to fund the stru of the bathhouse fully.
Everything was going perfectly in Konoha, especially for Kaida and his family, until news circuted in Konoha.
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ENEMY OF THE VILLAGE ALERT
By decree of the Hokage and Konoha cil, Orochimaru of the legendary Sannin is hereby decred a rogue ninja and enemy of the Hidden Leaf Vilge.
Orochimaru has itted grave crimes against Konoha and its people through uhical and inhumane experimentation on residents, including children. His betrayal and viotion of the ninja code ot be tolerated.
Therefore, a bounty of 50,000,000 Ryo is pced on Orochimaru's head, effective immediately. All jonin, Anbu, and hunter-nihorized to use any means necessary to subdue or elimihis S-rank threat on sight.
Civilians are strongly cautioo avoid any tact with Orochimaru, as he is sidered extremely dangerous. Any information leading to his capture must be reported directly to Konoha security forces.
Orochimaru's unfivable as against the Leaf have severed all ties. He is ao the vilge's values and way of life. Bringing this traitorous criminal to justice is of the highest priority to preserve the safety of the people.
Issued by order of the Third Hokage
Threat Level: S-Css
Do not attempt to engage alone
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While civilians are only aware of the basic facts, heads and vilge officials have been briefed on the horrific extent of Orochimaru's acts against Konoha and its people.
The former Sannin ducted depraved geic experiments and tortured human trials on dozens of subjects, many of them vulnerable children and infants abducted from orphanages.
His twisted goal was to pervert the human geo induce accelerated evolution and ma kekkei genkai abilities through unnatural means.
Interrogation of Orochimaru's aplices revealed his obsession with achieving immortality and learning every ninja teique, no matter how uhical the methods.
During the iigation, Root ninja also tried to be from this situation. They shifted the bme of many of their own acts against various s of Konoha onto Orochimaru.
Obviously, that was Danzo's pn, due to which many s had geed an intered against Orochimaru. However, the man himself didn't have any problem taking those bmes since he didn't have to be in the good books of those s. Now that the whole of Konoha was his enemy, he didn't care if someone was a little more thirsty for his blood.
And the person who knew most about this i didn't have anything to do with the i itself other thaing a day off.
Sinbsp;every high-level ninja had to search for traces of Orochimaru's bases in Konoha, due to which both Kaida's and Yomi's teachers were busy for one day, even though both of them got a day off, they couldn't enjoy it because the enviro of the vilge was not suitable for an outing at that time.
After one day, when most of Orochimaru's bases had been found out, Kaida and Yomi could once again tiheir training.
Meanwhile, in the Hokage's office...
"You were also responsible for these experiments, right?" Hiruzen asked the only other person in the office.
"No," Danzo replied without any dey.
"You wao believe that? So many children got abducted from the orphanages and slums, and Root didn't even have an idea about this?" Hiruzen asked.
"Just like how Root didn't have any idea how the Sarutobi developed so mu the st decade and how the businesses of so many smaller s have been absorbed by them. Or how the bandits have increased in our surrounding when our vilge needed funds," Danzo said.
"Are y to bckmail me?" Hiruzen asked angrily.
"Of course not. Listen, Hiruzen, ideals ay didn't go hand in hand. Like you, I also had to do things which are important for the vilge but be morally wrong," Danzo said.
Sigh
"I have already told you once, and I am telling you once again, don't y your hands on Konoha's citizens once again. Even though you have deviated the s' anger onto Orochimaru for now, they are not fools. If you keep on these morally wrong acts, the internal dition of Konoha may get simir to that of Kirigakure," Hiruzen said.
"Don't worry, I am not pnning to do anything anytime soon," Danzo said while standing up and leaving the office.
Hiruzen just shook his head and took out his smoking pipe and started smoking.
