22.

What can I say about the border with the land of water, it's boring here, only a few groups of ninjas invade sometimes and I have the feeling that it's more out of decency. However, the scenery here is better than on the border with Land of Hot Water and Land of Frost, there were too many fields and forests, no, don't get me wrong, I love forests, but not when you see them every day for 13 years.

The ocean was both beautiful and dangerous to the forest people, and that's how the clans on this border call the shinobi of Hidden Leaf. By the way, one of those clans is Umino. As for why it's dangerous here, it's because ninjas from Hidden Leaf breathe with water, some of them literally.

In the hospital, there were not many patients and even if there were, besides me, there is another A-ranked doctor here, Nanase-sama, she is already an old woman who is very unhappy with Konoha's funding for teaching new medical ninjas, here I agree with her.

Konoha has reduced our funding a lot, as I heard, they invested a lot of money in Orochimaru's research. Besides, there were never many people interested in medicine, mainly because young people want to learn cool ninjutsu, they don't understand that you have to understand yourself in order to understand your surroundings.

I've been here for a month, and I've taken 3 big steps towards greatness, even though I'm already great. The first thing I did was to order everyone I could easily order to take some DNA and chakra from their enemies.

About the orders, if the order is not something they don't want to do, it's not hard to imprint it in their minds and I'm not afraid that someone will find it, because in our situation, the maximum someone will check is if the ninja is a traitor or not, there are a few other questions as well, but none of them have anything to do with my genjutsu.

Yes, there are techniques that can detect even that, but for that, the mind reader must either lose a lot of time and chakra, or use Fuin, who is only in the village. Another level of security is that they don't give me samples directly, no, they just leave them in a certain place and then forget about it.

The second achievement is that I modified, or should I say adapted, shadow clones. I wanted to do this for a long time, but I didn't have the time, so now I can control how much chakra each clone takes, there's still a minimum, but it's not that big. These clones can't help me train ninjutsu, but they can help me draw seals or read books, and this is the second adjustment, they can control which memory or experience to give me back and how much chakra to give back.

The third one was very unexpected for me, it's empathy, no, I'm not the only one with this ability, 2 other members of my clan have this power, but normally it opens only after 30 and only real masters can do this. Probably my last life counted too.

Hmmm, the last month was just too quiet, I don't like it, it just means that either for all of us or specifically for me, a storm is going to start. Okay, just for safety's sake, today I will fully activate the seals on the 'house' made of earth. I want to release wood. - I walked out of the house and activated the seals. Full activation uses 27% of my current chakra reserve.

I turned around to look at the dawn, yes, it's very beautiful, our base is on a cliff, the ocean is right below us, I closed my eyes and concentrated on the light land breeze. In moments like this I can feel how beautiful this world is. You have to try to find something that gives you this otherworldly feeling, for me it's the ocean and the mountains.

After 4 minutes, I slowly walked to the hospital, greeting others as I entered, 2 patients from the last mission and 2 doctors, we have 1-A, 1-B and 3-C ranked medics, but we have different shifts, the only rule is that there must always be at least 1 and usually 2 doctors here.

"Ichimaru-san, did you hear that a small reinforcement is coming today? - One of them said to me, at the same time the other one started to gather her things to leave and take a rest.

"Oh, is it because of the recent activities?" - I asked, checking one of the patients.

"I think so, after the attack on the main base on the border in the Land of Hot Water, we deployed many troops there and the Fishmen started to act aggressively." - He said this with hatred, before the war his fiancée had died in one of the attacks by Kiri's shinobi.

"Yes, but I don't like how silent Iwa is." - One of the patients.

"Yes, that's a bit suspicious. After the last big attack 2 weeks ago, they didn't do anything." - I said and sat down next to the doctor.

"I hope nothing bad happens." - The doctor said and stood up. - "I'm going out for a smoke."

"Smoke is bad for your health Sokamo-san." - I said smiling.

"Hmpf, I can cure my lungs if I need to." - He went out and I started meditating, lately I have noticed that I do not have so much free space for memory. That's generally because of the knowledge I have about genes from the last world. So I started to expand the space using my clan's techniques.

 I sat like this for a long time until I was interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Ichimaru-kun, how are you?" - I recognized the voice and opened my eyes happily.

"Wow, hello Nia-chan, I didn't expect you to come to this base." - I smiled and greeted her.

"Me too, after I became a Chunin, our commander transferred me here."

Was that... No, it could be my imagination. Or... okay, I won't risk...' - I didn't change my expression and just continued - "That's great news, congratulations." - I clapped my hands - "Let's go outside and talk a little bit."

"Isn't that a problem? I mean you patients."

"No, it's not, I'll just check them one last time and I can leave them with Hasako-san." - Hasako is a doctor who came after Sokamo. I quickly checked her and left the tent. - "Let's go."

We talked for about an hour, and when she asked to stay with me today, she said she didn't know anyone here, so I was her best choice. I didn't refuse. It was dark already, so we went to my house, I didn't deactivate the defensive seal at the house, and I went in, and she came in right after me. I closed the door. She took a quick look around the room, turned to me and said with a red face:

"Ichimaru-kun, I wanted to tell you this a long time ago, but I didn't have the courage, but because of the war, I realized that I..." - I didn't give her time to finish the sentence and activated the seal, causing her to lose concession. I picked her up and put her on the bed.

"It's too bad for you that I opened empathy 3 weeks ago, otherwise you could probably fool me. But let's see what you regret and why you looked at me with pity." - I started to suck her chakra, it will help me to read her memories without much trouble. Luckily, her clan can't work with memories as good as ours.