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At least the bodies were preserved for future processing.

Not everything went wrong at the same time. Well, maybe it's karma or some higher thing that regulates such things, but I won't complain about it this time.' After sealing the bodies and cleaning the room, I didn't have much left to do, so I started meditating to restore my energy reserves.

There were many types of meditation even in my original universe. Ancient meditations mainly from India, China, Mongolia, Japan, and Southwest Asia. I'm not even talking about the newer ones, which were mainly based on the existing ones, just with some differences, but I wasn't really deep into the matter.

The only thing I know is that when I visited Japan, I saw their Buddhist monks using chants and mudras (signs) during their meditation. To be honest, I never understood what they were doing for a few hours. But here, since the academy, students learn a few different types of them, which mostly depend on signs, but when needed, either postures or chants are added. Chants are mostly used by monks or even medical ninjas (Iryo-nin) during surgery or when their support is focused on sharing energy.

The one I used was of course used to boost the recovery of the energy I lost today, this is the most frequently used one. There are also a few that are useful for example to calm down or accelerate the flow of energy, to focus on boosting mental abilities, it helps a lot during analysis and many more.

After I felt that the energy flow in my father's body was showing signs of awakening, I also started the process of smoothly ending the process and went into another room.

Well, at first glance, he is quite exhausted and pale, but that is to be expected when someone loses so much blood.

"Otto-san good..." - I looked at my mechanical watch - "...morning, are you feeling any great discomfort or pain?"

"No, I'm fine, I'm not going to kick the bucket yet!" - He replied, holding the bandages on his face with one hand in slight pain.

"So you were trying to get circulation to your chakra." - After his nod - "Well, your chakra network's center is slightly damaged and the chakra pathways in your abdomen are mostly torn off or damaged, so you should wait until at least some of them heal and then try to develop those that recover or were left intact even more than they were until your injury" I noticed that mother woke up but did not intervene for now.

"Is it possible to heal completely?"

"Unfortunately, only Tsunade, Kiroyama Kaede or Nakagawa Shota can heal you at the moment, as you understand, the last two are not accessible to us since Kaede works in Iwado, the capital of the Land of Earth, and Shota's place of work is Kumogakure..."

"...and as long as we do not solve our current situation, we cannot visit them either." - He finished my sentence, "B-But what exactly happened?" - Mother asked.

"As I told you, I was attacked in the camp by Nia, her clan, and some white masked Anbus. But I slipped away from them, and when I found out that you were also under attack, I rushed to you. When I arrived, I sensed that you were under siege, and through the hole in the wall, I saw ninjas with the same kind of mask, most likely from Root. But how did they get into the clan compound unnoticed?"

"That damned Ryoichi helped them!"

"Ryoichi, you mean Ryoichi Yamanaka? One of our elders?" - I said a little surprised.

"Yes, that traitor! I wish he would burn in hell!" - He clenched his teeth in anger and turned his head to his wife - "Do you remember that Masaru disappeared two months ago? And 2 weeks after Toru was captured by the Iwa ninjas and nothing was heard from him?"

"Yes, Ayaka and Emi were in total shock and depression after they heard about it. They were quite talented, especially Masaru, his battle predictions were one of the best in the whole clan."

"Exactly, and he went missing on the way to the camp near the border, but still on our land. Although there were no intelligence reports of enemies in the area at that time."

"But there could have been some undetected ninjas."

"Yes. That's why the commander of that camp sent a few groups deeper into the country. But they found nothing, not even a single clue."

"Maybe..."

"Yes - yes, maybe they came back, but no bodies have been found, not even under the earth's surface, and it is unlikely that someone would steal him, they will not be able to read any information from his brain, and we do not have such strong DNA to kidnap us for that, because without our training system, our techniques cannot be learned".

"But that does not lead us to Ryoichi," - I told him - "don't get me wrong, I trust you, but why him?"

"Because of the case with Tori. He was supposed to come to Kasugai on a solo mission, but he never did. I was assigned to the mission to find him, and according to a trader I met on the way to Kasugai, he saw someone like Tori near Takigi."

"But Takigi is not on the way to "

 "Right, so why did Tori go to Takigi instead of taking the shortest route to Kasugai? The only reason would have been that he had some business there, but according to his family and administrative archives, he never visited the town and did not know anyone from there. So I investigated who he met before he left, and guess who he met and trained with the night before?"

"Ryoichi. But why was that suspicious?"

"He never trained him personally or taught him anything. So I became suspicious and started to gather information about his activities lately, I didn't find much, just that he started to meet some young ninjas without clans and frequently visited some clans, but I think either he or someone else noticed me when I saw him meeting Danzo 2 days ago, so..."

"So they probably suspected something."

"Yes. But they could not understand that attacking me in the camp full of normal ninjas would draw unwanted attention."

"They probably prepared some false reasons and they must be very serious for them to feel free to act so openly" - Father "Ichi, could these be the bodies we saw when we teleported?" - Mother "What bodies?" - Father "Well, I collected some bodies from the battlefield, but not only from the enemies..."

"You did what? And without any permission?!" - Father angrily asked, "The letter for Hyugas with my request got lost on the way!"

"You are joking in such a situation?"

"I know that no one noticed anything, it all happened during the confrontation and I did not do anything by myself except for a scroll for corpses"

 "HHHH, are you sure?"

"Yes, I am completely sure."

"Check your memories after we finish."

"Okay"

 "We will talk about this later, but first thing first, the situation is quite difficult for us, we need to carefully decide our next steps..."