Chapter 29

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A few months after I crafted my armor, I thought of the possibilities this unique skill meant, and all the people I could help, especially considering none of the craftable items had a level requirement. Meaning should another war break out, Konoha's genin wouldn't have to die as much if their stats were higher, this however was not as viable as I wanted it to be.

Any decent equipment required lots and lots of… hard to find materials, heck my armor was in WOW terms, awful and it took me a year to gather the materials needed for it. Which made my idea all the more difficult to accomplish, but in times of need, one adapts. So I thought, what about if I… craft cheaper items, it would still give our Genins some help during war, increasing their survivability.

But even then, I would need lots and lots of cheap material, because my goal was by no means… small, I had to craft at least a thousand rings or whatever piece of equipment I found the easiest to mass-produce. Also, I would use this as a way to find free materials, after all… if they want my crafted items, they have to pay some sort of price, there is no such thing as free actions, only delayed payments.

With this in mind, I brought my idea to the Hokage, showing him a simple ring. Hiruzen froze, simply stared at the ring for an hour, without saying a single word in shock. It was so alarming, his girlfriend Biwako had to slap him out of the shock. "How… this... I… I don't know what to say, if you can truly mass produce this, our ninja would have a better chance should another war occur."

"Well, I would first need you to facilitate the materials needed for the crafting," I informed him, "Then… we can start talking about commissions, and such," I knew for a fact Konoha had a budget for weapons, so why not become their preferred provider.

"How much will you charge me for… this?" Hiruzen asked, looking at the ring in awe, not even a bit angry that I was going to charge him.

"We'll discuss that later," I informed him, "In the meantime, find the materials I need, then we'll talk," with that out of the way, I flickered out his office, back to my house in the Senju compound.

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My house was… how to say… rather simple, not much of anything, besides my bed and some old books and scrolls Tobirama had left inside the house, amongst those scrolls there was one that I… Well, it got my attention. The Flying Thunder God draft. It was but an incomplete work according to the scroll, and considering the number of the scroll, and the date, it was but a draft of the completed technique, nothing but a long scroll with theory, a solid theory.

The Draft went into great detail about how the technique worked, and thanks to said scroll I finally had a name for the technique he had used to save me that time, the theory behind the technique was rather simple, the application on the other hand… was… let's just say, I had tried to learn the technique and had dropped it more than a few times. What really got me the most was that the technique, in theory, was stupidly easy, but the fucking application of it… was like comparing the ABC to Rocket science.

The theory explained, this Jutsu was something Tobirama sensei had decided to create inspired by how the ninja summons worked, his entire research was based on how summons were able to come and go, instantaneously without much problem, in short... Tobirama had created a successful reverse summon seal that summoned him, when he pumped chakra into the seal, now… this is the tricky part, creating a seal… that doesn't kill you while you teleport.

A brilliant idea nonetheless, a hard one to master, especially considering I had but an incomplete research. Perhaps if I had the final design, I would have better luck mastering the technique. So for the time being, Blink was more than enough for me.

"Raiden!"

Sealing the scroll back in place, I flickered outside my house to see Tsunade knocking at my door, "Today is the Konoha festival!" she shouted at the door excitedly, not noticing I was standing right behind her.

"And you want me to go?" I whispered close enough to startle her.

"Yes, you are taking me!" Tsunade nodded, recovering from my jump scare.

"Ok," I shrugged. Going to a festival sounded fun.

"Y- y-ou are!? I mean yes you are," Why was she so flustered. It's so unlike her to get like that.

"I mean… you said I was going to take you, so… yeah, why not," I smiled, patting her on the head.

"Good, I beat that rat of Kuroita Yuhi! In your face!" Tsunade whispered to herself, I wonder if she knows I hear her.

"Ok… let me clean up the house, and…" I stopped, "When does the festival begin?"

"In three hours," Tsunade answered as she ran to her grandma's house, "Pick me up at grandma's gotta go!"

"Well, that was weird, but who am I to judge, I literally have died three times, weird it's just my daily normal now," I chuckled, going back to my house to clean.

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[Tsunade POV]

Grandma Mito had told me that if I wanted to get Raiden's attention, I had to take the first step as she had done with grandpa, she said in her own words, men are stupid, and they only know what they want if you spell it out for them, not entirely sure what that means… but I took her advice, and asked Raiden out to the Moon Light Festival. "Can I even consider this our first date?" I hummed to myself.

"Maybe," Grandma Mito chuckled, "Poor boy, he doesn't even know it… but he's about to enter a long-lasting battle he will not come victorious,"

"A battle… but, I don't want to fight with him, though we can spar I guess," Sometimes, Grandma Mito sounds crazy and scary.

"Oh, my sweet little rose," Grandma chuckled, "You will understand it one day, after all… this is a field of battle, we women reign supreme."