I Just Wanted to Slack Off, But I Was Forced to Become Hokage

Keisuke's "some other day" truly meant "some other day" on a space-time level, and not a version with added passionate action scenes. It wasn't for any other reason. Although Keisuke had always proclaimed himself a "big-breasted blonde connoisseur," in reality, his true hobbies were quite broad.

In this day and age, who has a purely singular special preference? It was true that Keisuke liked big-breasted older sisters, but while loving thin, black, round-framed glasses, couldn't one simultaneously love beautiful legs wrapped in white stockings, and beautiful feet painted with pink nail polish? There was never just one way to bring a young man pleasure.

As for why Keisuke had temporarily refused Pakura... it was simply because he had more important things to do. It was absolutely not because he had "entered a sage time and temporarily lost all worldly desires."

[Earth Release: Rock Clone]!

Nara Keisuke formed hand signs with both hands, molded and released the earth-nature chakra from his body, and created a brand new clone.

'Earth Release?'

Pakura, sitting quietly to the side, watched the figure of mud and stone rise from the ground. Her small mouth hung slightly open, unable to hide the surprise in her heart. 'He clearly showed wind, fire, water, and yin natures before, and he even knows Earth Release...'

Keisuke paid no attention to her. After she had proactively shown a submissive posture, his attitude towards this Scorch Release big sister had also improved considerably. At the very least, he wouldn't wantonly play with her spirit as he had before... If the previous Pakura was just a research material and an enemy village's captive, then now, she was at least worthy of the evaluation of an "eye-catching vase."

After summoning the [Rock Clone], Keisuke's actions did not stop. Another new [Shadow Doppelganger] emerged from his shadow.

[Shadow Doppelganger Technique]!

The next moment.

[Summoning Technique: Lightning Flash Blade Transformation]!

Keisuke lightly touched the summoning talisman on his wrist and summoned two masks from within. The [Earth Release Mask] was given to the [Shadow Doppelganger]; the [Yin Release Mask] was given to the [Rock Clone].

The wonderful use of solid clones was known to almost every ninja who had mastered the technique. Keisuke's short-term goal was to research Kekkei Genkai. But the research materials he had on hand were, all in all, just those few.

Techniques like [Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change] and [Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm], which required a Kekkei Genkai to be released, were set aside for now. The ones that could truly be used for research were only [Scorch Release: Extremely Steaming Murder], [Smoke Clone Technique], and [Explosion Release: Killer Bomb].

[Scorch Release] had already been successfully researched. [Smoke Clone Technique] and [Killer Bomb] had no leads for now. Instead of wasting effort researching the latter two, he might as well, based on his own many chakra attributes and by referencing the research process of [Scorch Release], develop his own "unique Kekkei Genkai"!

This was his established research plan. He had originally planned to start by researching that "Explosion Release ninja" he had brought back from Iwagakure. But he hadn't expected Orochimaru to proactively take on that task for him...

Keisuke decided to skip that stage and directly begin the next stage of "self-created Kekkei Genkai"! He was very clear on what he was truly good at, what his true core ability was. Without a doubt—Yin Release.

As far as Keisuke knew, there seemed to be no Kekkei Genkai in the ninja world that explicitly involved the "Yin" nature transformation. Conventional elemental-release-type Kekkei Genkai, and even Kekkei Tōta, were basically produced by the five basic transformations of water, fire, wind, earth, and lightning. As for constitution-type Kekkei Genkai... Keisuke hadn't researched them that deeply yet.

He only knew that constitution-type Kekkei Genkai could basically be traced back to the true ancestor of ninja, the Rabbit Goddess—Ōtsutsuki Kaguya. But how Kaguya's "alien bloodline" had step-by-step degraded into the "Rinnegan," "Sharingan," "Byakugan," "Shikotsumyaku," and so on... Keisuke had no way of knowing.

Although he very much wished he could also possess an "alien bloodline," besides organ transplantation and cell transplantation, there seemed to be no other way to go. And he had no desire to turn himself into something that was neither human nor ghost. What was with growing Hashirama on your hand, or growing Hashirama on your chest... that image was simply too beautiful to imagine. As for transplanting eyes... he looked down on conventional Sharingan and Byakugan. And the ones he looked up to, he couldn't get.

He might as well honestly play with elemental-release-type Kekkei Genkai. The fusion of Yin and Yang was too high-end. Keisuke's original plan was to use "Yin Release" as a foundation and then add one of the nature transformations of water, fire, wind, or earth to it, to tentatively carry out the fusion and creation of an elemental-release-type Kekkei Genkai. The only place he had hesitated was which nature combination to start with.

And having obtained the [Earth Release: Rock Clone] from the Iwa Jonin's [Shinobi Secret Scroll], Keisuke decided to simply start his Kekkei Genkai creation research with the "Yin + Earth" dual combination!

Pakura watched his operations with an expression of uncomprehending awe. Do Konoha's ninja normally train like this...

"Pakura." Keisuke quietly changed his form of address for her. "I have some other matters to attend to for the time being. I'll be back around noon."

Pakura's eyes were downcast, like a successfully tamed housecat, and she responded softly, "Mm..."

Following the old rule, he handed the specific research work over to his clones. Leaving the small villa, Nara Keisuke went directly to his family's medical research institute.

He skillfully went upstairs and pushed the door. A familiar smell of alcohol drifted into his nostrils. Keisuke felt as if he had dreamt his way back to the night of the golden goose's drunkenness.

"I remember someone saying they were going to quit drinking before I left."

Tsunade somewhat sheepishly put down the wine bottle in her hand, intending to stuff it into a place others wouldn't dare to look. "Nara, why are you here? Is the mission over?"

"Yes, the first A-rank mission is over. Lord Hokage gave us a few days off." Keisuke leaned against the doorway, not entering, just watching Princess Tsunade from afar. "There probably won't be such good treatment in the future."

"A ninja needs to carry out missions to earn money..." Tsunade, seeing that Keisuke didn't dare to approach, directly took out the wine bottle and held it in her hand. "Although you don't really need money, the village needs you. Hmm, now that you've finished your first battlefield mission, how do you feel?"

"My feeling is... there were so many people." Keisuke shrugged. "Besides reporting my safe return to you, there is another matter I need to consult you about."

"Hm... wait! Nara." Tsunade put down the wine bottle, her phoenix eyes narrowing. "From the very beginning, you've been calling me 'you'. I believe I've reminded you many times how you should address me, haven't I?"

"Indeed," Keisuke nodded. "But I can't bring myself to do it to someone who choked me, poured wine down my throat, and tried to smother me in their chest—"

"Shut up!" Tsunade decisively stopped him from revealing any more of her dark history. "What was the problem you just mentioned? Continue."

"The mission assigned to our squad by the Hokage was to transport supplies to the front lines, and then to retrieve the wounded from the front and bring them back to Kikyo Castle to recuperate." Keisuke complied smoothly and got down to business. "The first half of the mission went very normally, but the second half... Of the wounded we brought back from the front, besides one ninja, all the others had suffered physical damage and were forced to retreat."

"You're saying..." Tsunade keenly sensed that something was wrong. "All of them?"

Keisuke nodded. "There was only one exception, and that special case was a last-minute rescue from the battlefield that day."

Hearing this, Tsunade's brow immediately furrowed. As a veteran of the Second Great Ninja War, it wasn't as if she hadn't been on the battlefield before. As an elite medical ninja, she was very clear on just how "varied" the trauma of war could be for a ninja. Just like herself. Although she looked perfectly fine on the outside, her heart was already riddled with a thousand holes.

On the bloody battlefield, it was very common for ninja to suffer accidents leading to amputation-level injuries. But it was absolutely not to the extent that every seriously wounded person was unable to fight again because of a missing limb. In Tsunade's experience, there must be some hidden story here!

"You went to the Iwagakure front?" Tsunade's brow furrowed tightly. "I remember the supreme commander of that front is Orochimaru! With his war experience, it's impossible for him not to have discovered an abnormality of this level... Or is it that before you went to Iwa, some special battle broke out in that area?"

"On this mission, I went to the Land of Grass. I did not reach the territory of the Land of Earth," Keisuke reminded her. "I'm not clear on the combat intelligence of the Land of Grass front before our departure. But I can confirm that when we had just arrived at the camp in the Land of Grass, Lord Orochimaru had a battle with Iwagakure's Five-Tails Jinchuriki."

The Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Han, possessed the special Kekkei Genkai Boil Release. He himself also had astonishing monstrous strength and was known as the "Steam Ninja." Information about Iwagakure's Five-Tails Jinchuriki flashed through Tsunade's mind. The doubt in her heart gradually lessened a bit. If the Five-Tails Jinchuriki was present on the Land of Grass front, with his berserker fighting style, it was indeed easy for Konoha ninja to lose arms and legs...

But no matter what, she should first get some information from the wounded soldiers who had returned from the front! Tsunade made a plan in her heart. However...

"Nara, you wouldn't ask a question for no reason." Tsunade stared intently at him. "Since you've brought it up, it means you already have a certain guess. What did you find?"

"I don't have any concrete, credible evidence for now," Keisuke said calmly. "But just as you said, the supreme commander of the Iwagakure front is Orochimaru."

The research continues in another part of the text...

While the main body was away, a [Shadow Clone] of his was created. It took out the other research scroll given by Orochimaru. "The Iburi clan." Keisuke recalled the special family he had met near Konoha. "Both like a constitution-type Kekkei Genkai, and like an elemental-release-type. I wonder to what extent Orochimaru's research on that family's 'Smoke Release' has reached..."

Keisuke's [Shadow Clone] checked the surface of the scroll for any technique traps, then opened it again. "A product of the fusion of water and earth natures, the same as Wood Release. The Iburi clan's Smoke Release, what is the difference between it and the Wood Release of the God of Shinobi, Senju Hashirama?"

The very first sentence of this research scroll left Keisuke astonished. "Smoke Release is also a product of the fusion of water and earth natures?"

Keisuke was well aware of the origin of Wood Release (or at least, partially). In the mouth of the future experimental subject who successfully integrated the Hashirama cells, Yamato, Wood Release was a Kekkei Genkai produced by the fusion of water and earth. As for why a Kekkei Genkai formed from "water and earth" could have such a strong suppressive effect on the Tailed Beasts... Keisuke didn't know. The mysteries surrounding the Great Pillar were simply too many...

But through this opening sentence, Keisuke now understood why Orochimaru had sought out the Iburi clan. Orochimaru, who was obsessed with the Hashirama cells and chasing the power of the God of Shinobi, how could he let go of "Smoke Release," a Kekkei Genkai also formed from the fusion of water and earth?

Keisuke increased the speed at which he read the scroll. But the information recorded in the latter half of the scroll made him once think that Orochimaru had given him a fake scroll.

"...As a Kekkei Genkai, Smoke Release is simply too unstable!"

"...It is not a simple fusion of water and earth. It must have other nature transformations mixed in!"

"...Fire! Smoke Release simultaneously fuses the three different chakra natures of water, earth, and fire. It's just that it has not perfectly fused them, and cannot form a stable effect like Dust Release."

"...No, not just fire! It might also contain a certain amount of yin or yang nature transformation!"

"...Through a potion rich in life energy, the Iburi clan's Kekkei Genkai can be temporarily stabilized."

"...Indeed, in its search for stability, spiritual energy will constantly demand physical energy."

"...The Iburi clan's Smoke Release is a product of the fusion of four different chakra natures: Yin, Water, Earth, and Fire!"

(Author's Note:)

Regarding the Iburi clan's "Smoke Release," besides its existence, the rest is basically the author's secondary setting. The original work, whether manga or anime, does not mention what attributes the [Smoke Release] Kekkei Genkai is composed of. I repeat: the "Yin + Water + Earth + Fire" that the author mentioned is just a secondary setting. Please be aware.

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