Hidden Leaf Hospital.
A group of dical shinobi from the other four great shinobi villages had gathered to discuss the matter of transplanting the First Hokage's cells.
Clearly—
The other villages wouldn't place full trust in the Hidden Leaf. So, alongside the volunteers, they also sent nurous highly skilled dical shinobi.
For example, from the Hidden Sand ca Chiyo, a top-tier dical shinobi who had developed Self-Reincarnation—a forbidden jutsu that, like the Rinne Tensei of the Rinnegan, could truly bring the dead back to life.
The fact that soone could develop a forbidden jutsu of such caliber spoke volus about Chiyo's terrifying prowess in dical ninjutsu.
In fact, with the Hidden Leaf's dical shinobi having shone brightly in various wars, the other villages had since established their own dical shinobi systems.
"There's nothing wrong with Tsunade's surgical arrangents."After shaking his head, a dical shinobi from the Hidden Mist turned to Chiyo and asked respectfully,"Elder Chiyo, what's your opinion?"
Chiyo replied,"There's no issue with the surgical arrangents. It's just that the effects of the fusion agents and inhibitors still need to be verified in practice."
"Judging from the formula, there shouldn't be a problem. Everyone here is familiar with the dicinal properties of these compounds."—This from a dical shinobi of the Hidden Stone.
"dicinal properties can still vary!"Chiyo shook her head and turned her gaze to a youth nearby—Shinji.
That's right. As a dical corps intern, Uchiha Shinji had been tasked with the exhausting job of receiving these dical shinobi from the other villages.
But what was hard work to others, Shinji pursued eagerly.
Because mingling with these dical shinobi gave him a chance to study the fusion and inhibitor formulas—speeding up his mastery of their preparation techniques.
Noticing the Uchiha fan crest on Shinji's clothing, Chiyo asked:
"You're from the Uchiha clan?"
"Yes, my na is Uchiha Shinji. I'm an intern in the dical unit. If you need anything, you may co to directly."
Shinji nodded politely.
Chiyo didn't hold back:
"We'll need the Hidden Leaf to provide so dicinal ingredients so we can test the efficacy of the fusion agents and inhibitors."
Shinji smiled:
"No problem."
Originally, the village had no budget for this sort of thing—but Shinji didn't care.
If he didn't let these dical shinobi test the fusion and inhibitor agents, how would he get close enough to steal their formulation techniques?
Soon, the request from the other villages' dical teams to test the agents was formally submitted—by none other than Shinji.
Upon seeing the report, Tsunade was imdiately enraged:"Those bastards actually want us to provide the ingredients too!?"
Shizune gave a helpless smile:
"Looks like they really don't trust us..."
"If they don't trust us, they shouldn't have accepted the surgery in the first place! It's not like we begged them!"
After complaining, Tsunade shook the report in her hand:
"And what is this report supposed to be? The dical corps actually submitted this? How am I supposed to reject it?"
Shizune quickly explained:
"The one handling reception is Uchiha Shinji... He's still a kid, so..."
Tsunade frowned:
"Why did we assign an intern to such an important task? Ugh, whatever. Just so ingredients. Give it to them."
With Tsunade's approval, the dical corps didn't dare delay. They imdiately provided the requested dicinal materials needed for the formula to the other villages' dical teams.
And Shinji, who was in charge of reception, handled this batch personally.
Soon after, he noticed sothing was off with the ingredients. While the foreign dical shinobi were checking the inventory, Shinji secretly activated his Sharingan, and using the x-ray vision of his Byakugan-linked dojutsu, peeked at the formula the village had handed over.
"This isn't right... This clearly isn't the original version!"
Shinji furrowed his brows.
He had obtained the original formulas for the fusion and inhibitor agents from Yakumo. What the village had handed over to the outsiders was clearly different.
He imdiately cross-analyzed the two versions using his knowledge of pharmacology.
He discovered that the original version was far more complex, both in ingredient count and preparation technique, than the version the village handed out.
"So the village gave them a low-tier version..."
Shinji chuckled and shook his head.
Still, even if it was a low-tier version, it didn't stop him from stealing their preparation know-how. So he quickly gathered himself and continued assisting the dical shinobi from the other villages.
Because Shinji was officially assigned by the Hidden Leaf's dical corps, and because he genuinely offered a lot of help, Chiyo and the others didn't bother hiding anything from him.
And so, right under Shinji's nose, Chiyo and the others completed the preparation of the low-tier fusion and inhibitor agents.
Once the concoction was done, they began verifying the dicinal properties.
Shinji quietly retreated to the side, silently reviewing everything he had just learned.
"So those few ingredients require cold-processing..."
"The extraction process for Zijin Fruit is actually that complex..."
"Antler Ginseng needs to be at least 30 years old? The formula didn't ntion that... Maybe it's basic pharmacological knowledge, so they didn't bother writing it down?"
Just from observing the preparation once, Shinji found himself deeply enriched.
So ti later, the dical shinobi from the Hidden Mist said:"The dicinal analysis of the fusion agent is complete—non-toxic, with effective components."
From the Hidden Cloud side, another added:
"The inhibitor agent analysis is also complete—slightly toxic to cellular tissue, but strongly suppressive!"
Chiyo nodded slightly.
Even with the most critical eye, she couldn't pick out a single flaw in the version Hidden Leaf had handed over.
Once it was confird that the formula was effective, Shinji smiled and said:
"Once the volunteers complete their checkups, we'll begin surgery arrangents here in the Hidden Leaf."
Chiyo looked aningfully at Shinji:
"I heard the Hidden Leaf Academy is about to hold a combat assessnt—and that Kurama Yakumo, the one who underwent the surgery, will participate?"
Shinji replied:
"That's correct."
A dical shinobi from Hidden Cloud asked:
"Can we observe the test?"
Shinji shook his head:
"You'll have to request that through formal channels. I don't have the authority to answer."
Chiyo smiled:
"Uchiha Shinji, if the rumors are true, didn't you once defeat that girl from the Kurama clan who can use Wood Release?"
Shinji remained calm:
"It was just luck."
"Oh?" Chiyo didn't seem convinced. She continued,
"Then please, help us file a request to observe the event."
"Understood."
Shinji nodded and turned to leave.
Once Shinji was gone, the dical shinobi from Hidden Mist clicked his tongue in surprise:
"Since when did the Uchiha beco so humble? It's unnerving."
The Cloud ninja sneered:
"He's just a remnant of a destroyed clan. What's he got to be arrogant about?"
The Stone ninja smirked mockingly:
"Really? Then how co I heard that just today, Uchiha Sasuke publicly thrashed one of your Cloud shinobi at the academy?"
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