As their lips parted, a thin layer of saliva could be seen separating their lips.
It tasted like mochi. Oh well, no biggie.
He gave her a nice smile.
"Sleep well," he said.
"You too," she replied, as if on instinct. He then walked away.
He did what he ca here to do, which was accompany her. The kiss was just an added extra.
Anyway, he liked it. Don't judge him.
When he got ho, he relaxed a bit.
Then wrote a letter to the Hokage, sothing to say he would be out of the village for a few days. He would be in the sage area, learning the basics of Sage Mode.
Mikoto would also receive one. Oh well.
He stretched his body a bit.
Okay, ti to start this shit.
"Summoning Jutsu."
With a puff of chakra and a sharp snap of air—
POOF!
A portion of Lady Katsuyu erged.
The little slug appeared inside his room, its size was only about 4 inches wide and 6 inches long.
So nothing too big.
She blinked slowly—if you could call what she was doing blinking. She jumped onto the boy's shoulder, feeling out for his chakra.
Hm. Everything was in perfect harmony, which ant...
"You're ready, then?"
Seijuro gave a humble nod.
"I have listened to your advice and ditated. I have full control over my chakra."
The slug nodded along. It seed so. The boy's chakra control seed to be on par with Tsunade.
Now, let us see if he could master what his master couldn't.
"Well then... brace yourself."
POV Change – Shikkotsu Forest – Slug Sage Domain
The world flipped inside out—chakra twisted, and the scenery shifted.
A Reverse Summoning, dragging him deep into Shikkotsu Forest—the ancient and near-mythical holand of the Slug Clan.
It was... wet.
Moss-covered trees. Rivers of glimring ichor. Strange glowing mushrooms. The air humd with ambient chakra—gentle, yet imnse.
Slug trails left faint, silver luminescence across the rocks and bark.
He also felt sothing else.
The second he arrived in this place, he could feel it—sothing he had been aware of since the first ti he t the slug, but now, he could feel it.
It was very abundant in the area.
Was this... Sage Chakra?
Hm. He could feel it.
The sage chakra seed drawn to him. He felt as if he'd wielded sothing similar to this before.
Wasn't Sage Chakra basically Nature Chakra?
Wouldn't that make it Reishi...?
His brow furrowed. Why was he thinking of Reishi?
And why was he thinking the ninja world was made of Kishi?
None of those concepts made sense to him—yet at the sa ti, they made a shit-ton of sense to him.
His brow furrowed a bit. He wondered why he was thinking of such shit.
Oh well. No biggie.
This place felt nice. Almost felt like the Soul Society...
Hm. He needed to get his mory checked—why was he thinking of such things?
And there, at the heart of it—
The Main Body of Lady Katsuyu.
She was colossal. Easily the size of a mountain.
Her true form pulsed gently with life and patience—yet an undercurrent of power trembled with every syllable that echoed from her mouth.
She was the Slug Sage—bigger than actual Bijū. Damn, she was massive.
She leaned slightly closer, antennae twitching.
"You sll... like danger."
Seijuro blinked. Then tilted his head with a polite smile.
"I'll take that as a complint. I am a shinobi, after all."
Katsuyu's chuckle echoed from sowhere.
The Slug Sage made a rumbling sound that might have been amusent... or existential worry.
"Very well. You are here to walk the path of a Sage. Listen carefully, child of the Kurama..."
She slowly extended a feeler, and chakra condensed like morning mist.
"Nature Energy," she began, "is the pure, balanced force of the world. It is not chakra—but can be added to your chakra to create Senjutsu, or 'Sage Chakra.'"
She pulsed a small bit of energy out—it shimred in the air like lightning in syrup.
"To enter Sage Mode, you must absorb Nature Energy in perfect balance with your own chakra. Too little, and nothing happens. Too much... and you turn to stone. Or worse—dissolution into primal matter."
A stone statue of a ninja stood nearby—frozen mid-pose.
Nice and ominous.
"To survive Sage Mode," she continued, "you must train your body, your senses, and your soul to detect and blend Nature Energy naturally. With ti... you will not need stillness or rituals. You will simply beco a creature of balance."
Seijuro nodded, absorbing every word.
He was already adapting his chakra flow, trying to map how to circulate external energy without destabilizing it.
"And while you remain in this sacred place," the Slug Sage added with a slight twitch of her feelers, "you shall eat only what we eat."
A slug slithered by, dragging a gelatinous mass of... sothing.
Moss? Mold? Glow-in-the-dark swamp at?
Seijuro stared at it.
Then looked up with a deadpan face.
"...I can manage..."
Lady Katsuyu smiled.
"It's high in fiber."
He exhaled.
"I am sure..."
Didn't an he wanted to eat it.
He reached down, scooped up a sluggy, mossy ball, and chomped.
...He imdiately regretted that decision.
But still swallowed.
"Let's do this."
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