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"Zabuza's Water Style... and Haku's Ice Release..."
Though they were fairly standard jutsu on their own, when combined, they were far from weak.
Having absorbed Zabuza and Haku's ninja fragments, along with their soul bodies, Uchiha Ying was sitting in his room, mentally reviewing the jutsu and kekkei genkai he'd just inherited.
"And their souls..."
In a daze, Ying once again entered his "Dream Realm."
"Meeting me is your fortune. From now on, you'll help me manage the shinobi of this little village."
After reviving Zabuza and Haku, Ying placed them in the same hidden settlement where he kept the other stray ninjas.
"You... what the hell are you?"
Zabuza and Haku stared at their fully restored bodies in disbelief.
"Just think of me as a god of this place. The price of your resurrection is loyalty. Understood?"
"A god..."
Yeah. Who else but a god could revive them so casually?
Not to mention... they still remembered, vividly, how their souls had been absorbed by the boy standing before them.
"Fine. Since you gave us new life, we'll work for you."
To be alive again, and together with Haku, even if in this strange village—Zabuza genuinely felt grateful to the boy.
As for Haku, that went without saying.
——
*Knock knock.*
Just as Ying returned to reality from the Dream Realm, a knock came from his door.
"Ying... Ying-kun, can I come in?"
To his surprise, it was Sakura.
"Mhm."
Ying responded simply and looked at the girl stepping into his room, clearly nervous and fidgety.
"I-I have something to ask... I was wondering if you could teach me a bit about medical ninjutsu?"
Even though Sasuke's wounds had healed quickly with Ying's ointment, Sakura had noticed just how useless she'd been.
Not only was she a non-factor in combat—she couldn't even help in healing.
"No."
Ying rejected her flatly.
"N-No...? I guess if it were Ino, you wouldn't have refused..."
Disappointment clouded Sakura's face.
"No. I just think if you want to learn medical ninjutsu, you should go to a medical-nin. Not me."
As he spoke, Ying subconsciously thought of the person whose "medicinal assets" he checked every night.
Tsunade...
He could touch her body every night in the dream world—but the real Tsunade? He hadn't seen her in years.
"I... I see. Okay then."
Sakura left his room, clearly dejected.
——
"She's quite cute. Why not get a little closer to her? I think she..."
Before Sakura's scent had even faded, another female ninja entered the room.
"Yuugao... since when do you gossip?"
Ying was surprised to hear gossip from the normally stoic Yuugao Uzuki.
"Don't tell me... you actually see me as your little brother?"
"I *told you*, stop calling me that!"
For once, Yuugao's icy expression gave way to a full range of animated emotion.
"Though... being called that from time to time isn't so bad. And, well... if you really *want* to be my little brother, I wouldn't mind."
More like—she'd love it.
Since the day they met, her impression of Ying had been rising by the day. If she really had a perfect little brother like him, she'd probably go to bed smiling every night.
"Is that so? If you give me pocket money every day, I might consider it."
Ying pretended to think seriously.
"You..."
Of course he was teasing again.
Yuugao rolled her eyes, then finally got down to business.
"Enough of that. You called me here for a reason, right?"
Indeed, Yuugao had been invited here by Ying.
"Leave the scroll with Zabuza's corpse here with me."
That was his real goal.
"Why? Is it useful to you?"
"Something like that."
Ying didn't deny her guess.
"Alright."
Yuugao didn't press. Without hesitation, she handed over the scroll containing both Zabuza and Haku's bodies.
——
"These Konoha brats are full of energy."
That night—
Ao and Terumi Mei had followed Ying's group and were now watching from the shadows near their rest stop.
"That orange one's chakra reserves are massive."
With his Byakugan, Ao could clearly see Naruto training to walk up trees using chakra, alongside Sasuke.
"Don't worry about the genin. Focus on the one inside the house."
Terumi Mei wasn't about to let Konoha walk off with Zabuza's body. And if possible, she also wanted to know what exactly was written in that "Kirigakure Mission" message.
"Hmm..."
Ao continued scanning ahead.
"That Sharingan user, Kakashi, isn't faking. He's genuinely weakened—he's been bedridden all day."
"Perfect. That should make tonight's operation go smoothly."
Knowing the strongest enemy was already down gave Mei some relief.
"But... the Anbu kunoichi handed the scroll with Zabuza's body to that other boy."
"Oh? The handsome one who looked really good without his mask?"
"Lady Mei..."
This wasn't the time to swoon over boys!
"That boy has a ton of chakra too. And if he's already in Anbu at that age, he's probably not weak."
Ao refused to underestimate him.
"It's fine. I'll handle him myself."
Mei was confident. No matter how strong that boy was, there was no way he could match her.
"Ao, go kidnap the two genin. Cause some chaos. I'll use that distraction to raid the boy's room and retrieve the scroll."
With a few quick thoughts, Mei had already come up with a plan.
"Yes, ma'am!"
——
"Damn it... Forget Sakura, why doesn't *Ying* have to train chakra climbing?"
After grinding all night, Naruto finally managed to climb to the top of a tree.
Sasuke wasn't far behind.
"That guy really *is* better than both of us when it comes to chakra control..."
But what was Ying even doing here? He clearly seemed to be hiding something.
Whatever. Sasuke had only one goal: get stronger.
And speaking of getting stronger... that weird dream realm mission—when would it appear again?
One successful mission gave him a huge chakra boost. That was way more effective than regular training.
Sasuke *wanted* another run of that dream dungeon.
"Who's there!?"
Just as Sasuke was deep in thought, a shadowy figure appeared on the treetop nearby.
"Too slow."
In a flash, Ao's shadow clone appeared silently behind Naruto and
Sasuke, his hands clamping down on their throats.
His elite jonin-level speed and taijutsu were on a completely different level—far beyond anything Naruto and Sasuke could hope to match right now.
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