However, Takuno did not return to his old home, but to a brand new house with a yard.
This was the house he bought after becoming the Head of the Sealing Team. With this identity, the house price was basically in the cheapest range.
Because after becoming the Head of the Sealing Team, his salary was substantial, and he would also receive research funds from above, which forced him to reduce the frequency of taking missions.
After all, why did he take missions before? Wasn't it just to earn money to research Sealing Jutsu?
Now that he had research funds and a substantial salary, if he still constantly went out on missions, it would clearly raise some questions.
Since he was spending more time in the village, his previous excuse of not often being home was gone, so he naturally needed a proper house.
His current house was carefully selected by him; it was far from the Hokage Building, and there were no powerful ninjas around.
That's right, he chose this location precisely because he was worried that using the Summoning Jutsu to leave would attract unwanted attention.
After Takuno returned, he didn't rest but went to the Sealing Team's headquarters.
"Captain, you're here?"
The Sealing Team member on guard showed no surprise when he saw Takuno.
It was perfectly normal for him to come to work in the middle of the night. In the eyes of the Sealing Team's ninjas, their new Head of the Sealing Team was excessively obsessed with Sealing Jutsu; they really didn't know what to say about such a degree of dedication.
Their initial hostility towards this suddenly appointed Head of the Sealing Team had slowly faded.
Of course, most importantly, his Sealing Jutsu skills completely outclassed the entire Sealing Team.
"Hm, not sleepy this time?" Takuno glanced at him and said with a smile.
"Hehe, how could I dare?" The other person scratched his head, grumbling internally, 'Since we know you might come in the middle of the night, who would dare to slack off at this time?'
"Alright, then I'll go in." Takuno didn't chat with him for long; he wasn't like the Third Hokage, who could chat with anyone.
"Yes!"
The guard member's face lit up with a happy expression after Takuno left.
It was well-known that once their Head of the Sealing Team went in to research Sealing Jutsu, he would almost certainly not come out, which meant that no one would discover him slacking off now!
Takuno actually knew that the other person would slack off after he left, but it didn't matter; he never intended to enforce overly strict discipline.
He arrived at the sealing orb that controlled the barrier around the village, checking the records within. There were records of the Summoning Jutsu at this time, but very few, and he found his own trace among them.
"There are still traces, after all?" Takuno narrowed his eyes. To transfer completely without leaving a trace, it seemed he would have to slightly modify the barrier and leave a secret door within it that only he knew about.
Thinking this, Takuno erased his own trace, then dispatched several Shadow Clones and began researching Sealing Jutsu.
It could be said that he was openly using the Sealing Team's research funds to research the Sealing Jutsu he needed. As for the accountability later, he had plenty of by-products from the Sealing Jutsu he had researched before.
He could just throw out a few of them as results to submit.
Some less important Sealing Jutsu could even be given to his team members to help innovate.
Currently, he wasn't researching a new Sealing Jutsu, but rather content he had been researching previously.
However, the primary focus of the Sealing Jutsu he was researching back then was a Sealing Jutsu for cutting off Tailed Beast Chakra. Although this Sealing Jutsu was researched, it wasn't the main direction, so its progress was only halfway.
The core of this combination Sealing Jutsu he intended to research revolved around memory extraction, memory sealing, and creating an illusionary realm based on the extracted memories.
Memory extraction is achievable in Naruto, such as the secret techniques of the Yamanaka Clan and some special types of genjutsu combined with other methods.
Of course, there is also the Human Path ability of the Rinnegan.
Nevertheless, memory extraction is possible, and what he is currently doing is implementing it using Sealing Jutsu.
As for memory sealing, it goes without saying; Minato used this Sealing Jutsu at the end of the Ryūmyaku movie.
Regarding the final creation of an illusionary realm, he had recently made an effort to study relevant knowledge from books on genjutsu. Creating such an illusionary realm, especially with clear memories as a template, is not that difficult.
Currently, after thoroughly understanding the barrier-type Sealing Jutsu Minato gave him, the research progress of this combination Sealing Jutsu has significantly increased.
It could be said that Minato inadvertently helped him a great deal.
Otherwise, it would have taken at least several more years to research this combination Sealing Jutsu. Now… if he speeds up the research, it should be fully developed this year.
At that time, he could simulate the experiences he needed based on the memories of those people.
And the research of this combination Sealing Jutsu was naturally for the Sharingan.
After all, the Sharingan requires intense emotions to awaken. It even needs to first experience 'love,' and then when 'love' is lost, the brain receives a strong stimulus, Chakra floods into the eyes, causing the eyeballs to mutate and thus awaken the Sharingan.
In reality, Takuno couldn't think of anyone he cared about; it was unlikely he would ever have someone he could 'love' in his lifetime.
This was something he had determined a long time ago, which is why he chose to research this Sealing Jutsu to help him awaken his Sharingan.
As for some speculations about being able to awaken the Sharingan if one's spiritual power is strong enough, since they are just speculations, he naturally wouldn't take them as facts.
He could experiment, but it wouldn't hinder his path of researching Sealing Jutsu.
In fact, he felt that his spiritual power was quite strong, but something still seemed to be missing for awakening the Sharingan.
Through an analysis of the Uchiha's awakening process in the original work, what he lacked was sufficiently abundant emotion.
This doesn't include loss, just like Obito awakened his two tomoe Sharingan without losing anything, simply due to 'love.' Of course, when he did experience loss, it was even more powerful, directly jumping from two tomoe Sharingan to Mangekyo Sharingan.
And although he doesn't watch Boruto, from videos he's seen, it seems there was also someone who awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan directly through love… Honestly, how must the Uchiha of Naruto feel about that?
However, neither Naruto nor Boruto applies to Takuno. He himself admitted that his emotions were somewhat too faint. No one he could 'love' appeared, nor would anyone he could 'hate' to the bone emerge.
Aside from being slightly excited when he obtained the Chimera Technique, his emotions had always been quite stable.
So, Takuno felt that if he wanted to awaken his Sharingan through his own emotions, he might as well just go to sleep; everything would be in his dreams.