[NARUTO] Night of the Full Moon

Madara returned to the camp with Sasuke, and the other tribesmen were accustomed to Sasuke's sudden appearance.

Seeing that Sasuke was safe and sound, Izuna just reached out and took off the grass stems from Sasuke's sleeves and laughed: "Why are you in such a mess?" She thought that if Sasuke was involved in such a huge battle, it would be fine, and she wouldn't have to worry about him all the time in the future. He was suddenly teleported to the battlefield and died.

Sasuke smiled back, but his hands under his sleeves tightened slightly.

Quan Nai may not have paid attention just now, but he knew that what Quan Nai took off was not the grass clippings that accidentally stuck to his body.There was no mistaking the real skin pulling feeling, the grass was clearly growing directly from his arm.

I don't know whether it was the result of transplanting Hashirama's cells, or whether grass seeds took root in him when he was affected by ninjutsu.Sasuke remained silent for now, but rolled up his sleeves and took a closer look when he was alone... He saw half of the remaining grass stems still on his arms, and several buds sprouting from the skin nearby.The arm is like the trunk of a tree, with spores branching out from the side branches.

Once the chakra is activated, those buds will quickly grow into strips and gradually solidify into harder wood.

Sasuke broke one of them against his skin.It was discovered that these young branches can be easily erased as long as the refining of chakra is stopped.The section close to the skin was very smooth, and the stump disappeared in the air in an instant, returning to the appearance of ordinary flesh.

Since there are no roots left in the body, we can basically rule out the speculation that these seedlings are parasites of real grass seeds.Looking at Senju Hashirama's equally nervous appearance on the battlefield at that time, it seemed that there was no possibility that he would use this technique and not eliminate the hidden danger for Sasuke.

After all, Sasuke, who grew up in Konoha, believed in the glorious and majestic image of Senju Hashirama in the records, and believed that he, who was regarded by Madara as a respectable opponent and friend, would not use such despicable methods.

In this case, the root cause of this abnormality is probably the Hashirama cells he transplanted before.

Orochimaru had told him earlier about the tragic situation of those who failed to transplant Hashirama's cells. Their bodies would be devoured by the cells and robbed of vitality, and transformed into a tree with only a human form left.

But the current scene seemed different from what Orochimaru described.Sasuke could feel that his body itself had not been eroded by Hashirama's cells. Those branches were bounded by skin, and the outside of the skin turned into wood branches, but the inside was still ordinary flesh and blood.

When Sasuke circulates chakra, the branches seem to grow out of flesh and blood. If the roots are pulled out, the blood will be dripping; but as long as Sasuke stops refining chakra, the branches are nothing more than accidentally contaminated cockleburs, which can Easily removed.

Sasuke felt quite strange in his heart. If the Hashirama cells he transplanted didn't cause such abnormality due to the activation of the vicious nature of the body, could it be that he awakened the Wood Release because of this?

Recalling that when Hashirama's cells were transplanted, those cells were able to produce some different chakra energies mixed into them when he was running chakra. Now that his body has adapted to those energies, he might be able to refine and use them to create new powers. .

Sasuke subconsciously avoided the refining of the thunder and fire attribute chakra in his body and tried to find another different kind of power. After a while, he actually stimulated a trace of very weak but indeed slowly flowing chakra.

Sasuke became more and more focused, gathering it to his fingertips, and making it materialize outside his body like using a Chidori... A newly-born seedling poked its head out from Sasuke's fingertips, and after growing a few inches, it grew. The green turned to brown and turned into a sharp thorn.

Unlike ordinary tree branches, wooden thorns filled with chakra are extremely hard.Sasuke deliberately tested the stone in front of him, and the wooden thorn was indeed like a blade filled with chakra, easily breaking the stone.But the shock sent back by the wooden thorn was stronger than other weapons, making Sasuke feel numb on his fingertips.

Now it is almost certain that Sasuke inherited some wood escape ability from the transplanted Hashirama cells.

Sasuke felt dumbfounded. According to legend, Mu Dun, which was so magical that no one else had ever awakened it, was successfully inherited by him?

Even though the refining speed is currently very slow due to the low conversion rate, the mature branches can change into various shapes as he wishes.Coupled with the hardness comparable to iron, this means that he can have a much-needed and handy weapon in almost any situation.

What's more, the materialization of this wood escape chakra seems to be naturally easier than other chakras. As long as it is released from the body, it will spontaneously condense and form.If Sasuke wanted to, the previous spikes could even grow out of his back.

When the enemy mistakenly thinks that he has been controlled, having his vital points pierced by wooden thorns that suddenly grow out can be regarded as a means to turn the tide of the battle.

Sasuke recalled that Kimimaro was covered in bone spurs, and thought sarcastically that Orochimaru was really a good hand at cultivating monsters.

However, he can grow a pair of webbed wings from his back when in the second state of Curse Seal. Compared with this, the abnormality of the long thorns is not worth mentioning.

Sasuke was playing with the wooden branches in his hands and thinking about more techniques that could be used in battle. Suddenly he felt a wave of chakra, and someone was peeping in the bushes nearby!

Sasuke was about to draw his sword as a warning, but the man took the initiative to walk out of the shade.

"Are you... Sasuke Uchiha?"

The young man who was also wearing Uchiha uniform showed a slightly dull expression of wonder: "I really look like Izuna. Are you really not twins?"

Sasuke calmed down his guarded look, but still kept his hand from the handle of the knife: "We are twins. Who did you hear that it was not the case?"

"Hey, but aren't you several years younger than him?"

"I'm just weak. I was poisoned as a child and my development was even more delayed." Sasuke said matter-of-factly.There has been a unified external rhetoric for so many years. When Sasuke took a closer look, it was indeed something he had vaguely seen on the other side. Maybe he just hadn't heard the news.

"Oh..." The man nodded thoughtfully, then asked, "How did you make branches from your hands just now? Isn't this Wood Release?"

Sasuke felt suspicious. It seemed that the other party had seen him using tree branches as weapons before and was suspicious, so he deliberately asked these questions to test whether he was an enemy in disguise.

Fortunately, Sasuke was just illustrating how to use the tree branches to fight enemies more effectively, instead of continuing to refine the wood escape chakra, otherwise it would be really hard to explain.

The human experiment of transplanting cells from hostile forces is too weird for today's era, and Sasuke doesn't want to tell others about it yet, especially such an unfamiliar clan member.

Sasuke thought for a moment, then imitated Izuna and showed a romantic smile: "Are you talking about this? This is called magic, it's just a little trick to coax women."

As Sasuke spoke, he put his hands behind his back and brought a common wild flower from his sleeve to the opponent: "If you want to learn, I can also teach you."

Sasuke saw that the other person's eyes seemed to be dull for a moment, and then he came back to his senses and asked, "What's the use of this?"

"Send flowers, both commoners and noble women are very fond of this." Sasuke said lightly, "As long as it can be exchanged for information, appearance is also a resource that can be used."

The person on the other side paused for a moment, and just when Sasuke thought he was going to sneer at this theory, the man said again: "Indeed, as long as the goal can be achieved, it doesn't matter what method is used."

Sasuke felt that he might have thought too high of the ideological bottom line of the Warring States Period.

In this era where victory or defeat is written in blood, no one cares whether the means used are glorious.Madara and Hashirama are the rare people who can escape the limitations of this era, but he doesn't get along too well with others and thinks everything is too simple.

Sasuke threw away the flowers in his hand and nodded without saying a word. The man quickly left without any intention of learning "magic".

Returning to the Snake Cave, during another routine check-up, the unusually active Hashirama cells in Sasuke's body were quickly discovered by Kabuto Yakushi. Orochimaru, who was observing from the sidelines, behaved even worse than Sasuke who realized that he could use wood escape. excited.

"That's the intensity! I once found sixty children for experiments in order to create a Wood Release holder. I spent a lot of time and energy, and even used a slow-release culture medium to help them gradually adapt to Senju Hashirama's genetics, but... All failed when Hashirama's cells were activated to such a degree." Orochimaru unconsciously stretched out his tongue, swinging it rapidly like a poisonous snake spitting a message, "Hashirama's cells in your body seem to be more active than usual, but you actually Don’t feel any discomfort?”

Sasuke knew that he could not hide it from Orochimaru, not to mention that Orochimaru understood the body's reaction to transplanting Hashirama cells far better than he did, and it was not safe for him to blindly speculate on some issues.So he said frankly: "When I woke up in the morning, there were a few grass sprouts growing on my body."

"Where is it?" Orochimaru's eyes were like lasers searching Sasuke's body, but found nothing.

Sasuke raised his arm to indicate the location where the seedlings had grown: "It was rubbed off when I was wearing clothes."

Orochimaru leaned down and carefully looked at the arm that didn't even have a hole, and couldn't see anything unusual.Then he confirmed: "No trace left at all?"

"When the grass roots were rubbed away, a white spot was left, but it disappeared quickly."

This is indeed different from Orochimaru's previous experiments.Not only is Sasuke still alive, maybe the difference between life and death is-"The plants on your body grow from outside the body."

"Otherwise?" Sasuke's heart moved, but his face remained calm.

"Many children had their internal organs pierced by branches growing from their bodies, and they died only after their skin and flesh were stretched open." Orochimaru described the purgatory-like scene lightly, explaining that the Hashirama cells transplanted into the children's bodies would gradually become entangled. As a whole, after devouring enough energy, its properties change and it becomes a sapling that grows on the human body as nutrients.

The saplings grow very quickly and can burst out of a person's body in an instant and kill a person completely.