102 Decision
"I took part in the Ninja World War last year. On the battlefield, I found that an Iwagakure Shinobi was still alive, so I wanted to save him, but he immediately tried to kill me the moment he saw me, so I killed him. I did not have any ill intent. I even gave him water to drink, but why did he want to kill me? I asked my father this question. My father's answer was because of war. I wonder if people will stop fighting, and so many lives can be spared if there is no war. So I am curious about what other people think of war." Itachi closed off his story and looked at Kabuto.
Kabuto looked at Itachi in surprise. He did not expect Itachi to have participated in the last Shinobi World War and even killed another Shinobi.
"If there is no war, the world should be much better," Kabuto affirmed Itachi's idea.
As a war orphan living in an orphanage, Kabuto knew too well the pain brought about by war.
He did not know about himself since he had lost his memory, but the rest of the people in the orphanage used to have a happy family before, but the war destroyed everything.
"Do you think so too?" Itachi was elated.
There was almost no one who could understand his thoughts among his peers.
The only person he could talk to was Shisui, who was not of the same age as him. Moreover, Shisui seemed to have become much busier recently. It had been a while since he had seen him.
Kabuto nodded. He had knew understood the unique part of Itachi. Itachi was really mature, too mature for this age, in fact.
"Let's not talk about it for now. I'll have to train for a while." Kabuto felt that he had almost fully recovered, so he walked to the pit again and began practicing.
Itachi watched as Kabuto began to practice Water Release. After thinking for a moment, he finished his Dango and began to practice Fire Release.
"Fire Style - Great Fireball Technique!"
Itachi skillfully made a hand seal and exhaled a big flame from his mouth, forming a large fireball that he aimed at the river.
Sizzle---!!
A large amount of water was evaporated.
Kabuto was surprised upon seeing Itachi could actually release such a powerful Ninjutsu.
If he was near the river, he could use Water Bullet Technique that was as amazing, but when he was not by the river...
Seeing Itachi, Kabuto became even more motivated in training.
Itachi seemed younger than him after all.
Just like that, the two people who were originally going to stand against each other began to train together.
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Woman's heart is fickle.
Now, Nagasawa finally understood what those words meant.
When he asked Tsunade to be the person in charge of the medical department, she refused, but after just two days, Tsunade made a deal with Minato and became the person in charge of the medical department.
Nagasawa was baffled. Tsunade refused when he offered but then asked for that position after two days.
However, since Tsunade had taken the initiative, Nagasawa no longer had to worry about Tsunade running away.
He could spare a lot of energy for other things.
After finishing his work, Nagasawa suddenly remembered the data that Orochimaru had mentioned.
Nagasawa took it out from the pile of materials and planned to read it.
Even though he said he would read it soon, it had been two weeks since then.
Nagasawa then read it.
At the beginning, Nagasawa did not find anything special, but as he flipped through the pages, he found something wrong.
"Record of Hashirama's cell implant..." Looking at this big headline, Nagasawa fell into deep thought.
Which part of this was Summoned Animal?
Could it be that Orochimaru was asking him to join in his Hashirama's cells research?
Nagasawa felt that Orochimaru didn't have that much free time.
Nagasawa then contacted Orochimaru for no reason to invite him to join his research program.
"He wouldn't want to recruit me to research Hashirama's cells, would he?"
Nagasawa quickly guessed Orochimaru's thoughts.
As expected of Orochimaru, he really was bold.
He was the Fourth Hokage's Anbu, and he was not on the same path as Orochimaru.
Orochimaru's secret research was against Konoha's Will of Fire.
He wouldn't be able to get away unscathed if he were found out even if Orochimaru backed him up.
And now, Orochimaru actually dared to invite him to study Hashirama's cells together.
It was almost the same as a robber inviting police to rob banks together.
Even if Orochimaru said that he put a wrong research data by mistake, Nagasawa would definitely not believe it.
Others might make this mistake, but not Orochimaru.
Nagasawa tapped his finger on the table and began to think.
Needless to say that if the research of Hashirama's cells was successful, Konoha would definitely become stronger.
It was also because of Hashirama's cells that Madara awakened Rinnegan.
On the other hand, if Nagasawa feigned ignorance and avoided Orochimaru, Orochimaru would continue his research and defect from Konoha like in the manga...
Konoha would then lose a top research institute and a Kage-level combatant.
Either that, or conduct the research together with him...
If he chose the former, he at least knew how things would go from there on, and he could be in control of the situation. The disadvantage was that he lost Orochimaru, and Konoha had another enemy.
If he chose the latter, he didn't know what would happen, and there would be infinite possibilities. It was possible that Orochimaru would not defect, and Konoha would become more powerful. It was also possible that Orochimaru would still defect, and Nagasawa would be dragged into the mess.
Nagasawa thought about it, picked up the information, and walked toward Orochimaru's base.
Compared to the future he knew, he preferred to work hard to change the bad ending.
Nagasawa was never a person who went with the rules.
