Whish… Whish…
Accompanied by the sound of breaking wind, several shurikens were shot straight towards the massive wild boar that was sleeping lazily.
Unfortunately for team-2, the shuriken did hit it but instead of piercing through his skin, they were all bounced off as if they encountered an incomparable hard wall on their path!
Even though the shurikens didn't cause the wild boar to be severely hurt, it did cause him annoyance and woke it from its sleep.
Roar…
The wild boar snorted hot air from its snout and let out an angry growl.
Seeing that the situation wasn't right, Tenma said, "Hey, hey, this guy's skin is too hard!"
Minazuki Yuki, the leader of Team-2 hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, it's going to attack!"
Before Minazuki even finished, the wild boar already rushed towards the three genins with a fierce momentum living a dust trail behind.
"Fire Style: Fire Ball Technique!"
Contrary to the rest of the panicked genins, Itachi calmly used the Fire Release Jutsu towards the incoming wild boar.
The huge fireball immediately drowned the wild boar, but before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief, its huge figure that was now blackish jumped out of the flames with great momentum and rushed towards the three genins.
Minazuki and Itachi immediately caught the panicked Shinko and the dazed Tenma respectively and flickered away from their spot.
Boom…
The wild boar that failed to hit its target collided with the big three on its path.
The momentum of the wild boar was more than what the tree could handle and it instantly fell to the ground with a muffled noise.
Not to mention the Tenma and Shinko, even Minazuki was shocked at the sight of the entire giant tree falling by a mere collision.
Shinko was a little afraid and said, "T-that was dangerous… M-Minazuki-Sensei… is this really a D-Class mission!?"
On the other hand, the wild boar that just collided with the big tree wasn't hurt in the slightest, and immediately got up, shook his head, and again snorted hot air from its snout and rushed towards Itachi and Tenma.
Tenma also spoke from the side, "That's not a wild boar… it's a monster!"
This time they were more cautious and understood that dealing with this wild boar wouldn't be as easy as they thought initially.
So, without any more hesitation, Itachi printed some hand seal and spoke in a low voice, "Genjutsu!"
As Itachi used the Genjutsu, the wild boar staggered a few more steps and then collapsed to the ground.
Seeing that the Wild boar was defeated, Shinko immediately jumped from the tree and cheered: "Wow, Itachi-Kun you defeated it!"
Minazuki also landed next to Itachi and patted on his shoulder, "Good job, Itachi!"
While the four were celebrating the completion of the mission, the wild boar who blacked out only for a few short seconds suddenly woke up and rushed towards the four.
"Be careful everyone!" – Itachi suddenly noticed the boar getting up and immediately warned the rest, but by the time his voice fell the boar was already close at hand.
Minazuki immediately turned around and was shocked, he had no time to make any moves so all he could do was spread his arms open to guard the three genins behind him.
Both Tenma and Shinko were horrified and couldn't do anything.
Whistle…
Suddenly, a clear whistle sounded from the other side.
The wild boar that was inches away from Minazuki and the three genins suddenly came to a halt as soon as it heard the whistle and turned to look in the direction from where it came.
At this time, a person slowly walked out of the forest.
As soon as, Itachi saw the person he muttered in surprise, "Kuroto-San!"
The person that came out from the other side was none other than Kuroto.
With his hands in the side pocket of his Kimono, he walked leisurely, his eyes shifted up and down of the wild boar and back and forth between the team-2 and the wild boar.
Realizing that it was Kuroto, the wild boar immediately turned around and walked towards him to confirm his scent.
Kuroto looked at the more than two meters high wild boar intimately nudging his feet and muttered in amazement, "Hey… I haven't seen you for just half a year, how come you have already grown up so big?"
The last time Kuroto saw the wild boar it only reached up to his waist, and now Kuroto himself doesn't reach up to the other party's waist.
While the boar was excitedly wagging its small tail, Itachi came towards Kuroto and asked curiously, "Kuroto-San, is this Ninja boar your summon beast?"
"Uh…" – Kuroto didn't know how to answer that, although this wild boar wasn't his summon beast, he was somewhat responsible for such growth, so after considering a little, he nodded, "That's right."
Itachi was surprised, "It turns out to be your summon beast, no wonder it's so powerful!"
While the three genins were admiring Kuroto and the boar much to its annoyance, Minazuki came over and introduced himself with a polite smile, "I am Minazuki Yuki, Konoha Jonin, thank you for helping us out a few moments ago!"
Kuroto nodded and after introducing himself, he asked Minazuki, why was his team fighting the boar and learned that while Kuroto was busy with all sorts of tasks and preparing to build his personal laboratory, the once little guy has become the boss of this forest area and severely damaged the ecosystem here.
Listening to this he didn't know what to feel about it.
Kuroto never expected that his momentary interest and random action at the beginning had cultivated such beast.
So, after a little consideration, Kuroto said to Minazuki, "Don't worry, I will drive it out of the Death forest."
Kuroto obviously can't let it stay in the Death Forest anymore, otherwise, it would continue to cause trouble and would ultimately be used to fulfil the belly of many shinobi at the Akimichi Restaurant Chain.
Although Kuroto too would want to try the taste, he still has better options for the wild boar.
So after sending away the Team-2, Kuroto circled around the wild boar and observed it more carefully.
To be honest, the potential displayed by this guy has been a little beyond Kuroto's initial expectations. Now he is more curious as to how far can it continue to grow, so after thinking a little he decided to create a summoning contract with it by making it his summon beast.
Perhaps it was because of the presence of the Tenseigan Chakra that has been flowing through the boar's body, or maybe because Kuroto fed it during its young age, it didn't resist the summoning contract and smoothly became his summon beast.
After sighing the summoning contract, Kuroto named it 'Okina Buta' which literally means 'Big Pig', and ordered Okina Buta to leave the territory of the Death Forest.
Kuroto didn't have enough energy to train Okina Buta so he decided to send it towards some of the dangerous forest territories of the Land of fire, and let it grow up naturally. As for how far it can grow in the future remains on it.
At the end of this short episode, Kuroto immediately returned to his laboratory.
The failure of the first attempt to create clones, Kuroto understood that instead of rushing headfirst for early results; he will have to invest some time to learn the science of cloning from the information scroll he obtained from Orochimaru, and review the mistakes he made.
Perhaps because of his research and development of the 'Living Corpse Reincarnation,' and all those cruel experiments' that Orochimaru currently has a deep knowledge of human anatomy, from the body structure to organ transplantation.
Just from casually reading through the information written in the scroll, Kuroto already learned a lot and figured out a lot of his mistakes, some of which can even be considered very minor but in fact, have a very important role.
After summing up all his mistakes turn-by-turn, Kuroto created the next plan.
With the devices he has in the laboratory currently, Kuroto can barely try the experiments involved in the process of creating a Water Clone.
The reason why he chose the Water Clone because the water Clone is the most stable of the five basic chakra natures, therefore, the success rate for the formation of a Water Clone is the highest, theoretically at least.
For creating other clones, either Kuroto lacks the necessary devices or that their characteristics are too unstable and Kuroto would need more experience to create them, so currently their theoretical success rate is not very high.
And lastly, there is also the Yang Clone, which would represent Natural Energy, and be mainly useful for the Six Path Senjutsu, Kuroto has no idea where to begin about it so it can only be postponed for the last.
The development has to be done step-by-step, so starting with the most stable Water Clone seems most reasonable, and this is also the main reason why he brought Yuki Haku with him.
The reason is obviously the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai of the Yuki Clan.
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