Creak… Perhaps, the door was deformed after being violently kicked. When it was pushed open, its sharp corners scraped the floor with a piercing sound.
Boom… A bolt of blue lightning jabbed through the deep space, making the dark world outside momentarily bright. A black silhouette of a person holding an umbrella was seen at the door. It looked like he had just opened the umbrella while opening the door. It blocked the sight of the four Leaf Ninjas for a while.
They were unable to see the visitor’s appearance but they could feel an elegant and calm vibe from his posture. After he folded the umbrella, everyone could finally see the person and the first thing that they noticed was a pair of scarlet demonic Mangekyo Sharingan.
“Tonan-sama!” Nara Mido exclaimed and jumped down from the chandelier on the ceiling. The other three also appeared in the living room and all of them knelt in front of him.
Uchiha Tonan didn’t have any specific commanding position in the army. They were respectful only because of his extraordinary strength. Tonan glanced at them and said with a smile, “It is our Leaf compatriots, and here I was thinking enemies were lying in ambush in the house.”
“Tonan-sama, we also came to take shelter from the rain,” Sarutobi Masato, who had a guilty conscience, explained weakly. Tonan had always presented himself as someone with a strong sense of justice in their impressions.
He even fought against the sannin for civilians whom he did not know. Fortunately, they were wise enough to close the bedroom door. Masato desperately hoped that Tonan would simply sit in the living room and then leave. “Damn it, when will it stop raining?”
An easy-going smile appeared on Tonan’s face. He waved his hand and said, “I don’t have the slightest interest in what you’re doing here and what you have done. Please don’t interrupt my conversation with the house owner. It’s rude.”
The four looked at each other in dismay. They didn’t understand what Tonan was saying. Tonan walked over to the sofa and sat down. He looked at the spacious living room floor and said, “Uphold justice? What’s in it for me? If there is nothing, why should I spend my time in vain? I can only apologize for them.”
Once he finished talking to himself, he pointed at the coffee table and said, “It’s so dirty. Don’t you know how to clean up after eating?”
“Yes, yes…” The four hastily got up. Two cleaned up the food left on the table and the other two wiped it. Tonan crossed his hands in front of his chest and leaned on the sofa. He tapped on his arms and said, “By the way, are Leaf ninjas so incompetent these days? You couldn’t even find a child hiding in the room. Did you forget the basic technique to sense breathing?”
The questions startled the four who were cleaning the coffee table. “What? More people?” They followed Tonan’s gaze to the closed bedroom door and were greatly shocked. “No, we can’t let him in.”
Tosa and Masato looked at each other and hastily got up, walking toward the bedroom.
“Wait a minute.” Tonan suddenly straightened up and stopped those two. He was staring straight at the bedroom as if he could see everything inside through the door and the wall.
Then, looking surprised, he said, “What a rare disease! A congenital genetic defect. It seems to be a result of inbreeding. Really sad. But it’s good material. Oh? There is another embryo that has just been conceived. Today is a good day. I ran into two rare materials at one go.”
Tonan stood up and strode towards the bedroom. When the four saw him going inside, they were so frightened that their souls almost flew out of their bodies. If he only saw the corpses, they could say these were spies. But there was evidence of their heinous crime on the woman’s corpse.
Masato stepped forward and ran over to Tonan’s side. He said while trembling, “Sir… please rest here… leave this trivial matter to us.”
Tonan stopped and the joy on his face disappeared. He turned his head and stared indifferently at Masato. He said, “From the time I’ve set foot here, you keep interrupting me. Don’t you know how to respect a powerhouse?”
Like he was punishing a misdemeanor as a senior, Tonan cast the Hell Viewing Technique on Masato. “Uh…” Masato’s pupils’ shrank and as if he saw something terrifying, he fell to the ground and foam appeared in his mouth. The remaining three swallowed their saliva and stood on the spot, quivering. They didn’t dare move.
Tonan pushed open the bedroom door and walked in. As soon as the door opened, a foul smell spread out. But there was no change in Tonan’s expression. Doing human experiments, he was privy firsthand to all kinds of gruesomeness. He looked at the two corpses in the room and shook his head regretfully.
“The war is too cruel…” As he spoke, he took out a storage scroll from his ninja bag and opened it. He took out various tools from it. Then, without raising his head while playing with the tools, he said, “You two, come and carry this woman’s corpse to the bed.”
“Yes…” Seeing that Tonan had no intention to attack them, Mido and Yamanaka Tosa were a bit relieved. They carried the female corpse carefully onto the bed. Tonan put on medical gloves and a mask and stood in front of the corpse with a scalpel.
He took a deep breath and said, “This is the first time I’m doing a C-section. And I’m doing it on a corpse… I’m a little nervous.”
His expression became serious and he began to perform the procedure. The sharp blade slowly opened the dead woman’s stomach. Perhaps his technique was too good because there was not much blood flowing.
After a short while, Tonan took out a palm-sized baby from the stomach of the woman. This baby was not yet fully formed. It only had the general outline of a human being with two black rice-like eyes.
The vocal cords had not yet developed so it couldn’t cry like other babies. “The most critical step is the one most subjected to flaws. Misfortune will find unfortunate people. A congenital genetic defect, rebellious birth, coffin child, premature baby. This little fellow must not have been a good thing in his previous life. How lucky you are to meet me in this life!”
Tonan wiped the liquid on the baby with a clean sterilized handkerchief. Then, holding it right in front of his eyes, he carefully examined it. He was simultaneously using the Mystical Palm Technique to nourish the baby’s body. He muttered, “Life is both fragile and tenacious, isn’t it?”
“Your words are right, Tonan-sama,” Mido agreed with a fawning smile. Tonan nodded in satisfaction and carefully put the baby in a container filled with a green solution. He said with a look of reminiscence, “This little fellow is too precious. If Orochimaru-sama was still alive, he would’ve definitely gone crazy seeing it. It’s a pity that he passed away at such a young age…”
Rumble… A flash of lightning shot through the horizon as if to validate what Tonan just said.
