(Orochimaru pov)

  Despite the fws it possessed I erfectly aware that in the hands of a skilled iryonieique truly shown but it had uses in other fields as well that the boy seemed to overlook. For example alchemists would likely get a vast amount of use from the teique as they could prepare herbs and medies methodically that you would normally need days to weeks to prepare as a single person in half or less than that amount of time. Other produ type occupations would also be allowed to ramp up drastically with this teique.-

  The boy was corre his expnation of the teiques uselessness in bat though as all the teique would aplish in that situation was to make more inferior shinobi. If a problem required numbers rather than power that would be fi history has proven that power trumps numbers in almost all regards. What I wahe teique for however was it's potential use in fuinjutsu. The biggest fw in the sealing arts was the strain and requirements that a single seal master had to deal with when using powerful seals.-

  It drained ones chakra and if you wanted your seals to cover a rge area you needed either time , help or massive chakra reserves. This teique however allows a seal master to effectively bee two or more people with identical chakra signatures and amounts all perfectly in sync. All the downsides of the teique were worth risking in the face of this massive amount of utility. I had my best subordinate in the vilge, Kabuto attempting to leareique as well as sway the boy towards joini was surprisingly not going very well. All the information I had on the boy painted him as nearly identical to myself mentally speaking.-

  Yet he urning the subtle maniputions Kabuto was using that a younger me would have defiaken. I couldn't uand where the issue lied as I was so certain this would work. It ossible that the fault may lie with the boys senses as Kabuto had reported that the boy was suspicious of him. Maniputions do tend to fail when one knows that they are being maniputed after all. This left me in a rather tight spot as on one hand Kabuto was the best option for this and oher his ce of success is innately promised if they boy was suspicious of him.-

  I could only trust Kabuto to do his best while fully expeg failure but I always had back up pns. I had thought about attempting to have one of my younger subordiry and seduce the boy but reports were clear that he cared little for the opposite sex's attention. I also couldn't target the boys retives or friends to manipute him either as the moment I even pted it my instincts warned me against it heavily which was a surprise in and of itself.-

  I had fought a great many powerful enemies in my life and the times my instincts have warned me like this are few and far between but ead every time was food reason. The st time this had happened was when I had pted snatg Pains eyes out of his head and the danger I felt in that instant was suffog. This made me curious as to why my instincts would warn me against taking a against those close to the boy and I hat fool Mizuki into ag against the Jinchuriki of the ails.-

  The results spoke for themselves as the fool suffered a humiliating and overwhelmi uhe boys hands despite activating the fwed curse mark I had given him. I decided to reevaluate the boy at that point as I had clearly uimated his strength. My desire to possess his body only increased however as the more he improved the better for wheually had that body for myself. With this in mind I redoubled my efforts on fusing the dojutsu bloodliogether while cultivating a rge amount of the first Hokages cells to be fused with the final perfected result. Just imagining the final fusion in the boys body filled me with excitement and I went back to work.-

  (Normal pov)

  Kabuto had proven my suspis correct when he had started subtly feeding me advanced knowledge and sly hints of more. No ohout a high degree of skill would even know what he was refereng in most cases and that meant he was hiding for some reason and I doubted it was for the vilges sake. It was clear to me however that he DEFINITELY didn't have my best is in mind and that was reason enough for me to ignore him entirely.-

  Time passed and soon three months came a with a few things ging during this period. Kakashi had finally taken his team on a ked mission that went well. It was a simple bandit extermination mission so obviously the team did well aurned without a scrataruted about it for days before I had subtly passed a message to Kakashi that he wasn't training his squad hard enough if they still had so muergy. It was a mean prank to pull but it was all for their be even if they didn't think so.-

  Kakashi had basically just started holding joint training exercises with his self procimed rival, Might Guy's squad that sisted of Neji, Rock Lee aen. That squad was iing as for ck of a better description it urely physical force reted, no ninjutsu at all. Neji was a Hyuga and as such ecialized ile fist. Rock Lee was learning Guy's own strong fist style taijutsu aen was a ons specialist. This was an unusual squad formation but one I wholeheartedly approved of as each member covered a point the others cked in.-

  Rock Lee was a heavy hitter, Neji could defuse ninjutsu and scout ahead aen was a rahreat with her many projectile ons. In a weirdly effective way they covered the tank, attacker and ranger roles perfectly and only cked a healer to be a near perfeit. Might Guy as a sensei was terrible at teag ninjutsu but was excellent at training physical prowess which Kakashi was taking advantage of. It was a bit zy of him to just co opt Guy's training with his squad but it was good training so I wasn't really bothered by it.-

  I myself had been w on mastering B rank jutsu of each of the elements while I kept an ear out for any word of powerful chakra beasts I could snatch. So far I had mastered oer jutsu and one fire jutsu at the B rank and was currently w on ah jutsu which was also nearing pletion. In addition I ending a good deal of time w to create a new chakra teique that expanded on my chakra flow, chakra yering and chakra phantom teiques to create solid structs of pure chakra.