"What about his cellur depletion? You might have cost him years of his life!" she yelled sternly.

  "Hardly, his cells are bursting with vitality now. If anything he'll live even longer." I answered calmly.

  She calmed down "So what your telling me is that you are absolutely sure he'll recover from this?" she asked firmly.

  "He'll more than recover, he'll be strohan ever afterwards." I said seriously.

  "We will see but if anything bad happens to him because of this you will be punished, am I uood?" she said and I nodded.

  I wasn't bothered by her sternness in this matter as I uood how serious the sequences of this could be if aher than me had do. I had made sure to keep the delicate ban Kakashi's body so he gained all the bes and only had some retively minor and most importantly temporary side effects. Sure he was bed ridden and would least a week to recover with the care I was going to give him but that was literally it. My only real gripe was that I was going to overshoot the month I had assumed it would take for him to achieve sage mode.-

  Holy though this was not even that big a deal as this was my first attempt at teag sage mode so some error was to be expected in guessing the time needed. Wheually taught Karin she would defiake less than a month because she skip the adaptation period and move straight to sensing and maniputing natural energy. Even in that regard she had a leg up as she was aremely powerful sensor already and thus could already utilize her spiritual energy pretty well.-

  The training my sensei gave her about medical teiques had also allowed the redhead to bee strohan ever as she had an over abundance of physical or yang energy. Due to this unfortunately she had also gotten harder to pry off without hurting her whe home and gy. More often than not I was forced to to sit unproductively as she grinned like a moron while huggiime passed and as I predicted Kakashi was back to normal after about a week of treatment though he needed some training to fully restore his muscuture.-

  "I 't remember the st time I felt so good. I'm practically bursting with energy!" the silver haired man said as he ched his fist over and ain.

  "That's to be expected giveality your cells currently have. If you are willing to tinue you are ready for the step of sage training as well." I said calmly.

  "Really? Not that I'm doubting you or anything but this seems almost too easy?" he said fused.

  "Well if I'm being ho I have been sort of f you to gh what a normal sage does over months to years in merely weeks. This isn't to say my method is easier so much as massively more dangerous in exge for taking a short amount of time." I expined calmly.

  "I see. You did say that the adaptation alone should have taken me almost a year normally yet if we sider my recovery it's only been two weeks. At the same time Lady Tsunade has told me of the many ways it could have gone wrong." he said with an enlightened look.

  "Indeed, danger for speed is the trade off. Of course that only applies to a me but I'm the exception rather than the rule." I said simply.

  "I've already e this far so I may as well go the rest of the way. What's the step?" he asked with a shrug.

  "The step is for you to start drawing in natural energy while here in the vilge and far away from my home." I said holy.

  He frowned in fusion "Wouldn't it be easier in your home where the natural energy is de?" he asked.

  "Easier to draw ihe best route? No! The very density of the natural energy there is the exact issue here. Natural energy flows you see and when you draw it in the free floating stuff naturally follows what you are pulling in an out of trol fashion. As a result trying this step in a pce like my home is asking to get turo stone as ALL that energy tries to follow the flow you create." I expin seriously.-

  He shudders at the mental image that paints and nods "So it's best to start out in an area of low natural energy like the vilge for this step, got it." he said seriously.

  "Luckily for you you already have a small amount of experience maniputing natural energy with your spiritual energy due to your messing about during sensing training. You merely o attempt that again but refi further through experience." I said with a chuckle.

  He stared at me speechlessly "You mean I could have been doing that this whole time?" he asked and I nodded with a grin. "Let me guess, it was to temper my expectations and patience?" he asked deadpan.

  "So gd you uand!" I said with a ugh.

  It only took three days for Kakashi to get the hang of maniputing enough natural energy to achieve sage mode and it was finally time for him to take that final step, merging natural energy into his chakra to make sage chakra.-

  "Are you sure there isn't some sort of ratio to this I o try and reach?" he asked for the third time.

  "As I said the st two times the exact ratio is slightly different for eadividual because eadividual is different and uhe rough ratio is thirty pert natural energy seventy chakra but the exact ratio will be something only you figure out. Now stop stalling and do the thing already!" I snapped and he raised his hands pgly.

  He sat cross legged on top of the Hokage mo as the natural energy up here was her g nor ample but in the middle. I watched as he began to carefully draw in natural energy and force it against his chakra to attempt the fusion making me wi hh it was. Obviously I was heavily biased as a natural sage so I kept my criticism to my self for nardless of all else this was a good sign that he was on the right track.