Chapter 16: Temporary Rest (Revised)

  "Sorry, sir......" Bai said weakly as he lay in bed.

  "Hehe, never mind, Bai, you just focus on recovering from your illness. I've been rushing for almost three months, it's time for me to take a break and relax. Let's take a look at the scenery around here too. Come drink some medicine." Yu Zan took the medicine that had been simmering on the stove for most of the afternoon off the heat, tested its temperature, and decided to put it aside on the table to cool down first.

  "Sorry, sir." Bai knew that Ruo Ci had originally planned to leave three days ago, but because of him, he was delayed.

  "Alright, Bai, can't you say anything else besides 'Sorry, sir'?"

  "Sorry, sir."

  “……. Bai, if you continue like this, I will get angry. And I should have known that your body has been through so many days of hunger and cold, it must be very weak. No wonder you fainted while taking a hot bath. If I had discovered your unusual condition earlier, you wouldn't have suffered from the cold and gotten a high fever.”

  "No, it's mine."

  "I've already said it's not Bai's fault, if this is really Bai's fault, then shouldn't I also bear half of the consequences? If Bai says 'sorry' or 'it's my fault' again, I'll go soak in cold water right now and make myself catch a fever." Yu Ran said up to here, turned around and stood up, seemingly about to take action.

  "No, cough...cough...Sir...please don't...cough...hack...cough...ahh...huff..." Bai struggled to get out of bed to stop him, but the sudden violent movement seemed to trigger a series of continuous coughs.

  If he remained calm and unchanged, one hand hadn't even had time to pick up the bowl of medicine on the table, and hurriedly sat back beside the bed, using his other hand to press down on Bai's back.

  Bai felt a wave of warmth emanating from Ruoxu's palm, and before he knew it, his violent coughing had subsided. He couldn't help but look at Ruoxu.

  Seeing the puzzlement in her eyes, Rukia explained, "I just transferred some chakra to you, basically chakra is more effective for external injuries, so it can't alleviate your illness, but it can still ease your discomfort."

  "Chakra?" This was the first time Bai had heard of this term.

  "Chakra, a form of life energy, can be used to heal others or harm them, protect or attack."

  "I want to learn, sir!" In his heart, Haku thought that after learning, he could become stronger, protect the adults, heal their wounds and help them out. His still childish face showed a determination that made even the adults blush.

  "Of course, once Baizhe's body is better, I'll teach you right away." Ruo Canshan responded without hesitation.

  "Alright, it's settled then, a person who breaks their promise is a small dog." Bai stretched out her little finger.

  "Hehe, I agreed, come and hold hands."

  If he saw the white face, his excitement caused him to flush red, and his breathing was a bit rapid. He hastily strengthened the input of Chakra for a while before withdrawing his hand.

  "How's it going? Is it a bit better now? Let me check if the temperature has dropped?"

  Bai's pale hand was placed on his own forehead, and a cool sensation soothed his uncomfortable mind due to the high fever.

  Bai closed his eyes and a satisfied expression appeared on his face, as if he was lightly smiling.

  Looking at it, as if I still feel my own heart, as if it has also been cleansed.

  If I sit quietly on the bed with this posture and look out of the window at that snowy white landscape, I always think of that child as pure as snow.

  If Ru Cai suddenly remembered the existence of medicine, he was about to get up and fetch it when he felt his body slightly stiffen.

  If I turn back and look, I couldn't help but smile silently.

  At some point, the palm of his hand that had been placed on Bai's forehead was tightly grasped by Bai's right hand.

  "Adult, I will definitely protect you......" But when he took a closer look, he found that Bai was still fast asleep.

  "Hehe, I'm really looking forward to it."

  Unfortunately, Bai is no longer able to see the serene and gentle smile that Ruo Zan reveals after hearing his murmurs.

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  The two of us, Bai and I, have been stuck here for over a month now.

  But all the way until leaving, Bai never asked me where his parents' bodies went, and even when he first saw the empty hall, he only showed a slight surprise at the beginning, and then returned to his original expression.

  As I saw Bai's current appearance, a kind of inexplicable pain suddenly ravaged my chest. I immediately grabbed Bai's arm and retreated backwards. The tremors spreading from my heart to my limbs made me almost trip over my own feet.

  Finally, under my tough attitude, Bai has not approached here during this period of time.

  As White's body gradually recovers, in addition to basic care, I also started having White undergo preliminary training.

  Because this time there was ample time, before heading to the Hyuga clan's residence, I first taught Shiro how to distribute chakra in his feet.

  Hakuto's talent is indeed exceptionally high, I only said it once and Hakuto completely understood, then tried less than three times, and was able to climb to the top of the tree. It seems that Hakuto's ability to control chakra far surpasses Haruno Sakura's.

  It's only natural, basically, the lower the age of awakening to Blood Succession Boundary, the higher the physical talent. Even if "Magic Mirror Ice Crystal" and "Corpse Bone Pulse" can't be compared with "Write Wheel Eye", it can't be denied that these two types of blood succession are still among the top-level combat-type blood succession boundaries.

  While Kakashi and Minato awakened to their Sharingan bloodline over two years earlier than Uchiha Obito, even if there was a difference in the bloodline, who could say that Kakashi's talent would be lower than Uchiha Obito.

  If it weren't for the sake of highlighting "Naruto's" first rampage, if not for the limitations of his body, Byakuren, who could decipher the principles of the Rinnegan with just one touch, and Kimimaro, who could almost kill a Jinchuriki with his crippled body, would surely have been able to display prowess that wouldn't lose to Uchiha Itachi if they were still alive.

  Besides, although Haruno Sakura climbed the tree in one go, Haku took three attempts. However, they are at least a decade apart in age, and Haku only found out about chakras that day.

  Of course, the Chakra on his body is mainly what I passed on to him, or rather, Tsunade's.

  Under an infinite supply of chakra, as long as one can suppress the mental fatigue, physical weakness and skill mastery are all solvable.

  For Bai, who climbed trees on the first day and walked on water surfaces on the second day, this is obviously not a problem.

  My main goal now is to let Bai understand the way and skills of using Chakra, as for the problem of Chakra quantity, that can't be solved in a short time.

  After completing this basic chakra control training, subsequent training became relatively easier. Bai's training was similar to mine when I first started, of course, Bai had not received ninja education and did not have those outdated misconceptions, so it was also relatively easy for him to accept my unconventional training projects.

  I'll tell Bai about my views on seals, attitudes, theories and cultivation. After all, I think the speed of sealing is indeed one of the important factors that affect the outcome of a ninja battle.

  Moreover, Haku also uses one-handed seals in "Naruto", so as a six-year-old child, Haku's understanding of this theory is almost beyond my expectations.

  After laying a solid foundation on the knowledge level, what's left is the issue of physical quality.

  Due to practical considerations, I currently don't have much space to place those heavy equipment, and the maintenance of such equipment is also unrealistic for my current situation.

  This problem was perfectly solved with the help of Kuuki, who taught me a secret technique similar to self-sealing, which doesn't require external assistance and uses one's own chakra as a tool to restrict their power. It's actually similar to how ninjas can use chakra to enhance their physical strength, but in reverse. At the same time, it also allows for control over the force used and is equivalent to a method of automatic chakra training.

  In addition, under this self-sealing technique, the difficulty of controlling chakra will increase, and when one gets used to it, returning to normal state, the flow and control of chakra will naturally become more handy, so this is indeed a good method that kills three birds with one stone.

  I was a bit resentful that Jiǔ Yuè didn't tell me about this method earlier, but Jiǔ Yuè simply brushed it off with a single sentence: "You didn't ask."

  It's rare for me to see Jiu Yue like this!

  Although the amount of white chakra I have now is only enough to reach a force of one time (this sealing technique can only use the chakra that has been cultivated by oneself), otherwise there would be no extra chakra for other training, but in this way, it just happens to be gradual and progressive. White doesn't have the abnormal recovery ability like the Pillar Men, like the first time I used this method, accidentally using more than ten times the force, at that moment I heard what seemed to be the sound of bones shattering and muscles tearing.

  That day, because I couldn't move around to prevent bone dislocation before the injury healed, I unusually stayed still and "slept" in place.

  Luckily it didn't rain that day, otherwise even Bai would have been dragged down to stay with me and talk about anything.

  However, with the help of Jinzoukaku, I was able to continue "living recklessly" after a night's rest, although I had some uncomprehending gnashing of teeth when Kuzuki told me this news.

  This time, under Kugutsu's suggestion, I started practicing from five times gravity, which just so happens to be the limit of this body.

  Every movement of this body feels like it's exerting itself to the utmost, making me deeply feel that I am alive.

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  These days, I've been sleeping in trees, a habit developed over the past three months of traveling.

  I don't think sleeping in bed is bad, of course the bed is much softer than the tree, it's just that every time I sleep in bed, my limbs are a bit weak, and I've wondered if this has something to do with my sleeping posture?

  But I asked Jiuyue, he always completely ignored me, and his mood at that time didn't seem to be very good either. So I still mostly went to sleep in the trees. Anyway, I can already maintain a layer of chakra attached to the outermost layer of my body, even if my consciousness disappears, it won't exist anymore. I'm not afraid of being disturbed by insects, I don't dislike bugs, but in that half-dazed state, that buzzing sound is really annoying.

  Although, it wasn't until later that I realized how foolish my attempt to isolate the insects was, because as long as I released a suitable amount of Katsuragi's aura, I could ensure that there would be no insects, birds or beasts within tens of meters around me.

  Moreover, there's another strange point, which is that when I told him I wanted to sleep in the tree, he didn't show any signs of opposition at all, and even said he'd sleep in the tree with me.

  I thought Bai would try to stop me, saying "Sir, you must go to bed, otherwise...", I don't know what the "otherwise" would be, but under my repeated insistence, Bai still went to bed, after all, for a normal person, a bed is always better than sleeping in a tree.

  I don't deny that I have some weird habits, but I absolutely won't force others to be the same as me, and on this point, I'm quite self-aware.

  There's another weird thing, when I threatened him "I won't go to bed" it didn't work, but as soon as I said "then I'll go to bed", Bai compromised and was willing to sleep alone, is my sleeping posture really that bad, so bad that Bai doesn't want to sleep with me?

  Another thing that has left me baffled, especially when I asked Jiǔ Yuè about it, her expression at the time was also one of a kind, really interesting!

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  Shiro's birthday was on January 9th, which has already passed. Adding the three days spent searching for Shiro and staying there for over a month, plus another month to find and travel to the Tsukinami village, it should now be March 12th.

  Kunimaru's birthday is June 15th, Kunimaru was five and a half years old when he awakened to the Blood Limit Boundary, then was locked up. At around six years old, during the Hyūga clan's attack on the Kirigakure, he escaped and was taken away by Orochimaru.

  So let's calculate it this way, Junmaru is now about four and a half years old, and there are still about 14 to 15 months until the time I set, so what should we do now?

  I sat quietly on the tree, overlooking the entire tribe of the Kaguya clan.

  Why, after spending a month searching for the destination of Yu Zan and finally finding it, did he instead find a spot he liked and start daydreaming at the first opportunity?

  However, this confusion only fleetingly crossed her pure and simple mind, without causing any disturbance. Bai simply followed the cultivation method that Ruo Canshu had once told her, quietly cultivating on the side.

  Bai knew he wasn't strong enough yet, not strong enough to help the crippled Ye, and what Bai needed to do now was to train and cultivate.

  I then decided to let Bai attend the ninja school in Mizu Kuni after careful consideration one afternoon, because Bai's attribute is ice, although it is a compound attribute of water and wind, but still mainly water.

  Rather than waiting for nearly three years before letting White start learning in Konoha, it would be better to have him learn the systematic basics of a ninja here in the Water Country now. Then, more than a year later, when the Hyuga clan attacks the Hidden Mist Village, he can pretend to be attacked and go missing, leaving the Water Country safely.

  Anyway, in the past few years, there is still an aftertaste of the Ninja War. A few dead orphans who aren't even considered genin wouldn't be worth any country's effort to meticulously investigate.

  Since I've already made up my mind, I let Byakuren enroll in the Ninja School. As for her name, on the condition that she doesn't use her real name, I had her go by "Yuki" as a temporary alias.

  As for the surname... I once thought of "Mizukagami", but then I thought that it might be the one that Byakuren hates the most, as it represents the owner of the "Magic Mirror Ice Crystal" and is also the source of the Byakuren family's tragic fate. Moreover, if I were to use the surname "Mizukagami", wouldn't it go against Byakuren's low-key principle? It would be just like the "Uchiha" surname in Konoha, where "Mizukagami" also holds a similar position in Kirigakure.

  So "Mizuki" is not an option, and Shiro doesn't know or doesn't want to use his father's surname, but I don't want my things to be prefixed with someone else's or unrelated words.

  "Temporarily", I'll lend this surname to Bai for a year. The current Bai, is only up to this point, because even I myself can't accept the fact that my current self can use this surname.

  A six-year-old orphan named "Genbu" will become a first-year student at the Fog Ninjutsu School today.

  Apart from not revealing that he possesses the Blood Limit and not standing out too much, I demand that Byakuya diligently practice what I have taught him. As for his ninja training, I only permit Byakuya to master the Three Bodies Technique and a limited number of low-ranking ninjutsu.

  At Bai's current age and energy level, I admire that he can practice these three ninjutsu well in this period of time.

  Also, I hope he can master at least one three-body technique with a single-handed seal within a year. After all, this body also learned the single-handed seal transformation technique in just three months, although I did practice it specially for this purpose. I gave Bai a year to practice one, which shouldn't be too demanding, right?

  Moreover, Byakuren's bloodline seems to have the ability to seal with one hand, and it appears that Uchiha Itachi can also do so. Both of them are possessors of the Bloodline Limit, is it possible that only those who possess the Bloodline Limit can achieve single-handed sealing?

  In short, I told Bai that if he can't reach a level that I approve of in a year, then I don't want him anymore.

  After all, I cannot have weaklings by my side; weaklings next to me, a nine-tailed Kyuubi jinchuriki, only spell death.

  Apart from keeping the basic necessities for survival, I left most of the supplies and money with Bai.

  Finally, I leave you with one sentence: get stronger.

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  Recently, I've been in a period of adjustment at work and can't leave the office on time, often dragging on until after 9 pm. I've done my best to write, but it's only during this time that I can upload Chapter 16 for revision. If there are still major issues, I apologize, but please don't scold me anymore.

  It's probably nothing good to say from the original 2449 to now.

  As for the content of the chapter, what can be changed will be changed, and what can be added will be added with great effort, so that's about it.

  I have to go to work early tomorrow, so I'll go sleep first, good night everyone.

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  Don't complain about the protagonist's personality and don't criticize it. The protagonist's personality is like that, if you dislike it then don't watch, I won't change the protagonist's personality.

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