Unohana smiled languidly at Haruto before she sheathed her sword and turned around to look at everyone else.
"Oh my… it seems I might have surprised everyone else here…"
Edward's mouth was hanging open so wide that it seemed like an entire train set could fit into it.
Megumin was the first to break out of her stupor as she claimed injustice with a finger pointing at Unohana, "Bu- But you withstood those explosions like they were nothing!!! What was that!!! Why did my explosions have no effect on you!?"
"That was a barrier, Megumin-chan, I can try and teach it to you if you wish?" Unohana offered to be polite but Megumin hissed like her tail had been stepped on! "There's only one love for me! And that's explosion magic!!!"
And then without asking anyone, Megumin pointed her staff into the distance and began chanting crazily! "EXPLOSION!!!!!"
Haruto looked at Unohana in the background of the explosion as she watched Megumin's explosion spell with slightly wide eyes before she nodded lost in her own thoughts. Haruto guessed she was probably thinking about how she could survive taking on such a large scale explosion, probably with another barrier or her bankai.
"Erm… Unohana-san… I should probably get you all caught up now that the 'spar' is done."
"Hmmm?" Unohana looked at Haruto with a questioning gaze as everyone else gathered around her before he began explaining to her everything about the world of Naruto and everything that had happened in it after he had arrived here.
Unohana's brows furrowed at some spots and lightened with surprise at others, but in the end she let out a sigh of relief, "It seems the two children, Naruto and Sasuke are quite powerful in their own right." Unohana said after Haruto finished narrating the story to her.
"Yes, they do grow up to become powerful individuals. Although they got sudden powerups from the sage of Six paths in the end, they were still quite strong before that happened."
"Hmmm…" Unohana nodded and then proceeded to look at Haruto with an evaluating gaze that slightly unnerved him.
"Wha- what are you thinking about Unohana-san?"
Unohana looked Haruto up and down before explaining herself, "By contrast… you're too weak Haruto-kun… especially your chakra… if you cannot improve your chakra amount no matter how powerful the jutsus you develop you'll still stay in the realm of a Tonkubetsu Jonin at best."
"And while you can manage for now… the second you attract the attention of the big bads… It'll be hard for you to live without sacrificing any of us on the regular."
Haruto's face morphed into a frown at the mention of sacrifice and his brows furrowed.
"He would never do that Unohana-san…" Megumin said with a frown of her own but Grindelwald held her back, "While it is true that Haruto might not do such a thing… it is also true that he will not survive otherwise… Unohana-san is not wrong to say what she has said."
Haruto's fist clenched tighter at that so he closed his eyes and took a deep breath in before opening them after an exhale and looking Unohana in the eyes, "You're right Unohana-san… I'm pretty weak as I'm right now… but is there any way you can help me avoid the worst possible future?"
Unohana's eyes narrowed into a smile as she spoke in a light tone, "There is no one that can help you other than yourself Haruto-kun… what I can do for you however is help you reach the best version of yourself that can help yourself."
"Hmm…?" Haruto frowned in slight confusion since he didn't quite understand what Unohana was getting at.
So Unohana explained further, "I shall share with you all my medical knowledge Haruto-kun… but after that it'll be up to you to figure out the secrets of chakra in this world to obtain more of it. After all, if Kaguya could claim all chakra on the planet through the chakra fruit there should be a way of converting natural energy into tangible chakra that you can absorb permanently."
Haruto's eyes fell wide open.
"I… I hadn't ever thought of it that way… absorbing natural energy to make permanent improvements in my chakra capacity… just like the chakra fruit…"
"Hmm… but that's all for later… for now… you should focus on absorbing the basics of my medical knowledge. If you can absorb all my medical knowledge I'm sure you can improve your physical energy even before you reach the stage of absorbing natural energy permanently."
"...thank you Unohana-san…" Haruto said gratefully.
But Unohana simply waved her hand as if addressing a simple matter, "Don't worry about it. After all, I'm doing this for myself. I was told that as long as I helped you I would be able to return to Soul Society and fight whomever I wish to my heart's content without any repercussions."
Haruto's eyes twitched slightly at the mention of that fact as he prayed sincerely for Unohana's future victims. But then Edward said something that gave him a heart attack.
"Unohana-san… you should take over Haruto's training from now on… honestly our progress had stagnated ever since Haruto had become capable of performing a ranged explosion… but since you can fight him so much better than me and pressure him into revealing his hand without revealing much of yours, you should be the one leading him from now on."
Unohana's smile deepened. She turned to look at Haruto and spoke gently, "How about it, Haruto-kun… isn't it very exciting to think about!?"
Haruto shivered involuntarily before stammering out a reply, "....hahaha… is there another option?"
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Kushina frowned looking at Hiruzen who was shivering in his sandals.
"When you said Naruto knew how to fish earlier… you meant he was fishing in that trash?! How dare you call yourself a Hokage!!! I'm gonna bash that head of yours into your behind…" Kushina clenched her fist and cracked her knuckles.
Minato pulled out his three pronged kunai when Hiruzen took a step back and spoke in a chillingly calm voice, "I hope you are prepared for what you've done Third Hokage-sama…"
Leaving his disciple to face his reckoning, Tobirama looked at everyone else and spoke calmly, "It seems Danzo has restarted the Hashirama cell experiments… and they're progressing even more quickly this time around."
"What do you think Fugaku had to say to Danzo, Tobirama?" Izuna asked with a slight frown on his face.
"From Danzo's expression we can rule out the fact that it was something to do with the Uchiha clan and the village since otherwise Fugaku wouldn't have disturbed Danzo while he was busy…" Tobirama said with a frown, "Whatever it was it had to have been something that would've helped the Uchiha clan since Danzo wore an expression like he'd tasted shit."
Izuna sighed in relief when he heard that and nodded with a smile, "I thought that too."
"The more crucial question however is what Danzo is going to do with the Ino, Shika, Cho trio… he must've had a reason to capture their spy and show it to Kakashi who is obviously on their side…"
"Could it be because he caught them trying to break the cursed tongue eradication seal?" Minato voiced after having rearranged Hiruzen's face partially, leaving the rest for Kushina to manhandle.
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