Haruto looked at the first batch of materials that had been shipped to his lab in the Senju compound with eagerness.
There were a few tons of iron and copper, aluminum and silicon along with some gold as well. There were even several electrical components that Haruto felt he would be needing for his future projects.
Haruto signed the delivery receipt to indicate that he'd received the items before he began to shoo everyone out of the compound to begin working on the first thing he needed to build.
He needed to check if his plan to convert Megamind's ideas was feasible or if it was defunct.
Haruto simply picked up a few ingots of everything and placed them on a hastily but still perfectly drawn alchemy circle in the centre of the warehouse.
Pumping his chakra into the alchemy circle, Haruto imagined exactly what he needed to build, focusing on the specifics of the designs that Megamind's reward had given him.
And within seconds, after a few bolts of pure energy erupted out of the circle, he found himself standing face to face with something that was lying flat on the floor of the warehouse.
PLINK PLINK
Haruto used his finger to tap the glass head of the little robot causing it to suddenly buzz to life as the glass glowed brightly like a plasma ball with lines of plasma connecting the centre of the robot's head to his fingers.
The floating robot 'woke' up before bobbing up and down in front of Haruto eagerly as if it were a dog getting adopted for the first time, it spoke in a clear electronic voice, repeating the only phrase it knew and could speak, "Wau wau wau wau wau."
"No, no, no biting!" Haruto said with a smile while trying to keep the piranha-like floating fish robot from eating away his fingers as he quietly gave it a new command.
"You… Yes, you, my glorious worker! You are to keep this workshop safe from anyone entering or exiting without my permission. Can you do that?"
The piranha bot, or Megamind's Minion, raised one of its three slack arms and gave Haruto a mock salute before it began to immediately patrol the warehouse to prevent anyone unauthorized from entering or exiting.
'Didn't think I would ever see my brainbots again…' Megamind said softly from inside the Template Inventory Space.
Haruto smiled before looking at the warehouse one last time and leaving it alone for the day.
He was eager to start experimenting already. But he had to have patience. There was something far more important on the agenda today.
And no, it wasn't the Death Ray (orbital laser canon).
Haruto slipped back into the kitchen at the Senju compound and began cooking his dinner, the usual ramen before sitting at the dining table alone.
Sigh…
'I should've asked Naruto to move in here as well…'
'But I guess I can't just yet since it's going to get busy here from now on.'
Haruto finished his dinner and went to sleep just as quietly as he would everyday.
After a few hours, in the dead of the night, Haruto woke up sharply.
He formed no hand seals and still caused a clone to pop up beside him which he laid to rest underneath the covers. It had the absolute minimum amount of chakra in it, just enough to sustain it.
Haruto on the other hand emptied his body of any and all chakra and suppressed his presence entirely.
Then without making a sound, Haruto slipped out of the Senju compound, moving to the memorial stone in the village, the place where all the village's shinobi were laid to rest.
Once there, finding the graves he was looking for were not difficult since all the Hokage were buried in the same place, beside each other and their families were buried on the same line.
Haruto did something simple at that point, he drew a few alchemy circles on the ground and quietly shifted the pile of mud on the graves aside to reopen them.
There lying right under the soil were five boxes.
Haruto used a single sealing scroll to store all the boxes, then used the alchemy circle to redo the soil before quietly slipping back into the Senju compound all without anyone ever realising the nature of his nightly operation.
Once he was back, Haruto entered the Senju warehouse once again.
The minion he'd just created earlier in the day, rushed up to him like a dog, trying to show its owner just how good it was at guarding before Haruto played fetch with it for a few rounds and sent it away.
Then silently, Haruto alchemy-ed away a portion of the floor to reveal a man made tunnel.
Haruto entered the tunnel while elementalising his arm to produce a flame capable of providing light inside its depths.
After walking for about an hour inside this tunnel that Haruto had painfully constructed over the last three months, Haruto reached the spot in the Forest of Death where he'd last met Orochimaru.
Yes, Haruto was currently in Orochimaru's lab.
He had created a tunnel all the way from the Senju compound to the forest of death for one and one reason alone.
Sacrifices.
Orochimaru seemed to have been cultivating sacrifices in this lab of his before he was killed by Madara after he resurrected him.
These sacrifices were special. They were White Zetsus cultivated by Orochimaru with the help of Black Zetsu.
Haruto pulled out five tubes in medicinal vats before extracting the bodies from them and placed them on the floor.
Haruto then unsealed the coffins from the scroll he was carrying before placing each coffin in front of the corresponding sacrifice.
"Alright then… I hope you're ready, you old fools…"
Haruto then formed the kai hand seal because he felt like it before channeling the chakra in his body appropriately to begin the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
Purple portals formed beneath the coffins and the sacrifices before the vitality from the sacrifices was absorbed and pumped into the corpses of the various Hokage and two women.
Haruto felt his chakra draining rapidly, this task would've been impossible to perform with his meager Chunin chakra from before, but now he could do it extremely easily even though it still absorbed nearly about fifty percent of his chakra.
The jutsu slowly ended and Haruto stood there confused.
'Did it fail?'
'Can they not be pulled out of whatever room they're spectating me from?' Haruto wondered silently.
That was when all the five coffin lids were kicked open, each of them landing with a crash somewhere on the other side of the room.
Haruto then watched as pale figures slowly stepped out of the coffins one by one.
He recognised each one from the show.
"Hashirama Senju… Tobirama Senju… Minato Namikaze… Mito Uzumaki… Kushina Uzumaki… welcome… to the world of the living once again…"
The five pairs of eyes immediately focused on Haruto as he felt an intense pressure fall onto his shoulders.
Haruto however remained unaffected by the pressure. He simply stated blankly, "So? Do you have a way to get rid of Madara then?"
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