Chapter 227: Otsutsuki Urashiki, You Deserve to Die
Tonbo Tobitake meticulously recorded the intelligence Sasuke provided.
I hope he doesn't show up too early, he thought. The current lineup in Konoha wasn't exactly ideal for taking down an Otsutsuki. Or better yet, it would be best if he never showed up at all—getting lost in some trash dimension would be the ideal outcome.
"That's all the intelligence we have on Otsutsuki Urashiki," Sasuke concluded. "There may be other unknown abilities."
"Mhm, I'll handle it. Let's hope he doesn't appear; otherwise, it'll be a massive pain!" Tonbo sighed.
Hum!
At that moment, Tonbo felt a ripple in space. A small turtle appeared before them.
Treasured Tool: Karasuki
"I'm telling you, you must do exactly as you just said," the turtle addressed Tonbo. Then, turning to Sasuke and Boruto, it added, "Otherwise, since you've made contact with people from the future, you might affect history. They could vanish."
"What a unique summoning beast," Tonbo remarked, eyeing the pink-bodied turtle with a green shell.
"You idiot! I am the Treasured Tool: Karasuki, a tool capable of traversing time and space! Hurry up and seal your memories, or if something goes wrong, the future really might be altered!" the turtle shouted.
Boruto and Sasuke looked at Tonbo expectantly.
"What's the rush? we haven't even finished chatting," Tonbo said, sounding genuinely interested. "I still wanted to ask: how many kids do I have in the future? Four? Five? Six? "
"How strong are they? Are they ninjas, or did they inherit the family business? Or did they go into another industry? They must be very capable people..." He began rattling off a long string of questions.
"..."
The two humans and the one turtle were rendered speechless. A barrage of questions, and every single one was about mundane daily life.
The turtle spoke up: "My temporal energy is fully charged. It's time to return to the future. I've said all I can; hurry up and seal your memories." It was terrified it might get stuck in this era if they lingered.
"Hey, don't leave so fast! If you've gathered enough energy in just a few days, doesn't that mean you can manipulate space-time? That's an incredible power. Can I learn it? If it exists, it should be logical; I should be able to do it too, right?" Tonbo asked.
"...Temporal fluctuations cannot be used frequently. They can only be activated at specific nodes—for instance, when the Otsutsuki activated me in the future, that was a node. I am merely a tool," the turtle explained, exasperated. Why hasn't he sealed his memories yet?
Buzz! Buzz!
A vortex appeared behind Sasuke and Boruto.
"Hurry, or the space-time gate will close!" the turtle urged.
"Alright, fine. Bird-Monkey-Boar-... Memory Seal!" Tonbo closed his eyes and wove the signs, his chakra activating.
After observing the flow of Tonbo's chakra, Sasuke nodded to Boruto and the turtle. The trio leapt into the portal. The vortex slowly twisted and eventually vanished.
Tonbo, his eyes still closed, suddenly smirked. "Tricked you. With an unknown enemy lurking, how could I possibly seal my memories? I'm not stupid. I'll just make sure not to influence things too much."
"Release!"
The dense signals traveling through the neural filaments in his body flooded back into his brain.
It wasn't that Sasuke's Sharingan had been useless—Future Sasuke's visual prowess was indeed formidable. However, Tonbo had prepared a countermeasure long ago. Before meeting Sasuke, he had already cut off his brain's control over his body, switching to a neural-driven system. It was like converting a central CPU into a distributed cloud processing network spread throughout his entire body. Sasuke's disruption of the chakra in his brain had no effect.
Choosing the wrong method makes all the effort go to waste. This was originally his first line of defense against Itachi Uchiha's Tsukuyomi. His second was "HeartSteel."
"I won't do anything to change the future, but Urashiki probably will," Tonbo mused. "How he appears and when he appears... that's the question."
He already had enough on his plate preparing for the Fourth Ninja War; now he had to add Urashiki to the list. Don't let me catch you, or you're definitely becoming a lab rat.
"No wonder I found a 'Bureau' in the future. I really do need subjects for experimentation." He rubbed his chin.
Now that Sasuke and Boruto were gone, he needed to focus on the intel he'd gathered. He needed to develop jutsu specifically to counter this guy. Byakugan, Rinnegan... the Byakugan alone could see through chakra flow, and the Rinnegan had too many abilities. He was going to be busy again.
"Urashiki, just you wait. Take your time showing up. Not only am I going to use you as a test subject, but I'm also going to invite our great biologist—the one who will eventually 'turn over a new leaf'—to perform a deep dissection on you."
Tonbo was annoyed. Since his future self told him to stick to the original plan, it meant that was the optimal path. And the optimal path included letting Orochimaru kill the Third Hokage and take Sasuke as a student. These were critical nodes. Eventually, Sasuke would kill Orochimaru, who would then be resurrected and "drop the butcher's knife."
He happened to need a scientist, so it all formed a perfect closed loop. Urashiki was destined to be a specimen.
If worst comes to worst, I'll just learn the Reanimated Soul Impurity (Edo Tensei) and bring the Third out occasionally to check on Konohamaru. That's a great idea.
Actually, he'd need to snag some of the Third's cells for the ritual. Everything for survival. Third, I'm sorry. I'll let you out for a stroll every now and then, if you don't mind.
As for why he needed Orochimaru, Tonbo had realized his own scientific mind wasn't as professional as Orochimaru's. He was a genius at developing and learning ninjutsu—especially Yin Release—but in pure science, he wasn't top-tier. He relied on the wisdom of accumulated knowledge. Compared to a true natural like Orochimaru, he fell short. Trying to do what a natural genius does through sheer effort was twice the work for half the result.
No wonder Boruto called him "Director."
In the future, I'll create a Technical Development Bureau. I'll be the Director, and I'll hire Orochimaru as the Deputy Director and Chief Scientist. I'll be the Associate Chief. Then I'll bring in some other experts to do the grunt work.
The more I think about it, the better it sounds.
"That way, I can retire from the front lines of Konoha and move to logistics. I'll have more time to do whatever I want. If I don't want to work overtime, I'll just apply for a project and take my time with it, saying I'm 'busy.' With my strength and status, who would dare say anything?"
"Whoa, no wonder my future self wanted to be a Director. I'm a freaking genius! This is the perfect life for a salaryman like me."
Tonbo felt better the more he planned. "Otsutsuki Urashiki, you really do deserve to die."
Urashiki: What the hell? We haven't even met yet!
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