Arriving at her office Tsunade-hime found Elder Hiruzen waiting for her and asked her about the specific situation with Kimimaro.

As Tsunade-hime briefly explained the situation, Elder Hiruzen sighed, and asked, “You really can’t cure the boy’s illness?”

Tsunade-hime explained with a solemn expression, “As soon as healing chakra enters Kimimaro’s, it gets inexplicably decomposed, there seems to be a special substance in his blood that is related to his Kekkei Genkai that seems to be preventing external healing.”

“A special substance in the boy’s blood? What is it?” asked Elder Hiruzen.

“I am not certain at the moment, I would need to carry out a few more tests to figure out what that substance is,” answered Tsunade-hime and added, “But one thing is certain, the fact that the boy is still alive despite the presence of that substance in his body is quite incredible, in my opinion, he should have died years earlier.”

As an Iryō-nin, Tsunade-hime has performed autopsies on countless corpses many of whom had Kekkei Genkai, but because of various reasons, she never had the opportunity to carry out an in-depth study of the bodies of Kaguya Clansmen, as such, she doesn’t have much knowledge of the Shikotsumyaku or the Kaguya Clan.

She has always scorned the exaggerated rumors she has heard about the Kaguya Clan that say that the physique of Kaguya Clansmen is as absurdly powerful as the people of the Senju Clan and the Uzumaki Clan. The reason the Senju Clan and the Uzumaki Clan have such an exaggerated physique and Chakra reserves is that they are descendants of Ashura, but that’s not the case for the Kaguya Clan, they are not descendants of Ashura. Therefore, she didn’t think that they could possess such a physique.

However, upon examining Kimimaro’s body, she suddenly realized that her previous evaluation of the Kaguya Clan was wrong. Despite not being descendants of Ashura, they seem to possess powerful Chakra and strong physiques. If not for his strong body, he wouldn’t have managed to survive until now considering the substance in his blood that is degrading it.

Faced with the facts before her, Tsunade-hime even considered the possibility that the Kaguya Clan shares the same ancestors with the Senju Clan and the Uzumaki Clan, it’s just that there are no records available to prove this conjecture.

Realizing that even Tsunade-hime was helpless in regard to Kimimaro’s condition, Elder Hiruzen sighed, “I never expected that Otogakure would give us so many surprises.”

Tsunade-hime raised an eyebrow, asking, “Are there any other surprises?”

Elder Hiruzen folded his arms behind his back and nodded with a serious expression, “That child of the Yuki Clan, Haku from Otogakure, he has mastered Senjutsu.”

Tsunade-hime was stunned, “What?!” She is no stranger to Senjutsu and is aware of the difficulty of mastering Senjutsu. Let’s not talk about other Shinobi Villages since there has never been a Senjutsu user from other Shinobi Villages, in the history of Konoha, so far only five or six people have managed to master Senjutsu. Compared to hundreds of thousands of shinobi, five or six is a very small number. Therefore, the fact that Haku has mastered Senjutsu is incredible in her eyes, and questioned Hiruzen, “Are you certain he has mastered Senjutsu?”

Elder Hiruzen nodded, “Both Uchiha Shisui and Naruto have confirmed this.”

Tsunade-hime was in disbelief, and wondered, “Then from where did he learn Senjutsu? It couldn’t have been Shikkotsu Forest, Katsuyu-sama would have informed me if she was teaching Senjutsu to a child, is it possible that it’s either Mount Myōboku or Ryūchi Cave?”

Elder Hiruzen shook his head, “It doesn’t seem to be either because his Senjutsu Mode is different from Naruto’s and Jiraiya’s, it couldn’t have been from the Nekoshou Domain either, since Uchiha Shisui would have known, but he did not know either… so that means either there are more places to learn Senjutsu, or he learned it on his own just like Kuroto.”

“But Kuroto had Ryūmyaku’s help… that boy from Otogakure must also have some external aid, otherwise, it’s not possible to master Senjutsu,” said Tsunade-hime.

Elder Hiruzen nodded, saying, “Otogakure seems to have developed a method to harness the Natural Energy. That strange transformation performed by Otogakure ninjas is an application of Natural Energy and that’s probably the source of Yuki Haku’s Senjutsu.”

Hearing Elder Hiruzen’s words, Tsunade-hime was stunned, “How is this possible? To be able to develop a method of harnessing Natural Energy?”

Elder Hiruzen sighed, “Otogakure is not an ordinary shinobi village.”

Tsunade-hime couldn’t help but agree.

The other end of the Konoha Hospital

“Alright, this should be enough… you are good to go now, Uchiha Sasuke-san,” said Yui with a gentle smile as she closed the examination report.

“Thank you, Yui-sama,” after bowing to Yui, Sasuke walked out of the consultation room. At this time, redness and swelling on his face had completely subsided, leaving only inconspicuous bruises.

As Sasuke walked out of the consultation room, Naruto said, “Now that Sasuke is also alright, let’s go eat some ramen.”

Mika checked her wallet and took out a few coupons, “Look at these…”

Naruto immediately became excited upon seeing the free ramen coupon that Mika had, and said to the young Uchiha, “Come on Sasuke…”

Sasuke was about to nod, but he happened to spot Haku on the opposite passage and his face darkened, ‘It’s that Otogakure shinobi,’ he turned to Naruto and Mika, and said, “You guys go, I have something else to do…” Then without waiting for Naruto and Mika’s reply he disappeared and followed Haku.

‘Intensive Care Ward? Is Kimimaro admitted here? For him to be admitted here… Is it because he suffered terrible injuries or is it because something is wrong with his body as Gamabunta-sama said?’ doubt appeared in Sasuke’s mind, and he decided to investigate the reason.

Putting his hands in his pocket, Sasuke walked over to Haku and Guren standing outside the wardroom, and asked, “Kimimaro is inside?”

“Huh? Oh, it’s you, Uchiha Sasuke…” Guren looked over and noticed Sasuke. It was a little awkward for her to face Sasuke, after all, until a few hours ago, they were trying their best to kill the boy. But now that Kimimaro is being taken care of by Konoha, she is not sure how she is supposed to interact with their target, but she did nod lightly, “Yes, Kimimaro is inside…”

Sasuke questioned coldly, “What’s wrong with him?”

Guren sighed, “Kimimaro has been suffering from a disease, a Kekkei Genkai disease. it started affecting him about four years ago and since then…”

Sasuke was stunned, “Four years?”

Guren nodded, “Yes, for the past four years, he has been struggling, let alone fighting, even living has been very difficult for him. He has been on constant medication, but there is no improvement… he is dying, everyone seems to say that he doesn’t have much time left.”

Sasuke exclaimed angrily, “Don’t joke around. How could he be dying? Does he think that he can die just like this? I… I still haven’t returned that humiliation to him!”

He did not want to accept that Kimimaro was dying from a disease, he wanted to be the one to kill Kimimaro and return the humiliation he suffered from Kimimaro back then.

Sasuke’s outburst shocked Haku and Guren. Haku immediately apologized, “Please… please forgive Kimimaro-kun. In place of Kimimaro-kun, I will take responsibility…”

“You…!” Sasuke looked at Haku coldly and he was about to say more but stopped as he heard a voice from the other end of the corridor, “Sasuke…”

Sasuke turned around and mumbled lightly, “Nii-san…”

It was none other than Itachi, he approached Sasuke and said, “Come on, let’s go home…”

Seeing Itachi, Sasuke took a deep breath, then nodded, “Hmm.” He looked at Haku and Guren one last time, then left the Konoha Hospital.

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