Chapter 146: Let's play Maiden Dissection
"Lady Hokage," said a masked ANBU kunoichi, poking her head through the doorway. "The head of the Hyūga clan is requesting a meeting."
"Him again?" said Tsunade in annoyance, lifting her eyes from her handiwork. "Tell him to wait patiently— I'll see him when I'll see him, and not a moment before then."
The ANBU member bowed and closed the door, leaving Tsunade alone with Shizune, Sakura and the corpse of Urashiki, upon which she was performing an autopsy.
For some reason, Tsunade had insisted that Sakura join her for this momentous occasion of alien autopsy, which is why she was currently observing the procedure from the sidelines, in a well-lit operating room on the topmost floor of the Konoha Hospital.
"Pay close attention, Sakura," said Tsunade, slowly performing the hand seals for Sakura's benefit. "Chakra Scalpel Jutsu!"
A faint film of blue chakra covered Tsunade's hand. She hesitated for a fraction of a second, before taking a deep breath and slicing open Urashiki's front with the tip of her fingers; drawing a long line of darkened blood across her skin, from her collarbone to her pelvic area.
'Chakra Female Jutsu?' said Inner Sakura in confusion. '…isn't that just the Sexy Jutsu?'
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(A lot of Japanese scientific terminology was directly imported from European languages when the country modernised itself during the Meiji Restoration after the Americans forcefully ended Sakoku, Japan's self-imposed isolationist policy.
Japan had an especially good relationship with the Netherlands, even during the Edo period, so Japanese doctors borrowed the Dutch word for knife— mes — to refer to their newly acquired scalpels.
The joke here is that mesu also means female in Japanese, which is the source of Sakura's confusion.)
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"Shizune," said Tsunade, holding out her hand. "Forceps."
While Shizune was passing said instrument to her mistress, Sakura directed her curious gaze to a certain bottle sitting on a table in a corner of the operating room, which contained two small spherical objects.
Urashiki's eyes had already been removed from their sockets— they were currently floating in a nontoxic preservative solution, though curiously enough, her blue Rinnegan appeared to have reverted to seemingly regular Byakugan…
'How painful do you think it is?' said Inner Sakura greedily, eyeing up two eyeballs. 'Plucking out your own eyes, I mean…'
Sakura reckoned that it would hurt more than she'd be willing to endure.
And even if she did somehow manage to run out of the room and escape the village with them, she was still only beginning her training as a medic-nin— even though eyes in the Naruto world had a reputation for being plug n' play, she figured she'd still need some medical Ninjutsu training to reattach the optic nerves properly, or whatnot…
"From the reports I read before coming, I was under the impression that the subject was male, Milady," said Shizune in confusion. "And yet, the subject possesses female primary and secondary characteristics…"
And there it was— the million yen question!
Why had the mysterious stranger that had appeared out of nowhere in Konoha suddenly switched genders, and why did she now possess huge boobs? Those were some serious honkers— a real set of badonkers. For a corpse, she was packin some dobonhonkeros— massive dohoonkabhankoloos, or big old tonhongerekoogers, if you will.
'Where's her d*ck?' wondered Inner Sakura. 'Did it snap off, or something? Did it fall off along the way?'
It truly was a shame that the dead could not possess breast chakra— Sakura would have gladly taken some off Urashiki's chest. Neither could she give herself a boob job with the breast tissue— for obvious reasons. And most probably, she'd also only be cursing herself by taking on such ominous chakra within herself…
"Actually, I was hoping that Sakura here might enlighten us," said Tsunade, staring pointedly in Sakura's direction. "According to reports from the battle and from certain sources, I believe this Urashiki fellow possessed the ability to copy others' Jutsu, and from what I hear, he stole some of your chakra, Sakura. Well…?"
She had already looked up Sakura's medical records and read Kakashi's report about her Kekkei Genkai, but it was time for her to hear the truth from Sakura's own mouth. Ever since Sakura had rescued her from those cultists in the Land of Hot Water, Tsunade had had her doubts about her abilities. Her right breast had used to be a cup size larger than her left, but now, they were perfectly symmetrical!
'Looks like the cat's out of the bag,' Inner Sakura commented. 'We'll have to be careful hunting from now on…'
"Using my sword, I can sever and permanently absorb other women's chakra," Sakura explained, resigning herself to telling the truth. "By taking their breasts for my own."
"I figured as much," said Tsunade, tapping her finger against the operating table. "Then, your Kekkei Genkai only works on other women? And you can only increase your chakra pool?"
Sakura shook her head.
"That's not all I can do," she explained. "I can also copy Kekkei Genkai and increase my natural chakra affinities by taking in my enemy's chakra."
A strange look appeared on Tsunade's face.
"Is something wrong, Lady Tsunade?" Sakura asked her, tilting her head to the side quizzically.
"From now on, you are forbidden from using that slashing and absorbing ability," said Tsunade with an unusually serious expression on her face. "I am labelling this unnamed Kekkei Genkai of yours Kinjutsu, and your public records will be sealed and made available only to the highest-clearance level of the Hidden Leaf."
This was ANBU treatment!
Potential employers would no longer be able to look up Sakura's personal information or specifically request her for missions. This effectively meant that her career as a mission ninja was over, because who would hire no-name shinobi with a dark void for a CV for high-paying A and S-rank missions?
"This isn't fair! You can't do this to me!" Sakura exploded. "What about the other Kekkei Genkai clans? Why can they use their abilities freely, but I can't!? How am I supposed to get stronger!?"
"Calm down, Sakura!" Tsunade shouted, slamming her fist down on the operating table and cracking it in half. "Just think for yourself, for a moment! Why do you think your Kekkei Genkai went extinct in the shinobi world in the first place!?"
Kakashi believed that Sakura's Kekkei Genkai was born from some special kunoichi bloodline, but the truth was that Sakura's Kekkei Genkai had never existed before— the Manyuu Chifusa Template had created it for her. But if you thought about it logically, Sakura's ability completely broke the rules of the game… it had no right to exist in this world!
"There's no way of knowing for certain, but your ancestors must have been feared by their contemporaries— they must have been ganged up on and exterminated, just like my ancestors in the Land of Whirlpools, the Uzumaki," said Tsunade gently. "For your own safety, nobody can ever learn about your powers— at least until you've grown strong enough to defend yourself."
Sakura clenched her fists until the whites of her knuckles showed, and Tsunade must have felt her frustration, because she quickly resumed her story.
"A long time ago, back when Orochimaru, Jiraiya and I used to be—" Tsunade coughed. "—ahem, younger, we were friends with a boy named Hiruko," she said. "He admired us and followed us everywhere like a puppy, but unlike us, he was only ordinarily talented. Growing up, he found that he couldn't accept his own mediocrity, so he developed a forbidden technique that would allow him to steal Kekkei Genkai from the naturally gifted…"
"What happened to him?" Sakura asked, curious despite herself. "Did he succeed?"
She had never seen the Naruto movies, so she was completely unaware of Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire.
"The atrocities he committed to research his technique came to light, and he was forced to flee the village before he could complete it," said Tsunade, sighing melancholically. "Even now, he's still on the run, and each of the five great villages has placed a bounty on his head, fearful of his potential…"
Tsunade placed her hand on Sakura's shoulder and looked her in the eye.
"Sakura, you're a good girl," she said softly. "I would hate for something like that to happen to you too. We'll talk about permitting the use of your Kekkei Genkai once you've finished your training with me, okay?"
With the village arbitrarily placing harsh restrictions on its own people, no wonder most transmigrators ended up joining the Akatsuki…