[Naruto] Saga of Tanya the Kunoichi

Tanya followed Danzo's instructions and sat cross-legged on the altar filled with Jutsu Formula. One of the masked Root members stood behind her. Another one went to place a few monitoring probes connected to a device at the side to check on her bodily function.

After some more preparations, the person handling the device gave a signal with his hand.

Danzo turned to Tsuyu.

'Yoru will transfer her consciousness into yours to bring you to meet the Kyubi. She would monitor you and the 9 tails. Do not resist'.

Tsuyu felt a little hesitant inside due to the nature of such intrusive sounding jutsu; but she believed Danzo would not harm her since it would not be of any benefit.

She relaxed her state of mind as she let the foreign chakra enter her body.

'Mind Transfer Jutsu'. The Yamanaka made hand signs and then placed one of her hands on top of Tsuyu's head.

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Tsuyu felt darkness envelop her. And once more, she arrived at the familiar empty battlefield. This was her mindscape, and she had already visited multiple times to (try) chat with Kyubi.

Tsuyu looked at the new consciousness beside her. The young shinobi had orange short hair and a fairly pretty innocent face, but her dark brown eyes were dull.

'Have you been here?'. She asked Tsuyu in a neutral tone. 

"Yes, I have been here a few times". 

Tsuyu answered all the questions directly. Eventually, Tsuyu led her to the trench where the tunnel leading to 9-tails resided.

Yoru, in the real world, constantly made reports to Danzo about Tsuyu's mindscape and what she observed, as well as Tsuyu's answers. Apparently, she had made contact with Kyubi a few times on her own.

Danzo listened to the report with fascination. 

What did it mean for a child of her age to have such a mindscape that portrayed a battlefield? And the fact that Tsuyu on her own was able to make contact with the 9 tails meant she already had control over her consciousness and spiritual energy - to a quite high degree. 

Danzo nodded inwardly, finding Tsuyu's mental maturity was most likely linked to her degree of spiritual energy.

Was it because Yin part of Kyubi led to a higher spiritual energy and therefore her mental development? On paper, it sounds plausible, but Kyubi's Yin chakra contained hatred and negative emotions. If Kyubi had influenced Tsuyu's development, Tsuyu would have been more of a bloodlustful person. Which so far; she has not shown this.

Or did she hide or suppress that part of her? Did it just mean her 'humanity' was used to suppress the side effects of hateful Yin chakra as a whole and why she did not show characteristics of a normal child's emotions?

Danzo made theories on his own to explain Tsuyu's character. Soul was a very difficult field of subject in the shinobi world, and Danzo was just making guesses. But it seems close to the truth. Danzo already planned another human experiment to use Yin chakra over a developing fetus or infants and see the result. However, his age would mean he would not be able to see the fruit of the research. He put that aside for now…

Yoru and Tsuyu entered Kyubi's space - and instantly, they were faced with a huge demonic fox caged behind a red gate. Kyubi seeing Tsuyu already made him mad, but he already thought to himself that he would just let her do whatever. But then something more maddening happened - someone else dared to intrude too!

What do they think this place is? A hotel!?

'You dare bring an outsider!?'. Kyubi roared in anger. All of a sudden, a wave of red bubbly chakra instantly floods toward both of them. Kyubi wanted to kick them out!

Yoru was unable to do anything, feeling the amount of evil and pressure on her consciousness. If it was her, her consciousness would have been engulfed completely and she would have been dead - not to mention Tsuyu, who was just a child! 

'Prepare for emergency!', Yoru, in the real world spoke instantly. 

Yoru, in the subconscious space made some hand seals and released chakra and spiritual barrier to hold the evil red chakra from Tsuyu - the Sealing Squad ready themselves to respond. Danzo took off the bandages on his right eye to use his sharingan to observe Tsuyu's chakra with worry.

Meanwhile, amidst all this, Tsuyu had a bland expression on her face. She had seen this all the time whenever she come here to chat like a civilized person with the fox to no avail.

With a gesture of her hand and powerful chakra fluctuation, the wave of red chakra seemingly hit an invincible wall, unable to approach either of them.

Yoru felt the pressure recede tremendously and stopped wasting her chakra for nothing seeing the evil chakra could not get to them anymore.

'DAMNED HUMANS! GET OUT!'. Kyubi can only complain while clawing at the gate. He couldn't use enough of his power to suppress Tsuyu's abnormal spiritual power. Kyubi continued screaming nonsense the entire time after - which was ignored for the most part as if he was talking to himself.

Yoru felt a little surprised and reported to Danzo about the experience. 

Danzo felt relieved, alarmed, and yet also a little excited inside. 

Yoru's description of the amount of evil chakra flooding toward them meant the seal had already loosened quite a bit. And yet, Tsuyu was able to hold the evil chakra at bay. She had a very high degree of control over her consciousness and spirit.

'It's better than what I expected'. 

Danzo never had a long term plan in mind, step by step, to develop Tsuyu's spirit and control over her consciousness first. But that did not seem to be necessary - for the amount of chakra that 9 tails could currently provide across the seal for the time being. He was more than happy to skip months of progress in a single leap already.

'We can directly proceed to the second stage. Ask Tsuyu to extract Kyubi's chakra to a minimal first'.

In the subconscious, Yoru instructed Tsuyu to do so. First, the outer layer of the seal was to be removed.

Just as Tsuyu reached out to the tag with 'Sealing' written on it, she felt a gaze on her and stopped instantly. Both Yoru and Tsuyu felt a foreign chakra fluctuation in a moment before it disappeared.

Yoru instantly made hand seals and expanded her senses to search around the space, but it seemed there was nothing. However, seeing Tsuyu's reaction, it was clear it was not her imagination. Another foreign chakra was also inside Tsuyu's mindscape definitely.

'Lord Danzo, I sensed a foreign chakra fluctuation inside of Tsuyu'.

Danzo frowned slightly. He guessed in contemplation. Perhaps Minato, before sealing the 9 tails, also sealed his chakra into Tsuyu's body and was there as an emergency in case the 9 tails broke out.

Danzo was calculating in his mind. While Danzo and Minato personally were never at odds - and Minato never chastised the work of Root just like Hiruzen and mostly ignored his work; this time, Minato's own daughter was involved. 

So, Danzo was uncertain what Minato would think. 

Now, what would happen if Tsuyu met Minato's fragment? In Danzo's mind, he wanted to find a way to exterminate Minato's chakra inside Tsuyu, so the two never met at all. Danzo was afraid of Tsuyu changing, even if slightly, by meeting her parents.

But such a procedure would be invasive and would not escape Tsuyu's senses. Danzo wouldn't want to cause distrust to Tsuyu; as for brainwashing her later, it was not possible. Even if it was, it would severely impede her growth and potential. She was too spiritually and mentally gifted for such a thing to work.

Perhaps I can use Kotoamatsukami to gain perfect trust and obedience from her…

So, even if Minato fragments interfered, and Tsuyu and Minato's meeting caused a deviation for his plans, Danzo did not believe Tsuyu would escape the control of Kotoamatsuki. But then, that would be the last resort. He did not want to waste his precious trump card.

After a minute of contemplation, Danzo made a decision.

He would just develop Tsuyu according to his plans - to create the most perfect weapon. And if there was any deviation, Kotoamatsukami would become worth using on her.

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