"That, wait a minute. If I leave without saying goodbye, the Village Leader will worry. Can you come back with me to tell him?"
Fū grabbed Bai Mo's sleeve.
"Hmm, of course."
"Oh yeah~"
Fū skipped to the waterfall entrance, waving at Bai Mo, "Come on, come on, I'll lead the way~"
"She's really full of energy and sunshine."
Bai Mo sighed and followed her.
Kakuzu also silently followed.
If the current high-ranking officials of Takigakure didn't have any self-awareness, Kakuzu decided to cleanse them again.
Fortunately, Kakuzu didn't have a chance to act.
The Village Leader of Takigakure was a young man, caring for his villagers, but a bit timid.
Because he had no ambition, he had no objection to Fū wanting to leave, only worrying about her safety, especially since their group included Kakuzu, a rogue ninja who had once belonged to their Village.
However, as Bai Mo told the young Village Leader about how Takigakure's high-ranking officials had sent Kakuzu on a suicide mission to assassinate the First Hokage, the young Village Leader understood Kakuzu's defection.
Coupled with Fū's vivid description of how Kakuzu had saved her and Bai Mo had healed her wounds, the matter was settled.
The Village Leader agreed, and although some others wanted to object, they dared not speak when they met Kakuzu's gaze.
Kakuzu also realized that the people of this Village were kind and easily bullied.
Before leaving, he left a message in front of everyone: "The current Village is good. If it reverts, I don't mind another cleansing, and I'll take your hearts."
The three walked out of the waterfall, and Kurotsuchi was still staring blankly.
Upon seeing Bai Mo emerge, her gaze, still dazed, turned towards him.
"Kurotsuchi, what are you doing here? Is there something else?"
Bai Mo was puzzled.
"Bai Mo, tell me, do you think this little sister is cute?"
Kurotsuchi pointed at Fū and asked with a serious expression.
"Uh, she's quite cute. What's wrong?"
"Then what about me?"
"Alright."
"What's 'alright'...? Never mind. Then do you think the Raikage is cute?"
After asking this question, Kurotsuchi nervously watched Bai Mo's expression.
..."Are you out of your mind?"
Bai Mo looked disgusted, even feeling a bit nauseous.
"That's good then."
Kurotsuchi breathed a sigh of relief, patting her chest with a sense of relief.
"Well, bye-bye. I have a lot to do. Let's keep in touch when you're free."
Kurotsuchi waved her hand and then left.
"Crazy... Kakuzu, let's head back too."
Bai Mo was baffled by Kurotsuchi's questions.
"Strategist, you and she go back first. I'll walk back slowly."
"Huh? Why?"
"This mission was resolved too quickly. If I go back now, Deidara will probably bother me again. I'll stay outside for a few more days."
..."Alright."
Bai Mo grabbed Fū's hand and leaped into the air.
Fū subconsciously spread the wings of Chōmei, flapping the wings at her waist a few times before realizing she didn't need to control the flight at all.
"Huh? How are we flying without wings?"
Fū curiously looked behind Bai Mo, tilting her head in confusion.
On the way back, Fū chattered incessantly.
Bai Mo didn't mind, and he also briefly explained some basic information about Amegakure and the Akatsuki to Fū.
Upon returning to Amegakure, Bai Mo handed Fū over to Konan. Konan arranged Fū's accommodation and then found Bai Mo again.
Konan led Bai Mo to an open space outside the Village.
"I thought of a method. Let's try it."
Konan handed Bai Mo a cup of milk with a straw in it.
"What do you mean?"
"Take a sip."
"..."
Bai Mo did as he was told and took a sip.
Immediately after, Konan took back the milk Bai Mo had drunk, turned to the side, and quickly took a sip herself, her cheeks slightly flushed.
Before Bai Mo could say anything, Konan threw two exploding tags at a tree in front of them.
Bang—
The tree exploded, breaking into two pieces.
"Can it work?"
Konan looked at Bai Mo expectantly.
Bai Mo raised a hand, and two exploding tags gathered above the tree's broken section, flying back into Konan's hand.
"It really works!"
Konan was somewhat excited.
This was a new ability Bai Mo had acquired this month, and it was also the ability that Kurotsuchi had mistakenly thought was Medical Ninjutsu when he healed Fū earlier.
As mentioned before, Bai Mo had thought about finding Itachi before testing whether he could activate his ability with Nagato.
This ability was activated by Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan.
This month, the Land of Waves also saw basic improvements and development.
Of course, it was still far from the changes in the Land of Earth.
Kisame, as part of Bai Mo's plan, contacted a film crew, and coincidentally, someone in the crew also needed to issue an escort mission.
So Bai Mo went there again.
He talked with the person in charge of the film crew and reached a cooperation agreement.
And the person who was going to issue the escort mission also chatted for a few sentences and accepted the escort mission for half a month later.
—The reason it was half a month was because they still needed to film in the vicinity for some time.
After finishing these matters, Bai Mo had accumulated enough Natural Energy, so he found Itachi and had Itachi use "Amaterasu" on him.
Itachi was very surprised but still complied, aiming at Bai Mo's left hand and ready to retract it at any time.
It was this "undying" flame, known to burn eternally, that awakened another "undying" in Bai Mo.
The ability's specific description was just two words—repair.
It could restore anything damaged back to its original state.
Bai Mo named this ability "Crazy Diamond."
However, this particular ability, unlike the previous King Crimson and New Moon, differed too significantly from the original "Crazy Diamond" in JoJo.
The original Crazy Diamond could not heal itself; this was a core setting and limitation.
But Bai Mo's repair could.
His ability was born from constantly repairing himself while being endlessly burned by Amaterasu.
Upon returning to Amegakure, Bai Mo attempted to develop the ability.
Because Bai Mo discovered that simply injecting and strengthening Natural Energy only increased the speed and consumption of repair.
No matter what, he had to touch something to repair it.
During this time, Konan also helped by sparring and experimenting.
Clearly, Konan had a little idea in mind.
Especially after Bai Mo mentioned that repairing inanimate objects consumed very little energy.
—How wonderful would it be if six hundred billion exploding tags could instantly regenerate after being detonated?
So Konan started thinking of various methods.
First, she had Bai Mo inject chakra, trying to make chakra an extension of his body.
This was clearly unfeasible.
Because Bai Mo wasn't using chakra at all, but Natural Energy.
Bai Mo's Natural Energy was not like chakra, nor was it like the Natural Energy of the Summoning World that would be tainted with one's own aura.
Bai Mo's Natural Energy was no different from that in nature.
Even with Konan using Dance of the Shikigami to resist the erosion of Natural Energy, she couldn't make the Natural Energy Bai Mo transmitted to her become an extension.
And now, Konan had thought of another possibility.
The core reason Natural Energy couldn't act as an extension was that it lacked Bai Mo's aura.
The Natural Energy within Bai Mo was merely a consumable when using his ability.
Therefore, the most crucial element was to be tainted with Bai Mo's aura.
So Konan came up with this idea.
After drinking a cup of milk with Bai Mo, indirectly sharing a bit of Bai Mo's aura, it indeed succeeded!
Bai Mo didn't even need to touch to repair; her chakra temporarily became Bai Mo's extension!
"This principle is somewhat similar to the principle of Tailed Beast Chakra."
Bai Mo analyzed, stroking his chin.
In the original work, Naruto distributed Nine-Tailed Chakra to the Allied Shinobi Forces, and then by bumping fists with Minato Namikaze, linking the Yin and Yang Nine-Tailed Chakra, he could use Flying Thunder God to transfer everyone.
"It's not working anymore?"
Konan threw another exploding tag, but it didn't recover for a long time, so she turned to look at Bai Mo.
..."Konan, what you just said is very ambiguous."
Bai Mo's face was covered in black lines.
It had indeed stopped working.
Such a tiny amount of aura from sharing a straw would naturally dissipate quickly.
Couldn't she have phrased it differently?
....
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