"Huh? Tsunade-sama…?" Shizune looked at Tsunade with confusion causing Haruto to look at her and then back at Kakashi.
As soon as Haruto looked at Kakashi he looked at him with strict disdain causing Kakashi to shiver.
Then Haruto in Tsunade's body stepped forward and grabbed the brush off Kakashi's hands before opening to a new clear section in the scroll that was in Tsunade's hands.
Without any delay, Haruto began scribbling new seals just as he had seen it in the memories he'd gotten from whoever was watching him, the dark god, other people like Unohana and Grindelwald, people from his past life etc.
Both Kakashi and Shizune gathered around Haruto, trying to understand what was going on before their eyes widened as they quickly realised what he was writing.
"Is this an improved counter seal Tsunade-sama?" Shizune asked since she was the one who was the most familiar with Tsunade's progress on the counter seal and this one was clearly different from the one that was used on her to help her overcome the seal in their experiments.
"A sudden inspiration?" Kakashi mumbled…
Meanwhile the real Tsunade screamed out loud at her body while trying to grab it in some way and inhabit it once again.
"Argghhh!!! Why did I slip out of my body so suddenly!? Who are you!!? Give me my body back you #@$K3R!!!"
Tsunade grew super frustrated. And a second later she cupped her hands around her lips as she screamed out loud, "Can't any of you hear me at all!!!??"
Shizune froze.
Tonton's eyes widened.
And Kakashi's hand slipped into his tool pouch.
"Finally!!! You can all hear and see me!!!" Tsunade shouted with an exhausted look on her face.
"You don't need to keep shouting in my face, you old hag… it hurts my ears. All you need to do is speak with the intent for people to see and hear you." Haruto said but since he was inside Tsunade's body his entire demeanour felt off.
"O- Old Hag!??!!" Tsunade shouted again before floating up into her own face and shouting as loudly as she possibly could shout, "Give me back my body you asshole!!!"
Haruto winced but his expression as Tsunade made him look beautiful even while doing that.
Still Haruto simply shooed away Tsunade as if she were a street dog and continued scribbling on the scroll at high speeds.
"What… is this?" Kakashi asked as he recovered slightly from this stunning situation.
"Probably the Spirit Transformation Technique." Tsunade said calmly, finally stopping her bout of shouting.
"The one that uncle knew and used?" Shizune immediately recognised.
Tsunade nodded albeit a little sorrowful since she was reminded about the death of her one boy friend.
"Are you uncle?" Shizune asked softly. She didn't quite remember Kato Dan fully since she was very young when he died and decades had passed since.
Haruto didn't answer, but Tsunade answered in his stead. "No… whoever this is isn't Dan… I would've known if he was… Dan promised me never to occupy a woman's body with this jutsu."
Now it was Kakashi's turn to give Tsunade a deadpan stare.
"What? I know Dan… he would never betray a promise to me… he's not horny like Jiraya. And anyway… this person's entire demeanor is a lot different from Dan's."
Haruto's hands still hadn't stopped moving on the scroll as he drew the counter seal for the cursed tongue eradication seal and he'd drawn much of it by now.
Tsunade floated over and looked at the scroll with her eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Is this a counter seal to the Cursed Tongue Eradication seal?"
Seeing Tsunade no longer screaming, Haruto spoke softly too. "I think it is."
"You think it is? You don't know it?"
"Look lady… I'm not the seal guy in my organisation… all I know is that this seal will help you out."
"Organisation…" Kakashi mumbled, not liking the things the word opened doors to one bit.
"What's the name of your organisation?" Tsunade asked softly, wondering if she could ask Jiraya to keep track of them in the future to figure out what they wanted from interfering in Konoha's succession fight.
Haruto looked at Tsunade for a second before focusing back on the scroll as he spoke softly, "It is not yet time to reveal ourselves to the world. When the time comes we'll let you know."
Tsunade's brows twitched as she quickly tried to reason out the identity of the person in front of her, "Well you know the spirit transformation technique… I can just resurrect the Third Hokage using Impure World Reincarnation and ask him who all he let learn the Spirit Transformation Technique to figure out your identity."
"Yeah… good luck with that. Your plan is as rock solid as peeking unlawfully into the mind of an eight year old."
"What's wrong with my plan!!!?? That kid is a spy and he seems very suspicious! What better way to confirm it than by reading his memories?" Tsunade asked with an accusing glare.
Haruto chuckled before speaking up while drawing the seal on the scroll, "I haven't seen a more naive plan than that. What do you think the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal does? Have you not studied it enough? The cursed tongue eradication seal prevents you from reading a person's memories… especially related to Danzo and it does so by killing the person."
Haruto of course didn't know how the seal really worked. He was simply guessing based on what he'd seen in the show. After all, if it was really possible to read the memories of ROOT agents then Danzo would've been in a whole world of trouble far before he was stripped of his status and position than the Uchiha massacre.
Tsunade bit her tongue. She truly hadn't considered that aspect. And from her research on the seal, she knew it truly did kill the person if their memories were read.
There was a soft silence in the underground chamber and Haruto eventually spoke again, "Leave the kid alone…"
Kakashi sighed and then asked a question that stumped Haruto for a second, but he used his Occlumency to keep his expression under control. Above all, it was the fact that he was inside Tsunade's body and that people were not used to his expressions like that that saved him from revealing his confusion.
"Was it your organisation that sent me the slip regarding keeping Haruto safe right before the cursed tongue eradication seal was planted on him?"
'Huh? What?' Haruto's mind spasmed for a second before he made up a reason on the spot.
"Yes, we did. We're keeping an eye on the kid ourselves since he's a little special…"
"A little special?" Tsunade asked with her brows raised since she felt like she was vindicated because there indeed was something wrong with the kid.
Haruto frowned, as if pondering how much he could reveal about the boy without getting in trouble with his superiors before Haruto spoke calmly, "It's not like I can't tell you about the boy… but truthfully we don't know much about the boy ourselves…"
"That can't be right…" Tsunade complained, "Why would you be interested in a boy who seemingly dropped out of the academy with no talent then?"
Haruto nodded, "Well… there is a reason…"
Everyone leaned in close to hear Haruto's next words as if it were going to reveal some huge secret.
'I'm having too much fun doing this!!!' Haruto smirked in his mind.
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