My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 50 The Immortal Who Lives Forever

The feeling of being "reverse psychic" is very strange.

If I had to describe it in words, it would be that my consciousness and body seemed to twist into one rope in that instant, disappearing from the real world in a daze and reappearing in another place, with my body returning to normal.

After passing through this infinitesimally small timescale, Hyuga Yuto and Tsunade found themselves in a strange place.

This is a vast, boundless forest.

It wasn't exactly eerie, but the trees were simply too enormous, each at least twenty meters in diameter, their branches and leaves so lush they completely blocked out the sky, while the ground was an endless swamp, thick with moisture.

Logically, a super forest and swamp of this size should have teemed with countless animals.

But after observing carefully for a long time, Hyuga Yuto did not see any life other than trees, not even insects, which are known as the "most resilient".

No other life can live on this land.

This is the Wet Bone Forest, the abode of immortals.

"Stop looking. Besides the two of us, there's only the Slug Sage here." Tsunade exhaled a breath of stale air. As a member of the Senju clan, she didn't particularly like this desolate wasteland either.

"Come a few more times and you'll get used to it, but remember, don't stay here for too long. There aren't even any microorganisms in Shikkotsu Forest. If humans live here for a long time, their health will suffer... You've been learning medical ninjutsu from me for more than half a year now, so you should understand this."

Hyuga Yuto blinked and asked curiously:

"I thought there would be countless slugs here..."

"How could that be?" The blonde woman patted her disciple's head and noticed that he had grown a little taller.

"There is only one slug in the world, and all the slugs, big and small, were split off from the Slug Immortal."

"...Huh? But teacher, I feel like they all seem to have their own consciousness..."

"The slug's splitting involves the body, chakra, life force, thoughts, memories, and consciousness, somewhat like a shadow clone. When summoned by a summoning jutsu, it splits into its main body based on the amount of chakra released by the caster."

"Only when they are completely united can they become immortals."

"Those that split off can be understood as slug offspring in a certain sense. Of course, they will return to their original form after the channeling ends."

The only one in the world, Hyuga Yuto thought of this word. This way of living in the world is different from the "White Snake Sage" of Ryuchi Cave and the "Toad Sage" of Mount Myōboku.

The boy who had separated from the family seemed to have thought of something, and said uncertainly:

"So, the Exploding Blade: Frozen Blade... was reforged here?"

"Hmm." Tsunade began to lead her disciple forward:

"That piece of silk has very strange properties; it can both conduct chakra and withstand extremely high-intensity impacts. I can only ask the Slug Sage for help."

Hyuga Yuto followed behind Tsunade, seemingly lost in thought.

Even when I read the manga in my previous life, the three great holy lands of the ninja world were mysterious places shrouded in mist and fog. Among them, Mount Myōboku, which appeared most frequently, could be said to have influenced the entire main storyline.

From the time the Toad Sage revealed the truth about the Divine Tree to the Otsutsuki brothers a thousand years ago, to the time he told Jiraiya about the prophecy in his dream and taught him Sage Mode decades ago, that toad, who has lived for countless years, has been watching the ninja world from the depths of Mount Myōboku, stirring up fate at the most crucial moment.

The "White Snake" and the "Slug," who are as famous as the toad, were not described in much detail in the original work, but when Hyuga Yuto traveled to the real Naruto world, he had to consider the thoughts of these two sages.

After all, what he's going to do in the future will inevitably change the predetermined fate of the Naruto world.

Tsunade led Hyuga Yuto for a long time before finally arriving at an open space. The surrounding area was filled with large trees and swamps, but this place was a sudden flat area.

In the very center there was a stone platform with a long black bandage on it, and nothing else.

—There was no sign of the Slug Immortal.

However, the next moment, the swamp and the forest trembled together, and a gentle female voice came from beneath the earth.

"Little Tsunade".

Hyuga Yuto realized that the Slug Sage lived deep underground in Shikkotsu Forest, and the natural energy and chakra emanating from him were so abundant that they created this strange Shikkotsu Forest.

However, because the entire Shikkotsu Forest is affected by the Slug Sage, there is no life other than trees.

However, Slug Sage, why don't you come out? Are you afraid that your majestic immortal body, as vast as mountains and seas, will cause widespread suffering... or are you simply unable to come out at all? A disrespectful thought arose in Hyuga Yuto's mind, but he did not show it on his face. He knelt on one knee with his teacher and listened to the sage's teachings.

"Tsunade, on the stone platform, there's something you asked me to make."

"Thank you, Slug Sage," the blonde woman said sweetly. She had frequented the Wet Bone Forest since she was a teenager, and the Slug Sage was like an elder to her.

"Tsunade... is the boy next to you the one who wrote his name on the summoning blood pact last time?"

"Yes, Slug Sage, Yuto..."

"Hyuga Yuto greets the sage!" The branch family youth spoke at the perfect moment, his attitude respectful and impeccable.

However, the immortal slug remained silent for a long time.

Just as Hyuga Yuto and Tsunade thought that the Slug Sage might have fallen asleep, a gentle female voice boomed from underground once more:

"Hyuga Yuto... your eyes seem to reflect a future I can't even imagine."

The boy's heart skipped a beat; he almost jumped up and used reverse psychic abilities to bring himself back to the real world.

However, he managed to stay composed, straining his muscles, and calmly replied:

"May I ask, Slug Sage, what do you see in my eyes? As a Konoha ninja, will the peace I long for truly appear in the future?"

"Ah...the future." The slug seemed to sigh:

"No one can see what the future holds. Even the three of us can only glimpse a tiny crack in the fabric of fate..."

"It's good you can't see it, it was terrifying," Hinata Yuto breathed a sigh of relief.

He glanced furtively at the blonde woman beside him and found that Tsunade's expression was perfectly normal; in fact, she seemed happy and pleased. When she saw him looking at her, she even chuckled at him.

In Tsunade's eyes, the Slug Sage's "unimaginable future" probably meant praise and affirmation, implying that her apprentice, as a ninja, might reach unimaginable heights in the future.

"Tsunade, take that new ninja tool and go back to Konoha first. Yuto, stay here. That old codger should talk to the kids more."

Caught off guard, the blonde woman cheerfully replied, "Okay," then went to the stone platform to retrieve the black bandage and patted Hyuga Yuto on the shoulder.

"Let's have a chat with the Slug Fairy."

Tsunade truly trusts the slug with whom she has had a blood pact for over twenty years and who has taken care of her since childhood; the same applies to the relationship between Gamabunta and Jiraiya.

Hyuga Yuto watched Tsunade leave, feeling a sense of despair akin to being taken by a parent to visit relatives and then abandoned to play mahjong.

After the blonde woman left, the Slug Sage's voice rang out again, and this time his words were even more... direct.

Many, many years ago.

"A man who saw through destiny made a prophecy for the three of us."

The immortal, who seemed to have lived forever, paused, as if recalling the man's words:

"The toad dies of old age, the white snake sheds its skin, and the slug lives forever."

(End of this chapter)