The world I hear is completely different from yours.

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PS First update

Chapter 1: Pegasus Saint Kakashi Hatake

As time flows by, peaceful times always pass quickly, and several years have gone by in the blink of an eye.

By this time, Konoha Village had undergone several expansions, and its area was much larger than when it was first founded. A large number of people poured into the village as Konoha's economy became increasingly prosperous, and the peaceful times after the war also promoted the growth of Konoha's original population. According to data from Konoha's statistics department, the number of newborns born in Konoha Hospital in recent years was more than the total number of newborns in all previous years combined.

In response, the Third Kazekage, who came to Konoha for talks, said to his subordinates with great concern: "In a few years, when this new force has grown up, I'm afraid even if the armies of several other countries join forces, they may not be able to gain an absolute numerical advantage over Konoha."

The explosive population growth in Konoha, in turn, provided a large labor force, greatly boosting Konoha's economy.

Under the orders of the Third Hokage, Konoha promoted basic puppetry techniques throughout the village, making it a fundamental course in the Ninja Academy. Now, every Konoha ninja, while perhaps not possessing advanced puppet-making skills, has mastered basic puppetry techniques and can skillfully use various puppet creations.

With so many skilled workers, Konoha was able to begin using puppeteers to fully develop its automated industry. These ninjas who knew puppetry only needed to operate the puppet cores of the fully automated machine tools, ensuring that the machines wouldn't malfunction, while the actual production work was done by the programs inscribed inside the puppet cores.

There are no circuit boards, no CPUs. All the automatic control computers of the industrial production line are replaced by puppet cores. The robotic arms and workers are replaced by large puppets. The puppeteers control the entire production line by manipulating the puppet cores. This is the automated industry of another world!

After several years of development, many high-rise buildings and factories appeared in Konoha Village. Countless automated machine tools inside, controlled by puppeteers, operated non-stop, constantly producing large quantities of military and civilian products. These products were then sent to various countries in exchange for enormous wealth, enriching Konoha's national treasury.

The once prosperous Konoha Village, in the words of the Third Hokage, Tensei, is now so powerful that "it used to be easily defeated with just one Shinra Tensei, but now it takes at least two." Of course, the Konoha leaders around him were generally used to the Third Hokage's occasional jokes and didn't respond. Only Elder Danzo continued to object, arguing that how could such a powerful and indestructible Konoha be destroyed by some trivial trick like Shinra Tensei?

In the central area of ​​Konoha, diagonally opposite the Hokage's office building, stands a semi-circular, egg-shaped building. This serves as the laboratory for Konoha's puppet research department, responsible for designing and manufacturing all puppet items developed by Konoha. Therefore, a large number of Anbu members are always on duty here, making it arguably one of the most important locations in Konoha.

In the morning, Hatake Sakumo walked through the laboratory doors and made his way to the top-floor chief design room. After nodding to the ANBU guarding the door, he pushed open the door and said to the figure standing in front of the large screen, "Third Hokage, Jonin Hatake Sakumo has completed his mission and brought Genin Hatake Kakashi."

"Ah, thank you for your hard work, Sakumo." Ame turned around and walked over, looking at the little guy who was following closely behind Hatake Sakumo. He was a genius who had graduated from the Ninja Academy with excellent grades in just 5 years and had recently become famous in the village.

At this moment, Kakashi's face was still young, without the scar or a mask. He was a very handsome young man, with no resemblance to the decadent middle-aged man who would later become obsessed with erotic novels.

Kakashi curiously looked up at the Third Hokage before her. Although she and her father were comrades-in-arms of the same generation, unlike her somewhat weathered father, the Hokage before her still possessed a face and figure like a young girl—it was said to be thanks to a secret technique of the Senju clan—and looked no different from an older sister next door.

"Just looking at the Hokage's appearance, if it weren't for the Hokage robes she was wearing, people would believe that she was Rin's older sister, right?" Kakashi thought to himself, recalling his teammates, but naturally didn't dare to voice these thoughts.

At that moment, a middle-aged man wearing a green bodysuit pushed open the door and entered. His thick eyebrows were quite striking. He then announced in a loud voice, "Gennin Might Guy reporting for duty!"

“Genin Might Guy and Kakashi Hatake, I have a task for you.” Tianqing gestured for Sakumo Hatake to stand aside, then pointed to two green bodysuits, one large and one small, on the stage: “First, try these two bodysuits on to see if they fit.”

"Huh?" Kakashi was stunned. Looking at the outfit on the stage, which was similar in style to the ugly bodysuit Might Dai was wearing, he couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time. After receiving the Hokage's order, he thought the Hokage was going to give him some special mission. It turned out that he just wanted to try on clothes? And such ugly clothes at that? He remembered that the uncle next to him named Might Dai had been ridiculed behind his back by others for always wearing such strange clothes.

"Oh! So the village has finally realized the charm of this training suit?!" Might Guy was overjoyed upon hearing this, eager to promote this green bodysuit to the entire village and let everyone experience the passion of youth!

"Uh, no, that's not it." Tianqing quickly denied it. Just imagining all the Konoha ninjas running around in Might Guy's green bodysuit made Tianqing almost throw up. This was definitely mental pollution! Can you imagine Sasuke, Neji, Hinata, Sakura and a bunch of other handsome men and beautiful women wearing such green bodysuits, posing coolly and cutely?

“These two bodysuits are just linings for you before you put on the puppet armor. They are equipment that was just secretly developed by the village. The larger one is the lining for the Phoenix Cloth, and the smaller one,” Tianqing pointed to Kakashi, “is the lining for the Pegasus Cloth. You should put on these linings quickly and then go to the training grounds below to try out the newly developed Cloths.”

“There’s one more thing,” Tianqing said, looking at Kakashi and Might Dai, who were grabbing their clothes and heading towards the changing room. “Leaving aside adults like Might Dai, Kakashi, you don’t have any symptoms like anemia, do you?”

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PS: Bonus chapter, to make up for any previously owed chapters.

Chapter Two: The Secrets of Saint Seiya

In her past life, Tianqing had always been curious about a question concerning Saint Seiya.

Throughout the entire manga, the Saint Seiya warriors engage in hand-to-hand combat, and the fights are incredibly exciting. They unleash moves like punching a wall, a mountain, or even the Earth, seemingly without restraint, raining blows on each other's heads. In the end, even their Saint Cloths are shattered into tiny pieces, but their undershirts remain largely undamaged!

Why is that?

Please don't bring up the rule that clothes can't be torn or exposed in comics. After all, when the Saint Seiya warriors are fighting, those beautiful female warriors are flying in the sky wearing super short skirts that show off their white thighs. What's more, those female Saint Seiya warriors show quite a bit of skin, and there's also Athena's deep V-neck. All the evidence shows that there is a reasonable reason why these Saint Seiya warriors' inner shirts were not torn!

That is, the defensive power of these close-fitting undershirts is actually stronger than that of the holy armor they wear! So much so that even when the holy armor was pulverized, their close-fitting undershirts didn't have any holes.

This also proves from another angle how tragic it is for Shiryu to take off his clothes at the drop of a hat. You want to take off your Saint Cloth to increase your attack power, but don't take off this undershirt too! In the end, you finally managed to defeat your opponent, but you were still badly injured. If you hadn't taken off this undershirt, you might have killed the enemy without getting hurt, right?

By learning from these Saint Seiya predecessors, Tensei developed this tight-fitting inner shirt as a prerequisite for Konoha ninjas to wear and control their Saint Cloths.

Currently, based on the technological advancements that Amehara has brought to Konoha, the village is already capable of manufacturing large-scale war golems—replica Zaku—for combat. Furthermore, thanks to the village's advanced puppetry industry, it can mass-produce components and alloy shells for these large war golems. However, battlefield situations are ever-changing. While replica Zaku naturally excel in large-scale troop operations, elite squads cannot utilize overly conspicuous replicas for assault and reconnaissance missions. Therefore, Amehara led a large group of Konoha researchers to develop these puppet shell armors, similar to Iron Man's suit, and gave them a prestigious name: Saint Cloth.

However, the development of the Saint Cloth was not smooth. Since it was worn by ninjas, it would inevitably affect their agility and movement speed. Moreover, since the Saint Cloth was actually a puppet shell similar to Iron Man's armor, the ninjas also needed to focus on manipulating the puppet core, so it did not have much practical value in combat.

It wasn't until Tianqing brought back the divine umbilical cord and the silk threads it produced from Yharnam that things progressed.

Most of the silk threads were woven into the blood-stained divine garment on Tian Qing's body, while some silk threads were left behind by Tian Qing. A small portion of these threads were then scattered and woven into other fibers, eventually forming these tight-fitting undershirts.

"This outfit is so ugly! Couldn't the developers have made it at least a little nicer? I don't want to look like that old man with the thick eyebrows." In the changing room, Kakashi put on the green bodysuit, looked at himself in the mirror with disgust, and quickly put his clothes away, planning to change back as soon as the experiment was over. Then he and Might Guy, who had also changed into his bodysuit, walked into the training ground.

"The Saint Cloth test begins!"

Tensei gestured to Sakumo Hatake, signaling him to be prepared to terminate the experiment at any time should anything go wrong, and then gave instructions to his assistants below.

Upon seeing the Hokage's signal, the assistant shouted at Kakashi and Might Guy, "You two, see that little switch on your left hand? Press it!"

After hearing his assistant's instructions, Kakashi took a deep breath, glanced at his father who was standing on the second floor watching him nervously, smiled, and pressed the small switch on his left hand.

hiss!

A faint, sharp, tingling sensation came from the skin of his left arm. With his exceptionally keen senses, Kakashi immediately guessed what it was: a small needle!

"Why would there be a needle hidden in the clothes to pierce the skin? Is it to detect the user's identity?" Kakashi was a little puzzled, but he immediately understood the reason.

A suction force emanated from the needle. Was that needle sucking his blood? No, how much blood could such a small needle possibly draw? He'd already lost at least a syringeful of blood! As a genius ninja, Kakashi was capable of accurately estimating his blood loss to assess his physical strength and determine his next battle strategy!

After feeling himself lose about two large syringes of blood, Kakashi noticed a change in his clothes. Several veins, carrying his own blood, were faintly visible pulsating inside the clothes, as if the clothes had become a part of his body!

Then a surge of power flowed into my body.

"This power inside my body is so strong!" Kakashi closed his eyes, felt the explosive power contained within his body, and then suddenly charged towards the target in the training field!

Punch! Whip kick! In that brief instant, Kakashi unleashed a storm of attacks on the target!

Thump! Thump! Thump! A series of unusually dull hitting sounds suddenly rang out from the targets in the training ground. Any ninja who trained regularly could immediately sense the rapid and powerful continuous attacks that the targets were suffering as soon as they heard these sounds!

"That's too fast! And that kind of speed! And that kind of attack power!" Hatake Sakumo, who had been watching his son with bated breath, was taken aback. The speed his son had just displayed was barely at the level of a Special Jonin! Keep in mind that Kakashi is only five years old and just a Genin who has just graduated from the Ninja Academy!

Although Sakumo Hatake knew that his son, as a genius, had already barely reached the level of a Chunin, the fact that simply changing clothes could provide such a huge boost, raising his original Chunin strength to the level of a Special Jonin, was quite beyond his imagination!

So, what price must be paid for this power? Hatake Sakumo couldn't help but feel nervous, looking at his son who had stopped.

Kakashi stopped torturing the target, adjusted his breathing, and then began reporting the various data he had just estimated to his assistant: "...Speed ​​boost...Strength enhancement...Feeling good now, requesting to continue the experiment!"

"To gain such power by sacrificing just a little blood is truly worth it!" Kakashi looked at his clothes and suddenly found that the tight-fitting clothes that he had previously found extremely ugly now looked a little more pleasing to the eye.

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PS: First update.

Chapter Three: Preparation

While Kakashi swiftly completed a combo on the target, demonstrating the effectiveness of his green bodysuit, and requested to proceed to the next test, Might Guy was still meticulously punching the target in the training field.

"Drink up!!" Although Might Dai's punch was quite powerful, in the eyes of experts like Ame and Hatake Sakumo, Might Dai's strength and speed were indeed not very good. Even with the green bodysuit providing a power boost, he still failed to break through to the Chunin level.

While Might Dai possessed an unwavering belief in the power of fire, his actual strength wasn't particularly high; otherwise, he wouldn't have remained a mere genin for so many years in the village. After Ame-no-Kage became the Third Hokage, several Chunin Exams were held, and Might Dai's performance in those exams indeed fell short of the passing grade for chunin.

This can be seen from Might Guy's fate later on. After opening all eight gates, Might Guy only managed to kill a few of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. In contrast, when Might Guy opened all eight gates, he transformed into Might Guy and kicked Madara Uchiha in Six Paths Sage Mode, causing him to cough up blood and nearly die.

Judging from their performances, it is clear that Might Dai's talent was indeed far inferior to that of his son, Might Guy. Furthermore, Might Dai had to train for nearly twenty years to master the Eight Gates. Before completing these twenty years of training, he did not have any outstanding achievements, which is why he was called a "perennial genin" and was secretly ridiculed by other Konoha ninjas.

Judging by the current timeline, Might Guy probably hasn't fully mastered the Eight Gates technique yet.

Regardless of his actual strength, Tianqing still held Might Guy in high esteem, a hero embodying the Will of Fire. Tianqing had no intention of simply watching him live an ordinary life, only to have him fight a few of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist after completing his training, and then have Might Guy's name engraved on Konoha's memorial stone. Shouldn't such a hero be given a better treatment and ending?

Why wait until martyrs have sacrificed their lives to posthumously award them honors and rewards? Why can't we give them encouragement while they are still alive?

Although Konoha's rules prevent even the Hokage from breaking them and promoting someone with only a genin's strength, Tensei could use the Hokage's privilege of issuing missions to assign Might Guy some missions within his capabilities, allowing him to accumulate more merits and rewards, and appropriately improve his family's quality of life.

This is one of the reasons why Tianqing specifically requested Kakashi and Might Guy to participate in this test experiment.

Another reason was that Tianqing intended to give them these two linings and the Saint Cloth, under the pretext of "wearing them for a long time to test the performance of the new equipment."

Having read the original work, Tianqing deeply sympathized with Kakashi and Might Guy's plight and hoped to change their fate. However, this didn't mean Tianqing had to become their caretaker, solving every potential danger on their path. Being a ninja is a high-risk profession fraught with death, constantly facing the threat of death. For example, when Kakashi stepped onto the battlefield and encountered a powerful enemy, Tianqing could indeed help him eliminate the foe, but what if he encountered another powerful enemy next time?

Does this mean that Ten'e, as the Third Hokage, is expected to follow Kakashi around the entire way, protecting Kakashi, Rin, and Obito? What about the rest of Konoha? So many heroes in the original story sacrificed their lives for Konoha; can Ten'e manage them all by himself?

Giving a man a fish is not as good as teaching him how to fish. Ultimately, they still need to face the hardships and obstacles on their life's journey themselves. What Tianqing can do is fundamentally change their destiny from a macro perspective, while also improving their abilities so that they have the capacity to solve those difficulties in life.

For example, if Might Guy greatly enhances his strength after wearing the Phoenix Cloth and defeats the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist with just a few punches and kicks, would he still need to open all eight gates?

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At dusk, after the test, Might Guy walked out of the laboratory, holding the inner lining of the Saint Cloth and the scroll sealing the Saint Cloth armor.

"This gift from the Hokage is far too precious!"

Although Might Guy usually seems a bit too hot-blooded, he's not stupid. Over the years, he's vaguely sensed the Hokage's preferential treatment of his family. The power of the Saint Cloth he received under the pretext of "wearing it for a long time to test the performance of new equipment" has amazed him. It can give the wearer such a huge boost in strength, but only requires a little blood from time to time. This is simply the ninja tool that every ninja who pursues power dreams of!

"But I never expected that the Hokage would be willing to lend me such a precious ninja tool! My youth and passion are about to ignite!!!" Might Guy roared to the sky and began a passionate run towards the setting sun!

Sakumo Hatake, carrying Kakashi on his back, was left watching Might Guy's departing figure with a strange expression.

"Dad, that uncle with the thick eyebrows was really weird," Kakashi said, feeling weak and exhausted after his Saint Cloth's lining had absorbed a lot of blood.

“Everyone has their own personality. Maybe you’ll become lifelong friends with one of these quirky people in the future,” Sakumo Hatake joked.

"Hmph, no way."

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"It's almost time." Tianqing stood outside the window, looking at Konoha under the setting sun, and said to the person who suddenly appeared behind her, "See that child being carried by Sakumo? That's your future disciple. How does it feel?"

Standing behind Tian Qing was a man with blond hair, a confident and handsome smile on his face, as if no difficulty could stop him: "Hatake Kakashi? He's quite a good kid. I believe we'll get along well in the future."

Tianqing turned around and looked at Minato Namikaze, who had grown much taller: "Eh? Were you always this cheerful? How come you've become so energetic after training with the Second Hokage and Jiraiya for a while? Did Kushina give you something strange to eat?"

Upon hearing his girlfriend's name, Minato scratched his head sheepishly, feeling a bit of a headache and unsure how to respond.

"Alright, I'll ask Kushina later." Tianqing shrugged. "What about the previous mission?"

Upon mentioning the word "mission," Minato Namikaze's expression turned serious: "Jonin Minato Namikaze reports that I have been infiltrating Kirigakure for over half a month and have not found any clues about Madara Uchiha. However, I can confirm that the Third Mizukage is currently being controlled by someone else, most likely through the Sharingan's genjutsu!"

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PS: Bonus chapter to make up for the one I missed.

Chapter Four: The Third Kazekage's Magnet Release and the Specters

"Is there no concrete evidence to prove the existence of Uchiha Madara?" Tianqing sighed as she listened to Minato Namikaze's report, feeling somewhat frustrated.

With the legendary Sannin, Minato Namikaze, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Sakumo Hatake, Konoha was at its peak, boasting so many powerful ninjas. Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha, with the passage of time, had entered his twilight years, and his strength had greatly diminished.

Originally, Ten's plan was to take advantage of Konoha's strong and well-equipped army, leading a group of burly men directly to Kirigakure to drag Uchiha Madara out of his hole and rape him, thus completely ruining that damned Eye of the Moon Plan. However, without concrete evidence, Ten couldn't convince the elders and advisors to agree to let him lead a large group of his men on a "friendly visit" to Kirigakure, especially since even the Hokage couldn't easily take actions similar to starting a war or provocation.

"Third Hokage, why are you so fixated on whether Madara Uchiha is alive or dead?" Minato Namikaze asked cautiously, looking at the silent Tensei. Even if Madara Uchiha were still alive, nearly forty years had passed since Madara's era. The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, who was his contemporary, was now an old man, his once agile movements now making walking difficult. How much more so Madara Uchiha, who was even older than Tobirama Senju?

Tianqing still didn't answer, but changed the subject: "By the way, after lying in wait in Kirigakure for so long, you should go to the Senju clan to see Kushina as soon as possible. The Second Hokage said he wanted to see you last time."