Maybe he does have deceit 60 maybe he doesn't but it's definitely plausible and I wouldn't even say it's unlikely.

Agree to disagree but, you def are right that right now is a bad idea to role against him. We just need to keep our head down for another year or so and then we will be able to make those big moves
 
I too find Orochimaru's aproach to politics funny when we are not the focus of his douchebagery.
S-rank Hazou: "You want me to intervene because some random idiot was being mean to you? You know how many seals I'm working on? How many biological experiments that mandate my constant attention, lest they release a chakra-enhanced plague throughout the Elemental Nations?"

Honoka's Genin Squad: "They're Hagoromo ninja, and they called Honoka-sensei a slur."

S-rank Hazou: "Lead the way."
 
S-rank Hazou: "You want me to intervene because some random idiot was being mean to you? You know how many seals I'm working on? How many biological experiments that mandate my constant attention, lest they release a chakra-enhanced plague throughout the Elemental Nations?"

Honoka's Genin Squad: "They're Hagoromo ninja, and they called Honoka-sensei a slur."

S-rank Hazou: "Lead the way."
Honestly by this point in our power growth you gotta just be suicidal to do anything like that

Essies are crazy and the Goketsu will have like 5, as well as several more jonin
 
Hazõ may not be interested in becoming the hokage but good luck getting he to do anything once he reaches S-rank.
 
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S-rank Hazou: "You want me to intervene because some random idiot was being mean to you? You know how many seals I'm working on? How many biological experiments that mandate my constant attention, lest they release a chakra-enhanced plague throughout the Elemental Nations?"

Honoka's Genin Squad: "They're Hagoromo ninja, and they called Honoka-sensei a slur."

S-rank Hazou: "Lead the way."
Honoka in the Moon Bunker
"And that is how the plagues started."

Moonlight
"We know. Why must you keep telling us, we were there?"
 
S-rank Hazou: "You want me to intervene because some random idiot was being mean to you? You know how many seals I'm working on? How many biological experiments that mandate my constant attention, lest they release a chakra-enhanced plague throughout the Elemental Nations?"

Honoka's Genin Squad: "They're Hagoromo ninja, and they called Honoka-sensei a slur."

S-rank Hazou: "Lead the way."
 
Chapter 549: The Fourth’s Enigma

"Okay sensei," Hazō said, rubbing his forehead lightly. "I don't think I followed that. Let's start over."

"I don't see what you're not getting, it's not hard," said Kagome. "Look, this part here-"

"The Motoyoshi Toggle?"

"Yes, the Motoyoshi Toggle! What other root component is there in this part of the seal?"

"Sensei, the seal has four different components that independently intake chakra," Hazō said, pointing one by one at the different parts of the seal. "Any of them could be a root component. I'm not even sure how you infuse it without getting the power ratios hopelessly out of balance."

"It's- look-," Kagome blabbered before biting his lip and starting again. "Okay. So the Motoyoshi Toggle feeds energy through this pathway here, right?" he pointed. "And then this twist here increases the chirality of that energy, and it feeds into itself until the chakra is sufficiently spinny that it can go through the resonant transducer here."

"Sensei, there's no stabilizing elements around the twist. There'll be both positive and negative spin going into the transducer. Won't that cause higher order dimensional effects?"

"Which dimensions?" Kagome asked, looking smug.

Hazō examined the seal, producing a piece of paper to take notes with. After a moment, he frowned. Then he looked closer. The frown got deeper.

"Sensei. This would inject unstable chakra into the ninth dimension. This would cause a full resonance failure cascade, wouldn't it? Fifth through thirteenth dimensions."

Kagome shook his head. "Looks like that, doesn't it? But when you're infusing it, there's not much power at first, so the unstable effects don't kick in until the seal is at full power. And the Yanagihara Transformer here reverses the step-down energy chirality and feeds it back into the resonant transducer, so it cancels the higher order instabilities."

Hazō slapped the table. "How can it cancel the higher order instabilities? You're basically feeding in two, no, four highly volatile chakra feeds into an ephemeral dimension! There's no way that it doesn't just explode!"

Kagome nodded sagely. "I thought it'd go boom at first too. But it's really not like that. Not only does the ninth order effect cancel out fully, with this subgraph here it collapses the higher dimensions and reduces the chakra construct to only three spatial dimensions. That's how the construct deranges itself from phase space and into the real world."

Hazō shook his head. "There's no way that the chakra feeds cancel each other exactly. It would be like throwing a rock into a pond, then throwing a second rock in in a way that cancels the ripples. It's just not possible."

Kagome looked at him, then put his hand to the blank with a focused look. After a moment, he pulled his hand away and Hazō felt the Iron Nerve's familiar pressure in his head as he looked at the infused seal. He copied the seal into his mind and briefly inspected it – exactly the same as the blank Kagome had been explaining to him.

Hazō sighed and rested his forehead in his hand. "The Fourth was insane. I don't get how this didn't cause a sealing failure."

"It's really not that hard," Kagome said. "I hated it at first but it all clicked after a bit. You should learn it! We can even start now. Here, we can use the Tamai equations to expand this component…"

"Sorry, Kagome-sensei," Hazō said, raising his hands apologetically. "I can't get into the seal workshop yet. I still have a lot of clan work to catch up on before I can afford to take a few days off."

Kagome scowled. "Make Gaku do it. The two seals I've done so far have already taught me so much. You can't miss out."

"I'll get around to it, sensei," Hazō said. "Could you show me the other seal you learned?"

One even more dizzyingly complex explanation later, Hazō sighed. "Fine. I'm throwing in the towel. I know it seems easy to you, but you worked on this for two months. I don't think I'm going to get it until I spend that long myself. Anyway, my biggest question is the same. Is this useful for opening the Rift?"

"I dunno, maybe?" Kagome said. "On the one hand, if we could somehow make the chakra construct form on the other side, or somehow push it through the transshift canal, then we could try to design a chakra construct that could be paired across both sides and inflate the rift the way we thought of on O'uzu. On the other hand, the stuff I've seen so far won't work for that. The symmetries that make these chakra constructs stable depend on the construct being centered on the seal. They can't be moved otherwise… well, it would be a big boom, at least."

Hazō sighed. "But maybe other seals in the series will give us an idea of how to translate the chakra construct?"

"Probably not. All the ones we have are seal-centered. I think I have enough to design a paired seal that would open the rift. Hold it up on one side to make a chakra construct, hold it up on the other to make another, then use chakra-sensing mechanisms from your chakdar or something to link them up and inflate the transshift canal. Not easy, but I could do it. Maybe."

"Sure, but if we had a way of getting to the other side, the problem would be solved," Hazō said, rubbing his chin. "While I was walking around the estate, I heard Kenta talking about anchor screws, which you can push through a wall to wedge a hole open. Is that a helpful sort of thing to have? We could bring him in and get his advice on how to design a seal that does that."

Kagome shook his head. "No. I mean yes, that would be good, but that's not the hard part of the problem. Easy enough to design a thing that opens the Rift if we could even get anything to the other side, but the transshift canal is smaller than a pinhole. We can't push a big chakra construct through it without getting it open wider first."

"I see… so we need a certain type of chakra construct to open the portal, but it would be too big to push through, and we have no way to cause it to form naturally on the other side, is that right?" Hazō asked, and Kagome nodded. After a moment, Hazō spoke again, "I've been thinking, the issue is basically that the storage space blew itself out, right? So if we push energy into it like a normal storage seal, it would just fly out the back end. What if we just tried to push a ton of energy in? If we did enough, is it possible that it would inflate, just a little? We could come up with a chakra source like the koi or those weird chakra-gems we found."

"Should blow those stinking rocks up and scatter 'em in the woods, that's what," Kagome muttered. He had been horrified at the team's reckless delving into a cave filled with exotic chakra beasts, and even more horrified that they'd brought stuff back out. Hazō had managed to convince him not to burn all their findings. Now that he thought about that conversation, Kagome-sensei had acted weirdly when Hazō described infiltrating the town. It had been nice to use his disguise kit after so long. He pushed the thought out of his mind. Not the time.

"If we can push enough chakra through from this side that it opens a little, then we can push whatever chakra construct we need through on the back of the other big chakra flow. So, would that be possible?" he asked.

Kagome shrugged. "Maybe pushing way too much energy in opens it, yeah. Or maybe it dislocates the transshift canal some more and when it opens up, gaki pour out and they suck our guts out through our faces. Or maybe the storage matrix disintegrates and the Rift disappears forever. Or maybe there's other punctures in the storage matrix that tear open new portals and the damnbeats decide they're gonna turn us inside out and send us back to Leaf to incubate their babies. Or maybe the chakra flux tears apart the high-energy chakra construct that we're sending through and the explosion kills all of us. Or maybe the chakra construct doesn't anchor on the other side and floats off into the afterlife until one of the umbral devourers comes around, eats it, and decides it likes the taste of our chakra and wants to eat the rest of us. Or not. I dunno."

"Okay, so we have no clue and we should basically treat it as a sealing failure. Got it."

Kagome shrugged. "We're working with a sealing failure and pretending it's predictable. We're gonna die no matter what, and it'll probably suck. Sure, we'll probably get our faces melted if we try it, but maybe it just works and we don't get our faces melted. Or maybe it works and our faces melt anyway because sealing failures can just melt your face anyway and there's nothing you can do about it."

"Sure. Well, at least we have something. At some point, we should try to research that rift-opening seal, even if we can't use it yet. Maybe once we have a start, we'll be able to find another way forward. Anyway, how have things been with the Arachnids been? Any progress on the Great Seal?"

Kagome scowled. "I've been waiting for you, dummy! Kumokōgō doesn't want to provoke the Dragons any more, and apparently they haven't been leaving the Great Seal much. She's not sure if they're scared because you killed one or if they're up to some shenanigans there, but apparently she doesn't want to bait them away if it makes them go kill more Arachnids. Don't you have the tunnel there? We should go that way!"

Hazō nodded. "Yeah, okay. We can try to sneak under the butte sometime. Still, the last few times I was there, it was with the help of a bait team. We definitely wouldn't get a chance to look straight at the Great Seal if there were Dragons around, but I could probably show you some of the underground parts."

"Sure. Better than your crappy replica, anyway."

Hazō put his hand to his chest. "That took me a whole day to make!"

"Waste of a day," Kagome said with a snort, "There's a reason why the other Leaf stinkers moved on, and not just because the big stinker made them all go into the sweatshops to make skywalkers for his war. Looks like crap. Bits and pieces kinda look like seal components here and there but not really."

Hazō sighed. "I've been meaning to work on the Earthshaping technique to make a better replica. I'll have to do that at some point. Anyway, before Mari comes and makes me look over her proposed plans for the roads initiative, tell me about Harumitsu. Was he okay when you were teaching him?"

"Oh, the kid? He wasn't bad. Better than you, really. Not half as reckless. Maybe not even a quarter. But still, we were working on storage seals, and he ended up mixing up two equations, and…"

o-o-o​

Hazō knocked on the door. Inside, there was the sound of rapid footsteps, then clanging metal and furniture being knocked over, along with the soft pops of shadow clones dispelling. After a moment longer, the door swung open and Naruto leaned casually against the doorframe.

"Ah, you're early."

Hazō smiled, and glanced at Mari, who nodded. "Were we interrupting something? We can come back in a few minutes, if that would be easier."

Naruto shrugged. "It's no biggie." He paused for a moment, then opened the door wide. "Actually, it's fine. Why don't you come in?"

Hazō and Mari climbed the pair of steps leading up to Naruto's house and followed Naruto to the sitting room. Hazō couldn't help but sniff at the air. The furniture was in perfect order, clean and in its correct places, yet there was a slight, sweet scent in the air. As he looked around, he saw another Naruto coming in through a side door, and in the stairway, he saw yet another Naruto racing up the stairs with a mop soaked in… chocolate sauce?

Naruto closed the door behind him and sat down. Hazō and Mari sat opposite him on a lumpy and uncomfortable couch. Hazō tried briefly to settle down into a more comfortable position, but decided to just bear it, since wiggling probably looked undignified.

"So. Today's the day, huh?" Naruto asked.

"That's right," said Mari. "Kagome has made some progress on the jinchūriki seals, and Hazō will be looking over his work in detail sometime soon."

Naruto glanced at Hazō, then back at Mari. A little bit of worry seeped out of Hazō. He'd been afraid that Naruto would still be furious at him, but the boy instead had a look of forced neutrality. It wasn't amazing, but still better than the Naruto who didn't care to hide his hostility a few months ago.

"Okay. So what do I need to do? You said lying down on a table and poking around, right? I assume you're not gonna make me lie on a gurney like Snakedude's operating tables, so we could use a bed in a guest rooms for that."

"Sure, that'll work?" she said, inquisitively, looking at Hazō. Hazō nodded, and she continued. "Yes, that's fine. We did have some questions we wanted to ask, first."

Naruto leaned back in his chair. "Well, I can't talk too much about my capabilities, you know. And I don't know shit about sealing, so I won't be much use to you there. Is there anything that I can actually answer?"

Mari shrugged. "Well, what's being a jinchūriki like? Yagura never talked about what it was like with the Three Tails, but it clearly affected his mind somehow. Did you ever experience anything like that?"

And that was why they couldn't bring Kagome along. He thought the Fox would just murder them all if they told it that they knew it was possessing Naruto. On reflection, Hazō had decided to go through with it anyway.

Naruto looked up at the ceiling. "Nothing like that at all, no. The inside of my head's always been pretty normal, aside from the shadow clone stuff. No weird voices telling me to kill everyone and burn the village to the ground, if that's what you mean. Just a whole lot of chakra."

Mari laughed. "Well, I don't think the voice in Yagura's head made him want to burn the village to the ground either. Maybe it was the reason he was as cruel as he was, though in fairness, I have known some awful kids. Either way, you clearly don't have that going on.

"We spoke with the Monkey King, Enma, a while back. He mentioned that there was a jinchūriki in Whirlpool who got corrupted by her Tailed Beast. Apparently something about its chakra drove her crazy. Do you think that your dad's seal is protecting you from that?"

Naruto shrugged. "I dunno. I mean, my situation is definitely different than the other jinchūriki, right? I wasn't crazy powerful like Yagura or Gaara from a super young age, and I'm also not nuttier than a triple-stack pecan pie with extra pecan. I guess I'd chalk it up to my dad's seal, except my mom also wasn't crazy. So maybe it's a Nine Tails thing instead of a seal thing."

"Speaking of which," Hazō said, "you mentioned the name Kurama, rather than just the 'Nine Tails'. Are you able to speak with it at all? If so, we have some important questions we want to ask it, like about the Dragons. They're giant monsters on the Seventh Path made to fight the Tenfold Abomination."

Naruto shook his head. "Never heard of Dragons before you showed up, and nope, I can't talk with it at all. And I'm not eager to try, since I think that means that it would be released from its seal, and apart from the fact that you would all die, who knows what would happen to me."

"So where did you hear the name?" Hazō asked.

Naruto shrugged. "Not sure. I've always known what it was called, even when I was a kid. Figure Jiraiya or the Third Hokage told me at some point. No clue how they knew, but they were both knee deep in ancient and forgotten lore or something like that."

Mari bowed her head. "We lost a lot of wisdom when they passed."

Naruto pursed his lips for a moment, then nodded. "Yeah."

"There's another mystery about the jinchūriki that you could maybe help with," Mari said. "In Jiraiya's will, it was mentioned that he wanted to leave the Toad Scroll to you, but couldn't since you weren't eligible to be a summoner, presumably because you're a jinchūriki. Do you know why that was?"

Naruo laughed. "Hah, I remember that. Yeah, it was because I'm a jinchūriki. I bugged him about it for a bit when I realized he wasn't going to teach me summoning and he said that I'd have no problem learning the technique, but I couldn't actually go to the Seventh Path. Something about Tailed Beasts not belonging there. He said I could talk to Ma and Pa if I wanted to find out more, but I forgot to ask in the end," he said, scratching the back of his head.

"Huh," said Hazō. "Alright, that's all we had. If you're ready, can we do the inspection now?"

Naruto nodded and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. A moment later, the side door opened again and two Narutos entered, one carrying a tray with tea and biscuits. He said, "TreasonFoiler here can escort Hazō to where Prime is, and I brought some snacks for us while we wait for him to finish up with his freaky sealmaster bullshit."

Mari laughed lightly at Naruto's nickname, and Hazō smiled uncomfortably. He left the room, trying not to feel uncomfortable separating himself from Mari with a maybe-hostile jinchūriki right by his side. Naruto TreasonFoiler gave him a glare, then started leading him down the hall.

"I would say this goes without saying, but everyone I've talked to about you says that I really need to say all the things that go without saying. So, you're going to leave all your seals outside the room before you go in there, and if you do anything even remotely threatening towards Prime, you'll be eating three Rasengans before you can blink."

Hazō nodded. Yet another reason to not bring Kagome along. Completely separate from the whole treason thing (or the other treason thing), Naruto hadn't liked Kagome after the sealmaster blew up a few of the jinchūriki's clones in the Basement. Hazō could empathize. He definitely didn't want to find out what Kagome's directional explosives felt like point-blank.

"Understood. I do have a couple seals that I'll need to use to collect diagnostic data, but I can show them to you now, or you can even have a clone operate it if you'd prefer."

Naruto TreasonFoiler nodded and after a brief inspection of the chakrascope and chakdar, Hazō left the rest of his seals behind and entered the bedroom.

Naruto was sitting on the bed, and gestured at Hazō. "Ah, you're here. Took you long enough. What do we gotta do here?"

Naruto TreasonFoiler closed the door and crossed his arms by it, trapping Hazō in the triangle of clones. Naruto Prime smiled at him from on the bed.

Hazō took a seat right next to the bed. "Just the basics. I'll be checking against the Fourth's notes to see if there's anything in particular to look out for, but first I'll just draw out a copy of your seal to reference against."

Naruto's grin widened. "You're gonna draw a copy? Might have some problems with that. But hey, let's get on with it."

He pulled his shirt off and lay down on the bed. Hazō stood and closed his eyes for a moment, strengthening his resolve and remembering for a moment the feeling of Akane's hand in his and of Ino's lips against his cheek. He didn't know what was about to happen, but given his experiences with the Summoning Scroll and the Great Seal, he didn't want to take chances. He walked towards Naruto slowly. He readied his brush and drawing pad, then stopped as he saw the black seal strokes on the jinchūriki's stomach.

They moved.

Can Hazō tell what's going on with Naruto's seal? This is unlike any of the sealing that he knows of, so Sealing won't be of any use. He just needs to piece things together from the visible details, so it's Examination.

Hazō (Examination): 5 + 6 = 11

Very nope.

Hazō stared at it in bewilderment for a moment. In a circle on Naruto's stomach that stretched from just under his ribs to below his waistline, black marks shifted and twisted around across his skin. There was no visible pattern that he could see. Some of the marks twisted back and forth like writhing worms, and in other places spirals emerged from a single point and wrapped around themselves before unrolling into nonexistence. Ink dots appeared and disappeared on his skin like twinkling stars, and other blobs of ink raced around in loops and zig-zags. No seal Hazō had seen had ever done anything like this – it shouldn't even have been possible! Even the tiniest of mistakes in scribing a seal would lead to a sealing failure, and among other reasons, the instability of skin as a surface was part of why biosealing was so dangerous. A seal that changed shape should have been impossible.

Then Hazō realized the other confusing part of Naruto's seal. He was looking straight at it, fully taking it in, yet the Iron Nerve didn't recognize it as a seal. He hadn't copied anything new at all and he didn't feel that pressure in his mind that meant he was looking at an infused seal.

Naruto kept a straight face for a few moments, soaking in Hazō's bewilderment, then burst out laughing, causing the slowly shifting patterns on his stomach to suddenly dance in mirth. "Hah! You sealmasters all have the same face when you look at it. The same furrowed brow, mouth hanging open, 'what the fuck is this' face. Is that something you have to learn in order to get the license?"

Hazō shook his head. He couldn't get caught up on this. He had already seen one strictly impossible seal before in the Great Seal. He turned to the clones. "Do you have a seal like this as well?"

They looked to Naruto, who gestured at one of the yet-unnamed clones to show Hazō. The clone raised his shirt, and Hazō saw the seal again. This one was unmoving.

Hazō raised an eyebrow. "And how about you?"

The other clone glanced at Naruto and then raised his shirt as well, showing a copy of the seal on the first clone.
"Do all your clones have the same seal on them?" Hazō asked.

"Nope," said Naruto. "The ones made at the same time do, but at different times they get different seals. I'm pretty sure it's just a copy of whatever's on my skin when I cast the technique."

Hazō sighed. "Well, I'm not going to be able to copy out your seal like this. Let me take some readings with the chakrascopes, then I'll draw it off one of the clones."

"Great, thanks for letting me skip the boring bits. Maybe I'll go catch up with Mari while I wait."

Hazō breathed deeply, ignoring the shifting pattern of the seal on Naruto's stomach, then started pulling out his diagnostic seals to see if he could figure out anything more.





Hazō collected a bunch of chakra readings. This may or may not provide a relevant Aspect in the future. He also has copies of a few snapshots of the jinchūriki seal. Unfortunately, those copied out snapshots are not particularly legible to a sealmaster. While there are a few brushstrokes that look like they might be sealing components, most of it just seems like randomly placed ink that doesn't even all connect together. This is not particularly helpful to Hazō or Kagome. As per usual, the Fourth's higher-level notes are incomprehensible, and Hazō could parse nothing useful there.

Asuma is unwilling to send Noburi on the extended mission of chakra-beast extermination that would let him get enough combat experience to remove his rustiness. Your options right now are sadly limited to Leaf and the entire Seventh Path.

Additionally, Noburi has told Hazō that at some point during the Neck mission, Orochimaru came by to purchase the Dragon parts permanently. After Noburi said that he wanted to check with Hazō, Orochimaru "politely" asked to keep the last set of scales that he was lent while Noburi waited for Hazō to get back, and for Hazō to come see him to negotiate the sale. After confirming that the extended duration of possession of the last set of scales would be compensated for retroactively, Noburi said yes (with only a little bit of killing intent applied). You may want to do that soon.

When Hazō tries casting Earthshaping on Earth Clones, the Earthshaping technique is hard to cast at first, as it is challenging to push chakra into the Earth Clone. After enough effort, the Earthshaping technique takes hold. At that point, the clone disintegrates and the Earthshaping only affects the mud it was once made of. Earthshaping has no effect on the Earth Clone if it was made as a chakra construct.

Hazō is nearly finished catching up on Clan Head duties. He will be free for longer affairs like sealing research in a couple days.

XP Award: 10 + 2 (brevity) XP
GM-fun Award: 2 XP
(sealing stuff is always great)

Vote time! What to do now?

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dam no cheat codes 😔
>the Bijuu Seal is not, in fact, a seal
Kinda makes sense, tbh. We know Minato's notes have been about creating chakra constructs that do things, and that that might be how he made a seal that successfully embeds within a person's chakra system. If Naruto's bijuu seal is just a permanent chakra construct anchored to and fed by his chakra system, that would fit with everything we know and also be very much not-a-seal as far as the Iron Nerve is concerned.

...or we were only looking at a tiny portion of it and would need to find some way to make eye contact with his entire chakra system to download it. One of the two.
 
Kinda makes sense, tbh. We know Minato's notes have been about creating chakra constructs that do things, and that that might be how he made a seal that successfully embeds within a person's chakra system. If Naruto's bijuu seal is just a permanent chakra construct anchored to and fed by his chakra system, that would fit with everything we know and also be very much not-a-seal as far as the Iron Nerve is concerned.

...or we were only looking at a tiny portion of it and would need to find some way to make eye contact with his entire chakra system to download it. One of the two.
"Hey Naruto imma need to dissect you real quick"
"I knew snuncle got to you!" *rasengan*
 
"Probably not. All the ones we have are seal-centered. I think I have enough to design a paired seal that would open the rift. Hold it up on one side to make a chakra construct, hold it up on the other to make another, then use chakra-sensing mechanisms from your chakdar or something to link them up and inflate the transshift canal. Not easy, but I could do it. Maybe."

"Sure, but if we had a way of getting to the other side, the problem would be solved,"
Well, there's the obvious solution: kill someone carrying a copy of the seal, and see if they still have it on the other side. Or just have everyone carry it around in case they die, and try when that happens.

The really crazy idea is to go find a relatively harmless small animal, bioseal the seal onto it, kill it before the seal has a chance to warp, and use that.
 
So since we're going to have to sell Oro the dragon pieces here is my list of stuff I'd want form the first time we could have
Some of the things Hazou would like to obtain
  • A jutsu of each element that a randomly selected jounin would find useful
  • Advice and possibly help setting up a 7th path chakra farm that Noburi can drain from safely
  • Being allowed to ask questions that do not infringe on any of Oro's direct plan.
  • Notes on how to seal the Bijou
  • Help on dealing with the great seal
  • chakra metal
  • location of chakra golems
  • help with the great seal
  • (Insert whatever people want to try to get from him)
 
So since we're going to have to sell Oro the dragon pieces here is my list of stuff I'd want form the first time we could have
1: snake to arachnid
2: 1 hr of his time for lore dump
3: XP lootboxes
4: Good ninjutsu (including medical ninjutsu)

These are what I want in order of preference

Specific lore questions I want asked? (From most to least critical. Top 3 or so hyphens are probably non negotiable for me):
- What was Akatsuki's true purpose? What was the ritual pain was performing? What happened to the giant seal they were working on?
- What does Orochimaru know of the tenfold beast and the Dragons that fought them?
- What does Orochimaru know of the various Paths?
- What does Orochimaru know of what happened to Whirlpool?
- What does Orochimaru know about chakra golems?
- What does Orochimaru know of Jashin?
- What does Orochimaru know of the Watchers?
- Does "the Nameless Fear" ring a bell?
- What is Ninshu?
- Is it true Sage and Dummy created bloodlines with TH and mednin?
- Has orochimaru heard of a village called Hidden Depths?
 
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Additionally, Noburi has told Hazō that at some point during the Neck mission, Orochimaru came by to purchase the Dragon parts permanently. After Noburi said that he wanted to check with Hazō, Orochimaru "politely" asked to keep the last set of scales that he was lent while Noburi waited for Hazō to get back, and for Hazō to come see him to negotiate the sale. After confirming that the extended duration of possession of the last set of scales would be compensated for retroactively, Noburi said yes (with only a little bit of killing intent applied). You may want to do that soon.
[X] Tell Noburi to go to Orochimaru and demand the Dragon parts back, we aren't selling them

There, we can fix Noburi's combat rustiness.
 
Orochimaru came by to purchase the Dragon parts permanently. After Noburi said that he wanted to check with Hazō, Orochimaru "politely" asked to keep the last set of scales that he was lent while Noburi waited for Hazō to get back, and for Hazō to come see him to negotiate the sale. After confirming that the extended duration of possession of the last set of scales would be compensated for retroactively, Noburi said yes (with only a little bit of killing intent applied). You may want to do that soon.
...Ugh.

Aside from unlocking the Biosealing stunt, and some lootboxes, anything else?

Obviously we're going to be using Mari and Kabuto as intermediaries for maximum survival rates.
 
Maybe we can get Orochimaru to disappear Ritsuo in return for the Dragon Bits? In addition to lootboxes, ofc. He always needs more bodies to cut open.
 
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