Chương 175: Which Jutsu?

Haruto's hands trembled. He couldn't believe his luck. Could he browse through the entire scroll of seals?! If that was the case then he would be able to remember the entire thing with the help of his Occlumency giving him multiple jutsu at once. But Fugaku quickly poured cold water over Haruto's ambitions. He tossed over two scrolls, one towards Tsunade and another towards Haruto.

"Select the jutsu you want to learn and then tell me, I'll make you a copy of those jutsu and hand it over." Haruto, although a little miffed, was still pretty excited since he opened the scroll quickly to look at all the jutsu available to him.

'Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu: Recommended at least Kage level chakra reserves and mental fortitude that can withstand at least five Jonin Yamanaka mind intrusions.'

'How did Naruto learn this then? How did Naruto offset the cost of the mental strain? Or was he just a little too dumb for it to even have an effect?'

'Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags: Fit for individuals resurrected by Impure World Reincarnation, but normal individuals can also sacrifice themselves to turn into paper and create infinite explosive tags to take out the enemy. Recommended basic understanding of Fuinjutsu and Water and Earth Chakra Natures.'

'Hmm… is this how Konon's paper body works? Wait… will this teach me the trick to elementalise the human body? Will I be able to turn my body into paper and back? Can I transfer that trick to fire? By turning my body into fire and back? Won't that make me immune to most forms of damage? And if the fire's hot enough it'll even be immune to water weakness… Plus what if I replace the explosive tags seals with Megumin's explosion formulae? Won't I get a source of infinite Megumin level explosions…?

If I can only solve the issue of sacrificing the body part?'

'Summoning Jutsu: Rashōmon: Recommended Kage level chakra for three gates summoning and beyond Kage level chakra for five gates summoning.'

'Oh… the gates of hell that Orochimaru used to defend against Naruto… as far as I remember Hashirama also used them in the show to redirect a susanoo sword and a tailed beast bomb.'

'Orochimaru's research notes regarding the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu said that these gates were connected to Hell or Pure land… so could I summon souls from these gates and use them in my own jutsus? This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it Maybe I could make fire constructs and then give them life by feeding them souls from the Hell dimension? But the power will always not be mine… I'll have to depend on the Hell gates summoning to perform my jutsu…

I don't think I'm comfortable with trusting a third party… especially when I lack the chakra to even summon a single gate properly right now.'

'Impure World Reincarnation: Recommended Kage level chakra and extreme proficiency in yin release.'

'I already have an improved version of this… and I need to improve it further before we summon Hashirama so that I can use him to beat Madara up…'

'Wood Release Series: Recommended higher than Kage level chakra, understanding of Sage Mode and Wood Nature Transformation.'

'Hmmm… are these Hashirama's wood release jutsus?'

'They'll probably be of great value for me to invent my own large scale Fire Release jutsus even if I can't use Wood Release right now…'

'Yin Release: Memory Erasure Jutsu: Recommended Kage level chakra and understanding of advanced Yin release concepts.'

'A memory erasure jutsu is in the scroll of seals and requires Kage level chakra? I can erase memories of people in seconds and it requires basic chunin level chakra… is that all there is to this jutsu or is there something more to this?'

'... I remember from the Naruto books that Hiruzen got his father's, Sasuke Sarutobi's, cruel deeds erased from the minds of everyone in the world with the help of a secretive clan who could perform a memory erasure jutsu on the whole planet…'

'Is this that jutsu?'

'Ho… I was just wondering about creating a jutsu to mind wipe everyone… it'll be helpful in starting anew… creating a new identity and leaving the village if I ever deem it necessary…'

'But it isn't really worth it for me… While I might not be able to replicate the jutsu in a short period of time… I should be able to easily achieve a similar effect by simply mindwiping those that come after me.'

'Spirit Transformation Jutsu: Recommended Jonin level chakra, strong yin energy in the body and must be able to sense the soul.'

'Another jutsu I don't need. My own technique is probably better than whatever this is by now.' There were several more jutsu as well like the Hiraishin Jutsu but Haruto glossed over them.

'Hmmm… tough… tough… this decision is so tough…' Haruto lampooned.

'Nearly every single jutsu that I paid attention to is useful to me… which one do I take?'

Sitting on his dark throne, Madara felt blood come out of his left eye. His mind was currently focused on a simple boy who was flying high in the sky towards the meteorite he had summoned over Konoha. Slowly the image dissolved before it transformed into something dangerous for him. He watched as he stood by in front of a sea of fire he had created before the flames all obeyed the young boy and attacked him, the creator, all at once.

In the end after a little bit of fighting Hashirama suddenly appeared and began to fight against him. Madara frowned at that. He should've been better than Hashirama in the fight since Hashirama seemed to be resurrected using the Impure World Reincarnation technique… But in the end he found himself at a loss against the two combatants. Eventually they weakened him and suddenly he found that he was stabbed by three long swords and sealed in the sky.

'Hmm…' Madara shifted uncomfortably in his seat. This was a little out of his expectations. Looking at the young boy's age in his vision, it would be about another six to seven years before he would become capable of controlling the fires he started and then fight toe to toe with him and Hashirama to seal him away. Madara's hands trembled slightly, not out of fear, but out of excitement. Finally an opponent on the same level as Hashirama…

how had he searched the world for such a thing before his demise and before he had shifted his focus to the Eye of the Moon plan. But this wouldn't do… If he was destined to lose before the Eye of the Moon plan was successfully executed, he needed to get stronger. To get out of this temporary body of his and resurrect into someone truly powerful. But where would he find such a powerful body? Madara thought for a few seconds when a name came up to him, one that Black Zetsu had just informed him about not long ago.

'Jigen?'

'If that man could kill the Third Hokage in a single strike… then his capabilities truly shouldn't be terrible…'

'At least not as terrible as the body currently serving as my foundation.' Madara raised his head without even wiping away the blood on his cheek that had trailed from his Mangekyou sharingan and called, "Zetsu." Black Zetsu immediately stepped out of the ground.

"Yes Madara-sama?"

"Where is this Jigen person you were talking about? Have you kept tabs on him?"