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Chapter 57 - Ch. 57 Awakening

"Remember our Intel says the target is on floor 4 room 34, which should that window. The target is a black haired 26 year old male in a coma, we kill him and retrieve his body for lord Kazekage!" A gravelly female voice said.

As loud explosions ring out in the air and battles occured throughout the village, a four man group of sand Shinobi were standing outside of the hospital.

"Afterwards we'll join teams with Tekkai and Kazuo, we'll help in killing the Fourth hokage and retrieving his body!" The woman said to her three man squad.

"Yes sensei!"

"Yes sensei!"

"Yes sensei!"

With a nod, the sand Ninja ran up to the side of the hospitals wall and started moving towards a specific window, followed by her three genin students. As they arrived at their target, the female ninja busted it open and jumping into the room, spotting the resting target in his hospital bed.

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Awakening to pitch blackness, Chiba was confused on why his observation Haki wasn't working when he suddenly heard the unmistakable swooshing sound of a blade.

Throwing himself off if his bed, Chiba immediately felt how weak his comatose body was as he rolled to the side just as a kunai landed where he just laid.

'Why isn't this working, my chakra might be finite now that I'm back in the real world but I shou- MY CHAKRA!' shakily standing up on his thin legs, Chiba's enhanced ears heard four different heart beats rushing him.

'My body has been healed completely, but my chakra networks are still not fixed! It's not just my observation Haki, but also can't use anything requiring chakra at the moment!'

Similar to radiation, the combination of 8 gates and butterfly mode didn't just damage his body but also damaged his DNA! It was impossible to simply speed up the healing process like he previously did, as his body had absolutely no blueprints to heal back to normal!

It's only thanks to Chiba's system manually healing him and rebuilding his DNA from scratch that he could recover, as it would be impossible for Chiba to spend an entire decade focusing soley on manually healing his body and DNA.

As the female ninja rushed forward with a dagger in hand, Chiba smelt the faint scent of iron and shakily dodged to the right with no wasted movement, his hand flashed forward with 100% efficiency and dug his finger into her eye, ripping it out.

'Its gonna take me atleast a few more months to heal my chakra networks completely, seeing as how I literally burnt them out of my body with the 8th gate. Looks like I'll have to do this the old fashioned way! Although... this will be completely new to me in this life!'

Ripping the bandages off of his face, Chiba quickly placed the woman's eye into his empty socket! Chiba's Optical nerves began moving on it's own and acted like tentical, quickly attaching themselves onto the new appendage.

"Wow... This sucks." Looking at the four sand ninja staring at him in horror, Chiba couldn't help but shake his head.

Compared to his observation Haki that could see at the microscopic level thousands of feet away in all directions, this poor 180° vision made him inwordly shudder in disgust.

Looking down at his scrawny and almost emaciated looking body, Chiba could only shake his head at how weak he currently was.

"In compensation for giving me that eye, I'll let you surrender easily and I promise you no harm. If you don't surrender, I promise you life long regret."

There was a silence in the room as the female Shinobi didn't deny or agree to his deal.

"Sensei?" The kids looked at the sensei with confusion and anger at her silence

"He just woke up from a decade long coma and dodged me while blind, gouging out my eye in the process... It doesn't take a genius to realize he outclasses us all... I...I have a sister back home I need to raise!" Dropping her kunai, the woman began taking off every weapon and scroll.

Chiba was inwardly surprised at her cowardice, usually ninja would rather die than fail a mission.

Chiba didn't know about the dire straights of the sand village and how weak they'd become. The people of the sand were barely surviving, those that wanted to have a full belly were forced to join the most lucrative position in their village, becoming a ninja.

This meant that those who would've naturally avoided becoming killing machines were forced to join. This female sand ninja already personally objected to idea of attacking the leaf village, it made no sense to her to aggravate the strongest villages and many other ninja silently agreed with her. That being said, Shinobi are not allowed to reject their kages request or else it'll be considered treason.

Looking at the now one eyed scrawny man who lacked even the faintest trace of chakra that even a civilain should have, this kunoichi felt something instinctive to surrender.

"You cowardice traitor! Wind release, Wind scythe!" The Genin unleashed his jutsu at Chiba, a blade of wind gashed a hole into the hospital wall sending dust and debri across the room.

As the dust settled, the genin was surprised to find his target had completely disappeared. Looking around in fear, the genin suddenly felt a strong hand clasp the back of his neck as an overwhelming dread filled his being.

"So you chose the hard way..." Grabbing onto Chiba's thin fingers, the genin pried and pried trying to free himself only to feel the hand tighten.

"I'm...im sorry!...Please let me live!" The genin dropped his hands as tears began to well up in his eyes.

"I never said i was gonna kill you, just make you feel life long regret" Chiba's free hand wrapped around the genins own hand and squeezed.

*CRACK!* "AARRGG!!!!!"

The sickening sound of bones breaking and shrieks of pain resounded through the small hospital room as Chiba release his grip to show a shattered and mashed up hand beyond anyone's repair.

"The most important thing for ninja is to be able to manipulate chakra, it's gonna be tough doing so with a permanently crippled hand. I also need another eye." Before anyone else could react, Chibas hand flashed towards the genins face as blood spurted on the floor.

They watched in disbelief as Chiba opened his empty eye socket and tenticals reach out to attached itself to the fresh eye ball, it seemed unnatural disgusting to the sand ninja as one eye was brown and the other was green.

With this Chiba was assured that the Genin wouldnt be able to have a career as a Ninja anymore, eliminating a threat but also not ending another life.

Chiba looked at the two other genin who quickly dropped their weapon, getting a nod of approval from Chiba before weakily staggering his way to the door.

"Makes sure you drop your weapons and surrender to the nearest Konoha Ninja, they won't harm you. If I see anyone one of you fighting I'LL KILL YOU..." Chiba eminated a palpable killing intent that had zero chakra in it, yet the feeling of death was overwhelming.

'Eyesight is pretty shitty and I think one of them was color blind! Whatever... I need to get something to eat to bulk up this scrawny body.' Staggering down the hospital stairs with his rail thin legs, Chiba could hear the loud explosion and destruction that was happening throughout the village.

Arriving at the bottom floor of the hospital, Chiba found an empty hospital with a few doctors and patients laying dead on the floor.

'The hospital probably has it's own safe room to house patients in need of life saving machinery, these guys were just unlucky I suppose. Those guys earlier didn't smell like fresh blood so it couldn't have been them... Oh forget about it, where's the kitchen!'

While angry at the deaths of Konoha civilians, Chiba didnt have time to waste as he shakily walked past the dozens of dead bodies.

He was following the strongest scent of food for minutes, taking corner after corner before he found his target.

Walking pass the vegetables and fruit laying on the kitcken counter, Chiba found a large jar filled with sesame oil and began chugging the thick liquid but it wasn't enough.

Opening the pantry, he found multiple large sacks of uncooked rice before digging in. Opening up his esophagus, Chiba shakily lifted up the 50lb sack of rice before pouring it down his throat without chewing.

As each second passed of him swallowing the hard rice grain, Chiba's scrawny frame began to grow larger and larger. As the first bag of rice emptied, Chiba casually lifted the second back up with one hand before swallowing its contents as well.

As Chiba used his Biokinesis to instantly absorb the food, he immediately began bulking up his body and felt an insane level of physical strength come back.

"This could just be the natural growth of my body after absorbing Hashirama cells, but this is could be the result of my system building my body back stronger! With this body, I wonder how strong I'll be once regaim my chakra and start training again!'

As he rejuvenated his body back to full health, the brown and green eyes he stolen suddenly began to change and turned into a set of black eyes, Uchiha eyes! These werent just regular Uchiha eye, Chiba enhanced the rods and cones in them making him see the world better than most!

'Even with an enhanced eye, visual eyesight truly doesn't compare to observation haki at all! I might as well increase my other sense to full power to make up for the missing 180° vision'

With a thought, the sensory cells in his eardrums multiple and greatly surpassed his already enhanced hearing, he also significantly increase the number of olfactory receptors in his nose making his sense of smell well beyond superhuman.

'This is about as good as I'm going to get without any chakra, my body should have enough energy to use my Biokinesis to its full potential... I need to find out about Koizumi and the Uchiha!' exiting the hospital doors, Chiba immediately stopped in his track as he looked at the utter destruction that was going on.

Without wasting a second, he summoning his cane sword Yakuza Kasen and charged headfirst into battle.

Without having chakra he was forced to only use his soru technique but even still he passed by ninjas like a blur, smashing his sheathed canesword into sand ninja and shattering bones. Chiba was even occasionally attack by a Konoha ninja as he was only wearing his hospital robe and bandages, but he merely parried their attacks away and continued on.

Arriving at the entrance to the Uchiha compound at the back of the village, Chiba's veins began to pop as an overwhelming rage overtook him looking at the sight before him.

The sand ninja were killing the male civilians Uchiha while tying up the female Uchiha! Chiba knew this was obviously to breed with and create sand Ninja who would have the Uchiha kekkai genkai!

Lifting his hand up, Chiba's bloodlust poured into the air and purple rings of Gravity began to appear on his back!

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