- Okay, the tests were successful, it's time to go back to the basement, to finalize, - I muttered to myself under my nose, coming out of my thoughts, while kage bunshin was tidying up the test site, - there are only a couple of days left to complete the work.
- Pfft, you're working on one, I'm working on the other, and we can finish it by the end of the day, maybe at night," the doppelganger snorted confidently, "and we'll have another day of full testing on live test subjects, especially since Uzumaki has a similar seal in his arsenal, albeit one that affects nerve endings rather than brain cells, where pain is a byproduct of destruction.
- That's right," he agreed, "there's plenty of time.
In the meantime, there's one thing that doesn't require my direct participation - a shadow clone will suffice - but it's no less important than the current one.
***
Hey, Meido! - Another clan shinobi sat down at the table with an older shinobi, clattering a couple of bottles of sake and a container for drinking the beverages he'd brought.
Actually, there were a couple empty ones already standing there and just as many more full ones, testament to some length of time relaxing their host in one of Konoha's many bars.
- Hello, Sarutobi," he said with a wave of his hand.
- I haven't seen you in a while, Kintaro," the first man clapped his friend on the shoulder, "where have you been?
- On missions, Rin, where else? - He shrugged and sighed, a black-haired man with a goatee and a thin mustache, a native of the Meido clan, "I just got back from the border the day before yesterday.
- A patrol," the Sarutobi jonin said understandingly, "the pay may be good, but it's too depressing to be stuck at a border outpost or circling the border for months on end, especially in peacetime.
- There's no one waiting for me at home, so it doesn't make much difference whether I spend my time here or there," the second jonin shrugged and brightened up a bit, "any new developments while I was away from Konoha?
- Well...," Rin thought for a moment, "there was a rumor recently that Ryo Nara had taken on a personal student with excellent potential, signing her up for the last year of the next academy class.
- Nara again? - Meido raised his eyebrows as he poured the clear drink from a bottle and slowly sipped it. "All I've heard about this Nara kid lately is that he's been in an argument with Jiraiya and Sakumo, a scandal at the exam with his team, and the amazing performances of the finalists, making even the winner look pale, Then he became an iryonin of the first degree, then a jonin, having fought a powerful Uchiha for nothing, and now he has a student, so it seems that we'll soon learn about his election as Hokage, in a year or so," he said jokingly, but his interlocutor wrinkled his nose at that.
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