Lifting his hand, Kazuo clawed at his own heart, his movements were extremely precise, removing the outer layers of his own flesh first before removing the heart, he preserved the outer layers of the flesh and placed them to the side where a shadow clone could be seen constantly using medical ninjutsu on it whilst another shadow clone took the heart and placed it inside a small green liquid filled vial. Meanwhile two other shadow clones had laid Kazuo's main body onto the ground and were performing medical ninjutsu to keep his body as healthy as possible.
Minutes trickled by, one minute, two… five… ten… twenty and finally the thirty minute mark arrived.
By this point it was finally time, the seal marks had fully disappeared from the heart inside the green liquid and his time was running very low. The shadow clone opened the container where the heart was kept and coating his hands in medical ninjutsu, he quickly lifted it and started performing the transplant into Kazuo's chest.
Sweat could be seen running through Kazuos brow and down his cheek as he remained as still as he possibly could whilst the shadow clone performed the transplant. Connecting every vessel and nerve and tissue back into its correct place before the flesh that had been cleaved cleanly was placed on top of his chest and quickly and much more easily was reconnected fully to his body with medical ninjutsu.
Once the entire process was done, Kazuo finally had his heart back inside his chest, in the right place and everything was seamlessly connected together, however that didn't mean that the heart was functional as is.
It had already stopped beating afterall, and to reactivate it, he would have to give it a start, this could be done with lightning chakra however Kazuo had another way to start it up, something only he could perform.
A truly instant shock of chakra into the muscle, forcibly starting it to beat again, this was done with the use of his dojutu.
Closing his eyes for a moment, Kazuo prepared himself and then his eyes snapped open once more, this time the colour was changed into an orange and a clock symbol could be seen in them.
'Time Stop.' Kazuo thought as he rushed his chakra to his heart, it was a small deliberate amount, just enough to cause a shock.
Whilst in the small time frame of the time stop, his chakra reached the heart and then the world restarted once more, and it was as if his chakra had teleported to its destination, instantly giving the shock to the organ that it needed.
For a moment, the heart muscle constricted and then made a small beat, before another followed and another, slowly but surely regaining its rhythm whilst the two shadow clones at his sides kept on applying medical chakra to it, to strengthen its motions. Less than a minute after the shock, the heart was back in fully working condition.
The moment the entire process was done, the shadow clones dispelled themselves and Kazuo in his real body was the only one left inside the small room underground, slowly but surely he lifted his body from the ground and stood up.
His expression remained blank for a moment before his lips twisted into a wide grin of pure triumph.
He had done it, it had taken a long time, a lot of practice and errors, and a countless number of deaths however he had held on, had forced through the entire thing through sheer force of will and insanity.
'Free… im finally free.' Kazuo thought, it was exhilarating, after five years of what felt like servitude, of being a slave, he was once more free to do as he wished.
And he had a single and simple plan in mind, his next course of action was already decided, it was something he had thought of during the five hundred time loops whilst his shadow clones had been doing all the work.
'Fake Madara, masked man… whoever you are, You… don't fit into the future that I want, you are a problem, a blemish in my path and you… are going to have a very tragic awakening soon enough.' Kazuo thought to himself as he started stretching his body, though he didnt need it, he wanted to, to feel his body moving, his blood flowing through his body on its own.
'Charisma… I need to find a way to increase it even further, the Akatsuki is an organistaion that I need, but I dont need a leader like him… I'm much more inclined to go with the original Akatsuki's goal. Of dominating the world through sheer fear and presence. And ofcourse… the gaining of the ten tails or its fruit… that that is something that I do need aswell.' Kazuo thought as he walked towards the wall of the small room and as he reached it, he didnt stop, instead walking right into the earth that softened around him instantly enveloping him entirely a moment later.
The hiding like a mole technique no longer required anything more than a thought before he could use it, his chakra control had reached even higher levels than they had ever been before, giving him an increase in overall strength in almost all of his jutsu as a side effect.
Flowing through the earth at high speeds towards the world above, Kazuo had a miard of thoughts and plans inside his mind, however each of them had pre-requisets that needed to be achieved in order for them to be put into motion.
His leverage inside the Hyuga Clan was already increasing at a rapid pace, he had used his 'wife' to slowly but surely gain followers, rebels against the slave system that was already falling apart after the death of so many elders.
His connections in the Akatsuki, especially with Konan and Yahiko had improved considerably.
Everything was going according to plan. It was only a matter of time, and for the first time in a while since he had transmigrated into this world… he had plenty of time.
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