The information provided to the village about the incident was quite shocking for Kaiji.
The village higher ups had literally told everything about Ichibi being a tailed beast—
Not any living ghost of any corrupted priest sealed in a giant tea kettle, which citizens of Sunagakure believed until now.
The Kazekage was currently out of the village, the reason wasn't told, and Ichibi appeared because its current host or container could no longer restrain it.
Kaiji was really surprised at this.
How could the village tell all this like it was a normal thing?
But after a thought, he remembered that in the anime, when Gaara was its Jinchūriki, people of the village, despite his volatile nature, still referred to him as "Gaara-sama" a few times.
Maybe the reason is he was the son of the Fourth Kazekage.
But Kaiji currently knew that villagers believed Ichibi was a monster of a priest who was sealed in a dungeon a long time ago, obviously referring to Bunpuku.
Though this information was incorrect, the villagers knew about Bijuu, and this alone was surprising—
As in Konoha, even currently, only a handful of people knew what Bijuu are and how powerful they are.
Yet here in Sunagakure, village advisors literally told them the information about it.
Even in the anime, Gaara was never shown as a bullied kid like Naruto's case but was ostracized.
The reason was obviously his stupid Father Rasa.
Though one thing was, Gaara was never labeled as a Monster the same way as Naruto, only ostracized like him—
Which was the case with pretty much all Jinchūriki, let it even Killer Bee to Fū and all.
Kaiji, understanding this, contemplated about it's now died host and where the Kazekage could have gone outside Village.
'Maybe he with Rasa probably gone to in meeting with Damiyo of nation,' he thought, his hand on his chin.
There was no other reason he could think of why the Kazekage was outside of the village.
The tense situation of all great nations made it impossible for any Kage to go outside of the village in secrecy without many guards, as his supposed guards were present in the village.
Going to the Daimyo, he might not have taken his guards, thinking it was a safe journey.
"And it's previous host may not be able to contain it due to suffering from insomnia, afterall Shukaku can take over it's host in their sleep~!"
In anime this was the same case with Gaara, he usually has dark circles under his eyes.
And even as Ninja, just how long can anyone survive having a Bijuu with raw power inside them and suffering from Insomnia for a long time due to it.
This is Shukaku's unique ability to influence it's Jinchūriki's sleep, leading to insomnia.
It gives him tactical advantage, weakening it's host over time and maintaining a degree of control.
Once he came to understand these, he came back to his previous thought, "So the things that I need are Scroll Earth Release Ninjutsu, Medical Ninjutsu with Fuinjutsu Scroll for start learning."
This incident made him believe that time was obviously less, at most it could be around two months, give or take, but most probably less.
"My most focus should be on improving Seven Heavens Breathing Method by starting practice Activation of technique, with Earth Release Ninjutsu, Healing Jutsu and Fuinjutsu," he contemplated.
He didn't add Fuinjutsu for simply learning Sealing Techniques, but rather creating a new one for him, planing of making Shukaku his Chakra Battery.
Even though his Chakra Reserves were now somewhat better, they were still average for his age.
Shukaku, just like any other Bijuu, had a tremendous amount of Chakra, which was obviously a great need for Kaiji.
But he didn't want to become its Jinchūriki in the traditional sense; rather, he aimed for a type of Pseudo Jinchūriki who could use its Bijuu's Chakra only.
Though Pseudo Jinchūriki doesn't have the Bijuu themselves but only thier Chakra.
But what Kaiji thought was making a type of temporary seal that could only contain Bijuu for its Chakra contribution purpose.
So that even if the Bijuu was extracted or released from him, he wouldn't die.
For this, he needed to learn Fuinjutsu and sealing techniques.
"And about location of Ichibi till 3rd Shinobi War is going to be high security underground prison of village," Kaiji said, knowing full well that even find and going in that place was a difficult task, with the risk of being labeled a traitor.
But he was confident.
If this type of seal he planned was made up, then persuading the short-tempered Shukaku wouldn't be a problem with his knowledge of their future.
But these were future things, which in the present needed preparations.
The reason he didn't want to become Shukaku's proper Jinchūriki was because of the thought he had after the Loran City mission.
About reaching Six Path Level power, even if not true Six Path like Ten Tails Obito, Madara and Six Path Naruto.
Though they all were Six Path Level powerhouses, they weren't true Six Path Shinobi like Hagoromo, Hamura, Kaguya Otsutsuki, and others.
Kaiji's thinking was simple in this case: Naruto, Ten Tails Jinchūriki Obito, and Madara all didn't have one thing in them, which other True Six Path Level beings possessed.
That is, they couldn't regenerate Truth Seeking Orbs once used.
Truth Seeking Orbs for them were one-time consumable items and nothing more.
While in the case of True Six Path Level beings, Truth Seeking Orbs are an extension of their very being and control over reality, their own Shinjutsu.
For them, Truth Seeking Orbs aren't power derived from any specific power-up; rather, it's their innate ability.
Which wasn't the case with Naruto, who got it from Hagoromo Otsutsuki, and Obito and Madara, who got it from becoming Jinchūriki of Juubi, the Ten Tails.
Though Kaiji didn't have any idea for reaching the level of True Six Path.
But from the anime he knew a few methods to reach the level of those low-level Six Path beings.
Even though currently Kaiji couldn't even defeat an average Chunin in one-on-one.
But what he was currently planning was for the future, which he knew needed preparations now.
While even if he became a proper Jinchūriki of Shukaku, it wouldn't make much effect on becoming a Six Path being, as Naruto was also a Jinchūriki.
But he didn't want to take any risk for the future.
Something might go wrong, and he would become a target of Akatsuki after the Third Shinobi War, even if that took some time later.
"Current thing that can increase my strength is Seven Heavens Breathing Method, that should be more important first," he said to himself.
...
Next day, just as planned, Kaiji returned the medical books to Akane and asked for learning Healing Jutsu now.
As Akane had previously told him that he wouldn't get any proper teaching of Medical Ninjutsu as Kaiji didn't want to become a full-time Medical-nin.
So, she told him about basic to advanced Healing Jutsu and asked him which he wanted to learn, and she could give scrolls to him for all those.
After some thoughts, he chose four healing jutsu: Chakra Scalpel, Healing Resuscitation Regeneration, Blood Coagulation Technique, and Mystic Palm Jutsu.
Aside from Mystic Palm Jutsu, the others were basic healing techniques.
Then he went to the ninja library and took a few scrolls for low-rank Earth Release Ninjutsu and for Fuinjutsu learning.
"Let's start with Chakra Scalpel and Blood Coagulation Technique which are basic and more easy than others first.
Then E-rank Earth Ninjutsu, and Fuinjutsu. I will read this Scroll at night," he thought, deciding where to start first now.
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