Chapter 44 - 44 (2/2)

”Ryo Nii-san, after the war ends, I want you to come teach me.” Her bright smile brought warmth to Ryo's heart.

After seeing her leave, Ryo began going all out on making healing stones. The 3rd knows that he can make 30 per day, but he actually can go beyond that.

A month later, Ryo made 1100 stones. He gave 900 to his clan to sell, and still had over 200 in hand.

Now that he has that, he became relaxed. He doesn't have to make any more stones. Over the past 3 months, he made over 2700 of them. 2500 are enough for the village to go through this war.

Now, he needs to work on his wind release. The 1st enemies that Konoha is going to face in the upcoming war are the Sand Ninja, who have many wind release users.

Ryo was not worried about the puppeteers of the Sand. I can cope with their speed and physical attacks and with their poisons as well. But he didn't know much about wind release. He wants now to learn as much as possible about it.

Minato was an expert in wind release, but unfortunately he has just become the tutor for the Kakashi three. He shouldn't be available.

Jiraya was sent back by the 3rd to the Sand village to get more information. With both of them away from here, Ryo decided to go to Konoha's library in order to find the info he wants.

Suddenly, right before leaving the 3rd training ground, Ryo felt a strong unfamiliar aura behind his back.

It was closing in on him. Ryo quietly entered the Ice Elementization mode and opened up his Yin seal.

Ryo walked away from where the aura was coming, but it closed in on his really fast: Ryo directly went into his Lightning-Ice Chakra mode and as the one behind him attacked, he avoided it!

Ryo looked at the attacker: Long black hair, golden snake like eyes, purple eye shadows, pale skin: It was Orochimaru!

”Orochimaru San! Head of the technology core in the village!” Ryo use to be a fan of Orochimaro! This is the Ninja who believes the most in science, cell culture, human experiments, reincarnation, and cloning.

”Ryo Kun, meeting you for the 1st time, I couldn't keep myself from testing your skills! Please don't be offended by this.” Orochimaru's voice was hoarse and emotionless. But Ryo heard kindness within it. They are both believers in science, so he was biased towards him.

”You are Orochimaru san?”

”Yes that's me!”

Ryo was actually relieved when he knew that the attacker was Orochimaru. At this point in time, he still had feelings for konoha, and was still respectful to his Sensei Sarutobi. Ryo wasn't worried at all.

”Ryo Kun, I heard that you successfully developed the Healing Stones?”

When Orochimaru returned to Konoha from his mission the Land of Earth, he heard from the 3rdabout Ryo success. This wasn't the 1st time he heard about his name. He heard before of this little kid comparable to Tsunade.

At 1st, he thought that this was just a pawn put there to stabilize the medical system after Tsunade left. When he found out he saved Sakumo from taking his own life after all doctors considered him dead, he was impressed by this feat, but he thought that he is being extremely overhyped. Nobody in his eyes would get close to Tsunade's skill, and nobody knew Tsunade's skill better than him.

Ryo's success with the healing stones was what finally got him interested.

When he wanted to meet him, he heard that he was always training in the 3rd training grounds. So he went there to find him, and he didn't expect to bump into him on his way out.

”Yes Orochimaru san. I've developed them indeed!” Orochimaru looked at the kid who was interested in talking to him, and had to admit his excellence from the way he dodged him!