Chapter 158 - 158 (2/2)

Minato was there training with his team, and Shisui was also training with Kushina.

Seeing Ryo's sudden emergence, none of them was surprised, as they were used to this from Minato. It didn't matter if they had another one who occasionally pops out of nowhere.

”Ryo, you're back.” Kushina rushed over and patted his shoulders.

”Sorry Ne san, I still have something to do. I'll invite you over to Barbeque tomorrow morning!” As soon as he finished his words, Ryo disappeared.

Ryo had perceived that the Ice Scalpel he had once given to Anko was in Orochimaru's lab.

”Who!” Ryo's sudden appearance took Anko off guard, she took a fighting posture and then got back to normal when noticing it was Ryo.

”Couldn't just… get in through the front door?” Anko said.

”Sorry, I'll do so next time. I'm looking for Orochi san, where is he?”

Anko pointed to the stairs leading to the underground, and Ryo rushed there immediately.

Orochimaru was there conducting his research, and didn't react to Ryo's appearance.

Ryo knew the Sannin's temper well, and didn't bother him. Instead, he went straight to using his equipment to start his research on the arm.

After Orochimaru was through with the experiment at hand, he looked at Ryo. He had already noticed his arrival, but never had time to pay attention to him until now.

Ryo was using his equipment skillfully. Orochimaru looked at the milky white arm in Ryo's hands, and interestedly cut off a portion of it to observe it.

Doing so, Orochimaru was shocked by the Chakra within this arm, which was very reminiscent of that in Hashirama's cells.

Not long ago, Orochimaru got a few of Hashirama's cells from Danzo, but those were quickly used up by him for research.

When Orochimaru went back to Danzo, the latter asked him to use Hashirama's cells to make him an arm. If he was to agree, Danzo would continue to provide him with more cells.

Orochimaru did not immediately agree, Danzo's motive behind asking for the arm should surely be related to his ambition of becoming Hokage. Orochimaru was still very respectful to his Sensei, and did not immediately agree.

While he was still undecided, Ryo gave him a great surprise, bringing him such a large arm full of Hashirama's cells, enough to support his research for a long time.

But then, Orochimaru found that there was something wrong with the cells in this arm. Whether it was in activity or vitality, they were not as good as Danzo's.

Just as Ryo finished his observations, Orochimaru didn't tell him of this story about Danzo, and instead immediately asked: ”Ryo kun, what is this arm?”

Ryo promised Madara not to expose his existence, so he skipped the part about how he found this arm and only described it.

After hearing him, Orochimaru excitedly licked his lips and started a new study with Ryo.

These specially treated cells were very exciting to him, as they should help him achieve great advancements in his studies.

Ryo was very concerned about conquering the Mangekyo's price of use, that he didn't pay much attention to that.

This way, before they realized anything, it went dark outside, and Ryo decided to leave Orochimaru's lab to return home.