Chapter 171 - 171 (1/2)

A few days later, Kitsuchi entered Konoha with a few Rock Ninjas, and the 3rd appointed Orochimaru to be responsible for negotiations.

Orochimaru could only put his experiments on hold in order to deal with Kitsuchi and his lot.

The negotiations proceeded very smoothly. The Rock were in no position to bargain, while Konoha's condition were not excessive. The two sides quickly reached a consensus.

After signing this truce with the Rock, the 3rd World War had officially ended for Konoha.

Just like the previous two, this war also ended with Konoha's victory.

Konoha 1st signed a peace treaty with the Cloud Village, then defeated the Sand-Rock alliance in the battle of Kikyo Pass forcing the Sand to Surrender, and the Battle of Kannabi Bridge was the final nail in the coffin of the Rock's dream of a victory.

On the day the two sides signed the peace treaty, the 3rd couldn't wait to announce to Konoha that the war is finally over.

No matter what, war always brings pain. Between years 39 and 47, countless Konoha Ninjas died on the battlefield, and as many previously happy families mourned their deaths.

Today was the day the war was finally over. Konoha's citizens, both Ninjas and civilians, were all happy, with many of them shedding tears of Joy.

Even Sakumo, who was worried sick about Kakashi's situation, smiled after getting the news.

A few days ago, Ryo suggested to him that Kakashi should be brought to Orochimaru's lab for treatment. Having absolute trust in Ryo's Medical Ninjutsu, Sakumo agreed without hesitation.

The reason why Ryo wanted to bring Kakashi to Orochimaru's lab was that he wanted to accelerate the assimilation of the Sharingan and Kakashi's body.

The Sharingan itself was releasing a special Chakra, making Kakashi's body suitable for its use. But this assimilation was going to take far too much time.

As estimated by Ryo, it should take at least ten more years.

With Kakashi's current age, these years should be the ones when his strength peaks. Of this important growth of delayed, Kakashi would not surpass the level that he had reached in the Manga.

Ryo did not want this to happen, so he could only try helping Kakashi with speeding up the process.

The best method would be stimulating the Sharingan with external factors, and the best method to choose for such stimulation is of course the use of Hashirama's cells.

Therefore, Ryo brought Kakashi back to Orochimaru's lab.

It was better if as few people as possible knew about the matter of Hashirama's cells. Most people in Konoha respected the 1st far too much to accept such use of his cells.

The cells used by Ryo were the ones weakened by Madara, as they were less phagocytic.

Kakashi had no idea what Ryo was giving him each day, but he could clearly feel that this pale green liquid that circulated in his body was emitting such amazing Chakra.

While the Senju and the Uchiha share common roots, they were mutually exclusive. The Senju's power was one that suppressed that of the Uchiha, and that was the basis of Ryo's method.

As the cells entered Kakashi's body, their Chakra naturally approached the Sharingan, making it ”threatened”. The eye would in return resort to Kakashi's body to counter this threat.

In this way, and under the effect of such a good ”conflict”, Kakashi and the Sharingan got more and more integrated, and the eye used less and less of Kakashi's Chakra.

In just a few days, Kakashi's left eye's optic nerves were filled with the Sharingan's special Chakra.

Later, Ryo asked Kakashi to try to control the activation of the Sharingan. After several attempts, Kakashi successfully deactivated the Sharingan.

The scarlet two tomoe pupils disappeared, and Kakashi's Chakra was no longer being consumed.

Kakashi fed the Sharingan with Chakra again, and his Sharingan was reactivated, while consuming far less Chakra than before.