“Make a shadow e and go back using that. Also, stop behaving like a patient—you’re perfectly fine,” Mitsuru said, shaking her head. She had already checked twice to ehere were no minor injuries left behind that they might have missed, but there was nothing. Kaida erfectly healthy; it was just that his brain had processed so much paily that he felt like he wasn’t well.

  Kaida just nodded his head and made a shadow e to go bae.

  ‘I don’t want to do anything now. Let’s just go bad sleep,’ Kaida thought as he went directly to his room. By stantly using the Sharingan and healing himself from so many injuries, his chakra was at ro. bined with the mental fatigue of perf perfect healing on different wounds each time, he was pletely drained.

  Although his family members wao know what had happe the hospital after seeing Kaida return so early, they decided to save their questions for dinner, given the look of utter exhaustion on his face.

  …

  After sleeping fht more hours, Kaida came downstairs. It was already nighttime, and from the sweet and savory aroma in the house, he knew dinner was ready. He headed directly to the kit.

  “We were waiting to see when you’d wake up, sleepyhead,” came Shisui’s voice from the hall. Kaida uood that everyone was in the hall, so he ged his dire from the dining room to the hall.

  “Sorry for the wait, everyone,” Kaida said.

  “It’s all right, Kaida, but what happe the hospital today? You looked so exhausted when you came back, even though you were quite early,” Hae asked.

  “We started the process of learning that jutsu, and it was quite… a different experience. I ’t share the details because I promised Sensei. Sorry,” Kaida said.

  “Don’t worry about such things. Now, let’s have some dinner,” Hae said, waving her hand.

  “Before that, Aunt, I want to ask something,” Kaida said.

  “Go ahead,” Hae replied.

  “Sensei said that to learn that jutsu, I would he help of two fuinjutsu grandmasters.”

  “How much money is required?” Hae asked with a smile on her face. She had guessed from what Kaida had said that he needed something.

  “15 million ryo,” Kaida said.

  “This will be a little difficult. We have 10 million in liquid funds at the moment; the rest is already ied in expanding the bathhouse and seg the nearby nd…”

  “We take a loan, Mom, and with the revenue from the bathhouse, the loan could be paid off month.”

  “There’s no need for that, brother. The procedure we’re doing now will take at least a month to plete, so there’s nent need for money,” Kaida said. He had already discussed this with Mitsuru, and she had said that his body would need some time to familiarize itself with the seals. They could start the procedure month anyway, so there was nothing to worry about.

  “In that case, there’s nothing to worry about. I’ll send the money directly to Mitsuru’s at month,” Hae said.

  “Thank you, Aunt,” Kaida said, bowing slightly.

  “Why are you being so thankful all of a sudden?” Hae said, giving Kaida a forehead flick.

  “Hehehe,” came a chuckle from Naruto and Yomi.

  “Let’s go. The dinner is getting cold,” Hae said.

  …

  “So, what is the effect of this jutsu you’re learning?” Yomi asked.

  “Nothing big, I just do this,” Kaida said, and he made a cut on his hand, which healed within a sed.

  “Isn’t that something you were able to do before as well? Though your speed has increased, I don’t think it’s as impressive as you made it sound till now.”

  “I didn’t do anything this time, Yomi. Before, I had to use medical jutsu and trate on healing. Now, I just supply chakra, and the wound will heal automatically. Whesu is plete, I will bee semi-immortal once I activate it,” Kaida said.

  “That’s so cool, but are you sure there’s no side effect? Because that sounds too good to be true,” Shisui chimed in.

  Everyone was taking a night walk before bed. It had bee quite on for the family i days to take a small night walk where they would discuss how their day went. This was also the only time Kaida ending with Yomi. sidering how Yomi was going to take many missions from month and how they might not see each other much, Kaida had decided o skip these walks, no matter how busy he was.

  “Yes, brother, it has a side effect—aging. The more injuries I heal through this jutsu, the more I will age,” Kaida said.

  “Acceptable price for something that will save your life in dire situations,” Shisui said.

  “Yeah.”

  “Brother, let’s eat ramen,” Naruto said as soon as he saw a small stall in the Uchiha pound.

  “You just ate dinner, you brat. How you even think about eating so soon?” Shisui asked.

  “There’s always some space left in my belly for ramen,” Naruto said, patting his little bloated stomach.

  “But that one is not as tasty as Ichiraku Ramen, so save that ramen space. We’ll go to Ichiraku soon, then you fill that space,” Kaida said.

  “Nice idea, brother,” Naruto said, giving a thumbs-up.

  …

  With everything said and done, Kaida reached the hospital the m, but this time he was not as excited as before. Mitsuru was already waiting for him.

  “So you came. I thought you’d chi out,” Mitsuru said.

  “I was afraid, but I won’t back down because of something like that,” Kaida holy replied.

  “Good. Now, let’s go,” Mitsuru said.

  …

  Kaida was once again lying oretcher, and Mitsuru stood near him.

  “From today onwards, we will target a single an in your body every day and slowly plete the seals,” Mitsuru said.

  “Heart as well?” Kaida asked. He was sure it would be difficult as hell to heal his ow, especially in the case of different types of injuries.

  “If you leave any part, it will bee your ot iure. So it’s better to take some risks now and nret it iure,” Mitsuru said. Initially, she didn’t want Kaida to learn this jutsu because of how difficult it was, but now that they had started, Mitsuru wasn’t going to leave any loose ends.

  So Kaida’s days of torture began…