Kanshuda followed Anubis into the lake letting himself be submerged with every step. First his ankle than his waist and before he knew it his world had turned blue. Replaced with swaying green kelp, multi colored fish and the occasional darting shadows that rushed in and out of sight.
He turned to his left only to find Anubis giant eyes looking back at him. Contrary to norm he didn't jump back in fright as would be expected but instead smirked. Expecting such a surprise from his playful summon after all it still only a baby 1 or 2 years old. His calm reaction obviously disappointed it though as it drooped its head. Kanshuda ignoring this tied his arms around Anubis's neck then patted it, an indication for it to start moving.
Slamming its tail Anubis shot through the water swimming deeper and deeper, further and further until Kanshuda saw a dancing silhouette circling a glowing hole on the bottom of the lake. As they drew nearer he realized that the silhouette was an abnormally large catfish that seemed to be guarding an entrance to wherever the light was coming from.
It seems that if I want to get inside that entrance I will either have to use Anubis to kill or lure it away. But that clearly is no normal catfish, I mean its 5 meters long and looks like it could provide sustenance for at least 10 people! My best guess is that its the summoning beast of Hisen or should I say the village chief.
If I kill it he will probably soon realize when he tries to summon it again but then again when would he ever do that? The old man lives like a hermit and never goes out of his house. However I will soon run out of oxygen and its not certain if Anubis can even kill the damn thing but he is certainly faster than it. With that train of thought Kanshuda let go of Anubis ordering it to lure it away.
"Okayyy Mashter" Anubis nodded his head " I guess I won't eat the breakfasst and play tag with it" he said sassily and than proceeded to bash the catfish with his tail harassing it until it decided to follow him away.
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Plop!
Kanshuda emerged from the underwater tunnel into what seemed to be a secret laboratory. All around him lay heaps of scientific instruments, flasks vials, test tubes etc, and on the opposite side of where he stood was a test tube containing a man with numerous black threads jutting out of him. As Kanshuda walked closer to the man he saw a book on the ground and picked it up, flipping to a random page.
It read " September 15, 5 years since the founding of Takigakure. It seems that repeated use of the earth grudge technique to heal injuries leads to all eventually all cells in the human body converting into threads. However this only occurs if one does not let their injuries heal and keeps constantly getting their body damaged. As the body will try to keep itself intact by creating more strand cell resulting in the subject in extreme situation becoming a doll. Since every single cell will be converted to a strand cell and no cells will be left to convert it back to normal.
Kanshuda closed the book his grip tightening on it afraid it would sprout wings and fly away. "After that bastard Kakuzu stole the earth grudge fear technique I was afraid no copies of it were left. But now even though I don't have the technique I have the research notes of it with this I will be able to recreate it or even make a better version!"
"But why is it here? Who would even have the experimental records of the technique?" As Kanshuda was thinking this he walked deeper into a the lab and saw their was not one or two ninjas who were failed experiments but hundreds! At the end of the laboratory was a giant opening into another room.
As Kanshuda peered into it his eyes widened with shock. "Is... Is that the seven tails.. framed to the wall like a dead bug!? How the hell did they mange this! And why does it look like its in a state of sleep?