When the hoarse voice sounded, Asahi immediately felt his back go cold as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake. But regardless that, he immediately felt an unspeakable excitement at hearing that voice.
Although Asahi tried hard to keep himself staying calm and collected, the surprise that all of his careful layout finally produced results still made it difficult for him to calm down.
A tall silhouette in a pale-yellow kimono came out of the woods. Long hair with a handsome face, a sickly pale skin, faintly discernable smile on the corner of the mouth, cold eyes like a poisonous snake.
'Orochimaru!'
Asahi looked at the most abnormal person in the Naruto anime walk in front of himself, step by step. He took a deep breath, holding back the excitement in his heart, and his emotional heart gradually calmed down to an acceptable point.
"Orochimaru-sama?" Asahi looked puzzled and at the same time, stepped back with his right leg, so that he could respond immediately if Orochimaru were to do anything.
Although Asahi had always been looking forward to a meeting with Orochimaru, in this deserted forest, especially when it's so late at night, he was really not sure whether Orochimaru would be making a move against him or not.
"You seem very alert." Orochimaru asked with a little approval on his face, "What's your name?"
"Orochimaru-sama, my name is Senmei Asahi." He put away his precautionary move, and respectfully said.
Seeing that Orochimaru had noticed his little movements, Asahi couldn't help but lament that he was just too naive. Even if Orochimaru really wanted to make a move against him, he would have no way to resist at all with his current strength.
At this moment, Asahi's heart completely calmed down. Facing the legendary Orochimaru, since with his current strength he couldn't resist, he could only expect that Orochimaru didn't have any bad intentions.
And Asahi estimates that Orochimaru shouldn't have started his abnormal experiments now. He could only hope to take advantage of Orochimaru's pride and disdain for the weak.
"Oh…" Orochimaru responded slightly, his eyes narrowed, not showing what he was thinking.
Asahi guessed that Orochimaru must have heard something very interesting about him, since it was past midnight and he came to see an eight year old like him.
So what does he has that interests Orochimaru?
Asahi quickly thought of what he had told Ueno two weeks ago. If it was because of Senjutsu, then it might be possible.
In the original anime, Senjutsu was very dangerous energy, and it was a kind of power that was extremely difficult to master. Even a genius like Namikaze Minato said that he was just not good at Senjutsu. Of course, it could not ruled out that because Minato happened to die early, there wasn't enough time for him to train in Senjutsu.
But in the original anime, Orochimaru did studied Senjutsu, but the final result of his study was only through the Curse Mark/Seal, which was only similar to Sage Mode.
Orochimaru did not talk again, he seemed to be thinking about something, and Asahi also couldn't say anything at this time, the scene was so rigid and the atmosphere almost solidified due to awkwardness.
"Child, I can see that you must have been working very hard, and you have even reached a pretty decent level of strength. You must have suffered a lot to achieve this." After a long time, Orochimaru finally started to talk, and his tone sounded very gentle.
Secretly relieved, Asahi now knew that he was not in danger for the time being. But then he laughed at himself again, didn't he always wanted to worship Orochimaru as his master, how could he be so nervous now when he saw him.
And right now that he was weak and poor, there seemed to be nothing worth in him for Orochimaru.
Maybe it's because Orochimaru is the kind of person that gives people such a dangerous feeling.
"Yes! Orochimaru-sama!" Asahi said, "You get only for what you have paid, similarly, how much strength you can get depends on your efforts."
"You're right, you need pay for gaining something. You really don't sound like an ordinary kid." Orochimaru's eyes shone, looking towards Asahi's eyes with some approval.
"In such an era, ordinary means an early death. In order to survive, I can only choose not to be ordinary." In order to arouse Orochimaru's interest, Asahi tried to bring his words closer to his mentality, so that he could maybe get Orochimaru's approval.
As far as Asahi knows, the reason why Orochimaru in the original anime studied immortality madly was because he had seen too many people dying and knew that life was just too vulnerable, so he went astray.
And Orochimaru's ambition was to learn all about ninjutsu in the world. He believed that the human body contained unlimited potential but a limited amount of time to tap into it, so he wanted to obtain immortality, so that he could learn all the ninjutsu in the world and master the truth in the world.
From this point of view, Orochimaru was indeed a rare genius in the whole ninja world. At least the [Living Corpse Reincarnation] developed by him had indeed reached the level that could achieve eternal life.
Although using this jutsu would consume the power of the soul to a certain extent, it was at least a better approach than Sasori of the Red Sand who transformed his whole body into a puppet.
"Yes, human life is too fragile." Orochimaru put out his tongue and licked his lips, agreeing to Asahi's point.
"Do even strong people like Orochimaru-sama think so?" Asahi asked, pretending to be curious.
"Hehe! Senmei Asahi, I will remember you." It seemed that he didn't want to talk to Asahi about this topic anymore, Orochimaru tone barely fell, and his whole person disappeared into a cloud of smoke.
"Ho…ho… "
It took a long time for Asahi to recover from his tense state.
Although Asahi kept telling himself that he could not be nervous, but every time he felt that he could relax, he just immediately became nervous again.
On a final note, the gap between the strengths of the two sides was just too large. In the face of an abnormal shinobi like Orochimaru, not many people could afford to not be nervous.
After calming down, Asahi felt an unspeakable excitement. It seemed that he had already attracted Orochimaru's interest. Although he had not taken him as an apprentice just because of this interest, this could also be considered as a good start.
Next, Asahi must show his value to Orochimaru and make him feel that he could be used by him. If that happens, then Orochimaru would definitely take the next step.
Asahi recalled all his advantages a little bit, to see if there was any place to attract Orochimaru.
'Strength, Status, Bloodline?'
Asahi was not a good at all in these three points and just could not attract Orochimaru's attention.
'Talent?'
No, according to Orochimaru's temper, he might not be willing to cultivate a person who would only bring strength as a benefit to him.
'Maybe medical ninjutsu is a good breakthrough.'
If Orochimaru started researching Forbidden Jutsu and even started human experiments, He might need an assistant who was proficient in medical ninjutsu.
'Although I met Orochimaru today, it seems that things at the Konoha Hospital cannot be abandoned!'
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