Renjiro quietly stared at his notes, his gaze fixed on the equations and diagrams that had consumed his attention for days. The identity layer had been solved; his Mangekyō already created permanent chakra signatures that could serve as identification anchors. The remaining problem was transition. He needed to move from one point in space to another, and there was only one way to verify his theory. He decided to attempt Hiraishin himself.
The decision was not made lightly. He had spent hours analyzing the failure of his first attempt, understanding why the formula had rejected his chakra, why it had remained inert despite being perfectly drawn. He had identified the missing component; the seal needed to be alive, dynamic, capable of circulating chakra rather than simply storing it. But theory and practice were different, and the only way to know if his understanding was correct was to test it.
He spent several hours preparing, moving methodically rather than rushing. He reinforced his laboratory with additional barrier seals, their surfaces glowing with protective energy. He erected multiple emergency suppression arrays designed to contain any catastrophic release of chakra. He created several backup Shadow Clones to record observations from different angles, ensuring that he would have data to analyse regardless of the outcome. He chose a destination exactly one meter away, close enough to minimise risk but far enough to test the technique's function.
If one meter fails, he thought, his internal voice carrying the weight of his decision, a kilometre would simply kill me. I refuse to skip precautions. This is not a technique to be rushed; it is a system to be understood.
His preparations were meticulous; every seal was checked twice, every barrier was tested, every clone was positioned with precision. The laboratory was transformed into a controlled environment, designed to contain whatever happened next.
Everything was finally ready. He placed his experimental Hiraishin formula on one workbench and his destination marker on another, exactly one meter away. He took a slow breath, steadying his nerves, and channelled chakra into the formula. He described everything slowing down; the seal began functioning, every layer activating correctly. The Anchor Formula established a spatial reference, the Coordinate Layer located the destination, the Synchronization Layer aligned his chakra with the anchor, and the Transition Layer prepared to move him across the intervening space.
For a moment, Renjiro believed it worked. Then something changed.
Space rejected him. Instead of teleporting, reality pushed back, compressing around his body like a vice. His body partially overlapped with folded space, and the consequences were immediate and horrifying. Bones bent unnaturally; muscles twisted; vision split; organs compressed; chakra pathways tore; blood vessels ruptured. He could not even scream properly as his body was torn apart by forces that should not have existed. The formula desperately tore him free before total spatial collapse could occur, and he was violently thrown back across the room, crashing into the far wall.
Silence.
The damage was catastrophic. His injuries included shattered ribs, a collapsed lung, ruptured organs, a destroyed arm, massive chakra pathway damage, severe internal bleeding, and partial blindness from chakra overload. His heart nearly stopped; the rhythm faltered, stuttered, and almost failed entirely. He lay on the floor, broken and bleeding, his body a ruin of what it had been moments before.
Then his healing kicked in. The Uzumaki vitality that had sustained him through countless battles began its work, restarting circulation, stabilising chakra, forcing regeneration, stopping internal bleeding, and reconnecting damaged pathways. The process was agonising; he could feel his bones knitting together, his organs repairing, his arm regrowing. Without it, he would already be dead.
Nobody else could have survived that, he thought, his internal voice carrying the weight of his realisation. Minato and Tobirama survived this experimentation phase. How? How did they endure this without regeneration?
He lay on the floor, his body slowly healing, his mind already analysing the failure. The pain was immense, but it was secondary to the need to understand what had gone wrong.
Several hours passed. Renjiro remained bedridden, unable to train or move much. So he studied. Again. The failure bothered him more than the pain. He reconstructed the experiment step by step, tracing the flow of chakra through the formula, identifying the moment when the technique had failed. Everything had worked correctly until the transition; the layers had activated in sequence, the synchronisation had been successful, and the displacement had begun. Then space had rejected him.
He compared Tobirama's notes, Minato's corrections, and his observations. Eventually, he noticed something.
Tobirama had treated space like a perfectly fixed mathematical grid; Coordinate A to Coordinate B, travel, perfectly logical. The Second Hokage had approached the problem as a geometry problem, assuming that space was stable and predictable. Minato had noticed something different; space was not perfectly stable; it fluctuated. His corrections reduced instability, improved synchronisation, lowered the failure rate, and increased safety. But he had never solved the actual problem; he had merely compensated for it. He had built safeguards and redundancies, but he had not addressed the fundamental issue.
Tobirama treated space like a perfectly fixed mathematical grid, Renjiro thought, his internal voice carrying the weight of his realization. Minato noticed that space fluctuates, and he compensated for it. But neither of them solved the actual problem; they simply worked around it.
Silence. Renjiro asked himself a fundamental question: why was he forcing himself to search for space when he already possessed something much easier to find? His EMS marks permanently recorded chakra identity, not location. They were anchors of identity, not coordinates. Don't search for coordinates; search for chakra.
The realisation hit him like a physical blow. He began rewriting equations, crossing out enormous sections. Entire coordinate calculations disappeared, becoming unnecessary. Instead, the teleportation would search for the EMS mark itself, regardless of distance. The mark continuously emitted a recognizable chakra identity, and the teleportation would lock directly onto that. Coordinates became secondary; identity became primary.
Don't search for coordinates, he thought, his internal voice carrying the weight of his breakthrough. Search for chakra. The EMS mark is an anchor of identity, not location. The technique doesn't need to know where the target is; it needs to know who the target is.
He overlaid Tobirama's equations, Minato's improvements, and his EMS mark structure. The overlap was astonishing; his Mangekyō naturally replaced nearly half the identification and localisation equations. Not because it was better, but because it was solving the same problem differently.
He immediately noticed the drawback. Searching for chakra identity instead of coordinates dramatically increased chakra consumption. The formula constantly scanned for the chakra signature instead of using predetermined mathematical coordinates. For ordinary shinobi, it was impossible; for Renjiro, it was acceptable. His reserves could handle it, but most people would empty themselves after one teleport.
My reserves can handle it, he thought, his internal voice carrying the weight of his analysis. Most people would empty themselves after one teleport. This is not a technique for ordinary shinobi; it is a technique for those with extraordinary chakra reserves.
He continued calculating and noticed another issue. Short-range teleportation was very manageable, but long-range teleportation was different; the chakra cost rose exponentially. Not because of travel, but because of maintaining synchronisation with the distant chakra identity. This became his next obstacle, a problem that would require further research and experimentation.
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