In fact, there were enough experimental materials.
"And the Nine-Tails... we can't let him stay in Naruto's body any longer!"
Orochimaru was thinking. Unfortunately, becoming a jinchuriki was not so easy, it required a certain physical predisposition.
The Nine-Tails could provide them with almost limitless chakra. It was thanks to the Nine-Tails' chakra that Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others were able to meet Uchiha Yue, after which they almost died. In addition, the status of the jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails was a guarantee, a pledge of combat power.
For Konoha, who was going through hard times and was significantly weakened, a jinchuriki capable of using the power of the Nine-Tails was extremely important!
Jiraiya and the others were to blame for everything. They pushed Uchiha Sasuke to his death. And it would be fine if he just died, but he died in vain. And okay, he would have died in vain, but because of his death, Naruto turned to the dark side. Damn it!
Orochimaru didn't know what to say.
Before, even though Naruto didn't know he was a jinchuriki, he loved the countryside. At the right moment, this "nuclear bomb" could be activated and sent to other villages to protect Konoha. But what now? If Naruto's jinchuriki is activated now, then their own Konoha will be the first target for bombing.
Naruto became useless. Jiraiya, who was supposed to be Naruto's eldest relative—Naruto could have called him grandfather in seniority—was now the one who wanted him dead the most in Konoha.
"When I get back, I'll need to start recruiting a new jinchuriki..." mused Orochimaru.
In fact, if it wasn't for today's incident, he would have dragged it out to the last. If the search for the Child from the prophecy had failed, he would have taken the people from Konoha and the doomed Naruto with him to find Nagato, but now…
He had some ideas, namely…
"What did you say?" Is Naruto missing?
Orochimaru sat in his office with an expression of utter bewilderment. What do you mean, "the jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails escaped"? What kind of jokes?
He immediately headed towards the prison where Naruto was being held. Soon, looking at the empty cell and the broken chains, he fell into silence.
Tobirama Sanju and the others who were standing nearby were also silent.
They could not even imagine that as soon as Orochimaru left with the squad, their own house was raided. Can Orochimaru be blamed for this?
Unlikely. Who would have thought that in a situation where the entire Shinobi world was united, someone would dare to take such a huge risk and attack Konoha by kidnapping their jinchuriki. Are they crazy?
Right now, everyone was making efforts to find the Child from the prophecy. Such an act was tantamount to inciting hostility and undermining the unity of the Shinobi world.
In such a situation, everyone had to put aside prejudice and hatred and come together. Why so…
— Search! Send everyone! Find him!
Orochimaru clenched his fists so tightly that his heart fluttered. One moment he was thinking about jinchuriki, and he even had a candidate for the role, and the next moment jinchuriki was gone. It was as if he had left an exquisite dish for later, and when he returned home after a hard day and opened the refrigerator, he found that someone had already eaten his treat.
He was furious!
Soon, all of Konoha's Shinobi were alerted to catch the escaped Naruto.
"I told you! I told you that damn kid should have been killed! Kill him!
—And now what?" He's escaped! Ah-ah-ah!
In the hospital room, Jiraiya, upon learning of Naruto's escape, roared furiously. He was so furious that he was seized by an angry fit, and he began to convulse.
— Jiraiya-sama!
— It's bad, come here quickly! Jiraiya-sama is having another seizure!
In the end, the search was unsuccessful. Naruto disappeared without a trace.
***
"Still haven't found it?"
In the land of Lightning, in his residence, Ootsutsuki Isshiki, who was meditating with his eyes closed, shook his head regretfully.
It has been three months since Uchiha Yue awakened his mangekyo sharingan. Two months have already passed. It was estimated that four to five months remained before the complete absorption of this world. And this period could only be shortened, but not increased in any way.
And that was the perfect scenario. In reality, humanity will start counting down to its extinction much earlier.
The mass death of people could lead to the fact that his vessel would also die. In the end, he will be left without a suitable body and will be forced to wait for death in this hell.
The weather was getting colder. Some active volcanoes quieted down, while others that were supposed to be asleep, on the contrary, began to show activity again due to the movement of the earth's crust and could erupt at any moment.
The earthquakes have become more frequent. If it were not for the existence of the Shinobi, if he had not come out with his prophecy, and without the protection of the ninja, many ordinary people would have already been buried alive, dying from earthquakes, cold, volcanic eruptions and other disasters.
At the same time, due to the existence of the Dead Silence Area, countless wild beasts began to migrate. Powerful animals capable of resisting Shinobi emerged from the depths of the mountains and began to wreak havoc and destruction. This world was getting worse, more hopeless.
Some people even started committing suicide.
Riots, robberies, rapes, murders — the chaos was growing, and Shinobi from different villages were overwhelmed with work.
They fought crime, protected civilians, and at the same time could not kill criminals. What if the culprit turns out to be a Child from the prophecy?
It was a good thing that Jigen had clearly said that the Child from the prophecy was a human, otherwise the animals would not have been killed.
— After all, there is something worthwhile in the ninjutsu of this world, especially the Technique of multiple shadow cloning... I used to look down on these Shinobi, I considered their techniques nothing special.…
"If I had obtained this technique a few hundred years earlier and sent shadow clones all over the world, perhaps I would have already found a suitable vessel...what a pity, why now!
Ootsutsuki Isshiki sighed. However, one could not even dream of several hundred years. The technique of multiple shadow cloning was not even a hundred years old, it was invented by Tobirama Sanju, and it was considered a forbidden technique by Konoha. Even if he had had such an idea earlier, he would have had nowhere to explore it.
He couldn't just create something out of nothing.
Has a suitable vessel already been born?
What if... what if his vessel hadn't even been born yet?