Naruto: Starting With Creating A Genius Persona

After all, throughout the anime, Sakura had never displayed any proficiency in either Earth Style or Water Style, nor had she ever been shown learning those two types of Ninjutsu. If those attributes had not been innate, it would be difficult to explain why they were present within the composition of her chakra.

If they truly were innate, then those Light, Earth, and Water natures had very likely been inherited from her seemingly unremarkable father.

Secondly, Kizashi Haruno was actually a descendant of the Senju clan.

Shinichi had only accidentally noticed this information while organizing the association members' records some time ago.

After Hidden Leaf Village was founded, the first Hokage, Hashirama Senju, called upon the members of the Senju clan to abandon their clan name and integrate into the village in order to eliminate the divisions between ninja clans, as well as between ninja and civilians.

During that wave of integration, aside from a small number of clan members who insisted on retaining the Senju surname, the vast majority responded to the call by concealing the Senju surname, adopting various new surnames, and blending into the countless households of Konoha.

Those adopted surnames included Kazamatsuri, Fujino, Iwagakure, Haruno, and others.

It was said that among these descendants who had hidden the Senju surname, one clan member awakened Wood Style during the next generation.

However, Shinichi had never watched the sequel series in its entirety. He only vaguely knew that such a thing had happened, but he did not know who that clan member actually was.

Had he known, he would have recognized the name Moegi Kazamatsuri.

Haruno was one of the surnames adopted by those who had hidden the Senju clan name.

This was also why Shinichi had previously said that all the members participating in this physical examination were nominally civilians, because if one traced their family lineage far enough back, many of them were actually descendants of the Senju clan.

However, the blood of the other Senju descendants among the association members had not displayed any reaction comparable to Kizashi Haruno's.

Even among the two members who were likewise born with Light, Earth, and water chakra natures, their blood showed no fundamental difference from ordinary blood samples when faced with the invasion of the first Hokage cells.

Furthermore, while reviewing the old research materials related to the first Hokage cells experiments, Shinichi discovered that the very first true test subject of Konoha's Hashirama's Cells experiments had been none other than the second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.

As a master of forbidden techniques and human experimentation, Tobirama Senju had likewise conducted blood fusion experiments while researching the first Hokage cells.

Yet despite how powerful he already was at the time, and despite being the first Hokage's biological younger brother, born to the same mother, the first Hokage's cells still invaded his blood.

With no other choice, the second Hokage sealed away the experiment, intending to restart it once conditions had matured.

Unexpectedly, what followed immediately afterward was the outbreak of the first Shinobi World War.

Of course, that was a story for another time.

In other words, while the Senju bloodline might indeed have some effect, it was by no means the key. Even biological brothers had ended up this way, let alone ordinary descendants separated by countless generations.

So where exactly did the key lie?

Shinichi's gaze once again settled upon that gentle-colored branch, but his thoughts unconsciously drifted to another level.

The world he currently inhabited was a composite world that blended together elements from the manga, anime, movies, and many other sources.

Because of that, many causal relationships, settings, and even contradictions that had originally been separated into different storylines all existed simultaneously here, intertwined with one another.

According to Shinichi's memories from his previous life, Kizashi Haruno had never actually made a formal appearance in the main canon.

His name existed, but neither his appearance nor his voice was ever shown. Whether he was a civilian or a ninja remained entirely unknown; only a vague outline of his character had ever been established.

However, in one of the movies, Kizashi Haruno had genuinely appeared.

Even in that movie, it was never explicitly stated whether he was a civilian or a ninja.

Sakura merely complained that her father was "Completely ordinary and utterly unremarkable."

Whether he was a civilian or an ordinary ninja, he was, in any case, nothing special.

Yet within the Limited Tsukuyomi world of that movie, everything was completely reversed. In that world, the utterly ordinary Kizashi Haruno transformed into Konoha's Fourth Hokage, forcibly replacing Minato Namikaze.

Although the movie never explained in detail how that version of Kizashi Haruno had ascended to the position of Fourth Hokage, Shinichi, following this line of thought, inevitably found a bold speculation surfacing in his mind.

Could it be that he had awakened Wood Style? And that his strength had reached the very highest level?

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to successfully seal away the rampaging nine-tails during that world's nine-tails incident.

Top-tier strength, combined with the political legitimacy that Wood Style naturally carried within Konoha, would make it entirely understandable that Kizashi Haruno of the Limited Tsukuyomi world could defeat Minato Namikaze and become the Fourth Hokage.

That raised the question.

Even if it existed only within the Limited Tsukuyomi world of that movie, there was still a Kizashi Haruno who was anything but ordinary and had become the Fourth Hokage.

And since Shinichi now existed in this hybrid world that incorporated all manner of settings, could Kizashi Haruno in this world likewise possess some hidden potential or some unique, deeply buried characteristic that no one had ever noticed?

Judging from Shinichi's current discovery, the answer was clearly yes.

Kizashi Haruno possessed the potential to successfully pass the first Hokage cell fusion experiment and awaken Wood Style.

But why did he possess such potential? And where did that potential originate?

Thinking of this, Shinichi's eyes flickered.

The next moment, he disappeared from where he stood. One minute later, he reappeared in the laboratory with a fresh blood sample in his hand.

This tube of blood belonged to Yamato.

Without pausing, Shinichi immediately repeated the previous testing procedure on Yamato's blood, keeping his perception locked onto every cellular-level change within the test tube throughout the entire process.

Five minutes later, the results were in.

In the end, Yamato's blood was likewise unable to withstand the erosion of the first Hokage's cells, and it also grew into a small tree.

However, what was worth noting was that its growth process was not the violent, explosive spread one might expect. Instead, it expanded relatively gently, exactly like the reaction shown by Kizashi Haruno's blood.

The only difference was that this time, the entire process was completed much faster, far faster.

That was only to be expected.

After all, Kizashi Haruno was an adult ninja in the prime of his life, while Yamato was only a five-year-old child. Whether in terms of physical strength or cellular vitality, the two were on completely different levels.

It was only natural that Yamato's blood succumbed to the first Hokage's cells more quickly; that was determined by physiological conditions and did not affect the essence of the phenomenon.

Setting aside the difference in time, however, the reactions displayed by these two blood samples in the face of the first Hokage's cells were fundamentally identical. Both exhibited that unique gentleness, and both briefly showed clear yet subtle signs of fusion.

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