Naruto: Starting With Creating A Genius Persona

Why did this happen?

Two people who both possessed the potential to successfully undergo First Hokage's cell experimentation displayed reactions that were fundamentally the same, yet their origins were completely different.

One possessed Senju blood, while the other was a wandering orphan with no blood relation whatsoever to the Senju clan.

Shinichi frowned inwardly.

He had to figure this out. Otherwise, even if he successfully fused the first Hokage's cells into these two people and awakened Wood Style in them, the results of the experiment would be limited to Kizashi Haruno and Yamato alone.

Shinichi himself would still fail to grasp the underlying principle, much less use the first Hokage's cells to strengthen his own body.

Just like Konoha in the original timeline, after Yamato, there was never a second successful Hashirama's Cells experiment.

Shinichi was certain that, whether it had been Danzo at the beginning or the third Hokage afterward, they must have tried countless times to reproduce the experiment using Yamato as the template. Yet in the end, Yamato remained the sole successful survivor.

This meant that among the conditions for success, there was a hidden variable that no one had ever identified.

Wood Style, chakra, the Sage Body, the God Tree, the ten-tails...

For a moment, countless clues and fragments of information flashed through Shinichi's mind like bolts of lightning as he rapidly searched among these scattered pieces for the possible point connecting them all.

The God Tree Factor.

After a long time, Shinichi let out a slow breath.

For the time being, he would call the mysterious trait within Kizashi Haruno and Yamato that allowed them to produce a special fusion reaction with the first Hokage's cells the God Tree Factor.

While thinking through the problem just now, Shinichi had quickly realized something.

Kizashi Haruno and Yamato, or rather, all of humanity throughout the Shinobi World, actually shared one common characteristic.

Nearly a thousand years ago, during the ancient era, all of their ancestors had once been suspended on the God Tree by Kaguya Otsutsuki.

From that moment onward, humanity had no longer truly been the same. Through the vines connecting to their bodies, the God Tree drained their life force while simultaneously injecting something back into them.

From that point on, traces of the God Tree had been engraved into humanity's bloodline and genetic makeup.

Some people were transformed more deeply and remained suspended longer, eventually becoming beings like White Zetsu.

Others, who had been hung for a shorter period and were fortunate enough not to be completely drained, might have appeared no different from ordinary humans on the surface. Yet, some indelible change had likewise been left within their bodies.

Then, among those humans who had once been altered by the God Tree, or among their descendants, could there have emerged individuals with an innate affinity for the God Tree?

Could there have been people whose bodies retained deeper traces of the God Tree than others?

Simply because they had never encountered any external stimulus related to the God Tree, this trait had remained dormant deep within their bloodlines, unnoticed by anyone?

Only when their blood came into contact with the first Hokage's cells, that is, a power sharing the same origin as the God Tree, would it finally be awakened, revealing that subtle tendency toward fusion?

If so, then Kizashi Haruno and Yamato were probably people of this kind.

And there was also White Zetsu.

In the original timeline, Obito Uchiha had likewise successfully fused with the first Hokage's cells.

The reason he survived was not only because he possessed Uchiha blood and maintained a balance between Dark and Light natures within his body, but also because of an even more crucial factor.

He completed the fusion with the help of White Zetsu.

What exactly was White Zetsu?

White Zetsu was, in essence, a direct product of the God Tree, the ultimate form of a human completely transformed by it. Fusing with White Zetsu's cells was equivalent to directly introducing the purest form of the God Tree Factor into one's body as a bridge.

If his theory about the God Tree Factor was correct, then everything would make perfect sense.

However, now that he had figured that out, Shinichi found himself facing a new problem instead.

Where was he supposed to find a God Tree to study?

Even if it wasn't the God Tree itself, just a remaining branch would do.

"What a headache."

Shinichi sighed silently to himself.

Back then, traces and branches of the God Tree had indeed been scattered throughout the world. But after Kaguya Otsutsuki was sealed away, the Sage of Six Paths, Asura, Indra, and the earliest generations of Ninja Creed students had devoted themselves to eliminating the remnants of the God Tree scattered across the world.

By now, those remnants had almost certainly been cleaned up completely.

In other words, the only God Tree remaining in the Shinobi World today was probably the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path currently in Madara Uchiha's possession.

But taking something from that old gambler would not be easy.

"As for the God Tree, I'll just leave it to fate. If I can obtain it, great. If not, there's no point rushing."

After thinking it over for a while, Shinichi stopped dwelling on the issue and pulled his thoughts away from this unsolvable problem for the time being.

He intended to continue following his original plan and first find a way to truly create a Wood Style user.

Perhaps by then, he might discover something new from that Wood Style user, and perhaps he would not even need the God Tree after all.

Of course, having the God Tree would naturally be even better. But there was no need to force the issue. He would simply proceed as far as circumstances allowed, one step at a time.

With that thought, Shinichi ended today's experiment, packed away the test tubes and samples on the laboratory table, then turned and left the room.

...

Some time later, after more than ten days of repeated negotiations, arguments, and back-and-forth wrangling, the Five Great Ninja Villages finally reached a consensus on the date for the international humanitarian convention conference.

The conference was scheduled for December 20, two months later, and would be held in the permanently neutral Land of Iron.

Konoha's representatives would be none other than the convention's initiator, Shinichi Higashino, along with Minato Namikaze.

Time passed in the blink of an eye, and before anyone knew it, it was already December 10, leaving only ten days before the international conference in the Land of Iron.

These past two months had probably been the quietest period since the outbreak of the Third Shinobi World War.

The Five Great Ninja Villages seemed to have reached an unspoken understanding, all lowering the war's intensity at the same time.

Even when they were not fighting major battles in the past, they would at least engage in small skirmishes, harassing one another from time to time and probing each other's strength. Yet during these two months, they had practically entered a de facto ceasefire.

On every front, both sides merely confronted each other from afar, remaining vigilant. Unless they happened to cross paths by pure coincidence, neither side could even be bothered to fight minor engagements anymore.

However, beneath this superficial calm, undercurrents continued to surge; every faction was secretly and intensively stockpiling supplies, building up strength, and adjusting troop deployments.

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