After circling a few rounds around Kuroto, baby boar that happily swallowed a few more poison sacs nudged him a few times and disappeared into the forest.

"Is it resistant to poison?" Kuroto contemplated and thought of an experimental plan. ​​

He has been lacking a suitable experimental subject. Although using guinea pigs like rats and rabbits for conducting tests is well and good, but they aren't ideal subjects as their poison resistance is far too weak.

As such the baby boar that seems to have strong poison resistance is a good solution to his problem.

With this thought in mind, Kuroto returned home.

There are two main types of poisons Kuroto is compounding.

First: Instant Paralysis Poison.

Ingredients: Venom powder from the crushed wings of a moth, venom from the tail of the red-tailed scorpion, and venom of the giant red ant.

The venom powder of moth has a strong paralyzing effect and the venom of red-tailed scorpion increases the rate of blood circulation as well as acts as a catalyst. The concoction of the two venom results in an instant paralysis venom.

Modulating venom, A with the venom of a giant red ant will increase the activity of the resulting poison by four to five times.

Second: Killing Poison.

Ingredients: Venom of One-eyed viper, tarantula spiders, giant black centipede, and saliva of the giant red ant.

Kuroto's summon beast, the venom of the one-eyed viper is already very toxic if it is mixed with other poisons and configured as a compound toxin than the standard antidotes used by the great ninja villages would be of no use.

Of course, these are just his thesis and theories, continuous research and experimentation is the necessary process to bring these poisons into reality.

So, after a whole afternoon of hard work, Kuroto prepared a total of ten samples of which five are paralytic and the other five are killing poison.

The reason for preparing so many samples is to find out the most optimum ratio.

Seeing that it was already past afternoon, he packed up all work and decided to go to Forest of Death tomorrow to find the baby boar.

As of the evening, he has other plans.

Uchiha Clan grounds.

Itachi, who was returning home from the academy, saw that the clansmen were gathered in groups of 2 or 3 and seem to be discussing somethings, this scene also attracted his attention, so while walking he perked up his ears and listened.

"Shinichi actually lost?"

"Yes, I heard that he lost terribly and Shisui had to carry him back while unconscious!"

"Too incompetent, how could he lose? Moreover, how could the elders and clan head allow him to go after Hyuga Kuroto if he was so weak! Isn't this discrediting the reputation of the Uchihas!!!"

"Don't be an idiot! We both know that Shinichi isn't weak, he has been a Special Jonnin for about 2 years. In fact, I heard he was going to take the upcoming Jonin assessment, so how he be considered weak?"

"So, what are you trying to say? That Hyuga kid is so strong?"

"Huh! How can that be? I heard that he was just a wartime Chunin a few months ago, how can he be so strong?"

"But it stands to reason that he defeated both Shisui and Shinichi!"

"There's only one explanation to this, I say Shisui didn't take him seriously!"

"Shisui may not have taken the Hyuga kid seriously, but Shinichi also lost to him… if again someone of the Uchiha is defeated by him, then..."

"Can't let that happen!"

"Definitely send a strong one next time!"

"We have to make sure that he realizes that Uchiha are not so easy to mess around with!"

After listening for a while, Itachi walked away with a helpless expression, "Sure enough…"

The 'Sure enough' here has two meanings.

First is that the Uchiha Shinichi really lost!

The second is that the Uchiha can't swallow this defeat silently.

Full of thoughts, Itachi returned home.

While passing by the courtyard, he found his father sitting in a room while turning over some documents. In order not to disturb his father, he subconsciously relaxed his steps.

At this moment, Uchiha Fugaku suddenly called, "Itachi?"

Being called suddenly, Itachi hurriedly stood up straight, "Father, I am back!"

Uchiha Fugaku just nodded without looking back, still doing some work, and asked in a flat tone, "Did you hear the rumors circulating among the Uchiha?"

"Yes, I just heard the clansmen talking about Shinichi's loss."

Fugaku nodded and asked, "What are our thoughts on the matter?"

Itachi's talent and mature mindset are visible to most, and being his father, Uchiha Fugaku is clear about this fact more than anyone, so from a very early time, Fugaku has been training Itachi as the next Uchiha clan head.

For this reason, Fugaku occasionally asks Itachi's views on certain affairs to exercise his knowledge and thinking ability to handle political affairs.

Listening to Fugaku's question Itachi was silent for a while, and after thinking a little he replied, "For the Uchihas, this loss may be a good thing."

Listening to Itachi's reply Fugaku waved his hand noncommittally, and said, "You can go…"

Itachi bowed to his father and left the courtyard silently while busy thinking.

Past evening.

After repeatedly confirming that no one was spying on him, Kuroto shut all the windows and doors of his house.

Kuroto uses the evening time to practice various techniques involved in creating an artificial tailed beast.

To successfully create an artificial tailed beast, of course, Fuinjutsu knowledge isn't the only requirement, one must also have mastery over chakra shape transformation and some ninjutsu's should also be mastered to reduce any errors or omissions in the process of creation because there would be no opportunities for modification once any mistake happens.

Therefore, before officially starting the artificial tail beast project, Kuroto is making sure that he is 100% proficient in all the techniques required.

But to have 100% mastery there isn't any shortcut except hard work, so taking advantage of this short vacation granted by Hokage-sama, Kuroto is practicing.

Because as the saying goes 'practice makes a man perfect!', so as long he practices enough, 100% proficiency isn't difficult to achieve.

While Kuroto was busy with all the practice and hard work, On the border of Land of Fire and Land of Hot Water.

One Cloud Shinobi crushed the throat of a Konoha ninja held in his hands and said to the Jonin captain beside him, "It seems that Konoha hasn't noticed yet!"

Yugito Nii who was squatting while looking at the map spread on the ground said "However, our team seems to be slower."

Another Cloud Jonin approached her and frowned while looking at the map: "The information sent by the spies is not accurate, this is already the fastest we can go!"

"It shouldn't be the problem of the intelligence team. It is very likely that Konoha recently changed their defensive formation at this border." After a pause, Yugito Nii continued, "Forget it, continue the advancement, we must confluence with the unit led by Bee-san in two days!"

With Yugito Nii's order, more than 20 cloud shinobi dashed towards the hinterlands of Land of Fire…

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