"Hey, listen to your big brother."
Kiyoshi took Moegi directly to a hair salon.
He had Moegi's hair washed, gave it a simple trim, and styled it.
She truly seemed like a different person, and her transformation was stunning.
"See? Isn't it beautiful?"
Kiyoshi had Moegi look at herself in the mirror.
"Mm-hmm." Gazing at her reflection, Moegi's eyes sparkled as she nodded repeatedly. "From now on, I'm only listening to Kiyoshi-nii, not my mom."
Compared to this, her mother's hair styling was far too plain.
Besides, if Kiyoshi said it looked good, it had to be true.
"Let's go, I have a present for you." Kiyoshi patted her head and smiled.
In no time—
He and Moegi vanished from where they stood.
"Huh?"
They reappeared in the Training Ground, deep in the forest.
Moegi, caught off guard by the change of scenery, looked around in amazement. Her big eyes scanned the surroundings curiously, but she didn't show any fear.
"Boom!"
Kiyoshi pulled out a storage scroll. From it, he produced a pale green fruit with intricate patterns swirling across its surface.
This was an artificial Devil Fruit, crafted using the body of a long-gone member of the Senju Clan—a man who, while attempting to gain Wood Release through transplanted cells from the First Hokage, ultimately sacrificed himself, his body torn apart by the overgrown branches inside him.
Danzo had preserved his body, believing it still held research value.
This particular Senju had once been a prominent clan member with remarkably pure blood, and his chakra reserves nearly rivaled Tsunade's.
He had volunteered for the Wood Release experiments, offering his body for cell transplantation.
Danzo had claimed they had almost succeeded, however, his chakra lost control in the final moments, leading to a failure.
But given the partial success, his body retained an extraordinary vitality due to the First Hokage's cells.
Thus, Kiyoshi selected him to grow an artificial Devil Fruit.
"Here, eat it," Kiyoshi said, handing the fruit to Moegi with a gentle smile.
Initially, he'd planned to help her awaken her powers at age six, but doing it a bit earlier wouldn't hurt.
"What is this?"
Moegi blinked her big eyes in confusion as she looked at Kiyoshi. She took a tentative bite—and instantly regretted it. "So gross."
She nearly cried the next second, her lips quivering and her eyes welling up.
"You lied," she whined, looking at Kiyoshi in distress.
"Yes, it's gross. But after you eat it." Kiyoshi smiled and extended his right hand as she watched him closely. "You'll be able to do this."
In the next moment, flowers began to bloom from Kiyoshi's hand, radiating a refreshing fragrance.
"Huh?"
Moegi's expression shifted from teary-eyed to wide-eyed awe, her gaze brightening as she beamed. "It's so pretty."
"If you want to be able to do that, eat the whole thing," Kiyoshi said, coughing softly, a strange sense of guilt washing over him.
"Really?"
With her glistening eyes fixed on the unappetizing fruit, Moegi hesitated.
"Of course. When have I ever lied to you?" Kiyoshi said, patting her head.
"Then… okay..."
Looking at the lovely flowers in his hand, Moegi made up her mind, squeezing her eyes shut as she forced herself to finish the awful-tasting fruit as quickly as possible.
"Now, have a good rest." Kiyoshi smiled.
Moegi's vision blurred, and she quickly fell into a deep sleep.
She was still young, and though she'd started training to control her chakra under the Kazamatsuri family's guidance, she didn't yet know how to use it.
Awakening her Wood Release might take a while.
With a gentle swoosh, a green leaf appeared in Kiyoshi's palm, quickly folding into a paper crane.
He directed it toward the Kazamatsuri house to inform his aunt, so she wouldn't worry when she couldn't find her daughter.
Kiyoshi planned to keep Moegi by his side for a few days to help her learn to control her new powers, ensuring she wouldn't harm anyone unintentionally.
Should Moegi lose control of her emotions, who knows what could happen?
Even Haku, who hadn't learned proper chakra control, accidentally awakened his Ice Release bloodline in a fit of emotion and destroyed his village.
With Moegi now possessing a Wood Release yet to be fully awakened, along with a complete Senju bloodline, her powers—amplified by the artificial Devil Fruit—would exceed what she was meant to have by far.
If such power ran wild, few could contain it.
With another swoosh, Kiyoshi arrived at the Root base's training room with Moegi, who was still asleep and undergoing a remarkable transformation within.
Kiyoshi gently placed her on a nearby sofa.
Leaving her to rest, he immersed himself back into his own research.
The Genjutsu he cast would keep her asleep until the next morning, allowing time for her Senju blood and Wood Release to fully merge with the artificial Devil Fruit, significantly boosting her potential.
"Oh? Have the Flying Thunder God seals been completely modified?"
As he synced up the information shared by his Wood clones, a smile spread across Kiyoshi's face.
In just a day, his Wood clones had made remarkable progress.
Not only had they improved the Flying Thunder God seals, removing any safety risks involved in teleportation, but they'd also added a unique jutsu to prevent the seals from falling into enemy hands.
With this new design, Kiyoshi could now directly control each Flying Thunder God seal and even change their coordinates remotely.
Originally a one-to-one teleportation seal, Kiyoshi could now sense the location of each Flying Thunder God seal and override their destinations at will.
Should anyone attempt to use his seals against him, they would be in for a lethal surprise—the seals could even be transformed into explosive tags, with doubled potency.
Anyone trying to use these modified Flying Thunder God seals against him would likely suffer a tragic end.
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