It was enough to organize the received information at the end of the day, selecting useful knowledge and getting rid of everything else. This made it easier to digest the information and reduced the load on the mind, as well as removing the risk of hiccups during dangerous situations when dispelling a long-lived kage bunshin.
It's just a pity I didn't start dealing with this problem sooner - some of the knowledge unique to this world was lost or became fragmentary. The history of Naruto's manga had been forgotten, though I kept remembering the main events and even wrote them down a while ago just in case.
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- So how are we doing? - I asked Tsume with a smile, sitting in a wide armchair as I entered the room after the retired matriarch, Inuzuka.
- As usual for the last few months," the kunoichi said with a sigh, folding her arms over her rounded belly, "Hello, Ryo.
- Hello, Tsume-chan," he snorted in response, "still terrorizing your own?
When I first heard that my friend and teammate was knocked up, I was surprised, and then I reacted in a rather original way. To this day, the memory of Tsume's face, seeing me with a sword in one hand and a shovel in the other, asking "who should I bury?" warms my heart and lifts my spirits. However, the lack of scars afterward is entirely due to the clan techniques that saved me from a pissed off Inuzuka.
The innocent habit of teasing the girl, picked up from her mother, was taken too seriously, add to that the mood swings during pregnancy, and you get the result. It was only later that I vaguely remembered that it was around this time that she was supposed to have a daughter. As it turned out, by some handsome geezer. I didn't dig deeper, but it seemed that no one had notified the nominal father of the joyous event, much less inducted him into the clan.
Nevertheless, this unexpected blunder, easily recognized among Tsume's clansmen, had shaken her position as the next head of the clan. There was a ferment among the Inuzuka that even an outsider like me could see, and the pretenders to power were naturally revitalized.
After all, having spent so much time with animals, humans have learned a lot from them - the strongest leader rules the pack, and if the current one is weak, there will inevitably be those who want to take his place. Unfortunately for them, her friend had always had an explosive temperament, and the change in hormonal balance only made it worse.
Therefore, when the most insolent clanmate, claiming power, allowed himself to say something not positive about the young head in her hearing zone, he ran into a furious kunoichi, who literally tore him to shreds in a "training" fight. Tsume had been strong before, even compared to Inuzuka's other peers, and as she grew older, she became more dangerous and experienced, so the result was predictable, shutting up almost everyone who didn't want to get hurt.
Those who were able to stand up to her could be counted on the fingers of one hand - mostly veterans who had participated in the first MBS, but there was one more serious factor that allowed her friend to keep a firm grip on power - Kuromaru.
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