AN :
If we hit 200 power stones in 24h I will release 5 chapters at once ... Good luck ;)
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Five minutes of fiddling around in his own chest, and suddenly he took a deep gasping breath. For that moment, Naruto saw him lose his casual attitude. Only for it to return a second later, along with his insane grin, which one again spread across his face.
"WOOO! Nothing like a new organ to get the heart pumping…wait…nope, that one's ok for now."
Giving a shake with his whole body, Frankenstein pulled the string from one of the spools attached to his bracer. It was at that point Naruto noticed several things he had not before.
Such as the fact the bracer seemed to be bolted onto the arm, the metal rivets driven right into the skin. Then there was the fact that at the end of each spool of string there was what looked like a sowing needle attached.
With practiced ease Frankenstein re-sowed his own chest back up, the gaping wound becoming just one of the many stitched wounds that covered his body, when he had finished Frankenstein used his scalpel to cut the thread leaving the wound fully stitched.
Naruto wanted to be sick, he really did. But it just wasn't coming up, and he was forced to put up with the turning in his stomach as the boy went back to sorting through the dead. However when he saw Frankenstein's attention land on the Soul he had been planning to eat, he quickly pulled himself together enough to stand and move over just as the grey haired boy started trying to poke it.
It turned out when Naruto's chakra makes contact with a Soul it causes it to become fully visible to everyone, Naruto made a quick note of that as he tried to wave the other boy off from touching his prize.
He seemed to find the fact his finger passed through it very amusing, as he continued to poke it in vain.
"What the hell is this? Did you make this? It looks like a floating mass of chakra." Frankenstein said in delighted curiosity as his hand once again broke past Naruto's guard only for it to pass through the glowing orb.
Licking his lips being the teeth of his mask, Naruto made an effort to turn away from the Soul and instead to the clearly insane boy that he had just seen replace his own lungs.
"Who…what the hell are you?" Naruto asked as he gave up on trying to stop the bigger boy from touching the Soul and instead tried to distract him.
Turning away with his finger still stuck in the Soul, Frankenstein seemed to get a slightly confused face for a moment before he seemed to realise something and slapped himself in the forehead as he turned to face Naruto completely. His attention now entirely on Naruto as oppose to the Soul orb.
"Of course, where are my manners? My name is Victor Frankenstein, at least that's the name I was given. Then again I guess all names are given by someone…what was I talking about? Oh right, I remember now. I was named after my great, great, great, great, grandfather, who was some important guy back in the day or something.
Though I am also known as The Grave Robber, on account of me…recycling, bodies. I mean burying them in the ground is just such a waste! You know I once found a perfectly good stomach and spinal cord in the same grave! And they say I'm mad!" The boy said before throwing his head back and letting out a mad laugh.
As he heard Victor's introduction Naruto's eye started twitching behind his mask, an action he expected would be happening a lot over the next few hours. It didn't help that as he was talking Victor had offered him a hand to shake; only the hand wasn't actually his but instead was a part of a severed arm he had picked up.
Though he did wish they weren't still standing in a burning village surrounded by dead bodies, but the odd boy didn't seem to care at all. They spent the next hour talking as Victor sorted the different body parts into piles, going off on random tangents every now and then in the middle of talking about something else.
With Naruto occasionally grabbing one of the Souls of the fallen Shinobi when the boy's back was turned, shoving it in his mouth quickly and ignoring the surge of energy he received and the number of flashing images. Taking note that he would have to go into his mindscape later and with You help look through whatever scraps of memory he had absorbed to see if there was anything useful.
It turned out that Victor was one of the last members of a clan, a clan who were all in hiding and had been for decades, they had apparently been very well know before the Hidden Villages were formed.
The Clan had slowly started to die out after the formation of the Shinobi Villages, though that was mainly because no one had wanted them to join their village as they were being formed.
While rare there had been several Clans that either chose not to join any of the villages, or simply weren't allowed. The majority of these Clans had died out many years ago or dropped off the map altogether Clans such as these had been named 'Rogue-Clans'.
The Frankenstein Clan was a clan of Medical Ninja'a…of a sort. Victor's ancestor discovered a way to separate his chakra network from his physical body, while still being able to use both. This lead to what had been called 'The Living Corpse Jutsu', allowing them to become for lack of a better word zombies. As long as they had chakra they could live with almost any damage, though if they ran out before things were replaced they would die.
There was more too it then that and other related Jutsu that were developed by the Clan, but Naruto didn't ask for more details, he didn't really want to.
The Clan was technically speaking a Clan of immortals, they grew to maturity but when they did so they stopped getting older when they reached their peak. They did start to rot though the older they got, which meant that as long as they had constantly had chakra and regularly replaced their organs they could live indefinitely.
They also had no sense of pain which was no doubt adapted by them to make the process of replacing their body parts easier, a fall back of their bloodline though were that they couldn't heal naturally.
However their inability to heal and the tendency to rot was counteracted by the ability to replace old and damaged body parts with what they 'recycled' from the dead, which was the main reason they were not welcome when the Hidden villages were being formed. During the time of the Clan Wars the Frankenstein Clan became infamous for their Medical skills and…questionable methods.
However after the Hidden villages had been formed and the Clan Wars ended, they had lost their…recyclable material. They were forced to start grave robbing for body parts, which only made others more uncomfortable around them. Things had gotten better during the Great Shinobi Wars, but each time there was peace their numbers had continued to lower to the point of near extinction.
Naruto found himself feeling…sorry for the older boy.
Almost his whole Clan was either dead or in hiding, and he was forced to scavenge from the dead just to survive.
Though it wasn't just the Frankenstein Clan that had been forced to become a Rogue Clan, Naruto remembered a book he had once read which had mentioned several. There were also several he knew that could be considered if not worse, on equal footing as the Frankenstein Clan when it came to…unsavoury Jutsu.
Then there were the Shinobi from before.