Red Nara

After creating another clone, I left the brush work on them, having removed the fuin from the subject's solar plexus beforehand, and got down to the more important part - working with the brain. Just five minutes of careful alteration and this shinobi would never wake up again, artificially induced into a coma.

Not such a difficult task if one had the knowledge. It would be possible to perform a lobotomy, simply turning the guy into a bubbling vegetable, unable to think, but it was unknown how it would affect the subjugated body, so this option was left for the next attempts. And there was no doubt that there would be such attempts - only in invented stories heroes manage to make a breakthrough from the first time and literally on their knees. Real research results appear only after numerous attempts and selections of all kinds of options. And with a lot of deaths, if the research is conducted on living creatures.

- Boss, everything is ready! - reported the kage bunshin, showing off his work.

- Great, then I'll get started," I nodded to him.

Sixty-eight hand seals later, a seal began to unfold on the unconscious guy's solar plexus, and I stepped back under the protection of the barrier, watching the process. It was almost identical to reanimating a corpse, except that the controlling threads were much more reluctant and took longer to sink into the living flesh. The experimental technique reached its full capacity only after a dozen minutes.

- Uh, boss, somehow I don't feel very good, - admitted the puppet after a small warm-up and getting used to the new size of the limbs.

- What do you mean? In what way is it expressed? Is there an obstacle to movement or something else?

- No, not physical - there's nothing wrong with it, except for the changed motor skills - it's at the chakra level," the clone in control of the body said after a bit of thought, "it's like something's squeezing or pushing out, and it feels like the seal won't last long.

- Hmm, maybe it's because I used minimum chakra for the first time? - I suggested the cause, scratching the back of my head thoughtfully.

- No, I don't think so, more would probably just ruin it.

- Then transfer the chakra so that I can also evaluate the sensation later and try to do some ninjutsu," he ordered the puppet.

- Got it, boss!

The guy first touched the center of the fuin, and then joined his palms together and tried to stretch simple threads of chakra between them. Watching the result, all I could do was shake my head - of the five threads per finger, two were clear and strong as I usually get, dark blue in color, but the other three didn't last long and were almost blue in color.

- It looks like he's using both his chakra and his body chakra at the same time, but he has a nasty control over the latter," the very first kage bunshin I created suggested.

- Given his living body, that makes sense," the dead Iwa-nin shrugged, "I have almost all of your chakra, but the chakra that comes from the triggered source supplies only bodily energy for the muscles.

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