Chapter 29 - Perfect Demonic Illusion

                                    

                                          
Naruto: Tales of Ashihara
Prologue – Arc 3: Inner-demon
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Chapter 29 – Perfect demonic Illusion
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Evening  in Konoha. Sai and Sakura returned from their expedition and brought  the scientist's clone to the intelligence division. There, Ibiki Morino  and Ino Yamanaka are currently working to access the corpse's latest  memories. On a dead body, using this jutsu is far more complicated, and  finding the wanted memory takes way more time and chakra than on a  living person. The young leader of the Yamanaka clan is receiving chakra  from the analysis team and Sakura, and goes through the scientist's  mind to find out more about who the impersonator that approached the  Hokage is, and who are his collaborators.
First thing she does is quickly navigate through the dead mind to see how far it can go.
"That's odd. This guy was born a few days ago in some sort of laboratory." she says.
"He's an artificial being?" asks Ibiki.
"Seems  like. And the first thing he ever saw... is his own self... and another one  of him,... and another, and more others. There's like 15 of him."
"So he wasn't bluffing when he said he's a genetic duplicate of his original self." says Sai.
Ino  starts to explore the memories from earliest to latest and carefully  looks for a man who suits the suspected profile of the identity thief.  She finds an Isami Kurama, average-sized, brown hair, dressed like a  vagabond. He first spoke with Suto about a month ago. The two men met  many times through this month and proceeded to do regular injections  that supposedly were to ready his body.
Ino suggests that these  injections are essential to comprehend the enemy's motives. It appears  that their purpose is to make Isami's body able to contain a tengu  without dying. Ino finds this story unexpectedly related to the Minamoto  again. Intrigued, she goes deeper in the subject's mind, but her  researches are interrupted by a lack of chakra to source it. It's Sakura  who stopped providing hers and stepped away.
"What is going on, miss Haruno?" asks Ibiki.
"It's Miss Uchiha." corrects Ino. "Are you ok?" she adds now, asking Sakura.
"I just need a minute." says the pregnant woman.
She  holds her belly while hardly walking out of the room. Sai and Ino look  at each other. Sai beckons his young wife to go check on her friend.
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At  the same time, in the Hokage's office, Kakashi is calmly chatting with  Shizune when they're both surprised by a falcon flying in by the window.  They stare at the bird, and then at each other, both having recognized  Sasuke's falcon. They immediately know what it's about and Shizune  hurries to get the scroll attached to the bird's leg. Kakashi takes it  and reads its content.
It wasn't me. I'll take care of this myself. I'll return to make a report. Keep me informed of Sakura's condition.
Uchiha Sasuke
This  short message is all he got from Sasuke in a month. Shizune still  salutes his shown concern for his wife. Kakashi agrees and stows the  scroll in a little drawer. He takes another empty scroll and prepares to  simply write "Received and validated" when someone knocks on the door.
"Come in." shouts Shizune.
The  door opens and Yamato holds it open for Mizuno, the Mizukage's  assistant from Kiri. The kunoichi walks in and gets to her knees in  front of the Hokage.