What no one realised however was Haruto's spirit body was staring at the conversation occurring right there, floating right beside Tsunade and Kakashi while shaking his head with sadness.
'Seriously?'
'I thought Kakashi-sensei would've been on my side for once and protected the sanctity of my mind…'
Haruto frowned at the realization that his mind would be molested by an old woman and didn't like it one bit. However he quickly thought of a solution.
'Whatever… I can just use Occlumency to put up a fake mental realm that Tsunade will explore instead of my actual mind.'
'Wait! Grindelwald, can I use this to complete your preventing an intrusion into my mind mission?'
Grindelwald shook his head and spoke softly, 'Unfortunately when I assigned the mission I said it had to be a Yamanaka shinobi, that still stands.'
Haruto grimaced but nodded nevertheless. 'Alright, I understand.'
***
"Tsunade's found a solution to the seal too it seems. Albeit a temporary one." Mito said softly before proceeding to look at the seal she and Kushina had drawn up to counter the Cursed Tongue Eradication seal.
"How do we get this information to Tsunade-sama then?" Kushina asked softly as she looked at Tsunade on the screen through Haruto's eyes.
"One of us could pass the information to Haruto and leave him to deliver it to Tsunade-sama." Minato helpfully proposed.
"But will he even deliver it to Tsunade-sama now? After what he just heard?" Kushina said with a mixture of sadness and contemplation.
Everyone fell silent at that point but Sakumo spoke gently, "I think Haruto will reveal the information to Tsunade… he just seems like the innocent kind for now. He doesn't seem to have been hardened into a cold blooded killer just yet."
Tobirama frowned, "I can't bring myself to trust the kid… he's too mysterious. Especially with the other room like ours that seems to be connected to him."
Hashirama laughed boldly and patted Tobirama's back as he spoke, "Trust me! This kid's great!! He's a good kid!! I believe him!! Trust me!"
"You also believed Madara was good… and wanted to make him the first Hokage…" Tobirama mumbled but said nothing else before looking at everyone else and speaking up, "Alright, all those in favour of trusting the boy, raise your hands."
Everyone glanced around and saw six hands rise up, Sakumo, Mito, Kushina, Minato, Hiruzen and Hashirama all raised their hands. Only Tobirama and Izuna didn't lift their hands.
And as soon as Tobirama noticed Izuna sharing his opinion he quickly raised his hand causing Izuna to spit aside in distaste while Tobirama mumbled his favourite catchphrase, "Inherently Evil Uchiha."
"Alright… let's send the information down to him then. Kushina if you could send the seal to Haruto this time."
Kushina nodded and brought up the interface to send Haruto the piece of knowledge about the seal she'd discovered inside this enigmatic space.
She clicked a few buttons and within a few seconds she looked back up, "Alright, done."
Everyone turned to look at Haruto on the screen who was still spying on Kakashi's hideout.
***
Haruto's eyes suddenly widened as he gained new memories into his mind.
'A seal!?'
'Who sent me this!?'
'Did I complete a mission?'
'No… Wait a second! Was it the Dark God!?'
'Is this…!!!'
'Is this a counter seal to the Cursed Tongue Eradication seal!?'
'What happened, Haruto?' Megumin asked immediately once she noticed Haruto's countenance change.
'I received information about a seal all of a sudden!?'
'A seal?' Edward asked, puzzled.
'Yes! A seal! I suspect it's the cursed tongue eradication seal's counter seal!' Haruto quickly responded.
'Who…' Grindelwald started but Haruto quickly interrupted him with excitement in his tone, 'Who else! It was the Dark God of course!'
Everyone except Megumin in the template inventory space frowned, including Unohana.
'Are you sure it was the Dark God Haruto?' Unohana asked softly as the frown on her face eased, 'Wouldn't the Dark God have contacted you through the 'system' you have instead of directly bestowing you with memories?'
Haruto was suddenly stumped by the question.
'But he sent me memories about the Shadow Clone jutsu too previously…' Haruto tried to argue and found himself becoming rapidly unsure as a different question struck his mind which he asked everyone, 'Why would the Dark God only give me the information about the cursed tongue eradication seal's counter now? Why not when I was first implanted with the seal? That too when I don't have any sealing knowledge and don't know how to perform any of this?'
Everyone in the Template Inventory Space remained silent. Not pondering about the answer, since they already had a preliminary individual answer but Megamind pushed Haruto's question a bit further.
'Each time the entity called the Dark God only sent you memories that pertain to this world's power system instead of helping you out directly.'
That was when Haruto's gaze fell on Tsunade once again.
'Is somebody else watching me?'
'Like you guys?'
'Watching me and when they realised I could pass on this information to Tsunade… they gave me this cursed tongue eradication seal counter seal?'
As Haruto spoke those words he suddenly felt more sure of his deduction than before.
'There is no Dark God… is there…'
'Or even if he exists… he probably doesn't care about someone as insignificant as me…'
'Possible.' Grindelwald confirmed softly but he too had a frown on his face like Haruto.
Haruto didn't say anything for a few seconds, mulling over his new found discovery as he thought of all the times he'd prayed in the Shrine of the Dark God for saving him since a few months ago and felt sorrowful.
'So… Do I have to give this information to Tsunade? So that she can improve her seal?' Haruto asked the inhabitants of his Template Inventory Space.
'It's up to you Haruto-kun…' Unohana said with a soft smile. 'After all… the method you employ to give her the information could be used as a way to save yourself from your memories being searched through.'
'Ho-' Haruto was about to ask but then paused as he realised that he had the perfect way to deliver the information to Tsunade without anyone realising that he was the one doing so.
And if he was clever about it, he could even add a line or two in the end about him being innocent to ward of any suspicion they might have about him.
So Haruto finally frowned, pondering if he should give Tsunade the information about the counter seal or not.
After some thinking, Haruto made a clear decision, 'Alright… I'll give her the knowledge… but…'
Haruto smirked evilly and dove towards Tsunade.
Tsunade froze for a second as she felt a shiveringly cold chill pass over her spine before she heard a soft almost inaudible click echo in her ears.
"Did you hear that Shizune?" Tsunade immediately asked while looking at Shizune.
Shizune looked at Tsunade…
Tsunade quickly turned around to look in the direction Shizune was looking and became stunned!
Because Shizune wasn't looking at Tsunade herself, she was looking at her body! Tsunade had somehow slipped out of the shell of her body!
"This… How!!??"
Tsunade dove towards her body in an attempt to capture it once again but failed and only passed through it swiftly.
"What the hell!!!!"
Haruto in Tsunade's body then looked up into the air, straight at Tsunade and smirked.
"You evil spirit!!! Give me back my body!!!!" Tsunade screamed!
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