Yeah, me too.

I guess we'll just have to leave him to it.

Oh, I was experimenting some - I can still make shadow clones, but they act like temporary controlled bodies, so I have to peel off a main power and can see through their eyes. I can only hit a maximum of six controlled bodies including clones.

Huh, that's an interesting limitation to come bundled with it. Means Naruto wouldn't get along that well with it.

Yeah. He really likes spamming shadow clones. Doesn't impact me - I have trouble with more than four clones anyways.

Then you are on a conveniently efficient frontier!

Yeah. I'm considering talking to a few people to see if I can't get permission to use their genetics for new bodies. Being consistently multiple places might be useful.

I'm planning on testing if there's a close range soon, too. Going to leave the controlled body here with the snakes monitoring, in case my control cuts off outside of the range.

What's the advantage of varied genetics?

Access to different bloodlines that might combine well with the Rinnegan, mostly, or that it'd be good to have more of.

Makes sense. I can do basement dwellers that look like you but are genetically different, if that's desirable.

Yeah, that would be. Looking like Hashirama would be weird.

So weird!

I'll talk to him about genetic copying, then.

Keep me posted.

Will do.

And, shortly thereafter:

I think Hashirama's discovered how to bounce at people through email. Or at least the use of the '!' button. But he said yes to genetic copying, so.

It's fun to watch written language morph to have as much depth as spoken can! Do you want the body now?

Sure. My apartment good for you? I think original body needs to do this...

Coming!

Cam appears presently. Knock knock.

His original body opens the door.

"Hey."

"Hey! Where do you want it?"

He indicates an open area in his living room.

Body! Looks like Sasuke but is secretly Hashirama.

Body is shortly hijacked by Sasuke.

He stands up, blinks a few times, and says, "I have a plant sense."

"Ooh, what's that like?"

"I can feel every plant in - I'm not sure the radius, this doesn't have distance units attached, but definitely around this building - and how healthy they are, and if I know what they are already I can recognize them... I think there's also some other details that if I asked Hashirama for botany lessons would tell me what the plants actually do... I'm pretty sure I'll also be able to tell the difference between power-grown plants and natural plants. I can feel a sort of weird glow around Hashirama's entire garden."

"That's neat! I assume it also has practical uses."