"Lady Sixth."
"Lord Second," Sakura replied stiffly.
After a breakfast of healthy dipping noodles at Ran Ichiraku's, courtesy of Teuchi's daughter Aya, who had rather suddenly developed a streak of health-consciousness after being kidnapped and fattened by cooking-nin from the Land of Lightning, Sakura had decided to visit the village's new research and developnt division, just to make sure they were not cooking up sothing liable to end the world from their side.
Although Tobirama and Orochimaru had both been assigned as commanders of the Sunagakure and Kumogakure defensive lines respectively, the war on those fronts had not yet begun. After all, Danzō had wreaked havoc on their villages as well, and they would not be able to muster an invasion force imdiately; recalling mission shinobi from all over the world would take ti too.
"Ah, Sakura-kun," ca Orochimaru's voice from behind a tall stack of papers, "to what do we owe this visit?"
Currently, the Konoha R&D Division, which would later co to be known as the Ninjutsu Research Centre, was sharing space with the Konoha Cryptanalysis Team inside the new Hokage Residence due to various constraints, which went so way towards explaining the towering stacks of docunts littering the place.
"Er…"
Sakura unconsciously crossed her arms over her voluminous chest as she glanced away from the talking pile of papers back to the Second Hokage, who was staring at her chest with such intensity that she could almost feel his gaze wearing her breasts down to pancakes.
"Extend your arm," Tobirama said abruptly.
A question mark seed to appear above Sakura's head as she cocked it in confusion, but as it seed the Second Hokage would not be much more forthcoming, she decided it would be best to comply… and without warning, the man grabbed her wrist and attempted to stab her with a syringe.
"Eep!" Sakura yelped, twisting her arm to dodge the needle. "What do you think you're doing!?"
"Stop wriggling," Tobirama said severely. "I need to draw so blood."
"I'll do it myself!"
Only one of them was a trained dic-nin, and that person was Sakura herself. She snatched the syringe from Tobirama's hand and stabbed it into her inner arm, easily finding a vein and drawing blood. Without a word, Tobirama took the syringe back and stalked off to the futuristic panel of beeping, booping, flashing electronic equipnt at the back of the room.
"Ah, I see you've noticed our new supercomputer," Orochimaru drawled. "Five gigaflops… that is, five billion floating point operations per second. We'll have your blood analysed in no ti."
"Ooh!" Sakura said, sounding rather impressed. "...but why do you want to analyse my blood?"
Orochimaru was already living inside her cloned body, and furthermore, he was her underling, so she supposed it would be fine… maybe.
"Yes," Orochimaru went on, ignoring Sakura's question. "Five hundred and twelve million bytes of random access mory, and a blisteringly fast processing speed of a hundred and fifty million cycles per second."
In modern computing terms, 512 MB of RAM and a processing speed of 150 MHz. Sakura had not been the biggest of gars in her past life, having mostly played eroge, so she was not particularly up to date with the terminology and specifications of the computers of her era… each of which could outperform Orochimaru's supercomputer a thousand tis over, or more.
"Oooh!" Sakura repeated excitedly, clapping her hands. "That sounds like a lot!"
Tobirama returned a few seconds later.
"Thanks to modern computer technology, the project to map the human geno that I started years ago has made leaps and bounds while I was dead," Tobirama said, glancing coldly in Sakura's direction as though she were nothing more than a frog on his dissection plate. "We shall soon know what makes you tick, and… well, I suppose we'll see soon enough."
[Ding! The Host's body has stabilised. The Spirit World Physique has been enhanced.]
Oh good, the System was responding again.
"While we wait for the supercomputer to analyse your blood, there is sothing I would like to ask you, Sixth," Tobirama added bluntly. "I was looking over your past mission files when I found sothing odd. I have already asked most of your teammates about it, but since they could offer no answers, I am asking you."
Almost as if he were playing J*nga™ (not to be confused with T*nga™) Tobirama retrieved a scroll from the bottom of a precarious pyramid of scrolls, sohow avoiding total structural collapse, and handed it to Sakura. She unfurled it and saw that it was a report of her mission to rescue Gaara from Sunagakure and the Akatsuki.
"A few hours into the mission, all short-range and long-range radio communications mysteriously failed in the mission theatre," Tobirama said. "It may have been the result of the enemy testing a new weapon, so I suggest overhauling our communications to include secondary options, should this weapon be deployed on the battlefield again. The Yamanaka clan would be well suited to transmitting orders psychically, but we would need to build the infrastructure and equipnt necessary to extend their effective range."
As it was, the shinobi world relied mostly on radio transceivers for short-range communications on the battlefield. Tobirama was asking whether she had noticed anything resembling a giant radar dish while fighting in the Land of Rivers.
"Did I see anything out of the ordinary that day?" Sakura said pensively, thinking back to her fight with Sasori. "Not really, and I never actually noticed, because I had destroyed all my gear using… oh."
"Oh?" Orochimaru prompted. "So, you did notice sothing?"
Sakura grinned sheepishly.
"Now that I think about it, it may have been my fault," she said. "To defeat Sasori, I was forced to use my strongest lightning style technique at the ti…"
Sakura described the Lightning Style Rasenchakram to the two scientists.
"Using the Fourth Hokage's jutsu to produce an electromagnetic pulse, eh?" Orochimaru said thoughtfully. "Sakura-kun, this is very promising… you may have just won us the war."
"This would only work once, twice at best… the enemy would adapt," Tobirama said pensively. "Yes, if the enemy commits to a push and we cut off their communications at a critical juncture, we could decisively… yes, that is indeed promising."
DING!
For a second, Sakura thought the sound originated from her System, but Tobirama and Orochimaru looked up as well.
"Sorry, sorry, this one's for !" said Yurika of the Cryptanalysis Departnt as she hurried into the room. "We're trying to decipher a code that the Konoha Intelligence Division found in the head of the Iwa-nin Sakura-chan brought back from Kusagakure, and we've almost cracked it!"
Sakura glanced at Orochimaru. "It's not just a blood analysis machine?"
"The supercomputer can do many other things!" he said defensively.
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