Reaching Immortality (book two)

Chapter 10. The village hidden behind the misfits that can do cool stuff

"And these people volunteer for this?" Minato asked nervously as he watched me transfer the soul of a man into the body of a newly created werewolf.

I had first taken the mans cells along with the cells of a wolf, and isolated the Hashirama cells in my own body to create the new werewolves. I then monitored the growth of the new bodies.

Once again the newly forming bodies had gotten undesired tenants in the form of fresh souls.

To fix that little issue I had to kill the bodies temporarily with an injection.

The souls were evicted soundly.

Afterwards the growth of the bodies continued without any issue.

The first new body had two beautiful wolf ears on its head, silver hair peppered with black strands, a long tail, and claws for finger nails. It's teeth had grown sharp for an all meat diet, while the inside of the body was a delicate mess of human and wolf. It's senses were far more advanced than a wolf's thanks to that.

It was capable of walking on all fours easily, however it could switch to being bipedal if necessary.

The new body was also a toddler.

"The ones who refused are still happily homeless in the villages nearby." I said with a small lift of my shoulder as I finished up the transfer. "Utakata? Could you assist me in disposing of this?"

"Of course Orochimaru-sama." Utakata bowed obediently. I left the deed to him and turned to watch the toddler.

I pulled out a fresh notebook and waited patiently for the werewolf toddler to wake. It took a few tense minutes, but soon the toddler was stirring.

I beckoned Minato over.

Minato nodded and grabbed the steak from the table that had been carefully cut into bite sized pieces and handed it to me before watching the toddler as he slowly sat up and tested his new limbs.

"Akio-kun, any discomfort?"

The toddler gently shook his head. I then handed him the meat and watched as he gobbled it up neatly.

"Excellent." I put my notebook away after jotting down the experiment success then carefully grabbed the toddler from his armpits and placed him on the floor. The toddler looked up at the unfinished meat with sad amber eyes, then took a few unsteady steps towards it before plopping on his ass unceremoniously.

"He's adorable." Minato gushed happily as he quickly went to help the toddler stand.

"Don't patronize me.." the fifty year old turned toddler spat out as he took Minato's hand.

"Hai hai!" Minato grinned as he helped Akio walk around. Akio made a face at Minato, which looked suspiciously like a pout, but allowed Minato to help him walk until he managed to figure it out. He'd get the meat sooner or later.

I wrote a few more things in my notebook then moved on to the next soul transfer. This one was a female that went by the name of Daiki. She had actually made requests on the colours of her coat.

I suppose I had no problems having a purple haired wolf, but I made sure it was a deep violet. Bright colours were just..no.

Once the next transfer was done, I left the pups to Yugito Nii to watch until they were old enough to look out for themselves. She didn't complain much.

"Will you be making the slug people now Orochimaru-sama?" Utakata asked as he peered at me from his hammock. He had happily set it up there from my first day of starting experiments.