The Immortal Sage

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto and I am Ye Mo's student" Naruto introduced himself to the beautiful teenage girl who seemed to be 15 years old.

'She reminds me of Shizune, appearance and the field of work.'

"Oh, Master Ye Mo's student. You must be special for him to take you in as he had always been busy with exploring the surrounding regions." Yang Xin said with a curious look on her face as she analyzed Naruto

'Silver rank soul force but cultivation of bronze rank, I can see why he is special. Even silver rank for a kid that age is too much, he is already stronger than me in soul strength.' Yang Xin hid her shock and annoyance at being beaten by a kid

"Thank you for the praise but would you mind explaining a little bit about alchemy." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head with happiness at being complimented

Ye Han on the other felt embarrassed standing close to him, 'This guy is too naïve or what, Is he happy with just a simple praise from a stranger.'

"Okay, we are looking for talents to join us so I hope you can try as well. Alchemy is an art that involves the use of herbs and body parts of demonic beasts to create potions or artifacts. It is a quite complex art as any minor change might involve losing all the hard work so it is required to know the herbs, there qualities and how to control flames." Yang Xin explained with an excited tone which showed her love for the art

"Okay, okay. He got it. You said you got something, can you show us?" Ye Han quickly interrupted her as he knew she won't stop talking about alchemy unless someone stopped her.

'Fine you brat. I am working on food pill that would provide the required nutrients and last long, it is my first original work." She said proudly

"Are you sure you didn't just take the idea from some old doc.u.ments?" Ye Han looked at her suspiciously as he knew people did that many times

"No, maybe. Okay I only got some fragment of it from old doc.u.ments but the formula was incomplete so it is my work in the end and I just got inspired." She said with a controlled

"Wasn't that better, no need to lie." Ye Han said with a smile and laughed at her expression

'Are they really so backwards, isn't that food pill thing ancient stuff? Even I can make it, I wish I knew more but other than the some basic knowledge about medical studies I know nothing.' Naruto thought and wished once again that it would have so much better if Tsunade had taught him

'Even her jutsu was cool and I might have learned so much with her. Mean look at Sakura, she wasn't close to my strength but after the journey she was almost equal.'

Before Yang Xin might beat up Ye Han, Naruto interjected, "Can you show us? I might decide to take up Alchemy, if the live performance catches my interest."

"Hmm, okay. I am free right now and was about to make the pills so it doesn't matter if you watch but as you have the opportunity to observe, don't waste it." Yang Xin said as she walked to the lab connected to her room and the boys followed.

"We won't" Naruto said with an excited tone

"I am not interested" Ye Han muttered in a low voice, scared of being heard

Inside the lab many types of equipment were put in orderly manner unlike the office and at the center was a furnace.

"Watch me" She muttered as she got to work, mixing herbs together plus a demon beast core and putting everything in the furnace to finalize it into pills.

The process took 20 min in which Naruto lost his concentration many times, 'This takes too long, I don't think I can do this. Or is it because I am watching, I don't remember being so bored when I tried making it.' Naruto thought as his senses were on full drive to see for any problems

'There are problems with the furnace and the flames are not completely right either, they damaged the herbs. Man this is definitely pointlessly complicated process for a simple thing, should I help her?' Naruto thought as he watched Yang Xin focus on her work.

"Done" She said excitedly as 4 pills popped out into the container she had ready

"These are not the best quality but still should provide the required affects and best thing is that the ingredients are cheap. How about you guys try it out? You seem to have been training so need energy to replenished so try it for free." She said with a smile as she extended the bottle

"No way" Ye Han said as he escaped while Naruto was astonished at the exaggerated reaction, 'Is her experimental medicine that terrible?'

"Damn that brat, how about you Naruto. Please try it out." Yang Xin cursed before turning to Naruto and smiling at him sweetly that he gulped and took the risk

'Sucker'

Naruto took out a pill and gulped it down; he felt his body energized way more than it should so he knew it worked.

'It's affect is lower than the soldier pill but it's appropriate for a first of its kind.'

"How is it?"

"It works but tastes horrible" Naruto muttered and as he was about to continue, he felt his stomach churn and he ran out of the room. Jumping from the window and he collapsed to the ground, vomiting everything he had today.

'I should have expected something bad when Ye Han escaped.'

Yang Xin followed him down with some pills for stomach problems and water, "I am truly sorry, I thought it would be perfect this time. Here have this, it should help." She said in a worried tone while passing the medicine to him.

Naruto cleaned up and gurgled first, then took the pill which helped calm down his stomach. 'It felt like the day when I drank expired milk.'

He took a breath and stood up to the worried gaze of Yang Xin, "Please don't hate me, I am sorry." She said cutely with guilt as she realized that doing that to strangers was just bad without them knowing of such consequences.

"Fooh, okay. But there is no next time." Naruto said with a smile as he didn't hold grudges over such things

"Thanks, I will definitely try. I will tell if I am not confident but it will be the choice of the person."

"That's good enough. Seeing you make the pills, I found places which need to be fixed. Also I don't think you should be adding the core inside, it would have done without it."

Yang Xin listened carefully to him though she didn't take it seriously as he was just a kid without any background but she knew people can see things even without having knowledge.

"So what were the problems?" She asked curiously

"The furnace has cracks inside which disturb the heat and the fire was not used in the best manner." Naruto said in a confident tone

"How can you know that?" She asked suspiciously, 'Does he think I would just listen to some nonsense.'

"It's hard to explain so let me show you. I will make the pill and you can check it out." Naruto said with a meaningful smile

'Does he want revenge?'

"Okay, I will let you do it as I kind of own you one." Yang Xin said after a moment

Naruto nodded and they both jumped to the room, walking inside the room Naruto showed her the cracks in the furnace.

"Do you want to use another one?" Yang Xin enquired as she understood that this might cause problems, 'I can't believe I had been careless in its maintenance.'

"No, it will do" Naruto said as he started working on making it, he gathered the herbs and cut them. Mixed them and finally put them in order inside the furnace while controlling the flames accurately as his senses were focused on the inside.

Within minutes the process was finished and 6 pills popped out, "See they look a lot better, how about trying one?" Naruto said as he took one and offered the others to Yang Xin who was shocked by his performance.

'Who taught him, he seemed too natural?' Yang Xin thought after seeing Naruto's performance

She accepted the pills which looked to be higher quality than hers and ate it; she felt fully energized and no bad taste.

"It has a side effect, after three days you will be completely exhausted but before that you will always be energized." Naruto said as he looked at her with a smirk

"Oh, you got me." Even though she had been tricked she couldn't muster up that resistance, she understood that this pill was very important and a kid had just made it.

"Naruto how about working with me in your free time, we can find and make new medicine which will save the world." Yang Xin said as she put her hands on his shoulders with a look of expectation

"Only when I have time, I will help" Naruto consented as he also knew the advantages of this art and as he was not as powerful as before he couldn't handle everything

"That's good enough; with your talent who knows how much ground we can cover." She said as she hugged him

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Naruto walked out of the Association after talking about medical herbs with Yang Xin, 'At least some of your training helped Master and I might have scored.' He smiled at the idea as he was just jokingly considering it but then he remembered, 'I really should consider it, last time I didn't love anyone and died alone with no family.'

'Yes, I will definitely make sure to have girlfriend this time and marry before twenty.' Naruto decided on another objective for his new life as life without a partner can be empty sometimes and with others it becomes colorful.

It was getting dark so he returned home without making any detours, as he entered his room Naruto once again proceeded to empty his reservoirs. He also decided to do the chakra strings trick as it could be used for offensive purposes along with controlling the elements.

'Just like I thought, my control over flames and ice is exceptional.' He concluded as both elements came to him very easily but without much chakra he couldn't do anything big with it.

'It's good that meeting the sage made it so I can do any jutsu I can imagine.' Naruto smiled in excitement as it finally sunk into his mind what that meant.

He sat down while tiny fire birds flew around him while icicles floated over his finger tips; he remembered Haku and decided to copy it. He imagined the ice turning into mirrors which can transmit things between them and he threw an icicle through one, it proceeded to come out of the other one but it took a toll on his reserves.

Naruto collapsed to the floor in pain as his chakra fell like a boulder in water, stopping at the final point.

"Ughh" He g.r.o.a.n.e.d as he thought it was fortunate that he had taken two pills before this act of stupidity.

'Now I understand why he said it was so chakra heavy' Naruto thought to Haku's words when he was beating the shit out of them

"Master, it is time for dinner" His maid called out to him from outside

"Okay, I am coming" Naruto said as he got up from the floor and dusted his clothes.

He washed up and walked out the room, heading towards the dining room where the family gathered together. It was the only time the family was together and everyone made sure to keep this time empty of any other appointments.