I was overwhelmed by the lot of informations I got but put it aside and asked" Would it change something to have the rinnegan before or after the perfect sage mode ?" Fukasaku nodded and said" The end result would be the same, but the possession of the rinnegan makes you have a perfect affinity with all elements, so it will be much easier to develop perfect sage body with the rinnegan."

I nodded, and anyway I wanted to do it. But another thing struck me. I asked" You said that the sage mode will be even more difficult to attain, so how much time will I have to stay here ? I have a wife, and I need to be with her.."

Fukasaku smiled again and said" You won't have to stay here long as we won't be able to help you. Here you can learn the neutral sage mode only. You will have to learn it yourself except for the basis that we can help you with." I was happy to that as I was already missing her.

I asked "I heard from Jiraya that learning sage mode is dangerous, then for me to learn five different sage mode, is there any chance to succeed ?" Fukasaku did something that seemed like a shrug and said" It will already be difficult for you to learn any one of them, so the five will be difficult. But there is someone that manadged to do it, someone named Hashirama senju did it.

Although it was different as he fused water and earth to make wood sage mode, he still succeded something as difficult as one of the basic elemental sage mode." I nodded but asked " Why is it only as difficult and not way more ? Because this is the fusion between two elements so it should be more difficult, maybe that could be my fourth stage."

Fukasaku shook his head and said"No it is different from your case. What he did was to make wood release by combining the earth and water chakra, then learn the wood sage mode. That made the purity go down a lot to be only a bit more than neutral chakra, making it only usable on with a limit of time. But because the wood release is very powerful already that makes up for the go down in purity, and makes it very powerful."

I tilted my head and asked" There is a difference between mixing chakra and natural energies?" He strongly nodded" If you mix two types of chakra then it will make an entirely new kind of chakra, like the wood here. But that will weaken its essence, or natural energy. But if you miw natural energies, then something incredible would appear. Of course that only is a guess as nobody ever did it. Nobody ever did master more than three different natural energies, and nobody could mix theirs."

All of this was understable as by only learning the wood sage mode Hashirama senju already became the strongest ninja that ever lived, not taking the sage of six path as he was not a ninja. I processed everything in my head and said "So if If I understand it right then the wood sage mode from Hashirama was so powerful because it did strenghten him as a whole like neutral chakra but it was a better upgradee in power as the purity was better and wood is already a very powerful release ?"

Fukasaku nodded and added" Yes and it even certainly had effects on his body on the longer term, but not like the pure elemental ones."I exclaimed" Yes ! He was reputed for having an awesome regeneration. But does that mean I cannot take Hashirama cells to make the rinnegan ?"

Fukasaku nodded for the n times and said"Yes if you takes his cells into your body then it will destroy any chance for you to aquire the others elementals sage modes as your body's natural energy would have been tainted by the impure form him. That goes the same for his direct descendants."

I nodded and knew who I would take the cells from, Tobirama Senju. The toad interupted my thought about the second Hokage by saying" Come now, I will teach you the basis from the sage mode. You will then use them to try upgrading your powers."

We all departed as Jiraya would work on his sage mode while I would be training the basics. We arrived at a very strange place as there were enormous spikes coming from the ground and raising to at least 20 meters. At the base there was rock plates large enough to sit on.

Fukasaku said" We will in fact only train one basic, that is the meditation, as you will need it to recognize the natural energy around. Then you will need to be near an element to sense its natural energy. The easiest will be the wind as it is everywhere, along with neutral natural energy. But only someone who had an initial contact with it like you and your technique will be able to sense it."

I was happy to learn that meditation would be needed. I worked on it very hard like all the Uchiha who awakened the sharingan because of our overwhelming emotions. I said" Venerable Fukasaku, I already kow about meditation."

He was clearly surprised and said" Show me then." I did as I was told and heard Fukasaku voice" Sense around you, you feel all the chakra. Then now try to divide it. You will see that there is a part different from the other.

Indeed as I was trying I suddenly felt a calming force, that seemed a bit more powerful than chakra, that had a bigger presence. I opened my eyes and thus broke my meditation. Although before I needed to meditate to improve my second stage, I never felt the change between chakra and natural energy.

Now that I opened my eyes and looked at Fukasaku. He said" Now choose which one of the elements you want to begin with."