Name: Kongou, spelled with kanji for "Indestructible"
Real Name: Konstance Yukira
Status: Konoha Ninja Academy Student
Clan Status: Orphan, civilian family
Background: Father originated from Fog Isle, married into Konoha civilian family due to arranged marriage. Nicknamed Kongou due to her ability to survive childhood accident, also because her birth name is unwieldy when using standard alphabet systems.
Special Skills: high stamina and recovery noted. Upper average skills in taijutsu. Grades in ninjutsu are in lower half of class. Ability to dispel genjutsu is highest in class, ability to use genjutsu tested but average.
At time of acquisition, building owned by subject was completely destroyed. Kongou herself suffered severe injuries, initial medical analysis indicated that she should have died from shock and blood loss even if injuries were not life-threatening.
Genetic analysis indicates possible kekkei genkai related to physical durability or fortitude.
Testing of capabilities of Fab device commenced at 1630 hours. Initial use of device was to build stabilizing life support apparatus. Such was completed by 2130 hours, and in future priority on building a larger device for interface was noted by project manager.
At 2315, rest period initiated. Note was made of severe mental fatigue by operator of Fab device.
0900 hours, activities restarted in improvised operating room within Hokage tower. Medical personnel present were Chunin Yamashiro, Tokubetsu Jonin Morino, and Tokubetsu Jonin Uruhara. Replaced by medic-nin Aoshima, Nanabe, and Beru at 1300 hours.
Replacement of damaged internal organs with biosystem replacements completed at 1350. Reinforcement of skeletal structure began at 1450 with the use of temporary patches that will eventually be absorbed by natural bone structures. Fatigue noted again in operator of Fab device, particularly mental strain. Operations stopped at 1630 to allow for patient and fabricator operator to recover. Suggestion in future is for operator of Fab device to operate device for no longer than four continuous hours before enforced rest period.
"I could really use a cuppa," said Kongou, trying to focus on the ceiling.
"How do you feel?" asked one of the doctors, an old guy that had to be the Hokage's age.
"Mostly numb, I guess," admitted Kongou. "So, what's next?"
"Continuing to reinforce your existing skeletal structure and connecting tissue, apparently the replacement limbs will otherwise place too great a stress on your body," said the medic-nin. "The eye is apparently very tricky, and will be replaced at the end of repairs."
"You make it sound like I'm a ship being put in drydock," said Kongou.
"In some ways, the process DOES remind me of something along those lines," admitted the medic-nin. "Your father came from Fog Island, is that right?"
"Yes, 'from the land of lemon curd and crumble', as he used to say," admitted Kongou.
"I'll see what I can come up with," said the medic-nin.
"Cream and lemon would be quite nice," said Kongou.
"Process took two weeks to complete, Hokage-sama," said Doctor Nanabe. "I request that Uzumaki-san be given access to whatever resources are necessary for him to build a larger device for creating larger parts. AFTER he's recovered from his efforts regarding patient Kongou."
"Interesting," said the Hokage. "So, the operation was a success?"
"Yes, though some of her enhancements require further development by Uzumaki-san." Doctor Nanabe nodded to where the girl was exercising in the courtyard. "She's still having trouble adapting, but she understands that permanent replacements have to wait until she's gotten to her full growth. Those, I'm told, will more completely resemble normal human flesh."
"In the meantime she has a chance of continuing and even advancing her ninja career," said the Hokage. "What about the eye?"
"Acts like a normal human eye, except that it apparently gives her some ability to see in very little light," said Doctor Nanabe. The medic-nin shrugged slightly. "We'll see how well this is tolerated. I've heard of Suna puppet-masters who have dabbled in replacement limbs, and apparently there are some cases where the natural body rejects such additions."
Since the Fabricator Primary Emergency Interface had contacted him, Naruto had been experiencing something he'd NEVER even thought would ever happen.
With the metal bracer woven around his left forearm, it had also put something IN him. Since then, all he had to do was look at something and just THINK a question - and information started appearing in his vision.
If he looked at an object - he could get more information than he could about people. He could find out what it was made of, how it was made, what it was used for, and compare it to other things designed for the same purpose.
With people, he got information of another kind.
The device learned too. What had originally been "stabilized space/time anomaly" was now "fuuinjutsu - sealing type" or "fuuinjutsu - explosive type" and would update itself as other types were explained in front of it.
Naruto observed one thing, learned about it, asked questions, got more answers, and that often led to more questions. This left him seeming to be daydreaming at odd points. It also led him to learning things faster and faster as he adapted to this new style of learning.
When he asked about people, he COULD get information on their bodies.
[Anomaly - physical structures of eye are atypical of human species.]
[Displaying eye structure.]
[Highlighting anomalies.]
[Affirmative - displaying normal human eye structure.]
[Side by side comparison active.]
"Hey, Sasuke, why does your eye have these structures-"
"Go away, idiot."
[Storing data for later retrieval. Suggesting secondary information source. Displaying physiological data.]
"Hey, Hinata, can I ask you a few questions?"
"Na- Na- Naruto?!"
Well, at least she wasn't blowing him off, figured Naruto.
Space was big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is.
That said, it was almost entirely empty.
These two factors meant that it was both incredibly easy and incredibly difficult to hide something in space.
The factory itself was roughly ninety-five kilometers (95km or 59 miles) wide. In length, from the outermost tip of the "hopper" or acquisition aperature to the communications array at the back near the docking port, was two hundred and fifteen kilometers. (215km or 133 miles). In height, it was also roughly ninety-five kilometers - a bit more if the self defense mass drivers were deployed.
In an Oort Cloud, the masses weren't evenly spaced out as there were clumps of planetoids with hugely staggering amounts of space until you could find the next one.
The factory was near a group of four such things, which were largely ice. Some was water ice, but there were other compounds (ammonia, methane, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, etc) there as well - frozen at a temperature so close to absolute zero as to have very little meaning. The smallest planetoid was roughly three times the size of the factory, while the largest was easily twelve times as large.
Powered down, as it was now, it wouldn't be very easy to find the factory. If powered up and running at full capacity, it would show up on several types of scans - none of which involved the human-visible light frequencies.
The factory was largely powered down. Which meant that automated maintenance went on with its usual schedule, the databases were available to authorized users, and the sensors kept an eye out for UNauthorized users or any kind of unpleasant visitors. When such was detected, the usual response was a brief gravimetric twist as the whatever-it-was became stripped down to the molecular level and then reconfigured as blocks of inert material that were dropped onto the planetoid below.
The Fabber was slightly more active since the battle near the fourth planet. Especially as the two ships had vanished with the emergency interface being on one of them.
Lifesigns on the last user had ceased. A new user had been found and recruited. And things continued to get interesting.
The Fabber decided to try and get the User to build interfaces with better sensors.
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