My ninjutsu is not right

Chapter 2 Wonderful Effects

"My ninjutsu is ten or even nine points wrong."

Link sat back on the bed, thinking with an odd expression.

It had been two minutes since he had performed his first ninjutsu. Since he could not extract much chakra from his own body, his clone jutsu only lasted about ten seconds before it was over.

After the clone technique is over, no matter where the body parts are, everything will pop back to where the head is.

Well, so he was lying on the ground the moment the clone technique ended. Now that he thinks about it, his neck still feels a little sore because of the strange posture.

According to the scroll, the clone technique is to use chakra to create an illusion that is exactly the same as yourself to interfere with vision.

He followed the hand seals and chakra flow strictly according to what was written on the scroll. He had read it over and over again for four or five years. How could he have remembered it wrong?

But...why is it wrong?
Link scratched his scalp. This inexplicable thinking made him feel that a large number of his brain cells were dying.

"It's not that there are no benefits." He looked down at his intact nails. If his memory was correct, his nails should have broken and bled from poking the ground just now.

Now even the pain seems like an illusion.

He rubbed his fingers together, feeling an inexplicable phantom pain, refined his chakra, and formed seals again.

That strange feeling came to my heart again.

"As long as I relax a little, my body will separate." Link quickly grasped his own feeling and discovered the mystery of his "clone technique".

After being released, his limbs, head, and torso were separated physically, and they were all held together by his intention to use force. If he relaxed for a moment or had the intention of not using force, the parts would fall off.

"Sa!"

He held his left arm with his right hand and swung it a bit. It was quite convenient to use, especially after he clenched his left hand into a fist. It felt like his attack range had increased by an arm's length!
An inch longer is an inch stronger!
"boom!"

Smoke rose, the clone technique ended, and Link reassembled. He pondered for a moment and sat back on the bed. With his physical fitness just reaching the standard for refining chakra, he could still withstand refining the clone technique twice in a row. If he used more chakra at once...

He tried to extract more chakra and continued to make seals.

Feeling that parts of his body were about to fall apart again, he took out a kunai and cut his arm, causing blood to flow.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds...

One minute!

"boom!"

"Hu~" Link took a deep breath, a little out of breath. It was okay. If he kept using the clone technique, he could last five minutes before collapsing.

"But the most important thing is——"

He looked at his bronze arm. The scratches that should have appeared on it were gone, and even the blood had stopped flowing.

"The biggest benefit of this literal clone technique is probably that it can erase the wound when it is canceled."

Link was a little excited. It didn't matter if the clone technique became strange. The most important thing was that it had a strong effect. Now it looked like a small Izanami. At least the scratches could be wiped out directly.

"Wait, I think I'm in trouble."

He was getting more and more happy, and suddenly he found something interesting.

If the clone jutsu he released was this thing, then how could he enter the ninja school?

Link covered his face, feeling mixed emotions for a moment, unable to express himself. After a while, he calmed down and consoled himself, "Maybe this is my cheat. Maybe I can develop some other more powerful functions. I can use other ninjutsu when I enter school. A clone jutsu is nothing..."

"..."

Then he had a subtle premonition that if the clone jutsu was like this when it was released correctly, the other ninjutsu might not be any better.

Link took a deep breath, lowered his gaze, and found the second-ranked ninjutsu—

Transformation.

Among the three body techniques, the clone technique is the simplest. It uses chakra to create an intangible image. Even among the basic ninjutsu, it is the simplest and has almost no difficulty. Even if you are self-taught in ninjutsu without any guidance, you will be able to use it after practicing for a while.

The transformation jutsu is a ninjutsu that is only more difficult than the clone jutsu, so it is placed second in the scroll. The effect is no longer purely illusory, but involves slight changes to the body.

After all, the clone technique can only create an illusion of yourself, while the transformation technique can actually disguise yourself as someone else, in terms of height, weight, voice, or even go further and transform into an animal, plant, or weapon, which a simple illusion cannot do.

But it is only at the level of changing appearance and deceiving, and does not involve too much change in the body. It is more of a part simulated by chakra, so it is one of the lowest level ninjutsu.

"What should it become..."

Link thought that compared to the Clone Technique, which only required creating an illusion of himself, the Transformation Technique required more thought and preparation.

There is no difficulty in releasing the Three Body Technique. To be more precise, there is no difficulty in releasing it, but whether it can be successful depends entirely on yourself.

Both the Genin certification exam and the Ninja School graduation exam use the simplest clone technique to successfully release as the standard, which shows Konoha's attitude towards Genin.

As long as you successfully perform the lowest and simplest ninjutsu, you will become a Genin.

Because the missions that Genin can take do not include the presence of ninjas. D-level missions are picking up trash, looking for cats and dogs, helping with farming and harvesting... Do such missions require any kind of world-destroying ninjutsu?
Being able to successfully perform ninjutsu means that one's physical fitness has met the standards. Among ninjas, no matter how strong or weak they are, they are definitely qualified as laborers.

"Just become like the dead dad."

Link thought about it, determined the direction of transformation, and recalled in his mind the appearance, height, and vest of his father in this life...

Refining chakra and making seals.

Nothing happened.

"Strange." This time he carefully observed the flow of chakra. At the moment of releasing the ninjutsu, the chakra extracted for releasing the ninjutsu was directly consumed out of thin air.

Where it went and how it worked are completely unknown, it is a pure black box, but in theory it should have been released completely.

Even if it was a failed transformation, the body surface should have changed. Why did nothing happen?
Could it be——

Following the idea of the previous clone technique, Link pondered for a moment, looked at his palm, and thought about turning it into a long sword. The next second, his arm began to deform, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a long sword with a cold glow.

There is no sense of incongruity where the handle guard connects to the shoulder, as if they were naturally connected together.

After trying a few more times, after about thirty seconds, the effect of the ninjutsu disappeared and it returned to its original state.

"I knew it……"

He sighed deeply. Transformation technique, transformation technique, it is indeed used to change the body, the head cannot be changed at all.

Probably the same thing with the substitution technique.

(End of this chapter)