Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 25 Shadow Clone

At this moment, inside the dojo of Uchiha Toshiro's family, a figure was wielding swords with both hands, repeatedly swinging them at a dummy. As time passed, the sounds of the iron swords clashing against the wooden puppet became continuous, like a storm.

He didn't know any swordsmanship, such as the quick draw slash or iaido. He had heard of them but didn't know the specific methods of training them. He didn't care. He just practiced the basic swordsmanship taught by his clan repeatedly, emphasizing speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness in every move.

Suddenly, a whooshing sound rang out as a wooden sphere the size of an egg shot towards Toshiro's back, just as he was about to unleash a powerful sword strike. His old strength had dissipated, and new strength had yet to arise.

Seemingly anticipating this, Toshiro remained calm. His arm, gripping the sword, twitched slightly, pulling back gently. With a clang, the sphere collided violently with the hilt. Easily deflecting the attack, he paid it no heed and continued wielding his longsword against the dummy.

After a while, another whooshing sound came hurtling through the air from the side and front, this time at just the right moment. It was precisely when he thrust his sword at the dummy in front of him, unable to change his attack mid-strike. He twisted his waist and lowered his head, abandoning the attack. Once again, he successfully dodged the incoming sphere.

This was a new training method he had arranged for himself. He couldn't remember which report he'd read about in his past life, but a world swimming champion's coach would constantly create various accidents for him during training. Things like his goggles suddenly leaking water or his swimsuit suddenly tearing, one after another, were all designed to hone his ability to handle unexpected situations during competitions.

Inspired by this, he would create a shadow clone during each of his taijutsu or swordsmanship training sessions. Wielding a crossbow specially ordered from Uchiha Teppei, the clone would silently launch a wooden ball at himself. Sometimes, he would even tamper with his own iron sword or dummy. This was all to hone his skills and prepare him for unexpected attacks in battle.

Even his daily morning run involves planning routes from different angles within the woods. This allows him to continuously adapt and achieve more significant training results by running and jumping at high speeds in new environments.

In his view, this was absolutely necessary. Ninja battles were always unexpected, full of surprise and uncertainty. Their high attack, high agility, and low defense characteristics led ninjas to tend to deceive their opponents and launch surprise attacks in order to achieve a fatal blow.

It's unclear whether his rigorous training in recent years has unleashed his body's hidden potential, or whether his daily morning meditation has brought him closer to nature.

When he first started this training, he would often be hit by the ball. Even when he deliberately chose fleshy areas, it still caused him great pain.

Gradually, Uchiha Toshiro felt that he seemed to have developed some sensory abilities. Every time the wooden spheres attacked him, he seemed to anticipate them as if by telepathy. Even when he was running in the morning, he could sometimes sense something amiss in the forest. However, the range was still very low, only sensing things within three to five meters in front of and around him.

As for why he chose a wooden sphere instead of a sharp object like a kunai, he's not a masochist. Even if a wooden kunai were fired from a crossbow, it would still cause injury and bleeding.

After nearly an hour of swordsmanship training, Uchiha Toshiro took a big gulp of salt water to replenish his body's nutrients.

At the same time, he couldn't help but secretly complain that the shadow clone was really too cunning. It tampered with the dummy, almost slapping him over just now; was it trying to give him a huge slap in the face?

[I'm the real thing, okay? Have you even considered how the real person feels about this...?]

Thankfully, the shuriken-throwing training was recently canceled, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to handle it!

He believes that shuriken are only useful for genin and chunin levels. Once you reach jonin, or even kage level and super kage, they are basically useless.

As for the Uchiha's famous "Shurikenjutsu" (shuriken technique), well, that's the technique Itachi used in the original work when he was showing off, where he made kunai or shuriken collide in mid-air to change their trajectory and attack the enemy.

Let's wait until the Sharingan is activated before trying it.

Speaking of the Sharingan, he wanted to complain again. Don't other people who transmigrate awaken their Sharingan immediately? Awakening it at two or three years old is common, four or five is basic. But he has nothing. Seriously, this is enough. He must have transmigrated into a fake time machine (⊙o⊙)

[Was it because chakra hadn't been refined yet back then?]

I lay in the living room on a specially made rocking chair, rocking back and forth while letting my mind wander.

"They're here!"

Suddenly, a flood of information rushed into his mind. Along with it came a faint sense of weariness. He glanced at the clock in the living room; the hands pointed to 11:50.

Just ten minutes ago, the ninja academy finished its morning classes. The shadow clones also found a secluded spot and dissipated on their own.

At this moment, the information stream he was receiving was the knowledge his shadow clone had learned throughout the morning at school. Of course, it wasn't the knowledge from the classroom, but rather a book he had brought with him that explained medical ninjutsu and training methods in detail.

After learning the Shadow Clone Technique and experimenting several times, he had gained a general understanding of his compatibility with this ninjutsu. Thanks to his transmigration and the Uchiha surname, his spiritual energy was outstanding, both within his clan and among his peers—almost two to three times that of them.

Even his physical energy is much stronger than that of his peers, but the strength is ultimately limited. He is vastly different from Senju and Uzumaki, these physical freaks.

If the use of Shadow Clone Techniques lasts too long or involves too much activity, the accumulated fatigue will be too much for his body to handle. However, the mental aspect is much easier. The knowledge he learned in the morning floods into his mind through Shadow Clone Techniques, and although there will be some fatigue, a short nap will basically solve the problem.

Therefore, the method of using his shadow clones became clear. Tasks like learning new knowledge, training chakra nature transformation, attending academic classes at the ninja academy, and assisting with his own training—activities that weren't physically strenuous—were all handled by the shadow clones. He himself, on the other hand, focused on strengthening his physical body.

After all, not everyone is like Naruto Uzumaki. He received the Yang Release chakra leaked from the Nine-Tails from a young age, which modified his body. At only twelve or thirteen years old, he could easily create two or three thousand shadow clones. Just thinking about it, he's truly a monster.

(End of this chapter)