Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode.

Chapter 19 Progress

One month later, in Konoha, at a training ground north of the Uchiha clan's territory.

Two six-year-old children, a boy and a girl, are engaged in a fierce battle.

The boy had the advantage in speed, but all of his close-range and ranged attacks were either dodged or blocked by the girl, preventing him from inflicting any effective damage on her.

With his superior speed, the boy maintained absolute initiative in the battle, constantly launching attacks and suppressing the girl, giving her no chance to form hand seals.

In response, the girl calmly watched the boy's movements with her special eyes, which had two tomoe on them, clearly seeing all his attacks, and then dodging or blocking them in advance, not giving him a chance to hurt her.

"The movements have slowed down."

After a few minutes of this back-and-forth, the girl suddenly sneered.

As she spoke, she nimbly sidestepped the boy's punch, then quickly grabbed his arm and used the momentum to throw him violently into the air.

The next moment, she quickly formed hand seals and spat out a large fireball at the boy who was in mid-air.

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.

The fireball struck the boy and engulfed him.

But what ultimately fell from the sky was just a piece of charred wood.

Clearly, at the crucial moment, the boy used a substitution technique to avoid the attack.

Upon seeing this, Chizuru quickly scanned her surroundings with her Sharingan. With the Sharingan, she could clearly see the flow of chakra within others. She quickly spotted Kirito hiding in the bushes and decisively threw out two senbon needles.

"Ding ding".

Kirito knocked the senbon down with a kunai, and then instantly unleashed a speed twice as fast as before.

Chizuru's expression immediately turned extremely serious. She stared intently at Kirito with her Sharingan, trying to see Kirito's movements clearly.

With the power of her two-tomoe Sharingan, she was able to see clearly, but found that her body couldn't keep up.

She was eventually hit by Kirito's punch.

With a loud "bang".

Kirito watched as Chizuru, whom he had knocked away, turned into a piece of wood. He then quickly performed a series of backflips on the ground, dodging several senbon needles. He looked at Chizuru standing in a tree not far away and sighed, "Let's call it a day. I'm almost out of energy, and your Sharingan is almost useless too. How about a draw?"

"Hmph, dream on. My chakra can at least keep the Sharingan active for at least a minute or allow me to use the Substitution Jutsu twice. Your ability to burst out instantly is no longer usable, so I won this battle."

Chizuru completely rejected Kirito's suggestion, staring at him coldly with her Sharingan.

"You can't count it that way. I still have plenty of chakra. Even if I can't unleash my full speed anymore, I'm still faster than you. That's enough for me to keep going until you can no longer use the Sharingan. I'm doing this for your own good."

Kirito, being the kind of person who doesn't give up easily, retorted.

"Stop talking nonsense, if you're not convinced, come at me again."

Chizuru frowned and let out a loud shout.

She forcefully flung out two senbon needles, which shot towards Kirito.

And so, their battle resumed.

A minute later, both of them lay on the ground, panting heavily.

Kirito had several senbon needles stuck in his hands and feet, and was bleeding profusely, while Chizuru's arm was abnormally bent.

"Damn it, you actually coated these senshu with paralyzing poison! Was it really necessary?"

Kirito felt the injured area rapidly losing sensation and rolled his eyes.

Upon hearing this, Chizuru smiled slightly, suppressing the dizziness caused by excessive chakra depletion, and struggled to her feet. She then placed a foot on Kirito's face and said happily, "I won this time, are you convinced?"

"Yes, yes, you won. Hurry up and give me the antidote and treatment."

Kirito reluctantly accepted the reality.

At the same time, he was already cursing in his mind.

"You wretched woman, you only improved so quickly in such a short time because your Sharingan evolved to the two-tomoe stage. Just you wait, I'll get my revenge on you sooner or later."

Since Chizuru's Sharingan evolved to the two-tomoe stage, her Sharingan's observational abilities have been further enhanced, and her chakra has more than doubled in just one month, steadily reaching the level of a normal Chunin. Naturally, her strength has improved by leaps and bounds.

Kirito's strength has improved a lot in the past month, but not nearly as much as Chizuru's. In addition, due to his lack of offensive methods and his repeated battles with Chizuru, he will be in trouble if Chizuru replaces his trump card, Natural Energy, with a Substitution Jutsu.

This has resulted in fewer and fewer wins against Chizuru in the past month, and her win rate has started to decline sharply.

However, he also gained a lot from his fight with Chizuru.

Chizuru trained with strong members of the Uchiha clan every day, and through frequent battles with Chizuru, his combat skills improved continuously.

Seeing Kirito admit defeat, Chizuru moved her foot away and then made a gesture towards the sky with her uninjured hand. A woman in medical attire quickly appeared in front of Chizuru.

Sakura Uchiha, Chizuru's personal medical assistant.

"Sister Sakura, please come and detoxify me quickly! I feel numbness in my body below the head."

As soon as Sakura Uchiha appeared, Kirito immediately spoke to her solicitously.

Since Chizuru helped him last time, his relationship with Chizuru has become much closer, and they have been training together frequently for the past month.

During the process, the two naturally got injured frequently.

It was at this time that Kirito met Sakura Uchiha, and was introduced to medical ninjutsu for the first time, which made him very interested in it.

"Sakura, help him heal."

Chizuru instructed Sakura Uchiha.

"Yes, Lady Chizuru, but please let me heal your wounds first."

Upon hearing the order, Sakura Uchiha glanced at Kirito, who was looking at her with great interest. Finding that Kirito was not in immediate danger, she immediately looked away and smiled at Chizuru.

As Chizuru's personal medical ninja, her priority was naturally to treat Chizuru.

Chizuru had no objections and allowed Sakura Uchiha to help her with the bone setting and treatment.

Kirito watched the healing process intently from the side.

Sakura Uchiha was an excellent medical ninja with strong chakra control. She quickly finished treating Chizuru and reminded her, "Lady Chizuru, just to be on the safe side, you should avoid using this hand for training for the next few days."

"I see."

Chizuru replied dismissively.

Seeing this, Sakura Uchiha knew that Chizuru hadn't taken her words to heart and wanted to say a few more words, but she noticed that Kirito had suddenly fainted, so she quickly went to check on him.

"Sakura, what's wrong with him?"

Chizuru was startled and asked nervously.

"No problem, he was just too tired and fell asleep."

Sakura Uchiha quickly checked on Kirito and found that he was just asleep, giving Chizuru a reassuring look.

Upon hearing this and seeing Kirito begin to make snoring noises, Chizuru quickly realized something. Her Sharingan, which had been closed, opened again, and she looked at Kirito with some anger, feeling an urge to punch him awake.

But seeing Kirito fast asleep, she held back, muttering, "That damned guy, he actually dared to fight me."

Meanwhile, in the study of the Nawaki family's house in the Senju clan's territory.

Nawaki looked at Mito, who was smiling at him, and said somewhat fearfully, "Grandma Mito, I didn't know he was using shadow clones to teach."

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(End of this chapter)