Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Even if someone is a piece of trash who has tarnished the family's reputation, you'll still feel heartache when they die.

Chizuru looked at Uchiha Ta, whose eyes remained wide open in death, and murmured.

Although it hurts, she doesn't regret it.

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 to dodge several senbon needles. He looked at Chizuru standing on 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 calculate it like that. I still have a lot of chakra. Even if I can't unleash my full speed anymore, I'm still faster than you. I can 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 senju with paralyzing poison, was that really necessary?"

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

Upon hearing this, Chizuru smiled slightly, enduring the dizziness caused by excessive chakra consumption, and struggled to stand up from the ground. Then, she stepped 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 made such rapid progress 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 Ying, 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 not use this hand to continue 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 snort, Chizuru quickly realized something. Her previously closed Sharingan 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."

Chapter 20: I'll Never Dare Again

"Nawaki, I didn't ask you about that. I asked you, when did Kirito learn Shadow Clone Technique?"

Mito held Nawaki's head in his hand, applying slight pressure, and spoke to Nawaki with a kind smile.

Rope Tree felt like his head was about to explode, and without hesitation, he chose to betray his teammate: "Two weeks ago."

Kirito told him that using the effect of the shadow clones bringing back memories to the original body after they disappear is an efficient way to accelerate training.

Through experimentation, he discovered that this was a training method very suitable for a ninja with a huge amount of chakra like him. However, when the shadow clone disappeared, it would bring back the fatigue along with it, which forced him to often sleep in during class.

However, his training was so effective that he successfully learned several ninjutsu techniques that he had been unable to learn before.

To repay Kirito, he taught him the Shadow Clone Technique.

Since it was originally a family ninjutsu, belonging to him, and not a particularly important ninjutsu, he could teach it to Kirito without needing anyone else's permission.

As a result, after Kirito learned this ninjutsu, his enthusiasm for learning became even more intense than before.

Every day, she splits into three clones to do different things: one stays in the basement of the orphanage to do some strange experiments, one comes to Grandma Mito to learn sealing techniques and read books in the library, one trains in ninjutsu, and her main body attends classes at the ninja academy.

He did this every day, working diligently without fail.

Actually, he wasn't much better, and was even worse. It's just that his enthusiasm for learning (referring to reading books and learning sealing techniques) was not as good as Kirito's, because he had much more chakra than Kirito, and he created more than a dozen clones every day to learn ninjutsu and taijutsu.

Therefore, he knew very well why Kirito's shadow clones had suddenly disappeared here; something must have happened to the real Kirito.

They're probably exhausted.

"Two weeks! This kid is such a handful."

Upon hearing Nawaki's words, Mito touched his forehead and sighed.

She was well aware of the effects of the Shadow Clone Technique, but she never expected that Nawaki would teach it to Kirito.

"It was my oversight. How could Kirito not know that Nawaki, that idiot, would use shadow clones to accelerate his training? I'm such an irresponsible master."

Mito thought to herself with great remorse about the side effects of using shadow clones for cultivation.

Due to her physical condition, her energy is not what it used to be, and she spends most of her time resting and suppressing the increasingly restless Nine-Tails.

So after she took Kirito as her disciple, she didn't actually care about him too much. She just took time out of her day to teach him about sealing techniques, and focused most of her attention on Nawaki.

There was nothing we could do; after all, Rope Tree was a child we couldn't trust.

Although there has been good growth recently, it is still worrying.

As she spent time with Kirito, she discovered that he was a very smart and sensible child, and she didn't need to worry about him too much.