rock ninja log

There are no traces of birds in the sky, and I have already flown by.

The Red Sand Scorpion finally walked out of the darkness that might have swallowed him up according to its original trajectory.

All over the deserted Shayin Village, on the endless sand dunes that rise one after another from far to near, on the extremely flat carpet composed entirely of yellow sand, there are suddenly disharmonious pits the size of glass balls.

Immediately afterwards, one pit turned into two, as if it had been hit by an extremely dense rain of shurikens. The sand dune changed beyond recognition in the blink of an eye, with flying sand splashing unwillingly, and then there was no more sound.

"It's the rainy season." Before a drop of rainwater fell, it was smashed to pieces by the scorpion's long hair that blew up like a hedgehog and whipped it like a whip.

It was really raining, not Uehara's water attack.

"Hey, Uehara, do we want to hide for a while?" Xie frowned, and no one around responded to him.

The big raindrops pitter-pattered down, and it hurt so much when it hit his face. Xie quickly left the training ground holding his head in a rather embarrassed manner.

"But," when I looked up, I could see a curtain of rain, and the rainy season came unexpectedly. "Time flies so fast," Scorpion thought to himself.

Meaningful time will certainly pass quickly.

Huddled in the shadows of the house, recalling those painful pasts over and over again, as if that was the whole meaning of life. The time when you didn't even take a look at the scenery outside the window is painful and long for Scorpio.

It's almost suffocating.

Almost in an instant, without any notice from Xia, Chiyo, Uehara, and all of Xia himself, Xia grew up.

Running almost at the speed of an instant, Xia quickly ran out of the training ground. He didn't care about Uehara. He just let him go if he was willing to get wet in the training ground. Thinking of the good idea of ​​teasing Uehara, Xia couldn't help but feel happy.

stand up.

Xie, who was getting happier and happier, rushed all the way to the cold drink shop, and then his expression froze. It was impossible, someone must have been soaked in the rain...

"Asshole Uehara, why are you here?!" Xie walked up behind Uehara and slapped Uehara hard on the shoulder. Xie's good mood suddenly disappeared, and he became angry, completely forgetting that he also wanted to play with Uehara just now.

With.

"Oh," Uehara motioned for Scorpio to sit down and pushed his cold drink in front of him, "It suddenly rained. I don't want to stay at the training ground anymore."

"So I left."

"Since you want to terminate the training, why didn't you tell me?" Xie grabbed Uehara's cold drink, took off the lid, and took a few sips like uncles drink beer, "You must want to sneak away and let me

Being caught in the rain alone, you bastard Uehara!”

Open mouth bastard, close mouth bastard, this kid is getting more and more rude. By the way, when did Scorpion become a little bastard? Uehara frowned and thought, and found that things were not simple.

Maybe it was because they were too tired from the training. After that, neither Uehara nor Scorpion spoke, and the only sound around was the sound of Scorpion's teeth squeaking against the ice.

(No, that's not right.) With the intuition gained after practicing for a long time, Xie suddenly realized that he must have missed something. His eyes quickly became sharp, and his eyes quickly swept around.

Apart from these, he made no other actions, and even the sound of shaking the ice cubes in the cup was deliberately loud in order not to attract Uehara's attention.

(Three empty cups) Xia's eyes turned and paused on the cup in front of Uehara, (...could it be for someone else?)

Scorpio hesitated, doubting himself.

(However, the kids in the puppet class are practicing puppetry, so they don’t have much free time to come here.)

(Is it a bug? It’s also unlikely. The guy is sick. Besides, bugs don’t like vanilla very much.)

His eyes shifted from the three empty cold drink cups to Uehara, who was bowing his head in thought. Xia couldn't help but slow down the movement of shaking the cup, and he showed a look that could see through everything, (the three cups are all vanilla, this is what you Uehara

like.)

(It’s impossible to drink three cold drinks in such a short time.) Scorpio became more and more determined and confident, (So Uehara, you bastard, you sneaked over very early, right?)

The puppet technique has extremely powerful offensive and defensive capabilities. Even if the most terrifying and deadly poison technique of the puppet technique is ignored, the firepower of the simplest hidden weapon released by the puppet is enough to suppress a ninja team.

So, what is the most fatal weakness of puppetry?

Both Xie and Uehara believe that compared to the sturdy puppet, the fragile puppet master is the flaw in puppetry that is most easily defeated.

When fighting against the puppet master, the most efficient tactic among all is to get rid of the entanglement of endless puppets and carry out beheading tactics.

Yes, for the puppet master, if the enemy is completely hidden and no trace can be found, it will be very fatal. This means that the puppet's powerful firepower instantly loses room to vent, and at the same time there is a danger of being defeated by everyone.

Therefore, after Xie and Uehara discussed it, relatively targeted training began. The first is to design a more reasonable puppet so that the puppet can launch a rain of hidden weapons without blind spots. In this way, hidden enemies will still be restrained everywhere.

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Second, using perception ninjutsu to restrain invisibility is a very effective method.

There is no need to question Xie's puppet talent. The transformation of the puppet does not require much energy from him. Today, Xie and Uehara are training in invisibility and perception ninjutsu. Uehara uses invisibility to hide, and Xie uses the very unfamiliar perception ninjutsu.

It's that simple to find it using techniques.

It should have been like this, but that bastard Uehara slipped away from the training ground midway. No wonder I couldn't find him with the Sensing Ninjutsu.

Scorpion was almost furious. He put down the cold drink cup and prepared to teach Uehara a lesson.

After putting down the cup, Scorpion hesitated again. Being suspicious is not Scorpio's character. In fact, during the year-long relationship, Uehara embarrassed him too many times.

(If I were to tell Uehara that he ran away in the middle, he would definitely say, ah, he only ran away for a short while.) Scorpio's mind was racing, (we must determine the exact time when this guy ran away)

Okay, no excuses for him.)

Every time you train, you want to try your best to defeat each other and surpass yourself. This is the purpose of practice.

Uehara was just thinking about something. He didn't notice at all. Xia quietly dropped the straw and picked it up again.

(How to determine when this guy slipped away? Releasing ninjutsu will definitely leave traces on the body, and Uehara obviously does not have the ability to completely hide the traces.)

(This guy has the worst water escape ability, so the traces should be more obvious.)

(During this training, he released the Water Release Ninjutsu three times in total.)

Scorpio tried hard to recall every scene on the training ground in his mind, and memorizing the characteristics of most conventional ninjutsu was a very boring job. This was Uehara's own habit. They practiced and trained together, and this habit naturally affected him.

scorpion.

And now, this good habit has really helped Scorpio.

(The first technique should be about ten minutes after the training begins...the Water Transformation Thousand Bonjutsu?) Xie hesitated for a moment, staring at Uehara's hand and looking at it again and again. This technique is very small in scale and is performed by the practitioner.

Use high-density water release chakra Senbon to condense to attack the enemy. On the training ground, Uehara used this technique as a test. Only one Senbon was condensed, so it was unlikely to get his sleeves wet.

(The second technique, about one hour and forty minutes, Kaili Water Fist...) The Water Release Ninjutsu invented by Uehara is similar to the Rock Fist. It uses a large amount of water to wrap the fist as a supplement to the physical technique. It can not only protect the arm, but also must

The strong fluidity of rocks and water gives water fists a series of powerful destructive means such as rotation, blasting and tearing.

(This technique should leave traces on the body.) After thinking deeply, Xie smiled faintly. He still remembered that three days ago, Uehara complained that this technique always made his sleeves wet and that it was too slow to activate.

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With Xie's understanding of Uehara, three days was not enough for Uehara to master a completely unfamiliar technique.

Uehara's cuffs were intact and showed no traces of water.

This couldn't be more obvious.

(Coupled with the third technique, Water Rasengan, you guys detonated the water storage tower with water, and the water flow covered the entire training ground.)

However, Scorpion observed that there was no trace of mud on Uehara's shoes.

This also means that at least before the third ninjutsu, Uehara replaced the main body with a clone and left the training ground.

Some judgments have been made.

"Uehara, you seem to have violated the rules." Xia Haoyan reminded, "At least one hour and forty minutes after the start of the training. That is, before the third water release ninjutsu, you left."

"You're talking nonsense!" Uehara was awakened. He became anxious and slapped the table angrily. "I left because I saw it was raining." Can you admit such a thing? You must quibble.

"Oh," Xie tilted his head, as if that was indeed the case, "Well, I'm very curious, Brother Uehara."

Xie pushed the three empty cups in front of Uehara maliciously, "I don't understand how you drank three cold drinks in one minute."

"Also, you are not proficient in using the strange power water fist technique, and..."

…

Finally, the kid finally got his wits about him. Uehara smiled and looked at Scorpion, watching him list out the evidence that Uehara had escaped one by one without stopping, logically, harmoniously and clearly. Uehara also smiled more and more happily.

"So Uehara, stop defending. Why did you slip away from the training ground in the middle of the training ground? No wonder I couldn't find you later."

"Slip away?" Uehara shook his head, "There is no rule that you must stay at the training ground."

"Furthermore, your perception ninjutsu failed to distinguish between the main body and the clone jutsu, and you didn't even know when I slipped away." Uehara shook his head and looked at Xie with regret in his eyes, "Xiao, it seems that you

You really don’t have the talent to perceive ninjutsu.”

"Nonsense!" Xie was dissatisfied. This stubborn kid believed that no matter how difficult the technique was, he could master it as long as he put in enough effort.

"Also, I didn't just slip away in the middle." Uehara smiled secretly, "It was my clone who went to the training ground at the beginning. I didn't go to the training ground at all today."

"...Ah?!" Scorpio was so surprised that he couldn't help himself. It was just a clone. If he had tested it with attacks earlier, he might have discovered it. However, before the training, he probably deliberately stated that if he wanted to train the sensory ninjutsu together,

, using offensive ninjutsu will disrupt the efficiency, so...

It seems that this is the mindset and misunderstanding that Uehara mentioned, Xia thought. He has made another important gain. Offensive ninjutsu is actually a very useful sensory ninjutsu. He suspects that there is something in a certain big tree.

To the enemy, first throw a hundred detonating talismans at them. When the detonating talisman explodes, if someone screams "ah~", it means there is an enemy there. If there is no "ah" sound, it means there is no enemy there, and the perception is completed.

As for there being powerful enemies who are immune to explosion damage and are still hiding in the big trees...it's impossible, the trees have already been blown up.

"Scorpion, it's time for me to go." Uehara raised his handsome left arm prosthetic arm that was all silver and full of science fiction colors and smiled, "Thank you for the puppet arm, it's so easy to use."

"Ah?!" He couldn't close his mouth in surprise. He stared at Uehara blankly, and Scorpion's mouth opened even wider.

There was a burst of panic and confusion for no reason, "That, that," Xie was speechless for a moment, and he kept pulling his hair with his hands, "I almost forgot that you are an Iwa ninja."

"Oh, that's right." Xia's somewhat depressed mood suddenly became high, "The Chuunin exam is about to take place. Brother Uehara, can you wait until I become a Chunin before leaving?"

"What, are you afraid of being eliminated?" Uehara could see through the child's mind at a glance. He teased, "Don't worry, Scorpio is so good, he will definitely pass the exam smoothly."

"It's not me!" Xie muttered, "It's the kids in the puppet class. They also have to take the exam, and I can't help them."

Scorpio is a very proud guy. Even though he is still a very small kid, he really can't say the words that he is reluctant to leave someone and prays to stay longer.

He found just the right reason - to help the idiots in the puppet class pass the chunin exams.

"Okay, then let's go back after witnessing Scorpion becoming a real ninja."

Hearing that Uehara wanted to stay for a while, the joyful expression could not be concealed on Xiao's face, and Xiao almost jumped up.

"Then, I'll go back first, Brother Uehara." Xie waved his fist vigorously, "I should prepare for the exam earlier."

Watching the scorpion whizzing past like the wind, he almost knocked down a new customer.

Not far away, Xie suddenly stopped. He looked back secretly, and his eyes happened to meet the eyes of Uehara who was watching him leave with a smile in the window.

Uehara nodded in greeting, his eyes full of encouragement.

Xie nodded vigorously, turned around, and waved his fist vigorously to Uehara in farewell, "Brother Uehara, I should be considered the winner in today's practice, right? You can't lie to me now!"