Chapter 26: Multiple Shadow Clone Technique Acquired
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
The sound of shattering air from piercing remained echoing in the sky above the middle street.
On seeing flying figures, ninjas and citizens alike identified that something important was happening this night.
Nevertheless, since no alarm had been triggered and those flying figures hadn't gotten them moving to the shelter, the villagers were comforted.
Nothing concerned them about this incident, nor was there a risk.
Izayoi sat on the sole sofa at the balcony, drinking juice and enjoying the sky full of stars tonight.
There were some flying silhouettes over his rooftop that did not attract his attention.
After a certain, unlimited period of time, until all afterimages of flying eaves and walls were gone from the central street, and fewer people were left walking on the street.
As if he had had enough of looking, Izayoi got up and went back to the house.
Later, the lights in the living room went out.
Having showered, Izayoi, who came out in his pajamas, had a faint smile on his handsome face.
A few Shadow Clone Technique. obtained!
No one understood that in an artificial cave behind a waterfall somewhere, there were several figures of different appearances using invisibility techniques to merge into the mountain wall, using far vision with a range of as much as 80 kilometers, looking at Naruto Uzumaki, who wore an orange jacket suit.
No sooner had he come out of the Hokage Building than every move was monitored by these few glances.
With excellent long-distance vision and perception, neither the Nine-Tails inside Naruto Uzumaki's body nor Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was watching Naruto Uzumaki using the Crystal Ball Technique, sensed anything.
When Naruto Uzumaki opened the Scroll of Seals, these people also opened blank scrolls, working together to document the process of cultivating the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
These people were Izayoi's shadow clones with transformation techniques.
Upon duplicating the cultivation method of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and hiding it, the shadow clones deleted all the odor and traces and melted away.
Izayoi, who received the scolding, didn't hastily pick up the cultivation scroll of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
Since he now had the cultivation method, there was no rush.
Lying down on the bed, Izayoi was also curious about tomorrow morning's team assignments.
It was just the same sentence.
He was sure that his and Hinata's training, and his duel with Sasuke Uchiha, were seen by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
He had perfected tree climbing and water walking that were not taught in the ninja school, aside from low-grade Wind Style and Fire Style, and B-rank Shadow Clone Technique upon graduation. Either taijutsu fights or no-rules fights, he defeated the Hyuga clan main family's eldest daughter and Uchiha orphan who had upgraded the Sharingan.
The kind of civilian brilliance, though he was not as brilliant as Minato Namikaze, who, at age twelve, had been taken as a disciple by Jiraiya and defeated the Cloud Shinobi; and Kakashi Hatake, who had reached the rank of Jonin and developed the A-rank Lightning Style: Chidori, was only second to them.
Otherwise, all of them lived in a state of war, while Izayoi was born in an era of peace.
Standing out from the crowd in this special class of new students, even if Hiruzen Sarutobi did not wish to offend those ninja clans, he would not place him in a team with other normal students and appoint a normal Jonin instructor to be his teacher, right?
If this really happened, it would mean that Hiruzen Sarutobi did not wish to invest in him.
His focus towards him would also cease immediately after that, and Izayoi could stealthily have some minor chores accomplished.
Having this in mind, Izayoi wasn't curious about the team assignment results and closed his eyes and dozed off.
....
The next day, Izayoi did not realize that Hinata and Hanabi had come near him while he awoke, so he went out to retrieve the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique first.
Based on Hiruzen Sarutobi's Crystal Ball Technique, which was God's perspective of peeping, Izayoi simply leaned back to read the scroll.
By doing this, even though he could not feel the Crystal Ball Technique, Izayoi would not be afraid of Hiruzen Sarutobi's peeping.
Aside from not making the hand seals overly simple, the hand seals and chakra mobilization of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique were different from the Shadow Clone Technique.
The latter possessed fewer hand seals than the former one, but the chakra that was mobilized was really awesome. People without huge amount of chakra who used this technique would end up hurting themselves or even risking their lives, so only people with huge amount of chakra volume could cultivate this technique.
"They all say Kakashi Hatake is a unit of measurement, but the other side was able to use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique when he was five or six years old."
Izayoi thought to himself, "Although the Sharingan consumes chakra continuously, and he has been defeated for more than ten years, Kakashi Hatake's amount of chakra stays at the best Jonin level."
"After he lost the Sharingan, his chakra volume recovered to the point that he was able to use the Earth Style Wall to cover Konoha and mark a dog's head on it within a couple of years."
"If it were not for the Sharingan stopping him, his current chakra volume would definitely not be worse than Kisame Hoshigaki."
Leaving aside such exceptional Jinchuriki, there were hardly any people at this time frame who could perform the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
Izayoi was one of them.
At the moment, Izayoi was extremely grateful that he didn't use the newbie gift package on Naruto Uzumaki due to impulse.
Else, he would have only the advantage of enormous chakra volume at the moment.
Even if he lost his Sage Eye, Sasuke Uchiha's, he wouldn't even want to turn on the Rinnegan for a few years or decades.
However, now, the Otsutsuki Bloodline (Red) + Sage Eye (Red) + Prince of the Byakugan (Red) already sensed the fetal movement phase to be coming.
In less than five minutes, Izayoi sealed the scroll. He had perfected the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
Without putting in any effort, using his current chakra level, he could only need to duplicate the chakra effect on the scroll to create hundreds of thousands of shadow copies.
To avoid letting Hanabi unknowingly see this scroll and try to cultivate it randomly, Izayoi didn't hide the scroll but destroyed it instead.
He already knew the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
If necessary, he could copy one out or share it hand-in-hand.
At noon, not noticing Hinata and Hanabi come, Izayoi, thinking that they would not come today, went out to buy some ninja gear.
After all, there was indeed a real exam before the mission.
While walking, Izayoi also noticed Naruto Uzumaki, who was entangled in Konohamaru, and Ebisu, who was a special Jonin secretly following them.
The dark green goggles sitting on the forehead of Naruto Uzumaki had been turned into a Genin headband. He must have recently taken profile shots.
Naruto Uzumaki, whose head was low and talking with Konohamaru, failed to see Izayoi.
Izayoi also didn't say hello. He merely looked at him before looking elsewhere, proceeding towards the ninja tool shop.
There were two other pairs of shoes waiting at the entrance hall when Izayoi arrived home.
Inside a converted dojo on the first floor, a succession of claps and something hard slapping acoustically was heard.
Walking up to open the door, he watched as Hinata and Hanabi, wearing white training uniforms, activated their Byakugan, and sporting swollen veins on either side of their temples, sparred against each other.
The two girls' hands turned into afterimages, and blue fire wrapped around them. A large number of air waves were produced by each afterimage collision.
You could see if you looked carefully that Hinata wasn't being serious. She was just giving Hanabi moves.
If she was serious, Hanabi would have injuries all over her by now.
After all, to Izayoi and Hinata, Hanabi, now possessing only acupuncture knowledge, had an attack pattern that was too straightforward to grasp.
And her lower body was too frail, riddled with flaws.
With this in mind, Izayoi believed that he could have some time to instruct Hanabi in tree climbing and water walking in advance.
Well, other than her Byakugan purity, which was somewhat weaker than that of Hinata, she wasn't weaker than Hinata overall. She had been able to master advanced-level chakra control beforehand just as Hinata was able to then.
"Oniichan, take this—"
As Izayoi had this thought in mind, Hanabi's weakened cry pulled him back into consciousness.
He stood there and beheld Hanabi, who had on training clothing, approaching him.
The sight of swollen veins and blue flames wrapped around her fingers was strongly dissuasive to peers.
But Izayoi just curled the corner of his mouth a little. He didn't even put the bag in his hand down. He became an afterimage and reappeared next to Hanabi like teleportation.
The bottom of his bare foot was on Hanabi's abdomen.
The soft and hard power lifted Hanabi's body up and rushed toward Hinata.
Hinata extended her hand to catch her flying sister.
"Come on, let's go together."
Izayoi threw the bag containing the props into the side, hooked his fingers on the two girls, and gave a flirtatious look.
The Hyuga sisters looked at each other and nodded in serious faces, and then ran toward Izayoi.
"Oniichan, you're too arrogant. You'll regret it!" Hanabi screamed loudly.
Hinata didn't say anything, but her delicate jade-like fingers possessed remarkable finger power and chakra, cutting through the air as sharp as knives.
Then there was an even more intense crash sound than previously heard on the first floor of Izayoi's house.
Occasionally, there were also screams and yelps of agony. Had there not been improved insulation, perhaps it would have raised suspicions wrongly in observers.
But half an hour later, sounds of strife gave way to the sounds of amusement.
"Wuwuwu. it hurts that much, hiss. Oniichan, I hate you, I'll bite you to death!"
"Didn't you vow that you'd make me regret it? Where's the momentum now? Stop biting. Your wounds healed. Your sister hasn't been treated yet."
"I'm going to bite. Sister, bite the other side, let's bite Oniichan together!"
"Hahaha. the teeth marks will go away by themselves in a while. Stop licking, it's so itchy."
"Hehe. we're going to lick. We're going to get our revenge on you, Oniichan!"
"..."
(End of this chapter)
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