𝑁/𝑇: 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠. 𝐼 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑐. 𝑈𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐴𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑆𝐴𝑂, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑡𝑠𝑢𝑦𝑎, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑖 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑢𝑢 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑠 (𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑢𝑝.) 𝐿𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐾𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎. 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒!.
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒. 𝑆𝑒𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟.
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"Hey, Obito! Don't get in my way," Kakashi snapped at Obito. The latter was claiming that this time he would defeat Kakashi with his incredible abilities. You'd be surprised how someone could transform in such a short time and flourish their skills.
Unlike the original timeline, where Obito couldn't even properly release a [fire jutsu: great fireball]. In just a month, Obito managed to master the jutsu and use it without stumbling. In fact, it was perfect.
Sakumo had all the patience in the world and educated Obito masterfully on his journey to become a Ninjutsu specialist, and he felt good about the boy's company. Despite being a bit clumsy, Obito's charismatic and always cheerful demeanor was hard not to like and have around. This immensely helped Sakumo's mental state.
The boy was like the Sun.
Although he had difficulties learning at an accelerated pace like Eiji or Kakashi, unlike what he should have been. He seemed like a completely different person. Where he would have to spend months learning a single fire-style jutsu alone and without anyone's help, even with a sensei.
Namikaze Minato was an incompetent teacher. Due to complaints Eiji made to Kushina, who saw her beloved genin's brother upset and "venting" to her many times, about how Minato treated his genin's brother carelessly. Kushina decided to vent and unload her frustration and her genin's frustration on her boyfriend.
It's a bit of tough love and some banging of pots. After a friendly education and conversation from Kushina. He improved and changed his method of training his genin efficiently, not wasting their potential and time. Minato had plenty of time to reflect while training on Mount Mobyoku with the toads. Upon returning, he completely changed his teaching and the quality of his genin's skills skyrocketed to another level.
Obito became proficient in 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚-𝙨𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙪 and successfully mastered the basics of the Uchiha clan's shurikenjutsu. He learned to climb trees and is currently having a bit of difficulty walking on water comfortably.
His Chakra control was on the right path. He tended to get easily bored and distracted with theoretical and boring subjects like these. Making it very difficult to make Obito progress in this field.
Very different from Rin. Who was literally a genius in chakra control. Due to her low chakra amount. Which was "normal" for her age and coming from a civilian clan. It was already very good for her, who was still growing.
With some recommendations from Sakumo to one of his acquaintances. She quickly joined the ninja hospital with private lessons and participation in surgeries and medical care. Without Sakumo's recommendation, she would never have this opportunity. This made her very grateful for Sakumo's kindness and gentleness and she vowed to one day repay everything he's doing for her in her heart.
Her knowledge of the human body, pressure points, chakra veins, bones, organs, blood types. They were elevated to a level she never expected to acquire in such a short time. She knew she would never get such dedicated teachers without Sakumo's help. Despite the difficulty she had due to initially low chakra reserves, she never gave up. Over time her chakra reserves grew even if it was just a little, almost reaching chunin rank.
Rin also learned the Chakra Scalpel jutsu, which became her current fighting style on Eiji's recommendation after remembering Kabuto's fighting pattern. It was very efficient and lethal if you had the right knowledge. Working perfectly with Rin, since the jutsu itself didn't use much chakra.
She also learned two water-style jutsu, one being rank D and the other C. Despite her focus not being active in battles. Sakumo insisted on teaching her. Rin felt indebted to Sakumo and didn't know how to thank him. She couldn't afford these jutsu normally and would hardly get her hands on them because they were water-style. Rare in the Land of Fire.
In this sense, Rin was by far the one who progressed the most during this training and discipline period. Sakumo was very happy to be able to teach such a polite and kind girl like her.
"If you want to train, I offer myself, Obito."
Obito felt a shiver down his spine, and his smile quickly froze as he blinked. "No... No... No need." Obito shook his head frantically and tried to escape. "Suddenly I remembered an errand I needed to help with shopping." Obito turned his back, and at the moment he tried to flee, he felt a hand on his shoulder and dared not turn his face.
"Don't be like that, let's show the world your skills. Everyone is eager, great Uchiha Obito... Sama," Eiji chuckled maliciously.
Obito felt a certain remorse in practicing with Eiji. He tended to hit too hard, and when the fight became more chaotic. He realized that Eiji started to act more aggressively. Obito felt hurt because he always ended up with bruises and ended up being used as a guinea pig by Rin who trained his medical ninjutsu.
𝐴𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑅𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚... 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡...
𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙... 𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡?
"Yoshaaa!! Today I'll show you the great me! I accept your challenge!" Obito roared with motivation at the thought of Rin treating him.
"Hehehe, really?" Eiji imagined what he was thinking and laughed. It wasn't difficult to know what a simple guy like Obito was thinking. And Obito quickly realized he had said too much. But as he was a man of his word and dared not go back on his word in front of Rin, Obito just clenched his teeth and headed to a place. 10 meters away from Eiji.
"You can use everything you've learned, don't hold back," Eiji calmly warned Obito as he entered a relaxed close combat stance. And watched Obito, who maintained a posture full of holes.
'𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙, ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑛𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑡,' 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝐸𝑖𝑗𝑖. 𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑜'𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤...
'𝐿𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦.'
Rin was the judge of all fights that took place most of the time and announced after checking that the two were ready.
"Begin!"
Without waiting for Eiji to do anything, Obito threw several Shuriken straight at Eiji and quickly began to move to Eiji's left side, catching his attention.
'Good,' Eiji smiled as he watched Obito weave hand signs and pulled out a kunai, deflecting the shurikens with incredible reflexes.
[𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚: 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙅𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙪]
"Got you."
"I think not," Eiji appeared like a shadow beside Obito and kicked Obito aggressively before impact. Before the impact, Obito raised his arm and defended himself from the move, being thrown back by the force of the impact.
As he slid along the ground, he bent down and pulled out several shurikens and threw them again, trying to delay Eiji's movement, and quickly ran behind the shurikens trying to take advantage of any delay in movement. At the same time Obito threw shurikens, Eiji did the same, hitting all of Obito's shurikens, successfully deflecting them all.
'𝐻𝑒ℎ'
𝐸ℎ?
"Let's do this, Obito," Eiji weaved a hand seal, but Obito didn't recognize it, but continued to approach Eiji and didn't notice anything different around him, and when he got close enough to Eiji. His arm stretched out trying to hit his opponent's face and thinking he had hit him, his punch simply went through.
'𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒?'
Before Obito could react, he felt something hit his face on the right side. After the impact, his body was thrown slightly back, taking advantage of the momentum, Obito twisted his body and tried a cross kick and again felt the lack of impact sensation and his body went through Eiji again.
'𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛? 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙?'
"Now you're mine," Taking advantage of the false move that Uchiha was led to make. Eiji slid with a spin around Obito, hitting him with an elbow in the stomach, knocking him to the ground.
"You lose," Eiji finished his movement with a kunai pointed at Obito's neck, who was groaning on the ground in pain.
"Ouchh.... What the hell is going on? You were on my side, so I hit you and suddenly there was nothing there. And then you simply appeared on the other side that I punched....?" Complaining in pain and questioning his eyes, Obito had an epiphany and found Eiji was smiling maliciously at him...
"Bastard!! When did you use Genjutsu?" It was the only solution Obito could think of to vent the indignation in his heart... How could he lose so quickly in front of Rin? DAMN!!
"I thought you'd take longer to figure that out," Eiji didn't care about Obito's suffering and didn't waste the chance to provoke him. "To your question, It was right after you used the Fire Jutsu. After you got distracted thinking you had hit me and I hit you, you fell into my Genjutsu." It wasn't Obito's fault, in a heated and fast battle, any lack of judgment can lead to your defeat.
"And those hand signs you made?" Pointed the frustrated young Uchiha.
"That? It was just to distract you and make your mind focus on something else, that's what made you not notice what I did." Eiji sat next to Obito and placed each hand on either side of his eyes. "Look. People tend to underestimate Genjutsu and only think about using them grandiosely and unrealistically. Creating demons, breaking the ground and making an abyss, erasing your senses, I don't do any of that."
"Look, what I did was distort your perception. Nothing that catches your attention when activated. It's like a mirror. When I made you believe that I was on your right, in fact, my face was on your left. The same thing happened afterward, it's so fast that you couldn't process what happened, it takes great chakra control to maintain Genjutsu in the middle of combat."
After hearing the explanation, he managed to understand what happened and why everything seemed so wrong. In the heat of the moment, he couldn't figure out what was happening and it led to his defeat. This Genjutsu, if well used, was really terrible.
"Darn it! Just wait. When I activate my Sharingan, I won't fall for this again!"
"Hai Hai"
"𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙄."