Sasuke picked up the water bottle, took a few gulps, and looked toward Naruto, who stood in the clearing.
"The gap is still huge... but I can feel myself improving..."
Sasuke thought silently as he wiped his mouth. At that moment, Hinata, who had been resting nearby, handed him a tissue. Sasuke nodded, accepted it, and wiped the sweat from his head.
As for Naruto, who had been standing in the middle of the clearing, he suddenly moved... Though calling it "moving" was not quite accurate, because his body had not actually moved. Only his "position" had.
Naruto flickered around within roughly five meters of himself as though teleporting, appearing here one moment and there the next. Every appearance and disappearance was utterly silent. If someone happened to blink, they might even think they were hallucinating.
Sharingan. Byakugan.
Sasuke and Hinata each activated their eyes. At that moment, both of them clearly saw something spreading around Naruto and enveloping him completely.
It looked like a hazy cloud of mist—blue in Sasuke's Sharingan, but black in Hinata's Byakugan.
As Naruto continuously flashed from place to place, the two, with their exceptional perception, keenly noticed something... Whenever Naruto teleported, a tiny portion of the mist-like Chakra at the spot where he was about to appear would distort slightly, as though it had twisted itself into a pattern out of thin air.
"That's... Naruto's Flying Thunder God mark!" Hinata said in surprise.
Sasuke suddenly understood the principle behind Naruto's technique. But... this method could probably only be used by someone like Naruto, whose Chakra reserves were terrifyingly vast, right? Sasuke thought speechlessly.
Of course, over the years, Naruto had squandered Chakra in countless ways. The most common was creating a huge number of Shadow Clones to study, read, practice with ninja tools, refine