"I waited so long for today. I almost thought I'd missed it."
Naruto held Uchiha Shisui's corpse in his arms, yet felt no weight at all.
He was too nervous, too excited, listening to the information provided by the Plants.
After confirming that no one was nearby.
Naruto did not immediately absorb Uchiha Shisui's corpse.
He plopped down on the ground, doing his best not to look at Uchiha Shisui's empty eye sockets.
After calming down, he had to admit—it was a little scary.
"Am I really going to absorb the Nutrients from a corpse?"
Slap—
For a moment, Naruto was lost.
But less than a second later, he fiercely slapped himself.
He had worked so long, prepared for so long, and fed mosquitoes here for nearly half a month. Wasn't it all for this very moment?
In an instant, he snapped awake.
He forced himself to adapt to the bloodiness.
He could kill chickens, ducks, and geese without batting an eye, but this was a person. A person who had just died, whose body still retained warmth.
"Hoo~"
After letting out a long breath, Naruto picked up Uchiha Shisui's corpse.
He headed toward the pit he had prepared in advance.
He placed the corpse inside.
Prepared for the worst—that the Woods-Woods Fruit's absorption ability might not work on humans.
Naruto stretched out his hand and activated the Woods-Woods Fruit's power.
In an instant, his small childish hand turned to wood.
The Wooden Hand pressed against Uchiha Shisui's chest.
"Absorb!"
He shouted inwardly.
The next moment, the Wooden Hand transformed into countless tree roots.
Squish—
They pierced through Uchiha Shisui's chest in an instant, spreading through his body like countless tentacles.
A moment later, Uchiha Shisui's corpse was filled with wooden roots.
Then the Woods-Woods Fruit's absorption ability began to exert its power.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—
A string of strange noises rang out.
Uchiha Shisui's corpse shriveled at a visible rate.
At the same time, a massive amount of unusual Nutrients flooded into Naruto's body.
Absorbing just a little made him feel invigorated.
Even his blood began to boil.
Within a few blinks, Uchiha Shisui's corpse vanished.
Not even a single strand of hair remained.
So this was the speed of absorption at full power?
Even Naruto was dumbfounded.
He had never imagined that the Woods-Woods Fruit's absorption ability could be so brutal.
But this was not the time to dwell on it.
He felt power filling his entire body.
He felt like he could punch a cow to death.
He hurriedly jumped out of the pit and glanced at Uchiha Shisui's remaining clothes.
There were still bloodstains on the ground. Frowning, he immediately picked up Uchiha Shisui's clothes, rushed to the Naka River, wrapped the clothes around a stone, and threw them into the water.
"That was careless. I forgot this world has ninja hounds."
"But once it enters the water, a ninja hound's nose becomes mostly useless. In that case..."
Naruto closed his eyes and slipped into the water.
Following the Naka River, he drifted downstream.
His clothes soaked in the water, and the blood was quickly washed away without leaving any scent behind.
Even if Danzo learned of Uchiha Shisui's death later and sent Root Ninja to search for clues, Naruto would no longer fear them.
After reaching his usual fishing spot, Naruto used the Transformation Technique to become a wild cat and headed toward his home.
Along the way, he constantly changed directions.
Only when he sensed the Chakra of the Anbu Ninja monitoring him.
Did he transform into a tiny gecko and crawl back home along the wall.
The Wood Clone opened the door. After checking the vegetables' growth, it shut the door again, entered the bathroom, and turned on the faucet as if washing its hands.
Using the sound of the water as cover, Naruto returned to normal.
At the same time, he placed one hand on the Wood Clone.
The Wood Clone immediately turned into a wooden Naruto, then flowed back into Naruto's body like liquid.
After doing all that, Naruto finally let out a breath of relief, his racing heart settling down.
He changed into a fresh set of clothes and tossed his previous clothes into the washing machine. Only then was everything truly finished.
Opening the bathroom door, he went straight to bed.
He closed his eyes and felt the large, warm mass of Nutrients inside his body.
There was a lot of it, rich and dense, and completely different from the Nutrients absorbed from Trees.
All the way back, Naruto had felt warm all over, comfortable beyond belief.
Even while drifting with the current underwater, he had not felt the slightest chill.
If not for his astonishing willpower, he might have moaned aloud.
The warm current of Nutrients flowed into his limbs and bones, spreading through every corner of his body. It seemed as though even his soul had been nourished.
Usually, after absorbing Nutrients from some Trees, Naruto could go several days without food and feel no hunger.
But after absorbing the same amount of Nutrients from Uchiha Shisui, he felt as if his physical body had been tempered.
That large mass of Nutrients definitely would not be used up anytime soon.
At the very least, it would take three days.
Half an hour later, Naruto finally adapted to his body constantly absorbing Uchiha Shisui's Nutrients.
He did not idle around. Lying in bed, he hid several leaves beneath the blanket.
He continued training Chakra Nature Transformation.
This time, Naruto could feel that his training speed had improved considerably.
Some insights also appeared in his mind.
First came Shuriken, then Kunai.
It was as though he had always known how to use them and understood how to exert force, only lacking actual practice.
"That's way too overpowered!"
"Huh?"
"When did a spiderweb get there?"
Even his eyesight had begun to improve!
That afternoon, Naruto went fishing at his usual spot as always.
He also secretly checked whether he had left behind any traces.
Everything was reassuringly clean.
That night, his stomach was not hungry at all, but he still ate the same amount as usual.
By the next day, roughly one-third of Uchiha Shisui's Nutrients in his body had been consumed.
The most obvious change—and the one Naruto found hardest to adjust to mentally.
Was the improvement in his vision.
For a moment, it was as if a person with severe nearsightedness had regained normal vision.
And throughout the entire day, he felt full of strength, as if he had endless energy and vigor.
He could not sleep at all while lying in bed!
Yet when he got up the next day, he did not feel tired in the slightest, nor did he have dark circles under his eyes.
Finally, three days later.
Naruto completely absorbed Uchiha Shisui's Nutrients.
His mind also gained many unfamiliar yet familiar memories.
Ninja tools, the Three Basic Jutsu, the Body Flicker Technique, ninjutsu, and more.
He even gained memories of training Fire Style Chakra Nature Transformation.
Buzz—
At that moment, a familiar sound rang by Naruto's ear.
He turned around and saw a bee fly in.
In his eyes, the bee's fluttering wings were clearly visible!
Its movements had become unbelievably slow.
Even from far away, the bee's appearance was clearly reflected in his eyes.
Then his eyes began to burn.
Tears streamed down uncontrollably.
He hurried into the bathroom and undid his pants...
In the end, he reasonably created the sound of flushing water.
Only then did he look at himself in the mirror.
His originally azure-blue eyes had vanished.
They had turned blood-red.
There were patterns in his eyes too, as though he were wearing colored contacts.
"One-Tomoe... it awakened just like that?"
"This is pure bloodline power!"
"No need to worry about being unable to deactivate the Sharingan."
"It's only a One-Tomoe Sharingan... My body hasn't fully absorbed everything yet, so there's no rush. But if Uchiha Shisui's corpse had been intact, or if he had been alive... Don't be too greedy."
In just a few days, Naruto had changed greatly.
But they were all internal changes. As for outward changes, perhaps he had grown a centimeter taller, and his eyes could activate the Sharingan at will.
"But it feels like there isn't much bloodline power left in my body."
"The Sharingan may ultimately stop at two tomoe in one eye and one tomoe in the other."
"If I want to improve it, I'd best keep finding Uchiha to absorb Nutrients from."
"Hehe, I already waited through the first two-and-a-half-year plan. The Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall should be around two years from now, when Uchiha Sasuke is seven."
"Two years from now, I just need to patiently wait for the Ninja Academy to suddenly run late and then dismiss school."
"I still need to digest all those ninjutsu one by one... The Body Flicker Technique is the most urgent matter."
"I only need to follow in Uchiha Shisui's footsteps once."
"Body Flicker Shisui... will soon become Body Flicker Naruto."
At that thought, Naruto's lips curved into a relieved smile.
In the bathroom, Naruto formed a hand seal with one hand.
Body Flicker Naruto was born today!
Buzz—
Clone Technique.
Four Narutos appeared in the bathroom.
They could all be real, or they could all be fake.
Sharingan, Phantom Body Flicker.
Uchiha Shisui's strength lay in turning the Clone Technique among the Three Basic Jutsu into something unmatched in the Ninja World.
A Body Flicker Technique mastered to the point of making one's scalp tingle.
Combined with the Sharingan's Genjutsu.
They worked together, real and fake intermingling, making him impossible to guard against!
After all, clones created by the Clone Technique were not physical bodies, but phantoms.
And Body Flicker Shisui's fighting style was actually very simple.
There was only one real body.
But the phantoms created by the Clone Technique infused with Sharingan Genjutsu would not disappear even after being attacked.
The Body Flicker Technique was continuously activated.
Unless the enemy possessed powerful sensory abilities, there was absolutely no way to deal with this move.
It could be said that it lacked the Kamui Space, yet possessed Kamui's intangibility in combat.
Combined with the Sharingan's traits, its dynamic vision was absurdly powerful.
Dealing with enemies would be as easy as dealing with bots.
Of course, Naruto was not complacent because of this.
Although the Concept God did not exist in this world, his legend still circulated throughout the Ninja World.
Even Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash who had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Minato: "I came late..."
Concept God: "You want a bowl? Five bucks!"
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