Left and Right

"..."

After the Mysterious Clone Karin—since he had used a single finger on his left hand, Wu Yu decided to call it the "Left Mysterious Clone"—Left Mysterious Karin appeared, froze for a moment, pushed up her glasses, and looked around. This room was so run-down!

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"Where's the original body?" she asked curiously, looking at Wu Yu across from her.

Wu Yu said "blankly," "I didn't see him. What's your name? I'm Vortex Nine Grades."

"Uzumaki? What a strange surname, and Nine Grades sounds like a woman's name, too..."

Left Mysterious Karin said absentmindedly, "My name is Karin. You didn't see the original body? How strange. Who uses a clone without even giving it instructions, then runs off and disappears first..." She muttered complaints about the original body under her breath.

She didn't recognize the Chakra signature of me, the original body...

Watching Left Mysterious Karin curiously inspect her surroundings, Wu Yu thought, Does that mean she only learned her sensory secret technique, Mind's Eye of the Kagura, after following Orochimaru?

That made sense. After Orochimaru got dealt with by the old Third Hokage, he had worked hard to gather information left behind by the Uzumaki Clan. He had even cracked the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, so it was perfectly normal for him to have mastered a whole pile of Uzumaki secret techniques.

"Should we go look around—"

Just as Left Mysterious Karin was about to call Wu Yu outside to search for the original body, her entire body suddenly turned into white smoke with a poof, leaving behind half of an exasperated curse. "What the hell is the original body doing—"

Wu Yu had dismissed Karin early.

If it had been Karin who possessed numerous Uzumaki secret techniques, she might have been worth using. But this clone, with a completely blank skill set, held no interest for him at all...

After waiting a while, he found that none of Left Mysterious Karin's "surveillance-camera-view memories" had returned to him.

In that case, although I can more or less confirm that the Right Mysterious Clone is the version that returns memories to me, I should still verify it.

He tried forming the cross seal with one finger of his right hand and two fingers of his left.

The intuition that told him he could use the Mysterious Clone did not appear.

As expected, although it costs nothing, it has a cooldown...

The Mysterious Clones of Tsunade and Kaguya from earlier had been too captivating, leaving Wu Yu with no mind to ponder just how long the Mysterious Clone's cooldown was. He still had not finished studying those two!

So Wu Yu maintained the "Right Mysterious Clone" hand seal—one finger on his right hand and two on his left—and quietly waited for the skill's cooldown to refresh... After roughly an hour of waiting, that profound and indescribable intuition finally returned.

One-hour cooldown. That's a little short, isn't it?

With that thought, Wu Yu used the Right Mysterious Clone with a poof, creating a clone—a ninja passerby he did not recognize, wearing an Iwagakure forehead protector.

When Wu Yu dismissed this Right Mysterious Clone, just as expected, he received the clone's "surveillance-camera-view memories."

In other words, the Mysterious Clone has three modes in total. The first one I used was a completely random mode. The Left Mysterious Clone returns the clone's memories to the clone's original body, while the Right Mysterious Clone returns its memories to me...

With a poof, Wu Yu dismissed his Transformation Jutsu. He glanced at the brightening sky beyond the spiderwebs beneath the eaves, then darted outside. From now on, I'll mainly use the Right Mysterious Clone, which returns memories to me. But the Left Mysterious Clone, which sends memories back to the original body, isn't entirely useless either...

Unfortunately, no matter which Mysterious Clone method he used, the identity of the summoned clone seemed to be completely random.

It would be great if he could actively choose the clone's target...

Shaking his head, Wu Yu arrived before the large pond in the Uchiha Courtyard. The surrounding greenery had already withered, and he could vaguely smell the damp scent unique to the waterside in the early morning. Wu Yu took a deep breath and stepped onto the water.

He had practiced tree climbing in advance, and naturally, he had also practiced walking on water along the way.

In truth, judging from the actual training experience, tree climbing was far more difficult than treading on water—the reason was simple. By the time Wu Yu practiced water walking, he had already accumulated plenty of painful experience from tree climbing and had built a decent foundation in Chakra control.

Tap, tap, tap...

Leaving ripples in his wake, Wu Yu walked across the water as if on solid ground, heading toward the center of the courtyard pond.

"Splash..."

Wu Yu scooped up a handful of pond water, refined Chakra and gathered it in his palm, imagining flames forming to heat the water... The manga had only described Naruto's process of training Wind Release Nature Transformation in detail. He had likewise done so by imagining Chakra turning into sharp wind blades and the like, which showed how important "imagination" was in this kind of nature transformation training.

That makes sense. Half of Chakra is spiritual energy to begin with... The power of thinking, huh!

And so, Wu Yu began training Fire Release Nature Transformation.

After practicing with full concentration for two hours, stars had begun to dance before his eyes... Wu Yu stood on the water, bracing his hands on his knees as he panted. If he squeezed out any more Chakra for training, he would not even have enough left to maintain the Chakra keeping him on the water.

Stamina and Chakra Reserves 2!

This really was too much to bear...

[Wu Yu, you can use my power, you know?] Jade Rabbit reminded him from within his body.

[If my own foundation is too weak, then even if I borrow your Sage Power, I won't be able to bring out its true strength.] Wu Yu shook his head.

With the same Sage Transformation of Jade Rabbit and Haotu, could he possibly be stronger than Tsunade?

Even Wu Yu himself did not believe that!

[Little Jade, is there any way to increase my own total Chakra reserves?]

[Sorry, Wu Yu, I don't know either...] Jade Rabbit's voice grew quieter and quieter. Then her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said happily, [Mother can help! If Mother can obtain a huge amount of Chakra again, maybe we can ask her to increase my power!]

Increase Jade Rabbit's total Chakra reserves?

That was not a bad idea... The problem was, who else could be like Tsunade, carrying a huge Chakra gift package in the form of a Yin Seal that had accumulated Chakra for more than a decade? If it was ordinary people's Chakra, Mysterious Kaguya probably would not even think much of it...

"Forget it. Before that, I'd better work hard on my own first! I can't tell Sasuke to be patient and grow steadily while I'm the one rushing for quick results..."

Wu Yu rested for a moment. Once some of his Chakra had recovered, he continued practicing Fire Release Nature Transformation.

[Wu Yu, Tsunade has arrived.]

After he had trained in silence for a while, Jade Rabbit suddenly spoke within him.

Hm?

Wu Yu looked up and saw that Tsunade had somehow climbed in. She was already standing on the surface of the pool across from him, quietly watching him train.

"What are you doing?" Tsunade stepped across the rippling water toward him.

"Nature Transformation." Wu Yu spread out a pool of clear water in his palm. After struggling for ages, he had only managed to heat it to lukewarm. "Fire Release."

Tsunade said, "Using flammable paper or dry leaves would work better."

Wu Yu flicked his hand, splashing the water toward the approaching Tsunade, and smiled. "I chose water not because it's easier, but because it's harder."

Tsunade swept it aside with one sleeve. This... "former" original body—perhaps because he had gotten used to being so casual with the previous Mysterious Clone Tsunade—was now grinning and joking around even with her true self.

Two waves interfered and intertwined. Standing on the water before Wu Yu, Tsunade ordered, "Take off your shirt."