Boiling Water with Leaves

"Damn it..." Naruto, realizing the stark contrast between himself and Sasuke, looked with some astonishment at Iruka, who was currently recording the grades. Naruto felt that Iruka was definitely doing this on purpose!

"So cool!"

Faced with Sasuke's near-perfect test paper, the girls led by Ino and Sakura, who were infatuated with Sasuke's looks, all had their eyes turn into peach hearts!

"This guy is pretty popular, huh." Shikamaru, who had just picked up a kunai, felt a bit troubled as he listened to the lovesick voices around him. Why were girls so obsessed with looks?

"Thud... thud..."

After casually throwing the kunai into the bullseye, Shikamaru turned his head to look at Sasuke, who was already resting under a large tree. He curled his lips helplessly; the gap was still quite obvious! At the very least, he couldn't make the kunai perform tricks like that!

"Shikamaru, 100 points!"

Having witnessed Sasuke's methods, Iruka felt somewhat awkward when he saw Shikamaru's perfect score. However, considering the maximum score was only 100, Iruka had no way to give extra points to Sasuke, who had turned the kunai throwing into an art form!

The test was still in full swing, but at this moment, Sasuke was staring at the light screen in front of him, not knowing what to say!

As for the reason? Naturally, it was because the Kunai Throwing skill had disappeared from his General Panel. After flipping through the entire panel, Sasuke found this skill in the Fusion Panel. However, what left Sasuke speechless was that this skill seemingly couldn't be fused with other skills!

"Fire Release, Lightning Release, Wind Release, Water Release—none of them seem to be able to turn into a kunai. If I could obtain Ice Release or Crystal Release, perhaps I could perform a fusion!"

Staring at the Kunai Throwing skill within the Fusion Panel, Sasuke thought silently to himself.

Just then, a gentle breeze blew, and a leaf slowly landed on top of Sasuke's head. He reached out and took the leaf into his hand.

Examining the leaf carefully, Sasuke suddenly remembered that Naruto, who was currently begging Iruka for another chance at the assessment, had used leaves to practice when he first mastered the nature transformation of Wind Release!

"The essence of Wind Release should be to make the chakra rub together until it becomes sharp!" Recalling the trick Sarutobi Asuma had given Naruto in his memories, Sasuke placed the leaf in his hand and began to slowly mobilize his chakra.

Under the scouring of Sasuke's chakra, a crack slowly appeared on the leaf in his hand. As Sasuke continued to exert force, the leaf was slowly split into two halves!

Releasing his hands, Sasuke looked at the leaf in his palm, which looked as if it had been cut by a blade. He smiled with satisfaction, then picked up another leaf and continued his training. Although Wind Release wasn't his innate affinity, as long as it could make him stronger, Sasuke didn't care about that!

As Sasuke became more and more proficient at cutting leaves, the leaves on the ground were soon completely exhausted.

Reaching out and finding no more leaves to pick up, Sasuke casually took out a shuriken and threw it toward the tree.

Soon, a large number of leaves began to fall.

"Materials acquired!"

Watching the falling leaves, Sasuke began his training once again.

"Baka!"

Just as Sasuke was still immersed in his training, Naruto, who had been assigned by Iruka to collect the kunai and clean up the training ground, couldn't help but curse when he saw Sasuke's actions!

Wasn't this intentionally increasing the difficulty of his chore? This was unbearable!

"Hmm?"

Hearing Naruto's voice again, Sasuke looked up curiously, just in time to see Naruto's face filled with grief and indignation!

"What's wrong?" Finding this master of Talk-no-Jutsu looking at him with such righteous indignation again, Sasuke felt a bit strange. Could this be the strange attraction of Indra and Asura chakra?

"Look at the good work you've done!" The indignant Naruto, seeing that Sasuke didn't understand how much trouble he had caused him, pointed at the leaves on the ground and looked at Sasuke with sharp eyes!

Seeing Naruto pointing at the ground, Sasuke lowered his head to look at the leaves on the floor, then looked at the tools in Naruto's hands.

"Keep it up, I believe in you!"

Sasuke stood up, walked to Naruto's side, patted him on the shoulder, and encouraged him!

"Baka!"

Faced with Sasuke's encouragement, Naruto was a bit angry. However, recalling what Iruka had said—that if he didn't finish cleaning up now, he would be kept after school—Naruto gritted his teeth and began to sweep up the leaves!

Just then, Shikamaru walked over to the spot where Sasuke had just been, picked up a cut leaf, and looked at it with astonishment. What was this for?

"Shikamaru, what are you doing?"

Naruto, who was preparing to use the "Fire Dance Whirlwind" to clean up the leaves, asked curiously as he watched Shikamaru pick up the leaf!

"Nothing. You can start now!" Although he didn't know what Sasuke was doing, Shikamaru didn't think Sasuke would do anything useless. Shikamaru put the leaf away, preparing to slowly ponder what deep meaning Sasuke's actions might have!

As the school bell rang, the students left the Ninja Academy one after another. Naturally, Sasuke was no exception. When Sasuke returned home, he found that a book titled Will of Fire had suddenly appeared in his house!

"Sarutobi Hiruzen? What a qualified Hokage! If this were my previous life, he would have been dragged out and beheaded long ago!"

Looking at the Will of Fire in his hand, Sasuke's gaze was cold. He then threw the book aside; after all, Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't see into his house using that broken crystal ball!

Sasuke first took out a basket and collected a large number of leaves, then took out a dozen water bottles and filled them with water. After doing this, Sasuke used the Shadow Secret Technique: Clone to summon eleven clones!

Then, Sasuke himself and those ten shadow clones entered the basement. As for the remaining one, which was more special, it naturally had to go to the Ninja Academy for class; after all, it could swap positions with Sasuke at will!

After entering the basement with the materials he had prepared, Sasuke picked up the Genjutsu Training Scroll he hadn't fully understood yet. As for the clones, they were divided into two groups, with five people in each group!

One group was responsible for the nature transformation of Fire Release chakra—that is, boiling water. Ten water bottles boiled five at a time; by the time the second batch of water boiled, the first batch had cooled down enough.

As for the second group, they were practicing the nature transformation of Wind Release chakra—that is, cutting leaves. Since he already possessed Wind Release chakra, he might as well make good use of it!

Sasuke's plan was to max out his proficiency in the nature transformation of both Fire and Wind attributes within a year, and then synthesize Scorch Release!

Then, he would strive to max out his proficiency in the nature transformation of Scorch Release before graduating from the Ninja Academy. Of course, this was just a plan; whether it could succeed would depend on the situation!

Fire to boil water, wind to cut leaves; my goal is Scorch Release!

Asking for votes, everyone (づ●─●)づ