Time flew, and a week passed in the blink of an eye.
Sasuke, who was undergoing special training in the Hyuga Clan Compound, suddenly blanched and muttered, "Crap!" His Shadow Clone had abruptly dispelled. Kakashi and the others must have found out.
Uchiha Hikari mercilessly kicked Sasuke, sending him flying to the ground. "You lost focus. Keep training. No stopping. On a battlefield, you'd already be dead."
"Yes." Sasuke Uchiha gritted his teeth, climbed to his feet, and charged again. Rather than sparring, he was still accumulating combat experience by getting beaten up.
"Doesn't matter." Qingwu wasn't surprised. He waved a hand. "Let them know. No secret stays buried forever. Honestly, they were pretty slow to catch on."
For the past week, Sasuke Uchiha had been secretly training with the Hyuga. Now, at last, the secret was out.
His days had been packed solid with intense training: first, nonstop laps to build his stamina, followed by sparring with Uchiha Hikari—
Even when she completely overwhelmed him and slammed him into the ground again and again, he gritted his teeth and endured, building up practical combat experience;
At night, he still had to devote himself to the punishing Secret Technique from the Warring States Period that Uchiha Hikari had taught him.
The relentless training schedule barely left room to breathe, but Sasuke loved every moment of it.
In his own words,
He could actually see himself getting stronger at an astonishing pace, and that rhythm of training utterly captivated him.
Precisely because he had thrown himself into it so completely, he finally ran out of the chakra needed to maintain his Shadow Clone, exposing the secret training.
Sure enough, Kakashi and the others arrived soon afterward. Uzumaki Naruto's unmistakably loud voice reached them from far away. **"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Qingwu, that's