Multi-Shadow Clone Technique

Time flew by, and soon it was the second...

Uchiha Shin woke up especially early that day, a full hour before the time he had arranged to meet Uchiha Tajima.

Uchiha Shin knew that both the cultivation resources he would receive from then on and his standing in Uchiha Tajima's eyes depended on this morning's battle.

So he decided to use that extra hour to get himself into the best possible mental state, bringing his energy and focus to their peak for his current level.

As someone familiar with the original Naruto, Uchiha Shin knew that without him, this butterfly, the Uchiha Clan's leader would definitely be Uchiha Madara.

Although he had crossed over and become Uchiha Madara's older brother,

family succession in the Warring States Period of Naruto wasn't simply a matter of favoring the eldest or the legitimate heir. Personal ability and talent also played a very important role.

So if his abilities weren't as good as Uchiha Madara's...

Then even as Uchiha Tajima's eldest son, he would still hand the position of Uchiha Clan leader to Uchiha Madara in the future.

That was something he absolutely couldn't accept. After all, the resources and support available to a clan leader were incomparable to those available to the older brother of a future clan leader.

If he wanted to survive in this chaotic Warring States era—and not only survive, but live well and become one of the few people at the very top of its pyramid...

Then he was determined to claim the future position of Uchiha Clan leader.

That was why Uchiha Shin hadn't let up since the age of two. Only he knew how much hardship and exhaustion he'd endured in his three years of training.

He, Uchiha Shin, had been silent for three years, but when he finally made a name for himself, he would do so spectacularly.

The one thing that had comforted him over the past few years was that his body's talent as a ninja really wasn't inferior to Uchiha Madara's!

Just think: if someone had the same excellent talent as you, but was even more disciplined and hardworking in private, could you really beat him?

"It's time to go."

"Heh...!"

"The future position of Uchiha Clan leader is as good as mine..."

"Madara, just focus on being a good little brother."

Uchiha Shin looked up at the rising sun and couldn't help smiling confidently. Then he strode toward the Uchiha Clan training grounds.

"Hmph, you're late, Shin!"

Uchiha Tajima stood in the middle of the training grounds with his arms crossed, looking imposing. Madara and Izuna stood beside the field. It seemed the two of them were here to watch today.

"Father, I'm right on time!"

"Just like the rising sun, this is when young people begin to make their mark."

Uchiha Shin walked into the training grounds with confidence, meeting Uchiha Tajima's gaze without the slightest fear.

"Hmm?"

"Let's hope your abilities match your silver tongue..."

"Otherwise, today will be the beginning of a hellish training session."

Uchiha Tajima looked at his eldest son's confident, brazen expression, and a hint of amusement entered his eyes.

"Come on, my son. Fight me with the resolve to kill me."

"If you don't have that kind of resolve, you won't be able to fight me today!"

Uchiha Tajima let his arms fall loosely to his sides. In an instant, his entire presence changed.

"Of course, Father..."

"Ever since I decided to become a ninja, I've been prepared to kill or be killed."

"You can't become a ninja without that kind of resolve!"

Uchiha Shin let his hands hang at his sides. Facing the pressure Uchiha Tajima radiated, he released his own presence and met it without backing down.

"Hmph, now we're talking!"

"Then let's begin!"

Uchiha Tajima didn't go easy on Uchiha Shin just because he was his son, nor did he let him make the first move. Instead, he immediately flung three kunai straight at Uchiha Shin's face.

"As you wish, Father!"

Uchiha Shin didn't mind that Uchiha Tajima had made the first move.

After all, in Uchiha Shin's eyes, a ninja was someone who would use any means necessary to achieve victory.

There were no fathers or sons in a match. Fighting with the resolve to kill the other person was perfectly normal.

"Second Brother, who do you think will win today, Father or Big Brother?"

Izuna turned to his second brother, Uchiha Madara, looking puzzled.

"Father, of course."

Madara scoffed at Izuna's question.

But then Madara offered his opinion: "The only question is how many moves Big Brother will last against Father."

"Will Father beat Big Brother up really badly?"

Watching the two of them fighting in the training grounds, Izuna suddenly began to worry about his older brother.

"He won't get seriously hurt, but he'll definitely suffer."

Madara thought for a moment before answering.

By now, Uchiha Shin and Uchiha Tajima had already exchanged three moves.

Watching the two of them exchange their third move in the training grounds, Madara's expression suddenly turned grave.

A strange feeling suddenly stirred deep inside him. Could Big Brother actually win today?

No, impossible...

At the thought, Madara shook his head. It was too strange an idea. How could Big Brother possibly beat Father?

Father was the strongest ninja in the Uchiha Clan!

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

Uchiha Shin leaped backward, deftly blocking and knocking away the four shuriken Uchiha Tajima had casually thrown.

"That was just a warm-up. I haven't even started yet."

Uchiha Tajima didn't pursue his son as he landed farther away, kunai in hand and on guard. He simply spoke.

"Of course. I never thought the Uchiha Clan leader, the strongest man in the Uchiha Clan, would be limited to that."

Uchiha Shin answered just as boldly.

Though he looked confident on the outside, Uchiha Shin was privately groaning.

Those three moves might have looked easy for him to handle, but he knew the truth.

From those three moves, Uchiha Shin could tell that although Uchiha Tajima had brought his strength and speed down to his level, he still had the advantage in combat experience.

So if he wanted to win today, he would have to use his trump card and catch his father off guard.

That was the only way he could close the gap in their combat experience and maybe gain an opening to win.

It looked like he'd have to reveal some of his trump cards today.

With that thought, Uchiha Shin had already come up with a solid battle plan.

"I'm coming again..., Father."

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Uchiha Shin lowered his body and charged toward Uchiha Tajima. At the same time, he pulled three kunai from the tool pouch at his lower back and hurled them at Uchiha Tajima's face.

"Hmph, too obvious. That trick won't work on me!"

Uchiha Tajima snorted and tilted his head slightly, dodging the three kunai flying straight at his face.

"Not necessarily, Father."

Just as Uchiha Tajima was about to move, he suddenly heard another whoosh behind his head.

The three kunai that had flown past Uchiha Tajima abruptly changed direction and shot straight toward the back of his head.

"Are there wires attached to the three kunai?"

Catching a faint glint of reflected light, Uchiha Tajima finally spotted the three wires attached to the bases of the kunai as they passed him.

"Interesting. But this alone won't be nearly enough."

Uchiha Tajima's eyes lit up. He smoothly bent backward, dodging the three kunai that came flying toward the back of his head.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"

The moment Uchiha Tajima dodged the kunai with his backward bend, Uchiha Shin spewed a huge fireball from his mouth, aiming it straight at him.

"Hmm?"

"Not only did he choose the timing perfectly..."

"He's even using the Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique so skillfully."

Uchiha Tajima's eyes shone even brighter at the sight.

For a ninja of his level, there were countless ways to deal with a mid-level technique like the Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique.

But he still wanted to see what Uchiha Shin would do next.

"Water Style: Water Wall!"

As Uchiha Tajima rose, he swiftly formed hand seals. A curtain of water surged up from the ground, completely shielding him on all sides.

"Pshhh!"

Uchiha Shin's Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique collided with Uchiha Tajima's Water Style: Water Wall. The clash of water and fire produced a vast cloud of mist.

Of course, that was exactly the effect Uchiha Shin wanted.

When he decided to use the Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique, he'd judged that Uchiha Tajima would very likely counter with a Water Release technique.

Only the mist created by the clash of water and fire could temporarily block Uchiha Tajima's vision, giving Uchiha Shin a chance to make his next move.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Uchiha Shin threw four shuriken into the mist, aiming for Uchiha Tajima's general position.

Seeing in all directions and listening for every sound were basic combat skills for a ninja.

Inside the mist, Uchiha Tajima twitched his ears and quickly worked out the flight paths of the shuriken Uchiha Shin had thrown.

Once he'd figured out their trajectories, knocking them down would be easy.

But Uchiha Tajima had no intention of doing that.

The mist temporarily blocked his vision, but it blocked Uchiha Shin's vision as well. If he knocked the shuriken out of the air now...

Then Uchiha Shin would naturally pinpoint his exact position.

Uchiha Tajima couldn't help admiring how carefully Uchiha Shin had planned his attack.

So inside the mist, he spun and leaped, dodging the shuriken.

Uchiha Shin's test had actually ended here.

After all, in just a few brief exchanges, his taijutsu, ninjutsu, and skill with kunai and shuriken had already proven far superior to those of an ordinary Genin.

So Uchiha Tajima was extremely satisfied with Uchiha Shin's current level.

Even so, Uchiha Tajima didn't stop fighting.

He wanted to see if the eldest son who had already impressed him so much could still surprise him.

Just then, the mist finally cleared. Nothing stood between Uchiha Shin and Uchiha Tajima anymore.

But Uchiha Tajima found it strange that his eldest son, Uchiha Shin, looked as though he'd already won.

"Poof!"

"Poof!"

"Poof!"

"Poof!"

Then several rapid sounds rang out beside his ears...

"Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!" ×5

Suddenly, the four shuriken he'd just dodged transformed with a series of poofs into four Uchiha Shins.

The five Uchiha Shins on the training ground instantly surrounded Uchiha Tajima.

All five of them formed hand seals at once...

"That hand-seal sequence is the Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!"

"Clone Technique plus Transformation Technique?"

"Good idea!"

"But the Clone Technique can't make solid attacks, and it can't fool the Sharingan's perception..."

"Does Shin not realize that the moment he attacks, he'll give away which one is the real one?"

Uchiha Tajima furrowed his brow, unable to understand what his eldest son was thinking.

"Huh? Those four aren't Clone Technique clones. They're solid!"

The three Tomoe in Uchiha Tajima's eyes turned slightly, and he finally noticed that something was wrong.

That's right. One of the trump cards Uchiha Shin revealed was the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique.

As a Naruto fan in his previous life, Uchiha Shin knew the principles behind the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique like the back of his hand.

In simple terms, the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique was an advanced version of the Shadow Clone, while the Shadow Clone was an advanced version of the Clone Technique.

The principle behind the Shadow Clone was to divide one's Chakra evenly among one's clones, making them solid and allowing them to attack independently.

The Multi-Shadow Clone Technique took the Shadow Clone and increased the number of clones one could create.

Though the principle behind the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique sounded easy to understand, could someone really learn it that easily?

After all, Uchiha Shin had started figuring out the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique as soon as he'd learned one of the Three Basic Techniques: the Clone Technique.

Although he knew how the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique worked and remembered the hand seals perfectly,

Uchiha Shin had still spent nearly three months experimenting on his own before he managed to recreate this technique, developed by Second Hokage Tobirama Senju in the original Naruto, in full.

"Uh-oh!"

Just then, the Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique unleashed by Uchiha Shin and his four Multi-Shadow Clones came hurtling toward Uchiha Tajima again, Shuriken mixed in with the flames. The attack covered every angle within a sixty-degree arc.

"Substitution Technique!"

"Bang!"

Uchiha Tajima quickly formed Hand Seals and used the Substitution Technique.

"Thud."

"Thud."

"Thud."

Dozens of flaming Shuriken pierced the wooden log Uchiha Tajima had substituted in his place in an instant.

After completing that attack, Uchiha Shin immediately stopped and retreated to the edge of the training ground.

"Big Brother is actually that strong?"

Watching the two men fighting in the field, Izuna exclaimed in disbelief.

He'd always known his big brother was impressive, but he hadn't imagined he could be this impressive.

Madara said nothing...

But the unwilling look on Madara's face made it clear that Big Brother Uchiha Shin was indeed far stronger than him.

When Uchiha Shin saw that his carefully planned attack had failed, he didn't lose heart.

He knew that today's test was probably over.

Heh. And he'd won.

After all, judging by the speed and timing Uchiha Tajima had just shown in dodging the Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique...

Neither the dynamic vision of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan nor the speed, nearly equal to the Body Flicker Technique, was something an ordinary Genin could possess.

In other words, in this father-son duel, Uchiha Tajima had used strength beyond the limits of a Genin.

So he, Uchiha Shin, had won by catching his father off guard. Ha!

"Shin, your performance today really surprised me!"

Uchiha Tajima rarely smiled. He slowly walked up to Uchiha Shin, his eldest son, and praised him.

"No..."

"To be precise, if we'd been on a battlefield just now, I'd already be dead."

"On a battlefield, no jonin would suppress his strength to a Genin's level to fight me."

"And if a jonin wanted to kill a Genin on the battlefield, it would be effortless."

"Even if I caught one off guard just now, against a jonin I'd struggle for, at most, a second or two."

"My strength still isn't enough, Father!"

Uchiha Shin looked up at Uchiha Tajima and answered without either arrogance or submission.

"You're clear-headed. That's good."

"Perhaps you'll go farther than I did on the path of a ninja."

Uchiha Tajima was glad that his eldest son, Uchiha Shin, clearly understood how much he still lacked instead of growing arrogant and complacent.

"By the way, what was that technique that created solid clones?"

As the leader of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Tajima had a keen eye. How could he fail to notice the battlefield value of the technique Uchiha Shin had just used?

"It's the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique, Father."

"I improved and created it based on the Clone Technique!"

Uchiha Shin answered honestly.

Hearing his eldest son say that, Uchiha Tajima's eyes lit up even more...

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