Strange Power Research

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"Hiruzen, the Uchiha clan has gone too far!"

The door to the Hokage's office was kicked open with a "bang," and the one-eyed man, his anger seemingly at its peak, stormed in without the slightest regard for Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Hokage, or the Anbu hidden in the shadows.

"Danzo, what is the meaning of this?"

"The Uchiha clan has already reached out to the Senju clan, actually coveting their secret inherited techniques. Are you just going to ignore this?!"

"You are exaggerating!" Hiruzen Sarutobi looked up, appearing somewhat weary. "I am already aware of the matter; it is merely the ramblings of a child."

"What do you mean, 'ramblings of a child'? Have you considered that the Uchiha might have already stolen the training method for the Strength Enhancement Technique and are simply using this method to employ it openly?"

"This...!" Hiruzen Sarutobi's gaze sharpened; it was not an impossibility.

The Strength Enhancement Technique was a secret art of the Senju clan. Generally speaking, even if the Uchiha clan obtained it, they could not use it openly. Doing so would surely invite the resistance of all other ninja clans, making their situation in Konoha even more difficult. A secret technique that could not be displayed openly would be of little use to the overall advancement of the Uchiha clan.

But if they seized this opportunity to display the Strength Enhancement Technique through Uchiha Suifeng, one success would lead to two, and two to three. Once the influence and legends of the Senju clan in the village had completely faded, wouldn't this Strength Enhancement Technique effectively become a secret art of the Uchiha clan?

"Hiruzen, you've realized it too, haven't you? The Sharingan of the Uchiha clan can copy ninjutsu, but what about secret techniques? Once they can openly use the secret techniques of other clans, then..."

"Then they would become the public enemy of the ninja world!" Hiruzen Sarutobi interrupted him. "The Uchiha clan would not be so unwise. However, regarding the Strength Enhancement Technique, Tsunade is overthinking it. I will remind her."

"Remind her? What good will reminding her do? Once the Strength Enhancement Technique is displayed by that Uchiha Suifeng, the strength enhancement will no longer be the exclusive secret technique of the Senju clan."

"You are overthinking, Danzo!" Hiruzen Sarutobi seemed to recall something, his previously tense expression relaxing. "You have seen the scrolls for the Strength Enhancement Technique, and so have I, but have we mastered it? Who among us does not know the technique of instantaneous chakra eruption? Yet, the only one who can truly use it with ease and make it her own art is Tsunade. This technique requires too high a level of chakra control. Even if we assume the Uchiha clan obtained this technique long ago, I fear that in all these years, only this Uchiha Suifeng is suited to practice it and potentially succeed, which is why we are seeing this scene today!"

"Don't forget, the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan has a unique advantage in chakra control."

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at him and said slowly, "It is different. That kind of precise control is not something the Sharingan can manipulate."

"But...!"

"Danzo, you have been making too many small moves lately!" Hiruzen Sarutobi cut him off. "Even if Uchiha Suifeng is a genius, he is only one person. He cannot stir up any great waves."

"Don't forget, that person from back then...!"

"There is only one Madara Uchiha, and I do not believe the Uchiha clan can produce a second Madara Uchiha!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi was very confident in this. The Uchiha clan had been passed down for a thousand years and had only produced one Madara Uchiha, just as the Senju clan had only produced one Hashirama. Such figures could no longer be described by the term "genius"; they were not so easily replicated.

Konoha saw so-called geniuses appear every year, but how many of these geniuses were truly satisfying? Most were merely products of hype.

Once they grew up, they simply faded into the crowd!

Even Kakashi, who was so dazzling now—he dared not be certain of what the future held. Thinking of Kakashi, he was reminded of Sakumo.

"Danzo, the rumors spreading in the village lately—that is your handiwork, isn't it?!"

"I don't know what you are talking about!"

Danzo knew he couldn't hide it from the Third, but he wouldn't admit it to his face, denying it righteously. "This time, he botched the mission; it is only natural for people to discuss it. Are you saying people aren't allowed to speak just because he made a mistake?!"

"Put away your petty schemes. Sakumo is one of our own, and he has already been punished. Let this matter end here!"

"Hmph!" Danzo was incensed and turned to leave.

End here? How could that be possible? Sakumo's prestige in the village was so high that these rumors alone were not enough to shake his position, nor were they enough to completely destroy his reputation. If he didn't take this opportunity to thoroughly crush Sakumo's prestige, how could he compete with him for the position of Hokage in the future?

As a ninja, wouldn't it be better to just be a obedient tool? Why insist on having such a great reputation?

Thinking of this, he secretly made up his mind. "Not enough, far from enough. I need to increase the pressure on him until he no longer has the capital to inherit the position of Hokage!"

...I am a separator...

"The Strength Enhancement Technique is indeed troublesome; the requirements for chakra control are simply too high!"

In the Uchiha compound, Uchiha Suifeng slowly set down a scroll, a look of contemplation flashing in his eyes.

Chakra eruption was not a secret technique; basically, all Jonin knew it, and all could use it once or twice. But that was all it amounted to—it could only be used for emergencies and could not be treated as a conventional method.

To reach the level of Tsunade, there must be special techniques. The Uchiha clan did not possess these techniques. As for him, when he was at Konoha Hospital, he had awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan and managed to barely perceive some different chakra changes, but that was all.

The Uchiha clan copied ninjutsu with the Sharingan; in essence, they used the Sharingan's superior dynamic vision and image-capture ability to record the hand seals and chakra flow of the ninjutsu.

For ordinary ninjutsu, hand seals were the key to chakra flow. Once the seals were seen, the chakra flow observed, and a few more experiments conducted, the ninjutsu could be copied.

But the Strength Enhancement Technique was a form of nin-tai-jutsu that did not require hand seals; it was not a traditional ninjutsu. Chakra eruption happened in an instant, making it nearly impossible to copy with the Sharingan. He could only slowly research it from various clues.

Fortunately, the Uchiha and Senju had been bitter rivals for a thousand years. Regarding the secret techniques of their old rivals, the Uchiha's understanding was naturally much deeper than that of ordinary people.

A large amount of data had been sent over, including many supplementary studies on chakra eruption, which greatly reduced the difficulty of his development.

"Now these guys really treat me as a genius of ninjutsu!"

The threshold for being a genius in the ninja world was too low. Being able to develop a taijutsu of the level of Iron Body at his age had already firmly established his persona as a genius. Next, it would depend on how he carried it forward.

He raised his right hand, curled his thumb and index finger, and felt the flow of chakra within his body. Red light flashed in his eyes.

Snap!!

A loud explosion of air rang out, the surrounding airflow bursting apart and faintly transforming into a shockwave.

"The lowest level of eruption!" Uchiha Suifeng felt somewhat disappointed.