New Uses for the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique

Chiye Jun opened the door.

"Eh, why are you the only one here? Where's Sasuke?"

Naruto clutched his stomach and laughed. "He went to forge iron!"

"Forge iron?"

Chiye Jun had no idea that ever since their taijutsu match, Sasuke had embarked on the path of blacksmithing...

Second-floor bedroom.

He shoved Naruto onto the bed.

Naruto giggled.

"Ha-ha, that tickles, bro! What are you doing...?"

Chiye Jun wanted to test Egg Ball's effects.

With a wave of his hand, five or six electric balls bounced onto Naruto's back.

They clung tightly to his back like cupping jars, making sizzling sounds.

The electric balls created negative-pressure suction, stimulating the acupoints on his back as well as the tendons and meridians within his body.

Just then, the system suddenly popped up and issued an unexpected check-in mission.

[Ding! Please have the host demonstrate ten uses of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique. Check-in deadline: one month.]

What the hell!

This counted as a mission too...

Uses for the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique?

Chiye Jun began to ponder.

"I could open a therapy clinic on Leaf Street someday and use Egg Ball to give people massages, clear their meridians, strengthen the body, and drive away evil. It should make money..."

As he thought, he fell asleep.

Naruto grew sleepy as well and drifted off.

Although the Third Hokage had suppressed the matter, there was no such thing as a secret that could stay hidden forever.

The residents of Konoha Village still found out.

Thus,

word of Chiye Jun brutally murdering a teacher spread like wildfire.

He became the second Naruto.

A freak of Konoha Village!

People who saw him on the street pointed and whispered.

Adults even told their children, "Don't play with him! He's a savage, cruel guy who even dared to kill his teacher!"

Screw you!

Chiye Jun did not care in the slightest.

Thick skin and strong resistance to pressure were his talents.

But if he caught anyone gossiping about him, he would definitely go over and tear their mouths apart.

Fortunately, the Exploding Heaven Gang members had not become distant toward him.

Sasuke in particular only gave an indifferent "Oh" upon learning that Mizuki had been killed, showing no emotional reaction whatsoever.

That morning was the graduation briefing.

Iruka announced the class assignments.

The original twenty-seven graduates were divided into nine teams of three.

But because Chiye Jun made twenty-eight, one team had to become a four-person team.

It came as no surprise at all that Chiye Jun was assigned to Kakashi's Team 7.

Sakura was no longer as repulsed by him as before, but she still hated Naruto.

She shouted, "Why do I have to be on a team with that idiot?!"

But she soon began showing off to Ino again.

"Hmph! Sasuke and I are on the same team."

Ino did not care at all. Instead, she stared at Chiye Jun with starry eyes.

"Jun, it would've been so nice if I could've been on the same team as you... Choji, you fat pig, stop eating already!!!"

Even as Sakura cursed at him, Naruto merely grinned foolishly.

Chiye Jun shook his head helplessly.

"This fool is wasting himself on a one-sided crush. He won't even know when she cheats on him!"

He resolved to change Naruto's simp-like nature and make him completely forget Sakura...

At ten in the morning, the briefing ended.

On the way home, he deliberately stopped Hinata, the future mother of his children.

"Hinata, after graduation, we won't be able to see each other every day anymore."

After saying that, he gently ruffled her hair.

They stood very close, close enough to almost smell each other's breath.

Feeling his breath wash over her, Hinata's heart immediately raced, and her whole body went lightheaded.

"It's... it's okay... Our homes are close by. You can come play with me."

After saying that, Hinata lowered her head shyly.

Chiye Jun chuckled. "Then it's settled. You can come to my house when you're free too. No one's home at my place, so it'll be more convenient to play."

Hinata fidgeted with her little hands. "Then what will we play...?"

"Ahem... video games, karaoke, that kind of thing. I'll teach you to sing Conquest."

After a moment of awkwardness, Chiye Jun deliberately asked again:

"By the way, do you have any siblings?"

"I have a younger sister. She's five years younger than me, and her name is Hanabi."

Chiye Jun feigned surprise.

"Hanabi? This is the first time I've heard you mention her. Bring her along next time too."

"Okay..."

After parting with Hinata, Chiye Jun returned home and headed into the kitchen to prepare lunch.

He had run into Grandma Koharu on the road earlier.

Ever since tasting the snacks Chiye Jun made last time, she had not been able to forget them.

Chiye Jun had promised to make some more for her.

Of course!

He had an ulterior motive.

Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane did not have much of a presence in the original story.

Nor were they ninjas with particularly formidable individual strength.

They did not have any buff that kept them eternally young.

But the two of them had participated many times in proposals deciding the Hokage candidates.

They also held a certain degree of prestige in the village.

Even in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, though they had trouble moving about, they still handled major village decisions and managed Konoha's administrative affairs.

Therefore, Chiye Jun had not overlooked these two elders.

He could not hang himself from the Third Hokage's tree alone.

A master-disciple relationship would only become a shackle. He still had to find an opportunity to sever it in the future...

Beneath the cherry blossom tree.

Fallen blossoms fluttered everywhere, radiant in their fleeting beauty.

Chiye Jun carried a food basket filled with plum cakes and red bean glutinous rice cakes.

A little girl walked over.

"It smells so good..."

She was an adorable little girl.

She had short black hair and skin as smooth as congealed cream.

Her delicate, rosy cheeks looked sweet and playful.

She wore a pink kimono, and her sparkling crystal shoes were dazzling. At a glance, she was clearly the child of a wealthy family.

Only...

her eyes had the same white pupils as Hinata's.

Chiye Jun froze.

Hanabi?!

"Little sister, what's your name?"

Chiye Jun bent down and took a red bean glutinous rice cake from the basket.

The Hyuga Clan's strict family rules did not allow its children to casually speak with strangers.

Much less accept food from them!

Yet as she looked into Chiye Jun's gentle eyes, the little girl felt an inexplicable sense of safety.

"He's much kinder than Brother Neji..."

She glanced at the clan's hidden guards following her from a distance.

The guards recognized this new neighbor—the Third Hokage's disciple.

He made delicious food every day, and enticing aromas constantly drifted out from his small courtyard. Even smelling it while using the bathroom could make one hungry...

After receiving permission, the little girl accepted the red bean glutinous rice cake. Taking small bites, she said:

"My name is Hanabi Hyuga."

Ha-ha!

It really was Hanabi Hyuga.

She would grow up to be one of the beautiful girls of the Hokage world!

She was at least a ninety out of a hundred!

Who would have thought she was this kawaii even as a child.