Classic Rasengan

"It was true that I had to go to the battlefield, but... I wouldn't be much help if I went. You know I've been studying nonstop lately, Second Brother, all to improve my strength."

After saying that, Uchiha Yuan looked at Izuna. Seeing that he had taken it in, he breathed a sigh of relief and added,

"Besides, I'm preparing to develop a hand-signless ninjutsu. I've only just found a lead. If I go to the battlefield, I might not be able to find that inspiration again when I return. How about this... can I go next time?"

Izuna folded his arms and considered it. His third brother did have a point. Moreover, he had only recently begun learning chakra transformations and had already found inspiration for a hand-signless ninjutsu. Such an opportunity was indeed hard to come by.

"Then... you have to go next time, all right? Otherwise, it'll be hard to explain to Father."

"Definitely! I'll definitely go next time!"

After finally seeing his second brother Izuna off, Uchiha Yuan soothed his racing heart.

He had not expected his clansmen to go tattling on him. Seriously...

But it was no surprise once he remembered that he was the clan head's son. The Uchiha were just that kind of clan—they were exceptionally warlike.

I probably won't be able to avoid it next time. It hasn't even been a month, and this is already the third time, right?

He truly did not understand what was so worth fighting over. They fought and fought, yet neither side could do anything to the other. Couldn't they just develop properly and steamroll the opposition later?

Uchiha Yuan felt a little anxious. He wandered through the clan alone, watching the clansmen pack their things and prepare for battle, his small brows furrowed in thought.

This time, the mobilization was massive. Even those whose injuries were only half-healed had been called up, leaving a large stretch of the wounded area suddenly empty.

Other than the elderly and the young, this fight had mobilized nearly eighty percent of the Uchiha's able-bodied forces.

This is quite a show. Who are they fighting?

After a moment's thought, he understood. Other than the Senju, who else could warrant such a grand deployment?

Over a thousand Uchiha had been sent out at once, including as many as seventy or eighty jonin.

"As expected of a great clan. They actually have so many jonin."

Many of the faces were unfamiliar, and he could not even name some of them.

As several clansmen passed Uchiha Yuan, they gave ambiguous snorts, leaving him completely baffled.

"Why are you snorting at me? Psychos."

Uchiha Yuan muttered quietly and turned to leave. He had not forgotten the hand-signless ninjutsu he had bragged about to his second brother.

When it came to the most famous hand-signless ninjutsu, it was none other than the Rasengan, one of the must-learn techniques for transmigrators.

The Uchiha Training Ground had returned to its deserted state.

"I remember needing a rubber ball... but this era probably doesn't have rubber balls."

The principle behind the Rasengan was to form an irregularly rotating sphere of chakra energy in one's palm.

The protagonist Naruto had gradually trained it using balloons and rubber balls, but this technique was hard on the hands.

Force was mutual, after all. Using it even once could cause severe damage to the cells in the arm and palm.

"My chakra control is fairly advanced now. Although I've only mastered wind and fire nature transformations, that should be enough for now."

Once one knew the principle, the Rasengan was easy to learn. However, it was very difficult to take the next step and throw the sphere outward.

The next day, he was once again at the Training Ground.

Uchiha Yuan lowered his head to look at his palm while two clones beside him continuously fed chakra into it.

Although this method looked clumsy, Naruto's approach had proven quite useful in the early stages.

The time required had dropped from more than ten seconds to three seconds. The Rasengan was now more or less ready for practical combat.

Uchiha Yuan activated his Sharingan, two black tomoe circling within his pupils.

He could see the chakra flow inside the Rasengan with perfect clarity.

"Dynamic vision, copying, observation... the Sharingan really lives up to its reputation."

He felt that the Rasengan was especially suitable for the Uchiha to learn. By that reasoning, Flying Thunder God might be as well.

"Thinking about running before I've even learned to walk."

Uchiha Yuan shook his head with a laugh and dispersed the chakra in the Rasengan. For now, he needed to honestly master the ninjutsu he already knew and turn them into actual combat strength.

This body had combat experience, but how much of it he could still use was unknown.

In other words, he would eventually have to go to the battlefield. And going to the battlefield meant killing people.

"Killing people... what a distant thing, yet it happens here every day."

Uchiha Yuan was not a coward. He was simply trying his best to avoid putting himself in danger.

When faced with a life-or-death crisis, people had many possible reactions. Some froze in terror, while others became afraid and lost all strength.

But Uchiha Yuan was the type whose adrenaline would spike, sending him straight into a berserk rage.

He remembered encountering a half-grown puppy on his way home from school as a child. The dog was usually tied up at a neighbor's house, but for some reason, it had gotten loose that day.

Uchiha Yuan had only been in elementary school then. Carrying his backpack, he had only wanted to hurry home when the dog started barking wildly behind him.

The moment he ran, the dog barked even more fiercely. When he looked back, its bared fangs scared him out of his wits, and his mind went completely blank.

He turned around and smashed it with his backpack.

The backpack was filled with stationery and books, and the blow landed solidly. The dog yelped, tucked its tail, and tried to retreat.

But Uchiha Yuan had already entered his berserk state. He chased after it without a care, hitting and smashing at it all the way, scattering books and pens everywhere as he pursued the dog through half the village.

Only after adults found him and pulled him away did he gradually calm down, then cry in grievance for a long while.

Dog: ??

"The Rasengan is settled for now. What remains is the Three-Body Technique. The Body Flicker Technique, in particular, is worth digging into."

A technique being simple did not mean it was weak. Uchiha Yuan remembered that Shisui Uchiha had become famous through that very move in Naruto.

According to the scroll, the principle was to coat the soles of one's feet with chakra and rapidly move toward a visible destination. Because the speed was so fast that it appeared to be teleportation, it was also called the Body Flicker Technique.

Uchiha Yuan practiced it for a while and found that once chakra covered the soles of his feet, his body became as light as a swallow. He could also cling to walls and tree trunks.

"It's useful, sure, but how did Shisui Uchiha connect this Body Flicker Technique with the Clone Technique?"

The anime had vaguely described Shisui Uchiha's clones as possessing physical bodies. Each clone looked just like the real person, which sounded like the Shadow Clone Technique.

"But the Shadow Clone Technique requires far too much chakra. It probably isn't that."

He looked up at the sky. Another day was about to end, so he decided to stop training and head outside to find something to eat.

Yes, ever since most of the clansmen had gone off to fight, no one had been responsible for his three daily meals.

Fortunately, he was not some oversized baby who could only wait for others to bring him food, so he went out to forage for himself.

"It's nice having no pollution. The mountains are green and the waters are clear."

After looking around, he decided not to enter the forest at night in case something went wrong. Instead, he went to the waterfall where Madara had once trained with him and his brothers to catch fish.