"For example, I invented the Moonwalk I use to fly!"
Kakashi froze when he heard that.
He turned his dead-fish eyes toward Uchiha Makoto and stared at him for three seconds.
"You invented it?"
"Yep." Uchiha Makoto stood up and dusted off his pants. "Don't believe me? I'll show you."
He took a few steps back and drew a deep breath.
Then he raised his foot and stepped down.
Not onto the ground, but onto the air.
Pop!
At the first step, the air gave a faint, explosive crack.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
A second step, a third, a fourth... Uchiha Makoto climbed higher, one step at a time, as though walking up an invisible staircase.
Five meters, ten meters, fifteen meters.
He stopped in midair, looked down at Kakashi, and grinned. "Well?"
Kakashi tilted his head back, his mouth falling slightly open beneath his mask.
Though Uchiha Makoto couldn't see it, he could tell the guy was stunned.
Moonwalk really was a little beyond the scope of the Naruto world.
No Chakra Threads, no wings, no ninjutsu assisting him. He rose into the sky purely by stepping on air.
Uchiha Makoto jumped down from the sky, landing as lightly as a leaf without even bending to absorb the impact.
"The principle is actually pretty simple." He patted Kakashi on the shoulder. "You release an instantaneous burst of chakra from the soles of your feet to generate recoil. The key is control. Your chakra output has to be steady, the burst has to be fast, and you need to release and rein it in freely..."
He rattled on at length.
As Kakashi listened, the doubt in his dead-fish eyes slowly turned into even deeper doubt.
"Are you really seven?" Kakashi finally asked.
"Absolutely." Uchiha Makoto pointed at his own face. "A