Could You Lend Me Your Body to Study for a Few Days?

"A Shadow Clone?! He actually sent a Shadow Clone to class?" Minamikawa Ōzora stared in some shock at where Sōkyū Hatake had vanished.

After all, how many days had it been since school started? While his lessons for these students were still at the Chakra Extraction Technique, Sōkyū Hatake was already using a Shadow Clone to attend class.

That was an enormous difference!

"A Shadow Clone?" Uchida Uchiha hurried over to Sōkyū Hatake's seat, his expression extremely ugly.

As a member of the Uchiha Clan, he had an innate sense of confidence when dealing with everyone else!

One could even say he looked down on everyone else.

Yet now, a mere Sōkyū Hatake had actually kicked that confidence down from the clouds!

Because he himself did not know the Shadow Clone Technique at all! One could even say he had yet to master the Three Body Technique!

That was the difference: one had not even learned the Three Body Technique, while the other had already learned the Shadow Clone Technique.

This left Uchida Uchiha with a sense of defeat.

"Uchida Uchiha, go back to your own seat!" Minamikawa Ōzora composed his expression and spoke to Uchida Uchiha somewhat sternly.

"..." Uchida Uchiha said nothing, slowly walking back to his seat instead. By then, a spark had appeared in his eyes.

He was going to surpass Sōkyū Hatake!

Once that thought took hold, all Uchida Uchiha wanted was to keep growing stronger!

I'll have to get my brother to give me special training when I get home tonight!

"He actually learned the Shadow Clone Technique already. Just what you'd expect from Lord Orochimaru's student." Mitaraishi Anko was a little surprised as well.

"So Sōkū is this strong?!" Umino Iruka was astonished. He had never expected Sōkyū Hatake to be so strong!

For a while, all sorts of murmurs filled the classroom, with most students discussing Sōkyū Hatake.

"All of you, shut up! Have you learned everything I've taught you?"

"If you learn the Shadow Clone Technique too, I'll let you skip class as well!"

"You really are the worst class I've ever taught!"

Soon, Minamikawa Ōzora's roars rang through the classroom.

At the Valley of the End, the sky had cleared by then, returning to how it had looked at the beginning.

Sōkyū Hatake lay on the ground, gasping for breath. After unleashing that ultimate move, he truly had nothing left.

Orochimaru, in contrast, stood to one side, looking as mild and refined as jade. There was not a trace of the battle he had just fought on him; instead, he watched Sōkyū Hatake with interest.

"What a monster, to deliver such a powerful strike." Orochimaru swore he was genuinely curious about just how Sōkyū Hatake's body was put together.

"Didn't you still beat this monster easily?" Sōkyū Hatake looked at Orochimaru irritably. He knew.

It might have looked as though Sōkyū Hatake had put up a decent fight against Orochimaru, but it was obvious that Orochimaru had not fought him seriously at all.

Even at the end, had he not wanted to show Sōkyū Hatake the gap between them, Orochimaru would not have needed to use the Eight Branches Technique.

"You're still young. I wasn't this strong in battle when I was your age." Orochimaru reached out and flicked Sōkyū Hatake on the head.

What a brat. He already wants to challenge me?

Of course, Orochimaru himself was also a little shocked.

Although he had not used his full strength, Sōkyū Hatake's performance had been far too stunning.

Normally speaking, if certain aspects of combat experience were set aside, then in terms of attack power alone, Sōkyū Hatake could even reach the level of a Special Jōnin.

Of course, that referred only to attack power. Sōkyū Hatake still had some flaws in actual combat.

However, that did not affect Orochimaru's assessment of Sōkyū Hatake.

A freak, a monster!

"My whole body feels hollowed out. Seriously, I really can't just use that ultimate move whenever I want." Sōkyū Hatake tried to move his hands, but he had very little strength left.

"You harnessed the power of nature. That's not a skill you can master at your current stage, so it's perfectly normal for your body to be drained," Orochimaru said calmly.

As someone who loved research, he had been deeply impressed by the Thunder God Descent Sōkyū Hatake had just used.

So this is the power of heaven and earth?

"That's true. Ah, Pikachu, give me a jolt!" Sōkyū Hatake suddenly called out to the side. The next second, a yellow rodent appeared in Orochimaru's sight.

"Pi! Ka! Chu!!!" After Pikachu came up beside Sōkyū Hatake, a bolt of yellow lightning burst straight from Pikachu's body and shot directly into Sōkyū Hatake's body.

"??? You call that a jolt???" Watching Pikachu and Sōkyū Hatake, Orochimaru's eyelid twitched.

What normal person would have their summoned beast electrocute them?

However, something that left Orochimaru even more speechless happened.

After Pikachu's Thunderbolt poured into Sōkyū Hatake's body, strength began returning to him.

Soon, once Thunderbolt ended, Sōkyū Hatake could already sit up normally and move his hands.

"It really did consume too much..." Sōkyū Hatake muttered to himself. This was his first time using that move, which he had developed by drawing on Uchiha Sasuke's future Kirin.

"Um... Little Sōkū, how about we discuss something? Could you lend me your body to study for a few days?" Orochimaru looked at Sōkyū Hatake with barely concealed longing.

With that look in his eyes, had Sōkyū Hatake not been his student, he truly would have wanted to conduct some research on him right there.

"Don't even think about it. Here, this is for you." Somewhat speechless, Sōkyū Hatake rolled his eyes at Orochimaru. What's wrong with this guy? He wants to study someone's body right off the bat?

Still, thinking of Orochimaru's reputation as a mad scientist, Sōkyū Hatake could understand a little. This man had never been a good person to begin with!

"What's this?" Although Orochimaru did not know what Sōkyū Hatake was handing him, he took it anyway.

"The Uchiha Clan's Sharingan. That man's eye. I lost the bet, so I'm paying up," Sōkyū Hatake said plainly. Keeping this Sharingan was of little use to him anyway; he might as well give it to Orochimaru to divert some of his attention.

"Ah, I'd still rather study your body. How about I give you another three-tomoe one, and you let me study you?" Orochimaru looked at the Sharingan. After seeing Sōkyū Hatake's body, the Sharingan now looked like nothing more than a pig's eye to him.