Chapter 8 The Shadow of War
Time flies, time flies.
Two years of time passed by as quickly as sand between fingers in Uchiha Tokumitsu's unremitting practice.
Konoha 30 years.
It was early summer, and the weather was relatively warm and humid, but at this time, Konoha, and even the entire shinobi world, seemed extremely restless.
Since the end of the first Ninja World War in Konoha 21, the Ninja world has been barely at peace for nine years. These nine years are also the nine years of Konoha's golden generation.
In the 22nd year of Konoha, the wife of the patriarch of another wealthy Hyuga family in Konoha gave birth to twins, named Hyuga Hizashi and Hyuga Hizashi;
In August of the 23rd year of Konoha, the Senju family, Uchiha's mortal enemy, directly inherited the bloodline of Senju Hashirama and gave birth to a son, named Senju Noshu.
In January of the 26th year of Konoha, the wife of the patriarch of the Yamanaka family gave birth to a son, named Yamanaka Haiichi;
In April of the 26th year of Konoha, the wife of the patriarch of the Akimichi family gave birth to a son, named Akimichi Choza;
In July of the 26th year of Konoha, the wife of the head of the Nara family gave birth to a son, named Nara Shikaku;
There is another character who, although not much in the original work, has a profound influence, is Minato Namikaze, who was born in January 27th.
In the future, the unparalleled Sannin, Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya, were all born in Konoha 17 and are now 13 years old. They were all accepted as disciples by the third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The tragic patriarch in the original work, Uchiha Fugaku, who was born in Konoha 15 years ago, is still a chuunin in the Police Department. However, it is said that in a desperate battle during a special mission, his Sharingan evolved into
San Magatama will probably be promoted to Jonin soon.
Uchiha Tokumitsu, who has been practicing with Elder Setsuna for two years, has not only practiced the various fire escape ninjutsu passed down by his family to perfection, but has also achieved some success in the ninjutsu of the thunder escape and wind escape attributes.
In addition to his skills, Uchiha swordsmanship is also impressive. According to his father Uchiha Nakagen, regardless of the physical differences and chakra levels caused by age, in terms of swordsmanship, Uchiha Tokimitsu
His swordsmanship level is no less than that of the senior chuunin who specializes in swordsmanship in his family, and is unrivaled among his peers.
At least, Uchiha Tokumitsu once practiced swordsmanship with his cousin Uchiha Wakina on a whim. As a result, with a small sword, Uchiha Wakina, a police chunin who was full of confidence and full of guidance for his juniors, was chopped into doubts about his life.
, which led Uchiha Watana to doubt life, deny himself, be sad and angry, and other complex emotions. He forced the double magatama Sharingan to evolve into a triple magatama during the exercise. He is also considered to be one of the members of the Uchiha family.
The second largest Sharingan eye after Tokumitsu Uchiha has awakened and evolved.
Since then, Uchiha Childname has received a nonsensical nickname within the family, saying "The child who suffered a thousand blows".
However, Uchiha Tokumitsu also strictly followed the ninja's confidentiality principle and never exposed his true strength outside the clan. Those in the family who knew his true strength also kept silent at the request of Elder Setsuna. In the eyes of others, he
He is just a slightly old-fashioned Uchiha kid.
…
In the morning, Uchiha got up early as he had for two years, washed up, changed clothes, and went downstairs.
Today, Uchiha Nakagen was secretly sent out due to a special family mission. His mother, Emiko, prepared breakfast as usual and looked at her precious son with a smile.
Uchiha Tokumitsu chatted with Emiko while eating breakfast, but regarding the internal affairs of his father Uchiha Nakagen, the two of them had a tacit understanding and did not say anything or ask anything.
After all, when it comes to important and secret mission content, the fewer people who know about it, the safer it is.
After Uchiha Tokumitsu finished breakfast and helped wash the dishes, he was about to go out when his mother handed over a small ninja bag with a smile.
"This is……"
"This is the detonating talisman specially made by my mother. It is twice as powerful as the ordinary detonating talisman~"
Mother Emiko is still smiling.
"I have no need in the family..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu muttered slightly, took the ninja bag and opened it to see that there were nearly a hundred special detonating charms stacked inside...
"So many detonating symbols are enough to fight a small-scale war..."
"Hmm~ The family's arms business is booming recently. Not only does the village purchase large quantities, but there are also many mysterious high-rollers sweeping up the goods. Xiao Deguang should put them away first. After all, he is well prepared~"
There was something in Emiko's words, and she felt that her son, who was precocious and intelligent, could understand it.
"War..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu was touched in his heart and stopped talking. He carefully put the detonating talisman with him and then said goodbye to Emiko and went out.
…
Today is also a rather special day.
The competition between the new generation of the Uchiha family will begin today...
It's a pity that my father is away on a mission and my mother, as a ninja from the faction who is not on staff, cannot appear.
Uchiha Tokumitsu first came to Elder Setsuna's residence and greeted the elder as usual, waiting for the elder to arrange today's study content and training opponents.
…
Today's simulation is a forest encounter, and the training target is the shadow clone of Elder Setsuna Uchiha Kamon.
Phew! Phew! Phew!
Three shurikens shot out instantly from Uchiha Tokko's palm without any delay, drawing strange arcs in the air to attack Uchiha Fire Gate from different angles.
The use of ninja tools has always been the specialty of the Uchiha clan.
Uchiha Tokumitsu has naturally gone through a lot of hard work in this area of training, but he will never be arrogant enough to think that his two years of training can be comparable to the senior jounin Uchiha Fire Gate, even if it is just a shadow clone .
However, I have fought against Elder Setsuna's guards countless times in the past two years. Although there is no fear of death, even if the training subject consciously controls the power, he still suffers major injuries and minor injuries. He can be regarded as a ninja's fighting style. But in the chest.
Uchiha Kamon quickly drew out a kunai to block, blocking and knocking the shurikens away one by one. The sparks that burst out when the blades collided were particularly conspicuous in the slightly dim woods.
Then, six more shurikens flew towards me.
Uchiha Kamon didn't let the second round of shurikens get close to him, and all bounced away with the blade. Uchiha Tokumitsu held the Kodachi tightly with both hands, and rushed forward, closing the distance with Uchiha Tokumitsu, and launched a close-range attack. Hand-to-hand combat.
The speed of the two wielding their ninja tools was as fast as lightning and thunder, tearing the air, and the blades clashed fiercely.
After all, the weapon used by Uchiha Fire Gate is a kunai that he took out casually, and its material and sharpness are far inferior to the Kodachi held by Uchiha Tokumitsu.
The two of them fought for a while, and then Uchiha Tokumitsu made a jumping slash, and the Uchiha Fire Gate's kunai was cut off with a "clang" sound. Kodachi's remaining power was not reduced, and he slashed at Uchiha Fire Gate fiercely and sharply. go.
At the critical moment, Uchiha Kamon shrank suddenly and dodged backwards like a spring.
"Uchiha Style·Sword Flame Slash!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu frantically mobilized the chakra in his body, condensed, formed, and released it, and swung a sword energy composed of fire escape chakra to chase and slash.
At this time, Uchiha Kamon, who was in mid-air, was unprepared and was hit by the sword energy.
"Bang!"
The shadow clone turned into a cloud of smoke.
Got it...
Uchiha Tokumitsu was overjoyed in his heart. Although he was fighting only a shadow clone, it was the shadow clone of a jounin after all. Although his strength was not as good as his original body, his experience and skills were no different.
Just as the smile appeared on his face, two broken wooden stakes suddenly appeared from the smoke with a "bang!"
"this……"
It's a substitute technique.
A matte kunai lay silently across Uchiha Tokumitsu's neck. The sharp and cold blade touched the skin, causing goosebumps to appear.
"Xiao Deguang, I still win~"
Only then did Uchiha Tokumitsu realize that what he had hit was just a stand-in technique stake disguised by Uchiha Kamon's shadow clone using a clone technique.
"Little Tokokumitsu, why didn't you use your Sharingan just now?"
Although the Sharingan's insight is not as good as the Byakugan, its increase in personal combat effectiveness is far greater than that of the Byakugan. If Uchiha Tokumitsu turns on the Sharingan, he will not be able to detect the disguise of Uchiha Fire Gate.
"I...my chakra can't last long..."
Uchiha Kagota slapped his forehead and realized that he had asked a stupid question. Maybe because he had been with him a lot and had amazing talents, he couldn't help but forget that Uchiha Tokumitsu was only six years old this year...
Elder Setsuna, who stood outside the forest and stared at the battle with his Sharingan, was still very satisfied with Uchiha Tokumitsu's performance today as always.
However, as the most favored junior by Elder Setsuna and the one who spent the most money to cultivate, Uchiha Tokumitsu is obviously more withdrawn. He usually lives alone, rarely interacts with his peers, and has almost no interactions with other people in the village.
Although the Uchiha clan members are indeed aloof and arrogant, there are really only a few like Uchiha Tokumitsu.
Zhongxuan and Emiko don't care, leaving them to me to worry about.
Elder Setsuna muttered inwardly.
"Xiao Deguang performed very well today."
Elder Setsuna seemed to be calmly commenting on Uchiha Tokumitsu after his training, but he could not hide the satisfaction in his eyes.
After all, the Uchiha clan and even the entire Konoha could not find another such outstanding junior.
"I'll give you three days off starting tomorrow. Have a good rest."
The smiling Elder Setsuna is very amiable.
"Elder... I don't want to rest, why don't you let Qian Zhang and me tomorrow..."
Before Uchiha Tokumitsu could finish his protest, he was interrupted by Elder Setsuna:
"There will be a family competition in four days. If you want to participate this time, just take a good rest."
"oh……"
After hearing this, Uchiha Tokko no longer persisted.
The Uchiha clan competition is equivalent to a centralized competitive competition between ninjas of all ages. It is similar to the chuunin exam, except that the Uchiha clan competition, which advocates martial arts, does not set a cultural exam.
"You have also practiced with me for two years, but you have never been famous in the family. It's time to show it to everyone."
Elder Ksuna said calmly.
After all, as the chief elder of Uchiha, he also has his own source of intelligence. Judging from the recent popularity of the arms market, after nearly 10 years of hard work, restless ninja villages are beginning to prepare for a new ninja war.
Chapter completed!