Chapter 35: Chapter 35: His Birthday Alone
"What did Sasuke say to you two?"
After Sasuke left briskly, Kiba and Shino gathered around, and Naruto temporarily stopped writing with a mysterious air.
Sakura and Ino had wanted to leave the school with Sasuke, but unfortunately, they couldn't catch up.
By the time they left, Sasuke was nowhere to be seen, so they had to return.
They came back, eager to hear what Sasuke had just said.
"He advised us to work harder during the holidays, and that these kinds of actual combat confrontations might become more frequent in the future."
Shikamaru held his head with a headache, "I have a feeling that with this kind of quick defeat, Iruka-sensei won't pass our actual combat class.
"It's really troublesome... I have to say that the Sharingan is really strong. In front of him, I feel that ordinary calculations and caution lose their meaning."
Although he used to slack off, Shikamaru was genuinely troubled this time.
The so-called battle of wits and cleverness ultimately depends on each party's means, intelligence, and room for maneuver.
Naruto was very spirited: "But as long as we repeat it enough times, we must have some chance together!"
"There must be a chance. How can we lose against one person with five? That's too embarrassing!"
Kiba and Akamaru regrouped.
Choji ate snacks and waited for Shikamaru to make arrangements.
Shino finally showed some presence at this time: "In fact, I think we can consider using different means at the same time. After all, the Sharingan cannot see 360 degrees at once—"
"As long as we are calm enough..."
"Yeah! It seems that we might not be unable to fight..."
Shikamaru's eyes lit up.
"What are you thinking? It's just a practical fight between classmates. Do you want to fight to the death?"
Ino immediately warned Shikamaru angrily, "Sasuke has been holding back and not using those forbidden jutsu and weapons. If you use them, I will join in and beat you."
Sakura naturally supported fair duels.
Warned by this strong Yamanaka clan friend since childhood, Shikamaru immediately shut down and explained, "I didn't think of any tactics. I just wanted to practice cooperation."
He withered first, and Choji naturally wouldn't be tough.
Shino regained his calm.
Kiba and Naruto bowed their heads and promised not to use dirty tricks.
...
On the first day of the holiday, Sasuke mastered some of the key points of the new technique through practice, but naturally failed in the process.
Fortunately, he avoided possible injuries in advance.
If the jutsu failed, he wouldn't hurt himself.
Safety was guaranteed.
The next day, in the training ground where some areas had been renovated and new training stakes added, Sasuke waited until no one was around before starting to practice.
"Fire Style - Great Fireball Technique!"
After a short series of hand seals, Sasuke quickly released the technique, shortening the entire pre-swing of the technique to an extremely brief point.
A large fireball that could directly block the view was spewed out and swept forward, and the surface of the river in front of Sasuke began to heat up rapidly.
Out of love for money, Sasuke now practiced ninjutsu without easily letting his fire style burn anything.
Just like practicing restraint.
Even if you have money, you can't be too wasteful.
After a little warm-up, Sasuke repeated this jutsu several times.
While recovering his [physical strength], he began to adjust the chakra operation plan, and at the same time, the number of seals increased.
He looked solemn, concentrating on the technique to be performed, and even temporarily ignored the rapidly depleted [physical strength].
Finally, he followed the existing ideas and put his original idea into practice: "Ninjutsu, new fire style—"
Hu—
The chakra was sprayed out by him quickly, and after a distance, it grew in the wind, burning the combustibles in the space, opening and closing, and spreading in all directions in an instant.
The range quickly expanded much larger than the previous Great Fireball, and the scene was quite shocking.
After a while, Sasuke stopped casting the spell and sat directly on the chair prepared next to him, panting: "Ha-Hu..."
"Is this the feeling of consuming a lot of chakra as the narration prompt said? The state really got much worse all of a sudden."
Because he had read the answer in advance, he even knew that if he forced himself to use this technique for the second time, it would cause certain damage to his body.
After he had done this kind of challenge that was close to the limit once, he had learned a lesson and would not do it again.
Fortunately, he still passed it in one try.
From the concept to the data, this technique had the possibility of success, and he had also seen how to succeed.
But whether it would succeed in the end depended on his execution.
When Sasuke was resting, a white kitten appeared beside him and reminded him: "Today is a rare holiday. You have spent a lot of time practicing in the past year, host, and what day it is today, did you forget it?"
"I didn't forget it, but yesterday I worked out the specific details of the new fire style technique, and there was a narration prompt, I was really too excited."
Sasuke explained, still in a cheerful mood, "What if after a while, I can't understand the same text and have to practice it again? Of course, we should strike while the iron is hot when there is hope. Now I understand the meaning of this technique."
He was in a really good mood.
The difference between seeing the text information of how to use this technique and actually using it in reality is quite large.
The new fire style technique may collide with an existing fire style method, or it may be a seal and chakra operation method that others have never used.
In short, for him, he did use a new jutsu that was very different from the jutsu he had learned without the corresponding inheritance.
The power and range of the jutsu were greatly improved.
For him, who was not very suitable for fire style, this was indeed a gratifying result.
He said to the system: "As for this technique I just used, if it can be used in actual combat in the future, it should be able to directly defeat ordinary ninjas, especially my eyes can definitely find the location of the enemy's true body!"
"It's just a holiday, I won't omit the delay to maintain my physical and mental health."
"You can continue to practice during ordinary holidays if you like."
The kitten landed on his shoulder and pointed to the sun in the sky, "But today is your birthday... Host, don't you check the schedule every morning? Forgot?"
"Birthday... Isn't today a holiday?"
Sasuke looked at the sun, the timeline unfolded, and he realized that today's calendar was noon on July 23... He suddenly remembered that his birthday was July 23...
It was also today.
In the past, on such important days, he was very eager to be with his parents and brother, and do anything.
Unexpectedly, he would forget this day now... Even though he had the habit of confirming what day it was every day.
Seeing his silence, the system comforted him: "Host, you haven't been back to the Uchiha clan for a while. Now it's a rare holiday. Do you... want to go back and take a look?"
"Uchiha clan land…"
Sasuke whispered, and the familiar streets and people seemed to appear in front of him again.
However, during the time when he was trying to get to know the family again, he hardly set foot in Uchiha again.
Is it too time-consuming to practice ninjutsu?
Not entirely.
Having suffered the loss of ignoring severe weakness, Sasuke will not let himself get hurt in practice, even if he is studying new ninjutsu.
The practice method of combining work and rest, in the cub period, time is already very abundant.
Even if theoretical enlightenment is added.
He just uses the time when he is in the best condition for practice, and the rest of the time is naturally in cultivation, as long as he does not leave the safe zone, he can go anywhere.
It's just that he didn't think about going back before, and even ignored that today is his birthday.
The white kitten fell in front of Sasuke, and the golden pupils reflected Sasuke's delicate face: "How about going back and taking a look?"
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