Chapter 53: Flaming reality
"You don't think Lord Jiraiya will care that you are teaching me this?"
"If Pervy-sage has a problem with this he can shove it into his nose. It constantly bleeds anyway." Naruto said as he guided me to learn the rasengan.
An attack that might suit me since I barely used any hand signs anyway.
It would take me longer than it took Naruto but when I master this Jutsu I should be able to catch people by surprise fairly often.
"So how do we begin?"
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"Shikomu." Yuki called out to me as I was in the midst of training with water balloons.
It seemed harder for me to keep my Shadow-Chakra in control, thus it was taking me a long time to even start the first step.
"What is it?"
"I have a prospective seller. I am going to meet him inside of the village right now if you want to join me." Yuki told me.
"Your father gave you extra credits?" I questioned.
"He did."
"Sure then, let's move."
It wasn't a bad idea for me to follow him since I need to be sure this wasn't an ambush and I lost Yuki to some random players.
So I followed Yuki on his way towards a training ground which was the meeting spot for this trade.
It didn't take us long to reach the meeting area, and when we did I saw a person who was familiar to me.
Kazuto, my original teammate.
"Shikomu?" He called out in confusion as he saw me.
"Hi Kazuto, how have you been?"
He sighed as he said, "Clearly not so good. After getting interrogated they finally decided to leave me, but they put a slave brand onto me. He said, as he revealed his forehead.
That did make a little sense, probably because Danzo wanted to kill him and take his eyes but Hiruzen watched Kazuto too closely.
Now, he had no choice but to destroy his character and join back in 3 weeks, real world time.
"You guys know each other?" Yuki questioned.
"You are his replacement." I said.
"Small world huh."
"Really is."
After a bit of silence, Kazuto spoke.
"So, 1000 EXP for the sharingan."
"Yes, you have yourself a deal." Yuki said while nodding.
"Just to confirm this for you." Kazuto said, as his eyes went red and 1 black tomme appeared.
They then transferred the EXP to each other, and Yuki and I had to wait as Kazuto transferred the EXP to someone else.
"Alright, you can kill me and take my eyes."
I nodded at that, as I drove an Odaechi into his heart.
I felt myself becoming slightly stronger at that, and I watched as the number inside of my Aspect page for shadow cores went to 1/1000
It seems like everytime I kill a person I get 1 fragment. Well it was too soon to make an assumption like that but I was getting there.
Right after that, Yuki pulled out Kazuto's eyes and he completed his main quest.
I watched as I felt the shadow around him become more potent, a clear signal that he was becoming stronger, since the shadows deemed him a bigger threat than before.
"So, what did you get?"
"My Aspects name is something called 'Flaming reality.' It allows me to make illusions so close to reality that it distorts it a little, but it isn't as overpowered as it seems."
"Show me." I asked him.
He nodded, as I watched another Yuki appear right in front of me.
"Which one is the real me?" Both voices asked at the same time, and I honestly couldn't tell the difference if I hadn't been observing the original from the start.
"The one on the right." I told him, to which he nodded.
"Now turn around and don't sense me." He told me to which I nodded.
"Now look back and guess which is the real me."
I turned around to see hundreds of Yuki standing there, looking right at me.
I then pointed to the one right in front of me and I felt my eyes get caught on fire.
"What the fuck?!" I couldn't help but shout out in surprise, and the next second, it felt as if molten lava was being poured into my ears too.
"While it does take a lot of Chakra." Yuki began to explain as he let go off his aspect, "If I am able to trick my opponents with Illusions, they will feel as if something that controls their 6 senses is being burnt and it will not work for as long as my chakra doesn't run out or I don't stop it."
"And for now, I have the sense of sight and hearing. I cannot manipulate touch, taste and smell.I am unsure what is after smell for me to manipulate."
I then slowly felt my eyesight return too.
"Sensory type ninjas should be able to tell right away, but this is a fairly neat aspect." Yuki explained.
And just like that I had gotten an ally who was Overpowered in his own way.
Eventually all sensory skills of the basic level would become useless.
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"You said you wanted to see me, Shikomu?" Kakashi sensei asked, as I met up with him at Ichiraku ramen
"I did, Kakashi-sensei. I wanted to ask you if you can teach me Kenjusu, or point me to the next best person."
"Why do you need to learn Kenjutsu? Don't you have enough on your plate with Fuinjutsu, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu and your shadow control?" He asked me.
"I do but there is never enough to learn some things."
"While you are not wrong." Kakashi sensei said, "There is a saying that says 'Jack of all trades, master of none.' Maybe you should specialize in something."
"Your right sensei that is the saying, but there is a second part to it. 'Jack of all trades master of none, but still better than a master of one.' And I don't think you can talk about me specializing in sensei, especially when you are known to have mastered over a thousand jutsu."
"You got me there." Kakashi said as he rubbed his chin a little.
"I know someone who can teach you, wait for him at your training ground at 4 in the morning."
"I will see you there."
Kakashi sensei then disappeared from his location and I went into Ichiraku ramen to eat some food.
And to my surprise, I saw someone I didn't expect to see.
Instead of Naruto who was usually here, it was a blond girl in a purple kunoichi outfit.
"Hi Shikomu, fancy seeing you here." Ino said to me as she patted to the stool right next to her.
"I should be saying that to you. Since when did you like ramen?"
"I decided it was time for me to expand my tastes."
I then looked at the small bowl in front of her.
"And how exactly are you supposed to taste anything inside of that small bowl?"
Ino chuckled as she replied, "Well a woman should keep her figure should she not?"
"Well, a woman who looks as good as you doesn't need to try so hard."
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Authors note:
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