This day, at the academy in break time Matsuo started to communicate/flatter the other uchiha. He also wasn't an asshole to the non-uchiha, and Naruto? I just ignored him, that would do the most damage. pchycological damage! Mhuhahahaahaaa!
I quickly asked the system from weakest to strongest in the ninjutsu class, who had a two in chakra control. Everyone who had some training in it had a two in it, that means only the commoners had less than two points including Naruto.
The moment that Naruto had two points he would make fun of him, then when he talks back to Matsuo, he would tell him to 'fight me loser'.
He also thought about how to get some good fire style jutsu, his best idea was to get edo tensei and revive madara to ask him to teach him.
Back to the present, in the break period some kids were playing with cards. Think yu-gi-oh but ninja's instead of monsters and ninjutsu/genjutsu instead of spells, also the traps were a bit more realistic on the illustrations. Some of the uchiha kids were playing with them too, he asked about it "What are you playing?" The uchiha kid turned around and said "Nin-ja-oh!"
'Trash name but good game' He guessed. Matsuo was intrested in the cards, but not the game "Really? What kind of cards are there? Is there one for us uchiha?" The kid smilled and said "Of course, and I have one of the rarest!"
Matsuo was really intressted 'Please be Madara, that would be so cool.' Matsuo said "Really, which one?" The kid started to act all proud and showed me the card "The super-rare Itachi and Shishu!" And all curiousity faded, Matsuo hated Itachi and shishu for being the catalyst and force that caused the uchiha massacre and his stress.
The uchiha kid could feel it too "What aren't you impressed?" Matsuo said of handedly "Uh, yea, yea. Let me ask you something, is there a madara card?" the kid said hotely "Of course not, he's a traitor to the village and the clan, he doesn't deserve a reference as a shinobi." Matsuo then lost all intrest, but he still listened to the rules.
At some point the kid took a liking to me, probably from me not ridiculing him for being a nerd "Do you want to try it out against me? I've got enough free cards for a few good decks." Then the system made a little ding.
[Automatic challenge activated]
[Challenge: defeat Sakai Uchiha in nin-ja-oh.
Reward: basic strategy, skill function.]
Matsuo made a little smile "Sure, why not." Sakai made a smile "I knew you couldn't resist the alure of nin-ja-oh." He took out a box "This is a box full of nin-ja-oh cards that I don't really want or need, thus no super-rares and up and really practical rares, uncommons and commons and definitely no limited cards."
Matsuo nodded and considered the conditions fair, you don't want some rando destroying your good cards. While I was looking at the cards for my deck Sakai started to take out the Nin-ja-oh scroll you use while playing, so that the cards don't get damaged from the ground or wherever else you put the cards while playing.
Matsou's deck had a lot of genjutsu and anbu, there was of course some normies and ninjutsu. And armament too, like kunai a or shuriken, he also liked the suicide bomb tag tactic card, it needed the ninja to have a bomb tag equipped. But Matsuo used the statagum of the old pros, get rid of as much chance in your deck as possible. So for the good cards he took a few copies of each, making a deck of 70 cards.
(Epic nin-ja-oh incoming)
Matsuo and Sakai drew their 7 cards, they both set a card on the paper. Sakai had put down a uchiha genin card with the water symbol in the right corner, when Matsuo saw that he smiled savagely. Sakai looked at Matsuo's card, a ground nature! "You fell for my ingenius deception!"
Matsuo picked up his card and secretly shuffled his hand, and put down a hidden card down, put down a 520-390 lightning chunin (Every card has a name on it but Matsuo doesn't care) by sacrificing a genin in his hand, and used it's special effect. Matsuo looked through the first 30 cards in his deck for a 230-320 fire genin he had put in his deck for this combo, again using a special effect; this time being a direct -100 to the enemy's supply lines. Then another special combo effect was used, giving a 100-100 boost to both ninja, signified by two wooden balls with different colours for each card with a hundred on it in naruto script. Matsuo put down another hidden card and said "I end my turn." He couldn't attack on the first turn.
Sakai was a bit stunned but quickly set down a genin, then sacrificed it with another genin in his hand for an 630-550 elite chunin. He used his special effect and lowered the opposing ninjas with a 50-50 debuff.
But before Sakai could do another thing Matsuo flipped one of his hidden cards; emergency reinforcements, letting him draw an elite chunin that he can draft for nothing if his strongest ninja suffered a debuff. Matsuo said "You fell for it again! Hahaha!" but then let him continue his turn, we were attracting attention to the nin-ja-oh enthousiasts. Matsuo also looked through his deck for the ninja he had for this mini combo.
Sakai gave his elite chunin a 50-50 bonus with an armament and ended his turn.
Matsuo set down the elite chunin with a 430-730 in stats from earlier, it having another special effect. again, Matsuo looked through his deck, this time for a bomb seal. he put it on the chunin, activating yet another special effect. By the elite chunin, now all the ninja had the elite chunin's defense. then using the bomb seal for a one use 150 attack boost, the chunin killed the elite chunin of Sakai. then he made both his other ninjas attack the supply lines, causing a nice 760 in damage. Matsuo again ended his turn, relaxed as always.
Sakai had nothing in his hand that could make a comeback, he trusted the will of fire would help him, and it did. Sakai used 'Extra rations' letting him draw another three cards, giving him a chunin, genin, and a sword. He set a genin down then sacrificed it for the 300-900 chunin, then rolled a die, giving him a 5. This let him sacrifice another genin in his hand to give 100-100 sword to the chunin, he laughed and said "What are you gonna do now big boy?" and ended his turn.
But then Matsuo had a mocking look on his face, and felt another trick incoming "Hahaha! how can it be so easy to trick you?" He flipped his other hidden card; overly cautious elite jonin, if the opposing player has no hidden cards the entire two turns it's on the field, it lets the user look through his deck for an elite jonin and draft it for free.
What did he pick? a certain anbu member classified as an elite jonin, with the stats of 1320-740. He sacrificed the ground genin from the beginning for the anbu to get two attacks. after killing the opposing chunin the penetration effect of an anbu activated dealing an extra 320 in damage to the supply lines. due to the first chunin and genin duo having 4 ninja on their side, letting them steal an armament once for immediate use. of course Matsuo gave it to the anbu lady, after all of them attacked, the anbu not being used as the last attacker to be sure there wasn't going to be a come back.
Matsuo made the laugh "Hahaha, I win" And the super-hyper-advanced-otsutsuki-genjutsu thing made it's little notification.
[Challenge completed]
[Proccessing rewards...]
After that Matsuo felt as if he could quickly statagize and stratagize better, it felt nice. But Matsuo didn't have the time to look at that skill function, as he was buzy dealing with the other nin-ja-oh enthousiasts "How did you do that?" "Why haven't we seen you play before?" "You must be extremely experienced to do that."
Lil' Matsuo was becoming one of the popular kids in the playground, if he couldn't get that point in chakra control he would be a complete waste. But he wasn't worried, Naruto was trash at everything, except maybe taijutsu. The thing Matsuo could take him over in was shurikenjutsu, if he kept practicing he should be able to defeat him.
A little sasuke asked "What are playing Matsuo?" I looked at him and smiled "Like uhh, some card game. What was it called again, nin-ja-oh I guess. I saw some kids playing with cards, and at some point tried it out. It was really easy for some reason, it's was way more fun than it looks." He looked at Sakai "Can he try a round?"
Sakai nodded "Sure, why not?" And Matsuo took that as a yes and asked Sasuke "You want to try?" Lil' Sasuke shook his head "I'd rather not." He waved Sasuke goodbye and started to make another deck while eating some food, he had a bento box for some reason.
Matsuo heard an annoying voice call out "What's so special about winning a card game? I could do it to if I wanted." That kid's name; Naruto. Looks like he's already trying to make a name for himself, before other kids could ridicule him Matsuo said without stopping or looking away from what he was doing "If you win it shows you have higher inteligence than the opponent, you may think its all about luck. But you're wrong, every part of your preperation is important. The deck you use, the way you play those cards, how you trick your opponent with your voice, body language and the way you play your cards. It's all important to be a great shinobi, you're just salty you can't do it, saying 'It's all just luck'. But let me tell you something, luck is also a skill. And using that luck is the most important skill a ninja can have, so if you're salty, fight me troglodyte"
Matsuo looked at naruto, after a second he had a pained expression "It looks like you're not up to standard, sorry, but I don't like dropkicking toddlers." Matsuo went back to his cards "come back when you can actually move your chakra." Then Matsuo muttered "Fuckin' loser."
After the break was a 'will of fire' class, where Matsuo looked into the abyss. One about chakra, where Matsuo was fully concentrated. One about mathmatics, where the abyss comforted him. One where they practiced shurikenjutsu, where he focused fully and threw those shuriken constantly. The last one, taijutsu, Matsuo punched a dummy till it broke. His fist's strength and pain tollerence were unusually high, probably because he punched that tree a lot, a lot.
Unfortunately he couldn't use any chakra the entire time, at least naruto tried his darn dandyiest best to use chakra the entire break time and school time. Matsuo really got under his skin, which is quite easy, because he's a ignoramus.
When at home he started to wonder about what he would do if he survived the uchiha massacre, his idea, cloning to get a bunch of sharingan users. Not the souless ones, it was shown in baruto that cloning can give a soul to the clone. Mizuki *Cough* Log *Cough*