Year 76, April 15th
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A week had passed and today we would be doing practical Taijutsu training.
Right now we were all lined up outside waiting for instructions. Which we were about to get.
"Ahem today we'll be doing battle training. When I call your names you will enter the circle and do the seal of confrontation…" Iruka said, demonstrating the seal. "…then after the battle you will do the seal of reconciliation which signifies acknowledging your opponent as your equal and displaying honor." Iruka explained.
Then one by one students went up and fought and boy were there moves slow. At least to me, they literally moved as if time wasn't moving which honestly everyone looked like to me if I wanted to.
"Next up is Karma Uzumaki vs. Sasuke Uchiha…" Iruka pointed out the next two people.
Honestly this was going to be very boring but fun. I get to fight a main character but a child so it would be easy.
I'm not even being cocky here. I've been training my body for almost two years and my senses help me predict what my opponent does next.
I know this because I've been practicing on Naruto for the past week.
Also Sasuke doesn't even have his sharingan yet and even if he did I'd still win no sweat.
Me and Sasuke both performed the seal of confrontation and backed up and both got into a fighting stance.
I've made up my own style of fighting which is honestly very similar to Uchiha's fighting style. Very fast and agile but the difference is that instead of intercepting their moves I just strike hard as well.
"Begin." Iruka said, to which Sasuke responded instantly and launched towards me aiming his fist towards my face.
I looked at his fist slowly getting closer and just dodged it and kneed him in the stomach, then before he could recover I grabbed his arm to pull him closer once more and punched him square in the chin.
Sasuke fell to the ground looking dazed and shocked that someone beat him.
'Ooo I could smell his anger rising.' I thought with a smile.
He got up again and tried to do a high kick but I ducked under it and swept his leg making him fall once more.
Again he got up and for some reason I instinctively used my penetration vision and saw him kneading chakra into his legs.
He sped off way faster than before and was already throwing his left hand into my face but unfortunately for him it was still too slow.
I dodged to the left and grabbed his left arm pulling him towards me with the momentum from his own punch and kicked him in the ribs, then punched his face once more.
This time he fell and it looked like he was out of energy.
"Karma wins, next time Sasuke be careful of how much chakra you use in a fight, having no more chakra means death." Iruka said with a serious expression.
'He wasted a lot of chakra just from using it to augment himself, I bet that's the first time he did it. Must've been instinct.' I wondered.
I went over to him and extended my arm out for him which he reluctantly accepted and pulled himself up.
"Hey don't look so down that was a good fight if I was anybody else you would've won." I said, which was a hundred percent true.
Sasuke just grumbled and we did the seal of reconciliation.
'Children are so funny sometimes.' I thought with a smile.
After a couple of bouts it was Naruto's turn against a random kid.
Naruto easily won after spending a week training with me. He's used to a faster opponent and the random kid was slow as hell.
After a while the academy ended and before Sasuke could run off I decided to befriend him.
"Hey Sasuke what's up?" I asked.
"Umm I'm just going home to train more. I need it." Sasuke said seriously.
"Well ok do you want to train with us? Naruto and I always train after school. Actually today I'm about to show him something very valuable to becoming a shinobi." I asked and added the last part to sweeten the deal.
I nudged his arm with a 'come on you know you want to' look and he just sucked his teeth but eventually agreed but he'll have to go home first.
"Great, we'll go with you. My parents trust us so we don't need to do that." I said and Naruto and I started to follow behind him.
As we were walking I suddenly felt killing intent towards me.
I turned my head toward the origin of it and at first glance to anyone else it would look like no one was there but for me I saw him.
I looked directly at him making sure he knew that I knew he was there.
I quickly inspected his entire body and realized he was a part of the root. I saw the seal on his tongue.
The next second he was truly gone and I went back to normal as well.
'Hmm? Is Danzo going to make a move towards me here of all places? No that doesn't make sense he's too cautious for that, he was just testing me. That root ninja probably did the same towards Naruto and Sasuke but they didn't react, only I did. Now he knows that I'm more than meets the eye.' I quickly realized.
It wouldn't matter though they'll still underestimate a child, it's just human nature to be prideful.
Eventually we got to the Uchiha compound and got stared at a lot.
'They definitely don't like non-Uchiha's here.' I thought.
We reached Sasuke's house and saw his mom preparing some food.
"Hey mom I'm home, but I'm going out with some of my classmates to the training ground." Sasuke said as it looked like he was trying to escape.
"Wait classmates, my little Sasuke already has friends." Mikoto said as she ran towards the front door.
"And you too must be his friends. Hello I'm Sasuke's mother, you can call me Mikoto." Mikoto said politely.
"Hello Mikoto I'm Karma Uzumaki and this is Naruto Uzumaki." I said while shaking her hand.
"Oh Naruto, I've met your mother before, she was a very nice woman." Mikoto commented.
"Yeah I've heard." Naruto said with a cheesy smile.
"Well that's good. Hey how about after you guys finish training you eat dinner with us?" Mikoto asked.
Sasuke looked like he was about to say something but me and Naruto reacted faster.
""Yes please."" We both said happily. Who would say no to free food?
After that we made it to the training ground and my lesson was about to start.
Naruto and Sasuke were both sitting down waiting for me to speak.
"Ok today's training is very straightforward but not at all easy and you won't complete all of it in a single day. It's called chakra control exercises, now Sasuke you've probably heard about this and even trained the first part of it but that's not all. You need to complete all three steps, the leaf concentration exercise, tree walking, and water walking.
For the first one you need to find a leaf and make it stick to your forehead and you need the right amount of chakra or else the leaf won't stick and it'll fall right off. After you complete that which you'll know when you could stick it on you till you run out of chakra, you go onto the second step; tree walking. You knead chakra into your feet to stick to the side of the tree.
If you put less chakra you'll simply slide off, too much and the tree will break. You'll know when you're finished when you can walk indefinitely without problems.
Now the last one is the hardest because water changes constantly so you have to constantly be sending pulses of chakra to your feet to stick without problems. If you put too much or less then you fall right in. Any questions? I know that was a lot." I explained thoroughly.
Neither of them had questions and we got to work.
Sasuke did the leaf exercise so he went tree walking. Naruto started from the first step.
Like that hours passed and it was dark out, which wasn't a problem for me.
Sasuke got the tree walking down a lot quicker than I expected but that was probably due to being younger and having less chakra. The downside was he was exhausted.
Naruto completed the leaf exercise too for the same reason. But he was still energetic and complained the whole time. I'm the same way though, it must be an Uzumaki thing.
We returned to Sasuke's house and the dinner was ready, Fugaku and Itachi were here as well.
"Hello Mr. Fugaku and Itachi, pleased to meet both of you. My name is Karma Uzumaki and this is Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke's classmates and friends." I said politely, I didn't want to accidentally anger them or something.
As both Fugaku and Itachi looked into my eyes, their sharingan's activated.
'What the hell?' I wondered.
I heard their thoughts and my eyes widened.
The next second they both deactivated their eyes and while it looked like Fugaku was going to ignore it, Itachi didn't.
"Do you possess a Dojutsu?" Itachi asked, surprising everyone in the room.
'Damn they must see that my eyes are different, it's not like I can lie to them they already know. Their thought's confirmed that. Itachi's just asking as a courtesy.' I quickly thought. I'll just say I do and be done with it though I'm not going to say everything.
"Ahem yes I do." I answered which shocked everyone even more.
Satisfied with that response Itachi let it go and we set up dinner and ate.
I can tell Naruto was itching to ask already so I spoke up.
"You can ask Naruto, I don't mind." I approved. Instantly he spoke up.
"How long have you had a Dojutsu for?" Naruto asked but I can tell everyone was listening.
"I awakened them five months ago while training." I said while eating.
"Where'd it come from?" This time Fugaku asked curiously.
"My best guess is that it's an old kekkei genkai of the Uzumaki clan. Or a new one and I'm the first to wield them, those are the only two explanations that make sense." I obviously lied, couldn't tell them I received them from God himself.
"Very interesting." Fugaku said.
"Do you think it's better than the Sharingan or Byakugan?" Sasuke asked curiously.
"That's hard to answer as I've never had either of them to experience what they can do, and I don't even know what all my abilities are with my eyes?" I said truthfully, I still don't know the full power of my eyes but so far it's almost as good as them.
Fugaku nodded at my answer and asked. "What can they do so far?"
'He must think that since I'm a child I'll spill all my secrets. I'll just give him enough to be satisfied.' I thought.
"Well I can see through everything and see very far, I can see people's chakra, umm and their chakra network. Also I see things very slowly, that's how I won our fight Sasuke, you were moving slow for me so I had more than enough time to react." I said childishly.
Mikoto, Fugaku, and Itachi all widened their eyes, which was expected though I didn't include everything I included more than what the base sharingan can do and I can do stuff the byakugan can do.
"Anyway can you guys keep this a secret? I don't want everyone to know." I asked politely to which they all nodded seriously. I knew I could trust them so I wasn't worried.
"So you won against Sasuke huh? How was the fight?" Itachi asked to change the subject.
"It was good if I was anyone he surely would've won the fight but because of my eyes and the fact that I've trained my body I was able to beat him. Though that last move he did made it close, he directed chakra towards his legs and was way faster than before. Almost got me." I lied more. Fugaku seemed proud though.
Anyway the rest of the night was peaceful and after dinner Naruto and I headed home and immediately went to sleep ready for the rest of the year.
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