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28.12% Naruto: The Time Looper / Chapter 27: Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Chapter 27

Kazuo continued repeating the same movement and Jutsu over and over, it was only when someone came to tell him to head to the center of the camp that Kazuo stopped.

'Not enough time, the system hasn't even recognized it as a skill yet, this way all ill do is get the same result as last time, I need to at least achieve a level four in the Jutsu if I want to maintain my status as a prodigy.' Kazuo thought as he headed to the center of the camp.

He wasn't going to simply kill himself immediately however, he still had hours of available time to practice, until just before midnight when he would kill himself and return back to the early hours of the morning.

Arriving at the center, Shikaru was talking to the troops just like the previous turn.

He turned toward Kazuo and gave him the same scroll and soon enough the troops started their run toward the border.

Kazuo held the jutsu scroll in his hands for around ten minutes as he ran alongside the shinobi before he put it away and made the tiger hand sign.

*Poof*

The smoke was reduced by leagues and bounds from the first time that he had used the jutsu and the amount of chakra wasted was also lowered, that didn't mean that he had achieved a high mastery however, he was still only in the beginning phases of the technique.

Kazuo appeared a dozen meters in front of where he had previously been and continued running again, he had managed to make the jutsu useable, though not combat-ready.

'Im still far, too far away.' Kazuo thought.

However, the sight of him simply looking at a jutsu scroll for a few minutes and then performing said jutsu was astonishing to the surrounding shinobi who looked at Kazuo with wide eyes.

"Did he just?" One of the shinobi questioned, his words blurting out on their own as he stared at Kazuo.

Another next to him nodded his head slowly, his mouth slightly agape as well as they looked at Kazuo.

The Body Flicker wasn't a hard jutsu to pull off and most if not all chunnin already had decent mastery of it however being able to use the jutsu immediately and have at least some mastery over it so that you didn't crash was huge.

It was something in the realm of geniuses, whilst it wasn't something so extraordinary like what that hatake kakashi seemed to be able to do, it was in a realm above the normal still.

Shikaru who had been looking at Kazuo for a while now had his eyes slightly widen as well before a small smile appeared on his face.

'Not bad kid, it seems like it will take more than just that to bring you down a peg.' Shikaru thought as he turned around.

The run continued well into the die and just like the previous turn, Kazuo quickly found himself dead tired with his back covered in sweat however it was even worse this time.

Even his chakra reserves were on the verge of running out because of the continued use of the body flicker jutsu.

The shocked gazes of the shinobi around him had subsided some time ago and turned into confused stares instead.

Where was the genius talent that he showed? Did it just evaporate into thin air?

*Sigh*

Releasing a long-winded sigh, Kazuo thought.

'It's time, ah I want to kill you so bad Shikaru, I hope you remain a virgin your entire life you damned ugly bastard.' Kazuo thought as he took an explosion kunai from his ninja bag and plunged it into his abdomen just like the last turn.

*Boom*

With a loud explosion sound, Kazuo exploded and his body parts flew all around and fell to the forest floor.

*Huff* *Huff*

Waking up once more, Kazuo quickly got up, not having any thoughts in his mind, and headed to the training ground again.

It had been a while of just...

Using the body flicker again and again, over and over.

Going to the center of the camp, getting the scroll, and then running into the forest until he had to kill himself once more.

Each time, Kazuo managed to last a few minutes longer, managed to conserve his chakra and stamina more and more.

However, this jutsu wasn't as easy as he had assumed it would be, in fact, it was so hard that Kazuo felt like killing himself, ironic considering the reason of the fact that the jutsu was causing him to die so many times and that he was doing it out of his own volition.

Was it three times? Five? Ten? Fifteen?

'Twenty-seven' Kazuo thought, his mind had already lost a part of itself however if nothing else Kazuo was stubborn, it was a fact that had carried him through both in his wretched past life and in this even more harrowing new one.

He had long achieved level four of the shunshin jutsu and had it recognized by the system however even that hadn't been enough.

His physical attributes were simply too low and no matter how many turns passed they didn't increase.

'If I trained the jutsu for this long without the loops then I would have achieved higher mastery however all the bodily mastery, the instinct that gets ingrained through continuous practice is lost every single time that I use the time loop, causing my progress to be much slower than what it could have been.' Kazuo thought as he walked toward the center of the camp.

His already stoic face had turned even more into what people would call a perfect poker face.

Arriving to stand close to Shikaru, Kazuo listened to him giving the speech for what felt like the hundredth time.

'I didn't practice the shunshin jutsu this turn, this way no one would have been able to see me using it until after I read the scroll' Kazuo thought as he took the shunshin jutsu scroll for the 28th time.

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Is Kazuo's mind breaking down even further? I guess it is, considering what he's going through, simply to achieve his goal and to maintain his status in front of Shikaru's schemes.

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Chapter 28: Chapter 28

Opening the Shunin no jutsu Scroll that Shikaru gave him, Kazuo gave it a quick lookover, making it seem like he was reading it.

Before he nodded his head and put the jutsu away.

His quick actions caused a shinobi to turn and ask him.

"Aren't you going to read it? It will be helpful in the journey." The man said, clearly trying to help Kazuo.

Kazuo turned toward the man and gave him a smile.

This was the thirteenth time that he had said the same thing to Kazuo.

"It's fine, it looked easy enough," Kazuo said with a calm voice, no fluctuations in his tone whatsoever as he answered the man.

"All right if you say so." The ninja said before turning his gaze aside and listening to Shikaru's speech once more.

This small conversation however was heard by quite a few shinobi who gave secretive glances at Kazuo.

Most of them looked at Kauzo with pity, they all knew that the jutsu looked easy however mastery over it wasn't something easily accomplished, and even making the jutsu useable would take a lot of hard work.

A while later, the shinobi all started running away from the camp.

The march to the border had officially started.

For Kazuo however, it had started almost a whole month ago, this very painful day. 

All because a certain Nara had decided that he had gained too much status in the camp.

'That bastard' Kazuo thought to himself before a soft smile appeared on his face as he ran alongside the rest of the leaf shinobi.

He didn't want to show a soft smile, Kazuo wanted to give a large grin and laugh in Shikaru's face.

However, he had to calm himself down and maintain his facade of a calm and amiable comrade, someone who was a genius beyond comprehension, both in the shinobi arts as well as strategy.

And the first step to truly cement this notion of a genius was right in front of Kazuo, no...

It was already in the palm of his hand.

Kazuo didn't make a single hand sign, one moment he was running alongside a caramel-haired ninja, and the next, he was beside Shikaru Nara.

The shinobi took a moment to realize what had happened.

Kazuo hadn't made a single hand seal, there had been no smoke.

He had simply disappeared from his previous location and appeared tens of meters ahead.

A single word crashed into their minds at the same time.

'Shunshin'

It was something they would have found hard to believe however they had no choice, they had just seen Shikaru give Kazuo the scroll not even an hour ago and now he had already mastered it beyond what most of them could achieve.

In merely an hour, he had simply looked at the scroll once and done it.

Wasn't this too outrageous? The ninja thought however instead of feeling jealousy, envy, or enmity, they felt exhilaration.

This was someone who was going to accompany them to the battlefield, a genius shinobi who would protect their backs.

The Ninja's eyes gleamed with joy as they witnessed Kazuo's instant mastery achievement.

Kazuo meanwhile was looking at a holographic screen at the corner of his vision discreetly.

[ Stats ]

[ Name: Kazuo ]

[ Age: 12 ]

[ Race: Human ]

[ Strength: D- ]

[ Endurance: D- ]

[ Agility: D- ]

[ Intelligence: B- ]

[ Charisma: C ]

[ Chakra: C- ]

[ Skills ]

[ Time Loop ] [ Level 1 ]

[ Academy Taijutsu ] [ Level 9/10 ]

[ Academy ShurikenJutsu ] [ Level 9/10 ]

[ Clone Jutsu ] [ Level 6/10 ]

[ Substitution Jutsu ] [ Level 5/10 ]

[ Transformation Jutsu ] [ Level 5/10 ]

[ Hiding Like A Mole Jutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Paper Shuriken Jutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Water Style: Enhanced Water Bullet ] [ Level 4/10 ]

[Chakra Control: Tree Walking ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Chakra Control: Water Walking ] [Level 7/10 ]

[ Summoning: Lighting Flash Blade Creation ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Shunshin ] [ Level 8/10 ]

Whilst he had practiced the Shunshin jutsu, Kazuo had noticed that his chakra control was getting better and better, and this was reflected in his tree walking and water walking skills.

The tree walking had reached the maxed level around the fifteenth turn whilst the water walking was still lagging behind.

Glancing at Shikaru, Kazuo saw the man looking at him with surprise for a brief moment before his face regained his usual stoic calmness.

'You didn't expect that did you fucker? Just like how your mother didn't expect my...' Kazuo continued spouting various profanities at Shikaru inside his mind whilst he kept up the soft smile on his lips.

"You're good. Seems like I still underestimated you." Shikaru said as he ran alongside Kazuo.

"I don't know what you mean sir," Kazuo said, his acting almost perfect as his voice carried a tone of sincere confusion at what Shikaru had meant.

Shikaru gave him a glance before releasing a few quiet chuckles.

"Are you sure you're not part of my clan, or maybe the Uchiha would fit you better," Shikaru said as he looked at Kazuo with some kind of glint in his eyes.

"I'm just an orphan sir, i was raised in the Fire orphanage inside the hidden leaf, im sure that neither clan would have left me in there if I was a part of any of them," Kazuo said as he explained his past to Shikaru though he knew well that Shikaru most likely knew about it better than he did himself.

Shikaru stared at Kazuo for a split moment longer before turning his head and nodding.

The journey continued, and this time, Kazuo didn't feel any fatigue, he could use Shunshin most of the time and maintain a steady pace without worrying about his physical condition.

As Kazuo got further behind the group, Shikaru made a handseal and almost immediately an anbu arrived beside him.

"Tell the root to search their database for a child called Kazuo, twelve years of age. He was in our orphanage, we should have records about him." Shikaru said, his black eyes somehow growing darker, appearing as if they were an endless abyss.

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