Shikaru concluded his speech to the leaf shinobi quickly and soon enough the entire camp full of ninja started moving toward their next location.
Their route? The most frequented one by merchants.
A daring choice by Shikaru Nara, the commander of the leaf camp.
As the ninjas ran, they maintained a steady speed, none of them got tired, a side effect of chakra running through their bodies aswell as training those very bodies to the bone since a young age.
At least all but one weren't tired.
Kazuo was having sweat falling from his forehead as he ran behind the ninja, he had to keep a steady pace otherwise he would be left behind, doing so would completely ruin the reputation of a genius that he had so painstakingly created over the last few days.
'If only i had enough time to learn the body flicker, with my chakra being in the chunnin levels already as compared to my other physical stats which are barely at the low gennin level, i would have been able to use the jutsu intermittedly so that i wouldnt get as tired and kept up the pace much more easily.' Kazuo thought as he ran, the further away they got the more drenched his back became in sweat.
Thankfully the sweat didnt show up on his back however he already knew that some people had noticed simply by his face which was covered in sweat.
'Ah fuck' Kazuo thought before running faster until he arrived next to Shikaru who looked at him with a slight smile.
'This bastard is enjoying this shit, that's the reason he gave me the jutsu so damn late wasn't it.' Kazuo thought before voicing out a question.
"How long will we have to run without rest commander?" Kazuo asked.
"Until nightfall, we dont have time to slow down. If you cant go on anymore then get someone to carry you." Shikaru said to him before turning his head to face infront once more.
Kazuo started thinking deeply about what choice to make.
He could ask someone to carry him just as Shikaru had proposed however that would completley ruin his reputation that he had made until now, just as he had thought.
'He wants me to become less of a distinguished figure inside the camp.' Kazuo immideatly realized as he stared at Shikarus back.
'Well, how about no?' Kazuo thought as a deranged grin took over his face.
Slowing his pace down until he was almost at the back of the group, Kazuo took out a kunai from his ninja bag.
It was an explosion kunai.
His hand shook as he held the weapon.
'Ah, killing yourself is so much fucking harder than just getting killed.' Kazuo thought before he closed his eyes and with bated breath circulated his chakra to his hand and activated the explosion tag tied to the kunai.
The sound it made immediately alerted the nearby shinobi who turned to look at Kazuo, their eyes widening quickly.
"Ah, fuck you Shikaru." Kazuo said out loud before plunging the kunai into his abdomen.
*Boom*
With a loud booming sound, Kazuo's body exploded as his limbs scattered around in the air.
*Huff* *Huff*
Opening his eyes, Kazuo found himself back in his tent.
'I have to learn that damned jutsu' Kazuo thought as he got up immediately.
He had managed to memorize the entire scroll quickly, the jutsu itself wasn't difficult to understand, but that didn't mean that it was easy to master.
The D-rank Jutsu, Body Flicker had one of the highest skill ceilings of any Jutsu ever created.
It could be as weak as a D-rank jutsu in the hands of the unskilled or as strong as an S-rank jutsu in the hands of someone like Shisui Uchiha or Minato Namikaze.
Quickly making his tent, Kazuo headed to the training grounds.
He had around an hour at the most to learn the jutsu, if he couldnt then he would have to die again.
The prospect frightened Kazuo, death was never pleasent afterall but if he wanted to actually survive and achieve a good life in this world then it was a necessary part for him who was a Time looping Gamer.
'The Body Flicker jutsu only requires the user to make the tiger seal and at higher levels it becomes a sealless jutsu. It basically uses chakra to vitalize the user's body allowing it to move at extreme speeds, causing it to look as if the user has teleported. The difficulty in mastering the jutsu is in the user's ability to actually control himself at that extreme speed, if you use the jutsu wrongly then it can even result in severe injuries or death if you were to run directly into an obstacle at such high speeds.' Kazuo thought as he quickly summed up the jutsu and without waiting for any more time, he made the tiger seal.
Circulating his chakra whilst he maintained the tiger seal in the method showed inside the jutsu scroll, Kazuo aimed his body at a clearing instead of at any trees or obstacles and only used the smallest ammount of chakra that he could manage.
*Poof*
A bunch of smoke erupted where he had been and his sight blurred.
When his eyes refocused, Kazuo found himself two meters in front of where he had previously stood.
'Good, now all that i need to do is quantify how much chakra is needed per meter and this should allow me to for a pseudo mastery of the jutsu.
I wont be able to use it on instinct like most ninjas who have mastered it can however ill be able to reach a close levels to them, atleast in accuracy though the speed at which i utilise the jutsu will fall but thats a disatvantage im willing to take for the moment.' Kazuo thought before he started his experimenting.
His chakra reserves had thankfully grown leagues since he had been reincarnated into this world and the jutsu itself didnt use much so he could use it repeateadly over and over.
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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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