Ninja Pot Shadow

Relying on techniques honed from practicing on stationary targets to engage moving targets, seasoned veterans on the battlefield can lock onto targets based on experience and feel. However, inexperienced newcomers need to calculate wind speed, angle, predict the opponent's movement, and a host of other factors, resulting in neither hitting the other...

In short, it all boils down to a lack of practical experience.

Ino acknowledged the problem and said she needed to continue practicing.

Haiyi continued, "The second problem is that you're too arrogant. You've already secured the battle by using the Mind Transfer Technique to take over the body, so why are you still trying to solve this puzzle? Battle isn't a game!"

At this point, Haiyi's tone became somewhat harsh.

What else could Ino say? There was no way to explain the pot-making incident; she should just admit her mistake.

"You don't understand the Uchiha clan. If you had done a detailed investigation, you would know that the Uchiha clan's bloodline limit is very famous in the ninja world. There are many people who want their bloodline limit. Without some means, the Uchiha clan would have been wiped out long ago!"

The spiritual energy associated with their Sharingan is extremely strange, often leaving hidden threats within their souls. Using the Mind Transfer Technique to possess their bodies is incredibly dangerous. This is your third mistake, and the most fatal one: you failed to conduct prior investigation, lacked intelligence support, rashly entered into battle, and lacked vigilance during the fight, suffering a major loss and nearly losing the victory.

Haiyi looked disappointed and frustrated, as if Ino's actions had greatly disappointed him.

Ino was utterly speechless. "I didn't want to fight at first, but didn't you make me fight? Do I need to gather intelligence to fight Sasuke? Doesn't that guy only know one Fireball Jutsu?"

She muttered a few complaints to herself, but she also admitted that she had indeed been careless and had been betrayed by Indra's chakra.

"This battle is a valuable lesson for you. Don't be so reckless. You're not a child anymore. After graduation, you'll be going out on missions. If your mistakes cause your teammates to die, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. Sigh, Ino... Think about it carefully."

After Hai finished speaking, he left the room with a heavy expression. When he reached the front yard, his steps became lighter, and by the time he stepped out of the house, he was beaming with joy.

In front of numerous Jonin and Hokage, the daughter defeated Uchiha Sasuke with sheer strength. Although many problems were exposed during the battle, victory is victory. In the ninja profession, the result is often what matters, not the process. The fact that the daughter defeated Uchiha Sasuke is undeniable.

Happy! Beautiful!

He spent half his life as a lazy bum in the mountains, but now his daughter seems to be more successful than him.

Ten minutes later, he took advantage of his work to find his two old buddies, Nara Shikaku and Akimichi Choza. "My daughter defeated all the geniuses of the Uchiha clan! Isn't that amazing? When we first went into battle, we weren't even as good as her, right? Come on, let's skip work today and go drinking!"

On the other side, Rino Yamanaka gently comforted Ino for a couple of minutes, then picked up her bag, changed her clothes, and made an appointment with the ladies of the Nara and Akimichi families to go to the hot springs. It would be perfectly reasonable for them to chat about their daughters and sons there...

Ino was unaware of her adoptive parents' series of Versailles-like actions. Her childish guessing game during the battle left her seriously injured, but no one suspected that these things were incomprehensible to adults, but were quite normal at the age of twelve. The various differences in her behavior after transmigrating and before were completely covered up by this act of feigning madness.

"Sigh," she sighed.

If possible, she wouldn't want to be a ninja at all, risking her life every day, braving wind and rain, just a loyal Konoha worker? Don't be ridiculous!

Unfortunately, it's like rowing against the current; if you don't move forward, you fall behind. Konoha Village is too dangerous. If she doesn't have the strength, she might die before she even gets to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

"You son of a bitch Shikamaru, don't let me catch you!" She picked up the scroll written by Shikamaru and studied it word by word.

This is a matter of life and death, so we must be extremely careful.

……

The battle between Ino and Sasuke was just a topic of conversation for the students at the Ninja Academy, something they would forget about in a few days.

At most, Naruto, Kiba, and the others will work a little harder during training.

The impact on the village's leadership is rapidly escalating.

Danzo found the Third Hokage early in the morning.

"Hiruzen, I think this Water Prison Technique has a lot of potential."

The Third Hokage removed his straw hat, revealing age spots on his face, and calmly awaited his next words.

Danzo's words were as ruthless as ever: "Your Water Release is stronger than mine. Don't tell me you didn't expect that this Water Prison Technique, besides trapping the enemy in small-scale battles, has another important function: suicide! Once a ninja carrying important intelligence is trapped by the enemy, he can use the Water Prison Technique on himself and then destroy the intelligence. To prevent the enemy ninja from reading the information in his brain, our ninja can also destroy his brain and body together. A kunai and an explosive tag can solve all the problems."

Danzo emphasized, "Hiruzen, this technique is very valuable and worth promoting on a large scale. In the past, we lost too many people in intelligence work, and village secrets and some ninjutsu were leaked in this way. The Water Prison Technique can perfectly solve this problem."

He paused for a moment: "The Water Prison Technique should be enforced by order. All ninjas who know Water Release should learn and master it. When the time comes, they should be made to commit suicide. Under no circumstances should they leak the village's information!"

Chapter Thirty-Two: The Third Generation's Thoughts

The Third Hokage fell silent.

Danzo's words make some sense.

Being a ninja is a profession primarily focused on killing, with little room for human compassion.

During the war in the Land of Rain, the three great ninja villages of Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure indiscriminately unleashed all sorts of large-scale ninjutsu, leaving the country riddled with holes and countless civilians losing their homes and lives. Nobody cared how many people actually died.

In order to win the war, the ninjas were ruthless and unscrupulous.

Death is not the end; often, a great deal of information can be gleaned from a corpse.

No ninja village would refuse to extract important information or ninjutsu from a ninja's brain.

The Second Hokage's Shadow Clone Technique and Water Horn Technique, as well as the Hidden Mist Technique and Water Prison Technique of Kirigakure, were all spread in this way.

The enemy's corpses are important, but the corpses of our own ninjas are even more important.

Inoichi's intelligence department often goes to great lengths over the corpse of one of their own ninjas, but there's no other way; the corpse must be retrieved.

Saving Private Ryan at least saves one person alive, but the ninjas often lose several people and end up only getting a corpse back. It feels like a huge loss, but they can't just not take it.

The Water Prison technique can perfectly solve this problem: what do you do when you are surrounded by enemies, unable to escape, and at the same time have important information in your mind?

Don't rush or get angry! The characteristic of the Water Prison spell is that the outside can't get in, and the people inside can't get out. Cast a Water Prison spell on yourself, then reminisce about the glorious past. One explosive tag can solve all the problems. If one isn't enough, then use two.

Without a head, how can you read intelligence? You can't possibly use neurons to remember information, can you? Kai's physical techniques don't use the brain; they do rely on bodily memory, but only he can do that. No one else has that ability.

Danzo spoke earnestly and repeatedly urged, almost to the point of displaying a banner that read, "Learn from the Second Hokage's Water Release techniques and build a happy home for Konoha together."

After much deliberation, the Third Hokage ultimately rejected the suggestion: "No, I cannot allow the people of the village to go to the battlefield with this kind of mentality. This is not in accordance with the Will of Fire. Ninjas are not tools, not cold numbers on a registration card. They are human beings! I will not issue such an order."

He spoke with absolute certainty, leaving no room for compromise.

If a ninja is captured, should they be rescued if possible? Why send subordinate ninjas to commit suicide at the drop of a hat? Who will want to be a ninja in the future? Besides, this is not a time of war, there is no large-scale conflict. Even if they are captured, they can be rescued through diplomacy and exchanges of benefits. Suicide is not advisable and does not conform to the Will of Fire.

"Naive! Hiruzen, your naivety will one day destroy Konoha!" Danzo cursed as he left the Hokage Building.

The Third Hokage rejected the suggestion of using the Water Prison Technique for suicide, but he still supported ninjas who had the means to learn it.

This is a C-rank Water Release ninjutsu, which is about the level of a Chunin in terms of difficulty. As long as you have Water Release chakra, it's not difficult to learn.

There are no major wars at present, and the conflicts between ninja villages in various countries are mostly small-scale. In such situations, the Water Prison Technique is more effective.

Unless there is a significant difference in strength or numbers, it is not difficult to secure victory by using Water Prison to trap the strongest enemy at the start, and then using superior forces against medium forces, and medium forces against inferior forces.

The Third Hokage stood at the window, watching Danzo walk out of the building and then disappear into the shadows.

This old fellow has been too active lately. Is he getting old, or has he reconnected with those guys outside the village?

When the Second Hokage died, he left a will that he should succeed the Third Hokage.

The newly appointed Third Hokage is facing both internal and external troubles. There is a war going on outside, and the ninja clans in the village do not believe the so-called dying wish at all. You say it is the dying wish of the Second Hokage, but apart from you juniors, who else saw or heard it at the time?

The biggest question is, why was the Hokage position of the Senju clan given to your Sarutobi clan?

Without Danzo and the support of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, he would have had a very difficult time stabilizing the situation.

The Third Hokage harbored no animosity towards ninja clans. He was born into the Sarutobi clan and was a member of one of them. Without the unconditional support of his clan, he would never have reached where he is today. However, as the leader of the village, he naturally had to suppress the ninja clans, control the powerful Danzo, and support commoner ninjas.

The power of ninja clans is too great. If there is a major change in the main line of the Hokage, a dramatic change may occur. Commoner ninjas are the foundation of the village.

He wanted to teach more ninjutsu to ordinary ninjas, but not only ninja clans, but even his own Sarutobi clan wouldn't allow it. Over the years, the ninja academy could only teach the most basic Three Body Techniques. Only after graduation could one possibly come into contact with the Five Elements Escape Techniques, but even that was only a possibility; there was a very high chance that one would not be able to come into contact with them.

Ino used a whole bunch of ninjutsu in a flash. Was it because she was talented? That was partly true, but more importantly, ninja clans monopolized the spread of ninjutsu.

The Water Prison Technique gave him an opportunity; perhaps he could use this chance to teach more ninjutsu to ordinary ninjas.

The Third Hokage is 68 years old this year, no longer a young man. He knows the principle that haste makes waste, so he did not immediately put his ideas into practice. Instead, he planned to take it one step at a time, first promoting the Water Prison Technique among the Jonin level to see the reactions from all sides, and then gradually pushing it down to the lower levels.

……

Three days have passed since Ino and Sasuke's battle ended. For Ino, it's all over, and she can go back to eating and playing as usual. But for Sasuke, the nightmare has just begun.

His eyes hurt terribly, like they were on fire.

At first, he thought his Sharingan was about to be awakened, and he was very excited, but then he realized that something was not quite right.

His Sharingan had actually been awakened.

Having this bloodline limit within their body, and having completed all the steps before awakening the eye through intense emotional stimulation, now all that's needed is to gather chakra in their eyes to officially complete the awakening.

But it was this incredibly simple step of gathering chakra that actually got Sasuke stuck.

A ninja's chakra is composed of physical energy and mental energy, and neither can be lacking. Rock Lee cannot use ninjutsu, but he has chakra, and Sasuke naturally does as well.

When he mixes his physical and mental energy to create chakra and gathers the chakra into his eyes, he feels as if a red-hot iron rod is repeatedly stirring inside his brain.

It's fine as long as the chakra isn't directed towards the eyes.

But he's from the Uchiha clan. If he didn't have the Sharingan, wouldn't he be useless?

Sasuke trained like a madman every day, enduring the pain in his head to gather chakra and try to awaken his Sharingan. But the more he trained, the more painful it became. Even though it was the last and easiest step before awakening his Sharingan, he was still held back.

Chapter Thirty-Three: Stuck

The parents of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, for some unknown reason, believed that since their children were about to graduate and become genin of Konoha, they were cultivating their independence and self-reliance while cutting off their allowance.

Shikamaru is only one day older than Ino, both of them are twelve years old. Being an ordinary student is fine, but once they start practicing clan secret techniques, refining chakra, and undergoing all sorts of training, the expenses will be huge.

Especially since they also have to take Choji, the glutton, along with Ino occasionally, Hinata will also come along. They spend money like water!

With graduation just two months away, the two were so broke they couldn't make ends meet. They discussed how to get some money, at least enough to get through the next two months without income.

They are the future clan leaders, not the current ones. Even if they were the current clan leaders, they couldn't order the clan's ninjas to use oxcarts to haul goods. After thinking it over, renting a house seemed the only option suitable for them, a "low-income group."

"Will Uncle Shikaku agree?" Ino asked.

Shikamaru thought for a moment: "They only said they cut off our allowance, they didn't say we can't get money from other sources. Besides, we're not ninjas yet, so we can't take on missions. We can only try to find a way out from these places. I think we can give it a try."

Ino had a similar idea. The three families' original intention was probably to let them know that making money is not easy, not to let them starve. This time when they went back to talk about renting a house, it should be possible to get it done.

Sakura was very unhappy with their constant "I'm poor" attitude. Are you really poor? I'm the one who's really poor because I've spent all my allowance and can only afford to eat one rice ball a day!

She couldn't help but grumble a couple of times.

Ino didn't tolerate her either, immediately mocking her with a disdainful look: "Sasuke all the time, you don't actually like Sasuke, you just lust after his body!"

They weren't speaking loudly, and the people around them couldn't hear them clearly, let alone those far away. However, Sasuke, who was sitting far away, had his five senses greatly enhanced because he was about to awaken his Sharingan, so he heard them very clearly.

He frowned, disgusted! These women were a bunch of idiots, and what was worse, he had been defeated by one of them!

After school, Sasuke rudely pushed away several girls who wanted to ask him to guess riddles. He wanted to try to open his eyes again. Sakura tried to get close to him by using her tree-climbing skills, but Sasuke ran too fast and she only saw a shadow.

Sasuke ran to the riverbank in one breath, using the cold water to calm himself down and think of a solution.