Chapter 3

It was obvious to me that I had to become stronger, quickly!

Stronger than my old self!

Fortunately, there was a loophole in the system, yes, the system had rebooted, but my knowledge had not!

I kept everything, years of experience!

From the most basic knowledge for a Shinobi to the most advanced knowledge for an Anbu Root!

So for days on end, I went over everything, familiarizing myself with this 14-year-old body...

I pushed myself to the limit, every day, a little harder, a little further.

I put my body through a merciless workout!

And thanks to the shop I was able to learn the care of a medic ninja, I was very far from the legendary Tsunade, but it was more than enough to heal me from a bullet wound as long as it was not in a vital place.

I, who had learned to override pain against my will, now used this ability daily.

I also fully awakened my new Sharingan! It wasn't hard, all I had to do was think about the horrible things Danzo had done to me and made me do...

things that took me a long time to forgive myself and accept.

Unfortunately, there was one huge flaw in my intensive training...

the lack of an opponent!

On the other hand, thankfully, the system hadn't let me down, yes, I was allowed to choose a Jonin instructor of my choice to train with for an indefinite period!

I immediately thought of Kakashi Hatake...

However, my final choice was Gai Maito, simply because I had to have a taijutsu opponent.

An expert in the discipline.

Taijutsu had always been my biggest weakness, throughout my second life as a ninja!

It was only natural for me to improve in this area of the shinobi...

thus making up for my most fundamental weakness.

Because this body had no muscle memory for fast, high-intensity combat, it took me a long time to even dodge a single blow from Gai's doppelgänger without the Sharingan, which I had forbidden myself to use in the first week of practice.

Of course, I didn't train non-stop, I took breaks to eat and do other necessary things.

I still hadn't joined the human civilization since I arrived in this world I didn't know when I was, except that the ancient one was still alive.

It was only a few months later that I decided to make the doppelgänger disappear...

Simply because I felt I had become quite proficient in Taijutsu.

It was time for me to see what civilization had to offer in this world.

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"Look where you're walking asshole!" a man driving an old car shouted at me, but I deserved it, I had passed a traffic light.

Yeah...

it was very strange to be back in a so-called modern city, but no stranger than having to conform to all those...

things that governed the life of the average human being on this planet.

Guess the first thing I did when I got to Washington D.C.?

A cheeseburger!

Yes, I had to have one!

It had been way too long, as for how I got the money.

It was simple, ten clones were enough to fill my pockets by picking up a few wallets around the city and hoping they would be seen as planned.

It was only after finding a fast food franchise that I finally decided to sit down for a few minutes and enjoy some of the fatty nutrients...

however, people continue to stare at me since I arrived here...

I looked at my current anbu outfit, frowning at it, then shrugged and bit into my burger with total indifference.

Grabbing a handful of fries and stuffing them into my mouth, I frowned again.

« Sniper? They're fast enough... » I thought as I saw something bright coming from far away in the corner of my vision at the top of a building, which I immediately identified as the reflection of the sun on binoculars.

They wouldn't try anything in front of so many people anyway, so I quietly finished my food, plus they didn't know my true face as I was in a partial transformation...

I smiled inwardly as a man entered the Burger King, I recognized him as Brock Rumlow.

« HYDRA? SHIELD? » I thought as the guy acted like a complete rookie, with various unnecessary glances, sweating, and agitated breathing, he even spoke in a low voice into what I assume was an earphone...

then I remembered. « yeah, this is the MCU, not the Shinobi world, obviously they don't have the proper training. »

getting up without forgetting my tray, I dumped it in the bin, then put it down and started to walk towards the back bathroom as if nothing had happened.

Rumlow was already following me like a well-trained dog.

Entering the toilet I waited for the guy to come in too, once done I held out my hand in his direction, he gave me his hearing device and his service weapon, and all his equipment without a word then waited there.

I heard someone shouting in the commlink that I directly destroyed immediately to alarm them!

I made two clones of my current self.

''Henge no Jutsu...'' one of them immediately said as he transformed into Brock Rumlow.

I nodded toward my two clones, then knocked Brock out instantly and put him in one of the toilets with my real body.

The guy will wake up with no memory of that... Sharingan session.

After that my two clones did their thing, Rumlow's clone handcuffed the clone of me.

Too easy...