Chapter 6: Progression In Seals

Chapter 6: Progression In Seals

(1 Week Later)

Aikaga stands next to a shadow clone of his with his eyes replaced by the beautiful red eyes belonging to the Uchiha clan, the sharingan.

Aikaga looks down at the seals on his body with a scrutinizing eye.

'With just the 1 tomoe sharingan I've already found over 100 mistakes. The analytic ability of the sharingan is amazing, with this level of perception I can quickly advance my mastery in seals by a couple times. That's just one of the benefits of the sharingan, with these eyes my genjutsu is far stronger, my reaction speed has also increased several times. My perception of time has also slowed down, while this doesn't make me physically faster it does allow me to respond faster.'

The shadow clone hands Aikaga a brush tipped with ink and he gets to work. Every imperfection is fixed, adjustments in placement of kanji are made and modifications are made so that the seal gains another function.

[Chakra Signature Manipulation.]

Once the seal activates Aikaga's chakra signal changes to that of Minato. With a satisfied grin Aikaga sets down his brush.

'With this additional function to the chakra concealment seal I can now impersonate as other shinobi almost like Zetsu. But that isn't the best improvement I've made in seals, now that I have the sharingan I was able to apply a certain seal that fixes the problem that Kakashi had.'

[Chakra Canceling Seal.]

The 1 tomoe in Aikaga's implanted eye disappears and the eye changes from red to black.

'The chakra canceling seal allows me to control the sharingan the exact same way as an Uchiha, due to this I don't have to deal with the problem of constant strain on my chakra reserves. Of course I still have to deal with the sharingan taking a tremendous amount of chakra but I don't really want to use it to fight. There really isn't any need to do that, honestly I don't believe that I can use it in combat without being an Uchiha or developing some type of seal that stores excess chakra for later. Eventually I will get some type of seal to deal with this problem but it isn't a current concern for me.'

Making several handseals 3 other shadow clones poof into existence draining Aikaga's chakra to 5%.

"I want one of you to go to the academy for me because I'll be spending the next few months scouting for strong jutsu to copy. Another one will kill a medic nin and impersonate them to get practice with actual humans. One the last two will train in mastering fire transformation and the last will be improving my current seals and developing new ones."

With that last command Aikaga turns into a bird and he flies away to copy jutsu.

'If I spend a few months traveling the 5 nations the amount of jutsu I can copy should be at least a couple dozen. I might need to advance the sharingan itself to copy complex jutsu but that really shouldn't be a problem for me to do.'

Traveling over the border of Konohagakure Aikaga follows a shinobi squad made of multiple experienced chunin on a supply route elimination mission.

(A Few Days Later)

The commanding jonin gives commands out to the other members before pausing.

"What is it boss? Is there an enemy approaching us?"

The commanding jonin silently communicates to the others with handseals and they immediately get in a defensive position and wait for the enemy to approach.

After a couple of seconds a small squadron of shinobi wearing crossed out stone village headbands.

Once they get close enough to the leaf squadron barbed ninjas wires swing towards them from multiple locations.

Two of the 5 rogue nin immediately die and the other 3 escape via replacement jutsu.

"Fire Release: Fire Collum."

The leaf ninja perform a combination jutsu blasting away all of the forest to force the enemies to come out if hiding. The jonin commander immediately makes a shadow clone that rushes to Konohagakure to inform them that rogue stone ninja are near the border of the land of Fire that they had just exited.

The smoke from the jutsu clears and only one of the ninjas is still alive, the rogue elite jonin. 2 of the leaf chunin restrain him with ninja wire and the commanding leaf jonin steps up to interrogate him.

"Why is a squadron of rogue nin heading towards the land of Fire border?"

When he doesn't receive a response from the rogue nin he forms 5 handseals.

"Lightning Style: Arc Lightning."

Lightning charges up from his fingertips and a strong current travels through the jonin's body causes him to scream in immense agony at the overwhelming pain targeting his nerves.

"PLEASE STOP, PLEASE I SWEAR I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING."

The leaf jonin stops and the rogue jonin twitches in pain from the remaining electricity running rampant through his body.

After a few minutes he calms down enough to somewhat speak.

"The reason I came here with my squadron was to target the supply route to many of the small villages connecting them to Konohagakure. We were sent by one of the higher ups who is angry with Onoki's hesitation to start the war. The plan was to isolate Konohagakure from their closest trade partners so that we could hold a siege and force Konohagakure to starve without any supplies to feed their shinobi."

The chunin listening to this are caught off guard from this while the jonin remains calm without any change in his stone cold expression.

"I-Is there already another shinobi war coming? I didn't think any of the 5 great shinobi villages would want to cause such an event again."

The commanding jonin looks back at the chunin with extreme disdain at his naiveness.

"War is approaching, with the death of the Sakumo Hatake and the absence of Tsunade Senju Konohagakure is far more vulnerable. Konohagakure humiliated the other shinobi villages in the last war, now that we've lost power the Kage of other villages smell blood and plan to take a bite out of the bleeding titan to gain power. Hah, we must take this information back to the 3rd Hokage."