Naruto: Shadow Mage(DROPPED)

The sun had already set, and dusk had fallen.

Every day, the sun rises from the east and sets in the west; it's a law.

However, during wartime, the once prosperous village also had a curse-like law: people would die every day!

Nevertheless, as the entire village was shrouded in the shadow of war, silently mourning the heroes sacrificed during wartime, a little brat fed up with the funeral atmosphere slipped away and hid in the deer breeding farm of Uncle Nara.

"This is ridiculous! Can you believe I could cross over just by downloading a mobile game cheat? Damn it, why couldn't I have been transported to the One Piece world? Why choose such a dangerous time? The late Third Great Ninja War, with the dark end of the war ahead and the Nine-Tails attack incident behind! Do you know how dangerous it is? It's going to cost lives, many lives, do you understand?"

After ranting crazily for a while, the little brat's mood finally eased. However, upon seeing the strange pattern on the palm of his right hand, his already gloomy mood became even gloomier.

The little brat's name is Yasuke. His name before crossing over is unimportant; he only needs to know that his name is Yasuke Nara, a member of the Nara clan's branch family.

What? The Nara clan doesn't have a branch family? Well, as a seasoned Naruto fan, Yasuke thought he understood the setting of the Naruto world better than Kishimoto himself, but he didn't even know that the Nara clan had a branch family!

And even if the original explained it, stating that the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans of Konoha had been in friendship for generations, and each generation's elite enjoyed the title of the "Ino-Shika-Cho" trio, guarding the Hokage's family for generations, after crossing over, Yasuke discovered that the generations of guardian families were all nonsense!

Take the pattern in Yasuke's palm, for example. It may seem like the Nara clan's family emblem, but it is actually the curse seal used by the successive Hokage to control the Nara clan!

The function of that curse seal is basically similar to the Hyuga clan's Caged Bird Seal. As long as one is a member of the Nara, Yamanaka, or Akimichi clan, they must accept the curse seal under the supervision of the successive Hokage when they reach the age of four. In simple terms, once the curse seal takes effect, if the Hokage wants you to live, you live; if the Hokage wants you to die, you die, without any room for resistance.

Among the Nara clan's branch families, the only ones who could be considered lucky were probably the Nara clan's main family, as the conflict between the two branches was far less deep than that of the Hyuga clan. After all, whether you were from the main family or the branch family, you had to survive under the will of the Hokage, and with the future fate controlled by the Hokage, what room was there for internal strife?

Having crossed over for exactly three months, Yasuke had basically understood his background and the era background of the Naruto world.

As a member of the Nara clan's branch family, Yasuke's parents tragically died on the battlefield of the Third Great Ninja War shortly after his birth. The only relic was a scroll of ninjutsu, still in the possession of Uncle Nara, Nara Shikamaru, without the opportunity to enter a ninja school for further study, let alone the qualification to browse and watch.

At this time, just after the Third Hokage retired, the Fourth Hokage took office, without changing the wartime policy, as long as you were five years old, you could go to the ninja school for further study.

In other words, Yasuke, who was four years old now, as long as he could hold on for a few more months, would be able to enter the ninja school and retrieve his parents' relics from Uncle Nara. Unfortunately, when Yasuke heard this news from Uncle Nara, besides feeling increasingly depressed, there was nothing else he could think of.

Because in this world, perhaps only Yasuke himself knew that the capital for survival was not some clan's secret technique or even hard work, but rather, cheats!

Looking back at the original plot, let alone being from the Nara clan, even for the prominent clans like the Hyuga clan or the Uchiha clan, what could their members do?

The people of the Hyuga clan were not even as good as extras in the original plot. Even Hyuga Neji, the cousin of the protagonist, despite being a genius, ended up dying as ordered, right?

The Uchiha clan members were even more pitiful. In a few years, they would face the tragedy of being annihilated as a clan. Those who didn't have the aptitude for the Sharingan were embarrassed to live until the end of the original plot, and in the end, the only ones left in the whole clan could be counted on one hand!

In the original plot, besides those favored by fate, inheriting the Six Paths of Pain from Asura, or the inheritance of Indra, like Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, who else could truly control their own destiny?

So whenever Yasuke recalled those tragic stories from the original plot, besides lamenting the bleak future, he could only strive to cultivate with the idea of ​​being a foolish bird flying first, trying to fight against the damn fate as much as possible!

"Sigh, let's not think too much about it. Can't cultivate without an assistant? If I'm not careful, I'll end up dead in a few years when the Nine-Tails attacks! Let's hurry up and train. It's better to do that than to be a cannon fodder on the battlefield in the future!"

Adjusting his emotions, Yasuke turned to face the carefree deer raised in the breeding farm, feeling quite envious in his heart, but his hands were clasped together in a very strange seal, precisely the hand seal of the Nara clan's secret technique!

"Shadow Imitation Jutsu!"

"Hum..."

"Hum..."

As Yasuke activated the chakra in his body, his shadow under the sunlight suddenly elongated and soon merged with the shadow of a deer in front of him. Undoubtedly, Yasuke used the signature technique of the Nara clan, known as the Shadow Imitation Jutsu, to link his elongated shadow with that of the opponent, causing the opponent's body to be bound, allowing the opponent to perform the same actions as the user's family technique.

Moreover, if there were members of the Nara clan watching Yasuke's practice, they would surely be very surprised!

It should be known that children during wartime could not change the nature of chakra at will, refining it into Yin Release chakra suitable for the Nara clan's techniques. Yasuke, who had crossed over and practiced for only three months, had the ability to change the nature of chakra, possess the capital to perform the Shadow Imitation Jutsu, something that even the original strong Nara Shikamaru did not have!

However, just as Yasuke felt that the deer's body was completely bound and was about to change the deer's movements to match his own, suddenly, with a "snap" sound!

In an instant, Yasuke felt as if a nerve in his brain had been severed, and waves of pain rushed into his mind!

"Darn it, failed again? As a transmigrator, apart from having a bit of advantage in mental energy, spending three months and still unable to master the Shadow Imitation Jutsu, isn't this embarrassing for transmigrators?"

Others might be surprised by his cultivation speed, but Yasuke himself was not satisfied. He knew that there were too many geniuses in the original plot!

Let's not talk about those far away, let's talk about some closer ones.

Hatake Kakashi became a genin at five, a chuunin at seven, and was able to develop an S-rank ninjutsu at the age of ten. Isn't that abnormal?

Uchiha Itachi, a contemporary ninja with Yasuke, was even more outstanding. He awakened his Sharingan at the age of eight and wielded the deadly weapon, the Mangekyou Sharingan, in his teens!

Since crossing over, Yasuke had regarded Itachi and Kakashi as goals to surpass and had gone to great lengths to obtain a chance to see the scroll left by his parents from Uncle Nara.

But besides memorizing the chakra cultivation methods and the Shadow Imitation Jutsu, after tirelessly cultivating day and night, maintaining only five hours of deep sleep each day, coupled with superhuman mental energy, Yasuke, who had crossed over for only three months, could not even successfully perform a simple Shadow Imitation Jutsu. How could Yasuke be content?

What's more, what's limiting Yasuke's growth is not effort, but talent!

It's physical limitations!

Just because Yasuke was a little over four years old and the Nara clan's physique wasn't ranked among the top, Yasuke's physical qualities were a bit inferior compared to those of the Uchiha and Hyuga clans. Even though Yasuke forcefully condensed chakra in his meridians with superhuman mental energy, his chakra volume was only one-third of an ordinary genin's, and being able to initially perform the Shadow Imitation Jutsu was already a miracle. To fully master it, it would take at least a few months of accumulation.

Enduring the backlash after the failure of the Shadow Imitation Jutsu, when the pain in his head gradually subsided, Yasuke could only silently stare at the Nara curse seal on his right hand and sigh, "If it weren't for Uncle Nara planting this curse seal on me a few days ago, and my physical energy was innocently consumed, maybe I would have started the next stage of Nara clan secret technique cultivation by now?"

"No way, this curse seal wasn't something Uncle Nara wanted to give me. If you have to blame someone, blame the rules set by the successive Hokage. Right now, let's try the self-torture training like Xio Li. Nothing else matters as long as the training increases physical energy afterward, so that I can master the Shadow Imitation Jutsu as soon as possible!"

Ding! "Dear player: Yasuke, hello, congratulations on your energy consumption reaching 1000, successfully opening the Accelerated Upgrade APP, currently binding..."

"What?!"

Just as Yasuke was about to go to the nearby training ground to sweat it out, he suddenly heard a strange sound in his mind, and couldn't help but stare blankly, then he was overjoyed!

"Indeed, there's a cheat! The Accelerated Upgrade APP actually works, that's great!"

After a burst of excitement in his heart, Yasuke quickly calmed down and asked the system, "APP, can I exchange for the Rinnegan here?"

"Sorry, this service is not available."

"APP, can I exchange for ninjutsu here? Flying Thunder God Technique, Shadow Clone Technique, I want to exchange!"

"Sorry, this service is not available."

"APP, then can I do weight training? You must be able to do that, right?"

"Sorry, this service is not available."

"What can you do then?"

Continuously asking, continuously disappointed, Yasuke's joy of gaining the cheat was even extinguished.

But just as Yasuke was infinitely disappointed, feeling that relying on this imitation APP was not as useful as his own cultivation, the Accelerated Upgrade APP finally gave him a little surprise!

"Player, APP binding successful, the current scenario you are experiencing is 'Naruto,' energy consumption reward: tree climbing training card 1, water walking training card 1."

"Player, under certain conditions, you can freely modify the progress of skills, would you like to modify it?"

"Great!"

Finally understanding some of the usefulness of the APP, after a burst of excitement, Yasuke immediately said to the APP, "APP, I want to modify my physical quality, simply change it to the Sage of Six Paths body!"

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