12 PREPARATIONS
It's been four months since i started learning Houyi archery and the results so far are very good. I can hit any target at a distance of 3km and change the trajectory of the arrows in midair according to my thoughts. There are many types of arrowheads. But my favorites are 4 types of arrowheads.
Barb - A sharp projection near the main base of the arrowhead, angled in a way to make it's extraction difficult.
Blade - The flat cutting edge of the arrowhead. A flat bladed arrowhead has a single blade. A biblade has 2 bladed, a triblade has 3 blades.
Bodkin point - a plain sipke square section arrowhead
Mace - Instead of a sharp tip , it has a dumbbell shaped head. Unlike other arrowheads, it's not used to pierce the opponents, but to smash the opponents body who are highly armored.
I created a small workplace to manufacture equipment for me on the fourth floor. There are 100 clones continuing manufacturing complete arrows with different arrowheads. While 300 clones started to manufacture all kinds of tags. Each clone can use chakra strings as artificial hands and prepare 50 tags per 2 minutes. So i have 15000 tags of all types manufactured every 2 minutes. The tags varied from smoke, poison,paralysis, lightning and explosion. Since the tags are made up of paper, i placed gravity seals on their back side, so that it has the same weight as a boulder.As my masters said, i can't waste precious metals. So i took paper tags, which are cheaper and easy to write sealing formulas. Another 100 clones are busy writing storage seal formulas on the manufactured arrowheads. There are another 50 clones, whom i ordered to create senbon needles, blow darts, shurikens, Kunai and makibishi(ninja nails) etc. These tools are easy to make and small in size. Ninja can dodge few of these, but what happens when the numbers reaches 1000's.
I started practicing henge jutsu to perfection. I can even transform into any type of animal, person or object to the last detail. Also i imitated chameleon to bend the light around the surroundings for a certain period of time and become invisible. I have already created 500 perfect wooden clones.To perform wood element, one must use earth, water and add life energy in a perfect combination. For me it's not a problem, as i can find plenty of life energy in the spiritual air. I used these wooden clones and knocked out the original 500 Root members of Danzo,who are under his direct command, by picking them one by one when they were trying to relate orders to their subordinates. My clones transformed themselves into the perfect versions of these subordinates to the last detail. Since i have been observing the Root members actions for the last year, i was able to mimic them clearly without raising any doubts from Danzo. Due to this, i was able to cut off Danzo from the remaining part of the world, since my clones are the mediator now. Any information from the outside world should pass through me, so i tweaked a lot of these information from the original information i received and passed them to Danzo. Similarly any information that Danzo want to pass to the outside world, i did the same. All the scrolls that Danzo want to pass to the outside world normally turns to ashes after his subordinates finishes reading them. But because of my sealing techniques, i was able to remove these seals from the scroll and saving them as evidences since then.As for the original Root members, i placed chakra suppression seals on them and packed them off to Uzushiogakure and placed them under my 2000 clones that are building my base there.
Slowly i started to replace the other main members of Root in different parts of the Shinobi continent with my clones and started transferring them as prisoners to uzushiogakure.I do want to destroy Danzo, but i need his organisation. That is why i am slowly taking my time to swallow it. Similarly i started collecting information and evidences of all the other corrupt council members and waiting for the day i strike them.
I also started to explore the 8th floor Atlas kingdom. I made 10 shadow clones to become invisible similar to a chameleon and started exploring for any monsters to tame. After few weeks of careful exploring i came across a huge silver wolf which was dying from severe wounds. It was protecting it's newborn puppies from the saber tooth tiger which was also dead. The wolf somehow sensed me and i had to appear before it. Seeing no ill intentions from me, it lowered the guard. There are 4 newborn puppies. 3 male and a female. I convinced the mother wolf, that i will protect and take care of the puppies well. After my promise, it slowly breathed it's last. I immediately buried the mother wolf properly and took the wolf pups with me. I can't take the pups with me outside. So i carried them to the time chamber assigning 4 clones especially to take care of them.
In this world, you can use summoning jutsu to summon animals from another realm to help you. To perform summoning jutsu, you either need an already pre existing animal summoning contract or reverse summon yourself, where you are transported to the animal realm, which closely resembles your soul. Once a contract between you and the animals are formed, you can't form another contract with other animals. you can form another, by cancelling the previous contract. But there existed few people throughout the Shinobi history, that formed multiple contracts with different animals at the same time. They are called summoner ninjas. They can form multiple contracts because of their unique trait called " Universal Soul". The ninjas with these soul are easily acceptable by multiple animals at once. So i want to tame as many animals as i can from the Atlas Kingdom, and mask myself as a true summoner ninja and summon the tamed animals from the pagoda. To achieve this, i prepared a large summoning scroll and placed various sealing techniques on it.Then i slowly collected few drops of the wolf pups blood and marked the scroll with it. Using this scroll, i can legitimately summon any animal from the pagoda with a proper summong technique. I collected the information from the library and they are called Silver Bane Wolfs. They have a bloodline of their own and are said to be descendants of Fenrir. So I selected a appropriate technique from the library and passed them to my clones to train the wolf pups in the Time chamber and also passed huge number of body refining pellets to speed up their growth.
After finding the wolves, i ventured further into the Atlas Kingdom using clones. First i came across a dozen 80 feet sior kingkongs. They are natives of the world sior. They have red fur and titans like strength. It took my clones almost a day before they can defeat these kingkongs. Similarly i formed a contract with their blood and to gain their trust i passed them an appropriate cultivation technique for them. With the help of these kingkongs and my clones , i was able to defeat 3, 110 feet Black panther lions. They are very agile and their skin is so tough. After taming these 3 , i went on to tame some powerful animals. The list includes Griffins, Unicorns, Cyclops, yeti's, Thunderbird, Minhocao, amphiptere, 3 horned primal bull. I gave them all enough pellets and good cultivation techniques. I created a huge spirit gathering and defence formation for these animals to train peacefully. I also warned them to not fight amongst them. I also instructed my clones on the fourth floor, to prepare battle armor for these monsters.
As for the ongoing war, the decision to destroy the Kannabi Bridge and Tenchi Bridge was put on hold, as Sunagakure now allied with Konoha and started attacking Iwagakure, which occupied Sunagakure northern borders. Being attacked on both sides Iwagakure changed it's stance to defence and concentrating on only protecting the borders. Which left a lot of konoha shinobi free and are moved to the other battlefields. I was able to transport tons of exploding tags under an anonymous name to all the three battlefronts. During the war, the infamous duo of kumogakure gold and silver brothers are killed by a battalion lead by Third Raikage. Which also caused some serious losses among the battalion. But now because of the killing, Kumogakure are now able to collect all the 5 treasures of Rikudo Sennin.
In another three months me and Itachi will be five years old. He and Shisui did train a lot and improved a lot. Shisui awakened his mangekyo sharingan and Itachi his single tomoe sharingan. Now Itachi is unanimously accepted by the elders and the current generation as the next heir. As for me i still continued to train with Granny Naori, but i was able to keep with her. It must have inflated her ego i think, that i was able to keep with her, so she placed gravity seals on me during our trainings. Well i already made myself a couple bangles from adamantium and applied gravity seals on them. These few seals applied by Granny Naori didn't make any difference. I also started practicing medical techniques during this time. But unlike all medical ninjas, i can treat the patients with my own chakra, or by stimulating the chakra inside my patients and lastly absorbing chakra directly from the surroundings. As long as there is chakra in the surroundings, i can keep healing on continuously.
One day during our regular trainings in the clan training grounds, the Third Hokage along with his advisors visited us. The reason is simply because of Danzo's instigating Hokage that we Uchiha are training our own forces and the Uchiha are not sending their complete forces to contribute to the war. But in actuality, his true reason was to grab Shisui or Itachi to make them his own puppets. All of us present in the training grounds politely greeted the Hokage and he went on about how the future of konoha is in our hands and will of fire etc. Danzo tried to recruit Shisui and Itachi, by praising them and promising to provide better training manuals. He thoroughly ignored me though, because i am "Blind" in his eyes. To him a blind Uchiha is a dead Uchiha. Mom politely declined the offers by stating, she can't decide for Shisui, as she is only his temporary guardian and as for Itachi, it must be decided by my father. After the rejection and few more minutes of giving some advice to us trainees, all of them left the Uchiha District. We also got a letter from my father, to bring all the potential kids to the borders, so that he can show us the bitter truth of war and its madness. Since the tensions at the borders are a bit calmed down, it's safe for us to go there. But we are to be escorted by Uchiha Elite Bodyguards. We are going to set out to the borders next week and i can't wait to go meet my father.
