Clone Jutsu!

After the Academy ended.

Through the aid of the memories from the previous owner of the body, Ryou walked towards the training area. He looked at the buildings and stores in amazement.

It was a new experience for him. Personally walking by the stores and viewing the products. In his previous life, he'd rarely went shopping and instead purchased things he needed via the internet.

Passing by a shinobi shop, Ryou wanted to just grab the tools and test it out. However, he'd an even more exciting thing to do.

It was performing hand-seals and spitting out a fireball from his mouth!

With that thought, Ryou reluctantly dashed to the direction of the training area. From the memories, Ryou knew he was in his last year of Ninja Academy, just about to graduate in three months.

And the previous Ryou had already learned the basic jutsu taught at the Academy, which was why Ryou couldn't wait to test them out.

Finally arriving at the training area, Ryou had noticed the changed in his physical. The current him was capable of running long distances while the previous him couldn't even run one metre without being breathless.

Staring at the training area, Ryou saw two shinobi training while quite a few students from the Academy. They were training their combats for the up-coming graduation exam.

However, the current Ryou couldn't be bothered with the Academy and ran straight to an empty training area.

Taking a deep breath in, Ryou recalled the hand-seals for the "Clone Jutsu." It was a useful technique, but one of the most basic Jutsu taught at the Academy.

"Clone Jutsu!" Ryou shouted.

Bom!

Dense smoke surrounded Ryou. The smoke dissipated and revealed around five Ryous, however; they were barely recognizable. All of his clones looked like a dead fish, not even able to stand!

Because of the disturbance, the surrounding people look at Ryou's direction. Laughters immediately sounded from the students' direction.

"Ahaha... What an idiot! I bet he'll fail his graduation exam. Look at those clones, they can't even stand up."

"Hmp! Isn't that Ryou? He has more chakra reserve than us, but look at his talent. It is getting worse by the day!" The group continued to belittle Ryou.

However, one of the shinobi's eyes narrowed. She had a curvaceous figure with blonde shoulder-length hair. She stared at the pathetic, but dozens of clones disappearing into smoke.

It was quite rare for a kid to produce so many clones, his chakra reserve should be quite high. Sadly, the kid's chakra control was really too horrible!

Ryou was mad at the clones' state. It was comparable to Naruto's, but he didn't possess the enormous amount of chakra as Naruto did.

"Is my chakra control even worse than Naruto?" Ryou dreaded. He didn't even have the attention to get angry at the kids laughing at him.

Shaking his head, Ryou attempt the "Clone Jutsu" again.

"Clone Jutsu" Ryou shouted.

Around 20 clones popped. However, this time the quality of each clone were much better, compared to the previous attempt.

At least they're bare standing!

Another round of laughter echoed. Ryou finally realized people were spectating him and felt embarrassed. He was also angry! Wasn't the "Clone Jutsu" suppose to be one of the easiest technique in Naruto-verse?

Ryou Taichi was upset. The previous owner of the body, Ryou was able to perfectly summon two clones of himself.

"I guess gaining the memories doesn't mean I also gain his skills," Ryou mumbled. "I'll try to minimize the chakra to a bare minimum this time."

Ryou still wanted to give it another try, but suddenly felt the exhaustion invading all over his body.

Due to this, Ryou called it a day and return to his new home, the orphanage of the village. It was the largest and single orphanage in the entire village, founded by the second Raikage.

...

Even though Ryou was tired, he stopped mid-way to the shinobi shop he encountered earlier. Looking at the weapons displayed in front of the store on a table, Ryou was able to see the exceptionally sharp edges of the kunais and shurikens.

Ryou walked forward and immediately grabbed three kunais and shurikens. Although he was tired, excitement shown on his eyes as he walked off.

Clink!

A metal hitting the ground sounded. Staring down in front of him, Ryou was startled to see a kunai embedded on the ground.

Looking around to see who'd thrown such a dangerous thing, Ryou saw a bald middle-aged man with a cut mark across his lips. He had his arms crossed, tapping his toe rhythmically.

Ryou narrowed his eyes, staring back at the bald person. "He seems to be glaring at me." Ryou thought.

Not giving much importance to such a crazy person, Ryou turned to the orphanage's direction and started walking.

"You brazen thief!" A bellowed resounded from Ryou's back.

Startled, Ryou immediately turned around to see that the bald man was still facing him. It was as if he was shouting at him.

The bald man walked to Ryou and shouted, "How dare you steal items from my shop. And doing so in such opened manner! Do you think I'm blind?!"

Seconds later, the words the bald man said finally sunk into Ryou's head. He was confused at first, but now he understood!

Ryou let out a low growl. It was such a pain; it seems transmigrating to another world does have its own cons!

Extending the hand holding onto the kunais and shurikens Ryou said, "Here take it back."

As I person who'd high status on Earth before, Ryou was not accustomed to apologizing. He also finally understood why the bald middle-aged man was shouting at him.

It was because he didn't pay for the items! Ryou had forgotten to pay because he didn't need to personally pay in his previous life, his butler had always been the person to pay.

Although Ryou really liked the kunais and shurikens, the current him didn't have enough money to purchase them. So, he had to reluctantly return it to the shopkeeper.

"Hmp! I'll break your legs if this happens again!" The shopkeeper sneered and walked back to his store.