Chapter 76: Young Uchiha

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Faced with this fatal flaw, Asahi couldn't help but shake his head in resignation.

It seems like, just like the newly acquired Taijutsu, this is another skill that's picky about its users!

For now, it's challenging for his disciples to master this technique, considering this critical flaw.

Before their observational and control abilities are sufficient, it's better not to teach them this technique hastily.

As Asahi silently pondered, he casually performed the technique twice more and then prepared to return for further training.

Lately, he noticed that his progress had slowed down, as if he had reached a bottleneck.

At this rate, who knows when he'll reach the strength to break through boundaries.

However, just as Asahi was about to turn and leave, his ears caught the sound of shuriken clashing and the noise of shuriken embedding into the trees.

The sound was subtle, as if the shuriken lacked force, not fully embedding into the trees, akin to a child practicing.

This surprised Asahi. In such a quiet environment, he thought there was no one else training here.

Unexpectedly, as he was about to leave, he heard the signs of someone practicing.

As for whether it was someone engaged in combat, Asahi felt that, even though he had only been a ninja for four years, he could distinguish between the sounds of training and those of a battle.

Since his progress had slowed down, Asahi didn't mind staying outside a bit longer.

Following the sound, Asahi quickly found the person practicing.

As expected, the one practicing was a child around four years old.

At a glance, the only difference between him and an ordinary child might be the clan emblem of the Uchiha on his back and the short knife disproportionate to his body.

At this moment, the child hadn't noticed Asahi's arrival, and Asahi had no intention of disturbing him.

He quietly stood behind the child, wanting to observe his performance.

Watching the shuriken successfully embed into the tree after multiple rebounds, the young Uchiha sighed in relief.

It seems like it worked. Although the force after the rebounds was somewhat weak, the element of surprise was in his favor.

The young Uchiha silently walked to the thrown shuriken, bending down to pick them up one by one.

Despite being from the Uchiha clan, his family situation wasn't great. If you subtract the monthly allowances from the village and the clan, it barely covered the expenses for purchasing training tools.

So, he avoided unnecessary consumables to manage his resources better.

After tidying up the tools, the young Uchiha stood in place, taking a moment to catch his breath.

Then, in an instant, he jumped up, launching three shuriken from his hand.

Different from the norm, his thrown shuriken didn't fly directly towards distant trees. Instead, the three shuriken seemed to collide in mid-air as if there was a mistake in his manipulation.

Ding, ding, ding...

After a series of crisp sounds, the shuriken didn't fall to the ground but, as if they had eyes, flew towards nearby trees.

Thud, thud...

With two dull impacts, two shuriken embedded into the adjacent trees. The third, due to insufficient force, fell to the ground before reaching a tree.

The young Uchiha didn't stop his actions. In the moment when that shuriken hit the ground, he rushed towards the tree.

In his sprint, he also drew the short sword, noticeably too long for him, from behind.

Thud!

Without hesitation, the young Uchiha swung the sword at the tree.

His movements seemed like they had been refined hundreds or even thousands of times. Even with an unwieldy weapon, he smoothly struck the tree.

After the attack, his breath became slightly more hurried. Though the actions weren't too many, the short time frame exerted a certain burden on his young physique.

Putting the short sword back into the sheath on his back, he picked up the shuriken again.

Despite his dissatisfaction with his previous performance, the young Uchiha was about to repeat the exercise when he suddenly heard a round of applause.

Alert, he turned around. This not-so-large training ground had been allocated to his family by the Uchiha clan due to outstanding contributions from their ancestors. Even though many elders sacrificed themselves, there was no intention to reclaim the area.

Usually, besides himself, there was never anyone else practicing here.

"May I ask, who are you?" Turning around, the young Uchiha, noticing Asahi without a ninja headband, asked cautiously.

Asahi put down his clapping hands and looked at him with amusement. "No need to be so cautious. I'm just a traveler."

A traveler? Someone from another village, perhaps.

The young Uchiha silently thought to himself, feeling even more cautious. In fact, Asahi was also somewhat speechless. 

This young Uchiha looked too much like someone else.

At young age, Asahi couldn't distinguish whether he was one of the future renowned ninjas just by his appearance. 

Although he had some guesses, the system didn't confirm them.

Initially, he wanted to use the system's talent detection function to confirm the child's abilities and check the accuracy of his guess. 

Asahi felt somewhat helpless as he looked at the system's talent detection results. He knew that his guess was probably correct.

He wanted to complain about the system being faulty. He thought it was intelligent, but now that he had already made a guess, the system, due to insufficient information, couldn't provide the person's name.

Isn't it because I was uncertain in my mind earlier? Do you have to be like this?

"Since you just a traveler, I wonder why are you came here. This is the Uchiha clan's training ground."

The young Uchiha squinted his eyes slightly. If something seemed off, he was ready to run away and report to the clan and the village.

Asahi looked at him speechlessly. It was one thing to be outsmarted by the system just now, but how come this little guy has such an attitude?

Do I look like a bad person? It's just that I appreciate talents, or else...

"I just happened to pass by, and I saw you practicing."

Asahi shook his head. "By the way, young one, your performance just now was good. What's your name?"

"Shisui, Shisui Uchiha."

(T/N: Yeah, it seems that here, Shisui born a bit earlier. If in original, Shisui should be 1 year old now but here he already 4 year old.)

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