Three Body Technique

The first year at the Ninja Academy.

It mainly consisted of learning basic theoretical knowledge and some practical training in physical aspects. Originally, there was no involvement in any ninja or illusion techniques, and even the martial arts were just a foundation for advancement. The group of children who could enter the Ninja Academy were all potential ninja candidates capable of refining chakra. It should be noted that children who couldn't refine chakra would be rejected during the admission phase and would never enter the Ninja Academy.

Among these children, only a small portion came from ninja families.

Long before they entered the Ninja Academy, most of them had already successfully refined their own chakra and started practicing under the guidance of their family's chuunin or even jonin. Family secret techniques were introduced as soon as they refined their chakra. In normal theory, these children would be more suited to practicing at home, but after the establishment of the Ninja Academy system by the Second Hokage, all eligible children from ninja families in Konoha, not to mention other small and medium-sized ninja families, including the Uchiha and Hyuga clans, were sent to the Ninja Academy at the age of five or six.

For these children, their training did not require much attention from the Ninja Academy teachers.

Historically, the Ninja Academy mostly focused on training civilian ninja and some lower-level ninja from these ninja families who couldn't access special resources.

Different innate conditions.

Different growth environments.

These directly affected the dynamics within the Ninja Academy.

The most obvious difference was that children from these ninja families had almost all refined chakra and had already started their formal training under the guidance of chuunin or jonin from their own families. On the other hand, children from civilian backgrounds had to start with theoretical knowledge. Those whose parents were ninja, even if they were just ordinary chuunin, could quickly absorb and understand the concepts. The real challenge was for those civilian children with no background. Their first year was the most critical. They had to understand the essence of being a ninja, what chakra was, and most importantly, how to refine chakra and, once refined, how to use it.

Ninjas used three types of techniques: ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu.

Naturally, taijutsu was the easiest to start with. For these children, who had not yet fully grasped the concept of chakra or couldn't freely manipulate their own chakra, the study of ninjutsu and genjutsu had to be postponed. This included the most basic ninja technique, the Three Body Technique.

Naruto, who had just started his second year at the Ninja Academy, naturally couldn't learn any ninjutsu or genjutsu-related content in the school curriculum. However, this didn't deter Naruto at all. With his even more obedient and intelligent performance compared to the original, this version of Naruto was a very proactive, cheerful, intelligent, and rational child in Iruka's eyes.

Although at first, when Naruto mentioned wanting to learn the Three Body Technique on one of the Academy's rest days, Iruka hesitated a bit, he later considered that Naruto's potential as a ninja was no less than those from ninja families. At this time, Naruto was the jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails, something that should be known throughout the village, but his identity as the orphan of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, was likely only known to the top brass and the village's true elite jonin.

In addition, the Three Body Technique was indeed the most basic ninja technique, so teaching it to Naruto in advance didn't seem like a big problem.

Taking all this into account, when Naruto begged for it a second time, Iruka went along with it and taught him the hand seals and basic principles of the Three Body Technique.

However, just like in the original story, strange things happened.

Transformation and Substitution Techniques.

Naruto learned them almost immediately.

The difference was only in proficiency.

But that didn't matter. With more practice, Naruto was confident he could control Transformation and Substitution Techniques perfectly.

However, it was the Clone Technique.

In the original story, Naruto couldn't learn it until graduation, and even failed the graduation exam multiple times. In this version, Naruto couldn't learn it smoothly either. In fact, he couldn't control it at all.

Even though he followed Iruka's guidance step by step, from the hand seals to chakra manipulation, there seemed to be no problems at all. However, there were still issues.

It had been three months since Naruto started learning the Clone Technique from Iruka.

Transformation and Substitution Techniques had been mastered in a day.

The rest of the time was spent primarily on the Clone Technique.

"Clone Technique!"

"Puff!"

A burst of white smoke suddenly appeared.

And when it cleared, there stood Naruto in the center, along with what looked like two lumps of unidentifiable creatures lying on the ground. One might even say they were slightly twitching, which made them look even more disgusting and bizarre.

Naruto looked at the two strange lumps and couldn't help but twitch his mouth a couple of times.

"Release!"

With a light sigh, Naruto released the Clone Technique again.

"Puff!"

A soft sound, and the two lumps of strange objects disappeared.

"What's the problem exactly?"

Naruto sat cross-legged on the ground.

Today, he had failed countless times again.

The order of hand seals.

The manipulation of chakra.

It was supposed to be the most basic ninja technique, very simple.

So why wasn't it working?

(End of this chapter)

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