Chapter 49

'A restaurant owned by the Akimichi clan, they serve the best meat in the entire village, this will be the main part of my diet for the next two weeks, though my reserves of money will most certainly be taking a large blow by the end of the training. As for the other part of the diet, I'll just grab vegetables and fruits from random stalls in the market district of the village.' Kazuo thought as he headed inside Yakiniku-q.

'These two weeks will be hellish.' Kazuo thought to himself as he got seated at a table.

Looking around the restaurant, Kazuo found that it wasn't as filled with people as he had thought it would be.

'Most likely because of the war, the village doesn't have many ninjas stationed inside the village considering that Konoha is fighting on so many battle fronts.' Kazuo thought before a waitress arrived and took his order.

A while later, having finished his food, Kazuo headed to the counter, paid for his food and headed out.

The day was still young, he decided that there was no better time to start training than now.

Jumping on top of a building, Kazuo used the body flicker to quickly traverse the distance and in less than two minutes, he arrived at the training grounds.

Specifically, Training Ground One which was the largest training ground in the hidden leaf.

It was open to everyone however it was mostly used by the reserve Gennin Corps.

Looking around, Kazuo found not more than six people using the training ground, an extremely low number considering this body remembered training here with hundreds of others at the same time.

'The war is at its climax, soon enough the kanabi bridge battle will take place.' Kazuo thought as he turned his gaze away from the Genin and used the body flicker to head deep into the training ground.

After finding a suitable spot next to a small stream of water, Kazuo stopped.

'Let's get started right away.'

Kazuo took out the weights from the bag and put them on before taking one metallic rod and slotting it into each weight strap.

'One rod is about twenty five kilograms.' Kazuo thought as he moved his limbs around, the weight was quite uncomftorable and his movements had clearly suffered because of them.

'I'll have to get used to them and quickly.' Kazuo thought before taking off his ninja sandals and stepping onto the stream of water and started performing taijutsu kata whilst maintaining his balance and chakra control on the water.

Whilst he did the taijutsu katas, Kazuo opened his status menu.

[ Stats ]

[ Name: Kazuo ]

[ Age: 12 ]

[ Race: Human ]

[ Strength: D- ]

[ Endurance: D ]

[ Agility: D ]

[ Intelligence: B- ]

[ Charisma: B ]

[ Chakra: C- ]

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[ Skills ]

[ Time Loop ] [ Level 1 ]

[ Academy Taijutsu ] [ Level 9/10 ]

[ Academy ShurikenJutsu ] [ Level 9/10 ]

[ Clone Jutsu ] [ Level 6/10 ]

[ Substitution Jutsu ] [ Level 5/10 ]

[ Transformation Jutsu ] [ Level 5/10 ]

[ Hiding Like A Mole Jutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Paper Shuriken Jutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Water Style: Enhanced Water Bullet ] [ Level 4/10 ]

[Chakra Control: Tree Walking ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Chakra Control: Water Walking ] [Level 7/10 ]

[ Summoning: Lighting Flash Blade Creation ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Shunshin ] [ Level 8/10 ]

Maintaining the taijutsu Katas whilst water walking and reading his status menu appeared to be beyond Kazuo's current capabilities as his legs got submerged into the stream of water, his water walking failing.

'I was wondering how to increase the speed of my water walking, this could work.' Kazuo thought as a small smirk appeared on his expression.

Hopping on top of the water and activating his water walking once more, Kazuo started his training once more.

Minutes turned into Hours.

Hours turned into days and soon enough it was day thirteen.

Waking up on the broken bed, Kazuo quickly got up and headed to the kitchen, took out a premade salad and quickly had his fill before heading out of the apartment, his destination was training ground one.

This had been his daily regime for the last thirteen days, wake up get your fill of food, and head to the training ground until noon after which he would go to Yakiniku-q and then back to the training grounds until late at night before heading to yakiniku once more and then going to bed in his small apartment.

As he arrived next to the stream he had used for his water walking practice, Kazuo looked around.

Trees had been toppled, the earth had deep holes here and there and even the trees that were still standing had hundreds of holes and slashes on them.

'Status' Kazuo thought before the screen appeared in front of him once more.

[ Stats ]

[ Name: Kazuo ]

[ Age: 13 ]

[ Race: Human ]

[ Strength: C- ]

[ Endurance: C ]

[ Agility: C ]

[ Intelligence: B- ]

[ Charisma: B ]

[ Chakra: C- ]

[ Skills ]

[ Time Loop ] [ Level 1 ]

[ Academy Taijutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Academy ShurikenJutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Clone Jutsu ] [ Level 8/10 ]

[ Substitution Jutsu ] [ Level 8/10 ]

[ Transformation Jutsu ] [ Level 8/10 ]

[ Hiding Like A Mole Jutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Paper Shuriken Jutsu ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Water Style: Enhanced Water Bullet ] [ Level 6/10 ]

[Chakra Control: Tree Walking ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Chakra Control: Water Walking ] [Level 10/10 ]

[ Chakra Control: Chakra Thread ] [ Level 4/10 ]

[ Summoning: Lighting Flash Blade Creation ] [ Level 10/10 ]

[ Shunshin ] [ Level 8/10 ]

'There's been a lot of progress during the last two weeks, especially in my physical stats however the mastery of techniques isnt going as quickly as i would like, it seems like ineveitably ill have to resort to using the time loop.' Kazuo thought as he released a soft sigh.

During these two weeks of training, Kazuo had brought his academy taijutsu and shuriken jutsu to the limit aswell as mastered Water walking, after which he had devised a new chakra control technique.

By using his chakra to form threads and then try to make a rope of sorts with those chakra extensions, the difficulty was in making sure that the threads didnt combine with eachother, this had proved to be quite the difficult task however and even now Kazuo failed more than he succseded, only last night was he able to make the system recognize the chakra thread training.

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Here's the daily chapter, i decided to do a time skip during this time as i dont really want to write about training repeatadly, i find it more interesting to write about him using the techniques he trains rather than the process of earning them unless its something like sage mode of course.

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