Productive day in Konoha

Slowly coming out of my trance, once I realised it was already bright outside, I grabbed the keys for my room and headed out onto the streets. It was already around 9 in the morning and most regular shops were already open.

I walked until I found a tailor and went inside to get myself some clothes.

Inside the shop were already a lot of pre-made clothes in all sizes, but I wanted something unique. Remembering Kimimaros outfit from the original show, I knew I wanted something similar.

I described what I wanted, a black as well as a white zip-up top with long sleeves that cover my hands, and black anbu pants that I was going to tie with bandages where they meet black shinnobi sandals.

I wanted an all black outfit, since I liked the colour but also be able to have some variation.

The tailor worked quickly and after half an hour he was done with everything.

Admiring myself in the mirror for a short while, I couldn't help but be happy. I might look small and quite feminine, but I had a certain charm to myself, and my new outfit went really well with my white skin so I was definitely going to be hot commodity in the future, not that I cared for it all that much.

After paying, I only had 200 ryo left, but luckily I had no need for food and my hotel room was paid for the next few days, so there wasn't any immediate need to go stealing at the moment.

Leaving the shop I could immediately tell the difference from the looks I was getting. Before I got ignored for the most part, I looked extremely poor, especially with those clothes that didn't fit me and no shoes, but now the difference was like night and day. Some people started gossiping about how unique I was and I couldn't help but puff my chest a bit in pride.

Next on my agenda was seeing if there were any ninjas training in the forested outskirts or training grounds surrounding the village. I walked a bit until I found a bench that wasn't in sight for many people and activated my Dōjutsu.

Having 360 degree vision truly comes in clutch during moments like these. I pushed more chakra through my eyes and my vision expanded. I didn't know the upper limit to how far I could see but I surmised that it could be as far as I wanted if I had enough chakra for it.

Scanning around, I was quickly able to find a group of 4 individuals training. It seems like they were a genin team with their jonin sensei. I walked a bit closer, but still out of sight and normal sensing range and just observed.

They were all sparing with each other, working on teamwork and possible formations. I just took everything in, a few of their stances, their footwork, what they did with their arms etc.

I couldn't remember everything, but it helped seeing the basics they were working on and I could make my own variations from them.

I watched for another hour until they became tired and were about to stop.

I observed different groups and individuals training, though I saw no one I could recognise, until early afternoon and was quite happy with my boons.

While I obviously couldn't replicate everything that I saw, just seeing their training methods and ways of fighting cleared up my own thoughts about a few issues.

The last thing I had planned for the day was going to see if I could steal some peeks at a few scrolls with my Dōjutsu. So I walked until the Hokage tower was about a kilometre away, sat on a bench with my eyes closed and focused on seeing through the building.

Seeing through the walls wasn't any problem at all, but I quickly realised an issue with my plans.

While not focusing on anything in particular, I could see the different stories the tower had and also found out how they were protecting themselves against spying by the Hyuugas. They used specific seals on the walls of the rooms so it couldn't be seen through.

I imagined that they could keep out of sight of the Hyuugas, but it just made my vision a bit blurry. My issue however was that the basement wasn't see through at all. They must be using special seals to protect the storage room, which I imagined to be filled with scrolls.

'Huh, that's definitely not how I imagined things to go.'

I was a bit sad that my plans couldn't come to fruition but in the end it just made a small dent in my plans moving forward.

'I can find other ways to get some techniques, especially once I have a Sharingan to simply copy jutsus.'

Once I realised that I couldn't get anything from there, I got on my way to leave. I had a quick intrusive thought about spying on the Hokage but quickly shot down that line of thinking.

'Such powerful and trained individuals must have ridiculous senses and I don't want to fuck up doing unnecessary things.'

I thought about maybe trying my luck with some of the clan grounds but they must have the same seals that make my vision a bit blurry and I couldn't read like that anyway.

Making my way back to the hotel I thought about my plans for the night, I had some hunting to do and I needed to be careful and evade raising any suspicion towards myself.

I didn't have the transformation technique so I also had to get a disguise.

Since it was just getting dark, some stores were still open and I quickly found one selling pre- made clothes and bought a coat with a long neck, as well as an Anbu mask.

Now I didn't have any more money at all, but it wasn't of any concern to me.

I arrived at my hotel and started meditating until it was nighttime and I could check for possible Uchiha prey.