Mayuri's card from Naruto

Chapter 42 Training Ground

As expected, the clan meeting was in line with the lazy and trouble-free characteristics of the Nara clan. After knowing that Luna had awakened his bloodline limit, the elders and jonin of the clan just said "oh", understood it, and then couldn't wait to disband the clan meeting.

Looking at the elders walking out in groups of two or three with their hands on their hips, Lu Nie was calm and accustomed to it. He had experienced this situation twice before.

One time was the shadow coffin.

One time it was a shadow puppet.

This was the case at both clan meetings.

"Let's go." Nara Shikakichi patted Shikagawa's shoulder and said, "Practice more combat recently."

"Did something happen?" Hearing Nara Luji's request, Lu Nie instantly grasped something sensitively. He knew very well that if nothing happened, Nara Luji would not make such a request to him.

"I just feel that something stormy is about to happen." Nara Shikaji smiled bitterly. As the squad leader of the jonin squad, he was responsible for handling daily affairs and intelligence information for the Hokage. From the external intelligence he had collected recently, his keen sixth sense made him sensitively sense a certain depressing atmosphere.

"Is there going to be a war?" Lu Nie asked bluntly. Although he didn't know when the Third Shinobi World War started, he vaguely remembered that the fuse of the Third Shinobi World War was caused by the disappearance of the Third Kazekage of Sand Village.

"This is not something you should worry about." Nara Shikakichi put his hand on Shikagawa's head, pondered for a moment, and added: "It's just that the surrounding frictions of various countries have intensified recently, especially for the Sand Village, their actions are a bit abnormal.

Friction may intensify in the future. You have become a Chunin, and sooner or later you will have to go out of the village to carry out missions and fight against ninjas from other countries."

What Nara Shikaji didn't say was that after so many years of recuperation, most of the major countries have recovered their vitality. The restraint and tacit understanding of the major countries in the ninja world have become a piece of thin paper that can be broken with a single poke.

Specifically, in terms of intelligence, it means the competition for missions, the intensification of friction, and the escalation of confrontation. Perhaps it only takes a little spark to make the tacit understanding and restraint between the major powers disappear in an instant.

Nara Shikaji, who experienced the Ninja World War and survived, knew very well how cruel a war of this scale was.

The awakening of Shikagawa's bloodline at this moment made him worried, but also a little surprised. At least in the ninja world, strength is a guarantee.

Whether it is ninjutsu or bloodline limit, it can be counted as strength!

Nara Shikakichi was worried that Lu Nie was too immersed in research and neglected his own strength. However, from previous tests, Lu Nie's proficiency in secret techniques was very high, and his chakra volume was unexpected.

Putting aside combat experience and other things, judging purely from the strength he displayed, he is at least worthy of being an outstanding Chunin.

……

Training Course.

Seeing the figure of Lu Nie training in a serious manner in the training ground, Hong Dou, who was eating a meatball, almost bit her tongue.

"Is that Kane?" Hongdou turned her head in surprise and looked at Uchiha Shisui who came to the training ground with her.

"It's him." Shisui nodded silently.

"It's not a transformation prank or something?" Hongdou still couldn't believe it.

"It's him." Shisui still nodded, but this time when he spoke, the two-magatama Sharingan appeared in his eye sockets.

"Lu Nie!" After confirming again, Hongdou solemnly put the meatballs in her hand into the bag and shouted.

Noticing the two's arrival, Lu Nie stopped training and waved to them. "Are you the real Lu Nie? Why are you here at the training ground? I remember you haven't carried out missions or training with us for a long time, right?
Why are you here at the training ground today?" Hongdou stepped forward and poked Lu Ni with her finger, as if she wanted to know if this was a shadow clone or something.

"Come for training." Lu Ni looked at Shisui behind Anko.

As if dissatisfied with being poked by Hongdou, a black finger stretched out from Lu Nie's shadow and held Hongdou's finger.

"Huh?" Hongdou, who was held by the black shadow as if she was really held by a real entity, immediately let out a surprised and doubtful cry.

"Is this also a shadow secret technique? Why don't you need to make hand seals?" Hongdou allowed her fingers to be held by the black shadow, the touch feeling like reality, and looked up at Lu Ni curiously.

So far, all the ninjutsu that Hongdou knew needed to be activated by hand seals. A skilled person could quickly follow the steps to make hand seals, and a smart and highly skilled person could even simplify the hand seal steps of a certain ninjutsu, but hand seals were required anyway.

The only ninjutsu that Anko knew of that could be performed without the need for hand seals was the Kekkei Genkai.

"Your chakra?"

Compared to Anko, Shisui, who opened the Sharingan, saw more than her. His eyes and perception could distinguish the changes in Shikagawa's chakra.

It was different from the chakra of Lu Ne that he was familiar with before, but it was a power that made him feel familiar.

"I just completed a jutsu." Lu Nie replied. Shisui and Anko would know about the bloodline limit sooner or later, so there was no need for him to tell them right away.

"You finally completed that technique?"

Both Anko and Shisui knew that Kaname was creating another secret technique, and they even went to learn the related sealing technique from Minato Namikaze.

As a result, Shisui and Red Bean also received some guidance during the Chunin Exams.

Influenced by Kane, Shisui and Red Bean also wanted to create a ninjutsu of their own early on.

"Done." Lu Nie pointed to the shadow under his feet.

"Huh? It's alive?" Hongdou's gaze moved downwards and she exclaimed once again, because she suddenly discovered that the shadow that seemed to notice her gaze shrank back as if shy and huddled into a black mass under Lu Ni's feet.

Shisui stared at the shadow with more caution. When he saw the shadow, he suddenly understood where the strange feeling he had sensed before came from.

It came from the living shadow under Lu Nie's feet.

"Would you like to have a sparring match?" Lu Ni passed by Hong Dou who was squatting beside him and poking the shadow under his feet with his fingers, and invited Shisui.

Shisui was stunned when he heard that, but then he smiled and said cheerfully, "Of course! We haven't sparred yet, right?"

Hongdou looked up at the two of them in surprise, and asked Lu Nie in confusion: "Do you want to challenge Shisui?"

In Anko's opinion, Shisui, who possesses two magatama, is the strongest main attacker in the team except for teacher Orochimaru. She is a person who looks for opportunities and plays a certain defensive role. As for Kaname, she plays more of a supporting and medical role.

So it was Anko who had been accompanying Lunie all along. She just felt that there was something strange about Lunie today.

(End of this chapter)