165. Bow and Arrow
Sora after "farewell" with Hanabi, which involved him roped into beating Neji somehow, now exited Konoha through the forest only.
He being the tree-hugger or what other villages call ninjas of Konoha, could actually move in the forest while remembering the routes.
'That would take a while to reach as Land of Mountains is so far away... Should I ask Sasera to teleport me?' Sora thought while recalling the extraordinary cat who could give most of the people on this planet a run for their money.
She had been contracted to Prank Land and is currently residing there, so Sora could summon her, but whether she would listen or not is a different case.
'Leave it, It would just kill the chance to explore' Sora thought and then stopped.
A shadow clone appeared and it flickered forward. 'I could always use my shadow clone to cover a considerable distance, summon one of the elder squirrels, dispel my shadow clone, then reverse summoning my original body to their location. My chakra would be preserved at least, the squirrel will have its chakra drained' Sora thought with a smirk.
He leaned against the tree bark and sat on the ground.
He was around a few kilometres away from Konoha currently and inside the Land of Fire.
'Should I train or not? My clones could do something,' Sora thought, about whether to break the rule of staying in the optimal state or not.
He then looked around. 'I could always create a sealing array to take care of my safety, at least it would buy time if I am going to reverse summon myself in the worst case scenario' Sora thought while clutching his apricot locket.
'I wonder when I will reach Grandmaster level' Sora groaned.
He had started to realize the massive gap between seal master and grandmaster.
It is the difference between day and night or so it seems.
A person at grand master level have a level of personalization that nobody could copy, at least one aspect of theirs which would become very hard to copy.
'Meh, I would rather relax today, it was my free day anyway' Sora thought while humming and flickering in a different direction than the one his clone went to.
He headed towards the fire capital. 'Despite being in Land of Fire for this long, I still haven't visited the capital, I wonder if it's the place for rich people only as I have heard '
He being a kid he was, was naturally curious about different places and decided to satisfy his curiosity today.
In a Few hours, he reached the Capital.
He tried to sneak into the capital through the gates.
Which had been a dumb move as in the next instant, he felt an arrow coming at him with deadly speed.
Luckily, his shape-shifting jutsu was activated only, so he was able to side-step very quickly and dodge that.
He looked around and then used enhanced his vision to see a guy carrying a bow in his hand and an arrow aimed at him and looking at Sora.
Arrow pointed at him.
It was like a gun was pointed at you or more like a sniper rifle in this case, but the analogy is the same.
'This guy... He is dangerous' Sora thought grimly while not showing any change externally.
If he had not been in shape-shifting mode, then it would have been brutal for him.
'Should I escape or not?' Sora thought to run around.
'Nah, this is too fun not to play with' Sora thought with a grin and another Sora appeared beside him, both going in different directions, running along the wall.
The Guy with a bow and arrow, seemed to understand that he is not going to back down from entering the capital illegally, so he just closed his eyes, took two arrows and put them in the bow string.
In the next instant, both of the arrows were fired at deadly speed.
However, Sora and his clone were ready, they both coated their kunai in water chakra and deflected the arrows instead of head-on collision.
'Damn, My kunai would have been cut into two if I had tried to face it head on' Sora thought while looking at his clone who looked at him.
They both reached the same conclusion.
Sora took a breath and then his body flickered, and so did the clone's, both dodging another two arrows aimed at them.
'What an annoying person' The guy with ba ow and arrow didn't know that he was battling against a kid as Sora had a mask and cloak on, with a lot of seals on it.
So, despite his size, one would easily assume him to be an old and experienced ninja with short height.
'Let's get serious' The guy's arrows now had a green hue, which both the clone and main body noticed.
They were keeping their pace in a random pattern for it not to be read easily, but it was all for the naught as Sora didn't even was able to see the arrow releasing.
He instinctively formed a Rasengan in his arm which clashed with the arrow.
Sora increased the output as he felt the arrow piercing the Rasengan.
The clone however didn't had that much chakra and hence was dispelled soon as the arrow was able to penetrate the rasengan.
While Sora's right hand was clashing with the green arrow, his left hand instinctively went in front of his head and created an odama rasengan this time due to being prepared and being able to take care of a new green arrow which came.
In the next moment, both of the arrows were taken care of.
'Fuck, I am leaving, I don't want this guy to use even a faster arrow, I might die at that rate' He weaved one hand seal and 50 clones comprising of shadow, earth and water clones came and dispersed all in different directions, some even going in the capital.
The guy looked at one Sora who was actually the main body and then at his clones. 'What a calculated move, I have to focus on all these clones before they could actually do something malicious, this would allow him to leave, plus the clones should have similar prowess as him, just chakra limited'
The guy internally cursed while concentrating a massive amount of chakra.
Sora's clones who had gone in the city, their eyes widened as they saw a barrage of wind chakra-enhanced arrows being fired at them.
They all used Rasengan as a defence, but like the earlier Shadow clone were dispelled.
Sora's main body who got some memories of shadow clones, his eyes widened and he used a lot of chakra to increase the speed of his body flicker.
'Fuck, who knew that Fire Capital was so much dangerous, Even Elite Jounins are in danger' He internally made a note to not visit any of the capitals anymore.
Meanwhile, the bow and the arrow guy looked in the direction Sora ran off to.
"What happened Ryota?" A man came beside him and asked.
He was attracted by the large amount of chakra used by the bow and hunter guy or Ryota.
"An intruder tried to enter the capital illegally, I sent an arrow towards him as he was in mask and all, but he dodged, so I threw some more and soon changed to my near-best speed ones, he was somehow able to react to it and use a dense chakra sphere to block it, He was able to make a shadow, earth and water clones and could use water enhancement on his kunai... He created nearly 50 clones most of them going in the capital, so I had to eliminate those. " Ryota briefed him on the situation.
"This masked man sounds dangerous if he could react to your most speedy moves, he at least should be around the middle of Elite Jounin combat prowess, I will inform others" With that the guy disappeared quickly.
Ryota would have loved to shoot the guy as he was escaping, but due to chakra constraints, he couldn't do that and had to watch the intruder leave.
Funnily, the intruder's main body hadn't even been able to step foot in the capital.
Sora, meanwhile after coming dozens of kilometres away from the capital only stopped flickering.
He had been scared that guy would hurl multiple wind arrows at him, he would have to create a odama odama rasengan to use a shield to defend that barrage which would take a toll on his chakra reserves.
'I really need to think of a new move to use a defensive one, instead of Rasengan' Sora thought while stopping near a tree and leaning against it.
'Maybe I should start working on making the Mirror technique to A-rank and then try to seal lessly use it? It could be used as a counter too' Sora rubbed his chin in contemplation.
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A/n- Ryota was inspired by a Si fic I read a while back, Idr the details, but Ik that he is one of the last Uchiha but that was secret as the Uchiha clan has been extinct and thus setting is in Naruto's time. Also, MC has a gamer system too.
Anyway, I would expand on his identity later in the story
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