Konoha: Sage Body

"Kawaki, i didn't ask you about this, i asked you, when did Kirito learn to shadow clone jutsu?"

Mito held Kawaki's head with her hands with a slight force and said to Kawaki with a kind smile.

Feeling his head about to explode, Kawaki chose to sell his teammate without hesitation, "Two weeks ago."

Utilizing the effect that the shadow clone would bring back memories to the main body when it disappeared to speed up cultivation was an efficient way of cultivating that Kirito told him about.

Through experimentation, he found that it was a practice that was perfect for a ninja with a huge amount of chakra like him, that is, it would bring back fatigue when it disappeared, which caused him to sleep a lot in class.

However, the results of the practice were outstanding, and he had successfully used it to learn several jutsu that he had previously been slow to learn.

To repay Kirito, he then taught Kirito the Shadow Clone Technique.

Since this was originally a family jutsu which belonged to him, and it wasn't too important, he didn't need to ask for anyone's permission to teach it to Kirito at all.

As a result, after Kirito learned this jutsu, his passion for learning became even more insane than before.

Every day, he separated into three shadow clones to do different things, one stayed in the basement of the orphanage to do some strange experiments, one came to Grandma Mito's place to learn sealing jutsu and go to the library to study, and one practiced ninjutsu, while his main body came to the ninja school to attend classes.

It was like this every day without fail with diligence.

In fact, he was no better, if not worse, only his enthusiasm for learning (meaning reading books and learning sealing jutsu) was not as good as Kirito's, since he had a very large amount of chakra than Kirito, he creates more than a dozen of shadow clones every day to learn ninjutsu and taijutsu.

Therefore, he knew very well why Kirito's shadow clone suddenly disappeared here, something must have happened to the main body for it to do so.

Nine times out of ten, he was exhausted.

"Two weeks ah, this kid is really careless."

Mito heard Kawaki's words and sighed as she rubbed her forehead with her hand.

The effect of Shadow Clone was certainly clear to her, she just didn't think that Kawaki would teach the art of Shadow Clone to Kirito.

"Or I was negligent, since this idiot Kawaki would use shadow clone to accelerate his cultivation, how could Kirito not know about it, I'm really an irresponsible master."

Mito thought of the side effects of utilizing shadow clone to cultivate, and thought with deep regret.

Because of her body, her energy was now much less than before, and she spent most of her days resting and suppressing the increasingly restless Nine Tails.

That's why after she accepted Kirito as her disciple, she didn't really care too much about him, she just regularly took the time to impart her knowledge of sealing jutsu to him every day, and most of her attention was still focused on Kawaki.

It couldn't be helped, who made Kawaki an unreliable child.

Although there had been good growth in recent times, it was still unsettling.

And as she spent time with Kirito, she realized that Kirito was a very smart and understanding child who didn't need her to worry too much at all.

Little did she realize that it would turn out to be an unreliable one as well.

"'Momo."

Mito's face straightened and he said in the direction of the room's door.

In the next moment, a snakelike-faced woman instantly arrived in front of Mito, knelt on one knee, bowed her head and respectfully said, "Lord Mito, please give me your orders."

Senju Momo, an elite jonin of the Senju clan, Mito's personal escort leader.

"You are to immediately go and bring Kirito back."

Mito ordered.

"Ha."

Momo led the order and used her Body-Flicker Technique to depart.

Since the death of the second generation hokage and a large number of clansmen were sacrificed in the first battle, the Konoha clan had shown obvious signs of decline, but with Mito and Tsunade around, the influence in Konoha was still great, and by relying on the village's powerful intelligence network, Momo quickly found Kirito who was sleeping at Chizuru's house.

...

When Kirito woke up, he realized that he was lying in a room that looked very familiar.

While still not in the best state of mind and tired, the memories from his shadow clone brought a quick realization of what was really going on and what he was about to face.

His face instantly became very ugly and he cursed, "It's all because that bastard put that strange paralyzing poison on Senbon, paralyzing my body not to mention that it also greatly affected all of my chakra flow, causing the shadow clone to be unable to sustain itself and disengage prematurely before the mental fatigue that came back to me caused me to pass out from exhaustion."

The door to the room was opened soon after Kirito woke up, and the person who came in was Kawaki, who at the moment had a bruised and swollen look on his face, and it was obvious from the look of him that he had been taught a hard lesson by someone.

When Kirito saw Kawaki appear here, he instantly remembered where this place was.

This was the guest room of Kawaki's house, where he had taken a nap.

"What happened, why did your shadow clone suddenly disappear."

Kawaki asked just as he entered.

Kirito answered truthfully.

"Grandma Mito is very angry this time, oh, you have to be prepared, hehehehehe~"

Kawaki was relieved to learn the reason and understand that Kirito wasn't in danger, then immediately delivered a very bad news to Kirito and gloatingly laughed.

But the laughter was so perverted that it tore open the wound on his face, leaving him with a grimace of pain and tears of anguish.

Kirito couldn't help but gulp as he looked at the gauze wrapped around Kawaki's face.

The terror of Mito was something he had seen on the day he enrolled in school, and had often seen through Kawaki afterward when he was learning sealing jutsu with him under Mito's tutelage.

When he thought of Kawaki being hung up and beaten, his head thrust into the ceiling, and his entire body lying in a pile of rubble, he felt that it was not easy for Kawaki to grow up so big, and then felt worried that he was about to enjoy such treatment.

Mito's control of her strength had reached the realm of refinement, so it wouldn't kill anyone, but it would hurt very, very much.

Him using his shadow clone to attend class was undoubtedly a matter of great disrespect, and it was fine if he hadn't been caught, but now that he had been found out, there would certainly be no shortage of punishment.

Soon, he was called by Momo to meet Mito.

TThe other party still looked young and pretty, but there was always a lingering sense of aging.

To Kirito's surprise, Mito didn't look angry at the moment and looked at him differently than usual.

Mito usually looked at him with gentle eyes, but he could see that the other party looked at anyone in the village with the same eyes, there was nothing particularly different, the only thing that was different was when it fell on Kawaki, there was more of a loving and expectation, and there was also an unconscious smile.

Kirito did not feel strange about this, nor would he be jealous.

Because this is a matter of course, Kawaki is Mito's grandson, of course will receive all of Mito's love, at best he is a tool for Kawaki to improve himself, and similar to the Uchiha clan used him as a whetstone for Chizuru.

He had come to the realization that he wouldn't have expectations, and naturally he wouldn't feel disappointment.

On the contrary, he was very grateful to Mito, who taught him sealing techniques very attentively and answered his questions in detail. She was a good teacher.

Therefore, he would try his best to play his role well, to inspire and help Kawaki by his side, and properly repay this favor of education.

It was just that the situation seemed to have changed now.

Mito was looking at him differently now, as well as a table of fragrant and exquisite food in the room.

By the looks of it, Mito wasn't angry with him, but was instead treating him to a big meal.

"Could it be some super bad food?"

Kirito thought suspiciously as he looked at the table full of very tasty looking food in front of him.

"Eat up, little Kirito, these are all prepared for you, make sure to eat them all and not waste them."

Mito said kindly.

I dare not refuse the elder's gift.

"Thank you, Mito-sensei, then I won't be polite."

Since Mito had said so, Kirito was also not polite, he happened to be getting a bit hungry.

The food tasted very good, it wasn't some dark cuisine, and it had amazing effects.

"Is this the legendary medicinal food made by the Chef's Ninja? The chakra is recovering quickly and the mental fatigue is also being relieved quickly."

Kirito felt the changes that appeared in his body at this moment and revealed a surprised expression.

"How's that, it tastes good, doesn't it."

Mito smiled as he saw Kirito's originally somewhat pale face rapidly reddening.

"Yes, very tasty."

Kirito nodded obediently and said.

"Then stay and eat together every day from now on."

Mito personally gave Kirito another bowl of rice and continued to smile.

"This, it's not quite right ..."

Kirito received the bowl of rice with both hands, then when he heard what Mito said, he was surprised in his heart and subconsciously wanted to politely refuse, but he swallowed back in the middle of his words.

Because the expression of Mito in front of him suddenly became somewhat kinder.

"Little Kirito, in the future, you can't leave class early like today, oh, teacher will be sad."

Mito said with a smile.

With that, she put her hand on Kirito's head.

"Yes, Ms. Mito, I won't ever dare to do it again."

Kirito immediately sat upright and nodded his head as obediently as a chicken pecking at rice.

Thus, Kirito switched the assignments of his main body and shadow clone later on, with his main body having to come here to Mito in person to learn sealing jutsu.

And because Kirito was able to eat the medicinal meals prepared by Mito every day, there was no longer a situation where he exhausted his body by using three shadow clone to study and cultivate at the same time.