The Shadow of Konoha

"Hanyu, are you sure you're okay? Over the past three days, you've seen your whole body...swell up." Sakumo said to Hanyu with some concern. The "swell" he mentioned did not mean that there was anything wrong with Hanyu's attitude towards life, but merely expanded in the literal sense, in the sense of body size.

"No, it's okay, just a little edema."

At this time, Hanyu's speech was a little unsatisfactory. He still had not mastered the 7-nanometer process, and it was very likely that he would never be able to master it in his lifetime.

At this moment, he was not just a little edematous, but extremely edematous... Compared to a few days ago, his size had grown several times larger, every inch of his skin was swollen and smooth, and his entire texture was like the belly of a woman who was ten months pregnant.

Hanyu's experiment encountered a problem in the first step. First, chakra can only circulate smoothly in the meridians, so he can't use water-attribute chakra to create (fake) meridians; second, if he generates water escape in the body, he can use its physical existence to achieve his idea, but the result is that he is in this state now... Even if it is a piece of pork, it is impossible to keep injecting water into it.

"What are you doing?" Sakumo asked again, and it was obvious that he was dissatisfied with Hanyu's explanation.

How could a normal ninja allow his body to swell to such an extent? Even Hatake began to suspect that Hanyu was deliberately torturing himself in order to stay in the hospital and avoid going to the battlefield again.

It's not surprising that Sakumo has "evil" intentions, because on the surface, Hanyu's actions are just like that.

"I'm testing some kind of ninjutsu. Don't worry, I've figured it out. The edema problem will be solved soon," said Hanyu.

He was not lying about this, and he had indeed reached a certain threshold. If there was no hope, how could Hanyu continue like this? After all, if he continued like this for another two or three days, he might give birth.

At this time, Hanyu is trying to get stuck at the balance point of the transformation of water attribute chakra into water jutsu, using the intermediate state between water jutsu and water attribute chakra to realize the common characteristics of energy and attribute.

It was only at this moment that Hanyu finally confirmed his top talent in water jutsu. Regardless of whether it was caused by the Second Hokage or not, his ability in this area was definitely not inferior to that of the Hokage... It was precisely because of this talent that he gradually found the trick.

However, even though he had found a way, the process took longer than Hanyu expected. Five days later, he did not give birth, but the swelling finally started to subside; twelve days later, he finally returned to his pre-hospital shape.

At this time, he had been at the front line for more than half a month, but he only stayed on the battlefield for half a day, and the rest of the time he was "passively slacking off" in the front-line hospital. Logically, he should have been forced to leave by the medical ninjas in his situation long ago. However, because Koga was willing to endorse him, even though he had been delayed in the hospital for so long, he could continue to delay... Of course, Koga was not the kind of unprincipled ninja. He was able to make things easy for Hanyu only because he knew that Hanyu was conducting some in-depth research on chakra.

Although the young man's research was mostly done on a whim and the results were basically unreliable, after seeing how hard Hanyu worked, Koga was still willing to be more tolerant of him... Not everyone could cruelly force themselves to be injected with water to turn into a pig within a few days. No one knew the pain caused by internal destruction of the body's mechanisms better than the medical ninja.

But Hanyu never complained from beginning to end (even though it was his own fault). At least his perseverance and research spirit are worthy of praise (it may also be that except for the pain in the beginning, the severe edema had already dulled his senses).

Well, so, ninjas also care about human feelings.

…

Within the borders of River Country, east of Konoha's front-line camp, there is a large lake. This is the area under Konoha's actual control and is a safe "rear base".

Hanyu and his three team members, as well as Koga and Sakumo, all appeared here at this time.

"I just want to conduct a final test of my ninjutsu. There's no need for everyone to come here, right ? What if I fail? Wouldn't that be known to everyone?" Originally, Hanyu had not intended for these people to follow him here. He had chosen to come to a place far away from the camp just to avoid being seen.

But now that everyone has come over, all he can do is complain verbally.

"At least, we have to figure out what you have been doing during this period of time, right?" Koga said this. This was the doubt shared by everyone present except Hanyu himself.

They wanted to find out what Hanyu's "secret research" was all about.

"Then you guys just watch here . I hope you won't go back disappointed." Having said this, Hanyu left everyone by the lake, and he stepped onto the water alone, walking a little further away from the shore… He was still a little worried, so he chose to keep his distance. In this way, even if he failed, at least it would not affect this group of spectators.

Hanyu didn't mind exposing his ninjutsu because it was impossible for others to understand what he was doing.

He stepped on the lake, stopped and closed his eyes to calm his mind, and after a while, the pseudo meridians composed of half-converted water-attribute chakra began to operate secretly in his body.

His pseudo-meridians are functioning normally and smoothly, and this is Hanyu's greatest achievement in this period of time.

Then, Hanyu began to form seals with his hands, his movements neither hurried nor slow... It was the seal of lightning escape.

"Is it the seal of Lightning Release? Is Hanyu already able to use Lightning Release?" Koga on the shore barely judged the seal on Hanyu's hand and then asked this question.

But his question received no answer.

In the blink of an eye, the seal on Hanyu's hand was completed, and a powerful lightning escape formed on his body in an instant, but it did not start to run around disorderly and violently, but circulated back and forth along the best "conduction medium" - that is, his pseudo-meridian.

The pseudo meridian, a "pathway" created specifically for the Lightning Escape, gathered the wild energy of the Lightning Escape just as it was designed to do. Then, it circulated in Hanyu's body as an "artery".

At the same time, during the circulation process, the energy of the lightning escape penetrated toward the outside of the pseudo meridians in the most gentle way, and then appropriately and harmlessly strengthened each of his cells. In the end, when the lightning escape penetrated his body surface, only a weak blue arc remained...

There was absolutely no such harsh sound as that produced when a powerful lightning attack was generated.

"This Lightning Release is a bit too weak, isn't it?" Sakumo couldn't help but frown. Could it be that after all this time, Hanyu has come up with this?

Just as he was thinking this, he saw Hanyu take a simple step forward with one leg, and then... he suddenly disappeared from the spot, leaving only a circle of ripples on the lake.

"Instant Body Technique... No, this speed, could it be Space-Time Ninjutsu?!"

It was obvious that Hanyu was not using space-time ninjutsu, but he was fast enough.

When Hanyu appeared the next moment , he was already in the middle of the lake.

"Really...it worked."

Hanyu thought silently, how can I describe the exhilarating feeling brought by high-speed movement at this time?

The water surface swayed slightly, the wind created ripples, the fingertips that touched each other instantly emitted blue lightning, their eyes met, and this lonely acceleration instantly shattered the clouds and smoke, as if stepping on a cosmic meteor and flying to anyone's side...

It's a pity that Hanyu doesn't have green hair, otherwise he would have debuted as a super-time idol at this moment.

"How do you feel?"

The next moment, Hanyu suddenly appeared in front of everyone and asked them what they thought about this new ninjutsu.

"What kind of technique is this?" Sakumo couldn't help but ask.

At this moment, Hanyu was standing in front of Hatake, but he felt as if he was facing a huge wasteland with a sky full of flames burning quietly.

"A name? How about Lightning Release Kira?"

"…"

First, Hatake was definitely not just asking about the name of the technique; second, no one responded to Hanyu's naming.

Hanyu secretly slapped himself, "Okay, Lightning Release: Mikage, I've already thought of the name for this technique."

What he just showed was not the acceleration of loneliness, but the acceleration of an orphan.

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