The five clones begin to circle him, the clones only have 10% of his power, but in this case, 1+1+1+1+1 does not equal 5. With them combining forces he has to watch out for sneak attacks.

His eyes dart in between them as he draws his sword. As if that was the signal, they all dash at him.

Refusing to be besieged on all sides he rushes at the clone in front of him. They both only know one sword move so it's no surprise.

Gripping the handle he twists his hands left so the blade is pointing behind him over his left shoulder. The clone does the same thing but over the right.

"HA!" Getting within striking distance he can feel all the power in his body move from his toes, up his leg, across his body, and into his right shoulder. His left-hand releases the sword as the blade forms an arc in the air. As it reaches the apex all the energy travels through his arm as he begins swinging it down diagonally. As the blades get ready to cross in the air all of the power is transferred into the sword.

As the blades cross in the air his sword completely slashes through the clones blade and body, reducing it to water. Wasting no time he dives and rolls forward as four swords slash down at his previous position.

Before he even has time to get up, he twists around and holds up his sword as the sound of metal clashing rings throughout the room. As his stance was broken and he was in a rush, he was completely overpowered.

Zitsu is flung backward, causing him to skid across the water creating a massive wake as he slides a few yards away. Rolling over he sees four clones rushing towards him. Quickly rising to his feet he rushes towards the clones.

As they near each other the clones raise their swords, getting ready to perform the diagonal cut. Seeing this Zitsu's eyes flash "I was wrong."

As the clones arms rise, his arm slashes out in a horizontal cut. He doesn't have the same feeling of transferring all the power in his body, but his chakra is not impeded. His blade draws across the gut of two clones, and as he's ready to slash into the third, their blades come slashing down and into his back.

"AHH" Chojuro screams as he sees Zitsu's blood dye the water red.

Zitsu falls sinks into the water as a burning pain travels across his back with clouds of blood forming from his wounds. Because of the pain, his concentration was broken, causing the water and shadow clones to disappear. And because of all the information transmitted back from forty-eight clones at the same time his brain is overloaded, causing him to sink in a daze.

Taisho rushes over and dives into the water, his long arms plunging down and grabbing his shirt to pull him up. Dragging him to the side of the pool he lays Zitsu down on his stomach.

"What do we do? Is he dead?!?" Emina begins to panic.

"Should we get our parents?" Eminu suggests in a calm voice as she grips her cleaver.

Cho gets on his knees and begins to shake Zitsu "Are you ok?! Hey! Hey! Wake up!"

"He is awake don't you see his eyes are open!" because of the atmosphere and the blood running down his back Taisho begins to panic as well.

As if responding to their screams Zitsu blinks once. After processing all the information his brain started functioning normally. "Uhhh" as the pain from his back hits him he lets out a soft moan.

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"Zitsu you're ok!" Chojuro becomes excited as he sees him move.

Taisho lets out a breath of relief, afraid he'd get in trouble if something happened to him.

Emina turns to her sister and smiles "I knew he was ok."

Eminu just nods at her.

Zitsu struggles to sit up, each movement causing blood to gush from his wounds. "Guys I'm ok, go and practice."

Everyone looks at him with a dubious face as the purse their lips.

"Go! I'm ok"

Hesitating for a moment Taisho walks away. Emina and Eminu stare at him a while longer, but eventually turn and walk away. Chojuro stares at him with furrowed brow, refusing to leave.

"Go, or you will fall behind" he repeats it again.

Chojuro bites his teeth as he stands up and leaves.

Watching them all walk away for a moment, a smile forms on his face and he closes his eyes.

Level 4

[Health 78/110]

[Chakra 214/272]

[Stamina 92/128]

[30 Points]

[Taijutsu 7, Ninjutsu 6, Genjutsu 0]

[Ninjutsu cost reduced by 6%]

He crosses his fingers "Shadow Clone Jutsu"

[Chakra 107/272]

A clone appears behind him and immediately begins making hand seals "Mystical Palm"

The clone begins healing his back and he smiles. Watching the others practice he begins to think about what he could have done differently.

"Charging in 1v4 probably wasn't the best idea." Shaking his head he thinks of a solution.

"A long ranged jutsu would have been perfect. The one-handed jutsu perk is pretty far up the tree." Suddenly he takes a deep breath "I guess it's time to learn to use shuriken."

After a few minutes the clone finished healing him, as the clone releases he watches his Ninjutsu bar level-up to 7 and fills up by 1/5 of the remaining amount.

As his Ninjutsu levels up his total level increases to 5 giving him another perk point and 10 more stat points.

Rising to his feet he jumps into the pool to receive his sword. Rising to the surface he sits down to recover his chakra and stamina.

The shock he got from the overload of information actually helped him, focusing chakra into his brain he is able to pick up the chakra of people in one hundred feet. He can't see them, but he knows they're there.

After resting for thirty minutes he Puts his perk point into Ninjutsu, raising his reduction to 8%. Rising to his feet he begins swinging his sword horizontally.

"I can't just rely on that diagonal slash to get by or I'll be filled with openings, I need to find the right rhythm to produce the same feeling in all my slashes."

He swings the sword horizontally and then diagonally to see the difference, but can't figure anything out, and all his clones are gone. As he practices his sword he tries to keep his sensory technique active to train that as well.

"As long as the student isn't like Mangetsu it shouldn't be hard tomorrow." His face turns series at the thought of killing someone the next day.

Everyone practices until the sun begins to set. Cho, Taisho, Emina, and Eminu got used to swinging their weapons but without instruction, they cant make and improvements.

Zitsu wasn't able to improve his swordplay either, so he focused on keeping the sensory technique activated.

Leaving the building they head towards the apartment, and everyone is looking at Zitsu's back. His clothes are still torn but the cut is gone.

Arriving in front of 3-B he tries to open the door, but it's locked. His brows wrinkle as he thinks for a moment.

"Ah" he makes the ram hand seal "Hiding in Surface Technique"

[Chakra 268/273]

Touching the door his body begins to pass through it. After a few seconds, he appears on the other side.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu" Crossing his fingers he divides his chakra into thirteen parts again.

[Chakra 20/273]

"Ok, you guys know the deal. The same breakdown as last time, but I want the sword group to practice a vertical and horizontal slash."

"Just go home, you don't have to explain to us. We know everything you know from the moment we are created."

Shrugging his shoulders he opens the door and leaves. When he gets home he tries his best not to show his back to his mom as he sneaks into his room.

Opening his armoire he looks at his clothes. His clothes suddenly disappear from his body and he reaches into the armoire. In the next second clothes just appear on his body. He's wearing a long sleeve blue shirt with black trim around the collar, sleeves, and hem. The sleeves are very baggy and come down to his palms. His pants are solid black and the ends are tucked into his blue ninja shoes.

Leaning the Katana against the wall he begins to train his body. He doesn't know if its bad for a four-year-old to train, but this world has chakra so it should be ok, plus he can heal his muscles. As he trains he keeps the sensory technique active, allowing him to sense his mom in the next room and even the clones upstairs.

"Tomorrow is the big day. I also need to see if Mei can give me some shuriken to practice with as well."

Thinking about tomorrow's battle his eyes turn serious.