Huh!

Yuji inspects his surroundings.

'There is no one around me. Not to mention any person, I can't even sense any animal.' He looks around in trepidation as his sense of danger increases.

"What kind of technique is this? Is this a mental attack or a spiritual attack?"

Yuji takes out the kunai from his pocket. He even pulls out a small hidden blade from his clothes. He takes a deep breath and enters into a high alert.

His heart and breathing patterns synchronize according to a rhythm. This is one of the breathing techniques he learned in his past life to regulate the state of his body and prevent excess energy drain.

Yuji slowly walks into an arc while surveying his surroundings.

Whoosh…

Suddenly,

A blurry figure flies past him. His eyes are unable to keep track of the movement. But his body moves of his own accord.

Clang…

He swings the blade to his right.

Thud…

The blade in his hand shatters into fragments. A heavy force hits him in the abdomen.

Fwoosh…

Yuji is sent flying by a heavy blow. He crashes into a nearby tree. He gasps for air as the impact blows out air from his body.

Bleurgh… Cough… cough…

He pukes out a mouthful of blood. Yuji's vision turns blurry from the heavy impact. His head becomes dizzy, and he almost loses consciousness.

Kiichk…

He bites his tongue to restore his consciousness.

Huaahh…

Yuji takes a deep breath of air.

'I broke a few ribs and looks like my right lung is punctured. Not only that…'

Yuji glances at his left hand. There are deep claw marks on his arm. The cut is deep enough to reveal the bones of his arm. Blood flows from the cut on his hand.

'Concentrate… concentrate!'

Yuji closes his eyes. Despite the agonizing pain, he adjusts his breathing and heart rate while urging his dense chakra to move toward the wound on his hand. He slowly seals up his blood vessels with his dense chakra to prevent bleeding, a technique he learned from Tsunade.

This act prevents the bleeding, but he also loses functionality in his right hand. While performing this action, he didn't forget to observe his surroundings.

'No trace… I can't even sense any trace of the enemy's movements. Judging from the skill level, the enemy must be either a jounin or a special jounin with concealment skills.

Despite the enormous gaps in our skills, I can't give up so easily. I got a new chance in life; I won't lose it here. Despite all the odds, I have to survive.

'I will feign unconsciousness and allow the enemy to approach me. If the objective of the enemy was to kill me; then there is no way in hell I would have survived until now. The previous attack was sharp and precise. It avoided my vital organs and was meant to knock me out with minimal strength.

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However, whoever he or she is, they didn't think of any counterattack from me. This is the reason I got that injury on my arm, and the blow meant to knock me out ended up inflicting serious internal injuries on me due to more strength into the blow.'

Yuji analyzes his current situation.

'Currently, I don't have any way to counterattack when the enemy closes up on me. My blade has already shattered. The kunai isn't enough to deal fatal damage since I am sure he must have covered his vitals.'

He thinks of all his options to fight against his adversary.

'Jutsu… I don't know any powerful jutsu. Taijutsu… I lack physical strength. What else… what else could I do?' Yuji racks his brain and quickly cycles through his options.

'Wait?… there is still that. I almost forgot about it since Tsunade-san warned me to not use it in combat until I graduate from the academy because I might permanently damage my hand.'

Yuji thinks about the modified version of chakra-enhanced strength.

'But if the enemy is a sensor type, then won't they sense the movement of my chakra?' He hesitates for a few seconds before steeling his nerves.

'I don't have any choice, to begin with. I might as well give my all in my only option. Also, the enemy might not necessarily sense the flow of my chakra since my chakra circulation is almost reverse to that of a normal shinobi. To others, my chakra flow might look erratic. I hate banking everything on possibilities and the enemy's carelessness. If I survive today, then I will give my all to grow stronger.' He makes a firm resolve in his heart.

'In the end, it all comes down to my abilities.' He mocks himself for his lack of strength.

Yuji lifelessly lies down on the ground with his back against the tree. While feigning unconsciousness, he first infuses the chakra into his bones rather than his muscles.

In the regular chakra enhancement technique, the user infuses their chakra into muscles to strengthen and fortify them. This pushes the muscles beyond their limit and excessive chakra into muscles also acts as a shock absorber. The small protective membrane of chakra on the skin also acts as an abrasive resistance to prevent any injury.

Normally, it's not possible to infuse chakra into the bones, since chakra is a type of energy and it doesn't have any particular mass per se. However, his chakra is special and has a density to it. So, it might be possible for him to infuse chakra into his bones.

The previous few times he performed this technique, he just blindly infused the chakra in his muscles and then pushed them beyond the limit by continuously infusing more chakra into them until the chakra into his muscles turned saturated, and eventually, a portion of it seeped into his bones.

'Perhaps the bones in my hand suffered a fracture due to the irregular distribution of chakra. The irregular chakra distribution caused a density gradient in his bones and, as a result, his bones snapped at the 'weak points' or the places with no chakra. What if I infuse the chakra into the entirety of my hand, including but not limited to my bones, muscles, skins, blood vessels, and even the nerves?'

For the first time, an incredibly stupid idea appears in the calm and calculative mind of Yuji. No, this stupendous idea which is borderline insanity can't just be a mere idiotic figment of Yuji's imagination. When desperation has pushed him to such a corner, he has to make a decision. Even in his past life, multiple such decisions made during a life-and-death situation somehow ended up working, leading to his survival.

Without any care for chakra exhaustion, Yuji infuses his entire chakra in his right hand, which is hidden behind his back due to his previous action. He carefully infuses his chakra into his bones, the bones of his right hand absorb almost half of his chakra, and he pours the remaining chakra into his muscles and skin to strengthen them to the extreme. His arm turns black from the influx of chakra. After his muscles, he directs the rest of his chakra to his blood vessels.

An excruciating pain spreads across his body, but he steels through it. His blood vessels rupture in a few places since it's his first-time infusing chakra in his blood vessel. However, the most troublesome parts come next, which is to infuse chakra into his nerves. The nerves are an ultra-thin axon bundle of neurons.

'Since I have come this far, I have to do it.'

He recalls the chakra control technique used by Tsunade to convert her chakra into a razor-thin scalpel.

'Small… smaller… I have to think of something even smaller than that.'

He cuts off his sense from the other parts of his body, like the area below his waist, and his left hand to concentrate all his senses on his right arm.

Slowly… slowly… Yuji molds his chakra into small strand-like structures. Instead of coating his nerves with his chakra like a layer of paint, he wraps these strands of chakra around them like a yarn of wool.

A few minutes later, light footsteps slowly approach Yuji. But Yuji ignores them and focuses his entire attention on his right arm.

Due to the severity of his action and the strain on his mind, blood leaks from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

The approaching figure is startled to see this sudden flow of blood.

[Hmm… what's this? Why is he suddenly bleeding from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth?]

The figure halts.

MEOW!

A small black cat leaps out from the shadow of the figure and approaches Yuji. It taps Yuji's body a few times and shakes its head.

[Looks like I was worried about nothing. Perhaps I used too much strength in my attack and broke this fragile toy.]

The figure chuckles and continues to walk toward Yuji.

[Kuku… Another VICTIM!]

The figure extends its hand towards Yuji's 'unconscious' body.

'Now is my chance!'