Chapter 20: First Real Battle

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Two months later, after the second afternoon class ended, Sasuke walked up to Naruto's desk.

He knew Naruto was about to leave. The whole class knew that this peculiar person, who had almost zero interaction with classmates, attended at most four classes a day.

In two months, he had clearly felt his progress. The grilled meat was effective.

But he didn't know what to do next, because he hadn't awakened the Sharingan.

"Let's go," Naruto extended a kingly invitation to Sasuke, heading towards the rooftop.

The two walked out of the classroom one after the other, while the whole class continued to whisper and discuss.

Naruto didn't invite Hinata, for three reasons.

First, he wasn't sure if Sasuke had awakened his eyes yet.

Second, if Sasuke could see the difference, he wouldn't bother Hinata. Free labor shouldn't go unused.

Third, he couldn't take Hinata skipping class. The Hyuga clan's traditions were too strict. If she skipped class, various reprimands and punishments would be unavoidable.

Hinata wasn't like him and Sasuke, all alone, where decisions were their own. She also wasn't like Choji, Shikamaru, or Kiba, whose family traditions were more relaxed and didn't care too much if their kids skipped class.

Inside the small grove, Sasuke looked back at the disappearing purple portal. So this was Space-Time Ninjutsu? It was truly miraculous.

The two stood facing each other. Naruto realized he was actually a little taller than Sasuke.

In the original story, Naruto had basically been malnourished since birth, except for the period when he was breastfeeding. If it weren't for the Nine-Tails keeping him alive, he probably would have gone to see his mother already. He wouldn't be able to see his dad, who was in the Shinigami's belly.

The current Naruto dared to pat his chest and guarantee that, in Konoha, apart from the species in his belly whose tail was cut off and it was impossible to tell if it was a fox or a pig, he ate the best.

That's right, our Kurama was still getting fatter, especially after Naruto added two more pools in the past year or so.

One pool contained fried eggs, and the other contained grilled fish. Naruto simply called them the egg pool and the fish pool.

After all, even eating only grilled meat would get boring. Even cats needed a change of flavor in their cat food.

After a certain fox-pig complained about his diet being too monotonous, these two pools were added to the space.

The remaining food Naruto could summon was vegetarian like stuffed pancakes, steamed buns, and bread. Kurama didn't like them. In his words, "This old man has lived for a thousand years, not to eat vegetarian."

By the way, Kurama loved grilled fish and fried eggs very much. Naruto could understand. He had heard many times in his previous life about foxes stealing fish and eggs. It was normal for them to like eating them. He didn't dwell on why a chakra aggregate fox had the same habits as a wild fox.

Anyway, since it already had a wine pool and meat forest, drank alcohol, and got a perm, what else did it care about?

Back to the topic...

"Have you awakened them?" Naruto asked.

"No," Sasuke was somewhat annoyed. Was he really that much worse than Itachi? Itachi awakened his eyes at eight years old, while he was already nine, and he had even eaten that strange meat for these two months, yet he still couldn't awaken them.

"Then the plan needs to be changed. First, help you awaken your eyes," Naruto said. He also had a countermeasure for Sasuke not having awakened his eyes. Wasn't it just fighting? Get angry, and the eyes would open. The Sharingan cheat was just that direct, not like Tencent asking for money.

"Help me awaken my eyes?" Sasuke was puzzled. He had never heard of an outsider helping the Uchiha clan awaken their eyes.

"I don't understand what the Sharingan is exactly. I just think it's a power unique to the Uchiha," Naruto acted, pretending he didn't know.

Sasuke nodded. It was indeed a unique power.

"And people always burst out with power beyond their usual limits in special situations, such as anger, fear, and death. If even death can't stimulate this power, then..."

[Then they don't deserve to possess this power,] Sasuke finished the thought in his heart.

"How?" Sasuke asked.

"I heard from Hinata that you're number one in the class. Then let's have a fight," Naruto was somewhat excited. His years of training finally found an opportunity for actual combat.

"Are you sure?" Sasuke asked.

"Sure. Come on. Don't worry about me getting injured. If you can beat me until I'm hospitalized, I'll thank you," Naruto said. You'd better beat me until I'm hospitalized, that way I can have a few more days off.

Naruto adopted a boxer's starting stance, hands held up in front of his chest, one foot forward, one back. Whether it was standard or not was another matter; he had only seen this pose on TV. He couldn't learn martial arts secrets or various techniques from watching, but he couldn't possibly fail to learn a starting pose, right?

After a moment of silence, Sasuke also got into a stance, ready to fight.

Sasuke also really wanted to have this fight with Naruto. School spars were always just point-based, like a game. This time, it could be considered his first real battle, and his opponent didn't care about getting injured, while he... Sasuke had confidence in himself.

The battle began. No one gave the order. Naruto didn't know if Sasuke saw some flaw in him, he didn't understand anyway. Anyway, Sasuke just rushed over directly.

Sasuke threw a punch towards Naruto's face. He decided to test Naruto's strength first.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's wrist, pulled back, used the tree-kicking leg technique, tripped Sasuke's foot, preparing to throw him to the ground.

Sasuke was indeed tripped, then he exerted force, pulled out his grabbed wrist, supported himself with his hands before falling, twisted his body, regained balance, exerted force again, and kicked towards Naruto with his right leg.

Naruto blocked with his arm and took a step back.

Sasuke also took the opportunity to stand up. The first round of probing between the two ended.

Naruto was a little stunned. Weren't you the Uchiha appearance idol group? How did you learn the Thomas Flair? Weren't you the idol type? Does your Uchiha clan also have dance training classes??

Sasuke stood firm. He saw that Naruto was stronger than him. He wasn't surprised. He had eaten that grilled meat for two months and made considerable progress. The opponent easily gave him 600 pieces, so it could basically be assumed that he ate it every day, and must have strengthened himself a lot.

The battle wasn't over. Sasuke continued to attack Naruto.

Naruto only defended at first. He had trained using trees since he was young, and suddenly facing a moving opponent felt a bit unfamiliar. He needed to adapt slowly.

Sasuke also saw Naruto's lack of experience, seized the opportunity, and launched waves of attacks.

Suddenly, Naruto punched Sasuke in the chest, sending him flying. He felt he could hit, so he hit.

[I was actually sent flying?] Sasuke, flying backwards, didn't have time to think much. His hands flipped through seals, and he took a deep breath.

"Fire Style - Great Fireball Technique!" After landing, Sasuke spat out a fireball. It wasn't big, after all, he was young.

"Earth Style - Earth Wall!" Naruto didn't form any hand seals at all.

He didn't know Earth Style at all. He directly took a lump of earth from the space, infused it with magic power, and the earth lump turned into a square block of earth, blocking in front of him. He squatted down, hiding behind the earth block.

The fireball hit the earth block and was blocked from the front, but the fireball was bigger than the earth block, so it could still pass through the sides.

Naruto watched the fire and smoke blow past the sides of the earth block. It was the first time he had seen an offensive ninjutsu. It was a bit hot...

Real combat, right? How could it be called real combat without using ninjutsu?

Why didn't Naruto use Shadow Clones?

He forgot. Just like forgetting to use Zhonya's Hourglass or Flash during a team fight in League of Legends. Sometimes you forget when you're nervous, sometimes you forget when you're excited. It's normal. A Silver-rank rookie fears nothing.

Chapter end