Grind is My Ninja Wa Chapter 2: Going to School

"Continue."

Seii collected his thoughts, stopped dwelling on it, and raised his hand to continue practicing the Clone Technique.

However, as soon as he started forming the hand seals, he realized that his chakra was completely depleted, not enough to support another attempt at the Clone Technique.

He opened the panel and glanced at it. As expected, his chakra was at its lowest point.

Recalling the mories in his mind, Seii sat down cross-legged, imrsed his mind in his body, and used his willpower to extract the physical energy generated by his cells.

Then, he mixed it evenly with his spiritual energy, and after so transformation, it turned into chakra and flowed into the chakra pathways throughout his body.

As this process continued, the chakra within him gradually beca abundant.

...

An hour later.

Seii opened his eyes.

"Panel!"

With a thought, Seii opened the proficiency panel.

[Na: Uchiha Seii

Age: 10 years old

Physique: 5

Spirit: 7

Chakra: 2→52 (125→126)

Bloodline: Sharingan - Unawakened (51/100)

Skills: Chakra Refinent Technique: lv0 (1/100)

Clone Technique: lv0 (6/100)]

Just like the 'Clone Technique', after he personally refined chakra once, a new skill called 'Chakra Refinent Technique' appeared on the panel.

The lv0 Chakra Refinent Technique could increase his chakra limit by one point and restore fifty points of chakra every hour it was practiced.

At the sa ti, the proficiency would also increase by one point.

It was foreseeable that as its level increased, its effects would surely improve significantly.

Currently, his growth rate might not be as fast as so geniuses, but that might not be the case in the future.

With this in mind, Seii didn't waste any more ti and once again focused his mind, closing his eyes to refine chakra.

...

Ti passed by.

In the blink of an eye, another hour had gone by.

Seii opened his eyes and sensed the chakra within him. It was almost at its limit, so he stopped refining.

Of course, he couldn't continue refining anymore.

After all, chakra wasn't created out of thin air. The refining process required consuming his physical and ntal energy.

Previously, rging with the original owner's mories had consud a lot of his ntal energy. Afterward, he had been thinking about counterasures and exploring the panel's functions, so his mind was already exhausted.

If he continued, even if it didn't harm his foundation, it would at least be half as effective.

In that case, it was better to stop for now.

'However, I can't waste the chakra within .'

Thinking of this, Seii forced himself to cheer up, recalled the mories in his mind, and once again started forming hand seals, attempting to perform the Clone Technique.

A few minutes later, his chakra was depleted. Seii had perford the Clone Technique a total of five tis.

Without any surprises, all of them failed.

It made sense. Even proper ninja academy students needed a few years to master the three basic techniques. He, an outsider, couldn't expect to succeed after just a few imitations; that would be wishful thinking.

Even with the original owner's mories as a bonus, he couldn't do it.

However, judging from the proficiency panel, he was only four-fifths away from success.

Currently, the only thing limiting his progress was his chakra reserves.

But this was difficult to improve in a short ti. He wasn't so genius with abundant chakra at such a young age.

For now, he could only develop step by step.

Looking up at the bright moon outside the window, Seii stopped thinking and, after a quick wash, returned to his bedroom.

Soon, soft snoring sounds ca from the room.

Outside the window.

A figure appeared at so unknown ti.

Crimson eyes shone brightly in the night; it was clearly an Uchiha ninja who had activated the three-tomoe Sharingan.

He stared at Seii for a while, then silently disappeared.

...

The next day.

Morning.

The first thing Seii did upon waking up was to open the panel.

[Na: Uchiha Seii

Age: 10 years old

Physique: 5

Spirit: 7

Chakra: 37 (127)

Bloodline: Sharingan - Unawakened (51/100)

Skills: Chakra Refinent Technique: lv0 (2/100)

Clone Technique: lv0 (19/100)]

After confirming that all of this wasn't an illusion, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Then, he focused his attention on 'Chakra'.

He could see that after a night's rest, even without specifically refining chakra, his body had naturally recovered more than thirty points of chakra.

However, Seii didn't imdiately consu it. He still had to go to school today, and it would be troubleso if he needed it then.

He had actually considered taking a few days off to convert the original owner's legacy first, but that might attract more attention.

It was better to go to school!

That way, even if he revealed so flaws, he could explain them as being due to the sudden change.

If he stayed at ho and soone ca looking for him, it would be even harder to fool them.

After weighing his options, Seii decided to continue going to school. As long as he kept a low profile, there shouldn't be any major problems.

With his decision made, Seii stopped thinking and quickly got ready. After eating sothing to fill his stomach, he imdiately headed to the Ninja Academy.

The Uchiha clan hadn't been forced to relocate to the corner of the village yet and was still located in the central area, not far from the Ninja Academy.

Therefore, Seii quickly arrived at the school.

Following his mories, he found his classroom. So people greeted him along the way, and he simply nodded in response.

Fortunately, the original owner, like many Uchiha ninjas, was rather aloof, making it easier for him to pretend.

Ding dong~

About ten minutes later, the bell rang for class.

A ninja in his twenties walked into the classroom. This was their horoom teacher and also their subject teacher, nad Sugiki Kazuto.

From the original owner's mories, he knew that Kazuto, like most teachers in the school, didn't show any obvious bias towards different students.

Therefore, Seii didn't have to worry about the Uchiha surna causing any trouble.

As he was thinking this, Seii noticed Sugiki Kazuto glance in his direction, making his heart skip a beat.

Fortunately, Kazuto didn't look for long and soon started the class.

Seii didn't hear a word of what Sugiki Kazuto was saying on the podium. He was just wondering why Kazuto had looked at him earlier.

He was certain that it wasn't a casual glance; Kazuto had genuinely been observing him.

'Did he discover sothing?'

Seii felt uneasy.

Ding dong~

Suddenly, the bell rang for the end of class.

Seii was startled awake. A class had passed without him realizing it.

Sugiki Kazuto looked at the absent-minded Seii, shook his head, and didn't say anything. After announcing the end of class, he left the classroom.

As Seii's teacher, he naturally knew about the news of his parents' deaths.

Or rather, whenever a student in the class had a family mber who died, he would be inford. This was information specifically conveyed to them, the teachers, by the Konoha higher-ups.

As for the purpose...

It was naturally to allow them to guide their students in a tily manner and prevent any extre situations from arising.

Originally, he was supposed to counsel Uchiha Seii today as well.

But last night, an Uchiha ninja had already approached him and told him not to, so he didn't interfere.

The Uchiha's purpose for doing this was simple: they wanted to see if Seii could awaken the Sharingan.

For the Uchiha higher-ups, it was no big deal if an ordinary clan mber's potential was wasted. If they could awaken a pair of Sharingan, it would be a huge gain.

That's why they didn't let Sugiki Kazuto intervene.

If it were Iruka in the future, he might have resisted the pressure and guided Seii, but Sugiki Kazuto was different. He didn't have that strong a sense of responsibility, so he simply went along with it.

Seii knew nothing about all of this. He was still feeling guilty about Sugiki Kazuto's special attention.

However, after thinking for a while, he roughly guessed that Sugiki Kazuto probably didn't have any ill intentions towards him.

He probably just knew about the original owner's parents' deaths and was paying a bit more attention to him because of that.

"Phew—"

After figuring this out, Seii finally relaxed.

(End of Chapter)