The Third Hokage finally decided to send part of the village's ninja, preparing to march, to the Land of Bears, at least ensuring that the Land of Bears would not be completely occupied by the Hidden Mist Village.
In this Ninja World War, frankly, the Hidden Mist Village was just making a show of presence; the crucial battle results were still decided by the other four villages.
As long as the land of the Land of Bears was not lost, the Land of Fire would not be directly attacked by the Mist ninjas, and that would be enough.
With the order of the Third Hokage, hundreds of ninjas rushed as an advance force to the Land of Bears for support.
One month later, more ninjas from Konoha would go to assist the Land of Bears.
The village's movements were unknown to Uchiha Yuan, who was a student and had no access to information channels.
The only thing making Uchiha Yuan feel something was wrong was the price increase in the village, especially for war materials.
Uchiha Yuan worried that if prices kept rising like this, by the time his relief money was distributed, he might have nothing left after buying the materials.
Fortunately, the relief money arrived in Uchiha Yuan's hands two days later.
As he had thought before, the clan had not secured much money for him.
Previously, Uchiha Hiroshi said the relief money was 2 million ryo; after distribution, the actual amount was 2.1 million ryo—only 100,000 more ryo gained.
After getting the money, Uchiha Yuan spent 600,000 ryo to buy a sealing scroll.
Then he spent nearly 1 million ryo on various war resources.
After this spending, his relief money was left with just over 400,000 ryo.
"No matter what world it is, money is always so easy to spend!" Uchiha Yuan sighed, looking at the money in his wallet.
In the following days, Uchiha Yuan took some time to familiarize himself with the materials in his hands to avoid awkward situations on the battlefield due to ignorance of their use.
Unknowingly, a week had passed.
Today was the day Uchiha Yuan and Uchiha Shisui agreed to meet.
So after school, Uchiha Yuan did not go to train by the river but went straight back to the Uchiha clan and then jogged to the training ground where he was supposed to meet Shisui.
Shisui arrived a bit earlier than Uchiha Yuan; seeing Yuan, he quickly waved and shouted, "Yuan-senpai, I'm here!"
Uchiha Yuan, seeing Shisui, instantly teleported in front of him.
"Body Flicker Technique! Uchiha Yuan, you actually learned the Body Flicker Technique!" A boy with spiky hair and goggles next to Shisui exclaimed.
"Obito? How come you're here?" Uchiha Yuan was stunned and asked.
"Yuan-senpai, Obito-senpai and I are neighbors. When he heard you were going to teach me the Body Flicker Technique, he insisted on coming along to see, saying he was afraid I'd be tricked by you," Shisui explained helplessly.
"Uchiha Yuan, when did you learn the Body Flicker Technique?" Obito asked.
"Just learned it recently."
"But you were sparring with Hyuga Asana before..."
"At that time, I hadn't learned it yet."
Obito fell silent after hearing this. It had only been a short time since Uchiha Yuan sparred with Hyuga Asana, yet he had already learned the Body Flicker Technique. That progress was too fast!
Uchiha Yuan was too lazy to waste words with Obito. Putting aside the current Obito, he had no good feelings about the future Obito.
Everyone knew how kind Minato Namikaze was to Obito, yet Obito committed the unforgivable act of killing his teacher. Calling Obito a heartless betrayer was even an insult to the term.
Just because of this, Uchiha Yuan did not want to have too much contact with Obito.
"Shisui, how's your practice of tree climbing and water walking going?" Uchiha Yuan asked.
"I've completely mastered these two techniques."
"Really? There's a tree right over there. Come show me!" Uchiha Yuan pointed to a big tree outside the training ground.
Shisui nodded and ran over; Uchiha Yuan followed him out of the training ground.
Obito hesitated a moment, then chased after them.
The three came to the forest; Shisui wrapped chakra around his feet and steadily walked from the tree trunk to the treetop.
Uchiha Yuan could see that Shisui walked very steadily, without any staggering, indicating his mastery of the technique was quite good.
In other words, Shisui's chakra control was already excellent, enough to learn the Body Flicker Technique.
"Not bad, Shisui, your chakra control has reached the standard. Next, I'll test your reaction speed. Let's go back to the training ground!"
"Wait! Uchiha Yuan, aren't you going to teach Shisui the Body Flicker Technique? Why do these messy things?" Obito stopped them and asked.
"Obito-senpai, Yuan-senpai is indeed teaching me the Body Flicker Technique!" Shisui answered.
"That's right. These aren't messy things at all. The two prerequisites for learning the Body Flicker Technique are chakra control and neural response," Uchiha Yuan said as he returned to the training ground with Shisui.
After hearing Uchiha Yuan's words, Obito recalled Shisui's tree climbing and murmured, "What's the big deal? It's just climbing a tree! I can do it too!"
Then Obito wrapped chakra around his feet and walked onto the tree trunk.
As expected, he unexpectedly fell off the trunk.
Obito was unwilling and tried multiple times, but unsurprisingly, all failed.
Back at the training ground, Uchiha Yuan had prepared some stones. He let Shisui stand far away, then threw stones at Shisui to test how many he could dodge using his body reflexes.
The test began. Initially, Uchiha Yuan threw stones lightly and slowly; Shisui successfully dodged all.
Uchiha Yuan gradually increased the force and speed of the stones.
At this time, Shisui did not activate his Sharingan; no boost to his dynamic vision, relying solely on his instinct to dodge.
"Whoosh~"
When dusty and dirty Obito returned to the training ground, a shadow flickered past his eyes.
Obito instinctively looked toward the shadow's direction, then saw Shisui slightly sidestep and dodge the attack from the shadow.
Then several shadows attacked again, all of which Shisui dodged.
Obito was stunned; he couldn't even see such fast attacks clearly, let alone dodge them. How did Shisui do it?
Uchiha Yuan was also shocked inside. Shisui did not open his Sharingan; logically, he should not have been able to see the stones' trajectories and dodge in advance, but he did it perfectly.
He dodged every flying stone. This reflex was something Uchiha Yuan envied.
"No wonder this kid later earned the name 'Body Flicker Shisui'. With this reflex alone, the Body Flicker Technique seems tailor-made for him," Uchiha Yuan thought to himself.
(To Be Continued...)