Konoha
The atmosphere of the village of Konoha was heavy; a week had passed since the news of the destruction of Uzushio circulated.
A week had passed since the war had officially started, and it started with an immense failure as the village lost its oldest ally, the Uzumaki; very few knew of the part that the Konoha High Command had in that.
Ninjas have already been deployed everywhere.
After the initial cooperation to destroy Uzushiogakure, the four great ninja villages quickly resumed fighting between them as much as they were fighting against Konoha.
All that fighting was happening in small villages, the most prominent battlefield being Amegakure.
Third elder estate
Bam
Bam
Bam
"Damn, damn, damn, that fucking hurt!"
Akashi swore while punching the training pole in front of him; his hands were red and swollen, but he continued slamming his fist on the training pole.
He really wanted to stop, but behind him, standing like some kind of war ghost, was his grandmother Mikado Uzumaki.
"I will forgive the searing as long as you continue punching," she said
"Dammit, it's not how you're supposed to train a kid," despite complaining, he didn't stop nd even if she wasn't there, he wouldn't stop,
After all, despite his size, he was a eighteen years old inside, plus maybe due to his constitution it didn't hurt as much as he thought. After all, Akashi remembered a brief period in his past life where, as a kid, he tried for a few days to train by punching a pole like this one.
'Must be the Uzumaki blood,' he thought, punching again
Crick
A crackling sound resounded as the pole started to break
Pulling his right arm, he focused all his strength
Crack
In one clean punch, he broke the wooden pole
"Wohoo," Akashi shouted, throwing his punch in the air before hissing in pain.
"Good, I am impressed; your innate strength is impressive, even by Uzumaki standards," his grandmother said, patting him on the head
'This level of strength is insane,' he thought. 'This isn't as exaggerated as some anime characters who can break people's fingers at birth, but I already have the strength of a grown man. I could probably punch my past self unconscious with that body,' the thought made a smile appear on his four-year-old body.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Ah, nothing, grandma!" he quickly reined in his thought
As he turned around, a red-haired servant presented his a green basin of healing medicine
Without a word, he plunged his hands inside the liquid
"Ah,"
A small groan escaped his lips as the liquid touched his wounds
It was a special mixture of the Uzumaki clan used to heal injuries after training.
'Being a rich young master is really good,' Akashi thought. This kind of treatment is something that very few will ever have access to, certainly not people like Might Guy, the green jumpsuit demon.
"Alright then, the next part of the training "
Mikado said, walking a little further away from him.
"Observe with attention," she said, getting into position
And once again Akashi looked at his grandmother
'Dance,'
It was how he could describe it, because it was how it appeared to him; he knew that the moves that she was demonstrating to him were the Kata for the basis of the Uzumaki fighting style,
It seems like a mix of swordmanship and boxing.
The moves were both fluid, precise, and powerful.
Bang
At times, the moves of the old woman seemed like they cut the air, and at other times a power shockwave resounded.
Slash
Another hand moved, and a slicing sound resounded, followed by another shockwave.
The more he looked, the more impressive it became; the more he look the the more deadly it became, the more he look the more deadly it became.
Looking at the whirlwind gathering around his grandmother, he had another epiphany,
"It might be another of the reasons why we are called Uzumaki. Or did they creted they fighting style to match the name? Huh, I will ask later,"
Bang
After another shockwave, Mikado Uzumaki finally finished the dance.
Like every time she demonstrated it, she took a deep breath before turning to Akashi,
Her eyes widened a little as she saw him, but she quickly recovered and continued
"I hope you saw it well. I already told you, but this is a whirlwind dance; if you master it, you will more easily master the Uzumaki fighting style."
"Now come here,"
"Yes," he shouted and took her place.
Taking a deep breath, he calmed his mind and started to move slowly and with attention and focus.
His moves were clumsy, his breathing was somewhat wrong, and he made many mistakes, yet he was moving with grace and purpose.
"How is it going?"
Tetsuma Uchiha, who had appeared at some point, asked the old woman while keeping his eyes fixed on him
"Not bad, he is growing well; he has already learned about five percent of the Uzumaki dance."
"Oh," Tetsuma exclaimed, hearing that
"Ten percent, impressive, he is progressing quite well," Tetsuma, who knew a bit about the Uzumaki dance, was surprised
"Yes, even in the clan some chunin can't master the dance, and he already learned five percent in a few days,"
"Well, all I want is for him to finish your training so that he can start learning the Uchiha style properly."
AS they looked at Akashi moving, it appeared to them like he was getting better in real time
"Is he getting better under our eyes? His breathing pattern is getting there, the gesture too,"
"I think he used the Sharingan insight to copy my moves; maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to let your son marry into our Uzumaki family," Mikado said with a mocking smile on her face
The face of Tetsuma scrunched up at that,
Due to some circumstances, even though Akashi also had the surname Uchiha, he was more considered a Uzumaki than a Uchiha.
"The sharingan is impressive, but it can't allow someone who doesn't have the talent to just copy everything. The kid has a frightening talent,"
"So, how is the war going?" Mikado asked
"It just started, but the alliance has already imploded, so instead of fighting all of them together, it devolved into a free-for-all."
"I don't know if I should be happy that all my enemies are destroying each other. I think I would've preferred if they stayed allied until this stupid village is destroyed before turning on each other... Don't take it too badly!"
"I understand,"
"I am done with that exercise,"
Akashi said, coming back after finishing his training
"The next is chakra control, right?"
"Yes!"
'One advantage of being born as a young master in a ninja clan with thousands of years of inheritance is that you have all the necessary to become a great ninja.
One of the inconveniences of that is that you spend all your time training or being trained to make the clan proud how bothersome!"
That day, like all other days, Akashi's training continued for nearly the entire day.
The afternoon
"Ahh," Akashi let out a deep sigh as he leaned in the bathtub
"That feels good," he exclaimed, feeling his body muscles relax
'I sound like an old man; I hope that they won't find it strange,' he thought before quickly dismissing it. Even before his old memories came back, he was already trying to act as an adult, plus children in this world are very often quite precocious
As he soaked in the medical water, he closed his eyes and once again looked inward.
He could feel the chakra inside him; it was running through his meridians like water through a river.
He was already quite good at perceiving his chakra, but since his memories of his past life came back, he could do it more easily.
He had a few theories explaining it.
The fact that his old body didn't have any chakra meant that now that he could feel it, he became more perceptive to that energy now coursing through him, an increase to his mental capacity or both.
He guided the chakra flow toward his right hand before gathering it in his palm, before placing said palm on the water around him in an imitation of water walking.
Plop
"Too crude," he thought before controlling it to reduce the quantity
Plop
It still didn't work, so he continued
Sometimes the chakra was too faint, sometimes too much, so he was incapable of stopping his hand from sinking.
Even with his talent and adult mind, the water walking technique wasn't something that could be mastered in a few tries like the protagonist of the manga did.
It demanded genuine control of a chunin.
Plop
After another failure, a small smile appeared on Akashi's face
"Luckily, I already have my own cheat."
After saying that, chakra moved in his eyes, and a black tomoe appeared in his eyes
"A four-year-old with the Sharingan, if the other elder of the clan learn that, they will lose their mind."
"I made history; even in the record of the warring, the youngest to awaken those eyes was five years old. On that note, Itachi awakened them at eight, Sasuke at seven, Madara awakened them at what twelve or something like that; the youngest from the original work to awaken them was Itachi's childhood girlfriend..."
"What was her name again? Itomi!? Mitomi!? No matter, she was talented; unfortunately, she died too young."
'I was always disappointed by the way the Uchiha used their Dojutsu; now that I have it I won't be like them and waste it.'
As he thought that, his eyes spun, and his chakra appeared in his eyes.
With a visual reference, he slowly adjusted his chakra, slowly and surely; sometimes the output was higher, and sometimes he had to lower it.
An hour later
"Finally," he said, letting a long sigh as he looked at his palm laid flat on the surface of the water.
"As firm as a table," he thought, slamming his palm on the water a few times
He looked at the ripple with ecstasy
"No need for a system cheat!"
"I am the real cheat!"