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Uchiha Ryūka and his companion, Uchiha Koushi, who was a year older, didn't have to wait long here.
Uchiha Koushi, already a first-year student at the Ninja Academy, was calm. Uchiha Ryūka, who was about to enter the Ninja Academy at the age of six, was almost bursting with impatience.
"Finally, he's here!" Ryūka shouted, spotting Uchiha Mamoru from a distance, almost jumping with excitement.
"Calm down, Ryūka. We need to find a safe place to hide and not disturb the prey..." Uchiha Koushi reminded him. Unlike Ryūka, Koushi, who had been on several hunts, remained calm and shook his head inwardly.
"Kids are kids, not all of them are as mature as Tōshirō." The word 'calm' seemed to have originated from Uchiha Tōshirō...
Koushi patted Ryūka's shoulder and gestured to a nearby tree. He crouched, gathered his strength, and with a swift sprint, climbed up to a branch about five meters off the ground.
Not to be outdone, Ryūka followed, hiding behind the dense branches and waiting quietly, his movements quite proficient.
This was the result of Uchiha Tōshirō's influence over the past two years. The game 'Werewolf Game' had a great intellectual effect, and as a direct result, the adults in the Uchiha Clan found their children increasingly difficult to fool.
Hunting, a very novel game for six- and seven-year-olds, greatly increased their enthusiasm for training. At the very least, they had to successfully complete the tree-climbing exercise, the lowest threshold. This forced them to train harder and more diligently than usual. At the same time, skills like shuriken and kunai throwing, trap setting, sign language, and basic teamwork were all developed earlier.
Uchiha Tōshirō had carefully considered this. In the Third Great Ninja War, if he played it safe, he might survive by luck. But after the Nine-Tails Incident, the Uchiha Clan Massacre would be a different story. Without the Mangekyō Sharingan and successful Senjutsu training, it would be extremely difficult for him to survive alone.
His clanmates, around his age, would be in their early twenties, the golden age for a ninja to mature from a novice.
It was uncertain whether this was a blessing or a curse.
Through the gaps in the leaves, the distant figure slowly came into view, gradually becoming clearer.
Uchiha Honoka, running at the front, was already out of breath, drenched in sweat, and pale from tension.
In front of him was a narrow path in the forest, a rare sight. In the center of the path was a spot covered with dead branches and leaves, his target.
He turned and threw the last few shurikens from his tool bag at the wild boar, causing it to scream and charge at him again.
He gathered his strength and leaped over the trap, which was left uncamouflaged to warn him, a newcomer. Although he stumbled upon landing, his forward momentum was awkward, but at this point, it didn't matter.
A dull thud came from behind him, the sound of the prey falling into the trap. This was followed by the wild boar's piercing scream, a rectangular pit that Uchiha Koushi and Ryūka had prepared for it.
The trap was crude, barely more than a shallow pit about seventy centimeters deep. At the bottom of the pit were several kunai with their blades pointing upwards, their handles tied to sturdy branches inserted into the bottom of the trap until the rings at the ends of the kunai touched the ground.
Driven by anger, the prey, the wild boar, performed a true 'pig rush.' The inertia from its high-speed charge, its weight, and its exposed belly, now vulnerable to the kunai, seemed to foretell its fate.
"Finally, I made it!" Honoka, remembering his companion's advice, used his last bit of strength to climb a tree next to Uchiha Ryūka, panting heavily and still shaken.
A distance of eight or nine hundred meters should have been nothing for his stamina. However, the adrenaline rush from the pursuing beast and the tension of being a decoy for the first time had him expending energy at several times his usual rate. A not-so-long sprint left him feeling drained.
"Ha-ha, it's my turn now!" Uchiha Ryūka, unable to contain his excitement, leaped down from the tree.
"Oh no!" x2
"Idiot!" x2
"This fool!"
These were the cries of Uchiha Ryūka's companions, their voices different but their meanings the same, reacting to his rashness.
The crude trap had not held the wild boar. Driven by fear and injury, it burst out of the trap with even greater strength. It lowered its head and charged at the sudden appearance of Ryūka, its last desperate attack.
Ryūka, who had just jumped down and was walking towards the trap, was caught off guard by the sudden turn of events. Believing the task was complete, he froze, his limbs trembling, unable to react.
At this critical moment, a figure suddenly appeared beside him, kicking him several meters away.
"Saved!" He breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Although he had been kicked, Ryūka felt a sudden urge to use the bathroom.
Uchiha Tōshirō, who had kicked Ryūka away, didn't have time to think. Facing the charging wild boar, he turned and ran, gathering chakra in his feet and sprinting up the tree from which Ryūka had jumped. He then used his strength to flip over the boar and move behind it.
The boar, having lost its target, couldn't stop its momentum and crashed into the tree with a loud thud!
At this moment, Uchiha Tōshirō finally drew the wakizashi he had carried from the start.
"Konoha Secret Transmission: Body Technique's Ultimate Secret"
(End of Chapter)