Chapter 11: Attempting the Shadow Clone

A few days later, on a school holiday, Natsuwari adjusted himself to his best state and began to form hand seals. After the standard eight hand seals were formed, a puff of white smoke appeared beside him.

"Hello, original." Another Natsuwari suddenly appeared and greeted the original Natsuwari.

"Hello." Natsuwari looked at the clone, sensed his own chakra, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. As expected, just a Shadow Clone didn't consume too much base chakra. According to this amount, he should be able to create a maximum of three Shadow Clones.

However, after creating the Shadow Clone, Natsuwari's own chakra was basically only left with a little over 20%, not enough to use many basic ninjutsu. The Shadow Clone was even more outrageous. Since the Shadow Clone's body structure also required chakra, if it only had this minimum amount, it wouldn't even be able to use ninjutsu. If it dared to use any, it would immediately experience chakra insufficiency and disperse.

Even though Natsuwari had guessed this situation, he still had reverence for this famous jutsu that had high chakra requirements. Even though he had already learned it, he still chose the best state to use it. After all, the consequences of not having enough chakra were quite serious.

At best, it would result in failure and a period of disorientation. At worst, he could directly faint. But based on Natsuwari's recent in-depth study, he was very confident that his chakra amount should be sufficient.

After all, Chunin in the original work could use the Shadow Clone, and they didn't have any adverse reactions after using it. Although Natsuwari didn't have the chakra reserves of a Chunin, didn't Iruka say that the maximum amount of chakra he could extract at once was about the same as a Chunin's?

Moreover, generally, Chunin wouldn't pre-extract chakra to use the Shadow Clone Jutsu. So it was most likely normal extraction and usage. Since they didn't have any problems, then logically, he should be mostly fine creating just one Shadow Clone.

But it wasn't 100% risk-free. For his own safety, Natsuwari waited until today's holiday and adjusted his state in advance before using it. From the current situation, his thinking was correct.

Then, Natsuwari nodded to the Shadow Clone. The next moment, the Shadow Clone dispersed, and Natsuwari frowned.

Because the Shadow Clone would disperse was something he had planned before creating it. But when Natsuwari nodded just now, he actually wanted the Shadow Clone to finish the housework at home before dispersing. Of course, he wasn't trying to exploit the Shadow Clone, but rather to conduct an experiment, and now he had the results.

After the Shadow Clone separated from the original body, it possessed the thoughts and ideas of Natsuwari at the moment of separation. Afterward, the Shadow Clone didn't know what Natsuwari was thinking, but if it really tried to guess, it should be able to guess correctly, as essentially, it was the thinking of the same person.

Besides that, the separated chakra also returned, but the amount was less than when it was separated. And according to the Shadow Clone's perception of its own chakra at the time, it had more than what returned. This meant that besides the chakra consumed by the Shadow Clone itself, a small portion would also dissipate when it dispersed and returned.

But this was normal and within Natsuwari's acceptable range. After all, this consumption should be related to distance. He didn't intend to let the Shadow Clone go too far, so the consumption wasn't significant.

As for the situation where the Shadow Clone used up all its chakra, and there was no chakra to return, would the memories it carried also not be able to return? After all, memories didn't appear out of thin air; they also needed chakra as a medium to return to the original body.

Natsuwari had thought about this question before, and now, after using it once, he suddenly understood. Because the Shadow Clone was a physical clone, its formation itself required chakra. As everyone knew, chakra was the combination of physical and spiritual energy. So the Shadow Clone could use physical energy to form a body and spiritual energy to form thoughts. It suddenly made sense.

And this wasn't the key point. The key point was that at the moment the Shadow Clone dispersed, the physical and spiritual energy would once again combine to form chakra and return to the original body. So even if the Shadow Clone used up all its usable chakra, it could still transmit memories back.

However, in that case, if a Shadow Clone was trapped in a place where chakra couldn't be transmitted, could that part of the memory be erased? Natsuwari pondered, then shook his head. It seemed to make sense, but in reality, it seemed useless. First, how to create a place where chakra couldn't be transmitted? Second, even if it could be created, it would definitely take some time. During this time, the Shadow Clone would probably have sensed the danger and dispersed on its own.

Next was today's focus. Natsuwari extracted all his remaining chakra and once again formed those eight hand seals. He didn't intend to compress these eight hand seals. He wasn't planning to use the Shadow Clone in combat, so as long as he could use it, it was fine. After all, a person's energy was limited. Natsuwari planned to focus his energy on things that could effectively improve his combat power.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

This time, the jutsu didn't fail either. The moment the Shadow Clone was created, it sat down at the desk and started learning the knowledge from other textbooks and the ninjutsu scrolls that Natsuwari had prepared in advance, which Sana had given him before.

Natsuwari didn't arrange anything for himself, nor did he train. He wanted to assess the duration of a Shadow Clone created at full power and the amount of fatigue transmitted back after learning. So during this time, he couldn't train anymore to prevent his body from being unable to handle the fatigue transmitted back by the Shadow Clone.

However, since he was idle, Natsuwari thought about doing some housework. It wouldn't consume much energy anyway.

An hour later, Natsuwari looked at the still existing Shadow Clone, a little surprised. The duration of the Shadow Clone was unexpected. Even though the Shadow Clone hadn't used any chakra during this time, its existence itself required chakra consumption. But it seemed that if it didn't actively use chakra, the consumption wasn't significant, which was good.

After a while, the Shadow Clone looked at Natsuwari and said, "Original, get ready."

Then the Shadow Clone saw Natsuwari sit on the bed, and after a while, its chakra finally couldn't sustain it, and it passively dispersed.

Instantly, the memories and fatigue flooded into Natsuwari's mind, making him momentarily lose focus. But he quickly recovered, and the first thing he did after recovering was to sigh in a low voice.

"Naruto Uzumaki is truly a monster!"

Natsuwari also realized why only Naruto Uzumaki dared to use so many Shadow Clones for learning and training. Normal people, no, it should be said that except for Naruto Uzumaki, no one else could handle it, including normal members of the Uzumaki clan. They could probably only use one or two for training at most, not dozens or hundreds at once!

Because the moment the Shadow Clone dispersed, all the physical fatigue was transmitted to the original body. This meant that the original body had to withstand all the fatigue accumulated during that time in an instant. Natsuwari scratched his head. It seemed to be the same concept, but to use an analogy...

You go to the gym and exercise with two dumbbell plates for two hours. This is an acceptable amount for you. But what is the Shadow Clone equivalent to? It's equivalent to exercising with hundreds of dumbbell plates at once. The effect of both is the same, but the question is, can you lift it? Or rather, can your body handle the weight of these hundreds of dumbbell plates pressing down on you?

After thinking about Naruto Uzumaki's method of practicing the Rasenshuriken, Natsuwari could only sigh and say that only Naruto could do it. Others would need a physique like the Six Paths' to handle it.

However, Natsuwari felt okay for now. After all, the Shadow Clone was only studying during this time. Although there was fatigue, it was mostly mental fatigue. So after the physical fatigue was transmitted back, Natsuwari could still accept it. As for the mental fatigue...

That was Natsuwari's proudest point, his only advantage. That was why he wanted to learn the Shadow Clone Jutsu, which seemed not very practical. He had to make full use of his advantage! His spirit could handle it. Natsuwari even felt that he could create one or two more Shadow Clones to study together, but unfortunately, his chakra couldn't support that many.

Moreover, there was more than that. Natsuwari's eyes flickered slightly. The results of this experiment could almost be said to be perfect. Exchanging for the Shadow Clone Jutsu was the right move!

But Natsuwari had even further ideas. Unfortunately, his chakra hadn't fully recovered yet, so he could only wait for a while.

He couldn't afford soldier pills right now!

(End of Chapter)