Chapter 45:
"Is this the place?"
Shadow Clone Sasuke looked around the empty room with some suspicion.
"This is my soul space. The first time I fell into a coma, I suddenly gained this place. A lot of the time when I'm 'sleeping,' I'm actually training in here. If you can open that door, there's a big surprise waiting behind it — but you have to be strong enough to open it yourself…"
Shadow Clone Naruto stood to the side. Once inside this space, Shadow Clone Sasuke was essentially another Sasuke.
With Anbu watching them 24/7, there was no chance for Sasuke to practice ninjutsu in the outside world.
But here, everything the shadow clone practiced would eventually return to the real Sasuke.
"A surprise?"
Even though it was a shadow clone, the consciousness was still Sasuke's.
He turned to look at the door behind him and suddenly had a guess.
Then, from now on, he just needed to work hard toward that goal, right?
"I'm going back to train too. My physical body is still too weak. Under their constant surveillance, I can't do anything. Being watched every day makes me want to kill someone!"
Shadow Clone Naruto glanced at Sasuke, then took a step back and leaned against the wall.
In the next instant, the isolated training room contained only Shadow Clone Sasuke.
From now on, besides Naruto coming in every day to teach him ninjutsu, the only other thing would be maintaining this shadow clone continuously.
He hoped it could last these three years. Otherwise, they would have to think of another way again.
......
'I suddenly realized — can I have mental conversations with you now?'
In the training ground, Sasuke had just punched Naruto to the ground and was pressing him down when his body suddenly stiffened. He froze in place.
Because he had heard his own voice.
The real Naruto, who had been struggling on the ground, was also stunned.
What kind of situation was this?
'I… I don't know…'
Naruto's voice also appeared in his mind — but it was the shadow clone's voice…
'So… does this mean I've created a group chat?'
The real Naruto, still lying on the ground, looked utterly miserable. He really couldn't figure out why this had happened.
'Probably. So, main body, what exactly is going on? Will this interfere with our usual training?'
Shadow Clone Naruto also felt the situation was full of problems.
If shadow clones could do this, he might as well create multiple shadow clones and…
He could build a force of a thousand or eight hundred ninjas, right?
'It probably won't… You guys focus on practicing ninjutsu. Don't disturb me and Sasuke normally, and we'll try not to disturb you either…'
Naruto lay on the ground, feeling awkward and unwilling to get up. This felt like there were suddenly two extra people between him and Sasuke.
If he wanted to bully Sasuke next time and suddenly had two more people joining in the conversation, just thinking about it was annoying!
'Unless it's important, let's use it as little as possible…'
Sasuke also felt uncomfortable with the situation. Even though it was his own shadow clone, he still had the unpleasant feeling that their private territory had been intruded upon.
But on the other hand, it wasn't entirely bad.
They could now ask their shadow clones about their training and find out where they were still lacking.
"Hey! Uzumaki Naruto, get up and keep training!"
Sasuke was in a bad mood, so the real Naruto was once again dragged up and forced to continue physical conditioning training.
"Damn Sasuke… damn damn damn…"
Naruto kicked the wooden training post while muttering Sasuke's name under his breath. He was clearly treating the post as if it were Sasuke.
The hidden Anbu watching this scene had different reactions — some looked disgusted, some mocked him, and one even showed a slightly relieved expression…
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