Early morning.
Uchiha Clan grounds, the clan leader's residence.
A family of four was eating breakfast quietly and plainly.
It seemed like they were enjoying themselves.
Soon, Itachi finished his breakfast.
"I'm done eating."
"Father, Mother, I'll be leaving first."
"Mm." Fugaku responded seemingly calmly, "Relax, just perform normally, the Chūnin Exams are no challenge for you."
Itachi nodded.
"I know."
Before leaving, Itachi looked at his younger brother.
Sasuke was almost two years old, still a bit chubby, waving his fleshy little hands, also cheering him on.
"Brother! Good luck!"
Mikoto next to him also covered her mouth and chuckled, "Itachi, I wish you good luck on your exam."
Family blessings were always so warm.
With a pleasant mood, Itachi walked out of his house and headed straight to the location of the Chūnin Exam grounds.
Yes.
Although he used to not care about the so-called Chūnin title.
A ninja's strength couldn't be measured by a title.
But he knew.
If he wanted to be closer to that girl, he had to do his best to strive for a higher position.
Chūnin was just the first step.
And after the end of this final match of the Chūnin Exams today, he would be one step closer to that position.
"Yo, you look very energetic."
Walking on the road, a familiar voice suddenly sounded beside Itachi.
Itachi stopped and greeted the owner of the voice.
"Shisui-san."
"Don't you have a mission today?"
Shisui, leaning against the wall, spread his hands and pointed to his mask.
"How is that possible... I'm about to leave."
"I came here this time specifically to apologize to you, I'm afraid I won't be able to cheer you on at your exam."
Another apology.
Itachi suddenly remembered that not long ago, Qingchuan had said the same thing.
"I'm already happy that Shisui-san can come, you don't need to be like this."
"Then... let me put it another way." Shisui walked to Itachi's side and patted Itachi's shoulder.
"Congratulations in advance on becoming a Chūnin!"
After saying that, Shisui's figure disappeared.
Itachi stood there for a while.
"Anbu, are really busy..."
He hadn't noticed it when he was still able to train with Qingchuan.
Now that he thought about it, Shisui-san seemed to only have three to five days a month in the clan.
And Qingchuan...
Itachi's eyes were filled with longing.
Since Qingchuan entered Anbu, she hadn't returned after that night.
As if she knew long ago that she wouldn't be able to make it to his Chūnin Exams.
That apology had also been said to him early.
She... must also be very busy, right?
.....
Achoo!
"Damn it..."
Inside the Anbu training ground, Qingchuan unleashed her spiritual power unscrupulously!
Gales arose.
After a Hadō, Qingchuan immediately pulled out her sword,
and slashed frantically!
This was a new routine that Qingchuan had researched to maximize her training buff.
True·Seamless Training.
Releasing Hadō or Bakudō consumed spiritual power, and then during the period of high-speed spiritual power recovery, she would slash seamlessly!
When her spiritual power recovered, she would release a round of Kaidō to heal herself, and then continue to release Hadō and Bakudō!
Consuming spiritual power again, recovering again, and then slashing!
Repeating this cycle endlessly!
The consequence of doing this was that it was likely to cause her to be underdeveloped.
After all, Kaidō could only repair muscle damage caused by her training, and could not replenish substantial energy.
But Qingchuan didn't care...
If she was so hungry that she fainted, she could just eat two meals.
If she was so sleepy that she wanted to vomit, she could just catch up on sleep.
But if she failed to master Bankai by the night of the Uchiha Massacre, or if she just knelt down in a second like when she first obtained Shikai...
Then she would really have nothing...
This crazy training lasted for a full two hours.
Until her sweat almost made her skirt transparent.
Qingchuan then collapsed on the ground, panting heavily...
She glanced at the System interface, the Bankai mastery.
The first set of training had given her 0.09% proficiency, and the total proficiency had reached 1.73%.
This was the result of her training whenever she had the opportunity, except for a few Anbu tasks, during this period of time.
"So... slow."
Qingchuan complained sincerely.
Although obtaining the proficiency was equivalent to her slashing ten people continuously.
But this tortoise-like progress was really worrying.
Two soldier pills went down.
The hunger that almost devoured her gradually disappeared.
Qingchuan struggled to stand up, her hands clenched Senbonzakura again, her eyes full of determination!
"I'll slash!"
.......
Swoosh!
Another extremely tricky shuriken was released.
From the beginning of the battle, Itachi's feet had not even left the spot.
Just that supernatural and unpredictable shuriken had already made his opponent exhausted to cope with.
The examiner standing next to him looked at Itachi with unusual colors in his eyes.
Finally.
When a shuriken hidden in the shadows brushed past the top of another candidate's head, taking away one or two strands of hair.
The examiner finally announced the result that should have been destined from the beginning of the exam.
"Winner! Uchiha Itachi!"
The examiner raised Itachi's hand.
But Itachi's eyes were always wandering in the audience.
Soon, it would be the last match.
That figure really didn't appear...
She should still be performing a mission somewhere, right?
That was good too.
Itachi shook his head secretly.
He would share the news with her when she came back.
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