Chapter 426: Sharingan and Clone
Haruno Sakura had always believed that among the many ninjutsu, the creativity and practicality of the Clone Jutsu could be ranked in the top three.
Using chakra to condense a virtual or tangible image, and then projecting one's spirit into the chakra split body, one created...
Another self.
Very magical.
However, the Clone series of ninjutsu has a huge flaw, which is that the chakra split body is relatively fragile and cannot accommodate much chakra. Therefore, if the timing is wrong during battle, it is just a waste of chakra.
From the simplest Clone Jutsu, to Water Clone Jutsu, Shadow Clone Jutsu, to Water Clone Jutsu, Ice Clone Jutsu, Wood Clone Jutsu, the trend of advanced clone jutsu is that chakra goes from loose to condensed, attributes go from non-attribute to ordinary elemental attributes, and then to Kekkei Genkai, Kekkei Tota...
So, what if a real cloned physical body is used as the carrier of the clone jutsu?
A living body that can eat, drink, and breathe is different from a chakra condensation that will dissipate sooner or later. After projecting the spirit into it, the spiritual and physical strength will form a complete internal cycle within the clone's body, just like a real person. This allows it to withstand damage, fight continuously, and exist as a clone for a long time... years, decades, or even a hundred years, living longer than the original body.
Such a True Clone Jutsu, theoretically, should be the most perfect clone jutsu Haruno Sakura could imagine.
Almost no cost, not much chakra consumption, and apart from the cloning part, the ninjutsu itself has no difficulty. Cloning oneself once can provide a huge supplement to combat power; it is simply a perfect ninjutsu.
However, the reality is that Haruno Sakura has only ever performed it in a safe and controllable laboratory and has never used this ninjutsu in battle.
Because the biggest advantage of the True Clone Jutsu, "being able to exist like a real person," is itself a more terrible disadvantage than clones easily dissipating! Haruno Sakura has imagined this problem: what if she uses the clone on the battlefield and then forgets to retrieve it? The clone will not dissipate automatically; on the contrary, possessing part of the original body's power, she can easily survive, then slowly grow, slowly approach the original body, or even surpass the original body...
"At that time, who am I? Who is the real me?"
The girl muttered to herself.
"The 'me' after transplanting the Sharingan theoretically has a higher upper limit than the original body..." Haruno Sakura stroked the clone's smooth and creamy skin, her fingertips moving all the way up the calf, feeling a bit emotional, "A clone possibly being stronger than the original body or something, is really not interesting."
If it were she herself lying here, and the clone was the one sharpening the knife preparing to operate on her, what a terrifying scene would that be?
Of course, the clone being stronger than the original body is only a theoretical possibility.
Wait until she completes the Yang God Mode, no, even after cultivating Sage Mode, the effect of the Mangekyo Sharingan on improving her combat power will be minimal; coupled with the body and spirit honed by years of cultivation, the clone can never compare to the original body in any case. Besides, even if Haruno Sakura's clone is really separated for a long time, it is not necessarily in a hostile relationship with the original body.
"No need to worry unnecessarily. Let's start."
With these thoughts turning in her mind, the determined girl stopped her fingers on the soft chest of the clone.
First is—
Activation.
Yang Release chakra condensed in Haruno Sakura's palm, emitting a faint blue light; then, the girl slapped her palm onto the clone's chest. Between the force's emission and absorption, the blue light sank and merged into the clone's heart.
Thump, thump.
The heart began to beat, pumping blood throughout the body. The chest began to rise and fall, the nose twitched delicately, inhaling oxygen. The cold and stiff flesh began to become warm and soft, and the porcelain-white skin gradually gained color.
The clone opened her eyes.
She... came to life.
But unfortunately, she was just alive. Her eyes were the same beautiful light green as the original body, but they lacked focus, just staring straight ahead motionlessly, dull and sluggish, without the slightest agility or vitality.
Before the original body projected her spirit into it, the clone was just a breathing lump of flesh.
Next is—
Eye replacement.
The biggest difficulty in replacing eyeballs lies in the reconnection of the retina and the optic nerve, but for a ninja proficient in Yang Release medical ninjutsu, this is not a big problem. Characters later in the manga could even treat eyes as hot-swappable, plug-and-play USBs, digging one out and putting one in to change an eye on the battlefield...
Haruno Sakura wouldn't be so crude. her operation was much more precise, carefully taking out the original eyeballs, cleaning them, then putting in the Sharingan, stimulating nerve cells with Yang Release chakra to grow slowly and connect to the new eyeballs.
Finally, injecting the spirit into the clone, performing the True Clone Jutsu.
Haruno Sakura from the clone's perspective opened her eyes again.
The eye sockets were still a little sore and itchy, a residual sensation from the wound healing.
However... the feeling of the Sharingan was not bad.
She tried injecting Yin Release chakra into the eyeballs. Shisui's Sharingan happily absorbed the chakra and changed form: black eyes suddenly turned red, tadpole-like tomoe differentiated from the pupils, one, two, three, arranged in an equilateral triangle angle, spinning around the pupils.
Then... the world slowed down.
As if the air had solidified—a black feather on the roof had been floating slowly. In the Sharingan's vision, it seemed to be frozen in the air, completely motionless.
"How is it?" The original body helped her up from the table, saw her open the three-tomoe form, and asked, "What does the Sharingan feel like?"
"Very marvelous." She climbed off the table and said softly, "Similar to the feeling after activating Cherry Blossom Impact, the world seems to have slowed down... but in the Sharingan's vision, everything is clearer."
"Language is hard to express clearly... anyway, you will understand after the ninjutsu is released later."
The clone Haruno Sakura controlled her own body and walked carefully around the table twice. Although her chakra was not weak, this body was essentially a newly born clone, activated for the first time. Muscles, bones, reaction nerves, and cerebellum were all still very immature, even walking was shaky.
Adapting to the new body while walking, after two laps, she had already begun to walk briskly.
The original body stood aside with arms akimbo watching her: "Have you played enough? Don't waste time, try the Mangekyo Sharingan first!"
"Yes, yes~" She stopped, still wanting more, and continued to inject pure Yin Release chakra into the Sharingan according to the original body's instructions. Shisui's eyes were developed very well by him. The Sharingan greedily devoured the chakra she poured in, and the clone suddenly had an illusion—even a tide-like chakra couldn't fill these insatiable eyeballs!
Fortunately, the Sharingan was not a bottomless pit after all. After receiving chakra support from the original body, she finally filled the Sharingan's stomach. Thus, these eyeballs perfectly polished by the first owner smoothly began a new round of changes: three tomoe spun crazily, and in the end, they connected into a piece, blending into a brand new pattern—
A black four-cornered pinwheel.
Mangekyo Sharingan, activated!
The clone stood blankly, carefully experiencing the new feelings brought by the Mangekyo Sharingan.
"If the me in the three-tomoe state is equivalent to activating the first stage of Cherry Blossom Impact..." She reached out, suddenly grabbed a feather flying in the air, and murmured, "Then the feeling brought by the Mangekyo Sharingan completely surpasses the level of Cherry Blossom Impact stage two, and even approaches the feeling of stage three..."
The significant improvement in dynamic vision is only part of the Mangekyo's ability.
"What else?" The original body asked.
"Genjutsu ability should have been enhanced, but testing it on you wouldn't show any effect." She laughed. Even with the Mangekyo's amplification, ordinary genjutsu wouldn't work on the original body. So there was no way to test how much the genjutsu ability had improved.
"I also felt the existence of so-called 'eye power' (pupil power), which should be a special chakra produced after conversion by the Mangekyo," she continued, "Then there is the exclusive ability Kotoamatsukami... I automatically learned it after activating the Mangekyo."
"It consumes a lot of 'eye power,' this move. Do you want to try it, original body?"
Haruno Sakura was startled: "Hah?!"
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