The m training sessions Shiki did with Mito were where the Uzumaki matriarch began to question the definition of the word “talent” in her mind.

  This was because they were the time where Shiki demonstrated his self created or self leareiques from the library.

  Each sessiht something new.

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  It was during their first sparring session after Shiki had been taught the proper kata for basic taijutsu.

  Mito had beeing Shiki attack with his still basid unpolished taijutsu while calmly dodging or blog but she then noticed the white haired boy take a sudden sharp deep breath.

  ‘Nirvana Art: Three Bodies Breathihod - Breath of Yang’

  The pleted first part of Shiki’s first Nirvana Art, his personal brand of hidden jutsu. He “Breath of Yang” as it was mainly a physical enha.

  As a sensory shinobi, before Shiki even moved, Mito noted a surge in the boy’s chakra as his entire body entered a supercharged state of activation.

  Shiki’s form blurred with a massive increase in his speed.

  He stuck to the ground, not wanting to be caught out mid air where he could not maneuver so with his diminutive height, a leg kick aimed at Mitht knee joint flew out with boosted speed and power.

  The redhead internally nodded with approval but just firmed her stand let Shiki’s kid.

  ‘Ouch.’

  The boy bounced away with a bruised leg.

  His paiance was extremely high, courtesy of his previous life but ued pain could still catch him off guard.

  ‘What is she even made out of?’ Shiki internally questioned, notig a mischievous grin on Mito’s face.

  Determined not to take it lying down, he reguted his breathing once again, and jumped into a.

  Fog more chakra on his legs tthen his strikes, he went for a sweep.

  Mito took a step back, raising her front foot to dodge the sweep and smoothly transitioning into a downward front kick at the short Shiki.

  The redhead was taking it easy as the boy mao jump away nding on his bad using the momentum to roll through a right back up before dashing bato the fray.

  As he got more and more used to it, Shiki’s breathihod showed its worth as his speed and strength kept increasing while his stamina seemed to be very far from running out.

  Aware of this, the boy started p more and more chakra into his moves, dashing faster, hitting harder but Mito still casually dodged his kicks, parried his punches and her expertly timed attacks broke Shiki’s rhythm and forced him to dodge in weird ways to barely avoid get hit.

  His frustration growing, Shiki mounted a final offensive, going all out without sidering pace, the boy’s Breath of Yang boosting his physical abilities to the maximum.

  Another sweep and Mito dodged, trying to kick Shiki in the exact same way as before but this time . . . He was ready.

  Not having put everything into the sweep, the boy slipped the redhead’s kid stomped hard on the ground, crag it aabilizing Mito who was supported by just a single leg.

  The Uzumaki matriarch’s expression stiffened a bit while Shiki let fly a gut punch with everything he had straight at her with a triumphant smirk on his face.

  He impacted with a pleasant thud but the smirk froze on his face.

  Mito hardened her abs and focused her chakra there, taking the punch without breaking a sweat, a devious smirk now on her face, showing everything was acc to pn.

  And so, unbanced for putting everything in his punch, Shiki had no way to dodge the kick that cut air as it approached him.

  The boy did his best to raise his arms in a block but the redhead’s chakra enhanced kick sent him flying for several meters before he crashed and tumbled into the dirt, only stopping after hitting a tree.

  Mito went to pick him up but to her surprise, Shiki was already dizzily standing up.

  ‘Oh?’ Her eyebrows raised.

  ‘Hmm, it seems his strange breathing teique also boosts his durability if he took my kick with only some bruising.’ The redhead cluded.

  ‘It looks like the teique I saw him use during his practice before I adopted him but it has been improved siderably.’ The Uzumaki matriarternally nodded with some shock.

  A mere four year old child developing su effective and effit self enha jutsu that seemingly had no demerits based on what she saw. It was truly surprising, even for her who had plenty of tact with some of the greatest prodigies in the world.

  Shiki oher hand, was reflective.

  “Ugh.” He moaned while internally chidding himself.

  ‘I’m fighting one of the best sensors ever that read people like a book. Of course a dam won’t work.’ It was a stupid mistake but in the heat of a battle, such mistakes are easy to make.

  “I see you figured out what you did wrong.” Mito called out.

  “Don’t worry, these things only be fixed with experiehe Uzumaki matriarch gave wise advice but the near imperceptible smirk on her face told Shiki something different.

  ‘You’re a hundred years too early to catch me off guard brat!’ Was what the redhead’s expression unicated to the boy.

  ‘I’ll have my get back, Mito-sama. You just wait!’ He internally swore. The visible frustration only adding to the mirth on Mito’s face.

  But while the Breath of Yang had given Mito quite a surprise, it was merely a tiny insignifit prelude.

  *

  It was the day of physical sparring and Shiki had been adjusting the sed part of the “Three Bodies Breathihod” which he had deduced during his enlighteate.

  He called it the “Breath of Yin” whivolved using the body as a el to ect with and boost one’s spirit.

  Uhe “Breath of Yang” which boosted physical abilities, senses, durability and physical recovery, the “Breath of Yin” enhanced chakra flow, potend trol as well as mental recovery.

  Best of all, it was meant to overp with the “Breath of Yang”, boosting the effects of both breaths as the “Breath of Yin-Yang”.

  As such, while Shiki had envisiohe “Breath of Yin-Yang” as the third and final stage of his breathihod, he instead made it the sed stage.

  With this neon in his hand, it was time to retry a serious spar with his mistress.

  As they got ready to start, Mito could clearly tell Shiki had something new up his sleeve.

  ‘My sweet summer child. Fet about Konoha, I’m the most powerful kunoichi alive. You will not be putting a single scrate for a long while.’ The Uzumaki matriarternally snickered at Shiki’s ambitions.

  ‘So fident iing children. How about letting m-’ A deep voice popped up without any wele in the redhead’s mind but, like always, it was helplessly smothered.

  Mito believed she had already outgrown her more “questioendencies but as a strange genin she had seen in the vilge is always saying, it seemed the fme of her youth had yet to die out.

  But though Shiki was truly fag a hopeless uphill battle, the Uzumaki matriarch would still be getti an surprise.

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