Hexi's sun shone in the courtyard of a large family in Konoha Village, and the two of them were standing in the middle of the courtyard.

This is a father and son, the father of which is wearing a Konoha Murakami Shinobu combat uniform, the position of the armband is the symbol of the Konoha Police Force, and a shuriken with an Uchiha clan emblem in the middle.

The son's dress is relatively simple, the Uchiha family's blue short sleeves and shorts, and there is no ninja forehead guard.

"Give it a try, your shadow clone."

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

The boy's hands quickly sealed, and with a bang, a perfect doppelganger appeared in the smoke screen.

Although it seems to be a doppelganger, it is not a basic doppelganger technique taught in a ninja school, but an advanced doppelganger technique with B-level difficulty developed by the second Hokage Senjutsu.

This kind of doppelganger technique has its own consciousness, and can do different actions and think differently from the body, which is a doppelganger in the true sense.

The boy and his doppelganger looked at each other and smiled, made a different movement, and then the doppelganger disappeared.

"Itachi, you really deserve to be my son!" The man patted his son on the shoulder excitedly and said with a smile: "It only took a month to master the art of shadow clone." ”

That's right, the man's name is Uchiha Fugaku, and the child's name is naturally Uchiha Itachi.

Itachi smiled and touched his nose, although he was used to hearing compliments, he was still very happy with his father's compliments.

Fugaku, who is in the image of a strict father, did not blindly praise Itachi, but continued to teach Itachi after a little praise.

"You should be able to detect it, right? The shadow clones created by the Shadow Clone technique have independent memories. ”

"As long as the shadow clone dissipates, the memories in the shadow clone can return to your body."

"If your shadow clone gains any knowledge during this time, it will also return to your body as what you see and hear."

"If you use this method to learn knowledge or cultivate, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort, because your knowledge and experience are multiplied by others."

"For this reason, the second generation Hokage has also created a more advanced ninjutsu on top of the shadow clone technique, called the multiple shadow clone technique, which can create thousands of shadow clones at a time."

"However, this technique was soon listed as a forbidden technique, because those who learned this technique would consume a huge amount of chakra to create a shadow clone, and even using it once would be life-threatening."

"So, Itachi, if you want to improve this technique, you must start by increasing the duration of the shadow clone, and you can't increase the number of shadow clones without authorization, you know?"

Although Fuyue is very happy about Itachi's rapid growth, this kind of genius is also worrying Fuyue, once ninjutsu is used excessively, it will inevitably cause damage to the body, especially children whose physical conditions are not yet mature.

"yes, I see." Itachi nodded.

"However, I'm very happy that you mastered the shadow clone technique in a month."

"Tell me, what gift do you want? I can buy it for you. ”

Itachi tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "I want to change my set of ninja equipment." ”

"What's the matter, isn't the ninja equipment issued by the ninja school bad?"

Itachi shook his head, "The ninja school ninja equipment is too blunt, and it's a little bulky, and it feels very bad when practicing throwing. ”

Fu Yue touched his chin and thought about it, the ninja equipment issued by the ninja school was indeed slightly different from the ninja equipment used by normal ninjas.

The blade of the ninja will be relatively sluggish and heavy, but it is afraid that the students of the ninja school will not be able to grasp the ninja equipment well and accidentally injure others, so they will be deliberately cut.

However, it takes a long time to practice throwing to notice, and I didn't expect Itachi to notice it so quickly.

This should be enough to show that Itachi's throwing skills have been mastered, and he can get in touch with real ninja equipment.

After thinking for a while, Fu Yue replied, "Okay, I can take you to buy real ninja equipment." ”

"But you have to promise me not to point your ninja at your fellow people in the village at any time."

"yes, I see." Itachi nodded.

"Okay, come out with me, I'll take you somewhere."

Looking at the back of Fugaku leaving, Itachi recalled his previous experience.

In fact, it wasn't Itachi himself who noticed the problem with the ninja school, but a boy named Shisui of the same clan told him.

At that time, Itachi's throwing technique had reached a bottleneck, and Shisui told him that as long as he changed his ninja equipment, he could easily break through this bottleneck.

So Itachi tested his father a little, but he didn't expect it to be a problem with forbearance.

At this time, a smaller boy crawled out of the floor of the room facing the courtyard.

The boy was only a year old, and he couldn't talk or walk, but when he saw Itachi, he smiled.

Itachi hurried over and then expertly picked up the boy.

"Forgive me, Sasuke, I'm going to go out with my father, and I can't play with you right now."

...

Fugaku and Itachi walked on the barren sand, surrounded by a desolate scene.

In the distance, the ruins of a city with tall buildings stand on the desolate Gobi Desert.

"Itachi, do you see the ruins of the city?" Fu Yue pointed to the ruins in the distance and said, "No one knows what the original name of that city was, but now it is called the empty area. ”

"That's where we're going, there's a weapons shop where every mature Uchiha goes to buy ninja gear."

The two walked into the city, and Itachi looked curiously at everything around them.

It is a deserted and dilapidated city, with crooked torii between buildings, windows and walls covered with dust, and the whole city has been abandoned for I don't know how many years.

However, in the middle of the city, there are huge buildings that are several times taller than the Hokage Building, and it can be seen that the city was still quite prosperous in the past.

Meow~

Suddenly, a cat meow came from the dark corner of the building, which caused a ripple in Itachi's heart.

But when I looked around, there was nothing.

Under the leadership of Fuyue, the two moved from an inconspicuous, faceless storefront to an underground passage.

Although the city outside has been abandoned for many years, the ceiling lights on the ceiling of the underground passage are bright, and the complex pipes are densely gathered, indicating that this part of the city has not been abandoned.

The underground passages here are as complex as a labyrinth, and every now and then there will be a fork, but Itachi finds that Fugaku is always heading in the direction of the densest pipes, and the presence of the pipes is a little more reassuring.

But in any case, it was an oppressive place, and Itachi even felt a little out of breath here.

"Lord Fugaku, we look forward to your visit! Meow~"

Suddenly, two dark shadows appeared in front of him, prostrate at Fuyue's feet like servants, and speak a strange ending sound.

When Itachi looked closely, it turned out to be two cats.