Chapter – 2 Advancing Level (Patreon)

Tatsumi looked at the panel in frustration. "This is too disappointing. I have reached level 2 only in Physical Index, Chakra Reserves, Shurikenjutsu, and hand Sign Weaving Speed, all the other techniques are still at level 0. That is to say, I have advanced to a normal Ninja Academy trainee. Not even a graduate or a Genin!"

''System, don't hide my strength for my good. I feel like I can defeat Genins and Chunin in minutes.''

''Unfortunately for you host, that is just your delusion, what you see on the panel is your true strength.'

Tatsumi grumbled, “Damn it, all this suffering and still only an academy-level normie!” then he quickly returned to normal and got busy understanding the System settings.

Currently, the system has 13 attributes and all of them are the actual basis on which the talent and strength of a Shinobi are judged.

Because of his young physical age, Tatsumi has only been exposed to basic Shinobi Arts such as Taijutsu, Shurikenjutsu, Hand Sign Weaving, and Chakra Extraction. All four of these Shinobi Arts are nothing too flashy and quite boring to train. Generally, children of his age wouldn’t even want to carry out boring monotonous training with seemingly no visible results, however, Tatsumi is different in this regard. Because he has the mind of a person in his late teens, Tatsumi can still suck it up and train.

Because of these reasons, the past two years of training have brought him a lot of benefits. Despite being a child only five years old and with no one to guide him, Tatsumi is still skilled enough to compete against the older Academy students.

Although this is nothing to be too proud of, this is the result of pure hard work, and this is still better than nothing.

Of course, if he had someone to guide him, Tatsumi is sure he would have made more progress in the past two years. Just take Kakashi for instance.

How could Kakashi graduate at the age of five and become a Chunin at six?

On one hand, this is the result of his talent and hard work, on the other hand, this is because of the guidance he received from his father.

When comparing two people who put in the same amount of hard work, and have the same talent, a huge difference comes when the factor of guidance is involved.

Now when we are talking about guidance, being a member of the Uchiha Clan, Tatsumi should have obviously received the best training of the Uchiha Clan, however, because of some reason, Tatsumi was faintly excluded and no one cared for him.

Tatsumi thinks that it may have something to do with the identity of his father. Kagami was Nidaime Hokage’s disciple, and he must have been influenced by Senju Tobirama. This means Kagami’s vision wasn’t just limited to the glory and benefits of the Uchiha Clan.

Such people would normally not be accepted by the Clan, and naturally, their children will not be favoured.

Tatsumi can only sigh at his bad luck. On one hand, the doors of Uchiha’s core have been closed, on another hand, his talent is not too bright, nothing like the famous Uchiha Shisui.

In Tatsumi’s own view, he can only be regarded as mediocre among the geniuses, maybe something like Sarutobi Asuma and Mitarashi Anko, not like one-of-a-kind geniuses Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi.

This is not in line with the setting of Uchiha Kagami’s son and Uchiha Shisui’s father, and this has greatly confused Tatsumi. Isn’t talent a genetic thing? His father was extremely talented, his son is going to be extremely talented, but what about him? Where did all his talent go?

Tatsumi sighed, ‘Can I only rely on my Stupid System?’ and muttered, “It seems I am still not harsh enough upon myself.”

Tatsumi doesn’t want to be known as just the son of Uchiha Kagami and the father of Uchiha Shisui, he wants to be something more. He wants others to know him for who he is.

This is why Tatsumi has planned to show his strength and talent to everyone in the academy and attract a lot of attention, this way he can make the big names of Konoha notice him. The more people pay attention to him, the more valuable he will become. After all, no one pays attention to anyone who doesn’t have enough value.

Konoha is known for training two kinds of people, first, the people who are going to be pillars of Konoha, and second, the people who are going to be the fodder of Konoha.

Naturally, Tatsumi doesn’t want to be regarded as fodder, so he has to show his value, this way, then he will be assigned a better Jonin Sensei when he graduates from the Academy.

Every Shinobi Village closely guards its Ninjutsu and Kinjutsu, and every village has its own method of distributing that Ninjutsu. In addition to inheriting from parents, and using merit, learning from the assigned Jonin Sensei or master is also a very common practice.

If Tatsumi is assigned under a good Jonin Sensei, it will be beneficial for his future growth as he will be closer to the core of the village and will have a higher chance of obtaining a valuable Ninjutsu.

The most important thing is that in a few years, the second Great Shinobi War is about to start, if Tatsumi doesn’t attract Konoha’s special attention before that, he might die on the battlefield. This is not something, Tatsumi can allow to occur, because if he were to die young, how will Shisui be born in the future?

Therefore, his current goal is to become stronger.

And Tatsumi has just found the key to becoming strong. As long as he can find a way to earn more and more points, he can increase his strength.

“Oh… yeah… from the points, I remember I have gathered 2000 points… I should add those points to all the attributes and improve my strength.” With such a thought, Tatsumi looked at the points section, and suddenly his eyes widened.

“What the Fuc*!” Tatsumi suddenly realized that his 2000 points have disappeared and now it’s a 0, this must be an illusion!

“System…!”

[Host, what’s the matter?!] asked the system in a plain tone.

Hearing that monotone, Tatsumi gritted his teeth, and questioned, “Where are my 2000 points?”

[Oh that… didn’t I tell you earlier? Those 2000 points were used to open the System Panel.] replied the system in a cheeky tone.

Tatsumi gritted his teeth, “Damn you… 2000 points are required to open the System Panel?”

[Ding… Correct answer… Reward: 1 point!] a system prompt appeared on the screen.

Seeing this prompt, Tatsumi felt that he was mocked and almost coughed out blood, but he controlled and asked, “System, is there any newbie gift package?”

[There is.]

Hearing this, Tatsumi immediately questioned, “Then why didn’t you tell me?”

[Because you didn’t ask!]

Tatsumi’s eyebrow twitched in annoyance. At this moment, he decided that once he becomes strong enough, he must teach a lesson to this system.

Restraining his anger, Tatsumi took a deep breath, and said, “System, open the Newbie gift package!”

[Ding: Host successfully activated the system and opened the System Panel, reward, and newbie gift package.]

As a virtual gift pack appeared on the System panel, Tatsumi rubbed his hand in excitement and anticipation.

“Hehe… what will it be… what will it be…” Although he has lost 2000 points, as long as he gets something good, it will be worth it.

“What will it be… Rinnegan? Wood Release? Sharingan? Some powerful Kekkei Genkai.”

As the gift package opened, a prompt appeared, [Ding: Obtained 1888 points]

Then System’s voice came, [Host, be grateful to the system for its generosity]

“Be grateful my ass!” Tatsumi cursed, “You deducted 2000 points, and now you have only returned 1889, and you want me to be grateful to you?”

The system remained silent as if he completely ignored Tatsumi’s words.

Tatsumi sighed, ‘Well something is better than nothing.’ Then without wasting any time, he put 100 points in the Physical Index attribute.

[ -Attribute- Physical Index (LV 2 --> LV 3)]

[Congratulations Host for advancing to Level 3 in Physical Index. Hosts’ speed, physical strength, endurance, and Taijutsu understanding have increased.]

“Haha… this is the beginning of my rise!” Tatsumi laughed in joy.

Tomorrow is the day he will enrol in the Konoha Ninja Academy. Since his physical index has reached Level 3, it’s only one level short of the top of the Academy student, and at this physical age when all the children have low chakra reserves, a higher physical index in combination with Shurikenjutsu will play a big role.

Therefore, increasing the Physical Index is the best choice.

He could feel it, a few seconds after his Physical Index advanced to Level 3, all the fatigue and tiredness in his body disappeared. He also felt that his body has become lighter, more agile, and tougher. The best gain is that he suddenly gained a deeper understanding of Taijutsu.

After experiencing instant growth in such a short time, Tatsumi has understood a lot of things, and he can say that such overall growth in such a short span of time is really amazing.

After calming his excitement, Tatsumi inspected his body and breathed a sigh of relief after finding no abnormality.

“In that case… let’s test how much I have grown.” – Muttered Tatsumi as his black pupil condensed, the chakra in his body began to condense towards his legs.

After enough chakra had condensed, Tatsumi’s figure disappeared from his position and turned into an afterimage.

This wasn’t anything surprising since he has done this countless times, however, unlike previous times, this time he is faster, and this speed is much faster than he had expected, he didn’t think he could move so fast as a result he lost control of his movement, “Not good!”

Before Tatsumi realized it, he was about to crash into his dining table.

Boom!

With the sound of the table breaking, Tatsumi crashed into the wooden table.

After a while, the dust settled and Tatsumi finally got up, “Hiss… it hurts.” There was a bump on his head.