NOVEL NEXT Chapter 405: What kind of supplements are these guys taking?_2
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After purchasing a steak and half a roast chicken, Sakura headed home, her heart chatting with Sun Wukong, "Master, does this spore need a name?"
"Isn't it called Zetsu Spores?" said Sun Wukong.
"That name doesn't sound good, it has become my thing now, so naturally I can't use that fungus man's label." Sakura had tolerated the name "Zetsu" for some time. "Now that it has merged with me, it seems to be capable of transforming at will, so why not call it Sakura Suit."
Sun Wukong: "If you like it, that's good."
Pouting, Sakura said, "Don't just brush me off, Master!"
"Since it's that way, how about calling it 'Red Shadow'?" Sun Wukong suggested, "You want to become Hokage, and you like wearing red clothes; it's fitting."
"'Red Shadow'?" Sakura repeated the name several times, felt that it was rather good, and agreed to it. "Master is truly a master, coming up with such a nice name."
Red Shadow, the crimson figure.
Sakura swore that in the near future, this name would definitely follow her as she made a name for herself in the ninja world!
With the end of the second semester and the arrival of summer vacation, the students at the Ninja Academy had more freedom, and everyone was discussing how to spend the holiday.
However, for people like Sakura, the vacation was naturally for training.
To become powerful ninjas, they must first have strong abilities.
So, the lives of Sakura and the others were as usual: morning runs, studying, training, dining together. The summer passed in this way, and besides that, Sakura also created an underground space under her home and shop for future research.
"Next is buying experimental equipment."
In Konoha, purchasing various experimental equipment required providing relevant information, explaining the purpose, recording identity; otherwise, the ninjas of Konoha had the authority to confiscate it all.
Sakura also found out the reason: it was said that there was once a ninja in Konoha who experimented on the villagers, thus Konoha is highly sensitive about this, and that ninja has already defected from Konoha.
"Using villagers for experiments, that's a bit too exaggerated," Sakura commented and still reported her purpose—studying mushroom spores and cultivating new kinds of mushrooms.
Konoha's Medical Department supplies the experimental equipment. After understanding the circumstances of Sakura's family, they approved Sakura's application.
"It's a pity that these experimental tools can only be used for cultivating mushrooms."
These pieces of equipment purchased from Konoha are inspected by the Medical Department every month to prevent them from being used for any other purposes.
For Sakura, the laboratory was nothing to be ashamed of.
She just wanted to demonstrate 'Red Shadow' within Konoha's "regulations," otherwise, suddenly using Red Shadow's abilities in the future could easily attract suspicion from others.
In the blink of an eye, another year passed.
Sakura, Naruto, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and the others had entered the third grade; their heights were nearly that of adults, averaging around 1.6 meters, with Sakura even taller at about 1.75 meters.
With skin like coagulated jade and a face as lovely as a lotus, her clothes—a loose-fitting outfit with a red base and silver patterns—further accentuated her graceful figure, causing Iruka to dare not look directly at her during class.
"There are quite a few abnormal ones in this batch of students!" Iruka internally complained.
As a matter of fact, in addition to people like Haruno Sakura, there was another group whose growth was quite remarkable, already reaching about 1.3 to 1.4 meters in height. They were Hyuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, and Shino Yamanaka—who occasionally played with Sakura and the others.
These three were also passively influenced by Sakura's chakra, and their bodies developed very quickly.
As for Uchiha Sasuke... his height was about the same as other eight-year-old kids, around 1.2 meters.
Actually, Sasuke's height was what it should be for his age.
However, Sasuke didn't know that and just felt that he was disgracing the Uchiha name, falling so far behind others in physical development, and even in academic grades, the worst-scoring Naruto was gradually catching up to him.
"Damn it!" Uchiha Sasuke cursed, "What kind of supplements are these guys taking? Their bodies are growing like bamboo shoots after rain, so fast!"
During the summer, Haruno Sakura had intended to invite Sasuke to join them, but Sasuke had no time to join their group, requesting special training from his brother and father instead.
Having seen people like Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Fugaku thought that letting Sasuke play with them could result in injury, so he planned to train Sasuke specially and teach him some of his family's taijutsu and ninjutsu.
The M|V|LE&MPYR team worked hard on this chapter.
It could be said that the eight-year-old Sasuke, although he had not activated the Sharingan yet, had a chakra level, ninjutsu usage, and taijutsu strength that was no different from that of an ordinary genin.
Perhaps he might not match a ninja who had actually fought enemies in terms of experience, but in terms of abilities, Uchiha Fugaku could guarantee that Sasuke was not any less than a real ninja and was even extremely close to a chunin!
His younger son, Uchiha Sasuke, was as outstanding as his older brother, Uchiha Itachi!
But after the third grade classes started, and live practice was introduced, Sasuke couldn't beat people like Haruno Sakura in either taijutsu or ninjutsu.
Only in shurikenjutsu could he afford to follow right behind Haruno Sakura, grudgingly taking second place.
"Everyone, are you ready for the live practice this afternoon?"
After noon, Iruka, with a small notebook in hand, entered the classroom and his gaze immediately went to those unusually tall kids for their age, and he sighed inwardly: Should he let them form a separate group?
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