Naruto: Betrayed From The Start

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Night.

Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife, following the trail of Kenshi's shadow clone, arrived at the location of Kenshi's shadow clone heading north, ahead of Ryōma and Sika's team.

Inside a valley filled with golden leaves, Kenshi's shadow clone sat on a large rock in the middle, closing his eyes, focusing all his attention on maintaining his Chakra Sensing state.

After receiving the thoughts transmitted by Kenshi's real body, the shadow clone didn't continue forward. It had been waiting in the valley for the pursuing ninja squad to arrive, so it could determine whether it was the era of the Second Great Ninja War.

However, because the shadow clone's Chakra Sensing ability wasn't as powerful as the real body's, Kenshi's shadow clone had to focus to expand its Chakra Sensing range.

"Why haven't they come yet?"

Kenshi was a little puzzled. The shadow clone's traces along the way were very obvious. Someone should have arrived by now.

But within a two-kilometer radius of his Chakra Sensing, there were no Chakra fluctuations.

Unknown to Kenshi, in the air four kilometers away from the valley, Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife had already arrived. They were in the air, looking at Kenshi on the rock in the valley.

"Is that Kenshi?"

Sarutobi Tenjū asked. The distance was too far, and he couldn't see clearly.

Sarutobi Ayase closed one eye and nodded, "It's Kenshi."

Sarutobi Ayase could connect with the eyes of the Super Beast Imitation Painting bird under her feet, gaining the bird's vision. She could see objects four or five kilometers away as clearly as an eagle.

She could see Kenshi sitting on the rock clearly. She wouldn't be mistaken.

"Then let's go down." Sarutobi Tenjū said.

"Don't we want to test him first?" Sarutobi Ayase asked, "We still don't know if this Kenshi is a shadow clone."

"No need." Sarutobi Tenjū shook his head and said, "Shadow clones can't be maintained for too long. We'll see if Kenshi is still there tomorrow. We'll naturally know if he's a shadow clone."

The Shadow Clone Technique, especially the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, was classified as a forbidden jutsu because when the shadow clone is dispelled, the memories it experienced are also brought back to the real body.

If you use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to create more than ten shadow clones for more than an hour, then when you dispel the shadow clones, you'll be hit with the memories of ten shadow clones for more than an hour.

This is a huge amount of memory.

Ordinary people couldn't withstand this instant memory shock. Their brains would be directly damaged by the memory shock, turning them into fools.

If the Kenshi here was a shadow clone, then it meant that this shadow clone had existed for at least more than ten hours.

The memories accumulated over this time were no less than the memories accumulated by ten shadow clones for an hour.

If he hadn't known that Kenshi's soul was special and that he could use the Spiritualization Technique, Sarutobi Tenjū would have directly assumed that the Kenshi in the valley was the real body.

Ordinary people couldn't withstand the memory shock of a shadow clone existing for ten hours.

Even he, if he were instantly hit by the memories of a shadow clone that had existed for more than ten hours, his mind would be damaged, and it would take him a week to recover.

Sarutobi Tenjū didn't believe that Kenshi could withstand the memory shock of a shadow clone existing for more than twenty hours, by tomorrow morning.

It wasn't as simple as one plus one.

The longer the shadow clone existed, the stronger the memory shock on the real body's brain and mind, it would increase exponentially.

The memories accumulated by a shadow clone existing for twenty hours, even if Kenshi's soul was special, Sarutobi Tenjū believed that Kenshi wouldn't be able to withstand it.

If the Kenshi here was a shadow clone, it would automatically dispel and disappear at midnight at the latest.

Soon, midnight arrived.

Seeing that Kenshi was still in the valley, Sarutobi Tenjū's lips curled into a slight smile. He said, "It seems that the one here is Kenshi's real body."

Sarutobi Ayase smiled and affirmed, "A shadow clone couldn't exist for that long."

They were both certain that the Kenshi in the valley was the real body, and the one Ryōma and his team had found was Kenshi's shadow clone.

Half an hour after Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife found Kenshi in the valley, Echizen Ryōma and Hyuga Sika also found Kenshi in a small village to the south.

They communicated through the eagles drawn by Sarutobi Ayase, and they both knew that they had found Kenshi. The only thing they needed to determine was which one was the real body.

It seemed that the one they had found was Kenshi's real body, and the one Ryōma and his team had found was a shadow clone.

Until the sun rose the next morning, Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife believed this.

But when the sun rose in the morning, they received a letter from Echizen Ryōma and Hyuga Sika, sent through the Super Beast Imitation Painting eagles, and they were completely dumbfounded.

"Impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

Sarutobi Tenjū's face was filled with disbelief.

Sarutobi Ayase's beautiful eyes were also shocked.

The letter said that the Kenshi they had found, Echizen Ryōma and Hyuga Sika, was still there this morning, and hadn't dissipated. They asked if the Kenshi they had found was still there, and if he was a shadow clone.

"This..."

Sarutobi Ayase didn't know how to judge either. She could only look at her husband, Sarutobi Tenjū, who also knew the Shadow Clone Technique.

At this time, Sarutobi Tenjū had recovered from his initial shock. He took a deep breath, looked at his wife, and said, "Ayase, you remotely control the flock of birds. I'll use the Shadow Clone Technique to attack Kenshi. We can only test it out."

No matter how Kenshi dared to keep his shadow clone alive for more than twenty hours, even if he could be immune to the memory shock of the shadow clone's dissipation, like he was immune to genjutsu, it couldn't change the fact that the existence of the shadow clone itself was a jutsu.

Releasing jutsu naturally consumes Chakra.

Maintaining the existence of a shadow clone is a continuous Chakra consumption process.

A shadow clone that exists for more than twenty hours would definitely consume a lot of Chakra. It would have very little Chakra left.

If it was a shadow clone, a probing attack would increase its Chakra consumption, and the shadow clone would naturally dissipate due to lack of Chakra.

This way, it would be easy to test whether the Kenshi in the valley was a shadow clone.

"What about Ryōma and his team?" Sarutobi Ayase asked, "Should we have them test him too?"

Sarutobi Tenjū pondered for a moment and said, "Let them test him too, but they must focus on long-range attacks. Don't get close to him."

Kenshi's use of the Shadow Clone Technique had shocked Sarutobi Tenjū. He was now a little confused about whether there was a real body on both sides.

So, it was safer to test them both.

But he still told them to stay away from Kenshi.

Genjutsu requires distance to cast. As long as they maintained a safe distance of one hundred meters, many genjutsu ninjas wouldn't be able to cast genjutsu from a distance.

"Then I'll notify them first."

Sarutobi Ayase drew another eagle, carrying Sarutobi Tenjū's orders, to fly to Echizen Ryōma and his team.

After that, Sarutobi Tenjū immediately created a shadow clone and headed towards the valley.

Above him, in the air, were thirty ink birds drawn by his wife, Sarutobi Ayase, following him.

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