Two months disappeared faster than rice balls at the orphanage.
Shota woke up, trained, ate, trained again, slept, and repeated. He would have liked to sleep more but his instructors disagreed with him. They instead preferred making him sleep less than optimal for a growing boy his age.
He mostly lived deep under the village in the ANBU training camp. No sunlight. No cats. No afternoon naps on the roof. Just lessons, sweat, and Spider's evil smile as well as Earthworm's stern look.
And Shota could honestly say that he had improved as a Shinobi.
Spider and Earthworm took turns with him. One week he learned how to follow footprints across the dessert with Earthworm.
The next week Spider taught him how to kill a man with a single needle. They were both scary in different ways.
Shota improved every day. He could now spot a trap from twenty meters away. He could set his own traps that even Spider praised.
He learned to read broken twigs, scuffed sand, and tiny drops of blood like they were words in a book.
Earthworm said he had a natural talent for tracking. Shota decided that made him the Sherlock Holmes of the desert.
Then he remembered every hunter-nin could do the same thing, so he was not that special after all.
He was given some case studies and taught what to do in delicate situations and how to make decisions on his own if the situation calls for it.
They also taught him ANBU rules. Most rules were simple. If someone sees your face during a secret job, kill them. If someone learns your real name, kill them. If someone might tell others about the mission, kill them.
Shota realised the shinobi answer to every problem was murder. This world needed peace activists. Then he remembered the two biggest peace activists were named Madara and Pain, and their idea of peace involved giant meteors and stabbing people with black rods. Maybe murder was easier.
Having real teachers changed everything. Spider noticed Shota was terrible with weapons longer than a kunai.
When Shota tried to swing a tanto, he nearly cut off his own finger. When he practised with a staff, he dropped it on his foot and hopped around crying for five minutes.
Spider and Earthworm looked at each other and agreed: no swords, no staffs, no big weapons. Kunai for close fights. Senbon for far away. Shota was happy. Senbon were quiet and sneaky, just like him.
Besides, he had lived in a world where he had not used any of these weapons. He used a knife though and that's probably why Shota could use a kunai.
To Shota's regret, they did not teach him any cool ninjutsu. He would have liked to learn new fire Style and wind style jutsus. But it seems that he could only learn those jutsus by getting them as a reward for completing five missions.
They did teach him one special jutsu. Hiding with Camouflage Technique. Most villages called it the Chameleon Jutsu. It was A-rank and very hard.
Shota had watched various Shinobi use it in the anime and always thought it looked cool.
Spider explained it carefully. The user controls light with chakra. Their body, shadow, even smell disappear or rather gets camouflaged. He technically became invisible and not many shinobi could see him.
Only sound or special eyes like Sharingan and Byakugan can see him. And sensors could still sense him. But Shota had managed to complete one of his childish fantasies of becoming invisible.
If he was not as lazy as he was, he would have tried sneaking in the women bath houses. He thought better of it since if he got caught, Matron would give him a world of pain. And this world already had a serial pervert in the form of Jiraiya.
Shota practised every day until he could vanish completely while standing in the middle of the training room.
He fell in love with the jutsu immediately. With camouflage active, he could sleep anywhere. On the roof. In the garden.
Behind a desk. If someone found him, he would just say he was training the new jutsu. It was a perfect excuse to escape training.
According to Spider, it was the ultimate hiding technique in existence after the second Tsuchikage's Mu Dustless Bewildering Cover technique which utilised water vapour to bend the light around the user essentially making them invisible.
Shota knew though that there was one other technique that was best in hiding.
The technique used by white zetsu and it's clones, Mayfly. It allowed him to merge his body with the ground and flora and no one could sense him. Once merged, his presence was completely concealed, making it impossible to detect him, even for sensor type ninja like Karin who had the Uzumaki kekkei genkai.
Thinking about Zetsu had made Shota think about how he could avoid or detect it's surveillance if it's on him
'I don't think that I would be able to prepare counter measures for it. The only thing that I think can sense him was sage mode or Naruto's nine tails chakra cloak mode. Neither that I can use. The only thing that I could do is use my eyes to stop his chakra and stop him from escaping. But I need to have a look at him for that.' Shota had thought.
Anyways, when he was not training with Spider or Earthworm, Shota worked on his secret project.
He wanted to create his own A-rank jutsu, maybe even S-rank. He had stolen the idea from an anime in his old life, but he was changing it to fit this world and chakra.
Every night he practised in a dark corner of the Anbu training ground.
He was close to perfecting it. Very close.
That afternoon he stood alone in an empty training hall. The camouflage jutsu wrapped around him like an invisible blanket. He took a deep breath and started practicing his new jutsu.
A quiet voice came from nowhere interupppting him. "Time for your final lesson, Raven."
Spider stepped out of the wall like a ghost, smiling his usual half-kind, half-evil smile.
---------Author Notes------
I have decided to increase the extra chaptera of Naruto: The Eraserhead of Suna from 15 chapters to 20 chapters.
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