Naruto: Betrayed From The Start

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"As expected, the enemy can see me outside my Chakra Sensing range."

Kenshi's shadow clone, who had been flying east for ten minutes, looked back. The two Konoha ninjas who had been chasing him had disappeared from his sight.

Or rather, they were still in his sight, just too far away for him to see.

"But I still need to confirm."

Thinking this, Kenshi's shadow clone controlled the Black Iron giant eagle to fly over a forest, then descended from the air into the forest.

Kenshi's shadow clone, with a thought, retracted the Black Iron giant eagle, and he also landed, hiding behind a large tree, quietly waiting.

After a while.

More than twenty ink swallows quickly entered his Chakra Sensing range, followed by the two Konoha ninjas standing on the back of the ink bird.

"As expected, their sensing method is only visual perception."

Kenshi's shadow clone's eyebrows slightly raised, and he smiled.

There was no sign of him in the sky, so the other side could only close the distance and let a group of ink swallows search for him. Clearly, they could only find him through their eyes.

This way, it was much easier to hide.

After all, the ink swallows' eyes weren't the Byakugan. If he found something to hide behind, the other side wouldn't be able to see him.

"Boom!"

With a thought, Kenshi summoned the Black Iron giant eagle he had already woven from the Dead Gate acupoint space. He got on the Black Iron giant eagle and flew into the sky, continuing to fly in the same direction as before.

He had to lure the two Konoha ninjas far away, preventing them from having a chance to pursue his real body.

Meanwhile.

Kenshi's real body, flying towards the Land of Water on the Black Iron giant eagle, confirmed through the conscious connection that the two Konoha ninjas' tracking method was visual perception. He finally felt relieved.

"Since that's the case, there's no need to continue wasting Chakra on the shadow clone in the other direction."

Kenshi's consciousness reached out to the shadow clone in the other direction. The shadow clone Kenshi immediately retracted the Black Iron giant eagle into his acupoint space and then dispelled the shadow clone.

This way, the Chakra used to condense the Black Iron giant eagle would return to Kenshi's real body as the shadow clone was dispelled.

Then, Kenshi controlled the Black Iron giant eagle to change direction, flying towards the direction where the two Konoha ninjas had been chasing him from.

This way, he could maximize his distance from the two Konoha ninjas.

"Boom!"

Kenshi created a shadow clone.

This shadow clone didn't enter the Black Iron giant eagle's belly. Kenshi had him stand on the back of the Black Iron giant eagle.

"You control it from now on. I'll go to sleep. If anything happens, wake me up."

After saying that, Kenshi himself entered the Black Iron giant eagle's belly to sleep.

There were two fist-sized holes on both sides of the Black Iron giant eagle's belly for ventilation. He didn't have to worry about running out of oxygen inside.

Kenshi lay down on the relatively spacious belly of the Black Iron giant eagle, closed his eyes, and after a dozen seconds, his consciousness fell asleep. His body also entered a deep sleep state, completely blocking out external perceptions.

Just as Kenshi's shadow clone in the other direction was dispelled and disappeared, and his real body changed direction.

In the eastern Chakra Sensing barrier center, Yamanaka Ichizō sensed the information about the Black Iron giant eagle's Chakra fluctuations disappearing as Kenshi's shadow clone was dispelled, as well as the information about the Black Iron giant eagle changing direction as Kenshi's real body flew.

"Tenjū-sama..."

Yamanaka Ichizō immediately informed Sarutobi Tenjū of these two pieces of intelligence.

"Disappeared?"

Here, Sarutobi Tenjū, who was following Kenshi from afar, instantly frowned when he heard this. He glanced at the small black dot ahead and thought to himself, "Is it a shadow clone or..."

As he was asking, Sarutobi Tenjū suddenly stopped. He realized that the barrier center couldn't sense whether a shadow clone had disappeared.

"I don't know." Yamanaka Ichizō understood Sarutobi Tenjū's meaning and replied honestly in a concise way.

"Alright, I understand." Sarutobi Tenjū thought to himself.

"What's wrong? Tenjū." Sarutobi Ayase looked at her husband. Yamanaka Ichizō's communication was only directed at her husband, so she couldn't hear it.

"The eastern barrier center sent a message. The Kenshi who flew towards Konoha... the Chakra giant eagle he condensed disappeared."

"Also," Sarutobi Tenjū frowned, "The Kenshi who flew towards the Land of Water changed direction and is flying north."

"Disappeared? Changed direction? Could it be..." Thinking about these two pieces of information, Sarutobi Ayase's eyes suddenly lit up, and she had a guess. She looked at her husband and said, "The Kenshi who changed direction should be the real body."

"That's probably right."

Sarutobi Tenjū nodded, then his eyes flashed. He looked at his wife and said, "Kenshi deliberately landed on the ground to hide. He probably realized your sensing method. He also wanted to confirm if we were still following him."

Sarutobi Ayase continued her husband's words, "After confirming that we were still following him, Kenshi immediately dispelled the shadow clone on the other side, and his real body also immediately changed direction and flew away, preventing us from possibly notifying Sika and the others to intercept him."

Only this explanation could explain why the Kenshi on their side suddenly landed, forcing them to approach, and then immediately flew into the sky. At the same time, the Kenshi on the other side disappeared, and the Kenshi heading towards the Land of Water simultaneously turned north.

It was all Kenshi testing their tracking methods and confirming their location.

"But..." Sarutobi Ayase suddenly frowned and asked in confusion, "How did Kenshi communicate with his shadow clone over such a long distance?"

Shadow clones can only return to the real body and bring back the memories they experienced when they are dispelled.

The shadow clone on their side is still here. How did Kenshi's real body know what was happening here?

Sarutobi Ayase looked at her husband and asked, "Could it be that shadow clones can also communicate telepathically over long distances, like the barrier center communicating with you?"

Sarutobi Tenjū shook his head with a look of wariness. He explained, "Shadow clones don't have that ability. It must be that guy's special ability."

"Father said that Kenshi's Spiritualization Technique has been improved. His soul is much stronger than ordinary people. Maybe that's why he has this ability to communicate with his shadow clone."

"But..." Sarutobi Tenjū paused, then suddenly smiled, "It seems that because of this, Kenshi's soul sensing range is very small, or maybe he doesn't have any at all."

Initially, he was tracking Kenshi openly. He hadn't thought that he could deceive Kenshi, who had soul sensing abilities.

Because ninjas who knew the Spiritualization Technique had a very wide soul sensing range.

But after several encounters, he suddenly discovered that whether it was the shadow clone or the real body, Kenshi's sensing range seemed to be at most four or five kilometers. Beyond that distance, he couldn't sense anything.

Sarutobi Tenjū didn't know the exact reason.

But it was also thanks to Kenshi's small soul sensing range that they wouldn't have been able to secretly track him otherwise.

"Then should we..." Sarutobi Ayase asked, "Continue to chase the Kenshi in front?"

At this time, they didn't immediately turn around to chase Kenshi's real body.

Sarutobi Tenjū looked troubled. Combining the information from the barrier center, the Kenshi who turned north was most likely the real body.

But he was sure that shadow clones couldn't communicate with the real body in real time before they disappeared.

And whether Kenshi really had a special ability to communicate with his shadow clones was just speculation.

So, Sarutobi Tenjū wasn't sure whether the Kenshi in front of him was the real body.

If the Kenshi in front of him was the real body, and he had confirmed that his real body was the one being tracked.

Then, he deliberately made one shadow clone disappear.

And the other shadow clone just changed direction based on his judgment, to mislead their judgment.

Making them think that the shadow clone in the other direction was the real body, abandoning the real body here and turning back to chase the shadow clone heading north.

This way, the real body here could easily escape their pursuit.

This possibility wasn't impossible.

Thinking about all of this, Sarutobi Tenjū felt a headache. In the end, he cursed under his breath, "Damn shadow clones."

"Let's go chase the Kenshi in the north."

Just as Sarutobi Tenjū was hesitating, his wife, Sarutobi Ayase, suddenly said with confidence, "Kenshi initially escaped towards the north. Now, his real body will subconsciously follow his initial choice. I think the Kenshi heading north is the real body. The one we're following in the opposite direction, south, is definitely a shadow clone."

Sarutobi Tenjū thought for a moment and then agreed with his wife.

People do tend to subconsciously choose their previous choices.

The Kenshi heading north was most likely the real body.

"Okay, let's chase the Kenshi in the north." Sarutobi Tenjū said.

But before they chased the Kenshi in the north, they had to mislead the one here.

The couple deliberately controlled the ink bird's flight speed slowly until they returned to the original distance of seven kilometers, making sure that they were out of Kenshi's sight.

Then, the couple flew behind Kenshi for a few minutes.

Kenshi, who couldn't see Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife in front of him, didn't worry. He thought that they were still following him, so he continued flying in the sky.

Now, seeing that Kenshi didn't descend again to confirm their presence, Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife were even more certain that the one here was a shadow clone.

After another three minutes, seeing that Kenshi still didn't show any signs of descending, Sarutobi Ayase immediately controlled the ink bird to change direction and fly north.

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