Naruto: The Strongest Training System

Chapter 49: Grilled Fish

After catching the fish, he took them to the shade of a large tree. It was high noon, and the sunlight was extremely harsh.

After preparing the fish, he needed some wood to grill the six of them.

Finding wood in this place wasn't too difficult. Since this was the outskirts of the Konoha ninja village, there were many large trees growing, so if he wanted wood, he just needed to pick up a few branches from the ground. If there were none on the ground, he just needed to climb a large tree and break off a few.

Orion looked into the distance and thought, "It seems I won't need to climb a tree to break off branches. As far as the eye can see, there are many small branches that have fallen on the ground."

He picked up the fallen branches and returned to the base of the large tree from before. Because this tree was much larger than the others, he estimated its height would not be less than twenty meters.

A tree like this also had a considerable area of shade. Sitting under this tree was exceptionally cool. From time to time, a gentle breeze would blow by. It would certainly be very comfortable to sleep here.

Orion set up a rack in front of him, skewered the fish he had caught with branches, and placed the six fish-skewered branches on the rack.

Now, basically all the preparatory work was more or less complete. All that was left was to start a fire.

Because at this time, Orion had not yet learned any fire-style ninjutsu, he could only circulate his own fire-nature chakra and apply that active fire-nature chakra to the branches he had just collected.

"Sizzle! Sizzle!"

Soon, the pile of branches on the rack began to burn. Although Orion hadn't learned any fire-style ninjutsu, he did have fire-nature chakra. The temperature of fire-nature chakra was not as high as that of a fire-style jutsu, but it was still capable of making branches burn.

Orion gradually increased the circulation of his fire-nature chakra. Due to the increase in fire-nature chakra, the branches gradually burned more and more vigorously, and the temperature also gradually continued to rise.

After a while, a gentle breeze blew past my face.

"Mm, smells so good."

The fish on the rack had now turned golden-brown, and the aroma belonging to the fish was also being emitted.

After smelling this aroma, my stomach became even hungrier, and the saliva in my mouth also increased. But from the looks of it, it still needed to be grilled for a little longer; it didn't seem to be fully cooked yet.

Ten minutes later, in Orion's opinion, these six fish were already more or less fully cooked. Even if they weren't, he wasn't going to continue grilling them. The aroma of the fish kept wafting towards his nose; it was simply too fragrant, making him incredibly greedy.

But before eating, the first thing Orion had to do was to put out the fire. Otherwise, what if the other fish got burnt while he was eating one?

"Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!"

That pile of fire was kicked out by Orion with a few stomps. After the fire was extinguished, he impatiently picked up the two skewers of grilled fish in front of him and, without hesitation, took a bite of one of them.

"Ah! Hot, so hot!"

Because these two fish were eaten right after Orion had grilled them, they were still a little hot.

But this fish I grilled is quite fragrant! It seems my grilling skills should be pretty good. In the future, I can make something for myself when I'm outside.

"In the original anime, it seems Naruto learned the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique in just one night after stealing the Scroll of Seals. I didn't expect it to be so difficult for me to train. Creating one shadow clone only increases the proficiency by one point."

Orion sat under the shade of that huge tree he had chosen earlier, eating the freshly grilled fish in his hand while lamenting.

If one were to be strictly speaking, the Shadow Clone Technique was not a very difficult ninjutsu. Generally, as long as a ninja reached the Jonin level, they could learn this technique.

Even the dead-last Naruto Uzumaki, who had a huge headache with the Clone Jutsu in the original work, could learn the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique in one night. For Orion to now take nearly an hour to successfully create a usable shadow clone, the progress probably wasn't too slow.

At the very least, he was now able to successfully create one shadow clone. As for the reason why he couldn't create multiple shadow clones, he guessed it was because he wasn't yet proficient in using the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, and also probably because his total amount of chakra was not yet enough.

"Ah, finally finished eating. I'm so full, so full."

After eating six fish, Orion rubbed his slightly bulging stomach. He had just finished eating, so it was better not to do any overly strenuous exercise. He would just do some simple physical training under the shade of this tree, which could also be considered a post-meal exercise.

After eating the six fish, Orion cleaned up the pile of scraps in front of him. After cleaning up, he prepared to start his physical training.

"I'll start with push-ups under the shade."

"One, two, three..."

Ever since coming to this world, Orion had always felt a sense of pressure. Perhaps it was because his strength in this world was very low, or perhaps it was because of the Nine-Tails disaster two years from now. In short, for whatever reason, there was always a sense of pressure.

Furthermore, Orion discovered that there were actually many places in this world that were very different from the anime he had watched in his past life. In the anime, the author always drew the sunny side of things and infinitely magnified it.

But after truly living in this world, Orion discovered that this was not the sunny Naruto world from the anime. In this world, there was still a lot of darkness, and many crises were lurking. If he didn't hurry up and improve his strength, he estimated that even surviving in this cruel world would be a little difficult.

Just like the Nine-Tails disaster two years later. At that time, Orion would only be six years old, having only been in this world for five years. He would just be a child, with no power at all to stop the arrival of the Nine-Tails, nor any way to save his parents.

What should Orion do at that time? After the Nine-Tails disaster, both his parents would die. What should he do then?

During the Nine-Tails disaster, his only younger brother, Naruto Uzumaki, would also be born and become the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails. How would the orphaned Naruto live? Would he still be taken care of by the Third Hokage? The current Orion could fully imagine what the scene would be like at that time.

But these were not things Orion should be thinking about now. The most important thing to do now was to improve his strength as quickly as possible. Only after his own strength had improved would he have the ability to protect his relatives. Although it was possible that his strength wouldn't improve to that level in two years, he still had to work hard.

No matter what, what Orion desired most now was to improve his strength. Even if his parents were really to die during the Nine-Tails disaster, he still had to improve his strength, to let Naruto live a happier life than in the original work, and to be able to protect the people he cared about. That would be enough.

(End of this chapter)