Chapter 1 The Soul-stealing Boy

It was the coldest time of winter and everything was silent. There was almost no one to be seen in the entire Konoha Village except the ninjas on duty.

In the forest outside Konoha, the white snow almost covered all traces. The cold wind blew through the forest, and the snowflakes on the treetops swayed and fell to the ground, forming tiny snowdrifts.

"It's really cold here... But it doesn't matter. If it were really summer, I wouldn't dare to enter this forest of death!"

A boy of about twelve or thirteen, dressed in white, moved in the jungle like a ghost.

The Death Forest serves as Konoha's training ground. Not only does it contain many ferocious wild beasts captured by ninjas, but there are also many surveillance devices installed in the entire forest. Even though there are no activities such as the Chunin Exams taking place now and most of the cameras are turned off, they are not necessarily completely undetectable.

However, when it snows heavily in winter, there is no need to worry about this problem, as the snowflakes will automatically cover all cameras.

Although there weren't many things that the boy needed to avoid in his training, he had no doubt about the ninjas' ability to see the big picture from small details. In order to avoid being scrupled by others in the future and to keep his trump card, he chose to act directly in winter.

"Roar!!"

With a loud roar and a shaking earth, a giant bear three meters tall crawled out of the tree hole, only on all fours.

These gigantic animals are all infused with chakra. They are ferocious beasts between ninja beasts and ordinary animals. They do not have the human-like wisdom and chakra application skills of ninja beasts, but they can use chakra to strengthen their bodies in a rough way. At the same time, their own combat power is far beyond that of ordinary wild beasts.

Especially large and ferocious wild beasts such as lions, tigers, bears and pigs, which have strong combat capabilities. After being strengthened by chakra, they are even more ferocious. In the era of cold weapons without supernatural elements, the giant bear in front of him could destroy several villages and even some small towns by himself.

"Good fellow, it is worthy of being a beast in the Naruto world. It has not completely fallen into hibernation?"

The boy had an interested expression on his face as he glanced up at the beast in front of him and casually pulled a kunai from his pocket.

As if sensing the threat from the young man, the giant bear in front of him roared twice and stood up directly from the snow.

When it was on all fours, the giant bear was already nearly three meters tall. When this huge beast stood up, it was six or seven meters tall, nearly the height of a three-story building.

Facing such a huge beast, ordinary people would have almost no chance of winning without using hot weapons. But the young man in front of him did not feel nervous at all. Instead, he raised his head and looked directly at the giant bear in front of him.

In an instant, the boy's eyes turned blood red, and a tiny magatama appeared in his eyes. The huge giant bear looked into the boy's eyes, and suddenly its body trembled, and the whole giant bear became a little dazed.

Just when the giant bear was distracted, the boy threw the kunai in his hand without hesitation. It pierced the giant bear's throat with a "swish" sound and directly cut the giant bear's trachea.

"Roar..."

Amid the intense pain, the giant bear quickly came to its senses, let out a strange roar as if its trachea had ruptured, and suddenly pounced on the young man in front of it.

However, the young man now no longer had any intention of fighting the giant bear. A ruptured trachea was a serious injury that would undoubtedly lead to the giant bear's death. However, with the vitality of this ferocious beast, it could retain its full combat effectiveness for at least a few minutes. He did not want to engage in hand-to-hand combat with this dying beast.

In terms of pure strength and physique alone, the average Chunin is probably no match for this ferocious beast, not to mention that this giant bear is seriously injured and is even more ferocious after its last burst of strength. As a ninja, this kind of meaningless battle is naturally avoided if possible.

With a flash of his figure, with the help of chakra, the boy jumped onto a big tree in an instant, watching the giant bear madly hitting the tree and swaying on the tree. Just when it fell down, he jumped directly to another big tree.

After sneaking away like this for a few minutes, the huge bear fell to the ground with a thud. Its breathing sound like a bellows gradually became weaker and finally disappeared completely.

The boy standing on the tree waited for a moment. When he saw the giant bear finally died, a smile appeared on his face and he stretched out his hand:

"Come here!"

As the young man finished speaking, a little light invisible to the naked eye appeared on the entire giant bear's body, and finally condensed into a ball of light that only the young man could see, and with a whoosh, it flew into his hands.

The ball of light was not big, about the size of a ball. Inside the ball of light, the head of the giant bear that had been killed was revealed, twisting its mouth and roaring.

Looking at the ball of light in front of him, the young man patted his chest and narrowed his eyes slightly. He felt the roaring soul in his body and the power that the soul brought to him, and sighed helplessly.

"There is no improvement at all. It just increased my strength and physique a little bit, and increased my chakra a little bit..."

"The quality of this spirit is too low. It is almost useless except as a consumable for increasing chakra!"

As he spoke, the young man pulled out the giant bear's soul ball again, took a look at it, and then bit it directly!
The soul ball of light trembled, emitting chaotic mental fluctuations, like a shrill scream, but the boy ignored it and swallowed the entire soul ball of light in just a few bites. A warm feeling emanated from his abdomen. The boy clenched his fists and felt that the chakra in his body had increased a little bit.

"The loss of the Soul Subduing Technique is really huge. The chakra in that giant bear's body is no weaker than mine, but the chakra gained is less than a few hundredths of mine!"

"If this continues, I don't know when the chakra can turn into chatonla!"

In addition to increasing the chakra in the boy's body, the giant bear soul that was swallowed by the boy also left a trace of hatred and resentment entangled in the boy's mind. However, as the magatama in the boy's eyes rotated, the external hatred and resentment were quickly dissipated and instead became the basis for the growth of the Sharingan's power.

However, the beast's resentment and hatred were obviously not very high in both quantity and quality. This little bit of cold emotional fluctuation was not completely useless to the boy's Sharingan, but it was also a drop in the bucket.

It was precisely because of the repeated use of the spirit-subduing method that the resentment entangled in the boy's body exceeded a certain range, which allowed him to directly open the One-Magatama Sharingan. Obviously, more resentment is needed to advance the Sharingan.

After dealing with the giant bear's soul, the boy looked at the huge corpse under his feet again. After thinking for a moment, he was about to cut off the two huge bear paws. At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind him:
"Uchiha Feiyu, you came to the Death Forest to poach again!"

The young man named Uchiha Feiyu turned his head and saw a child with white hair, about eight or nine years old, standing on a tree, looking at him speechlessly.

"These animals in the Death Forest were all captured by other ninjas with great effort! Some were used for ninja training, and some were even used to cultivate ninja beasts and ninja insects! They are not for you to kill randomly here for fun!"

Uchiha Feiyu rolled his eyes and snorted:
"The only person you can't say this to me is Hatake Kakashi... The damage you caused in the Forest of Death is no less than mine!"

Kakashi shrugged and didn't answer. In fact, he didn't care about this because he often trained in the Death Forest. He just found an excuse to blame the other party. Jumping down from the tree, Kakashi glanced at the giant bear lying on the ground:
"Even if an ordinary Genin team were to deal with this thing, it would probably be difficult! Feiyu, you killed it by yourself. In terms of strength, you are probably no worse than a Chunin!"

"I really don't understand. With such strength, why are you still studying in the Ninja School? Why don't you graduate earlier and become a formal ninja?"

Uchiha Feiyu rolled his eyes and said unhappily:

"Don't even mention graduating from the Ninja School. I don't even want to be a ninja. After all, I was forced to come here, okay?"

"I was living a good life, but because I awakened my Sharingan, I was dragged here and forced to join the Uchiha clan. I also had to go to a ninja school and become a ninja!"

"My goal is to do less and get more, to gain without working, not to go to the battlefield and kill people and burn things!"

Kakashi was suddenly speechless. The guy in front of him didn't have any ninja thinking at all. Instead, he was just like an ordinary villager.

The three views are different. In this case, what you say will naturally be like talking to a deaf person.

Thinking of this, Kakashi sighed helplessly:
"I really can't understand... Why do you have such a good talent? Logically speaking, none of your ancestors have awakened the Sharingan. In addition, you only have 1/4 Uchiha bloodline, so it is almost impossible for you to awaken the Sharingan..."

Uchiha Feiyu touched his eye sockets and suddenly recalled the scene when he had just awakened the Sharingan.

When he first traveled to Konoha, he also activated his golden finger - in his mind, there was a black book called The Complete Inheritance of Demonic Path.

Although it is called the Complete Collection of Demonic Inheritance, in fact Uchiha Feiyu only obtained the ability of the Eight Great Techniques of Bringing Spirits and Sent Generals from the World Under One Person.

The ability of this unique skill is to control the souls of others, and even directly devour souls to increase power. Therefore, even though it is called the Eight Uncommon Skills, it does not seem out of place when it appears in the inheritance of magic.

Feiyu relied on the Soul Binding Technique to devour a lot of animal souls, and unknowingly awakened a pair of single-magatama Sharingan.

But there was no mirror at the time, so he didn't see the changes in his eyes and had no idea what was happening.

Due to his lack of preparation and concealment, the information about his awakening of the Sharingan leaked out, and he was eventually pulled into the Uchiha clan.

After all, he was not a member of the Uchiha clan at the beginning, and he didn't know that his grandfather had Uchiha blood. So when he felt changes in his eyes, he didn't even think about the Sharingan.

As a result, he, a commoner, became famous in the Konoha Village. The Uchiha clan captured him and brought him back to their territory without saying a word, and gave him the name Uchiha.

In fact, although most of Konoha's bloodline families marry within the family, some members who are not ninjas also marry outside the family. However, once they awaken their bloodline limit, they must return to their bloodline family.

Of course, such precedents are actually extremely rare. Those who would have intermarried with their clan members were those with thin bloodlines, weak strength, or even not members of the ninja clan at all. After another generation, their bloodline would have declined even more.

Someone like Uchiha Feiyu who only had 1/4 of the blood left but was still able to awaken is a rare talent in the entire Uchiha clan that is rare in a century. Of course, he must be brought back to the family.

However, what Feiyu, who joined the Uchiha, thinks is completely unimportant.

"I can't do anything... Who made Bloodstain awaken like this? Otherwise, I wouldn't have to train my courage in this forest of death!"

"Training courage? The result for most ninja school students who enter the Death Forest is probably not to train courage, but to die here directly!"

"If you want to train secretly here, then do it secretly! Why make up such an excuse?"

Kakashi Hatake sneered at Uchiha Feiyu's words.

Although this weird Uchiha's values ​​are incompatible with those of ninjas, and is essentially even less suitable to be a ninja than Might Guy's rare beast, in terms of strength, Uchiha Feiyu is not inferior at all.

The so-called training of courage is just an excuse. You have to know that when I first joined the Ninja School, the only person I couldn't beat was the young man in front of me!
Of course, although the two joined the Ninja School at almost the same time, there was a huge age difference between them. Feiyu had no intention of becoming a ninja at first. It was only after he awakened the Sharingan that he had to join the Uchiha and become a student of the Ninja School.

Therefore, among the many students who entered the Ninja School early, this old student who joined the Ninja School at the age of ten can be said to be an oddity.

Therefore, no matter whether it was the teachers or students in the ninja school at that time, they did not think that the fight between Kakashi and Uchiha Feiyu was a stain. After all, Kakashi was only five years old at that time, and Uchiha Feiyu was already ten years old.

But Kakashi, who often sparred with Uchiha Feiyu in the Ninja School, knew very well that Uchiha Feiyu might be much older than him, but he had been training under the guidance of his father for two years, while the other party had basically no basic knowledge. The gap in conditions between the two was not as big as imagined.

Uchiha Feiyu is a genius who is in no way inferior to himself!
In Kakashi's eyes, Uchiha Feiyu's various bad performances were just a disguise. He who often went in and out of the Forest of Death was obviously a roll king just like himself now!
"Yes, yes, yes, good, good!"

Uchiha Feiyu said a few perfunctory words with some helplessness, which successfully made a vein pop on Kakashi's head.

"You...if you really want to train, why waste the animals in the Death Forest! Why not let me be your opponent!"

Uchiha Feiyu showed a somewhat troublesome expression on his face:
"By the way, Kakashi, is this all you wanted to say?"

"Of course... I've been wanting to spar with you again for a long time! I'm much stronger now than when I was in Ninja School!"

"I've heard that you're very famous now. You're the youngest Genin since the establishment of the ninja village, and also the youngest Chunin... Do you have the nerve to fight with me, a student of the ninja school?"

Kakashi was speechless after hearing this. In fact, he often met Feiyu after graduation, but whenever he had any ideas of challenging him, the other party would simply avoid the question and simply was unwilling to fight him.

However, Feiyu's tone changed at this time:
"However, if you are willing to introduce me to your father, I don't mind fighting with you for a few rounds!"

(End of this chapter)