This guy, despite being full of hatred and a bit cold, is actually quite well-behaved.
In fact, sidering everything he went through, losing his childhood liveliness is pletely normal. The fact that he’s still a retively stable and normal teenager shows how resilient his personality is.
Link chuckled to himself before tinuing softly, “I’m Link. Why do you want to challenge me?”
“Because… you’re strong,” Uchiha Sasuke replied, his expression serious.
“So that’s all it takes to accept your challenge?” Link asked.
Sasuke fell silent.
Other than being ed by hatred and unwilling to express his true feelings, he was surprisingly normal. Acc to the manga, when he first fought Naruto at the Valley of the End, Sasuke had admitted that he once wao share a peaceful future with his rades.
In the end, he wasn’t as obsessed with vengeance as it seemed. With time and the support of his rades, his heart was still human, capable of healing. It was only after witnessing Naruto’s rapid growth and being thrown into arauma loop by his older brother Itachi that Sasuke spiraled iremism.
Challenging Link was just a momentary impulse. When faced with Link’s probing question, Sasuke didn’t want to for answer, so he froze.
"ging the future starts here…" Link thought as he looked into Sasuke's eyes.
“Do you want to defeat me to prove you're stronger, or is it that… you want to bee stronger yourself?”
“...”
When Sasuke didn’t respond, Link added, “If you ’t ahat yet, why don’t you start by defeating Iris, who has been trained by me?”
Sasuke said nothing, turning on his heel and walking away.
"I hope he doesn’t take it too hard…"
Link smirked slightly. Iris and Ami were now much strohan they used to be. Thanks to Delicate Illness Extra, bined with a morous physical training regimen, their physical abilities were on par with Rock Lee’s natural state.
Though their taijutsu wasn’t as refined, and they couldn’t open the Eight Gates, their raw physical strength alone would be enough to overwhelm someone like Sasuke at this stage.
"To lose to a former cssmate who used to be so much weaker… I wonder ath you’ll choose, Sasuke?"
Link mused, intrigued by the possibilities. If he was going to deal with Orochimaru, there was o hand Sasuke over to him.
Even if Orochimaru survived the Konoha Crush pn, Link inteo make his life miserable.
As for whether Sasuke would grow more slowly without Orochimaru… Tsunade had noted in the manga that Sasuke’s abnormal growth might be due to forbidden jutsu s during his training.
But what forbidden jutsu s could pare to the bes of Delicate Illness Extra?
As for learning and developing jutsu, Link didn’t think someoh access to Kakashi Hatake, who had mastered a thousand teiques, or the Third Hokage, who was a master of all five elements, would be at a disadvantage pared to Orochimaru.
"If I’m going to rewrite the story, then it should follow my script."
Link ched his hand into a fist, a pleased smile spreading across his face.
…
“Poof!” White smoke erupted.
Sexy Jutsu training had failed—but also succeeded.
Sitting cross-legged on a rock, Link frowned in thought.
He had just learned Sexy Jutsu from Naruto. It was essentially a transformation teique using the same seals and chakra flow, bined with the idea of turning into a naked woman.
The failure was that the chakra didn’t transform into a mutated jutsu. The success was that…
It didn’t turn intur transformatioher. Instead, it released smoke.
This suggested that Sexy Jutsu otential jutsu that could be trained further. It also meant that the criteria for jutsu mutation were strahan he had thought.
The same seals and chakra flow were being identified as a pletely different teique.
In other words, for his ability, the seals and chakra flow didn’t matter. What mattered was belief—believing it was a eique, believing he could master and use it. That belief then geed a mutation based on the name.
It sounded simple, but it was actually difficult to execute. It was hard to deceive oneself.
Especially for Link, whose ability operated like a bck box: he only khe input and output but not the underlying principles. This made actively creating new mutatioremely challenging.
Oh, and as for why Sexy Jutsu failed?
The reason was simple—he couldn’t transform into a perfectly proportioned, beautiful woman like Naruto could. He simply didn’t have the detailed uanding of female anatomy required, just like how a edical knowledge had once barred him from using mediinjutsu.
"Well, I’ll revisit this when I have time."
“Boss, you really gave me trouble this time!”
Iris approached, looking a little worse for wear. His hair was slightly singed, and part of his right sleeve was missing.
“Don’t tell me you lost,” Link said casually.
If Iris, after all this training, still lost to Sasuke—who only knew a bit of Fire Release and hadn’t yet mastered his Sharingan—Link would be very disappointed.
His gaze grew a little colder.
Iris shuddered, feeling a sudden chill. He quickly grinned and said, “That guy’s a genius for a reason! Even with a weaker body, he mao fight me for so long. And his Fire Release… uh…”
“Ahem!” Ami, returning from her own training, gave a warning cough.
“…is so much better than miruly worthy of the Uchiha ’s specialty,” Iris amended hastily, his survival instincts kig in. “But I won in the end.”
Link withdrew his gaze and stood. “Good job. Rest up, the’s resume training.”
If the twoing to pete in this year’s in Exams, they o grow even strohis time, it wasn’t just an ordinary exam; they’d be up against Sunagakure’s scheming team, Otogakure’s elites, and several other talented didates from Konoha.
It wouldn’t be easy to pass this year’s exam.
After a few rounds of taijutsu practice, Iris and Ami colpsed, exhausted. Link, however, began his own ninjutsu training.
“Summoning random people with the Summoning Teique really isn’t effit…”
Months of practice had yielded little progress. Other than the initial appearance of Nawaki, he hadn’t summoned any more Konoha ninja. It felt pletely random.
Clearly, he o find a medium to ect with the dead.
"If it’s the First Hokage… perhaps Tsunade’s neckce could serve as a link…"
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