Naruto: Starting as a Root trainee in a White Room Program( Rewriting)

Now, No.13 was pondering what to do for the next 4 months, In the last 6 months after the date of the tournament was announced, he focused completely on his physical conditioning as not only would it make his chakra-enhanced hits harder, but also increase his stamina and chakra reserves.

He also did some theoretical stuff of Genjutsu and Fuinjutsu, the latter he picked up as well in the last half a year, but it is complicated even for likes of him.

This guy is one who has done some crazy stuff and his level of learning things is ridiculous even in this world, so his saying that it is complicated just makes one ponder how hard the field is if one doesn't have talent.

Now, talking about A ranks, those are the peaks of ninjutsu a ninja can achieve. Obviously, we are not talking about Forbidden Jutsus or S ranks which are given 'Forbidden' Title for a reason. A Jutsu is given an A-rank by taking into account the Difficulty of learning that jutsu along with the amount of chakra it possesses.

There were some ninjutsu there that could even No.13 use with his barely Chunin-level reserves. 

When reaching the A rank section, he skimmed through everything and only two things interested him, One was Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu and the other was a scroll on Mindscape.

Now, learning Former was easy for him as making tens of Copies of projectiles was possible for him with his Chakra reserves, however after 50, his Chakra reserves didn't agree with him on that endeavour.

Moving on, Accessing Mindscape was something, he was looking forward to as it has the potential to rival the infamous Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu in Training efficiency and that without having the unholy amount of Chakra the latter has requirements.

He has already tried Meditation to access it previously but he has failed on multiple occasions, Meditation is not something new to him, he has done various types of it in his previous life.

After reading the scroll he realized that the first step of being calm is the most difficult step, it also involves understanding oneself at a deeper level.

He remembered something about Naruto encountering his dark desires during the time He learned Sage mode... or was it when he fought Kurama?

Either way, it seems that this is not bullshit, but rather has some level of truth in it. Anyway, other methods to access his via Yamanaka's jutsu but then changing one's mindscape will be difficult via that method.

Either way, he did follow that method as he hasn't confronted his mind and some desires in a long while, more like not had a self-introspection of his emotional or mental state for a long time, so it was like killing two ninjas with one kunai.

It took him one month to just do this step but this allowed him to finally enter the mindscape. His mindscape had the background of the room of his previous life. It was completely dark and gloomy, but he was the type of person who preferred Dark mode over Light mode in most of his devices.

He went towards the door and opened it and found that, unlike his previous life, outside were stars, yes it was a setting of space with occasional shooting stars going by it. It was ethereal.

He put his foot out but realized that there was no invisible ground for him to walk upon. So he tried to access his chakra but realized that this was not the real world but inside his mind.

He recalled that using chakra inside the mindscape is neigh-impossible as you would have to replicate the real world into your mindscape, things like copying how chakra interacts in the real world in your mindscape which is not an easy task, if it is doable that is.

So, instead of doing that, he started with the basics of Altering Mindscape he read in that scroll. Now, 95 per cent of ninjas can't access their mindscape and one per cent comes from mostly Yamanakas who also can't change it much due to the level of difficulty of the task. 

On the level of Mindscape, one can say that Yamanakas are more like thieves or lock-pickers who can enter other's mindscapes but changing one's mindscape could be said to be the work of a builder, not a thief.

Anyway, the next 3 months passed with him trying to change subtle things in his mindscape and the progress was not really satisfactory for him.

He realized that the task of just reaching the level he wanted in Mindscape manipulation would take a few years, so he kept that task on the back burner, still giving 30 per cent of his available time.

There is a reason only Yamanakas could do such things and more over higher-ups of that clan.

The only positive thing was that his chakra seemed to increase a bit whenever he did the task of changing his mindscape or more like getting a level of control over it.

At least it was significantly more than what he gains from Physical Conditioning these days.

One of the other pet projects he was doing at this point was researching Shadow clone jutsu, the part where one splits their consciousness. If he can achieve that, then one part can work on his Mindscape manipulation and the other can do things outside the body.

He actually had to go to great lengths to make ninjas monitor him to make them believe that He had given up on what he was doing or more like covering his tracks by taking random scrolls and whatnot. He was able to do his Mindscape manipulation training when he went to sleep, to not give additional information to Higher-ups of this program.

Anyway, the last batch has finally completed their tests and all the people who have qualified are standing, waiting for an instructor to make their appearance. We were given a period of a week as grace period.

On a quick count, No.13 determined that there were around 2000 Kids Present.

"The Second Round will be a Team-Based Battle, It's the same as the first round but this time you have to work with your team. Every team will be given a Plaque, Your Goal is to get the Plaque of a target team you will be given in the beginning. Not only would you have to survive till the exam ends, but it will also take place for 7 days straight. Your teammates would be the surviving members of your group from round 1. We will start with the exams first thing in the dawn tomorrow, so prepare accordingly."

'He never said that our team-mates need to be alive at the end of the exam, not only that, each team will have a different number of group members, also not considering that most of them would be hostile with each other. I wonder if there are any teams like ours with only 3 people. It's a good thing that Ice-guy doesn't know that I was the one who sent so many explosion tags on him' His thoughts were interrupted by somebody suddenly hugging him.

"It seems we are a team Senpai," a voice said that in a low tone directly in his ear. 

No.13 Shivered at that sudden jump, he had to consciously stop himself from taking out his kunai.

"I guess, also why are you now calling me 'Senpai' " He asked turning back and looking at her from above his shoulder.

"Cause you defeated me," She said in a tone which said that was obvious.

'Kids are so weird' That was the only thought No.13 had who rolled his eyes.

"Well, let's find that ice guy and form some type of plan to deal with other teams tomorrow" No.13 said and started looking around to find the black-haired ice boy.

It didn't take long to find him, he was sucking on a popsicle, upon seeing them, he said "You!"

"Yes?"

A lot of expressions could be seen on Ice-Guy's face which soon got replaced by forced calmness.

"I see, you have decided that you can't win without me, so you came for my cooperation, right?" An understanding look and a subtle smug look could be seen on that guy's face.

'How Over-confident' No.13 rolled his eyes.

"Should we just kill him, things would be so much easier than?" The girl beside him said with a look, her eyes Shining. That might have moved the hearts of many adults. It almost moved No.13.

"No," He said and chopped on her head making her lose focus and dispel that cosmetic genjutsu.

"Oh, I don't know how you got so many plaques in the round one, But I don't think you will be able to kill me, but as they say you can dream." He said while running his hand through his hair. 

'This kid really had a narcissistic side' No.13 pondered how to deal with the situation.

But in the next second, there was a kunai at the ice guy's throat from behind.

"Would you fucking shut up? It's not funny, clown" The stealth girl appeared behind him and said that in a low tone with an emotionless voice contrary to how she was when talking to No.13.

Even, No.13 didn't notice when she reached there, let alone the ice guy who audibly gulped, he realized that he would have already died if she wanted to.

'Well, kids are said to have short tempers, No wonder parents don't allow kids to touch things like knives or something in my previous world, I bet its main reason could be that they might actually kill somebody other than the fact that they can harm themselves, lol' No.13 liked the outcome of this as it was convenient.

"Let's have our meeting at a more secluded space" No.13 suggested and the latter two complied.

"So, what's our plan?" She asked

"How about we give a general overview of our abilities so that we will be able to work a bit efficiently, let me start by myself, I am referred to as No.13, My skillset lies in Earth Release, trap making and ambush, I also know a one or two thing about medical ninjutsu but just the basics," No.13 said with a calm look on his face.

"Me, I am next" She raised her hand like an enthusiastic child... which she was, her change in temperament wasn't welcomed by the ice guy as he was still terrified by the earlier display and seeing that her mood could change so easily, she could kill him on a whim.

"Sure, Go ahead"

"My speciality lies in assassination and tracking, I could boast that only one person has survived my serious assassination attempt, I also can do Wind Release Jutsus. You can call me S-chan" This introduction freaked out Ice Guy as he still remembers that she had more than 50 Plaques, 'Wait, did she murder all of them without even them knowing about it' He was now shivering, One won't like their life on a leash of a crazy person.

"It's your turn" He was hooked out of his ponderings, "You can Refer to me as Delta... My speciality lies in my Ice-release Kekkei Genkai" He said while internally resolving himself 'I just have to survive these exams, after that, I will be 20 feet away from her'

"Well, let's talk about our strategy"

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