Kaida was left alone iraining area. He decided to first master memory impntation and hypnotism before moving on to other tasks.

  All 80 shadow es, including Kaida, began training in hypnotism. During practice, many rats faihough not iionally.

  'Looks like there are many ways to make your enemy faint. The teique brother taught me must be for allies, so they won't suffer any sting injuries to their brain,' Kaida thought as he tinued practig.

  His goal was to achieve something simir to what Shisui did, but the problem was the rats saw him as their nemesis. So, his objective was to make them believe the opposite of what they currently believed.

  Though difficult, this was the most practical training Kaida could do, since a simir sario would likely occur with an enemy.

  …

  Kaida tiraining until midnight, and after seven hours of practice, he finally achieved a single success.

  'That took way lohan I expected. Well, now that I've grasped the basics, the only thi is to practice this repeatedly,' Kaida thought. He dispersed his es, as most of them were low on chakra by now.

  He theed 85 shadow es. Ten out of the 85 tio practice genjutsu, while the rest went off to plete some missions.

  These D-rank missions took time. When Kaida first started doing missions, he chose ohat took the least time. But now that he had to plete 2,000 missions every week—nearly 70 pert of all D-rank missions assigo the Uchiha —he couldn't be picky. He had to plete many time-ing missions.

  Because of this, Kaida had to stantly use at least 50 shadow es for three days straight to meet the 2,000-mission quota.

  On the positive side, since his shadow es used a myriad of jutsu to plete these missions as fast as possible, Kaida's ninjutsu proficy improved along with his tribution points.

  It was like hitting two birds with oone.

  Seeing all of his es busy with their tasks, Kaida decided to use the fire room until 4 AM, knowing he had a kenjutsu practice session with Shisui afterward.

  …

  (At 4 AM)

  Both Kaida and Shisui arrived at the training area at the same time.

  "Good m, brother," Kaida greeted.

  "Good m, Kaida. How's your training going?" Shisui asked.

  "I've grasped the basics of what you taught me yesterday, though the success rate of memory impntation is only 10 pert for now. I'm training to improve that," Kaida replied.

  "Great. Now, are you ready for some kenjutsu practice?" Shisui asked, drawing his sword.

  "Absolutely," Kaida said, drawing his own sword.

  "First, I want you to work on your offense, as that's the weaker part of your kenjutsu," Shisui said.

  "Yes, brother," Kaida replied.

  "Okay, now try to follow me as best you ," Shisui said.

  Kaida nodded and began copying the moves Shisui demonstrated. After pleting all the stances, Shisui asked, "Were you able to find the differeween this and the basic stances you've learned?"

  "Yes, brother. What you just showed me is much more plex and harder to predict," Kaida answered.

  "Correct. This is the Uchiha way of fighting otlefield. With our Sharingan, redict everything that's going to happen, while we bee an uable variable. For us, the battlefield is a stage where everyone moves acc to our instru. An experienced Uchiha trol the battlefield like no one else," Shisui expined.

  Kaida nodded, having experiehe power of the Sharingan and uanding that what Shisui said was pletely possible.

  "Now, your task is to use the various stances you've just learned in a spar," Shisui said, pointing his sword at Kaida.

  "We're going to spar already?" Kaida asked.

  "Yes, there's er way to learn than through practice. Don't worry, I'll only be defending," Shisui reassured him.

  "Okay, brother," Kaida said. He then began using the new, plex stances against Shisui. Since he had only seen them once, Kaida couldn't use them perfectly, but Shisui hadn't expected him to.

  After practig until 6:30 AM, Kaida anting in a er.

  "You monstrous brat, at this rate, you'll master this in just a month," Shisui said.

  "It's all thanks to you, brother," Kaida replied.

  "Maybe I'm a genius at teag too," Shisui said with a smug expression.

  Kaida just shook his head.

  "Now, let's head back before we find out just how dangerous Mom be," Shisui joked.

  Kaida nodded, and both returned home. After eating breakfast, Kaida created a new batch of shadow es ao the hospital.

  He treated patients until 4 PM, theuro the training area to practice the new kenjutsu stances with five shadow es. He practiced for hours, stopping only at 11 PM before heading to the fire room. At 4 AM, he returo the training area, just in time to meet Shisui.

  "Brother, I think I'm getting addicted to this fire room," Kaida said when he saw Shisui waiting for him.

  "Yeah, feeling your elemental chakra affinity grow is pretty great, but sadly, that feeling fades after a while," Shisui replied.

  "Right," Kaida said with a hint of sadness.

  "Leave that aside. Are you ready to learn something new?" Shisui asked.

  "Yes, brother," Kaida answered.

  "Since we worked on offense yesterday, today I'm going to teach you about defense," Shisui said. Seeing Kaida nod, he tinued, "Your defense is already really good, but it's not effit. You're using way too much power to block attacks. What I'm going to teach you is not to block, but to ge the dire of the attack. Since you see the muscle movements of your enemy, you guess which dire they're putting most of their power intht?" Shisui asked.

  "Yes, brother," Kaida replied.

  "Once you see that, all you o do is apply a small amount of force at the right time to deflect the attack away from you. This will also give you an opening."

  "How will I know where and when to apply the force?" Kaida asked.

  "Simple. Keep practig. With time and experience, you'll learn those things naturally," Shisui said, pointing his sword at Kaida. "Are you ready?"

  "Yes, brother."

  This time, it was Kaida's turn to defend. Since he was trying something new, he took a lot of hits, but he kept improving, slowly figuring out the timing and spots to apply force.

  Even after two hours of training, Kaida saw little improvement. Seeing his dejected expression, Shisui said, "Do you know why you're not making rapid progress like you usually do?"

  "No, brother," Kaida replied.

  "That's because your defense is already very good. It's bee part of your muscle memory, and now you're trying to do the opposite, so it'll take time. Don't worry, you'll improve with time. From today onward, we'll spar every m. I'm sure that'll help," Shisui said.

  "Okay, brother," Kaida replied.