Starts In Konoha: Unlocking Shadow Clone

"I've decided… I'll sign the contract!"

Sasuke declared firmly.

Naruto tried his best to hold his laughter upon seeing the fearless expression on Sasuke's face, 'It was just a contract, but you made to sound like someone was going to die.'

"Alright, since you've made up your mind, let's have another spar." Naruto said nonchalantly.

Hearing this, Sasuke looked confused, "Why do we need to fight again?"

"My contract has a condition. Either you willingly submit to me and admitted defeat with full sincerity, or… I defeat you myself. I doubt you'd go with the first option, right?"

"Of course not. Let's fight!"

Sasuke nodded, then walked towards the Hokage Rock again. After a few steps, he noticed Naruto wasn't moving and asked in doubts, "What's wrong now?"

Naruto grinned mischievously, "I think there's no need to go all the way up there. Here is good enough. The faster we're done, the sooner I can go home and sleep."

"Here? Are you expecting me to go easy on you?" Sasuke frowned slightly.

"You'll find out soon enough!"

A playful smirk spread across Naruto's face, and at the next moment, his figure suddenly disappeared, and when he appeared again, he was already behind Sasuke.

After their fight earlier that day, Sasuke had roughly grasped Naruto's fighting style. Whenever Naruto vanished, he'd always reappear behind him.

So, without hesitation, Sasuke hurled a shuriken backward and dashed forward to distance himself from Naruto behind him.

However, just as he steadied himself, before he even took a fighting stance, Naruto appeared right in front of him, holding the shuriken!

"How could you be so fast?" Sasuke looked incredulous.

Naruto did not say anything. Instead, he tapped into the Kyubi's Chakra, and his eyes transformed, becoming ominous red slits.

A wave of oppressive aura enveloped Sasuke, and the cold and violent Chakra mercilessly pierced into Sasuke's body.

At the next moment, Sasuke couldn't move at all, and he could only stare at Naruto in horror.

In his mind, he saw a massive, fiery red beast savagely tearing him apart. The sight was horrifyingly vivid, and the beast's crimson eyes matched Naruto's slitted ones.

"I... I'm going to be killed..."

Sasuke trembled and said, "No, it can't be... This is just a Genjutsu!"

He quickly activated his Sharingan and forcibly disrupted the Chakra in his body, but the terrifying vision still did not disappear. The oppressive aura felt like an invisible hand gripping his throat, and it seemed that he might die at any time.

"If it's not a Genjutsu… how could this happen? Can killing intent alone really do this?" Sasuke looked at Naruto in terror. Suddenly, he dropped to his knees, vomiting up all the ramen he had just eaten.

He'd never thought that fear could control his body to this extent.

But, Naruto is just a boy of the same age as him, so how could he possibly exude such killing intent?

Sasuke couldn't comprehend it, nor could he move. All he could feel was the growing fear in his heart.

Naruto placed the shuriken against Sasuke's neck and said playfully, "So, ready to admit defeat?"

Before he made his move just now, Naruto had thought about Orochimaru's first encounter with Sasuke. At that time, Orochimaru had paralyzed Sasuke with just a single glare, relying on the killing intent he accumulated from killing countless people.

Although Naruto didn't have such killing intent, he had the Kyubi's Chakra. With the sheer brutality of the Kyubi's Chakra, he could emit a chilling aura similar to killing intent.

But even Naruto himself hadn't anticipated that it would work so effectively on the first try, 'It actually scared Sasuke so badly that he threw up. The intimidation factor was off the charts.'

"I... give up!" Sasuke said with difficulty.

As soon as the words left his mouth, the oppressive aura suppressing him completely disappeared. He felt his body relax, and after he collapsed on the ground, he couldn't help but gasped for air. And his back was already drenched with cold sweat.

In this battle, he lost even more miserably. He hadn't even put up a fight, and Naruto's overwhelming presence had completely paralyzed him.

"Good. Now that you've surrendered, we can proceed with the contract."

Naruto pulled out a black leather book adorned with a golden hexagram, which was the Servant Contract. He turned to the second page, and a golden light flashed, enveloping Sasuke entirely.

This time, with the power of Kyubi, Naruto could barely make out the process.

The blinding light was composed of countless complex runes, which gradually shrank and imprinted themselves inside Sasuke's body.

When all the runes disappeared, a golden hexagram, matching the one on the Servant Contract, appeared beneath Sasuke.

As the hexagram stamped itself onto Sasuke's heart, the contract was complete.

[Congratulations to the Host for successfully establishing a Servant Contract with Sasuke!]

Listening to the prompt in his mind, Naruto couldn't help but smile and said, "Alright, from this moment on, you're officially my servant. Feel free to come to me anytime for training. I'll be around. Now that it's late, I'm heading back to get some sleep."

After saying that, he turned and disappeared from Sasuke's sight.

Meanwhile, Sasuke was still weak and couldn't get up after struggling for a long time. Even now, he hadn't fully shaken off the terror of the fiery red beast.

"Just who is Naruto?" Sasuke fell into deep thought. He now understood that Naruto was definitely not an ordinary boy.

But after thinking for a long time, Sasuke still couldn't reach a deeper conclusion.

"Forget it. The stronger Naruto is, the better it will be for my training. As for everything else, there's no need to worry about them." After regaining some strength, Sasuke stumbled back home.

The night passed quietly, and by the next morning, Naruto was up early. He hadn't been particularly tired, as he had taken a long nap the previous afternoon. Plus, he had something on his mind.

After getting dressed and washing up, Naruto made his way to Sakura's house.

As the saying goes, debts should be collected promptly, and waiting too long only leads to complications.

This is the lesson he learned in his previous life.

However, Mebuki's proposal about becoming her son-in-law the previous night had left Naruto somewhat shaken. Standing at the front door, he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

With a slightly nervous heart, he knocked on the door.

Soon, the door opened and Mebuki, dressed in a vibrant red outfit, came out and greeted with a smile, "Naruto, you're here."

Naruto nodded in slight bewilderment, uncertain of what Mebuki had planned this time.

He could only politely ask, "Mrs. Haruno, you're dressed so festively today. Is there a celebration?"

"Of course there is! Come on in." Mebuki replied with a smile and invited Naruto inside.

"Sorry to bother you then."

Naruto responded and followed the other party in, but his eyes were discreetly scanning the surroundings.

There were a lot of red decorations and stickers throughout the house, all of which were brand new and clearly set up recently.

'It looked like the Haruno household really was celebrating something.'

But when he walked into the living room and saw the welcome message posted on the wall, he was stunned for a moment.

"Mrs. Haruno, what… what do you mean by this?"