"U-Um, Kakashi-sensei. What do you think is more important, intelligence or wisdom?"

My sensei stopped what he was doing, looking at me. Sasuke and Naruto did the same, their looks being more confused than searching. A while ago, Sasuke looking at me like that would've flustered me, excited me, but now…

Kakashi looked me up and down, before replying "Both are important. Intelligence gives you more options, however wisdom gives you the ability to choose the options… well, wisely. Ideally, you would have both. Which one is more important is up to you."

"Well, from that description… it sounds like wisdom's better. There's no point having power if you don't know how to use it."

"That's a good point, Sakura."

"Yeah, you're so smart, Sakura-chan!"

I nodded distractedly at Naruto's praise. That discussion had made me decide how to grow, at least at first.

The Last Uchiha
LV 17
Sasuke Uchiha

Number One Hyperactive, Knucklehead Ninja
LV 12
Naruto Uzumaki

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LV ?
Kakashi Hakate

After all, I had a lot of catching up to do.

Name: Sakura Haruno
Class: The Gamer
Level: LV 6
HP: 100/100
MP: 50/50
STR: 10
VIT: 5
DEX: 10
INT: 25
WIS: 10
LUK: 10
Points: 25

After training, I went straight home, and dumped all of my unspent points straight into Wisdom. I wasn't sure if anyone else could see the little blue windows with all this statistical information, but I'd prefer not to check and end up being caught. My MP went up, as soon as I did so, and I wrote myself a mental note, saying that my MP – which I assumed was my chakra capacity – was directly linked to WIS. After that, I went and checked what skills I had. They were… dismal, to say the least.

Substitution Technique (Active) LV1 EXP: 93.67%
A technique granted to shinobi long ago, after they won the favour of the Log. Or maybe it was just created, like any other technique.
Replaces user with another object. MP used depends on user's INT, distance from object, and size of object compared with the user's size.

Clone Technique (Active) LV1 EXP: 68.80%
A technique that creates an illusionary clone, that is only useful for diversionary tactics.
Creates a clone of the user (Illusionary). MP used depends on user's INT.

Transformation Technique (Active) LV2 EXP: 32.96%
A technique that casts an illusion over the user, changing their appearance to whatever they desire.
Casts an illusionary veil over the user, transforming them. Can be dispelled by a touch. MP continuously used as long as the technique is active.

There was also another skill, called 'Observe'. It allowed me to, well, observe things. I thought that it was already quite useful, as it gave quite a bit of information, and would only become better as it levelled up. So, I took it upon myself to make sure that I used it as much as possible, to level it up as quickly as I could.

After all of that, I started cleaning my room. And stared, as something unexpected happened.

A skill has been created through a special action! By continuously cleaning, the skill 'Cleaning' has been created!

My jaw dropped. "I can make skills by just doing things like that?" I immediately began thinking. The definition of skill was broad, but it didn't include everything. After all, I hadn't had any pop-ups about my walking skill. Still, that clearly showed that it was possible to simply find skills by doing things, so if I did things that were ninja related…

I smiled, and left the house again, going back to the training ground.

An hour into slashing a tree with my kunai, I found something different, which was also relatively amazing. My idea had worked, and I had discovered the skills 'Power Strike', 'Kunai Mastery', and 'Shuriken Mastery'. It was a lot easier to train Kunai and Shuriken Mastery as those didn't require MP, so in the time that it took waiting for my MP to recharge so I could train Power Strike to level 4, I had raised both to level 7. However, I stopped, as another window popped up.

Diligent training has caused your STR to go up by 1!

That changed everything. I was smart enough to realise that, just like a regular person, it would be harder and harder to raise stats through training as they got higher, so points were incredibly precious to me, so I didn't ever plateau. I also thought that I had made the right decision in what to put the points I had used into. After all, how could you 'train' luck and wisdom? All the others had some way you could surely increase them, but luck and wisdom – intelligence too, to a point – were all abstract. You couldn't go through a regimen that was sure to make you luckier.

However, that's besides the point. I knew how I should be training now, and how I could get stronger, how I could catch up.

And I began my road to becoming a real ninja by repeatedly hitting a tree with a half-blunt knife.