It had been six months since that fateful day that Harry had literally stumbled upon his new life. He had made large progress in the areas of many of his exercises. He had made progress in his meditation able to let his mind wander without dwelling on any topic. He could now do one hundred consecutive push-ups, two hundred squats, and sit-ups. He could stick leafs on various parts of his body while doing his physical exercises. Now that he was back in school he had less free time to himself, however he was more than determined to not let that hinder him. And though he was restricted in his abilities to take tests and do his homework by the threat of violence should he out preform his cousin Dudley. He still studied ahead of class and spent all his free time in the library studying things that mattered such as geography mathematics history and science though he did allow himself the guilty pleasure of reading a few fictitious novels once and awhile. Every day after school he was allowed some personal free time away from the eyes of his so called family. He used this time wisely slipping away from Dudley and his gang of likeminded fellows. Working on his concealment and stealth to follow them while they searched in vain for him. And when he was certain that Dudley had other plans after school where he would return late he worked on the next stage of his chakra control exercises. The tree climbing exercise. The final control exercise recommended before he could start on his gennin level training including learning the kata for three tiajutsu styles included in the scrolls. The white dragon, black tiger, and drunken fist styles.

Another month would pass that would see Harry who had little time to progress on the tree walking exercise changing up his exercise routines. He had started doing his usual set of push-ups and the like then he would move on to handstand pushups using his chakra almost subconsciously to balance and to strengthen his muscles. One legged squat jumps. And a variation of sit-ups. With his stealth training he would run from the Dudley gang. Quickly hide when they tired out follow them for a while before letting them catch site of him again. This had the added bonus of pissing his chubby cousin off. He had been given even more chores as he now could finish them much quicker not that he minded much as he didn't have the privacy to train while he was home unless he was locked away.

"Finally got it." Harry panted out looking up at the clouds from his back in front of a large tree he had just conquered. He had just managed to complete all recommendations for the tree walk exercise. Which was to spend and hour stuck to the surface doing various stretches and exercises. It was heavily chakra intensive he would guess he had used close to half of his total reserves. He had a wide smile on his face now the first of the gennin level scrolls would be his for the learning. He thought about the tiajutsu styles and how he wished he had a trainer so that he could see when and where he made mistakes because no matter how talented he may be learning the proper stances without someone to watch him would be difficult. As he completed that thought he felt the seal on his palm drain a small amount of chakra he sat up and grabbed a new scroll as it pooped into existence. 'Shadow clone Jutsu' it was titled. He unrolled the scroll and read it over. 'This technique creates copies of the user. However, these clones are corporeal instead of illusions. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after hit by a strong enough force. The clones can also disperse on their own or be dispelled by the user of the technique. Shadow clones can't be distinguished from the original.

A characteristic that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are dispersed. This makes the technique ideal for spying, since the user can simply send a clone to spy on a target, then have the clone disperse itself without returning, to pass the information back to the user. Similarly, because they are clones of the original, any chakra that the clone possesses will return to the original after being dispelled. Conversely, the reverse is also true and the original is still able to manipulate the chakra of the clones.

It's also useful for training purposes, since the total amount of experience the user gains is multiplied by the total number of clones being used to train. For example, if a user creates one shadow clone and trains together with this clone for one hour, then dispels the clone, the user gains two hours of training in one hour by adding the hours of clone and the user together. The clones can train in new techniques such as jutsu's, genjutsu's, and tiajutsu's. The only thing that cannot be passed on to the original is newly developed strength or speed. However muscle memory will be transferred making tiajutsu training very realistic. Often times while the clones are training the original is working separately on conditioning his body and building his strength.

A near maniacal gleam lit in the emerald green eyes of Harry Potter upon reading this. He had just found a way to take his training to the next level. Theoretically he could create a clone now and have it study the Kata's of a tiajutsu style all night while he went home and started on his chores and when it dispelled or ran out of chakra he would receive all this new information. 'Bloody brilliant.' He thought to himself.

Harry woke the next morning and after stretching and going through his morning routine set in the lotus position to review the memories of the clone which he had felt dispel about two hours previous. On the orders of the original the clone he had created had studied the opening ten stances of White Dragon style. Then preformed them each individually, several times. Before flowing through them in many different variations. Harry, after a few minutes Harry was stunned it seemed that when the clone had tried to read the scroll in the dark he had channeled some chakra into his eyes and awakened the Sharingan. Harry channeled Chakra into his own eyes as a sort of test and was amazed when everything snapped into perfect view. Every small detail laid bare before him. Deciding to experiment with this later he stood up and started also going through the stances individually before flowing through them in varying ways. After about twenty minutes a sheen of sweat covered his body so he stopped still smiling before pulling a towel out of his storage seal located on the palm of his hand. After wiping himself clean and applying deodorant he stored the items again. The smile only leaving his face for neutrality when he heard the lock on his door being slid open by his uncle.

Substitution jutsu: With this technique, users replace their own body with some other object, generally with a block of wood, the moment an attack lands. This creates an optical illusion, making the enemy think the attack was successful. From this, the user can use the lapse in the enemy's attention to attack or flee from the battlefield. Explosive tags can be attached to the replacement for an added surprise. It's a basic ninjutsu even taught at the Academy, but it's a useful art that can be applied in variety of situations, as it allows for a swift getaway from danger. The technique even allows a restrained Shinobi to escape capture.

'A very useful jutsu.' Harry thought excitedly. It had been two weeks since Harry had discovered the shadow clone jutsu. Since that moment he had easily been tripling the amount of training that he could do in a day. Creating a shadow clone before school, dispelling it, a little before he was let out. Creating another, to observe the stances of tiajutsu, to make sure they were correct. Now that he felt he had the basic stances of the White Dragon style down well enough he had decided to start creating two at a time. He could already create four at once but that left him very drained. Now he had one studying the next set of ten kata's while this new one would study this new jutsu and set about mastering it. He had read through the first three jutsu available to him, the clone technique which merrily created an illusionary clone. The transformation technique which created an illusion over himself to take different forms. And the substitution which he had felt would be a very useful technique. With that decided he set off to school.

Harry had a little problem. And that problem was shuriken jutsu. The art of throwing bladed weapons. It was one of the basic three techniques listed that every Shinobi should master. But there hadn't been shuriken or kunai in any of the material that he had access to. And there really wasn't any way to access them. The only way he could think of was through mail order but there was two problems with that. The first being that you had to be eighteen to order them. The second was that even if he could they would show up at number four and his 'family' would know about it. With that thought in mind harry had taken a slightly different approach. He had scoured the phonebook looking for a local black smith or even a retailor that would possibly have such things available. He did find a black smith who advertised Japanese style weaponry, but they were in London, nearly 35 miles away. And even if he could get there he would be too young to buy them. Which left really only one option. And it was risky. He would have to use the transformation jutsu when entering the store and if the owner needed identification he would have to use a genjutsu to convince the man that he had seen it. But as harry needed these things to progress he would just have to learn the transformation jutsu and experiment with the genjutsu on clones until he could find a way to make it passable.