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Chapter 2: The First Kill
The morning sun rose over the lands of the Elemental Nations, but not in the golden hue everyone would associate with. An omen was cast on the land from a crimson shine by the rising sun like a flood of blood. On this day would the happenings of a horrid future rife with a new war for chakra itself be waged, and the beginnings of the shadows to begin their plot.
For now, that was concern for another time in the coming years. The red glow of this rare sun served as a wake up for two residents within the forest. Where a small clearing was made out among the cover of the forest canopy, the light shined down on closed eyes in a sleep, revealing the face of an eight year old child with cheeks holding baby fat that had been worked out and red-tipped raven hair that spiked slightly. An annoyed groan was muffled behind her closed lips, and forced to open her eyelids to reveal a pair of shimmering silver, and for a moment they each held three tomoe before vanishing after blinking.
"Sunlight's not being nice today." Mumbled Ruby as she forced her body awake with a quick and small burst of chakra.
Two years have passed since Ruby's great-grandfather had taken her in to train as his successor, and not too shortly after that did Ruby realize she was in an entirely new world. It felt nostalgic to Ruby that she was technically part alien with her mother's side of the family from another dimension full of ninjas and chakra. A girl like her would not have lasted in this war torn world if not for who she was as an avid trainer.
In those two years living with her ancestor and his student, she went under borderline brutal, but incredibly effective training on day one as per Madara's promise to make her his successor. Those years changed her more physically and powerfully though she still retained her childish nature at times. Standing up, it shown in her lithe form dressed in a black shirt and pants with dark red accents running down in stripes on the sides of her chest and thighs. Around her waist was a belt that held up a dozen kunai for quick draw and on her back was a short tanto. On her back was her red cloak that she had dyed black on one side for stealth purposes. Instead of shinobi sandals, Ruby stuck to wearing boots of thick leather and steel reaching midway to her legs, finding them more fitting for all-terrain at the cost of higher chakra usage and control to channel through for basic feats.
Which Ruby had in spades. Considering her mixed heritage from Madara being an Uchiha and his wife half Uzumaki, it was natural that despite the generations Ruby had a far above average in chakra reserves. Already at the age of eight, her chakra matched in control of low Jounin while her reserves were stupid amounts of ridiculous in quantity, and Ruby made an effort to have those levels climb bit by bit each and everyday. It gave credit to her diluted Uzumaki heritage that she was certainly determined to become the strongest through whatever amount of hard work topping it off with being an astute prodigy in jutsu, with her natural elemental affinity focusing on fire, wind, and water, with the two former extremely high and the latter just in the minority.
A surprising fact in Ruby's chakra was that she had two unique elements to her chakra in the form of Kekkei Genkei. It was shortly discovered when Ruby attempted to combine two elements to form a new one. At first, Madara allowed Ruby to continue to allow her to discover the reality of futile of combining two elements when one does not have a nature-manipulation bloodline. To the three Uchiha, including Ruby, it was surprise that when she combined wind and fire she produced Scorch Release. Then imagine their shock finding out her second unique manipulation produced rose red crystals of the Crystal Release, which was done through an accident in a spar against Obito.
It was theorized those elemental manipulations were inherited from Ruby's great-grandmother being that she was only half Uzumaki and it gave mystery into what her other half was. Still, it really comes down that Ruby had the luck of the gods having such arsenal at her beck and call. To Ruby, they made her happy seeing how the discovery made one of the widest smiles on Madara's face. She always liked making her great-grandpa smile, and idly wondered if there were other sub-elements she can manipulate possibly with water and wind.
The tanto on her back served as good practice to train her elemental manipulations by fusing types of chakra through the blade, and see which effects had on it from each type; she even requested the blade to not be chakra sensitive to her train harder in chakra control. So far, Ruby had come to discover that besides the effects of focusing wind or fire into the blade crystal caused it to become harder and sharper than the best of samurai steel or chakra wind blades, and focusing scorch element burned through whatever it cut without revealing the chakra manipulation.
"Let's go, Ruby." The deep voice grabbed Ruby's attention to her mentor, Obito Uchiha, leaning against a tree waiting for her.
He had not changed much since the pair first met, now wearing an orange mask and robes depicting red clouds for his new group called the Akatsuki. However, their relationship was what can best be described as a chaperone while one side was too... goody for Obito's comfort. The student of Madara was not very responsive to Ruby, who was just trying to know her 'new cousin'. Yet two years and she discovered that Obito was quite gloomy person. Still annoying though at worst, and Obito will admit she was a significant better as a companion than most people in his life.
"Can you bring out Uncle Tobi?" Ruby asked.
On the other hand, Ruby had instantly gotten attached to the persona that was 'Tobi'. It was just one moment that Obito didn't realize the Uchiha squirt wasn't looking at him in that guise, and she taken an childish liking with the funny Uncle Tobi. That was one of the core things that irked Obito sometimes besides her bubbly attitude.
"Why would I do that?" Obito said, hiding down a growl. "We are going to engage any major company, and you are already familiar with me."
"But Uncle Tobi's so funny and cool." Ruby chirped with an innocent smile.
Obito's brow twitched behind his mask. "No."
"But, erm," Ruby protested, trying to find a reason, "it could be great practice in the future."
Obito let out a defeated sigh. "... You're not going to let me off of this."
"Nope!" Chirped Ruby happily.
The Uchiha avenger let off another groan and stood still for a moment. The change happened as Obito allowed some control of the White Zetsu via the cells on the right side of his body. Then his head suddenly snapped back to Ruby, and the Uchiha girl could see a change behind the mask that made her smile.
"It's me, Tobi is here!" Cried the happy voice of 'Tobi'. "Gah~, is that you, Ruby-tan?"
Ruby giggled. "Hi, Uncle Tobi!"
"Yes, Uncle Tobi is so happy to see you." Tobi cheered.
In a blink of an eye, Tobi was right in front of the girl petting her head and ruffling her hair. Though for a moment the speed the elder Uchiha moved almost made Ruby attack on instinct. She doubted she would keep track of her mentor with her Sharingan, and thus gave credence how far the gap between herself and Obito was. Yet, it also filled her with a drive to go as far as he did since he was still on the younger side and yet was a Kage level shinobi. The Tobi persona may force him to limit his capabilities, but he was still very much a deadly adversary to even some of the most powerful in the shinobi world.
"Ready to go on a mission, Ruby-tan?" Asked Tobi, resting his hands on his bent knees to lean down at the short girl.
"I'm ready, Uncle Tobi." Ruby said with a playful salute while sticking her tongue out.
"Then let's go~." Tobi said with an over-the-top gesture to move forward before he leaped into the trees.
'I loathe you.' Obito growled mentally.
'But it's so much fun~.' Spoke the White Zetsu within the cells of the right side of his body. 'C'mon, you have to love it playing with the little tike.'
'It's almost unimaginable that Madara will have her grow up into a predator in the near future.' Obito said, more to himself.
Ruby grinned and jumped into the trees from the ground at such speeds she seemed to vanish. In the branches of the forest, everything was a blur to Ruby, but she knew to fully trust herself in tree hopping. To her, it felt like walking and leaping at accelerated speeds and the only thing Ruby was focused on was ahead. She absolutely loved the rush of the wind whipping at her face at the speed she was going, and she wasn't using chakra to enhance each step she took. Occasionally, Ruby tried to catch up to Tobi or even get ahead of him, but it served to Obito's skill as well at no matter how hard she tried he stayed ahead effortlessly.
'I guess this is what great-granddad Madara and his friend Hashirama felt leaping through the forest.' Thought Ruby, reminiscing about some of Madara's talks of the old days when and his best friend founded Konoha.
Instantly, her thoughts soured to a degree on thoughts of her clan's home village that Madara founded with Hashirama, the head of the rival Senju clan. It pertained to how Hashirama, despite his compassionate wisdom as Ruby interpreted, captured all the biju and traded them to the other shinobi villages. The idiocy wasn't missed even by Ruby as that was basically giving top Atlesian weaponry to everyone just so get themselves angsty for three world wars through the use of the jinchuriki. She really pitied those people forced to be made a vessel to a massive embodiment of chakra to be used as a village's top attack dog. Simply keeping the biju, or just leaving them alone would have solved these problems of warfare.
Her thoughts would have gone to a curiosity of who the jinchuriki in Konoha was until she saw how Obito was slowing down. She quickly used her Sharingan to see that his movements were on the cusp of stopping, and so slowed her tree hopping to stop beside him at the same branch. With the black dye of her clothes, Ruby blended with the shadows despite the break of dawn.
Not too far among a loose cluster of trees were a groups of tents almost concealed in the thick greenery of the landscape. Only the small smoke trails in the sky gave the position of their targets. Ruby was understandably nervous given that this was her first time that Obito had taken her out in the world for real experience. He brought her along when he picked a bounty on an A-Rank shinobi that the elder Uchiha was going to hunt to build the reputation of the Akatsuki as a mercenary group. She was never shown who the other members were, but knew that all of them were at S-rank in the shinobi world all gathered for a higher purpose.
"Let's go have some fun~." Tobi cheered in a whisper.
Ruby nodded ecstatically with a grin, her left hand reaching behind to unsheathe her tanto. Holding it in the confines of her hood, the blade became blood red with a more defined edge as she focused Crystal Release into the blade. In a blur of motion, Ruby and Tobi leaped forward to an opening in the encampment of rogue shinobi. Even so, the blade would only be used for disarming purposes as more money is paid if the subject is kept alive. Not that she even wanted to kill in the first place.
There was a reason why Obito waited till dawn to strike. Ironically, it was the perfect time to strike in the light of day as shinobi are more prone to be alert at night when other shinobi may be hunting them in the dark. That caution would serve as a weakness to the Uchiha pair to take them out. The target they were going after was mainly a rogue A-Rank shinobi from Iwa along with several B-Rank shinobi that were his henchmen. A bounty was put on his head for his latest bandit attacks on villages and desecration of numerous temples of their artifacts.
Ruby was confident in her skills to take down B-Rank without killing them, but this was more of a test for her as she will be facing the A-Rank shinobi herself. It didn't matter how she did it as long as she proved herself capable of dishing out a high caliber shinobi despite her age, and provide her exactly she was from her training under her great-grandfather.
Without word, Ruby and Obito dashed forward in pure speed. Their blurred forms entered the camp with only a whistle sounding in the wind. The rogue shinobi never saw it coming with their guard down before their blurs passed them. Ruby's tanto sliced deeply into the tendons of their knees and elbows to render them immobile while Obito attacked with precise, vicious fists and kicks that ruptered arteries and organs for a kill.
The pained groans of the first groups of rogue shinobi was the only call sign for them to put up their guard. One of the rogue shinobi sensed Ruby incoming for a blow to the leg, but could only watch in slow motion as her tanto sliced through his knee then proceeded to cut the tendons in his left shoulder. Only the shinobi after him was able to quickly pull out his kunai to block Ruby's tanto. It proved useless as Ruby's eyes, momentarily flashing with three tomoe, had already seen the position of the kunai to block her blade, and instead of fainting she went through with her attack.
In the span of half a second, the blade of Ruby's tanto glowed a sheen of misty blue as she focused her chakra through the steel. She took a risk in this pushing her concentration to the limits in such a short span of time to form the chakra a specific while imagining two steel saws grinding against each other. The last millisecond approached and just in time as the chakra on the tanto blade formed into a more solid structure that had a white outline to it.
On contact with the kunai, the tanto cut clean through the dark grey steel due to the wind chakra and continued on to cut a disabling gash through the older man's torso. Blood splattered from the wound, but Ruby deftly avoided it to prevent looking at the wound. She had not killed yet in her training, and she wasn't exactly enthusiastic even leaving injuries that looked fatal. Ruby understood that the shinobi world was not one for optimism, but she was still a child of innocent nature that had yet to take a life. It was one of the rare topics that Madara actually discouraged Ruby avoiding.
'The real world, Ruby, is very cruel. No matter how much you strive to preserve life, there will come a time you will have take a life and that you will continue to do so. That is the inevitability you must accept. That is the path of fighters like us, even for heroes.'
Those words haunted Ruby to this day. She refused them in every way possible, and it was the only time she denied anything from her great-grandpa. It was unfathomable to her to take a life, and it slightly scared her Madara made it sound so - easy!
Her thoughts had to abruptly come to a halt as her instincts screamed danger aimed at the nape of her neck. Spinning around, Ruby managed to block the fatal punch with the flat of her tanto, but her little body was not prepared to handle the force in the blow and as a result she was hurled into the air. She righted herself by shifting her weight around to flip and her eyes flashed with her silver Sharingan to get a good look at her new assailant.
The rugged man of late 30s stood out among the rabble with his burly figure of muscle underneath a battered Iwa Jounin uniform. Faded red hair was set in a spiky ponytail at the back of his head, and he featured two long scars crossing his throat. That indicated that the man was mute, but Ruby could see the cold, ruthless look in the Jounin's eyes as well as the experience that they've held.
'So that must be our target.' Ruby thought, prepared her tanto in a reverse grip.
Unfortunately, for her the A-Rank shinobi was blurring through hand signs before a flow of hot magma spewed from his lips in a jutsu of the Kekkei Genkei Lava Release intent in giving Ruby a smoking grave. Ruby widened her eyes in fright, but reacted accordingly by going through three one-handed signs with her left hand. She disappeared in a puff of smoke of the Substitution jutsu that instead replaced herself with a medium-sized rock, taking her place in the flood of lava. Yet the rogue Jounin had already tracked down Ruby's location behind a tent and she had to jump back when her hiding spot was reduced to a small heap.
'I need to get some distance and think of a strategy.' Ruby thought, her speed proving superior to avoid the man's blows.
The Jounin's relentlessness in his attacks did not give Ruby time to adequately use wind chakra into her tanto, much less focus crystal, so slicing him down a peg was out of options. She couldn't fight in hand-to-hand combat as her blows would not be sufficient to overcome the Jounin's superior constitution, and the Jounin himself was using Crushing Rock taijutsu that meant one hit would be over for the young Uchiha. That only left jutsu, and she had quite the unique plethora.
'He's shown his own Kekkei Genkei, I'll show mine.' Ruby thought.
Ruby flashed through several hand signs and disappeared in a flare of movement with Body Flicker. The Jounin turned around to find the eight year old girl behind, but he was too late to stop her once she landed on her last hand sign.
"Scorch Release: King's Roar."
It was a basic jutsu of the Scorch Release, but one that was very effective. As a combination of both wind and fire chakra, the Scorch Release technique bellowed out in a wide stream of bright red flames. A blast of hot wind went ahead of the fire that blew the Jounin back in his stupor that left him open to the onslaught of the flames for a few seconds. His hands slammed down on the ground in desperation to summon a solid wall of earth that shielded him from the flames. Ruby was not giving him the chance already in another sequence of hand signs.
"Crystal Release: Crystal Slither Quake."
Slamming her hands on either side of her, Ruby summoned two quakes of red crystal that slithered to strike at the Jounin from either side of the wall, colliding in crash of red shards of crystal. By the feel in her crystals, she could tell that she had trapped both of his legs. With another hand sign, she manipulated the crystals to latch onto his arms and then cover his mouth.
'Victory' went to Ruby, allowing her to let out a sigh of relief. There were too many close calls in that engagement of bone-shattering fists and death by lava. She can definitely say the shinobi was definitely fitting for A-Rank, and she was only able to win with the surprise of both her Scorch and Crystal Release. Obito comes from the camp having dealt with the rest of the shinobi and glances towards the trapped form of the rogue Jounin behind the wall.
"Good job, Ruby-tan." Cheered Tobi.
Ruby nodded and leaped high enough to land on top of the summoned rock wall. Below her, she found her alive quarry with his limbs and mouth trapped in red crystals to prevent escape. Tobi joined her landing in front of their bounty and leaning down to properly examine the scarred man. All that the rogue Jounin could do was glare at them in hate.
Ruby jumped down beside Uncle Tobi, giving a slight apprehensive to the rogue Jounin. She knew what was going to happen to the Jounin despite her want to keep him alive. The young Uchiha was still too optimistic that no crime holds no excuse to kill someone. Unfortunately, Obito, as well as most experienced shinobi, were not that given to showing mercy to their targets.
"Sorry bud, but I'm gonna have to take your head." Tobi said as he slipped a kunai to into his right hand.
His arm moved faster than Ruby could ever track with her current Sharingan active. She tried to avert her eyes away from the severed head, but it soon she soon found it odd that there wasn't a splash of blood. Reluctantly, Ruby snapped her eyes back to the rogue 'Jounin' only for the shinobi explode in a cloud of smoke. Her eyes widened at the tell-tale signs of a Clone Jutsu dispelling, but as far as Ruby knew there wasn't a jutsu that made a physical copy or else her crystals would not have touched him.
Her senses alerted her to danger and her head whipped behind her with her silver Sharingan in its brilliant silver glow. But it was too late to make any sort of reaction to get out of harm's way. As soon as she turned around, the form of the Jounin seeped out of the stone wall that he melded into, showing the burns from his Scorch Release. All Ruby could do was watch in slow motion of the Jounin's kunai aimed for her head.
But Ruby was not one to simply give up and even those moments her mind and chakra went into overdrive for some desperate way to escape the attack. In that high of intense emotion in that slowed time, Ruby felt her eyes burn as if a hot iron pressed down on them. The Jounin meanwhile sported a growing shocked look detecting the sudden spike in chakra. Against Ruby's will, more of her chakra flowed into her eyes more than she ever thought possible to do so without danger. The silver eyes shifted as the three tomoe pattern morphed into a more elaborate design. They grew and turned from their comma pattern to three noticeable diamond-tear shapes with a silver filler.
She didn't want to nor knew how to do it, but foreign yet familiar words echoed in her head as her eyes locked on the form of the rogue Jounin. They automatically came through her head as soon as her eyes changed and pulsed with her chakra as if another were manipulating it.
'Amaterasu.'
An inch or so before the kunai would have been embedded in Ruby's skull, the Jounin was forced to leap back in a reflex of pain when his body was engulf in flames. Flames that were so dark they made light pale and the heat exceeded her own Scorch Release to an immense magnitude that she had to take several steps back. Her surprise at the sudden flames soon turned to horror as she watched the man flail in agony as the black flames ate at his body. Flesh melted and bone was charred. Too late did she regain some sense to wish it to stop, and surprisingly the black flames obeyed her mental command as she felt her chakra pulse to her eyes and the flames disappear.
Too late did the flames disappear, leaving a blackened corpse almost too grotesque to be identified as human. Burnt flesh filled the air, making Ruby's stomach acids rise up her throat.
The realization was already affecting her body before it started to echo in her head. Her knees felt like jelly as her eyes were unable to leave the corpse. She felt the drum of her heart beating in her ears. Ruby's breathing was becoming labored from the dread filling her lungs and body at what she had done. That she had taken a life.
'I killed him.' Thought Ruby in terror, her senses drowning out the world around her in her despair. 'I killed him. I did that to him. No, no, no, no. I-I didn't mean to, b-but he was going to kill me. I killed him. I killed him. I killed him. I killed him. What have I done!? I killed him! I killed him! I'm - I'm-'
The same sentence continued to scream in her head that soon devolved into her own voice calling her killer. Tears and blood cried down from her new silver Sharingan eyes at the utter wrongness she felt of what she did. Her rabid thoughts and emotions were only interrupted by a strong hold on her hand.
"Ruby."
Ruby's silver eyes flashing with in their new pattern snapped to Obito, who was no longer using his 'Tobi' persona and she could feel the seriousness behind his mask. Her expression turned meek and her Sharingan disappeared, and her reverted to the ground.
"You did fine, Ruby." Obito said, his tone unusually neutral instead of grating. "It was either kill or be killed. There's no use putting the fault blaming yourself."
"But it is my fault!" Protested Ruby, tears falling down her eyes. "I didn't want to kill him. M-Maybe there was no need to do it. That's not what I - I - Oh my gods, I'm a monster. That's what I am, right? Right!? Because only a monster could do something like that!"
Obito only continued to watch silently as Ruby ranted on in her hysteria. Soon, it became incomprehensible of her words and they became pointless gibberish. Ruby fell to her knees, silently crying tears and denying herself to let out the sobs in her throat.
"You're going to say that I'm weak saying all of this?" Ruby muttered, a hint of bitterness in her tone. "That I should just accept what happened and move on?"
But Obito's response was never what Ruby would expect. "No, I will not."
Ruby turned back to the older Uchiha, who had silently approached and kneeled down at her level on one knee. She watched in slight surprise as Obito removed his mask, which he never did out in the field. His scarred face was revealed in an expression that was shockingly soft yet solemn, and his left hand rested comfortably on her shoulder.
"The first kill is always the hardest for every shinobi to endure." Obito said oddly sagely. "No matter how much they prepare for it or how much they try to avoid it, the first kill will always come in the career of the shinobi. That is because we are part of a world that is anything but naive, Ruby. The world is a very cruel place, and it will bring cruelty onto you. To everyone. As bad as it is, killing is a necessity to preserve what we desire."
"How does killing fit in being a hero?" Ruby mumbled sadly. "I - I am not like that. I'm not like you. I... I'm weak."
"No, you're not, Ruby." Obito denied, again surprising Ruby with his sincerity. "You're simply young, Ruby. I myself was just like you. Naive and optimistic and a fool at times, but a brave one. But it was one mission gone brutal, and... I was forced to have my little world shattered into a bigger, darker one. One where if I let people live, more will die as a result, even for heroes."
"How do you do it?" Ruby asked. "How do you get used to this life?!"
"You never do." Obito answered. "This feeling Ruby will always be there when you take a life. But never try to push it away, never become to numb to it, because that feeling is important. Because it shows that you are still human, and not a monster. And trust me, you are the farthest from the monsters I know."
Ruby sniffed, wiping her tears off her face. She didn't like the truth in her words; that she was going to have to kill more in the future. At least right now that she wasn't alone in this struggle. Obito let out an exasperated sigh, realizing at this point he had sat down next to younger Uchiha. He watched closely as the sparkle returned to her eyes, which reminded Obito of the conundrum of how her eyes somehow evolved to the Mangekyou Sharingan without the trauma of loss. Perhaps Madara had a theory for this. Soon, Ruby had picked herself up to her more casual mood, if just a bit shaken up.
"C'mon, let's get back to Madara." Obito said, putting back his mask on.
"Alright and... thank you, Uncle Obito." Ruby said sheepishly.
'Uncle Obito!?' Obito thought, almost tripping on his own foot in shock.
"What happened to 'Uncle' Tobi?" Obito wondered in suspicion.
Ruby laughed nervously, poking her fingers together. "Uncle Tobi's awesome, but Uncle Obito is cool too."
His shock was paramount by the widening of his eyes. His stare became more pronounced on Ruby. The more she looked at Ruby in these moments, the more that Ruby was truly less of a typical Uchiha and more of a person that stuck close to his heart. A mirage of a brown-haired girl with a wide smile would appear behind Ruby to confirm that similarity.
'She is really a lot like you, Rin-chan.' Obito thought, and for a long time he made a genuine smile.
"Uhm, Uncle Obito?" Ruby said as they walked through the forest. "What was that jutsu that Jounin used? I've never heard of a solid clone."
"Hmm." Obito tilted his head upwards in gesture of thinking before speaking. "I believe that was the Shadow Clone Jutsu. Odd that a rogue Iwa nin would know it considering it is a kinjutsu from Konoha-" A growl came from Ruby's mouth at the mention of that village - "It halves the chakra of the user each time a clone is made."
"That seems redundant." Ruby commented bluntly. "I get it makes a solid clone, but that is simply too much chakra for it to be any other kind of use unless your reserves are massive."
"Ah, but there is more to it than that." Obito elaborated. "The Shadow Clone was made for espionage missions because once the clone dispelled all of its memories and experiences go back to the user."
Ruby's eyes widened in shock, and her mind was already going through the implications of such a unique tool. As her mind continued to imagine the usefulness in the Shadow Clone. Suddenly, a wild, crazy, and potentially the best idea sprung from her mind like one of her scorch flames.
'If a clone gives their experience back the original, would there be more of it if I made more clones?' Ruby thought.
"Uncle Obito, can you show me the hand signs for the jutsu?" Ruby asked, her eyes ablaze with the normal Sharingan.
Obito gave the young Uchiha a hard look, but eventually relented. Without a word, Obito's hands flashed through the proper signs for the Shadow Clone Jutsu, allowing Ruby's Sharingan to trace the chakra manipulations to memory. Why Obito revealed to Ruby was more in his opinion that it was harmless. He knew that Ruby had better than average chakra reserves, but only Madara knew how massive they were. Surely it wasn't something like that Uzumaki brat in Konoha-
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'... Seriously, what the fuck is this kid!?' Obito screamed in his head.
For right in front of him was a small army of what had to be at least seventy clones of Madara's descendant, all perfectly made without fault. It was more unbelievable that despite shitting out such a large quantity of solid clones, the original Ruby only looked winded with a few beads of sweat, and that is taking into account she used two sub-elemental offensive jutsu earlier. All of them were looking with elated surprise at themselves before every single Ruby glanced back at Obito with a shit-eating grin plastered on their faces.
'Why do I feel like my life just got more hectic?' Obito wondered in his mind.
Before you scream at me, let me make it clear that Naruto shits out hundreds of clones of himself daily. Ruby naturally has far more chakra than the average person does considering her own descent from her half-Uzumaki great-grandmother and her own great-grandfather, Madara, and she's an avid hard worker in improving in every aspect including chakra reserves. So already at this point Ruby is much stronger than Naruto and Sasuke is in the first part of the series and in Shippuden in the future.