>>5792343It’s over a month later. You’re at the reservoir at the base of the waterfall, which you’re starting to privately refer to as YOUR waterfall in your mind. It was time to do some training with your water clones, so you summon two, immediately feeling exactly two-thirds of your chakra reserves depleting as they rise out of the pool, shifting from formless water to a seamless copy of yourself.
“I have a question.” You ask.
“I have an answer.” Both of you answer.
“What is actually happening with you, mentally and spiritually speaking?”
Your clones turn to look away from you, as if there’s some kind of answer inscribed in the trees of the nearby forest. They hold that position for an annoyingly long time, eyes seeming to brighten and dim as thoughts seem to occur to them. “I’m us, I suppose.” You answer, simultaneously.
You poke one of them in the head to break their synchronicity. The one you poke is now carrying itself slightly different than the other one.
“Do you have minds? Souls?”
One of them ponderously begins to examine a fish floating around in the water. The other begins idly inspecting the nearly invisible scar on its (Your) finger. They stay doing that for, again, an annoyingly long time before they each seem to come to an answer.
“Only our mind.”
“Only our soul.”
You take it all in. It was mildly creepy. When you’ve finished your investigations, you begin practicing small unit tactics with your clones, instructing one of them to pretend to be a taijutsu specialist and the other to be a sensor ninja while you will be a ninjutsu expert and team leader.
Movement formations like how to move in the forest in a wedge shape that maximizes your team’s overall peripheral vision, how to pull off basic combination attacks, and timing.
When you’re done you inform your clones that you’re going to release the jutsu. They don’t seem to really care, and shortly collapse into puddles of water. You feel a slight amount of the chakra used to create them return to you, but not enough to cover what you used to grant them live in the first place.
You had heard that certain kinds of clones would transfer their memories to the user when they dissipated, but annoyingly that didn’t seem to be the case with yours. You did have some kind of basic intuitive sense of what they were doing while they were active, and you could also tell exactly when they were dissipated.
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