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Not so peaceful childhood

Dix's training went great. By then his eyes healed completely and he recuperated from the surgery. He made 100 clones and made them all attack him for until one of them can hurt him or they run out of juice. These 100 were normal clones, it would've been pretty hardcore otherwise. At first he had to get used to combat with the sharingans. It felt like he can see everything around him, and track any movement, so sometimes his reflexes or reaction time was a bit messed up. He had to acclimate himself as fast as possible, so next to the 100 clones he summoned another 200, 40 with sharingans and 160 to attack them. They stood up in groups of 5 and the sharingan users had to try and defend against as many and different attacks as possible.

Actually Dix had his doubts about copying the sharingan with the shadow clone technique, but it still worked, something which he was extremely grateful for. There wasn't any actual drawback to it, it just consumed way more chakra to summon a clone with sharingan, than one without that feature.

He also noticed, when the transformation technique is applied to his eyes, and he uses sharingan, then an optical illusion happens, the red sharingan merges with the blue fake eye, and a beautiful glowing purple color comes out at the end, with three blue tomoes (the little jewel-like things in simple sharingans). It looked really interesting.

To further his training, he took up the mantel of the local vigilante again, and started hunting different criminals, fugitives or hostile ninjas throughout the region. He had to make a few changes to the plan though. He absolutely couldn't let anyone live that has seen his sharingan, even thought its hard to recognize it due to its color, thus he summoned 150 pairs, so 300 clones to start roaming around.

So from then on, his clones would move in pairs, the first one rushing into any combat situation possible, while the second watched from the sides and tried to pick off any escapees or stragglers, then they would switch for the next one. When both of them had battle experience they would disperse. The clones had to meticulously go trough every battlefield for survivors or possible recording devices. Nobody was allowed to leave after they witnessed the sharingan, and nobody was allowed to have this kind of information. He made sure any civilians or prisoners would only see a shadow when they get released.

Next to hunting criminals he also summoned the training squads to continue working. With this, he had around 500 active clones working either in the training camp or on the fields. He would get a report every minute or so about some clones dispersing after a successful ambush or siege, or clones running out of chakra in the forest.

This was the last great push before he has to enroll the Academy. Not like anything will change then, because he will probably just send in a shadow clone to ditch classes. But still, he wanted to do his best in this 4 months that was left.

Nothing much happened in those four months. Dix was a bit bored, while the civilians everywhere cheered that someone is keeping the order up on the roads. Not like he cared, that wasn't his intentions, just some positive side-effects of his training. Anyway, four months passed in a blink of an eye.

Dix's sharingan consolidated its power and found its place in his system. It was like he was born with that power, which is obviously not the case. Unfortunately. Still, he was able to feel the small changes over time, that the chakra converter was going well and it slowly filled the eye up. Also he noticed, that the thrill of fight and killing significantly boosts his eye's growth. Maybe there really is something to those emotions? Who knows, he will have to experiment with it a bit though.

A few days before the entrance ceremony at the Academy, the Third visited Dix to check on him, and also to inform him of stuff regarding his studies, and the soon to come ceremony he had to attend. By that time Dix knew everything, but he still put on a happy facade, mostly for Hiruzen, but he himself liked if data and knowledge is double confirmed.