Chapter 4: Sword training
It's been about a month since the academy has started, and all that has happened is that the girls swoon over me and duck butt, Naruto getting into trouble constantly, and duck butt keeps challenging me to duels.
For shippers out there Sakura is still on team Sasuke and for some reason Ino is on team Zuko. Because of this their friendship wasn't as broken as it was during the canon, but it still is unsettling to know that a 6 year old child has a crush on you.
Anyways back to the point, right now i'm in the middle of one of the training fields practicing my sword arts. The Gentle sword art is a carbon copy of the traditional hyuuga gentle fist, just intigrated to fit the sword. The Swift sword art that I got from winning against duck butt is a copy of the Uchiha taijutsu style its made to be fast and powerful. Right now i'm trying to merge the two together or atleast make it easier to change from my gentle defence to my swift attack forms.
At first I wasn't sure how to train my combat experiance with the sword, I mean sure I knew how to perform the stances and strokes but could I really use them in battle. I couldn't ask anyone to train with me either because I would end up hurting them and thats a huge no for me. Luckily I remembered that scene in the original Naruto where Naruto created a huge brawl consisting of shadow clones to exhauste his chakra.
So yeah I just emulated that and created 30 shadow clones to fight eachother with swords. While they gained me experiance through combat I focused on weight training to build my body more. Yeah shadow clones can only send back information not muscles so I have to train my body myself.
After the sun setted I decided I trained enough for one day and released my shadow clones. Now Naruto made it look easy but it is terrible feeling 30 people worth of exhaution hitting you all at once.
'I wonder if I should by a sword soon the transformation jutsu isn't holding up in battle the best.'
So the next day after school I decided to bring Naruto with me to tenten's shop to look around. When I got there though I saw some Chakra paper and remembered that they could show you what element you had.
"Hello miss how much for 2 pieces of chakra paper?"
Tenten gave me a look for a second before replying.
"That will be 200 ryo."
'Holy shit 200 ryo for two pieces of paper thats ridiculous... but whatever this is for Naruto I can get my sword another day, i'll have to find a way to earn money though.
"I'll take it here you go 200 ryo."
"Thank you customer have a nice day."
I grabbed Naruto and walked out of the shop.
"Hey Zuko why did you spend all your money on two slips of paper are you an idiot? I thought you were going to buy a sword?"
"Naruto this isn't normal paper it's chakra paper , if you put your chakra in it it will tell you your chakra nature."
I pulled out one of the papers and put my chakra in it so that it split in half.
"Because the paper was cut in half it means that I have wind nature."
'I mean I already know that and I know Naruto's nature is also wind I just want him to be aware of it so it will motivate him to train on his own a little more.'
"Whoah that's cool quick pass me one I wanna know my element so I can use it against Sasuke temé."
I passed Naruto the paper and watched as it was cut just like mine.
"Look at that Naruto your wind just like me which is suprising because it's rare to have around here."
"So what? what can wind nature do, it's not as strong as fire."
'Wow he looks bummed well I guess it's time to activate my trump card.'
"Naruto wind might not be as strong as fire but it's faster and sharper. If you infuse wind chakra into kunai or any weapon for that matter it will make cutting through a boulder feel like cutting through bread."
Naruto perked up as soon as he heard that. 'Yep he's bipolar.'
"That's cool how do we do that Zuko?"
"Well for now we have to try putting wind chakra into normal leaves and try to split them in half, and no this isn't the same it will be much more difficult and boring but trust me it will help you."
"Aww really Zuko that sounds boring why can't we just skip that?"
"Because one you don't know the difference between normal chakra and wind nature chakra, and second because your chakra control sucks."
'Actually now that I think about it why don't I teach him how to climb trees first, I mean I know he bonds with Sasuke over competing who can learn it faster, but this is something he should learn earlier on.'
"You know what Naruto how about this i'll teach you something cool first but afterwards you have to do the leaf training."
He paused once again
"Sure but it better be cool!"
"Yeah it's pretty cool ever tried walking up a tree?"
He gave me a confused look.
"No."
"Well let's change that." I then began to teach naruto how to focus his chakra to the bottom of his feet. He was god awful at control as expected so while he trained to climb the tree I focused on my wind chakra transformation leaf training. This routine continued another month, along with our actual academy training.
"Haha Zuko check it out I finally got to the top, take that!"
"Oh good job Naruto."
The reason it took a month for Naruto to learn the tree walking jutsu is beacause naruto is 7 unlike in the canon where he is around 12.
I've progressed really far myself I can now infuse wind chakra into my weapons and I have finally gotten both the byakugan and Swift sword art to level up.
There have been a few small changes after my byakugan has evolved, I can now see further and most importantly I can actually view my own chakra network. Now this might not seem like a big deal but it gives a huge boost to my skills at chakra control and has allowed me to understand wind nature chakra. I still can't see Nature chakra but I feel like i'm getting closer to feeling it.
Naruto and I aren't the only ones who have improved, thanks to me sending shadow clones over to the hyuuga clan i've been able to help Hinata in her training. Her skill in the gentle fist is actually very impressive she just lacked in putting power into her attacks and the will to take the initiative to attack first.
To help her out with her strength i've been using weight training excercises with her and instructed her how to put more momentum into the attack. As for taking the initiative to attack I taught her that it would allow her to control the pace of the battle, and that if she truly didn't want to hurt her opponent she had to take them down first.
Ever since she has been getting a lot better at sparring against Negi. Oh did I forget to mention the hypocrite, that kid keeps taking his anger out on Hinata. I would have changed the event of his father being a sacrafice but because they kicked me out of the clan before I could there was nothing I could do.
My new Question is where should I develop from here on out.
Mission: Create personal sword art.
requirments:Both Gentle sword art and Swift sword art must be at Jounin level.
optional: have wind transformation at Jonin level.
Reward: Dex 3
Mission: Learn medical ninjutsu.
Reward: Random sealing scroll.
'Okay what? A sealing scroll, you mean like Naruto's toad scroll or Orochimaru's snake scroll. If it is i'm definitely getting that plus learning medical ninjutsu wouldn't hurt me.'
'On the other hand creating my own sword art seems a bit difficult or now but i'll get there eventually. I have to focus on training my wind transformatiom more I feel like that optional requirment will be extremely helpfull to me.'
So I decided to head to the library to study medical ninjutsu, and it took me a fortnight to be able to perform the wide healing jutsu.
Mission complete: Learn medical ninjutsu.
User has gained: Owl summoning scroll.
Name: Zuko
Skill:
Str: 6
Dex: 6.5
End: 5.8
Int: 15.4
Wis: 16.1
Skills:
Shadow clone jutsu
Transformation jutsu
Byakugan Jounin: Evolution 7%
Gentle sword arts Chunin: Evolution 94%
Taijutsu Chunin: Evolution 56%
Swift sword arts Chunin: Evolution 32%
Wide healing Genin: Evolution : 5%