"Well?" aksed Ed.
"I think could make that metal blend, though it is a bit weird with some of the extremely rare metals it composed of. It'd probably take me a couple months just to get enough of the rarer metals to even make a kunai with though" replied Ren-Ten.
"I thaught that much. Ok, and what about the metal of my arm and leg?"
"That'd be alot easier. it's basicly a light steel alloy of sorts, though I've never seen it, I should be able to make it with a few tries. As for making it into a working limb, I wouldnt even know whare to begin. But I think I could beable to do it, given enough time and trys."
"Good enough for me" Ed stated, shaking the mans hand before turning around to leave. Ren-Ten put his hand on Eds shoulder to momentarily halt him and get him to turn around. "Something I can help you with?" Ed asked looking back over his shoulder instead of turning around.
Ren-Ten looked at him for a minute, as if deep in thaught. "What was it you wanted me to make you?" he finaly asked.
Ed grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head for a second. "Oh, yea, hehehe, I was going to ask of you could make a glove of sorts. But I figured that since it'll be a while till yourable to have the amount of metal it'd require I'd just wait."
"Oh. Ok."
"Well, see ya later, it was nice meeting you." Ed stepped out the door and informed the ANBU that he was done there. The ANBU then disapeared, leaving Ed to walk home alone. As Ed walked he noticed most places were closed, which meant he probably wouldnt be stopping anywhare. He stopped when he noticed that the book store was still open and would continue to be open for another half hour. Thinking for a couple seconds he then went in, intent on finding a book on chakra manipulation. Ed walked up and down the aisles for 20 minutes untill he found a couple books that he thaught showed promise. The first one was chakra manipulation for dummies, the other was seals for beginners. He purchased both books and left, intent on going home and reading them and then practicing what he had read.
On his way home he ran into the one person he didn't realy want to see at the moment, Jiraiya. Said man didnt even stop for pleasantries, he just grabbed Ed by the wrist and kept going. Several blocks later they ducked into an ally and then jumped to the nearest roof and hid behind a bilboard. Ed finaly got a good look at Jiraiya and saw the reason he was running...a hand print that was eriely the same size and shape of Tsunade's hand. He then noticed the several lumps that had been forming on the self proclaimed super perverts head.
"Let me guess, you tried to peep on the Hokage huh?" Ed asked in a tone that said 'busted'.
"Hehehe, howd ya know?" Jiraiya asked back.
"Call it a lucky guess" Ed replied, rolling his eyes.
Jiraiya then noticed the bag that Ed had with him, seemingly atatched to the back of the shoulder of his coat. "Whats in the bag brat?" Jiraiya asked, patialy out of curiosity and partialy to change the subject.
"Just a couple of books I just got at a shop before you latched onto me. Why?"
"Eh, no reason realy, curiosity my boy, curiosity! At any rate I'll be back in a few days, dont have too much fun" and with that Jiraiya leaped off the roof muttering to himself.
When he got home he fixed himself a small dinner and sat down to read as he ate. He picked up chakra manipulation for dummies and began to read. As he read he started to gain a new respect for the ninjas around him, realizing the reason that they started learning such things so young. It reminded him of when he was a kid and first started learning alchemy. After reading the thourogh explenation of what chakra was and what the two components of it was he got to a visualization technique.
He started practicing the technique, picturing his chakra as a ball ruffly the size of a bowling ball. He then touched it, like it was something solid, moving a line of it to his hands. he opened his eyes and saw his hands covered in a steel blue mist like substance. 'YES! I can already do this...sure glad I got this book. So this is what chakra feels like, kinda tickles' he thaught as he examined his hands. He then stopped the visualization technique and went back to reading, only this time he he picked up the other book, seals for beginners.
The first chapter was on non-leathal seals i.e flash and smoke screen tags. First he tried the smoke screen tag seal, needless to say he ended up ouside coughing his head off. 'Fuck that was alot of smoke, better not do any more tags of any sort in the house...at least not trying them out any way' was his thaughts as he went outside caughing and hacking. To the observer it would've looked like Ed just started laughing hystericly for no reason. After going back in and opening all the windows so his place could air out, he headed for one of the training feilds. When he got there he wrote out the seal for the explosive tag and ignited it, throwing it and jumping away so he wouldnt get blown up. he watched as it left a good sized crater in its wake. 'Damn that was cool!' he thaught as he headed back home to do some more reading and then get some sleep.