School and Sick
I don't own Naruto or The Gamer
Cabaji: Yo, I would usually respond in dms, but you don't have an account, so I'll respond here. I think I wrote it in a previous chapter but Shin doesn't have the skills 'Gamer's mind' and 'Gamer's body' so he can sleep to heal and not feel anything. They are high up on the skill tree and I placed 'Gamer's mind' on the top of the spiritual tree. That's why Shin gained mental resistance last chapter when he put points into the tree for those upgrades. Also, you guys only affect my motivation to work on the series and not whether I will continue it or not.
Trumpasaurus Rex: Gyuki is the 8 tails name. I used the term hachibi for the rhyme since writing the raps is hard, you don't have to worry about me adding extra Japanese to my vocabulary when writing these unless I'm making a crack fic. If I do, please condemn me to death by stake because I also hate that. Personally, I am not a socially adept individual and Shin's outbursts are supposed to be illogical 'outbursts' where he lets everything out at once in an incoherent rant that no one can make sense of. Thank you for the reviews thought and your criticism has been noted.
Anyways let's start!
Previously on Cloud Gamer
"This is going to be a long school year, isn't it?" I said to myself outwardly while Natsuki was rubbing her rear.
"Hehe, maybe?" She replied while trying to touch my hand which I deftly dodged, and she cursed. "Won't get me that easily Natsuki!" I yelled while running back towards the school over the academy grounds.
~~~~~~~~~~Chapter Start~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yugito was waiting for me at the front gates with her back against the gate. "Yo Shin! How was your class?" She asked in an excited voice.
"It was great, I can see you are excited for yours."
"Obviously! Survival is pretty boring but useful, ninjutsu is fun and the medical course is good too." She chirped while we started to walk home.
"My day started with kenjutsu which was amazing, the ninjutsu class was easy, and my genjutsu class has been fun so far with the stuff he gave us." I said while looking towards her.
I zoned out as she was talking next to me as a dark hand reached up and cradled her head, it covered her face like a fluid and grew eyes that bore into me. 'Its not real, Shin! Get your head out of your ass!' I thought to psyche myself up and I slapped my face to try and refocus.
"You alright Shin? Why did you slap yourself?" Yugito asked while stopping in front of me.
"I told you not to go today and you ignored me. Tell me what's going on now!" We were on an empty street, so I just brushed past her, "its hereditary, I'm fine."
"What does that mean?"
"It runs in the family"
"Who was your family?"
"Don't care"
"That's fine cause I'm your family now and B too!"
"Don't be so positive" I spat back, "being positive will only get you killed"
"You've changed Shin"
"How so?"
"You used to be… fun" she said in a quiet tone while looking away.
"I am tons of fun I'll have you know." I responded
"You are being stupid now. Now explain whats going on with you"
"I'm seeing stuff."
"That's dumb we all see stuff."
"See? You don't understand."
"Well then explain it and stop being a prick!"
"Hallucinations, a symptom for some mental illness that runs through my clan."
"You have a clan?"
"Chinoike, I won't use the name though"
"Why?"
"I have nothing to do with them."
"Don't you want to know them?"
"No, they mean nothing to me."
"They are your flesh and blood though."
"They are a bunch of people I don't know that are similar to me."
"Why don't you get to know them then?"
"I couldn't if I wanted to which I don't"
"Why?"
"They are sealed inside of a blood river, all presumably dead."
"Why were they sealed?"
"Because they saw stuff like me and went crazy."
"Scary stuff, you wouldn't do that though."
"How do you know?"
"Because we are close"
"That's so dumb"
"Maybe, but it's true, isn't it?"
'Maybe it is' I thought while playing with my hair. I stayed silent until we reached the orphanage where I went to our room and started to train before dinner.I gained 10 levels in wall walking and levelled up twice, saving my skill points for later and putting all of my stat points into chakra gaining 150 more.
I also taught Yugito the surface walking exercise outside before cooking dinner and cleaning the washing to hang in the morning. I walked back into our room and Yugito was already asleep, I decided to tuck in as well and we fell asleep next to each other has usual, but there was something off and I couldn't shake the feeling of anxiety plaguing me.
I turned around and Yugito was sleeping peacefully while grabbing onto my shirt. I shrugged off the feeling while heading to bed myself.
2 Days later
Over the past few days at the academy, I had cut down the hand signs of my thunder spear jutsu to 2 by removing the boar and dog seals. That only left the 2 middle ones to remove, I could move my chakra around easily but trying to change it into lightning form while inside of my arm was quite difficult. Judas had some tips for it, but I declined, wanting to complete the challenge myself, in case it was a hidden objective.
I also tried to crinkle a leaf using my chakra which was easy outside of my body and gave me a new skill "Lightning chakra creation" which was very easy to level up and gave me a nice boost in the power department, bringing my level to 47, I brough all my stats up to 20 and I am saving my skill points until level 10 to increase my body skill tree. My health was lacking greatly right now since even a moderately strong kick could wipe out 80hp from me.
My monthly lottery gave me a new title slot which was great and boosted my progress even more, the title courageous gave a decent buff of 20% to my willpower, which I still hadn't used yet but I was sure it would be important for the future.
Kenjutsu classes were great, and the praise was nice too, I had raised the level of my technique by 9 times, which also helped to raise my level to 49. I hadn't found a water source for the next exercise, but Kirei said he would prepare one when Natsuki had gotten her technique for the surface clinging down to a tee.
It was starting to become winter and the tree leaves were wilting, teachers warned us of snow, the matron forced us to wear coats, and I caught a cold. I didn't think I would catch one with all the training I was doing but apparently the bug was quite common during the winter seasons. How I envied Yugito's ability to not get sick because of the two tails, and I made it blatantly obvious how much I envied it through my constant complaints, much to her amusement. I spent the time I was away from school to theorise on how to remove hand signs from thunder spear when I gained an idea. The bird sign changed the nature of my chakra into lightning, but the dragon sign only moved it to my palms, so I thought of moving two steams of chakra that would fluctuate speeds in my arm until they would change into lightning nature, while pushing the last third of the chakra needed to form or enhance the jutsu to move the stream of lightning into my hands.
It worked amazingly, besides how much it hurt. Turns out frying your chakra points and veins with electricity kinda hurts. Alas, I pushed through and created a perfect lightning spear to throw, without hand signs. 'Turns out when you know the theory behind something, actually creating it becomes easy'. Oh, how wrong I was with that thought, I next tried to manipulate the shape of the lightning spear which was impossible for me at my current stage. By the time I had recovered from my cold I was 1 skill level away from level 50. I decided to get over that threshold using my new ketsuryugan and finally I had reached a new milestone for myself.
"You have levelled up!"
"You have reached level 50 congratulations! The gods have prepared several gifts that are in your inventory right now! And from the system itself you have gained 10 stat points and a golden skill point!"
'They're still watching. They must be really bored to watch me have a cold'
"Yes, it is very boring!"
'What the fuck?'I thought while mentally face palming obviously they are watching me. I mean they gave me this system because they pitied me so of course they would want to see how their experiment went. I left my room, leaving Yugito still inside asleep.
Today was a practical day according to Yugito, so we would be doing spars, tool tests, skill showcases for a grade. I got a quest for it that had some pretty good rewards while thinking about it and was going to try my hardest for the sweet loot.
"Quest received! 'You are number one!'
Objective 1: Achieve the first-place grade among your peers even though you are 2 years younger than them.
Hidden objective 1: ?
Rewards: Title 'Prodigy', Scroll for 'Blood attunement (clan exclusive)', 500 reputation score with kumogakure.
Hidden objective rewards: 10 x 1 skill voucher, 1x hidden objective reveal voucher, location for the key areas in kumogakure to unlock the map feature.
Failure rewards: nothing"
I accepted the quest as I saw it and remembered about my rewards and gifts from the gods. "Quest completed 'mind and body'"
"Rewards are being deposited into your inventory…
Rewards gained: Scroll for a random B – rank jutsu, 500 reputation for Judas Orisuke, Hidden objective reveal voucher, Scroll for C – rank lightning jutsu "Lightning style: Current", hint towards world tree unlock condition, 5000 ryo"
I opened my skill tree to view the hint for the world tree unlocking requirements and sighed at my own stupidity. "You cannot access the world tree until you have learned the skill 'Nature sensing' through formal training in the arts" 'Why didn't I think of that?' I thought while putting on the rest of my outfit for the day.
I next opened my inventory to check my gifts for reaching level 50 and to absorb my new technique. The list of the things in my inventory were as follows.
Inventory
Blank summoning scroll
3x 1 skill voucher
1x 5 skill voucher
106,400 ryo
64x sheets of chakra litmus paper
1x fire style: Flame bullet scroll
1x earth style: mud wall scrolls
1x 10 skill voucher
1x lightning style: Current scroll
1x B – rank jutsu voucher
1x hidden objective reveal voucher
1x bouquet of shock roses
1x affinity booster
1x 2x luck booster
1x 10 skill point voucher
The gifts I received would have to be the roses, affinity booster, luck booster and the skill voucher. Most of them were useful but I brought out the bouquet first to see what they were. I reached in and pulled out the bouquet, the flowers were absolutely beautiful, the stems were a dark green, and the petals were a grape purple with a lightning bolt esque stigma rising over the top of them. I quickly stashed them back in as to not ruin them and grabbed out the scroll to absorb "New skill gained 'Lightning style: Current'".
Next on the list is the new b rank jutsu I was getting. 'Please be good, please be good.' I repeated in my head as I grabbed it out and pressed yes on the absorb button.
"You have gained…."
I put my hands in front of my eyes and started the countdown '3, 2, 1, NOW' I removed my hands and looked at what I gained.
"…"
"Fire style: Phoenix breath"
'AGH, FIRE STYLE' I shouted mentally, even after being reborn I was very much still a gacha gremlin. I clicked on the details just to see what it was and if it was worth grinding out levels for.
"Fire style: Phoenix breath, is a mix between ninjutsu and iryojutsu. It creates a bright yellow stream of flames that douses a target, feeding thermal energy to their cells to accelerate healing. It was based off of the fire style: Great fireball jutsu and was created by Kale Juryo"
"5 hand seals, monkey, dragon, hare, snake, horse. Requires 20 chakra per second to use."
'That's more information than I was expecting' I thought while closing the window. Yugito had just woken up and was taking a shower, we had a couple more hours until we had to leave so I made breakfast for the other kids and started to hang the laundry up.
Now, to say I was hoping a kid got hurt so I could cause a ruckus by setting him on fire is a true statement but that makes me sound evil. Ignore, the evil grin I had as I heard a kid start crying from inside as I rushed in.
"Hey, Haruto, you alright?" I asked in a sincere voice.
"Nooo, it hurts!" He responded while cradling his knee, he had slipped on the pavement outside and grazed his knee pretty badly. It was bleeding down his leg and he was trying to be a man about it.
"Oh man, sadly this is too much to heal with a bandage 'it really wasn't' so we are going to have to get rid of it!" I said in a shocked voice.
"NOOOOOOOO MY LEG" He screamed as Yugito rushed out with a towel on her to see me starting hand signs in front of Haruto, who had accepted his fate.
"Fire style: Phoenix Breath" I yelled out as I exhumed flames over his body.
"SHIN! WHY DID YOU SET HIM ON FIRE?!" Yugito yelled while running towards me and trying to hit me. I dodged easily and started laughing, hard enough to get punched in the head by Yugito.
"Don't worry hes fine, ahaha" I said while still laughing. Haruto chose that moment to get off the ground with a big smile on his face, "Thanks Shin! I feel so good now, I don't even feel my leg being gone!" He yelled while me and Yugito started to laugh at him.
"Whats so funny?" He said while looking down "MY LEG IS BACK! WAHOOO" He said while running around on the grass in circles. "Don't scare me like that Shin! The matron would have killed us both if you actually set him on fire. Speaking of which where is she?" Yugito asked while looking around.
"Yugi, you might want to go finish your shower, it isn't very ladylike to be screaming while naked." I responded, failing to hold back my smirk.
"I hate you so much." She replied while running back towards the bathroom.
"Yeah, yeah, love you too" I yelled back when she went inside.
The matron chose this time to come outside after finishing checking on the other kids who were still eating. "I heard screaming what's going on?" She asked while swinging her head left to right.
"Ah, its all good now don't worry. I just set a kid on fire and Yugito got mad." I responded, preparing for an athlete's sprint around the orphanage grounds.
"You. WHAT?!" She yelled while I started to run away at breakneck pace. The chase lasted a bit longer this time with me eventually running up the walls of the orphanage and swinging back into my room. Where Yugito was getting dressed. 'Oh shit' I thought before I landed on the ground in front of Yugito.
"Hehe, hi?" I said meekly while still kneeling on the ground.
"Hehe Indeed" she replied while lifting her foot up to my chin, before kick me as hard as she could, flinging me out of the window and into a very angry matron's arms.
"Oh shit." I said outside of my head while she put me in a headlock and dragged me inside.
"Ohhh kids? Shin offered to be a canvas for your expert face painting skills, since I am busy today." She said in a high pitch voice.
'Oh, shit indeed' I thought while being roped to a chair and a line of 30 kids with artist palettes. I was soon subject to all sorts of splashes and mishaps with paint by toddlers, before being released by Yugito to go to school.
The fights were quite easy, which was not surprising, but I found my bukijutsu lacking and only scored 3rd out of the group in that aspect. Still good without formal training but I didn't have many clan kids or specialists in my year, so it was a moot point. For the showcase I used my thunder spear to split a tree, without hand signs and I used a kunai to cut my hand open and heal myself.
Next were the extracurricular classes, kenjutsu with Kuri was simple as we went through katas, I learned about the history of Kumo and swordsmanship and how several samurai clans migrated to the land of lightning during a civil war in the land of iron and joined kumogakure. The ninjutsu class was simple as I was waiting for the rest of the kids to finish theirs before I grabbed another. Then came genjutsu where we were still practicing chakra control.
"And so that's why you look like a brick shit house right now?" Natsuki asked while I nodded, we were currently talking while sitting on the wall of the school building for practice. I had just explained the entire story to her, and I had to stop multiple times for her to calm down.
"Maybe you shouldn't use new jutsu on children without explaining yourself first, and then confessing to your crimes in front of someone who could very well make you repent." She said in an informative tone like it wasn't the most obvious thing ever.
"Thanks dumbass I really needed your help to figure that out." I said in a snide tone while facing away. Clearly, I hadn't learned my listen and now I was getting chased around Natsuki who picked up a sword from Kuri-san, with the deal being if she beat the shit out of me good enough, she could keep the sword.
It was only a training sword but still, that shit hurt. As I was running around, I got a better look at the school to add details to my mindscape. After she had run out of steam, we had barely any time left in the day and then I remembered the date. It was currently July 23rd and tomorrow was Yugito's birthday. I had a gift prepared which was a scroll for 'fire style: flame bullet' a technique I had stashed from a lottery a while ago, but how would I go about it? We hadn't celebrated Yugito's birthday last year because we both completely forgot, and the year before I didn't speak or anything, so I decided to play the dumb card and not getting anything. This year was different though, we were becoming shinobi and depending on if either of us died we wouldn't get another chance. Graduation is in May for us and school ends in September, so the kids get half a year for their last year and head off to become genin in the latter half of the year.
I met up with Yugito at the gate and we walked home together in comfortable silence, I could tell she was thinking about something, but I didn't want to pry unless it really changed something. I made dinner that night for the kids and went to bed early without evening training.
The Next Morning
It was an hour before I would usually wake up, so I had the showers to myself and ample time to get ready for school and think about how I was going to do this. I put on my outfit for the day and headed up the stairs 'she should be awake by now' I thought while walking into the room silently with the scroll in my hand, behind my back.
Yugito was surprisingly still asleep, so I chilled out on the unused bed while waiting for her. Eventually she woke up after I added to my mindscape, and I walked in front of her, she was still blinking the sleep out of her eyes and her long hair was in shambles from how she moved during the night.
"Sup, sleeping beauty. Here is a gift for your birthday, congratulations" I said in a happy voice.
She perked up at the gift part and looked towards me as I put the scroll forward. She was still blushing at the nick name but muttered out a 'thank you' very quietly so I had to tease her.
"Hmmm? What was that? Going to have to speak up if you want me to hear you." I said in a taunting tone while cupping my hand to my ear.
"I said thank you!" She yelled straight into my ear which made me recoil in pain a bit before looking down at her and smiling.
"Heh, I was thinking about how to make this special, but I couldn't think of anything so be happy with that for now."
"I don't need anything special…" She mumbled out something else that I couldn't hear so I reused the same card.
"What was that?" I said while doing the same gesture.
"I-I said nothing moron!"
"No no I definitely heard something"
"Maybe you have too much wax in your ears"
"Stop being such a tsundere and repeat that"
"I didn't say anything"
"Meh whatever, if it was something you said it probably doesn't matter anyways."
"Ugh fine" 'Gotcha' I thought before listening to her try and say it with a blush on her face.
"I just need you here! That's all!" She stammered out while pouting.
"Oh uh" I didn't know how to respond before my mind flickered with an idea.
"Obviously I'll be here how could I miss your birthday?" I replied in a mock-hurt tone.
"Shut up." She said while grabbing a pillow and hurling it at me.
"Too slow!" I said while dodging out of the way and running into the hall. "We still have a couple of hours so stash that away and get ready for morning chores!" I shouted on my way out.
She didn't respond but I knew she flung herself back into bed for an attempt at more sleep. 'The ranking for the test yesterday should be out today' I thought while cracking 2 eggs in the pan for the groggy matron who just woke up.
I scrambled the eggs with some chopsticks before cutting the heat and plating up.
"Thanks Shin. Its going to suck when you go."
"Sorry miss, but you still have another year with me"
"I guess so."
Yugito scampered down the stairs on all fours to 'go faster' as she said, before helping herself to some canned tuna from the pantry. 'Yeah, only a year left until I'm in a war presumably' I thought while grabbing a glass from the cupboard and filling it with juice.
"Alright, I need to finish the washing so I'm going to be out back"
"Have fun"
"Go for it"
They both replied while I waved them off and getting started. A slow breeze passed through the laundry, and I saw a dark, bony hand grab around the towel I had just hung up in front of me. Its second hand reached around and grabbed my neck, before the wind blew through the laundry again revealing its face. It was a black, tar-like figure with skin peeling off of it to reveal ash grey bones underneath. It had red eyes and looked into mine before opening its maw.
"Yes, we are always watching, always. Michael"
I froze when I heard that name. 'Is this another god? A devil?' I shook my head and it vanished. 'What the fuck is going on' I thought while rubbing my neck. Just the sight of that thing made me want to cry, I pushed through and hung up the rest of the laundry before puking in the garden.
'Great, now my throat hurts.' I thought while going back inside to eat and brush my teeth. "You alright Shin?" The matron asked while I was brushing my teeth. I nodded my head in a questioning way before she elaborated.
"Your eyes have huge bags under them. As much as I appreciate the work you do please sleep more."
I spat out the toothpaste and gurgled some water before responding, "don't worry I get a full 9 hours every night." I put down my toothbrush and washed my face. "It doesn't look like it, just watch out alright?" She said while walking out of the bathroom.
I looked into the mirror in front of me and saw my reflection. My skin was grey, and my eyes had large purple bags under them. My crimson hair had become darker and unkept, and my lips were cracked. 'I look like shit' I thought before exiting the bathroom and heading downstairs for the academy.
"You ready Shin?"
"Yes, sleeping beauty" I responded jokingly while rolling my eyes.
"Put a sock in it"
"You can try"
"Maybe I will"
At that, she started chasing me through the peak hour streets of the village until we reached the classroom, a mutual safe zone. "Aha! You can't do anything now Yugito, I've made it into class."
I didn't care that the whole class was staring at me puffing out my chest towards Yugito, who was eagerly waiting outside for some reason. "What? Entranced by my looks?" I said tauntingly and when her smile didn't waver I turned around to see Rumi standing behind me.
"Good morning Shin."
"Mornin Sir"
"Have fun"
"What do you mean?"
I asked while he grabbed me by the collar and threw me outside, into a waiting Yugito's arms and he abruptly slammed the door on me. I could hear giggling inside as I started to regret my decisions up until now.
"How about we talk about this?" I proposed.
"Hmmm, you did give me a pretty good gift."
"Yes, and in exchange you should let me go."
"But I haven't really tested it out…"
"Please don't tell me"
"Yes Shin. We are going to be a bit late, you more than me though."
"Oh shit!" I said while dodging her rapid-fire bullets and jumping out of the second story window. I grabbed onto the windowsill and vaulted over to stick my feet on the wall before running up to the roof.
"Aren't you so glad you taught me this Shin?" Yugito yelled out while hot on my tail, still spewing bullets of fire.
"No! No, not really!" I replied while jumping over the edge of the roof and running down the other side of the building. I reached the window to out class and slid it open before jumping through, just to narrowly dodge 6 bullets of flaming death that tore through my previous location.
"Oh, welcome back Shin, I trust you had fun?" Rumi asked in a happy tone.
"Cram it teach" I said while going to sit down, Yugito soon following me.
"Anyways here are the rankings for yesterday's examination. Ill read out the top 3 only for times sake and will place the ranking sheet up here. 1st Shin, 2nd Yugito, 3rd Hagane. It is very surprising that we had 2 females in the top 3 this year." Rumi finished while putting the rankings up with a thumbtack on the class bulletin board.
"Quest complete! 'You are number one!'"
"Your rewards are being deposited in your inventory, you have failed the hidden objective 'gain a perfect score in all areas' and will not receive those rewards."
"You have gained Rewards: Title 'Prodigy', Scroll for 'Blood attunement (clan exclusive)', 500 reputation score with kumogakure."
I clicked on prodigy while the teacher kept blabbing on about the rankings while Yugito was already asleep, drooling on her desk.
"Prodigy: +20% to all experience gain, gain a higher chance to receive skills on your first try doing an activity."
'Just slightly overpowered' I thought as I switched out courageous for prodigy making my exp boost 35% for all skills. Rumi finished his monologue and started to teach mathematics and I soon joined Yugi in the bliss of unconsciousness.
Later
"Wow you look like shit." Kuri said looking at my zombified form.
"Thanks, I get that a lot." I replied while picking up my training sword.
"Have you been getting enough rest?" She asked while picking up her own sword.
"The full 8 hours Kuri-san. Maybe it has something to do with my sleeping situation." I mused while getting into the stance for the 'haze sword technique' katas.
"Your situation?" She asked with a smirk on her face.
"Hm? Yeah, I sleep with Yugito in the same bed, maybe its getting cramped since we are growing" I replied without thinking as Kuri's smirk turned into a lecherous grin.
"Shin, have you had the talk?" She asked while rubbing her hands together.
"If you mean about sex and the like then yes." I responded firmly, not wanting to fuel my own demise anymore.
"Well, that's no fun." She said while pouting "I was hoping to ruin some kid's day."
"What the fuck."
"What? It gets boring when you're single and treated like shit by your own allies."
"Why do you get treated like that?"
"I am here right now and not out there, now shut up and go through the forms."
"Yes Kuri-san"
I slowly went through the forms as to not introduce imperfections to my movements. Kuri was watching from the side and offering advice every time I messed up, it was surprising that this woman who could beat probably every teacher here with one hand was being insulted for her courage, when she was doing a great service by teaching the younger generations.
When I finished the forms, we both got into ready positions and started to spar. My skill hadn't been levelling up as much, but it felt better to use the techniques. Like my body was growing into the style in another way besides levelling, each swing, each turn, each hit felt better the more I did it. I brought my sword up to block Kuri's overhead strike, intentionally leaving my torso open for a chance at a counter, Kuri took the bait with a smirk and sent a straight kick to my torso, I dropped my sword from hers and stepped to the right, bringing down my sword on her leg that was extended with a smack.
"Pretty sneaky there, but it was too simple, if I had a second blade it would have been different, and you would be dead." She said while rubbing her shin.
"I'm sure I would be, but it is enough to fight against genin level opponents I'll be facing eventually and maybe even a chunin."
"I think even some experienced genin could take advantage of what you did so don't get a big head."
"If you say so."
"I do say so, so get better ideas for counter attacks. Pulling back your sword could have let the opponent slice off your arm while you stepped to the side, or even worse cut straight through your body."
"Brutal, Kuri-san, can't let me get a little ego can you?"
"That's what I'm here for."
We both sparred a couple more times and Kuri offered more advice for tricky tactics to use, class ended, and I left towards my ninjutsu course. When I walked in everyone had already gone outside and Judas was eating his lunch at a rapid pace. He quickly swallowed and looked towards me.
"Good afternoon, Shin! If you need to rest, feel free to do that in this class, you are ahead of the others still so I would not worry!" He yelled out while I went to my seat.
"Thank you, sir, but I assure you I have had enough sleep." I replied while pulling out my chair.
"I shall wake you when class ends!"
"Huh?" I replied dumbly while sitting in my seat. He was already going through hand signs and spoke quietly "Genjutsu: Hypnos' blessing".
I collapsed immediately and fell asleep, and Judas woke me up an hour later. "Alright, off to your next class. Have a good night's rest tonight, Shin." He said seriously. I stumbled out of the room, still yawning to try and remove the sleep.
Natsuki and Kirei were covering some theory when I walked in. "Oh, great you're finally here. Retest your control so I can see if you are ready to start water walking. I picked up the wooden piece again and activated my eyes. Easily surpassing where I had stopped before and I was nearly at the centre of the piece. "Amazing Shin! You should both do just fine with water walking now, I'll go set it up now so you two just wait here."
"Shin, you look like shit."
"I think that's the 6th time I have heard that today."
"Well, it's true."
"I know it is, I just slept another hour as well."
Kirei popped back in and brought us outside before side along flickering us to a pond outside of academy grounds. "Ill be back in an hour, don't get too wet!" He said while flickering away.
"Natsumi, want to go first? I'm sure you will do just fine, just channel the right amount of chakra and go." I said with a devilish smirk.
"Oh? Want to be embarrassed to quickly? Alright watch this." She said as she did a full jump into the pond, only to fall through and slip on the ground under it.
"That looks like it hurt."
"Shut up. Your turn."
"No I think I'm fine sitting on shore with my feet in for now."
She quickly got out of the water and tried to grab me before I twisted around and threw her back in. "Too slow!" I yelled as she started to tread back over to me.
"You are so slippery!"
"Well not yet I'm not, still haven't gotten wet, see?" I pulled my shirt from my torso to show it was dry. Natsumi took advantage of my distraction and splashed me with water.
"Oh, it is on." I yelled while putting a small amount of chakra to my feet and increasing it until it balanced. "Skill gained 'Water walking' level 1"
I used the skill quickly and ran along the water to punt her in the chest, she went flying across like a stone before stopping about 3 m away.
"Ow! Shin you ass, that hurt!"
"Not my problem" I said while ringing out my shirt into the pond.
"How did you get it so fast?"
"I put chakra into my feet."
"Thanks captain cockhead."
"That's a new one. I'll tell you when to stop putting chakra into your feet."
"Ugh, I hate listening to you, so bossy."
"I can just not help you know?"
"I know."
"Alright stop." I said after a minute of Natsuki trying to stabilise off the shore, it required a lot more control to keep the exact same amount of chakra on your feet, but I had a skill for that, so it was done automatically if I willed it.
After the hour was over Kirei flickered back to the pond and grabbed us both. "How did it go you two? I know it takes a bit of time but trust me you will get it down soon."
"We already have."
"Huh? You almost got me with that one" Kirei replied while looking at us.
"Wait. You're serious?"
"Yes we are. So can we learn some genjutsu now?"
"Sure, after you practice water walking more."
I smiled at him while walking out the door to the bell's chime, "See you tomorrow Kirei-sensei!" Natsuki yelled while walking out next to me.
That's all for now. Sorry, this took a while to get out, I was sucked into manhwa over my break and didn't work on Monday or Tuesday, I'll have another chapter out sometime soon and do you want me to reply to reviews in public or through private messages please tell me!
Bye bye! - tired
