Chapter: 4
"OK, who wants to go next?" said Kushina sensei happily.
After a brief moment of silence, I decided to get the introduction out of the way. Calming my facial expression. I started, "I'm Ryu Aozora, My dream is to be stronger than the first hokage." *silence*
Hearing this, Kushina sensei looked annoyed, Yugao looked to be in thought, and kurenai seemed happy? His goal surprised the team, that is a very big goal to accomplish, trying to be hokage seems easier. It won't surprise most shinobi if even in a hundred years no one surpasses him, so hearing him say that they were happy with his big goal but it seemed a bit unrealistic.
While that was rather bland of me, I don't care about this team, as long as they work with me I will do my best, I thought with a calm mind. After my introduction, Kurenai went next.
"My name is Kurenai Yuhi. I like to study genjutsu and eat sweet foods. My dream is to be a master of genjutsu and become a strong jonin."
As she finished he decided to check both of his teammates' status to find out more about their abilities.
"Observe." he thought.
[Ding!]
Name: Kurenai Yuhi
Occupation: Ninja (Genin)
Level: 6
HP: 120
CP: 195
STR: 6
VIT: 6
DEX: 9
INT: 10
WIS: 8
LUK: 5
Description: A girl who loves genjutsu and wants to be better than her father whom she admires.
Her wisdom and intelligence are 2 - 3 points higher than mine while my physical stats are about the same higher than hers. She will specialise more in genjutsu and must not have trained as much in improving her physical strength, which makes sense. He looked at Yugao's stats next.
[Ding!]
Name: Yugao Uzuki
Occupation: Ninja (Genin)
Level: 8
HP: 140
CP: 215
STR: 9
VIT: 7
DEX: 13
INT: 8
WIS: 6
LUK: 3
Description: A girl who comes from a small clan specialising in kenjutsu.
She is very fast, he concluded and must be very skilled in kenjutsu. Compared to himself who just began training in kenjutsu, she will undoubtedly beat him. He paid more attention as she started to introduce herself in a conservative tone.
"My name is Yugao Uzuki, I dream to be an elite ninja and be one of the strongest in kenjutsu."
Both myself and Yugao only said our name and goal. Saying your likes and dislikes as well as hobbies is definitely better for getting together with the team but as a ninja, you feel very uneasy giving information like that. Kurenai either just wanted to start off well with the team or didn't care about revealing information like that.
(I couldn't get much information about their personalities from what they said but it seems Ryu is determined to complete his goal and doesn't care about interacting with his team. Kurenai seems happy to be starting her career as a ninja but has an underlying nervousness that she tries to hide, she doesn't seem too sure about being a strong jonin in the future. Yugao is very focused on her ninja career and is serious about being a ninja, Kushina thought.)
Kushina pondered on this for a few seconds before she looked at her genin team with a smile and said: "Ok, with introductions out of the way let's see where you guys are at. I will spar with each of you separately, use everything you can to defeat me." As they nodded she went on and stated." Seeing as this is our first day as a team. I will take you all out for ramen!" she exclaimed with a childlike enthusiastic smile.
They all were slightly dumbfounded at her outburst, and shocked at their sensei's mood switch from serious to…
Kurenai spoke up first "Uh sensei, what about the sparring match?"
Kushina who just ignored or actually didn't pay attention to her,was already running to the ramen food stall, eager to eat her favourite food.
A few seconds passed as they got out of their stupor and realised their sensei didn't tell them where to go.
"Let's hurry up and start looking through all the food stalls that sell ramen." said Yugao with an urgent voice.
Either she is really hungry, he thought, or she worried about getting in trouble from their sensei on the first day as a team.
*10 minutes later*
He didn't realise just how many food stalls there were in Konoha, he thought with a tired mental sigh. They found her at a food stall called Ichiraku Ramen with over 20 empty bowls, piled high next to her as she was devouring more ramen at an incredible pace. He was shocked at how much she can eat but didn't dare say anything to a woman, as he experienced first hand what would happen. He shuddered at the thought.
*After they all ate*
After Kushina sensei finished eating, she told them to meet tomorrow at sharp, she will test their skills and do their first mission, she then disappeared, via shushin he guessed. Kurenai started to talk to Yugao, they seemed to get along well, maybe they knew each other, he thought. She tried to talk to him but he also left via shunshin, not interested in talking to his team, maybe this is bad of him but he was really eager to increase his stats seeing as he's not even the strongest in his team.
He needed to go to the library to get books on tactics and whatever else might be useful then train till bedtime, a lot of his abilities are still basic , which won't be sufficient to survive as a genin, let alone achieve his goal. He wants to get his basic shurikenjutsu max, right now it's level 9, he will try to get the intermediate shurikenjutsu techniques at the library. He needs to up all his basic jutsu right now, because it's very low right now and could save his life. The chakra cost and usefulness of these jutsu make them practical to increase right now as a newly graduated genin.
He needs to make a proper training schedule because right now he needs to maximise his training time and has to do missions. He will find out if it's possible to do solo missions because he needs money for his ninja equipment.
*At the library*
It didn't take him long to find books on strategies and tactics. While he was there he decided to see if he can find anything about training methods or whether it's possible to start using weights, right now as a 9 year old kid.
He found a few books about when it's best to use weights, most of the books author agree that during puberty is the best time as ninja's start experiencing massive strength and chakra gains during this period, when the body optimises itself to the conditions that being a ninja needs. A bit disheartened at how long he's gonna have to wait to start making huge strength gains. He knows as a young genin the important thing to survive is not chakra as almost every ninja will surpass him in this and ninjutsu. It is skills, tactics and being underestimated that he needs to utilise to the best of his abilities.
After getting the books on intermediate shurikenjutsu,tactics and different strategies he headed to his training ground. Since it was only , when they were dismissed by their sensei, he had a lot of time to train. He plans to train here till 6, then head home, shower, read and do his chakra control exercise. With his plan underway he began with shurikenjutsu, eager to max it out and start on intermediate shurikenjutsu.
Hours later just past 6 we can see Ryu doing hand seals at a fast pace for a young kid. He was huffing, sweating and out of breath as he finally stopped.
Times up I really did a lot this time, I upped the 3 basic academy jutsu by 1 level each, except clone jutsu which he increased by 2. Most people believe the clone jutsu is very useless once you replace it with a solid clone. He believes in a fight it could provide a momentary distraction or confuse the enemy, which really is invaluable in a fight. The illusionary clone takes much less chakra than a solid clone, most people will use solid clones to pull off distractions or confuse the enemy. An illusionary clone could do the same thing if used correctly. He also upped his hand seals as he will be able to use his techniques faster and will be needed for when he learns stronger jutsu that requires a lot of hand seals.
Skill: Hand Seals Lvl: 7
Description: Hand seals which guide your chakra to be able to accomplish certain jutsu.
Upon use: Can do 7 Hand Seals in 5 seconds.
He also got he's shurikenjutsu to the intermediate level after maxing it out then reading the intermediate scroll.
[Ding!]
Skill: Intermediate - Shurikenjutsu Lvl: 1
Description: Able to skillfully hit moving targets and slightly change trajectory with high enough skill.
He still hasn't managed to get the basics of Iaijutsu down, but he felt he was very close. The rest of his training all he did was taijutsu against a post and physical training. He didn't gain any stat points, which annoyed him but there's nothing he can do, he trained much more than normal and still wasn't able to increase them.
He headed home, along the way he saw another kid around the same age as him, with anbu styled black clothes, white hair, a tanto strapped to his back and a mask over the lower half of his face. What shocked him was, he was wearing a chunin vest, as they passed the boy just glanced at him, with no emotion and continued on his way. The way he looked at him as if he was insignificant made him angry and wanted to beat him down.. He could tell the boy was very strong, so he didn't try to fight him, he would right now put himself down if he had to guess as a low genin.
One of the the biggest advantages he has now than before is that he doesn't have to experience a recovery period from training, he noticed after getting the system. When he's stats increase he will feel slightly stronger but doesn't need to wait a few days for his muscles to recover. This made him realise he could train much harder now without worry of overdoing it and hurting himself.
After he cleaned himself up and ate, he took out the books on different tactics and strategies to employ in different situations. It took about 2 hours but he managed to increase his wisdom by 2, which he guessed was because of how low it was before. He did some meditation which he believes improves chakra control and control of emotions. While he was meditating he stuck leafs to himself to maximise training time . Late at night, really tired from all the reading and training he did today, he finally went to sleep.
*The next morning*
He got up earlier than normal to get done and do some light training as he had to meet up with his team at . He felt really eager to start doing missions today, and his teacher might teach them new skills.
Once done, he chakra ran towards the meeting place, feeling very good as he blitzed to his training ground, being certain of not arriving late. As he arrived he realised he was the last to arrive besides his sensei. He greeted Yugao and Kurenai with a light good morning, which they greeted back.
At their sensei arrived with a leaf shunshin. "Ok my cute little genins, I hope you are ready." At their expectant looks she continued ''To not waste time, I will be testing each of you separately, you will fight my clone." she said as she made 3 clones of herself who stood to the side.
She made each of you go a distance away from each other before starting to attack you all with a high genin speed you guessed. You reasoned this as she was quite a bit faster than you but you were still able to react to her moves.
She was just testing your taijutsu for a few minutes, you realised that taijutsu is going nowhere with her being stronger, faster, and more skilled than you. You tried to create some distance by throwing multiple kunai at different angles, towards her vitals, you were almost happy as it seemed to work before realising, you just hit a log.
You quickly extended your senses, looking for her before you felt warning bells at your back. In record time you managed to pull off a shunshin, forward, dodging the blow but leaving you disorientated as sensei delivered a nasty shot to your liver, almost making you collapse in pain.
You clenched your teeth as you substituted with a log, then used shunshin to distance yourself so you can plan out a strategy or try to confuse her. You layered Genjutsu: False surroundings by a few trees to confuse her but you didn't change the looks of the surrounding area just replicated it. You hoped she would be confused by dispelling these genjutsu to find nothing changed, you took out your katana and turned around hoping to set a trap for your sensei when out of instinct you parried a kunai flying towards your temple, luckily your sensei through it at a speed you were able to deflect. You were sweating as you thought, she wouldn't use sharp kunai right?
But you had no time to think as your sensei engaged you in kenjutsu, you were severely beaten but could feel your kenjutsu advance at a rapid pace. before long what you were eagerly hoping to get, got confirmed by a familiar sound.
[Ding!]
New skill learned: Basic Kenjutsu - Iaijutsu Style lvl:1
Description: A style focused primarily on speed and quick draw from the sheath, the basic stances and techniques.
Kushina was happy with her genin; they all did well for a new genin fresh out of the academy. Kurenai is very good at genjutsu her taijutsu was lacking, and she wasn't that good on her ninjutsu and shurikenjutsu, she's gonna have to force her to train in her other ninja areas besides genjutsu.
Yugao was better, she is good at kenjutsu, her ninjutsu and genjutsu were average, she rarely wants to use taijutsu sticking to her kenjutsu most of the time. Her taijutsu is maybe worse than kurenai but she is stronger and faster so makes up for it.
Ryu was very all rounded which is rare for a ninja, he used his only genjutsu she assumed very well based on the circumstances, he was genin level in his taijutsu and shurikenjutsu, he used his ninjutsu very well, his kenjutsu seemed very recent but still quite good considering most ninja's only take up kenjutsu as a chunin or jonin. Overall she was happy and couldn't wait to see what they accomplished in the future.
She gathered them all together again in the training ground and told them what mistakes they made in the spar and their weakness.
Ryu was not happy about the way he performed , he really wants to increase his training even more now, even his sensei limiting herself to high genin level, he still couldn't even touch her besides the normal blocks and parries in taijutsu which he was certain she could have dodged but must have wanted to see his strength.
They headed to the hokage tower to get their first mission as a genin team. They weren't too happy hearing about what kind of missions they would be doing. D-Rank missions, walking dogs, painting fences, catching cats, this has to be some sort of prank on new genins he guessed not believing for a second this is ninja missions
After they finished 2 hours later painting fences around a huge farmers land , their sensei dismissed them, because she needed time to plan out their training and missions schedule, she told them to meet at 7 again and left.
Thanks for reading, I made it longer because I reviewed my fic in and realised how short the chapters were. I hope to improve my character interaction, I've been reading a few fics to give me ideas. There will be small timeskips, as the story would drag on without them. The third shinobi war will start soon and there won't be any of these kinds of missions then.