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"Now moving onto geography. The Elemental Nations, which is how we call our medium sized continent, is divided into separate political entities all of them monarchies, ruled by the daimyō, who stand equally in rank with the Hidden Villages' heads, an example of this is how our Lord Hokage has as much authority over our land as the Fire Daimyo does and that is thanks to the absolute treaty between the Royal Family of that time and the Shodaime Hokage in which we protect the Land of Fire first and foremost against any threat to it and the interest of the Royal Family in exchange of them not interfering with out businesses. Back to the continent as a whole, those countries maintain balance between themselves through nothing but power. Treaties are periodically signed, but they are generally not worth much more than the paper they are written on. Now I will go in more detail on the five main countries so pay attention."
Iruka-sensei paused for a second before he continued with his lecture and pointed at the left upper corner of the world map. "The Land of Earth is located north-west of the Land of Fire. Its government leader is the Earth Daimyō. The country is mostly comprised of desolate, rocky areas. The border of the Land of Earth runs along a rocky mountain range, blocking communication with other countries. The wind blowing from the north passes over these mountains, carrying small rocks from the Land of Earth to the surrounding countries. This famous natural phenomenon is called 'Rock Rain'."
Iruka-sensei paused again before he moved to the opposite side of the map of where he had been pointing earlier and signaled us to look at the biggest peninsula portrayed on the map. "The Land of Lightning is located on a peninsula north-east of the Land of Fire. Its government leader is the Lightning Daimyō. In the center of the country are vast mountain ranges, whose many thunderstorms are said to give the country its name. From these mountain ranges, many rivers flow to the sea, creating a very crooked coastline that displays an admittedly impressive oceanic beauty."
Our teacher once again paused to move is finger down to conglomeration of many islands surrounding and even bigger one. "The Land of Water is composed of many islands, with each having its own unique traditions. The country's weather is typically cool and the islands are usually covered by mist. The islands themselves also feature many lakes. In some places it is very cold and snows quite a bit. The nation is oriented towards the element of water. Its government leader is the Water Daimyō. The country is currently under civil war due to the bloodline purges instigated by the current Mizukage and the country is closed off from the rest of the world."
He then moved his arm across the map and stopped on the biggest delimited territory on the political map. "The Land of Wind is one of the more prominent countries in the series. It is located to the south-west of the Land of Fire and borders the Land of Rivers and Amegakure. Its government leader is the Wind Daimyō. The country covers a vast realm, but is significantly composed of deserts and thus has little productivity. Because there is very little rainfall throughout the year, the people of the country live in villages built on one of the desert's many oases. Despite the country's extremely harsh environment, it has a large population. Although they have warred with each other in the past, the Land of Wind is now on good terms with the Land of Fire, with a great deal of trade going on between the two countries."
Finally Iruka-sensei moved his fingers to the center of the map and there was visible pride on both his eyes and voice as he spoke. "The Land of Fire is one of the largest and most powerful countries seen. Its government leader is the Fire Daimyō. The Land of Fire was the first country to adopt a ninja village, Konohagakure, a custom other countries would soon adopt. The Land of Fire is appropriately oriented towards the element of fire, typically having very bright and warm weather. While not the physically largest country, it has the largest hidden village. This land was also the home to the two most powerful clans in aspect of politics, manpower and economy: The Senju and the Uchiha who eventually joined together to fund Konoha."
By diligently paying attention in class and gaining new knowledge your INT goes up by one!
I grinned in delight as I mentally closed the window and focused on Iruka-sensei who was wrapping up his lecture. "This was only a slight snippet to the amount of information you need on the other nations and their political and geographical characteristics. I expect all of you to read the material you were provided on this topic because next week we are going to be having a pop quiz on this and I'll be asking questions about things I didn't say now but appear on the material."
There were multiple groans at that, myself not included because learning meant gaining INT points that I wasn't going to have to use stat points to gain later, and Iruka-sensei smirked. "With that out of the way let's move to the next part of today's schedule: Ninjutsu." And the groans turned into cheers and Iruka-sensei chuckled. "Today you are going to be performing the three basic Ninjutsu you were taught: Henge, Kawarimi and Bunshin. I'll be calling you in alphabetical order to the front of the class so you can perform it. Understood? Right, then, Aburame, Shino!"
As the tall boy wearing circular classes and a hooded cloak went down the steps I focused on the two leaves stuck to my forearm underneath the table and smirked as Chakra Control went up steadily before it began to climb faster as I added another leaf. My CP R, with that point I gained on INT, was now slightly above fifteen meaning that I could use a third leaf without wasting CP. The speed at which Chakra Control improved was controlled by a mix of my INT and WIS seeing as those stats modified everything to do with the amount of chakra I had maximum and the amount I could spend sensibly.
After meeting Gai-sensei yesterday I went back to my apartment, training Observe and Detect Bloodlust a bit more in the process of going back, and focused on Calligraphy and Chakra Control until it well into the first hours of the early morning and barely got three of sleep in exchange of decent growth of those skills. I had gotten two breakthroughs, which was how I was starting to call advancing five levels on a skill and through that advancement increasing the bonuses, in Calligraphy and stopped shy of getting one in Chakra Control.
I realized something else this morning and it was that even though I had gotten less than half of the required time to sleep to function correctly I was still full of energy by the time I was up without feeling the fatigue or the need to go back to sleep. It was like I had gotten the eight hours I normally got and I had even gotten the notice of my HP and CP having being recovered correctly like it always did. So… did that mean I didn't have to sleep anymore?
The need to sleep was your body telling your brain that you needed to rest from doing all the voluntary actions you did with your brain. My body recovered instantly from everything and when I say instantly it is instantly. It was so fast that the only one could tell something even happened was me. My body's health was monitored by the amount of HP I had and as long as I had HP and CP on my bars then I wouldn't feel tired or exhausted. I was going to try that tonight and it turned out it was true then lest night will become the last time I slept. Those were eight hours I could spend doing something to improve and like I promised Jiji… I was not going to waste my time ever again.
It was the small growth of power, the notification about getting Chakra Control to level fifteen and Iruka-sensei's voice calling me that took me out of my inner debate of whether or not I needed to sleep and I grinned sheepishly as I made my way towards the front of the class. They were all laughing at my clumsiness but I could easily ignore them thanks to Gamer's Mind and the fact that I could also see the humor in it.
Iruka-sensei smiled kindly at me. "Alright Naruto you have been showing a lot of progress lately. Let's see if I can keep saying the same today." He then blushed and glared at me. "And no funny business like last time! Now give me a Henge."
I chuckled almost evilly at him as I recalled the 'funny' business he was talking about and I was only going to say that Iruka-sensei was apparently a closet pervert. "Whatever do you mean, Iruka-sensei?" He glared at me and I laughed. "Alright, alright. I promise I won't do that again while in class. Here I go." I smoothly went through the three hand seals required for the technique, surprising Iruka if his raised eyebrows were anything to go by, before declaring the name of the technique I used to get away with most of my pranks. "Henge!"
A skill has been updated through a special act. By correctly performing a skill you have learned and used before you have updated the skill "Henge no Jutsu". Due to previous experience with the technique it will be displayed accordingly.
Henge no Jutsu. Active. LV 32 [0.0%]. Given all the missions ninja are assigned to - battle, intelligence gathering and diversions - this is a priceless Ninjutsu. It is typically used to change into people other than oneself, but one also has the ability to change into animals, plants, and even inanimate objects like weapons. This gives this technique an abundance of uses. The transformation technique is considered to be among the more difficult E-ranked techniques, since it requires constant emission of chakra while mentally maintaining the form. Cost: 10 CP. Maintenance cost: 15 CP. Hand seals required: Ram.
A skill has been updated through a special act. By correctly performing a skill distinctly classified as ninjutsu you have updated the skill "Ninjutsu". Due to previous experience with the technique it will be displayed accordingly.
Ninjutsu. Passive/Active. LV 10 [0.0%]. Literally meaning Ninja Techniques, Ninjutsu is one of the three main jutsu categories. Ninjutsu is the most nebulous of the three and may most simply be described as anything that is not genjutsu or taijutsu. Most ninjutsu require chakra and hand seals, but this is not always the case since sometimes the mere usage of weaponry by qualifies as ninjutsu. With practice and experience, certain ninjutsu can become second nature to a ninja, allowing them to perform it at will. Skill grows with the usage and learning of Ninjutsu skills.
Passively increases maximum chakra capacity by 20%.
Increases effectiveness of Ninjutsu skills by 20%.
Reduces cost of Ninjutsu skills by 20%.
It probably took the whole might of Gamer's Mind to prevent a grin that would've rearranged my face of appearing as Iruka-sensei inspected the transformation of Jiji I performed because I need to keep up the serious façade that usually seen on his face to get sensei's approval. But fuck it was difficult. That had been the biggest surge of power and knowledge I had felt until now and I was internally salivating. Once again, thank you Gamer's Mind for helping me to make a fool of myself more than what I normally would.
Iruka-sensei nodded after I mentally dismissed the windows and he nodded approvingly. "Your transformation is decent enough to fool anyone that has only seen Hokage-sama in pacing but should work more on details like skin tone and how old it must feel and look and his posture. But otherwise a very good job. I also saw that you have gotten better at making hand seals," he grinned at me and as the transformation disappeared in a cloud of smoke I puffed up my chest in pride. "Let's see if it is the same with Kawarimi."
I nodded at him and performed the five hand seals required for the technique and sent a tendril of chakra towards the block of wood we were supposed to use to perform the technique. I felt my chakra surrounding the wood before there was a pull and suddenly I found myself where the block of wood had been. I turned towards my previous position and saw myself holding the last hand seal for a moment before a cloud of smoke surrounded it and when it cleared the block of wood appeared instead.
A skill has been updated through a special act. By correctly performing a skill you have learned and used before you have updated the skill "Kawarimi no Jutsu". Due to previous experience with the technique it will be displayed accordingly.
Kawarimi no Jutsu. Active. LV 18 [0.0%]. With this technique, users replace their own body with some other object, generally with a block of wood, the moment an attack lands. This creates an optical illusion, making the enemy think the attack was successful. From this, the user can use the lapse in the enemy's attention to attack or flee from the battlefield. The technique even allows a restrained shinobi to escape capture. Cost: 20 CP. Required Handseals: Dog – Snake.
Iruka sensei nodded his head in approval and he chuckled when I used the technique again to go back to my place. "Excelent job. Now you only have to work on getting it done without hand seals and you can consider that technique combat ready. Now… the Bunshin please."
Gamer's Mind couldn't completely hold my grimace and my face ended up twitching much to the amusement of Iruka-sensei and the class. It was no secret that I sucked at this technique for some reason but there was still hope that with the gamer ability I will be able to perform the technique correctly this time around. I took a deep breath in and slowly performed the three hand seals required for the technique and channeled my chakra.
A plume of smoke later and my eyes twitched in irritation as Iruka grimaced and the class laughed at the five sickly looking clones. A second later and a blue window appeared in front of my face as the horrible excuses of illusory clones disappeared.
Error! User's Chakra Control skill has not enough level in relation to user's MAX CP to perform the skill!
My eyes widened at that and I turned to Iruka-sensei. "Hey! I think I know why I can't do the jutsu!" Iruka turned interested eyes my way and he nodded at me to go on. I rolled back my sleeve and his eyes widened as he saw the three leafs stuck to my forearm. "I have been practicing chakra control lately under Jiji's advice to do so and thanks to that I just realized that I have too much chakra. I can't just put the exact amount needed for the technique since it is too little needed."
The others laughed harder at that but Iruka-sensei's eyes widened further before they narrowed in thought. A second later he face palmed and nodded to himself in a way that was painfully obvious he was telling himself that he should've known and my own eyes narrowed at that. What was what Iruka-sensei should've known that related to me having too much chakra? I just made the connection now thanks to the new window essentially telling me that so… why would Iruka act as if he should've known about it? Did he know I was a real Uzumaki? It could be plausible but unlikely since I didn't have the physical characteristics of the Uzumaki… and its perk wasn't the only one that gave me a boost in chakra each level.
This required further investigation but thanks to Iruka-sensei I got my first clue. It had to do with having too much chakra that affected the control of the same thing. I will need more to start investigating without wasting my time but I will keep it in mind for later use and reference.
My teacher coughed and nodded at me. "I see. Then you should continue practicing your Chakra Control as you have been doing lately. We'll see if the problem can be solved like that and if not then I'll look for a personalized requisite for you to pass since mastery of the Bunshin is necessary for graduation. I can make an exception with you because you can use perform everything that has been taught to you exceptionally but don't get your hopes up and continue practicing, okay?"
I nodded at him. "I get that. And I have improved my control a lot lately but I feel it could be done more, I don't know, efficiently or something. Do you know of a way to do that Iruka-sensei?"
He nodded his head after a second of thought. "Yes. You can try meditation while you focus on your chakra and control exercise you are performing. The better way to meditate is to get in a comfortable position and ignore everything around you except of the thing you want to concentrate on. This will not only help you with your chakra wise but it will also help you both physically and mentally in the long run."
I nodded at him in thanks and walked back to my seat ignoring the teasing of most of the class but the others ignored me as Ino walked down for her turn. I saw Hinata looking at me with small smile on her face and I smiled back at her a wave. She blushed red and looked away as she began to play with her fingers on her desk. I rose an eyebrow at that but shrugged my shoulders.
Back in my seat I got in a comfortable position and began to do as Iruka-sensei had said. Thanks to Gamer's Mind is was quite easy to ignore everything around me ranging from sounds and smells until the only thing I was consciously focusing on was the feeling of my chakra generating on my core and going through my chakra pathways and to the tenketsu below the leaves on my forearm as it made them stick there.
I took a deep breath and to me the only thing remaining in this world was my chakra and how it felt.
There was ding.
I opened my eyes.
And I was sure my grin unnerved everyone looking at me right now.
A skill has been created through a special act. By focusing on something specific and ignoring everything around you to better understand the object of your focus the skill "Meditation" has been created.
"Hell to the fuck yeah!" I hissed in delight.
Meditation. Passive/Active. LV 1 [0.0%]. Meditation is a practice where an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefit or for the mind to simply acknowledge its content without becoming identified with that content or as an end in itself. It refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force. A particularly ambitious form of meditation aims at effortlessly sustained single-pointed concentration meant to enable its practitioner to enjoy an indestructible sense of well-being while engaging in any life activity. Warning: The skill cannot be actively used during combat.
Passively increases STR, VIT, DEX, INT and WIS by 20%.
Passively increases growth rate of physical and mental stats.
Passively increases growth of the skill Chakra Control.
When active increases HP Regeneration and CP Regeneration by 100%.
When active increases growth of skills by 100%
Forget what I said earlier.
This one was the biggest surge of power I ever felt
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It was by the time the Academy ended that I calmed down from the high creating the skill Meditation gave me. It was a fucking gold mine! The skill gave bonus to basically everything I needed to improve or needed to use improve other stuff. And the best part was that with my ability to multitask I could meditate and do other stuff at the same time as long as I was only training and not fighting which I suppose made sense.
With my new found CP R I activated observe while at the same time keeping four leaves stuck to my body. Observe I decided was going to be kept on for all times as of now because Jiji and Iruka-sensei always said that the best tool a ninja had was the amount of knowledge and information they had and Observe was a source of constant knowledge and information. I hadn't bothered to keep it active at all times before but now I could get away with it and still have sensible chakra to spend training another thing.
I stopped for a second and I realized that I wasn't in a fight and as long as I wasn't fighting I could be meditating so I activated meditation and I felt my focus sharpen on the feeling of my chakra and I opened my profile window and saw that my CP R was above fifty five. Observe now cost five CP to keep active so without too much thought I picked up six more leafs and put them on multiple parts of my body before I began to walk again to my destination. That was another skill that was going to stay on every time I could get away with it.
I opened up the window for the Chakra Control skill just in time to see it reach level sixteen before I closed it with a thought and a smile. The bloodlust detected alert were dismissed as soon as they appeared as I focused on my chakra and the information provided by observe. Those skills were growing incredibly fast thanks to meditation. Hell! Since Meditation was also a skill it was affected by itself, meaning that as I meditated I improved the skill as twice as fast by default. It was so broken it was beautiful.
Anyways I had asked yesterday for a place to buy the set of weights I needed and he pointed me towards one called 'The Twin Rising Dragons' and gave me directions. I hoped that this store wasn't biased negatively towards me and that they would actually treat me fairly. I didn't tell Gai-sensei of my worries because he was being so kind and I didn't want to disappoint him after all the advice in training he gave me.
It took me more or less an hour to reach the store because I wanted to improve observe and detect bloodlust as much as I could and I got more than what I hoped. Observe reached level twenty and now it gave information like what the person I was observing had for breakfast the past few days and stuff like that. Detect bloodlust was not at level twenty six and my range was of one hundred and forty five meters.
The things that I got that were more than what I was expecting were another breakthrough in Chakra Control and my first break through in Meditation and the surge of power was more significant if you looked it as a whole instead of only by individual stats. I decided to relax a little and stopped using Chaka Control, Meditation and Observe. Gai-sensei that relaxation was also important for training and I was going to relax… occasionally… or maybe when I recalled that I needed to relax like now.
The store looked fairly generic but very welcoming painted in dark gray and crimson colors with two sets of windows displaying impressive looking weapons at each side of the doors and above them was the name of the store stylishly painted in black over a clear colored wood. I shrugged my shoulders and entered the store, tingling bells announcing my arrival. I only had time to see that there was nothing in the middle of the store, that everything was arranged by the borders of the massive room before I was assaulted.
"Oh hell no!"
Someone grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and I felt myself being dragged further into the store and it took me a second to realize the fact the whoever she was hadn't triggered detect bloodlust so whatever anger she was feeling was not directed at me so I was not in immediate danger. That wasn't to say that there wasn't potential danger as I took in her brown hair pulled into two twin buns, athletic body for what I could see and a cute face with steel gray eyes that locked onto my with righteous fury.
Steel is my Live, Throwing is my way
LV 42
Tenten Higurashi
"Um, what are you doing?" I asked meekly as she dragged me to the clothing portion of her store. My reluctance, nervousness and shyness had nothing to do with the fact that she was almost forty levels above me and that when I hit her with observe it showed just how out of my league she really was. This was one scary girl.
Tenten pointed at my clothing, which was my orange jumpsuit, and glared at me. "I can't in good consciousness let anyone wear that monstrosity. I don't know what you came to my store for but you will add a new guard robe to the list of things you are going to buy or I will kick you out. Do you understand me, blondie?"
I gulped and nodded my head as fast as I could and she seemed satisfied before I proceeded to have my innocence and dignity violated.
By the time she was done with me I was wearing a red short sleeved jacket over my fishnet shirt, black shorts, black sandals and my goggles were around my neck. Gamer's Mind couldn quite hold back the embarrassed blush on my face as I held two other sets of the same clothing just in different colors and was mollified by the fact she was also slightly embarrassed for what she did if the pink on her cheeks was anything to go by.
But while she was slightly embarrassed she didn't seem to regret what she had done as she threw my jumpsuit into a nearby trash can and I felt more than mildly offended but her level and what I had seen kept from making my annoyance and irritation known so I settled for meekness. "Um, ma'am can I get now what I wanted to buy in the first place?" She narrowed her eyes at me and hastily added, "And I very much appreciate what you did for me and my sense of fashion! I needed that wakeup call! You have my eternal gratitude and I am in your debt oh wise one!"
She nodded in satisfaction and I breathed out a sigh of relief. "That's better. What was that you wanted? We sell shinobi equipment and weapons here," she clarified further as she leaned forward on the counter to squint at me as if trying to figure out what I wanted without the need to tell her.
Slightly nervous at her closeness I rubbed the back of my head and smiled sheepishly. "Well my sensei told me to come here to get a set of five chakra weights meant to go on my wrists, ankles and torso. He told me this was the place to get them because it wouldn't be too expensive and I can always get quality stuff here."
She pursued her lips and narrowed her eyes at me. "Is this sensei of yours called Gai by any chance?"
I blinked at her and nodded. "How do you know Gai-sensei?"
She sighed and rubbed her forehead with two fingers almost tiredly. "He is my jonin sensei and that is something he would recommend a complete stranger if asked for tips on training but I guess he knows his stuff when that topic is brought up with him." She then looked at me with almost desperate eyes. "You don't have the sudden urge to wear tight clothing and put your hair into a bowl cut, do you?"
I blinked again. "Erm, no? Why would I do that?"
She sighed in relief before laughing sheepishly. "Gai-sensei has a track record of influencing his students more than he should. One of my teammates is a literal mini him and let me tell you that while he is the best ninja in the village he is just plain weird."
I shook my head at that. "Gai-sensei isn't weird! Gai-sensei is awesome! Why would you say that?" It didn't make any sense. Gai-sensei did this awesome poses, had a badass nickname and knew a lot about training and how to be a ninja. A guy like that couldn't possibly be weird.
Tenten shook her head at me. "Pray that you never find out. Anyways, wait here while I look for your weights." She said and I took the time she went to get my weights to activate all the skills I had been training on my way here. I suppose that the time for relaxation was over. I finished sticking the last leaf beneath my jacket when she came back with a box and she set it on the counter. "Alright here they are. Two wrist bands, two ankle bands and a vest with self-adjusting weight seals. You just have to put them on and channel chakra to the small black circle that is painted on them and they will adjust themselves accordingly until they reach their limit."
I raised an eyebrow at her as I took the box after putting the clothing I was unwillingly going to buy but would do it because I appreciated my health. "These have a limit on the amount of weight?"
She nodded her head. "Yes, they do but the limit is proportional to the amount of chakra and physic of the one wearing them. They were done like that so as not to stunt the growth of the wearer. If you reach the limit on the amount of weight you'll have to wait until your chakra grows and you increase in height and weight naturally while still wearing them on their limit before they begin to get heavier on their own again."
I nodded my head slowly. "That make sense, I think." I paused for a moment to open the box and look at what was inside and I saw the aforementioned items. They were colored a dark blue and I realized they would go well my current clothes and I wondered if she did it on purpose. Knowing here as much as I did, and thanks to observe it was more than she would probably be comfortable with, I decided that she indeed did it on purpose. "How much do I owe you?"
"Sixty five hundred ryo."
I winced. I had the money, sure, but it was still by far the most I spent in one go but giving a look to the weights I supposed it was going to be worth it. I handed her the exact amount of money and she took them with a smile on her face that any other time I would've thought as cute but right now I could only see sadism and desire for the world to burn at her hands.
"Pleasure to make business with you. I expect to see you here whenever you need something. Got that?"
I rolled my eyes at her but hastily added, "Of course madam!" When she glared at me dangerously. I waited for her to nod, indicating she was satisfied, before I hastily made my way out of the store officially scared shitless.
It would be later when I realized she never gave me her name herself and that I refused to offer mine because I was terrified of her.
Ugh.
Aw c'mon Naruto don't be like that. Tenten just wants to help you!
Wrote this chapter between yesterday and today all the while listening to epic music. I think I need like six or seven more chapters to set up the context and build up Naruto's foundations before we can start to have shit hitting the fan.
If you didn't believe me this chapter is prove that Naruto will be a badass… a badass that will be terrified of women after this experience but a badass nonetheless.
Anyways see you next time with my next instalment of Deadly Games. And yes. The title of the story was meant to be as ominous as it could be when the story is about a ninja kid living his life as a game in a world where wars started because of disagreements and shared mean looks.
Wait…
Oh shit. Naruto has it cut out for him.
Love y'all!