Chapter 4
"Chakra is the basic energy source necessary for ninja to perform most jutsu. Ninja produce chakra through the combination of their two energies: the physical energy, drawn from the trillions of cells that make up the human body, and the mental energy , gained through experience and created, chakra moves throughout the body in a manner similar to the circulatory system and is delivered to one of 361 chakra release performing a sequence composed of any of twelve different hand seals, chakra can then be manipulated to create supernatural effects, such as walking on water.
But i already know this! Er, sort of...well, Kakashis sensei explained this with Sakura when we were in Wave. Kuso, i thought this was going to help me with my elemental manipulation! Did i take the wrong scroll or something? Oh well, might as well read it, after all, Kakashi sensei had said that i lack academic information on chakra.
The blonde pouted and shifting himself to a more comfortable position, read on.
"The concept of nature manipulation , altering the quality of chakra, is introduced as such- Nature manipulation allows ninja, following certain training, to convert their chakra into one of five elements: earth, water, fire, wind, and lightning. Each element is stronger and weaker than another element; for example, fire is weak against water, but can easily counter and even gets stronger when used against a wind-based jutsu. All ninja have a natural affinity for one of the five elements, allowing them to use jutsu of that type with greater ease. Ninja with an affinity for fire, for instance, will be able to breathe fire much sooner than they will be able to manipulate water."
Whoa, cool! Seishin told me i'm wind and water based. And by what i can see, Sasuke is fire based. Tch, it'll be normal if the teme had two affinities. Most likely lightning. Heheh, nice. Wind beats lightning and water beats fire, i rock! And now i can even learn some cool jutsu!
But he sulked when he remembered the silver haired jounins words. Oh well, he did need to train his chakra control. And his sensei had shown him what and how to do. It was all up to him now, sort of. He sure as hell wasn't going to slack off.
"Skilled ninja can learn how to use other elements; ninja of the Jonin rank typically are able to manipulate at least two elements.
Nature manipulation is an advanced form of chakra control. It entails the moulding and defining of one's chakra into a innate type of chakra nature, altering its properties and characteristics. Nature transformation is one of two necessary techniques for creating a jutsu, its counterpart being shape transformation. Few shinobi can use both shape manipulation and nature manipulation.
In general, every person has chakra that has an affinity towards one of these types, a characteristic that seems to be genetic, since whole clans sometimes share the same affinity. Most members of the Uchiha clan, for example, had an affinity towards the Fire nature."
So that would make the Uzumaki clan water type? They were call land of whirlpool for a reason i guess. And The Namikaze...wait, they weren't a clan, were they? Oh well, ill ask sensei about it later.
To find out what affinity someone has, pieces of paper made from a special type of tree (that are grown and fed with chakra) are used that react to even the slightest hint of chakra in any of a number of ways, depending on the nature latent in the chakra.
The chakra paper reactions are as follows:
Fire: the paper will ignite and turn to ash.
Wind: the paper will split in two.
Lightning: the paper will wrinkle.
Earth: the paper will turn to dirt and crumble away.
Water:the paper will become wet/damp."
Naruto stared at the little piece of paper attached to the scroll.
This must be it? Ok, lets try just in case. Here goes nothing.
He channeled some chakra into it and stared at the results.
The small square paper was torn in two and both sides were dump.
So i really do have wind and water. So i guess that makes wind my first, primary element. Sugoi...I should train in it first i guess.
"This affinity makes it easier to learn how to create and control the nature in question, although even with an affinity this process will usually take any number of years. Shinobi are not limited to the nature they have an affinity to, though. By the time they reach the rank of jounin, most shinobi have mastered two natures.
Because of the difficulty of mastering a nature and the time required to learn it, it is almost impossible to master all five natures in a normal way. However, people who are born with the Rinnegan possess all the elements, . Those who wield the Bashōsen ( the most favorite tool of the Sage of the Six Paths, a fan that generates all the elements ) can also use all five elements."
Wait, wasn't the Sage of Six Paths a legend? But then why, and what is this Rinnegan anyway? Oh well, another question added to the list.
"Besides the five basic nature types, there are several more advanced types. By initiating more than one basic chakra nature transformation simultaneously, one can create a completely new nature of chakra with unique properties, and is referred to as a "elementally-recomposed nature type". Doing this requires a special ability and such abilities are rarely seen outside a kekkei genkai or kekkei tōta".
I guess due to my connection with Seishin Ryu, i will be able to use it without having the kekkei genkai. Nice.
The rest of the scroll were instructions on how to master each element.
The boy closed the scroll and scrambled to bed. Tomorrow was a big day for him, starting tomorrow, he was going to train. And he was gona kick some ass in the exams. He was 99% sure that Kakashi will nominate them, after all, they were the most awesome gennin team in whole Konoha., dattebayo!
The next morning the boy nearly ran all the way to the training grounds, after consuming cup ramen of course.
It was still early and the team was going to gather only in a few hours. Decideing the best action was to stop waisting time, the boy thought for a few moments what could he do.
He wanted to try out the leaf cutting exercise that the scroll provided, but he knew that he first needed to master chakra control.
So remembering what his sensei told him about the clones, with a quick hand sign 20 clones appeared in front of him. He divided the mass into groups of 10, 5 and 5. The 10 were to go and practice water-walking, 5-tree climbing, and the rest leaf balancing. Iruka had told them about that exercise long ago at the academy, but he didn't pay attention.
He was starting to regret that now.
Oh well, no point in dwelling on the past.
While his clones worked, he sat and thought about his other pluses and minuses.
Chakra capacity- very high, control, low.
Taijutsu-street brawl with no form.
Genjutsu-nonexistent, he didn't even know how to sense one, let alone dispel it.
Ninjutsu-his kage bunshin and the kuchiyose.
Ok. He needed to work on his taijutsu, that was first and foremost. Genjutsu can wait. Ninjutsu, well, he was working on it now, or rather, his clones. With better chakra control he could learn those jutsu. He tried to remember what Iruka had been telling them about taijutsu.
Something about speed, and weights.
Maybe he could go get weights?
Ok, thats in the plan. First, some running.
With that, he started to jog around the training field. It was quite large. After 30 or so rounds, he fell on the ground, sweating and breathing hard. Damn, he had never ran so much in his entire life.
Sure, he was naturally fast, he always was, thatw as probably the reason why even ANBU couldn't catch him. Only Iruka did.
He had chosen the orange jumpsuit for that specific reason. It was training for him. Stealth and speed.
How come Iruka caught him?
He mused that the speed was something from being the son of the yellow flash. He still had a hard time believing that the yondaime hokage was his father, but he accepted it. He wanted so much for people to know that, but on the other hand, his pride got ahead.
He didn't want the villagers to respect him and love him for who his father was, he wasn't like a certain teme.
No, he had made a promise, he will become a hero with his own name, maybe then he will take on the Namikaze name. For now, he wanted to prove to the world that Uzumaki Naruto existed, was human and will be hokage, will be respected.
I am going to make a name for myself, like tou-san, i am going to invent my own jutsu, dattebayo!
He groaned in pain as suddenly 7 of his clones dispersed, not a moment after followed by the others.
Now he knew exactly why had Kakshi told him to minimize the amount of kage bunshin used.
Right now, he had to deal with the exhaustion of the clones combined, plus all that in one big headache.
Life sucked for sure.
And it was nearly time for Sakura and Sasuke to come, but instead of waiting, he stood up and tried the tree walking.
He went up the trunk not even realizing what he was doing.
Then it downed on him just how much did the clones help with his control.
"Hell yeah!"
He started to jump around, effectively startling the two who just entered the clearing.
After getting a bonk on the head and a 'hn dobe', they resumed thier usual routines. Sakura swooning over the teme, the teme and him throwing nice words at each other and the scarecrow being late for 3 hours.
"You're late!"
"Maaa, gomen, gomen, i got lost on the road of life.."
"Liar!"
Kakashi, as he had promised, gave him the scrolls for fuuinjutsu. He was putting the team through righteous training. From meditating, teamwork exercises, workouts to taijutsu. He even made them play shouji once in a while. Surprisingly, Naruto took it good. He never won, but he made utterly brilliant plans in the most heated situation and wriggled free. Kaksahi had to put his book down for all the three of them were decent in strategy. He liked it. Day by day his decision to nominate the team to the exams grew.
And he wanted his kawaii students to defeat Gay's. That would make the toothy grin disappear.
At least he hoped it would.
After all, they did make a bet.
The month passed as they trained with the team and individually. They had to take some missions too, D-ranks to get money.
Naruto had gone shopping the very next day. All the shops ran by civilliand promptly yelled at him to get the heel out.
The only place that didn't was 'Higarashi's store'
The place was led by an elderly man, he was a retired ninja, having fought the third great shinobi war. The white haired old man was kind to Naruto, who at first wondered why, but then shruuged. At least he could get some clothes and weapons here without being overcharged.
He had gotten some chakra weights. They were like bracelets, 4 for each wrist and ankle. By putting chakra into them, they got heavy. It was a very effective way of training, or so Higarashi san had said.
When one got used to the weight, he added. In battle, with a simple 'fuuin kai" the weights were dispelled, the aditional chakra returned to his body.
It was good for chakra control too.
After that Naruto had purchased a new set of clothes. Sure, he always liked orange, his future hokage robes were going to be black and orange ( he had already planned it all), but right now, he felt as if his orange jumpsuit was too much. Besides, he had taken a liking to white.
After all, he was going to use ice and snow, he wanted to look cooler, dattebayo!
He had picked white cargo pants with a black belt with lots of additional pockets. He wore a black, form fitting mesh shirt and a white hooded jacket. The red Uzumaki swirl was present on his back( Higarashi san had told him to sue it on the jacket. It made the boy wonder if the man knew his heritage. He had seen war, so that meant he had fought alongside Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina. But right now, he let the subject drop)
With the clothes he had also picked up a bokken. Higarashi-san was startled when he learned that the boy was interested in kenjutsu, so he gave it to the boy himself, along with a scroll. From what the boy understood, the scroll was a kenjutsu style left in his hands by one of his friends before death.
Naruto got the scroll for free. But he did pay for the bokken.
The young Uzumaki was 100% sure now. the old man knew his father. They were friends.
During the month the yellow haired boy trained his chakra control, the leaf cutting (which was going rather , he had the second stage to finish. The scroll had said that water cutting was going to be much harder.) He hand't even started on water manipulation yet. He wanted to master one element fully first. He trained his taijutsu and kenjutsu. He combined those two, leaning from both. He knew all the stances, but as he didn't have the practice yet with a real opponent, rather then his own clones, he didn't know how good he was at it. His kenjutsu was a bit harder. The bokken was a little too short for his liking, and the style Naruto had in the scroll 'Dance of the lightning Dragon' was meant for dual swords. Nevertheless, he trained.
The style was beautiful, it was meant for generating elemntal chakra through the blades, or creating blades from the element itself. It was truly magnificent. And Naruto loved it. Lighning was his fathers second element, and he seemed to favor it more then wind, after all the hiraishin no jutsu was lightning based too, even if it was a space time ninjutsu. Naruto already imagined how the dance will look like with wind, or ice...
He was drooling at the possibilities. And the idea of creating katanas from the element drew him.
That was the main reason why he wanted to learn ice manipulation so much!
"Owww, lemme go!"
"Yo punk, you should watch where you are going, maybe i should teach a gai like you a lesson?"
Naruto and Sakura halted. There was Konohamaru, with tears in his eyes held by a weird dressed boy.
Today the copy nin had finally given the forms for the chuunin exams. When he 'poofed' away, Sasuke left. Sakura and Naruto were left alone. Then the three academy students appeared inside a square rock.
Naruto still couldn't comprehend how did it come to the small fact that the hokages grandson called Sakura an ugly bitch with a huge ugly forehead, he only knew one thing, he told the boy to run. Sakura in her very angry demonic for pelted after him, screaming curses. Naruto was hot on her toes.
"Oy, you, make up face, you'd better put the hokage's grandson down, you do not want an international conflict that could lead to war do you?" snarled Naruto.
there, done.
heheh, i am reaching to the pairing part. and i am very sorry to disappoint, but it is not going to be shiho.
lets see if anyone of you can guess heheh
Kekkei tōta ( Literally meaning "a selection of blood inheritance" or "Bloodline Selection") is an advanced form of a kekkei genkai. The only known example is Dust Release, a combination of three different nature transformations.*
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