Chapter 4: 1 month training Part 2
After reading the book inner had given her, Sakura had come to the conclusion that she should never ever lose this book because it was a fucking gold mine.
Not only did the book explain all there was to know about double soul and her particular mental landscape. It also had a list of all the different skill a second soul could let you use.
Obviously, as good as that seemed, it couldn't have been without conditions. To learn a new skill, Sakura had to have a certain chakra capacity or she wouldn't be even able to use those skill. And damn if those skill weren't chakra consuming.
But she decided to make a list of all the skill she would like to learn in the future. There were some she could already learn with her actual chakra capacity.
The first one was a skill called 'Intention reading'. It basically gave the user the capacity to predict their opponent moves . Thought it only worked for the next 5 second after it's utilisation.
Sakura wanted to learn this skill because it would give her a necessary advantage even if it was very short. But thanks to her intelligence and fast thinking, she would be able to exploit those 5 little second to their full potential.
In the book, there was written that in order to perform that technique, very few chakra was needed. Which make it perfect for Sakura actual chakra reserve. It would give her a great advantage without taking all of her chakra.
The only negative think about this skill was that in order to achieve it, she had to train her dodge and prediction of attack. The principal exercise they advised to try was to have things throw at you at different speed and distance and to try to dodge them.
This would make your reflexes a lot better and it would eventually make you achieve the skill. And once you unlock the skill, image of what is about to happens will instinctively come into the user mind when she need them.
So Sakura decided that for the sake of this fantastic skill she could unlock, she would add this exercise into her morning physical training.
And she also decided that she would start learning medical ninjutsu because she knew that she will never be able to dodge all the projectile from the first training session. So she will need to heal herself.
The second skill she wanted to learn before going back to Konoha was a skill called 'Genjutsu reversal'.
She was interested in it in the first place because Kakashi sensei had told her she was a genjutsu type. But after reading on the book what it could do, she decided that she had to absolutely learn it because it was simply too good not to.
Though this skill would be a lot more of a problem on her small chakra reserve since it used a great amount of chakra. But she would still learn it and only use it when necessary for the moment.
The skill basically consisted in the possibility for the user to take possession of their enemy genjutsu once it was casted on the user.
It meant that once the genjutsu was casted on her, she would just need to ask inner to take control of the flux of chakra and revers it on the enemy which would then make it so that it was like if it was her who had casted the genjutsu in the first place.
And the best part about this skill was that it worked on any type of genjutsu. Any type, which means it should also work for any kind of genjutsu casted by the sharingan. Or at least that's what Sakura want to believe.
This little details wasn't written anywhere in the book, she had just assumed it would probably work. Guess she would had to test it with either Sasuke or Kakashi to be sure. But it would be really great if it was the case.
This skill also made her immune to any kind of genjutsu placed on her by someone who had less chakra than her. Thought this was quite irrelevant for the moment since nearly everyone had more chakra than her. That only meant that she had one more reason to augment her chakra quantity.
Going back to the 'genjutsu reversal' technique, it also said in the book that once the user had take control of the genjutsu, the only way for the enemy to break out of it was to use ten time the quantity of chakra they had used to cast it.
Which would let them whit a lot less chakra and make it simpler for her to win since her enemy would most likely be low on chakra.
There were other skill she would love to learn but they were just out of her league for now as they consumed way too much chakra.
But she wasn't too worried about that, in a normal situation, one can double their chakra reserve in a month of training. But for her it was even better because thanks to the soul space she had nearly the double of that time.
So she was confident to be able to make her chakra reserve at least tree time bigger than they were at the moment. Which would allow her to learn another skill she really wanted to learn.
It was called 'Aura' and was basically like the killing intent that Zabusa had used when they had fight him. Thought there were a few difference that made this ability very interesting.
If one was able to cast it, the aura that would come out of the body user would drain the chakra of the person it was directed to. And it would also paralyze their body for about 5 second.
The amount of time the aura was active was determined by the user but they had to take into consideration that while using this skill, their chakra was constantly drained just like the chakra of the enemy.
If one had more chakra than their enemy, it was a good skill to have but if not, the only interest in this skill was the paralyzing effect it provided for about 5 second.
When Sakura finally finished reading all the book she had took from the library, she got out of the soul space and got up to stretch her body from her meditation pose.
She looked out of the window and saw it was already dark so she decided to cook something and eat. Once she was done, she took a paper and a pen and started writing down all the things she wanted to train during this month.
First, she absolutely needed to train her body and make it stronger, faster and more resistant. She would do the training to acquire the same strength as Tsunade Senju and also the dodge training for inner skill. She also needed to improve her taijutsu.
Then she wanted to learn all the jutsu she had accumulated like the two D rank and the two C rank elemental jutsu she had bought. And also the sensing jutsu and the genjutsu she had found in the hidden library.
She also needed to increase her chakra pool capacity by meditation. And she wanted to learn at least the two first skill she had listed before. For the aura one she will see through the month if she would be able to learn it. And finally she wanted to at least start learning medical jutsu.
Once she had listed all those things, she took another paper and decided to write down a training plan for the next month.
Basically she would be using all her morning for every kind of physical training she needed to do. Then, in the afternoon, she would alternate between ninjutsu, genjutsu, medical ninjutsu and inner skill. And finally before going to bed she would try too read as many book on her mental library as she could.
Once this planning was finished, she decide it was finally time to go to bed. Putting away the dishes, she then went into her room and changed into her pyjama before going to sleep.
The next two week were hard for her mentally and physically as she was absolutely not used to her harsh training plan. But by the end of the second week of training, she could already tell it was working way better than she had imagined.
Her chakra reserve were already the double of what they had been two week ago and she had decided to also start training for the aura skill since her chakra was becoming more and more by the day.
The training for this skill basically consisted of a sort of meditation where she would cover her body with chakra and then launch that chakra around her.
It was extremely draining but she had decided to do it in the morning just before her physical training so she would be forced to train without using chakra for some time. And this technique had greatly increased her body stamina.
As for her genjutsu and ninjutsu, she had mastered all the jutsu she had wanted to master and had decided to go back into the hidden library to see if she would be able to take any other book now that she had more capacity.
She had been able to take out one more book and it was a medical ninjutsu technique. It was called scalpel and it basically showed her how to create a little blade made of chakra on her hand that would hurt the chakra system and not the body.
It could for example cut one of the chakra vessels in the arm and thus prevent the enemy from using chakra with that hand. It was a very useful technique that she had immediately started practicing on some of her own clone.
Alongside this new jutsu she had learned the base of medical ninjutsu and she could heal even some bigger wound. But she still couldn't heal broken ribs or tendons.
As for her physical condition, she was two time faster than she had been and she could now make crater of about 50 inch of diameter when she punched the ground.
All these improvement in only two week had made her very happy. And even if she was still struggling a little with the 'genjutsu reversal' technique because she had no one apart her clone to train on, her 'Intention reading' technique was improving very well and she was able to dodge the projectile at a much faster pace because she could predict were they would be.
The next two week were a lot easier on he body and mind since she was getting accommodated to her training plan. And at the end of the month of training, she had four time the quantity of chakra she had one month ago.
She had a bunch of new jutsu as well as genjutsu and medical ninjutsu in her set of skill. And she was able to control her three inner skill quite good.
So when she went to complete the mission the hokage had given her before going back to Konoha, everything went pretty good.
But she had to imagine that thinks had been going way too good this past month. Because the moment she approached Konoha, she understood that something had gone very bad during the chunin exam.