13 Chapter-13: First mission and MORE training
(MC POV)
After becoming a genin, I was on a C-rank mission. I convinced Hokage to give C-rank or more missions because D-ranks don't have any worth for me right now.
It was my very first mission, escorting a merchant from Konoha to his home somewhere in Land of Fire.
I encountered bandits.
I could easily capture them but killing was a bit hard for me. I didn't have my first kill yet.
I steeled my resolve. I knew that I lived in a world of killing. People are slaughtered like pigs in this world, yet I wasn't accustomed to it. This only increased my drive to improve.
I've gotten immensely strong, yet I don't have the mindset to use the powers.
I will change this mentality. Killing isn't something that can be avoided in this world.
From their weapons and demeanor, they don't seem like shinobi. I grabbed a kunai and stabbed one of them in the head. It was quite easy to do.
Just like that, I killed him. But I didn't feel anything. I felt....nothing.
My reaction was just 'ah....he died.'
'My emotions are really calm as if nothing really happened. Why is this happening?' I asked AI inwardly as I dodged all the strikes that bandits threw at me.
I didn't like the feeling but I didn't feel it was wrong too. I was in a turmoil inside my heart.
[This may due to witnessing your own death as well as your clan's death. It may have de-sensitized your emotions regarding killing. You subconsciously think that killing and death is okay as well as natural but just need to start thinking exactly that consciously.]
After hearing this, I steeled my resolve and instantly took out another kunai and started slicing their throats.
I will not allow myself to lose my path towards my goals.
(A/N: Goal? Lead a happy and fulfilling life and fulfilling his whims and fancies. Nothing great but definitely something to work for.)
When a person lacks resolve or his resolve wavers, he simply stops improving. There is no way I will stop myself here, at a critical moment.
After a few minutes, all 20 bandits were dead without exception. They weren't ninjas after all.
I still felt nothing but this was different feeling than previous one. This time I learned to accept this feeling and hence I didn't hate it. I felt a little unrestrained than before.
I decided that I will improve upon my powers as I do missions.
I assisted the merchant and finished the mission successfully.
After a day, I arrived back to Konoha. I rested for a few day to manage my relationships, public image, business and training.
I trained with Hokage that evening.
He decided to teach me about shape and nature transformation. He asked me about water walking and tree walking but I already learnt it under father so I just told him to skip as I already knew it. He found it a little suspicious but didn't question me further.
He gave me a chakra paper too. I never tested my affinity and only trained in fire element because otou-san wanted me to focus of fire element primarily as Uchihas had fire as their main affinity. He died before I could even start nature transformation for fire though.
"Here is a chakra paper. Test your affinities with it. ." he said.
I nodded and pushed my chakra into it.
It first burnt, then got wet, it turned into dust.
I have 3 affinities to work with. It is not surprising. I suppose Yin and Yang nature don't show on chakra paper.
"This is amazing. Having three affinities is rare. To train your affinities, you need to use a leaf and feed it your chakra. Then find a way to bring these characteristic features on it."
"You need to rub your chakra very vigorously and heat it to train fire nature." he said as he burnt the leaf in his hand.
"You need to create two streams of chakra, one must be serene while other must be chaotic and then make them flow together for water nature. It is one of the hardest to train so I recommend you don't focus on it too much for now." he said as made the leaf wet.
"You need to create layers of chakra upon each others and press them firmly while rubbing it very lightly to make the leaf really hard and sharp for earth nature." he said as he turned the leaf into a pointy stone and threw it at a tree. It created a strong dent as if it was struck by a rough metal Kunai. The leaf fell off after impact.
"You should train the fire element first. From what I've sensed, your chakra control is amazing, so learning this help you take it another level as it is hard to control chakra with fire. I will mentor you next time as I need to return to my duties." he said as he left.
I took a leaf and tried to do fire nature transformation.
It was quite easy to do so as I primarily trained in fire style under father but I found a little flaw. I used too much chakra to generate fire. I need to minimize the amount. I tried to use other nature transformation but I wasn't too successful in them.
I went to home and created a shadow clone.
I entered my Kamui dimension and created a few hundred clones. They all took a leaf from the surrounding and started training in Nature transformation of all three of my affinities.
I too was practicing.
I also discovered I could use wood style but it was a bit hard to do as my affinities weren't that high or trained enough.
It took me a few minutes to grow a small tree.
After an hour I undid the shadow clone.
I remember using this the first time.
It takes a heavy toll on your brain to use. First time I tried to dispel a hundred clones made me wiggle harder than an epileptic person. I couldn't move for the night and I felt as if someone created a hole inside my brain the next morning.
I had to train my shadow clone jutsu to get accustomed to the headache.
After dispelling them, I felt I could easily do nature transformation for fire now. Water and earth had a long way to go.
I first activated my rinnegan.
I took a leaf from now a tree nearby and tried to rubbed chakra in a vigorous fashion. I saw that leaf was burning now.
I could see a lot of flaws in my technique. I eliminated a few of those flaws and tried again. The timing and chakra to burn the second leaf was reduced by a small percent. This meant progress.
I suddenly had a crazy idea.
I de-activated my rinnegan and created 100 shadow clones this time.
except me, all activated the rinnegan.
a few of them immediately dispelled and rest of them were very uncomfortable though.
"What happened, Clones?" I asked.
""""All our brain connected. It feels extremely weird to do this. It's as if all of us were a hive mind without a leader. You better prepare for a lot of pain after dispelling us though."""" they said collectively.
I was scared. The shadow clone jutsu took a lot on my mind. What will happen to me now?
They trained in fire nature for a hour.
""""We're dispelling as we're done."""" all of them said suddenly.
They dispelled instantaneously.
I received all their memories and a collective memory that had all their perspective as a sort of single entity.
I wiggled on floor harder than a break dancer due to pain.
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(10 minutes full of break dance later)
Pain finally went away.
'I really am a trolling assh*le aren't I' I thought.
I was now covered in dirt now. From head to toe.
I went inside my safehouse and took a bath.
After washing away all the dirt away, I felt refreshed.
I went out of Kamui dimension.
I also dispelled my clone which was currently reading a newspaper.
I went inside my room and changed into some comfortable clothing.
Today was very productive and I was satisfied.
I ate the dinner that was made by the shadow clone. Sasuke was eating the dinner too.
After eating, we both went to sleep.
Today was very tiresome.
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(A/N: Did you like it?
Any questions? I will try to answer them here.
Schools+ Tuitions + self-study +Preparing for future exams which may drive me to suicide+ self-doubt due to low self-esteem+ questioning your existence + writing a fanfic apparently is exhausting for the day.
Dao of views and power stones is profound. I need to cultivate it diligently.
Wanna mindlessly argue strangers on random topics so that you may feel good about yourself? Let the comment wars begin. I will type a controversial topic now. You will take either side and fight.
Traps aren't gay.
Thanks for reading!)
