Chakra Sensing

"Taijutsu and Water Release are currently my strengths," Kyōichi thought to himself.

"Although I have gained basic genjutsu skills which enhanced my chakra control, genjutsu is not my forte. The next step should be to focus more on Earth Release..."

Kyōichi was secretly planning in his mind.

The genjutsu reward was completely unexpected good fortune, not enough to be included in his plans. Earth Release was still more important.

Although powerful, Water Release had some geographical limitations.

He had to master Earth Release.

Of course.

There was also an important reason -

To be promoted to jōnin, mastery of two chakra natures was a prerequisite. Otherwise, even with sufficient achievements, Kyōichi would only be a tokubetsu jōnin at most.

Just being a tokubetsu jōnin was absolutely not enough to carve a place for himself in Konoha.

Kyōichi stood at the doorstep.

The Kamida household was not small, but there were few family members left. His parents had perished in the Second Shinobi World War, and his grandmother had also passed away some years ago.

However.

There were still some "treasures" inside the house -

Some scrolls his grandmother had left behind.

The Senju clan was very generous. For every clansman who married someone from another clan, they would let the bride bring some things as part of her dowry. Those scrolls were what she had brought from the Senju clan.

His previous incarnation did not pay attention to those scrolls.

But.

Kyōichi felt there might be some things he could utilize from them.

He searched through them carefully.

Indeed!

One of the scrolls contained special contents.

Some of Tobirama Senju's kenjutsu material. Although just copied notes without systematically formed kenjutsu moves, they formed a complete kenjutsu system.

The Konoha-ryū kenjutsu!

"This book is a real treasure," Kyōichi thought to himself.

His grandmother's wisdom was truly unparalleled in choosing to copy this book as part of the dowry instead of ninjutsu scrolls.

If her descendants had sufficient aptitude, they could derive an entire kenjutsu system from this book. Unfortunately, it seemed his father did not have that aptitude and did not grasp the secret techniques.

Although he had learned some kenjutsu, it was very shallow, and was not pursued in Kyōichi's previous generation.

Kyōichi pondered for a moment, then put the book away.

He would take a good look at it tonight.

He glanced through the other books. Those were no longer any ninjutsu scrolls or secret texts, just ordinary books recording clan history. But compared to the Second's kenjutsu notes, those clan history books had been read the most times.

Right, start training now.

Kyōichi had recovered after resting.

He went to the courtyard.

The next moment, he weaved hand seals...

"For this kind of thing, doing it yourself would have the best effect right?" Kyōichi said with a smile.

"I want to train my body. You'll have to help with the kenjutsu."

The shadow clone was silent.

Sure enough.

How could a shadow clone exist just to enjoy itself?

Train then.

...

The next day.

Kyōichi arrived at the academy vigorous and lively.

He had thoroughly experienced the Senju bloodline's power today.

Not just the physique.

Yesterday, the shadow clone and original body had trained intensely, but after just one night's sleep he was bright and energetic without the slightest fatigue.

On the other hand, Obito...

When Kyōichi entered the classroom, he couldn't help but feel amused.

Obito had arrived just in time.

From his appearance, he seemed to have rushed all the way here, depleting quite a bit of chakra along the way. He was now panting heavily looking very miserable.

"Sensei, I, I'm not late."

Obito gasped for breath a few times.

He was afraid of being late, so he didn't stop the whole way here. With his naturally poor taijutsu and Body Flicker skills, he had used up almost all his chakra getting to the academy.

"I said yesterday, you'll be the first to come up and demonstrate combining the Transformation Jutsu and Clone Jutsu," Kyōichi said with a smile from the podium.

"Huh?"

Obito's face instantly froze upon hearing that, then rapidly collapsed.

He had forgotten about that.

Or rather.

It would have been better if he hadn't treated Rin to ramen yesterday.

He took a deep breath.

Then, plucking up his courage, he walked up to the stage.

Although not on Naruto's level, Obito's chakra control was still considerably better. After all, he didn't have the Nine Tails messing inside him. But it had to be said...

This chakra control was just as lousy.

Before long.

Next to Obito appeared a crooked, collapsed clone of Kyōichi.

"An exact likeness indeed," Kyōichi sighed inwardly.

Obito frowned.

He didn't feel embarrassed about it, just worried that Kyōichi would punish him for it again.

This sensei.

He's a good person, but his mind is as narrow as a needle's eye.

"You have quite a bit of chakra, and your talent in ninjutsu and shurikenjutsu is good, but taijutsu and chakra control are your weaknesses. You need to urgently improve them, otherwise you'll hold your team back when you're on the battlefield in the future," Kyōichi said.

Obito hurriedly bowed deeply and said, "Thank you Sensei!"

His previous teachers would just shake their heads.

But.

This Kamida-sensei didn't look down on him, and instead gave pointers. Just this point alone wiped away much of Obito's grievances.

"Tree climbing, water surface walking, pace yourself," Kyōichi said lightly.

"Tree climbing, water surface walking?"

Many students below were puzzled, including Iruka.

As civilians, they didn't know about such things before being assigned to genin teams.

"Use chakra on your feet to climb trees. As for water surface walking... it's using chakra to let you walk on water," Kyōichi explained.

"I think I've heard Father mention it before."

"Have you practiced it?" Obito asked.

"No, I could do it without practice," Kurenai said, shaking her head.

"..."

Damn.

People with talent are so annoying.

Obito cursed inwardly.

"Sensei, could you explain in more detail..."

"Sure."

Kyōichi explained tree climbing and water surface walking very clearly.

This kind of knowledge was not secret techniques.

However.

Knowledge itself has barriers. Without someone to teach them, the students below would not understand.

He brought these up also hoping the civilian children could practice them early, so they wouldn't fall too far behind others when they went on the battlefield in the future. It would give them a slightly better chance of survival.

Of course.

Perhaps the Third hoped to only teach these after genin team assignments.

But this was wartime. When would the jōnin have time to teach?

"Practice more in your spare time. Alright, next..."

Kyōichi nodded, signaling for the others to come up.

Aside from Obito, the other students hadn't expended much chakra, and their control was decent, so combining Transformation and Clone Jutsu wasn't too difficult. Later on, he asked them to increase the number of clones.

This was harder.

But by this time, even Obito had recovered. Although two or three were deformed, it showed Obito's own abilities weren't at Naruto's level either. He had just looked terrible earlier from chakra exhaustion.

Soon.

One lesson finished.

"Relaxing!"

Kyōichi rather enjoyed it.

The children of the shinobi world were so much better behaved than the little brats in his past life. All were very obedient, with the most unruly students just arriving late, skipping class, leaving early etc.

Moreover.

There hadn't been any students leaving class early since he took over.

Returning to the office.

Kyōichi glanced at the system panel.

[Completed lessons on 'Combining Transformation and Clone Jutsu', 'Tree Climbing', and 'Water Surface Walking'.]

[Evaluation: Excellent.]

[Reward: Chakra Sensing]

Chakra sensing?

Kyōichi looked around, then chose to accept the reward.

Next, he placed his fingers on the ground. Soon, chakra probed out and everything around entered his mind.

"As expected, this technique!"