Academy Days [Part 3]

OHHHHH, I just remembered. I might have a secondary affinity. I need to buy a chakra paper on my way home. I think they sell it in the shinobi supply store...

"Okay class that is all for today." Said the teach. Letting us go for the day. I quickly made my way to the supply store hoping to learn more about myself.

As I went into the store I was welcomed by an average sized old man with a goatee. He was also missing his left leg. "So what's a brat like you doing in here?"

Ignoring his remark "Hello sir, I wish to learn my chakra nature, I read I can channel my chakra into a special chakra paper to learn mine." I told the man with a smile on my face.

The man strokes his goatee. "Well, I guess there is no problem with learning your chakra nature. I think we have some chakra papers in the drawer" he mutters the second part as he search the drawer "Found it" he passes me the paper "It will be 10,000 Ryo."

'Fuuuck. If I buy it I'll be left with 4,000 Ryo for the rest of the month. Uchiha orphans, like me only gets 20,000 Ryo monthly to cover our expenses. That's less than 200 dollars... Well, at least he is selling it to me, he might have not sell it to an academy student.' I thought to myself as I passed him the money

He count the money and told me with a smirk "Pleasure doing business with you. Ohh also Uchiha's have fire affinity you probably just wasted your money. You should be more careful with how you spend your money from now on if you want to be a shinobi."

I scoffed and did not retort 'He is right in that most Uchiha has a fire affinity, but I might have another affinity, there is no reason not to check it.

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-Uchiha Compound-

I took out the chakra paper and started channelling my chakra into it. What happened next slightly surprised me.

The paper ignites and turned to ash...

'F**********ck. I only have fire affinity. I feel like I'm cheated somehow. *Sigh* Can't change my natural affinity without something like Rinnegan.

*sigh* I guess I should send a Bunshin to the library and see how to train fire affinity.'

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" *poof* a clone of me appears "You know what to do" he nods and leaves with a Shunshin.

-2 Hours Later-

I was meditating, waiting for my clone

The clone disappeared after reading the book with his Sharingan.

I now had an idea on how to train my affinity.

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First step of fire nature transformation training was obvious I took a leaf and tried to ignite it. Try is the key word. I failed spectacularly. Not even able to produce minute amounts of fire.

Next day I sent a Bunshin to class. It cut my reserve in half but I still had enough to train. But again there was no progress.

Day after same thing happen. I started to feel frustrated. There was literally no progress.

A week passed like that and finally I managed to ignite the leaf.

But I found my progress too slow. And this was supposed to be the easiest element for me to learn.

At least I can finally move to the second part of the fire training. Second training was going to be far harder...

I found a mid sized tree. I need to set it on fire by releasing fire chakra into it.

Seeing as I needed to burn it started channelling as much as fire chakara as I could at it. Trying to ignite it with all my might. Enough to say I failed again.

This continued for 2 months. I was finally able to ignite the tree by channelling fire chakra into it.

I was happy with this development, but I was even happier what my clone learned today.

Apparently Itachi beat bunch of bullies in school and teachers started to talk about having him graduate next month, at the age of 7.

This was great news, because that means my involvement hasn't affected the story in a major way.

Maybe small changes here and there but nothing major.

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-3 Month Later-

In this past three months Itachi graduated and has started taking missions with his team.

He was placed in Team 2 with Tenma Izumo so there wasn't any change to Itachi's story.

No butterfly effect for Massacre so far.

Also during the past months I visited the clan library to learn more Jutsus.

I learned various Fire Style C-Rank Jutsu, Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu, Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu, Fire Style: Flame Bombs. As well as a B-Rank, Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu.

Also I found 2 useful Genjutsu, C-Rank Sly Mind Affect and B-Rank Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death, the one Kurenai was(will be?) known for.

But most importantly my Sharingan had finally gained its second tomoe. This was mostly due to the daily training from old man's notes on improving Sharingan.

However, despite all these improvements I was not happy.

For the past month, training did little to help me. My chakra reserve and control had hit a plateau, most likely due to my age or lack of advance training methods. And I only had access to half of it most of the time because I needed to send a clone to class. *sigh*

But thats not all, I wasn't even able to improve my taijutsu skills anymore as I was lacking a training partner and wasn't wearing any weights.

I couldn't do either of those things as wearing weights until next year might still effect my growth and finding a partner that can keep up with me and would not reveal about me was a pipe dream.

'Maybe I'm forgetting something. A way for me to get stronger. A way to improve my body, or chakra control.

I'm not ready to learn a second element, I already mastered all common chakra control techniques upto Chunin level... C'mon think there must be another way for me to improve. Weights will help me to improve physically and taijutsu skills. I need to wait for that... But how can I improve my chakra reserve and control?... I got nothing'

I stood there for a minute 'I guess I should just go to class for a while and rest my body and mind, maybe something will come up.'

*Sigh* Mendokuse