Speed, I am Speed

"Are you sure you have mastered both the first and second steps of chakra control and the three academy jutsus in three days, Shiran? You still have an extra day to make sure you have everything down before coming back to me, you know?"

In fact, Haru knew that Shiran had gotten everything down remarkably fast for someone of his age group. It surprised him to no end how competent his son truly was in ninjutsu, but he still wanted to check his son's mental fortitude and his self-assuredness in himself.

"Yes, Dad, I got everything down and I can easily do both of the chakra control exercises for two and a half hours before feeling the drowsiness start to build."

Haru nodded and proceeded to tell his son to do all three jutsus. All of these were done flawlessly with the transformation of his dad being just the slightest bit in the uncanny valley. Haru asked his son to do the control exercises, which were also done for upwards of two and a half hours at a time.

Haru, smiling at the end, looked at Shiran and congratulated him on completing the challenge.

"You did so well that I will honor my side of the deal with you and give you a supplementary jutsu that will help you on your journey to become the strongest ninja on the planet."

I looked with hopeful eyes at my dad, hoping that it was either the shadow clone or body flicker jutsu. If it was the shadow clone, my training speed would take a definite leap up, but if it was the body flicker, I could get some very valuable time with a jutsu that allows fast travel and also a good way to escape things should they go sideways at any point.

"I'll teach you the body flicker jutsu."

"Yes! This is awesome, thank you, Dad, let's get started right away."

My dad chuckled and shook his head at my enthusiasm to learn such a useful jutsu.

"Alright, so this is how the body flicker works. You need to gather your chakra from the middle of your gut and push it downwards into your feet. Once the amount of chakra there is sufficient, you wrap the bottom of your feet with the chakra as a way to reinforce your feet, and then you want to release a small part of it in a burst from the bottom of your feet while moving."

I sat there observing my dad wrapping the bottom of his feet with glowing chakra and releasing it in a small burst, making him move a couple of meters in an instant.

'It's a good thing we are in an open area; otherwise, I might end up launching myself into a tree here by accident.' I thought to myself while getting ready to try it myself.

'Alright, so direct, wrap, burst forward. Pretty easy concept, let's put it into practice.'

I directed a constant flow of chakra into my feet while constantly keeping my feet wrapped and reinforced, allowing me to stay safe.

'3, 2, 1 *pulse and step*'

*THUNK*

"Welp, I thought I'd be safe in a clearing, but it seems like I underestimated the power that was needed to move. I didn't even see anything happen; one second I'm staying in place and the next I'm chilling on the ground with a growing bump on my head. No wonder no one but Shisui used the body flicker in combat; it's just too fast without a pair of eyes with dynamic vision."

In the background, I could hear my old man busting a gut, but I'm not too worried about him right now, at least not as much about getting a hang of the movement.

"So, less pulse, but the amount of chakra in my feet was good because they don't feel like they are currently tearing away from my body right now," I said to myself, thinking of how I could adjust this to make it work better.

'Let's try this again. 3, 2, 1 *pulse and step*'

*Rustle*

"Ok, so it worked better this time. I just need better balance for me to be able to use it more times in a row instead of just using it once and stopping. How can I make that happen? Maybe pulsing a smaller amount from both feet instead of a larger amount from the foot I'm stepping off from?"

'3, 2, 1 *pulse and step*'

I stood there with my arms wide in a T pose, seeing if I had lost my balance at all during the last time.

"I think that is the way, pulsing through both feet with a relatively small amount allows you to still cover a great distance in a small time frame and it also allows you to stay balanced enough to fire it off continuously without falling.

I think that with enough practice today I could get it to a proficient level and use it to get around the village in record time as well. An unexpected boon from this is the fact that I can spend a little more time with my friends because I'll be able to get home in a matter of a minute instead of the ten minutes it takes me to walk around regularly."

I turned my head to my dad and flickered to be right before him.

"Dad, I heard one of the elders talking the other day about using shadow clones to train and improve exponentially fast compared to regular training; do you think you can teach me how to do the shadow clone that way I can train even more?"

My dad showed a thoughtful look down at me before shaking his head and saying, "The shadow clone would cost too much chakra right now to be useful for anything but theory learning for you right now."

I looked down in what seemed like disappointment to see if I could somehow manipulate the Uzumaki clan head, my dad, who has seen war and many people die, into giving me the shadow clone. Yeah, not my smartest moment I've had in this life. Obviously, he had seen right through the attempt but he gave a hearty chuckle and patted my back for the attempt.

"You're about 100 years too young to be able to manipulate me, son. How about this, I'll give it to you when you get a hit on me during a spar, sound good?"

I thought about it for a second before agreeing to the stipulations because I didn't think I'd be able to get it any other way from him. I could go to the elders I overheard talking about it, but then I'd owe the elders something, and I'd rather not owe those old geezers a favor if I'm being honest.

"Alright, I'll take that deal, you better be prepared to pay up too because I plan on getting that jutsu from you before I start the academy."

My dad just smiled and started to walk away.

"I wanted to ask one more thing from you, Dad. Can you teach me how to start training my nature transformation?"

My dad cocked an eyebrow in my direction.