Fuinjutsu Practice

Natsume smiled and spent some time showing the kids how to mould and circulate chakra. Only two of them had already built up a little chakra but had no idea how to push it through their tenketsu. Ultimately, none of them were successful in their endeavors but they had determination and excitement in their eyes. Their parents and neighbors would always talk about how much pride the Uchiha had in their warriors and so they naturally wanted to be included in that.

After spending a few hours teaching them, the kids were called back by their mothers and the group was disbanded. Natsume returned home with a slight smile on her face. She had never taught anyone before, and although the kids weren't able to succeed, they put all their energy into it and asked a lot of questions. She felt very satisfied and wondered if she should take on some students after the next mission.

"Natsume! Quick come look at Madara!" Natsume was just outside her room when Kono called out to her from next door. She was worried something happened and flickered the rest of the way. The gust of wind startled Kono and she pointed at Madara on the bed.

"What's wrong?" Kono picked Madara up and placed him on his back. After a few seconds of orienting himself, he turned himself over on all fours.

"Madara is so smart! He can already turn over on his own!" Kono gleefully clapped and looked over at Natsume with a proud expression. Natsume had mixed feelings. She made it sound urgent, but it was just her showing off Madara's growth. Natsume put her hand to her forehead and rubbed her brows. Then she had a thought.

"Kono-chan, what do you think of me teaching Madara when he's a little older?" Kono, who was still turning Madara on his back repeatedly to watch him turn over stopped and turned around. Her face was beaming, and she came over to hug Natsume. She squeezed her tightly, but it wasn't uncomfortable.

"Yes! I would love it. And when he grows up, the two of you can even marr—" Natsume's eyes widened, and she cut Kono off.

"Of course, Madara will be a great shinobi when he grows up!" Kono rolled her eyes and had her own thoughts.

After playing with Madara for a bit, Natsume took the scrolls and began studying them in the corner of the room. She would occasionally look up to watch the duo playing around. Madara's laughs and cries intermittently filled the room. Fortunately, with the sharingan Natsume was able to easily focus on reading. It took her the rest of the day to read all of the fuinjutsu scrolls she brought with her and decided to take a break.

"Hnng!" Natsume got up from the mat and stretched her back. Madara raised his arms up and giggled at her as if trying to copy her. Natsume thought it was really cute, so she went over to him and placed him on her lap. Madara played with her hair that had grown quite long. Fortunately his grip wasn't very strong yet, so he ended up just patting it. Kono was asleep at the side, so Natsume took Madara to his bed and wrapped him tightly.

Once his head was down, he started dozing off. For a baby, his life was perfect. He got to play with his mom and big sister, he was fed several times a day, and everything else was taken care for him. Natsume sighed thinking about the weight on this little baby's shoulders. He doesn't realize what is waiting for him when he grows up. She slowly caressed his little head and whispered to him.

"You'll be great…" Natsume finished cleaning up and went to her room.

The next few days passed by the same. Natsume would do her morning training, play with the local kids, play with Kono and Madara, and study the fuinjutsu scrolls. Although she memorized all the information, he still had to take the time to comprehend the information. The main issue with completed Jutsu is that it did not contain the theory behind its formation. Therefore, Natsume was essentially taking apart and reconstructing the various fuinjutsu.

Her first attempt at making a storage scroll ended in failure. However, Natsume learned a valuable lesson: Do not experiment with incomplete fuinjutsu indoors. After nearly destroying her room, she moved to her little courtyard that she shared with Kono. Since the weather was nice, Kono and Madara sat outside and watched her.

Natsume had a large, blank scroll completely rolled out all over the courtyard. She started at one end with a brush. The seals in fuinjutsu weren't made of ink although they looked like it. It was actually a simple kind of yin release jutsu that contained a dense amount of fuinjutsu formulas which would appear dark like ink. If they used actual ink, then ink producers would be economic powerhouses. And with how frequently shinobi use storage scrolls, they could rule the shinobi world.

After three hours of consecutive writing, the whole scroll was filled with countless formulas. She sighed and laid down on the ground to rest before checking her work. The sky was clear and the temperature was slowly rising every day. Before long, she would be called to the front again to fight. The peace she experienced now was temporary. After staring at the blue sky for a while, she sat up again and went back through the scroll from the beginning.

"Okay… everything looks right." She pressed her hand on the end of the scroll and inserted chakra. The formula and scroll rolled up on their own as the fuinjutsu curled up into a series of densely packed lines. Once the scroll rolled up all the way to only leaving a small pattern, Natsume sighed in relief.

'Success!' Natsume did a little fist pump to celebrate. She was in awe of the first people to discover the formula for sealing scrolls and implementing it. Shinobi only needed to memorize the shortcut to reproduce the scroll, no one took the time to write out the whole scroll from scratch anymore. However, by doing so, Natsume successfully increased her fuinjutsu proficiency.

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