Сhapter 32

- The seal restraining the nine-tailed is hardly an ordinary fuin. Even the masters of this direction have little understanding of how this seal works and how it can be influenced. - Throwing me some pretty important information, the old man began his speech. Apparently, he wants to refuse to teach me, which, to some extent, was quite expected ... - But this idea is still not without meaning. - As if in contrast to my thoughts, the old man said, after a gentle pause ... - Naruto, do you want to tighten your knowledge in funijutsu? Hiruzen asked me with a good-natured smile... somewhat straining my fifth point.

Everything is too good for me. And Hiruzen's words, to some extent, somehow even contradicted each other. Then he can't help me in any way, promising only to provide some information about the past jinchuriki, then he asks "am I ready to learn fuinjutsu"… It's all strange and suspicious. I have a clear feeling that I am being manipulated, but the essence of this manipulation is not yet clear to me. And this is annoying, alarming and disturbing. But I still won't refuse such a welcome offer…

- My intensive training in the academy program has already ended. All next year I will consolidate the material I have already passed and improve my skills in taijutsu and in chakra control… So additional classes in... fuinjutsu... will not interfere with my training in any way. - Not very confidently pronouncing the name of the subject, I gave my answer… And yes, I've only heard about fuinjutsu in this world by ear. In the academic library, there was no knowledge of this art from the word at all. Well, I had to look for quite a long time for even a simple mention of this art. Having found these mentions, again, only in some scrolls on history.

Therefore, I decided to demonstrate clearly to the Hokage, and to Iruka-sensei, my little awareness in this matter. Moreover, I really don't know anything specific about this art… But I would really not mind finding out. Still, I don't just wear my current surname. What kind of talent in fuin, as I hoped, I still should have…

- There is no extra knowledge. After a few seconds of thoughtful silence, I added. - Yes, and if these classes will somehow help me when I meet with Kuby… I will do my best to master fuinjutsu. - I said confidently and firmly, forcing the old man and the young man, who came forward a little in time for his speech, because of which I could now clearly see him, gently smile back at me.

- So it's decided. The old man nodded. - This weekend I will send you a person with all the information on the past jinchuriki and their biju. Iruka will inform you about the beginning of fuinjutsu classes a little later..." The old man said, meaningfully looking at my teacher, thereby putting a bold end to our conversation. Of course, I wouldn't mind having a little more conversation with our Hokage, no matter how strange it sounds from my mouth, but Hiruzen himself made it clear that he didn't want to continue the conversation. He has a lot of work, he doesn't have time for empty conversations, and in general he is very busy.

And therefore, albeit very gently, Iruka-sensei and I were escorted out of the village head's office… After that, Iruka himself hurried off on his own business, not wanting to enlighten me on the topic of what your fiunjutsu is and what I signed up for in general. Yeah, apparently, the young teacher himself knew no more about funi than I did. Which is not so surprising, after all, fuin is really a rare art at the present time.

But, contrary to my fears, classes in this art began soon enough. Less than three days after our conversation, Iruka informed me about the beginning of my additional classes. At the same time, oddly enough, these classes took place directly in the academy, after my own lessons. And my teacher, oddly enough, turned out to be a man I already knew – an elderly director of the academy… To whom I got on the carpet several times because of constant fights.

Yeah, I didn't expect that my teacher would be a Shinobi already familiar to me. Well, it doesn't matter, I, in principle, didn't care who to study from. The main thing is that the teacher understands the subject and does not skimp on sharing knowledge about this subject with me. And Aikawa-sensei shared his knowledge very, very willingly… On the first day of our classes, I literally drowned in the scrolls he brought.

As it turned out, a lot of theoretical knowledge was needed to master even the basics of fuinjutsu. Because of which, at some point, my life again turned into a series of endless cramming and training. Fortunately, by that time I had not yet managed to wean myself from such a regime, and therefore, the matter quickly started from a dead point. I mastered the theoretical base at a really rapid pace, fortunately Aikawa-sensei was a really experienced teacher who did not hesitate to give additional explanations if I had any questions on the topic.

And I usually had a lot of questions. After all, printing in its essence is almost a separate language… According to the type of the same Morse code, albeit with its own nuances. But in general, it was a separate language of the press that could be called. And let this language, in general, was not too complicated, but it still had its own nuances, which is why I had questions really regularly… But in general, I didn't find anything conceptually new for myself. Moreover, I really quickly learned a new language for myself, drawing rather bold parallels between it and my native language – Russian…

Yeah, with my cramming and the speed of mastering a new "language", I did not surprise the director of the academy so much. Less than a month has passed since I dealt with most of the scrolls that my new teacher brought down on me… But then problems started to arise. And the whole point is that I needed not only to memorize and learn to read new characters for me. No, I also had to learn how to draw them correctly… Which had some problems.

Still, calligraphy is not my thing… Even in my previous life, my handwriting was truly medical, and even more so in this one… But I still wasn't going to back down. I began to understand too well the usefulness of even the most basic fiunjutsu. Independently replenish the supply of explosive seals, or put a hiding barrier if necessary – vital skills for any Shinobi. Moreover, the standard techniques of hiding your chakra are unlikely to suit me. Iruka has mentioned this more than once, comparing our chakra reserves…

In general, yes, I was not going to refuse to teach fuin because of my own crookedness. Moreover, in the future I may be able to give up all this fuss with drawing seals altogether. Aikawa-sensei, for more motivation, showed me how you can "burn out" the seals with your chakra directly in the air… And even if not all seals can be recreated this way, but the prospects were still mind-blowing.

However, so far I haven't even taken the first step in mastering fuin. Everything that happened before, and will be in the next couple of months – preparation for this very first step. Creating and properly powering your first seal with chakra is almost the most difficult thing at the base of fuin. As a rule, those who have mastered this step in the future quickly learn to use and create most of the simplest seals.

And yes, the whole difficulty of the first step is not the need to memorize and realize a whole bunch of information. And skills in calligraphy, as a rule, do not become a big problem for Shinobi… It is much more difficult to simply power up a painted fuin with a chakra. This is really difficult, even if such manipulations do not require any special control. There is only one small, but complicating everything many times, problem – the seal needs to be powered only by the Yang component of its chakra.

Yes, in fact, the seals work on the pure life force of Shinobi and nothing else. Because of what, such a useful art for Shinobi has not become widespread. There are too few individuals who can use the Yang component of their chakra in at least some decent amounts without any problems for themselves. This also explains such a high price even for the most ordinary seals…

And the dominance of the Uzumaki clan in the field of working with seals becomes clear. Even I, a half-breed of this clan, can boast of very serious distortions in the Yang component of the chakra. Pure-blooded Uzumaki, most likely, were real life force generators in general ... Yes, if you look from this side, it becomes clear why it was Uzumaki who became known as fuinjutsu masters.

And I have a good chance to justify my last name… If I do learn to divide my chakra into Yang and Yin components, my further work with seals should go much easier. Aikawa-sensei doesn't forget to remind me about this almost every lesson. Apparently, to some extent, succumbed to the same disease of local teachers as Iruka-sensei. Who, by the way, after the beginning of my studies with the director of the academy again began to pay me a little more attention… Apparently, he's afraid of losing some of his fame as my teacher, yes.