Chapter 3 Adding Points

　Visiting an izakaya is one of Kato's frequent pastimes.

　　"Welcome! It's Kato-kun. You haven't visited here for a while. Is it because of a mission that sent you out of the village?"

　　"Good afternoon, Mrs. Kikugawa, it is indeed true that I had gone out of the village on a mission for a long time . I was strolling through the village then I decided to visit here. Please serve me a bottle of shochu first, and then I will have my two signature dishes. "

　　Aunt Kikukawa led Kato Yukaze to a place near the window, "Okay, it just so happens that the old place where you often sit is still vacant, you take a seat first, I will serve you tea first, and then the food and shochu will be served right away."

　　"Okay, please don't take too much trouble for me. Auntie, you go ahead and serve the other guests first. I'm not in a hurry. Besides, Business has been okay recently, right?"

　　"Business is okay, the old customers take care of our family, you first drink a cup of tea to moisturize your throat." Aunt Kikukawa said while pouring tea.

　　This Izakaya is called Kikugawa Izakaya, which is located in a corner of the snack street in Konoha.

　　The business is average, and the food is passable.

　　This is an izakaya opened by the mother of Kato Yukaze's teammate who had passed away during a mission.

　　Daitomo Kikugawa, was a teammate of Kato Yukaze. They used to be part of the same six-man ninja team.(six man teams was the convention which was later changed to three man teams after the first Ninja World War). He was Kato Yukaze's first teammate who had died during a mission.

　　At that time, Kato Yukaze had just graduated from ninja school for only a year, and he was still a rookie.

　　Although at that time the first Ninja World War had been over for a few years, and the entire Ninja World was peaceful, The Land of Fire, as a result of the recent succession of the Third Hokage, had been chaotic. Daichi Kikugawa was killed when he encountered rebels from the Hidden Mist Village ,during a mission to search for bandits in the Land of Fire.

　　It was an unexpected situation .The original mission targets were not the Rebels, but the Rebels thought that Konoha was searching for them. Daitomo Kikukawa was the first to discover the suspiciousness of the group of Rebels and issued a warning signal. .

　　Then he went to track the suspicious targets alone. Before the leader and the team arrived, Daichi Kikugawa was killed.

　　After Kikugawa Daichi died, the life of Kikugawa's family plummeted. Kato Yukaze and his former teammates had come together and helped . Also they become frequent visitors to the Kikugawa izakaya.

　　In addition, Kikugawa Daichi's name was carved on the Konoha Village's hero stele. Konoha Village also has a policy of compassion and care for the family members of dead ninjas, and the life of the Kikugawa family can still be sustained.

　　Kato Yukaze drank lightly before it became dark, bid farewell to Aunt Kikugawa, and went home.

　　Daichi Kikugawa was the first teammate of Kato Yukaze who died . Not including his father and mother, it was his first encounter whn a relative or friend passed away in the Ninja world.

　　The impact of Kikugawa's death on Kato Yukaze still lingers, however he was not the only teammate of Kato Yukaze who has died. In these years of his ninja career, there are seven or eight teammates who have died.

　　The current Kato Yukaze is not strong enough to unconditionally protect all his teammates.

　In addition to continuing to work harder to protect his current and future teammates and take care of the families of the teammates who passed away, there is nothing else Kato Yukaze can do for his deceased teammates.Kato Yukaze's current goal is to work harder in order to live safely ,and he to become strong enough to protect himself and the people he wants to protect.

　　He returned to the clan and reported about his safety to the elders of the clan. After a few conversations , he learned that his eldest cousin Kato Dan had not returned from his mission, and that several cousins of the same generation were also busy with their own affairs, so he went back to his own house to rest.

　　In the bathroom of Kato Yukaze's home, a naked, well-proportioned young man with a handsome face, sword eyebrows, star eyes, sharp muscles, and light blue hair, is comfortably soaking in the steamy bathtub. It is none other than Kato Yukaze

A blue bath towel hung around his neck and hung on both sides of his chest, just barely covering his fairly developed pectoral muscles.

　 After drinking at the Kikugawa Izakaya until he was slightly drunk, he returned home and decided to take a bubble bath to relieve fatigue.

　　At this time, he was in his consciousness, adding points to the ninja system.

　　Ninja System

　　Name: Kato Yukaze

　　Ninja Level: Chunin

　　Faction: Konoha Hidden Village

　　Physical attributes:Stamina 59, strength 55, spirit 75, speed 62;

　　Chakra Nature Attributes: Wind 62, Thunder 43, earth 39, Water 0, Fire 0, Yin 75, Yang 59;

　　Ninjutsu: Wind Jutsu[Wind Blade, Wind Breath, Wind Light,] Thunder Justsu [None] earth Jutsu[Small Marsh jutsu, earth Wall jutsu] Three Basic Jutsu [Transfiguration, Duplicate jutsu, Clone jutsu]

　　Physique: Basic physique, Basic sword technique, Shuriken technique, Kunai technique

　　Secret jutsu: Spiritualization jutsu (not completed)

　　Remaining attribute points: 176

　　According to the experience gathered by Kato Yukaze after researching the system for so long, he has concluded that he cannot add points to the two attributes of yin and yang in the chakra nature attribute, but the values of yin and yang are the same as the physical strength and spirit in the physical attributes.

　　The two attributes of Yin and Yang are more advanced nature attributes in the Ninja World. The value of the two attributes of Yin and Yang in the system is currently different from the attributes of the other five elements.

　　It only means that he does have the two attributes of Yin and Yang nature in his body, but it does not mean that he can skillfully use the chakras of Yin and Yang.

　　When the attributes of any of the five elements exceeds 60, basically can be considered to be proficient (jonin level) in that nature attribute.

　　Kato Yukaze has the three attributes of wind, thunder and earth, but their original attributes were not so high.

　　The two attributes of physical strength and spirit also affect his own chakra strength and volume. According to his deductions,60 points is a crucial barrier. When an attribute breaks through 60 points corresponding to the real ninja world, it is basically like breaking through the gap between the chunin and jonin .

　　Stamina and speed attributes,as the name suggests, in the literal sense, affects the strength and speed of the body.

　　"System, add some points."

　　In Kato Yukaze's consciousness, he quietly added points to the physical attributes of his body.

　　　　...

　　After one second, in Kato Yukaze's consciousness, the changes in the ninja system are as follows:

　Stamina changed from 59 to 61, consuming 56 attribute points; strength changed from 55 to 59, consuming 20 attribute points;and the rest of the attributes remained unchanged.

The consumption of attribute points increases with the increase of the attribute value. For example, if the attribute is 50 to 60, each additional point consumes 5 attribute points,and for 60 to 70, each additional point consumes 6 attribute points.

　　When the attribute value breaks through every ten levels, it needs to consume the attribute points of the level at that time. For example, if 59 breaks through to 60, it needs to consume 50 attribute points, and if 69 breaks through to 70, it needs to consume 60 attribute points. And so on.

　　In order to consume attribute points to practice and study ninjutsu depending on the difficulty of the ninjutsu, the attribute points consumed each time will be different. For example, the three-basic jutsu, this kind of basic ninjutsu, consumes only about 1 to 10 attribute points each upgrade.

　　And it also doesn't mean that you can just learn ninjutsu after consuming attribute points. It also depends on whether Kato Yukaze's own qualifications and conditions are suitable for learning the particular ninjutsu.

　 For example, take the small swamp technique in the list of Kato Yukaze's Ninjutsu. He had originally planned to learn the B-level ninjutsu swamp technique,however because he had insufficient research on the nature of earth nature Chakra, the control of the jutsu is not up to the standard, thus leading him to learn a small swamp technique.

　　 Compared with the genuine swamp technique, the scope is much smaller and the consumption of chakra is not up to standard. But anyhow it is still a control jutsu, better than nothing.

　　　　With the remaining 100 attribute points, Kato Yukaze decided to study the Technique Of Spiritualization

　　This technique is the secret technique of the Kato clan, the highest level ninjutsu he can learn at this stage. Also the difficulty is very high, every time he spends points to study and research, it consumes 50 attribute points.

He decided after taking the bubble bath he will take the time to adjust to his new physical attributes then study the Technique of Spiritualization.