Chapter Thirteen: Plans of Revenge and Grind

Hiro abruptly opens his eyes and gets up from his bed. When he looks around, he realizes that he is in a hospital room. The events in the forest begin to fill his mind all of a sudden. Staring at the ceiling, he lays back on the bed and takes a deep sigh. "It's really obvious how weak I am compared to the strongest people in this world. Hahaha. Strong? Orochimaru maybe doesn't even fall into that category." Dark thoughts slowly filled his mind. "I don't work hard enough. I need to work harder, smarter. I need to get better. Furthermore, I don't want my life to depend on other people. My trust problems get in the way." Orochimaru's face flashed in his mind as Hiro lay on the bed. "Orochimaru! You'll pay for everything you've done, penny by penny… I'll make you worse than dead. Hahahahaah!" He came up with hundreds of scenarios he could use. "Your weakest time is when you are most arrogant. When I kill your slaves holding the barrier, you will be done. Thereafter, I will literally erase your name from history."

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Hiro looked at his comrades. They were sucking the ramen on the plate like broomsticks. He shook his head, smiling. "It is bad that I was eliminated from the tournament." Kimi-senpai laughed at that. "Unlucky. Try again next time. At least you didn't get beat up like we did." Mura pouted at this. "Don't bring back bad memories. I almost forgot…" Kimi-senpai patted his back and laughed. "Like I said, bad luck. This time the kid in the tournament was as strong as the adults." Mura rolled her eyes. "The fight between that boy Lee and the boy who controls the sand was legendary enough to go down in history." Kimi-senpai nodded in agreement. "There was no such thing in the past years. I was confident that I had reached the level of chunin this year, but despite that, we were eliminated." "Now we have to work harder instead of fretting over our failures. Our failures are the result of not working hard enough before. I, personally, think I'm going beyond my limits now. Even if I get hurt, I can take care of myself…" Hiro added during the conversation.

Mura patted Hiro on the back amicably. "That's right, brother, the work never ends. We have to improve until we die, either on a mission or in battle, or until we die of old age. If we get through these three or four years, I want to have no regrets when I look back." Kimi-senpai looked at the two of them and smiled. "Look, now I'm tempted to work. Let's go and grind!"

"Let's fucking go!"

Afterward, the trio headed to a training area. "I intend to work on my elemental control. If it suits you, you are welcomed to join me." Hiro suggests to his friends. Kimi and Mura looked at each other and shook their heads. "No, we are good. We want to develop in different things, I will work on some genjutsu." Mura said. Kimi also nodded. "You do you."

Hiro moved from the corners to the shade of a tree. He sat on the ground and made hand signals. 'Shadow Clone Jutsu!' Afterward, more than fifty clones appeared around him. "Yeah, guys. We're splitting into groups, we're already in good chakra control. What we need to do is figure out what the fuck the elements are and add them to our technique. When the frogman comes, we'll learn how to become sage from him. Moreover, let's not forget to ask Aki-nee." The clones broke into groups and got to work.

"Add sealing to our future goals. We will do something similar to Tsunade's technique, but instead just to store chakra." Hiro began to strengthen his body, muttering to himself. This late night work ended with the extinction of the clones. After consolidating the information in his mind for a while, Hiro headed home and went to sleep. The next day, he would ask Akinee if the clan had sage techniques.

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"Aki-nee, did our clan have sage techniques?" Hiro asked Aki-nee. Aki-nee answered, raising an eyebrow. "Yes." Hiro continued shaking his head. "Don't worry, Aki-nee sage is a rare thing… Wait a minute, did you say yes?" Aki gave a small smile. "Why not? Our bodies are as blessed innately. Despite this, hardly any people in our clan's history have been able to become sage. A big reason for this is that to be sage, we need to bring out our inner dragon, and we need to understand what it is to be a dragon. You're already sage after that." Hiro's brain faltered at this information. "This is so… unusual? I never expected this. I never expected it to be this easy." Aki-nee laughed contemptuously at that. "Hahhahah. Do you think there is free bread in this world? If you can't understand your dragon, forget about being a sage. You can't even be Sage's s. People who can be sage for hundreds of years are on a hand, and those who do become automatically one of the most powerful people of their age." "Hahaha. Aki, you underestimate me. You have Hiro Pendragon in front of you." Hiro thought to himself. 'I don't have to deal with the frogman if there is such an option.' "Aki-nee, I'm going to ask you something. You know my spear-like technique. Can you please help me if I try to add an elemental value to it?" Aki raised an eyebrow again. "You say sage, and now you say you will do S rank technique. What, did you get up on the other side of the bed this morning? Ah. Whatever, brat. I will help you, after all, you are my leader." Hiro smiled at this. "Whoa!"

"Come on, I don't have time. I'll tell you the basics of how to add elements to a technique. Foremost, your technique was inspired by medical jutsus. Based on that Jutsu, all you need to do is master the elementals and add them without breaking the structure of the technique. You have to shape the technique around that element. Did you get it? How simple! No. It takes a long time to master a single element. Now all you have to do is master the element. Watch it well."

Aki opened her hands and then a rasengan formed inside her hands. Then sparks began to form around the rasengan. "This is what you see is incomplete. What you have to do is add and shape the element. Basically, you have to have perfect chakra control. You need to have a good technical sense and master the elements. Like I said, time and effort." Hiro nodded approvingly. "Okay, I'll get it done in a month."

Aki raised an eyebrow again. "Ooo. I see we're arrogant. How about a bet? If you get it done in a month, I'll kiss you. If you don't, I'll beat your ass with a stick." Hiro nervously raised his hands in the air. "Hey. A stick isn't that much? But... C'mon!" "We will see, brat."