The Return

"Sensei?"

Poking my head into his lab i look around, seeing no sign of my pale mentor.

Huh… he's not here.

Walking into the lab I briefly considered just leaving but dismissed it immediately as I felt someone for but a moment.

It was subtle.

A momentary fluctuation of Chakra.

Then it disappeared.

"Hello?"

Huh? Must have been the wind.

Turning my back towards the direction of the Chakra I felt I take two steps before immediately summoning four barriers to form a rectangle of protection around as Shinobi in black cloaks and masks surround me.

This is bad.

"Impressive,"

Turning around I see a new person who I couldn't sense along with Orochimaru.

"Stand down." The new commer spoke.

Around me the cloaked Shinobi disengaged before vanishing.

Shady Shinobi who can hide from my senses.

Lovely.

I had thought there was only one. I didn't sense the other three.

Dropping the barriers i put away my own sword back where it belongs.

"So who's your friend Sensei?"

"Sozo this is Shimura Danzo, village elder as well as a member of the Hokage's council."

Got ourselves a big shot.

Should probably turn on the manners.

Bowing slightly, I formally introduced myself, "Shimura Danzo pleasure to meet you, I am Sozo Akinori, student of Orochimaru."

Danzo doesn't respond in any way.

Stoic type I see.

"Well if I'm not needed here I'll be on my way," I say as I begin to retreat to the door.

"Sozo Akinori."

Oh… he speaks.

"Your talent is wasted as a lab assistant, join my Organization and you will achieve your full potential," Danzo spoke.

"Um… nah, I'm good."

Orochimaru looked at Danzo insulted that he just tried to steal me right in front of him.

"Sozo," Orochimaru said in a low tone, "You're free to go."

The atmosphere in the room was suddenly quite heavy as I happily left the room.

That was uncomfortable.

 …

So wind is a bit more difficult to use in an effective way. Most of the time I end up throwing a strong gust of wind that is little more than a slight annoyance.

My solution.

Orochimaru.

More specifically his personal collection of goodies.

This library is a godsend.

Let's see…

Nope to that one I want something offensive.

This one looks intriguing. Oh wait never mind it takes 52 hand signs, not even gonna attempt.

Oh… let's take a closer look at this one.

Manipulate wind currents to change the trajectory of a kunai or speed it up, requires precise control to be efficient though.

Taking the scroll I put in in my bag before continued to brows. I still need something offensive.

I spent a good three hours going through jutsus. I unfortunately can't learn them all so deciding which jutsus to dedicate time to was a hard choice. 

I wanted something that wasn't hard set in what it could do but it seems wind isn't as flexible, i can't just turn up the intensity like I can with fire, control was important, without it the jutsu would require a large amounts of Chakra to achieve the same results.

Good thing it's my primary affinity.

In the end I found three jutsus.

Cyclones Barrier, I know I said I want something offense but I just had to take this on. 

Plus there's no such thing as too many barriers.

Gale Slice, this one's quite straight forward.

And one simply called Wind Explosion. 

Vary creative name. 

That one involves creating a ball of wind that can be thrown that… explode when it collides with someone or the outer shell of wind weakens to the point it can no longer contain the explosion part.

Should I start naming my techniques? Seems to be a popular trend. Plus if i ever create some and want to put it in a scroll its gonna need a name.

Food for thought…

Putting everything back where it belongs i make my way to a training ground.

…

"Congratulations my pupils i no longer have anything to teach you!" I say.

"What do we do now then?" Taki asked.

"I don't know whatever you want. Unless you want to learn Fuinjutsu or Iryõ-jutsu i really have nothing more to teach you.

Go bother Sensei tell he actually teaches you something."

"What about kenjutsu?"

"Your gonna need an actual Kenjutsu specialist if want to learn more anything more. I just imparted on to you what was imparted to me, we can still spar though."

"Earth release…?"

"Don't know any."

Turning my gaze form Taki i looked to Anko who was uncharacteristically quiet and looked to be deep thought.

"We will still meet up for team training but it up to you to develop your skills further, or find someone else to teach you. 

I'll still be willing to help you if you really need but I will be training on my own, except for the days we meet up, form this point on.

Meeting adjourned."

With my final words I vanished.

...…..

I am back and will continue my 2 chapters a week at the very least schedule. The story i have been working on has been put on the back burner as I focus on this story once again. 

If you look at the chapters you'll see i removed the last two chapters. I did this because i can not remember where I was going with that plot line and can't seem to find what would have been the next chapter. I still have the draft so I can always coem back to it later. That plot line can happen at any time during the third Shinobi war so chances I'll use it at some point in the future.

Also I want so begin doing something new. You j really enjoy writing nonsense, so every 5 or so chapters i will release a side story, these chapters won't take up one of the two chapters a weeks. These side stories won't really matter unless I decide they do. Its pretty mush just for fun.