The Rolling Storm

I was summoned into the living room by my mother, and I sensed that the conversation was going to be serious just by feeling the chakra rolling inside of her at this moment.

Walking into the room, I sat across from both her and my dad, who looked equally serious but also perhaps a tad joyful? Yep, there's definitely a hint of joy mixed in there. I wonder why?

"Shiran, before we start, I want to ensure that you know we are so proud of what you did. We've mentioned this before, especially after the incident with Miki, but I wanted to reiterate. With that being said, I think it's time we allow you to access my clan's library."

The shock couldn't be concealed from my face when my mom said this, but I was also a little puzzled. "I thought you had to wait until you were a genin before accessing all of the clan jutsus?"

"Well, under normal circumstances, that is true. The reason for that is to allow you to grow to an appropriate level of mastery over the basic skills, creating a solid foundation, and also to allow your mindset to mature a little more before having access to the wide range of my clan's jutsus."

I nodded along with her explanation about how the clan library restrictions work.

"But we recognize that you are a special case across the board, so we have decided to allow you early access. Both because of the solid foundation you already have and because you're much more mature than anyone else your age." This time, my dad explained the reason.

"So that means I have full access to the Amematsu clan library?" My eyes practically shot beams of light as I thought about all the different jutsus that could be in there.

Both my parents smiled and quietly chuckled at the joy their son always gets out of learning new jutsus.

"Yes, that's what it means, Shi. You have access to all the water, lightning, and storm release jutsus you can get your hands on. There's also one more thing." My mom turned to my dad, who smiled as well.

"It also means you have access to all the different fuinjutsu, kenjutsu, and water jutsus available in the Uzumaki clan library. As of right now, you will be restricted to only Practitioner level seals and concepts (chunin level/C rank). Until you pass Yoko's test to start learning about Expert level concepts and seals (special jonin/B rank)."

I nodded again, vibrating in my seat, eager to see what kind of jutsus were in there.

"Can I go right now?"

My dad nodded. "Yes, you can, but before you start practicing any of the storm release jutsu, you're going to let your mother know, and she'll supervise you until you grasp the basic concepts, so you don't accidentally vaporize yourself."

I nodded, thinking that was a fair deal. 'After all, I don't want to get vaporized, especially not when I'm just practicing a jutsu.'

"Alright, you can go. Just make sure you're back before sundown." I nodded towards my dad and waved to both of them before flickering towards the Uzumaki clan library first.

Arriving at the grand building that housed all of the clan's techniques and secret jutsus, I couldn't help but feel excited. Learning about new things has always been fun for me, even in my past life. Combined with the fact that I practically have superpowers because of chakra, how could I not be super excited?

As I stepped in, I was stopped by the librarian. "Son, you can't be in here, only genin-"

I looked up at her, and something seemed to click in her mind pretty quickly before her face flushed, and she asked for my name. I gave it to her, and she cleared her throat.

"I'm sorry, young Shiran. We were expecting you here today. Feel free to check anything you want in the library, but your father informed us not to let you go past Practitioner level seals."

I nodded and thanked the older librarian lady before going into the library.

'Where to start? I think I'll check out the seal areas first,' I thought as I followed the signs leading me to where all the fuinjutsu scrolls were kept.

Arriving at the sealing section was an eye-opener for me. There were thousands of scrolls, and probably even more that I just couldn't see at this point. The shelves were split into four sections for seals ranking D-A. 'The S-rank seals must be kept somewhere more secure here, probably along with the forbidden seals because I doubt those are just lying around here.'

Walking through the first two sections, I spotted some interesting seals like gravity seals, silencing seals, reinforcement seals, a few low-level barrier seals, amplification seals, and an air-conditioning seal. Along the way, I picked up three seals from the C-rank range. One of them was a genjutsu canceling sealing formula that, once placed on your body, cycles and disrupts your chakra's movement, allowing you to disregard the need to disrupt your chakra during combat. The second one was the explosive tag sealing formula.

The last seal I wanted to grab, I had to get help to find. Yoko had said, while she was teaching me, that somewhere in the library was the sealing formula that was the base for all of the Uzumaki barrier sealing techniques, and that if I truly wanted to advance to the next stage in sealing, I would have to master this seal before anything else. With that in mind, I found a clansman browsing through the sealing formulas as well and asked for his help.

"Oh yeah, that's right over here." He pointed at the second shelf from the bottom, and I picked it up while looking inside the scroll and nodding to myself.

I thanked him and walked towards the checkout point in the library and left shortly after signing my name on the sealing formulas that I took.

Taking a storage scroll out of my back pocket, I put the three different seals on the scroll and infused chakra into it.

*Poof*

I picked the scroll back up and walked towards the Amematsu clan compound to check out the jutsus there.

'I wonder what kind of different jutsus they'll have in the library,' I wondered as I was busy flickering towards their compound.

Arriving at a similarly extravagant library as the Uzumaki's, I went inside and surprisingly didn't get stopped at all. Shrugging my shoulders at that, I continued towards the jutsu section and wandered the aisles looking for anything that might catch my eye.

'This jutsu sounds familiar,' I thought, staring at a jutsu called 'Water Severing Wave.' Picking it up and turning, I went to look for any more jutsus that might interest me. A few minutes later, I arrived in the storm release section, and the amount of jutsu there wasn't as extensive as the amount of seals in the Uzumaki's library, but it was still substantial.

Looking at a scroll labeled 'Laser Circus,' I picked it up. 'This is the jutsu Dauri used in the anime, right? I remember it being pretty powerful, though it's kind of shocking that it's only a C-rank jutsu.'

Browsing through the rest of the storm release jutsu, I ended up picking 1 D-rank, 2 C-rank, and 2 B-rank jutsus.

'Jeez, even looking at the B-rank jutsus, I can tell how much of a step up in complexity and power they are from C-rank and below. It's a good thing that my brain is built to learn and create jutsus; otherwise, this might take me a fairly long time.' I turned around, heading towards the entrance, thinking about the jutsus I picked up.

'The D-rank jutsu should be a good support jutsu for battle. The jutsu's name is 'Rain Storm,' and the description written in the scroll describes exactly what I would've thought this jutsu does. 'The user uses storm release to cause clouds to start forming over a radius that is dependent on the amount of chakra put in. Following the creation of the storm clouds, rain starts to come down. Because of the simplicity of the jutsu, there is no lightning production. This jutsu allows water release users to have an advantage of not needing to expel water chakra from their mouth.'

'The C-rank jutsus I got were 'Laser Circus' and 'Cyclone Shield.' The cyclone shield jutsu creates a swirling barrier of chakra-infused clouds around the user, deflecting incoming attacks and providing a defensive shield against projectiles and physical assaults. This jutsu only encompasses the user and no one else.'

'The last jutsus I got are called 'Phantom Rainfall' and 'Cloud Clone.' The Phantom Rainfall summons chakra-infused clouds that produce raindrops to induce vivid illusions upon contact, disorienting enemies with deceptive imagery, and the cloud clone summons clones made entirely of clouds. They can either be charged with lightning or they can just be dark clouds that electrocute/dissipate after being dispersed.'

Using the body flicker to speed towards my home to start practicing these jutsus, I had a huge smile on my face.