Seals

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3 MONTHS LATER

"Grandma, how is the new kanji I wrote?" I asked my grandmother.

"It's good enough. Now you can start drawing seals. I'll draw a few seal examples for you, and you should copy them." my grandmother said.

"First, we'll start with the basics. You need to learn the opening seal first." she said.

🖌🖌 My grandmother drew a seal, and I examined it. It looked more detailed than the opening seals I had seen before.

"These are just written seals. Eventually, you'll be able to channel your chakra so that it takes this shape naturally, making it easier for you to create seals." my grandmother explained.

The seal my grandmother drew was truly impressive. Although I wasn't thinking about hanging it on my wall, it currently seemed like the greatest piece of art to me; despite being made of just a few lines, it looked amazing. I wonder how beautiful large seals must be.

"Don't be so impressed, child. I believe you will become better than me." my grandmother said.

I was about to respond when I heard a voice from the front door.

"HEY TOJI, WHERE ARE YOU? YOUR GRANDFATHER BOUGHT YOU SOME SWEET TREATS." my grandfather shouted.

Upon hearing this, my eyes widened, and I used Shunshin no Jutsu to rush to the door.

Please don't ask why I'm so eager for sweets; as an Uzumaki, having too much chakra makes me dizzy, and I suppress it with sweets.

Think of it like how Kushina and Naruto love ramen.

When I reached the door, I saw my grandfather standing there with a few sticks of dango and some extra sweets.

"Grandpa, quickly give me a stick of dango." I said.

My grandfather handed me one of the dango sticks and said, "Here you go, Toji."

Both my grandfather and I were very happy as we ate the sweets.

Yes, my grandfather is as fond of sweets as I am.

Ah, I need to recreate baklava here. When I visited Turkey while I was on Earth, I tasted that amazing flavor... Oh God, I still remember its taste. (Tehee, understand this, I am a Turk, and I am not saying this just to praise it. Baklava is truly an amazing dessert; it gets even better with clotted cream or ice cream. Try it if you can.)

I remember a few things about how it's made. Maybe I can start a business in this world with the desserts and foods I remember from my normal world.

My grandmother approached us and gave us such looks that if looks could kill, we would have died dozens of times.

"I told you to reduce eating sweets. At this rate, you will die from diabetes." my grandmother said.

"Heheheh, that's impossible, grandma, because there are healing stones in this house that constantly heal us. If you add extra seals, even a normal person staying in this house could easily live up to 100 years," I said. I'm really telling the truth; there are so many healing-related things in this house that since we moved here, it has become almost impossible to get sick.

My grandmother sighed and put her hand on her face.

"Finish your sweets and work on the seal I drew, Toji. I'll check your progress tomorrow." she said.

"Okay, grandma. You can be sure I'll do it well enough to satisfy you." I said.

"You have to, otherwise I will stop you from eating sweets for a week. This includes you too, Rusen." my grandmother said.

Both my grandfather and I spoke at the same time: "What, you can't do that, grandma/Ruriko."

"Hmph, why can't I? All you do is distract Toji from his work, and I won't allow that." my grandmother said and turned back to her room.

"Toji, you have to work hard, or we won't be able to eat sweets for a week." my grandfather said.

Oh God, you are the Uzushikage ruling over the Uzumaki. Why do you act like this?

I looked at my smiling grandfather with a frown.

Do you think it's easy to satisfy grandma in terms of seals? I struggled to get her to accept a simple kanji, and now she expects me to perfectly draw an opening seal scroll in a day?

"Ah, then we should eat the sweets quickly, and you should help me, grandpa." I said.

"Okay, Toji, EVERYTHING FOR SWEETS." my grandfather shouted.

"EVERYTHING FOR SWEETS." I shouted back in the same way.

We quickly finished the sweets in front of us and went to the scroll room.

My grandfather's eyes widened and he became serious when he saw the seal my grandmother had drawn on the table.

"Hey Toji, how can a beginner like you draw such a good seal? This will be very difficult even for intermediate seal masters in the village. Only seal masters qualified to be advanced level can draw something similar." my grandfather said.

"Then you need to see the kanji I drew, grandpa." I said and drew the kanji 'Uzumaki' for him.

"Oh, really, there are very few people in the village who can compete with your kanji, Toji. How did you reach this level so quickly?" my grandfather asked in surprise.

"If grandma watched over you like a shinigami, you would be as good as I am. Now you need to help me do this seal, or we won't be able to eat sweets for a week, grandpa." I said.

"Okay then, let's work. Start drawing, and I'll show you your mistakes." my grandfather said.

NEXT DAY

My grandmother will arrive soon, and I need to draw the seal for her. My grandfather is sitting on a chair nearby, and I'm kneeling in front of a small table, waiting for my grandmother.

I am confident and fully believe I'll pass.

My grandmother entered the room with great seriousness and looked at me.

Seeing my grandmother, who treats me very well and spoils me, so serious really scares me.

"Draw." my grandmother said shortly and clearly.

I took my brush and drew the seal on the paper skillfully, as if I had been doing this for years.

My grandmother took the paper with the seal I drew and examined it.

After a while, she looked at me and the seal again and said, "Barely sufficient but not enough to stop you from eating sweets. Congratulations, you are now an entry-level seal master." she said.

"I'll bring a sealed scroll now, and you need to open it with this seal." she said.

She extended her hand, and the door opened, and a scroll flew into her hand. I really want to learn this technique. God, it's so cool; how does she do something similar to telekinesis?

At first, I thought she transformed chakra into strings and used them, but when I examined it with Kagura's Mind Eye, I found out that it wasn't like that. Instead, chakra appeared around her hand, and then she spread this chakra with force waves to pull the desired object with chakra.

I tried to create this technique by myself, but it didn't work.

She put the scroll on the table and said, "Now place the seal paper on it and inject chakra into the seal you drew." she said.

I nodded and did as she said. Even though I had used these seals before, nothing I had done before was effective in anything my grandmother wanted.

I meticulously controlled my chakra and covered the seal with it, transferring it to the scroll.

I took a deep breath and focused.

A second later, the seal opened, and five kunai came out of it.

"Well done, Toji, reaching this level in 3 months is a record, but it's not enough. You say you want to be the best, but you're not working hard enough. If you had worked as hard as you could, you could have reached this level in a month." my grandmother said.

I couldn't argue with her words because I wasn't working hard enough, and she was right.

"If you had worked very hard for a month, I'm sure I could have taught you some intermediate seals in 3 months. You could even have mastered them to a certain level." she said.

I lowered my head and looked at the ground because I had no excuse.

My grandmother sighed and said, "I don't want you to slack off from now on, Toji. Because as much as you want to be the best, I also want you to be the best and not waste your potential." she said.

"I will work harder from now on, grandma." I said.

My grandmother patted my head and said, "Okay, then we will work harder from now on. Both you and me." she said.

TO BE CONTINUED...