Chapter 8: Training? Bullshit, torture!

In the capital, two big surprises awaited me. The first surprise was a pretty nice one too! It was the accounting of my company! I was officially the richest man of Kaminari no Kuni. Even richer than my father, the Daimyo! Well, of course, I was. My clones were inventing and selling more harmless seals while I was in Kumo. Every single country bought them from me in bulk. Heh. I left most of these poor bastards financially drained. I actually donated half of that wealth to father and Kumo spymasters to make their information network more thorough. Especially in Kiri, Konoha, and Suna.

That made me again less wealthy than my father. Sigh.

The second surprise was unpleasant and sweaty. It REALLY made me regret saving my uncle A's life. He retired, alright.

But, he decided to 'instruct' and 'help' me in attaining the Lightning Release: Chakra Mode. Needless to say, the next months were bodybuilding hell! Heck, when he saw that I aim for a lean build he didn't even protest. He just showed a savage grin while staring at me as if I was his prey. No problem, he said. You will just have to make your muscles stronger than larger, he said. And then, he proceeded to make me cry myself to sleep every night from the amount of physical training and pain he put me through.

It was only two months after that I had enough!

I stopped still during my daily morning twenty kilometers run while wearing weights... well, gravity, and resistance seals instead of regular weights actually.

"I quit, old man! I never ever wanted to become some kind of taijutsu freak!" I shouted at him in all of my ten years old glory as I panted from anger.

"I want to be good at Fuinjutsu and Ninjutsu, dammit!" Fuck this shit!

"What Ninjutsu specialist, brat! The only thing even remotely close to Ninjutsu you ever trained in is your Lightning affinity! Even then you completely slack in training it!" He shouted back more exasperated than angry. "You had the entire library of Kumo for your disposal but you only focused on Fuinjutsu!"

"Why must you and mother always insist on this kind of shitty, sweaty, exhausting, bullshitting, impossible, back-breaking physical training!" The more adjectives I shouted at him, the more angry and loud I became!

The only reaction my uncle showed to my apparent anger was exasperation that quickly changed to a wide shit-eating excited grin that would make even Naruto envious.

"Hah, brat! Your training is finished." He exclaimed, unexpectedly throwing a bomb like that at me.

"What?" Finished? Just like that? If I knew he would say something like that I would shout at him a month ago!

"Look around yourself squirt."

Ah? Ah! Aaaah...

I? What the actual fuck!? Both of us were engulfed in the pale blue lightning aura. My entire outburst didn't even last two seconds from the point of view of a normal civilian.

"You finally attained the complete Chakra Mode." The proud look my uncle threw me was actually kinda satisfying. Maybe I should train more in taiju… NO! Shit. I almost fell for Gai-ness.

"Hmmm." I hummed as I tried to move my body. Everything around me was slowed down to crawl. As I was looking around and tightening various sets of my muscles I heard my uncle stare at my Lightning Armor in disbelief.

"How the fuck is your Armor even stronger than mine? Is it your lightning affinity? No, that shouldn't be it. Yours is stronger than mine but even then, you didn't train it enough to overcome mine yet. What the actual heck?" Uncle A muttered loudly.

Well, I knew exactly why. The effect of natural energy, bitch! Hah, but the energy drainage this shit does is enormous. Only a few seconds and my reserves halved.

We both deactivated the Chakra Mode since uncle saw it takes a toll on me.

"You will have to focus more on your lightning affinity. Even though your armor is stronger, your lightning chakra is not refined enough. You are covering yourself in bullshitting amounts of lightning chakra and rely on the strong lightning affinity to do the job for you instead of having a small strong durable and controlled layer of it around you. Now, that your body is strong enough to handle the armor, we will start training in fine-tuning your lightning transformation and your 'beloved' Ninjutsu" He finished sarcastically.

By the time he was in the middle of that sentence, though, I was completely in a world of my own, writing seal equations into my notebook. Seeing the world slow down to a crawl gave me an idea that could further my next ground-breaking seal. Hah, I have no time to listen to his rant when I have ideas for seals!

Needless to say, uncle A wasn't happy about my neglect of his rant. He made me go through his hellish taijutsu training for the next week. Sigh.

Not all was bad though. We started to focus on Ninjutsu and I understood that his words were true. Except for my self-made Lightning Release: Time Slow and Shadow Clones, I had no other Jutsu. Not even Kawarimi. Hehe, when I told that to uncle A, for the first time in my life I actually saw his eyebrow twitch as he gave me a very-not-amused look. What can I say? I can be as surprising as Naruto when I want. Hehe.

Uncle A actually let me have a month break because brother A was coming to visit us alongside brother B. Geez, their nicknames really suck. Uncle A's actual name is Raiha Yotsuba. Brother A is Raiki Yotsuba. Well, having something sounding like 'Rai' seems to be a family tradition. Brother B is funnily enough, really named Kira Bi. Well, calling them by their nicknames is easier, so that's that.

Of course, my month-long vacation wasn't without having to do a training routine every day and being told to learn Kawarimi and Henge by myself. He even threatened me with another nightmarish week if I didn't follow his instructions! What a heartless guy!

And just like that, both of my 'brothers' came to visit us. Guess what was the first thing we as a family did? Check out my progress in training! Of course. Sigh. My family can be so exhausting! That's why I like seals. They. Are. Quiet.

"Hah, brat. Show them!" The second we reached a training ground my father ordered to be made for my training, uncle A wanted to show off.

"Sigh. Okay. Just. Just don't freak out." I said and activated the Chakra Mode. Brother A's jaw actually dropped to the ground as B gave me one of his usual 'Veeee'.

"Your brother is shocking as lightning, you are our new flash-ling! Baka-yarou, kono-yarou!" B rapped and the atmosphere became instantly completely awkward

"Yeah, so, uh, moving on…" And uncle A coming to save the day. "Who wants to train the squirt?" While he saved the day, he sacrificed me! Sigh.

"Brotha' I see you slacked in kenjutsu, give me a hundred slashes now, just you!" B started to wave his arms in those weird gestures of his and I just resignedly obeyed. There is nothing that could stop him when he gets like this.

My next few days were spent having kenjutsu lessons from B while he rapped. Training more in lightning affinity from brother and uncle A while B rapped facts about it.

Training in TAI-fucking-jutsu… yeah you guessed it... while B rapped! All of that, my entire week, I spent listening to B rapping! Yeah. Fuck family reunions.