Chapter 23: Sakura: Naruto you are too self motivated

Early morning...

At the gate of the Academy, Shiyu yawned and walked slowly into the school.

Not far away from Shiyu's position, Ino ran and jumped onto him.

"Good morning, Shiyu-kun!"

"Eh?!"

"Shiyu-kun, why does it feel like you are not in a good mood today? Did you not sleep well last night?"

'Of course I didn't sleep well.'

Shiyu has not been idle since he got home from the academy yesterday.

First, he had to learn Fire-Release, then he had to master the nature transformation of fire. After that he had to practice simultaneous dual-attribute modifications!

And finally, he had to refine his chakra again.

'I was busy until midnight. I did not succeed in developing the Boil-Release, but fortunately I found a direction in which to continue developing/mastering it.'

'And I also accidentally stumbled upon the method of releasing ninjutsu without chakra consumption.'

Although not all of his ninjutsu can be released without consumption, but at least some of it can be released easily and without chakra usage. 

In this situation, Shiyu hangs two Water-Release and two Taijutsu skills on the skill bar.

Basically, Shiyu can release Water-Style Jutsu without the consumption of chakra, and at the same time, his physical strength is unlimited and being continuously upgraded.

As for other ninjutsu, it doesn't matter if he consumes a little bit of chakra.

The Chakra Refining Technique can quickly restore the chakra that Shiyu depletes.

When learning about the lack of chakra waste when it comes to using ninjutsu has made Shiyu delayed in developing the Kekkei Genkai, Boil-Release, but it is was worth spending a significant amount of time training in the technique.

(A/N: Xueji: searching this up means blood sacrifice. If anyone can tell me what this means that would be great.)

After returning home in the middle of the night/early morning, Shiyu hung both the Fire-Release and Water-Release skills onto the skill bar.

And he has not replaced it until now.

The current passive skill bar configuration is:

Passive Skills 1-4: Chakra Refining Technique

Passive Skill 5: Fire-Release 

Passive Skill 6: Water-Release

Passive Skill 7: Konoha-Style Swordsmanship

Shiyu is trying to get his chakra to keep growing. So, he keeps it on multiple skill bars to maximize his growth as much as possible.

Although hanging two Water-Release skills can guarantee the release of Water-Style ninjutsu without the consumption of chakra, the power of the ninjutsu depends on his mastery of nature transformation and on the amount of chakra in his body. 

Only by increasing the amount of chakra in his body, can Shiyu release ninjutsu without consumption, and the power of his ninjutsu would become more terrifying than it is now.

So after Shiyu came home last night, he didn't go to sleep immediately.

Instead, the status of the chakra refining technique was updated again, and his physique was continuously strengthened under the blessing of Konoha-Style swordsmanship.

Although the magnitude of the enhancement is not as apparent as it would be with his Taijutsu skill, but at the end of the day, his body strength, stamina and agility has increased a lot.

Shiyu felt that his strength was at the minimum, increased to the strength of an adult man. (A/N: Might not mean a Shinobi. IDK if the author means a civilian or not.)

At the same time, in terms of speed and reaction time, he has faced an extreme growth in these two skills.

More importantly, Shiyu felt that his understanding of swordsmanship had stepped into a whole new realm.

If he fights against Hayate again, with just swordsmanship, he feels that he could defeat him with one move.

Not to mention that the chakra refinement skill has been reduced to four skill columns instead of the original five, and the number of status updates can be completed once every few seconds.

Shiyu felt that the amount of chakra had almost doubled when he woke up that morning.

His chakra is now equivalent to twenty-four times that of Sasuke's chakra amount.

Although now that he thinks about it carefully, the growth rate of his chakra has decreased by a lot compared to when he first transmigrated to the Shinobi world.

"Shiyu-kun?!"

"Shiyu-kun?!"

Ino did not receive a reply from Shiyu. It has already been 5 minutes!

A little confused, Ino wondered what exactly did Shiyu do last night?

Hearing her voice, Shiyu came back to his senses and nodded at Ino.

"Sorry! I'm listening!"

"Shiyu-kun were you busy last night?"

"I was just busy training."

'Training?'

'Has Shiyu-kun been training all night?' Thought Ino.

"Although it is very important to practice before the graduation exams, Shiyu-kun must also take care of his body!"

Ino turned around and took something from the backpack behind her.

And she quickly pulled out a well-packed bento.

"I prepared this specially for Shiyu-kun!"

Shiyu looked at the bento box that was stuffed into his hand. "Thank you Ino!"

"Why does only Shiyu have one? I want one too Ino!" Said Chōji.

'Woah! I don't know when Chōji appeared, but he surprised me. Hmm. Maybe he appeared when Ino started talking about eating?'

(A/N: Forgot to mention, if I put " that is when Shiyu or others are thinking. As you can see I put he/she said so readers could know who started thinking etc.)

The sudden appearance of Chōji made Ino feel as if someone had discovered something wrong with her thoughts and behaviors towards Shiyu.

She suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and couldn't even speak.

Seeing this, Shiyu replied to Chōji: "You want a bento box? Then I'll take all of your snacks!"

"Ah! Then I don't want it anymore!"

While they were talking...

Sasuke, who was walking down one of the aisles towards his seat, cast a glance at Shiyu and coldly said: "You're so noisy!"

After saying that, he walked over to his seat towards the left side of the classroom.

Shiyu glanced at Sasuke. 'He still looks so emo/lonely!'

It's obvious that he(S) wants to blend in, and disregard him(SH)! But the Tsundere Sasuke probably won't let it go! (A/N: Have no idea what the author is talking about. Probably beat Sasuke at something in the past chapters.)

In class...

Shiyu was bored and there was nothing interesting he could do to occupy his time with.

Thinking about it, he decided to take a nap and let Ino watch out for Iruka-Sensei, who was teaching, and warn him if he(I) discovers him(S). Shiyu quietly lay down on the table to sleep.

Shortly after he fell asleep, across the classroom a snoring sound rang out.

Even if someone is trying to sleep during class, does not mean that they have to snore so loudly! It is better to be discrete about it. Especially if the teacher is teaching!

Of course it wasn't Shiyu who was snoring, it was Naruto.

"Naruto!"

Iruka let out a roar that could be heard throughout the Academy building.

Naruto almost fell off his seat by the roar of his Sensei.

Standing up straight, he asked sleepily: "What's the matter? What's the matter? Is there a fight?!"

When he completely woke up, he found Iruka-Sensei staring at him with a serious gaze. Naruto finally realized what had happened.

"Sleeping during class time. Naruto, you are too self-assured! "

Sakura-I am useless during the entire show-Haruno spoke.

Naruto, who did not care as to what his Sensei was saying before, was heartbroken when he heard Sakura's-I have a split personality-Haruno's words.

When he looked back towards Sakura-I am a stalker-Haruno, he realized that Sasuke and Shiyu were also not listening to Iruka-Sensei's teaching and were also sleeping!

"Aren't they both doing the same as me?" Said Naruto.

When Sasuke was mentioned, Sakura-I hit the MC so much he got brain damage-Haruno glared at Naruto, while Ino-Welcome to the harem-Yamanaka also glared at Naruto for mentioning Shiyu.

Sakura-My forehead so big-Haruno: "How can you mention Sasuke-kun?! He is different from you! Plus Sasuke-kun must be tired!" 

Ino-I am lowkey a stalker too-Yamanaka: "Shiyu trained until really late last night, before he fell asleep from exhaustion!"

Hearing his name, Shiyu woke up in a daze.

"What's wrong?"

Iruka-Big head Jutsu-Sensei: "All three of you! Go outside of the classroom and stand there and wait for me!"

When Shiyu heard Iruka's voice yelling at him, he looked confused/dazed. He was pretty sure he didn't make any noise when he slept. That means he shouldn't have been caught sleeping.

So who made Iruka so angry?

"You too Shikamaru! Don't think I didn't see you sleeping just now!"

Shikamaru-Such a drag-Nara looked helplessly at their Sensei. He had reacted so quickly, how come he was still caught sleeping?

The four shinobi in training walked out of the classroom in unison.

Shiyu asked Shikamaru questions to understand what happened just now.

After finding out the situation, he looked turned to look towards Naruto, and said: "If you are discovered, then you are discovered! Why did you have to drag us along with you?! Naruto, you betrayed us!"

Naruto looked at Shiyu with some embarrassment, "I'm sorry! Really sorry!"

Sasuke-I kissed Naruto 2 times-Uchiha: "Hn!"

Although the arrogant Sasuke-My older brother killed my clan, including children/infants-Uchiha was a little dissatisfied, he didn't say anything about their situation.

Forget it, since Shiyu can't sleep anymore, then he should study the problem of Boil-Release carefully right now. As well as the current level of Water and Fire-Release' nature transformation!