Chapter 4 ninja training 2

Under the shadow of a large rock, Kazehara was making a top-down sword swinging motion. This sword movement is not an ordinary sword movement because in every movement Kazehara tries to use wind element chakra to increase the sharpness of the sword.

However, Kazehara can only coat the sword with wind Chakra on the sword when the sword is still and Kazehara is in full concentration.

Every time Kazehara swung his sword, the wind chakra that was on the sword suddenly disappeared.

According to Mr Sakinozawa, the cause of the phenomenon experienced by Kazehara was a lack of Chakra control and the weapon used was not a Chakra weapon.

Chakra weapons can easily be infused with Chakra and make it easier for users to manipulate the Chakra in the weapon. The weapon used by Kazehara is not a Chakra weapon, so if Kazehara wants to maintain wind element Chakra on the sword blade then Kazehara either has to increase his chakra control ability or has to inject more Chakra constantly into the sword to compensate for the disappearing Chakra.

Kazehara's initial idea to combine sword techniques with wind elements was to use the Slashing Wind technique.

The Slashing Wind technique is the technique that Temari uses in the original story during the Chunin exams. This technique requires a large fan to use. The essence of the technique itself is to increase the speed of the air flow driven by the fan.

The more air the fan moves initially, the stronger the wind it produces. This Ninjutsu is a type of technique that is quite easy to learn but difficult to master.

The Slashing Wind technique that Kazehara learned can only be used to form strong winds without producing significant damage.

To increase the power of the Slashing Wind technique normally ninja only need to use more Chakra and deepen the cutting properties and spreading properties of wind Chakra.

As long as a ninja has a large enough amount of Chakra and a high understanding of the nature of wind Chakra, he or she will be able to use this technique and produce enormous damage.

However, for ninjas who are able to do all of that, they usually have a technique that is better than the Slashing Wind technique.

When Kazehara first started practicing the Slashing Wind technique, Kazehara thought about replacing the tool used with a sword, but unfortunately this didn't work because the wind produced was too little and ended up spreading everywhere without producing a significant impact.

This is because the Slashing Wind technique focuses more on spreading wind suited to a fan rather than a concentrated wind suited to a sword.

According to Mr Sakinozawa what he wanted to do was the same as creating a new Jutsu based on the Slashing Wind technique to become Sword Slashing Wind.

Creating Jutsu and learning Jutsu are two things with different difficulties. So Mr. Sakinozawa suggested deepening your understanding of Wind Chakra before attempting to create the Slashing Wind Sword.

Suna Village currently has no ninjas who purely use swords. Most of the ninjas who could use swords were puppet users. Every movement of the doll is a manifestation of the user's abilities, coupled with the various mechanisms in the doll's body, making the doll very strong.

Every puppet user is a Taijutsu master because if the user themselves doesn't understand the movements the puppet has to make, how are they going to control it. It's just that puppet users usually know Taijutsu in depth but they are unable to do it themselves.

This is caused by the existence of mechanisms in the doll that can strengthen the doll's movements and make many doll movements that cannot be done with the human body.

Plus, to improve their mastery of puppetry, they are usually accustomed to using puppetry techniques in their daily lives. This makes them very sensitive when using dolls but their bodies have never been trained to perform these movements. So puppet users have in-depth knowledge of Taijutsu, can use it on puppets, but their bodies have never been trained to use Taijutsu.

Kazehara was still swinging his sword monotonously while feeling the movement of the Chakra on his sword. With every swing Kazehara felt how his chakra disappeared from the blade of the sword. The main problem that Kazehara experienced was that the weapons Kazehara used could not directly deliver chakra.

This makes Kazehara have to personally control Chakra to coat the blade. The problem was that Kazehara's sword blade was 70 cm long.

The further the chakra extends from the body, the more difficult it is to control it. What's more, Kazehara still has to change the released Chakra into the wind element.

If it's just coating the sword with chakra or changing Chakra into wind element, Kazehara can already do each one of this. But doing both at the same time is a different matter.

Luckily with the shadow clones Kazehara felt that he could still complete this technique before the end of the second school year at the academy.

Because after finishing his second year Kazehara plans to graduate early. After an hour and a half of sword practice, Kazehara stopped and rested. This is because Kazehara's chakra has reached its limit.

After an hour and a half of sword practice, Kazehara stopped and rested. This is because Kazehara's chakra has reached its limit. While resting he stopped the shadow clone technique and received the memory of his clone.

Suddenly Kazehara's head throbbed with a sudden memory. Unlike Kazehara's dream which came smoothly, Kazehara felt that the memory of the shadow clone that came was very rough.

Half an hour's worth of training memories appear all at once without any delay. Luckily Kazehara has strong mental strength. No wonder no one uses shadow clones to practice.

However Kazehara has been receiving memories of his past life every night for four years. Although his past memories did not weigh on Kazehara's mentality like the shadow clone technique. This has made Kazehara's mental strength stronger and increased Kazehara's resistance to the side effects of shadow clones.

Based on his current experiments, Kazehara can conclude that the limit that can be endured is a memory load equivalent to 24 hours of training.

If it was someone else practicing using shadow clones for three hours, the memory effect that came was not much different from a mental attack. Getting an extra three hours of practice at the price of enduring a mental assault wasn't worth it to anyone else.

After resting for fifteen minutes Kazehara continued with physical training. For the first physical training, Kazehara will put weights all over his body.

Kazehara only uses weights all over his body when training. Other times he will use light weights on his hands and medium weights on his feet.

After installing the weights, Kazehara will perform the basic Taijutsu techniques of the wind village for one hour, take a break for a moment and then continue with the Houzen family sword techniques for one hour.

The Houzen family was once a low-ranking samurai family. The Houzen family never gave birth to a general, but the Houzen family once gave birth to a sword master who could compete with Jounin.

It's just that after that there was never another descendant of the Houzen family who became a sword master. The majority only reached the level of sword expert capable of competing with chunin.

During the chaotic times before Hashirama founded the ninja village, the Houzen family was destroyed in the war leaving only a few survivors.

Houzen's grandfather was a sword expert who survived at that time and chose to join Suna village when Suna village was founded and turned into a ninja.

Unfortunately, Houzen's grandfather failed to change the Houzen clan's sword techniques into ninja techniques.

Kazehara's father also failed to change the Houzen clan's sword techniques into ninja techniques.

Now this responsibility fell on Kazehara and he was quite confident he would be able to achieve it. And Kazehara already had a plan.

He would use the Sword Slashing Wind technique as the first move of the Houzen sword technique.

The next exercise is movement training. The training he did was to use his position as a center point and randomly jump to the furthest point he could reach in the shortest time possible.

He did this exercise because he was inspired by the ninja in black from the anime the strong bald man. Kazehara didn't have to reach a speed where he could create afterimages of his movements.

He just wanted to reach a speed where he could freely change places at any time within a reachable distance. In other words it is a short distance instant movement technique.

Due to his strong mental powers Kazehara can use dynamic vision and sense Chakra within a distance of 10 m. Plus Kazehara is able to use the body flicker technique with just one seal, Kazehara is confident in the scope of his movements. In his range he can move quickly both to dodge and attack.

In the future, Kazehara only needs to train his stamina to perform repeated instant movements to produce fast medium distance movements and even fast long distance movements.

(End of the chapter)