Chapter 17: Special techniques

The following day once Shikaku and Shikamaru had finished meditating they immediately began their training.

Shikaku started talking while sitting down with Shikamaru "The first thing will be training our special techniques, while some won't be usable by you at the moment you will be able to use techniques like flash step and once you master that you will be able to learn the Hiden Jutsu Shadow Step. For now, I will explain to you the flash step, in theory, it is the same as the Shushin jutsu except it's made for close-range combat rather than fast traveling as used by the Anbu and many Jonin teams, all you really need to do is send a burst of chakra into your leg, if your leg is weak then it will blow up so you will be training to increase the strength of your legs by doing everything with your leg and with everything I mean everything. I will demonstrate for you once."

Shikaku stood up and readied himself, his knees bent slightly and a serious look on his face, as he inhaled a sharp breath he kicked the ground and disappeared from Shikamaru's sight and reappeared around 15 meters away in an instant.

Shikamaru just stared with wide eyes almost not believing that a technique like this existed yet was never used.

Shikaku then used flash step again and reappeared in front of Shikamaru, all this had happened without Shikaku making a single sound even his footstep was invisible as if he was weightless.

That's when Shikaku winced and fell to the ground while clutching his leg.

Shikamaru immediately shot up with a concerned expression "Ah dad! What happened?" he said as he looked at his father.

His father just laughed bitterly, "Sigh this really is a troublesome technique to use, even after using it for over two decades I still can't use it twice in succession, this is why I said that your legs would blow up if they weren't strong enough to handle the strain, this is basically overloading your leg with chakra that gives you an unimaginable increase in speed but also puts incredible strain on your legs, from the first use I had already weakened my leg but the second one tore apart multiple muscles in my leg." as he finished explaining what happened his hands lit up in green chakra that he put against his legs, after a minute or so he could stand again so they continued with the techniques.

Shikamaru was surprised again by his father using a medical jutsu, he never knew that his father used or even knew medical ninjutsu nevertheless if the technique had shredded his father's muscles after only two uses his father who was a trained and most likely an S rank ninja could only use this technique twice in a row, that only spoke volumes about the strength of the technique and the strength required to use it.

Shikaku smiled at his son's reaction likely knowing what his son was thinking "While this technique isn't usable against more than one opponent it is a trump card that has saved me many times in the war, in the Nara clan special techniques would be passed down from family to family, but apparently only the creator of the technique around 300 years managed to use it consecutively an indefinite amount of times while the records from back then are scarce we know for sure that he was the only Nara to use the next version of the technique the Shadow Step, it would allow you to travel through shadows but as I've said before only the guy who created the technique knew how to truly use it and we only inherited the jutsus from him that allowed us to control shadows."

Shikamaru's eyes widened, the raccoon leader mentioned their only other summoner was another Nara 300 years ago so there was definitely a connection there but nothing certain yet, Shikamaru would have to ask elder Shiroi about some things in the future but now was not the time to worry about that.

His father continued on with his explanation "Our clan techniques utilize Yin chakra more so than Yang, but the most important thing is having a good balance of Yin and Yang chakra, if you have too much Yin like most of our clan members you will easily tire out but have a greater mind than others while if you have more Yang chakra you would be more energetic but less academically capable, luckily for you, you inherited your mothers personality meaning you will have a good balance of Yin and Yang."

"Our easiest Hiden jutsu to learn is the Shadow possession jutsu, it allows you to connect your shadow to another's and make them mimic your movements, the first thing you need to learn is how to manipulate shadows which are done by using the rat hand seal and making your chakra fuse with the shadows, from there on you will mostly be on your own since you need to experience the control to know how to manipulate your shadows, at first you will most likely not be able to control the shadows but you will get better with time, now stop wasting time and get to practicing since you only have one week left until Anbu."

Shikaku then smiled at Shikamaru and motioned for to begin.

~~~1st POV~~~

The first thing I had to was figure out how to manipulate shadows and learn the Shadow possession jutsu and since I only had a week I would need to learn how to use the jutsu or I wouldn't have much time to learn it during my Anbu training.

I formed the rat hand seal and controlled my chakra to go into my shadow and... failed, Looks like this won't be as easy as I thought it would be.

After several attempts and failures later I gave up trying to figure this out on my own and since Dad is still here I figured I could ask some questions.

"Hey Dad, how do you connect your chakra to your shadow?"

My dad raised an eyebrow and said "Well I usually do it through my feet since my shadow is connected to it, it's easier to practice with a piece of paper once you manage to send your chakra into a piece of paper it gets easier to connect to your shadow."

While they didn't have paper they had leaves to practice with and so the first day was spent trying to send chakra into a leaf.

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