An Encounter

I laid on my bed. The snoring of the kids around me was disturbing though I have to put up with it for a few more months.

In this world if you wanted to go over a certain threshold you would need a "Fighting Style" 

Almost every special Jonin or above has a distinctive fighting style. Orochimaru with his snakes, Jiraya with his sage mode  Tsunade with her 'hit stuff harder till it breaks', Guy with his gates and Itachi with his 'why are you hitting yourself' are obvious examples.

There is also Naruto with his 'strength in numbers' and Obito with his 'Now you see me now you don't' style.

Safe to say having a combat style to develop and polish is the best way to get stronger. 

'So what about me?' In my previous life my whole fighting style was dedicated to utilize a single jutsu that I remembered from my previous' previous life. 

Well I actually remembered two, One was the Great fireball jutsu; yeah good luck using it in battle without pissing off an entire clan.

The second and the jutsu that promoted me to Jonin was something called 'Chidori'.

I got the title of Jonin at a young age because I "Created" the jutsu for the village.

*Cough* Sorry *Cough*

Now using chidori without sharingan is like trying to use a sniper as a pistol. But.. if you.. could.. You know, Dedicate your entire time to polish your taijutsu and shurikenjutsu for the sole purpose of being able to use a single jutsu effectively.. well it was possible.

So my way of doing this was to train my shurikenjutsu to the level at which I could use kunai and shurikens to get close and pin down the enemy where I wanted and then with a sufficient mastery of taijutsu, I could roughly steer chidori mid air and finish them off.

Hence why I was good at taijutsu and shurikenjutsu out of all things. 

I won't use that this time. There were multiple problems with this style which I only noticed after getting too deep in my previous life.

The most glaring one was that this style was useless if I had to fight more than two opponents. And the second one was that if I could not finish the opponent off in one move, I was as good as dead.

So.. no not this time.

This time I had different ideas. I reached my palm out as strings of chakra began to emerge from my fingers.

Chakra control was easier the less chakra you have. It was a simple thing that everyone knew. So, what if you gave someone with Jonin level of control the chakra less than a genin?

The answer; you get an absurd level of chakra manipulation. I decided to use this fact as a cornerstone of my new fighting style.

I had a hypothesis which if true will be quite.. good.

What would you get if you combined fire, lightning and wind.. Well, short answer: nothing.

Wind is just the movement of air, fire is a chemical reaction and lightning is just the flow of electrons. So combining will give nothing.

So we have to look at it from a different perspective. If we substitute fire with heat, wind with air and lightning with electricity, now we have a more materialistic case.

Something more tangible, what if we substitute air with gas in general. Which should not make sense but nothing does anyways so let's just make that assumption.

Kekkei Genkai is a very weird topic. We know its genetic but it has to come from somewhere. And dust release and magnetic release were created artificially by the second Tsuchikage and third Kazekage I think.. 

So.. it should be possible to create a new element like that shouldn't it. If that was the case then perhaps creating one shouldn't be impossible. But it should be absurdly difficult. 

A new kekkei genkai, no a new kekkei tota sounds cool. But if I want to invest on this idea I need more knowledge about the elements and how kekkei genkai work in general.

I closed my eyes. It's going to be a long year.

~Timeskip~

It had been about two months since I got the idea of creating a new fighting style. My time was mostly spent training with Minato, reading books and reading books again.

"Uh.." It's so annoying." I muttered. By this time I had already read all the relevant books on the topic of the elements and their interactions, at least the ones I could.  There were only five related books.

I needed to be an official shinobi before I could go further. "Tch. It's so annoying. Is it even possible in the first place, am I just wasting my time." I wondered.

In my hands were two notebooks, For the first one I used it to write notes and important information I gathered and the second one was the notes of practical tests I had conducted which amounted to me trying to mix two chakras of opposite natures in different ratios and hope something worked out.

I was currently bringing them back from the "training grounds".

Current progress; no successful integration.

"Should I just give up and search for a different way?" I muttered. While in my thoughts I accidentally slammed onto something or someone in front of me.

Falling into the ground, I regained my senses. "Ow." I said as I rubbed my forehead.

"Sorry" I said, I mean I was a former Jonin and a sensor on top of that slamming into someone like that was very embarrassing.

"Ah it's nothing." A weirdly familiar voice came out. 'Where have I heard this voice before?'

The man in question picked up the notebook I was carrying. "Hey" Before I could retort he opened the notebook and seemed intrigued by its contents.

It was also the moment I recognised the man before me. "Did you make this? How interesting.." He said in the same unsettling voice that I remembered him by.

The pitch black hair and the slightly effeminate looking face. His eyes were cold and emotionless though be looked intrigued by the notebook.

"Ye- yes." I said, "I made it myself." No point in lying now.

"Very interesting.. you seem really young yet you have already unfurled this much… I am really impressed." He said with a smile that was neither gentle nor warm.

"You remind me of myself when I was younger." He said. "Say.. would you be interested in having a chat? You seem very interested in the nature of chakra, I can answer your questions. Let's move to a more comfortable location.. only if you are interested."

What should I do? If I refuse him I might never get an opportunity like this again but having a private chat with him of all people seems.. 

You know what? I'm in consequences be damned. 

"Sure." I replied, "I am called Izayo."

"Oh how rude of me.. My name is Orochimaru, Let's go to that tea place that Jiraya blabs so much about." He said as we left to have a chat.