4.3

4.3

Hinata-chan was just so silly. Why name the clones? But it mattered not. I, Jutsu-chan, had the best training schedule of all the four of us. I got to train my control, I got to use cool jutsu. No extreme physical training for me.

One could argue that Seal-chan also had it good. I mean, the idea of finally breaking the space-time code left me giddy, but that was Seal-chan’s work. Mine was to play ninja, use jutsu, push my control. All the awesome things about being a shinobi, right?

It didn’t take me long to master the Rasengan after that first attempt at the Land of Waves. I used the jutsu as chakra control exercises, mostly because I had no idea how to explain to Kakashi-sensei how I knew about this one particular jutsu. Which was why I didn’t plan to use it in front of anyone. At least, not until Naruto also learned it. After that, I could say I bribed the brat to teach me, like usual.

I held the ball of concentrated chakra on the palm of my open hand. One Rasengan wasn’t difficult anymore. I looked at my other hand, tried to create a second Rasengan there. It didn’t work that well. The first one wobbled and looked about to explode, the chakra holding my hair in place dispersed, the threads playing the koto broke, even the chakra holding me stuck at the ceiling wobbled and almost gave out.

I cut off the attempt at the second Rasengan. Perhaps I should take it easy? Two Rasengans while sitting on the ceiling, playing my koto with threads, holding my hair and clothes in place was a bit of a struggle. Giddy happiness bubbled inside my gut. If it was hard, it meant I had room to improve!

Besides my control, I trained using jutsu. For now, I was focused on Shushin no jutsu. I couldn’t properly space-time yet, flickering around would have to do meanwhile. It massively increases the speed of movement in short bursts, and while I could already use the jutsu without seals, I could improve the efficiency and activation speed. That was my sole focus for the month.CHeCk for new stories on no/v/el/bin(.)c0m

The first few days felt like vacation time. I trained control, played a lot of music, zoom-zoomed around with shushin. I even went to restaurants and other places to practice being invisible. Clamp on my chakra, dim my presence, gather information, all the fun stuff.

Of course Hinata-chan had to go and make a mess of things. Communication with the shadow clones was interesting; not exactly telepathy, but I did get the impression Hinata-chan needed to see me, with some measure of urgency. I appreciated she didn’t just unpop me and pop another me for this. I didn’t want the ickiness Hinata-chan was cursed to endure for the rest of the day.

I left the café I was stealthing at. Flickered to a nearby rooftop. Pumped chakra on my feet and let loose.

Training field three wasn’t far. It took me just a few minutes to arrive. Hinata-chan, the ever diligent girl, was training. There was another shinobi there, one I hadn’t seen before. Hinata-chan didn’t seem worried or even guarded against him. That was interesting. I approached the training girl.

“Original-chan, what is it?” I husked. Been also practicing lowering my pitch. I wanted that husky-sexy, and I was a clone, injuries didn’t matter to me.

“New sensei, Yamato,” Hinata-chan croaked out, “Kakashi-sensei brought him over.”

I nodded. That was enough info. I knew about Yamato. Should have recognized those eyes and head protector. “Leave it to me.” I husked again, to an amused grunt from Hinata-chan. Man, she looked so ruffled out, focused. That combined with her goth looks made her super charming. I wanted to give her a hug, but then there was all that sweat and grit. An involuntary shudder put an end to that idea. Yeah, no. Sorry, Hinata-chan.

I turned to Yamato. Walked closer. “Hi, Yamato-sensei. Hinata-chan, the original, is busy with physical training. I’m Jutsu-chan, shadow clone. Please take care of me!” I didn’t use the husky voice on him. That was for future me to seduce pretty girls with, or when I got older. It just wouldn’t work while I was a kid.

I pushed the cupcake to his hand. “Naruto-kun, teach me your summoning jutsu?”

Naruto looked really conflicted this time. “Hinata-chan, you need to sign a contract I don—”

I cut the silly boy off, placed a storage seal in his hand together with the cupcakes. Showed him my board. “No, silly. I don’t want to summon the frogs, I just want you to teach me the hand-seals and how to mold my chakra.”

Naruto scratched his head. Still looking confused. He repeated the words from Jiraiya, demonstrated the hand seals. I nodded. Gave him a high-five. Debated joining Jiraiya again. Shook my head, not the time. Went back to my research lab, aka, apartment.

...

One thing became clear to me after studying the examples from space-time jutsu. Unless someone gave me the exact same jutsu the fourth used, with instructions and all, it would be easier to just create a new jutsu that did what I needed than learn space-time like the fourth. To that effect, I listed what exactly I wanted the jutsu to do:

1 - Create a seal that serves as a beacon. Ideally the beacon should also give a general idea of where it is. Other shinobi should not be able to tap into that beacon. For this one, I had an idea. Tie the beacon to the user’s chakra signature. Considering all I knew, it was unique to each person.

2 - Put safety measures on the beacon, to prevent teleporting into walls or places I couldn’t fit.

3 - The signal shouldn’t be intrusive. Can’t have a constant ping in my head all the time from the beacons.

4 - The actual summoning jutsu should be fast and easy to perform. Can’t be called Black Flash if it takes more than an instant to teleport.

5 - Range, in the best case scenario it should be tied to chakra cost. With more distant places costing more chakra.

6 - Chakra cost should be manageable. The jutsu is supposed to be spammable. Can’t get tired after using it just a couple of times.

7 - The jutsu should not disorient the user. Makes no sense to teleport and arrive spilling my guts.

I guess it was time to change the world and conquer my dreams. I, Seal-chan the Tenth, would lay the foundations to our future awesomeness.