Chapter 155: A New Style & Skill

Chapter 155: A New Style & Skill

Daichi and his sensei reached the tower and Kakashi handed the slip of paper indicating the completion of the mission to the desk chunin. At that moment Daichi received the quest completion notification.

[Quest 'Complete the first D Rank mission' Completed.]

[Rewards:]

[2500 Exp.]

[375 Exp.]

[Reputation increases with your clients.]

[2000 Exp.]

[300 Exp.]

'So I have to return and report the outcome of my mission to get the reward huh.'

Seeing as the mission was marked successful Kakashi gave Daichi his share of the mission reward.

"Well, Our work is done for the day. Take a break tomorrow and I'll see you the day after at 7am here." Kakashi vanished in a puff of smoke without waiting for Daichi's response.

Daichi sighed and left the place. He looked at the money Kakashi gave him.

'1033.2 Ryo I guess it would be even smaller if I were in a normal squad.'

Daichi was given the necessary information about payments and such when he became a Genin.

'The client deposits the total mission fee to the village and then a team is assigned to the mission. If the mission is complete the client gives a slip of paper to the team leader and after submitting the paper to the mission desk the money is allocated to the team. If the mission is a failure the money is returned to the client. The cost of D Rank missions ranges from 3000 Ryo to 25000 Ryo.'

Daichi stopped at a nearby tea stall and got something to drink. As he drank the tea he thought about how the money would trickle down to the ninja who completed the mission.

'The reward for this babysitting mission was 4000 Ryo. The village takes an 18% from the total mission reward as a commission fee for facilitating the mission. So that brings that number down to 3280 Ryo. The remaining amount is equally divided among the squad members. Since it's just me and Kakashi, my share is 1640 Ryo. And from that individual amount the village deducts a 15% for retirement funds or as compensation for the family if anything happened to the ninja. Then another 15% goes to the health care system. Medic ninjas are difficult to train and their services are expensive. And another 7% goes to the village taxes. A total of 37% deduction from the amount that was divided. And that brings 1640 Ryo down to 1033 Suddenly I'm kinda glad I don't have teammates.'

Daichi finished his cup of tea and left the place. Before long he reached his house and noticed that Kensei was not home. Daichi went to his room and just sat on his bed.

'I'll be busy with missions but I'll still have some free time. What should I do this year?'

This was a question that was on his mind for a while.

'I've mastered the two steps of all 5 chakra natures. I've learned medical ninjutsu Hmm I should concentrate on increasing my stats and improving my Ninjutsu. I'll start on the third step this year. But which nature should I begin with?'

Daichi couldn't think of a solid answer for that question. But he came to a conclusion. 'Lightning, water or earth nature. It should be one of those But for the moment I'll take a break and enjoy myself. I've been training like a maniac for the last few years. I need to take a short break. And I'll have missions to keep me busy so that's not a problem. I'll do physical exercises and work on improving my Ninjutsu and Genjutsu skills.'

Daichi stood up and went to stand in front of the tall mirror he had in his room. 'Now that I'm Genin I need to change my style and wardrobe.'

Daichi was wearing a dark green full sleeve shirt with camouflage patterns and blue knee length shorts. He also had the weighted clothes on him along with a black ninja pouch strapped to his right thigh. His Leaf headband hung loosely around his neck.

The young gamer looked at his reflection and sighed. 'I'm in serious need of an upgrade Guess I'm going shopping tomorrow. I'll also need to buy something like a chainmail mesh undershirt. Can't have too much protection and I have a feeling it'll look cool with the right dress I'll also need to take a look in my inventory. Take out what I don't need.'

Daichi opened the inventory section and started going through everything. He took out the books and other non essential items and kept only what was important. At that moment he noticed the weighted training clothes icon blinking.

'I wonder what that's about?'

Daichi clicked on it and the information on the training gear popped up along with something else.

[Weighted Training Clothes] [Rare Item: Rank C]

[A training gear created ]

"Ready for your next mission?"

"Yup."

The ninja at the mission desk handed Kakashi a scroll and Daichi got a new quest. After looking over the details Daichi and Kakashi were on their way to their second D Rank mission. They soon reached a modest sized home.

"Your next mission is to clear the yard. Pull the weed, level the ground, remove any rodents That sort of stuff." Kakashi said as he looked at the boy.

"So what deep insightful lessons will I learn from this mission?" Daichi asked with a slight sarcasm.

Kakashi looked at his student and replied. "How to pull the weed, clear the ground and kill any pest"

Daichi raised an eyebrow at that answer.

"Not all D Rank missions have some great meaning behind it. Some are just chores Now why don't you get to work while I find out what Mimi-chan is up to with her new boyfriend." With a small giggle Kakashi turned his attention to the small book in his hand.

Daichi sighed and began the mission. 'I should have expected that If I can complete this quickly I'll have much more time to focus on myself. And despite what Kakashi says, I can use this as training. I haven't focused on chakra strings for a while. That should be my priority.'

Just like the last mission Daichi created several clones but this time each clone took a section of the yard surrounding the house and got to work. They used chakra strings to pull the weed out of the ground. The blue chakra strings dug into the ground and Daichi pulled them out by the roots.

Even though it looked like Kakashi had his nose buried in the book, he was keeping an eye on his student. The man was surprised to see Daichi's use of chakra strings with such efficiency. 'Normally you'd only see puppet masters from the Sand village with such mastery over the chakra threads.'

The young gamer used chakra strings to catch the small pests that were running away. When it came to the largest plants Daichi had an idea in mind.

He focused the chakra in the strings and changed it to wind nature. He had a certain image in mind. 'Wind is mainly used to push and cut. And for this situation cutting is what I need.'

The next second the normal chakra strings took on the form of wind chakra with small blades swirling around it. Daichi essentially had a long flexible blade running from his fingertips. He flexed his fingers and aimed the strings at a large plant near him. The wind blade coated strings wrapped around the plant and the next second it was cut into pieces.

Kakashi, who was paying attention to Daichi's every move, was surprised at that development. 'He was able to create something like that on his first try? And if he can change the nature of the threads to wind then it stands to reason that he can change it to other natures he mastered.'

A new skill appeared but before checking it out Daichi created a new shadow clone and dispelled it. With that action all the active clones learned the new technique. They started using the new Jutsu to speed up their simple mission.

Meanwhile Daichi looked at the new skill that popped up.

[Elemental Strings - Active (LV.1): This skill is a more advanced version of the skill Chakra Threads. The user converts the chakra into different Nature Elements and changes the properties of the string. This technique can be used in battle in various ways. Even combined Nature Elements can be used to create the Elemental Strings.]

[Effects:]

[5% More effective in the changed element properties.]

[CP cost: 25/Sec.]

'Hmm Excellent. I can already imagine a lightning and fire whip. I'll definitely need to train this jutsu. It will have so many applications on the battlefield. Looks like this mission wasn't a waste of time after all.'

Daichi and the clones soon completed the work. With the mission completed Team Kakashi returned to the mission desk and got their pay.

"I'll see you tomorrow Daichi." Kakashi said to the boy.

Daichi nodded and left the place. He didn't know it but tomorrow was going to be his first C Rank mission.

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Author's Note:

Happy New Year everyone.

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