The academy was a curious place, I decided. It had been a long day for my young body, but I had learned loads.
The Academy was a huge building, located directly at the base of the Hokage Mountain.
This was where prospective ninja got trained and where genin without a team received their , as it turned out, that the Genin Corps weren't fandom exclusive. And it even made sense that a military dictatorship wouldn't toss away soldiers.
It'd been founded by the Second Hokage out of military necessity.
The Academy was quite large and was comprised of several buildings which were erected over time. There was an unmistakable tree in front of it accompanied by a single rope swing, while the building itself was easily identifiable by the giant sign bearing the village symbol, (fire).
Classrooms in the Academy were large with high ceilings, based on a theory that larger classrooms lead to expansive education, even the blackboards were not left untouched by this expansive policy.
In my head that qualified as 'feng shui bullshit'. In front of the blackboard, there was a podium, situated far from the students' desks, and put in a position where the teacher could oversee the masses.
This was exactly like how it'd been structured in Naruto.
My first self imposed job had been understanding how much this world was similar to the Narutoverse. I had yet to observe a single difference.
A week after learning how to write my name, I had told the matron that I wished to become a ninja. Her smile stilled, that brought a rise out of me.
Her reaction, which I identified as a carefully disguised distaste, didn't match my vision of a society where propaganda was deeply rooted in the minds of the populace.
But since then I'd been granted my own room, and I'm pretty sure the size of my riceballs had increased. It was a disgusting thought. Selling the life of the shinobi to the orphans through little minor privileges. I understood why though, I could even relate with the Kages, but it was disgusting nonetheless.
I forced myself to listen to the stories the caretakers of the orphanage told us before going to bed and I cursed my previous choice of ignoring them, I'd have known where I was sooner. Everyone loved the Yondaime, and the Kyubi was a taboo topic. No references anywhere.
I learned how to write my name in a few days, since then, I started learning how to read and write, hating the fact that even the numbers had to be written with kanji. Joining the other kids in the informal lessons that taught us how to write and read had been a necessary pain.
The genius kid's humor had stuck with me, but the joke was on him because I assumed "eat slug" as my surname.was a pain to write properly, but hell, Kanjis Kanji remained an idea that summoned deep fascination within me.
I entered my little room offering a brief glance at the mirror that hanged hung at the door.
I was a boy (thank you god, buddha and Spongebob) with hair a shade of dirty blonde, which had the tendency to form an untameable mop over my head. I had normal eyes, irises a shade of grayish-blue. Normal since people that walked around without pupils were very real.
From what I could divine beyond the pudgy appearance of my six years old face, I'd eventually end up having high cheekbones and a square jaw. I shrugged off the outer layer of my tracksuit before collapsing over my little bed.
I just had dinner and I felt a little dizzy. I was glad that I could simply retire in my room, no longer was there mandatory 'playtime' "playtime" with the other orphans. Today we had what could be called an "open day" during which they showed us the academy.
It was appropriate. Little bed, little window, little desk, little closet. I was glad that being an aspiring shinobi meant that I was excused from performing the appropriate chores.
In other words, no dishwashing! Which was only another policy further served to push children into the arms of the military. But that wasn't my problem. From the following day, I would start attending the academy.
I ...wasn't excited, but it was something I needed, simply because living in that this world meant belonging to one of two categories of people: predators and prey. Like hell I was going to stay a civilian.
Sitting at the feet of my bed I forced myself to pick up a pencil and smoothed down the stack of paper on my desk.
The paradoxes were mind-blogging, really, they didn't have cars or planes, but the paper was exactly like the ones used in my first life. I took a breath and started writing down what I knew about chakra and stuff.
In English, no need to leave around stuff that could point towards me as some sort of super-spy. Besides shinobi were prone to becoming paranoid, and it was relatively healthy, suspicion was something that usually kept you alive.
But I would destroy the papers anyway when I left the room, either ripping them or turning them into origami. Since Konan had become OP with that shit, I could try my hand at it.
And there this was my brilliant idea: in the same way I couldn't learn how to write in Japanese on my own, they couldn't decipher whatever I wrote down in English.
Then I recall the Yamanaka and their mind-reading Jutsu. I'd only hope that thinking in another language could drive them off. My first line of defense should still be "flying under the radar".
I surveyed what I'd been writing down:
Jutsu(Literally meaning: skills/techniques) are the mystical arts a ninja will utilize in battle. To use a technique, the ninja will need to use their chakra. To perform a technique, the ninja will bring out and release the two energies of chakra.
By forming hand seals, the ninja can manifest the desired technique. Because of the extensive number of hand seals and different combinations, there are thousands of potential techniques to be discovered.
Ninshū (Ninja Creed, Literally meaning: Shinobi Cult) is the religion and the peaceful precursor of modern ninjutsu created by Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, the first one to understand and teach the mystery of chakra.
The teachings of ninshū were meant to give people a better understanding of themselves, as well as others, and lead the world into an era of peace. Ninshū would eventually come to be known as ninjutsu, a more weaponized version of the Sage's teachings.
There are three basic types of techniques: ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu. Subcategories existed, including fūinjutsu and senjutsu.
There were also kekkei genkai abilities which aren't techniques, but inherited abilities passed down through certain clans.
"Summing it up," I murmured to myself, "Chakra is some kind of energy, split in yin and yang. Jutsu is everything shinobi do that uses said energy.
Taijutsu is martial arts enhanced by chakra, ninjutsu is spitting fireballs and genjutsu illusions."
I kept reading what I spent hours jotting down, I hoped to find a trick to become very strong, very fast.
Most ninjutsu required chakra and hand seals, but this is not always the case since the mere usage of weaponry qualifies as ninjutsu.
The huge range of ninjutsu's usage is illustrated by its several sub-classifications: medical ninjutsu, reincarnation ninjutsu, space-time ninjutsu, barrier ninjutsu, sealing jutsu, and cursed seal jutsu.
Most ninjutsu use shape transformation, which deals with controlling the form and movement of the ninjutsu, while nature transformation deals with changing the ninjutsu's physical properties. Ninjutsu that uses nature transformation tends to follow a naming convention of their nature type followed by a more specific name.
With practice and experience, certain ninjutsu can become second nature to a ninja, allowing them to perform it at will.
Medical Ninjutsu (Iryō Ninjutsu, Literally meaning: Medical Ninja Techniques) is a branch of ninjutsu associated with healing, as well as the manipulation of their own, or another's body, practiced by shinobi categorized as "medical-nin".
The use of medical ninjutsu requires very advanced chakra control, as well as extensive knowledge of such things as herbs, medicines, the human body and even poisons.
The knowledge of medical ninjutsu can be used for a variety of purposes apart from simply healing. It can be used to create poisonous gas, hijacking of the target's nervous system, or directly attacking a target with chakra scalpels.
Tsunade, renowned as the greatest medical-nin in the world, was able to apply the extreme chakra control required for medical ninjutsu to create chakra-enhanced strength.
Or, if I remembered correctly, she could explode chakra from a single tenketsu, creating an effect not too dissimilar from a billiard cue that transferred the strength of a whole arm into the tiny area of contact with the marble it hit.
"What overpowered skills are out there?" I asked myself.
I looked up and down my notes until I found again the Mokuton.
Wood Release (Mokuton: Wood Style) is a nature transformation-kekkei genkai, a combination of earth and water. It was famously used by Hashirama Senju and is not known to have naturally occurred in anyone else.
Because of Wood Release's power and versatility, there have been various efforts to reproduce it after Hashirama's death. Wood Release techniques are commonly affiliated with the Snake hand seal.
At its simplest, Wood Release allows the user to create wood, essentially converting their chakra into a source of life before, and at its greatest, becoming mighty trees of various sizes and shapes.
The vegetation can sprout from the user's body or grow from the surroundings; Hashirama created a forest that served as a the foundation for Konohagakure, contributing to his selection as First Hokage. Wooden constructs can also be created, ranging in complexity from cages to complete houses.
It is not necessary that the created wood take any identifiable form, allowing users to focus on its inherent pliability to ensnare targets or its durability for brute force attacks.
Wood Release can produce very detailed, ornate constructs. "The Mokuton: Transformation" essentially creates a costume around the user, allowing them to convincingly pass as another person.
By using senjutsu, Hashirama could create a gigantic, many-armed multi-armed, wooden statue that he had full control over fully controlled; its barrage of punches was chiefly responsible for the Valley of the End's formation.
Wood Release's most versatile application is the Wood Clone Technique, which makes a fully-functional duplicate of the user that is indistinguishable from the original and is even capable of performing other jutsu. Sturdier than the Kage Bunshin.
The Wood Release was also equally famous for its power to manipulate, suppress, and/or absorb a target's chakra. Hashirama's mastery of this ability earning him recognition as one of the few people able to fully control a tailed beast.
This would be done by ensnaring a target with the Wood Release and upon such physical contact would then control the chakra until they were finally too weak to escape.
Only those with Hashirama cells could use it.
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