Yuichi was unsure about his winning with this many restrictions on him. Although due to the last few months training he achieved a few things but it was sufficient at a broad view.
But still he somewhat has confidence that he wouldn't lose this easily after all he had his experience of real life fighting. But in the ninja world, except giving him a little boost, he felt it not much beneficial.
Here everyone already trained from the beginning to get accustomed to fighting, giving great importance to taijutsu at first but later ninjutsu took the main focus.
Whereas the fighting he did in his previous life were mostly gun based or some time hand to hand combat when he found himself in rough space.
The tournament was structured in a way that top 6 scorers only fight in the last fights therefore among 24 participants 6 groups were made in which one has to reach top 6 winning consecutive 4 matches.
The top 4 participants and the 6 high scorers then fight among each other to decide the winner.
It wasn't a set system but something the instructor decided or made convenient to them. As they have to make sure new talents continue to bloom whereas the previous one won't wither away.
Yuichi's participant was somewhere in under 20 thus he was confident in fighting him. Also during 1v1 duel the three simple basic jutsu were allowed in order for participants to use maximum of their battle IQ.
But Yuichi didn't learn any of those jutsu yet, which were required to showcase during the graduation.
There were 5 E rank ninjutsu that you have to learn to graduate namely, clone technique, transformation technique, cloak of invisibility technique, rope escape technique and lastly body replacement technique.
Yuichi himself only knew transformation technique which weren't very beneficial during fights but he planned to focus on building his ninjutsu arsenal as he felt his core strong enough now.
Battle of Yuichi started, in the first round he got an easy win as he dodged the incoming attack and landed a roundhouse kick to his opponent's head knocking him out due to sheer force of impact.
In the second round the opponent already assessed his strength thus he maintained a little gap and used ninja weapons like shurikens and kunais.
It was tough for Yuichi to continue moving to dodge things and simultaneously attack with the weights; thus, he quickly rushed towards him to make the battle more close-ranged.
As the area was limited the opponent soon got cornered and threw punches to Yuichi which he easily caught with his bare hand and retaliated with a curving knee strike to his opponents stomach, knocking him out.
The third match was tough but he managed to win by taking things to close range while making use of shuriken to distract the opponent.
However he lost the last match due to his agility and stamina which was all time low thanks to the weight he was enduring with his body.
The opponent was a clansman and was versed in 5 E rank jutsus of academy and used them very efficiently to dodge Yuichi's attack that could be fatal for himself. The fight was close to 10 min that was the time limit placed on every battle.
However after this battle Yuichi felt the need to focus on ninjutsu more.
Looking at it Yuichi didn't even try to use his ability due to poor physique and chakra pool. But now after the exam he had a new goal to accomplish.
The physical exam came to an end in the evening with sun already moving towards the sunset, Yuichi met
Orochimaru and Jiraiya and went to the barbeque for dinner. They talked about various things and Yuichi gained knowledge about how to use affinity chakra from Orochimaru who already has started using it.
The evening went smoothly and all of them went straight to their homes for tomorrow's preparation but Yuichi only came back to change his clothes and bath, and later went back to train around 9 pm as usual.
Like usual he started his daily physical workout and after completing it today started preparing to walk on water.
Till now he had already mastered tree walking and various styles of it so now it was only beneficial for him to go up and learn water walking and it's all variants that he could derive of.
Yucihi tried to use his chakra and stepped on water but instantly fell into the river.
"Man it isn't gonna be easy"
Word came out of his month instantly as he made himself out of the water.
The water walking was because using high chakra make the person heavy and suck him in the water whereas very light chakra don't even provide stability and you sink by your weight, thus grasping the perfect limit was the important thing and it was easy to find out due to the continuous little waves that formed even in still waters.
Yuichi was just thinking how hard it would be to walk on a waterfall if walking on simple water was already this hard.
The stream that passes by Yuichi's secret training ground was very calm and usually doesn't make much noise except the sweet slow water passing by, but today it was in chaos.
Yuichi spent hours playing in the water which should supposedly be his training. However, all he did was fall in the water and come out of it.
Soon feeling bored he decided to focus on chakra nature change. With some suggestions by Orochimaru, Yuichi kind of understood why he wasn't able to feel lightning chakra by meditation.
'To feel it you have to come in contact with it'
This was the suggestion by orochimaru as he explained that he has to first learn a technique irrespective of rank that focuses on his chakra type.
Although Yuichi didn't have such a technique, he had a similar ability in his status window which could do the work. Thus Yucihi summoned his status window.