A Naruto Mook Quest [The Gamer/Naruto]

[NúmenoreanNazgûl]

Actually that bit from the wiki is wrong. We have seen academy clones have shadows. Not sure why they say that.

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Actually, I think it's from the official databooks. The shadows are just another example of the canon being contradictory. Like the technique being feasible at all since clones may or may not dispel on contact with us, or one hit from the enemy. I guess it's up to the QM to choose what is considered canon for this quest.

 

[TotallyNotEvil]

Hey, I'm not. *agaisnt* it. I just share Mrttao's and landude's opinion that it sounds extremely complicated/inefficient.

If it's something we can easily pick up because gamer, sure, why not, but if it's something that would take time away from normal training, I'm not so hot about it.

 

[mrttao]

How do you figure that? We have no way of knowing how much CP either of those take, or how hard they are.

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We know the cost per clone because we can already create clones, its 10CP per clone (addition 10CP per minute maintenance)
His plan calls for dozens of clones so we are talking at least 200-300CP and CP/min. (and that is with our discount from high skill). On top of that the clones have to be made to overlap, made to be independently controlled, etc... so all upgrades that further increase difficulty.

On top of that, the Rasengan is a major plot point of naruto and it is explained in detail how it works and how it is super difficult to do because you have to "multitask" your chakra control and the nature of said multitasking is significantly less intensive sounding than the multi tasking involved in the plan he suggested.

and since your entire argument can be summed up as your subjective opinion while mine actually has canon support I think I will go with mine thank you.

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I don't see how "I added up the CP cost on the skill in our character sheet" is a subjective opinion and my argument is supported by canon, see the rasengen arc and how naruto learns it and the difficulty of multi tasking

We never see academy students do what you describe, not even close. The multiple clones we see are not dozens but are 2-3 and they are doing preprogrammed acts or copying the person who cast them, and pre programming dozens of clones like you say sounds very complex and difficult proposition

Also, citation needed on them overlapping just fine

Hey, I'm not. *agaisnt* it. I just share Mrttao's and landude's opinion that it sounds extremely complicated/inefficient.

If it's something we can easily pick up because gamer, sure, why not, but if it's something that would take time away from normal training, I'm not so hot about it.

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To clarify, this is my point as well, I am not opposed to it if we can do it, it sounds awesome. I just think it sounds extremely inefficient compared to just learning an A or S rank jutsu like the rasengen or chidori or shadow clones or what have you.
Or that we could literally achieve the same thing by creating a single ninjutsu construct or genjutsu illusion rather than multitasking dozens

 

[chocolote12]

We know the cost per clone because we can already create clones, its 10CP per clone (addition 10CP per minute maintenance)
His plan calls for dozens of clones so we are talking at least 200-300CP and CP/min. (and that is with our discount from high skill). On top of that the clones have to be made to overlap, made to be independently controlled, etc... so all upgrades that further increase difficulty.

On top of that, the Rasengan is a major plot point of naruto and it is explained in detail how it works and how it is super difficult to do because you have to "multitask" your chakra control and the nature of said multitasking is significantly less intensive sounding than the multi tasking involved in the plan he suggested.


I don't see how "I added up the CP cost on the skill in our character sheet" is a subjective opinion and my argument is supported by canon, see the rasengen arc and how naruto learns it and the difficulty of multi tasking

We never see academy students do what you describe, not even close. The multiple clones we see are not dozens but are 2-3 and they are doing preprogrammed acts or copying the person who cast them, and pre programming dozens of clones like you say sounds very complex and difficult proposition

Also, citation needed on them overlapping just fine


To clarify, this is my point as well, I am not opposed to it if we can do it, it sounds awesome. I just think it sounds extremely inefficient compared to just learning an A or S rank jutsu like the rasengen or chidori or shadow clones or what have you.
Or that we could literally achieve the same thing by creating a single ninjutsu construct or genjutsu illusion rather than multitasking dozens

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Or we could get the skill up to its maximum level and then go beyond that. There's that, too: we're a Gamer, so all these questions of absurd skill actually aren't that compelling when we can get it in about a month or two.

 

[Trondason]

We know the cost per clone because we can already create clones, its 10CP per clone (addition 10CP per minute maintenance)
His plan calls for dozens of clones so we are talking at least 200-300CP and CP/min. (and that is with our discount from high skill). On top of that the clones have to be made to overlap, made to be independently controlled, etc... so all upgrades that further increase difficulty.

On top of that, the Rasengan is a major plot point of naruto and it is explained in detail how it works and how it is super difficult to do because you have to "multitask" your chakra control and the nature of said multitasking is significantly less intensive sounding than the multi tasking involved in the plan he suggested.

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It's 10 points right now, would probably go down as we raise it's level higher. Plus, we still have no idea of the chakra costs of the Rasengan or Chidori, they are both probably rather high and if they weren't being wielded by two power-houses they could never be thrown around like they are.

As for complexity, there are also many different factors involved that we just don't know about. Ignoring how our Gamer ability might effect things, clones have been shown to be capable of acting on their own to certain extents, not just the Kage Bunshin, so that might be a natural part of Clones, that we can put in simple orders for them to follow. Plus, the way I understood it, the Rasengan was difficult because of how much shape-manipulation it required, spinning all that chakra into a stable ball.

To clarify, this is my point as well, I am not opposed to it if we can do it, it sounds awesome. I just think it sounds extremely inefficient compared to just learning an A or S rank jutsu like the rasengen or chidori or shadow clones or what have you

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Luckily for us, we are spending time with a Sensei this turn who can probably provide insight on how foolish it is, or isn't.

Or we could get the skill up to its maximum level and then go beyond that. There's that, too: we're a Gamer, so all these questions of absurd skill actually aren't that compelling when we can get it in about a month or two.

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We don't grind that fast. Han Jee-Han has not had a single skill go over 100 yet (nor have we either, despite spending multiple months on stuff), so getting stuff up to "the maximum level" will take a good long while.

 

[mrttao]

Or we could get the skill up to its maximum level and then go beyond that.

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You mean that exact thing he didn't suggest when he proposed we research a new skill? Sure we could do that, if it is something that just happens naturally as we level the skill I have no opposition to it.

Although XP cost of raising levels increases dramatically, so even if it is something that will "naturally" happen once we get the skill to level 100 we are still potentially looking at more effort than just developing something better, like one of the dozens of A and S rank jutsus out there

It's 10 points right now, would probably go down as we raise it's level higher.

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The level is already really high and there is a point at which the cost stops going down, I believe we are already at that level.
Also, we could decrease the cost of S and A rank jutsus as well via practice. So the argument (opportunity cost) remains the same

clones have been shown to be capable of acting on their own to certain extents, not just the Kage Bunshin, so that might be a natural part of Clones,

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Where and when was that shown?

Luckily for us, we are spending time with a Sensei this turn who can probably provide insight on how foolish it is, or isn't.

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Yep, and if he says it's feasible then we can try and do it. But until we have such confirmation I don't want to waste our time on it

We don't grind that fast. Han Jee-Han has not had a single skill go over 100 yet

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Very good point

 

[Trondason]

The level is already really high and there is a point at which the cost stops going down, I believe we are already at that level.
Also, we could decrease the cost of S and A rank jutsus as well via practice. So the argument remains the same

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We are only at lvl 36, that isn't that high. Plus, they haven't gone down yet. Might go down when we reach about 50, or something. It is one of the Academy 3, I imagine most people have a pretty high score in it.
And the argument stays, because there is a bottom of how cheap a technique can get varies. I assume stuff that does a lot of damage can't go very low, but something that simply makes a illusion, not even that elaborate of one? That seems like it's bottom cost would be almost nothing.

Where and when was that shown?

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Well, either they act on their own, or they are easily enough driven that one could effectively use it in combat without being distracted from piloting their own body. And it's shown by every single clone technique besides the most basic one( which might have it but given how it's only rarely ever shown at all, we don't really know). Like Zabuza's Water Clone.

 

[Logos]

Also note that the 'hundreds per minute' figure is attached to using dozens of them, which is probably not what we'll be starting out with, meaning our cp situation will likely be improved by the time we want to do that.

 

[mrttao]

Well, either they act on their own, or they are easily enough driven that one could effectively use it in combat without being distracted from piloting their own body. And it's shown by every single clone technique besides the most basic one( which might have it but given how it's only rarely ever shown at all, we don't really know). Like Zabuza's Water Clone.

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1. They never control dozens of them at once. only a handful of clones.
2. The water clone is an advanced clone, I explicitly mentioned shadow clones before as an example of an advanced clone and how it differs from a basic one (it is absolutely awesome, completely independent, physically able to interact with things, and can even learn and then deposit the memories of the skills it learned in the casters mind when dispelled).

I suspect water clones act like the shadow clone in that it contains a copy of the person's mind and as such acts independently based on the caster's mind. Also, it might actually have to be driven considering zubaza stood perfectly still while attacking naruto and the kids with his water clones.

Our basic clone that we know of does not have any such capability. And like I said before, we are better of acquiring a superior clone technique that someone already invented than spending a lot of time doing research from scratch without any background in chakra development in order to invent improvements to the existing technique we have, that does need piloting.

Also note that the 'hundreds per minute' figure is attached to using dozens of them, which is probably not what we'll be starting out with, meaning our cp situation will likely be improved by the time we want to do that.

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That just makes the technique even less useful

 

[Trondason]

1. They never control dozens of them at once. only a handful of clones.

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And we'd only be doing dozens at a time if we make that our thing. If it's just another trick in our hat, we probably wont do more than 4-5.

2. The water clone is an advanced clone, I explicitly mentioned shadow clones before as an example of an advanced clone and how it differs from a basic one (it is absolutely awesome, completely independent, physically able to interact with things, and can even learn and then deposit the memories of the skills it learned in the casters mind when dispelled).

I suspect water clones act like the shadow clone in that it contains a copy of the person's mind and as such acts independently based on the caster's mind. Also, it might actually have to be driven considering zubaza stood perfectly still while attacking naruto and the kids with his water clones.

Our basic clone that we know of does not have any such capability. And like I said before, we are better of acquiring a superior clone technique that someone already invented than spending a lot of time doing research from scratch without any background in chakra development in order to invent improvements to the existing technique we have, that does need piloting.

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I'd think that only the Kage Bunshin duplicates the awareness of the user. It's a advance technique made by their second hokage after all, I think they would keep how it works a rather closely guarded secret. Plus, if it IS a advanced clone technique, nothing is stopping us from learning that as well. I honestly don't understand why Shadow Clones aren't used more often, for non-combat reasons at least. While it splits a persons chakra evenly between the clones, most Jounin have plenty of chakra to afford cutting it AT LEAST in 1/4, and doing 4 things at once would increase their efficiency greatly.

That just makes the technique even less useful

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I... don't see the logic there. How i spending less chakra less useful?

 

[mrttao]

And we'd only be doing dozens at a time if we make that our thing. If it's just another trick in our hat, we probably wont do more than 4-5.

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This is not the plan presented by daniel and the one to which i replied

I'd think that only the Kage Bunshin duplicates the awareness of the user. It's a advance technique made by their second hokage after all, I think they would keep how it works a rather closely guarded secret.

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We have no way of telling how intermediate clone techniques work. we only know the basic and the kage bunshin. But it is a fair bet that more advenced jutsus give some thing similar in order to reduce the need to multitask

Plus, if it IS a advanced clone technique, nothing is stopping us from learning that as well.

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opportunity cost is stopping us. there are only so many hours a day and It is frankly a waste of time for us to do RESEARCH to try to INVENT such improvements when we can just learn better techniques

I honestly don't understand why Shadow Clones aren't used more often, for non-combat reasons at least. While it splits a persons chakra evenly between the clones, most Jounin have plenty of chakra to afford cutting it AT LEAST in 1/4, and doing 4 things at once would increase their efficiency greatly.

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Probably a plot hole, although the explanation is mainly the dangers of having your chakra drop too low, which is fatal or can cause permanent crippling of your chakra. Naruto has exceptionally large chakra amount to begin with so he can handle it, most people can't which is why it was allegedly sealed.
That being said, the technique is so obscenely good for training that responsible use should have been standard of training. Naruto is able to handle hundreds of clones so there is no reason normal people couldn't use 2-3

 

[Qeqre]

Didn't the Gamer literally create skills by having a hunch, trying it out once and meeting the required skill in mana manipulation/intelligence?

If nothing else, trying to utilize it in some training sessions is going to grind our bunshin skill a lot(and presumably, our chakra stat by proxy).

If we do want to create a single technique that creates many arms? Stacking the clones together with the intent of having a multi-arm technique might be similar to when Han Jee-Han decided to try spinning his mana bolt. As in:
*Ding*
*A skill has been created through a special action*

We could also try to henge into something with 4 arms and try to punch a tree with all 4 arms or something. 2 simple ways of trying to find new uses of a skill(with the intent of boosting Taijutsu) rather than mindlessly grinding our level in the relevant technique.

They can be incorperated in [] Focus on Ninjutsu and can probably be added to [] focus on taijutsu or [] focus on fitness, especially if we were to just try them out with a free action(comparatively little opportunity cost that way).

Not to say we should sink significant effort into this if it doesn't spawn its own technique but there's no good excuse for not even bothering to attempt it.

 

[Neptune]

I'm in favor of experimenting with intent, as by it's nature even if it fails it should still improve ninjutsu and it's some fluff for the author to incorporate.

 

[veekie]

At worst, we acquire Fools Act.
Which isn't a bad debuff if ypu level it a bit

 

[Cjdavis103]

I have a long term idea here that might be interesting pursue

Basically we copy the third and learn all 5 Nature transformations. As the Gamer we might not have an affinity so we can learn all Element types much faster then a normal person would ( not even includeing how fast we can learn as the gamer) and even if we do we can still learn them all in a cost effective manner. and once we do that we become versatile as Hell. we would be able to counter any enemy nature Jutsu with the element it is weak to drastically improving our chance of wining that clash while also being able to boost an allies jutsu by using a compatible element or bt exploiting Counterbalence ( useing a jutsu of the same element )

heck since we are the gamer we might be able to cheat and create knockoff versions of Bloodline limits (using two elements at the same time) to further enhance our abilities.

 

[Blasterbot]

I am always up for copying Hiruzen. still I will stand by the we should wait to see what team we get before really committing to any build.

 

[Desus]

Have you ever heard of shunshin no shishui? Guy took a really basic technique and ran with it. In this case literally and became a jonin off of how good he became at it. The guy was a full blown jonin with this technique. As in not a special jonin meaning they could get into jonin level ability because of their specialty but full jonin level because the guy went and fully incorporated a basic simple technique and took in all its potential.

So yes people have basically done this kind of thing before in canon

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The difference is so obvious that I'm kind of genuinely surprised no one's called it out yet: the technique Shisui specialized in was essentially "Being Impossibly Fast: The Jutsu." It's an incredibly versatile skill used by literally everyone in the series, and Shisui just used it better than almost anyone. It was a viable specialty because it was essentially just specializing in being really fast, as opposed to one very limited technique which every character in the series discards the second they learn one of its superior alternatives, of which there are a frankly ridiculous amount. To use a math analogy: Shisui specialized in dimensional analysis while specializing in the bunshin would be like specializing in counting on your fingers. You can potentially do some interesting stuff by counting on your fingers, like Polish Finger Magic, but it's all still parlour tricks when everyone and their mother owns a calculator and everyone half-competent is cramming for the Real Analysis midterm.

 

[Corvo Montés]

Does DEX improve our speed?

 

[Blasterbot]

Does DEX improve our speed?

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usually that is how it works. sometimes speed is a separate secondary characteristic but usually dex determines both speed and coordination.

 

[ryuan]

The months passed in a blur, with most of the general shinobi skills being left to the side with only a quick review in the form of tests acknowledging them right now. You saw no increases in those skills.

Iruka sensei started being more demanding in his physical training sessions, and for the first time since last year taijutsu started to be chakra enhanced, with you taking a through beating against most students. Of course nobody found that out since you had no visible injuries yourself, but the loss of hp was now much more visible than before. It was a good thing that you had asked about tips and advice from your teacher about subjects you had sleep in the past, and even thought he could only spare you a few minutes of his time you managed to improve considerably.

Through a special action the skill Chakra Inner Flow was learned!
Chakra Inner Flow (Passive/Active) (Cost: 100 CP) (Level 1) [0/10]
By steadily channeling chakra, both your body and mind become enhanced and better than before.
5% increase in STR
5% increase in DEX
5% increase in VIT
5% increase in INT
5% increase in WIS
10% increase in STR while active
10% increase in DEX while active
10% increase in VIT while active
Additional 100 CP cost per minute

With that skill you managed to bridge the gap between you and your classmates back again, though they were mostly confused as to why you 'let' them win so much before starting to fight back more fiercely. Well, you're not going to correct them on their assumptions, so there's that.

Leaf Sticking Exercise level increased by 30!
Physical Endurance level increased by 5!
Observe level increased by 5!
Throw Weapons Mastery level increased by 16! +40xp
Konoha Academy Taijutsu level increased by 5!
Henge no Jutsu level increased by 1!
Kawarimi no Jutsu level increased by 1!
Bunshin no Jutsu level increased by 1!
Chakra Inner Flow level increased by 12!

Through continuous effort your STR was increased by 2!
Through continuous effort your DEX was increased by 2!
Through continuous effort your VIT was increased by 2!
Through continuous study your INT was increased by 1!
Through good decision making your WIS was increased by 1!
Through continuous expenditure your CHAKRA was increased by 8!

By reaching level 100 with Leaf Sticking Exercise the skill Tree Climbing Exercise has been created!
Tree Climbing Exercise (Passive/Active) (Level 1) (Cost: 100 CP) [0/10]
A more advanced chakra control exercise, it by channeling chakra on the feet it allows to stick on vertical surfaces
Allows to stick to vertical surfaces or upside down
Concentration to use the skill lessened as skill level increases
0,25% CP discount to skills
Additional 100 CP cost per minute

While productive, normal classes didn't hold much of your interest and soon you went back to more private training in order to see your full potential.

~~O~~

"Bunshin no Jutsu!" Yelled Naruto as he created yet another half dead clone. "Damn it! Why I can't make it work!" Naruto yelled in frustration after another failure.

"Honestly", you tell him, "I have no clue. Have you been doing the leaf sticking exercise like I told you to? Focusing on it and cleaning your mind?"

"I do!" He whined before pouting, "I can even stick that damn leaf without hand seals now, even keeping it in any part of my body, but it still doesn't work!"

You palmed your face at that. How come your friend is still having such difficulty with such basic jutsu you have no idea. He doesn't have nearly as much problem with the other two academy jutsus, the henge and the kawarimi, but apparently his bunshin is being a tough nut to crack. You had asked Iruka-sensei for possible reasons why someone could suck so much at performing ninjutsu. You even asked him if somehow having higher or lower chakra reserves than normal would influence in that, and while it did factor to some degree it wasn't a factor strong enough to prevent someone from performing a jutsu at all.

It all amounts to one sensibility of sensing their chakra when molding their jutsu, and some people were simply bad at some jutsu than others. Perhaps a heavy imbalance between the Yin and Yang components of chakra could influence certain jutsus, but the bunshin was a basic ninjutsu for a reason. It appeared that if you sucked at it, it simply meant you sucked at it.

"Well, there is also plan B", you told Naruto, "if your chakra control is good enough for the leaf sticking to be nearly effortless, I think I have something else you might try". Hopefully teaching Naruto Tree Climbing won't be a mistake, after all it's an overall chakra intensive jutsu all things considered. You can only keep it up for about five minutes after all. Granted Naruto have a shitton of chakra compared with you, and pretty much everyone else you could see the stats. Hopefully he should be able to perform the bunshin after mastering this technique. "Now listen to me because there are a few warnings if you want to learn this technique..."

Tree Climbing Exercise level increased by 12!
Henge no Jutsu level increased by 29!
Kawarimi no Jutsu level increased by 6!
Bunshin no Jutsu level increased by 29!
Kuninominaka level increased by 3!
Amanominaka level inreased by 4! +20xp

Through continuous expenditure your CHAKRA was increased by 4!

~~O~~

"Uhm, are you alright Tetsuo-kun?" Asked softly your friend as you took your beating like a man.

Certainly you had asked her to fight against you using the jyuuken now that the academy taijutsu became much more vicious, but you never knew your friend style could hurt so much.

"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks for asking."

In order to train more your taijutsu you couldn't help but ask Hinata to spar with you, but the problem with that is her Byakugan who could see your internal organs and tenketsu, so it became inevitable that your ability would be noticed by her. Instead you told her that it's some kind of weird ability you found yourself unlocking that prevents you from visibly taking damage and that did 'something' to the wounds. As she took a look at your body while being beaten up by her jyuuken she came to the conclusion that your chakra instantly regenerates you of any damage, dropping it's levels immediately in response.

Not only that you had apparently TWO chakra flows. One that was used to regenerate your chakra, and another you used exclusively for jutsu and didn't help any in the regeneration process.

It's good to understand how your ability works, and it even gave you an idea though you're not even remotely sure how to go about it. Well, food for thought for another day.

The good news was that your hp chakra isn't influenced if your tenketsus are blocked, the bad news is that normal jyuuken strikes still hurt like a bitch anyway.

"Thanks for keeping it quiet Hinata", you finally said after the training session with her, "I owe you one".

"I-it's alright Tetsuo-kun", she said in understanding, "though I think you should see Hokage-sama about it."

"Maybe I will book an hour with him before graduating, but right now I rather not have people learning about my ability."

She nodded, and you two headed out to the Ichiraku for a quick dinner with Naruto. While you're not nearly as much of a fan of the dish as your hyperactive friend, it's good enough to sate your hunger and you can always eat something else at home.

Chakra Inner Flow level increased by 12!
Konoha Academy Style level increased by 9!
Buki Arashi no Jutsu level increased by 4!

Through continuous effort your STR was increased by 2!
Through continuous effort your DEX was increased by 2!
Through continuous effort your VIT was increased by 2!

~~O~~

"Why are we doing this again?" Asked Ino a bit annoyed that you had gone after her during the advanced genjutsu class. Frankly you went after her mostly because you managed to talk more than a few words with her.

"Since genjutsu requires a target it's better to train in pairs", you tell her the obvious answer completely avoiding the other more important question in her opinion of 'why I'm here with you instead with Sasuke'. "Besides Sasuke is training with Suzume sensei."

True enough the two of them were practicing at the teacher's desk. Due to the odd number of students today he volunteered himself to practice with the teacher. It was one of the few classes which Sasuke volunteered himself for anything that wasn't exactly showing off, or one which he interacted with people more than strictly necessary. In fact, he took some glee on putting someone else in a genjutsu that was hard to break, specially the few members of his fan club that managed to worm their ways to this class.

Ino just grumbled before looking at you. "So what kind of genjutsu you know?"

"Magen: Kurayami", you told her and she waited until you continued. "That's all."

She promptly face palmed before sighing, "well, I will try and teach you at least another jutsu so I don't get bored with seeing black all the time."

Through a special action the skill Magen: Gokan Konran no Jutsu was created!
Magen: Gokan Konran no Jutsu (Active) (Level 1) (Cost: 50 CP) [0/10]
A simple genjutsu to confuse the five senses of the opponent, it's lack of subtlety makes it very easy to dispel
The skill strength depends on skill level, INT, WIS and Yin affinity
Additional 50 CP cost per minute

Genjutsu Kai level increased by 3! +30xp
Magen: Kurayami level increased by 3! +30xp
Magen: Gokan Konran no Jutsu level increased by 7! +5xp

By gaining 10 levels in a Yin affinity skill, your Yin affinity was increased by 5!

"Not bad", said Ino after the end of the class, "I doubt you could ever specialize in genjutsu, but you at least now know the basics well enough. Guess even someone as untalented as you could perform this well if you apply yourself huh."

"Ha ha ha. How cute."

"Bitch, I'm adorable!"

~~O~~

"So sensei, any good tips for your hard working student?"

Normally Iruka sensei would only tell you to study hard and pay attention to classes, but you managed to bug him long enough that he finally caved in. "Well, there's a book on the archives written by Sandaime explicitly meant for new genins, it contains almost all collected knowledge of field work, including necessary jutsus created during the Warring Clans Era by several clans that managed to be disseminated to Konoha."

"Sounds handy. Why that's not standard reading material for the academy?"

"It was until the end of the Third Shinobi War. One of the agreements between the five villages was to slowly demilitarize, which means changing academy standard graduating age from nine to twelve years old and to teach certain jutsus and other skills only when you become a genin. Of course major clans can get away with a lot more than what is officially stated."

"Did it work", you ask your teacher the one million ryo question, "the demilitarization agreement? It can only be called a success if all five villages agree to it after all."

At this your teacher sighed. "More or less. Kumo enforced it until the death of Yondaime-sama, but by that time we had lost our Hokage and the Kyuubi attack made us weaker overall so we lost much of our previous position of strength. Kumo took that as an opportunity to restart their advanced program to produce stronger ninjas, but their visibly war mongering ways scares of some potential clients. Suna have a lower ninja population so they keep giving high quality shinobi in order to retain competitive which was covered in the treaty, and Mizu is still isolationist due to the current Mizukage policies. There's almost no diplomatic talks between Konoha and Iwa so it's hard to do gauge their reactions, and our village had to keep the current standards in order to booster our numbers, relying on superior team work in order to compete with the other villages."

"Sounds like we got the raw deal in all this."

"Some people agree, while others don't. It's a controversial topic those days. Some want to strengthen our ninja abilities while others are afraid this will lead to escalation and a possible Fourth Shinobi War.

"I think I hate politics", you said after a few minutes of contemplation.

Iruka laughed, "you and most of the people in the world, Tetsuo."

~~O~~

On the meager amount of free time you had you did a few things. First, you tried to see if you could create meditation as a skill itself.

Through a special action the skill Meditation has been created!
Meditation (Passive) (Level 1) [0/10]
A skill to reach a certain state of mind, be it nothingness or sharpened focus
5% speed in entering a meditative trance
5% increase in meditation actions

Next you went shopping, trying to spend some of those hard earned cash. You bought a melee kunai for your troubles and a new weight set, better than the previous one. -22000 ryo

Kunai (High Quality)
High quality kunai, often used in melee instead of being used as disposable weapons. ATK +150

Weight Set (Shinobi, Low)
A set of chakra seals for both ankles and wrists that can be set to higher than normal weight.
Enchantment slot: [Four Limbs Weighting Seal]. Increase of physical xp between 10% to 200%. Debuff of -2 to -25 to physical stats.

Finally you asked Iruka sensei to know your elemental affinity.

"That's only for when you make chunin. When you're young your affinity is too weak to be properly caught on the chakra paper, unless your chakra is unusually strong or you have a strong affinity, but those with stronger affinity often comes from clans and since those things run on family it's easier for them to know about it in advance, like how the Uchiha were famous for their katon jutsu. If you insist in knowing though, you can ask your jonin sensei when you make genin."

Well, that was a bust.

~~O~~

At the end of those three months, something happened.

[ ]Hokage-sama asked to see you
[ ]A birthday party was held
[ ]Is that bullying?

 

[ClawClawBite]

[X ]Hokage-sama asked to see you

I want to know!

 

[Neo-Chan]

[X] Is that bullying?

I really don't want to talk to the Hokage that way leads to Danzo.

 

[Logos]

[X]Hokage-sama asked to see you

Not much risk of horrible outcomes here, and I'm curious.

 

[NegativeHorizon]

Unf, those skill level ups look so niiiiice.

[X] Is that bullying?

The Hokage almost certainly wants to know about our sudden growth, and I really don't feel up to revealing it now. Let's hold on that till we graduate at least.

 

[sainen]

[X]Hokage-sama asked to see you