Acquisition 2.3
Hisana held the piece of paper in her hands almost gingerly. The simple square of thick white paper cost nearly a thousand ryo, although despite the costs she felt that she should've done this sooner. She'd learnt plenty of elemental ninjutsu already, running from the Grand Fireball to the Great Breakthrough and so on, but she hadn't actually tested her affinity. She had a pair for Sasuke and Naruto, who were currently watching her hands with rapt interest. She channeled a little chakra, a brief crimson glow visible for only a moment as the chakra flowed from the tenketsu in her hands to the paper.
That was another thing she hadn't been expecting - unlike in the anime, chakra colour varied on an individual basis like the manga. Naruto's was yellow, and Sasuke's was unsurprisingly purple. Chakra flowed into the paper, and it split in two. Wind, then. She'd been expecting fire, and dreading Earth or Water. She knew that there were ninja out there who used them well, but they seemed a bit shit to her. Although given how many water ninjutsu she knew, maybe that was hypocritical.
"Wind it is, then." Hisana said, and offered the chakra paper to the two boys. They took it eagerly, though trying not to show it in Sasuke's case.
"Is Wind a powerful element, sis?" Naruto asked.
"Well, that depends on what you mean. It's got a lot of potential for offence, and a little defence on the side. It's also pretty rare. Go on, try yours." Hisana said. Naruto nodded, and channeled his chakra into the paper. As Hisana expected, it was cut in two.
"Woah, I got wind too! You have to teach me all your cool jutsu now sis!" Naruto shouted, literally jumping up and down. Hisana almost missed Sasuke's crumpled paper.
"Sure. Stick around and I'll teach you a wind ninjutsu to try. So, Sasuke, you got lightning?" Hisana said.
"It's... not what I expected. I almost wish one of us had fire." Sasuke replied.
"It's highly likely we're both at least partially inclined to it. We both already know the Grand Fireball, so we should be able to keep the tradition alive." Hisana said, and Sasuke smiled. "Now, Naruto, let me tell you about this wind jutsu called 'Great Breakthrough'. The handsigns are..."
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Naruto ended up learning the Great Breakthrough jutsu, which made spars against him utterly annoying. The kid just didn't tire, and Hisana faintly dreaded facing shadow clones that also a library of ninjutsu to choose from in the future. He just fired off one jutsu after another, and it was all Hisana could to occasionally get in close and win the match.
She sat atop the lake behind the Uchiha compound, practicing her water walking in preparation for learning the basics of the Mystical Palm jutsu. She'd gotten to the point now where she could meditate whilst water walking, and even then her Mystical Palm was likely to be inefficient and wasteful. It demanded a whole other level of chakra control, and Hisana was deeply impressed at Sakura for mastering the way she did with only three years training. Still, at least she'd have some capacity for healing then, which was never a bad thing.
"Hisana? It is time to begin our practice again." Ebisu said, throwing Hisana's practice sword to her. She caught the wooden blade and stood up. Ebisu rushed at her, swinging for her head and it took all of Hisana's skill to evade the attack. Her eyes became red and black; and she swung at Ebisu's chest. He made the mistake of looking into her eyes, and she debuted her newest skill. For a moment, before it was dispelled, Hisana managed to cut the connection between Ebisu's eyes and his brain, rendering him blind.
Her wooden blade slashed across his chest and up; then she reversed it to slam into his neck for a classic killing blow. He reversed the genjutsu and nodded at her; acknowledging the point to her. They closed again, only for Hisana to seallessly replace herself to a position just behind Ebisu. It seemed she'd have this round as well, but he whirled around with suprsing speed and blocked her blow. Furthermore, he landed a kick to her chest that sent her flying backwards and skidding atop the water.
Point to Ebisu.
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It was only a year til canon started, Hisana realised one day. Only a year. She'd grown strong, but strong enough? No, she'd need to keep training and hope that with the advent of Kakashi as her sensei she'd be able to speed up the pace of her learning.
She and Sasuke had moved back into the compound this year. Most of it was available for rent, after putting every last personal effect into secure storage in the vault. The Uchiha vault was locked with a seal that only opened upon a transfusion of chakra with the signature of a Sharingan-delivered genjutsu. When Hisana opened it, she found some very interesting accounts. The one that interested her the most was the one that listed the various powerful weapons, jutsu scrolls and summoning scrolls the clan owned with a location. The summoning scrolls especially intrigued her, with four different animal clans represented. She was pretty sure they were actually Uchiha vassals, technically.
The Cats were traditional physical summons, with a variety of extremely large animals and the occasional ninjutsu user. The Hawks were also suited towards battle, though somewhat obviously they flew. The Crows and the Ravens were masters of genjutsu and ninjutsu respectively. Hisana remembered something about ninja cats from the anime, and Sasuke's hawk summon. All of them sounded good, though flight was such a big advantage she was leaning towards a bird of some kind.
She'd have to hire a team of ninja to help her retrieve one however, so there was no use in fretting over which to pick just yet. With the money from the rents coming in, Hisana could easily afford even an A-Rank mission. She wondered if she should request Kakashi.
Choose SIX options for the next year. Canon starts at the end of the next update!
[x] - Fuinjutsu:
[x] - Reverse-engineering the controllable, detonable shuriken.
[x] - Try to create a basic chakra storage seal.
[x] - Ninjutsu
[x] - Learn the Shadow Clone jutsu, then teach it to Naruto.
[x] - Pay for a mission to retrieve a summoning scroll from an Uchiha weapons depot and sign it. The others will be retrieved but not signed.
[x] - Cat
[x] - Hawk
[x] - Raven
[x] - Crow
[x] - Genjutsu
[x] - Learn more Sharingan Genjutsu
[x] - Kenjutsu
[x] - Learn techniques intended to counter ninja from a former Samurai.
[x] - Try to integrate your Wind Release with your kenjutsu
[x] - Iryojutsu
[x] - Investigate dojutsu specific techniques.
[x] - Learn the Chakra Scalpel
