Chapter 4: The Body Flicker!
The administration office was located in the Hokage building along with the mission hall. The teams in the reserve forces were managed a little differently than the regular forces. The regular forces of Konoha comprised of only the graduates who passed the second genin exam, they worked in fixed teams and were protected by a jounin. The genin who failed the exam had two options, one was to go back to the academy to repeat a year, or the other was to enter the reserve force. After a one-month supplementary crash course, the failed genin were given back their forehead protectors and inducted into the reserve force.
Hiroshi didn't even try to go back another year and try the genin exam again, he knew the reason behind his failure wasn't a lack of strength, although he didn't graduate the academy at the top of the class at least he was at the top 5. The roadblock to his successful promotion was deliberately arranged by the clan. It's been two years now and other than not allowing him to get in a jounin team, the Aburame clan had not taken any action against him so Hiroshi wasn't that vigilant against them.
But after the simulation he knew that the clan would soon try to strike him down, so today's agenda in coming to the administration office was to withdraw from his temporary team. The team formed in the reserve force weren't as restrictive as the regular ones, the teams were mostly self-regulated with their members registering to the administration department.
There was no line and the guy sitting on the counter looked absolutely bored, he should either be a retired shinobi or someone from the reserve force that had no ambition to climb up.
"Yo" Hiroshi greeted, "Registration number R-140607, request for temporary hiatus."
"Here fill out this form." the genin or chunin in charge of the desk casually gave out the form which Hiroshi quickly filled and submitted.
"Huh, Chunin exams?" the guy looked over at Hiroshi's figure for a moment before he waved his hand.
'Alright, so that was the easy part, now what...' Hiroshi looked at the 500 points in his panel, 'I don't need to save points, at least not now when I am so weak...' Hiroshi started jumping on the rooftops using chakra to gain a better foothold as he dashed back towards his training ground while moving he could already feel the difference due to his recent power up, he wasn't getting tunnel vision anymore as he travelled at low genin speed. His agility stat was still at a pitiful 29.
'Alright so I have 500 pints, which means I can enhance 2 stats at most, now what should I focus on?'
Hiroshi looked at the embarrassing E+ comprehension stat for a moment before he quickly clicked on the upgrade button.
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[Comprehension : E+ -> D-]
[Comprehension bottleneck broken, you can now learn D Rank Jutsus.]
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'That makes more sense on why I could not ever learn the Body Flicker technique, and why recreating the Rasengan never worked, so comprehension is related to my talent in Ninjutsu... what about Physique then?'
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[Physique : D- -> D]
[Physique strengthened, natural physical stat cap increased to 40.]
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'Physical stats... but my DEX is already 46?'
Hiroshi thought for a moment as he once again arrived at training ground 21. The training ground was empty like always so he quickly tried to warm up with some exercises trying to see what difference increasing his physique made.
Hiroshi went through the basic stances of the academy taijutsu style, other than his improved movement and reflexes he felt nothing different, so he concluded that physique only affected the stat cap and the rate at which his stats improved, of course, that second part was just speculation on his behalf.
Now he had two options, to continue improving his stats through training or to go back on the path he had once abandoned.
'I now have two days before the next simulation, let's see if increasing my comprehension would actually allow me to learn the Body Flicker Jutsu.'
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{Training Ground 21, Konohagakure}
{7:43 PM, 2 March 78 Yrs}
Ram -> Rat -> Tiger
In the training ground, Hiroshi carefully went through the three seals needed to use the body flicker Jutsu, after forming the final seal he concentrated on moving his chakra as nudged by the final seal, a flood of chakra moved to his calf muscles. Hiroshi could feel his calf almost vibrate as he delayed the movement part of the technique for a bit before he hurriedly moved forward.
The tunnel vision that his improved eyesight removed came back 100 times stronger as he felt himself move forward almost 10 feet before he stumbled and fell on the ground. Even though the end result was a bit embarrassing Hiroshi could feel his lips morphing into a grin. Apart from the basic 3, this was the first Jutsu that he had successfully performed.
The Jutsu in Naruto World were not just a flash of hand signs like he believed. Each hand seal moved the chakra flowing through your body in a certain way depending on the hand seal performed before it. Along with that to perform a Jutsu, you either had to move your chakra as nudged by the hand seal or in a certain way either opposite or a little different from the hand seal's chakra movement. This all contributed to near-infinite possibilities on the secrets of how a jutsu is performed even if you see someone perform a jutsu.
Even with the Body flicker technique, most people just use the tiger seal to perform the technique once they master the initial movement of the chakra. For Hiroshi however, this was the first time he was able to use the body flicker, he knew that he always followed the right steps but the chakra always fizzled out instead of rushing to his calf muscles. It was unscientific but that was what chakra was, it didn't follow any law but its own but now that it worked another path opened up in front of him.
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[Body Flicker Technique (Active) Lv-1, 15 CP/use]
A movement technique that allows the user to move at twice their max speed by invigorating their calf muscles with chakra. The burst of speed lasts for a short instance and trying to extend this duration could in turn damage your muscles.
Range - 10 ft
Hand Seals - Ram -> Rat -> Tiger
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~Clap~~Clap~~Clap~
Hiroshi was startled out of his daze as he turned around to find the smiling face of Tora, his ex-team leader. Another sense of crisis came over him as he realized that his senses weren't as sharp as he thought as he had no idea someone was watching him.
'Dammit... since when has he been here... and why?'
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AN: So I am starting to stockpile chapters so the update rate should stabilize from tomorrow every day at 00:00 CST...
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