Chapter 7: Culmination of Two Years
Standing at the entrance of his home, Rayzen gazed into the eyes of Asami, as he said: " He agreed!"
Asami couldn't believe what she heard until Rayzen reaffirmed her as he said :
"You can be an active combat-nin again."
Rayzen didn't speak further or rather was unable to as Asami hugged him and started whimpering. She stopped after a while and gave Rayzen a sincere kiss on the forehead as she said :
"I'll prepare a feast to celebrate."
Saying so, Asami left to buy ingredients while Rayzen was in a trance as he watched her leave. Taking a while to snap back to the real world, Rayzen went to the backyard and sat on the deck away from the sun, as he organised his thoughts.
Rayzen had a massive growth in the two years that had passed. He achieved basic mastery in hand-seals, and his speed in forming hand-seals was now on par with a peak genin. But fireball jutsu was still the only ninjutsu in his arsenal.
He was done with leaf sticking exercise for chakra control and its no longer useful to him. He also had been done with training the same excercise but using pebbles of various sizes and shapes instead of leaf a year ago.
Rayzen had started his tree climbing practice a year back. He could now easily traverse through any stationery surfaces, like trees, walls, roofs etc. After having a solid grasp on it, he started practicing water surface walking exercise and was still making a steady progress.
Takeshi didn't teach him the basic academy jutsus and left those to be learnt at the academy and instead focused on the training of throwing weapons. Evidently, his mastery of shuriken and kunai, would not have reached where it was, this fast, without Takeshi's experience.
Since he had a good mastery of basic taijutsu, he was taught the Uchiha taijutsu, that made the most out of the abilities of Sharingan, and he was practicing it ever since.
In these two years, Rayzen wasn't just practicing what Takeshi instructed him to. He experimented with the techniques he got from the cube.
First was the Chaotic Virtual Combat Meridians Technique. He went through the technique and found a glaring issue. If he tries to hastily breakthrough to the next stage, he will be burying his potential.
Generally for mortals, there was a particular limit to their body strength, which can be improved during the Strength Training stage of Body cultivation. Again, there will be a limit to strength at the peak of the Strength Training Stage, which differs from people to people.
In the novel, it was mentioned that people with innate strength had a limit of three times that of the common mortals, at the strength training stage. And in further stages of cultivation, this difference of strength will be an addition to the strength of that particular stage. But the problem here was, only after they reach the peak of the strength possible for their body, will they break through the next stage.
Basically, the limit is the genes!
And Rayzen has both Hyuga and Uchiha genes whose limits he had yet to explore.
So, Rayzen will be in the first stage of strength training for a long time. And in these two years, Rayzen made time for practicing the True Primal Chaos Formula, that was a part of the Chaotic Virtual Combat Meridians Technique, each and every day. His physical strength improved drastically, such that he guessed it was close to a chunin.
Along with his strength, his body also started to develop faster. He grew taller and can be mistaken for a 7- year old. Takeshi was even shocked to see how his physique had such a drastic growth from the one he initially evaluated as being relatively frail for the same age.
His spritual energy also had tremendous progress. Rayzen regularly practiced Overbearing Soul Tactic too, which was a soul law formula he got from the soul speck that he absorbed from the cube. He became better at using spiritual energy or the soul force, such that by using soul force he could control the trajectory of shuriken and kunai and lift upto a few kilograms of weight without any exhaustion of soul force.
He found that with the use of soul force, his use of weapons like shuriken and kunai can have deadly results, hence he spent more effort on using those weapons without soul force for strengthening his mastery over the weapons. This way, he had a trump card in his hands.
As a result of his increased physical and mental prowess, his chakra reserves skyrocketed to that of a peak Chunin.
Rayzen was unable to use the Basic Impurity Cleansing Technique without a minimum reserve of Jonin level chakra that he had yet to reach, so he left it for later.
He was also able to cast jutsu without hand-signs much faster than with them, due to the knowledge he had on the body, especially meridians and dantian, and due to the help of his strong soul force in controlling chakra movement inside the body as well as real-time observation from Byakugan.
The rest of his time was spent on improving both of his dōjutsus. He kept both his eyes active till he reached the point of near exhaustion, thereby increasing the time he can keep them active, bit by bit. Rayzen trained his Byakugan by using it extensively till near exhaustion and finding more applications for it, but only when he was sure that he was alone. For Sharingan, however, it was not a problem.
Asami even followed his advice to keep the Sharingan active till she neared exhaustion, and she did it with much fervour when she found minor improvements when she used Sharingan and her rising chakra reserves, within a few months of practice. She told him that, her chakra reserves had crossed the chunin level after almost two years of practice.
Rayzen was sure that he has the potential to defeat most Chunin, but can actually only defeat/kill an average Genin due to his lack in combat experience and the fact that he never had a kill or be killed situation.
Rayzen was an introvert by choice ever since he was born here, because getting stronger every day and having a healthy body again, outweighed his boredom. And seeing a beautiful lady like Asami everyday was the icing on the cake. The restriction imposed on him by Takeshi, for his protection was also another factor contributing towards his introverted lifestyle.
It was not only Rayzen and Asami that got stronger. The siblings Sora and Toshiko too had progressive growth. Toshiko, motivated by Rayzen already unlocked chakra two years back and has been training since. Sora unlocked chakra half an year back, she too has been training ever since.
Rayzen stopped his thoughts and began practicing True Primal Chaos Formula, while doing basic taijutsu and work-out exercises. The day went by as usual, with the celebration feast as an exception. After which he slept with Asami as usual.
Even though he was old enough to sleep alone, Asami never forced him out, and Rayzen always forced himself in, like a 'child'.
The end of the year would arrive in a few days and having accomplished the first goals he had set for himself and Asami, Rayzen felt content. He was constantly planning his next 'small step' to not let fate take its own course. Like always, he drifted off to sleep, after coming up with some rough ideas.
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1 January, Year 47 after the Village Hidden in the Leaf was established. Uchiha Asami returned to active service as a Genin.
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