>>5790774Yuzuki gets a piggy-back ride with her dad as they leave to go find and kill your boy. It’s a good thing he wasn’t here right now. Hopefully this was all just some kind of elaborate slapstick for your amusement, you’re a little worried.
… And she seemed so shy when you and your friends initially came over for dinner four months ago. Maybe she just came alive in the dojo?
“Um…” Yuna begins. “Yuzuki is actually a really kind and smart child prodigy who’s… good at weapons and other stuff…”
She’s mortified, but you begin.
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It takes about a month for things to start to really click for you, the key was to get comfortable with your body as part of a seamless whole with your mind instead of your body as just an agent that does your mind’s will. When you started, your thought process would go ‘That’s a fist coming at my face, I should signal my arm to block it and then throw a counterstrike.’, you just do it. Not thinking about it, just executing the move. Entirely, rigidly, imbecilic. In the moment. It helped to think about it being one with the life force residing in your cells.
Yudai shows you a few moves as well, most notably proving that this man was a jonin and used a lot of lightning ninjutsu in combination with his taijutsu. He could even charge his muscles with lightning chakra to allow him to punch superhumanly strong and fast, so fast and hard that the air pressure in the room could be disturbed enough to make your ears hurt. It gives you a few ideas on how you might be able to manipulate the flow of water chakra within your own muscles to accomplish something similar and you even ask Yudai about it. He confirms that he’s seen Kiri ninja do something like that, but he also assures you that such a technique would be an A-level accomplishment and a technique that’s out of your reach for now, not worth spending the time training at until after you’re a genin.
The conversation does spur him into producing a special piece of paper from a cupboard in his office and hands it to you, telling you to channel your chakra into it. When it turns damp, he confirms that your chakra nature is definitely water. Surprise surprise.
And Yuna wasn’t joking about Yuzuki actually being really good. The little girl was on-par with your classmates, even. You didn’t end up fighting her yourself because her dad refused to let an older boy hit his little girl, but you saw Yuzuki and Yuna fight a few times.
Yuzuki used a kusarigama, in this case one that was made out of wood. Yuzuki could already move like a true ninja, doing backflips and such. Only Shizuka and Junpei were showing a similar ability to really bounce off walls in combat like that in your class so far. You were a little jealous.
