Naruto - The Wind Calamity

Chapter 13 : Academy Exams

While the whole ninja world discussed Orochimaru's defection, Fujin didn't bother with it and kept his focus on his training. After 2 weeks of training for transformation jutsu, it had finally improved to an acceptable level, though it still had a lot of space for improvement.

After that, he began training for substitution jutsu. This one was much tougher than the other two. It took nearly twice the time to learn this jutsu and master it to an acceptable level. However, it wasn't what Fujin had thought it to be.

He thought, 'The technique is basically just misdirection. The main focus here is noticing your opponent's focus and the instant he loses focus a bit, replace yourself with an object quickly enough so that the enemy won't notice you.

It ain't an instant switcheroo. So it won't work against someone much stronger than you or someone having a Sharingan activated. The object actually has to be very close to you, otherwise, the jutsu will become much harder to be performed.

Sigh, that makes sense, instant switcheroo would have been too overpowered considering that every academy kid learns this technique. It does have a lot of variations though.

Genjutsu, transformation jutsu can be used to fool the enemy better. Chakra threads could be used to bring an object at a distance closer to you. It also states that a lower form summoning jutsu could be used to instantly summon the objects around you, while you hightail outta there.

Still, though it ain't as overpowered as I thought, it is still very useful. The subtleness of misdirection would be a very important skill to have as a ninja. Can could be applied in a heck of a lot of scenarios. I should still master it to the point of being able to do it without hand signs.

But Body Flicker just has to be focused much more now. I will also have to learn some wind and earth style escape jutsus.'

For nearly 2 months, Fujin kept on attempting these jutsus till he ran out of chakra. This process of training till he ran out of chakra had a marvellous effect on his chakra reserves. They increased considerably during these 2 months.

During these 2 months, he also searched the library for scrolls on increasing Chakra reserves. He found two scrolls very easily. One explained that Chakra increased as one experienced physical and spiritual growth, i.e., it could be increased over time by doing physical exercises and meditation. Another compared chakra reserves to muscle. Just like how physically straining your muscles would increase muscles, chakra reserves would increase by straining it.

So to increase the reserves, one had to keep using his chakra till he ran out of it. Fujin had been dependent on the above two till now, which explained the rapid growth in his chakra reserves.

Apart from that, he also found a few other ways or theories. One scroll talked about using nature chakra, i.e., the Sage mode, which would increase the chakra reserves and make it more potent for the time the sage mode was activated.

Another scroll talked about increasing cellular activity. By making the cells more active, one could extract more chakra out of each cell. Thus considerably increasing the reserves. It would also help in improving the physique.

Fujin was quite impressed with this theory. Sadly the way to increase cellular activity wasn't mentioned. Fujin wondered, 'I doubt it'll be easy to increase cellular activity. Otherwise, this method would be very common. I wonder who came up with this theory. Perhaps I could contact that person in the future.'

On reading the scroll entirely, he saw the name of the person who wrote this scroll at the end. He was very surprised by it initially and then concluded, 'Makes sense that it was the snake bastard who came up with this theory. Tch, seems like this method is a dead end.