Chapter 15: chunin 8
After everyone is back in the village, they get back into their training rhythm. I corner Naruto and start talking to him about shadow clone, implying i know the jutsu. I then ask him to show me his shadow clone jutsu and explain to me what he is doing, I want to make sure he is doing it right.
He doesn't suspect me. After all, i was the one to teach him kunai shadow cone jutsu. Huruzen Sensie created the kunai shadow clone based on shadow clone that tobirama created.
Naruto doesn't know that no one would teach me shadow clone with the ammount of chakra i have right now. I extract the theories of both shadow clone and multi shadow clone as Naruto shows off.
I then explain the training aspect of shadow clones to Naruto. Right now, he spends a lot of time practicing nature transformation. I tell him that he can have 5 shadow clones practicing chakra nature transformation, while still getting his phisical excersize.
That day he made 11 clones and asked me to help me organise his training. I put 5 shadow clones on one element each. I ask 1 of his shadow clones to work on the balmburn technique. Although he can't completely remove the curroption yet, he can still practice it to make it more efficient.
As I give a lecture on Balmburn technique to Naruto shadow clone, i introduce to him the concept of yang(body/life) chakra and it's use in medical Jutsu.
3 Shadow clones were put on duty to master the academy 3 jutsu.
I teach 1 shadowclone Genjutsu: killing intent. While Naruto has nowhere near enough chakra controll to do it with one kunai, with some practice, be can probably use it with kunai shadow clone. I also introduce this clone to the concept of yin ( mind/spirit) chakra.
The last shadowclone was put on duty to make sure everyone is trying to train . Not like a drill instructor, but like a cheerleader and soundboard for everyone's ideas.
Every shadow clone here is a Naruto, who i know will refuse to suffer from boredom. But a ninja has to follow their mission. I've not asked any shadow clone to train a particular way. If they can find fun ways to train their speciality, they are all welcome to do so.
I then spar with real Naruto. It's not even close, but it's nice to see how far along he has come. After the spar, Naruto tells me that training for next days will be even better, because shino will join him, he has to attend class duties today. Shino had enough bugs to optimise all 10 of Naruto's training shadow clones. He and shino can even team up to spar me or Tenten.
Next day, i bring tenten along after our hospital shift. I put her on duty with water Naruto. The real Naruto and shino are already sparing. Shino had many of his bugs spread around helping out Naruto's training clones.
I myself sit with the fire Naruto. I gave him a tiny candle. I tell him to purify and seperate his chakra from the kyubi curroption.
Fire Naruto concentrates a ball of chakra into his hand. He starts splitting the ball into two. One ball is blue, one is red. The blue ball starts to merge with his left palm, while the red ball started merging with right palm.
The purified blue energy in the left palm then spreades further along his left arm to his body, to even his right arm. His whole body, other than his right palm was glowing light blue, while his right palm was glowing deep red.
Shino's bugs are already on his back, increasing his chakra controll. After Naruto's body is surrounded by this purified chakra, shino's bugs start to settle on more and more of Naruto's chakra points to increase his chakra controll further.
I place a little candle in this Naruto's right hand with the red aura. Naruto's task is to burn the candle without burning the wax. He has to use kyubi's chakra to keep the candle lit.
It is the most chaotic type of chakra, but burning it this way trains him to nature transformation even the curroption.
The nature of fire itself makes it so that it's easier to turn any chaotic chakra into fire and to let it burn into the air. This is also the basis behind funeral and concept of fire being good against undead.
The curropted chakra is burnt of with the candle, while this Naruto absorbs that purified energy to dilute it's own shadow clone body's curroption.
Since the shadow clone had limited chakra, unlike Naruto which can tap into kyubi for more, the purification kept on happening untill there was no more kyubi chakra in the Naruto.
This is the first time Naruto will be able to feel like what his chakra could have been like if it wasn't tainted by kyubi. Even though it is only as a Shadow clone.
After it had completely purified itself of kyubi's chakra, i ask it to sleep and rest. He has all day, he can experiment his training however he wants. He has already achieved purification once with my and bug's support. Now he just has to try to get to that stage without that support.
With every bug on a Naruto training clone, Shino is also learning about chakra nature transformation, chakra controll and purification. Shino is the hive mind behind all these bugs after all. They constantly send vision and chakra feedback to shino.
Next day, Naruto tells me that he loved the purification so much that he asked all his clones to first burn of the curroption with fire, even if it takes up most of their training time. He told me that the level of chakra controll he had access to in pure mode is insane, specially with shino's bugs tagged on.
Apparently, the purified shadow clone could easily perform Balmburn, up to level 3
T, mystic palm jutsu level. He literally had been stuck in level 1 for ages, and this jump in 1 day. But he can only perform it as a purified shadow clone.
I ask him that I'll let him do as he wants for a few days. Once he becomes adapt at burning kyubi curroption into fire chakra ,i ask him to try to convert it into other types of chakra as well.
After some experiment for the next month, we figured out that kurama's curroption could easily be converted to fire, wind, lighting and yin (intangible)energy. But it was extremely tough to convert it into water, earth or yang (tangible)energy.
I have always encouraged Naruto and all my freinds to perfect the easy path and practice the impossible.
If it's hard to convert it into water, but easy to convert it into wind chakra, them try mist (air+water).
He basically has to use right hand to convert curroption into wind chakra, while left hand to convert purified chakra into water chara and let it mix into the right hand.
Similarly, I get another Naruto clone and get it to covert kyubi curroption to lighting in one hand channel it into the ground and use other hand to convert purified chakra into earth chakra to better channel it or direct it.
This creates minor electro-magnetic effects.
Since Naruto doesn't understand circuits or electro magnets, he can at most use this trick to make his lightning Jutsus completely bypass all phisical defenses.
He basically uses earth chakra to make path, and then uses lighting chakra to make lighting run through that path. It uses both hands and concentrated state of purification, it nowhere near combat ready.
But for me, it all means so much more. I've already started walking the path of sealing. If this electromagnetic chakra works like circuits, maybe I can use it for sealing Jutsus. It would be much faster to deploy than ink and paper.
This whole teaching Naruto every release has been a very selfish endeavour. On the face of it, I'm helping him prepare for upcoming chunnin exams. But in reality, I'm creating a library for me and my families.
With his shadow clones, he is easily the fastest growing ninja. My whole family had been paying a key role in his development.
Tenten has been helping him with his water release and with sparing. She is also good senior teammate who has guided him on the path of ninja like a big sister. Eveie and Bella are literally like a mother to him. Hinata and myself have been his friends before anyone else.
I'm basically having Naruto learn everything, so that we can pick and choose what we want from him. He is my research computer.
In just two months Naruto has even trapped into yin-Yang release. His kyubi chakra is inherently yang. I ask him to turn it into yin chakra, like for a Genjutsu. Turning it into yin chakra is Drastic enough change that the curroption losses most of its influence.
He then uses his other, purified chakra hand to perform Balmburn jutsu with another shadow clone doing handsigns for the jutsu. He channels that balm burn to the tree. This is effectively mystic palm, because he is using purified chakra.
I then ask him to try to mix the yin chakra that he converted from kyubi's influence into the balmburn to try and put the tree under the genjutsu .
Plants have senses just like animals. Light, touch, chemicals, gravity, temperature, and even sound. While they don't have sensory organs like eyes, ears, or noses, they use specialized structures and biochemical processes to detect and interpret these stimuli.
Naruto can use this to exponentialy increase a tree's growth. It can make a tree belive that month's have passed in seconds. In just one minute of supplying a sapling with Balmburn, he can grow it to the size of a 10 year old tree.
He is literally turning Balmburn into nutrients while yin release genjutsu forces it to eat and process these nutrients. I instantly ask Naruto to teach me this technique. To Naruto, i tell him the name Medical ninjutsu: creation. But I know the real name in my heart, Yin - Yang release: creation.
After i learn this technique, i take Naruto to Tsunade. Tsunade was teaching Kurenai and shizune about some medical jutsu when we interpreted them.
I bring Naruto in with a pot of plant. I put a seed in the plant. Naruto brings out 2 Shadow clones.
Both shadow clones perform some hand seals and put their hands each on real Naruto's back.
Everyone in the room recognises that one shadow clone just performed the mystic palm jutsu, and the other one performed some genjutsu.
The real Naruto then has both is palms glowing. He hovers that over the pot with the seed. The seed starts growing in front of everyone's eyes. The plant soon outgrew the pot, but still kept growing, until the pot broke, after which, the plant fell down on the ground, breaking Naruto's concentration.
I present a smile to tsunade and say " We present to you, medical Jutsu: creation".
Kurenai naively asks " is this wood style ninjutsu !" ?.
Shizune says " I don't think so, they use a seed to grow the plant, and Yami kun said that this is a medical ninjutsu, one of the shadow clones even performed the hand seals for mystic palm. ".
Tsunade interrupts then and says " Shinzune , Kuranai, give us a moment please" leaving no room for discussion. Shizune and Kurenai leave the room.
Tsunade asks me to explain and i say " You know how mystic palm jutsu is this magical justsu that allows you to repair injuries. Well there is one drawback to it. You know it, I'm sure."
Tsunade says " it ages your cells. You are basically forcing the body to perform months of natural healing work in just seconds. It makes it so that your regenerated cells are months older than rest of your body, years older in some cases. This is why we can't regrow limbs, any grown limb will be 100s of years older than the rest of the body."
"Atleast attatchimg limbs mean only the attached area is months older than your body, since the regenerated volume is so small." Says Tsunade .
I explain " what Naruto just did, is put a plant under a Genjutsu, making it belives it was aging faster by simulating it's senses. The mystic palm was nutrient and energy to accomplish that. I belive we can use the same concept to make the cells belive they are younger than they are when they regenerate"
Tsunade is stunned. Me and Naruto had just solved the biggest weakness of her trump card jutsu, the diamond at the center of her forehead, creation rebirth.
I tell Tsunade " that's just theory for now though, we haven't tested it in animals. But we can do some pretty cool things with it already"
I signal to the 2 Naruto clones and they perform their hand seals again. They put their hands on my back as I channel chakra into the plant that Naruto created.
The plant turns into a vine like plant, coiling arround itself like a snake. It then started twisting itself, turning it into a rope like figure.
I say " we can make the plant belive up is down, side is up. That it is under water or that only source of sunlight is coming from within itself. I thought we should approach you with this before we go any further with this."
Tsunade sighs and says " i need to talk to Sensie about this. You were right to come to me. We might be able to get you some lab rats, but wait here untill i call Sensie"
Tsunade got up and got both shizune and Kurenai to follow her as she took us all to hokage tower. We entered the Hokage office and Tsunade asked me to demonstrate.
I took a seed in my hand. naruto clones performed some hand seals and put their hands on my back. The seed starts growing into a plant. Much slower than when Naruto did it. I can't supply with nearly as much chakra as nutrients as him.
The seed grows into a vine that ends up bearing a fruit. A grape. Soon it became a bunch of grapes. Soon they became ripe. I offered the grapes to hokage same.