Training and Ramen
Village Hidden by Whirling Tides.
4 years later.
Four years have passed since Kushina's birthday. Time really flies very fast, and during this time many different events have occurred.
Ray was already six years old, he began his shinobi training two years ago, after his fourth birthday.
His body also adapted to his soul and he began to regain his spiritual and mental power. Up to this point, he could not use most of his mental abilities because his body did not match his soul, it was much weaker and could not withstand all this spiritual power.
Now he can use all three types of Haki, mental magic, and spiritual abilities. In the case of Observation Haki, Ray can predict attacks and see the near future, but his body still cannot react to it at the proper level.
But Ray was sure that his full restoration would not take much time, and by the time of the "destruction" of Uzushio and his move to Konoha with Kushina, he would be able to fully use all his abilities.
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Somewhere in the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides.
Menma Ramen.
Menma Ramen is one of the best ramen restaurants in all of Uzushio. This place has become popular thanks to a secret recipe for cooking menma. No one knows how the head chef pickles and ferments bamboo shoots, but they improve the taste of ramen to a whole new level. Menma cooked according to a secret recipe can improve the taste of even not very tasty ramen. The shoots of this secret bamboo generate a huge amount of pronounced umami, which makes the person who ate it want to eat more and more. Having eaten one spoon of ramen, this person will not be able to stop and will continue to eat until it loses all its strength and endurance. This is the strength and power of delicious food.
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"Old man! I want five more, no, seven, seven servings of ramen!" shouted a red-haired girl sitting at a table.
What was surprising was that on the table at which she was sitting there was a large mountain of empty ramen bowls.
"Hahahaha. Ojou-chan, are you sure you can eat so much ramen? Aren't you afraid to gain weight?" loudly laughed the old man, who brought her seven more servings of ramen.
"No! Today I need a lot of energy and strength. After all, today my beloved Onii-chan will finally begin to train me! I have been waiting for this day for so long! He will teach me cool jutsus and I will become the strongest kunoichi!" emptying another bowl of ramen, the girl replied cheerfully.
"Hahahaha. Children are so energetic these days," the old man laughed, returning to the kitchen.
10 minutes later.
The girl ate all the ramen and left the restaurant. With a happy expression and a joyful smile, she headed toward her home, Uzukage's Residence.
Today was very important for her, because today is her fourth birthday and she can finally begin kunoichi training.
But this was not the most important event of today. The most important thing was that her beloved and adored Onii-chan would finally let her train with him. He never allowed her to do any physical exercises or training with the chakra, the only things he taught her were calligraphy, fuinjutsu, meditation, occlumency, and... cooking. But she never complained about it, she liked to draw fuin seals and liked to cook. And thanks to the occlumency, her lessons were not too complicated and boring, she memorized new fuin seals or knowledge in just a few minutes. In addition, occlumency increased the quantity and quality of her yin chakras and improved her intelligence, so she was smarter than her peers.
The girl very quickly got home and headed to the training ground, where her onii-chan usually spends his time.
When she reached the training ground, of course, she saw her onii-chan and his clones... Or not clones, but rather avatars or additional bodies? After all, his clones did not possess personality and consciousness, and he controlled them with the help of his parallel streams of consciousness.
"Ray-nii-chan!" the girl screamed joyfully, ran to her brother, and jumped into his arms. For an unknown reason, she always knew which of his bodies was real.
Ray smiled and caught the girl. He hugged her and began to gently stroke her beautiful red hair.
"Is my little Kushina ready for real ninja training?" Ray asked with a smile.
"Nnnn. I am ready! I will become the strongest kunoichi!" continuing to hug Ray by the neck and nodding her head, Kushina answered loudly.
"Hehehe. Then let's get started," lowering Kushina to the ground, Ray giggled.
The first six months, Ray really missed his girls, but after the birth of Kushina, he was able to calm down a bit and get used to their absence. He became very attached to his cheerful and energetic little sister, and she helped him to get rid of longing for girls and Avalon. Kushina wanted to be with Ray from her very birth. Over the past four years, they have always been together, Ray was never against her presence next to him and allowed her to do whatever she wanted. As long as Kushina is happy, he will also be happy.
Kushina nodded joyfully and sat down in a pose for meditation, her face became serious and she prepared to listen to Ray.
Ray nodded and began to say:
"You already know who shinobi and kunoichi are, and you must understand that to be a shinobi does not mean to be a hero or a noble samurai. The work of shinobi and kunoichi can have different directions, from ordinary manual labor to espionage in other shinobi villages. In most cases, the main goals of their missions are to kill and gather information, in the case of kunoichi, it can be a seduction of a high-ranking figure or one of the enemy leaders. Shinobi and Kunoichi are required to fulfill their current mission in all possible ways, they must ignore morality or their feelings. This is the life of ninjas. And it is not at all colorful and joyful. Shinobi and Kunoichi are first and foremost killers, the main force of their villages, and the instruments of warfare.
I tell you all this so that you never doubt the killing of an enemy shinobi or even a shinobi from your own village. Of course, this does not apply to Uzumaki from Uzushio, because everyone here is a big family, but you should never trust Uzumaki, who left our village and decided to live in other places. Because the realities of life outside the village could completely change their views on it. Murders, betrayals, violence, slavery, greed, manipulation, you will never find all this in our village, but you will easily find it in other villages and cities. So you have to be mentally prepared for this. Especially since you are a woman and Uzumaki. Of course, I will always be with you and protect you from any troubles, but you should know what fate awaits the captured Kunoichis, especially if it is Kunoichi with some kind of bloodline."
Children in this world become mature much earlier, and marriage at the age of twelve is not uncommon for this world, especially if it is twelve-year-old shinobi. After all, they always risk their lives and can die at any time. That is why, with the title of genin, shinobi and kunoichi become adults.
Ray knew that the original Kushina was one of the most talented kunoichis and was a very smart girl. And he knew that the only reason she got into the Third Hokage's web was banal immaturity, despair, and inexperience. The third Hokage was able to bind her to Konoha and impose her "Will of Fire" only when she was emotionally destroyed and devastated. The destruction of Uzushio, the hostility and hatred of the Konoha inhabitants, the destruction of the entire Uzumaki clan, becoming the vessel for the nine-tailed, the death of Mito, it was too much for the little Kushina, who remained in this world all alone...
His existence in this world greatly influenced Kushina. At four years old, she's smarter than her canonical eight-year-old version. This was the reason that he told her all this information. Ray wanted Kushina to become mentally older. After all, in Konoha, they will be only two, and he wanted her to be able to see the whole truth through the illusion of "Will of Fire" and other philosophical crap.
Kushina, with a serious expression on her face, listened to what Ray had told her.
Ray had already told her that when she was eight years old, they would both move to Konoha and become representatives of the Uzumaki clan. Kushina immediately understood why Ray started the training precisely from the story about the realities of being shinobi and kunoichi. She knew that Ray loved her very much and wanted her to be ready for everything, so she carefully remembered every word he said.
Kushina nodded with a serious expression and said:
"Mom told me about the fate of the captured kunoichi. That is why I will become the strongest kunoichi and will never get into such a terrible situation."
Ray sat opposite Kushina and gently stroked her head, after which he said coldly:
"You will never get into such a terrible situation, even if you do not become the strongest kunoichi. I will kill anyone who dares to offend you."
Kushina smiled happily and hugged Ray.
"Hehehe, Ray-nii-chan is so cool!" Kushina giggled.
Ray lifted Kushina and put her on his lap, she smiled and immediately leaned her back on his chest.
"Mmm, now I will tell you about the chakra. I already told you the story of how the chakra appeared in this world. But now I will tell you how the chakra works. You already know that the chakra is a product created by combining physical (Yang) and spiritual (Yin) energy.
The amount of physical energy directly depends on the shinobis' body or bloodline. Its amount can be increased with the help of physical exercises, training, and muscle stimulation.
The amount of spiritual energy depends on the shinobis' mental state and mind, in isolated cases on the bloodline. Its amount can be increased through meditation, increasing experience, new knowledge, regular thought processes, and games of intellectual and strategic games.
There are many people who are born with an increased amount of physical energy. The most striking examples are the Uzumaki and Senju clans, which are born with a lot of physical energy, because of which their bodies and chakra volumes exceed the bodies and chakra volumes of other shinobis, but this affects their chakra control, the improvement of which requires patience and great effort.
But there are people who are born with an increased amount of spiritual energy, an ideal example of such people are members of the Nara and Kurama clans. Members of the Nara clan are highly intelligent, and members of the Kurama clan have mastery in Genjutsu.
The chakra is a form of life energy that all individuals produce to some degree, those who run out of chakra will die. Produced within the "chakra coils" that mainly surround and connect to each chakra-producing organ, the energy circulates throughout the body in a network called the "Chakra Pathway System", which is similar to the cardiovascular system. Certain groups, such as shinobi, have learned to generate more chakra and release it outside their bodies through pressure points called tenketsu in order to perform jutsus
You must understand that the chakra is ordinary energy that you can and must be able to control. This is where we will begin," hugging Kushina, Ray told her about the chakra.
"Mmm. Chakra control? Will you teach me cool jutsus!?" turning around and looking into Ray's eyes, Kushina quickly asked.
"No need to rush. It's too early for you to learn jutsus. First, you have to learn how to control your huge chakra. After that, I'll surely teach you some cool jutsus, but you have to keep it a secret, especially from Kiyoko-nee," looking into Kushina's eyes, Ray said seriously.
"Nnn. I will definitely keep this secret. Mom will never know about it," Kushina answered with a serious expression on her face.
"Great. Then we'll start with the easiest exercise to improve chakra control," picking up a common leaf from the ground, Ray said.
Kushina got up from Ray's knees and sat across from him, she looked at the leaf in his hand with a questioning look.
"Leaf?" cute tilting her head, Kushina asked.
"Leaf," passing her a leaf, Ray answered with a nod.
Kushina took a leaf and began to wait for Ray's instructions.
"Fine. As I said: the chakra is energy, and you must be able to control it. All Uzumaki have large chakra reserves, which makes it very difficult for them to learn how to perform most jutsus and improve their chakra control. That's why in our clan there are so few Ninjutsu and Genjutsu masters, chakra control is a skill that is very important for any shinobi, and very few of them can improve it to a peak level.
Basically, shinobi stop improving their chakra control after they learn water surface walking and tree climbing, the maximum potential of such shinobi is the level of chunin or tokubetsu jonin. But some of them continue to improve their chakra control by chakra nature transformation, such shinobi, in the future become jonins, ANBUs, and elite jonins.
You need to improve your chakra control to the maximum level, only then you can perfectly control the hiden of the Uzumaki clan,
[Hmmm. I think I need to visit the World of Fate and "borrow" all the weapons and abilities of one Golden King.]
Well, now you know the importance of good chakra control. And we will begin to improve it with the simplest exercise. Put the leaf on your forehead and try to hold it there by releasing the chakra from the tenketsu located on the forehead," looking at Kushina, Ray told her about the chakra control.
Kushina nodded and began to follow Ray's instructions. She was able to hold the leaf on her forehead on the first try. Occlumency really greatly improved her intelligence and chakra control. In the original, Kushina had very poor chakra control and it took a huge amount of time to improve it. But now, her "foundation" is much stronger and she will improve her chakra control and become stronger much faster.
"Nii-chan, nii-chan, I did it!" with a leaf glued to her forehead, Kushina shouted joyfully.
"Mmm. Good girl," patting Kushina on the head, Ray praised her.
"Hehehe. I need to learn how to hold one leaf with one tenketsu? 361 leaves? Mmm. That doesn't seem complicated," putting her index finger on her cheek, Kushina nodded.
"That's right. You must learn to control the release of chakra from all of your tenketsu. After that, you will try to spin all the leaves glued to the tenketsu in different directions. Having completed this step, your chakra control will reach at least an average level. After that I will start teaching you different jutsus," arms crossed, Ray nodded.
"Oooh, will you teach me your clone technique!?" jumping up from her seat, with stars in her eyes, Kushina asked.
"Shadow Avatars? Yes, in fact - this will be the first technique that I will teach you. Even if now you can't control the avatars like me, but you can give them a specific command that they will execute until they disperse," Ray answered with a smile.
"Then I will continue training! I want to quickly learn cool jutsus and become the strongest kunoichi!" sitting down on the ground and continuing the chakra control training, Kushina shouted.
[Kushina is very diligent and hardworking. I was afraid that her character would be similar to the character of Naruto, but she is many times better than him. I'm sure that my existence has influenced the change in her character for the better, but... it's not so bad, right? Haaa. Astoria was right, now I'm raising a waifu. But who cares? Kushina will become a very powerful Goddess of Sealing. Goddess of Formations? Goddess of the Chains? Well, time will tell.] looking at the seriously training Kushina, Ray thought with a smile.
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Thus began the training of the strongest kunoichi, the future Goddess of the Chains, and the Nightmare of the Konoha shinobis.
But she will be a nightmare only for those who want to confront her beloved and the best onii-chan.