Сhapter 17

The first serious successes in using the chakra outside of my body began to appear only towards the end of my second academic year at the academy. It was then that I had at least some special training with a leaf ... That is, I learned to move an ordinary such leaf through my body only with the help of a chakra. And this, I will tell you, was not so easy, because outside the body, control over the chakra deteriorated at times, and the chakra itself gradually dissipated in the air.

Because of this, it was necessary to apply quite a lot of concentration to maintain a stable flow of the chakra outside, which was not so easy… It is only necessary to overdo it a little with the flow of the chakra, as the leaf was torn or just flew away from my body. It is worth a little short of chakras, as the leaf comes off, which is not so scary anymore, but the training could still be considered a failure. Because of this, I had to master a seemingly simple workout for so long.

But I could still be proud of myself. After all, this training with a leaflet was considered basic, but at the academy it was taught only in the fourth year of the academy. Although clan children may have undergone such training a little earlier, but I was still pleased with my success in the field of mastering the chakra. Moreover, I also got more chakra over time, which also complicated the control over it.

Well, it's not the point, the main thing is that now I could already carefully approach the study of full-fledged Shinobi techniques ... Well, the study of academic Shinobi techniques is so accurate, because it is after mastering the training using a leaflet that ordinary Shinobi begin to make their first successes in the field of mastering techniques. I really have a little snag with this… After all, unlike the same students of the academy of the fourth and fifth courses, I almost did not train hand seals.

Yes, in the third year of the academy, we will have to have a whole lesson in which we will not only learn how to properly chip the basic seals, but also bring the chipping of these seals to absolute automatism. So, in the fourth year of the academy, future Shinobi come out with already sufficiently developed cysts and good skills in folding seals… Which is what I personally was missing right now. After all, in order to use the technique, you need not only to correctly fold the sequence of seals and properly power these seals with your chakra. No, I need to do all this also with the proper speed so that the chakra does not start to dissipate in the air even before I finish chipping the seals…

And yes, I have already tried to create the simplest illusory clone – the simplest technique that does not have any useful practical application and is used, rather, as a regular simulator for future Shinobi. It is with illusory clones that future Shinobi begin to train in ninjutsu ... Because when using this technique it is almost impossible to harm themselves. In addition, it is when using it that the control of the enchantment is trained very well, and all twelve standard seals are involved in this technique…

In general, I chose illusory clones for a reason as my first studied technique… But I never managed to recreate even one clone. Instead of a full-fledged clone, I turned out to be a paper copy of me, which also filled up the whole room with a fog from the chakra. The latter is the effect of not using the chakra most effectively, because at least for some result I had to invest a lot of chakra in the technique itself. Well, the lamentable appearance of the clone itself is the result of insufficient speed of adding seals.…

Although, it seemed to me that I folded the seals very, very cheerfully, but after understanding the topic in more detail, I even somehow became depressed. Based on the information written in the scrolls, a good Shinobi should be able to add at least twenty to thirty seals per second… Taking into account the strengthening of the body by the chakra, it seems to be possible, but for me such a result still seems absurd. I myself put together the twelve seals I needed for almost a dozen seconds…

Well, my hands and fingers are not used to such movements. And I haven't risked strengthening my body with chakra while using the technique yet. My concentration was barely enough to properly power the sequence of twelve seals. Still, when using each seal, it was necessary to release the chakra outside in a strictly defined way, and in the hands themselves, the chakra should also move according to a pre-worked scheme. What is difficult…

But still, my main problem at the moment is not developed hands and fingers, as well as a low level of skill in folding seals.… At the same time, only constant training and time could help me deal with these problems. There was no easy or workaround, which is why I was forced to change my own training schedule once again. However, to train in folding seals before or after the main training... it was frankly a break for me.

After my training, I was too tired and exhausted, both physically and mentally. Well, before training, I just didn't want to waste time on monotonous chipping of hand seals. Unlike the same training in chakra control, I really did not like this activity. I didn't want to compare the folding of seals with full-fledged physical training at all… Still, I really liked to train in the same kunai throwing, tumbling down to arrange a race for myself in the area of the forest that I had already studied.

I still couldn't get used to my capabilities, enjoying almost every movement during such trainings… Well, seriously, I have lived for more than fifty years as an ordinary person, for whom jumping a one-and-a-half-meter fence is an almost impossible task. Now I could rush at great speed through a very dense forest, if necessary, soaring three to five meters up, while throwing kunai and shuriken at pre-hung targets, and combining all this with crazy, as for an ordinary person, acrobatic tricks…

Well, how can you get used to this? Although no, it is really possible to get used to such opportunities. But how could such a pastime be compared to the monotonous folding of fucking hand seals? Personally, I didn't understand, and that's why it was very difficult for me to force myself to do something like that at all. And only the prospect of touching real magic, and Shinobi techniques could be considered as such, forced me to move in this direction.

At first, however, all my training in folding seals did not take more than half an hour a day and were divided into five to seven mini-workouts. I simply didn't have enough patience for more, especially since I was engaged in such training only during breaks between household chores. Well, or lying in the bath, he could play a little with hand seals ... at once reducing the time spent in the bath several times.

Yeah, at first everything was very sad for me with these hand seals. And even some improvements in the use of illusory clones did not inspire me too much... well, exactly until I thought of training to fold seals under the table in lessons that were especially boring for me. Against the background of the same story, folding seals is not such a boring activity. My hands, however, cramped after a whole lesson of such training, but I was still pleased with my own ingenuity…

Iruka-sensei, however, began to yell at me more and more often, discovering that I did not listen to some of his lectures at all, and my friends looked at my training somewhat strangely… But I wasn't going to stop what I started anyway. The desire to engage in such monotonous workouts in my free time, even realizing all their necessity and benefits, did not appear to me.

Besides, lately I've already started to get a little tired of my own regime… Constant training was too tiring, which is why even my inexhaustible enthusiasm slowly began to fade. Without the opportunity to somehow unwind, relax or just change the field of activity, I gradually began to burn out… I felt it clearly, but I just didn't know how to deal with this problem.

Of course, I tried to take a few days off, including from training, but as a rule, boredom caught up with me too quickly, which is why I almost immediately returned to the previous regime… There was simply no entertainment available to me in this world, which is why I suffered. Even fiction, cinema or tuatar were too expensive for an orphan like me to afford something like that. Although, on my next birthday, I may make myself some kind of gift… Like a new book or something like that.