Chapter 315: Family's Workload
That's why all of the clones took turns dispersing themselves, while Kaida made new ones to maintain the numbers every three hours.
It was already his second day when he was maintaining 10 clones for each jutsu. That means, for each jutsu, he had invested almost 20 days of continuous practice.
The jutsu he already knew how to perform, thanks to the teacher he got for free, with all the extra training he had done, the use of the jutsus were almost perfect for him. But he still needed to make all of the hand signs for each jutsu.
Though completely removing the need for hand signs needed years of practice, or if shadow clones were used, hundreds of shadow clones, Kaida simply wanted to reduce the number of hand signs for specific jutsu.
So he would have a better chance at using them in real fights, specifically the Iron Skin Jutsu. So much so that out of 30 shadow clones, 18 were only focusing on the Iron Skin Jutsu while the rest were focusing on other two.
With the Iron Skin Jutsu under his belt, Kaida's clones could even hit each other, tanking some hits to perfect the jutsu as well. With this, his training was becoming more and more refined.
At the same time, he was also enjoying his life, eating in one of the famous restaurants of Konoha, belonging to the Akimichi clan.
Though Naruto wanted to eat Ichiraku's ramen, Kaida insisted on taking them something better, with a promise to Naruto on taking him there some other time.
After eating, Shikamaru and Choji left for their house, while Kaida, Yomi, and Naruto went for a small walk. They still had some time before everyone would return.
After going to some markets, they returned to their house. Yomi and Naruto went to their rooms while Kaida sat in the hall, thinking.
'With how busy brother is, and how desperate Lord Third is in calling him for missions, the situation of Konoha is more dire than I initially thought. Though there was no killing in the mission we did, we did more damage than killing some jonins and chunins.
'They had weakened the reputation of the other village, changed the flow of both missions and economics toward Konoha, which had forced other villages to act.'
If Danzo was alive at the moment, many nobles and ninjas all around the world from both major and minor villages would have died, with blame passed on either Kumogakure or Iwagakure. Sadly, the darkness of Konoha is gone.
But to balance that, the light of Konoha had decided to come into the grey area. Many nobles and ninjas still died in the background, though not as much as it would have been if Danzo was in control. The number was still enough to give both Kumo and Iwa headaches.
But Kaida didn't know this. What he knew was:
'Hokage is sending every ninja he could on missions, either external or border security. With what I know about this world, the number of bandits must be increasing in the Fire Country.
'Considering all this, I should still have 1-2 months before I either become a jonin or the situation becomes stable enough for me to take missions out of Konoha.
'Well, that much should be enough for me to learn all the jutsus the clan head has recommended…'
"What are you thinking so hard?" Hae said, entering the house, as exhausted as ever.
"Aunt, you are back," Yomi also came out of her room, listening to Hae's voice, followed by Naruto.
"So how was your day?" Hae asked, not to Kaida but to Yomi.
"It was fun. We went to many parks and other locations and markets and restaurants and…" Yomi started recounting the day, while also giving Hae some cold water to quench her thirst.
"Quite a day you guys had," Hae said, rubbing Naruto's hair, after he mentioned how much he enjoyed himself as well.
"It is good that you had a nice day. Now here," Hae said, passing a letter to Kaida.
"If Yomi had said anything about training, I was planning on holding on to that letter, but now you can go," Hae said.
Kaida rubbed his head sheepishly. The letter was from Konoha Hospital. Kaida was a general practitioner there with almost specialist-level skill. With all of the ninjas going on missions continuously, the need for doctors was very high. So even though Kaida was free of duty as a ninja because of the huge target on his back, the same was not true for his duty as a doctor, and the letter was specifically for Mitsuru, asking him to come to the hospital as soon as he could.
'Man, looks like learning all of the jutsus is going to be hard,' Kaida thought, but he was not sad about the new sudden turn of events either. He had taken too many things from the hospital, doing something for it was not a problem at all.
"Aunt, look like I will not be able to help you much in your chores. This is a summon from the hospital."
"That's not a problem at all. I had hired five secretaries. I just need you guys to check if they are trustworthy or not. After that, my workload should reduce considerably," Hae said.
"That's great. I would have loved to help you in that, but brother might be better for this job," Kaida said.
"Yeah, you also push jobs on me. That is what I need now. There's an old man who is deeply fixated on killing me from workload, and here even my own family is doing the same to me," Shisui said dramatically as he entered the house.
"Another absurdly hard mission?" Kaida asked.
"No, this time, he wanted me to eliminate some of the bandit camps around the country, and his definition of 'some' is 20. Can you imagine 20 locations, all at least 50 Kotoamatsukami away from each other? He really is pushing me," Shisui said.
"The rewards should also match that, right?" Kaida said with a smile.
"Yes," Shisui said, putting a check on the table.
The prize on it was 850k Ryo, almost a million—the price of some A-rank missions in a single day.
"The money is all well and good, but if you think that you can't handle it anymore, you can always quit being an ANBU. Your health is more important than any amount of money," Hae said.
"No, mom. It is fine. I am just a little tired, and Lord Third had also promised me a rest day day after tomorrow," Shisui said.
"Fine, if you think that way," Hae said.
"So what are you guys talking about I should do?" Shisui asked, taking a glass of water from Yomi.
"Nothing, it is just…" Kaida explained.
"Since I have a free day soon, we can handle that then," Shisui said, at which both Hae and Kaida nodded their heads.