Chapter 236: Great Ball Rasengan
Chapter 236: Great Ball Rasengan
Kakashi's teaching methods for Naruto had some serious issues. He put himself in Naruto's shoes, but the reality was that Naruto was a completely different type of ninja than him.
The Wind Release: Rasenshuriken was classified as an S-rank forbidden jutsu by Tsunade, not because the technique itself was difficult to learn, but because it harmed both the user and the target. Its effect was roughly equivalent to Danzo's Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique. You finally managed to create a Rasengan as large as a windmill, only to have to run over and attack at point-blank range?! Could that technique truly be called a successful development? Because it was a point-blank attack, the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken dealt a thousand points of damage to the enemy per second, and then also dealt a thousand points of damage to the user. In the end, both sides would start competing in recovery power; whoever had stronger recovery would win.
It wasn't until Naruto developed the Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, capable of throwing this windmill-like chakra shuriken from a distance, that the entire development of the ninjutsu could be considered complete. The earlier Wind Release: Rasenshuriken was, at best, a semi-finished product.
If all you're doing is attacking at point-blank range anyway, how much more convenient are the Great Ball and Super Great Ball versions?
Ino first dispelled the Great Ball Rasengan, then motioned for Naruto to follow her outside the city. Seeing that there were no civilian houses nearby, she condensed a chakra sphere about the size of a washbasin and pressed it firmly against the side of a mountain wall.
The Great Ball Rasengan bored a clean hole, over ten meters high, straight through the mountain wall. Seven or eight large trees behind the wall were also snapped in half.
"Whoa!" Naruto was incredibly excited. He didn't quite understand the specific principle behind it, but he absolutely loved ninjutsu that demonstrated such overwhelming power! "Teach me quickly! Teach me quickly!" he kept urging.
The difficult part of the Great Ball Rasengan lay in the chakra. Without sufficient chakra, you truly couldn't use this technique. Even if the control was a bit weak, it didn't matter; hitting an enemy with a chakra sphere that large meant precision truly didn't matter.
Ino's current chakra reserves were sufficient for the Great Ball Rasengan, but the Super Great Ball Rasengan was beyond her. Relying on the limited chakra pathways in her hand, the chakra output per unit of time had a limit; she couldn't form such a large sphere. She estimated that the Super Great Ball Rasengan likely required Sage Mode.
"Alright, I'll teach you this technique. Watch closely. First step, you have to complete chakra compression... Don't understand, huh? Let me explain it five times first..."
After teaching him for two days, once Naruto had a basic grasp of the Great Ball Rasengan's process and entered the stage of repeatedly imprinting it into muscle memory, Ino left him to it. She began pondering the matter of adding Yin and Yang Release to the Rasengan.
The Wind Release: Rasenshuriken pursued extreme high speed and high killing power; she didn't need those things. She just needed to add nature transformation to the shape-transformed Rasengan. How exactly to add it and what effects it would produce still required serious research.
"Great Ball Rasengan!"
"Great Ball Rasengan!"
"Great Ball Rasengan!"
Naruto shouted it every time, his voice full of momentum. Watching his Great Ball Rasengan gradually grow larger, his heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment. Aside from the Sexy Jutsu and the Shadow Clone Jutsu, the Great Ball Rasengan was the simplest ninjutsu he had learned in his life.
After seven or eight days of hard training, the Great Balls he created were still inconsistent in size, sometimes big, sometimes small, but his body was almost ready to remember the ninjutsu.
While he was making a lot of noise on his end, Ino's side was very quiet. Fifty shadow clones sat cross-legged on the ground, each holding a dark purple Rasengan that faintly glowed white internally.
He couldn't help but ask, "Is that a Rasengan too?"
One of the shadow clones looked up and said, "This is a Rasengan formed by adding Yang nature chakra nature transformation and Yin nature chakra nature transformation, mixed in a ratio of one part Yang, two parts Yin, and seven parts non-attribute chakra."
Naruto's eyes narrowed. What is this even talking about? He felt like the conversation was going nowhere, but his curiosity wouldn't let up, so he pressed on, "Does it have a name?"
Does this thing need a name? Ino realized something the same between Naruto and Minato Namikaze. Both father and son were incredibly fond of naming other people's techniques.
"Uh..." She thought for a moment. Seeing Naruto looking eager, she quickly stopped him. "Got it. It's called Rinyu, Rasen Rinyu! Yes, this is still a very early version."
Ino borrowed a name from Brother Menma and continued researching her Rasen Rinyu. The progress on fusing Yin and Yang Release was almost zero. She estimated the problem still lay in her chakra control, specifically her 'Seal' stat. Facing 10 points in 'Essence' (chakra/stamina), 8 points in 'Seal' felt a bit difficult to control. But if she hadn't added 'Essence' that day, she wouldn't have had enough chakra to practice the Rasengan in the first place.
She thought about it again and again. She still needed to stir things up! She needed to get at least two 'pot points.' Counting the one she already had, she needed to add to her 'Seal' stat. To handle such complex chakra fusion, she needed to raise her 'Seal' to at least 9.
Ino left one shadow clone in the Land of Wheat to continue the matchmaking mission and guide Naruto's Great Ball Rasengan training. Her main body quietly returned to Konoha Village.
Thinking it over, this matter of finding someone to "take the pot" still needed to involve Danzo! She didn't have any money on hand right now, so she could only rely on intelligence to bluff her way through. Ino sifted through the Yamanaka family's intelligence files, trying to find information that could be useful.
"Hmm?" A historical record that seemed to have little value made her look a couple more times. The record mentioned the Kamizuru clan, an Insect Handler clan once renowned alongside Konoha Village's Aburame clan.
This clan belonged to the Hidden Stone Village of the Land of Earth. In the field of insect handling, they were once known throughout the world alongside the Aburame clan, one in the south and one in the north. During the middle of the First Great Ninja War, when the entire ninja world was engulfed in bloody conflict, this clan mobilized all its elites and infiltrated the Land of Fire via a small path, planning a sneak attack on Konoha Village.
Their plan was discovered by the Yamanaka family. Konoha set up an inescapable net everywhere, and the Aburame clan, who had always had a low profile, went absolutely berserk killing that day. Killing fellow practitioners? They were indescribably happy doing it. The Kamizuru clan and the Hidden Stone Village's sneak attack unit were completely annihilated. This battle caused the Hidden Stone Village to lose five Jonin. Naturally, someone had to bear the responsibility. And so, an Insect Handler clan that had continued since the Warring States Period was completely erased from the records. Only a few clan members who hadn't participated in the operation at the time survived, but the ninja world no longer recognized them as a ninja clan.
This information wasn't particularly significant on its own. During the Great Ninja Wars, countless clans vanished, turning into historical dust. Even the Uzumaki clan was gone; the Kamizuru clan was simply nothing by comparison. But between the lines of another document, Ino discovered that the head of the Kamizuru clan at the time was a subordinate of the First Tsuchikage. Simultaneously, an information report read from the brain of a Kamizuru ninja made her eyes light up.
The report stated that the Kamizuru clan head at the time had lost the ninja scroll named the [First Generation Secret Technique Scroll], and many of their clan's secret techniques had been lost as a result. Ino pondered for a long time, then added two characters to the [First Generation Secret Technique Scroll] mentioned in the intelligence report, turning it into the [First Tsuchikage's Secret Technique Scroll]...
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