章 31: Chapter 36
Two chapters in two days? What sorcery is this?!
I did in fact forget something, so I wrapped that up at the start of this chapter.
And yes, the pacing has slowed down quite a bit. I may have started too many things. After Team 13 is fully established, we'll be making the jump towards maybe two years before Canon Naruto.
...Maybe...before chapter 40 at the very least.
Chapter 36
"Oh, what's this?"
Akari sat up on her bed, having been poking at menus, reorganizing her inventory so she could do more sleight-of-hand tricks using it, and generally looking through her stuff. She clicked the tab she'd seen, which was marked as 'achievements', wincing when her eyes were covered in a rather glaring golden colour. She bit her lip and bore the pain until the light receded, revealing a list of gold-bordered achievements. "Huh, cool."
She looked at the first one...walk 1000 steps. That was pretty dumb, she was hoping the achievements would actually be challenges. Cook one food item, kill one enemy, the achievements were all incredibly simple. Or at least, the first list of them were. She mentally pointed at one and dragged it upwards, directing the menu to scroll downwards. She scanned through the achievements, then scrolled again, coming to a stop at an achievement bordered by blue, focusing on the achievement which made it open.
Achievement Earned - Pet Tamer!
Unlocked by taming one pet.
As she stared intently at it, trying to figure out why it had a different outline, a new menu opened up in front of her eyes.
Redeem Rewards? (Y/N)
Akari focused on the yes option, which after a moment led to another menu being opened.
Title Earned - Pet Tamer - 25% chance to dissuade animals from attacking during encounter.
"Huh." Akari muttered, re-reading the title. She then went back a menu and up her achievements, clicking on one of them using her eyes. It opened up, revealing another redeem rewards option. "Oh for fuck sake." It was annoying that the Entity wasn't available, because if he was, she was going to curse his ass out for not mentioning this little tidbit. he did make mention of a bunch of achievements that weren't actually triggered, but why he didn't tell her they had rewards tied to them was anyone's guess. Maybe he was just as forgetful as she was?
It didn't matter though, since Akari focused on the yes option of the achievement she'd unlocked, a sword dropping out of thin air in front of her and bouncing on her bed. She observed it, but frowned. It was a totally normal blade, it had a fancy-looking hilt, but in general, the Kusanagi would outmatch it in almost every way. She scrolled up to the very top option and focused on it, selecting that one and accepting it as well. That time, she watched a pile of Ryo drop onto her bed beside the sword. According to the menu, it was ten-thousand Ryo.
Shrugging, she shoved them both in her inventory, then started scrolling through all the achievements, occasionally opening one out of curiosity. Journeyman Traveller was one of them, it was apparently several steps up from the achievement for walking 1000 steps. She selected it, and her head then immediately felt like it'd been split in half. Cursing, she closed one eye and leaned into her hand, focusing on the pressure of her hand against her face to wait until the pain went away, which it did after only a few moments. She opened her eye again and looked at the reward. "Oh fuck you game."
Achievement Earned - Journeyman Traveller
Unlocked by travelling 10,000km
Reward earned - Fast-travel System unlocked
That was nice and all, but the Hiraishin was pretty much a fast-travel system in itself, she had no real need for one.
...Yes, she hadn't actually managed to use the damn thing properly, and it always left her at minimum on her knees from nausea when she arrived, but it was still a fast-travel system. Sighing, she just took it for what it was, searching the other achievements for anything useful. Out of everything, only a few stood out to her, the most useful being her Field Medic achievements, which apparently were in a series of unlocks. Her achievement was ranked at ten, which was possibly the highest. She accepted the reward, getting a scroll plopped in front of her by the system, which she examined.
Scroll of Mastery - Mystical Palm no Jutsu
When used, unlocked Master-level Mystical Palm no Jutsu, alongside all lower ranks of Jutsu
That one was rather useful, since after unlocking the Adept level of Mystical Palm, she'd plateau'd in her progress. Probably had something to do with the fact she wasn't healing people nearly as much, nor did she often need to heal herself. She made to use the scroll, then as an afterthought turned on her Sharingan and looked the scroll over both sides briefly before using it.
Mystical Palm technique/Master - You have become proficient enough with your healing Jutsu to be regarded as a master. Usage: 200CP/s. Heal-rate - 500HP/s. Cannot be levelled further. Can still use inferior versions after unlocking improved variant.
Beneath that, the other variants of Mystical Palm were unlocked, but Akari was busy staring at the heal-rate of her new Jutsu. If it was following convention, she should have had a heal-rate of 200/s, 1CP per HP. But instead, when she reached Master-level, she got a big bump in her heal-rate...not that she was complaining, that was great. It meant she could turn 200 Chakra into 500 HP. Considering the size of her Chakra Pool, she would be able to use that to keep herself alive permanently even against her strongest poison.
That was going to make levelling her poison resistance a cinch.
"Alright cubs, gather around, I've got something to tell ya all."
Her Genin all looked at her, sitting down cross-legged and staring at her. "Kurama, come here please." She extended an arm, watching him drop from a shelf up above her, taking a brief moment to consider the shelves. She'd built them in a day, just for Kurama to use. A bunch of solid boards just screwed into various places on the walls, all forming a giant network of planks for Kurama to use. It kept him off the floor, up above where he could hop onto unsuspecting mortals, or mostly so Naruto wouldn't step on his tail by accident. "Now, I won't explain this, I'll leave it up to...well..."
"Me." Kurama spoke audibly, surprising the three Genin with his voice. He yipped his amusement, turning his head to face Akari. "You were right...that is funny." Her Genin were still staring at the fox with wide eyes. "Now, Akari had to ask your Hokage for permission to tell you this, so don't think she isn't sticking her neck out to tell you this, or rather, for me to tell you this. But, rejoice, for you are in the glorio-" Akari held his mouth shut with her hand, rolling her eyes at him.
"Less theatricality next time Kurama. Now then cubs, who here knows about the Kyuubi?" The Genin all looked pretty confused by the question. "Oh whatever. Basically, he can't actually die, just be dispersed into Chakra which would reform over a period of maybe...100 years or so. So, he was sealed inside Uzumaki Mito by the first Hokage. Then, when she was nearly dead from simple old age, he was passed on to Uzumaki Kushina. When Kushina was about to give birth, something happened, and the Kyuubi was released."
She could see the three Genin looked a bit uncomfortable, which considering they were all maybe eight years old when the Kyuubi attacked, meant they were probably remembering the attack. "Luckily, the Yondaime was an adept at Fuinjutsu, much like myself. He managed to 'vanquish the beast.' But here's where the real story differs from what you know. Recall that the Kyuubi can't die. So how did he guarantee that the Kyuubi wouldn't just attack again when he reformed? He did the same thing that Senju Hashirama did, he sealed the Kyuubi inside of somebody."
Hikaru made the connection first. "So, Naruto has the Kyuubi sealed inside of him?" Not quite the right connection, but reasonable. Each host for Kurama had been an Uzumaki, Mito and Kushina, so it stood to reason that Naruto would be the next host. His birthmark whiskers, a by-product of being beside Kurama's chakra for so long when he was in Kushina's womb, didn't help him. But Akari shook her head.
"No, but close. If it helps, I'm also extremely adept at Fuinjutsu. Plus, who do I hang out with a lot?" She scratched Kurama's head for emphasis, watching the dawning realization come across each Genin's face. "Yup, that's right, you're talking to the Jinchuriki of the nine-tailed fox. Though he prefers to be called Kurama, he didn't actually choose to attack Konoha, and he likes Dango, as I'm sure you've seen." It had become apparent to her that her Genin didn't actually know, despite it being public knowledge, that Akari was the nine-tails Jinchuriki. Then again, that kind of info, whilst 'public knowledge', was actually only something that a Shinobi could get first-hand access to. The populace weren't restricted from knowing however, so it spread through word-of-mouth.
It was probably best then to inform them in a vaguely-controlled scenario, that way they wouldn't freak out during a mission. "So, you hold the nine-tailed fox?" Akari grinned, lifting Kurama off her shoulders and into her arms for emphasis.
"Well, I guess you could say I am literally holding the nine-tailed fox right now. Honestly, did you not wonder why Kurama here had nine tails?" Tachiko facepalmed, while Aiko and Hikaru both peered at Kurama, both making remarks about his tails. "Wow...did I just get the most unobservant bunch of Genin, or are all Genin that bad at noticing stuff?"
Tachiko cut in. "To be fair Sensei, I thought it was just a coincidence. I mean, isn't the nine-tailed fox meant to be colossal? I know a few weeks ago he appeared in the middle of Konoha beside the ho...spital...Sensei, did that have something to do with you?" Akari grimaced, holding up her arm.
"Yeah, that happened. A bunch of other stuff as well, but that was the most major thing that I can actually tell you. The rest is S-class, if you want to know more, go get the Hokage's hat, then you can read all the S-ranked info on me. So, you three cool? No outstanding grudges against Kurama here for something he had no control over?" The three Genin shook their heads, none of them had actually lost anybody they knew to the attack, or at least they didn't care enough about them to hold a grudge against Kurama.
Well, aside from Tachiko, but as she looked at the girl, she saw...a surprisingly high amount of maturity there. She looked at Kurama, but she didn't look at him with even disguised hate. Instead, it was almost as though she was just...sad to look at him. Akari made a mental note of it which she near-instantly forgot, brushing off her hands as she stood up.
"So, who wants some food?"
"Let's just keep on moving cubs."
Akari grabbed Aiko by the collar and carried him along behind her, Hikaru and Tachiko trailing along even as Aiko begged to just spend one more second looking at...whatever it was he was staring at. "But Sensei, they had a figure of you!" Akari stalled, turning to look back at the shop. She looked towards Hikaru and Tachiko, ignoring Aiko's yells about how he totally saw her.
"I didn't see anything Sensei, but I wasn't looking. Aiko isn't really good at lying, so I doubt he's just winding you up." Ever the voice of reason, Tachiko chimed in her own experience and perspective on the situation, getting a smile as thanks. She looked at Kurama, but he just shrugged at her. Deciding to just bite the bullet, she dropped Aiko and walked back to the shop, activating her Sharingan so she could easily sweep her gaze across the shop and...
"Are you fucking kidding me Aiko?" She spoke, turning her crimson gaze on Aiko. "If you think that looks like me, you clearly need to get your eyes checked. In fact, would you like an exam now?" Akari wreathed her hands in green medical Chakra, but the look on her face was anything but doctorly. The closest figure Akari saw to herself was a fucking Geisha model.
Not to say that the Geisha that worked in the Capital and other places weren't awesome, they were. But she was most definitely not one of them. The thought of sitting around all day playing instruments, or dancing and singing...especially in a Kimono, it just wasn't something she thought herself even remotely attributable to. "But Sensei, she even-mph!" Tachiko cleverly slapped her hand over Aiko's mouth before he could start digging any more of a hole for himself.
Shaking her head, Akari just began walking down the road again. "Kami forbid we make it to the tower without incident. Now then, if we manage to get the last...five-hundred meters without any of you three making us stop for something, I'll make ribs again. If we have to stop, I promise that the first opportunity I get, your food will be so filled with chilli powder you won't be able to look at spicy food again without wincing."
She looked over her Genin, satisfied that her point had been made.
The rest of the journey to the tower passed uneventfully.
As they climbed the stairs to the Hokage's Office though, the air was filled with Aiko's questioning voice, asking what they'd be doing first. Fighting bandits? Guarding Daimyos? Delivering important documents? And truth be told, whilst Akari knew that D-rank missions were the absolute dregs of missions, since she'd never undertaken one before, she didn't quite know exactly what her three Genin were going to get up to.
Hell, she'd kept her record for having never done a D-rank for the entire time she'd been a Kunoichi, there was no reason to do one now that she was a Jonin. She muttered another unconvinced answer to Aiko's questions, audibly sighing when they reached the Hokage's floor. She ushered the three Genin towards his door with a nod to the new secretary.
Apparently the old one had said something about someone and gotten removed as a result. Probably caught insulting the Daimyo or someone well-placed in political circles by an Inuzuka, they had deceptively good hearing. The secretary gave a curious wave back, watching her corral the Genin towards the Hokage's office. "Hey there, the Hokage told me to bring my team to receive a mission directly from him." She dropped the bombshell.
Her Genin didn't actually know they were going directly to the Hokage, they assumed that they were just getting a mission from the Mission Office, which Akari did nothing to dissuade. She never outright said they were or weren't doing something, she just gave noncommittal answers to their questions until they gave up. "T-the Hokage?" Hikaru stuttered, staring at the deceptive oaken doors behind which the strongest Shinobi in the village worked.
Aiko and Tachiko were equally surprised, though whilst Hikaru stared at the door, the other two Genin stared at their Sensei. "Akari-sensei, are we really going to see the Hokage?" Aiko asked, audibly subdued compared to before. it was then that Akari realized that she'd been way too acclimatized to knowing the Hokage over the past years. Then again, she'd practically lived with Minato when she was guarding Kushina, so she'd had a lot of time spent around the Yondaime.
"Well, normally no, we'd go to the mission office and get our missions there, but the Hokage explicitly told me to bring you three along to pick up our mission from him. Don't ask why, because I don't know either. I never really had a typical...'Geninhood' I guess, so I don't know if he normally does this or not." Tachiko nodded at Akari, accepting the information easily. Aiko...was less calm.
"Ehh?! We're seeing the Hokage on our first day for our first mission? But what if we screw up? Oh but he's the Hokage so he'd be fine with it! Oh but what if it's a super-important mission like saving stranded nin from a friendly village, or-or-mph!" Akari closed her eyes.
"Thank you Tachiko. Now, the three of you. I want you to picture the Hokage. Now, you need to remove any ideas of him being unreachable, untouchable and immutable. He's a man, just like I am a teen, she-" Akari waved a hand at the bewildered secretary. "-is a woman, or the ANBU currently mocking us all are all human." The three Genin all looked around warily, though only Akari could see where the ANBU were, if she turned on her Sharingan on that was.
Since she didn't really want to annoy them, she let them keep their stealth, happy in the knowledge she probably made at least one of them uncomfortable. "The point is, the Hokage is human, and he has feelings just like us. I'm sure he'd love to meet you all, alongside every single resident of Konoha, but the village is a little big for that I think. So maybe this is him simply wanting to know who he's entrusting Konoha's defence to?"
Though Hikaru looked a little uncomfortable still, Aiko was back to his normal self just fine. "I see!" he punched his fist into his palm. "Then let's not keep him waitin-urk!" Akari snatched his collar before he could throw the doors open, though her gaze was on Hikaru.
"...I'm okay Sensei, it's just...d-daunting." Akari sighed, ruffling his hair lightly. "S-sensei?"
Akari kept her grasp on Aiko even as she moved, kneeling down only a little so she could properly see Hikaru's face. "Hikaru, you know what you signed up for becoming a Shinobi, right?" The boy gave her a nod. "Then you know one day you're going to have to break that shell around yourself, yeah?" He gave another, albeit shakier, nod. "Then what's better than learning that the Hokage is far easier to meet than ya think?"
Akari ignored her slight accent that appeared, putting her hand out for him to take. It took him a few seconds, but he did, firming himself up as much as possible. "Now then, let's not keep him waiting." With that, Akari released Aiko's collar and Hikaru's hand, just for good measure mussing Tachiko's hair up a tiny bit, smirking when the girl squeaked in displeasure. She pushed the door open and gave a wave to the Hokage. "Hey there Hokage-sama, I brought Team 13 along!"
The old man looked up from his paperwork, smiled genially at the three Genin, then gave Akari a look, making her blink. "Give me a moment to finish this page Akari-san, then I'll be right with you." Shrugging, Akari wandered over to the chairs in front of his desk, four of them, possibly set up just for this, or perhaps the old Kage planned to meet every team which passed, she just didn't know.
It only took him maybe a minute to finish up, during which her Genin all sat down and started looking around the room like lost ducklings. It was honestly quite amusing, and served as another reminder that most residents in Konoha didn't visit the Hokage nearly as often as she did. Hiruzen wrapped up what he was writing and faced her Genin. "Now, firstly, well done you three for convincing not just each other to work together, but also your new Sensei." Akari rolled her eyes. "Don't play it off Akari-san, you know you had no intentions of accepting a team."
She shrugged unrepentantly. "And here we are none-the-less. But, if I'm honest? I don't think I made a mistake in the slightest." Her three Genin all averted their gazes simultaneously. "Aww, are you all embarrassed?" Aiko locked his eyes with her, his mouth open to yell something, but then he looked towards Hiruzen and shut his mouth, grumbling something quietly.
Taking a puff from his pipe, Hiruzen blew the smoke up into the air. "You three should raise your gazes." The three Genin did so, all letting out varying sounds of surprise as Hiruzen made his smoke weave around itself in beautifully dazzling flows. Sure, he was proficient in all Ninjutsu natures, but that didn't mean he should just show off, she didn't have nearly that level of mastery over wind. After her encounter with Orochimaru, she tried to manipulate wind as she did her Lightning, but every time she tried, it violently ripped against her control, it was nigh-impossible to use, for her at least. "If you keep your gazes away, you'll never see what lies right above your heads."
He not-so-subtly made the smoke drift over and around Akari. "Yeah yeah, can we get on with this please Hokage-sama? And not destroy my carefully-built illusion of how you aren't all-powerful?" The old man chuckled, releasing his control over the wind, which allowed the pipe smoke to dissipate into nothingness.
"Yes, let us." He pulled out some documents from his desk. "Here are the applicable D-rank missions for your team today." The three Genin all leaned forwards to try and read the pages, though considering how Konoha mission files were done, they wouldn't make heads or tails of it. "We have..." Akari snorted when she read the top option. "Ahh, I see you've spotted the mission Akari."
She covered her mouth, her chest heaving with unreleased laughter. After a few seconds, she got herself under control. "Ye-yeah...oh god, that's the kind of stuff I avoided?" The Hokage nodded solemnly. "I never thought I'd say this, but thank Kami for the war." Though his eyes hardened a little, he let a small smile creep onto his lips at her honest words. "Kits, you are most certainly on your own for these. I'm gonna have to make a bunch of Dango for this."
"Now, as I was saying, your options are...fence-painting, gardening, baby-sitting...oh, here's one to catch Tora." The man shuffled some of the pages to the side, ignoring the growing looks of disbelief on the three assembled Genin's faces. "Ahh, we have one here to help a farmer re-sow his crops. The Nara could do with a few extra hands to help corral a herd of deer. Ahh, and the Inuzuka need some strong Genin to walk their dogs." He looked up with a grandfatherly smile. Surprisingly, it was Hikaru that spoke.
"You've got to be kidding..."
"This sucks!"
Akari smirked around her stick, the Dango that was skewed atop it having been happily devoured already. "Put your back into it!" She chirped down at Aiko, who was currently dragging a wheelbarrow around. The mission they'd finally decided on, after realizing that Hiruzen wasn't actually jerking their chains around, was the one helping a farmer re-sow his crops.
Personally she would have taken the Nara herd-corralling one, since it sounded like a pretty amazing experience being so close to the Nara deer, but since she wasn't going to do anything to help, she didn't get a say in which mission they chose. Besides, if there were three of them deciding, it meant there couldn't be a two-way tie. If she added her two cents, she would likely end up tying the results.
Akari looked around the field. Tachiko was currently battling with a stubborn root, Hikaru was happily, if silently, running lines with a hoe, digging furrows into the dirt ready for seeds. Deciding that her job could be handled by a Shadow Clone, she left one in her place. It didn't look too happy, but since she was actually intending to do something important, the clone let it slide, settling down where she was sat atop the wall around the farm.
That left her available to slip away from her Genin, though she left Kurama with her clone, smiling when her clone immediately scratched between his ears as he clambered on her shoulders. Akari shunshin'd away just to make sure nobody saw her leaving, then put a quick Henge over herself, changing her appearance entirely. She already had a location in mind, and with Kurama keeping her updated on how far her Genin had gone since she left, she'd be able to make it back in time happily.
It only took maybe ten minutes of high-speed roof traversal to reach her destination, her usual training ground haunt. When she arrived, she dropped her Henge, sighing as she did so., since being under a Henge always felt weird, like wearing a skintight suit or something. Akari quickly checked around, making sure nobody was in the training grounds, then sat down beside a tree, closing her eyes.
Today, she wanted to figure out what the fuck happened when she tripped the fail-safe on her seal. She didn't know a single Jutsu that had red lightning, not one. She'd never encountered anybody who had it, so it fell to her to figure out what the fuck was going on. She tried channelling Raiton Chakra into her arm, yelping in surprise when the red lightning suddenly appeared around her arm.
She observed it with her Sharingan, watching it closely as it dissipated away into nothingness after a few seconds. As the last flicker disappeared, her system pinged her with an alert, one she opened immediately.
Affinity Modified - Lightning Release - Primary
(Note - this will not affect any other affinities)
"Woah...that's broken as shit." Akari mumbled. "Why the fuck is it RED THOUGH?!" She yelled at her screen, closing the menu then closing her eyes, flopping down to the floor. So, she now had two affinities that were primary. That probably meant that if she could somehow get her hands on a water, earth or wind affinity, she could then 'buff' it to be a primary affinity.
She toyed around with some Fire Chakra for a moment, even if she didn't really like using it too much. Since it was her primary affinity, direct nature manipulation was a cinch for her. She then applied the same technique to her Lightning Chakra, and though it was red, it still responded to her control, bouncing between her fingers, she could even bounce it off her Shadow Hand, thanks to the artificial Tenketsu embedded in the hand. "Wait, hold on a second..." Akari formed the hand seals for the Electromagnetic Murder Jutsu, pressing her hands outwards and releasing a wave of crimson lightning which obliterated the tree she targetted.
Akari quirked her mouth to the side. Aside from it being crimson for some reason, it didn't seem too different. Sure, she now had two primary natures, that was pretty powerful, but it didn't do more damage or use less Chakra, so other than being able to more effectively control Lightning Chakra directly, she didn't see a...difference. "Hey Kurama?"
The fox mumbled a response, he was probably getting pets from her clone. "You remember that giant ball of lightning I used with your Chakra, the one that made my hand spark red?" The fox made an affirmative noise, more attentive now. "Well, I just did some experimenting, but I just realized something. You mind pushing a bit of Chakra into my system? Only enough for a few Jutsu?"
"Sure, but I don't need to tell you to be careful, right? I don't want another repeat of what happened before." As he spoke, he pushed his Chakra into her coils, suffusing her network with potent Bijuu Chakra. Grinning, Akari took control over the small amount of Chakra, forcing it through her coils which turned it into Lightning-natured Chakra. She then pushed it towards her right hand, firing a bolt of lightning from her hand twice the size it typically would be, twisting through the air at the speed of light to shatter the tree she fired at, leaving a crater in the surface of the tree.
That bolt was just as red as the other, the one fueled by her own Chakra, the only difference being that as Kurama's Chakra was so much more condensed than hers, it doubled the size of the bolt, despite being the same amount of Chakra that she had used. "Alright, this could work..." Akari fired off a few more Raiton Jutsu, both with and without Kurama's Chakra backing her up, which led her to one conclusion.
Her Lightning attacks were way easier to control when fueled entirely by her own Chakra. Presumably, Kurama's Chakra wasn't responding to her as easily because it wasn't her own Chakra. She could still control it to some degree, but her own Raiton-natured Chakra she could bend around itself, into loops or twisting and winding patterns, all when it had already been expelled from her Tenketsu, much as Hiruzen controlled his smoke using simple Wind-natured Chakra. By comparison, she could redirect Kurama's Chakra to a degree, but she couldn't make it do a loop, not without a severe amount of focus.
Akari dusted her hands off and left the training area, slipping back into her Henge with only a pair of hand seals. That was one thing that had changed without her notice. Some of her Jutsu's, she could now do them with fewer hand seals. For example, the Lightning Dragon Jutsu, which typically required twelve hand seals, she somehow now knew it with only using ten seals. Or the Henge, which typically required three hand seals, she could do with only two. Checking her proficiency screen for once revealed what was going on, the previously-disjointed level 1 proficiency that had appeared having finished revealing itself while she was busy.
Hand-seal Condensing - Condensing seals is a valuable skill for a shinobi, cutting down on formation time by using less overall hand-seals. - Level 2 - 14.3%
She didn't quite know how she had even begun to train her proficiency in Hand-seal Condensing, perhaps it was simply from using hand seals regularly. What she did know however was that it was extremely useful being able to use a Jutsu without having to spend five minutes flipping through hand seals. She knew some masters of Jutsu could use them without using more than a single focusing hand-seal, but she honestly thought that she was flawed compared to others, since her Game required her to use every single hand-seal before her Jutsu would appear.
Apparently she could learn to condense her seals, it was just really unintuitive as to how to do such a thing. She hopped up onto a rooftop after leaving the training ground, identifying which directly the farm was in, then kicking off at a steady high-chunin pace across Konoha. She hadn't been idle in the past few weeks, getting a handle on her Agility, which meant she could now crank her natural speed up higher. If she got used to constantly using a faster speed, that would put her at a severe advantage over her enemies.
Plus, if she had this level of control over her speed when she fought her team, they would never have snuck that bell away from her. She was determined that if they ever ran that test again, those three wouldn't even get close to the damn bell. Sure, they got lucky, but that's all it'd take for an enemy-nin to slit her throat. She'd never had that happen, but she didn't want to experience it, since she wasn't sure if she'd just die from that kind of attack, owing to the fact that a slit throat would presumably qualify for being a critical hit.
She narrowly avoided a loose tile, cursing her distraction as she jumped the next gap between the buildings. It didn't really matter, since as long as she was fast enough that nobody could slip beneath her notice like that, she couldn't easily be killed. Then add her new Mystical Palm mastery she'd unlocked, and she would be a nightmare to kill. Two seconds would regenerate her enough Chakra to heal over 500 hit-points, then an extra 120 for her natural regeneration. That meant if she could break contact for maybe ten, fifteen seconds at the most, she'd be able to completely heal an injury.
Akari dropped off the rooftops as she reached the farmland her team were working on, giving a low whistle as she approached. They might not have enjoyed the work, or the fact that it wasn't nearly as exciting as they were hoping, but once her Genin got going, nothing would stop them from finishing their task. There were neat furrows in the dirt, with all the old detritus having been pulled from the ground and carted away to be disposed of, or perhaps used in some manner. All they had left to do now was re-sow the final seeds and they'd have finished the mission.
She wandered over to her Shadow Clone, hopping up on the fence just as it put Kurama down on the fence then dispersed, quickly shuffling through the clone memories before they dissipated into her mind. Nothing too interesting happened, though she had been complained at more than a little more by Aiko. Of course, her clone spent a lot of the time petting Kurama. The fox quickly clambered up her arm and over her shoulders, all in the time of a few seconds, looking to the world as if nothing changed. "So, you find out what you wanted?" He asked inquisitively. Akari rubbed his head with a grin.
"You could say that."
... To be honest, I just did that because I think Red Lightning is cool.
I think next chapter is going to be a short time-skip to Team 13's first proper mission, then after one or two chapters of that, another timeskip further towards canon. That way we can get a damn move on, since even I feel a bit bored right now with this story getting a little...stagnant I suppose, being stuck in one place too long.
But hey, I have no idea really.
Name: Akari Uchiha
Level: 78
Age: 16
Experience: 8945/78,000
To Next Level: 69,055
Title: Sannin-slayer - Defeating one of the three legendary sannin is no easy feat, but you managed it. Future opportunities unlocked.
Secondary Title: Jonin - +25% Experience gained working with Genin
Health Points: 18,500 - (100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 5
Regeneration Rate - 3600/m - 60/s - Vit x End - Halted when afflicted with bleed status.
Chakra Points: 36,620 - (100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 5
Regeneration Rate - 7200/m - 120/s - Int x Wis - Halted when continuous chakra drain Jutsu in use.
Strength - 70
Vitality - 60
Endurance - 60
Intelligence - 80
Agility - 161
Wisdom - 90
Luck - 60
5 Skill Points Available
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