章 24: Chapter 24 : Self-sewn

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Two days had passed since Ren had returned from the mission. He had done nothing but train and complete the D-rank mission during this time.

And train was what he and Itachi were doing right now. But today it was a bit different as Itachi was teaching Ren something new.

"Since you have good chakra control, I will teach you something that you might consider easy, but it will also help you in almost every mission."

With those words, Itachi walked towards a tree.... and then walked on it.

"This is the tree climbing exercise. You perform it by concentrating an exact amount of chakra to the soles of your feet." Itachi then walked back to the base of the tree.

"Too little chakra and you'll slip off," Itachi demonstrated this as he kept his foot on the tree and took a few steps before slipping.

"Too much and " Itachi kept his foot on the tree again.

*Boom* His foot was thrown back due to the blast.

"Like Chakra-enhanced blows.." Ren muttered, and Itachi who heard it nodded in agreement.

Itachi knew that Ren knew how to use chakra to enhance himself because He had used it back when he fought with Suigetsu.

Enhancing his body by filling it with chakra and blasting chakra explosively in the soles of his feet to make a high-speed movement.

Adding to it, his chakra sense and Premonition, boosted his reaction time to the maximum.

This was how Ren who was genin level fought with Suigetsu who was using chunin level of strength.

Of course, Itachi doesn't know most of it as he had come towards the end of his fight.

*Breath in*

As Ren was always aware of his chakra, gathering it was very easy. Right now, he has the base chakra of a mid-level academy student, excluding the reserve chakra.

He had been controlling his chakra reserves since they were minuscule, giving him near-perfect control over his current reserves.

So he didn't even need to use the hand signs to gather chakra to his soles.

Ren waited for a few seconds, placed his foot on the tree, and then adjusted his chakra till he felt 'right'.

'No seals?' Itachi who was watching this was surprised, even though he had been the one to train him in chakra control regularly, Ren's control always managed to baffle him.

' Here goes nothing' with that Ren kept his other foot on the tree. He waited for a few seconds and then walked another step.

Then another, then the next step, this continued slowly till he was now near the top of the tree.

Itachi waited for a few minutes as ren was walking up and down on the tree.

"Enough, come down," Itachi ordered. Ren obeyed and jumped down.

"As I thought this is easy for you." Itachi praised Ren, to which Ren just scratched his hair bashfully.

Itachi then turned away from Ren and looked towards a little clear area and performed a few hand signs.

Wind Release: Air Bullets!

Five consecutive compressed air bullets blew out of Itachi's mouth and hit the ground slightly ahead of them.

Which created a wide hole in the ground, though the depth wasn't too much and only was a foot deep. However, it seemed that Itachi wasn't done and continued.

Water Release: Drizzle!

Multiple blasts of water shot out of thin air, and landed inside the hole filling it.

However, Each consecutive blast of water carried a lesser amount of water and the air felt extremely dry.

Itachi stopped his jutsu and then looked at the small pool of water in front of him.

'Enough for training' with that thought he explained the next part.

"This next method is the water walking exercise. To do this, you have to emit a variable amount of chakra to suit the water and use its repulsive force to walk on it"

With that said, Itachi walked on water to demonstrate how the jutsu is done. He placed both of his feet slowly and then walked around the pool.

Ren tried to duplicate it and was able to place one of his feet without much effort, but as soon as he placed his other foot, it caused a ripple in the water causing him to lose balance and sink.

However, as the water wasn't that deep, only Ren's feet and sandals got wet.

The problem here wasn't his chakra control, but he didn't have the muscle (chakra?) memory of responding to minor disturbances such as a ripple yet.

Ren cursed in his mind and got out of the pool.

'I should have removed my sandals before' Ren thought. He folded his pants, removed his sandals, and was about to step on the water again.

Though Itachi stopped him, as he called him out.

"Take this, you wanted this right?" Itachi handed Ren a book, and walked away without waiting for Ren to respond, as he had some important business.

Ren curiously turned the book over and read the cover.

'Knitting and Sewing 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily'

"Wha!?" Ren suddenly blushed, embarrassedly as he looked at the book cover.

'Don't tell me he took that joke, seriously?' thought Ren a bit incredulously, as he recalled the bad joke he had made.

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Ren was on a D-mission, cleaning garbage flowing in the river.

Due to recent heavy rain in some parts of the Hi no Kuni, the local streams were also flooded with trash. So Ren was now on one of the streams.

'I can't do it alone, like this' Thought Ren as he looked at the pieces of trash such as branches, planks or paper floating down the stream.

The area to be covered was too large to be tackled alone, and he couldn't create a physical clone yet.

'If only I could block some of the stream flow somehow.'

He also could use a large physical block, but once again, the area is too large. So he did the best thing he knew.

'Nuibari, I chose you.' Ren took out his Nuibari and then cut off a branch from the tree and placed it firmly into the shallow stream's bank.

Half of the branch was underground, and the other half was visible above.

Ren ran to the other side of the stream and did the same thing there. He then tied one end of the thread to the branch underwater and then ran to the other side, laying the thread.

He spun the thread around the other branch and ran back to the opposite side to do the same thing again.

Within a short time, Ren was done running around and then looked at his work in marvel.

The threads were arranged like a spider's web and were collecting most of the floating trash. That is until he saw large branches getting caught in it too.

'NO, The web will come off!' So Ren did the one thing that could save him from making the web again. He used the Nuibari.

Using the Nuibari, Ren collected the large trash by throwing it at it and then doing the same thing over and over again until the trash flow decreased.

The Mythical Nuibari, known for collecting heads along its thread, now had trash collected along its knots.

He continued this for quite some time until the overflow stopped significantly.

"Pff. HAHAHAHA" Ren laughed loudly as he just finished the task, the image of the bloodthirsty Nuibari collecting trash and sewing together trash 'seam'lessly filling his mind with amusement.

"Ren?" Although to Itachi who had been on the bank, Ren's manaic laughing made Itachi question him. Ren looked at Itachi and gave the reason for his laughter.

"It's..Ha.. Just that, Sensei... I don't know how to sew,.. but still, when I do,.. I 'seam' to enjoy it." said Ren between his laughs as he pointed at the Nuibari and then laughed again at the bad pun he had just made.

But to the always quiet and composed Itachi, the pun went right over his head.

".." Itachi just stared blankly at his student, slightly worried for his mental health.

"HAHA..Nuibari...Sew you later, trash....HAHA-" Ren laughed again at another pun he had made.

'....Does he want to learn sewing? Maybe I should ask my mother for one of her books.. '

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Author's Note:

Poor Ren it seems that Itachi does not understand his puns, yet. The canon timeline is going to start soon. For those who didn't get the pun,

[seam = line where two pieces of fabric are sewn together in a garment or other article.]

Right now I have only selected one of the members of Ren's team, you are free to give your suggestions and I'll see if I can make one of those work. Btw, I won't upload for a day or two as I have something going on.

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