Questions without answer

Almost a week had passed since the day Asahi had discovered his talent for ninjutsu.

During this time, Asahi had learned several jutsu, Nōka had realized that it would take less time to master water element jutsu, than lightning element jutsu.

The only element he had not touched was the wind element.

Today, Asahi had prepared to ask Nōka something.

"Nōka-sensei, who the best sword user in the village?"

Hearing Asahi's question, Nōka looked at him strangely "why the question Asahi-kun?"

"I want to learn kenjutsu" Asahi decided that one skill that would serve him well, was sword mastery, after all, no matter how strong a ninja was, a cut to the neck, or a stab to the heart would kill them.

"If you ask me, I'd say Danzo is one of the best, my son is also very good, but without a doubt, the best.... I am" at the end of his words Nōka had a smile on his face. "Why do you want to learn kenjutsu Asahi-kun?"

"Well, the sword can be very deadly, so even if I run out of chakra, I won't be defenseless in a fight."

Nōka thought highly of Asahi, but after hearing his answer, him impression of him improved 'He is not blinded by his talent for ninjutsu, and can think so far ahead, if he doesn't die young, he will definitely reach great heights' After raising a red flag, he heard Asahi make a request to him.

"Will you teach me kenjutsu Nōka-sensei?"

"I am willing, but our free time will be over soon, so we will train during our breaks, now continue with the jutsu I taught you yesterday."

"Yes" the jutsu Asahi was learning at the moment, was a B rank lightning element jutsu called Lightning Style: Thunder Strike.

It was a mixture of taijutsu and ninjutsu, it consisted of accumulating chakra in one or both hands and releasing it by striking the enemy.

In a way, this jutsu was a bit similar to chidori, one could say it was a simpler and less powerful version, as it practically didn't use form manipulation.

"By the way Nōka-sensei, who is your son?"

"My son? His name is Sakumo."

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After arriving home from his last day of training, Asahi started to think about his future more seriously 'since I know the basics of ninjutsu, some plans can start, like replicating the rasengan, I still remember the method Jiraiya used to teach Naruto."

Another thing that bothered Asahi, was that normal Ninjutsu couldn't do much in front of some of the enemies he might face in the future, 'not to mention the Otsutsuki, Nagato is already a huge problem, and Madara is still alive.'

Trying to remember everything he could about the series, Asahi found a short to medium term plan 'although these enemies are still far away in time, I must always keep them in mind, for the time being I will concentrate on improving my physique, and my chakra reserves, this will give me a good base to try and learn sage mode, learning as many jutsus as I can will also serve me well'.

Although he still didn't know how to learn sage mode, he had a few options, first he could find a way for the toads or snakes to teach him, but what intrigued him the most was Hashirama Senju's sage mode, was it the senjutsu bestowed by the slugs, or was it something else?

To get answers he had to find a way to go to Shikkotsu Forest, where Katsuyu lived, Asahi remembered that Katsuyu's size was enormous, no, colossal would be the word, during the Fourth Ninja War Tsunade and Sakura joined forces to summon a tenth of Katsuyu, and this was easily twice the size he used to appear.

'This Shikkotsu Forest must be special, I'll definitely find a way to go.'

Another thing Asahi was interested in, was the Juugo clan, the origin of Orochimaru's cursed seal, these seemed to have another way of using natural energy, and it was worth investigating a bit.

Suddenly Asahi remembered something else 'it seems that it was the old toad of Mount Myoboku who taught senjutsu to the Sage of the six ways, does that mean that senjutsu existed before chakra? That shouldn't be, according to the series, senjutsu is the combination of spiritual and physical energy (chakra) together with natural energy, resulting in chakra senjutsu'.

Asahi's planning, finish up with a lot of unanswered questions, the timeline of the ninja world is very confusing, although some things don't appear in the manga and only in the anime, this is a real world after all.

'the old toad, he was a little toad back then, and I remember he gave a seal to Hagoromo made by his ancestors, that means before him there were already toads capable of using senjutsu, unless toads can use natural energy without needing chakra?'

The more Asahi kept thinking, the more questions he found 'maybe the wise way taught in the series is just a branch of the use of natural energy, it seems that I should also visit Mount Myoboku'

In the end, Asahi decided to give up 'forget it, I must focus on what is in front of me, as I strengthen myself, eventually I will discover the secrets of this world'.