Сhapter 27

Emerging from meditation as if from water, I quietly tried to gather my strength… The oppressive silence disappeared, sounds reappeared, and fresh air seemed to enter the lungs for the first time in a long time. Which, however, did not help me much to gather my strength ... and digest completely new sensations for me. Self–exhaustion is a terrible and painful thing for any Shinobi, which can only be compared with severe dehydration, when your body itself goes crazy, and there is simply no strength left for anything…

That's about how I felt right now, trying to wipe the sweat from my forehead with a slightly trembling hand… Yes, today for the first time I experienced such an unusual sensation for this carcass, purposefully trying to achieve this state for the last six hours ... For six hours I tried hard to expel the chakra from the body, I pass that almost through all the tankets of my body, and secretly hoping that soon this whole nightmare will end ... Replaced by a new one.

But even so, some sense of success glowed somewhere in my chest, forcing my lips to part in a smile, despite the terrible mental fatigue and just not the most pleasant sensations in the whole body… I finally had enough control and mental stamina to completely empty my chakra reserve. Yes, the fact that for ordinary Shinobi is an inevitable problem on the way of their training, for me it became even more of a test. Previously, I simply lacked my skills in chakra management to empty the entire bottomless ocean, which is now my source of chakra…

My reserve is already comparable to the reserve of the Junins – the elite of all the Shinobi of the village, which, as far as I knew, is no more than seven percent of the total number of Shinobi. And let the Jounins themselves can spend their chakra reserves quickly enough, but they needed to use really powerful techniques for this, as a rule, I transformed my chakra into a spontaneous one, which only contributed to the emptying of the reserve.

I had to literally expel my entire chakra from my body in a continuous stream, which is why my chakrosystem was suffering now. But I'm already repeating myself... too annoying feelings are haunting me now, forcing me to clench my teeth with force and pour cold sweat. I may have overextended myself after all… But such a shake-up was absolutely necessary for my body. I'm too used to the usual exercises and workouts, which is why my progress has already started to slow down somewhat.

Which, personally, I absolutely did not want to allow. Some of Neji's tricks that he demonstrates to me during our rather frequent skirmishes… I still couldn't repeat it properly. The boy banally controlled his chakra better than me and had more developed tonketsu, which is why I was even starting to get complex about it. It's not like I have to blame control problems on the huge reserves of the chakra. We need to solve these problems somehow, otherwise I risk never getting rid of them.

Although, if you look objectively, then with my current pace of development, the basic skills in chakra management will finally succumb to me this year ... Well, if we take as a base what they teach us at the academy in the flesh until the seventh year. And in this regard, as I have now finally realized, the Academy is quite poor in knowledge. Our specialized training will be handled by a personal mentor after graduation from the academy. The academy itself is designed, as I now understand, to develop a common basis of skills and abilities for all occasions in the future Shinobi.

Seriously, at some point they started teaching us literally everything in combat training classes… From Taizuqi skills and the basics of Kenjitsu, to the skills of setting and defusing traps. At the same time, we are taught to set traps not only on enemy Shinobi, but also on all kinds of game, in case there is a sudden need for food extraction… And we were also taught to get out of the most standard traps. In the same way, as well as to take off all kinds of fetters and shackles, in contrast to which lessons on immobilizing and binding prisoners were taught…

Damn, it's hard for me to even remember how much the combat training program included. And even though I passed most of this program under the guidance of Iruka, during our training sessions with him, but the amount of information and skills necessary for mastering written into this subject was even too much. That's why it was especially difficult to take it at the end of this half-year…

Too many separate disciplines were included in such a concept as shinobi combat training, which is why it was especially difficult to take this subject at the end of the last half-year ... Although I doubt that anything has changed, divided this subject into many others. Nevertheless, in six months I tried to master the skills of a year and a half of training, which, although it turned out for me, was not ideal. Of course, I was transferred to the fifth year, having been blessed with the need to get along in a new team, but this will all be a little later.

Now I had a whole week of vacation, because of which I could afford such experiments in my own training... especially since Iruka-sensei, for once, decided to take a little vacation, leaving me in charge of myself for a whole week. Which, to be honest, I didn't really mind. I just needed some time to test some theories and experiments. And I wasn't going to filonit in the absence of a teacher, even though I had such a temptation…

Well, Iruka himself really should have taken a little vacation. He, of course, was still a workaholic, almost equaling myself in this regard, but a short break from the whole race with time that we arranged with him was simply necessary for him. The teacher has taken too much on himself – here is his work at the academy, and my training, and the periodic attendance of the courses of the Irenins… Which he never stopped visiting, despite the complete lack of talents in this path.

The teacher wants to have at least some skills in treating other people… Well, or to be honest, he just wants to learn how to patch up my wounds. Too often I get these wounds, having got used to the fact that all the injuries on my body one way or another, but they will heal by tomorrow… Well, or in a few days -maximum… And even if I can't call this habit of mine any useful, rather the opposite, but I'm still not going to become more restrained from this. To get the maximum result, you need to make maximum efforts in training…

Well, the fact that there is simply no place left on my palms and hands in general from small scars is an insignificant trifle. Many Taijutsu mothers, as far as I knew, went through this stage, when their hands looked more like a bloody mess, due to the constant practice of blows on wooden makiwara poles. I have just this stage of training right now, during which my hands become the most real weapon. And the skills in strengthening these hands with the help of the chakra are also growing well…

But the main thing here is to know the measure and not to deprive your fingers of the flexibility and mobility so necessary for folding seals. Still, I wasn't going to become a pure Taijutsu master. Even though my body allowed me to choose such a way of development, but I definitely wasn't going to ignore my own chakra volumes and my own desires… My childhood dream of becoming a real "magician" was still alive in me. Well, who, if not a master of Ninjutsu, can be considered a magician?

But this is so, a lyrical digression, especially since I already had a plan for my own development… Well, or, at least, he set up guidelines for building this plan. Although, I have not come up with anything radically new in this regard. I just finally decided to focus all my efforts on mastering Taijutsu and Ninjutsu. It is in these Shinobi arts that I have the greatest potential, and they will allow me to become the strongest Shinobi in the future. Somehow I don't think it's necessary to rely on something else…

Getting confused to study genjutsu is a waste of time for me, Iruka and I have already kind of killed ourselves in this. I am also unlikely to achieve any serious success in kenjutsu without a really good teacher, and there are no more than a dozen of them for the whole village… With irenjutsu, so far everything is not so clear, yet I was a doctor in a previous life… And the dentist is also a doctor, so that our colleagues in the shop don't talk there. The only question is whether I will be able to master a minimum set of medical techniques at least at a minimum level…

Well, yes, I will deal with this in the future, the main thing is that I have already determined the main development guideline for myself. I don't really want to spray attention on something else there… I don't have much time before the canon events begin. Therefore, it would be better for me not to waste time, improving my skills in the already chosen path… In any case, this will give a better result than if I am such a businessman in all the ninja arts.