Kage no Taikaku

"Next!"

I was meditating waiting, we all just did kunai handling and tools just a moment ago.

I aced all Ninja weapon handling and tools, it was easy, and I got bored easily, Sasuke got a high score, Sakura medium score, Naruto, I guess he tried..?

It's been like this for a few hours, I presume tomorrow is necessary subjects, like mathematics, writing, etc...

It was time to go home as I and Naruto was walking on the same path,

"You were really good at the academy, do you have a secret or something?"

I looked at him replying, "No I just train, that's all," Naruto looked at me, he didn't bother to ask again, so he stops.

'Well, I do have a secret, and reincarnating and all that,' I walked with Naruto while we converse before we have to split and go to our homes,

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow,"

"Yeah, I'll see you later!"

We went off going to our separate paths, it was already dawn, I should have asked for a chakra paper, uh- I should just check when I graduate, hehe.

"Hm, I didn't bother to go to the library before, I think I should visit it,"

I sped up my movements heading towards the library, it was near my home but not that close.

I arrived at the entrance, as night was already up

"Ah, it's closed,"

Then I instantly thought of sneaking in, I did it by jumping up the roof then opened the window that was near me then jumped down as I bent my knees lowering the pressure of the fall, not making a single sound, even nightingale floors wouldn't able to make a sound from my steps.

(Nightingale floors=creaky floors that make sounds from steps, it's a security alarm for ninjas)

"Okay, I'm in, This is fun~"

I strolled around picking a book, as I browse the bookshelves,

"-Bap, bap (bap=making sounds with your lips), Let's refresh my memories first, starting off the countries.

Countries operate as separate political entities and are presumably all monarchies, ruled by daimyō who stand as a ruler for the entire country.

Hidden Village heads are the generals that take care of shinobi matters.

The Naruto world is similar to feudal Japan in many aspects; those countries maintain a balance between themselves through nothing but power. Treaties are periodically signed, but they are generally not worth much more than the paper they are written on.

There are about nine lands.

Land of Fire, To where I am right now and living, the largest and most powerful land, and home to most of the main characters.

Land of Earth, Located North-West of the Land of Fire, Ninjas know Tenmon relating to meteorology (google it), knowing there's a phenomenon called 'Rock Rain', Im intrigue of its natural phenomenon.

Land of Iron, Unlike other countries of the world whose militaries use shinobi (Forgot to add, shinobi means ninja as well in Japanese), the Land of Iron's military is made up of Samurai, I fought samurai's in the past with different styles, I'm quite interested of their sword styles.

Land of Lighting, located on a peninsula north-east of the Land of Fire and is one of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, vast mountain ranges, whose many thunderstorms are said to give the country its name as another place I want to visit.

Land of Snow, its a nation introduced in Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, that is also briefly mentioned in the anime and in the Hiden novels, a small country.

Land of Sound, a neighbouring country of the Land of Fire. According to the anime, Orochimaru conquered the country and convinced its daimyō to let him establish his own ninja village.

Land of Water, also known as the 'Land of Mist'. It is composed of many islands, with each having its own unique traditions, a place where I'm going soon.

Land of Wind, Land of Fire and Wind, although they have warred with each other in the past, the Land of Wind is now on good terms with the Land of Fire.

Lastly, Land of the Sky. If I recall, it was formed by ninjas from several countries that could mould their chakra into the mist in order to fly, I should try that later.

And the others are just minor countries.

I was busy browsing and reading the information, some information was not shown in both manga and anime as there are more mysteries in the world.

...

After I finished a 'bunch' of books, I was still browsing the shelves.

I kept going and see a book from one of the shelves, it was old and decayed but still readable

"Kage... no Taikaku..?"

I opened the book that I held on both of my hands as I was interested in this antique of a book

"It seems to be a Ninjutsu Hybrid Genjutsu, but... It doesn't work?"

I kept on reading the book as I got into it, it says that it turns you're a body into shadow as you can physically control the shadow of that of your body, as well as splitting and creating clones closely similar to shadow clone Jutsu, you can transfer to any shadow as its near in an instance faster than light, but if well trained you can travel from miles away, shadow effect on peoples are nightmares that send them to a torturous world of pain, clones work as Genjutsu shadows for distractions and feints.

"Its a very unique Jutsu, but the problem of this Jutsu is..."... constantly using the shadow slowly consumes you in the inside, physically and mentally as you become one with it, erasing your existents while it drains your chakra becoming mentally unstable until you turn into a Shadow Chakra beast that shapeshifts. But that happens rarely.

"This Jutsu... I can it remove its negative effect, If I have time I can make it my own,"

I tried to learn it immediately, it's similar to the sign of Shadow Clone Jutsu, your right hand has to have your index and thumb making a circle facing you with rest of the fingers pointing straight up,

while having your left hand angeling horizontally as your index and middle pointing to the right while the rest of the finger and thumb closed, but the last requirement was that your element has to be Yin,

"It looks like I have to check my affinity after all."