All-Attribute Chakra

"Lord Orochimaru, Yemo, come again!"

"All right, see you, Teuchi!"

Rubbing his round belly, Yemo walked out of Ichiraku Ramen with Orochimaru. Honestly, Ichiraku Ramen was a great deal: the prices were low, and the portions were generous enough to leave an adult completely full.

"Cough..." Yemo gave a satisfied cough, then turned to ask Orochimaru, "Teacher Orochimaru, where are we going next?"

"Back to the usual place to continue training, of course. This afternoon is a good time to find out your chakra natures," Orochimaru said.

Yemo's face lit up at once. Great! We're finding out my chakra natures. Looks like Teacher Orochimaru will be ready to teach me some powerful ninjutsu before long.

Orochimaru's teaching was progressing at a rapid pace. They had just fought that morning, and now they were already going over chakra natures in the afternoon. But Yemo was a genius. Orochimaru's pace might have been hard for an ordinary person to handle, but Yemo had no problem with it.

If anything, Yemo thought Teacher Orochimaru was moving too slowly. It would be best if he taught him some ninjutsu right now. As for the basics, it wasn't as though he had watched hundreds of episodes of Naruto for nothing.

A gentle breeze swept up sparse blades of grass and sent them dancing through the air. The sunlight wasn't scorching; it was mild and comfortable, as though a pair of invisible hands were kneading their bodies. Yemo and Orochimaru returned to the training ground.

"All right, let's get ready to train!" Orochimaru said.

Rubbing his fists, Yemo said excitedly, "Teacher Orochimaru, I can hardly wait."

Orochimaru gave him a meaningful smile. "Kid, my training isn't that simple. I hope you can see it through."

"Don't worry, Teacher Orochimaru. I'll definitely see it through," Yemo said confidently, clenching his fists.

"In that case, let's begin." The smile vanished from Orochimaru's face, and he became very serious. "Before that, I need to tell you about chakra. Chakra is an energy produced by the perfect fusion of the various energies controlled by the human body. It is the foundation for performing a whole range of ninjutsu."

"The strength of one's chakra will depend on the strength of the individual. You should know that the more powerful a ninjutsu is, the more terrifying the amount of chakra it requires. As a member of the Uzumaki Clan, your chakra is naturally far greater than an ordinary person's. Not only that, but your chakra is even more formidable than that of an ordinary Uzumaki. By my estimate, the amount of chakra in your body is hundreds of times that of an ordinary person. Your chakra is also very special; it has the power to suppress Tailed Beasts."

At this point, even Orochimaru's voice betrayed a hint of shock. Aside from Tailed Beasts, this was the first time Orochimaru had seen such a vast amount of chakra.

Yemo was naturally well aware of that. The chakra in his body was vast enough to be called terrifying. Yemo couldn't explain it either; there was nothing he could do about it, as he had been born with it. If he had to describe himself in one term, Yemo thought a humanoid Tailed Beast was the most fitting.

After a pause, Orochimaru continued, "I saw you use the Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique this morning, so I presume you've already mastered the Shape Transformation and Nature Transformation of fire-attribute chakra. How much do you know about chakra natures?"

Knowing that Teacher Orochimaru was testing him, Yemo thought for a moment, then answered based on what he knew. "There are two kinds of chakra transformation: Shape Transformation and Nature Transformation. Nature Transformation is divided into seven categories: fire, water, wind, lightning, earth, yin, and yang. These are also the foundation of all ninjutsu. Fire, water, wind, lightning, and earth are the five basic ones, while yin and yang are relatively rare."

"Some ninjutsu can be performed with just one transformation, but others require a combination of both. For example, with the Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique I learned, I first have to use Nature Transformation to turn chakra into fire, then use Shape Transformation to turn the fire into a fireball and attack my opponent."

"Good. You're absolutely right," Orochimaru said with admiration after listening to Yemo's explanation, his face full of approval.

This disciple had never studied at the Ninja Academy, yet he understood these things very clearly. He had obviously spent time learning about them specifically. His disciple kept giving him more and more shocks, and Orochimaru increasingly felt that taking Yemo as his student was the best decision he had made.

"You already know the basics, so next, let me test exactly what chakra nature attributes you have." With that, Orochimaru took out a stack of small white papers.

Waving the small white papers in his hand, Orochimaru explained, "This is sensing paper that reacts readily to chakra. It's made from a tree that uses chakra as nourishment. Fire will make it burn, water will make it wet, earth will make it crumble, wind will cut it, and lightning will make it wrinkle."

Orochimaru handed the chakra paper to Yemo. Yemo gently pulled a sheet from the stack of white papers, held it between two fingers, and began channeling chakra into it.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment. Only a gentle breeze blew past as Orochimaru's gaze remained fixed on the chakra test paper held in Yemo's fingers.

Yemo's use of Fire Style meant he had the fire nature. Orochimaru had no doubt that a genius like Yemo possessed more than one chakra nature. As for how many he had, there was no way to know without testing him with the paper.

As Yemo's chakra entered it, the white paper finally reacted. The upper-right corner suddenly caught fire, and flames instantly burned that section of the test paper to nothing.

Immediately afterward, the upper-left section of the chakra paper was split in two, as though an invisible blade had flashed past.

"Fire and wind. That's two attributes already," Orochimaru murmured.

The changes didn't stop. The lower-right corner of the chakra paper wrinkled, and then the lower-left corner grew wet.

"Lightning and water. Along with fire and wind from before, that makes four chakra attributes. Will the last one, earth-attribute chakra, appear too?" Orochimaru hadn't even noticed when he had grown so nervous.

It wasn't that Orochimaru's resolve was lacking; what was happening before him was simply too astonishing. Four chakra attributes—if the last one, earth-attribute chakra, appeared as well, that would make five.

Watching the changes in the chakra paper in his hand, Yemo, the person being tested, had honestly long since been stunned. Four chakra attributes were beyond anything he had imagined; he had originally thought two or three would be pretty good.

Finally, only one small piece of the chakra paper remained in Yemo's hand. Under Yemo and Orochimaru's gazes, it slowly turned yellow, then shattered into countless yellow fragments that scattered through the air.

Time stood still at that moment, and the world itself seemed to stop turning. Yemo's and Orochimaru's eyes slowly widened.

Hahaha...

The next second, even Orochimaru, who never showed his emotions on his face, couldn't help laughing aloud. "It's actually all-attribute chakra! Wind, fire, lightning, earth, and water—you have them all! Add in the yin and yang you use, and you're a once-in-a-century genius, Yemo!"

Yemo said nothing, but the excitement and exhilaration on his face were hard to conceal. His feelings at that moment could not be put into words.

He actually had five chakra attributes. Adding the Yin-Yang Release he had learned meant he possessed seven attributes. That was all-attribute chakra.

Looking across the present-day Naruto world and throughout its history, only a handful of people had possessed all-attribute chakra. Madara Uchiha and the Second Hokage were figures who had died. At present, only two people in the Naruto world possessed all seven chakra natures (Kakashi had them too, but he had yet to demonstrate them at this point): Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru himself.

But now there was another person: Yemo. That was why Orochimaru had been so excited to learn that Yemo possessed all-attribute chakra. Only a disciple with all-attribute chakra could fully inherit everything he had learned.