What Is This Situation?

"Katsuki, are you really not going?"

"You may go."

Katsuki sat on the veranda under the eaves, her legs dangling in mid-air, waving goodbye to Yahiko and his group as they walked away.

Yahiko and his two companions went to town to buy supplies. Jiraiya had deliberately chosen this relatively remote place with the three kids to protect them from the Yahiko Rain Ninja.

Although it's much safer now, it's relatively far from villages and towns. For a ninja, the travel time to and from there, plus the effort spent shopping, would take at least half a day. With that time, Katsuki would rather stay home and study Ninjutsu.

Essentially, Katsuki is a homebody, not in the sense of staying at home all the time, but rather she likes to find a quiet corner, immerse herself in her own world, and enjoy her own unique pleasures.

The three figures, their silhouettes blurred, quickly disappeared into the rain. Apart from the sound of wind and rain, there was no other sound in the world. In an instant, it seemed as if the whole world had fallen silent.

"It's so quiet."

He sighed softly. Unconsciously, he had grown accustomed to the sound of the wind and rain. He had been here for ten days.

I wonder how Otome and Nawaki are doing. Kumasaburo was lured away by him, so they should be safe and sound, right? And Kushina... Thinking of Kushina Katsuki even more melancholy. If I think about it carefully, it's been almost half a month since I heard from them. But with Minato around, and my sister not being weak either, plus that Otoha, they must all be doing well.

Katsuki sat upright, quietly watching the raindrops swaying outside the eaves.

Suppressing the turmoil in her heart, Katsuki placed her right hand in front of her eyes, pale lightning flickering at her fingertips. She focused her mind on restraining the unruly lightning, trying to bind and control it.

Over the past few days, he has been thinking about how to improve his combat capabilities. While personally experiencing the cruelty of the battlefield, he has also deeply realized his own shortcomings.

After three days of racking my brains, I finally came up with an idea.

Because he no longer had a short sword, and ordinary Kunai, he pondered how to solve this problem. He started by considering having someone forge a new short sword, and eventually began trying to condense lightning into a weapon. That's right, Katsuki's idea was to use shape transformation to twist lightning into a weapon. More precisely, he wanted to materialize lightning, not just by changing its shape, but by maintaining the transformed shape.

Most Ninjutsu nowadays are instantaneous, meaning they take effect very quickly but also have a very short duration. Leaving aside Kekkei Genkai and very special Secret Technique, only a very few Ninjutsu can last for a long enough time.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he understood the key to it.

The reason why most mainstream Ninjutsu are instantaneous is simply due to two reasons. First, Chakra. The amount of Chakra limits the ninja's movements. Even a simple C-rank Ninjutsu will consume more Chakra the longer it is maintained. Second, ninjas have extremely high mobility and pursue an efficient way of fighting. Of course, in the final analysis, it is still because of the issue of Chakra.

In conclusion, for various reasons, hairstyle Ninjutsu is the main theme of the Shinobi World.

There are certainly people like Katsuki who have sudden, whimsical ideas, but they are few in number, and most of them are just flashes in the pan before disappearing without a trace.

"Wow! This transformation is really difficult!"

With a twitch at the corner of her mouth, Katsuki looked at the fifty-centimeter-long lightning dagger in her hand, feeling a bit of a headache.

This thing is less of a dagger and more of a stick! You can't tell the blade from the back of the blade at all, and it keeps flailing around with random arcs of lightning.

"But... this thing could probably kill someone, right?"

Holding a short knife... or rather, a stick, he swung it through the air. The pressure from the high-speed movement caused the lightning, which had been stabilizing, to go berserk again. Arcs of lightning crackled and popped, electrifying his hair to stand on end.

"Damn it, it still doesn't work?"

Dispersing the lightning from his hand, Katsuki looked at his right hand, which was scorched black, and sighed deeply.

This is too difficult!

The simple shape changes are manageable; with a few practice sessions, you can sculpt the basic shape. Paying more attention to the details shouldn't be a problem either.

However, the real problem lies in how to stabilize this powerful lightning while moving at high speed. Once you start running and sprinting, the air resistance generated is quite strong, especially during combat when the speed fluctuates, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. The relative air resistance is strong and weak, making it almost impossible to maintain the stability of the lightning.

Other issues, such as the high Chakra consumption, are unnecessary to mention.

"No wonder no one has ever done this before. The cultivation difficulty is too high, and the practicality is low. It's better to just use metal weapons! I thought it was a good idea, but it still failed?"

The charred scabs on her hands fell off, and the pain began to subside. Katsuki lay in the corridor, sighing softly, her face filled with undisguised bitterness.

It failed! It failed again!

Looking at her hands, now smooth and clean again, Katsuki felt a boiling rage in her heart, a restless feeling she couldn't vent.

"Sizzle!!"

Silvery-white arcs of lightning danced and leaped wildly between his fingers, their bright light capable of blinding the eyes. However, as long as Katsuki enhanced his eyesight, this level of brightness remained within his tolerance.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Beast!"

The development of a new Ninjutsu failed, and it wouldn't do to just give up like this. So he decided to train his Ninjutsu. Although the idea of creating weapons with lightning failed, the form of the Lightning Release Technique improved to a certain extent. This could be considered a loss on one front and a gain on another, and his efforts were not wasted.

The blue-white Lightning Beast darted through the rain, vaporizing every raindrop it touched before crashing into the ground, leaving a deep crater.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Beast"

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Katsuki was having a great time. A row of Shadow Clone sat on the corridor, simultaneously releasing Ninjutsu. One after another, Lightning Beast crashed into the rain, bombarding the ground one after another, competing to see who could do the most powerful attack. They almost doubled the size of the land in front of the house.

"Tch! It detonated prematurely. If only it had been more obedient."

Muttering meaningless complaints, Katsuki found it hard to accept that he had lost to his own Shadow Clone.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Beast!"

Once again, it unleashed a dazzling, ferocious beast, leaping forward with a powerful push of its four claws, frolicking across the plains, leaping and bounding to dodge the Lightning Beast...

"Huh? This... this is so shameless!"

"What the hell is this?! We can't play anymore!"

"It's unfair, it's unfair, it's not fair at all..."

Seeing the agile leaping Lightning Beast, the Shadow Clone protested vehemently, "What kind of nonsense is this?!"

Bang! Bang! Bang...

One by one, the silly Shadow Clone disappeared, and all the noisy sounds ceased. Katsuki sat alone on the corridor, staring blankly at the Lightning Beast leaping across the field.

What's going on?