By the End, It Was All Aliens Fighting

"Hehe!" Uzumaki Naruto scratched his head and chuckled.

"Since that's the case, to celebrate you officially becoming a ninja, I'll teach you a ninjutsu." Kitahara Kaede spoke. "Have you ever tested what Chakra nature you have?"

"Not yet." Uzumaki Naruto was a little confused. He only felt that the teacher seemed to have covered Chakra natures in class, but he also seemed to have forgotten it.

Kitahara Kaede helplessly rubbed his forehead. Of course, he knew Uzumaki Naruto was a Wind-nature ninja, but as an ordinary Chunin who had barely interacted with Naruto before, he shouldn't have known that.

So he pretended to ask, then went upstairs to his room and brought down a piece of Chakra Paper for Uzumaki Naruto to test.

"If the Chakra Paper burns, it means Fire nature. If it splits, it means Wind nature. If it wrinkles, it means Lightning nature. If it gets damp, it means Water nature. If it crumbles, it means Earth nature. Your paper split, which means you're a Wind-nature ninja."

Kitahara Kaede explained.

"Ah, so that's how it is." Uzumaki Naruto suddenly understood.

Kitahara Kaede could only shake his head. What exactly did the Ninja Academy teach? But then again, with the powerful obstruction from all the major Ninja Clans, what could the Academy teach? Nothing more than basic common knowledge and the Three Techniques.

"Watch closely—Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

Kitahara Kaede shouted. His hands formed seals at high speed, and he spat out a massive whirlwind that swept across the entire small courtyard.

The courtyard had originally been packed with Uzumaki Naruto's shadow clones, but they were instantly wiped out clean.

And because Kitahara Kaede had deliberately held back, the courtyard itself suffered no damage.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Uzumaki Naruto was stunned. This was a ninjutsu he had never encountered before.

At the Ninja Academy, ordinary students generally only came into contact with the Three Techniques. Even slightly more practical ninjutsu usually required instruction from the Chunin or Jonin leading their team.

Otherwise, they had to exchange the merits accumulated through mission after mission for them.

Just look at the Konoha 12 in the original story. Sakura, who came from an ordinary family, did not know any ninjutsu at all. But aside from Uzumaki Naruto, every one of the others had their own specialty techniques, and each of their ninjutsu was quite powerful. If they really fought, compared with a Chunin like Soten Genryu, the only reason they fell short was because they had not grown into their bodies yet. Whether in taijutsu or Chakra, they could not keep up.

In other aspects, they were not lacking much.

Among them, someone as outstanding as Hyuga Neji, after a year of apprenticeship, was probably already above ordinary Elite Chunin.

By the time Uzumaki Naruto returned from outside the village three years later, Neji had already been promoted to Jonin.

The gap between ordinary families and Ninja Clans was simply that great, let alone families with Kekkei Genkai. Their exclusive secret techniques were even more extraordinary.

Even among civilians, it made a difference whether anyone in the family had ever been a ninja. Kitahara Kaede, for example, also came from a civilian ninja background, but his deceased father had been a Chunin. Even if he had only been an ordinary Chunin, he had still left Kaede the Chakra Refinement Technique and several Wind Release ninjutsu.

This had allowed him to steadily remain stronger than the other two members of his three-man team. Even if his original talent was not necessarily better than Soten Genryu's, he could always stay one step ahead of him.

"Kitahara Kaede!"

His mother, Kitahara Yoshiko, roared from the living room.

"Are you testing ninjutsu in the house again?"

Kitahara Kaede could not help smiling bitterly. He had already tried his best to control it, but he was completely different from before. Back then, when he used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, its range and power had both been very limited.

But now, even after holding back, its power was enough to cover the entire small courtyard.

"Mom, I didn't damage the courtyard," Kitahara Kaede said.

Then he looked at Uzumaki Naruto and said, "It's not very convenient here. Come on, let's find a nearby Training Ground and practice!"

As a militarized fortress, Konoha had public Training Grounds in addition to those within the residential areas of the major Ninja Clans, making it convenient for the village's ninjas to train their ninjutsu.

There was a Training Ground near the Kitahara Family home. Kitahara Kaede directly grabbed Uzumaki Naruto and sped off, arriving there before long.

"Big Brother Kaede, your Body Flicker Technique is amazing."

Uzumaki Naruto exclaimed in admiration.

Kitahara Kaede had originally wanted to urge Uzumaki Naruto to practice this basic skill more, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. Naruto was the type who used Spiraling Sphere. He was not following the path of ordinary ninjas, who carefully conserved their Chakra.

Besides, by the end, it was all Aliens fighting anyway. Whether one had solid fundamentals or not did not seem all that meaningful anymore.

"You'll get better with more practice. Give it a try. I'll first teach you the sequence of hand seals and the flow of Chakra." As Kitahara Kaede spoke, he began teaching Uzumaki Naruto Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.

Uzumaki Naruto tried it, but it did not go very smoothly. The issue of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox inside him affecting his Chakra had still not been resolved.

And not only did Kitahara Kaede lack the powerful ocular ability that Uchiha Sasuke would possess three years later, which could directly enter Uzumaki Naruto's Mental World and crush the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's illusion, but even if he had it, he could not do so.

Uzumaki Naruto was too sensitive. In just this short time, Kaede had sensed the presence of several Chakra sources around them. They were probably Anbu who normally followed Naruto to protect him.

"By the way, don't you know the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique? I'll teach you a method. You can train with multiple shadow clones at once, which is equivalent to increasing your training speed countless times over," Kitahara Kaede said.

When multiple shadow clones disappeared, they sent their memories and fatigue back as well.

Creating multiple shadow clones at the same time was not the same as having multiple people train simultaneously?

This was not really a secret; it was practically common knowledge. Yet in the end, Uzumaki Naruto was the only one who could do it, because shadow clones divided Chakra evenly among themselves.

If Sarutobi Hiruzen created more than a hundred shadow clones at once like Uzumaki Naruto, then the amount of Chakra in each clone would be insufficient—only a tiny amount.

But Uzumaki Naruto, who possessed more than a hundred times Hatake Kakashi's Chakra reserves, was entirely different. If he created a hundred clones and divided it evenly, each one would still have Chakra reserves at Hatake Kakashi's level.

If Hatake Kakashi ever found out, it would truly be enough to make those who heard it sad and those who listened weep.

And that was not even counting the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Chakra inside him. That was an unimaginably massive aggregation of Chakra, practically an inexhaustible Chakra battery.

Not to mention the most important factor: Uzumaki Naruto's Chakra recovery speed was also astonishingly fast. It was equally unbelievable.