Tenten Carried Infinitely by Tuoye

"Huh? Is this for me? I thought it was..."

Tenten felt both happy and a little disappointed; after all, she had woven it herself, and she had assumed that once given away, it would be gone for good.

Watching the girl's complex expression, Kimura Takuya reached out and personally placed the gloves he had just "conjured" onto her hands.

The gloves retained the appearance of half-finger tactical gloves, but around the knuckles of the five fingers, various colored gemstones were perfectly inlaid.

Those gemstones had also been smoothed down to better conform to the shape of her hands.

They looked just like the Infinity Gauntlet from Iron Man.

Though they were a bit more understated, lacking the gaudy flair of the Infinity Gauntlet.

Still, the appearance was quite beautiful.

After fitting the gloves on the girl, Takuya ignored her flushed face.

He turned to explain to everyone else.

"Tenten's chakra attributes are extremely weak, but her chakra density is far stronger than the average person's."

"This is the reason why she has such talent for Space-Time Ninjutsu."

"Without sufficient chakra density, one cannot pry open the gates of Space-Time Ninjutsu."

"And the most important point is, Tenten possesses all five elemental affinities!"

"She even possesses Yin-Yang Release chakra attributes, though they are all so weak that the ninjutsu she performs is much weaker than others'."

As Kimura Takuya said this, he turned to look at Tenten, who was sadly hanging her head.

It was hard for anyone to accept such a fact: despite being born with the potential for all seven types of ninjutsu, they were all pitifully weak.

If someone else used a standard Fire Release, the flame temperature would be 1000°C, but when Tenten used it, the temperature would only be 100°C.

Even though she knew Fire Release, she couldn't even light a fire in the wild, which was truly frustrating.

Moreover, if it were impossible for Lee, who had no chakra attributes at all, to learn elemental ninjutsu, then for Tenten, who had all of them, it meant she could learn every single one, but it was incredibly difficult and the power was abysmal!

Learning them was equivalent to not learning them at all; it was a pure waste of time.

This was the reason why Tenten almost never used elemental ninjutsu in the original story.

As for the issue of Tenten having all attributes, Kimura Takuya had already formed a hypothesis while watching the anime in his past life.

During the Fourth Ninja World War, Tenten found the Sage of Six Paths' treasure fan.

That Six Paths Treasure Fan could release high-level ninjutsu attacks of five different attributes; Tenten had once relied on this fan to destroy one of Kakuzu's hearts in a single strike.

Being able to use this fan proved that Tenten's chakra quality was sufficiently high.

And there was a prerequisite for using the Six Paths Treasure Fan: one needed to possess all five chakra attributes.

Otherwise, it would be unusable.

In other words, the Six Paths Treasure Fan could enhance the user's own chakra attributes.

No matter how weak your attributes were, as long as you possessed all five, you could use the Six Paths Treasure Fan to unleash high-level attacks of those five attributes, or even release attacks of all five attributes at once.

However, if your chakra density wasn't high enough, you would be drained dry and killed by the Six Paths Treasure Fan!

Therefore, to enhance Tenten's chakra attributes, Kimura Takuya designed and crafted these gloves.

These gloves were a type of ninja tool capable of enhancing chakra attributes.

In the Ninja World, aside from the Six Paths treasures that possessed magical powers, the various powerful items were limited.

There were only the Seven Ninja Swords of the Mist, the Kusanagi Sword that Orochimaru seemed to have mass-produced, and Itachi's two great divine artifacts.

There was the Uchiha ancestral Gunbai.

Tsunade's necklace.

The Second Hokage's Sword of the Thunder God.

And the 27 Death God Masks of the Uzumaki Clan.

Beyond these things, it seemed there were only weapons made of chakra-conductive metal.

As a quasi-xianxia plane, the number of extraordinary weapons was simply too small, wasn't it?

In neighboring cultivation planes, one could say that everyone held magical artifacts; anyone who practiced cultivation could produce a few, not to mention spirit weapons or dharma treasures.

One could only say that the development of weaponry in this world was too slow.

Even many years later, it amounted to nothing more than cannons or scientific ninja tools that lacked any real prestige.

The only thing with potential, the Chakra Armor of the Land of Snow, never spread either.

Perhaps it had to do with the fact that ninjas relied entirely on themselves for cultivation.

All of one's power comes from bitter cultivation, and the only way to seek power from the outside, Sage Mode, is something only a select few can practice.

There is no philosophy here of seeking the Dao from heaven and earth right from the start.

It is also very difficult to achieve significant development from external sources.

Whether a ninja is strong or not is basically determined by bloodline; if your bloodline is awesome, you are awesome, and if your bloodline is mediocre, even if you work hard for a lifetime, it is nothing more than a flash in the pan.

This is also related to the cultural mindset of the island nation, lacking even a shred of the spirit found in our Chinese history: "Are kings and nobles born with high status?"

The entire Naruto series tells one point of view, and that is fatalism.

Even though characters as passionate as Guy and Lee were created, in the end, their efforts as "ordinary people" were merely used to pave the way for the greatness of those with powerful bloodlines.

Then there is Neji, who was dominated by fatalism from the beginning; it seemed as if he had broken free from destiny because of Naruto.

But in the end, he was forcibly written to death just to fulfill Kishimoto's fatalistic viewpoint.

If not for that, Neji would not have needed to die at all; his death can be said to be completely worthless, serving no purpose other than to prove Kishimoto's twisted fatalism.

Kimura Takuya turned his head to look at Neji, whose chakra attributes were Fire, Earth, and Water, and who also suffered from the weakness of having low attribute strength.

However, as a genius of the Hyuga Clan, his "weakness" was only relative to ordinary people; in reality, it was the strength of a normal person.

The effects of using them were not as good as the Gentle Fist, and they were difficult to coordinate with the Byakugan.

Actually, the attributes most suitable for Neji were Lightning and Wind, but Neji possessed neither; forcing himself to cultivate them would result in weak attributes, which generally was completely unnecessary.

But if one could enhance their attributes, then using Chidori with the Byakugan would be possible; Lightning Style combined with the Byakugan was also a viable path.

"Takuya, what exactly is the use of these gloves you made for Tenten?"

"They enhance chakra attribute values, making her otherwise weak ninjutsu stronger. At the same time, I have inscribed Sealing Jutsu formulas on these gems, which can be used to store different ninja tools."

"So, Takuya, are you hoping that I will be able to cast ninjutsu in the future?"

Tenten looked at Kimura Takuya in confusion, raising her hands wearing the special gloves, looking like a short-legged kitten surrendering.

The latter, however, waved his hand and shook his head.

"No, I hope that in the future, apart from low-consumption auxiliary ninjutsu, you will avoid using other ninjutsu whenever possible.

However, you must master the nature transformation of all attributes."

"Ah? Why? Nature transformation is very difficult, you know? And if I have to master all of them, how long would that take?"

Tenten and the others naturally already knew the difference between nature transformation and shape transformation.

The latter was the core key to Konoha-Style Nintaijutsu.

But the former was a skill that only elite ninjas could master!

Takuya actually wanted Tenten to master them all?

That was too terrifying!

"Becoming stronger is a continuous process. The path of the strong can be said to have no end; even the legendary Sage of Six Paths is not the strongest in the Ninja World."

Kimura Takuya looked around at everyone present and spoke his understanding of what it meant to become stronger.

Everyone was somewhat surprised by Kimura Takuya's words.

If even the legendary Sage of Six Paths was not the strongest, could there be an even more powerful existence?

And it seemed Takuya even wanted to surpass such an existence?

"My Ninja Way is to become the supreme power that surpasses everything, turning every impossibility into possibility! If you want to keep up with my pace, then please strive to become stronger as well."