Sage Body

In the end, Yuya still failed to see Princess Kaguya.

She kept her door tightly shut and refused to let him in.

No matter how he called out or apologized, it was no use.

She probably had no idea how to face him right now, either.

Seeing this, Yuya could only sigh.

Perhaps this was the price he had to pay for obtaining the sage body.

He had finally returned, only for Princess Kaguya to shut him out again?

But now was not the time to dwell on matters of the heart.

His most urgent priority was still to grow stronger.

"I'll come back once Princess Kaguya has calmed down."

Yuya murmured to himself.

Without lingering much longer, he left.

Next, he needed to familiarize himself with the sage body.

And master Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!

He also needed to work out when his chance to save Princess Kaguya would come!

After Yuya left,

inside the room,

Princess Kaguya leaned back against the door.

Only after hearing his footsteps gradually fade away

did she let out a long breath.

"He shouldn't be hurt too badly, right?"

Princess Kaguya muttered quietly.

She was not sure how much of her strength

she had held back just now.

Several times, she wanted to open the door and check his injuries.

But whenever she remembered what had just happened, she forced herself to stop.

Embarrassment and anger welled up inside her.

"Strange. Why does Yuya seem a little different lately?"

Princess Kaguya murmured to herself as she was about to return to her chair.

Her eyes wandered briefly,

and she suddenly noticed the bookcase Yuya had placed in her room earlier, worried that she might get bored.

Given her temperament, however, she had hardly ever touched it.

By now, a thick layer of dust covered the entire bookcase.

At the thought, a trace of guilt rose in Princess Kaguya's heart.

She immediately used chakra to summon a gentle breeze

and clean the shelves.

While she was tidying up, a book accidentally fell.

Princess Kaguya bent down to pick it up and was about to put it back,

but its title caught her interest.

The title was "Several Ways to Deal with a Child's Rebellious Phase."

"Could he have entered his rebellious phase?"

Princess Kaguya wondered.

Curious, she flipped through a few pages.

"This book says that once children enter their rebellious phase, their behavior becomes unusually strange, completely different from how they normally act."

Princess Kaguya grew interested. The more she read, the more it sounded like Yuya.

"The things they want to do but normally don't dare to do will all come bursting out at this stage..."

"Things they want to do but normally don't dare to..."

"Gasp..."

Princess Kaguya snapped the book shut, her face turning red in an instant.

She had never imagined Yuya was like that...

After a while, once the burning flush on her face had faded a little,

she took a deep breath and returned to her chair.

She opened the book again and read carefully.

"And the appropriate response should be... gentleness and communication."

"Allow him to do some of the things he wants, within reason..."

Princess Kaguya read with great interest, nodding from time to time.

And so, time ticked by.

She deeply agreed with the book's views and felt she had learned a great deal.

The author wrote that he, too, had someone he greatly respected.

That person was usually cold and unapproachable toward him, all because they lacked communication.

He was not even allowed to massage that person's shoulders or legs.

Reading this, Princess Kaguya could not help feeling a little sympathy for the author.

Fortunately... she was usually very gentle...

Only at dusk did Princess Kaguya close the book, still wanting more.

Many ways of dealing with a rebellious Yuya had already taken shape in her mind.

"Let me see who wrote this book..."

The book cited numerous sources, and all its arguments were well supported.

Even someone like Princess Kaguya, who never read books,

could not help being impressed by the author's talent.

Filled with anticipation, she turned to the title page.

The next second,

Smack!

Princess Kaguya hurled the book to the floor.

Her face was filled with mortification!

"Aaaah! I actually believed he was going through a rebellious phase!!"

A breeze blew past and lifted a corner of the book.

There, clearly printed in large characters, were the words:

Written by Otsutsuki Yuya.

"Achoo!"

Deep in a dense forest in the hills behind the Royal Palace, Yuya sneezed.

"Strange. I have a sage body now. I shouldn't be catching an ordinary cold."

Yuya was puzzled.

"Could Princess Kaguya already regret sending me away... does she miss me?"

Unable to figure out the reason right away, Yuya nevertheless had a vague feeling that it had something to do with Princess Kaguya.

He shook his head and stopped dwelling on it.

He sat cross-legged as his body's transformation into a sage body neared completion.

[You have obtained a special constitution: sage body]

[Maximum health +100]

[Maximum chakra +100]

[Physical potential +100]

[Physique +100]

[Recovery +100]

[Large bonus to ninjutsu power]

A sense of unprecedented strength filled Yuya's entire body.

The most obvious change was that his various physical attributes had practically multiplied several times over.

This sage body alone was almost worth all his efforts over the past three years.

"A power bonus..."

A thoughtful look flickered in Yuya's eyes.

The next instant, an azure Rasengan formed in his hand.

He could indeed sense an unusual power within it.

Not only did it form more smoothly,

but the same amount of chakra also became more densely concentrated,

making it considerably more powerful.

After experimenting for a while,

he dispersed the Rasengan.

He did not perform any more tests.

Instead, he furrowed his brow in thought

over how to practice Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

This technique added nature transformation on top of the Rasengan's wind-based shape transformation,

turning wind-release chakra into particles as small as needle tips

and gathering them into the shape of a shuriken.

It could be said to take the sharpness of wind to its absolute limit.

It also made up for the Rasengan's inability to attack at range.

Yuya sat cross-legged, his mind cycling through the many characteristics of wind.

There were mild, gentle breezes and raging gales.

There were also dark clouds bearing down, like a world-destroying tornado.

Half an hour later,

Yuya opened his eyes again, a glimmer of understanding flashing within them.

He formed another Rasengan in his hand.

While keeping the core of the Rasengan's shape transformation unchanged,

he added wind nature transformation around its edges,

slowly forming four enormous, sharp points.

Under his absolute control over his chakra,

he compressed and transformed it bit by bit,

until it slowly took the shape of a mass of wind.

Four sharp points slowly revolved around the Rasengan at its core.

The instant the Spiraling Shuriken formed,

a fierce gale rose along with its rotation.

In an instant, sand and stones flew.

They swirled in the wind stirred up by the Spiraling Shuriken's rotation.

Along with it came a blade-like sharpness,

which not only sliced through his surroundings but also began cutting into Yuya's chakra pathways and skin.

This was the side effect of the Spiraling Shuriken described in the original story.

When the protagonist, Naruto, first used it, he destroyed two of Kakuzu's hearts with a single strike.

Its power was undeniably immense.

At the same time, however, the hand he used to wield the Spiraling Shuriken was left almost crippled.

But now that Yuya possessed a sage body,

with its powerful physique and recovery ability,

this minor side effect was negligible.

[Due to your extraordinary comprehension, you have automatically mastered S-Rank Ninjutsu: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken]

The system notification sounded,

but Yuya did not stop.

He was in no hurry to throw the Spiraling Shuriken.

Instead, he held it aloft, his brow furrowed in thought.

"Wind should be formless and ever-changing."

He murmured.

Before long, the Spiraling Shuriken in his hand changed once again,

taking the form of a long, blue-green sword.

Even as he held it, a sharp edge kept slicing at his fingers and palm,

but he paid it no mind.

He casually swung it a few times,

and wherever the blade pointed,

a blue wind blade shot out like a slash of sword energy,

easily cleaving a massive tree in two.

Each slash of wind sword energy consumed a great deal of chakra,

but chakra was the one thing Yuya had no shortage of now.

After he played with it for a while, the ground around Yuya was riddled with holes and crisscrossed with furrows.

He stopped,

and the blade changed shape again.

This time, it successively became a knife, a staff, and a whip,

along with various other weapons.

Finally, it became a bow and arrow resembling Indra's Arrow.

Yuya drew the bow and nocked an arrow,

then fired the arrow imbued with Wind Release nature transformation.

In an instant, a powerful gale rose with the arrow,

sending sand and stones flying.

Everything in the arrow's path was razed to the ground.

At last, the arrow struck a hill.

Boom!

In an instant, the earth began to tremble.

Countless birds scattered in panic,

while the frightened roars of beasts rang out in terror and unease.

Under that single arrow, the hill exploded into pieces!

In a flash, like a monkey bursting out of a mountain, a shower of stones sprayed across the sky.

Yuya's expression remained calm as a gale surged around him, blocking the rubble falling nearby.

A broad road several meters wide and stretching for untold miles

had appeared before Yuya, following the arrow's path all the way to the distant hill.

A single arrow had carved out a grand thoroughfare!

"Its power is decent."

Yuya murmured, then frowned slightly.

"But none of these... were recognized by the system?"

"Or does it only record known skills that existed in my previous life?"

He shook his head and stopped dwelling on it.

"Never mind. All I did was change its shape, anyway."

"Now, with my current strength, can I calculate a way to save Princess Kaguya?"

The next moment, Yuya began using Heavenly Secrets Calculation.