Rasengan The excitement brought by the breakthrough in the first stage only lasted a short time, and was soon replaced by the irritability caused by the bottleneck in the second stage.
Everyone suddenly discovered that in the Ninja Academy's class, the polite young master Senju who could always give standard answers had a strange habit.
He always carries a black solid rubber ball with him.
During class, he would put the ball under the desk and unconsciously rub and knead it with his hands. After school, whether he was having a passionate sparring session with Might Guy or having a swordfight with Kakashi, the little ball would never leave his hand.
"Senju, please answer, what are the five basic forms of Chakra Nature Transformation?"
Teacher Nakajima's slightly dissatisfied voice came from the podium.
The students around her all looked at her. Kurenai Yuhi, who was sitting in the front row, turned back quietly with a hint of worry in her eyes. Mitaraishi Anko, who was next to her, had an expression of watching a good show, with a bad smile on her lips.
Senju Chen As if he had just woken up from deep thought, he stood up calmly, quietly retracting his hand under the table, with his trademark, slightly shy and innocent smile on his face.
"Yes, Teacher Nakajima. Nature Transformation of Chakra is divided into five basic forms: fire, wind, thunder, earth, and water, which correspond to..."
He recited the standard answers in the textbook fluently, and even added some of his own understanding by analogy, so that Teacher Nakajima, who originally wanted to take the opportunity to beat him, could not find any reason for the attack.
"... That's a good answer. Sit down. But you have to concentrate in class, classmate Senju. Your talent should not be wasted on wandering." The teacher adjusted his glasses and softened his tone, but it was full of warning.
"Yes, I understand." Senju Chen nodded obediently and sat down, attracting adoring whispers from several female classmates around him.
However, only he knew that at that moment, he almost succeeded.
Just a second before the teacher asked the question, in the palm of his hand under the table, inside the rubber ball, a highly condensed and wildly rotating Chakra was about to tear it from the inside!
Just a little bit different!
As a result, he was interrupted by the teacher and failed.
Damn...
Senju Chen's eyes flashed with a trace of gloom and irritability that was completely inconsistent with his appearance.
He found that he seriously underestimated the difficulty of the second stage of Rasengan. If the water polo in the first stage tested the skill of "multi-directional rotation", then the rubber ball in the second stage tested the pure "power" and "penetrating power".
Chakra needs to be compressed to the extreme, like an indestructible drill bit, instantly bursting out with terrifying destructive power.
In the past few months, he spent almost all his time after school until late at night, except for eating and sleeping, on practicing with the rubber ball. But no matter how hard he tried, the best result was only to leave a shallow dent on the rubber ball, and then Chakra would collapse due to weakness.
What's worse is that this high-intensity secret practice seriously affected his "performance" during the day.
He began to lose focus frequently in class, and even made inappropriate mistakes during sparring with Kakashi.
"Clang!"
The wooden knives struck each other, making a dull sound.
Kakashi's figure is like a ghost, his knife skills are tricky and cruel, and he doesn't look like a five-year-old child at all.
However, Senju Chen just casually turned sideways and blocked it in a more freehand way. But at the moment when he was about to counterattack, the rotation trajectory of Chakra inside the rubber ball flashed in his mind, and his movements could not help but slow down by half a beat.
It's this half-beat lag.
Under Kakashi's short silver hair, his eyes suddenly lit up, catching this fleeting flaw! He turned his wrist, and the wooden knife bypassed Senju Chen's block at an incredible angle, and the tip of the knife was pointed directly at his throat!
Senju Chen felt a shiver in his heart. He exerted force on his feet and leaned back in an extreme posture. The cold knife wind brushed the tip of his nose.
Although he avoided it, his posture looked a bit awkward.
"You are distracted." Kakashi retracted the wooden knife, his voice was as cold as ever, but there was a trace of imperceptible confusion in his black eyes.
The latest Senju Chen is very wrong.
"Kakashi actually defeated Chen-kun. Everyone is getting stronger! I will continue to work hard!" On the other side, Might Guy, who had just completed a thousand handstand push-ups, looked at the two practitioners in shock, wiped the sweat with his sleeves, his eyes burned with fire again, and devoted himself to a new round of training.
Senju Chen ignored them. He just looked at his hand holding the wooden knife and frowned.
Kakashi is right, he was distracted.
This can't go on like this.
On the one hand, he has to maintain the school's "genius" character and establish a good relationship with the future Konoha High Commands; on the other hand, he must practice A-level Ninjutsus to pave the way for the future. Human energy is limited, and even he, a time traveler with an adult soul, begins to feel inadequate when performing such dual-line operations in a five-year-old body.
Must find a way...
A way to allow him to concentrate on his cultivation without affecting the perfect character of "Senju Clan Genius Young Master".
Senju mansion, in the bedroom.
Senju Chen was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with a pile of rubber balls that he had squeezed into strange shapes in front of him. The air was filled with a faint smell of rubber and the salty smell of sweat.
Once again he failed.
The feeling of fatigue is like a gangrene attached to the bones, seeping out from every cell in the body.
He scratched his hair irritably and threw the rubber ball aside.
How to do it?
In his mind, he began to frantically recall the anime plots he had watched in his previous life, trying to find inspiration for solving problems from the ninjas who had practiced Rasengan.
Jiraiya? But the plot doesn't tell you how he practiced or how long he practiced. There is no reference.
Minato Namikaze? It took him three years to develop Rasengan.
Naruto? He also practiced for a long time, and Jiraiya was always there to guide him along the way. But even so, it was only Shadow Clone that finally completed it.
Huh? Shadow Clone? Yes, why did I forget this magical skill before...
A young figure wearing Anbu clothing and two nasolabial folds on his face suddenly appeared in his mind.
Uchiha Itachi!
Senju Chen's eyes suddenly lit up!
He remembered! When Itachi was a boy, in order to have more time for self-cultivation, he once used a Ninjutsu to go to the Ninja Academy classes instead of himself!
That Ninjutsu is...
"Shadow Clone Technique!"