Chapter 17: Don't Stop the Grind

Chapter 17: Don't Stop the Grind

4 days of training not only included one hour of physical exercise, 6 hours of memorization about detailed human anatomy by the end of which Kushina would be on the verge of tears, and then came their distinct training as Tsunade taught a genjutsu to Kai, a basic run down of poison and antidote creation that Kai was happy to overhear as Tsunade didn't have any issue with that and taught Kushina the [Weaving Water Sword] that he had long mastered so by the end of 4 days and diligent grinding, Kai had two more skills aside from Body Flicker Technique.

[Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique (15/15): Ensnare the target in their worst nightmare whatever it may be and collect information by spying on the resulting Genjutsu. Increases the strength of mind at each level by 1. Each level reduces chakra consumption by 3.3. Current Consumption: 80/sec.]

Of course, Kai couldn't practice this genjutsu on villagers so animals in the training ground it is!

[Basic Chakra Poison (20/20): The ability to develop chakra-induced poisons. Each level increases the ability to mix chakra into poisonous herbs and attack and infect enemies.]

This was purely an informative skill that Kai practiced by mixing chakra with red pepper, black pepper, and any other condiments before moving to weeds, grass, and whatnot, forming diarrhea poison, itching powder, and stashing them for further troll ehm, missions. Of course, this skill in itself held the knowledge of antidotes since they are two faces of the same coin.

And the four days of training brought advantages to his stat, too. Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

[Physique stat reached a threshold. Physique growth markedly improved.]

[Reduce the consumption of all stamina-based skills by a 10 and increased stamina regeneration by 10 times.]

[Mental Stat reached a threshold. Markedly improved the function of the mind and spirit energy.]

[Increase the willpower and ability to resist genjutsu by 1]

[Name: Kai

Age: 5

Title: Senju Guardian

Gamer Traits: Skill Tree; Sleepless Gamer

Rank: Genin

Hit Points: 100

Stamina: 100/100 (10.1/min)

Chakra: 7098 (2028*250) || (210/min) (60*250%/min)

Physique: 100/1000

Mental: 89/1000

Perception: 43/1000]

[Skill points: 307]

Reaching 100 in Physique meant that the physical gains from Ran D Taijutsu and below are all but lost. And increasing his physique with sheer physical grinding was hard but doable. After all, the chakra passively nourishes the body to some extent and he is still growing.

On the other hand, after the initial boost, it was the Perception stat that is hard to increase with just basic chakra sensing.

Still, Kai felt confident. His Chakra reserves officially surpassed Mikoto's by a tiny margin but it still wasn't a solid reserve found in most of the Chunin-ranked shinobi. Again, these ranks were based on contribution than just the skills but most chunins had close to, if not more than 10000 points of chakra. Kushina, on the other hand, threatened to reach 20000 this year... then again, Kai felt he could do that, too... in three years when he himself is 8-year-old.

It wouldn't do for him to be envious of others while grinding away with his own trait...

Even now, Tsunade had yet to teach them an actual iryo ninjutsu and made it clear that she would build their knowledge about it first and foremost since Iryo Ninjutsu was 60 information, 30 chakra control, and finally, 10 innovation.

Everyone silently stood in the administration office above the layer of the classroom in the Ninja Academy where Hokage gave missions to the ninjas. Tsunade stood to the side as Hiruzen observed her team.

With the forehead protector tied on his forehead, Kai wore a mesh shirt covered by a dark-blue vest and a darker-colored pair of pants with the usual shinobi sandals and a kunai pouch over his left thigh. Of course, this didn't include the seals on his finger-cut-gloved palms that held the items to use during Body Replacement Jutsu and his senbon needles laced with fast-acting diarrheal poison. Among his team, he looked the most ill-prepared but just happened to be the deadliest. His height was just a few centimeters short of Kushina and Mikoto at this point.

The only thing that separates a noble shinobi clan from an ordinary clan and civilians is bloodline or unique jutsus. The Kekkei Genkai has always been a topic of great research and their clan's kekkei genkai happens to be their resilient body and a high chakra growth rate during their growth spurts.

'Son of a bitch! She knew!' Tsunade realized something. Iwagakure has been an enemy of Konoha for too long to NOT take the body of their recently fallen. Why would Iwa leave it when they could have sealed it for later use?

If she can see that someone was behind this act who wanted to weaken the Senju but not strengthen the other village then so could Mito and as she said... someone from within the village did this!

She really should have given more attention to the clan's political training... or she could now learn from her mistakes and let someone else learn it thoroughly!

There was a clear candidate and she now had the perfect excuse!

After the funeral, a member left to contact the cemetery and have a tombstone erected for the man while Tsunade sat in front of tens of leading shinobi and kunoichi of the clan.

Clearing her throat, Tsunade began calmly. She was far younger than these men and women but she was also far stronger and unlike the Konoha council, these men had her back and taught her what would be good for the clan but none of them could compare to her grandmother.

"Thank you for coming back at such short notice... I feel that there is a need to discuss some changes for the upcoming event and our preparations must not be lacking. First of all..."

And with that Tsunade didn't stop for the night. Some of her changes were brought to a more better path from the Senju Council and once they left, Tsunade was eager to slap all their faces once they tried to persuade her into taking the role of the permanent matriarch!

As If!

The problem was that... she might just alert whoever was behind these acts. It was either this or letting her clansmen get slaughtered unknowingly. She thought that Grandma would have had a better approach but she made it clear that helping Tsunade was not a problem but she won't just make decisions for her and Tsunade grudgingly accepted that. After all, she also didn't hold the hands of her team while teaching them new things, and thank god for that!

The changes they mentioned would be introduced slowly. The quickest Tsunade felt that others would notice is in a month or so, just right for the timing of another council meeting.

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The month has been dull for Kai. The only friend of his this month was the grind. The only lover to him was the grind. The only release he needed was the grind!

Oh, and missions, too!

D-rank missions rule!

Low risk and high rewards, at least, to him.

[Earned 46 SP.]

Although this was one of the rare months where he had no new additional skill, the fact that Kai managed to persuade Tsunade for more D-rank missions than the agreed 20 was horrifying to Mikoto and Kushina. They would fight him... but the bastard had gotten strong. So they fought him together without a hint of shame that one was almost 6 years older and the other 4.

And it just turned out to be too great of a physical grind that Kai loved every single second of it.

Yet, the lack of new skills allowed him to focus on the incomplete skills he had. After all, he can only hold 5 incomplete skills at once and Kai loved this space as empty as possible. So, he gave into grind in the night, too. Expending amount of chakra that would appall Chunin and Jonins!

Since Mito already seemed to know what he was upto, he went all out with the grind. Sure... he acted to sleep, too. Scratch that, sleeping being optional meant shit. He loved to sleep and would sleep whenever he was free of the grind despite the protests of Tsume, Kushina, Mikoto, and Minato to hang out. The hell would he do with the plebs? Eat dangos? Ramen? Nah, the month is always short, the day even shorter and if he could make use of the free time to grind away one of the more needy skills, he would!

He would have time for fun... later. He could always make time, right? Yes... he can...

But just a month of not paying them too much attention made their 'changes' far too prevalent and before he could curse the sweet grind for missing out on some rather amusing trolls and shits he could have caused with his storage of itching powder, he was called in by a mischievously smiling Mito who had a task for him.

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