Chapter 9 - Attribute

After returning home, Nori took a nice hot bath and changed his clothes.

He took a broom and a mop and started cleaning his house, dusting off the furniture and washing dishes, then prepared a hot cup of tea before sitting on a fûton looking at the trees in his backyard while sipping his tea,letting his mind wander freely

After finishing his tea, he left his house after closing his door, then began to walk in Konoha's streets.

Although the village landscape had not changed, but Nori could still detect the change in mood of the villagers, the streets were less animated and some walked with faces that could not hide their sadness, seeing this, he could only sigh.

"War is not a game, if you're ready to kill, you must be ready to die."

Iwa village was not the only one to suffer losses, many Konoha ninja died almost every day, parents, children, wives.

The profession of Ninja is the most dangerous of all jobs, death was as common as blinking, only the strong can live to the end!Nori's predecessor was living proof of this.

But as he walked quietly through his thoughts, a young boy of about eight or ten with black hair and protective glasses on his forehead banged his head against Nori.

Although this had no effect on Nori the young boy lost his balance, and was about to fall, but as a reflex Nori caught the boy's shoulder and made him regain his balance.

The young boy scratched his head with embarrassment before bowing (they are Japanese!).

"Excuse me, sir, and thank you for your help!"

Seeing the young boy so polite, Nori could not help but smile and ask.

"What's your name?"

"Obito Uchiha!" He answered quickly

"Obito, hurry up, you can't be late today!" Shouted a young girl of the same age further on.

"I'm coming Rin, thank you sir and have a nice day!" Says Obito before running after the girl.

Nori could not help laughing before entering a nearby restaurant, then after a good meal, he went to armory shop further south.

After crossing a few streets, he found the store and entered it, it was a simple store, with many weapons hanging on the wall, held by a young man.

When Nori entered the store, the young man smiled and say

"Hello sir, welcome to our armory. What would you like?"

"I would like, a sword with a thin blade, short, straight, a dozen conductive wires and a paper to test the attribute."say he.

The young man nodded, his head and then entered a nearby room for a few seconds before leaving with a wrapped package, and a large wooden box.

"The package contains the attribute test paper and wires, these are the short swords we have in stock." Says the young man when opening the wood box, revealing five short sword.

Nori carefully examined each sword before taking one with a blade of about 45cm without unnecessary ornament before nodding.

"How many is that in all?"

"80.000 Ryô."

Hearing this number Nori could not help but sigh, in reality his predecessor was very poor, he was so weak that he could only carry out missions of rank D and rarely rank C, the inheritance left by his parents, had also greatly decreased over time with his expenses, his predecessor had even thought of selling the house left by his parents, he was very poor, Nori currently owned 87,000 Ryô as an economy.

But he did not worry much, because with his constantly improving power, he had the confidence to participate in missions of rank A and even rank S, this kind of mission could bring in more than 1,000,000 Ryô.

He then took 80,000 Ryo out of his pocket and gave them to the young man who hurried to put the sword in a purple scabbard and then gave it to Nori while accepting the money with a big smile.

Nori then left the store and went straight to his house, arrived, entered the backyard and unpacked his purchases, set aside the wires and took the paper.

Then he injected a small amount of chakra into the paper, the paper suddenly cut in half and then ignited and turned to ashes.

"Well!"Shouted Nori with joy

How not to be happy, He had finally confirmed his theory.

According to his predecessor's memory, he had extremely poor talent, whether in genjutsu or ninjutsu, for example although his predecessor knew two ninjutsu of rank C, he could barely use correctly Fūton : Great Breakthrough and let's not even talk about "Katon : Dragon Flame Jutsu", because he had a wind property chakra.

But after many fight and his last training, he noticed that he also felt comfortable with his Fūton : Great Breakthrough and Katon : Dragon Flame Jutsu.

Shinobi have more ease in learning, creating and controlling the chakra natures that correspond to their affinity, but even then, it can take a many years.

Shinobi are not limited to their affinity, it is in fact common for the Jonins to master at least two natures.

Although it is technically possible to master all five elements, this is a very rare phenomenon due to the time involved in the training

"This should have been caused by the fusion of our souls, my original soul must have owned the fire attribute." he murmured.

"This will greatly help me in the rest of my training, according to my memories and the books on the chakra, I could modify my chakra directly into flame or wind, thanks to the method of transformation of nature."

"If I can master the transformation of the attribute, I could create improved versions of the six styles, I will integrate the wind attribute into shave, tempest Kick, and even finger Gun that would adapt into "Sword Gun", if I can merge the wind and fire attribute, the six styles will surely become a set of S rank techniques." thinking about this, Nori's eyes lit up, then without delay, he performed the shadow clone jutsu and invoqued about thirty of his clones.

Then after each clone cut a tree leaf, they all sat together on the ground while concentrating a small amount of chakra in the leaf.

"To my knowledge, the first step is to cut a leaf in half using only a small amount of chakra." Says Nori in a low voice alros that he also infused his chakra into a leaf.

Then the courtyard, containing about thirty Nori, fell into complete silence, except for the repetitive noise caused by the disappearance of a few clones, which were immediately replaced after their dissipation.