Naruto: The Age of Ninja Swords Begins in Kumogakure

Chapter 10 Class Teacher

For the next two weeks, Tamura Hao did not go out to train. He even took a two-week leave from school and stayed at home writing, honing his chakra control, and practicing his superhuman strength techniques.

Half a month passed quickly. Tamura Hao used his transformation technique to take the manuscript to the bookstore so that they could arrange for timely printing and sales. Then he returned home to prepare for today's battle.

First, he put on the inner armor that cost 100 million taels to make. The main body was a mesh garment made of special metal, with arm and leg armor on his forearms and calves, armor plates on his chest and back, and shoulder armor on his shoulders.

According to the shopkeeper, these armor plates are not only lightweight, weighing less than ten pounds in total, but also have high hardness and toughness, enough to withstand attacks from C-rank ninjutsu. Their strong toughness can also cushion the impact to some extent.

Then there's a leather suit, supposedly made from the hide of some kind of ninja beast. It's said to offer good protection against nature-based ninjutsu, so you don't have to worry about your private parts being exposed by an opponent's fire jutsu.

"He's got the vibe of a younger version of CEO Samuel Lloyd, but unfortunately he's not as handsome."

Looking in the mirror, Tamura Hao was quite satisfied with his current look, especially his leather boots.

He really doesn't like those open-toed ninja shoes. Doesn't it hurt to kick someone's toes with them?

If you're not careful, your toenail might flip over, wouldn't that hurt terribly?

To this end, he not only replaced his ninja shoes with fully encased leather boots, but also covered the toes and heels with the same alloy as the armor plates on his body, just so that kicking people would feel more satisfying.

After stretching his limbs, Tamura Hao was extremely satisfied. He then picked up the two swords from the sword rack and sealed them into his left and right arm guards, adding a "meow" character to the middle of each sealing spell.

That's right, these arm guards are also ninja tools, capable of sealing certain things, similar to the two wrist guards Sasuke and Itachi used during their Pacific naval battle.

With everything prepared, Tamura Hiroshi left home for the Ninja Academy.

The students in the class didn't react much to Tamura Hiroshi's arrival. Even though his unusual attire was unusual, they only glanced at him and didn't say anything.

Tamura Hiroshi usually keeps a low profile in class, doesn't have many friends, and seems quite ordinary.

Not long after, the teacher came over and gave a speech, then took out a list and read out the team formations.

The ninja academy has a standard number of students in each class, aiming to ensure that everyone can form a three-person team.

Unfortunately, last year two students in this class got into a fight over a girl, and one of them blinded the other. As a result, the student was expelled from school, and the blinded student also had to drop out and couldn't become a ninja.

What a precocious world!

In other words, there will be someone alone. In this case, they will either be added to a team, be led by that person, or be combined with a team from another class that doesn't have enough members.

Tamura Hiroshi was the one who was single, and his option was to lead the team alone, which was a benefit he had planned beforehand.

After all the teachers who were leading the groups came and led their students away, a boy walked into the classroom and looked at Tamura Hiroshi, who was the only one left.

"Tamura Hiroshi?"

"Teacher, I'm Tamura Hiroshi!"

Tamura Hao stood up and bowed, then looked at the newcomer and guessed his identity based on the other person's flowing long hair, which was half white and half green.

He was likely Killer Bee's predecessor as the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, and also his teacher.

Of course, he's not the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki yet, since we don't even know if Killer Bee has been born yet.

Fukai was also sizing up Tamura Hao, and he had a good impression of the composed young man in front of him.

"Sit down and let's talk."

Fokai appeared very calm and walked over to sit in the seat at the desk in front of Tamura Hiroshi.

"My name is Fukai. I'm a Jonin of the village, skilled in Lightning Release ninjutsu, Lightning Release taijutsu, and Lightning Release swordsmanship..."

Fauci introduced himself first, while also expressing great curiosity about the boy.

Half a month ago, the Third Raikage gave me an order to abandon my assigned task and become a tutor, and to tutor only one child.

Afterwards, his older cousin came over and specifically told him to take good care of the child. Although neither of them said the specific reason, he knew that the child was definitely not simple.

I only found out after making inquiries over the past few days that the child had inadvertently discovered a spy who had stolen a staggering ten billion taels of silver from the village's funds intended for purchasing supplies from the Land of Iron.

The child found the money that the spy had stolen and hidden and handed it over to Lord Raikage, saving the village from a huge loss.

He's a hero of the village!

Moreover, the ability to detect spies and uncover their hidden funds is also a form of proof of competence.

"Master Fukai, my name is Tamura Hiroshi, you can call me Hiroshi. I specialize in taijutsu and swordsmanship. My chakra nature is single lightning. There is a weakness in increasing my chakra reserves. I hope you can guide me in this area in the future..."

Tamura Hao also gave a self-introduction, which was very detailed, and he even talked about the results of his chakra thread training.

After half a month of training, he was able to maintain six chakra threads simultaneously, extending three meters away, and making flexible changes.

This in itself is nothing special, but it represents an increase in control.

"You've actually cultivated to that level!"

Fukai was surprised. Normally, it would be quite impressive for a child who had just graduated from the Ninja Academy to know how to climb walls and wade through water, since the focus of learning in school is theoretical knowledge.

Few people focus on this practical skill, let alone cultivate higher-level chakra threads.

That technique is only popular in Sunagakure and is the specialty of puppeteers; very few people in Kumogakure practice it.

This kind of chakra thread is already considered a training in chakra form transformation. Successfully training it proves that the control of chakra has reached at least the Chunin level.

The child has even begun cultivating lightning-attribute nature transformation. Although the lack of professional methods has resulted in a very rough cultivation process, according to him, he is already close to mastering it.

It's truly astonishing that a ten-year-old child has reached such a level.

"My chakra talent is quite average, and it will be difficult for me to achieve much in this area in the future. I can only work harder on my control and make more efficient use of my limited chakra."

Tamura Hao's expression was somewhat helpless. He hated this kind of world and cultivation system that valued bloodlines the most. No matter how high the parents' achievements were, their children would basically be at that level. There was no such thing as mutation or transcendence.

It's incredibly difficult, almost impossible, to surpass someone through sheer hard work.

Don't be fooled by the impressive achievements of those three hard-working individuals in Konoha. The fact that they could endure such intense training without ruining their health is an extraordinary talent in itself, something that can't be surpassed by sheer willpower and effort alone.

Tamura Hiroshi initially tried that kind of intense, grueling training method, which almost caused his muscles to dissolve.

Even after reducing the intensity of his training, he still had to spend money every day to have a medical ninja use medical ninjutsu to cleanse his body and use precious medicinal herbs to replenish it, in order to avoid leaving any hidden injuries or even overdrawing his body, which cost him a lot of money.

He couldn't even imagine the physical potential and recovery ability of those three liver emperors. He even suspected that the three of them were related to the Thousand Hands Clan and possessed some of the Thousand Hands Immortal's body.

Therefore, he has focused on cultivating his chakra control in recent years and has made considerable progress.

"Your direction is correct. Increasing chakra levels depends too much on talent. Forcing yourself to refine it beyond your capacity will only harm your health."

There isn't a very good solution at the moment; focusing on improving chakra control is the best approach.

Fukai approved of the student's choice, noting that chakra levels are indeed difficult to improve, and the village currently doesn't have any good solutions.

Although it is said that the village is secretly conducting experiments on devouring the flesh and blood of the Eight-Tails, it seems that the results are not very good, and there have been no more examples like Kinkaku and Ginkaku.

(End of this chapter)