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Filthy Gamer in Narutoverse: 169
🕑 Added 2022-12-17 15:56:38 +0000 UTCTitle: The Unrelenting Teacher (3)
Kai has six wood clones working live at every living moment of his. This means, even when he sleeps, only one part out of the seven compartments of mental processes is asleep. To be honest, it feels like a strange, lucid, fever dream but Kai accepts the consequence of grind at its face value. But in the pursuit of wanting the clones to be as efficient as possible, Kai chose to categorize his wood clones.
Since he can only pursue five skills at once, the first five wood clones are each practicing a mokuton within Shikkotsu Forest which happens to be one of the best regions to practice this Kekkei Genkai.
[Hokage Style Elder Jutsu— Tenth Edict On Enlightenment (8/20): Creates a seal of chakra made out of wood nature on the palm of the user that reads 'sit' and once placed on the forehead of the target, it dispels all external control on the target while controlling and suppressing the chakra of the target. Reduce the consumption of chakra by 2.5% at every level. Current consumption: 23200/min.
Next Level: 25 SP or consume 190000/210000 chakra.]
[Wood Release— Great Forest Technique (12/40): This technique allows the user to transform their limbs into wooden and plant-like constructs of various shapes and lengths at a cellular level that can be controlled using chakra and reverted to human flesh through chakra, too. Reduce the consumption of chakra by 2% at every level. Current Consumption: 18240/hr.
Next Level: 25 SP or 334000/490000.]
[Wood Release— Wood Dragon Technique (6/10): Creates a wooden dragon that drains the target's chakra and explodes with all the stored chakra at the user's will. Reduce the consumption of chakra at every level by 5%. Current Consumption: 16800.
Next Level: 25 SP or 320067/623000.]
[Wood Release— Wooden Golem (7/15): Creates a wooden golem that is capable of draining the chakra of the target and using other wood release jutsu extensively through its own body. Reduce the consumption of chakra by 3.33% at every level. Current Consumption: 36811~???.
Next Level: 25 SP or 290780/436800.]
[Wood Release— Deep Forest Emergence (1/5): Forms a region of dense natural forest under the user's control as long as their chakra flows through the area. Reduce the consumption of chakra by 10% at every level. Current Consumption: 16300/sq kilometer.
Next Level: 60 SP or 5400/10000 sq kilometers.]
The first technique could loosely be understood as a seal powered by wood nature transformation. In essence, it suppresses chakra but without wood coiling around the target. The true nature of this skill, however, is complicated and rooted in Hashirama's past which caused him to eventually create a seal of this nature.
The world of shinobi is usually divided into three general skill sets— Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and Taijutsu. These three can be further divided into fuinjutsu, kenjutsu, kinjutsu, and the kind. But in the warring era, Senju Clans found their worst opponent in the Uchiha. Sure, the Senjus were talented in modifying their jutsus constantly to keep the Uchiha at bay and even win many times but there is no denying that Uchiha clansmen with their sharingan activated were too great of a threat.
Hashirama in his later years reflected on this situation and created a seal that utilizes the nature of his mokuton to mimic the use of many aspects of shinobi. It's ninjutsu that is charged by wood nature transformation. Then this is turned into a fuinjutsu. Then it is set on the target that directly removes the control of a third party on the target— namely genjutsu. And lastly, after all this, the user finally controls and suppresses the flow of chakra in the target— a supreme and direct expression of genjutsu in the most forceful manner possible.
Wood style can already suppress and drain chakra. This seal is created specifically to control the target completely. It would take an extraordinary perception and willpower to break free from this seal and as evidenced... even Tailed-beasts do not possess such willpower.
The second skill [Great Forest Technique] would most likely be considered a skill that reaches the level of 100 if Kai was facing such a skill for the first time. This skill is similar to Tsunade's Body Transformation, Orochimaru's technique to turn her limbs into serpents, and Jiraiya's jutsu of manipulating his hair. Not only does this jutsu dives into cellular research and composition of many plant life and trees that allow a grand versatility surpassing Kai's sage transformation but the manipulated wood can be turned into ANY item that can also explode upon touch.
But... Kai DID know of Tsunade's Body Transformation. He DID know of the multiple forms he can create and manipulate through [Essence Transformation] and the [Study of Chakra Weapons] which were leveled 75 and 100 respectively. Yet, the 'new' knowledge of the composition of plant life and trees did leave Kai with a skill reaching level 40!
As for Wood Dragon... nothing else needed to be said. It's almost the same as its fire, water, and earth variant.
But things changed a bit when it came to Wood Golem.
Earth Tengu is a technique created by Tobirama Senju to specifically combat Uchihas with their own equally 'large' technique and the Wood Golem is the same in its purpose. The difference lies in the fact that while Earth Tengu can only be manipulated to perform physical attacks, and that, too, is a tad bit slow, the wood golem is not bound by these limitations. It can even perform other wood-release techniques through physical contact with the user or any of its clones.
And finally... Deep Forest Emergence. Kai didn't know where to start. A part of him felt that it was Karma. After all, he had wrought destruction to Shikkotsu Forest at an unprecedented scale, and that, too, because someone like Kai never set foot in it. But with this technique, Kai has been reforming the damages he left while keeping Kushina in check. And this technique is by far one of the most chakra-intensive techniques in his arsenal.
This skill came with the same knowledge of a variety of species he can grow but this was already covered in the Great Forest Technique and no longer applicable. In the Jutsus record, one thing is clearly stated— The forest around Konoha was built using this technique in one go! And that's a level of chakra... only the Kyubi may possess.
Mokuton, aside from the goofy techniques Hashirama created, came with a high rank of A and were harder to complete. After all, alongside six of his clones, three of Tsunade's wood clones trained, too.
As for Kai's sixth clone... it had one specific task— to act as a battery and brainstorm ideas for the future.
The original Kai is very much interested to see what his tutelage can bring in three rather 'regular' Kunoichi be it their skills or raw parameters. This rarely leaves him with time to brainstorm more ideas unless he's with Minato. And due to the lack of time as the relationship in the village grows, he cannot always return and form new wood clones if the previous ones run out of chakra. So that's what the sixth clone is for— Support.
But with six clones, Kai's mind is stretched thin. He can adequately control them and live seven 'lives' at once but he cannot add a shadow clone. The moment it puffs out of existence, Kai's mind will be seriously jolted, and may even be injured. This definitely slowed down the grind as previously Kai could employ a lot of shadow clones for a single technique.
Yet the benefit of the wood clone to his mental and perception stat overruled such downsides!
'I just wish Hashirama left his Senjutsu techniques, too...' Kai sighs in dismay.
That's one thing Hashirama did not leave behind for anyone. The only thing Hashirama left something related to Senjutsu was the Shikkotsu Rock Egg Sage Art and that's already mastered by Kai long ago.
But... practicing four A-rank and one S-rank Jutsu should be 'adequate' for his throbbing need of grind.
Soon, waking up to the pleasant dawn, Kai dresses up and kisses goodbye to the trio sleeping on his bed as Mikoto calls out quietly, "Leaving so early?"
"Yeah, the competition is in the afternoon and I have to make sure my team completes their training and missions by then," Kai chuckles and adds, "Don't worry, I'll eat something on the way out."
Most naturally hugging Kushina as the redhead crawled up to the Uchiha, Mikoto spoons the former and mutters, "I'm not worried about you... make sure you feed your team, too."
"Aye, aye," Chuckling again, Kai takes his leave and finds Kakashi sitting on the lawn all by himself.
"Feeling good?" Kai questions, feeling a little obliged to check on the youth.
"I will be fine," Kakashi replies and mutters, "I wished to join you in watching how you trained your team."
"Then come along," Kai shrugs. He's pretty much a spectator as he slaves away his team for the juicy SP he earns from the mission. Adding another spectator meant nothing.
"I promised Nono-san that I will help her cook dinner," Kakashi lets out an exhausted sigh.
"Oh, okay," Kai shrugs again but before he leaves, Kakashi hurriedly speaks up, "It's not that I am prioritizing cooking over training."
"I understand," Kai nods and smiles.
"It's just... I would like to keep my promises."
"Dude, I get it."
"Fine then... because I do NOT think cooking is a better use of time than training."
Kai looks at the boy with a flat expression, waiting if he was done.
"Do you want me to talk you out of it?" Kai questions as his empath skill find the youth in guilt-ridden agreement.
Sighing, Kai shakes his head, "Don't worry. Nono planned to cook you your favorite— eggplant. Having you cook alongside was just a way to busy your mind. Come along."
At the end of it, Kakashi's gaze grows conflicted for a moment and then he eventually shakes his head, "I've reconsidered my options... I think I want to stay now."
"For the eggplant?" Kai asks with a smile.
"For the thought, Nono-san put in to make me feel comfortable."
"That's admirable," Kai leans down a bit to pat the boy's shoulder, "Sakumo-san would not have chosen any other option either."
Kakashi's gaze flicker with appreciation but Kai soon laughs, "Hehe, but you lost big time. I was about to teach my team a secret technique~! Bye!"
His body flickers away and now...
Kakashi feels desolate.
Of course, Kai was teaching nothing new. But Kakashi didn't need to know that now did he?
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Alternate Title: Kai's a Menace to Orphans!; The Intensive Grind; The Wood Lovers Unite; Madara Got Dat WHOLE Forest in Him!
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A/N: I went through the wiki and most of the mokuton techniques are the same at the base so they may have high versatility but a low number of skills. Average, to be precise.
Comments
FanHarem
that's more than true if you consider edo tensei which was spammed during the fourth war
CkLance
Mokuton only had Hashirama creating techniques as far as 'modern' shinobi go. While all the other chakra changes had literally everybody else creating techniques. That makes Tobirama's contribution to 'modern' shinobi a lot more significant. All things considered.
