Naruto: Systematic Shinobi - Chapter 2.2 (Patreon)

Now that he was a Genin, an active shinobi of the Leaf Village and part of the military, he didn't have to settle for the public library.

Instead, he was allowed to access the Konoha Library Archive.

Daiki made his way back through the village, and headed towards the Hokage building, and then passed it. His destination was in fact, built into the Hokage Mountain.

As soon as he entered the general vicinity of it, multiple green vested shinobi came into view, on guard all around the perimeter.

And Daiki was willing to bet his left testicle that there were at least a dozen Anbu Black Ops out of sight that he couldn't detect.

Fuck man, he wished he was a sensor. Sadly, being a sensor-nin was pretty prestigious and a luck of the draw, it was even rarely ever passed down through blood, and appeared at times just randomly.

If he was a natural sensor ninja, he'd probably have got some special attention during the academy.

'The only way I'm getting sensory abilities is if I learn how to harness natural energy.' Daiki huffed annoyance.

Multiples eyes drifted to him as he approached the building built into the side of the mountain, but he only had to point to his headband, before he was ushered on inside.

A whistle left his lips as the door closed behind him, a whistle that echoed quite impressively. The inside of the building was absolutely huge.

All around him he could see huge bookcases as far as the eye could see. The only place without book shelves from what he could tell, was the path laid out to the door, leading to a large round table that could probably seat a good fifty people and a desk behind it.

First things first, he didn't know where anything was in here. So he made his way to the front desk, where a somewhat familiar older girl wearing a white lab coat and with swirly glasses hiding her eyes sat.

If he wasn't mistaken, that was Shiho right? Part of the Konoha Crypto Analytic Squad.

Hmm, odd, why would she be working as a librarian.

'Maybe their lab is in this building, or under it?' he mused. With all the data compiled here in book format, and with how many guards there were and with how close it was to the Hokage's building…

It kind of made sense.

"Hello, can I help you?" she asked when he stopped in front of the desk.

"Hiya," Daiki smiled brightly as he greeted her, "I'm looking for some books or scrolls to help me with my training. Preferably something with jutsu instructions in it or elemental training."

She stared back at him for a moment, lips pursed into a frown, "That won't be possible I'm afraid, while there are a few jutsu instructions scattered about in here, you won't find specific books or scrolls dedicated to teaching them here," the girl replied, "And elemental manipulation is a very advanced form of training, it especially won't be open for just anyone to waltz in and have a look at, it would be simply too easy for a spy to get their hands on."

Daiki clicked his tongue in annoyance, there went the easy route, why could nothing ever be simple for him?

But there was a line in there he could use, wasn't there? Something, was better than nothing after all, "Do you know of any that contain instructions for jutsu like you said?" he asked wonderingly.

He wasn't too picky at all at this point. For an orphan like him with no legacy, there really wasn't any jutsu he could easily get his hands on.

If he could even just get his hands on an incredibly low level elemental jutsu, it would at least give him a feel for it to try and using as a spring board to bounce off from.

"Hmm…" Shiho hummed tapping her chin.

Daiki grimaced, preparing to be told a flat out no, because that was just how his luck rolled, so h-

"I do recall one I think," she nodded suddenly, "I believe the instructions for the Shunshin are written within the taijutsu scroll that helps one learn the Feather Fist style."

"Feather Fist?" Daiki blinked, confused. He'd never heard of that taijutsu style in his life. Granted, he only knew the academy style himself, but he knew of the Strong Fist thanks to his memories of another life, and he of course had overheard talks of clan members taijutsu because of how many had been in his class.

Such as the Hyuuga's Gentle Fist, the Uchiha's Interceptor Style, the Inuzuka's Beast Claw style and such.

"It's a taijutsu style for those leaning towards incredibly fast, precise attacks, best suited for assassin style shinobi," Shiho shrugged lightly, "While it's all but impossible to use the Shunshin freely in combat, it is quite possible to use it for acceleration purposes and it is very handy for escaping from other ninja as long as you are going in a straight line."

The shunshin, huh? Well, it wasn't exactly what he was aiming for, and it wouldn't be the most helpful in combat unless he had a Sharingan or something like Shisui Uchiha to stop the tunnel vision, but it was definitely a start.

"Can you show me where it is?" Daiki asked.

"Certainly, please follow me." Shiho stood from her chair and beckoned him to follow her.

He did so and she led him through the stacks.

She stopped in front of a truly massive book case filled with scrolls and books, "Here we are." she pointed at the top shelves, where a variety of large scrolls were lined up.

He followed her finger and saw one of the scrolls was labelled 'Feather Fist'. Beside it was another one labelled 'Sticky Fist', and then his eyes widened as he caught sight of the next one on the row.

Strong Fist.

Daiki choked, "The Strong Fist is here as well?" he sputtered, wasn't that Gai's own created Taijutsu, made by his father?

"Why would it not be?" Shiho frowned at him, and though he couldn't see her eyes, he assumed she was looking at him in confusion, "The Strong Fist has always been a Konoha taijutsu style, though, it was incomplete for a long while before a man by the name of Maito Dai, the father of one of our famed shinobi, Maito Gai, took it upon himself to complete the style."

Oh, that kind of made sense considering Dai was a career genin and really weak. He wouldn't exactly have the resources to create it all himself now, would he? Still, really fucking impressive what he turned it into.

"Doesn't this include how to open the eight gates?" Daiki gaped at her. Forget jutsu, that was some really fucking dangerous information!

"It does and it does not," Shiho shook her head, "It does contain the information on how to prepare your body for opening the gates, but the information to do so has long since been removed from here, only Gai-san and the Hokage have access to the scrolls on that part of the Strong Fist."

Oh, that was good.

…And not.

Learning how to open up the gates on his own would have been amazing! Even just the first few would make a massive boost in his abilities. And as amazing as Gai and Rock Lee were, they only used the gates to empower their physical abilities.

From what he knew of them, they also powered up the users chakra as well, meaning their jutsu would be way more powerful as well.

Gai and Lee were horrible at ninjutsu granted. But, in his hands, if he could learn to do so, he could not only enhance his physical ability massively, but also any jutsu he learned to employ!

"So, am I allowed to take these out of the archive?" he asked.

"You are, though because you seem to only be a genin, you have a hard limit on only two pieces of literature." Shiho replied.

Two huh? That meant he could take the Strong Fist and the Feather Fist. If he wanted, he could learn the Shunshin from the Feather Fist scroll and then see about training in the Strong Fist.

Though, maybe just training in the Feather Fist would be a better avenue? The Strong Fist, from what he saw of Gai and Lee, involved a heavy, gruelling regiment of weight training, though they only did it on the legs for some reason.

'If I do it, I'll go all in and go for my arms as well.' Daiki mused. He didn't like the idea of only training one side of his body for fighting, that seemed silly to him.

Still, only two huh? And he didn't really want to focus on too much at one time. He couldn't exactly just pull a Naruto and use shadow clones to learn at an accelerated rate, so spreading his attention between multiple things would be a bad idea.

He already knew how to go about using shadow clones, they were just that simple. He was just absolutely and absurdly wary of attempting them right now with how little chakra he had.

Perhaps when he had as much chakras a chunin he'd attempt it, but as he was right now, he may end up killing himself in the attempt.

'Might be a good idea to axe learning the Strong Fist.' he mused. The conditioning from what he knew, was pretty straight forward.

Though, best to check just in case.

He reached up and grabbed the scroll, before opening it up and pouring over it with a quick glancing read.

'Yeah, pretty much a heavy focus on weight training and general body exercises with a focus on the legs.' he nodded to himself.

The only thing he'd need the scroll for, were the forms and he didn't really need them, better to get his hands on another scroll or something with a possible jutsu in it.

If he wanted to learn how to open the gates, he'd need to ask the Hokage or Gai about it anyway. And he didn't see that going anywhere unless he made a name for himself first.

Oh wait, didn't Kakashi know how to open the gates as well?

'Pfft, I'd have better chances asking Orochimaru to take me on as an apprentice.' Daiki snorted inwardly.

Rolling the scroll back up, he put it back up on the shelf, before grabbing the Feather Fist style scroll.

"Tempting, but I'm more interested in jutsu at the moment," he said to Shiho, "So, do you know any other ones with jutsu in them?"

Shiho shook her head, "I'm afraid not." she dashed his hopes.

Damn.

"Well, that sucks, but the shunshin is a nice consolation prize either way." Daiki shrugged.

And it wasn't like he was totally out of options for learning jutsu either. Beyond the shadow clone jutsu, he did in fact know how to go through some very specific training to learn quite the powerful jutsu, a step by step process even.

The Rasengan.

It would be a bit off an odd jutsu for him to know, perhaps even a bit suspicious, but at the same time, there is nothing to say you couldn't have 're-created' it yourself when trying to make jutsu of your own.

It is a pure chakra manipulation jutsu after all.

The only problem again, is the chakra cost. The Rasengan was an A-rank jutsu and very, very powerful. But also cost an absurd amount of chakra to use, chakra he did not have at the moment.

…If only he was a Jinchuuriki, things would be so much simpler.

Sure, the Akatsuki would be a problem, but they were everybody's problem in the end. He'd rather get strong and have a target on his head, than weak and get ganked like he had before by utter random scrubs.

"Well, thanks for the help Shiho." he expressed his gratitude to the older girl, "So, can I check this out now?" he held up the scroll he was holding to her.

"That should be fine," Shiho's lips quirked, "Though, if you are wanting to know jutsu so badly, might I make a few suggestions?"

Daiki blinked, before shrugging, "Sure."

She nodded, "We have a few basic instruction manuals for Fuinjutsu if you want, I can let you check out one of them," the girl said, making his eyes go wide at the mention, "And if you have enough chakra control, I know the hospital will help train any possible medic ninja and learning the Mystical Palm technique is one of the requirements, so if you are able, it would be a quick way to get some instruction on that jutsu even if you have no leanings towards being a medic."

Daiki's mind raced a mile minute. The healing of the Mystical Palm, wouldn't it be able to heal his muscles and allow his physical training go advance even quicker?

But the bigger kicker, was Fuinjutsu!

Fuinjutsu was awesome, amazing even. One of the most basic of basic bitch skills from that art was basically making an inventory!

…And at even higher heights, one could even seal a bijuu.

And he just so happened to know more or less, where the Sanbi, the three tailed armoured turtle, Isobu should be now.

Daiki grinned widely, "I think I'll take you up on that offer Librarian-chan!"

"C-chan!?" Shiho sputtered in response.

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As it turned out, all he really needed to do was give his ninja registration number to check out what he wanted, the scroll on the Feather Fist style and a manual on basic fuinjutsu.

He would have returned home after that, but he decided to head back to his training ground.

His Water Walking was still a bit shaky, so once he got there, he hopped onto the water and idly went through some taijutsu motions, while reading taking a cursory glance over his spoils from the library.

"Huh, this looks familiar." Daiki mused as he poured over the Feather Fist style.

The diagrams within the scroll that is. They had a heavy leaning on spring like motions with the feet, basically, bouncing on the feet, or leaning forward on the front of the feet to spring towards an opponent, and with a focus on using the fists, feet, knees and elbows for lightning fast strikes.

'Isn't this just like kick boxing?' he mused. Either way, it was a pretty straight forward style and shouldn't be too hard to learn, especially since it seemed to mesh well with the basic Academy style.

Though, there was also a lot of information on the best points to strike on the body to debilitate or kill using these types of strikes.

His eyes drifted down to the bottom, where some specific instructions lay. Instructions for the Shunshin technique, the vaunted Body Flicker.

Except not really. It was only a vaunted technique in the hands of Uchiha Shusui or Namikaze Minato.

The instructions for the technique were pretty straight forward as well, though there was a warning that it could be pretty chakra intensive. It was a technique that merely needed one to focus their chakra using the tiger hand seal and then expel their chakra from specific chakra points or tenketsu on the body, located at the back of the body to accelerate.

It was basically the same general idea of using thrust like a rocket, only with chakra and a human body.

It even mentioned that once one got used to the sensation enough and had a powerful enough chakra, they wouldn't even need the hand seal to focus their chakra enough and it could be used without the seal.

He memorized the general forms of the Feather Fist style and went through them for a while atop the water.

He kept it up until his chakra was nearing empty, before sitting down atop the water and spending the remaining time he had left before his chakra capacity ran dry pursuing through the fuinjutsu manual he had been given by Shiho.

Within a few minutes, he already felt a headache coming on.

The introduction into the book, for the most part, was memorization of basic fuinjutsu symbol's, how they reacted to chakra and how they overlapped with one another.

It was almost like looking at coding for the first time. And he wanted to give up right then and there, because fucking hell did it look complicated.

He didn't though.

Because instead of coding stupid computer programs, this could let him code symbols together that would let him obtain the power of what may as well be a force of nature.

And hey, the book outright had a diagram for creating storage seals and explosive seals.

That was fucking epic!

…He'd need to get some good paper and ink though first.

So, once his chakra pretty much dwindled away to near nothing, he hopped off the river, much more steadily now and made his way back into the village, into the shopping sector.

He stopped by a calligraphy shop and spent ten thousand ryo on supplies, paper, ink and brushes and such.

He was about to head on home, when he caught sight of a shinobi store, swords and more shown proudly in the windows.

"…Should I?" Daiki pondered to himself.

He was fine on kunai, shuriken, ninja wire and such for now, but, this was the type of shop that would sell body weights for training.

They'd probably cost a pretty penny though. Which meant he'd have to go on another few missions to make up for his dwindling funds soon.

'A few missions won't hurt I suppose.' he mused. He'd definitely be sticking to missions in the Land of Fire though, if he could at least.

Because fuck heading out alone again until he was much stronger.

He headed into the shop, ignoring the various displays of weaponry and headed over to the shop keep standing behind the counter, an older man with a large fuzzy beard, quite short, but with a bulky build and huge muscular arms.

"Something you need boy?" the man asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I'm looking for body weights to help condition myself," Daiki replied, "Preferably ones for my legs and arms."

"Yeah, we've got em," the man shrugged, "What kinda weight are you looking for? Have you done much weight training before?"

"Some." Daiki replied, though in another life, the ninja academy only focused on basic physical conditioning, all rounder type, though many leaned into one or two specifications on that aspect of training by pure instinct and body type.

"I see that I suppose, you've got a pretty good build on you," the shop keek eyed his broad shoulders, beyond the rotund Choji, he was by far the broadest in his graduating class, only Naruto and Kiba having a chance of competing on that route, "What are you looking for? Strength building?"

"I'm an all rounder, despite my looks," Daiki laughed lightly, "Not only strength, but I want to focus on speed and the like as well."

If the Raikage could do it….

Why not him?

Heck, he even had the lightning element as his affinity. God, he'd love to get his hands on the lightning armour technique.

"Right, I suppose then a pair of ankle weights and wrist weights, each one weighing three hundred pounds would fit for you to start off with," the man stroked his chin and nodded, "Bit heavier than your standard beginner fare, but with your build, I'm sure it'll be fine."

"Fine with me," Daiki shrugged, "How much will they cost?"

A total of twelve hundred pounds spread across four limbs. That was doable, it would take a bit to get used to it, he could lift over six hundred pounds when he graduated the academy after all. They were double that amount, but half of that would be on his legs and not all on his arms, so it should be fine.

…Besides, he'd seen people calculate how much weight Rock Lee wore during the Chunin Exams. People had calculated it to be around five tons on each leg.

It would be too embarrassing for him to bare if he couldn't even lift what amounted to a twentieth of what Rock Lee could with just his legs, using his basically his whole body.

"Eh, one hundred and fifty thousand ryo, pretty cheap compared to the heavier shit." the man shrugged.

Daiki winced.

He'd have less than ninety-four thousand ryo left. He'd definitely need to take a few missions to boost his funds.

"I'll take them." Daiki sighed, 'The things I do for strength.' he shook his head. Not everyone could be Rock Lee and have a famous and powerful Jonin take interest in him just because he tried hard despite being 'untalented'.

Such bullshit.

"Alright, one moment." the shop keep nodded and made his way through a door behind him into the back of the store.

He came back out a few minutes later with what looked like two sets of pale straps, each about ten inches long, with heavy a multitude of rectangular ridges popping up over them.

"Right, each of these pockets contain heavy metal weights within them to add the weight to these, they have some seal doohickeys on them that increase weight or whatever, that's why they're so expensive compared to normal weights." the shop keep explained.

Once Daiki paid for them, the man handed them over, and the genin took the time to strap them on

"They feel alright?" the man asked him once he was done.

Daiki lifted his arms up and down a few times, then repeated with his legs, getting a feel for the weight. There was a definite massive resistance, but, it was manageable.

"Yeah, they're great." he grinned.

He headed home from there for the most part, only stopping to run through some basic exercises to tire himself out and get a bit more used to the weights.

Some people gave him funny looks, but he ignored them, he was much more focused on the gains these would give him.

By time he locked the door of his house behind him and collapsed on his couch, dusk was already beginning to fall.

"Ah fuck!" he groaned, "I totally forgot to get some books to read." the only shit he had in his crappy little apartment were his textbooks and shit from the academy and some children stories.

…And he also needed to make dinner.

But he honestly just couldn't be fucked right now.

"Ah fuck it, I'll do it later." Daiki slumped back onto the couch and decided to just take a look at his progress by calling up his status screen.

Name: Daiki Yurei
Age: 13
Chakra Capacity: 412/2200 (Genin)

Strength: 15/500
Endurance: 19.6/500
Durability: 15/500
Agility: 15/500
Taijutsu: 45/500
Ninjutsu: 20/500
Genjutsu: 10/500
Bukijutsu: 15/500
Chakra Control: 132.4/500

Chakra Affinities:
Lightning - (N/A): You have no training with this element.

Fuinjutsu: -
Maybe try learning a few seals?

Wait…what?

There was some interesting things to take there. His chakra capacity had broken two thousand, yet was still genin-tier, his physical stats had increased pretty noticeably. His taijutsu stat had almost doubled, which was interesting. The basic forms for the Feather Fist were easy to get down, but it wasn't like he had mastered the fighting style, not even close.

…Was it maybe because the Feather Fist style was just that much better than the Academy Style maybe?

Honestly, a lot about this stupid status thing still confused the fuck out of him.

Perhaps the most interesting thing though, was that he now had a Fuinjutsu…skill? Ability?

"Is thing sassing me?" Daiki gaped at the screen.

The more he thought he knew about this thing, the less he knew. Was it sentient? Or was it just his subconscious mocking him?