Chapter 10 - Training Part 2 (2/2)
”Thank you for the spar!” Taro gets up and thanks Itachi wholeheartedly.
Itachi turns around and nods before they leave the hall.
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”Taro are you alright!” Kenta and Daiyu rush over in a worried tone.
”Yeah, I wasn't even a match. It just shows you there are hidden talents everywhere. The Shihouin are supposed to excel in close combat and speed, but look how easily he was able to deal with me. I thought he already showed his potential last time, but it looks like we've bȧrėly begun to see it. I can continue to improve by fighting against someone like him. This spar showed me many flaws in my techniques.” Taro says while standing up. He begins to head towards the exit.
Kenta and Daiyu were both surprised to hear such a high evaluation from Taro. As much as they refused to believe it, they knew he was right.
”We need to continue to train!” Taro laughs as the group exits.
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The next three days were spent with Itsuki and Itachi training together. Itachi also ran into Taro and sparred with him. After three days, it was time for Itachi to go to class. Itachi makes a hand seal and a puff of smoke appears in front of him. The smoke clears and an exact copy of Itachi is standing in front of him. Itachi nods to the shadow clone and the shadow clone makes its way towards class. He could already feel the fatigue from summoning the clone as it took up half of his reiryoku to create it. 'Today will have to be a light day.' Itachi decides that he would leave his weights in his room to lesson the strain on his spiritual pressure and he heads towards the kido training area.
Around 30 minutes later, Itachi leaves the building and heads towards the kido field.
Itachi arrives and sees no one around. He figures it is still a bit early and starts to set up paper targets on the poles. Itachi does a few minutes of shooting the targets with Hado 1: Sho.
”Uchiha! It's nice to see you again!” A familiar voice is heard calling out to Itachi. Itachi turns around to see Tatsumi.
”It certainly has Ukitake.” Itachi replies as Tatsumi walks up to him.
”No need to be so formal with me. Just call me Tatsumi.” Tatsumi pats Itachi on the back. ”Right Itachi?”
Itachi lets out a slight smile. ”Very well then, Tatsumi.”
”I thought freshman had to go to class today? What's wrong? Does class bore you so much that you're ditching?” Tatsumi says jokingly.
”I'm not ditching.” Itachi replies.
”Okay so last time we talked, I taught you hado so this time around I'll teach you bakudo. Which ones have you been taught already?” Tatsumi questions.
”Only bakudo 1 so far.”
”Alright how about I teach you Bakudo 4: Hainawa for a start.”
Itachi nods and Tatsumi faces one of the targets. He raises one of his hands up in the air.
”Bakudo 4: Hainawa!” Tatsumi releases a yellow rope of reiatsu from his hand and it ensnares the pole holding up the dummy as Itachi watches intently with his sharingan activated. Tatsumi releases the rope from the pole and faces Itachi again as Itachi's sharingan deactivates.
”Okay. So the way I did it is-” Tatsumi stops talking as he sees Itachi raise his hand in the air.
”Bakudo 4: Hainawa.” Itachi creates a yellow rope from his hand that extends towards the pole and wraps tightly around it. He then releases the rope and then faces towards Tatsumi.
”Ready for the next one.” Itachi says to Tatsumi who has a surprised look on his face. Tatsumi regains his composure shortly and replies.
”Well I guess I should have expected you to get it on your first try. Okay I'll teach you a harder one this time.” Tatsumi faces towards the target again as Itachi reactivates his sharingan. Tatsumi raises his hand out with his index finger pointed. He draws a triangle in the air.
”Bakudo 30: Shitotso Sansen!” The triangle Tatsumi drew in the air materializes and shoots towards the target. It expands and pierces through the paper target in three different points, ripping it off the pole and pegging it to the fence behind it. Tatsumi releases the binding and the target falls to the ground. Itachi deactivates his sharingan as Tatsumi turns back around.
”Just go for it.” Tatsumi says, already expecting Itachi to be able to perform the bakudo. Itachi steps up and raises his hand with his index finger extended and draws a triangle in the air.
”Bakudo 30: Shitotso Sansen!” The triangle materializes and pierces through the target, sending it to the fence. Itachi releases the bakudo and looks back at Tatsumi's stunned face.
”You really are one to leave people speechless. How do you learn so quickly?!.” Tatsumi exclaims. Itachi remains silent and they both continue practicing their kido techniques.
”Is it possible to use multiple kido's at once?” Itachi asks.
”Yes, I heard it was possible. Some advanced practitioners can use double incantations to cast two kido spells at once. Of course, if you can't cast them at the same time, just cast them back to back.” Tatsumi explained.
'So it's possible, then if I were to combine it….' Itachi thinks to himself.