Overdrafting the Future, Starting in Naruto

Chapter 38: The Possibility of Ice Release

Soon, everyone had arrived, and Kakashi was with them. A group of them soaked in a single pool, chatting idly. Genichi was flanked by Namiichi Uchiha on his left and Kakashi on his right.

Squinting his eyes comfortably, Genichi said to Kakashi, "Kakashi, you'll be participating in this year's Chunin Exams, right?"

Kakashi nodded slightly. "Yes."

"Have you decided to as well?"

Genichi grunted in affirmation, then smiled. "Maybe we'll face each other then!"

Kakashi glanced at Genichi and said seriously, "I won't hold back."

Genichi replied, "That's what I was thinking, too."

"By the way, want to train together tomorrow?"

Kakashi agreed at once. "If I don't have a mission, no problem." He hadn't trained with him in a long time and wanted to see how much Genichi had improved.

After making the arrangement, Genichi turned and started chatting with Namiichi about genjutsu.

Half an hour passed in a flash.

After their soak, everyone left the hot spring house and went their separate ways. Genichi made a point to look at the rooftops of the row of hot spring houses, but unfortunately, he didn't see Jiraiya. He was probably out wandering again.

Leaving the hot springs street, Genichi hurried home, quickly drew up a blueprint, and then rushed out again. Soon, he found a shop that could manufacture carriages and paid one hundred ryo to have a bicycle custom-made for him. This was a business experiment. It would be best if it could make money.

After taking care of this, Genichi went to the river to begin practicing the jutsu, Thousand Killings Water Soaring. Now that he had the Yin Seal, he felt he could afford to enrich his repertoire of water ninjutsu. As long as he mastered this jutsu and then learned the Water Severing Wave, he could probably develop Tobirama's Heavenly Weeping technique on his own, without necessarily having to get it from the village.

He steadied his mind, cleared all distracting thoughts, and stood on the surface of the river. He formed hand seals, his speed not fast. As he formed the seals, he channeled the chakra in his body, performed nature transformation, infused it into the river through the soles of his feet to merge with the river water, and then controlled it to perform shape transformation. Specifically, to form a mass of water into the shape of senbon.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

One by one, senbon shot out from the water. But Genichi shook his head slightly as he looked at them. They were too thick and not solid enough. The speed at which they were fired was also not fast enough.

Continue.

Genichi formed the seals again, repeating the process over and over, constantly improving his control over the shape transformation, making the condensed senbon more and more solid, so they wouldn't just disperse on impact. Otherwise, they wouldn't have much offensive power. They had to have a hardness comparable to steel.

Besides hardness, there was also the firing speed, which was also related to their power. And the casting speed, which wasn't just about the speed of the hand seals, but also the speed of condensing the senbon.

However, Genichi decided to work on the casting speed last. First, he would learn the jutsu, then he would consider the speed of its execution.

Just like that, Genichi spent the entire afternoon training on the river. It was evening when he returned home to eat a huge meal to replenish his stamina. He had released his Yin Seal and used a shadow clone during his afternoon training, so he had to replenish his energy with a large meal.

After eating, Genichi went for a walk with his parents, enjoying the rich, lively atmosphere of Konoha.

At 8 PM, Genichi took his sealing scroll and went to Tsunade's house. Shizune was there, as expected, busy cleaning up the remains of their recent meal. Tsunade, however, was not drinking. She was sitting on the long veranda, staring blankly into space. She only glanced at Genichi when he arrived.

Genichi bowed in greeting but did not try to strike up a conversation. Although the current Tsunade was in her thirties and at the peak of her maturity, Genichi had no intention of trying to win her over. No matter how mature a seven-year-old brat acted, no woman would give him a second glance. Besides, this was the time to work hard. What time was there for romance?

He helped Shizune clean up, then said goodbye to Tsunade and they left together.

"Eh?"

"Lady Tsunade?"

After leaving the house, Genichi stopped. He realized Tsunade was following them.

Tsunade crossed her arms and said faintly, "What, am I not allowed to go out?"

Genichi swallowed almost imperceptibly, immediately averting his gaze. He smiled. "Of course not."

"Shizune and I are going to the Konoha Hospital. Does Lady Tsunade want to come?"

"On my last mission, I captured an Ice Release Kekkei Genkai user. I was just thinking of studying his cells."

Tsunade was surprised. "Ice Release?"

"A member of the Yuki Clan from the Village Hidden in the Mist?"

Genichi nodded.

Tsunade looked Genichi over, then began to walk. "Why do you want to study Ice Release?"

Genichi had nothing to hide and admitted it with a nod. "It's such a good opportunity. I want to see what's different between a kekkei genkai user and a regular ninja."

Tsunade said lazily, "Don't waste your energy. If kekkei genkai could be obtained through research like that, then there wouldn't be so few of them in the shinobi world."

Shizune said, "Genichi, a kekkei genkai can only be obtained through bloodline inheritance. It can't be learned."

Genichi smiled and asked, "Then let me ask you a question."

"Where did the very first kekkei genkai come from?"

Shizune was stumped and looked at Tsunade.

Tsunade frowned slightly. "Shizune, it should be said that kekkei genkai secret techniques cannot be learned. The prerequisite for learning them is possessing the corresponding kekkei genkai. That's why kekkei genkai techniques must be inherited through blood."

"But the kekkei genkai itself..." Tsunade shook her head. "You could also say it can't be learned."

"The village has kekkei genkai like the Sharingan and the Byakugan, but no outsider has ever developed them."

Shizune was shocked. "So, a kekkei genkai can be developed!"

Genichi nodded. "Of course."

Although a large portion of kekkei genkai originated from Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, among the many bloodline abilities passed down in the shinobi world, there were naturally some that were developed by individuals themselves. For example, the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki of the Stone Village; his Kekkei Tōta was not obtained through bloodline inheritance, but learned from the Second Tsuchikage, Mū. As for whether Mū's Dust Release was self-developed or inherited, that wasn't important.

Furthermore, the kekkei genkai of the Fifth Mizukage, Terumī Mei, were most likely self-developed. And Pakura of the Sand Village's Scorch Release. Examples like these were not uncommon.

Developing Water Release into "Sea Release" was impressive, to be sure. But Genichi also had his eyes on Ice Release. Despite his talent in Wind Release not being great, he had at least mastered the basics of wind nature transformation, even if he could only cut leaves with it for now.

The three chatted idly, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the Konoha Hospital.

Shizune went off to busy herself with her own work. Genichi, however, went to a laboratory filled with various equipment.

Tsunade followed him, leaning against the doorway and watching as Genichi opened his scroll and began to work.

Genichi was not affected by Tsunade's presence. He proceeded according to the plan he had long since formulated in his mind.

He had two goals today.

First, to perform gene sequencing on the Ice Release kekkei genkai user.

Second, to attempt tissue typing. If the typing was successful, then a direct bone marrow transplant might just grant him Ice Release.

Tsunade noticed this and spoke up, her brow furrowed. "You want to transplant the cells of this kekkei genkai user?"

(End of Chapter)