“You already have a very good grasp of the practical basics so we’ll be fog on theory first.” Mito told Shiki.

  ‘If the approach is too theory heavy, most children ’t keep their focus but I doubt that will happen with this child.’

  In fact, looking at his seemingly normal expression, the Uzumaki matriarch could almost see excitement oozing out of his shiny clear, violet eyes.

  ‘Truly . . . The gift that keeps on giving.’ Mito thought, Shiki showing more and more sides of himself that provoked her curiosity.

  At this point, she was itted to unraveling the mystery of this child she felt was like a gift from the world for a weary old woman like her.

  ‘That sounds all kinds -’ A deep voice sounded within the redhead’s mind which she quickly cut off before it could say anything meaningful.

  Moving to a nice lookiern style room, the lesson started with Mito summoning a handful of scrolls from a hidden ste, Shiki presumed as the Uzumaki matriarch showed no visible seal that could have taihem.

  “Let us start nid simple with the fuals of chakra.” The redhead decred.

  “I’m sure you know it already but chakra is a fusion of an individual’s physical and spiritual energy, a cept all shinobi are familiar with.”

  “Physical energy be interpreted as stamina or even lifeforce while spiritual energy refers to mental energy. The former being raisable through physical training while the tter experiences growth mostly through life experiehough meditation and introspe also help.”

  “Due to this, moulding rge amounts of chakra leaves a shinobi both physically aally exhausted.” Mito tinued as Shki quietly listened.

  “Another way of looking at it is the cept of Yang energy corresponding to the physical body and Yin energy corresponding to the spirit. As all jutsu are based on chakra, they necessarily use both of these energies.”

  Shiki lifted up his hand as if asking to speak in css and Mito stopped talking, Shiki immediately realizing she was giving him the go ahead to talk without any actual prompting being required.

  “I heard they are Yang release and Yin release jutsu though?” He inquired.

  Internally, he was liking the dire of this study very much as the topic seemed to touch, even if lightly, on his fan-theory of Yin-Yang.

  “You are indeed correct.” Mito nodded.

  “However, the true meaning of the Yin and Yang styles is that such jutsu use chakra moulded while very heavily fav one of the energies. The jutsu all use chakra so iably, both Yang and Yin energies are required but for those styles in particur, the ratio is very extreme.”

  With the Uzumaki matriarch’s clear expnation, Shiki was enlightened.

  “What about elemental jutsu then?” He further inquired.

  Mito once again nodded with a smile of aowledgement.

  “You see it like so, taijutsu heavily favors yang energy with minimal Yin energy while genjutsu is the opposite, heavily fav Yin energy with the bare minimum of Yang. Most ninjutsu oher hand is far more bahough it still favor one or the other, only not as extremely.”

  “Most elemental ninjutsu falls in this well-banced category though I’ll expin these intricacies in more detail whe there.’ The Uzumaki matriarch decred.

  Shiki shivered iement.

  ‘My Yin-Yang Theory could be proven true uhese parameters but I should leave that for ter. Fuals first.’ He thought, reminding himself to stay focused on the lesson at hand.

  Uanding that Shiki had no further questions, Mito tinued, once again surprised by the boy’s curiosity and great intuition in regards to Chakra Theory that resulted in highly perti questions.

  ‘Though if I sider his propensity for experimenting it is not that surprising. I suppose his i lies not only in practical experimentation but iheory that makes said experiments work as they do.’ She internally nodded in appreciation.

  “Moving on . . .”

  *

  In the following days, Mito taught Shiki the proper way to mold chakra while taking into at the ratio of yin to yang.

  While shinobi generally did this by feel and instinct which led them to specialize in jutsu that weer with their natural tendencies in this process, if one could iionally trol said process, learning jutsu for whie had little natural affinity would beuch easier.

  It also increased efficy. By molding chakra in the exact ratio required for a particur jutsu, none would be wasted before chakra trol even came into py for the activation of the jutsu itself.

  Shiki also learhe proper way to circute chakra throughout his body, the characteristics of the chakra work, how to take advantage of them to increase speed, power and effi use of chakra, etc.

  It was truly an eye opener for him. A lot of theory and research ut into disc the ideal way to circute, mold and expel chakra as well as the ideal forms of jutsu activation.

  After all that research was done, ways to teach these methods in a more intuitive and natural manner were created as most shinobi cked the kind of mind required for the pure theory.

  Mito decided to teach the actual theory to Shiki however, she believed this kind of thing recisely what he wanted and would be most from.

  And the boy wasted no time proving her right.

  He took the theory he learned and used it to fix all of the minor errors he had made in his intuitive chakra use, making his molding nearly perfect while his trol reached a much higher level.

  Not even a week passed and Shiki was already progressing much both in terms of uanding and actual ability. Enough so that even Mito who had watched him training alone for a while was quite surprised.

  ‘The speed at which he improves with basic guidance is truly monstrous. Expining why things work the way they do and not just how it is taught to most shinobi also seemed to yield much better results.’ The Uzumaki matriarch pondered oeag experience.

  But after all that theory and fual practices, it was finally time to start learning some jutsu.

  *

  “Now that you have learned and prehehe basics of chakra itself, the time has e to apply them in some basic jutsu” Mito decred, marking the beginning of their first jutsu learning session.

  Shiki nodded with a calm face but he was beaming with excitement, a trast that Mito found childishly adorable.

  ‘Look at him trying to keep a calm and mature front.’ She internally chuckled.

  Of course the boy was excited. After all, not only would he finally be learning actual jutsu, this also marked the point where he was free to experiment on his own, once he learhese basitry jutsu.

  “Now, the basic jutsu all shinobi are required to learn barring a few exceptions are the e Jutsu, the Transformation Jutsu and the Substitution Jutsu.” The Uzumaki matriarch tinued.

  “Now tell me, why do you think these are the required basic jutsu?” She asked her little student.

  Shiki tilted his head, p a bit on the response.

  “Well . . . I suppose the Substitution Jutsu is a life saving teique useful even in high level shinobi bat and the basics of it are within the reach of almost every prospective shinobi so it makes seo make it a basic requirement for all to learn.” He said.

  “You are correct but there is a deeper meaning.” Mito informed.

  “The Substitution Jutsu is the teique of dodging an attack at high speed while leaving something behind to take the hit and create the illusion of one being hit in order to fool the attacker.” The redhead tinued.

  “The thi behind be an object, living being, often disguised through the transformation jutsu as ara yer of deception or even various types of es but the core part of the high speed dodge is achieved through the Body Flicker Jutsu.”

  “So the true three basic jutsu would be e, Transformation and Body Flicker. Taking that into at, what do you suppose is the deeper meaning I spoke of?” Mito once agaiioned.

  This time Shiki gave it some deeper thought.

  ‘The answer most definitely lies in earlier lessons.’ He pohat was how he had been taught up until now after all.

  “Hmm . . .”

  Suddenly, an idea fshed in his mind.

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