Chapter 9 Preparation, Chunin Exam

Chapter 9 Preparation, Chunin Exam
After dealing with everything here, Naruto and his group returned to Konoha Village. Naruto and his group were indeed surprised to encounter Zabuza, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, but fortunately no one was seriously injured. They were also shocked by the progress of Naruto and his group.

After returning to the village, I have to do those boring low-level tasks again, but according to the date, the Chunin Exam should be about to begin.

Naruto doesn't care much about the Chunin Exam. Even if he meets the strongest Gaara, he won't necessarily lose. However, the Chunin Exam will see the most difficult person to deal with, Orochimaru. With Naruto's current strength, even if he uses Rasengan, Flying Thunder God, and all his tricks, he may not be able to defeat Orochimaru. The two are not on the same level for the time being. There is an unbridgeable gap between the Jonin and Kage levels.

It would not be fun to be hit by Orochimaru's Five Elements Seal. Although Jiraiya would help to remove it later, Naruto did not want to take such a risk. It seemed that he could only rely on Flying Thunder God to escape, but Orochimaru was also a rare opponent. Even if he wanted to escape, he could not escape at the beginning. It seemed that he had to work hard on Lightning Release.

Kakashi's specialty is lightning escape. Kakashi has copied thousands of ninjutsu, so his understanding of lightning escape can be said to be at an extremely high level. When Kakashi heard that Naruto wanted to learn lightning escape, he could only talk about the various variations of lightning escape. Unlike simply learning a certain lightning escape, Naruto wanted to develop a unique ninjutsu in his own way. To be precise, he wanted to find a way to develop a ninjutsu similar to the Raikage.

First of all, it is necessary to start with the change of the form of lightning attribute. Different from Kakashi who simply concentrates it on the palm of his hand, Naruto has to try to form a kind of lightning similar to armor covering the whole body. However, this attempt is risky. If he is not careful, he may be hurt by his own ninjutsu. Therefore, Naruto only dares to use shadow clones to practice.

Seeing the way Naruto practiced, Kakashi almost became jealous. How could an average person have so much chakra? Not to mention practicing ninjutsu, even maintaining a shadow clone was already very difficult.

Although he was training with shadow clones, it was really difficult to control lightning chakra to that extent. In addition, lightning was not Naruto's best attribute, so after a month of training, Naruto could only train the lightning to cover his head and body, but not his limbs. He was supposed to train his form change to the extreme before practicing the nature change, but now it seemed that he didn't have time.

He could only learn the nature change first. Even with Naruto's current talent, plus a large number of shadow clones to practice together, it took a whole week to master the nature change. But just mastering the nature change is not enough, and the nature change must be integrated into the form change. It can be said that this step is the most difficult, but only when this step is achieved can it be considered basically successful.

During the fusion process, I was unable to control the powerful chakra almost every time. It was indeed difficult to control the change of form and nature at the same time. If I reduced the amount of chakra, it would be easier to control but it would lose its power. It seemed that I could only achieve this through persistent practice.

Moreover, during the practice, Naruto also found that the larger the range of the ninjutsu, the more difficult it is to control. Whenever Naruto was doing those boring tasks, he would think about new ninjutsu, and he couldn't help but think of the ninjutsu of the Raikage, which can not only form lightning armor, but also activate cells to increase speed. But the ninjutsu of the Raikage seemed to be stimulated from the whole body.

Thinking of this, Naruto suddenly realized that it was natural for Naruto to release chakra from his hands in a similar way to Chidori to perform general ninjutsu. However, the ninjutsu developed by Naruto not only needs to be released, but the most important thing is to maintain it, or in other words, the maintenance of Naruto's ninjutsu is more important than the release. No wonder he kept failing, it turned out that there was something wrong with his thinking. So, Naruto began to practice condensing chakra in other parts of the body. Although the difficulty was not high, it was not easy to maintain it all the time. Fortunately, Naruto's chakra control ability was very good before. Unexpectedly, he did it in just one day after finding the right idea. Although it cannot cover the whole body for the time being, it can still protect the vital parts. And Naruto also vaguely felt that if he could further enhance the control, it seemed that he could increase his speed.

However, the Chunin Exam is about to come, and when Naruto saw Kankuro appear in Konoha Village, he knew that the Chunin Exam was about to begin.

However, the first thing Kankuro did when he appeared was to bully the children of Konoha. Naruto kicked Kankuro back and protected the bullied Konohamaru behind him.

"I can't stand bullying children just after arriving in Konoha"

Putting aside Konohamaru's admiring expression, it aroused the interest of Gaara who arrived shortly afterwards. "My name is Gaara, what's yours?
"Uzumaki Naruto"

As the three of them left, a voice was heard: "Uzumaki Naruto? I'm very interested in you."

Naruto couldn't help but smile at this. He should have been interested in Sasuke.

Soon after, the Third Hokage called Kakashi to discuss the Chunin Exam. Kakashi had full confidence in Naruto and the other two, especially Naruto, so he recommended the three of them to take the Chunin Exam. However, Sasuke and Sakura still took the test for the sake of being conservative, but they both passed successfully.

So, all three of them signed up for the Chunin Exam.

(End of this chapter)