Chapter 37
Chapter 37: Water Release Ninjutsu
However, Ryo never thought that this “guidance” would revolve around him doing Pushups in Mount Myoboku .
Ryo never actually did strength training at such intensity . In his 1st time, he didn’t even manage to do 200 push-ups . That’s a number topped even by many of this world’s non Ninja trained kids, let alone the ones from big families who started to train at age 3 .
The Yamanaka are a family known for their spiritual power . To do their signature techniques, they work a lot on refining Chakra, spiritual practice, and Ninjutsu training . They don’t have much time for physical training .
Most of Ryo’s training is based on speed, and even his Lightning Chakra mode is focused around that . Same goes for Chidori and its derivates .
After that, came Rasengan, a technique that also revolves around fast rotation .
And then there was his work on his ice techniques . He focused on differentiating between physical, spiritual and natural energy . That’s how he became able to make Ice without consuming Chakra, something previously thought was impossible .
Just looking at Ryo’s previous experiences makes it easy to know his main deficiencies . What he needs the most right now is physical exercise .
He could also benefit later on from learning more Water release and Wind release techniques . But now the more urgent thing is improving his physical qualities .
“Faster kid, run!” Lying on his back, Jiraya watched Ryo run back and forth . In order to help Ryo with his physical shape, they often went back to Konoha to get more food and food pills .
With this, during the following 6 months, Ryo’s physical strength and endurance improved substantially under Jiraya’s guidance . The most important impact of this improvement that he found out was that the amount of Chakra he had was drastically increased .
Ryo’s Chakra finally reached the level of a Jonin . In the Manga, the 12-year-old Naruto had a 100 times more Chakra than Kakashi . Ryo has finally reached a 1% of his Chakra at that age .
Year 41, Ryo spent half of it training his physique, and now he’s now starting to learn water release techniques under the guidance of Jiraya .
So far, Ryo has already learned several water release techniques . Water Trumpet, Water Waves, and Water Wall are all techniques taught to him by his mother, Yamanaka Chinse .
Being one of the legendary Sannin, and having Ninjutsu as his forte, Jiraya couldn’t actually count how Justus he’s learned over the years on the battlefields .
“So kid, has anyone taught you about the characteristics of water release?”
“No, the water Justus I’ve learned are one that my mother taught me . ”
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“Okay . So what characteristics to you think one should focus on when using water based attack?”
“Well I think they are its state, charge, and pressure . ” Ryo answered him after thinking a bit .
“Well, what states are there to water?”
Jiraya’s question was nothing hard to answer in Ryo previous world . Even school-children knew that water has three states: solid, liquid and gaseous . With the 1st being ice, the second being regular water, and the 3rd being vapor or fog .
Ryo told Jiraya what he knew from his previous world, and Jiraya listened to his explanation .
“Cough”… “You’re good kid! Now tell me what do you know about the pressure and the charge of the water?”
Ryo shook his head . Although he has leaned physics in his past life, he knew that in this world pressure could be looked at in a totally different way . He wanted to hear what Jiraya would have to say about it from a Ninja’s perspective .
“Well water pressure is essentially defined by how much water is going through a certain space, relative to how compact that space is . Think of it like a high pressure water pump . The tighter the pump, the stronger the force generated by the passage of water, and the more lethal it is . It’s like the relationship between how sharp a knife is and how lethal it is . That’s how the 2nd Hokage made his [Water Severing Wave] . ”
Hearing Jiraya’s explanation, Ryo understood how the Hozuki Clan’s Water Gun Jutsu worked, and how Fakasaku killed Pain’s chameleon .
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“Great Jiraya San, how about the charge’s role?”
“The benefits of mastering charge are best manifested in the [Great Waterfall] Jutsu . It simply refers to how much water is created with Chakra . ”
After understanding what he should look for when working on water release, the 1st Jutsu Ryo worked on with Jiraya was the B-grade [Water Dragon Whip] . This Jutsu’s mastery revolved around maximizing pressure . The water should be focused in one area and shot around .
Ryo opened his Sharingan . After Jiraya demonstrated the technique just once, he was able to capture it .
Over the next month, and relying on his Sharingan, Ryo learned about 87 of Jiraya’s water release Jutsus .
Jiraya’s repertoire of Jutsus was huge, and Ryo has learned most of the water release ones with the exception of some S rank Jutsus developed by the 2nd Hokage and some others that he had no interest in .
The most important addition to Ryo’s collection of water Justus was Haku’s [Secret Art of Water: The Thousand Stinging Needles of Death] .
Although water and Ice techniques are different in essence, learning the Yuki clan’s water release techniques should provide inspiration to him with Ice Release .
“Kid, I’ve almost taught you all I know about water release . You have been training here for almost a year now . I haven’t worked on Senjustu for far too long . So now, you need to rely on yourself to further evolve; and I’ll be back to working on my sage mode . ”
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It’s been over half a year since he’s started training with Jiraya . Over the course of that period, he acquired a much better level of physical fitness, gained a lot of Chakra, and learned many water release Jutsus . For all of that, Ryo was so grateful to Jiraya for his guidance .
During the following month, Ryo experimented with the effects of several Water Release Justus, witnessing the correlation between the amount of pressure and the amount of devastation that a Jutsu could bring .
An obvious example was Tobirama’s Water Severing wave . When Ryo tried to freeze that Jutsu while casting it, it turned to a sharp Ice Blade that could slice through rocks with ease .
But after trying to freeze water release Jutsus relying on charge, the huge relatively slow amounts of frozen water were brought down by gravity . So Ryo decided to give up on freezing such Jutsus .
Of course, he didn’t learn how to take water shape transformation to the limit . And learning that is, for now, out of his reach .
During these 6 months, Ryo also witnessed the growth of Gamahiro . His growth rate was really out of this world .
In the Manga, Naruto didn’t see Gamakichi for a few months, and he grew to the size of Gamabunta .
Same could be said for Gamahiro, and Ryo witnessed this growth with his own eyes . From a size that’s smaller than Gamakishi’s size when pain struck Konoha, to the enormous size of Gamabunta in just half a year .
Ryo can only wish him well .
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