Chapter XXIII

"What did I just think?" Naruto looked at the wine bottle on the table in front of him and shook his head a little amusedly.

At this point, he had already returned home, and he had planned to go to the tea town to have a snack and drink some tea or something to relax, and by the way, to celebrate the successful theft of the bell from Kakashi today.

But the reality is that instead of going to the place where the balls are sold, he bought a bottle of wine with a transformation technique, and Naruto couldn't help but cry and laugh a little when he looked at the bottle of wine afterwards.

He doesn't know what he thinks, it is said that in his previous life, he was not a person who was addicted to alcohol, although he occasionally drank too much, it was mostly because the atmosphere was coaxed there, and he didn't drink at home on weekdays.

But today he somehow bought a bottle of wine and came back, and there was no appetizer yet, and he couldn't figure out why this was so.

"Well—maybe it's his oden and meatballs, and maybe he's tired of eating them." Naruto subconsciously touched his beardless chin and guessed to himself.

He doesn't have a habit of snacking, and at the same time, he doesn't have a strong attachment to ramen like Naruto in the story, so if he plans to relax and eat something on weekdays, he mostly goes to the famous tea room in Konoha to eat some meatballs and drink some tea, and occasionally eat some oden, maybe he always goes to a place, which makes him a little bored.

"Count the balls, buy them all, and keep them for the New Year if you don't drink them." After wondering for a while, Naruto didn't bother to think about the reasons he had, so he decided to drink the bottle of wine as if he had a nervous break.

Unscrewed the bottle and poured himself a glass, but just as he was about to drink, he suddenly stopped.

"Uh...... It's a bit weird to drink like this, in broad daylight, I'm not one of those wine Mengzi. Naruto stopped the glass with a strange expression, "It's a celebration of victory, at least it needs to be a toast." ”

Putting down his glass, Naruto frowned and thought about it, not knowing what to say for a while.

"Uh-huh, today...... Bell...... Tactics...... That's right! Naruto's eyes lit up at the moment, obviously thinking of something that was in his mind.

The reason why he thought of today's tactics as unexpected was that he suddenly remembered the shadow windmill that Naruto used to transform into a shuriken in order to rescue Kakashi in the first battle of Naruto Wave Country in the plot, and it was on this basis that he succeeded by making a slight change.

So he now knew exactly who to give this wine to.

"To Naruto and Naruto, and courage and wisdom, Long may the sunshine!" Naruto, who was sitting in a chair, raised the wine glass in his hand and said loudly.

With that, he laughed and drank the wine from his glass.

"Ha-" The spicy liquor ran down his throat, and Naruto couldn't help but bow his head, his whole face wrinkled, "This wine is okay, it's strong!" ”

I don't know if it's the first time this body drinks alcohol, the moment this glass of wine goes down, he already feels a little drunk, and he can't help but pick up the wine bottle, look at the name of the wine, and by the way, he got another glass for himself.

"Hahaha! Long may the sunshine? What the hell is this? With a cup of stomach down, Naruto was clearly already in a drunken state, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud when he remembered the inexplicable ending of the toast just now.

Gradually, the laughter began to fade away, replaced by a flurry of snoring, and it turned out that Naruto was drunk on the table at the moment.

The empty wine bottles that fell to the ground, the shattered wine glasses, and Naruto who was lying asleep on the table, if someone who knew him came in and saw such a scene, I am afraid that they would be shocked and speechless.

However, no one knew that Naruto at this time could be said to be the most relaxed and comfortable day in the past six years, and perhaps the happiest day for him who had worked hard and walked on thin ice.

……

"I'm so carried away......" In the middle of the night, Naruto, who was sore from sleep at the table, woke up and looked at the messy room, and couldn't help but scratch the back of his head and smile embarrassedly.

Maybe it was suppressed for too long, just a bottle of wine made him look like this, when would he be so messy in the house, he had always been used to being neat and clean, looking at the broken glass on the ground, Naruto couldn't help but shake his head.

At the same time, he reminded himself in his heart that he must not get carried away because of a small achievement, his ninja path has just begun, and there are many opponents who are comparable to Kakashi on the road, and Kakashi was not serious when he grabbed the bell, it would be ridiculous if he was proud of this achievement.

After carefully cleaning up and restoring the room to its original state, Naruto went to wash and sleep satisfied, his new cultivation plan will start tomorrow, and he needs plenty of physical strength to do it.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, as soon as the sky was clear, Naruto got up early, and after a simple wash and a glass of milk, he went out to the stream where he had been cultivating.

Now Naruto, it is difficult to improve his ordinary physical cultivation in a short period of time, unless he masters a technique like Kakashi Rache, which can stimulate the acceleration of body cells through thunder escape or rely on the legendary Eight Gate Dunjia.

But obviously, no matter what, it is not something he can be qualified to carry on at present.

And most of his current strength is built around the type of body technique, whether it is an ordinary instantaneous body technique or a spiral pill at the bottom of the box.

Therefore, even though he has obtained a lot of basic retreat techniques on the "Book of Fake Seals", the core of his current cultivation is still physical arts.

The reason is very simple, first of all, it is a matter of physique, because this body is naturally affinity with the wind attribute chakra, although there are many basic escape techniques recorded, but what can really make him master is [Wind Escape: Great Breakthrough] and [Wind Escape: Gale Palm] and other few fancy than practical escape techniques, which can not be improved in essence.

Therefore, it was enough for him to separate a shadow clone to practice these wind escapes alone, and it was not worth spending too much energy on this.

As for the other escape techniques, it is not something that can be mastered in a short period of time, as Kakashi said in the plot, usually only the upper shinobi can master the complex chakra nature changes.

Although the "chakra attribute" is not the same as the "chakra nature change", the correlation is essential.

Here's an example to illustrate the relationship between chakra properties and changes in chakra properties.

The three of Pig, Deer and Butterfly's upper ninja guide Sarufei Asma, the son of the third generation of Hokage, is the same as Naruto is the wind attribute chakra affinity, so it is relatively easy to master the basic wind escape, such as the big breakthrough and the like, and then through hard practice, step by step master the wind attribute chakra changes, and form the main fighting style of using chakra metal with wind chakra.

However, Asma is not only Wind Escape, he is also a ninja who has mastered the changes of the fire attribute Chakra, which can be seen from the technique of [Fire Escape: Ash Accumulation], which is a technique that is more obvious than adding the changes of the Fire Escape Chakra.

Different from ordinary fire escapes, this technique has the special property of bursting flames.

That is to say, after he mastered the changes of the Wind Escape Chakra, he mastered the Fire Escape through cultivation.

It's a long process, and only after you've completed your own affinity attribute will you have the energy to develop other attributes, especially the chakra variations of that attribute.

The difference is only that the more genius a person is, the faster he can master it, such as Kakashi, for example, the almost one-of-a-kind third generation Hokage, who has perfectly mastered the five chakra nature changes.

So in fact, there is no such thing as holding a chakra test paper, entering the chakra and first cutting the test paper in half to reveal the wind attribute, and then burning it to become a fire attribute.

Among the five chakra attributes of wind, fire, thunder, earth, and water, only those who are naturally good at it and those who are not good at it are not, and there is no such thing as being born with or never being able to learn.

Different from the blood inheritance limit or even the blood inheritance elimination that really relies on reincarnation, theoretically, as long as there is enough time, every ninja with chakra can master the five chakra nature changes like the three generations.

Of course, this time is likely to be measured in decades, and not everyone can have the talent of the three generations of Hokage, even if a genius is like Kakashi, he can only use the three kinds of escape techniques of thunder, water, and earth (the others are original to the anime), and in addition to the thunder escape, other kinds of escape techniques have not shown in Naruto's memory that ninjutsu with chakra nature changes have appeared.

The same example is also reflected in Sasuke, don't look at Sasuke is the Uchiha clan known for fire escape, but judging from the results, Sasuke's natural affinity attribute is actually thunder escape.

The evidence is that Sasuke mastered Kakashi's famous stunt Chidori in the offseason of the middle ninja exam for a week, you know, Chidori is not a basic escape technique like [Thunder Escape, Earth Walk], Chidori itself is a practice difficulty of A, and it is necessary to master the chakra nature change technique from the beginning.

On the other hand, Sasuke's Fire Escape, whether it is the traditional [Hao Fireball] or others, even in the later stages of the plot, does not show any changes in nature, which can refer to Asma's [Fire Escape: Ash Burning] and Kakuto's [Fire Escape: Head Pain].

Here's another sentence, the [Fire Escape: Dragon Fire Technique] used by Sasuke and Itachi in the plot is a change in form, not a change in nature, but an expanded range of the technique, which is just to create thunderclouds in order to match Itasuke's Amaterasu at that time.

This is also the reason why Naruto did not spend energy at this time to master the large number of basic escape techniques recorded by him, first of all, time does not allow, he may be able to master the Great Breakthrough and the like soon, but I don't know how long it will take for Fire Escape Flame Bomb or Water Escape Water Array Wall and the like, after all, these are not his innate attributes, plus considering the change in the nature of Chakra in the future, it is even more unattainable.

Therefore, a group of birds is not as good as a bird in the forest, and his idea is mainly to quickly grasp the changes in the nature of the Wind Escape Chakra in the next step to form a ninjutsu with his personal style.

As for the cultivation method of the change in the nature of the Wind Escape Chakra, he has already been given the answer in the plot, but he also has his own ideas.

"The Technique of Multiple Shadow Clones!"

With the cross seal on his chest, there were ten more identical Naruto in this training field in an instant.

One of the doppelgangers stepped aside and began to practice the foundational winds that had been recorded.

The other nine clones worked in groups of three, and one group began to pick up leaves under the tree to practice the chakra nature change like in the plot.

The remaining two groups, one group came to the open ground and stood upside down with their hands on the ground, and the other group stood motionless with their hands on their chests, making the picture suddenly become a little weird.

However, if you observe carefully, the hands and feet of the inverted and standing clones will be in contact with the ground, and from time to time, there will be a strange ripple of dust on the ground, and then the body will shake very slightly.

After arranging the doppelganger, Naruto practiced the body technique on his own, punching and kicking a dead tree stump.

After yesterday's bell grabbing, reflecting on the situation when he and Kakashi were in close contact, Naruto felt that his physical skills were still too dependent on speed, this kind of bullying and bullying ninja school people were okay, and once he met an opponent who was not weaker than him at all in terms of speed in the future, then it was easy to fall into passivity due to combat experience and other reasons.

Therefore, he needs to strengthen his tactics and even on-the-spot reactions during the engagement, and he seems to have the advantage in the continuous attack scene since yesterday, but that is because he had no way to find Kakashi's flaws at that time, so he had to use that stupid way of exerting his physical strength.

He didn't dare to stop at the time, he always had a feeling in his heart that he would be defeated by Kakashi the moment he stopped, and that feeling of oppression that followed him was still fresh in his memory.

So he has to be more flexible in battle, and the flexibility here does not refer to speed, but to raise his physical skills to the level of instinct, and to do whatever he wants with every punch and kick, so that he can really take the lead in battle.

In this way, on the training ground by the stream, the eleven Narutos are practicing here with all their strength in order to become stronger, whether it is to protect the people they cherish, or to cope with future changes, the reasons for the strong to become stronger may be different, but the pain of sweat and the persistence of not giving up are always strikingly similar.

Without this painstaking attainment, he was an ordinary social animal in his previous life, even if he got the identity of a human pillar, he was just a child wielding a big stick, not to mention that this "big stick" was lost by him.

As the day passed, when the fiery red sun by the stream began to reflect on the clouds, a tired Naruto finally caught his breath and touched the shadow clone.

"Bang bang bang!"

As a series of white mist exploded, Naruto, who had already experienced a day's cultivation, couldn't help but snort and fell to one knee on the ground.

"Uh-" The tenfold message struck with the same exhaustion, and Naruto screamed in pain, barely able to hold his body and collapse.

"Whew...... OK...... Whew...... Luckily, I had the foresight, which is pretty impressive. After kneeling there for a few moments, Naruto struggled to his feet, a little gratifying.

With his chakra, not to mention ten shadow clones, it would be easy for him to multiply them tenfold, but he was considering that he needed to maintain the shadow clone for a long time for cultivation reasons, and when the shadow clone was recovered, everything that the shadow clone felt would be reflected on his body, so for the first time today, in order to be safe, he only separated ten clones.

Now it seems that this is indeed a wise move, but ten doppelgangers, now he feels unstable, if there are more, I am afraid that he will not be able to go back home, now he, in the end, has not reached the level of Naruto three years later, dozens or hundreds of clones practice together, I really don't know what kind of terrifying experience it will be when the countless information flows into the ontological head.

At the same time, after maintaining eleven people for a day's practice, the chakra in his body was almost depleted, and Naruto rested for a while, then sealed his hands, trying to try to draw out the chakra of the Nine-Tails again at this time.

“……”

Unfortunately, after a quarter of an hour, Naruto lowered his hands with a little disappointment, this time he unsurprisingly failed again, no matter how hard he tried to find it, trying to enter the space sealed in his body, the result always seemed to be so fruitless.

Sighing helplessly, Naruto struggled to move his tired steps towards home, and said with a wry smile in his mouth:

"Nine-tails, nine-tails, do you have to force me to lift the seal?"