Chương 27: Back to Training

After the team dinner at Guy's house, the next day Team Choza gathered again for training. The three genin stood in front of their sensei, still feeling the effects of a good night's sleep and a heavy meal from the previous evening. Choza looked at his students with a satisfied smile.

"The Hokage was impressed with your performance on the last mission. He has agreed to give us one C-rank mission a week." The three genin high-fived each other immediately. Guy cheered loudly. Genma allowed a small smile to appear on his face. Shunsui looked visibly relieved. It meant they would no longer have to do the disgusting and boring D-rank missions again. No more cleaning cow dung, chasing cats, or pulling weeds for hours.

"Now, while I like your enthusiasm," Choza continued, "it also means that we would be more exposed to danger. Since we will be going outside the village for such missions, and this is a time of war, we must be extra careful." He crossed his massive arms.

"So we will be working on things that will improve your strength and on areas that each of you want to improve."

"To start with, Duy-san had requested me for some weights so that Guy can train with them on." Choza said as he unsealed a scroll. Guy's eyes lit up with excitement.

"Yosh! Another obstacle for my youth to overcome! I will become even stronger!" Choza smiled.

"And I am a sensei who does not encourage favoritism, so I decided to get weights for all three of my genin." Horror flashed across both Genma's and Shunsui's faces at the same time. Choza unsealed a larger scroll. Several heavy metal weights popped out onto the grass. He picked one up easily and held it in his palm.

"Each of them is 10 pounds. You will wear them on both your hands and both your legs. That means 40 pounds in total." Shunsui breathed a sigh of relief. He was in no physical condition or mood to carry as much weight as Rock Lee would in the future. Forty pounds sounded manageable. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.

"You will wear them at every time except while you are sleeping or on a mission," Choza explained.

"We will start with these 10-pound weights. We will raise them by 10 pounds every time you become comfortable with the current set." Choza then handed each of them four weights. Guy took his with shining eyes. Genma accepted his with a quiet sigh. Shunsui took his reluctantly.

'Oh well,' Shunsui thought as he strapped the weights onto his wrists and ankles.

'At least this would help me increase my physical energy.' He already knew that he had very high spiritual energy because it was similar to what Kyoraku Shunsui had in the Bleach world. Spiritual energy came from the soul and mind. Physical energy came from the body through training and exercise. Chakra was created by combining these two energies. By increasing his physical energy through weights and training, his total chakra would grow significantly.

Since his spiritual energy was already massive, improving the physical side would merge with the spiritual chakra to increase his reserves. Most shinobi struggled with the spiritual part of chakra because it only increased naturally with experience and age. The Uchiha clan and Nara clan were an exception to this. Every time they awakened or advanced a tomoe in their Sharingan, they gained a small but noticeable boost to their chakra reserves.

That was why Sasuke, with three tomoe, was so much stronger than he had been with only one tomoe, despite the short time gap of less than three years. The Sharingan evolution gave them extra spiritual energy, which directly increased their chakra if they were physically good.

'Hmm, evolving their Sharingan would mean they are growing as a person, so that means higher spiritual energy. It makes sense,' Shunsui thought.

'As for the Naras, they are really smart and are born with high spiritual energy. They would have a lot more chakra if they started working on their physical bodies instead of just being lazy like me.' Choza then gave instructions to the others.

"Guy, you can do the training your father told you to do for the next two hours." Guy pumped his fist.

"Yosh! I will push my limits even further!"

"Genma," Choza continued, "I want you to work on some large area-of-effect attack. Think about it and come back to me after you have a feasible idea. I will help you develop it. Also, do not forget to build immunity to your own poisons." Genma nodded seriously. Choza paused for a moment before adding, "And give Guy and Shunsui very small doses of poisons that are common or are commonly used to make other stronger poisons." Genma nodded again. Shunsui grimaced.

The idea of eating poisons regularly did not sound pleasant at all.

'This sounds like a very bad way to get food poisoning and diarrhea,' he thought. He could already imagine himself spending hours running to the bathroom after taking even a tiny dose. The thought of his stomach rebelling against him every day made him want to cry.

'Why does training always have to involve pain or suffering? Can't I just nap my way to strength?' Choza finally turned to Shunsui.

"I have asked my teammate Inoichi for help to get you a good sensor teacher. He is going to send a tokubetsu jonin from his clan who specializes in sensory techniques. Your sessions will start from tomorrow."

"For today, work on chakra augmentation for the next two hours. Afterwards, you all will do team training. Shunsui, you will teach your teammates about your games and what they should and should not do during them." Shunsui nodded.

"Understood, sensei." With that, the three genin started their training. Guy immediately began his father's special training routine, moving with explosive energy despite the new weights on his limbs. Genma sat down to think about area-of-effect techniques while occasionally testing small amounts of poison on his own skin. Shunsui focused on flowing chakra through his body and weapons, feeling the new weights make every movement slightly heavier.