Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 34: Ninjutsu and Bloodline

Seven or eight days have passed since Jianchuan Ju and his companions returned to the Hidden Mist Village.

As soon as Qing returned to the village, he reported the situation of the mission to the higher-ups.

It is clearly a time of war now. Even if we don't count the kidnapping of Water Country civilians, the appearance of unidentified ninjas pretending to be the Anbu of the Hidden Mist Village within the territory of the Water Country should be a very serious matter.

However, the village did not seem to take this very seriously. They just said they understood it and let the Youth Team carry on as usual.

"Perhaps the village has already arranged for the Anbu to investigate the matter, and thinks we don't need to know the follow-up."

This is how Qing explained to the team members.

However, it doesn’t matter what the village leaders think. After all, these things are too far away from them, a few Genin.

What made Jianchuan Ju the most uncomfortable was that in this mission, when there were two Chunins in the battle between three of them, the ninja mission record only recorded that one C-level was completed.

It was after this incident that Jianchuan Ju realized that for missions issued by outsiders, if the ninja team finds that the difficulty of the mission does not match the published information while performing the mission, they can choose to give up.

However, if the task is completed in excess, the village will not upgrade the task level afterwards.

After all, the mission commission fee is limited. Since the person issuing the mission will not compensate the amount, the village leaders are even less likely to register a higher level mission.

Of course, if it is a war mission issued within the village, it is possible to be given a higher-level mission reward afterwards, but this treatment is generally only given for missions above level B.

Anyway, this mission seems to have come to nothing.

After returning to the village, everyone wanted to continue completing some C-level tasks, but the number of tasks in the village was too small recently.

Over the past few days, he only completed one C-level mission, which was to protect a merchant in the Hidden Mist Village. There were no accidents during the mission, and he just accompanied the merchant on a tour in the Hidden Mist Village.

Helplessly, he had to wait for the right task while carrying out his daily practice.

Jianchuan Ju was actually quite happy about this, but Hoshigaki Kisame had recovered and been discharged from the hospital a few days ago, which left him with one less person with whom he could exchange water-style ninjutsu.

I don’t know how his new team is going.

Jianchuan Ju completed his daily tasks as usual today, and then went to the training ground to do some routine training.

These days, Lanzai said that he might be about to evolve, and now he just needs an opportunity. So Jianchuanju wanted to accompany Lanzai to do some basic training.

The next step is to try to see if you can learn the new skill "Water Wave" that Lanzai has just mastered after upgrading.

There was no way. This skill was too similar to Prince Naruto's Rasengan. Jianchuan Ju felt that if he didn't learn it, he would be letting down his identity as a Genin.

Although the water waves condensed in the hand were not a pure chakra ball, but a light blue water ball, it did not cause high damage like the Rasengan under the extreme form change of compressed chakra.

However, the water balls created by water waves can be thrown, which is more advanced than ordinary Rasengan.

Just when Jianchuan Ju was thinking about all these things, he found himself at the training ground.

But Zabuza was not seen today. Only Mei Terumi was sitting alone at the edge of the training ground, holding a booklet and reading something.

Jianchuan Ju originally planned to walk over quietly, but he didn't expect that she would notice him first.

Mei Terumi turned around and looked at him in a silly way.

"What are you researching? Why do you feel like you've lost your soul?"

It was rare to see Mei Terumi acting like this, and Jianchuan Tachibana found it a little funny, so she asked.

Mei Terumi hesitated for a moment, but still answered.

"My father's previous research notes were about studying the fusion of water and earth attribute chakras and bloodline limits."

Jianchuan Ju was slightly surprised when he heard this.

He knew about Mei Terumi's father, who was once a powerful jonin in the village and Ao's senior. According to Ao himself, he once took good care of him and helped him many times.

It's just that he suffered serious injuries while on a mission a long time ago, and was unable to continue serving as a ninja.

Fortunately, I am still alive and my previous connections are still there.

Therefore, Mei Terumi's life in the village is much better than that of pure orphans like Tachibana Kanegawa and Zabuza.

Jianchuan Tachibana had always been puzzled. In the original work, Mei Terumi clearly had double bloodline limits, so why was she just an ordinary ninja now?

It now appears that these two bloodline limits were indeed fused by Mei Terumi herself later, but she received some help from her father during the development process.

There are roughly two types of bloodline limits. Physical bloodline limits such as the Shikotsuki bloodline, the Sharingan, and the Byakugan are mostly inherited from ancestors related to the Otsutsuki clan.

The bloodline limits of jutsu such as Ice Release, Molten Release, and Boiling Release can be achieved by fusion of two chakras of different natures through the ninja's proficient mastery of the properties of chakra to form a new jutsu.

After this bloodline limit is successfully fused, it can also be inherited by one's offspring.

The future Mei Terumi should be considered the first generation of bloodline ninja.

"Hey, you're a Genin now and you're already researching things like fusing bloodline limits?"

Although he admitted that Mei Terumi was definitely a genius, wasn't it a bit too early for her to start studying the fusion of two chakra properties at the age of ten?

When Mei Terumi heard that Jianchuan Tachibana actually looked down on her, she immediately became angry.

"What's wrong with a Genin? You've developed several jutsu on your own, haven't you?"

Jianchuan Ju then realized that the problem was with himself.

"But I'm cheating!" Of course, it's not easy to tell Terumi this, so Jianchuan Ju had to explain.

"I have no channels to learn more ninjutsu, so I have no choice but to do this. It is a waste of time and effort."

"And now, if you directly learn mature ninjutsu, you will definitely be able to improve your combat power faster. This kind of thing will definitely be more effective when you have a more detailed understanding of the nature of chakra in the future."

Mei Terumi felt a little embarrassed when she heard this. Although her father could no longer be a ninja, at least he was still alive and could guide her in her training.

Jianchuan Ju's parents both died during the mission, so it seems that he can only rely on himself.

"I didn't say I had to try it now. I was just sitting here and taking a look because I was tired of practicing!"

Seeing that Mei Terumi sounded somewhat guilty and avoided his gaze while trying to make excuses, Jianchuan Ju was somewhat confused.

"What's wrong with this little girl? She looked so fierce just now."

But if you can't figure it out, don't think about it. As long as she doesn't worry about how to develop her ninjutsu, it will be fine.

Jianchuan Ju has always been good at enlightening himself.

The little episode passed by in a daze, and the two began training as usual.

However, for fear of irritating Mei Terumi again, Jianchuan Jue was not in a hurry to study how to turn the Water Wave into a ninjutsu today. Instead, he concentrated on accompanying Lan Zai to do basic training, so as to strive for early evolution.

But today is a little strange. The two people and the frog have started training for a long time, but Qing and Zabuza have not yet arrived at the training ground.

Normally, Jianchuan Ju, who goes to do the daily system tasks first every day, is often the last to arrive.

But the two didn't take it too seriously.

After all, we are still in the village, so there will be no danger at all.

I guess it was just something urgent.

(End of this chapter)