Chapter 42: Stay Away from My Aniki!

  Because Uchiha Ryo was injured, Madara temporarily postponed taking on missions. He came to visit Uchiha Ryo precisely at mealtimes every day. Having learned from his previous mistake, he firmly refused to discuss anything with Ryo except for training.

  Izuna wanted to stay by Uchiha Ryo's side all the time and had endless things to talk about. However, the cn - school only gave him one day off, so he could only come with Madara to sit for a while every evening. Tajima Uchiha was busy with cn affairs and only sent his greetings through Madara. He also took some time to pick up his eldest son when Uchiha Ryo was discharged from the hospital.

  Yes, discharged from the hospital.

  Uchiha Ryo's recovery Speed surprised all the medical ninjas. He had suffered a severe injury with all his muscles ripped, yet he could run and jump again in less than a week and started pnning his training. You know, Uchiha Akihiko, who was less severely injured than he was, still had difficulty moving because of the pain from his wounds.

  This also made Hiro, who had returned to the cn after a long - term mission and learned of this, feel extremely incredulous. But what really angered him was that Uchiha Akihiko had awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan before he did.

  But this time, he just sulked by himself and felt sorry that he hadn't come first again. There was nothing he could do. He couldn't grab Uchiha Akihiko by the colr and ask him why his younger brother had died first, could he?

  That would be really despicable.

  Furthermore, after learning about Uchiha Akihiko's process of awakening his Sharingan, Hiro's desire for the Mangekyo Sharingan faded a lot. Although he was the youngest in the family and didn't have a younger brother to lose, the thought of trading a brother for Strength made him nauseous.

  However... Uchiha Ryo's method of strengthening himself with nature - transformed chakra was worth learning. Although he didn't have lightning - attribute chakra, earth - and water - attribute chakra could also be used in the same way!

  Thinking of this, Hiro, who was always an action - taker, immediately went to find Uchiha Ryo. After stammering for a long time after they met, he finally made Uchiha Ryo understand what he wanted.

  But Uchiha Ryo looked very embarrassed and sorrowful. "Hiro, it's really not that I don't want to teach you... Not to mention that no one else in our generation except you has both water - and earth - attribute chakra. The mere fact that I don't have these two types of chakra means I know nothing about this aspect. I can't just make stuff up to teach you, can I?

  Besides... You don't have wind - or lightning - attribute chakra either. It'd be useless for you to learn it."

  "Quit being so wordy. Just teach me. I'll figure it out on my own!" Hiro snorted and looked depressed. "Anyway, I've been gging behind you guys because of these damned chakra natures for a long time."

  Hearing this, Uchiha Ryo sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Okay... But my body hasn't recovered fully yet. For now, I can only show you the nature transformation of wind - attribute chakra. Is that all right?"

  "Yeah, go ahead."

  "Then, let's start with the first stage..." Uchiha Ryo drew out his Bde. As he drew the bde, a gentle wind vortex appeared and Coiling Around the shiny bde. "This is the most basic wind - attribute chakra attachment, which has almost no additional lethality. But it's very useful when facing Fire Release. You can easily guide the opponent's Fire Release attacks off - target.

  To achieve this, you just need to extract chakra from your body and add attribute transformation when releasing it. You don't even need to completely transform all the chakra. The transformed wind - attribute chakra will naturally roll up the ordinary chakra and transform it.

  There is no Scroll in the cn that teaches the attribute transformation of wind - attribute chakra. I, Uchiha Ryo, learned it on my own. I first learned about the nature transformation of lightning - attribute chakra from the cn's Scrolls and then deduced it gradually.

  It might be more difficult for you, Hiro, to learn attribute transformation compared to when I learned it. After all, there are very few people with earth - attribute and water - attribute in our cn. There aren't even many recorded ninjutsu, not to mention the advanced training methods for these two attributes.

  Moreover, you know that our cn moved from the Land of Lightning to the Land of Fire because there were too many cn members in the cn who had both lightning - attribute and fire - attribute chakra. In fact, there were more cn members with fire - attribute chakra. As a result, many ninjutsu couldn't show their full power in the humid climate of the Land of Lightning...

  The neighboring Senju cn might have Scrolls on this, but it's already lucky if we don't end up fighting when we meet. Borrowing Ninjutsu Scroll from them is just wishful thinking."

  Uchiha Hiro frowned and said, "But isn't attribute transformation already done when performing ninjutsu?"

  "Well, right. But simply releasing chakra after attribute transformation is different from using chakra after attribute transformation to perform ninjutsu. Look."

  Uchiha Ryo pointed the tip of his Bde down at the ground. The wind - attribute chakra Coiling Around it gradually changed from a gentle wind vortex into a seemingly soft wrapping form and was gradually compressed until it turned into a very thin yer of cyan light that emitted a shrill whistle.

  Uchiha Hiro frowned and stared at the yer of light on the Bde. After a long silence, he suddenly understood. "I get it. When performing ninjutsu, you extract chakra all at once, and attribute transformation is only carried out once, so it's easy to learn.

  But your method requires you to keep converting the wind - attribute chakra. It's a continuous output, and you also need to ensure the continuous flow of chakra while outputting... Well, it's simir to the principle of the Mystical Palm Technique."

  Uchiha Ryo dispersed the chakra on the Bde and sheathed it. His voice was full of smiles. "Really? That's great. It'll be easier to learn with relevant experience...

  But sorry, I don't have water - attribute chakra, and I know nothing about water - attribute ninjutsu. I really can't figure out what the water - attribute chakra after attribute transformation can do... But Hiro is always very good. I believe Hiro can definitely do it!"

  Hiro twitched the corner of his mouth and punched angrily. "You're always spouting apologies and cims of inferiority, but you win more than you lose in sword fights. Who the hell are you trying to out - hustle every day!"

  Uchiha Ryo raised his hand to block Hiro's fist and smiled. "I'm just telling the truth..."

  But his casual move caught Hiro's attention again. "I heard from the ninjas in the medical department that you were seriously injured, right?"

  "Yeah, I had muscle tears all over my body and ryo broken ribs... So what?"

  "So what..." Hiro twitched the corner of his mouth again. He reached out and pressed on Ryo's chest. Then, feeling something was wrong, he simply lifted Ryo's shirt to take a closer look. When Ryo stepped back, he grabbed him. "Enough. Stop moving around and let me check!"

  Ryo maintained a backward movement, his body extremely stiff. "Hey, Hiro, if you want to check my injuries, can you just let me take off my clothes? It feels so weird to have it half off..."

  "What are you afraid of? I'm not interested in you... Rex. Tense muscles will affect my judgment."

  Ryo let out a long sigh and lifted his shirt on his own as if resigned. "We'd better go inside the house, right? This is really too strange..."

  "Cut the crap. A check won't take—"

  Before Hiro could finish his sentence, an angry voice rang out. "Hey, you jerk! Keep your distance from my Aniki!"