Chapter 195: Changes in the Disciples
Ishiro could understand Ogura Saki's feelings. This was a manifestation of her hard work paying off. Most importantly, it showed that her efforts were in the right direction.
At the same time, Ishiro also understood that this kind of event would bring enormous self-confidence to a ninja. After this, Ogura Saki's speed in learning ninjutsu would likely increase significantly.
Ishiro ruffled the little girl's head and asked, "When did you develop it? Is there anything Sensei can help you with?"
Ogura Saki said, "I only developed it two days ago. The tornado that formed then was completely out of my control. It ran wild everywhere and almost injured Shinya."
Ishiro looked curiously at Matsutani Shinya to the side and saw him scratching his head with an embarrassed expression.
"Shinya was resting under a tree at the time. When my tornado blew over, he didn't react at all. Fortunately, Takumi moved quickly and pulled him away," Ogura Saki said, sticking out her tongue.
Ishiro was somewhat speechless at Matsutani Shinya's "lying flat" attitude and thought to himself: "With such a personality, being forcibly trained by me into a ninja, am I harming him?"
However, Ishiro could understand what Ogura Saki said about the ninjutsu going out of control. At the same time, he cursed himself inwardly for being an incompetent teacher, for not having warned them in advance to prevent such things.
Ishiro himself had also experienced the embarrassment of being caught up in his own ninjutsu.
He remembered that time when he was practicing Raging Water Shockwave, the ninjutsu went out of control, and he himself was swept away.
Thus, Ishiro cautioned his three disciples, "You must be careful when practicing ninjutsu, especially newly learned or newly developed ones. A ninja's defenses are too low; it's very easy to injure yourselves."
"Yes." This time, even Matsutani Shinya agreed readily.
Ishiro brought the topic back to Ogura Saki's Wind Tornado and asked, "Is there anything about your Wind Tornado that you need Sensei's help with?"
"Yes, yes!" Ogura Saki quickly replied.
Then Ogura Saki began to describe the problems she encountered and some of her self-contradictory conjectures.
Although Ishiro was a novice in Wind Release, by drawing parallels, he was still able to offer many insights and assistance.
Ogura Saki, having gained much, went to one side to continue her ninjutsu development. However, as usual, Ogura Saki didn't practice directly but took out paper and pen to begin her analysis.
Ishiro understood very well this helplessness due to insufficient chakra, and there was nothing Ishiro could do about it. Everything that could be done had been done; Ishiro had already been improving Ogura Saki's physical constitution in all aspects, from diet to exercise.
But unfortunately, her foundation was too poor, and improving physical constitution required a great deal of time.
In terms of innate foundation, Ogura Saki was the weakest among Ishiro's three current disciples. When she entered the Ninja Academy, Ogura Saki's grades were at the bottom.
In terms of acquired talent, the worst was Matsutani Shinya, who had been "lying flat" for so many years.
Ogura Saki's physical constitution couldn't be changed, so she could only follow the path Ishiro had walked and succeeded on: developing a Kekkei Genkai.
Currently, this path seemed very suitable for her. Although Ogura Saki was limited by her chakra amount, and the number of times she could practice ninjutsu was pitifully small, her theoretical analysis ability was very strong, and she had even formed a complete system.
Ogura Saki had practically compensated for her lack of physical talent with her intellectual superiority. In the process of forming her systematic analysis, her understanding of the Wind attribute had actually already reached a high level.
Thinking of this, Ishiro felt that perhaps this method could be promoted throughout Iwagakure.
So Ishiro said to Ogura Saki, "Little Saki, can you summarize your method of analyzing ninjutsu training and write it down? If you submit it to the village, perhaps you can exchange it for a B-rank ninjutsu."
Ogura Saki's eyes lit up upon hearing this. There was such a good thing?
Ogura Saki faced many limitations in developing ninjutsu, one of which was her breadth of knowledge. If she had a complete B-rank ninjutsu as a reference, her progress would be even faster.
It was based on Ogura Saki's special learning ability that Ishiro proposed this method. Otherwise, for anyone else, giving them a B-rank ninjutsu when their chakra amount was insufficient would be useless.
Unfortunately, the village had significant restrictions on teaching B-rank ninjutsu, and Ishiro didn't want to give his disciples too many privileges. That was why he proposed this method.
Ishiro had B-rank Wind Release jutsus. As long as the village recognized Ogura Saki's method, Ishiro could directly give her a B-rank Wind Release jutsu, saving her the process of accumulating contribution points.
After dealing with Ogura Saki's matter, Ishiro turned his attention to Takumi.
Among the three, Takumi had the most problems, and Ishiro was most concerned about his fundamentals. He remembered that when he left last time, Takumi's training habits were slowly being corrected. He didn't know how things were now, or if there had been any results.
Seeing Ishiro look over, Takumi became somewhat nervous and quickly said, "Sensei, my strength, stamina, and reaction speed have all reached the requirements you set last time. It's just that my chakra amount is still a bit lacking."
Looking at Takumi, who was afraid of disappointing him, Ishiro was somewhat surprised. So he said, "Let's test it out."
"Alright." Speaking of testing, Takumi's confidence seemed to return, and he was no longer so nervous.
Then Takumi took out the testing tools Ishiro had prepared for him earlier, among which was the wooden dummy Ishiro had used for swordsmanship practice back then.
Takumi tested himself item by item, and the results were indeed as he said: apart from his chakra amount, everything else met the standard.
Ishiro was somewhat gratified. Chakra amount was most limited by physique; this wasn't Takumi's fault. And for other aspects to reach the goals Ishiro had set for him in such a short time, and even exceed them, it showed that Takumi must have trained very hard.
Ishiro nodded at him and said, "Little Takumi, you've worked hard. Pay attention to resting as well."
Takumi nodded vigorously.
Then Ishiro asked again, "Has there been any progress in your Shunshin no Jutsu training?"
Takumi shook his head embarrassedly and said in a low voice, "I still have no clue."
Ishiro nodded and didn't say anything.
This was actually the biggest embarrassment for taijutsu-type ninjas. Their ninjutsu talent made it very difficult for them to master this ninjutsu, which was clearly most helpful to taijutsu ninjas.
Ishiro clearly remembered his Anbu teammate Little Stone being particularly envious of him in this regard back then.
"How is your tree climbing and water walking practice?" Ishiro asked again.
"Both of these have been completed. It's just that I still can't fight while water walking," Takumi replied.
Ishiro had mentioned methods of chakra control to the three of them before. Among the three, Ogura Saki and Matsutani Shinya had mastered them quickly. Ogura Saki's chakra control ability was very strong, and Matsutani Shinya's talent in ninjutsu was also passable.
Only Takumi, whose ninjutsu talent was very poor, was still unable to complete this one water walking exercise even after so long.
"Continue practicing," Ishiro said. "Not just this, you also need to do other exercises later. Your ninjutsu talent is not good, but there are two ninjutsu you absolutely must learn. Your current chakra control ability will only hold you back when learning ninjutsu. This must be corrected."
Takumi quickly nodded.
Finally, it was Matsutani Shinya. This disciple's personality gave Ishiro too much of a headache, so much so that Ishiro momentarily didn't know how to begin.
"Ishiro-sensei, don't worry, I will train seriously in the future," Matsutani Shinya, understanding Ishiro's discomfort, spoke up first.
These words made Ishiro very surprised. Although Matsutani Shinya was lazy, he wasn't the type to say one thing and do another. He wouldn't promise his teacher to his face but then continue to slack off behind his back. Matsutani Shinya's laziness was always open and aboveboard!
On the contrary, Matsutani Shinya was very true to his word. He always completed the training amount promised to Ishiro on time. Hmm, most of the time, he even completed it ahead of schedule.
It was just that after completing it ahead of schedule, he wouldn't continue to train.
What happened today? What stimulated him?
Matsutani Shinya was very smart and knew what Ishiro's expression meant. So he explained, "I guess I was stimulated by Ogura Saki."
It turned out that although Matsutani Shinya didn't have much ambition, under Ishiro's influence, he also knew what it meant for a ninja to develop ninjutsu independently.
Originally, Matsutani Shinya was very satisfied with his progress of learning a new ninjutsu or developing a new attribute every once in a while.
The mentality of someone "lying flat" was actually very complex. It was okay for someone to push them to do things, but they couldn't be pushed too hard. Ishiro's method of only setting goals and letting him arrange his own time satisfied Matsutani Shinya very much.
At the same time, Matsutani Shinya was also satisfied with his current peaceful life. He was used to his current two teammates and used to progressing with them.
But the moment Little Saki developed the Wind Tornado, Matsutani Shinya realized he was wrong. Perhaps one day, he would be left behind by his two teammates, and then slowly lose this bond.
So Matsutani Shinya decided to work a little harder than before.
Hearing Matsutani Shinya's explanation, Ishiro somewhat understood. Matsutani Shinya's thoughts were indeed quite realistic. Although Ishiro still had contact with his former teammates Shinohara and Tana, their interactions had become very infrequent. Now, the classmate Ishiro interacted with most was Ikura.
For no other reason than their strength levels were different.
Looking at Matsutani Shinya, who was clearly very resistant to effort yet had to force himself to change, Ishiro suddenly thought, was changing Matsutani Shinya's personality really a good thing?
Wasn't the thing Ishiro valued in Matsutani Shinya precisely his state of being close to nature? If Matsutani Shinya also became a training maniac like Takumi, could his trait of being close to nature still be preserved?
Thinking of this, Ishiro patted Matsutani Shinya's head and said, "Having ambition is a good thing, but you have your own training method. Continue training according to the previous method for now. I have long prepared a training path suitable for you. You don't need to worry."
Matsutani Shinya was somewhat surprised. He knew Ishiro had always been troubled by his lack of initiative. He had thought that since he had decided to change, Ishiro would be happy and then take the opportunity to assign him a lot of training tasks.
Unexpectedly, not only did Ishiro not do that, but from the meaning of his words, he seemed to be telling him to continue "lying flat"? And if he continued to "lie flat," Ishiro seemed to have a way to improve his strength.
Or perhaps, he was chosen back then precisely because of his "lying flat" personality? Matsutani Shinya began to doubt life.
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