“Well… I don’t know the last 33 katas myself.” Jiraia said bashfully.

I frowned then looked at Jiraia carefully to try and discern if it’s a lie but he didn’t seem to be lying. I sighed, “So you are saying that you didn’t bother learning it.” He nodded while scratching the back of his neck, then I asked, “What can you teach me?”

Jiraia put his hand on his chin and started thinking. After a while, he opened up his arms helplessly and said “I don’t know kid. All jutsu I know is a special jutsu. I can’t teach them to you since they are reserved for someone else. You tell me what you want to learn from me.

“I want to learn how to make fuin with chakra,” I said quickly, showing far too much enthusiasm than I was comfortable with.

Jiraia scratched the back of his neck and said, “There is nothing to teach kid. When you are well acquainted with the fuin you make, you can make them using your chakra. I just add hand signs to make it easier to manipulate my chakra correctly.”

I dropped my head. “At least teach me some basic fuin parts.”

“Okay, okay. I have a fuin you can learn. It’s simple.” Jiraia made a few hand signs and pressed his palm on the floor. When he took away his hand, what’s left was a fuin. “I don’t need to tell you what fuin is this. Let’s say it is a surprise.” He laid on his bed. “Wake me up at dawn.” With that he was asleep.

I on the other hand sat on the ground, took out my fuinjutsu supplies, and started working on copying the fuin. It had two parts. One of them was Chakra Storage Fuin and the other was something I didn’t know. I isolated and copied the fuin part I didn’t know to the paper. As soon as I finished, a screen popped up.

Fuinjutsu: Genjutsu: Body Transformation Fuin Level 10/320

o Genjutsu: Body Transformation Fuin is used to change your appearance. Changes are neither permanent nor real.

o Genjutsu: Body Transformation Fuin: CP usage, 9/min (Limit: 0.1/minute)

o Genjutsu: Body Transformation Fuin: Compactness, +10% (Limit: 99.9%)

“Whoa. That’s a lot of CP for henge. Not that I know what is normal for jutsus. Anyway since I started, I should at least continue writing the rest of the fuin too but with my Chakra Storage Fuin. I can’t see its level but the one Jiraia made was obviously inferior with no additional effects.” I flinched when I heard myself saying it. I looked at Jiraia and sighed relief when I saw him still sleeping, then looked outside from the window to see it was still dark as before. Knowing I have enough time, I continued to work on the fuin.

I worked on the fuin for at most a few minutes and as soon as I finished, the system regaled me with a screen.

Fuinjutsu: Genjutsu: Reserved Body Transformation Fuin Level 13/80

o Genjutsu: Reserved Body Transformation Fuin is used to change your appearance. It has an inbuilt chakra storage fuin. Changes are neither permanent nor real.

o Increases the effectiveness of all fuin parts by 13%.

o Decreases the time it takes to write this fuin by 13%

I pumped my fist. ‘Yes! Finally.’ I looked out of the window. It was near dawn so I walked beside Jiraia and shook him gently. He just turned around and farted. I walked to the other side and shook him stronger. “Go away. Didn’t you understand what my body just said?” He said without looking at me.

I sighed, “Jiraia-san it’s dawn. If you don’t want to get out of the bed then don’t but that won’t be my responsibility.”

Jiraia clicked her tongue and stood up. “You’re no fun, kid. Did you copy the fuin?” He said while stretching.

“Yeah, though I got to say your Chakra Storage Fuin needs some work,” I said trying hard not to come as bragging.

Jiraia shook his head. “What did you expect? I don’t have time to work on a flawed fuin.”

I tilted my head and ran up to him. “You mean to say you know a Chakra Storage Fuin that doesn’t leak chakra?”

Jiraia smirked, “What is it, kid? Does your ability say it cannot be improved anymore?”

“I can improve the fuin, just that I can’t prevent the leakage. As I thought, it’s just a lesser fuin. It would be great if you teach me that one.” I said. Excited to finally find an offensive option.

“What are you going to do with it kid? You can’t use jutsu with it so you can’t artificially increase your chakra pool using it.” Jiraia said while picking his nose and throwing them at the side.

I chuckled, “No. That’s not it. I was thinking of adding it to Special Explosion Fuin and load them all with chakra to use later. That will make a great improvement.” I put my hand on my chin, “I can even make others put their chakra in it instead of me!” I turned to Jiraia, “So, will you teach it to me?”

“Nope.”

“Why?” I whined.

“You are not ready for it,” Jiraia said then started changing his clothes, underwear, and all in front of me. Thankfully I stopped his mental attack with a well-timed eye closing and turning around.

I sighed and without looking asked, “What do you mean? You said the same thing last night too but I can’t understand how it is possible.”

“You can turn now.” I turned and looked at Jiraia who was wearing black all around. “Don’t you live in an orphanage? How come you are not used to seeing other people’s naked bodies?”

“I get up early,” I said, Jiraia nodded thoughtfully. “So, you were saying why I am not ready for these fuins,” I asked while pointing to the fuin behind the bed.

“Kid, with your ability, you have a strong talent for fuinjutsu. Probably the strongest talent that I have seen. And this means a lot coming from me. So it’s not your talent that is the problem, but your character. You are six years old and you can already kill a group of civilians with a small paper.” He walked to the door and held the doorknob. “This kind of power isn’t good for your character. Wait at least until you are genin to improve yourself more. That way you would have the power to protect yourself too, although a little.” With that, he opened the door and got out.

‘I don’t think it’s about my character like he said at first, but my safety. Maybe I failed to see the dangers ahead.’ I sighed, “I should work harder.”