With at least osu of each element under my belt at k it was now time for me to spend some points to learn higher ranked jutsu. Something my sensei had drilled into my head was that in most cases B rank jutsu were the bread and butter of high rank shinobi instead of A or S rank jutsu. The reason for this was that B rank jutsu were at the sweet spot where they cost a reasonable amount of chakra and were fast and strong enough to be lethal in nearly y pert of cases.-

  A rank and S rank jutsu were for sure more powerful than B rank jutsu but also teo take quite the amount of time to perform or took unreasonably high amounts of energy. Take a quite famous A rank jutsu in Konoha for example, the Chidori. This jutsu was created by Kakashi of the sharingan but came with serious drawbacks in that using it required extreme senses due to the speed it gave causing the user to get tunnel vision. The jutsu also required a rge amount of chakra that made it a finisher or opeype teique rather than one you spam in most cases.-

  While I khat I had the chakra to spam A rank jutsu I also khat the best route to grow would be to master B rank jutsu first. It was like learning how to cook, a step by step type deal rather than a jump straight in and hope for the best type deal. With that in mind I chose a sisu from each element starting with[Demonic illusion: Tree bindih] that was a yin release genjutsu. It was a binding type Genjutsu that made the target think they were bound in a tree that grew around them that was based on Hashirama Senju's wood release.-

  was the earth release [Earth rampart jutsu] that creates a wide and tall wall of solid earth that defend against powerful attacks as well as be used to trap ehen i chose the fire release jutsu [Dragosu] that created three dragons of fire that were for focused attag rather than area of effect like fireball jutsu. A skilled user could evehe dragons to encircle a target in a violent bze that turhem to ash.-

  Fhtning release I chose [Static charge jutsu] that u's harmless sounding name implied was anything but harmless. It was one of the jutsu created iempt to copy the Raikages lightning chakra mode jutsu and wreathed the user in powerful currents of lightning that served as a powerful defe was a failed copy though as it was weaker than the Raikages jutsu and beyond defense and proximity damage didn't have any of the other effects of the Raikages jutsu. I chose this jutsu in hopes that i could figure out how to fuse it with Kibas lightning cloak ability to create a weaker but otherwise parable version of the Raikages jutsu.-

  Moving onto water release I chose [Thousand needles of death jutsu] that used the surrounding water to create thousands of water needles that fell like raindrops from all dires. My reason for taking this jutsu retty clear as this was the sort of jutsu that pyed really well with my poison teique as I believed that if I could use poisoned water it may even be elevated to A rank. Finally I took [wind sickle jutsu] for my wind release option as it was a direct upgrade to my hawks wind bdes that also utilized chakra flow to make it very sharp.-

  This was chosen so that I could hopefully figure out how to use chakra flow with the rest of the elements as well. Unfortuhere were no yang release jutsu publicly avaible so I was stuck with the good old mediinjutsu for that category. I suppose I could attempt to create my own but that would probably take me quite some time and thus was a future project. For now though I began to work on mastering these new jutsu and I have to say that the difficulty spiked from C to B rank.-

  I only needed a week or two for k jutsu but B rank were a whole ame as the handsig from about a dozen or slightly less to four or five dozeo the plexity of the jutsus. I could move my hands fast but signing out so many signs took even me nearly thirty seds whi a fight was way too long. Most jutsu were used in a matter of two or three seds or less so thirty seds was enough time for ao k out dozens of jutsu.-

  Thankfully the learning process for shortening the amount of handsigns needed was the same as the previous rank in that I just o manually mold my chakra rather than rely on handsigns to do it for me. I fond that I could easily lower the amount of needed handsigns from forty or fifty to twenty but after that it took loo lower it. It was simply because of how damned plex the molding was that I o take it step by step to remove each additional hand sign by manually molding my chakra.-

  It took me a month and a half to remove all the handsigns from the first of my chosen jutsu. At this time it was finally time for my previous css to graduate from the academy. This was something Naruto was super excited about and he kept buggio try and figure out who his jonin sensei was going to be. This was despite me telling him that there was no way a in like me was going to know something like that.-

  When the day came around for the tests fraduating to start I chose to wait for the news with Teuchi at Ichiraku.

  "Think he'll score high?" the man asked casually.

  "He better after all the help I gave him to get to this point. I love the guy but he has the attention span of a housecat when he's bored." I said with a helpless sigh.

  "HAHAHA! Yeah that sounds like Narutht. Any pns on what you'll be doing with him after he graduates?" he asked after ughing.

  I shrugged "Depends on who his sensei is to be ho. Some Jonin are more hands off than others from what I know and depending on what he ends up with I will either personally teach him some stuff or just leave it to his sensei." I said holy.

  The man nodded "Seems like a solid enough pn. I wasn't a ninja myself though so I 't really say much to help I'm afraid." he said sadly like he was sorry for not being more help.

  "Hey you are one of the only people in the vilge who didn't treat Naruto like dirt for some inexplicable reason so I won't have any of that self depreciating talk out of you, not about this you hear me?" I said firmly and the man nodded with a smile.

  "You really are something else Kenzo." he said softly.

  I shrugged "I'm just me, nothing more and nothing less." I said with a grin.