[Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet]. An A-level B-ranked fire natured ninjutsu. After demonstrating its incredible power to Haseo Yu and explaining the technique, hand seals, and chakra flow involved, Third Hokage casually turned around and left.
After witnessing this new jutsu, Haseo Yu, originally a water natured ninja, immediately decided to transition into a combined water-fire natured ninja.
He gathered his chakra, formed the hand seals, and tried the technique just as Third Hokage had shown him...
Failed.
Well, that was an expected outcome. To use a fire release technique, you need to generate enough fire-natured chakra in your body first. Without meeting that prerequisite, thinking you could successfully execute a fire technique just through hand seals? That would be nothing short of miraculous.
After several attempts yielded no results, Haseo finally understood he had to start from the basics. He held the chakra nature test paper in his hand while visualizing concepts like heat, flames, and explosive energy, channeling more and more chakra to the tips of his fingers.
He was attempting to transform his chakra toward the fire nature. However, only after personally trying did he realize how difficult it was to change one's chakra nature.
Initially, his efforts were driven purely by curiosity and excitement about learning a new elemental technique. But soon, Haseo became completely obsessed with it—just like playing a video game. Some people give up the moment they hit a tough level — never touching the game again or maybe coming back later. Others, however, won't stop until they clear it — because they literally won't sleep unless they succeed.
Failure after failure pushed Haseo further into obsession... Although impatience is clearly a mindset to avoid, those trapped within it usually don't even realize it.
From this perspective, rather than helping him train, Third Hokage had actually disrupted his training.
As time passed into the evening, Haseo's practice didn't stop. He consumed several secret pills, and under the effects of these drugs, his chakra continued to recover steadily.
Indeed, if he didn't pull this off tonight, he had no intention of going back to his quarters — he'd stay right here until he did.
However, effort eventually brings reward, and even rigid, stubborn effort might barely earn partial success. By early morning, Haseo's fingertips finally ignited.
A faint flame burned brightly against the darkness of night.
.......
Early the next day, Sansho hurried to the training grounds after realizing Haseo hadn't returned all night. There, she found Haseo lying motionless on the field.
In the cold, quiet dawn, on the empty terrain, a battered teenager sprawled across the cold ground — an undeniably concerning sight.
"Haseo, you okay?" Seeing this, Sansho quickly approached and crouched beside him. Then, she heard soft snoring sounds.
Upon hearing someone call his name, Haseo quickly regained consciousness.
When Haseo opened his eyes and saw Sansho wearing a worried expression, he immediately jumped up from the ground. "Sansho, sensei—there's a huge problem! Well... I'm personally fine, but something really bad has happened to me."
"..."
Sansho was speechless. That was just too incoherent. "I know. Sarutobi must have improperly taught you some other jutsu. I've already given him a serious warning, and he'll never dare to do this again."
No teacher liked it when someone recklessly taught their students random stuff—even if that someone was the Hokage.
"The Third Hokage did teach me a Fire Release jutsu. However, even though my issue originated from that Fire Release jutsu, the problem itself doesn't lie with the jutsu... It's hard to explain clearly. Maybe I should just demonstrate it for you." Since words couldn't adequately describe what had occurred to Haseo, he decided to show it instead.
"Ox → Monkey → Rooster → Rat → Pig → Rabbit—these are the hand seals for [Water Dragon Jutsu]."
"Sheep → Horse → Snake → Dragon → Rat → Ox → Tiger—these are the hand seals for [Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet], which the Hokage taught me yesterday."
Haseo merely formed the hand seals without channeling chakra, yet he was about to begin casting the technique.
"Sheep → Horse → Snake → Dragon → Rat (Fire Seal) → Ox (Fire Seal, Water Seal) → Monkey → Rabbit → Rat → Pig → Rooster (Water Seal) → Tiger (Fire Seal)."
As he completed the final seal, abundant moisture and explosive heat gathered simultaneously on either side of Haseo's body. The surging waters of Water Release clashed with the blazing flames of Fire Release before erupting instantly.
[Water Dragon Jutsu] and [Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet] had both been unleashed simultaneously.
Two opposing elemental techniques soared toward the sky more than ten meters away before colliding head-on. A thick mist rapidly engulfed the entire training ground in its embrace.
"What is this..." Sansho stared at this impossible scene in disbelief.
"It should be...a pretty serious issue, right?" Haseo said.
This wasn't simply about releasing two jutsu at once. Firstly, he'd interwoven the hand seals of Fire Release and Water Release together, even sharing one seal between both techniques—the Ushi (Ox) seal, used in both Water Dragon Jutsu and Fire Dragon Flame Bullet. Thus, he'd executed two jutsu requiring thirteen seals total using only twelve.
Even more crucially, he'd employed two different natured chakra techniques simultaneously...
Without using shadow clones to distribute chakra, no ninja could use more than one nature transformation at once. Even for those who could master multiple elements, only one jutsu could be cast at a time. Even with compound techniques, one would finish casting a technique before performing another.
Another scenario, taking Haseo as an example—if he used the Water Clone Technique and then had the clone release a Fire Release, it still wouldn't violate this principle… because the process of a clone releasing an elemental technique follows this sequence: first, the original body transforms its chakra into water chakra and creates a water clone. Then this clone gains human-like qualities and becomes a vessel. Next, the original body allocates a portion of its neutral chakra to the water clone. Finally, the clone uses that allocated chakra, transforming it into fire chakra before performing the Fire Release.
Although simultaneously generating multiple natures of chakra within one's body isn't impossible, wouldn't that essentially be…
"Kekkei Genkai?" Sansho immediately guessed, but quickly refuted her own idea. "No, if it were Kekkei Genkai, what was just released wouldn't have been separate Fire Release and Water Release techniques—it should have been Boil Release."
Water Release and Fire Release aren't superior in terms of chakra intensity or destructive power after casting compared to Boil Release. But what Haseo did now was somehow rarer and more extraordinary than even Boil Release.
The ability to generate both water-type and fire-type chakra at once was unusual. Even setting aside the issue of simultaneity, why didn't those two types simply merge into Boil chakra?
Water → [Water Release]; Fire → [Fire Release]; Water + Fire → [Boil Release]; [Fire Release] followed by [Water Release] ≠ [Boil Release]. If the two elemental chakras don't fuse inside the body, obviously no Boil Release would result from releasing Water Release followed by Fire Release.
"Can your hand seal method also apply to techniques of the same element?" Sansho asked next, temporarily setting aside the matter of chakra transformation.
"Yes, actually because common seals are more prevalent among techniques with the same nature, this approach is even more convenient," Haseo replied. After accidentally discovering this phenomenon in himself, he had tested this approach the previous night.
His hand seal method was baffling. For instance, if three different jutsu required the hand seals Dragon-Snake-Horse, Snake-Horse-Goat, and Horse-Goat-Monkey respectively, normally releasing these three techniques would require nine separate seals. However, according to Haseo's method, only five seals—Dragon-Snake-Horse-Goat-Monkey—were needed.
Thus, his hand seal efficiency was nearly twice that of normal methods, and this efficiency directly translated into combat effectiveness.
"How exactly did you manage to do this?" Sansho murmured to herself, unable to understand how Haseo could accomplish such a feat.
This went beyond conventional ninja wisdom.
In response to her question, Haseo gave a canned response he'd picked up from someone else—meaningless, irritatingly dismissive, and perfectly effective at shutting people up:
"Who knows? I just practiced until I got it."
Haseo himself didn't know why he could achieve something like this, but he understood that just like the First's Wood Release, the Second's Flying Thunder God, the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, or Hatake's Sword Techniques, he had discovered his own unique foundation…
As a ninja.
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