Slow Word Vomit (Solo, unless you are Den xD)

If Jeisuta was honest with himself, he was quite elated. Having passed the genin exams courtesy of a bald guy, he was in fine spirits, and completely happy to take a bunch of training manuals with him from the library. And some from the book store too, ones that he had paid for. It was quite honestly a good thing that his genin exams seemed to have pumped him up and literally increased his physical abilities, because he was carrying a massive amount of books, the stack so large that he could barely see around one side of the stack, and most definitely not above it. The stack towered ten feet in the air, and even with his superior ninja strength, he was feeling the fatigue. After five minutes of walking, mostly navigating by memory since he knew the streets so well by this time, he set the books down on a table, which creaked loudly. It clearly felt the weight of the books, and he had to catch a bunch of the falling books himself since the stack wobbled, and a few at the top had a large range of motion every time that happened.


If he wasn't so elated, he would think this was a pretty dumb idea, honestly. At least his apartment had a little room, but he wasn't sure he could store all the manuals securely. Some were pretty important, while others were not so much, those were less risky.
Surely, there was something he could use to help him with the stack of books.


He scoured the miniature library he had bought and borrowed (and begged and no, had not stolen), for something to help him with storage. It took several tries for him to find one - a book on the "Storage Displacement Technique". It was a thin manual, buried between identical copies of a book explaining the "Great Fire Annihilation" jutsu. He had to look multiple times to see the gap between the two books, but it was only when he removed the upper copy that he found this other jutsu book. To be fair, he would have had to anyway, the stack was clearly too precarious. It was mildly annoying to him though, that he had not seen the book before hand anyway though, since he wanted to be a good ninja and good ninjas were good observers, and good tacticians and... you get the point.


He began studying the storage displacement technique, after of course, resetting the stack of books so that they were not on the ground, and were stacked neatly up on the table. Analysis of the text implied to Jeisuta that in order to use the Storage Displacement jutsu, one had to be able to shove the object into another dimension entirely. Sounded pretty cool frankly, but it sounded very complicated.


He would need to ask for some advice.


Ok, maybe not. Nobody in the area seemed to know anything about this jutsu in the nearby vicinity. Not surprising, honestly. Ninjas were a new thing here still, and even if some accepted them, they were not commonplace. Especially ones that would know of a dinky little technique like this. So… yeah. On his own.


Rereading the book, however, he found a few tips scribbled in the margins. Not all of them were discovered, so to speak. Some of the notes he had actually noticed already, but paid no mind, thinking he would be able to make up a decent understanding for himself. A few though, he had not noticed the first time. The most helpful comment however, was scribbled in to the comment section of the first age, one he had skipped over because he had assumed it would be a lengthy introduction about the development of the jutsu, who to credit the discovery to, and so on. All the boring stuff. Fortunately, the tip hit the nail on the head so to speak.


Actually, it gave advice on a lot of things. It was that kind of general advice. Specifically, "overload a specific area with chakra, and you can accomplish a lot." Certainly worth a try. Especially with damage spells. Angry, attacking nature chakra, had a tendency to do significant damage to flesh. Wonder why. He kept reading. "To do this specific jutsu, surround the object with chakra, too much of it, then compress the chakra, infusing it into the object. To access the item, overload the chakra into the air at a specific point, then try to pull the air apart. Reach in. P.S. really wish they could have explained this in normal language in the book, instead of their roundabout theoretical explanations."


Hmmm....


Jeisuta read the comment in the book twice, to make sure he understood it.


What could he do this practice with? How about a spare eraser. Surrounding his new eraser with chakra, he was about to compress the eraser when he realized that he might not get it back on the first try. Uh oh. He stopped molding chakra, and switched the new eraser with the old and nearly gone one that sat on his desk, next to a report that he needed to finish.


One that he was in the midst of procrastinating on, that is.


He surrounded the used and much smaller eraser in his chakra, like he had been doing earlier. Infusing the eraser with his chakra, he then began to compress the little eraser with as much effort as he could muster.


As that turned out, it was a lot. The little eraser "poofed" away in a little cloud of smoke.


Unsure at first, whether his eyes decieved him, Jeisuta pooled his chakra into a different spot in the air, and tried to tear apart the air around him.


FYI, air can tear like butter against a hot knife. It can also be stiff and stubborn like his temperament. Long story short, he got the portal open after a good minute of exertion. Digging around in there recovered the used eraser. Looks like he wouldn't lose any money today. At least he knew how to use this jutsu now.


Whew.


He put down the book onto the pile.


Carefully, he gathered his chakra around all of the biggest books, and stuffed them into that little portal thing. The resulting pile was daunting, but much more manageable. He picked up the rest and carried them back to his dwelling, an apartment of modest means. One that he no longer had to share, fortunately.


He started reading the next book on the pile. After taking out all the other books, that is, the ones that he had stored into the portals. Because he might forget them and have them become overdue on his library card. Those librarians could get really nasty. Especially the ones who were fans of a certain Kozai Yuki.


The Mist Servant technique, huh?


Sounded like a good fit for him. Didn’t require water element, despite the implication in the name. Probably because it was a genjutsu. Yeah.


He read the introduction to the book this time, partially because he was not sure if he would find any helpful hints in there, and partially because he was not sure if he could figure out this technique on himself. Especially if he didn’t know what genjutu did…. Or did he?


He thought hard about what genjutsu did, and then he remembered - genjutsu targets the senses. So this was probably about the visual genjutsu then. He started reading.


Apparently, this one was all about tricking the eyes, making them seem like the mist had formed itself into little clones of the user, that would slowly approach the target. What was cool about it, was that the clones would sort of blend into one large mass as the numbers grew - every time one of them was “destroyed” the mist would split into two clones, proving to be a major distraction hopefully, for the opponents. Fortunately, for the sake of realism, the clones were controllable by the user - they were illusions, after all. So he had to bind his chakra to the mist….


Several minutes later, Jeisuta was startled awake. By a racoon, which had snuck into his apartment. Because the Mist Servant technique was the last thing he had been thinking about, it was the first thing he thought of when he was awakened by the racoon walking on his head with a sack of potato chips in hand. Without thinking much, his chakra began binding to the water vapor in the room, and because his first thought was to corner the racoon, the chakra began to take on his shape. Soon, the racoon was surrounded by a host of ten clones, some of which stood between it and the window. Ok. If PETA saw this, Jeisuta might get hauled in for animal abuse, but the racoon did steal that bag of potato chips, and PETA didn’t really exist in this world. Ninja animals did. But this racoon probably wasn’t a ninja animal, right?


The racoon was soon backed into a corner, the ten clones and Jeisuta closing in, menacingly. Suddenly, the racoon poofed into a cloud of smoke. Huh?


“I surrender!!! Take it back! Don’t kill me!!!”


Suddenly, a familiar face revealed itself. So, apparently one of Jeisuta’s gang rivals had started studying to become a ninja, and decided to try using the art of transformation to sneak in and steal something. Jeisuta was not happy, quite understandably.


He stepped closer, ringed in with his mist clones.


“You wouldn’t happen to know what happened to all the other food and supplies that have gone missing from my cabinets, would you?”


Sheer terror contorted the other man’s face. He knew Jeisuta was a full fledged genin now, he was screwed if push came to shove. All he had going for him was….


The rhetorical question of sorts was answered rather rapidly as he made for the exit, outpacing the illusionary clones by a good distance. Damn.


Jeisuta crumpled up his paper in hand, threw it at the retreating figure, and was rewarded by a startled squawk. Crouching on the window sill, he gazed at the retreating figure. Silently, he jumped, landing on a nearby roof top.


Running and jumping along the tops of buildings, he followed the thief through the alley ways, to his hideout. Once there, it was a simple matter to jump in through a window to surprise the wanna be thief. Unfortunately, for Jeisuta perhaps, the other man panicked and started slashing at the phantoms of mist that Jeisuta had conjured, again. Apparently, the other fellow still believed that the clones were real, or something, as he struck at one of them.


It was most amusing though, to see that the fellow was very much the frightened one, completely convinced by the illusion. His fist passed through one of the clones, and it disappeared, only to be replaced by two more. Startled, the thief stumbled backwards, flailing his arms at the other clones, which also formed duplicates, that Jeisuta still controlled. Terrified, he backed his way into a corner, making it slightly more difficult for Jeistua to hit him over the head, and knock him out.

Some recovered stolen goods, and a few lengths of rope later, the fellow was stuffed on a wagon and carted off to gaol.

Of course, just because this training session was not quite long enough, Jeisuta wandered out into the wilderness. He started doing pushups so he could claim that he was stronger, and began practicing his Mist Clones technique again - on squirrels of course. As it turned out, they did not take kindly to this, so he had to flee, tossing rocks and branches in an attempt to slow them down.

What ultimately stopped them, was dropping a stack of books on them, squishing them all.

Of course, he needed to spend the next while cleaning off the books, until they were spotless. Fortunately, it seems they were designed to take abuse....

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