(Y5.M6.W2.D6)
Kondo gets to work. He decides to infuse chakra into his weapons. After a couple minutes there's a result.
Then he infuses lightning chakra next.
He then proceeds to upgrade the Chakra Blade into a Lightning Blade, before he picks up a rock and attempts to create Chakra Scanning.
Kondo remembers a video he watched about a lightnovel where Sakura mapped out an entire building by running her chakra through it. He'd like to recreate that.
He activates Meditation before channelling chakra into the rock in attempts to map out it's shape. In a few minutes he gets what he's looking for.
He smiles in satisfaction at this. "That's a wrap! Let's head home."
ONE WEEK LATER (Y5.M6.W3.D6).
Kondo spent the next week training his new Skills. He prefers to raise their levels quite a bit before he decides to create some more.
Raibīmu (Lightning palm) leveled up swimmingly.
Kaminari-kyū (Lightning sphere) has seen alot of changes. He can now fire a tiny one from the tip of his finger, to a large one the size of his head with both hands.
The Electromagnet has seen the least progress. He's still having problems sensing his environment using it, but he can use the alternative ability of drawing metal to himself when the pours a large amount of lightning chakra into it.
Chakra Strings are going to have a unique place in Kondo's arsenal as a defensive technique. With the knowledge that chakra strings are neigh unbreakable, he's been trying to weave protective chakra fabric out of it, and as a result, he's been reading up on knitting and other textile related stuff.
Chakra Infusion has been most useful in Kondo's Kenjutsu. Coating his wooden sword in chakra then shaping it to be sharp has allowed him to raise it's lethality.
Lightning Infusion has made his metal weapons such as his Kunai, shuriken and senbon disturbingly sharp. He accidentally nicked himself and got a Resistance Skill for his trouble.
He can't believe that it took him this many years before he got hurt. Not even a scraped knee or being dropped as a kid. What kind of sheltered life did he live?
Chakra Mapping is coming along nicely. He's been mapping things from small and simple to large and complex. He's not mapping his whole apartment anytime soon, but he's getting there.
Lightning Blade looks like a Dollar Tree Raikiri. Except it's for slashing and not stabbing. It made him remember a lightsaber and now he wonders if he can spit out a Plasmaball Jutsu in the future.
The Academy has become beneath Kondo and he doesn't feel the need to grace it with his direct presence. So that's why he's begun sending a Shadow Clone to the Academy instead of going himself. And having the Clone read during class instead of listening in. He instead heads to the training grounds to grind his skills.
His XP farming has slowed to a crawl. He has racked up 320 bodies this past week; Each vermin giving him a pathetic amount. But he doesn't mind, cuz he's having a swell time hanging with the Genin Team.
In fact he's learned from Brown that L.Shion is indeed a trap, and can talk but doesn't for some reason. He'll take his time chipping away at that wall; whatever it's made of.
ANOTHER WEEK LATER (Y5.M6.W4.D6)
Kondo found Ichiraku Ramen. It's as good a Naruto proclaims. Speaking of which, he ran into the Knucklehead ninja himself while he was there. With a bit of tailing, he found out where he lived as well as where his Academy is located.
Sakura shouldn't be enrolled yet, so he'll check again next year, and the year after that if there's no dice. Naruto is irrelevant to him until after he graduates, but Sakura and Team Guy are a different story.
Then he made a realization: Ino is friends with Sakura. If he follows Ino to her family's flower shop, he's bound to encounter Sakura eventually when she drops by to hang around with Ino. That'll have to wait for next week, though.
Hunting with the Genin Team was fruitful as usual: 440 bodies for Kondo. He's been trying to spark a conversation with L.Shion all this time, but got nothing but an amused smirk, a nod, a shrug, or a head tilt once in awhile.
His Skills are leveling up nicely, except for the [Electromagnet] which has been making slow and steady progress. He can sense 360 degree around him, but it's quite fuzzy. It does become much clearer when he meditates, closes his eyes and narrows the range.
ANOTHER WEEK LATER (Y5.M7.W1.D6)
At long last, he's done it. He's found Sakura Haruno. As he predicted, she dropped by at the Yamanaka flower shop within the week. However he was stumped for some time on how to proceed. He settles on observing her for some time; the answers should come eventually.
Hunting: 380 bodies. No progress with L.Shion. Kondo decides not to bother anymore. He's not a lost puppy.
Kondo experiences a breakthrough with his [Electromagnet] Skill which led to the creation of [Electromagnetic Sense].
He was inspired by how Enel used Observation Haki with his electricity to sense the entire island he was on.
Following suit, he activated [Electromagnet] and [Chakra Sense] together to pull off this effect. Everything is clearer now, and his range is only limited by the [Chakra Sense] with even greater effect if performed while Meditating.
Inorder to level this skill, he rarely uses his eyes these days plus he uses it to locate and hunt raccoons.
Kondo still remained unsure on how to approach Sakura. He considered staging an encounter and telling Sakura she has a pretty forehead to leverage her insecurity, but he doesn't want to risk her crushing on him.
He could also get close to her mother by helping her carry a grocery bag or two which would likely result in Mrs Haruno inviting him over and introducing Sakura to him. However, the question of his parents whereabouts will eventually come up, and he'd rather his folks not know he's been ditching class.
He settles on shadowing her a bit more to find where she hangs out, what parks she goes to, and where her special places are. He could then make his presence known at those places and build familiarity.
1 MONTH LATER (Y5.M8.W1.D6).
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[Electromagnetic Sense] has come a long way. Kondo can now use it in sparring sessions without [Meditation] active. He even wears a blindfold now, much to Mana's displeasure. Yes, he shows up to the Academy sometimes in person just for a change of pace.
The other skills have leveled up enough, so Kondo was ready to add more to his arsenal. After eating a [Knitting] Skill Book, he uses [Chakra Threads] to knit a chakra fabric to cover his forearm and got rewarded for his trouble.
He's been grinding this skill alongside [Electromagnetic Sense] nonstop as well by having it on at all times.
The Genin Team he was an honorary member of have begun taking C-rank missions, which means his XP farming days are put on hold for the time being. But he doesn't mind, what with his 862 raccoons he's tallied since a month ago. He'll just occupy himself with other things
Speaking of other things, he's concluded his Tenketsu Research. While the books say nothing about "Gates", they do note 8 Tenketsu points which are closed as a form of limiter inorder to protect the body.
Of these, 2 are located in the hemisphere of the brain, 1 on the heart and stomach respectively, and the remaining 5 on the spine.
Apart from the heart, he doesn't know which corresponds to which gate, but that's where his Guinea Clone comes into play.
With a Chakra Infused finger, he jabs the Tenketsu Points along the spine of his clone which he had to poof right away because it was surging with lots of chakra that could have drawn unwanted attention.
He was able to open gates 3-7 this way, meaning that the two in his brain where 1 and 2. To access these last ones, he had to coat a needle in chakra and poke at them through his skull.
The success rate was abysmal, and he was at it for week till he finally pulled it off.
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Contact with Sakura had been established. Anytime she went out to the park, he'd make sure he himself or a clone was there too since it was the place most frequented by her.
He made sure the first encounter was memorable by "accidentally" running into her and knocking her over. He then offers to do whatever she says within reason for a couple hours as an apology, which she accepts.
As the days and weeks pass, they've become close acquaintances. He even took her to Ichiraku's a couple times after bending over backwards to convince her it wasn't a date. The teasing Teuchi gave didn't help, though.
Kondo also put into action his plan to find Team Guy. He realized that the team should have graduated from the same Academy as Team 7 since Hinata and Neji are both Hyugas and because students go to Academies closest to theirs homes.
This means that Rock Lee and Tenten must be living close to Team 7's Academy. Hopefully Guy Sensei too: A man in green spandex yelling "Youth" shouldn't be hard to find
Rock Lee and Guy are only good for taijutsu training since he's unlocked 8 Gates himself. Tenten has nothing to teach Kondo weapons wise, but he still intends to wife her up. He used to not care for Neji, but changed his mind when he considered the lethality of the Gentle Fist. Its ability to ignore durability makes it worth copying.
Of course he's not going to make it obvious he can use the fighting style. There's no telling what the clan head would do if he hears about a non-hyuga using his clan's exclusive technique.
So far, he had found Rock Lee and traced him back to an orphanage. No surprise there. He has yet to find Tenten or Guy yet which he found puzzling.
ANOTHER MONTH LATER (Y5.M9.W2.D1).
[Electromagnetic Sense] is now second nature to Kondo; his grinding paying off. His progress with [Chakra Fabric] is also impressive. He's constantly wearing a t-shirt made of hair-thin chakra thread he's knitting under his clothes. Eventually he'll be able to make it cover his entire body.
Kondo has remained in touch with the Genin Team. They would invite him to the Dango place to eat and tell stories about their missions whenever they were free.
He's maintaining his relationship with Sakura. Just hanging out at the park whenever she drops by. Infact she's been showing up a lot more frequently now. He's just happy to keep the status quo.
Speaking of status quo, he has still not met Might Guy or Tenten. However he just recently remembered something Guy say in the show. Something about running laps around Konoha in a handstand.
One would have to leave the village to do that. Which means he has to monitor the gate closest to the Team 7 Academy in hopes of spotting him.
Tenten's whereabouts is still a mystery, though. Kondo believes that because she's a weapons specialist, she had to have trained alot and from a younger age. So training grounds close to the Team 7 Academy is the next viable option.
Aside from stalking people, Kondo begun to work on his resistances. Over the past month he has unlocked:
Heat Resistance (Passive) By setting a twig on fire to burn his palm. Yewch!
Lightning Resistance (Passive) By shocking himself.
Physical Damage Resistance (Passive) By throwing himself off a tree a couple times. He should have had his clones beat him up instead.
Cold Resistance can wait until winter comes.
ANOTHER MONTH LATER
August 14th, 5Kondo
Kondo's guesses about Guy and Tenten were on the money. After positioning a clone at the different gates (no pun intended), It took some days before he confirmed a Green figure blurring through one of the gates yelling some stuff about youth. He tried to trail him but wasn't fast enough and lost him.
Tenten wasn't too hard to find. She was practicing with various weapons in a random Training Ground not too far from Academy 7. Following her back, revealed that she lives with a single mother who runs a weapons shop.
Turns out the reason Kondo never met her in the open was because she usually left home at the break of dawn and returned just before it got dark. She would spend all day training.
After a couple days of observation, Kondo decided it was time to make his move. And what better way to make a great first impression than yeeting a kunai from his hiding spot which ricochets off the one thrown by Tenten before hitting the bullseye she was aiming for.
To say she was impressed was an understatement. And it was thanks to this that they hit things off immediately. Now Kondo alternates between sending a clone or going himself to spend time with Tenten. He would show off his throwing skills as well as spar with her.
You'd expect Kondo meeting his long awaited waifu to be a much more spectacular event, but getting on a knee and asking her to marry him when they grow up on their first encounter would have been a retarded move. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
The Father Son Excursion
August 15th, 5Kondo
Kondo's first semester of Ninja Academy ended the day prior, and as promised, his father: Fukumoto Isamu is taking him out of the village to hunt some Wild Boar.
In preparation for the outing, Kondo read multiple books on tracking and outdoor living. They'll be in the wilds for a couple days, so it's necessary knowledge.
They can't go to folks' farms to help them out with their wild boar trouble so as not to cut into Genin business, so hitting the pests at the source: the woods, is the way to go.
They trekked from dawn to late morning before they found a fresh boar trail. Then they entered stealth mode and followed said trail for sometime until they came upon a group foraging at a clearing in the distance.
The group included 5 adults, 2 of which are nursing mothers, and 17 juveniles. The plan was to take the females out first, then the remaining adults while they tried to escape.
Isamu signals for Kondo to maintain position while he himself backtracks, creates a Shadow Clone, and quietly returns to his position while the clone circles around the group for a pincer.
Father and son ready their senbon needles while waiting for the clone to get into position. When it does, Isamu signals for Kondo to be ready as he readies his Senbon and let's it fly.
First female takes a headshot. Before the others notice, the second female gets her own courtesy of Kondo. Before it even hits the ground, two needles are released at once from the clone and dispatch two males. The third male begins to run, but tumbles to the ground soon after with Senbon sticking out of its head; Kondo's handiwork.
Five targets down in 3 seconds. 3 for Isamu, 2 for Kondo. Father and son then advance on the piglets sticking close to their respective mom's bodies and dispatch them as well. Sad but necessary.
Isamu praises Kondo's performance before he takes out a scroll and seals the bodies. They continue their trek; finding and dispatching an additional group of Boar before dark. They proceed to setup camp and settle in for the night.
August 16th, Year 5
The duo awaken, pack up camp and go hunting. They take out 3 groups this time before the day is over.
August 20th, Year 5
It's been five days since they hog cleansing began. After the second day, Isamu let Kondo perform all the kills himself. He even taught him how to seal objects into the scrolls.
Isamu would help with the camp, but outside of that, it was all Kondo. Which he didn't mind, by the way, for he had more XP to himself.
Speaking Of XP, they dispatched 15 groups in total: 34 females, 50 males and 120 piglets. They'd have more piglets, but they ran out of scrolls, they had to let the little critters go.
Isamu: 4 females, 10 males, & 20 piglets.
Kondo: 30 females, 40 males, & 100 piglets.
<22500xp gained>
It was a huge haul. The two hiked back to civilization: more precisely a rural area on the outskirts of Konoha. There they stopped at a butcher's shop that offer additional services.
A portion of their catch was bought outright, while another portion would be processed and grilled. The cost of which would be deducted from their earnings plus would take up most of the day.
The two decided to rest at a motel for the day, while they waited. The pork was ready just before dusk. Kondo sealed it all and the two raced back to Konoha and got home before dinner time: A pork themed dinner.
After the hearty meal and family is getting ready to hit the hay, Isamu gestures Kondo over and hands him a hefty purse.
"Here's some pocket money for the hard work, boy. You'll get the rest after you graduate the academy." Isamu say. "Can I trust you to spend it responsibly?"
"Yes! Sure, Dad! You can count on me! Thank you very much!" Promptly responds Kondo.
"You're welcome. Now off to bed with you. We'll see in the morning."
STATUS
Name: Fukumoto Kondo.
Age: 5+
Race: Human
Lvl 9: 11910/25600
248/248 HP [ 2(Str + Vit) ]
267/267 CP [ 2(Vit) + Str + Dex ]
Strength: 57
Dexterity: 76
Vitality: 67
Intelligence: 116
Wisdom: 54
Unused Stat Points: 35
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