Chapter 37 - 37 (1/2)

”Kid, you can't do it?” After learning about the prophecy of the Great Sage Toad, Jiraya made a vow to train Ryo and guide him.

However, Ryo never thought that this ”guidance” would revolve around him doing Pushups in Mount Myoboku.

Ryo never actually did strength training at such intensity. In his 1st time, he didn't even manage to do 200 push-ups. That's a number topped even by many of this world's non Ninja trained kids, let alone the ones from big families who started to train at age 3.

The Yamanaka are a family known for their spiritual power. To do their signature techniques, they work a lot on refining Chakra, spiritual practice, and Ninjutsu training. They don't have much time for physical training.

Most of Ryo's training is based on speed, and even his Lightning Chakra mode is focused around that. Same goes for Chidori and its derivates.

And then there was his work on his ice techniques. He focused on differentiating between physical, spiritual and natural energy. That's how he became able to make Ice without consuming Chakra, something previously thought was impossible.

Just looking at Ryo's previous experiences makes it easy to know his main deficiencies. What he needs the most right now is physical exercise.

He could also benefit later on from learning more Water release and Wind release techniques. But now the more urgent thing is improving his physical qualities.

”Faster kid, run!” Lying on his back, Jiraya watched Ryo run back and forth. In order to help Ryo with his physical shape, they often went back to Konoha to get more food and food pills.

With this, during the following 6 months, Ryo's physical strength and endurance improved substantially under Jiraya's guidance. The most important impact of this improvement that he found out was that the amount of Chakra he had was drastically increased.

Ryo's Chakra finally reached the level of a Jonin. In the Manga, the 12-year-old Naruto had a 100 times more Chakra than Kakashi. Ryo has finally reached a 1% of his Chakra at that age.

Year 41, Ryo spent half of it training his physique, and now he's now starting to learn water release techniques under the guidance of Jiraya.

So far, Ryo has already learned several water release techniques. Water Trumpet, Water Waves, and Water Wall are all techniques taught to him by his mother, Yamanaka Chinse.

Being one of the legendary Sannin, and having Ninjutsu as his forte, Jiraya couldn't actually count how Justus he's learned over the years on the battlefields.

”So kid, has anyone taught you about the characteristics of water release?”

”No, the water Justus I've learned are one that my mother taught me.”

”Okay. So what characteristics to you think one should focus on when using water based attack?”

”Well I think they are its state, charge, and pressure.” Ryo answered him after thinking a bit.

”Well, what states are there to water?”

Jiraya's question was nothing hard to answer in Ryo previous world. Even school-children knew that water has three states: solid, liquid and gaseous. With the 1st being ice, the second being regular water, and the 3rd being vapor or fog.

Ryo told Jiraya what he knew from his previous world, and Jiraya listened to his explanation.

”Cough”… ”You're good kid! Now tell me what do you know about the pressure and the charge of the water?”