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Rasengan

After the Hinata event everything went back to normal. Everything was back to the well known boring school schedule. Except one or two things. Actually Dix a bit overdid it with Hinata, and now she had a bit more feeling for him than the anime Hinata had for Naruto. Poor girl doesn't have many friends of her own, she had to cling to Dix for some companionship, and he too wanted to help her out with that. Sometimes he complimented her, sometimes he gave her advice, either regarding life or growing stronger, sometimes he walked her home when she felt lonely.

Once Hinata's father saw Dix escorting her little girl home, and got visibly angry. He looked like a vulcan that's about to erupt. But still, he managed to control it, and after hearing their explanation, he thanked Dix for his help and sent him on his way. The next time they met Hinata was escorted by someone from the Hyuga branch house. When their eyes connected she just shook her head with a small smile and went on her way. Dix didn't have to walk her home anymore.

The other thing that changed is that the bullies he had beaten came back a few times for revenge, but he knocked them out every time. This was somewhat familiar for Dix, so he kinda knew whats going to come. The bullies had to bring reinforcements, otherwise they risked their heads taking up the shape of Dix's shoes. One day one of the thugs showed up with his ninja relative. He was only a lowly genin, so Dix had nothing to fear. Actually even if he brought out a jonin, Dix would still have had nothing to fear. So he just swept the floor with the two idiots while barely showing a quarter of his basic strength, then went on his merry way.

Dix knew about this kind of thing because Kushina, Naruto's mother, when she was an Academy student she had the same problems. That was the time when Minato saved her from the genin that would've otherwise overpowered her. A truly heartwarming story. And a sad one at the same time. Seems like every generation commits itself to the same mistakes.

With a lot of free time and the sharingan slowly coming along on its own, Dix decided to start a new project, because he won't be able to acquire the Flying Thunder God Technique, even though he set it as the next main goal. He still wanted to wait a few years. Considering its strength that technique must be equally as hard to learn, so he had to show something to the Third to get it.

He decided he would go ahead and master Naruto's famous and signature move, the Rasengan. Also, on a side note, he wanted to learn elemental releases, which would boost the destructive power of most of what he has in his arsenal by a good margin.

Thus one afternoon, when he finished at school, he decided he would start learning the Rasengan on his own. He read a few articles about it in the Third's library, and also remembered the exact way Jiraiya taught this to Naruto in the anime, as he really liked that training, for some reason.

Before starting he had to buy a lot of stuff first. He needed a ton of water balloons, around a hundred. He also needed the same amount of rubber balls, then another load of the balloons, without water in them. He didn't need them all at once for starters, so he bought only water balloons, and later he will come back for the other stuff. After a bit of searching around, he couldn't find anyone selling this many of them at once, so he bought the entire stock of one shop, then moved on to the next, until he had the required amount.

He filled his bag and a few buckets full of these water balloons and made his way out of the village, back to his permanent camp. There he summoned as many clones as water balloons there were, and started the training. He had to circulate his chakra inside the balloon so fast that it pops. That was it for the first step. Also, he had to circulate it in a specific direction, some bullshit the Naruto Series came up with. Apparently you have to know which rotation type you are so as to not work against your natural rotation, and Naruto's rotation type is to the right.