Naruto: Chronicles of A Fire Ninja

Chapter 47: D Rank missions

After sleeping for 22 hours, Kaida woke up at 3 AM. Without wasting any time, he went to his previous training location to try out the new seal Yukihiro had given him.

First, as instructed, he set the weight to 10 kg and started doing push-ups. After just a few reps, he began to feel the effects of the weight, and a question arose in his mind: *How much weight is my limit?*

To answer that, Kaida started to slowly increase the weight. At 25 kg, the effect of the weight became apparent; he walked around a little bit and continued to increase it.

At 50 kg, he started having difficulty walking. At 75 kg, he was walking at a literal crawling pace. 100 kg was his limit. In the end, he coated his whole body in chakra, and with its help, he was able to move with 100 kg, though it was at the same pace as when he was carrying 50 kg.

Kaida continued his exercise like this, and after one hour, his chakra reserve was halved. He stopped using chakra and reduced the weight to 10 kg.

*Pain.*

A huge amount of pain assaulted his body. Even though the chakra had allowed him to exercise while carrying 100 kg, it wasn't something his body could normally handle. His body was taking all the damage, while chakra was providing enough power to do the exercise as well as slowly healing the damage.

Kaida coated his body in chakra again and just lay there. Now that the chakra was only working on healing his body, his recovery sped up, and in 30 minutes, he was good to go.

(A/N: No, he doesn't know any medical jutsu; it's just one of the properties of chakra that increases the natural healing of the body. This is why ninjas heal faster than civilians.)

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Kaida went back to his house. Since they had a huge feast the day before, he decided to just eat a nutrient bar. Due to constant eating out and other expenses, their balance had dropped to 9,540 Ryo from 24,000 Ryo.

They hadn't received their monthly allowance for this month, so he decided to stick with the nutrient bar for now. Since their training had just ended, Yomi didn't come to call Kaida for morning training, and Kaida did the same.

At 6 AM, both of them got ready and went to the Hokage's office. Since Hiruzen was expecting them, they didn't have to wait long.

"Congratulations to both of you! You've completed your elemental training, and Kaida, you even learned kenjutsu too. Very good, very good."

"Thank you, Grandpa," both of them said.

"As you know, there was a plan to have four parts in your academy training, after which you would become genin. You've already completed three parts. But for the fourth part, where you would learn a specialization, you'll have to wait. After you complete some missions and gain practical experience, then you can choose your specialization."

Before both of them could fully comprehend it, Hiruzen started speaking again.

"You were already promoted to genin earlier, remember?"

With sudden realization, both of them said, "Yes, Grandpa."

"Being a genin means you are now adults, so you will no longer receive a stipend like before. On the other hand, you can take missions from the assignment desk at the academy.

Though you can only take D-rank missions for now, when there's another ready to be promoted to genin, and your team can get a third member, I'll assign you a sensei, and you can take C-rank missions too. Oh! I forgot to ask if you even want to be in a team or not."