Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

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Chapter 50

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor The Gamer. I own nothing, really.

Chapter 50

It was a beautiful sight, the one created by my new Jutsu. Maybe it was a bit arrogant of me to say so myself, but I couldn't care less at that moment. After all, it gave me a similar sensation to the one I felt the first time I used a Jutsu at all. It had that magical touch to it, I guessed.

I watched it for a moment, the amalgamation of lightning moving around me without a clear target to it. Since it was made of lightning, it had a distinctive white color with touches of light blue here and there. It also had, however, some odd colored details inside its mouth and on its eyes, almost darkening in those areas and with more purple than blue.

Still, it was very much a Lightning Beast as the name implied.

[New Skill Acquired: Lightning Release: Lightning Beast Tracking Fang - Lvl 1]

'That's a long ass name,' I thought wryly, the ridiculous title of the technique breaking me from my awe, annoyingly enough. At the same time, my focus slipped from my mind and the hound shaped electricity dissolved until only a few straying sparks remained. Then, the clearing was filled with silence.

"You really got it down in a week," Anko said, appearing right next to me. "And I'm left wondering, once again, if my only role here is to give you scrolls and spar with you," She mused out loud, holding her chin between her fingers.

"Is there supposed to be anything else to do as a sensei?" I asked sarcastically. I understood though. I had saved her a lot of trouble, absorbing everything and anything that she had to teach.

Where others might have had to deal with some annoying personality trait or another, she only had to teach and I would learn it. My annoying personality trait was, after all, working too much, apparently. And the sword of foreknowledge that hung over my head gave me all the motivation I needed to keep that attitude. Not to mention the benefits of Danzo's little assignments and my last life's memories giving me a slightly better mentality.

"Besides," I continued with a shrug, my eyes trailed towards the side, where my jutsu's beast had charged by a moment ago. "You've been teaching me how to fight together with my summons," I added, because it was true. I had somewhat of an idea about how to fight with people thanks to her teachings from some time ago, but fighting with giant spiders was a completely different thing that I had to adapt to. She had been the one to guide me through that part of my training. Kumohoshi had been delighted with her for that.

"Well, that was as good as a first attempt could have gone… at least by your standards," Anko told me with a light chuckle at the end. "One week, seriously. How's your two weeks' insane plan, huh?" She asked then, referring to the Jutsu that I wanted to create based on the Lightning Beast Tracking Fang. 'I'm definitely shortening it to Lightning Beast,' I thought to myself.

"Well… it's going. I might need some more time. But a month is definitely enough to at least create it and get some practice," I replied with a grimace. Maybe I had overestimated myself by trying to create an Elemental Jutsu in two weeks, especially when I hadn't even had any knowledge in the subject before that. The only reason I thought it possible in a month was because it was based on an existing Jutsu, the Lightning Beast one.

"I still think you are insane," My sensei said with a wide grin. "But that's fine. Besides, I've seen you achieve some pretty crazy shit."

"Hmph," A huff interrupted the conversation and both Anko and I turned to my shoulder, where a white spider sat. "A month to create such a Jutsu is impossible."