Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

Chapter 19

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

Chapter 19

'Ok... step by step, Eiji,' I thought to myself, as I took one last deep breath in and slowly let it out.

'Step one, focus,' and so, I pulled on my year and a half of Mediation to block out everything that I didn't need. It was me, my equipment and my target.

'Step two, find your chakra,' It was almost habit anyway, to do so after I started meditating. Regardless, I gave it my all. The warm feeling that moved inside and made my hairs stand on end by just being aware of it filled me.

'Step two, hand seals, Snake,' My hands came together, my right hand's index and middle finger pointing up while the other three curved against the palm. My left hand's wrapping around the first two.

The chakra inside me grew more... electrical in nature, hotter and almost painful.

'Horse,' The index fingers pointed upwards in a sort of triangle while the others interlocked underneath them, the thumbs curling against the base of the forefingers.

The energy moved through my arms, making it difficult not to tremble as I felt my limbs strain due to it.

'Rabbit,' my left hand formed a typical gun gesture towards the right with my index while the thumb pointed up. My right hand resting on top of it with all fingers curving against the palm, except the pinky which ran over the front of my left thumb.

My hands grew numb when the chakra settled on them. It felt like they became bombs all of a sudden, a slight mishap on my handling and they would blow up. It probably wouldn't have been that bad, but that's how I felt like.

'Boar,' Both hands pointed downwards with the fingers half-curled towards the palms. One next to the other.

The energy circled on my palms, tendrils of it straying towards my fingers.

'Step three, take the shuriken,' My hands moved to the small pouches on my sides and each took one shuriken.

'Step four, push the chakra onto them,' The shallowest of touches got my energy moving towards the throwing weapons. The sound of sparkling electricity reached my ears and my eyes caught flashes of light coming from my hands.

'Step five, throw them,' And throw them I did.

Once the spiraling metal blades left my fingers, I allowed myself to relax and watch. A proud smile etched onto my face as I looked at my first ever actual jutsu.

Lightning Release: Sparkling Shuriken. It was very simple, really. It imbued actual shuriken with 'Lightning'. It was an E-Rank technique, not even reaching the Basic Clone or the Transformation jutsu's level, which was D. Although, being fair, that was the whole reason we were allowed to try this before the other's in Ninjutsu class.

Weak jutsu or not, seeing the shuriken hit the log target we were using was extremely satisfying. Even more so when sparks flew between the projectile and the wood, instantly leaving burnt marks around the hitting zone.

[New Skill Acquired: Lightning Release: Sparkling Shuriken Lvl 1]

[New Skill Acquired: Lightning Manipulation – Lvl 1]

"Good job, Eiji," I nodded at the teacher's words. "please, go back to the others so the next student can try," By the time he finished, I was already moving towards the group a wide grin seemed permanently stuck to my face.

'If this ain't awesome, I don't know what is,' I thought, knowingly exaggerating. But I just felt that good.

[Lightning Release: Sparkling Shuriken – Lvl 1