Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

Chapter 101

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

Cover Art: Kissuli.

Chapter 101

"When did this become... easy?" Eiji wondered out loud as he wrote down in his notebook. He felt it was a somewhat justified question, really. After all, he was referring to jutsu creation, a subject that had given him no small amount of stress at some point.

He remembered it, how much he'd had to work at the start, when he'd been tasked with creating the Void. And then he compared it with how he was now though, with probably more original jutsu than not. He wasn't really sure about that, but he wasn't keen on checking either way.

"Sometimes I wish other people could hear your thoughts," Kage commented then, sounding a little annoyed. "If only just to see them react when you say stuff like that."

"I have to... reluctantly agree with Kage," Hachi said, as if it pained her. "You do have a very skewed view of some things, Eiji. Not that I don't see why you do, but it's both amusing and a little annoying."

Tsuchigumo, darling that she was, simply barked happily. She probably didn't even understand much of what they were saying, if Eiji was to take a guess. Either that, or she didn't care. It wasn't like she was dumb, after all, but she still seemed to act like that sometimes. He supposed she had priorities as to what she was smart about and what not.

"Never change, Tsuchi," He thought with a smile on his face that widened when she replied with another bark. Then, with a sigh, he cracked his neck, deciding to take a little break from his notes.

Almost distractedly, he turned to see the wires around him. They were burning brightly, as they had been for some time now. Literally at that, since he was practicing chakra flow, something he'd mastered some time ago already. Well, he'd mastered Lightning, but he was working on Fire now.

[Chakra Flow: Fire – Lvl 5

Technique with which the user can channel elemental chakra into weapons to grant them special enhancements.

Increased chances of the target continued burning by 25%.

Consumption – 8 Chakra Points per second.]

It wasn't the fastest of progresses, but Eiji wasn't too worried about that. It was more of a thing he did to multitask, really. He wasn't sure in which moment it would be more useful than Lightning, really. He supposed he could use Fire whenever he was against an Air Release user, but even then Chakra Flow wouldn't be the best option. The elemental nature worked better when it was thrown against Air techniques, after all.

Hell, he was working on fire techniques with his jutsu creation projects for a reason, after all. Well, that and for Konan. He didn't really remember if she was actually weak to fire, and neither did his notes, but he didn't see why not. Then again, the world he was part of hardly followed logic at the best of times. Considering that and that paper had some very glaringly obvious weaknesses, he had to consider that they might not actually work.

Eiji could only hope that if it was resistant to fire, it wasn't completely so.

That would suck.

"How's this looking, Hachi?" He asked his jutsu 'assistant'.

"I think it's going well so far," She replied, but he could almost hear her eyes narrowing. "And don't call me assistant."

"Ma'am, yes ma'am."

Then they heard Kage snickering, which brought both of them to stop and focus on him. Eiji couldn't really see inside his mindscape unless he went in, but he still had a pretty good idea of what was going on. Like the fact that Kage gulped under his 'sister's' gaze.