It was genuinely pitiful. Although Shiyu Uchiha wasn't yet a match for Mikoto Uchiha at this point, he could still hold his own for a while. However, childhood shadows kept him in an inferior position. In fact, it wasn't only in this life—he had also had an older sister in his previous life, and had been dominated by her since childhood, which was why the idea of "older sisters" left psychological scars.
Delighted to receive agreement, Mikoto Uchiha happily began explaining the key points of performing the Great Fireball Technique to Shiyu Uchiha. However, her explanation sounded rather magical: "You just make these hand seals, channel your chakra like this, take a deep breath, and then blow it out."
She then asked, "Hey, I almost forgot—have you tested your chakra nature yet?"
"I did that long ago. I have a fire affinity." In truth, as soon as Shiyu Uchiha had first extracted chakra, he had eagerly begged Shizhi Uchiha to give him a chakra nature test paper to determine his affinity. Much to his disappointment, he had only a single fire affinity. To avoid ridicule from Mikoto, he hadn't mentioned it until now.
Sure enough, Mikoto's eyes widened in surprise before narrowing at him. With a smirk, she shot back, "A fire nature? And just a single one too? I remember you acting a lot more confident back then."
After speaking, Mikoto Uchiha burst into laughter, her smile bearing an uncanny resemblance to those of Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha.
Since Mikoto herself also possessed only one chakra nature, having once suffered teasing from Shiyu after her testing, discovering now that Shiyu too had only one nature naturally prompted her desire for retaliation.
She had held back for years, afraid of being teased again, so today finally felt like a weight was lifted off her shoulders.
Shiyu Uchiha helplessly thought to himself, "Why are you so sharp-witted today?" Yet he dared not say anything aloud, silently beginning practice of the Great Fireball Technique with an emotionless expression.
Sure enough, after a while without anyone cooperating with him, the laughing Mikoto Uchiha gradually grew bored and stopped mocking Shiyu altogether, instead offering guidance as she watched him train.
Because of diligent hand seal training and sufficient theoretical understanding, Shiyu Uchiha soon successfully spat out a small fireball.
Overjoyed with his success, Shiyu wanted to keep practicing, but found his chakra reserves already drained and couldn't muster enough strength for another Great Fireball Technique.
He mentally estimated that even at his best, he could probably only pull off the Great Fireball Technique twice.
At this moment, Yeli Uchiha observed the interactions between this brother and sister with a gentle smile, remaining silent throughout. Seeing Shiyu successfully spit out the Great Fireball Technique, she finally spoke up: "Mikoto, next I will teach you two advanced Ninjutsu techniques based upon the Great Fireball—the C-ranked Dragon Fire Technique and Phoenix Sage Fire Technique. Before teaching you these two techniques, there are a few things I need to say. Shiyu, be sure to pay attention too."
"Yes, Mother," they both replied before turning their attention toward Shizhi Uchiha.
"Let me first introduce to you the Fire Release techniques of our Uchiha clan. Fire Release ninjutsu is the most refined among the Five Natures techniques in our Uchiha clan, without exception.
Except for a few individuals, everyone in our family who possesses chakra also has this attribute. Therefore, Fire Release has become the most important technique in our clan—aside from the Sharingan—and also the most fundamental one.
The [Great Fireball Technique] is the foundation of our Uchiha clan's Fire Release techniques and is the root of all other Fire Release techniques in our clan. Basically, other classic Fire Release techniques of our family are variations of this technique.
Mikoto, the two jutsu I'm going to teach you today—the [Dragon Fire Technique] and the [Phoenix Sage Fire Technique]—have a learning difficulty of merely C-rank. The reason for this is simply because the [Great Fireball Technique] is their prerequisite jutsu. Once you've got the hang of the [Great Fireball Technique], picking up these two will be much easier.
However, once you've learned them, combine them with the Insight ability of your first tomoe Sharingan, and they'll be just as effective as most B-ranked techniques.
Moreover, these two techniques can also help you master chakra nature transformation and shape transformation.
If your control over chakra shape and nature transformation is strong enough, you can keep advancing—and your power might even surpass most A-ranked techniques. Do you understand?" At this point, Uchiha Shizhi earnestly warned his children, advising them not to aim too high or chase after things beyond their reach.
"We understand, Mother," the siblings replied in a very obedient and synchronized manner.
Then Uchiha Shizhi continued, "The [Dragon Fire Technique] builds upon the [Great Fireball Technique] by adding chakra shape transformation. By shape transformation, chakra is highly compressed to form a line of fire, concentrating its power on a single point, which can enhance its destructive power and increase attack speed. The higher the degree of shape transformation, the greater the power.
When the shape transformation reaches a certain level, it can advance further into the B-ranked [Great Dragon Fire Technique], which will also possess actual impact damage.
If you wish to further increase the power of the [Great Dragon Fire Technique], you will need to continue developing your chakra nature transformation, evolving this technique further into the A-ranked [Great Dragon Homura Technique].
The essence of the C-ranked [Phoenix Sage Fire Technique] is a variant of the Dragon Fire series, maintaining a certain level of power while converting the instantly explosive damage into continuously erupting bursts, thus avoiding damage overflow. When used in conjunction with the Sharingan, it ensures the precision of each small fireball.
Therefore, the higher your mastery of chakra shape and nature transformation, the greater the power and number of Phoenix Sage Fireballs. Once these small fireballs leave your body, with the Sharingan, you can slightly adjust their trajectories through chakra, increasing the hit rate.
You can also embed shuriken into them to increase power, thus upgrading it to the [Phoenix Sage Flower Claws Red Technique]. This is an option to choose when you lack sufficient control over chakra shape and nature transformation, and it can also be considered a composite ninjutsu.
There are also other variations. Once mastered, they can completely ensure you have suitable countermeasures no matter what kind of enemy you encounter.
In addition, the Uchiha clan has passed down many Fire Release techniques accumulated over centuries. As long as you achieve sufficient mastery of the shape and nature transformations of fire-type chakra, you can unleash power approaching S-rank strength."
At this moment, Shizhi Uchiha's explanation had completely captivated Mikoto and Shiyu, inspiring their longing for Fire Release and opening a new world of Fire Release in front of them.
Then naturally, when Shizhi Uchiha continued explaining the basics of Fire Release, both listened even more attentively. After the lesson, Mikoto Uchiha and Shiyu Uchiha imagined their future achievements. Shiyu even pictured himself during the Fourth Great Ninja War, releasing Fire Release techniques, and became full of hope for his future and highly motivated.
"Mom, please teach me quickly," Mikoto Uchiha pleaded with her mother eagerly, eyes sparkling.
"Then I'll go practice swordsmanship," said Shiyu Uchiha.
"That's right, Shiyu, you go practice swordsmanship there. Mikoto, I will teach you hand seals first," Shizhi Uchiha gently replied, beginning to instruct the application of hand seals and chakra.
Walking away while hearing their conversation, Shiyu sighed, thinking that Shizhi Uchiha's teaching method was much more reliable than Mikoto's—it was a completely different level. Why is there such a huge difference between a mother and daughter?
Shiyu had been practicing swordsmanship for a while when he finally heard Shizhi Uchiha's voice calling him back home. By then, Mikoto was completely wiped out from using so much chakra. Seeing this, Shiyu rushed over to support her and received an appreciative look in return, and then they went home together.
The next morning after breakfast, Shiyu Uchiha planned to head to school alone. Mikoto had already graduated and would be running around the village completing missions with her teammates later, so she wouldn't accompany him. When Shiyu walked out the door, Yeli approached holding out a scroll and said, "Shiyu, this is for you."
"What is it?" Shiyu asked curiously.
"It's a condensed version of foundational swordsmanship techniques. If your talent is good enough, you could reach Chunin-level combat strength within three years. It's perfect for giving to your friend. This sword technique allows kunai to replace swords, so it can also be considered an improved version of Kunai Hand-to-hand Combat."
Yeli explained with a smile and then went off to do something else, leaving Shiyu Uchiha looking slightly flustered. He felt like Shizhi had misunderstood him, but he just couldn't find the right words to explain otherwise.
"Friend, what friend? Male or female?" Mikoto peeked out from her room, nosy as ever, her eyes sparkling with curiosity.
"Just a regular friend," Shiyu flatly replied. "I'm going to school now; I'll be late." Wanting to avoid saying too much, he hurried off with this excuse.
Mikoto clearly didn't buy any of what Shiyu said for a second. Secretly, she resolved to find time to visit the ninja academy soon. Then she thought about her best girlie friend—three years younger but still super close and always on the same wavelength. She decided to ask this friend to help investigate a bit.
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