Chapter 7 – Fists of Nature
The weeks after their seventh birthday marked a quiet but crucial turning point for the Hiwatari triplets. They had already mastered the academy's basics, refined their chakra control, and strengthened their bodies. Now, they set their sights on something far deeper.
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📜 Studying the Arts – Fuinjutsu and Medical Ninjutsu
Yuva's interest in sealing arts — fūinjutsu — grew stronger with each passing day. He spent hours hunched over scrolls, learning how chakra could be contained, stored, and shaped. E-rank seals were simple — storage tags, chakra markers, explosive seals — but even these basics required intense focus and precision.
At the same time, Tenzo began reading D- and E-rank medical texts. He learned about chakra flow in the human body, how healing worked, and how to seal small wounds with concentrated chakra. It wasn't glamorous, but Tenzo's calm, focused nature made him well-suited to the path of a medic-nin.
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⚔️ A Father's Lesson
One evening, Yuva approached their father, Hari, with a question that had been bothering him.
"Father," he said, "why don't you teach us elemental jutsu? We're ready. Shouldn't we be learning techniques now?"
Hari looked up from the scroll he was reading and chuckled softly. "Let me tell you something, Yuva. There are samurai out there who've never used a single ninjutsu in their lives. No flashy chakra, no elemental blasts. And yet… they can cut down a jonin with nothing but a sword."
Yuva frowned slightly. "But… how?"
"Because they've mastered their bodies, their weapons, and their focus," Hari explained. "I'm not raising you to rely on big, flashy jutsu. If you focus too much on techniques, you'll forget the basics that keep you alive. Your fists, your blades, and your chakra control — those will save you when everything else fails."
The words sank deep into Yuva's heart. For the first time, he truly understood his father's goal:
They weren't training to be ordinary shinobi. They were training to be warriors who could kill without hand signs, win without ninjutsu, and survive no matter the situation.
That night, Yuva gathered Tenzo and Daichi. "He's right," he told them. "If we master our bodies and our chakra first, we won't need flashy jutsu. But we can still make our elements part of our close combat."
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🔥 Forging Fists of Fire
Yuva proposed a plan: create their own "no-jutsu" elemental techniques — simple, hand-to-hand attacks enhanced with elemental chakra.
"Start with fire," he told Daichi and Tenzo. "Push fire chakra into your fists until you can hold it there without losing control."
It sounded easy. It wasn't.
For weeks, both struggled. The chakra flared too hot and vanished. Sometimes it burned their skin. Other times it sputtered out entirely. But slowly, control came.
And then, one afternoon, it happened — both Tenzo and Daichi managed to form a stable fire coating around their fists.
They punched forward. The air hissed. The training post cracked and smoked.
It wasn't a powerful jutsu — not yet — but it was proof that they had taken a step beyond simple chakra shaping.
"You've done it," Yuva said proudly. "Now you understand what I mean."
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⚡ Lightning, Stone, and Water
To show them the potential, Yuva demonstrated his own Lightning Punch — something he had been refining in secret. Purple lightning crackled across his fist, and with a single blow, he splintered a thick tree trunk.
"Elemental chakra isn't just for jutsu," he said. "It's a weapon — if you learn to wield it."
Inspired, Daichi began coating his fists with earth chakra, forming a dense, stone-like layer over his skin. His punches grew heavier, more destructive — Stone Punch, they called it.
Yuva worked on a Water Punch, channeling water chakra into his fist to make his strikes fluid and adaptable. It wasn't as destructive as lightning or fire, but it flowed around defenses and struck from unexpected angles.
With every day, their chakra control grew sharper. Their bodies grew stronger. And the three brothers learned to blend elemental nature directly into their close-combat style.
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🌬️ The Wind Trick
One day, Yuva pulled Tenzo aside with a new idea.
"Tenzo," he said, "I want you to try something different with your wind chakra."
"What do you mean?" Tenzo asked.
"Most people think of wind as cutting," Yuva explained. "But it's not just about sharpness. Wind is movement. It's force. You can use it to push as well as cut."
Tenzo listened carefully as Yuva demonstrated. He channeled a faint current of wind chakra around his palm and clapped. The wind flowed forward with the motion, amplifying the push.
"See that?" Yuva said. "By forming wind around your hands, you're not just pushing with muscle — you're letting the wind help you. It reduces the effort but increases the force."
Tenzo nodded and began practicing.
At first, the wind scattered uselessly. But slowly, it began to form properly. His pushes grew sharper, stronger, and easier. Even simple palm strikes now carried extra force thanks to the flowing wind.
It was a small trick, but in close combat, small advantages meant everything.
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🥋 Stronger Than Ever
By the time they were halfway through their seventh year, the Hiwatari triplets had created something rare: a foundation not just in ninjutsu theory, but in elemental close-quarters combat.
Yuva: Lightning Punch and Water Punch, both enhanced by his growing nature chakra.
Tenzo: Fire Punch and Wind Push, blending offense and movement.
Daichi: Fire Punch, Stone Punch, and growing skill with chakra-enhanced strength.
Their fists weren't just fists anymore. They were weapons — extensions of their chakra and will.
And though the world still saw them as academy students, Yuva knew the truth:
They were already walking a different path. A harder path. A path that would make them deadly long before they ever unleashed a single flashy jutsu.
And deep inside his soul, the sealed sea of nature energy pulsed again — vast, patient, and waiting for the day it would finally be unleashed.