area51novel Chapter 14 Guidance
Chapter 14 Guidance
While Sasuke and Sakura were each lost in their own thoughts, Naruto couldn't wait to grab Boruto's arm.
Excitedly, they led him to a grove of trees next to the training ground, and the two of them quickly disappeared from Sasuke and Sakura's sight...
Boruto, somewhat puzzled, asked Naruto, "Naruto, why are we practicing the Rasengan in such a remote place? Wouldn't it be more convenient to practice at the training ground? And I feel like Sasuke really wants to learn this skill too."
Upon hearing Boruto's question, Naruto grinned smugly. He excitedly declared, "If Sasuke really wants to learn the Rasengan, then let me personally instruct him! Just thinking about teaching that arrogant Sasuke makes me incredibly excited, hahaha!"
Naruto pleaded with Boruto, "Boruto, can you do me this favor? I really want to teach Sasuke a lesson for his arrogance, please, just this once!"
Seeing the expectant look in Naruto's eyes, Boruto smiled and agreed, "Oh, well then, I'll help you with this." Boruto agreed; after all, Naruto is my dad.
"Yay!" Naruto's face immediately lit up with a bright smile when he heard Boruto's affirmative answer, and he jumped up excitedly.
Although Boruto agreed to Naruto's request, he still felt a little awkward.
After all, he was teaching his own father, and the Rasengan was one of Naruto's best ninjutsu.
"Let's begin then." Boruto finished speaking and began to concentrate, preparing to unleash the Rasengan. Chakra condensed in his palm, forming a spinning chakra ball.
Naruto, meanwhile, stared intently at Boruto's palm, not daring to blink, for fear of missing any crucial step.
Even though Naruto was staring intently at Boruto's palm, he couldn't figure out how Boruto had formed the Rasengan.
Boruto noticed the confusion in Naruto's eyes and explained, "The Rasengan is an A-rank ninjutsu, not something that's easy to master. It's normal that you didn't understand it; after all, it takes time and practice to gradually grasp its essence."
Boruto suddenly realized that he had only recently mastered the Rasengan, and he felt somewhat lost about how to teach Naruto, so he could only follow Konohamaru's method.
Boruto pondered for a moment, then began to explain the principle of the Rasengan to Naruto: "To master the Rasengan, you first need to concentrate your chakra in your palm, then compress that chakra into a very small area and make it spin at an extremely high speed to form a high-density 'chakra ball'."
Upon hearing Boruto's explanation, Naruto's face lit up with a look of sudden understanding. He nodded repeatedly, saying, "Oh! I see, I see, I knew it..."
"Hmm!" Boruto nodded in satisfaction when he saw that Naruto had quickly grasped the principle of the Rasengan, and secretly praised him: As expected of Dad! His comprehension is so high, he understands it as soon as he hears it, and I don't have to spend any effort teaching him.
"As expected... I still don't understand! Boruto, could you explain it in a more accessible way?" Naruto scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.
Boruto stumbled and nearly fell to the ground after hearing Naruto's next words. If you don't understand, don't pretend you do.
Boruto took an item out of his ninja bag and smiled at Naruto, saying, "Luckily, I was prepared." The item in his hand was clearly prepared to help Naruto better understand the principles of the Rasengan.
When Naruto saw Boruto take a small bag of balloons out of his ninja tool bag, he asked, "Boruto, what are you going to do with these balloons? Let me tell you, I'm past the age of playing with balloons. I'm not going to play along with your nonsense."
Boruto looked at Naruto, shook his head helplessly, and explained, "What are you thinking? These balloons are props for practicing the Rasengan." As he spoke, he prepared to demonstrate to Naruto how to use these balloons to simulate the Rasengan practice process.
"What could these balloons possibly have to do with that Rasengan?" Naruto asked skeptically.
"Just watch carefully." As soon as he finished speaking, Boruto ran to a stream not far away under Naruto's questioning gaze and poured the stream water into the balloon.
As water was poured in, the balloons gradually inflated and became heavy. Before long, several water balloons filled with water were completed.
Boruto then returned to Naruto, holding a water ball filled with water, ready to begin his demonstration.
Boruto explained to Naruto, "What you need to do next is use your chakra to stir the water inside this water sphere until you can feel the water swirling inside, and finally pop the water sphere."
Boruto gripped the water-filled balloon tightly, and his chakra began to flow inside. Ripples appeared on the surface of the water balloon, as if something inside was struggling to break free.
As the chakra intensified, the water sphere deformed more and more violently. Finally, with a crisp cracking sound, water splashed everywhere, and Boruto easily broke the water sphere.
When Naruto saw Boruto break the water sphere so easily, he seemed a little disdainful: "Hmph, I thought it would be much harder, but it's just like that? Let me show you what I'm capable of."
Naruto confidently picked up a water ball from the ground, ready to show Boruto his strength and prove that he could also easily destroy the water ball just like Boruto.
Naruto gripped the water sphere tightly, his gaze fixed firmly on it. He concentrated his mind and channeled his chakra into it.
Boruto waited, but seeing that Naruto was just holding the water ball tightly without making any further moves, he couldn't help but urge him, "Naruto, don't just stand there! Hurry up and start, I'm watching."
Naruto felt a little embarrassed when he heard Boruto's urging. His face turned slightly red, and he retorted, "It's so noisy! Can't you see I've been going for a long time? But this damn water ball hasn't made a sound at all."
Boruto then realized and said, "Oh, sorry, you can continue."
After that, Naruto began the long process of training for the Rasengan, constantly trying and adjusting, while Boruto wandered around Konoha Village during this time.
As the sun slowly set, Naruto's training with the water balloons still hadn't made significant progress.
He tried various methods to make the water inside the water balloon ripple, and even tried to make the balloon burst, but he was always unsuccessful.
The water balloon seemed unusually stubborn in Naruto's hands, and even the slightest shake was extremely difficult to make.
As the gap between expectations and reality widened, Naruto's disappointment grew heavier. Exhausted from training, Naruto felt discouraged; an entire afternoon had passed without any progress.
The training of the Rasengan was far more difficult than he had imagined.
When Boruto returned to the training ground, he found Naruto lying on the ground, panting heavily. He had obviously gone through a tough training session and was curious about the actual results of the training.
Then he teased Naruto, who was lying on the ground, "Why are you lying on the ground slacking off? Did you pop the water balloon?"
When Naruto saw Boruto return, he quickly got up from the ground and told Boruto about his predicament: "Boruto, is there something wrong with your method? I practiced all afternoon, but the situation has not improved at all."
Boruto felt a little strange after hearing this. An entire afternoon had passed, how could there be no progress at all? This shouldn't be the case.
Rasengan is one of Dad's best ninjutsu. He learned it in no time, so he should have been able to master it even faster than me.
Upon hearing Naruto's doubts, Boruto confidently replied, "Impossible! I learned it using this method back then. You must have made a mistake somewhere."
After all, Konohamaru taught me using this method, and he actually learned it himself, so this method definitely can't be wrong. The problem must lie with Dad himself.
Boruto decides to have Naruto demonstrate the Rasengan practice process again so that he can observe carefully and find out where the problem lies.
Following Boruto's instructions, Naruto began to demonstrate the results of his afternoon's practice. He placed a water balloon in his palm and let chakra flow inside the balloon.
The water balloon swayed slightly in Naruto's palm, but then remained still.
Naruto's reaction to the water balloon remained unchanged; a hint of disappointment crossed his face. He said helplessly to Boruto, "See? Same old story."
When Boruto saw that the facts were as Naruto had said—that Naruto had practiced for so long but made almost no progress—he couldn't help but frown.
Boruto said with a serious expression, "Demonstrate it again so I can see."
After hearing Boruto's request, Naruto, though feeling somewhat tired, picked up the water balloon again, ready to demonstrate his training process to Boruto once more.
Boruto decided to get involved personally this time. He gently placed his hand on the water balloon in Naruto's hand, trying to find the root of the problem by directly sensing how Naruto circulated his chakra.
Boruto carefully sensed the water balloon in Naruto's hand. He noticed that in the initial stage of the chakra flow, everything seemed to be going as expected, and the water in the balloon began to sway slightly.
However, as more chakra was injected, Boruto discovered that Naruto's chakra seemed to be clashing inside the balloon, causing the water balloon's movement to become chaotic and ultimately unable to form an effective spiral force.
Boruto realized that it was this mutual cancellation of chakra that prevented Naruto from making progress in his long training sessions.
Boruto pointed out the problem to Naruto: "To master the Rasengan, the key is to control the direction of chakra flow. You must ensure that the chakra injected into the water balloon rotates in the same direction to form an effective spiral force."
When you injected chakra just now, one strand spun to the left and another to the right. They canceled each other out inside the balloon, so the rotational force required to form the Rasengan couldn't be created.
Upon hearing Boruto's explanation, Naruto's expression immediately turned dejected. He said with some disappointment, "This is so troublesome! Did I waste my entire afternoon?"
With a hint of pleading in his voice, Naruto asked Boruto, "Boruto, how did you learn the Rasengan? I find this ninjutsu really difficult. Do you have any simpler, easier-to-understand techniques you can teach me?"
He rubbed his palms together, his eyes filled with anticipation, hoping Boruto could offer some practical advice or tips to help him master the Rasengan more quickly.
Boruto rested his chin on his hand, pondering, "How did I master the Rasengan back then? A simpler, easier-to-understand technique..."
"Mmm!" Naruto listened intently, his eyes shining with anticipation as he waited for Boruto to share his experience and help him overcome the difficulties he encountered while learning the Rasengan.
Looking at Naruto's expectant eyes, Boruto felt a bit of pressure. He unconsciously scratched his head, looking somewhat irritated.
Boruto felt a little helpless. He didn't know any easy techniques. He had only recently learned the Rasengan from Konohamaru and hadn't even mastered it yet.
Even so, facing Naruto's inquisitive gaze, Boruto forced himself to make an exaggerated gesture and said, "I don't have any simple and easy-to-understand techniques... I just did this, bang, ping, and the water balloon exploded."
Boruto immediately regretted his words as soon as they left his mouth. How could he have said such a thing? What kind of simple and easy-to-understand technique was this? It might even mislead Naruto's understanding.
Just as Boruto was about to explain that his previous remarks were not real guidance, but just random ramblings, he realized that his previous comments were not genuine guidance.
But to everyone's surprise, Naruto had a look of sudden realization on his face.
Naruto seemed very excited. He appeared to have found some kind of inspiration in Boruto's exaggerated actions. Naruto excitedly said, "I see, I get it!"
Then, he enthusiastically picked up the water balloon and began practicing according to his own understanding.
"Huh!?" Boruto was skeptical that Naruto had really understood. Was he just pretending to know something like he did before to trick him?
Naruto stared intently at the water balloon in his palm, then began to exert his strength, slowly injecting chakra into the water balloon. This time, he didn't just let the water balloon sway slightly a few times and then stop, as he had done before.
The surface of the water balloon rippled and began to shake violently in Naruto's palm, as if some power inside was gathering strength and about to break free from the balloon's restraints.
Boruto stared intently at the water balloon in Naruto's hand, his mind filled with disbelief. He had only said it casually, but it had unexpectedly inspired Naruto's understanding of the Rasengan. The water balloon trembled violently in Naruto's hand, as if it might burst at any moment.
The water balloon shook violently in Naruto's hand for four or five seconds. Both Boruto and Naruto held their breath, hoping that the water balloon would burst as they wished.
However, under their tense gaze, the water balloon did not burst as expected. Instead, it was suddenly propelled by a force, arced through the air, and landed on the ground not far away.
Although it did not achieve the expected results, this attempt was clearly a significant improvement over the previous one.
Boruto watched the water balloon bounce away, shook his head slightly, and said with a hint of regret, "It felt like we were just a little bit short of succeeding." Although he felt a little disappointed, he was also happy for Naruto's progress.
Naruto was very excited and his confidence soared. After practicing for so long, he had finally achieved some substantial results, which gave him hope of success.
Naruto looked at Boruto with excitement in his eyes and said with a smile, "Why didn't you teach him like this earlier? Even an idiot could learn it this way. I didn't expect you to have such a talent for teaching, Boruto."
As he spoke, he gently nudged Boruto's shoulder with his elbow, expressing his approval and appreciation for Boruto's teaching methods.
"Hehe, is that so?" Boruto felt a little embarrassed. He didn't even know what he had just said, let alone that he was teaching him.
However, the results seem to be better than expected. Could he really be a genius...?