46Hello Guys, it's been a while. Since I uploaded two new stories, thought I could an update on this story. So, yeah, a new chapter. Enjoy.
Okay.
The thing about the reverse cursed technique is that it leaves the person exhausted after the initial rush of high and leaves them counting sheep in their sleep. It's no different to Naruto. So, when he woke up in bed he had to wipe away all the drool around his mouth, cause that was one of the damn good sleep he ever had.
Then he looked around himself and noticed he was placed on a white bed in a clean room, not a typical hospital room, but it does have the vibe that it's for patients what with the IV stand and other medical stuff.
"Oh, you woke up? I thought it'd take a couple more hours more." Naruto looks toward Shoko with a half-asleep expression.
"mmmm..What's that? Shoko?" looks like he still didn't wake up completely. Shoko shook her head and dragged him into a bathroom that was near.
"Go freshen up. You still haven't given your report to Yaga-sensei."
He went into the bathroom and looked himself in the mirror for a while. He splashed some water on his face to wash away the sleep.
….
He sat in front of Yaga and gave him both the written and verbal report. All the while the bear of a man did not change his expression, not even once. Yaga only spoke when Naurto completed his report.
"What you did there was very much of a Rookie mistake, but you did manage to get powerful and exorcise the curse all the while still maintaining the veil. Make sure that the power doesn't get to your head. And don't let the mistakes happen next time. Good work. I'll talk with the Higher-ups about your promotion."
Naruto understood the silent dismissal, he nodded his head and left the building. He looked around and found a vending machine. He bought himself a coffee and sat down on the bench near him.
"So, while using RCT, did it feel like you're high on feint or was it like the rush of an orgasm?"
*Pffft* "Who starts a conversation like that? I just sat down!" Naruto looked at the person who shamelessly asked about orgasm. Mei Mei chuckled to herself seeing the reaction from the first-year student. She just spoke to Yaga-san, and from what she could guess, Naruto was guaranteed to be promoted to Semi-Grade 1 if not Grade 1. To be promoted so quickly in such a short amount of time. Coupled with a unique CT, he is truly an interesting young man.
"I'm Mei Mei, a full-time Grade 1 sorcerer. It's been a long time." She extended her hand for a greeting, which Naruto reciprocated.
"Uh yeah, Hello Mei-san. Nice to meet you too. You haven't changed a bit." True Mei Mei hasn't changed since the day they met at the old mansion. She still keeps her hair in a ponytail with two bangs framing the sides of her face.
"Ara, thank you. Though, you grew up to be quite a handsome young man." Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Mei-san are you flirting with me?"
"My, what gave you that idea? And what if I did?" She gave him a seductive smirk that made him feel his pants were a bit tight.
"You know I'm still a minor, that's considered illegal.." he is liking where the conversation was going. This is fun.
"Ah, give me a break, the general rules don't apply to us sorcerers when we are fighting with something that doesn't exist in 'real life'." She rolled her eyes but then gave a sexy smile to him. "And it's not like you'd be a minor forever." She dragged her thumb across his jaw and placed it on his lips.
'Whoa! Is this happening? An older woman flirting with a younger guy! Oh.. I can't believe my fantasy is coming true… I'm so lucky. Is she going to ask me to call her Mommy?' Naruto's face did not betray his thoughts. He just looked at Mei with half-lidded eyes and silently enjoying her ministrations on his lips. 'Omg yes! She's keeping her finger in my mouth! Should I suck it? Yes, Mommy! I'm gonna suck those luscious- '
"Oh wow, you guys look like you get along so well" an annoying voice interrupted before Mei could go further into her teasing and Naruto could go further into his fantasies.
"My, hello Gojo, we are just getting acquainted. Nothing more." Mei spoke with her usual grace while Naruto nodded his head, not finding his voice.
"Hmmm, alright. Naruto, I have some free time. So, we're gonna go train you. You can join us if you want Mei." She shook her head negatively at Gojo's offer.
"I'd love to, but I have to be somewhere else. Maybe another time." then she turned towards Naruto with a smirk making him gulp. "You can take my number from Gojo later. We can get to know each other better that way. Bye~"
Naruto nodded with a smile, but his jaw dropped at the way her hips swayed. He closed his mouth once he realized she saw him checking her out.
"Ahem!" He groaned when Gojo also saw that he was checking Mei Mei out. "If you're done ogling at my coworker's back, we can get to your training."
"Fine. Let's go, Killjoy." They both started walking towards one of the few training dojos that Tokyo Jujutsu High has. "I now know how to use RCT and make my chains out of positive energy." Gojo grinned while throwing his hand over Naruto's shoulder.
"I guessed as much when Shoko mentioned that you don't have any visible wounds but have a lot of your dried blood."
Naruto nodded his head while they stood facing each other. "But that's not why we are here. You're overly reliant on your cursed technique. Don't get me wrong, for most sorcerers, 80 percent of their skill set is based on their CT, if they have one. But being overly dependent on just CT is also dangerous and leaves gaps and holes in your skill set."
Naruto supposed Gojo was right, without his CT, he couldn't have eliminated the Grade 1 CS with just the cursed energy manipulation. That too, after he had to almost lose his arm. If he hadn't awakened his RCT, Naruto was sure that he would've been dead then and there. "Alright, what do you have in mind then Senpai."
Gojo smiled. Not everyone was willing to accept that they were not that strong when you pointed it out, even with the reasons provided. One has to have the mindset to improve to truly become strong. And Naruto is showing it right now.
"I heard from Kusakabe that you're bad at hand-to-hand combat. I'd imagine that learning to use a weapon would be a waste of time when you're using your chains most of the time." Naruto nodded in response. "So what we are gonna do is practice hand-to-hand combat; one, raw that is bare-handed; two, while using just cursed energy and three, experimenting with what you can do to incorporate your chains into it."
Naruto gave it a thought, indeed, he was only using chains as…just chains, there's no versatility for them. Then he got an Idea. "Satoru, I got an Idea!"
"Hmm, what's that?" Gojo wondered.
"About the third point, what if I can use my chains and wrap them around my arm using them as a drill, whoa, that's gonna be freaking awesome." Gojo grinned as Naruto was already beginning to fantasize about the idea.
"See, that's what I'm talking about! You have to use your CT versatilely. Now, I'll tell you why I'm focusing on using the CT in multiple ways." Gojo sat down on the floor, and Naruto soon followed.
"My cursed technique is Infinity, and it has two offensive variations, Blue and Red. I like to use blue a lot. Blue has the properties to pull things, basically a magnet. With that property, I can not only use just Blue but also use it on my enemies to bring them closer to me and vice versa. As well as I can also reduce blood loss by enchanting my body with blue and keeping it all together. Just like I did with my confrontation against Toji Zenin. I told you about it, remember?" Naruto nodded, he remembered Gojo mentioning the fight. That's one scary man alright.
"Just like that, you need to think about how you can use your technique in multiple ways to either enhance yourself or catch your enemies off-guard." Naruto has to think about it long and hard. "Alright, let's get to the hand-to-hand training."
Two hours later
What happened was a brutal beatdown of Naruto. It's more like an embarrassment. Of course, he also learned some things while Gojo demonstrated them to him. They practiced it for like couple of hours before Gojo decided to change the topic.
"Alright, that's enough combat training for today, now I want to teach you a counter to a domain or a way to buy yourself time to survive in a domain expansion".
"Huh? Counter to a domain? Isn't laying your Domain the best counter?"
"Yes, it is true. But you don't have a domain now do you?"
"Fair, so what are you going to teach me?"
"This is called Simple domain. It was created to counter the effects of the opponent's domain by manifesting a small domain with proper barriers and all. This at least gives you a fighting chance to protect yourself."
"Okay. Please teach me."
"Alright, first you have to mark the area around you with your CE, and then… "
The day went like that with Gojo teaching Naruto the theory, and showing him the application of the Simple domain.
"You have enough talent to understand and perform a simple domain. Now I want you to practice it as best as you can, try experimenting with it in different ways alright? Now, I have to be somewhere else, so bye~"
Just as Gojo was about to leave, he was stopped by Naruto.
"Wait Satoru, if you don't mind, can you give me Mei Mei's number, please." Although it looks like Naruto was politely requesting Gojo, the look in his eyes says otherwise.
*sigh* "I have sent it through SMS to your number. Now bye."
Ah…, puberty makes any guy desperate and degenerate huh?
….
The next day we can see Naruto in the Gymnasium that's on the campus. It has a big space to play indoor games and also games like Basketball etc. But today, he was the only one in this gym. He wanted to practice his simple domain.
Although a simple domain does divert the effects of an enemy domain and counter them, that wasn't the only way to use it. There are several ways like incorporating your technique in a simple domain, to give it more bluffs. Or use it to make sure to hit at whatever enters the domain range using a sword style. He can even neutralize enemies CT if his simple domain is strong enough to uphold the properties that come with the rules.
What Naruto wants to aim here is, to make his CT strong and make it a sure hit if an enemy enters his range of SD. For that, first He needs to understand what is actual Cursed technique was.
Was his cursed technique, cursed chains that could absorb the CE or was it absorption that came with chains as a means to absorb? Or was it both? Naruto wants to go for the 3rd theory.
So, he envisioned his simple domain with an outer barrier surrounded by a virtual chain, with the inner space in a black color that can produce chains to attack an opponent if they enter the radius of his simple domain.
"Yes!"
Naruto cheered himself for successfully incorporating his SD with his CT. With how much understanding of his cursed technique he has, he can conjure up a Domain expansion itself or at least a partial domain that can use the closed space. But, the reason he wanted to use the simple domain was because he doesn't have the cursed energy reserves that can help him conjure up his DE. And also, to help him absorb the cursed energy from his opponents faster. As he is now, it takes a lot of time to absorb the CE, so this simple domain with his CT can help him increase his reserves much faster. If he wants to be a special grade, he needs a butt load of that cursed energy. All he needs is now a guinea pig to test his SD.
"Yo! Congratulations, you're promoted to Semi-Grade 1 as of today. I expect a party to be thrown ya know." There came the guinea pig, the perfect person to experiment.
"I don't have that much money to throw a party, I'm almost broke you know." That's true, aside from some money in his account, he doesn't have any. He told his Godfather to not send him any money, telling him he found a part-time job. He doesn't want to make his godparents spend more money on him. They have taken care of him, an orphan who lost his parents, even tho they don't have any blood relation. So, he didn't feel it was right to spend their money, they were going to retire in a couple of years, and they needed all the money they could have to take care of themselves.
True he didn't have that much money on him to throw a party, but that doesn't mean he can't treat him with something for the things he was teaching him. "I'll treat you to some sweets if you help me with this experiment."
At the mention of sweets and experiment, Gojo instantly agreed, he stood in front of Naruto with hands in his pockets. "Well, what's the experiment?"
"I'm gonna use my simple domain on you, for now, don't use infinity alright?" Getting a nod in response, Naruto conjured up his simple domain and they both immediately felt the properties of the domain being in effect. After 10 seconds he dismissed the domain, marveling at how much his reserves increased.
"Wow, that's a great use of simple domain with the properties of a Cursed technique. Very good job Naruto. This one simple domain is 5 times more effective in absorption in 10 seconds than you using 10 chains for 30 seconds. You can just use this can absorb a Grade 2 cursed spirit's entire cursed energy in 10 seconds. That is a very marvelous job. I can only imagine how strong your actual Domain expansion would be."
Gojo was honestly impressed at the curve that his junior was growing. By going this same curve, he estimates that Naruto can grow up to be a Special grade in around a year, given he understands more of his technique. He knew it was only a matter of time and cursed energy reserves that Naruto could manifest his Domain expansion. The only thing he needs to figure out is his Maximum technique, the thing that has the maximum offensive capabilities that can guarantee Naruto's status as a Special Grade.
"I got a question. How much did I absorb from the total of your reserves?"
"Hmm,..that's a good question. If I have to say, the amount you absorb is about an average of Grade 2 cursed spirit's energy. it's less than 10 percent of my actual reserves. Of course, that doesn't mean, I need 10 percent of my reserves to exorcize a Grade 2, it takes me less than 2 percent to exorcise it."
Naruto already knew that you don't use the same amount of cursed energy of a Cursed spirit to eliminate it. Otherwise, a Grade 2 sorcerer would be out of it after exorcising one Grade 2 CS.
"Alright, let's talk about the sweets that you mentioned before. I want to try them now." making Naruto groan.
"Teleport us to the Tokyo inner city, I know a place." Thank the lord that he knew a place that sells tasty sweets for cheap. Otherwise, he would officially be broke today.
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