Chapter 36: Second part

Before exhausting her chakra once again, Yomi was able to successfully crumble leaves. As for Kaida, he was able to control the fire to some extent, but still not to a satisfactory level, as he wanted to control the fire to the point where he could make a leaf burn for more than one minute. However, it was getting burned in 10 seconds at most, even when Kaida was trying to slow the burning process.

After exhausting their chakra once again, they went to sleep.

Waking up at 4 AM, they completed their morning routine and swiftly headed toward the training area. Since the training area was 10 km away from their house, they ran there as a warm-up. After reaching it in 10 minutes, they completed some physical workouts until 5 AM. At 5 AM, their new sensei arrived at the training ground. Seeing them, they both bowed and greeted him.

Both Daichi and Yukihiro nodded their heads and took their respective students to different parts of the training ground.

Yukihiro took Kaida to the same place where they had been practicing before and asked him to show how much he had progressed. Kaida took a leaf in his hand, and it suddenly started burning, but after one minute, the speed of burning slowed down, and it burned for 10 seconds before suddenly starting to burn faster.

Yukihiro's eyes widened. He knew that Kaida had a very high affinity for the fire chakra attribute, but such growth was shocking, to say the least. Normally, a ninja has to try for a month to control fire to such a degree. Burning a leaf is easy, but the problem arises when you try to control the fire, as you have to continuously mold your chakra and command it to do your bidding.

But remembering that Kaida had the help of 15 shadow clones, Yukihiro nodded in understanding as Kaida had done the work of 15 days in one day. Though 15 days is still a little time, it was acceptable, given Kaida's growth rate. Yukihiro thought:

*"Hmm, now I have to rethink the schedule I had planned for the next 3 months. If he maintains this dedication, he will complete the previous schedule in 2 weeks max. Well, no problem. It's always good to have a promising student rather than a dull one."*

He looked toward Kaida and spoke:

"Very good, Kaida. You have completed the first part of the exercise. Now, let's move on to the next step. This is what you have to do now."

He tossed a leaf in the air, and before the leaf reached halfway to the ground, it started burning and burned completely before it touched the ground.

"Since you can now burn and control the fire of the leaf you are in contact with, in the second step, you have to burn the leaf without physical contact. At the start, you don't have to toss the leaf in the air, but this step will be completed only after you can do what I just did."

"Yes, Sensei," Kaida said and got back to work.

He once again made 10 shadow clones. As soon as they were formed, they each took a leaf, put it in front of them, and started their training. Kaida, on the other hand, started meditating. After 30 minutes, he made 5 more clones, but this time he did not stop meditating.

There isn't a big difference between 15 and 16 minds, so he decided to continue meditating so that he would not exhaust his chakra like the previous time. All of his clones continued practicing for 2 hours without much success, and one of his clones thought:

*"In the first step, due to direct contact, my chakra was in direct contact with the leaf, but this time, since it was not in direct contact, the chakra was unable to reach the leaf. Even when I tried to release the chakra, it was normal chakra without any attribute. If we want to burn this leaf, we have to release fire chakra somehow."*

But due to its earlier attempt to release chakra in the surroundings, the clone was low on chakra, so it dispersed itself, and all other clones got its memory. They all began trying to release fire chakra. As soon as any of Kaida's clones made a discovery, they dispersed themselves.

After 30 minutes, only 7 clones remained. Kaida stopped meditating and made 7 more clones with his full chakra reserve, so they would be able to train longer than the previous clones.

After 1 hour, a clone was able to release fire chakra successfully, but it was not directed at the leaf and released into the whole surrounding. So a fire broke out in its surroundings. Though it was just green grass, the fire did not spread.

The clone dispersed itself. When the other clones got its memory, they began trying to direct their chakra toward the leaf only, which was not that difficult since Kaida was already practicing the leaf floating exercise.

**A.N.: Leaf floating exercise: trying to float a leaf above your hand with the help of chakra, and rotating it.**

So after training for around 5 hours, Kaida was successful in burning the leaf without touching it. He woke up from his meditation since he had a full reserve except for the amount used to maintain the clones. Once his clones dispersed themselves, Kaida's reserves would be full.

He picked up a leaf and placed it in front of him. When he looked in its direction, the leaf started burning, and a smirk found its way to Kaida's mouth as it was cool to just start a fire by looking at something.

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After telling Kaida his next training, Yukihiro made two shadow clones to look after Kaida and went toward his home to play with his little princess.

When Yukihiro's clone saw that one of Kaida's clones had started a fire somehow, they were shocked as they expected it would take at least one day before Kaida would be able to release fire chakra. Their shock kept increasing as they observed Kaida's rapid progress.

After every clone was able to burn the leaf in front of them, one of Yukihiro's clones dispersed itself. When Yukihiro got the memory of his clone, he was as surprised as the clone had been. But since there was no emergency, he just made 3 more shadow clones and sent them to the training ground to be safe, as now the dangerous part of the training would start.

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Seeing that 7 of his clones were low on chakra, Kaida dispersed them and made 7 more clones. They began throwing a leaf in the air and burning it midway, though the results were a little... unexpected.

One of his clones tried to release fire chakra toward the leaf, but he missed the leaf and hit another clone.

"Hey, why are you attacking me?"

"I'm sorry."

Watching himself apologizing to himself was awkward. The clone who missed the target dispersed itself. Once every clone got its memory, they increased their distance and continued their training.

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