"Stand still."
Kakashi, with his usual lazy look, began poking and pointing all over Naruto once he was in position.
Naruto felt itchy after being poked here and there, and couldn't control himself from squirming around, which made Kakashi almost explode and start smacking him.
"Here... and here, that's about it."
"If your Chakra flows in this way, you should be able to break through and open the first Gate."
"Of course, to use the Eight Gates, you must undergo a long period of physical training."
Naruto tried to follow the route Kakashi told him several times, but quickly realized he couldn't get it to work at all.
Not to mention opening the first gate of the Eight Gates… he couldn't even make the Chakra flow smoothly.
Just like Kakashi said...
As he ran the Chakra through his body, Naruto noticed his Chakra Pathways felt kind of clogged, so the Chakra kept getting stuck and jittery.
He now has a general understanding of the Eight Gates.
The physical training should be to widen the Chakra Pathways in his body and enhance his body's ability to withstand stress, only then could he actually use the Eight Gates.
Naruto had the hardware for it, but his software is so poor. So there was no way he could run this Eight Gates program.
But then again...
He'd never really expected to learn the Eight Gates in the first place.
"Uncle, how long would it take to learn this?"
Naruto asked anyway.
After all, in all those fanfics he read in his previous life, the main characters were always training the Eight Gates from a young age and made it look super easy.
But Naruto figured that if the technique was really that simple, it would have been popularized to civilian Shinobi and would not have been listed as a Forbidden Technique by Konoha.
"If you're fast, maybe a year. If you're slow, two or three years."
"But I don't recommend you go down this path."
Kakashi's eye narrowed, looking very serious.
The Eight Gates is only suitable for people who are proficient in Taijutsu and cannot use Ninjutsu.
That's because all the Chakra built up through daily training had to be used just to force open the body's 'Gates'.
That was also why Kakashi himself had only trained up to the First Gate.
After all…
His Sharingan couldn't be turned off and constantly consumed Chakra, so opening the First Gate used up pretty much all Chakra he had left.
If Kakashi continued to train the Eight Gates, he would probably have used up all his Chakra and died of exhaustion as soon as he opened the Fifth Gate.
Naruto did have enough Chakra, but it just wasn't worth it.
After all, training the Eight Gates took an enormous amount of time.
If Naruto really tried to learn Eight Gates...
Kakashi could already imagine Hiruzen hanging him up for a beating.
"So it takes that long, huh…"
Naruto still felt a little disappointed after hearing this.
Spending years just to unlock one gate honestly felt kind of useless for someone like him.
"You've never tested your Chakra Nature before, have you?"
Kakashi decided to steer Naruto toward the right path of mastering Ninjutsu.
This saves him from practicing Taijutsu to death all day long.
Kakashi pulled out a Chakra Paper from somewhere and held it out to Naruto.
"Try this."
'Chakra Paper, huh?'
Naruto took it and examined it from every angle, trying to figure out what made it special.
But after looking at it for a while, he found that he couldn't understand it at all.
When Kakashi saw Naruto was about to fold the Chakra Paper into an airplane, he put his hand on his forehead, sighed, and reminded him, "Channel Chakra into it!"
"Oh…"
Naruto gave up the idea of folding it into an airplane and obediently followed Kakashi's instructions to channel Chakra into the paper.
Honestly, he already had a good idea of the result...
'If nothing goes wrong, based on the knowledge from the anime in my previous life, my Chakra Attributes seem to be Wind and Earth.' (T/N: From what I know, Naruto only has Wind Attribute. I don't know where the Author get the Earth from…)
Rip…
The moment Naruto channel his Chakra, the Chakra Paper first split down the middle, then crumbled to dust.
"Wind and Earth, huh..."
Kakashi muttered as he looked at it.
Naruto was able to determine the Nature of his own Chakra.
And right then, Naruto looked like he'd zoned out completely.
"Big Fox, Lightning Attribute Chakra can stimulate cells to boost power temporarily, right?"
"Yes, why are you asking?"
In the sealed space, Kurama was a little confused when he heard Naruto's question.
'Didn't the white-haired guy just say your Chakra Nature is Wind and Earth? Where's this Lightning coming from?'
"Is there a possibility that..."
"I can use Wind Attribute Chakra to do something similar?"
Naruto thought about it and felt that Wind Attribute Chakra could achieve a similar effect.
After all, although it cannot stimulate cells in the body like Lightning Attribute Chakra, Wind Attribute Chakra should be able to create high-speed wind currents around him and boost his movement speed, right?
Naruto, who has received nine years of compulsory education, also understands one thing.
That is... the faster the speed, the greater the energy.
Speed = Power
"Idiot."
Kurama scoffed dismissively.
He felt Naruto was completely delusional.
Although he didn't know much about Ninjutsu, he still knew that was just not how it worked.
Naruto didn't take Kurama's ridicule to heart.
After all, how could a native like Big Fox possibly match the kind of wild ideas someone like him who had been baptized by the information explosion?
In his previous life, there were many skills related to wind in various movies, TV shows, and games.
Ignoring the fox inside him and the chatter from Kakashi outside, Naruto stood still and recalled the scroll given to him by Hiruzen, and began to gather Wind Attribute Chakra on his own.
While he was gathering Chakra, he also thought of the pathway for unlocking the Gate that Kakashi had just shown him...
'Kakashi had never anything about what kind of Chakra had to be used.'
'So what kind of reaction will happen if I use the Wind Attribute Chakra to attack the gate?'
Thinking of this, Naruto became eager to try it out.
'Does this count as inventing a new Ninjutsu of my own?'
However, Naruto didn't know was…
Kakashi had only explained the most basic outline of the Chakra route for opening the First Gate.
Kakashi, who is still leaning casually against a tree, didn't pay much attention at first. He pulled out his copy of Icha-Icha Paradise and started reading.
About five minutes later...
Kakashi suddenly noticed that the wind was blowing around him.
At first, he didn't think anything of it, but after a few minutes, he noticed that the wind started getting stronger.
When he turned his head, he saw Naruto standing there, surrounded by a violent gust of wind.
"Naruto!!"
"Stop right now!!"
At this time, a large amount of Wind Attribute Chakra had gathered around Naruto, and it was still building up fast.
His clothes flapped violently, and the grass on the ground around him was starting to get shredded by the Wind Attribute Chakra.
It would have been fine if Kakashi hadn't reminded him, but once he reminded him, Naruto's Wind Attribute Chakra condensed faster.
Riiip…
A loud tearing sound echoed as Naruto's clothes were ripped open in several places, with thin trails of blood starting to seep out.
"U-Uhh... Uncle, I can't seem to stop."
Even Naruto himself wasn't sure what state he was in.
The method of using Wind Attribute Chakra to ram through the 'Gates' actually worked.
And with each gate he broke through, Naruto could feel a massive surge in power.
The only weird thing was... Naruto could hear his heartbeat pounding in his ears like a drum.
But he thought it shouldn't be a big problem.
The only thing that bothered Naruto was...
He had no idea how to stop this!
The moment the Wind Attribute Chakra started attacking his Chakra Pathway, the Chakra in his body began to surge out uncontrollably.
Shhhhhh…
The Wind Attribute Chakra grew more intense, forming a roaring tempest around Naruto, kicking up dust everywhere and rapidly reducing the visual range.
Kakashi's hair was blown by the strong wind. He shielded his face and pushed forward toward Naruto's location.
At this point, the strength of Naruto's Wind Attribute Chakra is no less than that of Wind Release: Gale Palm.
Kakashi had no choice but to pull up his forehead protector and used his Sharingan to observe what was happening inside Naruto's body.
It would have been better if he hadn't seen it, but after seeing it, Kakashi was almost scared to death.
The Chakra in Naruto's body is clearly spiraling out of control!
It must be known that this situation will only occur when people experimented with failed technique, and this situation will often cause the user to be torn to death by the uncontrolled Chakra.
And then…
He also heard Naruto's heartbeat.
Based on the speed of the rhythm, Kakashi estimated it had to be over five hundred beats per minute.
For information, if a normal person's heart beats more than 300 times per minute, he or she will soon die!
However, Naruto, who was standing in the eye of the wind, was completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem.
In fact, he looked thrilled.
Because he'd successfully used Wind Attribute Chakra to blow open the Chakra checkpoints Kakashi mentioned!
Naruto excitedly shouted to Kakashi: "Uncle! I think I successfully opened the First Gate!"
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?"
Kakashi completely lost his composure and shouted, feeling terrified.
'No way...'
'I didn't tell you the detailed route just now...'
'How on earth do you open it, kid?'
Before Kakashi could be shocked for long, a large blood mist was created by Naruto's Wind Attribute Chakra.
From an outsider's perspective, Naruto had become a bloody man, with wounds all over his body.
However, these pains were nothing to Naruto.
Right now, he only felt powerful. Terrifyingly powerful.
He took one step forward and in the blink of an eye, he had moved fifty meters, leaving behind a trailing red afterimage.
Kakashi's eyes almost popped out of his skull.
'What the hell?!'
'Did he really succeed in practicing it???'
Kurama, who in the sealed space, was also startled and stopped eating.
'What the hell is this brat doing!?'