The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 7 The First Lesson (Part )

"Squirtle, use the water gun!"

"Strange Seed, get out of the way and use the Seed Machine Gun!"

"Charmander, attack with your dragon tail!"

A unique battle is taking place in the puppetry classroom.

It turned out that after a brief introduction, Hideki began to control three pocket puppet beasts to engage in a fierce melee on the platform for demonstration.

Moreover, their fighting styles are also unique.

The blue puppet turtle named Squirtle can retract its body into its shell to reduce the damage it takes. When it gets a chance, it will stick its head out and attack the enemy with a water gun, mainly focusing on a defensive counterattack.

The green garlic turtle named Strange Seed danced with its two vine whips to perfection, and combined with the seed bullets it spitted out of its mouth from time to time, it was able to be said to be both offensive and defensive.

The red lizard named Charmander is a bit misnamed, because it can't breathe fire at all, and can only use its exceptional agility to deal with the other two...

The young ninjas had only heard of puppetry before and had never had the chance to see what puppets looked like in battle.

Not to mention that what is happening on the stage now is a battle between puppets, which rarely happens even in the ninja world.

So at this moment, without exception, they all had their mouths slightly open, staring intently at the dazzling fight on the stage, afraid of missing any details.

The only thing that made them feel a little distracted was that Mr. Kimura was supposed to be controlling the puppet beasts with chakra lines, so why did he still give them instructions in such a serious manner...

However, with the teacher's exquisite control skills, the three puppet beasts with simple structures seemed to be really alive, making his verbal instructions seem less inconsistent.

Not long after, the three puppet beasts seemed to have run out of ammunition and food, so they all started to launch a self-sacrificing attack at the same time, and the three of them collided fiercely on the platform!
Bang!
After the huge collision sound, the "click, click, click" sound of the mechanism changing was heard again.

The three puppet beasts actually died together, and at the same time turned back into wooden balls and fell back onto the platform...

After a brief silence, thunderous applause suddenly broke out in the warehouse.

The little ninjas clapped excitedly to express their love for this pocket puppet beast brawl.

To be honest, the black cat on Mr. Kimura's shoulder was so lifelike that it was difficult for them to associate it with puppetry.

The three puppet beasts in front of them, which clearly had mechanical structures, were more in line with their imagination of puppets.

So after seeing such a wonderful battle between puppet beasts, their understanding of puppetry really began to change.

It turns out that puppets don’t have to be as ferocious and weird as I’ve heard before. They can also look cute like this.

And puppetry does not necessarily have to be a treacherous method that can only be used to sneak attack the enemy in the dark, but it can also display a gorgeous fighting method through superb technology and sophisticated mechanisms!
The students who had originally stayed to attend the class just to take a few more glances at the cute puppet cat could not help but feel moved.

However, many boys still felt a little regretful and couldn't help but whisper:

"Why can't that red puppet beast, which is called Charmander, breathe fire?"

"Obviously the other two have special abilities..."

At this moment, Hideki hooked his right hand, and the three puppet balls flew back into his sleeves.

Hearing everyone's complaints, he couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart.

You little brats make it sound so easy.

It is not difficult to make a puppet spit fire, but if the firepower is too small, it will just be a decoration. If the firepower is too large, will you pay for the replacement of the burned materials?
The school didn't provide much funding for training courses, so for the sake of his wallet, Hideki had to let Charmander down.

Anyway, Charizard isn't a dragon, so it's not surprising that Charmander can't breathe fire...

After complaining in his heart, Hideki cleared his throat and waited for everyone to quiet down before saying:

"After the demonstration just now, everyone should have a basic understanding of this pocket puppet beast."

"But everyone must be very curious, how can this little puppet beast become a teaching aid and can also help you practice?"

The little ninjas couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this.

To be honest, after the wonderful puppet beast performance just now, they had completely forgotten about the teaching aids.

However, after hearing the teacher's reminder, they also began to become curious about this question, so they all nodded and said yes...

Seeing this, Hideki began to explain:

“The principle is actually very simple.”

"First of all, everyone should know that learning chakra line manipulation can be simply divided into three steps."

"The first step is to steadily and continuously transport chakra out of the body, which is referred to as output."

"The second step is to condense these chakras into lines as much as possible and maintain them all the time. This is called shaping in short."

"The third step is to control the puppet through chakra lines while maintaining the first two steps. This is called manipulation in short."

"As I said before, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to do all three steps at once right now."

"So we might as well break down the process of learning chakra lines into three stages."

"In the next first stage, we only need to focus on how to output chakra stably."

"The shaping and manipulation work will be assisted by an additional teaching aid."

Having said that, Hideki shook his sleeves again and took out another strange thing.

The little ninjas looked curiously and saw that it was a flat wooden block the size of a palm. There seemed to be a wooden pole and several buttons on it, and a thin rope extended from the back.

"Handle. I call this teaching aid a handle."

Hideki suppressed his evil thoughts and said seriously, "Don't be fooled by its plain appearance. In fact, its technical content and value are higher than the pocket puppet beast just now."

"And the most valuable thing is this handle cable, because it contains a lot of chakra conduction materials..."

As soon as he finished speaking, some of the children from the ninja clan suddenly brightened up their eyes, as if they vaguely understood some of Hideki's ideas.

However, in order to take care of other students, Hideki had to continue explaining:
"As everyone knows, most things in the ninja world are difficult to inject and transmit chakra into, and there are a few special examples, which are the so-called chakra conductive materials."

"The most famous of these is naturally the chakra metal that is often used to make high-level ninja tools."

Because the teacher had introduced the function of chakra metal in other classes, the little ninja who came from a civilian background also began to think about it.

"It seems that everyone already knows the secret."

Hideki ignored Obito who was still confused and said with a smile,
"The handle line mixed with a large amount of chakra conductive material can be regarded as a tangible chakra line, which is enough to undertake the work of shaping."

"The handle I invented has a built-in mechanical device and simple seal rune formula, which can be used to easily control the puppet beast through the joystick and buttons."

"And this also means that in the first stage we will use the power of the handle line and the handle to control this pocket puppet beast to practice how to output chakra stably."

"And so on. In the second stage we will remove the handle wire and learn how to shape the chakra into wires."

"Only in the third stage will we completely remove the handle and learn how to control the puppet directly through the chakra lines."

In order to demonstrate the actual effect, Hideki made Charmander transform and then connected it to the handle wire.

Then, under his control with the handle, Charmander began to perform basic movements like walking, jumping, biting, scratching, etc.

Although his movements were obviously much more stiff than when he used the chakra lines directly to control them.

But it is precisely because of this that the little ninjas have the illusion that they can do it too, and they can't wait to try it themselves and make them look in all kinds of ways.

After Hideki's detailed explanation, all the little ninjas finally understood and were moved.

This Kimura teacher, he seems to really want to teach us...

Everyone couldn't help but think so.

They have always believed that learning ninjutsu depends on understanding and hard practice, and have never seen a teacher's hand-in-hand teaching method that almost feeds the child.

It is not difficult to see that the most important parts of the teaching aids are the handle and the handle wire. The puppet beast itself can actually be made into a simpler appearance.

Mr. Kimura deliberately made it so interesting and fun to make the practice process more interesting.

How could they not be moved by such good intentions of putting themselves in their shoes?

"Teacher, I want to learn puppetry!"

At this moment, the little ninjas were finally convinced and shouted from the bottom of their souls.

Is this what you call wanting to learn puppetry?
You are greedy for the body of the puppet beast, you are despicable!

Hideki muttered to himself, but on the surface he showed a warm smile:

"As a puppetry teacher, I welcome this..."

From this scene of deep affection between the teacher and the student, it is hard to imagine that these children were still angry about being tricked into attending the class...

Then Hideki clapped his hands again and said:
"Since this is the first class, I won't go into too much detail."

"——And even if I wanted to continue, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to listen to me right now..."

The little ninjas seemed to realize what Hideki wanted to say and looked at him expectantly.

And Hideki followed the public opinion, shook his head and smiled:
"Then for the rest of the time, everyone can take turns to experience this pocket puppet beast..."

However, before he could finish, the cheers from the little ninjas drowned out his words...

……

Happy times are always fleeting.

When the bell rang for the elective course, all the students groaned heavily, especially the poor kids who hadn't gotten their turn to try it out yet.

But under Hideki's repeated urging, the little ninjas had no choice but to leave reluctantly.

The moment we walked out of the warehouse, we all felt as if we were in another world.

Because in this short elective course, their three views have been greatly impacted.

They never expected that they, who were originally tricked into entering the classroom, would now become fascinated by the magical art of puppetry.

Of course, to be precise, it was that interesting pocket puppet beast.

Especially the children who had the opportunity to try out Pokémon just now, they couldn't let it go, and even set the great ambition of becoming Pokémon masters...

After watching the children leave, Hideki finally relaxed completely and couldn't help yawning.

Due to time constraints, he worked all night to make the pocket puppet beast and handle for demonstration.

However, judging from the excited smiles on the children's faces when they left, his efforts were not in vain.

After packing up, Hideki prepared to go back to the office for a good sleep.

But at this moment, a ninja dressed as an Anbu suddenly appeared at the door and interrupted his plan to catch up on sleep with one sentence:

"Kimura Hideki, the Hokage wants to see you."

(End of this chapter)