Naruto: From Novice to Grave

As noon approached, Makoto Higashino put down his scroll and began making himself lunch.

Not long ago, Keigo Higashino finally agreed to her son's request and stopped working hard every morning to prepare meals for the day before going to work.

Firstly, Higashino really didn't want his mother to work so hard; secondly, even if the food was reheated, the taste would still be much worse.

Having been given a second chance at life, Higashino Makoto's idea is simple: to train relentlessly so that he can enjoy the wonders of the ninja world without being easily killed, and to live a life different from his previous one. However, he will not become an ascetic and neglect his own life and enjoyment.

He plans to eat steamed fish today.

Higashino Makoto scooped a live fish out of the bucket in the kitchen and threw it hard on the ground. The fish, which had been jumping around, was immediately dealt a fatal blow and felt the call of death.

After placing the fish on the cutting board, Higashino Makoto did not start processing it. Instead, he stretched out his right hand and covered the fish's body, and green chakra gradually appeared on his hand.

This is a simple healing technique, a prerequisite for the A-rank medical ninjutsu, Palm Healing Technique.

The green chakra is the legendary medical chakra, which can be used as energy to stimulate the regeneration of tissue cells in injured areas, thereby healing wounds.

However, not all chakra can be used to perform medical ninjutsu; only chakra with a predominantly yang nature can achieve a healing effect.

How to cultivate this skill involves precise control over chakra.

As we all know, chakra is the energy that a ninja produces by combining physical energy and spiritual energy extracted from the cells of his body in approximately equal proportions. If the proportions are not right, it cannot be extracted at all, and the two energies will not fuse.

But this is universal.

To achieve medical-grade chakra and produce a healing effect, one must precisely control this ratio.

To become a medical ninja, one must control the proportion of physical energy and reduce the proportion of spiritual energy when refining chakra, so that the fused chakra has abundant vitality. This is the simplest form of Yang attribute training.

The higher the proportion of energy in the body, the stronger the vitality and the better the treatment effect.

A contradiction arises: reducing the proportion of spiritual energy naturally weakens a ninja's control over chakra, but the problem is that medical ninjutsu requires precise chakra control.

It's a demanding requirement that makes highly skilled medical ninjas so rare.

If you reverse the proportions, with spiritual energy making up the majority, it becomes a simple Yin attribute, suitable for casting illusions and some secret arts.

Therefore, both genjutsu ninjas and medical ninjas are required to have an extremely high level of control over chakra, being able to extract chakra even when there is an imbalance between physical and mental energy, and to control it more precisely.

This is not something that just anyone can do; it requires a great deal of patience.

Of course, this refers to ordinary ninjas, with exceptions for those with naturally good genes.

For example, the Uchiha clan is born with extremely high Yin attributes, while the Senju and Uzumaki clans are born with extremely high Yang attributes.

Tsunade's status as the world's number one medical ninja wasn't due to her large breasts.

In the ninja world, the training of chakra control aims to achieve precise control. The deeper the control, the less chakra is wasted when performing techniques, and the faster and more powerful the ninjutsu can be learned.

This is the first stage, and most people are deeply involved in this stage.

The second stage involves being able to stably extract chakra even while modifying the ratio of physical energy to mental energy. The greater the difference in the ratio, the deeper the development of the Yin-Yang attribute.

Higashino Shin is at this stage. This knowledge of Yin and Yang attributes is hard to find in the publicly available information of Konoha. Most ninjas don't even have this concept. He compiled it based on the information he learned about the Naruto world in his previous life.

As for the third stage, he already had some ideas, but it's too far off to talk about it now. Just delving into the second stage is a long-term endeavor.

There was no auxiliary rolling pin under the fish on the cutting board.

The scroll with special incantations that Sakura Haruno used as a substitute when she was learning from Tsunade to heal fish was the one underneath her. It was used to help apprentices refine and stabilize medical chakra. Makoto Higashino used it when he first started learning, but it's no longer needed.

Under Higashino's treatment, the fish came back to life and began to hop around happily, feeling that it was able to do it again.

Then he was struck on the head and died.

fish:"???"

Dude, is this for real? Can't you just give me a straight answer?

The chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits who had once received the same treatment at the Higashino family's house said: "Brother Fish, you're right."

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After finishing his meal, Higashino Shin went out and, using his mother's library card, plunged into the Konoha Library.

The books at home are always limited, but the library has a much richer collection. Recently, Higashino Makoto has been spending his afternoons there studying chakra.

The library in Konoha contains these, including the properties and characteristics of each elemental chakra, the working principles and analysis of various genjutsu, and so on.

These are all works summarizing the experiences of predecessors.

When the young rich woman was trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi every day, she consulted various theoretical books on illusion techniques here.

Although it was a magical world, Tian Tian was aware of her situation at the time. The fact that she was able to run to the library to look up information immediately shows that it must exist in the real world as well, and that she had been there.

This place contains only basic theoretical knowledge; there are no escape techniques or illusion techniques to practice here. Don't expect this to be the Shaolin Temple's library, where the Lankavatara Sutra even contains the Nine Yang Divine Skill.

The training methods for any ninjutsu, genjutsu, or taijutsu are all secrets of each clan and village. To obtain them, one must either earn merit or find a powerful master.

Most ninjas believe that as long as they learn powerful ninjutsu, they can become powerful ninjas, but they ignore these most basic theories.

Especially those little brats who dream of becoming Hokage, they always think that as long as they learn a few powerful ninjutsu, they can become Hokage.

Higashino Makoto, however, felt that the theoretical knowledge summarized by his predecessors was the most valuable thing, while the techniques were merely fruits that grew on the tree of this knowledge.

Time flew by as Higashino Makoto instinctively trained in the second stage of chakra control and studied, and soon the sky gradually darkened.

Instead of going home, Higashino Shin went to eat several large bowls of ramen and headed towards Konoha Hospital to prepare for class.

For a long time, my mother, Higashino Megumi, has been coming home late from get off work a few days a week.

That's because, in addition to treating patients during the day, she also teaches classes at night to train aspiring genin who are determined to become medical ninjas.

The Ninja Academy offers basic medical knowledge courses, but if graduates want to pursue further studies, they must enroll in a hospital to learn and practice simultaneously—a method originally proposed by Tsunade.

Lay a solid foundation at school, and mentor new staff at the hospital.

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The classroom was in a conference room in the hospital, which had been specially converted into a classroom, similar to the classrooms at the ninja academy, but more compact.

At this time, there were already more than a dozen students inside, mostly girls and fewer boys.

The classroom wasn't even full, which shows that there aren't many people with medical ninjutsu talent. Most of the students were crammed into the front seats, since everyone who came here wanted to study hard and no one wanted to sit in the back by the window and slack off.

These students were all quite young, but they all wore Konoha headbands. They looked like they had just graduated a year or two ago. When they saw Higashino Makoto come in, they were all a little surprised by his age, but no one said anything.

Being able to come here means that you have been permitted by the hospital.

Higashino looked around and found that there were only two people on the three-person desk on the left side of the first row, a boy and a girl, with the girl sitting in the middle and the boy sitting on the outside.

He jumped into the empty seat without any hesitation.

"Hey kid, this place is already taken."

Higashino glanced at the person who spoke and was stunned for a moment. It was a boy who looked to be about ten years old, with short black hair. In addition to the headband on his forehead, he was also wearing goggles on his face.

"No way?" Higashino Makoto muttered to himself, then leaned back and saw a huge fan pattern on the back of the boy's clothes.

This look is unmistakable; it's definitely you, Kenji Uchiha.

Looking at the girl sitting in the middle, sure enough, she had brown hair like her mother, and a strip of face paint on each cheek. She had a pure and lovely appearance.

It's definitely Nohara Rin.

Wherever Rin is, Obito is there too. He really is a loyal sycophant who protects and fawns over her.

Obito came to learn medical ninjutsu? Come on, he's just afraid his goddess will be snatched away by someone else.

"Hey, Obito, don't be so fierce. He's just a junior." Nohara Rin gently stopped her companion's rude behavior.

But Higashino wouldn't tolerate it: "Am I not human? Am I even human?"

"Kid, you're pretty arrogant. Judging by your appearance, you haven't even gone to the ninja academy yet. Coming here at such a young age, do you even know what medical ninjutsu is?"

Seeing that Higashino wasn't afraid of him, Obito tried to expose him from a professional perspective as someone who had infiltrated the area.

"And do you know how many types of blood vessels there are in the human body, what the different characteristics of bleeding are, and what the different methods of stopping bleeding are?"

Do you know how to clean a wound from a kunai piercing your palm? What are the precautions for using healing techniques after cleaning it?

"Huh???" Obito was a complete academic failure and wouldn't know anything about these things, but it wasn't a big problem. He quickly found a new angle: "So what if you know? You're too young. Who allowed you to come in and listen to the lecture?"

"My mom allowed it."

"Your mother? That's hilarious! Who is your mother anyway? She can't possibly have any influence over Konoha Hospital!"

"My mom is your teacher. Her name is Higashino Megumi, and my name is Higashino Makoto."

"Ah..." Obito finally stammered, he couldn't say any more. What if he offended the teacher and made Rin lose the opportunity to study?

Whenever Nohara Rin is involved, Obito becomes hesitant and restrained.

"Oh, is this junior teacher Hui's child? Looking at it this way, they really do look alike." Nohara Rin curiously sized up this junior who seemed to have a good grasp of basic medical knowledge.

"Yes, senior, my name is Higashino Makoto. Please take care of me from now on."

"My name is Nohara Rin, and this is my companion, Uchiha Obito. It's nice to meet you."

"Yeah, me too. I hope we can improve together and become excellent medical ninjas." Higashino Makoto said, raising an eyebrow at Obito.

"..." Obito was furious. This brat not only dared to talk intimately with his Rin, but also didn't forget to provoke him.

We must give him a good beating.

But he only thought about it and wouldn't actually hurt a child. Before he turned evil, Obito Uchiha was actually a very kind and helpful child.

She just has a somewhat awkward personality.