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Having a sword or dagger is all very fine and dandy, but if it's blunt as a stick, you'd be better off with a club. This skill allows you to oil, sharpen and otherwise maintain any edged weapon, from a kaiken to the head of a spear. It also grants a buff to any weapon you treat with this skill.
- Sharpens a weapon for 2 days.
- Grants +5 to Piercing and Slashing Attacks for the duration of the [Sharpening].
- Restores 5 Durability for each [Sharpening], [Oiling] and [Maintenance] action carried out on edged weapons.
- Requires [Weapon Maintenance] materials to use.
"Kick ass!" Naruto declared. If this skill was this good at Level 1, he couldn't wait to see what the higher levels were like.
Heading down to the training room, Naruto pulled a practice dummy out of his inventory. It was one of the common drops he received for killing Ninmenju, the human-faced trees, and their weaker spawns, Ninmenka, the human-faced fruit.
The dummies were basic wooden human shapes and were actually meant for taijutsu practice, but as Naruto had fifty of the things in his inventory, he could spare one for training how to infuse his blades with chakra.
Drawing his weapons from their sheaths, Naruto closed his eyes and focussed. He tried to guide his chakra into the blades, but was stymied by an uncomfortable feeling. Frowning, he tried again, this time being a bit more forceful, thrusting the chakra into the tantō he held.
"You're doing it wrong." a voice said from behind him. Naruto jumped and whirled around. A bearded man in a standard Jonin's outfit and a sash with the kanji for fire around his waist stood leaning against the doorframe.
[The Smoking Guardian]
LV?-?-? Sarutobi Asuma
"Ossan, who're you?" Naruto asked, keeping up the façade that he didn't know who the man was.
"The name's Sarutobi Asuma, kid." the bearded man said, "My old man sent me over here today to teach you how to use those blades properly."
"You're Jiji's son?" Naruto asked, "You do look a lot alike."
That made Asuma guffaw loudly.
"Hah! Does he know you call him Jiji?"
"Yup. He seems to find it refreshing." Naruto replied with a grin.
"I'll bet." the Jonin grinned back, "Oyaji told me that your primary affinity is Fūton, right? That's my primary affinity as well and I use the same jutsu you were trying there with my trench knives."
He took an odd-looking knife from his rear shuriken pouch and held it up. Seen from the side, it resembled a fang, with holes for the fingers and the wickedly sharp blade was made more dangerous by the serrated section just in front of the finger holes. Naruto was curious and used [Observe] on it.
[Trench Knife]
A Mastercrafted blade forged by Higurashi Tatsuhiko in his youth, this blade has seen wear, tear and blood through the years and has never failed its wielder. Used in a pair.
Durability: 150/150
Knuckleduster/Short Weapon, Mastercrafted, Chakra Metal Weapon, Paired Weapon
Piercing Damage: S+10
Slashing Damage: S+15
Bludgeoning Damage: S+15
"That looks dangerous." the blond boy observed.
"It can be." Asuma agreed, "Watch what happens now."
Suddenly, a blue aura enveloped the blade and Naruto's hearing could pick up a faint noise, a mild shrieking sound.
"That's the sound of two opposing chakra currents grinding together, sharpening each other to form the blade." Asuma explained. He stepped over to the practice dummy and slashed it diagonally with his trench knife, the top half sliding off the lower half a few seconds later.
"Whoa!" Naruto exclaimed with shock.
"Wind is known as the war element." Asuma said as he released the jutsu, "In my opinion, it is the best mix of offence and defence at short to mid range, especially when you use the Chakra Nagashi no Jutsu (Chakra Flow Jutsu) in a bladed weapon. What was your secondary element?"
"Earth."
"Ah. Well, from what I've gathered, using Chakra Nagashi with Doton chakra ups the durability and hardness of the weapon to ridiculous levels." Asuma nodded, "One guy I saw used it to smash his opponent's weapon into smithereens with one blow."
"Again, whoa." Naruto said with wide eyes.
"Yeah, it's pretty cool." Asuma said modestly, "Now try to do as I described with your tantō. Imagine in your mind two streams of chakra colliding with each other, sharpening themselves into one single blade that covers the entirety of your blades…but not the hilts."
Nodding, Naruto closed his eyes and focussed on what Asuma had told him. He imagined his chakra reaching down, two channels per weapon, wrapping around the blades of the tantō and clashing into each other, forming a blade along the edge of the weapons.
"You've got it." Asuma said proudly.
Naruto opened his eyes and saw that both tantō were covered in the blue chakra of the Chakra Nagashi no Jutsu. He swiped them at the remains of the dummy, cleaving it into three pieces.
"Damn…this is lethal." he said in disbelief. Naruto ignored the numerous screens that had popped up around him, saving them until he was alone.
"Yep. So not using it unless you're out on a mission outside the village." Asuma said sternly.
Naruto nodded as he ended the jutsu, returning his tantō to normal blades.
"Mind if I have a look at your weapons?" Asuma asked.
"Uh…sure." Naruto nodded. He flipped the weapons around so that the hilts were facing the jonin and offered them to him.
Asuma took them carefully and examined them with an experienced eye.
"Looks like Ol' Tatsuhiko outdid himself with these beauties." the bearded man observed, "They're almost as good as my Trench Knives. Tatsuhiko works best when he's creating unique weapons, but even these are top quality."
Carefully, he slid the blades back into their sheaths and handed them back to Naruto.
"Thanks...umm…" Naruto said, "Why'd you teach me? Active duty Shinobi aren't allowed to teach Academy students."
This made Asuma smirk slightly. "Ah, but there's the thing. I am a former member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, a group of Shinobi who are the Shinobi Guard of the Fire Daimyo. I finished my tour of duty with them last week and arrived here two days ago. Oyaji gave me a month off before I have to officially return to active duty and as I need an apartment, he suggested seeing the landlord of the Amekage Apartments, one Uzumaki Naruto. Sound familiar?"
It certainly did; the official story was that the Hokage had purchased this building and had assigned one of the apartments to Naruto. What was actually the truth was that Naruto was a part owner of the building, and the Hokage was the other. Sarutobi handled the paperwork, while Naruto was the on-site landlord.
"OK. Do you want an apartment here, Asuma-sensei?" Naruto asked, "And if so, is there anything you look for in an apartment?"
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