"No, not like that. You should not concentrate on acceleration and greater power. The flow must remain constant without any fluctua-"
"-tion. Thank you, Sanzo-sama, but you also know that this is not how I was taught to work with the chakra from my childhood".
"Don't repeat it a thousand times, I know how hot-headed shinobi are, even worse than samurais. But you have already learnt in medical techniques, and maybe even in Fuins if you learnt them in the academy, that you have to control your flow".
"Controlling the flow of chakra with different combinations of physical and mental powers is like playing a musical instrument, knowing one does not mean you can play another".
"So you did read some scrolls and books at the academy." - Sanzo smiled warmly and made a relieved face - "The new generation might still have a chance to see how Sakura will blossom in a decade. When I was younger, I was the son of a merchant from ..."
'And again. How can I concentrate on learning new ways to use Chakra if I have to listen to his stories about his youth all the time? It could at least be interesting if most of them weren't so exaggerated that even my brain starts to make mistakes. Maybe this is the reason why he was chosen by the head of the temple to teach, he should disturb me while I try to meditate so that I can really fall how to calm the flow of my energy.' - An extraordinary thought flashed through my mind and faded away after a while. – 'No, it is the temple leader's revenge for my ignorance of their invitation for so long and a bit cold meeting.'
Right now I'm in the "Homura-an" temple in the mid-eastern part of the country. The temple is a medium-sized complex that houses about 130 monks. The architecture itself is not as ascetic as one might think, as the monks, besides spending money from various sources for being monks, mainly guide people on their religious or also psychological path, either personally or with the help of mass rituals. But compared to the normal world, they also have a very important function in this world, being exorcists.
Yes, there are a lot of chakra beasts with mainly yin bodies, which cannot be interacted with in a physical way, i.e. no sword can cut them, and even with chakra it is still difficult to deal with them if you do not know how to use chakra in the right way.
Besides beasts, there are sometimes malicious spirits of dead people that need to be purified if not buried properly, but people here are quite religious so they deal with them properly.
As for the reason why I decided to pay them a visit, I need 2 things from them, one is the new way of using my powers, if I ever need it. 2) To become a monk, at least officially. Being a monk opens a lot of doors, starting with meetings with some land rulers, not the higher ones for the low level monk, but still, and most importantly, the border control is quite relaxed for them.
Yes, even in times of war, because it is quite difficult to forge the document and the chakra type they use. The document itself is not a piece of paper, it is a staff that they carry with them everywhere, and it is made in each temple uniquely for a particular person. Chakra techniques can only be learned in a particular temple and each one has some differences, but more importantly, they do not teach them to outsiders, it is very strict here. Maybe they do not need many concurrent in the business, even only a few temples in the Land of Fire have exorcists.
I've received a warm invitation from the monks of this temple when some of the relatives of the now elder of this temple were healed by me when I practiced in the village a few years earlier. There is also another reason why they were convinced to teach me and invite me as a part-time monk. They needed a few lessons in Fuin from the master, as well as a few large scrolls and a sealing jar.
'Worlds are different, but people do not change, everyone wants to use you. The only question is whether it is two-sided or one-sided.'
In the beginning they wanted me to join them and that I would give everything for free, I mean, spend everything on the temple. In that case, I would have gotten deeper knowledge and 3rd to highest rank here without a long time of serving here, but the way they tried to negotiate was unpleasant.
Even in a normal situation I would not have accepted their proposal, but at that time I was quite stressed because I had fought the day before I arrived at the temple. So I started the negotiations a little harder than I planed. Despite the heated start, fortunately we were able to come to an agreement.
As for the fight. The road to the temple was quiet for the first 3 days, I traveled through steppes and forests. I visited 2 towns, nobody stopped me even once. On the 4th day I felt something abnormally normal, it's hard to explain, but in a rain some area felt a bit too calm in a sensory way.
At first I did not pay much attention to it, but when an idea visits you and does not want to leave, you just do what you have to do. I went back a bit and carefully checked the part of the forest I had suspicions about.
So I start looking for a small chakra bird, as non-chakra birds would not last long under mind control. After capturing it I sent it on a scouting mission only to find out that there were 2 people in the area, one of them was bleeding, maybe it was a prey of another, unfortunately I could not understand more from it, so the only thing I could do was either walk away or check what was wrong there.
Of course I chose to walk away, but as I was about to let the bird go, I felt a chakra under my feet, so of course I jumped away. Where I stood, there were earth spikes that exploded into shrapnel as they formed. I activated the fastest defense I knew, a layer of water, but it could not completely cover me in such a short amount of time, so I got some wounds despite the passive chakra defense, as for the fuins I usually do not activate them without a reason to save chakra and their durability.
After the first attack, I sensed a signature moving towards me from the camp. He was not using any new techniques, so he probably did not have much chakra, as I sensed. But a ninja with a sword is a ninja and a half. In my case, the only correct tactic would have been to stay away from him, which I did immediately. The rest of the fight was just me using mist and water bullets to keep my enemy from getting close to me and at the same time not letting him use anything from close range, which a few subjective minutes later proved to be effective, despite the fact that he wounded me a few times, as one of the bullets hit him right in the cheek, but even in that situation I tried not to get close to him before I made a few holes in his chest from a distance.
After I was sure that he was dead, I got into the activated camouflage and cautiously walked towards their camp, only to find another ninja lying on the ground without a leg and with a wound in his stomach that smelled like necrosis even through the bandage. So most likely, the second one will die soon, but to end his suffering, I just put him into a coma with a medical hand, only to end his life a few moments later without blood and much more suffering.
After careful examination, I concluded that the ninjas were from the land of Earth. Of course, they had no identification papers with them, but with a family photo and the first technique they used, it was the only reasonable possibility.
'But next time, I might not be so lucky to meet only one, probably Jonin or Tokubetsu-Jonin, so I should use sensory techniques, in random interval of time and with random power, as it demasks me while using.'
Since that day, I have been much more careful on the road, and luckily, no other surprises have been thrown in my face.
'According to my plan, it won't take much time to get all the necessary things from this place so that I can face one of my greatest fears and find a way to deal with it...'