NABC It’s talent not cheating
It’s talent not cheating
It’s talent not cheating
Currently we were traveling through the land of hot springs which contrary to it's name wasn't in fact covered in hotsprings. In fact it was just a mix of valleys and mountains that had forests, plains and of course hotsprings. We were on the way to the land of herbs apparently as I had reached the part of my training where I needed to learn medicine concoction. I still hadn't mastered mystic palm jutsu yet as I was making sure that I mastered each possible variant before I claimed that honor. Ironically my sensei told me that she did the exact same thing when she was learning medical ninjutsu originally.-
"I get that an iryonin(medical ninja) needs to know their way around medicine but I'm confused why I need to learn how to make it. Isn't that the job of alchemists?" I asked as we traveled the rocky road.
"While that is true, I believe that an iryonin should be able to find and use local ingredients since there is almost never an alchemist nearby when on a mission." Tsunade said seriously.
"I suppose that is a pretty good reason. That reminds me but why are alchemists so rare anyways? Considering how much medicine is needed I'd assume they would be a very popular profession yet I only saw like four in the village." I said honestly confused.
Herb shops were all over the place in the village but actual medicine places were strangely lacking. It was odd since this worlds people needed way more medicine than people on earth did. Shinobi in particular got cuts , scrapes, stabs, poisoned and diseased from going on foreign missions literally all the time. With this in mind medicines for fever, rash, bleeding and poisoning were rarely in stock for very long and yet alchemist capable of making those things were a rarity.-Upstodatee from
No matter what it was I tried to learn it always took me far less time to pick it up than anyone else I had to compare with. Shuriken throwing? A week and I had perfect scores. Handsigns? A month to learn all the basic ones and use them fluidly. By comparison even the fastest learner in my class besides me, Sasuke took almost two years to begin approaching my level with shuriken's and hand signs. When it came to theoretical knowledge I was even faster as I studied every piece of information about history and the world I could get my hands on.-
If it was available in the public library I knew it and even then I knew even more as I also had private information from people who lived those events. It was one thing to read about how a battle between two individuals reshaped the landscape but another entirely to speak with someone who witnessed it firsthand. Records try but usually fail when it comes to emphasis on how impactful things were but people don't have that issue. Old folks that were alive during those times were surprisingly forthcoming about the past if you bothered to ask them I had found while in the village.-
The trick however was finding those old people as unfortunately very few shinobi lived long enough to be counted. Others like the third Hokage had no problem talking about fun or interesting personal events but got tight lipped when serious events were inquired about. For example when I had asked the Hokage about details of the first and second Hokages abilities only for the old man to immediately shut me down. It made no sense to me since unless it was pertaining to a forbidden jutsu or something talking about those two long dead people shouldn't make any difference.-
Admittedly my memorization of the public library helped considerably when using shadow clones to learn these days. Without that prior information i likely wouldn't be able to understand many references or words in the new stuff. In a way I suppose that it could be likened to creating a dictionary in my head that let me translate the new information much faster. The broader that dictionary got with the new words added to it the faster I learned. That was where the shadow clone jutsu came in as my clone absorbed and digested the information before sending it to me where my brain immediately went to work sorting it based on topic and understanding.-
I can't say that my sensei was a terrible teacher but it was clear that she was less hands on then you would expect. Her teaching style so far had basically been to have me memorize information and practice a few things she taught me before leaving me to my own devices. Then again I was still basically a novice at medical jutsu still so that might be the case for all medical ninja at my level.