Chapter 2: Removing the Chakra Limitation
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Iruka said awkwardly to Yoruha, "Yoruha, don't mind him. Naruto's memory just isn't very good."
Even as he said it, Iruka felt the excuse was far-fetched.
No matter how bad someone's memory was, there was no way they could forget a classmate they'd spent six years with.
To Iruka's surprise, Yoruha didn't get angry.
He smiled and said, "It's fine. I'm just not very good at socializing."
"Don't say that. It's just that Naruto's memory is terrible," Iruka said seriously.
This was also the first time Naruto had really taken notice of Yoruha.
"Iruka-sensei, did Yoruha pass the graduation exam?"
Iruka turned his head and said with a smile that wasn't really a smile, "Of course he did. In our whole class, you're the only one who didn't pass. What have you been doing all these years?"
Naruto scratched his head awkwardly. "Iruka-sensei, I'm just not good at the Clone Technique. My Sexy Technique is really good, though."
The moment Sexy Technique was mentioned, Iruka's face flushed red with anger, and he shouted, "Don't bring up that filthy jutsu!"
Naruto shrank back and muttered softly, "But you got a nosebleed from watching it."
"Shut up, don't say any more..."
Having been exposed, Iruka's old face turned bright red with embarrassment.
Yoruha paid it no mind.
Smiling, he said to Teuchi, "Uncle, one bowl of tonkotsu ramen."
While making the ramen, Teuchi asked with a grin, "So Yoruha passed the Ninja Academy exam. You're going to be a ninja from now on."
"Today I'll add two extra eggs for you."
Teuchi had a very good relationship with Yoruha.
Yoruha smiled. "Thank you, Uncle."
At that moment, Ayame set down a bowl of beef in front of Yoruha and said with a smile, "Yoruha, your big sister is happy for you too."
Because Yoruha looked good, came to Ichiraku often, and was always polite, Ayame had a very good impression of him.
By the time Iruka was done talking with Naruto, Yoruha was almost finished eating.
Because Iruka and Naruto were here, Yoruha ate much faster than usual.
After finishing, Yoruha stood up and said, "Iruka-sensei, Naruto, enjoy your meal. I'll be going now."
Iruka was taken aback.
He hadn't expected Yoruha to eat so quickly.
Then he glanced at Naruto and understood.
But he didn't blame Yoruha. After all, Yoruha's parents had died in Kurama's disaster.
It was only natural if he didn't like Naruto.
Naruto, who knew nothing, laughed loudly and waved goodbye to Yoruha.
"See you, Yoruha! Let's hang out sometime!"
Yoruha smiled faintly, said nothing, and left.
Polite, but distant.
Naruto couldn't tell, but Iruka could.
"He's already much better than the others. At least there isn't that obvious disgust toward Naruto in his eyes."
What Iruka didn't know was that Yoruha kept his distance from Naruto for one simple reason only: he didn't want trouble.
Yoruha returned home.
Lying on his bed with his eyes closed, he kept wondering when the reward would arrive.
Whether the Idle System was even real.
He waited until midnight.
He was almost asleep when the Idle System's voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"You have idled for one day. Congratulations, your Chakra Limitation has been removed."
Yoruha frowned, still not understanding what that reward meant.
Then suddenly, he felt a faint blue glow emerge from his body.
Yoruha had already learned how to extract Chakra long ago, so he knew that blue light was Chakra.
What shocked him, however, was just how dense it was.
It had actually become visible.
"What incredibly dense Chakra. This amount must be a hundred times what I used to have."
"So this is my reward?"
The next instant, that Chakra surged madly into Yoruha's body.
At that moment, Yoruha felt comfortable all over. It felt unbelievably good—so good he almost cried out.
If he hadn't bitten down on his blanket, the neighbors probably would have misunderstood what he was doing in there.
Only after quite a while did Yoruha fully absorb all that Chakra.
"This is incredible. I can actually absorb Chakra from the outside world."
A ninja's Chakra is extracted from the cells within their own body.
That had been how Yoruha used it before as well.
In the past, Yoruha had always worried that extracting Chakra would weaken his body.
In truth, he had overthought it.
This world was different from the one Yoruha knew. Many of the rules from his old world simply didn't apply here.
In this world, extracting Chakra didn't damage the body unless it was overdrawn.
It was just that the amount of Chakra one could draw from the body was heavily limited by one's constitution.
Simply put, people born into ninja clans usually had far better constitutions than ordinary ninja, and their Chakra reserves were much larger as well.
Yoruha's Chakra reserves had always been very ordinary.
Because his parents had both been civilian ninja.
Before this, Yoruha's Chakra reserves couldn't compare to Sasuke's.
The gap was around tenfold.
As for Naruto, the difference was tens of thousands of times greater—and that wasn't even counting Kurama's Chakra.
That was only counting the amount of Chakra Naruto had because of his Uzumaki Clan bloodline.
And as Naruto got older, his Chakra would only continue to increase, so the gap between him and Yoruha would only grow wider.
In this world, bloodline was extremely important. Without one, at best you could only be like Guy—a brilliant flash that bloomed for an instant.
Now, Yoruha felt that his Chakra was a hundred times what it had been before.
Roughly at the level of a Jonin.
And he could extract Chakra from the outside world.
That meant he could draw Chakra anytime, anywhere.
A lot of ninja couldn't do that.
The energy in nature was vastly greater than what existed inside Yoruha's body.
Now, Yoruha could feel outside energy continuously pouring into him.
Its quality was extremely high.
What Yoruha didn't know was that the Chakra he was absorbing from the outside world was actually Natural Energy.
Naturally, its quality was far higher than ordinary Chakra.
Natural Energy could be used not only in battle, but also to nourish the body.
Yoruha's body wasn't particularly strong.
That was also precisely what had limited how much Chakra he could absorb.
If he had Naruto's physical condition, then right now his Chakra reserves would be far more than a hundred times Naruto's.
At the moment, all Yoruha felt was comfort throughout his body.
It felt even better than soaking in a hot bath.
"This system is way too powerful. It gave me such a huge surprise on the very first day."
"Too bad I don't know any ninjutsu besides the Academy Three Basic Techniques."
His parents hadn't left behind any ninjutsu scrolls either.
Yoruha's parents had not been high-level ninja. Both of them had been ordinary Chunin.
"I'll take it slowly. Maybe the Idle System has them. They might show up later."
"Having my Chakra increase a hundredfold is already great."
"Now my Chakra is much higher than Sasuke's."
Sasuke's Chakra reserves were also very large, far greater than those of ordinary students.
It was only when compared to Naruto that they seemed much smaller.
But compared to Naruto, everyone had less Chakra.
The Uchiha Clan was also known for having abundant Chakra. They just fell a little short of the Uzumaki Clan and the Senju Clan.
After all, without sufficient Chakra, it was hard even to drive the Sharingan.
Not to mention the Mangekyō Sharingan.