Chapter 23: CH 23
"I think so. I recognise it since I think my jiji told me about them once but I forgot the name. They help tell you something about your chakra right?" Naruto said staring at the blank piece of paper.
Itachi nodded his head. "My Tou-san called them chakra paper. They help us find out what our element affinity is." "Element affinity? So it tells us which of the element jutsu's we can do and can be best at right?" He said as Itachi nodded.
"That is how I understand it too," he said." I thought you might want to find out your element or elements since you showed interest in them the other day."
"Definantly. It's the main reason I took this water jutsu since I wanted to be able to do it too. Though how does the paper tell us?" He asked as Itachi explained.
"My Tou-san said that it differs from each element. He said that if its burns it is fire, water then it gets soggy, earth it crumbles away, wind it splits into two pieces and then lightning if it crinkles."
"Cool. So do you know what yours are?" Naruto asked since finding out what element he was, was definantly something he wanted to do. He had asked his jiji some time back which is where and found his jiji was Fire and also found out that Minato was wind while his mother was water. It explained why they had so many wind and water jutsu's stored away.
Itachi nodded and Naruto watched as a faint blue glow appeared around the paper as the young Uchiha poured some of his chakra into it.
Naruto watched in fascination towards the slip of paper and then watched as Naruto got his answer. On one half the slip of paper set alight while on the other half water got damp thought it was only a little before it completely set alight.
Before Naruto council answer Itachi did instead. "My main element is fire which is not surprising since my clan is known for our strong affinity to fire. However I was surprised when I discovered I had a minor affinity for water which is extremely rare for my clan."
"So is that why you could do the fire jutsu so easily?" "In a way. The fireball jutsu is a rite of passage for all Uchiha members. Meaning everyone in my family had to learn it by the time they were my age," Itachi explained while Naruto nodded. He had to admit that Itachi's clan sounded pretty cool. He also wondered if his family had some kind of rite of passage they had to go through or any of the others clans in Konoha.
"So cool. Man I am so pumped I have to find out what mine is now," Naruto said grinning eagerly at the piece of paper in his hand.
He closed his eyes and gripped the slip of paper tightly in his paper. He pouted his chakra into the paper making it glow a faint blue.
Itachi stood just in front of it waiting to see what the end result was going to be. When Naruto opened his eyes the two got their answer.
Though it was an answer neither had been quite prepared for. The paper had split right down the middle, shaving the two equally in half. On the left side the paper completed crumbled away while on the other slip of paper, it became all soggy and wet.
"Woh," both Naruto and Itachi said at the same time as they observed the small spectacle in front of them.
"Amazing," Itachi said not fully believing what he just witnessed.
"Urm what exactly does that mean?" Naruto thought as he looked at the slips of paper in his hand.
"Does this mean I have three elements?" he said to himself aloud not entirely sure he believed him with what just happened.
"It appears that is what just happened," Itachi said finally wrapping his head around it. It is surprising since my mother once said that it was very rare for someone to have even two affinities since it usually indicates that they have a bloodline. Though I Was unaware your family had one."
"Well I know neither side of my family as a bloodline of those sorts. My Kaa-chan's side is that is has strong life force along with naturally high stamina and chakra. At least I think that is what it was. So how did I get three?"
"I do not know. I guess it was just one of those one in a million happenings," Itachi said with Naruto nodding.
"Wind, Water and Earth. I can get so strong if I master them one day. But what would everyone think if I tell them? Plus Kaa-chan and Tou-san may find out I took a jutsu from their library without asking," he though as he bit his lip.
"Then jiji, nee-chan and baa-chan might get angry that I am doing this without telling them," he thought since he really did not want a skull bashing by either Shizune, Tsunade or even worse both. The two were crazy strong. Plus he dared not think what his mother would do. She was known as the Red Hot Habanero for a reason and even Naruto knew not to cross his mother when she was in one of her moods.
"Hey Itachi," he called getting the boy to look at him. "Do you think we could keep this between us for now? No one knows I am looking into elemental ninjutsu and they would probably tell them I am not ready for it yet. So could we maybe keep this between us for now?"