(A.N: you guys have to agree the image is fire right?)

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  After two more hours of meditation, his chakra reserves were full. This time, he only created one shadow e with 80% of his chakra. The e did the same thing Kaida did initially—releasing different types of chakra from each hand and f a fireball in the middle.

  Though it didn't disperse immediately and stayed like that for some time, after five mihe ade a small mistake, and the fireball extinguished.

  The e tihe exercise again and agaiually succeeding in making the fireball stable for more than 30 minutes. Due to the low amount of chakra, it dispersed itself. When Kaida received the memory, he had around 60% chakra, so he tinued his meditation. Afterward, he created another e once his chakra reserves were full again.

  This time, the e had to make a fireball with one hand. Kaida decided to py it safe, as Yukihiro had said it might be risky. He made a e with only 10% of his chakra. As soon as the e started releasing both chakras from a single hand, its whole hand caught fire. The e swiftly stopped the chakra release, and the fire died down.

  However, due to the damage it had suffered from the fire, the e was on its st legs, and one more such act would have forcefully dispersed it. So, it dispersed itself, and Kaida received the memory.

  'Since I am releasing normal chakra from my whole hand, when fire chakra was released, my whole hand caught fire. So, I have to try to release chakra only from my palm and avoid c my palm with it.'

  He made five more es with 50% of his chakra, and all five of them began trying to release chakra from a single point in their hand. After some more minor acts, they were able to make a fireball from their hand, though its size and shape left a lot to be desired.

  Kaida was just happy that he had learned shadow e before this; otherwise, he would have been admitted to the hospital by now. Leaving depressing thoughts behind, he made five more es, and they all resumed training while Kaida started meditating.

  For the entire day, he kept making es as they tio take damage from minor acts during the training period. At 5 PM, Yukihiro approached Kaida and said,

  "Kaida, you stop for today. It's already 5 PM. You are making very fast progress, so there's o rush. You should also take appropriate rest."

  "Yes, sensei," Kaida said.

  He dispersed all of his es and headed toward the gate, where Yomi was already waiting for him.

  "So, Kaida, how was your day? Did you make any progress in training?"

  "Yeah, I'm ohird part of the training. I think I'll be able to plete it by tomorrow. What about you?"

  "Well, I barely pleted my first step and started the sed ooday. But the problem is lightning chakra is very random and hard to trol. The more I try to project it toward a particur dire, the harder it bees. I wish I had the fire attribute," Yomi said.

  "Hahaha, and I wish I had lightning chakra, as it would have made me super powerful. Yomi, we've already discussed this multiple times. The results of the training will make the effort worth it, so do your best."

  "YES, SIR," Yomi said with a mock salute.

  After repeating the same routine as yesterday, they woke up at 4 AM again, fully refreshed after 10 hours of sleep. After pleting their m routihey ran toward the training area, followed by m exercise until 5 AM.

  At 5 AM, their sensei arrived, and they started their training again. Since Kaida already had some training in making a fireball with one hand, he simply made 10 shadow es and begaating. All of his shadow es started the training.

  After three hours, he dispersed all of his es and made a single e with 90% of his chakra. Sihe goal of the exercise was not to make the fireball but to sustain it for the loime possible, he meditated while his e trated on making a fireball and redug any slip-ups. After 30 hours of practice using 10 shadow es for 3 hours each, Kaida had enough experieo know the different ways mistakes could occur during this exercise.

  So now, his e was trying not to make any of those mistakes, which was difficult in itself sihe number of potential errors was iriple digits.

  After awo hours, Kaida dispersed the e and made a new oh 80% of his chakra. By the time this e dispersed itself, Kaida retty fident that he would no longer make any major mistakes.

  He came into direct view of Yukihiro and made a fireball using only one hand. This was his first time making a fireball by himself and not using a e, but due to the memory transfer, it felt like he had practiced this tless times.

  A fireball the size of a cricket ball formed in Kaida's hand, which he slowly increased in size until it resembled a football. After some time,

  he once again reduced the size of the fireball until it resembled a cricket ball and maintai at that size for an hour straight. After that, he made a slip-up, causing a small bst, which slightly burned his palm.

  Yukihiro used the Body Flicker Jutsu and arrived in front of Kaida. With a wave of his hand, he sent a wind wave that extinguished all residual fire and took a close look at Kaida's hand.

  "Hoh! Luckily, it didn't get burned seriously," Yukihiro said as his hand started glowing green. He pced it above Kaida's hand, and the burn injuries healed at a rapid pace. Seeing this, Kaida asked,

  "Sensei, what is this?"

  "Well, it's a handy medical jutsu known as the Mystical Palm Teique. It be learned by any ninja, but if you want to learn more, you'll have to bee a mediinja. But that's not important right now.

  Kaida, I already told you there's o rush. You take your time and practice slowly. You've made signifit progress in just two days, but this act was simply reckless.

  You should stick with using shadow es until you're sure there's no ce of any mistakes. This applies not just to this training, but to all future training as well. There's o hurry, okay?"

  "Yes, sensei," Kaida said, this time truly serious, as even though his injuries were healed, the pain from the burn retty bad. Just the thought of what could have happened if the fireball had exploded in his hand when it was the size of a football...

  "Good. That's enough for today. You go back," Yukihiro said a.

  Kaida made his way toward the exit gate, where Yomi was already standing.

  "Why are you looking so down, Kaida?"

  "Well, I had a minor act today. You should also be careful while practig something new.

  Ugh! I 't believe I was telling you not to rush, but I was recklessly trying to do something myself just because it looked cool."

  Seeing Kaida so down, Yomi uood that something bad must have happened.

  "Kaida, tell me exactly what happened."

  Kaida told her exactly what had happened and how he tried to make a fireball when he wasn't ready. After hearing that he was all healed up now, Yomi sighed in relief. Afterward, they both promised to support each other so that they wouldn't be reckless anymore.

  For the hree days, Kaida and Yomi stuck with their current exercises. After three days, Yomi was able to successfully shrink the leaf before it touched the ground. In the step, she had to produce lightning from her hand without getting zapped by it—the most important and hardest part of her training.

  Oher hand, Kaida was able to make and maintain a fireball on the sed day but still trained for ara day using shadow es to be sure.

  Now, he could make a fireball as easily as he could perform the tree-walking exercise, though he still had to trate on it. However, it became signifitly easier to maintain a fireball.

  On the fourth day, he went to Yukihiro and said,

  "Sensei, I think I'm ready."

  "OK, you show me."

  Kaida once again moved his hand forward, and a fireball emerged in his hand. After ging its size twice, Kaida maintaihat fireball for three and a half hours. After that, his chakra became very low, so he had to stop.

  "Very good. Your fire chakra trol has improved to a satisfactory level. Now we start with wind chakra trol."

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  (A.N: Thanks for reading ^~^)