Naruto continued this until his stomach grumbled that it was time for food. So he went for food then home and at home he continued to work [Leaf Sticking], [Chakra Reinforcement] but this time he did Sit-ups and Push-ups during the down time. He gained 2 more points of STR in the first four sets but the next five sets did nothing. He finally determined that he could only gain one bonus stat point per level. So the six points to STR was all he could get until he leveled again. This meant he could increase his VIT four more times and DEX three more times. He just needed time to work on it with all of his other skills to level.
You have slept in your bed. HP & CP are fully stored.
Naruto once again woke up excited to get to training his skills. Right away he drained nearly all of his CP working on [Leaf Sticking] before going through his morning routine.
Naruto decided that he could get his VIT level capped quickly enough by running to school every morning and taking a longer route depending on how much time he had. And that's exactly what he did.
"Good morning, class," greeted Iruka as he entered the class room. "So, we're back to our day one schedule so let's all try to improve."
Naruto tuned him out as he began talking about various uses of bukijutsu and the physics that can be applied. Instead he chose to once again drain his chakra to almost empty, this time on [Chakra Reinforcement] before setting his head down on the desk and closing his eyes until it was time to go outside for practice.
It didn't take long before they were outside at the practice range and much to Naruto's delight he got a quest alert immediately.
Quest Alert
My Personal Best: Score 90% or better
You have five attempts to throw 90% or better with Kunai and Shuriken
Completion Award: 1000 Exp
[Intermediate Academy Taijutsu] Skill Book
Completion Failure: 200 Exp
Naruto had to wipe the drool from the corner of his mouth at the thought of succeeding. He quickly tapped the 'Confirm (Y)' button and got himself in line.
Naruto's first time up he hit 93 only missing one shuriken hit.
"Yatta!" he shouted with joy.
You've improved, well done.
Completion Awarded: 1000 Exp and [Intermediate Academy Taijutsu] Skill Book
Naruto was super eager to get right into the book but was interrupted by another notification.
Congratulations! Your level has increased by 1.
Naruto grinned happily at that.
Quest Alert
Perfection is its own reward: Score 100%
You have four attempts to throw 100% with Kunai and Shuriken
Completion Award: 2000 Exp
Completion Failure: 500 Exp
Naruto quickly tapped the 'Confirm (Y)' button and went to the back of the line to check out his new book.
You've obtained the skill book [Intermediate Academy Taijutsu].
Would you like to learn the skill?
Naruto impatiently tapped the 'Confirm (Y)' excited for the new skills.
You cannot learn this skill.
Required STR: 20.
Required DEX: 20.
Required [Beginner Academy Taijutsu] LvMax.
Naruto previous joy just crumbled into nothingness. He needed to attain a max skill level. How was he supposed to attain a max skill level? Stats wouldn't be a problem, he'd just gotten five from his leveling up plus he could train one more STR and four more DEX. But to get a max skill level in his beginner taijutsu? He was screwed.
Naruto decided to put three stat points into STR for now and one into DEX and think about what to do with the rest later.
Before he knew it he was up to throw again, another 93%. In fact all four of his tries were 93%, he'd always miss with at least one which really pissed him off.
The rest of the morning was boring history followed by lunch which found Naruto outside and running the obstacle course to try and gain a couple of DEX while he had the time. He did actually manage to gain two points before the end of lunch.
His improving his stats got him thinking. How could he go about improving his INT and WIS, especially his WIS?
It got him looking around the room and observing his classmates again only to see that Shikamaru' WIS was higher than the last time he checked but hadn't gained a level which meant he did something to increase it. The question is, what did he do?
"Hey Shikamaru," called Naruto softly, trying not to gain the ire of Iruka-sensei in the process.
Shikamaru turned his head a little to look at Naruto. "Yeah?"
"How did you get so smart? What do you do? Do you study a lot or something?"
"Che, troublesome," complained Shikamaru. "I don't really study unless I absolutely have to. I guess it's from playing so much Shogi."
"That's a board game right?"
"Yeah, I guess you could call it that," said Shikamaru. "Why did you want to know?"
"Think you could teach me how to play?"
"Troublesome," whined Shikamaru again. "I guess I can teach you after school today. Just don't do anything troublesome."
"Really? Thanks a lot, Shikamaru. I'll owe you big time for this," said Naruto, smiling from ear to ear.
"Whatever, I'm going back to sleep until it's time for taijutsu practice."
Naruto couldn't wait for the day to end, hopefully learning Shogi from Shikamaru would help him increase his WIS. That still left him with his INT problem but with his strange status buff giving him VIT and INT with every level he didn't really need to worry about it unless that buff suddenly vanished on him.
So Naruto once again drained his chakra training his skills while waiting for taijutsu practice to start. Two more levels to his [Chakra Reinforcement] and it was time for taijutsu.
When time for taijutsu practice came Naruto was disappointed when he didn't get a quest of any kind. He did just gain a level so maybe he exceeded the max level for the taijutsu quests. Either way Naruto was miffed.
Naruto found himself standing across from one of the civilian kids name Midori Tomodo for his first match of the day.
Midori Tomodo Lv6
HP: 150/150
CP: 50/50
STR: 10
VIT: 15
DEX: 20
INT: 5
WIS: 5
LUK: 2
Midori Tomodo is a civilian born academy student. While moderately skill in taijutsu, he is severely lacking in other aspects of the shinobi arts.
So Naruto was stronger than him and just slightly less dexterous. Naruto figured based on that information it would be a fairly even fight.
They bowed to each other then settled into an academy basic stance, Naruto in a defensive back stance and Tomodo in an aggressive front stance. Naruto wanted to see how Tomodo fought before trying to attack him.
"Hajime," called Iruka.
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