"Not really but let's kill it anyway," said Shikamaru.
"Tell me what to do, Shikamaru," said Chouji.
"I'll try to hold it still for a minute, you two do as much damage as you can," said Shikamaru, already his shadow stretching across the ground toward the big ugly beast.
Naruto grinned, pulling out his recently made stack of explosive tags. [Chakra Sprint] activated he move forward rapidly and began sticking tag after tag on the beast's body while Chouji was preparing his own jutsu.
"Baika no Jutsu," called Chouji, his body suddenly ballooning. Then he called out, "Nikudan Sensha," and started to spin rapidly with kunai draped around him making him look like a hedgehog on a steroids.
Naruto jumped clear and Chouji suddenly took off toward the rat. Just as Chouji got to it the shadow holding it vanished allowing Chouji to hit it full power to the face and shoulder, grinding into the beast tearing away flesh, fur and blood alike. Eventually the rat fell over and Chouji rolled over it coming to stop just meters away.
Naruto used the opportunity of the rat being down to activate the explosive tags. "Katsu!"
The series of explosions that followed was fairly impressive, especially when one had a critical detonation blowing the head of the rat clean off and showering the field with paste.
"That was awesome!" crowed Naruto excitedly.
"That was overkill," said Shikamaru.
[Teamwork]'s level has increase by 1.
[Teamwork]'s level has increase by 1.
Your teammate Nara Shikamaru's level has increased by 1.
Your teammate Akimichi Chouji's level has increased by 1.
"Congrats on the levels guys," said Naruto, happy for his friends. He turned his focus on the decomposing body to see what kind of loot might drop on this guy.
1500 Ryo
That was it? That was the whole drop from the rat. Naruto groaned in annoyance and split the money equally taking his 500 then handing Chouji and Shikamaru each their 500.
"What's this?" asked Chouji.
"The loot," answered Naruto.
"These things give loot? Money?" asked Chouji, wide eyed with surprise.
"Yeah, not sure why but I'm not going to question it. Money is money."
"Thanks," said Chouji before looking to see Shikamaru staring hard at something in the air in front of him. "Hey, Shika, what are you looking at?"
"I'm debating what to spend my stat points on," said Shikamaru.
"Stat points? You mean we can spend them ourselves?"
"So it seems," said Shikamaru. "I doubt we'd be able to do the same if we weren't teamed with Naruto.
Chouji quickly opened his own status page.
"Chouji, you should increase your DEX, try to even your stats out a bit," suggested Shikamaru.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm also trying to increase my DEX, make myself a bit more mobile in combat. I need more VIT and INT but I can get that through training, so can you by the way. Especially if we do it while in a group like this cause then Naruto's game experience applies to us and our stats too. We can both pick up around fourteen points in almost everything."
"Really? That's kind of cool," said Chouji, following Shikamaru's advice and upping his DEX.
"So, do you want to try a different training field, this one was kind of crappy."
"It might have been crappy but it was a good learning experience for me and Chouji," said Shikamaru. "It got us some good exposure to what we can expect if we team up with you in the future to clear more of these. I think we should probably train more, get me and Chouji to our level stat cap and then go from there. You need some too don't you? You did gain three levels yesterday right?"
"I'm good for whatever," said Naruto, grinning. "One gives me more levels which makes me stronger, the other gives me more stats which also makes me stronger. It's win-win."
"Right then, let's get back to the KSA training field," said Shikamaru, leading the group away.
You have slept in your bed. HP & CP are fully stored.
Naruto, Shikamaru, and Chouji all trained together every day that week leading up to the team assignments. It was the KSA training field daily from start to finish and working heavily on their skills while resting physically.
Naruto had actually capped a few skills again.
[Chakra Sprint (Active) LvMax CP 20]
Using chakra to reinforce your leg muscles to grant you a quick burst of speed.
Additional +40 to run speed when Active.
[Trap (Passive) LvMax]
Traps are an essential skill to any shinobi. They are used to surprise and confuse enemies and friends alike depending on the situation. They can be used both for fun and for slaughter equally well.
Passively increases Trap effectiveness 20%
Passively increases Trap damage 20%
Passively increases Trap placement 20%
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