Chapter 44: What Do You Mean, Only One-Tenth of His Chakra?!
The water dragon Yoruha released plunged headfirst into the lake. For several whole seconds, the giant dragon's body was actually over a hundred meters long.
Its terrifying dragon roar echoed through several hundred meters.
It was as though a true dragon had appeared here.
The originally calm surface of the lake churned violently from the dragon's impact.
Waves several meters high rolled up, spreading for hundreds of meters.
The overflowing water even flooded the lakeshore.
It even triggered tremors in the ground across several hundred meters nearby.
That alone showed just how powerful this ninjutsu was.
After releasing the ninjutsu, Yoruha felt one-tenth of the Chakra in his body get drained away.
When Yoruha lowered his hands, he sighed. "As expected of a B-rank ninjutsu. The Chakra consumption really is huge."
Kakashi and Zabuza didn't hear that.
If they had, they would have coughed up blood in frustration.
The Water Dragon Bullet Technique Yoruha had just used hadn't borrowed the convenience of the lake at all. It had been made entirely from water created by Chakra out of thin air.
That terrifying volume of water probably consumed enough Chakra to drain an ordinary Jonin dry on the spot.
When Tobirama and the Third Hokage fought and Tobirama formed a Water Formation Wall on the rooftop, even the Anbu Jonin had been amazed.
And the Water Dragon Bullet Technique Yoruha had just released surpassed Tobirama in difficulty, scale, and power, and had also been formed entirely from water condensed by Chakra.
Back then, Tobirama had condensed water with Chakra because there had been no water in his surroundings.
But there was a lake right in front of Yoruha. The reason he relied entirely on Chakra was simply because it was his first time using the technique and he had no experience.
Even so, the power of the Water Dragon Bullet Technique Yoruha used was still far above Zabuza's.
If not for the fact that the Chakra in Yoruha's body was all Natural Energy, meaning he needed far less of it than when using ordinary Chakra, then it wouldn't have cost only one-tenth of his Chakra.
But even so, Yoruha still thought this ninjutsu consumed a lot of Chakra.
Truly, comparison was enough to make people die of frustration.
As Yoruha muttered to himself, Sakura at his side was already dumbfounded.
"Yoruha, your ninjutsu was way stronger than that Zabuza guy's."
When Yoruha released the technique just now, there had been a layer of water walls around Sakura and Tazuna.
Those water walls had been part of the water dragon's body.
So when Yoruha cast the ninjutsu, Sakura had seen the whole thing clearly.
The Water Dragon Bullet Technique released by Zabuza, an Elite Jonin, had actually lost to the Water Dragon Bullet Technique released by Yoruha.
Sakura didn't even know what to say.
If before, Sakura had only felt that Yoruha's taijutsu was much stronger than theirs,
now Yoruha's taijutsu, ninjutsu, and Chakra reserves were all overwhelmingly beyond theirs.
Even if Sakura didn't know Water Dragon Bullet Technique, the Pressure from Yoruha's version just now was enough to show that it required a massive amount of Chakra.
That had been a giant water dragon over a hundred meters long.
And the water dragon Yoruha released had seemed alive, completely unlike Zabuza's.
Yoruha only made her more and more curious.
With Yoruha this powerful, how could he have remained so obscure back at the Ninja Academy?
Putting obscurity aside, before graduation, she hadn't even realized there had been a classmate named Yoruha in her class.
Yoruha shook his head. "It's only because it was my first time using this ninjutsu, so I didn't have a proper grasp of it."
Sakura froze.
That answer left her dumbstruck.
"This was your first time using this ninjutsu?"
Yoruha nodded.
"How is that possible? Your hand seals were so fast, so practiced. How could it possibly be your first time using it?"
Yoruha didn't say anything more.
There was no need for him to explain it to Sakura. She wouldn't be able to understand yet.
Seeing that Yoruha didn't explain, Sakura grew even more shocked.
Because she realized Yoruha couldn't possibly be lying to her.
After all, with Yoruha's personality, there was no need for him to lie.
Back at the Ninja Academy, he had been so low-key. He couldn't suddenly have turned high-profile now.
But the more that was true, the more astonished Sakura became.
His very first use had been that powerful.
And Yoruha had actually said he hadn't properly mastered it. If he could use it that skillfully without mastering it, then what would it look like after he did?
Would he be able to activate it without hand seals?
The more she thought about it, the more terrifying it became.
He was clearly the same age as her, yet she couldn't even see his back anymore.
The gap between them had become that enormous.
Kakashi came over to Yoruha's side and sighed. "Your control has improved a lot. At least the power isn't quite so outrageous anymore, and it's not that uncontrollable now."
"Looks like you've improved quickly."
Yoruha nodded. "Maybe it's because this ninjutsu isn't very difficult, so it doesn't require very high control."
Yoruha knew what Kakashi meant.
Although the Water Dragon Bullet Technique Yoruha had just released was incredibly powerful and had shocked Kakashi,
it absolutely wasn't as shocking as the night Yoruha used "Chidori."
If Yoruha had used that "Chidori" from that night just now, probably no one here except Yoruha would have survived.
That had been power capable of instantly swallowing up everything within several hundred meters.
If Kakashi hadn't sensed something was wrong and run fast enough that night, even if he hadn't died, he would have been badly injured.
But although the Water Dragon Bullet Technique Yoruha had just used was also very powerful, it was now completely controllable.
It had high practical combat value.
It was just that Yoruha had actually said Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique wasn't difficult.
That was a B-rank ninjutsu, something generally only Jonin could master.
If an ordinary Chunin cast it once, their Chakra would probably be drained dry.
In battle, only Jonin would dare use it several times, and only by taking advantage of the terrain.
After all, they had to make sure they kept enough Chakra to continue fighting.
And Water Dragon Bullet Technique consumed far too much Chakra.
But the Water Dragon Bullet Technique Yoruha used was not only immensely powerful—far stronger than an ordinary Water Dragon Bullet Technique—it had also been formed entirely from his own Chakra into water.
Even Kakashi could only release that kind of Water Dragon Bullet Technique two or three times.
Kakashi's Chakra reserves were very large; it was just that his Sharingan was constantly draining them.
Without the Sharingan's consumption, Kakashi's Chakra would absolutely be at Kage-level.
That much was obvious after the Fourth Great Ninja War.
Without the burden of the Sharingan, he could use all kinds of large-scale ninjutsu without the slightest strain.
And Water Dragon Bullet Technique was not simple at all.
A B-rank level of difficulty was still very high even for a Chunin.
Yet Yoruha had learned it on the spot, and his very first use had already been extremely skilled.
But then, when Kakashi thought about how Yoruha had also learned an A-rank ninjutsu like "Chidori" on the first try—if Yoruha's Chakra hadn't gone into Rampage that night, he would have succeeded—
Kakashi looked at Yoruha and smiled. "It used a lot of Chakra, right?"
Yoruha nodded seriously. "It really did consume a lot of Chakra. It took one-tenth of my Chakra all at once."
Kakashi froze.
"Only one-tenth?"
Yoruha looked puzzled. "Isn't one-tenth already a lot?"
That answer left Kakashi speechless.
The corner of his mouth twitched as he said, "I thought it would've taken at least a third of your Chakra reserves."
"If that were true, then that would be way too terrifying."
Yoruha really couldn't understand it.
He felt that draining one-tenth of his Chakra at once was already a lot, yet Kakashi said he'd expected it to take a third.
After all, it was only a B-rank ninjutsu. If it were an A-rank or S-rank ninjutsu draining that much Chakra, he could accept it.