Naruto: I have an attribute panel

Chapter 42 People in the Hospital

The sun slowly peeked out, and the morning light pierced through the clouds, draping Konoha Village in a thin veil of orange-red.

Taiichi lay bored on his bed. Usually, he would already be practicing his swordsmanship by the river at this time. But today, he had just gotten up to do some simple training when the patrolling nurse found him and scolded him.

Sometimes he really wanted to use healing techniques to completely heal his wounds, but he knew that it would be a losing proposition.

Doing so during combat or war is understandable. However, in normal times, any ninja who doesn't want to die prematurely would not use healing techniques to treat injuries with such extensive cell damage.

After all, this kind of treatment theoretically works by consuming cellular potential and stimulating cells to divide and replicate faster, thereby achieving the effect of healing wounds. This is definitely trading life for time.

Therefore, he couldn't even properly refine chakra, and could only spend his time lying in his hospital bed.

During this time, the nurses came and went frequently, as if they had been instructed to, to check on Taiyi and prevent him from secretly getting out of bed.

until……

"Taiyi, haha, you're really here."

The door was pushed open, and the boisterous Yohei walked into the house carrying a fruit basket. Behind him followed Captain Yamaguchi and Saori, who was carrying flowers.

"I didn't believe it when Captain Yamaguchi told me this morning that you were injured. You've only been separated from us for a day, how did you get so badly hurt?" Yangping looked puzzled, as if he didn't know anything about it.

Taiichi glanced at Captain Yamaguchi and saw the captain secretly shake his head. Taiichi knew in his heart that this matter was probably to be kept secret or was not suitable for genin to know.

"I got dragged into a special mission, and this is how it turned out," Taiyi said helplessly.

"Ah~ Ah~ What kind of mission is it, Taiichi, tell me about it!" Yangping became even more excited when he heard about the special mission.

"Bang!"

Captain Yamaguchi punched Yohei in the head, silencing him instantly.

"What did I tell you before? Keep it a secret! Keep it a secret! Don't go around asking about other ninjas' missions." Captain Yamaguchi said sternly.

Yangping was like a wilted chick, drawing circles on the side.

"Didn't you have a mission today? Why are you here so early?" Taiyi didn't want to embarrass Yangping, so he changed the subject.

Saori, who had just put the flowers into the vase, finally spoke up: "Today we took on a cat-finding mission, but we were very lucky and found it at the spot where it was lost very quickly."

Saori sat on the edge of the bed, straightened the disheveled blankets, and continued, "We came to see you after submitting our mission. How badly are you injured? How long will it take before you can be discharged from the hospital?"

"They said I need to stay in the hospital for four days, and I can be discharged once the external injuries have almost healed." Taiyi was very happy to feel his teammates' concern: "Thank goodness you guys came. I was just lying in bed, unable to do anything, and I was so bored."

"You should rest and recover properly, so as not to leave any lasting effects. Such large-scale injuries are most likely to leave lasting health problems," Captain Yamaguchi said with concern.

"Sigh, this is the only way." Taiyi turned to look at Yangping, who was still drawing circles. "Yangping, there are only two of us left in the team now, so you'll have to take on more responsibility."

"Haha, that's for sure, I'm the one who caught that cat today." Hearing Taiyi's words, Yangping was fully revitalized.

Then he vividly recounted to Taiyi the whole process of catching the cat that day, how he cleverly discovered the clues first, and how they set a trap together to catch the kitten...

The team members chatted in Taiyi's hospital room until a nurse came to check on them and asked them to leave.

The once quiet ward was now empty except for Taiichi. This left Taiichi, who always had his time fully occupied, feeling completely lost.

With some free time, Taiyi let his thoughts wander, sometimes thinking about his past, sometimes about the war to come, but mostly about improving his own strength.

This battle made Taichi realize many things. Instead of studying every single ninjutsu, it would be better to specialize in a few highly functional ninjutsu.

In previous battles, Taiichi mostly used the maxed-out Phoenix Flame and Great Breakthrough, and only occasionally used other elemental ninjutsu.

This was partly due to the needs of the battle, but more importantly, it was because Taiichi was the most skilled at using these two ninjutsu. In battle, seizing the initiative meant a greater chance of victory. Ultimately, both of their enemies were defeated because Taiichi caught them off guard.

Another factor is the immense power of Taiichi's ninjutsu. Aside from the power boost from Taiichi's own potent talent, there's also his nature transformation, which rivals even that of a typical Jonin.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the nature transformation level reaches Lv6, it can be considered as reaching the level of Jonin.

Of course, having this level doesn't mean you're a Jonin. Ninja rank is an evaluation of comprehensive abilities; having a high rank in only one area is useless.

Just like Taiichi now, his nature transformation has reached level 7, but due to his physical abilities and ninja experience, he can only be considered a Chunin at best.

That being said, Taiichi's nature transformation is already at a relatively high level. In the past, Taiichi improved and understood nature transformation by practicing ninjutsu.

However, this effect becomes weak after the property change reaches Lv6, so Taiyi needs to come up with a way to specifically enhance the property change.

Thinking this, Taiichi raised his right hand and slowly gathered chakra in his palm. Due to the pain in his meridians, he couldn't go too fast. Slowly, a ball of pale blue chakra condensed in Taiichi's hand.

Taiyi turned his head to look at the surrounding arrangement and decisively chose to convert his chakra to water attribute. Gradually, the light blue light disappeared and was replaced by a fist-sized clear water ball. This is nature change.

Looking at the ball of water in his hand, Taiyi concentrated, controlling the water to rotate and stretch in his hand. Sometimes he would even turn it back into chakra and then back into a ball of water. Gradually, Taiyi became engrossed in playing with it until a panel prompt appeared.

[Your continued practice of Water-type transformations has increased your Water-type Property Transformation by +1.]

"So that works too," Taiyi suddenly realized. "Yes, the transformation of properties not only requires practice, but also comprehension."

The panel had actually given a hint long ago; wasn't that how I came up with my Great Water Prison Technique? That time, the change in its nature directly added 1000 points.

With a new goal in mind, Taiichi laughed and was no longer bored. He began to slowly comprehend the changes as he gathered chakra in his hands.

……

the next day.

"Excuse me, is Matsushita-kun home?" A knock came at the door.

Taiyi frowned upon hearing this and dispersed the chakra in his hand. Who could be coming at this time? He thought about it for a while, but couldn't figure it out.

"Please come in."

Entering were two adults and one child, the Kurama clan chief and his wife, along with their young daughter, Kurama Chizuru. They were all carrying gifts.

"We heard that you were hospitalized, Mr. Matsushita, so we came to visit you and express our gratitude for your previous help!" Chief Kurama said in advance.

"Chief Kurama, you're too kind. I'm sorry, I'm covered in injuries and can't get out of bed to greet you," Taiichi said politely, but in his heart he was thinking—big families always speak so formally.

"Brother Taiichi, these are flowers I picked myself. Thank you for saving me." Kurama Chizuru was quite outgoing and ran over after breaking free from her mother's hand.

"Chizuru, you mustn't be rude," the Kurama clan chief scolded.

"It's okay, I like Chizuru just the way she is." Tai saw that Chizuru was about to cry, so he quickly touched her head and spoke up to help her out.

Seeing this, Chief Anma readily agreed, after all, she was his daughter.

"Taiyi-kun, I've come to visit you for two reasons, and also to ask if there's anything you need."

"Your help is so important to my wife and me, but we don't know what you need. Ordinary things can't express our gratitude, so we came here to ask for your opinion. Please don't take offense."

Taiichi could sense the sincerity of the Kurama clan chief and his wife; they genuinely wanted to express their gratitude to him.

Taichi declined, saying, "Uncle Kurama, I'm sorry for calling you that. It's just what I should do as a Konoha ninja. There's really no need for that. Besides, the Hokage has already calculated an A-rank mission for me as a reward."

"The Hokage's reward is from the village, but my Kurama clan cannot fail to show our gratitude. Otherwise, people will say that my Kurama family is ungrateful," the Kurama clan chief said resolutely.

"Well, Uncle Kurama, could you give me some information on your Kurama family's illusion techniques?" Taichi asked hesitantly.

"This~" The Kurama clan chief was also in a dilemma: "Matsushita-kun, the illusions of my Kurama clan are all developed based on the control of the five senses over this bloodstain. It's no use for you to have it."

Seeing that Chief Kurama had misunderstood, Taiichi quickly said, "I'm sorry, Uncle Kurama, I didn't explain clearly. I only need information on general illusion techniques, not illusion techniques unique to the Kurama clan."

"Oh, no problem. I'll arrange for someone to send it over when I get back," Chief Kurama readily agreed.

"Thank you so much, Uncle Kurama! I really need these right now, you've really helped me a lot!" Taiichi deliberately exaggerated his needs to reassure the Kurama clan chief.

Although he did want to learn some illusion techniques, he realized that he had a lot of powerful mental strength but no corresponding means, which was a real waste.

Both sides were happy with this outcome. After chatting for a while, Chief Anma took the initiative to leave with his family.

However, the illusion materials that Taiichi requested were delivered that same day.