Currently we were traveling through the nd of hot springs which trary to it's name wasn't in fact covered in hs. In fact it was just a mix of valleys and mountains that had forests, pins and of course hs. We were on the way to the nd of herbs apparently as I had reached the part of my training where I o learn medie co. I still hadn't mastered mystic palm jutsu yet as I was making sure that I mastered each possible variant before I cimed that honor. Ironically my seold me that she did the exact same thing when she was learning mediinjutsu inally.-

  "I get that an iryonin(mediinja) o know their way around medie but I'm fused why I o learn how to make it. Isn't that the job of alchemists?" I asked as we traveled the rocky road.

  "While that is true, I believe that an iryonin should be able to find and use local ingredients sihere is almost never an alchemist nearby when on a mission." Tsunade said seriously.

  "I suppose that is a pretty good reason. That reminds me but why are alchemists so rare anyways? sidering how much medie is needed I'd assume they would be a very popur professio I only saw like four in the vilge." I said holy fused.

  Herb shops were all over the p the vilge but actual medie pces were strangely g. It was odd sihis worlds people needed way more medie than people oh did. Shinobi in particur got cuts , scrapes, stabs, poisoned and diseased from going on fn missions literally all the time. With this in mind medies for fever, rash, bleeding and poisoning were rarely in stock for very long a alchemist capable of making those things were a rarity.-

  She sighed "It's the same reason iryoninumbered in the vilge a huo one, high learning requirements. Medie co is not as simple as mixing herbs and applying the result. For starters someone learning to be an alchemist must first learn herbology and pnt husbandry iiail. Wild lettuce for example looks nearly identical to sow thistle but if you eat both you will have VERY differeions. There are a near endless amount of pnts that look the same but will aplish different things."

  "Then an alchemist must be able to tell crossbreeds apart or mutants of the same species of pnt. I once came across a mutant ginseng pnt that wasn't medial but extremely toxin instead but appeared nearly identical to it's normal variant. On top of all this an alchemist o know how to crossbreed herbs to get a stronger effect from the offspring pnt since most pnts ck potent healing abilities on their own. With the sheer variety of pnts both known and unknown in this world it takes a lot of talent or time to meet the minimum requirement to learn actual medie crafting." she expined seriously.

  "I sorta cheated huh?" I asked sheepishly at that since I had spammed shadow es to memorize all this theoretical information in no time at all.

  "Shizune assuming you were a newbie like Kenzo here and tried to use his method of learning ertage do you think you'd be able to memorize successfully?" Tsunade asked and my fellow student paused in thought.

  "About five my dy." The bck haired woman said seriously.

  "Still think you cheated?" Tsunade asked me and I shook my head. "Shadow es indeed increase ones learning speed siderably but the method has a fatal fw, memory. Unless you reinforce the knowledge your es lear will fade away and in the end you'll only retain a small portion of that total amount. Your brain is different however as it is naturally desigo take in a much rger portion of this information thus wasting far less time and effort to memorize a vast amount like you have. You are practically made for learning at an eous rate." She added and after thinking about it I had to agree.-

  No matter what it was I tried to learn it always took me far less time to pick it up than anyone else I had to pare with. Shuriken throwing? A week and I had perfect scores. Handsigns? A month to learn all the basies and use them fluidly. By parisohe fastest learner in my css besides me, Sasuke took almost two years to begin approag my level with shuriken's and hand signs. When it came to theoretical knowledge I was even faster as I studied every piece of information about history and the world I could get my hands on.-

  If it was avaible in the public library I k and even then I knew even more as I also had private information from people who lived those events. It was ohing to read about how a battle between two individuals reshaped the ndscape but another eo speak with someone who wit firsthand. Records try but usually fail when it es to emphasis on how impactful things were but people don't have that issue. Old folks that were alive during those times were surprisingly forthing about the past if you bothered to ask them I had found while in the vilge.-

  The trick however was finding those old people as unfortunately very few shinobi lived long enough to be ted. Others like the third Hokage had no problem talking about fun or iing persos but got tight lipped when serious events were inquired about. For example when I had asked the Hokage about details of the first and sed Hokages abilities only for the old man to immediately shut me down. It made no seo me sinless it ertaining to a forbidden jutsu or something talking about those two long dead people shouldn't make any difference.-

  Admittedly my memorization of the public library helped siderably when using shadow es to learn these days. Without that prior information i likely wouldn't be able to uand many references or words in the uff. In a way I suppose that it could be likeo creating a diary in my head that let me trahe new information much faster. The broader that diary got with the new words added to it the faster I learhat was where the shadow e jutsu came in as my e absorbed and digested the information before sending it to me where my brain immediately went to work s it based on topid uanding.-

  I 't say that my sensei was a terrible teacher but it was clear that she was less hands on then you would expect. Her teag style so far had basically been to have me memorize information and practice a few things she taught me before leavio my own devices. Then again I was still basically a novice at medical jutsu still so that might be the case for all mediinja at my level.