Anyways once I got a solid handle on Ice release I moved on to the final doted water based Kekkai genkai, Wood release. Like with the other elemental chakras I retty sure there were other Kekkai genkai that used them but those were undoted and not something I wao waste my time trying to discover. In theory though each elemental pairing had two kekkai genkai possible for it with both being more or less opposites in terms of ratio. An example would be Mud release that was more water thah but the other Kekkai genkai for those elements would be more earth than water, in theory at least.-

  I had assumed that was the case for Wood release and started out with a fifty oh and forty er ratio as a result. trary to what I assumed however I went through literally every single possible ratio with earth chakra being the majority and water chakra being the minority over the span of a week and STILL failed to replicate the Kekkai genkai.

  'The first and sed Hokages make it absolutely clear that it's a mix of water ah chakras so how am I failing to recreate it?' I thought with a deep frown.

  Clearly there was something missing from this equation and I only had one source that I could use to figure out what that was, the only known user of the wood release other than the first Hokage, Yamato of the anbu. Yamato was inally uo use Wood release but after successfully having the first Hokages cells ied into his body that ged. However despite this he was sidered a failed experiment by Danzo and Orochimaru as his wood release was dramatically weaker than the first Hokages.-

  After Danzo's death he had been ied into the Anbu by my sensei and slowly broken of the mental brainwashing Danzo put on him so while rather expressionless he was more or less an normal person if you ighe Wood release he could use.

  "You know how this sounds right?" My sensei asked with an exasperated expression when I asked to study Yamato.

  "I'm not some mad stist asking to vivisect him just because or anything like that. I just o study how his chakra works when he uses Wood release because despite trying literally every ratio I could between water ah chakras I still failed to get so much as a sapling to sprout. It's not just water ah chakra or I would have already recreated it so I o figure out what exactly is the problem." I said defending my request.

  "Fi if you do succeed in recreating my grandfathers Kekkai genkai I get first dibs on it am I clear?" she said sternly and I nodded in agreement.

  A average sized man with short brown hair and rge bck eyes walked in shortly after she sent for Yamato and kneeled in front of her desk. "You called Lady Hokage?" he said questioningly.

  "My student here has made the discovery that Wood release is not purely a mix of water ah chakras. As the only one capable of using it he wants to study your chakra when you utilize it to uand what is missing. You are to cooperate with him so long as none of his studies bee too invasive or cross into forbiddeory." My sensei said seriously.

  "As you and, Lady Tsuhe man said respectfully before standing up and walking over to me and smiling lightly. "I will be in your care Lord Kenzo." he said formally.

  "You drop the lord bit, I don't care for formalities all that much." I said calmly.

  We left after that for one of the training grounds so I could see his Wood release in a. For this I chose training ground one which was one of the five pces specifically set aside for S rank jutsu or wide area teiques to be practiced. Training ground one was desigo be a wide field in appearah only a st three trees in the whole pd a pond in the ter.-

  "Lets start small, simple begin to create Wood release chakra but don't use it for anything." I said and Yamato nodded before g his hands together.

  I fully activated my eyes to see all the energies used during this process which startled him for a moment before he regained his posure. I watched as he created both earth and water chakras like normal before frowning as I saw small "sparks" of aype of energy mix in and transform it. I checked his body in those locations and discovered that it was where a small colle of fn but ied cells was located.-

  "I uand! The ratio of chakras is actually only the preliminary step and only after the first's cells send a spark of a different type of energy into the mixture does Wood release chakra form. Now I have to figure out what that energy is. I assume you have no knowledge of what these cells have been doing do you?" I said while asking a question at the end.

  "No, in fact this is the first time I've heard of this information. Is it possible that the energy of Lord firsts cells is uo him?" Yamato asked with a troubled look.

  I shook my head "No, I've seen this energy before but until now I've never paid it any mind as it's not yin or yang chakra nor is it any of the basic elemental chakras. Regardless if it was uo the first then whatever remained of it would likely vanish after a small number of uses of Wood release which is certainly not the case here." I said debunking that theory immediately.

  It was troubling how whatever this energy was while present in every living thing was from what I tell entirely passive in nature. I tried poking and prodding it with every method I could think of in myself but I achieved nothing at all as it was as if my energies slipped right through it. I wasn't disheartehough as this just meant I would need a lot more trial and error to find out what worked. On the plus side however after witnessing Yamato using Wood release I figured out the exact ratio of earth and water chakra o create it, a seventy four earth and twenty six water ratio.