Naruto: Whispers of the Void

We moved out to the canyon.

No trees. No grass. Just rock, dust, and a sun that made my forehead feel like an oven tray. Jiraiya said it was the perfect place to test destructive chakra flow without "accidentally collapsing a forest." Which was nice. Because that totally sounded like something I'd do.

"I want you to push your Wind chakra through this," he said, dropping a jagged slab of stone in front of me.

I looked at it.

Then at him.

"Can I interest you in a lighter training dummy? Like a feather? Or a rice cracker?"

He raised an eyebrow. "If you can split the rice cracker in half without eating it first, we'll talk."

Fair.

I began focusing, pulling in chakra. Letting it press outward, the way I'd accidentally done before. The slab didn't budge. So I stepped closer. Pushed again. Still nothing.

The chakra slid under the surface.

And that's when it happened.

A soft pop beneath my foot.

Not loud. Not violent. Just... sharp.

I stepped back.

A thin line cracked down the stone. Then another. Until the whole slab split in half with a brittle sigh, like it had been held together by lies.

Jiraiya stared.

"That wasn't Wind."

"Nope."

"Wasn't Earth either."

"Getting warmer."

"Raika," he said slowly, "did you just destabilize the internal pressure of a rock?"

I scratched my neck. "Maybe? I told it it wasn't real."

After that, we tried replicating the result. I stood on boulders. I touched stones. I whispered sweet nothings to pebbles. (Okay, that last one was to mess with Jiraiya.)

And every time, I learned a little more.

Wind chakra didn't slice. It coiled, compressed, imploded.

Earth chakra didn't build. It shifted, weakened, cracked.

Together, they didn't form Dust Release.

They formed something else.

Something that didn't reshape the world.

It unshaped it.

We didn't talk about it out loud. Jiraiya would give me a look, scribble something in his journal, and mutter about how "this kid's chakra might be allergic to stability."

I took it as a compliment.

But I knew something had changed.

Because now, when I pressed my hands to the canyon floor and reached inward...

The world didn't just feel still.

It felt like it was waiting for me to break it.

And worse?

It felt like it wouldn't fight back.

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— void_chakra