Chapter 32: A New Mission

                                    

                                          
Greetings!
                          
  Sorry for the posting delay.  Life got in the way and then I got sick.  I'm currently under the influence of cold medication so I hope this all makes sense.  l had previously written this story up to a certain point but when I went back to read it l ended up changing things and adding scenes,  so the previous chapter breaks no longer make sense,  leading to some chapters being a bit short or too long Please bear with me as l get it straightened out.
                          
Enjoy!

                          
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"Good job Naruto I think you've finally got the hang of the seal," Sakura complimented.
                          
She wasn't actually talking to the real Naruto but since the clone would dissipate and Naruto would get all of the memories she didn't see much of a point in changing the way she spoke. The clone had learned how to perfect the air pressure sealing scroll. All that was left to do was to add in forty kunai and it was battle ready.
                          
Sakura turned her attention back to her own work while the Naruto clone began to repeat his efforts on another scroll. Sakura loved fuinjutsu. It was like a puzzle with infinite combinations. Right now she was busy learning and experimenting with barrier fuinjutsu. Barrier fuinjutsu came in all sizes and varieties. The easiest to create were chakra intensive combinations that physically stopped passage to a location.
                          
At its basic level it could essentially make an invisible wall. However the basic barrier that many budding fuinjutsu minded shinobi studied was highly inefficient. The barrier could easily be broken at a single point or its area was so small that it couldn't protect much of anything. As the formula changed to increase size so did the weakness of the chakra construct.
                          
More advanced forms of the barrier jutsu could be used to deflect attacks away by automatically siphoning energy from the rest of the structure to the point of attack. Still more advanced was adding energies that could strike back at would be attackers. Others provided a layered defense so that one massive strike wouldn't completely collapse the structure. The most advanced form of barrier fuinjutsu was completely hiding the protected area outside of the rest of the worlds space/time location.
                          
Like everything that existed in the shinobi world it wasn't a perfect defense. It still had physical links to the real world that could be severed. However those physical links were often trapped somehow. A trapped barrier anchor could be almost anything, even a physical chakra manifestation like a shadow clone.
                          
The sheer complexity was quite intimidating to Sakura. That type of barrier was master work, on the level of Jiraiya. She figured it would take years of intense study to even begin how to decipher that kind of seal. But that wasn't Sakura's current aim. Her current aim was to create a more combat effective barrier seal that could quickly be used to imprison or alternatively used as a way to shield an area from a particular dangerous attack.