Sarutobi Hiruzen's Decision

"What an excellent performance!"

Kumura Kyuya was very appreciative.

There is no doubt that Kakashi wasted a ninjutsu and consumed part of his physical strength.

He even had to continue to consume it.

Although the clones created by Shuichi Hoshita had little combat power, he hid among many clones, so Kakashi had to waste his physical strength to kill these clones that rushed over, and at the same time, he was highly focused on guarding against Shuichi Hoshita's real body that could launch a sudden attack at any time.

Which one is the real one?

Kakashi leaned against the earth wall he made, while beating up the people who rushed over, while observing and thinking.

Uchiha Obito, Sarutobi Asuma?

Suddenly, he observed that there was a person in front and on both sides of him who was making hand seals.

Which one is the real one?

Are you lying to me again?

In a flash, Kakashi blew up the two clones that rushed over and quickly made hand seals.

In front of him, another wall rose up.

At this moment, Kakashi was sandwiched between two walls.

And Shuichi Hoshita also completed the seal.

The seal on the left was the real one. Shuichi Hoshita opened his mouth with the face of Sarutobi Asuma and spit out a line of fire that pierced through his own clones and entered between the two walls, quickly expanding into a fire bomb.

Boom!

The flames exploded, but Kakashi jumped up one step earlier and avoided the exploding fire bomb.

Ding Ding!

The falling Kakashi blocked two kunai, and Shuichi Hoshita's clones also rushed up and blocked his sight.

Bang bang bang!

The clones were blown up one by one.

Shuichi Hoshita took the opportunity and kicked Kakashi away.

At this moment, he appeared in the form of Uchiha Obito.

Kakashi rolled on the ground for a few times and then jumped up, with his hand on his mouth.

Fire Style - Great Fireball Technique!

Almost at the same time, Shuichi Hoshita also completed the seal of the ninjutsu again, opened his mouth and spit out a line of fire to form a fireball.

Also Fire Style - Great Fireball Technique!

Boom!

The two fireballs collided, the flames scattered, and the ground cracked.

When the flames faded, Kakashi was panting.

He had consumed too much physical strength.

Shuichi Hoshita also panted slightly, but better than Kakashi.

He used the clone technique, the transformation technique, and two fire styles.

Kakashi used two earth styles and one fire style.

But obviously, the clone technique and the transformation technique require much less chakra than earth style and fire style.

However, the two have already consumed a lot of energy.

The battle between ninjas is not a regular large-scale ninjutsu battle.

For Genin and Chunin, physical battles, weapons battles, traps, and plots are the norm.

In a ninjutsu battle, most ninjas don't have that much chakra, and Genin and Chunin don't master that many offensive ninjutsu.

Hideichi Hoshita's father is a Chunin, but he only has two offensive ninjutsu besides the basic ninjutsu such as the Three Body Technique and the Instant Body Technique.

And his mother, as a Genin, only masters one wind escape ninjutsu, the Fierce Wind Palm.

Ninjutsu battle?

It doesn't exist.

So, after Hideichi Hoshita deliberately made Kakashi consume a lot of energy, the two started hand-to-hand combat again.

Fist to fist, until the last bit of energy is exhausted.

There is no doubt that Kakashi has the upper hand in terms of skills, strength, and even pure attack speed.

But Shuichi Hoshita has the advantage of physical strength and dynamic vision at this time.

In the end, neither of them could do anything to the other. After exhausting their physical strength, they could no longer attack each other.

"Very exciting duel!"

Kumura Hiroya couldn't help but praise it, and finally understood why the third generation Hokage wanted these two people to fight.

If it were someone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to squeeze out all their strength.

Especially Shuichi Hoshita, who was far from being as strong as he is now last semester.

At this moment, Uchiha Obito and other classmates were already stunned.

Shuichi Hoshita is of course very good, and he always gets full marks in theoretical exams.

But in actual combat, he can only be said to be ranked in the upper middle.

But now, it makes Kakashi, who is ranked first, very embarrassed, and finally ended in a tie.

This is more shocking than the visual impact created by Shuichi Hoshita's combination of clone technique and transformation technique.

…

In the Hokage's office, Sarutobi Hiruzen also ended his watching.

There is no doubt that Shuichi Hoshita and Kakashi's battle is completely at the level of Genin, and even many Genin cannot achieve this level.

Kakashi's excellence has long been known, and this time Sarutobi Hiruzen also focused more on Shuichi Hoshita.

There is no doubt that Danzo's information is not discounted at all.

In addition, Shuichi Hoshita has mature thinking, self-discipline that exceeds that of adults, and most importantly, the understanding and maintenance of the will of fire.

There is no doubt that this is a civilian genius worthy of great training.

"Ten years later, maybe there will be another Minato..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen smiled and had great expectations for Shuichi Hoshita.

And this also made him determined to train Shuichi Hoshita.

But how to train him?

Orochimaru was excluded first.

Sarutobi Hiruzen had already felt that Orochimaru had changed more since his disciple Rope Tree died in battle.

Not only him, Tsunade was almost destroyed after her brother and lover died in battle.

Thinking of this, Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't help but feel gloomy.

Jiraiya?

Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head secretly again.

Originally, he was an excellent candidate. Jiraiya was his disciple, with outstanding strength and good at teaching students.

It's a pity that this guy was driven by the so-called fate and spent most of his time traveling.

Minato was almost left alone by him, although the current Minato is still outstanding.

"Shuiichi has a greater advantage than Minato at the beginning. With such a level of self-discipline, he only needs a teacher to lead him forward."

"Especially in terms of thinking..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen gradually made a decision in his heart.

…

September of the 38th year of Konoha passed in a flash.

The third fire escape ninjutsu, the Dragon Fire Jutsu, was also mastered by Hoshita Shuichi. There were only two fire escape ninjutsu of at least C level left to reach the point of the term [Fire escape expert].

This day happened to be a weekend. After 5 days, Hoshita Shuichi came to Tianxiang's shop with the prepared detonating talisman.

Since the start of school, he only went to Tianxiang's shop on weekends. Usually, he would bring the materials home and use the evening time to make detonating talismans.

2 detonating talismans a day, only 10 in 5 days, a total of 2,000 taels.

After collecting the money, Hoshita Shuichi looked at Miss Tianyun and asked with a smile: "Sister Tianyun should also master fire escape ninjutsu, right?"

Tianyun smiled and asked: "Why, Shuichi, do you want to learn fire escape ninjutsu?"

Hoshita Shuichi nodded repeatedly and looked at Tianyun eagerly.

In the ninja school, he was a genius student, mature and gentle.

In Sarutobi Hiruzen and Tsunade, he was still a genius student, but his thinking was no less than that of an adult.

He was still a genius student here with Tianyun, but he was just a poor, hard-working, 5-year-old orphan.

Looking at the look of Xingxia Shuichi, Tianyun smiled and said, "Since you are working so hard to make the detonating talisman, I will teach you a fire escape ninjutsu!"

As she said that, she took Xingxia Shuichi to the back of the store, where there was a small venue, enough to test ninjutsu.

"Hey, look carefully. This fire escape technique is called the Phoenix Fire Technique. It creates multiple fireballs to attack the enemy."

"You have already learned the fire bomb technique, so the Phoenix Fire Technique should not be a problem. It's just that compared to the fire bomb, you need to have more control over chakra to control the trajectory of the fireball."

"In addition, this technique can also be used with shuriken to increase the attack power and control the trajectory of the attack, making it more difficult for the enemy to dodge."

While explaining, Tianyun, who was wearing a cheongsam, slowly made hand seals.

Xingxia Xiuyi ignored Tianyun's outstanding figure at this moment, staring at her hands, and engraved the order of the seals in his mind.

Zi-Yin-Xu-Chou-Mao-Yin!

Tianyun completed the hand seal, and Xiu spit out three fireballs in a row, flying forward in a triangular shape.

Boom!

Three fireballs hit the ground three meters away, blasting out three charred pits.