5 You Are Weak

After Sakumo, Yukan started to introduce himself.

"My name is Yukan Norio, 9 years old. My dream is to be the strongest katana user ever. I like to polish my katana, my mom and eat sweets. What I dislike is a coward." Yukan spoke in the same way as Sakumo did, like a machine, he simply filled in the information in the given template.

Sakumo looked at Yukan with an inspecting gaze and then looked at Minato.

When Minato did not speak anything for some time, Sakumo said," Want an invitation?"

"Ah! No no… " Minato was startled for a second and then introduced himself " My name is Namikaze Minato, 9 years old. I want to become the Hokage in the future and I don't like liars. As for my liking … I like almost everything and everyone around me." Minato was the only one who gave a little different introduction.

"Now that we are done with introductions, I would like to know your strength. I need to know how much training you both need. Come at me, go all out." Sakumo said while closing his eyes.

"Especially for you, I will also close my eyes."

Although Yukan know that Sakumo at this age was a Kage-level powerhouse and defeating him and Minato did not even need him to spend any energy, this was an insult at a different level.

Yukan threw a shuriken using his full strength, aimed at Sakumo's throat and wanted to kick him from the left side.

Although Yukan knew he won't be able to injure Sakumo, he did not expect Sakumo to catch the shuriken between his middle and index finger and to stop his kick by simply a flick of his hand.

Even if they only graduated, Yukan still had 15% of the Benimaru template unlocked.

"So, is it my turn or do you want another chance?" Sakumo smiled and asked while looking in Yukan's direction.

"Alright, wait for a second Sensei," Yukan said and ran in Minato's direction.

"Minato, now, we will…."

After discussing the plan, both Minato and Yukan were ready for the next round.

Minato stood on Sakumo's left and Yukan on his right.

Sakumo was calmly standing and yawning in front of them.

Minato and Yukan threw their shurikens in Sakumo's direction and went in his front and back.

They had planned to attack Sakumo from all four directions.

"You both are fools," Sakumo said as he spin 360 degrees and caught the shurikens that were going to reach before the other two.

Then, in a fraction of a second, he caught Minato with the back of his upper and appeared behind Yukan.

Yukan did not have enough time to react but was still able to throw a kunai before getting caught like Minato.

"That was good Yukan. I am sure you could have killed a chunin if he was in my place."

Sakumo then simply stood, lifting the two using his arm strength and said," You know, the method you just used is very old, any elite chunin with some experience could counter it and kill you easily. Now, I guess it is my turn to do an attack."

Sakumo then swung his arms with the two still there.

He then threw them both in opposite direction, as if a player doing a discus throw.

Yukan was thrown directly into the wet mud, rolling like a ball and Minato's body hit the only tree as he spat a mouthful of blood.

"Come here both of you," Sakumo shouted.

Yukan, with small bruises all over his body and Minato, with body pain, came forward quickly.

"You both, come here tomorrow at 5 A.M. I will train you. You are too weak and won't even survive a day on the field."

Yukan and Minato felt like it was a punishment to reach by 5 A.M. since it meant they had to wake up at least an hour earlier.

Even if they were sure that their injuries will heal soon, some hard training will stress the body out.

Sakumo looked at their expression and recognized it. It was the same expression he had when he just started training with Hyatt.

"You know, only a coward scared to do work and a liar who will lie to himself about his goals would have the expression you both have right now." Sakumo bent down and ran his hand through their hair.

"I also used to be like you guys, but one day my sensei told me something, he said that if you want to achieve what nobody has, you must do what nobody is willing to."

Hearing these words, the inner YOUTH of both Minato and Yukan was suddenly set ablaze.

'Hell! Rather than tomorrow, let's start the training today.' That was what the face of Yukan said.

"Go home now kids, I also have to report to Lord Hokage." Sakumo turned into smoke after saying this.

"Shadow Clone" Yukan realized that the Sakumo that easily screwed over both of them was just a shadow clone and not even the original Sakumo.

Yukan quickly bid Minato farewell and ran towards his house.

He had to wash and dress his wound before they got septic.

-At night-

Yukan was swinging his katana in the pitch-black darkness.

The dark did not have any effect on Yukan because he also had Benimaru's skill [Magic Sense] which could sense chakra all around.

"1242…1243…1244…124-"

As Yukan was swinging his blades, he heard a system notification.

[Ding!]

[Congratulations on completing a one-time hidden quest, doing 1,000,000 swings]

[The host has been awarded: 1x "All-heling pill]

[Using this pill, any disease or any injury can be healed]

"Naisuu. This is some good stock. That, uh, system can you please answer if I will have a lot more hidden quests?"

[There are not many more hidden quests, only 7 more]

[The system recommends the host continue his grind rather than depend on hidden quests]

"Ah, the hard work will never stop. I am motivated by Sakumo Sensei's words."

-1 Month Later-

"No, Sakumo Sensei, I cannot do any more laps. Please let me stop. The motivation is all over" Yukan said with his tongue out of his mouth.

"Of course, I never said that you cannot stop. All that you have to do is to defeat me in a spar and then do what you want."

"...Got it, I'll continue." Yukan looked at the sky and said," Minato looks like we'll meet in the hospital as patients."

Minato is now in the hospital.

Although it is nothing serious, it was just some mild food poisoning.