Chapter 58 It's Time For Asuma to Feel The Depth of His Father's Love

The next day, in the Hokage Tower.

Sandaime, who was dealing with government affairs, suddenly stopped his palm, and asked without raising his head, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

From the shadow of the room, an Anbu came out, "Hokage-sama, a student from the Academy, Shimizu Sōseki asks to see you."

In order to reflect Konoha's people-friendly policy, Hokage would never refuse such requests, and it is precisely because he knew this that he, as an Anbu, did not directly refuse it.

"Shimizu Sōseki?" Although somewhat confused, Sandaime still smiled and said, "Okay, let's meet our Konoha's little genius."

"Yes." The Anbu replied, and then withdrew to let the others let Sōseki come inside.

Soon, Sōseki stepped into the office belonging to Hokage.

"Sōseki, do you have anything to ask me?" Sandaime asked with a smile.

"Sarutobi jii-san, I want to exchange a Ninjutsu with you." Sōseki said politely.

Hearing Sōseki's kindly address, the smile on Sandaime's face became stronger, but he was immediately puzzled, "Didn't Orochimaru already give you the Ninjutsu?"

Sōseki shook his head, "Orochimaru-sama has gave me a Ninjutsu last time."

"Last time?" Sandaime understood what Sōseki meant instantly, he smiled and smoked from his pipe, "Have you already been able to develop a Ninjutsu? As expected of the genius of our Konoha! Asuma is not bad, but he's really far compared to you."

"No, Asuma is also working really hard!"

"That's true."

Sandaime's nodded gratifiedly. Although Asuma's character is still a bit off, it is indeed much better than before.

'Sure enough, the influence of friends is still very important!' Sandaime raised his hat and leaned forward slightly, "Sōseki, which rank of Ninjutsu do you want to exchange?"

'Will it be a D-Rank Ninjutsu or C-Rank Ninjutsu?' Sandaime wondered in his heart, and smirked again, "No matter how mature they are, they are still children who want to express themselves!"

This rank of Ninjutsu can be exchanged with an Academy's teacher. In his opinion, Sōseki should be here to show himself.

However, he did not point this out.

'After all, it's normal for children to like to show off, so I shouldn't destroy their enthusiasm...' Sandaime thought about it, and then heard Sōseki say, "I want to exchange for the A-Rank technique – Eight Gates Technique!"

"Oh, Eight Gates Technique, okay..." Sandaime nodded slightly, then his eyes widened, and two white mists spewed out of his nose.

"Eight Gates...cough cough!" Sandaime put his smoking pipe far away, then looked at Sōseki's bright eyes and organized his words, "Sōseki, you can only exchange for the same rank of technique you developed."

Sōseki blinked his eyes and said innocently, "But Minato-senpai said that this technique should be an A-Rank!"

"Minato?" Sandaime's eyes widened again.

If it weren't for the fact that the years after the war were relatively peaceful and made him unable to accumulate enough contributions, Minato would have long been eligible to be promoted to Jōnin.

'If even he said this, it seems to be true!' Thinking of this, the usual calm and composed Sandaime was a little excited.

A-Rank Ninjutsu originally has great strategic value, but what he values ​​more is that a genius like Sōseki is among those who understand the "Will of Fire".

This kind of talent is something comparable to Orochimaru and Minato!

'Minato is nine years older than Sōseki, if they can go one after the other...maybe, the true pinnacle of Konoha can be created in their hands!'

After calming down his inner excitement, Sandaime smiled more and more kindly, "Sōseki, show me the technique you developed!"

"Okay, but...this technique was actually developed by Minato-san and me together." As he said that, a blue chakra sphere appeared on Sōseki's palm.

The sphere is spinning extremely fast, causing a breeze to blow around the palm.

This kind of technique, that takes the Shape Transformation to its extreme, is actually far less difficult for someone with extremely good chakra control like Sōseki than those techniques that needs Nature Transformation to use.

The more critical point is that he was involved in the whole process of the developing the Rasengan, and the derivation process was put there. So if he didn't understand it, it would be an insult to his IQ.

Sandaime's attention also moved away from Sōseki and focused on the chakra sphere in Sōseki's palm.

With his eyesight and experience, it is naturally not difficult to see the power and potential of this technique.

'High-speed rotation and high-density chakra compression can burst out with formidable power in an instant. The irregular chakra flow can also make the enemy's chakra temporarily disordered.'

'The most important thing is the potential...' Sandaime's eyes became serious, 'It's just Shape Transformation that has reached this level. If Nature Transformation is added to it, it will undoubtedly be at forbidden technique level!'

Seeing that Sandaime is somewhat absent-minded, Sōseki asked a little nervously, "Sarutobi jii-san, has this technique reached A-Rank's standard?"

After calling a few times, Sandaime finally came back to his senses. Looking at Sōseki with incomparably scorching gaze, Sandaime laughed and said, "Of course this technique has reached the A-Rank's standard, but do you really plan to give it to the village?" Sandaime squinted his eyes and tempted." If you keep it for yourself, it can become your unique Ninjutsu!"

Sōseki tilted his head and asked in confusion, "Then what?"

Sandaime was stunned, and then asked again, " Don't you want your reputation to spread throughout the Shinobi World? Moreover, the fewer people use this technique, the less information about this technique can be grasped by the enemy."

Sōseki was silent for a moment, and then replied in a firm tone, "Compared to illusory things like reputation, I prefer the village to increase its actual combat power. As for information, this is nothing. The Medical-nin is originally the object of everyone's protection, so the stronger everyone is, the safer I am, right?"

Hearing Sōseki's answer, the smiles Sandaime's eyes was so strong that he couldn't get rid of it. "What a good child! However, the village never treats its own people badly. After you hand over this Ninjutsu, in addition to being able to exchange a technique of the same rank, you can also receive a portion of the contribution from others when they exchange for your Ninjutsu."

Sōseki is not surprised about this. After all, only if the the benefits are enough that it can attract those clan to hand over their techniques, and for the village, contribution is something not that important.

"Sōseki, later, you will need to record this technique's principle, its training method, the chakra flow context, and the hand seals in the scroll..." Halfway through, Sandaime was suddenly stunned.

'Wait, Sōseki didn't seem to form any hand seal just now, right?'

"Sōseki, is this Ninjutsu a non-hand-seal Ninjutsu?"

Seeing Sandaime's ferocious face, Sōseki's replied weakly, "Must there be a hand seal? Then, why don't we just close our palms symbolically?"

Sandaime almost choked on his own saliva upon hearing this. He looked at Sōseki, and then think about the worry-free Asuma at home.

He was quite satisfied with Asuma's growth before, but now, this satisfaction suddenly disappeared. He then thought to himself, 'It's time for Asuma the depth of his father's love!'