Chapter 67

Inside an old apartment inside the hidden leaf village.

A thirteen-year-old boy snapped his eyes open.

It was Kazuo who had just turned back time.

'The reason why I want Minato's fighting style is simply that I can be said to have the best reaction speed in the entire world, after all, I can simply turn back time and react before the opponent even makes their move. It's a fighting style that's entirely suited to my power if only it was possible to turn back time slightly and not a whole day backward.' Kazuo thought as he released a sigh after his thoughts reached the end.

Getting up from his bed, he quickly ate breakfast and got ready, waiting for when Minato and the rest of team seven would come and get him.

Minutes later, the three of them did come, Kazuo followed every action that he had done during his previous turn completely, all the way until his sparring match with Kakashi.

Unfortunately, it still ended in a failure, he did manage to draw out the match for a few more moments however the ending result was still a loss.

This was where the changes began.

"Follow my movements Kazuo," Minato said as he showed a slowed-down version of his Kata.

Kazuo didn't move, simply acting as if he was closely looking at the man's movements.

After Minato finished an entire set of Kata, he stopped and motioned for Kazuo to try.

Nodding his own head, Kazuo's lips curled slightly upwards before he started doing the Kata.

*Swish* *Swing* *Fshh*

In a moment, Kazuo completely replicated the man's taijutsu Kata.

It was still at the beginner level however in Minato's eyes, Kazuo had simply glanced at the Kata once and managed to completely replicate them.

His eyes widened slightly, Minato continued watching Kazuo in silence until he completed a full set.

"All right, continue the Kata, i will be testing to see if you are suited to the fighting style," Minato said as he motioned with his head for Kazuo to continue.

'The reason why he told me that the test had started was both to disrupt my concentration as well as to occupy my mind on the question of what the test actually was.

It was at this moment as these thoughts passed through his test, that Kazuo noticed Minato's shoulder moving slightly.

Immediately changing the kata he was doing, Kazuo performed a dodge to the right whilst launching his own counterattack toward Minato with his right arm.

He hadn't even seen the punch at all however he had to act before it happened otherwise there would be no way for him to dodge.

Thankfully it seemed his actions had been right.

Minato caught the punch that he had thrown with his right hand whilst his left punch was next to Kazuo's face, merely a few centimeters from hitting the mark.

A soft smile appeared on his face.

"It seems like you are suited to it," Minato said, his voice sounding light as if the man was happy that he would be able to teach Kazuo his own taijutsu style.

Kazuo immediately changed his expression at that moment, his facial expression becoming one of unbridled joy as he practically jumped on the balls of his feet.

However contrary to his outward excitement, Kazuo's mind was stone cold and completely calm from all kinds of emotions.

'Good, now then all I have to do is continue with this learning speed.' Kazuo thought and whilst the idea of using the time loop to completely master the fighting style on the first day did pass through his mind, he didn't actually do it.

'I'll be doing multiple time loops during this week that team seven has as a vacation to make it look like im talented but at the same time not make it look as if im too strong immediately. The reason being, Minato isn't actually fully trusting of me yet, and he probably won't be for a while.' Kazuo thought whilst he kept his outward joy.

Time continued on, with the days passing.

For everyone besides Kazuo, four days had passed and it was now the end of the week.

Tomorrow, Team Seven will be back in action once more.

For Kazuo however, time had passed quite differently.

'Seventy-two days.' Kazuo thought as he stood seated on a patch of grass next to a large boulder in training ground seven.

'Status' Kazuo thought before the air shimmered for a moment and a holographic screen appeared in front of him.

[ Stats ]

[ Name: Kazuo ]

[ Race: Human ]

[ Age: 13 ]

[ Affiliation: Hidden Leaf Village ] [ Chunnin ]

[ Strength: C ]

[ Endurance: C ]

[ Agility: C ]

[ Intelligence: B ]

[ Charisma: B ]

[ Chakra: C ]

'Strength has been improved slightly, and is finally firmly in the Chunnin rank, Chakra has similarly developed, it's mostly likely caused by my continued training during these five days as well as the bloodline activation.' Kazuo thought before opening the skills menu.

His Jutsu hadn't seen any increases besides shadow clones as well as the addition of two your skills.

[ Shadow Clone Jutsu ] [ 8/10 ]

It was a fairly easy jutsu to master, bringing down the chakra loss during each clone creation had also been fairly easy considering he had already done it with his academy clone technique.

[ Namikaze, Ultra two swift swirling reflex Taijutsu ] [ 7/10 ]

'Why the hell does that guy have to name his jutsu and even taijutsu like this? Why is the system even following his naming sense.' Kazuo thought to himself as he stared at the overtly long name for what was simply a taijutsu style.

*Sigh*

And finally, the last addition to his skills had been Combination Jutsu.

[ Enhanced - Electric Water Bullet ] [ 6/10 ]

It was a combination of Jutsu that Minato had trained him and Kakashi on, its power was severalfold the base power of the Jutsu that Kakashi and Kazuo used individually.

That had been all of his gains during these seventy-two days or should they be called five days?

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