Chapter 58 - Last Year 03.

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Third Person POV

Konoha, Year 36.

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Weeks had passed, and Minato continued his intense training. He kept up the routine of maintaining clones for theoretical lessons while training his nature transformation and refining the spatial jutsu compression of the Second Hokage with fuinjutsu. He had finally reached the expert stage. Besides training, he always stopped by Duy's house and visited the orphanage on weekends.

"Little Minato." Minato had gone to the Senju clan complex today to see Mito, who greeted him with a warm smile.

"Mita-Sama." Minato greeted her back.

"Kushina told me you've improved your Fuinjutsu. You want one of my books, don't you?" she said.

"Well, I do want one, but I can't just ask like that, can I?" Minato said, scratching his head.

"Well, if it were anyone else, the answer would be no, but you can have it. Here it is." She handed him the book she had created, and Minato was very grateful for it.

Minato said goodbye and left the complex towards his training area. He took a different path from the Senju clan to shorten the distance and ended up passing through other training areas.

As he walked through the forest, he stumbled upon someone training there. Approaching, Minato, a bit surprised, watched Hanabi Hyuuga intensely focused on her solitary training. The girl, who was always reserved, displayed deep concentration, striking the air with palms that released concentric waves of chakra. It was a spectacle of precision and control, but the atmosphere around her was undeniably cold, almost hostile.

She struck the space in front of her with rapid movements as Minato recognized the Hyuuga style. Seeing that it would be rude to watch someone training in secret, he began to withdraw, leaving the girl in peace. "Is spying on others something a genius does now?" Minato, who was leaving, stopped upon hearing the girl's voice.

She looked at him with her Byakugan activated, and Minato sighed a bit, realizing she must have seen him since he approached, after all, the Byakugan covers 360 degrees like Observation Haki.

"Sorry about that, I was just passing through." Minato moved away, having been discovered.

"Then go away," she simply said.

"Alright, I won't bother you anymore, but let me ask you something." Minato said and continued. "Why train out here away from your clan?" He asked, curious, since the Hyuuga clan was very strict.

"Because it's better to train here, there isn't someone reminding me of my destiny all the time." She replied honestly, though there was no warmth in her tone.

"Destiny... you mean that..." Minato looked a bit surprised.

"I'm from the branch family. My destiny is to serve the main family since I received my mark on the forehead." She said, pointing to the forehead covered with a cloth she always wore.

'She reminds me of the same things Neji used to say...' Minato couldn't help but think to himself.

"I see..." Minato commented, not knowing what to say about that, after all, he wasn't Naruto to shout about changing the Hyuuga clan when he becomes Hokage.

"Is that something a non-Hyuuga can understand?" Hanabi spoke coldly, perhaps out of frustration.

"No, you're right..." Minato ended up saying in a serious tone to the girl and continued. "But don't let what you define as your destiny define you." Minato might not have known what he was saying, since this was a Hyuuga tradition going back many generations, but he disliked someone talking about being a slave in the future. The Hyuuga clan was the clan Minato disliked the most in the Leaf Village. It's no wonder he, despite being one of the strongest, never stood out like the Uchihas or Senjus, even though he had the blood of Kaguya and her eyes.

Minato didn't wait for the girl to speak and simply left the area. He didn't want to stay any longer, leaving only Hanabi watching him depart.

In the following days, dozens of Minatos were training water slicing; he and his classmates had received a few more C-rank elemental jutsus at the beginning of the year. Minato, unsurprisingly, mastered them quickly, and a month after starting classes, he was finally making progress. A few days later, he had mastered the control of nature chakra ideal for an S-level technique.

Minato began focusing on the Rasenshuriken, attempting to add wind element chakra to it. He didn't need clones like Naruto to form the Rasengan, so he tried to do the same with the Rasenshuriken, but still had difficulty controlling the amount of chakra to add to the jutsu as it formed in his hand.

As he concentrated wind element chakra into the Rasengan, cutting wind helices began to form around the sphere, producing a sharp and piercing sound. The created wind was so turbulent that even Minato's clones, dedicated to creating bomb tags and perfecting fuinjutsu techniques, found themselves in trouble.

"Hey, original. Stop that!" one of the clones protested, struggling to concentrate amid the chaos.

"I can't focus like this!" complained another.

"You made me spill the ink," lamented a third, as he tried to salvage the work he had done.

"Practice that somewhere else!" they advised in unison, clearly disturbed by the disruption caused by Minato's intensive training.

The clones kept complaining, and Minato ended up sighing as he canceled the jutsu to let his clones work. He left there and ended up going to the place where he had encountered Hanabi.

Seeing that there was no one nearby, he began to concentrate on his Jutsu, creating a Rasengan. The sphere vibrated in his hand before he began to add wind element chakra, creating the small helices and trying to focus on adding more chakra to complete the jutsu without it exploding.

*Boom!*

The inevitable happened. The sphere exploded, throwing Minato back with the force of the impact. Moving quickly in a line of light back to the middle of the area and quickly, thanks to his Logia nature protecting him from injuries, he positioned himself to try again. The advantage of being a Logia allowed him to experiment without the fear of getting hurt. Forming the Rasengan again, the sonorous vibration filled the air, creating a small whirlwind around him. Concentrating more intensely, he tried to control the amount of wind chakra. The sphere exploded again, but this time, Minato felt he was closer to completely controlling the jutsu. It was a shame his clones couldn't perform this jutsu at this time, as it required an astronomical amount of chakra, so much that he used clones only to train his fuinjutsu.

Again he concentrated, and the vibrant sound appeared once more in his hand, creating a gale around the area as the characteristics of the jutsu emerged for the third time. He maintained the flow of chakra to expand the sphere's power.

'Let's maintain this volume of chakra...' Minato thought as the helices increased around the jutsu and the sound seemed even more vibrant.

"No, focus..." At one moment, Minato felt the loss of control of the jutsu. The jutsu seemed to expand until it exploded again, even more powerful than the last time, creating a crater of debris in the middle of the area as dust rose.

'That was quite explosive.' Minato admitted, observing the debris while his body emitted light where it should have been injured. As things calmed down, Minato was about to perform the jutsu again, but he felt something close to him.

"It's rude to spy on others, or do the Hyugas act like this now?" Minato commented to no one in particular, smiling ironically.

Hanabi emerged from the trees looking at him, "You have senses as sharp as a Byakugan, as expected from the genius of this generation..." She commented as if she were someone older and continued. "I came here to train but ended up hearing a rather strange sound from afar and used my Byakugan to find my stalker from the last few days performing a quite interesting jutsu with his hands." She commented in a neutral tone.

"Stalker? I only looked once." Minato raised an eyebrow at her.

"Anyway, it seems like an interesting jutsu. But tell me one thing..." She looked at him with some interest. "Besides the jutsu, how did I see you glow and reappear in the middle of the training field?" She asked with a tone of curiosity, after all, she saw him using the power of the light fruit.

"That's a jutsu I'm training..." Minato tried to give an excuse.

"I saw your body heal with light, and you didn't even seem injured, what the hell are you." She insisted, looking at him with a calculating gaze.

"That's my secret, I'd prefer if you didn't meddle in others' affairs." Minato spoke in a quite hostile tone, he didn't want to reveal about his akuma no mi, after all, it's an unknown power in the ninja world.

"I understand... you're right, sorry about that." In the end, she admitted she was being quite nosy.

"Anyway, I'm leaving." Minato wanted to leave there to continue his training.

"Wait." She stopped him.

"Hm? What is it?" Minato looked at her suspiciously.

"I saw with my Byakugan what you were doing, I can help you concentrate a certain amount of chakra without making your jutsu explode..." She comments, suggesting she could help him.

The boy looked at her for a few seconds. She had seen him use some of his hidden abilities, and she would see more of this with him trying to do the jutsu, but she had already seen that, what would be the point in hiding it? He thought it would be faster to learn with a Byakugan advising on the amount of chakra to prevent the jutsu from exploding and him getting used to it, so he agreed to it.

"Alright. I accept your help." He admitted.

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