Practicing Ninjutsu

Kakashi graduated early and began his ninja career, while the other students in the class welcomed their own vacation.

Vacation life was freer than school life. Ninja school had no holiday homework, so the vacation was free time.

However, Shintaro's vacation life wasn't different from his school life.

He didn't plan to relax or have fun during the vacation; instead, he continued to train hard.

This world wasn't much different from his previous life's world. Shintaro believed that strength was the foundation, no matter what world he was in.

Moreover, vacation gave him more free time to train since he no longer had to attend meaningless training classes at school.

The training resources around him were quite abundant. Besides his father's legacy, Fugaku and Shinku also helped him a lot.

Additionally, Shintaro had a pair of Six Eyes that could clearly see the principles of ninjutsu and could be used to mimic others' techniques.

With so many places to train, he had a busy schedule during the vacation.

Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu.

Except for going out every day to have dinner with Kurenai, Shintaro mostly trained in the open space next to his house.

One day while eating, Kurenai offered to train together, "Shintaro, let's train together tomorrow. I want to start practicing the Genjutsu my father taught me."

In fact, Shintaro wanted to refuse in his heart because Kurenai's current strength was too different from his, and their training progress was not consistent.

But today, Shinku was present. He happily patted Shintaro and said, "Good, you can train together."

"Kurenai, you should train with Shintaro during the vacation. His Genjutsu talent is stronger than yours. You should learn diligently from Shintaro."

Hearing this, Shintaro had no reason to refuse, "No problem, Kurenai and I will train together in the future."

So, they made a plan to train together at Konoha's training ground every afternoon.

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The next day, Shintaro first went to Kurenai's house to gather, and then they walked together to Konoha's third training ground.

On the way, they met classmates, Kakashi and Guy.

Guy dragged Kakashi, who was rolling his eyes, onto the road, and said: "I want to help you reconcile with Obito. The best way to reconcile between men is to exercise together. This is youth."

Kakashi reluctantly said: "I'm very busy."

Guy said with an unbelieving expression: "You're not even wearing your forehead protector today. You must not have a mission. You're still hiding in the bookstore reading weird books. How can you be as busy as you say?"

Exposed, Kakashi looked a bit embarrassed and could only agree to his request.

Guy was very happy and said: "I've already made an appointment with Obito to meet us. He definitely wants to reconcile with you too."

As he chatted with Kakashi on the road, Shintaro and Kurenai passed by.

Passing through the center of the village, Shintaro's Six Eyes observed something unusual.

It was a large circular barrier that seemed to suppress a powerful force.

At this moment, a beautiful red-haired woman stood at the edge of the barrier. Behind the woman stood two mysterious men wearing cloaks and masks.

In front of the woman was a handsome young man with yellow hair. Behind him was a group of people who seemed to be waiting for him.

The two were talking, which caught Shintaro's attention.

According to the information obtained through the Six Eyes, the yellow-haired man was very strong, even stronger than Yuhi Shinku and Uchiha Fugaku.

But what shocked Shintaro more was the power contained within the woman's body, which was even more terrifying. It was a force he had never seen before, full of violence and tyranny.

He suspected the entire barrier was to suppress this force.

Kurenai noticed that Shintaro was looking at the two talking people, so she introduced: "The red-haired woman is the Kyuubi Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Kushina, and the person opposite her is the genius Jonin, Namikaze Minato. He's Jiraiya-sama's disciple."

As the only daughter of Shinku, Kurenai had more knowledge in the village than Shintaro.

Bijuu, Jinchuriki, and Jiraiya, one of Konoha's Sannin, even though Shintaro had been in Konoha for less than a year, he had heard of them.

He listened to Kurenai's introduction and roughly understood the status of these two people. Both could be considered high-level officials in Konoha.

A few people walked closer, and Kakashi and Guy saw Obito waiting at the barrier.

Guy happily raised his hand to greet, and Kakashi and Obito shook hands. Their relationship didn't seem as tense as before.

The three went to practice physical skills together, with Guy leading and running around the village.

But clearly, only Guy was enthusiastic, while Kakashi and Obito were speechless about this kind of training.

Shintaro was currently listening to the conversation between Minato and Kushina.

Minato said apologetically: "Sorry, Kushina... I came here to tell you, I'll be practicing ninjutsu elsewhere today..."

Kushina put her hands on her hips and asked with an unhappy expression: "Elsewhere?!"

"...The third training ground." Minato, very aware of Kushina's emotions, opened his hands to explain: "That's because the ninjutsu isn't finished yet and is still very dangerous. I don't want you to get hurt."

When Kushina got angry, her red hair lifted. She pointed at Minato angrily and said, "If you hate being with me, just say it!"

Minato hurriedly explained: "I never thought like that!!"

At this moment, a companion behind Minato urged him to report the mission to the Hokage.

Minato could only turn and leave a message: "Sorry... I'm leaving, see you later!"

Kushina subconsciously wanted to follow, but was stopped by the two masked men behind her.

All this was seen by Shintaro and Kurenai.

Kurenai seemed to empathize with Kushina and said from the side: "Those two are ANBU responsible for protecting the Jinchuriki. Jinchuriki can't even date the one they love. It's so sad."

She felt pity for the Jinchuriki's situation, and when she said "the one they love." she looked at Shintaro with empathy, as if she placed herself in Kushina's perspective.

But Shintaro next to her had very different concerns.

'The power of Bijuu is out of my reach for now, but I can try the new technique Namikaze Minato just mentioned.'

'The power of this ninjutsu, considered dangerous even by strong people, can be imagined.' Shintaro became curious about the new technique Minato mentioned.

So he said to Kurenai: "Let's go to the third training ground."