Chapter 012: You Can't Be So Cruel

Five-year-old Naruto has grown a lot.

Regular work and rest, combined with a reasonable diet and a year of relentless practice, have made him taller and stronger than his peers.

And persistent learning has greatly improved Naruto's mind, making him not as naive as ordinary children.

As a foundation of the ninja, the three basic techniques are also very competent in testing his taijutsu.

Obviously, he combines them.

For the current Naruto, he can already perform the operations he used to envy.

According to the evaluation criteria of the Ninja Academy, Naruto at this moment has the strength to become a full-fledged Genin.

Of course, his theoretical level is still far behind.

In this year's practice, Naruto's most outstanding achievement is the growth of his chakra.

He had surpassed the chakra of an ordinary Jonin.

So far, Naruto has not been able to estimate the extent of his chakra volume.

He only knows that it is a lot.

Naruto never knows what it feels like to run out of chakra.

For a child under five years old, being able to achieve such results in a year is already extremely outstanding.

Even Hiruzen chose him when he saw his great progress.

Although he is an old hypocrite, he has a special affection for Naruto as Minato's son and Jiraiya's godson.

Otherwise, he would have long ago agreed to his friend Danzo's demands for him to be part of "ROOT".

For Naruto...

Such recognition from the Hokage himself makes him very happy.

However, Naruto is not proud or arrogant, he knows that he must progress further.

It is clear that at this level, he is far from his goal of becoming a ninja that no one would dare to despise.

And so, even though it is already winter.

The snow continued to fall from the sky, reflecting everything in the sky and the earth, and the air was filled with a freezing cold.

Naruto continued to practice as usual.

After he finished a wave of intensive physical training, and when he regained his physical strength, it was rare for Naruto not to enter the study space to read a book.

He just sat under the tree and sighed a little worriedly.

It has been a year since the start of the strategy to prevent the Nine-Tails from disrupting his chakra control, but he hasn't made much progress.

Since that day, Naruto has been showing the Nine-Tails a new TV series every day, and occasionally fears that it will forget the wonderful content it has seen before and be more impressed by the new content.

Moreover, he also stopped broadcasting several times in short intervals to increase suspense.

Although the Nine-Tails is always annoyed, it has never bowed its head to Naruto.

With this attitude, the two are at a true stalemate.

There is no solution at all.

Naruto feels very uncomfortable in this state of practicing ninjutsu with half the effort given.

And the Nine-Tails feels very uncomfortable every time it watches TV, leaving it in a painful and happy state of extreme entanglement.

"Why don't I play basketball videos 24 hours a day? I'll buy a super large screen at the level of a movie theater, then turn up the sound to the maximum so it can't be turned off. It would be fun to see its expression!"

At that moment, Naruto thought of a funny video he saw a few days ago.

It was a looping basketball video for over ten hours, and he recorded the whole process. After the event, his spirit was about to collapse.

As a result, Naruto felt sincere admiration for the producer of this video, who actually watched it for over ten hours!

"Never mind, this method is too cruel, think of a new one."

In an instant, Naruto suppressed his previous thought.

During the past year, although this great fox still doesn't cooperate much, it let its chakra diverge freely.

And it's because they watched television together almost every day during the past year and occasionally exchanged opinions about what they were watching.

Although there are also times when they disagree and argue.

Even if they can't be called friends, they can be considered acquaintances.

For this one acquaintance besides the old Hokage, Naruto felt that there was no need to be so cruel.

After resting for a while, when his strength was almost recovered, Naruto stood up and started climbing the tree.

His chakra is attached to his feet and runs up the tree trunk from the ground.

This is the new practice method that Hiruzen gave Naruto after testing his progress in ninjutsu practice and chakra control a few days ago.

This exercise undoubtedly can effectively improve Chakra control ability.

After climbing the tree, Naruto floats on the water using chakra on his feet.

So far, Naruto has practiced tree climbing for three days and can already climb to the top of this twenty-meter tall tree.

After summarizing the experience of success and failure over and over again, Naruto's competition is getting stronger and he is not far from total success.

It is estimated that the tree climbing practice should be completed by tonight.

The Third Hokage has promised Naruto that if he can learn tree climbing and water floating, he will give him a powerful ninjutsu.

Because of this, Naruto's healing power is stronger than usual as his spirit is ignited.

Stepping lightly on the tree trunk, up 15 meters to the top, at that moment Naruto began to get nervous.

Although he is not far from the treetop, his chakra control ability is already at its limit at this moment.

He may make mistakes at any time, so he must take precautions to not fall and cause harm to his health.

But unexpectedly, Naruto walked to the top of the tree in one go and without any problems.

"Doesn't that great fox seem to bother me?" Naruto said surprised.

For him, the biggest enemy when practicing ninjutsu and taijutsu is not whether he can learn it or not, but always protecting himself from the influence of the Kyubi's chakra.

Only being able to successfully perform ninjutsu during the Kyubi's chakra alteration is considered a success in practice.

Therefore, after a long time of confrontation, Naruto is extremely sensitive to the Kyubi's chakra.

And now, while climbing the tree, he didn't even feel the influence of this grumpy fox!

With excitement...

He tried again, and still didn't feel the great fox causing any trouble.

Naruto's eyes lit up and he ran towards the sealed space!

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