Chapter 454: To Impart Knowledge, Teach Skills, and Resolve Doubts
The unlucky Taruho was found unconscious at the sealing shrine. Sakura pulled him out, and Shion personally repaired the seal on Mōryō. With its source of power gone, the tens of thousands of stone soldiers turned back into statues. The Mōryō incident was officially over.
Naruto was quite surprised by his own death and resurrection. He said that for a moment, he really thought he was dead. He claimed to have seen his mother, who had instructed him to "eat more," "make more friends," "study hard," and "be careful of Master Jiraiya."
It was clear that recalling this scene made Naruto very sad.
At some point, Shion had also seen her deceased mother. The two shared a common experience and felt their bond had deepened.
The senjutsu chakra infused by the Sage Talisman had greatly enhanced Naruto's sensitivity to natural energy. His future training in Sage Mode would be much faster than in the original timeline.
Sasuke, on the other hand, had taken the opportunity to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan.
The life trajectories of both had been artificially accelerated. Ino could only say that Six-sensei's calculations ran deep.
"Hey, what's really going on with Sasuke's eyes? Do you know?" Sakura whispered to Ino.
Ino looked at Sasuke, asking with her eyes if he minded her telling.
If it were another transmigrator who knew the village's higher-ups were hostile to them, they would definitely want to get rich in silence. But Sasuke was not a transmigrator. Although he wasn't about to go around beating gongs and drums to announce it, he didn't want to hide it either.
He wished everyone knew. He especially wanted to see the look on Itachi's face when he got the news.
Seeing that he had no objection, Ino spoke to Sakura in a storytelling tone. "According to ancient legends, there is a pair of cursed eyes that has been passed down in the Uchiha clan..."
Her story also attracted the attention of the straightforward Naruto. Ino didn't mention the method of awakening the Mangekyō, but Naruto had some brains. He knew that after his death, Sasuke had been extremely angry and then awakened these eyes.
His feelings were quite complicated. His mother's instructions and Sasuke's awakening of his eyes made the usually carefree boy fall into a pensive mood.
Ino didn't know what Six-sensei had planned and only touched upon the subject. However, she added a final word of advice. "From my perspective as a medical ninja, your eyes consume a lot of chakra. If you frequently use those unconventional abilities, it will cause huge damage to your eyesight."
Sasuke acted as if he hadn't heard. She didn't say any more.
The next day.
Minato Namikaze, like the official organizations in many movies and TV shows, arrived in the Land of Demons the day after the matter was resolved.
He could also use Mount Myōboku's Sage Mode. The first time he saw Naruto, he felt that his son's aura was completely different from before.
"What's going on here? Naruto didn't have such a dense senjutsu aura in his body before, did he?" he asked Ino quietly.
Ino found it hard to explain and could only be vague. "It is indeed a technique from Mount Myōboku. As for the specifics, I promised someone I really can't say. I can only say it's a good thing."
Was it really a good thing? That would depend on how Six-sensei defined it.
Minato asked pointedly, "Is it some kind of spirit medicine, or something more advanced? There won't be any trouble from Mount Myōboku, will there?"
His relationship with Mount Myōboku was only average. He didn't trust them unconditionally like Jiraiya did.
In his mind, the benefit his son had received was his son's. If Mount Myōboku dared to come and ask for it back, they would need to have a good talk.
Ino shook her head. "Don't worry, the Great Toad Sage also knows about this matter."
The Great Toad Sage and Six-sensei were, to some extent, on the same side. They would surely have communicated about something like the Sage Talisman. There was no need for Ino to say more.
"That boy seems to have become much more gloomy," he said, asking about Sasuke.
Anyone who wasn't blind could see the bond between Sasuke and his son.
Upon hearing that Sasuke had awakened the Mangekyō after Naruto's death, the usually sunny Fourth Hokage also frowned deeply.
If mentioning Naruto made the village feel guilty toward the Fourth, then mentioning the Uchiha clan made the Fourth feel guilty toward the deceased Uchiha.
Even though he had only been in office for a year, he still felt he bore a great responsibility for the Uchiha massacre.
"What do you think if I were to tell him the truth?" he asked Ino.
Tell Sasuke now that his family was massacred because they were planning a rebellion? That for the Will of Fire, for the happy lives of the Konoha villagers, they had to die? That your brother is a good guy, but your dad, your mom, and the old lady selling pancakes at your doorstep were all bad guys? That they're already dead, and you should just let it go? Could you really say that?
Ino didn't know how Sasuke's idea of "revolution" came about, but she knew there was a dead knot. No matter how the Konoha higher-ups explained it, his parents had died because of it. And the crux of the matter was that the Konoha higher-ups feared the Uchiha clan's power and used the "Will of Fire" to deceive Itachi.
"Perhaps you should discuss it with Kakashi-sensei, Brother Minato? Maybe he'll have some good advice," she suggested.
"That's a good idea."
Minato had died and been resurrected. In terms of age, he was now a few years younger than Kakashi. As Sasuke's teacher, Kakashi had a lot of say in this matter.
Ino's main reason was that it wasn't her business. She was just temporarily leading Team 7. Once they returned to the village, these messy affairs would have nothing to do with her. How to handle it was their business.
The mission in the Land of Demons was successfully resolved. The original investigation mission eventually turned into a cleanup mission. The village changed the mission rank, and in the end, it became an S-rank mission.
When Naruto heard that he had completed an S-rank mission, he jumped eight meters high.
Minato and Naruto met secretly.
Naruto was also very happy to see the "blond big brother" and bragged about his performance on the mission, embellishing the details quite a bit.
With the mission complete, Team 7 said goodbye to Shion and Taruho, and Ino led the team back to Konoha Village.
Ino left a shadow clone to follow Team 7, while her main body went to the world of the dead.
She had already become his disciple, so as a teacher, the Sage of Six Paths needed to take the time to give her lessons.
A teacher's duty is to impart knowledge, teach skills, and resolve doubts.
The essence of chakra, the condensation and extraction of senjutsu chakra, and even Kekkei Mōra, Yin and Yang Release, and Yin-Yang Release were all within the scope of the lessons.
Six-sensei actually quite liked teaching others, but his current teaching location was not a place ordinary people could just come to.
Ordinary ninjas couldn't even get to the world of the dead. The ninjas who did come here were all dead and didn't need lessons. Ino, on the other hand, was fine. The yin energy here was just a little heavy, but she could still bear it... It was just that the lessons were very difficult to understand! When listening to Hagoromo from a thousand years ago, she could roughly understand fifty to sixty percent. But listening to the Sage of Six Paths from a thousand years later, it was a state where neither her body nor her mind understood.
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