Chapter 460: Mirai Sarutobi
Back in Konoha Village, Ino spent another two days carefully sensing her condition.
The symptom of her eyes being on the verge of awakening the Mangekyō at any moment had disappeared. The ocular power was still there, and the Power of Six Paths was also slowly strengthening her intermediate Sage Body. Her bloodline could now accommodate more ocular power.
Perhaps she could also try to awaken the Rinnegan directly from the three-tomoe Sharingan? Looking at the Sage of Six Paths, this path was undoubtedly more correct.
The Mangekyō was equivalent to tearing a rift in one's bloodline. Even if it was repaired with the Eternal Mangekyō or a Sage Body, the traces of the rupture would still remain, and in the future, it would ultimately be impossible to achieve a perfect state.
Madara spent decades slowly polishing his Rinnegan. Sasuke, after receiving the Power of Six Paths, only managed to awaken one eye. But Toneri Ōtsutsuki, after transplanting Hanabi's Byakugan, instantly awakened the Tenseigan, which was on the same level as the Rinnegan.
Accumulation was even more important than she had imagined.
Ino's strength was already formidable at this point. She wasn't afraid even if the rice-carriers came. If Pain dared to show up, she would dare to charge over and gouge out his eyes.
Simply awakening a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan would no longer provide a significant boost to her.
In the original timeline, Naruto and Sasuke sealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki on Naruto's 17th birthday, which was October 10th, two years from now. Ino was the same age as Naruto, both 15. There were still two years left. She wasn't particularly desperate to awaken the Mangekyō.
At the end of August.
Kurenai, after ten months of pregnancy, gave birth to a girl. After discussing it with Asuma, they named her "Mirai," meaning "future"—Mirai Sarutobi.
The couple invited everyone for the one-month celebration.
Jiraiya and Tsunade immediately rushed to the scene, and the two began drinking from wine jars.
All the ninjas close to the Sarutobi clan came to celebrate. Needless to say, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio were allies of many years, and with Asuma's relationship with the 16th generation of Ino-Shika-Cho, the three of them came early in the morning to help.
Afterward, Jonin like Kakashi and Might Guy, who were back in the village resting, came one after another to offer their congratulations.
Kakashi even brought along the three members of Team 7, under the pretext of everyone having a lively time together.
As soon as Naruto arrived, he started shouting and looking for Karui.
Karui's "Gekitō Ninja Emaki" had released a new set of cards.
The new cards released this time all had the keyword "Deathrattle."
Several new SR-level cards were added, including Priestess Shion and Genin Naruto Uzumaki.
Priestess Shion's deathrattle effect was that after she was defeated, she could summon a Naruto to the field, and Naruto's was the same.
To officially establish this CP, Ino had spent a lot of effort behind the scenes... Thanks to her tireless promotion, not to mention the elders like Kakashi and Jiraiya, even Tonton now knew that Naruto and Shion were a couple. The only one who probably didn't know was Naruto himself... Naruto was looking for Karui not because someone was shipping him with Shion, but simply because the title "Genin" in "Genin Naruto Uzumaki" was a bit jarring.
Why do you have to specifically write that I'm a Genin? Aren't you all Genin? What? None of you are Genin? Oh, then never mind.
"Hey, look at Ino..." Naruto whispered to Shikamaru.
He pointed to Ino's feet. He had just suddenly noticed that Ino had no shadow... Shikamaru glanced over and thought he was making a big fuss over nothing. "Isn't that quite normal? Look over there, at those ninjas from the Yamanaka clan."
Naruto shaded his eyes with his hand, squinting as he looked at them one by one. Then, he was horrified to discover that the shadows of these Yamanaka clan ninjas were all very faint. Some were unnoticeable unless you looked closely.
Ino was sitting quietly to the side, chatting with Tenten. As if sensing Naruto's gaze, a shadow suddenly appeared at her feet. The shadow seemed to come to life, brandishing its claws and waving vigorously at Naruto.
A terrifying truth surfaced in his mind. He turned his stiff neck toward Shikamaru. "Could it be... could it be that they are all... are all ghosts?"
He kept his voice extremely low.
Shikamaru sighed. "How could that be? Look at my feet."
Naruto looked down and found that Shikamaru also had no shadow at his feet.
Naruto: "...!"
Just as he was about to scare himself to death, Karui finally solved the mystery for him. "You're really stupid. This is a technique for using Yin Release chakra. You don't know the secret jutsu the Yamanaka clan is currently practicing, but you still don't know the Nara clan's shadow manipulation jutsu? Making a shadow disappear is ridiculously easy. Are... are you really a ninja?"
Faced with Karui's questioning gaze, Naruto let out a sigh of relief. That had really scared him. He thought his companions were all ghosts... Ninjas have strong constitutions. It had been a month since Kurenai gave birth. After the one-month celebration began, she came out holding the baby, looking radiant, and showed her to everyone, accepting their blessings.
"Huh? That baby was just looking at me. Did you guys notice?" Ino asked Tenten, who was beside her.
Tenten looked at the baby, then at her. "I don't think so? A newborn baby, what does it know? Maybe it just thinks you're pretty?"
And it was true. After integrating Ice Release into her bloodline, Ino's skin had become better and better. It was no exaggeration to say it was crystal clear. Compared to her, ordinary female ninjas without a Kekkei Genkai, like Tenten and Sakura, looked a bit "greasy."
She nodded. Right, what does a newborn baby know? It's probably just my imagination.
This child doesn't look much like Shisui either. Those silly netizens from my past life must have gotten it wrong.
Sakura was happy seeing others have children, wishing she could have one soon herself.
She urged Kakashi and Anko, hoping the two of them would have a child soon.
The couple had been so busy for the past six months that they hadn't had time to have children. Kakashi beat around the bush and managed to talk Sakura out of it.
For the next few days, Ino stayed at the Akimichi household.
Her Sage Mode came with a free robe, but she was empty-handed, and she felt uncomfortable without something in her hands.
During her time as a regular ninja, holding a kunai or a short sword was very fitting. Now, wearing something that looked like a Daoist robe, holding a kunai felt very awkward.
A staff had more style, but she didn't know how to use one, and it wasn't practical. The clinking sound was annoying.
Ino had someone forge a chakra long-staff and was now at the Akimichi household learning staff techniques.
The top staff users in the world were probably Jigen, followed by the Sarutobi and Akimichi clans.
Jigen would never teach Ino. Asuma had never learned his father's staff techniques, so they were practically lost. The best person for Ino to learn from was Choji's father, Choza Akimichi.
The three clans of the Ino-Shika-Cho had already reached a consensus. The 16th generation of Ino-Shika-Cho would be led by the Yamanaka clan, with the Nara clan providing support. The Akimichi clan was somewhat marginalized. Now that Ino had come to learn from him, the large Choza was very happy and taught her his staff techniques without reservation.
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