Chapter 461: Spreading the Ideology of Ninshū
Choza Akimichi taught very seriously. Ino had a high aptitude now, and besides, she didn't plan to make a name for herself with staff techniques. It was just to have a weapon in her hands in Sage Mode, and in her Wood Golem state, to be able to grab a large tree and swing it a couple of times.
Her progress in learning the staff was very fast.
The improvement of her Ice Release, however, was a bit slow. After practicing hard with a large number of shadow clones and reaching Lv3, any further significant improvement would have to be measured in years.
She decided to go all out and cause some trouble. She secretly observed the Hidden Stone Village for two days but couldn't even catch a glimpse of the Five-Tails' jinchuriki. With no other choice, she had to change her target.
Who to change to? Yugito Nii was something of a friend. Ino felt she shouldn't mess with her. Who else was a jinchuriki? Killer B again? Killer B was in the Hidden Cloud Village preparing for a concert. There were too many people around, making it difficult to act.
She couldn't disguise herself as Obito this time, so she had to change to someone else.
She disguised herself as Deidara and launched a barrage of attacks on the migrating Hidden Mist convoy. This infuriated Mei Terumi, who cursed loudly. The charming and mature woman stood in the cold wind without any of her usual grace, yelling at the sky for two hours.
Ino took advantage of her emotional state to sneakily toss a clay bomb at her feet. Mei Terumi was knocked unconscious on the spot, and she used the Mind Body Switch Technique to control Mei Terumi's body, successfully obtaining the activation conditions for Boil Release.
This trip didn't yield much. She robbed a temple along the way and barely managed to scrape together 3 pot points. She raised her Ice Release from Lv3 to Lv4. With her vast chakra, she unleashed Ice Release ninjutsu with abandon. She could freeze the sea, looking a bit like Aokiji in his Ice Age prime.
Ino ceased her troublemaking and quietly returned home to live a quiet life with Hinata.
Sakura, with no money for cram school, relied on her good relationship with her and shamelessly came to ask for help.
You want knowledge without paying? How can you be so shameless?
Ino played deaf and dumb, completely ignoring her.
Whatever she asked, it was either "uh-huh, uh-huh" or "yes, yes."
Sakura was a genius among the commoner ninjas. She didn't dare to go too far with the big shots, but with Ino, it was fine. Through observation, she found that Ino was still studying those seemingly useless Ninshū books. Sakura catered to her interests, occasionally asking Ino questions about Ninshū.
When it came to Six-sensei, Ino didn't dare to be perfunctory. She answered whatever she was asked.
Sakura would occasionally cleverly slip in her own ninjutsu questions among the Ninshū ideology. Ino was annoyed, but to encourage her to study Ninshū seriously, she would occasionally answer one out of every ten questions. For Sakura, this was a great deal; it was free knowledge.
Regarding the ideas of Ninshū, Sakura would also occasionally raise questions.
Usually at this time, Ino would retort without a doubt, "How many times do I have to say it? The purpose of Ninshū is not to dominate the ninja world. Service, understand? We go deep into the grassroots, taking root among the most basic ninjas, to serve the ninja world."
Sakura pouted. Who are you kidding! How many grassroots ninjas understand these water-release chakra transformations of yours?
But she could only say perfunctorily, "Oh, oh, I misunderstood..."
In fact, the ideas of Ninshū were very suitable for common people to understand. The essence of this thing was to give the things of the gods to the people. The more people, the better, the wider the spread, the better.
In the era of the Sage of Six Paths, there were no ninja clans. Everyone was a commoner. It was just that his disciples, those who first came into contact with ninjutsu, used blood ties as a bond and the family as a unit to monopolize knowledge, building a high wall between Ninshū and the common people, shutting the common people out.
With no fresh blood to supplement it, the behemoth of Ninshū collapsed, and one by one, ninja clans rose, ushering in the Warring States period.
By the time of Hashirama Senju, the monopolized knowledge was opened up to the common people. A large number of commoner ninjas emerged, and the ninja world officially entered the era of ninja villages.
For Six-sensei, whether it was ninja clans or ninja villages, there was actually no difference. It was all about spreading his knowledge. He wouldn't interfere in any way, but in the final analysis, the ideas of Ninshū were biased toward the common people.
To "freeload" ninjutsu knowledge from Ino, Sakura also took the thick books of Ninshū ideology back to study.
She originally thought that "times have changed" and that after graduating from school, she wouldn't have to study so hard anymore. But what was the result? "Times haven't changed." It wasn't a big deal, just rote learning. She was good at that.
Sakura's parents also saw these ancient books, and then her neighbors, and a few colleagues at the Konoha Hospital. The efficiency was low, but these ideas still spread out slowly.
This matter soon came to the attention of the Anbu ninjas. An Anbu ninja took some of the theories of Ninshū to see Jiraiya.
Jiraiya thought these things were even more empty than the Third Hokage's "Will of Fire," but he found some of the phrases familiar. After thinking hard, he finally remembered. When he was young and studying at Mount Myōboku, he seemed to have seen some of them at Fukasaku's place? He went to Mount Myōboku to inquire. Before he could even open his mouth, Shima brought Fukasaku an oracle from the Great Toad Sage: "Do not interfere."
In the past, the Great Toad Sage's prophecies were always vague, with one sentence having eight different interpretations. What was the situation today?
Through some bits and pieces, Fukasaku also saw that what Ino was spreading was indeed the ideas of Ninshū. Although in his understanding, these things were long outdated, he really couldn't say it, nor did he dare to.
The tenet of Mount Myōboku was to always be closely united around the Sage of Six Paths. The two sides were in the same camp. The ideas of Ninshū were politically correct. You deny this? You don't want to be around anymore, do you? He didn't know what kind of under-the-table deal the Great Sage and the Sage of Six Paths had made, but anyway, Fukasaku didn't dare to question it.
Jiraiya believed that what Mount Myōboku approved of was definitely correct. He returned to the village and made no move to stop it, completely allowing the ideas of Ninshū to spread in Konoha Village.
Ino took a two-week vacation and then began her life of clocking in and out of work again.
After Jiraiya became Hokage, he had already replaced the forehead protector with the "oil" character. He no longer wore his iconic wooden clogs on formal occasions.
Recently, Tsunade had also started wearing the ninja forehead protector that she hadn't worn for decades.
Ino also had to pay a little attention.
Early in the morning, she began to look for clothes. "Hinata, where are my pants?"
Hinata looked around with her Byakugan. "Huh? They're under the bed. Hurry up, you're going to be late!"
"I know, I know. I have the Flying Thunder God Technique, I'm very fast..." Ino hastily threw on her Jonin vest, a piece of bread in her mouth, and rushed to work... A Chunin like Hinata was also very busy, but ultimately, she didn't have to rush to the Hokage's building every morning.
Ino clocked in in the morning and spent the afternoon at her sensory squad.
The Konohamaru trio had also returned to the village early. As their Jonin leader, she would occasionally take the three of them to feed Tonton. After all, this was a D-rank mission issued by Tsunade.
When she had more free time, she would go to the forest to hunt rabbits, sell rabbit's feet, and open blind boxes.
And so the days passed, one by one.
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