Chapter 380: Rapid Progress in Wind Release
"Wind Style: Wind Tornado!"
"Wind Style: Rasengan!"
"Wind Style: Breakthrough!"
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!"
"Wind Style: Pressure Damage!"
"Wind Style: Vacuum Sphere!"
"Wind Style: Vacuum Bullet!"
"Wind Style: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
"Wind Style: Wind Cutter Technique!"
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In a clearing outside Iwagakure, Ishiro had been repeatedly practicing various Wind Release jutsu for days.
He learned the jutsu he didn't know and reduced those that required dozens of hand seals to just a few. Ishiro had learned almost every Wind Release jutsu in Iwagakure's arsenal. Then came the combination ninjutsu: combining Wind Release with Fire, with Earth, with Lightning, and even various combinations with his Porcelain Release.
After a few days, Ishiro understood why Han and his disciple, Yui Toda, had learned their Kekkei Genkai so smoothly. In his Little Chōmei Chakra Mode, Ishiro's progress in practicing Wind Release was more than ten times faster than before. After only a little over a month of training, he felt that he could almost begin developing his next Kekkei Genkai.
However, since Ishiro was in the village, he certainly couldn't remain idle. A continuous month of training was his limit. To have such a long period of time to develop a Kekkei Genkai again was simply impossible. The Chunin Exams were over, and there was a huge pile of things waiting for him to handle.
A large batch of newly promoted chunin needed to be assigned. Some of the original squads needed to be replenished or adjusted because some members had been promoted. Although the advisory council and the Tsuchikage's assistants helped handle many matters, the squads containing ninja with good strength or talent required a personal meeting with Ishiro. This was also a good opportunity for Ishiro, as the Tsuchikage, to win hearts and minds and promote the Will of Stone.
Furthermore, his own three disciples and Ōnoki's three also needed to be personally arranged by him.
Deidara's arrangement had been decided long ago; he went directly into the Anbu. His two companions, Ishiro arranged for them to be chunin squad leaders. Akino Atsumi entered the Barrier Team. Kiyoshi Ishizawa chose to become a chunin squad leader. And Riori Uzumaki, because she had nowhere else to go, was forcibly stuffed into the Anbu by Ishiro.
To find a suitable Anbu squad for Riori, Ishiro had to rack his brains.
At first, Ishiro informed the Anbu squad leaders of Riori's situation. As a result, not a single one expressed their willingness to take her. The squads that were at full capacity all stated that their teams were full and that everyone had just gotten used to coordinating with each other, so it was not suitable to change members. The squads that were short on members stated that everyone's strength had recently improved, so they didn't need reinforcements for the time being.
Ishiro didn't understand what was going on at first, but after a little inquiry, he found out the reason. In the just-passed Chunin Exams, the energetic Riori Uzumaki, when using her Multiple Shadow Clones against an enemy, had mistaken her opponent and ended up beating up the chunin proctor. Even more magically, that chunin proctor, who was not weak, was actually defeated by several rounds of Riori's Multiple Shadow Clones. With that, Riori had become famous. Her identity had changed from one of Ishiro's students to that weirdo student of Ishiro's.
Apart from Ishiro, who had been focused on training for the past month, probably the entire village of Iwagakure knew of Riori Uzumaki's glorious deed.
In the end, with no other choice, Ishiro used an excuse to forcibly place Riori in White Cat's squad, making her teammates with the Quasi-Jonin Himeki Suda. As for the member who was transferred out, Ishiro directly promoted him to special jonin and assigned him to a higher position.
White Cat had naturally also heard of Riori's great name. Looking at the little girl who was excitedly sizing up the layout of the Anbu, she had a massive headache. If she weren't so familiar with Ishiro and unable to refuse, she wouldn't have wanted to take her either. When the Anbu carry out missions, they can't just look at strength; they also have to look at intelligence. With Riori's intelligence and personality, no Anbu squad leader could accept her.
How could Ishiro not understand this? His arrangement for Riori to enter the Anbu was also a helpless move. With her personality, if she didn't experience more high-difficulty missions, she wouldn't be able to grow. And other positions were not suitable for her. There was no need to mention clerical work. As for a combat ninja, making her a chunin squad leader would be pushing the entire team into a pit of fire. By placing her in the Anbu and paying more attention when assigning missions to this squad, Ishiro felt that Riori might still be salvageable. At worst, he would just use White Cat's squad as a regular ninja team.
After dealing with the matters of this batch of new chunin, Ishiro had to start selecting disciples from the soon-to-be-graduating students.
This time, one of the disciples Ishiro would choose was already decided: the dead-last of the advanced class, Uchiha Sōkai. No one knew about Sōkai's two-tomoe Sharingan; otherwise, no one would have considered him the dead-last. But now, Ishiro didn't even have to guess; he knew that no jonin would take a liking to a child like Sōkai.
Apart from Sōkai, the selection of Ishiro's other two disciples was more troublesome.
Sitting in the Tsuchikage's office, Ishiro picked up a file of student information sent from the Ninja Academy and was somewhat speechless.
The Ninja Academy knew Ishiro's habit of taking on disciples. Every two years, a new batch. Apart from one time when it was interrupted for a year, there had never been an exception. So, they had prepared detailed information early on. In the past, the information for the entire graduating class was only as thick as a book. But now, the file for a single person was almost as thick as a book.
Rubbing his brow, Ishiro summoned an Anbu and said, "Tell the jonin who plan to take on disciples this year that they can start accepting them in advance. In ten days, all ninja with this intention must confirm their disciples."
Although the Anbu didn't understand the reason for this order, he still relayed it very seriously. How could he know that Ishiro's purpose in doing this was to hope that those jonin would quickly finish picking their disciples so that he could read less material?
Ishiro had also discovered that the more outstanding the student, the more information there was. As long as those jonin who wanted to complete an S-rank mission picked their disciples, his reading load could be reduced by at least half. Ishiro gave himself a thumbs-up for his cleverness.
Even though he could read half as much, his reading load was still huge.
Ishiro called two of his assistants and had them sort the graduating students by their grades, picking out the worst ones first. There certainly wouldn't be many jonin choosing these students, so Ishiro planned to look over their records first.
Regular Class 1, Nobusada. Chakra nature: Earth. Has not mastered any ninjutsu. Hobbies: tree climbing, bird catching. Personality: cheerful and generous, gets along quite well with classmates...
Ishiro was speechless. This Nobusada was a typical student who hadn't learned anything, yet his homeroom teacher had written several pages on his personality and hobbies. He couldn't help it; this was a mess of his own making. Who was to blame for the fact that all of his disciples were so strange?
Originally, everyone thought that producing a civilian-born ninja like Megumi was already defying the heavens. But then look at the students who came after. The one who loved to sleep in, Shinya Matsutani; the one with ADHD, Yoshimura Kazumasa; the one who was severely humanities-oriented, Yuran Kawazoe; the one who liked origami, Kanako...
So many students who, in the eyes of these Ninja Academy teachers, should have been eliminated, now had achievements that were much higher than their own. The worst of them was a Quasi-Jonin.
These teachers had already inquired in detail about the characteristics of the disciples Ishiro had taken on over the years. They treated this information almost like a national college entrance exam's past papers. Every teacher had memorized this information.
And what Ishiro didn't know was that there was now an important indicator in the evaluation of Ninja Academy teachers: who had more of their students selected as disciples by Ishiro. The internal competition in the Ninja Academy was quite severe.
There was a lot of information, and Ishiro was afraid of missing a suitable disciple, so even though it was mostly just filler, he chose to read on seriously.
And believe it or not, although most of the content was a waste of time, there were indeed some students who, because of a few words from their teachers, made Ishiro have a slight thought of taking them on as disciples.
For example, this one: Regular Class 5, Chiya. Chakra nature: Lightning.
Although he couldn't completely perform a Lightning Release jutsu due to issues with chakra control, he had utilized the fact that the paralyzing attack of Lightning Release didn't require high control and had directly mobilized the lightning-nature chakra in his body. This Chiya had basically performed a Lightning Release ninjutsu that was not even C-rank. When fighting someone in taijutsu, upon making physical contact with the enemy, he would suddenly release his lightning-nature chakra, paralyzing both of them—a "kill one thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of his own" tactic. But because he was prepared in advance, he responded calmly and turned a defeat into a victory.
Although this Chiya's talent was indeed very ordinary, this kind of mentality was very good. With this kind of tenacious character, if you added a cheat, he would be the protagonist of many novels.
Ishiro felt that if there were no particularly suitable candidates, he could also choose him. So, he added Chiya to his shortlist.
There were many ordinary students like Chiya, and Ishiro kept their files.
By the time seven days had passed and all the jonin had selected their disciples, Ishiro had already picked out more than a dozen candidates.
"Lord Tsuchikage, this is the list of ninja chosen by the jonin." One of Ishiro's assistants handed him the detailed list.
Ishiro nodded. "Compare it with the list and take away the files of the students they have chosen." This was the main goal of having the jonin choose their disciples, so it naturally had to be carried out immediately.
Watching the assistant make records for a while, and seeing that about half of the files were indeed taken away, Ishiro was quite satisfied.
However, when he saw that among the dozen or so files he had selected, three had also been chosen by others, his interest was piqued.
Ishiro began to look through the list the assistant had just handed him and was surprised to find that the three chosen students had all been picked by the same jonin teacher.
"Interesting. Shinsuke, is it?" Ishiro felt he had met a like-minded ninja.
"Bring me this Shinsuke's file," Ishiro said after the assistant was done.
"Yes." The assistant left and returned shortly with a file.
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