"Again, again..."
Yamanaka Inojin drew again and again, and finally, before his Chakra ran out, he drew a dragonfly that could support him.
Sitting on the back of the dragonfly, Inojin panted, a smile on his face.
Dad's mental training really worked.
He looked at the others and found that, apart from him, no one had a solution, apparently not having expected such a situation.
There were too many people now; he didn't know who to save.
And he couldn't save them anyway; he was low on Chakra.
"The teachers are too ruthless."
Inojin looked at the other teachers again.
Beneath their feet, auspicious clouds appeared, lifting them into the sky.
"Damn it, what is this? Why don't I have any intel?" Inojin raised an eyebrow.
His dad was Sai, who taught him many methods and skills for gathering intelligence.
Yet he found he had no concept of this thing.
...
"Oh my, this is Heaven's Descent, the method Captain Satoru once used to train some people, as Dad said. It's meant to train one's courage. I'm finally experiencing it... and I don't want to experience it at all."
Shikadai looked at the vast blue ocean below and the towering waves crashing.
Right now, he just wanted to go home to his mom.
He thought this, but he wasn't truly worried, because since the teachers were doing this, they definitely wouldn't let them fall to their deaths.
It's just... the feeling of falling from a great height, it's truly terrifying... This was an extreme experience; even if his brain had analyzed that he would be fine, his body didn't agree.
At this moment, his body and brain were like two separate systems.
Each doing its own thing.
Tears streamed from Shikadai's eyes.
"Damn, my body is out of control."
...Denki's tears splattered upwards as he cried and plummeted.
"This is the freshman ceremony? I'm going to die, I'm going to die! My dream of becoming a three-star Scientific Ninja is still unfulfilled!"
His dad never told him that Konoha's school entrance ceremonies were so extreme.
He had stopped thinking, but a thought popped into his head: he must invent a Scientific Ninja Tool that could fly anytime...
Uchiha Sarada pushed up her glasses, hiding the tears in her eyes.
"Dad, save me."
Though still young, she had experienced flying, but not freefall.
She wished she hadn't come to school. Would she often encounter such things in the future?
Ninja Hawk, she remembered the Summoning Beast that often played with her.
If only she knew the Summoning Technique.
Unfortunately, she hadn't learned the Summoning Technique; she had only learned to refine Chakra and train Chakra control.
She could only watch herself fall lower and lower...
"Yosh! This is Heaven's Descent, as Dad said, the lowest level of courage training for Taijutsu Ninja. My youth, I will not allow myself to be afraid!"
Metal Lee's hair was pulled up by the descending airflow, but his eyes were full of spirit.
He had heard his dad talk about this training.
His dad had undergone such training before, saying it was the lowest level of courage training for Taijutsu Ninja, and he wouldn't lose either.
His entire body's Chakra pulsed.
It seemed to surge out of his body.
"But for now, I still need the teachers to save me. I haven't learned Eight Gates yet, so I can't walk on air."
However, Metal Lee also had no solution; he couldn't fly yet.
But he wasn't afraid.
Because his dad had once said that this was precisely the time to test one's courage.
But tears still unconsciously ran from the corners of his eyes...
Boom!
Just as many students were gripped by fear, Mitsuki smiled, his entire body emitting green Chakra.
A large amount of natural energy gathered.
Bang!
He summoned a floating giant snake and stood on its head.
He watched his classmates, who were falling like dumplings, with a wide smile.
"Heh, Heaven's Descent, I've experienced it too many times. I won't experience it this time."
...
Hmm?
Mitsuki's actions caught Naruto's attention.
"Such powerful natural energy! Orochimaru's son, Mitsuki, huh!"
Naruto had always kept an eye on Mitsuki.
Orochimaru had no intention of hiding him; he even let him live in Konoha, not just in a lab.
He hadn't expected Mitsuki, at such a young age, to be able to fuse natural energy and learn Sage Mode.
And from the looks of it, his Sage Mode was even more perfect than his own.
And even more unique.
It probably wasn't inferior to Uncle Satoru's Sage Mode.
Whoosh!
Konohamaru, riding an auspicious cloud, came to Naruto's side: "Sage Mode, truly rare. Orochimaru is really something."
He frowned slightly.
Although Orochimaru was now the head of the Technology Development Bureau, he still disliked him as much as ever.
That was the person who killed his grandfather.
He just hadn't expected that even a child of a few years old could use Sage Mode, and judging by this Summoning Technique, his current combat power was probably already beyond that of an average Chunin.
Konohamaru didn't bear any ill will towards Mitsuki.
However, as Orochimaru's test subject, he wanted to save Mitsuki.
To prevent Orochimaru from performing any other modifications on him.
He had also tried Sage Mode; he could use it, but it was better not to.
He wasn't as compatible with it as Big Brother Naruto and Mitsuki.
"Hmm, Orochimaru should also be able to use Sage Mode by now. But he has indeed settled down now, and with Uncle Satoru around, he wouldn't dare to act recklessly."
Naruto nodded.
Moreover, they weren't just relying on Uncle Satoru anymore.
There was him, there was Sasuke, there was Kakashi-sensei, Teacher Kai, and the others.
There were even various new technologies developed by Konoha.
He would never look down on Scientific Ninja Tools; everything had its own meaning.
"Wind Release: Rising Current."
Konohamaru formed hand seals, and below the students falling like dumplings, a rising current swirled.
Catching them one by one.
However, the rising current also made them dizzy.
"It's too awful, I want my mom, boo hoo~"
"I heard our moms are also Hokage fangirls; they won't care about us."
"Going to school is too scary."
"Why didn't Dad tell me?"
The students came to their senses again, their bodies already lying on a huge flat ground, surrounded by crashing waves and the surging sea.
Rumble!
From the depths of the dark sea, an unusual tsunami sound emanated, causing fear to spread in the students' hearts.
"New students, that was Heaven's Descent, a training to overcome fear. You will all be training like this regularly in the future."
Naruto delivered a terrifying piece of news.
Immediately, the freshmen burst into tears.
"What?! We have to do that training again?!"
"That's not fair! Why can those two fly?"
They looked at Mitsuki and Inojin, who were slowly descending from the sky, their faces full of grievance.
Only those two could fly; it was too unfair.
Konohamaru: "Because they possess Ninja abilities, they can naturally use them. If you can also do it, we won't need you to undergo this training. Mitsuki and Inojin won't need to participate in Heaven's Descent training in the future."
[Boar - Dog - Rooster - Monkey - Ram... Summoning Technique: Power for Love.]