Chapter 184: A Jutsu Thought Up on the Spot?
Tsunade rubbed her temples.
This was a very serious registration form for newly promoted Chunin. Whatever should be filled in should be filled in. She couldn't let Sakura mess around.
She summoned her disciple.
"What's this about Wind Style? Since when do I not know that you can also use Wind Style ninjutsu? You can't just fill this out randomly!"
The woman's slender, pale fingers tapped heavily on the "Proficient in Ninjutsu" column.
"Of course I can use Wind Style!" The pink-haired girl's eyebrows rose high, as if the person in front of her had proposed an incredible notion.
"Ice Style is a combination of Wind Style and Water Style! If I don't understand Wind Style, then how did I master the Ice Style Kekkei Genkai?"
"Hmm..." Tsunade's delicate brows furrowed slightly, subtly striking a classic Gendo pose.
She tilted her head and looked at her disciple, as if doubting the authenticity of her words.
"It's true!" Sakura pouted and spread her hands. "If you don't believe me, watch!"
With a poof, a faint blue chakra light rose from both of the girl's palms. The bright but not dazzling pinkish-blue light evenly covered her hands, as if she were wearing a pair of beautiful blue gloves.
"One hand for wind, one for water."
Clap! The girl clapped her hands together. The faint blue glow on her palms suddenly collided, creating a silver-white shimmer and a faint cold air.
"And then combine them into ice." She opened her hands, and a thin piece of ice was condensed in her palm.
Tsunade narrowed her eyes.
Strictly speaking, mastering wind-natured chakra transformation and knowing Wind Style ninjutsu were not the same thing. Although it was generally believed that the former was an advanced part of the latter, Haruno Sakura might be an exception...
"This just counts as you having mastered the nature transformation of Wind Style. Although you're quite proficient, but—"
"Where is the Wind Style jutsu?" she asked, twirling a pen in her hand. "You have to at least show me one Wind Style ninjutsu!"
Generally speaking, a ninja would first learn a ninjutsu of a certain style, and only then would they begin to try to master the nature transformation of that affinity. But Tsunade realized that this disciple of hers had clearly not followed the learning path of an ordinary person.
In other words, she was just a weirdo...
"A Wind Style ninjutsu?" Sakura choked. Tsunade's question had hit her vital point. The pink-haired girl really hadn't learned any Wind Style moves.
Haruno Sakura was suddenly lost in thought, racking her brain and desperately trying to recall the jutsu library recorded in her mind.
The answer was... empty.
It seemed she really didn't know even a single Wind Style ninjutsu!
That's right. This girl had learned Wind Style entirely to meet the learning conditions for Ice Style, so she hadn't learned a single other Wind Style ninjutsu...
Haruno Sakura began to consider temporarily imitating the Wind Style that Naruto had used before. Although she didn't remember the order of the hand seals, she still had some impression of the chakra circulation. Perhaps she could reverse-engineer the hand seal order?
No, no, no, doing so was too risky.
It was better to think about how Kakashi had taught Naruto back then. "Hurry up and remember!" Sakura said silently in her heart. "From when Team 7 was first formed, to the daily missions and training, to the Land of Waves—"
"Huh? It seems I really do know one Wind Style move!"
Haruno Sakura suddenly raised her head, revealing a smile full of unknown meaning. "Master Tsunade, I really do know one Wind Style ninjutsu!"
She suddenly raised her right hand. Chakra madly gathered and intertwined in her palm, forming a small chakra ball.
"Hn..." Tsunade looked at this chakra sphere, which was calm on the outside but spinning wildly on the inside, her expression slightly moved. "This is the Fourth Hokage's ninjutsu, the Rasengan?"
"That's right," Sakura smiled. "But this move isn't Wind Style yet. Next—"
She continued to pour energy into the chakra ball.
This time, the shape of the Rasengan began to change. The originally calm little ball began to whistle and howl as if a fierce wind were blowing, the sound sharp and piercing. Then, the small sphere suddenly expanded, and sharp blades emerged from its equator, making it look like a Fūma shuriken with a bulging center.
However, Tsunade's grave expression indicated that this jutsu was no simple shuriken...
A few small beads of sweat appeared on Haruno Sakura's smooth forehead.
"How about this Wind Style ninjutsu?" Sakura said with some difficulty, stopping the action of continuing to pour chakra into it.
In her hand, the wildly spinning chakra ball was no longer so small that it could be held in her hand, but had expanded to the size of a fish tank!
Pure and refined chakra had pushed the power of this ninjutsu to its extreme. A fierce wind suddenly kicked up with the completion of the ninjutsu, making the girl's clothes rustle loudly.
Tsunade scrambled to hold down the papers on her desk that were flying about wildly in the wind. She looked at the chakra mass in the girl's hand, her face grave, her expression focused as she stared intently at this ninjutsu.
"This is..." she said, a little uncertain.
This shuriken-shaped Rasengan... is no simple ninjutsu.
She could sense a thick threat from that surging chakra!
Tsunade faintly tensed her nerves, her body unconsciously sitting up straight.
Such a terrifying chakra reaction!
Has the nature transformation of Wind Style been added to the Rasengan? Tsunade gradually saw the clue... This was adding nature transformation on top of shape transformation, and both had been taken to the extreme, thus resulting in this powerful ninjutsu!
If she were hit by this jutsu, she was afraid that everyone in the Hokage's office building, including Tsunade herself, would be doomed!
This is the ninjutsu that the Fourth Hokage, Jiraiya's disciple Namikaze Minato, had always wanted to complete but had never been able to develop, right?
I never thought it would be displayed in the hands of her disciple!
Her mouth hung slightly open. She was so surprised she was somewhat speechless.
"Hn... this ninjutsu should be called something like Wind Style: Rasengan Fūma Shuriken..." Haruno Sakura said, looking at the Wind Style ninjutsu in her hand with a hint of smugness. She bounced the large chakra ball up and down in her right hand—this action made Tsunade a little more nervous.
"However, this is not yet the limit of this move..."
The girl put away the smug look on her face and became serious. She lowered her eyelids and looked down at the screaming, terrifyingly powerful chakra ball in her hand.
She continued to pour chakra into it.
This time, it was the nature transformation of Water Style.
"How about we call this move... Wind Style: Spiraling Vortex Shuriken!"
"Hah!"
Veins faintly popped on Sakura's face. As if using every ounce of her strength, she poured another stream of chakra from her body into the Wind Style: Rasenshuriken. This caused the already sufficiently mad chakra ball's rotation speed to unbelievably accelerate a little more at its limit. The surface of the sphere, which should have been stable without a single ripple, actually seemed to be faintly pushed open by the extreme energy that had been spurred to its breaking point inside the ball!
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