"Do you also feel lost?"
Just as Minato Namikaze was feeling lost and dejected, a faint, young voice sounded in his ear. He was startled out of his deep thought, a flash of fear in his heart. To be approached so suddenly by a strange ninja without noticing... as a ninja, this was a grave mistake. But the person had stopped three meters away from him, indicating they had no hostile intent.
He looked at the person's face and found that it was a young Yugakure (Hidden Hot Water) ninja with a tender face. On his two shoulders perched two small puppies, who were staring at him intently, their pink tongues hanging out slightly. They were extremely cute.
"You are?" Minato asked, looking at him with some confusion.
"I'm just a genin from the Hidden Hot Water Village. I'm just a little curious about you," Shangguan Mo said with a slight smile.
Minato gave a slight nod and prepared to leave, having no intention of conversing with this ninja from another village.
"As a commoner-born ninja, it's no wonder you can't understand the thoughts of those clan ninja. After all, they are the beneficiaries of the Will of Fire..."
Minato, who had been turning to leave, suddenly froze on the spot. He slowly turned back, his gaze towards Shangguan Mo now a little cold. Just as Shangguan Mo felt humiliated by the contempt shown towards his village, Minato would not allow anyone to slander Konoha's Will of Fire.
"Please take back what you just said. Otherwise, I can't be sure if I'll be able to resist attacking you!"
"Heh heh..." Shangguan Mo couldn't help but laugh. He really is the Minato who is gentle to his own but tough on outsiders. Towards people outside of Konoha, he is indeed quite stingy.
"What are you laughing at?" A cold glint flashed in Minato's eyes as he slowly drew his kunai.
"Do you think what I said before was wrong?" Shangguan Mo asked with an expressionless face, but he felt a little regret in his heart. His identity as a Yugakure ninja meant that he was destined not to be able to have a good chat with Minato.
For the man before him, who could almost be called perfect, Shangguan Mo truly wanted to get close to him, and even become friends. But after coming into contact with him, he had a sudden realization that he and Minato were not in the same camp. Even if he had the intention to connect, the two of them were destined not to be friends.
What a pity... he thought to himself.
The next moment, Minato's figure vanished from the spot. An angry voice rang out, "You're courting death!"
"Substitution Jutsu!"
POOF!
Without even thinking, the moment Minato disappeared, Shangguan Mo had already formed the hand seal for the Substitution Jutsu. Then, he quickly moved his body behind a tree to hide. And Minato suddenly appeared at his previous position, cutting the log he had prepared in two with his kunai.
"Such speed! As expected of the man who will be known as the Yellow Flash in the future?" Shangguan Mo was shocked.
He had just steadied himself when several shuriken shot at him from his left, rapidly magnifying in his vision. His feint was of no use at all.
RUMBLE!
Just as Shangguan Mo was about to be hit, a one-man-high earth wall instantly rose in front of him.
Thwip! Thwip! Thwip!
"Hmph!" Minato snorted coldly. Chakra rapidly gathered in the palm of his left hand, and the next moment, it formed into a madly rotating, colorless chakra sphere.
Rasengan.
"A no-seal ninjutsu!" In the distance, Watanabe Sheren cried out in alarm, but could only look on anxiously.
POW!
With just a flash of a figure, the Earth Beetle's earth wall jutsu was instantly pierced through with a distorted hole. The Rasengan, its momentum undiminished, still rushed straight for Shangguan Mo. The next moment, it was about to hit him.
"Little Yellow!" Shangguan Mo's expression was grave as he roared.
Little Yellow, who had run to the other side at some unknown point, let out a light bark. "Woof!"
The taunt skill, [Dog's Eyes Look Down on People], activated. Minato suddenly felt that he was inferior to even a dog. His beloved woman was confined in the village, yet he could do nothing about it. An boundless killing intent towards this little yellow dog rose in his heart.
The Rasengan that was about to hit Shangguan Mo's chest instantly turned and shot towards Little Yellow, scaring it so much that it shivered, its big, cute eyes full of terror. But it still subconsciously activated its own ability.
[Acting Cute Jutsu]!
The rapidly rotating Rasengan abruptly stopped in front of Little Yellow's head, then dissipated into a few wisps of a gentle breeze. Minato's gaze towards it was somewhat complicated. As an elite ninja's intuition, he could feel that he must have been hit by some kind of ninjutsu to have felt such boundless killing intent for this dog, yet suddenly be unable to bring himself to attack it.
"What a bizarre technique!" He turned his head to look at the calm Shangguan Mo. A trace of apprehension rose in his heart, thinking it was Shangguan Mo's doing. But since Little Yellow was his summoned beast, it wasn't wrong to count it as his technique.
Having missed one after another, his killing intent for Shangguan Mo did not disappear, but instead grew stronger. Just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly heard the cry of an eagle. He looked up sharply and saw a huge ball of wind howling down at him from mid-air at an angle.
Shocked, he quickly formed the hand seal for the Body Flicker Technique, and the next moment, his body vanished from the spot.
BOOM!
A huge roar echoed for ten li around. The chakra drove the air to form a shockwave that exploded into a huge gray mushroom cloud above the ground, scaring the nearby people into dodging one after another. The people of the merchant caravan were constantly trying to calm their frightened, neighing horses.
Hebian Pu hid his body behind a carriage, dodging the flying earth and stone fragments, unable to help but watch the eagle-riding Shangguan Mo in terror. Thinking of the occasional, unintentional killing intent that flashed in Shangguan Mo's eyes when he looked at him these past two days, he was about to wet himself. "So scary!"
...
Seeing the Wind Eagle circling in the sky, Minato Namikaze's expression was a little ugly. Faced with a ninja who could fly, he was completely helpless. Although his own strength was extremely remarkable, at this moment, his heart actually felt a sense of being countered, even of powerlessness.
Thinking again of the two puppies that had been perched on Shangguan Mo's shoulders before, he finally realized that his previous thought might not have been a misconception. He had long felt that Shangguan Mo's own strength was very weak. How could he have mastered such a bizarre ninjutsu that could control a person's will? It wasn't until the appearance of this Wind Eagle, which also showed remarkable strength, that he finally had a delayed realization.
"So your summoned beasts are your true reliance!" Minato said faintly, looking at Shangguan Mo sitting on the head of the Wind Eagle.
"Who knows? I just wanted to chat with you, but I didn't expect you to be such a powder keg, igniting at the slightest spark," Shangguan Mo said with a shrug and a smile.
Minato fell silent. He did find that this person had not shown any hostility from beginning to end. It was just that Shangguan Mo's words before had really hit a sore spot. He, who felt "betrayed" by the village's ninja, was in a state of confusion and anger. How could he allow a ninja from another village to slander the Will of Fire, which he regarded as a golden rule?
"Sigh... perhaps, it really is as he said. But I believe Lord Hokage's benevolence is by no means false. It's just that the village has some蛀虫 (zhùchóng) - vermin/parasites."
"But perhaps this is the biggest difference between a commoner-born ninja and a clan ninja... In the eyes of those蛀虫 (zhùchóng) - vermin, perhaps I really am just a leaf that can be burned at any time. But even so, the flame of my burning must also illuminate the entire village!"
Thinking of this, Minato was no longer lost. He gave a deep look at Shangguan Mo, who was about the same age as him, then turned and headed towards the Konoha garrison, soon disappearing from sight.
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