After the hearty meal, Rihito politely bid farewell to Mito Uzumaki and Tsunade.
For once, he didn't leap across rooftops with chakra,
Instead, he walked leisurely through the quiet streets of Konoha.
A hundred steps after a meal, and you'll live to ninety-nine.
He rubbed his full belly with satisfaction.
Mito's cooking was far better than anything he could make.
His own food was… edible, at best, filling, but flavorless.
It was no surprise. Just a few years after the Warring States Period, food supplies were still relatively scarce.
Spices and ingredients were hard to come by, and honestly, Rihito had never put much effort into cooking.
He was a guy, eating rough was fine.
So when a warm, home-cooked meal landed in his lap, one that actually tasted good,
He went all in.
Mito Uzumaki had been delighted, too.
Rihito's ravenous appetite was the highest praise a cook could receive.
Back home, he closed the doors and windows, then carefully unrolled the sealing scroll gifted by Mito.
Inside were nine foundational sealing techniques.
He scanned through each:
Rihito recognized many of them.
The Evil Sealing was used by Hatake Kakashi.
The Fire Seal appeared in Jiraiya's arsenal.
The Message Transfer Seal? That was what Jiraiya used to send intel before his death.
And the Contract Seal? That was what Minato used during the Nine-Tails attack to sever the bond between Obito and Kurama.
Although basic, these jutsu were still powerful enough to carry most ninja from Genin to Jonin.
Higher-level sealing arts were needed only when dealing with tailed beasts or S-rank enemies.
With the system's assistance, Rihito only needed one read-through,
And all nine jutsu were imprinted firmly in his mind.
But sealing techniques were chakra-intensive.
With his current reserves, he could barely cast two or three before running dry.
No wonder the Uzumaki Clan was feared.
Their massive life force and nearly Bijuu-level chakra made sealing feel like light work,
But in the hands of a regular ninja? It was a trump card, not a tool for every fight.
He couldn't help but envy Mito Uzumaki.
Triple-buffed:
Natural Uzumaki bloodline
Bijuu chakra
Yin Seal stored reserves
She was a literal endless chakra machine.
After mastering the basic techniques, Rihito unexpectedly unlocked a more advanced seal: the Five Elements Seal.
It made sense. Once he'd learned the elemental sealing types, fire, water, lightning, etc.,
The combination evolved into this stronger variant.
He remembered Orochimaru once used this on Naruto to reinforce the Nine-Tails seal and mess with his chakra flow.
Even Jiraiya had to personally undo it.
Not bad at all for a "bonus."
Rihito considered it a lucky day.
With that in mind, he opened the Wish Draw system.
A lot had happened recently,
His fight with the "207 Squad", his bold speeches, and his reputation as the top student in the library.
His classmates were grumbling about him constantly, so his Reputation Points had climbed past 200.
Time for two draws.
As a dazzling shooting star flashed across his mental screen, the draw completed.
Rihito gained one passive skill and one new weapon.
[Skill Acquired: Lightfoot]
You take no fall damage from high places.
…Huh.
Sounds kind of useless.
In the game Tomb Raider, Lara Croft fell off cliffs, got hit by planes, and still walked away with just a scratch.
Turns out it was this passive at work the whole time.
If a laid-off office worker had this, they could threaten to jump off a building and still walk away for severance pay...
...What a depressing thought.
But for a ninja, who constantly leapt across rooftops?
Well, fall damage wasn't exactly a major concern.
Rihito sighed. This one was going on the back shelf.
Then he checked the weapon draw:
[Weapon Acquired: Recurve Bow]
Greater range and force with the same draw strength. Balanced and lethal up to 200 meters.
Compared to his handmade longbow (which barely hit targets past 100 meters),
This one was slightly better.
Not game-changing, but definitely an upgrade.
He played with it for a bit before stowing it away.
In ninja combat, bows were rarely practical.
But for missions like bandit hunts or stealth takedowns? Maybe.
Still, this made him wonder,
If weapons were in the draw pool, would he eventually unlock firearms too?
Lara Croft had plenty of those in her arsenal...
With that thought, Rihito cleaned up, washed, and headed straight to bed.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the village,
Inside the Hokage Tower.
Tobirama Senju sat behind his desk, frowning as he read over a report.
It was a full intelligence dossier on Rihito Sato,
From family background to daily behavior, even every word he'd spoken lately.
Just getting close to the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki was enough to trigger deep surveillance.
His gaze fell on one particular line:
"Sheep move in herds. Beasts walk alone."
Tobirama fell silent.
Am I a beast or a sheep?
No, big brother… Hashirama was the true beast. But he never walked alone.
Across the room stood a young Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had delivered this report from Mito.
"So this brat created an A-rank jutsu… at six?"
Tobirama flipped back through the scroll again.
The longer he read, the more he felt it,
The next generation was rising fast.
He vaguely recalled creating his first A-rank jutsu around the age of ten.
And here was a six-year-old who had already done it.
Heroes really are like fish crossing a river, endless and ever-changing.
He jotted down Rihito Sato's name for follow-up.
A child personally approved by his sister-in-law, Mito Uzumaki,
One who passed her malice-detection test with flying colors,
Was a pure-blooded heir of the Will of Fire.
Definitely worth cultivating.
Tobirama glanced over the Rasengan documentation Mito had passed along.
After a quick analysis, he followed Rihito's line of thought,
It really was worth developing.
He immediately marked it as a Forbidden Technique.
As everyone knew:
Forbidden Jutsu weren't "evil."
They were simply too powerful to be taught lightly.
Tobirama's eyes gleamed.
If I combined this Rasengan with my Flying Thunder God Technique…
Teleport point-blank and then slam a Super Rasengan?
No one would survive that.
A textbook "first encounter kill" move.
Yes… this might come in handy in war.
He made a mental note to begin training it,
In times of chaos, the more trump cards, the better.