Chapter 241: Signless Ninjutsu x The Shocked Minato Namikaze
The logic is exactly like this. Being late on the battlefield might put your comrades in a dangerous situation in less than a minute...
Referencing the Battle of Kannabi Bridge. Back then, if Minato Namikaze hadn't been late and had blown up the Kannabi Bridge a bit faster, arriving in time to support Kakashi and Obito, and saving Rin Nohara from being forcibly taken by Taiseki using the [Secret Technique: Camouflage Concealment Jutsu].
Cutting off the black hand of Black Zetsu manipulating things behind the scenes in cooperation with Madara Uchiha, perhaps... Obito wouldn't have had to turn to the dark side.
Unfortunately, there are no "ifs" in the world. In order to save his mother, even if Black Zetsu didn't target Obito, he would target other Uchihas, such as... Shisui and his own younger brother Itachi.
Thoughts fluttering, Roy's gaze bypassed Minato Namikaze and swept over Obito and Rin Nohara standing behind him.
Green and youthful boy and girl, seeing him look over, their expressions were different. The latter was curious... the former visibly tensed up, quietly moving a step closer to Rin like a protective calf. It seemed like vigilance, but it was more like declaring to Roy, "She is mine, don't get any ideas!"
Fortunately, Roy's gaze came and went quickly. It circled around and then cast a glance at Kakashi. This genius ninja, hailed for breaking the record for the fastest graduation from the Ninja Academy, his face half-covered, was also sizing him up with a hint of inquiry. His memory returned to last night, still unable to forget the importance his father placed on the boy in front of him...
"Alright." Wrong is wrong, and punishment is deserved.
Roy spoke concisely, neither hiding nor evading. With his hands in his pockets, he quietly waited for Minato Namikaze's next words.
The young man's yellow hair swayed. This man, who would soon make a huge name for himself as the "Yellow Flash" on the battlefield, narrowed his eyes and smiled...
"Simple," Minato Namikaze held up a finger: "Weight-bearing run... Kakashi, Obito, Rin, you three along with Jin, each of you will carry a log and run ten laps around the forest. The time limit is two hours. Move out!"
Kakashi and Rin were stunned, instinctively looking at Obito... One person is late, the whole team takes the blame... Given Obito's personality, he would definitely question the teacher in a fit of pique... "Why?"... right? But Obito was exceptionally strange today. Except for a hint of vigilance arising from Roy's casual glance at Rin, this usually big-mouthed boy surprisingly didn't object. Instead, he remained silent... and took the initiative to shoulder a log...
Kakashi and Rin exchanged a glance, both seeing a trace of surprise in each other's eyes!
Obito didn't care about that. He didn't even complain about Roy. With the log on his shoulder, he was the first to rush deep into the forest, yelling, "Let's go, what are you standing around for?"
Kakashi and Rin Nohara each grabbed a log and followed right behind. Last was... Roy.
Tap... tap... Accompanied by the gradual departure of Obito, Kakashi, and Rin...
The boy didn't say a word. He reached out a hand towards a log planted upside down in an empty corner and exerted a suction force...
[Magnetic Field: Adsorption]... Derived from the Nen ability of the legendary magician Moritonio... [Bipolarity of Dyed Iron]
Making its first appearance in Konoha...
Suddenly, a suction force brushed past Minato Namikaze's shoulder. Minato Namikaze's eyes focused as he saw the log uproot itself and fly through the air towards the boy. He thought to himself: Signless Ninjutsu?
Amidst extreme astonishment, he confirmed he didn't see Roy form any hand seals. His thoughts fluctuated, and he remained silent... Watching the log land on Roy's shoulder, lightly supported by him as he strode away... Minato Namikaze recovered his senses after a moment. He also kicked up a log, shouldered it, and vanished in a flash to catch up...
When students make mistakes, the teacher must also bear the punishment... This was a principle his teacher Jiraiya had once taught him, said to be passed down from the Third Hokage... However, Hiruzen Sarutobi himself admitted that he had never taught Jiraiya any knowledge regarding [Signless Ninjutsu]. Or rather, as the renowned [Professor of Ninjutsu] among the major villages, he himself hadn't mastered many [Signless Ninjutsu]. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to use them during his duel with his rogue disciple Orochimaru...
Hokage Building, inside that office symbolizing the supreme authority of Konoha. Through the crystal ball, the old man watched Roy carrying the log, coming from behind, slowly catching up to Rin, then surpassing Obito, and finally brushing past Kakashi's shoulder to dart to the very front, leaving behind afterimages. Clack~ He picked up the pipe slapped on the desk and took another puff. With one hand, he opened a drawer and pulled out the scroll branded with Roy's name, "Jin Uchiha"...
He unrolled it, took his brush to the very end, and added another stroke... [Revealed 'Signless Ninjutsu', self-created unknown, origin of learning unknown, known... possesses an adsorption function...]
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes flickered. He paused his brush, pondered for a moment, and added another sentence at the end... [Is it possible that all Ninjutsu can skip the [Hand Seal] phase... Unknown...]
The old man finally discarded the brush, watching Roy sprinting at the front, looking as relaxed as taking a stroll in a courtyard... Standing high and looking far, he was far more immersed in [Ninjutsu] than Minato Namikaze's thirty-something years. Therefore, he was even more acutely aware of... the rarity and preciousness of [Signless Ninjutsu]!
It should be known that [Hand Seals] originated from Indra. It was a [Seal Technique] he specifically designed to help the people of [Ninshu] also be able to cast Ninjutsu...
Fundamentally, it is actually guiding Chakra to flow within the body along fixed paths through specific hand gesture combinations. Or stimulating the heart meridians to trigger Yang-attribute Chakra to go berserk, releasing [Fire Style]... or guiding Chakra to gather at the kidneys, producing liquid characteristics, releasing [Water Style]... or forcing Chakra to oscillate at high frequencies at the ends of the meridians, releasing [Lightning Style]. All of these... are inevitably unavoidable processes!
However, a tree dies if moved, but a person survives if moved. The process is fixed, but it can't stop geniuses from often taking unconventional paths...
There are always people who can jump out of the framework of [Two-Handed Seals] to achieve [One-Handed Seals]. For example, the Uchiha clan can forcibly memorize seal formulas through the Sharingan and reproduce the Chakra paths with just one hand... Another example is Kisame, who relies on his massive Chakra reserves to violently break through seal limitations... And Haku, who uses the Ice Style Kekkei Genkai's inherent seal-simplification trait...
In short, behind every [Signless Ninjutsu], it invariably reflects the caster's prodigious talent, reaching an incredibly terrifying level!
And now, right under his nose, there was one more...
Hiruzen Sarutobi squinted at the young boy in the crystal ball. Compared to their last meeting at the Ninja Academy, in just a few short days, he seemed to have grown a bit taller, become a bit more mysterious, and made him unable to see through him... For a moment, it made Hiruzen Sarutobi deeply doubt, is this really a child that Fugaku could have trained?
At the very least, Fugaku himself doesn't know the things this child Jin is displaying... besides the [Great Fireball] Jutsu...
Tap... tap... Footsteps echoed, chasing the wind deep into the vast Southern Border Forest... The four great dense forests of the East, South, West, and North had [Sensory Barriers] overhead, guarding Konoha, allowing for no mistakes... Roy ran in front, Kakashi and Obito chased madly behind, and lastly was the struggling Rin Nohara... The young girl's brown hair swayed in the wind. Her deep brown eyes were as beautiful as gems, but they couldn't hide her exhaustion...
Her original role in Team Minato was never a "combat role", but more of a support. This could be seen from her proficiency in [Medical Ninjutsu]...
Huff... huff... The young girl's chest heaved. She began to hunch her back, panting heavily... The log on her shoulder was somehow getting heavier and heavier, making her legs feel like they were filled with lead, unable to run fast even if she wanted to...
Minato Namikaze hung behind the group and was the first to catch up to her. The man didn't speak, nor did he encourage his student. Instead, he cast his gaze towards the three running ahead, anticipating whether they could do something... The first to look back was Obito. Obito Uchiha seemed to have absolutely no intention of competing with Roy. He only stared at Kakashi. Later, noticing Rin's condition, the boy didn't even think before completely abandoning his race with Kakashi. He slowed his pace, waited for Rin to get closer, and tried to help her support the log. But who knew...
Whoosh~ A "silk thread" brushed past Obito's shoulder. With a speed faster than his, it wound and pierced through the air, arriving at Rin's side in an instant. Right in front of Minato Namikaze, amidst the young girl's exclamation... it wrapped around her waist and pulled her forward, darting ahead...
Obito was stunned. Watching Rin being carried past him, the boy's small mouth dropped open. It was like a porcelain vase knocked over by someone... Smashing to the ground with a crack, visibly... shattering into pieces!
"Rin,"
"Jin!"
"You... come back here!"
He went crazy... Obito didn't know where he got the strength. He sprinted wildly, burying his head and chasing after Rin, who was being carried forward and had already flown past Kakashi in the blink of an eye...
At the end of the team, only Minato Namikaze remained, staring thoughtfully at the "Nen thread" Roy had wrapped around Rin Nohara's waist. Clearly, this was yet another [Signless Ninjutsu] he didn't know about!
Strange... where did this kid learn these things?
Could Big Brother Fugaku have taught him?
Minato Namikaze thought of Fugaku Uchiha's unsmiling face. Based on his understanding of the man, he was rigid, serious, and cautious, but he definitely didn't look like someone with the ability to [Innovate]. Minato simply tossed this thought out of his head, flashed forward, picked up his pace, and gave chase...
Naked to the eye, a streak of yellow light bypassed Obito, bypassed Kakashi, bypassed Rin, until it caught up to Roy's side...
Hokage Building. After witnessing the scene of Roy raising his hand to adsorb a log onto his shoulder, Hiruzen Sarutobi then saw the boy suddenly flick a transparent [Chakra Thread] from his fingertips backwards, wrapping around Rin Nohara's waist and carrying her for a distance. The old face hidden behind the smoke, covered in fine wrinkles, experienced a rare impulse...
Not good, the previous guess faintly has the possibility of becoming reality... Hiruzen Sarutobi took his brush to the sentence he had just written... [Is it possible that all Ninjutsu can skip the [Hand Seal] phase...]
He drew a circle specifically focusing on the word "Unknown". For the first time, an old heart that had experienced the vicissitudes of war without a single ripple surfaced with a trace of doubt... This trace of doubt led to an unimaginable place, forcing Hiruzen Sarutobi to stare intently at the crystal ball in front of him, not daring to miss a single frame...
Tap... tap... One lap quickly passed. Deep in the Southern Border Forest, Roy carried the log, running through the dense forest with [Sun Breathing] activated uninterruptedly all year round, every month, every day, just as always. It was like running in Kukuroo Mountain; even while carrying Rin Nohara, he remained relaxed and composed, not shedding a single drop of sweat...
"What is the name of this Ninjutsu?"
Whoosh~ A gust of wind rose, a mop of yellow hair swayed, and Minato Namikaze arrived right behind. The man tilted his head and looked at the boy, his eyes flashing with a sharp glint, and asked with a smile.
For a moment, Roy felt like he had returned to the morning, being asked by Itachi... He replied honestly, "I haven't named it yet."
No name? Minato Namikaze's eyes flashed. As expected, this child created it himself!
A child not even eight years old self-created a Signless Ninjutsu? If Kushina heard this, she would definitely think this was a joke meant to tease her... And to think she believed Sister Mikoto's words and asked him to take special care of Jin... Minato Namikaze was somewhat speechless.
He asked curiously, "You haven't named it, how did you develop it?"
Name matches the person, jutsu matches the name... The name represents the developer's thought process or... what you'd call a brainstorm!
Take the [Rasengan] he had been developing recently. It was also a [Signless Ninjutsu]. The name matched the jutsu; it involved rubbing a sphere by hand and injecting spiral power into it to enhance its might... A situation like what Roy described, developing the Ninjutsu first without even naming it... Throughout the Yellow Flash's entire life, this was a first!
Roy understood Minato Namikaze's feelings. Compared to [Chakra], which was derived from the Divine Tree and attached meaning to [Yin] and [Yang] with traceable paths, [Nen] was clearly unconstrained. What reasoning, what logic, what this and that... it was all utter bullshit. It had one and only one rule, and that was—the power of 'I think, therefore it is'!
As long as I 'think' it, I can develop whatever 'Nen ability' I want!
This point is evident from Alluka being titled the [Wish-Granting Machine]!
Roy shrugged: "I don't know either,"
The boy looked innocently at Minato Namikaze and explained, "That day I got thirsty in the middle of the night and didn't want to get out of bed, so I tried to see if I could condense Chakra into a rope to help me fetch a cup of water from the kitchen. As a result... it just came out on its own..."
Roy showed his right hand. The [Nen Thread] at his right fingertips twitched, guiding Rin Nohara to keep up rapidly. For a moment, Minato Namikaze, as well as Hiruzen Sarutobi peeping through the [Telescope Technique], fell completely silent.
What should be said? What could be said? Think about it, Minato Namikaze spent three years developing a single [Rasengan]. The gap between people... really seems to be larger than the gap between a dog and a person!
Cough, cough... Hokage Building. Hiruzen Sarutobi, sitting behind his desk, coughed violently. It was unknown whether it was from inhaling too much smoke and choking, or from being choked by Roy's absurd yet somewhat plausible words. The old man quickly raised his hand and rubbed his chest, smoothing out the breath blocked in his throat. Only then did he recover. He gazed leisurely at the boy in the crystal ball, holding his brush for a long time, not knowing what to write on the scroll.
"So, is this what a genius is?" Hiruzen Sarutobi murmured in a low voice.
Yes, this is a genius, an unreasonable genius! Minato Namikaze sighed in his heart.
The Yellow Flash gave the boy a deep look. Seeing his footsteps sometimes fast, sometimes slow, quite rhythmic, his eyebrows raised. Not knowing what got into him, he blurted out, "Can you go even faster?"
Roy looked over sideways and asked in return, "What kind of fast?"
"Like this?"
[Swamp Space], emerge!
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