The Shadow of Konoha

After Hatake Sakumo left the training ground, Hanyu remained there. While recovering his energy and chakra, he secretly summed up the lessons he had learned from today's training.

At the same time, his hands were still subconsciously practicing hand seals repeatedly.

Hands are the most important "weapons" of a ninja. Although hand seal practice is not a deliberate course, it needs to be practiced and strengthened anytime and anywhere, especially for novices, who cannot relax for a moment. Although Hanyu's hand seal speed and proficiency are far behind the top ninjas, considering the time when he became a ninja and the length of time he has practiced so far, his hand seal speed can be evaluated as "very fast".

Relatively speaking, "very quickly".

Because hand seals are the foundation of ninja techniques, reducing the number of hand seals required for ninjutsu, and further using hand seal-free ninjutsu, has always been the dream of all ninjas. When casting a technique, one less hand seal can make the ninja attack faster. This insignificant time difference can largely determine the outcome of a battle.

However, both streamlining the number of hand seals for high-end ninjutsu and developing hand seal-free ninjutsu are extremely difficult tasks, so they only exist in the imagination of ordinary ninjas.

"Oh, they are all seals for water-style ninjutsu."

Just as Hanyu was weaving together one fingertip movement after another in a predetermined order, a voice suddenly sounded in his ears .

"Ah?" Because he had not noticed anyone approaching him beforehand, Hanyu's first reaction after hearing the voice was to be extremely alert. But when he then remembered who this slightly familiar voice belonged to, his vigilance instantly eased.

"Sandaime Hokage." Hanyu stood up quickly and lowered his hands respectfully.

The person who appeared behind him was none other than Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"Are these ninjutsu taught to you by Sansho these days?" Sarutobi Hiruzen asked with his hands behind his back.

"Yes, Hokage-sama." Hanyu replied. He thought to himself, shouldn't Sarutobi Hiruzen, the acting Hokage, be extremely busy at this time? Then why did he appear beside him? And he appeared alone?

However, the Hokage did not resolve Hanyu's doubts, but continued, "I saw your practice just now. As a new ninja, your progress is very fast. You are indeed very talented in water techniques."

Hanyu was about to express his modesty at the compliment, but Sarutobi continued, "But when I was your age, I was already proficient in using the five escape techniques."

"…Hehe…Hehe, you really are worthy of being the Third Hokage." Hanyu tried to show some respect, but in the end he couldn't help but reveal a fake smile – is this guy here to praise others, or to show off himself?

And what did he just say? So when he was training with Sakumo, the Sandaime was always beside him? So this habit of an old man who likes to peek around the village when he has nothing to do was developed when the Sandaime was so young... Hanyu couldn't help but have such disrespectful thoughts in his mind.

However, according to Hanyu's understanding, the number of ninjutsu that the Third Hokage can use is unparalleled in the ninja world, and it can even be said that there is no one before and no one after... Even ninjas like the First and Second Generations cannot be compared with the Third Generation in terms of the number of ninjutsu that they can use.

So when Sarutobi said that he could use five types of jutsu when he was in his teens, Hanyu certainly had no doubts at all.

In addition to the evidence in memory, first of all, Sarutobi Hiruzen is the legitimate descendant of the Sarutobi clan. He has a very awesome father, and this father is a genius who can use five-attribute chakra ninjutsu. Secondly, as the first generation to grow up after the establishment of the Hidden Leaf Village, Sarutobi is a disciple trained by the First and Second Hokage. He had been carefully trained long ago with the expectations of the village on his shoulders.

But how should I put it? At this moment, Hanyu was thinking that it was not a good thing to let young people take control of the country's power. Even someone like Sarutobi Hiruzen would show a lively and even frivolous side.

The Third Hokage at this time was only twenty-four years old.

Fortunately, there are elders like Uzumaki Mito in the village.

"Well," Sarutobi Hiruzen soon realized that such boasting was not in line with his status as the Acting Hokage, so he continued, "Have you measured your chakra attributes?"

"No, Teacher Sansho told me that now I just need to focus on practicing water escape technique." Hanyu said. Although he wanted to improve his strength quickly, he still understood the principle of biting off more than he can chew.

"That being said, almost every ninja needs to master two types of chakra changes after reaching the Chunin level. Normally, you should be close to Chunin at your age, so it's not a bad thing to get in touch with other types of changes earlier..." As he spoke, the Third Hokage handed a chakra test paper to Hanyu, "Let's take a look first to see if there are any other natural possibilities in you."

Hanyu still didn't understand what the Third Hokage wanted to do. He took the paper as he was told, and then transferred his most original chakra without any attribute changes to the paper as requested.

The surface of the test paper changed accordingly.

"First it became burnt and then became wet, which means that fire attribute is the direction of change of your most innate chakra properties. The water jutsu you mastered first might really just be caused by external stimulation." After seeing the results of the test paper changes, the Third Hokage came to this conclusion.

"Fire escape?"

If one's "root" is fire attribute, then is it better to start learning fire jutsu rather than water jutsu? The Third Hokage's words made Hanyu hesitate for a moment.

"You don't have to worry too much. This only means that if you practice changing the properties of chakra under normal circumstances, the first success will most likely be the fire attribute. It will also be easier to learn fire ninjutsu later. But now that your practice of water ninjutsu is going very smoothly, there is no need to worry about it. However... as a thank you for helping the village a lot some time ago, I can teach you a fire ninjutsu." said the Third Hokage.

It seems that he has not forgotten the contributions made by Hanyu during his previous trip to Kumogakure.

"How about it, do you want to learn?"

Hanyu did not give a direct answer, he just stared at the Sandaime Hokage without blinking... The so-called ninjas all look like this, they say they can't chew too much, but what they think in their hearts is that they want it all.

"You have already learned Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet, so I will teach you a Fire Style ninjutsu of the same level... Fire Dragon Flame Bullet. I hope you can learn this jutsu as easily as you learned Water Style." said the Third Hokage.

Whether it was Hatake Sakumo before or Sarutobi Hiruzen now, they all like to make it sound so simple. "Geniuses" always have this problem, they think that if they can learn something very easily, other people can also learn it quickly, but how can someone who has not even learned the nature change of fire attribute chakra learn fire escape ninjutsu directly?

Should we learn from the advanced experience of the Second Hokage and use Fire Style to create a hole in Hanyu's body first?

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