"Training ground? Again." Tatsumi waved his hand, seeming reluctant to go.
After all, Minato had already been squeezed dry by him. He couldn't get any more points from Minato now.
"If you're a friend, come to the training ground! This is a new ninjutsu you've never seen before. Just experience it for three minutes, and you'll love it as much as I do." Minato revealed a confident expression.
"....."
"So confident, aren't you being a little too sure of yourself?" Tatsumi glanced at Minato thoughtfully, finding him very confident indeed.
Hey, hey, you're getting ahead of yourself, Minato!
"Hehe, I've already prepared the training ground. Waiting for you." Minato smiled and walked away without saying more.
Tatsumi: "...."
Minato's eyes gave Tatsumi the creeps, giving him the feeling of, 'I've already booked a room, waiting for you.'
Could it be that the hot weather has fried his brain?
So, they walked towards the training ground as a group.
Tatsumi and Minato stood in the center of the training ground under the scorching sun. Compared to Minato's full fighting spirit, Tatsumi clearly looked unmotivated.
"Then, same old rules?" Tatsumi asked.
"Yeah." Minato nodded.
The so-called old rules meant that Tatsumi couldn't use genjutsu.
Although Minato had now learned how to break genjutsu, Tatsumi's genjutsu was too powerful. He would be caught with a snap of the fingers, so what was the point of fighting?
"Summoning Technique!"
At the start of the battle, Minato used his already cut finger to begin forming hand seals. Then, after a burst of smoke, a large toad appeared in the center of the field.
The toad was only about a meter tall, wearing traditional clothes and a waist wrap, like a little hoodlum.
Tatsumi found it strange. Was this his new ninjutsu? With Minato's chakra, summoning such a large toad—how much chakra did he have left?
"How is it? After these few years of training, I can now summon such a large summon!" Minato said smugly.
"Hey, Minato, kid. As usual, I want a hundred servings of treats, you hear?" The toad spoke to Minato in a rogue-like tone, fiercely.
"But... But, I've searched all the caterpillars near Konoha. I can't gather a hundred servings. Can... Can you take a little less?" Minato said pitifully.
Tatsumi: "...."
This level of impressiveness was instantly overshadowed by Orochimaru's Manda. The other demanded people, you demand caterpillars.
Tatsumi didn't say much else.
Under this damned sun, he didn't want to do anything else.
Just end it quickly.
Tatsumi directly took out shuriken from his ninja pouch. He waved his left hand and threw out several shuriken.
His right hand continued to follow up, the shuriken colliding in the air directly towards Minato.
Minato discerned from the speed of the shuriken that these were just ordinary shuriken throws, not shuriken enhanced with Super Strength.
He glanced at his Gama Kou.
The toad nodded, and its tongue immediately shot out at a very fast speed.
How fast a toad's tongue is, many people may not have carefully studied.
But now, it could be seen that the summoning beast that Minato summoned only slightly opened its mouth, and a tongue that was almost invisible quickly lashed out, disrupting the trajectory of the shuriken.
"Oh, oh, nice tongue." Tatsumi nodded.
Faced with such a powerful tongue, Tatsumi immediately became excited, and a bold idea suddenly arose in his heart.
He was a little envious of Minato's summon.
But now was not the time to think about these things. He put these distractions aside.
Tatsumi's attention instantly began to highly focus, calmly judging the situation.
Minato was still a weakling, relatively easy to deal with. So, should he focus more attention on that toad?
Then, a huge chakra wave instantly erupted beneath Tatsumi's feet. Using this as a driving force, his speed instantly soared in a short moment!
He immediately approached Minato.
Faced with Tatsumi's speed, Minato didn't retreat either.
Also holding a kunai in one hand, he instantly clashed with Tatsumi. For a time, the clanging sound of kunai colliding was endless!
But instantly, Minato fell into a disadvantage.
But there was still an outside helper on this field. The Mount Myōboku toad that Minato spent so much chakra to summon was not there to cheer.
That tongue quickly attacked Tatsumi.
"Bang."
Tatsumi immediately left Minato. A flip dodged the attack of that tongue.
However, the toad's tongue immediately followed.
The faster Tatsumi's speed, the faster the speed of that tongue.
The ground hit by that tongue immediately shattered.
Nawaki swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Just this speed and power were too exaggerated. Ordinary Chunin didn't have this speed.
As expected of a toad from Mount Myōboku!
Minato suddenly threw out several shuriken. Instantly, Tatsumi's retreat was blocked.
The toad's tongue instantly hit Tatsumi, whose retreat was blocked.
After being hit in the back, Tatsumi instantly turned into a log!
Substitution Technique? When did he form the hand seals...?
Minato immediately tensed up. He knew that Tatsumi could form hand seals with one hand. It was normal for the hand seal speed to be fast.
Where is he—above, below, or behind?
Minato quickly checked the surrounding situation, but in the empty center of the training ground, there were only him and the large toad.
Tatsumi's figure suddenly appeared behind Minato. He was about to punch Minato on the head when the tongue immediately struck.
Tatsumi had no choice but to avoid it.
"Kou, use oil." Minato immediately instructed the toad Kou beside him.
Nawaki was watching the battle from a very far place, and now the possibility of accidental injury was greatly avoided.
After hearing Minato's order, the large toad unhesitatingly wrapped Minato and threw him on his back. After jumping high, his cheeks puffed up and he spewed out a large mouthful of clear oil!
Minato's hand seals also closely followed, "Fire Release: Fireball Technique!"
The power after the combination of oil and fire was not simply explained by 1+1.
The power of this ninjutsu rose sharply. In the shocked eyes of the onlookers, the overwhelming flames covered more than half of the area of the training ground.
Mikoto stood in the distance and shook her head. Minato's miniature mixed ninjutsu, Toad Oil Flame Bullet, definitely consumed a lot of chakra.
Then the question now arises. After using the Summoning Technique and the current C-rank Fire Release, how much chakra did the nine-year-old Minato Namikaze have left?
Chakra is the combination of physical cell energy and spiritual energy. Once exhausted, not only would there be a significant consumption of physical strength, but the spirit would even become a little dazed.
Just as Mikoto saw, Minato was already panting heavily.
Tatsumi, facing this overwhelming Fire Release, had no intention of avoiding it.
He said excitedly, "In all the opponents I have seen in my life, I, Tatsumi, am willing to call your tongue the strongest."
Then the sea of fire instantly engulfed Tatsumi.
Suddenly, Tatsumi in the flames turned into a cloud of smoke.
"Shadow Clone Technique!" Kushina said.
Suddenly, a kunai quickly shot over.
The kunai, like a cannonball, instantly glided over Minato's head and then deeply stuck into the wall behind Minato.
A strand of yellow hair slowly fell from the air.
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