From that day on, the class had gained a new habitual class-skipper, Uchiha Sasuke.
As the homeroom teacher, Iruka's face now has a few more wrinkles from the stress.
Meanwhile, at the grove by the river, there were also the sound of constant 'bang bang' and the sight of trees being dragged around.
At the beginning, Sasuke was completely exhausted after punching trees all day.
Fortunately, Naruto provided him with a special recovery potion.
After experiencing its miraculous effects, Sasuke began throwing himself into training with a ferocity that rivaled Naruto's.
He might not have had Naruto's freaky constitution, but he still imitated Naruto and dragged a tree for weighted training.
If he couldn't drag three or four trees at once like Naruto, he would drag one.
By now, the eastern side of the village had practically been plowed by the two of them.
Even Guy wouldn't be able to bear this.
At one point, Hiruzen finally had enough and asked Kakashi to deliver two sets of weighted training gear.
Since those weighted training gear are made of special metal, their weight is basically the same as the weight of the trees dragged by Naruto.
Hiruzen thought that since they now have this stuff, these two kids wouldn't have to continue dragging trees, right?
As a result…
Naruto said that he would not train like before, and then, he put on the weighted training gear and started to drag the trees...
Realizing Naruto was fully derailed, Hiruzen completely gave up trying to rein him in and simply designated the eastern side of the village as a training location as the two kids' official training zone.
It's to prevent them from going to other places and destroying the village.
Konoha Village really couldn't handle the destruction those two left in their wake.
As for Hinata, Naruto was actually very considerate and didn't dare let her train as crazily as he and Sasuke did.
Instead, he got her a sandbag and a wooden dummy, then accompanied Hinata in Taijutsu training from time to time.
Training days are always boring, and just like that, six years passed in a flash.
Today, Naruto is already 12 years old...
"Sasuke, Hinata, check the Chakra flow in my body."
Naruto sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes and began to circulate the Wind Attribute Chakra in his body to open the gate.
During these six years, he'd never stopped refining that original Forbidden Technique.
Under the constant observation of Byakugan and Sharingan, he had gradually improved and polished the flow, adjusting the Wind Attribute Chakra's volume with Kurama's help and optimizing the internal pathways.
Naruto named the technique: Wind Release: Bloodburst Technique.
At first, when he used this technique, the situation was similar to the first time. However, because his physique was stronger than before, he directly broke Konoha's barrier.
Naruto still remembered that clearly. At that time, Hiruzen were so angry that he actually fainted.
Thankfully, Naruto had since learned to control the Wind Attribute Chakra within his body well enough to push it to the limit without endangering his life.
In the end, he discovered that the extreme state of Wind Release: Bloodburst Technique could only be maintained for 15 seconds.
If it was any longer, he will fall into a near-death state.
To test how powerful the technique really was, Naruto had even asked Guy to evaluate it.
At that time, Guy thought that Naruto was a genius, as the state of his self-created Wind Release: Bloodburst Technique was on par with him opening three gates.
But the longer he watched, the more Guy realized something was off...
Because, no one else besides Naruto could actually train this technique.
If a normal people learn this technique...
Then they will be able to get to the Pure Land faster.
When Hiruzen learned that Naruto had developed this technique, he immediately listed the Wind Release: Bloodburst Technique as an A-Rank Forbidden Technique, and the technique was also classified as a Taijutsu-Ninjutsu hybrid.
However, Hiruzen did not treat Naruto unfairly. He directly took out the Scroll of Seal and let him choose a Forbidden Technique to learn.
He had secretly hoped that Naruto would take the initiative to learn Flying Thunder God Technique...
But unexpectedly, Naruto chose the A-Rank Forbidden Technique, Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
As for why he didn't choose Flying Thunder God Technique...
Naruto simply said he couldn't understand it.
However, no one expected that Danzo would secretly tried to learn Naruto's Forbidden Technique...
As for what the situation was, no one knew the full details, but since the Root's leader had disappeared from Hiruzen's sight for three whole years, it was pretty clear he'd gotten himself seriously messed up.
Hiruzen heard from the Root's member that when Danzo was practicing the Wind Release: Bloodburst Technique, he instantly turned into a bloody man.
It sounds so miserable.
After finally confirming that this Ninjutsu could only be learned by someone with the same abnormal recovery ability as Naruto, Hiruzen deleted this technique entirely from Konoha's records without any hesitation.
The last thing he wanted was for some curious kid to stumble across it, try it out, and die instantly.
…
"Naruto, move the route closer to your heart."
Sasuke said seriously, his Sharingan spinning as he studied the chakra flow.
To be honest, he thought Naruto's technique was amazing, but it was a shame that he didn't have Wind Attribute Chakra.
If he did, he would've tried to learn it himself without a doubt.
"Naruto-kun, your Chakra's rising."
Hinata reminded him from his left, while Sasuke mirrored her on the right.
Boom-
As time passed, a massive surge of Wind Attribute Chakra burst from Naruto's pores, along with a large amount of blood mist. From a distance, it looked like Naruto was wrapped in a glowing red aura.
Sasuke and Hinata, who were sitting next to him, shielded their faces with their hands and had to stabilize themselves with Chakra just to avoid being blown away by the shockwave.
"This power..."
"It's already at the level of the Fourth Gate of the Eight Gates, right?"
Sasuke muttered, at a loss for words.
Before, in order to let the three children know the power of the Eight Gates, Guy specially opened the Fourth Gate for them to see.
Now, Naruto's aura alone has reached the state when Guy opened the Fourth Gate.
"Naruto-kun... you've gotten stronger again."
Hinata was torn between happiness and a growing sense of helplessness.
She had worked so hard over the past few years, but no matter what she did, she just couldn't keep up with how fast Naruto was growing stronger.
Even Sasuke was stronger than her now.
Naruto slowly opened his eyes and then deactivated the Wind Release: Bloodburst Technique.
By now, he has been able to maintain this technique for one minute, with the side effect of thirty minutes of total fatigue afterward.
Moreover, he can use this technique about three times a day.
Any more than that, and even Naruto couldn't handle it.
"Naruto-kun...."
"The graduation exam is at noon today... Iruka-sensei told us not to forget about it."
Hinata suddenly remembered and quickly reminded the two of them.
But as soon as she brought it up, Hinata started to worry again.
'I wonder if I can be assigned to the same team as Naruto-kun...'
"Well, let's go back to the Academy."
Naruto first glanced at Sasuke, then at Hinata.
According to Kurama's calculations, Sasuke's Chakra capacity after awakening the two tomoe Sharingan has reached 80 Ma, almost reaching the amount when Naruto first started training.
Hinata's Chakra is a little bit worse, around 50 Ma.
But it wasn't really her fault. After all, Hinata simply couldn't compare to the two of them, who were basically walking cheats.
As for Naruto himself, his current Chakra has reached 270 Ma.
According to Kurama's observations over the years, there are only a few people in the entire Konoha Village with that kind of Chakra.
The only one confirmed to exceed 200 Ma is Hiruzen.
This actually surprised Naruto.
But thinking about it, it actually made sense. After all, Hiruzen, who is proficient in Five Chakra Natures, won't be able to perform well without enough Chakra.
The three of them stepped through the portal and arrived at the classroom. They found that some students had already arrived in the classroom to prepare.
Sakura took one look at Sasuke and immediately went back into fangirl mode.
'Ah!!!'
'Sasuke's gotten even more handsome!!!'
'I love it so much!!!'
Shikamaru looked up and gave a lazy greeting as Naruto and the other two passed by.
Even though they hadn't seen much of Naruto and Sasuke these past few years, they still talked now and then.
After a while, Iruka entered the room with a class list tucked under his arm, with the usual worried expression on his face.
But when he looked up and saw the three people in the back row, his expression finally relaxed and he even showed a long-lost smile on his face.
'Finally!'
'Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke are finally graduating!'
Iruka had been genuinely afraid those two were going to corrupt the whole class...
As for whether they would fail the exam? That had never even crossed Iruka's mind.
Now, the whole Konoha Village knows that these two children have plowed a river to the eastern side of village.
With that kind of strength, they honestly shouldn't stay in the Academy anymore.
"Everyone, get ready. When your name is called, head to the next room for the Three Basic Techniques exam."