98th Training Ground.
The morning sun cast its rays upon the ground.
Iruka and the two others were bored, waiting for Satoru to arrive.
"Is the Captain going to be late?" Mibu Shinobi muttered.
Grrr!
His stomach rumbled; he hadn't eaten breakfast, all for the sake of the Captain's grand meal.
"He should be here soon…
No, what's that?"
Ibara Keisen was about to say something when a huge commotion came from the forest.
Buzz!
The three looked towards the sound, only to see the trees in the forest bending over.
It seemed like some monster had broken through.
"Holy crap, what a huge monster…"
A two-story-tall Flying Bamboo Dragonfly appeared, its four wings flapping, allowing its body to agilely approach them.
It seemed to have spotted them, and the compound eyes on its forehead swiveled.
Whoosh!
It came above them, and the Flying Bamboo Dragonfly's forelegs slammed down towards them.
Buzz!
Swish, swish!
Fortunately, they reacted quickly, instantly moving away from their original positions.
Bang!
The Flying Bamboo Dragonfly hammered a large pit into the ground.
"How can Konoha have such a monster?" Mibu Shinobi shouted.
Cold sweat broke out on him.
"Be careful, this should be a Summoning Beast that Captain is using to test our strength. Let's cooperate well and defeat it, don't let Captain look down on us." Iruka looked at the Flying Bamboo Dragonfly's appearance and recalled the Captain's name, immediately coming to this analysis.
And Ibara Keisen, upon seeing the Flying Bamboo Dragonfly, also realized this point, and while Iruka was speaking, he opened a long scroll.
Bang, bang!
With a flick of the scroll, Shuriken and Kunai shot out like meteors, flying towards the giant beast.
Clang, clang!
Facing these Ninja Tools, the giant Flying Bamboo Dragonfly moved its six limbs, blocking the attacks.
"It's not over yet!" Ibara Keisen once again summoned a meteor hammer.
Mibu Shinobi also reacted at this moment, throwing Shuriken, and as the giant beast blocked his teammate's attack, the Iron Wire wrapped around it, entangling the giant beast's six limbs.
Meteor Chasing the Moon.
The huge meteor hammer took this opportunity to strike the giant beast, sending it flying backward and rolling several times on the ground.
Boom!
Iruka, on his side, was not to be outdone, and a Great Fireball also arrived in quick succession.
"Success."
Looking at the giant beast hit by the Ninjutsu, the three smiled.
"No…"
Suddenly, Iruka noticed something was wrong. He walked closer to see, and there was no giant beast, only a broken figurine.
Half of the burnt Flying Bamboo Dragonfly, emitting black smoke, was only palm-sized.
"Be careful."
Bang!
Just as he was analyzing, a Pangolin drilled out from underground, directly sending Iruka flying.
It made him roll a few times on the ground.
Howl~
Although they didn't know why the Pangolin would make a wolf howl, Ibara Keisen and the other two were extremely serious.
"What kind of Ninjutsu is this?"
Iruka stood up, trying hard to analyze the various situations.
First, this was definitely not a Summoning Beast. From the traces of the first giant beast, it wasn't a Transformation Jutsu either.
As for Genjutsu, it couldn't cause damage to the ground.
He looked at the pit created by the Flying Bamboo Dragonfly's limb and the hole made by the Pangolin's Earth Release.
"What exactly is it?"
…
In the sky.
"Oh my, you guys cooperated well, you actually managed to defeat one of my Flying Bamboo Dragonfly!"
Satoru sat on a giant eagle, watching the battle of the three below, a smile on his lips.
In terms of performance, their cooperation ability was even better than that of protagonists like Naruto and Sasuke.
It seemed the three were also exemplary students who studied diligently at the academy.
These giant beasts were all one-time Ninja Beasts he created using the secret technique, Pupil Setting Hand.
They would disappear once their Chakra supply was cut off.
Currently, he had only developed four types of Ninja Beasts in this series.
Dragonfly, Pangolin, Giant Eagle, and a Giant Whale for underwater use.
Rumble!
Every detail of the battle below was seen by him.
Satoru was very satisfied.
Only when the three below were covered in dust by the Pangolin did he release the Ninjutsu on the Pangolin, then leaped down from the sky.
…
Huff, huff!
The three were panting heavily.
"Eh? Why did it disappear?" Ibara Keisen shook his head left and right, searching.
"It seems like something fell from the sky." Mibu Shinobi pointed to a black dot in the sunlight, which slowly grew larger in their eyes.
"Not good."
The three immediately scattered.
When they looked back, they found there was no commotion as they had imagined.
Only Satoru was smiling at them.
"Well done, you guys are quite capable!" He praised his three subordinates highly.
He gave a thumbs up.
"Captain, you almost scared us to death! I thought another big monster was falling from the sky!" Mibu Shinobi patted his chest.
The two giant beasts just now had terrified him; he was afraid another one would appear.
Iruka: "Captain, was that Summoning Jutsu just now?"
"That was Genjutsu."
"Eh? Genjutsu?"
The three were surprised, their faces full of disbelief. Genjutsu wasn't like that, and how did they fall for the Genjutsu?
Flying Bamboo Dragonfly took out a Flying Bamboo Dragonfly figurine, which was exactly how the giant beast had looked, and smiled: "I'll teach you your first lesson: never be deceived by appearances.
This Genjutsu belongs to a type of realistic Genjutsu. When a sentient being falls for it, this Genjutsu will become real, which is why it could cause damage to the terrain just now.
In other words, the moment you saw this Flying Bamboo Dragonfly, it became a real giant beast."
"But we didn't see it just now, and the giant beast appeared already, didn't it?" Iruka said.
"But I saw it." Satoru pointed to himself.
The three also understood. Good heavens, you fell for the Genjutsu, why do we have to pay for it?
At the same time, their eyes lit up. That move just now was very cool, they wondered if they could learn it.
They looked at Satoru with intense gazes.
"Why are you looking at me like that, do you want to learn?"
"Mm-hmm." The three nodded like chicks pecking at rice.
"This Ninjutsu is very difficult, so if you want to learn it, work hard. I will teach you seriously." Satoru promised.
But whether they could learn it, he couldn't guarantee, after all, it took him over a year to complete the four mature types.
The difficulty of creation and the difficulty of learning are actually not very far apart.
With the talents of the three, he didn't expect them to learn it.
"Yay!"
The three jumped up, seemingly not worried about the difficulty.
"Alright, now let's follow Konoha tradition, first introduce ourselves, then take a photo, and then I'll take you to a big meal."
Satoru looked at their happy faces with a smile.
"I'll go first, I am Ibara Keisen, my dream is to become Konoha's greatest Ninja Tool master, and I like to eat ramen."
"I am Iruka Umino, my dream is to teach and educate people, to cultivate talent for Konoha, and I also like to eat ramen."
"I am Mibu Shinobi, my dream is to join the Torture and Interrogation Unit, my idol is Senior Ibiki, and I like to eat yakiniku."
"I am Satoru, my dream is to live an ordinary life, have two children with my wife, one boy and one girl, then watch them grow up, have their own children, and then take care of my grandchildren."
Click!
Finally, the four took a photo.
Satoru stood behind, his hands on the heads of Ibara Keisen and Iruka, while Mibu Shinobi stood in the middle with his arms crossed.