Early the next morning, as soon as Tsunade left the house, Nawaki couldn't wait to sidle up to Minato.
"Minato—"
Nawaki looked at Minato eagerly, putting on a pitiful expression.
"I know, I know..."
Minato smiled and led Nawaki to the yard.
Then he clapped his hands together, and a wooden stump as thick as a washbasin rose out of the ground in front of him.
Minato extended his right hand in front of Nawaki. "Watch carefully!"
As soon as he finished speaking, chaotic chakra currents gathered in his palm, spinning at high speed until they condensed into a high-density chakra sphere!
The high-density chakra whipped up a wild airflow, messing up their hair.
"Such strong chakra!"
Nawaki's eyes sparkled. "What's this move called?"
"Rasengan!"
Minato said, turning and slamming the Rasengan into the wooden stump.
Bang!
The moment the Rasengan touched the stump, it blasted a large spherical hole into it.
"So amazing..."
Nawaki stared blankly at the hole in the stump, lost in thought.
Then he couldn't suppress his excitement. "Let's start training right now!"
"Wait a moment."
Minato raised his hand gently, signaling Nawaki to calm down. "Before that, we need to test your chakra control level."
"Tell me! What should I do?" Nawaki asked eagerly.
"Like this..."
Minato clapped his hands, and the broken stump shot up over ten meters, branching out at the top into a straight tree.
Then Minato stepped onto the trunk and walked up to the top step by step, as if walking on flat ground.
"Distribute chakra evenly on the soles of your feet to balance your body weight, and you can stick to walls and walk freely."
"Yosh! Watch me!"
Nawaki stepped back a few paces and charged excitedly at the tree trunk.
Thud, thud, thud. He took three steps.
Before he could celebrate, his foot slipped, and the back of his head slammed toward the ground.
Whoosh—
Minato had anticipated Nawaki's mistake.
He appeared instantly below Nawaki, catching him steadily.
"Damn it, I messed up!"
Nawaki looked annoyed, especially feeling ashamed at being caught by Minato in a princess carry.
"Take your time, no rush."
Minato comforted him with a smile. "I have a method that should help you master tree climbing quickly."
"What is it?" Nawaki asked impatiently.
Minato placed his hand on the trunk and extended a bowl-thick branch two and a half meters above their heads.
"You should be able to reach this height easily."
Minato jumped up, grabbed the branch, and placed his feet on the trunk.
"You can hold the branch and continuously adjust the chakra output under your feet. Getting used to it this way a few times should be more effective than blindly rushing up."
Seeing this, Nawaki laughed. "Minato, you look like a koala!"
Snap!
Minato broke the branch off, looking regretful. "Since you don't like this method..."
"No, no, no! Lord Minato, I love this training method the most!"
Nawaki panicked immediately. As Minato jumped down from the tree, he hugged Minato's thigh.
Minato smiled, tapped the trunk gently, and grew another branch.
Nawaki jumped up, grabbed the branch, and stuck his feet to the trunk.
Seeing this, the corner of Minato's mouth curled up. He formed hand seals. "Earth Style: Earth Spears!"
Clack, clack, clack...
Sharp Earth Style spikes suddenly grew out around the tree trunk!
"Eh?"
Nawaki, hugging the tree, turned pale seeing this. "Minato, you..."
"It is said that many powerful ninjas broke through their limits in moments of life and death."
Minato said seriously, "I think it makes sense. Nawaki, you are the man who will become Hokage. If you don't push yourself, how will you know how much potential you have?"
"That's it. I'm going grocery shopping. Good luck~"
With that, Minato used the Body Flicker Jutsu and vanished.
Seeing Minato leave, Nawaki panicked.
"Chotto matte!"
"Minato, come back! I won't laugh at you anymore! I was wrong!"
"Hey! Help! Someone come quickly—"
Listening to Nawaki's cries for help, Minato smiled very brightly.
Of course, he wouldn't joke with Nawaki's life. Those earth spears were just mud sculptures for show, mainly for psychological pressure. In reality, they would break at a touch and collapse in two minutes.
In the yard, Nawaki clung trembling to the branch, looking at the sharp earth spears below, swallowing involuntarily.
Maybe due to psychological factors, his arms holding the branch felt increasingly sore, and his palms were sweaty.
"Minato, I was wrong. Please let me down."
Nawaki shouted pitifully at a clone not far away.
The Wood Clone glanced at him. "You got the wrong person. I'm just an ordinary clone."
Nawaki laughed dryly. "Then, Big Brother Clone..."
"Who are you calling 'clone'? Don't I deserve a name? You're so annoying!"
The clone huffed and turned away. Several clones laughed.
"AAAAHHH! Minato Namikaze, you bastard!!!"
Just as he was shouting, a gust of wind blew, and the earth spears below collapsed silently like melted ice cream.
"Eh? Fake?"
Noticing this, Nawaki realized he had been tricked, and his face turned bright red.
"Damn it, that black-bellied guy!"
"The naturally evil Minato Namikaze!"
"Damn it! Ahhhh!"
Two hours later, Minato returned from grocery shopping.
As soon as he entered the house, Nawaki suddenly descended from the sky and punched him in the forehead.
"Gotcha! Hah! This is the price for teasing me!"
Just as he finished speaking, the Minato in front of him exploded with a poof and turned into a wooden log.
"Replacement?"
Surprise flashed in Nawaki's eyes, and suddenly a popsicle was held against his neck.
"Alright, KO!"
Minato had appeared behind Nawaki at some point, his tone carrying a hint of a smile.
"As expected, the gap in strength isn't that easy to close..."
Nawaki took the popsicle, sounding not surprised but rather triumphant.
"Tree climbing... I've mastered it!"
"Awesome!"
Minato carried the groceries into the living room, then pointed at the small pond in the yard. "Next is water walking. Same technique, but you have to constantly adjust chakra output according to the water flow. Go ahead~"
Minato wasn't surprised Nawaki learned tree climbing so fast.
In terms of chakra control, Tsunade should be among the best in Naruto.
As Tsunade's brother, even if Nawaki's talent wasn't as outstanding as his sister's, it shouldn't be too bad.
"Again?"
Nawaki was anxious. "Can't we just learn it directly?"
"No."
Minato shook his head and explained, "Chakra has two training directions: Shape Transformation and Nature Transformation. Rasengan is the pinnacle of Shape Transformation, which will also indirectly enhance your chakra control."
"So theoretically, if you have the corresponding attribute, if you can learn Rasengan, you can learn any Ninjutsu!"
"Is that so?"
Nawaki found it hard to believe. If what Minato said was true, the value of this Jutsu was far beyond that of ordinary A-rank Jutsus!
"Then... Minato, how long did it take you to learn it?"
"If it's just pure training, it took about three months."
"Three months..." Nawaki's tone was complicated.
In that instant, he finally had a clear understanding of Minato's talent...
According to Minato, if he could master Rasengan in three months, he could learn any Ninjutsu within three months!
Minato didn't know Nawaki's thoughts. If he did, he might have explained—usually, he learned Ninjutsu just by looking at it once.
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