Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 186 The Three Ninja Beast Clans
"Second brother, I feel like I'm completely drained. Can I take a break?"

Wearing a steel helmet, Tobirama Unno was exhausted and collapsed to the ground.

"You haven't mastered the Sticky Candy Substitute Technique, and you still want to rest? Get over here now."

"Second brother, I have already learned the Sticky Candy Substitute Technique. There is no need to continue practicing it, right? It would be better to use the energy to practice the Water Candy Harvest Technique and master more and stronger secret techniques."

"With your Sticky Substitution Jutsu, you can only mitigate minor injuries from kunai and shuriken. You can't even withstand a single explosive tag. What's there to be proud of? Didn't you see that even the grandson of the God of Shinobi was killed by an explosive tag?"

Umino Sasuke wasn't going to tolerate him; he forcefully stuffed a honey pill into the little guy's mouth.

This pill is an evolved version of the honey-infused energy block. It not only contains various precious medicinal materials such as the meat of summoning beasts, royal jelly, and deer antler, but also incorporates the Yang Release chakra of the Gluttony Technique.

After taking the pills, the little guy seemed to have taken stimulants and immediately became energetic.

"Tobirama, take this!"

Seeing that Tobirama Umino had recovered, Tekukin, riding on the back of the Desert Falcon, threw out a large number of kunai and shuriken, unleashing a barrage of attacks from all directions below.

"You bastard, Tekujin, you attacked me again!"

Although Tobirama Umino tried his best to dodge, the attack was too sudden, and a shuriken still pierced his waist and back.

A clicking sound rang out.

A layer of sticky hard candy peeled off from Tobirama Umino's waist and back, and the shuriken stuck on it fell off with it.

"Luckily it wasn't a kunai, otherwise I would have bled again."

Tobirama Unno wiped away a cold sweat, feeling extremely relieved.

Although kunai are only slightly more powerful than shuriken, even with his current Nectar Substitution Jutsu, he is still not completely immune to all the damage from kunai.

These kunai shuriken are coated with a strong pain-inducing agent; once they draw blood, the sensation is quite intense.

"Teacher, I hit it! I hit it! Where's my reward?"

Tekukin jumped down and landed in front of Umino Sasuke, demanding a reward.

"Jin, I have plenty of Spirit-Nourishing Pills. Keep up the good work."

Umino Sasuke casually tossed a blood-black pill over, and Tekukin quickly caught it with both hands, treating it as a precious treasure before feeding it to his summoning beast.

"Little Red, I will definitely work hard to earn Spirit-Feeding Pills so that you can grow as big as Big White."

Shoujiujin stroked the head of the Red Desert Giant Falcon, full of fighting spirit.

Clearly, this red desert falcon is Tekukin's summon beast. Although it is not as large as Big White, it still possesses the bloodline of the desert falcon and has great potential.

The Teku family is no longer what it used to be. Since forming an alliance with the Umino and Inuzuka clans, they have stopped keeping a low profile and spent a huge sum of money to buy up all the desert giant falcons in Konoha's logistics department, intending to train them into family heirloom summoning beasts.

The Teku clan is willing to spend so much money to buy the Desert Giant Falcon because they have no other good summoning beasts to choose from. There's nothing they can do about it. Perhaps it's a genetic issue or something else, but although the Teku clan ninjas have very good chakra reserves, they are also quite large in size.

Ordinary flying summoned beasts simply cannot carry them; only large flying summoned beasts like the Desert Giant Falcon have a decent carrying capacity.

Following the example of Byakuya, the Teku clan chose the Desert Falcon as their summoning beast. In order to train these Desert Falcons, and also to win over the three Jonin of the Umino clan to support their clan's business, the Teku clan exchanged 30% of their weapon business for Umino Sasuke's help in training these Desert Falcons.

Xiao Hong from Shoujiujin is one of them.

Sasuke Umino is indeed very skilled at training the Desert Giant Falcon. The Great White is currently in its sub-bird stage and will soon reach adulthood, yet its size is already larger than that of the adult Desert Giant Falcons in Sunagakure.

However, the same batch of desert falcons from the Teku family were only past their chick stage and had just become juveniles, making them completely incapable of carrying people in flight.

Even Shoujiujin's summoned beast, Xiaohong, which had grown considerably after consuming many Spirit Feeding Pills, could only barely carry people.

The so-called Spirit Feeding Pill is not some extraordinary secret medicine passed down through generations; it is merely a beast meat energy pill infused with the Yang Release chakra of the Gluttony Technique.

The Spirit Feeding Pill is indeed very effective and extremely beneficial to the growth of summoned beasts. The only side effect is that it increases the appetite of summoned beasts.

However, for the notoriously extravagant hand-holding group, this side effect is actually a welcome advantage.

Seeing that the Teku clan's desert falcon had taken the Spirit Feeding Pill and was growing rapidly, almost changing every day, the Inuzuka clan also approached Umino Sasuke, wanting some Spirit Feeding Pills, and even went so far as to share the secret recipe for dog food medicine.

As allies, Umino Sasuke naturally wouldn't refuse them and would provide them with some every month.

Because of the existence of the Spirit Pill, the summoning beasts of the Umino, Teku, and Inuzuka clans have been trained very well, and even have a certain prestige similar to the three Konoha ninja clans.

"Beep, bark, bark~"

Seeing that Xiao Hong had eaten the Spirit-Feeding Pill, Inuzuka Jaw's ninja dog, Tachibana-maru, kept wagging its tail, acting cute and charming.

Umino Sasuke took a handful of Tachibana Pills and gave one to it as well, then instructed it to continue helping Inuzuka Jaw train its beast instincts.

Compared to training Ryo Inuzuka to specialize in the Inuzuka-style human-beast hybrid transformation ninjutsu, Sasuke Umino had higher expectations for Jaw Inuzuka.

With Inuzuka Jacques' talent, becoming an elite Jonin might not be his final goal.

Through his interactions with Inuzuka Jaw, he discovered that Inuzuka Jaw had mastered the Inuzuka-ryu family's secret techniques, which not only gave him canine abilities such as smell, hearing, and sight, but also gave him an extremely strong instinct for wild animals.

When it comes to beastly instincts, the first thing that comes to mind for Sasuke Umino is Rock Lee when he's drunk. Lee's Drunken Fist is a manifestation of this ability, and it's incredibly powerful, even unreasonable.

Besides Inuzuka Jacques, he had also seen this ability when Uchiha Shun used the kunai throwing technique.

"Itachi Uchiha and Minato Namikaze should also have this ability?"

Sasuke Unno couldn't help but speculate that the reason why Itachi Uchiha and Minato Namikaze had such strong combat talents was probably not just because of their nerve reaction speed, but they might also have similar abilities.

As his strength increased and the number of battles grew, he became more and more certain of this idea, because he discovered that he was also beginning to have this ability, and could easily dodge many attacks by relying on his combat instincts.

As combat instincts become stronger, actions often outpace thought.

Especially after the last sneak attack on Hanzo, he had a deep understanding of this.

In the moment of crisis, Hanzo actually attacked based on his combat instincts, annihilating all the shadow clones using the Spore Technique. If there hadn't been so many shadow clones, hidden so deeply, and if Hanzo hadn't lost his summoning beast Ibuki and been in a state of rage, losing all reason, then the last shadow clone might not have been able to press the Mutual Explosion Talisman onto his feet.

After being hit by the Mutual Explosion Tags, Hanzo relied on his fighting instincts to sever his own leg, thus escaping certain death.

(End of this chapter)