Naruto: Random Flying Thunder God Technique? Intercepting the Dark-Dark Fruit

Shiranui Sho could foresee that if he refused the Third Hokage's arrangement, he probably wouldn't have another chance to look at the Scroll of Seals until Minato became Hokage.

But if he agrees to follow the higher-ups' arrangements, then in addition to the Flying Thunder God Technique that he copied down not long ago, he might also learn a second or third ninjutsu from the Book of Sealing.

For someone who came from a commoner background and had no secret techniques or bloodline limits to inherit, this was an irresistible temptation.

"Then I'll relay the old man's arrangements for you."

Jiraiya first looked at Minato Namikaze.

"Minato, it's graduation season at the Ninja Academy again. A group of students will become genin and face the cruelty of the ninja world."

"Your assignment is to become a Jonin leader, responsible for guiding the three Genin graduating this year until one of them is promoted to Chunin."

According to Konoha's rules, the Jonin leading the team first instructs three Genin. When one of the three Genin is promoted to Chunin, the Jonin leading the team automatically leaves the team, and the newly promoted Chunin takes over the position of team leader.

"Me, the Jonin leading the team?" Minato Namikaze's eyes widened slightly.

Counting the years on his fingers, he was still less than a handful away from graduating from the ninja academy.

Is it really okay to switch from being a student to being a teacher leading a team?

Jiraiya didn't say anything, but just looked at him quietly with encouraging eyes.

"……All right."

Receiving such a gaze, Minato's gaze gradually hardened, and he nodded solemnly, saying, "I agree, Jiraiya-sensei!"

"Good!" Jiraiya smiled with satisfaction, then looked at Shiranui Sho.

His expression was even more solemn than before, and he said, word by word, "Xiao, your arrangement is... to join the Dark Division!"

The Anbu, short for Assassination Tactics Special Forces, is an organization established during the time of the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.

As its name suggests, its members mostly engage in shady missions.

Being a ninja is not a profession that embodies truth, goodness, and beauty.

The Dark Side is a place where the darkness of an entire village converges.

Whether someone is suited to working in the shadows depends entirely on the individual.

Jiraiya believed he absolutely could not stay in that place, but his friend and fellow disciple Orochimaru was perfectly suited to it.

Of his two disciples, he felt that Xiao's personality might be more suitable for the Anbu than that of Minato.

He could feel that he, as a student, was always carrying some kind of pressure, as if something was constantly driving him forward.

Xiao appears calm and gentle, but there is no doubt that his underlying personality contains a touch of madness.

His frenzied behavior when cornered on the battlefield would frighten even some opponents far stronger than him.

Joining the Dark Side had both advantages and disadvantages for him.

They may make rapid progress under pressure and master the power to relieve the pressure on their shoulders.

They may also be crushed, gradually sinking into the abyss in the dark atmosphere of the shadows.

Even he, as a teacher, was unsure whether the advantages outweighed the disadvantages of this choice.

Therefore, Jiraiya did not have a pre-set option from the beginning, unlike when he hoped that Minato would agree to become a Jonin instructor.

He truly handed the choice over to Shiranui Sho.

Whether or not Xiao agrees, no one in Konoha can force the will of Jiraiya's student!

He is a hero by nature, and he has the confidence to back it up!

"The Dark Guard, just what I need!"

Shiranui Sho was taken aback at first, then grinned and accepted the arrangement without hesitation.

Chapter 20 The Beautiful Red Figure Outside the Door

"I never imagined that Xiao, you actually learned the Flying Thunder God Technique. That's amazing!"

Jiraiya stroked his chin thoughtfully and couldn't help but sigh.

Back then, he thought he had a head of white hair and was quite capable of being like the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, and could certainly be a master of space-time ninjutsu.

Unfortunately, the Flying Thunder God technique requires spatial awareness, not hair color.

Finally, he regretfully destroyed the Flying Thunder God Technique that he had copied from the Book of Seals.

"Minato, you need to step up your game too. You've fallen behind this time." Jiraiya chuckled and patted Minato's shoulder hard.

He always encouraged healthy competition among his disciples.

Minato's eyes blazed with fighting spirit: "I will, Jiraiya-sensei!"

Jiraiya's gaze fell on Shiranui Sou again, hesitating as if he wanted to say something but couldn't. He was worried about pouring cold water on his disciple, and he was also worried that the effect of this random teleportation might one day cause his disciple to suffer a big setback.

Off-coordinate and random teleportation not only harms yourself but also your teammates.

If it were the former, and it were accidentally transmitted directly to the enemy's blade or a pre-set explosive tag, one might be sent to the Pure Land the moment they open their eyes.

In the latter case, what if you're in the middle of a game and suddenly you're teleported to some unknown country? Wouldn't that just be a disaster for your teammates?

Thinking of this, Jiraiya still reminded him, "Sho, your Flying Thunder God Technique is still unstable. You should think twice before using it in actual combat."

He hadn't learned the Flying Thunder God technique, so he didn't know if the random teleportation was working properly; he could only offer this reminder.

"I understand, Jiraiya-sensei," Shiranui Sho replied with a smile and a nod.

Actually, he knew this in his heart even without Jiraiya's reminder.

This "random flying Thor" is okay for everyday use.

On the battlefield, unless it's used to escape, such a move will catch the enemy off guard before they can even react.

This is also why he didn't use the Flying Thunder God technique when he was dealing with Blackbeard Teach on the Moby Dick.

If you accidentally deliver white beard to him, wouldn't that make him numb?

"Alright, there are more important tasks waiting for you later. Take a good rest these next few days."

"After all, taking a break from a busy schedule is an essential part of ninja training~"

Jiraiya propped himself up on the table and announced the end of the "Jiraiya Class" dinner with words that sounded philosophical at first but made little sense upon closer examination.

After Jiraiya paid the bill, the three of them left in different directions.

Jiraiya was going to be busy with something, and you could guess what it was from the lewd expression on his face before he left.

Minato said he wanted to go to the training ground in the afternoon to practice the Flying Thunder God Technique, and then hurriedly left after saying goodbye.

So Shiranui Sho was left alone. After hesitating for a while, she went straight home.

It was already afternoon, and the slanting sunlight stretched the shadows long.

Facing the sunlight, Shiranui Sho's dark eyes narrowed slightly, a lazy look spreading across them.

He really went through a lot this morning.

Facing off against Blackbeard head-on was no less stressful than confronting a Kage-level expert skilled in hand-to-hand combat, even though both sides were deliberately keeping quiet because of the sleeping Whitebeard.

If both sides were to engage in a head-on confrontation without any scruples, Tsuna might really need to perform major surgery on him.

Although we have safely evacuated from the sea, we have not yet fully recovered our energy.

He walked through the streets that were gradually becoming bustling in the afternoon, past children playing ninja games, and finally climbed a narrow but clean staircase, stopping in front of his own door.

After entering the house and changing into slippers, Shiranui Sho rested on the sofa with her left arm behind her dark purple hair.

He raised his right hand and held it in mid-air, his slender fingers forming a claw.

With a thought, a dark and profound aura emanated from his palm, and the previously clearly visible palm emblem turned yellow and then...

It started as a wisp of black smoke, but quickly expanded to the size of a millstone, and was still expanding at a visible rate.

Crackle crackle—

The tables and chairs not far away, along with the water glasses and other objects on them, trembled and creaked, unable to resist the pull of the darkness.

The clock hanging on the wall began to shake violently, trying to break free from its embrace of the floor.

A small flying insect, which had somehow slipped into the room through a crack, sensed something was wrong and desperately tried to escape into the darkness.

But in the end, the poor little life could not escape the pull of gravity and was crushed into dust in the darkness.

Seeing this, Shiranui Sho quickly put away the Devil Fruit power in her hand, and the strange noise in the room disappeared.

Seeing that she could control the fruit's power fairly smoothly, Shiranui Sho finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This is also why he didn't rashly test the Dark-Dark Fruit ability at Minato Namikaze's house.

Having just acquired the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, he hasn't fully adapted yet. If he accidentally turns Minato's good friend's house into ruins, it would be a huge sin.

It seems that he has adapted to the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit quite well now. His next training must focus on mastering the fruit's power!

Next up is the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Thinking of this, Shiranui Sho's eyes burned with barely concealed fervor.

Compared to the Dark-Dark Fruit, he was more concerned about his SS-rank ninjutsu, "Random Flying Thunder God".

After all, he was able to snatch the Hidden Fruit from Teach thanks to the "Random Thunder God" ability that allowed him to traverse the world.

Random transmission is not a good thing.

But it would be amazing if we could be randomly teleported to other worlds!

However, Shiranui Sho hasn't figured out yet how to activate the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to other worlds, or whether there are any replicable conditions.

Practice makes perfect.

Just as he felt he had rested enough and was about to activate Flying Thunder God again to try and reach Haijilan Iron, the noise from outside the door made him stop.

Through the door, he could vaguely hear the girl's slightly coquettish murmur coming from outside.

"Oh no, I can't quite remember the address Tsunade gave me."

"Is it this way, or next door...?"

Along with the voices, one could also faintly hear the sound of pacing back and forth.

"Ah, never mind, let's knock on the door and see what happens."

dong dong dong-

As soon as the girl finished speaking, the sound of knocking on Shiranui Sho's brown wooden door rang out.

"This voice sounds familiar, but..."

Perhaps the door was obstructing the sound, causing it to sound slightly different from the original. In any case, Shiranui Sou couldn't recall who was speaking outside the door for the time being.

Thinking about it carefully, he realized that he had made many colleagues over the years as a ninja. Although he couldn't say they were close friends, there were quite a few people he could talk to.

Upon reaching the entrance and opening the door, the striking red figure that came into view startled him.

Chapter 21 Kushina: Xiao-kun, are you sick?

The girl outside the door had long, smooth, thick red hair that reached her waist. The ends of her hair swayed gently in the breeze, like a burning fire.

The Konoha forehead protector was worn neatly on the forehead, with a strand of red hair pinned to the left side by a black hair clip, which also conveniently covered a small part of the forehead protector.

The girl had a small, delicate oval face, and wore a dress with purple stripes on the hem, and a simple dark green pleated skirt on the bottom.

Bathed in the afternoon sunlight, the girl's slender, shapely arms outside her short-sleeved shirt and her fair, smooth thighs beneath her short pleated skirt glowed white.

As the door opened, revealing the boy's face, the girl blinked her bright eyes, a complex mix of worry and joy flashing across them.

"Great, I didn't knock on the wrong door!"

"Good afternoon, Xiao!"

The girl gave a slightly naive smile, her big, round, black eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and she clenched her small hands, which were carrying a basket of things, a little tighter.

"Kushina... classmate?"

Shiranui Sho's gaze swept over the girl, finally settling on her hands, which were carrying a basket of things.

If I'm not mistaken, this should be a vegetable basket that every housewife in Konoha Village has. It's sold everywhere in the market and is of good quality and inexpensive.

A vegetable basket, of course, is used to hold vegetables.