I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 716 Parents must unite in their educational approach, otherwise they will raise unruly children.

"It's Shisui's Body Flicker! Retreat!"

In the rainforest, Qing merely glanced at them with his Byakugan before ordering them to turn and run without hesitation. Shisui, who had landed some distance away, frowned, a hint of annoyance on his face.

"Damn, he really has keen insight. The ambush didn't work, and I can't catch up with him by myself. After the Byakugan was closed, I couldn't find any trace of him."

If I could also learn the Flying Thunder God Technique, I could spread out spells throughout the Land of Water to achieve all-round interception. Unfortunately, this is a task assigned to me by my teacher, and I cannot ask anyone else for help.

If I don't have the Flying Thunder God Technique, then I'll have to find another way. I need to find a way to make him lose his ability to react the moment he sees me.

"Transcription seal combined with illusion magic might be possible, but my illusion magic isn't strong enough to control the time long enough for me to cross that distance."

As he pondered, Shisui raised his hand and touched his lower eyelid. His three-tomoe Sharingan was slowly rotating. Shisui understood that only the Sharingan could break through the impasse and complete this mission.

However, the conditions for advancing to the Sharingan are too demanding. At his current age, twelve years old, most Uchiha have not even awakened their Sharingan by that age, let alone advanced it to the Mangekyou Sharingan.

The war between Konoha and Kirigakure has lasted for two years. However, this time it is not on the scale of the Fourth Shinobi World War, but rather a small-scale infiltration war.

Of course, this was a one-sided infiltration by Konoha against the Land of Water. Kirigakure could only block it and had no ability to launch a counterattack.

It was more like a skirmish than a war. Both sides tacitly kept the scope under control. Konoha wouldn't push Kirigakure too far, and Kirigakure wouldn't resort to desperate measures.

It seems that Konoha has been in the lead, but Kirigakure has also unearthed many geniuses during this time and is said to have formed a new Seven Ninja Swordsmen, a Seven Ninja Swordsmen without ninja swords.

Even while the two sides were fighting, trade did not stop. Of course, it was common for Konoha to plunder Kirigakure's supplies and for Kirigakure to plunder Konoha's trade funds, which was also the best medium to start a war.

"It seems I need to find some time to consult with Brother Tianfeng and Brother Obito, especially Brother Obito. He awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan two years ago when the war resumed, and he's only two years older than me now."

After making his decision, Shisui blinked, his pupils turning from blood red back to dark. At that moment, a panting sound rang out, along with a slightly uncontrolled thud as he landed.

"Hey Zhishui-ge, how's it going? Did you manage to win him over?"

A boy with very smooth hair looked at Shisui with anticipation. His clothes had the same fan logo as Shisui's.

"No, the enemy is still too cautious. You didn't encounter any danger on your way here, did you, Itachi?"

Shisui's furrowed brows and slightly annoyed expression disappeared, replaced by a friendly older brother smile. He looked at Itachi and asked, "No, by then the enemies had already been killed by you, Shisui-nii. I could only search their bodies."

This is what I found in them.

As he spoke, Itachi opened his backpack and showed it to Shisui. Shisui glanced at it, nodded, and said, "Not bad, but remember not to collect explosive tags in the future."

After disposing of the body, place the explosive tags where they were. I've taught you how; mark the spot. This way, the Mist Ninja can ambush them when they come to collect the body, and it also prevents the Konoha ninja from walking into a trap set by their own people.

"OK."

Itachi nodded. He hadn't forgotten Shisui's instructions, but Shisui had suddenly changed direction and "abandoned" him on the way, which made him a little worried. He followed along the way, not daring to waste too much time.

Furthermore, he feared that if too much time was wasted, the traces left by Shisui might be covered up, making it impossible for him to catch up with Shisui.

"Let's end this mission here. We've exceeded our expectations, and it's time to go back to the village, get some rest, and process what we've been through."

Shisui didn't emphasize it too much. He knew that Itachi's talent was very high, even no less than his own. It's just that unlike him, Itachi didn't have the pressure of the Fourth Shinobi World War from the time he could remember.

"Um, Zhishui-ge, I want to discuss something with you."

Itachi nodded first, then spoke with some difficulty. Shisui paused for a moment, then said, "Just say it, there's no need to be so polite."

"Next time we're on a mission, could you let me fight a Chunin? I know my father must have told you something, but I feel I should be able to take on more responsibility."

Upon hearing this, Shisui smiled and nodded. Before setting off, Fugaku had indeed repeatedly instructed him on this matter. However, after observing the situation for some time, Shisui felt that Itachi was not as fragile as Fugaku had worried.

It's certainly appropriate to engage with threatening enemies now. After all, with Itachi's exceptional talent, he shouldn't be trained into a ninja who only knows how to defeat enemies weaker than himself.

Seeing that Shisui agreed so readily, Itachi was somewhat surprised. Many of the words he had prepared were now useless, but he was still very happy.

"Let's go, Lord Minato should be waiting."

Shisui took out a pocket watch that combined a timer and a compass from his vest pocket, glanced at it, then looked at Itachi. Seeing that Itachi was breathing evenly, he spoke.

Itachi nodded, and as Shisui turned around, he gently pounded his aching thigh, then tried his best to keep up with Shisui's pace.

Inside a secret camp, a number of people had already gathered, exchanging information about what they had gained from the mission, while Minato was compiling statistics in a notebook.

"One four-man squad and one three-man squad have been lost."

As for Shisui and Itachi, who had not yet returned, he did not include them at all. After all, he trusted Shisui quite a bit. There were many ninjas in Kirigakure stronger than Shisui, but only a handful could kill him.

For example, the Mizukage Yagura, but those people are all under Konoha's surveillance, so Minato will know immediately if they make any moves.

As long as it's not one of those few people, Zhishui's life is safe. As for why he hasn't returned yet, it's probably because he's too punctual. Every time he goes on a mission, he tries to maximize the mission time.

Everyone else would arrive at the camp half a day or a day in advance to wait, but Shisui always returned to the camp at the appointed time. He also had the most missions completed among his batch of ninjas.

As expected, with less than ten minutes left before the deadline, Minato sensed Shisui's chakra. After waiting a while, he carried the exhausted Itachi back to the camp.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"Are you alright?"

Minato shook his head dismissively, then looked at Itachi on Shisui's back. Shisui smiled and said, "Itachi seems gentle, but his competitiveness rivals that of our teacher. He didn't stop until he was exhausted."

Shisui had actually noticed long ago that Itachi was running out of energy and had been waiting for Itachi to suggest taking a rest, but it never happened.

Minato took Itachi from Shisui's back, checked him over, and after confirming that he was just exhausted, nodded and said, "It's good to go back and get some rest. Let's go back now."

"Thank you for your help."

At this moment, the others also gathered around, and Minato skillfully put his arm around Itachi's back, forming a hand seal with one hand and placing the other hand on Shisui's body.

The almost imperceptible Nine-Tails chakra quickly connected everyone, activating the group Flying Thunder God Technique.

People thought this was Minato's new development of the Flying Thunder God Technique, unaware that he had borrowed the power of the Nine-Tails. This was partly due to the good secrecy, and partly due to Minato's increasingly proficient use of the Nine-Tails' chakra.

With a flash of golden light, Minato led everyone back to Konoha. He gently placed Itachi on his back onto a seat, then looked at Shisui and said, "Shisui, you take charge of arranging the handover. I'll go to the Hokage Building to submit the mission."

"Okay, this is my mission log for this time."

Shisui handed a scroll to Minato, and the others did the same. After putting away everyone's mission logs, Minato disappeared.

After finishing the task submission, Minato, as usual, went to the Hokage's office, knocked on the door, and heard a familiar voice.

"I've finished processing these files. Could you handle these others? You have the necessary permissions."

"While I don't mind serving the village, Tatsuma, don't you think you're going too far? I've missed Kyu's dinner three times this week, and she suspects I'm disgusted by her cooking."

Jokingly, Minato handed the integrated mission log to Tatsuma. Tatsuma opened it and looked at it, saying, "Recently, I have a technique that I've been developing to a critical point, and I've been focusing all my energy on it."

"Once I'm done with this busy period, I'll personally visit Kushina to explain things, and also to see Naruto."

"Okay, Naruto often thinks about you too."

Minato smiled, and Tatsuma looked up from the documents, giving Minato a strange look, and said, "Thinking of me? You should be cursing me, I've been sneezing a lot lately."

"Haha, the gift you gave him has kept him from going out to play with other children for a long time."

Recalling the workbook gift Naruto received, which could cover the entire bed, Minato's face showed a gloating smile, as if he was very relieved that his son had been "punished".

That's pretty much the truth. After all, Naruto is always getting into trouble. When he goes to the park, he breaks the park's facilities. When he shares toys with other children, he breaks the toys too.

He smashed the Nara family's chessboard, ate the Akimichi family's snacks, stole the Yamanaka family's flowers, and bullied every single one of his peers he could.

For a while, after Minato finished get off work and had dinner, he would have to bring gifts to apologize to people. Later, Shikaku and others complained to Tatsuma, so Tatsuma brought Naruto a "gift".

It's strange, but Naruto wasn't afraid of his father, Minato, and only briefly feared his mother, Kushina. Yet, he was terrified of Tatsuma.

Minato even asked Tatsuma, a bachelor, for advice on raising children. Tatsuma's answer was: for small mistakes, play the little bird; for big mistakes, sit in the same room with the child and remain silent.

Unfortunately, Minato couldn't use this method. If he made a mistake, he couldn't bring himself to do it. If he made a big mistake, as soon as he put on a fierce face, Naruto would run to Kushina to complain that his father had scared him.

As soon as Naruto opens his mouth, even if Kushina has already prepared him mentally, she will forget Naruto's mistakes and start blaming Minato for his own.

The couple couldn't agree on how to raise their child, which frustrated Minato. So, he simply outsourced the work to Tatsuma, since Tatsuma wouldn't be as submissive to Kushina as he was, and Naruto wouldn't dare to complain.

"The hard work before the start is far more effective than the desperate effort after the start. He will thank me later."

Tatsuma signed and stamped the document, feeling no psychological pressure about delivering the workbook to Naruto. After all, he wasn't really trying to ruin a child's childhood; homework was just another part of a colorful life.

After placing the files into the pile that had already been processed, Tatsuma stretched and said, "I need to continue my research. Remember to process these files."

"Um."

Minato nodded, then casually asked, "You seem to have been researching this new technique for the past two years, right? Is it difficult?"

"Indeed, it's more difficult than any technique I've ever learned or developed, but fortunately, things are gradually becoming clearer."

Upon hearing this, Minato asked curiously, "Will this technique ever be witnessed by others?"

As a close friend and the Hokage's assistant, Minato knew that Tatsuma possessed some shady techniques, but even those forbidden techniques hadn't required Tatsuma to expend so much time and energy.

This made him very interested in the technique that Tatsuma was currently developing. What kind of technique could deserve such treatment?

Moreover, Minato knew almost without thinking that this was another forbidden technique. Of course, forbidden techniques can be either visible or invisible.

The Multiple Shadow Clone Technique is a forbidden technique that can be seen in public, while the Impure World Reincarnation is something that cannot be seen in public. Minato guessed that it was probably the latter. However, it is a technique that cannot be seen in public, yet it has involved so much of Tatsuma's energy. Minato was really curious about its effects, functions, and uses.

"I guess I'll never get to see this ninja world."

Tatsuma's answer was somewhat strange. Minato pursed his lips, becoming even more curious, but he didn't continue to ask. He simply said, "Then I wish you success in developing it soon. After all, I don't want to work overtime every day."

"Soon."

After saying that, Tatsuma stood up and left the Hokage's office without saying goodbye or giving any special instructions. After all, his friendship with Minato had reached a point where there was no need for formalities or ceremonies.

Minato also showed no "politeness" by sitting directly in Tatsuma's seat and immediately began to review the documents that had not yet been processed.

After leaving his office, Tatsuma went to the room where he kept the scrolls. He had even converted it into a study. On the long and wide table, there were all kinds of notes that Tatsuma had taken over the past two years.

Opening the notebook placed in the middle, he wrote down some information such as dates and number of experiments, then picked up the voice recorder next to him and said:

"The anti-anchor time-space experiment, the twenty-ninth test further optimized the reverse spirit communication technique and added a part of the dragon vein sealing technique structure."

If my prediction is correct, even without directly using the dragon vein, I can still open a "window" through it. In that case, the Flying Thunder God Technique seal I left behind should be able to reflect my chakra wave.

"By simply transferring a portion of my Yin-Yang Release chakra there, you can provide me with another vessel, eliminating the need for me to risk traversing time and space 'personally.'"

Releasing the button, Tatsuma drew the new technique he had conceived in his mind onto his notebook, and then began to adjust the chakra within his body.

He has mastered the Impure World Reincarnation technique and can even use Yin-Yang Escape to replace the sacrificial offerings and directly complete the reincarnation.

He had mastered time travel, but he wasn't satisfied because he didn't plan to leave the ninja world. So he needed to anchor himself in time travel, create a body with chakra, and then have his soul summoned to that location.

He also overcame the challenge of leaving a summoning technique mark on his own soul. In this way, even if he travels to other dimensions and suffers a fatal attack, his soul will return to this ninja world as if the summoning has ended.

The only challenge now is integrating these challenges, but Tatsuma's sudden premonition tells him that perhaps today is the day.

"After the Ninja World version of Severing the Three Corpses, I've now developed the Ninja World version of Paranoid Freedom."

The technique was drawn, chakra was inputted, and the technique seemed to come alive and slowly move. Far away in the Loulan Kingdom, the dragon vein was pumping like an artery.

Faintly, Tatsuma seemed to sense a ruin.

"Is it still the same? Hopefully, the frog in the well will jump out."

On a broken wall, the three characters "Lake Toya" faintly appeared, so dense that one could see chakra slowly outlining them, seemingly in the shape of a human body, with some cells appearing out of thin air and rapidly dividing to fill the framework.

A voice echoed above the ruins.

How many flights of stairs do you have to carry a bag of rice up?

Just one more day shorter, and sure enough, misfortunes never come singly; the first humid season of the new year has arrived, and the bed feels damp, affecting my rest.

(End of this chapter)