I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 72. A person who ignores you may be incredibly docile in front of others.

After venting his anger, Gamabunta glared at Minato and denied it again, saying, "How could that be?! With the chakra in his body, there's no way he could summon me!"

The live slug also leaned down slightly. She was more perceptive and could sense that the one who was communicating with her was this boy whose hair color looked pleasing to the eye.

"That's really impressive. But it seems like you don't have that much chakra in your body either."

Tatsuma and Minato exchanged a bewildered glance. Tsunade had just told them to use their chakra boldly, and they hadn't expected to use the Summoning Jutsu, which almost crushed them to death.

As for what Gamabunta and Katsuyu said about their insufficient chakra to summon them, Tatsuma and Minato were unaware of that.

At this moment, Mito Uzumaki, who was still sitting firmly in her seat, guessed: "I think I understand the reason now. Tobirama also had a guess in the early years."

The so-called Summoning Technique is essentially a technique created to compensate for the fact that most ninjas do not possess space-time talent. This technique, including the sealing scroll, also compensates for this deficiency.

However, his conjecture was not confirmed, because before Tobirama, almost no one had standardized the definition of space-time talent and ninjutsu; it was just his conjecture.

However, it seems that it is because you two possess the space-time talent that Tobirama mentioned that your use of summoning techniques is like watering plants on a rainy day.

The chakra you expend is like the water used for irrigation, but your space-time talent is like rainwater. You don't need to expend the same amount of chakra as ordinary people to achieve better summoning results.

Mito Uzumaki's conjecture made the group and their two summoning beasts start to ponder. Mito Uzumaki seemed to have a point, but they had never heard of such a theory before.

Tsunade frowned and said, "If we follow Second Grandfather's idea, wouldn't that mean the two of them could summon summoning beasts without using summoning techniques in the future?"

"Who knows? Tobirama never managed to do that in his entire life, after all, there are very few techniques related to space and time in the ninja world."

Even if we strictly follow Tobirama's definition of space-time ninjutsu, the only ninjutsu in the ninja world that can be called space-time ninjutsu are the Flying Thunder God Technique that he developed and the Heavenly Delivery Technique of Kumogakure.

Of course, his definition was far too strict. In my opinion, both spirit communication and sealing techniques actually contain knowledge of space and time; it's just that no one has bothered to extract and organize it.

Mito Uzumaki waved her hand, stopping herself from speaking too late, as things had already strayed from today's topic. She quickly steered the conversation back on track, saying:

"However, I have not studied Tobirama's techniques, nor have I had much contact with the three holy lands. You two, as his teachers, should ask the immortals of the holy lands when you have time, and see if they know the reason."

Let me introduce you two now.

As she spoke, Mito Uzumaki stood up from her seat. Bunta, who had been looking domineering, suddenly trembled in his pipe and involuntarily took half a step back.

He didn't know why, but he panicked nonetheless.

Mito Uzumaki raised her hand and pressed down, as if soothing a child, calming Bunta down. However, the domineering and arrogant look on her face also subsided considerably.

Seeing that Bunta's attitude had softened, Mito Uzumaki pointed to Minato and said, "This is Minato Namikaze, Jiraiya's disciple. He's a very good kid."

If he needs your help in the future, I hope you can put in the effort. Thank you.

Gamabunta nodded involuntarily, his mind racing. There weren't many enemies who could instill such instinctive fear in him; among the enemies in Konoha, only a handful could.

He quickly realized the identity of the elderly human woman in front of him and hurriedly said, "No problem! From now on, he'll be my little brother, and I'll definitely help him if he needs anything."

Jiraiya's eyes widened, his swollen eyelids from the hangover unable to conceal the shock in his eyes. Back then, Bunta's attitude was never this good.

Even now, Bunta can leave whenever he wants and scold him whenever he wants. Why is Bunta's attitude so good now that he has a different contractor?

His mind, still slurred with intoxication, was completely unable to comprehend that Bunta didn't acknowledge Minato, but simply dared not offend Mito Uzumaki.

After explaining things to Bunta, Mito Uzumaki looked at Katsuyu and said, "Katsuyu, let me introduce you. This is Tatsuma Sakamoto, Tsunade's disciple, and a good boy."

However, like Tsunade, she doesn't really take care of her body. Please take good care of her from now on.

"Of course, please take care of me, Sakamoto Tatsuma, from now on."

The slug lowered its body again, touched Tatsuma's outstretched hand with its antennae, and then raised itself up. Mito Uzumaki smiled and nodded in satisfaction, saying to the slug and Bunta:

"Thank you both for making the trip. I've forgotten what to prepare to entertain you. Next time Tsunade and Jiraiya visit Shikkotsu Forest and Mount Myōboku, I'll have them bring some gifts with them."

Although Mito Uzumaki's words were very pleasant, they were clearly meant to see him off. Gamabunta nodded, vanished in a puff of smoke, and Katsuyu glanced at Tatsuma and said:

"Please be sure to call me if you need help in the future."

After saying that, she turned into a wisp of smoke and returned to the Wet Bone Forest.

The moment the summoning was broken, Tatsuma always had a strange feeling, as if he had suddenly remembered a delicious food he had eaten as a child, but he couldn't recall the taste or what it was.

With the summoning beast matter settled, Mito Uzumaki didn't arrange anything else. Tsunade and Jiraiya went back to their rooms to sleep, while Tatsuma and Minato took stock of their spoils once more.

Find out the ones you can learn soon, and then sort and store the rest according to their difficulty. Tatsuma looked at the chakra short sword that Hatake Sakumo had given him and wondered if he should also learn swordsmanship.

However, no one taught him swordsmanship. His current teacher is Tsunade. He might be able to get answers by asking her about taijutsu, but not swordsmanship, since she has superhuman strength and doesn't need to learn it.

Jiraiya is a turret, highly skilled in ninjutsu, but he's not particularly good at taijutsu, let alone swordsmanship.

After thinking it over, Tatsuma decided to store the sword in the sealing scroll and take it out when he had the chance later. There was no need to waste his energy learning it now.

After the inventory was completed, it was getting late. Kushina, who had been out playing all day, and Nawaki, who had left in the morning, returned. It was almost dinnertime, and Tatsuma, instead of continuing his studies, looked at Minato, who had also finished organizing the gifts, and asked:

"Minato, what are your plans for the next step?"

Minato thought for a moment and said, "It should be following the teacher out of the village on a mission, right? I still don't have enough real combat experience; I need to practice more. What about you?"

Tatsuma looked at the room where Tsunade was and said, "The teacher hasn't made any arrangements yet, but according to my guess, since the teacher hasn't carried out any missions for a whole year, the village should assign her some not-too-difficult tasks to try her out."

But she said she'll be going to the border soon, and I don't know if she'll take me with her.

"border."

Given Minato's intelligence and the worry on Tatsuma's face, he guessed something. Although neither of them knew what was about to happen at the border, it was definitely not simple.

"Good luck, Tatsuma. I'll win spectacularly next time we meet."

Minato smiled, and Tatsuma extended his fist. Tatsuma also concealed the thoughtfulness and worry on his face, exchanged fist bumps with Minato, and said:

"As expected of you, Minato, still so confident. But I'll still win next time."

(End of this chapter)