Konoha's Mission Master

Anyone who has watched Naruto knows that Shadow Clone Jutsu is like having a cheat code that multiplies your skill level, and importantly, the hand seals are very simple to perform.

Two o'clock in the morning.

Yakumo was still practicing the Shadow Clone Technique.

The dark circles under his eyes were very obvious, but his eyes were even brighter. He rarely had such an urgent urge to learn a certain ninjutsu.

Form hand seals and mobilize chakra.

With a bang, a flash of white smoke appeared.

Half of the chakra in his body suddenly disappeared.

Another Yakumo appeared in the bedroom…

“Finally, we succeeded…” Yakumo looked at his shadow clone, who was also looking at him with identical expressions, as if they were looking in a mirror.

"You... continue practicing the Hidden Mist Technique. I'm going to rest. Goodnight, working person," Yakumo's main body instructed his shadow clone.

At four in the morning, Yakumo was woken up by a shadow clone.

"I'm out of chakra..."

It collided and vanished on the spot.

Yakumo digested the memories of the past three hours in just a few seconds, and formed hand seals again... Before he could give any instructions, his shadow clone squatted in a corner and began practicing the Hidden Mist Technique.

Chapter 33 Chakra Level, Breakthrough!

The next day, after getting up and washing up, Yakumo ate the food prepared by his shadow clone.

After a brief thought.

After mastering Shadow Clone Technique, his proficiency increased significantly, but his lack of chakra became glaringly obvious. So he simply used the remaining gold coins to accelerate the chakra refining process.

Personal Skills

Passive: Chakra Refining Technique 'Acceleration'

Yakumo bit into the fragrant toast and pressed the speed-up button repeatedly. As the gold coins disappeared, his chakra rapidly increased, from a wisp to two wisps to a surging wave.

The chakra deep within his body was rapidly increasing, showing no signs of slowing down, while his complexion remained rosy and showed no signs of depletion.

Yakumo calmly drank his milk. After a few more minutes, his chakra stopped increasing. Yakumo casually brought up his personal information interface and checked it while drinking his hot milk.

[Personal Panel]

Name: Jing Bayun

Age: 7

Constitution: 13.4 (Endurance, Resistance, Recovery)

Strength: 12.3 (Weight, Attack, etc.)

Agility: 13.5 (Neural reaction, running speed)

Intelligence: 11.7 (learning ability, mental resilience)

Chakra: 39.6 (80 points to advance to Jonin)

Gold coins: 0

After the meal, Yakumo formed hand seals to summon his shadow clone again. The shadow clone immediately began clearing away the dishes and then sat somewhat resentfully in the corner to practice the Hidden Mist Technique.

On the other hand, Yakumo started his daily morning run, but the route was slightly changed. When he stopped, he was surprised to find that it was the same wall that Jiraiya had taken him to climb over the day before.

With a powerful leap, Yakumo skillfully completed the wall-jumping maneuver, landing perfectly at the edge of the training field. Just then, three kunai flew in a triangular formation, blocking all possible dodge positions for Yakumo.

The sound of something cutting through the air rushed in, and Yakumo immediately judged from the direction that these three kunai would only injure him, but not kill him.

The sudden attack made Yakumo instinctively reach for the ninja sword on his back, until he saw the purple-haired girl who threw out the kunai and the effeminate man watching the show from the side.

Mitarashi Anko! Orochimaru!

Yakumo forcefully suppressed his instincts and rolled sharply to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack of the three kunai.

"It's Jiraiya-sama... He told me to come here to wait for him... to learn ninjutsu!" A slightly disheveled Yakumo hurriedly shouted this. Upon hearing this, Mitarashi Anko lowered her hands and stopped forming hand seals.

"That really scared me to death..." Yakumo scratched his head, looking terrified, his face pale.

Orochimaru...why are you here?

Could it be that they have some suspicions about him?

Thinking of this, Yakumo's face turned even paler.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were Jiraiya's apprentice..." Mitarashi Anko quickly ran over.

“I almost died… I am Tsunade-sama’s apprentice… a medical ninja.”

It is well known that medical ninjas are generally weaker, and even Tsunade, one of the Legendary Sannin, is more of a support role.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Mitarashi Anko felt even more guilty upon hearing this and quickly apologized.

Not far away, Orochimaru stared thoughtfully at Yakumo with his golden eyes. Just then, Jiraiya climbed over the wall and entered... He saw Mitarashi Anko apologizing repeatedly, and after briefly learning what he had just discovered, his face turned very gloomy.

"Orochimaru, stop your pointless probing."

"I just forgot to tell Anko that Tsunade took on a disciple," Orochimaru explained calmly.

“He’s a good kid, and I don’t want him to get hurt because of your suspicion.”

"Perhaps." Orochimaru said noncommittally, gesturing for Anko to follow, and easily leaped over the wall, disappearing from Yakumo's sight in the blink of an eye.

"He... wasn't like this before..."

Jiraiya sighed softly, looking in the direction Orochimaru had left, his eyes filled with frustration.

"By the way, Yakumo, are you alright?" Jiraiya asked with concern, noticing the mud on Yakumo's clothes.

“No…” Yakumo shook his head. Although he immediately attacked Mitarashi Anko, the intruder, she was still just a child… He must have held back when he threw her.

"Orochimaru wasn't like this before..." Jiraiya repeated his words before beginning to teach Yakumo ninjutsu, with his usual patience...

From theory to practice…

Then we return from practice to theory.

Two hours later, Yakumo's attempt to form hand seals failed.

Three hours later, Yakumo was momentarily stunned. His shadow clone disappeared due to exhaustion of chakra, and his mind was filled with memories of practicing the Hidden Mist Technique.

Four hours later, Jiraiya and the exhausted Yakumo ate popsicles on the street, and Jiraiya began to recount some of his experiences during the mission.

When he talked about something interesting, he would always tilt his head back and laugh non-stop, but Yakumo discovered that Jiraiya's experiences were all related to Orochimaru and Tsunade.

"I don't know when... our ideologies began to diverge... especially Orochimaru and me... He believed that life was incredibly short and meaningless, and became... indifferent to life and death, and no longer had any pity for the weak... This has already violated the Will of Fire."

Jiraiya's expression turned somewhat inscrutable, and then he asked a question.

"What do you think, Yakumo?"

Jiraiya, who was telling the story, suddenly asked a question. His tone was as if he were asking a casual question, but it was also very much like a master asking his disciple a question when he first started learning. This question caught Yakumo off guard.

The so-called "asking the heart" refers to the master asking questions to test the disciple's character and temperament before accepting him as a disciple, in order to determine whether he can accept him as a disciple.

"What I want to do is to save every patient lying in front of me in the future."

"So what's your view on war orphans?"

"No living being should be easily taken away or controlled by anyone," Yakumo replied sincerely after a moment's thought.

"very good."

Jiraiya smiled with satisfaction. Yakumo had passed Jiraiya's final test. Although Jiraiya had a kind heart that sympathized with the weak, he was by no means simple... or rather, he possessed the vigilance towards everything that a ninja must have.

"Let's go, let's go get a free meal."

Jiraiya threw away the stick of the third popsicle and ran wildly towards the direction of Minato Namikaze's house with Yakumo in tow.

Today's speed is slightly faster than yesterday's... This is also a kind of training, which can improve his physical fitness and perseverance.

At the dinner table, Kushina and Jiraiya were at each other's throats, while Minato Namikaze smiled and kept trying to appease her. Yakumo, on the other hand, remained silent and did nothing, because too much of this "dog food" (romantic scenes) can get tiresome...

After the meal, Jiraiya let Yakumo do as he pleased.

Yakumo glanced at the time and, finding there was still time left, decided to take a detour home and then released a shadow clone to practice the Mist Concealment Technique in her bedroom…

In the afternoon, Yakumo went to the hospital and began practicing the technique of extracting small ailments under the guidance of Aoyama Reiko. No patients came for treatment until dark.

Three days later, he had mastered the technique of extracting small ailments.

Five days later, the Ninja Technique: Earthly Needle was mastered.

Before he knew it, it was the end of August. Yakumo asked Aoyama Reiko and Jiraiya for leave, hoping to have a meal with his friends at the end of the month to strengthen their bonds.

At the same time, he was also preparing to head to the Forest of Death…

Defeat the black and white giant bear!

Chapter 34 Conflict

Konoha Year 39.

8 month 28 day.

Saturday.

As the school bell rang, some students rushed out of the school impatiently. Before long, more and more students walked out of the school gate. Most of the older students carried weapons and had ninja tool pouches strapped to their legs, looking just like ninjas, but there were no smiles on their faces.

The younger students mostly walked in groups of two or three, laughing and chatting. Occasionally, some would walk alone. Yakumo leaned against the big tree at the entrance of the Ninja Academy, which was said to have been planted by Hashirama Senju himself, waiting for his long-lost friends.

Familiar figures emerged from the ninja academy. Kakashi's steps always carried a certain rhythm, the kind of steps found in the Hatake Secret Manual, while Obito's were much more relaxed, more like an old woman taking a stroll after a meal.

"Oh, isn't this busy man Yakumo... I thought you were going to become famous and ignore us friends." As soon as they met, Obito Uchiha preemptively attacked, his tone full of dissatisfaction.

"How could that be... We're brothers for life, in your words... we're brothers who will share joys and sorrows in the future." Yakumo quickly agreed with a smile, he could tell that Obito Uchiha wasn't really dissatisfied.

"Then why didn't you say you came to see your good brother?"

Obito Uchiha pursed his lips, his tone still showing dissatisfaction, but he acknowledged Yakumo as his good brother.

"We're having dinner together tonight, it's on me."