Naruto : Minato back to the past

After leaving the Ninja School, Minato quickly shuttles through several streets as usual and heads towards the back mountain of Konoha. What he does not notice is that someone is following him in secret. Even with Minato's current strength, it is impossible for him to detect his follower.

It is Jiraiya.

He originally wanted to stop Minato in front of the Ninja School, but before he could do so, he saw Minato hurriedly running out of the school.

The direction he is heading is not towards the residential area of Konoha but is getting farther and farther away.

Jiraiya wants to find out what his future disciple is going to do. However, what he doesn't expect is that he follows Minato to the back mountain of Konoha Village.

He hides on a giant tree and uses a little trick to avoid being discovered by Minato, allowing him to see everything Minato does.

Minato puts down his bag on a piece of open ground in front of the woods, stands there, as if thinking about something, and becomes quiet for a while.

At this moment, Minato is thinking about the battle with Uchiha Yoruki today. If his speed had not increased significantly over the past week, he would never have been able to escape unscathed from that guy's Great Fireball Jutsu.

In terms of shuriken skills, even though he practices very hard, compared with Uchiha Yoruki, who was born in the Uchiha clan, his self-taught methods are still not good enough.

His only advantage is the speed that even Uchiha Yoruki does not have.

At the same time, Minato stares at his palm in a daze. In the battle with Uchiha Yoruki today, the actual combat experience that he thought he lacked the most actually increased rapidly.

He still can't figure out the reason.

"There are more and more things that I can't sort out recently," Minato sighs slightly. Ever since he woke up from his practice that day, some unknown changes have occurred in him. And the red-haired woman and Kushina who often appeared in his mind.

All of this lacks clues, and he can't figure it out.

He is trying his best to solve the mystery of himself, while Jiraiya in the dark looks around and sees traces on the open ground and damage on some tree trunks.

Obviously, this is the place where Minato practices. Judging from the traces around, he has been practicing here for at least half a year.

This surprises Jiraiya, but he also feels that it is natural.

What surprises him is that Minato, who is still a freshman, can insist on coming here to practice, and he does it spontaneously without anyone urging him.

For a child of this age, such persistence is really something else.

Thinking about Minato's performance in the ninja school today, Jiraiya feels that all this is very natural. Even if Minato has a talent beyond ordinary people, he would not have the strength he has today without hard training.

In this world, nothing can be obtained out of thin air.

The strength of a ninja is also obtained after years of continuous practice. People of Jiraiya's level know this even better.

Under Jiraiya's gaze, Minato puts all his doubts behind him and starts today's practice.

Under the dim sky, a seven-year-old child is sweating and repeating the most basic ninja training.

Perhaps because of the fight with Uchiha Yoruki, Minato's focus today is on shurikenjutsu, and the tools he practices with are only a few very simple wooden shurikens.

However, his progress is extremely significant, and he begins to try the shuriken technique that fires at different angles in all directions. After the battle with Uchiha Yoruki, his skills seem to be imprinted in Minato's mind. Minato's progress really shocks Jiraiya.

Although he knows that Minato is very talented, he didn't expect that he could accurately grasp the technical characteristics of the shuriken technique just by fighting with Uchiha Yoruki once.

Such talent is like that of a natural ninja.

As night falls, Minato temporarily stops practicing, takes out a rice ball from the bag that has been placed next to him, takes a big bite, and chews it.

He brought this rice ball from home when he went out in the morning. It has been there for nearly a day. Although it is impossible for it to go bad, it has already cooled down. It even becomes a little hard as the temperature drops.

But Minato doesn't care. It should be said that he has long been accustomed to it.

Jiraiya sees this scene in the dark. For some reason, he feels a little heartbroken. At this moment, a child as old as Minato should be sitting with his parents in a warm house, eating a steaming hot dinner. Minato is an orphan. Although he has a subsidy from the village, his parents were businessmen and left him a lot of money.

But he can see that the rice ball in Minato's hand, which looks a little strange, is probably made by himself.

Without his parents' company, he is alone. If Minato brings warmth and surprise to everyone in front of people, he is so distressed now. After a quick dinner and a short rest, Minato starts his practice again.

It is completely dark, and this time, Minato does not practice shurikenjutsu again but continues to practice his speed.

Jiraiya thinks back to today's battle between Minato and Uchiha Yoruki, and combined with his training method, he finally understands.

After practicing like this for a long time, Minato's reflex nerves, reaction speed, and insight have already reached an extremely amazing level.

That's why he can accurately grasp the distance of Uchiha Yoruki's shuriken and shoot it down with wooden shuriken.

Jiraiya doesn't want to disturb Minato, who is concentrating at the moment, so he quietly leaves.

The next day, when Minato walks into his class, a figure who seems to have been waiting here for a long time appears in front of him.

It turns out to be Akasaka Yu.

At this moment, the expression on his face is a little cowardly, and there is guilt in the depths of his eyes.

"Minato, I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Under Minato's somewhat stunned expression, Akasaka Yu bows deeply and apologizes to him.

In fact, Akasaka Yu's nature is not bad, just a little naughty and mischievous.

This series of events is also caused by him and almost brings irreparable harm to other students.

Minato pats his shoulder, comforts him, and responds with a warm smile: "It's not all your fault, my way of handling it was too extreme."

Minato has no intention of blaming Akasaka Yu for all of it. As he says, he only thinks it is a conflict between family members.

If it is talked out, there will be no problem.

Akasaka Yu is touched by Minato, and there are even tears in his eyes.

However, at this time, two figures walking together stop in front of him.

It is Mikoto and Kushina.

They naturally notice Akasaka Yu who has just run away.

Later, Minato learns that after he left yesterday, Mikoto actually attacked Akasaka Yu.

Minato sounds a little unbelievable.

After all, Mikoto has always been so gentle.

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