Naruto: Starting as the Third Hokage with Tears in His Eyes

boom!

The name exploded like a bombshell in the minds of the three.

The Three-Tails?! That legendary tailed beast?!

Wasn't it missing? How did it get here?!

They instantly understood why Master Yuan's eyes were filled with awe for Konoha before his death.

Not only did Konoha know that the Three-Tails was here, but it seems... they've been observing and monitoring it for who knows how many years!

Hiruzen Sarutobi ignored the three men's expressions, which were as if they had seen a ghost.

He walked over to the horrified Yagura and patted him affectionately on the shoulder.

"take it easy."

Yagura's body was as stiff as a stone.

"Just think of it as a living, moving, and somewhat temperamental strategic weapon."

Hiruzen Sarutobi's smile held a hint of mischievousness. "And your pop quiz today is very simple."

"Observe this weapon up close and record all its attack patterns, energy responses, and behavioral logic."

Write an observation report of no less than 5,000 words and hand it in to me tomorrow morning.

Amidst the incredulous gazes of Yagura, Mizuki, and Mei Terumi, a mixture of "Are you kidding me?" and "You're a devil," Hiruzen Sarutobi walked alone off the assault boat and onto the island shrouded in fear.

As he walked, he untied the sacred robe that symbolized his Hokage status and tossed it behind him without looking back.

"Shisui, take this."

Uchiha Shisui caught it precisely and respectfully folded it.

Hiruzen Sarutobi moved his wrists and neck, his joints making a series of cracking sounds, as if he were just doing warm-up exercises before a boring meeting.

"Sigh, it's been a long time since I've stretched my muscles myself. I wonder if my skills have deteriorated."

He finally stopped, turned around, and gave a wicked yet expectant smile to the three completely numb faces outside the barrier.

"Look at everything carefully."

"The professor's open lecture is now beginning."

Before he could finish speaking...

"roar--!!!"

A deafening roar came from the depths of the island!

That was not the roar of an ordinary wild beast, but an energy surge mixed with endless loneliness and overwhelming resentment, directly affecting the spiritual level.

"Snap—"

On the high-speed assault boat on the shore, Hozuki Shio screamed, dropping a large bag of squid strips from her arms onto the deck. She then sat down with a thud, covering her ears with her hands and frowning.

"Damn, I almost choked!"

Yagura and Mei Terumi weren't much better off.

Their reaction was already considered elite among elites.

Because the island is shaking and the sea is churning!

A massive, dark green shadow, as large as a mountain, suddenly raised its menacing head from the water.

Its carapace was covered with countless sharp bone spikes, and its three huge tails covered with thorns were like three mad pythons, frantically stirring up the seawater and creating towering waves several meters high!

The bloodshot, murky eye, once it locked onto Hiruzen Sarutobi, the tiny human who had intruded into its territory, was instantly filled with chaos and savagery.

It doesn't need to think, and it's too lazy to think.

Intruder, die!

The next second, its massive body, carrying shattered rocks, terrified fish, and endless fury and seawater, transformed into a moving tsunami and crashed down upon us.

Yagura and the others on the shore suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and instinctively tried to spur the assault boat beneath them to retreat frantically.

Too fast, too aggressive!

That wasn't ninjutsu at all; it was pure, irrational crushing of mass and power!

However, Hiruzen Sarutobi, facing this destructive torrent head-on, neither dodged nor avoided it.

He even had the leisure to stand with his hands behind his back, facing the shore, and deliver the first comment of his public lecture.

"A typical beast-like fighting style, with absolutely no skill involved."

His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly pierced through the roar of the waves and reached everyone's ears precisely.

"Look, this is pure power suppression. Its advantages are quick activation, great power, and strong momentum. Its disadvantage is also obvious: it's too stupid."

He even tilted his head slightly, as if to make sure his students could follow his train of thought, "To deal with this, a head-on confrontation is equally stupid."

The people on the shore: "..."

Hokage, what time is it? Can you please stop giving me a live lecture?

Just a second before the giant wave was about to engulf Hiruzen Sarutobi's figure.

He moved.

His hands moved so fast they almost left afterimages, forming several incredibly simple hand seals in a flash.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

A water dragon shot into the sky from the sea behind him.

However, this was not the Water Dragon Bullet that Yagura and the others knew.

An ordinary water jet is nothing more than a jet of water shaped like a dragon.

However, the dragon summoned by Hiruzen Sarutobi was so solid that it seemed to be alive, with every dragon scale clearly visible.

Its whiskers flowed freely, its mouth was wide open, and its eyes, formed from high-density chakra, gleamed with a predatory light devoid of any emotion!

"roar!"

The water dragon let out a silent roar, its massive body twisting nimbly to meet the charging mountain of flesh head-on. Its long dragon body, like the strongest chains, tightly wrapped around the neck and forelimbs of the three-tailed creature.

Using the most primal force, its devastating momentum was abruptly and inch by inch brought to a halt halfway through its trajectory.

"BOOM!!!"

The giant wave crashed down ten meters away from Hiruzen Sarutobi, turning into a cloud of water vapor that soaked everyone's clothes and their already bewildered hearts.