Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 272 Akahara

Uchiha clan territory, training ground.

Aokiji and Fugaku stood facing each other, both undergoing training.

Aokiji was originally too lazy to fight him, but Fugaku just wouldn't stop bothering him.

Seeing his pitiful state, Qingzhi reluctantly accompanied him in his cultivation for a while.

Aokiji raised his hand, struck a pose, and very flamboyantly used the Wing Chun starting stance.

Compared to Aokiji's pose, which seemed overtly pretentious, Fugaku's was much simpler. He took a quick step forward, and just as he was about to reach Aokiji, he kicked off with force, launching himself into the air with a common UFC move: the Superman Punch.

Aokiji, with his hands bound inside, smiled slightly and easily blocked the attack.

Fugaku throws a punch to the head.

Aokiji spread his hands, blocking again.

Seeing that his center was wide open and there was an opening, Fugaku pressed closer and thrust with a straight punch.

Aokiji quickly changed his move, intercepting the fist with a palm strike.

Frustrated by his repeated attacks, Fugaku switched to kicking, raising his knee and leg to deliver a powerful front kick to Aokiji's abdomen.

Aokiji used the same trick again, binding hands and legs, easily blocking the attack.

Fugaku retracts his leg and strikes a straight punch from a horse stance.

Aokiji spreads his hands outside the grid.

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For sparring purposes, Aokiji only defended and did not attack, effortlessly catching all of Fugaku's attacks, which were like a storm.

After several rounds of fighting, Fugaku's fighting style became increasingly aggressive, which resulted in a huge drain on his stamina.

Sweating profusely and panting heavily are the best evidence.

On the other side, Aokiji was still full of energy and barely broke a sweat.

Fugaku was somewhat unwilling: "Damn it, it's so powerful."

Aokiji glanced at him and gave him high praise: "Actually, you're already very good."

Aokiji was telling the truth. Although Aokiji was unilaterally dominating Fugaku, the huge age difference had to be taken into account.

At his age, Fugaku is just entering the initial stage of rapid growth in strength, while Aokiji has been running for who knows how long.

Fugaku, thinking Aokiji was just teasing him, said indignantly, "Again!"

Aokiji shook his head.

Fugaku frowned and asked, "Is that all?"

Aokiji laughed and said, "I'll find you a different training location."

Fugaku looked puzzled: "Change the training location?"

You'll see when you get there.

Aokiji kept everyone in suspense.

Before officially departing, he formed a cross hand seal and summoned a shadow clone.

He smiled and said to the pretty little girl beside him who had just been watching the battle, "Mikoto, let's train."

Mikoto was taken aback: "Me too?"

Aokiji laughed and said, "You'll be going to the Ninja Academy soon. I think you'll definitely be fine with your talent, but it's never a bad thing to start formal training sooner."

Aokiji once used a chakra tester to test Mikoto's chakra attributes.

She possesses both water and fire chakra natures.

It is rare for such opposing attributes to occur in one person at the same time.

Most people only have one type of chakra attribute transformation, while those with exceptional talent may have two.

For example, Fugaku possesses both lightning and fire chakra natures.

Combining the chakra attributes of these two individuals, Aokiji finally understood why Sasuke and Itachi possessed those two chakra attributes.

Sasuke inherited Fugaku's lightning and fire techniques.

Itachi, on the other hand, inherited Mikoto's water and fire.

In the original work, besides using Fire Release ninjutsu, Itachi used Water Release ninjutsu the most.

Aokiji said frankly, "If I have the chance in the future, I would like to become your mentor Jonin."

Aokiji is currently a genin, but with his strength, once he goes to the battlefield and accumulates some military merits, it should be only a matter of time before he is promoted to jonin.

Fugaku was taken aback: "You want to become Misaka's teacher?"

"Yes, is there a problem?"

"Didn't you say you weren't interested in this kind of thing?"

"That depends on the situation," Aokiji added. "For example, if it were you, I doubt I'd be very interested."

Fugaku: ...

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Looking at the vast forest surrounded by massive barbed wire, Fugaku's face showed surprise: "This is the Forest of Death?"

"Let's go." Aokiji smiled, ignoring the huge barbed wire fence in front of him, and leaped over it.

Fugaku followed closely behind. He had thought that Aokiji was going to capture some of the giant creatures inside for him to train with, but to his surprise, Aokiji led him to a red plain.

"here it is……"

"This is Akahara..." Aokiji said as he walked, "Come with me."

Fugaku gave him a strange look and followed him to a Buddha statue.

Aokiji placed his hand on the Buddha statue: "This is it..."

Fugaku looked around, his expression becoming even more puzzled.

Aokiji smiled and pushed the statue away in front of him: "Then good luck from now on."

After saying that, under Fugaku's puzzled gaze, he vanished without a trace using a Body Flicker Technique.

Fugaku: ? ? ?

Just as he was about to shout out to ask what was going on, he suddenly noticed something crawling out of the soil beside him.

Soon, those things crawled out of the ground; they were brown and humanoid—a group of puppets.

"What on earth is going on...?"

Before Fugaku could figure out what was going on, as if to interrupt his thoughts, these puppets swarmed forward all at once.

There were many puppets, but fortunately, none of them were very strong, and Fugaku could handle them all by himself.

Fugaku easily dodged an attack from a puppet and launched a counterattack, kicking the puppet's body away.

During his battle with the puppet, Fugaku gradually understood what was going on; it seemed this was the training Aokiji had mentioned.

Fugaku snorted. He was being seriously underestimated; he could easily deal with all these puppets in one go.

With these thoughts in mind, Fugaku stepped back, creating a safe distance between himself and the puppets. He quickly formed hand seals and gathered a massive amount of chakra in his mouth.

Just as he was about to unleash "Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation" to wipe out all the puppets, a familiar voice from nearby interrupted his spellcasting.

"No, if you use fire-style techniques, it will damage the environment here."

Hearing that it was Aokiji's voice, it seemed that he had not left, but was observing from somewhere.

Fugaku clicked his tongue, interrupted his spellcasting, and switched to melee combat to attack the puppets. He thought it would just be a little slower, and he would see how he would take care of them one by one. However, as he fought, he gradually realized that something was wrong.

Wait, why do these puppets have the ability to resurrect?

At first, when he had plenty of energy, Fugaku was able to deal with these puppets with ease, but as his energy gradually declined, he found himself struggling to keep up.

Just then, by sheer coincidence, he must have startled a large creature nearby. A huge wild boar suddenly appeared and charged at him.

Seeing that things might get out of hand, Aokiji immediately stepped in to save them, conjuring ice needles in his hand and throwing them out with a flick of his palm.

Ice Release: Ice Soul Silver Needle.

The giant wild boar was hit in all its major nerve areas, letting out a painful scream. But instead of being restrained, this had the opposite effect. Its eyes widened in fury, and it shifted its target, charging towards the blue pheasant.

Aokiji frowned. As expected, without the Sharingan's perception, sealing pressure points was simply impossible.

The wild boar attacked suddenly, but Aokiji remained unmoved, gathering ice-attribute energy in his palm, creating a vortex of cold air.

With a flick of his palm, a beam of ice shot out, piercing the wild boar's throat. Blood gushed out instantly, and the boar, mortally wounded, died on the spot from the chilling force.

Ice Release: Ice Soul Sharp Spear.

Like the Ice Soul Silver Needle mentioned earlier, it is a skill developed from the extension of the Ice Soul Palm.

These two moves were inspired by the extended version of Sasuke's Thousand Birds Technique.

After defeating the giant boar, Aokiji unleashed steam from his body and swept away a large number of puppets like a whirlwind.

Fugaku arrogantly replied, "I don't need your help. I can handle it myself."

"Yes, yes..." Aokiji agreed with him while moving the stone Buddha statue back to its original place, otherwise it would never end.

Soon, these puppets, like puppets whose strings had been cut, all collapsed to the ground and could not get up.

Fugaku, with his keen insight, figured out the problem: pushing the stone Buddha statue was like triggering a mechanism that would summon puppets to fight, while putting it back in place would deactivate the mechanism.

Fugaku couldn't help but wonder, "How could there be such a mechanism in this place?"

This place is usually where the Chunin Exams are held, so it's not surprising that there would be traps here.

However, from the perspective of a trap, it seems unqualified. It's not that it's not powerful, but the remote location and the triggering conditions make the probability of triggering it extremely low.

Aokiji laughed and said, "Strictly speaking, this thing isn't a mechanism."

"Not a government agency?"

Fugaku looked puzzled.

Aokiji explained, "It should be considered some kind of seal."

(End of this chapter)