Starting with a list of Naruto episodes watched by Tobirama Senju

Chapter 423 Promoting the Eight Gates Formation?

To be honest, Kai really can create an atmosphere in the class that's terrifyingly intense and unrestrained.

No matter how serious the training, his playful and mischievous aura always imbued his disciples with a unique strength.

[Actually, it wasn't just Lee; whether it was Tenten or Neji, Guy, as a teacher, successfully found and guided them onto the right path of ninja.]

[There's just one problem: training with Kai is genuinely dangerous.]

However dangerous it may be, Kai would never intentionally put his disciple in danger.

When facing the Chunin Exams, he deliberately delayed his students' exams, perhaps because he didn't want them to experience professional failure unprepared, which would discourage them from their ninja spirit.

This is also why Class 3 is one year older than Class 7.

[I've wondered before, if the Eight Gates is so powerful, why are only Lee and Guy proficient in it? If Konoha put a lot of effort into promoting and popularizing the Eight Gates, and all the genin could open a gate in a fight, what would other ninja villages be able to compete with?]

[Later I realized that if Konoha really put in a lot of effort to promote it, it could definitely achieve some results, but the cost-effectiveness would be quite low.]

[Ninjas undergo various forms of training, which require time and resources. With the same amount of time invested, they might be able to maximize their research into ninjutsu and its theories, potentially achieving the same or even greater combat power as Might Guy's Eight Gates.]

What about Li and Kai?

At least Kai has learned summoning techniques and has an old turtle as his summoning beast, but Lee really can't do anything except physical combat.

Therefore, no matter how poor the cost-effectiveness or how difficult the task, Lee will never give up on the Eight Gates Formation, because he knows that if he wants to defy fate, he has no choice but to learn the Eight Gates Formation.

"Actually, promoting the Eight Gates Formation isn't out of the question."

In the second generation's timeline, Tobirama Senju, upon seeing this, suddenly felt that promoting the Eight Gates Formation wasn't out of the question.

Hearing this almost broke Danzo's composure.

What does that mean?

I suggested forming an eight-unit army, but you disagreed, teacher.

So, they turned around and wanted to promote the Eight Gates Formation?

I think you're making fun of Danzo!

"Danzo, don't overthink it, I wasn't teasing you."

Tobirama knew Danzo well and knew that the guy was overthinking things, so he immediately said something reassuring, which made Danzo's expression improve.

Beside him, Hiruzen Sarutobi asked the question everyone wanted to ask: "Teacher, you and the light screen both think that promoting the Eight Gates Formation isn't cost-effective, so why do you still promote it?"

"As you know, many genin graduate from the Konoha Ninja Academy every year, but the vast majority of them stop at the genin level in terms of ninja ability. If we spend some resources to let these genin, whose future is predictable, learn the Eight Gates, even if they don't become too proficient, just being able to open the first three gates would still be a huge fighting force. At the very least, their mortality rate on the battlefield would drop dramatically."

The meaning of Tobirama Senju is very simple: to make use of waste.

As everyone knows, normal genin are just cannon fodder on the battlefield.

They have little chakra, know few techniques, and their abilities are not very powerful. Once they encounter a ninja of Chunin level or above, they will basically become lambs to the slaughter.

If they could open the third gate of the Eight Gates Formation, their survival rate on the battlefield would increase dramatically, to say the least.

"I just don't know if Dai will agree to hand over the Eight Gates Formation to the village now."

"Teacher, isn't the Eight Gates Formation a product of the village?"

Tobirama shook his head and replied, "The Eight Gates Formation is not a product of the village; I suspect it is a family heirloom worn by Dai."

"That's true. If the Eight Gates technique was a product of the village, given Dai's rank as a mere genin, he wouldn't have had the opportunity or means to learn it. But why couldn't Dai have invented it himself?"

"idiot."

Danzo glanced at Hiruzen with disdain and continued, "If Dai had the talent to invent the Eight Gates, he wouldn't have been a perennial genin."

Danzo's words are not entirely absolute, but they do have some merit.

If Dai had the talent to invent the extremely difficult taijutsu, the Eight Gates, then inventing some simpler taijutsu to improve his combat power would prevent him from remaining a genin forever.

"Alright, we can discuss this topic after I find Dai."

Coincidentally, when Tobirama Senju decided to promote the Eight Gates to provide an additional path for those genin who lacked talent, Jiraiya and Tsunade in the Third and Fifth Hokage eras made similar decisions.

They didn't aspire to master the later gates of the Eight Gates; they were content as long as the cannon fodder genin learned to open three gates.

Who knows, maybe one of these people will emerge as a hard-working genius like Li?

However, the timelines of the four generations are different.

Minato Namikaze, who had only recently taken office, lacked sufficient power, making it extremely difficult for him to promote the Eight Gates Formation.

This work was compiled and uploaded by [author's name].

Furthermore, with Danzo, a scourge, hindering them, it became even more difficult to accomplish this task.

"I wish the third generation could support me."

Thinking of the restrictions the Third Hokage placed on him, and the friendship between him and Danzo, Minato Namikaze could only shake his head helplessly.

If the early stages of Naruto focused on depicting Guy's mental state, then the later stages were a showcase of the Blue Beast's overwhelming power.

Especially during the Fourth Shinobi World War, the seemingly insignificant Guy consistently played an indelible role.

[If it weren't for him at some crucial moments, the war might have had a very different outcome.]

At the beginning of the war, Kakashi, as the squad leader, specifically made a condition: he needed Guy, someone who knew both himself and the enemy, to be his right-hand man.

[It was precisely because of his capable old friend that he was able to repeatedly win battles against the Edo Tensei Seven Ninja Swordsmen.]

A classic example is the friendship duo versus the ruthless duo.

[At the time, Kakashi's Sharingan was temporarily injured because he used multiple dog-head walls to withstand the explosion, leaving him severely weakened and at his wit's end.]

[But in these difficult moments, Guy would recall his embarrassing past with Kakashi. That time, due to his overconfidence and reckless actions, he, Kakashi, and Rin were surrounded by elite Iwagakure members. Guy intended to sacrifice himself to ensure his comrades' safety, but Kakashi unexpectedly came to their rescue, fighting alongside Guy for three days and three nights, until their chakra was completely drained.]

[At that moment, the enemy prepared to unleash a massive lightning release, but unexpectedly, Kakashi, who had no chakra, not only used Chidori but also severed the lightning.]

[Kakashi later said: "My power was completely drained, but when I thought of my comrades, my chakra kept flowing out."]

Similarly, Kai, unable to use his legs, uses his hands; for his friends, he will struggle to the very last moment.

Thus, the two complemented each other, deducing the enemy's movements based on each other's actions, and utilizing the muscle memory honed from years of combat to coordinate their movements. They truly achieved a situation where one remained oblivious and the other remained completely isolated, yet they still routed their opponent.

As Guy said: A ninja's power, when used for their comrades rather than for themselves, can unleash a force that even surprises themselves.

This is what they call a bond.

(End of this chapter)