Minato Namikaze (Please Recommend)

After Uchiha Kiyoshi returned home, the first thing he did was take out this month's medicinal bath supplies. He prepared hot water, then soaked in it.

There were only a dozen or so days left in the month, yet Uchiha Kai had still given him the normal month's supply. That meant that for the last dozen days of the break, Uchiha Kiyoshi could train to his heart's content every day.

From now on, he could also increase the intensity of his training. A medicinal bath every three days was enough to eliminate the effects on his body.

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, half a year had gone by, and it was time for the Ninja Academy to begin again.

Name: Uchiha Kiyoshi (seven years old)

Chakra: 12.7 units/12.7 units (14.6 units)

Chakra Nature: Omitted

Ninjutsu: Three Basic Techniques, Hemostasis Technique

Secret Technique: Body Nourishment Technique

Other: Sealing Jutsu (Basic Barrier)

In just half a year, Uchiha Kiyoshi's chakra had risen to over twelve units. Coupled with his improved chakra control, he could already use the Hemostasis Technique twice. The Three Basic Techniques had become routine methods for him, just like a Genin's—or rather, Uchiha Kiyoshi's actual strength had indeed reached the level of a Genin.

However, Uchiha Kiyoshi, who had always prioritized caution, would never graduate early. Only idiots did that. Why graduate early? Wasn't it better to develop properly? Were you really that eager to go kill people?

Not to mention anything else, graduating early would drastically reduce his training time. Uchiha Kiyoshi had yet to encounter a bottleneck, so what he needed was sufficient time to grow, not to force his way into graduation.

Besides, what benefits were there to graduating? The situation in the Ninja World was beginning to grow tense. Amegakure wanted to take a bite out of everyone it saw. If he graduated before turning seven, wouldn't he become a target?

Right now, the most important thing was to develop steadily. He could not get carried away.

Over the past half year, Uchiha Kiyoshi had continuously fought the wild beasts on Konoha's Back Mountain. He had made considerable progress in taijutsu and had even barely developed a movement technique for evasion. When paired with chakra, it was especially effective for dodging.

Over the past six months, the clan had also provided Uchiha Kiyoshi with a Basic Sealing Jutsu, one that could set up a Basic Barrier. It was not particularly advanced, merely a prerequisite sealing jutsu for learning barrier-type sealing techniques. Moreover, this sealing jutsu had not used up one of Uchiha Kiyoshi's opportunities to choose a ninjutsu. It had been free, so naturally, Uchiha Kiyoshi gladly accepted it. He had already mastered the sealing jutsu in half a year, but since it had little practical use, he had never displayed it. Thus, no one knew about it.

The Ninja Academy was starting again. To avoid getting blocked at the entrance, Uchiha Kiyoshi had no choice but to set off early, hoping to enter the school before the new students came to register.

When he arrived at the school, there were not many new students registering, only two or three. Uchiha Kiyoshi showed his student ID and was allowed inside.

He had only just entered and had not yet reached the first-year building—no, that was wrong, it was the second-year building now—when Uchiha Kiyoshi was stopped.

Looking at the blond-haired little boy before him, who kept scratching his head shyly, a name inexplicably surfaced in Uchiha Kiyoshi's mind.

Without showing it, Uchiha Kiyoshi asked, "Is there something you need, classmate?"

The little boy seemed a little absentminded. After reacting a moment late, he asked, "Um, my name is Minato Namikaze. I'm a new student this year. Big brother, do you know where the first-year building is?"

Uchiha Kiyoshi now confirmed the blond brat's identity. That was right—the future Fourth Hokage, the man who would single-handedly lead Konoha to victory in the Third Shinobi World War. He had not expected Minato Namikaze to be so polite as a child.

Uchiha Kiyoshi pointed out the way for him. After explaining it clearly, he added, "My name is Uchiha Kiyoshi. If you need anything in the future, you can come ask me. My classroom is in the building ahead. I'm in second-year Class 1."

The blond brat, Minato Namikaze, hurriedly bowed in thanks. "Thank you very much, Brother Kiyoshi."

Seeing that sunny smile on the other's face, Uchiha Kiyoshi could not help but sigh. As expected, he was born to be a leader. Even at such a young age, his smile was so infectious, making people feel comfortable around him.

Worried that overdoing it would backfire, Uchiha Kiyoshi did not try too hard to get close to Minato Namikaze. There would be plenty of time in the future. He could slowly build their relationship.

The future Fourth Hokage... the man who perfected the Flying Thunder God Technique and became known as the Yellow Flash!

In Uchiha Kiyoshi's eyes, it was not the Flying Thunder God that made Minato Namikaze—it was Minato Namikaze who made the Flying Thunder God.

The Second Hokage's Flying Thunder God Technique had only been a rough creation. Due to various limitations, it had not truly been perfected. Minato Namikaze had personally completed the Flying Thunder God's development, and when paired with his other self-created ninjutsu, the Rasengan, it had earned him an illustrious reputation throughout the Ninja World.

If he had not died for love in his twenties, he might have gone even further.

That was right, died for love! Was Minato Namikaze really incapable of sealing the Nine-Tails without using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal? How could that be? It was only because Uzumaki Kushina had died, and Minato Namikaze had chosen to follow her in death.

To reach such strength in his twenties—if he had continued growing, he might have become, after Gai, another ninja who reached the Six Paths Level with the body of a civilian. And he would have been capable of erupting with that power repeatedly. Minato Namikaze was truly Heaven's chosen, no wonder Jiraiya had regarded him as the Child of Prophecy before seeing Nagato's Rinnegan.

Uchiha Kiyoshi believed that if luck truly existed, then Minato Namikaze was absolutely Heaven's chosen, not the protagonist Uzumaki Naruto! Even Uzumaki Naruto had likely been able to so smoothly act like a child of fortune because of Minato Namikaze's influence.

As outsiders to the Ninja World who had even planted the God Tree there, the Otsutsuki Clan was not welcomed by the Ninja World. Even the Sage of Six Paths, who had sealed Kaguya, was not recognized as an Immortal by the Ninja World and died early. Uzumaki Naruto, as Asura's reincarnation, was likewise not particularly recognized by the Ninja World. Without Minato Namikaze's protection of fortune, could he have grown up at all?

Over the Ninja World's thousand-year history, the only reincarnations of Asura who had truly grown powerful were Senju Hashirama and Uzumaki Naruto. How had Senju Hashirama grown up? At the time, he had been the young clan leader of the Senju Clan, the greatest clan of the Warring States era!

And all of this came at a price. Senju Hashirama's growth to the strongest level beneath the Six Paths Level had exhausted the Senju Clan's fortune. Even their bad luck had been passed down to his granddaughter Tsunade, who lived a lonely life.

Uzumaki Naruto had also gotten his father, a child of fortune himself, killed the moment he was born!

Of course, these were all Uchiha Kiyoshi's wild guesses and could not be taken seriously. It was uncertain whether the Ninja World even had such a thing as fortune.

In any case, in Uchiha Kiyoshi's eyes, Minato Namikaze was special. It would be best to build a good relationship with him.

And so, over the following days, Uchiha Kiyoshi trained diligently while also spending more time with Minato Namikaze, gradually building their relationship. Of course, after Minato got himself a tomato, he became busy with serious business, and Uchiha Kiyoshi rarely saw him.

With the medicinal baths supplied by the clan, Uchiha Kiyoshi's taijutsu training also got on track. Three years passed quickly.

This chapter was a little short, so please bear with me. The next chapter will be longer.

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