Body Flicker Technique: Brute Force Makes Bricks Fly, Rasengan Rotational Kneading

Jiraiya only told the team to participate in the Chunin Exams, then said nothing more and went off to enjoy himself at the bathhouse.

He would only leave once he had grown tired of looking, or once the Women's Bathhouse had no new faces left.

During this time, Minato and the other two began training hard.

Yoshimaru and Haneina were close in strength, so the two sparred with each other. Fugaku served as Minato's sparring partner.

Fugaku deliberately wanted to get close to Jiraiya and his disciple, who belonged to the Hokage's lineage, so he was very patient and did not think anything of serving as a sparring partner for a genin. And besides...

You call this a genin?

Fugaku had no choice but to activate his Sharingan. Otherwise, he simply could not catch sight of Minato.

Minato was too fast!

He poured chakra into his feet and explosively exerted force, giving himself extreme acceleration.

He poured chakra into the windward side of his body, breaking through wind resistance and reducing the noise and air drag of high-speed movement.

He also poured chakra into his arms. The faster he moved, the greater the force of his strikes.

Chakra was almost omnipotent, with all sorts of miraculous uses.

The key to Minato's Body Flicker Technique was the use of Wind Release chakra. He refined Wind Release chakra and continuously spread it in front of himself while moving at high speed, breaking through wind resistance and pushing his speed to the limit.

In the original story, Naruto Uzumaki's chakra nature was Wind, inherited from Minato. Minato's primary chakra nature was also Wind.

This Body Flicker Technique consumed an enormous amount of chakra. It was twice as fast as a taijutsu Body Flicker Technique, but consumed three or four times as much chakra.

Only because Minato's chakra reserves were now astonishing could he sustain such massive consumption.

His body was only eleven years old and very light, yet he used jonin-level chakra reserves to power his Body Flicker Technique, like an eight-cylinder high-horsepower engine powering a tiny mini car.

Eight horses pulling a little cart, brute force making bricks fly—that was the key to Minato's Body Flicker Technique.

Once his body grew larger, he would use even greater chakra reserves to power the Body Flicker Technique. It would still be brute force making bricks fly.

But in Fugaku's eyes, Minato was merely a genin whose speed rivaled that of an ordinary jonin.

That terrifying speed alone was enough to deprive the vast majority of chunin of the ability to resist.

Not only that, after activating his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, Fugaku discovered that Minato's eyes were even faster than his hands and feet.

Every time Fugaku intercepted Minato's fist, he saw Minato's eyes move first, catching Fugaku's movements with his gaze.

This proved that Minato's reflexes were incredibly fast. Such talent was even more suited to the Body Flicker Technique.

During a break from their sparring, Akimichi Jirokuma and Haneina stared wide-eyed at Minato and Fugaku's match in the distance.

Minato was so fast that they could only see him when he paused. The rest of the time, all they saw was a fleeting black blur.

Oh, Minato's hair was blond, so it was fairly conspicuous.

"He's so fast..."

Even with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, Fugaku found dealing with him quite difficult.

After sparring all morning, Minato was a little tired too. He said, "All right, Fugaku. That's enough sparring for today. Thank you very much."

Fugaku sighed in relief. Not only did Minato possess enormous chakra reserves, but his chakra recovery speed was also very fast.

All of Fugaku's strength was concentrated in his eyes, and his chakra reserves were not particularly large. He even felt that his reserves were inferior to Minato's.

He was a jonin, an Uchiha jonin.

Moreover, Fugaku always felt that Minato had been acting strangely these past two days. It seemed Minato's chakra reserves were still increasing.

Fugaku said, "Then I'll head over to Ninja Bull Qiongqi's place first. I haven't needed to use Genjutsu these past few days. That old perverted bull Qiongqi has actually started being picky, only choosing pretty young cows. He doesn't want the ugly ones at all."

The progress with the farming livestock Summoning Beasts was very good. Minato was on the right path, and the system had rewarded him with another 10 units of chakra over the past two days.

His chakra reserves had reached 223 units.

After training hard for several days, his chakra reserves had only increased by 1 unit, while the Power of Reformation had casually given him 10 units.

After lunch, Minato went into town and bought many balloons and rubber balls.

Developing a ninjutsu was slow. It required inspiration, experimentation, and trial and error. But learning a ninjutsu was fast.

In the original story, the Rasengan—also known as the Light Wheel Ice Pop Initiating Whirlwind Jiraiya Twin-Style Sphere—was developed through three years of collaboration between Minato and Jiraiya.

The Chunin Exams were about to begin. Minato had no time to wait for Jiraiya, so he wanted to recreate this ninjutsu himself as quickly as possible.

The Rasengan gathered chakra in the hand, causing the chakra to continuously flow in different directions and compress, forming a high-density, rapidly rotating sphere of non-elemental chakra.

For the next week, Minato sparred with Fugaku in the mornings and practiced the Body Flicker Technique, then played with balls alone beneath a tree in the afternoons.

Minato also created two Shadow Clones, using the fact that their memories returned to the original body after the clones dispersed to increase his proficiency.

Once the Rasengan had taken on a rudimentary form, Minato went to find Jiraiya.

At the back wall of the Women's Bathhouse, Minato unexpectedly failed to find Jiraiya.

After asking around, Minato found Jiraiya in a tavern. Somehow, Jiraiya had become an honored guest at the town tavern.

When Minato pulled open the wooden door, Jiraiya was lying on a wooden couch, with two mature and beautiful women on each side. One fed Jiraiya grapes, while the other fed him wine.

"Oh! My disciple is here! Come in!"

Minato awkwardly looked at the two scantily clad women. He was not yet old enough for romance and pleasure.

Jiraiya said to the women beside him:

"You two little darlings, go out for a while first. Come back in when I call you. My disciple is a proper young man. I was a proper young man when I was his age too.

Don't worry, you'll get the same tip."

After the two women left, Minato coughed and sat down.

They had put on far too much perfume. It was choking.

Jiraiya sat with his clothes hanging open, rubbing his belly. "Minato, what did you come to see me about?"

Seeing Jiraiya like this, it was no wonder Tsunade had never taken a liking to him for most of her life.

Minato said, "Sensei, in preparation for the Chunin Exams, I'm developing a ninjutsu. Please take a look and see if there is a way to improve it quickly."

Jiraiya said in confusion, "Do the Chunin Exams require any special preparation? When the time comes, use the Summoning Technique and call out Gamabunta. He'll fill the entire arena. Who could possibly beat you then?"

Minato shook his head. "That's too crude. It doesn't suit my temperament. I prefer something more refined."

Jiraiya watched Minato raise his hand. Chakra appeared in Minato's palm and began to rotate, growing faster and more chaotic.

Even the air around it began to stir and dart about wildly.

Jiraiya instantly turned serious. As one of the Three Ninja, he immediately recognized the ingenious principle behind this ninjutsu.

"Concentration... using rotation to create concentration. The chakra is concentrated, and so is the power. This is a ninjutsu where consumption is directly proportional to power..."

Jiraiya closed his eyes, raised his own hand, and tried to gather chakra.

"What does this feel like... How can chakra be concentrated while retaining destructive force?

Oh, rotation. It needs to be extreme, high-speed rotation..."

As he spoke, Jiraiya's fingers slowly turned.

"What does this feel like... It's like... it's like this morning, when I touched those D-cup big..."

Jiraiya shut his mouth, a blissful smile appearing at the corner of his lips.

"Minato! Go outside first and call in the woman with the D-cup chest who was on my left just now!

I'll discuss the rotational feel of spheres with her. Once I've figured out the key to this ninjutsu, I'll come find you!"

Minato let out a deep sigh. He had come to ask about ninjutsu, but Jiraiya apparently had his own understanding of rotational kneading of spheres.