Starting with an Ultimate Move

"Great idea!" Kushina's eyes lit up. If Shadow Clones really handled the unimportant paperwork, Minato would have it much easier!

As for the fatigue and memories brought back when the Shadow Clones were released, and the immense mental strain they might cause?!

Sorry! Uzumaki Clan Members could not relate to something they did not understand.

"Come on! Let's find a training ground. Master's Wife is going to test your progress and see whether you've been slacking off lately!" Unable to sit still after eating, Kushina grabbed Bai Yue and dragged him off for a spar.

Going into intense exercise like fighting right after eating?! That would hurt his poor stomach!

Although Ninja were people whose strength belonged to themselves, excluding certain Overpowered Monsters and some freaks of Human Body Modification—

Ninety-nine percent of Ninja were not much more durable than ordinary people.

For example, Pakura, the Sand Ninja Hero who was constantly dragged out and beaten to death again and again~

Despite possessing Kage-level strength, being absurdly powerful in close combat, and wielding the bloodline secret technique Scorch Release, those two massive Scorch Release fireballs truly injured anyone they grazed and killed anyone they touched.

Such a fierce fighter, practically invincible in mid- and close-range combat, was shot full of kunai until she looked like a porcupine!

Was there anyone even more miserable than Pakura?

There was!

Demon Zabuza Momochi!

After his Chakra was exhausted, Zabuza was hacked to death by gangsters. He had it even worse than Pakura!

So, as a Ninja whose body was not much different from an ordinary person's, Bai Yue, who knew he was not yet an Overpowered Monster, cherished himself dearly!

After all, he wanted to become an Eternal Life being!

"Master's Wife, let's forget it. We just finished eating—I don't want any intense exercise!" Bai Yue flatly refused.

"You Kid! You're way too delicate!" Kushina glared at Bai Yue with puffed cheeks, hands on her hips. "The enemy won't refrain from attacking you just because you've just eaten!"

"Then I'll try to avoid eating at times when I might have to fight an enemy~"

"You Kid! Nothing gets through to you, does it?!" Kushina rolled up her sleeves in fury, ready to make a move.

"Wait, wait, wait~ Master's Wife! Testing my progress doesn't necessarily mean we have to spar, right?" Bai Yue hurriedly backed away before continuing, "We can find somewhere and simply compete with Sealing Jutsu. How about that?!"

"Hmm..." After thinking for a moment, Kushina slowly nodded, agreeing with a hint of mischief in her eyes. "Fine, but you'd better give it everything you've got! If your work is unsatisfactory, I'll beat you up badly!"

"Of course!" Bai Yue nodded without hesitation, completely failing to notice Kushina's ill intentions.

"Then let's go!" Kushina marched ahead with her head held high.

Bai Yue followed helplessly behind her.

His luck was terrible today! Why had he run into Kushina acting like a resentful housewife?!

Thinking back to not long ago, although Minato Namikaze had been busy too, he had at least had time to keep her company.

But now~!

All Bai Yue could do was shake his head!

Hokage?! Not even a dog would take that job!

It seemed even worse than being a corporate slave!

"This place is nice! We'll do it here!" Instead of heading to a training ground, they arrived at a flat stretch beside a small river.

This place looked a little familiar!

Still~ it was pretty good!

"You brat! Take this punch!" After loosening up her wrists a little, Kushina immediately used the Body Flicker Technique and appeared right beside Bai Yue.

From her stance, she clearly intended to give Bai Yue a Bangs on the head.

"???" What happened to competing with Sealing Jutsu?!

Fine, fine! So that was how she wanted to play it?!

"Adamantine Sealing Chains!" As the saying went, one trick was enough to conquer the world!

At present, Bai Yue only had Adamantine Sealing Chains and the improved Super Adamantine Sealing Chains that he could truly bring out. As for Gentle Fist and the like, they could only be used to bully weaklings.

???

!!!

You brat! You were opening with your ultimate move?!

Caught completely off guard, Kushina was instantly wrapped up like a rice dumpling!

"Undo this already!" Kushina snarled through gritted teeth, humiliated and furious.

"Master's Wife, you look like you want to eat me. I'm scared!"

"Scared, my ass! If you were scared, would you dare tie me up right away?!" Kushina struggled furiously in anger.

She looked like a wildly wriggling...

"Then I'll let you go! You're not allowed to hit me!" With that, Bai Yue immediately released the Adamantine Sealing Chains!

Twisting her waist and rubbing her arms, Kushina glared resentfully at Bai Yue, her eyes brimming with ill intent.

But Kushina knew that if she wanted to beat this brat up, she first had to subdue him! Only then could she give him a proper thrashing.

Of course~ she could also use her status as his Master's Wife to suppress him and force Bai Yue to obediently take a beating!

But that would be even more embarrassing. Kushina did not want to hear people saying in the future~

The Fourth Hokage's wife was truly awful, using her status as an elder to bully a child, then ruthlessly beating him up!

At the thought of that scene, Kushina felt it would be better to be known as someone who could not beat her Genius Disciple.

"Adamantine Sealing Chains!" Kushina struck again!

Who didn't know Adamantine Sealing Chains?! This brat's Adamantine Sealing Chains were taught by Old Lady me!

Just watch me tie you into..., just watch Old Lady beat you half to death today!

Naturally, Bai Yue would not surrender without a fight. He activated Adamantine Sealing Chains again and clashed head-on with Kushina!

Two waves of glittering golden Chains, one large and thick, the other small and thin, tangled together!

Using the same technique, neither could break the other's move. They could only remain locked in an endless entanglement.

"Still~ I seem to be at a slight disadvantage!" It was not because Bai Yue's control was inferior to Kushina's.

Quite the opposite. Compared to Kushina, who merely copied what she had been shown, Bai Yue had thoroughly mastered the Theoretical knowledge behind Adamantine Sealing Chains and could easily outclass her in control.

But!

Overwhelming strength defeated all techniques!

As an adult Uzumaki Clan Member—and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki—Kushina's vast reserves of Chakra were simply not something Bai Yue's Chakra could compare to!

Unless Bai Yue truly entered Sage Mode and won through quality!

Come to think of it~ Bai Yue did not really understand his own Chakra!

He had clearly absorbed quite a bit of Natural Energy in his daily life, and he had continually tried to completely transform all of his Chakra into Sage Chakra.

Yet he could never achieve it! Although Sage Chakra was now permanently present in his body, the ratio of Sage Chakra to ordinary Chakra remained around one to nine!

More precisely, Bai Yue had always refined only Sage Chakra, yet ordinary Chakra naturally formed within his body, as though ordinary Chakra was merely a byproduct of refining Sage Chakra.

It was incredibly frustrating!

But the one thing that comforted Bai Yue was that his Sage Mode possessed an enormous advantage that Jiraiya and the others did not: he needed no advance preparation and could enter Sage Mode whenever he wanted.

"Haha! Brat! Just admit defeat already!" Kushina laughed wantonly, as though victory was already hers!

"This really isn't going to work! Forget Sage Mode!" Bai Yue frowned slightly. "In that case, I'll try the idea I had before!"