Teacher Kushina

"Who the hell are you, little brat?!" Kushina Uzumaki's tone was far from friendly. Her lover had suddenly been urgently summoned and left in the middle of the night, which had left her quite unhappy.

"Hello, Master's Wife. I'm Teacher Minato's newly accepted disciple, Hyuga Baiyue." Baiyue spoke calmly. "I came to see Teacher Minato."

"Oh, it's you~" Upon hearing that, Kushina softened her expression slightly. Minato Namikaze had told her about Baiyue the night before. "Minato has an urgent mission. He already left last night."

"Teacher Minato really works hard..." Baiyue rolled his eyes. He truly hadn't expected Minato Namikaze to leave again before even staying a full twenty-four hours after finally returning.

But thinking about it, it was quite normal.

Leaving such a Master unused would be the real waste of resources.

Minato's presence might not make enemies flee at the mere sound of his name, but even news of his arrival was enough to greatly boost their side's morale.

"Since that's the case, I'll trouble you, Master's Wife." Baiyue waved his hand, having the attendants beside him carry over the gifts. "Please accept these on Teacher Minato's behalf."

"As expected of the Hyuga Clan!" Kushina showed no restraint whatsoever. She even enthusiastically rummaged through the gifts. "You even have something like a disciple's gift?"

Thinking of her lover's several disciples, aside from Rin, the other two had both been troublemakers, especially Obito...

Kushina suddenly choked up. That child Obito... what a pity...

"Hm? Sealing Jutsu scrolls?!" Just moments ago, she had been lamenting Obito's sacrifice, but in the next instant, Kushina's attention was drawn to the Sealing Jutsu scrolls among the gifts.

"Yes. The Clan Head and the others carefully selected every gift here." Since they were gifts for a Ninja, they were naturally all related to Ninja.

Considering Minato Namikaze's combat style, which was particularly effective against people, Hyuga Jinren and the others had prepared some means to make up for Minato Namikaze's shortcomings without a second thought.

After all, Minato Namikaze's rare defeat had occurred when he encountered Iwagakure's two Tailed Beast Jinchuriki. That matter could not be kept hidden, so the Hyuga Clan's disciple's gifts included several powerful Sealing Jutsu.

They hoped these would make up for Minato Namikaze's lack of ways to deal with oversized, overpowered creatures.

"Having me teach Minato Sealing Jutsu is enough." Kushina was not boasting. She truly had that capability. After all, she had been taught by First Hokage's Wife, Mito Uzumaki, a Big Shot in Sealing Jutsu. Kushina's Sealing Jutsu might not have been outrageously powerful, but she was definitely extremely skilled with it.

"Master's Wife's Sealing Jutsu is naturally beyond doubt, but the Hyuga Clan's Sealing Jutsu has some merits as well."

"Fine, fine~" Kushina casually set down the scroll in her hand and waved dismissively.

"Then I won't disturb you any longer, Master's Wife." Seeing that the gifts had been placed properly, Baiyue prepared to leave.

"Wait~" Kushina suddenly called out.

"?!"

"I heard that the Hyuga Main Family has always researched Sealing Jutsu? Do you study Sealing Jutsu too?"

"Of course." Baiyue slowly nodded.

"If that's the case, then let me teach you Sealing Jutsu!" Kushina said eagerly.

Kushina, who had often visited while Minato Namikaze taught his three disciples, had always wanted to try teaching disciples herself.

Now, she finally had the chance.

"Then I'll trouble you, Master's Wife!" Baiyue's heart pounded wildly. He truly hadn't expected the opportunity to learn the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu to come so quickly.

Never mind the miscellaneous beginner-level Sealing Jutsu, the Four Symbols Seal and Eight Trigrams Seal used to seal Tailed Beasts, or the suicidal Reaper Death Seal. What Baiyue truly coveted was Adamantine Sealing Chains.

Its suppressive power against Tailed Beasts was already so strong. With further refinement and improvement, it would absolutely become a devastating weapon against Ninja as well.

Besides, it looked so damn cool!

"Then come inside with me~" Kushina, eager to teach, was brimming with excitement.

Baiyue waved to the attendants, signaling them to leave first, then followed Kushina into the house.

"You should have some foundation in Sealing Jutsu, right?!" Kushina was a little excited. Being a Teacher and teaching a disciple! How interesting was that?!

"I've studied it a little~" Baiyue glanced at his level four Sealing Jutsu and nodded.

"Since that's the case, I'll teach you the Eight Trigrams Seal today!" With absolutely no teaching experience, Kushina unhesitatingly pulled out one of her core Sealing Jutsu.

Holy crap!

Good thing I'm the one learning Sealing Jutsu from you. If it were an ordinary person, who knew how confused they'd be.

You started with a high-difficulty Sealing Jutsu right away. Who taught you to teach disciples like that?

Don't be fooled by how the Four Symbols Seal, Eight Trigrams Seal, Five Elements Seal, and the like seemed usable by everyone in the original story. You had to consider who those people were.

Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Danzo—which one of them wasn't a Master?!

By comparison, the Eight Trigrams Seal was at least A-rank. Considering the special nature of Sealing Jutsu, calling it comparable to an ordinary S-rank Forbidden Jutsu would not be unreasonable either.

"Alright, Master's Wife~" Baiyue agreed without hesitation.

"From now on, call me Teacher Kushina!" Kushina immediately said.

"..." Baiyue rolled his eyes, but still obediently replied, "Alright, Teacher Kushina."

"Mhm, mhm!" That single "Teacher" had undoubtedly struck right at Kushina's heart, fully satisfying her urge to teach.

"As for the Eight Trigrams Seal, first..." Kushina explained with great seriousness.

Baiyue listened even more seriously!

Fuck! Good thing I have some foundation, or I really wouldn't have understood this!

Yes, understood by looking, not by listening.

Kushina's explanation was rather erratic. Fortunately, the scroll was on the table, so Baiyue could sneak a few glances at it. Combined with his own foundation, he managed to understand roughly seventy or eighty percent of it.

Next, he only needed plenty of practice and to identify several key points.

"How was it? Did you understand?" Kushina stood with her hands on her hips. "Do you need me to..."

"I roughly understood seventy or eighty percent of it." Baiyue's expression was complicated. If she had simply given him the scroll and let him study it himself, he might actually have learned it completely.

It was not that Kushina's Sealing Jutsu was poor. In fact, her Sealing Jutsu was very strong—at the very least, far stronger than Baiyue's.

The main issue was that Kushina was not very good at teaching. To put it simply, 1+2+6÷6×7+1 was an easy problem when solved in the proper order, yet she insisted on making it complicated. She would even explain it from point A to point D, jump to point F, then go back to point B.

She truly said whatever came to mind.

She had certainly satisfied her desire to be a Teacher, but Baiyue could only feel helpless.

"Huh? You understood it?" Kushina was first stunned, then coughed twice and put on a dignified air. "Then I'll test you. How should the Curse Mark connecting the Kun Character Curse and Qian Character Curse be inscribed?"

"It should be written in Xingzhe Shuwen. Its specific form is nine points and four..."

"...That answer is correct..." Kushina could hardly believe it, yet she had no choice but to.

"Teacher Kushina, may I ask how to outline the fourth layer of the Li Fire Seal and..." After thinking it over, Baiyue still felt that asking targeted questions was more reliable.

"You've already learned this much?" Kushina was stunned. Baiyue had said he had some foundation, but she had never expected it to be this solid?!

This could not even be called a foundation anymore. He was practically a decent backbone member of a Sealing Squad.