Minato's Blissful Troubles

"Hoo... hoo..."

Accompanied by rhythmic breathing and footsteps, Minato ran through the streets of Konoha.

The sun had just risen, and the first warm rays of autumn sunlight shone upon Konohagakure.

Minato had left his dilapidated wooden hut on the outskirts of the village early that morning, and with cheerful steps, he arrived at the Police Department.

Inabi, on duty at the entrance of the Police Department, saw Minato jogging over, sweat already dripping from his chin. He stepped forward and asked, "Did you run into any trouble?"

"No trouble at all, I'm here to see Senior Qingguang," Minato explained.

"Looking for Team Leader Qingguang?" Inabi recalled Qingguang telling him yesterday afternoon that a child with golden hair would come to the Police Department to find him today.

"You must be Minato, right? The team leader mentioned you yesterday. The office in the middle on the third floor, that's where he is."

"Thank you, Senior Inabi. Thank you for your hard work, Senior Inabi," Minato said, bowing slightly. His demeanor was very polite.

He walked towards the Police Department's office building.

Inabi watched Minato's retreating figure, a smile unconsciously appearing on his face.

"What a good kid, just like Captain Qingguang."

For a long time, Qingguang had been his peer. He only knew Qingguang as a reliable and likable friend.

But now, encountering a junior who was almost identical, he finally understood why the elders and the clan head at the clan meeting that day liked Qingguang so much.

With such a junior who possessed a nearly perfect personality, who wouldn't like him?

"Knock, knock, knock..."

"Come in, just leave the documents on the left side of the desk," Qingguang said, looking down as he reviewed the day's paperwork.

He didn't notice that the person entering wasn't a clerical staff member delivering documents.

"Senior Qingguang, it's me."

"Hmm? Minato, you're here so early?"

"Sit nearby for a while. If there are no other documents today, I'll be finished in about half an hour."

"You haven't had breakfast yet, have you? The cafeteria will be open soon. I'll take you to get something to eat before training."

Qingguang spoke to Minato while meticulously examining the contents of the documents.

Minato watched this diligent scene, feeling even more that Qingguang was an extremely responsible senior, worthy of his study.

Half an hour later, Qingguang and Minato sat in the cafeteria.

Minato's gaze was fixed on the steamed buns in the steamer basket. He smelled the aroma of dough in the air, and his stomach even let out a faint growl.

"Eat up. If you don't eat enough, how will you have the energy to train later?"

"Yes, Senior Qingguang."

More than ten minutes later, a tall stack of empty steamer baskets had accumulated beside Minato.

Watching Minato eat, Qingguang said, "You can eat at the Police Department from now on."

Minato paused his hand, which was reaching for a bun. He felt a little embarrassed and wanted to refuse, but Qingguang interrupted him.

"Adding one more person or one less person won't make much of a difference to the cafeteria. Look over there."

Following Qingguang's finger, Minato saw a row of Ninja Dogs gnawing on fresh chunks of meat.

Only then did Minato stop pushing back.

After the meal, on the training grounds, Qingguang handed Minato a piece of chakra paper.

"Infuse your chakra into this paper. Depending on how the paper changes, you can determine the chakra nature in your body."

Minato concentrated, closed his eyes, and meditated.

He seemed to feel a gentle breeze blowing, followed by a slight warmth and a tingling sensation in his hand.

Qingguang looked at the paper, which was cut in half, with one half burning and the other half wrinkled. He had his answer.

"Wind, lightning, fire. You naturally possess three attributes. First, tell me your thoughts on these three jutsu, and which one you want to learn first."

Instead of just giving fish, Qingguang believed in teaching how to fish. He didn't intend to rigidly guide Minato. For such a genius, allowing him to explore his thoughts and extract wisdom was the best teaching method.

"Wind, fire, lightning..."

Minato began to recall the content taught at the Ninja Academy. Finally, he quickly made a decision.

"Senior Qingguang, I want to learn wind style first."

"Reason?" Qingguang pressed.

"At the Ninja Academy, the teacher said that wind style is the rarest attribute among the five chakra natures."

"Also, the attribute I felt most strongly just now was likely wind chakra."

"Have you thought it through? A ninja's energy is limited. The jutsu learned at the very beginning often becomes the jutsu they excel at for their entire lives. Like Lord Hokage, who can master all five elements, there is only one such ninja in all of Konoha, and perhaps the entire ninja world."

"Yes, I've thought it through," Minato nodded firmly.

"Okay." Qingguang formed hand seals, and a gust of wind blew from behind him, sweeping the surrounding withered leaves together and piling them up in front of Minato.

"Your training today is to use wind-style chakra to cut them all in half."

"You can't burn them, and you can't wrinkle them. It must be a wind cut."

"When you can perform Leaf Sever and the cut surface is smooth, I'll start teaching you ninjutsu."

"If you get tired during this time, just look at this." Qingguang took out a scroll from his sleeve, which recorded a lot of analysis and summaries of wind-style chakra.

Although most of the Uchiha Clan used fire, wind-style ninjas were extremely rare. However, in terms of ninjutsu, they had quite a bit of various elemental styles.

These were all spoils of war from the Sengoku period, usually gathering dust in the warehouse. With Qingguang's current status, it was natural for him to take some.

Minato took it. As soon as he opened the scroll, a white mist dispersed, and with a bang.

A rustling sound of scrolls spilled out from inside, engulfing Minato.

Sitting up from the ground, Minato looked at the vast "sea of books" beside him, experiencing the "blessing in disguise" for the first time.

Before, he felt that what the Ninja Academy taught was too little, and he didn't have enough books to read. He still wanted to learn.

But now, Qingguang had brought out so many scrolls at once, and they were all wind-style scrolls, over a hundred of them. This...

When would he finish reading them?

Not only Minato was surprised, but Qingguang also didn't expect it.

Is this a space scroll? he hadn't checked carefully. He had just told the person managing the warehouse to get him the most complete and best wind-style scrolls, so why did he get so many?

"Ahem, you don't have to rush to finish them now, but if you're eager to learn and finish them all, I still have scrolls for other elemental styles, and I can..."

"No, Senior Qingguang, you're right. You can't chew more than you can swallow. I also feel that learning wind style right now is enough."

"Other elemental styles can wait for later, for later."

Minato got up, walked to the side, held the withered leaves in his palm, and began to train.

By the end of the day, the training ground was covered in shredded leaves.

Minato's figure remained on the training ground until the sky gradually darkened, and Qingguang reappeared.

"How is it?"

Minato scratched his head with some distress, "I can cut them easily, but I can't make the cut surface neat."