Tokiju, Thousand-Hand Tokiju

Preface:

Read without overthinking, life is beautiful and fine. Reality is already exhausting enough, why waste mental energy? Lay down your weary body and share in the life of a slacker!

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Year 29 of Konoha.

Konoha, the Hidden Leaf Village, the ancestral home of the Senju.

"Big brother, big brother Tokiju! Wake up, please..."

The persistent calling was so noisy that Tokiju, who was trying to catch up on his sleep, felt incredibly annoyed.

He sat up impatiently, glared at the brat in front of him, and said, "Little brother, if you don't have a good reason for this, you'd better watch out or I'll beat you!"

He had spent the entire night practicing chakra refinement, and he was currently at his most exhausted.

No one would have a pleasant expression after being woken up like this, unless the person waking you was your mother.

But the brat in front of him, who was the same age as him, was clearly not that.

Instead, he was his younger brother, suppressed by Tokiju's bloodline—Nawaki, or rather, Senju Nawaki.

However, due to the policies of the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, the Senju clan had completely faded into the background of Konoha.

In the current Konoha, there was no longer a Senju clan, or more accurately, the surname Senju no longer existed.

But this didn't matter, especially not to the three "imperial grandchildren" of Konoha: Tsunade, Nawaki, and Tokiju.

Everyone in Konoha knew that these three were the direct grandchildren of the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama.

Therefore, it was acceptable for the three of them to be a bit willful at times; as long as it wasn't anything serious, everyone would just turn a blind eye.

After all, the backing for these three was far too solid—don't forget that Uzumaki Mito was still alive and well.

As the wife of the First Hokage, the jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails, and the woman with the highest seniority in Konoha, her influence was immense.

Whether it was Tsunade, Nawaki, or Tokiju, she doted on them excessively as the last of her bloodline.

Although her usual teachings were extremely strict, at all other times, she spoiled them to no end.

So, as long as the three of them didn't commit any major mistakes, nothing would happen to them.

But would the three of them ever commit a major mistake?

Clearly not.

Not to mention that they had Uzumaki Mito watching over them, their own personalities prevented them from doing anything truly wrong.

Whether it was Tsunade or Nawaki, as the grandchildren of the First Hokage, they loved the village deeply.

Coupled with the strict upbringing of Uzumaki Mito, they would never dream of crossing the village's bottom line.

As for Tokiju, he possessed the experience of two lifetimes and knew exactly what should and shouldn't be done.

That's right, Tokiju was a transmigrator.

In his previous life, he had finally earned more money than he could spend in a lifetime before reaching the age of thirty.

He had intended to start enjoying life, but before he could even be happy for a few days, he was flattened by a semi-truck like a speed bump.

When he woke up, he found himself as an infant babbling away, with a little brother about the same age beside him.

He had initially thought the Meng Po soup had been watered down, but as the days passed, he slowly realized he had transmigrated.

And he had transmigrated into the messed-up world of Naruto.

As someone who had read one of the completed mainstream manga, Tokiju naturally knew the general plot and, more importantly, the dangers of this world.

Although it was jokingly called "Eye Legend," it was actually quite accurate.

In a world where bloodline was supreme, if you lacked a bloodline, you were nothing but cannon fodder.

Unless you had a golden finger or a system cheat, you could never hope to turn your life around.

Furthermore, Tokiju discovered that the current time was the late twenties of Konoha, only a few years away from the Second Shinobi World War.

By that time, Tokiju would be exactly at the age to be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder, which made the situation even more screwed up.

But fortunately, as he grew up, Tokiju discovered he was a member of the Senju family—specifically, Tsunade's younger brother and Nawaki's older brother.

This immediately calmed his panicked heart.

As a direct descendant of Senju Hashirama, although the power of his Sage Body had yet to manifest due to his age, he discovered during his daily studies that he had a great talent for sealing jutsu.

Under the tutelage of Uzumaki Mito, he was able to master the complex basic knowledge of sealing jutsu that would baffle an average ninja at an incredibly fast pace.

While his experience from two lifetimes played a part, he was genuinely fascinated by sealing jutsu.

Back when he watched Naruto, he always felt that sealing jutsu was incredibly versatile—it could seal practically anything.

Amaterasu is powerful, right? But a Fire Sealing Method could handle it.

The Nine-Tails is powerful, right? But it was still spun around like a top by the Uzumaki Clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains.

Because his grandmother was Uzumaki Mito, the blood of the Uzumaki Clan also flowed through his veins.

Although this bloodline is very thin, it exists nonetheless.

Therefore, Tokiju has the potential to awaken the Adamantine Sealing Chains, and he is currently working hard in that direction.

After all, he did not awaken any system or golden finger, and he felt quite dejected about that for a long time.

Thus, in order to protect himself in the future, he began pestering Uzumaki Mito to teach him sealing jutsu as soon as he was old enough to move his body freely.

Uzumaki Mito, who was constantly being pestered, eventually grew annoyed.

Thinking that the complexity of sealing jutsu would be impossible for a child to sit through, let alone understand, she handed the basic scrolls of sealing jutsu to Tokiju.

However, to her surprise, not only did Tokiju sit through them, but he actually understood them.

If it weren't for the fact that Tokiju was still too young to practice chakra at the time, he would have already been tossing out a few sealing jutsus for fun.

Seeing this, Uzumaki Mito was deeply shocked; was her own grandson really such a genius?

From then on, under the resentful gazes of Tsunade and Nawaki, Tokiju evolved into the "child of someone else's family."

Seeing that Tokiju had such great talent for sealing jutsu, Uzumaki Mito's desire to teach ignited, and she began to instruct him personally.

Tokiju was naturally happy to see this and immediately entered his "I'm-going-to-learn-the-hell-out-of-this" mode.

Under Uzumaki Mito's personal guidance, he acquired a vast amount of fundamental knowledge regarding the sealing jutsus of the Uzumaki Clan.

And this knowledge was precisely one of the necessary conditions for awakening the Adamantine Sealing Chains.

It should be noted here that the Adamantine Sealing Chains is not a Kekkei Genkai, but a sealing jutsu developed based on the bloodline of the Uzumaki Clan.

In other words, the Adamantine Sealing Chains is simply a skill that only the Uzumaki Clan can learn.

It is a powerful sealing jutsu that relies on the massive amount of chakra within the bodies of the Uzumaki Clan to erupt instantaneously.

This means that for Tokiju right now, the only thing blocking him from awakening the Adamantine Sealing Chains is the amount of chakra in his body.

This was also the reason why he stayed up all night practicing chakra refinement yesterday.

After all, many of the ideas in his head could only be attempted after he had truly awakened the Adamantine Sealing Chains and experienced it for himself.

Looking at his eldest brother's displeased face, Nawaki shrank his neck; he was truly a bit afraid of this brother of his.

Whether it was Grandma Mito or sister Tsunade, both doted on him, but this eldest brother did not; when this brother was unhappy, he would actually beat him.

Although he was only born a few minutes after him, an elder brother is an elder brother, especially for families with a certain heritage.

"Brother Tokiju, Grandma Mito is looking for you and asked me to come get you," Nawaki said, shrinking his neck and speaking in a timid tone.

Hearing this, Tokiju rubbed his weary eyes and replied, "Got it, I'll be there right away."