Bell-Grabbing × Sarutobi Hiruzen's Interference

"Squeak"

Hokage Building, Hokage's Office.

Sarutobi Hiruzen leaned forward and suddenly sat up straight. The chair beneath him lurched backward from the force of the movement, leaving two shallow white marks on the wooden floor.

"Light?"

The fireflies bloomed and faded, and the Sun-Earring Boy was surrounded by a soft halo. He transformed into a "band of light" and merged into the sunlight. In a flash, he shot forward nearly a thousand meters!

This distance already exceeds the [Swamp Space] by an unknown amount.

Sarutobi Hiruzen his face against the Crystal Ball, watching intently with bated breath. His old face, etched with fine lines, subtly twitched, and he immediately fell into deep thought...

[Yin][Yang][Five Elements] Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Thunder— Sarutobi Hiruzen had some knowledge of all of these, but this was the first time he had ever seen something developed based on [Light]... [Light Release]...

Or rather, it shouldn't be called "Light Release"; it should be called a variant of "Yang Release"!

[Yang Release] is something only the Senju Clan and Uzumaki Clan clans possess!

Sarutobi Hiruzen squinted at the small Sun-Earring Boy in the Crystal Ball, who was constantly transforming into sunlight and traversing the dense forest with Nohara Rin. The boy's handsome face resembled Fugaku in three parts and Mikoto in seven parts. He was clearly Uchiha!

It was impossible for them to have even the slightest connection with [Senju Clan], [Uzumaki Clan], or even [Yang Release]!

"Then, there's only one possibility left." The problem lies with the child himself! Sarutobi Hiruzen slumped back into his chair, his pen sweeping across the long scroll, leaving a dark, indelible mark that perfectly erased Roy's name...

He sat there, watching, no longer caring about the ink stains ruining the scroll, until the scene shifted, Sun-Earring Boy suddenly stopped, straightening his back and continuing to gaze intently at the Crystal Ball...

Southern Forest

Using "Photokinesis," Roy, carrying Nohara Rin, brushed past Kakashi and Obito's shoulders, disappearing directly into a ray of sunlight beside them... leaving the two far behind... After a brief moment of astonishment, Kakashi and Obito exchanged a glance, both seeing an indescribable shock in each other's eyes!

"A person can turn into light?" Kakashi, his face half-covered by his mask, tilted his head and asked Obito, "Is it the Sharingan?"

Although the four simple words weren't elaborated upon, Obito quickly understood what Kakashi meant. He must have also heard about the incredible powers the Uchiha Clan possessed after awakening their Sharingan, but... considering Sharingan Obito by Roy's deliberate infusion of "Negative Emotions,"

The Sun-Earring Boy vaguely felt that something as "beautiful" as "light" was definitely not something that the Uchiha Clan, who possessed the Sharingan, could have. On the contrary, it was something that the Uchiha feared and longed for but could never reach!

"The Uchiha's inherent evil isn't just an empty phrase." Obito, recalling the Illusion Jutsu of the future he saw while under a genjutsu, took a deep breath and slowly shook his head, saying, "I don't know, but..."

"I don't think that looks like the Sharingan."

Obito spoke, a hint of crimson slowly crept into his eyes, meeting Kakashi's gaze. "At least, he didn't activate it, did he?" Kakashi was taken aback, then fell silent... Just as Obito said, Roy's eyes were clear and bright, almost like the sun, yet no crimson crept in! The Sun-Earring Boy's white hair swayed, and after a moment, he exhaled, squinting at the Sun-Earring Boy and girl who had already reached the finish line ahead of them. "If that's really the case, then it can only be said... that he, Uchiha Jin, is... different from everyone else!"

"Unique..." Obito murmured repeatedly, gazing ahead.

"Unique..." Namikaze Minato arrived Kunai branded with the "Flying Thunder God Formula" seal. Returning to Roy's side, he saw Roy still lost in his mystical state, catching a ray of sunlight with a dazed expression. Minato's face was complex and indescribable. He had to admit... Kakashi was right... People are indeed different. Different starting points, different experiences, different talents, different innate wisdom, different personalities—and all of this seems to have only one thing in common: they will all eventually die!

But do all people ultimately die?

As the ancients said, life grows towards the sun, and that yin alone cannot grow, nor can yang alone produce life... Roy was immersed in the realization of "becoming sunlight," listening to the constant echoes of the panel's prompts...

["Yang Release" +100 +100 +100...]

It quickly broke through 40,000 and entered the 50,000 realm... Display 1

[Yang Release: Iv4 (43515/100000→52417/100000)]

Roy opened his palm, letting the ray of sunlight slip through his fingers. Then, he pointed his index finger at a wooden stake standing in the training field ahead. With a "whoosh," a thin beam of light shot out, striking the stake and creating a hole the size of a finger! "Light... a beam of sunlight... is also the most important aspect of [the sun] that I had never thought of before... just like my eyes, which I never imagined would one day house Laser."

A crimson light surged in his eyes, and suddenly another laser beam followed the finger's trajectory, opening another small hole in the lower eaves of the wooden stake... Roy attempted to use "light" as a foundation, unleashing his imagination to develop various methods. Finally, he clapped his hands together, drawing a Light Sword from between them, raising it high, just as Namikaze Minato's eerie voice reached his ears...

What kind of sword is this?

Namikaze Minato sensed the terrifying energy emanating from the Light Sword and asked solemnly.

Roy casually twirled his sword, the resulting flashes falling into the ground and creating a bottomless hole from which groundwater oozed. Lost in thought, he murmured, "The Ame-no-Murakumo... its name is the Ame-no-Murakumo!"

Beneath the sky, above the clouds, only the sun hangs high in the sky.

That's truly a... very good name.

Namikaze Minato casually tucked the Kunai in his hand into his waistband, smiled, and extended his right hand to Roy: "Let me introduce you, I'm your mentor for this trip, Namikaze Minato."

"Uchiha Jin," Roy sheathed his Light Sword and reached out to clasp his hands with Namikaze Minato's.

One possessed a self-created Light Release, the other radiated warmth like the sun... Two figures, one large and one small, were reflected in Sarutobi Hiruzen, through the Crystal Ball.

The old man seemed to finally remember his pipe, picked it up, took a puff, and his face disappeared into the billowing smoke, making him indistinct...

"How wonderful. Such radiant young people..." A sigh echoed Youyou in the Hokage's office for a moment... Perhaps recalling his own youthful days, or perhaps overwhelmed by emotion, Sarutobi Hiruzen of tobacco from his pipe, then rose, donned his Hokage Haori Hokage Hat and hat, and stepped out the door.

"Squeak..." The door to the Hokage's office opened and closed again.

Footsteps echoed past the Hokage Building, over the bustling streets outside, and amidst the greetings exchanged between Konoha villagers, merchants, and Ninja, the sound involuntarily drifted towards... the Southern Forest.

At that moment, Roy noticed the gaze that had been secretly watching him disappear, and subtly withdrew his hand from Namikaze Minato's grasp. He glanced sideways at Nohara Rin, who was walking towards him.

The other person clutched the hem of their clothes, lowered their eyes, and murmured, "Thank you."

Her usual sweet and gentle demeanor seemed somewhat disoriented and at a loss for words when she met him. "... What's wrong with me?"

"Nohara Rin, you should raise your head and look him in the eye boldly..."

Her cheeks flushed; the girl seemed... not yet to have escaped the illusion of "Photokinesis."

Roy understood and nodded slightly at her, saying, "You're welcome."

The Sun-Earring Boy's gaze passed over Nohara Rin and looked behind her. Finally reaching the finish line, Kakashi and Obito, panting heavily, said, "Because I made everyone take the blame, I should bear the responsibility."

Minato Namikaze Minato, arms crossed, watched Kakashi and Obito approach, and nodded subtly... What are comrades? What are bonds? This is it.

A gust of wind blew by, causing the man's blond hair to sway. Minato Namikaze Minato and said, "Alright, let's begin today's training." He then pulled a Bell from his pocket.

"Dingdingtang panting..."

The Bell swayed in the wind, making a clear, ringing sound.

Noticing this scene, Roy's thoughts raced, flashing back to the future. Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura's first team-up was to snatch the Bell from Kakashi. He glanced at Kakashi beside him, thinking, "This is an old Konoha tradition, its origins uncertain. Perhaps it traces back to the Third Hokage, or even the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama. But... the Bell is here, the expected team-up hasn't materialized..." Namikaze Minato instructed Kakashi Obito, and Rin to practice their duel, then stood in front of Roy, shaking the gleaming Bell, and smiled at him, saying, "To be honest, before you came, I was thinking of having you cooperate with Kakashi and the others to snatch this Bell from me, but..." After witnessing Roy's various skills as he traversed the forest carrying the log, Namikaze Minato immediately changed his mind, looking at Roy seriously, "I think with your strength, you shouldn't need their cooperation."

Is that considered a compliment?

"Of course." Namikaze Minato said solemnly, "From the moment I announce the start, please treat me as an enemy."

"Enemy," Roy chewed on the word, straightening his back and instantly Transformation his aura!

"Boom!" The overwhelming power of [Lian] surged outwards from the Sun-Earring Boy's center, crushing everything in its path!

Not far away... just across a training ground from Roy and Namikaze Minato, in an open area, Kakashi was fighting Obito and Rin alone. Caught off guard by the impact of Nen Qi, he staggered, nearly colliding with Obito. Obito rolled up his sleeves Obito a powerful upward punch, then looked back in shock... In the very center of the training ground, Roy, his black hair flying wildly as if emerging from the sun, his mouth radiating [True Meaning of Scorching Heat], stared intently at Namikaze Minato, calmly saying, "I have always treated my enemies with the aim of killing them, therefore..."

"Teacher, are you sure you're serious?"

Namikaze Minato, his blond hair flying wildly in the wind, faced [Ren] directly, thinking to himself, "Such powerful Chakra!"

Instead of retreating, he stepped forward and said with a calm smile, "Of course!"

The man drew his Kunai with a backhand motion, twirled it in his palm, and held it firmly in his hand. He then squinted at Roy and said, "Since you've called me 'teacher,' if I don't understand your strength, I'll make the wrong judgment during the mission."

"Too,"

Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in every battle, but... Roy glanced behind him and said, "What the teacher said is true, but I think it's necessary to have a witness. If anyone is really hurt, there needs to be an explanation."

"Step... on... the road..." Footsteps sounded.

Noticing Roy's gaze, Namikaze Minato looked in the direction Roy was looking...

A figure in a white Hokage Haori emerged from a corner of the dense forest, followed by the familiar Hokage Hat, and beneath it, an old face etched with the marks of time and hardship.

"The Third Hokage?!" Namikaze Minato was stunned for a moment, then glanced at him again.

Sarutobi Hiruzen emerged from the dense forest, glanced Youyou at him and Roy, and said with a smile, "I came here certainly not to be a witness." They're both my flesh and blood; I don't want either of them to get hurt...

The contemporary Hokage, speaking, stepped into the range of [Ren], facing Roy's [Ren] directly, feeling the "light" and "heat," "absorption" and "repulsion," "wind and fire" and "lightning," "water ripples" and "rock" mixed within it. He stopped, staring intently at Roy, and said, "This doesn't seem like the ' Chakra Extraction Technique ' you were taught at school!"

[Chakra Extraction Technique]: Derived from "physical strength," a product processed through "physical strength"... Compared to the Four Major Principles of "mindfulness," the so-called mixture of "physical energy" and "spiritual energy" is ultimately somewhat superficial...

Roy looked calmly at Sarutobi Hiruzen, "The school doesn't teach people to graduate early."

Sarutobi Hiruzen:

His breath hitched.

He glared at Roy helplessly. "Look at your own abilities, is it appropriate for you to stay in school any longer?"

A guy who can fight a sword-to-sword match with Sakumo, and he's supposedly a student who hasn't even graduated from the Ninja Academy yet... If the major ninja villages knew this, they'd probably suspect Konoha was just bragging and deliberately trying to demoralize them!

"I'm not seven yet," Roy said noncommittally. "What's wrong with not being old enough to graduate?"

Seven years old... It would have been better if Roy hadn't brought it up, because once he did... Everyone, including Sarutobi Hiruzen, Namikaze Minato, and even Kakashi, Obito, and Rin who were forced to stop fighting nearby, fell silent.

Although Kakashi graduated from the Ninja Academy at the age of six, look at that other six-year-old: creating his own ninjutsu, performing techniques without hand seals, and mastering Space-Time Ninjutsu with ease... Kakashi wished his mask were longer so he could just cover his entire face, to avoid... being too ashamed to show his face...

Yes, he's only seven years old... This is Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Yes, he's only seven years old... This is Namikaze Minato.

At this moment, the Southern Forest fell into an eerie silence, broken only occasionally by the chirping of a bird that pierced the sky... Sarutobi Hiruzen back to reality and beckoned to Roy: "We'll talk about it after training, kid... come with me..."