This Life of Mine is Second to None! (Includes Protagonist Character Art)

Yuki Yuichi and Yuhi Kurenai did not go to lunch with the others; because Kurenai was soaked to the bone, the two of them went home first to bathe and change into fresh clothes.

"Kurenai, this outfit is really ugly." Watching Kurenai change into her new clothes, Yuichi stroked his chin and remarked.

"Eh?" Hearing his words, Kurenai walked over to the mirror and did a spin. "My dad bought it, it shouldn't be that bad, right?"

Kurenai didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but in Yuichi's eyes, the outfit was truly hideous.

"Uncle Shinku has terrible taste."

"Eh?" Kurenai looked at him, puzzled.

Yuichi ignored her confusion, instead taking her hand and heading outside while saying, "We're going to buy you some clothes this afternoon!"

He had thought it was fine before, but looking at Kurenai's clothes now, they were truly ugly.

Ugly to the point of absurdity.

For a moment, Yuichi was even a bit confused as to how someone with Yuhi Shinku's taste managed to raise a girl like Kurenai, who was cute as a child and grew up to be such a mature beauty.

He had money now, so buying Kurenai a couple of outfits wouldn't be a burden.

Besides, it was Shinku's money anyway.

Using his money to raise his daughter—it was perfectly reasonable.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Ninja Academy bell rang right on time.

Yuichi and Kurenai sat at their desks, chatting idly.

The class bell had rung a while ago, but Umino Ikkaku was not in the classroom.

Uchiha Obito was late, and Ikkaku was outside scolding him.

Occasionally, their voices drifted inside.

Because Obito was with Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy, so...

All three of them were late.

"Yuichi, why is Obito always late?" Kurenai poked Yuichi carefully with her finger and asked curiously.

"It seems like Obito is late every single day."

Yuichi didn't know how to answer Kurenai's question, so he said uncertainly, "It must be the guidance of fate?"

"Honestly, I don't know why he's late so often either," Yuichi said truthfully.

In his memories, Obito was usually late because he was helping others.

But since it happened every day, he could only attribute it to the guidance of fate.

Ikkaku's lecture didn't last too long; around 1:30, he let the three of them into the classroom.

Kakashi wore a dead-fish expression, sitting at his desk with a look of utter despair.

Yuichi poked his spine and asked curiously, "Did you run into an old lady who needed help?"

"No..." Kakashi turned his head, looking at him with a hollow gaze, and said word by word, "We were blocked by a black cat... and we couldn't get around it..."

Yuichi: "..."

Kurenai: "..."

Seeing that Kakashi didn't seem to be lying, Yuichi could only lament that this world was becoming increasingly bizarre.

Just as the three of them were speechless, Ikkaku gave a light cough on the podium. "Class begins now!"

"Everyone, open your Will of Fire textbooks to page ten."

"Today, we are studying the greatest Hokage—the Third Hokage!"

"In the early days of Konoha, the one hailed as the strongest Hokage, the Third..."

As Ikkaku lectured on the podium, Yuichi feigned a look of intense concentration while actually zoning out.

Even though he was spacing out, Yuichi still nodded from time to time to show his agreement.

The stuff in the Will of Fire was fine to look at, but it couldn't be trusted.

In Yuichi's eyes, what Ikkaku was preaching on the podium wasn't the Will of Fire; it was damn pyramid-scheme brainwashing.

Using individual anecdotes and empty slogans to brainwash the students.

Although Yuichi had been an ordinary person in his past life, he had at least seen all sorts of things on the internet; this level of brainwashing was child's play to him.

He just needed to make sure Kurenai didn't get brainwashed.

However, he believed that with him around, and with a father like Shinku who only taught them survival skills, Kurenai shouldn't be easily swayed.

As Yuichi thought about these things, his mind gradually wandered.

He had practiced tree-climbing in the morning and discovered during the process that he could manipulate the gravity and repulsion inherent to his own chakra according to his intentions.

Although it wasn't strong, it should be sufficient for tree-climbing and water-walking.

Yuichi even suspected that the ninjas' tree-climbing and water-walking techniques were just applications of this very skill.

However, Yuhi Shinku was not around, and he could not find anyone else to ask.

He would just have to wait until Yuhi Shinku returned from his mission to inquire.

Nevertheless, the idea had taken root in his mind; a wisp of pale red chakra emerged from his fingertips, transforming into a thin thread that danced across the tabletop.

Yuki Yuichi possessed both Lightning and Fire affinities, inherent to his chakra; until he learned other chakra natures, he was limited to using Lightning Release and Fire Release.

Since these were his innate chakra affinities, his chakra naturally carried the properties of both Lightning and Fire.

As he released the chakra from his body, Yuhi Kurenai watched with curiosity, simultaneously attempting to release chakra from her own fingertips.

It was also a pale red chakra, though the color was deeper than that of Yuki Yuichi.

"Try to retract the fire property in your mind," Yuki Yuichi's voice sounded in her ear.

Yuhi Kurenai followed his instructions, and then she saw her chakra, which had been a deeper red than Yuki Yuichi's, fade slightly, and under her control, the red hue diminished further and further.

Finally, it turned into a colorless thread of chakra.

It carried no color at all; this was the natureless state.

The Rasengan is a natureless ninjutsu.

The initial Rasengan was natureless, and it only became Wind Release: Rasengan as it was gradually developed.

Then came the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, Big Ball Rasengan, and so on.

It could be said that this is a versatile, all-purpose ninjutsu.

Adding any nature to the natureless Rasengan would transform it into a Rasengan of that corresponding attribute.

Thereby, one could develop different series of spiral ninjutsu.

Yuki Yuichi was interested in the Rasengan, but not particularly so.

The Rasengan did not suit him; despite the fact that he used taijutsu in fights, relying on his powerful physique to suppress Kakashi Hatake and the others, he defined himself as a ninjutsu-type ninja.

I have a powerful physique and strong recovery abilities, but that does not prevent me from being a ninjutsu-type ninja.

Thinking about the various possibilities of the Rasengan, Yuki Yuichi wondered if, once he mastered the shape transformation and nature transformation of Fire Release, he could utilize the characteristics of fire to develop a flight-based ninjutsu.

He was simply too eager to improve.

Moreover, he did not believe he could only rely on the Achievement System.

He, Yuki Yuichi, would never be inferior to anyone in his life!

If Minato Namikaze could develop the first Rasengan of the spiral series, was there any problem with him, Yuki Yuichi, developing his own series of ninjutsu?

There was absolutely no problem!

Yuki Yuichi was lost in thought, and the chakra thread in his hand retracted unconsciously.

His head still nodded from time to time to the rhythm of Umino Ikkaku.

Meanwhile, in the Hokage Office, Uzumaki Kushina kicked the office door open.

She walked inside, bringing Minato Namikaze with her.