"Space-time ninjutsu?"
"Yue-kun, you're incredible!"
After Uchiha Yue used Falling Moon Style: Flash Step and vanished from the battlefield along with old Chiyo and her puppets, Minato Namikaze looked toward where Yue had disappeared and could not help but smile slightly. At that moment, Minato sincerely admired the space-time ninjutsu Yue had used. After all, even if Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique now, it was nowhere near as convenient as Yue's Falling Moon Style: Flash Step. Nor could he, like Yue, use space-time ninjutsu solely through the rhythm of his footwork.
However, as the future Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze would naturally not easily admit defeat before Uchiha Yue. Thus, after realizing that Yue's mastery of space-time ninjutsu surpassed his own, Minato began considering his training. At that moment, he truly believed that he should develop in the direction of space-time ninjutsu. Only then could he find his own path to becoming stronger.
Unfortunately, before Minato could devise a training plan that fully suited him, the Sunagakure ninjas around him had already surrounded him. Minato then led Kushina Uzumaki and the Uchiha Clan's elite unit into battle against the Sunagakure ninjas. Without question, once old Chiyo, their primary fighting force, had disappeared, the Sunagakure ninjas had no way to stop powerful ninjas like Minato and Kushina, much less the Uchiha Clan's elite unit.
Then, as Uchiha Yue completely kept old Chiyo occupied, Minato led Kushina and the Uchiha Clan's elite unit in driving the Sunagakure ninja force before them into repeated retreat. Before long, Minato and Kushina would likely finish the battle here and go assist Yue against old Chiyo, securing a complete victory in this clash with the Sunagakure ninjas.
Yet just as Minato and Kushina believed that, with the Uchiha Clan's elite unit under their command, they