Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a week had gone by.
During that week, Hyuga Shinichi had not taken on any missions. Instead, he helped Namikaze Minato develop Light Release.
Ever since Hyuga Shinichi had teased Namikaze Minato about his embarrassingly edgy naming sense a week ago, Namikaze Minato had asked him to help develop Light Release. As the older brother figure, Hyuga Shinichi readily agreed.
Over that week, Namikaze Minato's development of Light Release had no longer been limited to coating kunai with it.
By now, he had successfully covered his hands, feet, and other parts of his body with Light Release chakra, allowing for much broader applications.
The idea behind developing Light Release came from Hyuga Shinichi drawing inspiration from a famous anime from his previous life.
It was one of the three great mainstream manga series on par with Naruto: One Piece.
In it, the Marine admiral Kizaru had eaten the Glint-Glint Fruit and become a light human, and every one of his attacks was related to light.
Namikaze Minato's Light Release was not all that different, so Hyuga Shinichi used that as the basis to help him develop it.
Although Namikaze Minato had only just mastered Light Release, his exceptional talent combined with Hyuga Shinichi's help allowed him to develop Flash Kick and Flash Kunai in just a few days.
Of course, Namikaze Minato's Flash Kick could not reach the speed of light like Kizaru's light-speed kick, which was why it was simply called Flash Kick.
While coating his body in Light Release chakra could not grant him Kizaru's speed of light, its attack power was still extremely high. A single kick could easily snap a massive tree that would take two people to wrap their arms around.
There was also Flash