Cry Out, Chidori

"Yu!!"

"Do your best! You're the greatest!!"

"Show those guys what you've got! You're the strongest genius in our Konoha Orphanage!!"

Just as Yu stepped into the Training Ground, he heard a series of familiar voices erupting from the crowd of onlookers nearby.

"Urushi?"

"Mayuna? Momoka? And..."

Turning his head, Yu saw Urushi, Mayuna, and the other children from the Konoha Orphanage pushing their way through the crowd, waving their arms and cheering loudly for him.

"Director? You all came?!"

Not only that, but among the crowd, Yu also spotted Yakushi Nonō.

She was wearing the black-rimmed glasses he had given her yesterday, standing beside Urushi and the others, silently cheering him on with her gaze.

"You must do your best, Yu."

"Let all of Konoha, let everyone see your talent and ability..."

Standing in the crowd, her eyes were fixed intently on Yu as he stood in the Training Ground.

Yakushi Nonō's hands were clenched tightly inside her sleeves, revealing the turbulent state of her heart.

"Perform well."

As he passed by the proctor, Kurenai Yuhi's Father, Yu heard the usually calm and reticent man offer him a quiet word of advice.

As the ninja instructor and homeroom teacher for Yu's class, Kurenai Yuhi's Father held high expectations for a student who consistently displayed such astonishing strength and talent.

"Well, I didn't expect the Director and the others to show up..."

"It looks like I'll have to take this a bit more seriously..."

At that moment, feeling the gaze of everyone present focused entirely on him, Yu's lips curled into a faint smile, while his eyes began to emit a sharp, piercing light.

"That brat from the Uchiha Clan put on an impressive show earlier, but I wonder how you'll fare?"

Standing in the center before Yu was a mature-looking genin, carrying the rugged aura of someone who had returned from the battlefield.

"Hey, kid, I suggest you go back to the academy for a few more years!"

"Don't let the results of that Uchiha brat from earlier go to your head."

"That kid is a rare genius, even for the Uchiha Clan!"

A genin with a scar across his face spoke to Yu, his expression filled with obvious disdain.

"We are ninjas who have been to the battlefield; we're not like you kids who have never left the academy."

"If a child who has never killed anyone wets his pants later, don't come crying to us—go home and drink your mother's milk!"

Another genin with a cold, sinister face stood to the side, chiming in with lukewarm mockery.

"What a headache... do you know something?"

Facing the ridicule and disdain of the three genin, Yu stood in the Training Ground and suddenly spoke up.

What?

Hearing Yu's abrupt words, the three genin were visibly stunned.

"In the two-dimensional world, the ones who don't last more than one episode are usually arrogant extras like you."

Staring at the three genin—extras whose faces he couldn't even be bothered to remember—a mocking curve gradually appeared on Yu's lips.

"The rules for this combat assessment are to survive for five minutes, but I don't think that's necessary..."

"Because... I will end this fight in five seconds."

What is he saying?

Five seconds?

As Yu's quiet voice echoed out, the entire massive Training Ground fell into a dead silence.

It wasn't just the three genin; at that moment, even the onlookers began to feel that this white-haired brat was simply boundless in his arrogance!

Who does he think he is?

Senju Hashirama, who ended the chaotic era and pacified the Warring States period? Or Uchiha Madara, the Asura of the ninja world who dominated the lands?

"Hahahaha!!"

"What a kid living in a dream!!"

Sure enough, as soon as Yu finished his seemingly calm statement, the three genin were so angry they laughed.

"He must have been provoked by that Uchiha brat from earlier..."

"Kids who don't know the meaning of death are usually the first to die on the battlefield!"

With that, the scarred genin pulled out a sharp kunai, a cruel smile spreading across his face.

"Who cares! Maybe the brat was scared silly!"

"Go! Let this ignorant brat know what a real ninja is!"

As the words fell, the three genin standing before Yu attacked in unison, drawing their weapons and charging straight at him.

Despite their dismissive words, the three genin were not being overly careless.

The three genin who had been defeated by the Uchiha Clan genius Shisui earlier had become a laughingstock, and they did not want to repeat that mistake against this white-haired brat.

"Has it started?"

"You still have four seconds. Ox-Hare-Monkey..."

Watching the genin split into three directions and sprint toward him, Yu's amber eyes narrowed, his hands instantly forming three seals.

"Cry out! Chidori!!"

In the stunned gaze of everyone present, a blindingly brilliant mass of blue-white lightning suddenly bloomed across the vast Training Ground.

"Zzzzz..."

As if a thousand birds were chirping at once, accompanied by an exceptionally piercing sound, a violent, radiating ball of lightning appeared in Yu's left hand.

The immense momentum instantly drew the attention of everyone present.

"What is this?!"

"What kind of jutsu is this?!"

Seeing the jutsu Yu suddenly unleashed in the Training Ground, everyone present was shocked, for none of them recognized it.

"That kind of visible chakra?!"

"Are you kidding me! A jutsu of that level!!"

"How could it possibly appear on a brat who hasn't even graduated from the Ninja Academy?!"

In the crowd of onlookers, a veteran ninja blurted out in disbelief.

After all, in this era, no one had ever seen a jutsu like Chidori.

Hatake Kakashi was only eleven years old and had not yet developed this A-rank Lightning Release jutsu.

"Forbidden jutsu!!"

"It's actually a forbidden jutsu!!"

"That brat, he can actually use a forbidden jutsu of this level?!"

Not only that, but hearing the faint chirping of the Chidori echoing from the Ninja Academy Training Ground in the distance, even the Third Hokage, who was watching through a crystal ball using the Telescope Technique in the Hokage's office, along with Danzo and two other high-ranking Konoha officials, wore expressions of pure shock.

"I've never seen a Lightning Release jutsu like that... Could it be that this brat developed it himself?!"

The Third Hokage, known as the 'Professor' of ninjutsu, was proficient in all five elemental transformations, yet he realized at this moment that he had never seen such a Lightning Release jutsu before.

His weathered, wise eyes had never been as astonished as they were at this very moment.