Minato vs. Jin

"Who dares break into the ninja school!" a stern voice cut Jin off.

In an instant, several ninja school teachers appeared around them, surrounding Kakashi and the others.

But once they saw who it was, all the teachers breathed a sigh of relief... Wasn't this the legendary student, Uchiha Jin?

After Jin finished apologizing to the teachers, one of the teachers who had taught him—though Jin could not remember his name—said, "Don't use ninjutsu in the school." Then they all left.

"You're Uchiha Jin? The genius ninja Uchiha Jin who graduated from the ninja school as an exception and went from genin to chunin in just a few short months?" Obito looked at Jin with worship all over his face.

And with Obito's explanation, the other students' eyes instantly filled with admiration too.

"Haha... No, no, it was all luck. Just luck." Jin scratched his head "sheepishly," not expecting that he was actually pretty famous.

"Kakashi, he doesn't look that much older than us, does he?" a female student whispered to Kakashi.

Kakashi looked at Jin, who was being fawned over by everyone, with dead-fish eyes and said coldly, "Yeah. About seven."

"Oh my gosh! He's a chunin at seven!" the female student exclaimed. At that moment, Obito walked over to her side with a confident look. "Rin! Kakashi! Believe me, I'll definitely surpass Brother Jin!"

Rin smiled sweetly. "Obito, I believe in you."

Kakashi said disdainfully, "A dead-last who even missed the entrance ceremony wants to surpass a genius?"

"Kakashi! You!" Obito immediately refused to let that slide and wanted to argue with Kakashi, only to be utterly ignored by him...

"Let's go, Jin." Kakashi tugged at the hem of Jin's clothes and pulled him outside. "Stop embarrassing yourself."

"..." Jin pressed down on Kakashi's little head and shook it. "First, you have to call me big brother. Second, don't undermine me in public!"

"Mm... mm..."

For half a month straight, Jin either cosplayed as Kakashi's guardian or spent his days being tormented by Minato... Of course, there was more time spent being tormented.

This also caused Jin's original strength, which had been above-average for a chunin, to rise to the level of a "special jonin." He could even go thirty-seventy with Minato... getting hit seven times by Minato's Flying Thunder God in three seconds.

Konoha Seventh Training Ground.

Kakashi and the students from his year were all gathered here to watch the showdown between Konoha's new generation of geniuses.

This was also thanks to Jin running to the school whenever he had nothing to do, and the school's teachers, wanting to give these children a new understanding of ninja, reported it to the Third Hokage and asked Jin and Minato to have a tense, exciting, and flashy duel.

Unexpectedly, the Third Hokage not only agreed, he even came in person...

"These are two of our Konoha's geniuses, and you are Konoha's future. Watch this duel carefully." The Third Hokage smiled as he puffed on his pipe.

Kakashi stared without blinking at the boy on the field wearing Uchiha clan clothes and a Konoha forehead protector, as well as the blond young man opposite him with a smile on his face...

"Jin, you even put on a forehead protector, huh? But I won't hold back." Minato said with a smile.

Jin quietly glanced toward Hiruzen and complained, Why did this old man agree to this match? Does he want to watch me get beaten seven times in three minutes?

"Yeah. This is a one-on-one match, after all. Wearing a forehead protector shows respect." Jin, who had never liked wearing forehead protectors, said against his conscience.

The two formed the Seal of Reconciliation at the same time, and in the next second, both sides retreated five meters. Jin formed seals first. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

The fireball flew toward Minato's position, only to vanish the instant it was about to hit him, then reappear at the spot where they had just formed the Seal of Reconciliation.

"Don't tell me he left a mark there from the very start? That fast?" Jin muttered. After many exchanges with Minato, he had summed up one important piece of experience... Minato was seriously sneaky...

To avoid being marked, Jin had no choice but to quickly move backward while forming seals. "Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Technique."

The field was instantly shrouded in mist. After Jin opened his two-tomoe Sharingan and saw Minato's position clearly, he used the Body Flicker to sneak up behind Minato, only for Minato to react like a god and block him.

The two exchanged taijutsu blows in the mist for a while. Just as Jin's kunai was about to cut Minato, Minato directly flashed away with Flying Thunder God and released ninjutsu. "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

The mist was blown apart. The students outside the field had no idea what had happened because of the mist just now. All they saw was Jin's Sharingan, the cuts in his clothes, and Minato's serious face...

"Jin, I'm very pleased that you've improved so much." The corners of Minato's mouth lifted slightly, and in the next second, he appeared behind Jin, pressing a kunai against Jin's neck. "You lose, Jin."

"Brother Minato, if this was all I had, how could I carry the name of genius?" Jin, whose neck was held by the kunai, chuckled. In the next second, he turned into a puddle of water.

"A Water Clone?" Minato was surprised. He had not taught him that!

Jin burrowed out of the ground in front, then threw a kunai into the sky. Immediately afterward, he used Flying Thunder God to appear in the air. "Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

"Lightning Release: Lightning Snake!"

The ground was covered by a large area of water. Then Jin, in the sky, threw two kunai downward, driving them into the soil, and used lightning release to turn into Lightning Snakes that clung to the silver wires on the two kunai and merged into the water.

"This kid." Minato could not help laughing. "If I don't get serious now, I really might lose. Although I'm not good at earth release or wind release..."

A laugh was a laugh, but Minato's hands flew through seals at high speed. "Earth Release: Rock Lodging Destruction!" Several enormous, twisted stone pillars rose around Minato, and Minato used Flying Thunder God to flash onto one of them.

Then he continued forming seals. "Wind Release: Raging Storm Wall!" An extremely high wind pressure instantly formed a wall of air, isolating the lightning nature spread through the water.

Seeing that the ninjutsu he had gone to such pains to develop had been broken, Jin could not help grumbling, "How the hell is that called not good at earth release and wind release?"

As Jin fell from the air, he flung a Flying Thunder God-marked kunai toward the stone pillar, then began close-quarters combat with Minato.

However, Jin had overlooked one extremely important thing... His taijutsu was comparable to a pile of crap... After holding out for two exchanges in Minato's hands, he fell into a disadvantage.

"Looks like I'll have to train your taijutsu properly, Jin." Minato teased. Jin seized the chance to quickly retreat, panting slightly as he calculated how many more combination techniques his chakra could still support...

"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!" Jin formed seals with both hands and shouted. Balls of fire flew straight toward Minato, only for Minato to dodge them with ease.

"It's not over yet!" Jin continued forming seals.

"Water Release: Great Waterfall Torrent!"

"Water Release: Water Chains!"

The dark mass of waterfall water instantly turned into chains that wrapped toward Minato. Seeing this, Minato wanted to use Flying Thunder God to shift elsewhere, only to discover that the entire field had been covered by Jin's water release.

No matter where he flashed, he would be locked down by the Water Chains... Thinking this, Minato could not help feeling deeply gratified, with a tiny bit of pressure mixed in...

"Brother Minato, this is a combination technique I worked my butt off to develop specifically to counter Flying Thunder God!" Jin shouted happily.