You're Too Weak

"Morichika Makoto, fourteen years old, codename Rhino. Graduated from the Ninja Academy last year and was promoted to chunin this year." Jin stated each person's information one by one.

"Kato Narumi, fifteen years old, Kato Dan's cousin, codename Falcon. Promoted to chunin this year."

"Shinohara Shizuka, thirteen years old, promoted to chunin this year. Codename Butterfly."

"Next, we'll begin combat training. The three of you against me alone." Jin did not waste words. If he wanted these three to accept him quickly, there was only one way: a practical combat drill.

"This... little... uh, are you sure?" Morichika Makoto asked in confusion. Jin no longer paid them any attention. He put on his mask and activated his ninjutsu. "Ninjutsu: Hidden Mist Technique."

In an instant, the Fifth Training Ground was shrouded in thick mist. Seeing this, the three of them had no choice but to take it seriously.

They quickly stood back-to-back, drew their weapons, and went on full alert. Morichika Makoto spoke first. "I specialize in Earth Release. I can coordinate with your attacks."

"I specialize in genjutsu and sensing," Shinohara Shizuka said, her voice a little tense.

"I'll attack. Shinohara Shizuka, find out where he is first," Kato Narumi said curtly.

Shinohara Shizuka crouched down lightly and pressed her hand to the ground. "Ten o'clock direction, about three meters away."

"Move!" Morichika Makoto shouted, his whole body shooting forward as he locked onto the direction Shinohara Shizuka had given. "Earth Release: Earth Split!"

"Water Release: Water Bullet Barrage!" Kato Narumi followed right behind him, fist-sized water bullets firing rapidly toward the direction where Morichika Makoto had launched his ninjutsu.

Jin watched the scene with his Sharingan active and nodded slightly. Not bad. They've got a little teamwork. Only when the water bullets drew closer and closer did he slowly form hand seals. "Water Release: Water Formation Wall."

Then he said softly, "Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique."

All at once, the place where the four of them stood turned into a lake. The three pupils shrank sharply, and Morichika Makoto stammered, "This... this... isn't this on land?"

"Hmph!" Kato Narumi snorted coldly. As a ninja who specialized in Water Release, this situation was even more favorable for him to display his strength. In an unquestionable tone, he said, "Shinohara Shizuka, I need his exact location."

"O-okay..." Shinohara Shizuka nodded repeatedly, steadied herself, and began sensing... "He... he's getting closer and closer to us..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Jin's figure appeared in the three's line of sight. Only, there were two Jins...

"Water Release: Water Whirling Pillar!" Kato Narumi rapidly formed hand seals. At Jin's landing point, three high-speed rotating water pillars suddenly surged up and closed in.

"Too slow." As Jin spoke, he rushed in Kato Narumi's direction. "Earth Release: Earth Spear!" Morichika Makoto's left hand turned into a huge clump of earth and smashed toward the other Jin's figure.

But Jin deftly dodged it, leaping into the air and launching ninjutsu toward Shinohara Shizuka's position. "Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique."

"Morichika Makoto!" Kato Narumi shouted. The instant Jin cast his ninjutsu, he understood that the first person the opponent wanted to take out was Shinohara Shizuka, their pair of eyes.

Morichika Makoto reacted quickly and immediately fell back to defend. But Jin gave him no chance, throwing out the Flying Thunder God kunai in his hand.

"Heh, looks like I'm being underestimated." Morichika Makoto shrugged without the slightest concern, blocking the kunai one by one as if he did not take them seriously at all.

"Your protection failed." Jin's voice suddenly sounded beside Morichika Makoto's ear. Before he could recover, he saw that Jin had already appeared in front of Shinohara Shizuka, followed by a flying kick that sent Shinohara Shizuka several meters away.

On the other side, because Kato Narumi had been distracted for an instant, Jin, holding the Kusanagi Sword, had already closed in on him.

Kato Narumi looked at the Kusanagi Sword right in front of him and, at the critical moment, used his trump card. "Taijutsu: Flowing Water Step!" He used Water Release to increase his own speed and dodge the strike.

It was Jin's first time seeing this kind of ninjutsu, and he could not help but feel a little curious. So he chose to close in on his opponent once more. This time, Kato Narumi did not dodge. He directly chose to clash head-on. "Water Release: High-Pressure Water Blade!"

Coordinating with Flowing Water Step as he closed in with Jin, he pressed his index and middle fingers together and drew arc after arc of water blades...

After Shinohara Shizuka was kicked away, she did not choose to sit and wait for death either. Instead, she used the genjutsu attack she was best at. "Genjutsu: Butterfly Dance!"

At the same time, the humiliated Morichika Makoto also began close-quarters combat with Jin. The two of them threw all their best skills in front of Jin, only to discover... it was merely a Water Clone.

"It's over." Jin took off his mask. His scarlet Sharingan looked especially glaring in the mist. With one flying kick, he borrowed force and vaulted into the air, forming seals with both hands. "Lightning Release: Lightning Snake."

Unlike last time, this time Jin threw the Kusanagi Sword into the water. The Lightning Snake used the Kusanagi Sword together with the water on the ground to burst out countless arcs of lightning.

The three, with no time to react, were instantly shocked numb and collapsed limply onto the water's surface. Kato Narumi looked unwillingly at Jin, who had landed quietly on the water. How could he possibly lose to a little kid?

Jin withdrew all his ninjutsu and looked coldly at the people lying on the ground. "If I weren't testing your strength, you would have lost long ago. For Anbu Squad One, you're too weak."

With that, he turned and left. To Jin, this result was already much better than he had guessed. As for whether they would quit? That was not something he needed to consider.

"So... so strong." Morichika Makoto sat on the ground and muttered to himself. A single clone had actually been able to hold off two people? And it was very obvious that if this had been real combat, he and Shinohara Shizuka would have long since lost their heads.

Kato Narumi rose from the ground unwillingly. From the conversation at the very beginning, he guessed that the other party should know Kato Dan, and he had to go ask his cousin just what kind of background this Uchiha Jin had.

"Have we... been eliminated?" Shinohara Shizuka asked tentatively. She had put in a lot of effort to get into the Anbu... If she was eliminated, what would happen to her mother's medical expenses?

Thinking of this, Shinohara Shizuka's eyes could not help but redden...

"Probably not. He didn't say it outright." Morichika Makoto sighed. "If we'd been eliminated, he would have told us immediately."

"We're going back," Kato Narumi said expressionlessly...

Konoha Hospital

Kato Dan looked at this cousin of his before him and could not help feeling a burst of curiosity. "How do you have time to come see me? Didn't you get into the Anbu?"

"There's something I want to ask you." Kato Narumi took a deep breath. "Do you know Uchiha Jin?"

"Jin?" Kato Dan froze for an instant. Tsunade, who had come over to look for Kato Dan, also heard Jin's name and blurted out, "What? Did that kid get hurt again?"

"No. This kid came to ask me about Jin." Kato Dan smiled gently. When Kato Narumi saw Tsunade arrive, he hurriedly greeted her. "Lady Tsunade."

"Mm." Tsunade nodded slightly, evidently knowing this cousin of Kato Dan's. "What's wrong? Didn't I hear Dan say you were chosen to enter the Anbu?"

"Our captain is Uchiha Jin." Kato Narumi told the two of them everything about the combat training just now, leaving nothing out.