The main body of Naruto sits in the middle of Shadow Clone Technique, picks up a leaf and puts it in the palm of his hand.
Other Shadow Clone Technique picked up the leaves and started trying.
A Shadow Clone Technique poured Chakra into the palm of the hand. As soon as Chakra poured into the leaf, the whole dead leaf exploded into pieces.
"Chakra was too much, and the leaves were shattered before the wind attribute characteristics could be formed."
That Shadow Clone Technique looked down at the debris in his palm and muttered to himself, then picked up a new leaf.
Another one, Shadow Clone Technique, tried to reduce the amount of injection, but Chakra was so small that it only made the leaves tremble slightly, without even cutting out a single gap.
"Inject too little and the cutting feature cannot be activated at all. I'll add a little more."
Fifty Shadow Clone Technique each held leaves at the same time and tried again and again. After breaking one, they went to the bushes to pick up a new leaf. If they couldn't cut it out, they fine-tuned the original injection amount and tried again.
The sound of leaves exploding came one after another, and the broken leaves were blown by the mountain wind and swirled on the platform, falling everywhere.
Time passed slowly through the leaves cut one after another.
When Jiraiya came back carrying a one-meter-long big fish, he saw from a distance that the platform was full of Naruto, and each Naruto held a leaf in the palm of his hand.
The soft sound of leaves exploding to pieces could be heard one after another.
The ground around was littered with the remains of broken leaves.
"This idiot, didn't you just tell him not to use this self-harming cultivation method again?"
"What if I become an idiot!"
Jiraiya looked up at the group of Naruto. Although he cursed, he did not go up to interrupt.
He released a one-meter-long big fish, picked up a pile of dried tree vines from the nearby bushes, and built a simple fire around the rocks to light a fire.
He skewered the prepared big fish with wooden sticks and put it on the fire. Then he sat cross-legged next to the fire and took out a notebook from his arms to open a new page. While turning the brush, he fell into double thinking about yesterday's unfinished text and today's cooking time.
"Hiss..."
Time passed slowly, and when the meat of the big fish began to turn brown and oily, several soft sounds were heard on the platform.
This is the sound made by leaves being cut.
A Shadow Clone Technique picked up the leaf that was cut in half in his hand, and a trace of uncontrollable excitement flashed across his face.
Then the other clone also cut his own leaves.
Then the third, the fourth, the fifth.
The main body of Naruto opened its eyes, glanced at Jiraiya who was scratching his head at the notebook with a pen in his mouth, and then glanced at the big fish that was almost burnt to the edge, and then lifted Shadow Clone Technique with both hands Hand Seals.
Fifty clouds of white smoke exploded at the same moment, and fifty copies of Chakra Nature Transformation's training memories gathered in his mind at the same time.
Naruto closed his eyes and archived these memories under Absolute Control's combing, and then slowly opened his eyes.
"It seems that the training has come to an end."
Jiraiya closed the notebook and waved to Naruto: "The fish is almost burnt, come over and eat it quickly!"
Naruto walked over and sat down on the stone opposite Jiraiya.
Jiraiya took the roasted fish off the fire and placed it on a clean stone board. He used Kunai to skillfully cut open the belly of the fish and picked out the two fattest and thickest pieces of fish belly. He handed one piece to Naruto and kept the other for himself.
The burnt aroma spreads.
Naruto took the fish belly meat, blew on the hot air and took a bite.
The fish meat is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the oily aroma of the fish belly fat melts in the mouth along with the salty and crispy texture of the slightly charred fish skin.
"Pervy Sage, your skill at grilling fish is much better than your skill at peeping."
"Nonsense, when Mount Myoboku was practicing, Tenten roasted bugs and ate them himself. His skills were all forced out of him."
"Idiot, that's not voyeurism, it's art."
Then Jiraiya reacted and yelled at Naruto.
Naruto smiled and continued to eat fish.
Seeing Naruto eating fish, Jiraiya felt a little mixed.
Since Minato died in the battle, I looked for Child of the Prophecy in Shinobi World. This was the first time I had dinner with Naruto.
He looked down at the cold piece of fish meat in his hand, Jiraiya remembered the first time he saw Minato.
He also lived alone in a dilapidated apartment and was so quiet when eating. Later he took Minato as his apprentice and taught Ninjutsu.
"Naruto, how is your practice going?"
When Naruto was almost done, Jiraiya asked.
"The leaves are ready to be cut."
Naruto said, picking up a leaf from the ground, placing it in the palm of his hand, and injecting Chakra into it.
I saw a silent cut appearing in the center of the leaf. The cut was as smooth as if it had been cut by a sharp knife, and the leaf was neatly broken in half from the middle.
The whole process takes less than three seconds.
"It is estimated that Chakra Nature Transformation will be able to fully master the wind attribute soon."
"There is still room for improvement in the conversion efficiency of cutting characteristics, but the direction is already on track."
Looking at the cut leaves, Jiraiya nodded calmly on the surface, but was shocked inside.
From the time he explained the principles of Chakra Nature Transformation to Naruto until now, it takes less than half a day to complete the whole process.
It took him nearly ten days from understanding the theory to succeeding, and he was even praised by Third Hokage for this.
"Naruto, what are your dreams?"
Jiraiya put the fish aside and looked at Naruto seriously.
Naruto put down the leaf that was cut in half and raised his hand to wipe the corners of his mouth.
After thinking for a while, he looked into Jiraiya's eyes and said seriously, "Become the strongest ninja, and then become Hokage."
Jiraiya was in a daze when he heard Naruto say this.
The picture instantly overlapped with the picture deep in his memory.
He also has blond hair and blue eyes. He is also standing on the heights of Konoha overlooking the whole village. He is also saying the words "I want to be Hokage" and looking at himself with the same confident eyes.
Jiraiya came to his senses, cleared his throat and asked, "Why do you want to become Hokage?"
"Everyone says they want to be Hokage, but everyone's reasons are different."
"So what's your reason?"
Naruto looked away from Jiraiya and looked at the Konoha below Hokage Rock, which was gradually shrouded in dusk.
The lights spread from the center of the village to all directions, like someone lighting up the stars one by one in the night.
"Wanting everyone's approval is one reason, but not everything."
"I have been an orphan since I was a child. I have no parents, no family, and no one wants to get close to me."
"I know how uncomfortable that feels."
"But then I slowly discovered that orphans like me are everywhere in Shinobi World."
"Orphans created by the war, orphans left by ninjas who died on missions, children abandoned by their families, children trained as tools by the village, etc..."
"They are worse off than me."
"At least I still have Konoha's protection. At least Iruka-sensei is willing to take care of me. At least now I have teammates and partners."
"And some people have nothing."
"So I want to be Hokage and then change Shinobi World."
Naruto had no impassioned words in his eyes, no lofty speeches, only calm words. "I can't tell you exactly how to change it now, but I don't want to see another tragedy happen."
"I don't want to see anything like Zabuza and Bai anymore. I don't want to see anyone being used as a tool because of their origin and bloodline."
"Because I have endured this hardship, I don't want other children to endure this hardship in the future!"