That afternoon, in the suburbs of Tanzaku Town, there was a secluded training ground.
Jiraiya cleared his throat and tried to look like a reliable teacher. He took out a balloon filled with water and handed it to Naruto.
"Rasengan's training is divided into three stages." He began to explain, "Of course, the first premise is to gather chakra in the palm of your hand. You can try this, I won't go into details. The first stage after this is rotation. You have to use chakra to create disorderly, high-speed rotation internally without breaking the water ball from the outside until it explodes. This is the foundation. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the test is..."
Before he could finish his words, he was choked back by the sight in front of him.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
There was a series of dense explosions, and hundreds of identical Naruto instantly filled the entire training ground. The scene was so spectacular that it was almost comical.
"Okay, I understand." Naruto's main body gave instructions to his clones, with a tone like a factory supervisor, "The first group, fifty people, performs water balloon blasting training. The second group, fifty people, in pairs, is responsible for observing the first group of trainers one-on-one, recording, summarizing the reasons for failure, and putting forward optimization suggestions. Swap roles every ten minutes. Now, start."
"Yes!" Hundreds of Naruto responded in unison, the voice so loud that Jiraiya's ears buzzed.
The next second, the training ground turned into an orderly but extremely crazy assembly line. Fifty Naruto each held a water polo, and the other fifty were like the most stringent instructors, holding pens and papers, pointing beside them.
"No. 3, your chakra output is unstable and the direction of rotation deviates from expected."
"On the 19th, the palm contact area is too large, resulting in pressure dispersion and low efficiency. Try again."
"No. 42, your problem is..."
Jiraiya opened his mouth and his mind went blank. He really saw it.
This guy is so cruel to himself.
It was as if he had been struck by lightning. It took him a long time to recover and grabbed Naruto's shoulder.
"Are you crazy!?" He shouted in a low voice, "Shadow Clone's experience will be fed back to the main body, but fatigue and mental shock will also be superimposed! A hundred clones performing this kind of high-intensity mental concentration training at the same time is equivalent to you alone bearing a hundred times the impact of failure at the same time! You will burn your own brain! This is suicide!"
Naruto just calmly pushed his hand away, his eyes still locked on the field, observing the data of each clone.
"I'm not an imbecile fool." There was no wave in his voice, "And I also know that I must complete the task."
Jiraiya was stunned for a long time and didn't know what to say.
Under the shade of a tree not far away, Tsunade folded her arms and leaned against the tree trunk. She originally came to see a joke, and was going to appreciate how this ignorant kid spent three or five days on the first step, and finally gave up in tears.
But now, the sarcasm and ridicule on her face has disappeared little by little.
She had never seen such a ninja. It was not training, it was more like... self-destruction. Split yourself into a hundred parts, and then let each part try and make mistakes with the highest efficiency to squeeze the limit. This almost cruel cruelty to herself made her feel inexplicably.
Shizune stood aside, holding Tonton in his arms, and was also stunned.
At the end of the first day of training, the moon had already climbed above the treetops.
With a soft "bang" sound, the last Shadow Clone disappeared. An unimaginably huge flow of information, like a flood that broke a bank, instantly rushed into Naruto's brain.
His face became visibly pale, and his body swayed almost imperceptibly. But that was all. He did not fall, groan, or even frown.
After Naruto took a steady deep breath, he walked to the open space aside, took out a pen and paper, and concentrated on recording all the failure data, chakra output curves, rotation angle deviation values summarized by Shadow Clone throughout the day, one by one, and then began to optimize the training plan for the next day.
Throughout the process, he was like an accountant who had just finished working for the day and was checking the accounts.
Jiraiya walked over and looked at the complicated charts and data on the paper that he could barely understand. His throat felt a little dry. He couldn't help but ask, "You... really don't feel pain? That's a hundred times more mental shock."
Naruto didn't even raise his head, the pen tip moved quickly on the paper.
"It's just data flow, just get used to it."
The next day, at dawn, the training ground was once again crowded with Naruto's Shadow Clone.
Jiraiya yawned for a long time. He always thought that Naruto would have a mental breakdown, but this guy got up earlier than anyone else.
The training started less than an hour ago.
"Crack!"
There was a crisp explosion. The water ball in Naruto's body suddenly exploded in his palm, and water splashed everywhere.
The first stage is to conquer.
Jiraiya's eyes almost popped out of his head. Even if it is only the first stage, less than a day is too exaggerated? How is this possible! This is a technique that took Minato three years to develop!
Tsunade was also stunned. She stood up straight subconsciously, and the expression on her face froze.
At this moment, an uninvited guest appeared quietly at the edge of the training ground.
The person who came was wearing a pair of round-rimmed glasses and a gentle smile on his face. He looked harmless. He was none other than Kabuto Yakushi.
"Lady Tsunade, long time no see." His voice was gentle and elegant, as if he was a friend he met by chance, "Lord Orochimaru, I would like to invite you to meet."
Jiraiya's face instantly darkened, and he immediately stood in front of Tsunade. "That guy Orochimaru still dares to send you here!"
Kabuto Yakushi pushed up his glasses, his smile not diminishing, "Lord Jiraiya, don't be so nervous. Lord Orochimaru just wants to negotiate a deal with Lady Tsunade. A deal... that can make up for the regrets in her life."
As he said that, his eyes turned to Tsunade, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. "Lord Orochimaru said that he can resurrect your brother Nawaki, and your lover, stop."
"What did you say?" Tsunade's body shook violently and his pupils shrank violently.
Kabuto didn't answer, but just snapped his fingers. An invisible wave of chakra spread out. In front of Tsunade's eyes, an hallucination appeared. Young Nawaki was grinning and shouting loudly, "Sister, I will also become Hokage in the future!".
The scene turned, Gentle Duan was looking at her with a smile, his eyes full of love.
"No...Nawaki... off..."
Painful memories flooded her like a tide. Her breathing became rapid, her eyes became blurry, her whole body fell into huge emotional fluctuations, and her body was shaky.
"Tsunade! Wake up! That's Genjutsu!" Jiraiya shouted sharply, preparing to take action.
"Stop."
A cold voice stopped the tense confrontation.
All Shadow Clone disappeared without knowing when, and Naruto's body slowly came over. He looked at Kabuto Yakushi calmly.
"Orochimaru has forgotten how he escaped from Konoha in embarrassment?" Naruto looked directly at Kabuto, "He came to Tsunade simply because he couldn't deal with the injuries left by the assassin. A loser who can't even heal his own injuries, do you think he is qualified to negotiate terms?"
The smile on Kabuto Yakushi's face froze. His eyes narrowed and became smaller, and the eyes he looked at Naruto were full of deep fear.
"Haha... You are worthy of being the one who killed Danzo with your own hands." Kabuto quickly regained his composure and even chuckled, praising with a hint of meaning.
These words made Tsunade and Shizune next to them feel like they were struck by lightning.
Danzo... is dead? Killed by this brat? They have been away from the village for so long that they have no idea that such earth-shaking changes have taken place inside Konoha.
Naruto ignored their shock.
"Resurrection of the dead is a heretical act that blasphemes nature Order. This forbidden technique is bound to be accompanied by huge costs and uncontrollable risks. Can you guarantee that those who are resurrected will still be the original ones? Or are they just two soulless puppets wearing their shells?"
He coldly assessed Orochimaru's proposal as. "A high-risk, low-reward fraud."
Finally, Naruto's eyes fell on Tsunade, who was pale and still breathing heavily.
"Indulging in the regrets of the dead is actually evading responsibility for the living. Do you want more people to die? If so, I will not bother you again. You are not worthy of the responsibilities of Hokage."
Kabuto Yakushi's eyes narrowed under the lenses, and he smiled hoarsely, "Interesting... It seems that Konoha has come up with a guy who is more terrifying than Danzo. Lady Tsunade, Lord Orochimaru gives you a week to think about it."
Before he finished speaking, his figure left quickly
The entire training ground was filled with only deathly silence.