Konoha: Starting with the Tenseigan, Taking Charge of Team 7

"Gamabunta's a rude old toad, but you're ancient yourself. Must you be so ill-mannered too?"

Sage Fukasaku felt Aogetsu Hyuga's gaze turn cold.

He shuddered.

He knew exactly what Aogetsu meant!

Anger surged through him.

In his thousand years of life, he had shown such deference only to the Great Toad Sage!

And here was a twenty-year-old human.

How dare he?!

Aogetsu raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"How dare I? Because I can do this!"

With that,

he hovered high in the air

and gently opened his hand.

The Great Spiraling Ring drifted forward from his palm.

"He's dropped that technique on us!"

"Run, everyone!"

At the sight,

the toads pushed off with their webbed feet and fled.

"Dad! Get on!"

Gamabunta scooped up Sage Fukasaku and placed him on his back.

Naruto leaped away as well,

eager to see just how powerful the technique was.

The Great Spiraling Ring descended slowly.

To put it another way,

it fell almost like a feather.

From its appearance alone,

no one would have thought

the technique held much power.

But then...

The black sphere touched the ground. Blinding white light erupted, followed by an immense explosion,

a stark contrast to the sphere's earlier silence!

BOOM!

A mushroom-shaped pillar of light was reflected in the distant toads' eyes.

Their bodies trembled as the harsh white light washed over their faces.

All they could do was stare at the swelling shock wave.

Naruto gazed at the staggering scale of it.

At the thought that he would learn this technique someday,

excitement swept through him.

Even the Natural Energy within him surged.

Aogetsu watched with an impassive expression.

This technique—

if it weren't useful for teaching Naruto,

it would have been utterly useless to him...

Just then, two notifications sounded in Aogetsu's mind.

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