Chapter 475: Shisui's Pokémon Hatching

"So Muyue had already discovered this Flying Thunder God Kunai? What terrifying insight." The sudden turn in the battlefield caught Sarutobi Hiruzen off guard.

He had thought Minato's plan was about to succeed, never expecting that Muyue was actually fishing by turning the tables.

"I'll have to properly comfort Minato at Muyue's victory banquet." Kushina, seeing the battle completely over, was already thinking about what dishes would be at the banquet.

"As expected, Teacher Muyue is still stronger." Obito breathed a sigh of relief and quickly silently recited "Muyue the immortal is omnipotent" several times to atone.

He had almost thought the invincible Muyue immortal was about to fail—what a sin.

"Teacher Muyue is truly all-around; Teacher Minato still falls a bit short," Kakashi remarked.

He felt that sometimes not knowing intel was a blessing. If Muyue's opponents knew his intel, they would probably find it hard to muster the will to fight him.

Feeling the hard object against his chest, Minato Namikaze, holding the chakra ball, looked surprised.

Since learning the Flying Thunder God, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

The entire rhythm of the battle was completely controlled by Muyue; even the hope of victory he had believed in was merely Muyue's trap.

"Muyue, you're amazing." Minato Namikaze dispersed his chakra and said sincerely.

After becoming proficient with the Flying Thunder God, he rarely felt pressured by other shinobi, but today he felt that pressure from Muyue.

No matter what technique Minato Namikaze used, he couldn't injure Muyue, while Muyue could always see through his thoughts and movements.

Before the battle, Minato Namikaze didn't think there was anything special about the Konoha shinobi calling them the strongest new generation. After the battle, he just wanted to tell them not to include him—Muyue was stronger.

Minato Namikaze had truly been a bit misled by the rumors. Before the fight, he hadn't expected to be suppressed like this, practically dominated from start to finish.

"Minato, your Flying Thunder God is true instant speed. In a real fight, I wouldn't be able to beat you so easily." Muyue put away the kunai and said with a smile.

After actually fighting Minato Namikaze once, Muyue realized Minato Namikaze was indeed not easy to deal with.

Unless Muyue directly used the Thunder Breathing Chakra Mode from the start, then activated Transparent World and the Byakugan, and combined it with the Flying Thunder God Technique, Muyue might really not be able to take down Minato Namikaze.

After all, Minato Namikaze wasn't stupid. Once he saw the battle turning unfavorable, he would definitely use the Flying Thunder God to flee.

Minato Namikaze's style was simple: high proficiency Flying Thunder God plus godly reflexes—but it was truly practical.

Those weaker than Minato Namikaze could be instantly killed by him, especially when lacking intel.

Those stronger than Minato Namikaze also found it very hard to kill him, unless they were overwhelmingly stronger.

Minato's only weakness was a lack of effective high-damage output.

Even if the Rasengan was developed, Minato basically couldn't damage shinobi as tough as the Third Raikage, whose defense was harder than a tortoise shell, unless it was further improved by adding nature transformation.

"The battle's over already?" Might Guy scratched his head, feeling he had watched in vain.

Except for the initial exchange of ninjutsu between Muyue and Minato Namikaze, which he could follow, afterward it was basically the two of them flashing around wildly before the outcome was decided.

"The path to getting stronger is still long; I need to keep working hard." After watching the battle, Shisui prepared to return to the southern forest to train.

Even Minato Namikaze, who had lost to Muyue, had the strength to instantly kill him. To change the Uchiha's future and to change Muyue's future, he had to keep getting stronger—and as quickly as possible. No one knew when the great battle that would cause Muyue's death would come.

The other disciples didn't waste time either and quickly began their own training.

Muyue had his shadow clone guide the disciples' training, while his main body used the Mystical Palm Technique to heal Minato Namikaze.

Minato Namikaze then realized that Muyue's medical ninjutsu also seemed quite good. If he remembered correctly, Muyue had learned medical ninjutsu about two years ago, and at the time, Jiraiya had introduced Muyue to Tsunade.

"One really can't slack off; even leisure time outside of missions must be used to train," Minato Namikaze thought.

Muyue was his age, yet Muyue could develop in multiple directions while ensuring each skill was mastered. Minato Namikaze believed that Muyue must have been working hard since becoming a shinobi, and that was why he was who he was today.

Minato Namikaze decided to devote more time to training. If someone more talented than him was also more diligent, what reason did he have not to work hard?

"I had thought I could surprise you, Muyue, but I didn't expect you had already nearly completed the jutsu development," Minato steered the conversation toward the no-hand-sign chakra ball technique.

During the battle, they had both used the no-hand-sign chakra ball technique, but it was clear that Muyue's version had higher completion and greater power.

"It can be considered roughly complete, but this technique has great potential. Right now it's only a half-finished product—it can still have nature transformation added to it," Muyue thought for a moment and replied.

If Minato Namikaze could develop a nature transformation for the Rasengan, given his fighting style, it would greatly raise his ceiling.

"I've had that idea too, but because it's not yet complete, I haven't thought about it as much as you have, Muyue." Minato Namikaze nodded.

Having developed to this stage, Minato Namikaze had already mapped out the subsequent development path.

Minato Namikaze currently mastered four types of chakra nature transformation, among which Yin Release was a special chakra nature transformation; Minato Namikaze temporarily set aside developing the Rasengan toward Yin Release.

He mainly considered the three major natures: Wind, Fire, and Lightning.

"The two most important points for a chakra ball to be stable and powerful are compression and the direction of chakra flow. Compressing enough chakra increases penetrative power, while flowing chakra in different directions and rotations improves the Rasengan's stability." Mugetsu and Minato Namikaze discussed the core points of the Rasengan.

After speaking, Mugetsu extended his right hand and began gathering chakra in his right palm.

Strands of chakra spun rapidly in different directions in Mugetsu's hand, forming a chakra ball as big as a head, then under Mugetsu's control it compressed into a chakra ball slightly larger than a palm.

After hearing Mugetsu's explanation, Minato thoughtfully extended his hand, and soon a chakra ball as big as a head appeared in his palm, then it continuously shrank.

Finally, Minato Namikaze slammed it onto the ground. With a loud bang, a large crater appeared beneath him.

"Thank you, Mugetsu." Minato Namikaze thanked Mugetsu earnestly.

Using the Rasengan in this fast, seal-less ninjutsu was very important to him. Without Mugetsu, he didn't know how long it would take to develop it.

"Mugetsu, what name did you give this ninjutsu?" Minato Namikaze couldn't help asking.

The idea for this ninjutsu was originally his, but in the end Mugetsu completed it first, so Minato Namikaze thought Mugetsu also had the right to name it.

"Minato, what do you think would be a good name?" Mugetsu shook his head, indicating he hadn't named it, then asked.

He was a little curious about what bizarre name Minato Namikaze could come up with.

Minato Namikaze put a fist to his chin, looking thoughtful, then his eyes lit up as if he had a brilliant idea, and he said confidently:

"Mugetsu-Inspired Ground-Smash Test Explosion Ball!"

Mugetsu's mouth twitched uncontrollably. As usual, it was so abstract.

"Maybe you should go back and ask Kushina if she has any good ideas?" Mugetsu said tactfully.

He thought it was better not to let Minato Namikaze name it, otherwise a good ninjutsu would be looked down upon just because of its name—too tragic.

"Mugetsu, you don't think this name is good?" Minato Namikaze asked a bit reluctantly.

He thought his name was pretty good—it explained the origin and sounded cool too.

"It's not very good. You might want to get more opinions from everyone." Seeing Minato Namikaze so confident, Mugetsu couldn't bear to be too harsh.

Minato Namikaze finally had to go back disappointed to find Kushina.

But he still couldn't quite give up.

"Kushina, I just developed a new jutsu. Help me think about whether the name I came up with is good." Minato asked tentatively.

"You naming it? I bet it'll be both crappy and long." Kushina said bluntly.

Minato Namikaze's naming taste was practically the opposite of his looks and personality. Kushina was speechless—how could someone name a jutsu something as meaningless as "Spiral Flash Super Wheel Dance Howl Triple"?

And on top of that, Minato Namikaze felt it was great and couldn't be stopped.

"This time is different. I feel it's really good, both in coolness and deep meaning." Minato Namikaze quickly explained.

"Then go ahead and say it." Kushina chose to trust Minato Namikaze for now.

Minato gathered chakra in his palm, and a chakra ball formed rapidly in his hand.

"Hey, this jutsu looks a bit like a Tailed Beast Ball." As the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki, Kushina immediately sensed that Minato Namikaze's jutsu was no ordinary technique.

"My original inspiration for developing this jutsu was the Jinchuriki's Tailed Beast Ball." Minato Namikaze briefly explained his battle in the Iwa front.

"Mugetsu-Inspired Ground-Smash Test Explosion Ball!"

After explaining, Minato Namikaze confidently and forcefully shouted out the jutsu's name.

Kushina couldn't hold it in. What kind of lousy name was that, even dragging Mugetsu's name into it.

"So long, and so tacky." Kushina complained speechlessly.

Minato Namikaze looked dejected, not understanding why such a good name couldn't win Mugetsu and Kushina's approval.

Afternoon, Southern Border Forest.

After training in swordsmanship for two hours, Kakashi sat down to rest and called over the Rock Dog that had been running around everywhere.

"Rock! Rock!"

Rockruff was very excited when it heard Kakashi’s call, wagging its big tail and constantly circling around Kakashi, looking full of energy.

Kakashi couldn’t help but curl his lips up and patted Rockruff on the head.

But then Kakashi found a problem—Rockruff actually had sand on its paws.

“Strange, how could there be sand in the Southern Forest? Did it run off to the park to play?” Kakashi fell into thought.

Then Kakashi shook his head. They were deep in the Southern Forest, and the nearest park was far away. Rockruff was so obedient to him that it definitely wouldn’t run that far alone.

“Zongyan, how did you get sand on your paws?” Kakashi chose to ask Rockruff directly.

Rockruff displayed very high intelligence; it could understand his words, just couldn’t speak.

“Rock!”

Hearing Kakashi’s words, Rockruff gathered chakra and performed nature transformation, pushing its claws into the ground. The mud and stone, under the effect of Earth-nature chakra nature transformation, turned into sand, which Rockruff flung forward.

Kakashi was shocked. What the heck? It had only been a few days since birth, and Rockruff had already mastered Earth-nature chakra nature transformation on its own.

Kakashi knew that Rockruff could use chakra, because sometimes when Obito ran his mouth and got rammed by Rockruff, Rockruff would use chakra to protect itself.

But Kakashi never expected that Rockruff could even comprehend nature transformation on its own.

This gave Kakashi a feeling that humans were inferior to dogs. Some ninja only began training nature transformation at age twelve, yet Rockruff, less than a month old, had independently grasped Earth-nature chakra nature transformation.

After using Sand Attack, Rockruff looked at Kakashi with a pleading expression, wanting praise.

“Amazing. I feel like you’ll be able to help me in battle soon,” Kakashi praised without stint.

“Rock.”

Rockruff showed a delighted expression and rubbed its head against Kakashi’s leg.

“Tch, it’s just throwing sand. My ninja beast will definitely be stronger by then,” Obito, who was also resting while holding his own egg, secretly grumbled in his heart.

As for why he didn’t say it out loud, of course it was because the inherently evil Rockruff would definitely use Sand Attack on him upon hearing it, and then his clothes would get dirty.

Obito wiped the Pokémon egg with his clothes. “You must be a tall, mighty, and powerful ninja beast! Then you and I will beat up those despicable white-hairs together.”

Just as Obito was fantasizing about whether there was a flying dragon or a tiger inside the egg, a dazzling white light appeared.

Obito stared expressionlessly at where the white light appeared.

If it were his Pokémon egg hatching, he wouldn’t be seeing the white light—he would be enveloped by it.

Obito knew whose it was without thinking, because currently there were only two people whose Pokémon eggs hadn’t hatched—one was him, and the other was Shisui. Rin Nohara hadn’t become a jōnin yet, so she hadn’t received an egg.

The dazzling white light of the Pokémon egg hatching attracted everyone’s attention. The disciples who were training also stopped and looked in Shisui’s direction.

“Another one hatched. What will it be this time? Another canine?” Kakashi patted Rockruff’s head and looked curiously at the center of the white light.

He was very curious about what could hatch from a Pokémon egg.

As the white light gradually faded, everyone finally saw clearly the appearance of the Pokémon in Shisui’s hands.

“A fox…” A strange expression flashed across Kakashi’s face. Foxes were also mammals.

But Kakashi quickly stopped dwelling on it. Ninja beasts—it was normal for them to be unusual. It wasn’t like a sword had hatched; that would truly shatter Kakashi’s worldview.

Author’s note: I got stuck writing and am a bit late, sorry.

Promoting a friend’s new xianxia novel. Direct link below.

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