Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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"Eh. I really shouldn't have had any expectations of Shirahoshi-sensei, who's just a low-ranking ninja."

Shirahoshi said with a speechless expression, "Don't forget, you're also genin."

His gaze fell on Dai. "Your turn."

"Me?! Do you even deserve it..." Might Guy looked at the chakra paper in Shirahoshi's hand, the humiliation he had suffered back then flashing through his mind, and he dared not take it for a moment.

“Of course.” Shirahoshi frowned. This situation was not surprising, after all, he was Might Guy, a genin who could only use taijutsu and couldn’t use the Three Body Techniques properly.

Might Guy began to channel chakra, and the paper was enveloped in blue chakra, while the others watched nervously.

"..."

After waiting for a minute, Shirahoshi saw that the test strip did not even show any chakra attribute. He immediately realized that Might Guy's chakra strength was really too weak - this was because the ninja bloodline of his previous generation had been almost diluted.

"Okay, no need to try anymore."

Upon hearing this, Might Guy, who had kept his eyes closed, asked nervously, "Um, what chakra nature do I have?"

Mikoto Uchiha and Nono Yakushi exchanged glances, unsure of what to say to comfort Might Dai. Shirahoshi stepped forward and took the chakra paper from Might Dai's hand. "All attributes, no need to try."

"Really?!" Might Guy immediately opened his eyes and saw that the chakra paper that Shirahoshi had just touched was now showing five different areas reacting.

A fire broke out.

A crack – the wind.

One spot wrinkles – thunder.

One place became wet—water.

One spot was broken—the soil.

The five elemental reactions of the chakra paper were fully displayed. Uchiha Mikoto and Yakushi Nono stared in shock at the paper in Might Guy's hand, then looked at Shirahoshi, who seemed indifferent.

—Things that are meant to be revealed will eventually be revealed, especially after the upper limit and strength of chakra were increased, he felt that there was no need to hide such things.

"Alright, stop looking at that useless paper. How can we taijutsu ninjas be obsessed with such useless things!" Shirahoshi took out the props for the exercise from his backpack, turned around and saw Might Guy still grinning at the chakra paper, so he woke him up.

Shirahoshi held up the three bells she had bought from the grocery store that morning. "Now, the exercise begins. Use all your strength to defeat me within an hour."

As long as there's always a possibility of failure when he uses ninjutsu, and he can only consistently perform well in taijutsu, he can't possibly become a chunin!

Starting today, he will train in advanced techniques that make it seem like even the Three Body Techniques are beyond his capabilities.

"The five elements are useless?!" Uchiha Mikoto was surprised that Shirahoshi possessed the talent of the five elements, which was something that only a few people had, but now it appeared in a sixth-year genin. Now that this sixth-year genin looked down on the five elements, then she, as the fire-style ninja representing the Uchiha clan, would have to teach Shirahoshi a lesson.

"Winning means getting the bell. You can choose to gang up on them, or you can choose..."

"One-on-one!" Uchiha Mikoto put down her backpack, crossed her arms, and raised her head, trying to look down at the black-haired boy who was much taller than her. "Let me, this Uchiha Fire Release genius girl, show you the importance of ninjutsu to a ninja."

"Okay." Shirahoshi tossed her backpack onto a large tree. She had a regular ninja sword that she had bought for 20,000 yen two years ago but had hardly ever used in front of outsiders. She was still wearing a tight-fitting short-sleeved shirt and shorts, a headband, and her ninja tool pouch hanging from her waist.

"So, what are your opinions?"

“No objections.” Yakushi Nonou tugged at Might Guy, who had just come to his senses. Might Guy was still yelling that this wouldn’t do; he didn’t want to see Shirahoshi get beaten up by the younger Mikoto, as that would be a heavy blow to Shirahoshi’s life as her homeroom teacher.

Soon, the area was cleared out. This was not the village. Based on the perception of Observation Haki training in the One Piece anime, Shirahoshi had developed a vague sixth sense, even though she had not yet reached the level of Observation Haki.

Based on his sixth sense, he probably felt that no one was watching him around—besides, he had been leading a rank ninja for so long, if he wanted to cause trouble, he would have come long ago, why wait until now.

In general, a duel between ninjas begins with a contest of physical skills, followed by the throwing of kunai and the clash of shuriken, before finally using ninjutsu as the ultimate weapon.

Mikoto immediately began forming hand seals.

巳－未－申－亥－午

寅！

"I'm sorry, teacher, but I won't let a lowly teacher insult the value of ninjutsu."

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

As Mikoto muttered her words, a burst of raging fire erupted from her red lips in the next second. The orange-red light gradually intensified as she forcefully slammed the fire chakra into the ground, sending it flying towards Shirahoshi. Shirahoshi's eyes reflected the warm light, and after a long period without any real combat experience, he could finally have a more formal match.

"But it's too slow."

Shirahoshi's high-speed movement was like a blur. In the eyes of the onlooker, Yakushi Nonou, the giant fireball spewed by Mikoto instantly engulfed the black-haired boy's figure. In the eyes of the martial arts master Might Guy, he could roughly see some of Shirahoshi's movements.

But only one point.

"So fast! This is the 'Body Flicker Technique' that only Jonin can use, but did Shirahoshi really use chakra?!" Might Guy had an absurd thought in his mind at this moment, that is, Shirahoshi did not even use chakra, but used the Body Flicker Technique, a ninja technique that ordinary ninjas need to use chakra, simply by relying on his physical qualities.

Chapter 12 How Actors Are Made

Might Guy was astonished, and then Yakushi Nono, who was standing to the side, let out a sharp scream.

"Shirahoshi-sensei!"

Her voice startled Mikoto Uchiha, who was continuously channeling Fire Release chakra, causing her to instinctively stop her attack. The flames in front of her red lips gradually dissipated, and her dark, beautiful eyes began to stare directly at the slowly dissipating fireball in front of her.

At this moment, Mikoto Uchiha seemed completely unaware of the figure accelerating towards her from the left side as the fireball slashed through the ground.

Shirahoshi glanced down and saw that Uchiha Mikoto had formed a substitution seal. He then naturally threw three shuriken at high speed, and the change in the scale of his movements caused the afterimage effect of the high-speed movement to disappear.

At that moment, Yakushi Nonou finally noticed the black-haired boy who had appeared on the other side.

Shirahoshi was less than 50 meters away from Uchiha Mikoto, and at the same time, Yakushi Nonou saw three black arcs approaching Mikoto from three different angles.

"Watch out, Mikoto!"

Children tend to overreact when they lack the necessary skills.

Might Guy watched the battle calmly, but in his mind, he raised Shirahoshi's strength level several notches—this level of strength was enough to make him a special Jonin!

But why...

Boom!Boom!Boom!

The crisp sound struck Uchiha Mikoto's body perfectly. For a moment, the substitute item looked as if Mikoto had really been hit by three shuriken, with a look of despair on her face.

However, Shirahoshi, who had already seen through Mikoto's actions, was well aware that Mikoto had just used a Stand to accelerate, demonstrating what a sophisticated illusion was, and had arrived above a large tree on his right, holding her breath, presumably planning to wait for the right opportunity to launch an attack.

This speed is quite ordinary in the eyes of a Jonin, but it is very fast in the eyes of a Genin.

For example, Might Guy and Yakushi Nonou couldn't see the whole process of their fight. At this time, Yakushi Nonou was very nervous because the distance was too far and she didn't hear the thud of wood being pierced, rather than the thud of flesh being pierced.

With a bang, white mist appeared, and the girl with long, straight black hair turned into a substitute wooden stake with three black shuriken hanging on it.

Shirahoshi stopped attacking and instead addressed the two spectators, "Let's attack together. Otherwise, it might be a bit difficult with Mikoto alone."

After he finished speaking, he touched the three small bells hanging at his waist, which made a tinkling sound.

"Damn it! They look down on me!" The girl, hidden among the leaves above the trees, gritted her teeth and clenched her fists.

That was incredibly fast! And if Yakushi Nonou hadn't called out to her, she wouldn't have even noticed Shirahoshi-sensei appearing to her side—was this really a genin?! She'd believe it if you told her she was a jonin skilled in the Body Flicker Technique!

"It seems we can't hold back anymore."

"This is our third time fighting, Shirahoshi. You seem different from two years ago."

Might Guy stood up from his spectator position, and Yakushi Nonou, who was next to him, also checked her ninja tool bag to make sure she had everything she needed before standing up with him.

"Then don't blame us for ganging up on the weak."

"Okay." Bai Xing nodded calmly. "Let's go. Let me see how well you've coordinated after carrying out D-rank missions for so long."

"I hope I don't scare you too much!" A rustling voice came from the leaves of a large tree on the right. Uchiha Mikoto landed on the ground, put her hands on her hips, and said.

"While you were slacking off and sleeping, we also got a good understanding of the other side's situation. There will definitely be no problem with cooperating in combat!"

Bai Xing remained calm. He was already a team leader, so it was perfectly normal for him to take more and not do any work.

"You have one minute."

"Okay!" x3

The three then began to discuss their battle strategy in hushed tones in front of Shirahoshi.

"Shirahoshi is so fast! I knew he was good at taijutsu, but I didn't expect him to be this fast! Dai, you tricked us!" Mikoto Uchiha said angrily.

Might Guy looked embarrassed; he hadn't expected Shirahoshi to change so much in just two years. "The last time I fought Shirahoshi was two years ago, and he barely managed to beat me back then..."

"So I really didn't know his current situation."

“There’s one more thing,” Yakushi Nonou said. “Shirahoshi-sensei said his chakra nature was fire, but just now he had five natures. Could it be that he awakened some kind of bloodline ability?”

Might Guy: "?"

"Isn't that mine?"

Upon hearing this, the two women rolled their eyes, thinking to themselves, "What kind of five-element chakra talent do you have if you can't even use the Three Body Technique properly?"

Seeing the looks in the two women's eyes, Might Guy realized that Shirahoshi had deliberately done this to comfort him—after all, Shirahoshi was always very low-key, yet this time she had shown something like this for him...

"This is what youth is all about! I can't hide it anymore!"

Might Guy decided to tell his teammates that he had developed a ninjutsu technique that was not yet fully perfected.

"I actually researched a taijutsu technique that can make taijutsu users stronger, called the Eight Gates..."

The storytelling session quickly exceeded one minute, but Bai Xing didn't interrupt. After all, he was just a simple-minded teacher, and there was nothing wrong with letting the three of them interact more and deepen their relationship.

soon.

"The discussion is over. Let's proceed according to the plan we just discussed."

"Yeah!" x2

The three immediately separated. Two of them disappeared into the empty training ground. Might Guy came to the tree where he had put his backpack and other items. Shirahoshi watched as he took off all his weights.

"You're getting serious now. It seems like it's been two years since we last played against each other. I wonder if you've improved."

“Compared to you, Shirahoshi, my progress is probably minimal.” Might Guy removed his weighted equipment, feeling much lighter, and turned around, his gaze serious. “But I have also developed a martial art that will surely surprise you!”

"Eight Gates Formation..."

"First door - Open the door!"

If you activate the Byakugan, you'll see a surge of blue chakra erupting from Might Guy's brain, his body already working overtime, increasing his attack power and movement speed...

Shirahoshi was somewhat surprised.

"good chance!"

Seizing the moment when Shirahoshi was shocked, the girl in the bushes beside him threw a kunai at his side.