Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
Shin had made signifit progress, mastering the [Adamantine Sealing s].
Thanks to the Shadow e Jutsu, he could create over a dozen es to study simultaneously. Even without a teacher, he mao learsu on his own.
"Haa! [Rasengan]!"
Shin focused on the rge tree before him, a rapidly spinning sphere of Chakra f in his hand. He thrust his hand forward, smashing the Rasengan into the tree trunk.
BOOM!
Wood splintered and flew as the massive tree, ohat would take two people to encircle, ierced straight through, leaving a gaping hole with spiral patterched into its edges – a testament to the rotating Chakra's power.
"If that hit a person, it would ght through them, no problem."
Shin was more than satisfied with the Rasengan's destructive power. A-rank Jutsu were no joke.
He had developed the Rasengan himself. Uanding the principles behind it, recreating it wasn't that difficult.
This was the culmination of his half-month's training. Not only had he mastered the Adamantine Sealing s, but he'd also developed the Rasengan.
"That tree must have been decades old, and you just punched a hole through it," Kushina said, staring at the poor tree.
"Hey, Kushina, do you still want to learn the Rasengan or what?"
"Of course I do! Teach me, teach me!" Kushina jumped up, grabbing Shin's arm excitedly.
"Ouch, my shoulders are kinda sore."
Shin sat down, looking expetly at Kushina.
Kushina knew what he wanted. With a relut sigh, she walked over and started massaging his shoulders.
"Not bad, but a little more pressure would be perfect," Shin said, leaning back with a satisfied sigh.
Kushina gritted her teeth, but for the sake of learning the Rasengan, she endured.
"It's getting te, almost lunchtime. Let's head back. I'll teach you iernoon."
Shin g the sun high in the sky.
Kushina, though eager to learn the Rasengan, khat food came first.
After lunch, Shin began teag Kushina the Jutsu. Half a day wasn't enough to master it, though.
"You already burst a water balloon. That's the sed stage pleted. You'll have the Rasengan down in no time."
As the sky darkened, Shin told Kushina to stop for the day and tiomorrow.
The Rasengan had four stages. The first was simple: gathering Chakra in your palm.
The sed stage involved stable and tinuous Chakra release. This racticed by pg a water balloon in your hand and releasing Chakra to make the water inside move erratically until the balloon exploded.
The third stage used a rubber ball. The goal was to maintain Chakra release, solidifying the Chakra until it could burst the ball.
At the third stage, the Rasengan could already cause damage, but its power was limited.
The final stage bined everything learned previously. High-density Chakra was gathered in the hand, released tinuously, maintained, and finally pleting the Jutsu.
After dinner, Kushio bed. Shiuro his room.
"I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling about this." Shin looked out the window. The sky was unusually dark, not a moon or star in sight.
"'t sleep. Might as well refine some Chakra."
Time passed. It ast one in the m when Shin finally stopped. He was feeling sleepy. Just as he was about to lie down, a loud noise jolted him awake.
He rushed to the window. In the dire of the Uzumaki grounds, fmes lit up the night sky.
"Could it be...?"
His drowsiness vanished. He ran to Kushina's room.
"Kushina, wake up!"
"Shin, what's going on? I was sleeping so soundly. Why did you wake me up?" Kushina grumbled, her eyes barely open.
"Wake up, something's wrong!"
Shin flicked Kushina's forehead t her to her sehis was no time for jokes.
If his hunch was right, the disaster had struck the Land of Whirlpools. There was nothing he could do to stop it, but he could protect himself and Kushina.
"What's wrong?" Kushina asked, seeing the seriousness in Shin's eyes.
Shin poiowards the window. Kushina followed his gaze and saw the fire raging in the distance.
"Whoa, the grounds are on fire!"
"It's more than just a fire. We're utack. Listen to that! Those explosions are from Explosive Tags."
"Who would dare attack the Uzumaki ?"
"Now's not the time to discuss that. e on!"
Shin urged Kushina to get dressed, pack their essentials, and prepare to leave.
Even though they were far from the grounds, there was no guarantee of safety.
"Captain, this is the outer perimeter of the Uzumaki grounds, right? Why is there a house here?"
Just as they stepped out, Shin saw several figures in ninja attire, their faces hidden behind masks. His heart sank.
Kushina gripped his arm, fear creeping into her eyes.
"Well, well, look what we have here. A couple of stragglers. And just kids, too."
A ninja wearing a tanuki mask leered at them.
"Talk about bad luck."
They were so far out, yet they still ran into enemies.
The five ninjas were equally surprised. They had been tasked with sealing off the Uzumaki grounds, preventing anyone from esg. They hadn't expected to find two children out here.
Judging by their red hair, they were definitely Uzumaki. And if they were Uzumaki, they had to be eliminated.
"Enough chatter. Kill them."
The leader of the squad ordered.
The squad sisted of one Jonin and four elite in.
Seeing them move to attack, Shin swiftly pulled three Shuriken from his poud flung them at the Jonin leader.
While the Jonin was dodging, Shin made his move. He appeared before one of the in in a fsh, leaping up and delivering a powerful blow to the ninja's neck.
His speed was such that the in didn't even have time to react. The bloed his neck.
Blood gurgled from the in's mouth. Within a sed, he was dead.
The entire enter took less than two seds. After taking down the in, Shireated to Kushina's side.
"Run!"
He scooped Kushina into his arms and fled towards the forest.
"Damn it! After them!"
The Jonin leader roared in fury. To have one of his men killed by a five-year-old brat, right under his nose, was a disgrace.
The other three in snapped out of their shock. Shin's ruthless efficy had stuhem.
A five-year-old, killing ae in? Even in the brutal Warring States Period, such a thing was unheard of.
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