However, when trees are transplanted, they die, but people move and live; the process is fixed, yet geniuses often take unconventional paths....
There are always individuals who can break out of the "two-hand seals" framework to perform "one-hand seals." For example, the Uchiha clan can use their Sharingan to forcibly memorize the seals and replicate the chakra pathways with one hand... or Kisame can break the seal restrictions with his massive amount of chakra... or Haku can simplify the processes through the unique ice release technique inheriting the bloodline limit....
In short, behind every "seal-less jutsu," it reflects the extraordinary talent of the caster, reaching a terrifying level!
Now, right under his nose, there's another one....
Sarutobi Hiruzen squinted at the crystal ball, observing the small boy, who seemed to have grown taller and more mysterious compared to when they last met at the ninja school just a few days ago...making it hard for him to see through the boy. At times, Hiruzen wondered if Fugaku could really have raised such a child.
At the very least, what Jin showed, Fugaku himself couldn't do... except for the "Fireball Jutsu".....
The footsteps echoed with the wind deep in the southern forest... the four great woods in the southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest had "perception barriers" overhead, guarding Konoha. Roy ran in the front, with Kakashi, Obito madly chasing behind, and at last, the struggling Nohara Rin... her brown hair fluttering in the wind, her dark brown eyes as bright as jewels, but she couldn't hide the tiredness in them...
In the Minato's team, her original role wasn't "combat," more like support, which could be observed from her proficiency in "medical ninjutsu"...
"Huff... huff...." The girl's chest heaved as she bent forward gasping, the log on her shoulder growing inexplicably heavier, making her legs feel like they were filled with lead, unable to run...
Namikaze Minato trailed behind the others, catching up to her first,
The man didn't speak or encourage his students; instead, he cast his gaze onto the three in front, hoping they would do something... The first to turn back was Obito,
Uchiha Obito didn't seem intent on competing with Roy; he only stared at Kakashi, noticing Rin's situation. Without a second thought, the boy abandoned his race against Kakashi, slowing down to let Rin catch up, attempting to lift her, only to find...
A "whish~" as a "thread" grazed Obito's shoulder, cutting through the air at a speed faster than his, suddenly reaching Rin's side, right in front of Minato... wrapping around her waist, carrying her forward....
Obito was stunned, watching as Rin was lifted past him, his small mouth opening as if he were a porcelain vase knocked over... smashing onto the ground with a "thud," visibly... shattered!
"Rin,"
"Jin!"
"Get... back here!"
Madness... Obito didn't know where the energy came from, as he sprinted ahead at full speed, chasing after Rin who was carried forward, passing Kakashi in a flash....
The only one left in the team was Namikaze Minato, staring at the "Nen Line" wrapped around Nohara Rin's waist, pondering. Clearly, this was another "seal-less jutsu" he didn't know about!
"How strange... where did this kid learn these things?"
"Could it be taught by Brother Fugaku?"
Namikaze Minato thought of Uchiha Fugaku's stern face. From what he knew of him, Fugaku was rigid, serious, cautious, yet he didn't seem like someone with "innovative" capabilities. He quickly discarded that thought, and with a flicker, sped up to catch up with them....
With the naked eye, a yellow streak flashed past Obito, past Kakashi, past Rin, all the way to reach Roy's side.....
At the Hokage building, after Sarutobi Hiruzen witnessed Roy catching a log with his hand and letting it fall onto his shoulder, then saw him suddenly fling a transparent "Chakra Line" from his fingertip to capture Nohara Rin's waist, carrying her forward a distance,
The old man hidden behind the curtain of smoke had one of those rare moments where he impulsively....
Not good, the previous speculation might have a vague possibility of illumination in reality... Sarutobi Hiruzen picked up the pen at the sentence he had just written... [Can every jutsu bypass the "seal" phase.....]
The emphasis on "unknown" was circled, as an old heart that had not wavered through the vicissitudes of war for the first time began to harbor a trace of doubt...this doubt led to unthinkable realms, forcing Sarutobi Hiruzen to fix his eyes on the crystal ball in front of him, not daring to miss a single image.....
"Tap... tap..." The circle soon completed,
Deep within the southern forest, Roy carried a log, as usual, running non-stop through the dense woodlands with "Sun Breathing," just like running on Kukuroo Mountain, even with Nohara Rin, he remained composed, not sweating....
"What's this jutsu called?"
"Whew~" A gust arose, a head of yellow fluttered, as Namikaze Minato arrived... the man turned his head to look at the boy, his eyes sparkling, smiling as he asked.
Roy, for a moment, seemed to be back in the morning when Itachi asked him... candidly replied, "It hasn't been named yet."
No name yet? Namikaze Minato's eyes twinkled. Indeed, it was self-created by this child!
A child not yet eight years old had self-created a seal-less jutsu? If Kushina heard this, she would definitely think it was a joke at her expense... Even though she believed Mikoto's words and asked him to specially take care of Jin... Namikaze Minato was somewhat speechless.
He curiously inquired, "You haven't named it, how did you develop it?"
As the name suggests, the technique follows the essence... a name embodies the thoughts of its creator, or perhaps... one might call it a quirky imagination!
Take his own recent development, the "Rasengan," also a "seal-less jutsu." It means to mold a sphere by hand, injecting spiral power into the sphere to enhance its might... As Roy said, the case of developing a jutsu without first naming it... throughout his life as the Yellow Flash, it was a first!
Roy understood Namikaze Minato's feelings. Compared to Chakra, derived from the Divine Tree and tied to "yin" and "yang," with tangible traces, "Nen" is whimsical. Any logic, reasoning, whatever-this-or-that... is all nonsense, only one rule remains—
My Power of Thought!
As long as I "think," I can develop any kind of "Nenryoku"!
This was evident in how Alluka was dubbed the "Wish Machine"!
Roy shrugged: "I don't know either,"
The young boy looked innocently at Namikaze Minato, explaining, "That night I was thirsty in bed at midnight and didn't want to get up, so I attempted to see if I could gather chakra into a rope to fetch a cup of water from the kitchen, and...it just came to fruition...."
Roy flicked his right hand, the "Nen Line" at his fingertip moving to swiftly guide Nohara Rin along. For a moment, both Namikaze Minato and Sarutobi Hiruzen, who spied through the "telescope technique," fell into silence.
What could they say? What should they say? To think Namikaze Minato spent three years developing "Rasengan," but the difference between people seemed even more significant than between dogs and people!
"Cough cough..." In the Hokage building,
Sarutobi Hiruzen sat behind his desk, erupting in a fit of coughing, uncertain if it was the excessive smoke causing it or Roy's absurd yet somewhat sensible words.
The old man quickly rubbed his chest, soothing the breath caught in his throat before looking back at the teenager in the crystal ball, struggling to decide what to inscribe on the scroll.
"So, is this what genius looks like?" Sarutobi Hiruzen murmured.
'Yes, this is genius, an unreasonable genius!' Namikaze Minato marveled in his heart.
The Yellow Flash gazed deeply at the young boy, watching his rhythmic steps, his eyebrows raised in curiosity, unknowingly blurting out, "Can you go faster?"
Roy tilted his head and responded, "What's your version of fast?"
"Is it like this?"
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