harleyscars Chapter 102 The First Major Event in Konoha's 37th Year, the Number One Beauty in the Ninja Wor
Chapter 102 The First Major Event in Konoha's 37th Year, the Number One Beauty in the Ninja Wor
Chapter 102 The First Major Event in Konoha's 37th Year, the Number One Beauty in the Ninja World
October 1, Konoha 37.
Before they knew it, Gojo Yoru had been reincarnated into this world for thirteen years.
Although her birthday is still more than half a year away, Gojo Yoru has already passed the early adolescence stage of ten to twelve years old and has officially entered the early teenage stage of thirteen to fifteen years old.
In this world where the human body has 130 trillion cells, this stage, along with the late adolescence stage from sixteen to nineteen years old, are the two major growth spurts.
Once these two stages are over, the young boy, who was originally immature, short, and weak, will undergo a complete transformation, as if he has been reborn.
The best example is Naruto Uzumaki, who was only 1.47 meters tall when he was twelve years old and had just graduated in the original work. He grew to 1.66 meters tall, and then at the age of nineteen, his height soared to 1.8 meters.
Needless to say, his strength was extraordinary. He became a hero of Konoha and a savior of the ninja world at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and even reached the moon at the age of nineteen.
Regardless of which country you are born in or what environment you grow up in, in this world where chakra exists, everyone needs to go through these two stages.
Even Jiraiya, whose height soared to 1.91 meters after adulthood, was no exception.
Even if someone's body develops early, their strength cannot improve by leaps and bounds.
These two stages can be considered the two major genetic locks in the Naruto world.
Even Nagato, who transplanted the Rinnegan and mastered six nature transformations in a year, becoming proficient in all five major elemental ninjutsu, could not break this lock.
Except for two people.
One of them was Itachi Uchiha, who awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan at the age of eleven, was almost as tall as Kakashi Hatake during his Anbu days at the age of thirteen, and was the greatest filial son in the ninja world who wiped out the Uchiha clan in the same year as Obito Uchiha.
Another is Gojou Yoru, who evolves every six years and has already embarked on the path to godhood since he was six years old.
Breaking the genetic lock seems to require a huge price to pay. Uchiha Itachi, who was a five-kage level powerhouse at a young age, was already plagued by serious illnesses before he even came of age.
In contrast, Gojo Yoru's evolution occurs every six years, and after each evolution, there is an invisible bottleneck. This may be both a limitation and a form of protection.
Otherwise, the sudden death that comes with each evolution would be unbearable. If he persisted until his body had fully evolved, he would likely be drained of all his energy by the backlash at the end of the evolution, and would either go directly to the Pure Land or travel through time again.
Having completed two evolutions, Gojo Yoru's strength and physique no longer resemble those of an early adolescence; rather, he looks like an adult about to pass through two major stages.
The only place that fits both of these stages is perhaps the one where the Yin Seal is not broken, and the chakra capacity is only at the level of an all-around Jonin.
Thirteen-year-old Gojo Yoru has already grown to 1.78 meters tall. With just three centimeters left, he will surpass Orochimaru and be as tall as Kakashi Hatake at the beginning of the story.
The time traveler's mental age also gave Gojo Yoru a temperament that perfectly matched his height. When he communicated with Tsunade last year, there was no barrier between junior and senior. The avant-garde ideas he provided deeply impressed Tsunade.
After more than a year of battlefield combat and command, his eyes and aura are in line with his current status. Apart from acquaintances, everyone else will subconsciously ignore Gojo Yoru's age.
Ninjas below the ace level in Konoha have long since begun to address Gojo Yoru as "Lord Gojo" or "Lord Yoru".
If the war hadn't been completely over, it wouldn't have felt out of place at all if Hiruzen Sarutobi had sent Gojo Yoru to be his Jonin instructor.
Konoha began its three-front war on the day Gojo Yoru went to the border base.
On that same day, Gojo Yoru learned a lesson from the ninjas of this era, experiencing the difference between anime and reality.
Anime has limited screen time, and many ninjas and ANBU members wearing disguises are like extras, easily killed with a kunai or used to highlight the power of a certain technique.
However, in the real world, Chunin are already captains with leadership abilities, and many Jonin instructors are just Special Jonin level.
Jonin and Elite Jonin are all-rounders.
As for a Kage-level powerhouse like Hanzo the Salamander, once he has information on him, even someone like Yoru Gojo, who possesses space-time abilities, would need to create an opportunity or gain an intelligence advantage to kill him.
Just by fighting Hanzo of the Salamander, Gojo Yoru could sense the power of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, and understand why the two of them could prevent the ninja world from starting a war.
They understood even more why the pure-blooded Otsutsuki clan referred to the people of the ninja world as inferior beings.
Those were indeed beings from another dimension.
The war between Amegakure and the border front has been over for two months.
The passage to the Land of Rain, which had been closed for two years, has been reopened.
The battles between Sunagakure and White Fang, and between Iwagakure and the King of the Sea, will not affect the operation of the ninja world.
In the eyes of all parties, the war on these two fronts should end soon.
Even if the war doesn't end, it will at most be a prolonged period of minor skirmishes.
After all, the reason the chaotic war broke out was because Hanzo the Salamander held up the border front of the Land of Fire, giving the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind an opportunity to invade the Land of Fire, and dividing their troops and high-level combat forces into three groups.
Now that Amegakure has withdrawn, once the Land of Fire rebuilds its border base and restores this signal tower, the strength of the other two fronts will greatly increase.
The Land of Wind and the Land of Earth, which have failed to break through the defenses in the past two years, have even less hope.
What was unexpected was that neither the Sand Village Front nor the Iwa Village Front withdrew; in fact, the latter intensified its offensive.
The pressure on the front lines suddenly increased, prompting the border front, which had been catching its breath, to immediately mobilize troops to support the other side.
This information reached the Sunagakure Front, giving Chiyo an opportunity.
It's unclear whether they wanted to coordinate with the Iwagakure front to help share the firepower, or to take the opportunity to break through the Land of Fire's White Fang front, or to force Konoha to send Gojo Yoru by increasing their offensive, giving Chiyo a chance for revenge.
At the end of Konoha's 36th year, Sunagakure also intensified its offensive, and several large-scale group battles broke out on both sides.
In other words, their location doesn't affect the operation of the ninja world; otherwise, the atmosphere in the ninja world at this time would definitely be extremely oppressive.
Unfortunately, Chiyo seemed to have overestimated her own side's strength, or perhaps because her opponent for the past year or so had always been Tsunade, she overlooked an extremely important piece of information.
She was able to become Hanzo of the Salamander's nemesis and defeat Sakumo Hatake without any resistance because she possessed one of the Sunagakure's secrets, the "Chikamatsu Ten Ninja," and had also transformed her arm into a puppet hand, installing defensive and poison-releasing mechanisms, and compensating for the puppeteer's greatest weakness.
Her overall qualities are sufficient to make her a Five Kage.
If it weren't for Tsunade's superhuman strength and medical abilities, making her her nemesis, no one would even be qualified to fight her.
Even so, Chiyo always came out on top in their many encounters with Tsunade.
This also made Chiyo subconsciously forget that she was able to suppress Tsunade, a taijutsu ninja, by using her puppet technique, which was countered by Tsunade.
Her son and daughters-in-law might not be able to do that.
Just like taijutsu ninjas, ninjas who use fire-style taijutsu don't need to form hand seals for any of their moves. The difference is that ninjas who use fire-style taijutsu mostly like taijutsu ninjas, preferring to fight directly and with great force.
The ninjutsu of the Lightning Release school, aside from some of the brutes of Kumogakure, are almost all used by assassins who like to use speed to suppress their opponents or to find an opportunity to kill with one blow.
Gojo Yoru and Hatake Sakumo are the best examples.
The former used his speed to create an opportunity for Hanzo of the Salamander to take to the air, and then used his new intelligence advantage to almost kill this demigod of the ninja world.
Throughout the entire ordeal, Hanzo the Salamander never had time to destroy Gojo Yoru's gas mask and then summon his partner to release the poisonous smoke.
Just like how Gojo and his two companions had fought Hanzo the Salamander multiple times and had already gathered information about each other.
In the many encounters over the past year, Tsunade had already cracked Chiyo's deadly poison and had also obtained information about the "Chikamatsu Ten" and the Puppet Hand. However, due to the difference in strength, she still couldn't do anything to Chiyo.
Sakumo Hatake is different from Tsunade.
As a top-tier assassin, he always kept himself hidden. In his numerous encounters with Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law, he never revealed his trump card, but instead continuously gathered intelligence about the couple.
To prevent his opponent from still harboring some hidden trump card, or a combination technique like Chiyo's, Sakumo Hatake gave up many opportunities for a one-hit kill.
Until the final battles of Konoha 36, the couple's opponents were no longer just Sakumo Hatake, but also other ninjas who would suddenly attack them. Even when they were injured and their puppets were damaged, they still did not reveal any new moves and their fighting style remained the same.
This made Sakumo Hatake completely certain that they had no more trump cards left.
And so, Konoha's White Fang finally revealed his fangs.
On the night of January 1, 1948, a message spread across the battlefields of both major war fronts. Through reconnaissance teams and the Anbu, it quickly reached the five great ninja villages and then rapidly spread throughout the entire ninja world.
Following the loss of Ebizo, the King of Intelligence, Sunagakure has lost two more generals: Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law.
Although Chiyo's son is an all-around Jonin, her daughter-in-law is just a special Jonin with special talents.
However, both of them were exceptional puppeteers. With years of tacit understanding and technical support from Sunagakure, their puppets possessed a wide variety of abilities, complemented each other, and mastered multiple combination techniques, making them as powerful as composite ninjutsu.
The combined strength of this couple is equivalent to that of Konoha's Ino-Shika-Cho trio, capable of unleashing power far exceeding their level, making them the most unique ace force in Sunagakure.
Before they had any intelligence, even Sakumo Hatake suffered a great loss at the hands of this couple.
But now, this couple has died at the hands of Konoha's White Fang, and just like Ebizo's death, they were instantly killed by Hatake Sakumo!
The surrounding Sand Ninja, as well as Chiyo who was fighting Tsunade, didn't even have time to react.
Sakumo Hatake's speed was incredible. His short sword, which was covered in Lightning Release nature transformation, suddenly changed shape, and the arc of his slash resembled a white crescent moon.
Since the start of the war, all four countries have suffered numerous casualties.
However, of the elite combatants who have been killed in action, only Ebizo remains.
Now we have another pair of special ace fighters.
The White Fang of Konoha, renowned throughout the ninja world.
The most tragic figure in the Second Shinobi World War has emerged.
That was Chiyo, who lost her younger brother and witnessed her son and daughter-in-law being murdered.
It is said that Chiyo went mad on the spot. The intimidating power she displayed was no less than that of a Jinchuriki. Hatake Sakumo did not even have a chance to behead her and take her back to read her memories before quickly leading the ninja army to retreat.
If it weren't for the Sand Village's intervention, and her last shred of reason and her grandson in the village, Chiyo probably wouldn't have been able to resist rushing to the White Fang's headquarters.
That same night, when the news reached Konoha, Orochimaru and Jiraiya, who had also returned to the village on vacation, were dispatched by Hiruzen Sarutobi to the White Fang front.
To avoid wasting time, Gojo Yoru even used the Flying Thunder God Technique to personally escort them there.
More than a year later, Gojou and his two companions finally met Tsunade and Hatake Sakumo again.
"Gurgle————"
Looking at Tsunade in front of him, Jiraiya couldn't help but swallow hard, his eyes practically turning into pink hearts. Then, with a lewd smile, he complimented, "Tsunade, you've become even more beautiful!"
Tsunade's eyes were as cold as knives: "Jiraiya, if you want to spend some time in the emergency room, I don't mind giving you a hand."
"hey-hey----"
Jiraiya quickly averted his gaze, awkwardly scratching his head as he stood aside.
Seeing this, Orochimaru shook his head helplessly.
After all these years, he hasn't changed at all. With this image and this courage, it's almost impossible for him to win Tsunade's heart.
The following footage fully demonstrates this point.
"Sakumo-senpai, it's been a long time."
Gojo Yoru greeted Hatake Sakumo first, then looked at Tsunade and smiled, "Tsunade-senpai, it's been a long time. You've become even more beautiful."
Tsunade smiled at the same words, then walked over and patted Gojou Yoru's chest, exclaiming, "It's been over a year, and you've really grown a lot taller. You're almost a head taller than me now. With your physical development, you should have an astonishing amount of chakra. Being able to master the Yin Seal at this age means it's not a problem with your Yin Release talent. It seems your spiritual energy is holding you back."
Seeing Tsunade so affectionate with Gojo Yoru, Jiraiya's eyes were filled with envy, but he couldn't help but complain on the surface: "How is this a burden? Gojo-kun isn't a descendant of the Senju or Uzumaki clans. For someone his age to have this much chakra is already very impressive. Of course, he still can't compare to me."
When he said his last words, Jiraiya's expression was full of smugness.
However, no one mocked him; Tsunade simply rolled her eyes at him.
Because that's the truth.
Like Kakashi Hatake, Jiraiya possessed a massive amount of chakra from a young age.
Back then, because he hadn't signed a blood pact with his summoned beast, he used the summoning technique without permission, which actually stirred up the power of space and time, and he accidentally entered Mount Myōboku, one of the three holy lands.
After signing a contract with Mount Myōboku, Jiraiya immediately began training in Sage Mode.
At that time, he may not have passed through the early adolescence stage, or he may have just entered the early teens stage.
It is certain that he is definitely not older than fifteen.
Neither Gojo Yoru nor Orochimaru currently possesses enough chakra to qualify for Sage Mode training.
This shows just how astonishing Jiraiya's chakra reserves were.
He is also one of the few beings in the original work who can use Sage Art: Super Giant Rasengan.
Gojo Yoru was also observing Tsunade, a hint of amazement flashing in his eyes.
No wonder Jiraiya had that lecherous look on his face; Tsunade had indeed become even more beautiful.
The butterfly effect triggered by Gojo Yoru affected many people, except for Nawaki, who was still killed in the explosion.
Tsunade was one of them.
One of the characteristics of the Yin Seal is that it can help people maintain a youthful appearance.
However, this characteristic can only maintain the stage that has been achieved, and cannot allow one to return to the previous stage.
When Tsunade mastered the Yin Seal in the original story, it was already during the Third Shinobi World War. By then, she had long passed her golden age and her appearance could no longer return to that of the Second Shinobi World War.
In Gojo Yoru's eyes, Tsunade's peak beauty was during the Second Shinobi World War.
Around twenty-five or twenty-six years old, a woman possesses both the lingering charm of youth and the budding maturity of maturity; it is the most beautiful stage of a woman's life.
So when discussing with Tsunade how to reform the ninja academy, Gojo Yoru suddenly had a flash of inspiration and suggested that she practice the Yin Seal, and even offered his own experience in practicing the Yin Seal.
As he said before joining the war, Gojo Yoru was not interested in "defending the world's homeland".
He only has a fondness for a few important characters who were fictional characters in their past lives. If he happens to meet them and gets close to them, and it's just a small favor, Gojo Yoru wouldn't mind rewriting their original fate.
He did it for no other reason than to feel happy and content.
At Gojo Yoru's suggestion, Tsunade mastered the Yin Seal many years ahead of schedule.
Having awakened the bloodline of the Senju clan and possessing immense chakra, Tsunade's appearance will remain unchanged for the next few decades.
Furthermore, another characteristic of the Yin Seal is that it enhances bodily functions through the micro-adjustment of chakra, keeping physical skills at their peak.
Under the influence of this characteristic, Tsunade's appearance remained unchanged for more than a year, but her skin and figure underwent slight changes.
Her skin became fairer, and her figure became more curvaceous.
Especially when she's not fighting, she'll take off her battle armor and wear only a white shirt and a dark blue coat, making her even more terrifying breasts, which have grown considerably larger.
Jiraiya revealed his lecherous nature because he noticed this change.
With her long, straight, light yellow hair, exquisite and beautiful face, curvaceous figure, dashing demeanor, formidable strength, and noble birth—Tsunade now absolutely deserves the title of "the most beautiful woman in the ninja world."
After not seeing each other for more than a year, the five of them chatted for a long time.
Their conversation revolved entirely around Gojo Night.
In Konoha Year 35, Gojo Yoru still addressed them with the suffix "adult".
Now, after more than a year, he has become a senior.
Their achievements left them speechless and ashamed of their own inferiority.
If it weren't for the fact that he was the same type as Gojo Yoru and didn't want to lose his fatherly authority in front of his son, Hatake Sakumo would have asked Gojo Yoru to take his son as his disciple after he came of age.
After the casual conversation ended, Orochimaru suddenly became serious and said, "Yoru won't stay here for long. Now that things have changed unexpectedly, Lord Danzo's front line might need his support. Moreover, Yoru's Flying Thunder God Technique is no secret in the ninja world. If Sunagakure is going to use a Jinchuriki, they will definitely be well prepared and won't give Yoru the chance to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport."
"Furthermore, given Yoru's chakra reserves, he can only transfer one Tailed Beast Ball at most. They might use the Tailed Beast Ball to test him and then take the opportunity to deplete Yoru's chakra."
"We must prepare in advance for the Sand Village to activate the Jinchūriki, and disperse the combat and support forces. Each squad must have a barrier team."
"Jiraiya and I will stay here until the war ends to ensure that we can perform the Four Red Sun Formation."
Sakumo Hatake and Tsunade nodded in unison, their expressions serious.