[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
Mount Myōboku, Year 42.
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The sound of the staff hitting his skin echoed through the place, while Minato automatically curled his body, gritting his teeth due to the pain he felt, even though his body was strong enough to endure it, the staff still hurt.
Clearly, Fukasaku had no mercy on him, and the toad was extremely strong.
"Focus! Remember, focus!" the toad reminded him.
"I've only been training for a few hours! I'm trying to get the hang of it!" Minato said, a little frustrated.
"Even so, I still have to remind you, Minato-boy," the chief of the toads said.
This was the first day of training with Sage Mode. He wasted no time and quickly started training, arriving at Mount Myoboku by late morning. After seeing Guren surpass the challenge of the waterfall, he already wanted to start training the same day.
Obviously, Fukasaku and his companion, Shima, tried to offer him lunch, but Minato already knew very well what he would eat. So he informed them that he brought his own food, saying he was on a diet and had to eat the nutrients he had brought as an excuse.
Now, in the afternoon, it was already Minato's third attempt, after Fukasaku covered his body with oil, while he wore only shorts and concentrated, trying to feel the natural energy around the place.
What even surprised Fukasaku was that Minato simply took only a few minutes for the energy to explode, rushing into his body, with him immediately losing control and starting to turn into stone.
But he was quickly hit by the staff, while Fukasaku questioned how Minato had done that so quickly, since it usually took at least days or even weeks for someone learning to start feeling the energy for themselves.
Minato did not answer because he did not know at the moment, as he could not explain it properly, but in fact it was thanks to the waterfall that he, somehow, developed the ability to sense the natural energy just by passing through it.
He felt it there, while it itself was already trying to enter his body, but, due to not being from Guren's clan — or rather, since now Guren was a dragon — from the fish clan, the energy did not transform him, but it was still there.
Anyway, he continued training, returning to concentrate for a fourth time, now thinking of absorbing the energy in a different way.
On the fourth attempt, Minato was already trying to avoid pulling the energy so quickly, he began to want to feel it, having much greater control over the energy, while trying to gradually insert it into his body, accumulating it very slowly.
He had been trying to do this for the past few hours, but he was still not fully prepared, while receiving blows from the chief of the toads' staff as soon as he lost control.
Even so, this still surprised Fukasaku, he was evolving a lot and for the fourth time, he was seeing the boy focused there, in lotus position, near the waterfall and the statues, feeling the energy approaching him little by little.
Minato placed his mind fully focused there, while trying to increase the chakra in his body directly with the natural energy using small parts of it.
He had also had an experience that was helping a lot at this moment, as he had already sucked chakra from other people to place it in himself, as happened when he had to flee the Land of Wind and sucked the chakra of Shukaku himself.
Which was something completely crazy, even more using a seal that was even forbidden among Mito's fuinjutsus, when he copied them from the scroll with all the knowledge she had given him in the last meetings before she passed away.
He also later developed his own seal, much more advanced and safer than the one he had used before, and used it a few times as well.
For Minato, merging one chakra with another was one of the most difficult things that could exist in the ninja world, with very few people having that level of control.
Even Naruto developed it to a level where he could transfer his own chakra, along with Kurama's, to strengthen anyone he wanted. In an instant, he could fit Kurama's chakra, which was extremely chaotic, into the body of someone who wasn't even a jinchuuriki.
That was extremely difficult and, at the same time, admirable. Naruto, because of that, was not called the child of prophecy for nothing. At the same time, Minato thought that Naruto would still be the child of prophecy with him around.
The elder toad himself had called him the child of prophecy, for he was Jiraiya's student. It seemed very generic, since any of Jiraiya's students could be this savior... But at the same time, Minato did not plan to die here after his son was born, so he would have a great influence in the ninja world; he already expected to have that after the Third Ninja War.
If he would really be the child of prophecy, well, only time would tell. But there was a confidence in Minato, as he continued there, focused, placing the chaotic nature energy into small drops to mix with his chakra.
Fukasaku remained there as well, analyzing Minato, watching for any change or loss of control, but saw how the boy was concentrated, starting to place the natural energy into his body much more efficiently than the previous times.
"This brat... He's on his fourth attempt and is already doing this? My God, the boy is a monster!" Fukasaku could not help but think as he analyzed Minato there, developing control over natural energy faster than he had ever seen before.
Even Jiraiya had taken weeks just to start pulling the energy, trying to feel it, but Minato, within minutes, had already done it on his first attempt and now, hours later, was beginning to understand nature energy.
Minato kept having the vision of the chakras around him, continuing to slowly add more and more natural energy into his body to get used to it, while trying to encode it to fit perfectly with his chakra. Thus, he filled his body for a few more hours, but no longer received a blow from the chief toad's staff.
'Let's do this...' Minato then decided to move on to the next step after getting used to mixing Nature Energy with his own in small amounts, making his body adapt without losing control.
So, already used to small parts of natural energy mixing with his chakra, he decided to accelerate.
Even Fukasaku looked surprised as he began to feel the energy around Minato advance faster into his body, starting to mix quickly, doing the same process but faster, while it was filtered and began to accumulate in Minato's body through his chakra pathways.
"He's already doing that?" Fukasaku was shocked, seeing the energy filling Minato's entire body as he needed, looking for the scales and toad-like features that Jiraiya had when he used Sage Mode, but they never came, while Minato continued to absorb more and more.
Fukasaku remained there silently, observing. Although his eyes were wide with surprise, he was still prepared to strike with the staff at any moment.
Suddenly, around Minato's eyes began to gain an orange characteristic.
"He's only changing the eyes..." Fukasaku murmured in surprise, while the orange color continued, with no other change anywhere else.
Minato stayed there for at least 20 minutes working with the natural energy in his body to not lose control, until his eyes began to open, finally displaying toad-like features.
"Really, only the eyes changed..." Fukasaku said, surprised, shocked by the boy who, in just one afternoon, managed to master Sage Mode.
"This is madness..." Fukasaku murmured, still frozen.
Minato blinked a few times, feeling his body bursting with energy, while quickly analyzing parts of his body with interest.
"So this is Sage Mode... Incredible!" Minato said, as he jumped up, leaping higher than he intended, with his body strength much more powerful than before, before landing on the ground looking a little dazed.
"I did it!" he said excitedly, while Fukasaku stood there still frozen, unable to believe what that boy had been able to do. It was impossible.
"Looks like that waterfall was an accidental blessing..." Minato said, after all, he wouldn't have reached that level so quickly if he hadn't felt the natural chakra so strongly before when Guren transformed into a dragon, without the danger of the natural energy entering his body when he passed through those clouds.
"Wait... Did my appearance change?" Minato suddenly said, a little worried.
"I hope it's just the eyes..." he said, immediately running to the water next to the waterfall, near the statues, quickly checking if his appearance had changed more than just one thing. But only his eyes, with toad-like characteristics, were there, and he sighed.
"I would hate to turn into a toad appearance... Maybe I wouldn't even use Sage Mode if that were the case..." Minato murmured quietly.
"How did you do it?" Fukasaku finally asked, breaking his silence but still shaken, looking at Minato.
Really, the only thing that had changed were the eyes.
"Tell me you had already done the training before!" Fukasaku said, hoping that Minato would say yes and that he wasn't some kind of monster in front of him.
"I had contact with natural energy a little before coming here, but I didn't absorb it. Still, I felt the energy, that might have helped me. I also had in mind some theories and experience on how to facilitate the entry into my body, by fusing the natural energy with my chakra."
"Seems like it worked quite well while I was concentrating, slowly training a small amount before really placing a large amount of natural chakra until I managed to reach Sage Mode..." Minato explained.
Fukasaku nodded, not without feeling a bit of envy. He himself had taken weeks to master the first part, months as Jiraiya had done, but that boy, in just a few hours...
"Anyway, this is incredible!" Minato said, wanting to test his strength while heading toward a rocky area.
But the next moment he felt something wrong and his body soon began to collapse, as he lost control.
"Damn it!" was the only thing he managed to murmur before feeling a staff hitting his back, making him groan in pain.
The natural energy was immediately expelled from his body, and his eyes returned to normal.
"You're not used to it. You can't lose focus with that excitement," Fukasaku explained, seeing Minato's mistake, which was normal.
"I guess you're right..." Minato got up, grumbling and scratching his back where he had been hit.
"Anyway, let's finish here. You should start focusing from tomorrow and get used to Sage Mode so you don't lose control," he said, and Minato nodded as they began returning to the house where Shima was waiting for them.
When they entered, Shima was surprised and excited at the same time.
"Good, you're back!" she said, already with the food ready, but found it strange as Minato scratched his head with a slightly embarrassed smile and Fukasaku stood there, looking downcast and depressed.
"What is this? What happened?" she asked, knowing something was wrong.
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!"
Shima's scream echoed throughout Mount Myōboku as she received the news from Fukasaku that Minato had mastered Sage Mode in just a few hours.
-------------Nexts Chapters ----------------
Chapter 252 - Plans for the EMS.
Chapter 257 - The Hatred of the Nine-Tailed Fox's Chakra.
Chapter 267 - Let's Get Married!
Chapter 276 - The strike inside the village begins!
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