That evening, after taking Kushina home, Minato unrolled the ninjutsu scroll given to him by the Third.
It contained the Flying Thunder God Technique developed by the Second Hokage. This copy must have been copied by the Third from the Scroll of Seals. Minato himself had once used this version as a foundation for his own improvements.
The essence of the Flying Thunder God Technique lay in instantaneous movement between coordinates. The targets that could be moved included not only the user himself but also anyone or anything that had made direct or indirect contact with the user's chakra.
Based on this principle, Minato combined barrier techniques with the Flying Thunder God method, successfully applying it on the defensive front.
With the Flying Thunder God Barrier, even something like the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball could be redirected.
The Second couldn't move multiple targets at once. Otherwise, during his encirclement by the Gold and Silver Horns squad, he could have simply teleported himself along with the Third and others.
However, Minato managed to fix this flaw. As long as there was sufficient chakra, transferring tens of thousands simultaneously became possible.
Nonetheless, Minato hadn't discarded the original scroll. Together with Senior Minato, he spent several more days researching based on this prototype.
Minato knew he hadn't perfected the Flying Thunder God just yet. At its current stage, it functioned primarily as a supportive technique without offensive capabilities.
...
For two weeks straight, Minato remained inside his home. He couldn't immediately begin using the Flying Thunder God Technique—it required a period of refining his chakra.
For Minato—who was capable of inventing S-rank techniques—two weeks were more than enough to master even an S-rank space-time jutsu.
Only after these fifteen days did Minato finally step out of his house, heading directly toward Konoha's Training Ground Seven. Using the Shadow Clone Jutsu, he filled the area with numerous traps.
At his level, conventional training methods yielded minimal results. Plus, he knew better than to disturb Sakumo and Watanabe Junko at this particular time.
After setting up the traps, Minato blindfolded himself—he knew his subconscious would instinctively avoid stepping into them.
By depriving himself of sight, his mind lacked the necessary input to make decisions.
Once his vision was gone, his other senses sharpened naturally—at first, just a little.
So for the first two days, Minato suffered multiple injuries from his own traps, narrowly avoiding fatal strikes on several occasions.
But starting on the third day, the effects of this training began showing. Minato started noticing how he could subconsciously sense wind direction and airflow speed.
Without sight or chakra sensing, he slowly began to know exactly where he was in Training Ground Seven.
This marked a gradual enhancement across all his physical reaction capabilities.
A whole month passed like this...
...
Within the forest of Training Ground Seven, green vegetation had flourished. Occasionally, small insects buzzed noisily, their wings creating soft fluttering sounds—an atmosphere teeming with life.
Shshsh!
Through the thick greenery, a figure dashed forward, bounding from tree to tree.
Minato, still blindfolded, didn't slow his pace at all as he streaked through the woods.
He pushed off and leapt from a tree, moving straight ahead. Yet just several meters forward stood a thick trunk, wide enough for three men to encircle with their arms, blocking his path.
A few meters was nothing more than a blink of an eye for Minato to cross, but logically speaking, unable to see the obstacle in front of him, he should have been unable to stop his momentum in time and would crash into it.
Yet just as Minato neared the tree, he suddenly thrust his hand outward. With a push, his body flipped up instantly and landed solidly on a tree stump.
Minato's movements flowed like drifting clouds, not pausing even briefly before dashing forth once again.
"Boom!"
As he landed on a branch, seemingly activating a trap, sharp wooden stakes shot out from both sides straight at him.
Minato twitched his ears slightly, then leaped—dodging one stake as another came rushing immediately after. He planted his foot, flipped midair, and landed upright on the incoming wooden stake.
Jumping from tree to tree, countless hidden traps were triggered, each narrowly avoided with perfect timing.
Eventually, he landed steadily at the edge of Training Ground Seven and removed the black cloth covering his eyes.
Then he gave a faint smile and performed hand seals.
Swish!
In an instant, he abruptly vanished from sight.
...
Outside Minato's front door, his figure reappeared, causing the marking he had engraved beside the doorway to flicker briefly.
He turned around, preparing to open the door, when he paused again.
After a few seconds, an Anbu officer materialized before him.
"Hokage-sama summoned me?" Minato asked promptly.
The Anbu nodded, though the masked gaze fixed on Minato carried a hint of surprise—he had appeared right at his doorstep out of nowhere.
"I understand."
Smiling, Minato formed hand seals again and disappeared once more.
Appearing beside a peculiar mark on Konoha's Main Road, Minato's figure emerged again.
Without hesitation, he leapt forward and soon arrived in front of the Hokage Tower.
...
When Minato met The Third, he was the first to rise, a smile spreading across his face. "Have you already mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique?"
"Just preliminary mastery," Minato replied. "I haven't mastered using it in real battle yet."
"There's no rush. We still have plenty of time," The Third said with a chuckle before continuing, "Originally, I intended to clear your schedule of missions, but this time it's a personal request from Chairman Takumi Fujihara, so I couldn't refuse."
"Another request from him?" Minato blinked in surprise.
"And not just any ninja—he specifically requested you." The Third remarked. The last assignment Minato handled left a deep impression on Fujihara.
Such influential merchants preferred hiring ninja they'd worked with before.
"Oh? What kind of mission is it?" Minato asked. Fujihara Takumi held a special status; surely he could not be treated lightly.
"He needs a set of business data delivered to the daimyo of the Land of Earth. So this mission is perfect for you to handle alone."
"Go to Takumi Fujihara's estate and find him. He'll handle everything for you," said The Third with a smile. "With the Flying Thunder God Technique, I believe you'll wrap it up in no time—within a week, maybe even less."
Minato nodded. He only needed to visit Takumi Fujihara's estate and the Land of Earth, setting up the Flying Thunder God markers at each location.
After that, he could complete the mission by activating the Flying Thunder God Technique.
"Then you may begin," The Third chuckled, handing Minato the commissioned mission scroll.
Minato accepted the scroll, bid farewell to The Third, then formed hand seals and vanished in a flash.
Watching that sudden vanish, The Third's eyes still held a lingering astonishment.
"Second..."
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