Chapter 149: Cramming at the Last Minute
Tsunami—that was the name of Tazuna's daughter. She appeared to be a very capable woman, and although there was a trace of weariness in her brow from long-term worry, she still warmly welcomed Team 7.
After enjoying a quite delicious dinner featuring local sea fish as the main course, the group decided to rest early and conserve their energy.
Due to limited rooms, everyone decided to sleep on futons in the spacious living room. The living room was quite roomy, more than enough space for several people to sleep.
However, when preparing to sleep, Naruto noticed that Satsuki's gaze would occasionally glance with some concern at the storage scroll placed beside her pillow, as if it contained something extremely important that required constant confirmation of its existence.
The next morning, after eating the simple breakfast Tsunami prepared, Tazuna headed to the bridge construction site to continue his work.
Kakashi, considering that Momochi Zabuza hadn't been killed and that the opponent now had an ally capable of using the rare Ice Release bloodline limit, decided the situation had become increasingly complex and dangerous.
To improve the team's overall response capability, he decided to have the squad train immediately.
He brought the three to a relatively secluded, quiet forest clearing near the bridge. Then he directly instructed Naruto and Satsuki: "You two can train on your own, consolidating and improving your existing abilities."
After that, he turned his complete attention to Sakura, beginning to explain and demonstrate the most basic chakra control training—tree climbing.
This confirmed it—Kakashi had definitely secretly observed his and Satsuki's usual training sessions.
Seeing Kakashi so confidently adopt a "hands-off" approach with himself and Satsuki, Naruto immediately understood the reason.
Otherwise, he would never be so hands-off.
Satsuki remained focused on improving her jutsu and weapon throwing. In the forest, blazing fireballs and hissing, leaping lightning alternated, accompanied by the sharp sounds of shuriken and kunai precisely hitting distant targets.
Although yesterday when facing Zabuza's terrifying killing intent forged through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, Satsuki had indeed felt unprecedented fear, in reality, her current true strength had long exceeded that of ordinary Chunin.
Not only had she awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan—which many Jonin couldn't even open—on the night of the massacre, but in the days since, she had been personally taught by the former Uchiha clan head, Uchiha Fugaku, who possessed rich combat experience and held nothing back in his instruction.
In terms of raw strength and mastery of jutsu levels, she had even reached the threshold of Special Jonin.
The reason she had been intimidated by Zabuza's killing intent yesterday was mainly due to the vast gulf between them in actual combat experience and the number of life-and-death battles.
Zabuza was the "Demon" who had survived the Bloody Mist policies, while Satsuki was still just a newly graduated Genin encountering this level of killing intent for the first time.
As for Naruto, after completing an exhilarating taijutsu warm-up, he didn't continue studying the forbidden techniques from the Scroll of Sealing.
Because even if he forcibly learned the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags now, he didn't have nearly enough explosive tags stored to support this technique.
Moreover, using this kind of mutual destruction-level forbidden technique against Zabuza would be overkill. Besides, Naruto didn't want to kill Zabuza and Haku—he was still hoping to recruit them into his Ember organization.
These complex forbidden techniques should be studied properly after returning to the village with a safer environment and sufficient resources.
At this moment, he was more inclined to develop a new combination jutsu more suitable for the current situation—one with controllable power and greater practicality. His concept was very clear.
First, throw out that system-produced giant shuriken with exceptionally durable refined steel as a carrier, then immediately use Wind Style jutsu to accelerate it and add cutting power, while Satsuki simultaneously used Fire Style jutsu to wrap blazing flames around it.
The ultimate goal was to create a destructive flying weapon wrapped in both violent wind blades and scorching flames!
He even wanted to try further whether after throwing, he could apply the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique to this giant shuriken enhanced by combination jutsu, making it split into many for comprehensive destructive strikes!
It could be said that if this attack could hit perfectly, ninja below Kage level would be seriously injured if not killed!
For this technique still in the conceptual stage, Naruto had already thought of a name:
Wind-Fire Style: Rotating Blade Scorching Storm Infinite Shuriken Shadow Burial Zero Form!
After thinking of this name, Naruto felt a bit embarrassed himself—he seemed to have a bit of a chuunibyou complex.
But when he asked for Satsuki's opinion, she just nodded slightly: "Very good, the name has your style, Naruto." For her, any name Naruto came up with seemed fine.
After a while, Sakura returned. Like in the original story, she showed extremely high talent in delicate chakra control, quickly completing the tree climbing training perfectly.
After Kakashi-sensei verified her success, he "sent" Sakura back to continue training with the others, while he himself headed to the bridge construction site again to protect Tazuna.
Afterward, under Naruto's arrangement, Sakura began taijutsu training to strengthen her physical fitness. Actually, back in Konoha, Naruto had originally planned to lend Sakura the weight training equipment set he had used, hoping to help her improve faster.
However, when Satsuki heard that the equipment was "used by Naruto," she almost without hesitation immediately bought a brand new set of similar weight training equipment and directly gave it to Sakura with an unrefusable tone: "Use this one."
And Naruto's old set? Satsuki expressionlessly and naturally claimed it for herself. Watching Satsuki's operation, Naruto was somewhat puzzled.
The first day of bridge construction passed without incident—no one came to attack. After everyone finished work and training, they returned to Tazuna's house... only to encounter a child who seemed to have experienced a lot and was quite emo.
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