Chapter 9 Mentor

"What is this?" Kin said as he walked towards the Hokage mansion while trying to read the paper that Azuma gave him.

However, he was unable to as he was wearing a headband on his eyes.

He was able to sense everything but mastered how to locate things by just using Chakra and other parts of his five senses apart from his eyes. He has to do this because he was unable to see anything if he overused his eyes like how he did before in the battle with Orochimaru and didn't want to have a weakness that the enemy can exploit in the future.

However, there was still a problem. He was unable to read things like numbers and letters.

Then he bumped into a person as he was unable to sense chakra from him.

"Ouch." the boy said.

"Lee. Are you okay?"

Kin also heard a noise as he saw a man with a low amount of Chakra sitting in a position that looks like he was helping someone.

"I am sorry." Kin said as he pulled up his headband to see what exactly was happening.

He then saw a boy with black hair and round eyes with prominent lower eyelashes.

And a man with fair skin, a strong jawline, a large nose and black hair. Both he and the boy share a bowl-style haircut and bushy eyebrows.

"You man I am sorry about that. As you can see me and my pupil are immersing ourselves in the struggle of our youth," he said.

"Right." Kin replied.

"Can I ask you one thing?" Kin asked.

"Sure. Anything for the youth of the future." He replied.

"I am looking for a jonin called Gai. Do you know where I can find him?" Kin asked.

"Today is your lucky day. Cause It is I the Konoha wind and a martial arts practitioner Might Gai." The man answered.

"Seeing that you are searching for me you must be the boy that lady Tsunade told me about." He said.

"You have already met Lady Tsunade?" Kin asked.

"I wanted to help you with your Taijutsu but unfortunately I can't." He said.

"You see my disciple Lee here is going to have surgery I as his master should not be teaching anyone during that time or otherwise I will be betraying the spirit of Youth that is in him."He said.

"Gai sensei." Rock Lee said as he started to cry while hugging him.

"Lee." he also hugged as they started to weep.

Kin left them alone so that they could spend quality time together.

A while ago.

"So how was he?" Gai asked Tsunade after she looked at lee's injuries.

"It breaks my heart to say this but you must quit being a shinobi," Tsunade said as he put her hands-on lee's shoulder.

"Hahaha. Tsunade sama what a lame joke." Gai said as he try to laugh it off like it was a joke.

"There are numerous bone fragments lodged within the Viral parts of your natural Framework. You are no longer in condition to operate as a shinobi. Even if I operate you." Tsunade said.

"Lee. This is an imposter Tsunade sama. Damn you. You must have used Morphosis Jutsu. Who the hell are you?" Gai yelled at Tsunade.

"There isn't any hope?" Lee asked.

"I am the only one who can perform this surgery but it is incredibly risky," she said.

"Risky." gai said.

"At best the highest rate of success for such an operation would be only 50 per cent. If he fails he will die." Tsunade said.

"Even if it is successful he will have to endure extensive rehabilitation," Tsunade said.

Lee who can not believe such a thing is happening got up and slowly left the room.

"Lee," Gai said.

"I understand how you feel but it's for the best that I told him," Tsunade said.

"If I knew that this is going to happen I would not have brought him to you," Gai said.

"I am deeply sorry. If I knew this is how I am going to meet you I would not have asked to go look for you."Tsunade said.

"Him?" Gai asked.

"I have a new disciple that I want to pass down my greatest Jutsu but I am busy with the paper works so I can not personally teach him. So I was hoping that you might. Well anyway, forget that. I will just arrange a new teacher for him. If you meet him tell him to go and find me." Tsunade said as she left.

"Knock. Knock."

Tsunade hears a knock on the door.

"Come in." She said as kin entered.

"Ah. I was not expecting you. I thought you are still reading what I gave you." she said.

"I left a shadow clone to read it for me." He said.

"I see so they can be used like that too. I think I should learn that technique. Anyway. I am here because I want to discuss with you about your Taijutsu. I will be blunt from what I have seen you are a liability in close combat scenarios." She said.

"...."

"So I want you to learn close combat from a jonin of your choosing. I wanted to teach you myself but as you can see I don't have time to do that for a while." She said.

"I want to learn from Sarutobi Azuma." Kin replied as he was the only jonin that he knows.

"Fine. You may leave. I will relay that message to him. Hmmm, why are you still waiting like that do you have something that you want to say to me." Tsunade asked.

He thought about Telling Tsunade about Sasuke's bloodust against Naruto but decided that he shouldn't.

"Nothing," he said as he leave the room.

"Sarutobi Azuma. Ex-member of the twelve Guardian Ninja and the son of the previous Hokage. That kid sure has an eye for choosing a mentor." Tsunade said as she smiled.

"Don't you think Hatake Kakashi would be a better mentor to him considering that They both have similar fighting styles?" Shizune asked.

"That is the reason why I want him to have a mentor like gai. He needs someone who can help him covers his weak spot before trying to improve his speciality." Tsunade said to Shizune.