In this last two year my strength improved my leaps and bounds ' my stats ' reached kage level (i.e. above 50), my spirit powers also improve by leaps and bounds due to my physical training as the more my body is able to store spiritual energy more it grows, and I encountered a bottleneck in my Swordsmanship i don't now what wrong at first its been 4 months without any improvement, but i think i know what's wrong a life threatening battle that will help me i think and unlike others i got perfect solution for this it's my training space, I will challenge high kage level opponent later,
And during this time i meet kushina and minato again.
Flashback 1 year back
I was running towards ichiraku ramen as i decided to eat ramen today, as i reach i saw some familiar faces kushina and minato as i enter i said " hello kushina-neesan ", then kushina turn towards me and said "hello Izuna, how do you know my name as i remeber you ran that day before we could introduce ourself's" , "ah! That i heard from brother over there called you kushina that day and i don't forgot once i saw or hear something"
" so that how it is, so came for ramen "
'yes' i replied,
" hum I am 'Minato namikaze 'a elite jonin of konoha " .
" hello Minato-san, Cool you are jonin ninja i want to also become a strong ninja" i said enthusiastically at starting but become sad as i remeber during this time i was always pushing myself due to my mothers death i was blaming my self and kushina and minato notice that.
So kushina asked me about myself and i told them my story about my mother's death but i didn't reveal all the things just bare minimum and after listening to my story both gave a sympathetic look which i don't know how to reply and then i order my food we all chat and eat after eating kushina offer me to come with them and watch them pratice and she will teach me something that i find difficult as i told them i am attending shinobi academy.
Along the way i asked different questions to kushina like she is uzumaki so did she know finjutsu and many other questions which she replied honestly, " Kushina neesan can you teach me finjutsu" i asked hesitantly to which i was ready to face refusal but to my surprise kushina replied " I can teach you Izuna-san but finjutsu depend on talent so come with me tomorrow to buy ink pods and paper to get you started "
I replied with stars visible in my eyes " really kushina- neesan " kushina replied in affirmative as i was talking to her i saw minato practicing rasengan he in initial phase.
So i asked him what he was doing and he replied he is creating ninjutsu comparable to tail beast bomb like gathering chakra in hand, I knew the whole process to create rasengan but i didn't help directly i just pointed some hints like instead o f gathering in one place you should rotate it and like that i started my practice with them.
Return to present
So like that i train in finjutsu it was easy for because i have train space advantage it take kushina and minato 5 years to reach master level and it take me 8 months and if i was just practicing it along other exercises, they were astonished at my talent and during this time i also learn "thunder god flying jutsu " as off know i just know basics because i need to be master in finjutsu and i learn thunder god because it help me to explore my space origin skill i knew if i increase my space origin skill i can recreate ' flying thunder god' without markings but that know i think i need to reach above lv 6 in space origin skill that now is just on lv 3, I master nad perfected my ninjutsu that my parents left to me and i tried various nature transformation too now i just need a life threatening battle and i will reach next level in my skills.
I successfully graduated from acedmy and today we are waiting in class room for our team selection and jonin sensei i was seating beside red ( kurenai) in those 5 years my relationship with red improved along with others asuma still like a bit** always glares at me he thinks i stole red from her dude she was never yours too begin with so my sensei came and announced teams
"Team no.8 kito aburame, shido tanaka, Izuna uchiha and you jonin sensei will be ' ito iznuzaka ' next,
Mc's pov
Never heard off him a canon fodder i guess as when i get assigned to different team then red she showed a sad expression and i don't know feelings like love because i never experienced it in my previous life so its all new to me. I admired kushina that's why i complimented her that day it's not like fanboy or love . But now i want to focus on my strength when i am strong enough i will think about this topic.
War has already started it's in initial stages now i don't know when i has to dispatched too for war as for my teammates and jonin sensei they were average shinobi i didn't get to close to them . Its war time so there was no test like bell test just introduction and capabilities to that i reveal 30% off mine and that my shocked my sensei and teammates so like that we did some missions like hunt bandits patrol borders or miscellaneous, I did my first kill during this time i was fine at day but at night i was uncomfortable and get some nightmares but i overcome that.
It's been 1 month since teams formed i have day off today so i am going for battle in system space for break through as for my opponent i chose minato during his peak because i want break in space and time and other origin skills.
I am quite nervous now as i know peak minato can beat the shi* out off obito with kamui, so i dont know how i will fare against him and like that battle started.
Inside battle simulator.
as i enter i saw minato in wearing white cloak with golden letters written 4th hokage standing front off me holding a kunai as the battle starts minato throw a kunai and another one follow along first i reflect first one and used body flicker and time freeze for not getting trashed my minato in seconds and minato stood behind the postion i was standing it's not like i am as fast as minato but i am predicting minato moments using 3 tomoe sharingan along with my time abilities . As my time origin skill is lv 3 i can froze my time and my opponent time for 3 seconds at most i did get i skill when it reached lv 3 but i can't use that as off now my body cant handle the after effects if i use it i will be on bed for days so its last resort. Fight continue like this i can use small scale teleportation but it use my stamina so i can uSe 5 times before exhausting myself . As i am not using my space and time in this battle because i want too pressure my self in this battle like that battle continued for 3 hours i was utterly exhausted. I can feel it my bottleneck loosened i am more closer to next level .
1 weak later
Today i am performing B level mission athat is too exchange intel on rock and konoha border from one of the konoha spy that are active in rock village as we were near the border i sensed multiple chakra ahead of us 3 jonin, 20 chunin w 50 genin in ambush ahead , as i sensed them i looked toward ito sensei and sign him of ambush ahead he was shocked at first but after some time he noticed as well he isn't sensory ninja so he isn't able to locate and differentiate their strength all he could sense is various chakra signatures ahead, then he relied instruction to me and other teammates, ' ambush ahead you three return and rely this news i will hold them we all can't escape one off us has to stay behind for others to escape, as he was in the middle off instruction i said, ' Sensei i will stay here to intercept them as you know i am good at sensing and specialized in agility i have better odd's then you to which he was hesitant at first but later complied to my reasoning . I am not someone who will do such noble task they are easy for me too handle alone i know even if sensei stay behind he will at most hold 2 jonins and sone chunin's and rest will follow towards us so that's why if it's a fight go and take it directly . Just as i said that they left with some words just hold them for moments and then run .
As i saw them going further and further, some moments later rock shinobi's circled around me me . They were wearing rock headbands and red outfits that represents rock shiboi's suits "So brat why did u stay behind do you think you can take us alone", "even if there were 50 like you i can handle them like playing ninja-ninja with kids " all rock shiboi's get black lines on their faces due to my comment , before they could talk again i put my hand on my katana and did a fast work of their jonin who was smug a moment before they were all shocked no one saw what happen all they could see is i placed my hand on katana and next moment i was behind their jonin leader who's head drop on the ground . It was cut like tofu smooth they all started to panick i use shadow clone and used rasengan too clean genin and chunins and i cleared remaining two jonins.
As i burn their corps after checking for valuables and i found the letter that we want to take back to village as i started running towards my teammates i noticed something strange that is some ninja ahead and some dead bodies. obviously ninja were root ninja but dressed as rock shinobi's but i can differentiate between a human and doll so now fooling me and as for dead bodies its my sensei and teammates, i was not closed to them but still they were my teammates and first sensei i spend time with them together and then suddenly my chakra started flowing towards my eyes i fell burning sensation towards my eyes but i ignored it all focus on root anbu without further ado i put my hands on my katana and used remaining 2 short teleportation and killed two root anbu and used shadow clones and rasengan too attack others as i am perfect in both technique i didnt need to do hand signs, they were quite skilled so 2 manage to dodge and one followed behind the other dead one i use time acceleration and body flicker at the same time to get close to the other two i used ' one sword ' first time in real battle and cut one of them without any struggle seeing this last anbu tries to run i used body flicker and fire style just at my full power it decimated the whole forest around 150 metre area the root anbu got caught in fire and burnt alive . I grasp my breath i was exhausted using so many technique continuously.
[ Congratulations master izuna for evolving sharingan to mankekyo sharingan ]