Chapter 96

1 Day ago inside the hidden leaf village.

"This will be used as your Jonnin promotion exam Chunnin Kazuo"

Minato said as he looked at Kazuo who was currently seated on the sofa inside Minato's and Kushina's home.

Kazuo didn't respond verbally, merely using a nod in acknowledgment.

Minato didn't say anything further and merely handed him the purple mission scroll.

'An A-rank mission.' Kazuo thought as he quickly unfurled the scroll and read through it.

'Assassination of Kageo Iza, a member of the rebellious party of the daimyo court.' Kazuo thought as he read it.

'Shouldn't be too hard with my paper illusion and paper clones, a long distance detonation and it should be done.' Kazuo thought as he gave a nod to himself before closing the scroll once more and torching it with a small fire seal-less jutsu.

"Then I'll be heading out, the team should be waiting for me at the village gates in around twenty minutes," Kazuo said as he got up from the sofa.

"All right, be careful out there," Minato said in response.

"Don't worry too much Minato sensei, I'm quite strong," Kazuo replied with a small chuckle as he walked toward the front door, stopping only a moment when he arrived there.

Turning around he raised his lips lightly as he said.

"The next Hokage eh?"

Minato gave a small chuckle before nodding.

Kazuo returned the nod before opening the front door and heading outside.

'Minato is in the process of being selected for the next Hokage position, Hiruzen has already announced that he would be resigning from his position, at the same time this indicates that the next large plot is close.' Kazuo thought as he used shunshin continuously to head toward the village gates.

He had already stored everything he needed for a mission in his wristbands so that he could be prepared for an emergency mission or combat at all times.

'The ruins or Roran, the tower where Minato meets his future son. I need to be a part of that mission somehow, I might be able to glean some information about the future me.' Kazuo thought as he finally arrived at the village gates.

It hadn't taken him more than a minute, his speed had increased leagues and bounds from when he had been just an assistant in the frontlines of the third ninja world war.

And his stats clearly showed it.

[ Stats ]

[ Name: Kazuo ]

[ Race: Human ]

[ Age: 13 ]

[ Strength: B- ]

[ Endurance: C+ ]

[ Agility: B ]

[ Intelligence: B+ ]

[ Charisma: B ]

[ Chakra: B- ]

[ Skills ] *( I won't be showing all the skills, just some of his main ones as there's quite a lot now. )*

[ TimeLoop ] [ Rank 2 ]

[ Minato Taijutsu ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Advanced Shuriken Jutsu ] [ 6/10 ]

[ Intermediate Kenjutsu ] [ 7/10 ]

[ Beginner Fuinjutsu ] [ 5/10 ]

[ Paper Clone ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Paper God Technique ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Paper Illusion ] [ 9/10 ]

[ Paper Shuriken ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Shunshin / Body Flicker Jutsu ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Hiding Like a Mole Technique ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Yin Release: Mind exhaustion ] [ 5/10 ]

[ Yin Release: Mind Break ] [ 4/10 ]

[ Water Release: Severing Water Wave ] [ 9/10 ]

[ Water Release: Enhanced Water Bullet ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Water Release: Enhanced Water Wall ] [ 8/10 ]

[...]

Kazuo's list of Jutsu had grown massive, the biggest contributor to this had been his two mastered chakra natures given by the system.

[ Water Release Chakra Nature ] [ 10/10 ]

[ Yin Release Chakra Nature ] [ 10/10 ]

More precisely it had been the water-release chakra nature, it had allowed him to master dozens of water-style jutsu at speeds almost unheard of.

Yin release on the other hand had been a puzzle.

He had managed to create two jutsu on his own, the Mind Break Just and the Mind Exhaustion Jutsu.

By injecting his own chakra, which had been turned into the Yin chakra, into someone's chakra system and then using that chakra to attack the user's mind, that was the basis of the two jutsu.

This would normally be an impractical jutsu however Kazuo had managed to find a way to use it consistently in combat, more precisely in traps.

By injecting his yin chakra into papers that he then turned invisible with his paper illusion, he could scatter them around the battlefield and the moment that one of the papers got touched by an enemy, it would release the yin chakra into their chakra system.

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Looking around, Kazuo quickly found his subordinates, they would be under him whilst on this mission.

"Hello, My name's Kazuo, I'll be the leader of this mission, we don't have time to waste, I'll explain the mission details whilst we head to the destination," Kazuo said toward the three ninjas wearing leaf headbands.

The three gave a quick nod before Kazuo used the body flicker jutsu to disappear from his location.

He had to lower his speed quite a lot at the beginning as he tried to find a place where the three underlings could follow him.

After around half an hour of using body flicker, Kazuo finally spoke up.

"The mission is the assassination of a rebel in the daimyo court, I'll be doing the assassination whilst you all cause a disturbance on the right corner of the fire capital," Kazuo said before closing his mouth and continuing.

'They're useless.' Kazuo thought to himself as he gave them a side glance discreetly.

'I would have rather just gone ahead by myself.' Kazuo thought in annoyance however this was another part of the Jonin test that he had to pass.

The ability to command other ninja on the battlefield.

Kazuo had no need to make them cause a disturbance however he needed to at least make use of them.

People often compared Jonin and S ranked Ninja however they were completely different from one another.

An S rank Ninja was someone who could take on an entire small ninja village by themselves, for example, the waterfall village or something of a similar scale.

Whilst a Jonin was someone who could have S-ranked power however also had a role in the command unit of the village.

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