Ninjutsu Scroll
Ten days after the Ninjutsu Scroll, Konoha Village, Hokage Building, Hokage Office.
"Chunin Lin Ke, regarding your submitted ninjutsu learning application—"
Even the Third Hokage, despite being several decades old, couldn't help but smile wryly at the stack of ninjutsu applications. "A portion has been approved."
He took out two scrolls from the drawer and pushed them over, praising, "You did a good job on the Land of Rivers mission."
Only two?
Lin Ke was a little disappointed when he saw the scrolls, but something was better than nothing. He happily accepted the scrolls and bowed, "Thank you, Third Hokage."
This gratitude was sincere. Without some connections, he probably wouldn't have gotten even one.
Normally, ninjutsu scrolls had to be bought with money. Giving you ninjutsu scrolls for free was like giving you money, and a lot of it.
Konoha Village was a military organization, not a charity. It was impossible to just give money to a member for no reason.
The Third Hokage smiled, not explaining anything, and said with emotion, "The village will need to rely on you in the future, young Lin Ke..."
He really was too old.
"I will work hard." Lin Ke bowed slightly, then said, "Then I'll take my leave, Third Hokage."
With that, he turned and left. As soon as he walked out of the Hokage Office, he couldn't help but open one of the scrolls—
Inside were not codes, but a dozen or so black spells of varying lengths connected to a circular pattern in the middle, with the character 'Endure' (nin) written inside the circle.
[A scroll that can summon objects with the Summoning Jutsu?!]
After a brief moment of astonishment, Lin Ke was filled with joy. He opened the other scroll, and sure enough, it was a Summoning Jutsu written in code. [Note: It's not just summoning people or ninja beasts; the ninja tools that Tenten releases from scrolls are also Summoning Jutsu]
To need to use a scroll to store them, there must be more than just one or two ninjutsu scrolls, which means...
[Thank you, Third Hokage. If I have the chance, I will definitely save your life!]
He happily closed the two scrolls, quickly left the Hokage Building, and used his self-invented special Flying Thunder God Technique to quickly return home.
[Konoha Village child: Mom, there's another head flying in the sky~]
As for whether to train in the afternoon, whether the basics were important, and so on...
I have so many ninjutsu in my hands, why would I be in a hurry to train? When I didn't have ninjutsu, I comforted myself to train with peace of mind. Now that I have ninjutsu, I have to study them carefully before doing anything else.
Lin Ke returned home in high spirits and first carefully studied the Summoning Jutsu scroll.
The versatility of the Summoning Jutsu was quite high, whether it was summoning things sealed in scrolls, summoning contracted ninja beasts, or summoning certain special props (such as Rashomon), or even summoning people, summoning the dead, and so on.
However, its learning difficulty was not high, only C-rank, and the hand seals were also very simple.
What was the concept of C-rank learning difficulty?
The classic Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique was C-rank, and the release method only had four steps: extract Chakra, form hand seals, gather Chakra in the mouth, and spit it out.
Yes, even the Uchiha clan, who were good at Fire Release, only taught their son Sasuke these things when the clan leader Uchiha Fugaku taught him. The rest was repeated practice until he could spit out a fireball of sufficient size to be considered a successful cultivation.
This level of ninjutsu was simply a freebie for Lin Ke. After flipping through it for more than an hour, he roughly understood how to release it, and his head got hot. He extracted Chakra, formed hand seals, and released—
He reached out and pressed on the storage scroll. After the Chakra disappeared out of thin air, his overheated head cooled down, and he realized that his Summoning Jutsu was definitely a little different from the original version.
[What the hell did I summon, you monster!]
As soon as the thought popped into his head, he vaguely felt countless auras wandering around him. Soon, a familiar voice rang in his head—
[Eh? You are—]
[Son!]
[Dad...]
Lin Ke covered his face, feeling the distant consciousness connected to him. How should he put it? It really was summoning; he had even connected with his dead father.
[Oh my, it's a technique that can connect with the dead...] His father's voice sounded quite lively (after all, he was only in his twenties when he died). [Our little Lin Ke can master such a technique?]
[Little Lin Ke, you—]
[Zzzzz~] A signal with bad sound came, and then the feeling of being connected to someone in consciousness quickly dissipated.
Being able to communicate with the dead through summoning was indeed quite powerful, but what I wanted were the other ninjutsu scrolls inside the scroll!
Lin Ke was a bit numb. It was a good thing that ninjutsu could mutate, and it was also a good thing to communicate with the dead, but he didn't want to communicate with the dead right now.
"Hiss~ Ha~" He took a deep breath, looking at the scroll, feeling his temples throbbing.
"Maybe, I should ask Yan Shui Teacher for help." He thought weakly.
Otherwise, there was no other good way. He couldn't possibly ask two companions who hadn't even touched the Summoning Jutsu, and it was even worse to go back to the Third Hokage and say that he couldn't summon anything...
...
--Nara Yan Shui's house.
"Ding-dong~"
Lin Ke, with an empty bag on his back, rang the doorbell, holding a box of gift-wrapped Yokan in his hand.
"Click~" Nara Yan Shui opened the door, looking down at his subordinate with a bit of confusion, and said, "What's the matter? Lin Ke."
Based on his understanding of his subordinates, he should be working hard to improve himself right now. This sudden visit didn't feel like it was for nothing.
"Come in and sit down." He stepped aside, walking inside as he said, "What would you like to drink? Tea, juice, or beer?"
"Oh right, you can't drink alcohol." He habitually treated his overly mature subordinate as an adult.
"Sorry for the intrusion." Lin Ke said, taking off his shoes in the entrance hall, "No need to trouble yourself, water is fine."
It wasn't his first time visiting. He had come once when he was promoted to Chunin, but he was still a little reserved.
The two sat down in the guest room. Nara Yan Shui, drinking hot green tea, said in a relaxed tone, "Alright, tell me, what exactly do you need my help with?"
"Well, there is indeed something I want Yan Shui Teacher to help with." Lin Ke chuckled, pushing the scroll over, and said, "The Ninjutsu I applied for has arrived, and I wanted to ask Yan Shui Teacher to help me take out the Ninjutsu Scrolls inside."
"Strange, didn't they give you the Summoning Jutsu scroll?" Nara Yan Shui pulled the scroll open, spread it out, and skillfully made a hand seal, pressing it on the 'Endure' (Ninja) character.
With a "bang," more than twenty scrolls piled up on the table.
He couldn't help but ask, "Tsk, that's quite a lot. How many Ninjutsu did you apply for?"
"Not many..." Lin Ke opened his bag, scooping the Ninjutsu Scrolls into it, and said, "Third Hokage did give me the Summoning Jutsu scroll, it's just, well, maybe I practiced it a little bit wrong, so I thought of Yan Shui Teacher."
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