Chapter 92: I Awakened Wood Release

Chapter 92: I Awakened Wood Release

"Izayoi, Hinata, these are your vests."

Shizune held out two pre-prepared green vests with a smile to Izayoi and Hinata.

"Thank you, Shizune-san," Hinata thanked her with a gentle smile. If it weren't for the inconvenience of wearing a kimono, she would have put on the vest right away.

Although Izayoi smiled, he didn't particularly like the green vest.

Simply because its appearance was too ugly.

Izayoi had decided that even if he became a Jonin in the future, he would dress however he wanted, just like Kurenai Yuhi.

Once you made a name for yourself, people would look at your reputation, not your Chunin or Jonin vest.

Seeing the two accept the vests, Tsunade's serious expression softened, and she smiled, "You are both teammates in the same squad. In the history of the Chunin Exams, it's rare for two members of the same squad to be promoted to Chunin at the same time. So, you need to discuss in advance who will be the leader of the squad."

"Yes, Hokage-sama," Izayoi and Hinata nodded in response, exchanging a smile.

Tsunade, who had just returned, either didn't know Izayoi and Hinata well enough or was just teasing them.

After all, with Izayoi's strength and his relationship with Hinata, who was the leader of Team Eight was obvious.

"After becoming Chunin, you will have the privilege to lead teams to receive missions and process village exit permits. Regarding the distribution of rewards, if there is no Jonin leading the team, then the leader will receive the highest reward, and Chunin teammates will receive more than Genin teammates," Tsunade further explained the benefits of being a Chunin before waving her hand and saying, "Alright, you can go back now."

Just as Hinata was about to bow, she heard Izayoi say, "Hokage-sama, I would like to recommend someone to join Konoha."

Hearing this, Tsunade, who was about to bury herself in work, and Shizune, who was placing a teacup on the desk, immediately turned their gazes over.

Tsunade frowned slightly and said, "You are the top student and now a Chunin of Konoha, so you should understand Konoha's position in the Land of Fire. To prevent spies from infiltrating the village, whether they are ninjas or ordinary people, if their ancestral records cannot be found and their background cannot be proven to be clean, it is very difficult for them to join Konoha. So, does the person you are recommending meet this condition?"

"I believe so," Izayoi nodded.

"Then tell me about it. Is the person you are recommending an ordinary person or a ninja?"

Tsunade became a little interested, put down her pen, picked up the tea that Shizune had poured, and took a sip.

However, before she could swallow, Izayoi's next words made her spit it out.

"She's a ninja, and she's a descendant of the Uzumaki clan."

"Pfft..."

Some documents were splashed with tea, but Tsunade didn't care. Instead, she looked at Izayoi in astonishment, suspecting she had misheard, and asked again, "What did you just say? Descendant of which clan?"

"A descendant of the Uzumaki clan. She is my clanswoman," Izayoi repeated, dropping another bombshell.

"Cough cough..."

The remaining tea choked Tsunade, causing her to cough repeatedly, her face turning red.

Shizune quickly patted her back gently and pressed a certain pressure point.

At the same time, she looked at Izayoi with astonishment.

No wonder his chakra was so massive according to the intelligence reports. It turned out he was a distant relative of Tsunade-sama.

After Tsunade regained her breath, she immediately looked at Izayoi with excited eyes, tinged with a hint of doubt, and asked, "You... you are a descendant of the Uzumaki clan?"

"Yes."

Izayoi nodded, then, without waiting for Tsunade to ask further, he rolled up his sleeve and presented his forearm to Hinata.

Hinata understood and gently held Izayoi's forearm, opening her mouth to bite down lightly.

Blue chakra immediately appeared at the junction of Hinata's mouth and Izayoi's forearm.

As soon as this chakra emerged, it flowed into Hinata's body like water.

"Body Revitalization..."

Seeing this scene, Tsunade's expression became somewhat dazed.

Since her grandmother's death, she didn't know how many years it had been since she had seen this familiar yet strange healing method.

Snapping out of her reverie, Tsunade's gaze towards Izayoi gained a hint of warmth.

It wasn't that she hadn't known Izayoi's strength or talent before.

When she first saw the intelligence that Shizune had collected, she was also shocked by the Super Hurricane Consecutive Spheres that Izayoi had developed, as well as the ultimate techniques formed by the fusion of two and three nature transformations.

However, strong was strong, but as the Hokage, Tsunade couldn't possibly go out of her way to please a subordinate who was still a Genin.

At most, she would silently support him on his path to promotion, allowing him to have a limitless future and quickly become a figure like Kakashi Hatake.

Among the new generation, the only one Tsunade treated specially was Jiraiya's disciple, the son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto Uzumaki, who helped her overcome her hemophobia and reminded her of Dan Kato and Nawaki.

But now, there was one more person that Tsunade would treat specially.

The Uzumaki clan was a distant relative of the Senju clan. Treating her own relatives specially was a very normal thing.

"I didn't expect you to be a descendant of the Uzumaki clan who awakened your abilities across generations."

Tsunade looked at Izayoi's black hair and couldn't help but smile, "To be able to awaken the Body Revitalization, which even few members of the Uzumaki clan can awaken, the purity of your bloodline must be very high. But to have black hair instead of red hair is truly rare."

"Perhaps it's because I also have the Senju clan's bloodline in my body," Izayoi dropped another bombshell. Under the stunned gaze of Tsunade, Shizune, and even Hinata, he raised his right hand, and a green sapling grew out of his palm.

"..."

The Hokage's office fell into dead silence.

From Izayoi's perspective, he could see that Tsunade's and Shizune's expressions were slowly turning into exaggeratedly wide-eyed stares.

"Eh—"

Then, a cry of surprise broke the silence of the Hokage's office, shaking the Hokage Building violently.

If there hadn't been no guards outside and no one in the corridor, Tsunade's and Shizune's exclamation would definitely have attracted ninjas to break down the door.

If they hadn't sensed a chakra surge, the Anbu would also have quickly teleported in.

"Wo... Wo... Wood Release..."

Looking at the sapling in Izayoi's hand, the heroic Tsunade couldn't help but stutter at this moment.

Shizune looked at the sapling in disbelief, unable to imagine that the legendary bloodline limit would appear before her in this form.

This shock was no less than that of a beggar on the verge of starvation suddenly being found by his super-rich father, and the father was about to die, making him the sole heir to billions of dollars.

Hinata also covered her small mouth, looking at Izayoi with a stunned yet joyful expression.

Hinata knew more than Tsunade and Shizune. She was the only one who knew Izayoi possessed the Tenseigan.

She had originally thought that unknown powerful dojutsu was Izayoi's bloodline limit.

She never expected that Izayoi was actually a hybrid of the Uzumaki and Senju clans, and had even awakened the legendary bloodline limit – Wood Release.

Once this news spread, it would definitely cause a huge uproar in Konoha, the Land of Fire, and even the entire ninja world.

After all, the story of the God of Shinobi pacifying the warring states and establishing the current one-country-one-village system was as well-known as the mythological story of the Sage of Six Paths establishing the Ninshu.

Moreover, compared to the possibly fabricated mythological story of the Sage of Six Paths, the story of the God of Shinobi was only a few decades in the past.

There were still many old monsters in the ninja world who had experienced the era of the God of Shinobi.

The bloodline limit that pacified the warring states had an extremely special significance for Konoha.

This was not only a legendary bloodline limit but also represented the noble title of Konoha's orthodox lineage.

As long as Izayoi exposed his Wood Release, neither her father nor the clan elders would definitely stop her from associating with Izayoi.

Thinking of this, Hinata became extremely excited.

A gust of wind blew past, and Tsunade instantly appeared in front of Izayoi, reaching out to grab his wrist and channeling green chakra into his body.

As if sensing something, Tsunade's face gradually turned ecstatic.

"Hahaha... such vitality and Yang Release chakra, it really is true Wood Release!" Tsunade couldn't help but pat Izayoi's shoulder and laughed loudly, "You little brat, you clearly awakened this bloodline limit a long time ago, but you kept hiding it. How could you stand it?"

"I actually wanted to use it," Izayoi said with a meaningful smile. "But a 13-year-old boy who wiped out the strongest noble ninja clan in the ninja world overnight and successfully escaped the barrier-covered Konoha, who would dare to use it?"

Hearing this, Tsunade's smile faltered slightly.

Looking at Izayoi, who clearly knew a lot and was incredibly precocious, Tsunade instantly guessed that he had also awakened the Sage Art: Sensing Technique. Her eyes showed a hint of pity, but on the surface, she nodded and praised, "Well hidden, you did the right thing."

Immediately, Tsunade showed a proud smile and heavily patted Izayoi's shoulder, "But from now on, you don't need to hide anymore. This old lady will protect you from now on."

"That's exactly what I was waiting to hear, Hokage-sama," Izayoi crushed the withered sapling and exchanged a smile with Tsunade.

From this moment on, Izayoi's identity and status would undergo a tremendous change.

Previously, he might have needed to use his strength to subdue the Hyuga clan or prove his worth with his talent.

But now, as soon as Izayoi revealed his Wood Release, the Hyuga clan would immediately become his lapdogs.

No one in Konoha, or even the ninja world, could resist the allure of Wood Release.

"By the way, where is the person you recommended?"

Tsunade seemed to remember something and couldn't help but ask, "Is that person like you, awakening the Uzumaki clan's bloodline across generations, or is she a red-haired Uzumaki descendant?"

"Her name is Karin. She is a red-haired Uzumaki descendant, and I have placed her in Sakura Street in the Land of Fire," Izayoi said truthfully. "I met her and Hinata in the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams. Her identity at the time was a ninja from the Hidden Grass Village, but because she awakened the Body Revitalization, she was used as a medical kit by the Grass ninjas. If I hadn't known something about the Uzumaki clan and the Sage Art: Sensing Technique hadn't detected the same source of chakra, her fate might have been to die from severely overdrawing her life force."

Tsunade's eyes instantly turned cold, and she sneered, "They really are a bunch of old fools. Just because her chakra is weak, they rule out the possibility of her being an Uzumaki descendant? Since when did red hair become a common hair color in the ninja world? No wonder Konoha has weakened to this extent in just over a decade."

Immediately, Tsunade said霸气 to Izayoi, "Your recommendation isn't strong enough. Go bring back that girl named Karin, and I will vouch for her."

"Yes."

Izayoi immediately nodded with a smile.

This was one of the reasons why he exposed his Wood Release.

If only a Chunin or Jonin recommended her, Karin, as a former Grass ninja, would have to go through the interrogation department.

Being locked in a small dark room, who knew what methods those psychologically twisted guys would use to interrogate her, or if they would secretly use genjutsu to hypnotize her, or mind-reading techniques to forcibly extract Karin's memories.

In that case, some of his secrets, such as Tenzō being in his hands, would definitely be exposed.

But if the legendary Sannin or the Hokage herself vouched for her, then there was absolutely nothing to worry about.

These big figures had the privilege to break the rules.

"Izayoi-kun, that's wonderful!"

Coming out of the Hokage Building, Hinata finally couldn't restrain the excitement in her heart and主动扑入 Izayoi's arms, tightly hugging the waist of the person she admired, cheering softly in his embrace.

Izayoi also hugged Hinata back tightly, lowering his head to touch foreheads with her, and smiled, "Are you happy?"

"Mmm-hmm..."

Hinata nodded vigorously.

It wasn't just the joy of becoming a Chunin, but even more the excitement and elation of discovering that there were no longer any obstacles between her and Izayoi-kun.

Perhaps emotions overwhelmed reason, the shy Hinata suddenly looked up at Izayoi and boldly began, "Izayoi-kun, I..."

The following words were interrupted by Izayoi's finger pressing against her lips.

Izayoi looked around and smiled, "Someone is watching us, let's leave here first."

"Oh, okay..."

Hinata subconsciously responded, following Izayoi out of the Hokage Building.

Turning into a narrow alley, Izayoi asked Hinata, "Hinata, what were you going to say just now?"

"N... nothing..."

Having calmed down, Hinata lowered her head shyly, fiddling with her fingers.

Although no steam was rising, her small face must have been completely red at this moment.

After all, only Hinata knew how bold she had been just now.

Now that those emotions had subsided, Hinata no longer had the courage to say it.

However, she didn't notice that Izayoi's gaze towards her at this moment was full of tenderness.

Izayoi knew very well what Hinata had wanted to do just now.

It was precisely for this reason that he chose to interrupt.

Such romantic words should naturally be said at a more romantic moment.

And how could he let the girl speak first?

Izayoi took Hinata's small hand and smiled, "Are you hungry? How about we go eat barbecue today?"

"Mmm-hmm..."

Hinata nodded with a smile, then glanced at the scroll tucked into her belt and couldn't help but ask, "Izayoi-kun, we've both been promoted to Chunin, should we treat everyone to a meal?"

"They should all be out on missions now. Let's treat them to a big meal when the new house is completed," Izayoi thought for a moment and shook his head.

"Okay, then let's go find Hanabi."

"Alright, it seems Hanabi is starting school soon too. Let's spend these few days playing with her."

"Mmm-hmm..."

The young boy and girl walked hand in hand down the small path.

Sunlight shone down, and faintly behind them, two snowman-clad children holding hands could be seen in their shadows.

(End of this chapter)

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