Chapter 55: Battle against Yamato

In a short while, a tall man with a mask on his face walked into Kakashi's office from elsewhere.

"Lord Commander, are you looking for me?" the man said in a thick voice.

"Yeah." Kakashi nodded, "Tenzō, you don't have a mission right now? Help me do a strength test for this new kid."

"I really don't have a mission right now." Yamato replied respectfully, and then his eyes fell on Ren. He couldn't help scratching his head, and said with some embarrassment: "Sir, you're not asking me to test this little guy's strength, are you? Are you sure you're not kidding me? This little guy looks like he hasn't graduated from the Ninja Academy..."

Ren was utterly exasperated. 'Does he really look so small? Speaking of height, I'm only 12 years old, and I've already grown to about 1.7 meters now, right?! Among my peers, I'm already a head taller!'

"He just joined Anbu today. He is indeed very young, only twelve years old. Lord Hokage personally ordered him to be transferred in," Kakashi said.

Yamato exclaimed, "Twelve years old? Is Lord Hokage crazy? Our Anbu is not a place to play with children..."

Kakashi sighed silently, but did not refute Yamato's words, instead saying: "Since it is the order of Lord Hokage, we must implement it. I brought you here this time, just to let you test his strength, so I can help him arrange positions."

Yamato nodded and said helplessly, "Okay, then I see." Then he looked at Ren again and patted his shoulder. In a serious tone, he said, "Don't worry, I'll be careful with the test in a while. Just try your best to give full play to your strength. I'll check it out so that it won't hurt you."

Ren's face had completely darkened. 'Hehe, it seems that I am completely underestimated. This feeling really makes people feel a little uncomfortable!' Ren coldly threw Yamato's hand off his shoulder and said coldly: "Unnecessary."

Yamato frowned slightly but didn't say anything.

The three of them soon came to a training ground inside Anbu. Kakashi, the Anbu Commander, and Yamato, the captain of the Second Assassination Unit codenamed "Tenzō," appeared on the training ground at the same time. It immediately attracted the attention of many Anbu ninja.

"The Commander and the Captain have come to the training ground? It's rare!" "I heard that they came to test the strength of a new kid. The kid is only twelve years old, so he's really young! I heard that Lord Hokage personally transferred him to Anbu!" "Aren't children of this age generally just becoming Genin? How did he get into Anbu? Could it be that he is a related household?"

Some Anbu ninja around who weren't out on missions immediately turned their attention to Ren, their eyes full of curiosity and scrutiny! Many of them had a very disdainful attitude. They didn't think a twelve-year-old kid could have anything worth noting, and they didn't know why Lord Hokage would put him in Anbu.

And some people thought that there must be another reason for the Third Hokage-sama to do this. This kid might have hidden strength enough to shock them. After all, since ancient times, geniuses have mostly come from teenagers. Some veterans who had been in Anbu for a few years still remembered that four or five years ago, the Uchiha clan once produced a stunningly brilliant genius ninja, Itachi Uchiha, who joined Anbu, and later became the perpetrator of the Uchiha clan's genocide. Of course, now the name Itachi Uchiha had also become a taboo in the village and could no longer be mentioned. But this was enough to prove that age was not a measure of a person's strength.

"It turned out to be Tenzō, the captain of the Second Assassination Unit, who's taking the test himself. Now it's interesting!" "I don't think this kid is very simple. You see him now, doesn't he even feel a little stage fright? This kind of calmness is not something a twelve-year-old boy can have!" "If this kid can really hold on for five minutes in the hands of Captain Tenzō, this matter is enough for him to brag about for a long time~ Haha!"

The surrounding discussions were endless. Ren directly ignored these gazes. He followed Yamato, walked to the middle of the training ground, and adjusted his battle state.

"Let's start." Yamato said very succinctly, and then assumed a fighting posture.

Ren nodded, then lowered his head, and with a flash of dark light in his hand, he put the weight-bearing sandbag at his ankle into his storage ring. Then, the next second, he had no intention of holding back. He turned into a white whirlwind and rushed towards Yamato.

Konoha Strong Whirlwind!

Blue chakra covered his calf and the sole of his foot in an instant. With a whistling sound, Ren kicked Yamato fiercely. Ren used all his strength from the beginning. Treating a ninja like Yamato, who had reached the elite Jōnin level, with contempt was equivalent to risking his life. Ren, who had already decided to show off his strength, naturally did not hold back. Not with the thought of wanting to kill directly, but instead, he chose to go all out.

Ren's full speed burst forth, causing a wave of exclamations in an instant. Even in the eyes of these Anbu ninja, Ren's body almost turned into an afterimage; it was impossible to capture an accurate figure at all! His speed at this time was higher than when Rock Lee fought Gaara in the original Chūnin Exam. The speed after Rock Lee removed his weights was faster, almost reaching the speed after Rock Lee opened the first gate!

He had started physical training at the age of five. Up to now, he had insisted on cultivation for seven years. The power and speed he burst out were absolutely amazing! The whole audience fell silent for a moment. They couldn't help but secretly question themselves: 'Can I achieve such a speed of action now?' Then, they all came to a conclusion that made them sweaty and chills run down their backs: 'They couldn't do it!' In terms of speed, they, who were already full members of Anbu, were not as good as the twelve-year-old kid in front of them!

"Okay, so fast!"

"This, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really can't believe that this is the speed that a twelve-year-old boy can achieve!"

"Isn't this move Senior Guy's taijutsu trick? This kid actually learned this move? What is his relationship with Senior Guy?"

"It's really not easy for this kid to be personally selected by Lord Hokage to join Anbu!"

Not only the Anbu ninja who were watching the battle, but even Kakashi, who was assessing this actual combat, had a strange expression on his face. This kind of speed was completely comparable to an Elite Jōnin. To make a twelve-year-old boy achieve such a terrifying level of taijutsu, Kakashi could only think of one person in the whole Konoha, and that was his good friend—Might Guy! Although he knew it before, this kid had gone out to train with Guy for a few years, but he didn't expect that he even learned Guy's "Konoha Strong Whirlwind"?! It seemed that he had truly learned Might Guy's secret techniques! Kakashi couldn't help but feel a little sorry for his previous contempt for Ren, and his gaze in this competition also held a little more seriousness and gravity.

"So fast!"

Yamato, who was in the middle of the training ground, was even more surprised by Ren's extraordinary speed. However, he had the strength of an Elite Jōnin, and his reaction speed was also quite fast. At the moment Ren kicked his right leg, the hand sign for his jutsu was just finished.

Boom!

A blast. Yamato's body was directly kicked into the air, but it instantly transformed into a wooden stake, bursting open in the air, and turning into wood chips that flew out around.

Substitution Jutsu!