Naruto: Five Lives, Five Times the Excitement

Chapter 9 Sarutobi Asuma's Challenge

"I never expected that Chisuke would actually become Yekura's disciple and become the strongest among us."

Stepping out of the room, Kyosuke smiled as he thought about Chisuke's arrogant face in his dreams during this time.

In any case, through Chisuke, Kyosuke not only learned many ninjutsu techniques, but also gained more theoretical knowledge, and developed a deeper understanding of chakra, ninjutsu, combat, and so on.

With his improved abilities, Kyosuke was able to maintain his genius persona at school, so he was in a very good mood.

"Start learning to throw bladed weapons today, and continue to amaze everyone!"

More than twenty days have passed, and this year's students have all learned how to refine chakra, so the teaching has entered a new stage, and they have begun training in ninjutsu and taijutsu.

Upon arriving at school, Kyosuke greeted his classmates, showing he was very popular.

After all, a few words of praise and meals or exercises together are enough to win the friendship of most children.

This is not difficult for Kyosuke.

"Hey, today we're learning throwing techniques, so just watch my amazing performance! This is a signature technique of the Uchiha clan!"

As soon as Kyosuke arrived at the classroom, he heard Obito bragging, but no one responded.

Obito's performance these days has been poor, which has led to his classmates looking down on him.

Upon seeing Kyosuke, Obito's eyes lit up, and he leaned closer: "Kyosuke, let's have a weapon throwing contest today."

Kai retorted, dissatisfied: "Kyosuke is learning to throw for the first time today, while you've already learned it. That's not fair!"

"Shut up, thick eyebrows. As a man, Kyosuke will definitely agree."

Obito's face was full of anticipation, clearly hoping to avenge his previous defeat and brimming with confidence.

Kyosuke wasn't going to be provoked. He smiled and pointed at Kakashi, who was sitting quietly in the back row: "Hey, Kakashi is the best genius among us. If you're going to challenge someone, you should challenge him. If you beat him, you'll be number one, but if you beat me, you won't be number one either."

These days, Kakashi's outstanding performance has earned him unanimous praise from his teachers. Naohiro Takahara even said that Kakashi has the strength of a genin and will definitely graduate early.

Obito glanced at Kakashi, his face grim, because Obito had secretly challenged Kakashi and been instantly defeated.

"Hmph, now that I've beaten you, I'll naturally go on to defeat that guy."

"Okay, but I'm going to win this time, so you have to treat me to barbecue, including both me and Kai."

Kyosuke thought it would be good to improve his life a bit, so he agreed.

"no problem."

Obito readily agreed, knowing that Kyosuke had only just bought the weapons a few days ago, let alone practiced weapon throwing. He even dragged Obito along, and thanks to the Uchiha clan's connection with the weapon shop, they got a 20% discount.

Therefore, Obito never thought he would lose.

After the teacher's explanation, they began to practice. Kyosuke held the shuriken, feeling very familiar with it, as if his body had already memorized how to aim, how to exert force, how to analyze wind direction and force, and so on.

It can't be too good. Even if someone is very talented, they still need a learning process.

Kyosuke deliberately threw the shuriken with the wrong technique, and it flew past the target.

At the same time, exclamations came from the side. It turned out that Kakashi's shuriken had all hit the bullseye.

At this moment, Naohiro Takahara walked to Kyosuke's side and began to teach him.

"Kyosuke, don't focus on hitting the bullseye right now. Instead, concentrate on practicing the correct throwing technique and make minor adjustments based on your own strengths. As long as you master the method that suits you, you will definitely succeed."

Naohiro Takahara had high hopes for Kyosuke, so he pointed out Kyosuke's mistakes one by one and guided Kyosuke to make continuous adjustments.

Kyosuke gradually revealed his strength, and his results improved.

Seeing Kyosuke's rapid progress, Takahara Naoyasu was overjoyed, but outwardly he kept a stern face and warned Kyosuke not to be arrogant.

After the teacher left, Kai gave Kyosuke a thumbs up: "You're amazing, you've completely surpassed me."

Kyosuke glanced at Obito's pale face and said with a smile, "Kai, eat less at noon, save room for meat tonight."

Kai was delighted to have meat to eat: "Haha, having barbecue is what youth is all about!"

As expected, Kyosuke defeated Obito with ease in the evening. After all, Obito's strength was indeed not that great without having opened his Sharingan.

However, the next day after school, Kyosuke encountered a new challenger, Sarutobi Asuma.

Kyosuke looked at Asuma, feeling somewhat speechless: "Kakashi is number one. If you want to challenge someone, challenge him. Why are you all coming after me?"

Hearing Kyosuke's complaint, Asuma rolled his eyes. "Nonsense, if I could beat Kakashi, I would have challenged him long ago."

During this time, Asuma returned home and heard his father praising Kakashi and Kyosuke, telling Asuma to learn from them.

Asuma has a strong sense of pride and is naturally unwilling to accept defeat, so he wants to defeat Kyosuke to prove that his father is old and blind.

"Enough with the nonsense, I'm going to beat you today."

"You know the rules, right? The loser gets a barbecue."

"no problem."

Kyosuke had no reason to refuse the barbecue, and beating Asuma would also improve his standing with the Hokage.

The two found an open space and began their battle, with Kyosuke still forming the opposing hand seals in a proper manner.

"Hmph, just as long-winded as an old stubborn fellow."

Asuma looked at the rigid Kyosuke, muttered a complaint under his breath, and then made the opposing hand seal as well.

"I am coming!"

Asuma attacked first, demonstrating excellent physical skills. His strength, speed, and coordination were all superior to Obito's. Kyosuke managed to block two attacks before feeling a slight numbness in his arm.

Defeating Asuma is not difficult; the difficulty lies in defeating Asuma using the strength demonstrated by the Ninja Academy.

Kyosuke thought for a moment, a slight smile playing on his lips. After blocking Asuma's punch, he formed hand seals and shouted, "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

"What?! How do you know the Great Fireball Technique?!"

Asuma was startled and instinctively covered his face with his hands, dodging to the side.

Taking advantage of Asuma's momentary lapse in coordination, Kyosuke rushed forward and knocked Asuma down in one fell swoop.

"Asuma, I won."

Kyosuke displayed the seal of reconciliation, declaring his victory.

Asma got up from the ground, wiping the dirt off his face, looking defiant.

"You're lying! You're cheating! This doesn't count!"

Kyosuke wasn't about to indulge the brat, and adopted a teacher's demeanor: "Asuma, you weren't paying attention in class. The teacher said that ninjas must use all sorts of methods to achieve victory."

"Ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, weaponry, traps, and deception are all important components of tactics, and reconnaissance and analysis of enemy intelligence are also of paramount importance."

“We’re classmates. You train with me every day, you know my strength, you know I don’t know the Fireball Technique at all, and you still fell for it. You’re too arrogant.”

"You should know that the opponents you will face in the future will not be your classmates. Asuma, you must get rid of your arrogance. Otherwise, losing to me will only be a matter of a meal, but losing to the enemy could cost you your life."

Asuma, proud and arrogant, was naturally not persuaded by Kyosuke. Instead, he became even more indignant, snorted twice, and turned to leave.

This scene was reflected in the crystal ball and witnessed by the Third Hokage.

"Sigh, when will Asuma ever change his personality? Jiraiya, what do you think of Kyosuke?"

Jiraiya, who was standing nearby, was very impressed with Kyosuke's performance.

As a ninja from a commoner background, Jiraiya knew the hardships of commoner ninjas, which is why he took Minato Namikaze, who also came from a commoner background, as his disciple, and later he didn't mind teaching Yahiko and others.

“Very good. As long as you receive good instruction, you will definitely become a great ninja. But, old man, I don’t want to take on any more students recently. You can ask Tsunade or Orochimaru.”

Jiraiya knew the Third Hokage's intentions and refused without hesitation.

He's been teaching apprentices for years and is getting a little tired of it.

The Third Hokage was very dissatisfied with Jiraiya's nonchalant attitude: "Hmph, he puts so much effort into teaching outsiders, but he's unwilling to teach the children of Konoha. He has no sense of responsibility at all."

Of the three legendary Sannin, the Third Hokage valued Jiraiya the most and wanted to pass on the Hokage title to him, but Jiraiya kept refusing, causing the Third Hokage a great deal of trouble.

Seeing that the Third Hokage was about to ramble on again, Jiraiya immediately jumped out of the window.

"Old man, I'm going to create art. Don't look for me if you need anything."