After witnessing Kamiki unleash such a devastating jutsu, Konohamaru trembled with sheer excitement.
If he used this move to launch a sneak attack on the old man from behind, he would definitely defeat his grandfather!
(He might even blast him into dust, who knows?) When that happened, everyone in the village would finally acknowledge him!
“Big Bro, this is the one I want to learn!
Please, teach me this one!” Konohamaru’s little face was flushed red with excitement as he tugged repeatedly on Kamiki’s arm.
Kamiki looked at the boy’s dead-serious expression.
After mulling it over for a moment, he nodded.
Last time, after seeing him use this jutsu, Lord Hokage had warned him not to cast it recklessly and never to leak it outside the village.
Teaching it to the old man’s own grandson didn’t count as “leaking it,” right?
At that exact moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi sneezed loudly inside the Hokage’s office, muttering to himself, “What’s going on today?
Seems I really am getting old!” Outside the village, at Kamiki’s private training clearing.
To learn the Wind Release shuriken, one had to start from the very beginning with the Rasengan.
Kamiki began explaining the essentials of the Rasengan to Konohamaru, covering chakra control and the basic principles.
“First, you do this…
then you do that…
and finally you wrap it up like that, and you’re good to go!” Konohamaru listened with a blank, dazed expression, looking completely dumbfounded.
Wait, I don’t get this at all!
Still, hearing it straight from Big Bro’s mouth, it has to be an insanely cool jutsu!
While Konohamaru focused entirely on Kamiki’s lesson, several kilometers away, his private elite tutor Ebisu had been searching frantically for his trail.
It was only after Kamiki tossed that Wind Release shuriken earlier that Ebisu, nearing the outskirts, suddenly sensed a massive surge of chakra.
Cold sweat beaded on his brow.
Just moments ago, he had glimpsed through the Third’s crystal ball that Kamiki and Konohamaru were inside a dense forest, likely outside the village bounds.
The area beyond the walls was perilous, with rival spy shinobi constantly sneaking across the borders of the Land of Fire.
With a chakra shockwave this colossal, had the young master been attacked?!
Ebisu gritted his teeth, his pace quickening into a sprint.
“Young Master, nothing can happen to you!
And you, you dead-last—if you get Master Konohamaru hurt, I will make you pay dearly!” Through the trees, the special Jonin Ebisu flickered forward like a shadow!
Back on the clearing.
Under Kamiki’s guidance, Konohamaru’s expression shifted from total confusion to sudden enlightenment!
Chakra gathered in his palm, and a tiny whirlpool of turbulent chakra currents began to churn!
“Big Bro, how’s that!
Don’t I learn super fast?!” Konohamaru yelled excitedly to Kamiki beside him.
As the grandson of the Third Hokage, he had grown up with a dedicated tutor and received elite ninjutsu instruction.
His grasp of chakra theory was far beyond that of ordinary kids his age, so his learning speed was naturally fast.
Kamiki, however, looked at the puny gust of turbulent chakra that Konohamaru had spent half the day pulling together, and felt surprised.
Surprised by how unexpectedly poor the kid’s comprehension was!
The Rasengan is so simple!
You just take your chakra, do this, then do that…
And you can just whip one up!
When Kamiki had his epiphany back then, he formed one instantly and smashed it right at Yamato.
This Konohamaru kid had to ponder it for so long, spending ages just to cook up a measly puff of unstable air!
It hadn’t even taken a solid shape yet!
“Konohamaru, are you really the Hokage’s grandson?” Kamiki patted Konohamaru’s thin shoulder, speaking with deep meaning, “Your talent for ninjutsu is really not great.
You’re even worse than Naruto and me.
If I taught this to Naruto, he’d probably pick it up faster than you.” Kamiki truly had no intention of putting Konohamaru down.
Every word came straight from the bottom of his heart.
At the same time, he silently sympathized with the Third Hokage.
Kamiki had always believed that his and Naruto’s comprehension was already near the bottom of the barrel.
Seeing this, it turned out the Third Hokage was stuck with a grandson whose comprehension was even worse!
At least they had company.
Tears welled up in Konohamaru’s eyes.
“Big Bro, your words really hurt.” Kamiki spread his hands.
“Just telling the truth.” “Right now, every single student at the academy has monstrous comprehension.
Since your talent is already lacking, you have to work way harder than them!” Hearing this, Konohamaru nodded in half-understanding.
Big Bro really does have my best interests at heart after all!
While the two were talking, Ebisu finally tracked down the clearing where Kamiki and Konohamaru stood.
Seeing Kamiki apparently guiding Konohamaru in ninjutsu training, fury erupted in Ebisu’s chest!
You dead-last, you can’t even figure out your own jutsu, and you dare tutor the young master?!
What if you lead him completely astray?!
“Young Master, get over here right now!
Do not mingle with a dead-last like him!” The moment Ebisu appeared, he yanked Konohamaru away from his Rasengan training, pulling the boy firmly behind his back.
“Teacher, what are you doing?!
I’m training ninjutsu with Big Bro!
He’s teaching me so well!” Unhappy with his tutor’s attitude, Konohamaru yelled back furiously in his childish voice.
Ebisu let out a contemptuous scoff.
“Young Master, stop throwing tantrums!
What could someone like him possibly teach you?” “For his first five years at the academy, he couldn’t even pull off a single proper jutsu.
It was only recently that a blind cat ran into a dead mouse and he stumbled upon the Shadow Clone Jutsu…
Hanging around him will only make you stupid.” As Ebisu spoke, his sharp gaze cut straight toward Kamiki.
Even through the lenses of his dark glasses, Kamiki could clearly see the cold disgust and faint mockery in Ebisu’s eyes.
Kamiki had grown up enduring looks like that.
In the beginning, that icy contempt had felt like a suffocating mountain pressing down on his chest.
After years of cold stares, however, Kamiki’s mental fortitude had grown stronger than ever before!
“I am a dead-last, but as for learning ninjutsu, Konohamaru begged me to teach him,” Kamiki said, confronting Ebisu directly.
He knew he had no background or backing in the village, so he rarely picked fights.
Still, the attitude of this boy’s teacher irritated him deeply!
Ebisu pressed on without an ounce of polite restraint: “The young master sought you out only because he is young and ignorant!
Did you honestly believe you were qualified to tutor him?” “Besides, having the chance to teach the Hokage’s grandson a technique is the greatest honor of your entire life!” Hearing his tutor speak like this, even Konohamaru grew furious.
“Big Bro Kamiki is an amazing big bro, and the jutsu he teaches is awesome!” “Why do you have to put Big Bro down like that?!” Meanwhile, inside the Hokage’s office.
Hiruzen Sarutobi gazed down at the crystal ball on his desk.
The image shimmering inside the sphere showed the standoff between Kamiki and Ebisu out in the clearing.
“So Kamiki and Ebisu have crossed paths…
I wonder how that little guy will handle this situation.”