Rewind the clock a bit…
The Anbu ninja Yamato had taken a mission from the Third Hokage to see if Kamiki could learn Wood Release.
That night, he leaped onto the wall of Kamiki’s courtyard.
There, he was startled to find that, deep in the night, Kamiki was actually practicing with shuriken…
The Third had mentioned this boy had unusual talent.
Seeing the boy working so hard now, Yamato couldn’t help but feel impressed.
A kid blessed by the heavens who still put in this much effort would surely become a pillar of the Leaf Village in the future!
So, Yamato stayed and watched a bit longer.
He had no idea he was about to witness learning ability that defied nature itself!
At the very beginning, Kamiki’s throws couldn’t even graze the wooden target!
Yet after just a couple of tries, he hit the bullseye dead-center with pinpoint accuracy!
And after testing things out for another moment, mid-air throws, bouncing shuriken off each other to strike targets with precision, acrobatic movement while throwing—he pulled off every single one with ease!
Even more astonishingly, this kid actually tried to combine the Clone Jutsu with shuriken!
The key was, he actually pulled it off!
Young Kamiki, without anyone teaching him, learned the Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu created by the Third Hokage all by himself!
And all of this unfolded in just a matter of minutes!
Yamato was so stunned his jaw nearly hit the ground.
Just as his entire worldview crumbled and he prepared to rush back to report to the Third, Kamiki spotted him!
And so, on this night, Yamato didn’t just witness Kamiki’s absurd talent and comprehension—he also became Kamiki’s very first punching bag since transmigrating!
Once Kamiki spotted him, the boy used a terrifying reserve of chakra to summon hundreds of shadow clones!
Without giving Yamato any chance to explain, the sea of shadow clones swarmed him in a wave!
Kamiki was still just an academy student without real combat experience, so his clones were easy enough to handle.
Yamato quickly cleared the clones tangled around him.
However, when Yamato looked up at Kamiki again, he saw the child holding a Rasengan in his palm!
That was the Rasengan!
An A-rank ninjutsu created by the Fourth Hokage!
The principle was to concentrate chakra in the hand, keep it flowing in erratic directions, and compress it into a sphere to strike the enemy!
The crucial part was that only the Fourth Hokage and Master Jiraiya were supposed to know this move!
The Fourth was long dead, and Jiraiya wandered far away year-round.
Where on earth did this child learn the Rasengan?!
Before Yamato could even process his shock, Kamiki charged straight at him, smashing the Rasengan forward!
Thankfully, as an Anbu who had survived countless battles and possessed rich combat experience, Yamato used his nimble footwork to dodge Kamiki’s strike.
Boom!
Not far beside Yamato, the Rasengan hit the dirt!
The violent chakra slammed into the ground, blasting a circular crater over ten meters wide right in the middle of Kamiki’s courtyard!
And that was only because Kamiki had deliberately reined in the power after seeing his attack miss!
Seeing his Rasengan fail to hit, Kamiki gritted his teeth.
Inspiration struck again!
He wondered: could he fuse the shape of the Rasengan with a shuriken?
That way, he could boost both the power and the blast radius, maximizing his room for error!
However, doing that with plain non-elemental chakra would be difficult.
He needed to mix in an elemental nature transformation…
I’ll test it with Wind Style first!
Kamiki was a man of action—once he thought it, he did it!
He raised his right arm high, chakra surging into his palm!
Using wind-natured chakra, he gathered and shaped it into a shuriken!
Whirrrrr— Soon, the roaring chakra in Kamiki’s raised right hand formed the shape of a massive Fuma Shuriken!
Standing a dozen meters away, Yamato saw every detail clearly.
What kind of nightmare was this brat cooking up now?!
That ocean of chakra, that bizarre fluctuation!
Was this kid trying to kill him?!
“Don’t misunderstand!
I’m sent by the Third—” Yamato hurried to explain.
Kamiki held the wind shuriken high, the screech of chakra deafening everything.
He couldn’t hear a word Yamato said!
The next instant, the Wind Style shuriken flew from Kamiki’s hand!
Whoosh!
The wind shuriken flew at terrifying speed, crossing the distance in the blink of an eye to where Yamato had just been standing!
Luckily, Yamato had stayed on guard against this lunatic.
The moment he saw the wind shuriken taking shape, he bolted as far as he could.
The wind shuriken touched the ground.
BOOOOOM!
Violent wind-natured chakra erupted in an instant!
Even though Kamiki tried to control the chakra output of the shuriken, the blast still obliterated his own house!
What was left was a massive crater over a hundred meters wide!
On the other side, Yamato had sprinted over a hundred meters by the time the energy exploded.
Even so, he didn’t escape unharmed.
Needle-like wind chakra grazed him, piercing with agonizing pain!
Yamato felt like crying.
Teaching a student these days was way too dangerous; he got beaten half to death before he could even introduce himself!
Such a massive disturbance in the middle of the night quickly drew the Leaf’s patrol squads.
It also woke the Third Hokage straight out of his sleep.
When the Third arrived at the scene, the first thing he saw was the giant hundred-meter crater where Kamiki’s home used to be!
“Did you do this?” The Third Hokage turned a reproachful glare toward Yamato, who was lying on a stretcher nearby.
Yamato was on the verge of tears.
He had just taken a beating, and now the old man was suspecting him!
“It wasn’t me,” Yamato said, looking thoroughly wronged.
“Who did this?!” The usually gentle Third Hokage rarely lost his temper, but this crossed a line!
How could anyone unleash a jutsu of such destructive power inside a inhabited village?!
Fortunately, Kamiki lived in a sparsely populated area; otherwise, the fallout would have been unthinkable!
Facing the Third Hokage’s furious question, the patrol squad stood frozen in dead silence.
On the stretcher, Yamato covered his face, wishing he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into…
Kamiki, the real culprit, lowered his head and stepped forward.
“I…” Kamiki said weakly.
He looked ready to accept whatever punishment came his way.
The Third Hokage had always been kind and easygoing.
Seeing him this angry, Kamiki knew he had gotten into huge trouble!
“Don’t joke around, Kamiki,” the Third Hokage said, waving a hand.
“I know your home was destroyed and you feel wronged.
Don’t worry, your Grandpa Hokage will drag out whoever did this!” “What I mean is…
this crater was really made by me,” Kamiki said, looking completely honest and somewhat wronged himself.
The Third Hokage’s jaw dropped!
“What did you just say?!” Kamiki noticed the Hokage’s voice spiked two pitches higher, clearly furious!
Shrinking his head down even further, he mumbled, “U-Um…
I said, I made this big crater.” Silence fell over the area.
Gulp.
The Third Hokage swallowed hard.
His sharp eyes scanned the patrol squad before landing back on Yamato on the stretcher.
Understanding the Hokage’s disbelief, Yamato kept his hands over his face and nodded.
To be beaten like this by an academy kid who hadn’t even graduated!
He had no face left!
The Third Hokage didn’t care about Yamato’s embarrassment.
The moment he got Yamato’s confirmation, his entire focus snapped onto Kamiki!
This child is a genius!
A damn indisputable genius!