radicalducati Chapter 2 Divine Might Cannot Hide Tears, Everywhere One Looks is Lin
Chapter 2 Divine Might Cannot Hide Tears, Everywhere One Looks is Lin
The rooftop of the teaching building.
"Let me introduce myself first. I am Kakashi Hatake, a Jonin of Konoha."
"Age, interests, and such are confidential. As for dreams or things I dislike, well, I don't want to talk about that either..."
"Now it's your turn, the three of you..."
Leaning against the rooftop railing, Kakashi casually glanced at the three of them and said lazily, his gaze lingering on the white clouds in the sky, lost in thought.
[This guy is so perfunctory...] Looking at Kakashi, who was lost in thought, Ishikawa felt a wave of dizziness and couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Even though I knew Kakashi was unreliable, this was still too blatant!
"Um, Kakashi-sensei, my name is Yamada Taro, and I'm 12 years old. I don't have any hobbies or dislikes yet. My dream is to become a Jonin like you and protect the village." Yamada Taro asked nervously, unsure of what he had done to offend his teacher.
“I’m Heijiro, and I’m 12 years old. I don’t have any hobbies, and I hate eating fish because of the bones. As for my dream? I want a home…” Heijiro continued, his eyes slightly reddening and his face full of longing as he spoke of home.
“Home…” Kakashi paused slightly, glancing at Inojiro before secretly understanding the information from before.
War orphans? I see…
"I am Mitarashi Ishikawa, 12 years old. My hobby is practicing ninjutsu, I hate being weak, and my dream is to become Hokage and protect the village!" Ishikawa shouted solemnly after the two finished introducing themselves.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease! Anyway, shouting slogans won't hurt you, so why not shout a few to establish a persona?
His dream of becoming Hokage is obviously a lie; he has no right to talk about dreams right now!
Besides, the workaholic lifestyle of the Naruto series isn't what Ishikawa aspires to. His dream, of course, is to survive the Fourth Shinobi World War and then shamelessly indulge his desires with a few anime girls…
You've already time-traveled, why are you still pretending to be innocent?! Are you sick in the head??
"Become Hokage?" Kakashi stared at Ishikawa with dead fish eyes, then stood up straight. "Well then, that concludes today's introduction session! Tomorrow morning at five o'clock, bring your ninja tools and assemble at the Third Training Ground. I'm going to conduct a survival drill."
"Remember, don't eat breakfast!"
Before the three could react, Kakashi vanished in an instant...
"Don't you want to eat?" Yamada Taro asked suspiciously, then looked at Ishikawa and the other man with shining eyes. "I never thought we'd become teammates, big brother, Jiro!"
"I never expected the three of us to be in the same group." Heijiro nodded excitedly at Ishikawa. "From now on, we'll both listen to you, big brother..."
Ishikawa wasn't surprised by their enthusiastic statements and nodded in agreement.
In his predecessor's memories, he and the two were childhood friends, and he, being a few months older than them, had always stood up for them. Therefore, the three had a very good relationship, and the two respected him like an older brother!
[Perhaps this is why the Third Hokage chose the three of us! After all, the three members of the previous Class 7 had a fight and fought over the bells, which led to an enraged Kakashi sending them all back to school for retraining.]
Ishikawa thought to himself, a slight smile playing on his lips. "This is good! With two obedient teammates, tomorrow's assessment exercise will be much easier."
"Taro, Jiro, it's my treat to dinner." Thinking about tomorrow's survival exercise, Ishikawa called out and led the way out of the school...
However, the names of the two younger brothers are too generic (ーー゛).
Night, at the edge of Konoha.
"Huff...huff..." Ishikawa returned home exhausted and plopped down on the sofa, panting heavily.
His face, however, was full of sorrow!
"I haven't even mastered climbing a tree in six days. This is so hard for me..." Feeling the soreness in his body after his chakra was depleted, Ishikawa looked at the ceiling and smiled bitterly.
From the day he transmigrated, he used the advantages of the plot to devise a simple cultivation plan for himself!
Climbing a tree → Stepping on water → Rasengan.
However, reality is harsh; he's still struggling in the tree-climbing stage. It was only after this week of training that Ishikawa truly understood the cruel reality of the difference between geniuses and ordinary people!
Putting aside the difficulties in cultivation, even the most basic chakra was insurmountable for him.
If Naruto's initial chakra was equal to that of a hundred Kakashis, then he at most only had five percent of Kakashi's chakra...
The difference is obvious.
Naturally, the limited amount of chakra also multiplied the difficulty of his training!
Even if Ishikawa knew the detailed steps to mastering the Rasengan, he wouldn't have the chakra to practice it. This is the helplessness of an ordinary person.
This is just like ordinary people in the past, who knew they could make money but lacked the initial capital and the cost of trial and error.
Therefore, Ishikawa abandoned his ridiculous idea of being the protagonist on the second day after his time travel...
"Well, luckily my luck wasn't too bad." Thinking of his teacher Kakashi, Ishikawa smiled and went into the bathroom to wash up.
Just as Ishikawa turned on the shower to take a shower, his bachelor apartment suddenly and bizarrely expanded, doubling in size in terms of tables, chairs, benches, and room area.
It was as if another room had been seamlessly integrated into the original house. A new doorway also appeared out of thin air on the inner wall.
It echoes the gate of the Ishikawa family...
Even the bathroom where Ishikawa takes a bath has been enlarged to twice its original size.
A graceful figure materialized outside the bathroom door in Ishikawa, groggily reaching out to open it and prepare to wash up, completely unaware of the silent change that had occurred in the room…
"crunch..."
As the bathroom door was suddenly opened, Ishikawa, who was taking a shower, wiped the water off his face and turned around with a bewildered look.
The next moment, a brown-haired girl in a bathrobe stared at him in disbelief and shock.
"Ah~~"
"what!!"
Almost half a second after their eyes met, the two screamed in unison...
Ishikawa heard a clear, silvery bell ring out suddenly, and the bathroom door slammed shut with a loud bang.
"What's going on??"
On Ishikawa's side, he quickly wrapped a bath towel around himself to cover his private parts, staring at the door with a mixture of anger and indignation.
A time-traveling being spied on by a little girl?! This is utterly outrageous!
Even if he's just a background character, he still has his own dignity...
"Huh? This is..." Ishikawa was about to go out and get revenge when he was stunned by the enlarged bathroom and some toiletries for girls.
What the hell is going on?
Did the room travel through time with him again?
Or perhaps, his long-awaited magic touch has finally arrived!
Thinking of this possibility, Ishikawa subconsciously swallowed and immediately opened the door to look outside without thinking...
Almost the instant he opened the door, a kunai was pressed against his neck.
The chilling, deadly edge sent shivers down Ishikawa's spine, leaving him frozen in place, his limbs numb.
"No...Nohara Rin??"
Looking at the familiar yet frosty-faced young woman before him, Ishikawa's eyes widened and he couldn't help but blurt out.
[Even with divine might, tears cannot be hidden; all that meets the eye is Lin!]
As a time traveler, Ishikawa was naturally familiar with this face!
But how is that possible?
It's Konoha Year 59 now, how could Nohara Rin, who died many years ago, appear in his room?
I've seen a ghost...