Konoha's Wooden Reappearance

In a forest somewhere in Konoha Village, a red-haired boy stood on the top of a tall tree and looked down at the entire forest.

Looking at the forest with dense vegetation, Shuijian felt relaxed and happy, as if he was born to belong here. He liked to see the lush green trees, smell the fragrance of flowers in the forest, and even more like to hear the roaring wind and waves.

"It has been more than half a year since Itachi left Konoha and went to the border of Fire Country. I don't know how he is doing. He doesn't like to talk much. I don't know if there is anyone there to accompany him to relieve his boredom." Minama looked at him. Thought from a distance.

At this moment, Minama is much taller than before. With his red hair, he is particularly conspicuous when walking with Kushina in the streets of Konoha Village.

In the past six months, Kushina has helped Minama celebrate his fourth birthday, and Minato Kushina and Minato still spend less time together and more time apart.

However, he often hears many legends about his father from people in the village talking on the streets, and Minama can also feel that the people in the village respect him and Kushina differently than before.

Putting aside some distracting thoughts in his heart, Minama walked slowly down from the top of the tree. After reaching the ground, he walked towards a small stone that had been prepared long ago. He held the stone tightly in his hands and walked towards Konoha.

At a cliff, Shuijian hugged the stone and slowly walked up the cliff. Every step he took was very solid and very slow. After about half an hour, Shuijian climbed up the cliff. On a cliff.

After reaching the top of the cliff, Shuijian put down the stone.

After taking a short rest, jump off the top of the cliff. Release chakra on your hands and feet at the moment of jumping, and use force to stop or slow down until you land safely.Then repeat this training several times.

After a long period of training in climbing trees and treading water, Minama's control of chakra has reached a good level.When he continued this type of training, he found that the progress was minimal, so Mizama gave up the training method of climbing trees and treading water.

Finally, I came up with this method. When Kushina first knew about it, she didn't agree with Mizama to conduct such training at all.

It was not until the end that Minama repeatedly promised that she would not choose a cliff that was too high for training, and when she initially trained several times with Kushina and found that there was no problem, she reluctantly agreed.

This kind of training has been going on for almost four months, and this cliff was just chosen recently.Under such high-intensity training, Minama's chakra control and strength were obviously improved compared to before.

Maybe it's because of the physique of the Uzumaki clan. Although Minazama is only four years old, he has a lot of chakra. According to Kushina, he is probably between genin and elite genin.

And it is increasing at an extremely fast rate. Some minor injuries sustained during normal training can almost heal themselves in a short time.

After resting for a while, I thought about training for a while and it was time to go home and have dinner.So Mizama continued to walk slowly up the cliff while holding a larger stone than before. By the time he reached the top of the cliff, almost an hour had passed.

"Is this the training you do every day?" A strong and slightly old-fashioned voice suddenly came from the side, startling Mizama.If he hadn't reacted quickly, he would have almost hit his foot with a rock.

"Sorry, I disturbed your practice." Shuijian looked out. He was a man of medium build wearing a royal robe, with many wrinkles on his face. He had a big smoking pot in his mouth, and his eyes were kind and a little embarrassed. old man.

It only took one glance for Minama to recognize him, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The cliff chosen by Minazama happened to be the mountain behind Hokage Rock.The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, finished all his official duties in advance today and had some free time, so he came to the Hokage Rock for a walk and overlooked the entire Konoha.

When he turned around to go back, he happened to see a small figure jumping down from the cliff in the distance. The Third Hokage was startled and immediately ran quickly in that direction.

When Sarutobi arrived at the location, he saw a red-haired kid who looked like a child clinging to the cliff and sliding down.

So, he stayed here and observed quietly.Soon after, I saw the child at the bottom of the cliff picking up a stone and slowly moving up to the top of the cliff.This moment made Sarutobi think of his young apprentice Jiraiya.

When the child reached the top and took a look, Sarutobi thought for a moment and knew who it was. He was just a little surprised that a four-year-old child could do this kind of training.

"Oh, it's okay, Hokage-sama, it was me who disturbed you."Minama said with a little embarrassment. After all, he only saw the sculpture of Sarutobi Hiruzen on the cliff every day. This was the first time he met the living Hokage. He was so humble as to apologize to himself.

Sarutobi smiled heartily and said to Mizuma with a smile on his face, "Don't be so nervous. I know you. You are Uzumaki Minato, right? You are the child of Minato and Kushina. You are doing chakra control training." What?

Also, you don’t have to call me Hokage-sama, you can call me Grandpa Hokage.”

"Yes, Hokage-sama. You know me and you also know my parents," Mizama said in surprise.

"Everyone in the village is a member of the Hokage's family. How could I not recognize them? If I remember correctly, you are only four years old, and you can already do this kind of training on your own. It's really amazing."

Sarutobi took a deep breath from his cigarette, blew out the smoke ring, and said kindly to Mizuma, like an old man next door, which doubled Mizuma's good impression.

"Grandpa Hokage, some people have trained like this before," Minama asked.

"Ah, there used to be a kid named Jiraiya who used to train like this, but he was about ten years old at the time, so he was older than you. But in the end he became a very good ninja," Sarutobi replied still smiling. .

"Jiraiya, I know that he is my father's teacher, but it seems that my mother doesn't like him very much. She always tells my father not to hang out with him, otherwise he will look good. She also told me to stay away from him when I see him in the future. "

Mizama said with a hint of innocence, and shuddered slightly, as if remembering the terrifying look on his mother's face when she said this.

Mizama actually heard his parents occasionally hear about him, but he seemed to be a very bad person to his mother.

Then he asked with a childish look, "Grandpa Hokage, do you know why this is?"

After hearing this, Sarutobi looked embarrassed. How could he not know what his apprentice was like? However, he still said, "Maybe he is afraid that he will lead you and your father into mischief." Then he laughed, and Minama didn't understand.

Suddenly, Mizama remembered Itachi's previous question and thought that maybe the old man knew that he didn't know.

So he asked, "Grandpa, third generation, what is life and what is war?"

The third generation was slightly shocked. Has he already begun to think about this kind of question at such a young age? How should I answer this child?

"Then what do you think is life and war?" Sandai asked with a calm expression.

Mizama thought for a while, and Sandai didn't bother him. He just smoked quietly and waited.

"I once saw a group of wild dogs fighting over a bone in the village. Maybe this was war. I don't have a good explanation of what life is."

Shuijian said slowly that this was indeed the result of his deep thinking during this period, and it seemed that he did not think of it.

It is also a good metaphor to use wild dogs competing for food.After listening, Sandai did not comment on whether the answer was good or not, but was thinking about how to tell this child in the simplest words so that he could understand.

However, before he could think about it, he heard someone from the other side saying anxiously, "Ah, no, third generation grandpa, I should go home for dinner. My mother must be waiting by this point. If I go back later, my mother should Angry".

Without waiting for Sarutobi to reply, he jumped down from the cliff, then slowly clung to the cliff until he landed smoothly, and quickly ran towards home.

By the time Sarutobi reacted, Minama had already jumped down.

"What a precocious child, and a good seedling." Seemingly thinking of something, the Third Hokage looked at the direction where Mizama jumped and murmured with a smile.