Chapter 128: Emergency Assembly
"Gentle Fist Art... Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
A young girl's delicate shout echoed within the traditional dojo.
Then, a series of "bang bang bang" sounds followed.
The scene shifted inside the dojo, where the little sister, wearing a yellow-brown kimono and with her long hair flowing, had shed her usual clingy and spoiled demeanor. Veins bulged at her temples, and blue chakra flames flickered around her hands as she struck the motionless Izayoi standing before her.
"Two Palms, Four Palms, Eight Palms, Sixteen Palms, Thirty-Two Palms... Sixty-Four Palms!"
Her slender, jade-like fingers accurately struck the key pressure points on the human body through his clothes, the chakra from her fingertips attempting to penetrate the fabric and flesh, seeping into the body's interior to damage the meridians and internal organs.
The gale generated by the chakra burst even caused Hanabi and Izayoi's clothes to flutter wildly.
After delivering the sixty-fourth palm, Hanabi didn't stop. Instead, she spun three hundred and sixty degrees in place, gathering power for a palm strike at Izayoi, shouting, "Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm!"
Chakra transformed into a shockwave, surging forth from her palm.
However, the scene of the shockwave piercing through Izayoi's body and erupting from his back didn't occur.
The shockwave slammed into Izayoi's body and exploded like a Wind Style attack, first shaking off Hanabi's small hand, then sending the little sister flying backward.
Before Hanabi could crash heavily to the ground, her body rolling a few times, Izayoi teleported behind her and caught her.
"My hand hurts, it really hurts..."
Hanabi cried out in pain while vigorously blowing on her swollen little hand.
Once the pain subsided slightly, Hanabi looked at Izayoi with tearful eyes, complaining, "Onii-chan, is your body made of steel? How can it be so hard!"
"You're wrong, my current body is even harder than steel," Izayoi said with a smile, putting Hanabi down and skillfully rolling up his sleeve, presenting his forearm to his little sister.
Watching Hanabi bite his forearm to absorb chakra, Izayoi explained with a smile, "Wood Release is a Kekkei Genkai formed by the fusion of Water and Earth nature transformations. Yang Release chakra can not only enhance the power of Wood Release but also the nature transformations of Water and Earth Release. Onii-chan just used Wood Release chakra to perform a modified Earth Release: Earth Spear. The defensive power of my body is stronger than diamond. To force Onii-chan back, you need to learn the Strength of a Hundred Seal or open the Eight Gates."
"So... so amazing!"
Hanabi released Izayoi's forearm, first looking completely stunned, then showing a wronged expression, pouting her small mouth and saying, "Then why did Onii-chan use that jutsu on Hanabi? You clearly knew I just learned Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms! How could I possibly break your defense!"
"Because Onii-chan wanted to teach you a technique. Want to learn it?" Izayoi chuckled, ruffling Hanabi's hair.
"Mmm-hmm..."
Hanabi nodded repeatedly, looking at Izayoi with expectant eyes and asking, "Onii-chan, what technique is it?"
"Watch closely..."
Izayoi stood up straight, looked at a wooden training dummy not far away, and then raised his hand, thrusting out a sword finger.
With a whoosh, as if an invisible arrow had been shot out.
Boom!
The wooden training dummy in the distance instantly exploded into pieces.
"..."
Hanabi stared blankly in the direction of the wooden dummy, so shocked that she couldn't speak.
Snapping out of her daze, she immediately looked up and eagerly asked, "Onii-chan, how did you do that?"
"This is a more refined Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm, or you could say it's a technique that fuses chakra burst, which is the technique of the Strength of a Hundred Seal, with Gentle Fist," Izayoi said with a smile. "But overall, it's a higher level of chakra control."
"Once your chakra control reaches my level, then whether it's Gentle Fist or the Strength of a Hundred Seal, it's just a matter of controlling chakra release."
"The difference is that your Hyuga clan, due to generally lower chakra reserves, chooses Gentle Fist, which is most compatible with your Kekkei Genkai. The Senju clan, on the other hand, has vast chakra reserves and chooses the chakra burst of the Steel Fist."
"But you and Hinata are different. You can completely take the path of combining both strength and gentleness."
Izayoi made a thrusting gesture again, describing with a smile, "Imagine if your finger strike just now had my power and could also send chakra into the enemy's body to explode, what kind of effect would that be?"
"Onii-chan, you're so amazing! As expected of Hanabi's idol!"
Hanabi pounced into Izayoi's arms, wrapping her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck, her eyes filled with admiration. "Onii-chan, when you get promoted to Jonin, Hanabi will apply for early graduation. You can be Hanabi's personal Jonin instructor, okay?"
Izayoi thought Hanabi was joking, so he supported his little sister's bottom and teased, "Then call me Izayoi-sensei first."
"Izayoi-sensei! Izayoi-sensei! Izayoi-sensei!" Hanabi shouted three times very decisively, then, not giving Izayoi a chance to go back on his word, she kissed his cheek forcefully before landing and waving goodbye, leaving behind a triumphant laugh.
"Then it's settled! Hanabi will go back and tell Father now."
"Huh?"
Izayoi rarely looked dumbfounded, his mouth opening so wide it seemed a fist could fit inside.
By the time he came back to his senses, his little sister had already disappeared.
Just as Izayoi, feeling somewhat amused and helpless, walked out of the dojo, preparing to tattle on Hanabi to Hinata, even considering the idea of the younger sister's debt being repaid by the older sister...
A black afterimage appeared out of nowhere on the veranda.
Looking at the female Anbu in front of him, wearing Anbu attire, a cat-faced mask, but revealing purple hair, Izayoi's eyes narrowed slightly. "Something wrong? Yugao."
"Izayoi-sama, Hokage-sama requests your immediate presence in the Hokage's office. Team Eight is under emergency assembly," Uzuki Yugao knelt on one knee, speaking respectfully.
A full-fledged Anbu wouldn't naturally need to show such deep respect to a Chunin.
However, Uzuki Yugao wasn't an ordinary Anbu. She was also a guard secretly protecting the Hokage's office, and someone the Hokage could readily command.
Tsunade's conversation with Samui, and her usual conversations with Izayoi, had already established Izayoi's status as the sole Hokage candidate.
Facing the future Sixth Hokage, Uzuki Yugao, like most ninjas in Konoha, was extremely respectful.
Hearing the words "emergency assembly," Izayoi raised his eyebrows slightly, then nodded. "I understand. I'll head over now."
"Yes."
Uzuki Yugao lowered her head slightly before disappearing in an afterimage.
Izayoi also teleported towards the Hokage Building, flying through the air.
On the way, Izayoi quickly contacted his Wood Clones outside, checking if any major events had occurred recently in the ninja world.
Soon, the Wood Clones transmitted two real-time images back to him.
One image was a photograph of a city, half of its area reduced to ruins. It was a relatively prosperous city in the Land of Wind.
The other image showed a large number of Sand Shinobi searching everywhere in the Land of Wind, seemingly looking for something or someone.
But combined with the previous image of the ruins, the possibility of searching for enemies was higher.
Izayoi frowned slightly, analyzing in his mind, "It doesn't look like it was caused by ninjutsu, more like the explosion of multiple explosive tags. Could it be Nan's doing? No, the Wood Clones are constantly monitoring Akatsuki. If Nan took action, the Wood Clones would have notified me long ago."
"This number of Sand Shinobi has already reached four digits. Mobilizing this many ninjas is definitely a major event. Is it a plot point from the original work, the blank three years, or a butterfly effect caused by me?"
"Forget it. Since I don't remember it, it means it's unrelated to the main storyline and not worth mentioning."
Izayoi quickly sorted out his thoughts and arrived at the Hokage's office.
"Yo, Izayoi."
Just as he pushed open the door, Izayoi saw four familiar figures—Team Seven.
While raising his hand in response to Naruto Uzumaki, who was waving at him, Izayoi looked at Team Seven with a strange gaze, the corner of his mouth twitching imperceptibly.
It seemed this major event wasn't a butterfly effect caused by him but a plot point he had never seen or had forgotten from his previous life.
A flashback arc?
TV anime original?
Or a movie?
Something he had absolutely no memory of must be trash or an extremely boring plot.
Izayoi mentally scoffed.
But soon, Izayoi's expression turned serious.
Because the Wood Clones had transmitted another real-time image to him.
It showed Nagato performing the Samsara of Living Beings Technique, using White Zetsu clones to create Samsara Clones of Akatsuki members, including himself, and then Obito Uchiha taking them one by one into his Kamui dimension.
Clearly, Nagato was already wary of his Tenseigan and had chosen to hold the meeting in Obito Uchiha's Kamui dimension.
Perhaps this was the reason he hadn't broken ties with Obito Uchiha.
This kind of thinking was completely different from the Nagato who was played like a fool in the original work.
"Could it be that after regaining his youth, even his brain became better?" Izayoi couldn't help but mentally retort.
(End of this chapter)
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