Some people say that to measure the talent of a ninja, one mainly depends on the mastery and application of techniques.
Lei Luo does not deny this, but he feels that in order to become an outstanding ninja and live well in this troubled world, in addition to high strength, character is equally important.
After all, Konoha is not what it was during Naruto's time, and the ninja world is not what it was like after the Fourth World War. The second ninja war in the outside world is in full swing, and the scale of the battle is also expanding.
Born in such an era, it is common for ninjas to encounter dangers to their lives while performing tasks, and the reasons are also various. The hostility of ninjas from other villages, the murderous intentions of wandering rebellious ninjas, the greed of bounty hunters, and even civilians whose families have been destroyed.
their hatred.
Ninjas need to face many unknown situations during their journey. If they want to protect themselves and their companions, they must not only rely on their own strength, but also have the determination to dare to kill at critical moments.
Ability and character are both indispensable.
Unfortunately, Yamanaka Yuko seems to have neither of these two things.
Although her ninja talent cannot be said to be at the top of Lei Luo's class, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory. Although she belongs to the mountain clan, she seems not to be very talented in the family's secret arts, and is not favored by the big players of the mountain clan.
Some people in the tribe paid attention to her cautious personality when she was in school, which was completely different from the carefree appearance she has now.
Lei Luo still remembers that at that time, Yamanaka Yuko was timid, cowardly, and had low self-esteem, and basically did not interact with her classmates. If they were not neighbors, they might not know each other at all.
The relationship between Lei Luo and Yamanaka Yuko seemed mediocre until they graduated from the ninja school. This was not only because the predecessor focused most of his time on study and training, but did not spend time on managing interpersonal relationships; it was also because Yamanaka Yuko
Zi's introverted and inferior character is too passive.
This situation lasted until they all became genin and then got slightly better. Although the predecessor was not in the same team as Yamanaka Yuko, he could still notice the changes in her every time he saw her.
Optimistic, cheerful, and loving to laugh...she is getting better day by day, and seems to have gradually forgotten the painful memories of the past.
During one chat, Lei Luo once asked her what made her change like this. At that time, Yamanaka Yuko did not answer, but just showed a happy smile. The predecessor did not understand Yamanaka Yuko's smile, but she
Lei Luo is an experienced driver, but he keenly smells the sour smell of love from the scene in his memory.
Yamanaka Yuko met the other half of her destiny and fell in love, Lei Luo judged. Facts have proved that Lei Luo guessed right. For a long time after that, his predecessor rarely met Yamanaka Yuko.
I only occasionally saw her walking with another boy on the street. My predecessor had some impressions of that boy, and he seemed to be a teammate of Yamanaka Yuko.
It stands to reason that this childhood sweetheart ran away with someone else, and the predecessor should have been touched. But the fact is that the predecessor did not feel anything wrong at all, but was simply happy for the transformation of Yamanaka Yuko. This is a pimple, Lei Luo is like this
evaluate.
Originally, things were going like this, and Yamanaka Yuko had a happy ending. Unfortunately, this is not a bloody eight o'clock romance drama after all, but a cruel and dark ninja world.
Misfortune came inadvertently and swallowed up Yuko Yamanaka's body and mind.
At the beginning, the predecessor did not know what the specific mission was. He only knew that the mission was rated B and that it took the lives of all Yamanaka Yuko’s teammates, including their mentoring Jonin. And all of this could have been avoided.
Yes, as long as Yamanaka Yuko can be crueler.
Later, through Yamanaka Yuko's drunken confession, Lei Luo gradually figured out the general context of the mission. It seemed that when Yamanaka Yuko and her team were clearing out the lair of a rebel gang, her sweetheart was careless.
He was captured by mistake, and the traitorous ninja who captured him used it to threaten other members of their team.
There is only one enemy left, and it seems that no amount of threats and intimidation can change the outcome, but this is not the case. It turns out that there is a great ninja village behind this rebel ninja gang, and that great ninja village is Iwagakure. The intelligence is
Yamanaka Yuko's instructor accidentally searched for it in the rebel ninja's lair.
Therefore, the guiding jounin was deeply aware of the critical nature of the current situation. Their actions were so large that they might have alerted the snake. The location here was a long way away from the village. He was not sure whether Iwagakure would secretly send
Ninjas come to silence you.
Since it was still a peaceful era at that time, instigating rebel ninjas to operate in other countries was a taboo in every ninja village, so it was okay if Iwagakure didn't get the news. Once he got the news, he would desperately want to clear away the traces. After all, this involved the great ninja.
The face problem of the village.
Time is running out, and every second they delay is one step closer to death.
After instructing the jounin to explain the stakes to Yamanaka Yuko and the others in a low voice, he planned to throw a kunai to end the life of Yamanaka Yuko's boyfriend as soon as possible, so that he would not fall into the hands of the enemy and continue to be tortured. After that, the instructive jounin
He will quickly kill the traitorous ninja who has no hostages in his hands, and finally lead the other two team members to retreat quickly.
However, the kunai thrown was blocked by Yamanaka Yuko with her body. She really couldn't do it and watched her boyfriend die in front of her. No one expected that Yamanaka Yuko could explode so fast at that moment.
Blocking the kunai thrown by the Jonin, maybe this is the power of love...
After that, she begged hard, both to the instructor jounin and to the traitorous ninja. This scene moved the others present. The instructor jounin couldn't bear it, and wondered if she could think of other solutions in the shortest possible time.
But in the end, this bit of kindness could not save anything. Time passed ruthlessly, and Yamanaka Yuko fell into a deeper abyss.
Without waiting too long, Iwagakure's Anbu arrived and killed everyone who tried to resist. The respected teacher died, the sweetheart who had always supported each other died, and another teammate who shared the joys and sorrows also died, and her spirit completely collapsed.
Just when Iwagakure Anbu was planning to deal with this girl who seemed to have gone crazy, Konoha's reinforcements finally arrived belatedly.
Yamanaka Yuko saved her life, but the details of the mission were spread out for unknown reasons, and she lost her reputation. Because of her selfishness, all her companions suffered misfortune, and for a time, she was treated the most.
No team wanted her, and she was refused access to all high-level missions. From then on, her level was forever fixed at genin. Even though her peers in the same period were promoted to chuunin one after another, and some with high talents even became jounin,
She is still just a genin.
A few months later, when Yamanaka Yuko had just regained some composure, she heard the news that her parents had died in the mission... From then on, she was regarded as a burden, a waste, an unknown object... No one paid any attention to her anymore
, even other members of the mountain clan kept her at a distance. Only her predecessor, who had a low emotional intelligence, still treated her as before.
…
After understanding all this, Lei Luo took a deep breath and looked at the girl in front of him who had looked as usual for some time and was still eating and drinking while humming a tune, and felt a hint of admiration in his heart.
If he had experienced such a series of blows, although he could not be said to have suffered a psychological breakdown, at least his character would have become taciturn. Yuko... How could such a sixteen-year-old girl survive such a level of suffering?
? And how did you develop such a lively, cheerful and carefree character in such an environment?
Unconsciously, Lei Luo thought of Konoha White Fang, and then thought of Naruto. Konoha, although there is darkness here, it still cannot obscure the glory of humanity...
Thinking of Yuko living alone, with no companions, and no one around him to communicate with except himself and Li Tong, Lei Luo felt pity in his heart.
"Yuko..." Lei Luo said softly. "Why do you want me to take you on a mission?"
"Huh?" Yuko swallowed the food in his mouth and asked doubtfully, "Didn't I tell you before? After so many years, I just want to see outside the village."
D-level missions are limited to the surroundings of the village, while C-level and above missions only involve leaving the village. Since Yuko cannot receive C-level and above missions, she naturally has no reason to leave the village, unless she wants to become a rebel ninja.
"Do you just want to go outside the village?" Lei Luo was silent for a moment and then answered. "Sorry, I can't take you out at the moment."
"Yeah... I understand." Yuko didn't show any disappointment this time, and said very calmly, "Your team is full. I did force things a bit. Let's talk about it later."
Lei Luo did not tell her that he was the only one left in his team who died. The reason why he refused was because he thought of Momochi Wu and Momochi Ren and his son, plus the experience of Yuko's team... He didn't
He knows whether he will face this kind of choice after taking Yuko out, and he doesn't know how he will feel after making the decision. In short, until he is strong enough, he will avoid such nonsense from happening.
Cut it off at the source.
Lei Luo looked at Yuko who seemed to be relieved, and slowly said: "Yuko, my brother has been taken care of by you this month, and I can't help but express it. Well, I just captured a ninjutsu in this mission.
The scroll contains some physical skills training methods..."
Yuko's big eyes rolled around and he said with a smile: "Lei Luo, when did you become so generous? I thought my work would be in vain this time!"
How many times did the predecessor take advantage of Yuko... Lei Luo's head was full of black lines. "Needless to say, I will give you the scroll when I get back. You write it down and return it to me."
"Okay!" Yuko clapped her hands happily at first, and then her face suddenly fell. "But why is it taijutsu? It's very tiring to practice..."
"Just be content, it's good to have it." Lei Luo also put a piece of barbecue into his mouth and chewed it. "Anyway, you have the secret skills of the mountain clan, and you probably don't like my low-end escape skills.
, practicing physical skills can just make your combat system more balanced."
"What do you mean, those mind-turning techniques?" Yuko said helplessly, "Forget it, those techniques require too much talent. With my level, I can master some simple ones, so don't even think about going above."
Lei Luo didn't answer, just ate the meat in silence.
"By the way, how do you plan to deal with your brother's matter?" Yuko asked.
"What? You said he did all the bad things in school? I will take care of him."
"No, your brother seems to have been stimulated by something at school." Yuko paused for a moment. "He seems to be very dissatisfied with his own strength. He has been clamoring for me to teach him ninjutsu during this time."
Having said this, Yuko sighed. "What do you think I can teach him? The family secret technique is not allowed to be passed on to others, and I don't know other attribute escape techniques."
"Don't pay attention. I just happened to be back. I will talk to him in the next few days." Lei Luo muttered. "It is a good thing to be motivated, but he is so young and his body has not grown up yet. Now he is exposed to the attribute escape technique.
It was a little too hasty.”
Yuko nodded, "That's alright, as long as you know what's going on."
After talking about things, it was almost time to eat.
Lei Luo and Yuko went home together. Lei Luo handed Yuzi the ninjutsu scroll he got from Mochi Ren and went out. After reading through it for the past few days, Lei Luo has memorized all the contents on the scroll. Now
It doesn't matter whether you keep it or not.
Looking up at the sky, it was just early noon. Lei Luo decided to continue sneaking into the Forest of Death to test the power of time. The goals for the afternoon were, first, to calculate the specific data related to "acceleration" and its exchange ratio with the gray air flow;
It is to see if the power of time can extend to the outside world and affect dead things.
Time just passed by with constant experiments, the sun went down, and night gradually enveloped the world.
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As Lei Luo's younger brother, Lei Tong is a very smart child who also has enough patience and self-control when necessary.
Lei Tong didn't know that his brother was no longer the person he was familiar with, so he still used his past experience to judge Lei Luo's thoughts and purposes.
"My brother probably already has the idea of teaching me ninjutsu, but he is still hesitant, so I want him to see my growth with his own eyes before he can make up his mind."
He thought so and did so.
What is different from the past is that after school today, he did not play with his friends, but returned home early.
Seeing that his brother hadn't come back yet, the diligent little Lei Tong decided to clean up the house and tidy up all the paper materials that Lei Luo left in the hall yesterday.
He wants Lei Luo to realize that his brother has become "sensible" and is no longer a child.
This busy trip was not completed until after seven o'clock.
Since he was not sure when Lei Luo would come back, even though his stomach was already growling with hunger, Lei Tong decided to hold on a little longer and did not get instant noodles.
He knew that his brother always hated him eating instant noodles, so he decided to wait until his brother came back to cook.
One minute to two minutes, five minutes to ten minutes, half an hour to one hour.
Lei Tong didn't know how long he had to wait. Hunger invaded his brain. An afternoon of physical labor made him extremely exhausted, and his consciousness gradually became groggy...
When Lei Luo returned home and saw his younger brother looking at him with a lifeless expression, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked something unintentionally.
The clock on the wall slowly moved to the 11 mark at this time.
"Similar, what are you doing?"
"Brother, I'm starving to death." Lei Tong didn't explain anything, he just shouted weakly.
"Why don't you go find your sister Yuko?" Lei Luo took off his tattered clothes and picked up a towel to wipe the dirt on his cheeks.
"You're back, why should I go looking for her?" Lei Tong muttered, dissatisfaction hinting in his tone. But the next moment, Lei Tong's focus shifted to Lei Luo. "Huh? Brother, are you injured?
"
'It seems that the blood stains left on my body were found...' Lei Luo said secretly, but his face remained calm. "There was an accident during training, it's no big deal."
After fumbling around in the afternoon, Lei Luo was able to eliminate the blood remaining outside the body by stimulating the "countercurrent". However, the process was a bit troublesome, and since it was meaningless and a waste of time, Lei Luo was too lazy to care.
In addition to blood, other "things" belonging to him, including limbs, organs, flesh and blood tissues, etc., as long as they are separated from his body, they cannot produce effects in the "countercurrent" acting on themselves and still remain in reality. This
This abnormal phenomenon was noticed by Lei Luo, which made him feel that his power of time was mysterious and difficult to fathom, and it was not exactly what he imagined.
Lei Tong heard Lei Luo's explanation, even though he was a little out of breath from hunger, he still insisted on asking: "Brother, are you practicing ninjutsu? Can you take me to train with you?"
'This child has a very firm belief. It seems he can't escape. However, maybe there is no need to deliberately hide...'
Lei Luo thought to himself and remained silent for a while without answering. He just tore open the bucket of instant noodles in his hand and boiled a pot of boiling water. When Lei Tong's hopeful eyes gradually dimmed, he said: "Come with me tomorrow morning.
Training ground, now let’s eat.”
Is this agreed?
Lei Tong's spirit was shaken, and even his hunger was diluted a lot. He responded loudly: "Yes!" There was unconcealable joy in his tone.
Watching Lei Tong happily eating instant noodles with no nutrition, Lei Luo's thoughts drifted further and further away. He thought about his training plan for tomorrow, the situation of the Second Ninja War, and the distant scenes.
The familiar future. Perhaps, the future is not far away, after all, time is on his side...
As for the arrangements for the same, Lei Luo also had a plan in mind. He still adhered to the principle of Ninjutsu and would not let this child be exposed to it before he was ten years old. However, not teaching ninjutsu did not mean that he would not teach some other similar skills.