This morning, Lei Luo walked out of his house, preparing to go to the Research Institute to start his daily practice. Unexpectedly, a couple walked towards him, it was Minato and Kushina. They stopped and greeted with a smile:
"Hey, Minato, are you here again?"
Having said that, he turned his attention to Kushina, the Uzumaki ninja with long red hair and dressed as a housewife. At this time, her belly had increased significantly, and her demeanor was less aggressive and more peaceful than before.
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"Teacher, with Kushina's current condition, I really can't worry about leaving her alone at home." Minato glanced at Kushina tenderly, and Minato smiled at Lei Luo, feeling quite embarrassed and said:
"In this case, I have no choice but to bother you more."
Since the Hokage handover ceremony was completed and the master and apprentice had a heart-to-heart talk that night, Minato noticed the change in his teacher's personality and tightened his contact with Lei Luo's family.
Unless he was really busy at work, Minato would always take time to visit Railo. One of them was to learn the experience of being a Hokage, and the other was to relieve his wife's boredom and let Kushina interact with women of the same age. It was better than being alone at home.
For pregnant women, feeling comfortable is more important than anything else.
"Teacher Lei Luo, is Mitsue-sama at home?" Kushina nodded politely to Lei Luo first, and then cast her eyes to the door behind Lei Luo, with a look of curiosity and vague expectation on her face.
"Here you are, come in first."
Lei Luo stepped aside and opened the door again. After the Minato couple walked in, he was about to close the door. Unexpectedly, another couple walked up the street. Judging from their heading, they seemed to be coming here.
Perhaps he found that Lei Luo was about to close the door, so the man couldn't help but say hello, raised his hand, and ran over at a faster pace.
"Fugaku?"
Lei Luo looked stunned and paused his movements. When Fugaku came up to him, he asked curiously: "You are such a busy person, why do you have time to come to my place today?"
"Yondaime-sama, if the Fifth Generation can come, can't I come?" Fugaku joked with a smile. He obviously noticed the figures of Minato and his wife, and pointed at Mikoto who was walking slowly towards him and said:
"Mikoto has been thinking about meeting Mitsue-sama recently to talk about Sasuke's growth. I mainly accompany her."
Lei Luo took a closer look and saw that Mikoto was indeed holding a little baby in her arms, observing him with a pair of big bright eyes. He couldn't help but reach out and pinch Sasuke's little face.
Unlike Linglong, Sasuke didn't care at all about Lei Luo's antics. Not only did he not cry or make a fuss, but he laughed out loud. Lei Luo was so happy when he saw this, he also laughed at Sasuke.
"Yes, yes, little boys are better than little girls."
Mikoto quietly watched the interaction between Lei Luo and her youngest son. A strange light flashed in her eyes, and her heart was touched. She felt that the fourth generation had changed so much.
How can he still be the domineering, ruthless and sharp-edged person he was a few years ago or even more than ten years ago?
It turns out that life can really smooth out a person's edges?
"Okay, don't stand at the door. Minato and the others happened to be here too. Fugaku, let's set a table today."
After Lei Luo finished teasing little Sasuke, he waved to Fugaku and his wife.
After the two of them entered the door, they met the Minato couple waiting inside and exchanged pleasantries with each other.
Afterwards, Guanghui came out with Linglong in his arms, and the three women sat in a group on the porch outside the house and chatted.
As for the three men from Lei Luo, they sat down at the stone table in the courtyard. Xiaoqiu Xiaodong handed over the teacups, cups and other items and then quietly left, attracting the frequent glances of Fugaku and Minato.
As the head of the Roots, the Fifth Hokage, with Fugaku and Minato's eyes, could naturally tell what kind of state Xiaoqiu Xiaodong was in, but since Lei Luo didn't want to mention it, the two of them were very sensible and pretended not to have seen it.
"Teacher, I am already familiar with the power of branding."
After saying a few simple polite words, Minato showed the back of his left hand. Lei Luo glanced at it. The black line pattern was exactly the same as the one on Orochimaru's hand. He couldn't help but curiously asked:
"What ability is it?"
"Time to stop."
"Time stop?" His mouth opened wide in surprise. Lei Luo looked at Minato's calm face and was greatly surprised. He was about to sigh about the other party's luck, but Minato smiled modestly and added:
"Teacher, my timing is very different from yours."
"Let me show you the details."
As he spoke, under the gazes of Lei Luo and Fugaku, Minato straightened his left arm, palm upward, and spread his fingers, secretly activated the brand, and saw a gray ball appear out of thin air in the palm of his hand.
The gray ball was completely transparent, about the size of a football, and its texture was exactly the same as Lei Luo's time-stop field. Seeing this, Lei Luo stretched out his fingers and dug his fingertips into the interior of the gray ball.
Feel it for a moment and pull it out.
"It is indeed the time-stop field, how long can you stop?" As he asked, Lei Luo threw a teacup, and after falling into the gray ball, it immediately froze in the air, causing Fugaku to exclaim.
"It lasts about ten seconds at a time. I calculated that the energy in this brand should be enough for me to use Time Stop more than twenty times." Minato removed his palm, and the teacup broke away from the Time Stop restraint, and instantly fell to the ground.
go.
But Minato, who was well prepared, caught it in time with his other hand.
"And the scope is limited to this big." Putting the tea cup on the table again, Minato waved his hand, and then dispersed, then he looked at Lei Luo with a little shame:
"Compared to your one-meter radius area, it's really far behind."
Minato's time stop is almost different from the small time stop that Lei Luo usually performs by throwing kunai shuriken, but for this level of time stop, Lei Luo can stop for a few minutes.
"It doesn't seem to have much meaning."
"By the way, can you only focus on your hands to release?"
Minato nodded first, then surprise flashed across his face, and he subconsciously retorted: "How could it be meaningless? Teacher, I think this ability can at least improve my strength by several levels."
Seeing Lei Luo thinking deeply, Minato organized some words and said seriously: "Although the time-stop field can only be released through the palm of my hand, I can choose to leave it independently and make it stagnate in a certain position."
"Teacher, think about it. With my speed, I only need to touch the enemy with my palm and expand the time-stop field. That will basically seal the victory of the battle."
"After all, let's not mention that the enemy's body is locked by Time Stop and cannot change its position. It can only stay in place and be attacked. Let's just say..." Minato pointed to his chest and continued with a solemn expression:
"If the left chest area encounters time standstill, it is equivalent to stopping the heart. In about ten seconds, the blood flow is interrupted, the human body has insufficient blood supply, and the brain will soon fall into a state of shock."