Naruto: Limitless Potential System Chapter 40 40: Namikaze Minato: I Don’t Understand

[Central Tower]

As the participating teams gradually gathered, the exam was nearing its end.

The Third Hokage and the Third Tsuchikage arrived.

The examiner was switched from Anko Mitarashi to Hayate Gekko.

After announcing that there were too many remaining participants and a preliminary elimination round would be held to determine who advanced to the final exam, Hayate asked whether anyone wished to withdraw.

As expected, Kabuto Yakushi raised his hand and forfeited, though it didn't matter much.

"If nobody else wishes to withdraw, then the preliminary matches will begin." Hayate Gekko announced, "The rules are elimination format. The participants displayed on the screen will be the opposing sides."

Everyone looked toward the screen above the arena.

First Match: Kurotsuchi vs Yamanaka Ino.

Hayate Gekko said, "All participants except the combatants, please leave the arena."

Everyone else headed up to the second-floor balcony to watch, leaving only Kurotsuchi and Ino below.

Since most people were unaware of the circumstances...

The way Ino and Kurotsuchi looked at each other carried a certain amount of personal hostility.

"Ahem~" Hayate coughed lightly as a reminder. "Competition second, friendship first. Well then… begin."

Ino imdiately raised her hands into the hand signs for the Yamanaka clan's secret technique, her slender fingers slightly curved as she aid at Kurotsuchi.

Kurotsuchi had already been inford about the Yamanaka clan's abilities beforehand. The mont the fight started, she directly cast Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall in front of herself to block Ino's line of sight.

A provocative smile curled at the corner of Ino's lips as she spoke softly.

"Useless. The mont you appear..."

'Hm?'

'Why is there a crack beneath my feet?'

Ino instantly realized sothing was wrong and tried to move, but the sound of earth breaking apart ca from behind her.

She jumped forward and turned around, aiming her secret technique at the figure erging there.

But in the next second, Kurotsuchi's figure vanished.

'Body Flicker Technique?!'

'Isn't that a high-level technique usually only jonin considered learning?'

Kurotsuchi appeared behind Ino.

She leaned her body forward, her long legs tightening with force. Power traveled through her flexible waist and back into her fist as she drove it straight toward Ino's face.

Left with no choice, Ino crossed both arms to block.

Bang!

Ino instantly felt a wave of soreness shoot through her arms as her body staggered backward.

The gap in strength between them was far too obvious.

The mont Ino lowered her arms, a kunai was already pressed in front of her.

Hayate Gekko imdiately announced, "Match over. Winner: Kurotsuchi."

At the edge of the arena, as usual, Hiruzen Sarutobi exchanged polite remarks with Onoki.

"As expected of your granddaughter. Her taijutsu is excellent, and at such a young age she's already mastered the Body Flicker Technique."

Onoki replied with a chuckle, "Kurotsuchi simply has the advantage of age."

"Second match." Hayate glanced at the screen. "Uzumaki Karin vs Rock Lee."

Up on the second floor, Kyoshin reminded Karin, "Don't push yourself."

"Okay, Kintsuchi-nii~" In front of Kyoshin, Karin always maintained a well-behaved image.

'Eh?!'

'Uzumaki?'

Not far away, Naruto's eyes suddenly lit up as he looked toward the red-haired girl.

As she passed by him, Naruto quickly spoke up.

"Um… your surna is Uzumaki too?"

Karin stopped walking and looked at Naruto before shaking her head.

"No…"

Naruto pointed curiously at the screen. "But over there it says..."

"I ant you're not." Karin swept her eyes over his full head of blond hair before making her judgnt. "If your surna really is Uzumaki, then there are only two possibilities."

"First: your parents just randomly picked the surna."

"Second: one of your parents was an Uzumaki."

'Parents?!'

Naruto instantly beca excited and even stepped directly in front of Karin to block her path.

"But I… I've never t them! Do you know anything else?"

Karin frowned slightly. "I still have a match to fight. Don't block the way."

The situation imdiately attracted a great deal of attention.

After hearing Naruto's questions and Karin's analysis, the Konoha jonin all felt their hearts skip a beat. Even Hiruzen Sarutobi had a bad feeling.

Naruto hadn't fully matured yet. If his identity were exposed...

"Naruto!" Kakashi said sternly, "Stop causing trouble."

"I'm not causing trouble!" Naruto's emotions visibly surged. "Why do you all always act like you're hiding sothing from ?"

"Kyoshin was like that before! And now this too!"

'Kyoshin?'

To Karin, that was a na capable of instantly activating her interest.

So Karin began analyzing things for Naruto in detail.

"Hmm~ judging from your appearance…"

"First, if you possess a huge amount of chakra, then it's basically certain you have partial Uzumaki blood."

"Second, your Uzumaki bloodline is recessive, which is why you don't have red hair."

"So from that, we can conclude that one of your parents had red hair, while the other had blond hair."

"And since you've never t them, that ans they're no longer alive. Most likely they died during so mission, considering that's how most ninja end up."

Karin activated her Kagura Mind's Eye and carefully observed Naruto before pinching her chin thoughtfully.

"Hmm~ let see. There's an evil mass of chakra inside you. That should be the so-called Nine-Tails."

"Judging by the strength of the sealing technique used to contain it, it should've been around twelve years ago."

"So from this, it can be determined that you beca a jinchuriki twelve years ago."

By the ti she reached this point, the Konoha ninja who knew the truth all felt their hearts tighten.

But Karin's analysis still wasn't over.

"Considering there are also two additional chakra signatures inside you that don't belong to your actual body, and one of them resembles Uzumaki chakra with a certain degree of similarity to yours, then from a genetic perspective and the unique chakra traits involved, it should originate from one of your Uzumaki relatives."

"The other chakra is extrely gentle, yet incredibly powerful. It has a Wind nature and also cos from one of your relatives, aning this relative had blond hair."

"And since the conditions match a couple where one was an Uzumaki with red hair..."

"While the other possessed Wind nature chakra, blond hair, and a gentle but powerful chakra signature..."

"And they just so happened to die twelve years ago…"

Naruto's heart climbed into his throat.

The expressions of Konoha's ninja beca extrely grave.

Even Hiruzen Sarutobi's aura changed.

Karin sharply noticed the shift and imdiately added, "Of course~ I'm not very familiar with Konoha's history, so you'll have to judge for yourself."

At this point, what was there left to judge?

Among all the Konoha ninja present, only Naruto still looked completely lost.

Apparently he really shouldn't have spaced out during Iruka's history lessons.

Onoki glanced at Hiruzen's ugly expression.

"Looks like even I underestimated her analytical ability."

This truly hadn't been part of the plan and could very likely provoke hostility from Konoha.

But Onoki wasn't worried in the slightest.

If you, Hiruzen Sarutobi, dared to flip the table today, you'd die right here.

It wasn't that Onoki had absolute confidence in overpowering Hiruzen.

Rather...

Onoki's gaze landed on Kyoshin.

Kyoshin silently watched everything unfold without intervening. Whatever happened to Konoha no longer had anything to do with him.

If this matter beca public, Konoha would definitely have a huge headache.

Because they would need to invest enormous manpower and resources into protecting Naruto.

The one who should be worried was Hiruzen Sarutobi.

As for why Naruto needed protection?

Simple reason.

Question: Why is the younger generation across the four great ninja villages so lacking in talent?

[Namikaze Minato: I don't understand.]

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