"I'm ho."
Might Guy dragged himself through the door, his steps heavy after an afternoon of training.
Today he had been in unusually good form, so he pushed himself harder than normal. The price was obvious. He looked like he had been wrung out and hung to dry.
"Welco ho! It seems today was another day overflowing with youth!" Might Duy hurried over, clenching his fists as tears welled in his eyes.
Duy had trained in taijutsu for decades. He lived with Guy and saw his condition every day. He knew exactly how tough Guy's body was, and he also knew what it took to exhaust him like this.
Even with his muscles screaming, Guy's face brightened the mont he heard his father's words. He flashed a grin and raised a thumbs up.
"We have to replenish properly today," Duy declared, wiping at his eyes like this was the most glorious tragedy in history. "Guy, co shopping with . Buy whatever you like. We're having a big feast!"
Back when their finances were tight, Duy still did everything he could to support Guy's training. Now they could both earn money through missions, and Duy felt it was only right to spend more on food.
Guy nodded without hesitation, and the two headed for the market.
On the way, Duy asked, "What kind of at do you want?"
"Beef," Guy answered instantly.
He could eat lamb, fish, pork, anything. But if he had to pick a favorite, it was beef.
Beef was also the most expensive of the common ats. In the past, Guy rarely got to eat it, usually settling for pork instead.
Still, his preference was not because beef was rare. He simply thought it tasted better.
"Alright," Duy said, leading him with purpose. "Then we buy beef first!"
They stopped at a beef stall.
"How much per jin?" Duy asked.
"Two hundred forty ryo," the vendor replied.
Duy did not even blink. "Two hundred ten. I'll buy four jin."
"At two hundred ten, I make nothing," the vendor snapped back. "Two hundred thirty."
"Two hundred twenty." Duy turned as if to leave. "If not, I'll check the other stalls."
The vendor's face twitched. After a painful pause, he sighed. "Fine. Two hundred twenty."
He grabbed his knife and started chopping.
Duy smiled triumphantly, like he had just won a battlefield duel.
Even though they were not struggling the way they used to, Duy's habit of managing the household had survived every war, every mission, and every hardship.
"Even when buying groceries," Duy announced, holding up the beef like a trophy, "passionate youth must go all out!"
Guy looked at him with sincere admiration, as if he had learned a profound secret technique, and nodded along at the declaration.
Their outfits were impossible to miss. Their voices were even harder to ignore. Several shinobi shopping nearby turned to look.
This ti, nobody mocked them.
Duy was no longer a perennial genin. He had already been promoted to chunin. And Guy had made a na for himself in the Chunin Exams, recognized as a taijutsu genius with a bright future.
Only a fool would casually provoke a rising talent and his father.
"How can that Duy guy raise a genius like Guy?" so people muttered quietly, envy creeping in. "I gave my kid more resources than that."
Duy's old reputation was still stamped into people's mories. Compared to Guy, who beca a chunin at nine and shone in front of the entire village, Duy as a father seed to fall short.
But those thoughts stayed unspoken. Nobody was reckless enough to say them aloud.
Duy, of course, had no idea. He simply took Guy from stall to stall, haggling for groceries like each discount was another victory of youth.
By the ti they returned ho, they were laughing, arms full of bags.
Guy ate with deep satisfaction.
Duy's cooking was not as miraculous as Mugetsu's, but it was warm, hearty, and endlessly satisfying. It tasted like effort, like pride, like ho.
After they ate and rested for a while, Guy took the initiative to train again with his father.
His Eight Gates breakthrough was close. Duy had practiced the Eight Gates for decades. Even if he could not push Guy forward directly, he could give him pressure, guidance, and experience.
"Rock Breathing, Full Concentration!"
Guy drove his Breathing Technique to the limit.
Then he opened the first three gates in rapid succession.
"Eight Gates, Gate of Opening, open! Gate of Healing, open! Gate of Life, open!"
His aura surged outward. Fallen leaves stirred as if wind had suddenly been born in the forest.
Feeling that power at close range, Duy burst into laughter.
He was genuinely happy. Not for himself, but for his son.
"Eight Gates, Gate of Opening, open! Gate of Healing, open! Gate of Life, open!"
Duy opened the first three gates as well, then attacked Guy without hesitation.
Bang! Bang!
A tall green figure and a shorter green figure collided again and again. Shockwaves rippled through the dust beneath their feet, trembling with every clash of fists and feet.
So much power, Duy realized as he slid back five steps. And his fists are unbelievably hard.
Even with only three gates open, Duy felt inferior in nearly every way.
Whoosh!
Guy flashed forward, forcing Duy's eyes to widen.
His speed is worse than mine too, Duy thought, and the conclusion landed like a weight.
"Eight Gates, Gate of Pain, open!"
Duy did not hesitate. He opened the fourth gate.
Guy had asked for pressure, and pressure ant Duy had to be stronger.
The mont the fourth gate opened, Duy's strength surged again. Yet he quickly realized sothing that made him both proud and stunned.
Even now, he could not defeat Guy, who still had only three gates open.
And Guy had not even used Leaf Dragon God.
"Hahaha! Guy, your youth truly exceeds my expectations!"
Duy's excitent climbed higher.
"Eight Gates, Gate of Limit, open!"
He opened the fifth gate.
His aura exploded outward, pressing down like a wave.
Guy's expression sharpened into seriousness. Five gates open was no longer playful sparring. It was real pressure.
Their bodies blurred through the trees. The ground cracked under sudden force. Trunks shuddered where fists and feet landed too close.
Boom!
Both gathered chakra into their fists and collided head on.
The impact drove Guy backward. He retreated repeatedly, carving grooves into the earth until he finally stopped, feet dug in like anchors.
Guy did not use any of the advanced ninjutsu he had learned from Mugetsu or Teacher Chen.
He fought with pure fundantals.
Taijutsu.
Under the crushing pressure of Duy's five gates, Guy's mind recalled what he had comprehended earlier today.
His breathing steadied.
His focus narrowed.
Then he roared.
"Eight Gates, Gate of Pain, open!"
His aura changed instantly.
The fourth gate opened, cleanly and normally, and Guy pushed through the dense offensive without collapsing.
The mont Guy succeeded, Duy stopped.
He stared at his son with a gratified expression, pride shining in his eyes.
"Guy, you're growing fast," Duy said quietly. "Much faster than I expected."
Then, even while smiling, Duy's expression turned serious.
"Guy. You're getting stronger and stronger. But do you know what true strength is?"
Duy did not want Guy to get lost in power and forget why he trained in the first place.
"To protect what's important until the last mont," Guy answered without hesitation.
Guy loved fighting Kakashi. Beating Kakashi felt amazing.
But to Guy, true victory was not stepping over soone else. It was protecting what he cared about.
Guy already understood the Eight Gates well enough to respect it.
The early gates were manageable.
But the Eighth Gate, the Gate of Death, ant certain death.
Even so, if one day he faced an enemy that Kakashi, Obito, or even Teacher Mugetsu could not handle, then even if it ant dying, Guy would open the Gate of Death and fight.
"You are already an excellent ninja," Duy said, emotion thick in his voice.
At that mont, he felt he had nothing more to teach his son.
To open the fourth gate in such a short ti ant Guy would master the Eight Gates far faster than Duy ever had.
At the sa ti Guy completed his breakthrough, Mugetsu's system panel showed new progress for Guy's life mission.
[Disciple Might Guy's strength increased and reputation rose, taking a small step on the path to becoming the strongest in Taijutsu. Progress reward: dium Physical Constitution Enhancent, Any Type Ninjutsu Taijutsu Extraction Scroll (Mastery Level), DaytiTiger (Mastery Level)]
The mont the progress passed ten percent, the rewards settled imdiately.
Mugetsu possessed both Transparent World and the Byakugan. His sensitivity to his own body was extre. The instant the settlent completed, he felt his physique strengthen.
"I didn't expect the system could enhance physical constitution directly," Mugetsu thought, staring at the reward list.
This was the first ti the system had granted him a direct physical constitution enhancent. He had assud such rewards did not exist at all.
He calculated roughly and found the dium enhancent was no joke.
It was about equal to three months of his training while maintaining Rock Breathing Constant State. Without a Breathing Technique, it would have taken years, since Mugetsu's natural physical talent was only average.
DaytiTiger at Mastery Level was excellent, but what truly caught Mugetsu's attention was the extraction scroll.
This scroll was clearly different from the normal ones.
[Any Type Ninjutsu Taijutsu Extraction Scroll: Can select Ninjutsu Taijutsu type for extraction. High probability of obtaining high level Ninjutsu Taijutsu.]
The mont Mugetsu tapped it, countless categories appeared. It even supported text search.
Mugetsu thought for a mont, then typed a single word.
Ti.
If there was one type of ability that could be called absurd, it was anything related to ti.
In his mory, the shinobi world did not really have ti based ninjutsu. But this was the system. If it existed here, it would be an unbelievable profit.
[No such type currently.]
Mugetsu shook his head, a little regretful.
There were certainly ti related abilities across countless worlds, but this custom extraction scroll clearly drew from the world of Naruto.
Since ti was unavailable, Mugetsu selected Space Ti.
The system note said there was a high probability of obtaining high level techniques, so he figured it would not be cruel enough to hand him sothing like a basic Summoning Jutsu.
A large roulette appeared before him. Mugetsu clicked and began the extraction.
[Space Ti Ninjutsu Extraction Scroll consud. Obtained Space Ti Ninjutsu: Flying Thunder God Formation Technique (Mastery Level)]
Mugetsu went silent for a mont.
He almost wanted to laugh.
Flying Thunder God Technique and Flying Thunder God Formation Technique differed by only one word, yet they were worlds apart.
He rembered this technique.
Minato had wanted to teach Flying Thunder God to his Hokage guards, but they could not learn it. What they ended up learning instead was Flying Thunder God Formation, a technique that required three people to cast together to teleport.
Because it required multiple people, it was obviously awkward in battle.
Three people fighting while holding hands was not exactly a winning strategy.
Still, Mugetsu did not actually care about using it for combat.
His Perfect level Thunder Breathing was not slower than Flying Thunder God in close combat anyway. He wanted Flying Thunder God for long distance instant movent, not for battlefield exchanges.
The real issue was the requirent.
Where was he supposed to find two extra people every ti he wanted to use it?
As the mories entered his mind, Mugetsu's expression gradually changed.
Mastery level Flying Thunder God Formation did not seem as useless as he had assud.
Once he organized the information, he decided to verify it imdiately.
First, Mugetsu marked his desk with a Flying Thunder God formula.
Then he walked far south to a secluded forest.
Once he arrived, he ford a seal.
"Shadow Clone Technique!"
Two shadow clones appeared beside him.
Mugetsu and both clones clasped hands, gathered chakra, and cast the Flying Thunder God Formation together.
Whoosh!
In the next instant, Mugetsu was back inside his ho in the main urban area.
"It's troubleso," Mugetsu admitted to himself, "but I finally have a way to move instantly over long distances."
Then he checked his personal panel and saw sothing even more unexpected.
[Skill: Flying Thunder God Technique (Beginner: 10/100)]
Before, he had no proficiency at all.
Now he had ten.
Not one.
Ten.
Mugetsu thought back to how system rewards worked and finally ford a guess.
"I really have no Space Ti talent," he concluded, "but because I can use Flying Thunder God Formation Technique, the reward cos with a small amount of Space Ti talent attached."
In the beginning, most of his chakra nature transformations ca from lecture rewards. If he did not know Water Release and was rewarded with it, he automatically gained knowledge of Water Release chakra nature transformation.
Mugetsu believed this was the sa principle.
He had studied hard, consulted Minato, and received nothing. That made the probability of having no Space Ti talent extrely high.
His later daily discussions with Minato confird the guess even further.
After learning Flying Thunder God from Minato for two hours, Mugetsu's Flying Thunder God proficiency increased by one again.
It was not much, but it was a massive difference compared to being stuck at zero forever.
Since he already had Flying Thunder God Formation Technique, Mugetsu decided he would learn Flying Thunder God casually.
He would grind it slowly until it reached max Beginner, then use proficiency scrolls to push it up to Mastery level.
The ti he freed from forcing Flying Thunder God, he used to research Breathing Techniques instead.
He wanted to develop a Breathing Technique with a high lower limit and a low upper limit, sothing suitable for mass training.
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