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After Kushina carefully rewrote the Inner Four-Symbols Sealing Technique in the Hokage's office and explained the technique's mechanism in detail to the Hokage, the latter finally believed that the sealing technique had been successfully developed.
Then, the teacher and student received high praise from the Hokage. Especially Haori, who had just graduated from the Ninja Academy, was called a genius by the Third Hokage.
Well, in the Naruto world, "genius" is a relatively cheap title.
After accepting the seal technique, the Hokage's task of developing S-rank forbidden jutsu was complete. Kushina no longer needed to put her mind to it.
As for subsequent development and testing, it was no longer their responsibility.
Of course, financially, they would receive a generous reward for an S-rank mission.
The technique was originally developed as a forbidden jutsu, so it would be sealed up once it was successful. Only a few ninjas would know of its existence. As for 99% of Konoha's ninjas, they would probably never even hear of the Inner Four-Symbols Sealing Technique in their entire lives.
Of course, Haori didn't care how the Hokage handled this technique. After all, who was most familiar with this technique? Without a doubt, it was Kushina, the main developer, a member of the Uzumaki clan. Who was the second most familiar? Naturally, it was Shiraishi Haori, who had helped develop it.
The Hokage might think that Haori couldn't remember such a complex technique, but he could actually remember it perfectly. If necessary, he could also use it.
Of course, at this point, please ignore his paltry chakra reserves.
Now, let's show Haori's mission data.
Name: Shiraishi Haori
Age: 11 years old
Ninja Registration: Genin
Ninja Registration Code: 009887
(ShixT9: Don't know if this is the right code but idc, doesn't affect the story much.)
Number of Missions: D-rank 9, C-rank 2, B-rank 0, A-rank 0, S-rank 1
Besides Kakashi, Haori was probably the first student in their class to complete an S-rank mission. Although this S-rank mission had absolutely nothing to do with combat, infiltration, destruction, or investigation. It was purely obtained through forbidden jutsu development. Of course, in general, forbidden jutsu development was also a high-risk task. But this time, the forbidden jutsu development was successful because he was clinging to his master's skirt. However, on paper and in the data, he did get and complete an S-rank mission.
As for the number of low-level missions, he had completed only a handful in the past three months. This was because, first, he had no interest in low-level missions, which accounted for 20%. Second, Kushina, his teacher, had no interest in bringing a child to do low-level missions, which accounted for 120%.
Speaking of various ability values, he gave himself this rating: Ninjutsu 8, Taijutsu 7, Gen 2, Int 10, Str 5, Spd 8, Sta 7, Seal 9, total 56. Definitely a high-level Chunin.
Of course, these values were just for reference and didn't really mean much.
Actually, the 10 in these values had two meanings. First, this ninja could really get 10 points. Second, the ninja's value in this category was MAX.
In terms of the number of jutsu, Haori had learned a lot of jutsu from Kushina, but why was his Nin only 8? Because he believed that he only had a few jutsu that he could actually use frequently in battle. Most of the rest were useless.
Of course, when it came to learning jutsu, Haori needed to continue to learn.
So, Kushina was already racking her brains.
In three months, she had already taught Haori all the jutsu and seal techniques she could, including some very high-level seal techniques. The rest were techniques that she couldn't teach or Haori couldn't learn.
For example, could Haori learn the super powerful sealing technique, the Dead Demon Consuming Seal? He could, but Kushina wouldn't teach him. Because it was a technique where one would definitely die, it was obviously inappropriate to teach it to Haori, a ninja rookie. If he got curious and used it, and then hung himself, who would be responsible?
Then there was the sealing technique, Adamantine Sealing Chains. It was useful for both long-range and short-range attacks, and it was both practical and powerful. Would Kushina teach it to Haori? She would be willing to, but Haori would never be able to learn it in his lifetime. Because it was a Uzumaki secret technique, and it could only be used by someone with Uzumaki chakra.
So, Kushina's headache finally arrived. Her student's amazing learning speed meant she had nothing left to teach.
If Haori was sensible, he would have gone out to seek his own master. But the problem was that he wasn't sensible. He continued to pursue knowledge tirelessly.
Any knowledge is like poison for someone who craves knowledge.
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Kushina's house.
As a student, Haori was busy in the kitchen like a housewife, while Kushina was listlessly stretching her legs. She leaned forward, resting her chin on a low table, her eyes unfocused, looking out at the courtyard outside the window.
Well, Teacher Kushina wasn't spacing out, she was thinking. Thinking, you see.
Counting on Kushina to cook was basically impossible. Waiting for her to marry Minato… well, at that time, her cooking skills weren't very good either.
So, it was better to count on Haori being more housewifey.
Anyway, after tasting what Haori had cooked, Kushina never cooked again.
Even though her student's dishes weren't delicious, compared to hers… Although she wouldn't admit it, in comparison, the former was actually good enough.
So what was Kushina spacing out… wrong, thinking about?
It was very simple. After completing the S-rank mission, she was completely idle. How boring.
The second thing was that she had to decide what she should teach Haori next.
"Aha!"
Just as Haori put the food on the table, Kushina slammed her hand on the table, almost knocking the food over.
"Um, Teacher Kushina, what's wrong?"
Kushina stared at Haori with bright eyes and said, "To be honest, my student, I'm very satisfied with your attitude towards learning jutsu. You're progressing quickly. So as a teacher, I've already taught you everything I can…"
Haori was slightly startled. Was she going to kick him out of the dojo?
Luckily, Kushina continued speaking. It wasn't what Haori thought. But after hearing Kushina's words, Haori was not happy at all. He would have preferred that his teacher had actually wanted to kick him out of the dojo.
"Haori, I know of a place, there's a magical scroll. It's full of records of super powerful jutsu. How about it, are you interested?"
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