Naruto : Minato back to the past

Upon hearing this, Minato's face is full of anticipation. What exactly is the so-called basic training like?

"Let's go. This is not the place for morning training," Jiraiya says, walking slowly forward.

Minato follows without hesitation, and the two of them come to the streets of Konoha again. Jiraiya raises his arm, stretches out a finger, and says, "First, run forty laps around the Hidden Leaf Village. You must complete it before noon, otherwise, the afternoon training will be canceled. Then run another sixty laps. In addition, you are not allowed to use chakra."

Minato is slightly stunned. He never thought that the basic training would just be a simple run at the beginning.

"Let's start," Jiraiya reminds him again. Minato also looks at the sun belatedly. There are only less than six hours left before noon.

"Oh no!" Minato exclaims, and then he runs. His speed is extremely fast. He disappears at the end of the street in a few seconds. Jiraiya smiles slightly and then flashes, disappearing as well.

There are not too many people on the streets of Konoha in the early morning, so Minato, who is traveling at high speed, does not encounter any obstacles. While he is crossing the roads quickly, he calculates the difficulty of this training in his mind.

At his current speed, if he maintains an average pace, he would have to go around Konoha forty times before noon. But that is just an average speed. Even as a ninja, his physical strength is limited. As he runs faster, his physical strength will gradually decrease.

 It would be fine if he could use chakra to restore his physical strength. However, Jiraiya-sensei has banned the use of chakra.

While calculating, he is also thinking about the effect of this training. In addition to enhancing some physical strength, it does not seem related to the physical speed, reflex nerves, etc., mentioned by the teacher.

Even Minato can't figure out the principle for a while, but he is sure that the teacher must have his own intentions for such an arrangement. So the expression in his eyes gradually sinks, and he concentrates on this "training."

He completes the first lap in less than eight minutes, which is even faster than an ordinary Genin. But after that, he slows down with each lap. By the tenth lap, Minato's forehead is already covered with sweat. However, his breathing is still very even.

Minato, who often practices on his own, is used to this state of body. Therefore, the basic training in the ninja school does not make him feel tired at all.

"At this speed, I can finish it," Minato says to himself and continues to run. The people on the street look at him with strange expressions. After all, he is just a child of seven years old. Minato has no energy to pay attention to these looks, because for him now, any distraction would consume energy.

This might also lead to the inability to complete this training, and he would continue to run and practice in the afternoon. It is not that he is afraid of this hardship, but he really wants to know what the next training arranged by the teacher is.

"Curiosity..." Jiraiya says, sitting in a tavern in Konoha. As he expects, no matter how meticulous Minato's mind is, he is just a child. For children, encouragement and threats are not as good as arousing their curiosity to generate motivation.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and Minato's physical strength is gradually declining, but he is still trying to maintain his speed. In this way, he has already circled the Hidden Leaf Village nearly thirty times. For some Genin, this should be the limit of physical strength. Even Minato, who often practices alone with high intensity, feels that his legs are a little heavy and he is a little unable to move.

But every time this feeling becomes more and more serious, his body seems to respond. Strength is recovering rapidly, eliminating his fatigue. This kind of extraordinary strength recovery is not the first time that Minato has experienced it. He has felt this way during training before.

There is no time to investigate what is going on. Although his speed has slowed down slightly, it is still quite even. At this rate, he would be able to complete the training of running around Konoha forty times before lunch. On a rooftop of Konoha that Minato has to pass by, Jiraiya watches all this, slightly surprised. He naturally did not expect that Minato's physical strength would be so strong that he could even reach a level that even a Chunin might not be able to adapt to at the moment. Jiraiya now even doubts the information of the Third Hokage.

Is Minato Namikaze really a child from an ordinary family? How could he, who has no bloodline, be able to do this?

"I was planning to try it on you in a few days, but now it seems that I have to do it earlier." Jiraiya smiles bitterly and then disappears again. Minato has been running in that state for thirty-five laps. It is close to noon, and the sun is getting hotter and hotter.

Many pedestrians are looking for shade to cool off. Therefore, Minato, who is running under the sunlight, is particularly conspicuous. The light reflected by his yellow hair, when reflected in people's pupils, is as dazzling as golden light. Sweat is dripping on his soft and pretty little face, but there is no sign of his clothes being soaked.

Just when Minato thinks he is going to finish his morning training, a black afterimage suddenly attacks him. Whoosh! The afterimage is so fast that Minato, who is in a state of fatigue, does not fully react but still makes a dodging motion. The afterimage brushes past his hair by his ears, cutting off a few strands of hair.

"Shuriken!" Minato is shocked. It is definitely a shuriken that attacked him just now. Moreover, he can see that the person who sent out the shuriken is more skilled than Uchiha Yoruki, but he has no intention of hurting him.

There would be no one else who has any intersection with him except Jiraiya-sensei. He immediately looks in the direction where the shuriken flies from, but there is no one. He frowns immediately. Jiraiya-sensei would not want to hurt him, and the purpose of sending out the shuriken would be to prevent him from completing the rest of his training!

Just as he is thinking about this and is distracted, there is another sound of breaking wind from behind him. This time, Minato is prepared and dodges immediately. It is still two shurikens.

"I can't delay any longer like this!" Minato thinks. Although he doesn't know the purpose of the teacher doing this, he is sure that it is also a kind of practice. And there is only one purpose, which is to make him stronger!

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