Noticing Gisei Shiraishi's nervousness, Shuichi Takemoto raised his hand and knocked him on the head.
"Little guy, I've seen all your clan's ninjutsu and secret techniques. Why do you think Eisawa asked me to be your teacher?"
Seen all the secret techniques?
Gisei blinked and stared at his "beloved" uncle. This was very different from the lecture he'd been given about secret techniques never being leaked to outsiders.
"It's alright, Uncle Shuichi isn't an outsider. He is the most suitable person to be your teacher." Eisawa Shiraishi finally spoke up to explain.
Shuichi smiled after carefully reading the scroll. "Lightning and Water attributes. Eisawa, you really know how to pick people."
"In the entire clan, you are the only one who can be Gisei's teacher."
Clan. Hearing this word, Gisei was completely shocked.
Wasn't the clan just the two of them left? Could this old man also be from the Butterfly User Clan?
Seeing Gisei's surprised expression, Shuichi was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "Eisawa, you didn't tell him anything?"
"I only told him about some old matters from the past. I haven't told him about the clan's affairs."
Shuichi fell silent. After a long while, he asked, "Gisei, do you accept those Ninja Butterflies as your family?"
Before Gisei could answer, the old man said excitedly, "Anyway, I won't accept that nonsense about Ninja Butterflies being family. Humans can't turn into butterflies."
Gisei was a bit confused and could only touch his nose and smile awkwardly.
In front of his uncle, he couldn't say anything in agreement, even though he thought exactly the same thing in his heart.
But who exactly was this Shuichi Takemoto? He even knew about such intimate clan details.
Eisawa spoke up: "Uncle Shuichi, let's not bring up the past. Since the family has split, we are two clans now."
After saying that, he turned to Gisei. "Long before Konoha was established, your grandfather split the clan because of the clansmen's suicides. Anyone whose family had a suicide incident became part of the branch family..."
Shuichi interjected, "Your grandfather was a bold man. None of the previous clan leaders dared to do such a thing. I know he didn't approve of the Ninja Butterflies either, but he was the clan leader. What a pity."
"So Grandpa Shuichi's clan is actually the same clan as ours?"
"They are two clans now. They no longer have the inheritance of the secret techniques. Of course, by blood, we are still clansmen. This is something other ninja clans don't know."
Shuichi nodded and said, "Actually, some of your clansmen were accepted by our clan. No matter how tragic the First Great Ninja War was, it's impossible for a large clan to be completely wiped out. This was also your grandfather's arrangement."
"Uncle Shuichi, stop talking about it. You should see how he should train."
Shuichi frowned and glanced at Eisawa. "He must know these things. In the future, these clans will rely on him to fight for a voice in the village. Otherwise..."
"I know. He's still young." Eisawa interrupted Shuichi quite rudely.
Gisei was thoughtful. Just the amount of information contained in these words was huge.
It seemed that life in the future would not be easy. After thinking about it, Gisei decided to test the waters.
"Grandpa Shuichi, I plan to go to the hospital after graduation."
"Go to the hospital?"
Shuichi's expression became very ugly. "Eisawa, you didn't tell me about this. This is different from what your father said. You're not..."
"Uncle Shuichi, can we not talk about this kind of thing? He really is too young. Please."
Eisawa interrupted Shuichi again, lowering his head with a pleading look in his eyes.
Gisei curled his lips. They really treat me like a child. Just from this exchange, he had already pieced together a lot of things in his mind.
The current Butterfly User Clan definitely had more than just him and his uncle. They were all hiding in the background, preparing to use him as a tool in the future.
He didn't know what kind of ghostly schemes that bad-hearted grandfather had arranged for him. People who led clans to survive in chaotic times really didn't let people have peace even after death.
Just like Madara Uchiha.
Shuichi finally compromised with Eisawa.
"Alright, Gisei. You've already completed the tree climbing and water walking training. Now try to gather chakra on the surface of your body, like I'm doing."
As Shuichi spoke, his body began to flash with electric light.
Is this Lightning Release Nature Transformation?
Gisei did as he was told, and electric light also began to flash on his body.
"Maintain this state and see how long you can last."
Just maintaining this state consumed a considerable amount of chakra. The electric light on Gisei's body disappeared after half a minute.
Shuichi was stunned. "You can't hold it anymore?"
Gisei answered honestly, "I'm out of chakra."
Shuichi: "..."
"With this amount of chakra, you're barely a genin. You want to graduate early... Alright, let me see your taijutsu. Attack me."
Taijutsu. This was Gisei's biggest problem.
Gisei waved his fist and rushed up. Who knew that Shuichi wouldn't dodge at all and just stood there, letting him punch him.
Shuichi: "Didn't you eat? Use force!"
Indeed, he hadn't eaten. Gisei punched the old man again.
Shuichi was expressionless. "Step back a few paces, use a running start, and use all your strength."
Are you a human punching bag?
Gisei complained frantically in his heart, stepped back a bit further, and then punched Shuichi with all his might.
Shuichi didn't even sway, but his face turned ugly.
"What ninjutsu do you know now?"
"Only the Three Basic Jutsu."
Shuichi began to take deep breaths, then looked at Eisawa, his eyes full of questioning.
To be honest, Eisawa couldn't bear to look directly at Gisei's terrible performance.
He could only hem and haw, "I didn't know he was this bad either. He said today he wanted to graduate early, so I thought..."
Shuichi was an elder after all, so he didn't just storm off.
"I'll teach you a Lightning Release ninjutsu now. Watch carefully."
Shuichi began to form hand seals. He deliberately did it very slowly so Gisei could see each seal clearly.
"Raiton: Senbon" (Lightning Style: Senbon)!
Lightning senbon shot out from his hand continuously, piercing directly through the big tree, shooting into the ground, and disappearing.
"This is considered a relatively simple Lightning Release ninjutsu among C-rank ninjutsu. You try it."
He had memorized the seals, but he had just used up all his chakra. Where would he get the chakra to release ninjutsu now?
Eisawa extended his hand to him. Gisei blinked, not knowing what he meant.
"Did you forget?"
"What?"
Eisawa said with an ugly expression, "Two years ago, I told you that we have the ability to absorb chakra. Am I too good to you, so you forgot everything I taught you?"
As soon as Eisawa mentioned this, Gisei quickly grabbed his hand and began to absorb chakra.
Honestly speaking, he previously felt this kind of extra-character skill was really useless, so he had long forgotten it. But now it seemed that if used for training, it might have some merit.
After refilling his chakra, he began to form hand seals.
"Raiton: Senbon!"
A few lightning senbon shot out from his hand and stuck into the tree.
The scale of the ninjutsu he released certainly couldn't compare to Shuichi's. Shuichi shot out at least hundreds of lightning senbon, while he didn't even have ten.
Seeing Gisei successfully perform the ninjutsu, Shuichi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Not bad. To successfully learn this ninjutsu on the first try, you count as having passed."
Passed...
Gisei's face was very ugly. Although he had known for a long time that his talent wasn't good, when faced with the facts, he was ultimately very disappointed.
He closed his eyes, carefully sensing the flow of chakra in his body, and then formed the seals again.
"Raiton: Senbon!"
This time the scale was much larger than the first time. Dozens of senbon shot into the tree and disappeared.
Shuichi looked at him in surprise, a look of pleasant shock on his face.
Gisei was still dissatisfied. Originally, the Lightning Senbon Jutsu had eight seals. He felt that perhaps he could reduce it by three seals.
"Raiton: Senbon!"
With only five seals, the Lightning Senbon Jutsu was even larger in scale, with nearly a hundred lightning senbon shooting densely toward the tree trunk.
Because Gisei deliberately controlled it, almost all of these hundred lightning senbon shot at the same spot, actually punching a hole through the tree trunk.
After using the ninjutsu this time, Gisei felt that not a drop of chakra remained in his body. His head was dizzy, and his steps were floating.
"Not good, chakra overdraft."
After hearing this sentence, Gisei rolled his eyes and fainted.
When Eisawa carried him back to the room and came out, he saw Shuichi still standing in front of the hole made by the lightning senbon just now, staring intently.
"Uncle Shuichi, what's wrong?"
"Look at this hole. That child Gisei released almost all the lightning senbon on the same spot. Do you know what this means?"
Eisawa interjected, "At least jonin-level chakra control ability."
"That's right. It surprises me too much. This child isn't great in other aspects, but this kind of chakra control makes it really hard to imagine he is just a child who just learned tree climbing and water walking."
After Shuichi finished speaking, a regretful expression appeared on his face: "With this kind of chakra control, he is absolutely a genius in ninjutsu. It's just..."
"His chakra is too low."
Eisawa blurted out Gisei's biggest problem.
Shuichi nodded. Although an eight-year-old child wouldn't have much chakra to begin with, it shouldn't be this bad.
For that body discharge test, a normal genin could last at least two minutes, and they wouldn't faint after releasing a C-rank ninjutsu twice.
Although Gisei used it three times, the first time actually didn't consume much chakra at all.
Thinking of this, Shuichi seemed to think of something and asked, "Eisawa, you haven't already let Gisei start raising the butterfly seed, have you?"
Eisawa touched his nose, his guilty gaze wandering around.
Seeing him like this, how could Shuichi not understand? He immediately said anxiously, "It used to be ten years old. He is only eight now. Do you want him to die?"
"Actually, he started raising it two years ago..."
"What!"
Shuichi's pupils shrank suddenly. He pointed at Eisawa, speechless. He looked at him as if he were looking at a monster.
For a moment, neither of them knew what to say.