Konoha: Sage Body

"Mito-sama has struck, ah, it seems like there's no chance."

Sandaime sighed as he watched the conversation between Mito and Kirito from a distance on the high platform of the school playground.

He was a high-ranking member of the village, and certainly saw things from a different perspective than many others; to an ordinary person, Mito's offer to teach Kirito the sealing jutsu was a sign of love and fondness for promoting his younger generation, but to him, it was a sign that he had recruited a civilian prodigy on behalf of Senju.

Unsurprisingly, that good disciple of his, Tsunade, would get an excellent subordinate in the future, giving her more usable leverage to take over the position of Hokage, and Kawaki, a not-so-bright child, would also have a very good sidekick.

The fact that Uchiha Chizuru had lost again was something that the Sandaime had known for a long time.

Therefore, he had wanted to take Kirito under his wing for a long time, and Kirito's entry into a ninja school was a good opportunity to do so.

At that time, he could contact a few of his own direct subordinates placed in the school, so that they could guide Kirito to inherit the Will of Fire under the subtle influence, and embark on the path of protecting the village.

Unfortunately, he didn't expect Mito to strike at this time.

A brilliant move.

He had no choice but to watch, after all, even he could only call himself a junior in front of Mito, not daring to make any offenses.

Of course, the most important reason was that he couldn't beat Mito.

Although there is no real competition, he knows the gap, simply Mito's bottomless chakra makes him have no desire to compete with Mito.

The matter of Mito accepting Kirito as a disciple, the great shock may not only the Sandaime, there are many people present in the ninja clan, they all smelled an unusual wind direction.

The Senju clan that has been silent for a long time is finally going to make their voices heard again?

The minds of the people who made up their own thoughts varied.

In a cold corner of the playground, a part of the people who were disconnected from the crowd were looking at the crowd with arrogant eyes, they were the Uchiha.

Among this group of Uchiha, Uchiha Chizuru was currently pursing her lips tightly, revealing a resigned expression.

To say who the strongest female ninja in the village was right now, it would definitely be the wife of the first hokage who was still alive, Uzumaki Mito, and perhaps the strongest female ninja in the Shinobi world.

Though Chizuru hated Senju like most of the Uchiha, it didn't stop her from worshipping and respecting Mito, the strongest female ninja in Konoha.

Now that the person she worshipped and respected had taken her rival as her disciple, it really gave her a feeling of disillusionment and betrayal.

The Sharingan eyes opened involuntarily, and the one-tomoe on them spun rapidly.

"Pah~"

A large, withered hand rested on Chizuru's shoulder.

Chizuru instantly snapped back to her senses, her Sharingan eyes then closed before looking coldly at her grandfather, Uchiha Homura, who had just reminded her.

"'Are you scared?"

Uchiha Homura asked with an expressionless face.

"Shut up, I will definitely defeat him."

Uchiha Chizuru instantly opened her Sharingan eyes and glared angrily at Uchiha Homura.

Fear?

She, Uchiha Chizuru, would never be, Kirito was nothing more than a whetstone for her, destined to be surpassed by her in the future.

"I hope so."

Uchiha Homura said in a mocking tone.

Chizuru couldn't help but clench her fists deeply as she heard the mockery in Uchiha Homura's voice, but she didn't say anything this time, lowering her head slightly and silently enduring the unbelievably piercing mocking looks from the eyes of Uchiha Homura and the other clansmen around her.

Losing should be punished honestly.

Right now these hateful eyes that had been trampling on her dignity were exactly her punishment.

"I'm also going to learn sealing jutsu, learn the best sealing jutsu."

Chizuru suddenly raised her head and said, staring intently at Uchiha Homura.

Uchiha Homura fell silent at her words, a thoughtful expression on his face.

...

Regarding the matter of Mito teaching himself the sealing jutsu, Kirito was certainly eager to do so, and decisively agreed to it, and at this moment, his mood was one of surprise, joy, and a little bit of fear.

As a matter of fact, he had been stealing sealing jutsu through Kawaki all this time.

This matter, however, is not his initiative to implement, it is entirely Kawaki single-handedly push up, the cause is Mito will assign homework of sealing jutsu to Kawaki every day, the result is that Kawaki will not do it, and then he discovered that Kirito is in the library to read the book about sealing jutsu, so he took out his own role to show to Kirito.

The beauty of it is that it's used to test Kirito's sealing jutsu.

In fact, the sealing jutsu homework that Mito had assigned to Kawaki wasn't difficult, it was all very basic sealing jutsu knowledge, and with Kirito's Wisdom 3's intelligence, it wasn't hard to solve it, but it was this basic sealing jutsu knowledge that made Kirito gain so much.

This is because it was Mito who had already combined these basic knowledge of sealing jutsu into a system, forming a complete system.

Its level of profound knowledge was incomparably more advanced than what he had read in the sealing jutsu books in the library.

Most importantly, through the systematic study, he gradually learned multiple methods of constructing sealing jutsu and lifting them.

Over the past month, Kirito had thus grown greatly in his own sealing jutsu by tutoring Kawaki in his homework, and had already learned the two basic sealing jutsu, the First Series Seal and the Second Seal.

But from the looks of it, this matter of him stealing sealing jutsu had long been noticed by Mito.

Luckily, Mito was open-minded and didn't bother with him.

Mito was happy to accept Kirito as his disciple and dragged Kawaki away.

Kirito had the good sense to follow and nimbly helped Mito take over the job of carrying Kawaki away.

When both of them, Yamazaki Heizou and Noda Okaa, saw Kirito following up, they immediately looked at each other, looking at each other in disbelief, not knowing what to do.

The two of them were very mature, so they knew in their hearts that the only person Mito admired was Kirito, and since they didn't even have the status of being Kawaki's friends, they didn't dare to casually follow them.

In addition, Mito had just behaved too aggressively, and the two of them were now a little afraid of Mito.

Seeing this, Kirito turned his head away from the two and signaled them to follow.

Mito was so amiable, how could he possibly be bothered with two small children.

Seeing this, the two could only boldly follow, with a little excitement in their hearts.

As Mito stood in place, the other parents also brought their children to the playground to complete the assembly in an orderly manner, and then the Sandaime began to say the same congratulatory speech as the previous year, and then it was the same old story, as far as possible, to pick some good words to say, as well as consciously publicize the Will of Fire.

Because of the presence of Mito, in order to take care of the feelings of Mito, an old maiden, Sandaime had the good sense not to speak at length as in the past, and finished his speech quickly.

The ceremony to welcome the new students ended there.

"Kawaki, Kirito, and you two little ones, when you go into the school, make sure you study hard, and by the way, Kirito, remember to keep an eye on Kawaki for me, don't let him slack off and get him in trouble during class."

Once Sandaime's speech was over, Mito said gently to Kirito and the others.

"Yes."

Kirito and his two little brothers answered obediently, only Kawaki muttered with some dissatisfaction, "What the heck, just reprimanding me alone."

He felt that he was being targeted.

But there was nothing he could do about it, his good brothers had all turned into his grandmother's minions, and in the future, his own life in the ninja school would definitely not be easy.

He thought that by going to the ninja school, he would be able to get out of his grandmother's clutches. It seems that he thought it would be too easy.

Damn it!

"Hmm~"

Mito looked at Kawaki with a smile.

"Yes."

Kawaki immediately stood at attention in place and shouted.