After finishing dinner, Raizen led Minato to a training ground.
On the training ground, Minato was working hard to demonstrate the results of his recent training to a wooden post.
Sometimes he would back up and throw shuriken, sometimes he would close in on the wooden dummy and perform a close-range combo.
Meanwhile, Raizen sat on the side, completely bored, occasionally pretending to look interested.
But in fact, all of Raizen's attention was on Minato, carefully sensing the details of his every movement.
After half an hour, Minato stopped his demonstration and came in front of Raizen, proudly said, "Big brother, I'm awesome, right?"
"Haha, awesome, awesome," Ruffling Minato's little head, Raizen didn't hold back on his praise.
Hatake Sakumo, who was monitoring Raizen, only watched this familiar scene from afar without sensing anything wrong.
———
Back in the bedroom, Raizen's expression turned serious, making Minato's heart skip a beat.
Raizen didn't dawdle and immediately took out a piece of paper and started writing on it, handing it to Minato after he finished.
Minato received the paper and began to read it carefully.
After reading for a long while, his eyes grew increasingly bright, and he nodded firmly before beginning to write on the remaining space.
Although outsiders believed that Raizen hadn't trained in ninjutsu, in truth, his thoughts on ninjutsu never stopped, not even for a second while awake.
So his theoretical knowledge of ninjutsu was incredibly rich, and his understanding of its principles so deep that there were likely very few in the entire ninja world who could match him.
Under his guidance, Minato's talent and strength had developed far more drastically than they would have on the normal timeline.
This written communication was Raizen's unique method of guiding Minato, and the only one he dared to use.
To be safe, they didn't write in the ninja world's standard script, but instead used characters that only the two of them knew.
One must say, to repay the foster care of the Namikaze couple, Raizen truly gave it his all.
Of course, he also used it as an opportunity to verify many of his own ideas through Minato, a win-win situation.
After exchanging messages on paper for quite a while, Minato wrote, [Big brother, I encountered a bit of a problem while practicing the chakra body-strengthening technique you taught me.]
[Explain in detail.]
Taking a pressure point diagram, Minato pointed to three acupoints on it and continued writing, [Chakra doesn't flow smoothly through these three acupoints.]
[Start running the body-strengthening technique right now so I can sense it.]
After carefully sensing for a moment, Raizen smiled and wrote, [It's because your chakra quantity is still too low and can't break through the acupoints. In at most half a year, this problem will disappear, and by then your physical fitness will improve drastically.]
Minato smiled and nodded vigorously, tore up the paper, burned it to ashes, and flushed it down the toilet.
Thus, the brothers' communication for the day finally ended.
Raizen was used to it.
But Minato would feel a pang of heartache every time.
His big brother clearly hadn't done anything wrong, and he was so talented, his understanding of ninjutsu far surpassed that of the academy teachers.
So why couldn't he train?
Why did the Hokage-sama keep assigning people to monitor him?
Raizen's explanation was, maybe it was because his talent was too great, and he was from the Uchiha clan.
Minato didn't agree.
Right now, he only wanted to become strong quickly, so his big brother could train without fear and live freely.
That's why he wanted to become Hokage, even if it meant working himself to death.
Because only if he became Hokage, could all of this be realized.
In the eyes of others, Raizen and Minato were not biological brothers.
But from the moment Minato could remember, Raizen was his big brother and had treated him better than even a real brother would.
Raizen didn't know Minato's thoughts. Even if he did, he'd just laugh them off.
He didn't place his hopes on a child not even seven years old.
If he wanted to train and be free, he had to save himself.
The only problem troubling him now was: if he escaped, how could he avoid affecting the Namikaze family?
Fake his death to get away?
———
The next morning, Raizen went to the hospital as usual.
But as soon as he entered the office, upon seeing the person inside, he quickly stepped back out and looked up at the office doorplate.
"What are you dodging for?", Before Raizen could turn to run, a fair hand grabbed his collar and dragged him into the office.
"What are you running away for when you see me?", Tsunade crossed her arms and said angrily.
"Can't I even go to the toilet?"
How could Raizen admit he was trying to run?
"No, you can't!"
"Do you have no humanity? You savage brute, baboon, gorilla, monkey, caveman…"
"Shut up!", Hearing this familiar way of cursing, Tsunade roared and cut him off.
She didn't even know how she had endured these past five years.
At first, it was just pride she lost and wanted to win it back. Otherwise, she would've never wanted to see this guy again in her life.
And now, she had actually gotten used to the insults.
One has to say, the power of habit is terrifying.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Raizen sat down in despair and said unhappily, "Go ahead, what do you want? Say it and leave quickly."
"Of course, I came to continue competing with you."
"Will you ever be done?", Raizen instantly got angry, "I already admitted defeat, what more do you want?"
"You treat your benefactor like this?", Seeing Raizen finally get flustered, Tsunade felt a trace of sweet revenge and teased him.
"Benefactor?", Raizen responded perfunctorily, "Yes, yes, yes, from now on you're my benefactor. I'm truly grateful."
"So just leave already. I'm afraid you won't be able to handle how I express my gratitude," Just as Raizen finished speaking, the office door was pushed open.
Two nurses carried in a desk and placed it across from Raizen's desk.
Then the hospital director also walked in, personally carrying a chair and placed it behind the newly set-up desk.
"Lady Tsunade, this will be your seat from now on," the director said politely.
Tsunade didn't hold back and sat down, shooting Raizen a provocative look.
Raizen was stunned.
'What the hell is this situation?'
"I get it now," Raizen immediately came to a realization, pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen, and said to the director, "Director, don't leave yet, I'm writing my resignation letter right now."
"Bastard!", Tsunade snatched the paper from Raizen and tore it to shreds.
"Tsunade, what the hell do you mean?", Raizen truly didn't understand what kind of game Tsunade was playing.
Although he figured out that Tsunade would now be working at Konoha Hospital and even sharing an office with him, how did things get to this point?
Seeing the situation going south, and knowing both of them were beyond his power to offend, the director quickly escaped, thoughtfully closing the door on his way out.
"So, the Hokage-sama intends for you to monitor me?", Raizen probed, guessing at one possibility.
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