Minato dodged Yasu's Five Hit Combo, and his speed made him extremely terrified.
Minato didn't expect Yasu to be so strong. Clearly, he was inferior to him back in the Ninja Academy.
Yasu was also somewhat surprised that Minato could dodge his slashes already.
As expected of the man who would learn the Flying Thunder God Technique in the future; his reaction speed is indeed fast.
However, Yasu was only slightly surprised.
Minato is still growing, but isn't he also growing?
Yasu is very confident that if he is in his prime, his Thunder Breath wouldn't be slower than Minato's speed!
Kushina was extremely anxious. She didn't expect things to become so troublesome.
Kushina was very touched that Yasu was fighting the two people who bullied her, as well as Minato, to protect her, but she was also worried that he would be punished for it.
Kushina then shouted at him, "Yasu, I'm okay."
Yasu gripped his katana tightly and said in a low voice, "I swore from that day on that I would definitely protect you, but only a few days have passed, and I have already broken my promise..."
He turned his head to look at Kushina Uzumaki: "I will never forgive those who hurt you! Never!" (Ughh, the cheesiness is killing me….)
"Yasu..."
Looking at his back, Kushina's eyes were red as she muttered to herself.
Yasu looked at Minato again, and sheathed the katana in his hand.
Minato gripped his kunai tightly. He didn't think Yasu sheathing his katana meant he was stopping; it seemed more like a starting stance.
"Thunder Breathing, Third Form: Thunder Swarm!" (San no kata: Shūbun Seirai)
Yasu revolved around Minato at high speed, leaving behind wavy blue lightning on his trajectory.
Because of the existence of these wavy blue lightning bolts, Minato couldn't retreat to escape. Once he retreated, he would inevitably touch the lightning.
Yasu kept slashing at Minato.
His speed was extremely fast, and his slashes were also very heavy. It was already quite difficult for Minato to defend, and coupled with the characteristics of Lightning Release chakra, Minato's body gradually began to become numb.
The numbness of his body slowed down Minato's reaction speed.
He judged that he would not be able to block Yasu's next slash.
Minato tried his best to raise his right hand, but it was still to no avail.
Just as Yasu's slash was about to land on Minato's arm, a tall figure suddenly landed behind him.
"Ninja Art: Needle Jizo!"
A mass of white hair enveloped Minato, and Yasu's katana landed on the white hair, actually making a 'clang' sound.
And his katana also broke into two pieces.
Looking at the figure in front of him, Yasu eyes narrowed.
One of the Sannin, Jiraiya.
Jiraiya released his Needle Jizo and scratched his head: "Oh dear, what's going on here? I just got back to the village and saw such a scene."
Seeing Jiraiya return, Minato was very excited: "Jiraiya-sama!"
Jiraiya looked at Minato beside him and asked, "Minato, what happened?"
Minato hesitated and said, "We are classmates, and we just had a small disagreement."
Jiraiya focused his gaze on Yasu's broken katana: "This doesn't look like an ordinary small disagreement. Although that little guy turned to using the back of the blade when he saw you couldn't resist, if it had landed on your arm, your arm would definitely be fractured."
However, what neither Jiraiya nor Minato expected was that Yasu suddenly used the broken blade in his hand to shoot it violently at the left leg of the genin who was completely frightened.
Another figure landed in front of the genin, smashing a fist into the ground.
The powerful impact blew away the broken blade that Yasu had thrown.
Another of the Sannin, Tsunade, appeared.
Tsunade crossed her arms and frowned at Yasu: "You're going a bit too far, kid."
Jiraiya asked seriously: "Why would you use such a heavy hand against a comrade from the village?!"
Yasu questioned coldly: "Comrade? When that genin shot a real kunai at Kushina, did he treat Kushina as a comrade?"
"And you, Minato, you clearly saw everything, you saw the real kunai shoot towards Kushina with your own eyes, you had no intention of helping, but when you used the real kunai that shot towards her to shoot at me, did you treat me as a comrade?"
Jiraiya asked Minato: "Minato, what exactly is going on?"
Minato told Jiraiya the whole story, and also explained that because Yasu had already fractured the genin's sternum, and he also wanted to break their arms and legs, he had no choice but to shoot the real kunai at Yasu in a moment of urgency.
Having learned the whole story, Jiraiya felt that Minato had done nothing wrong.
Jiraiya stared at Yasu and said, "You've already punished them. You still want to break their arms and legs. Don't you think you're going too far?"
Kushina ran in front of Yasu, opened her arms, and stood in front of him: "They're the ones who went too far. Why are you only blaming Yasu?!"
Yasu pulled Kushina behind him, looked at Jiraiya, and sneered mockingly: "Too far? What if that real kunai had really hurt Kushina? Would you still think I was going too far?"
"Oh right, you definitely wouldn't think it was too far, because Kushina is from a foreign village in Konoha, and I have rogue parents, so in your eyes, they are comrades, and we are not, right?"
Jiraiya was choked by Yasu's words and touched his nose: "I didn't say that."
Tsunade looked at Kushina in surprise: "What's your name?"
Tsunade was not in Konoha when Kushina Uzumaki came to Konoha. It should be said that she had not been in Konoha for several years.
The same was true for Jiraiya.
After the end of the Second Shinobi World War, Tsunade did not stay in Konoha Village due to the death of her younger brother, Nawaki, and her lover, as well as developing hemophobia, but wandered around with Shizune, the niece of Dan Kato.
Jiraiya returned to the village this time to take Minato Namikaze as a disciple, and happened to meet Tsunade on the road, so he returned to Konoha with her.
As the granddaughter of Mito Uzumaki, Tsunade had correspondence with Mito.
She knew that a member of the Uzumaki clan had come to Konoha.
Kushina's red hair, a foreigner, made Tsunade think that the cute little girl in front of her might be a member of the Uzumaki clan.
Kushina Uzumaki replied, "Kushina Uzumaki."
Tsunade secretly thought, 'As expected.'
Then she turned to Jiraiya and said, "Jiraiya, let the old man solve this matter."
From Tsunade's attitude, Jiraiya understood that this child named Kushina Uzumaki might be somewhat special, so he nodded and said, "Alright, Minato, take them to the ninja hospital."
"Yes!"
Minato helped up the injured genin, awakened the frightened brat, and ran towards the ninja hospital.
Yasu's eyes flickered. With Jiraiya and Tsunade here, he had no chance.
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