After explaining some practical experience to the medical ninja, Yano Yu, Seven Nights turned and left.
Yano Yu wore a faint smile, watching his figure leave.
Her expression was calm, but various thoughts swirled in her mind.
Seven Nights-kun’s attitude toward me is so strange! ~
He’s willing to guide me, help me, but he doesn’t want to get too close to me…
But he’s different with Watergate-kun…
Is it because my ninja abilities aren’t enough?
Does Seven Nights-kun prefer to associate with those who are talented? ~
It makes sense, he is the top student after all…
No.
That look was more like… as if I had some kind of trouble on me… regret, disappointment, admiration…
Very complicated.
This was the subtle facial expression information that Yano Yu had picked up during her interactions with Seven Nights over the past year.
She still didn't understand why Seven Nights-kun looked at her that way.
Could it be because she was an orphan?
But she wasn’t the only orphan in the class, and wasn’t Watergate-kun an orphan too?
“Aaaa, Yano Yu, you’re so brave…”
A young girl from their class suddenly jumped onto Yano Yu’s back, swaying back and forth like a kitten.
If Yano Yu hadn’t worked hard to improve her physical fitness over the past year, she would have been knocked down.
“You actually took the initiative towards Seven Nights-kun…”
“You, glasses girl, are so cunning…”
“Looking so gentle and fragile, yet you dare to directly confess…”
“Truly, in the face of true love, one will summon courage…”
Feeling the hands messing up her hair, Yano Yu couldn’t help but smile faintly.
Hearing the other girl’s words, her eyes fluttered slightly in panic.
Even though Yano Yu possessed the ability to pick up on other people’s subtle facial expressions, when it came to things like true love, confession… it was still embarrassing.
She wasn’t the type to blurt things out carelessly.
“Shi Yu-chan, what are you talking about?”
“I just asked Seven Nights-kun for some guidance…”
“Hehe, I understand, I understand…”
The other girl just giggled mischievously.
…………
They arrived at the familiar training ground.
But Seven Nights didn’t see Watergate’s figure.
As he looked around, frowning, the sound of “whoosh, whoosh, whoosh” broke the silence.
Several shuriken flew towards him at high speed.
Without reaching out to intercept them, Seven Nights simply moved sideways, avoiding the incoming shuriken.
“This attack speed is wrong…”
Noticing something amiss, there were two “ding, ding” sounds in the air.
The shuriken in the air collided in a strange way, two of them actually turning almost ninety degrees and shooting off in a different direction.
This sudden change took Seven Nights by surprise.
“Body Flicker Technique.”
Seven Nights’ figure flickered and he appeared on the other side of the lawn.
After this wave of attacks, Watergate still didn’t appear.
Seven Nights looked towards the direction from which the shuriken had come.
“Watergate, come out, will you?”
The shuriken throwing technique just now, with the mid-air change, had a hint of the Uchiha clan’s secret throwing technique.
“Looks like Watergate’s shuriken throwing skills have surpassed mine! ~”
Seven Nights thought to himself.
He couldn’t do that kind of fancy stuff anyway.
For shuriken and kunai throwing, he adhered to the principles of “fast,” “fierce,” and “accurate,” because they were practical enough.
Seven Nights was more focused on his taijutsu.
And, in the end, all this shuriken throwing and whatnot was essentially just throwing weapons.
And for throwing weapons, Seven Nights believed the highest level was like the “Flying Dagger of Little Li,” never missing the target.
“Da da da…”
The sound of light running.
Yano Yu came running, panting, her chest rising and falling slightly.
“Yano Yu…?”
What was she doing here?
And why was she running so fast?
“Seven Nights-kun…”
After stopping, Yano Yu slowly walked over, catching her breath.
“Have you seen Watergate-kun? Sensei Shinichi sent him to the office.”
Sensei Shinichi looking for Watergate?
Was he going to give him after-class guidance?
Thinking this, Seven Nights turned and shouted into the woods, “Watergate, come out, Sensei Shinichi…”
His words abruptly stopped.
Because he felt something hard against his neck.
At the same time, Yano Yu’s soft voice came from behind him.
“Seven Nights, you’ve fallen for it! ~”
Feeling the hard object against his neck, Seven Nights’ hairs stood on end. His Body Flicker Technique kicked in instinctively, sending him ten meters away.
He turned around, and saw Yano Yu holding a wooden kunai, the rounded end pointing forward.
“You…”
Seven Nights’ eyes narrowed, the veins on both sides of his temples bulged.
Byakugan, activate!
He immediately saw that the person in front of him had an abnormal flow of chakra.
Transformation Technique!?
Seven Nights said, “You’re not Yano Yu…”
“Bang!”
A puff of white smoke exploded.
Revealing the figure of Namikaze Minato.
He grinned, retracting his kunai.
“It’s rare for me to win against you!”
“I knew that transforming into Yano Yu-chan would be effective, hehehe…”
“Truly, Seven Nights, you were totally unprepared…”
Watergate and Seven Nights had sparred together many times over the past year. Although his progress was rapid and his battle adaptability was outstanding, he was still a recent graduate of the Academy and had limited skills.
In taijutsu, he couldn’t match Seven Nights, who had already mastered the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
Therefore, Watergate had never won once.
However, battles between ninjas were not just about head-on clashes. They were a comprehensive contest of tactics, strategy, intelligence, and brainpower. It was completely normal to probe, deceive, and employ trickery in battle.
Especially after learning that jutsu…
Seven Nights deactivated his Byakugan, the veins on his temples returning to normal.
He mumbled, “Transformation Technique…”
The Byakugan could, of course, see through Transformation Techniques.
But Seven Nights had never activated it in his sparring matches with Namikaze Minato over the past year.
Because he could win with his solid taijutsu.
He never expected that this little habit of his would be exploited by Namikaze Minato.
He had just learned an E-rank jutsu, and he was already using it to its fullest.
He really was the future “Perfect Ninja,” the eternal bro-zoned dude!
If it had been an enemy just now…
“Watergate, you’ve taught me a lesson! ~”
Seven Nights exclaimed.