Chapter 245: Shortcomings

"Look closely, Naruto." Jiraiya put his hands around his chest, leaned his body against the hard wall, and admonished seriously: "There are still many places to learn. ”

The people of each ninja village are often able to get an extremely good education, most of them are guided by the previous people, and if there is an accident, they will also be guided by the powerful ninjas in the village, and Naruto Uzumaki did not come forward until he was twelve years old to give advice, which is actually an outlier, which makes it difficult for him to realize much of his potential to this day.

"What......." Naruto Uzumaki was almost lying on the guardrail with half of his body, looking at the candidates standing in a row in the middle of the field with jealousy, and his mouth was sour: "If you hadn't taken me out of the village, I would have been standing there now, with my talent, I would definitely be able to become a shinobi!" ”

Jiraiya chuckled when he heard this, shook his head and said nothing, ignoring Naruto Uzumaki's slightly naïve words, he received news from Tsunade not long ago, the other party explained the current crisis that Konoha Village may face, and he couldn't sit idly by, so he took Naruto Uzumaki back to Konoha Village, just in time for the third session of the middle ninja exam.

Not to mention the apprentices of Jiraiya and Naruto Uzumaki, who have returned to Konoha Village, our protagonist, Nara Shikamaru, who has just been promoted to the upper ninja, is entertaining—or protecting—the daimyo representatives of the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind with two shinobi.

Shikamaru introduced some of the information about this year's candidates for the old Mita Hideo of the Great Master of the Land of Fire and the old Takamasa Komura of the Great Master of the Land of Wind, and briefly explained the rules of the competition by the way.

The competition is a simple confrontation, although there are three Shikamaru who are not familiar with Shikamaru Shinobu among these candidates, but they have also watched surveillance footage in the previous exam, and they have some understanding, and these two jobs are not difficult for Shikamaru.

"I heard that you have become a shinobi?" After Hideo Mita heard Shikamaru's introduction, he looked for a topic and said.

"Yes." Shikamaru nodded, there is no need to be modest and concealed, although this matter is not as sensational as the middle ninja exam, but there are also many people in Konoha Village who have paid attention to it, but Hideo Mita, who has only been here for a few days, can notice it, and it can be regarded as a very concerned about Shikamaru.

"You're only thirteen, aren't you?" Hideo Mita seemed to appreciate Shikamaru very much, and asked, and after getting a positive answer from the other party, he sighed again and again: "Amazing, amazing...... ”

"It's nothing, Kakashi-senpai was already a shinobi at the age of twelve." Shikamaru replied calmly, although he didn't exaggerate the cultivation since his mother's womb, but as a precocious traverser, strictly speaking, the cultivation time was countless times stronger than his peers, and there really wasn't much to be proud of.

"There's no comparison between the two." Hideo Mita said seriously, and added: "It was different from now. ”

This attitude couldn't help but make Shikamaru look at Mita Hideo with some surprise, it is true that as the other party said, war times are of course different from peacetime, in the period when Kakashi Hachiki is located, he can already enter the battlefield at the age of ten, and Shikamaru's era, even if he wins the first place in the ninja school for several consecutive years, he has to wait until he is twelve years old to graduate.

These are determined by two periods, two needs, and two systems, and it has little to do with individual talents, but it is not easy for Hideo Mita, as a famous old man outside the Konoha Village system, to understand this.

Shikamaru felt a little pity, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire was sent this time, and the messenger who went to the country of water with the team of Konoha Village had already arrived in Konoha Village, just waiting for the end of the middle ninja exam, after several outstanding shinobi were promoted to the middle ninja, they formed a team to go to the country of water, as an important member of the team, Shikamaru also met with each other, the middle-aged man was impeccable in etiquette, but it inevitably seemed a little stereotypical, far less than Mita Hideo's humor and understanding of the ninja village system.

Perhaps it was the so-called "aristocracy" of this world that Shikamaru was unable to add his own influence to it.

"To this day, I still think it's a pity that you couldn't take over the position of captain of the Daimyo Guard in the first place." Hideo Mita smiled and said to Shikamaru, "I think that with your talent, it won't take much time to definitely be able to become a member of the guardian shinobi." ”

"The Land of Fire is getting stronger day by day, and the Daimyo's side should be safe, there is too little I can do for him, on the contrary, in Konoha Village, I can do more for the Land of Fire." Shikamaru had to be polite: "Too comfortable environment is not what ninjas should pursue." ”

Compared to ordinary shinobi, the guardian ninja has to be a little transcendent because it bears the link between the village and the daimyo, but it may not be beneficial for the competition Hokage, just as Tsunade refuted the attitude of the three elders at the beginning, Konoha Village and the Fire Country are not only an inseparable whole, but also to maintain their independence from each other, Konoha Village must rely on the Fire Country, but it cannot be completely controlled by the Daimyo, and there is only one leader that all villagers need to be truly loyal to and love, and that is the Hokage, not the Daimyo.

Guardian Shinobi, who has served as a close confidant of the Daimyo and is labeled as a Daimyo of the Land of Fire, may not be able to gain the trust of the villagers and Konoha ninjas, and they will doubt whether the Guardian Shinobi can do their duty when fighting for the interests of Konoha Village and defending their rights in front of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

Sarufei Asma also advised Shikamaru not to think about serving as a guardian ninja, except for Shikamaru's parents, he is the ninja who values and knows Shikamaru's talent and strength the most in Konoha Village, and has long thought that Shikamaru's target should be the Hokage, not other smaller positions.

"That's true." Although he still politely refused, the compliment implied in Shikamaru's words also made Hideo Mita's expression soothe a lot, and he focused on the off-court game.

In the arena, Shizune Kato organized the first round of the competition after leading several candidates to accept the cheers of the audience, and the participants also detonated the enthusiasm of the audience.

The first round of the match was between Hyugata Ninji of the famous Hyuga and a Taki Shinobi candidate.

Shikamaru is not worried about the result of this game, Hinata Ningji's title of "genius" is worthy of the name, not to mention that it is the taki ninja candidate, even if it is a shinobi with weak physical skills, he was close to Hinata Ningji at the beginning, and he can't reopen the distance in the shortest time, and he may also lose.

Speaking of returning to the game, that Taki Shinobu seems to have learned some information about the opponent before this, knowing that Hinata Ningji is good at physical arts, and has taken a fighting posture since the beginning, and does not want to use physical skills to fight with Hinata Ningci at all, and constantly harasses the opponent with flying props such as kunai shuriken, but unfortunately all this is meaningless to Hinata Ningci, who has white eyes.

The game seemed to have a tendency to fall into a chase battle, which made the noise in the arena much louder, but at this time, Taki Shinobu suddenly sealed, and he quickly used a fire escape technique, which seemed to have been premeditated, and when Hinata Ningji was paralyzed by the negligence of the flying props, he was caught off guard.

The fireball that emitted scorching heat covered a wide area, and when Taki Shinobu saw the right time to use it, it almost completely wrapped Hinata Ningji's figure, and he could only vaguely see from the firelight that Hinata Ningji's figure seemed to be trembling, and some ordinary people in the audience who were psychologically fragile had closed their eyes, but then the exclamation from the crowd made them reopen their eyes.

Baguazhang. Back to the sky!

The chakra that continued to emanate from his body rotated at high speed, forming a semi-circular blue sphere, like a protective shield, firmly protecting Hinata Ningji, and the burning flames were attached to it, but in the blink of an eye, it was quickly bounced away by the light blue but spinning chakra, and a handful of flames splashed irregularly in all directions, making the Taki Shinobu a little hurried to dodge for a while.

It's just that this Taki Shinobu didn't notice that after using "Huitian" to disperse the flames, Hinata Ninji had a slightly weird starting style.

Wearing a plain kimono, Hinata Ninji's right hand was tucked up at his waist, his five fingers were tightly together, his palm was facing Taki Shinobi, his legs were tied to the horse's steps, and after holding his breath and concentrating, he suddenly pushed out his right palm, and as his wide sleeves rolled up with the wind, the invisible chakra erupted from his right palm like a high-pressure faucet.

Gossip empty palm!

Bang!

The straight and long line swept by the gossip empty palm along the way, and the flames that were still burning were extinguished one after another, and the unsuspecting Taki Shinobu was on the line, his body stiffened, and the whole person seemed to have been punched by an invisible enemy, rolling backwards and flying, and slamming into the trunk of a small tree.

By the time he finally stood up, Hinata Ninji had already stood in front of him.

Dazzling, this should be the most real idea of the audience to see Hinata Ningji's physical technique, and was hit by a series of dizzying acupoints by Hinata Ningji by the close Taki Shinobi, but in just a few breaths, the chakra points in important parts of his body were sealed by Hinata Ningji, and he couldn't even stand up.

"See, Naruto!" At some point, he came to Naruto Uzumaki, who was lying on the guardrail, patted him on the shoulder and said, "That young man from the Hyuga clan is not simple. ”

"What's this, it's that Takishinobu is too weak." Naruto Uzumaki said stiffly.

"No, I don't mean that." Zilai also said step by step: "If you think about it carefully, in the end, his decisive blow, that move, is actually a good way to make up for his shortcomings." ”

"You should also do this, otherwise in the future, when you meet a ninja who is obviously not as strong as you, but he grasps your shortcomings and defeats you, wouldn't it be very wronged?" Jiraiya saw Naruto Uzumaki nod thoughtfully, and there was a smile on his face: "What do you think is your biggest flaw?" ”

"Not smart enough?" Naruto Uzumaki asked hesitantly.

“…… That's a little bit, but that's not what I'm talking about. Jiraiya pouted.

"Not tall enough?"

“…… Neither is it. Jiraiya sighed, estimating that Naruto Uzumaki himself didn't know when it would be, so he said directly: "It's illusion, you are very poor in illusion." ”

"Tsunade entrusted me with a mission, I'm afraid I'm going to leave the Fire Country for a while, you have to stay in Konoha for the time being, and I'll give you a lesson on illusion." Jiraiya saw that Naruto Uzumaki had a bitter face when he heard the "illusion", and his tone became a little stern reprimand: "If you still want to get Sasuke back and become the Hokage, illusion can't be your Achilles' heel!" Do you understand! ”

Naruto Uzumaki bowed his head.