Naruto: Senmei Asahi

"Yes!" 

Before the words could even fall, Asahi threw the kunai in his right hand directly, but the result? It was easily avoided by Yamamoto.

Asahi certainly didn't hope that a mere thrown kunai by him would hurt Yamamoto, he just had a slight expectation that it could buy some time.

After throwing the kunai, he began to make hand seals very fast. Asahi's normal hand seal speed was fast. If he was in a good condition, he could easily make 5 hand seals in one second. This was something that many Jonin might not even be able to do.

After all, the older you get, the stiffer your finger joints would become. If you don't start practicing it from a young age, it would be difficult to increase the speed of making hand seal through hard training later. 

Yamamoto just avoided the kunai, and Asahi's hand seals were completed and his ninjutsu got the chance to follow up on the opening. 

[Earth Style ∙ Rock Pillar Spears]

This move was the only offensive jutsu currently mastered by Asahi. It could create several earth thorns on the ground to pierce the opponent, but the range of the attack was small. 

According to Yamamoto, this move also had an upgraded version [Earth Style ∙ Earth Flow Spears], which could produce a large ocean of ​​earth thorns enough to skewer the target, which sounded a bit similar to Kimimaro's [Bracken Dance], but with Asahi's current chakra reserves, he couldn't even think of using such a jutsu at all. 

*Puff* 

It was no surprise that Yamamoto was punctured by an earth spear, but Asahi didn't show any joy on his young face. 

If Yamamoto were to avoid this move, he would definitely show an opening and face Asahi's assault. But he just didn't try to avoid it, which obviously doesn't seem in line with common sense. 

Without any hesitation, Asahi instinctively used [Substitution Jutsu]. At the next moment, a round wood got split by Yamamoto in half. 

'I am getting completely suppressed', Asahi's offensive fell useless. Although Yamamoto's strength was not ranked high among the entire Konoha, but he was a genuine chunin after all, his combat experience was incomparably larger than Asahi. Yamamoto only needed to rely on simple taijutsu and three basic jutsus to corner Asahi.

There was no way to it, Asahi had tried his best, but at least for now he had too few ways of resisting, his attack methods were just simple, being overwhelmed by his opponent in all aspects, there was not even much resistance that he could offer.

After half of the match had passed, seeing that Asahi's physical strength had been exhausted, and right now he's just simply an arrow at the end of its flight, Yamamoto stopped and said, "That's it, let's end it here for today!" 

Asahi stopped and gasped, holding his knees.

"Asahi, your basic skills are very solid, but you have too little experience fighting against an enemy, but you usually don't get affected due to this in the sparring matches, but once you're in a life and death battle, all of your flaws will be fully exposed for your enemy to exploit." Yamamoto commented.

"Right now I'm only relying on the three basic jutsus, and I can oppress you to the point where you can't even fight back."

"I understand, Yamamoto-sensei!" Asahi said. 

Although usually Asahi feels that his strength was quite good, at least he could easily deal with almost any student of the same year, even the ones that were part of the Uchiha clan. 

But today, against Yamamoto, Asahi had a feeling that he had no good use of his hands and feet.

"When you're fighting an enemy, at least at your current age, you should not use jutsu like Rock Pillar Spears at all, because once your chakra gets exhausted, your only option is to get trampled on, unless of course you're sure of ending the opponent before he/she can react. Otherwise, it's better to use the three basic jutsus to fight along with taijutsu. Just like your current state today, using Rock Pillar Spears to attack the enemy could prove deadly for you." Yamamoto continued. 

Asahi nodded, he agreed very much with this point. The flaws of a young body were not just a lack of physical strength, but also his chakra reserves which were not very high. If he use almost any ninjutsu, his chakra would be exhausted. 

Asahi was very strong in chakra control and using jutsu such as Rock Pillar Spears would not waste extra chakra at all, but this doesn't mean that he could use jutsu at will. 

Thinking of this, Asahi couldn't help but have a slight envy of the protagonist Uzumaki Naruto of the original anime. Naruto had an extraordinary recovery ability, his chakra reserves even as a kid were even more than enough to use [Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu] multiple times during a fight.

If Asahi could own chakra reserves like Naruto, with his ability in chakra control, his strength would definitely be several times higher, and he could even fight like a long range mage (ninjutsu-focused ninja). 

However, daydreaming was only fantasy after all. Asahi comes from ordinary family without any Kekkei Genkai or specialty. If he wants to gain strength, he could only rely on his own step by step efforts. 

"In the next few days, I will only be using taijutsu and the three basic jutsus to fight you, and you too can only use taijutsu and three basic jutsus to fight back. I hope that when you graduate, you will have a good result." Said Yamamoto. 

"Understood, Yamamoto-sensei!" Asahi said seriously. 

"Well…" Yamamoto continued, "Asahi, do you know? Although there are a lot of commoner ninjas in the village, those who really have the right to speak up in the village are always those clan ninjas. During war it's even worse, we commoner ninjas can only be used as cannon fodder, rushing to the frontline."

In the end, Yamamoto's tone sounded full of hatred. 

"..."

Looking at Yamamoto's somewhat distorted face, Asahi didn't know what to say for a moment. 

The difference in treatment between clan ninjas and commoner ninjas, Asahi vaguely felt it a little while in the ninja academy, but Asahi doesn't know what Yamamoto had experienced for him to come to develop such a deep hatred for clan ninjas. 

In all fairness, before the village was formed, there were only those ninja clans in the shinobi world. It wasn't until Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara formed the Konohagakure and Senju Tobirama established the Ninja Academy that a large number of commoner ninjas appeared. (Coz ninjustsu wasn't taught to the normal populace) 

However, these couldn't act as reasons for the clan ninjas to unscrupulously let commoner ninja die for them. In the long run, conflicts between the two parties would inevitably occur.

But Asahi doesn't care too much about these sort of conflicts. The shinobi world only values ​​strength. Orochimaru and Jiraiya were respected because of their overwhelming strength. Namikaze Minato was also able to become the Fourth Hokage because of his strong power. 

Too much attention to these issues would inevitably lead to a stagnation of strength.

Seeing Asahi keeping silence, Yamamoto continued, "Asahi, do you know why I have been teaching you?" 

Asahi shook his head and didn't speak any further.

Yamamoto said, "Because I see hope in you! Today, among Konoha's elites, there has several pillars like Orochimaru-sama and Jiraiya-sama who come from commoner backgrounds. If you also can grow well, I believe that we, the commoner ninjas will definitely be able to rise above our current status in the future. I have been teaching in the academy for many years, and I can say that have never seen anyone who is as outstanding as you. Even Hatake Kakashi met his defeat at your hands, so I want you to promise me that you will not to die prematurely in a mission." 

"Yes! I will not die!" Asahi nodded and said.

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